The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1927, Page 1

) HANDS OFF CHIN THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 87. Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. By T. J. O}FLAHERTY 'T costs the Associated Press thirty-| three cents for each lying word it sends from Nicaragua to its members | in the United States to poison the/| minds of the American people against | the liberal government of that coun- try. The New York jegram, a/ United Press member-paper points | out that it cost the A. P. $4.62 to) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. GOLD AND SHAPIRO ACQUITTED BY THE |tatew Wot Appoite MINEOLA JURY; NINE ARE CONVICTED Arrest Acquitted Fur Leaders Again on Same) Charge; Scab Testimony Prominent | At 1:30 A. M. Saturday, Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ | THE DAILY WORKER. Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef Marob 3, 1379. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1927 KUOMINTANG DENOUNCES CHIANG KAI-SHEK AS | TRAITOR; RIGHT WING LEADERS HERE SUPPRESS GABLE ASKING SUPPORT OF HANKOW GOVERNMENT To Place on Committee To Drain Latin America WASHINGTON, April 24 (FP). —Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of La- bor and acting president of the Na- tional Civic Federation, has been named by Pre@sident Coolidge as PUBISHING |Boob Bills to ‘4 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO,, 33 Firat’ Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CIty | EDITION Price 3 Cents Amuse Chiang Seeks Alliance With Imperialist Powers; Joint Board, and Isadore Shapiro, its chairman, were acquitted | of the charge of assault for which they and nine other workers have been tried for the past two weeks at Nassau County Court | let the American people know that| od ssh lh “g band of fifty men wearing red| | hatbands and carrying a red flag” at-| tacked a band of reactionaries within | the proscribed limit of 2,000 yards of I. L. D, Protests Any semen da the wowsnne. "” Salbgtage of Work for ernment did the proscribing. | 6. te AP. is the unofficial news ie agency of the dominant element) | of the American ruling classes, Eu- acta all e ropean governments have semi-offi- | | cial news agencies. Reuter’s is the| | English government service. It is| doing a good job for imperialism in PHILADELPHIA, April 24.—As a result of the Socialist and right China. The American workers, out-|Wing labor union sabotage of the | side of those that read The DAILY | Sacco Vanzetti conference in this | WORKER, are completely at the |city, the local branch of the Inter-| mercy of the Associated Press and | national Labor Defense, thru its se- the almost equally poisonous Hearst |cretary, sends the following letter to service for their foreign and domes-|Sam Rudow, Manager of the Amal- tic news. Where there is no’ issue |gamated Clothing Workers: of a class. nature involved those | I. L. D. Letter. | agencies may be neutral, but in their; Dear Brother Rudow: strike news and reports of events in| Having read in the newspapers | countries where the interests of|various conflicting reports regarding | | American imperialism are involvea|the outcome of the Sacco, Vanzetti/| they are sure to lie like gentlemen. | Conference held at the Labor Insti .- * & tute on Wednesday, April - 20th, 1} |the District Attorney to dismiss this House, Mineola, L. L } The same jury which rendered this verdict declared that Samuel Men-| cher, Jack Schneider, Phillip Len-| hardt, Morris Rosenberg, Oscar Mile- af, Maurice Malkin, Leo Franklin, George Weiss, Joseph Katz were guilty of second degree assault in connection with the’ raid on the shop | of the Barnett brothers at Rockville Center, on April 19, 1926. Arrested Again. Immediately, Gold and Shapiro were re-arrested on the same charge made by the second ‘Barnett brother, for the fur workers had been tried only on one complaint. The judge paroled Gold and Shapiro | in the custody of their lawyer, so they | were able to leave the jail at 2 a. m.| Saturday. It is within the power of second indictment if he sees fit, but what his decision will be cannot be | known until after May 2nd, which is the day set for the sentencing of the |nine workers who were convicted, | A Seab’s Testimony. The closing day of the trial, Friday | .|"tional Acceptance Bank, New York; one of the nine American delegates to the Pan-American Commercial Conference, t6 be held in Wash- ington, May 2-to 5. It was to this meeting that the chamber of commerce of Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina, re- fused to send. delegates, because they disapproved the aggressive imperialism of tHe United States in Latin The othér American delegates are: Lewis S. Pierson, Columbia Bank & Trust Co., Néw York; John H. Merrill, All-America Cables, New ‘York; Gano S. Dunn, J. G. White Engineering Corp., New York; F. Abbott Goodhue, Interna- |The Capitalist Solons Frank D. Waterman, Waterman Fountain Pen Go., New York; Roy || D. Chapin, president, National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce, New York; Franklin C. Remington, chairman of board, The Foundation Co., New York, and Daniel G. Wing, president, First National io Bank, Boston, Paul Crouch Will Senator Fletcher M. Oklahoma has introduced the latest freak bill. He wants a law prohibit- Johnson of, Offers Posts to Reactionaries | ‘Shanghai Workers Form Military Groups to Resist Chiang’s Wholesale Massacres HEADLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS 1.—Central Committee of Kuomintang at Hankow in cable to American Kuomintang denounces Chiang Kai Shek as a traitor to the Nationalist movement and requests the executive commit- tee of the American Kuomintang to notify all branches to sup- | port the Hankow Government. | 2—The executive committee of the Kuomintang here sup- | presses cable; fails to notify branches. | 8.—Shanghai workers organize military groups for defense against right wing raids. | 4.—Chiang has difficulty organizing counter-revolutionary | government; offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs to C. C. Wu, | notorious “running dog of the imperialists.” | 5.—Hankow expects imperialist attack; appeals to British troops not to fight liberation movement. | * * * HANKOW, April 24.—In an effort to acquaint American | workers with the full significance of Chiang Kai Shek’s treachery + to the Nationalist movement, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang at Hankow has sent the following cable to the Cen- \tral Committee of the Kuomintang in the United States with headquarters at Oakland, California: HERE is reason to believe that the| new cabinet in Japan will adopt a) more aggressive attitude towards the) | Chinese revolution, than the one fol- } lowed by its predecessor. Indeed, the | the delegations from a number of | the jury. recent cabinet crisis was probably as much due to differences over the hereby take the opportunity of ex- pressing our view.on the matter. You will remember that the cre- dential committee took exception to |branches of the International, Labor |Defense. We wish to state that the the 22nd, was consumed with the | summing up of the case by lawyers | | for the defense and the district attor- | \ney, and the charge by the judge to! The case went to the jury lat 5.15; they came in for “further | reading of ‘testimony at 9.86, returned } Chinese policy of the government as; delegates from the various branches | to the jury room at, 10.45 and ap- | to the financial crisis thru which the country ds passing, The imperialist lineup ainst China ited. Britain has finally suc- in buying off France and the ipanese government uses lan- wr that conveys a sinister note. * cS eer AST Saturday’s papers carried a Tokio news dispatch which said that Japan and Britain intend to sup- port Chiang-Kai-Shek as a Dictator of China. This is believable. Chang- Tso-Lin and his brood of under- tuchuns and inferior brigands; smell too strongly of common banditry to enable the imperialist powers to in- their publics. But’ Chiang-Kai-Shek is a bird of a different plumage. He has ‘tistinguished himself recently and endeared himself to the hearts of the international bourgeoisie by mur- dering Communists and labor leaders. It remains to be seen whether this latest Chinese, militarist will fare any better than his predecessors. * * * A GIRL of 17 able to speak six’ dif- ferent languages was unable to secure employment in New York City and landed in a Brooklyn court on a charge of vagrancy. A judge sent | went to the conference with the earn- jest desire and hope to be able to con-| is becoming | tribute in the campaign to help save} |the lives of our brothers, Sacco and | Vanzetti. | Followed Conference Call. | I, as Secretary of the International ‘Labor WeTensé, Wrope to-My” branches ‘asking them to send delegates bas- ling myself on that section in the call Ito the conference which says: |“Pjease be sure to attend. If your jorganization is not in session, call en your special officers—two dele- gates are requested from every lo- cal @r branch.” branches of the International Labor Defense should have been seated. However, the great necessity to de- velop a national protest movement against the attempts to execute Sac- co and Vanzetti must place in the background any consideration of the seating or unseating of any dele- gates from any organization. LL, D. Active. ganization on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti must be known to you. We have helped to conduct their defense, (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) Frank B. Noyes, President of Associated Press, with ‘Big Four’ Today's is the thirteenth article of a series of thirty, expos- éng the operations of the “Big Four” insurance trust. The com- bine consists of the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and Colonial Life Insurance Companies. In previous articles Mr. Har- rison has made specific charges of graft, misrepresentation, mis- use of “mutual” funds and corru ption. Prominent public figures and we have during the last two} in the exposure so far have been, Charles Evang Hughes, Charles M. Schwab, Haley Fiske, Supt. of Insurance James A. Beha and others. can readily be seen that as an agent * * * of propaganda he is invaluable. (Conestenied by. kpc In this connection it might be pointed out that during the recent campaign in favor of public owner- ship of water power in’ New York State, the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company issued upwards of five pamphlets entitled “Your By CHARLES YALE HARRISON ARTICLE XIII. percent of new weekly-pay- Eig insurance written every nent | peared with their verdict at 1.30. a. m. | It seems probable that it is the tes- | timony of the scab worker, Mary | | Farkas—employed in the Barnett shop jat the time of the raid—who brought | about the conviction of the nine work- | ‘ers, Apparently, it almost caused the | ) QAHICTION OT Shaptro;-akso; forth was" the Farkas testimony which the jury | |asked to have re-read when they came | | back te the court room at 9.35. | Fe No Other Evidence. | This scab is the only person, ex- cept the two informers, who claims | \that Mencher, Schneider, Rosenberg, | | Mileaf, Weiss, Katz, and Lenhardt | were in Rockville Center on April 19, | |Jack Barnett, did not identify them; | the other girl in the shop, did not! identify them. They and all their wit- nesses testified they were not there. Not even Mary Farkas identified Lenhardt; but she said he was there. | On her statement they’ were all con- victed—she whose hatred of'the union | | wing” of the union was now, expelled, ican Federation of Labor. Walsh Condemns Unfairness. | Frank P. Walsh, counsel for Sam- uel Mencher, Jack Schneider and Martin Rosenberg, was the first of the defense attorneys to speak after the court session opened. Beginning in a quiet voice he condemned the deliberate effort that had been made during the trial to prejudice the cases of these men, to blacken their characters, so that the jury might be influenced to judge not on the evi- dence but on their impressions of the defendants. . He spoke also of the district at- torney’s repeated attempts to give! the impression that these.men were no members of a labor union, but mere. gangsters. “This (the Joint Board) is a labor (Continued on Page Three) NEWS IN BRIEF German Fascists Pull Knives. BERLIN, April 24.—Twenty-two persons, inéluding a number of wo- Be Released From : Jail June First SAN 'FRANGISCO, April 24.— Paul Crouch, who is a class conscious worker. in the ranke of the United States Army and opponent of Ameri- can Imperialism: in Hawaii, the Phil- ippines, China be released on June ist. One of the outstanding frame-ups | ¢¢ 5 against. militant class conscious | FORWARD workers. is. that of the case of John J. Cornelison: who is now serving a life term in San Quentin, after con- viction on a charge of first degree murder, Cornelison, 27 years of age, trodiice théial'in tall hate-nad spate tal We therefore believe that the|1997, The two bosses, Michael and|is a member of the Boiler Makers juce em Union. He took active part in the shipyard strike of 1919-20 on the coast, serving on the picket line, and also the Railway Shop Crafts Strike’ of 1922, A Scab Killed. A scab was killed during the Shop Crafts strike in September 1922, and |is so great that she led the burst of |in the course of events, Cornelison| “forward” on the cecaxion: ‘of’ its| | clapping that broke out one day when | was drawn in, framed up and convic- | goth anniversary. The’ activity of oux National Or. | the district attorney declared the “left | ted. He has already served four) years in San Quentin. This victim of write to him can do so by addressing: John J. Cornelison, Box 37287, Cal fornia State Prison, San Quentin, Calif. Similar case is that of Claude Mer- rit, 41 years old, member of Local No. 735, B, R. C. of America, framed on) a charge of second degree murder. The details in his case are much the same as that of Cornelison, as he par- ticipated in the same strikes and was framed and convicted on the same case. He has already served four years in San Quentin. Has a boy seven years, living with a friend; the mother of the child is dead. Friends may also communicate with him: Claude Merritt, Box 37386, California elsewhere and was, ee © OTHER FAKERS AT ing biscuits from being made over six inches in circumference or of weight more than’ one ounce, $50 fine | for each violation—brides given one year to learn, State senators get paid, and if they cannot er will not put through social legislation, they can amuse them- selves at any rate. MacDONALD SICK; Nationalist Government. ‘branches to support Hankow.” * Suppress Cable. OAKLAND, Calif., April 24.—The Kuomintang here, which is dominated by business men sympathetic to Chiang Kai Shek, have suppressed a cable from the Central Committee of the Kuomintang at Hankow calling for the support of the Hankow Gov- evithont; if was _leatned jtoday. Although the cable requests the !committee at Oakland to notify all | branches to support the Hankow Gov- lernment, the Oakland committee has taken no action. ee Workers Resist Chiang. 5,000 Workers Razz Abe| SHANGHAI, April 24—Workers . ere are organizing themselves into | Cahan and His Gang | military ‘groups to resist the raids on the labor unions by the right wing, By SENDER GARLIN. it was learned today. Exhausted from too many recep-| In an effort to split the Nation- |tions given in his honor by mayors, | alists and to prevent communication |governors and ambassadors, J. Ram- | between unions here and the Hankow | say MacDonald, once a “labor” oad hy Here Chiang Kai ee has a [uae it Groat, Bettain aarenehe teary aod @pqrhace fore tnakon | e guest o: x ii ily b ° . i sheild The united opposition of National- ist leaders to Chiang Kai Shek is 59th | Making the formation of a “govern- The Century Theatre, at | =. 7 rr |St. and Central Park West, the home| ment” at Nanking extremely diffi- | and no longer a part of the Amer-/ the class war has a dependent mother,!of hundreds of musical comedies, was | °™ | 70 years of age. Workers desiring to|the scene of the big blowout yester- It. Alienates Leaders. Chiang by his desertion has alien- |ated every responsible Nationalist leader and has been forced to seek the support of openly eounter-revolu- day afternoon. Prima Donna Absent. | Lost, lost, were the dollars which | Forward” expended in bringing | tionary sertthetnss the MacDonald to the United States. | Janki | Remantic little yarns about visits to cin gai Shay ani capo friends met on his honeymoon 30 he nae Se bea) tla! Ft: “ “ & | eign ‘airs to C. C. Wu, who is no- years ago, notwithstanding, the prin-| ‘ fy fs i cipal reason for his hurried trip here | dey By id nis ge et bbe Wo was to be the guest of honor at the fact is Logis t Hi wi Fh are celebration in the Century Theatre hy bata Airy ‘Aine yesterday. There he would have sat! ‘The offer of the Ministry of For- Si ge aot oe we eign Affairs to Wu is in keeping with Te idmait: - Oar fe ist party | Chiang’s open bid for foreign ‘sup- | quit, Cahan, Algernon Lee,|port. It has been authoritatively ctor Berger, and the rest, stated that Chiang is willing to ac-| Came to See English Royalty. cept the imperialist demand for! celled and orders have been issued for his arrest. “Chiang has slaughtered the people; he would overthrow the His party membership has been can- Notify all of the exploited masses of the world and for your own liberation.” * * * e An Invisible Government. WASHINGTON, April 24 (FP).— {John Van Antwerp MacMurray, the state department annoulces, is Amer- | ican-$ninister to °Chiga. “As such, he {is aeeredited to the Peking “govern- | ment,” and not to Marshal Chang Tso-lin who is the sole political and | military authority at Peking. Since | the actual cabinet at Peking disap- peared some time ago, and its Amer- ican minister has had to maintain himself without funds from home for a year or more past, the United States is now in diplomatic relations with a real invisible government. The case is somewhat like that of the Kerensky ambassador, Boris Ba- khmeteff, who continued in posses- sion of the Russian embassy in Wash- |ington for five years after his gov- ernment ceased to exist. He was re- cognized as Russian ambassador ney- jertheless, And Minister Sze, accredi- ted by the vanished government at Peking to the government of the United States, is formally recognized at “minister of China.” Yet the ad- ministration never fails to declare, when challenged, that it does not re- cognize any of the “factions” in China | —neither Chang Tso-lin at Peking nor Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking nor the Kuomintang at Hankow. ee | The Bureau of the Socialist and | Labor International in a manifesto |drawn up in Paris April 4th calls |upon workers throughout the world |to demand the immediate withdrawal | of foreign troops and warships from | China at all May Day demonstra- | tions, Hoover Applauds State Prison, San Quentin, Cal. Comparatively few of the 2,500 WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST | DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI! |Ramsay MacDonald Does Not Discuss Formation |readers of the “Forward,” | From the “swell” automobiles and jerky taxis alighted those New York- |ers who wanted to see what Ramsay | MacDonald looked like. | Suave, precise and ingratiating, | Morris Hillquit, high priest. of the socialist party, was master of cere- reparations for the Nanking affair ment. of Nanking. Dispatches from Hankow state that there. ist war ships concentrated | Eight of the forty-two war vessels are American. They are the Isabell, Cin- | cinnati, Noa, Preble, Pruit, Monacacy, Pidgeon and Villa Lobos. Bast with the “Big pyramiding of insurance ly covered is due to the reads liv. seg h the industrial agent pry r of the workers on his collec’ . premiums are payable seen elt household. He knows their earning capacity, age, the amount of insur- ance carried, and during the late war he usually undertook selling War ee 3 alli rassed policyho! . ‘As calls are made during the day- time ‘his contact is largely with women and children, a circumstance which has led to ugly rumors, more or less unfounded. ‘As the average agent covers about two hundred homes every week, it “ry is written in the homes of work- million of the insured. The| As the average worker is notorious- weekly and soon becomes |ly ignorant of business procedure, (a with all members of the|condition that the powers that be Rights as a Capitalist” which was dealt with in an article last week. In this booklet Mr. Haley Fiske op- posed all moves in the direction of government ownership of public util- ities, Plays on Ignorance. manage to ite) and as the wife of the worker is still less on financial matters—the agent of posted | it was learned tonight. The child’s men, were injured in gun and knife battles when fascists attacked Com- munists during a fascist demonstra- a at Essen in the Ruhr district to- Armour IV Falls Til. CHICAGO, April 24.—Philip D. Armocr IV, 9, son of Philip D. Armour of the milionaire packer family here, is ill with typhoid fever father is first vice-president of Ar- the “Big Four” has an easy time of it. All sorts of bunk is spread about with reference to the great institution of life insurance, For instance 20 payment life pol- icies are sold to industrial insurers while the impression given at the time of the sale is that the policy is on the 20-year endowment plan. The (Continued on Page Two) mour & Company. COPENHAGEN, April 24. — A state of seige has been declared throughout Lithuania according to a message from Kovno, The govern- ment action is a result of the growth of the Communist movement, which the fascist government of Lithuania greatly fears Of Labor Party in U.S. WASHINGTON, April 24. Ramsay MacDonald, socialist ex- premier of Britain, met no radicals during: his visit to Washington. In his talk with officials of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, who ban- queted him, MacDonald did not—so far ast afterward—venture upon any discussion of basic work- ing class issues. He explained the dangerous features of the bill which the Tory majority in the House of Commons hopes to pass, to weaken the Labor Party, but he did not advise the formation of a working class party in this country. He left that subject alone. The question of affiliation of the A. F. of L. with the International | monies. “The Forward,” Hillquit boasted “is a prosperous newspaper.” “The British Labor Party,” de- clared Hillquit, “has evolved a new prineipal of government. It is that the people can run the government.” According to the elaborate, gilt- edged program this was apparently the introduction for Mae Donald. With baited breath, the crowd who paid nothing to get in (admission was by complimentary tickets) wait- ed for the mighty man from Britain to make his appearance. “I regret exceedingly,” said the socialist corporation lawyer, “I re- gret that due to illness, our honored guest, who is now in Philadelphia, will not be with us this afternoon.” Ishbel A Nice Girl. Federation of Trade Unions he also avoided. | But his daughter, friend and com- (Continued on Page Two) \ | “Go home or join us for liberation Appeal to Soldiers. Propaganda is being circulated among British troops to forestall a massacre like those at Wanshien and Nanking. Poster displayed from the | British war memorial read: “British sailors, you are here to fight unarmed people, inspired by ideals of democracy and independ- ence,” the poster read, “You have been sent here to crush a revolutionary movement struggling against militarism and for govern- ment by the Chinese people, or the on people for the Chinese peo- ple. “Do not. be fooled by your masters, | the British capitalists, and their ser- vants. Do away: with those damned | superstitions of race hatred. We, your friends, have more in common with you than you have with your country- men of the type who sent you here. | people who joined in the singing of | Without making counter-demands for | Chiang’s Murder the “Star Spangled Banner” were |indemnity for Chinese killed and |property destroyed in the bombards | ~~ Of Union Lead | | the city fears an attack by imperial. | Of Union 8a ers April 24 rmerce Hoover's con cern over the Chinese revolution is reflected in a press memorandum is- sued by his department Apr. 20 which begins as follows: “Some encouragement for prospects }of trade at Shanghai may be had |from the attitude being shown by the conservative or moderate elements of the Nationalist forces at that point, according to cabled advices to the De- partment of Commerce from repre- sentatives in China. “With the financial support of Chi- nese industrial and banking interests, active stefs have been taken toward the suppression of activities on the part of radicals within the National- ist Party and of labor disorder. Agi- tators and others serving, as pickets have been disarmed and the general strike, which was ordered by the Gen- eral Labor Union for April 13, was only partially successful, wéth pres- ent indications of an early termina- (FP).— tion.