The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 2

EOE I + at the numerous conferences it holds BRIGAND GANG | IN SCHEME TO CONTROL AIR Encourage Monopoly of | Radio (By A Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 13—Despite the fact that daily complaints are be- ing received of the most partisan eensorship and class discrimination by broadcasters throughout the land, the federal radio commission refuses | to do anything about the matter. The Dry Czar Turns From Liquor to Literature; To Bar ‘Arabian Nights’ WASHINGTON, May 13.—Ex- ercising the power of a literary censor, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, “dry czar,” to- day ordered all future shipments of the unexpurgated “Arabian Nights” and “Decameron” barred from the country. The ban will be effective pend- ing a final ruling as to whether these classics, or parts of them, are “obscene.” Copies now held up at New York, however, will be per- mitted to come in because previous shipments were admitted and im- commission takes the position that| under the law it has neither the| power nor the authority to do any- | thing. The fact is that the commission has | the authority to intervene and is ac-| tually doing s0. Section 18 of the) radio act, specifically provides that a! broadcaster who grants the use of | his equipment to one political candi- date, or one side of an issue, must permit other candidates the same use. The law also gives the commission | the right to regulate stations charged with broadcasting obscene matter. And finally, and most effective of all, through its control of the issuing of licenses and allocating wave-lengths and fixing the power that may be/ used, the Commission has an all- powerful control of broadcasters and | could if it desired put the lid down 24 hours. Keeps Out Radicals. | The Commission gravely announces with the press that every station now operating will be licensed. Not all of course will get preferred accomoda- tions, but all will be licensed, But the fact that not one l@bor station has been given the right to operate, that not one radical, or even@iberal broad- caster is now functioning is entirely passed by, by the Commission. Quizzed about the matter, the reply is made: “Oh, yes, as soon as we clear up the existing situation we will con- sider the applications of new sta- tions.” Not the applications that have been pending for months from or- ganized labor for permits to broad-| cast, no, but the “applications of new! stations.”* In other words, if or-| ganized labor, or radicals, or liberals want a station they will have to go to the bottom of the list and begin all over again. Already the best channels and power usages have been preempted, mostly by the American Radio Corporation. The remaining desirable places are in the hands of a small number of owners, all reac- tionary, invariably hostile to labor, radicalism or even liberalism. Of course the good Mr. Coolidge and the equally sacred members of} his party can always get a national | “hook-up,” to broadcast their propa- ganda. ce | Broadcasting a Monopoly. The Commission is making much of the fact that it will give all broad- casters now operating a place in the air—net quite so much just how much of a place—but still’ a place. It declaims often and loudly that it is showing no favors, that service, equipment, priority and past record alone will count. Which is undoubt- edly true, but still means nothing. The fact is that the commission is in- dulging in the grossest sort of dis- crimination. | Instead of giving all sides, all) parties vantage places on the air,} the commission is merely confirming the grabs of those who already are operating. The result is that broad- casting mm America today is prac- tically a monopoly. It is in the hands of, big business, controlled by big money, and nothing they don’t want said is spoken. As Attorney Ernst, of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union, in address- ing the Commission when it first or-| ganized, pointed out, these broadcast- ers have greater power of censorship than any other institution in the country. Not only censorship, but the medium for spreading their views while denying the other side the op- portunity to reply. In his speech, the only discussion by the way, of the many that were delivered by the numerous “authorities” interested in the radio business, that reached down and jerked out to view the fundamental issues involved, Mr. Ernst cited scores of instances of the| baldest sort of discrimination and censorship, | Vicious Discrimination. He related how a groufi of liberals, men and women of international reputation, attempted to purchase time from a certain big station to answer a rabid denunication of those who dared criticize the mi istic imperialism of Kellogg and (oolidge in tral America, made o¥er the station’s equipment by a crooked Re- publican boss. The operator flatly re- fused to allow them to use his sta- tion, although they submitted to him a list of a score of prominent individuals, one of whom he could select to do the speaking. “This was but one of many similar instances, Yet this station, and the porters had not been notified of a change in requirements. Establishment of a code of mor- ality for foreign books generally will be undertaken, Andrews indi- cated in a formal staterient, American Ships Shell More Chinese Cities (Continued from Page One) cause would immediately then crushing imprialism in the hope General Ho Yao-Tso. * * . Seamen No Longer Docile. to the effect that cheap Chinese la- bor is no longer “safe” for the anti- union Dollar Line to the Orient, when that line is carrying American armed forces to China, The Dollar com- pany, having bought a number of government ships at bargain prices and put coolie crews aboard, has made a “patriotic” gesture by offering the lease of these ships to the govern- ment as transports for marines and soldiers. The first ship taken was the President Grant, and before she could sail from San Francisco all Cantonese among the crew were taken off. While. Chinese crews were good enough when China was submissive to the foreign powers, the Dollar concern did not trust the Canton Chi- Shanghai to overawe revolutionists. It was feared that the Canton sailors belonged secretly to the Canton Seaman’s Union, which has declared in favor of a Soviet type of government in China, If the crew were radicals, they might possibly sink the ship, drowning themselves and the soldiers together. . . * May Disbar Husar. SHANGHAI, May 13—The Amer- ican bar association here is institu- ting disbarment proceedings against Leonard Husar, former United States district attorney who was convicted of opium smuggling last week. | Husar, who has appealed, has filed $20,000 bonds and leaves next week fot San Francisco. * * . Butler Leaves For Peking. SHANGHAI, May 18. — General Smedley Butler, commander of the United States marines in the Shang- tomorrow. . . * Predicts Proletarian Dictatorship. HANKOW, Feng’s troops have crossed the Shensi-Honan border and rapidly moving against Chang Tso-lin’s troops in southern Honan. cisive battle is expected soon. in a few months by a dictatorship of the proletariat was the prediction made by Jules Sauerwein, reaction- ary foreign editor of The Matin of Paris at a luncheon Thursday of the association of foreign press corres- pondents at the Leaguers’ Club 115 Broadway. Sauerwein was compelled to con- cede the strength of the left wing movement, and estimated the trade union membership of China as be- tween 4,000,000 and 5,000,000, mission give consideration to the de- mands of all classes and parties. The Commission thanked him pleasantly, applauded his able address and that ended the matter. Monopoly. of Air. The existing radio act, a makeshift bit of legislation that was dragged out in the last hours of the last session, only under the greatest duress is desperately inadequate to protect the public. Once the Com- | mission has gwen a broadeaster his | license for three years, as long as he obeys its rules about remaining on his wave-length and using only the power alloted to him, he can not bc dislodged and can do as he please as far as saying who shall or shall not broadcast and what he will alloy to be sent out over his station. Under the present system it is en- tirey conceivable that within a few years time radio broadcasting will become a_ highly controlled mon- opoly; it is practically that as far others against whom complaints have been made, are being given every ns and will be among who are to receive special con- Sepiite Bo eiesetcn of pone Mr. Ernst demanded that the Com- ' q \ APR oeena as national broadcasting goes. This situation presents a grave evil and one that unless it is curbed and brought under control may foreclose to the masses’ their right to use of | /SHALL NOT D the ain $516,000 GRAFT WRECKS NEVADA All Trades Get Ten STATE FINANGES [State Treasurer, Bank |Pass Buck; Moratorium RENO, Nev., May 13.—With half a million dollars missing from the state treasury, Nevada today began a five-day moratorium, during which of emancipating the Chinese race.” | nese to safely handle one of their| |ships carrying foreign troops to} the Chinese | hai district, will leave for Peking| May 13. — General | high walls with loaded rifles. That China will be goverened with- | {ernment will be halted. oe | Governor Balzar declared the {moratorium upon completion of an | audit of the books of State Treasurer | Ed. Malley, with former State Comp- \troller George Cole and E. W. Clapp, |former cashier of the Carson Valley | Bank, is accused of embezzling $516,- 000. The state treasurer, however, con- |tends the huge. shortage is in the | books of the Carson Valley Bank and {not in the state ledgers. By an adroit maneuver, Malley placed the | state and the bank on the defensive. and all interested in the fags hinged He appeared at the bank, presenting} atise, first|cashier’s checks totalling well over | t suppressing internal disturbances and |half a million dollars and demanding| abnormally high, the agent in un- payment. The bank refused to honor pay- ‘ment, Malley thereby is said to have | placed upon the bank the burden of WASHINGTON, May 13. (FP).—| proving the checks fraudulent. Fur- | Information from the Sailors’ Union| thermore, it was said, the bank now on censorship and discrimination in|°f the Pacific, at San Francisco, is|will be forced to take legal action | independent of the state prosecution. Cedarholm, California Criminal Syndicalism Prisoner Is for I. L. D. An echo of the big Marine Transport Workers’ Strike of 1923 in San Pedro, California, was heard yes- terday in the local office of the In- ternational Labor Defense. H. Ce- darholm, Number 38108, graduate of San Quentin, California, hit this big city and got into touch with the In- ternational Labor Defense as soon as possible, and told his story. He was one ‘of the twenty-seven workers arrested for being the lead- ing spirits in the San Pedro strike. The trial started on July 4th, 1923. The charges being “criminal syndi- calism” and not being authorized or- ganizers and propagandists, the re- action from the strike had its effect on the judge, and the prisoners were sentenced to from one to fourteen years on each charge, sentences to run concurrently. | Entering the penitentiary on July 12th, the prisoners thought it was a | fine building to look at. The guards | jostled them about, saying, “You'll damned soon find out how good it is; we'll take the wokbly ideas out of your head.” “Some of us got 17 days and others 42 days of solitary confinement in the dark dungeons as our first prison experience. Bread and: water was our only food; we had no bedding, and the ventilation was very bad.” | After being reduced to practically | physical wrecks, the prisoners were | sent to work in the jute mills. The atmosphere was hellish. It was a case however of working there or go- ing back to the damnable solitude of | the dungeons. Medical treatment was only given when one was at the last gasp. The prison atmosphere was main- tained by the guards walking on the On one occasion bullets were indiscrimi- nately fired into the prisoner’s ranks wounding three prisoners. | ment. | Prison Strikes Conditions became so bad that the prisoners were compelled to lodge complaints. They were accused of striking and rioting, and punished accordingly. As a consequence, how- ever, conditions improved towards the end of 1925. Cedarholm was released on Novem- ber 12th, 1926; the authorities giving him the necessary clothing and $5.00 with which to start the battle of life. During the latter part of his sen- | tence, he received regularly $5.00 per month from the International Labor Defense, This money was very wel- |come, enabling him to get tobacco, literature, and many other things not on the meagre prison bill of fare. He desires the following statement to go | out to the workers;— “I appeal to the working men and women of America to rally together as a solid united mass, and go for- ward demanding justice and freedom for the militants in prison. It is not the millionaires who send workers to prison; it is those workers who have not yet realized the need for solidarity. I urge all class-conscious workers to support the International Labor Defense in its great work of helping to free political prisoners, Recover $10,000 Fiddle, CHICAGO, May 13.—-Efrem Zim- balist today cables from Suva in the Fiji Islands where he is on tour, his congratulations to Rembert Wurlitzer and John R. Dubbs on the recovery of his $10,000 violin, stolen in Los Angeles last month, SACCO and VANZETTI IE! i all financial activity of the state gov-| Of course) A de-|the guards must have their enjoy- \ aenatliniet acai ul coreg Italian Workers of ~ Per Cent Wage Cut | ROME, May 13.—The object of the | so-called Charter of Labor, laid down | by Mussolini several weeks ago, was | made clear yesterday when Mussolini announced that a ten per cent slash) lin the wages of workers in all} |branches of production would take place within a few days. The wage slash is not a temporary measure, it was announced yesterday, and will remain in effect for a* com- paratively long period, Its object is to help Italian manufacturers. Although Italian factory and agri- | cultural workers have suffered severe wage slashes in the last few months |prices have not declined noticeably. Big Insurance Bosses Cheat Own Agents | (Continued from Page One) | from the agents salary as a “lapse | charge.” The labor turnover in agencies is | derpaid, overworked and is constantly | supervised by an army of company spies “assistant manager.” ~ In the home offices of these com- panies thousands of clerical workers are frightfully underpaid, fifteen dollars a week being the average wage. In addition to the wage the company throws in a free luncheon in which water plays a predominant | | role. . | All efforts on the part of the field |or home office employes to organize has been met with ruthtess suppres- | sion and wholesale dismissal. Of course there are company or ganizations such as the company brass band and the company the- atrical company at which everybody {has a good time and all are hope- lessly patronized by the lesser of- | ficials who are compelled to attend. In conclusion I list briefly the case against the “Big Four” weekly pay- ment life insurance companies. To begin the mortality table on which industrial life insurance pre- miums are based are more than 40 per cent inaccurate, The table used by these companies is incorporated in |the New York State Insurance Law. The rate of expected interest as-| sumed by these companies in com- puting premium charges is 3 per cent whereas the actual interest re- turn is nearer 6 per cent. This false interest-earning assumption is also embodied in the law. While the “Big Four” are suppored to be mutual or co-operative com- panies the machinery of administra- tion is totally in the hands of a group of Wall Street financiers who not only benefit by the enormous power which they enjoy as directors of these companies, but in addition they are also directors or officials of the hundreds of railroads and public | utility companies in whose bonds and securities the billions of “mutual’) funds are invested. In addition to this we find that most of these com- | panies are vitally interested in the banks and trust companies which handle their deposits and securities. Due to the enormous overcharging | of policy rates and also to the harsh | and iniquitous policy conditions the | insurance is dropped at the slightest misfortune or period of unemploy- ment. 75 per cent of all weekly premium insurance lapses before it jis three years old, and only 1 per cent of all endowments mature for | their face value, The superintendent of Insurance in the State of New York is more than lenient with these companies and permits insurance practices which are illegal and dishonest to |go by unnoticed, Many past super- intendents have been taken care of by the “Big Four” and it is assumed |that unless the workers take over the operation of these companies this will continue indefinitely. Assets Mount, The presence of the board of direc- tors of Frank P. Noyes, president of |the Associated Press makes it im- possible to get any capitalistic news- paper to expose the fraud practiced by this plunderbund. As things are constituted at pres- ent the assets of these companies will continue to pyramid until, at the existing rate of increase, the assets of the “Big Four” will be over one trillion dollars in 1977. | At the time of writing their assets ‘are greater than the entire currency in circulation in the United States. As these assets are mostly in the form of quick securities they could be liquidated within 48 hours and the country thrown into a most hopeless panic if it so suited their ends, As the evils in the weekly payment |life insurance business are ones which are embedded in the laws of the state nothing short of a legisla- tive investigation will bring about an tamelioration of the unfair conditions. To achieve this end the’ millions of American workers who are de- frauded under this system should see to it that sufficient pressure is brought to bear on “our” legislators which will eventually result in the much to be desired investigation. The facts contained in this series of articles are only those which are attainable through public documents, what a legislative e: ‘is an interesting th’ Time alone will tell. 4 iry will reveal, | ut Lankenau } 6 thoi tot earl sat SIX DAYS, SCHEME OF LOCAL SCHOOL Workers Defrauded Is} Charge Filed Fraud on workers is against the Union Trade Schools, Inc., of 84 West 22nd St., in com- plaints filed with city magistrates here, U payment of $35, the worker is given a week's “course” in briek- laying, after which he is sent out to a jab where he works two weeks with- out pay. Thereafter he is to be placed on a job where the wages are not to ex- ceed” $8 a day. On the face of it the so-called Union Trade Schools, Inc., which gives the impression that it is a trade union school, is preparing strike- breakers \to destroy the conditions built up over half a century by union bricklayers’ union, according to Pres- ident Joseph T. Gillen, of Bricklayers’ Local 1. But actually the outfit fails to send its “students” out on any sort of job with money in it, declares Gillen, who is handling the complaints of two workers who claim they have been defrauded. Gillen adds that the Union Trade Schools, Inc., advertizes in capitalist papers, including the New York World. “ Liberal Delegates Deny Acceptance of Fake Stimson Peace PANAMA CITY, May 13. — The Liberal Nicaraguan peace delegates returning to Puerta Cabezas thru the Panama Canal have vigorously denied that they have accepted Henry Stim- son’s “peace terms,” which would foist on Nicaragua the presidency of Diaz. “What has prevailed,” they said, “is a new imposition of force.” The Liberals, they said, have driven the Diaz forces from the neck of land separating the great lakes. This ter- ritory they declared, is occupied by American troops and the Liberals “have not a Nicaraguan enemy in the field, but Americans blocking the way to Managua.” . * * New Protectorate. WASHINGTON, May 13,—Presi- dent Diaz of Nicaragua has appoint- ed Lt. Col. R. Y. Rhea of the United States Marines as chief of the native constabulary, Rear Admiral Latimer, commander of American occupational forces, advised the state department today. Other officers will be named later to assist Rhea. Henry T. Stimson, President Cool- idge’s personal representative in Nic- aragua, plans to sail for home on Monday. * * * Vaca Protests Intervention. WASHINGTON, May 13 (FP). — Dr. T. S. Vaca, representative in Washington of the Liberal govern- ment of Nicaragua, has delivered to Secretary Kellogg a formal protest against military seizure of his coun- try by American forces, and a warn- ing that when the Nicaraguans re- gain their freedom they will repudi- ate all contracts and loans negotiated meanwhile by the illegal regime set up by American power. 4 Further, the Liberal government, says Vaca, declines all responsibility for bloodshed resulting from the de- termination of President Coolidge to disarm ee Liberal armies. He charges that the Liberal forees have been defending the laws and constitution and national sovereignty of their country against a plot of the Diaz- Chamorro militarist faction because they believed the pledges of neutral- re made by the Washington authori- ties. ‘ Rejects “Peace” Terms. “The Constitutional (Liberal) gov- ernment of Nicaragua hereby de- clares,” says its agent, “that con- trary to semi-offieial reports and dis- patches from Managua it has no€ con- sented to the Stimson peace terms, | at and that finally, by action of the naval forces of the U.S. it may be compelled to cease its” military ac- tivities only when it is convinced that in this manner it may serve best the welfare of the Nicaragudn people hopelessly in the clutches of a for- eign power.” . * * WASHINGTON, May 13.—Colonel Stimson is expected to go to Managua, the capital, Sunday to hold a series of conferences with President Diaz and draw up a tentative draft of a treaty whi¢h will establish an Amer- ican protectorate over the republic and return to Washington the latter part of this month, Southern Pacifie Magnate. PHILADELPHIA, May 12.—Henry E. Huntington, Southern California railroad magnate and art collector, continued to show improvement today ‘The 77 charged | | i Half Million to Get Estate Exclusiveness John D, Rockefeller, Jr, has pur- chased outright a real estate de- velopment near his estate presum- ably, for the sole purpose of pre- serving the exclusiveness of the estate. At a meeting of the town of Mt. Pleasant, it was stated that Rocke- feller paid $450,000 for the devel- opment, which had been laid out by the Mandell Company. It is re~ ported that the price is $100,000 more than the Mandell Company paid for the land. ‘ Soviet Union Charge Makes Sharp Protest (Continued from Page One) “All employers of Arcos and the trade delegation, both men and wom- en, were detained and subjected to personal search, Among these were women, possessing diplomatic pass- ports, iricluding Mme. Rosengoltz and the wife of the financial attache. The personal search of women was car- ried out by male officers.” Rosengoltz delivered a formal note of protest to Sir Austen, charging that the raid on the Arcos building constitute a violation of the obliga- tions assumed by the British govern- ment under the trade agreement of 1921. He also stated he had informed his government of the search, which was still continuing at the time and he awaits further instructions from Mos- cow. Employes of Arcos tell of the gen- eral brutality of the raid, and the confusion wrought in the offices, even those with diplomatic immunity. The tables and desks in the rooms were strewn deeply with papers which were prowled over and examin- ed by the policemen, A burly uni- formed officer stood guard over the clerks and typists at the back of the rooms and prevented them from re- trom Bite ome swe boy |class militant and Funk Sing Quong turning to their desks, Ordered By Home Office, Late in the afternoon it was stated that the raid was carried out by a special branch of Scotland Yard un- der instructions from the home office. Home Secretary William Joynson- Hicks was said to have personally or- dered the action on information he dered the action on a decision he made only yesterday. An appli- the financial district this morning. While no official announcement is as yet forthcoming regarding the raid it is declared in unofficial quarters that the action may not be entirely disconnected with the Chinese raid on the Soviet Union compound at Peking. Arcos A Trading Co. Arcos Limited is a buying and sell- ing agency for the All-Russian co- operative society, The central Eng- lish headquarters are on the first floor of the Moorgate Street building. The agency is staffed by the Rus- sian trade delegatin to England, at the head of which is M. Khintchuk, who succeeded Leonid Krassin in that post at the death of Krassin last No- vember, Arcos with its subsidiaries has 1,215 employes in Great Britain of rea Ea as na OMAR OME ee SN ANCA a TRACTION MESS. IN PUBLIC SOON Untermyer Says He Is For Nickel Fare Public hearings on the Transit Unification Project will be begun by the Transit Commission at its offices, 270 Madison Avenue Monday, May 23, it was announced yesterday fol- lowing a conference between mem- bers of the commission and Samuel Untermyer. The decision to air the whole tangle , in the open was reached following an announcement by Untermyer, special counsel to the commission, that he had broken off negotiations with the I. R. T. and the B. . officials in his effort to find”some solution of the problem. It is understood the hearings will resolve themselves into a determined effort to “smoke out” the traction company heads and find out just what they are willing to do to effect a unification of the transit lines of the city. Traction Becomes Mum. None of the company officials would discuss the Untermyer an- nouncement, The full commission will sit at the hearings with Chairman F. Gilchrist, presiding. Alvin Untermyer and Clarence M. Lewis, regular counsel of the commission, will co-operate with Untermyer in the examination of witnesses at the hearings. termyer indicated that he proposes with the transit representative’s be~ cause of their refusal to cooperate in a reasonable consolidation plan, Un- termyer indicated that he proposes to summon the officials as witnesses and question them at the forthcoming hearings. Service Now Atrocious. Untermyer reaffirmed his alle- giance to the five-cent fare and char- acterized the present service on sub- ways and elevated lines as “atrocious.” He asserted a higher fare would not abate or improve conditions. Vigor- ously advocating recapture of Inter~ borough and B.M.T. lines by the city, Untermyer, who will begin his public hearings next Monday, said: “The efforts to reach an agreement at this juncture by negotiation with the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit and Interborough Companies have now been exhausted and abandoned. At no time did they include the sur- face roads. Separate L’s and Tubes, “In view of the substantial and steady increase in losses shown by the Manhattan Elevated Railway, which are a heavy drain on the re- sources of the Interborough, counsel for the commission was reluctant to recommend the taking over of the Manhattan. That would have been too heavy a burden upon the main- tenance of a five-cent fare, “The B. M. T. made it a finality that the city would have to take its surface lines if it took the Rapid Tran- sit System, to which we are unwill- ing to assent. They further insisted that their property, if taken, should be acquired on the basis of yielding them in perpetuity the same net re- these 400 are Soviet Union citizens some of whom enjoy diplomatic im- munity. Biedenkapp to Address Glassport China Meet GLASSPORT, Pa., May 13.—Fred Biedenkapp, the well-known working- of the Kuomintang will address “Hands Off Soviet Russia and China” meetings at 85 Miller Street, Sunday, 8 p. m, and the Finnish Hall today at 2.00 p. m. day-light saving time. Mr. Biedenkapp recently returned from a six months’ visit to Berlin and Soviet Union. Funk Sing Quong, a disciple of Sun Yat Sen, the founder of the Kuomintang Party, will give un outline of the revolutionary situa- tion and the part China will play in the intefnational politics. NEWS IN BRIEF Rich Get Freneh Divorce. PARIS, May 18.—The Seine court today granted a divorce to Mrs. Mar- cus Goodrich, who was married at New York on Atigust 14, 1924. Her maiden name was Henriette Alice Metealf. A divorce was granted to Mrs. Al- bert John Hettinger, who was mar-! ried at Northampton, Mass., on May 31, 1920. Taft Scolds Lawyers, WASHINGTON, May 13.—The le- gal profession has too many mem- bers who delay the effective opera- tion of criminal law, according to Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court. “No lover of his country can have gone through the last four years without being stirved over the fail- ure of the administration of our criminal law,” said the chief justice, | gation addressing the American Law In- stitute. “We love our profession, we have ” refers are @x- turn in the securities paid them for the property as was represented by the earnings for the past year. “This demand was plainly inad- missable.” Hands Off China Mass Meeting in Los Angeles Adopts Hot Resolution By L. P. RINDAL (WORKER Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 18— The Aniti-imperialist United Front held a big “Hands Off China” protest meeting at Music-Art Hall. Franklin Wong, President Sun Yat Sen Society, Sid Bush, Workers (Com- munist) Party, and Frank Cassidy, of the proletarian party, were scheduled , Joseph Siminoff, of the’ to speak, Anti-imperialist United Front, was chairman. { Chairman's Speech Pleass4 The chairman explained the/forma- tion of the new-born foe of capitalism and imperialism, and called upon every ‘workers’ organization in the city to join hands in this most im- portant workingclass movement, Franklin Wong was the first speak~ er. He went into the history of the imperialists’ explotation of his coun- , try and, judging by the applause, t audience of 700 workers was pleased with his presentation of fac and figures. He ended his interesting speech by saying: “If the aims and ob- jects of the Kuomintang (Nationalist party) are Communistic, I am proud ; of being a Communist.” Anti-Imperialist Resolution Sid Bush, the next speaker, outlined the trouble in China “in the language of the workingclass,” he said, and the workers present clapped their hands as a sign of understanding. At this point a strong Hands Off China resolution wed ae read and adopted—unani iy. It will be sent ae press, the oraep sal dele- in congress, Presi lidge and to the left wing of the Revolu- tionary Party of China. i i] ' a