The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1927, Page 1

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. 102. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, $8.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKE Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents , 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. LA FOLLETTE BRANDS “RUTHLESS IMPERIALISM” Current Events By T. J. O’FLAneRrty. | bseens Boston comes an obviously fake dispatch to the effect that new evidence derogatory to Sacco and Vanzetti has been placed in the hands of Governor Fuller. We may expect many stunts of this kind to be pulled between now and the date set for the execution, unless the governor par- dons the victims, in the meantime. The most important business before the American workingclass now is to save Sacco and Vanzetti. The wave of protest that has already swept the world should assume tidal wave pro- portions and compel the murderous crew that would strangle two inno- eent workers in the electric chair to scale the mountain of oblivion for safety. * * We hope there is some truth in the report that Judge Thayer is off his bean. Again we don’t. Thayer might be favored with a delusion that he had saved the country from annihilation by helping to send two innocent men to their doom and thus kid himself into happiness. We would like to see*the labor movement made an example of Thayer by forc- ing him from the judicial bench and sending him back to retirement. . * * TTO KAHN, the versatile banker does not spend all his time fi- nancing little and big theatres and encouraging hopeful artists with a mission. He does a little travelling on the side. Otto likes Mussolini but that fact does not prevent him from liking Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey who is as fond of Mussolini as a mouse is of a cat. . * * 'N his pole of art lover Kahn may cast admirihg eyes on the mosques of Constantinople (are they art?) but in his role of' banker listen to Otto: “I am impressed with the energy, deter- mination and vision of the new Turkey and wish that America would begin to exercise the traditional role of active sympathiser with a nation endeavoring to realize democratic ideals. Justice of the new laws warrants the influx of American capi- tal.” But, then if Otto did not do a job of work now and they our young playwrights might spank him. * * * 'N all probability the two courageous French fliers who tried to make the non-stop hop from Paris to New York have paid the price of their daring with their lives. Mussolini will rejoice, since a victory for the Frenchmen would dwarf the accom- plishment of the fascist Pinedo who}, has been busy writing fascist ad- vertisements in the American sky. And Arthur Brisbane may now sleep a little more comfortably since the danger of thousands of European airplanes flying over our heads and holding us for ransom (we are so infernally rich, you know) is obviated for the moment. . * * E vatican is not interested in the candidacy of Governor Al Smith, and this official statement will be be- lieved by about one half of one per cent of the population of the United States. The pope will keep his hands off the next presidential election but his excellent machine functioning thru the churches, parochial schools, Knights of Columbus and scores of religious societies will save his holi- ness the trouble of leaving his palace on the Tjber to awaken the angry K.K.K, tiger in America. * * * Hh United States will have peace in Niearaqua even it has to fight for it, We are told that rear-admiral Latimer has taken steps to disarm conservative and liberal alike. This is funny. Coolidge sent Stimson down there to make peace and he did the rick, Stimson told the liberals that they did not stop fighting he ould blow them into smithereens. ‘Being blown into smithereens even for a worthy cause is not the most sen- sible solution of a situation that can- not be solved by force. So the liberals threw up their hands, The conserv- atives, beaten in Nicaragua, won in Washington. : . . GELF-determination goes marching on. The fourteen points of Wood- row Wilson’s war aims are now four- teen daggers in the hands of Wall Street and those daggers are pointed at the hearts of weak peoples whose wealth is coveted by our imperialists. What the United States is doing in Nicaragua is exactly what Great Britain would like to do in China, but (Continued on Page Three) ‘Thayer “Obsessed” in Sacco Case GARFIELD HAYS ASSERTS JUDGE MERE ADVOCATE | | Move to Squash “Spread Eagle,” Anti-War Play Jed Harris, producer of “Spread Eagle” an expose of American im- perialism in Mexico announced yesterday he would consult with his lawyer the question of taking action against the motion picture producers, Harris claims that the produc- ers have placed a ban on filming the play. He addeg that he might also seek damages from patriotic societies which he declared, had been instrumental in keeping his production from the radio. The producer asserted that several { | American Legion Behind Loses All Pretence of Impartiality Judge Webster Thayer’s complete obsession with the Sacco-Vanzetti case was commented upon yesterday by Arthur Garfield Hays, well-known New York attorney, after he had read The DAILY WORKER’S story of Thayer’s serious mental condition. “Whether or not his psychosis bord- ers on insanity,” said Hays, “there seems little doubt that he has an ob- session on this case.” Hays cited the statements of Wil- liam Thompson, attorney for Sacco and Vanzetti, as to the way the judge had no other topic of conversation but this case to discuss with everyone he met. “His mental attitude toward the case in indicated also,” Hays declar- ed, “by the fact that he became an advocate instead of a judge; and that his opinion instead of being a judicial announcement was substantially an posts of the American Legion were behind the radio ban. PENNSY LABOR BACKING STATE SACCO PARLEYS (Special to the Daily Worker). attack upon the defendants and their lawyers. It was an attempt to sus- tain a point of view rather than to analyze the evidence.” The DAILY WORKER'S | story Wednesday announcing the mental breakdewn of Judge Webster Thayer under the consciousness is own guilt and terror will prove the open- ing of an entirely new phase of the celebrated Sacco-Vanzetti ease, New York newspaper men declared yes- terday. Hitherto the case ‘has revolved around the two points of the inno- cence of the two workers and the grossly unfair trial given them at Dedham. Although Thayer has been under a constant fire of accusations for his biased conduct of the case, | they pointed out, no newspaper has yet had the courage to denounce the judge as mentally unfit in the later phases of the case. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 11.—The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor swung into its work today in appar- ently a progressive frame of mind under. the militant leadership of President James H. Maurer. Outstanding among the resolutions adopted,today was one calling for Sacco-Vanzetti conferences in the Var- ious states. These conferences would be representative of labor and pro- gressive groups and formualte plans to save the two workers from the electric chair+on July 10, Governor Fuller was also asked to give a full executive review of the case. Resolutions were presented calling for “Hands Off China” and for con- demnation of the notorious citizen military training camps to foster militarism. Favorable sentiment |among delegates presaged their pass- age. The convention will be in session Thursday and Friday. PAN-PACIFIC LABOR CONFERENCE IN HANKOW DEFIES IMPERIALISTS Report 3,000,000 Workers, 10,000,000 Peasants Organized at Chinese Communist . BULLETIN. (By Nationalist News Agency.) HANKOW, May 11.—The most important military events are taking lace in northern Honan where certain units of the Mukden Army are still remaining in an effort to check the advance of the Nationalist northern expedition in its march toward Peking. Mukden troops are being held along the Peking-Hankow railway and a section of the Lunghai railway, General "fang Shen-chi making @ strategical disposition of Nationalist forces and sending reinforcements northwards preparatory to a general attack. Every- thing is now ready, for the great offensive. i Me Another important factor in the situation is Feng Yu-hsiang, ‘whose men have been concentrated on the Shensi-Honan border, and are now driving rapidly eastwards toward Chengchow, which is the junction of the Peking-Hankow and Lunghai. Feng’s advance from Tungwan began April 8th. Feng’s First Army has already smashed Liu Cheng Hwa’s txoops and occupied the city of Henchow after a ten-hour battle. Two enormous mass meetings were held here yesterday to commemorate National Humiliation Day, when Japan’s twenty-one demands were ac- cepted by Yuan Shi-kai. The necessity of ridding China of the shackles put on her by the foreign powers was stressed in the addresses made, * * * Congress SHANGHAI, May 11.—The frantic efforts of the imperialist powers and Chiang Kai-shek to thwart the opening of the Pan- Pacific Labor Conference have been futile. Delegates from China, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Great Bri- tain and Java will gather at Hankow on May 15th to lay the foundations for an alliance of trade union organizations of coun- tries bordering on the Pacific. : Force Postponement. The imperialist powers have suc- ceeded, however, in preventing the delegations of Japan and Australia from attending the conference, while Chiang Kai-shek’s right wing sup- porters at Canton have forced the conference from Canton to the Na- tionalist capital at Hankow. The meeting was scheduled to have open- ed May ist, Losovsky (head of the Red Inter- national of Trade Unions) Izmailoff and Budnik, delegates of the All- Union Central Council of Trade Unions were held by British author- ities under arrest for two hours at Hangkong, although they had British transit visas. After remaining for two hours under arrest aboard a river steamer, the delegation, escorted by policemen and detectives, was brought by a police cutter to the American steamship Jefferson, All night, while the steamer remained anchored in port, British guards paced the cor- ridors outside of the delegates’ cabins, despite their protests. The conference cannot be held at Canton, Losovsky explained in a press (Continued on Page Three) F| BOSS PLUMBERS "DEFY JUDGE IN LOCKOUT HERE Injunction Mere Scrap’ of Paper | Boss plumbers and the Sutiding | Trades Employers’ Association yes- terday just laughed at the court or-| der declaring the lockout of the New York’s 7,000 plumbers to be illegal. Despite the injunction granted by/ {Supreme Court Judge Thomas W. Churchill in the Bronx, not one plumb- er in that borough had been re-em- ployed when the working day ended. Churchill declared the lockout ille- gal because the plumbers in the four city boroughs outside Brooklyn have contracts which have not yet expired. The Brooklyn plumbers, on strike for the five day week and a $14 scale, are also within their rights because their contract had expired, the jurist declared. The master builders had paid no heed to the Bronx judge, internation- al officials of the Plumbers’ Union admitted yesterday. They declared that certain legal steps in connection with serving the papers would. not bring results until Friday or Satur- day. A similar court order in the Queens court last week was utterly ineffective also, and later was order- ed vacated. Great interest was manifested among building trades workers yes- terday by mass theeting* forall workers in the trade called by. the Plumbers’ Helpers’ Association for Friday evening at Ace Hall, 182 Claremont Ave., Brooklyn. A dis- cussion of the perilous position con- fronting building workers in the plumbers lockout and helpers strike for the five glay week will be the leading issue. Plumbers’ helpers have signed up with Edward Weiss, an Astoria con- tractor, for a $9 scale and the five day week, President C. F. Miller an- nounced, Negotiations with anoth firm are pending with a settlement expected today. Insurance Manager Admits The Daily Exposes the Facts For supporting the charges made in The DAILYY WORKER insurance expose, Charles E. Coolen, an insur- ance manager with offices at Staple- ton, Staten Island was pounced upon by Harry J. Miller, second vice presi- dent of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company, who said Coolen’s words are detrimental to the insur- ance “profession.” When hundreds of Mr. Coolen’s (Continued on Page Two) Oil Chiefs Try to Figure Out Means | To Cut Production Capitalists machinery for the pro- duction of crude oil seemed near a complete smash-up yesterday when heads of the profit-taking industry met on the call of Walter C. Teagle, president of ‘the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Teagle conferred with Secretary of the Interior Work last week in Wash- ington on the over-production in the Seminole field of Oklahoma where the yield has jumped from 100,000 bar- rels daily last November to 250,000 barrels now. Crude oil prices have slumped 50 per cent in the mean- while. The big oil producers want the gov- ernment to step in and bar the so- called “wild catters” or independents. Higher Salaries Main Transit Board Intent The transit commission’s main ef- interview; because delegates from the| forts are directed toward salary in- All-China Federation of Trade Unions] creases rather than unification of the may meet death at the hands of the} subways, in the opinion of the state | department of public service. Consort of Millionaires Haled Into Court Under Charge of Drug Addiction Mrs, -Annabelle Leonore Van Alen Ottriin Fuller Landgren, once noted as a famous beauty who, married three millionaires in succession, yesterday appeared in court charged with giving a false name and address to obtain narco- tices. Trial was adjourned until May 18. Mrs. Landgren’s first husband whom she married at the age of 15 was Harry D, Ottman, wealthy New Yorker. She was next the wife of George Fuller, San Frane- cisco capitalist, from whom she was divorced in 1916 with a large cash settlement and $12,500 annual alimony. In 1926, in San Francisco she married Eric C. Landgren, match magnate, who later had the mar- riage annuled on grounds of drug addiction. Mrs. Landgren had the annulment revoked and was award- ed a divorce. PASSAIC BEATS PREISKEL, FOE Weisbord Given Thou- Neth aerate erie : sand Votes by Gang (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PASSAIC, N. J., May 11.—Abram Preiskel, arch-enemy of the Passaic workers went down to defeat in ye: terday’s election. watchers for the labor candidates in the polling places while the votes given to Albert Weisbord; 414 to Simon Bambach and 396 to Simon Smelkinson. The three labor men ran for city commissioners as Communist candidates. the vote was being counted, afraid that the labor men might be elected. Chairman Stokes, of the New Jersey |Republican State Committee phoned jone of the Passaic newspapers at a }late hour last night to find out how |many votes were cast for Weisbord. He did not ask about the votes of any of the other candidates. Pre- | iskel, a member of his own party .for the time being, was of no Interest to | him. Turner Elected The five men elected are Mayor John H. McGuire, John J. Reegner, John R. Johnson, Anton L, Pettersen and Benjamin F. Turner. With the commissioners at present. Safety, the position now held by Pres- kiel. Bar Watchers Yesterday afternoon the county election board notified the labor cam- paign committee that their watchers would be recognized on presentation of credentials signed by the commit- tee. When they went to the polling places they were barred. Appealing toethe election board they were noti- fied that the local prosecuting attor- ney had ruled that they should not be admitted. It is believed by many people that the barring of the labor watchers re- sulted in the stealing and voiding of many votes cast for the labor men. Another fact to be taken into con- sideration is that many of the work- ers are not citizens. Issue Statement The labor campaign committee is- sued the following statement today: “The result of the Passaic election for City Commissioners is of a great importance to the American labor movement. In spite of the fact, that the Communist candidates conducted the fight single-handed, attacked and sgbotaged by all the representatives of the capitalist class, by the labor (Continued on Page Two) Death sentence will be passed on Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and her “sweetheart” Henry Judd Gray Fri- day morning instead of Monday. } OF BIG STRIKE In spite of the refusal to allow the} were being counted, 1,080 votes were | The capitalists were nervous while | exception of Turner, the four are | Turner | will become Commissioner of Public} COOLIDGE NIGARAGUA POLICY IS OPEN DEFIANCE OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTION | Wisconsin Senator in Ringing Denunciation of | President’s War on Little Republic WASHINGTON, May 11.—President Coolidge is carrying on a policy of “ruthless imperialism” in Nicaragua and is ready |to violate the American constitution to do so, Senator Robert M. |La Follette, Jr., republican progressive, Wisconsin, declared in a |formal statement tonight. | “The admission by the state department that Mr. Stimson, speaking for President Coolidge, threatened open warfare on the liberals is an amazing revelation that the president, in carrying |forward his policy of ruthless imperialism in Central America, jis ready to violate the constitution, which gives the war-making power solely to congress,” he said. | “In his address in New York on - Se fs Expect Thousands At Cloak Makers Four - Day Bazaar | “‘We are not making war on Nic- aragua any more than a policeman on |the street is making war on passers by.’ This declaration did not square Thousands of visitors are expected at the four day bazaar of the Joint | Defense and Relief Committee for the |impriséned and arrested needle trades with the then existing facts, consid- workers, opening tonight at the New ering that we had a fleet in Nicara- guan waters; enough marines to form Star Casino, 107 Street and Park | Avenue. a body-guard of six to each American citizen in the country; created neu- tral zones helpful to the conserva- tives in which fighting is prevented by our troops, guarded the railway permitting only conservatives to use its facilities; sold arms and ammuni- tion to the conservatives. Any one of these acts against a first-class power would have involved us in war the moment it was committed. “In his recent New York address| Much-has been heard about the tre- |the president uttered these words: “‘Our attitude toward all nations is, one of friendship and good will. Toward those who are yet struggling to improve the conditions of their the wonderful concerts that have been people and achieve a larger liberty, arranged, to be held tonight, tomor- {" is especially one of forbearance.’ |T¢W and Sunday nights, and every mendous quantities’ of merchandise that have been gathered by the hun- dreds of volunteer workers for the bazaar, but very little is known of ~~ Just -A-~ Smnoke-Screen: jnight in the. restaurant. “In view of his recent action in| The concert arranged for tonight is Nicaragua, these high sounding #5 follows. phrases are exposed as a smoke| 1.—Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra.- sereen behind which his policy of im-;Conductor Jacob Schaeffer. | perialism is being conducted with re-| 2-—(a) Mother Machree, (b) Enes- newed vigor.” |tu—-sung by Antonion Utrera, bari- Meanwhile the government today| tone. went ahead with arrangements to p= i |disarm the rebels and police the re-| opera—-Miss oop Ea ee |public. Rear Admiral Julian Latimer,| [jtyora ie: : ges in charge of the American forces of | - aie | occupation, issued a formal proclama- Serenata—‘Until! — Sung by | tion calling on the rebels to lay down) ~ Flor Celeste Carbonell, soprano their arms or risk the danger of the coloratura. x “shedding of blood.” 6.—Souvenir de Moscow; Perpetum Wiis Midolinde: tadiodes Mobile, for violin played by Mischa To help enforce his demands and| "9" | thoroughly police the country, the Arrangements have been made to |first contingent of 800. additional| PC" the bazaar until 1 o'clock daily. |marines embarked at Quantico, Va., Admission will be 25 cents in the for duty there today. They sinbarked afternoon and 50 cents after 5 p. my on two tenders, the Aroostock -and| “ily except Saturday. Serve Supper. Medusa. For those who will want to stay The Aroostock sailed first with 130 She is to stop at|over, the restaurant will be open to j marines aboard. |Hampton Roads to pick up 45 more jserve supper. There will be a special vegetarian department. DEFRAUDED BIG FOUR VICTIMS GALL | FOR INVESTIGATION and at Charleston, S. C., for 100. PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE. The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of the fraudulent methods employed by the “Big Four,” who are the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Haneock and the Colonial Life insurance Companies. b In this series it is charged that these companies who monop- olize the weekly payment life insurance business are ‘guilty of fraud, misuse of “mutual” funds, manipulation of policyholders’ money and subornation, to perjury. On April 27th Governor Smith ordered Superintendent of Insurance James A, Beha to make inquiries into the charges con- tained in the Harrison articles. So far the official apologist for the inswrance companies has not submitted his report. The expose has caused something re- sembling panic in insurance circles. It affects upwards of 40,000,000 American policyholders. * * *& By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. The Insurance expose bread cast upon the waters is bringi in a rich harvest of outraged policyholders. Letters arrive f, all parts of the country protesting against high rates, mis: sentation and fraud. Defrauded workers who have been pa exorbitant weekly premiums for years have suddenly tak figuring out just how they stand in the swindle. One reader writes and says, “My ;to $3,385 after twenty years. We can mother, who is forty-six years of age | look forward to a loss of over $1,000.” took out a policy for $500 paying sev- | All Want To Know F enty-five cents a week for twenty years. This means that she will pay| note, and ask for advice on how to to the company $780 during the pre-| mium paying period, thus losing $280! As society is constituted at !no one will deny the necessity of insurance, That it is in the hands : on the deal. This is a crime. (That's putting it mildly—Ed. note). Our a gang of unserypulous Wall Street (Continued fon Page Two) family pays $3.75 every week to the “Big Pour” on policies which amount ’ \ panera wh. handle the question of life insurance, | ‘ ee a | All letters’ received strike the same