The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1927, Page 1

4 woh, dthe majority, ahs * 7 oR MIGHTS: ON OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR’ PARTY * r 7 w York. N. Y., WORKER. under the act of March 3, 1879, | FINAL CITY | EDITION I Vol. IV. »No, 135. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York,.by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. UR PICKETS AND ARREST UNITY COMMITTEE Current Events By T. J. O’Fuamerry. gue another parley! This is about} the. only comment worth making on the arms parley which opened yes- terday in Geneva on the initiative of the United States. London papers have given a bare total of six columns to the parley and the admiralty is decidedly opposed to reducing the numberof cruisers considered neces- sary to defend the imperial trade routes from the rest.of the “civilized” world. Out of a sense of politeness the British and Japanese governments may send delegates but they will hold on to their daggers. - 9 2 5 sei recent meeting of the council of the league of nations dispersed without having accomplished any-| thing more important than proving) what a devil of a time a group of) bandits have in getting along to-| gether. Chamberlain came, primed to | organize a united front against the Soviet Union. The other bandit rep- resentatives were willing, but each one had a different motive and they |- could not come to terms. This time will not be the last and they will try again. In the meantime the U. S. S. R. will be gaining strength and the workers of the workers in mili- tancy. *. . Monte Carlo casino is almost as good a paying’ proposition as| an American oil well. The report for | the fiscal year ending March 1926| shows an income of 29,000,000 gold| marks with a net profit of 17,000,000 | marks. The comparison with an| American oil company is not so good. We will take an insurance company. | The oil companies take a chance sometimes and always lay out some dough on development but the insur- ance companies like the gambling joint, invest nothing and take no! chances, AT it makes no difference how one gets the money, provided he manages to dodge the hangman in getting it, is proven by the high es- teem in which Basil Zaharoff, the ‘multi-millionaire Greek, is held among the chancellories of Europe. Zaharoff made most of his money running a gambling den in* Monte Carlo. During the war he helped out the British and was honored by the British government. He was also be-| hind various Greek revolutions in the! interest of the British government. | “Tt is interesting to observe” com- ments a Monaco correspondent of the! New York Herald-Tribune “that a} number of shares of stock are owned by religious organizations.” And so it is but not surprising. Ce Sag 'HE “duce”—this is what the black- shirt dictator of Italy calls him- self—has provided the unfortunate people of that country with another weekly sensation. He has issued a de- cree reducing rents. His. famous “charter of labor” was at the ex- pense of the workers and according to reliable information its promulga- tion was followed by strikes and by armed uprisings in several parts of| Italy. If there is anything to Mus- solini’s latest move, it is merely an effort to placate the masses, Benito is sitting on a voleano. After all, a minority cannot forever hold the ma- jority in check even by. means of vio- lence when the policy of the minor- ity is detrimental to the interests of . * is x ‘prove he appreciates heroism, de- ion to the interests of human- Vvitization, christianity, pure wo- ‘ood, ete., the secretary of the ) Mr. Wilbur, highly commended American naval officer who| ted fire on unarmed Chinese in iking, slaughtering hundreds of $". Mr, Wilbur was pleased that e bombardment was “excellently executed” a statement that will be concurred in by the fathers, mothers, and other survivors of the victims of American heroism. i * * * * ISN’T this hell? A Polish preacher who denied that the devil exists is sent to prison. Now he knows that he ‘was wrong. Granted all the ingenu- ity that the old rascal is credited, with we doubt if the devil could in- vent a more trying place of torment than a Polish prison according to the reports made on those institutions by impartial investigators. The Polish ruling class is logical. Here a man might get into trouble by ostenta- tiously denying the existence of ga god, tho he could go as far as liked with the devil, The Polish’ real- ‘Continued on Paes Four) POLICE AND GANGSTERS BEATING-UP FUR PICKETS, NEW YORK a GOLD AND THIRTY-EIGHTH CONVENTION Gangsters broke loose in knives and steel bars littered t slugged and carved three officials of the Joint Board. DELEGATES SELECTED FOR JAILING Matthew Woll’s Gangsters Use Iron Bars to Batter Wienick, Englander, Glantzman By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. the fur district yesterday and Lead pipes, he sidewalk after the attack as the yeggs fled from the scene of the outrage. It is hard to indulge in impartial news reporting after a dose Price 3 Cents of New York’s gangsters. Impartiality aids and abets the enemy. The enemies are gangsters—tight- ( waisted and dapper, “hopheads” and | ‘The Comrades Are on the Job! Lower Bronx Branch 1 of New York writes: “The Lower Bronx comrades, true to their principles, under the leadership of its active executive committee, is straining all its resources and the full activity of its membership to achieve the maximum result for ‘The WORKER Sustaining Fund and membership drive. in during-«-shert timid. .$220.00.has been collected for keeping up the great ight for’ Besides a cause, The DAILY WORKER.” Sarah Victor of Detroit sends $112.00; from Shop Nucleus No. 9, Section DAILY number of new niembers taken our 2 $20.00; Sec- tion 6 sends $20.00; the Russian.Women’s Progressive Club $15.00; Street Nucleus No. 10, Section 3, $10.00; Fred Miller, $10.00; Section 3, Street Nucleus 6, $15.00; John Staniloin, $1.00; Dr. Rivkin, $5.00; Jessie Shilkovsky, $3.00; Pauline Grekin, $3.00. From the Chinese Workers of C. L. P. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, comes a donation with the message, “The imposition of the fine upon The DAILY WORKER has created a great deal of indignation towards the imperialists.” These comrades have'set the pace. The entire country must follow. Now is the time to fall in line to raise the necessa ry funds for our appeal. AMERICAN PLUTES PLANNED TO KILL SOVIET LEADERS Made Especial Effort to Murder Krassin MOSCOW, June 20.—Eight to ten thousand francs was the price paid in advance to white guards by the imper- ialist bank, oil and industrial mag- nates for the murder of well-known leaders of the Soviet Union, says an Izvestia editorial commenting on con- fessions made by captured spies. Particularly strenuous efforts were made to assassinate M. Krassin by the | British Secret Service, Anglo-Ameri- can business men and the Noble Com- pany, the editorial says. Referring to the how! of “indigna-| tion” that the capitalist press has raised over the execution of the | twenty white guards, the Izvestia| says, “Had not. the’ signal been given! for a new series of terrorist acts, many of the twenty executed white | guardists would now be alive. Work- ers and peasants would have forgotten their great revolutionary responsibili- ties if ‘they had not: answered by a straight blow to these cowardly at- tacks from behind.” The Izvestia continues: ““The workers and‘ peasants have given a terrible lesson to the capital- ist world by proving that the big stick is not always in the hands of one class. Points to White Terror. Answering charges of the hypo- critical British press that the execu- tion of the twenty White Guards was “barbaric,” Pravda points out that in the first ten months of 1926, 356 Communists were killed: and almost, 50,000 imprisoned in Bulgaria; that in the United States during the first six months of 1926, forty-two work- ers were killed by the ruling class, 820 wounded and 2,078 imprisoned. In Lithuania, the Pravda says, Com- munists and Communist sympathizers are subjected to electric torture. Workers Party Meeting At Manhattan Lyceum; Thursday Evening at 8 A special membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty will be held Thursday evening, 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum. The meeting is called for the purpose to listening to a report and discussing the situation in the country general and the New York situation in particular. The attack on the unions, the left wing and the party will be taken up. ‘Admission by membership. books only. All party members must at- tend. Communist Youth to Discuss War Threat At Plenary Session } MOSCOW, June 20.—The struggle | agaipst the danger of war and work in the trade unions are the principal items in the program of the ordinary plenary session of the executive com- mittee of the Communist Youth In- ternational which opened here. Many mass meetings are being held in Leningrad, to’ protest against the sentence of the Polish tribunal on Voikoff’s murderer. A special paper will be issued on Monday by the Federation of Soviet Writers dealing with the threat of an imperialist war against the Soviet Union. Numerous distinguished for- eign authors have sent cablegrams to the editorial staff protesting against the threat of a new war. Birth Rate Declines. WASHINGTON, June 20.—While the deathrate increased last year, the birth rate decreased, according to a AS RIGHTS KILL CANTON PARADER \Feng Prepares for New CONFLICTS RISE BETWEEN POWERS AT GENEVA MEET United States Resefts British Demands GENEVA, June 20.—The confer- ence for reduction of naval arma- |ments opened here today with rep- lresentatives of three countries, the |United States, England and Japan las regular delegates, while France had an observer and Italy had a “re- |porter,” to inform the fascist mur- of the diplomatic jderer, M ini, ¢ maneuve carried on openly and covertly. isms between the three powers flared forth, proving that the struggle in the Pacific for control of China and the Far East, determines their pol- icies, i Extend Washington Program. | Hugh Gibson, chief of the Ameri- jean delegation, proposed that the ratio agreed upon at the Washington conference of 1921-22 be extended to cover all remaining classes of naval eraft. That ratio was 5-5-3—-equal forces for the United States and a three-fifths strength for Japan. | At the first session the antagon- | Advance on Peking Following the cheap propaganda of | SHANGHAI, June 20.—Armed re-/the Coolidge administration which volts against the right wing are im-| pyts forth a crude pacifism as a jminent in Canton according to re-| cloak for it’ imperialist plundering ports received “here. Workers and / and its preparations for new wars, jpeasants in Kwantung Province are Gibson indulged in a great deal of reported to be arming themselves to | twaddle about peace, elimination ot | take over the government of the prov-| competition in naval armaments, etc. visti end the right wing reign of | Britain Opposes Plan. | A worker was killed by the police | wheh the right wing authorities at- | tempted to break up a huge protest | The spokesman for Great Britain, the Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty in the tory cabinet meeting against the Chiang Kai-|f forgery, murder and provocation, sheks terrorisu, Following the mur-|Proposed reduction of the tonnage of der of the worker, thousands of dem- | Ships to 7,500, so that the maximum onstrators proceeded to the govern-| cruising radius trom a naval base ment offices and demanded the im- ani be 2,000 miles, This is favor- mediate punishment of the murder-|#ble to Britain because she has a ers. | world-wide chain of nava) bases and Reports received here from Canton | the greatest distance that separates several days ago stated that two |@0y two of them is 1,600 miles, while regiments have revolted against Chi- |the closest United States base to ang Kai-shek in Fukien Province and | Japan is 3,400 miles distance. {had déclared their allegiance to the | Japan Has Own Program Hankow government. Other dis- Admiral Viscount Saito, represent- patches received here report armed |ing the new Tanaka cabinet of Japan, revolts against Chiang Kai-shek thru- | Which favors the revival of the Anglo- lout the southern provinces. Chiang’s fall according to these reports seems to be imminent. * * * Appoint Feng Honan Chairman. Special to the Daily Worker). CHENGCHOW, June 20.—The con- ference of Nationalist and Kuomin- tang leaders held here in considering the reorganization of Honan, Shensi and Kansu have elected General Feng Yu-hsiang chairman of the Po- litical Council for all three provinces and chairman of the Honan Govern- mental Commission, The conference gave General Feng United States Census Bureau an-|Yu-hsiang further instructions re- nouncement today. The increased) garding the campaign against Chang death rate was attributed to the in-|Tso-lin, General Tang Shen-chi’s fluenza epidemic in the spring of last| troops needed rest and reorganiza- vear. 4 d (Continued on Page Two) Japanese Alliance, scrapped at the | Washington conference, opposes the lapplication of the 5-5-3 ratio to jauxiliary vessels and if the United States presses such a proposal in the \tri-parite naval conference Japan will reserve the right to raise the question of naval bases, and will par- ticularly suggest restrictions regard- ing the bases at Hawaii, it was learned today. Saito declared that [the extension of the 5-5-3 ratio to other craft was dangerous. “Such radical departure from existing condi- tions as may be calculated to shake the foundations on which a ‘nation’s sense of security rests should be care- fully avoided,” declared Saito. The general shiftiness and evasive- ness of the Japanese delegation (Continued on Page Two ) J sluggers from the ‘dives on the east side. Kid Dropper’s gang, Curly’s gang, Frenchy’s gang, Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. renegade—suave and “im- partial”—-MeGrady—the Association of Fur Manufacturers—Cohen Kalbfleish, boss furriers—American- ism—the New York Times—the blue- bellied cops armed with cold-looking gats—police connivance. Wholesale Arrests. As 38 of the left wing delegates to the Washington Convention of the International Fur Workers’ Uni peared on the picket line y morning the police swooped down and without the slightest provocation. ar- rested all of them. Gold in Police Net. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board was amongst those arrested. Gold’s appearance on the picket line was the signal for an enthusiastic turn-out. The fur district between 22nd and 30th Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues was jammed with thousands of fur strikers. Delegates Slugged. At 8.15 a taxi dashed to the east cory of Sikth siveritie™ bstween 22yh and 28rd Street, six gangsters hurled themselves upon a group of furrier delegates and in a fraction of a min- ute Sam Wienick, a Joint Board furrier delegate was lying uncon- scious on the sidewalk. Harry Eng- lander, a left wing delegate from Toronto was hit on the shoulder with a steel bar and his clothing was badly |torn. Phillip Glantzman, a New York | delegate was brutally beaten on the |body. Metal pipes beating on human heads make an ugly sound. Wienick was taken to a nearby drug store where first aid was administered. His clothing was splashed with blood and being of ‘ht physique he wilted under the excrutiating pain. Not a sound escaped from his lips however. He continually asked that news of his condition be kept from his wife. Morris Langer, another furrier dele- gate of Newark was also slugged. ; 400 Police on Job. The police doubled their forces in the fur district yesterday. There were over 400 uniform cops on hand to see that “justice” was done. It was, as Wienick and co-workers will tes- tify. A cordon of police, in some cases fifteen feet apart, ringed the district. | It would have been impossible to sneeze without a cop being aware of it. Still a gang of armed thugs man-| aged to wound and maim a group of peaceful picketing workers—and get out of the heavily policed area with- | out an arrest. There were at least | twenty police on every street in the} district. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Cops Brutal. They managed to spot over 150 picketers who managed to get into groups of more than five and were immediately hustled over to the 7th Precinct Police Station on 30th Street. During these mass arrests it is al- ways interesting to contrast the fine, intelligent faces of the furriers with [the brutal, beefy faces of their cap- tors. Armed Camp. The fur district yesterday looked like an armed camp. Mounted police clattered and tore up one street and down another. Groups of newspaper with cameras ready for action. Re- porters with blue cards in their hat- bands accompanied the plain-clothes men in search of action. The usual scene of police brutality was enacted at the 7th Precinct Po- lice station as the arrested picketers were being shoved into the Black Ma- ria. For fine points in brutal mean- ness go to a New York cop. A shove with his stick in the small of the back, a twist of a girl’s wrist are but a few of the methods which are employed. Courageous Girls, As one girl was being jammed in- to the “wagon” a push from the back sent her sprawling on her face. Her comrades were singing the workers’ (Continued on Page Two) photographers stood huddled about | GOLD, RELEASED, “SAYS CONTINUED PIGKETING WINS Gigantic Meetings Hear Of Fake Convention The importance of a strong picket jline as a means of victory, was em- phasized by every speaker at two large enthusiastic strike meetings of furriers held last night at Cooper Union and Webster Hall. When Ben Gold, who had just been released from jail after his arrest on the picket line in the morning, mount- ed the platform at Cooper Union the assembled workers cheered themselves hoarse for over ten minutes. Hats, newspapers and everything else avail- able were thrown into the air as a jmeans of showing, th} feeling. of the ; audience. Pokes Fun at Rights. Gold described the Washington | “convention” in a humorous fashion. He mentioned that Oizer Schachtman the retiring president of the Interna- tional felt very proud as he sat be- tween William Green and Matthew | Woll on the convention platform. Gold told the eager listeners of a conversation he had with Green in Washington at which Green told of his oppesition to mass picketing. Only 50 Strikers. “Green told me,” continued Gold, “that only 50 furriers are on strike in New York. I volunteered to produce (Continued on Page Five) I, RT: PURCHASE BY CITY SEEN AS BIG PROFIT DEAL Scheme Delights Wall St. and Tammany Hall Samuel Unterm 's investigations jof the traction situation has finally culminated in a which the city concrete plan by is to purchase a con- trolling interest in the Interborough Rapid Transit and Brooklyn-Manhat- |tan Transit companies. The tentative plan, outlined by Un- |termyer to the Morgan and Rocke- |feller interests, and concurred in by members of the Transit Commission vides for acquisition of the IL. R. T.’s |property for a comparatively small |amount of cash and the exchange of city bonds for bonds of the company. Some Neat “Profits”. The scheme as described by the |famous corporation lawyer includes {the purchase of the stock of the I, |R. T. at about 30, which would in- |volve a payment of $10,000,000, By a curious admission of members of the transit commission this figure |is considerably higher than was paid by officers of the B,-M. T. when they | began to purchase I. R. T. stock. | Big Guns Consulted. | The negotiations have gone beyond the stage of “conference,” it being admitted that Untermyer has already J. P. Morgan’s firm representing the Interborough bondholders, and with the Rockefeller interests, which have way Company, the elevated lines | |which the Interborough operates der a lease. It is thus easy to see why the called “unification plan” has ey such unanimous enthusiasm in Street and City Hall. io 36 Saris and the Board of Transportation, pro- » discussed the plan with members of © heavy holdings in the Manhattan Rail- are cd | 4