The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1927, Page 1

j | ‘ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, Vol. IV. No. 96. Outside Now York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Ly Wor Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Maroh 3, 1879. $3.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927 al KER. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WOLL THREATENING EXPULSION OF RIGHT WING Sacco, Vanzetti Jailed Seven Years Ago | CARLO TRESCA RETRACES ORIGIN OF CASE IN ARREST OF SALSEDO, ELIA Reign of Terror by Department of Justice Was | Responsible For World-Famous Frame-up | By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press). of 15 closely typewritten’ pages and rivalling Vanzetti’s great speech be- fore the cowering Judge Thayer in Why is the department of justice so desperately hostile to Sacco and Vanzetti? | Seven years after their arrest Attorney General Sargent | shows his bitter attitude in an insulting letter to Senator Walsh | of Massachusetts, a friend of the defense. | Carlo Tresca knows the story, an ugly story of murder dur- | ing the Palmer “Red Raids.” On the seventh anniversary of the) jailing of Sacco and Vanzetti he told the story of how the D. of | J. hatched its plot against the two radicals. Sitting in the office | of his paper, Il Martello, he went back to the ghastly winter and | spring of 1920. aa | “Those were the days when Italian= gr ee es | radicals were being arrested, beaten | - | and murdered by Palmer’s agents,”| | he said. “They were after me then too, as they have been since.” Visited By Vanzetti. BEFORE FULLER. “Vanzetti_ came to see me a few | days before his arrest. We were both ; ve working for the xolnee of or is BOSTON, May 4.—Governor Fuller | friends who were being ee tas {at last is formally launched into a Patt rege = ses ean < | full review of the famous Sacco-Van- epartment at 21 Park Row. ._,| zetti case. | ey a oe secelved yadey the petition from | tavarino plottec ‘y: Bartolomeo.* ti which he has de- | had.t sncignesl by the depart! manded before tasiag up their case | ee i wat he raitad. Boston in| ben id asc ss eyes —— patriots. s i |frame-up by whic e two ian the winter—long before the South | workers are scheduled to be electrp- Braintree niurder—and got acquaint-| cuted at Charlestown State Prison on ed with Vanzetti and a circle of| Jyly 10, | anarchists -that had formerly pub-| The petition to Fuller does not plead lished a paper orem cong geo an cae al i. suarne bag oe siva. varino urges of guilt an lemands no pardon. paper again, and promised money Vanzetti asks simply for liberty or for ‘or it. death. Palmer Looking, For Victims. | “The petition, an eloquent document “Palmer’s agent provocateur then ‘ came to New York. He was trying to implicate Italian radicals in the mysterious explosion in front of A.) Dedham court on the oecasion of the br age Palmer’s Arsiniagg June 2, | death sentence, was penned laborious- 1919, s you remember a man was|ly by Vanzetti himself over a period supposed to have blown himself up in| of weeks. Long conferences with the engiogion oe mre of wh was | nee resulted in minor henese reals ever produced for identification ex-| William G. Thompson, chief of de- cept a pair of bloody shoes and some; fense counsel, has revised the petition other articles of clothing—and a few | to conform with certain legal require- copies of a leaflet called ‘Plain| ments. Words’. | Saceo refused to sign the docu- “Vanzetti and his friends knew | ment, accompanying it were deposi- nothing of pi eiiee so the ne ene by a dozen noted publicists sup- pigeon next ferretted about in Har-| porting the petition. lem where two anarchist: boys were | Hope for Review running a propaganda paper called; Members of the Sacco-Vanzetti De- Il Refrattario, at (311 East 106th St.|fense Committee, including Aldino _“Announcing himself as a very Felicani, Joseph Rossi, Gardner Jack- violent person who committed hold-|son, Emleto Fabbri and Emilio Coda (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) NATIONALISTS ROUT PEKING TROOPS; SOVIET UNION DEMANDS FAIR TRIALS British Bombard Chinese at Nanking, Kiangyin, When Hit by Stray Rifle Bullet HANKOW, May 4.—The invading army of Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord, suffered a severe reverse at the hands of | Hankow Nationalist troops under the command of General Tang Chen-tse in southern Honan. executed or perhaps secretly de-| The Nationalist troops captured | Ported. eighteen of the thirty-six field guns| The imperialist powers, particular- belonging to the northern war lords ly Great Britain, are willing to go to as well as a quantity of military|@ny lengths to provoke the Soviet _ supplies. ; Union into a war, it is believed. <The Hankow Nationalist troops Aa Sy teh ave also defeated an army of Chiang ji-shek’s at Kiukiang. - *. * Appeal To Foreign Soldiers. HANKOW, May 4.—Handbills signed by the General Federation of Trade Unions petition foreign troops U. Mage aa a nigga I here not to shoot their ‘EKING, Seren ‘et Chinese fellow-workers. The hand- Union has sent a note to the Peking government angouncing that it will “take suitable steps” if prisoners, citizens of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, taken in the em- bassy raids, are tried and condemned by the same courts which tried and condemned the Chinese Communists captured in these raids. Fear For Prisoners. Fears are felt in oe mee bs soe the safety of the fifteen o: te sy staff who were arrested during the raids on the Soviet Union embassy, Packages of linen sent to the pri- soners have been returned, leading to bills read: “You sailors on the war- ships come from the working“ class and should join us in our common de- mands, Although your warships threaten the lives of our people, we workers and peasants greet you as’ our class brothers.. Would you kill us?” * * * British Bombard Chinese. SHANGHAI, May 4.—The British gunboat Cockchafer fired at Chinese troops stationed near Nanking today. The British destroyer Wanderer fired upon Chinese at Kiangyin. Both shi had been accidentally hit by sey rifle bullets. The number of Chinese > ghe, nelle that, they. may have been! killed by British fire is unknown, rl | | Shielding the Higher-ups Through Dismissal of Oil Co. Indictments Indictments against the Century Consolidated Oil Company, and numerous other defendants, charg- ing a conspiracy to defraud inves- tors through the sale of worthless stock were ordered dismissed yes- terday by United States, Attorney Charles H. Tuttle. According to the true bills scores of investors were defrauded. of large sums of money through purchase of stock in the corpor- ation, which was represented as a $10,000,000 concern. A sensational phase of the early investigation was the allegation that the defendants had represent- ed to investors that the late Char-+ les B. Manville, formerly head of the Johns-Manville Asbestos Com- pany, was president of the Cen- tury Company, and that W. H. Sage of the Iowa State Insurance Company was its secretary. Simpson reported that the death of Manville would retard investi- gation, The indictment was quashed, despite the efforts of victims to regain their losses said to run into thousands of dollars, Expect Suckers to Bite on Big Loan For Polish Regime While Wall Street is torr between two desires, the proposed $80,000,000 loan to Poland looms nearer and nearer. Recognizing Poland’s perilous posi- tion, surrounded on all sides by states pursued shameless aggression, the bankers of the Bankers Trust Co. and Blair & Co., who are negotiating the loan, have run up against big obstacles. The public is expected to fight shy of any loan to such an_ unstable quantity as the Polish government, with its quarrels with the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Germany. To counteract this lack of confi- dence, the American bankers are in- sisting on American representatives on the ctonrol board which is to de- cide to what uses the $80,000,000 is to be put. These representatives would have practical veto power, to which the Polish fascists object bitterly. They are expected however to swal- low their pride and take the eightly millions. The American bankers will get a fat rake-off on such a speculative loan but will pass the risk on to the suckers out in the provinces who be- lieve the Polish government will be able to pay interest and principal. As to whether the suckers will bite, or shy off as they did on the Italian loan recently, is yet to.be seen. ° Wall Street Toasts Fascist De Pinedo Fascism touched glasses with Wall Street in the banquet tendered Fran- cesco de Pinedo by the Italy-Amer- ica Society at the Hotel Roosevelt yesterday. The toast was spoken by Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co. The facist “air ambassador” whose flight throughout the Americas has been the subject of endless reams of Mussolini propaganda as well as de- monstrations by Italians here who are fighting fascism, will be ready Mon- day to fly his new plane, the Santa Maria Il. Cops After Striking Jewish Bakers Here The strike of the 300 bakers of the Pechter and Messings bakeries is con- tinuing with picketing every day. Yes- terday morning 10 pickets were ar- rested, one being first beaten by the police. They. were released on bail, the trial being postponed until Friday morning. Hyman Bushel is attorney for the union. : against which she has {Read The Daily Worker Every Day ¢ ‘Party Convention Calls | | For Arming Workers | Yankee imperialism was urged upon | tion of the Communist Party of Mex- COMMUNISTS TO | BACK GALLES IN FIGHT ON TORIES (Cable to the Daily Worker). MEXICO CITY, May 4.—Support for the Calles government against the forces of domestic reaction and the workers and peasants today in a manifesto drawn up by the conven- «oO. Characterizing the Calles regime as petty bourgeois, and vatillating be- tween the native reactionary groups, foreign capital and the workers and peasants, the Communist Party nev- ertheless declared that the danger of a counter-revolutionary effort de- manded support for the government. The government is menaced by the military, reactionary and counter-re- volutionary elements in Mexico, con- tinues the manifesto, while certain American oil interests are trying to establish a reactionary dictatorship which will destroy the workers and peasants movement. 4 Morones Attacks Unions: While the govtrnmént,gacillates,| Square, for. Hands of China and for the “party points out, the Mexican Federation of Labor (CROM) under the leadership of Luis Morones, is permitted to carry on brutal attacks against the autonomous unions. This action on the part of the CROM may even force many elements to suport the reaction in the attempt to over- throw Calles, PR “The Communist Party of Mexico,” the manifesto concludes, “calls upon the workers and peasants to form de- Police Swarm Around | The Scab White Printing | Company; Unionist Hurt }| CHICAGO (FP)—The second week of the White Printing House |} lockout finds a union man in the hospital, the strikebreakers bunk- || ing inside the plant and the police || swarming on the outside. Over 200 members of the Typographical No. 16, Pressmen 3 and 4, Bookbinders 8 and Bindery Workers 30 were locked out when the establishment, formerly the Regan’ Printing House, went non-union overnight. A federal injunction against pick- || eting and other usual strike activ- |} ities was extended when hearings || to make it permanent were post- |/ poned. | The shop has lost a considerable }}whom they were to visit, postponed part of its business due to switch- || ing of magazines to union houses. Hands Off China Slogan For Huge | night | was annoyed (to say the least) about A. F. L. BOSS PANICKY AS PEACE TALK BY INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS GOES ON 'Schachtman Revealed as Origin of Bribery Charges; Walsh Ties Up Right Witnesses A threat of expulsion of the whole International Fur Work- lers’ Union from the American Federation of Labor was made yesterday by Matthew Woll, head of the Special Reorganization Committee of the Furriers’ Union when he heard that a com- mittee of fifty workers had been elected to investigate the un- official rumors of peace. Judging by Woll’s attitude, these rumors are more than mere gossip. He seems to contemplate the possibility of the right wing officials of the International making peace with the Joint Board leaders and giving up the attempt to smash the union. Woll’s warning is, “If you do this, the whole bunch of you will be thrown out of the A. F. of L.” Just how authentic the rumors of, peace may be was not determined “eo the committee of workers on Tuesday because the sub-committee, RED FIGHTERS — PAY HOMAGE TO C. E. RUTHENBERG Ship Builders Guard Ashes of Leader By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. BREMEN, Germany (By Mail).— its meeting until Friday. No doubt Matthew Woll’s temper was not only tried by this peace talk—in spite of all his efforts to dissolve, expel,} smash, and exterminate the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union—but he the agreement signed by the trim- ming manufacturers with the Joint Board. In his attempt to minimize the tremendous importance of this break in the ranks of the manufac- turers, Woll characterized the pact Union Sq. Rally {as a sign of weakness on the part of be held Saturday at noon at Union | it« actually is. the withdrawal of Aimerieah “battte- Bmalen Ms. Natified. ships, marines and sailors from Chi-{ Formal notification of the new nese waters comes at a time when/#&reement was received yesterday by American warships and marines are | members of the Fur Trimming Manu- massed in the Hudson river. The danger of war is real. army recruiting agencies are busy trying to enlist soldiers to fight on| foreign soil for the right of Amer-| ican bankers to make superprofits | W°*kers out of the Chinese people. Leaflets| joard. The | Ship meeting is to be called within a {short time. The new agreement pro- vides that any additional workers en- gaged in the trimming shops shall be affiliated with the Joint There shall be no discrimina- g \the Joint Board. No one knows bet-| The mass protest demonstration to|ter than he what a sign of strength facturers’ Association, and a member- | Three times it sounded: “Rote Front! “Rote Front! “Rote Front!” It. was thh.purting salute of. the Guard of Hongr 4fthe Red Front Fighters of Bremen, drawn up in martial array on the railroad station platform. Then the train started, We were on our way, carrying the ashes of Ruthenberg to Hamburg, our next stop. It was early Sunday (Easter) morn- ing, seven o’clock. As the order was | given for the train to depart, the»-Red have been issued by the Recruiting| tion against right wing workers who|Front leader called the comrades to fense committee in factories, in the| Stations stating the benefits to be} unions and in the towns, and calls|derived by joining the army — beau- are at present employed in the shops. | Attention!” and gave the command Matthew Woll was again a witness |for the parting salute. This consists of the leader saying, with consider- upon the workers and peasants to |tiful trips, seeing the world, escaping yesterday at the hearing on alleged arm to defend the government. appeals for a postponement of -the election until the reactionary forces |tepresenting labor, have be). defeated.” Eighteen delegates representing nine states compose the convention} ™#de the | which opened April 30 and may con- tinue until May 10. Rafael Carrillo’ is secretary. : MacMURRAY IS REPUDIATED BY ADMINISTRATION Drafted Threatening Note to China pee (By A Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May >resi- dent Coolidge, thru his * alter ego, “The WhiteyHouse S; sman,” | informed the press that he knew of no threatening note that the Great Powers had drafted in reply to the answer of the Cantonese to the original complaint of the powers. In a vague, uncertain manner, he added, that the representatives of these powers in Peking may have formu- lated such a communication, but that It} cold climate, building up health. bribery of the police during the fur The Hands Off China Committee, | Strike. This was resumed before liberal and anti- | Magistrate Corrigan in the Criminal imperialist organizations, feels it is |Courts Building, and Woll, Edward F, high time that the American people|McGrady, Hugh Frayne and Hen- ir voices heard on this mat-|Tietta Holden, stenographer to er — that a stop be put to events Frayne, were brought back to testify that are leading to another World|in reply to the accusations of a War. Ithas therefore called for the|fame-up which were made by the open air demonstration on Saturday |™embers of the Joint Board. so that there could be no doubt how| Woll declared that all these charges the American people stand on this|of frame-up were entirely untrue. able snap, “Rote!” (Red) in one syl- salable. The Red Front Fighters then reply in unison, “Front!” This is re- peated twice. The German enuncia- tion is deep and strong, so that when many partake in the salute, it has an (Continued on Page Three) Ogburn Resigns. William F. Ogburn, noted profes- sor of sociology at Barnard College | of Columbia University, has resigned nd will join the faculty of Chicago he knew nothing of it. , Exactly three hours later, from an unimpeachable source, it was ascer- tained that the state department had been in possession of the note for pedi; weeks, rere” it was Presi- it ge’s Secretary Kel- feow’s teddiey about joining in the drastic action it urged that had halt- ed its presentation to the Cantonese. The informant, an_ internationally known member of Congress, declared |, that he had read the note and had been shocked by its harshness, He| ineligible to citizenship, guestion. All roads — for workers and pro-| gressive and those who are opposed to a Werld War — lead to Union| Square on May 7 at 12 noon. | Hindoos Win Back Rights as Citizens After Stiff Fight (By Federated Press). | A preliminary victory has -been | gained by the India Freedom Founda- | tion in its fight for the restoration | of citizenship rights to Hindoos re-| siding in the United States. The de-| partment of justice has just notified | its attorney that the Hindoos whi e | citizenship papers have been can-| celled would be restored to full rights and proceedings against others would be dropped, This ruling affects the 69 Hin- doos who had citizenship papers prior to 1923 when Supreme Court Justice Sutherland ruled that the people of this race were not “whites” in the popular sense of the word and there- fore were ineligible to citizenship, They formerly were admitted as mem- bers of the Aryan race The two or three thousand remain- ing Hindoos in this country are still Tho India was shown the document by Secre-|Freedom Foundation is supporting tary of State Kellogg, as well vi a| Senator Copeland’s bill annuiling the letter discussing the by the American minister to China, MacMurray. Minister Drafted Note, From this source it was learned that MacMurray and the tish representative were responsible for the drafting of the threatening (Continued on Page Two) TANT TARTANA CS) ject, written | Sutherland decision and opening citi- zenship doors to all Hindoos in this country—though not changing tho ji. migration laws now barring nowoom- ors, Baliondra Ghose, cocvetary of the t+ | tdia Froodom Foundation, says hig poople have boon intimidated and araftod upon by local authoritios since tho Sutherland ruling, | University. ~ $50,000,000 Protits Not Reported by Mutual Directors Past Events of Insurance Expose. On April lith The DAILY WORKER commenced its ex- posé of the evils of the weekly payment life insurance business. The chief offenders are the “Big Four,” i, e., the Metropolitan, the Prudential, the John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insiranes Companies. On April 21st; William F. Dunne, editor of The DAIL WORKER, wired Governor Smith calling his attention to the charges an hes bay Harrison articles which charged fraud, misuse of “mutual” funds, interlocking direct bs pice Sy g directorates and gross On April 27th Governor Smith replied, sayi : , saying that he had instructed Supt. of Insurance Beha to make inquiries ¢ | WORKER charges. weirder: On April 29th Mr. Beha wrote to The DAILY WORKER | asking for copies of the articles, although marked copiea of the articles had been sent to him since the beginning of the aertea, ; The matter now rests in the hands of Mr. Behe, The indtea tions are that Mr, Beha will “pass the buck” to the Governor by recommending a legislative investiyation, ; * ° ° (Continued on Page Five) BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON , Four” wookly payment life fnsuranse Whore the “Big Pour” differ from | Companies, |banks is that banking institutions), 48 We have said before on Neveme have rathor limiiod control over their) ber 31, 1925, the “Big Four? had on doposits, Those deposita may be withe | leposit over $70,000,000 im theie vane dxawn at the will of the depositor and | 148 banka and truss companion, © the law makes provision for 25% of| Stich tremendais aooumulation of all deposits to bo hold in veserve, Pracs| teady cash males it posite fey (hese tically all bank doposits avo subjeot| Napoleons of finance to exepeiae a to chock, This privilege of ihe dex | contvel ovex American banking houses positor to call for his money roatvains| Which they consolidate by the waa ef Komewhat, the use which bank offic | interloeked directorates, Gials may make of funds entrusted te theiy eave, | Bank ia the Host prominent Cash te Power it the bay ovy tov the funda of the Metropolitan Tits happy condition docs not extat | t4#e Tnauvance Company, in 1098 the with the fundg held hy the "Big, (Ognisnued on Page Piva) bf ; Gs ¢ For example, the Chase Nattonal aera leone estes eepeteeseen Ser ce ee ~esmce