The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1927, Page 1

: pn STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. Vol. IY. No. 127. FINAL CITY EDITION THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927 PUBLISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J, O’Fianeery. of the Bomb Squad had a mild surprise coming to them last Monday, when divers, ons belonging to that large but Tespectable fraternity known as the workingclass pounced on the said pil- lars of the law and dislocated she EVERAL members creases in their trousers. There was} weeping and gnashing of molars. | The members of the Bomb Squad are | not accustomed to this kind of treat- ment. It reminds us somewhat of Chicago. . . U1 be exciting night a labor faker handed out local union member- ship cards to half a dozen members of the detective bureau of that city. A new set of officials were to be @ected that night. The detectives showed up alright, but so did the membership. And there was a lot of fun for all those who remained neutral, watching the dust getting! ehased around the hall thru the im- pact of the bodies of the detectives on the furniture. The detectives} came around to maintain law and or- der. They got lots of order but very little law. * * * sed members of the police force have no more right to use violence} on citizens than have ordinary thugs. But right means nothing to those} wo are charged with the task of de-| fending the interests of the capital- SOVIET WORKERS, PEASANTS HIT AT IMPERIALISTS Meet this Furious Hatred! David Gordon, the writer of the poem “America,” which has offended th» dignity of the Military Order of the World War, the Keymen of America, as well as the august judges on the bench, has been sentenced to the reformatory. In the proceedings in the Supreme Court, Part I, during which the request for a certificate of reasonable doubt for William F. Dunne was argued, Judge Mullan proclaimed the sentiment that the writer of the poem should be “tarred and feathered”. These are expressions of the hatred of the ruling class toward our paper. We glory in the fact that the ruling class hates us so bitter.y. Their hatred is born of the fear of our power and influence upon the masses of oppressed and exploited workers. We glory in it all the more: because through our courage and militancy we have at the same time aroused the deepest affection and devotion among the masses of the Workers. The de- cision of the court in the case of Comrade Gordon will add new enthusiasm to the flow of contributions which are coming in to The DAILY WORKER. For every word of hostility ut- tered. by the judge and the district attorney we will match a dollar from the loyal supporters of The DAILY WORKER. Don’t wait. Do it now. More White Guardist | Plots Bared in U.S.S.R. Four Butte Miners Die Because Power Wire Not Disconnected from Pump BUTTE, Mont., June 10.—Four |] miners were electrocuted in the || Belmont Mine here today while || attempting to move an electric |] ventilating fan from one part of a | drift to another. They were not Execute 20 Whites Guilty of Murder and Arson; | Criminals Aided by British (Contributions Pour in for Construction of New Air Squadron; Workers Give Wages (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, June 10. All over the Soviet Union, in the most |remote towns of Siberia, in all parts of the Caucasus, Crimea and |Central Asia demonstrations and meetings are being held to pro- .| test against the brutal murder of M. Woikoff, minister to Poland given time to disconnect the power wire. Joint Board Aakwers McGra Fur Council of Working Class Housewives Give Concert, Dance, Tonight At Scholem Aleichem School No. 2, 2075 Clinton Ave., near 180th St., Bronx, N. Y., this eve- ANSWER BALDWIN | iy ts re IN SOVIET UNION MOSCOW, June 10.—Peter Woi- koff, Soviet minister to Poland, who was murdered by a Russian GLENCHED FISTS jit Wate, tide] A, F,L, ATTEMPT |from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Pledging their full loyalty to the, eae |workers’ and peasants’ government| |and branding the series of outrages} iD FAREWELL lagainst the Soviet Union as entirely] jinspired by British imperialists and in no way reflecting the sentiments {of any portion of the population in the U. S. S. R., huge meetings of |workers are denouncing the provoca- | |tory acts of the imperialist powers. T0 WHITEWA u | Scientists Also. A group of Ukrainian scientists and Georgian authors have published de- point out TO SORMENTI, RED FIGHTER Deported for Fight Against Fascism ists. We have no record of the po- lice attacking the bosses. In the present strike conducted by the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union against the employers that violated their agreement with the union and against the scabbery of the bureaucrats of the A. F. of L.-the’ police ‘ate clearly-on the side of the bosses and the bureau- crats. | 7 ¢ * AT white guardist officers under} the inspiration and very likely in| the pay of the British government had planned a wide campaign of as- sassination of Soviet officials is sug- gested in articles appearing in the Moscow press in comment on the murder of the Soviet Minister at Warsaw. Those scoundrels were! plotting to dynamite the Kremlin and} also a congress of workers and pea- sants in session in a large theatre. . * * | cps imperialists feel that the re-| moval of Stalin, Buhkarin, Rykoff) and other outstanding leaders would rob the Soviet Government of some} of its best minds and make the tasks of overthrowing the government easier. After the French revolution and up until the time that England succeeded in crushing Napoleon her daggers were as busy as her cannon against the French revolution and the French military hegemony on the! continent. Lloyd George recently pointed out in the house of commons that Britain spent millions trying to restore Czardom as she did trying to restore the Bourbons in France. *. * * 'T those hypocrites have the im- pudence to charge the Soviet gov- ernment with interfering in the domestic affairs of Great Britain. It is a device almost universally used by capitalist governments to blame a! revolutionary movement or a revo- lutionary government for the dis- content that prevails in their own countries. The real blame rests on the shoulders of the. greedy ex- Joiters, . . e 'E British Royal Air Force is busy »pping bombs on villages on the West frontier of India. Fifty unfortunate victims of British ism were slaughtered by the eroes of the air, American ‘bring the blessing of “Civili- ‘o Nicaragua and the Philip- they are now using young and his great feat to propa- he masses in favor of the fin ir navy in the world. A very important special This meeting is called for morning. ‘2CIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING THIS ,ORNING, 10 A. M., WORKERS PARTY Workers (Communist) Party will be held this morning, 10 a, m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. of the most important problems of the party and the District Executive Committee calls upon the entire party membership to attend this meeting and to be on time. All party members must cancel all other activities this ning at 7 p. m., will be given the concert and dance of the Fur Council of Working Class House- wives, No. 1. All are invited. Ad- mission is twenty-five cents, The Working Class Housewives is an organization which is always ready. to defend pickets arrested, give relief to strikers’ families and work to make strikes and all othe: labor activities successful. VICTORY NEAR IN 12-WEEK'S. FIGHT OF THE PLUMBERS Helpers Will Be. Brot Into Union Victory for the Brooklyn plumbers, on strike since April 1, is seen as a result of a conference hetween Plumb- ers’ Local 1 and the United Masters’ Association, which has announced that it will employ all of the workers now on strike beginning Monday morning. This independent group of bosses has broken away from the principal employers’ group and has promised to hire all the workers on the five-day week, $12.50 a day basis. They also | pledge to raise the pay to $13.75 a day as soon as the rest of the build- ing trades gain the five-day week. The independent bosses and the local union also agree to take up the question of getting the plumbers’ helpers into the union before the end of the year. The independent group represents 77 bosses. A. Libsky is their president, Last night’s meeting was held at Ace Hall, Brooklyn. Thomas Oates, president of the local, read the report of the conference committee. “ When this edition of The DAILY WORKER went to press the workers had not yet voted whether or not they would accept the bosses’ terms. BALTIMORE, June 10.—Walter J. Bienemann, who during the war was fair price commissioner for Mary- land, was today sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Coleman in Federal Court on conviction of having embezzled confidential government information. membership meeting of the the purpose of taking up one Spontaneous Protest | Thunders in Streets By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | (Special to The Daily Worker). | MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R—((By Mail)! |—An intense and mounting wave of | bitter resentment against the grow-| ing series of provocative acts of the! Baldwin-Chamberlain government in| Great Britain is sweeping over the | Union of Soviet Republics. | The raid on the Soviet Trade Dele- |gation in London came on the heels lof the raid by the British puppet, Chang Tso Lin, on the Soviet embas- \sy in Peking. And now (May 25) the; |Die-hard intention seems to be to) break off all diplomatic as well as| | trade relations with the Soviet Union.| This feeling of Soviet Labor) jagainst the British imperalism that jis plotting the new war against the | Soviet Union, was brought vividly |home to me during the visit to the “Amo” Plant, Moscow’s automobile works. | “We are going to have a meeting | at quitting time,” said Vladimus Yel- | esaian. | “What about?” I asked. | “About the raid on the offices of | |Areos and our Trade Delegation in | London,” was the answer. | Sure enough. At that very moment |the great throng of workers was as- sembling outside this very building. No long speeches were necessary, The workers had all read the facts about the raids in their own press. They had discussed them thoroly among themselves. There was a short statement by one of the workers. Then the reading of the resolution. In an instant, as the reading of the resolution ended, a billowy sea of hands—of clenched fists—rose high above the throng. The “Amo” work- ers had spoken unanimously against the British imperialist foe. The res- olutions adopted were as follows: “The workers and employes of the factory Amos have learned from the newspapers and from the report of Comrade Shellenbaum, concerning the new and unheard of behavior of the (Continued on Page Three) Plumbers Helpers Will Be Tried On June 14 In Coney The five striking plumbers’ help- ers arrested Thursday when picketing in Coney Island were released in $500 bail for trial June 14 yesterday in Coney Island Magistrates Court. Thomas Russo, one of the pickets is still nursing a sore leg as a re- sult of the beating he received at the time of his arrest. According to the American Asso- ciation of Plumbers’ Helpers, which is conducting the strike, the struggle is still going strong and will con- tinue until victory is achieved. ' White Guard at Warsaw Tuesday, was a close friend of Lenin’s and studied with him at the University of Geneva for a number of years. When the March revolution broke out, Woikoff returned to Russia with ‘again. Woikoff took a prominent part in the October revolution. At the Universities of Geneva and Paris, Woikoff studied mathe- matics. MORE COAL MINE DEATHS PROVE A UNION IS NEEDED Miners Picket as Scabs Consider Low Wages BLUEFIELD, West Virginia, June 10.—Another non-union mine acci- dent, adding to the truly stunning record so far achieved this year, has demonstrated that without organiza- tion among the miners, there is no possibility of forcing the employers to maintain even ordinary safe work- ing conditions. Four miners are dead here today, and another is in a critical condition in a hospital as the result of a slate cave-in at the Keystone Coal and Coke Co. mine last night. Mine Known Dangerous. The dead are:—Joe Tatazarro, William Braddon and Morie Hooks, all white, and Grady Crider, Negro. Henry Griffin is suffering internal injuries, two broken limbs and a crushed foot. The men were clearing the main entry to the mine, preparatory to re- suming operations after a shutdown. The mine was known to be unsafe, and several of the miners objected to the dangerous plan of the manage- ment to remove props and other tim- ber and “clean her all out” in the entranceway. They were ordered to continue and when a certain amount of support was removed, a fifty ton slab of slate came down from the ceiling, and the third fatal accident in McDowell County within one month was accomplished. . . * Hundreds Picket. NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., June 10.—Reports that the Valley Camp Coal Company has resumed operation on a non-union basis in their Kinlock mine near here, with scabs imported from out of town, has created deep resentment among“ the union miners, The railroad station is being pick- (Continued on Page Two) John Drew Near Exit SAN FRANCISCO, June 10.—John Drew, dean of American actors, was making a valiant battle for his life here today. Stricken at Portland, Ore., two weeks ago, Drew was broughts here. , : | clarations in which they that the October revolution has open- ed the greatest prospects for scien- tific, cultural and economic construc- tion and express their willingness to do everything possible for the de- fence of the achievements of the | Thirty Shops Sign With A group of revolutionists and anti- fascists héld a farewell to Enea Sor- menti, Communist editor, and politi- Joint Board | The attempt to place the murderous | attack on Aaron Gross, furrier leader, | last Thursday morning us a fight be- | tween two factions within the Joint} Board, made by Edward McGrady, | | American Federation of Labor repre- | sentative, was branded as an utter |falsehood by the Furriers’ Union Joint Board yesterday. | The Joint Board pointed out that |the attorney representing the two gangsters when they appeared in} court was a member of the law firm | of Samuel Markowich, counsel for| the International. | | According to the latest information | Gross is still in a serious condition. Two Big Meetings. The striking furriers held two large meetings yesterday afternoon. In spite of the intense heat thousands of | workers jammed Webster Hall and} Manhattan Lyceum to capacity. | Amid loud cheering the assembled workers were informed that since the | strike started last Friday, 30 shops) have signed up with the Joint Board | and six others are expected to sign) very shortly. This is seen as the be-| | revolution, jcal exile from the bloody clutches of Build Air Squadron. the fascist tyranny in Italy, whose Many workers’ and peasants’ insti-| order for deportation from the Uni- Poland have assigned funds to the| Thursday evening (and this morn- Bureau of Aviation for the construc-| ing). tion of a new air squadron. Instead of bewailing the faith of The workers of Kiev, Tiflis, Khar-| revolutior who come to this coun- kov and other towns are giving p and are sent away by the Wall tions of their wages for the construc- Street government, the sentiment of tion of the squadron. the meeting’ was that those who re- Anglo-Soviet Protest. main in the country will put up a The Anglo-Soviet Committee has) more determined fight than ever, not sent a resolution protesting against! only agi t fascism, but against the (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) SHANGHAT UNIONS ‘AMERICA’ AUTHOR BOYCOTT BRITISH, GIVEN LONG TERM JAPANESE GOODS IN REFORMATORY Appeal for Funds to Aid |\Gordon May Serve 3 ginning of the break in the ranks of Nationalist Wounded the manufacturers, | “We challenge the city authorities) staNGHAI, June 10.—Steps are| to thoroughly investigate the attack | being taken here for the pis cat's on Gross,” said Gold. “If they are/ tion of anti-British and anti-Japan- not cowards. bulldozed by William | ose poycotts. Green and his clique they will do 80.| The rapid advance of the Hankow Were in A. F. of L. Pay. | Nationalist troo; i ps has again brought “The two gangsters who attacked/+t, the fore the danger of an open| Years for His Poem For writing the poem “America”, David Gordon, 18, was yesterday sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence up to three years in the city reformatory by Justices Murphy, Kelly and Fetherstone, in special ses- Gross were in the pay of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and were protected by the police. I am not speaking in Yiddish so all the spies who are here this afternoon can hear what I have to say. “The police department says it is not taking sides in the struggle. Those are sweet words to hear, but from our experiences we know differently. McGrady and his friends would not dare attack the fur workers unless they were sure of having the support of the police department.” To Give Proof. “We intend to present to the police commissioner definite proof of our charges. We will show that Isaac Walter gave the orders to the two gangsters, Friedman and Cohen to attack our fellow worker and com- rade, Aaron Gross.” McGrady’s Bluff. : “McGrady, of the A. F. of L. Re- organization Committee, has tried to deny that the two gangsters who at- tacked Gross were right wing hire- lings; but it was the lawyer of the International who defended them in court, and it was I. Walter, a mem- ber of the Reorganization Committee who pointed out Gross to the two men who attacked him, “We challenge Police Commissioner Warren and Mayor Walker to prove it by finding the persons who are guilty of the assaults which have been made on our workers during this past week.” Points To Di Mola Case. As an example of the way such as- (Continued on Page Three) imperialist war against China “ai i workers here are arousing popular; For publishing the poem in The sentiment against the purchase of | DAILY WORKER, William Dunne, their goods. editor, is now serving 30 days The proposed boycott is not a imovel i? the workhouse, and a fine of $500, on part of the right wing supporters | he maximum under the law, was im- of Chiang Kai-shek who are in con-|P0S¢d upon the paper. trol ‘of the city. It is a spontaneous; In imposing sentence upon Gordon, protest on the part of the masses of|an active member of the Young workers who are almost unanimously| Workers’ League, Justice Murphy in favor of the Nationalists. British|expressed regret that it was not and Japanese trade has already|within his power to sentence him to dropped from 15 to 30 per cent in|the state penitentary. the last 4 maegine. The judge put the youth thru a ' : |severe grilling, and expressed great An especial effort to raise funds) indignation at the sentiments of the * * in the United States to aid National- ists troops wounded in the armed struggle against domestic militarism fand foreign imperialism is being launched at Hankow. Readers of The DAILY WORKER who wish to aid the Chinese ‘Hbera- tion struggle are urged to send what- who is directing the drive, with the aid of many prominent foreigners, among them Anna Louise Strong. Mme. Sun Yat-sen can be reached care of the Chinese Red Cross at Hankow, China. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ever they can to Mme. Sun Yat Sen, | poem which he characterized as a “libel against the United States”. Gordon was asked if he was a Communist and various other ques- tions dealing with his attitude toward the present order of things. Before sbeing sentenced Gordon at- tempted to speak concerning the poem, but was cut short by the judge. | Friends of the young man were | #ppalled at the severity of the sen- |tence imposed, especially in view of |the fact that in the case of the |actress, Mae West, and others con- |vieted under the same statute against |“obscenity”, a sentence of only 10 days was Wanted, volunteers for the June 13! 108 East 14th Street, Report without fail on Monday morning at 9 a. m. at ‘IMPORTANT NOTICE TO WORKERS PARTY MEMBERS! Lindbergh celebration Monday, jtutions. instead. of laying wreaths on] ted States becomes effective in a few pam the coffin of the murdered envoy to/ days, at-a meeting hall on 39th Street