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STOP THE THREAT OF A N eT ‘ S THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR ?ARTY a Vol. IV. No. 113 EW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER. under the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 Entered as second-class matter at NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, M per year. Current Events By T. J. O’FLAnERTY. ment [ARRY F. SINCLAIR was sen- tenced to serve three months in jail for his refusal to answer ques- tions asked by the senate. I am just looking at his picture taken with his attorney Martin Littleton, noted authority on patriotism. Littleton is one of those fellows that believe all radicals should be shot first and tried afterwards. He gurgles with love for his country and regrets that there are not more than about ten oil magnates who are willing to go to jail for it. Sinclair and Little- ton are smiling and the, story under the picture tells us that Sinclair has appealed the sentence. * * nahh may spend a few months in jail. There is an election ap- proaching and it may be politically inexpedient for the Coolidge admin- istration tq let the impression go out that the boon companions of Fall, Daugherty and Jess Smith are immune from punishment. But Sin- clair will .retain his respectability, even in jail and his dividends will continue to flow even as his oil. While the senate considers Sinclair more or less of a crook the capital- ist system will see to it that his slaves stick to their jobs. * * * RS. COOLIDGE is conducting an active propaganda to help return her husband to the White House. Mrej Colidge is not saying much. Like her husband, ‘she has very little to say and does not say it. She ap- preciates the virtue of silence. She is shown in one picture visiting the headquarters of the Army Medical Corps in Washington. She tastes their food and observes: “Really, not so bad.” Now, really, not so good even for Mrs. Coolidge. * * * * | HE day of spinach is nearing its eve according to Dr. Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Min- nesota. The fact is we never thot spinach would outlive figs, carrots and onions as a’ health-diet. Of course it may come back into its own again, on the heels of a new advertizing campaign. Still, there is something to what Dr.- Alvarez says. He assails the dieticians who stuff their victims with healthfoods which their. victims strongly resent. “The time will come,” declares Dr. Alvarez, “when spinach will retire into the background, and milk toast, custard and calf’s foot jelly will again appear on the tray of the in- valid.” Good for the doctor. He is probably all wrong but not more so than the rest of them. There is nothing more conductive to national apathy than to have a truth get by with murder any longer than a de- cade. » ia New York Evening Post states quite correctly that the most in- teresting place to observe war is on a painted canvas. This profound ob- servation was inspired by looking at the “Pantheon de la Guerre” in Mad- ison Square Garden. This ‘picture was imported from Paris, no doubt for some commercial purpose. There are six thousand characters, with the statesmen and outstanding gen- erals standing out in bold relief. The common soldiers who did the fighting are represented by a smudge. And in the section devoted to Russia’s part in the war the Czar gets the laurel wreath and right in a corner is a picture of a peasant in the act of hurling a torch into the picture. When Napoleon said that ™ * * shistory was a fable agreed on or rds to that effect he knew what * * * -stop hop to Paris has driven the Mississippi flood off the front pages of the capitalist press. The people are more interested in the spectacular accomplishment of «1 new aviation stunt than in the misfor- ‘tunes of 300,000 destitute flood vic- tims. And the capitalist papers always concerned chiefly with more profits thra increased circulation and more advertising revenue ignore the necessity for focussing national at- terition on the Mississippi victims. ° * . [ALVIN COOLIDGE is opposed to calling a special session of congress to consider ways and means of re- ieving distress in the flood regions. Coolidge fears that some hardy wight might throw some light on the the great congressional pork Yarrel. colossal graft that has flowed out of Appropriations for rivers and harbors has been velvet for our lawmakers, Most of this money has gone into the pockets of contractors and there is reason to believe that some of it stuck to the fingers of the solons, Anyhow little of it was used to pro- tect the people along the Mississippi (Continued on Page Three) , Lindbergh’s feat in making) with the reading of a long prepared No Work for Hundreds Lured to Canada; Many Starviig in Calgary CALGARY, Canada, May 24.— Hundreds of ‘immigrants are starving here. Their resentment against the government is increas- ed over the lying propaganda that was responsible for bringing them here, Local authorities are doing noth- ing about the glutted labor mar- ket.. At least 12 months’ work had been promised by the government, and no attempt has thus far been made to fulfil this promise. The majority of. the workers who have been lured here by the government and _ transportation companies are Slovaks and Hun- garians. PLUNDER NOT SERVICE MAIN. AIM OF RING By ROBERT MITCHELL. The state transit commission hear- ings got under’ way Monday with {something of an explosion. Hardly |half an hour had elapsed before two | outstanding facts were revealed to the | small group of “Traction Brains” | which attended the sitting. | First, practically all, about 98 per jcent of the stock of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company is held in the form of voting certificates by Wall Street brokers. Second, and even more: signifivant, the directors of the company hold practically no stock in the Interbor- ough. 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 Madison Ave. were the legal and busi- ness representatives of apparently all the railroads and transit lines this side of the Mississippi 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 eagle, flower in his button hole, ap- peared as if dressed for a wedding. Previous to the formal opening of the hearings, a statement was read by Untermyer reporting that John Delaney, chairman of the city trans- portation board, has telephoned de- clining the commission’s invitation to DISTRICT 2, UMW; BOSS WANTS CUT Entombed Workers Still Try to Get Pay } PHILADELPHIA, May 24 (FP)—| Wages of 18,000 union coal diggers, | in the Pennsylvania Alleghanies, are | at stake in a conference going on now. | Led by Charles O’Neill—once a vice | president of District 2, United Mine | Workers; now president of the Asso- ciation of Bituminous Coal Operators of Central Pennsylvania—the employ ers are demanding large reductions in day pay and tonnage rates. District Lock-out. The conference is of national im- portance. Central Pennsylvania has not yet joined the national strike and | lockout. Since April 1 it has been on} a truce with the operators, in accor- dance with the policy of international president John L. Lewis, permitting | any coal group to continue at the | Jacksonville rates during the nation-| al suspension. But now the central| Pennsylvania operators are talking | of a district shutdown unless their de- mands are granted. But a lockout is not so terrible a threat as might be supposed. So many of the miners are already idle. Jame: Mark and the 20 other members o: his scale committee, have come from | a field where 6,000 of the 18,000 at work March 31 have lost their jobs. Most of the rest are on part time. Non Union Mines Close. Depression in the coal trade has af- fected the non union—as well as the union—companies in Pennsylvania. | The scab Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- burgh R. R. coal subsidiaries, employ- ing some 8,000 men in boom times, are on three days a week. The Erie R. R., whose 8 central Pennsylvania mines are operated by the Peabody Coal Co., is down tight. The Erie Peabody group broke away from the union last summer, but after a strike returned to the agreement. Along the main line of the Pennsylvania R. R. are most of the union companies of | District 2 but few of these are very busy now. a 2g Entombed Miners Ask Wages. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 24.— The demand of five miners who suf- fered underground buried alive in one of the terrible mine accidents so com- mon lately, to full pay while immured in darkness and danger of their lives, is still before the conciliation board. The men were imprisoned for 216 hours, in the Tomhicken mine last November. The company argues that it will pay for 78 hours only, eight hours per day for each of the five days the men, were below. The superinten- dent insists that the men might be con- sidered as putting in a shift, every day, since they could not come out of the mine, but they were resting all the time anyway. The fact that in such accidents in other industries the workers would have a claim to heavy be present. Delaney claimed illness as an excuse, The reason for this signifi- cant fact will be explained later. The hearings were opened promptly on the appearance of the three tran- sit commissioners, Chairman John F. Gilchrist, Leon G. Godley and Charles C. Lockwood. Untermyer, special counsel for the commission, who is the main figure in the hearing, began statement calculated to set at rest anyone who might presume to ques- tion the propriety or the intention of the proceedings. The commission would listen to all and view all evi- dence impartially. The commission is (Continued on Page Five) Pennsylvania Labor Feels Jobless Pinch HARRISBURG, Pa,, May 24,---Clo- thing, textiles, transportation and silk continue to report low employ- ment to the state labor department. Employment generally is far below normal, Scranton Labor Asks Review of Sacco Case SCRANTON, Pa, May 24.—-The \ damages for risk to their existence and for damage thru exposure, means nothing to the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. The board is still arguing as to whether there is really an agreement for a check-off in this district. ORM SANE Dispossess Sick Miner. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., May 24. Theodore Miller, a miner here, sick and without means, was living with | his family in a house owned by the Hecla Coal and Coke Co. The miners of this vicinity are talk- ing strike, and Miller was one of the militants. He went on April 1, even tho sick, to the monstrous miners’ parade, ts On April 2, he received a notice to get out of the company house within | ten days, as the company desires to} repossess the same.” . Miller did not move on April 12, On the nineteenth, the notorious sheriff of Fayette County, Mr. J. Q. Adams, a faithful servant of the company, told Miller’s wife that if he did not move by the twenty-fifth, he would have | him thrown out of the house. | Names L Britain Names Lords of | ‘Admiralty to Argue for, Big Navy at Conference | LONDON, May 24.—-The Rt. Hon.} Central Labor Union here has asked Governor Fuller to make a full re- view of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Affiliated locals are advised also to send protests to Fuller against the execution of the two workers, William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Cecil and Sir Fredrick Cecil will represent Great Britain at the Tri-Partite Naval con- ference at Geneva, it was announced today. Sabo, Vincent Terrazi Jacobs. ; Post Officé at New York. N. Y., the ‘LOCKOUT NEAR IN | cittren of Brits Workers Plan Visits To the Soviet Union LONDON, May 24.—Arrange- ments are now being made for a || delegation of workers’ children to visit Soviet Russia. In response to a letter from the Moscow Young Pioneers, A. J. Cook, seeretary of the miners’ federation, writes that “it is a project which should be supported by all trade unions and co-operative societies.” The first group will leave on June 14, U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SHARE IN FLOOD. PROFIT Hoover Boasts Credit Corporations’ Control BATON ROUGE, La. May 24.— Half a million people in the Missis- sippi valley flooded area are now de- Pgn-Pacific Labor Conference ' Against New Imperialist World War pendent for their daily bread upon the indliness of their fellow citizens, ecretary of Commerce Hoover told the Louisiana State Flood Commission here today. Hoover was yesterday ap- pointed by President Coolidge to be es. Here in Louisiana 200,000 (two hundred thousand) persons have been or will be flooded, Of these more than on public chgrity. i “By Credit Corporations.” The United States Chamber of Com- merce has launched a campaign to match dollar for dollar funds raised | dred miles this side of Chengchow, junction point of the Kinhan jand Lunghai railways, the Mukden line is in utter confusion, offering practically no resistance to the advancing Nationalists. (Continued on Page Two) Woman Teacher Fights Legion In New Jersey Tow WOODBURY, N. J., May 24.—A national civil liberties case may de- velop out of the persecution here of Mrs. Rachel Davis Dubois, a civics teacher in the Woodbury High School. Mrs. Dubois is being hounded by the American Legion for having taken a “slacker’s oath” and for lecturing at a liberal school in New York City. But Mrs. Dubois says she’ was never near the liberal school and that being a Quaker, she could not take an oath of any kind. She demands a public hearing on the Legion charges. Canton City Grand Jury Agrees Has Evidence on Police Force Murderers CANTON, 0., May 24.—All infor- mation in regard to possible addition- al indictments in the Don Mellett murder, will be kept secret until the Stark County Grand Jury meets here on June 6. Special session of the Grand Jury “brought out some very, important evidence in the case, whi if linked together into a substantfal story, may be made public Tuesday.” Floyd Streitenberger, Canton C detective, convicted of first degree murder in connection with Mellett’s death, and his wife, Kate, told their story to the Grand Jurors yesterday. It was reported from an authentic source that Streitenberger named sev- eral other police officers as active participants in « conspiracy to pro- tect. the murderers of Mellett and indicated that one or two of them knew the publisher was to be at- tacked, Mellett was killed because he was exposing the connection between grafting police and the vice ring in Canton. Three Miners Killed In Pottsville Blast POTTSVILLE, Pa, May 24.— Three miners were killed in’ a pre- mature explosion at the Bell colliary, near Tuscarora. ,They are and AY 25, 1927 Steve|® pretext for ‘military action. James | conference was called for the purpose act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily PUBLISHING CO. BRITISH TORIES BREAK WITH SOVIET UNION except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER NATIONAL EDITION | | Price 3 Cents , 23 First Street, New York, N, ¥. Nimmo, Persecutor - Of Textile Masses in Strike, is Dead PASSAIC, May Sheriff George P. Nimmo, who won national notor-| iety in last year’s textile strike by' g gas and machine guns on the strikers, is dead here. Nimmo was ac- tive in Garfield and East Paterson, using his sheriff’s power in every p sible manner to help the employers! and beat the strike. His reading of, the riot act was held to be the climax of the walkout. Nimmo’s violence against newspa- per reporters won the hostility of many of the New York papers, which! swung sharply over to the strikers’ side for the time being. His ruthless suppression of free speech brought him into active conflict with the American Civil Liberties Union and liberal forces the nation over. s-| (By Nationalist HANKOW, May 24.—A spectacular victory in the north has head of the entire rehabilitation fore- een achieved by the Nationalist army, it is officially announced. Mukden troops are on the run Hankow railway. The defeat w on either side of _the.railway.is. defeated troops of the north are scattering in all directions in- stead of withdrawing along the An enormous number of prisoners and quantities of enemy munitions were taken along with recording wire from military mén at the front, Cut Off Retreat. | The victory was dchieved by Gen-| erals Tang Seng-chi and Chang Fa-| kwei, co-operating with the forces of} General Feng Yu-hsiang, the two| jbodies advancing from the south and) |from the west.. The maneuver forced | the withdrawal of the Mukden army to avoid being cut off from its base} on the south bank of the Yellow) |River. Utter rout resulted when the Fengtien (northern) commanders realized the danger of being cut off from the Yellow River bridge which is the only way to retreat. | In military circles here it is pre-| dicted that a drive will be launched | by Yen Hsi-shan, the governor of Shansi Province, toward the Shansi- | Chihli border with Pactingfu as the goal. { | | * * * | Feng Takes Strategic Center. | SHANGHAI, May 24.—Wireless| dispatches received here from mili-| tary headquarters in Hankow assert| that General Feng Yu-hsiang, who is! allied with the Hankow Nationalist, government, has captured Chengchow, | in north central Honan. Chengchow! is an important strategic position and} was one of the objectives of Feng’s| twofold drive against the Mukden| troops. | . Labor Confab At Hankow. } HANKOW, May 24.—Pointing”out | that the object of the Pan-Pacific Labor Conference is to unite world * * | . labor in a fight against a new im-| jalist world war, Su Chao-chen, Nationalist minister of labor, dressed the conference which opened} here last Friday. | Attending the conference are dele-} | j gates from Java, Korea, Japan, the! Soviet Union, the United States, Eng-| land and France. Delegates from| Australia were unable to attend be-| cause they had been refused visas by} their government, while a number of | Japanese delegates were placed under! arrest and prevented from leaving} ‘Japan. The American delegates at! |the conference are Earl R. Browder | and Harrison George, both members| {of the Workers (Communist) Party.) Plan Imperialist War. “The imperialists plan a second world war in the Pacific by crushing the laboring masses,” Su declared.| “They have gathered gunboats and} soldiers in China and are waiting for This (Continued on Page Two) ATIONALIST TROOPS ROUT MUKDEN ARMY; NORTHERNERS IN WILD FLIGHT yhich started two days ago has 180,000 have been made dependent up-| become a rout. The entire line of defense extending twenty miles Ast Christians sent a joint cablegram. FAKE ‘DOCUMENTS’ USED AS PRETEXT BY TORY CABINET USSR Boycott to Send wages for the federation of land, Trade to U S Germany transportation and internal navi- || iH 1) gation workers will go into effect || in gradual stages between June 1, 1927 and May 31, 1928. Despite increasing discontent among the rank ad file of the workers technical “acceptance” of the cut was made on behalf of the organization by its officials. The wages of the workers affected by this cut were already on the mere subsistence level. A general 10 per cent. cut in the wages of workers engaged in manufacture had previously been effected through same procedure. Fascisti Announce New Cut in Pay of Italian Transportation Workers ROME, May 24.—In conformity with Mussolini's “Charter of La- bor” directed at smashing all ves- tiges of workers’ organizations in Italy, an 19 per cent. reduction in LONDON, May 24.—The Bri- tish die-hard government will sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and will break the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agree- ment, Premier Baldwin official- ty announced in the House of Commons this afternoon, Using mysterious “subversive Sov- \iet correspondenc reminiscent of the notorious forged “Zinoviev letter” as a pretext for the break, Premier Baldwin announced that a vote on the | question would probably be taken in the House of Commons on Thursday. A substantial tory majority in the house, however, insures the confirma- tion of the decision. “Documents” Manufactured. That the mysterious documents to which the premier frequently referred are absolute frauds manufactured by the die-hards is the opinion of poli- |tical observers here. The action of the tory cabinet is interpreted as a new move in its unofficial war against the Soviet Union, in which it has ‘em- ployed every conceivable weapon. The tory government will make no representations to the Soviet Union, it was officially stated, in ending re- lations. The British trade delega and the British diplomatic sion |will be withdrawn from Moscow, \ however, Bid For U. S. Support. Making an obvious bid for the sup- port of the United States, Premier |Baldwin said: “Evidence is in the | hands of the authorities which proves | that both military espionage and sub- |versive activities thruout Great Bri- |tain, North and South America, were |directed and carried out’ from the | Soviet House.” The British tory government is making every effort to secure the | support of the United States in its jcampaign against the Soviet Union. | Hints about “letters of instruction to |American Communists” were also made for the benefit of the state de- |partment at Washington. Need USSR Trade. <<» Plans Fight News Agency) northward along the Peking- so completely..crushed that the railway. To a depth of a hun- EXPERT CLEARS SACCO GUN OF PART IN GRIME | Fuller Won’t Appoint | only reached after a bitter internal Commission on Case struggle. Members of the cabinet who realize the importance of the See | trade of the Soviet Union to the tot- tering industrial structure of Great Britain fought for maintenance of the BOSTON, May 24.—Governor Ful- ler today confirmed reports carried by the DAILY WORKER several weeks | trade agreement, it is stated. ago that he would not appoint a’com-| ‘That a section of ‘the dioBaré mission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti| realize the necessity of Soviet Union case. e] it indicated : Ina letter to the Sacco-Vanzetti de- et the es nies pre “the Sher content, is ua to a com-| decision of the government will not munication from them asking a public | affect the ordinary trade facilities investigation of the case, the governor between the two countries.” Th declared that he could not delegate Soviet Union will not nee & ne his powers. Inasmuch as final legal is m3 er authority is given the governor to act (Continued on Page Two) as he chooses, Fuller declared in so many words that he considered him- self “entirely free to choose my own method of investigation.” The unofficial commission of three, Fuller, Lieutenant-Governor Allen and Joseph Wiggin, Fuller’s personal at- Labor inspector torney, resumed the quizzing of wit-| nesses and experts in the case today. | ln M h tt Sacco Gun Absolved. Professor Augustus Gill of Massa- BOSTON, May 24.—State police were set on Mary Donovan, former chusetts Institute of Technology yes- terday told the governor that the Sac- | co gun could not possibly have fired | state labor department inspector, it was revealed in hearings here yester- ‘day. Miss Donovan, member of the the mortal bullet found in the body ; Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, of the paymaster in the South Brain- tree payroll murder. Michael Lavengi, | Was discharged recently by General Sweetser, commissioner of labor, and gate tender at South Braintree, was she is seeking to regain her position, also in conference with the governor but _vouchsafed no information. John F. Dever, a small town attorney who was a juror in the case, was sum- i moned to the State House. Dever still isa the cours: ot tashiininy. Lee ner maintained that the verdict of guilty |fitted him for the job as labor commis- was justified, ; _ | Sioner in the eyes of Calvin Coolidge, Six stenographers in the executive | then governor of Massachusetts, ad- chambers are working today acknow-| mitted that he had asked the state ledging the receipt of appeals from | police to shadow Miss Donovan. every corner of the world for the two} Ethel M. Johnson, assistant commis- condemned Italian anarchists. 17,000 | sioner of labor, testified on behalf of communications have been received | Miss Denoven:. She herself testified in all by the governor. of the gross negligence in the hand- Radical Christians Appeal. \ling of cases against big employers British radical clerics were repre-|caught violating the labor code. In sented in appeals on Fuller’s desk to-|one case, she said, three complaints day. Canon Donaldson of Westmin-|had been entered and hearings were to be held in a few days when Sweet- ser suddenly filed the entire subject. A big crowd of labor people and so- ister Abbey, Conrad Noe! of the Cath- olic Crusaders, Paul Stacey of the cial workers are following the hear- ings carefully. y vague of the Kingdom of God and ‘red Hughes, of the Society of Social- “ i

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