The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! ©HE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 117. ( Current Events SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8,00 per year, THE DAILY WO Entered as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of Margh 3, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. KER. PUBLISHING CO., 32 First Street, New York, N, ¥. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER | FINAL CITY | ___ EDITION Price 3 Cents ' <=) MILLION CHINESE HONOR STUDENT DEAD By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. b La ered are labor fakers in all capi- talist countries but in no other country in the world could one of this fraternity afford to openly ally himself with the stoolpigeons of the capitalist system and get away with it. It is true that in England, Have- lock Wilson, head of the seamens' union is an accomplished fink but even the British trade union bureau- cracy are forced to hold their noses when the name of this odoriferous gentleman is mentioned. In the Uni- ted States the labor stoolpigeon— WORLD WORKERS ASSERTS PRAVDA Rupture Hides Di-Hard | BRITISH WAR ON | Do Not Permit the Enemies of Labor to Gloat Over the Death of the Daily Worker To All Comrades and Sympathizers: In spite of the heavy blows that have been delivered against us we still publish The | | | SHANGHAI MEMORIAL DAY MASSES ‘DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF ALL TROOPS Honor Victims of British Imperialist Lust in Impressive Demonstrations SHANGHAI, May 30,—One million Chinese workers today provided he works on a salary basis) = Defeat in China and not on commission—is accorded | the respect that prosperity usually | | | shook their fist in the face of British and Japanese imperialism while observing their second memorial day. DAILY WORKER. But the crisis is not yet overcome. We want to be perfectly frank with our readers about our position. We still face the future with misgivings. We do not know carries in its train. . | Rae ee on ives what tomorrow will bring forth. Although many comrades and supporters have responded Two years ago today British police fired into a mass of un- * * " points out that Chamberlain’s note | to our appeals we are still far short of the amdunt necessary to assure our publication even | armed Chin students, ten seconds after they had been warned sa particular faker that I am re- ferring to just now is Matthew Woll, president of the Photo En- gravers’ Union, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, head of the insurance company founded by the A. F of L. and acting president of the National Civie Fed- eration, an open shop patriotic aggre- gation of capitalists and flunkeys from the higher circles of the trade union bureaucracy. Mr. Woll has made himself notorious among intelli- gent workers by his willingness to scab on the underpaid stoolpigeons who stay up late at night writing the illegible reports of their day’s work) to. their employers. | * * * WING to the amount of space used up by. the capitalist press these | days in interpreting the young lad | Lindbergh to their readers it is some- what difficult for a cheap skate like Woll to make the first page. But beggars cannot be choosers. Even al position next to the “money to loan” | advertisements is preferable to no} space at all. So in the New York Times of Monday, May 30, we find Woll in a corner on page five de- manding that the United States gov- -esament <anduct anu investigation ‘of Soviet activities in the United States with a view to deporting the Russian trade officials now operating in this country. * * AT Mr. Woll is chiefly con- cerned with is his own personal | interests. This parasite has lived on| the American workingclass since he) was old enough to realize that a fel-| low with a glib tongue, an elastic) conscience could get along working the workers and gulling them with the idea that their best interest would be served by being loyal to their masters and paying toll to some legitimate grafter who played the role of middleman. ” * es long as the workers parked their brains and allowed a few frauds to do their thinking for them fellows like Woll were safe. Their graft was secure. But when the radicals, not only teld the workers that they must do their own thinking but attempted to organize them so that they would be prepared to secure for themselves the maximum benefit from the pro- duct of their labor, Woll and his tribe of leeches became panic stricken and had to resort to the government and its policemen to help them retain their seats on the backs of the workers. Pag * * wows patriotism is as sensitive as his pocket book. His kind, sold the national domain to the oil magnates and almost got away with it. They love this country because ft can stand a lot of grafting. It is ich. But would they die for it? Yes by accident. They hate the radicals 2 they know that sooner or latctthe workers will be obliged to what the radicals have to to follow their advice. This & day of doom for gentle Woll type. * * 'HERE is no essential difference be- * say an will be men of * tween the part played by Matthew! Woll and his kind in the American class struggle and the part played by the Hindoo princes in India. Eng- land’s policy—and the policy of all imperialist powers in similar circum: stances—has been to divide the con- \quered. England picked on the nobility and put them on her payroll —the money being extracted from the toil of the conquered. The noble hire- lings became the native overseers and slavedrivers for the conquered. . . * ee the labor movement the capitalists first fought the labor leaders and then bought them. Sometimes there is no direct transfer of cash. In- deed we would have less respect for the originality of the capitalists if they were unable to devise methods that would not leave footprints on the sands in such delicate bartering While the original crop of labor lea- ders were young and incorruptible the capitalists put them in cold and |The untiring exposure of pacifist il- ! }lusions is the first premise’ in the| resistance by the world proletariat. as well as his whole foreign policy; for one week. |is directed not only against the Sovi- | let Union but is a challnege to all of | the toiling masses of the world. | Chamberlain, the Pravda says, is | preparing a war against the Soviet Government, The Tory Government is not only | employing against the working class | of its own country methods of vio-| | lence, but what is no less dangerous it is systematically innoculating the | masses with chauvinist propaganda {and with pacifist illusions. The most valuable service to capi- talism is rendered in this respect by the international social democracy. meanor—a small crime. workers. effective organization of toilers| against war and in support of the Soviet Union. Workers and peasants of the world must clearly realize that war is} energetically being prepared and the prattle about peace is an unpremedi- tated falsehood. The capitalists are gaining conviction that their stake} cial difficulties. is in your hands. Comrades Dunne and Miller are still in jail and even their jailers carry or the persecu- tion started by the three judges who refused them bail. the little things that prisoners need in the filthy jails of capitalis and the jailers would not permit even food to be sent to them. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays no one could visit or send provisions to prisoners. Next Friday they will again be taken into court to find out how long they will have to serve because of their services to the paper and to the revolutionary movement. Comrades, no one can deny that the decision of the three judges was a class decision. No member of the ruling class is ever sent to prison to await sentence because of a misde- But our comrades were thrown into jail and bail denied them be- cause the powers that prey knew The DAILY WORKER was having a hard struggle to exist and they hoped by this action to silence us so that nowhere in the United States would there appear a daily paper in the English language that fights the battles of the Visit Comrades, do not let the conspirators succeed in their drive to kill your paper. let a day go by that you do not get someone to contribute to our emergency fund in order | that we may keep alive and get a chance to prepare for the future by overcoming our finan- MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DAILY WORKER. | in English, a foreign language to | killed and scores wounded. | ors who tried to bring them Hundreds of thousands of workers 2 were denied admission feck in protest against the brutal | Trot cgenleriin js murder of the marching boys} Visitors were told that on and girls. A nation-wide boy | {against English goods was also in-| stituted as a result of the massacre. | The great demonstrations were held jin the Chinese section of the city.) | British and French carefully patroll the international and French settle- ments, even forbidding foreigners to} enter the native city. Ten. foreigners who attempted to break the lines were | held. Only newspapermen were per-| them, to disband. Sixteen were VENGEANCE HITS. FASCISTS WHEN TWO ARE KILLED Hostile Crowds Shield Do not | threatened by the Soviet Union from without and the powerful growth of in bourgeois regeneration is being OTIS INJUNCTION MAY on ‘ socielist. elements from within, Therefrom follow their stake in the a “io FORCE OPEN SHOP World reaction will meet with the HERRICK ATTACKS HOPE OF BOSSES USSR; HAS WAR NOTE IN SPEECH and Strikes While union officials snooze peace- sive plumbers’ strike and lockout, the bosses are stealing a march on them which may result in the complete PARIS, May 30.—Using a Mem-|paralysis of the building trades orial Day speech as a pretext, Am-/unions here. bassador Myron T. Herrick launched; Allen Beals, in the current Dow into a vicious attack on the Soviet|Service Daily Building Reports, Union this morning, calling upn “us Americans who fought a seven years’ war against a mighty empire” not to sit by “while a band of men who have made themselves the masters of a kindly and talented race, attempt with fiendish ingenuity to inject a fatal poison into our citizens and to under- mine the institutions which have brought comfort and happiness to our continent.” Hysterically referring to Bolshe+ vism as a “scourge,” “a disease,” “a poison,” a “sinister movement,” “an | insidious menace,” “a tyrannical and oppressive despotism,” Ambassador Herrick praised the men who died in the Revolutionary War (forgetting building going to an open shop basis if a sweeping temporary injunction is made permanent in federal court June 10. The “temporary” order was granted March 11, 1925, and has been binding ever since on the Struc- tural Iron Workers’ Union. The injunction establishes the open shop by forbidding “combination or conspiracy” to keep non-union men off the job, and banning picketing, boycotts, sympathetic strikes and any other conceivable means of interfer- ing with the completion of a vault job. The Structural Steel Board of Trade is handling the case for the company while Frank P. Walsh is counsel for the union. Ban Picketing, Boycotts fully at their desks during the deci-| sketches the possibility of New York} |] a situation?” that they were “the scourges” etc., of The Dow Service, reviewing the in- their day.) Ambassador Herrick’s speech com- ing on the heels of the British abro- gation of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union is regarded*as in- dication of an unofficial war on the part of all imperialist nations against the Soviet Union. : British-Soviet Break, War Danger, to Feature Anti-Imperialist Meeting The breaking of diplomatic re- lations with the Soviet Union by Great Britain and its connection with events in China will be dis- cussed at the protest meeting ar- ranged by the Workers (Commun- ist) Party for Friday evening, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. This meeting is called not only to protest against, American inter- vention in China and to demand the withdrawal of American troops, but also to acquaint work- ers with the complicated interna- tional situation. The speakers will be Scott Near- junction in its broader aspects, be- lieves that “forces in the new period of readjustment . . . must be pow- erful enough to bring about changes” and indicates that the federal courts will be those “powers.” The service has long held that the lack of close organization and the highly competi- tive nature of the industry have pre- vented a “unified labor policy” and that if the jndustry is to be saved from higher wages and the five day week, some force superior to the in- dividualistic contractors themselves will have to be introduced. In accordance with this theory, a “ezar” has been proposed for the New York building industry, function- ing to the same end—but more suc- cessfully—than Judge Landis did in Chicago. Mayor Walker has been suggested, but the Dow Service hopes are now pinned on broadening the ap- plication of the petty injunction granted in 1925 to include all strikes and disputes. USSR Note to British. MOSCOW, May 30.—The Soviet Union has long known that the Brit- ish Conservative Government was preparing for a rupture, said Maxim Litvinoff, acting Commissar of For- Tee mere Olgin Ktexunder ||cign Affairs in a note handed to the » MJ. , _Alexande Che: Trachtenberg, Juliet S. Poyntzy British rge yesterday. The cause of the rupture, the note said, is the defeat of British imperi- alist policy in China and an attempt to mask that defeat by an attack on Chas. Krumbein, a Chinese speak- er, and a representative of the Young Workers League, Jack clammy cells, When their political (Castinyar ox Dana Three) » aN MR MM Stachel. will be the Soviet Unior Gi itataaras Ie ([Woll Hot for Action by | || Department of Justice | | Against Radicals Here | { Matthew Woll, vice-president of |] the A. F. of L., when he isn’t occu- | pied with his duties as acting presi- |] dent of the open-shop National || Civie Federation, has gone into the red-baiting business in a serious way. During a holiday Jull in the at- tack against the left wing in the || labor movement, Woll, after giving | his enthusiastic approval to the raids on Arcos, Ltd., by Scotland Yard, calls for an “investigation” || of Communist organizations in the |! United States. Woll pointed out that the depart- ment of justice and the intelligence || bureau of the war department has |] made no investigation during the past three years, and asks, “Are | we as Americans helpless in such } | | | MUSSOLINI HANDS PRISON TERMS TO ‘(0 G. P. EDITORS ROME, May 14. (By mail.)--A few days ago a process took place in Rome before the Exceptional Court against a group of Communist journalists, one-time editors of the “Unita” | (“Unity”) and the “Stato Operaio” (“The Workers State”), for conspira- ey and incitement to class hatred through the press. | The process dealt with the activity of the accused up to September, 1926, ‘when they were arrested and handed over to the civil authorities. The oc- |casion of the arrests was the distribu- | tion of a leaflet in the streets of Rome dealing with the appointment of the Italian Crown Prince as a Senator. |The police accused the members of the editorial staff of the “Unita” in Rome of having prepared the leaflet in question and of having formed an insurrectionary association. The files of the process produced no proof whatever for the guilt of the accused who were performing a perfectly legal activity, i. e, the correspdndence serv- | ice of a newspaper which is published in accordance with all the legal re-| quirements, Arrest Editors. | After having raided the offices of the “Unita” in Rome under orders from higher up, the police charged ten Communists, despite the fact. that there was no material against them whatever. The ten’are; Ottavio Pas- tore, the parliamentary editor of the “Unita”; Giuseppe di Vittorio, one- time member of parliament and editor (Continued on Page Two) HITS ATTACK ON “DAILY WORKER” Conviction of Miller and Dunne Plot, He Says By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Bishop William Montgomery Brown, in an exclusive interview to The DAILY WORKER declared yes- terday that the conviction of William F. Dunne, editor and, Bert Miller, business manager of this paper, was not an isolated act but part of a con- certed national and international cam- paign against the workingclass, cal- culated to deprive the workers of the United States of the only daily paper that stands up for their rights and defends them in their struggle with the masters of their economic des- tiny. “Your interpretation of the situa- tion in Nicaragua and China was ad- mirable and I rather expected that the agents of Wall Street would pun- ish you for it,” said the Bishop to me in his room in the Ambassador Hotel where he is staying during his en- gagement in the East on behalf of The DAILY WORKER and the In- ternational Labor Defense. Bishop Brown linked up the attack on The DAILY WORKER, the im- | : \the Chi voted. | You have acted thus far and we are still alive, but you must stay on the job. Our fate i No cawe bal wer HERETIC BISHOP | mitted beyond the barriers. | Blackshirt Foes The meetings, which passed off dapticnibicia without violent incidents of any kind,| Two fascists were killed in the protested vigorously against British | Bronx yesterday and three anti-fas- and Japanese intervention. Demands| cists were chased by a fascist mob for the withdrawal of foreign troops} through Times Square later in the and the return of all of Shanghai to} day. | Ten thousand people gathered at No news has yet been received of | 183rd St. and Third Ave, while po- the huge demonstrations which are | lice reserves from all nearby stations scheduled to be held in Hankow and/| were out following the fatal stabbing. the other Wuhan cities. of Joseph Carisi and the shooting of Nicholas Amoroso. As evidence that Feng Advancing. | the Italian neighborhood was utterly HANKOW, May 30.—Reports from| out of sympathy with the fascists, north central Hoann state that Gen- their enemies escaped easily and all a sid ‘apie drive Sonal Boi ise soon yant ee the northern war lodrs is making oth men were in black shirts, re- rapid progress. Feng is consolidating | sponding. to a ray of the Fascisti a troops at Chengchow, strategic cen-| Duce, a Musso ini order which Carlo {ter captured about a week ago, in| Tresca, editor of II Martello. accuses preparation for his march on Peking. | . pai sig ae for re | 15 members of the order out o! 7 PEKING, May 30.—The Peking|had assembled for a Memorial Day government today was preparing to, parade at the order of Giacomo Cal- lodge a protest with the foreign gov- | dora, their leader. Fs ernment against the dispatch of 2,000) oe the Memorial Japanese troops from Manchuria to | T@ pee t wey agree pa the Shantung area. ay 5 W. 45th St. to discuss the The cereal Legation denied re- | nb nb oe Bapegtieiee ports that it was intended to send} Workers whom they took to anti- United States marines into the Pek-| fascists, the whole band tumbled out ing and Tientsin area immedately, al-| of the ya a base» and though the vist of General Smedley | cursing down throug! imes Square Butler to Peking indicates that United| With clubs and whips brandishing. States marines may be rushed to Pek-/| The workers escaped in the crowd. ing and Tientsin in the very near| Fascisti returning to West New future in preparation for the Nation-| York following the parade were close- alist drive north. | ly guarded by police. Observers declare that Japanese bid! 5 1c Fae RA De for Chiang Kai-shek has led Chang . 7 Tso-lin, who has hitherto enjoyed Whiteshirts Led by ‘Bible-humper D | BiDIE- | umper Defy | ' 200 Cops in Queens Japanese support, to send the protest. | Klansmen in nightshirts and Queens NEGRO SLAVERY FACTS IN FLOOD cops staged a series of stuffed pillow fights yesterday when the Ku Klug | Klan defied a police order not to pa Day pa- WASHINGTON, May 30.—As the rade from 89th St. and Jamaica Ave, jevening on ‘Evolution and Revolu- person present who confessed to a live- ly sympatlty for the Communist move- prisonment of Dunne and Miller, with the raids on the Soviet Union em- bassies in ‘Peking and China. “The New York Times can afford to spend hundreds of thosuands of dollars on cables,” he said, “but I} can get more enlightment out_of one column. of The DAILY WORKER! than I can get out of a page of the New York Times, In fact, I will say that without reading The DAILY WORKER one cannot be properly in- formed on the events of the day.” To Speak in Webster Hall. Bishop Brown who is scheduled to speak at The DAILY WORKER con- ference’ in Webster Hall next Friday evening to help raise funds for the Dail is a remarkable personality. I met him in Chicago a few years back with Professor Joseph McCabe, the famous rationalist end former jesuit. At that time Dr. Brown was delivering lectures in Chicago. He looked rather well but seemed to be tired. Yesterday, he looked like a healthy iron worker and was full of ‘pep.’ “I am going to speak next Friday flood gradually subsides in the Mis- sissippi Valley, the flood of intrigue and financial politics increases in Washington. Secreatry Hoover has announced that he is prepared to place before’ the president the fina) outline of his program of “credit or- ganizations” to properly take advan- tage of the business opportunities af- forded by the ruin of vast acreages of cotton and sugar cane. The plant- ers will have to borrow money to re-establish themselves, and put in the next crop, and this means that huge | quantities of capital can be invested) by bankers wise enough to get on the | inside. That there is good profit for | those managing the “credit corpora- tions” goes without saying. | Negro Slavery. , / All government agencies from the Department of the Interior and the, Department of Commerce on down} decry and fear the revelations last | week by the National Association for | the Advancement of Colored People, | that the relief machinery, under Hoov- er’s direct control, has vigorously re- | pressed any attempt by the Negro peons to escape from their bondage. The N.A.A.C.P. points in a public press release to numerous cases in which Negroes who have fled for re- fuge to the levees, or have been simply conscripted by relief officers and put to work at the point of a gun, have been held prisoners until claimed by their masters and taken (Continued on Page Two) vey tion’,” said the bishop and there wasa merry twinkle in his eye as he empha- sized ‘revolution.’ There was another ment but she did not. like revolution since it was synonomous with blood- shed in her opinion. “Fortunately for me,” continued (Continued on Page Five) | Woodhaven, to the Soldiers and Saile }ors Monument at 166th St. and Hill- | side Ave., Jamaica. | Led by a baptist preacher, the | 1,500 whiteshirts burst into “Onward, | Christian Soldiers” when 200 police | tried to bar their parade. Later they fought on the barricades. This was at Queens Blvd. and Hillside Ave., |Jamaica, where police threw @ barricade of automobiles across the |line of march. The mounted white- | shirts hurdled the obstacles. Police obeyed orders not to harm the paraders, in sharp contrast to their handling of workers’ parades and demonstrations when cops mount- ed on horses and motorcycles plunged into crowds, swinging club. Soviet Charge Asks Extension of Time LONDON, May 30.—M. Rosengols, Soviet charge d'affaires, in a note to | Sir Austen Chamberlain, British for- eign minister today, requested per- | mission for several members of the Arcos delegation to stay in London until official business is closed. The Soviet charge explained that it was impossible to wind up all affains within the 10 days given and that an extension for part of the staff would be necessary. In event the is denied, Rosengolz declared that busin ed i contracts would be termi: i