The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 1

RAT IMe ERR CTT hee ee 4 “HANDS OFF CHINA” DEMONSTRATION—UNION SQUARE, SATURDAY NOON THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR } UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 97. NORMAN HAPGOOD HITS WAR ON CHINESE ENGDAHL SPEAKS. AT MAGNIFICENT DEMONSTRATION 50,000 Assemble at Hamburg, Germany By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The DAILY WORKER) HAMBURG, Germany (By Mail)— This correspondence, written while| rapidly crossing Europe to the east- wards, can neither be carefully pre- pared nor complete. Especially in view of the brief moments available between traveling, participating in the huge demonstrations the workers of Germany have prepared and are) carrying out in conveying the ashes of our comrade, Ruthenberg, to Mos- cow, and greeting the comrades of whom we all read but few have the| opportunity to meet. | Monster Demonstration. In haste, however, I must write a few words of the most imposing and magnificent revolutionary demon- stration in which I have ever joined.) Such demonstrations are not yet known to the United States, nor even to England as yet, according to the British delegate, Massei, to the Ger-| man Youth Congress, with whom I; spoke, | In 1910, | was a delegate to the} {nternational Socialist and Trade/ Union Congress at Copenhagen, Den- mark, the last congress of the Second | (Socialist) International before the world war, The workers of Copen- hagen turned out in great numbers to the. congress. Bat thener was, no comparison. with Red Hamburg, | on Easter Sunday, 1927, | In 1910, I also came down into} Germany from Denmark and attended | the Congress that year of the Ger- man Social-Democratic Party at Magdeburg. The congress opened with a demonstration with Karl Lieb- | knecht as one of the principal | speakers. The kaiser had just de- clared, once more, that he ruled with divine power, an incident of whick Liebknecht took full advantage in his speech, with the police present to take down his speech verbatim. Thts gave some spirit to the gathering but it had no comparison to the revolu-| tionary fervor that swept thru the masses of Hamburg gathered this Sunday. First of all it was Germany’s Com- munist Youth Day. @hen the Com-| munist International had just issued a manifesto calling on workers eve’ where to demonstrate not only against | the blood bath of the imperialists in the East, but also against the right wing betrayers of the revolution in China. There were 10,000 delegates in the city for the Youth Congress. The Hamburg Communists number 9,000. Hamburg has a powerful Young Com- munist League. It is proud of its Red Front Fighters’ Organization, (its Rote Frontkampfer Bund, Rote Jung Front, Rote Frauen und Mad- chen Bund). Here was the red heart of proletarian Hamburg. | A Live Paper, | The Hamburger Voikszeitung, the party organ, had appeared on Satur- day as a special edition. ‘The first page displayed the manifesto of the Communist International under the heading, “Rally Against the Imperial- ist Hangmen of China!” also the la- test news from the Far East under the heading, “Defeat the Hangmen and Their Allies!” There was also an illustration showing a young worker planting the banner of the Young Communist International on the top ‘of a huge structure with the Ham- rg Harbor showing in the back- gound. oroet It carried the captain, “The Young Guard of the Revolution in Hamburg.” The issue was filled wit! arte d illustrations on the situa- tion’ in China’ and the problems con- fronting the Communist Youth. ‘The Gathering Demonstration. This was the appeal that drew the mighty battalions of labor in Ham- burg to the assembling place—Lubec- ker Torfeld. I arrived there with Comrade Otto Lindau, editor of the Bremen Arbeiter-Zeitung about 1:30 o’clock. Many had already arrived. From then on, however, until three o'clock, the thousands come singly, or in great hosts, The thunder of drums, of music of great bands, the singing, could be heard continuously far up the streets in every direction as the red multitudes assembled, Ber- lin’s delegation, more than a thou- nd, to the Youth Congress, with its ‘(Continued on Paaa Three) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE Buteored as seco Outside Now York, by mail, $6.0@ per year, Sata anata eben NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927 OLL-EASLEY-BURNS RING » JAPAN PROMISES Heckshers, Pere et Fils In Love’s Money Toils As Women Flee to Courts Frieda Hempel, the opera star, is suing August Hecksher, the phil- anthropist and real estate dealer, for $48,000 a year for not fulfill- ing some sort of a pre-nuptial con- tract. Just what the relations were be- tween the old boy and the 48-year old warbler are not disclosed in court procedure, but it is assumed that Hecksher had made some promise to pay $1,000,000 to Hem- pel in return for a consideration. Hempel got a divorce in Paris last summer from a big silk and coeoon man and rumors of engage- || ments with Hecksher floated across the ocean several times. Attor- neys claim the million-dollar set- tlement was not made for breach of promise to marry. Hecksher’s son, G. Maurice, is also in the toils of busted love, or something like that. His wife sued yesterday for divorce in Paris. He sympathies. 8.—Fear for lives of Mme. 4.—Chang Tso-lin censors police report 10,000 Kuomintang | armies move thru Hunan * tailed—for the time being—in WILL CEASE: FEARS TRADE BOYCOTT Fear for Lives of Soviet Union Officials Captured | By Chang Tso Lin HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS 1.—Japan, her finance shaky and fearing another disastrous | boycott, adopts more conciliatory Chinese policy. 2.—Chiang Kai Shek offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs to, C. C. Wu, former mayor of Canton, deposed for pro-imperialist members in Peking universities. 5.—Hankow Nationalists take towns near Canton; four Province against Canton. * * TOKYO, May 5.—That the British die-hard cabinet has forcing the imperialist powers jinto a joint war against Nationalist China was indicated this Borodin ang officitils of Soviet Union captured by Chang Tso-lin. ke student publications in Peking; | class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Maroh 3, 1879. <> PUBISHING '| Abe Baroff Quits Job As I L. G. W. Secretary; Sees Cash Running Low Abe Baroff, secretary-treasurer of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ *Union, had quit cold. With cash in the treasury run- ning low, Abe has handed in his resignation to President Sigman and left the union definitely. “I won’t work for love,” he is reported to have told Sigman when funds ran low. The two reactionaries, who have had a leading hand in the effort to wreck the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers in New York City, got together and arranged to have enough checks signed to last the reactionary international for a couple months, and then Baroff shook the union dust off his feet. Baroff has not yet announced which cloak and suit employer he will hook up with. | | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. BIG BUSINESS, LAB | “The American Federation of Labor, learned which side could write “The organization is suppo! of the more than well-to-do. it a nickle. er president of the American | its most active supporters. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents OR REACTIONARIES New Book by Famous Publicist Traces Alliance of Civic Federation With Detective ational Civic Federation, though it carries a few labor officials on its letterhead and swears allegiance to the is clearly a big business organ- ization and has been so since Ralph Easley, its chairman, cashable checks. rted wholly by the contribution No labor organization ever voted Many like the United Mine Workers and the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers have openly condemned || it and forbidden their members “This, however, did not affect Mr. Samuel Gompers, form- to join it. Federation of Labor, who was for years a vice-president of the Civic Federation and one of Nor does it affect the activities of || Mr. Matthew Woll, who is now Mr. Easley’s ‘acting president’.” has been involved in financial dif- ficulties since the bursting of the Patriots,” a book edited by Norman afternoon in a conciliatory address by Premier Giichi Tanaka before the Japanese Diet. | Hapgood from material assembled by |Sidney Howard and John Hearley, | China”, edited by the National Af-|Premier Florida boom. The Industrial “Reports of the outrages in China Squad guarded him last winter ||are exaggerated,” the premier told when he received threats from an-||members of the Diet. “Japanese gry “investors” in his enterprises. || Women have not been insulted in young Hecksher is slated to || China.” . Luella Gear, an actress, af- | British Workers Protest ter he is rid of Mrs. Hecksher, I. | This announcement coming on the heels of President Coolidge’s decla- UNION SQ. RALLY not join Great Britain in a stiff ulti- lration that the United States would |matum to China means the virtual isolation of the British die-hards. That Great Britain may be foreed {to modify her policy in view of these facts. andtthe stubborn oppesition ef | ish workers to a war on Nation- STUDENTS SPEAK alist China is likely. Japan Cautious, Not Friendly Observers here point out that the Boycott of American goods in position of the Japanese cabinet is China is planned as the next step \not due to its love for the Chinese unless the United States refuses to| Nationalist movement. Japan needs support the British policy of war Chinese markets and Chinese raw against the Chinese people, according materials; and Japanese business to a letter received today from the |men fear that militant action against National Students’ Union of Shang- /China may lead to another disastrous hai by H. C. Wu, chairman of the Na-|anti-Japanese boycott. Japanese in- tional Affairs Committee of Chinese dustry and finance are tottering and Students in America, an organization another boycott, those in touch with i=} of 2,000 Chinese studying in this the situation point out, would be} country. Protests against the dis- | ruinous, ig patch of marines and battleships to| The Winning Horse China and plans for the boycott will} Japan, observers say, wishes to bet appear in the next issue of “New\on the winning horse? and though, Tanaka, may wish that fairs Committee. {Chang Tso-lin will come out on top, Wu and five other Chinese tudents|he must reckon with the growing of Columbia University will protest power of the Nationalists. against United States intervention, The recent defeats suffered by and speak about the boycott at a|Chang Tso-lin at the hands of the |mass meeting held under the auspices |Hankow Nationalist troops is said to of the Hands Off China Committee have influenced Tanaka’s policy. at Union Square this Saturday at) * * * twelve o’clock noon. C. H. Tsai andj} Chiang Pro-Imperialist Wu are Boxer indemnity students.| « me bh! The other speakers are C, W. CCPH Re amber aia May hee who will return to China this sum-| ‘ , ~ | who has mer after seven years’ study of poli-| nimistry, Cc. CG. been offered the foreign in the government that u, “running dog of the imperalists” | tical science in this country, T. L. Yuan from North China and W. Y. Peng from Kiangsi Province. ILL. MINERS ASK HOWAT TO SPEAK; BOO LEWIS NAME (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PEORIA, Il., May 5.—Six hundred delegates of Illinois miners at con- vention today by overwhelming vote invited Alex Howatt to speak at con- vention after repudiating president Lewis’ recent acts of persecution of Howat. Lewis expected to speak the same day with Howat. Hindmarsh started the attack on Lewis when he said “It is high time that the Miners’ Union run their own affairs. “We have been the slaves too long of those whom we pay. We should let them know we are the bosses and |8° not they. We have had too much autocratic rule under Farrington and should go on record as not intending to stand any more czarlike actions.” International board member Dob- bins and George Mercer, an appointee, tried to defend Lewis but the dele- gates booed them, James Walker, brother of J. H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, also |* unched into an attack on Lewis with Chiang Kai-shek is attempting to form, will leave for Nanking within a few days. Dr. Wu was driven out from his | position as Mayor of Canton last year because of his noticeable friendliness \for the imperialist powers. Negotiates With Sun It has been definitely learned that Wu has already accepted a position on Chiang’s Central Control Com- mittee. Whether or not he will ac- cept the ministry of foreign affairs is uncertain. Chiang Kai-shek is reported to be carrying on negotiations with Mar- shal Sun Chuan-fang, northern war lord. * . * Fear Execution PEKING, May 5.—Citizens of U. S. S. R. here fear that the Soviet Union officials captured by Chiang Tso-lin in his raids on the Soviet embassy compound may be secretly executed. James Fox, American law- yer, who has been retained to defend them, has again been refused per- mission to see the prisoners. Fear is expresed that Great Bri- tain, which is backing Chiang, may to any iengths to provoke a war with the Soviet Union. Students Are Nationalist An indication of the wide-spread sympathy here for the Nationalist movement is indicated in a police re- port recently issued which estimates that there are ten thousand Kuomin- tang members and several hundred Communists among Peking university itudents. MATTHEW WOLL B USHES TO HELP OF d the government secret service” “| jan if 95 las “unparalleled in the history of the labor movement here or in any other country.” | The book was placed on the mar- | ket today by Albert and Charles Boni, Civic Federation, Watch Dogs for Bosses; Buy |New York publishers, It professes Daily Worker to Keep Clients Wised The soriesrepe thenedmer ex WORKER has been running h dered Superintendent of Insu immediate inquiries into the articles, The DAILY WORKER expose By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Perched atop the Metropolitan ‘Tower are the headquarters of, the National Civic Federation, America’s guardians of sweetness and light and official watchdogs of the “Big Four.” The acting president of the Federa- tion is one Matthew Woll, vice head of the A. F. of L., a thorogoing bab-| bit; a man, let it be understood, who makes good regardless of cost; a man who is determined to be “successful” even if it means the betrayal of the \class that spawned him. The Watch Dogs, | The Civie Federation is a collection of avowedly disinterested public spir- ited citizens who desire to put the American worker “right” on such in- volved questions as why our marines are in Nicaragua, why American 6- linch shells poured in a bloody carni- val into the teeming streets of Nank- ing; in short, to prove that, much as radicals may rave, these things are and for the peace and security of the world. Incidently, of corse, the Civic Fed- eye on the company unien and other evidences of 100 per cent American- ism. The Federation naturally does not frown upon the attempted smash- ing of a genuinely militant labor union, But the ultimate purpose of the National Civic Federation is to see that attacks on the powers-that-be are rendered abortive. Woll Leads The Pack. Mr. Woll, in hisecapacity of acting president of this labor-baiting organ- ization, must keep his. newly-found classy associates au courant. Members of the executive commit- tee of the Federation are as follows: Haley Fiske, President, . Metropolitan Life; Morgan J. O’Brien, director Metro- politan Life; Nicholas Mur- ray Butler, director New York Life; William R. Will- cox, director U. S. Life Ins, . Co, In addition to these insurance mag- nates there are the usual crowd of presidents and directors of the com- panies in which the insurance com- bine invests its “mutual” funds. At the corner of 4th avenue and 28rd street stands Mrs, Ellen Bort. Mrs. Bort is a widow who is com- The police have demanded that the | pelled to run a newsstand from early what he called “The Iron Rule of |©°leges deliver up students named in|in the morning until late at night. President Lewis.” (Continued on Page Two) A {ew months ago Mrs. Bort used Mr. Beha is now in V York on Monday at which time he wiil take action based on pose articles sehich “The DAILY. as resulted in forcing action on the part of Governor Smith. On April 27th the Governor or- rance James A. Beha to make charges made in the Harrison ginia and will return to New The National Civie Federation, the publicity machine for Big Business, is the odious subject of today’s article. * * to sell two dozen DAILY WORKERS every day. Now Mrs. Bort sells more Peay the news agency can supply to er. Buys Daily Worker. Every day at two o'clock a trusted employee of the Civic Federation jcomes down from his nest in the Metropolitan Tower copies of The DAILY Mrs. Bort is pleased. The nattily dressed employee goes up to the offices of the Federation; there the papers are done into pack- ages of two and three and sent down to corporations which come under the fire of The DAILY WORKER insur- arice attack. Thus the Federation serves the purpose of being the watch-dog of | Big Business. | Such A Labor Leader. | Think of it! Matthew Woll, a so- jealled labor leader, using his efforts WORKER, done to keep the Old Glory waving | in keeping his bosses informed of a! | genuine effort to expose the fraud of |weekly payment life insurance by means of which 40,000,000 American |savings. What a picture it is to see |Matthew Woll cringing and toddying |to Wall Street in an effort to show how loyal he is to system which| |pauperizes the class which he is pleased to say he represents. (A lit- |tle soda and rhubarb, please.) There is a move afoot to crush The DAILY WORKER because of its jmilitant stand against the corruption jof the “Big Four” and the American \Federation of Labor, A so-called un- | patriotic poem is the pretext this time. | Mr. Woll is the president of the| Union Life Insurance Company. We warn Mr. Woll, labor leader and life insurance president, that The DAILY WORKER attack om the insurance trust is successful and the day is not far distant when he and his toney associates will be standing in the courts defending their swindling practices, WILKES-BARRE, Pa, (FP),—John Hughes, anthracite miner, was burned to death in a gas explosion in a Sus- pane Collieries mine at Nanti- coke. ALBANY, N. Y. (FP).—Of 175 workers killed on the job last March in New York State, 88 were construc- tion workers, the, Industrial Commis- sioner reports. and buys 200) |to be “an exposure of the personali- | ties, methods, and objectives in the jorganized effort to exploit patriotic impulses in the United States.” |. 1. Intimate. With..Burys, “Mr. Easley made common cause |with the czarist opponents of the | Soviet government and was on inti- mate terms with William J. Burns, while he was head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of | Justice,” states the book. “Although |the American Federation of Labor is | bitterly opposed to private detective agencies and to Mr. Burns® lifetime activity against organized labor, Mr. | Easley furnished a link between Mr. |Gompers on the one hand and Mr. ;Burns on the other. Each of the three had precisely the same interest in attacking Communism and Soviet nce at the Who’s Who of the National Civic Federation and you | Belmont, the former president, down, the names of a goodly assortment of |‘hard-boiled’ employers. himself, it will be remembered, tes- tified before the Industrial Relations Commission ‘that the majority of the companies he represented opposed the right to organize and maintained spy systems.’ “The list of present executive com-| mittee members, both from the em-| ployer and the public group, includes directors of dozens of open shop con- cerns that have made no effort to cultivate the collective bargaining with the American Federation of Labor which Mr. Easley professes to approve. “Indeed, many of them are ruth- less anti-labor concerns permitting no union organizations in their plants and employing spies and stoolpigeons eration looks with a kindly paternal| Workers are defrauded of their life|to rout any attempt at unionization. Nicholas F, Brady, president of the New York Edison Company, Elon H. (Continued on Page Five) Kidnaping, Beating Plotted in Strike Against Weisbord (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PASSAIC, N. J., May 5.—Sensa- tional disclosures of how the mill owners during the recent strike gave orders for the kidnaping and beating : up of Albert Weisbord, strike leader | and now labor candidate for city com- | missioner, has been disclosed by Cap- | tain Ben Turner, chief of detectives, who is also a candidate for commis- sioner, Turner told Weisbord Wednesday | evening after he refused to allow him | to speak at a Negro campaign rally | on Chestnut St. that “you should be grateful for what I done for you”) Turner is now delivering his heaviest | political blows against Abram Pres- | kiel, commissioner of public safety, (Continued on Page Two) will find from the day of August) Belmont, | With this paragraph, “Professional { SACCO CASE AT |scorches “this practical alliance be- tween big business, organized labor, H WILL ACT SOON (Special to Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 5. — The world- famous Sacco-Vanzetti case reached its climax today on the seventh anni- yersary of the arrest of the two | workers. Tho-grcai- defanae..plos, «zitwneby |Bartolomeo Vanzetti on behalf of icola Sacco and himself, lay: upon Governc uller’s desk today, backed by five affidavits and one stateme proving Judge Thayer’s venomous bias against them. Back of the overwhelming swing of public opinion to the side of thg | two humble Italians, who seven yeal, ago were practically friendless a™ wholly unknown, is the greagi@ demonstration on the part of y labor against upper class justicsI NZ the days of the Moone case +. | 20. rious With every body of Americ, bor from the aggressive waess | (Communist) Party to the cons he tive A. F. of L. lined up in un the Red International of Trade Unions and the Amsterdam interna- tional, somewhat tardily, on record for their freedom, and with powerful labor groups in every nation on the globe battling fiecely for seven years against the legal murder of their fel- low-workers, Sacco and Vanzetti at last seemed near a hope for some | poor excuse of delayed justice. It took labor six years to make the upper classes in Massachusetts and America sit op and take notice. When | the Boston Herald switched from op- | position to defense last October, the great tide of public opinion began flowing definitely toward the framed- | (Continued on Page Two) Demand Liberty for Sacco and Vanzetti | BERKELEY, Calif, May 5. — Full pardon for Sacco and Vanzetti was demanded of Gov. Fuller by about-650 students and faculty of the University of California at Berkeley today. Accompanying the petition wasia letter signed by Florence C. Thor son, chairman of the student commit- tee for the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, wherein Miss Thompson states “in the name of civil liberty and justice, we ask you to release these two men unconditionally.” Vose Will Illustrate Calverton’s Series on Negro Life Struggles A series of articles on “The New Negro,” by V. F. Calverton, illuse trated by Vose, one of our popular cartoonists, will appear soon in The DAILY WORKER. These ar- ticles will deal with various phases of the life and struggles of the American Negro masses and are intended to stimulate interest in this important problem of the American’ labor and revolutionary movement. Watch for them! front behind Sacco and Vanzetti, win /f PROFESSIONAL PATRIOTS BAND WITH — S eatmmeinecenteeean a u