The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1927, Page 1

STOP WAR ON CHINA AND SOVIET UNION! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 85. Current Events | By T. J. O’Fianerry. | PRACTICALLY all the outstanding | columnists, philosophers and play-| wrights at large or available, with} the exception of your humble ser-! vant, are drawing fat salaries ex-! plaining the Gray-Snyder murder! trial to a thrill-hungry public. The only remarkable thing about this trial is that it is remarkably like a/ bar-room brawl where two people not! too drunk to lift a cast iron cuspidor might swing this receptacle on the! head of another person so much un- der the influence of liquor that he| might feel the impact of the blow as lightly as he would the playful) tickle of a barfly and awake up on the other side of the dark ocean be-| fore he could have another drink, ee aS t ‘HE murder was brutal and cruel, | but so are all murders. The more refinement there is to cruelty the more brutal, it becomes. But why) should the philosophical furniture of the country be mobilized to analyze | and picture ihe mental agony of those two unfortunate victims of human weakness and their environment for | the deiectation of the sadistic part! of the reading public, that takes to) tales of blood and torture as a tout} takes to a racecourse? | Bm HE answer is: circulation. And cir- culation means increased adver- tising revenue. More money for the owners of the papers. This was the reason they picked on the old dotard Browning and made him as much of a household word thruout the land as Al Smith has been made by his reply to a question involving his relation SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Now York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at tke Pest Oitice at New York, N. ¥., under the act-of March 3, 1819. "| THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITy | EDITION NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1927 WHITE TERROR IN CHINA A Chinese trade union leader under the executioner’s knife. Hun in ei PUBISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents BASOFF BRAZEN BLACKMAILER, SAYS GOLD ' pada mates ™™ | AMERIGA AND OTHER POWERS UNITE 1.—Fur and. garment workers crowd 10 large halls, including Cooper Union, and Manhattan Ly- jailing of Ben Gold on framed-up | charges and the lockout of 12,000 HIAN MURDER fur workers who refuse to join |} company union of the bosses. ! 2.—Supreme Court Justice Tier- ney grants application of manu- facturers for injunction restrain- ing members of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union from picketing. 3.—Ben Gold, on witness stand in trial of himself and 10 other leaders of Fur Workers’ Union, re- veals details of blackmail scheme against him by Bernard Basoff, stool pigeon used against defend- ants. 20,000 WORKERS ANSWER BOSSES’ .. »: FURRIER LOCKOUT revolution enters new stage. 1.—Americans, British, Fri Union embassy at Peking. 2.—Chi war lord Sun Chuang-fang. cluding head of Seamen’s Union. on Nanking. and the forces of other protocol Cheer Letter from Gold; UNION AMBASSY; SEAMEN’S LEADER Nationalist Forces Reviewed at Wuchang; Preparatory to Advance on Nanking ‘Shanghai Traitors Dined by Capitalists; Unite With War Lord Sun Chuan-fang ench, Italians and Japanese international imperialist force which takes possession of Soviet ing Kai Shek reported forming open alliance with 3.—Traitor Chiang murders over hundred labor leaders, in- 4.—Tang Shen-tsi, Nationalist commander, ordered to move —Stalin advises Communists to stay in Kuomintang as PEKING, April 21.—A detachment of American marines powers under the command of are carried out daily by the allies of Great Britain and Wall Street. dreds of executigns like this Denounce Injunction More than 20,000 needle-trades Col. Little of the United States marine corps, took possession of the embassy compound of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | today. ! - | American marines scaled the walls workers jammed ten large down-town/and smashed open the western gate) halls, including Cooper Union and with sledge hammers. This is inter- Manhattan Lyceum last night and preted here as practically a declara- expressed their solidarity with Ben| tion of war on the Soviet Union by to the catholic church and his loy- alty to the American capitalist sys- tem. Yet those social germ carriers are not interfered with by the au- PRIESTS LED IN ILLINOIS STRIP BLOODED MURDER | thorities or prosecuted for poisoning the minds of the people of New York vicinity, But the DAILY WORKER finds itself haled into court because it happened to carry a poem that did not sit well on the stomachs of cer- tain patriotic panhandlers, * * * AMES RAMSAY MACDONALD does not believe that the Sacco- and Vanzetti case should concern “outsiders.” He thinks it is a prob- lem for Americans-only. But he was not sensitive about interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries when he defended the anti-Soviet bandits of George and denounced the Soviet Government for imprisoning | them, tho it was amply proven they | were acting under the instructions, | and in the pay of the foreign powers, chiefly Great Britain, Neither did Mr. MacDonald ‘have any.reservation about commenting on Al Smith’s political reply to the religious ques- tionnaire. ee tet Te. criminal action of the socialists in New York led by the Jewish| Forward in doing everything possible to break up the unity of labor in the effort to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti deserves the severest con- demnation. So far they have not only | refused to co-operate with the other sections of the labor movement that have borne the brunt of the defense struggle but they actually refuse to permit any delegate to attend their/ meetings if they think he is tainted} with radicalism. . . iJ E- is not surprising that the capital- ists of New England should be anxious to murder Sacco and Van- zetti as an example to others. It is not surprising that the bureaucracy of the A. F, of L. who have their legs under the same table with the em- ployers should stand idly by and let the executioner take his course. Both are for the system and believe death too good for the enemies of capitalism. But the socialist pretend to favor the abolition of capitalism. That is their excuse for being in existence. Yet, in this case as in other cases, they split the unity of the workers and give objective aid to the hangmen ot Bacco fod Vanzetti. \ * SIDENT Coolidge is quite appy over the prospect of peace ‘icaragua, now that he hears the in cont tives under Diaz are about’ to c another “complete” victory. This man Diaz has not enough native supporters to fill a sea-going hack and if United States marines left the cow for a week end, or went} on a long drunk, Diaz would have re- |’ turned involuntarily to the dirt from which he sprang by the time they came back. This is the kind of neutrality Coolidge is observing in Nicaragua, hae aime | | hi skeletons, human or political, can withstand the test. of, time. Secretary Kellogg, waxed mysterious over the alleged forgeries that were sold to president Calles of Mexico which are said to prove that the state (Continued on Paye Three) COLD | MINES WILL PRY UNION WAGE RATE CHICAGO, April 21—Following | the lead of the Indiana strip mine} operators, Illinois strippers today | were reported prepared to sign an) agreement with the United Mine | Workers to pay a basic wage of | $7.50. | The negotiations, which have been | held secretly, are the first of any | importance between miners and op- erators since the central competitive bituminous suspension March 31. | Strike In West Virginia. | The eastern and western Kentucky | fields alone have benefited by the! suspension. These are non-union. | Eastérn Kentucky production has in-| creased one per cent, while western | Kentucky has gone up three per cent. | In the strong non-union West Vir-! ginia field, the production has been! cut 30 per cent. This reduction indicates the spread of the strike activity among non union miners, on which the progres- sive elements in the United Mine Workers’ of America have been espec- | cially relying for a final victory over the operators, Even before the lockout took place, the progressives especially empha- sized the necessity of organizing the unorganized miners, and of bringing them out in sympathy with the union miners. Resist Wage Cut. Under very adverse’ circumstance: union miners, filtering thru the non. union fields have convinced a portion of the former union men and others mining coal in non-union fields that the smashing of the U. M. W. would te only a step towards a further re- duction of wages, both in northern and southern coal fields, The first week of the suspension saw a 4,000,000 ton production de- crease for the entire country.\ This figure includes the outlying districts in which most of ‘the operators are mining coal under tentative contracts. The weekly production has fallen off gradually ever since, according to re- ports to the government. Washington Pioneers Will Enter Y. W. L.. A concert will take place in Wash- ington, D. C., at 1887 Seventh Street, N. W., Sunday, April 24th at 8 o’clock to celebrate the graduation of three Pioneers into the Young Workers Communist League. This day will be of great significance. It means that the three have reached that stage when they are capable of carrying greater responsibilities in the revo- lutionary movement. WORKERS! DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTL! PROTEST AGAINST re Gold, and the 10 other leaders 'the imperialist powers accing in con- Chang Tso-lin soldiers executing a Chinese labor leader while American and British troops look exultingly on. ‘SACCO, VANZETTI BOSTON, April 21.—Black clouds, i one the leesl murder July 10 of \Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, loomed rapidly over the horizon today. Celestino Madeiros was sent to the death house at Charlestown prison, to be electrocuted next week. Madeiros has confessed that he took part in the South Braintree payroll murder for which Sacco and Vanzetti were sen- tenced to death. His confession pointed certainly to the Morelli gang of Providence as the men who mur- dered the two payroll guards seven years ago. Death to Close His Mouth Granted two reprives by Governor Sacco-Vanzetti Meet At the Labor Temple Tonight, at 8 O'clock: A conference of the Sacco-Van- zetti Emergency Committee will be held tonight, 8 o’clock at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street to de- cide on the question of calling a na- tional conference to help save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti and to act on the question of a general strike, All trade unions, fraternal and other labor ‘organizations should be represented. 4 Fuller, Madeiros was refused a third. | RUSH MADEIROS TOWARDS DEATH AS APPEALS POUR IN Thus the leading witness who can! prove the two Italian workers in- nocent is to be done to death without an opportunity to tell a court of com- mission that he and his gang are the South Braintree payroll murderers. Friends of Sacco and Vanzetti were jgiruok with fear when Governor Ful- ler refused to prolong the life of | Madeiros. It may mean that Fuller has made |up his mind that Sacco and Vanzetti must die. | Madeiros’ case is an apt illustra- | tion of Bay State justice. A con- | fessed aivurderer, he was granted a retrial where Sacco and Vanzetti, in- |nocent, have’ been denied a shadow of justice. Overcome with remorse when e saw Mrs, Sacco and her children, visiting his fellow prisoner, he con. essed, implicating the Morelli gan; uthough unwilling to mention them by name. The deluge of appeals continued to- | day to swamp Governor Fuller’s of- |fice. The Belgian Federation of | Labor, representing 600,000 workers, ja dozen Tampa cigar factories, 381 students of Mt. Holyoke Collegé, the Workers School of Springfield, Mass., San Francisco and. Everett, Wash., Central" Labor Councils, the Central Labor Council of Toulon, France, the liberal club: of the University of Chi- cago and scores of individuals and groups joined in appeals for freedom or @ review of the case. of the Furriers’ Union now on | cert, trial on a fake “assault” charge; The Soviet Union embassy com- jat Mineola, and cheered lustily | pound was raided two weeks ago by |a resolution declaring that they would agents of Chang Tso Lin, Man- refuse to be stampeded jnto the com-|churian war lord, with the full con- |pany unions being concocted by the | sent of the imperialist powers. Soviet | American Federation of Labor, with| Union officials . were arroste and the aid of the bosses. Le jmaltreated and money and Valuable | On the heels of the lockout of the! documents were confiscated. | 1,200 fur workers in 53 shops by the! [t was reported yesterday that the | Associated Fur Manufacturers in an| Peking government had refused the effort to smash the Joint Board of/ request of the Union of Socialist | the union and to give control to the| Soviet. Republics for the release of | tight wing who were deposed during | the arrested officials. | the last strike, a sweeping injunction | was ngrseree Let by ae SHANGHAI, April 21.—Reports | Court Justice wierd Pi “a4 | from Nanking state that Chiang Kai st ge es — iparegpal rel CI is forming an open alliance | makers a | with the northern war lords. tempt to restrain the further reset | The reports state that Chiang has | ing of the shops of the manufactur- |, >>ointed Sun Chuan-fang, British- | ©rs- A Finish Fight. subsidized war lord, “Northern De- | 6 {fense Commissioner.” At the meetings last night speak- | Execute’ Labor Leaders. }er after speaker was cheered as he} The execution of six labor leaders, urged the workers to fight to a finish including the “head of the militant Chiang Joins War Lords. MASS MURDER ON - MEXICAN TRAIN Live Christ, King’ |Answers Death Shrieks | |__ MEXICO CITY, April 21. — The | Mexican bandits who burned 187 pas- | sengers to death by locking them in }a train bound from Guadalajara to | Mexico City, and then setting the | train on fire, were led by priests, and | were armed with American rifles, pre- |sumably purchased after Washington |had opened the border to arms sinug- gling by denouncing the Mexican- | American treaty. This was the state- | ment of Mexican survivors. American | business men on the train were care- fully saved, while the Mexican travel- lers were horribly murdered, says an | American doctor, among the surviv- | SLane; | the most recent offensive of the right|Seamen’s Union, at Pai Chuan-hsi’s | °™ | wing officials of the bosses. | headquarters at Lunghua, brings the “We must defend our union and|total of left wing and labor leaders the conditions achieved through! put to death by Chiang Kai Shek to struggle.” This was the keynote of| more than 100. It is reported that the message which Ben Gold, leader | 200 more are being held by the right | of the fur workers, sent to the thou-| wing leaders. | After setting fire to the train, the clerical bandits rode away, respond- ing to the agonized cries of their vie- tims, burning to je2th in the locked | passenger coaches, with cries of “Viva | Cristo Rey” (Long live Christ, the | sands who attended last night’s meet- ings. Message From Gold. King)—the war ery of the Catholic rebellion in Mexico. Recognized Priests. Chiang’s staff at Shanghai was en-| tertained at luncheon Tuesday after-| noon by native bankers and indus-| | hinaé he is being held without bail | sidizing his war against workers and | (a notorious procedure), Gold urged | peasants’ unions. : that “thousands of workers join the Prepare For Drive. _ | striking pickets. Organize and unitc’ A large demonstration and military |your ranks as you did during the|parade was held yesterday at Wu- period of the general strike. We send | Chang, across the Yangtse from Han- |you comrades our hearty greetings|kow. The paraders were addressed and hopes for a successful struggle|by Tang Seng-tsi, “associate com- and sure victory.” | mander-in-chief of the Nationalist Speaking at Cooper Union, Louis armies, who has been ordered to |of the cloak and dressmakers’ union, meeting is regarded as a prelude to a | characterined the injunction granted | drive against Chiang and the northern against the union as the last frantic | War lords. : |attempt of the employers to smash | Feng Preparing. the workers’ organization. | General Feng, commander-in-chief Courts A Last Resort. \of the Nationalist armies, is said to |_ “The fact that the Association of|be preparing his armies for move- Dress Manufacturers had to apply for) ment south to Hankow where they an injunction is the best answer to! Will join the other Nationalist forces. the false statements of the Sigman! R * * machine that the International con- trols the dressmakers. : Speakers at the protest meetings (Continued on Page Five) } sthsabery’s babes Are || In Moscow; Met by Minor d William D. Haywood MOSCOW, April 21.—The Amer- ican Communists in Moscow, head- Stalin Cautions Chinese. MOSCOW, April’ 21. — Joseph |Stalin, leader of the Communist Par- ty, has declared that Chinese Co munists must remain within the Na- tionalist Party. Ho states that the time is not ripe for forming workers’, jon Russian lines. “In the first place, soviets can’t be |formed at a moment’s notice. Such tactics would give the enemy the op-| |portunity of charging that China has |not had a Nationalist revolution but is being subjected to artificial trans-| |plantation of the Moscow Soviet sys- |tem,” he said, Stalin declared ed by Robert Minor and “Big Bill” Haywood will today accompany the |, funeral urn containing the remains | ( of Charles E. Ruthenberg, General |!events show that the Chinese revolu- that the latest Secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, in the processsio: to the Kremlin. The remains of Ruthenberg will be interred in the wall of the Krem lin facing Red Square. |tion has passed the first period of al junited national front and it is now] from the side of the tracks. Indes- peasants. From his cell in the Mineola jail,|trialists who are reported to be sub-| Hyman, manager of the Joint Board| merch against Chiang Kai Shek. The | Senor Garcia, a Mexican passem jger, declares he recognized the two | priests, Gonzales and Vega, apparent- \ly leading the rebels. Garcia paid great tribute to the soldiers killed defending the train. The rebels took 200,000 pesos from the express cars of the train and all but seventeen mail pouches were car- ried off. | Saved U. S. Capitalists. The bandits made no attempt to in- jure the seven American business men passengers on the train, but, on the |contrary, showed them the greatest | consideration and evinced anxiety for their safety, according to survivors of | the raid who arrived here today. | Dr. Henry Dock, an American rest- jdent of Guadalajara, who was one of the survivors of the-raid, told a vivid tale of the affair on his arrival here today and declared that care had been |taken that no harm came to the | American passengers. | Rich Survive. “There were’ seven Americans |aboard the train, but none of them | were injured,” Dr, Dock said. “They |peasants’»and soldiers’ soviets built} were shown all consideration and the rebels showed anxiety for their safety. “Pullman passengers generally es- caped, including Dr. Mestre Gighli- azza, director of public charities and the national lottery. “The first and second class passen- gers werevless fortunate, “When we were about 100 kilo- metres away from Guadalajara and had been on the road three hours the engine of our train was derailed and turned over. The rebels opened fire jclearly a revolt of the workers and | cribable confusion reigned. Soldiers Defend. “The first volley from the rebels | WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST | was ineffective. Perhaps they hoped | DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI!| (Continued on Pana Three)