The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 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. 88. CHIN SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, A! DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927 aie Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. BATTLESHIPS! NATIONAL | EDITION Price 3 Cents Current Events| By T. J. O’FLanerry. HE United States government has | decided not to join Great Britain | and the other powers in sending a/ joint note to Eugene Chen, threaten- | ing reprisals for the Nanking inci-| dent, tho it is Chen who should be! protesting and not the powers, since | for every foreigner killed during the | affair it is estimated that one hun-| dred noncombatant Chinese lives were | lost. But the mighty will always be righteous if not right. | * * * TH refusal of Washington to take | common action with Great Britain %& a severe blow to Downing Street’s | diplomacy. Of course Coolidge may | ehange his mind, but it was apparent | from the beginning that there was a! serious division among the American | ruling classes over the question of | Chinese policy. Some held that this country should make common cause | with England and crush the revolu- tion, while others were of the opinion | that the United States would be ill- | advised to pull more of England’s chestnuts out of the fire that could be extracted without burning the fingers that expect to handle the dollars that a@ reborn China can exchange for American goods. Blood may be thicker than water but gold is a con- sistent metal, tae Fee | Coe with the reported de- cision of Washington’s refusal to | jump on England’s war wagon comes | the news that a strong agitation has been opened in extreme tory circles in Léndon for a resumption of the Anglo-Japanese alliance which was ditched at the Washington conference in consideration of concessions of a naval character made by the United! States to England. Now the Britons are of the opinion that the wily Yan- kees are as clever at diplomacy as they are at trade and that in return for their generosity in showing Japan the cold shoulder what they got from the United States cannot be transla- ted into cash, credit or good will. » oO. ‘j i arse fact is, that despite English- speaking Union orations and pro- fessions of undying friendship the outstanding rivals for world com- mercia] supremacy are Great Britain and the United States. Brothers and sisters quarrel over legacies. The in- stinct of self-preservation makes short | work of kinship and tradition and capitalist nations must be always the alert lest some other “civiliz®§” collection of legalized bandits organ- ized under the glorified name of gov- ernment, attempt to take away their loot. This is, the civilization that the revolutionists are slandered for or- ganizing to get rid off. eg ae se HIANG-KAI-SHEK has not yet succeeded in forming a government at Nanking. This renegade is evi- dently discredited among the masses of the people. He is under the in- structions of the imperialists’ and would throw his pretensions of hos- tility to imperialism overboard im- mediately if he did not feel that the day he openly made peace with the robber powers would be the day of his complete repudiation by those who followed him while he was lead- ing the revolutionary armies against the northern militarists. * * * | ¥-4 is rather amusing for those who have read the history of the Civil War between North and South in the United States to note the superior air adopted towards the Chinese struggle for independence and national unity by the scribblers of the capitalist press, Those hirelings who get their thinking done for them by their superiors, give the impression that the Chinese are different to all other peoples, that they will never be able to unite, that they fight only with money and propaganda and that the main trouble with China is the Chi- nese population. Slaughter the Chi- nese and the rest will be easy. hoe HE manufacturing elements of our orthern states and the planters of south battled for four years thru bloodiest war that was then known odern history and the stake was ol of the nation by one ruling class | group or the other. Freeing lack slaves was the last cause in the world that a northern capital- ist would spend a dollar for, _ The north won, History and the in- dustrial revolution were on its side, The blacks were freed incidentally, from chattel slavery, and regardless of the fact that they jumped from one form of slavery to another, their condition has improved, But while this war was going on the European nations that happened to be at peace at the time expressed decided opinions that the Yankees were incurably war- mad and that» peace would never reign between the natives of the then dis-ynited states. Ope tivved nm Penn Pheea) | INDIANA MINERS Juror Under Fire | Mrs. Cora Hoffman, one of the jurors in the Ford-Sapiro $1,- 000,009 libel suit at Detroit, Mich., has denied statements made by Ford's detectives that she talked too freely about the trial. Ford's attorneys sought a mistrial on the basis of the detec- | tives’ statements. UNION OFFICERS | MEET OPERATORS Joint State Conference In Near Future TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 25.— An agreement has been reached for a joint state conference of Indiana miners and operators, Harvey Cart- wright, President of District No. 11 of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, announced here today. The date and place of the meeting will be set later today. This will be the first joint state conference in the central competitive field since the Miami conference. Strip Miners Will Pay. The Illinois strip mines have agreed to pay the union scale and operate under a tentative agreement similar to the Jacksonville agreement during the period of the lockout by other companies. Strip mining is immensely profitable even at the bas- ie wage of the Jacksonville agree- ment, which was calculated for un- derground work, One of the complaints of the pro- gressive miners in Illinois has al- ways been that the low wage for strip mining allowed far greater produc- tion of coal per dollar paid on the pay roll, than was:compatible with the necessity of providing for all of the workers in the industry. No New Agreements Yet. Aside from the proposed meeting in Indiana, and the secret meetings by which the Illinois strip mine agree- ment was reached, there is no evi- dence of any further negotiations at present. e The lock-out continues in. force| thruout the unionized field, and all along the borders of the field, thru Ohio and Pennsylvania, attempts are made by coal operators to operate non-union, Picketing Continues. The Pittsburgh region is the scene | of picketing under difficulties by the union miners, ag the sheriff in each county forbids pickets to go in groups | larger than three, but allows the} scab miners to flock to work in as large numbers as there are in this region of this sort of “worker.” The pickets are at a manifest disadvan- tage in their attempt to argue the strike-breakers into quitting their jobs. ‘ The strike in West Virginia contin- ues, tho it is difficult to secure exact Tigures as to the number of men who are out.. U. S. government figures show about one third decrease in coal production in this territory. * Soft Coal Output 8,000,000 WORKERS PARTY OFFICE RAIDED — BY BOMB SQUAD; SEARCH WORKERS American Capitalism’s Decision to Invade China) Seen as One Reason Workers Party headquarters at 108 East 14th St.-were raided | yesterday by the bomb squad.’ Their action is considered here| an indication of the growing tension in labor and international | affairs. The regular preparation for May Day, with its regular | campaign against workers’ organizations by the police on that | day, is seen as part of tfe reason for the raid, and the evident | intention of the Coolidge administration to invade and make war | upon China, is part of the reason for raiding the party in Amer- | ica that has resolutely opposed such a war. Does Police Commissioner Joseph | ~~ Mexican Ambassador to Washington Is Back | the coffers of the private detective A. Warren, the new chief of the city cops, approve the raid made upon the district headquarters of the Workers Party yesterday? This was the formal question placed befre the commissioner late yesterday in a letter by Joseph R. Brodsky, local attorney. “The raid by 11 members of the bomb, squad was simply outrageous,” Brodsky asserted in an interview with The DAILY WORKER. “Those policemen were violating | the very law they are supposed to be| upholding,” he added. “Without legal | warrant for entry and search, they unlawfully entered the Workers Par- ty premises at 108 E. 14th St. and searched occupants and files. “Would members of the bomb squad raid the headquarters of the Repub- lican or Democratic parties without search warrants—or even with them? “Or is the bomb squad, and the forces behind that squad which dic- tate its activities, interested only in | Bersecuting a party of the working] gress at Brussels in favor of the rec-| masses ?” The raid, a mere farce, for none of the people at the Workers Party headquarters who were “frisked” car- ried any weapons larger than pen-| knives, is arousing speculation about) Warren’s' attitude toward the advan- | ced section of the labor movement here. Will he follow a purposely “anti-red” policy of using the alles force against the workers on the slightest provocation? Or did the bomb squad act without his orders, carrying out the usual pre-May Day “precautions” ? i Chicago Offices Not Raided. { The Chicago offices of the Work- ers Party had not been raided, inquir- ies by The DAILY WORKER dis- closed. + No literature was taken from the New York office. In fact the} bomb squadders left when an official began telephoning an attorney. Special precautionary measures were ordered yesterday by Police Commissioner Warren in anticipation of “possible radical demonstrations on | May. 1.” " ! Cops For J. P. Morgan. { All public buildings will be guard- | ed and plain clothesmen will be in- creased in the Wall Street district; throughout the week. Special guards: also will be given the homes of well) known financiers like J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. This is the usual “red scare” pulled by the police departments of every big city in the country, despite the fact that there have been no political bombings in America since William J, Burns ceased his activities in the Department of Justice. One well informed business man here, who had formerly been in the Department’s service, is authority for the statement that 99 per cent. of the bombings in America were instigated by Burns’ agents in order to fatten agencies and make the Department of Justice appropriations larger. Two: Chinese Speakers At May Day Meeting in Cleveland This May 1 CLEVELAND, April 25. — Two Chinese speakers will address the May Day Demonstration arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party, ‘Y. W. L, and Pioneers League. The meeting will be held at the Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut Street, on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p. m. These speakers are J. Y. Jeong, of the Kuo- mintang, and Miss L. H. Hsieh, of the International Institute. The other speakers will be James P. Cannon, Libby Sachs of the Young Workers (Communist) League; Vito Koolick of the Pioneers League. I. Amter will act as chairman, Tons a Week, The program will consist of a one- CHICAGO, (FP) April 25.—Non-| act play, “The Workers Will Decide,” union bituminous mines and the union|given by the Young Workers Dramatic mines in outlying districts produced|Club, with the cooperation of groups a combined tonnage of over 8,000,000] of the dramatic and singing societies, tons a week in the 2 weeks since the} and tinder the direction of Sadie Am- beginning of the-lockout April 1, the|ter. The South Slavic and Lithuanian Natl. Coal Assn. reports, The normal soft coal output averages 10,000,000 tons a’ week but in’ the feverish pro- duction rush preceding the et ranged to over 12,000,000 tenn 9 weel Singing Societies, the Freheit Sing- ing Society, and Children’s Choruses Will furnish the music. The Finnish. Athletic Club will do some athletic etinte British Section Anti - Imperialist League Launched Don Manuel C. Tellez. When Ambassador Tellez took a hasty trip recently to Mexico City, all Washington rumor factories predicted | he was recalled at the behest of the | United States for anti-clericalism and | propaganda in favor of the American |oil companies paying their Mexican| LONDON, April 25.—At a meet-|taxes, However, he came back smil- ing lately held at the House of Com-|ing, and since then there have been mons it was decided to form the Brit-| plenty of developments to justify ish section of the League against Im- him. The “stolen” letters episode and| perialism. | the clerical massacre of passengers | Mr. A. Fenner Brockway was elec-|on the Guadalajara train have turned | ted Chairman, Mr. George Lansbury | public opinion in favor of Mexico. } M. P., Treasurer, and Mr. R. Bridge- - — man Provisional Secretary. Wall Street’s Man Who ’ Lost the Documents | eee + The following resolution was unani- mously adopted: “The British section of the League | against Imperialism reaffirms the | Resolution adopted at the recent Con- | ognition of the independence and sov-| ereignty of China: demands the with-| drawal of all British and Indian for-| ces from China and, if held to be nec-| essary, the evacuation of British nat- ionals from points considered danger- | ous. Urges the British Labor Move-| ment to consider means of placing an| embargo upon the manufacture of war | materiat 4nd ‘Yts’ transport to China| and urgently calls the attention of the public to the grave danger of war on| an extended scale if troops and arma-| ments continue to be poured into China. It calls for immediate nego- | tiations with the Chinese Nationalist Government, believing that a settle- ment just both to Britain and China can be obtained.” NEWS IN BRIEF Investigate Mexico Health. MEXICO CITY, April 25.—Dr. John Terrel, chief of the Pan-American Health Department of the Rockefeller Foundation, arrived here today to in- vestigate health and. sanitary condi- tions. James Rockwell Sheffield. James Rockwell Sheffield is the American ambassador at Mexico City. He is the fellow letters, which may have been “stolen” from his office, point to as the agent relied upon by Coolidge and Kellogg to support a reactionary uprising against the pres- ent Mexican government. As part of this plot, apparently, the United States now permits arms to be smug- gled into Mexico, and priest-led ban- dit gangs using American rifles have | used the opportunity to burn, kill and | loot. MACHADO, PUPPET OF SUGAR TRUST, SILENT ON CUBA WASHINGTON, April 25 (FP). —Along the two-mile line of parade by which Gerardo Machado, president of Cuba, was escorted from the Wash- ington central station to the Cuban embassy, by way of the temporary White House on Dupont Circle, only eight Cuban flags were displayed. Five of these were shown by em- bassies and legations. Police, in raincoats and rain hel- jmets, guarded the doors of the em- |bassy building when the press cor- respondents, invited to meet Machado, arrived. Military and naval ‘aides, showing yards of gd@d braid, clanked up the steps with trailing swords. After a wait, the press men were in- vited up to meet the grand dignitary. Quiz Machado. The entrance hall of the Cuban em- bassy is all shining white marble, with a broad marble staircase lead- ing to the upper landing, and deeply carpeted in crimson. Paintings and statuary add to the process of pre- paring visitors to bow low and think meekly while on the premises. So there was a dumb silence, at first, when the newspaper men had shaken hands with the Cuban ambassador and with Machado. They lined up before him, with the military and naval aides Navy Blimp Flies. | PENSACOLA, Fla., April 25.—The Los Angeles navy dirigible will leave Pensacola at 3.30 o'clock this after- noon for her home station at Lake- hurst, N. J., passing over Mobile and Washington enroute, it was announced today. The huge dirigible arrive here yes- terday afternoon after an uneventful 1,200-mile flight from Lakehurst in 20 hours, Railroads Squabble. WASHINGTON, April 25. — The supreme court today declined to re- view the appeal of the Continental Securities Corporation in an ‘unsuc- cessful suit to force the New York Central Railroad to surrender control over the Michigan Central. The appealing corporation, a minor- ity stockholder in the Michigan Cen- tral, charged that the New York Cen- tral used its majority stock power ar- tificially to depress the earning power of the Michigan Central. Ashes of Ruthenberg in Red Hall of Comintern; - Big Demonstration Today MOSCOW, April 25,—Repre- sentatives of the government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics and delegations from the Com- munist International, and local and all-union delegations from the Cemmunist Party of the Soviet Union met J. Louis Engdahl at the station as he arrived in Mos- cow with the ashes of Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg. The urn was escorted to the Red Hal? of the Communist International where it will remain under guard until Tuesday afternoon when _ burial |for the ostensible purpose of defend- |city, more than forty warships are | | 'Yangtse, *tiear “Chitikiang yésterday.| throes of tremendous change. ; Chiang Kei Shek’s raids. POWERS PREPARE HANKOW ATTACK; BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELL CHINESE Workers Take Swatow as Chiang Outlaws Strikes; Green Blesses Cal’s Policy HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS 1.—British rush warships, Americans land troops as powers plan attack on Hankow. 2.—British bombard Chinese Chinese losses unknown. 8.—Workers’ and peasants’ unions repulse Chiang’s attacks |in Swatow and gain control of the city. | 4.—Chiang Kai Shek outlaws strikes. | 5.—Warships of northern war lords fly Japanese flaga. Nationalist Government sends protest to Japanese Legation. 6.—Kellogg denies split among ministers at Peking, admitting that the United States is acting jointly with Great Britain and the other imperialist powers. 7.—William Green, president of the Federation of Labor, supports administration’s imperialist policy in China. oh 8 HANKOW, April 25.—With two more British warships added to the imperialist fleet at Hankow and with the landing of American marines here Thursday an attack on the Nationalist Government looms closer than ever. That the British are planning to| RY i forcibly reannex their old Hankow| Minister MacMurray had withdrawn concession appeared likely yesterday | from the conferences. a afternoon when the two British! The powers are still in disagree- cruisers, the Vindictive and the Car-| ment as to what course to follow fm lyle, the largest war vessels that ever| replying to the Chinese notes over navigated the Yangtse, steamed into|the Nanking affair, Kellogg added. Hankow harbor with flags flying and | Two or three are inclined toward the bands playing. American view, he said, but he. re- Enter, Standard Oil. |fused to state the cause of disagree- The American marines were landed |™¢"t- batteries near Chinkiang. U. S. Drift Towards War. The United States is rapidly drift- ing toward open war with China, de- clared T. Z. Koo, representative of fifty industrial and commercial or- ganizations, at a meeting of the Young People’s Conference at the Waldorf Sunday afternoon. Making a plea for the support of the Chinese liberation movement, Mr. Koo said: “My country is going through the The Their bombardment is said to have| masses, both in city and country, are been “effective.” jliving in conditions of unparalleled Workers and peasants thruout the | poverty «and squalor, fortunate, in Yangtse Valley are organizing| thousands of cases, if they can find ‘coups for the purpose of resisting| the food and shelter to sustain life. Dispatches} “What they seek is not to kill for- from Swatow state that a number of|/eigners and loot their possessions. Chiang’s\ troops were killed in their| They seek to live on a higher econ- attacks on the peasant unions. | omic plane. They want shorter hours, ‘Workers Take Swatow. jhighér wages and some protection Workers’ and peasants’ unions are/against sickness and accident. reported to have gained control of! “The charge that Communism is in the city. : . back of the present upheaval does not Chiang Outlaws Strike. — |represent the true situation. The In an effort to smash the unions, | driving force in back of the tremen- General Chow, subordinate of Chiang! dous movement in China today is the Kai Shek, has issued a proclamation | desire of the masses to place earning outlawing the strike. Chiang is re-|capacity above the bare minimum ported to have accepted money from | that will sustain life. native bankers and industrialists in “In addition, we want to establi return for which he is raiding unions! ~; r ; and executing labor leaders. fa oe a plane of eqaality with # Close observers of the situation be- lieve that Chiang Kai Shek is rapidly | F Tl LL F R EBA E MADEIROS’ DEATH; ' ing Standard Oil property in the city. Despite the fact that there are only 114 Britons, 68 Americans, 114 Frenchmen and 46 Italians in the massed in Hankow harbor with their guns trained on the city. British Bombard Chinese. British warships, the Mantis, Kep- pel and Wolsey, bombarded Chinese | batteries on the south bank of the drifting towards an open alliance! with the northern war lords and is| making a bid for the support of the! imperialist powers. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang is reported to be serious- ly considering Chiang’s offer to make him “Northern Defence Commission- er.” Committees Control Army. GLOOM IN BOSTON The Nationalist Government has issued a mandate announcing that a DES military affairs on all fronts will be directed by military committees. The object of the mandate is to preyent defections like Chiang Kai Shek’s. | Eugene Chen, foreign minister in the Hankow Government, continues his attempt to induce American firms to continue in business at Hankow. ee ve War Lords Fly Jap Flag. SHANGHAI, April 25.—The United | States gunboat Rizal, four Japanese | and three British destroyers are an- chored off Swatow. | «= {for Celestino Madeiros. The Nationalist government has! Madeiros has confessed that he was sent a protest to the Japanese Lega-| with the bandits who held up and tion claiming that armed northern | ;jlJod the South Braintree paymastere ships flew the Japanese flag while | sever years ago. His confession points on a recent visit to Woosung. jto the Moretli gang as the criminals A |in the cage for which Sacco and Van- Green Supports Coolidge. |zetti have been condemned to th. WASHINGTON, April 25.—Presi-|Madeiros however has refused defin- dent William Green of the American] itely to name the Morellis although Federation of Labor, defends the ad-|his description leaves no shadow of ministration’s policy of sending} doubt that they were the murderers. troops and warships to China in a/ Fuller has twice granted the Por- statement made public last night. tuguese reprieves from the execution “The United States has disavowed | of the death penalty for another hold- \Labor Protests Still Plooding Governor (Special to Thé DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, April 25.—While tele- grams and letters from tens of thous- | ands of workers poured into Govern- or Fuller’s office today, demanding the entire review of the Sacco-Van- zetti frame-up, the governor was con- sidering granting another reprieve any intention of territorial encroach- ment or the enjoyment of any ma- terial advantage in China,” the state- up and murder. Unless he acts im- mediately, however, Madeiros will go to the electric chair Thursday, taking ment says. “It has officially de- clared its only purpose is to protect American lives and property in China.” with him the real story of the crime for which the two Italian workers are to be legally murdered. A pall of despair is settling over friends of Sacco and Vanzetti. Full- er’s delay in granting another re- prieve to Madeiros adds to the im- Powers Disagree. There is no split among the minis- ters at: Peking, who are holding con- ceremonies will take plaee with a large demonstration in the Red Square. and other staff personages in file be- blandly distributed a prepared state- aa. on Page Two) versations as to what steps to take next in regard to the Nanking ‘inci+ hind .their backs. The ambassador | dent, Secretary of State Kellogg de-| and | clared today. He denied reports that American pression that he may not appoint a commission to. review the entire case liberate the men. ft | Labor howeyer remained adamay (Grntinued on Page Three) ~ 1 4, ‘