The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1927, Page 1

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 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class mater at the Post Offico at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 38, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 132. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by, mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per y NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’Fianerty. N irate subscriber objects to some of the cartoons that appear in this paper. One of the pictures that, made her see purple was a splendid sketch by Ellis of a worker with a/ sledge ‘hammer rolling up his sleeves while in the act of starting out to get new recruits for The DAILY WORKER. The other was by Grop- per, and pictured a hideous collection of thugs rigged out in capitalist uni-| method being used by the police de-| forms on the way to slaughter the Chinese people. * * * Now: strange tho it may appear to those who only read what appears in this paper, we are neither blood- thirsty nor particularly disagreeable human beings. In fact even the members of the Bomb Squad that came here to arrest our editor and) business manager almost turned away when they had a look at the! business office staff. Even the slightly less refined editorial staff) did not give them the impression that! they were among savages. The truth is that we are as human as we oos- sibly can be. The only difference be- tween us and other people is a differ- ence in the way we look at things. * * * Te gentle reader whose blood churned uncomfortably at the ghoul- ish monsters drawn by Gropper and the wrathy worker pictured by Ellis would feel more at ease had the! MCGRADY CAUSES JUDGE TO DEMAND EXCESSIVE BAIL Arrested as Pickets Mass arrests of ‘pickets is the partment in trying to break the strike of the fur workers. One hundred and sixteen arrests took place yesterday morning; those taken into custody included four peo- ple who were passing by and were dragged into the,police net. They had no connection whatsoever with the strike but that did not trouble the gallant defenders of the law. Of the four, three were dismissed } in Jefferson Market Court, while Bessie Glass, the fourth innocent vic- | tim of the zealous activities of the| police, was paroled by the gracious court. Want Excessive Bail Due to the excessive bail asked by | Magistrate Rosenbluth, 110 of the strikers are this morning still in jail | only two girls of the entire lot re-| questing to be released. The others | decided that they prefer to sit in jail | than put the union to a terrific ex-| pense. When brot before Magistrate Ro- | “WITH AN AIR OF DAZED DIGNITY” One reporter honestly stated during the enormous military and navy receptions given Lindbergh | } BRIAND’S ILLNESS EXPOSES PLAN OF CHAMBERLAIN TO BUILD “HOLY ALLIANCE” AGAINST SOVIET UNION Germany Flirts With “Friendly” Warni GENEVA, June 16.—Premier Briand’ here as the ostensible reason fo | ferences to arrange this alliance. gates express surprise at their 1 The chief obstacle to has demanded partial di entering the “holy allian m } anc arr REVAL, Esthonia, June | under arrest charged with plottir Soviet ambassador to Esthonia. MOSCOW, June 16.—Great form of a light sentence meted Voikoff, Soviet minister to Pola test of the imperialist power: tions against “Bolshevist propa Indignation is also expressed over Conspiracy and Issues ng to U.S. S. R. sudden illness is given r the hitch in Austen Chamber- lain’s grand plan for a union of all‘ Western European powers against the Soviet Union. Briand has departed, and the negotia- {tions remain where they were for the time being. League of {Nations delegates refer to the conspiracy as a ‘‘Holy Alliance.” Chamberlain has been holding ceaseles private and ret con- so Ir them that the dele- i1umbe berlain ent of France * . 6,—Thirt ig the a ig rance thus fé price for refused. Ru Rt y White are ssination of M. Lorenz, indignation was expressed here {today over the new imperialist attack on the Soviet Union in the i out to the murderer of Peter nd, simultaneously with the pro. ated in the League of Na- |the refusal of the Polish court to wait 't Ger: senbluth thirteen of the strikers were | { % the purpose of defending the in-| “yead the speech he delivered (no! nan Province,” the letter states, “is artists equipped their figures with| powder puffs and lip sticks and sent! them forth on their different tasks bearing sticks of chewing gum to their foes. But this tough business of fighting for freedom or suppress- ing a fight for freedom is waged more frequently with sticks of dyna-| mite and other means of destruction. immediately sentenced to three days in jail. -Altho the attorney for the} union wanted to proceed at once with | the other cases the district attorney | had them postponed. Twenty-six cases for a hearing on June 21, the rest for hearing tomorrow. This cou- | pled with the excessive bail asked | This is exceedingly regrettable, since | for their release pending trial, is seen | we all like a nice warm sand heap | aS a move to throw disorder into the | by the surf with all the other at-| ranks of the strikers. | tendant features This point of view is given weight ; in Washington and New York, that he moved thru the proceedings “with an air of dazed dignity.” He was merely the focus point of unlimited propaganda for the next world war, and after resisting per- suasion to wear a uniform, has at last been prevailed upon to make a “preparedness” speech, on the theme that “a great war fleet in the air will save us from attack,” the old and childish excuse of all militarists. Whether still dazed, or consciously a traitor to his father’s teachings, Lindbergh is now merely a tool of the war mongers. Gold Warns Convention for the arrival of M. Rosenholz, who was en route to Warsaw as a speci envoy. Pointing to the brutal p sentences passed upon Polish labor leaders, observers see in the indeter- minate sentence given to Kowceda an imperialist blessing to murderers of | Soviet officials. Tories Start “Protest”. The imperialist “protest” was made to M. Chicherin, Soviet minis- ter, thru Count Brockdorff Rantzau, cular viet ion th i for market th he would ntil he had consulted th government. Chicherin is leave for Moscow. no comm Easy On Murderer. that please the ie dignity senses, ‘ 2 : | (Continued on Page Two) \WE NEED MORE COMRADES TO JOIN THE FIVE HUNDRED EXPULSIO NS WILL ie The “protest” val ot thle sat he had been ss ‘e ied to aa | Lihnitie dw | . by-tory: Britain-as a feeble. reply-to}Voikoff by 2 White Guard-organiz =. let’s hurry along. with the sogial change that will enablé us to en-} joy having our ears tickled with the sweet tones of a wild bird’s song COMMUNISTPARTY better if she will take the trouble to read in the capitalist press about the subjugation of Nicaragua by the Wall Street government and the slaughtering of innocent people in China by the foreign tmperialists. This is the realfty that our artists picture. They cannot help it if some of our people like to live in a fool’s paradise. } rather than the rattle of machine gun VO: fire and the hoarse words of com- OF CHINA FIGHTS | tened upon us by the capitalist court. Several hundreds have re- | In a semi-official communique is-|The court gave Kow mand issued in battle. Our sub- | sponded from the mines, mills, factories and farms in all parts * DELEGATES T0 L D sued later, be German sovernment minate sente scriber may see our point of view | ; . | announced that its action should not that the presideon ba |the country. They have eagerly shouldered in the finest collec-| F FOR FARM REFORM Asks Kuomintang Purg- ing in Open Letter HANKOW, June 16.—The Central . ee Committee of the Chinese Commun- 2 ist Party has addressed an open let- AIVE oie whe expected thc ter to the Central Committee of the | # a wae oe haa a Was Kuomintang regarding the situation | 4 a vohaey les Tales . © Per- in Hunan, where it declares, “the rev- ° 2 \jod of its development.’ | or two coming to them when they! «phe fundamental problem in Hu- doubt it was written for him by the the realization of certain agrarian re- war department) at the banquet form measures. The moment has given in his honor at the Commodore} come for putting into action the Hotel in New: York last Tuesday | agrarian policy. This is the histori- night. In his speech Lindbergh de- cal task of the Kuomintang. The parted as far from the line of his future of the revolution depends upon anti-militarist father as the most’ the energetic action of the Kuomin- ardent propagandist for a big air tang in this matter.” fleet would desire. | Referring to the betrayal of the \revolution by Chiang Kai-shek, the letter continues, “The beginning of the agricultural*revolution drove the reactionary elements in the Kuomin- ‘tang to counter-revolutionary actions. The feudal militaristic elements took ‘up arms in an open war against the peasantry and threatened the down- fall of the Kuomintang and the Na- tionalistie Governments. Soldiers Support Peasantry Noropy but a political sap would expect that a young lad like Lind- bergh could resist the mighty pres- sure of the militarist forces that are using him to inoculate the minds of the American people with preparad- ness idea. Preparadness for what? And. against whom? This preparad- ness that our bosses talk about is for ; With the moet brilliant display of class consciousness and solidarity comrades have answered the appeal of The DAILY DAILY WORKER, |tive spirit, the burden which capitalism has placed upon The} With one great push we cannot only cover the fine but also We are waiting for it. behind the job. William F. Dunne Freed in $1,009 Bail Pending Appeal to Higher Court William F. Dunne, Editor The DAILY WORKER, was yesterday freed on $1,000 bail pending ap- peal for a new trial on a certifi- cate of reasonable doubt granted by Justice Mullin of the supreme court.’ p When released he had already served 20 days of a 30 day sen- tence in the workhouse imposed in connection with the publication in The DAILY WORKER of the poem “America.” David Gordon, 18-year-old au- thor of the poem, was last Friday sentenced to serve an indetermin- ate sentence from thirteen months to three years in the New York Reformatory. Yesterday he was BARBERS’ STRIKE LEAVES ONLY THE BOSSES AT WORK ‘Over 2,000 Fight For Higher Wages Only the bosses were at work yes- terday in part of the 500 barber shops between 59th St., and 242nd St., on the West Side where more than 2,000 barbers struck Tuesday. The walk-out followed close on the \heels of a decisive victory won hy 1,8000 Bronx barbers and manicurists several weeks ago. - Yesterday picketing began with the opening of the shops at 8 a. m. and continued until closing time at 8 p. m. | WORKER to cover the five hundred dollar fine, which was rae RUIN FUR UNION, \Left Wing Present Case | | ; | have the nucleus for the sum necessary for our appeal proceed-| In Washington ings. Comrades, we depend upon you to give that necessary push.| (< 0:41 To The DAILY WORKER Thousands of others have started the ball \¢ aisigasals pissy +) a-rolling. It is up to you to take the tip and put your shoulder | WASHINGTON, June 16.—Leading up to a vote of expulsion of the four furriers’ locals affiliated with the New York’ Joint Board, the Interna- tional fur workers’*convention in ses- sion here heard four of the New York leaders state their position. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, in an impassioned speech! branded as false the “charges” pre-| | ferred against it by the A. F. of L.| |“Reorganization Committee” keaded | |by Matthew Woll, Edward F, Mc-} Grady and Hugh Frayne. | Makes Counter Charges. He counter-charged that the pres-) tion, and formation of scab locals | being followed by the reactionary of-| ficials was destroying the Internation- | al. Gold declared that the action to be taken by the convention in com- lems. | “T am ready to resign as manager | of the Joint Board,” he challenged. | “We want only peace and unity with-/ in the Inérnational. The cry of! ‘Communism’ is raised as a bogey to cover up the dastardly efforts of In- the Soviet charges of British espion- age in the Soviet Union and as a move to force Germany into an anti- Soviet bloc, be construed as an act of hostility to n out by th tion. t i d that Whit ion with tence to fifteen y FENG LEADS PEKING ATTACK; TEN WITHDRAWN FOR DRIVE ON CHIANG Right Wing Shoots Down Canton Workers; Two ‘Regiments Leave Ch iang for Nationalists BULLETIN. PEKING, June 16.—Chang Tso-! tator in name as well as in fact of 1 in, Manchurian war lord, is now dic he Peking “Government”. The announcement that he had appointed himself head of the civil gov- ernment came on the heels of the resignation of Wellington Koo as “prime minister”. The rapid march of the Nationa lists on Peking and the growing Na- tionalist sympathy in the north makes the most rigid sort of dictatorship necessary for Chang. (Reports received by * | The DAILY ent ‘policy of expulsion, reorganiza-| Chang Tso-lin had established martial law in Mukden, Tsingtao and Tsinan.) WORKER yesterday stated that * * HANKOW, June 16.—General Feng Yu-hsiang, after confer- ring with members of the Natio. pletely expelling the New York unions| charge of the Nationalist drive against Peking. would fail to solve the internal prob-| Seng-chi has returned to Hankow. It is rumored that Teng has heen recalled in preparation for shek. Feng has convinced Nationalist leaders that, unlike Chiang Kai-shek, he is willing to submit to govern- mental discipline and to function nalist government and leaders of |the Kuomintang at Chengchow, has been placed in complete General Teng a campaign against Chiang Kai- After shooting into the crowd, the police charged it with fixed bayonets. The number of killed and wounded is not definitely known. Troops Join Nationalists. ay. b eye of the rich here and abroad’ “The aggressive actions of the re-|| also granted a certificate of rea- $35 Asked. ternational officials to break the ere. Kal o military commander. Workers and peasants thruout | and suppressing the exploited classes actionaries .has ‘caused some hesita-|| sonable doubt and ordered released The men are seeking a basic wage) spirit of the New York workers.” | @?8 | -stek, renegade National-/kwantung Province are rebelling when they seriously undertake to ex- tion in revolutionary quarters. They || on bail. rate’ of $85 weekly and a reduction Will Ignore Convention Acts. jist, insisted on encroaching on the| against the vicious terrorism of ——J propriate the misappropriators. ‘fear that if agrarian reforms are ef- i * * * ‘fected the Nationalist armies will ERE vis an excerpt from what t#ke a hostile position. This is not Lindbexgh said: “In the meantime ‘ve: The. soldiers are landless peas- | the mos* important thing for us to! (Continued on Page Two) American Telephone, Cable Interests Acquire of one hour on Saturday when they work from 8 a. m. until 10 p. m, No individual agreements will be | signed and only a collective pact with the Master Barbers’ Association will “The New York Joint Board and the | | 4,000 working members affiliated with | it as well as the 4,000' on strike,” he continued, “will refuse to recognize the acts of the so-called convention, functions of the Hankow government. Celebrations are being held in the Wuhan cities for General Teng’s vic- torious troops. Teng’s troops, march- ing north from Hankow, along the ; Hankow-Peking railway, effected a| Chiang Kai-shek’s disciples. Two regiments of troops in Fukien have revolted against Chiang Kai- shek and have declared their dlle- giance to the Hankow government. " do is to develop the transcontinental i i be considered, the union leaders de- , | ‘4 It is likely that this action will be / | Meukoh ‘fom which wa albeaay teva: New Company in Chile Haved: folag, packed as it is with 83'men from New| juncture with General Feng at Cheng-| sottowed by troops thruout Fukien and | A commercial air service in America Nungesser Hoax Author ' SANTIAGO, Chile, J ie-Th Perera fbn Popranentitin eabeety. REE Spare | SRO rere | Kwantung provinces where there is a : le, June 16.—The *, pobungd ' i i Te Revlon in pag hg pe bh og Admits it Was Joke to || Chile Telephone Company ” seni Cal and Wife Put On An} “We invite the rogularly-clected Peasants Attack Chang. gr gery eg er perlented ‘lows eannanl he tealad ee owned by English titeoeses has just A fi M a C: delegates of this convention to come| PEKING, June 16.—Honaness pea- ick! P (rlanas’ can bal belly Wa B T * f W ds fallen a prise to the oats Gt Antes ct for Movie Cameras |to New York to investigate for them-|sants, organized into the “Red ‘ a nie redierarer old: relishes bg reak edium 0 00 Hoa ‘tiapestaiiioniiwhieh’ contiriuadt pare) selves the real facts in the situation|Spears”, have been cutting off sec-/A. F. L. Heads Strike at pada Sy at Has of the ati wind its tentacles around the vital} RAPID CITY, 8. D., June 16— there and to decide who truly repre-| tions of Chang Tso-lin’s troops and in- Industrial Unioni: * wa Ne ugerting ie fe. ta have. a|| 4 QUEBEC, June 16.—Just to re- || Taustries of the South American Re-| Rushing back from @ successful fish-|#%t# the membership there.” terfering with northern militarist| ; sm. In a trained personnel which can be mobil- Mave..ttie, monovony “of life in tie publics, ing expedition, President Coolidge to- Names Strikebreakers. |communications in the _vicinity of Bakery Drivers’ Dispute dope sr aah pa mt And lumber camp village of Chicoutimi, ‘The International Teleph q|day met movie cameramen to re-en-| Gold ci 4 | Shunteh-fu in Chihli Province. (Shun- | La ah pain, ate Bh thos northern Quebec, an accountant |.) h pia v4 7 brig hie ni Col act with trimmings the scene of his Mrs b: oe specific delegates @s/teh-fu is one hundred miles west of] SEATTLE, June 16,—The- Central =i at ois 8 a Be yeni named Blais telephoned to River iy efi i aks bt “ Wi larrival. heck last alaht. ; e He ers in recent New York) Tsinan-fu.) | Labor Council has been informed by x he Lagi a Shred ‘¢ ie Bend, about 100 miles north of || 5osthenes , wh i h ay, XA oe ‘ur strikes, UNA the American Federation of Labor A militarists an ising to be|! hore Wednesday and reported that preside: and which controls the Matthew Woll, chairman of the spe- Right Wing Terror. that the Bakery Wi Detvets use used by them were taken in by sur- face :phenonema and the meaningless phrases about peace that fall from the lips of all militarists except a Mussolini who has a war-hungry horde of discontented cutthroats to vlay up to at home. , (Continued on Pare 6) ‘ Coli and Nungesser, missing French flyers, had been found. The report was soon relayed to Quebec, and from there telegraph- ed and cabled to all parts of the world, and was eagerly swallowed by the metropolitan press, " telephone systems of Cuba, Spain, and other countries, has now acquired the ownership of the Chilean Com- pany. The All-American Cables and the Montevideo (Uruguay) Telephone Company are also a recent acquisi- tion of the American corporation. ' 2 Dying, Ask Pardons. TRENTON, June 16.—The Court of Pardons is holding a special session today to consider the application for clemency for Daniel C. Bliss, 64, and Anthony Falcetano, 29. Both men are serving sentences for murder and are reported dying. cial A. F. of L. “Reorganization Com-| mittee”, presided at the session which heard Gold and the other New York delegates. Contrasting with previous stormy sessions, the convention listened prac- tically without interruption to the 4 (Continued on Page Five) SHANGHAI, June 16.—Dispatches received from Canton state that the right wing is carrying on another ter- rorist campaign there. Police fired into a crowd of workers who had | reco; gathered in front of the right wing headquarters to protest against its labor-smashing campaign. long within the jurisdiction of the Teamsters’ International, instead of the Baker’s Union as they stand at present and unless this ruling is nized the Bakers are to be ex- cluded from the Council. What ac- tion the local council will take is” yet to be determined. a