The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1927, Page 1

~Y \ socialist paper published in this city. STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No, 136. Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. 'HE three principal sea powers are again jockeying for position—this time at Geneva. When Charlie Evang’ Hughes, then secretary of state, madg the great gesture for a reduction naval armaments in 1921, our liberals sent up prayers to their favorite gods and hailed the neatly whiskered one as a dove of peace. They were ck most as pleased as when “Woodrow} Wilson went to war to end war. But| it is not necessary to state that those stures of the ruling classes have not ght us a whit nearer peace. In’ fact each new conference is merely| another straw that shows which way the war-storm is blowing. * * * E United States, Japan and Great! Britain are sitting down at a con-| ference table with France and Italy looking on. Britain insists on retain-| Ing supremacy on the seas. Japan in- sists on retaining naval supremacy i the Orient. The United States, the) wealthiest. empire of them all, does} not’see any good reason why England should not pass over Neptune’s trident | to her and recognize the logic of facts. | [t is @ great game, a nice peaceful confab with rounds of gayety to break | the monotony of the conversations. "ii, le United States threatens—unof- ficially of course—that unless Great Britain and Japan ‘show a more conciliatory disposition, that is, recog- nize the preeminence of the United | States in world politics, Uncle Sam will turn around and build the biggest | aavy in the world. Our imperialists) will do just that. They have the money and they are leaving no stone} unturned to prepare the public mind| for their plans, Lindbergh’s flight to} Paris was utilized for that purpose. | We repeat that there can be no peace mder capitalism. * * * HE Rev. William Sunday, evan- gelist, while paying a visit to Gov- srnor Fuller of Massachusetts, took advantage of the occasion to urge the electrocution of Sacco. and..Vanzetti. “Give ’em the juice” shouted this sadist whose clownings: in the name of religion have netted him enormous sums of money. The itinerant preach- er blew off his usual frothy raving! against foreigners coming here and! telling us what to do. But the most! anforgivable insult offered by the bible whacker to Sacco and Vanzetti was mentioning the two labor leaders n the same breath with the preacher Richardson, who was electrocuted some fourteen years ago in the same state for having murdered a trusting young girl after having seduced her. “If Massachusetts executes a murder- sr why not Sacco and Vanzetti?” asked Sunday. * * * E ranting of this gutter evangelist would not be worth commenting on Jid it not present a true picture of the mentality of a large section of the population of this country. This type of mind has furnished membership to every organization in America that nad or has for its object the diminish- ing of enjoyment and the abolition of collective recreation. Their god is a monster who delights in the con- vemplation of suffering. They have 20 healthy joys but revel in behind- the-scene perversions. To hide their moral cesspools they wear an ex- terior of piety and demand ‘punish- ment on earth and hell fire when life passes for all those Who think life should be something else than a pil- grimmage thru a charnel house. * * * A fellow by the name of de Witt— why the “half” was omitted from nis cognomen is a mystery to me— slowns a weekly column for a weekly wis half-witted jester usually makes WS\ Soviet Union the butt of his neries. He was . unusually ic week when he volunteered tices in the defence of the U. He would pray that the lead- the Soviet government would ored to what he calls sanity, would make it possible for de tolerate them. Otherwise he ble to let the imperialists go ‘nead and punish Russia for treating the Czar so rudely. The only miti- gating circumstance we know of that might be offered in extenuation of de Witt’s' imbecility is that he has been a “poet” for some time. * . ° Berne the capitalists out of busi- ness is not such a simple task as it seemed some time ago. Labor banks were popping up like mushrooms a few years back. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had banks all over the country, also other enter- prises, Warren S. Stone, a one time progressive, turned the brotherhood of which he was grand chief into a big business corporation. He sat with his feet under the same table with the biggest bankers in Wall Street, It was @ grand and glorious feeling and| (Continued on Page Four) ¥ THE DAILY WORKER. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. CHINESE TRADE UNION CONGRESS OPENS Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927 Published Daily SACCO-VANZETTI WEEK SET ASIDE; ~PLAN BIG. DRIVE I. L. D. Sets 50,000 More Signatures as Goal BOSTON, June 21.—Signatures numbering close to half a million, attached to petitions addressed to Governor Alvan T. Fuller request- ing him to intercede in behalf of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, will be presented to the chief executive at the state house tomor- row, the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee announced today. * * * CHICAGO, June 21.—Independence Day this year will not only be the) occasion for the usual celebration of | the American Révolution which freed the American people from the op- pression of Great Britain, but will be the culmination of a national, in- tensiye drive lasting one week, to mobilize the sentiment for the free- ing of Sacco and Vanzetti, according to plans announced today by Inter- national Labor Defense. In response to a number of re- quests, the International Labor De- fense has arranged to set aside the week of June 27 to July 4 as Sacco- | Vanzetti Week for the gathering of signatures to petitions addressed to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts in behalf of the two labor men. The petitions have been sent to all parts of the country and it is expected that tens of thousands of signatures urg- ing the freeing of Sacco and Vanzetti will be gathered. : The Buffalo movement for Sacco and~ Vanzetti has already Jaid its plans for the gathering of 50,000 signatures during the drive and other cities are making similar arrange- ments. national Labor Defense alone, thou- sands of signatures have already been sent to be forwarded to the Gov- ernor. In addition to this, tens of thousands of signatures to the peti- tions have been gathered through the land and forwarded either directly to the Governor or to the Boston De- fense Committee. Circulate Petitions. It is pointed out that the investiga- tion committee appointed by Gov- ernor Fuller after innumerable de- mands for its institution had been made, is a star chamber committee and not a body which is investigating (Continued on Page Five) Victory Looked For Soon in Strike of 2,000 N. Y, Barbers A large number of 500 shops af- fected by. the strike of 2,000 New York barbers have practically closed down, and in many of them only the bosses are at work. Enthusiastic meetings of the strik- ers were held yesterday ‘afternoon in Leslie Hall, 88rd St. and Broadway, in the Amsterdam Avenue Inn, 155th St. and Amsterdam Ave., and a num- ber of small halls. Systematic picketing of the shops between 59th St. and 242nd St., on the West Side was continued yester- day. Bosses Conferring. At the meetings yesterday strike leaders reported that the bosses were now conferring with a view toward agreeing on a collective agreement with the workers, The demands of the workers include a basic wage scale of $35, and fifty per cent of all income over $45 daily’ on each chair. They now work from 8 a. m. until 8 p, m., and until 10 p. m. on Saturday, They seek one hour reduction of work on Saturday. Nearing Will Speak on “The Danger of War” at Bryant Hall, Tonight Scott Nearing will lecture tonight, 7p. m., on the Danger of War. The meeting is being held at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave, near 42nd St. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will preside. All workers are invited to attend of tg cae a nt Joct. Admission free, . | | | | past few months. throughout the country. ee Introducing Sec furriers, dressmakers and cloakmakers. tion Two New York! Section Two is composed mainly of needle workers, those who are engaged in the thick of | the fight against the police, the bosses and the right wing bureaucracy. It consists mainly of These comrades daily run the risk of arrest, and imprisonment. The Industrial Squad and the police p@fsecute them mercilessly for their ac- tivity on the picket line. Many of them have been unemployed for weeks and months. The demands of the relief committee are extremely heavy upon them. Yet this.section has already brought into this office for the Defense and Sustaining Fund over $1,500. have brought in as high as $200 and $300. This is the splendid record of Section Two for the Individual units Section Two, Workers Party, New York, should be an example for units of the party, If these comrades who have to bear the burden of the fiercest fight now going on in the labor movement, can write for themselves such a splendid record, then surely we should expect at least as good results from units which are not pressed so hard. Tighten your belt now. Start now to emulate the record of Section Two, New York. Special Workers Party Meeting Tomorrow Eve. At Manhattan Lyceum An important membership meet- ing of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tomorrow eve- ning, 8 p. m. at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East Fourth St. The meeting is called for the purpose of listening to a report and discussing the situation in the country in 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. DEEP CONFLICTS CAST GLOOM OVE U. S. Proposals Vigor- ously Denounced GENEVA, June 21.—Of all the far- cical performances, on the interna- tional checkerboard the tri-partite conference in session here will prob- ably be the most amusing. But the imperialist conflicts which show here mean an even more serious threat of war. The conference called by Cool- idge is already a muddle, with contra- dictions piling upon contradictions. Try as they may to assume an atti- tude of hopefulness the first rift that became apparent at the first session yesterday is wider today, after the opinions of the conflicting powers have become public. From the capi- tols of the three powers directly ir- volved—the United States, England and Japan—and the two powers with observers present—Italy and France —come reports of dissatisfaction with the proposals. The American delegation has deci- ded strenuously to oppose the British proposal for six-inch gun 7,500 ton cruisers to the exclusion of the eight- inch gun 10,000 ton class. The British propos: if accepted, American experts ‘state, would force the United States into building small cruisers, which would be utterly use- less considering the distance between naval bases. American delegates cannot conceal their gloom at the turn the confer- ence has taken from the start. Al- though they realize that everyone will eventually make concessions the pro- posals are so far apart that no com- promise can bridge them. Further- more, the fact that Japanese and British proposals are much closer in- dicates that there has been some sort of pre-arrangement between these two old allies on Pacific policy. The Japanese proposal to reduce the age limit of auxiliary ships be- low what the United States naval ex- perts have always considered advis- able, makes it certain that many American warships, due to become ob- solete shortly, alfeady would be con- sidered ready for scrapping if the Japanese viewpoint were translated into a clause of the proposed new treaty. On the other hand, Japan’s recent building program of auxiliary ships would give her an advantage on (Continued on Page Two) , Dend Man Cause of Riot. Discovery of the body of a murr dered man in Brooklyn yesterday precipitated a near-riot when hun- dreds of rushed the police in Pas effort to glimpse the body. BROTHERHOOD BANKS TURNED OVER TO SCAB MITE N MANAGEMENT \Game of “Labor-Capitalism” Breaks Down and Reveals Shameful Betrayal of Workers By JACK KENNEDY. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) through unwise speculation, the \trying to unload the whole trade | Dizzy Financing. It was in the fall of 1920 that Pres- Warren S. Stone committed the Broth- erhood to the banking game by open- ing the Cleveland “co-operative” bank, shortly after his companion, William ited, started the Machinists bank in Washington, D. C. Followed a mad orgy of new banks, investment com- panies, securities corporations, hold- ing firms—the whole apparatus of financial legerdemain. More quietly Stone and his clique began organizing private ventures, Park Lane Villa, Cleveland’s ritzy apartment hotel, sand and quarry companies, watch companies, scab mining concerns, and what not. Things sailed beautifully until the old boy kicked off in 1925. Then sud- denly Stone’s closest associates began to reveal quietly but effectively the real financial situation in his private- ly-organized firms. One after another they failed, leaving thousands of en- gineers holding the bag. A “co-oper- ative” mail order company blew up with a loud explosion, the scab Broth- erhood mines in West Virginia passed dividends. The officialdom who had participat- ed with Stone in feathering their own nests, turned against the dead man, blaming all their mishaps on him. But they had been careful not to plunge (Continued on Page Three) Judge Calls Bluff Of Bus Company in Injunction Action Justice Townsend Scudder in Brook- lyn supreme court yesterday listened to an application.for a temporary in- junction to restrain the Long Island Coach Co. from operating buses through Averne and Hamels, Queens. “You can’t pull the wool over the eyes of the court with that bunk,” shouted the judge when Frank H. Pat- terson, counsel for the company de- clared that it “is doing a great service for the Rockaways, serving 250,000 people despite the fact that it is oper- ating at a loss,” $25,000 Profit in 8 Months. The judge added that he had proof that the coach company had made a profit of at least $25,000 in the last eight months, “The coach company is not philanthropic,” he said. “It is or away something for noth- ident—then Grand Chief Engineer—} H. Johnston, now thoroughly discred- | CLEVELAND, June 21.—In an effort to stave off defeat at the hands of the convention in session here, the officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have concocted a scheme with the non-union Mitten Management outfit of Philadelphia to take over all the Brotherhood banks. With their $50,000,000 financial edifice swaying dizzily officials of the Brotherhood are union capitalistic mess to prevent an astonished and indignant rank and file from kicking them out of office as incompetents and grafters. | The story of the investment of the hard-earned savings of Hocomotive engineers in*trady and ill-advised speculative enter- |prizes is an amazing tale of foolish plunging through which runs a broad trail of downright corruption. T. U. EL. Members of All Trades Holding a Meeting Friday Evening A meeting of the Trade Union Educational League of all trades will be held Friday evening right after work at Webster Hall, 11th St. near Third Ave. All workers who are affiliated with any T. U. EL. group must attend, as an important question will be acted upon. | | | Big Picket Line Is Brooklyn Painters Method for Victory Systematic picketing by the paint- ers of Brooklyn who resumed their strike Monday after it had been tem- porarily halted by a supreme court injunction will begin this morning, according to Joseph Shafer, secre- tary of District Council 29, Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 949 Wil- loughby Ave., was jammed yesterday afternoon with painters, who voted unanimous support of the re-organ- ized strike committee. A resolution was also adopted expressing gratitude to District Council 9 of New York for its moral and financial assistance. *In the reorganized strike commit- tee are represented all the locals di- rectly involved in the present strike. 3,000 Already Victorious, About 3,000 painters are already working under the new wage agree- ment by which they get $14 a day as against $12 which has been the prevailing scale. Registration will continue every morning at 10 at the strike head- quarters, according to Paul Kaminer, president of the council. Mass meet- ings will be held each afternoon at 8, and details of the progress of the strike will be given. Bishop Denounces Herrick. LIMA, N. Y., June 21,—A bitter denunciation of American ambassa- dor Myron C, Herrick for his reputed action in serving champagne at an American Embassy dinner in Paris given in honor of Colonel Charles A, Lindbergh, was voiced today by Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Buffalo, speaking at the commence- ment exercises at the Genesee Wesle- yan seminary here. 4 ‘ PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION : Price 3 Cents except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER SHANSI GOVERNOR TO JOIN FENG IN NATIONALISTS’ DRIVE ON WAR LORDS iChiang Kai-shek, Facing Revolt of Troops, Bids for Military Alliance With Nationalists | oo | HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S NEWS. | 1.—All-China Trade Union Congress, representing four mil- \lion organized workers, opens at Hankow; lays plans for anti- jimperialist campaign. 2.—Nationalist troops cross Yellow River and push on into Chihli Province toward Peking. 8.—Yen Shi-shan, governor of Shansi, joins Nationalists, making possible attack on Peking from East. 4.—Chiang Kai-shek in financial difficulties and facing re- volt makes bid for military alliance with Nationalists. 5.—Shops close in Foochow in protest against right wing coer || Anita Whitney Freed After 7 Years Fight; Many 1. W. W. In Jail * * (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) HANKOW, June 21.—The fourth All-Chinese Trade Union Congress opened here Sunday. | Four hundred delegates represent-| ing four million organized Chinese workers are attending the daily ses- sions of the Congress. Last year’s congress held at Canton represented only a little more than a million or- ganized workers. The Congress has recommended that a propaganda campaign be car- ried on in preparation for the coming Hankow Congress of the anti-Imper- ialist League and for international solidarity. Reports from Chengchow state that the vanguard of Feng Yu- hsiang’s army has crossed the Yel- low River and penetrated Chihli Province. The capture of Taminfu is also reported. Reports from Shanghai state that Sun Chuan-fang has evacuated Hai- (Continued on Page Two) NATION-WIDE MOBILIZATION DRIVE — PLANNED BY FUR UNITY COMMITTEE Police Department Is Presented With Evidence of Brutality Against Pickets Plans for a wide-spread mobilization campaign were laid yes- terday by the Unity Committee formed last week in Washington by 48 of the seated and unseated delegates to the “convention” of the International Fur Workers’ Union. The Executive Board of the committee representing eight cities, announced after its conference held yesterday afternoon that its immediate activities would include: (1) The employment of a field organizer; (2) the despatch of a communication to every local of the furriers’ union and to the entire labor niovement explaining the aim and purpose of the Unity Conference and calling attention to the employment of gangsters by the International Fur Workers’ Union. To Arrange Meetings. ath (3) Mass meetings of fur workers| in the various cities, and conferences) of all progressive elements in the) labor movement; (4) the payment ed regularly monthly dues of 25 cents| NEST OF RACIAL and a tax of $1 for the New York fur strike by all those sympathetic to this unity movement; (5) a semi- monthly bulletin, in Jewish and 5 to be held in the very near future. eS Personnel of Committee. Ugly charges of anti-Semitism and The Unity Committee’s Executive] persistent persecution of Jewish phy- Board consists of J. Sonnenshein,| sicians as well as patients at’ the Chicago; H. Englander and I. Dirchin-' Kings County Hospital were made sky, Toronto; George Pearlman, Bos-| yesterday by a committee of six pro- —After a seven year fight, Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, promi- nent Oakland radical, has been par- doned by the Governor of Califor- nia. Miss Whitney was arrested with hundreds of members of the I. W. W. in the patriotic hysteria following the war. “Because the abnormal condi- tions attending the trial go a long way toward explaining the verdict of the jury,” Governor C. C. Young pardoned Anita Whitney. About fifty members of the I. W. iW. are still in California jails on tthe charge of having violated the criminal syndicalist law. They Were convicted under similar con- ditions of hysteria. English; (6) an eastern conference ton; L. Guberman, Montreal; M./minent Jews who submitted detailed Langer, Newark; B. Gold and S.| evidence to Bird S. Coler, Tammany Liebowitz, New York; Sam _ Burt, commissioner of public welfare. Philadelphia; S. Stanley, Winnipeg. | The “hazing” early Monday morn- To Continue Investigation. jing of three Jewish internes by six A continuation of the investigation | doctors at the hospital has developed into the assaulting of fur pickets is|the present situation, which may re- to be made by Police Commissioner] sult in an official “investigation” by Warren’s office, according to Inspec-| the city authorities. The internes tor Valentine who heard the testi-| charge that the doctors broke into mony of Joint Board members who) their rooms, forced them under ice- appeared at the commissioner's office | cold showers, tied them to bed-posts, yesterday afternoon. | beat them, and finally covered the ‘With Isadore Shapiro, chairman of| bodies of two of them with shoe the Strikers’ Law Committee, there) blacking. appeared Gordon Steinberg, Samuel Cohen and Leo Ackerman who had witnessed the assault made on Aaron Gross on June 9th; and Max Wallman and George Perdicardis, who were brutally beaten by members of the industrial squad in a room in the 30th Street Police Station on June 6th. Tells ‘of Assault. Steinberg related how he had been walking arm in arm with Gross, who is chief business agent of the Joint Board and a former vice-president of the International. He saw two men (Continued on Page Five) Yesterday afternoon the six attack- ers who are free on $500 bail were | suspended by the medical board of the hospital, following a secret hear- ing which lasted all day, K. K. K. Influence. It is rumored that several Nem: t bers of the attacking party are mem- bers of the Ku Klux Klan, the entire day preceding the ing” the accused men together a group of internes had tried to ine’ the Jewish doctors to fight, acco to Dr, Hyman Solovay, one of three victims of the attack, 4 i