The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 1

Ww By | HANDS OFF CHINA! STOP ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION! FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections Be sure to get them both, Vol. IV. No. 104. SUBSCRIPTION RA’ THE In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. | FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. E British government is deter- mined to break off diplomatic and commercial relations with the Soviet Union. This is a policy of despera- tion and the situation confronting the empire is a despérate one. The two main reasons why Great Britain has beeome the chief antagonist of the Soviet Union are: the slumbering re- sentment towards British rule on the patt of the peoples of India and Egypt, which is liable to burst into activity at any moment and the re- volt of the 400,000,000 Chinese work- ers and peasants against foreign im- perialism, the chief sufferer from the tevolt being England which has exercised practical sovereignty over large sections of China. eR * 4 bese natural corollary of this con- dition, resulting as it has in con- siderable loss of trade, is the grow- ing radicalization of the working class movement, due to the decline of British imperialism and the progressive inability on the part of the capitalists to buy off a favored section of the workers'at the expense of surplus profits from their colonial coolies. In this social panorama the robber empire sees the artistic brush of the Soviet Union and well it may. For the Soviet Union, thru its gov- British | | | 1 ernment based on the emancipation | workers and peasants has set the BRITISH LABOR, PRESS BACK SOVIET DIPLOMAT IN ARCOS RAID PROTEST Break in Trade Relations Threatened by Un- warranted Attack on Offices LONDON, May 13.—Complete severance of trade relations between Britain and Russia is threatened as a result of Scotland Yard’s spectacular raid on Arcos (Russian Trade Bureau) head- quarters in London. A. Rosengolz, Soviet Charge D’Affaires here, today sent For- eign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain a vigorous protest against the raid, charging a flagrant violation of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement. Universal Service’s correspondent at Moscow telegraphs that id, but some move is believed LABOR BAZAAR GOES OVER BIG AT STAR CASINO Joint Defense Rallies Greatest Throng There have been other labor blood of the world’s slave classes|bazaars before the Defense Bazaar tingling with a desire for freedom |at New Star Casino, 107th St. and and if the Communist International | Park Ave., which opened on Thurs- never issued a proclamation the red|day night, but there has never been star shining in Moscow would still|such a crowd at an opening night, inspire the victims of imperialism | and there has never been a more everywhere to new struggles against | spendthrift, enthusiastic crowd at any their oppressors. | similar event in this city. Workers and their wives, and their sweethearts, and their neighbors. were there by the hundreds; and those who could not pierce the crowds on Thurs- day night were there last night to do their spring and summer shopping. In view of the record attendance at these two first nights of the bazaar, it was amusing ‘to see yesterday a pronouncement from President Will- iam Green of the American Federa- tion of Labor urging trade unions and trade unionists not to contribute to the “Joint Defense Committee for the Relief of Furriers and Cloak- makers.” He has his answer at New Star Casino. There are fifty booths at the Defense Bazaar, end you can pur- chase anything from hot dogs to straw hats—including shoes, coats, dresses, underwear, caps, men’s suits, jewelry, books, groceries and a Chev- rolet car. All these articles are sell- ing at below-market prices. New Star Casino now houses the best bar- gains in New York. And to help you forget that you are spending your money, there is a splendid entertainment provided each evening. Last night there were songs by Adolpho Utrera and Miss Carbon- nell; cello soloes by Joseph Emonts; a harp solo by.Laura Newell; and Russian, German and Italian folk songs by Irma Dubova. There is al- ways dancing every evening too, with an excellent jazz orchestra. Among the articles to be put on sale tonight is an original drawing of Ben Gold, made by Hugo Gellert and recently printed in The DAILY WORKER. There is a drawing of Isadore Shapiro too, and some orig- inal prints by Glintenkamp, Becker and other DAILY WORKER artists. If any right wingers have strayed into this Defense Bazaar they must feel sick at heart, It is a splendid expression of left wing solidarity, and the determination to fight the forces of reaction in the needle trades unions, as well as to care for the families of the men now in jail for their union activities. It is proof that these workers are not forgotten or neglected by their loyal fellow- workers outside. They will be freed. Dirigible May Be . Sent for Nungesser WASHINGTON, May 13,—The giant navy dirigible Los Angeles may fly over the barren wastes of La- brador in~ search of the missing French aviators, Nungesser and Coli, it was learned today. Navy officials are seriously consid- ering sending the huge airship on this “quest of mercy” and a decision will probably be reached within the next few days. Daily Worker Pleads Not Guilty in Court William F. Dunne, editor, Bert Miller, business manager and ‘the DAILY WORKER Publishing Co. after pleading not guilty to charges circulating “lewd and obscene” mat- . WHEN the French revolution plan- ted the revolutionary boot on the neck of the feudal order in France there were repercussions from that act in very quarter of the world where the people were under the yoke: of native or foreign oppression. Those were the days when the Irish rebels sang: “Oh, the French are on * * the Say” and when the toiling pea-| sants of Europe heard with joy the tramp of the marching armies of revolutionary France, And _ tory England then filled the people of the world with lurid tales of French atrocities, and with armed force and the corrupting; power of her gold she made war on that revolution:as she is today on the Russian revolution, Britain did not then stop at assassin- ation, and more than one leader of the French revolution died with a British-purchased dagger in his back. * * * Ese tried to organize the world against the French revolu- tion and succeeded in finally defeat- ing Napoleon but only after Napoleon betrayed the revolution. However it was written in the stars that the death-knell of the feudal order was sounded, despite the treachery of in- dividuals even tho the Paris masses who bore the brunt of the initial smash against the corrupt feudal government reaped little of the ad- vantages from the revolution. The feudal order did not go down every- where at once. Indeed some of its trappings are to be seen in Bucking- ham Palace today tho there is little left outside of the uniforms. * . . REAT Britain is leaving no stone unturned to organize an interna- ben capitalist bloc against the Soviet Union just as she did against re¥qlutionary France. But it is written in the heavens that the So- viet i is bound to win, Further- more, te ase of the Soviet form of government is wide and as healthy as the French cradle of the bour- geois system which supplanted feud- alism. And also the Communist Party of the Soviet Union renders that great expanse of territory a ™ field for a Napoleon. * * * Ke few days the forged docu- ents planted by the Scotland Yard detectives will begin to appear in the New York Times and other capitalist sheets that have plenty of room for all the news that suits the plans and conspiracies of the ruling classes. And our capitalist editors will ring the changes on all the hoary old arguments against recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States adding as further proof for non-recognition the dis- covery of the latest batch of forged documents. It now remains to be seen whether the protest of the right leaders of the British Labor against this latest tory out- against the Workers Republic be vigorous or merely formal. a cot Ee Snowden, well known fact that Church- | of Company do not hate inion any more than do MacDonald, Thomas and | the Soviet foreign office has not yet expressed its reaction to the to be imminent. Rosengolz’s note of protest declared |that the police had violated the diplo- | matic immunity of members of the | Russian trade delegation. He stated that he had informed his government of the raid and that he is awaiting further instructions from Moscow. | Jaynson-Hicks Heckled. | The home secretary was heckled in the house of commons today by the jlaborites as soon as the house met. |He was unable to give any informa- tion as to what the raid had revealed but promised a statement for Mon- day. the police leave. While acting as the sole selling agency for the Soviets, Arcos is a | private corporation with a capital of | $5,000,000. Since its establishment in 1920 its turnover has been in the neighborhood of $500,000,000. The concern was about to arrange credits in London for $50,000,000 which was intended to be expended for machin- ery in England. Press Critical. The government and Scotland Yard are under the fire of criticism from all the newspapers with the exception of those avowedly anxious to have trade relations with Russia severed. Charge Rosengoltz stated in his protest to Chamberlain the police had violated the diplomatic immunity of the members of the trade delegation and said that one trade represen- tative, M. Khudiakov, had been as- saulted by the police when he refused to surrender the keys to the safe which contained private documents and secret codes, Police Search The Women. “The raid was a flagrant violation of the trade agreement and during the raid the most elementary guar- antees, demanded by common de- cency”, said Rosengoltz. (Gontinued on Page Two) Executive Board Of Plumbers Will Meet Here Monday The real gravity of the lockout of 5,000 New York union plumbers and the strike of their 5,000 helpers was attested yesterday in the official an- nouncement that the international ex- ecutive board of the Plumbers’ Union will meet here Monday at the Aber- deen Hotel. President Burke, who arrived last week to superintend the situation for the locked out men, has been unable to bring the building trades employ- ers’ association and its head, C. G. Norman, into negotiations even. Nor- man insists that Burke call off the Brooklyn strike, in progress since April 1, before considering ending the lockout of other New York plumb- ers in,effect since May 1. The international executive board will go over the whole critical situ- ation in New, York with special re- ference to thé’national building out- look, Whether cooperation with other unions in a general strike, or devising methods of meeting a threat- ened general lockout will be defi- nitely planned, was not revealed yes- terday by international officers. Workers Meet. “Last night nearly 1,000 building trades workers representing all crafts met at Ace Hall, Williamsburg, on the call of the striking Plumbers’ Helpers’ Association to plan joint de- fense against the united bosses’ at- tack. President C. E, Miller and James F. Walsh of the plumbers’ workers addressed the meeting. ter in Part 6 of Special Sessions yes-|in the finding of a body of a well terday morning, were ordezed to ap-| dressed man, his hands and feet tied, pear for trial on May 27. Joseph R.|in the North River off the foot of Brodsky, attorney, entered the pleas./ 96th St, ‘ neal Ne he ate A acs ‘Arcos issued an announcement that | they must suspend all business until | DESPOTISM OF RIGHT WING IS FUR CZAR'S AIM Old Timers Denied Vote and Voice A union made up of workers who have no voice and no vote, This seems to be the aim of the reaction- ary forces in the International Fur Workers’ Union, and the A. F. of L.’s | reorganization. committee. | Fur workers who have been in the | union for 25 years; men who strug- gled to form a union in 1907, who | sueceeded in 1912, who fought thru ;the strike of 1920, and were part of |the strike of 1926; such men are | being denied membership books when. they attempt to register with the In- | ternational’s “scab” union. These men {are being denied the right to their | jobs. ¥ | To such workers, the reactionary |right wingers are offering “creden- | tials”, at which the association bosses | scoff. They are denied union books which would make them ‘part of the organization ,and entitle them to vote for delegates to the coming, long | overdue conventitn. If workers who come to register, |in accordance with the instructions | of the Joint Board, are known to the reactionary officials to be active left wing workers they are put out of the office and*refused any sort of creden- tial or book. If Winnick and Mc- Grady have their doubts about a man, he is told to come back at five o’clock —when some of the right wing hench- men are on hand to tell what they know about the applicant. While Edward F. McGrady, A: F. of L. organizer, asserts to the capi- talist press that the workers from locked-out shops are registering be- | cause they have to, and not because | of any well-defined plan of the Joint Board, still he ackiiowlétiges that Ke “is taking special precautions” to keep out Communists or sympathers with the Joint Board. Why are they registering if they are Joint Board sympathizers? This is what McGrady and vice president Winnick, and many association manufacturers would like to know. The International Fur Workers’ Union has announced a convention for June 13, and they want to make sure none of these Joint Board “sym- pathizers” have any voice in it. So they deny them books, or refuse to register them. After excluding such old-time, active members, and expel- ing the Joint Board, Locals 1, 5, 10, 15, and 25, and all active members of Local 45 of Chicago, the Interna- tional will hold a nice, quiet, demo- cratic convention—of what? Tame adherents of the reactionary {nter- national leaders, and a few friends of the gangster Alex Fried who is a member of the organization commit- tee. So far the Joint Board has not an- nounced its policy with reference to this convention. It is devoting its attention to the campaign for the $100,000 union defense fund, and the mobilization work for further action against the International and the manufacturers who have taken part in the union struggle. A meeting will be held today of all chairman and active members of registered association shops to adopt a program for the registered work- ers, and organize them in accordance with Joint Board plans. It is expect- ed that an important report will is sue from their conference. No Commission Is Advice of Lawyers On Vanzetti Case BOSTON, May 13.—A group of F amou On a. charge of felonious assault, | preferred by Giacomo B, Caldora, pre-| sident of the Alliance of Fascisti Il} Duce, Inc., Carlo Tresca, well-known | anti-Fascist and editor of Il Martello, | was put under arrest yesterday and at a late hour last. night was, still awaiting release on bail. Because, of a recent law, Tresca could not be admitted to bail until the police had} provided a certificate to the presiding magistrate, and this had not yet been | | furnished when the DAILY WORKER | went to press. Upon the order of members of the Bomb Squad who visited Tresca on Thursday evening, Tresca appeared yesterday morning in the 202d Street Police Station to face Caldora in the presence of Detective Johnsop. The) DAILY WORKER printed yesterday an account of this Fascist’s attempt to frame-up Tresca by inviting him} to the office of the Alliance’s head- | | quarters, 585 East 187th Street, last | night, and then locking him in and} calling for the police. Tresca broke | S Cautious Cal Careful On His 1912 Statement Against Third Term WASHINGTON, May 13.—Pre- sident Coolidge today refused to comment on reports that in 1912 he signed a petition opposing a third term for any president. Numerous queries on the sub- ject were submitted to him at the regular White House conference with newspapermen but he ignor- ed all of them, refusing either to deny or confirm the reports. Three Giant Planes Ready to Hop Off out of the building and escaped, after | chasing Caldora and his companion) who hurled stones and then fled from the scene. On Race to France Cock and Bull Story. Three American airplanes were on The story told by Caldora yester-|the mark today ready to hop to day was that he had taken Tresca | Paris. | | to his headquarters, and when he opened the safe (in order to get some papers which he had invited Tresca to examine) Tresca took out a revol- ver and pointing it at him said, “Now give me all you have in that safe.” Caldora stated that while Tresca had the gun trained on him, he sprang at him, knocked him down and es- }caped. He declared that in the mean- time his Fascist friend was being at- tacked by Tresca’s companion, who also wielded a gun. Caldora said he finally escaped and when outside the building began whistling and shout- ing for the police. He admits he threw a stone at Tresca and his friend, and then ran. After Tresca had told the truth about the event, Detective Johnson took both men to the magistrate’s court at 1014 East 181st Street, where the stories were heard by a member of the district attorney’s staff. He refused to prefer any charge, but Caldora insisted on charging “felo- nious assault.” Magistrate Dourass fixed the bail at $2,000. Fascist Frame-up. It is the belief of Tresca and P. Quintilliano who accompanied him to court yesterday, that this case is a deliberate attempt of the Fascisti to frame-up one of their bitterest foes in this country. Friends of Tresca consider it purely a happy accident that an attempt was not made on his life when the Fascisti agents had succecded in luring him to their head- quarters last Saturday. AMERICAN SHIPS BOMBARD CHINESE SHANGHAI, May 13.—American and other imperialist war vessels con- | tinue to “patrol” the Yangtze River, |between Nanking and Hankow des- pite fighting in the area and continu | al protests from the Chinese. When hit by stray rifle bullets, the| | vessels have opened fire on the towns and villages along the river banks. | The Cincinnati did not fly a flag, de- fied a Chinese signal to halt and| | shelled the fort without any warning. The commander of the Kiang-yin WITKGUT WARNING Three aviators looked anxiously and suspiciously at each other as they wondered who will be the first to jump. This non-stop trans-Atlantic flight | today took on all the attributes of a |race—the greatest race in history. | Clarence Chamberlain and his navi- | gator, Lloyd Bertaud, who have been leisurely grooming their Bellanca for | days, have been forced by the arrival |on the field of “Lucky” Charles Lind- bergh, the “flyin’ fool”, and Comman- der Richard Byrd, of North Pole fame, into the position where they have got to jump quick. They hope to get away before dawn in the morning. Lindbergh is the algebraic X, the unknown figure, in the contest possibilities. He is playing a lone game and he |says nothing. He amazed his rivals yesterday when he came roaring in from the Pacific Coast. When will he hop? He may do it any minute, he is liable to do anything. He may be on his way over the water before you finish reading this. He has Chamberlain and Bertaud guessing, also worried. If Lindbergh represents X then Byrd represents Y. He also is keeping his plans to him- self. His plane was moved to the field yesterday. Metropolitan, Prudential, John | Insurance Companies. tained in the Harrison articles. So far the official apologist not submitted his report. icyholders. Mussolini Gangsters Frame Carlo Tresca; _Editor Jailed LABOR PARTY | “MINERS DEMAND ~ IN DISTRICT TWO | Central Pennsylvania | ‘Swinging to Brophy DU BOIS, Pa., May 13.—Over the bitter opposition of the Lewis-Marks group, John Brophy, former president \of District 2, has forced through his |resolutions for a labor party and na- tionalization of the mines at the dis- |triet convention here. | The labor parfy resolution calls for jthe “lending of every aid and encour- |agement” to Bhe units of the Labor |Party wherever they exist in District |2 and “assisting actively in the for- | mation” of units where they do not jalready exist | Brophy has been fighting every jinch of the way in the convention, although not seated as a delegate. Barred by a vote of 56 to 53, Brophy won a concession that “he be allowed the floor when attacked. Neverthe- less his supporters have had to fight for his recognition as a speaker even | when his character was assassinated | by the Lewis gang. Convention sentiment has been swinging toward Brophy from the opening days and he now carries a majority on contested issues. Nicaraguan Leader Fights U.S, Marines WASHINGTON, May 13.—A lone Nicaraguan general and his army, described as a “small band,” have | taken the field against the 3,000 ma- |rines in the American forces of oc- | cupation, the state department was | advised by cable today. | He is General Sandino, one of Gen- | eral Moncada’s twelve generals in the | liberal revolutionary army. General Sandino took his troops over the mountains and marines have | been sent to surround him and take | away his arms and munitions. They are confident of doing so before night, according to cables. Mutual Insurance Agents Defrauded by “Big Four” PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE. The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of the fraudulent methods employed by the “Big, Four,” who are the Hancock and the Colonial Life 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- for the insurance companies has The expose has caused something re- |sembling panic in insurance circles. 0,000,000 American policyholders. It affects upwards of * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. The “Big Four” do not confine their looting practices to pol- Not only are policyholders swindled, but clerks are | underpaid, agents are cheated out of commissions and the whole seven prominent lawyers of this city) fort, which was shelled by the Pen- wrote Governor Alvan T. Fuller to-| guin, an American vessel, has pub- | internal organization is flooded with a deluge of bunk and fraud, helpers and other building trades | P°0P day that: (1) Under fhe constitution a com- mission reviewing the Sacco-Vanzetti case would not have the power to de- termine whether a pardon should -be granted, ‘ (2) A commission could act only in an advisory capacity. (8) The governor is the supreme magistrate of the state elected by the le, (4) The chief executive ought not to be embarrassed by the findings of any other body in reaching his own conclusions. The signers were: ex-Attorney | lished the following protest: “A telegram dated the 6th instant |from the executive department of the \first division of. the fourteenth army | announcing that the American imper- ialists who are conducting a gunboat policy brought about tragedies on | April 25 and May 2 at Menansha | (near Kiang-yin), which is in our |control, and as a result dozens of | soldiers and civilians have been | wounded and killed and scores of | houses consumed by fire. “The news has caused no little ex- citement on my part. I wish that General Alexander Lincoln, Morefield | for the present time, when China is Storey, Thomas W. Proctor, Robert| Confronted with internal and external] The W. Nason, Homer Albers, Melville M, difficulties, my colleagues in the field| ance officials for this outrageous rob- Johnson and Julian Codman, (Continued on Page Two) ' Ignorant policyholders who sud- denly find themselves swindled of | their life savings usually turn on the | witless agent who is merely the cog ‘in the vast machine. It has been reiterated in previous articles that of all the weekly pay- ment life insurance which is written every year.more than three quarters of it lapses before it has accumulated a “legal” cash value. Chop His Salary. When an agent reports that certain of the business with which he is de- bited has lapsed, the original com- mission paid for the lapsed insurance is deducted from his salary. reason offered by the insur- fennel measures are in force the agent will indiscriminately lapse policies to the detriment of the company’s tomers. Double Profit. See how this works out. Unless a policy is paid either as a death claim or matured endowment the company calls such terminations “lapses,” — Cash surrenders after ten years of premium payments are “charged to” the lapsing agent. A policyholder has a $500 Policy on which he has been paying 50 cents weekly, In the ten years he has ne $260. The benevolent n allows $89.70 as cash surrender value and the balance is forfeited. bery is that unless such punitive In addition to this $14 is deducted | 1" (Cantiened on Page Two) seme igh og om Fe