The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1927, Page 1

sa: STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! ‘f 6 ra ‘ \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 118. Current Events| By T. J, O’FLAHERTY, | To New York Telegram asks if} Mussolini is mad after reading the| latest piece of bombast from the Fascist dictator in which the notori-| ous renegade declared that he wanted an army of 5,000,000 strong with | which Italy. would participate in a war that would make the rest of the powers sit up on their hind legs and wag their ears to all Benito’s: de- mands. The demand of international Fascism indulged in a last chuckle at the expense of the corpse of liberal-| ism and the protests from our own worshippers of democracy were few and far between. | * * * | ERHAPS Mussolini is mad but we) are not aware that sane Wall Street bankers loan money to luna- tics. Indeed’ we know quite a few indigent, tho mentally healthy citi- zens who would be looked on with suspicion should they seek a loan | from the same bankers that drop) their millions at Mussolini’s feet. And the reason why they loan their money to Mussolini is because, first of all, they will make a profit on the loan and secondly the money will be de- voted to the strengthening of the sys- tem on which the bankers look with a benevolent eye. j * * * OMING to think it over we are of the opinion that Mussolini is not crazy. Any more than Napoleon was. Or Kaiser Wilhelm. He might have been considered crazy had he appeared on the world political stage twenty years ago. Ever the former Kaiser of Germany in his palmiest days never | brandished the sword as threateningly as Mussolini does. The explanation can be found in the shaky condition of capitalism in Europe and the in- evitability of the spread of Fascist or- ganizations to cope with the growing militancy of the workers. The issue in the future will not be between dic- tatorship and democracy but between the Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- ments and the black dictatorship of capitalism. Oe TILL the government has not made an appropriation out of the treas- ury for the relief of the victims of the Mississippi flood. Perhaps this money is being saved for the pork barrel. Hoover is on a panhandling excursion and in the meantime the people of the flooded areas are suffer- ing.. Woe unto the unfortunate. Their misery will excite public compassion for a few days, then some other nov- elty hoves in sight—this time it was Lindbergh—and the world jogs along as usual. : * . 'F the Washington administration was as much concerned with the fortunes of the poor farmers in the Mississippi Valley as it is with those of big business in Mexico, Nicaragua and China, it would not wait to tap the public purse before lending aid. It spends millions of dollars on expedi- tions to those countries, even going to the extreme of shooting down de- fenseless people simply because they stand in the way of Wall Street’s interests. It’s a capitalist government and there is no more humanity in it than there is in the soul of a pawn- broker. * * . he’ Sunday our ministers had a good time telling their flock that Lindbergh crossed the ocean without a mishap because he believed in god. We do not know whether he does or not but his father didn’t believe very much in superstition. Had Lindbergh failed the spiritual aviators would have declared that “the sins of the ‘father are visited on his children, yea, nm unto the fourth generation.” how, for once the preachers had a topic that had almost universal in-} terest * * * MBASSADOR HERRICK made a good ing out of the Lindbergh feat. This flunkey is about the most colorless of the United States ambas- \. gadors and! unless there happened to he some new development in the debt \eontroversy between Washingtor and ‘aris, he was lucky to get notic& in he society columns. But when Lind- ergh hove in sight he stuck to him ike glue to a blanket and then pulled off an anti-Bolshevik speech in the warm rays of the aviator’s reflected glory. Clever stunt! Millions who read the drivel were thinking of the young flier and assumed that “them’s his sentiments.” * * * THE date set for the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is approaching and there is reason to fear that the agitation necessary to concentrate mass opinion on this threatened legal assassination of two innocent’ workers |The Australian delegates were pre- is weakening. A certain group of pseudo-anarchists, who fastened them- selves on the Sacco-Venzetti defense committeo havo placed obstacles in the way of a groat united front (Continued on Page Four) THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 Pacific Conference EARL BROWDER OF AMERICA ELECTED CHIEF SECRETARY Plan Fight Against New Imperialist War (By Nationalist News Agency) HANKOW, May 31.—Fourteen and a half million of the organized work- ers of Japan, Korea, France, Russia, China, the United States, England, and Java were represented by dele- gates to the Pan-Puacific Trade*Union Conference which opened in Hankow on May 20 and closed on the 26th. vented from attending by the refusal to them of passports by the Austral- fan Government. The Mexican dele- gates were delayed en route. The Philippines Labor Federation cabled greetings and expressed regrets over the fact that they could not appoint delegates to attend the conference on account of their own Congress. Demand 42-Hour Week. Important decisions made by the conference included (1) support of the Chinese revolution and protest against imperialist intervention; (2), struggle against the Pacific war dan- ger; (3), support the national libera- tion movements in India, Korea, Java, the Philippines, and Latin-America; (4), economic program including 42-| hour week, social insurance protec- tion for’ women, abolition of-child la- bor, equal wages for equal work, freedom for organization of labor in-| spéction, and abolition of punishment | fines; (5), establishment of a perma- nent secretariat to distribute informa-| tion and to prepare for the Pan- DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1927 CHINESE MILITARIST FRONT COLLAPSES ‘Demands Colonial Freedom under the act of March 8, 1879. Central Executive Committee of Workers [Communist] Party Appeals for Emergency Fund The following telegram has been received from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party: DAILY WORKER 88 East Ist Street New York City. Comrades: The jailing without bail of Comrades William F. Dunne and Bert Miller is part of the | general campaign of frightfulness against the Communists and the left wing in the labor | movement. It is part of the world campaign of the imperialists to cripple and silence the vanguard of the working class the world has ever’seen in order to again try to decide the issue of which jackal pack shall | have the right to exploit the black reaction—the patriotic societies, the courts, the police, the agents of capitalism who have placed themselves at the silence The DAILY WORKER ing their murderous schemes, for the Daily Worker ‘ Chicago, May 31, 1927. in preparation for the most frightful slaughter of the masses rest of the world. Joining in this attack are the hordes of head of labor unions in order to betray them. They want to Published Daily except Sunday by THD DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., $3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Four New Limousines for Mayor Walker Cost More Than His Year's Salary Mayor Jimmie Walker has four shiny new limousines, valued at $7,000 each. With chauffeurs and upkeep, they cost the city $36,481 in the past year, $11,000 more than the workers pay Jimmie for being the world’s best dressed mayor. All this, and more is explained in a report of the city affairs bureau of the republican party, in a broadside against Tammany made public yesterday. Four other city officials spend more of the city’s money on private cars than they get as wages. All told about $1,000,000 a year is wasted on offi- cial limousines. Even under the extravagant Hy- lan, regime, no such heights in graft were reached, assert the re- because it has done its duty to the working class by unmask- because it has exposed the betrayers of labor and fought for the building up of militant unionism in order to resist the wage cuts, the lengthening of hours - | | and the general lowering of t! he standard of living, In face of this assault against The DAILY WORKER every comrade must rally to its support and exert all his or her energy to raise funds to rush to the management of the paper so that our only English daily, the gauge by which our party is estimated by the working class, may survive and grow stronger in order to lead in the great struggles that are coming. Especially is it imperative that The DAILY WORKER be saved in view of the new struggle in the needle trades—the furriers’ strike—that begins this week. It would be an immeasurable calamity to enter this fight without The DAILY WORKER. Comrades, rally to the support of The DAILY W JRKER! Do not let the enemy silence us by their savage attacks and their atrocious actions in jailing our eomrades without bail on such a flimsy “etext, as they have used against us. CENTRAL Comrades, the emergency privilege of reading books or Pacific Congress next year. Five members constitute the secre- tariat of which Earl Browder, of | America, was elected the chief secre-| tary, and Aplain of Russia, the assis- | tant secretary. The other members include Nichida of Japan, Su Shou- | chen of China, and Garden of Aus- tralia.- Su Shou-chen is the head of | the All China Labor Federation and | is Minister of Labor of the National- ist Government. CHARGE WORKERS WITH SEDITION IN THIRD FRAME - UP PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 31.—Pete Muselin, Milan Resetar and Anton Zima of Woodlawn, Pa., were arrested Thursday on a charge of sedition, and were released on $2,000 bond each. Warrants are out for two others. Muselin was arrested while working in a barber shop in Ambridge. Resetar called at the police headquarters after he learned that a warrant was gut for his arrest. He was employed in an Ambridge bakery shop at the time the warrant for his arrest was issued. Armistic Day Case The three defendants were arrested together with eitht others last year in a raid on three peaceful houses and were released o none-thousand dollars bail each. The indictments were quished before they ever reached the courts. They were then rearrested charged with the same “crime” and together with eight others last year in were released on $1,000 bail each. The indictments were quashed before they ever reached the courts. They were then rearrested, charged with the same “crime” and again re- leased on bail which was increased to $5,000 each for the three defendants. The charges were so flimsy that ability, but you must continue EXECUTIVE CO! ; WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. ° * * is still grave. Our comrades are still in jail, denied even the newspapers. We are carrying on the work to the best of our to rush funds for relief during this critical situation. Send contributions to 33 East First Street, New York City. We are perfecting plans for a fund to insure The DAILY WORKER, but until we are able to get this work under way you must help. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DAILY WORKER. Imperialist Acts Against China Will Be Exposed Friday The truth about the present situa- | tion in China will be told at a mass meeting at Central Opera House Fri- day evening, under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party. Scott Nearing, Betram D. Wolfe, Harry M. Wicks, M. J. Olgin, Alex- ander Trachtenberg, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Charles Krumbein, Rebecca Grecht, a Chinese speaker, and a rep- resentative of the Young Workers League will tell the truth about the revolution in China. The machina- tions of the imperialists for a new world war and the real meaning of the break in the Soviet-British rela- tions will also be explained. William F. Dune, one of the editors of The DAILY WORKER, who was scheduled to speak, is now in jail as a result of a conspiracy on the part of the patriotic societies of this city to kill The DAILY WORKER. He wffl speak if out on bail by that time, Jack Stachel will be chairman. There will be an admission charge of 25 cents. Tickets are on sale at the office of the Workers Party, 108 EB. 14th St., Jimmie Higgins Book- shop, 106 University Place, and the Freiheit, 30 Union Square. Engineers to Mediate Judge Reeder of Beaver County con- sidered {t necessary to dismiss the case jfor the second time before it reached the courts. Third Time Same “Offense” The Jones and Laughlin interests, however, did not rest in peace and caused the arrest of the three defend- ants for the third time. The charges now are exactly the same as on the two previous occasions, bout two weeks ago Muselin was arrested on a frame-up liquor charge and released on two thousand dollars (Continued on Page Two) __Pay_ Raise Demands The demand of 30,000 locomotive engineers on the ‘eastern lines for a 15 per cent wage advance has gone to mediation under the Parker-Wat- son Act, it was announced yesterday. Rumors that a compromise of 7% per JOHN BROPHY PROVES LEWIS STOLE ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF U. M. W. Usurper in Office, Progressive Leader Charges in Analysis of National Vote PITTSBURGH, May 31.—Only by the most astounding and bare-faced election crookedness in the history of the American la- bor movement is John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers today. This is the gist of serious charges levelled against Lewis and his associates in an open letter by John Brophy, Progressive leader, to the membership of the Miners’ Union, made public here today. He asks a complete recount of the vote by a committee of 5 mine workers. “Gross irregularities,” “self-evident frauds” and “vote steal- ing” on such a scale, Brophy asserts, that he has been led to be- lieve that “the men now occupying the offices of. International President, Vice-President and Secretary Treasurer were really not elected and that the Save the Union candidates were duly elected the international officers” of the ‘Miners’ Union, are de- tailed with figures in proof of the startling expose. Eastern Kentucky, with no tax-pay- SAG ing members, cast 2,626% votes out of | a reported “membership” of 2,686%, Progressives Winning Convention Delegates publicans, themselves keen judges of graft through intimate knowl- edge. SMITH IN PLAY FOR POWER IN _ TRANSIT PROBE | White House Ambitions Are Involved | Today Robert Mitchell, DAILY |WORKER traction expert, re- | sumes the exposure of the forces | behind the present transit hear- | ings and the effort to raise fares to 8 or 10 cents. The personnel | of the transit commission is re-| | viewed, revealing their intimate | | connections with Al. Smith. By ROBERT MITCHELL. Evidence that the present Transit} Commission, conducting the so-called} open hearings, began its career under | | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CHANG RETREATS FROM HONAN AS FENG TAKES 20,000 |Powers Rush Troops to Stem Nationalists Highlights of Today’s News. | 1. —_Hankow Nationalists smash militarist line in Honan; take 20,000 prisoners; Peking authorities | withdraw all troops from Province. | 2,—Imperialists plan war on ad- | yancing Nationalists; land 2,000 | Japanese troops at Tsing-tao; rush | British battalion to Tientsin. | 3-8 Pei-fu’s troops rapidly join- | ing Hankow Nationalists. |4,—Chang Tsung Chang, Shantung- |... ese war-lord abuses Soviet Union citizens captured with Mme. Borodin jon Pamiat Lenina; threaten hunger strike if not immediately released. 5, —Cabinet considers removal of U. S. embassy at Tientsin, con- trolled by Chang Tsing-chang, Shan- tungese war-lord, or Shanghai, con- {trolled by Chiang Kai-shek, in view of imminent capture of Peking by Tankow Nationalists. O° 8 PEKING, May 31.—The entire | Northern line in Honan Province has |been smashed by the twofold on- | sleught of the Hankow Nationalist troops, commanded by General Fene | ¥u-hsiang and Yang Sen. The North- jern authorities announced today that jall troops would be withdrawn from |the Honan front as a result of de- |cisive defeats that Chang Tso-lin’s troops have suffered at the hands of the Hankow Nationalists. The prediction made by Eugene Chen and Michael Borodin that Pek- ing will fall by midsummer seems to be justified in view of the recent vic- tories of the Nationalists in Honan. The retreat of Chang Tso-lin’s forces means the complete surrender of all of Honan Province south of the Yel- low River, of Anwhei Province and the entire Lung-hai railway. Capture 20,000. The straw that broke Chang Tso- the guiding star of the big bankers/lin’s Honan lines was the capture of is to be found in the approval with|Kunghsien yesterday. (Kunghsien is which Wall Street greeted the ap-|an important arsenal 40 miles west pointment of this commission. of Chengchow and a strategic point in Nothing is as sensitive as the stock| the Nationalist drive against Pek- market. During the Hylan battle | ing). against the traction trust, the stock! The Northern troops were crushed of the Interborough and B. M. T. had| between General Feng’s troops ad- moved listlessly on the exchange.|vancing from the Shensi border to There appeared to be no solution to|the west and General Yang’s forces the tangle of knotted opposition until) marching north from Hankow. Aj. Smith came to the rescue and cut, Reports received from the front yes- the knot by dumping Hylan. |terday state that Hankow troops took Immediately on the appointment of jmore than 20,000 prisoners and large the new transit commissioners in! quantities of-ammunition when the April, 1926, the stocks of the I. R. T.,| Northern troops attempted to prevent the B. M. T. and the Third Avenue | them from crossing the Loho River. Lines advanced as if under inspira-;The Nortern troops were reported to tion. The I. R. T. stock in particular} be fleeing in panic. es be at high level for the year. | Imperialists Plan War. low Wall Street, moreover, viewed i ali 4 ated | The imperialist powers are prepar- the Smith-Walker administration is ing to rush troops and warships to clear from the fact that traction stock | began its systematic rise immediately | after the 1925 elections. the Peking-Tientsin area in view of the imminent fall of Pewing. Japan has already dispatched 2,000 Who are the men in whom the/ troops to Tsing-tao from Manchuria financial interests are so confident? | anq ts holding two thousand more ma- In the first place they are through rines in readiness for immediate trans- and through Al. Smith men. Second-| portation to Peking and Tientsin, ly they are part of the new machinery | while British military authorities have which the controlling banking inter-| ordered a battalion of troops from | and every vote, including the “half” | was for John L. Lewis. | Glaring Examples Northern West Virginia, with 377 tax-paying members, cast 14,164 votes, nearly all for Lewis; Tennessee with 482 taxpaying members registered nearly 4,000 “votes” for Lewis and 16 for Brophy; one third of the locals in western Pennsylvania listed as vot- ing were dead; in the anthracite Brophy was given, in some casos, the vote cast for him while the rest of the membership, whether voting or not, was cast en bloc for Lewis. ‘These are highlights in the remark- able statement from Brophy, who was Lewis’ opponent in the 1926 election. He was given 60,000 votes to 173,000 for Lewis. cent wage increase with sacrifice of working conditions would be agreed to prove foundless. i It is expected that the board of mediation will grant the engineers the 7% per cent advance which other railroad crafts have won. q Brophy’s statement in full will be published in tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER. | SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE!! Progressives have elected 116 dele- gates to the next International Typo- graphical Union convention to 16 for the Administration, Wahneta Party, according to advices here from Charles Babb, secretary to International President Howard. When complete re- turns are in, it is expected that the progressives will have a majority. Syracuse, home of the reactionary former president, James Lynch, re- ports a clean sweep for the progres- sive slate with two delegates elected to the convention. Big Six of New York elected all four progressive delegates with Ger- man-American and the Hebrew- American locals each electing two progressives, C.P.R. Railway Clerks Conferring on Strike MONTREAL, May 31.—Confer- ences were being held today to avert a possible strike of 10,000 railway clerks on the Canadian Pacific. i ests had set up under Al. Smith jn) order to clean house in the old cor- rupt Tammany Hall and to set up a! (Continued on Page Five) army, is slated for release from San by confinement. by the inexorable drive of evolution. unleashed and the slaughter houses Those wishing to send greeting: care of Edgar Owens, 1212 Market tw eal GREETINGS TO COMRADE PAUL CROUCH Comrade Paul Crouch, who was sentenced to a long term in the penitentiary for his agitation among the soldiers in the United States The DAILY WORKER, now under fire from the same capitalist enemy that railroaded Comrade Crouch to prison, welcomes him back into the fighting ranks of the militant workers again. The ideas that Paul Crouch went to prison for cannot be crushed They burst all bonds because they are pushed forward At this moment in world history when the dogs of war are being debacle in which millions of the world’s working class are destined for the shambles, fighters like Crouch are invaluable. fighter is needed now more than ever. jail has steeled Crouch for the struggle ahead, The DAILY WORKER greets and welcomes you, Comrade Crouch. Shanghai to northern China, General Smedley Butler, command- ing the American marines in China, (Continued on Page Two) Quentin prison today. are being put in shape for another Every effective We feel sure that his term in The DAILY WORKER, s to Paul Crouch can wire him in Street, San Francisco, California. — HANDS OFF CHINA! —