The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1927, Page 1

/ STOP THE THRE ———eeEeE—EeEe——E———————— — poo ener 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. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. | FINAL CITY | EDITION Vol. IV. No. 126. Current Events By T. J, O’Fuauenry. E assassination of the Soviet min- ister to Warsaw may be considered | an accident, but it is nothing of that} kind. against the government of the Soviet Union. It is more than a coincidence that just when the Soviet envoy to! Poland was murdered a Russian rail-| way carriage conveying a Polish spy to the Polish border was blown up. British imperialism is desperate and stops at nothing. Assassination is one of the weapons that Britain uses against their enemies. * * * | j ate Polish government is making a! pretense of apprehending the mur-| derers of the Soviet envoy. But all) this fuss will end up like the Swiss | incident. The murderer will be con-| sidered a hero and a. big-hearted| judge will turn him loose or impose a light sentence on him. Theodore Roosevelt said that the constitution meant nothing among friends. The same thing can be said about the law) * « * IELD Marshall Earl Haig must be in the Winston Glurchill caucus. He is a Scotchman, but then, so is al- most everybody else in high places in England unless he is an Irishman. | The Field Marshall has been blowing his horn a little about the world war. He claims that England did the win- ning. This is a voice from the Fascist forest. It is a blast from the faction of the British ruling class that has a bone to pick with Ameri-| can imperialism and several bones| with the workingclass. . * * ME Arthur Sapp of Huntington, In- ‘diana, was elected president of the Rotary International. We just thot he could not lose. And after he was elected Sapp justified the honor by the following comment: “I feel that the highest international honor has been conferred upon me. The Ostend convention is the greatest ever held up to date, but we hope that next year’s’ will be.cven better. I expect to push the rotary movement, partic- ularly in Germany.” What more could a Sapp say? * * . E Irish voters went to the polls yesterday to cast their ballots for the various parties contesting the election. The fact that no serious incidents occurred was considered a piece of news. Tho Ireland is not Chicago, sometimes there are acci- dents during elections. That is not} It is part of the conspiracy | DIRECTS ATTEMPT findustriously trying to terrorize the jot Gross, if, as very well might hap- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. RIGHT WING CHIEF TO KILL FURRIER Lies at Point of Death In Bellevue Hospital Aaron Gross, one of the leaders of the furriers’ strike who was expelled from the office of International vice president by the right wing last Jan- uary is now in Bellevue Hospital in a critical condition as # result of be- ing ambushed by a gang of right wing thugs and stabbed in the neck yesterday morning. The attempted assassination was made under the direct supervision of Isaac Walter, executive board mem-)| ber of the newly formed scab union, Local 105, which the right wing is| workers into joining. It will be hard for the reactionary right wingers to avoid the responsibility for the death pen, he should not survive the wounds inflicted by his assailants, | After being assaulted, Gross was! immediately rushed to the hospital where doctors worked over him for more than three hours before they were able to stop the flow of blood. According to the physicians the loss | of blood is one of the greatest dan- gers that faces Gross at the present) time. When they heard of it, many farriers offered to assist in a blood transfusion to save Gross’ life. Attack Pre-arranged. According to eye-witnesses the at- tack on Gross was pre-arranged. Sev- eral minutes previous more than 20 of the right wing gangsters were con- gregated on the corner of Seventh Ave. and 27th St., in convevsation with several policemen. This made many of the strikers immediately suspicious, because none of the strik- (Continued on Page Five) “brodsky is the attorney. the most important feature of the . situation. It is the political lineup. one pi ‘LINGErgh Eager fo is only one workingclass | ; party in the field and the proletar- Fly From Capitol 5 ian virility of that party is rather anaemic. It calls itself a Labor Party, but is sick from an excess of respectability. It is an “opposition” Lindbergh, the flyer, may mess up the well-ordered arrangements for his official welcome to the city on Mon- day. party. It stands up in parliament and criticises the government, but be- He has just sent a radio message to Grover A. Whalen, chief of the city’s lieves in the system, in a fashion. Still, it is better than nothing. |reception committee, telling him that he doesn’t think it advisable to ship POLICE BEAT UP PLUMBER HELPER svar we Upon the suggestion of Mayor! Walker the board of education voted | | to give the school children of the city | holiday on Monday in honor of Lindbergh. Meanwhile, various groups were getting ready to take their share of the glory—Tammany politicians in charge of the city’s destinies; and military officials eager to utilize the opportunity for jingo propaganda. | Between 8,000 and 12,000 police- Brutality | Scramble For Glory. v beaten that spectators . pro- | | men, the largest number ever required |for any kind of demonstration, will | be assigned to parade duty on Mon- Five workers, members of the) plumbers’ helpers’ union, were ar- sted yesterday when they were ; the police against the brutal | t given to the worker. } orkers were picketing Sam) PICKET IN CONEY lishing time or place of landing,” he s Ho day, according to Police Commissioner ‘eting on 29th St., Coney Island. th St., between Mermaid and | | suggests. i Spectators Horrifjed at Warren. ‘f them, Thomas Russo, was so vAve., when two policemen} and amusement places. ‘ipping up Russo, who they ded without showing any| ‘hey also arrested four other, 4, all of them being released | $500 bail each. Their case will up this morning in the Coney _wnd magistrates court. Joseph R. on the scene. Giving chase an they threw their clubs And incidentally, hotels,. restaurants Important Party Meet Tomorrow Morning at 10 a. m; Must Attend! All members of the Workers (Communist) Party must attend the special membership meeting tomorrow, 10 a. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Immediate action must be taken on one of the most important problems facing the party. The District Executive Committee calls Police Lose Clews to Murder. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 9,—~ The only possible tangible clue pre- sented thus far in the murder of Mrs. Mary Arnold and her brother, John Lyons, in their Ossining home, van- ished this afternoon when an investi- gation revealed that an axe, found near the murder spot, was not the one with which the slain pair’s bod- |] upon all members to be present. ies were mutilated after they had| Also be on time. heap chat and killed. . Aaron Gross Slashed; In Grave Danger JOIN THE FIVE HUNDRED Two days ago we issued an appeal for five hundred comrades to pay one dollar each to | cover the Five Hundred-Dollar Fine imposed by Judge Murphy in Special Sessions last week. Hundreds of comrades are answering that call every day. Hundreds of comrades have taken upon themselves the responsibility to pay that fine. Hundreds of comrades, recognizing the fact that The DAILY WORKER is their organ, their mouthpiece, have responded without hes- itation to the emergency. But there are comrades who have not yet responded. Perhaps you are one. If you are, we want you to make good your delay. send it along with the contribution of every other comrade or honest worker you can line up on the proposition. In New York, the Four Hundred are supposed to be the cream of aristocracy, the hoi The Five Hundred comrades, who respond to this call, will be the cream of the labor movement, the militant front line fighters in the cause of the workers. Be poloi of the bourgeoisie. Send in that dollar bill sure you are in the ranks of the Five Hundred. DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. PLAN TO MURDER with a bang. And by the way, today that Woikoffs murd | the general staff of the Pol lude to war being prepared guidance. ist bandits organized by t Union. BRITAIN RUSHES MORE TROOPS TO PEKING, TIENTSIN |Pacifie Labor Congress Scores Imperialism PEKING, June 9.—France is send- ing an additional battalion of troops to Tientsin and a small detachment to reinforce the Peking guard, it was learned todey. The British Border Regiment is leaving for Tientsin by train this af- ternoon. Major General Sir John Duncan, commander of the British} forces at Shanghai left for Peking yesterday. «- 2 | | Americans Smuggle Arms. | SHANGHAI, June 9.—Two Ameri-| can citizens, W. Worthington and| Samuel Chaiet have been arrested yesterday by policé of the Interna-) tional Settlement yesterday charged | with smuggling arms. American citizens have been carry, ing on a lucrative business smuggling arms and opium into China. Several | weeks ago former District Attorney Husar was convicted of accepting bribes for permitting the entrance of opium, RK Bere S Pacific Labor Conference. WUHAN (Hankow), May 28th, 1927. (Delayed).—The following reso- lution against imperialist war was adopted at the trade union conference of the countries bordering on the Pacific: The struggle between the imperial- ist countries, above all between Great Britain, Japan and the United States for the hegemony of the Pacific, is becoming daily more intense. This struggle must inevitably lead to im- perialist wars. The rivalry of the powers is expressed in the growth of armaments, the growth of the air forces and in the search for new and more murderous methods of chemical warfare. The preparations for war are being carried on parallel with hypocritical speeches in favor of peace and the limitation of arma- | ments. The tense situation is made worse by the fact that the imperialists at- tempt to represent the Soviet Union as responsible for their misfortunes. The Soviet Union is therefore under & permanent threat of war. The con- flicting interests of the imperialists are becoming ever sharper and the war can therefore break out unex- pectedly. From this arises the urgent duty of every proletarian and of every working class organization to oppose any new imperialist slaugh- ter, and to counter the imperialist conspiracy to <isturh the peaceful work of the toiling masses, The cnly means of preventing the imperialist war which is being pre- pared is to turn this imperialist war of the races and nationalities, into a*class war, a war of the exploited against the exploiters. The working men and women of all countries must fight against their own bourgeoisie and build up a mighty indestructible brotherhood over all nationalities and all countries and set the power of the workingclass in the place of the power of capitalism. SACCO and VANZETTI eH AGE NOT DIE! Jtive of the v. British Officials No Interested in Briand’s Anti-War Propositions LONDON, June 9.—Great Bri- tain is but lukewarm towards For- eign Minister Briand’s proposals || for “no more war” treaties. Offi- || cials stated that such a treaty || would have no immediate effect. Great Britain feels secure, they || say, behind her navy, and is con- cerned, not with outlawing war, but in reducing by means of “arms conferences” the danger to Eng- lish shipping,;from gnbmarines and || cruisers whe’ the ftityitable-strag- gle for mastery reaches the mili- tary stage. The Briand plan is likewise considered merely a man- tality of Poland where they FATHER OF “BOMB lish firm and have notab! Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents BRITAIN BACKS ANTI-USSR MURDERS, ARSON CAPTURED BRITISH SPY CONFESSES SOVIET OFFICIALS ‘Polish Communists Blame Pilsudski Terror for Assassination of Woikoff |Huge Demonstrations Against Imperialists Held in Moscow and Leningrad WARSAW, June 8.—In a press interview a promi- ment left wing labor member of the Polish Sejm stated ler was directed by British hands with the assistance of the second department of lish army and is but a pre- by Pilsudsky under British The murder will be followed by raids of white guard- he Polish general staff on Soviet territory or direct hostilities against the Soviet Russian monarchists have long enjoyed the hospi- are maintained with English money under masks of members of administration or ly increased their activity workers employed in Belovej Forests leased to an Eng- | SQUAD” IS DEAD; HAD REAL CAREER Soviet Union. Noted for Foiling Non-| Existent “Plots” since the accession to power of Pilsudsky, who now, | with a sixty million dollar loan contracted with England’s assistance, is systematically preparing war against the (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, June 9.—The murder of M. Woikoff, Soviet Min- ister to Poland, the bomb outrage at Leningrad and the assassina- | 1: Ciotes- Dette : Barnitay police al tion of Vice-Chief Opansky of the state political police are merely land father of the present “homb|the most outstanding episodes of a vicious campaign of murder | squad” is dead at the age of 51. He joined the New York police force | Lin_1896-and was just an ordinary flat-| | foot until he developed a reputation among his colleagues as an “expert”; That the British die-hard govern- in uncovering bomb plots, most of| iment has carried on a campaign of || a few alliances necessarily against |them originating in his own fertile imagination. | Since most of the “plots” failed to! come off, Barnitz conveniently took \credit for having been responsible for | preventing them. | The first official recognition came| to Barnitz when he was deputized to jorganize the “bomb squad” by the} |late Theodore Roosevelt, who was at} |] euver by the French to consolidate England. Carpenters’ Council espionage and terrorism within the Soviet Union and has actually en- couraged anti-Soviet revolts and wholesale terrorism was pointed out in the communique. Churchill Instigated Revolt. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer in the British Tory cabinet, personally encouraged English spies and terrorism that is being carried on thruout the Soviet Unior |by White Guardists at the instigation of British imperialists states an official government conymunique issued today. teristic of the work of the British government and its vassal organs in the territory of the Soviet Union. | A certain ‘merchant’ with a Soviet passport in the name of Steinberg was wounded and arrested by a fron- tier guard while illegally crossing the Finnish border in the summer of Au- gust 1925. During the inquest he de- clared that he was not Steinberg but |a well-known English spy, captain in Refuses Aid to Fur | Workers, Plumbers The Carpenters’ District Council, meeting Wednesday evening at 130 Brooklyn or in opposition to the bru- tality of the industrial squad against the fur workers. When Irving Steinberg, delegate of Local 2725, carpenters’ union, sug- gested that the council protest to the mayor about the beatings of the strik- ing furriers, Charles George, presi- dent, who was presiding, ruled him out of order. Many of the reaction- ary delegates shouted “get off the floor, We have nothing to do with the furriers.” Official For Plumber Bosses. A communication from Plumbers’ Local 1, Brooklyn, asking for assis- tance in their strike was criticized by John Hallkett, president of the Build- ing Trades Council who charge: “the plumbers broke their agree’ t with their bosses and we cannot therefore support them. Another thing, We must keep our record clean so when we appear before the car- penter bosses they will have no reason to find fault with us.” + |that time police commissioner of New operating in the Soviet Union to car-|the Royal Air Forces named Sidney ry on a terrorist campaign, accord-| George Riley and one of the ex-chief | Madison Ave., refused to go on record) self with the police department by the in favor of the striking plumbers of brutal attacks on subway workers York. | During the war Barnitz attracted {much public attention to himself by jrepeatedly thwarting German “dyna- |miting plots,” details of which were jusually lacking. | | More recently he distinguished him- ling to the testimony of George Kiley, 'a captured spy, the communique | states. Despite the denials frequently made | by the British die-hards, evidence sub- mitted in the communique clearly points to wholesale espionage and violence carried on by Britain within the borders of the Soviet Union. Text of Communique. M. Woikoff, Seviet plenipotentiary representative to the Polish kepublic, has been murdered in Warsaw. This act which reflects the actual interna- | tional situation of the world empha- {sizes still more the criminal policy |of the reactionary forces which are ; | striving to wreck the cause of peace. | Woikoff’s murder is a link in the ree y i ll 98 chain of events which taken together, |mean an ever-growing menuce to im | peace. This menace is becoming ever The case against the three gun-|more real in spite of the utmost ef- men who shot Samuel Cohen, cloak-| forts of the government of the USSR maker picket, several months ago,|to preserve peace. |was thrown out of court yesterday! In connection with Wotkoff’s crim- jby Judge Marqueen in GeneraleSes-| inal murder, which followed a whole |sions. This was an amazing proced-| series of direct and indirect attacks jmre as the case against the three | on the part of the British government gangsters was a gtrong one, con-|on USSR institutions abroad, and the clusive proof being, given of their|rupture by Great Britain of diploma- shooting of Cohen in the left leg.! tice relations with the USSR, the | The three gangsters are Max Richter, | government deems it necessary nctu- Max Frie: a and A. Goldman. jally to make public a number of «ther | during the I. R. T, strike last summer. | Gangsters Who Shot Cloakmaker Picket POLISH WORKERS (Special To DAILY WORKER) sorrow and indignation at the mur- der of M. Woikoff, Soviet Minister to Poland, and denouncing the Pilsudski dictatorship, which shares with the imperialist powers and Russian White Guards, the guilt of the murder, the Communist Party of Poland has ad- dressed the following communication to the Central Committee of the All- Union Communist Party! The Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of Poland expresses the sorrow and indignation of the masses of revolutionary workers and peas- ants of Poland at the infamous mur- der of Comrade Voikov, representa- S. S. R. in Warsaw. BLAME PILSUDSKI; U. $. $. RB, WORKERS DEMONSTRATE | Score Pilsudski | WARSAW, June 9.—Expressing its! | facts which are sufficiently charac- 13,000 Rifles Included In Nicaraguan Grab by United States Marines WASHINGTON, June 9.—Over 18,000 rifles, several hundred ma- || chine guns and field pieces, and several millions of rounds of am- munition were confiscated by U. 8S. marines from the army of the constitutional government of Nica- ragua, which has now been driven into exile in order to make safe the rule of Wall Street’s man, Diaz. This was contained in the report to the state department by Ad- miral J. L. Latimer, commanding the American forces. Ten dollars each for the price paid for the confiscated rifles, but since no expense account was at- tached to Latimer’s report it is doubtful where the money went to. Voykov’s murder is ime first step of the war against the U. S. S. R. which is being systematically pre- pared by Britain and Pilsudski’s Pol- | land. The fascist government of Pol-| land is openly encouraging White | Guardist cliques, according them hos- | pitality and every support. All sym-| pathies of the workers and peasants of Poland are on the side of the U. S. | 8. R. against our own and foreign im-| perialist murderers. The Central Com-| mittee of the Communist Party of| Poland, on behalf of the party, as-| sures the toilers of the U. S. S. R. the| Great All-Union Communist Party and its leaders that the criminal act in Warsaw will increase in the prole- [organizers of the Lockhart plot. He |had been declared outlawed by sen- |tence of the court on December 3rd, 1918. Riley gurther stated that he came to the USSR for the special | Purpose of organizing terroristic at- | tempts, arsons, revolts, etc. He stated ‘further that when he came from | America he saw Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer of Great Britain and one of the most responsible min- isters of the British king, who per- | sonally instructed him regarding the |organiaztion of terroristic acts and |other provocative acts. His written testimony is in possession of the gov- | ernment. | Riley’s testimony was entirely cor- | roborated by. material seized in fur- | ther arrests. | At the end of 1926, organs of the All-Union State Political Department | prevented an attempt against Tchu- | bar and Petrovsky. At the same time an attempt was made against Mess- ing, chief of the Leningrad state po- litical department, by the son of Col- onel Truba, a supporter of Petlura, j}and commandant at Kharkov in Pet- | lura’s time, now residing in Warsaw. | This criminal was at one time a mem- | ber of the Communist Youth Union, |which he joined the more easily to jearry on counter-revolutionary white terror. He belonged to the same group as the counter-revolutionaries ‘wha prepared the murder of Tehubar, |chairman of the council of People’s |Commissaries of the Ukrainian Sov- jet Socialist Republic and Petrovsky, chairman of the Central Execeutive | Committee of the USSR and the All- | Ukrainian Central Executive Com- | mittee. Attempt on Bukharin’s Life. At that same time was arrested | Biriukoff, formerly a volunteer of Denikin’s army, who tried through the Union of Communist Youth to join the Communist Party and prepare a revolt against representatives of the Soviet power and the Ukrainian Sov- jet Socialist Republic. On March 12, 1927 an attempt was bein; in the big (Bolshoy) Theatre soci | Bukharin during his report on the oc- casion of the anniversary of the Feb- |ruary Revolution and it was by mere chance that Bukharin was not killed. Later this same person, who was a son of the merchant, Gurevitch, and formerly chief of the bourgeois Boy Scout militia prepared an (Continued on Page Two) \ | (Continued on Page Three) _ i { oe I t Ae mo, £ AT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! — ee