The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 1

HANDS OFF CHINA! STOP ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION! THE THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: “FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, WORKER EDITOR, Vio. IV. No. 93. Current Events By T..J. O’FLAHERTY. Bntered as second-class matter NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927 AGER, HELD FOR TRIAL at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. A PUBISHING Published Daily axcept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER THE LABOR DAILY R. Price 3 Cents CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Y the time these words appear in print May Day will have come and gone and unless violence is done to custom, the various Bomb Squads and other special guardians of the capi- talists system will have claimed cred- it for haying saved the nation from | another “bloody revolution.” Since the political demise of William J. Burns and\ his superior Harry M. Daugherty, Ahe nerves of the bankers have not h€@en subjected to unusual irritation by ponderous announce- | ments of social disaster to those who | have mor¢g than they can use of the | good things of life. Burns did things | ona 7 ' ona id scale. . | cise pbgilists limbering up for the mathe Hon 1d) demonstration in the ring, x - Sis Dear Sir: our local Bomb Squad has been busy Your letter of the 29th., in elsewhere on this page. k y j ' recent! with the usual May Day inaries but nothing so ridicu- Insurance Hea Here are Your Facts, Mr. Beha By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. This open letter to the Hon. of Insurance, is in reply to the facsimile letter which appears James A. Beha, Insurance Department, New York, James A. Beha, Superintendent stant, addressed to The DAILY preli | WORKER is of such great significance that this opportunity is italjst system in the United States | being improved by not only making your letter public but also the workers on May Day was/ publicising this reply. It is felt that a move, which is the first ‘petrated as the arrest of an infant|/in twenty years, that will lead to an airing of the complaints former Captain Gegan of the/ against the so-called Big Four weekly payment life insurance ial the way of protecting the cap- 7 omb Squad a few years ago. The companies is one that should be broadcast to the 40,000,000 Amer- little lad was so young that he thot | making his rounds, yet the sergeant/chinations of this group. felt as proud of his catch as the} editor of the Jewish Daily Forward | would in being allowed to kiss a king’s | hand. | me: | practices, I should be glad to hay -MAY DAY comes and goes. The) workers of the world—the class- | conscious portion—celebrate their! vietories and take stock of their de-' violation of the law or contrary the usual raids and arrests and the After the famous Armstro’ class stv aggle continues. There was a time when May Day celebrations were Acvoted to the delivery of panegyrics | 43 on sec m in the abstract, but now- | adays have reached the stage where the revolutionary workers and | subject peoples are on the threshold! of a struggle for powerpwith imper-! igliam, aad. are. cor onthe | Ppt side obs tha’ thee hold in the So. | oe | viet Union, an area that comprises one sixth of the earth’s surface. ie Fey overs ore * ee NN a May Day manifesto issued by} the sov:alist and labor international | the “red” is splashed on thick. In- | perialism is denounced and so is Fascism. China is hailed, but the} writer of the manifesto regrets that the distance between the headquarters | ot the yellow international and China | renders direct assistance impossible, | tho the distance appears to have en-| couraged cardiac softness judging | by the sweet words that are devoted | to the Chinese cause. However the} Chinese would probably be better) pleased if Ramsay MacDonald, J. H.| Thomas and other leaders of this in-| ternational carried on a vigorous} age fight against the sending of coors BLTtISh Workers and munitions of war to kill the Chi-! ness people instead of hiking around | W W 3 i t Following Governor Smith’s of thé Metropolitan. Life Insurance Company. We call attention to these (Continued 0: the world singing the praises of the! British empire. . 5 Sap murder by strangulation of over | 20 Chinese labor leaders, includ- ing one woman, by Chang-Tso-Lin is! one of the most cold-blooded pieces | of butchery in the annuals of history. And this crime can be laid at the doors of the imperialist governments, The Manchurian bandit would never have dared to invade the Soviet em- | bassy but for the connivance of the | eka Britain was the chief insti-| gator in the violation of ambas-|;; ‘ sadorial rights but according to the | on of fond paggrarabac te pa a news the United States troops in Lita eahey eget toy eas ata Peking under the direction of Minis-| hich itroe han geined tote hat ter McMurray, played an active bate bane) 5p eal Rae coe & pinoy Ao It fh fhe bate: 4 igeneral and sympathetic strikes USSOLINI’S infamous “Charter of | Hoveotts, but places severe restric- Labor” is received rather coldly by tions on picketing and virtually for- the capitalist press of the United yids unions for civil employes. States, Reger ot hae neve Although the right wing of the sympathy je ‘workers who will labor party and the Trades Union be subjected to increased persecution Congress frown upon the general under its provisions but because the strike, leaders of the minority declare i} * * | smashing anti-strike bill is introduced for its second reading in the House of Commons by the die-hard cabinet tomorrow, it will not only meet with the solid opposition of the labor Gegan was a Santa Claus rather late| ican workers or their families who now suffer through the ma- In your letter you state, “If you have any definite acts which are supported by facts, which you claim these companies have committed, which are in violation of the law or good insurance Our reply is a catalogue of definite acts which are either in) As Superintendent of Insurance you are surely aware of the feats, the capitalists gendarmes make | following charges which are basically and factually correct: | following members of the Investigating Committee took positions | | with the very companies they previously “prosecuted” ; (a) Assemblyman Robert Lynn Cox was appointed counsel and general manager of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at a salary of $20,000 per year. Shortly afterwards Mr. Cox was appointed a vi dent, of the Metropolitan Life Insprance Compayy. Hi salary today is $38,000. This is considerably higher than i (b) Senator William J. Tully, also of the committee | was made solicitor for The Metropolitan Life at a salary of $20,000. Since then it has been increased to $30,000. ing an enquiry into the activities of the Big Four, Mr. Tully’s resignation was announced at the home office (c) Charles Evans Hughes, counsel for the Committee afterwards became counsel for the Equitable Life. (d) James McKeen, assistant counsel, also of the com- mittee, was appointed general counsel for the Mutual | Professionalism in Anti-Strike Bill LONDON, May 1.—When the labor | party, but of the liberals and a sec- | e you submit same to me.” | to good insurance practice. mg Insurance Investigation, the presi- cee as assemblyman. communication to you advis- apparently irrelevant facts to m Page Two) | Patriotism; Altruism, | ss Re Civic Federationism Read Robert W. Dunn’s account || of the stirring deeds of the pro- fessional patriots, the great hum- anitraianism of the National Civic Federation, the great work done by this altruistic organization in saving labor leaders from radical- ism and in inculeating in the labor movement a great faith in the doc- trine of “pie in the sky by and by.” | Beginning today on page 6. Daily Worker Gets New Readers From ( \ American section of international , teapitalism is not yet in need of the jrastic measures, necessary to save its eak Italian brother. Furthermore, wr Green, Matthew Woll and the rest, of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy are Mussolini’s work for the A | capitalists without offend- ing ss democracy. A fas- cist hip is certain in all edun- tries unless the workers beat them to it with a Workers and Farmers’ Gov- ernment. But a Fascist dictatorship | in the United States would blow the delusion of capitalist democracy out) of the minds of the workers and since | this is one of the most soothing of the | many delusions that keep the masses. hoping for something to turn up at’ the next election instead of organiz- ing their collective power industrially. and politically to win their rights, | our rulers will hang on to their de- | mocracy as: long as it stays above water. TE cota ISOPHERS, _psycho-analysts, sob-sisters, p! “(Continued on Weisbord Campaign (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PASSAIC, N. J., May 1.—The elec- tion campaign here as it continues shows more clearly every day that the labor candidates who are running as Communists will be a deciding fac- tor when the ballots are counted. Every day Albert Weisbord and his associates, Simon Bambach and Simon Smelkinson are addressing large meetings where hundreds of workeys gather to hear the message of labor. Another significant point is the large amount of working class literature that is being: sold. The DAILY WORKER is being read by the hundreds every day, the workers realizing that the local capitalist press does not present the campaign issues fairly from the viewpoint of labor. that labor has no defense against the measure but a nation-wide strike of all trades. They point out that the government has a majority despite the opposition of liberals and a few conservatives to the measure. It is reported that workers thruout England are forming councils of ac- tion in preparation for. a general strike should the measure go thru. Since the general strike last year the rank and file of British labor is said! to have lost faith in its old conserva- tive leaders and may in a new crisis follow the minority leaders, PITTSBURG, May 1,—Five labor bankers will face trial here on May 9 on charges of conspiracy to wreck the Brotherhood Savings & Trust Co. Although political wires have been twanged in an effort to get the labor bankers out of the mess caused by the wrecking of the $320,000 insti- tution into which low-waged trade unionists of this section had put their E> ta laywrights, fiction-| savings, the five will have to face] WORKERS! PROTEST THE DEATH] one miners, however, will come to the court. OF SACCO AND VANZETTI d Asks Aid in Probe ) DUNNE, MILLER, MR, BEHA WANTS FACTS ; : ‘rare oF Nw Youn YINSURANCE DEPARTMENT New Yorn City Orrice “ane Aten, \a5 BROADWAY ‘April 79th, 1927. Me, Williew'y, Dunne, Editor, The Doay Borker. Bi 33 Bast 1st Street, Sew York. My doar Mr, Dubine: F * Borornor Saith hes ref to him of April lst, concerning o inaurenoe/Gompanios eperating in thiv atate, I have also weenieee Your telogram of recent date addredsed to me at. any. to me your tele an industriel 14: “ta I have requested my Department to obtain for me ‘eopies of"Phe Daily Worker", containing tho articles to ahich you efor. If you have any definite acte which ere’ Supported by facts, which you claim these companies have committed, whivh are in violation of the law or good in- Sutance practises, I should be glad to have you submit Beme to 16. CALL TO ARMS AGAINST CHIANG Ask Chinese Here to Take Collections and Agitate for Liberation Movement HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS 1.—Wong Chin-wei and Sun Fo send joint cable to Kuomin- tang at Oakland asking support for Nationalist Government at Hankow. 2.—Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and Na- tionalist Government denounce Chiang Kai Shek as renegade; call for armed revolt against him. 8.—Report fall of New Zealand cabinet on question of British -- imperialist policy in China. * * * DEATH TOLL 10 | HANKOW, May 1.—Wong Chin- 5 |wei, the “beloved disciple” of Sun | Yat-sen, Sun Fo, son of Sun Yat-sen Ii ENTOMBED IN and Pau Tsu-min have sent a joint jeable to the central headquarters of |the Kuomintang in the United States! Hold Little Hope for Trapped Men at Oakland asking that it support the | Nationalist Government at Hankow| FAIRMONT, W. Va., May 1.—Ten miners are dead and the fate of in its struggle for the liberation of seventy-one more still remains in China. | doubt as the result of a terrific ex- Eidlitz, Pal of Woll, | FACE FRAME UP BY PATRIOTEERS Poem “Un-American” and “Incites Riot” Jail Staff, Stop Paper Is Plutes’ Plot Following the holding of William F. Dunne and Bert Miller for trial in Directs Big Lockout ¢ Special Sessions by Magistrate Toller- is Saturday for publication of a poem which he characterized as tending to excite “Un-Americanism” arid cite riot,” it was learned from aut - | tie sources thatfthe federal authori- |ties are preparing a case against the | Eidlitz a member of the | Federation of Labor. staff of The DAILY WORKER with the alleged intention of revoking the mailing privileges of the paper and prosecuting its editors under a federal statute. “Criminal Anarchy,” Charge Hinted. There was also indication that a charge under the “criminal anarchy” statute of New York State may be | preferred. SENEEECRRNNNRNRNNI | The Military Order of the World This is Otto Fidlitz, pal of Matthew |and the Keymen of America appear Woll in the National Civic Federa-| to have sought the best legal talent Woll is acting president and | obtainable. board of| The district attorney’s office was directors and a leader of the Building "epresented in the Essex Market Court Trades Employers lockout of 5,000) Where the motion for dismissal made New York plumbers. FEidlitz is a, by Aattorney Brodsky was overruled, director of the building bosses’ as-|and Alexander Rorke, whe prosecuted sociation, too. That's the sort of|Ruthenberg, Gitlow and Larkin, but anti-labor magnate Wol! associates|1s now in private practice, was also tion. with in his Civie Federation. | Present. F paca ite rsingh. Ncpeonpe |. anne and Miller were aNowed thai MATTHEW WOLL. liberty on. bail, ate i. | Case is Serious. | There is no doubt now that the | frame-up against The DAILY WORK- ER and its editors, business manager and mailing privileges is of a serious | and determined character. Under the | present charge the defendants can be | given up to a year in prison. | If the other charges are preferred jand pressed, and convictions secured, | sentences of from five to ten years are quite likely. The revocation of its mailing privil- |eges would be a severe blow to The | DAILY WORKER especially in its present critical financial condition. With the announcement of an in- (Continued on Page Two) CELEBRATE MAY DAY AT 12 BIG N. Y. MEETINGS ° /Demand Withdrawal of Troops From China | Thousands of workers thronged to a dozen mass meetings in and around New York yesterday after- si Acting president of the Civic Fed-| eration and vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Woll) is the link between the Civic Fed-| eration, dominated by labor hating} big capitalists and the American! HALEY FISKE. Asks For Aid. The cable declares that the Na-| plosion in a non-union mine at Ever- ettsville owned by the New England tionalist Government has decided to fight Chiang Kai Shek and asks Fuel and Transportation Company late last night, members of the Kuomintang in Amer- | ica to take up collections here to aid The force of the blast was 80 | great: that two men working on the the Chinese liberation movement. tipple were instantly killed and fif- The cable concludes with the ad- monition that the Kuomintang here teen injured. The two known dead are Harold Davis, 18, and Andrew should not be fooled by propaganda’ in favor of Chiang appearing in the| press. | Wong Loyal. | Wong Chin-wei, despite reports to the contrary, has consistently sup-| ported the Nationalist Government at Hankow, since the desertion of Chiang |Kai Shek. Allen. It was at a huge mass meeting at | Shanghai in his honor, that Chiang hospital bed, Roy Hayhurst, of Fair-|Kai Shek killed hundreds of workers. mont, who was severly injured in|As the more than 10,000 demon- the explosion said. “The blast sud-|strators greeted Wong, Chiang’s denly knocked us in every direction, |counter-revolutionary troops sudden- Davis in the check. house had his arm/ly appeared on the scene and started blown off and we were all badly | to shoot into the crowd. shaken up. I know that several men) Among those killed at the meeting in my crew suffered fractured skulls | was a member of the Executive Com- also.” |mittee of the Kuomintang of Miners here point to the increasing | Szechuan Province. Chiang has also frequency of such explosions and de-j|closed the office of the Kiangsu clare that they are particularly pre-|Province branch of the Nationalist | valent in non-union territory. The de- |Party and has arrested members of cline of the miners’ union, under the the Executive Committee. battering of the present anti-union | Denounce Chiang. lockout, would mean a tremendous in-|' The Central Executive Committee crease in mine accidents, of the Kuomintang, the supervisory The one hope for the seventy-one | committee and the military council of miners still in the mine is that the the Nationalist government have is- explosion vented most of its force|sued a joint statement branding toward the mouth of the mine and did) Chiang Kai Shek as a traitor to the not work backwards. | Chinese liberation movement and call- Two rescue crews are working at|ing for his overthrow by the wrokers, Describing the explosion from a noon to observe May Day—the in- |ternational holiday of the working class---while more than a thousand police reserves, some of them equip- ped with tear gas bombs, waited anxiously but vainly for a riot. Special police guards stood outside | National City Bank, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the palaces of John D. Rocke- \feller, Cardinal Hayes and M. Pier- ke is president of the € eration, president of the Metrope nee Co, (whose grafting practices are being exposed by The DAILY WORKER), director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, dir tor of the National Surety Company director of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad Company, director West Side Belt Railroad Company. This is the type-of individual with whom Woll and A. F, of L, President Green unite. Jewish Bakers Strike. Fifteen hundred Jewish bakers of Local 500 of the International Unions struck yesterday for the seven and a the mine, while others are being rush-|Peasants and students. The state- ed to the scene. That the seventy-|ment follows: “Chiang Kai Shek has betrayed the surface alive is questioned. (Continued on Page Two) half hour day and a minimum scale of $72 a week. The Pechter, Messing, Mersel Darling, and Herbst bakeries fected, fare aff AU MEARINARG by pont Morgan, anxiously waiting for bomb e Nothing happened. No mansions were blown up, and Police Commissioner Warren did not begin his administration with the expected blaze of glory. Raid Workers Party. raided the Harlem head- he Workers (Communist) 110th Street, and took Police quarters of Party, 81 E. in the office ‘on a.” The charge made against the members was that child- ren had been used to distribute these |leaflets. Dr. Markoff who was in the |office demanded to see the warrant |iiut none was forthcoming. He then went with the policemen to 104th Street Police Station where he and another comrade put in a complaint to the captain. He was referred tc the detective squad. Two detectives read the leaflet and j after consulting with the captain could not come to a decision of ac- tion to take in the matter. They telephoned for an expert, apparently, (Continued on Page Two)