The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1927, Page 1

| \ i) ' J THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 111. Outside New’ York, by, mail, $6.00 In New Yerk, by mail, $8.00 per year. ee TOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RA‘ THE LABOR DAILY $$ enn! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by B DA ¥ WORKER ° NEW. YORK, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927 PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Strect, New York N.Y. Price 3 Cent: per year. PACIFIC LABOR CONFERENCE STARTS IN HANKOW Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. | | tas connection with the visit of the French president and foreign sec- etary to London it is not without significance that the British dele- gates at the Geneva economic confer- ence had a united front with the| French delegates against the Soviet | representatives. Those things do not | happen by accident. It means a defi- | nite policy, for the moment anyhow. And the developing conflict between | the commercial interests of Great | Britain and the, United States was demonstrated by the support given! to the Russian delegates on import- | ant points by the Americans. | . * * | Tt need not be taken by anybody as evidence that a united front of all the important imperialist powers against the Soviet Union is impos-/ sible. This danger always exists. Fortunately the pirates quarrel with each other and rob each other and | this tendency is almost as much of aj life saver for the young Workers’ | Republic as the might of her Red| Army. ee ies HE twenty-five year old American known as “The Flying Fool” es- tablished a new record in the air. The hop from ‘New York to Paris is a great achievement. Thus human in- genuity and individual daring is gradually conquering the elements. Had this young man attempted a feat like this a few hundred years | ago and had he actually managed to fly he would be burned at the stake by the ancestors of the type that now | ban radical books and censor good | plays. | * * * A SO-CALLED Japanese observer | rises to” say~that mative tradition has ended “red” power in China. This talk of tradition as a decisive factor in social conflicts is a lot of bunk. The hard facts of life make short work of traditions that originally de- veloped out of a different set of facts. What is decisive in China is not tra- dition but the economic pressure that is compelling over 400,000,000 work- ers and peasants to emancipate them- selves from foreign imperialism and native capitalism. * * * E British government did not find any “sensational documents” as a result of the raid on Arcos but much | literature was seized. The govern- ment of forgers and burglars would be a great disappointment to us were it not able to find*some justification for the unprecedented attack on the | struggle comes fresh to memory. It rights of the Russian Trade Delega- tion. Scotland Yard could take the files of the .official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain and make the hair of the British bourgeoisie stand on end with hor- rifie quotations. * * * LEXANDER Kerensky continues to tell his yarn about the early days of the Russian revolution, when he with other agents of the allied powers tried to keep the Russian workers and peasants loyal to the Al- lied cause. Kerensky failed, thanks to the Bolsheviki, and the masses of the Soviet Union are now certain that they will never again be called on to jeopardize their lives in a war \ waged in the interest of some capi- talist power. S cba OES abun Aws\ inst the free expression of opinidén are further proof of class yule. a classless society there would mo need for such laws be- cause there would be no need for a government to suppress the people, All governments are organs of sup- Here, somebody will rise say that in this respect the goy-} of the Soviet Union is no than a capitalist government, it also suppresses its foes. Quite right but one cannot judge the moral- ity of an act by the method but by the purpose. + 8 8 ERE is no free speech in the * Soviet Union for the class ene- mies of the workers, They are toler- ated during the transition period from capitalism to socialism. But while in the United States, England, France and in all -apitalist countries it is the robber class that enjoys the sweets of power, in Russia it is the working and ‘peasant classes that enjoy it. And while the capitalist system of society aims to perpetuate.class rule with its inevitable repression of opinion, the Soviet system aims to abolish the need for the use of force. | \Called as Witness in {ing away & his magnificent Spring | BERWIND, FOE OF UNIONISM, WILL TESTIFY HERE Transit Inquiry By TOM ROBERTS E. J. Berwind—rapacious and aged —an enormously rich union buster, has been summoned to testify before the New York State Transit Commis-| sion this week. | Gossip already has it that Berwind | will contemptuously ignore the sum- mons. The octegenarian is one of the tu ures in the Ameri- can financial world through his con- trol of the giant Berwind-White coal | combine and his directorship in the} Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and | in nearly a sore of railroads, steam- ship lines and other public utilities. The ‘transit commission wants Ber- wind to answer some embarrassing questions. It is charged the Interbor- ough is fattening the old man’s treas- ury by purchasing Berwind-White coal at quotations above the market price. Hard Boiled. | Berwind is cold, hard and haughty. He resents being haled before the bar of inquiry and rumor is active that he will find pretexts for remain- quarters. He remembers the disagree- able hours of the summer of 522 when his company was put on the in a similar inquiry. That was during the summer of 1922 when the United Mine Workers had shut down the Berwind-White mines in Somerset County, Pa. The company was evicting miners’ famil- ies wholesale. President Brophy of the district union sent a committee of miners to New York to picket the | fine New York residence of the old aristocrat. 3 Got Razzed. What with the picketing before his gates and the city’s probing into his profiteering the aged plutocrat re- ceived the worst razzing of his career. He does not want the experience re- peated. Berwind fought out the 1922 strike with an army of gunmen and sher- iffs, One of the incidents of that was the raping of the wife of a miner named Rakola. ° . Mrs. Rakola lived at Windber, the Open Chinese Communist Youth Meet at Wuhan; 40,000 Are Represented HANKOW, May 19 (Delayed). —The Fourth Congress of the Chinese Communist Youth opened | at Wuhan today, Delegates from the Communist Youth International, the Commun- ist Youth of the Soviet Union, the British Communist Party, the Kuomintang and the Chinese Com- munist Party welcomed the dele- gates to the congress. Reports from the Chinese €om- munist Party and the Communist Youth International, as well as the tasks of the Chinese youth in the workers’ and peasants’ unions are included in the agenda. There are approximately forty thousand members of the Chinese Communist Youth represented at the congress. There were but two thousand young Communists in China two years ago. President Sacasa Leaves Nicaragua; Marines Swarm In PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, May 22.—Attended by a vast crowd of Nicaraguans who recognize him as their eonstitutional president, Dr. Jvan B. Sacasa and .staff left yes- terday on the sloop Wawa for Port Limon, to spend a term as @ political refugee in the friendly state of Gua-| former employee of the company, and | temala. Occupation of most of the country by U. S. marines, who are proceeding under orders of President Coolidge’s direct representative Henry I. Stim- son to disarm the constitutional, Lib- eral armies and to maintain in power the hireling of Wall Street, the pup- pet “president”, Adolfo Diaz, has caused Sacasa to take this step. Can Run Later. After the United States, in the name of Diaz, has policed the coun- try for two years more, American officered constabulary will allow Sa- casa’s group to run one of their num- ber for’ president of the country against Diaz. but the voting places will be crowded with Diaz’ armed mercenaries, and the entire election will be under the direct supervision of the American forces which have SCAB COAL COMP KNOCK OUT EYE OF ONE WORKER, |. SHOOT ANOTHER Peonage Used in Drive) Against Union | (By Worker Correspondent) HILLS STATION, Pa., May 22.—| James Moore, colpred, did not want | | to work for the Pittsburgh Coal Co., land be a scab im the lock-out the! | company maintains against its union | | members. A | As a result he is lying 1n the hos- pital with a bullet thru his body, | shot in the back by company’ police, | and Walter Wales, of Cannonsburg, | a coal and iron policeman employed by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. at Mon- | tour Mine No. 4, here, is out on bail, | | charged with felonious assault and battery for shooting him. Crime Concealed. j | No reports to the county author-| ities was made of the shoottng, which took place several days ago, and| nothing was done, until constant) | agitation and talk about it caused | County Detective Dinsmore to in-| | vestigate. Dinsmore was told by the | coal and iron police that Moore was found in the mining village at Mon- | tour No. 4 mine, and “could give no {reason for being there.” The police | stated that he was taken to thé police | barracks, but escaped thru the win- | | dow, and fled, and v.as fired on, after | he had opened fimgon the police. Dinsmare’s.investigat@mrybugught out |< the information that Moore did not | have any weapon, and that he was a/ why A Reliable Company Here are two of the posters of REASONS WHERE CAN YOU DO BETTER? Pittsburgh Coal Police War on Miners\0 mets, sats ANY PROPAGANDA IG ‘SURVEY; FENG TO MOVE. ON PEKING |Chen’s Note Points to British Misdeeds HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS SURVEY shows Hankow Nation- * alists in strong position; deny British reports about “imminent fall”; Yangtse valley normal, says German journalist. 7 tobe FENG, allied with * Nationalist, defeats Chang Tso- lin near Chengchow; Feng’s main force joins other Hankow divisions in big drive on Peking. _PAN-PACIFIC Labor Conference * opens at Hankow; delegates | from China, Java, Korea, the Soviet | Union, Japan, France, the United States and England attend. | Ses of Eugene Chen’s reply to | ** British note; blames British im- | perialists for situation. | ee 8 | SHANGHAI, May 22.—In connec- tion with the shortly expected arrival of the British Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, who, it is believed, is com- ing here to negotiate with Chiang | Kai-shek, a vicious propaganda cam- |paign is being directed by the imper- \ialist press against the Hankow gov- | ernment. All. reports about “the imminent fall of Hankow” and the disorganiza- tion of the Nationalist forces are | without any foundation, according to ja German journalist who has “just ar- jrived from the Nationalist capi wise miners | Good working an* living condigons : Square eal |The situation thruout the | Yangtze valley is quite norma‘, | said. | Thirty-eight thousand jobless par- the Pittsburgh Coal Company, engaged ticipants in the Hangkong strike are biggest Berwind-White coal town, a| placed and maintain Diaz in office. few miles south of Johnstown, Pa.| Sacasa’s plea to Stimson and U. S. Berwind is very vain. He seeks to| Secretary of State Kellogg, that a perpetuate his name. So he named | his coal town Wind-ber, a reversion | of the two syllables of Ber-wind. Drunken Gunman. There were 40 gunmen in that town —drunken, lousy thugs fetched’ in by detective agencies from Chicago, Pittsburgh, Johnstown and West Vir- ginid. One night the Rakola family was asleep—husband, wife, baby and brother-in-law. Ten gunmen crashed (Continued on Page Two) Turn to Last Page For First Installment Of : “Professional Patriots” This issue of The DAILY WORKER carries the first install- ment of “Professional Patriots.” This book, edited by Norman Hap- good from material gathered by Sidney Howard, co-author of “The Labor Spy,” and John Hearley, contains spicy details about the 25-odd anti-labor organizations | who operate in this country, under the guise of “patriotic” societies. By far the most interesting facts deal with the gnanner in which the National Civic Federa- tion, organized in 1900 to “recon- cile capital and labor” took on its suppressionary anti-radicay acttvi- ties immediately after the war. Tf you want to learn just where the National Civic Federation, Na- tional Security League, American Defense Society and minor organ- izations of the same variety get the cash necessary to finance their activities, turn to page six now couple of other American countries be allowed to act as joint supervisors of the election, was hypocritically re- fused by Kellogg, with the excuse that the United States could do noth- ing about that unless Diaz should ask for it too. War Smoulders. Part of Sacasa’s army is expected to remain in the interior of the coun- try, protected by the population which is almost a solid unit in opposition to the traitor Diaz and his rule. There will probably be guerrilla warfare and at any time the vigilance of the U. S. navy and the American officered con- stabulary rélaxes, there will be a mass insurrection against Diaz. But the open warfare is considered by most to be ended for the time being. The independence of Nicaragua has been brutally crushed out, Nicara- guans agree, by the United States naval and marine forces, and one more conquest is added to the empire of American business. Was Recognized. ' Sacasa’s government. was recog- nized by Mexico and other countries, and the Diaz, conservative armies were on the point of complete defeat at the time the United States openly intervened. The U. S. minister at Managua of one time threatened to expose instruc- tions from Kellogg to do all possible to keep Diaz in power and destroy liberal sentiment at a time when the Coolidge administration was assert- ing its “neutrality” in the internal affairs of Nicaragua. Woman’s Body in River. The body of a woman about forty years old was found yesterday in the akst iRver at the foot of Catherine St. Three bank books, found in a and look for the succeeding install- ments which will appear daily. pocket of her coat, bore the name Elmira Betts. \ had come to town to take his wife away. He met the coal and iron policeman, was threatened and began |to run. He was not arrested, but simply shot down as he fled, and an attempt made to keep the incident a secret. Earl Starkey, one of the force of coal and iron police at the Crescent (Continued on Page Three) Philadelphia Police Bar Harbor Allen's Play About Mr, Cod PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 22.— The Philadelphia police deparment yesterday barred the one act play “Mr. God Is Not In” that was io be presented by the Workers’ Theatre Alliance for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. Chief of detectives Gumbaro- en- | tered the Machinists Temple, 13th and Spring Garden Streets and noti- fied the committee in charge tlat it could not be produced as it is sacri- ligeous. The play was ‘written by Farbor Allen, former dramatic editor o' The DAILY W*RKER, and publiciy di- rector of the American Civil Lilerties Union. Suicide By Gas, Louis Dennenberg, 68, a etired hardware merchant committed aicide in a clothes closet in his funished room at 117 Hooper St., Broklyn, today by inhaling gas, accordag to the police. 5 Joffe, Noted Russian . ’ Columbia Tought Prof. A. Joffe, famous Resian physicist, noted for his rvolu- tionary theories on the eletron and atom, will speak tonigh at a joint meeting of the America So- ciety for Cultural Relation: with Russia,and the American Pysical Society tonight at the Physis La- boratories, Columbia Univrsity, 119th Street and Broadway. Tonight’s lecture by Dr Joffe is part of the plan of the {mer- ican Society for Cultural Rations with Russia to diffuse irorma- tion on recent scientifie dvelop- ments in the Soviet Union, tennant pasar now in trying to operate its mines non-union. These placards are lavishly scattered about the district, and are so utterly false and misleading that only to read them is to doubt them. Recent shootings and beatings by the company have brought out the fact that “Steady Work” means debt slavery; | “Good Working Conditions” means innumerable accidents and wages so low that the miner can not live on them; “Square Deal” means being shot in the back when you try to leave the job; “Friendly Bosses” means having their coal and iron police invade your home and knock out your eye. | BE AN INDEPENDENT AMERICAN— A FREE MAN~ DOMINATED BY NO ONE demanding doles from the Canton au- thorities, and threatening hostile ac- tion against the right-wing adminis- tration. * * . Nationalists Strong, Probe Shows. (By Nationalist News Agency) HANKOW, May 22.—An investiga- | (Continued on Page Two) LATINS RAP U.S, GUNBOAT POLICY AT GENEVA MEET Soviet Union Demands | Full Recognition a GENEVA, Ma —Latin-Amer- ican delegates severely denounced American gunboat diplomacy at the plenary session of the International Economic Conference yestercay. Pointing out that financial invest- ments by Wall Street bankers in Latin-America have invariably been followed by political intervention by the state department, and appealing for European investments, Senor | Narvaez, delegate from Colombia de- | clared: | “Although New York markets have | been fully open the last few years and $100,000 invested in Colombian | securities, certain interventions by | the state department into our inter- nal affairs inspired apprehensions and brought a desire to have our se¢- curities listed concurrently on other markets.” “While Salvador needs capital,” | said Dr. Arcadia Ortiz, Salvador rep- | resentative, “it would not welcome | elements coming in which might af- | ford pretext for unwelcome foreign | intervention, a type with which pain- ful experience has acquainted us.” USSR Demands Recognition. Demanding recognition and the STAY ON THE JOB_ The mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company are going to continue to operate at full speed, and you will have steady, every-day work. You have a good job now—stick to it—don’t be misled by fly-by-night agitators—we will protect you. Pittsburgh Coal Company Pittsburgh -+- Pennsylvania hessisnestisssesettsnensenssensestenunesssangemamiaesameeeseeease | adoption of resolutions declaring that LL §—§" rier to re-establish world pros: ____| perity Communism and capitalism | must work together, the Soviet Union delegation rejected the meaningless compromise preamble drawn up by Roland Boyden of the American dele- gation. bt ——, : The “compromise” preamble reads, BERLIN, May 22.—Four active | “Recognizing the importance of the members of the Communist Party of renewal of world trade, but refrain- Germany have just been sentenced to! ing absolutely from infringing on po- prison for radical activities. Charged | }itical questions, the conference re- little more than 33 hours, was rest-| with having “conspired against the gards participation by all members ing today. ‘ | Republic,” Heinrich Evers, a member| of the countries attending, irrespec- Proud Americans are already com-' of the Central Committee of the Ger-| tive of their economic systems, as a puting the amount of money that|man party was sentenced to serve|happy augury for pacific commercial Lindbergh willbe able to make. three and a half years, | cooperation of all nations.” Lindbergh, N_ Y.-Paris)4 German Communists Flier, Is Acclaimed For|Get Long Prison Terms His Spectacular Feat|/For Political Activity PARIS, May 22.—Capt. Charles Lindbergh, the 25-year old aviator from Missouri who completed the first New York-Paris non-stop flight in a %