The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1927, Page 1

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, 115. Current Events By T. J. O’FLAneRty. of Great Britain is surely carrying the white | man’s burden these days. Tho weary ‘and low in spirit from defending the interests of civilization against the HE tory government Chinese, the Hindoos and other wicked people that insist on claiming the right to live according to their own standards, the British ruling classes can afford to expend a little surplus energy looking after the in- terests of American imperialism. * * * the raid made on Arcos, the stool- pigeons of Scotland Yard claim to have seized certain documents indi- cating that the Communist Inter- | national is conducting Communist. propaganda in the United States. This information was immediately dispatched to Washington. Perhaps the battered aristocrats of old Eng- land expect that in return for this pit of finking their wealthy cousins SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 por year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. USSR DELEGATE |. Yield in Commons jand much-advertised “Soviet docu- ments” alleged by the British die-| hard cabinet to have been taken in their unprecedented raids on the Ar- |cos offices were made public by the | government today and proved to con- tain little but. the names and ad- . ing class. may become amenable to a suggestion | 5 occas af @ saith ad! cantahers af for a cancellation of the debt that) j) 0° See 4 Great Britain owes the United States. oe Sg tag pais site (Communist) y. ing in any of the * * . documents published (even assuming iy order to discover that the Commu- | their authenticity, which is doubtful) nist International is carrying on that would indicate that,the Soviet agitation against the capitalist sys-| Union has carried on any propaganda tem in the United States as well as|in Great Britain. in every other country in the world Deny Charges, all the clever detectives of the United| The Soviet charge M. Rosengoltz to States government have to do is to) day issued a statement denying all of read: The DAILY WORKER which | the charges made by Premier Bald- is published quite openly. In fact the (Continued on Page Two) Communists of the United States go pi BRS Sa Tad to great trouble to distribute the statements of the Communist Inter- GOVERNOR FISHER national on current events, because they know that those statements have great educational value for the work- HIDES RECORD OF * * to break off relations with Moscow. | oe i Ttaly is almost ae e. zotne Shaft Caves; Injures wning Street and a few other little a ‘i aoe ia yelp at the clink of Four Men at Kingston British gold, But there ig a strong, ee likelihood that the conspiracy of Great Britain will fall flat. The record of her ruling classes for treachery and geeky the British government succeeds in hooking up a serious! combination of powers in its present anti-Soviet drive remains to be seen. There are rumors that France is about | Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania in leffect is placing himself as a shield <$. echt arned her the title of for murderers and thugs used by the Ser ames Albian? {s too well known Coal companies of his state. He has to lead honest people into believing refused to allow Oliver K. Eaton, an the statements of a British govern-| attorney for the United Mine Work- ment official. jers of America, to see the official * records as to who is sworn in as coal and iron police, and who vouches for the new men added to the force. sndi he break with! Evidence is accumulating that the ae pera rely eon based on the Pittsburgh Coal Co. is importing gun- alleged activities of Soviet officals men and thugs from outside of the in the stealing of British government | State and having them sworn in as official documents not intended for Coal and Iron Police. The law of public consumption. Yet, as the | Pennsylvania provides that to become writer points out, Scotland Yard re-! 4 member of this body, that is, a sorted to burglary and second story company guard wearing a state uni- work in attempting to make this form and with considerable power to charge stick. |make arrests, a man must be a resi- i jdent, and have the sworn statements of two well reputed citizens who act as guarantors. The Coal and Iron Police of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which have been shooting and marauding thru the mining camps are, many of them, the union dis- covers, hired gangsters, brot into the state, and guaranteed by still other | gunmen, previously in the company’s hire, The man or men who shot James Moore in the back a few days ago were Coal and Iron Police of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., stationed at Crescent, near here. They may very well, the present investigation shows, have been Chicago gangsters, or \fresh from the bad-lands of Cicero. ig one writer in the New York Tele- gram points out premier Baldwin’s * * * | LL governments spy on each other | and important secret documents are constantly disappearing from gov- ernment archives. Only quite re-) cently, president Calles of Mexico) came into possession of secret in- structions issued by the state depart-) ment to United States agents in Mexico, urging them to conduct an aggressive campaign against the Cal- les government. The military at-' tache attached to the United States| embassy in Mexico from whose safe| the documents were stolen was re- called and the matter was hushed up. | Calles used the incident to good ad- vantage in his dickering with Wash- ington. From the point of view of capitalist ethics the thing was al- right. HE fact is that Great Britain’s de- \. cision to break with the Soviet Wnion is an act of desperation to whith she is driven owing to the de-' feat sfye has sustained in China and the feat that a revolt in India would pring the rotten imperialist edifice tottering to its base. She fears the Soviet Union because it is a govern- ment of free workers and peasants that stretches out a friendly hand to the oppressed of all lands. It is not Soviet Union “agents” that are men- acing British imperialism but the 'Communist idea which finds fertile ‘soil in the countries that are under the heel of British militarism, * * f ‘German press with one voice declares for neutrality in the pres- ent Anglo-Soviet crisis. The Ger- mans are not willing to risk the loss of much business with Russia by join- ing the anti-Soviet Bloc tho England is ready to make heavy concessions in rn for assistance. In the mean- time we may expect to see the columns of our capitalist papers filled with rehashed “discoveries” of Soviet propaganda. x j TH capitalist world is a house divided against itself, It has no morals and its god is profit. Every (Continued on Page Three) The governor cites a decision of |the attorney general that the Coal ‘and Iron Police records are his pri- ‘vate property. Legal action to com- |pel an investigation is contemplated. woh te Another Accident. WILKESBARRE, Pa., May 26. — |Four miners were injured and between ;300 and 400 others are believed to (Continued on Page Two) 700 Bakers Arrested _ Since Strike Started Seven hundred pickets have been arrested since the beginning of the strike of the bakers of the Pechter and Messing concerns, it was an- nounced yesterday by Abe Baron, leader of the strike. US. Death Rate for | Mothers is Highest Maternal mortality is higher in the United States than any other civil- ized country and twice as high as in England, Sir George Newman de- clared here yesterday. East Side Barbers’ Strike Coming. A general strike of the barbers of the East Side will be called next week, according to Abe Greenwald, secretary, Local 752, Barbers’ Union, _ CALLS BALDWIN CHARGES FALSE. ‘Right Wing Laborites| LONDON, May 26.—The “sinister” | PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 26—| Comrades: immdiately. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927 rAN-PACIFIC LABOR MEETING SCORES U. S. ‘THE DAILY WORKER. Published Datly except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. The Daily Worker Must Have Your Aid AN APPEAL TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS AND SYMPATHIZERS. Because of technical and managerial changes in the present plant The DAILY WORKER must either make new arrangements involving considerable expense, or secure new quarters The DAILY WORKER faces the danger of immediate suspension. an ultimatum from our printers stating that they would no longer continue publication unless $1.800 is raised before Monday, May 30. To meet this situation adequately, we must have in our hands not less than $25,000 by July 9. The DAILY WORKER editors and business manager are on trial today on a charge preferred by open shop “patriotic” societies. They face jail sentences. The whole world trembles with the threat of a new war. If The DAILY WORKER should be permitted to suspend at this time it would be the most crushing blow our movement has yet received. It would mean a direct encouragement interests these betrayers of the workers are protecting. It w assault upon labor and its standards on every front. his resources and send to us immediately every available dollar rades throughout the country will respond to this frank state’ Bolshevik determination, which will pull us through. MANAGEMENT COMMITTE WITH FRIENDS OF TRACTION FIRMS State Board Packed to Assure No Hostile Move Against Plunderbund The Exposures Thus Far: The billion dollar traction steal which was incorporated in 1913 made its way by wholesale fraud and the corruption of city and state officials. Over $300,000,000 of the city’s money was sunk in the sub- ways; nearly $150,000,000 in addition has been the loss to date as a result of the yearly deficit of over $11,000,000 which the tax- payers must bear as a result of the sell out. On the top of this a huge increased fare steal is now being planned; involved are Governor Al. Smith, Mayor Jimmie Walker, the executive editor of a large metropolitan newspaper and others mentioned in the following artiele, By ROBERT MITCHELL. and special percentages exacted by this concern for floating the bonds of the traction companies. The officials of the city, the officers of the companies and no doubt numerous others re- ceived hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to put through the traction swindle. The chairman of the city Board of Estimate who sanctioned the steal the running mate of Al. Smith in the recent democratic landslide by which to the forces of American imperialism to go forward full speed in their nefarious march to- ward a new World War. It would be hailed with triumph by the Greens, the Wolls, the Sig- mans, and the Cahans, as well the entire horde of open-shoppers and enemies of labor, whose The Morgan banking concern dipped its long arms into the, pockets of the city taxpayers for millions in the form of bonuses) was George McAneny, later appointed to the new Transit Commission by Governor Nathan L. Miller. An- William A. Prendergast, later ap- pointed to the position of chairman of the New York Public Service Com- mission by Miller. This position Prendergast still holds. Now he is being used as the mouthpiece of the traction interests in their temporary squabble with Al. Smith, who in 1925 was eating quite peacefully out of their hands. The part played by Leroy T. Hark- ness, assistant counsel, for the New York Public ‘Service Commission in 1913 has already been indicated, That he was not alone in his betrayal of his sworn trust is proved by the fact that Travis H. Whitney, now vice president of the B.-M. T., was then the chairman of the Public Service Commission. Legalize Steal. To make the infamous 1913 steal “legal” it was necessary to pass legislation authorizing the plunder- bund. A bill was accordingly put through the New York State legisla- ture, known as the Wagner bill. The author of this bill is Robert F. Wagner, then state senator, later jus- tice, now U. S. Senator Wagner, but the same Tammany grafter through- out these several transformations. Wagner, it will be remembered, was other who was on this board was) jfore him. this precious pair were hurdled into office. Did Senator Wagner get his reward for the part he played in the deal?| No doubt! Among other evidences, there is the fact of his having ad- vanced in public favor and of his hav- ing risen in public office—and no one, let it be known, rises in the empire state except through having come to a complete “understanding” with the traction czars. This is the writing on the wall which the somewhat per- plexed Al, Smith is reading with no little worry. Al. Smith has already had one ex- perience in attempting to buck the transit powers that b®. In 1920 Al. was still the tried and true “friend” of the gullible people. As such his mission was to defend the fair public and to contend with the dragon of traction even as other heroes had in- variably been called upon to do be- What did Al. say then? Brave Words! “The traction question must be settled by municipal ownership, We have tried every other means and every other method but the time is now at hand when it will be just as ridiculous to think that private com- panies can operate transit facilities sufficient for the people of the state as it would be for us to believe that we could ever go back to the time when the little private water com- (Continued on Page Five) We have received ould be a signal for a direct Comrades! No matter what self-sacrifice and devotion you have already shown in your day-to-day struggles against the bosses and the right wing, this is the time for the even greater sacrifice and devotion. We must not lose the heart and center of our movement. We must not lose the vital dynamo of the class struggle. We must not lose The DAILY WORKER. We therefore ask in all earnestness that“every comrade and sympathizer take stock of he can raise through loans or contributions. Unless this plea is acted on with speed and dispatch, we may tomorrow face the prospect of the loss of our beloved organ. We have the utmost confidence that the com- ment of our difficulties with a E, THE DAILY WORKER. U. S. Conference Demanded to Help Sacco and Vanzetti AL SMITH PACKED TRANSIT BOARD BOSTON, May 26.—Sentiment is | growing among militant labor bodies | for a national workers’ conference vw ‘save Sacco and Vanzetti from the |electrie chair on July 10. This was |disclosed here today following the |failure of Governor Fuller to name an open commission of five to review the evidence in the celebrated case in public. When Fuller refused the request of |the Saceo-Vanzetti Defense Commit- |tee for such a commission in a letter |made public today, he overturned at |one blow the whole elaborate strategy followed by the committee for the past | several months. | For months the official defense |committee has tried to head off the | vigorous protest movements planned by other labor bodies. This policy it |has justified by the plea that only respectable middle class and upper class elements would be able to swing |the governor over to the committee’s | plan of having a commission appoint- ed to review the entire case in public | hearings. j (Special to The Daily Worker.) | } | For weeks now Fuller has been de- luged by requests from liberals, lawy- ers, clergymen and other spokesmen for respectable middle class opinion, to name the commission. But yester- day he informed the defense commit- tee that he had no intention of nam- ing such a body, but would continue his secret star chamber investigation of witnesses and evidence. Halt Effective Protests. In the meantime militant labor has found countless obstacles placed in its way by the defense committee, composed for the most part of per- sonal friends of Sacco and Vanzetti, earnest people who have little con- ception of nation-wide agitation and organized propaganda because of their anarchist principles. Efforts to hold a great national la- bor conference in Boston or New York were spiked last month by the committee, Efforts to raise money on a big scale have also been halted by the committee’s policy that it alone had the right to handle defense funds, despite its meagre organization and contacts. Anxious not to jeopardize the case, labor organizations such as the In- ternational Labor Defense deferred to the committee’s practiacl command to soft-pedal vigorous labor demonstra- tions against the impending execu- tion of workers’ champions. Now that the committee’s long and tortuous policy has been proved futile, de- mands were pouring in today for the calling of a national conference. Reprimands Governor. The defense committee itself, aware of the serious predicament it has been (Continued on Page Two) = RESIS 53 { || Every True Worker at Great Reception Tonight For 9 Released Furriers }/ | | | A big reception and ball will be || |] given tonight at Star Casino in honor of the released furriers and |] the helpers in the recent, Joint De- | fense bazaar. Louis Hyman, manager of the |] Cloak and Dress Makers Joint {| Board will speak, preceding the |} ball. One of the biggest affairs of thé 1 season with plenty of novelties is; planned for the reception to the/]) victims of the right wing—bosses’ alliance. The Casi St. and Park Ave, sino is at 107th [ty | FINAL CITY | Price 3 Cents | EDITION BROWDER BRANDS WALL STREET AS BIGGEST MENACE Calls on Latin-America to Fight Imperialism (By Nationalist News Agency.) HANKOW, May 26.—The sig- fhificance of the Pacific coun- tries on both sides of the ocean in the forthcoming world war is being pointed out in Hankow at the Pan-Pacific Labor Confer- ATTACK ON DAILY <= representing eight coun- f itries: China, Japan, Russia, | England, France, United States, Java, | WORKER PART OF “:.:= ig The working session of the confer- lence opened on May 21. The position ‘DRIVE ON LABOR of America in the coming struggle for | world domination and the coming war lin the Pacific was outlined by Earl ce | Browder, the American delegate, who CHICAGO, May 26.—In a-state-|indicated that though the United ment issued today on the prosecution} States is the strongest power in the of the editors and business manager | Pacific materially, it is a country of The DAILY WORKER by various/ which is temporarily at a disadvan- patriotic societies, the International] tage in its struggle in the Pacifie be- Labor Defense, thru James P. Cannon,|cause of Japan’s strong geographic secretary, Says: | position and of Britain’s precedence in | “This attack on the only national| the Pacifie arena. | labor daily, whose militant support of| He stated that America is seeking all progressive labor movements and |the most favorable moment to estab- brilliant workingclass editorial policy |!ish an Asian hegemony and is now has won it a place in the hearts of | Playing off Britain and Japan against thousands of American workers, is a|¢ach other in order to usurp their signal for all lovers of liberty to| Positions. The Far East, especially rally to its defense.” China, will be the basis of the next “The same forces that are trying world war, he asserted. to. murder Sacco and-Vanzetti,.crush | Bargain Among Thieves. the left wing in the labor movement; America previously traded off Bri- as a preliminary to the destruction |tish ambitions in the Far East for of the unions, conquer Latin America| America’s « itions in Latin Amer- and make war upon China and the|ica, Browder continued, so the idea Soviet Union, are behind this attempt |that America was motivated by pure to throttle the DAILY WORKER and | friendship is mistaken. American im- jail leading members of its staff.” |perialism was characterized as “This attack must not be allowed| most dangerow all the world for to succeed. The International Labor|China. America’s usurpations in the Defense considers that in this case| Philippines were cited as instances; are involved all of the demands of also her policy toward Latin Ameri the working class for which it fights|can countries. The enormous signifi- —free speech, free press and assem-|cance of Latin America in the im- blage, the right to organize.” |perialist struggle in the Pacific was “It calls upon all its members and | pointed out together with the neces- supporters to come to the assistance |Sity for close co-operation of op- of The DAILY WORKER by means of |pressed peoples against imperialism. contributions to its defense fund and| A resolution was adopted in which letters and telegrams of protest to the conference greets Latin America, Governor Smith of New York.” , expressing regrets on account of the “The strangling of The DAILY fmability of Latin American delegate: WORKER would be a terrific blow/to attend, and calling on Latin Amez- to the whole American labor move] ican labor groups to co-operate in the ment.” y, | struggle against imperialism. British Criminal Freed. : (By Nationalist News Agency.) SHANGHAI, May 26.—The British soldier who was charged with crim- MINERS TO QUIZ GREEN ON TALK | inally attacking a Chinese woman servant on April 22, after forcibly en- T0 WOLL OUTFIT &: a Chinese residence in this city, was tried before civil and mili- tary judges at the Shanghai British Supreme Court. The trial followed a Barred from membership in the Na- | tional Civic Federation through the strict orders of his union, President {demand from Quo Tai-chi, Chiang Kai-shek’s “commissioner of foreign affairs,” which was addressed to the British consul-general, In the note ‘el Sone William Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor will undoubtedly be challenged at the next convention of the United Mine Workers concerning his address before the anti-union Fed- eration here. This development seemed a cer- tainty yesterday as dispatches to the mine fields carried the news of Green’s appearance at a Federation luncheon at the exclusive Bankers Club here on the same platform with Walter Gordon Merritt, legal author- ity on the open shop and counsel for the League for Industrial Freedom. The League is a union-smashing em- ployers’ concern which has repeatedly published vicious attacks on the American Federation of Labor. Also present at the luncheon in New York’s swankiest club were Mat- thew Woll, leader of the union-dis- rupting forces at work in the needle trades here, Gilbert H. Montague of the National Industrial Conference Board, an economic research agency kept by big employing interests; Mar- cus M. Marks, wealthy merchant and republican politician; and Arthur Wil- liams, vice president of the New York Edison Co., probably one of the most bitter anti-union firms in the city. Green criticized the recent supreme court decision on the Bedford cut stone case, forcing union men to work on non-union cut stone against their will. Merritt upheld the decision, Commissioner Quo requested that the soldier be court-martialed and that a representative from his office be per- mitted to attend the trial as an of- ficial observer. According to John Law, the accused soldier, was tried in the presence of a Chinese official sit- ting on the bench with the British judges. Although positively identified by the attacked woman whose testimony was corroborated by witnesses, the (Continued on Page Two) Elect Delegates to lat’, Convention Nomination of delegates to the con- vention of the International Fur Workers’ Union to be held at Wash- ington, D. C., was on the order of business at four well attended meet- ings of the Furriers’ Union held last evening. The meetings went on record in favor of the general strike to be called soon by the Joint Board to ad- vance the working standard of the furriers, that have been beaten down to a low level as a result of the — united front between the bosses and — the A, F. of L. bureaucracy. \ } A