The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1927, Page 1

i] ‘STOP _THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. epee tn FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. — a, THE EDITION | FINAL CITY | Vol. IV. No. 121. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927 PUBLISHING CO. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ., 38 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents DAILY WORKER EDITOR SENTENCED TO PRISON } } ] | ] } } » means of his downfall, Current Events By T. J, O’Fuanerry. HILE Benito Mussolini is sharpen- ing his stilleto and threatening to lunge it into the heart of Burope the government of the Soviet Union uses Pp the language of peace. And yet our “peace loving” press sings low on Mussolini’s sabre-rattling, while it at- tributes every disturbance outside of an earthquake to the Soviet Union. ‘There is a reason, as a famous adver- tiser used to say. * * OT even the unprecedented action of the British government in raid- ing the Trade Delegation of a nation with which the government was on friendly terms, at least officially, goaded the Soviet Union into even a threatening attitude. Conscious of its strength it could afford to adopt a policy of dignified resentment and| this attitude has won it the appro- bation of all fair-minded persons, but most important of all the support of the workers who have most to gain by peace and least of all from a! capitalist war. * * ROM things serious to things more or less so. erty of again calling to your atten- tion the fact that the Doctor Benjamin “King” Purnell, of the House of David, a religious cult, is prancing around the columns of our capitalist press after a reasonably long absence. If we get Benjamin right, his idea was that those who took him seriously, particularly mem-: bers of the fair sex, would live for- ever. All they had to do was to obey Benjamin and “Ben” would do the rest. He did, only too often, so he is im troubles: * * OT that quite innocent persons don’t get into the meshes of the law occasionally. For instance we have our comrades Dunne and Miller who are in jail because somebody wrote a poem that got published in ‘The DAILY WORKER which was not to the liking of our local rulers and their. stoolpigeons. - But that is a different story. Purnell was only running a religious business calcula- ted to dope the brains of the masses while Dunne and Miller were getting out a radical publication designed to open the minds of the workers. If Benjamin used a little discretion or paid enough protection he would be still playing to full houses. * * . “WING” Benjamin’s place of business is or was in Benton Harbor, Michigan, quite close to a little house where several of us spent a short time in the fall of 1922 after the raid on the Communist convention in Michigan. All we were doing was discussing how best to organize the workingclass movement. The “king” was engaged in the business of ruining American womanhood, after first taking their dough. The “king”; is still outside and so are we, yet dol- lars to whiskers, the capitalist will be more lenient to this pious defiler of sacred things than to radicals. * * * ONE of Benjamin’s greatest draw- backs was an excess of hirsute| adornment around his thyroid glands. He wanted to escape, when the nds of the law sniffed too closely his harem, but his whiskers stood ie way. A barber might suggest -a good shave would solve the but the “king” would not be the cave man he was without the foliag® Instead he decided to wrap a hor lanket around his forest. with a corset was to be Benjamin’®, armor in braving the hostile we But treason was in his camp, and @ jealous woman was the Here we leave “Ben” to his fate. But ain’t re- ligion grand! * . , CHICAGO dispatch tells us that Pola Negri arrived there on the way to Hollywood with her poodle and her newly-found husband. Her costume was minutely described and s0 was her poodle, but very little ink was wasted on her husband. He happens to be a prince. What made Pola forget the dignity of the profes- sion? This business of marrying princes for advertising purposes has been played out. Peggy Joyce knocked the bottom out of it when she sent a royal Swede selling tooth- paste and sent him a bill for the pajamas she gave him as a wedding gift. Pola is ruined we fear. But then, perhaps, so is the prince. at eae) EF you want to be prosperous in California nowadays be funny and (Continued on Page Four) i Thus we take the lib-| Reverend | venue SHOPS TIED UP ~ INWALKOUT OF ALL WORKERS: |Arrests Follow Vigorous Picketing A tremendous success. That is the report of all Joint Board leaders and members of the Strike Committee fol- |lowing the walk-out of New York City tur workers in response to the call issued early yesterday morning. “The response was far greater than | was expected,” said Ben Gold, chair- ;man of the Strike Committee and {manager of the Joint Board. “We are | delighted with the result.” As the fur workers came to their | shops yesterday morning, still carry- ing the memory of the enthusiastic “mobilization” meeting held at Coop- er Union and Manhattan Lyceum the |night before, they found members of the General Picket Committee on the {job before them and leaflets were Jhanded out calling the “General | Strike of all Fur Workers for 8 | o'clock, June 3, | Instead of going up to their shops, the workers started picketing their own shops, and for over an hour the fur market was crowded with thou- sands of men and women peacefully picketing and thus showing their de- termination to defend their union inst _both the bosses who have vio- it, and tite | | a ous International officials who with leaders of the A. F. of L. are trying to destroy the organization which the workers have struggled for so long to build. Dismiss Two Cases. Several arrests were made by the police, but Al Schap and Samuel Mailman charged with disorderly.con- | (Continued on Page Three) 1.R. T. Anxious to Fire Union Men, Quackenbush Says 1.—Frank Hedley and James L, Quackenbush, I. R. T. officers, boost- ed their own pay at the time they persuaded platform men to take a \10 per cent reduction in wages. 2.—Any I. R. T. worker joining the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes will be fired forth- with, 3.—Breaking the I. R. T. strike last summer entailed an expense of $1,- 500,000, which was paid out of the funds due the city. In other words, the straphangers were forced to pay the costs of breaking the strike. These were leading points disclosed yesterday when Samuel Untermyer resumed the transit commission hear- ings. Angered by the refusal of bond house clerks to testify on the owner- ship of I. R. T. and B.-M. T. stock held) in. their names, Untermyer threatened court proceedings and jail \against them, In the Dough Himself. James L. Quackenbush, general counsel for the I. R. T. testified that the subway strike of 1926 cost up- ward of $1,000,000 for scabs and bon- uses. He also admitted that his own salary had’ been boosted to. $72,000 a year and that of President Hedley to $75,000 when the subway workers “to save the company from bankrupt- cy” were forced to take a 10 per cent cut, Bonuses of a half month’s pay were given employes who scabbed during last year’s strike, Quackie stated. He shared in the $200,000 swag distribu- ted thus. Fire "Em. Quackie objected bitterly to the use of the term “company union” to des- cribe the Interborough “Brotherhood.” “IT know what you mean by that term, and it is not what you imply,” he said. “However, would you not have ob- jected if any of your employes had sought to join national unions affili- ated with the A, F. of L.?” Unter- myer asked. “I most certainly would. I would recommend that they be discharged,” was the reply. Furriers United in heavy printers’ bills. not to allow such a dangerous precedent to remain on the books. We feel that the comrades who responded so wonderfully thus far will not fail to continue their efforts with redoubled energy so that we may carry the case through to complete vic- tory. Rush contributions in as fast as you can. splendid pace that has already been started. We Must Raise the $500 Fine and Appeal Funds William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, has been sentenced to thirty days in jail and the Daily Worker Publishing Company has been fined five hundred dollars as a result of the prosecution initiated some months ago by a number of patriotic societies. Strenuous efforts were made to prejudice the case against the defendants by showing their records in the Communist and labor movement in order to secure a heavier sentence. to the splendid support which we received from comrades everywhere, we were enabled to put up a stout and effective defense. : The fine of five hundred dollars comes at a most difficult time when we are in the midst of the expenses involved in the legal side of the case and when we are still confronted by To this is added the fact that we must appeal the sentence in order Due An appeal is expensive. We count on all comrades to keep up the GAMBLERS BET ON LIFE TERM IN SACCO CASE. 4 Foreshadow Decision of Governor Fuller BOSTON, June 3.—Gamblers here are betting even money that Sacco and Vanzetti will be given life im- prisonment. The gentry who hang out in news- paper offices and hotel lobbies down- town are cashing in on information | which they claim comes from “in- | side sources” concerning the probable {fate of the two Italian radicals fac- ling death in the electric chair on | July 10, While their sources can hardly be verified, the gamblers and sports are ready to put up hard cash on their wagers—and these fellows are not in the “game” for charity. in the eyes of both Sacco and Vanzetti, life imprisonment for a crime they did not commit is worse than electrocution. Sacco particularly has been emphatic in declaring that he favors death “at any time” in preference to continued imprisonment. The new advisory committee has done nothing yet on'the case and no one knows when it is going to func- tion. Two of the members are col- lege heads and are overwhelmed with the all-important. job of turning out some more intellectuals for use in white collar jobs in factoriés and of- Judge Robert Grant, the third mem- ber,, is a thorough-going reactionary who in his literary gems has been a great friend of the courts. The de- fense fears that Grant will be over- powered by his desire to whitewash Judge Thayer and the supreme court (Continued on Page Three) Let Workers’ Families Jump in Case of Fire, Declares Chief Realtor “Let ’em jump”, declared Stew- art Browne, representing New York realtors at the hearings yes- terday of the state commission considering revision of tenement laws, when he opposed construc- tion of fire escapes in workers’ tenements. Browne revealed wholesale viola- tion of the spirit of the law re- quiring landlords to have hose in pals for fire protection. “Some buildings have fire hose 20 years old,” he declared, “The hose would burst if it was ever used in a fire. But the owners are obeying the letter of the law; they do have hose,” Browne objected to changes in the zoning law and called for the elimination of water tanks on the tops of buildings. By B. D. He was sitting, half asleep, in the “bull-pen” when they brought us in cells, A huge Slovak and a construction worker, he had been arrested for putting a slug instead of a nickel into one of Chadbourne’s subway turns- tiles while on his way to his job. He had his ba‘ dinner bucket with~him and ty little while he would lift up the cover and look in- side in a puzzled way. He got ten days in the workhouse. Chadbourne, accompanied by Bar- ney Baruch has gone to Europe after testifying that he has bought up millions of dollars worth of transit stock in expectation of a fare in- crease, e638 “Don’t eat any of these jail prunes,” said the white haired “cokey” who keeps his overcoat on day and night because he claims he once did thirty overtime days because the jailer would not went for him to put it on after he had been ordered re- leased. : “They’re full of worms that won’t stay in your stomach, These worms ain’t like tapeworms, They got to have air. They crawl up in your throat and steal the air away from you.” “The last time I was here I ate prunes for supper and they had to call the ambulance and take me to the hospital early in the morning.” “All night long I had to stay ewake and keep swallowing, but .early in the morning they tired, me out and I nearly passed out.” “Cokey” made one convert. The old man whom the keepers say never steals anything but neckties, and who claims that he once woke up in the workhouse with a mouthful of bed- bugs when he had a cold and slept with his mouth open, went over and poured out his prunes in the corner where they sweep the garbage. But he did not capitulate to greater talent completely. “But prune worms has got to taste like prunes,” he said. “Now you take a ‘odbug and he tastes like a bed- bu, Of course bedbugs in your mouth don’t steal your breath, but you just don’t feel like you wanted to breathe any more.” Cokey magnanimously conceded the point. * - bd Slim and brown, dressed in the uniform of an usher for a big uptown theater, he spoke English with the peculier clipped accent of the West African Negro. He had finished a course at Am- herst last spring, he said, and was waiting to hear from his father in England before leaving the United States after being here for five years, He was born in Togoland, Coming to New York from Massa- chusetts he had taken a job as usher to pay expenses. In Massachusetts he had a permit to carry a gun, be- cause he was working in an all-night restaurant. A few days after he came here, his room was burglarized.” He called in the police and they found his revolver which the thieves had overlooked. The policemen he had called upon for protection arrested him and charged him with violation of the Sullivan anti-gun law. “It is easy to make a living here,” (Continued on Page Two) Topics of the Tombs. ALF. L. DEMANDS SOVIET RAIDS IN NEW YOR Department of Justice Cool to Suggestion |to be handcuffed and led us to the| the Arcos raids in London by raids on “all Soviet offices in New York City.” ment. of L. committee attempting to break up the Furriers’ Union here and turn over the remnants to the fur bosses. the Department of Justice to raid | Soviet offices here. “I am going to demand,” he said, “that the Department of Justice make agencies in the United States. “I am going to call for action sim- to the Arcos raid, in which the Brit- ish Government seized documents showing Russia had been carrying’ on a sfibversive movement. “This fur strike 1s under direct orders from Soviet Russia. The American Federation of La! has hoisted the American flag « fur industry, and, by God, it to stay there.” Department Ignores Him. The Department of Justice, immedi- ately after the Arcos raids, announced * the oing for similar fishing expeditionxs ganizations. Neither Amtorg, the of- | ficial trading organization nor the Russian-American Textile Syndicate would comment on McGrady’s state- | ments. Contempt Charge On Cloakmakers Argued The contempt charge made against left wing leaders of the Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board for viola- tion of the injunction taken out by the Dress Manufacturers, Inc., was argued yesterday before Judge Mit- chell L. Erlanger, in the supreme court, Special Term, Part I. Louis: B. Boudin appeared in be- half of the union. The decision in the case will not be rendered for a week or ten days. Exploit Butter and Egg Men. Theatre box office men exact a 25- cent personal fee on tickets sold to likely looking butter and egg men, it was revealed in the income tax hearings yesterday on several big tax- | evading agencies. Everybody takes a rake-off on tickets, it was testified, with the bab- bits paying $10 to $20 for the better girlie-girlie leg shows. ' publicly that there were no grounds | against Russian-American trading or- | COURT IMPOSES HE Strike! vet weer SENTENCE SUSPENDED; AVY FINE ON PAPER Dunne’s Record in Behalf of Militant Labor Held Against Him by Judges William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, must |serve 80 days in the New York workhouse. This was the sen- tence imposed yesterday morning by Justice Featherstone, Mur- |phy and Kelly, sitting in Special § ssions, in connection with {the publication in The DAILY WORKER of a poem entitled “America” by David Gordon. Handcuffed, he was returned to the Tombs Prison where he | will remain pending appeal to the higher courts. Blow To Paper. The new tactics to be utilized by }its enemies to crush The DAILY WORKER were revealed when a fine of $500, the maximum under the law, was imposed upon it for the publica- tion of the poem. The $500 which The DAILY WORKER must now pay comes as a terrific blow, and its existence be- comes more precarious than it ever has been since the commencement of the persecution against it by profes- sional patriotic societies. It est. lishes a dangerous precedent for fur \ther attacks against the radical press ‘of the United States in utilizing this jmeans of impoverishing it. Miller “Sufficiently Punished.” In suspending sentence on Bert Miller, business manager of The DAILY WORKER, Justice Murphy for the court declared that “the guilt of defendant Dunne was greater in- |asmuch as he was the editor of the paper and responsible for its con- tents.” | With surprising candor the judge \declared that as far as Miller was ‘concerned “the seven days which he has already ‘served in the Tombs |Prison will be considered sufficient | punishment.” | Dunne and Miller were brought | handcuffed into the court room from | week, Preliminary to their sentence the probationary officer of the court read for a long time been active in the |ly the radical and Communist side.” | Dunne’s “Record”. | He also read telegrams and letters {numerous industrial centers thruout | the U. S. where he was active in labor | struggles. ; Dunne had been arrested a number | been convicted. | The court investigator reported ilar to that of Great Britain. I refer|/that he had no record of Miller eyer| | (Continued on Page Three) | FIGHT TO FREE | : NEGROS HELD AS By ART SHTELDS (Federated Press). The escape of James Felton, fugi- tive peon, from a cotton plantation near Lexington, Georgia, may lead to a general probe of peonage in the |the Advancement of Colored People is | stepping into the case and intends to | bring Felton to New York to give his | story the'widest possible hearing. Five other Negro peons who at- tempted to escape were knocked on the head with axes and then shot, says Felton. He was more lu After three days in a swamp w jout food he came to firm land and finally reached Danville, Va. | “They had 45 men and 25 women when I left,” he said. “Some of them |worked on the farm and others in the sawmill. We got the same food three times a day, peas and corn |bread. We could not sing, write let- ters or talk, and when we did not work fast enough we were whipped with a strap.” The Negro’s hands are badly ;searred. Hot Babbitt metal was jpoured over them to make him work faster, he says. * Hoover Blesses Peonage Reports of Negro peonage in the Mississippi delta are scoffed at by * * Herbert Hoover, secretary of the de-) his trans-Atlantic flight again, . 43 PEONS IN SOUTH |South. The National Association for | + | four USH 1,700 MORE UL $. MARINES TO TIENTSIN, PEKING Feng Sweeps On; Yen To Join Nationalists BULLETIN HANKOW, June 3.—Eugene Chen, foreign minister, has dis- patched a sharp note of protest to Japan, pointing out that the land- ing of 2,000 marines in Tsingtao is a reversion to Japan’s old policy of coercion. * SHANGHAI, June 3—A detach- ment of 1,700 American marines have already left the Philippines for Shang- hai.- “It is_reported that: they will be |sent to Tientsin to join the 1,500 ma- |rines who have already left for Pek- ing. | y dispatch from Manila states that * * The American Federation of Labor|the Tombs prison where they have|the army transport Chaumont is ex- called yesterday for the repetition of been held without bail for the last|Pected there tomorrow to take an | additional detachment of marines sta- tioned at Oloncapo to China. Plans for the disposition of a force The demand was made by Edward|a detailed account of their “radical |°f 16,000 imperialist troops are being McGrady, special representative of activities,” especially that of Dunne| Perfected at Tientsin, it is stated. the A. F. of L. in a formal state- who, the investigator declared, has) Northern Workers Sympathetic | The situation is regarded as an ex- McGrady is a member of the A. F.| American labor movement, “especial-| tremely delicate one by the imperial- jist powers. Peking is “menaced” not lonly by the rapidly advancing troops jof the Hankow Nationalists but by Within a few hours after the Joirft|from police authorities in Butte, the large number of Nationalist sym- Board had called the city-wide strike|Mont., where Dunne was many years | Pathizers within the city, of furriers, he declared he would ask | the editor of the “Bulletin,” and from| Workers in Peking and Tientsin are jonly kept from openly espousing the | Nationalist cause by the terrorism of |Chang Tso-lin. The execution of | labor officials in Tientsin which is in a thorough investigation of Soviet|of times, he declared, but had never! the hands of Chang Tso-lin’s sub- | ordinates is a matter of almost daily j occurrence, * Feng Controls Honan | HANKOW, June 3—Detachments of General Feng’s troops are sweeping out the rearguard of Chang Tso-lin’s |retreating army from the Chengchow district, according to reports received |from the front. Honan Province, south of the Yellow River is now in | the complete control of the Nation- | alist troops, It is reported General Yen Shi-shan, commander-in-chief of the Shansi army, will join the Nationalists in their drive against Peking. Women Join Struggle | The awakening women of China jhave thrown themselves full-hearted- ly into the struggle for the emanci- | pation of their country and have even ; gone to the extent of joining the Han- kow Nationalist army. A regular woman’s training corps has been established here. The wo- men have regular army uniforms. They are primarily engaged at pres- ent in giving first aid at the battle- front. Commerce. “Without ,” he calls them. The re- made by Walter White, ecretary of the National for the Advancement of Colored People, after an extended tour of the flooded area. * will talk to General Cur- ireen, commander of the Mis- sissippi National Guard Troops, in the flood zone, he will get abundant evi- | dence of Negro slavery. Green talked freely to White. | Negro refugees—who make up 80 {per cent of the flood sufferers—will be returned only to their former land- |lords, on identification by the land- lords, the general said, “We don’t want our labor supply (Continued on Page Two) partmer Association Clarence Chamberlin has