The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 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 | | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N, Y., under tke act of March 3, 1879. HE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION | | Vol. IV. No. 134, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER . PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents Current Events| By T. J. O’Fuanerry. INLESS the working class of Europe, and particularly those of England, France and Germany are in a position to block the conspiracy of the war-crazy imperialists against the | Soviet Union, we are on the eve of another conflagration which may bring about the birth of a new social| | order or reduce the workers of the World and the oppressed colonial peo- ples to a new low level of exploitation. ee 'HE tory government of England, driven to desperation by the up- rising of the people of China and the| . gradual loss of her world trade sees in the destruction of the Soviet Union and the re-establishment of a diluted czarism, with her agents running the show, her only means of salvation) from the doom that faces her. This| is the explanation of her mad desire to forge a ring of hostile states against Russia preparatory to waging war. ee eee ET no one make the mistake that there will be no war in the near future because the capitalist powers have not yet fully recovered from the last war. This is a delusion. Eng- land does not seem to think that she is incapable of waging war. If she is able to placate Germany at the ex- pense of France; if she is able to throw a bone to Italy without endan- gering French interests; if she is able to satisfy the clashing ambitions of the small and large bandit powers in Europe and thruout the world, there will be a war against Russia. England will stake her all on it an only the workers of the world can prevent it. ig is reported that Chiang Kai-shek, | the former Kuomintang general | who betrayed his cause and joined the | * * * imperialists, is about to appeal to the United States for recognition of the Nanking regime. He denies that he will join Chang Tso-lin, the poly-| gamous Manchurian bandit, who is now ruling at Peking with the aid of) the executioner’s sword.- “The papers. barely give a word to the Hankow re-| gime, but judging by past silences it} is safe to assume that the stds eget] ary armies are making headway and that as_soon as Lindbergh gets out| of the city we will hear good news. | * * * | HERE: is now room on the front| pages of the capitalist press for| other news besides the effusions of} politicians over the “Lindy” flight to| Paris, We learn that our president, | Calvin Coolidge, caught seven trout in a South Dakota lake ‘and that one) of them weighed one pound fourteen) ounces. We are inclined to believe} that “Cal” would prefer to *have! caught or recovered seven insurgent | votes. | * * * ! aes was a good Coolidge story, in. the papers recently, I am told, | and how it escaped me is beyond my} comprehension, since I read the press} carefully for such juicy morsels. | is said that the president was re-|P J the rear of his} pany, 1 g 1 here along the|Samuel Untermyer in a letter which quested to speak from observation cat somew! route, and having in mond, Ind., effort, Coolidge decided that his old reliable policy of saying | nothing was the better part of ora-| tory. A bright idea struck him and| he brought forth his dog who barked | mildly at the audience. The farmers | were delighted and gave the president an ovation. * - OW we have an inkling of the solu- | tion of a mystery that has been bothering the editors of our papers) since Coolidge first occupied the, White House. Who is the president’s| Spokesman? : Even such usually well-| ‘nformed senators as the acid-tongued sed of Missouri announced his sena- 1 ignorance of this official’s iden- ‘om the senate floor.. Perhaps he president’s spokesman that for his master on the way to ck Hills of South Dakota. e. * * GE presidents have, received errible shock from the fact that les Lindbergh, our newest and st beloved hero, was pitched out of isconsin University because of his ability to acquire any of the various ‘ands of knowledge served by that most every other industry got some- thing out of “Lindy.” “What a gold mine it would be for the University of Wisconsin if its president could say that Lindbergh learned to make speeches there? * * * E New York Telegram has a “re~ ligious editor.” This does not im- ply that he is the only serivener on that sheet who is partial to things spiritual. It means that he is charged with the job of catering to the TALKING AB OUT DISARMAMENT AND PEACE x Report of Convention Will Be Given Furriers At Big Meeting Tonight + 4, {! A report of the furriers’ “con- vention” will be given at a meeting tonight, immediately after work at Cooper Union. The Joint Board delegates will tell in detail just what took place at Washington. The members of the Unity Com- mittee will also be present and ad- dress the meeting. MITTENS TAKING “REST OF BANKS OFF BROTHERHOOD CLEVELAND, June 19.—The } Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers | Convention here will ‘be presented with a project to hand over to the Company Union outfit, the Mitten Management, Inc. of Philadelphia, all} Brotherhood banks and. real estate| projects, except those already sold | out to capitalists. { The Mittens, .who have already taken over the union bank in Phila- delphia, are in the market for the} rest of them, and the delegates to| the convention will be quietly tipped off that the propositions are on the verge of ruin. The possibility that} anagement had a great deal} do with their ruin will not be} emphasised, but all those on the in-| ide will strongly suspect it. | The end seems~ near for Grand | Chief Stone’s most noted project of class collaboration, but the end comes | thru the inefficiency of those who UNITY COMMITTEE FORMED AT THE | WASHINGTON “CONVENTION” GOING — TO LEAD FUR PICKET LINE TODAY \48 Delegates Representing Bulk of Oragnized Workers Will Then Hold Conference The picket line in the fur district this morning will be led by 48 seated and unseated delegates the Washington “convention” of At 10 a. m. the Unity Committe or- ganized at Washington will hold a meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. sent the workers The 48 delegates ¢ of who repre- d fi States and bulk the of Canaga will be present. Will Lead Pickets. “Matthew Woll must not be allowed to boss the New York labor ment,” asserted Harry Englander of orga’ the United move- Toronto, secretary of the Unity Com- “Forty-eight dele- gates to the recent Washington ‘con- mittee yesterday. vention’ of the International Fur Workers’ Union will be on the picket line Monday morning. They will be there in spite of all the attempts made by Woll to use the police to break the strike. “These 48 delegates have organized a permanent organization to stop the internal strife in the International. It is the purpose of our group to bring unity in the ranks of the fur wor “The Un Committee intends to reach every local in the United States and Canada and expose the union breaking policy of Woll. We will give USS POLISH SENTENCE "| The who have just arrived here from the International. According to ‘all indications the demonstration today will be of major size. R PRESS RAPS ON WHITE SLAYER (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, June 18 (Delayed).— The press continues to express dis- satisfaction with the verdict of the extraordinary tribunal in the case of Voikoff’s assassination. The “Pravda” points out that the tribunal, especially by its request for the commutation of the sentence, did everything possible to emphasize its indulgent attitude towards such iminals. The gesture of the tribunal,” says the “Pravda”, “is a challenge to the public opinion of the Soviet Union, Polish government has shown that. it does not-desire to fulfill the minimal demands of the Soviet Union and it has taken no measures to con- duct an adequate investigation of the er! Sub NEW $4000000 | PUSH THE APPEAL 5,000 TRACTION no less than’ $4,000,000 in the form} It|of a “bonus” to the B.-M. T. is being | mind his Ham-|he addressed to former governor were most anxious to make such|the furriers an opportunity to see in| case On the contrary, the tribunal Today, at four o'clock, in Geneva, the Coolidge “disarmament” conference will meet. England, U.S. things work. |p veue light these men tia Rati ruln-' has exerted all efforts in order that The Brotherhood financial institutions|™€ Our Union and at the same time| the murder which was prearranged as and Japan will be officially represented; France and Italy will be represented only by “observers.” conference will be partly for the purpose of forcing France to cut down her submarine fleet so that Eng- land can smash her when necessary to stop her competition in steel and check her progress in the Balkans. The U.'S. capitalists rely on their superior wealth, and ability to build ships faster than European countries, and therefore took the initiative in calling the “disarmament” conferen¢e. Pa on ‘ s pe using it as an instrument to advance the interests of the boss Open Air Meeting. More than 4,000 needle workers, femeetly wemen, held-a demonstration “an act of individual vengeance” should not be refuted by the judiciary inquest. involved in the proposed merger are: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers Co-operative Bank, Cleveland. {emphasized that in order to preserve way Gang Fears The professional patriots who have thus far succeeded in securing the imposition of the Five Hurdred Dollar Fine against |The DAILY WORKER, and jail sentemes for members of the \staff, would:like nothing better than tha; we should now meekly laccept the verdict and behave ourselves hereafter according to \their standards. We propose no such thing. We propose to con- ; |timue our struggle against the forces of nilitarism and reaction. Shy Witnesses Face |We propose to continue to fight our case until it is finally won. Court Action? |We propose to utilize every legal device we can employ to_secure a \the reversal of the dastardly decision aginst us. A new traction swindle reaching to} Now this is where you come in, It i the business of every comrade. to do his bit to help us to raise ‘he funds necessary to lanned by the officials of the com-|cover the expenses involved in making theappeal. A strong sup- t. was charged Saturday by|port of the Appeal Fund will mean that wewill be able to put up \a strong defense and thus giwe us a greate assurance of a favor- lable verdict: Continued and energetic effrts will mean victory |for The DAILY WORKER. f BeM. T. SWINDLE. IS MADE PUBLIC Na- than L. Miller, their attorney. The B.-M. T. has made application for an issue of $20,000,000 in bonds to cover, a so-called expenditure for | new equipment which the company | has “been ordered to procure by the | b Soviet Sil Scientists Bring/aluable Exhibit To \ashington Meeting New York State Transit Commission. | Easy Profit. | In the past such permission’ was | granted as a matter of course, but | due to the present financial feud be- | WASHIGTON, June 19, — tween the traction gang and Unter- M AY TR E Twenty-o1 agricultural experts, myer’s committee, the necessary per- one of tha a woman, are repre- ,senting tl Soviet Union at the Internatio Soil Congress which opened he on June 18th. The delegations headed by Dr. K. D, Glinka,)irector of the Lenin- grad Agriltural College. ° * The delation is the largest, and perhaphe most distinguished group of smtists at the conven- mission’ will not be forthcoming im- mediately, | The graft scheme of the company is laid bare by the fact that the bonds will be issued at par, sold to them- selves at the nominal figure of $80 per share. Under the present active demand for these securities there is no doubt that they will+in a very (By Federated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—The fate of 18,000 central Pennsylvania | coal diggers hangs fire for another | week as the wage conference that was to have been held in Philadelphia June |which the I. R. T. obtain | Saturday afternoon at Rutgers Square jand East Broadway. ‘At the end the | workers passed by the Jewish Daily | Forward building, displaying their s |wrath at the strikebreaking acts of) viet Union. that newspaper. “Rabotchaia Gezetta” consid-rs The speakers were A. Zirlin, Mar-| that the Polish governmen: jump_j garet Cowl, Rebecca Grecht, Kate Git-| at the bait offered by the British di_- low, Fanny Warshafsky, Esther/hards. The verdict will encourage in- Polansky, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Paul-' stead of prevent the future activi- ine Morgenstein and Lena Goodman.) ties of the mercenary whiteguardist Rose Wortis, presided. ns. friendship with the reactionaries, the |elements of old Tsarist Russia, it will not hesitate to stil! further str-in relations with the people of the So- MEN MAY DEGLARE FOR STRIKE. HERE asi SECRETARY WILBUR SHOWERS PRAISE ON OFFICER FOR SHELLING NANKING Hold ‘Anti-Imperialist Demonstration at Canton Despite Right Wing Terrorism 'Workers on IL.R.T. and B.M. T. Are Involved | A strike on the lines of the I. R. T. jand B.-M. T. involving at least 25,000 | men is now an immedate possibility. | Encouraged by public resentment against the brazen admissions of labor exploitation and the plundering of the! city treasury, organizers for the Amalgamated Association of Street jand Electric Railway Employes, af- filiated’ with the A, F. of L., have) declared that the subway workers will! WASHINGTON, June 19.—For ordering the bombardment of Nanking, which resulted in the slaughter of several hundred peaceful Chinese citizens, Commander Roy C. Smith, Jr., has re- ceived the blessing and the praise of Secretary of Navy Wilbur, Characterizing Smith’s order for the bombardment of the city as a “timely action excellently executed”, Secretary Wilbur, |soon make a sweeping attampt to free in a letter made public yesterday, commends the bombardment. |themselves from the tyranny of the Smith ordered the bombardment of the city after one American company. .| had been killed by Shantungese soldiers fleeing before Nationalist Will Smash Company Union. troops who entered the city. For several hours the American || The first step, it is asserted, will|destroyers Preston and, Noa poured a rain of shot and shell | be the smashing of the “Brotherhood”, into the defenseless city. ie the official company union, officered . abe ment at Hankow has repeatedly an- | by agents of the I. R. T., and to which| Smith Slaughtered Civilians. nounced its intention of paying in- all of its 15,000 workers are forced, ‘/though subsequent investigations demnities for any damages actually to belong. (pier conclusively that the much-/done by Nationalist troops at Nank- Bubway workers: tol advertised “attacks of foreigners” had ing, it has no intention of being | The DAILY WORK been made by retreating Shantungese | blackmailed into paying tribute to the is growing in favor of defying the | (northern) troops, the imperialist imperialist powers. It has further- finjunction forbidding "organization | POWe'S net only slaughtered several | tnore ‘announced its intention of mak- et in the su. | Hundred Nationalists and civilians, but ing counterclaims for hundreds of sent threatening notes to the Nation-| civilians slaughtered and the property preme court recently. The order was! .); ing i i dimed: at ‘Edward P. Lavin, ma ber government demanding nets ee in the bombardment of Bark and Joseph Phelan, leaders of Pe aisine an initial “bonus” of $4) vat of learning to its customers.. Al-| short time be able to dispose of them ‘the public at $100 a share, thereby 000,000. Inasmuch as the city is charged (Continued on Page Two) League Rotten, Says Europe. | BERLIN, June 19.—From Paris to Moscow to Budapest the opinion! seems to be unanimous that the League of Nations session was a com- plete fiasco, and that the league it- self has suffered another blow to its prestige. Hungary is so chagrined over the postponement of the decision in’ its quarrel with Roumania, that it openly threatens to bolt from the league. The Budapest press, apparently. in- spired by the government, charges aoved oy} aptur jjas}! ondve, ayy 3Hyy treaty of Trianon a scrap of paper. 15th is postponed. tion, Dr. (aka is perhaps the last summer’s subway strike, Eugene Chen, foreign minister for In commending Smith’s action, Ad- best knownoil scientist in the If the operators abrogate the Jack-| world. sonville agreement a sik is sl i tinu- | fheon the old’ agreement under |employers sli! from their pledges. i in! ie min this field are in temporary truce, while the miners in sas ; 4 wiatarh Pennsylvania, ' Ohio, Indiana, | he Rng {i “agp apes concerns, Illinois and part of Iowa were strik-| Paying trom ato per cent less ing. down of the un mines develops the | Majority of Men Enrolled. Citing Samuel Untermyer’s recent |denunciation of the I, R. T. company union and his advocacy of a “union affiliated with organized labor,” John \H. Goleman, organizer of the Amal- |than the Jacksville rates. If a shut-|@mated employes in this city, said) workers was proceedi»g rapidly. that the enrolment of the subway| the Nationalist (Hankow) govern- miral C. 8. Williams, commander-in. ment, in reply to the imperialist notes Chief of the Asiatic “patrol,” says in requested that an international com- his report: “The commander-in-chief mittee be appointed to investigate the | desires to express his unqualified ap- Jevents at Nanking, The imperialist|PYOval of the actions of the senior | Powers took no notice of Chen’s re-| American naval officer present at |quest, and for a time it seemed that | Nanking.” |the Nanking events ‘might be made the excuse for an gpen war against * * * Feng Pledges Loyalty. The 2U members of the central Penn- sylvania scale committee are ready for a show down. At the close of the May conference the operators issued a statement that amounts almost to an ultimatum. They gang that unless the Jacksonville rates were " 4 ‘abandoned the pits would be ‘closed, ye gr ol ca ee preainnt The New York Central R. R. is the| tfnited Mine rkers of vite ine dominating interest in central Penn- i ti hud that for attempting tell members of sylvania union operations. Ani (Con b Page: Swo) success of t organization will largely depencn the curtailing of this scab prodton, ** * BROWNSVIE, Pa., June 19.— Coal and Irorolice of the Vesta “A majority of the men have al- ready signed up with us,” he declared. | Nearly $2,000,000 was spent crushing the strike of 1,000 I. R. T. workers last summer, James Samuel Untermyer at the hearings recently. thus robbing the city to that extent, |@ It was further revealed at the hear- Central. stood by its agreement with piritual needs of “Telegram” readers ir perhaps giving them information (Continued on Page Four) BUY THE DAILY WORKER z fact brings hope of a continuance of SACCO arVANZETTI friendly relations. The New York the U. M..W. of A. in 1924, 1925 and 3 workers “submitted” to SHALL [oT DIE! wage cut of 10 per cant. em | 1926 when many other big bituminous . i in| renegade Nationalist who i }a feeble attempt to establish a “ L.| ernment” at Nanking, has off Quackenbush, counsel for the com-| pay the imperialist powe pany, admitted during examination by | demnity whick they might demand for transit | “damages” This amount was| Nanking. Chiang’s charged up to “operating expenses,” by the announcement that he will se jis interpreted as an o ings that in 1921 over 13,000-I. R. TT. perialist support. Nationalist China. Unlike Chen, Chiang sustained proposal followed representative to the United States, | Refuse To Pay Tribute, Although the Nationalist govern- —— (Special to the Daily Worker). HANKOW, June 19 (Via Berlin),— Kai-shek, | General Feng Yu-hsiang, who is di- s making |recting the Nationalist drive against 0V-| Peking, has cabled the Chinese Na- ered to/tional Agency that his troops form- rs any in-| erly bearing the name of the People’s “th Army are now reorganized in the by them at) army of the Kuomintang and have de- a na) Sun Yat-sen, lared their loyalty to the ideals of “All, troops undér me,” he says, pen bid for im-|“are now subordinated to the orders |of the Kuomintang Central Commit- tee and the revolutionary govern- (Continyed on Page 6), “The Polish government once more