The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1927, Page 1

\, days ago George Ade, one of our most STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 114, Current Events By T. J. O’FLABERTY. INDBERGH, the young air hero, feted by the United States ambas- sador in Paris and congratulated by Coolidge and Kellogg among others, for his remarkable achievement in spanning the ocean without a stop, no doubt experienced a different sort of public clamor a few years ago:when he accompanied his father to mass meetings under the auspices of the Non-Partisan league, when that or- ganization was assailing the Wall Street bankers, railroads and specu- lators who were fleecing the farmers. The aviator’s father was a man of courage, because it took guts to stand up against the raving and cowardly lunatics that were aroused to fever heat in those days by the propaganda of the capitalists. | * * * IN those days the mob—created by the militarists—was ready to tar and feather Lindbergh’s father. When Oliver Cromwell, went thru Ireland with fire and sword slaughtering children in the interests of the ruling classes of the sister island his motto was: “Nits shall be lice.” The child would be the father of the future Irish rebel. The canting hypocrites of war days that hurled ripe tomatoes at Lindbergh’s father would not be op- posed to giving his young son the same medicine. Perhaps some day this young lad would also fight the ene- mies of the masses, of workers and farmers, 1 eats the interests that persecuted his father are showering favors on them. Overnight he has become the most popular man in the United States. How useful he can be to the ruling classes if they succeed in * * * THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927 SOVIET UNION BOYCOTTS GREAT BRITAIN BANKER PUT HAND 10-cent fare. $11,000,000 per year is charged The present so-called open * * By ROBERT making him walk on the dotted line. | His feat is turned into a talking point | for American imperialism and his per- | sonality an advertisement for eet Street’s imperialist drummers. What | the Prince of Wales is to British im-| perialism Lindbergh can be trans- formed into for American imperial- ism. And in view of the infantile development of the American labor movement and the present powerful position of imperialism it is more than likely that the young fellow will take the air for the ruling classes. * * * O there is very little said about Lindbergh’s father but much about his mother who is a sort of a go- getter and has royal blood in her veins. She is not the kind of a woman who sits by the Jordan laving her hair in its waters, weeping while her son braves the hazards of the vacant spaces. She screws up her courage and sticks to her’ job. Because she has a mission to perform, and the devil help those who have not a mis- sion nowadays. In fact one would think from reading the capitalist papers that Lindbergh was conceived by a holy ghost. It would not look well for the two capitalist parties to have biographical sketches of the rebel of Minnesota running with an account of the great achievement of the conqueror of the air. * * * OT to be outdone by their com- mercial rivals in the United States the British air ministry dispatched two daring flyers on a non-stop ex- pedition to India. But the waters of the Persian Gulf claimed their craft and the lobbies of London hotels are now buzzing with satirical jibes at their cousins. The “blood is thicker than water” stuff does not stand up before industrial competition. A few rosperous humorists, expressed the inion that “we” are very unpopular “We” are. eS Because the old, proud lowed that company only 93 per cent The financing of the whole opera- tion, as has been previously indicated, was carried out by the open shop Morgan interests. Bonds were sold to cover the costs of the original con- struction work as well as costs of the proposed operation.” The first: fine rake off was accomplished in this way: The Morgan firm bought up the bonds, or more accurately it “fur- nished” the money for the bonds but instead of paying the Interborough the full par value of the bonds it al- of the amount for which the bonds were issued. Now it must be understood that} bonds are virtual mortgages on pro- perty. These bonds which are still in the possession of the Morgan bank- ing interests are guaranteed by the| land and materials of the industry for their full 100 per cent. In other words, the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co, made. an immediate rake off of 7 per cent. But this was only the be- ginning. The Morgan firm did not turn the money over to the Interborough but kept it and paid it out to the Inter- borough only as it later needed funds for its current expenditures, building, material costs, ete. The Morgan bankers paid the Interborough 2) per cent interest for the money which it thus held in reserve for the trac- (Continued on Page Five) MINERS WIVES AT KINLOCK AID MEN TO EXPEL SCABS PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 25. — The Valley Camp Coal Company made an attempt to open its Kinlock Mine near and stately British imperialist edi- fice is showing signs of needing‘the attentions of a repairman. Despite the loud howls of the sons and daugh- ters of the counter-revolution and the . friendly sons of George Washington presented by the Sulgrave Institu- ion. The fact remains that those who sell goods in the markets of the ‘orld, whether they hail from the nited States or America are in each other’s jugular veins. Competition is the life of trade and the death of|tried, unsuccessfully, nations. Those who win can crow while those who lose must whimper. * * * have already commented on the nice things that have been said by American delegates to the interna- tional economic conference at Geneva about the delegates from the Soviet Union. The United States govern- ment does not recognize the govern- ‘ment of the Soviet Union, but busi- ness is business, Even while Wil- liam Green, the servant of the dom- inant classes in the United States 1s hurling ‘thunderbolts against Rus: Soviet business agents are here talk- ing things over with Yankees who have things to sell. This is strange es Peete Way Arnold, Pa. on the non-union basis Monday, May 23d. Energetic action on the part of the union miners and their wives made it impossible. As soon as the news of the company’s at- tempt was made known a number of miners, together with their wives and daughters, came rushing in trucks from all parts of Allegheny Valley and succeeded in dissuading the scabs before they ever entered the mine. This was the third time the company to open this mine on the non-union basis. A large number of deputies and state troopers are being rushed to the mine by the government authorities, who from the very beginning of the strike have taken the side of the coal operators against the striking miners and their families. The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com- pany, which owns nine mines in Dis- trict Five, opened its first mine on the non-union basis at Coverdale, Pa., where about 200 men are reported at work now. More than three thousand men were imported by the company since the opening of the mine, but most of them leave the place as soon as they arrive and learn that a strike situation exists. Normally the mine \ ¢ ' Morgan Dipped in T IN CITY'S POCKET FOR MILLIONS OF TRANSIT PLUNDER Big Wall Street Firm Skimmed Cream of Graft} in Floating Bond Issues . | The Exposures 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 trust to put over the The taxpayers of the city have 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 up on the city budget to cover the deficit for the city’s part in the sell out. transit hearings are a dummy proceeding to cover up the real issue. In due time those who are now apparently attacking the traction trust will come to terms with the plunderers and put over the increased fare steal. MITCHELL. The traction ring which put over the billion dollar steal made millions in graft by exploiting the construction and excavation, work which this same ring under another name did for the city. The same old gang put over the dual contracts steal; but this was not by any means the limit of their accomplishment. 400 FUR WORKERS PUT OUT OF JOBS BYRIGHTS, BOSSES Refusal to Register is Cause of Shutdown JERSEY CITY, May 25.—The fur district today looked like Passaic a year ago as 200 police threw a cor- don around Logan Avenue to help the fur bosses in their lockout of 400 fur- rier members of Local 25. Every fur shop in Newark and Jer- sey City was closed down yesterday in a lockout engineered by the bosses and the international union against the workers of Local 25 who refused to register with the international. While Vice President Sorkin, in charge of the “reorganization” of militant Local 25, was declaring pub- licly that he is “working hand in glove with the bosses,” the workers them- selves flatly refused to have anything to do with the reorganization. Only 10 membérs of the union ac+ tually registered with the internation- al, resulting in Sorkin’s decision to throw the remaining 400 out of work. Not satisfied with obtaining the bosses’ cooperation, Sorkin got the police department to blockade every entrance to the Logan Avenue fur shops. £ Cops were stationed at every pos- sible street and alley entrance and demanded that workers show regis- tration cards before entering the Lo- gan Avenue. Residents along the street were escorted personally to their homes. A mass meeting of the locked out workers was, held tonight at New Montgomery Hall to call a general strike. When Sorkin and his assistant, Lucci, showed up in the fur district today, they were booed and hooted off the street. Lucci was chased out of a New Brunswick shop where he was attempting to sow disruption among the workers. , Honor Releaséd Furriers | and Bazaar Volunteers in | Great Shindigs on Friday |, To honor the nine union furriers || recently released from prison, the Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ joint || defense and relief committee has || arranged a novel social affair, to || be given Friday evening at Star Casino, 107th St..and Park Ave. A reception to the released fur- riers and the workers who helped |! to make the recent bazaar a stun- ning success will precede the ball. A short address by Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloak Makers’ Joint Board will precede the long night’s holiday revel. Admission will be 75 cents, and 50 cents to the bazaar volunteers. REORGANIZATION IN CLOAK SHOPS BIG UNION ISSUE Joint Board Action The shop chairmen of the cloak and dressmakers will meet tonight after work at Cooper Union. Louis Hy- man, manager cf #)2.Jeint Board, will give a detailed report on the reor- ganization plans that the manufac- turers are now planning to put into effect. The question of unemployment in- surance and the contempt of court proceedings brot against the Joint Board officials will also be taken up. In a statement issued yesterday, Hyman discusses reorganization. He points out how with the co-operation of the right wing it is resulting in thousands of workers walking the streets jobless. The agreement is being violated wholesale by the man-, ufacturers with Morris Sigman and his clique fundamentally to blame, | he declared. “During the last strike our main fight was against reorganization,” | said Hyman. “Finally, due to the; sabotage and provocation of the Sig-| man clique we had to concede the clause on reorganization in the con-| tract signed with the manufacturers belonging to the Industrial Council. | “Reorganization, according to the; contract is to be put into effect only in those shops employing a minimum of 85 workers and guaranteeing at least 32 weeks’ wages a year. It also} has a clause forbidding the sending} out of any work to other shops, | “The bosses under the contract are prohibited from discharging any workers for union activities. Those workers discharged under the reor- ganization plan are supposed to re- ceive a week's wages. A labor bureau} was to be established to give the man- ufacturers workers to place those dis- charged. “The contract has been taken ad- vantage of by the manufacturers with the assistance of Sigman. The best union members are being discharged, especially those who have refused to register with Sigman’s union. “This step at this time is the last drive on the part of the bosses to break up what is left of the union. They have succeeded so far with the help of Sigman to bring the union to the state of demoralization. “The results have been thousands The International hopes to use the members of Brooklyn Local 58, also employed on rabbit furs, to break the strike of Local 25, but so far not one Brooklyn worker has signified his willingness to do the International’s dirty work. Injunctions Helping Cops Break Strike of Builders’ Union WORCESTER, Mass., May 25.—Po- lice clubs. and injunctions let the building laborers and bricklayers helpers on strike here today know where the state stands in industrial struggles. Twenty-two workers were arrested and jailed in connections with vicketing yesterday while injunctions weve being produced today to legal- alten Interfarnsen, of unemployed workers walking the streets with the only alternative of working in non-union sweat shops. The conditions grow worse daily. The unemployed tramp the streets with- out any relief from Sigman. “Last year at this time the Joint| Board paid out from the insurance fund three-quarters of a million dol- lars, On the other hand we see Sig- man, with the aid of the bosses ap-) propriating half a million dollars of the fund, belonging to the workers, for his own use. | “The Joint Board has called a meet-| ing of the shop chairmen for Thurs- | day night where consideration will be! given to the question of reonganiza- tion and the breaking of the contract on the part of the bosses. The meet- ing must furnish the means of action to be taken against the bosses who ms collaborating with Sigman’s union, raction Graft | dispatches today said that a British BRITISH MOVE ON HANKOW TO TAKE CONCESSION BACK Japan Foresees Fall of Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y,. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents off relations with Moscow. the whole world,” the statement read. Chang Tso-lin Iflimsy pretexts.” BULLETIN. * LONDON, May 25. — Shanghai warship had left Shanghai for Han- | kow taking twelve tons of barbed wire and hundreds of thousands of sacks for the making of sand barri- cades. The action is taken as evi- dence that the British are preparing | forcibly to retake their Hankow con- | cessions from which they were ex- | pelled by the Nationalists. On the heels of this came a Tokio dispatch saying that Japan | was alarmed by the impeding col- | lapse of Chang Tso-lin’s Peking gov- | ernment, and was sending a brig- ade to Shantung province with the purpose of taking over the Shan- tung railway. * * * against Peking, the officers com- manding the imperialist forces here are planning to strengthen their gar- risons at Tientsin and Peking. General Smedley B. Butler, com- manding the American marines in China, is in Peking making an in- spection of the “defence” force here and it is regarded as likely that he will request the war department for the transfer of troops to northern ci- ties which are the object of the Na- tionalist drive. There are 1,600 mar- ines aboard transports in Shanghai harbor ready to leave for northern ports. At a celebration of Empire Day, Sir Miles Lampson, the British m' ister in China, declared that British} imperialism was “misunderstood,”| and that imperialism was “not meant to oppress them” but has as its “ob- ject the spread of civilization.” The imperialist powers are “spreading civ-| ilization” in China with 174 war ves-| sels, it is estimated. | The conquest and exploitation of colonial peoples by Great Britain was celebrated by British business men} and soldiers both in Peking and| Shanghai, Forty warships, of eight nations, were decked with flags in |honor of “Empire Day” at Shanghai while thousands of Chinese silently| watched the parade of imperialist troops and the, military planes circling over the city, reports from Shanghai state. * (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PEKING, May 23 (delayed).—In- formation received here about the condition of the officials of the Soviet Union arrested by Chang T'so-lin in| his raids on the embassy compound is causing serious anxiety. Only as the result of an eight days’! hunger strike were the arrested of- ficials allowed to interview a repre-| sentative of the embassy and only} then was the case transferred from! a military to a civil court. | Beat Soviet Officials. Even now, the semi-official organ | of the British imperialists, the Pek- ing-Tientsin Times, continues to in- (Continued on Page Five) Workers Hurt Near Vehicular Tunnel JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 26.— Four men were hurt, ove seriously late today when the seaffoldi the viaduct under construction | the approach to the new vehicular) tunnel connecting New Jersey with) New York, collapsed. | ‘Croton Reservoir Is Overflowing Basin Swelled by heavy rains to heights unprecedented at this time of the year, the waters of the Croton reser- | voir are flowing over the dam at an) estimated rate of 800,000,000 gallons daily, and today had lifted the Croton al four feet above its normal evel, 4 | Trade Commissar said, “Soviet organi+ TORIES DIGGING OWN GRAVE, THREAT NEW IMPERIALIST WAR, SAYS MOSCOW |Cook, Mine Leader, Sees Alliance of Workers of Both Countries to Fight Die-Hards BULLETIN LONDON, May 25.—The Russian Soviet official statement deploring the decision of the British government to break Embassy tonight issued an “The British government’s decision is of tremendous importance to “We cannot but express amazement and deep regrets that such an important decision was reached upon such MOSCOW, May 25.—Pointing out that the British abroga- tion of the Anglo-Soviet trade agreement would be a har |to the tottering British economic structure than to rapid er blow ly grow- ing Soviet industry, M. Mikoyan, commissar of trade, declared today that his department wou tivities in Great Britain as soon cott Britain. “In spite of Britain’s violation of its engagements to the Soviet,” the zations in London have been instructed) to fulfill all of its engagements al-} ready made. That the House of Commons, dom- | inated by the die-hards, will approve | the decision of the Cabinet is regarded Jas certain. | | “We will be able to stand the blow! | without great difficulty,” said Trade Chairmen Meet to Plan! prxinc, May 25~-Anticipating| Commissar Mikoyan. “The British |the success of the Nationalist drive| will soon realize that greater harm | | has been done England than the Soviet | Union. Despite the major place Eng- | land has occupied in our trade we wil rebuild our external commerce and | will insure an immediate market in| other countries. “Baldwin is” mistaken “if~ he ‘thinks | that after expelling the trade organi- }zation that their functions will pass to British commissions and firms.” | “Crusade Against Socialism” “Just when the Geneva economic | conference has recognized the princi-| ple of equality of capitalists and so- cialists the British government starts | an immediate and irreconciliable cru- sade against socialism,” said Pravda. | |“The sympathy of millions of the (Continued on Page Two) POWERS SPLIT ON RUSSIAN POLICY, BERLIN'S OPINION BERLIN, May 25.—Political cir- cles in Germany take a rather calm view of the Anglo-Soviet break. ! The general opinion in informed circles in Berlin, which are in closest touch with both the British and the ; | Russians, is:— 1.—There will be no war. /ANTIIMPERIAL joppression, the All-American ld end all relations with Great |Britain. The Soviet Union, he said, would liquidate all its ae- as possible and completely boy- LEAGUE SCORES STIMSON'PEACE’ Calls Upon Latins to Fight Imperialism CHICAGO, May the so-called peace in which American newspapers claiming, as a peace of imperialist Anti- Imperialist “League has just issued a statement calling upon the peoples of Latin-America to join hands with working class and progressive ele- ments in the United States against American imperialism. The statement urges the establish- ment of a Federation of Latin-Ameri- can States and lays stress upon the growing movement for Latin-Ameri- can unity to protect common inter- ests. To its supporters in the United States, it proposes sustained cam- paign for the termination of the U. S. intervention in Nicaragua. Eleven secretaries heading the na- tional sections of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League in as many eonntries signed the declaration as follows: Cuban secretary, Jorge A. Pivo; Porto Rican secretary, Vincente G. Polanco; Central Amer: Augustin F. Ma Me tary, Salvador de ; Colombian secretary, J. E Venezulan secretary, Gust uchado; Peruvian secretary, Octavi M.; Equa- dorian seer Karolys; Brazilian seer ardo Mattos; United Stat Manuel Go- } mez, | “The ‘peace’ the United | States gov nent has just estab- lished in Nicaragua marks another 2,—There wil] be no solid anti-Sov- | iet front of the western powers, which England supposedly is trying to cre- | ate, for the reason that Germany is the necessary key state to such a front, and will never join it. | Germany, it is emphasized on al! sides, will stay neutral at all costs, The powers expect to repeat the | Chinese performance in Russia, each pursuing its own advantage. France and America, especially, are expected to go after the trade that England loses. The Baltic region, already troubled by its own problems, now becomes, more than ever, the battle-ground for | Anglo-Russian flank attacks. The Lithuanians arrested General Konstatin Kleszinski for alleged spy- ing for Russia, while the lefts arres- ted and searched Russian monarchists, It is understood that these very active anti-Russian forces are maintaining connections with official England. Pere Marquette Cuts 20% Stock Dividend But Can’t Raise Pay Directors of the Pere Marquette Railroad Co. formally declared a stock dividend of 20 per cent yesterday, the project having already received the approval of the stockholders of the road. Payment of the dividend is also subject to the approval of the Inter-| state Commerce Commission. Six thousand Pere Marquette work- ers have taken a strike vote to force consideration of their demands for changes in working conditions. The| company claimed that it could not af- ford the increased expense. | brazen advance toward the conquest of Latin America by Wall Street and Washington. Peace of Slavery. “It is a peace of slavery, a pemte of oppression, a ‘pe: resting on imperial violence and the shining bay- onets of U. S. marines. “Dr. Sacasa, the Liberal leader, is exiled from his country, in spite of the fact that he is constitutional Pres- jident of Nicaragua and is supported | by the overwhelming majority of the | population. The usurper Diaz, active |tool of American imperialism since | 1909, is maintained in the presidency and receives a Wall Street loan to finance his government. U. S, mili- | tary forces take over the police power of Nicaragua as a national constabu- ary. “Diaz seized the government of Nicaragua in the winter of 1926, and was at once recognized by President Coolidge. Immediately the people rose up against him. The Liberal forces defeated him in: battle after battle. His overthrow was plainly only a matter of weeks, when without warn- ing or any declaration of war, the United States government began landing marines in Nicaragua.’ The first contingent of marines landed late in December, and on December 24th, 1926, Rear Admiral Latimer gave Doctor Sacasa until 4 p. m. (Continued on Page Two) Mrs. Marie Ulmer, 38, of 450 Dill Place, Ridgewood, Queens, was ar- rested yesterday on a charge of vio- lating the Volstead law, after a six gallon still exploded in the bathroom of her home.