The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 5

{ | nce — NATIONALIST TROOPS DEFEAT CHANG zema'rment Fund TSO LIN IN BIG DRIVE ON PEKING US: District’ Attorney Aids Opium Smuggling; Paid for Running Guns to War Lords HANKOW, May 8.—Hankow Nationalist troops are reported |"** “rested * see that those work: to have.scored another victory over Chang Tso-lin’s forces about |tain time and entitled t6 unemploy- 125 miles northwest of Hankow. General Feng Yu-hsiang is said to be moving his troops in board consisted of one fepresenta- preparation for a flank attack on Chang. ‘ * * * Threaten Boycott. LONDON, May 8 — Imperialist threat® of a blockade do not perturb the Nationalist government, Michael Borodin told the correspondent of the, “Daily Express” yesterday. The Hankow government is willing to negotiate with the foreign powers, but, threatens to declare a: boycott should the foreign powers be man- euvered into a war on Nationalist China’ by the British die-hards, ;cupy Die-hard Policy. i It is believed here that the more} moderate Chinese policies adopted by the other foreign powers, will force the die-hard Baldwin government to abandon its plans for a stiff ultima- | tum to China. | Japan, virtually bankrupt and fear- ful of.a boycott has followed the lead of American finance capital into a policy of watchful waiting, leaving Great Britain isolated. If Great Bri- tain follows the lead of the United States and Japan, it will not be be- cause she has abandoned her plans for the partition of China, Alone, and facing the opposition of labor at home, the die-hard government finds war on China impossible. Fear. Nationalist Strength. The rapidly growing strength of the Hankow Nationalists is also a potent factor in the change in imper- ialigt policy. . suspect. General Tang Shen-tse, For Labor Injunctions. (Continued from Page One) Communists. sooner or later. his organization best.” Constitutional changes took gates were still debating on a new eral executive board. Ginsberg Barred Forever. A resolution introduced by the Chi- leago delegates was yee Americans Smuggle Opium. SHANGHAI, May 8.—The enor- mous and lucrative business which prominent Americans have been car- rying on in opium-smuggling has been | former | opposition. This motion strongly con: | ment is stronger than most foreigners With 100,000 troops, commanded by thrown sgainst Chang Tso-lin in southern) Honan, with four well-trained and} well-equipped armies marching against ance fund were made twice a year; Canton and with General Feng hold- ing more than a hundred thousand/and February. troops in reserve for an attack on (the Industrial Ptking, the Hankow Nationalists oc-|further contributions by their mem-| cupy an extremely strong military | not urge his own methods on the; capmakers, but simply stated that in| “they had proved | up| much of the discussion time yester- | method of representation to the gen- | Ove" unanimously adopted by the convention without) ‘Unemployment Fund Is (Continued on Page Five) jan insurance fund was established in |up by payments of 1 per cent from) 4the wages of the workers, and from \the cloak industry. This was kept ithe employers 2 per cent of the) weekly payroll. In accordance with| ‘the agreement, a board of trustees ers who were out of work for a cer: jment insurance should get it, The ‘tive each from the union, the Indus- trial Council, the jobbers, and the leontractors, with Mr. Arthur D, | Wolfe, viee-president of the Chat- jham & Phoenix Bank, as impartial | chairman. | Bosses Quit Fund. { “The payments from this insur-| |during the’ slow seasons—about June | Three months ago, Council objected to} bers on the ground that Morris Sig- | man, president of the International} Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, did} Mass Defiance Urged {not enforce these payments upon thay 1AC.3F,, a lother employers outside the council. 1A meeting was called where the In- |ternational consented to the suspen- jsion of further payments to this fund a speaker yesterday. Sarcastic, cyni- | 43) 1908 \J. Brooker . cal, Beckerman boasted of the suc- | cess of his strong-arm methods in the | Amalgamated, and talked of the nec- essity of each union driving a the | this Thisth, “Since then, rumors have been cir-| culating that instead of paying out) lto the workers the money due them the fund had turned the} money over to the International for use in their fight against the Joint |Board. At first I refused to believe such stories; to believe that respon- sible people who had been placed in jabuse their trust. | last Wednesday to see Mr.| | Wolfe, the impartial chairman. He} \said he knew nothing about the mat jter because he had resigned. “IT told Mr. Wolfe that in my opin- jion hé should have made his resig- Jall the -cloakmakers would have demned the action of Perey Ginsberg, |) own of it, I felt sure if he had| $2, SSC, N4.. member of the executive! jbeen in charge of the fund no money THE DAILY | Geo. Solomon \FD 3., Sub BE. charge of a fund which was to be} C. Cosick bf (used for a definite purpose should-s0|¢, O, Peterson day. At the close 6f the day, dele-| Finally 1 went |J. alatkin’. \<. ation public thru the press so bcd YORKER, NEW YORK, MO | “These Comrades Responded | to the Call for Ruthenberg Sustaining and Defense Fund 10.00 -1,00 + 1,00 1,00 2.00 C, O. Peterson . L. BE. Katterfeld . Prosper Goepfert . P. Gutterman ... Elsie Newman . .1.00 Leo. Kling .. 12.00 Leo; Kling . L. Goodman A Sec. 5, Br. 3. 7.00 Karl Dengg .. 8.00 Wm. Margolis H. Weinraub . M, Miller .. A. Barkinsky FD, 8, Sec. E. B. Colle AC-6F . Bi; BBP gen, Kalmansky 8F SSID |}AC-6F., Kathrine ... | 1LAC-6F., Geo. Tronjin . | Kankoff I, Ortenberg . A, Schalk |Sam Wohl . H, Tarr... | James Gralton . ‘Int. Branch, Union C | Section 7, Int. Br, 3 }Osear Olson ... | Thomas Tholson Fred Rammer . 3F, 3D . Turkin H. Korber . |C, Csekany . |F. Gehn | SS, 5A, Int. Br. 1 . 4C, Int, Br. 1 | Section 5, Brane’ 004 NDA Y, MAY 9,'%927 | Workers Club, Staten Island .. Kacht |SA-SS 1B, M. Holzbauer . |S. Bogorad |2C, 8F, Anna Ros } 30.00 Section 2 ee .00 | Section 5, Branch 3 12.00 1AC, 3F .. 9.00 |Joe Rade 1.00} Barbers Union No. 9 10,00 Group. of Barbers - 19.50 | John Bulatkin .. \L. Sapirsteii, $3, SS | SS, 2A, J. Brooker Sub Seetion, 2D 1F | Gertrude Solomon .. Section 2B, 1F ... Bella V 3D, 58 . Section 3, FD3 . . 00 1.45 -1.00 | + 6.26 | 1.00 50 | 0 B, Wallman, SS3D, 2 00 89). 8D, 2F ..,.. 5.00 H. Door . .00 B. Marcus ).00 Mrs. Anna Wolf’... Section 4, Caroline Drew Harry Leff M. Rac—Int. Br. Jamaica. ‘rank Siegal, Bertha Sondow. A, FD 5. J. Brooker. 00 16.00 00 00 | 06 50 10.00 | Leo. Kling: ».. , C. H, Gordon Tarr, 8D, 2¢, 8F'... onkers, WP . SS.3E, FDI. 1AC,1F, Leo, Kling davits submitted to Governor Fuller in proof that Judge Thayer was ut- $3.00)}5C 11 (Green) ......seseeeeeee 1,25 |terly biased agnrinst Sacco and Van- 10.00 | zetti during their trial, was. signed, .++ .50/ by Robert Benchley, dramatic editor 19.50 | of “Life.” -5.00| with a close friend of Thayer, who 52.50 | associated with him throughout the .00 | trial. .++100,00 | with many people there, among others 25 | with Mr. Loring Coes, with whom I 5;member them with considerable dis- | jury from which he IN REFERRING TO SAGCO, VANZETTI The most sensational of the affi-|T he referred to ds been telling what be, Judge Thi ntended to do to Sac- co and Vanzetti, whom Judge Thayer referred to as ‘those bastards down there.’ Mr. Coes said that Judge Thayer had referred to Sacco and Vanzetti as Bolaheviki who were ‘trying to intimidate him,’ and had said that ‘he would get them good and proper.’ Mr. Coes said that Judge. Thayer had told him and the other men that a ‘bunch of parlor radicals were to get these guys off and trying to bring pressure to bear on the bench,’ and that he ‘would show them and would get those guys hanged,’ and that he, Judge Thayer, ‘would also like to hang a few dozen of the radicals.’ Mr. Coes said that Judge Thayer added that ‘no Bol-. sheviki could intimidate Thayer,’ and that he added in substance that Wor- cester would be proud of having suck yer, whom b,’ had t Benchley swears to conversations Benchley’s affidavit reads: “My name is Robert Benchley. I reside in the city of New York. T am dramatic editor of ‘Life.’ I was brought up in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, and am acquainted have been on friendly terms for many | years. “In the year 1921, during the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti before Judge Webster Th r, in the superior court at Dedham, Mrs. Benchley and I were |a defen as Judge Thayer. visiting Mr. and Mrs. Loring Coes in Make No Statement. Worcoster. During this visit, on a “I am informed and believe and day which I think mast have been a allege that Mr. Coes has within a few day, I was sitting in th Mrs. Benehley and Mrs. Coes outs’ he Worcester Golf Club waiting y Mr. Coes to come out. When Mr. Coes came out and got into the automobile he told us what Judge Thayer, who was in the club, had just said in his presence} and in the presence of several others about Sacco and Vanezetti. “Those Bastards.” “The acegunt by Mr. Coes of these s by Judge Thayer made a vivid impression upon my mind, and I re- Saturday or an automobi days been requested by Mr. Thomp- son, counsel for Sacco and Vangetti, to make an affidavit as to the-re- marks of Judge Thayer which I have mentioned and has refused to do se on the ground that it is diffioult for him to remember what happened so long ago, and that he is disinelitied to make the effort because Judge Thayer is, an old friend of himee! and his family. I am also informed and believe and therefore allege that in October, 1926, Mr. Coes was thrown from his horse and sustained an in- Mr. Coes told us that Judge | tirely recovered.” Fight the ‘ ij revealed in the trial of Leonard Good-| board and an organizer of the union, | would have been used for any other| Kart Dengg win Hussar, American District At-|Who a few months ago beeame an} urpose. than that specified in the | M. Weiner, 1F 6B (Potowitz). tormey for China. Seont st the boaneg,: etter being *: | igreement under which the fund | 8C, 11 (Pinchus) Hussar was found guilty yesterday | posed by the membership. The reso-| ‘established, and in the by-laws|5C 11 (Parnell). | of “unlawfully and feloniously” de- | lution also barred Ginsberg from ever | ade by the trustees. |5C 11 (Teymore) { stroying a book recording the trial| again becoming a member of the) «while Mr: Wolfe dif’ not attri-| of A. M. T. Woodward, wealthy hay luti .,,. (bute his resignation to a difference! resolution was passed permitting |, \»inion about the use of the fund, | } American, at Bushire Persia for | ‘ opium, smuggling. Woodward paid) the raising of the initiation fee in he did state to me that he had ob-, to the wage in|tsined from each member of the| Hussar $25,000 for destroying the | each local aceording evidence against him. | that craft. : |board a written statement that he By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. The convention defeated a resolu-|was freed from any résponsibility or} Before the Union Square “Hands ) 1AC, F7, Leo, Kling . a e's oS American — Bitte cc | a | Black | UNION SQUARE SIDELIGHTS Hundreds Aided’ Gun-Rumning. lunch were attracted by the crowd. | will be sentenced tomorrow. did’ protecting wealthy American! position of secrétary-treasurer and smugglers was indicated by evidence | editor of the Headgear Worker. This at the trial showing that he was the was designed.as.a method of econ: possessor of large bank accounts, al-| omy, so that one officer's salary akeh us — bake only $4,000 2) would be freed for use in extending | year. Hussar himself testified that | iw fai ‘ Ching Gaulle Chana hantangese |e out-of-town organizing work. war. lord, had given him about $25,-| be made. 00 in commissions for introducing ent a ¢ ‘ Italian gun-runner who made,a big Progressives in Banquet. gale. A large group of progressive work- The lucrative business that Hussar | tion calling for the combining of the | It} he told me that | was voted that the change should not gel ace Are Boat Fey aie \the New Leader. But none were sold. obligation as far as the fund is con-| Off China” meeting opened Saturday cerned. | afternoon, Capt. William E. Ward All Trustees Resign. | suggested to J. Cohén, a member. of “After seeing Mr. Wolfe, I went) the arrangements comisnittee the best |to one of the trustees from the In-| locations for the Wires platforms. |dustrial Council, Louis Lustig, of 38 Threé little boys were present with! tees, each one in turn had resigned | | until Sigman was left alone and he) | was authorized to appoint another | Hussar was convicted yesterday and | ers gchered for the proletarian ban-|group of trustees and the fund was) |quet at Stuyvesant Casino on Friday * * * Prepare Peking Attack. HANKOW, May & —The position| makers’ convention. Among the of the Hankow Nationalist govern- Speakers “were Max , Jakowsky, A. Pioneers, I. Feingold, J. Galstuck, Sylvia Blecker, Louis Hyman, man- ager of the cloak and dressmakers’ Joint Board, J. Miller, of Local 7, | Boston, which has just won the 40- hour week; M. Ziebel, Rebecca Grecht, Anna David of Chicago; M. Lipzin of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers; I. Shapiro, of the Furriers’ Union; J. Boruchowitz, of Local 2 of the Cloakmakers’ Union. A Sazir atted as chairman, Read The Daily Worker Every Day | BUY THE DAILY WORKER ; AT THE NEWSSTANDS night, which was arranged by the r « | progressive delegates to. the cap-|terested in helping Sigman in ‘his) Typograph, M. Wilson, of the Young | \handed over to him, Mr. Lustig in- | timated that the employers were in-/ \fight and they turned the money over \for that purpose. I believe the trus-| {tees are criminally responsible in| |this matter, especially since the Gov- ernor’s Commission which created this fund specified that a representa- tive of the public must be on the) board. i “The fund has turned over to Sig-| man %400,000 in cash, and $200,000) outstanding, .all of which belongs to|} the cloakmakers. They are going to hold the trustees responsible for this |money and are considering now what | legal action is possible to regain this money. Last year at this time, more than $600,000 was paid out to them. |This year, when they need it more |than ever, they are not going to get 'a cent. They held a little confab near the bandstand and tried to decide why business was so slow. ee * On the other hand The DAILY WORKER also on sale were bought eagerly by hundreds of workers who were listening to the speeches. White, Negro and Chinese workers could be seen all securely holding their copies of the Daily. i * * * Two Irish workers on their way to Two Day Sirike of Hodcarriers Gives Them $2 Wage Raise By A Worker Correspondent.) strike, lasting less than two'days, was won by the local building labor- ers union (hodcarriers) increasing their wages from $8 to $9 a day and gaining the five day week. The strike was short, sharp and sweet. Beginning last Tuesday morn- ; Coming closer they read the placards jwith a great deal of enthusiasm. Especially those that attacked Bri- tish imperialism. Turning to his friend, the other said: “Those Eng- lish b——, they want to grab the whole world.” * * . When the meeting closed at 3.20 than 25 patrolmen assembled near the 25 patrolmen assembled near the Freiheit, 30 Union Square, fearing that the departing workers might cheer the Jewish Communist daily. But they were fooled, everyone leay- ing quietly. * * * When Juliet Stewart Poyntz was | speaking Inspector McCormick, who j was in charge of the police, asked Capt. Ward if that was “Elizabeth speaking.” The Daily Worker Every Day | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS FRED SPITZ The FLORIST 3 SECOND AVENUE Near Houston. Drydock 8880, In Czarist Russia, ruffians and under- world characters were enlisted in a reign of ‘terror against the populace. Ruthless sup- pression and terrorism were carried on in the name of loyalty to the Czar, Christianity and the peoples’ rights. 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