The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1927, Page 1

STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGH' 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.’ Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. | FINAL CIty | EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Vol. IV. No, 124, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. mail, $8.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Published Daily except Sunday by THD DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents SOVIET UNION MINISTER TO POLAND MURDERED; BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN BORDER STATES BLAMED Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. tet ao is a good deal of confusion about the Chinese situation even among friends. of the Chinese people. | For instance, there are people that think Chiang Kai-shek and the Han- kow government are having a trifling spat which can be overcome or! liquidated by the use of a little} diplomacy. This is the ostrich’s toe. | e 4 \ D tg real difference between the} Hankow government and the Nank-| ing or Chiang Kai-Shek organization’ is imperialism versus the right of) the Chinese people te govern them- selves. Hankow stands for the free-_ dom of China. Chiang Kai-shek} stands for Chiang Kai-shek. But in} order to stand successfully for any-! thing,. one must have backing. So Chiang Kai-shek falls back on the | will stand their share of the the full limit of the law in the case. the capitalist court with a one dollar bill. ly to cover the amount of the fine. blow shoulder to shoulder,.in a collective and true Bolshevik spirit. WANTED. Five Hundred Comrades Paying One Dollar Each to Cover the Five Hundred Dollar Fine With a smile of triumph the Professional Patriots listened to Judge Murphy as he pro- nounced the verdict of Five Hundred Dollars against The DAILY WORKER, thus invoking These gentry realized fully what a fierce blow they are delivering to The DAILY WORKER by imposing such a heavy fine at this time, when our financial difficulties are so great. But they reckoned without our comrades. They did not realize that the comrades feel that the sentence against The DAILY WORKER is really a sentence against them and they We will show them what soli- darity means. The closest fighters around The DAILY WORKER will meet the challenge of We want five hundred such donations immediate- sentence imposed upon them. Let no one shirk his responsibility. Let us meet the imperialists. | * * 8 | b gts imperialists are not fools. They | invest their money, but they expect to get it back and more with it, They may lose. If so this is not unusual. | But they expect Chiang Kai-shek to; deliver the goods. And if he does not) #0 much, the worse for him. Be-) cause he will get wrecked between! two stools. Chiang, for reasons that need not be stressed here, decided that he could do the best thing by himself) by joining the imperialists. He joined the imperialists and lost his! head. The latter is still on his) shoulders but if Hankow wins out! jn the near future and wnléss” Chiang! has more soldiers than we think he/ has; he will have to hike to Japan‘to) save his neck, H *. * * UGO-SLAVIA has broken off diplo-} matic relations with Albania, which means that Jugo-Slavia has broken off diplomatic relations with Italy.) Subway COMPANY UNION Untermyer Revelations Damn Bosses Worth a million dollars to the sub- way workers. TO SMITHEREENS READY T0 KICK |Party Membership Meet | | Scheduled for Saturday at Manhattan Lyceum A very important special Work- ers (Communist). Party member- || ship meeting will be held at Man- |} hattan Lyceum on Saturday at 10 \] a.m. This meeting is called for the |] purpose of taking up one of the |] most important problems of the Party and the District Executive Committee calls up on the entire Party membership to attend this Men Drive for Union REPORT CHIANG ~ ALLIANGE WITH _— CHANG.TSO-LIN To Withdraw Legation SHANGHAI, June 7,—It is persis- tently rumored here that Chiang Kai- shek, who has been expelled from the 'U. S. Minister Refuses! ‘BRITAIN CARRIES ON UNOFFICIAL WAR (AGAINST SOVIET UNION THRU POLAND, LITHUANIA, RUMANIA: TORIES GLOATING OVER ASSASSINATION OF ENVOY { { |Wojkoff Walking With '|“Hell and Maria” Dawes ‘| Thinks Kellogg’s Time Is |) ‘|Up; Jabs at His Men ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 7.—With- out regard to the disrespect shown his Republican associate in Wash- ington affairs, vice president Dawes here in a speech today stated that the United States was being beaten on the diplomatic field by most of the countries of Europe because of not sending its more intelligent men abroad as representatives. “Diplomacy in Europes, because of the critical economic position in which these countries. find themselves, is being evolved under continued contracts and the law of |} ‘survival of the fittest’,” he said. “The United States must begin to put really able men in charge of its foreign affairs,’ was an- | | other statement. FURRIERS SEEK TO TELL MAYOR OF BRUTALITIES | | bordering on the Soviet Union. | | uences. As the Soviet Minister was walking | along the platform of the station with |A. P. Rosengolz, former Charge \d’Affaires in London, Kowceda fired eight shots at him. The minister fell te platform, wounded in the breast. He was rushed to a hospital where he died an hour later. Workers Protest Workers thruout Warsaw are pro- {testing against Wojkoff’s murder, )which they regard as a. British move |to increase the difficulties hetween the | Soviet Union and Poland. More basic- jally, Britain’s object is to goad the Soviet Union into a war, observers state. Great Britain has been carrying on jan intense propaganda campaign in Joint Boards Plan to | Poland, Lithuania, and Roumania and |has been welding these states into an This has a more or less direct rela- tionship with the conflict between Great Britain and the Soviet Union, Jugo-Slavia has been in the French circle of European powers as opposed to the British combination. So we must conclude in the absence of more conclusive evidence that Jugo-Slavia| is takihg a-crack at Italy, an ally of; England. Which proves that things, are not as simple as they look in) This was the comment yesterday of | un organizer prominent in the 1924) Interborcugh Rapid Transit strike on/ the vigorous assault on the 7. R. T.’s| company union by Samuel Untermyer, | special cevnsel for the transit com- (mission. meeting and to be on time. Engdahl Addresses Whether Untermyer’s reeommenda- tion that the I. R. T. bosses be forced to quit their vicious warfare against Health Department ‘heeded by the transit commission was/| i Send Delegation | anti-Soviet bloc. nese revolution, will join hands with) - | : zi a! {the northern war lords in their war| An attempt will be madg to have a Tories Express Pleasure j against the Nationalists. It is re-; committee representing the Furriers’) LONDON, June 7.—Gloating over |ported that Chiang is actually carry-| Joint Board and the Cloak and the murder of M. Wojkoff, Soviet Min- ing on negotiations with Chang Tso-| Dressmakers’ Joint Board appear be-|ister to Poland, the London Evening |lin, Manchurian war lord. \fore Mayor Walker today and re-| News, which has been conducting an Chiang continues his reign of ter-|Port to the city executive details of | anti-Soviet campaign, says: ror in Shanghai, Nanking and neigh-| the excessive brutality of the In-| “By his assassination at the hand |boring cities, executing Nationalist | dustrial Squad toward members of| of a Royalist, retribution has come to land labor leaders daily. It is estim-|the two unions. Kuomintang for betraying the Chi- {one of the chief perpetrators of one! Europe, even tho the world is divided into two classes. jancther cuestion, the organizer ac- * * * jmaitted. The commission during the PINLEY PETER DUNNE is one of |} sae did nothing to aid the ‘i ‘strikers, when a word from its mem- ti ° (. toe a wiles, gry nue bers mig*t have swung the balance half a million dollars. Why? Dunne oe side of the strikers. was supposed to have torn a red Company officials admitted yester- streak thru the capitalist system |48Y that their so-called “Brotherhood some years ago and yet a millionaire /0f L be Fats Wha anid union left him a fortune. Did Dunne really “*¢ ee y Untermyer's hurt the eystem? Or did'he’ merely |sutement to the commissign: review- tickle the funny bones of the bour-| ing the company’s anti-union policy. geoisie? A person can take liberties |Chances for a subway strike in the with the capitalist system provided future have been increased, they com- he does not hurt. A humorist and a Plained. clown are two different animals. | Part of Terror Lifted. i re , ¢ | Subway workers canvassed by a OMETIMES there is something in|DAILY WORKER reporter expressed a name. Arthur Sapp is our man. themselves as hopeful that a real or- ‘And he hails from Huntington, In- ganizing drive can be gotten under diana, and he has been nominated for Way Soon. Terrorized by the I. R. the presidency of the Rotary Inter- ‘t's blacklist an+ anti-union policies, national. There is nothing between (Continued on Page Five) Sapp and success except a little op- ition. Let’s he it sho up,! het pen Sar a tittle czctemen, Carroll, be prong Fraedl *. *. * | \G” Benjamin of the House of cane or an Pine continues to dynamite his! Atty, General Sargent yesterday way intlo the news. Benjamin got by ordered Earl K, Carroll removed im- for a long time with the proposition mediately to Atlanta penitentiary to that he was the seventh messenger of begin serving his term on conviction some god or other. Thousands of for perjury. The attorney general de- people believed him and paid him for clared that there is nothing in the re-| the privilege. But there is an end port of the medical commission which to most things and now poor Ben- recently examined Carroll to show Jamin is on the threshold of a jail. that his health would be injured by nt m bai jremoval to the prison. ene ee BSH. in The Advance, official or- a Whitney Comes to Aid of The Daily Worker “To Save at All Hazard” gan of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Also political parties that require the artificial My brave comrades in The DAILY WORKER: The DAILY WORKER must be stimulus of improvised manure, Which reminds us that J.B.S.H. is a saved at all hazards. Its voice is needed now as never before. I am stockholder in the parentage of a new sending enclosed sum at once and olitical party designed to shove the Workers (Communist) Party off the map. Methinks, (to use a style much affected by Shakespeare) fertilizers should stick to their lilies. the Street Car Men’s Union wil! be : - Convention of USSR By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (by mail) — Mine was the great privilege of ex- tending the greetings of the Com- munist International and our Amer- ican Workers (Communist) Party to the Sixth Convention of the Health Department Heads of the Soviet Union. In responding to my greeting, N. A. Semashko, the people’s commissar of health, declared: ternational for the greetings extended here by Comrade Engdahl. “Allow me to express our greetings to our fraternal Communist Party in America. » “Allow me to express our deep con- dolence for the death of its general secretary, Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg. “We are honored that the ashes of |Comrade Ruthenberg have found their | Wall, together with the ashes of other | revolutionary leaders, | “Let me assure the Communist In- |ternational, in the name of the Sixth Convention of Health Department Heads of the Soviet Union that ‘we also are holding high the banner of Communism. “It is in this spirit that we will con- tinue’ to carry on and develop our work. Long live the social revolu- tion.” 1,000 Delegates. More than a thousand delegates, from every section of the Soviet Union, applauded Semashko’s re- marks. They were gathered here for many days discussing the health problems of the Soviet Union. The opening session was held in a great auditorium the walls of which were covered with huge posters picturing (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | “Allow ine in the name of this con-) vention to express my deep apprecia- | tion and thanks to the Communist In- | last resting place here in the Kremlin} {ated that forty Chinese left wing |sympathizers are executed daily by |Chiang Kai-shek, | * * * | Butler MacMurray Quarrell. | PEKING, June 7.—Difficulties be- tween John V. A. MacMurray, Amer- jican Minister to Chine, and Major General Smedley Bulter, commanding tinue. Minister MacMurray has re- fused to withdraw the U. S. legation from, Peking, despite the advice of General Butler, who expects the Na- tionalist capture of Peking in the very near future. * * * Nationalists Push On. HANKOW, June 7.— Nationalist troops, now in complete control of territory south of the Yellow River, are beginning to renew their drive against the Fengtien troops. 2 General Feng is reported to have predicted the capture of Peking by July. ‘Bellanca Plane Ends | Trip at Berlin Field | BERLIN, June 7.—The airplane flight ended officially this afternoon ‘at 5:53 p. m. central European time ‘at the Tempelhofer Field, when the Bellanca-Wright plane Columbia, |with Clarence D. Chamberlin, pilot, and Charles A. Levine, financial | backer, landed from Cottbus, Ger- jmany. The Columbia thus completed its flight from Roosevelt Field, New |York—a flight in which only two |stops were made and these both on German soil. Extra Holiday for Us _As Bosses Greet Flyer An extra week end holiday for workers, in which to escape the city’s heat and smoke, may result from |the American marines in China, con-| “If the appointment is made,” said | of the foulest murders in history.” |Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ |«The foul murder” to which the Even- | Joint Board, “Louis Hyman, manager |ing News refers is the execution of |of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint|the Czar in 1919. | Board, C. S. Zimmerman, manager of The London News substantially the Dress Department of this Joint | represents the views of the Tory Cab- | Board, and I will call upon the mayor | jnet, and its expression of satisfaction |with a group of workers who have|ovyer the murder of the Soviet envoy been brutally beaten by the Industrial |is regarded as semi-official encour- Squad during these past two days. | agement to White Guardists thruout “These will include Lena Good-/the world to commit similar murders. USSR Chargé Expelled | From England When Shot by White Guardist ‘London News, Die-Hard Sheet, Lavishes Praise | on Murder; Polish Workers Protest | | WARSAW, Poland, June 7.—The Soviet Minister to Poland, M. Wojkoff, was assassinated at the Warsaw Central Station jthis morning by Boris Kowceda, a young Russian monarchist j|inflamed by British anti-Soviet propaganda. |of the Soviet envoy is regarded as a direct result of the intensive j anti-Soviet drive that tory Britain has been carrying on in states The brutal murder | Following on the heels of the raids on the Soviet legation in |Peking, the Arcos raids and the British rupture of diplomatic | relations with the Soviet Union, the British-inspired assassination |of the Soviet envoy may have far-reaching diplomatic conse- AVELLA MINERS DEMAND MASS PICKETING START Order Officials to Defi Sheriff’s Ukase AVELLA, Pa., June 7,—Calling for mass violation of the arbitrary and illegal orders of the sheriff of Alle- gheny county prohibiting it, and de- manding that greater activity be taken to raise relief for the miners locked out in the great bituminous coal fields of America, the local union here has passed resolutions and is cir- cularizing them about amongst the other unions of the United Mine Workers of America. The letier sent with the two resolu tions passed points out that: “Providing relief tor the striking miners, their wives and children must not be looked upon as charity. the duty of those miners who con- tinue to work and the worl-ers gocer- ally to make it possible for all the union men who are on strike to re- main at their posts and to make it impossible for the coal operators to open their mines on the non-union basis. This can be achieved if some It is relief is rushed to the striking area. “The question of picketing likewise (Continued on Page Two) | man, a dressmaker, who had her nose | broken and received serious injuries | this morning; Max Wallman, if he jis able to leave Bellevue Hospital |where he was removed after the de-| |tectives had beaten and arrested, |him yesterday; George Perdicaris, S. | |Commodikis and F. Kromotis all of | whom were taken into a room at} the 30th street police station, fol-; yesterday, and were terribly beaten BRITISH AND AMERICAN GOLD BAGK OF INTRIGUE AGAINST U. S. S. R, ’ § General Pilsudski, the tyrant of Poland, is an English tool. lowing their arrest on the picket line | He seized power thru a coup d’etat in which he had the backing so that their resulting injuries are and tacit support of Great Britain, and in which he unseated a parliamentary majority in the Polish Sjem which was bought SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! hope to duplicate it in a few days. Fraternally, Charlotte Anita Whit- ney. the development of the health of the} plans of bosses to close shops on masses within the borders of the} Monday to grect Charles A. Lind- 4 (Continued on Page Two) bergh, the flyer. ‘Continued Pe Fi cherie Pat apa and paid for by France. /Prexy Throws Sop to | | Mississippi Sufferers By Call to Congress WASHINGTON, June 7.—Presi- dent Coolidge will call the 70th Con- gress into session next October or November, at least a month in ad- vance of its regular convening, to ‘consider the Mississippi flood prob- lem and other matters of govern- ment, it was clearly indicated at the White House today. Bellanca Cashing in on Columbia Flight Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of | the “Columbia” which has just com-| pleted a non-stop flight from New York to Germany is organizing a company to build multi-mortored planes to carry 40 or more passen-/| gers to Europe on* a commercial} basis. The big problem in the way of fur- ther trans-Atlantic aid travel is fi- (nancial, Bellanca said. ing thru Pilsudski, to build an Black Sea to the North Sea. The seizure of power by Pilsudsky in May 1926, the Fascist coup d'etat in Volmar (Latvia), the destruction of the White Russian Hromada, which went hand in hand with an unpre- cedented terror against all the nation- al minorities which are settled in | Poland on the borders of the Soviet Union—all this is ig the closest con- jnection with the plans of interven- | tion of British imperialism. The in- | terventionalists aim at the victory of Fascism in the Baltic border states and Poland, so that they may cover in the rear in case they undertake |a campaign against the Soviet Union And Again: Imprecor, March 19, 1927. It was no mere coincidence that, as the semi-official organ “Listuva” reports, Mr. Wohan, in his discus- ion with Smetona, the president of Lithuania, displayed great interest in the question of establishing friendly The chief point in British policy in Poland has been, work- anti-Soviet Union bloc from the This fact was not known to the Communist International, which, thru its press service, Interna- tional Press Correspondence, has repeatedly exposed British in- trigue. Thus “Imprecor” for March 3, states: industrial relations between Poland and Lithuania. Neither is the visit of Jurgutis, the director of the Na- tional Bank of Lithuania, to London ja coincidence; this visit was for the purpose of taking up a foreign loan, |the prospect of which had been held out by England, whereas England had, up to that time, granted no credit to the Ilaschewitz government; There can be no doubt that Fascist Lithuania will, sooner or later, throw itself into the arms of Poland. (M. G. Bach). Fascist Ring. Bach coneludes, in the same ar- ticle: A survey of the Fascist movement |to the west of the Soviet Union shows that a Fascist ring is being successfully welded around the Sov- iet Union, anti-Soviet bloc, with the (Continued on Page T***