The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1927, Page 1

HANDS OFF CHINA! STOP ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION! THE DAILY WORKDR FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOK PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under tho act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 103. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’Frauerry. ECRETARY denied the report that he would be a delegate to the Arms Limitation conference which is scheduled to meet in Geneva on June 20. The state de-| partment is; said to be looking for some other person of national pres-| of State Kellogg tige to head the delegation. In view| of Kellogg’s record for indulging in| the luxury of prevarication perhaps | even the seasoned capitalist liars that will gather in Geneva feel that they would be suffering from too heavy a handicap in having to cope with Kel-| logge. | . * * | id what the state department is look- | ing for is a more finished clown | than Kellogg why not select Will! Rogers, the roving buffoon who was | director of the National Securi' League in recognition of his services | to the cause of national defense, ac- | cording to General Robert Lee Bul- lard of that organization. Rogers| has said unkind things about Wash-| ington’s imperialistic ventures in aragua and China, but he is a fe cist at heart and a pet of the big army, navy and alrplane boys. Tho he kids our rulers at times he is per- mitted that liberty like the court| jesters of feudal days. His jibes do | the ruling classes no harm and being | a jester he amuses the crowd. * * * WORKERS’ FOES LONDON POLICE RAID “ARCOS” BUILDING Plot New Frame-Ups Sacco and Vanzetti On Soviet or Parliament Bone of Contention in |) Wolfe - Hays Debate |) HEAP NEW LIES ON FULLER DESK Grave Crisis in Case of | Two Anarchists Soviets or Parliament? This is the subject to be debated by Bertram D. Wolfe and Arthur |} Garfield Hays tonight at the Com- munity Church. Wolfe is the di- rector of the Workers School and Hays is a distinguished New York attorney, and counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. The Community is at 34th St. and Park Ave. Four Flyers Ready (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 12.—Sacco and Van- | zetti stand in peril of electrocution July 10 for a crime they never com- mitted. This warning is being emphasized today by friends of the two Italian} workers who are alarmed by a grow- Bene capitalist papers critical of the | ing impression that they have practi- | policy of force in China are not| cally been saved from the electric) concerned in the least over the! chair. slaughter of Chinese labor leaders} While millions of workers and and Communists by the warlords of | groups of university men, intellectu- the north, and the renegade Chiang / ls, jurists and liberals have been Kai-Shek. Chamberlain’s transpar-| @PPealing in one voice to Governor| ent gesture of a change of policy was Fuller to save Sacco and Vanzetti,| attributed to the alleged discrediting | While published reports have indi- of the radical wing of the Kuomin-| cated that he is susceptible to order- tang which was said to be responsible | ing @ review of the frame-up, while for the rioting at Nanking. Chamber- | labor organizations generally are be- lain claims that the guilty ones were | inning to feel that their efforts have punished. He had reference to the| nearly succeeded in freeing the vic- murder of trade unionists by Chiang | tims of Massachusetts justice, the| Kai-Shek, Britain’s newest t:.cl. |enemies of Saceo and Vanzetti haye ae: been tirelessly, but quietly, at work. ae? bs ‘ | Their work is not represented mere- b ped capitalist critics believed | jy by the ridiculous letters of the that it was best for the interests | professional patriots and super- of American capitalism to adopt a| heated defenders of law and order, friendly attitude towards the nation- | but by diligent and unhearalded ef- alist movement in China and let Eng-| forts to amass a new mountain of land pull her own chestnuts out of! perjury against the two men in Ded- For Transatlantic Hop to France Lucky Lindbergh flew out of the west last night bringing the number of contestants in the proposed non- stop airplane flight from New York to Paris up to four. Clarence Chamberlain and Lloyd Bertaud had announced early in the day~that- they will hop off before dawn today if the weather permits. They moved the time up 24 hours when they learned Lindbuergh had left St. Louis. - Just before Lindbergh arrived Commander Richard Byrd, of North Pole fame, brought his big plane over from New Jersey to prepare for the the fire. But they looked askance | at the growing power of the Commu- | nists ‘and felt relieved when Chiang | Kai-Shek betrayed the cause. In all probability if the right wing of the| Koumintang had not deserted to the} enemy and ifthe workers and pene | ants of China had assumed the lead- ership and secured the hegemony of | the revolution our liberal capitalist | friends of New China would bare their fangs with the more reaction- ary pack. ate * | fee information received by The | DAILY WORKER from China the | workers are being organized into} trade unions with amazing rapidity. | There are now more than three mil- lions of peasants organized into a peasants’ union. Since the popula- tion of China is overwhelmingly peas- ant and working class* it is only a question of time until the down-trod- den. victims of fortign imperialism and native militarism will develop a strength sufficient to enable them to deal with their oppressors. . * . Scr the right wing elements in the Koumintang Party of China! have gone over to the imperialists’ and are no longer of any service to the nationalist revolutionary move- ment, they must be driven out of the| party. This is the attitude of the Communist International. This does| not mean that the Koumintarg Party, | from now on must ‘be exclusively | composed of workers and peasants.’ The anti-imperialist sections of the middie classes have still a role to play in the unification and emanci- tion of China and as long as they \rer:ain true to the principles upon vwhich the Koumintang was founded they heve a place in the ranks. } a ai, Henee L. STIMSON, President Coolidge’s walking delegate to Nic- aragua may have spoken too soon when he announced that he had suc- ceeded in making peace in the Latin | | for Marder. 19, will go on sweetheart, Anna Har- Justice Townsend Scudder, who Ps si a eT bys a | billion ham jail. Contrasted with the noisy patriots, fae shee ee Fresh, confident and smiling he stepped from the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, the spirit of St. Louis, at (Continued on Page Two) 5:87 p. m., having completed a flight of more than 900 miles from St. SACCO and VANZETTI SHA LA; N O T DIE ! Louis in seven hours and fifteen min- utes. 6 ‘Big Four” Grip Economic Life of Nation 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 Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies. 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. i 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 insurance 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. “Because of the intricate and intimate relationship between insurance and every other enterprise of the modern world, the socialists have for a long time desired to make a state monopoly out of it. They realize that if they can accomplish this they have taken the longest forward step toward the socialization of all business, and their‘reasoning is altogether logical :.” DAILY WORKER'S © EDITORS HALED IN COURT TODAY Plead Not Guilty Technical Charge The case of The DAILY WORKER} editors and business manager, now out on bail on a charge of cir- culating “lewd and obscene” matter, will come up for pleading this morn-| ing in Part 6 of Special Sessions. Jo- seph R. Brodsky, attorney for the de- fendants, will enter a plea of “not guilty,” and the judges will then set a date for the trial. | Since the last hearing on this case, David Gordon, author of the poem “America” whose publication in the) Daily Worker of March 12th formed the basis for the case, has himself) been arrested on this same charge) and released on $500 bail. From the very first day that Wil- liam F. Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, edi- | tors of The DAILY WORKER, and Bert Miller, business manager were! hailed to court for a hearing on this charge, it was eviderit that this ar-| rest is part of a deliberate campaign | -aptiiist- The DAILY WORKER. Those ; called ,by the state as witnesses) against The DAILY WORKER were George L. Darte, “adjutant-general” | of the Military Order of the World| War; and George Seitz, a “research worker” for the Keymen of America. These two men testified to receiv- | ing thru the mail copies of The DAILY | WORKER containing Gordon’s poem.) They brought in evidence the wrap- | pers in which the copies had been| mailed; and they also introduced tele-| | to} grams sent by the business office i an appeal for funds. Technical Charge | That they had been on the watch for just such an opportunity to prose- cute The DAILY WORKER was indi- cated by the fact that both men claimed to have been diligent readers of the paper for a year and a half. They claimed this was the first “obsence” matter they had discov- ered. Since it would be only on this technical charge that they could sue| the paper, there is no doubt they| were watchfully waiting for the ad- vent of just such material. The “Patriotic Organization” which | these two men represent are well-' known for their persistent campaigns against all groups which are not 100 percent nationalistic. Not only do they spread propaganda against all communist organizations, but they at-| tack even pacifist liberals and every-! one who dares raise his voice in pro- test against either social or political! wrongs. “Adjutant-General” Captain Darte the Y. W. C. A., the Woman’s Chris- tian Temperance Union and _ the American Association of University Women with having members of the “radical, pink or intelligentsia group” | —which of course is criminal. Keymen’s Record The Keymen of America whom the! tHoroly exposed by Norman Hapgood | in his recently published book, “Pro- | fessional Patriots.” The organization was formed from the readers of a section in the New York “Commer- Thus speaks H. S. Ives, vice presi- dent of the Chicago Casualty Insur-|hold more than one-third of the ag- gregate assets. These four compan- ance clearing house. Nor is Ives a disgruntled critic of insurance, He|'€8 ate the only companies in the is one of its pampered beneficiaries. | *tate which sell the petty larceny He is an official well up on the heap, |£0rm of protection known as “indus- He says further, “. . .the assets | tial beni rend cn of the American insurance companies iphsca' dar eunaites! have ‘over is the largest reservoir of , private wealth to which business has access,” | 7,000,000 weekly payment insurance Latest Facts. The latest information on the sub- ject of life insurance companies’ as- sets has just been issued by the In- surance Department of the State of New York. Forty-one life insurance companies doing business in the state have as- sets totalling over $11,000,000,000 (eleven billion dollars). Of these 41 companies the “Big Four” have over $4,000,000,000 (four dollars). That is to say, one-, ayy 2 ms Miaoe - So exhorbitant are the premiums charged to this enormous mass of the population, and so weighted with fraud and chicanery are the poliey | conditions, that more than 75 per cent of all policies issued each year lapse before they have accummulated a “legal” cash value. The owner of a weekly payment life insurance policy must pay on it for ten years before he is allowed to draw (Continned on Page Two) t cial” (which is no longer in existence) which was devoted to “exposing sub- versive movements.” The aim of this group is to supply all patriotic or- ganizations with ‘correct information and data upon which they can pro- ceed in their own way through their | members,” Hapgood Describes According to Norman Hapgood, “The organization announces that among other duties its members should be prepared to ‘help stop the growth of Communism and socialism’, ‘work for industrial freedom’ (mean- ing the open shop), ‘keep informed through the Information Bureau of all subversive and radical move- ments’, ‘keep the Information Bu- reau posted on local activities of radi- cal movements’, and ‘assist local newspapers to secure and print in- (Continued on Page Five) Rats Bite Babies as Mother Lies Sick in Hospital; Six Tots Alone While their mother lay seriously ill with diphtheria in a New York hospital, and their father was at work on Wednesday night, the two youngest of six * small children were so badly bitten by rats that they had to be removed to a hos- pital for treatment. The rat-infested home of the children is at 516 E, 12th street, and with Ella Street, 9 years old, in charge of the family the young- sters were quarantined because of the mother’s sickness. Shortly be- fore midnight Wednesday, Ella was awakened by the cries of night when 200 police led by 60 | which is the Anglo-Russian trad: jor leave until a late hour when z | were allowed to depart after bein, | The raid was still under way at 11 p. m. tonight and it was the opinion lof those on the scene that it would }continue all night. Scotland Yard re- | fused to give out any information re- garding the raid, the simple reply to all questions being: “Scotland Yard has nothing for the press at present.” Come In Taxis. The raid. started this afternoon | when plainclothes detectives suddenly appeared on the scene in taxicabs. | Traffic in the financial district was snc sotsa | Norma( aged 3, and Edna, aged 1, who were sleeping together in an inside bedroom. By the time Ella and eight-year-old Jack had reach- ed the babies, a swarm of rats had bitten them till they were bleeding The little gray monsters ‘went scurrying off the bed in all direc- tions when the bedroom door The two little girls were suffer- was opened by the brother and sis- ter who came to the rescue. ing so that their cries brought on the tears of the entire group, and this finally attracted the attention of the neighbors, Patrolman Mich- ael Corcoran who was summoned sent for an ambulance, and Norma and Edna were taken to a hospital. | | FASCISTS TRY FRAME - UP ON CARLO TRESCA Victim of a frame-up by anti- | ‘dor of the building and it is believed fascisti which might easily have cost | his life, Carlo Tresea, editor of Il) Martello, will appear in the station| house at Webster Ave. and 202nd St.,/ the Bronx, this morning to confer with bomb squad members regarding the activities of Giacomo B. Caldora. Caldora, president of the Alliance| of Fascisti Il Duce, Inc., trapped! |'Tresea in the Alliance’s headquarters, | P. 585 East 187th St., the Bronx, Sat- urday at 3 a.m. Claiming that his} fascist outfit represented a schism! from the regular fascist organization | here, Caldora invited Tresca to in-| (Continued on Page Five) | lis famed. at its height when three officers emerged® from a passage running alongside the building occupied by the Arcos, two taking up positions at one door and the other at a second en-| trance. | As if by magic the appearance of these three officers signalized the arrival on the scene of dozens of plainclothes and uniformed police, | who emerged in droves from the pas- sages, side lanes and by-ways for) which the financial district of London | Guards All Exits. | The plainelothes men with a num-} ber of uniformed police filed into the | building while others in uniform took jup stations at all entrances to the/ | building. At the main back door and‘ |the main front door policemen stood | |in a solid body. Great commotion and | excitement was noticeable within the| building as the windows were with-| out shutters, but there was no dis- order. F Police officers inside the building |could be seen walking up and down |the rooms. Clerks and typists who |had been working by the windows in |full view of passers by were herded jinto a corner of one room. All the men were then lined up in the cor- that all were searched thoroughly. No doubt the clever British forgers, | (Continued on Page Two) Milk Driver Stole Bottle, Grave Charge Harry Ellias, 30 years old, Ozone ark, Queens, a milk driver, was held in $500 bail for Special Sessions by Magistrate David Hirshfield in New Jersey Avenue Court, Brooklyn, yes- terday on a charge of petty larceny tle of milk. FENG DECLARES LO YALTY TO HANKOW ns gmgee Nau Sun’ BRLTISH FEAR NATIONALIST STRENGTH ‘Right Wingers at Canton Permit Merchants to Arm; Execute More Labor Leaders SCOTLAND YARD THROWS CORDON | AROUND ANGLO-SOVIET QUARTERS |No Explanation Offered for Outrage Similar to Incursion on Peking Embass LONDON, May 12.—The dark shadow of the Chinese raid on |the Soviet embassy compound at Peking fell athwart London to- plainclothes detectives under the | direction of Scotland Yard raided the premises of Arcos, Limited, ing organization in Moorgate St. All telephonic communication with the offices was cut when | the raid began at four o’clock, and nobody was allowed to enter a few girl clerks and office boys g searched. USE COURTS TO HAMPER PICKETS OF JOINT ROARD Seek Enforcement of Injunction An order to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of course was served yesterday on Louis Hyman, C. S. Zimmerman, Julius Portnoy, Joseph Boruchowitz, and 16 business agents and repre- sentatives of the Joint Board of Cloak and Dressmakers. A hearing will be held May 17 before Judge Erlanger in Part I of General Sessions, The order is practic: the first effort madé for enforcement’ of the injunction obtained on March 24 by the Association of Dress Manufac- turers, Inc., against Joint Board of- ficers and members, and constitutes n “unprecedented case in the history of labor injunctions,” according to attorneys for the Joint Board. In discussing the order, Louis B, |Boudin, counsel for the Joint Board, |pointed out that the injunction was | unique in that it attempted to pro- | hibit possible acts rather than enjoin- }ing from acts that are being com- | mitted at the time of its issuance. He | declared that the Association of Dress |Manufacturers “apparently is at- | tempting to punish the entire union, |from Louis Hyman to the last mem- ber.” Picketing A Crime. | Affidavits accompanying the order |declare that the injunction as it pro- |hibits picketing has been violated daily by workers, who picketed the {shops of employers who had dis- |charged Joint Board sympathizers, jand were declared on strike by the Joint Board. Magistrates have refused to hold |such pickets as were arrested “for |violating the injunction,” declaring that the workers had a right te |for the alleged theft of a quart bot-| picket, and that they had no power to enforce an injunction. This attitude of the magistrates has resulted in the recourse to the higher court, in an at- tempt to quench the enthusiastic picket lines, ‘The injunction was sweeping in its Jnature, restraining workers from picketing, from shouting “scab,” from going to the homes of the workers or the shops of the employers and from “ineluding the plaintiff's mem- jbers and the workers of such mem- bers to repudiate the agreement” made jby Sigman with the employers, and ‘which flagrantly betrayed the inter- HANKOW, May 9 (delayed).—Flatiy denying rumors circu-| ests of the workers. witness George Seitz represented, are tated in the imperialist and right wing press that they had not joined the Hankow Nationalist government in its struggle for a jfree China, Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yu Yu-jen have sent |a telegram to the Central Executive Committee assuring the Na-| tionalist government of their support. The telegram statcs: “It is with astonishment that we learn that some members of our Party, with a fe dalistic and capitalistic bent, are i clined to indulge in reactionary. ac- tions, deceived hy enemy rumors and! attracted by offers of personal gain. | “We, Feng Yu-hsiang. and Yu Yu-! guarding the wharf with pickets to prevent an incident. The propaganda corps throughout the city is explain- ing the affair to the crowds, urging against any disturbance. The laborer, stabbed in the nose when attempting to carry a sack over | jen, consider it our supreme duty to| the wharf without a permit, will re- |support the Party authority: and! cover within a week, says the au-| pledge our definite and wholehearted | thorities of the Catholic Mission Hos-| Scheduled to be taken to the death Mrs Snyder and Gray On Way to Sing Sing The crack of doom will resound te» day in the ears of Mrs. Ruth SnydeP and Henry Judd Gray when they hear Judge Scudder sentence them to death / for the murder of the woman's hus- band, Albert Snyder. The date had originally been set for next Monday but was moved up to friday, the Thit~ teenth, After the formal words of sentence are spoken, the couple are loyalty to the central organization,| Pital to which the victim has been | house in Sing Sing to await execu- We are of the opinion that reaction-| ary elements should be dealt with in the severest manner possible and that Party discipline should be| strictly enforced.” | Cie @ | HANTOW,» May 12.—Following| the bayoneting of a Chinese laborer by a British sailor on the second | cision of the British Government not! ese Situation” at the Park Th wharf of the British concession to| to take immediate action against the| Airdrome, Chbiay St. and eit ae rooklyn, : day, the Hupeh General Union is ! taken. The city remained quiet | throughout the day. | The first and only peasants’ library | has been opened in Wuchang by the] Peasants’ Union, Cee es 1 CANTON, May 12.—British busi-| ness men here have greeted the de- (Continued on Page Three) tion. Scott Nearing Speaks On China This Evening — Scott Nearing will lecture tonight on “World Imperialism and the Chin-