The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1927, Page 2

‘ KUSHNER TELLS OF RAILROADING TO TOMBS JAlL Young Worker Accuses His Trial Judge Matthew Kushner, thrown into jail] 'Coolidge and Minister | 'To China Split on Note! (Continued from Page One) Asiati Petroleam Company tive, now en route, arrives} at Changsha. Flee From Chiang. Over two hundred members of the | |Kuomintang have arrived here from} Shanghai, refugées from Chiang Kai Shek’s oppression. Chiang Tung-| chin, chief of the Fukein political de- | partment, and General Cheng Chieti} aré among the arrivals. | The May Day celebration included | kow re ACTION PHOTO OF LEVEE BLAST i cseeeeneatiaeanenaaiteannemneemmmanenaedenaeanmmnmmeeemeenatimmeadieiedatadtanenemianneaaeiaame ane | IL. D. WARNS OF {Who is Behind the Peaspe of the Militant | NEW MENACE FOR aioe pee see Woll’s nis Gomes! re Leaders of the National Civic Fed- SACCO, VANZETTI | erst eration! ~ Woll is Acting President of the Labor Hatin, Analyses Attempts to ¥ 8 Disrupt Campaign — ' t Civie Federation. There is a United Front of the Special American Fédération CHICAGO, May 3.—In response to| for the erime of distributing Hands} more than one thousand trade unions, inquiries from several cities where) delegates from 4 nunibér of workers’ | of Labor Committee, headed by Vice President Woll, and the Na- tional Civie Federation, dominated by the most powerful capi- Off China leaflets, has written 4) Factories and schools wet closed the! graphic account of his arrest and im-| prisonment in Tombs prison, Kushner, a2 member of the Young Workers’ League, was seized near Union Squaré last week and brutally hustled off to j out bail. The Defense is handling h letter reads: “I have been in the Tombs now three days, placed in the worst cell imaginable with unbelievable lack of régard for decent sanitary conditions. The food is rotten. terested to know how I w: I was distributing Hands leaflets at the “Americanization” meetings (you sée how I was given a Labor His for dose of Americanization) when one} of the fat bellied pa tes came} over and began to shove me out of| the crowd and tryed to seize my leaflets. He could not drive me away for the crowd sympathized with me, and so he called over a policeman. The cop violently shoved me out of the crowd, but followed, asking for more leafl Seeing that this only attracted the attention and sympathies of the peo- ple, he arrested me.and took me to the police station, Precinct As he walked me from Unio: are to Irving Place, hund of ‘workers followed us protesting. |by processions of workers. | Nationalist Foreign Minister, in con- business offices a half ities stopped for one hour. Celebrate May Day. } ree meetings were held sinirat | nzneously at noon in Wuchang, Han-| ang and Hankow and were followed} Arrange- ments were made so that the demon- strations did not enter the foreign concessions. | Pa eee Chen Asstires Américans. HANKOW, May 3.—Bugené Chen, | versation with a deputation of Ameri-| can manufacturers who visited him, | categorically denied the suggestion | that the policy of the Nationalist government either now or at any time | strove to destroy foreign trade in| China, | Chen emphasized that the Nation-| alist government was in its economic policy following Sun Yat-sen’s piin- ciple regarding the necessity of at~ tracting foreign capital for the sic cessful development of China. | Brutal Execution. } MOSCOW, May 3.—Branding the) brutal execution of the Chinese Com- | munists several days ago as the Work | of British imperialism, the Commun- | ist International issued the following | statement: | | ordanizations were denied the right to| participate in conferences’ called for} Sacco and Vanzetti, the International Labor Defense, throtigh its setretary, James P. Cannon, has issued the fol- lowing statemient: I. L. D, Statement The day is drawing near for Massa-| chusetts’ day of revenge against mili- tant lahor represented and symbolized by the two heroic Italian workmen, | Sacco and Vanzetti. Events are trans- piring with cyclonic speed which are! finally deciding the issue. Do these | events forecast the doom or the tri- umphant liberation of Sacco and Van-| wetti? Let us examine them and} draw our conclusions from the facts. | The main outstanding developments since Judge Thayer ptonounced the} sentence are as follows: | 1. An outburst of indignation and/| protest from the laboring masses, res-| olutions, protest meetings, talk of! strikes, ete. This is on the side of| Sacco atid Vanzetti. The protest and faith of the masses are their strength and protection. Organized Form 2; The protest movement begins to take organized form. Delegate con-| ferences ate called in the principal cities to unify and coordinate local activities. The idea of a great na-| tional conference, similar to the fam- talists in the United States. Matthew Woll is the connécting link in the conspiracy. With him in the Civic Federation is: DANIEL WILLARD, president o Street and Baltimore, 0, f Baltimore & Ohio R, R. Co, 2 Wall Director, Akron and Barberton Belt R. R. Co. (V. Pres. and Dir.) President and Director, Baltimore and Néw York Railway Co. President and Director, Baltimor e and O. Chicago Terminal R. R. Co. President and Director, Baltimore and O, Southwestern R. R. Co. The Direetor, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co. President and Director, Clevélatid Tertiinal & Valley R. R. Co. President and Director, Fairmont, , Morgantown & Pittsburgh R. R. Ce. President and Director, Néw York Transit and Terminal Co. Director, Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. President and Director, Pittsburgh and Western R. R. Co. Director, Reading Co, Director, Richmond-Washington Co. President and Director; Sharpville R. R. Co. The President and Director, Staten Island Railway Co. The President and Director, Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Co. President and Director, Toledo and Cincinnati R. R, Co. President and Director, Valley R: Director, Washington Southern R. R. Co. R. Co. President and Director, Washington Terminal Co. President and Director, West Virginia and Pittsburgh R. R. Co. Needle Trade Defense A Few Bazaar Notices All Bazaar tickets outstanding must be settled for before the end of this week or they will be charged to the holders. * Federals Hurt By Still Caught unawares when a confis- cated 500-gallon still exploded in a house at 9735 Seventy-sevénth street, Woodhaven, Queens, three federal ag- ents were nursing painful burns and other injuries today. | “Twenty of the bést members of | that I S | 4 ‘ : | ceahiek ee heroic Chinese Communist Party that I would| Were murdered by slow strangulation. In court I was told charged with disorderly The Poydras Levee was cut with dynamite to release the pressure on New Orleans and turn the flood watets of the Mississippi into two Louisiana parishes where only poor people, without political influence, had their homes. ous “Mooney Congress” is discussed | with approbation. This development} is another weight in the scale for Sac-| Bring in the Bazaar Honor Rolls at | once. All names must be in, to be! pleaded guilty, thinking gzéet off with a showed his venom leaflet and readin: edly he asked me of everything in it. Drags In State Department. On my response, the judge shouted, “You are a Bolshevik and a menace} to this country. He added that the state department would handle this| case. He ordered fingerprinting and) sent me to the Tombs, I protested that I was being tried not for disorderly conduct but for) fine but the judge} y snatching the] Heat- ther I approved | membership in the Communist Party. | ;~ At the jail they threatened physical | mistteatment. | Please send me something to read, especially The DAILY WORKER. Comradely yours, MATTHEW KUSHNER. LABOR PARTY BIG ISSUE IN UNIONS OF LOS ANGELES Opposition in Fears to Touch It Cal., May 3.—Op- position forces within the Central La- bor Council have formed an election alliance in the coming June elections for officers, and have formulated a “progressive tic’ and platform,” it is understood. It announced that} John Valentine, secretary of the Li | A, County Building Trades Cguncil, | ; and secretary of the former. labor} party of this city, will be the eandi-| date for secretary against Buzzel, the | administration candidat nd incum- bent, and Johnston, anti-administra- | tién reactionary who is supported by | John Horn, anti-red labor leader in| this city. The program includes: Organiza-| tion of the unorganized; a campaign io promote the union label; freedom of expression and opinion; education- al activities on matters affecting la-| bor; and assistance to unions in sttikes and emergencies, Politieal policies have been left open to be thrashed out later, as around the question of a labor party there may develop considerable dif- ferences of opinion between the con- servatives and the progressive wings of this opposition group. It is quite possible that the progressives will run their own slate, unles tory, political policy can be agreed upon in this program. With the reactionary machine split! that this op-| y the Central | wide open, it is likel position ticket will Labor Council elections if the gressives support it. In a straw ballot, conducted by the Los Angeles Daily News, Sam Globerman, Communist candidate for board 6f education supported by or- ganized labor, has forged ahead from eighth to sixth place, still leading the socialist candidates in the field by a large margin. Ten out of the eigh- teen candidates have to place in the May 3rd primaries, and five in the general elections June 6th. pro- War Veteran On Trial SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 3.—The state rested its casé today against} Ralph Seager, World War veteran of Homer, N. Y. Accused of first de- gree murder in connection with the “love-bomb” death of his former) sweetheart, Mrs. Arlene Cuttis, a Syracuse nurse. |This execution preceded by a judi-| The government does not promise any recompense to them. co and Vanzetti. | printed in the special Bazaar number 3. The counter-campaigh. The cap- eiary comedy he rapidity — which the sentence was passed recalls the horrors of the court martials of Tsarist Russia. ° Imperialists Consent. “Only with the diplomatic body’s | consent could Chang Tso-lin’s cut-} throats penetrate the foreign quarter, | inquiries into The DAILY WORKER the Chinese Communists be han; | charges. and this cruel act of class vengeance | Investigate! be accomplished. | Nothing short of a legislative in- “The blood of the strangled Com-| vestigation, honestly conducted, will munists falls on the heads of the in-| drive these legalized looters into the ternational band of assassins—the | open, bourgeois governments of all im-| William F. Dunne, editor of The perialist countries. The immunity of} pan.Y WORKER, in a recent edi- the legation quarter serves a8 Ajtorial said: “The exposure of the refuge for all of the enemies of the| methods by which the “Big Four” Chinese revolution—the monarchists, | companies . plunder millions reactionaries, Anglophiles, Japan-| of worker policyholders thru ‘indus- philes, the Manchurian dynasty over-' trial’ insurance schemes which en- thrown in 1911 and the Anfuist of! abies their owners to control other with | ores (Continued from Page One) 0. Refuge has been granted to ‘METROPOLITAN HOME OFFICE THROWN INTO PANIC. WHEN LABOR REPORTER APPEARS | italist forces begin to organize against | ‘ | Sacco and Vanzetti. Manufacturers Associations throughout the country} pass resolutions supporting the death | sentence. “Patriotic” Societies de-| mand their blood. The Massachusetts | Bar Association finds the verdict per- fectly legal and backs up Judge Thay-| er. The capitalist papers which first | ventured a mild protest are being hushed up. The counter-campaign is/| under way. | Labor Reactionaries Disrupt “Bio Four” Officials Meet Worker Attack of “Unity.” Some of the organizations who will have booths at the Bazaar are the Mutual Aim Aésociation, the City Committee of the International Labor Defense, The DAILY WORKER Art Booth, Workers Downtown Club, Workmen’s Circle Branch 548, Six Councils of the United Couneil of Workingclass Housewives, représent- ing the Bronx, Furriers and Cloak- makers Joint Defense Committee of Boston, and many others are still to be reported. 4, The pressure of the capitalist in- terests who want the execution of} By Scared Silence Fri warning to militant labor is being re-! flected in the labor movement. Green, | Woll and other Igaders of the A. F. of L. ave preserving an ominous sil-| ence, whilé other labor and socialist ightened by the threatened in- vestigation, high officials of the “Big Four” weekly payment life indurance companies hid yesterday behind stud- ied refusals to comment on The Jl but revolutionaries and Commun- ists. Aid Counter-Revolution. gigantic profit making enterprises, is the first attack on these leeches in 20 years.” “This series of stories are not being Council | _ This is not the first time that the | published merely to make public the |imperialists have been guilty of such | startling facts which compose it. The an infamous act. The British au-| DAILY WORKER believes that with thorities raided the local committee | the co-operation of its readers a gov- i the gee ar 2 rit up four- | ernment investigation of these com- een of its principle adherents | be ‘f id which will dis- Chang Tso-lin. This act unmasks 84 young yb pal eee British policy and shows the undis-| At all costs the “Big Four” offi- guised participation of the British’ cigis have decided to remain silent | government in the civil war-on the|/in the face of an attack which Manchurian bandit, Chang Tso-lin. charges them with more offences, British Hangmen. @ legal and ethical, than could fill an “The British government, proud of| entire newspaper. This silence is an °fiicials to talk were equally abortive. | inforces the counter-campaign of the the refuge given to political refugeés, admission of guilt. systematically hands Chinese revolu- DAILY WORKER charges of alleged fraud and corruption. Robert Lynn Cox, second | president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1 Madison Ave., when approached by a reporter threw | his hands up in despair and said, “TI have nothing to say.” | When reminded that Governor | Smith ordered Superintendent of In- jsurance James A. Beha, on Saturday, viee- P leaders who have hitherto been inac-| tive in the case, are gow attempting | |to disrupt the protest movement. { In several, cities recently, delegates | from the LL.D. and other workers’ organizations have been denied the! right to participate in conferences for Sacco and Vanzetti. The controversies of the labor and radical» movements are being brought into the Sacco-Van- zetti conferences and the attention di- verted from the main issue of the} |to look into the charges made in the WORKER articles, said, “No, no, I have nothing to say.” | Efforts to induce other “Big Four” From all appearances, word has been passed down the line that a policy of movement. Their aim is to isolate the| militants arid then sabotage the move- ment. The attempt to disrupt and demoralize the protest movement re- capitalist interests for of the death sentence, the execution So many new arrangements are be- ing made that this affair is sure to Sacco and Vanzetti as a lesson and/| receive the name of “The Bazaar of | a Thousand Surprises.” * ° ° Vegetarians Tonight All members of the Vegetarians Workers Club, are requested to at- tend a meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 81 EF. 110th St. At the last meeting it was decided that the club take over the Vegetarian section of the Restau- rant,at the Defense Bazaar. A num- her of the Vegetarian Restaurants have already promised to P Sgr food, and final plans for the arrangements of the work will be made at the meet- ing tonight, at which a representative of the Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittee will be present. All vegetar- jians interested in this work are re- quested to get in touch at any time, with J. Ginsberg, organizer of the Club. aie: = Food Workers Attention! A special meeting of all volunteers | For the interest and delight of all workers READY The Special Anniversary Number of the NEW MASSES MAY DAY ISSUE Full of interésting articles, stories, reviews, poems, by ? tionaries over to the Mukden reac- tionary clique, well-knowing that| forgotten as it lies buried an entagl-|™ they will be hung or executed. “After the jbloody massacre and They hope that Governor Smith’s |eall for action will die down and be ing mags of red tape. | The hundreds of thousands of read- |silence would be most effective in | who are going to help out in the main |the Nationalist revolution. bombardment of Wanhsien and Nank-| 5 who are following this series of ing and aggression against the Soviet | articles in this and our associated Union, which alone maintains a fav-| papers will arouse a wave of re- orable attitude towards the Chinese | sentment which will force a definite revolution, the imperialists decided to sequel to the governor's first move in| again bleed the Chinese working/ ine right direction. class, which appears as the guide of! viol ae ; The disarmament and the massa-| 172,000 Must Flee ere of the Chiang Kai Shek are links (Continued from Page One) in the same chain forged by interna- tional imperialism. Call For Protest. “British workers protest against! shown. | these the evacuation warnings are| the trangling of the members of the! proletarian vanguard. Workers, The latest order called for the ex- odus today from Bunkie, a town of 8,- eeting The WORKER attack. What To Do | section of the restaurant has been ar- | Scott Nearing Labor reporters particularly were How shall the militants, the honest! ranged to be held at the headquarters | Joseph Freeman persona non grata at the home offices workers, proceed to overcome this| of Local 22, 16 W. 2ist St., next Tues- | Dell lof the companies involved in the ex- | ouble danger to the cause? The most|day night. The restaurant is always | Floyd | postfre. energetic work and, at the same time,| one of the greatest sources of income | Paxton Hibben the most careful tactics are necessary | at a Bazaar. and its suecess depends | V. F. Calverton because we are dealing with powerful| upon the volunteers. It is ‘therefore | ve , | Much Deadly Gas In and yl rade enemies, The I.L.D, rec-| urgently necessary that all those who Louis Unterméyer | ii ay . omme! to all its members and| intend to participate should be’ pres- | West Virginia Mine | friends in the iabor movement the|ent at this meeting without fail. begets ong ist following line of action: a eee and others (Continued from Page One) 1. A ten-fold increase of agitational Wide Support employed in the mine, all eseaped| activity. Plaster the town with leaf- unhurt. Only the fact that the mine| lets and stickers. Systematically can- is not of the gaseous type, prevented | vass all organizations for the passing |a serious explosion, Robert M, Lam-| of resolutions and signing of petitions, bie, chief state mine inspector, who| Organize conferences and demonstra- is here to direct resche work at th | tions, ete. Let nothing interfere with Everettsville mine, said. or stop the work of agitation. AGI- Official Talks “Incéndiarism.” TATION IS THE MOTIVE POWER a satistac- | peasants of all countries in the name |of international solidarity launch a powerful protest against the new acts of violence of the imperialist hench-| |men who are murdering the working |elass and preparing for a new world | war. “Protest everywhere against these strous acts, prevent. military! “Camps For Whites Only.” | preparations. Let the string whieh | Preparations are complete, even to strangled the twenty Communjsts be|the tentative assignment of lumber used some day for strangling” Chang | requisitions, for the opening of two Tso-lin and the international bandits | huge refugee camps here which would who bless his infamous acts. jbe ready for flood sufferers upon 4 “Let Chang Tso-lin, who presents} few hours’ notfee, The main camp, the world bourgeoisie with the heads | for whites only, is plotted on the old of the twenty Communists rejoice to- day. But no one will be able to drown in blood the immortal Chinese | revolution. mean elevation some sixty feet above “Heroie workers and peasants of|the highest predicted water level, is China, Communists, friends of the|in no danger, but rhiles of surround- Kuomintang raise higher the red) ing country on the east bank, hoth flag of labor. Hard trials fall upon! north and south of the city, would be your young revolutionary parties; but | inundated by-a break in the east line remember that you are not -alone.| dikes at any one of the several danger Comrades, the toilers of all countries | points to the north. are with you. An unforeseen problem had devel- “Hail fallen heroes, Long live the| oped, however, in the direction taken brotherhood of the workers of the|by the shunted waters, whereas it | world. Long live the Chinese Com-|had been calculated the new chaunel |munist Party, the Kuomintang and| would be formed southward, from the | the world revolution.” | spillway, and eastward to Lake | Borgne, great quantities of the re- BUY THE DAILY WORKER | lensed waters were hacking up north AT THE NEWSSTANDS / and west toward wy i ) 000 and Marksville, the parish seat of Avoyelles parish. Six feet of water was reported to- day at Bardell, Richland parish. Roy- ville, the parish seat was closely watched by militia officers who fear- ‘ed that city too might have to be evacuated. the heart of the city. yi — University Campus, two miles from | The city of Baton Rouge with 2} Smarting under the plain evidence |of two different explosions and fires jin the gaseous, dusty, non-union mines of the Fairmont region, the state mine inspector, put in office by the coal Operators has begun to cast out hints of “incendidary fires.” His official report on the Kinomont dis- aster, states that, “authorities aré in- vestigating,” and that the fire was “not caused by wiring or spontaneous combustion” of the admittedly dat- gerous gases. ‘ it is considered possible here that this is the beginning of an attempt to frame-up some pro-union miners here. ‘The West Virginia mines are | non-union, a | The state mine ingpector has care- fully avoided mentioning in his re- |port that the U, 8. bureau of mines \is authority for the statement that | gas and dust explosions are practical- |ly avoidable, if proper dusting and | ventilation is resorted to, and that the necessity for operating dangerous |mines is lacking, anyway, because, 22TT | there is at present an over-supply « mines—too many for the market the; | supply. ‘the superintendent also omits to point out that the worst and most humerous explosions of this sort oc- cur in non-union territory, as the union, where strongly organized and active, insists on precautions, OF THE MOVEMENT. | . _ Proclaim Solidarity | 2. Advocate everywhere and under all circumstances, complete unity and solidarity of all labor forces. Avoid all provocations. Present no special or partisan demands. Make it clear to every honest worker that we ‘are de- manding nothing but unified action for Saceo and Vanzetti on the basis of the class struggle. 8. Where divisions occur in spite of all our efforts for unity, we must ener-| getically proceed with the agitation, work to the best of our ability and with all means at our disposal with. out engaging in any controversy or conflict with other bodies and continu. ally approach them with proposals for unity and cooperation. Keep the is- sue of unity clear before every work- er, THE UNITY OF THE MOVE- MENT I8 A PRE-REQUISITE FOR SUCCESS IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE, THE LIVES OF SACCO AND VAN-| a | The Unity and Solidarity of labor alone can save Sacco and Vanzetti, Without it they will burn in the elec- tric chair to the everlasting disgrace of those who, for selfish or partisan reasons, prevent that Unity, BUY THW DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS » A new feature of the defense eam- naign is the donations being received from all sorts of organizations which have been neither circularized nor solicited, Morris Levine and Frank Perkel from the International Social Club, brought in $12.00, the proceeds of a collection at a package party of. the club held May 1st, at their rooms, 380 Grand street. Ten dollars was re- ceived as a donation from the First Zigifker Podoger Verein, Ten Dollars from a Paterson attorney. The Pro- avessive Young Men and Ladies’ Workmen’s Circle, Br. 556, sent $25.00 from its treasury, Workmen’s Cirele, Br, 33 sent $18.00 collect at a May Day Vetcherivika, and i. on. A Letter From Cleveland Dear Friends:—Enelosed — please find a money order for $38.00 on ac- ‘vount of defense books, Please send us 50 copies of the spedial Bazaar Number of “Unity.” ¢ Tf we are still in time, please in- sert our greetings, in the name of the Cleveland Progressive Needle Work- crs, We are enclosing $5.00 for same. (Signed) Esther fehwettsar, * * A Letter From South Bend Dear Brothers:-——When I read your appeal for help in The DAILY WORKPR, I felt as though I had to do something, I was myself in the Shopmen's Strike so T know what it means, and T know what kind of rulers wy get in free America today, and what poor leaders we have in the labor movement. 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