The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 1

CHINA’ ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION OP THE DAILY WORKER HWntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥,, under the act of March 8, 1879. Vol. IV. No. 99. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927 SPEND $400,000 JOB FUND TO FIGHT JOINT BOARD Blame Tammany in Scab Taxi Blast ievmoenr nsmnce user MARINES T0 CRUSH OUT REMN ANTS OF WHITEW ASH OF COMMANDERS OF THE RED ARMY he prion ch imey “ NICARAGUA’S FREEDOM, IS U.S; THREAT YELLOW FIRM BY yman Contemplates Legal Action to Regain Huge Sum Criminally Wasted Say Building Officials WASHINGTON, May 8.—The United States has decided to} suppress the independence of Nicaragua by more active interven-| Bribed by Outfit By WILL DE KALB. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB i UNORGANIZED i FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK i FOR A LABOR PARTY FINAL CITY EDITION Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. — ———— ee Once more Morris Sigman, presi-{ - dent of the International Ladies’| {Garment Workers’ Union, has robbed} tae a re the cloakmakers. Four hundred thousand dollars which belongs to the workers, and should be paid to them as unemployment insurance, was turned over to Sigman by the |trustees of the fund two months ago. It has been used to fight the: Joint tion of American marines and-the assumption of police and other | government functions. : The assent of General Moncada, the chief commander of the Liberal (Constitutional) President’s army, was only secured after | Colonel Stimson, President Coolidge’s direct personal representa- tive in Nicaragua, had made a frank and brutal threat that the| whole force of the United States! would: be used to crush President) Sacasa, and maintain the conserva- tive, President Diaz, ia power. President Sacasa has never con-/| sented to the surrender. | Gendarmes in Bad Mistake | Actually Attack Fascist; Four separate investgations to de- | termine the cause of the accident on Friday at the office building of the} \non-union Yellow Taxicab Company, | at 514 East 28rd St., where seven | persons lost their lives and forty others, were injured, are under way) following the publication yesterday | of a report by Peter C. Spence, chief | of the Bureau of Fire Prevention. | Faulty building materials, causing | Left: M. Unschlicht, vice chairman of the Military Qpuncil, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; and, Right: M. Voroshiloff, People’s Commissar for War. i Board, and to hire gangsters to beat up the workers on the picket line. Last year, on the first of June, the Joint Board paid out over $600,000 from the unemployment insurance} fund to the cloakmakers. This year) they will get nothing. The money} they should receive is gone; crimin- ally wasted in the work of smashing the Cloakmakers’ Union. According to the terms of the! ~ ATUNION SQUARE Thousands Demand U.S. | Withdraw Forces “Hands Off China.” That demand, with a mightly roar | that rolled across Union Square and beat upon the walls of high buildings ja structural collapse, were held re-| sponsible by Spence, who announced his findings after a two-day inves-| tigation. He said his conclusion was | |based on the fact that absolutely no| ea . evidence of fire, such as must in-| The cops don’t pick on fascists, but jevitably have preceded or followed | all Italians, especially when not in || an explosion, was found in the debris. | uniform, look alike to the Staten || «jt was not a reinforced concrete | Island defenders of lawrnorder. | building” Spence said. “All that! “Commander” Silvio Scaroni, a ||braced the concrete were a few quar-| Mussolini pet, was the unwitting ||ter-inch rods. The building fell in| victim when he tried to push |/of its own weight. Had reinforced | through a crowd to get into a pic- || concrete been used in its construction | ture being snapped at the prow of || few, if any. lives would have been the Savoia II, Francesco de Pin- || ost, edo’s plane. | | Borah Fooled. i Senator Borah, chairman of the} ! Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-| tions, and sometimes ar. advocate of less imperialism and less bullying by} the United States of the small Latin- American countries, ann unces - that} the final suppression .of Nicaragua} by the marines is all right, if a “real election” is held. In commenting on} the Stimson action, he said: } “This entire settlement turns upon) the question of the election. If there} is assured to tne people of Nicaragua | a fair and free election, I would re- gard this settlement as probahty the} ie se ° { Journalistic Etics of — | USSR ASKS PEACE | Cc . of } 5 agreement under which the insur- | to be re-echoed back, was the’ voice ‘ost | jance fund was created, and accord-| of New York labor Saturday after- Boston P May Cost TRADE t BUT WON'T jing to the by-laws drawn up by} noon, i i Paper Sum of $400,000 | 5 |members of the fund, the money was| te, thousand hands shot up into |to be paid out only to the Workers | z ‘i | as insurance during periods of un- the air, in accompaniment to the rqar CHECK SOCIALISM | employment. Louis Hyman, mana-/as three chairmen, presiding.from as | |ger of the Joint Board, who, during| many stands, put the question alter Seeds for High Wages; |fund, declares that the trustees CT peed boners tnd san ye ees r 1S: ment __ the fund have been criminally negli-| States government get its troops an Wo d D sina jgent and that legal steps against | warships out of China and allow the them are being contemplated in or-| Chinese revolution to develop in its | GENEVA, May 8.—Indicating that | } ‘ nN \the Soviets Union is willing to work|der to regain the money due the|own way for the liberation of 400,- | | 000,000 workers and peasants. } Apologies Order of Day The local gendarmerie messed up one fascist yesterday. It was, of course, all a mistake. BOSTON, May 8.—The ethics, such as they are, of the capitalist press received a frightful blow here when the Atlantic Monthly filed suit for $400,000 against the Bos- ton Post for ‘pirating the Governor || Smith’s statement that the pope || won't rule America if Tammany’s || |] hero is elected president. Tammany, Involved. | workers. best that could be had under. the cir-| cumstances.” pace ine SE nnd Nicaraguan Bitter. - i When he heard of Stimson’s ac-| tion, Dr. Vaca, representative of the! constitutional government of Nicara- |} gua, not recognized by Washington, | but recognized by Mexico and vari-| ous other countries, pointed out the; absurdity of any fair or real elec- tion in a country policed by foreign troops, who have already actually taken the field to suppress one of the parties in the election. He said:| “The armed conflict in Nicaragua) is about to be ended. By dictate of the president of the United States | the liberal forces have been ordered to disarm, and at this moment the marines are moving toward the head- quarters of the liberal armies. “The end of the Nicaraguan epi- sode leaves in the hands the Cen- tral American nations a life or death problem they can no longer pretend to ignore. The buffer state of Nica- ragua is like crepe hanging at the (Continued on Page Two) Navy Boosts Film And Vice Versa to Heln ‘Imperialism The close connection between the United States navy and large busi- ness interests is seen in the produc- tion of the latest Metro-Goldwyn- Meyer feature motion picture, “Con- voy.” According to the advertising it is “produced with the co-operation of the U. 8. navy and officially ap- proved by Secretary Wilbur.” A completé tie-up exists between the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer exploita- tion of the picture and the United tes navy recruiting campaign. In nt of the Strand Theater, Broad- and 47th where the picture ed Saturday, a United States x is distributing thousands of jea“lets advertising the picture. One side is devoted to the usual motion pictiire advertising spread, including the fact that the picture was made with the help of the navy. The other side is an appeal for re- eruits for the navy with the address of the recruiting station at 34 East 23rd St., at the bottom. It says that the sailor will “see many places. . . not only does the scene change fre- quently but the nature of the work generally changes with the scene.” The writer must have had the Nank- ‘first choice.’ The “Commander” was dressed in.verdinary -eivvies,. without -,30 much as-a black shirt, and so when he pushed into a couple of plain- clothes men in order to get to the Savoia, fists flew and a general melee seemed imminent. De Pinedo rushed over to the scene and introduced the plain clothes commander to the plain clothes cops, while apologies reft the air. |of laxity or absolute dishonesty. On Second Avenue near 14th Street the other day a crowd of anti-fascists were attacked by po- lice, many beaten and all forced to flee, as one of a series of police at- tacks. on enemies of Mussolini’s black regime. ITALIAN MEETING CLOSES PASSAIC LABOR CAMPAIGN (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PASSAIC, N. J., May 8—The labor campaign for Tuesday’s elec- tion closed today with a big Italian meeting at Hodcarriers Hall, Oak St. The speakers included Albert Weisbord, Emil .Gardos and other local speakers. Oscar Fisher of the Young Workers’ League, New York, also addressed the meeting. In a statement issued today by the labor campaign committee they re- mind the workers of Passaic, when casting their ballots on Tuesday, to vote only for the first three names— Bambach, Smelkinson and Weisbord. “Place a cross next to the three labor candidates in the box headed Igriore the rest of the ballot,” the statement continues. “Do not vote for any second or third choices, or for any other candidates whatsoever. None of the other nominees represent labor. “If you are a voter cast your bal-| lot early and then see to it that all) other citizens go to the voting places. | Do not leave it until the last minute | as something might prevent you from voting later in the day. “Let Passaic roll up a large and significant vote for the workers’ representatives.” "Distribute 5,000 Daily, Workers. Five thousand copies of the Passaic \struction of the building was entirely A new seandal, involving the pre- vious city administration, is develop- ing, unless the findings of the in- |vestigators are not made public, for \the criticism of Spence was released | | following an attempt by@frederick C.| Keuhnie, chief inspector for the De- partment of Buildings, to exonerate the contractors who erected the struc- ture and the Building Department agents who approved it, of suspicion Keuhnie, after an incomplete inves- | tigation, announced that the con- according to regulation and that building laws. This statement was) received with considerable scoffing} and skepticism by opponents of the| Tammany regime. | | The connection between John P.| |Sinnott, secretary to former Mayor |Jéhn F, H¥lan, and the Yellow Taxi-| cab Company, of which Sinnott w: one of the leading stockholders, is) cited by many as sufficient grounds | for belief that violations of the build-| ing laws were “overlooked” by build- ing inspectors, During the Hylan ad- ministration the Yellow cabs had a monopoly of the taxi stands, and were accorded many traffic privileges. Pass The Buck. Besides those of Chief Spence and Chief Inspector Keuhnie, investiga- tions of the accident were begun yes- terday by Police Inspector Arthur) Carey of the Homicide Squad and Assistant District Attorney John F.) McGowan. All of them refused to make known,their findings so far, and | District Attorney Banton, referring | that he has no power to employ e: gineers or other technicians for the special inquiry needed to place the blame definitely, and must, perforce, await the reports of the city’s tech- nical men. Of the nine seriously injured, it) was said at Bellevue that eight would be discharged in a’ day or two, but one, a stenographer, Grace Goldstone, , is in imminent danger of death. In all, seven, persons were killed, and 40 injured by falling debris. b FEAR FOR PLANE OF PARIS FLYER: to McGowan’s investigation, admitted | . election edition of The DAILY avy flying and navigation offi- WORKER were distributed Saturday.|cials here were frankly uneasy last They were eagerly grabbed by the| night when commercial radio stations \workers who were glad to obtain them.| and the radio of naval communica- Two of the distributors nad their| tions failed to pick up any word of papers torn up by a drunken police-| Captain Charles Nungesser, French ing shelling in mind, Joseph Freeman, recently returned from Soviet Russia will lecture to- night on “The Labor Press in the So- viet Union” at Art Shield’s class in Labor Journalism at the Workers’ if School, 108 East 14th St. man who arrested them. Later they! pilot and his plane in which ho is at- were released, tempting a Paris to New York non- Several meetings will be held Mon-| stop flight, day as the campaign closes. Arrange- ey explained, however, that Cap- ments are being made to have several|tain Nungesser may have departed well known New York speakers pre-|from the regu! iteamship lanes and sent. iJtaken a bee-line for New York. The Post, it is charged, bribed employes of publishing the Atlantic wave order t6 get a copy of Smith’s statement, for publication before the Atlantic Monthly was off the press. The Post claimed a big “scoop” in beating other newspapers by several days in letting the world know about Smith’s defense against the anti-catholics. The At- lantic Monthly asks $1 for each copy. of the Post containing. the stolen article. MASS DEFIANCE ithere was no evidence of violation of | OF INJUNCTIONS URGED ON UNION But Beckerman Cries) For Attack on Lefts ogee Injunctions were the sole topic of discussion at the Saturday session of the convention of the Cloth Cap, Hat & Millinery Workers Interna- tional Union which has been meeting for the past eight days in Beethoven Hall, East 5th Street. . There was of course no opposition to the passage of a resolution con-/| demning injunctions, but before the “ayes” were taken the whole problem of injunctions, which have been recent- ly so widely used in labor disputes, was thoroly surveyed by a number of Injunctions were pointed to as a growing menace which must be fought vigorously by all trade union- ists. Not only is this so-called legal weapon being resorted to during big strikes, but it is being tried frequent- ly in shop strikes where the employ- ers hope it will not attract much at- ‘tention, and may possibly slip thru and be nyide permanent. Sydney’ Hillman, president of the Amalgamuted Clothing Workers’ Union, who addressed the convention declared that injunctions were illegal and that the only way to meet them was by mass defiance, The main theme of Hiliman’s speech was a plea) for unity of labor's forces against | the combined forces of the employ- ors; and for political activity so that lator men could be placed in office to interpret the constitution for labor men, (This was probably not an ad- vocacy of ‘the Workers (Communist) Party, altho Hiliman mentioned no party by name.) o Abe Does Diriy Work. Same diplomat ss usual, Hillman did not make any violent attack upon the Communists or the progressives. He left that job for Abraham Becker- man, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated, who was (Continued on Page Five) | and trade with the capitalist powers, | but is absolutely unwilling to com-| | promise its socialist program and bar- | gain away the fruits of the revolu- Trustees Connive. One of Many Meetings. | ‘There Seems little doubt that the} Scores of brilliant banners and lerastees connived in the trick by| placards swayed, nearly 40 speakers | tion, Valerian Ossinski, chairman of| which Sigman gained control of the| representing every progressive ele- |the delegation of the Soviet Union to | the World Economic Conference offer- jed eleven suggestions for the stabili- | zation of world economy at yester- | day’s session. “The Soviet Union,” he said, “is willing to grant the capitalist powers concéssion in return for credits.” | Plead for Higher Wages. | The delegation of the Soviet Union, money, and that they knew what use| ment in the city, a crowd estimated he was planning to make of it. At| between five and ten thousand, and a certain meeting of the fund’s| squads of police joined on the warm, |Execntive Board, each trustee re- | spring May day in one of the great \signed and the fund was put in Sig-| chain of demonstrations being held in man’s hands with power to elect ajevery great city of the world, from set of new trustees. This has not| Moscow, through Berlin and Paris to |been done since further payments to London and across the, Atlantic to \this fund were suspended until 1928.) America. | Hyman’s full account of the as-| From the three stands Ghinese, | realizing that the contradictions of|tounding “betrayal of the cloakmak- | Japanese, Porto Rican, Haitian, Ne- | capitalism makes the capitalist pow-| ers fg given. in «the following state-|@T0, Italian and American speakers fers unwilling and unable to accept |most of the Soviet Union’s sug- gestions made a plea for the re-estab- | lishment of the eight-hour day, com- | plete liberty for trade union organ- izations, cancellation of the war debts, abolition of the disarmament, and the | cessation of all forms of political and leeonomic boycott against the Soviet Union. : Attacks Trusts. Attacking the organization national trusts, European industries combines will lead to severe slashes in the wages of workers. These six results, he said, would follow from the combin- ation of European capitalist states, a plea for which was made by Louis Loucheur several years ago: tion in agricultural countries which, under the pressure of stronger states, would be forced to lower their cus- toms. “2.—The maintenance of high tar- iffs by powerful nations, protection not being an arm that one denounces | for abstract interests, above all when in the interest of a group of great enterprises, “3,—The destruction of little states unable to play a role in the indus- trial cartels. . “4—-An increase of the struggle between American and European car- tels. “5,—Higher prices in Europe. Trusts Would Lower Wages. “6.—Greater pressure by’ the European manufacturers united in the cartel upon the working classes.” The suggestions offered by the So- viet delegation are as follows: 1—The annulment of all war debts and all relative war payments, as a unique means of liquidating the con- tradictions inherited directly from the war, 2.—The increase of the salaries of industrial workers, Want 8-Hour Day. 8—-Tho re-establishment of the eight-hour day and the introduction of a six-hour day in mines and other ment of complete, le union organiza- (Continued 6n Page Two) 4 | “tp accordance ‘with the recom-| words of | European industries into huge inter- | Ossinski said that} competition between American and} | “1,—The stoppage of industrializa- | | put the demands of the masses into that rung through Union An unending procession, it and women climbed | ment: mendations of the Governor’s Com- | Square. |mission, in 1924—which was accepted | Seemed, of men land made part of the agreement— the platforms. From Columbia Uni- | (Continued on Page Five) ) Insurance Department Rushes to Aid “Big Four” PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE As a result of the series of articles by Mr. Harrison which are now appearing in The DAILY WOR KER, Governor Smith ordered Superintendent of Insurance James A. Beha to make enquiries into the “Big Four’ activities. The “Big Four” are the Metropolitan, the Prudential, the John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies, Mr. Beha called for specific charges which were promptly submitted to him. Among many other accusations are those of fraud, over- charging, misuse of mutual funds and eorruption of the legisla- ture. Names prominent in government and financial cilrcles pepper the series. Among those present are Charles M. Schwab, Haley Fiske, Albert H. Wiggin, Senator William J. Tully, who resigned (Continued on Page Fi ‘following the investigation order, ond matty others. . e By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. | The allied forces of the “Big Four” are going into action. The Department of Insurance comes forward with an ample pail of whitewash. The Civic Federation backs ‘an attempt to suppress |The DAILY WORKER. The army of reaction and corruption marches out to war. The battle is on. | “We have said that the Department | jof Insurance which supposedly exists |for the purpose of protecting the “public” against the maurading fi-! nancial tactics of the insurance octo-| pus, takesethe attitude that any ef- forts to show that the “Big Four” are predatory and counter to the com- mon good, are met with hostility and suspicion. | Under orders from Governor Smith, Facts in the Insurance Expose Of all weekly payment policies which terminate every year only 1% are matured endownments and over 75% are total loss lapses. On this item alone the “Big Four” made over $60,000,000 in 1925, While the “Big Four” are so- called “mutual” companies their directorates are saddled with Superintendent of Insurance Janes A.| Wall Street financiers who are Beha wrote to The DAILY WORKER |} also interested in the companies as sp ale wilh Ran, satechia in eign securities the “Big Four” pvernor § e e funds are invested. " > oe telegea 2 || Four officials of the Metropoli- pril 21st... s tan Life “earn” nearly a half a my Department to obtain copies of “The Daily Worker,” contain- ing the charges to which you re- fer. If you have any definite (Continued on Page Two) | million dollars a year in salary while the, 26,000,000 policyholders are overcharged 300% for their in- surance premiums.