The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1927, Page 3

~ CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY Ist, 8 P. ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Ashland Blvd. and Van Buren St. M. SUNDAY, MAY Ist, 2 P.M. ARENA GARDENS Woodward, near Hendrie. Three Meetings and | Concerts Planned For Brooklyn May 1 May Day, international labor's holiday, will be celebrated in Brook- lyn with three mass meetings and concerts at the Royal Palace, 16 Man-| hattan Ave., and the sep Arig Temple, 11-17 Arioh Place; and Hop- | kinson Mansion, 48 Hopkinson Ave. | Interesting Programs. | A large group of speakers and an} elaborate musical program. has been arranged. Among those who will ad- dress the meeting at Royal Palace are B. Lifshitz, secretary of the Jewish section of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party; A. Bimba, radical editor, P. Cosgrove, P. Martorana, | and M. Cowl. | At’the Amalgamated Temple Ben | Gitlow will be the principal speaker. | Ray Ragozin, B. Lifshitz, and A. Stone will be speakers at the Hop-| kinson Mansion meeting. A large number of labor and fra- | ternal organizations are participating | in the arrangements, including the! Workers Party, Section 6; Young} Workers League, I. L. D., Lithuanian Admiral Breathes Fire At Big Navy Banquet; Laugh at Fleet, He Says “Go down to the Hudson River and laugh when the fleet comes in.” This was the advice given by Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett at a banquet of big navy fans which drew forth heated denials yesterday from the gold-braided admiral himself. Plunkett was talking in an in- timate way to members of the New York Society of Military and Naval Officers, but his ridicule of the al- leged faults of the American navy leaked out. Quick reprisal against the ad- miral’s rash statement was forth- coming yesterday when he received orders to take a’ three months’ leave of absence. He will cool off in Europe, Plunkett told the big navy people to get behind Coolidge and “work for the biggest navy in the world.” “The Atlantic Fleet,” he said, was “hopelessly inadequate.” Two May Day Meets Will Be Held Here Workers Alliance, and many other groups. Members of these organiza- tions are urged to eall at 29 Graham a # Ave., and 46 Ten Eyck St., Thursday| Two large May Day meetings will and Friday at 8 o’clock to assist in} be held next Sunday, by the Workers the distributi f M: Day leaflets, | (Communist) Party. They will be at of eld cams alah si ee ice ' Central Opera House, 67th St. and Next Sunday at 1 p.m. Pioneers of New York | 163rd St. and Southern Boulevard, at ; >| 1p. m. To Fight Propaganda | The speakers who will address the Of Boss For May Day) meetings include Ben Gitlow, W. W. Weinstone, Charles Krumbein, Rich- May Day this year means much | ard B. Moore, M. J. Olgin, William F. more than ever before. In every} Dunne, H. M. Wicks and Rebecca Publie school the children are being Grecht. forced to join some military organi- With American imperialism having zation such as the Boy Scouts or the| Marines on Chinese and Nicaraguan R. 0. T. C. The Young Pioneers are | Soil, it is of the utmost importance going to raise the question of mili- | that the American working class tary training and show the workers’| rally in large numbers to show their child how they are being fooled by | 9Pposition to the plans of American the capitalist class. _ | capitalism. The Board of Health is issuing the | Or ia cAI: eRe slogan of “Health Day” for May 1. Pittsburgh Miners and The Young Pioneers are going to point out to the workers’ children that | Steel Workers Arrange only the children of the rich can | ‘s healthy. We know that the conditions| May Day Celebration of the workers are so miserable that | the workers can’t afford to live in) large airy rooms, have plenty of elothes and nourishing food. Other problems that will be raised} celebrate May Day at a number of are: Better conditions in the schools,| mass meetings and entertainments ar- free meal to every school child, fight| ranged for Saturday evening, April against problems of the workers’ child. lings will be held in the following Comrades, send your children to) cities: the May Day celebration given by| Saturtiay, April 30th, 7 p. m.—East the Young Pioneers this Saturday af- | Pittsburgh, Workers’ Home, with ternoon at 525 E. 72nd St, 2 P. M. | Alexander Bittelman as main speak- . amet - | PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The miners of | western Pennsylvania and the steel Sunday, May Ist, 2 p. m.—Pitts- burgh, Pa., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Strect. Main speaker, Alexander | Bittelman. McDonald, Pa.—Dreamland The- _atre, D. E. Earley will sneak. | Daisytown, Pa—Open air meeting. | Speakers: A. Jakira, George Papcun and language speakers. | Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ | International Union 86, at McGeagh | Bldg., Pittsburg. Speakers: Sarah Limbach and Jokn Otis. Saturday, May 7th, 8 p. m.—Stra- bane (Alexander). Speakers: D. E. Earley. APRIL 23 (1860) The Birthday of our Leader LL Choose this appropriate time to read what he has to say IE, on the simplest, most nec- essary things in the revo- N lutionary movement, ‘his work teaches fundamental I |May Day Meeting May 1 ‘Speakers at Milwaukee ‘May First Celebration | MILWAUKEF, Wis.—William Z. Foster will be the main speaker at the May Day celebration of the Work- ‘ers (Communist) Party, Sunday, May | 1, at 2.00 p, m. here in Harmony Hall, | First Ave., and Mineral St. An attempt will be made to get a representative of the Kuomintang to speak, and the Freiheit Singing So- ciety, Ukranian Singing Club, Postub, along with the South Slavic Singing | Club, Budnoenost,’ will entertain. Ad- mission 25 cents, WATERBURY, Conn., April 27.-- May Day will be celebrated here with a mass meeting on Sunday May 1, 7:30 p. m. at Venta Hall, 103 Green St. Sylvan A. Pollack of The DAILY WORKER will be the speaker. problems. It includes all \ his speeches and writings N i —_—_-- Yonkers Communists to Celebrate on Sunday YONKERS. -- Under the auspices of the Workers Party and the Young ON ORGANIZATION $1.50 Day celebration. will be -held at the In a cloth-bound library edition.| Labor Lyceum, 20 Warburton Ave., Sunday evening, May 1, at 8 o’clock. The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, | There will be ‘speakers, music and 88 First Street, New York, N.Y.) iia hah nan Pa mio Buy The Deily Worker | workers of western Pennsylvania will | hild labor and other daily | 30th and Sunday May first. The meet- | Foster and Kuomintang | Dettit’s May Day To Celebrate China And Her Revolution DETROIT, Mic troit’s greatest M Day celebration {will ring with vrs for the great | vietories of the Canton armies and with cries of “Hand Off China” as the thousands of Detroit workers jam the huge Arena Gardens. Besides being a May Day celebra- | tion this huge gathering will express its stand on such outstanding strug- gles of the workers as the Sacco-Van- | zetti defense, the defense of the fur- | Tiers and cloakmakers of New York, |the organization of the automobile | workers, Besides having Ben Gitlow as the principal speaker, Earl Browder, who is now on his way back from China | and several other prominent speak- |ers, @ first class musical and drama- | tie program has been arranged. The celebration will take place at two o'clock in the afternoon at the ; Arena Gardens located on Woodward near Hendrie and will extend into the evening at the New Workers | Home. . ‘Workers Children of | Detroit Will Have a Big May Day Meeting | DETROIT, April 27.—Working- April 27.—De- Third Ave., and Hunts Point Palace, class children of Detroit will enjoy. |® real workingclass May Day cele- bration this year. Plans are com- | plete for one of the biggest children’s | demonstrations ever held nere. The Ukranian, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian children have all given } their support to this huge affair. Sev- eral hundred children are expected to come together and make this a real workers’ children’s celebration, |. This May Day celebration will be jheld Saturday afternoon, April 30th, 12 p. m., at Grayling Hall, 2376 Gray- ‘ling, Hamtramck, Mich. ‘Union City Branch to | Hold May Day Fete | UNION CITY, N. J., April 27—A {May Day celebration will be held j next Sunday, 2:30 p. m. at the Labor Temple, 17th’ St. and, Tyler Place, | West New York, by the Union City Branch of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. Speakers in several languages will speak, There will also be a musical program. Admission is free. | “Breaking Chains” for |New Haven, May First NEW HAVEN, ‘Conn.,—With a | indoor meeting in the evening at 38 | Howe St., at which the moving pic- ture “Breaking Chains” ' will be | shown, the working people will cele- | brate May Day, and demonstrate against American imperialism in China and Latin America. Both of these. meetings are under the joint auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. Worker Finds ¢ Gambling | Only Way to Fortune Drops Dead From Shock OLEAN, N. Y.,. April 27.—The shock of receiving a return of $15,- 000 from a thirty cent investment today killed Matthew W. Kernan, 65, of Elicottville. Kernan purchased a_ baseball pool ticket for thirty cents. When || notified his ticket had won and || paid $15,000, Kernan did not con- ceal his excitement. When went to Salamanca to be identified and received the money, Kernan suffered a stroke of paralysis. died within a few minutes. Nicaraguan Society Shows That Coolidge Lies About Country That President Coolidge’s referen- ces to Nicaragua in his speech here last Monday are at variance with the | facts, is the position of the Central American Society which states that it is substantiated by state department archives and the congressional ree- ord. The Society points out that “rev- olution was . started by the very group that has now been recog- nized by the United States in spite of existing treaties forbidding the recognition of governments born of fraud or revolution Salvador Is American Controlled. The latter adds that the only C tral American countries which hav recognized the Diaz regime in addi- tion to the United States are Hon- duras, the administration of which is tottering and continues only American support, and Salvador, whose administration is “virtually in the payroll of American interests.” Of Coolidge’s statement that mar- ines were sent to protect American | lives and property and the right to construct a canal and naval base, the letter says: “American lives and property never have been threatened in any Central American upheaval. The proof is that not once in the past’ fifty years has an outrage involving the loss of life | been recorded against any American.” | The letter points out Bryan-Chamorro treaty, which gave the United States the right to a canal has been declared null by the Central American Court of Justice. | Further, the treaty violates the con- | stitution of Nicaragua, the letter de-| | clares. Shows Up Calvin. “We are not making war on Nica- Glassport, Pa.—Finnish Hall, D. E.| large mass meeting in the Central | ragua,” said Mr. Coolidge, “any more Earley and George Papeun will speak. | Green May Ist, at 2 p. m. and an| than a policeman is making war on| | passersby.” “American-manned airships,” “bomb the re- torts the letter, bombs. Marines have fired upon ‘rebels’ attacking the railroad, in which not a cent of American capital is invested. American credits have been opened to Diaz and United States Army and Navy supplies for- warded to Diaz.”* ‘COMMUNISTS OF NEW YORK SPONSOR TWO GREAT RALLIES FOR MAY DAY The Workers (Communist) Party jof America of District Two will hold |two large May Day mass meetings | Sunday afternoon, May 1, at 1 p. m, jat Central Opera House, 67th St. jand 3rd Ave., and at Hunts Point | Palace, 163rd St. and Southern Blvd. |. The speakers at Central Opera | House will be Benjamin Gitlow, Will- iam W. Weinstone, Charles Krum- [bein, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Richard |B. Moore, John J. Ballam, a Chinese speaker and representatives from the Young Workers League “and the Young Pioneers. Jack Stachel will preside, Expect Large Crowds At Hunts Point Palace the fojlow- ing will be the speakers. Wm. W. Weinstone, M. J. Olgin, William F. Dunne, H. M. Wicks, Rebecca Grecht, Rose Wortis, Fannie Warshafsky, with Alexander Trachtenberg as chairman, In view of the attack of the for- eign imperialists upon.the Chinese people; in view of the danger of a world war on the part of the great | Powers against the Chinese workers and peasants and against Soviet Russia, the demonstrations this year on May 1, International Labor Solid- javity Day, will be of greater signifi- cance than ever. The meetings will be the answer of all militant workers in New York City to the Imperialists who are en- slaving the Chinese masses and threatening the living standards of |the workers of the entire world. The meetings will demand—‘Hands Off China,” “Withdrawal of Battleships and Marines from China,” “Abolition of the Unequal Treaties and of Ex- tra-Tervitoriality,” “China for the Chinese,” “Against the Imperialist War on China and Soviet Russia,” and will demonstrate the solidarity and unity of the workers of this city on these questions. Jersey Meetings Many meetings are being arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party of District 2 in New Jersey. The keynote of these meetings will be the same as those in New York—inter- national labor solidarity, protest war against China and Soviet Rus- sia. The following meetings are | scheduled: | Passaic—May 1, 3 p. m., at 27 |Dayton Averue. Albert Weisbord, and Lena Chernenko, speakers. Newark—May 1, 3 p. m., at Mont- gomery Hall, Prince and Montgomery streets, H.° M. Wicks and Tom !0’Flaherty, speakers. Elizabeth---May 1, 2 p. m., at Lut- win Hall, 352 Front St., A. Markoff, 1 George Powers and Otto Huiswood, speakers, Jersey City--May 1, 2 p. m., at 166 Mercer St., Pat Devine and Ella G, Wolfe, speakers. Perth Amboy---May 1, 8 p. m., at 808 Elm St. George Powers wil! speak. West New York—May 1, 3 p. m, at Labor Lyceum, 17 Tyler Place. George Siskind will speak. Paterson—-May 6, 8 p. m., at Car- penters Hall. Albert Weisbord and H. M. Wicks will speak. There will also be a May Day Demonstration at Yonkers, N. Y., on|i8 only 35 cents a day. May 1, 8 p. m., at 20 Warburton Ave. A. Markoff will be the principal speaker. thru | that the, ‘rebel’ | ranks with American made guns and | against the intervention in China and! demonstration against the imperialist | CHINESE SLAVES ENDURE AWFUL FACTORY LIFE Infants Sleep Under Noisy Machines Some idea of the cause of wide- spread unrest in China and of the hatred against foreign exploiters may | be gained from reports of actual con- ditions in the foreign-owned factories that have been built upon the ghastly exploitation of women and children. Donald Ross, writing from Hankow for the Nationalist News Agency de-! seribes factory life in that ¢ de- picting tired and worn women sitting over steaming tables in silk factories while their infant children sleep in piles of filthy rags on the factory. Legislation abolishing such conditions | exist in other parts of the world, but in China the foreign-control of the former governments have prevented the abolition of such horrible con- ditions. The New York representa- tive of the National News Agency re- leases the Day article, which, in part, is as follow Chi ren Work Long Hours. “The lives of the workingmen of China are the best explanation of the ‘labor unrest,’ It is true industries must not be strangled, but it is true also that without strangulation most of the industries of China could be reorganized in such a way that chil- dren of 7 and 8 years would not work for twelve hours a day in dark fac- tories for a few paltry cents, and that tired, worn women would not sit all day over steaming tables in silk fae- tories, while their babies cry from dis- comfort and hunger, or mercifully sleep, in baskets of rags under the machines, “This afternoon the writer was, guided rapidly through four mills. My impression at the end of it is that the industry of China is built up of the! energy of pale-faced women and wist- \ful-faced children, No Labor Legislation. “It is children and women, as well as men, who labor in China. Laws long since considered necessary for humanity’s sake in the West have not ;yet been passed in China. In other countries labor has fought for special laws for women. Other countries have fought against child labor. In China the time has not yet come when it is} legally conceded that these things are | crimes, and factories, belonging to. both foreigners and Chinese, work, their laborers twelve long hours and | often more. | Miserable Wages. “What in wages dees this long d mean to the laborers? In a British-! owned press packing plant I visit to- jday, where hundreds of women and children work sitting on stone floors, loosening cotton from cotton bales, | | breathing air so thick with cotton dust | that the room seems in a perpetual | fog, the average wage per day is 20 coppeys. “There is one room where there are more skilled laborers who work around |the packing machine, One man in this | room crouches down at intervals be- | fore one of the metal arms of a huge | | wheel, and straining every muscle, ! | jars the wheel from a dead stop, and | pushes it into place under the ma-/ |chine. Other men take care of other | phases of the binding of the packages. | Men in this room are the plutocrats of the factory. They get 130 coppers a | day. No Holidays. |. “There is no provision for care of | the laborers on the premises. There ‘are no holidays with pay. If they! take Sunday off, they lose a day’s: pay. If they take two hours off, they ‘lose a fraction of the day. “There were children in this fac- tory, swarms of them, sitting on the floor, sorting out the cotton. These children spend the day in rooms filled with cotton dust. They do not have time out for their meals. And they get 20 coppers a day, or less, Babies Sleep Under Machines. “I saw three other mills, The worst ; was a Chinese silk mill. It was a| horror. Babies huddled in baskets un- | der’ the machines. Women and girls: were in long lines in a badly lighted, badly ventilated room, with their! hanfls in steaming water in which the cacoons are soaking. The air was! thick with moisture and the smells bad. Everywhere were babies, and! tiny children, too young to work. Twelve Hours in Best, | “The other factories we visited were | weaving factories, one Japanese and | the other Chinese. The Japanese fac- | tory was a model factory for Hankow. | | The rooms were light and the ceilings | | high. Wages are a little better here— | | 40 cents a day, or $12 a month. But | here, too, most of the workers were women and children and the day wag “The Chinese mill was poorly fi- |nanced. Rooms here were dark, poor-| | ly ventilated, Hours are long. Work is; | hard and nerve-wrecking, and the pay) Work at “Home” Also. | “Four factories in an afternoon | meant only the most hasty inspection. | Sacasa Agrees to Peace Conference, But Diaz and United States Forces Attack MANAGUA, iearagua, April ough the American lega- n was informed that the Nicara- peace conference,” ordered e United § now in its iminary dvices from front ndicated that a battle is in nt between Liber- als and Diaz f s in the Trus- tepe-Chontaha di Juan Sacasa, prov nal presi- dent of the Liberal government, +has promised to send representa- tives to the conference before the end of the week. There was no time to stop and talk with workman to find out what is back of tired faces, no chance to chat a little and find more about the lives to which these people return after twelve hours of labor. These are mar- ried women who have homes that must be cared for at night. These women do not have nurses to take care of their children while they go out to their jobs. They go home to cook rice and a few vegetables for their fami- lies and so to hed in the midst of squalor, only to ret up at 5 o’clock the | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) can imperialism towards the Cen- tral American states is put quite plainly by the president in the fol- |lowing words: “Toward the govern- ments of countries which we have recognized this side of the Panama Canal we feel a moral responsibility that does not attach to other nations. . We have undertaken to dis- courage revolutions within that area and to encourage settlement of po- litical differences by the peaceful method of elections.” Ra N other words American imperial- ism will have governments that will do its bidding in every country be- tween the Rio Grande and the Pan- ,ama Canal, ‘This should’ satisfy Wil- liam Randolph Hearst and the most intransigeant of the jingoes. Govern- ments that refuse to do Wall Street's bidding will be crushed militarily or squeezed to death financially. They will have revolts on their hands. But once the tools of Wall Street get in power they are sure of perpetual recognition even if they have not # corporal’s guard in the country. to support them. . . . TOCKS were sunk without warning on the New York Exchange last ‘Monday and thousands who expected to get rich quick on margin buying, are holding their receipts and wishing they had spent the money on Bourbon instead. Ambitious Americans were influenced by the quick rise of sev- next mornine, hurry through early morning duties and be on hand when the whistle blows and the sun rises at 6. eral stocks to plump their money on “This is factory life in Hankow.” fortune. Now those stoeks have slumped and nothing will happen until PRY ON aR Biaee the sheep have grown another coat Beveridge Dead. of wool. The big interests who own INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April the stocks can jack them up or ham- (INS)—Former United States Sen- mer them down at will. When they ator Albert J. Beveridge, died at are down they buy and when they The suckers his home here today after an illness of two weeks, from heart trouble. reach the top they sell. ) lose. Stand Your Ground on May Day We are on the front line trenches of the class struggle along with your fellow work- ers of the world. The Chinese workers and peasants are waging a terrific struggle against foreign imperialism. The Russian workers and peasants are fighting to build up Socialism, against the pressure of inter- national capitalism. The toilers of Europe are in the midst. of a fierce conflict against their own exploiters, and the bankers of the world. The workers of the colonial countries are beginning to rebel against the heavy yoke of foreign oppression. The workers of America, too, have joined the international army in their struggle against American in- tervention in China, against those who are seeking to destroy the labor movement, against the execution of Sacco-Vanzetti, and against the recent attack upon labor’s mili- tant organ, The DAILY WORKER. You are part of the steel chain of the world revolu- tionary movement, The slightest break in this chain means a break in the entire line. You have your end to maintain. 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