The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1927, Page 1

HANDS OFF CHINA! STOP ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION! WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Pest Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef March 3, 1379. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Vol. IV. No. 94. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1927 EB PUBISHING CO, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Current Events FUR BOSSES SPLIT ON ALLIANCE WITH WOLL CHIANG FEARS REVOLT AS TROOPS’ DESERT FOR HANKOW NATIONALISTS Imperialist Powers Thru Chang Tso-lin to Court- Martial Thirty-six From U.S. S. R. a HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS | 1.—Large sections of Chiang Kai Shek’s army deserting to| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. . Outside New York, by mail, $6.0@ per year. HUMAN SACRIFICE—ANNO 1927 TRIMMERS. HURL DEFI AT GROUP TIED TO RIGHTS Negotiating Settlement With Joint Board REDERICK MOORE, the New York “Times” Shanghai corres- pondent contributes to the self-satis- faction of the bourgeois-minded | newspaper readers by telling them that the Hankow nationalist govern- ment has decided to refrain from carrying on anti-foreign propagenda for the reason that it needs foreign| assistance, Every person who is ac- quainted with the way news is made and who is honest would like to take Mr. Moore by the neck and tickle his | apple, but since that is difficult the | best we can do is prove that he is a} liar and depend on our business man- ager to give our words the necessary | Nationalists; Chiang calls in northern troops to prevent rebel- | ii: Reevmehiee vbateena.. thes gaia circulation, ee : | lion in Nanking. ae : : | Board of the Furriers’ Union and the é * | 2.—Split between Minister MacMurray in Peking and Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ KK THE first place the Hankow gov-| State Department; MacMurray wants immediate partition of ciation seemed near 3 result of a complete br ernment was never anti-foreign. It} China. was and is anti-imperialist. It is| x4 not opposed to the idea of foreigners | s between the trimmers and the ociated Fur Manufacturers he association, which has been act- the ally of Matthew Woll and | oti ry labor officials in the A. F. of L. and the international fur- riers’ union in attempting to break the Joint Board, was flatly told that it could not dictate the policies of the Trimmers in a lengthy letter author- ized by the board of d ors of the 4 8.—Chiang Kai Shek prevents May Day demonstrations. living and working in China. But it) 4.—Chang Tso-lin, inspired by imperialist powers, will court- objects to either foreigners or nat-| martial 36 citizens of Soviet Union; denies American lawyer ad-* ives fleecing the Chinese people. Un-| mission to court to defend them. til the Nationalist movement in) China got as far as. Hankow, Canton | was blamed for all the ills that, China was supposed to be heir to, but when the nationalist movement de-| veloped and went northwards our im-| 5.—Teat of Communist International statement, branding | Chang’s documents as forgeries. * * * SHANGHAI, May 2.—Large sections of Chiang Kai Shek’s army are refusing to fight the Nationalist Government at Han-| -rnoon, | i i } | ] 4] My perialist scribblers also went along. * * * ‘OU have read about Chiang-Kai- Shek. As the DAILY WORKER pointed out, Chiang sold out to the foreign imperialists. This is not a novelty. Many persons like Chiang have sold out under similar circum- stances, In China, Chiang is now the favorite of the imperialists. But with- out some mass support Chiang would be as helpless as a flea in a whirl- wind. So the imperialists tell Chiang to continue babblitig about anti-for- eignism in order that he may hold on to the mass following that he had be- fore he betrayed the nationalist cause. * «ee REDERICK MOORE would have us believe that the revolutionary ha- tionalists in China are anti-foreign. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact there are many for- eigners co-operating with the Nation- alist revolutionists. What they are against are the foreign tools of the international plunderbund. The im- perialist powers are not particularly concerned about shooting down Chi- nese revolutionists. They would just as soon shoot down American or Brit- ish revolutionists fighting in China. But they will shoot down anybody who helps in the task of putting a kink in the policy of imperialism in China, * * * Tt Hankow Government represents the Chinese movement that aims to unify China under one government. Because it has not sold out to the for- eign imperialists the foreign corres- pondents unite in maligning it. They say it is anti-foreign. The object is, of course, to prejudice the average newspaper reader against Hankow, But our readers know enough to dis- count everything that appears as news in the capitalist press and to assume that every bit of Chinese news sent across by a capitalist scribbler is false until it is proven true by events. "ie rsa Apert 120 American battleships are lying in the two rivers that gird Manhattan Island. Some 20,000 young fellows are tramping the city ahd having a good time according to their individual tastes. The papers have extended editorial greetings to the fleet. The city has practically turned over its keys to the bluejackets. Not so long ago certain theatres had a rule which prevented bluejackets from getting inside their portals. The idea wag that only a waster would join the navy. This was before Wall Street started on its imperialist rampage. Now, there is no nobler cause than im- \ perialism. So the bluejackets who \ were scorned a few years back are now the white-haired boys of our hourgeoisie. Mob Forms at Church To Kill Accused Negro LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 2; — Following an all-night futile search of jails for Lonnie Dixon, 16, Negro, who Sunday was forced to confess he criminally assaulted and murdered Floella McDonald, a mob of almost 5,000 people dispersed today. Vowing that a lynching would fol- low as soon as the whereabouts of the Negro was learned, the mob re- turned to the First Presbyterian Church and pledged themselves to form again as soon as the Negro was located, An early trial, with the death penalty demanded by the state, was promised by officials. Read The Daily Worker Every Day LITTLE HOPE FOR MINERS ENTOMBED | kow and are deserting, according to reports received here | One report states that Chiang, fearing a rebellion, disarmed 7,000 {men of his Sixth Army last Satur- |day and is moving several thousand men of his “loyal” Third Army into Nanking. Old Troops Desert. } Chiang’s strength, it is reported, jlies with the counter-revolutionary northern troops who haye been incor- |porated into his army. Chiang’s old} forces, who are educated in the prin- | ciples of the Kuomintang, are rapidly leaving him. | In an effort to forestall a rebellion, | | Chiang has been sending officers sus- | | pected of left wing sympathies to the | front against the northern war lords only to cut them off and leave”them to capture and certain death at the | hands of their enemies. Second Mine Takes Fire Near Fairrnont MORGANTOWN, W. Va., May 2. —-Rescue.erews today had penetrated less than half the distance into the blast-wrecked depths of the New England Fuel & Transportatioh Com- | * * Caen | pany’s mine at Everettsville, W. Va., | Powers Agree on Note. | near here, where 77 miners, entombed LONDON, May 2. — Ehgland,|jate Saturday afternoon, are still im- France, Italy and Japan are now in| prisoned. full accord as to the character of|” Presence of gas in the mine is de-| | the new note to China demanding re- laying the rescue attempts. Sixteen | parations for the Nanking affair, it|qgeaq and seven injured have been was said at the foreign office tonight. brought to the surface. Hope is still maintained that the| “Mounted police and a company of United States will join in the de- infantry have established a camp mands and the forwarding of the/| here to “protect the company’s inter- communication will await definite re-| o.t and “keep order among the jection or notice of agreement to| orowds.” The relatives of the men participate from President Coolidge. | pelow are roped away from the mine | At the conclusion of today’s meet-| mouth. ing, the cabinet was understood to have been agreed to notify the Na- tionalist government that the British intend to reoccupy the Hankow con- cession. This move will be made in- dependently of the joint action in de- manding reparations. * . * Used To Danger. Upon the success or failure of the rescue crews depends the fate of many families represented in that mournful group of relatives. They did not weep for they are the wives and children of miners, who are taught from childhood to be prepared to meet such emergencies without faltering. Bad Roads. The mine is one of the largest in Monongahelia county. It is located four miles off the main road from Morgantown to Fairmont. The near- est railroad is two miles away and only one telephone, a party line serves the vicinity of the mine, Explosion Twists Steel. The fate of the entombed men was in doubt, according to reports here from the scene, but rescuers were said to be doubtful of the possibility of finding any great number of them alive, because of the evidences al- (Continued on Page Two) Hands Off China Meeting At Union Square Next Saturday; Huge Protest New York will witness a mass protest demonstration against any attempt to declare war on China and to demand the withdrawal of the American marines and battle- ships from that country, next Sat- urday at 1 p. m. It will be held at Union Square by the Hands Off China Commit- tee and more than 40 speakers are expected to address the workers. Among those who already have signified their willingness to speak are: William Pickens, Richard B. Moore, Joseph Freeman, Robert W. Dunn, Pat Devine, Carlo Tresca, William F. Dunne, H. M. Wicks, Pascal Cosgrove and Rebecca Grecht. — The Hands Off China Commit- tee have opened new offices at 39 MacMurray Wants War. WASHINGTON, May 2.—The dif- ferences between the state depart- ment and Minister John V. A. Mac- Murray at Peking are becoming more acute. MacMurray has openly espoused the militarist policy of the British die-hard cabinet and is clamoring for open war on China. The state de- partment, though it is responsible for a huge American armed force in China, is treading a little-more cau- tiously. Favors Partition. MacMurray is understood to favor thd British plan for the occupation of the entire Yangtse Valley and the (Continued on Page Two) Hold Off Sentence Of Furriers; Won't Retry Gold, Shapiro Nine fur workers unjustly con- victed on April 23 on charges grow- ing out of the recent furriers’ strike, were taken before Judge Smith at Mineola yesterday for sentence. On motion of Prosecutor Edwards, im- position of sentence was postponed pending an attempt to frame up more charges against them. Ben Gold and Isidore Shapiro, charr- man and president of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, probably will not be tried again following their re- cent acquittal of second degree as- sault charges. Without a shred of evidence against them Gold and BY FATAL BLAST Shapiro were freed and Edwards has little liking for another effort to railroad them. » _ Sentence will be imposed on the nine convicted men next Thursday. Union Square. Vivan Wilkinson is secretary and William Pickens, chairman of the executive commit- Fur Trimmers yesterda; The sociation in desire to dominate the fur industry of New York Ci is plotting to destroy the Trimmers sociation, declared Pres- He defied the association in efforts to control the Trimmers’ employment policies and declared that left wing workers ; would not be barred from- Trimmers’ shops. ident Morris Woll Issues Ukase. The association, acting at the be- hest of Matthew Woll, demanded im- mediate discharge of all workers recognizing the Joint Board. A let- ter from Woll to the association pre- sented the ultimatum that “all the members of the Fur Trimming Manu- ACHtinwed o ROCKEFELLER, JR, TOPS LOCAL LIST OF MONEY BARONS |He is Wealthiest Stock Big Four Control U.S. Bank, Insurance Expose Shows PAST EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE Apr. 22.—William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, wires Gov. Smith demanding an investigation of the “Big Four”, basing his demand on a series of articles by Charles Yale Harrison. Apr. 28.—Governor Smith orders James A. Beha, Superintendent of In- surance to conduct an inquiry into the charges made in The DAILY WORKER exposure. Apr. 29.—Ex-senator William J. Tully, one of the targets in the Harrison articles, announces his resignatién from official position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company—‘to travel in the Far East.” edition, Charges pressed against WORKER for printing an alleged unpatriotic poem. Apr. 30.—James A. Beha, acting under orders from Governor Smith, writes to The DAILY WORKER asking for data on which to base his investigation. Facsimile of this letter appears in this the editors of The DAILY By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. ) worker interested in curbing the grow- ARTICLE XIX. The “Big Four” assets, for the year ending December 31st 1925, in aggre- gate were $3,606,884,715, (over three and a half billion dollars). The figures for 1926, not yet available, will certainly be over the four billion dollar mark. The 1925 figures, how- ever, are distributed as follows: Metropolitan . . .$1,854,657,482 Prudential .. . 1,873,110,038 Hancock . 368,818,073 Colonial .... 10,229,122 In the United States and Canada there are over forty million workers insured by 62,222,702 weekly payment | life insurance policies for a total of $11,052,748,627. More than eleven billions of dollars. This is distributed in the following manner: NO. OF POLICIES. Metropolitan 80,883,984 Prudential 6,188,802 John Hancock 4,679,631 Colonial ........ 471,285 AMOUNT, OF INSURANCE Metropolitan ...... $6,018,452,116 Prudential 4,988,647,316 John Hancock . 975,871,776 Colonial ......+++ 75,277,419 These statistics show the enormous “progress” made by the “Big Four” weekly payment life insurance com- panies in recent years. To this extent is the American ing economic and political influence of the “Big Four.” Directly and in- directly practically every person in the United States is interested in the machinations of this gigantic com- bine, because for every policy in force | there are at least three members of the family affected as beneficiaries. $4,000,000.000 Necessary? How powerful this insurance com- | bine is, may be shown best by the abnormally large assets held by these companies as “a necessary reserve,” (Continued on Page Two) Norwegian Labor to Back Sacco-Vanzetti | OSLO, Norway, May 2.—The Nor- wegian Federation of Labor will de- clare a boycott on American goods if Sacco and Vanzetti are electrocuted. This threat was delivered today to the American legation. The federation members will refuse to transport or load any merchandise of American manufacture. Nearing Protests. HARTFORD, Conn, May 1.— Fight hundred workers urged the withdrawal of American marines and warships from China at a mass meet- ing held at Liberty Theatre, Sunday evening. ,) aber Injunction | | and Bond Man Here The ten richest persons in New York City today include one woman, and are, in order of their wealth: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., $850,000,- 000. George F. Baker, $200,000,000. Charles M. Schwab, $125,000,000. Sidney Z. Mitchell, $125,000,000. Edward S. Harkness, $100,000,000. J. P. Morgan, $75,000,000. Arthur Curtis James, $70,000,000. Fails to Relieve | Plumber Lockout | An injunction has been issued by | | Justice May on behalf of that part; Payne Whitney, $70,000,000. of the 5,000 locke@ out union plumb- | Amounts possessed by each indi- ‘ers employed in Queens county, re-|vidual could only be estimated, be- |straining the Building Trades Associa-|cause in some instances the exploiters |tion from continuing its lockout. |themselve could not estimate the ex- Up to last night no effective re- | act value of their holdings. sults had been achieved by the in-| Of the ten stock and bond holdexs Junetion, since the employers have |jisted as topping the roster of the completely ignored it. The lockout | city’s aristocracy of wealth, five were has not been called off, nor have /native-born in New York City. The any of the men returned to work, lothers are men who came here after The injunction was issued to test|/sharp business practices elsewhere the legality of the lockout, but it is)had started them on the road to fore obvious that no such test has to be| tune, made, since the bosses are the actual} John D. Rockefeller, Jr., successor | Tulers who decide as to what is legal | through inheritance to the title of the and what is not. A hearing is to| second richest man in America, is @ |be held tomorrow to take action’ on |native of Cleveland. The family for- |the injunction and to decide the con-| tune had been well established by his | tinuation of it. /father when he attained his majority. | The lockout against the New York|George F. Baker, listed as the city’s union plumbers was instituted by the|second wealthiest man, came here |bosses to counteract the plumbers|from Troy, N. Y., during early man- |strike in Brooklyn, now in its fifth| hood, and Charles M. Schwab is a na- week. The ‘strikers demand a $14/tive of Williamsburg, Pa. wage scale and a five day work week, | Edward S. Harkness, whose fortune The plumbers’ helpers, just recently jis, like that of the Rockefellers, organized, showed solidarity with the |founded on Standard Oil, came from | journeymen plumbers by coming out|Cleveland, and Sidney Z, Mitchell, of {with them in a solid body. Their|the General Electric, of whom the {demands are recognition of theit/average man has heard little, is from newly formed organization and a $9|Dadesville, Ala. daily wage. New Yorkers Inherited Theirs. Vincent Astor, Mrs, E. H. Harri- man, J. P. Morgan, Arthur C. James and Payne Whitney were all born in New York and inherited large por- tions of their wealth, The fortune of George F. Baker, much of which has already been turned over to his son, George F. Baker, Jr., was accumulated through the banking industry and through the handling of railroad and industrial stocks for which Baker, senior, has long been noted. Charles M. Schwab, as the average A meeting was called last night at {the Church of All Nations by Clar- ence Miller,, president of the plumb- ers’ helpers organization. A large crowd attended and it was decided to hold more special meetings in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. A unanimous demand was made to con- tinue the strike at all cost, even if the journeymen plumbers should de- cide to return to work. ROANOKE, Va., May 2.—Walter L. Boothe, the 18-year old youth who has been kept alive for ten days by|person knows, “cleaned up” in the artificial respiration, continued to|consolidation days of the steel indus« amaze his physicians today by his/try and through careful investments tenacious hold on life. in the days which followed, . i t