The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITIO | Vol. IV. No. 107. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 THE New York, DAILY WORK N, Y. Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., 83 First Street, ER Price 3 Cents | Current Events By T. J. O’FLanerty. HE Scotland Yard burglars who broke into the headquarters of the) Russian Trade Delegation did not find | the important official documents they | were looking for according to a state- ment made by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, in the thouse of commons last Monday. Un- Jess this failure to supply by forgery what could not be produced legiti- mately—if such a term can be used in connection with the raid—results in the immediate retirement of Hicks | from public life, then the British Lab- or Party is even more toothless than | we suspected and the tory government | has lost its ae si the Sid of forgery. ITALY SEETHING WITH REVOLT AS PAY IS SLASHED Armed Revolt in North; Fascists Wounded VENTIMIGLIA, Italy, May 17.— Armed revolts are breaking out thru- out Italy as the result of the ten per cent wage slash announced by Musso- lini. While rents and prices are soaring, the wages of industrial and agricultural workers, already reduced to a_ starvation level, are being slashed. An armed revolt has broken out at ats we must ae assume that be- | Taveruno, near Milan. Several Fas- cause Hicks made an open confes-| cists were wounded in a clash with sion of his failure to produce a par-| the rebelling peasants. ticular document that the matter rests | there. Indeed there is reason to be- lieve that the object of this suspici- | ously candid confession is to prepare the public for the publication of prop- aganda material alleged to be*discov- ered in the raid. The discredited tory burglars are trying to rebutld a bat-| tered reputation so that the masses | may say: those documents must be renuine since the government was honest enough to admit that they did | not find the decument they were look- ing for. - * * QF course the government was not ment. +ra raid. Every government in the -world is spying on the other, in peace as well as in war. When a French spy is caught by the British in peace time or a British spy caught by the French, both governments officially Gisavow the victims but indirectly pull wires for a comparatively light pun- ishment. There are no raids conducted on the embassies or consulates of the respective nations. HE. officials, of the Soviet Govern- ment are oftentimes accused of fearemongering when they insist that the capitalist powers are continually conspiring against the peace of the Soviet Union. But even the politically blind must admit that they are right. The visit of the French president and foreign minister to London bodes ill for the peace of Europe and coming immediately after the raids on the Soviet embassy in Peking, on the headquarters of the Communist party of France and on Arcos, there is reasonable justification for the sus- picion that the two governments are ” * looking for any particular docu-| That was simply an excuse for | The aim of the} Arcos raid was to prepare the ground | for a rupture of diplomatic relations. | trying to patch up their differences | with a view to making a united front against Russia. Time will tell. * * . o hotra most farsighted of the capitalist statesmen are not extracting too much consolation from the split in the Koumintang Party of China. Better a split than fake unity. The foreign editor of a French daily who has passed thru here on his return from China declares that unless the powers take common action against the Chi- nese revolution that the best disci- plined and most ideologically homo- genous group will ultimately get the masses and conquer power. He stated emphatically that ‘the Hankow gov- ernment, a combination of the Com- munists and the Lefts will win out unless drastic action is taken by the imperialists. r is not wise to predict what is liable to happen in China in the immediate future, but it appears that the most \\, versatile of the capitalist. reporters “have failed to make Chiang-Kai-Shek stand up to our satisfacticn. So far he has‘ been unable to form a cabinet. He is in the same boat with the north- ern militarists having swapped the confidence of the fer the, dol- lars, pounds and yen of the sot ists. - + * 'UDDLE-headed people are prone to assume that the Chinese will never able to achieve national unity, be- too much addicted to wrangling 4 ’s get together and forget our differences.” Might as well say to a sick man: “Forget you're ill. Come on out and have a ‘hot dog’ with me a mug of hard cider.’” The sick man must have it out with the disease that has him on his back before he can for- or ignore it. The same applies to a nation or to a party. yw often” have the’ Communists been accused of quarreling among themselves over what their critics consider trivialities! Lenin was branded as a hairsplitter by oppon- who were so strong for unity fees Unity toa, golden word bat the a who would lie down with the has no kick coming if he wakes (Continued on Pace Two) Burn Landiord’s Effigies. Effigies of Fascist landlords, who have boosted rents, were publicly burnt by workers in the streets of | Florence, while spontaneous strikes | against the application of the wage | slash are reported to be breaking out in southern Italy. Although the Fascisti are employ- ing every terrorist devise to smash the growing discontent, secret or- ganizations thruout Italy, led by Communists, are planning to organ- ize resistance to the application of the labor-smashing Charter of labor! {and the wage cuts. Some observers believe that there is the possibility that the strikes and sporadic revolts jare the nuclei of a revolution that will overthrow the Fascist regime. Attack Wall Street. | Leaflets attacking the Mussolini |regime are flooding the country, | despite the efforts of the Fascisti to stamp out the organizations that are \ issuing them. Many of them contain attacks on reactionary American and British ad- ministrations which have bolstered up Fascism. Calvin Coolidge and Austin Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister, are branded as oppressors of Italian labor in the leaflets. . By granting enormous loans _ Italy, American and British bankers have not only reaped handsome profits but have bolstered the Fascist dictator- ship, the leaflets say. Miller Hired to Defend B.-M. T. in Transit Hearings Gory verbal warfare with no inju- ries is predicted when former Gover- nor Miller meets Samuel Untermeyer in the transit hearings next Monday. | Miller, cashing in on his political pres- tige, has been retained by the B.-M. T. to defend its vested property rights. The B.-M. T. is particularly keen not to have its books examined. Such an examination would disclose B.-M. T. control over the Interborough and give official confirmation to the con- tention that the company’s actual in- vestment is less than 50 per cent. of the claimed valuation. The B.-M. T. wants to be valued at cost of reproduction in 1927 prices, although the system was built when costs were lower. made to value the property on the actual cash investment, although the Supreme Court may halt such an at- tempt. New Broadcasting List Will Aid Patrioteers WASHINGTON, May 17.— An- nouncement of the new,broadcasting allocations, effective June 1, will be made by the Federal Radio Commis- sion next Monday, Commissioner H. A. Bellows said today. The revised list will include 691 broadcasting stations. Approximate- ly 650 stations will find their present wave lengths or power changed. Most of the changes are for the purpose of strengthening the stations controlled by the conservative propa- ganda agencies which engage in broadcasting. Justine Wise to Wed College Prof Justine Wise, daughter of Rabbi and Mrs, Stephen S. Wise, is engaged to marry Leon Arthur Tulin, 25, as- sistant professor in the Yale law school. Miss Wise was active in the Passaic textile strike last year and is a second year student in Yale law school now, THE BANDIT GENERAL'S SON AND ONE OF HIS WELL TAMED POLITICIANS | | Government in North China is at present managed by the bloody bandit leader, Chang Tso-lin, now become a general, and an administrator in the interests of the highest bidder among foreign powers—usually Japan or | England. The civil government,*which has the form of a republic, does not | count. The picture shows Dr. Wellington Koo, foreign minister of the Peking government visiting the trenches dug around Peking, under the direct supervision of Chang Tso-lin’s son, General Chang Hsueh-liang. Left fore- ground: Dr, Wellington Koo; Right: Chang Hsueh-liang. WORLD LEADERS GUARD ASHES OF C. E. RUTHENBERG By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Mail) — Three volleys in rapid succession from Tammany Hospital _ Czar Too Crude in Methods on Poor Stung. by. jeetticty conditions in Bellevue and +3 Coun- ty hospitals, Bird S. Coler commis- Open Shop War on Unions Planned at Big Boss Conclave Sounding the battle cry of “individual freedom of employees” against trade unions, the National Industrial Council is meeting in| 19th semi-annual convention at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The political arm of the National Association of Manufactur-| ers, the Council runs the gamut of open shop activities from oper- ating lobbies to “educating wage-earners” in the correct economics. Yesterday it heard A. C. Rees of Salt Lake, secretary of the Utah | Associated Industries, tell about the “Open Shop in the West.” ‘NO COMMISSION FULLER DECIDES IN SACCO CASE Rees is chairman of the American Plan Open Shop Confer-| ence, a national organization strong among bosses’ organizations in the South and West. annual conventions since 1922, r November. The National Industrial Council a self dates from before the war and was formerly known as the National Council for Industrial Defense. Its purposes are to maintain lobbies in} the State and national legislatures to \fight trade unionism, to maintain in-! formation services for employers on labor questions and to agitate against | “class legislation” such as workmen’s| compensation, | Between 300 and 400 employers’) and manufacturers’ associations and} chambers of commerce support the Council in its anti-labor work, acccrd- | ing to Robert W. Dunn, whose studies |in company unionism, labor espionage | and employers’ associations te ae him across the Council’s trail |many of labor’s political and indod. trial struggles. Rees, according to Dunn, specializes jin the “protection of the schools from trade union influences.” “Subversive influences” such as the Teachers’ and Janitors’ Unions he fights vigorously, keeping an eye all’the while on text- | books to see that liberal professors do, wretched | not introduce. references which might | aid labor’s cause. Hits Social Legislation The Conference thas been holding semi- he last one being in Dallas last Pennsylvania Unions Endorse Activities of Council of Foreignborn HARRISBURG, Pa., (FP).—The Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor convention at Harrisburg in- dorsed the National Council for the Protection of Foreign-born Work- ers, following an address by Secy. Nina Samorodin of the council. SOVIET PROTEST ON ARCOS RAID IS GIVEN BRITISH MOSCOW, May 17.—The Soviet Union tonight handed to Commercial | Secretary W. Peters, of the staff of | the British chargé d’affaires here, its the rifles of Red Army infantry sta- and echoed thru the Red Square. Then a Red Army Band broke into “The Internationale” and tens of | thousands of workers stood with bared heads, and regiments of Red Army |soldiers stood at salute as Nikolai | Buckharin placed the urn containing the ashes of our fallen leader, C. E. |Ruthenberg, in the niche that had been prepared for it in the Red Wall ‘lof the Kremlin, before which are the graves of many of the dead in the tioned atop the Kremlin Wall roared! soner of public welfare, handed in his resignation to Mayor Walker yester- day. Complaints of the callous treat- ment of charity patients in the city hospitals have been numerous under the administration of Coler, a demo- cratic politican appointed by Hylan but prominent for 20 years in the Tammany organization. Sick and injured workers have died j in the ctiy hospitals because of | wretched disregard by the authorities James A. Emery, counsel to the Na-| protest against the recent raid by the tional Association of Manufacturers,| British Government on Arcos, Lim- pleaded for a reduction of govern-|ited, in Soviet House, London. mental taxation as the most direct) The protest was carefully worded. method of defeating moves toward so- It contained the veiled threat of eco- An effort: will be} triumphant Bolshevik Revolution of there, according to relatives. Crowd- November 7, 1917. ed wards, over-worked hospital at-| Leaders in the Communist Interna-| tendants, negligence and the unwill- tional and in the Communist Party of| ingness of supervising Physicians to the Soviet Union, officials of Soviet| fight for the lives of patients suf- Trade Unions and the Profintern,|fering from complicated or prolong- (Continued on Page Three) ed illness are among the charges. “NEW YORK WORLD” NOW PROTECTS INSURANCE GRAFT IT ONCE FOUGHT PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE. The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of the fraudulent methods employed by the “Big Four” who are the Uectropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial Life | Insurance Companies. In this series it is charged that these companies who monop- olize the weekly payment life inswrance 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- tained in the Harrison articles. So far the official apologist for the insurance companies has not submitted his report. The expose has caused something re- sembling panic in insurance circles. It affects wpwards of 40,000,000 American policyholders. * * * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON, The DAILY WORKER is not alone in its condemnation of corrupt insurance practices. The great New York World, which cannot be charged with the “taint” of radicalism, has also had something to say on. the question of the swindling methods of | great insurance combines. licyholders are poor people who carry | “For years these insurance com-| small policies largely for the purpose panies have bee giving to the pub-|of defraying funeral expenses in the lic what are nov’ admitted to be false} event of death. Its magnificent statements. (N. Y. World editorial).| building - running from Madison to “Every incident of this kind en-|Fourth Avenue on Twenty-third forces The World’s voicing of the| Street was practically erected from public demand for a full and thorough| money taken from tenement-house investigation of insurance corruption.| dwellers.” (N, Y. World). detail of every transaction} “ . . . the mutualization of should be exposed. The sunlight of] great life insurance companies is) a farce, The elections are conducted by clerks voting proxies and a suffi- cient reserve supply of proxies is kept on hand to outvote any policyholder who appears in person.” (N. Y. World). publicity is in itself an effective puri- fying agent.” (N. Y. World). “Metropolitan Life’s Millions in One-Man Control” ‘(headline N. Y. World). Made Money In Slums. cial legislation. He sounded the tocsin of alarm | against labor efforts to legalize strike | and picket activities. Referring to| the recent Supreme Court decision | crippling the Stone Cutters in their | fight on scab stone, he declared that! the employers had won a smashing| victory which nothing less than an amendment to the constitution would nullify, | The decision of the court, Emery told his fellow-open sheppers, is a body blow at trade unions and efforts, to mantain the union closed shop. Only 750,000 Noel Sargent, manager of the in-| dustrial relations department of the N. A. M., declared there were “only” 750,000 child labor slaves in the coun-| try instead of 2,000,000. Other speak- ers were William H. Thompson, for- mer officer of the reactionary national grange, Henry Harrison Lewis, exec- utive director of Better Understand- ing Between Agriculture and Indus- try, an open shop effort to fight the) farmer-labor alliance; George F. Kull,| secretary of the Wisconsin Manufac- turers’ Association, and Benjamin F. Gleaves, executive secretary of the Associated Industries of Maine. J. Ramsay Leaves. | With the mild comment that he| could “see no reason” for the raid) on Arcos, the Anglo-Soviet trading organization, J. Ramsay MacDonald leader of the British Labor Party, sailed for England last night on the) Berengaria. He had been ill for two weeks in Philadelphia. ANOTHER EXPOSE BY | THE DAILY WORKER “Gigantic Graft Involved In Mississippi Flood Control Fake” By Our Washington Staff Correspondent For weeks our Washington repre- sentative has been gathering mate- rial for this startling exposure of Coolidge, Hoover and the rest of the gang In Two Installments FIRST ARTICLE TOMORROW! Saceo and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! “The Metropolitan’s specialty is in- dustrial insurance. Most of its pe- “The files of the superintendent’s (Continued on Page Two) nomic reprisals, and demands satis- faction for the insults suffered in the | | raid. It was pointed out shortly after the | raid that Moscow’s reaction would be| an economic threat. Unofficially, it |was learned that the Soviet Union contemplated cancelling several large Advises W ith Experts on Gun Testimony BOSTON, May 17.—The announce- |ment, carried exclusively in The |DAILY WORKER two weeks ago, | that there would be no commission to review the Sacco-Vanizetti case, was confirmed from semi-official sources | today. Governor Fuller will handle the case himself, assuming full responsi- | bility for the fate of the two Italian anarchists doomed to die in the elec- trie chair. Aided by personal friends, jincluding Frank A. Roberts, chairman jot the State Parole Board, and Attor- |ney General Reading, he is now en- | grossed in a study of evidence, par- | ticularly the salient point of the Sacco sun. When Nicola Sacco was arrested, tutes seized his gun. Later it was declared in the Dedham trial that the | mortal bullets which killed Alessandro Berardelli, guard for Paymaster ‘Par- |menter, were fired from the Sacco | gun. Experts, including firearms special- lists and microphotographers, are con- |ferring with Fuller. The Sacco’ gan; with other weapons presented in tes- timony, are at the Governor’s home, whete he has been confined for sev- eral days, Lincoln Wadsworth, of the Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co., was among the experts. He conferred with the Governor for several hours, going over the Sacco, Vanzetti and Madei- |ros guns. He is not unfriendly to the | defense. Seven thousand Chicagoans sent a |350-word telegram to Governor Ful- ler today asking a review of the case. The Marylebone branch of the Brit- ish Independent Labor Party and the orders which had been placed with British i z Scottish Independent Labor Party ritish industrial concerns. | sent cablegrams today to the same ef- fect. Germans Keep Kaiser Out BERLIN, May 17.—The Reichstag | {today voted to prolong the law ban-| ishing the ex-kaiser for two years. | | The vote was 323 to 41. |\Civic Federationist Okehs Girl Scouts V. Everitt Macy, capitalist, banker and director of the National Civic Seventy-three lifeguards and 43) Federation announced yesterday a | beach combers have been assigned to| subsidy of $100,000 for the Girl the beaches of the Rockaways for the | Scouts, a counterpart of the militar- summer. istic Boy Scouts organization. FENG’S TROOPS SWEEP ON TOWARD KAIFENG-FU IN DRIVE SOUTHWARD British Minister Leaves for for Shanghai; Confab With Chiang Kai-shek HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS. 1—General Feng’s troops, having captured Wu Pei-fu's stronghold, Honan-fu, sweep on toward Kaifeng-fu. 2.—Recall British diplomatic representative at Hankow; British Minister leaves for Shanghai; report conference with Chiang Kai-shek. 3.—American forces at Shanghai total 3,600; fifty-four U. S. war vessels in Chinese waters. 4.—Germans,. with no gunboats or warships in China, carry on rapidly increasing trade in Yangtze Valley. . * HANKOW, May 17.—Having taken Honan-fu, former’strong- {hold of Wu Pei-fu, central Chinese war lord, General Feng’s troops, who are fighting under the flag of the Hankow National- ists, are sweeping on toward Kaifeng-fu. The rapid advance of Feng’s troops | Chaumont next week with an artillery |means the virtual encirclement of the | battalion. The British forces here Fengtien troops in southern Honan,|numbers 18,000, while the Japanese While Feng is moving southeast from | have 2,000 troops ashore. the Shensi-Honan border, other Han-| Besides troop ships and hospital kow troops are pushing north along| Ships, there are 171 imperialist war the Peking-Hankow railway. j vessels in Chinese waters. This is Nationalist leaders here predict the the largest concentration of warships capture of Peking within three|i? the Far East that has ever taken months. place. Guard Rockaways Rumor ry . * . Labor’s Rights at Hankow Largest Naval Force HANKOW, May 17. (FP).—“The SHANGHAI, May 17.—American| Revolt of ‘Cheap Labor’” is the title forces in Shanghai will total 8,600|of a series of articles begun in the with the arrival of the transport (Continued on Page Two) > ied