The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER YVIGHTS) FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 128. Current Events SUBSCRIPTION RAT. THE HS: In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, $6.0 ATTEND WOIKOFF MEMORIAL MEETING TUESDAY, JUNE 14 AT 8 P.M, AT NEW STAR GASINO, EAST 107TH STREET AND PARK AVENUE. PROMINENT SPEAKERS WILL ADDRESS THE MEETING DAILY Work Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New Yirk, N. Y., under the act of March 38, 1879. mail, $8.00 per year. 0 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927 rR Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents ORGY OF MILITARISM OVER LINDBERGH By T. J. O’FLAHERty. 6 igo return of Lindbergh has driven almost every piece of important news off the pages of the capitalist | press. Because the young aviator has captured the imagination of the masses—the section that likes to go off on ‘an emotional jazz for nine days at a time—everybody, or con-| cern with something to sell from the vendor of a can of gasolene to the} manufacturer of airplanes and from the cockroach business man who| makes a living by securing semi- | derelicts to peddle flags and. buttons| on the streets to the publishers of mighty newspapers—all are out to) coin an honest dollar out of his feat. | * * * | E confess to an occasional stroke | of nausea over the business. Not} that Lindbergh does not deserve credit for his accomplishment. It is the bawdy conduct of the bourgeois hucksters that sends us scurrying to an open manhole when we read about ckambers of commerce and frank-} furter factories paying money to the} papers to advertise their hypocritical love for him. Lindbergh may get} rich out of it. He is worth millions) to the American captalist class andj he is now too firmly in the grip of) the masters of the nation to break| lose if he ever had an inclination to| do so. | * * “] IKE father like son,” may a good} old adage as far as the configura-| tion of a man’s nasal appendage may be concerned, but ideals and the de-| sire to sacrifice for them change, with time and changed conditions| even as the indignation of farmers} changes with the bettering or worsen- ing of the erep situation. The young lad who is now feted by capitalists, their kings and presidents, does not carry around the social grouch- fodder that made his father a tartar to the rich on the plains of Minne- sota. . ” ~ HE American capitalists are wealthy enough to bridle their promising young men and their un- usually enticing young women. The latter are extremely useful in times of war when strong men forget the | horrors of the trenches as they march down Fifth or some other avenue, as the well-groomed if not over- groomed daughters of the Wall Street gamblers and singers that look good to the eyes tho hard on the ears, waft kisses at them. Men die but once so the poor docker or plumber or fireman whose appear- ance in ‘ordinary times would send those parasites fleeing for ammonia has his day and he throws out his chest believing that he is fighting for his country. * * ND the Lindberghs! They are al-| ways useful. We want the largest air-navy in the world. Let Lind- bergh say the word and Coolidge can push the appropriation thru con- gress, knowing that the politician who would oppose it would be, com- mitting political suicide. And should the civil war in Nicaragua have a relapse or resume activity one word from Lindbergh, our hero, would help silence objection. Without wishing to cast the slightest reflection on the young man, we advise our readers to watch the methods that our ruling classes will use in extracting the| maximum advantage from the Lind-| pbergh flight. This is the day of the capitalists. The masses follow t | “\e sheep, but those who believe that “ynasses will follow them for ever, ° know history. | “ontinued on Page Three) ' rand the Immediate one million men, women, ydren in the rich Mississippi \find themselves at present. shelter, food, and clothing as ‘of the criminal negligence of 4deral government to guard ‘y flood disasters, aggravated (e failure of the Coolidge ad- uamstration to provide immediate and adequate relief for the victims. The American capitalist class, which holds the greatest accumula- tion of wealth in any single country fn the world, which claims the highest developed technique and power of production, obstinately re- fuses to develop systematic measures of flood prevention and control. . The result is the present terrible dis- aster in the Missiasinni valley. May 28, 1927 This clear-headed, clean-lived, modest but daring son of America who drew the peoples of many na- tions together in their concentration upon some- thing of their supreme and common admiration.” Perhaps the “Times” and the other denizens of the journalistic red light district can select one of their prostitute crew to attempt to explain how it is possible that the son of a father who exposed the fraud and sham of the world war could possibly be considered a hero. The “Times”, like any other kept lady, is not supposed to be consistent in her flattery | or fury. Ten years ago the name of Lindbergh was anathema with the patriots because the father of the present hero, a congressman, fought against it. mongers are trying to exploit the private achievement of the young Lindbergh for their own ends. New York Times Comments on Lindberghs — May 29, 1918 Commenting on the fact that the father of the flyer had been refused a hall in which to speak in Duluth: “More agers and operators of that concern (the Non-Par- tisan “League) Mr. Lindbergh, so far as we know, is not under indictment for sedition.” fortunate than many of the man- Now, however,» the war- Lindbergh is an American, but not the kind the “Times” would have us believe. If he | has not forgotten the teachings of his father he must thoroughly despise the slimy politicians and the kept editors who fawn upon him, but who tried to fan the flames of fanaticism against his father. CHIANG KAI SHEK LOOKING FOR WAR LORDS’ ALLIANCE PEKING, June 12.—Chiang Kai- shek is reported to have resumed negotiations with Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord, for an alliance against the Nationalists who are rap- idly sweeping north to Peking. The only obstacle to Chiang’s open alliance with the northern war lord is his objection to Chang Tsung-chang as war lord of Shantung. Chiang is reported to favor Sun Chuan-fang, who opposed the Nationalists at Shanghai, as Shantungese war lord. Chang Tso-lin is reported to favor Chang Tsung-chang, who is notorious for his brutality. He may, however, discard the former Shantung war lord in order to secure the support of Chiang Kai-shek. Early Nationalist Victory. Nationalist leaders it is stated are expecting to enter Peking by the end of July regardless of any combina- tion of war lords. General Yen, Gov- ernor of Shansi, who commands one of the best-drilled armies in China, is almost certain’ to remain neutral. Fines, JAILS, Assassins These are the methods whereby the ruling class shows its fear of the rising tide of dis- content among the workers. These are the methods whereby they hope to terrorize those elements who refuse to submit meekly to the yoke of oppression. which are being employed against the outstanding figures of our movement. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail). —Students of the Communist Uni- versity of the Toilers of the East, gathered in a Press Week Demon- stration here, voted unanimously and with great enthusiasm to send their greetings to The DAILY WORKER, the Central Organ of our American Communist | Party. U. S. Workers Students Here. Students of scores of natignalities, numbering more than a thousand in all, attend the university here. Some of them have been in the United States, Thus I found two who Plant in Detroit. Many spoke either the English or the German languages, so it was easy to converse with them and get the feel of the enthusiasm with which they carry on their work. They extended an invitation for me, on my visit to the university during the day, to address their Workers’ (Continued on Page Five) had at one time worked in the Ford, DAILY WORKER 1S\Victory for Negro LETTER TO GREETED IN USSR! and White Workers FROM BEN GOLD PRESS CONGRESS) Ends 9 Mont Fight ON PICKET LINE (By Federated Press.) Negro and white ‘ifésfon picture operators are victors in a nine-month strike against a big Harlem concern} operating several theatres. Men of) both races struck together, stood on) gether under the leadership of Oper- ators’ Local 306. Braving injunctions and police, the operators got the help of Musicians’ | | Local 802, whose members walked out | {of the houses affected and crippled the movie boss so effectively that he has signed up, granting all wage and| union demands. Harlem Negro papers are boasting | now of the fine interracial co-opera- | | tion shown in the successful strike, | which was waged in the center of| New York’s famous Negro district, | inhabited by 200,000 colored people. | SACCO and VANZETTI | 'SHALL NOT DIE!) These are the methods But these oppressive and violent methods have the opposite effect. Instead of driving people away from our movement, it draws them nearer. Instead of terrorizing the workers, | it develops new enthusiasm, new courage and new devotion. : This is well shown by the tremendous burst of indignation and support which The DAILY WORKER has received since the attack upon it by certain patriotic societies. The jailing of Dunne, and Gordon, the young comrade who wrote the poem in question, the ruthless and unwarranted Five Hundred Dollar Fine, all these things are bringing daily to the paper con- tributions from all over the country. No unit of the Party, no comrade in the Party, no sym- pathizer, or reader of The DAILY WORKER should fail to do his share at this time. Flier Chas. \Stench of Tammany Poli ganda Spoils Mammoth Reception to receive the most tremendous corded to an individual. are being made for the recept western boy, whose courage and miration of millions. 1 Feeding upon his reputation like A brave aviator—the militarists are ‘using him as cannon bait; the capi-| Army Made Him.” | talist politicians quarrel for a share of his glory. | WOLL ‘Tells of Criminals the A. F. of L. Uses Before his departure yesterday af- the picket line together and won to-| ternoon for Washington, where he is | day to be one of 30 New York delegates elected to the bi-ennial convention of the International Fur Workers’ Union, Ben Gold, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, despatched the following letter to Matthew Woll, acting president of the National Civic Federation and chair- | man of the Furriers’ Reorganization | The motion picture operators and) Committee which was appointed by| American Federation of Labor offi- cials to effect the expulsion of the Joint Board local unions The letter to Woll follows his an- nouncement that he is calling upon New York labor unions to conduct a demonstration in the fur market against the striking fur workers. Gold writes: “Our attention has/ | been called to your communication re- # lative to the strike situation, which appeared in the newspapers of June 1th, 1927. “You spoke in your communication of providing ‘mass protection’. This has apparently already been attended to. The strike area is at present in- fested with gangsters with long crim-| inal records. These thugs are seek- ing to terrorize members of the New York Joint Board by murderous as- saults. As an instance we cite the murderous attack upon Mr. Aaron Gross, an officer of the New York; Joint Board. One of his assailants is a man with a long criminal record. Upon this man’s arraignment in the| | magistrate’s.court he was represent- | ed by counsel acting for yourselves) afternoon and was placed on a red-draped gun carriage. harpies, are the Fat Boys. the war department, the professional patriots. Shop windows of New York are crowded with pictures of young Lind- bergh, carrying captions like “The Innocent War Bait. | Lindbergh is friendly and ingenuous. |He is naturally—and naively— |pleased at his tremendous popular- ity. He does not realize that he is | being used by the professional mili- tarists, and the fat boys who pull the strings, for war propaganda. Lindbergh’s father, who was no less courageous than his son, bitterly| fought capitalism which plunged the | world into the long and bloody World He was reviled and spat upon. War. | Young Lindbergh rides in triumph on {a battle cruiser, and is acclaimed by Linaberss NEW YORK WELCOMES GREAT FLIER TODAY; PATRIOTEER TEERS GET GOING tics and Military Propa- Today Charles A. Lindbergh will land in New York harbor ovation that has ever been ac- No conquering hero, no president has ever been the object of preparations as elaborate as those which ion of this shy gawky middle simplicity have won him the ad- Senator Lindbergh= | Gal Cuolidge.. He-is acclaimed by Cal 'and the fat boys because they can/ use him. | Professional Patriots Parade. i Marching past young Lindbergh to- will be 10,000 officers and men| of the United States Army, the United (Continued on Page Five) Wanted, volunteers for TODAY. Report without at 9 a. m. at 108 East 14th EXPOSE MORE WHl RYKOFF SCORES. BRITISH WAR MOVE BULL IMPORTANT NOTICE TO WORKERS PARTY MEMBERS A brave representative of middle western farmers, ‘and the father of flier Lindbergh. To the day of his death the militarists cursed and in- sulted him for opposing the capitalist war. the Lindbergh celebration fail on Monday morning Street. TE GUARD PLOTS; ETIN. Considering that the Polish government's reply to the Litvinoff note, regarding the murder of Soviet envoy, Woikoff, at Warsaw recently, is only partly satisfactory, M. Litvinoff is addressing another note te Poland, demanding that “Poland take immediate and energetic measures against the anti-Soviet terrorists, monarchists, and bandits operating in Polish territory, and expel these from Poland.” The Soviet Union government declares that the assassination was not curbed. after his expulsion from Russia. MOSCOW, June 12.—Mas Py ses | merely an isolated case, and says that the break in British relations en- | couraged monarchistic activities in Poland, which have not been sufficiently It says also that Polish citizenship was granted to the assassin * of workers filled Kremlin Square last night and silently watched the burial of M. Woikofé, murdered Soviet minister to Pol and. Woikoff’s body arrived in Moscow from Warsaw late in the Six and the so-called International Fur-; horses slowly drew the carriage to the Kremlin Square | riers’ Union. Criminal Record. | “Such counsel have appeared for) In the meantime reports from vari ous sections of the Soviet Union in dicate that White Guard plots, insti in the service of the Rumanian goy- ernment have been arrested in Odes- every man with a criminal record who | gated, it is believed by the British,|sa, while in Novorossiysk, Caucasus, (Continued on Page Five) | are being uncovered. Sixteen spies (Continued on Page Two) Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party- And when the disaster occurs, ruining hundreds of thousands of people, the ruling class of the United States and its government in Wash- ington again manifest the same dis- regard for the well-being of the masses. While the capitalist press talks loudly about flood relief, and funds are being collected from indi- vidual contributions, the Federal gov- ernment persists in doing nothing to relieve the conditions of the flood suffers. Spend Millions While Masses Suffer. The American government is quite ready to precipitate a world war to protect the property of American in:perialist exploiters in China, But the same American government has no concern for the protection of the lives of thousands upon thousands of farmers, workers, small business men and their wives and children in the Mississippi valley. The Coolidge ad- ministration finds plenty of funds to build and maintain the navy, the army, and a whole host of officials, to despoil and oppress the peoples of Lutin America, to establish the domination of American imperialism in China, but it refuses to find the means to help adequately and re- habilitate the ruined and suffering masses in the Mississippi valley: Secretary Mellon boasts tremend- ous surplus of governmental income over expenditures, and advocates the reduction of taxes upon corporations and high incomes, but does not find government funds available for im- mediate flood relief and rehabilita- tion, Secretary Hoover likes to indulge in high talk about the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars for the development of super-power and other industrial projects to enrich the American capitalists, but in the matter of flood prevention and im- mediate flood relief he, together with Coolidge and his entire administra- tion, prefer the policy of small in- dividual voluntary assistance. Cool- idge, Hoover, and Mellon prefer to leave the tremendous task of re- habilitation to the bankers and to the Chambers of Commerce to utilize the disaster for their further enrich- ment, Why does the Coolidge administra-! tion refuse to call Congress into ex- tra session? Why does the Coolidge | administration refuse to make in- stant preparations for large sgale| governmental relief for the flood victims? Why do the big capitalists insist that the whole matter of flood relief and rehabilitation be left to the| private initiative of the big capital- ists? . Coolidge and his administration are afraid to call an extra session of Congress, because they fear the| criticism and attack of their failures,| and because they are opposed to ade- quate governmental flood relief. Cool-| idge and his administration are| afraid of any investigation of the flood and its cause. Since investi; tion would disclose the ever pre stream of graft created by Congress | by its appropriations for the Missis- |sippi river regulation, the workers | and farmers of the river valley are left inadequately protected against! floods, altho the staggering total of appropriated funds would suffice to make such disasters forever {im- possible. Coolidge and his adminis- tration, together with the big.capi- talists, are determined to, leave the flood victims ruined and helpless to enable the big bankers and merch-| ants to exploit in their interests the| misery of the masses. Football for Politicians. The so-called Flood Control Con- ference, organized in Chicago by capitalist politicians of the western states, such as Mayor Thompson of! ibaa Calling of an Extra Session of Congress for Relief of the Victims of the Mississippi Flood Disaster Chicago, and others, offers no hope for immediate relief. The elements dominating this Conference hold the |Same views on the matter as the Coolidge administration, despite the anti-Coolidge maneuvers carried on by some capitalist politicians in the Conference. The big bankers, merchants, manufacturers and capi- talist politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties which dom- inate the Flood Control Sonference have succeeded in confining the Conference to questions of future permanent flood prevention, and ex- cluding all effective action for im- mediate relief and rehabilitation by the Federal government. The demand of the farmer (Continued on Page Three) ~