The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1927 Page Three Authenbere Loss RAMSAY'S HOME “Demands Building FITTED OUT IN “500 Locked Out Miners! Revove gains vs SWOMEN Feels = Dispute Between Employers ‘a, a am Unemployment’s and Trade Unions in Canton O’'FALLON, Ill, April 28.—The | miners locked out here are finding time to look into the general political | situation. One result is the follow- ing resolution, regularly passed at a, local union meeting here: WHEREAS: The department of state in violation of the principles of self-determination of all peoples has sent the United States marines to support a dictator established by Wall Street in Nicaragua, against the wishes of the laboring people of that republic. BE IT RESOLVED: That this lo- cal union No, 705 United Mine Work- ers of America, with a membership of over five hundred (500) members, declare’ our unalterable position in favor of the rights of self determin- ation of all people, and pledge our brotherly support to the labor move-! ment of Mexico and Nicaragua. Be 4t further resolved: That we pro- test emphatically against the inva- ‘sion of Nicaragua, the threats against Mexico and intervention in) China, AND BE IT RESOLVED: That we demand the withdrawal of the United | States troops from Nicaragua and} China. J. B. Brown, president; Chas. Mem- holt, secretary. DENVER, (FP) April 28.—In ad- dition to the repeal of the state con- stabulary law, Colorado labor is cele- brating the passage of the 8-hour law for cement and plaster plants | and a restriction on sale of pr goods. This act forbids the sa! Colorado prison products in Om com- petition with firms in the state hiring | free labor. Growing Pinch | STOCKHOLM, April 15. (By Mail) |—Up ta recent times Sweden has | been the best off of all the Seandina- |vian countries as regards unemploy- |ment. The number of unemployed was not only relatively, but actually | lower than in the other countries. But | unemployment has assumed imposing proportions this year. According to official statistics of 250,000 workers 47,614 (or 19%) were unemployed on the ist of January of this year. In | other words every fifth worker in Sweden was unemployed in the beginning of 1927. Conditions of existence for the un- employed are much worse in Sweden | than in Norway and Denmark. There jis no unemployed insurance in Swed- | en and all aid to the unemployed is} The un-)| doles from! on the voluntary principle. ‘employed only receive trade union funds, consisting of noth- ing but membership fees. The bill for the introduction of the Ghent sy: tem of unemployment brought before the Riksdag, saw thé light, although it was consid- ered during the whole of the term of| office of the social democratic ernment, Not Enough Work. The unemployed got some from the state and public depart- ments through the agency of the so- cailed “unemployment commissions,” who were authorized to get the unem- ployed into municipal compulsory work. ‘This ‘help was, however, in gov- _|the first place inadequate, as only 10 to 13 per cent. of the unemployed |eould be used on compulsory muni- insurance, | never help | cipal work (of 24,700 seeking *muni- cipal compulsory employment in De- ‘cember 1926 only 8,259 were given it, i. e, 139), and in the second place, the ‘unemployment commis- sions have recently undertaken the task of recruiting the unemployed as strike breakers to substitute workers on strike. The decision of the unem- ployment commissions to send unem- ployed to substitute strikers in the Strippe mine fields caused the resig- ; mation of the social democratic gov- |ernment in June 1926, the liberals | and conservatives voting in the Riks- jdag for the unemployment commis- sions to function as recruiting bur- j eaus for strike-breakers, Organizes The Unemployed. The growing acuteness of unem- ployment in the winter of 1926 con- |fronted the masses, and especially |those sections of the proletariat standing for the revolutionary class | struggle, with, the problem of or- ganizing the unemployed. This was APRIL 2 (1860) The Birthday of our Leader L Choose this appropriate time to read what he has to say IE; on the simplest, most nec- essary things in the revo- of the struggle of the unemployed |for the improval of their position, jbut also to avert strike-breaking among the unemployed. The question of the relations between the unem- ployed and the trade union organi- | zations, the unemployed often having reason to complain of the reluctance | of the trade unions to organize them lutionary movement. This { Sage’ and look after their interests. work, teaches fundamental | It was all this that caused the’ |left elements in the labor movement | to get busy in the end of 1926 over | the preparation of & National unem- | ployed conference. This conference | problems. It includes all was held from the 11th to 13th of his speeches and writings | March in Stockholm. It was attend- (ed by delegates from 54 unemployed organiztions, 15 local-trades councils | and 8 trade union branches—106 dele- —————— | gates altogether, representing about 150,000 workers. Invitations to the ON ORGANIZATION “= were sent both to politi- | cal and trade union working class or- $1.50 | ganizations—to the social democratic | party, the Swedish federation of trade |unions, the Swedish Communist Par- ty, the syndicalist T. U. centre, and In a cloth-bound library edition.|the small group of supporters of the "The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. I. W. W. in Sweden, Refused To Send Envoys. The social democratic party and essential not only in the interests! IO* THE second day.after the Chi | \F nese new year celebrations, which are held at the end of January, many Canton merchants and industrialists dismissed over 4,000 workers without | paying the usual and traditional com- | pensation. Moreover, the majority of | those dismissed were active workers in the trade unions, The Canton |Couneil of Workers’ delegates in- | Structed their members to remain at ; work and informed the owners that it would not permit any violation of the union rules in dismissing workers. In reply, an urgent meeting called by | the Chamber of Commerce was held on the 9th of February. It called up- on the Government of the Kwang. Tung Province to protect the tradi- tional rights of the employers and threatening to declare a lockout in case of refusal. To bolster up their ease about 20,000 merchants organ- the Government Buildings on the 10th of February. On the same day about ,000 workers demonstrated, demand- ng that their interests be defended. There were no collisions between the demonstrators. The New Strike Law It should be mentioned here that in December, 1926, the Government of |the Kwangtung Province adopted a law on strikes. This law provided for a payment of two months’ wages in lieu of notice should workers be sacked through no fault of their own, | The trade unions, therefore, had every | right to regard the action of the éem- ployers as unlawful. A special Arbitration Commission | was appointed by the Government to settle the dispute. However, all its ‘attempts to reach a settlement failed. |The employers were implacable and ‘after the fourth meeting of the Com- | mission they \recalled their represen- |tatives. Thus, the employers not only | broke the law on strikes but violated the Government Decree of December last on Obligatory Arbitration. ence. According to the “social demo- verat,” the Swedish federation of |trade unions declared its unwilling- | ness to send a representative. The | Social democratic executive informed |the initiators of the conference by letter that it “could not send a repre- sentative but hoped that the labors |and decisions of the conference would \be of use to the unemployed.” This is extremely characteristic of the | Swedish reformists and social-demo- ats. The social democratic party “hopes that the conference will be of use to the unemployed” and—has no desire to attend such a conference. | Does this mean that the social demo- {erats admit that they have no degire to be of use to the unemployed? The following questions stood on the agenda of the conference: 1.—Re- port of unemployed movement; 2— policy of government and public de- partments as regards the unemploy- ed; 3.—compulsory municipal work; 4.—umemployed organizations and their activities; 5.—the trade unfons and unemployment; 6.—unemploy- |ment insurance; 7-the problem of ‘allotting land to unemployed agrieul- tural laborers. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page Une) ing maintained that Cuba is a foreign {country. So to nourish this fiction {the Cuban Government conferred the | Grand Cross of the National Order of | Merit on Calvin Coolidge, but will not deliver it until after Coolidge leaves | office, since an American president {cannot accept a dedéoration from a “foreign country” while in office. This should squelch the rumors that Cuba is a satrapy of Wall Street and that the Cubans cannot even hold an ‘election except with the consent and ‘under the auspices of our General Crowder. * ee is becoming a popular outdoor ized a grand demonstration outside | Workers Resented Cuts It is important to note thaf the em- ployers’ not only raised the question of the right to dismiss workers with- out compensation on the second day of the New Year, "but eve |a general revision of the existing Gov- jernment rules and regulations on re- |lations between workers and employ fers. Furthermore, the employers d |manded that the percentage payment on business operations payable to the ons as well as the voluntary sub- scriptions organized by the latter |should be suspended. On all these questions the point of view of the workers was expressed in |the proposals presented to the Arbi- tration Commission by the Canton {Council of Workers’ Delegates, angtung General Labor Union, angtung Union of Mechanics and the Canton Association of Revolution- ary Workers. Although these propos- als differ in detail, their general tone lis practically the same. The follow- jing proposals made by the General | Labor Union are the most typica the practice of dismissing work the second day after the New celebrations mus: be abolished; dismissal of workers is permitted only when a month’s notice has been given and on condition that three-months’ wages ‘be paid in lieu of not during the course of one year after the conclusion of a strike workers can- not be dismissed; 4) employers during this pe: close down their enterpris the enterprise be sold, wo are to be paid off in accordance h’ point 2; 5) all agreements signed by the i trade unions and employers remain in! force. Tnsisting On Rights In putting up these demands the workers are only ting on the ree- |ognition of those rights which had al- ready been regulated in part by the ) Government. nsisted upon | The. present dispute prompted the merchants in Canton, Hongkong an¢ Macao to ry on a campaign against trade union interference in industrial disputes. The employers have organ- selves into special Employ- ation. According to com- munications published in “The Peking and Tientsin Times” on the 10th of March, the police and a few represen- tatives of the Military Staff in Canton took the employers’ side in the dis- pute and supported the idea of setting up a single Employers’ Association to struggle with the trade unions. It was reported that certain members of the local organization of the Kuoming- tang also favored the employers. the 12th of March, however, the same paper ported that the employers were backing out and were ready to | make concessigns to the trade unions. Very interesting is the appreciation of the “Peking and Tientsin Times March 8th) and their change of pol icy: Workers’ Technique Better “Generally speaking the merchants | appear quite helpless in the opposition. . . . The wor! s know far more about orga than the merchants do, The departments for secretarial service, picketing, propaganda, relief of sick and needy member entertainments and social intercourse. The merchants e nothing lds and their Chamb ‘ommerce and the members of these bodies do not neces- | arily know the other members. .. . face of tior have he “Peking and T sin Times” is especially disturbed by the fact that the merchants were unable to utilize the favorable support they received | from the authorities, remaining to- tally inactive when the police and sol- ciers had removed the pickets from | some of the enterprises. In any case, the employers have given way, and the dispute will evidently be settled in favor of the workers in the very ;near future. | IMPERIALISTS URGE CHANG TSO-LIN TO WAR ON (Continued from Page One) has been in consultation for the past few days with labor leaders, both lo- {cal and national. The following plan | was worked out with the full cooper- ation of labor which has pledged to {impose self discipline in order to bring the revolution to.a successful close, The government, it has been de- esumption of business by foreign firms either directly or thru the con- ‘suls, Where differences involving ex- isted, the matter will be settled by agreement. Labor in full cooperation pledges itself to abide by agreement and stated voluntarily that no strikes will occur except in cases where em- ployers fail to keep the agreement. In places net involving strikes but |concerning the restoration of condi- | tions under which business can more readily operate the matter will be j taken care of by the government. Labor Gooperates The labor leaders have made it clear to the government that in cases where agreement reached by the government |is violated such violation will be due to counter-revolutionary influences and for the trial and punishment of such cases a special tribunal will be set up. of revolutionary discipline, the labor | leaders state. To carry out the agreement with the | government the Hupeh General Labor | Union has issued special regulations {calling on workers to obey the gov- |ernment and the union, forbidding dis- | turbances of any kind, especially those |involving foreigners, ordering no | strikes in foreign firms, banks, or fac- tories unless an order is given by the | union, announcing the establishment of a special court committee to take up violence of regulations. cided, wif take up this question of the | This will be a voluntary act} UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS | wing and labor leaders, according to a dispatch from Hongkong. British Guns Again The British gunboat Cockchafer swept Chinese troops with machine guns when it had been accidentally struck by a few stray bullets, The number of Chinese killed by British fire is unknown, Chiang Kai-shek is still ‘unable to! organize any sort of a government at Nanking. None of the Nationalist leaders are willing to ally themselves | With Chiang, it is reported. That he wiil join himself to Sun Chuan-fang is predicted here. More On Canton The four Nationalist armies which left Hankow for a general advance against Canton will move through Hu- nan Province, it was learned today. | Canton is at present in the hands of right wing elements who have con- ducted a ruthless campaign against! workers’ and peasants’ unions. ‘ France Follows U.S. PARIS, April 28—If the United States refuses to join the powers in the new note of protest to the Chinese | Nationalists over the Nanking affair, France will refuse likewise, the for- eign office announced today. France is prepared to assume an attitude of watchful waiting it was stated. Cine j Japan More Militant | TOKIO, April 28.—The Baron Tan- aka, new Premier, may adopt a more | militant Chinese policy than his pre- | decessor appears likely. | In his statement issued last Thurs-! |day, which has just been translated, | he said: | “The disturbances in China threat-| * * lin th On} ization ty D. BENJAMIN The loss of C. E. Ruthenber most severe to the work slow this count It is all the more severe cor does at a time when the wo: 's of this country are faced with the danger of a world war and by a tack of the American ss and the trade union ts upon the left wing work- need such — one who led left wing in » who had the d courage Id war; one > first to recog- ¢ 2 of the Russian revolution and y to its support. As leader of the Woy (Commun- ist) Party, he r the organ- of the 1, for bruta italist ¢ ers, a leade the Soi unde to fight a who wa formation of a Labor Par Many Difficult Tasks. In th , when the | capitalist to railroad and Va when the Ar x to vl the electri can gove » the Ame inst the Ch the or the workers and to or- Must Strengthen Party. There is only one w the | ~ | Of Workers Party SPLENDID STYLE Has Portrait of King; Walls Done in Biscuit LONDON, April 15 (By Mail).— ‘Eve,” a smart society women’s jour- nal, has handed an apple to the old jAdam in the right hon. J. Ramsay |MacDonald, tempting him to display the wonders of his eighteenth century house at Hampstead for the amuse- ment of the idle, ludiury-loving rich. There are photographic embellish- ments which show a home expensive- ly furnished and appointed. We are told that the hall has an “air of \quiet dignity and spaciousness,” and you can see, if you care, the doors leading where “the service quarters” common household work to the “simply glows with walls “are enamelled Chippendale furniture— curtains: an rugs study Its gold.” brocade pictures by famous invent of a the imposing ait is showr ~Donald been the duchess of Breadalbane had her husband died before he could inherit the title.” not Friend, “Bloody Ferdinand” The whole place reeks of royalty and aristoc Book e displayed ge R., Mary R.,” and ‘on the handsome Shera- there stands an @u- ‘Ger ai," , ton bureau... tographed photograph of King Fer- mned by ove dinand of Bulgaria,” the old fox of the Balkans, who apparently tried his wiles on the “leader” of the May Day Daily Worker | can make up for his lo by strengthening the party of he was the: leader Labor Party. The “dignified charm” of one room dded to in that the walls are of “a soft biscuit tint,” and no doubt this pleasing colour brings to Mr. MacDonald the grateful memory of sir Alexander Grant’s famous $150,- 000. What a pity it is that the poor wives of the miners and unemployed do not read “Eve.” For there they could see what it means to be a “Labor leader” who in policy and life believes in “continuity,” and so is recognized, flattered, and pampered by society. CHICAGO MEETINGS to lead the orkers against the dd out of the present dangers, t also to a point wh y will he able to more effec- ght for their rights and for ion from the present capi- stem which enslave them. a reader of The DAILY ZR, as one who has studied in one form or another about the wage- slave system in which we live, as one who has most probably directly par- ticipated in the workers’ struggles of | this country, or has been in close con- | tact with them—you should be among | the first to realize the importance of joining the ranks of the Workers! May 7th—Y. W. L. Spring Festival, Party, should be among the fifst to Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. rally to the working class in its’ pres- | May 15th—Ukrianian Educational ent hour of trial. 'Club, Drama Walshes Hall, Emma Do you want to take an active part b? and Noble St., at 6.30 p. m. in building up the working class move-| May 15th—Freiheit Singing Con- ment? Do you want to take your a ‘cert at Orchestra Hall, place in leading the struggle against! May 15th—Y. W. L. hike to Des- capitalism? Then join the ‘Workers ' plaines, Tilinois—meets at 9 a. m., at } (Communist) Party. Fill out the ap-! 1999 §, Sawyer Ave. plication blank in this issue of The | DAILY WORKER and send it to 108 Chicago Liberals Protest. East 14th Street, New York City. CHICAGO, IL, April 28—A dem- jonstration was held by the Liberal | Club, University of Chicago, to pro- \test against the action being taken towards Sacco and Vanzetti. Special Drawings in the 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. the Swedish federation of wane Silver Embargo Temporary en to penetrate the zone of Japanese unions refused to attend the confer-| cials pertinent questions. Al Smith,| The silver embargo is purely aj interests. Events in the South have) > A A ‘otel the Century magazine and the catho- | tempora: | measure, it was stated in damaged this country’s prestige. Our | Press Association in the sumptuous ballroom of the H \tie church cashcd in on a question | ficial _ cireles here, involving no| national flag has been trampled on Biltmore, did not hesitate to call upon the representatives of | put to the governor relative to his re. |change in pion policy, and is de-| and our nationals have undergone the | the American press to uphold his imperialist policy. He felt \ligion by a New York lawyer, The | Signed purely to keep finances on a| utmost humiliation, | that “it was natural that the press should f= ;Forum magazine is now trying to| sound basis and to prevent the with-| “In the face of these facts the Gov-| ernment under whi . it liv , reprevent {he gay: | smoke out Coolidge on his third term drawal of silver from the banks which | ernment continues to advocate non-in- | ‘alt nt : = ‘ |seeret. If the Forum succeeds it wil]| ™ight raise prices and bring illegal! tervention. (Baron Tanaka had pre-/ Mr. Coolidge is quite certain that his request will be be worth one thousand dollars of ad- transfer of the metal abroad. This | viously described non-intervention as acceded to, because the editors, to whom he spoke, are the vertising for it, But it is not likely | Leena measure is similar to the/a mere expedient to shirk responsi-/ tools of American imperialism, and their newspapers have that Cal will accomodate a curious) WoT!d war financial measures, it is, bility.) Especially do we fail to un- been duly bought and paid for by these interests. There is, however, one paper which cannot be bought and public, | Stated. Measures designed to facili-| derstand the Government's failure to, paid for. There is one paper which refuses to cease its at- sport nowadays to. ask public offi-, President Coolidge, speaking at the banquet of the United RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST WAR ON MAY DAY Be one of the millions of American workers in demanding— » HANDS OFF ais oe | tate foreign trade operations are be-, protect Shanghai, where Japan has) HOULD Coolidge announce his de-| ing taken. The regulations will be, 20,000 residents and also vested in-! CHINA! . Wear one of the little red pennants, printed in gold, and induce other workers’ Posie my to do the same. \\ bana Pet Bring this to the atten- tion of all labor organiza- tions, This is important. Do it now. Join the forces to prevent another bloody slaughter, Order a supply at once and sell them or give them away free if you can, Order from the nearest district office of the Workers (Com- munist) Party or from the National Office of the Party, 1113 West Washington Boulevard Chicago, Il. gold lettering. Single pennant 25c 10 or more ... lic * cision not to run for a third orm | *#Pouneed tornenees it is believed that his present suppor- | ters in congress would figuratively | m “ " r . thumb their nasal organs at him, and), SHANGHAI, | April 28.—Fighting add more vigor to the kicks with | between the right wing troops of | which they project Calvin's proposed | Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists Hegislation thru the senate windows, | /', Teported to have taken place at \if he tells the world that his hat is} Kiukiang. Nationalist troops are also in the ring his competitors will pro- reported to have clashed with Feng- ceed to hire the services of expert| "eM troops advancing. towards the grinders so that their axes may be | North Rive : ae sharpened for the business“of chop-| ... © hiang Kills 3 More : ping off a political head that has worn| , Chiang’s troops smashed a strikers the presidential topper long enough | @¢monstration at Kingwin, killing to suit them. | three workers and wounding many wit ARAL SPA others, according to a police report. Killed By Rolling Pin. pried huridred and fifty other demon- PITTSBURG, April 28.—Mrs, Roxie | Stators were arrested. Mumford, 42, formerly of East Liver-| , Martial law has been declared in pool, O., was held without bail on a| Amey in an attempt to bréak the labor icharge of murder here today by a/ "4 Peasant unions which have béen \coroner’s jury investigating the death | Protesting against Chiang-Kai-shek’s of her husband, April 17. Mrs. Mumford is alleged to have | struck Mumford on the head with e jrolling pin during a quarrel, Nationalists and Chiang Clash BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS raids on unions ond execution of left | terests. “Red Waves” “Regarding the Bolshevization of! China, the Japanese Government thinks that this concerns China only | and that Japan has nothing to do) with ity Such an attitude is nonsense. | “The Red waves are encroaching on +China, This is not the time to regard | {the troubles there as fay on the other | side of the river. The disturbances in China have gone beyond the limits of | | domestic disputes. They are endan-| | gering the Far Bast and threatening | | the peace of the world, | “Japan should take the initiative, if | necessary, in cooperating with other powers for effective steps to cope with | the situation. We believe such steps | jinevitable. If we continue to vemain | | indifferent, professing non-interven- jtion, it will mean that Japan will | throw away her influence in the Or-| ient. Japan should adopt improved policies for the protection of her in- terests and prestige. . i tack upon the ruling class and its imperialist adventures, For this reason the rul- ing class seeks other methods to influence the opposition. In this case certain “paytriotic” or- ganizations are trying to do the trick by a series of trumped-up octet : DATL WORKER | 83 First Street, New York, N. Y, Inclosed is my contribution of charges against The DAILY ree mona rk ae i Me “ om The anttaltea: < " uthenberg ustain ng u WORKER. What capitalism can | fut bh irenges’ cat a not accomplish through outright P sht | DAILY WORKER and for the purchase, it seeks to accomplish | defense of our paper. I will y with the aid of the fron Heel. the same amount regulay We call upon all workers to | avery a aie at Nas ee euudauaar Resist the Iron Heel. 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