The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Lack of Funds Is | Danger in Defense OiPassalc WorkeS Marine Workers Get ‘Wage Cuts as Union THE DAILY. WORKER; NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 Exploitation qm te ‘Irish Workers See ‘Seis May 23 For Sacco and tn a Vanzetti Freedom A series of ten articles exposing Under the combined auspices of the swindling of industrial {nsur- ance agents byethe “Big Four” will the Irish Workers Republican Al- liance and Lectrini Irish Republican New York’s Water Front “Mad Emperor” Yarn News and Views of the Biggest World Port Excuse to Suppress Philippine Peasants | } | Feng Army Sweeps On| To Crush Militarists | —— ILOILO, Philippine Islands, May 17. ~Philippine constabulary, under the (Continued from Page One) People’s Tribune, organ of the Na- | leadership of United States army ‘|| American Negro Praises '|Ruthenberg Before Wall Of Kremlin nin Moscow An American Negro Comrade in Moscow said: “Comrades, I speak on behalf of the ten million Negroes of the United States, the most exploited section of the American population. commence in the DAILY WORK- ER, Monday May 23rd and daily thereafter. PASSAIC, N. J., May 17.—Declar- ing that the courts of New Jersey were still functioning as the revenge media of the textile barons, the Pas- | saic Defense Committee today issued | a call to “all the forces that so | staunchly supported the Passaic tex- | tile workers in their long and heroic strike to again come to the aid of | Weakened by Bosses Hundreds of barges that are usu- these workers with money for the/jally engaged in the transport of coal Tegal defense of the strike leaders and active strikers, who today stand in im- are laid up along the New York water front due to the existing slump in tionalist movement at Hankow, in its memorial edition marking the end of the second year since the death of Sun Yat Sen. The paper promises to tell the story of China’s industrial tions in definite mills and ‘plants, ‘so that its reading public may check the | truth of what it says. workers by picturing actual condi- | Anterican protection. | officers has hastily moilized in this section to arrest agrarian workers who protest the heavy taxation on small orders'and the excessive rentals charged by large landowners under “Insane Emperor Tales” The official stories sent out from Manila that the province is in a state The series will be by Charles Yale Harrison and will deal with the exploitation of agents. The ar- tieles are being published at the request of thousands of agents who have written to the DAILY WORKDR asking that the paper espouse their cause also, Be sure and see that your own Club, a memorial meeting in honor of the memory of James Connolly and Lean MacDermott, both executed by England May 12, 1916, was held at Bryant Hall, Sunday, May 15. The speakers were: P. L. Quinlan, (Associate of+Connolly) B. Gilgunn We also mourn the death of Com- rade Ruthenberg, the leader of our Communist Party. The Negroes of America are the most cruelly ex- ploited of all the people in Am- erica but the Negroes are also re- alizing more and more each day and P. Lennon, I. R. A, associates of || under the banner of the Communist i that the only road to freedom is | Lean MacDermott, J. F. O'Kelly, Prasident Lectrin Irish Republican Club, and J. O, Byrne, Secretary of ; I. W. R. A. Support was pledged to International. In losing Comrade Ruthenberg, the leader of our Party, we have lost a very great {of disorder because of the “Insane | Emperor, Entrencherado” are cover | for the déliberate arrest of all agra- insurance agent gets the first ar- ticle! the purchasing of domestic coal, This situation is throwing the men} jwho man these barges out of jobs, minent danger of being railroaded to jail for their activities during the big strike. “In two ways,” it says, “the situa- tion of the working man in China may. be viewed. We can look at it “That the mill-dominated courts in- | tend to give these workers the limit | is demonstrated by the fact that al-/} ready nine active strikers have ceived savage sentences in the bomb- ing frame-ups. One of them, Wisnef- | ky, was sentenced to from five to twenty yearS in jail. The others were given one to five years. This was the bosses’ vengeance on those workers who had dared to be active on the picket lines and in the ings. Five to twenty Getting R Three weeks ago, exacted. Jack Rubenstein, a ss and resourceful strike leader, was sentenced in Judge Seufert’s court in Hackensack to pay $500 and spend six months in jail. A few ac trike meet- rs in jail! renge another venge- weeks before that some eighteen men) 4 and women wer enced to pay fines varying from $25 to $50. The ion had no money to pay these fines fellow workers got busy and sre paid in pennies and | tireless tramp- ‘or a whole day and | § Defense Committee gent appeal to all work- ers and sympathizers with the cause | of organized labor to come to the gse victims of New Jer-| sey tice’ id mill owners’ re-| venge by sending in money for legal | defense and appeal of the sentences; against Jack Rubenstein and others. Money should be addressed to Passa’ Defénse Committee, Room 4, 743 Main Avenue, Passaic, N. J. “The Defense Committee is endorsed by the District Textile Council of aie and Vicin United Textile Workers of America,’ makes an Women Workers Urge) Unions for Unorganized | Free Saeco, Vanzetti| —- | BOSTON, May 17.—Resolutions | demanding the immediate and uncon- ditional release of Sacco and Vanzet- ti and a message of fraternal greet- ing to the women of China were voted at the recent conference of New Eng-| land Working Class Women that has} just closed here. | Over delegates were present | who represented 48 organizations of | trade unions, workers’ fraternal so-| sieties, Mothers’ Leagues, and unor- ganized women. The organization of | all unorganized women workers was declared by the conference to be the | major task to be achieved. The limi- tation of working hours for women; work in the direction of developing the political consciousness among working women, amd the repeal of | legislation forbidding birth control | 75 | rates and under inferior working con-| | ditions. The union scale is a hundred | | water-front worker. and depriving them of the home that is usually provided for them on these floating direlects. In addition, the Barge and Boat Owners and Contractors of Greater} New York seem to Have united on a common tyrranical policy in the ex- pulsion of the union men wherever possible. A general layoff of Union| men and their replacement by non-} union workers is taking place. Import Scabs. Sailors and seamen as well as gen-| eral marine and transport workers are being recruited to take the place the union workers at far lower from the viewpoint of the man in the | ricksha, just up from a good night’s| sleep and just having finished a com-| fortable breakfast, or we can look at| it from the viewpoint of the shabby, | dirty wretch between the shafts, half- | fed, shivering in his rags in the win-| ter time, with no warm shelter at| night, always miserable, always just half-alive, Inhuman Conditions “We want to show the lives of the working men of China. Those lives, | we believe, are the best explanation | of the so-called labor unrest. It is! true that industries must not be strangled, but it is also true that most | of the industries of China could} be reorganized in such a way that tots | of seven and eight would not work) for 12 hours a day in dark factories for a few palty cents, and that tired, | worn women would not sit all day| over steaming tables in silk factories | while their babies cry from discom-| fort and hunger, or mercifully sleep, | in baskets of rags, under the ma- | | chines. | This condition is due to the exist-| “If to ask for a reorganization | ing unempléyment in the marine in-| which would eliminate these: evils is| dustry. Consequently a sailor or a} to be dangerous, subversive to the in- | fireman who has been on the beach | terests of investors in China, then this | for a few months and has reached | paper, and the Nationalist movement | the end of his endurance is willing| as a whole, are dangerous agents. But | to seab on his fellow workers in the|by the foreigners, if ‘not by the Chi- marine industry. Of course this|nese employers of labor, we feel that| te of affairs would never be in|such a condemnation cannot be made | ence if their were a strong or-| without some sense of guilt, for every| ganization to look after the rights of | foreigner in China knows that such| the men> conditions as exist in the mills of | But as itis the great majority of|China are unthinkable in his home the men are unorganized and are not | land.” class conscious enough to see the| Thenfollows a matter-of-fact de-| neccessity of a strong organization.| scription of a trip through four mills The task of raising the class con-|in Hankow, with photographs of sciousness of this vast mass of sail-|groups of little child-workers em-| lors and harbors workers to the stage | ployed 12 hours daily in an unhealthy | where they will unite in one strong| atmosphere, at hard tasks. | union that will look after their eco- | * * * oor agpananes is yet to be-accom-| Fritish Representative Recalled | plished. SHANGHAI, May 17—Basil New-| The Church As a Strike-Breaker. | ton, British Siitdanetis representative Another interesting Long is the | at Hankow, is reported to have been| fact that most of the new recruits recalled. This is regarded by ob- that are taking the place of the| comers here as a gesture of British | union workers are procured thru the} gio pard disapproval of the Hankow mendium of the Seamen’s Chureh Tn | Government. stitute. This ganization which 18/ Sir Miles Lam son, British Minis- | presumably infhistence for the nee ieee to China, left Peking with his| fit of the seaMfien receives suppo) entourage for Shanghai yesterday. It! from some of the biggest: pag is rumored that the British Minister | swag trae] corporations in the'hos left for the purpose of negotiat- of dollars a month and overtime. These} ruits are being paid an aver-| ghty dollars a month for} harder labor. In this way the contractors and barge owners are trying to break spirit of the workers. They are ng seamen against bargemen in sir greed and rush for greater and] greater profits at the expense of the ing with Chiang Kai-shek’s “Govern- ment” at Nanking. * * Germany Comes In By pursuing a peaceful policy, Ger- many is rapidly increasing her trade with China, according to a cable re- Cops in Bloody Battle Detective Morris Borkin is dead to- day from a bullet thru his heart, an- other detective is probably fatally wounded, and a third man is dying in burglar and police. An entertainer | °Y- The cable follows: jtian worker leaders under the charge | Durant’s metaphysical tower and con- | Furthermore it is an organization of that they are followers of Entrench- erado. The latter disavows them, 2s much as they do him, but that does not matter to the government. Charges of murder, because some- body struck back when the constab- ulary were beating up a group of agrarians and killed an officer, have been placed, against the agrarians arrested in Tloilo. Raid Another Province | A sudden raid into the province of Occidental among people whom he himself declares he has never influ- enced in any way, has resulted in the arrest of 467 agrarians, all charged with being’ “followers of the insane emperor”’—a charge which is likely to develop formally into treason’ when the trial! date approaches. ne Current Events (Continued from Page One) | up on his way down the lion’s throat. | There is no more ideal condition than unity on basis of principal but where there are strong differences of opin- ion, those differences must be aster will result. Had the revolution- ary core of the Koumintang Party in China surrendered to Chiag-Kai-Shek and his right ring backers for the sake of a false unity the problem of imperialism in China would be settled for many years to come. * * | * ERE is the United States, little soc- | falist sects like the S. P., the S. L. P. and the P. P. have tickled themselves | into anaemic laughter over political discussions in the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Thos decaying organisms | have not a quarrel left in them. Those | only flog themselves into a semblance | of activity whet there is a chance to | win an approving ho from the reac- | tionaries by lambasting the revolu- | tionists. But the Communists, it | should be noted, manage to achieve unshakeable unity in fighting the bosses, even tho at the same time they insist on discussing with varying de- | grees of vigor the tactical problems | that always confront an organization. | * * * 1 i Big S. L. P. did not have a difference | of opinion as*to the best method of | conducting the class struggle for) several years, for the very good reason that they have retired to Will | fine themselves to making wise cracks at the expense of the passing show. superannuated people who have! reached that stage in life when the follies of youth can be enjoyed in re- | trospect and a mellowed skepticism of | the possibility of the human race | promptly, |forger upon a small scale finds him- | self in the station house as soon as | sading New York World during the instruction was urged by the confer-|in a Forsyth restaurant raided by the ence. Jbandits was wounded in the hand. |even amounting to anything culti- (By Nationalist News Agency) | vated to serve the purpose of psy- SHANGHAI, May 15.—Shanghai|chological crutch. With only another | Times, a British paper, in an editor- \ial news article today regarding trade \conditions in China, says: “Among the interesting features is | the fact that the Germans remaining jin China are not evacuated anywhere and that Germany will reap the gold- en harvest from the rich Yangtze | Valley. German property has appar- ently been untouched, the Germans By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). -~ The growth of the American investment empire continues at an ever increasing pace, according to department of commerce figures on foreign securities offered in the United States the first quarter of 1927. The de- partment shows a total of $337,472,700 of foreign securities sold by Amer- ican bankers in the 3-month period, an increase nearly 50% over the offer- ings of the first quarter of 1926, clean shirt, alias another national ejection, between it and limbo, the S. L. P, can be excused for not vent- uring into a heated internal fight over whether the shirt should be hard boiled or soft. * * * E Socialist Party was never keen on struggles’ over questions of pol- iey. It was a hospitable drug store This year $16,757,700 of the total} Canada ....... 658,250 | not being molested. In Hankow there covered the refunding (renewal) of; Latin America 21,237,800 | are 250 more who are remaining old obligations so that the new cap-| Far East ....... 48,140,000 | without any such privileges and pro- ital invested abroad in the first quar- ter of 1927 amounted to $360,715,000. In the same period a year ago the net investment of new capital in foreign countries was $209,762,150. The foreign investment of the United States, as measured by these figures, has been steadily rising since 1920 when $591,093,357 of foreign se- eurities were floated in the American market. was a slump to $395,000,000 but in 1924 it jumped to $1,209,800,000. There followed $1,274,967,000 in 1925 and $1,318,554,850 invested abroad in 1998 Six and a Half Billion The total par value of foreign se- eurities floated in the United States since 1920 is $6,620,150,152. Of this amount $1,017,439,283 went for re- funding, leaving $5,602,711,869 of new capital placed in foreign countries in a little over 7 years. The feature of the first quarter of 1927, compared with last year, is the shift from Germany to Italy. Only one Ge loan was floated, $5,750,000 for the Bank of East Prussia Land- owners’ Assn. Italian loans totaled $78,400,000. _,The table shows how American for- eign investment in the first quarter of 1927 was distributed: Foreign Capital Issucs Par | in U. 8. Jan.-Mar. 1927 Value | Govt. f Europe fpinstenne s+. $ 45,100,000) Territorial possessions. 1,000,000 | tection there than those offered by “| the Chinese. |where anybody who had the price could get any kind of medicine he wanted. Those who did not use some discretion were carried out feet fore- most into some one of the capitalist parties. It was a nice quiet place to rest and. enjoy a game o* »inochle. The only time some sort of political New York World Stops Exposing “Big Four” (Continued from Page One) office contains hundreds of com- plaints from policyholders which have been stifled by the State In- surance Department.” (N. ¥. World). “Money is taken from old policy- holders to pay the cost of obtaining new policies. That is larceny.” (N. Y. World). “Those who say that the present is not the time to indict the insur- ance thieves are in error. It is just the time. Today is better than to- morrow and tomorrow is better than next week or next year. There should be no delay. A pickpocket is indicted A sneak thief’s arrest comes at once on his detection. A possible. The Penal Code is plain.” (N. Y. World). A Mean Robber. Referring to insuranee officials and directors, The World said, “They robbed the policyholder because of the policyholder’s thrift and family affection, They have perverted the most sacred impulses of human na- ture to their own money-lust. The punishment which is their due should be promptly meted out to them.” (N.-Y. World). The above quotations are from editorials which appeared in the eru- The DAILY WORKER and to the militant Irish Republican and Labor Movements in Ireland. The following | resolution was passed unanimously and copies ordered sent to the gover- nor of Massachusetts, The DAILY WORKER and the Secretary of Inter- national Labor Defense. Resolved, this mss meeting of workers of Irish birth or descent } at Bryant Hall, 44nd Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, this 15th day of May, 1927, hereby ‘re- spectfully request Your Excellency as Governor of the Sovereign State of Massachusetts to appoint a Com- mission of inquiry into the conduct of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, at present under sentence of death as the result of perjured testimony and judicial prejudice which consti- tute a gross miscarriage of justice. Anti-Imperialist Meeting in Cleveland. | CLEVELAND, O.—The Workers Communist Party, the Young Work- ers League and the Pioneers have ar- ranged a meeting at the Hungarian Hall, 4309 Lorain Ave., on Wednes- day, May 18 at 8 P. M. The speakers will be I. Amter, District Secretary of the Party, J. Olchon of the Ma- chinists’ Union No. 439, representa- tives of the Y. W. L. and Pioneers. J. Fromholz will be the ¢hairman. Admission free. Armstrong Insurance Investigation that was conducted by Charles Evans Hughes. How effective the Armstrong In-| vestigation was may be guaged by the fact’ that after the investi- gation Hughes was appointed gen-| eral counsel for the Equitable Life | Insurance Company. Still Corrupt. The corrupt conditions which characterized life insurance prior to the Armstrong investigation are still rampant with this difference how- ever, that while the insurance busi- ness in 1905 was measuted in terms of its 8 billion dollars assets today its assets are over 12 billions. Evaded Probe. The “Big Four”, i. e. the Metro- politan, Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Com- panies evaded investigation in 1905. After the investigation most of the members were taken care of by being given official positions with the of- fending companies. Notably in this respect one calls to mind ex-Assem- blyman Robert Lynn Cox who is now a vice president with the Metropoli- | tan and ex-Senator William J. Tully. Since they have been in existence the “Big Four” have not been com- pelled to alter their criminal looting methods. High rates, interlocking directorates, connivance with banks and trust companies goes on today as it has always gone on. Less Serupulous. The New York World knows this as well as does the writer. As a mat- ter of fact some of the “low down” which is incorporated in this series of articles was generously supplied by men high in New York journalistic circles, Today The World is deathly silent on the expose of the “Big Four”. Old Joe Pulitzer is dead. Younger men with less scruples and a more avid lust for power dominate the World policies, - | When the writer approached Her~ bert B. Swope, exeentive editor of | | } | | the Bomb Squad and leader in the world revolutionary movement. We Negroes realize that we can only fight for freedom | under the banner of the Com- munist International.” University of California Students Ask Liberty For Sacco and Vanzetti BERKELEY, Cal., May 17.—700 | students of the University of Cali- fornia here have signed a petition to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts calling for the immediate and uncon- ditional release of Sacco and Van- zetti. Included among the signers was William Randolph Hearst, Jr. Detroit ‘Workers Calf For Prompt Releasing Of Sacco and Vanzetti Detroit, May 17.—Citing the ofe ficial declarations of the A. F. of Is at its last two conventions which branded the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti as a “ghostly miscarriage of justice,” the Star Lodge 351 of the Croation Fraternal Union of America has just passed a resolution demand- ing their immediate release, | Uncover The General Offensive The general offensive against labor has begun with an attempt to snipe off labor’s . most militant forces, the Communists. In the needle trades the unholy combination of the labor bureaucracy makes common cause with the courts. In Wash- ington the United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision, declaring the crim- inal syndicalist law constitutional, which pro- vides a sword of Damocles over the heads of those active in the revolutionary movement. Experience has shown time and again that these acts against the Communists are the usual preliminaries to an assault on the en- tire labor movement, : For this attack, the capitalist class needs the smoke screen of silence. It wants to do its dirty work under cover. For this reason the existence of a fearless Communist news- paper, which exposes mercilessly the aims and purposes of the ruling class, is a menace museum is when a hardy wight like|the World, and asked that the wide Nathan Fine suggests that it liqui-| circulation of that paper be used to dated itself and join his organization. | publicize the corript practices of the Nathan manages to be two conflict- \“Big Four,” Swope said, “tne con- In 1921 it was $675,112,963; | in 1922, $88,149,284; fin 1928 there} Total .... . .$289,136,050 Ne Genhauke To Corporations— | “The: Bets y have no gunboats and no } mee * a oe 780,000 | soldiers anywhere in China, but they | ae a : bsg 25,000 remain and declare their intentions Fa = ra 20, roar |not to evacuate, women and children } oo Rape bea + 24 rt 0,000 remaining as well as men and so far Territorial possessions. 12,736,650 | ithout disaster.” These facts are | R | cheesiest : “ ” SAE os aki oa tvions 928s 286,650 | kes Ubon ss slanald.c6 Ganga: te More than half of all the money invested outside of the country in this quarter went to increase the sway of American capital in its own private sphere of influence. This in- cluded $47,683,250 invested in Canada, | $141,682,800 in Latin America and $13,736,650 in. the territorial posses- sions, a total of $203,102,700 out of $337,472,700. The American hemis- | phere’s lead was due to investment in }government and municipal issues. In {attracting American money into cor- porate issues Europe outranked Ca- nada, Latin America and the terri- | tories combined. Power, Paper, Oil | The $36,400,000 to Italian corpora- tions went entirely for the develop- ment of electrical power. Investment of $22,025,000 in the securities of Ca- nadian corporations went mainly into paper and aluminum. In Latin Amer- ica $20,445,000 was placed chiefly in oil and railways. The $24,350,000 in- vested in the Batavian Petroleum Co, of the Dutch East Indies also went to extend the American oil empire. British and American trade in China.” | In Nationalist circles it is pointed out that these admissions by a Brit- ish-owned paper are emphatic proof that the nationals of those countries not using the gunboat policy and are |without special privileges in China jare reaping benefits impossible to | those seeking the same with the aid of armed forces. The presence of | gunboats, marines and soldiers of the |powers, they assert, is a constant | provocation to the Chinese who show resentment not essentially against the individuals themselves, but against the policies of their governments. Since the Germans surrendered extra- territorial privileges their position has become better than that of the other foreigners still ,holding such privileges, Tinney Collapses Again Physicians planned yesterday to rush Frank Tinney, comedian, here from Chicago following his collapse last night during his opening a; - ance as an entertdiner at a tebe alah, ' ing things at the sathe time and get away with it. He isa member of the socialist party and a political party by himself with a name I can’t recoll- ect, and quite popular in both parties. ditions you complain of are unfor- tunate and unfair, but. . . ” Times have changed end today we see the old enemy of Tummany hob- nobbing with the boys who, althcugh they now wear top hats, still talk * Ls * (0, after all, ascrap now and then is not the fatal thing some people are led to believe. It is at least a sigh of vitality. Some people take their fight- ing with more relish than others. It is largely a matter of thyroid glands. But political intelligence and other varieties of sense are supposed to be located between the ears and people whose heads are not supporting hats under false pretences will continue to struggle for what they believe is the best way of doing things and while they may have as many dif- ferrent motives as they have points out of the corners of their mouths— and: know a blackjack when they see one. . Gentlemen’s Agreement To Curtail Oil Output Causes More Production TULSA, Okla, May 17.—Watch Seminole! With this admonition uppermost in the minds of oil producers and every- body everywhere in the oil world, de- of view, the fact remains that human progress, in so far as it is determined by individuals, cap be attributed to this human desire to feed the ego. So let us have bigger and better fights in China but according to Hoyle. WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER OF SAcco AND VANZ! yelopments in mid-continent’s largest | pool today continued to show heavy production despite a gentlemen's agreement entered into Saturday by fifteen large operators to restrict output for two weeks. the ‘past twenty-four hours 348,350 to the smooth running of the capitalist ma- chine. The American capitalist class is there- fore looking for an opportunity’ to suppress ‘our paper. This is a vital part of the general offensive, Notice how effectively the enemies of labor mobilize all their resources—the patriotic societies, the courts, the labor bureaucrats, and the entire machinery of the capitalist class. La- bor, too, must mobilize all its forces in defense of its rights. Contribu- tions to the Defense Fund must come in im- mediately to build up a rolid wall of defense around our paper. iy DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of j dollars .... cents to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fond for better DAILY WORKER and for the defense of our paper. I will pay the same amount regularly avery Name AGU RES cs reeveccceicvcecsson tie sity ; | State... |_Altttch check oF mouey order eee rere eee ieee errr ry yy eee eee ey