The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1927, Page 6

Page Six The Chinese War DE PINEDO ‘DOES By WM. PICKE according to HE war-makers are making progres: the reports of today (Apr. 7th). The northern Chinese general, whom the British and American im- perialists seem to favor, has raided the Russian embassy in Peking,—and “report has it” ssisted by “British soldie: Whether thi is true or not, it is clear that Chang -lin, if he can arouse Russia to enter the war against him, will at the same time furnish England with a good excuse for entering the war against the southern or Cantonese faction in China, on the plea that it is made necessary because Russia has entered on the other side. People are so foolish in the world today that the “ved” excuse would be a good one to start a new world war on, If only England ¢an say to the people at home: “We would not have entered this war if it had been left to the two Chinese factions, but when Russia enters on the side of the Cantonese, then Britain has to enter on the other side to save China and the world from “bol- shevism.’ ? as * It is hard to believe that the human race can be so dull to learn a lesson. Anybody can begin a war but nobody knows what will be the end of that war. If you don’t believe it, ask the ex-Kaiser; or call up Czar Nicholas or old Franz Josef in the ether world and ask them. They will tell you that the END of war may be altogether different from its beginning. If England, Russia or anybody else wants an Asiatic war, the United States ought to stay out of it and leave it to the pleasure of those who want it. But we are not) staying out. We are bundling off our marines in large numbers to Asia, getting ourselves so “entangled” that | when the calamity falls it will involve us in the ruin. * * * England is anxious, like all other imperialists, to see South China force fail, because those Cantonese rep- resent the workers, the scholars, and the revolutionists of China. If South China succeeds, the day of big busi- ness robbery in China will be short, We have hetped to educate those Chinese leaders, but we were hypocrites: we did not mean to make full- grown men out of them. We thought, as men have often thought before, that somehow we could indulge in mis-| sionary zeal and Christian brotherhogd teaching, and at the same time continue to be the “superior race.” We proclaimed it from the housetops that we were air tour of four continents in the int | city care forgot.” He flew there fro THE DAILY WORK The fascist trans-Atlantic flier, Francesco de Pinedo, who is making an touched the United States first at the “Crescent City,” New Orleans, “the | 2, Mr. Long’s second in command is Dr. John A. Far- Maria,” which is shown pictured above on the Mississippi at New Orleans. wR, NEW YOrK, WEDNESIE:, APRIL 20, 1927 ’ NEW ORLEANS| West Chester Normal : School Fight EDITOR’ OTE:—-In reply to a request for de- tailed infor ion on the fight that is raging in the West Ch Pa., normal school, The DAILY WORKER has received* the following statement of | issues involved and the facts which indicate that | the two professors and ten others were kicked out | of the faculty because the munition makers and other war-mongers objected to criticism of the Cool- | idge-Kellogg policy in Nicaragua and: Mexico: | ISSUES INVOLVED. | 1, Refusal of Board of Trustees to renew the contract | | of 12 teachers, 3 men and 9 women. Two of the men, | | Dr. Robt. T. Kerlin and Prof. John A. Kinneman, state | | that they were fired because of their political beliefs, | land radical teridencies. They are fighting to obtain a | |hearing before the Board of Trustees, all 12 being fired | | without warning or a hearing. | 2. Dr. Andrew Thomas Smith, principal, prohibits | students from signing a petition and presenting it to | the trustees, asking for re-instatement of the two teach- | ers. 8. Dr. Smith prohibits The Liberal Club, a student | organization, from holding meetings, | 4. Dr. Smith prohibits the “Green Stone,” a student | weekly publication, from referring to this fight in any way, and his command that the paper should not be pub- lished any longer. THE FACTS. 1. The fight started this year (a previous but abor- | tive attempt was made last year to induce Dr. Kerlin to| resign), by Samuel Wesley Long, Commander of the Bernhard F. Slegel Post of the American Legion, send- ing a petition to Governor Fisher, asking for an official | | investigation into the activities, loyalty, ete., of the Lib- | eral Club, Mr, Long has been, and to the best of my | knowledge still is, employed by or is an agent of Mr. |S. DuPont, or the Dupont de Nemours E. I. Powder Co.° He has recently circulated literature for Mr. Pierre S. | DuPont. It is also alleged that he was employed in the U. S. Secret Service during the war. erest of Mussolini's regime in Italy, Agents of DuPonts. m Havana in his plane, the “Santa/,.j), 2 member of the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion, educating Chinese students, but when they got educated and showed it by demanding to be on a plane of equality | with us, we were ready to shoot them for it. They are| “radicals,” “bolsheviks,” and anything else hard to pro- nounce or not quite understood, | I met twenty generals of Feng’s army in Europe. They were all splendid fellows and many were scholars, sev- eral speaking good English,—some educated in the best | schools of America. If we are against their aspirations Chimes From A Broken Pitcher for human equality in their own country and in the 1. Spring Song. world, we were hypocrites when we handed them their |I chant the song of verdant Spring, | diplomas. Awakened from her sleep, { Tf we are saved from another world war, it seems that , Of Nature free, of birds that sing, we- cannot look to statesmen for the salvation. The| Of woodlands, cool and deep; prospective “cannon fodder” must do it. HITTING FORD BETWEEN THE EYES It may not add to the joys of Henry Ford in these| . . +. a i trying days that “THE FORD WORKER,” the militant|/ "™@&™Y songs, through mirth and} shop paper of the Ford industries, is celebrating its | When comes the vernal sign, | first anniversary, but to the workers the fact is an out-|] greet the sun, I hail the rain, | standing achievement, | At two bits per each line. To have been able to write, edit and print their own) wee shop paper, which has kept them in touch with their | Notice fellow workers’ problems, has exposed the profit-mak-|" wot 5 long ago this pee ing ‘machinery of the Ford system, and to have built | sorivener was ‘wheaiehed dn: Montenal the circulation of their paper to around 10,000, this is Seite tied thant taro bike, <A Boba: hat a creditable accomplishment to the sponsors of The | day discharged from ‘the ional jail-| Peet Worker. y |house, approached him on St. Cath-| Exposes Ford Myth. P ,. |erine street and asked for the price! Relentlessly, sometimes critical and sometimes satir-| of coffee. We shot the works at| ical, The Ford Worker tears to pieces the “humani- Thompson’s, then hoofed it to Del-| tarian” myth which has been built around Henry Ford,! son and hopped the cars to Cham-| the man. Taking Ford at his own argument as printed | plain, where we parted. We hate to! in the Detroit Times, saying: “The money I have accu- | hoast—but if our former road pi aia mulated is not the product of downtrodden, underpaid, | panion reads The DAILY WORKER | blood-sweat labor. It is clean. money.” The Ford | this is to let him know of our pres- Worker reminds Ford that it is just that, and every|ent affluence. At this moment our| My Country Tis of Thee | | By NAT KAPLAN. I weave the tale of reborn sprites, The virgin kin of Pan, Who dance and play thru starry nights, Far from the haunts of man. bit of “downtrodden, underpaid, blood-sweat labor,” | wealth consists of twenty-six cents | which Ford has made use of to accumulate his fortune.| (cash) and four cents (postal Urges Auto Union. (stamps). Recognizing that a shop paper must have a con-| td * * structive basis, The Ford Worker devotes much space | Also this note of obligation to the to point out the necessity for an automobile workers’! genial station-master at Rousse’s| union. The Worker editors urge upon every reader, the | Point who furnished us with food at workers in the Ford industries, to write up their own a nearby lunch-wagon and lodging in experiences and to have it published in their own shop/the detention pen of the Custom’s paper, The Ford Worker. The response has been very | headquarters—direct all sightseers to | gratifying and shows that the paper is not only read /|the scenes of our notable visit. Some} earnestly but that the workers actually realize the|day when we find time we will head value of a shop paper. for Rousse’s Point in the Rolls-Royce | We wager that the activity of the Ford Worker will|which we purchased after signing do more toward bringing about the formation of a|with The DAILY WORKER. union than all the promises of William Green, and we} pt ls gata, are also ready to bet our last dime, that Henry realizes} All of the above is advance copy. The objection made to the Liberal Club and the two teachers is the fact that the President’s and Secretary | Kelloge’s policies in dealing with Nicaragua, Mexico and | China were severely criticized at meetings of the Lib- eral Club, the inference being that the Knights of Co- | lumbus, desirous of American intervention in Mexico on | behalf of the R. Catholic Church, and the DuPonts Pow- |der Co. don’t want anti-militarist propaganda in a teach- ers’ school. | 3. Certain Ku Klux Klan sympathizers, who are not coming out openly but keeping under cover, object to |the two teachers because they oppose race discrimina- tion against the Negro, and one of the teachers is |charged with having entertained two Negro Principals |of Negro Schools at his home. | 4, Miss Isabel Darlington, a lawyer, whose sister is | | the wife of Congressman Thomas S. Butler, chairman of the Naval Committee in the House of Representatives, and advocating a lot of new ships for the U. S. Navy, jand who is the aunt of General Smedley Darlington | | Butler, who is now commanding the American forces in | China, is the secretary of the Board of Trustees, Col. | | A. M. Holding, a corporation lawyer, who spends mos |of his time practicing before the Public Service Com- | mission as attorney for various corporations, including | | the United Gas Improvement Co. of Philadelphia, is the: | President of the Board of Trustees, and the dominant | |member of it, Herbert P, Worth, the treasurer of the! | Board is Vice President of the Farmers and Mechanics | Trust Co., and President of the Board of Trade of West Chester. | Gang Accused of Graft, 5. Some years ago a graft scandal was started against the administration of the Normal School, charges | /eing alleged that Steward Johnson and Dr. Phillips, | Principal, were involved in various forms of petty graft-| jing. Prominent business men, students and former | pupils of the school are now alleging that the same or similar conditions are now existing in the school; it is alleged that Bursar John R, Hollinger gave the con- struction of a new building, said to have cost approxi- | | mately $525,000, to an out-of-town firm, to his own per- ‘sonal enrichment; that this building is already in bad | condition, although not finished, having been constructed | |of the cheapest material, cracks appearing in it, al-| | though it has not yet been in use; that photographers, | | who take photos of the students, have to pay 25% com- | | mission to Mr. Hollinger; that vendors of potatoes, and | | other food supplies have to pay him commissions; that | | firms selling text-books, and other supplies, also have to | pay tribute to him; that he also is financially benefited | when celebrated musicians and other artists give enter- | _tainments at the sehool, and in general, business men | allege that before they can do business with the school | or the students, they first have to “sugar” Mr. Hollinger, e . as they express it. Board of Education to | Mr. Hollinger was a poor man when he took the posi- Use Movies in Schools | tion of business manager or bursar at the Normal School |some years ago; he is now reputed to be well-off and Never Left Home bs The call of the wanderlust never has gripped Henry P. Bergman, who, although living on a paved highway only five miles from Fort Wayne, Ind.; never has been outside of his home county during the 76 years of his life. He is pictured “see- ing the world” through an atlas. FOOTNOTE == By EUGENE LYONS ooo TO one | NEWS AN ALL-STAR AMERICAN REPORTING TEAM, Now that Prof. Will Durant, who put a kick into philosophy, has been tor a series of articles on philosophy. of our all-star American reporting team. porter best suited to cover same, would be something like this: PHILOSOPHY—Ruth Snyder; Judd Gray, alternate. MURDER—Will Durant. LABOR—Elbert H. Gary. FOREIGN AFFAIRS—Jackie Coogan. RELIGION—Clarence Darrow, SPORT—Cal Coolidge. THEATRE—Helen Keller. POLITICS—Ringling, or any other cireus impressario, LITERATURE—Big Bill Thompson, DIVORCE—Cardinal Hayes. FINANCE—Bert Miller. RADIO—Any phonograph manufacturer. engaged by certain yellow sheets to report the Snyder murder trial, we | prophesy that Mrs. Ruth Snyder, if she gets away with it, will be signed up In fact, we would put her at the head The line-up, by subject and re- WASHINGTON NEWS—The city editor of the Gopher Prairie Gazette. Other suggestions for an all-star reportorial line-up will be welcomed by MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti— No murderers are you. But worse than mere assassins, That judiciary crew, Grim, black-robed and stony Like their Plymouth rock; Killing guiltless workers By electric shock. These judges hang together They ought to hang—by God! These foul birds of a feather Smell worse than putrid cod. Oh land of boasted freedom Whence liberty has fled, It seems that even your justice Is cock-eyed drunk or dead. ¢ —ADOLF WOLFF, this department, with due credit to the suggestor. As soon as a perfect team is picked, we shall approach Otto H. Kahn to finance a paper for them. Let. Young Poets, With Nothing To Say, Stop Writing As They Please a Little. (With the customary apologies to Eli Siegal.) Bold, bold in this world, And writing their damndest and boldest; And a young poet with nothing, absolutely nothing to say thinks of destiny or something; thinks (?) of this in a smoke-laden, will pay his check. low-ceilinged dive in Greenwich Village; and wonders who ‘And he sits down next a young woman and tells her he’s a poet. Can he write, though; can he, though. He’ll say so! The written sonnets; of verses free and unrestrained. muse though. young poet muses; while hands are clapped. Muses of un- Does he Does the young poet worry about what the young woman tells him? Does he, though? (Does he?) Tomorrow the young poet with nqgAing to say will rise wearily; think of what the young woman told him; he will go to his “eating shoppe” in the Village; young poets with-nothing to say do this; let young poets with nothing to say stop writing as they please a little even if they are hell out of luck, or aren’t they, though. (Who knows?) |My, though, how the unsavory, acrid aroma of stale coffee hovers over the head of the young poet with nothing to say. | Let young poets, with nothing to say, stop writing as they please a little, young poets who go to eating shoppes and poetry salons, and who, somehow, go to them every evening (or is it every evenin?) Even though, presumably, they are hell out of luck. What -would existence be without young poets with nothing to say; do you know? Hell, no, let young poets with nothing to say stop writing as they please a little; them all together ; Together, together—and drown them. this much himself and that he has spent in the past! and will spend in the future more funds to hunt down the sources of the Ford Worker and its correspondents, than he spent on his last spring suit. —FRED HARRIS. * . * “Harvester Worker,” April, 1927. Another shop paper which is on hand just now is the April issue of the Harvester Worker, written and pub- lished by workers of the International Harvester Com- pany, Cyrus McCormick’s plant. also have a copy of the Harvester Industrial Council, | the organ of the company union, which contains the minutes of the company union meeting, We are therefore in a position to evaluate the merits of both, and to render judgment, The H. I. C. organ brings the message that representatives of employers and employes met and discussed their mutual problems, for instance: “A suggestion was discussed that poldi steel be substituted for stellite in machining tractor main frames. Investigation showed poldi to be superior to stellite, etc., etc.” One may easily understand from this excerpt, what part the company union and its publication plays in bringing about better working conditions to workers. It proves itself to be an appendix to the bosses’ ad- ministration. We therefore Iay the precious pamphlet aside and peruse the Harvester Worker and our face brightens up instantly. Here we have vigor and daring, a smash- er of shams, tearing the Sunday school argument of McCormick about “reconciliation and employe repre- sentative plan” to pieces. It enunciates the class strug- gle and tells the workers that they must rid them- selves from any and all illusions of class collaboration. It advocates the establishment of a strong workers’ union, and to demand higher wages and an eight-hour . workday. Many contributions are sent in from the workers in the shops which gives the paper g real proletarian character. Thus by giving the workers a means of ex- pression many brutalities by bosses and foremen are exposed and will result at least in protecting the work- ers from future attacks, The Harvester Worker is already in its second year and by now has a circulation of more than 6,000. —f. H. Coincidentally we} We are going to incorporate it in an address: “America, Land Of Oppor- tunity,” to be delivered for the next Ad Men’s Club meeting—if we are invited. ee te In The News Paul Berlenbach, one-time light heavyweight champion, is engaged, | according to the rumor. In view of |his earlier retirement from the ring, \this latest venture suggests that he lis hopping out of the frying-pan into the fire. ‘ *“ - © A Chicago judge recently granted a lady a decree of divorce because her husband struck her after she |overbid a bridge hand. More than a few bridge addicts we know would |render a verdict of justifiable homi- cide in a similar case carried to a more conclusive extreme. * * # Not a Sunday passes by without the appearance of some speaker at! the Brooklyn K of € who testifies that the Bolshevik are in conrol of Mexico. And Brooklyn, in its own; somnolent way, seems to say: “Well, what of it?” { ° . . ‘ Dr. S. Parkes Cadman favors the formation of a protestant Holy Name Society. We would like to be around when the good preacher plays the game of his native heath and is stymied. RE Re When McLaughlin’ leaves his job with the New York police to go to the Postal Telegraph Company here's hoping hat he furnishes the mes- sengers with flivvers—or aeroplanes. * * * If the New York boxing commis- sion persists in its efforts to elevate the cauliflower industry, the solons A series of nation-wide experi- ments in visual education will be made this fall in four public schools in each of twelve cities of the United States, through the co-operation of Boards of Education. On April 21 and 22, a conference will be held in Rochester to consider the matter. By September, at least forty motion pictures for use in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in geography, ele- mentary sciences and hygiene will be ready. These will be shown in four public school classrooms in New York City; Newton, Mass.; Atlanta, Ga.; Winston-Salem, N. C.; Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Lincoln, Neb.; Denver, Oakland, San Diego and Rochester. Spring Flood in Canada, WINNIPEG, April 19.—Thousands of acres of grazing land have been in- undated by floods in Western’ Canada and heavy damage was reported to- day. Spring farm work has been halted in many places. will probably refuse to renew “Tex” Rickard’s license when they discover that he once’ played marbles for keeps. 6 * * * (All of the above may prove that brevity is the soul of wit—but brev- ity never did fill a column. Spring is very much in evidence. . . Na ture is arrayed in its latest garb, some girls are beginning to demoth- ballize their spring furs—which should interest you and me while we try to figure how we can scrape to- gether enough jack to get that fairly wearable light suit out of hock, Spring is here, and what the hell of it?) \ uh 0 ec | the owner of two hotels in Atlantic City. 6. Principal Smith threatens to expel all student members of the Liberal Club if they continue in their “rebellious” conduct, The Daily Symposium Conducted by EGDAMLAT. THE QUESTION Are you in favor of a mass protest in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti? THE PLACE Fourth avenue between 14th street and Cooper Square, THE ANSWERS Henry Weber, 326 East 23rd street, plumber: “Yes. I don’t believe they got a fair deal. They should be given a new trial. I dave faith in their innocence.” * * | { Anthony Paresi, 126 First avenue, street cleaner: “Yes. A general strike might induce Governor Fuller to investigate the case. I am sure that an unbiased jury could have never convicted them.” . * . * Morris Bortnick, 46 Stuyvesant street, artists: “Yes. It is the revolutionary duty of the American workers to come to their defense. Sacco and Vanzetti are in- nocent—they have been framed for their radicalism. We must do all in our power to save them from the gallows.” » “es * Thomas Kelly, 191 Third avenue, laborer: “No. It would be more effective to have the Massachusetts state legislature force. Governor Fuller to investigate the case. Personally, I believe both Sacco and Vanzetti are innocent,” * J *. Jack Davis, 75 East 4th street, chauffeur: “Yes. I don’t believe they had a fair trial. Because they are radicals the government tries to get rid of them, I am sure they have been framed up.” ee pen Sol Mirk, 887 East 181st, street, pharmacist: “Yes, There is every reason to believe that their conviction has not been reviewed impartially, A general strike might persuade Governor Fuller to intervene.” Even though—even though—well; even though we have to put —PUNCHINO. Chauncey M. Depew, former U. 8. senator from New York, chai! the board of directors of the New York Central railroad since 1898, "Hey will celebrate his 98rd hirthday on April 23. Depew has gained prominence as after dinne the pet delight of Babbits all over the United Staten ent’ long being 4