The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1927, Page 1

» with his umbrella in position over his STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No, 131. Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Outside New York, by matl, $6.00 per year. Hntered as second-class matter at the Post Officé at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING, CO., 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ===] FURRIER CONVENTION MACHINE ON DEFENSE M Aseieatad stealing is not the profitable business it used to be, so the New- burgh and New Windsor horse-thief | detecting agency, in which William R. Brown, former warden of Sing Sing, was an active leader, has hauled down its shingle and declared itself a thing of the past. The daring individuals who formerly devoted their acquisi-| tive talents to the expropriation of| horses are now engaged in the more | lucrative business of misappropriat-| ing automobiles. America is a land of opportunity for those who keep} ahead of the times. When stealing | automobiles loses its glamor the time | will be ripe for an up-to-date airplane} thief. A noble and self-sacrificing collection | of patriots are engaged in the laudable business of saving the na- tion from socialism and Communism. - ea, Their organ is the “National Re- public” and this being the summer season—always a slack one in the newspaper business—they are in need| of funds. Well, we are not the peo-| ple to blame them for that, being in| a similar boat. But one would ex- pect that those defending the inter- ests of big business should have their efforts appreciated i in a financial way. | But this is not exactly what we are} driving at, | * * * | ANY of you may yet remember the| hectic days of Teapot Dome when the “Ohio Gang”—the titular head of} which was that extremely picturesque and democratic Warren Gamaliel} Harding (it is said that he revelled in a game of craps)—decided that a deluge would follow their demise and that’ there Was no use breaking into a safe unless you took away its con- tents. So over their poker and Scotch they parcelled the country out be-| tween them, one fellow taking oil, an- other liquor and another hospital} equipment. eee “MIURDER will out” and so_ will stealing, particularly: if the/ thieves quarrel over the spoils or get to fooling with each other’s wives.| There was a great explosion and oil) simply squirted all over the White) House while Calvin Coolidge stood) political head. It was then the stool- pigeons got busy trying to save the administration. Each division of the fink army had its own particular task. * * « seal National Republic rallied brave- ly to the cause of graft and cor- ruption. It defended Daugherty and the rest of the crooks and sent one of its best liars to Montana to dig up or manufacture scandal that would in- jure Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who| was on the trail of Attorney .General Daugherty, strike-breaker and prince of grafters. But the stuff was so raw that despite the best efforts of those grand patriots some of the grafters were exposed. It is true that only one of them went to’ jail, the) fellow Forbes, who stole crutches from disabled veterans. * * * OW the National Republic is com- batting “the organized efforts and widespread propaganda of the de- structive radical forces.” We are told that “these forces have already gained too much influence over public opinion and our governmental agencies in their program to overthrow American institutions and substitute socialism -and Communism.” The law of self- preservation can be seen working here at, top speed. Under a Communist regime grafters would be executed on conviction, Here, unless they steal nipples: from an asylum for crippled children, they retire on their loot and bie in comfort for the remainder of their lives. ‘ ae ae ORE about Daudet, the French jist leader who consented to be “arrested” by the police only after his trowps were allowed to retreat with the, honors of war.’ The cabinet is now _leported to have agreed to grant hin? clemency, In the meantime the cabinet is moving to lift the im- munity of Communist deputies, which will enable the government to prose- eute them for conducting Communist propaganda. This is class justice with @ vengeance. * * BYGEAND, continues to press for a united front against the Soviet Union. British business interests and German business interests, however, are conferring with a view to develop- ing better commercial relations with Russia, Poland appears to be proper- ly frightened over the prospect of facing the wrath of the workers’ re- public and has acceded to the Soviet Union’s demands in the Voikoff as- sassination, At the same time Lithu- ania in following England’s lead _ against Russia “put her foot in it.” The capitalist press may rave as it (Continued on Page Four) THE DOLLAR PATRIOTS By Maurice Becker, DELEGATES REPRESENTING MAJORITY OF UNION LINE UP WITH THE LEFT WING | Reactionaries’ Fake Delegation Determined to Split; WASHINGTON, | the scab New York unions continuing to cast a Schachtman Quarrels With Aids rae 15.—W ith 31 delegates representing majority of votes in the fur workers’ “convention” here, the bona fide delegates |representing the overwhelming majority of the membership om | ganized a unity committee last night and prepared today to with- |draw from the packed convention. Right wing forces controlling the{ fake convention quarreled badly all morning over whether they should ac- |cede to the first of the unity commit- |tee’s demands: that the 83 delegates lof the joint board unions be heard in defense against general executive |board charges. President Oizer |Schachtman was bitterly attacked by | Vice President Winnick as a “camou- \flaged progressive” trying to repeat his compromising of 1925, by which he was elected president. | The right wing ganged up unani- |mously against Schachtman on his Act as Thugs ruling that the joint board delegates |be heard. In desperation Schachtman| The right wing picketing in the fur jsent out a call for Vice President| market has not as yet materialized. |Matthew Woll, head of the A. F. of| According to all indications it will |L. committee in charge of attempted | never take place, disruption in New York who explained; The letters sent out last Saturday toe the infuriated right wingers that|to the New York locals of the Ameri- lit is necessary to give the joint board|can Federation of Labor asking for ja hearing in order to preserve the|their help in breaking the furriers’ |legality of convention proceedings|strike has brought no response, the N.Y, UNIONS WONT SUPPORT WOLL’S STRIKE - BREAKING Workers Ignore Plea to UNFORTUNATELY Judge Mullan is indisposed. For this reason William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER is not yet released’ on bail, because the judge was too ill to sign the necessary papers. Meanwhile Harry F. Sinclair, the millionaire Oil Bandit, is enjoying perfect freedom and * liberty, after having been brought to trial more than five years ago. Meanwhile Thomas L. Chadbourne, multimillionaire Traction Baron, who is mulcting the workers of the City of New York of millions of dollars annually, is on a pleasure jaunt in Europe, after the hearings which clearly showed up his depredations. But FORTUNATELY there are many thousands of workers in this home of capitalist justice, who are not indisposed. They are on the job. They will see that Dunne is released, that the verdict imposing a Five Hundred Dollar Fine is reversed. Are YOU one of those on the job? CHANG TSO LIN DECLARES MARTIAL |STRIKE OF 2,000 LAW AS NATIONALISTS NEAR PEKING) BARBERS NOW ON Pacific Conference Calls for Fight Against Intervention; Score Landing of Troops INN. Y. 6. SHOPS: Will Refuse Agreemen CHENGCHOW,. June 14 (delayed) (via Berlin)—A huge|With Individual Bosses | mass demonstration, in which more than 100,000 people partici- pated, welcomed the entry of Nationalist officials and General Feng Yu-hsiang. (Chengchow is a strategic center on the Han- kow-Peking railway recently captured by the Nationalists in their drive against Peking.) Chinese Women Score Open British Brothels For Imperialist Troops ate destruction of Mukden militarists and Chiang Kai-shek, and demanding the formation of a food control com- mission and a commission to guard against counter-revolution were adopted. SHANGHAL, |’ June © 16.—-The Reports from Wuhan state that Chinese “women in Shanghai, Chane \Teo.ith; Manchivlan’ was: hid through Women's Department || 1/2" a arti seca lente | has placed Mukden, Tsingtau and Tsinan under martial law. (Chang has been conducting a reign of terror in cities north of the Yellow River in an attempt to smash the wide-spread sympathy for the Nationalist cause). Shantung troops have not been paid for six months and are deserting to the Nationalists in ever-increasing numbers. A political and military conference held here has decided that the Muk- den troops (Chang Tso-lin’s) are un- able to offer any serious resistance to the Nationalist armies. All of the prominent members of the Kuomin- tang and the Wuhan (Nationalist) (Continued on Page Three) of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) have sent a vigorous pro- test. to the Nationalist government at Nanking against the brothels which have been illegally and flauntingly established in the In* ternational Settlement by the Bri- tish military for British and Amer- ican troops. The protest points out that the brothels are filled with 15-year-old Chinese girls, It asserts that “one object of the revolution is the emancipation of women, and it is humiliating and gruesome that China’s womanhood should be trampled under the iron heel of foreign imperialism.” * \» Over 500 shoe ‘bat between 59th St. wd upper Bronx on the West Side | vere without barbers yesterday. | 2,000 barbers went on strike follow- | ing repeated refusals on the part of | f i _ |the employers to grant them an in- Resolutions calling for the immedi-! crease in wages. | The response of the workers was practically unanimous in the shops| involved. Picketing began at 8 in the} morning and continued until the clos- ing of the shops. Two enthusiastic mass meetings were held yesterday afternoon, one at Leslie Hall, 88rd St., near Broad-| way, and the other at union strike headquarters, 155th St. and Amster-| dam Ave. Meetings will again be| hey! at the same places tonight at| 7 p.m. Collective agreements with the Master Barbers’ Association will be insisted on, it was decided at the meetings, and no agreements with individual bosses will be permitted. A basic weekly wage of $35 is asked by the men together with fifty per cent of all income over $50 weekly received on each chair. The present working hours are from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., and until 10 p, m. on Saturdays. One of the demands involves reduction of one hour on bac WORKERS BY NEW ARREST TACTICS ,| Street and down the other.. In Laying Down-OUR Lives for ‘THEIR Country . t Gangsters Slug Fur Pickets ~FAIL TO TERRIFY Women Beaten by Cops} In Brutal Orgy By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. At 6.45 a. m. yesterday Police Com- missioner Warren’s mounted police went into action. With clattering hoofs they galloped up Seventh Ave- | nue and drew rein at the corher of Thirtieth Street. Their faces were brutally grim and set. They tugged | viciously at the reins to hold the ner-! vous horses in check. The fur district was coe ri this early hour and the polic advantage of the empty pieeath er post sentries. 200 police on foot were | stationed at fifty-foot intervals along | the affected streets. They were armed with ugly night-sticks and uglier re- volvers, This is war—industrial war. March of Pickets. At seven o’clock sharp the striking fur workers began to pour into the strike area, Within a few minutes thousands of them were parading to and fro. Massed picketing—the phrase is| meaningless unless one has seen these |thousands of determined workers holding their own on the picket line. Men and women, girls and youths. Class war—the phrase is meaning- less unless one has seen these cour- ageous fur workers viciously clubbed by the police and knifed by the paid gangsters of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Girls Slugged. Scores of girls and men are herded |into a hallway and jabbed with night- sticks, Police wagons crash through the crowd and back up. The workers are shoved and jostled in. amid the cheers of their comrades. Gangsters! An open touring car prowls w one it one sees pale, leering faces. The human dregs of the East Side are up early this morning. Information is «ffered. “See that car? That's ‘Frenchy's’ boat. Those guys are all members of his gang.” An occupant of the car nods to a (Continued on Page Two) "| the Soviet Union. ‘against attack in court. Grudgingly |the machine agreed to hear the New! York delegates tomorrow morning preparatory to expelling the joint | board unions. 48 Delegates Join Forty-eight delegates last night | joined the unity committee to bring peace and unity within the ranks of fur © workers. Representing New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Newark, Montreal, Toronto and Win-| |nipeg, they spoke for 80 per cent of | | America’s organized furriers. Harry Englander, manager of the Toronto Joint Board, suspended on the |convention’s first day as international |vice president because he protested the seating of the New York right wingers, was chosen chairman and an executive board of 14 members, rep- resenting each local affiliated, was elected. Englander stated the unity com- {mittee arose from a pre-convention appeal to all locals to support a unity | movement. New York, containing the bulk of |the fur workers, Englander explained, is the center of the union and the source of financial strength to help organization in outlying cities. But the present International has centered (Continued on Page Two) local trade unions refusing to act in the role of strikebreakers. This is | seen as a major defeat for the policies of Matthew Woll. Two Right Wingers Arrested. Two right wing gangsters were ar- rested yesterday morning at the cor- ner of Sixth Ave. and 24th St. They are Herman Silvers and Jack Regel. They were charged with carrying con- cealed weapons, large clubs being dis- covered up their sleeves. They were |veleased in $1,000 and $500 bail by Magistrate Rosenbluth in Jefferson Market Court. Police authorities stated yesterday that one of the reasons for the mass arrests of pickets was to discourage non-strikers from joining the picket line. They said that those workers who picket in the morning before go- ing to work, lose a day’s pay when arrested. In this way the police de- partment hopes to keep these work- ers from joining future mass demon- strations during the duration of the strike. Two Students Nabbed. Two students were arrested on the picket line yesterday morning. When brought to Jefferson Market Court they were released. They are Simon Gerson of C. C, N. Y. and Harry |Himoff of the International Students’ | Club, Hunters College. DIE-HARDS HIT BY U.S. S.R, BOYCOTT; LAUNCH RABID PROPAGANDA DRIVE British Workers Jobless Following Break in Trade; Wool Barons Lose $25,000,000 LONDON, June 15.—Fake reports, emanating from Warsaw and Riga about a “reign of terror” in the Sov- iet Union, are appearing in the Tory | |press—and deceive no one but the Tories, The reports appearing in the die- hard press are particularly rabid be- cause British industrialists are con- ferring with German industrialists with a view to extending credit to The determined at- titude taken by the Soviet Union, in declaring an immediate boycott, has been a severe blow to British trade. Hysterical Attacks The conciliatory attitude of British manufacturers has driven the ex- treme Tory papers like the Daily | Mail into hysterical attacks on the Soviet Union. Long and ridiculéus accounts of “Bolshevik terror” appear daily, British labor scoffs at these ac- counts, This afternoon George Bu- chanan, Labor member of Parliament was ordered from the House of Com- mons for branding as a lie the Tory statement that the British Govern- ment had nothing to do with spies | recently captured in the Soviet Union. . . . | Tory Rot | MOSCOW, June 15.—“Sheer rot,” is the comment made in official Sov- fet circles regarding statements in ane red Pane |the imperialist press describing “a eign of terror” in the Soviet Union. * * . British Plan War. | GENEVA, June 15.—Great Britain is making every effort to force the powers into an iron anti-Soviet ring. Although an anti-Soviet bloc has been the object of British foreign policy since the revolution, the- success of the Chinese Nationalists and the rap- idly growing strength of the USSR has led the British to redouble thei, efforts. Break Hits British Trade, Five million pounds, or twenty-five million dollars of orders for raw wool, (Continued on Page Two) Expel Labor M. P. for Nailing Baldwin’ Lie; Scores Spying in USSR LONDON, June 15,—G8orge Buchanan, Labor M. P., was today ordered. from the House of Com- mons by the Speaker, for charac- terizing as “a lie” the government statement denying thatgany of the twenty persons recently execut in Russia were in the pay of ’ British Government.