The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. | FINAL CITY | EDITION Vol. IV. No. 122. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York,-by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents WARNS OF DANGER ; | Five Hundred Dollars F | 4 Ive riunare Oualis Teme, | j : OF IMPERIALISTIC ee ] “The Limit of the Law’ a > ATTACK ONULS.SR.: e Limit of the ba KOW ARM INESE CAPIT ; ONUS.SR, jie AS HANKOW ARMIES SWEEP ON TO CHINESE CAPITAL a Re i Me This is tne sum which must be immediately raised to pay the fine imposed by the cap- ; “ { a By bade internal pay? bon ax our ey eh g ee In — aor dl bayhirsi? expense aie Industria! Unions and State Department Swaps Agents to Safeguard a e appeal of the case of William F. Dunne, who was sentenced to thirty days in jail, and Ber : | % eals to orkers . pHs - | s q PP Miller, who received a jail sentence of a week. The term may:appear short, but the fact that || @ Labor Party, Advice Investments; Feng May Upset Plans MOSCOW, June 5—The plenary} a conviction stands against the members of The DAILY WORKER staff, is far more impor- | ° os | = a _ @eesion of the Executive Ainiciok ges of} tant than the length of the sentence. These convictions must be reversed in order to protect | of Australian Visitor |Appeal for Funds to Aid Wounded Troops; Mme. a porn eggnog | has! our paper. He wea ciIMGUBW TsNis BiCREISS Sun Yat Sen Heads Red Cross Drive t workers, peasants and soldiers of all! Action on the question of our mailing privileges still remains to be seen. We are not in |} If American labor really wants to Sa ee is x ; es yn the world, and all oppressed peoples,! position to judge just what action the postal authorities are going to take, but we must be || secure legislation and administra- || W ASHINGTON, June 5.—The successful drive of the Nation- p | Wherein it points out the growing prepared for anything bs | tion that will safeguard its indus- |! alist armies on Peking has forced the state department once more 4 danger of a new war. It says: / : ‘ i |] trial rights and rapidly advance |/to change its Chinese policy. In a statement issued to the press 4 “In China the worker = | The comrades throughout the entire country are awake to the danger confronting our its conditions, it must etaniial l yesterday, Secretary Kellogg indicated that should Chiang Kai Hi ot Porsten TcapianRts.” edvloitation| paper. They are rallying behind us with truly magnificent support. Not for a Foment must cans peal Mee. anh eg |shek’s troops capture the Northern capital, Washington would a The Chinese revolution is drawing] we let up. Not fora moment must there be a break in the splendid response which is coming i| attache of the Australian Indus- |extend the same form of recognition to the right wing Nation- 4 capitalism from its condition of tem- to The DAILY WORKER'S emergency call. || trial Delegation to the United |) alists as has hitherto been extended to Chang Tso-lin. 3 porary stabilization and deepening the | DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. || States. She gave this advice to|/ This change of front is in line with ——~——— mo ¢ crisis. i || an informal group of questioners ||the policy of American finance capi-) 4 “Echoes of the struggle in China} . | after she had spoken at a dinner || tal which is anxious to see some sooo! RED) CRY OF A r L + indonesia, Indo-' a | | |} men’s ‘rade nion League in ||“ door” d A iis i t- | f imperialists, although torn asunder by | Two Greek Deputies | Wassiistan, The: falagation, sate open door” and merican inves’ re i \ any struggle arising between capital- | , A RREE EE ln habe l i contradictions, in face of the revolt of the colonial peoples, are attempt- ing to rally a united front to crush the Chinese revolution. “The wrath of the capitalists is first of all directed against thé work- ers of the Soviet Union—the republic which shows the toiling masses the way towards freedom. To preserve the rule of the bourgeoisie over the colonies and the regime of exploita- tion of the working masses of the European countries, the stronghold of the proletariat—the workers’ state— | must be levelled to the ground. “The raids on the embassy in Pek- ing, the consulate in Shanghai and the trade mission in London is aimed | to provoke war against the Soviet) Union. The revolutionary steadfast~ ness of the revolutionary state show- ed all the world that the U. S. S. R. is pursuing a policy of peace and} forced British imperialism to »ssume the initiative in a rupture of diplo- matic relations. This act signals the greatest danger for the world prole- tariat. 2”) Mobilwe, Sgainst-.Warty..—~. “It is necessary to mobilize 1! forces against war and for the sup- port of the proletarian state threat- ened by,the joint forces of world capi- talism,) In recent years at Locarno, Legtiorn, and Geneva, British imper- jalism has succeeded in engineering a} bioc of imperialistic states against the U. S. S. R. It will undoubtedly | obtain frem Hindenburg’s Germany, | in the name of the League of Na- tions, permission for sending through Germany troops and munitions for the struggle against the Soviet Union. Imperialism has most energetically created around the U. S. S. R. a-hos- tile cordon of its vassal states, where military dictatorship and _ terror against the proletariat and peasants itions of the great gathering of 1,500 KEEP U.S.S.R. SAFE FOR ALL TOILERS 4th Congress Pledges Union as Haven By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail) — “The construction of Soviet motors | for airplanes has equalled not only airplane construction in capitalist | Europe, but also in America.” As Clement Voroshiloff, People’s Commissar for the Red Army and Navy, and chairman of the Revolu- tionary Military Council, made this statement, an ovation of applause broke simultaneously from all sec- | | | delegates attending the ‘Fourth All- Union Congress of Soviet Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies as- sembled in the Bolshoy Theatre here. workers’ republic on view. There is a Soviet movie showing conditions under ezarism and at the present time, one of the, scenes being laid here in the Great Academy (Bol- shoy) Theater. In the picture the ezar crouches in his royal box as the) Jailed When Striking Workers Are Attacked ATHENS, June 5.—Two mem- bers of the Greek Chamber of Deputies are among the 12 Com- munists arrested when police at- tacked workers at Salonika. Communist leaders have ad- dressed an ultimatum to the Governor General of Macedonia, demanding the release of the pris- oners and the resignations of the Governor General and the Chief of Police. The arrests followed a police at- tack on striking tobacco workers who demonstrated in front of the governor’s place at Salonika. ROLE OF COMPANY GUARDS TAKEN BY :: | Members of ‘the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union are |to become the “company guards” of | | the bosses. | This was made clear when the right _ IN CHAMBERLIN Cal Slapped Germany BERLIN, June 5.—With Clarence |Chamberlin and Charles Levine in| |their Bellanca plane scheduled to ar-|| ance and other safeguards to the |rive here at midnight, the entire city | was aroused to greater intensity than any time since .the insurrectionary | movement of 1923. | Great political importance is at-| tached to Chamberlin’s ignoring Paris | British Capitalism — and Brussels to come straight through to Germany. Although young Lind- bergh expressed a desire to go |through Germany to Scandinavia, U. S. Ambassador Herrick throttled his | ambition and stesred him to London. en President {Coolidge practically |ordered him home, cutting short his BERLIN FLIGHT in Lindbergh Trip by the conservative federal gov- ernment of Australia to, study economic conditions in America, || includes several members of the Labor Party, of which Miss Mat- thews is a leader in the city of Sydney. Industrial unionism has been found most efficient in Australia, and would be eqally successful here if seriously tried, she said. The rapid improvement of labor legislation, of educational oppor- tunities, public health measures, public ownership and social insur- common good, she credited to the effective organization of labor on the political and industrial fields. ‘to Lose $75,000,000 ments, Chiang Kai-shek’s treachery | and the imminent fall of the North-/ ern stronghold has given the state de- partment an opportunity to swap its| Chinese agents. The legal cubtertages | WI} TELLS FACTS involved in the change were explained} by Secretary Kellogg as follows: Prior to the revolution of 1911 the|_ , ‘ state department recognized the Pek-| Picket Associated Dress ing government because it was the , only government speaking for the Shops Today whole of China. Later recognition was extended to whatever government “The charges that the fur strike happened to occupy Peking merely be-| was called for ‘Communistic’ purposes cause it was on the scene. But this| have been made by American Federa- recognition, Secretary Kellogg ex-|tion.of Labor officials simply to prej- plained, was conditional and not ab-|udice the New York courts and po- solutely de jure. It was never ex-|lice, and public opinion in general,” |tended to Chang Tso-lin or any of|said Ben Gold, manager of the Joint |the other war lords as such, he said.| Board of the Furriers’ Union yester- American Minister MacMurray and | day. the American consuls, he pointed out,| “Matthew Woll and. McGrady know are authorized to do business with|that such charges are simply non- any of the governments in China if| sense, but they realize that this old American “interests” require it. In| familiar ‘red’ cry is effective in mis- case the capital of China is estab-| leading the px and obscuring the lished at Nanking, the American le-| real issue in thi They know gation would be moved there, and the | that demands for raids on Russian conditional recognition hitherto ex-| offices, and absolutely unfounded tended to Peking would-be extended | statements about the “unseen hand of to the new capital. Moscow,’ have no bearing on our union Forget Hankow Nationalists. situation, but are useful to divert at- rike. SIGMAN’S AGENTS | don, which ‘cashed in magnificently on| +> ' | UNUEFS TOM nussia European trip by a full two weeks. | 1 German national feeling, aroused at | |the Herrick-Coolidge slap, has pinned its hopes on Chamberlin as the New| York-Berlin flyer who will put Ger-| many on the aerial map as a com-| petitor to Paris, Brussels and Lon-| The following statement on Amer- ican trade with the Soviet Union in the light of the Anglo-Soviet break was issued by Saul G. Bron, Chair- man of the Board of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the largest or- ganization in American-Soviet trade: throng shows disapproval of his fav- H wing officials in a confidential appeal | orite ballet dancer. But tonight, in the same royal box, a score of for- eign diplomats from as many capi- talist lands, sit silently surveying the scene, some of them accompanied by their women folks. Their home gov- ernments have sent their war fleets and armies against the Chinese revo- “the trade unions, lulling the working is rampant. “In Poland and Lithuania, owing to coups d’etats subsidized by London, and in Roumania with the favorable assistance of Mussolini, power is in the hands of governments which are obedient tools of Chamberlain’s, At the moment of the rupture of diplo- matic relations with the U. S. S. R. the British government was celebrat- ing its reconciliation with the Poin- care war government. It is true that in the united front of the imperialis-} tic states, fragile Germany and Italy| are already bringing up the problem of a new repartition of the world. The Mediterranean Sea and the Bal- kans are a constant focus for in- trigues and rivalry, with depredators snatching world booty from one an- other. However, these conflicts are actually in the background. The Italo-Yugoslavian conflict showed Britain knows how to subdue rapidly ay states, and to rally them in a uni front against the common ene! the working class and its proletawian state. War against the Soviet Union means war against the proletariat. In preparing war im- perialism ‘sompels at the same time a struggle against the working class and its peboe ripe Therefore its laws against British trade unions, ar- ests of members of the Communist arty in France and England, growth f£ fascism in Germany, fascistic ter- x in Italy, executions of revolution- aries in Poland, Roumania, Bulgarja nd Lithuania. The Second Interna- tional supports actions against the U. 5. 8. R. and as in 1914, interna- tional social democracy wishes to use the working class for war. Still more dangerous for the toiling masses than the open cynical defection of the right wing social democratic leaders are the fallacious pacifistic illusions of the left fleaders of social democracy in masses with the opium of sentimental lution, and are plotting a new at- tack on the Soviet Union, creating a situation that is uppermost in the minds of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. They cannot help but feel uncom- fortable as this Soviet Parliament thunders its approval of every step taken towards the defense of the vic- tories gained by the Bolshevik Revo- lution. The Japanese ambassador, more stoic than the rest, sits motion- less almost as the proceedings go on. The news of the sessions of the Soviet Congress was prominently dis- played in all the capitalist press as I came eastward across Europe. Red Fleet Gets Ovation. The question of the economic con- ditions of the country had been taken up and discussed. The industrializa- tion of the Soviet Union and its agri- cultural problems had also been re- ported on. Tonight Voroshiloff was reporting on the Red Army and the Red Fleet. Unprecedented enthusiasm greets Voroshiloff, who has the place formerly held by Frunze and before him, Trotzky. The praesidium of 85 members, leaders in far flung sec- tions of the Soviet Union, including a dozen women, lead in the applause. It is taken up by the closely packed tribune. It sweeps out over the or- chestra pit, occupied tonight by jour- nalists, the capitalist and Soviet writ- ers being divided in two separate sec- tions. It is taken up and grows to thunder proportions in the main body (Continued on Page Three) Chicago Bakers Renew Existing Scale of Wages CHICAGO, June 5.—The 1,500 members of the Chicago bakery work- ers’ local will continue to receive the present scale after June 15 under pacifism, instead of mobilizing them for the struggle against war. Increasing Danger. “The capitalistic regime inevitably engenders war. The struggle for (Continue on Page Tw0) the contract just signed, This insures a wage of $41.50 a week for one class and $39.50 for the other class of bakers, and the 8-hour day. The employers had insisted on a $2.50 cut. |; to some of their active followers, }urged them to stage a “demonstra- | tion” in front of a number of shops | lin the dress market. | The Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union called a strike | jin these shops recently because some ‘of the workers were being discharged for refusal to register with the reac- Lindbergh. BERLIN, June 6 (Monday).—A re-} port from Cologne at 1:30 o'clock this | morning said that Chamberlin was| sighted between Rotterdam and Am-} sterdam, the Netherlands, at 11:30 p.! m. central European time Sunday) night (6:30 p. m. New York daylight | saving time. . The Columbia is expect- tionary union. The present action of | |the International officers is consid- fered surprising, in view of the fact clared last week that “there are no strikes in the dress shops.” The Joint Board charges that the present move of the right wing of- ficials is a brazen effort to make |members of the International into \hirelings for the employers by at-| |tempting to interfere with the regu- lar picketing. Among the shops to be picketed this |that Morris Sigman, its president, de- | ed to cross the German border at any | |minute now, and may arrive here | within an hour. Brooklyn Workers Want Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti \eurrent year, about $3,000,000. It is} | obvious that re-arrangements of a) morning by workers of the Joint) t | Board is Carson Bros., 247 West 38th Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti| | Street, where the business agent ap- was demanded by over 1,000 workers | | pointed by the right wing had 20 girls | who rallied to a mass meeting held dismissed for refusal to register with | yesterday afternoon at Arcadia Hall, the International union. | Halsey St. and Broadway, Brooklyn. | Ey a A aN REE | The meeting was held by the Brook- ‘Gov. Len Small Must Return Part of Spoils SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 5.—The long pending interest suit against | Goy. Len Small ended in circuit court here today, following a lengthy con- ference between attorneys for the state and defense and circuit court Judge Frank W. Burton. + | A final decree under terms agreed |upon outside of court calling upon the governor for payment to the state of $650,000 would be entered July 15. , Courts Assist Landlords. | | WASHINGTON, June 5. (FP).—13 years after its enactment by congress, the law designed to abolish the alley tenements in the national capital has been virtually knocked out in the dis- trict court of appeals. The scandal of the conditions under which many thousands of persons, black and white, were crowded into these slums in the rear of middle-class residential pro- perty was the only reason why con- gress passed the law. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! |lyn, Sacco and Vanzetti Conference. |the Hammer; John Tartamella, man- sentence for complicity in the fatal Resolutions were adopted demand-| ing the immediate release of Sacco} and Vanzetti; urging the calling of | a national defense conference and a/ message of greeting to the two pris- oners, | The meeting was presided over by| Anthony Merlino, vice president of the International Journeymen Bar- bers’ Univm; Carlo Tresea, editor, Il Martello; Moissaye J. Olgin, editor, ager, Barbers’ Union, local 913; For- rest Bailey, director, American Civil Liberties’ Union; Ray Ragozin, In- ternational Labor Defense; Leo Pru- seika, editor, Darbas and a represen- tative of Congressman La Guardia who told the assembled workers that the New York representative favored the cause of the two Italian workers. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., June 5.— Mell Gore, convicted slayer of W. H. Cheerk, Atlanta storekeeper, was electrocuted at the state prison here today. Ruby Ray, now serving a prison holdup, made a desperate effort to- day to save the youth by declaring \ly notified of the shooting, and it is “T have received numerous inquir- ies as to how American-Soviet trade will be affected by the breach in An- glo-Soviet relations. While it is still too early to give any figures in de- tail, my correspondence of the past few days indicates that there should be a decided gain in Soviet govern- ment purchases here. | Great Traffic. | “Last year Soviet Union purchases in Great Britain aggregated about | $75,000,000 and in Canada during the business of this volume, under unex- pectedly changed conditions, cannot be affected in a few days. I am ad- (Continued on Page Two) | Arrest Mexican Killer of American Merchant MEXICO CITY, June 5.—Javier' Diaz, charged with shooting and kill- ing Arthur Brewer, an American coal merchant and former Harvard foot-| ball player, has been arrested, accord- ing to despatches arriving here from Guadalajara. The press reports the shooting asj having taken place last Wednesday in a quarrel over business matters. The American embassy and the con- | sulate general have not been official-| believed they will make no official| representations unless _ instructed| otherwise by the state department. U.S. Czar of Haiti to Fight for More Gravy PORT AU PRINCE, June 5.—Gen- eral John H. Russell, American high commissioner in Haiti, who has faith- fully protected the interests of the) sugar barons and the National City Bank in the little “republic”, is re- turning to the United States to lay before Secretary Kellogg “irrigation plans”, which will open up 100,000 acres of land to the Illinois financiers. Fatal French Wreck. | PARIS, June 5.—Nine persons were | killed and seven injured in a colli-| sion today between a freight train and| A passenger train at Bessay, near she was the one who fired the shot. Gore, however, denied this, ‘ Vichy. First reports stated that no It remains to be seen what Amer- ican bankers and the state depart- ment will do should the Chinese capi- tal be established at Hankow, whose troops are more likely to smash the reactionary stronghold at Peking. Raise Funds For Red Cress. tention from the facts. Dees Not Fool Workers. “While this ‘red heresy’ cry may | mislead the public, it does not fool the workers, They know that this fur strike was called because the employ- ers in the Associated group have broken their contract with the union. In an appeal for funds to aid sol-| Just a year ago, at the end of our diers wounded in the Nationalist fight | 17 weeks’ strike, an agreement was for the liberation of China, the Amer-| signed between the Associated and ican Committee for Justice to China,|the ‘New York Joint Board Locals 1, 70 Fifth avenue, has issued a circu-| 5, 10 and 15.’ It was signed by Sam- lar letter to its friends stating: uel N. Samuels for the Associated, “We have received a cablegram | Ben Gold for the Joint Board, and Dr. from Anna Louise Strong, who has|Paul Abelson, impartial chairman in reached Hankow, She says that 10,-|the fur industry. 000 were wounded in the recent fight- ing and they are coming into Han-| Strike Necessary. “If the Joint Board should break this agreement, the employers would promptly lock out the workers. Now that the Associated has broken the agreement, a strike has been made inevitable. Other employers have lived up to their agreements; the Associa- ted will have to do the same. This |strike, which was called to enforce a legal contract, can be settled just as soon as the Associated manufac- kow at the rate of 100 a day. The (Continued on Page Three) League Sanctions Murder of Syrian {turers decide to recognize the agree- Rehels h French |ment they signed with the Joint | Board, live up to all its terms which The League of Nations has offi-- cially blessed the reign of terror car- ried on by the French imperialists in Syria, it was learned today as the re- sult of the publication of the reply |they have been deliberately violating lin the shops, and stop interfering in internal union affairs.” A mass picket demonstration is to |be held this morning before all shops |of the Associated Fur Manufacturers, |Inc., after which the workers in in- of the Council of the League to a pe- dependent and fur trimming shops |tition by Syrian Nationalists. |which some of the inhabitants of the The League’s reply was made public by refugee Syrian Nationalists who have established a bureau of information at Cairo, Egypt. Referring to the Nationalist com- plaints that revolts have been crushed by French with the most ruthless cruelty, the reply of the council states: “The painful accidents of, mandated territories were the inno- cent victims are so much mone re- grettable since they affect a popula- tion administered in the name of the League of Nations.” After a hasty dismissai of the com- \plaints of the Notialists, the coun- cil expresses the pious hope “that the politics followed in Syria will always be of a nature to inspire,in all habitants the conviction that their legitimate interests will always be the tection on the part of the authori- ties.” Would Be Welcome? BRUSSELS, June 5.—The Belgian government has asked the United States for its approval of the appoint- ment of Prince Albert De Ligne as Americans were among the dead or injured. States, object of prompt and effective pro- | Belgian ambassador to the United! {will return to their jobs, and mem- {bers of Associated shops will report to Webster Hall. All unemployed workers will report each day to Man- hattan Lyceum. A meeting of Greek fur workers will be held tomorrow, 6 p. m. at Bryant Hall, 6th Avenue and 42nd Street. A delegtaion of Greek work- ers from Newark Local 26 will be present. Hartford Workers Ask for Immediate Release of Sacco and Vanzetti HARTFORD, Conn., June 5.—Im- | mediate, unconditional release of Sac- co and Vanzetti was demanded at a |meeting held at Unity Hall, Pratt St., by the local Sacco-Vanzetti Con- |ference representing 16 labor organ- izations including the Central Labor | Council. | The speakers were Sylvan A. Pol- lack of The DAILY WORKER and Anthony Quintilliano of Il Martello. Dr. P. Nelson presided. A resolution was adopted, copies sent to Gov. Ful- ler and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. | |