The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER x Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. “Straton will not sleep peacefully un- , get busy in time and save both of THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 106. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER » 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’FLABERTY. . William Joynson Hicks’s Scot- land Yard burglars have “dis- covered” important documents in the premises of Arcos, the headquarters of the Russian Trade Delegation in London, according to the Daily Mail, tory organ and unofficial mouthpiece of Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer and prime mover in the conspiracy to bring about a rupture of diplomatic relations betwecn Great Britain and the Soviet Union. The important official secrets that the} detectives were supposed to be look- ing for have not materialized but the burglars are still drilling away at the Soviet safes and they have not yet given up hope. Perhaps the forgers are a little behind schedule with the job. * * * fd we predicted a few days ago our best capitalist papers will soon be publishing the captured documents judging from news dispatches that appeared in yesterday’s papers. The| extreme right wing of the tory gov-} ernment wants an immediate rupture of relations. Winston Churchill} hopes to capture the premiership »n | this issue. He is a typical fascist and admirer of Mussolini. In this period of British imperialist disinte- gration Churchill may succeed in his schemes, The days of punitive ex- peditions abroad and peace at home are gone. The cradle land of liberal- ism is now a seething cauldren of revolutionary elements, Britain is approaching the day when the ques- tion of a Workers Government or a fascist distatorship must be faced in real earnest. | * * 7 | _ ceneeoe bop Doumergue and foreign minister Briand of France are about to pay a visit to Buckingham palace. The visit is represented as a formality but it has political sig- nificance. The British King serves more purposes than contributing to the prosperity of sundry distilleries. He serves asia gaudy politieu) figleaf to cover the wrinkles in British diplomacy. It should not be forgotten that president Poincare of France visited the Czar of Russia shortly be- fore the beginning of the late world war. It is almost a certainty that Russia will again be a topic of con- versation at the Buckingham Palace talkfest, but this time it will be the Soviet Union, a power that can neither be bribed nor awed by the money or the military forces of im- perialism. * * * Seep K.K.K, is dying but the Ameri- ean Legion is its legitimate suc- cessor in the business of intolerance. This is the opinion of the Civil Lib erties Union included in its summary of a report of violations of the rights of free speech and reactionary vio- lence during 1926. The report states that there were 28 meetings broken up in 1926 against 22 in 1925, 34 lynchings in 1926 against 18 in 1925. Failure of congress to take action} against lynching is blamed for the} increase. Yes, sir, we are progress- ing. * * . HERE is still a headline or two left in the Snyder-Gray murder case. the culprits are on their way to Sing Sing and large sections of the pop- ulation are counting the days until they can smell the burning tissues of the condemned murderers thra the lurid pictures of the execution that will appear in the capitalist press. The sadist spook-menger Roach til the two unfortunates are wending their spiritual ways to either heaven or hell, Roach says he is hopeful Gray will take an upward flight be- cause he surrendered to Jesus, but he hes his doubts about Mrs. Snyder. Straton may be one of those re- pressed fellows who hates women in general and pulchritudineus ones in particular. Too bad Jesus did not them! ARTHUR BRISBANE, the $100,000 a year Hearst columnist (if not more) devotes some of his column space daily to boosting airplanes— military airplanes. What he does not know about areonautics would fill a library but his customers are con- vinced of his infallibility and take him seriously. It is generally known that he is a high-priced writer and this is convincing proof to millions that he must be a very wise man. ‘Talking to one of those millions re- cently about Arthur, I observed that politically, the millionaire columnist was an ass. “For $100,000 a year” came to reply, “I would be willing to be a drove of swine.” There you are. . * * E state of Tennessee pays its women workers $11 for a week's (Continued on Page Three) ARCOS RAIDS DISCREDIT TORY GOVERNMENT UNION FOR GIRLS! MAIN DEMAND OF MEN ON STRIKE 700 Women Walk Out to Build Organization The new day in barbering brought 700 beauty parlor and manicure girls out on strike yesterday side by side} with 1,200 barbers in the Bronx. With 700 shops and parlors affected, pick- eting was being actively organized} and plans laid for a decisive struggle with the master barbers for the right of the women to organize and get better conditions along with the wielders of razor and shears. The main demand is to compel em- ployers to allow their women workers to join Barbers Local 560 and enjoy the protection of that union. The ac- tion followed a spirited meeting of the members of the union and the girls at McKinley Sq. Gardens, Mc- Kinley Sq. and Boston Road on Sun- day. By a nearly unanimous vote, the members decided to close every union shop in the Bronx. Eight barbers were arrested on the picket line yesterday as police con- tinued their determined drive against strikes of all kinds. Hardly had the pickets appeared before police swooped down on them, as in the laurnt:y drivers’ strike against the North American. Laundry in Harlem. The standard bail, $500, was de- manded of each striker. Picket Line Efficient The Palace Beauty Shop on 163rd St. and the Thomas Beauty Shop at 730 E. 178th St. were among the few shops which tried to maintain the pretense of business as usual yester- day. In other shops, the bosses took care of occasional customers who were not aware of the strike. On the other hand the union was organizing the picket lines so capably that few shops in the Bronx were not! advertised as non-union. Strikers, in seven-passenger automobiles loaned by members of the union, toured the Bronx inspecting shops and keeping account of the score of scabs. Of these a few were deserters from the union. They have had $25 fines placed on them already. President Polacheti of the Master} Barbers’ Association of the Bronx and leader of the bosses, is keeping) his shop open at 176th St, and South- ern Blvd. President Harry Quinto addressed the unionists at the strike meeting, reviewing efforts to negotiate with the bosses and emphasizing the basic contention that until they are willing to ailow their women workers to or- ganize, there can be no settlement of the strike. The new agreement, aside from this point, would be much like the old one. Sadie Reich, organizer for the Women’s Trade Union League, en- couraged the girls to stay out until their demands are met. Betty Haw- ley, vice-president of the New York (Continued on Page Five) STOP THE FARE GRAB! READ The full story of the gigantic steal now being planned by the Traction Trust INVOLVING The Highest City and State Officials and Millions of Dollars of Plunder Robbed from the People No one is spared in this Astounding Tale of GRAFT AND FRAUD Beginning FRIDAY, MAY 20th, in the DAILY WORKER On Sale at All Newsstands press dispatches the decision is Wall Street Declares War Upon Labor Through Its Supreme Court” The Supreme Court of the United States has declared the| California criminal syndicalism law constitutional. According to unanimous, Justices Holmes and Brandeis concurring but for different reasons than their asso- ciates. ’ This decision which places bor unions. the so-called “war measures” in) | the law of the land follows on the heels of the Bedford Cut Stone Company ruling outlawing the ordinary defense activities of la-) The Supreme Court has once more proved its right to its title of “bulwark of American capitalism.” The recent decision made in the case of Charlotte Anita Whit- | ney upholds without qualification the police power of the state. The defendant was not charged with commission of any act of| violence but was convicted simply on a judicial interpretation of the possible consequences of her utterances and beliefs as a mem-| ber of the Communist Labor Party—later absorbed in the Com-| munist Party. The Supreme Court’s ruling smashes completely all foolish | notions relative to the “emergency character” of the war time leg- | islation embodied in the criminal syndicalism laws of the various states and shows that these exceptional laws simply expressed the | development of American government into a more direct and effi-| perialism. Under the criminal syndicalism laws backed by the Supreme Court’s decision the constitutional rights of free speech, press and assemblage no longer have any legal existence—any policeman | may abrogate them at will. Neither is it necessary for there to be} a declaration of an “emergency” by the constituted authorities— the criminal syndicalism laws have been made unastailable thru court procedure and can be used to disrupt labor unions, working class’ political parties and imprison their°*members and officials. The speed with which American government is setting up its instruments for aggression against the working class in all fields of activity is all the more dangerous in that the official leaders of the American labor movement join hands with government agen- cies against the most militant sections of the working class as in the Furriers and Cloakmakers Union cases. To every intelligent worker in the United States the two| recent decisions of the Supreme Court, supplementing each other, | (Continued on Page Four) | AS EXPOSE BRINGS ON HUGE SCARE By CHARLES YALE HARRISON Because of the immense popular interest which is being|Party in Oakland in 1919. | manifested in The DAILY WORKER insurance exposure it is | deemed advisable to correspond with insurance and state officials openly and in full view of all parties interested. To the Hon. James A. Beha, Insur- ance Department, New York: Dear Sir: It is now more than two weeks since you wrote to the DAILY WORKER asking for detailed information on our expose of the “Big Four.” Since that time nothing has happened. Because the cause we are espousing is one that vitally affects tens of millions of worker-policyholders, and because the charges made in this ser- ies of articles are of such a nature as to brand the officials and directors of the “Big Four” as public looters we demand an official reply to our letter to you wherein these charges are enumerated. We Accuse We have charged that there are officers in the employ of “Big Four” who were bribed with high positions for whitewashing the industrial in- surance companies at the time of the Armstrong Insurance Investigation, We contend that the presence of such men in the employ of these companies proves that a condition still exis which requires illegal covering up. Since the publication of thts series of articles one of these offenders, ex- Senator William J. Tully, under pres- sure resigned from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. . We have proved that of all weekly payment policy terminations every year more than 75% are total loss lapses and that only one per cent of all terminations are maturities. We would like to know if this condition in itself does not warrant action on your part which will result in more just policy conditions whereby such a murderqus lapse rate would be im- possible, 1 eiacientileenstidladtetbbecien Hw acl JOBLESS MENACE IN FLOOD REGION AS WATER EBBS To Plant or Not to Plant i Is Question are crowding concentration camps, and some procrastinating victims are still being rescued from the tops of trees and the roofs of barns in the flood area, and while tons of water are rushing thru Louisiana in a mad dash -for the Gulf of Mexico, the | United States department of agricul- ture is at work preparing data tell- |ing the farmers what they can grow |as soon as the eight or nine feet of | water subsides and leaves them their \rich, muddy acres once more, Except for the sugar cane regions, 65 per cent of the flooded lands have regularly been planted with cotton, but according to experts it is not now possible or desirable to plant this area in cotton this year. The depart- ment of agriculture will advocate planting a certain amount of acreage in cotton as a “cash crop,” and this will probably be done as fast as the water subsides, ‘ The farmers will algo be urged to plant part of their fields with a “food crop” t+ feed their families as soon as possible. In the sugar cane sec- We have proved that the Metropoli-' tion, it will not be possible to plant tan Life Insurance Company has an|another crop this year and there is average balance in the Chase National|some talk of this industry passing Bank of not less than $20,000,000 at| away from this part of the country all times. We further adduced facts| now that the crop has been destroyed to prove that the Chase National Bank|by the flood. Because of the com- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) - |Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sullies Great Name | Ouver WenveELL Houmes By concurring with the decision of A ‘ ° oe diag ‘4 his associates to uphold the iniquitous cient instrument of American capitalism in its new stage—im- | criminal syndicalism law of Califor- |nia, Oliver Wendell Holmes, a mem- ber of the great anti-slavery poet’s family, helps to perpetuate slavery in America, SYNDICALIST LAW | UPHELD BY U. S, Supreme Court Sustains Whitney Conviction WASHINGTON, May 16.—Califor- —|nia’s criminal Syndicalism law was BEHA STALLS ON QUIZ OF “BiG FOUR” | held constitutional today by the | supreme court, in affirming the con- |viction of Charlotte Anita Whitney, ;of Oakland, under that. statute. | Miss Whitney, social worker and | club woman, was convicted and sen- | tenced to from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary for attending a} |convention of the Communist Labor Constitutionality of the law was |upheld by lower courts and on an} \earlier appeal to the Supreme Court jof the United States the case was| thrown out for lack of jurisdiction. | | Miss Whitney held the constitu-| |tional right of peaceful assemblage | | was violated by the California law. | | Justice Sanford read the opinion. | pane Holmes and Brandeis con- | }curred, but on different grounds | |from the majority. | The court Justice Sanford said, jconsidered only one federal question | | whether the act violated the due | |process clause of the constitution. | |The court held that the clause was not | | violated. The right of free speech | could not be resorted to by Miss! Whitney in seeking freedom, the | |“inciting others” to the crime | overthrowing the goverment.” | Fiske Appeal Won j Harold B. Fiske, a member of the, |I. W. W., appealing from the Kansas | | Supreme Court which affirmed his conviction and sentence of one to ten years in prison for violation of | | the state criminal syndicalism law, | | won his appeal, The court held that the Kansas Law was applied in an unconstitutional manner, The evidence in the case, the (Continued on Page Two) of | | “America” Author’s Bail Set at $500 David Gordon, author of the poem “America,” whose publication in The DAILY WORKER of March 12 caused the arrest of the editors and business manager, was arraigned yesterday morning before Magistrate Edward Weil on the charge of circu- lating “lewd and obscene” matter, Gordon was held for Speciai Ses- sions on $500 bail, the same amount which was named at the time of his. arrest a week ago. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! } ‘OF CALIFORNIA IS ~DIE-HARDS FAIL TO FIND “MISSING Jail Bronx Barber Pickets DOCUMENTS"; FACE LABOR PROTEST :Laborites Leave House As Government Applies Gag Rule to Anti-Strike Bill Debate BULLETIN LONDON, May 16.—The entire Labor Party delegation walked out of the House of Commons this afternoon in protest against the Govern- ment’s proposal to apply “time-table procedure” to hasten the passage of the committee stages of the Trades Union Bill, limiting the powers of the trades unions to call strikes. The walkout occurred after a ra Government was criticized by the L headquarters of the Soviet Trade D ther heated question hour when the abor members for the raids on the elegation. The Government resolution to apply the “time-table procedure” was carried by a vote of 259 to 113. The House was adjourned at walkout of the Opposition. 5.15 this afternoon, following the * * . LONDON, May 16.—While t “missing documents” are pure Home Secretary Joynson-Hicks also revealed that the raids on the Soviet with the full knowledge and assent of Union offices had been authorized he police remained in possession of the Arcos offices, Tory ministers, who faced a barrage of ques- |tions from the Labor benches, were forced to admit in the House {of Commons that the “missing official documents” which had | served as the pretext for the raid had not been found. That the myths created by the die-hard | Cabinet is the opinion widely entertained here. Prime Minister Baldwin and Foreign Minister Chamberlain. The Russian Chargé has handed a (Continued on Page Five) FENG TAKES NORTHERN STRONGHOLD; EUGENE CHEN WAR NS GREAT BRITAIN Sun Fo Predicts Early Collapse of Chiang Kai- Shek; Protest _U. Tso-lin. Reports received here S..Bombardment HANKOW, May 16.—General Feng Yu-hsiang, who has allied | himself with the Hankow nationalists, is rapidly sweeping toward |the Peking-Hankow railway in his two-fold drive against Chang state that Feng has captured Honanfu, former stronghold of Wu Pei Fu, central Chinese war lord. That the Nationalists will take- Peking within three months is the prediction of Sun Fo, Sun Yat-sen’s son, who declared in an interview with the Nationalist News Agency | correspondent, that Chang Tso-lin’s | Mukden troops will be crushed kell forces advancing from Hankow and Feng’s troops moving south from the | Shensi-Honan border. | Blow To Chiang. | The defeat of the Mukden troops, Sun said, will also be a blow to Chi- ang Kai-shek because it will deprive) him of the possibility of support from | the northern militarists. : Sun Fo declared that Chiang Kai-| shek’s position is hopeless. In an ef- | fort to win the sympathy of the! northern war lords, Chiang Kai-shek | has been shooting down workers. | Such methods Sun declared, will keep | Chiang in power a very short time. | Only two or three divisions are still) loya Ito Chiang, Sun said. | * * * 1 HANKOW, May 16.—In an inter-| view with a Reuter’s correspondent, | ugene Chen, Nationalist foreign | minister, warned Great Britain against flirting with the Chiang Kai- shek “government” at Hankow. “Before three months have passed | While thousands of flood refugees|court held, as she was accused of we shall conquer our way to Peking, where in the name of Nationalist China and of the Kuomintang, I will speak language Chamberlain will be MARINES KILLED IN NICARAGUA WASHINGTON, May 16.—Two American Marines were killed and two wounded when a guerilla band attacked a detachment at La Paz Centro, Nicaragua, Admiral Julian L. Latimer advised the Navy Depart- ment today. The attack resulted in the first bloodshed to Americans dur-| ing the present revolution. | Postpone Hearing on | Furrier Injunction | The hearing scheduled for this! morning on the violation of the in- junction taken out by the Dress Manufacturers’ Association against Louis Hyman, Julius Portnoy, Joseph | Boruchowitz, C. S. Zimmerman and 12 business agents of the Joint yay was postponed for one week. it will come up on Tuesday, May 21, | pete unable to ignore.” Referring to Chamberlain’s recent attack on the Hankow Nationalist Government in an address before the House of Commons, Chen said, “His reference to my government was lu- dicrous and deeply tragic in its igno- rance.” ° At the Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held here, M. N. Roy, on behalf of the Communist In- ternational pointed out that the Chi- nese working class would have to ally itself with the peasantry and the ur- ban petty bourgeoisie to successfully carry out its historical task. Repre- sentatives of the French, American and British parties were greeted with tremendous ovations, * . . Chiang Government Breaking SHANGHAI, May 5 (Delayed).— (Continued on Page Two) Warren Shields Wealthy, * . . Jails Employes in Raid oo . On Millionaire Hang-out Police Commissioner Warren flat- ly refused yesterday to make pub- lic the names of the wealthy idlers caught by police in a raid on @ millionaires’ gambling den in the Hotel Briarfield, 215-219 W. 88rd St. The names cf the employes in the gambling apartment however were not only made public, but the unfortunate workers were thrown into jail and released only after posting $500 bail each, They werd, booked as “common gamblers.” “Victims of circumstances” was Warren's explanation for the gross favoritism shown in shielding the gcore of wealthy men and women, many of whose names appear in the social register. “I am protect- ing pitiable victims,” he told press representatives when queried on the department's policy in broad- casting to the world the names of the alleged “common gamblers” while shielding the socially promin- ent. The gambling paraphernalia ine cluded three fine and costly row- lette wheels. Thirteen quarts of liquor and $3,100 in cash on the gaming tables were also seized, The ‘apartment was furnished in lavish style at a cost estimated by police at $100,000. The roulette wheels alone were valued at $25,- 000. « The alleged common gambl were held today for the 4 an fe