The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION oF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 119. Current Events By T. J. O’'FLAHERTY. i ge Chinese revolution has more lives than the proverbial cat. The Nationalist Government—the legiti- mate one with headquarters at Hankow was reported several times about to step up to the block, coil up its pigtail and invite the executioner to do the right thing by it. Only The DAILY WORKER, of all the daily SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mati, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. IEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Oftire at New York. N, Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927 POWERS RUSH PLANES, TRO PUBLISHING CO,, papers published in the English language in the United States gave the facts of the situation in China and interpreted them properly. * * * GIVEN UNTIL 5 PM. TOQUITRELATIONS Ultimatum Sent to Fur Bosse S The Daily Worker Stil Fights for Its Life! Every day the entire jackal pack of capitalist reaction awaits expectantly the news of the death of The DAILY WORKER. Last week so-called experts on such matters predicted that we would never survive the attacks waged against us. They though the fight they waged J THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKDR , 88 First Street, New York, N. ¥. BUTLER SHIFTS U. | FINAL CITY EDITION , Price 3 Cents OPS TO PEKING ———$—$ §, BASE FROM SHANGHAI AS FENG DRIVES NORTH \Imperialists Prepare for War; Britain Sends More Planes; Land 2,000 Japanese Troops | BULL ETIN. WASHINGTON, June 1.—Despite official denials repeatedly against us on every side would kill us. But we are still fighting on. It is possible for us to appear today because our comrades and sympathizers have ral- lied to our support and enabled us to meet the demands of the printer temporarily, and we WITH SCAB UNION rc was quite evident to us that this Must Recognize Power | mighty movement with the over- whelming majority of the masses be- hind it, was in no danger of decisive made, the American marine hase in China will be completely | shifted from Shanghai to Tientsin, it was definitely learned today. General Smedley Butler, commanding the American marines in defeat tho it suffered setbacks. The failure of the traitor Chiang-Kai- Shek to deliver the goods to the im- perialists. was proof sufficient that he did not have any popular support. Chiang could not even find enough Chinese nationalists of ability to or- ganize a cabinet. As for the northern bandit generals their supporters con- sist of conscript soldiers who are loyal only as long as they are within speaking distance of an executioner’s sword. * * * HE capitalist correspondents in China had general Feng about to march to Hankow, tho a few weeks previously they had him on the pay- roll of the government of the Soviet Union. Now that he has whipped the northern bandits into cream he is) back again on the salary sheet. This is the kind of news that is fit to print. * * * wut the recent victories of the Nationalist armies the danger of | foreign intervention in China becomes ever more likely. It would be foolish to assume that because the capitalist powers have conflicts among them- selves they cannot come to terms for a ‘ommon policy in China, even a temporary unity. All of them fear the revolutionizatton of China: Japan, England, Frence and the United States have their heels on the necks of colonial and semi-colonial peoples. | With China unified under a national} anti-imperialist government the revo- lutionary fever would go thru the op- pressed peoples of the Orient like fire thru a forest. * * Was we hail the fresh victories of the Chinese people and expose the predatory aims of the foreign imperialists aided by their harpies, the capitalist press, we must not cease to warn the workers of this country that the words of sympathy for the Chinese people expressed by * Coolidge are no guarantee against in-| tervention. We also take this op- portunity to point out to some of our liberal critics who accuse The DAILY WORKER of “exaggeration” that our “direlictions” in that respect are of Joint Board | An ultimatum to the Board of} Directors of the Associated Fur Man-| ufacturers and to Oizer Schachtman | and his associates in the International Fur Workers’ Union was “sued by| the Furriers’ Joint Board in letters| dispatched last night. j The manufacturers were informed | of the mobilization to be held in| | Cooper Union right after work this} afternoon and were given until 5 p.| |m. to send a favorable reply to the} |letter of the Joint Board. {f the as-| |sociated fails to signify its intention | to | | (1) Recognize the Joint Board,| which is the union chosen by the| | workers. | (2) Refrain from encouraging or! supporting the dual, opposition union. | (3) Forward instructions to asso- ciated members to live up to the terms of the agreement signed last June. (4) Refrain from interfering in in- ternal affairs of the union. (5) Refrain from forcing the work-| ers to join an organization to which they are opposed. | (6) Reestablish union conditions in} |the shops; the “Joint Board will be forced to adopt proper and necessary measures to safeguard the interests of the workers and protect the Fur- riers’ Union”. Ex-President Notified. To “Mr.” Schachtman, “ex-presi- | dent” of the International Fur Work- ers’ Union, the Joint Board also sent \notice of tonight’s mass meeting, in- |viting him or his associates to attend | ‘and declare their readiness to bring ‘peace in the International and guard \the interests of the workers and the junion, The Joint Board’s letter de- \clares that if no favorable reply is \received by 5 o’clock today, Schacht- | mani and his associates will be held responsible, by the workers, for the ‘consequences of their refusal to bring | about peace and will hold them equal- |ly guilty with the employers for the |trade war being forced upon the New | York fur workers. | Toronto Furriers Appeal. | In the absence of any apparent de- always calculated to encourage the) sire for peace at International head- exploited to fight on, while the capi-|quarters, the Joint Board, Toronto talist press deliberately lies to dis- courage the oppressed from battling} for their rights! | * * | 'N the whole the radical press is! more accurate than the capitalist press of any shade of opinion. We! know that victories cannot be turned) into defeats and defeats into victories; by clicking a typewriter. Neverthe-' less a hostile press has an enervating | effect upon the minds of the people and it is therefore very important: that the workers should have a press of their own that concerns itself/ solely with their interests. * * * OM collective troubles to individ-| ual troubles: Recently a letter catge into this office from a sub- seri and a remarkable letter it ie told us point blank that was. he wa% about to commit suicide be- cause he was old and could see noth- ing in life that was worth the effort of living. He was a laborer and worked for about 40 cents an hour, His name is Franz Bostrom and he hailed from Seattle. He was known radicals from all over the to many United States who visited Seattle, He) was a sympathizer with the radical movement and a man of intelligence, YROTRBDAY, » cony of the Beatie Post-Intelligencer camo in with the news that Bostrom took his own life. Beside his body lay two notes: one a message to the coroner con- the words: “A logical ond of 's life.” The othor was to the manager of tho auto, company where ho was omployed aa, » It bogan: “ receive this, I will be dead, you flat broke and do not own anyono a he 25 ante, cent.” §o0 Bostrom thot this was a good time to die. (Cantinued on Cage 6) lover the mercenary troops of Chang Fur Workers’ Union, has made the first move for unity by sending to (Continued on Page Five) HANKOW VICTORY CELEBRATED AT FRIDAY MEETING The victories of the Hankow army Tso-lin will be celebrated at the Workers (Communist) Party mass meeting on China Friday evening at Central Opera House. | “For the past few weeks,” declared |Jack Stachel, acting general secretary lof District 2, yesterday, “the bour- _geois press has been reporting that ‘Hankow is falling. We had all learn- ed to recognize that each announce- ment of the fall of Hankow covered up a defeat for the Northern army and a defeat for the imperialists, “The Friday meeting will also ex- plain the real meaning of the break- ing off of relations between Groat Britain and the Soviet Union and the dangers of a world war arising there- from which is being engineered by British imporlalism.” F Speakers will be Scott Noaring, William F, Dunne (if out of jail by Friday evening), Rebecca Grecht, Juliet Stuart LA an pe ae Krum- bein, Bertram D, Wolfs, M, a Olgin, aon” Trachtonborg, a nese , Workors’ poakor, Stachol will be the chairman, seg will promptly at hp, m, Workers of New York, come and Hearn the truth about China! feel that we owe it to all our readers to keep them informed regarding our condition. We are still in danger. The costs of publication, of defending our imprisoned comrades, Dunne and Miller; the costs of preparing appeals so that we can get them out of jail—provided Tammany’s judges will permit them to get out on bail, which they have thus far denied. this imposes heavy burdens upon us. But the message from all our comrades is an echo. of the dying words of Comrade Ruthenberg, “Let’s Fight On!” They have shown that The DAILY WORKER means much They realize that no effective fight is possible without The DAILY WORK- in their lives. ER to hold high the standards of the class struggle. One of the inspiring examples of the loyalty of our comrades was the action of the executive of Section Four, Harlem and Yorkville units of the Workers (Communist) Party. | The section organizer, S. Nemser, sent in the following letter: “At the enlarged executive committee meeting of the section where all func- tionaries of the units were present, we considered the plan of helping The DAILY WORKER. We approve of turning over to the organizer $500.00 and we call upon every member in the section to give full support to the Executive Committee of the section to carry on the campaign of The DAILY WORKER at the present critical situation. It was unanimously decided that we pledge full support to the Central Executive Committee of the party and the campaign to keep The DAILY WORKER | alive. “We call upon every member and every section of the party to do likewise.” Comrades, this is the spirit that has enabled us to keep up the fight during the trying | days we are living through where we are beset on every side by demands that tax our re- sources to the limit. Do not fail to keep funds coming in. Injunctions Follow Picket Ruling those units of the party that can contribute must do so at once. All those who owe gébts to The DAILY WORKER must pay them | now. Send the money in by telegram or special delivery to $3 East First Street, New York’ City. We need it quickly and badly. A dollar now is worth ten under normal conditions, because the need for it is greater than ever before in all our history. j MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DAILY WORKER. | China, is now perfecting the arra Cae See. PEKING, June 1.—With the imper- ialist powers rushing troops, warships }and airplanes to Tientsin and Pek- | ing, the danger of an open imperialist war against Nationalist China looms | larger than ever. The sweeping victories scored by the Hankow Nationalists in their | drive against Peking have stirred the | powers. | British Send Air Fleet Two thousand Japanese marines jhave already landed at Tsingtao, while a cable from London states that the British die-hard government has | decided to send a squadron of the latest type of airplanes to Tientsin. Preparations for the dispatch of fur- ther air forces are being made, the cable says. There are now 7,000 American, Brit- ish, Japanese, French and Italian troops in Peking and Tientsin. all SHANGHAI, June 1.—The grow- ing gravity of the situation in North | China was emphasized today when the | Sixth Marines, commanded by Col. |Henry Snyder, suddenly received or- | ders to embark hurriedly on the transport Henderson, to sail tomorrow morning for Tientsin. It is learned from authoritative | sources that Britain recently sounded out Washington on America and Ja- |pan together taking over the pro- | tection of foreign interests in North HIGH HONOR PAID RUTHENBERG BY MOSCOW MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION ipeneneneaemaetetnen By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., May 2. (By Mail) .—There will be a Ruthenberg Memorial Corner in the Museum of the Revolution, in Tverskaya St., here. This was decided on today thru ar- rangements made with the director of this important and interesting Soviet institution.” Rose Frumkina, who is also connecte with the Agitprop Department of the Communist Inter- national. The nucleus of this Memorial will consist of the beautiful Red Banner of the American Communist Party that was brought along with the Bronze Urn containing the ashes of Ruthen- berg, as well as the streamers with their revolutionary slogans, that deco- rated the wreaths of the Party Or- ganizations in Bremerhaven, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and also here in Moscow. Here will also rest the wooden casket in which the Bronze Urn was carried all the way from Chicago to Moscow. There will also be pictures and photographs in the collection, showing Ruthenberg in different party activities while alive, then pictures of the funeral in the United States and of the various demonstrations that took place in Germany, and lastly of the final funeral ceremonies at the Building of the Communist International, in the Red Square and before the Kremlin Wall here in Moscow The Ru > Memorial in fact is the beginning of the American Sec- tion of the Museum of the Revolu- tiun, On my visit to the Museum, Comrade Frumkina pointed out the meager material that had been re- colved so far from America, Most of this concerned the Passaic strike, were a fow copies of Tho DAILY WORKER and other party publications, That was all, It {* urgod that all comrades in Amorica having any matorial, prefor- ably nal mattor, dealing with the life of org, sond this on im- modiately whethor it be pleturos, pode hagrsd original manuscripts or else possessing an historis interest, Materlal must also be sent here concerning the American labor move- ment generally; charts and statistics regarding the American class strug- gle, on strikes, cost of living, wage fluctuations, the development of the American Communist Party, the trade unions and farmers’ organiza- tions. Church Now Museum. While the duty of preparing this material for the Museum of the Revo- lution should fall upon the party na- tionally, nevertheless, the party or- ganizations in different sections of the country can also make their contribu- tions, some of which ought to be of great value. The Museum of the Revolution is housed in a magnificent, tho rather old building, on Tverskaya, called “Moscow's busiest thorofare. It com- pares well with Museums in the United States, so far as arrangement of material is concerned. It is only one of many museums in Moscow, some of these being now housed in former churches. The guide book to Moscow often carries ‘a note, after calling attention to some church or cathedral, pointing out that it is “now a museum,” The Museum of the Revolution was formerly Rasumovsky Palace, built in| 1814, where later the English club was housed. The Museum was found- ed by the commission of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Commun- ist Party, for the investigation of the Oct, (Nov. 7, 1927) Revolution. It is formed from the permanent exhibi- tion of this commission together with the Historical Revolutionary Museum of Moscow. The Museum strives to give a complete review of the his- tory of the Russian Revolution from its very beginning, and also of the history of the All-Union Communist Party, Since January 1925 the Lenin Museum is also located here, There {s also the Comintern (Communist International) Section, which taécs up considerable space and {y domin-| China, leaving Britain to handle the situation in South China, Though reports from Washington say there is no official cooperation with Britain, there is the fullest co- operation between the British and The decision: of: the ;Court: of Ap-| American military and naval forces peals upholding “peaceful picketing” | &t ‘Shanghai, extending + the ae was declared yesterday by labor au-| YOY™& by American warships of Brit- | thorities to be no real victory for the | ish steamers up the Yangtze River | workers. “The courts will go on issuing in-| U: 8. Approves “Defence” Measures junctions just the same,” said Joseph| PEKING, June 1.—American Min- R. Brodsky, attorney for several New| ister John Van A. MacMurray reply- York unions. “In fact, here is a new|ing today to an inquiry from the injunction granted this morning, the| United States regarding the outlook day after the decision of the Court of for the safety. of foreigners, said he | Appeals, by Supreme Court Justice | believed present conditions did not Fawcett of Brooklyn. He has given| Warrant the evacuation of American ngements. Call Dressmakers to Membership Meeting at Webster Hall Tonight are called to @ n¢ cif Local 22 in Webster Hall, All dressmaker membership 1 tonight at 7 p. r 11th Street near 3rd Avenue. This is a chance for all dress- makers to show once again their loyalty to the leaders of the Joint Board, and their determination to continue the struggle for preserva- tion of the union, and of union conditions in the shops. Now is the time to lay plans for increased ac- tion. All members of Local 22 must be on hand to take part in the discussion of union problems. HARLEM BARBERS STRIKE NEAR AS GIRLS FIGHT ON Bronx Pickets Arrested Big Parade An auto parade headed by two big busses filled with striking beauty shop workers wended through Bronx | streets yesterday as part of the drive |for unionization. Forty automobiles | bearing banners, streamers and pla- jcards left Boston Road headquarters lof the Barbers’ Union and visited | shops affected by the strike. | Near! 0 girls have won their demands for recognition of the union and improved working conditions, leaving about 30 per cent of the shops still unorganized. The union, embrac- ing both barbers and women workers, |is putting up a stiff fight to win the {other shops. against its workers, on the grounds that there were ‘coercion, intimida- tion, threats’ used on the picket line. “The right to strike and the right to picket were not won by law but by economic pressure of the workers. Now the court is giving its legal ap- proval—only there is a joker in the decision, It says ‘peaceful picketing’, and it is left to the judge to decide what this is.” All workers are familiar with the tricks used by employers to create disturbances on picket lines, to cause the arrest and fine of one worker, and then using these examples of “un- jlawful” methods as argument de- manding that the court should grant an injunction against all picketing. The case passed upon by the Court of Appeals was that of an injunction taken out by the Exchange Bakery and Restaurant, Inc., of 840 Sixth Ave., New York, against officers of Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union, Local 1. The court’s opinion is that any- one may enter a non-union shop and organize the employes, and if a dis- turbance is created, the criminal law and not an injunction must be in- voked, “This has always been the conten- tion of organized labor”, said Attor- ney Brodsky. “But in actual prac- tice, the courts say, ‘There has been trouble on the picket line; it is not peaceful, Therefore we will have no picketing at all.'” Judge Fawcett, on Tuesday of this week, granted an injunction to three boss painters {n Brooklyn restraining tholr workers from striking for a wage incroase of $2. day, This in- junction will remain in force until June 19 when tho painters’ contract atod by o hugo painting of the Sec. | expires, ond + No Sopulchros, In tho United Statos tho musoums aro letely {Isolated from tho (Continued on Pago Three) Theatro ticket agoncion chargo 100 por cont moro than tho box offico prices, {t was admitted hore yoster- day beforo federal commissioner, this to the Clarendon ‘SHoe Company | Women and children from Peking. This * : Pete See declaration directly contradicts Presi-| Sadie Reich, organizer for the Wo- | dent Coolidge’s statement that the | American Legation would probably be | removed from Peking soon. | The “documents” alleged by Chang Tso-lin to haye been taken in his raids on the Soviet Union embassy | compound on April 6 are pure frauds, political observers declared. Peasants Attack Chang PEKING, June 1.—The opposition of the peasantry thruout Honan Prov- lince and wholesale desertions of | troops to the Nationalists, as well as the determined drive of the well- | trained troops of the Hankow Govern- |ment were responsible for the with- | drawal of Chang Tso-lin’s troops from | territory south of the Yellow River, it was learned today. lord stated that desertions of Feng- tien troops to the Nationalist cause and rear attacks of the Red Spears, a peasants’ organization, were in a (Continued on Page Three, Brophy 60,6611 votes, as.again fraud The candidate's accusations Supporters of the Manchurian war | men’s National Trade Union League | and several girl pickets have been ar- rested on picketing charges. Harlem barbers and beauty shops was scheduled to strike today for recognition of union demands for ade- quatc pay for week end workers and union hours for women. A strike of ‘east side barbers, culminating, in a general Manhattan strike may follow. Gangsters are being hired in Har- lem to fight the pickets, it was learned yesterday. The union won the Bronx strike in three days and hopes to clean up on Harlem just as quickly. Burglars who looted the home of Jesse Livermore, Wall Street “Wolf” of $100,000. were quarrelling yester- day over the spoils, according to a “snitcher” of the gang. The proposed tunnel and subway extension from W. 41st St. under the Hudson and the Palisades to New | Durham, N. J. was declared practic- ‘able yesterday. BROPHY PROVES BY FIGURES THAT LEWIS STOLE MINERS’ UNION VOTE PITTSBURGH, June 1.—John Brophy charges the John L. Lewis administration with stealing the biennial elections of the United Mine Workers last December. circular letter to the membership of the international union, The tabulated report of the vote, local by local, has finally been published from the Indianapolis office of the union. It gives His charges are made in a st 173,82314 for Lewis. Brophy declares the tabulation shows “gross irregularities, self-evident , and vote stealing to a startling extent.” are causing a sensation in Pitts- burgh union circles. Brophy is a well-known figure in the miners’ (Continued on Page Two) /