The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1927, Page 1

STOP IMPERIALIST PLOT FOR NEW WORLD WAR! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 105. THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. “Jix”—Ordered Raid FINAL CITY EDITION 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER i PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥ Price 3 Cents “WOE TO THOSE WHO WAGE ANOTHER On “Arcos” House FENG TAKES LOYANG FROM CHANG TSO-LIN IN Current Events By T. J, O’Fiauerty. HERE are strong indications that Scotland Yard has presented the tory government with a nifty dilem- ma as a result of its spectacular raid on the headquarters of the Russian Trade Delegation. The London dis- patches hint that Sir William Joyn- son-Hicks, Home Secretary, did not find the “documents” he promised the public, tho why Mr. Hicks should fail since his forging apparatus inherited from war days and supplemented by experts from the exiled Czarists | should be able to perform any task} assigned to it. * * ETHER it is true that the| * Foreign Office was in the dark} about the raid until after it broke| into the press is a matter for skeptic- | ism. In all probability Sir Austen | Chamberlain was in on the con-| spiracv. It is no new dodge in| government circles to give the public the impression that there are divided councils in the cabinet so that in case of a mishap a section of the) crew of the sinking balloon can be/ dropped to lighten ballast. | * * * IT looks now as if the raid were al colossal blunder. In view of the general lack of confidence in the character of the Churchill-Hicks-Bir- | kenhead wing of the tory cabinet Mr. Hicks will have to be very careful of | his forgeries in order to make them} stick, Of course in England as in the| United States there are people who| are afflicted with “redphobia,” whose only cavail is ‘that they don’t get| their plots often enough and gory} enough, But there are hard headed | business men in England whose} fingers are ready to clutch nervously at the big, juicy contracts that the Soviet trade monopoly is dangling before their eyes. ba * F the Arcos raid news dispatches will it mean the end of a few politi-| cal careers but in all probability ‘the defeat of tne tories in a general! elec- | fion which is almost certain to fol- low anti-Russian flop. With the workers waiting for an opportunity to avenge the government for its conduct during the general str and the middle classes being loa down with taxes to pay for tory perialist ventures, it is more than probable that the Labor Party will be returned to power. ee * % les out as the ndicate not only | ENEVA dispatches tell us that the American delegates to the Inter- national Economic Conference are developing a warmer attitude to- wards the Soviet delegates than at first. They have now reached the stage of breaking bread with them. This means business, much to the chagrin of the British who would like nothing worse than to see the United States recognize the govern- ment of the Soviet Union. But, business is business and even tho} Frank Kellogg fulminates against the | Soviet government occasionally the Soviet business agents are quite wel- come in our best hanks and ware- houses, * Sle Yates. IOHN SPARGO, the renegade so- cialist—or one of them-—has man- aged to sink to a new low level of depravity in the current issue of the New York Times book review supple- ment. This is undoubtedly an acy complishment even for such an ac- plished political mole as Spargy. Sturzo has written a boux on and Fascismo.” The author is opponent of Mussolini and the agony of Spargo who the stilletto that has stabbed the Italian labor movement in the back. Had Spargo been on the payroll of the Italian blackshirt cut- throat he would not be more eulogis- tic. He fiads Mussolini a “mystery ™ whose soul it is almost im- le to pierce. We venture to y that whenever his soul is pierced the human race will have to wear 4 si mask. Here is a typical excerpt f Spargo’s review of Sturzo’s pook or rather Spargo’s eulogy of Mussolini: “What Lenin: represented in the leadership of the destructive forces that were unleashed in Eur- ope, Mussolini became in the leader- ship of the conserving and construc- tive forces, Mussolini’s constructive- ness was amply demonstrated to the Italian workingclass last week when under the auspices of the “Charter IMPERIALIST WAR,” WARNS ISVESTIA MOSCOW May 15.—Backed by un- precedented mass demonstrations } against England in which workers, professionals, peasants and the mili- tary marched shoulder to shoulder, Izvestia today warns: “The Soviet Union is ready with a steel wall of bayonets to defend its victories and repudiate its assailants. World im- ; | perialism will break its teeth against ds is not clear, | P ei to produce the goo |a compact proletarian front from Central Europe to the Pacifie coast if it attempts to transfer its activity from petty bandit raids to open ag- gression against Russia. “Woe to those who attempt to chal- lenge another imperial war. The working class of Europe which sup- mand full redress on the occasion of open military aggression against us.” | An editorial in the paper pointed | out: “Notwithstanding the great indig- nation of the masses as vividly ex- pressed in yesterday’s demonstration before the British mission, the Soviet government will take all measures to prevent the representatives of any country with which we have an agreement from being subjected to similar insults, such as the ‘die hards’ are to inflict upon the Soviet trade delegation in London. “The preservation of British-Rus- sian trade relations is of as much in- terest to England as to the Soviet | Order’s weekly—or monthly—pecuniary expression of approval of ‘his services, |Captain, demanding where it gets its) Y- W. C. A., the National Women’s Union and if necessary steps to cor- rect the raid are not forthcoming, then the Soviet Union will have nothing left but to transfer opera- tions to some other country.” ported Russia during its civil war will give more than passive support this time. The. Soviet government must listen to the unanimous voice of millions of laborers who will de- Heavy Patriot Gets Proof of Blows af Pacifist and Women’s Liberal Groups “Adjutant-General” Captain George L. Darte of the Military Order of the World War is still sleuthing. He was the chief witness for the prosecution when The) DAILY WORKER editors and business manager were brought! to court under arrest for printing David Gordon’s poem™“Amer-| ica.” He will no doubt be the state’s greatest aid in framing| the case against the paper, and also against Gordon who is to appear for a hearing this morning on the charge of producing an “obseene” and “unpatriotic” poem. Darte is evidentlf still watching The DAILY WORKER as closely as ever for any technical violations of any sort; the more} ifaw suits he can fix up the greater his prestige as “Executive; Officer” of his Military Order, and no doubt the greater the | i |League for Peace and Freedom, The The DAILY WORKER is in receipt | National Council for the’ Prevention of a letter from the Adjutant-General | of, War, the Nationa: Board of the information about him; how it knows| Christian Temperance “Union, the} that he made the foolish statements) American Association of University about the Y, W. GC. A. and the W.| Women, the National Couneil of Jew- ican of February 27, 1925. of Labor” they were forced to accept a ten per cent wage reduction at the tt of a dagger. In the Soviet mion the wages of the workers ap ’ the living conditions of the peasa’ » are on the upgrade, But what does this mean to the paid stoolpigeon John Spargo? A NEW prospect of making a little extra change has loomed for out- (Continued on Page Three) C. T. U. which were published in The DAILY WORKER of April 30th. Cite Chapter and Verse. The DAILY WORKER is not dis- \closing all it knows about this leader of the red-baiting agency, Military Order of the World War, but it is referring the captain to the New York World of February 20, 1925, and to the Philadelphia North Amer- A story in the World says: “‘Charges made Tuesday by Cap- tain George A. Darte, Adjutant- General of the Military Order of the World War, that Mrs. Carrie Chap- man Catt and other women leaders were preaching Communist doctrines among women’s organization§ are in- excusable,’ Mary Garret Hay declared yesterday in a letter to the world. “‘The story Captain Darte repeats first appeared in the Dearborn Inde- pendent last March . . . and some- one investigated at that time the complete falsity of the charges.’ ” The North American story of Feb- ruary 27th says: “Captain Darte~in a’speech to the New York Chapter of the American War Mothers . . charged, that there is a group of women indentified with the control of the League of Women Voters dominating this and other women’s groups and carrying them along into ideas verging on Communism. . Brands Intelligentsia. “Leaders of these organizations and their interlocking directorates with identical membership composed of many women who are either radical, pink or of the intelligentsia group dominate the women who are willing to follow. “Organizations that Darte says are dominated by pacifist - Communist groups are Women’s International 4 Days’ Defense Bazaar Piled Up Money to Free Workers; Great Success The Defense Bazaar, which closed at New Star Casino last night, was undoubtedly the great- est event of its kind ever held in this city. At a late hour, workers were still bringing in contribu- tions, and the success of the four- day sale has astonished those who are experienced in managing such affairs. No figures can yet be given out the treasurer, bat the profits will undoubtedly be far greater than was originally anticipated. A full report will/be made in a few days by the Joint Defense Com- mittee, whose headquarters are at 41 Union Square. - |ish Women, the General Federated {Women’s Clubs and the League of | Women Voters.” | Another member of the Military Order of the World War, Lieutenant- | Colonel George F. Ames, commander | | of the Buffalo chapter, according to |a story in the Buffalo Evening News jof May 20, 1924, “called the Women’s |International League for Peace and | Freedom aligned with radicals.” | In his letter to The DAILY WORK- er, Captain Darte also objects to an/| advertisement in the paper which| | states that he and Mr. Seitz, the “re- {search worker” of the Keymen of | America “are paid agents of business interests” who “will collect many |thousands of dollars from employers }throughout the country.” | Hate Publicity on Funds. Why Captain Darte should raise such an objection when he flaunts the letterhead he does, is hard to explain except that “radical-hunters” hate publicity, except about their prospec- tive victims. Atcording to the sta- tionery of the Military Order of the World War, it lists among its officers and general staff men who represent traction interests, railroads, electric light and power companies, the Mel- lon interests, coal, iron, insurance, as well as the powerful political inter- ests of the country. Certainly he is expecting to get, and does get, money from all these sources. The list of officers displays an amazing number of colonels, major generals, majors, brigadier generals and what-nots. A large proportion of them are men over sixty, some of whom are died-in-the-wool army men; some of whom never got nearer the army than a swivel chair in Wash- ington during the war. “Major” William J. Hammer, the historian- general, is one of the fascisti who has written to Governor Fuller urg- ing him not to pardon or investigate the of Sacco and Vanzetti. He (Continued on Page Two) Uppah. Classes Hate Each Other, Ade Says British upper classes hate Amer- ica’s upper classes because the Yanks) are running ahead in the commercial | race, George Ade, the humorist, re-| ports on his return from England. More Lawyers Soon Dumped on Market ’ Four thousand at Columbia and 2,- 600 at New York University will get pieces of paper known as degrees next month to testify that they have been through the educational mill. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | \ joined the cop and got three bullets Sir William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary in the Baldwin Tory government, who stakes his political future on a desperate attempt to rup-| ture trade relations between the Soviet Union and Great Britain. ANTI-STRIKE BILL CLOAK TO ATTACK US.S.R - TOMSKY The British anti-strike bill is a de- vice of the die-hards to crush the workingclass of England and free its hands for its anti-Soviet and anti-| Chinese policy, declared M. Tomsky, chairman of the All Union Central Council of “[rade Unions in an inter- view today. The bill practically means the aboli- tion of strikes, boycotts and picket- ing and is an abrupt departure from the fundamental traditions of British labor and a transition toward fascism. Scores Right Wingers. The general council and the leaders of the Labor Party, Tomsky said, made a big mistake when they re- jected the proposition of a general | strike, limiting their struggle entirely | to parliamentary methods. This, he said, is a tantamount renunciation of | the struggle. Instead of rallying all | forces of the workingclass to fight | the bill, the general council, as be-| fore, is baiting the Communist and | minority movements. The general‘ council and the Labor Party fails to take into consideration, Tomsky continued, that the passage of the bill will weaken their party and cause their defeat in the pending elections. The British labor movement must start a struggle against the bill if it is going to survive, Tomsky said. Woman Dead When Cop Runs Amuck in 9th Ave. Gun Battle A cop pulled a gun and as a result a working woman was almost in- stantly killed and a by-stander per- haps fatally wounded. Patrolman Peter Pfeiffer was chas- ing men whom he suspected of bur- glary at Ninth Ave. and 29th St., according to police reports yesterday. Pfeiffer says they hauled out pistols before he fired, but in any event Mrs. Annie Coombs, 48, of 389 Ninth Ave., and not the burglars received the hail of lead. John Mavajosky, 152 E. 20th St., for his trouble. U. S. Governor Ends, Cricket in Samoa APIA, Samoa, May 15—The Amer- ican governor of Samoa has issued arbitrary orders to the native popu-| lation to curtail its attendance at cricket games. It is alleged by the government that the work in the fields is hindered by the Samoans de- sire to occasionally take a week off and attend inter country matches. Crieket was introduced to the island- ers thirty years ago, and is well liked, But the new American rulers are efficient business man and want production. | 4 TWOFOLD DRIVE AGAINST WAR LORDS; BORODIN PREDICTS CAPTURE OF PEKING BY MIDSUMMER 400,000 Filipinos in Armel Revolt; Resent || Sale of Govt. Business |Open Large Central Peasants’ Training School At Wuchang; Enroll 751 Students ' Nationalists Prevent Disorder Despite Stabbing Of Worker by British Sailor MANILA, May 15.—Four hun- dred thousand armed natives have poured into Iloilo Province in the Island of Panay, and are reported to be in revolt. | Although the cause of the upris- || ing is not definitely known, it is attributed to general dissatisfac- | (By Nationalist News Agency.) HANKOW, May 15.—Loyang, formerly the stronghold of Wu Pei-fu has been taken by the troops of Feng Yu-hsiang. General | Feng is continuing his rapid advance toward the Kin-Han railroad !line to join with the forces of Tang Shen-chi in their joint attack tion with American rule. Rumors circulated in Manila describe the rebels as followers of Flor Intrencherado, the Filipino, who has _ proclaimed himself as “Emperor of the Philippines.” There is wide-spread dissatis- faction here as a result of the an- nouncement that Governor-Gener- al Wood will sell government in- dustries and banks to private capitalists—probably Americans. DYNAMITE HOAX FOE’S WORK IN VANZETT! GASE ense Comm. Brands Fake Story BOSTON, May 15.—The dynamite hoax blew up with a loud bank today, embarrassing its perpetrators, but not nullifying the horrendous scareheads in local newspapers. The “dynamite” was inclosed in » package directed to Governor Fuller, who is considering a review of the Sacco-Vaneztti case, Although no one was ever able to identify the alleged sender, he was described in local Def. | newspapers and in press dispatches as a “sympathizer” with the two work- ers condemned to death on July 10. But the Saceo-Vanzetti Defense Committee, in a statement made pub- lie today points out that the “dyna- mite” has been destroyed, that there is no evidence at all now that it ever existed and asks whether the whole incident is not an attempt to inflame public opinion. Suspicious Fellow. Chief Inspector Colvin, who an- nounced the “dynamite find,” with a great\flourish, sent an open letter to Governor Fuller last month in which with great solicitude, he advised Ful- ler to take precautions against the “reds” in case he decided against Sacco and Vanzetti. The defense commitee’s statement reads: “The Sacco-Vanzetti defense com- | mittee views the act of placing dyna- mite in Gov. Fuller’s mail with pro- found suspicion. We ask the public to serutinize this and similar acts most carefully and to recall instances in the past when dynamite threats (Continued on Page Five) De Silva, Soft Voiced. Aid to British Tyrant, Praises Yankee ‘Soul’ The limit of optimism was reached | yesterday when the distinguished Buddhist, Dr. W. A. A. de Silva, member of the Legislative Commit- tee of Ceylon, arrived here to talk on non-resistance, and referred in his first interview to the Americans as a “spiritual people.” De Silva praised the American policy of restricting immigration. “It will give you time, he said, to build up national idealism. You are living a program of life for material pur- poses,” said De Silva, “but you are unconsciously building up a spiritual life.” Mrs, Alice McKay Kelly, trustee of the League of Neighbors, which is bringing De Silva here, said he was the most trusted advisor of Sir Hugh Clifford, British governor of Ceylon. Clifford enjoys the reputation of be- |ing one of the most “hard boiled® of | English colonial rulers. Slap on. Wrist For Brutal State Copper on the Fengtien (Manchurian) troops. A big battle is expected soon at |Chiengchow. Ten Yat-tat, chief of ‘the political department of the Na- tionalist armies, left here for the Honan front yesterday by airplane. He is joining great numbers of polit- ical workers who have left for the north in the last few weeks. * * * British Bayonet Worker. HANKOW, May 13 (delayed).—In | spite of the provocation of yesterday’s incident in which a Chinese laborer on the wharf of the British concession | was bayoneted by a British sailor, La- bor circles here are taking every measure to preserve calm and to pre- vent any trouble arising between la- borers and British marine forces along the Bund (waterfront). In Nationalist circles here it is stated that this is an example of the type of provocation which has been repeatedly occuring in China during the past hundred years. Until the re- cent development of the Nationalist movement, with the growing deter- mination on the part of the Chinese |people to wrest justice and fair treat- ment to the Chinese as individuals |from the personal representatives of |the powers in China, this type of pro- | yoeation had been frequently allowed ‘to pass unchallanged. As a result | this long history of a never effective- ily challenged insult by the powers to | China, with the arrogance of foreign- ‘ers in China, has been yearly aug-| mented until recently it has been felt by many foreigners in China that any kind of abuse of or attack upon China {or the Chinese was permissible, and |any manifestation of resentment, re- sistancé, or retaliation on the part of the Chinese has merely called for fur- ther aggressions and insult on the part of foreigners. Constant Provocation. | Nationalist circles here are con- |vinced that the present incident will |be handled satisfactorily by negotia-| |tions with the British authorities in Hankow, but they point out that it is this type of incident which is daily adding to the constant provocation of |the presence of armed foreign forces |in China and rendering the preserva- tion of peace in China daily more dif- | ficult. | | ct 8 * | Borodin Expects Peking Capture. | Michael Borodin expects the Na-| tionalist troops to enter Peking before | midsummer, according to Vincent | Sheean, Chinese correspondent for the North America Newspaper Alliance. The Nationalist plans, says Sheean, call for a two-fold drive by General Feng, one straight north toward Pek- ing, the other southeast toward the Peking-Hankow railway. Short Campaign. “I don't know whether the cam- paign will last ten days or three |months,” Sheean reports Borodin as saying. “The northern troops may collapse entirely as they have often done the past winter as the result of our intensive advance propaganda.. If they do collapse we shall get the whole railway but if they intend to fight we will be obliged to outfight them by a series of maneuvers.” Chiang Kai-shek’s support consists (Continued on Page Two) BROPHY BURNS UP LEWIS IN REPORT To DISTRICT TWO 4 ‘Shows Effect of Rule and Ruin in Union DUBOIS, Pa., May 15.—In one of the ablest analyses of the miners’ situation yet published, John Brophy, former President of District 2, has re- leased his text of his report to the membership of his union. Delivered before the district con- vention in session here, the report |struck panic into the Lewis-Murray- | Marks crowd. |pealed to Indianapolis for the big jchief himself to rush to Dubois to President Marks ap- steam the tide of pro-Brophy senti- ment created by his great defense of his activities as district president. Lewis dispatched Vice President Phil Murray from Pittsburgh, who easily branded Brophy’s report as a “lie” in a heated two-hour Speech, As soon as Murray had concluded, | progressives were on their feet seek- | ing recognition, but Marks adjourned the meeting amid indignant cries of “steamroller.” Brophy, the progressive leader | against Lewis in the recent national | (Continued on Page Two) ‘THE DAILY WORKER EXPOSURE OF THE INSURANCE SWINDLE GETS ACTION By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. For the benefit of the many read this series of articles expo: readers who have just begun to sing the operations of the “Big | Four” weekly payment life insurance companies, it is advisable to | offer a resume of the developme | Or April 11th The DAILY WORK- ER started the publication of this series of articles calling attention to |the fraudulent practices indulged in | by the Metropolitan, Prydential, John} Hancock and the Colonial Life Insur- |ance Companies. Among the charges made in the | Series was that the 40,000,000 policy- holders who are insured in these com- |panies are hopelessly overcharged, |that the direction of these corpora- tions was in the hands of a gang of ‘Wall Street brigands, that the De- | partment of Insurance, which is sup- posed to guard the interests of the policyholders, actually works in such a manner to aid and abet this fraud.| Total Loss. It was further charged that the) | policy conditions offered by this com-| |bine were of such a nature that only} |1 per cent of all endowment policies} matured for their face value and only | nts thus far. bank, trust company and railroad magnates. To support this charge we {adduced the names of Charles M, (Continued on Page Five) Old Democratic Ladies Charge Vote Theft in Fight Over Club Gravy Old ladies of the Women’s Dem- ocratic Party had just too good a time pulling each other’s hair at their annual election, according to reports westerday. Fiercely divid- ed in regulars and irregulars, the lady job holders and wives of job- holders fought over the respective demerits of Mrs, John Marshall Gallagher and Mrs. Hanna Imhof. ‘The vote was even, whereupon Mere suspension was the immediate |9 per cent were paid as death claims. , penalty for Anthony Fusco, New Jer-| Over 75 per cent of all terminated, sey state cossack accused yesterday! policies every year are total loss) of beating a Phillipsburgh man un- | lapses, conscious, Fusco attacked his pris-| Although these companies are sup- oner unmercifully three times and left| posed to be mutual companies ace, him practically for dead. tually the control was in the hands of the lady president cast. the decid- ing vote for Gallagher, much to Imhof’s displeasure, who charged that she had already cast a vote, Imhof threatens to run to the courts with her row, PRES Sits SAU os Sa