The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 3

\ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927 Page Three a Mikado Bleeds Farmers . To Save Banks During ° 5 . ee Big Financial Crisis TOKYO, May. 9.—The Bank of Formosa, which was suspended three weeks ago, reopened its doors for business today following passage of legislation designed to relieve the’ Japanese financial cri- sis. The acute economic crisis in the affairs of the bank and its many branches resulted in a change of cabinets several weeks ago. The Diet, in special session, vot- ed 200,000,000 yen for the bank's relief. The government is in bad financial condition and increased taxation is contemplated to rest on the peasantry. ® Workers of Chicago Order Coolidge to Leave China Alone (By Federated Press) CHICAGO—(FP)—With wild ac- claim “and unanimous’ assent the crowded Hands-Off-China mass meet- ing in the Ashland Auditorium May 6 ordered the following telegram sent | to President Coolidge: “This mass meeting of 3000 Chi-| cago citizens, having listened to ad- dresses on the situation in China by Jane Addams, Dr. John A. Lapp and others, together with messages from Clarence Darrow and President John ' Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor, urgently requests that you “1, Withdraw all American armed forces from China. “2. Direct the state department to use no other kinds of pressure in any attempt to favor one Chinese, group, and that you “3. Proclaim to the world that the policy of the Ameri¢an government is to intervene in no manner in the at- tempt of the Chinese people to work out their destiny and that you are reatly to recognize whatever govern- ment the Chinese people choose to establish in power. (Signed) Carl Haessler, chairman.” China Marches. Immense enthusiasm greeted the clear and forceful speech of Chao- Ting Chi of the Chicago Kuomintang. “China,” he exclaimed, “marches toward freedom at the head of the oppressed peoples of the east. India, Korea, the Philippines and the Negro races will follow in revolt against imperialist tyranny. The Chinese liberation moverhent is a mass strug- gle of the awakening workers and peasants against both foreign and native oppressors.” Hindu Speaks. The rebel*spirit of India was ex- pressed by Haridas Muzumdar. Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers Federation spoke wittily and uncompromisingly against British and | American imperialism and for the Chinese cause. Manuel Gomez of the All-American Anti-Imperialist league outlined the relations of the western imperialisms and their common hos- tility to the Chinese Nationalist movement and the Soviet Union. Clarence Darrow, unable to appear in person, sent the following message: “T believe that every, people in the world should be left freeto work out its own problems. The modern west- ern world with its Nordic conceit has established its own courts in China and the east, simply because it had the power. As well might the eastern world establish their own courts in Great Britain and America. The American gunboats have no business in Chinese rivers. “The Anglo-Saxon people who in- vest in foreign bonds should take their chances in collecting foreign loans ‘and investments, as other countries take their chances here. The mis- sionaries should claim no’ special privileges. “There is no possible excuse for the western world to interfere with China, and the American people do not believe in any such policy. (Signed) Clarence Darrow.” Fitzpatrick Writes. John Fitzpatrick, serving with Dar- row on the committee but likewise unable to be present, asked that the following message from him be read to the mass meeting: “I gladly express the sympathy of the Chicago Federation of Labor and “of Chicago workers for the Chinese revolutionary movement. We are , against American intervention © in 9. \China. ~‘\ “We are always on the side of free- We are with the Chinese people i] against imperialism, foreign or Lemerican, (Signed) John Fitz- /*patrick.” patric! The committee of which Attorney Wm. H, Holly is secretary, is organ- izing a Hands-Off-China conference ta be held in Chicago at an early date, Providence Workers Too, PROVIDENCE, R. L, May 9—At a meeting which packed the A.C.A, Hall here, the workers of Providence and vicinity adopted a resolution to express sympathy with the working masses of China and condemning the presence in China of American mar- ines and ships of war, The speaker fae Binch, and the chairman was BERLIN PARTY ~ LEADERS LAUD ~ G.E,RUTHENBERG Red Flag Floats at Half Mast | | } By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | | } (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) BERLIN, Germany (By Mail)—In \the distance a mighty Red Flag is| | floating at half mast over a beautiful; structure that dwarfs the buildings | about it. | |--The building is Karl Liebknecht| | House, the new home of the German Communist Party in Alexander Strasse (Alexander Street). The} structure also houses the Party’s of- ficial organ, “Die Rote Fahne” (The! Red Flag). The crimson standard of the Ger-| {man Party was at half mast over its | | own home in honor of the coming on} | Tuesday, April 19, at noon of the | jAshes of our American Comrade’) | Ruthenberg. Met By Party Leaders, | Here in Berlin we had been re-| | ceived, as at Bremerhaven, at Bremen | |and at Hamburg, by the leaders of! | the Party, by a Guard of Honor from | the Red Front Fighters and by hosts |of workers, who joined in the pro- cession from the Lehrter Bahnof, | where we arrived from Hamburg, to} the Party Headquasters. In the es-/ cort were Ottomar Eberlein, the po- litical secretary of the German Com- | munist Party, and Wilhelm Pieck, its general secretary. bd Another room beautifully decorated, had been prepared here as in the other cities as the resting place for | the Urn, during its stay in Berlin.) Here another Guard of Honor was} placed on continuous watch. } The stop in Berlin was not to be| very long. I seized the first oppor-| tunity, therefore, to visit Friedrichs- | |feld, the beautiful cemetery where \lie buried Karl Liebknecht and Rosa | Luxembourg with hundreds of other} martyrs of the revolutionary strug-| .gles of the workers in Berlin. { Friedrichsfeld lies to the East of | Berlin, along the railroad that runs} toward Moscow. I was accompanied | by a young comrade from the party | headquarters. As we approached the! cemetery, we came up with a funeral, | a proletarian funeral being conducted | by Red Front Fighters. The casket | was carried in a» horse-drawn black} in Berlin. In addition to carrying short | had rifles thrown over their shoul-| Wreath For Liebknecht. The party has a large plot of) groynd here of its own. In the cen-| ter there has been erected with the | | contributions of workers a huge “Red | | Wall” at a cost of $10,000. The build- | ing of this “Red Wall” was inspired | by the “Red Wall” of the Paris Com-, mune, and of the “Red Wall” of the’ Kremlin in Moscow. Its foundation } is deep, it stands thick, high and | strength of the German Communist movement. In the center at the front Luxembourg lie buried., On behalf! graves with the inscription: “In Memory of Brave Red Soldiers of the | World Social Revolution.” In this, them the martyrs of the Spartacus | struggle for power in January, 1919,, Liebknecht and Luxembourg being slain on Jan. 15th of that year. At} least 3,000 workers in all lost their lives in this single revolutionary ef- fort. Many of these are buried in| other parts of this same cemetery | that contains no graves of the bour- | geois dead. | Then we returned to the city and’ as we passed thru the working class! ¢armorg of the community assembled | ment of a commis: DOG MEAT SCARCE TODAY Uncle Shyleck Has the Pound of Flesh Locked Up. Food Workers Ask Governor to Free Sacce and Vanzetti COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW FACULTY PLEADS FOR 4% hj H | FULLER TO GIVE SACCO AND VANZETTI JUSTIC | (Continued from Page One) | Explain Supreme Court Stand. | 8.—The supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, in regard to each of the apparently important aspects of | the case; has been called upon to rule Demanding freedom for Sacco and only on whether errora of law were jhearse. All those accompanying the | Vanzetti, the general executive board | committed by the court below. They | casket walked. All except two big) of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ | did not pase, and ‘were not called autobuses filled with police, for the | Union has sent a communication to police are always present in large | Governor Alvn Ty. Fuller, Boston jssuesdavolving the weight and credi- numbers at all Communist funerals | Mass., that reads in part, as follows: | bility of new evidence submitted in | upon to pass, upon the facts. ‘The “The general executive board of | support of the motions for a new regular session, speaking: swotds and revolvers, many of them| the Amalgamated Food Workers, in| trial have been passed on by but the nanie single judge. That a single judge ders. More police were already wait-|f the’10,000 members of the Amal- may sometimes be mistaken is evi- ing when we arrived at the cemetery,|@a@mated Food Workers, expresses/denced by the decisions of courts their unanimous and unshakable be-| of last resort, reversing the rulings lief in the innocence of Nicola Sacco! of trial judges in jurisdictions where and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the hold-| such rulings are subject to appellate up murder and robbery of which they were convicted by a prejudiced court is inevitably increased in rulis and for which they have, motion for a new trial, in which a | been sentenced to die in the electric | judge is asked; in some sort, to re- and jury, chair. To Use Authority. “They respectfully urge that “you use the authority vested in your cf- fice and extend zetti. “We are also [thoroughly convinced of the “Red Wall” Liebknecht and that prejudice against the social and | such political opinions held by the t © con- sponsible for the verdict, We are sure that an impartial and open investi- gation of the whole case by an. un- plot alone 244 lie burried, many of | prejudiced commission will prove their | sented. Tho euprome absolute innocence. . “Grant them justice. suffered long enough. lives and set them free.” * * . From the Pacific Coast. SVENSON. Oregon, (By Mail).— At a May Day meeting held here a resolution on Sacco and Vanzetti was adopted, in part, it reads: “Res@lved by the workers Save their and s§ eae executive clemency j wide, its solidity a symbol of the/ to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van-!zetti lends color to the possibility They have | review. take s On This possibility of m verse himself, We do not know that | any mistake has occurred in this case. But the fact that there is widespread doubt as to the justice of the re- sult in the case of Sacco and V: | that such mistake may here have {been committed. The presence of | doubt makes it unfortunate to let the case stand without review of the American Communist Move- |demned men, and not by any means) upon the facts, Such doubt makes it ment I placed a*wreath upon their! consideration of their guilt, was re-| doubly uri the case when bot nm. the in:- evidence pre- dicial ¢ of jud r of Jaw, ere some- tunate to, let stand without such reviow. a single man has passe portance of tha new has ruled that discretion has, been demonstrated. times arise cases dom of the exe . |eretion becomes imi: | case taken as a whole {such a case. It Hes | make or authorize a re | remove all doubt. In urging upon the on ¢ de rour ha’ w which can rou the appoini- on of inquiry, we sections the -workers were already in mass meeting this first day of speak of course as individuals only. gathering in the open spaces, pre- May, 1927, at Svensen, Oregon, that) It is beyond our province to speak, paring to march to Karl Liebknecht House for the demonstration that was to bid a Revolutionary Farewell to the Ashes of Ruthenberg on their way to Moscow. In one public park we no- ticed that the Red Standard, one of | the Red Front Fighters’ Organiza- | tions, had been placed and was «l- ready surrounded by many workers. When we reached Karl Ligbknecht House, the streets were already be- ginning to fill up, with the police present in large numbers everywhere. Exactly at 5.30 o'clock the procession began to move toward the Schles- ischen Bahnof (Station) thru Linien Strasse, thru the Gollnow, Weber, | Andre strasse, thru Die Lange Strasse the procession moved and finally ar- rived, after half an hour’s march, in| the great open space before the sta- tion. Every bit of room, however, was filled. Hundveds had greeted the Ashes on their arrival in the morn- ing. Thousands came to bid them farewell this evening. Here, too, the green police were reinforced by large numbers of blue police. Wilhelm Kaspar was the first speaker, I followed him. Then Helen Crawford, of England, return- ing from the con; of the er hn by t national Red Ai Our we vigorously protest this inhuman act of Judge Thayer, and ask the governor of Massachusetts to grant them their freedom, “And be it further resolved, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the governor of Massachusetts, the press, and the International Labor Defence unanimously adopted.” Dorothy Mackaye Pleads Not Guilty LOS ANGELES, May 9.—Doréthy Mackaye, actress, today entered a plea of not guilty to felony charges accusing her of concealing facts sur* rounding the death of her husband, Ray Raymond, musical comedy star. Dr. W. J. Sullivan, charged jointly with Miss Mackaye, also entered a formal plea of not guilty. J. W. Kruyt, secretary of the Inter- national Red Aid, who comes from | tice may not have failed of accom- home five miles south of here. The Holland. Other delegates from the Congress were also present., Then/chinery of justice has provided for, floor of the house. Otto Geschke and Wilhelm Pieck also spoke, the great throng breaking into. cases. or to seem to speak, as representing the institutions with which we are |connected. But, as individuals, we wish to express again our conviction that such an inquiry cannot but strengthen faith in the judicial and governmental institutions -of Mass- |achusetts and of the country, and ‘cannot but strengthen those institu- | tions themselves. The most admir- able judicial system sometimes slips, jor seems to slip. It is such Oecasion- ‘al seeming that shakes confidence; and when confidence is shaker, it is shaken not in the single instance ‘only, but in the strueture as a whole. Executive Discretion. | The surest foundation for faith in any system of. justice es inevitable case in which a reasonably | widespread doubt arises whether jus- | plishment. And the established ma- jexecutive discretion in “just such We address you in vigorous the singing of “The International” as/faith that an inquiry to determine the latter finished..» As the final| whether the judicial institutions ha words of the last stanza closed the| done justice in this case is but th Honor Guard led the way into the| utilization of the powers vested i station and to the oapaag he train, We would soon be on, the soil of the Union of Soviet Rep e against Dy contin pagat tHAb ‘Bich “a. _| versity of Kansas. this] § in its) | capacity to deal with the occasional | {inquiry will be a wellspring from which, however such inquiry may | Massachusetts and of the country at large. will draw strength and the trust and the reverence that is their due. Huger W. Jervey, Underhill Moore, Young B. Smith, A. M. Kidd, Roswell | PF. Magill, K. N. Llewellyn, Jerome | Michael, Herman Oliphant, Edwin | |W. Patterson, Hessel E, Yntema, | Richard R. Powell, Harold R. Medina, Joseph W. Bingham, Thomas I. Par- | kinson. Of the faculty of law of Columbia | University. | Robert M. Hutchins, W. R. Vance, Alexander Hamilton Frey, L. A. Tulin, | Walter Wheeler Cook, Edward s.} Thurston, Edwin M. Borchard, Ernest |G. Lorenzen, Charles E, Clark. Of the faculty of Yale University. H. W. Avant, Thomas E. Atkinson, | Thomas A. Larremore, Philip | Mechem, Frank Strong, Maurice T.| Van Hecke. Of the faculty of law of the Uni- Other Faculties Join. The following gentlemen, of the faculties of Jaw of Cornell University, Indiana University, Ohio State Uni- versity, the State University of Iowa, the University of Illinois, the Univer- y of Minnesota, the University of I , the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Texas, have au- thorized us to cite them as concur- ring, as individuals, in the purpose of this.letter. They have not had op- vtunity, for lack of time, to ex- and approve its wording. es K. Burdick, Robert S. Stev- ens, Herbert D. Laube, Elliott Cheat- hem, Thomas C. Billig, Lyman P. Wil- nell University. | E, Willis, Indiana University. | E. Mathews, Ohio State| orsity erey Bordwell, Wayne G. Cook. State University of Iowa. William E. Britton, Frederick | Green, Sveinbjolm Johnson, George W. Goble, Francis S. Fiuibrick. Of the University of Illinois. Everett Fraser, Ralph H. Dwan, |Thomas C. Lavery, James Paige, Robert Kingsley, Henry J. Fletcher, Henry L. McClintock, Henry Rott-| schaefer. Of the University of Minnesota. John C. Bour, Robert L. Heward, James L. Parks, Guy V. Head, James P. Langmaid, Merril I. Sehnelly. Of the University of Missouri. John BR. Cheadle, Joseph F, Francis | University of Oklahoma. George W, Stumberg, University of | Texas. Burn Four Children | NEELYVILLE, Mo., May 9.—Four | children of J. C. Wiley perished today | when flames destroyed the Wiley! ‘children were trapped on the second | Chicago Building Falls | CHICAGO, May 9—Between 40 amd 50 clerks and shoppers escaped | njury today when a four story brick | ‘uitiding suddenly collapsed, partially | aling into an adjacent excavation | veral lives were feared lost in the veckage, | 4 \ j \ NEW SOUTH WAL | peculiar position has ar 7 yr spelled re by ause of his-determ th ne Conference. routed, and an employers’ is now 1 in ¢ goyern- reason ted is that the Labor government ak and vacillating, and did not attempt to help the workingelass in truggle; consequently, the i not have any enthusiasm During its term of of- r government jailed Bri- men who w on strike; per» cuted workingclass speakers in the nic Gardens; employed “pimps” Mr. Seale, with a minority of the im the nt railways and executive members } ¢ up an| fought ag +t the 44 hour week, executive of his own ecutives Truly a wonderful record, and one have declured the oth which could not, and did not, inspine appears that in d the workers with much enthusiasm: ber and every br aE will be -exy WEST AUSTRALIA.—State elec- The milita , | tions we o held in West Ans- Seale because ¢ tralia last turday. The Labor gov- control of Bailey a ; ernment is in a precarious position, of the Aust but it still has a chance of pulling should end. that throu There ar Il four seats to the proposed ne opted. be decided, and the government needs These new are the of the | one of them to be saved from anather | whole strugg’ | Miners Out. Ten thousand miners on the Mait- jland © lds have’ been “on the grass” for a month owing to a dis- pute between the coal owners and the deputies. A new act, passed | ided for more mines. 118 entailed the deput who demanded th tional deputies be employed. 11 owners refused the demand, 2 deputies went on‘strike. The has now been adjusted more satisfactorily. or less It is regrettable that | the deputies are not in the same or-| ganization as the miners, but perhaps this struggle will be the means of bringing home to the workers the need for closer organizations on the coal- fields. ne 5 + VICTORIA. — The state elections take place in Victoria tomorrow. At present the Nationalist Party is in office, and it is hoped that the La- bor Party will winout on this oc-| easion. It is very doubtful, however, | |if this can happen, because the dis- tribution of seats is h loaded in | favor of the employ Sometime }ago, the Labor Party was able, due to disunity among the employers’ par- | ities, to form a minority government, | | but it did not last long. | | SOUTH-AUSTRALIA.—-The state | |last Saturday. The Labor Party was} “Prior experience in plus such information as I have been able to se- cure by investigation, convinces me completely that a definite preconceived plan has been made by enemies of the paper to compel its suspension and to effect its destruction.” * Labor candidates at the pr election. It is hard to forecast the result, but if the employers win all four seats the parties will be equal in strength, in parliament. It is pos- sible that this happen because the four seats are not usually Labor seats, but two of them were won by vious elec- y among the tions because of disur employers’ candidates. As a Doctor Sees It By B. LIBER With 64 Pencil Sketches author. This _ interesting new volume is: the kind of a book that can be recommend- ed to every worker. A critic says: “It certainly sums up the total of human misery that a physician is able to observe in a arent city as dramati- cally as anything I have read.” $1.50 Postpaid. | eventuate, the judicial institutions of | elections were held in South Australia |The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, st St. New York. 33 Fi to pa) = “<j ‘e) 4, matters of this kind, JOSEPH R. BRODSKY Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. The seriousness of the situation is plain, The result of a possible loss of our paper would be disastrous not only to our party. but also to the entire labor movement. Should our paper be destroyed, the one militant voice of protest against American intervention in China is silenced. Should our paper -be crushed, then the call for militant trade unionism and active struggle against American capitalism is stilled; and the chief organ fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti is rendered impotent. ; The success or failure of the efforts of the capitalist class in their attack upon The DAILY WORKER depends up- on the militancy and power of our defense. The situation demands that no stone be left un- turned, nor should any effort be spared to roll up an adequate Defense Fund for the protection of our paper, It calls for action without delay. | DAILY WORKER First Street, ew York, N. Y. | Inclosed is my contribution of | ++fs+. dollars .... cents to the j Ruthenberg Sustaining _Fand j for a stronger and etter | DAILY WORKER and for the | defense of our paper. I wil ; the same amount regularly | : | i State | Attach check or money order, ————— atedeeene % | | Our Letter from Australia |_