The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER. = 7 FINAL CITY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. | EDITION a rcrthgeige te ead gid pa NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927 CONVICT DAILY WORKER EDITOR, MANAGER; FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both, ee Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N, Y. Vol. IV. No. 116. Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J, O’Fianerty. TS conviction of William F. Tunae;| editor of The DAILY WORKER | and Bert Miller, business manager, | for the appearance of a poem in the! paper that offended the sensibilities | ) of several groups of paid patriots is part of the campaign now conducted on an international scale against the workingelass movement. At this par- ticular moment nothing would give greater satisfaction to the open ene- mies of the workers and their hire- lings among the bureaucracy of the trade union movement in this country to see The DAILY WORKER go un- der. * * * ROcoReRG to information gained from those who attended the trial jt was a farcical proceeding. Only the most cursory attention was paid to the charge or to the testimony. It bore on its face all the evidence of being pre-arranged. The convicted comrades were locked up in the Tombs to be held there for one week without bail. Had they been bucket- shop operators, real estate swindlers or defrauders of the masses differ- ent consideration would be shown them, * * * TUNNE and Miller may be sent to jail for long terms. It may be the beginning of 2 new attack on the Communist movement in the United States, Already Matthew Woll, the political bell-hop of the National Civic Federation urges a government in- vestigation of the Communist move- ment here, following the raid of the British government on the Soviet Trade Delegation. He did not suc- ceed to his satisfaction in wrecking the needle trades unions. He wants more government assistance. * * . At the present time, when the col- umns of the capitalist press are echoing lies spun by the officials of the Forgers’ Government of England against the Soviet Union it is vitally necessary that we have-a daily. paper that will keep the workers correctly informed and show them how to meet this lying offensive. The DAILY WORKER is the most effective wea- | pon in the possession of the militant working classes. The sacrifice neces- sary to maintain it will be heavy. Money is sorely needed right now. It is up to the readers of The DAILY WORKER to say whether it shall sur- vive or die. * * * TLOYD GEORGE made a stronger protest against. the action of the British government in breaking off diplomatic and commercial relations with the Soviet Union, than did John R. Clynes, the spokesman for the Labor Party. Clynes claimed that his faction of the Labor Party, the right wing, were the greatest sufferers from Communist propaganda. He practically admitted that the govern- ment was right in principle but held | that it should go thru the formality «& @ trial. He did not raise the class issue for a moment, the issue of the Workers’ Government versus the Em- ployers’ Government. He weakly pro- tested the loss of trade that would follow the rupture, the plea of a ped- nut peddler. * 42) LOYD GEORGE, the liberal leader and one of the most unscrupulous tricksters in British polities took ad- vantage of the occasion to push him- | self back on the political map with {|—- Acting Department Heads Selected During Crisis Facing the Daily Worker In the critical situation in which The DAILY WORKER finds itself we will with the support of our comrades and sympathizers con- tinue to publish the paper and || carry on the fight as determindedly as ever. During the imprisonment of Comrades Dunne and Miller, the editorial and management commit- tees have placed Comrade H. M. || Wicks in charge of the editorial department and Comrade Alexan- der Trachtenberg in charge of the business office. In spite of the attacks upon us the paper will go on if our sup- porters do their part. BRAND RUMORS OF HANKOW FALL’ AS IMPERIALIST LIE ‘China to Commemorate Shanghai Massacre SHANGHAI, May 27.—Rumors cir- \eulated here about “the fall of Han- kow” are absolutely without con- |firmation, it was learned today. | Most of the rumors are inspired by! |British and American business men| in Shanghai, it is stated. | * * * | | Commemorate Shanghai Massacre. | | HANKOW, May 27.—Huge demon- | strations commemorating the murder of the peaceful unarmed Chinese citi- izens by British police at Shanghai |two years ago will be held here on |May 30th. Other demonstrations will \be held in towns, villages and cities |thruout the Yangtse Valley. * * * | Sikh police at the command of In- ;spector Everson fired into an un- armed crowd of Chinese who were demonstrating» against the unwar- ranted arrest of a number of students, Ten seconds after Inspector Ever- ; (Continued on Page Two) Anglo-Soviet Break ‘Features Big China Protest on Friday The serious international crisis at- an aggressive and cynical speech that tendant on the breaking off of rela- literally left Austen Chamberlain, the | tions between Great Britain and the sanctimonious foreign secretary with-| Soviet Union will be discussed at one mt a leg to stand on. All govern-/of the most important meetings the myents conduct espionage on each Workers (Communist) Party has yet other, he said. He taunted the gov- held’in New York City. Outstanding ernnient on what improvement they figures in the American labor move- expected in the Russian situation. | ment have been billed to address the Did they expect the return of the meeting, to be held Friday, June 3, Romanoffs? He mentioned the names | at the Central Opera House, 67th St. of the various leaders in the Soviet | ang Third Ave. }» government and suggested that all were equally unsatisfactory. Not that | { Llody George was not prepared to) La “steps against the Union gov. | traced and a great protest bert ment but he would do it in a way | against American interv@htion in the Far East. The withdrawal of Ameri- The relation of the Anglo-Soviet break to the events in China will be that would cause the least possible | HELD WITHOUT BAIL FOR SENTENCE FRIDAY Rally to Save the Daily Worker for the Labor Movement Emergency Call to All Comrades and Sympathizers: Blow after blow has been levelled against The DAILY WORKER during the past few days. Never have we faced such a critical situation. Never before have we been faced with a situation where we were ACTUALLY SUSPENDED. Yet that was precisely the condition of our paper on Wednesday when we were closed for two hours. In the midst of our ef- forts to rally our supporters and secure a new lease of life, efforts that were rewarded tem- porarily and enabled us to survive the crisis for two days three judges of the superior court found our comrades, William Dunne, editor, and Bert Miller, manager of The DAILY WORK- ER, guilty of the charges that have been pending against them since the combination of pa- triotic societies, right wing reaction, police and courts united to stifle the voice of the mili- tant labor press, and sent them to jail, without bail, to wait until next Friday when sen- tence will be passed upon them. Comrades, this drive against us comes at a time when The WORKER is needed as never before, because the world situation, the situation of the national labor movement and the condition of the local labor movement has never before been so grave. The drive of the imperialist powers against the colonials and semi-colonials, in China, in Nicaragua, in Mexico; the crusade against labor in France; the vicious attempts to smash the British labor movement through the anti-strike bill; the raid on the Russian trading cor- poration in London and the breaking of trade and diplomatic relations after a whole series of the most monstrous provocations by the government of forgery; the preparation for war against the Soviet Union} all these are evidences of the world-wide character of the conspira- cy to weaken dnd, if possible, destroy the labor movement internationally in order that the imperialist butchers may be able to launch the most frightful slaughter-of the masses the world has ever seen. The DAILY WORKER alone has ripped the mask of hypocricy from the faces of the war mongers and exposed.them for what they are. Alone we have reached thousands upon thousands of workers ‘who have sworn that they will not be cannon fodder for ahother world slaughter to decide which imperialist nations shall pillage the rest of the world. \ Nationally, while the workers in the mines* and mills have been fighting against the combination of employers and right-wing labor leaders The DAILY WORKER relentlessly ex- posed the treachery against labor and became the spokesman for the honest, militant ele- ments struggling for the elementary demands of the rank and file. Locally, in New York City, we, of all the English dailies, alone fought the battles of the embattled cloakmakers and furriers and again exposed the corrupt combination of labor lieutenants of capitalism united with the employers, the police and:courts in an effort to railroad to jail the leaders of these struggles. At this moment we are on the eve of another furriers’ strike and the silencing of the voice of our paper at this time would be a terrific blow to that movement even before it is under way. The DAILY WORKER has come to be recognized as the gauge of the militant labor movement as well as of the Communist movement in this country. Its loss will not only mean the loss of all the long years of work and sacrifice on the part of thousands of workers who have stood by us in all the dark days through which we have passed, but its moral ef- fect cannot be measured. ™ We have fought so hard in order that the workers engaged in elementary struggles, in Passaic, in the mines, in the needle trades, might win their victories that we have not always considered our own welfare as we might have done. We have helped every worker in every struggle in this country during our existence. Now is the time for those we have helped to come to our aid in our fight for life. The jailing of our editor and business manager is part of the general campaign. They were tried yesterday morning before three judges, amidst surroundings charged with preju- dice, in a hostile atmosphere, where every motion by our attorney in favor of our comrades was instantly denied, indicating that all had been decided in advance. The enemies of labor thought they could take advantage of our present financial diffi- culties to definitely silence us by jailing our editor and manager, but as far as we are con- cerned we will fight on against these conspirators and in spite of them. But in order to be able to fight, you must everyone do your part—nay, more than your part by immediately com- |* ing to our aid. We must have several thousand dollars within the next forty-eight hours or the con- spiracy of the enemy will succeed During the next two days, while you are enjoying the holidays, set aside something for The WORKER. Devote some of your time to raising money that you can instantly send in to us so that when you go back to work you can be sure that The DAILY WORKER is still living and fighting your battles and the battles of the oppressed everywhere. Do not rely on the ordinary mail channels to send in money. It may come too late. Send in all that you can get together by wire, special delivery or, if possible, come in person so that you may become more acquainted with the gravity of the situation. Send wires and special delivery letters to 33 East First St., New York City. Comrades and sympathizers in New York may call ‘at the local DAILY WORKER office at 108 Hast 14th Street with donations. Act, comrades, before it is too late! WILLIAM F. DUNNE AND BERT MILLER FACE THREE-YEAR SENTENCE HERE AS COURT OVERRULES DEFENSE MOTIONS Professional Patrioteers on Hand as Judges Railroad Defense Attempts to Postpone Case iPart of General Campaign on Part of Reaction to Throttle The DAILY WORKER William F. Dunne, editor, and Bert Miller, business manager of The DAILY WORKER are in the Tombs prison today. They were found guilty yesterday by Justices Featherstone, Murphy and Kelly, sitting in Special Sessions, of violating section 219 of the criminal code. Sentence will be pronounced Friday. : Poem Charge a Pretext. : A poem entitled “America,” by David Gordon was the pretext used by high salaried professional patriots and the organizations |for which they work to “get” The DAILY WORKER by railroad- \ing the editors and business manager to prison and robbing it of s mailing privileges. Court is Brisk. Convicted in less than 45 minutes |after the court had listlessly denied | all motions made by defense attorney, Joseph R. Brodsky, including post- |ponement of the case, Dunne and | Miller now face a maximum term of |taree years in the New York State | Penitentiary. WORKERS PARTY “SCORES PRETEXT jealendar, the court curtly refused * | Where is the Plot? Asks — motion to postpone it. undred Per Centers There. . Central Committee On hand in the crowded court room | were a large number of ex-army of-| | ficers, leading members of the Ameri-| (By the Central Executive Committee can Legion, and representatives of|of the Workers [Communist] Party). |minor but active suppressionary m 4 | Exposure of the Reds! Red con- “4 ” a I sl per cent American” organiza | spiracy unearthed! Red this—and Red that! And what is it all about? A list of addresses is alleged to have been found in the possession of one Anton Miller, who in turn was found on the premises of Arcos, Ltd., in London by Scotland Yard raiders. The New York “bomb squad” was | (Continued on Page Two) BOYCOTT APPLIED BY SOVIET UNION TO TORY BRITAIN MOSCOW, May 27.—The Soviet Union has dealt its first blow in re- taliation to the British die-hard cab- We have neither the desire nor the | means of ascertaining whether all of these addresses are genuine. But let us assume that they are. Where is ‘the deep and bloody conspiracy? | Where is the plot? All we know is | that it is alleged that American ad- |dresses were found in possession of a person in Europe, presumably a Rus- rae We hope that those sinister |inet which has broken the Anglo-Sov- | sega reg ‘whe ‘have thus been found \iet trade agreement and severed eb lloe anciriage nig names to be lomatic relations with the Soviet | 4, . S eesayuests sei See Lon- Union. }don, who, perhaps (darkest crime of |all) even received mail, letters, cir- The Commissariat of Trade today | ‘ “ |issued orders to all ships to boyoott | SU sT™ statements, information, ete» | sta biti peeked sechoen | from this Russian, will be visited with | a snap . ja punishment commensurate with the The United States trading tech-| ,.¢uiness of their crime. | nique is superior to the English, and | orders extended to England are now} Provokes War. being given to America, particularly! At the same time, however, we wish orders for textile machinery,” said{to point to the frivolousness with the Trade Commissariat’s statement,|which the capitalist government of discussing the possible trend of the|Great Britain is attempting to pro- | Soviet Union’s trade. voke a new world war. Violating in- | U. S. Better Market. ternational decency, police agents of “We believe the American market | the British government burglarized |will be able to absorb the Soviet | the offices of the Arcos, Ltd., and the Union’s exports formerly shipped to| Soviet Commercial Mission in Lon- | England, which has acted largely in| don. And on the day when this gen- |the capacity of a middleman between |tlemanly government of Great Bri- |the United States and the Soviet|tain breaks off diplomatic relations | Union.” with the Soviet Union, on the day | Abie aie 2 whey the honorable Baldwin govern- | No Relations. ;ment makes a step designed to plunge | LONDON,,»May 27.—Great Britain |the world into a new bloody conflict, | today formally brought her diplomatic | it has nothing else to offer to the diglocation of trede and in a way t would preserve the dignity of British government. * * * ERE is hardly a word appearing in the capitalist papers of how the magses of the workers have taken the break with the Soviet Union. To the class conscious workers the Soviet Union is not merely a government that should be’ recognized because appropriate diplomatic relations tends to spur commerce between countries and orders from the Soviet Union would keep thousands of Briitsh workers in employment. To them the Soviet Union is the nucleus of the New Society, of the Workers State which will take the place of the Capi- talist States that now dominate this earth, For this ideal they will fight with the ardor and missionary spirit that animated the battlers for all . (Continued on Page Four) 1 can troops from China will also be demanded. “There can be no doubt,” declared an official statement of the Workers’ (Communist) Party, District 2, yes- terday, “that the breaking off of the relations between Great Britain and the Soviet Union on the part of Brit- ish imperialism means that British imperialism is preparing a war on the Soviet Union and the question of the Chinese revolution. . British imperial- ism is trying to prepare the ground at home as shown by the introduction of the vicious trade union bill.” Scott Nearing, Bertram D, Wolfe, William F, Dunne, if free, H. M. Wicks, M. J. Olgin, Alexander Tracht- enberg, Juliet S. Poyntz, Charles Krumbein, a Chinese speaker, a rep- resentative of the Young Workers League will discuss specific points. Jack Stachel will preside. An admis- sion of 25 cents will be Bankers Protest Tube MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DAILY WORKER. and trade relations with the Soviet Union to an end. Great Welcome For Released Furriers Thousands of workers jammed Star Near Finance Vaults Terrified at the prospect that mere subway diggers will be within a few feet of the most precious subterranean money vaults, when they dig the new Nassau St. tube, Chase National Bank and J. P. Morgan & Co. entered seri- ous objections yesterday against building the tunnel. Nevertheless the city, bound by the plundering subway contracts of 1913, must: proceed with the construction of a mile of tunnel at a cost of $13,000,- 000, the board of transportation de- cided. The new link connects the Whitehall St. tunnel with the Muniei- pal Building B. M. T. station. Casino last night to pay tribute to the nine released furriers. Twenty- five signs shouted welcome to the victims of the right-wing-bosses’ frame-up. A special greeting was given Charles Walfish, just released from a long term on Blackwell’s Island for his devotion to the union. Louis Hy- man spoke and dancing went on far into the night. Wreckage tugs were slowly towing the Matson Navigation Company's 110,000 Beauty Shop The foreign office at noon dis- patched a note to Charge Rosengoltz jat the Soviet embassy giving notifica- |tion of the break. The note was }couched in the usual courteous tones Girls Will Strike A city-wide strike of 10,000 beauty} of diplomacy but notified the Soviet | it has nothing‘ else to show as a base | for its war-breeding steps than the |fact that American addresses were | found in the possession of one Anton Miller, who in turn was found on the premises of Arcos, Ltd., of London. Look Behind. ep as an excuse for its burglary, | shop girls beginning next Tuesday} was announced yesterday by Anthony Merlino, international vice president | of the Barbers’ Union, Bronx girls! have already partly won their strike for recognition and union hours. | A strike of Manhattan barbers is | also scheduled for next week. A big) parade of beauty shop girls, begin-| ning from Bronx headquarters, will, announce their strike. | LOS ANGELES, May 27.—~The Los | disabled $7,000,000 passenger liner} with its main water supply, was dyna- Malolo to New York yesterday. Angeles aqueduct, furnishing this city mited as | (Contjnued on Page Two) | TRACTION Today’s installment of Robert Mitchell's traction expose will be found on Page Three. Read how Al Smith, the great liberal gover- nor, kicked out the blatant Hylan |} to smooth the way for the in- | creased fares slated for New || York’s straphangers. We warn the workers to look be- |hind the smoke-sereen of this “ex- |posure” and see there the blood- |thirsty physiognomies of the big | bourgeois of Great Britain who are hoping to re-charge their slowly di- |minishing sources of profits at the | cost of the blood of millions of work- | ers, sacrificed on the battlefields of | their interests. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE}