The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections Be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No. 110. Current Events ‘ALVIN COOLIDGE may trail the letters “M. D.”. after his name in the future if he wants to. The Inter- national Post Graduate Medical As- sociation of North America presented the president with a diploma. The president earned it. He-eats country sausage for breakfast and keeps his mouth shut most of the time. A man who ean survive these two ‘penalties is entitled to any honor running around loose. Be'that as it may, me- thinks Cal would be happier if some political soothsayer guaranteed him a third term. * . * AN impersonation of Arthur Brisbane turning out his column, Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray killed a} man. What of it! The trouble is, they. did not know how to make a clean getaway. Now, had Mr. Gray taken an airplane and flew to Ro- chester the Bomb Squad would have never heard of him, 50,000 airplanes stationed at strategic points could protect New York from the worst that the Abyssinian army could do. And if Calvin Coolidge is reelected he will} not serve a third term. 100,000 air- planes would be cheaper than one earthquake. . * * Tes is a paper called “The Yellow Jacket.” meritorious. Here are a few of them: “To swat liars and leeches, hypocrites and humbugs demagogues and das- tards.” What a dastard is we do not know but they can go as far as they | like against the humbugs. In all probability the editor of “The Yellow Jacket” is a champion humbug. He makes a‘ living at it. ne 3 * * .EFORE these words appear in print Great Britain may have.sundered diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The raid on the Soviet trade delegation headquarters did not pro- duce any sensational documents but endugh to give the British government an excuse for breaking off relations. That was the motive for the raid. The struggle between the. political idea back of the Soviet government and the capitalist system, will continue un- | til one or the other bites the dust. The capitalist system is doomed to kiss mother earth because evolution de- erees it. The Soviet Union represents the new form of society which is de- veloping in the womb of capitalism. The British government is playing the role of social abortionist, without suc- cess. « ne THE president of the French republic | and the foreign minister of the same country did not visit England merely to see the beef eaters in the Tower of London. The visit. was merely the consummation of an agree- ment already reached between the British and French foreign offices. The main note of the supposed agree- ment . was hostility to the Soviet Union. Of course, agreements often- times fall by the wayside. It is quite possible that some other group of French politicians may wreck the present entente between England and France. And it is also quite possible that before the Tories reap the fruits of the new understanding, # general election may send them to the sticks. All those possibilities and probabili- ties must be taken into consideration. Life is not simple and politics is worse than that. ee ee URING his thirteen years of mar- ried life a gentleman from Hoboken mere to desert his wife ten times and had ten children by her. Yet a hard-boiled judge confronted him with the alternative of spending a year and “ya day in jail or posting a bond guar- énteeing $20 a week to his wife for the, duration of that time. The de- fendairt, is still undecided as to what he showld do. The man might have made the New York to Paris flight and won the title of the “Perfect Fool.” ‘ * * * HEE is one reason why Marshal Pil- sudski is running and running \ Poland: The inhabitants of a Polish village near Danzig recently broke in- to the house of a wealthy landowner intending to kill him and demolish a wireless set which they believed was ‘responsible for a thunderstorm that gets busy. B are’ peace mission of Mr. Stimson to Nicaragua is healthy laughing food) but not for the Nicaraguans. Mr. Stim- son believed that he could purchase SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FEAR EFFECT OF $0 Officially | of Mysterious TORY CABINET SPLITS ON ARCOS RAID; Admitted Police Failed to Get Evidence Izvestia Warns War Makers That Workers of U.S S. R. Want Peace But Fear Nothing 1 LONDON, May 20.—The Conservative Party cabinet is hope- VIET TRADE BREAK “State Paper” NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927 Published Daily PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents SMITH CRACKS WHIP OVER TRANSIT CZARS FORCING HEAVY FINANCIAL INTERESTS TO BACK HIM FOR WHITE HOUSE RACE Traction Commission Not Suddenly Overwhelmed With Concern for Subway Riders Yesterday's Disclosures: The Traction Trust is about to perpetrate the 10c fare steal- The City is being plundered of more than $11,000,000 yearly. Those involved in the Traction Swindle include, Governor Al lessly split over the excuse that is to be given the House of Commons for the raids on the headquarters of the Soviet Union | | trade delegation and the offices of Arcos, the Anglo-Soviet Union | trading corporation doing. a big business between the two} countries as a result of the trade agreement. | In all quarters the fact that the {- + | Smith, Mayor James J. Walker, the mémbers of the Transit Com- | mission, the Executive Editor of a large Metropolitan Daily News- paper, and many others yet to be revealed. * * * By ROBERT MITCHELL. | Samuel Untermyer’s sudden outcry on behalf of the “people,” Its aims and objects are | | government had to abandon its an- | nounced intention of giving a state- |ment to the House of Commons yes- |terday, and beg for another week’s ‘time, is taken as a sign of weakness, weakness such as few British cab-| inets have ever survived. | It is admitted by all that the police | did not find the “important state | paper” the finding of which could} alone justify or even appear to jus- | tify the violent.breach of diplomatic | immunity which Home Secretary Sir} | William Joynson-Hicks committed in| \the raiding of Arcos House. | Entire files of the letteys and rec-| lords of the trade delegation and Ar-| | cos were carried off to Scotland Yard |by the raiders. | “AIL the documents have been ex- |amined and the so-called stolen docu- {ment unfotind.” ~ Arthur “Ponsonby, | Under Secretary in the Foreign Office |under the Labor Premier MacDonald, remarked to-day. “Why, then, cannot the government make a report? I dis- miss the idéa’that they are fabricat- ing forgeries in the interval. A gov- ernment which was born by the aid of a Russian fraud may conceivably | |find its death in the same quarter.” | | This last is a reference to the |“Zinovieff Letter” forgery which |won the Conservatives the last gen- \eral election, Might Knock Out “Jinx.” It is known that the group in the leabinet following Joynson-Hicks in- tended yesterday to publish documents of yery dubious authenticity showing ‘a connection between the Communist International and the activities of | members of the trade delegation, and | to demand a severance of diplomatic | and trade relations between Britain | and the U.S.S.R. on this basis, in-| cidentally, of course, solving the question of an excuse for the raid. The more moderate wing of the cabinet, led by Baldwin, who fears to wreck British industry altogether by checking the growing trade with the Soviet Union, and afraid that public ridicule would follow another such open forgery as that of the “Zin- ovieff Letter,” has at least tempor- arily vetoed the plan. Baldwin seriously considered disa- vowing the raid, and asking for the home secretary’s resignation, but real- ized that the die-hards were strong enough in his party to wreck the cab- inet and force another general elec- tion. The quandary continues. Would Remove Immunity, The extreme die-hard faction is led by Winston Churchill, Lord Birken- | head and Sir William Joynson-Hicks. | Though it bears no more love for | the Soviet Union than the Churchill ; group, ‘the other faction believes it, wiser to pursue a more moderate | | policy. It holds the view that the} \ (Continued on Page Two) | “Professional Patriots” ~ Begins Serially in The DAILY WORKER Monday How the business interests of the United States help to enforce itep” in the schools and in The WORKER on Monday. This book, edited by Norman Hapgood, also tells just who play the “rich angels” to the organiza- tions who disguise their labor-hat- ing activities as guardians of the public good. “Professional Patriots” is based ow material gathered by Sidney Howard and John Hearley. =It is published by Albert & Chdfles HELPERS OUT'AS BOSS PLUMBERS’ Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1 MacDonald, right. ? airplanes to bomb Hindu villages. eft, and former Prime Minister Ramsay | now? Idwin shoots up Chinese villages, and MacDonald sent) € MacDonald has just been repudiated by LOCKOUT FAILS | his own party, the Independent Labor Party, and Baldwin is getting into hot i= 3 SRE eS + water with that section of his class which wishes to continue trading with the| entitled to have answered; these are _ |the questions with which The DAILY Progressives Demand} Support for Brooklyn | Plumbers helpers yesterday served notice on plumber bosses in Manhat- tan and the Bronx that they would | continue their strike for the five-day week and the recognition of the union despite the collapse of the lockout against the plumbers. Astonished by the rank and file re- bellion in Plumbers’ Local 1 against the arbitration demands foisted upon it-by the.besses. andthe international. union, the Building Trades Employers’ Association called off the lockout yes- terday. Using the excuse of a week | old injunction which previously they | had ignored, the master plumbers | opened their jobs and asked the jour- neymen to return to work. In the meantime international offi- cials had hastily deserted the city, the executive board members scattering to all parts of the country while Pres- ident Coefield and Secretary Burke retreated in the direction of union headquarters in Chicago. Brooklyn Plumbers’ Loeal 1 contin- ues its strike for the five-day week and | the $14 scale, determined to stay out all spring, if need be. That victory is probable is seen in the collapse of the Building Employers’ front, Their ad- amant stand against any further wage increases for any building crafts was crumbling under the solidarity and militancy of the Brooklyn strikers. No Help from International. International officials, exposed by members of Local 1 as working hand in glove with the bosses seeking to force arbitration upon the workers with no assurance that the shorter week would’ be granted, disappeared yesterday, leaving the Brooklyn men to fight their own battle. Plumbers’ helpers will hold a gen- eral building trades meeting Monday night at Cooperative Hall, 347 East 72nd St., between First and Second Aves., to consider to plan the next steps in their fight. Many building trades locals have passed resolutions commending their stand. The Plumbers Progressive Group of Greater New York issued a statement yesterday which commanded wide at- tention in building trades circles. It reads: Threaten Scab Work. The plumbers of Greater New York must learn a lesson from the struggle that is now going on in the industry. The bosses are threatening to man the Brooklyn jobs with non-union labor. They do this because they have not only the suport of the Master Plumb- ers of all boroughs, but clso of, the Building Trades Employers’ Assccia- tion—a strong powerful alliance of all contractors in the building industry, which is out to crush every attempt hg workers to better their condi- The officials of our own United As- sociation with the methods they use, are helping the bosses in this fight. They threaten to dissolve Local 1 ii the men will not go back to work pending. arbitration. This is an un- heard-of procedure by union officials, while workers of their own union are out on strike against the bosses. Vres- ident Coefield and Secretary Burke are, by their actions, betraying the New York plumbers and playing into the hands of the bosses. We must say to them: “Hands Off Local 1,” or you will Ive to deal with the membership of all three New York locals. Only thru a united front of all (Continued on Page Three) kow. Soviet Union. 3 Communist Deputies in Polish Parliament Wire Sacco-Vanzetti Protest “In the name of the Polish Com- munists, we protest energetically against the murder deing commit- ted by the Americyn bourgeoisie inthe ‘Polish Diet." 4 ee This was the text of a cable- |) gram made public yesterday by |} the International Labor Defense || from the Communist deputies in |} the Polish sejm, or parliament. FENG TAKES NEW TOWN IN HANKOW. DRIVE NORTHWARD | ‘Brand Anti-Nationalist Rumors As Lies SHANGHAI, May 20.—Feng Yu- hsiang, “christian general,” who has pledged his support to the Hankow Nationalist government, is moving} rapidly southward along the Peking- Honan railway. His troops have) taken Chintsukwang and are sweep-| ing toward Kunghsien—strategic city | in southern Honan. Feng’s troops are well-disciplined | and their great restraint is winning, for them the support of the peasan-| try in Honan, reports state: They are receiving a political education | and learning the objects Of the Na- tionalist movement. | No Attack On Hankow. Reports that Chiang Kai-shek is moving against Hankow were of- ficially denied by Chiang before leav- | ing Shanghai for Nanking. Rumors about the imminent fall of Hankow being circulated by the British are! utterly. without foundation. No news that has been received from Hankow | indicates that the Nationalist gov- ernment is in any danger. With four armies marching against, Canton, with armies sweeping north from Hankow and with Feng leading | 250,000 well-drilled and well-equipped men in a two-fold drive against the war lords, the Hankow government appears to be in an extremely strong military position. Observers here state that the Bri- tish are circulating rumors about the “imminent downfall of the Hanko' government” in an effort to creat American sentiment for the severance | of diplomatic relations with the Na- tionalists. Britain has already re- called her representative, from Han- * . . To Examine Mme. Borodin. PEKING, Maq 20.—The Russian White Guardist Rasumoff, adviser of Chang Tsung-chang, Shantung war lord, has been sent to Peking to par- ticipate in the judiciary examination of Mme. Borodin and the Soviet Union officials captured by Chang ENGDAHL SPEAKS AT OZERY MAY DAY CELEBRATION : m4 weapon which Governor Al Smith is caitaed to Learn About |holding over the heads of the trac- the United States y By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special to The DAILY WORKER) OZERY, Moscow Province, April 30, (By Mail).—This is to convey the greetings of the 10,000 textile work- ers of Ozery, about 100 miles south of Moscow, to the textile workers of America. This greeting is extended especially to the heroic fighters in the textile mills of Passaic, New Jersey. It goes also in the warmest com- radely spirit to the textile workers of Massachusetts, the state that now plays the role of assassin of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. I pledged. myself to extend these greetings of the textile workers of Free Russia to those in America, still impressive May Day gathering held in the local theater here on the eve of May Day. My promise met with if- stant and great enthusiasm. May Day Eve The big demonstration was to be held on the morrow, May Day. But tonight there was a preliminary gathering that filled the theater with the full representation of the Local Soviet, the members of the leading committees in the Communist Party in Ozery, as well as the active workers in the trade unions, delegations of workers and others admitted by card only. Here were assembled the working men and women who are responsible locally for the building of the new so- cial order. Foreman Once Owner “What has become of the former owner of the factory?” I asked later as we were riding off to the station, for the return to Moscow. “Oh, he is a fireman in our mill,” smiled the worker who rode with us, one of the officials of the union. “He is the leader of our chorus,” added this worker. * “And does he sing the International, too?” T asked, “Oh, yes,” came the answer. He leads in the singing of the Interna- tional and he sings, too. And his son daughter are also in the chorus, they also sing the International.” My_instructibns on leaving Moscow were to carry the greetings of the Communist International and of the 5 (Continued on Page Two) Motorman Killed In Long Island Wreck One man was killed, and five pas- sengers injured yesterday afternoon in a collision between a freight and a passenger train of the Long Island Railroad near Woodside, Queens. The dead man was Michael Santa Croce, motorman of the pearennes Tso-lin in his’ raids on the embassy|train. None of the passengers ‘compound, badly injured. the unexpected decision to summon the transit czars before the equally unexpected hearings of the transit commission, the whole | hubbub over the nickel fare has aroused the suspicions of New | York workers. Why is the political gang so anxious to force hearings right What, and who, is behind the present transit investiga- | tion and the so-called open hearings? These are questions the workers are | WORKER will concern itself in this series on The Traction Swindle, Inc. First, let us examine frankly and openly the purpose behind the investi- |gation. It can be stated flatly, and will be proved in this article, that the transit commission hearings are} dummy proceedings whose real pur-| jpose is far different than that of- {fered by Samuel Untermyer or any |other of the interested principals. These transit hearings are BAR BRANTING AS SACCO'S LAWYER \Boston Tories Aroused by “Outsider” in Case Loa 7 ‘ BOSTON, May 20.—Reactionaries 8en czars, with whom he is tempor- who are fighting for the execution of faxily at odds and whom he is seek-) Nicula Sacco and Bartolémeo Vanzet- ing to force ‘onto “his bandwagon, +i on. Jity 10 are bringing: pressure to headed for the Democratic presiden-| pea on the State Department, it be- tial nomination. came known today, to bar Georg Bee Was Unexpected. | Branting from the United States. This temporary and unexpected| Branting, a noted Swedish lawyer, tussle which has arisen because of) js the son of the late Hjalmar Brant- Al Smith’s presidential aspirations is| ing, former labor premier of Sweden. ja development which no one anticipa- | He has been named by the Scandin- ted at the time the secret traction | ayian Sacco-Vanzetti Defense commit- |deal was made about two years ago.|tee, comprising labor groups in | Previous to the election of James| Sweden and Norway, to assist in the |J. Walker as mayor of New York | defense of the two Italian anarchists |when the outstanding problem before | doomed to die for a crime they did \the traction interests was to elimin-| not commit. ate that bone of contention, the then The brilliant young Swedish lawyer |Mayor John Hylan, there was held js due to arrive in New York on the | the’ secret conference already men-) Rotterdam*next Thursday, but he will | tioned. x be greeted not only by friends of Sac- |_At this conference were present| co and Vanzetti but by hostile immi- |Frank Hedley, president and general | gration authorities of local Tories suc- the | victims of capitalist oppression, at the manager of the Interborough Rapid | ceed in persuading Kellogg to bar him, | Transit, Gerhard Dahl, chairman of| 4, ii to the Bost }the board of directors of the Brook- | object a souteidere” eral Croce {lyn-Manhattan Transit, Governor | Alfred E. Smith, James J. Walker, |eandidate for mayor and Herbert} |Bayard Swope, executive editor of fe’ the New York World. Among other things the conference | decided that the issue of the five cent fare should be kept for the coming | campaign but that at the proper mom- ent the mayor of New York and the) | Governor of the state should “de- liver.” foreigners interfering in a “purely domestic, state case.” William G. Thompson, chief of de- | fense counsel, was closeted with Gov- ‘ernor Fuller for the entire afternoon yesterday, presenting evidence re- quested by him. Transcript of the evidence in the Plymouth trial, ip which Vanzetti was betrayed by his own counsel, was laid before the gov- ernor by Thompson. President H. A. Garfield of Williams College and head of the famous Intere national Institute of Politics has ap- pealed to the governor for the “full- est possible investigation” of the case while Dr. John Haynes Holmes, the liberal New York pastor derides the idea that radicals commit criminal of- Ditch Hylan. On the basis of this deal, Walker was nominated for mayor; Hylan was properly “dumped”; the five cent fare was dangled’ aloft and the first act |of the drama had begun. | vane yp immediately, however, the | wave of popularity which had washed ;. the debonair Jitimie Waller into port, fenses, In a friendly letter, he “chal- |had the effect of turning his head. lenges the oh dgensoni to “search all the It had been ‘agreed ‘that he was to history of radicalism for the past 100 | speak of the five cent fare before |™ and you will not find a single | election but Jimmie found the popu- st, Communist, anarchist ‘of | larity so pleasing that he continued radical of any stripe who ever became |the racket even after the November involved in highway robbery, banditry, parol ig , or any other crime of that character.” | In the emergency, the traction! EES SETAE BS barons sent Swope, the executive edi-| 1 tor of the World to interview) Jack Rubenstein Free on Jimmie Walker, the mayor, and to re- ? $ mind him of ‘his. pledge. Watker | Judge's Writ of Error thereupon completely denied having|| + . o attended the conference! in Passaic Textile Case Alsc Jimmie began to ingratiate himself more and more firmly with|| (Special to The DAILY WORKER) the old guards of Tammany Hall as PASSAIC, N. J., May 20.—Jack against the “New Tammany Hall’|; Rullinstein, one of the leaders of which Al Smith was building up. Of|| the recent textile strike was re- leased on $5,000 bail yesterday by this most interesting situation more will be said at another time. Here it]| Judge William Siefert in Hacken- sack Court. Joseph Feder, his at- is necessary only to remark that th Governor retaliated with the spec.|| torney secured his release on a writ of error, tacular series of raids on the old Tammany clubs and gambling joints.|) The case will come before the These raids, conducted by the re-|' state supreme court at Trenton for cently departed Police Commissioner final action in the near future. McLaughlin, the personal friend oi Rubenstein was recently sen- Al Smith, nearly split the Tammany|} tenced to six months in jail and given a fine of $500, | organization asunder. | Blame It On Al. The defense committee here When the old guards came tojj in need of funds to fight the pli. Jimmie for protection, his only reply]| to a successful conclusion, a (Continued on Page Three) soc