The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1927, Page 1

| STOP THE THREAT 0 THE DAILY WORKER. % } OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40.-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 125. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. 00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927 Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITIO ' 1 Price 3 Cents 4 KILIED, 28 INJURED IN ANTI-SOVIET OUTRAGES 329 Fur Shops Crippled BELA KUN WARNS AMERICAN LABOR OF PERIL OF WAR Tells Editor of Daily Worker of Danger By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (This is the First of a Series of In- terviews with Prominent Communists On International Situation.—Ed note.) (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Mail.)— Bela Kun, head of the Hungarian Soviet Republic during its brief and heroic existence, and one of the most prominent spokesmen of the Com- munist International, declared to me here: “The workers of America must not allow themselves to be fooled on the present imperialist plans for a new attack on the Soviet Union. They must be kept awake to the ever present war danger. Attack Upon Soviet Union “Opportunism reveals itself in the ever-present tendency to under- estimate the danger of the new war against the Soviet Union. There must be no underestimation of this danger. Bela Kun showed how Hungary was being made a pawn of Great Britain and Italy in the new anti- Soviet War plans. British imperial- ist schemes against the Soviet Union will be advanced if London can win the support and close collaboratioy! of Washington in the attack on the Chinese Revolution, Weakening of Great Britain in the Orient will help blast its plots against the Soviet Union. A huge anti-war campaign in the United States must hamstring Wall Street’s ambitions in the Far East, especially the waging of its war on the Chinese masses. Forty arrests were made on this May Day in Hungary. No May Day meetings of any kind were permitted among the peasants. That is the way the mailed fist of the big bourgeoisie and the great landholders, who now dominate the government, show their power, having taken control from the petit bourgeois elements that won power after the overthrow of the Soviet Republic, a crime against the Hungarian working class in which Herbert Hoover, now secretary of Commerce in Coolidge’s cabinet played a prominent role, a counter- revolutionary role of which the Amer- ican ruling class is proud. MacDonald Helps Restore Monarchy. With the help of British capital, and with J. Ramsay MacDonald, while “labor” premier, acting as an inter- mediary for international loans, we find that the Hungarian terrorist government of Horthy and Bethlen has now enjoyed three years without a deficit. Strenuous efforts are now being made for the saving of private capitalist enterprises, says Bela Kun. As crowning these achievements of state and private financing, it is planned to call back to power a member of the Hapsburg Family and restore the monarchy. These monarchist ambitions of the Hungarian terror are not relished by the neighboring states of Czecho- Slovakia, Austria, Jugo-Slavia and cithers, that are also necessary to aid the t, British designs against the Workers’ Republic. Thus the Haps- burg Natentions have been held in leash bythe International capitalists. Yet Ens@land and Italy continually fight agc\inst this opposition of the little so-called “democratic” states of the Anti-Soviet Block, Hungary has already signed a aty of amity with Italy, Premier Bonen having made a personal visit to Rome, the home city of fascism, for this purpose. Attacks Upon Communists. This development in Hungary, with the ultra-reaction in the saddle, has resulted in the most vicious persecu- tion of Communist and left wing trade union and farmer elements on the one hand, and brazen compromise with the traitor socialists on the other. It is estimated that there are 1,000 political prisoners in Hungary today, the outstanding cases being those of Soltan Szento, organization secretary of the, Communist Party, and Mat- thias Rakosi. The latter is now serv- ing an eight-year prison sentence, but (Continued on Page Three) . PICKETS BRING MORE OUT IN BIG WALKOUT HERE Ben Gold Delighted with | | Progress Made Two large picketing demonstrations) | yesterday, in the morning and the| evening, resulted in several additional | shops joining the Furriers’ strike. Many of the workers joined the pick-| eters in the morning while others left! their shops during the day. | Because of this steady, increase In the strike ranks, it is impossible for the Joint Board to give complete fig-| ures on the extent of the strike. How- ever, it is certain ‘that at least 75) per cent of the workers from Associa- ted shops are out on strike, and there are 329 shops where production has) been crippled as a result of the work-| | ers’ response to the strike call. | “The Joint Board is delighted with the progress of the strike so far,” Ben; Gold, the manager, said last night; | “except for the brutal treatment be- ing given to some of our workers by certain police officers. Press Charges Against Police. “We are preparing the affidavits of those workers who have been bru- tally beaten in the police station dur- ing the past few days, and we intend to press charges against those respon- sible, We are certainly not going to see our union members, whose only | erime is picketing» and» Who are! charged simply with disorderly con-' duct, crippled for life by the beating | (Continued on Page Five) i PRAVDA’ CHARGES ENEMIES OF USSR INCITED MURDER Attack on Woikoff Link in Chain of Crimes (Special to the Daily Worker). H MOSCOW, June 8.—Commenting on | the brutal murder of Woikoff, Rus- | sian minister to Poland, the Moscow | “Pravda” designates it as another link in the chain of crimes against) the USSR by her capitalist enemies. “Soon after Lord Curzon’s ultima- tum, the scoundrels of international | fascism murdered another Russian} minister, Vorovsky, on Swiss soil, in| the ‘hallowed’ precincts of the League of Nations Congress. Today, almost) immediately after the rupture of the | Anglo-Soviet relations, Woikoff is) murdered.” _ | Inspired by Britain. “Pravda” points out that these) crimes could not be committed with- out the participation and connivance | of those who are sharpshooters in the struggle against. the USSR. “The toiling masses of the world,” it con- tinues, “well know the bandit role of the British Tory government. The Polish government, which, in spite of repeated warnings from the Soviet; government of Russia, accorded hos- pitality to Russian White Guards and encouraged their intrigues against the Soviet Repbulic, must bear the full responsibility for the consequen- ces of such a policy. Workers Will Reply. “The workers and peasants of the Soviet Unioh will present their bill of account to Poland. By the murder of Woikoff, the marauders of the world Black Hundreds have added more fuel to the fiendish woodpile whereon the cause of European and international peace is being burnt. “The conscious - world proletariat, however, will repel the international incendiaries. Qssoaviakhem (Volun- tary Air and Chemical Service Or- ganization) has issued an appeal to all toilers of the USSR to start vol- untary money collections for a fund to build new airplanes under the slo- gan: ‘Our reply to Chamberlain,’ This fund must be the same bulwark in the cause of peace as was the flo- tilla ‘ultimatum’ which was created with voluntary collections after the Curzon note,” | by S trike Held Incommunicado WILLIAM F. DUNNE, Editor of The DAQEY WORKER, is now in the Workhouse, iso- lated without the right to see anyone from the outside world. In their effort to suppress The DAILY WORKER, the capitalist class of this country sought to isolate the revolutionary ele- ments from the rest of the working class, and thus render our party impotent and powerless. They will not succeed. They will fail to isolate our editor. They will fail in their attempt to cut off our movement. organ with the workers all over the country. of workers in the mines, mills, They demand the right to cof tence with him. thing they can spare, not only infamous fine of Five Hundred Dollars which the appeal our case, and reverse the vicious decisii They cannot break our ranks. idarity. Send it along quickly. factories and f: ibute from th to free Comrade For there are thousands of strands connecting our revolutionary ile Bill Dunne is in jail, there are thousands s, who demand the right to shoulder the sen- eir hard earned wages, every- unne, not only to wipe off the books the courts have imposed, but also to successfully which has been rendered. Your contration is the concrete evidence of your sol- DAILY SWORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. +—— r] By WM. GROPPER. Their editors never go to jail. SEORETARY DAVIS CITES PLANS FOR WORLD SLAUGHTER By MICHAEL WEBB. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) The wholesale murderers who pre- pared the last imperialist war, which destroyed 20 million lives and, wrecked a continent, are once more busy hatching plans for the next butchery, which threatens to bripg even greater disaster to the masses | of people the world over. The United States is not the least of the capitalist powers who are sharpening their bayonets and oiling the motors of their bombing planes. Smoke-screens of peace-talk are be- ing poured out to delude the workers No less than two “model” peace treaties have been published in the past few weeks. Sweet phrases about a “world Locarno” are heard in the press, unaccompanied by explanations that Locarno stands for war, partic- | ularly war against the workers and | farmers’ republic of Soviet Russia. America has sent those passionate peace-lovers Hugh S. Gibson and Ad- miral Sillary Jones to the Geneva naval conference, disguised as usual by the fig-leaf of “disarmament.” This is for public consumption. Be- hind the smoke screens the United States, like all the other capitalist powers, is carefully organizing army, nayy and industry for the next “emi A Revelations of what we may ex- (Continued on Page Three) Murdered Soviet Union Envoy Gave Whole Life. | To Revolutionary Cause M. Woikoff, Soviet Union Min- |’ ister to Poland who was murdered Tuesday by a young monarchist inspired by British propaganda, was associated with the revolution- || ary movement since early youth. He.was born at Kerch, in the Crimea, in 1888, and was com- pelled to flee Russia at the age of 19 for anti-Czarist activities. After studying at the Universities of Paris and Geneva, he returned to Russia in 1917 and joined the Communists after the October Revolution. He was elected Food Commissar of the Ural District. Woikoff was appointed Director of the Central Union of Coopera- tive Societies in 1919 and later be- came a member of the Collegiun of the Peoples’ Commissariat of Foreign Trade. In 1924 he was med Minister to Poland, * Party Members Asked | to Attend an Important | Meeting Sat. at 10 a.m. All members of the Workers (Com-, munist) Party must attend an im-| portant membership meeting to be) held 10 a. m, this Saturday at Man- hattan Lyceum. | This meeting is called by the Dis- trict Executive Committee for the | purpose of taking immediate action lems of the party. CHIANG RESUMES REIGN OF TERROR; 80 ARE EXECUTED BULLETIN, WUHAN, June 8.—The reaction- aries in Peking are panic-stricken over the defeats of Chang Tso-lin. The chamber of commerce has de- cided to organize a volunteer corps to defend the merchants’ interests. The merchants detest the approaching Na- tionalists but dread mostly the raid- ing and pillaging of the defeated northerners in case they decide to abandon the city. The British general, Duncan, and four members of the general staff of the foreign troops in Shanghai have left for Tientsin, and several regi-| ments of foreign troops have been| sent there. * * * SHANGHAI, June 8.-—Chiang Kai- shek has resumed his reign of terror in the lower Yangtze Valley with the suppression of a score of labor unions and the execution of eighty labor leaders in the vicinity of Kiukiang. He is carrying on a vigorous labor- smashing campaign in his bid for the support of the imperialists and the northern war lords. Labor and peas- ant unions thruout the Yangtze Val- ley are opposing him and an armed revolt at an opportune moment is not unlikely, ® bd bd PEKING, June 8.—The widely her- June 8.—Capt. Charles A, Lindbergh | on one of the most important prob-|alded triple alliance between Chang] is less than 900 miles from America| at $100 a share and in 1921 at (Continued on Page Five) ) TACTICS AGAINST rorism that white guardists are with the approval and support taken today when two persons ously injured by the explosion meeting at Leningrad. scene of the explosion. Militia deal of difficulty. Izvestia Blames Britain Branding the British tory govern- ment as the real perpetrator of the | murder of M. Woikoff, Soviet Minister |to Poland, the Izvestia, official Soviet organ says: “This is not the first time that in- ternational tension has been the sig- nal for terrorist action against Soviet Union representatives. As in 1923 after Curzon’s ultimatum, Vorovsky was the victim of the feeling created by hostile attacks against the U.S. S.R., so Woikoff today is the victim of the situation resulting from the rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations.” | Implying. that the Polish Govern- | ment has allied itself with the Bri | tory government in Britain’s unofficial | war against the Soviet Union, the | Izvestia continues, “The Polish Gov- ernment is also responsible for the murder because, notwithstanding the Soviet Union’s repeated demands for measures against the Russian mon- archists in Poland, it connived in their activities. | it is possible to get a permit for any | anti-Soviet crime,” the Izvestia adds. Masses Indignant A storm of indignation has broken |pelled to guard the Polish embassy | from possible attacks by indignant workers. « Soviet Union authorities have de- elared a fortnight’s mourning for M. Woikoff by all Soviet officials at home and abroad. The body of the mur- | dered envoy will be taken to Moscow | tomorrow by A. P. Rosengolz, former | Soviet Charge d’Affaires at London, | who was with Woikoff when he was shot. Nail British Lie A vigorous denial of the British statement that the murdered Minister was connected with the execution of | the Czar was made by Tass, official news agency of the Soviet Union. Woikoff was Soviet Food Commissar in the Ekaterinburg district at the time of the Czar’s death and had (Continued on Page Two) ‘| Poets of All Shades, | But All Red, on Hand to Help DAILY WORKER Everybody who is anybody will be on hand tonight to listen to the largest collection of Red poets ever gathered under one roof. Armed with pieces of their own versifica- tion, they will be at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. at or about 8 p. m. Revolutionary poems in every tongue, and a few fore, including the Hindustani, Chinese, Hungari- an and Japanese, not to mentio’ Yiddish, Russian, Italian and— English, will be read by their au- thors. Among the poets are: Abr. Raisin, A. B. Magil, Arturo Giov: itti, Adolf Wolff, Babette Deu Eli Siegel, H. Laivik, Ho Joseph Freeman, Lola Rid Egri, Mike Gold, Mani Leib, Mz Stengel, Simon Felshin and Seigo n- Ogino. Admission is 50 cents, and the proceeds are for The DAILY WORKER. Not the worst part of the pro- gram will be a critical discussion of the poets and their offerings by members of the audience. Moissaye J. Olgin will be chairman of what is billed as the “first event of its kind in history.” | ee Lindbergh 900 Miles Away. ABOARD CRUISER MEMPHIS, at midnight tonight. Poland Responsible for British Provocation “London has become a place where | out in Moscow and police are com-! IMPERIALISTS CONTINUE TERRORIST THE SOVIET UNION Woikoff’s Murder; MOSCOW, June 8.—The latest step in the campaign of ter- waging against the Soviet Union of the imperialist powers was were killed and twenty-six seri- of a bomb at a Communist Party | The bombers escaped, firing revolvers as they fled from the surrounded the building shortly after the explosion and extinguished the flames after a great WHITE TERROR KILLS ANOTHER ~ SOVIET OFFICIAL Murders Near Minsk Third in Series MOSCOW, June 8. — Murderous plots against Soviet officials continue, with all the earmarks of organized monarchist terror. The Soviet foreign office was noti- fied from Minsk tonight that Chief Opinsky, of the white Russian secret police, and his chauffeur were as- sassinated and two aides seriously wounded. Meagre information states that Opin and party were onthe way to Minsk from Danovitchi, near the Polish frontier, with a suspected Polish spy, Lieut. Jani, who was ar- | rested last night on Russian soil. The party was riding on a motor handcar on the railroad track when a gang of monarchist secret agents opened fire from ambush. The assailants, as well as the spy, escaped. Occurring at virtually the same hour as the Leningrad bomb outrage, the first of it8 kind in seven years, and following the assassination of Ambassador Woikoff at Warsaw, the Soviet officials are convinced that as- |sassination plots are being hatched outside of Russia, seeking to provoke internal and external Soviet compli- \Gscaea Jail 30 Monarchists. MOSCOW, June 8.—Thirty mon- jarchists have been arrested at Vilna }and seven at Warsaw charged with complicity in the assassination of | Ambassador Woikoff. | The prisoners include Gorlow, | representative of Grand Duke Nicolai, |and several former eczarist generals, The assassin, Kowerda, is formally charged with being a member of a scattered Russian monarchist organ- jization operating in Europe and |America, and which employed the Anglo-Soviet rupture as a signal for terrorist acts against Soviet repre- | sentatives, ‘Inco Seeks Skilled Specialists Here to Work in Soviet Union Industrial Cooperative INCO was lorganized in the U for the pur- pose of going to U. S. S. R. and manu- fi ring there electric motors, auto- and tractor parts, rebuilding machinery, etc. This co- } has: settled in Moscow last year and its work has been carried on in full swing. At present they need a few first class mechanics of the fol- lowing qualifications: sts on bench hand work, 3 good machinists, who want to Join this co- ld apply immediately to A. Barkinsky, c-o Cen- 99 Broadway, Room 402, | mobile industri u, Ci New York | Tie More Workers Up With Stock Purchases The United States Steel Corpora- ; tion announced yesterday that under | the “profit-sharing” plan, common | stock of the corporation to the amount lof 100,000 shares will be offered to {employes at $122 a share, Subserip- | tions will be received until July 16, | In 1926, the corporation distributed |74,351 shares of stock to employes at |$155 a share; in 1925 the price was 25 a share; in 1924 the stock sold bat share,