The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1927, Page 1

‘STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER | at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FINAL | FINAL CITY | EDITION FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matte? NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY, 24, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by 3 DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Vol. IV. No. 112. | Y | | By T. J, O’FLanerty. Current a — HE capitalist correspondents in| China have been giving the*im- pression recently that the Hankow government was on the point of col- * lapse. We warned our readers not to take these dispatches without a liberal pinch of salt. It is to the in- terest of the imperialist powers to create the impression thruout the | world that the Hankow government, | which represents the interests of the | Chinese workers and peasants is weakened to the point of futility. Such ig not the case, * * ISTERDAY’S dispatches indicate | that the revolutionary nationalist forces have made important ad-| 98” |. R. T. STOCK HELD IN WALL STREET PLUMBERS ARE VINDIGATED IN FIRM ATTITUDE: Building Bosses Facing Defea f PLUNDER NOT SERVICE MAIN AIM OF RING irectors Own But Few Shares in Company ‘SACCO- VANZETTI COMMITTEE ASKS PUBLIC HEARINGS By By ROBERT MITCH The state tr half an hour had elapsed before two vances. The efforts of the capitalist | ; eee ie, ; : USN re commission hear- correspondents to ally General Feng | iDow Re por ts Admit Warns of Dangé YS 1M | ings got under way this morning with with Chiang-Kai-Shek have not sur-| Secret Investigation something of an explosion. Hardly vived. Feng is with Hankow. And} Hankow has the same revolutionary | ‘Wages to Go Higher vealed to the outstanding BOSTON, May connotation that Canton had until the | jhe Sig plumbers ot Boe ler’s star chamber small group of action Brains” northern advance and the defection of | yn will win ,their $14 scale and S ante emek up against | Which attended the sitting. ry . | may gain the five-day week. t Chiang-Kai-Shek. real s' when the practically all, 98 per hep ee |Q.—THE striking -plumbers. helpers etti defense committee | cent of the stock of t borough | 2 se comr ¢ of th bore | R the benefit of those who came to| | , eee big bo aah demanded an open, public| Rapid Transit Company is held in the apie snel orm of voting certificates by gee orcee ne a apse d cellent chance of lifting their present wa eaiaad letter to the governor, | Street brokers. . = gps Bvvpsele ey panmebalh low scale of $4 to much high levels. ie ‘big cig Se elin ta, {1 Bee i, and re signifie: mental change in the composition of| ¢ _ TH Building Trades Employers’ the committee asks that the public be| Second, and even more significant, the nationalist forces fighting the for- 3. ‘Askeetats rk teat d i ¢!) =|kept informed daily on the progress|the directors of the company hold eign imperialists and the native mili- ‘ ssociation is beaten in its lock- of the inquiry. Declaring that Fuller practically no stock in the Interbor- out. had never answered the committce’s | ough. DN tarists, I would draw attention to the manifesto issued by the Koumintang with headquarters at Hankow declar- ing that the merchants, manufactur- ers, peasants and workers are impor- tant factors in the Nationalist revo- lution. The capitalist correspondents want to create the impression that} Hankow is trying to conciliate busi- ness. As a matter of fact the mani- festo does not indicate any important change in the strategy of the general staff of the Chinese revolution. * * age va came to the conclusion | that when’ the Chinese Communists raised the slogan of the expulsion of the right wing of the Koumintang that this meant the narrowing of the base of the nationalist revolution to «ne workers and pgasaits. exclusigely. Nothing of the sort. The trade union movement in China is young and in- experienced. The organization of the peasants is still in its infancy. The revolutionary middle classes still play an important role in the liberation! movement. But the workers and| péasants thru the Communist Party of China will redouble their efforts to secure the leadership of the na+ tionalist revolution and change its character, in so far as conditions per- mit into a social revolution. We a glad to be able to report, from teak: ing between the lines of the dispatches that the Chinese revolution is in @ healthy condition. * * a all probability Great Britain will break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. This act will be regretted by big industrial financial interests in Great Britain. The eco- omic groups behind Winston Churchill and the extreme conserva- tive wing of the cabinet want a break. They also want to establish a fascist government in Britain as soon as pos- sible. It seems to me that this—the threatening break—is a stupid move on the part of the British government at this time. But beggars cannot be choosers, as the old saying has it. And while Britain is not yet reduced to beggary, he condition is far from an envious one. * ig is reported from London, or rather predicted that Italy will follow the British lead in case of a break with \ Russia, Chamberlain sounded out Briand of France when he was in London a few days ago but the Fretich foreign secretary was evas- ive. Gérmany has turned a deaf ear to the British suggestion and the. United States, not having recognized the goverpment of the Soviet Union, seems bent on gaining as much com- mercial advantage as possible from the strained relations between the two owers. . HE Colombian PRES to the inter- national economic conference in Geneva created quite a scene at that August gathering when he stated that Columbia would prefer the investment of European capital in that country to Wall Street capital because of the tendency ‘of the United States gov- ernment to interfere in the internal affairs of Latin-American republics. And the headline artist who fixed up the story for the New York Evening Post concluded that European capi- tal was Navies in Colombia! * * ce i torious overthrow of Czarism and|| struck midnight tonight.” Hodgson, head of the British trade | Illinois. About one-third, it is esti-|Park. The first section of the line| Ss THe REET of the Soviet Union | capitalism in Russia by the Russian Cashman was speaking in the || delegation in Moscow has been or-|mated found refugee with relatives! was opened in 1904; the second in| The scaseention Bir poset Yo planning an English boycott ac-| workers. But in other capitalist|] senter of Yankeeland reaction, the ||dered to report to the cabinet. Those | or friends in dry sections. Property | 1908. | work under Contract No.1 MacDon- cording to an Associated Press dis- patch from Moscow and take it from me this is no mean reprisal against the outrageous and insulting attitude of the British tory government to- | sued a manifesto calling upon the The predictions covered in the three points listed above were broadly hinted at yesterday by the Dow Ser- vice Daily Building Reports, the au- thoritative daily chronicle of the in-| dustry. In a special article by Allen | E. Beals, the sweeping admission mer made that the Building Trades ployers’ efforts to “stabilize” Soa and make an “example” of Brooklyn | plumbers’ strike have failed. They have failed because the build- | ing industry has not yet started its decline and because the chaos in the | industry does not permit a unified | labor policy to be fully effective, ac- | | cording to the Dow Reports. Cc. G. Norman, head of the Employ-| ers’ Association, when queried by The | | DAILY. WORKER. yesterday oi-the| Dow Reports story, snapped, “I am not ba engi for what the Dow Re- ports may sa: But he did admit that a full month’s | efforts to club the Brooklyn steers | (Continued on Page Five) WORKERS PARTY © WARNS AGAINST ‘NEW WORLD WAR Scores Arcos Raids and | Imperialism in China WASHINGTON, May 23.—Point-| ing to the studied attempts on the part of the imperialist powers to goad the Soviet Union into war, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ (Communist) Party has is- workers of the United States to pro- test against imperialist activities that will inevitably plunge the world into a new war. The full text of the manifesto fol-j lows: Little more than eight years have passed since the “war to end war” baa terminated. But today we find Ives again in immediate danger of a new world war. The raid of the British government on the Arcos is an act of provocation thru which the imperialists of Great! Britain hope to provoke the peace- ful workers’ republic of Russia, and expect to push other imperialist gov- ernments into an immediately active united front against the Soviet Union. The last world war was a battle for supremacy between two groups of imperialist powers. The victims of this battle were the workers. Those who escaped slaughter and maiming on the battlefields are being squeezed dry of their very life in a mad race for more efficient profit- making, instituted by post-war capi- talism. But even during the war it became clear to millions of workers that in spite of high-sounding phrases about lofty war aims, they were the only ones selected as its victims. Re- sistance to the ‘war therefore de- veloped among the working masses, This resistance culmirtated in the vic- | countries, too, there developed the danger for the imperialists that the war would be turned into a war of the working masses against im- (Continued on Page Three) i perialism. This danger was the pri- (Continued a Page Two) “Flood 1 rehabilitation is good business; we'll put it er in charge.” : NATIONALISTS SCORE VICTORIES OVER COOLIDGE MAKES CHANG TSO-LIN IN DRIVE ON PEKING HOOVER MASTER American Destroyer Towns When Hit Preble Bombards Forts oid By Stray Bullets HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS Siping and Shangstai; capture ~* LNationtlist’ troops sweep north; wir wecksive battle military supplies, 5,000 men. | 2.—American destroyer Preble bombards villages and forts; report heavy losses. 3.—Great Britain prepares for open war against China; re-| South, and assuring a monopoly of | icalls Consul from Chinkiang. 4.—Chang Tso-lin tottering; tionalism. HANKOW, May 23. —The |manding the drive. The report taken Siping and Shangtsai and | are rapidly marching on Kaifing and Chengchow, strategic cen-| |ters in the northern drive. The text of General Tan’s report as given out by the military council follows: “Our forces on May 14 opened an attack on the enemy at Shangtsai, Siping and Hoshucheng. After a fierce three-day battle we captured Sangtsai and Siping and the area along the Hungho River on May 17, killing more than 8,000 and capturing 5,000 enemy rebels. Capture Munitions. “ “The army which recently joined the Northerners was completely rout- ed. We captured ten field guns, twenty machine guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. We lost 700 men. Our vanguards have reached Chowiakow and are now advancing on Kaifeng and Chengchow.” The resumption of train service be- tween Hankow and Chumatien (re- cently held by the Northerners) (Continued on Page Five) Run Smith Professors Out of Town, Advice of Patrioteer Cashman NORTHAMPTON, Mass., May 23.—-Many professors at Smith College, a conservative New Eng- land women’s institution here, would be driven out of town if residents of the city knew their real opinions, Joseph T. Cashman, of the National Security League told an astonished audience here. “If I gave you the lowdqwn of some of the college professors in this city,” said the professional anti-radical speaker, “the things they stand for, too immoral to cir- culate, I am sure you would drive them out of town before the clock home ‘town of Calvin Coolidge. ‘Many students and faculty mem- bers at Smith recently apealed to Governor Fuller to review the Sac- so-Vanzetti case. | North honeycombed with Na-| 7 * Nationalist troops pushing thru | Honan are sweeping aside the Northern troops who stand be- tion program”. | tween them and Peking, according to a report received here by | ithe military council from General Tan Seng-chi, who is com- states that the Nationalists have | the afea along the Hungho River | USSR NOW PLANS A TRADE BOYCOTT AGAINST BRITAIN Will Transfer Trade If Relations Broken MOSCOW, May 23.—The Soviet Union is making definite plans to boy- cott English industries. This was made elear by A. P. Sere- brovsky, vice-chairman of the Su- preme Council of Public Economy. He declared that the Soviet Republic did not desire a break with England, but if that country’s, present attitude to- ward commercial relations continued unfavorable, the USSR would cease! purchasing even those commodities England was best able to supply. In- cluding among these are steam tur- bines,, boilers, electric equipment, tex- tile machinery, etc. Serebrovsky explained that the Sov- iet Union was more interested in pat- terning their plans for industrial ex- pansion on German and American methods. “America,” he declared, “of- fers the best example of technical organization. England cannot givé,a good example because English factor- jes have become obsolete, while the prices are higher than those of other nations.” * . * LONDON, May 23.—The cabinet meeting tomorrow is expected to take | up the question of breaking trade, and itera rds presumably, diplomatic re- lations with the U. S. S, R. Sir R. M. in touch with the British trade dele- gation assert that a rupture of rela- tions would hurt England more than the Soviet Union, which has shown itself able to exist without relations with any particular western power. sees Whips All OF FLOOD FUNDS ‘State Groups Into Line BATON ROUGE, May 23.—Tight- ening the grip of the banking inter- {ests on the already mortgaged far- mers of the flooded districts in the} | the profitable business of “rehabili- | tation” for the inner ring of money | lenders, Herbert Hoover has been} | today appointed by President Cool- | idge to be general supervisor and head of the $400,000,000 “reconstruc- At one time it seemed that state governments, more under the control of the suffering farmers, were about to cut under the federal government’s terms, and perhaps even give away some money to the flood victims. Hoover’s appointment will. effectively | stop this stampede in the direction | of mercy, and stiffen. the resistance | of local busness men to the clamors| of the 750,000 country people drven from their homes, thru the govern- ment’s criminal negligence to proper- ly control the river, as great ricers abroad are controlled. Hoover Cracks Whip. Retnrning to Baton Rouge today after a three day swing around the three hundred mile flood rimmed circle of Central Louisiana, Secretary Hoover devoted himself immediately | to the rehabilitation work he was forced to drop ten days ago when the crumbling west bank Mississippi levees unleashed the river over more than one-fifth of Louisiana’s 40,000 Square miles. After a conference here with Governor O. H. Simpson’s State Re- construction Committee, Secretary Hoover arranged to leave late this afternoon by special train for Vicks- burg, where he will meet the Missippi State Committee. On Tuesday he will go to Memphis, Wednesday to Little Rock, Thursday to Alexandria, and Friday to New Orleans. This programm will bring him to the southern end of Louisiana according | to latest meteorological calculations, about the time the main body of the Atchafalaya Basin flood passes over the last stretch of inhabited terri- tory in its path to the Gulf of Mexico, Two-Thirds in Camps. A recapitulation today of relief work since mid-April places at 500,- 000 the number of refugees cared for in 64 concentration camps. From this figure, officials estimate that almost 760,000 persons were driven from their homes during the six weeks sweep of the flood waters through the 700 miles of valley from Southern losses, including estimates for the | last fifty mile stretch of Cen-| tral Louisiana still to go under, are estimated at $400,000,000. The death \closeted with supreme court justices The meeting got under way prompt- ly at 10:30 A.M. Assembled in the spacious headquarters of the transit commission on te tenth floor of 270 Madise ve. were the legal and busi- representatives of apparently all railroads and tran lines this sippi River! “Rough Stuff’ Quakenbush was |there representing the Interborough. Quackenbush appeared to be entirely “superior” to a proceeding of such | minor importance. Nothing short of a strike and the importation of Chi- cago scabs and strike-breakers hits this gentleman as being worth while, Miller Eyes Crowd. Former Governor Nathan I. Miller | was on deck with a cane and a hand- {shake for all, glancing furtively in every direction with shifty eyes. Sam- uel Untermeyer with the face of an aged polly and the sharp eyes of an jeagle, flower in his button hole, ap- request for the appointment of a com- mission of five “impartial citizens” to conduct the inquiry, the committee asks that the lid be taken off the | probe. Demands are pouring in upon the committee for exact information con- cerning the progre: f the secret in- vestigation, the letter states, but the committee is as much in the dark as the rest of the world. The letter is signed by Gardner Jackson, publicity representative for the committee, and by Joseph Moro, John G. Barry and Albino Felicani. Thompson Sees Justices. That William G. Thompson, defense | counsel, inspired the letter is taken for granted here. . Thompson was side of the Mi: for several ours Saturday. We was declared to be discussing various an-| gles of the court’s whitewash of Judge Thayer, who was fully upheld ee eae ey, gece es peared as if dressed for a wedding. Thomas F.*McAnarney, who was} Previous to the formal opening of associate counsel with Fred Moore|the hearings, a statement was read for Sacco and Vanzetti before Thomp-|by Untermyer reporting that John son stepped into the case, visited Ful- Delaney, chairman of the city trans- ler and was in conference with him|Portation board, has telephoned de- and Lieutenant Governor Allen and/|clining the commission’s invitation to Joseph Wiggin, personal counsel for | be present. Delaney claimed illness as | (Continued on Page Five) Os nrc id on Page Two) | TWIN TRACTION TRUSTS TO GAIN $70,000,000 IF CITY CONTRACTS RUN LEGAL LENGTH OF 43 YEARS The Exposure Thus Far: A secret deal has been entered into between Governor Al Smith, Mayor Jimmie Walker, the executive editor of a large metropolitan newspaper and the traction interests to sell out the city and put over the 10 cent fare. The city and the taxpayers have already sunk over $300,000,- 000 in the subways; nearly $150,000,000 is the loss to date which the people have sustained on the incorporated traction swindle; over $11,000,000 per year is charged up on the city budget to cover the deficit for the city’s part in the sell out. The present so-called open transit hearings are a dummy proceeding to cover up this swindle and put over the 10 cent fare. . *. * By ROBERT MITCHELL. New York City is now the senior partner in the huge business of operating the largest subway system on earth. But New York was not always the blind partner who foots the bills in a scheme of financial jugglery unequaled in the whole three ring circus of Wall Street manipulation. New York had to await the dawn of the twentieth century for such an act! In the year 1900, the city entered into a contract with one John B. MacDonald, now among the departed, under which about 22 miles of underground railway were to be built. MacDonald was only a “dummy” for another group as will be shown in a moment. cost to the city was about $6,000,000. This agreement, the final cost of! This section called Contract No, 2, which to the city totaled some $57,-|was opened in 1908. Contract No. 1 000,000, came to be known as Con-!js with the Interborough Rapid Tran- tract No. 1. The lines built ran from | sit Company. Contract No. 2 was Bronx Park, 180th St. south to 96th' made with a subsidiary company of St. and Broadway, south on Broad-| tne Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. way to 42nd St., east on 42nd St. to| As the latter was later reorganized 4th Ave., and thereafter south to City|into the Brooklyn‘Manhattan Rapid Hall. Another arm of this line ex-| Transit Company, we shall hereafter tended from 96th St. and Broadway | refer to contracts with the I. R. T. north on Broadway to Van Cortland | and with the B. M. T. | | A | | The second venture in “public own-| ership” was launched in 1902 when) the city let a contrgct for the con- struction of a line 3 miles long begin- ald immediately turned over to the Interborough Subway Construction |Company. Who was this construction company? Well, that is not very dif- o stands today between 3800 and 0, ning at the City Hall and extending | ito Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. The! ficult to ascertain. Its officers and (Continued on Pace Fina)