The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1927, Page 1

| THE PAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY DAILY Wor Mntered as second-class matter at the Pest Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Maroh 8, 1879. KER. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 90. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927 <a PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents BUILDING TRADES BOSSES OPEN WAR ON UNIONS Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY, (stad president’s speech at a United Press Association banquet was not in the least disappointing. Its liter- | ary style measured up to the high} standard set by the late, lamented | President Harding, the idol of the tenants and guests of the “little| green house on K. street.” Five}! to it provided they had their ears to! their radio sets, or did not go to! sleep at their switches before the) morphean effort was over. aga eas WARLORDS DRIVE ON HANKOW JOINED BIG A. F, L. CHIEFS BY BATTLE VESSELS OF BIG POWERS DISTRUST FRAYNE |Report Nationalist Move on Canton Right Wing; Oust Editor for Attack on U. S. Policy HIGHLIGHTS OF 1.—Imperialists, through war lords, launch drive against | millions of people may have listenea| Hankow; Americans may send twelve planes to Nationalist | capital. TODAY’S NEWS 2.—Rumor Chiang alliance with war lords. | 3.—Communist International issues May Day appeal, calling | | for world-wide protest against the imperialist war on China,) R. COOLIDGE assures us that the| pointing out danger of a new world war. Un ; 4.—Shanghai Chamber of Commerce ousts editor for criti- ambitions. What nation has for that| eigm of United States militarist policy. nited States has no imperialistic | matter? ways getting misunderstood. England for instance! So charges of greed and grabbing have | Capitalist powers are al- Take | 5.—Report four Nationalist armies moving on Canton, where | Brothers before Magistrate Corrigan many | “ght wing is conducting a reign of terror. 6.—American military attache at Peking @pes through Soviet | been levelled against her that large| papers seized in Chang Tso-lin’s raid on Soviet embassy com- sections of the world’s population have | come to associate the British empire | with oppression and exploitation. | But any British cabinet minister— even our dear Ramsay MacDonald— will tell you that it is all a beastly; conspiracy against the the world.” ge Sa iO SIR, take it from “Cal” United States is not hurling hot Shot into crowded Chinese streets for | any other purpose than to help the/ Chinese free their country from im- perialism. Our marines are in Nic- the | aragua because the Nicaraguans want them there. They are not interfering in the internal affairs of that country; they only insist that the rival parties only conduct war where nobody is liable to get hurt, least of all the reactionaries. Surely this is a most worthy service for our marines to be engaged in. * * . | We have nothing but the most peaceful attitude towards Mexico. It is true that we threaten war against our southern neighbor occa- sionally and there is a strong sus- picion that our secretary of state has | issued instructions to his agents in Mexico to do everything in their power to foment uprisings against the Calles government, but perhaps this is a playful way the genial and jovial Coolidge has of showing the Mexicans that we are not the stilted folk our Latin neighbors think we are; that we are a jolly bunch of handshakers, back-slappers and practical jokers who cannot refrain from horse-play even in diplomacy. | HE president informs us that he has had assurances from the Mexi-| can government that the property of the American oil, mining and land barons would not be confiscated. In| which case the generous Wall Street administration would cease encourag- ing civil war in Mexico and might even hint to the pope that their united front is off for the time being. Per- haps the threats of war, of lifting the arms embargo and the financial measures taken by Wall Street had fits effect and renders military measures unnecessary. | (R. COOLIDGE upbraided a section of the American press, which hap- is to be less under the thumb of ‘ig business than the rest, for triticising his administration's foreign policy. Listen to this gem: “When- ever any section of our press turns on America and on American Institutions and assumed a foreign at- titude every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. rz mild criticisms made of Cool- idge’s policy by a section of the pitalist press was not in favor of ers that could render favors, It in behalf of the weak countries that, were being ground into the dust by the armed forces of the Amen- can Eympire. And speaking of selling one’s country, this jibe comes with poor g) from an executive who crouched silently in the white house while a hurricane of indignation over the sale of a part of the national domain by some of his cabinet col- leagues swept the nation and called for the punishment of the guilty ones. LIDGE’S speech was no disap- pointment to those who know the ways of capitalist diplomacy. He has sympathy for China but he says it with bullets. He shows his friendship for Nicaragua by sending marines there. This is the difference between imperialism in words and impe: Ism in action. The policy of Ameri- | drawal of the northern forces from pound, 7.—British die-hards impatient. Clamor for open against China. . “ SHANGHAI, April day. positions elsewhere. Planes May Go To Hankow. Close observers of the situation here point to the concentration of im- perialist warships at Hankow and to the arrival of a flotilla of American submarines at Hongkong Monday as indications of an imperialist attack on Hankow. Twelve American mili- tary planes, which arrived at Shang- hai yesterday, may be dispatched to| the Nationalist capital, it is stated, The announcement of the with- positions north of Nanking leads ob-} servers here to believe that Chiang | Kai Shek is ready to ally himself with the war lords and the imper- ialist powers in a war against the Nationalist government. | Babbits Oust Editor. The Chamber of Commerce here has ousted the “China Weekly Re- view” from membership bceause the magazine opposed the sending of troops and warhips to China. In a statement issued yesterday in defence of his position, J. P. Powell, of Hannibal, Mo., editor of the maga- zine’ said: Scores U. S. Policy. “The American people have no business to interfere in the internal affairs of the Chinese. The Cham- ber of Commerce apparently believes in involving America in complica- tions in this part of the world, which, in my opinion, may have a far- reaching effect, even to the extent of another world war. “I believe that the Chinese have the right to express their views as well as the English or Americans, or others, and so long as I am engaged in the publication of an American paper in Shanghai it is my intention to give them a square deal.” . * . Move On Canton. CANTON, April 27.—Hankow is reported to have sent four armies to Canton to crush the right wing ter- ror in the city. The armies are sai to be commanded by Generals Tan Yen-kai, Chu Peh-tak, Chen Chi and Chun Fat-kwai, and will m thru Honan Province attacking C ton by way of the Ea@ and Nort! Rivers, utilizing the peasant labor unions in the districts en route, Execute Labor Leaders. \ Secret wholesale executions of ing place here nightly. Tai Chuk- men, well known left wing leader, was arrested today. | * * . | Americans Search Soviet Papers. PEKING, April 27.—A member of the American military attache’s of- fice was premitted to examine Soviet account books which were seized when the Soviet embassy compound was raided. * * * Die-Hards Impatient. LONDON, April 27.—The British cabinet met at 10 Downing street pany: to consider the Chinese situa- jon. The inability of the powers to agree on a reply to Eugene Chen's note regarding the Nanking affair has caused some uneasiness here and it is reported that one faction of the cabinet desires independent action. It seems probable, however, that the majority of the cabinet will be satis- fied to delay matters until the situa- (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Two) 27,.—The “policeman of | northern war lords, are Iaunching a huge, hasty drive against : |the Nationalist Government at Hankow, it was learned here to- All available northern forces are being gathered by the ‘war lords, who have left skeleton formations to defend their labor and left wing leaders are tak- |\ wor * imperialists, through the CUBAN BUTCHER SEEKING REWARD FROM FINANCIERS President Machado of Cuba has his hand out. He is looking for a few tens of millions of Wall Street in return for/| services rendered. Al] Wall Street was speculating yesterday on how much the butcher of 200 trade union- ists will get for his bloody work in quelling the labor organizations of Cuban sugar workers. Representatives of the Standard Oil Company and various banking and! sugar interests who hold heavy in-| vestments in Cuba, prize possession of the American empire, gathered | last night at a dinner given in} Machado’s honor at the Biltmore} Hotel by Stanley Z. Mitchell, presi- dent of the Electric Bond and Share Company. The visit of Machado has been a succession of banquets and receptions where he has been entertained and greeted by men high in the banking and industrial world. Among them have been James A. Farrell, presi-| dent of the United States Steel Cor- poration; William A. Woodin, chair- man of the board of directors of the American Locomotive Wks:.; Julius H. Barnes, former president of the United States Chamber of Commerce; and Frederick H. Ecker, vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany, and director in a dozen inter- ipg financial combines. | abolished. IN FURRIER CASE Ben Gold Reveals Their Lack of Confidence Not even President William Green| |of the American Federation of Labor| trusts Hugh Frayne, the New York! organizer, according to the facts re- | vealed yesterday by Ben Gold, man-| ager of the New York Joint Board of \the Furriers’ Union. Gold was a wit- |ness in the hearings on the alleged} | bribery of the police, being conducted | by Assistant District Attorney lin the Criminal Courts Building. Gold testified that at one time dur ing the meetings of the committee ‘appointed by President Green to in- lvestigate the fur strike, Matthew| | Woll, its chairman, asked for certain jinformation about negotiations with} |the manufacturers. } “T asked Hugh Frayne to step out} of the room before I discussed the matter with Woll,” Gold said. “Presi- dent Green had told me it was better not to tell Frayne these conversations he and I had had about relations with | the manufacturers. So I asked} | Frayne to get out while I told it to| | Mr. Woll in confidence.” | | As a witness, Gold made a great) jimpression upon the courtroom; an-| swering all questions quietly, with | |conviction, without hesitating, giving | {all the information asked for, and ad- | |ditional information at times. | Stenos Ordered Out. Gold states that there was no men- | tion of payment to the polid#dyring | all the 7 hours that he spoke te mem-| bers of the Investigating Committee; | but in preliminary conversations, | when no stenographers were present, he was questioned as to whether} judges, captains, other police officers, | and to newspaper reporters. | had denied any such payments. “Mr. Woll discussed with me the| question of eliminating the Industrial | Squad,” said Gold. “He asked me whether I thot there ought to be a {campaign started to have this squad Then he asked me how much we had paid the members of the squad and told him ‘nothing at all.’ dustrial Squad, but I would not help in any frame-up on a charge of | ‘graft’.” Asked about his acquaintance with the Indystrial Squad, Gold told of his encounter with J. J. Broderick, the squad’s chief, on the day of the famous Carnegie Hall meeting. “He threatened that some day he would put me-and all my ‘Commun- ist’ friends in a boat and ship us back to Russia. He kept rapping me on the chest and walking after me as fast as I walked backward to get out of his reach. The only other time I saw him was in the fur market one morning.” Action Unconstitutional. In reply to the questions of As- sistant District Attorney Brothers, Gold recounted how he had protested LACE ASHES OF -RUTHENBERG IN KREMLIN WALL MOSCOW, April 27.—Ten thousand workers stood bareheaded in the Red Square yesterday afternoon as M. I. Bukharin, Russian Communist Party leader, and J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, reverently placed the ashes of Charles E. Ruthenberg, former Secretary of the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America in a niche in the Red Krem- lin Wall. Four companies of the Red Infan- try stood at attention, the Red Guards played a Bolshevik funeral march, and a Red Army detachment fired three volleys from the top of the Kremlin wall as the ashes of the former American leader were placed by the side of John Reed, who had also given his life to the Revolution, Assuring the Russian workers that the American (Communist) Party in- tended to carry on its fight against capitalism with all its strength, Engdahl declared: ‘ “America is a country to which the Continued on Page Tuo) against the investigation by the American Federation of Labor Com- mittee. “It was against the constitution of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L.; it was against our Interna- tional constitution. It had never been a practice of the A. F. of L. I asked for specific charges; I also asked for a public hearing. I protested against the, personnel of the committee, es- pecially to Frayne, who had openly said he was against the Joint Board and wanted to eliminate it from the union. All my protests were over- ruled. “T suggested we read the minutes of the session every morning. I said let each witness read his testimony, correct it and then sign it, and let the A. F. of L. representatives sign it too. But Woll ruled that they would have a meeting after the hear- ing was over and read over the min- utes. Woll went away to a conven- tion and the minutes were never read to anyone.” “How do you account for the fact that these statements about bribery of the police are in the report?” “That is one of the great puzzles which it is hard to solve.” No Money Paid. In response to further questioning bout the possible payment of money the police, Gold answered: I told him I would help in any| \legitimate move to get rid of the In- “If money were paid ¢o the police, (Continued on Page Five) Weisbord, Labor’s Man For Passaic Office \ | Albert Weisbord, above, Har- vard graduate and leader of the Passaic, N. J., mill strike, has attracted’ nation-wide attention by his campaign for election as one of the city commissioners of Passaic. W. E. B, REFUSES RESOLUTION FOR SAGCO,VANZETTI Green Controls Workers Educational Bureau BOSTON, April 27.—The Workers more under the control of. the extreme Gold | right wing of the class collaboration- | list section of the American labor | movement, Significant of its present attitude was the refusal of its fifth annual | convention here to adopt a resolution | protesting against the death sentence | for Sacco and Vanzetti. The resolu- tion was presented by Dr. Henry W. | L. Dana. He was greeted with polite | applause as he pleaded eloquently for | a demonstration of solidarity on the | part of labor that might save the} lives of these two workers and gain | them their freedom, but when it came to putting themselves on record for the resolution that might help to ac-| complish this, a majority of the dele- | gates remembered that the coming executive council of the A. F. L. had} this matter before it, and they must | not do anything that would tend to} Maurer For New Order Despite the retention of James Maurer as president, and despite the | fact that Maurer, in his address to \the convention tried to strike a key-| | note of social revolution, however | peaceful, the machinery of control has | | been entirely turned over to President Green, of the American Federation of | Labor. | At a sumptuous banquet given by |the Boston Trade Union College, a} message of greetings was read from | | President Green, A. F. of L. in which | he commended the W. E. B. as the |“educational arm of the American | labor movement, whose help is essen- |tial in fact-finding, in research neces- | sary to the elimination of waste, and | for support of labor’s case at the con- | ference tabie.” Green Controls Board Jim Maurer was reelected presi- dent, the W. E. B.; Spenser Miller, Jr., secretary. William Green, will be honorary president, a new office. Executive committee members are | Thomas Kennedy, Fannia Cohn, Thomas E. Burke, A. J. Muste, Paul Fuller, Charles Reed—the last two be- ing new members, Three more will be appoisted by Green. In case he feels that he does not have sufficient power on the executive committee as con- stituted by the conference, he can remedy this situation by his appoint- | ments. | Jim Maurer’s presidential speech | was the principal contribution to the fifth annual convention of the Work- ers Education Bureau. The veteran | chief of the Pennsylvania Federation | of Labor defined the purpose of the | movement a8 follows: Underlying the purpose of work- (Continued on Page Pwo) EMPLOYERS READY TO TIE UP ENTIRE INDUSTRY IN ATTACK ON PLUMBERS Ten Thousand Journeymen and Helpers Locked Out by New York Employers Five thousand plumbers were locked out of their jobs this morning. time. Five thousand helpers went on strike at the same More than 100,000 other building trades workers may follow them within a few weeks. These two developments in the plumbers’ struggle for the five-day week follow the determination of the New York Building | ter conditions. to the last ditch. ( | Breathing defiance against the “ex-| |} orbitant demands” of the union and} | promising to halt the city’s $100,000,- |000 building program if need be, C. |G. Norman, head of the Employers | Association declared last night that 'no concession whatever would be }made to the union. Within a week, a majority of the building trades workers will be idle | because of the lockout order, while a} | protracted struggle engineered by the | bosses will practically tie up the in-| | dustry. That the employers mean a }fight to the finish is indicated by the entry of the Employers Asso-| | ciation into the situation. The Mas- ter Plumbers have been told to stand | aside while the contractors and build- ‘ers representing all lines unite to} | battle the plumbers. The lockout arises from the strike | of Brooklyn plumbers for $14 a day,| | a $2 rise, According to the city-wide | agreement, the $14 scale if won would | apply to all plumbers locals within 90 days. | The journeymen and their helpers, | | who are standing by them during the | | lockout, were on the jobs. yesterday morning, but were locked out at var-| lious times during the day. This} | morning no union men reported =o} | work in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond. | there had not been money paid to| Educational Bureau has passed stil]; . Last minute effots on the part of) the workers to enjoin the bosses from | putting the lockout order into force failed when Judge Richard H. Mit-! chell, sitting in the supreme court,| Bronx, refused their pleas for an in- | junction against the bosses. Five Day Week Big Issue. The five-day week looms as the big issue which will’ result in a finish ed yesterday. Granting this to the plumbers would make this a funda-| mental issue with the rest of the| building trades, | An active offensive against all the unions of the building trades, and an attempt to break down the conces- sions won after years of struggle with the employers is seen in the jockout action. | “This is a movement to set back | the standard of living of all the build- ing trades workers,” declared James | force the hands of members of the| Walsh, organizer of the plumbers’ | executive council. The resolution | helpers. . | failed. The American Association of} Plumbers’ Helpers last night, through | its president C. E. Miller, called out| all the helpers in Greater New York | to strike in protest against the lock- | out of the plumbers. | At the-same time their own de-| mands, originally made when 1,750 plumbers’ helpers went on strike in Brooklyn on April 1, are being pre- sented. Nearly 7,000 helpers will be} \involved with all of the hepers in| | Greater New York joined in the walk- out. Besides insisting on recognition of | thir union, the plumbers’ helpers are | demanding $9 a day instead of $4; 40-hour week, and double pay for overtime. The wages of the helpers are de- clared by the men to be the lowest of any of the helpers in the building trades. Frank P. Walsh to Speak At the Furriers’ Rally in Cooper Union, Tonight Frank P. Walsh, attorney for the Joint Boards of the furriers, and the cloak and dressmakers, will be a speaker tonight at the fur work- ers’ mass meeting to be held in Cooper Union right after work. This meeting, called by the Joint Board, will discuss the rumors of peace proposais which have been floating thru the fur market; and it will also consider plans for meeting the lock-out of those work- ers who have refused to register with the International. | Trades Employers’ Association to fight union demands for bet- Sacco, Vanzetti Helped ‘| When Fuller Gives Reprieve to Madeiros in Death Cell BOSTON, April 27.—Governor Alvan T. Fuller, after.an all day conference with his counsel, late this afternoon granted a respite until Sunday, July 10, to Celes- tinos Madeiros, of New Bedford, convicted bank cashier slayer. The governor, in granting the respite, said that while no formal petition has been received by him from either Nicola Sacco or Bartolomeo Vanzetti for a review of their cases, he had reason to believe such a petition would be presented soon. Madeiros {would have been elec- trocuted this morning if Fuller had not acted. He has confessed that he and the Morelli gang com- mited the crime for which Sacco and Vanzetti are condemned. Two Members Of Young Workers League Jailed Two members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League who were giving out Hands Off China leaflets yesterday at Union Square and 16th | fight, leaders of the plumbers declar-|St. were brutally beaten up by the police and arrested. They are Hy- man Moskowitch and Morris Kushner, They were taken to the 30th St, station house and later to the 54th St. and Third Ave. court where Mos- kowitch was released on $100 bail while the judge refused to set bail in the case of Kushner, who is being held for a hearing in the same court Friday morning. Moskowitch’s case was to be heard this morning at 10 a. m. Yesterday was “Americanization Day” and the Young. Workers League members were giving out leaflets at one of the meetings at Union Square when they were set upon, beaten up and arrested apparently because they were distributing the truth of Ameri- ca’s imperialistic policy. It is be- lieved that Kushner was beaten most severely. The International Labor Defense is taking care of the defense. Isaac Shorr is the lawyer. Amherst Abolishes Compulsory Godding AMHERST, Mass., April 27. — The faculty of Amherst College, alma |mater of President Coolidge and where his son is studying, today de- | cided to abolish compulsory Sunday chapel for the several hundred stud- ‘ents. John Coolidge and the other stud- jents will have to attend chapel dur- | ing the week if they do not go on | Sunday in order to obtain the neces- |sary number of credits arranged by the faculty. Swedish Labor Sends Sacco Investigator | George Branting, son of the late | labor party premier of Sweden, will | visit the United States soon to cons | duct an inquiry into the Sacco-Van- | zetti case, The Swedish labor move- |ment is tremendously concerned over | the fate of the two workers and the issues involved in their case. Five persons were injured, one man | possibly fatally when two north bound | Seventh Avenue local subway trains crashed at 72nd Street and Broadway yesterday. The entire west side sys- tem was tied up for more than aa | hour,