The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 1

ee 4 Yement nor did Secretary Burke’s HANDS OFF CHINA! STOP ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION! | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. - No. 100. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN SACCO-VANZETTI PLEA SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. under the act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily PUBLISHING CO., exce Sunday by THE DAILY WORKE New York, N. Y. 33 First Street, Building Trades Lockout Nears 125,000 WORKERS MAY SOON WALK CITY’S STREETS Plumbers in in Front Line) Trenches in Far | Within a week, the Building Trades | Employers’ Association may issue a lockout order against 125,000 build- ng trades workers in Greater New York, | This threat to break a score or more | of contracts with unions developed yesterday from the Brooklyn plumb- ers Strike and the general city wide lockout of all other union plumbers and was sanctioned from sources high n the Building Trades Council. One official, who firmly refused to xe quoted publicly, declared that the | dlumbers strike and lockout had| seached an impasse with the build- ng bosses apparently determined to rake New York City the scene of ational showdown with the work- | | ors. Ne Conferences This week. In addition a high international of- | ficial of the Plumbers’ Union de-| ared that negotiations with C. G. orman, head of the Employers’ As- sociation, had been broken up for the mtire week, with the prospect of de- visive action over the week-end. He lid not indicate whether the “decisive action” would be a general lockout w..a. settlemeng,. of., the. .Brooklyn | strike for $14 a day, a $2 increase and the five day week. The presence of International Pre- sident John Coefield of the Plumbers in the city last week produced no set- assidious effort to have the lockout order withdrawn meet with any bet- ser luck, The New York bosses, at the very renter of the national building indus- cry, have decreed that the day of wage increases is passed. The de- mand for the five day week, precipi- tating a. savage industrial struggle in Seattle, is also to be fought to the ast ditch. Close to the financial control of she great bond and mortgage houses in Wall Street, the contractors are acting not .only on their own desire aot to give additional wage increases, out are following a policy laid down oy Wall Street itself. The Plumbers’ Helpers Association opened its kitchen at the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave. yesterday, serving a substantial meal to hun- dreds of strikers who are penniless through the strike because they were unable to save on their $4 a day wage. The helpers are out for re- rognition and a $9 scale with the five lay week. Bakers’ Local 8 of the Amalga- mated Food Workers has agreed to sontribute $30 a week in food for the strikers’ kitchen, A meeting of the helpers, under the presidency of C. E. Miller, was held last night at the Church of All- Nations with another meeting scheduled for tonight at the Bronx Labor Lyceum, 179th St. and Third Ave. The helpers are arranging a picnic tor July 10, with the proceeds for the relief of striking and locked out mem- ders. Progressives Ask Joint Action. The Progressive Building Trades Workers of Greater New York in a leaflet distributed among building trades workers this week have ap- o Yvealed for a united front with the ast rs and their helpers in the (6 “ht for a 5-day week and a $14 day. Warning that a defeat of separate gnior seems possible, the progres. siv@“lbkare asking joint action not only ws as ‘eat the threatened general lock- ollt but to gain for all workers the objectives sought by the plumbers. ) FEAR 100 DEAD IN POPLAR BLUFF ST. LOUIS, May 9—A_ tornado itruck Poplar Bluff, Mo., 160 miles |a south of here late today. Between Stimson Hounds Moncada To Complete Surrender; | Giving Only Eight Days WASHINGTON, May 9.—Gen. Jose Moncada, Liberal commander in Nicaragua, has agreed to try to disarm his forces within eight days, the state department was in- formed today by Henry L. Stim- son, President Coolidge’s personal representative in Nicaragua. “Moncada returns to his army to undertake to disarm his troops and will do so insofar as it may be in his power. When returning to turn over arms he will notify Admiral Latimer (in charge of American forces), who will send a commis- sion to take enstody of such arms and ammunition. This Moncada will try to do within eight days,” Stimson said. Moncada yielded to Stimson’s blunt threat to use force to the extreme if he did not make his men surrender. Plumbers Helpers Thrown Into Jail |FLOOD SPREADS ~ IN LOUISIANA: BANKERS PROFIT ‘Hoover Plans¢ Cotnantig | ‘To Handle U. S$. Money | |_ BATON ROUGE, La, May 9— Brathig defenders were driven from \their ground along the west bank of the Mississippi today a few miles} above Torras, Louisiana, where En- iSaane have been directing an in- tensive fight for three days to hold Hin check the ever swelling crest of | the nation’s most devastating flood. Under a plan worked out in con- ferences between secretary of Com- |merce Hoover and Mississippi of- | ficials, state financial and commercial (Continued on Page Two) ‘Union Coal Firm Tums Scab and GREAT-BRITAIN SHELVES PLANS TO PARTITION CHINA BUT THREATENS WAR Chiang Kai-shek, Weakened by Peasant Attacks, Rushes Reinforcements to Nanking | LONDON, May 9.—Deserted by the other imperialist powers | and facing the opposition of the hard cabinet has been compelled its plans for open war against N: Sir Austen Chamberlain, minister, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that an ul-| timatum on the Nanking incident is| “inexpedient.” That the British die-hards have ‘ine | dergone no change of heart was made clear by Chamberlain, The Baldwin) government has no more love for al united free Ohina than it had last| month or last year. Still Want War. | Stating the position of the British die-hards, Chamberlain said, “Review-| ing all facts, we have decided that the) present application of sanctions for) the Nanking outrages or failure to| observe the conditions of the Hankow| agreement is inexpedient, however} fully justified.” Wait for Opportune Moment. foreign | ~ | labor movement, the British die-| to shelve—for the time being— ationalist China. Passaic Winds Up Great Campaign for Labor's Candidates PASSAIC, on May 9.—The elec- tion euaxiie closed here tonight with great enthusiasm displayed by | the supporters of the working class candidates—Albert Weisbord, Simon Bambach and Simon Smelkinson. Several open air meetings were | held where final instructions were 5000 Carpenters Locked Out in Chicago; Refuse To Accept Wage Slash CHICAGO (FP) May 9.—The second big labor trouble since Wil- liam Hale Thompson became mayor of Chicago last month+is the lock- out May 9 of 5000 union carpenters in the woodworking establish- ments. By overwhelming referen- dum vote the men rejected a cut of 15 cents an hour negotiated by their officers. The employers re- fuse to employ the men at the old seale of $1.25 an hour. The lockout of 250 union typos, pressmen and binders at the White Printing House continues without change. CLOAK PRESSERS BRAND SIGMAN AS. WRECKER OF FUND A rising vote of denunciation of Morris Sigman, president of the In- FINAL CITY EDITION R Price 3 Cents ‘LAW FACULTIES OF 11 COLLEGES JOIN IN APPEAL Nation’s Biggest Jurists Plead for Two Columbia University, generally re- garded as America’s highest institu- tion of learning, practically went on || record yesterday for a complete re- view of the Saceo-Vanzetti case. Fourteen members of the Columbja law faculty signed the appeal to gov- ernor Fuller and were joined by nine members of the Yale Law School {and six members of the University of Kansas Law School. Adding to the impressive academic demand that Governor Fuller inter vene to prevent the electrocution of the two Italian workers on July 10, 382 members of the law faculties at Cornell University and the Univers- ities of Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Texas authorized their agreement with the purpose of the Columbia letter. Give Expert Opinion. The Columbia appeal, reinforced ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | by the most learned jurists in nearly Union, was given last night by mem-| every recognized first rate American bers of Cloak Pressers’ Local 35 who! law school, is deemed the most im- had learned yesterday of Sigman’s| pressive appeal yet made to Governor | given on how to vote for the labor Sam Winnick, Harry Kaplow, Jack | Weisman, and Herman Reich were ar- | rested in Queens while picketing the job at Glean St. and Elenhurst Ave. late yesterday by Officer Mac- Levy of the 60th Precinct. They are held under $500 bail at the Flushing Ave. court, on the charge of disorder- ly conduct. Cc. E. Miller, president of the helpers’ union, said: “Those men were arrested while picketing in a strike that is a fight for an American stan- dard of living—it is a fight against a wage of four dollars a day. Our pickets every day are instructed to picket peacefully and keep within the law. I am sure that the employers are in back of this arrest and that those men are innocent.’”” Calles Dictatorship Rumors Denied Here The Mexican consulate here yester- day flatly denied newspaper reports that President Calles has established a dictatorship in Mexico. INSURANCE COMPA WHILE ADVOC PITTSBURGH, May 9.—The Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, one of the biggest coal companies in western Pennsylvania, has opened its ‘Coverdale tiine with scab “labor. This is the first Terminal pit to be opened since the strike began on April 1. The company terminated its union, contract when the strike started and announced it would oper- ate non-union, but no attempt has been made until now to carry out the threat. Scabs were imported from John- stown, Pa., where hundreds of miners are unemployed. Union men of Dis- trict 2 did effective work in picketing |the job agencies of Johnstown, hold- ing down the number of scabs shipped out. The Pittsburgh Terminal Company was the biggest union firm in the Pittsburgh area and is exceeded in size only by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. NIES ROB MILLIONS ATING THRIFT PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE. The “Big Four” are the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Han- cock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies. On April 11th The DAILY WORKER started its expose of the “Big Four” weekly payment life insurance companies. The articles attracted nation-wide attention and on April 27th Gov- ernor Smith ordered Superintendent of Insurance James A. Beha to make inquiries into the charg es made in the Harrison articles. Following the Governor's order William J. Tully, one of the targets of the WORKER attack tion with the Metropolitan Life. resigned from his official posi- The DAILY WORKER is continuing its expose in this and subsequent articles which are appearing daily. * * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. When a man turns ultra-pious, watch his private life. When billion dollar corporations start hollering about thrift, watch your pockets. After all is said and done life insurance is but a method of saving. A most unprofitable one, to be sure, but a saving method nevertheless. What, then, is the difference between a genuine savings bank and a pseudo one, such as a life The savings bank pays back to the; depositor his deposits with interest, Jess necessary expenses. The insur- ance company, in theory, does the same thing. Policies Pay Salaries The difference is merely that the savings bank undertakes to repay to each individual depositor his entire deposits with interest; while the in- surance company undertakes to pay only those who do not reach the aver- age expected age (unexpected death claims) more than they have depos- ited and to those who exceed the average age less than they have de- posited, including interest. *® and 100 persons are reported to] How many wage earners who in- ave been killed, sure in the “Big Four” would do so insurance company? if they were told that for every dol- lar they pay, 40 cents of it will go towards paying lavish salaries to of- ficers and to extravagant expendi- tures generally? May Not Get Anything How many wage earners would take on the load of paying lifé insurance premiums, in many cases several dol- lars a week, if they knew that they stand one chance in ten of ever see- ing their money back? Yet these things are perfectly true. Only one out of every hundred ter- minated policies is an endowment pol- Opens One Mine Implying that Great Britain will resume her war against China at the) first opportune moment, Chamberlain continued, “In these circumstances Great Britain does not propose to ad-| dress any further note to Eugene) Chen. We have so informed the other} powers. We have added that we re-| serve full libexe of action as to the fiiture and’ in particular respect to any further outrages.” Fear National Strength. Observers here point out that the “inexpediency of sanctions” is due (1) to the recent changes in the Chinese} policies of the United States and Ja-) pan dictated by finance capital in the case of the former and industrial cap- ital, fearing a boycott of its goods,! in the case of the latter (2) to the) rapidly growing strength of the Na- tionalist government at Hankow (3) to the opposition of the labor move- ment to British war on China (4) to the large deficits in the enormous British budgets of the last two years. That Great Britain will continue to subsidize to the northern war lords and continue to aid the counter-revo- lution, no one here doubts. . *. * SHANGHAI, May 9.—General Feng Yuh Siang, the “Christian General,” | is again reported to be mobilizing his troops for an attack on the northern- ers at Honan. General Feng is re-| ported to have proceeded to Loyang to take charge of this drive, which is in support of the Hankow National- ists. * Peasants Attack Chiang. Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have been considerably weakened by at- tacks from “Red Lances,” an armed peasants’ organization that has been | moving closer and closer to the Han- kow Nationalists. Chiang is rushing reinforcements to Nanking in attempt to stem the attacks of the peasants. * * * Fessenden Wants War. HANKOW, April 26 (delayed at Shanghai).—An editorial in the Peo-| ple’s Tribune, organ of the National-| ist government, points out that the head of the Shanghai Municipal) Council of the International Settle- | * ment, Stirling Fessenden, American} lawyer, has consistently supported | Chang Tsung-chang, Shantungese war lord, notorious for his extreme bru-| tality. Fessenden in addition to instigating | the picketing of the Soviet Union con- sulate, has given his open support to| the Shantungese and has appealed for foreign intervention in China, | ° LONDON, May 9.—Eugene Chen, | Nationalist foreign minister in the! Hankow government, is quoted in an) interview in the Daily Express as) stating that the Nationalist move- ment in Hankow is growing stronger every day. | Chen declared that General Chiang Kai-shek had been ousted from the Nationalist movement of Hankow be- cause he “attempted to substitute personal authority for the authority of the Party.” ST. LOUIS, Mo. May 9.—One Negro was killed, another seriously ron the North Atlantic coast saying iey. Only nine out of every hundred | injured and hea’ TO) damage terminated policies are paid as death| was caused by By Bdgcaron eo rain (Continued on Page Two) storm which struck this city today, | candidates. They were addressed by | the candidates and Sylvan A. Pollack of The DAILY WORKER and Emil | Gardos, sub-district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party. Cheer after cheer greeted the speeches as the capitalist nominees were exposed. An unprecedented vote for the la- bor candidates. in Tuesday's elestion |is expected. The campaign headquar- | ters, 27 Dayton Ave., was a bee-hive | of activity up to a late hour tonight making arrangements for election |day. It is hoped to have watchers | | cover the polling places so all of la- | bor’s vote will be counted. Like The DAILY WORKER. Many workers were commenting | today on the special edition of The DAILY WORKER, 5000 of which were distributed here on Saturday. It is believed that many new readers will be obtained for The DAILY WORKER as it has been the only English language newspaper that has presented the point of view of the labor group fairly. The Workers (Communist) Party has also gained a great deal of in- fluence during this campaign. Altho in a non-partisan election, all the can- | didates are members of and endorsed | by political partiesy With the ex- ception of the three labor candidates | they are all members of either the re- publican or demceratic parties, The labor nominees are members of the | Workers (Communist) Party., that has endorsed their candidacy. FRENCH BIRDMEN FAIL TO ARRIVE Somewhere in the fog-mantled At- lantic are Captain Charles Nunges- ser and Captain Francois Coli, French aviators who left Paris Sunday morn- ing in the hBpes of reaching New York without a stop. They were scheduled to arrive early yesterday afternoon, The day was tense with uncertainty as numerous reports reached the city from various points that their freat plane, the White Bird, had been sighted, but these were all proved false. Run to the Nearest Phone With That Story of Yours And Ask for Orchard 1680 When you have news—and every || worker has—run to the nearest telephone booth, drop your nickel in the slot and ask for Orchard 1680. When you hear the tele- phone girl’s cheery voice saying || “DAILY WORKER,” just ask for the City Editor and he’l! do the rest. Telephone news when ‘t’s news in other words, right away. The city editor is usually in from 2 p. m, until 11 p. m. misappropriation of the unemploy- ment insurance fund, “every cent of | which belongs to the cloakmakers,” so the resolution of condemnation stated, Manhattan Lyceum was crowded with members of Local 35 who came to protest against the frame-up of Manager Joseph Goretzky, who was scheduled for trial yesterday, but | whose case was once again postponed. | The pressers stated their opinion of Sigman in no uncertain terms, and resolved: “that we express our soli- darity and faith in the leaders of the Joint Board, and we promise to use all our power to liberate the martyrs! who are in prison. We also promise to stand firm in this struggle until Sigman and his clique are out of the union forever, and the union is cap- tured for the workers.” The chairman of the membership; meeting was Morris Goldstein, who, is chairman of the local and chairman | of the Executive Board. The speakers | included Joseph Goretzky, Phillip Goodman, Henry Turk—whose shop is still on strike because of his dis- charge for refusal to register—H. Koretz, and Louis Hyman, manager | of the cloak and dressmakers’ Joint} Board. Hyman was greeted with great en- thusiasm, and many of the workers remarked that Local 35 never had a meeting like this in the old days when Sigman ruled it. There was never puch fine spirit when the old gang was in power. Kushner Case Comes Up for Trial Today The case of Matthew Kushner, member of the Young Workers! League who was arrested several weeks ago for distributing “Hands ff China” leaflets, is to come up for hearing this ‘morning in the 4th District Court, New York City. Kushner is held on a disorderly conduct charge, to which he has plead- ed not guilty. Max Moskowitz, who was arrested with Kushner, and was hastily sentenced to a term of six thonths in the workhouse, is to have his case come up once more for ap- peal on May 17th. Both cases are being handled by Joseph Brodsky, attorney for the In- ternational Labor chon Ruth Snyder and Gray _ Convicted of Murder Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray stepped nearer the electric chair last night when they were found guilty of first degree murder after a} noisome trial which boosted tabloid circulation by tens of thousands, The jury was out only 70 minutes, | | standing 10 to 2 on the first ballot, Mrs. Synder broke down and wept. An appeal will be taken in her case. Missing Aviator Not Found. PERNAMBUCO, May 9.—(INS)—| Fuller. The university speak as men trained in the law. They | have investigated every phase of the celebrated Sacco-Vai ti case, and their verdict is that a miscarriage of justice is imminent, That the noted jurists are chiefly concerned in public “confide in the legal. hokus-pokus is indicated in the significant paragraph: “The most admirable judicial sys- tem sometimes slips, or seems to slip. It is such occasional seeming that shakes confidence; and when confi- dence is shaken, it is shaken not in the single instance only, but in the structure as a whole.” Members of the law faculties dis- claim any intention of officially representing their universities. But in the case of Columbia, for example, the fact that 14 of the 15 members of the law faculty signed the appeal puts the institution on record just as the unanimous appeal from the Har- vard Law School carried the unmis- | takable conviction that Harvard, very cream of Boston itself, doubted the brand of justice used to railroad Sacco and Vanzetti. President Nicholas Murray Butler | of Columbia did not sign the document |sent to Fuller. He is not a member of the law faculty. The text of the letter is: New York, N. Y. May 7, 1927. |To His Excellency, Alvan T. Fuller, Governor of the Commonwealth of | Massachusetts, Executive Chamber, State House, Boston, Massachusetts. Your Excellency: There are a number of facts which make it seem not improper for us | whose chief concern is with the study 'of the law and legal institutions of this country to address you with reference to the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, and to join with those mem- |bers of the Massachusetts Bar who | have requested that you inquire, per- haps by the apppintment of a special commission, into whether in that case justice was accomplished, and whether there may not be occasion for the exercise of executive clemency. Beyond State Limits. 1, The interest and concern aroused by that case have extended beyond professors | the bonds of a single Commonwealth, | We are affected by that interest not | only as citizens, but as teachers of the | law, 2. The belief, whether well founded or not, is widely held that in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti there may have been confusion of two issues—that of the defendant's guilt of murder and that of their radical- ism; and that such confusion may have obscured decision of the real | question under trial. We believe it |most unfortunate that such a belief | should exist, even though it be un- | founded. Only a review of the whole case by an impartial body can dispel he belief, if it prove unfounded. | Only such a review can afford sound ground for curative. action, if the | facts should prove to warrant that, Whatever the event, faith and con- | fidence in our judicial institutions The French Consul here today denied | cannot but be strengthened by an in- reports that an unnamed boat has|quiry which will make the facts picked up the body of Captain St.| clear for all time. Roman, missing French aviator. (Continued on Page Three) 4 i Se aS