The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE, ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No, 83, Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. ALVIN COOLIDGE is not credited with being a fount of wisdom but C he certainly is wise in refraining from delivering impromptu speeches as a rule, judging by the effect of his recent observations on Hoover's -unknown position on the question, Chinese * * s SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ATIMER SEIZES “MORE TERRITORY “IN NICARAGUA Stimson Arrives on | Fake Mission MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 19.— | In spite of American military aid giv- en the conservative imperialist-created | fraud that passes for government un- der Adolph Diaz, the liberal forces still menace the regime of that agent THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef Mareh 3, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL UNITED FRONT OF UNION WRECKERS 20,1927 << PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. SD Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents 44 BOSSES LOCK OUT 1,000 FURRIERS MANUFACTURERS AND RIGHT WINGERS UNITE 10 BLACKLIST WORKERS; STARVATION OF REACTION; 10,000 RALLY T0 Losovsky Speaking On| China Over Radio | |Four Huge Meetings Wi | Another detective of Nassau —NEW WEAPON THE JOINT BOARD |New Offensive Begins While Gold and Other Strike Leaders Are Denied Bail ll Take Up Challenge-of Union Wrecking Combine 1 County yesterday swore to the |of Wall Street. Rear Admiral Julian | Latimer, in command of the invading forces of the United States has just declared the important inland city of | Matagalpa to be “neutral territory,” | Conference for Sacco- Vanzetti Will Be Held ‘SAGGO-VANZETTI |“helpfulness” of the reactionary right wing forces of the A. F. of L. and the International Fur Workers’ Union in the attempt | being made to put Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, S. Mencher and 8 other |fur workers behind prison bars. which means that he is giving aid to At Labor Temple, Friday || FREEDOM DRIVE The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency | Committee calls upon all trade || GAINS STRENGTH unions, fraternal and other work- || ing class organizations to have re- || presentatives at their special con- ference to be held Friday evening, 8 o’clock at the Labor Temple 243 East 84th St., where the next move to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti will be acted upon. The question of a national confer- ence and a general strike will be discussed. No working class or- Tho Socialist Opposes | Mass Meetings | | CSpecial to The DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, April 19.—Governor Ful- ler is understood to be weakening un-| | der the pounding of the nation-wide ganization should be absent. | criticism of Massachusetts persecu- tion of two innocent workers. The \leaders of ultra conservative bodies | have been forced by the tremendous volume of labor protests to warn the Weisbord Stopped wrt’? spins wun he From Speaking at “i 2 | In a frantic effort to crush the |Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union | while Ben Gold, its manager, and ten jother leaders are on trial at Mineola | jon a trumped-up “assault” charge in- | |spired by officials of the A. I’. of L., | | working in collaboration with bosses jand the police, the Associated Fur} \Manginetarers yesterday afternoon locked out more then 1,000 furriers. Want “Company Union.” The refusal of the workers in 44 |shops to register with the fake union | being concocted by the “Reorganiza- |tion Committee” of the A. F. of L., |is the cause for the present attack by the fur bosses. This latest action is |the final evidence showing how the . ss reactionary officials of the Interna- Above is a picture of Losovsky,| tional Fur Union are working hand general secretary of the Red Inter- |i, hand with the employers in an ef- national Labor Unions, delivering @lfort to form a docile “company broadcasted address. anton? A huge mass meeting of the locked- | out workers was held at 2 o’colek yes- MacDonald Cold On Sacco, Vanzetti; But Eats With Governor BOSTON, April 19.—“The Sac- co-Vanzetti case is purely an im ternal affair and a matter of gove ernment. No outsider has any business to express any opinion, The matter must be left to your- selves.” This was the comment of J. Ramsay MacDonald on the case of the two framed-up Italian work- ers yesterday. Last evening the former “labor” premier of Great Britain accepted an invitation to have dinner with Gov. Alvan Ful- ler of Massachusetts. This brutal coolness on the part of MacDonald is all the more re- Hote president’s spokesman, alias Calvin Coolidge amazed the hard- ened news hounds of Washington with an unexpected oracular statement that there was no difference of opinion in the cabinet over the admin- istration’s Chinese policy, that Hoover was one of that policy’s stoutest de- fenders and that even if Kellogg re- signed as secretary of state, Hoover would not take his place. * * * 5 Se kind of language might be ex- pected from one tottering on the verge of insanity or from one. in delerium tremens, but coming from such a canny fellow as this ex-bill collector from Vermont it hit the ears of the reporters like the sound of an exploded firecracker in a powder! magazine. Journalistic noses went) the Diaz forces against those sup- immediately to work to sniffle out the | porters of the duly selected president, truth but to date the sum total of the| Dr, Jnan Sacasa. result of the collective sleuthing is a} Populati yee Di serious of presidential grunts each be ation ga inet cage less enlightening than its predecessor.| The population of Nicaragua is al- That there is a difference on the ad-| most to a man against Diaz, the ministration’s Chinese policy is evi-| creature of American imperialism and dent. But what the nature of the| Latimer knows that only the armed difference is, is yet a secret. | power of the United States can main- 4 tain even a semblance of government : 3 under Diaz. Throughout the whole 2 is not necessary to inform our! country the United States government sophisticated readers that neither | is despised and its political and mili- Hoover nor Coolidge is a friend of | tary agents are looked upon as beasts the Chinese nationalist movement. | of prey. Even in the ref light dis- Both are loyal servants of Wall Street tricts of the coast cities the denizens and competitors for Wall Street’s| scorn American soldiers. favor. Hoover has_ presidential | . ambitions and it looks as if Coolidge Another Agent Arrives would like to succeed himself. This; Former Secretary of War Henry L. may be the key to the president's un-| Stimson, arrived here the other day | expected comment on the secretary | 0M a special mission from President | of commerce, | Coolidge. He claims he is here to ~ * . study the state of affairs of Nicara- { HIANG-KAI-SHEK has set up a rival government in Nanking of the legal Nationalist government with headquarters in Hankow. The traitor general’s chief support comes from the Northern militarists who recently deserted and joined the Nationslists. There is no doubt but Chiang-Kai- Shek has been preparing for this coup for a long time and that he gave the deserting war lords of the north to understand that he would take care of them later on. It remains to be seen how much mass influence Chiang will manage to hold. Shanghai corre- spondence appearing in the capitalist | press is extremely unreliable with the | exception of Special dispatches to! the New York World which are fairly accurate and unbiased. We have reason to believe that the overwhelm- ing mass of the workers, peasants and the army will support the legitimate government. t * * * HE downfall of the Japanese cab- inet is likely to be more nearly re- lated to the Chinese situation than to the crisis in the affairs of the Bank of Formosa. The government favored giving the bank financial aid but the Privy Council rejected the proposal. There are rumors that the next gov- ernment is liable to favor aj “stronger” policy in China, Which means a more hostile policy towards the Nationalist government. But as most of the news dispatches are writ- ten by people hostile to the Chinese revolution this prediction may pe only the still-born child of a wish. * * * Kha daughters of British peers are learning the womanly art of danc- ing with a view to making a living out of it. Two daughters of Lord Ruthven are dancing professionally in Manchester. The girls are wise in preparing for the future. Had their Russian prototypes displayed equal foresight they would not now be driven to the extremity of massag- ing automobiles and slinging hash to proletarians, With Winston Churchill trying to explain away a treasury de- ficit of over $300,000 to an astounded tax-paying population and with the Independent Labor Party figuratively \fastening an empty cracker-can to 2 Ramsay MacDonald’s evening lords and their progeny may have to do ‘to keep the teeth from getting rust, + ' * * * HE. attempt of Ramsay Mac- Donald’s supporters to minimize the stréngth of the wallop he received from his own party in convention as- sembled is amusing to those who know something about the political situation in Great Britain, Arthur Henderson, secretary of the Labor Party tells us that the booted ex- premier will have the support of the overwhelming majority of the or- (Continued on Page Three) GREAT NECK, N. Y., April 19.— Stephen Geston, thirty-nine, whose skull was fractured a week ago dur- ing an altercation with John Rinko- witz, according to the police, is dead at his fome here | gua, but he fools no one as his mission is recognized as an attempt to white- | wash the Diaz supporters and furnish | }a clean bill of health to the Coolidge administration to be used at the next session of the United States congress. PASSAIC, N. J., April 19—Albert Thus far Stimson has associated | Weisbord was stopned from. speaking only. with the American ‘military in-|jast night at the political rally held vaders and the Diaz lackeys and has by the Dundee Republican Club, Com- made no effort to get in communi-| missioner of Public Safety, Abram cation with Sacasa or his supporters. | Preskiell's own organization to which Campaign Meeting The defense forces here feel the (Special to the Daily Worker). were invited to present their point of DAILY WORKER IS “:: | After Weisbord had been speaking \all candidates for city commissioner | tide is turning. The great New York mass meeting last Saturday has stim- | ulated mass meetings throughout the country. Edward Horton, wealthy Boston | liberal was arrested today for proving |in Braintree that Sacco and Vanzetti could not have comuiittel the. crime of which they are convicted. He was | making surveys of the territory and | was nabbed for refusing to move on. Fanuil Hall Meeting. Mrs. Glendower Evans is trying to | persuade Mayor Nichols to permit the | use of Fanuil Hall, cradle of liberty, for a protest meeting. Thousands of nameé on hundreds ‘THOUSANDS LOSE HOMES IN. FLOOD OF MIssissiPP! MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 19.—With the entire Saint Francis i basin in jeopardy from a break in the levee near New Madrid, Mo., government engineers today directed the efforts |terday afternoon at Manhattan Ly- |ceum, 66 Fast 4th St. Samuel Liebo- |witz, acting manager of the Joint | | Board of the furriers, Fannie War- |shefsky and Esther Polansky were | | heered enthusiastically when they an- | |nounced that the latest attempt to jSinash-~ the ~ workers’ ~orgenization | would fail. Picketing at Once. | Hundreds of workers will begin im- | mediate picketing of the 40-odd shops | tomorrow morning. Protest Thursday at 5.30. A protest demonstration against the | mprisonment of Ben Gold, manager of JOINT ATTACK a woman member of the club, by | Charles Sach, a candidate for city |commissioner and his campaign man- |ager, Aldion Deane. He was then | stopped from speaking by Sandor of petitions poured into Governor | Fuller’s office today demanding par- | | dons or a new trial. The efforts to put punch. in the} }local labor councils appeal failed | | Weiss, chairman of the meeting. |when the Irish catholic majority | The audience of 200 were divided, | steam rollered the left wingers. The | jabout 100 favored his continuing | council ask for a commission, but | the federal authorities on The DAILY | those who wanted to suppress the la- The legal basis for an attack by speaking, and the other half supported | will follow up by asking President} Green of the American Federation of | of hundreds of workmen to prevent|ine Joint Board of the Furriers’ | a change in the course of the Miss-| Union, togethsr with the ten other issippi River at that point. leaders now on trial at Mineola, will Engineers said only a sudden stop-| be held tomorrow at 5.30. Four halls, page of the waters can prevent the! Cooper Union, Astoria Hall, Stuyes- flood of the Saint Francis basin. The| ant Casino and Manhattan Lyceum water was still rising steadily today.| will be used to voice the determination markable in the face of the fact that 22 leaders of his own party |] in the British parliament have de- || manded the immediate release of Sacco and Vanzetti in cables to the governor. Propaganda Charge To Be Answered by Union The charge that the American Civil Liberties Union “fed propaganda” to ;the Liberal Club of the Westchester, Pa., normal school, made by the American Legion post in West Ches- ter, will be answered next Sunday in Philadelphia at a public meeting, it was announced yesterday by Forrest Bailey, director of the union. Bailey said prominent speakers would attack the legion “for its war- Reports that the levee at Farrens- | (Continued on Page Five) burg, on the Little River, has broken | ———-—————— were denied, but it was admitted that water was lapping over the side. All fare on free speech and freedom of education.” WORKER Publishing Company and | the second-class mailing privileges of | The DAILY WORKER was laid yes- | terday when the corporation was served with a summons in the Essex | Market magistrate’s court. According to Joseph Brodsky, at- bor point of view. When Weisbord entered the hall, the (Continued on Page Two) De Valera Speaks. Eamon De Valera, Irish republican leader, spoke at a mass meeting in torney for William F. Dunne, and J. Labor to bring pressure on the ‘gov-} night long more than 1,000 men la- | ernor. |bored to prevent the levee from Socialist Opposes Meetings. lerashing before the pressure of the A rabid speech against protesting | waters. 7 the Sacco-Vanzetti decision by mass-| The flood situation, especially in meetings or demonstrations made on the floor of the Boston Cen-|lower Mississippi valley, became was | Arkansas, Mississippi and along the~ NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT FIRES _ GHIANG; APPOINTS GENERAL FENG HANKOW, April 19.—General Chiang Kai Shek was dis- missed as commander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies in a man- Louis Engdahl, editors, and Bert Mil- ler, business manager, summoning | The DAILY WORKER Publishing | the Trinity Auditorium last Tuesday | tral Labor Union today by a socialist, | worse today. A dozen deaths are | date issued by the Nationalist Government today. night. Workers Party members were on hand with a good distribution of Fellerman, delegate from the Cigar-| more or less attributed to the floods, makers’ Union and chairman of this | While nearly 30,000 are homeless, The (Continued on Page Three) \ (Continued on Page Two) Branding him as a traitor to the Chinese liberation movement, the mandate ege dered his arrest and punishment. s it is hard to say what little! So ode ; | Communist literature. Company signifies an attempt to in- volve it in the charges brought| against the editorial and business management by the Keymen of America, the American Defense So- ciety and other “patriotic” bodies. } Purpose of Attack. | “It is evident,” said Brodsky, “that the prosecution is preparing a line of attack similar to that by which Carlo Tresca was forced to serve six months in Atlanta penitentiary, and that the forces behind the prosecution will try both to procure conviction of The DAILY WORKER staff under state and federal statutes and revoca- tion of second-class mailing priv- ileges,” | Brodsky expressed the opinion that even without the existing wave of | censorship and reaction, that the case would be a serious one requiring systematic publicity and organization of defense forces in labor and liberal circles. Hearing of the case was postponed until April 29, the law requiring a ten day period for summons served upon @ corporation. Thomas Wright Will Speak on Problems Of Painters Union “The situation of the past and present organized painters of New York.” On this interesting topic, Day Secretary of District Council No. 9, Thomas Wright, will speak on Sat- urday, April 23, at 2:30 p. m. at the Labor Temple, 243-47 East 84th St. All union painters are invited. Auspices Inter-Local Club of mem- bers of Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America in the city of New York. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has been The Prosecution Scores a Point We Must Hit _ Back Hard! The District Attorney has decided to take action against The DAILY WORKER Publishing Company. With the transference of the responsibility from the staff of The DAILY WORKER to the cor- | poration, the prosecution makes an important action against our mailing rights. If they succeed in taking away our second-class mailing privileges, it will mean the suspension of our paper. Comrades! You do not realize the seriousness of the situation. The ruling class will make use of any and all expedients to fight and exterminate the fighting organ of the exploited class. They will even use the publication of a poem. You must be on your guard. Failure to respond in the present emergency will be disastrous, The Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund is being CRs used at this time for the purpose of covering the expenses of the trial. Pledge books have been sent to District DAILY WORKER Agents throughout the country. We ask our friends and supporters to take up this matter at once, to devise ways and means of raising funds, through donations and loans, All party units should make this a major order of ‘business. All our forces should tect the party’s chief weapon, The DAILY WORKER. Stand by our paper. Don’t delay. Act now. Send all contributions to DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York City, appointed his successor, while Gen- eral Tang Seng-chi, governor of Honan, has been appointed associate commander-in-chief. People Back Hankow. Declaring Chiang Kai-shek a rebel against the Nationalist Government, | the mandate orders General Tang to) march against’ Nanking. With the solid support of the workers and/ peasants and the backing of large! sections of the army, it is expected | that General Tang will have little| difficulty in suppressing the counter- | revolutionary “government” set up| by Chiang at Nanking. | move to take direct Prevent Economic Crisis. Declaring that Chiang Kai Shek and the imperialist powers are try- ing to create an economic crisis, the | Nationalist government has placed an embargo on silver. Soldiers have | been posted outside of all banks to) prevent the removal of the metal| from the vaults. | The platform adopted by Chiang Kai Shek at Nanking calls for the| expulsion of left wing members of the Kuomintang. Plan Attack On Hankow. SHANGHAI, April 19.—Imperialist warships are concentrating at Han- kow in preparation for a possible at- |tack on the Hankow government. Forty-two war vessels are at Han- kow now, and more are patrolling the. Yangtse River between Shanghai and the Nationalist capital. The powers are reported to have delayed their answer to Eugene Chen’s request for an international investigation of the Nanking affair in the hope that Chiang Kai Shek, who has betrayed the Nationalist government, will set up a new gov- be mobilized to pro- SAMMI CL IPR ef st cS AMM EY ee nla Fst: ernment and split the Nationalist movement. Foreign business men here are planning to forcibly annex territory lying outside of the international settlement. Military experts are sur veying the surrounding territory with a view to conquest and annexation. Blessed By American. The plan contemplates the con- quest of all the native cities adjacent to the international settlement, the removal of all Chinese troops in the area and the suppression of all labor organizations as well as the activi- ties of the left wing of the Kuomin- tang. Although the plans have not yet been approved by the govern- ments of the imperialist powers, they have been sanctioned by Stirling Fes- senden, American lawyer, acting as mayor of the international settle- ment. Reports from Hongkong state that three villages were burnt by right wing members of the Kuomintang. Continue Raids On Labor. While anti-labor raids are being carried out by Chiang Kai Shek's supporters in Amoy, Canton and other centers, the left wing is re- ported to have gained full control of Kiangsi province, A series of strikes are being cone ducted in Canton to protest against the right wing raids on unions. He as Chang Kills 26 Nationalists. PEKING, April 19.—A Tientsin dispatch states that fourteen stu- dents, alleged Nationalist sympa- thizers, who were arrested last No- vember in the British concession have been executed by Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord. Twelve other Nationalist sympa- thizers are*reported to have been doe (Continued on Page Two) —_* th !