The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1927, Page 2

COOLIDGE GIVES FLYING CROSS TO YOUNGLINDBERGH — Years Ago Today Welcome Used for War Propaganda WASHINGTON, June 12.—With his customary banalities and profuse stupidities, Calvin Coolidge, yesterd bestowed the distinguished flying eross upon Charles A. Lindbergh by way of giving him an cial wel- come on his return France, fr whence he had flown New York in a monoplane. W ut giv- ing the slightest interpretation of the social character of the development of aviation; without taking advan- tage of the opportunity to show the tremendous economic and commercial value pf the rapid development of aviation, the president of the United States devoted his whole time to a sentimental talk about the great personal achievement of young Lind- bergh. Talks About War. The real motive for the official welcome was to encourage recruiting for the various branches of the mili- tary service that the United States government is rapidly building up in order that the military forces may keep pace with the rapidly growing economic powers of Wall Street, and % constantly reinvests its surplus wealth pillaged from the workers in other parts of the world. Although Coolidge did not mention any pros- pects of future wars, thereby carry. ing out the fraudulent policy of talk- ing pacifism while preparing for new wars, he did mention the last war. He said, in referring to Lindbergh: “Too young to have enlisted in First Troops in France Just Ten How many recall, as New York hails Lindbergh’s feat today, what was happening in the world just ten years ago? It was ten years to a} day (June 13, 1917) that the first merican expeditionary forces landed in France, Pershing led the first troops down the gang-plank to that French soil that many of them were to drench with their life's blood in order that the millions of dollars in- y| Vested by Wall Street on the side of England, France and Czarist Russia might be made safe, The fresh, jubilant, buoyant lines | of the youth and young manhood of America, were on a lark. Many of them, fresh from factory, field, mill and mine, were happy that life had suddenly changed for them. The old monotor . sordid, drudgery of the past was left behind, they were engaged in a holy cause and that Wilson’s words about “mak- ing the world safe for democracy” and “freedom for all forever” and “this is the war to end all wars,” really described realities. They did not then know, what every one knows jnow, that it was not the last war. They did not know that they were| |in France as cannon-fodder to make | |the world safe for Morgan’s invest- ments; to make secure for the great |bankers and industrialists their right | to continue to exploit the workers of the United States and extend their {power to the remotest parts of the earth. New Wars Being Prepared. | | Today, ten years after, the war-| | mongers are again beating the tom- MEXICO BARS U.S. GOODS ‘THE "DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MUNDAY, JUNE “13, “1927 Photo shows unloading of the last shipment of goods purchased in the unromantic | United States by the Mexican government. Thus does the Republic below the Rio Grande punish the) Many of them actually believed thet | conceit of American big business which has violated its neutrality, plotted European firms. Hereafter orders will be given clerical uprisings, armed bandits and arsonists, and both openly and secretly schemed to annex the country. EXPOSE MORE WHITE GUARD PLOTS; (Continued from Page One) RYKOFF SCORES BRITISH WAR MOVE | utmost limits. the world war, her son became a |tom; again fhe bands play and the| student. at, one of the state uni- versities.” steady tram) of uniformed ranks are | heard in the streets. Not, as in 1917, Ignores War Stand of Father. \to march directly to war, but only to Although mentioning his father, C.| make easier the tasks of the patriots | A. Lindbergh, a congressman from | for profit who perceive upon the hori- | Minnesota who, during the last war) 20n in the East and in the West.the opposed it and faced the fanatic de-| Clouds of another war arising, gather- nunciation of all the dollar patriots, | !ng¢ force that will cause the earth to Coolidge did not refer to the father’s | Tee! and millions die where thousands “Today these comparatively quiet England is di-/} in| | thirty-eight whites have been arrest-| ed for anti-Soviet agitation and at-|times are behind us. tempt to foment revolt, |recting propaganda against us Addressing a meeting of workers,| Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia Clemency Voroshiloff, war commissar,| and Rumania. stressed the inevitability of an at-| “If until now she has not succeeded | tack of the bourgeois powers on the|in throwing them against us, it is! workers’ and peasants’ state. He de-|rot due to lack of intention but to| clared that Great Britain had whipped | political controversy which does not| up bourgeois feeling to such a de-| permit the creation of a solid front.” gree that an attack on the Soviet . be = Union was imminent. + j U. 8.8. R. Wants Peace. | “There are many who believe that) WARSAW, June 12.—Despite the we can avert a conflict,” he said, “but/fact that the murderer of Peter I declare we are nearing a point! Woikoff, Soviet minister to Poland, | ers,” an official declares, “at the price Flexible Shaft Co, ‘Continues Lockout; Product Boycotted By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press, | CHICAGO, June 12,—After dealing | | with the union for the past 11 years} the Chicago Fle“tle Shaft Co., maker | jof sheep shearing equipment, sud- |denly threw its traditional labor pol- |iey overboard and became a bitter foe {of everything smacking of harmony + between employer and workers, It} refused the 10% raise granted by! other firms and its general manager | (now says: | “Under no circumstances will we| | meet with the representatives of the Metal Polishers International Union| or any other union. We are members of the National Metal Trades Asso- | ciation and are not permitted to deal | with organized labor. We will deal with the strikers as individuals.” | Inefficient Seabs. | Over 30 metal polishers and grind-| jers walked out last month when the company declined to pay the stand- | ard wage of $1.10 an hour. Since then jthe strikebreakers, though ‘working | behind several lines of uniformed po- \lice and of National Metal Trades gunmen, have not produced much ei- |ther in quantity or quality. The as- | Susman superintendent and other of- | ficials of the company have laid aside | their white collars and bent over the unhealthful and disagreeable tasks of grinding and comb pointing. There is urgent need of excellent workman- ship as a $50,000 order from the Ar- gentine is hanging in the balarice. But so fanatically determined is the company to ditch union agreements that loss of business does not scare it. “Satisfied to Lose”. “We are satiséed to lose the busi- ness of the professional sheep shear- | | i | of running an open shop.” Much of its sheep shearing equip- ment is sold in Australia which is a strongly unfonized country even in the agricultural occupations. Austra- |throwing water from WORKERS PROTEST OUTSIDE BRITISH CONSULATE HERE ‘Oppose Her Attitude Towards. China Overcoming many difficulties, a mass demonstration was successfully held in front of the British Consulate Saturday afternoon when 600 work- ers and students gathered under the direction of the Hands Off China Committee to protest against the ac-| | tions of the British government in its-relations to China, Although Julist Stuart Poyntz, one | of the spenkers was arrested, to be immediately released, and while some good slavish clerks and stenograph- ers attempted to curry favor with their bosses by making noise and surrounding buildings, to interfere with the dem- enstration, it lasted for over an hour, many passing workers stop- ping to join in, 3 | Carried Banners. | Assembling in Battery Park at 12| o'clock the workers, including many | Negroes and Chinese, marched to the | British consulate, 44 Whitehall St. Lead by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, they marched past several times carrying banners that read “American Work- ers Don’t Fight For British Interests in China”; “Stop the Attack on the Soviet Union, The Friend of China”; “China for the Chinese”; “Stop the; Attack on the Soviet Union and De-| mand the Withdrawal of Troops and Battleships from China.” Poyntz | started to speak from the steps of the building. After she had been speaking for| five minutes Sergeant Birget and two Organization Plans ! Made at Meeting of Alteration Painters: The movement to organize the | 26,000 unorganized painters in Great« ‘er New York is growing. |. A large number of speakers ad. \dressed a mass meeting Thursday, night at 86 East 116th Street, ar~ ranged by the Alteration Painters* jand Paper Hangers’ Union, and em< |phasized the vital importance of bringing these workers into an effec tive organization at once. They declared that the exorbitant linitlation fees of the official Brother- hood of Painters, Paperhangers and | Decorators of America was partly |responsible for keeping these workera out of the organization, and declared | their willingness to cooperate in the work of getting them into the unton, It was announced at this time that ,a series of similar organizational meetings would be arranged in all the boroughs of Greater New Yori during the coming summer months. The books of the union are now open for new members. The initiation fee is $5. GANGSTER THREAT BY MATTHEW WOLL GETS GOLD REPLY In reply to the announcement of Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, that he is writing every local union in | patrolman placed her under arrest|New York urging their members te amid boos at the police by the as- stage a picket demonstration in op. where class war is inevitable.” More Evidence Against British. “More than once,” he declared, |was a citizen of the Soviet Union, the reactionary Polish government | will refuse any demand for his ex- stand at that time. Coolidge was so dishonest he did died in the last war. Feually ominous as are the clouds that herald the next war is the fact not add that the father would not have permitted his son to enlist had he desired to do so becguse be un- derstood the fact that war was not for the benefit of the workers and farmers of the country but for the profiteers and Wall Street magnates. The demonstration in Washington was a huge affair with all the govern- ment employees and other mobilized to aid the military machine in its propaganda. Whether young Lind- bergh approved the thing or not is not known as he has made no state- ment. It is noteworthy, ‘however, that he did not wear an army uni- form, but civilian clothes, Peabody Mayor, Others, | Will Denounce Statutes Crushing Foreign Born BOSTON, Mass., June 9—A very wide opposition to the anti-alien legis- lation discriminating against the for- eign born has been aroused in Pea- body, where the population is largely foreign born. A mass meeting, to explain the viciousness of the anti-alien legisla- that Lindbergh, a fiver, was chosen as a symbol for the war-mongers. |The next war will be one of the air far more than of the land and sea. Swift-flying planes will hurl thunder- bolts from the sky into the streets of cities, towns and villages and lay waste the country-side. Not only the soldiers, but whole populations will be wiped out. The ten years that have passed| since United States troops first step- ped on French soil to engage in the world war have seen tremendous de-)| velopment in the art of destruction | of human life, and everyone who per- | ceiyes its meaning must fight against | the imperialism that is responsible for these new and more frightful prepa- rations. N.Y. Times Reporter, Tells Hew Furriers ‘Are Beaten by Police ment, that it should stand firm be-| Concert, to be held July 16. Morris “captured English spies have had evi-| tradition. dence of English support of different} I: White Guard organizations. theless the Soviet Union maneuvered peace, will not press any demand for) to prolong the period of peace to the'tho extradition of the murderer. | in its desire to maintain) Never- | Union, | Needle Trade Defense { | | | All Labor Movement in Support. In addition to this, Fox on the same The call that the Furriers’ Strike | day sold $20 worth of furriers’ cer- Fund and Relief Committee has is tificates, which can be exchanged for sued to the progressive labor move- | tickets for the Coney Island Stadium hind the fur strikers, received a very Beck and Silverstein purchased $5 sa calvatnsiae reply. | worth of certificates each. The strike of the brave furriers, | . * * the numerous attacks being inflicted | Do Your Duty! upon them daily, the beating and cut-) 4 newer the call of the striking fur-| ting up of strikers on the picket lines riers immediately! $50,000 must be by members of the industrial squad| .oiseq in order to carry on the fur and the Sigman-McGrady-Woll clique | piers? strike to victory. Money can- have aroused the entire working class not be expected from the bosses, nor movement. Every worker and work-| ¢/om the leaders of the American Fed- er’s organization sees more and more | eration of Labor, or Sigman, Mc- that the furriers’ strike is snot a Grady, Woll and the clique who are strike of only one organization | tying to drown the strikers in blood. against the bosses. It is a fight of ‘The one and only place that the stril- the entire working class movement, | ine furriers hope to raise funds is against, the united front ef the be-/|;, the ranks of the workers. The trayers of Labor, the bosses, the| rurriers’ Union is a symbol of the gangs and the police. The progres-| |. sive workers have realized that the cates Eeoareete ‘ipl and the is understood that the Soviet} | shop in this fight. USSR PLANS TEN tion pending in congress, has been| arranged by the Salem & Peabody! How strikers are beaten up in New! Council to be held in Moose Hall, Wal-| York City police stations is graphic- ,#!! the nut & Central Sts., Peabody, on Fri-| ally described by a New York Times day, June 10th, 7:30 p. m. reporter in a current issue of the Wright H. Gregson, secretary to, “Nation”, a liberal weekly. the mayor, will be chairman and the| Hundreds of pickets in the garment mayor of Peabody, Robert A. Bake-| workers’, furriers’, paper box makers’ man, who has expressed his opposi-|and other strikes in the past year, tion to this type of legislation, will) have been thrown into jail, and many be one of the speakers. Other speak-| of them have been subjected to third ers will be Miss Anna Kelly, prin-| degree tortures Their treatment has cipal of the Evening School Ameri-| been exactly like that accorded to canization Classes, Robert Zelms, | criminals and innocent citizens against | member of the executive committee, | Boston Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born, and A. Konstan- tinou of Lynn, who will speak in Greek. . A letter has been received from Charles Frederick Weller, internation-| al executive of the League of Nelgh- bors, who was also invited to speak, expressing his regrets at being un- able to attend the meeting because} he is leaving for Edrope June 8th, “I should like to give my greetings to all your colleagues in the Council for Protection of -the Foreign Born through you,” he writes to Phyllis Fenigston, New England organizer. “I am genuinely deeply interested in your work. Cal With Eye on 1928 Election Leaves Now for the Wide Open Spaces WASHINGTON, June 12.—Presi- dent Coolidge will start his little weat- ern publicity stunt in preparation for the coming presidential elections to- morrow, when he will leave foy his vacation in the Black Hills of South | Dakota. On his way to the Biack Hills, Coolidge will stop at Hammond, In- diana and Pierre, South Dakote. He will be accompanied by Postmaster General New, fourteen secret service men, a regiment of newspapermen and a battalion of White House flun- eva, ’ whom the detectives went to “get | something”. A. ©. Sedgwick’s ac-| |count of a typical beating up is told in these words: One detective takes a piece of rub- ber hose, which is part of the equip-| ment of the detectives’ bureau and| is favored for us ebecause it leaves | no marks, Another takes out his blackjack. Others grab anything— blackjacks, revolvers, night sticks. “I seen you before,” bawls a detec- tive. “No, sir,” the prisoner answers. |The detective strikes him. This is the signal. The “shellacin’” has started. Blow after blow from the rubber hose, blackjacks, and night sticks. The prisoners fall to the floor. The blood pours from their faces. fight of the furriers is one against corruption and gangsterism within unions. Progressives Answer. The attacks upon the strikers and the criminal cutting up of Aaron Gross, one of the leaders of the Fur- riers’ Union helps to prove this fact. The progressive labor movement, therefore, answered very warmly on the call issued by the Furriers’ Strike Fund and Relief Committee, During the eight days of the strike many workers’ organizations as well as in- dividuals have sent in sums of money and organized committees to go out and collect ammunition for the strik- ing furriers. * * * Amalgamated Workers for Furriers! The Trade’Union Educational Lea- gue of the Amalgamated Workers’ has undertaken to collect funds for the striking furriers. A special Amalgamated Relief Committee has been organized to carry on @ cam- paign for the raising of immediate funds among the tallors, This Com- mittee already sent in $160 to the Furriers’ Strike Fund and Relief Com- mittee, A call has also been issued to all Amalgamated Clothing work- ors that they should pledge them- They spit and cough blood. The de-| selves with one dollar a week during tectives, still in a rage, look at them.|the time of the strike and that they +The door opens. A young policeman| should eend in thelr dollar bills at in a uniform pokes his head in. “You| once to the office of the Strikors’ fellers is easy with 'em,” he says. “Is| Fund and Relief Committee at 41 that so?” roars a detective and kicks Union Square, Room 714, or to the a prisoner in the face, pulls him to| his feet, props him against the desk, then with the butt end of his revol-| ver makes a gash in his head. The| three prisoners go to the hospital. | If it were asked of any official | | source wat happened to these men it would be said that they received their injuries re®isting arrest, or perhaps that the “sidewalk came up and hit pte The newspapers later said the three men were questioned and admitted not only what they were caught doing hut all sorts of “stick-ups” in the laat alx ‘roonths, They admitted everything with which the detectives charged | them. lgamated Trade Union Educa- League at 108 Hast 14th Street, * * ° Am; tio! Over $400 Collected at Nitgedniget. $480 has been collected by Com- rade Sam Fox at Camp Nitgedaiget | tor tho Furriers’ Strike and Relief Committee. The following is a list of the names of those who contrib- uted: N Ballett, $25; A, Hugelsky, $10; B, Amron, $10; Vania San, $10; Altman, $10; N. Finchler, $50; M. Zibel, $10; KE. Sigel, $18; B, Schein, #10; Galkin, 310; N. Klimansky, $10; Cooper, $15; R. Rappaport, $16; M, reel $10; J, beg s Hae iw. $10; 1. + 4 All progressive workers and work- ers’ organizations that want to help | in the fight for a Union of the Work- ers for the Workers, and who want to exterminate gangsterism and be- trayers in the Labor Movement, must immediately send in their money for the loans and donations to the Fur- riers’ Strike Fund and Relief Com- mittee, 41 Union Square, room 714. lian labor officials have wired the company to go easy in its anti-union policy and the Australian correspond- ent of The Federated Press has called on the New South Wales branch of the company to explain the situation both from the American and the Aus- tralian labor point of view. Business agent John Werlik of Lo- cal 6 of the metal polishers reminds labor circles that the issue is clearly drawn between the union and open “Cooper, Stewart and Arizona! combs, cutters and shears are now made by scab labor under private guard and police protection,” says Werlik. “Send in letters of protest demanding a settlement of the strike !to the Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., 6600 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago. POWER STATIONS IN NEW PROGRAM (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, June 12.—The first stage of the electrification plan for! the Soviet Union approved toward the end of 1921 has virtually been completed. Power stations are actually work- ing at Shatury, Cashira, Krasnyi, Oktiabr, Balaknyi, Kizilevy. The ag- gregate power of all the stations in the Union reached 1,440 thousand kil- owatt by December 1926—an increase of about 800 thousand kilowatt over Now is the time to purchase your tickets for the greatest concert of the year which is to be held at the Coney Island Stadium, July 16. Not only will you hear a fine concert by buy- ing ticket, but you will also be helping the furriers win their battle. Coolidge Controls Rich Convention } Patronage WASHINGTON, June 12 (FP).— President Coolidge has backed into his third term campaign with a White House announcement that he hasn’t yet any choice as to which city should get the Republican national conven- tion next year. This is the first time that a president has indicated, when looking toward a third or even a sec- ond term, that he expects to handle this parti(ular. bit of patronage. Ten cities, according to White House report, have asked for the con vention, Coolidge refers them all to the Notional Committee, which will meet in Washington in December to settle the cnestion after getting his decision. Meenwhile, Coolidge will hold private psrleys with prominent Republicens from these cities ot hie summer office at Rapid City, 8. Dex Labor Gains in Ireland. DUBLIN, June 12,—Returns from the Dail KHirennn elections indicate that Labor atid dq Valera candidates oxe winning a good the expense of th Returns thus the Government candidates; 4, Labor: 9 seats to 7.8, do Valera Independents; 1920 when the electrification plan was drawn up. As for the production of current it rose even more consid- erably in the three years from 1928- 1926. The production of all electric stations rose from 897 million to 8220 million kilowatt. 10 Regional Stations. With the recent decision of the Council for Labor Defence the Sov- jet Union is starting work on the second part of its electrification pro- gram; besides the Dneiperestory sta- tion, foundations are being laid this spring for another ten regional sta- tions with an aggregate power of 450- 600 thousand kilowatt. Plans are al- so being made for the erection of three coal stations which will utilize cheap local coal. The coal stations are located at Chellabinsk, Novoros- nilsi and Krasnodar, Proposala have also been mare for the on of three stations, working peat fuel sembled wotkers. She was hustled! position to the picketing of the fur away in a taxicab to the Old Slip| workers, Ben Gold, manager of the Police Station while the demonstra-| Furriers’ Joint Board, said: tion took the form of mass picketing.| ‘‘The Jcint Board is confideat that Dividing into two groups the work-|the answer of organized labor in New ers, their ranks being increased by | York to this letter of Matthew Woll more who were arriving, started to|and Ndward F. McGrady wil! be an march around the building. One went | absolute refusal to be used as strike- south towards State St., the other| breakers and scabs against the strik- north into Pearl St. Police Reserves Called. | By this time the police reserves ar rived in the form of mounted men, who drove into the workers’ lines, tearing the placards from them. eet | soon as they reached the ground other workers picked them up and continued | the march. This process kept up for| about ten minutes, the police break-| ing up the picket line, which always | immediately reformed. Suddenly shouts and cheers were heard from the crowd. Juliet Stuart Poyntz had returned. Mounting the | steps to the entrance to the Naviga-| 2 zione Generale Italiana, which occu: pies the store office in the south en of the same building as the British consulate, Poyntz continued her in-| terrupted speech. She told her lis- teners that the lieutenant at the Old | Slip police station had said that | “every American citizen has a perfect! right to deliver a speech provided they display an American flag and do not advocate the overthrow of the gov-! ernment by force.” Cops Look Foolish. ak The police who were present looked | foolish and the demonstration con- tinued successfully for several min- utes, when one of the fascists con- nected with the Italian concern com- plained that the meeting interferred with his business. Not wishing to give the police an| opportunity to again create trouble, | the crowd lead by Miss Poyntz, moved to the northern end of\ the building, at the corner of Whitehall and Pear! Streets where Miss Poyntz once again started to speak, Occasionally water or banana peels were thrown towards here fromthe Whitehall by some clerk in the outer fringe ot the crowd. Those who were opposed to the demonstration also used other means such as hiring taxis to pass by the meeting and create rr. Did Not Keep Order. Although the police were still pres- ent they did nothing to keep order at the meeting. When Miss Poyntz fin- ished speaking the assembled work- ers were addressed by D. Benjamin, Philip Frankfeld and Anthony Bimba. The meeting ended by the unaninious adoption of a resolution denianding the withdrawal of Anieriean troops from China, calling forth support of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the British policy in China, the vote was taken, even those who Had been making the noise did not building ah Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Briansk and| vote against it. Ovshansik in White Russia, Opposite the consulate is the United Thus the electrification system ori-| States Army Building, many soldiers ginally started in Moscow and Lenin- | being interested spectators ofthe en- grad is actually extending to all sec- tions of the Union. Tho such progress has called for considerable expendi- tures, the need for electrical energy hes grown so rapidly that these ex- have been inadequate, ‘There has been such deman-l for elec- ‘trification that besides state means, | the funds are allocated by local organiza- tions. unten tort Kane he Bee iy appo' . Rog- ers, retiring pres! of th International, Com tire demonstration. Hours For Old Age Pension. ling New York fur workers, | Will Help Furriers. “If the workers of New York do come out cn the picket line in the fur market, they will come not to fight the strikers tut to help them in their struggle ugainst the bosses and their agents. “We are in possession of absolute- ly reiinble information that under the cloxk of bringing so-called union men to the picket line to fight the alleged Concnunists, Mr. Woll and Mr. McGrady ure going to bring the Gropper and Frenchy gangs, some of whose members made the attack upon aron Gross, a Joint Board business went last Thursday. “We hope that Police Commissioner Warren will not be fooled by this camouflaged move to create further trouble and disorder.” Give Warren the Affidavits, The Furriers’ Joint Board Saturday turned over td Commissioner Warren the affidavits and other data re- quested by him in the interview with Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, Louis Hyman land C. S. Zimmerman this week. Thirty members of the Joint Board jett yesterday for Washington to at- tend the convention of the Interna- tional Fur Workers’ Union, which open: today in the A. F. of L. build- In a statement issued yesterday, Ben Gold says: “The Joint Board is going to the convention of the International to ap- peal direct to the members of the union against the illegal expulsion proceedings of the union officials. Equipped With Facts. “The delegates are going equipped with facts and evidence to show that the American Federation of Labor violated the constitution, and that the so-called investigation and reorgan- ization committee acted toward the univn in a manner absolutely. unpre- cedented in the history of the Amer- ican labor movement, It is the ho; of the delegates that they will be able to show the union members the jus- tice of their case, and thair inno- cence of the unfounded charges that oat been made against them, be delegates from the Joir* Board locals are going with the intent of bringing unity in the ternational union, and preservir conditions won in the 1926 However, if this convention is with delegates from paper lo When | everything is pre-arranged t the A. F. of L. to continu premacy, and with the mant to betray the organization, Board delegates are deter. continue the present fight. To Preserve Union. “Since the workers of the tr which are at present on stri well 28 unemployed workers standing with the Joint Board, «..._ mandate has unquestionably been given to the Joint Board for fighting to preserve the union. “It is rumored in labor circles that