The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927 SHANS! GOVERNOR TO JOIN FENG IN’ NATIONALISTS’ DRIVE ON WAR LORDS PRICE OF MURDERS GOES DOWN PHILIPPINES ON Ratio Monopoly fo. VERGE OF REVOLT Face First Legal . BRITAIN ENLISTS FINLAND IN WAR (Continued from Page One) and that Chiang Kai-shek’s troops are advancing northwards to- wards Tsingtau. chow (By Nationalist News Agency.) SHANGHAI, June 21.—-Repor from Hankow state that a conferen of the military and political councils | with officers at Chengchow has re- sulted in complete agreement regard- ing political and military plans for the unification of China. Feng Yu- hsiang is taking charge of the drive against Peking in co-operation with Yen Hsi-shan, who is advancing from Shansi. Tang Sheng-chi, the Hunan- ese general, and Chang Fa-kwei, the famous leader of the “iron army” from Canton, will be used in other revolutionary work south of the Yel- low River, according to the reports. The co-operation of the Yen Hsi-shan means the Nationalist acquisition of a large and prosperous province and gives the Nationalists an opportun- ity for a direct drive also march against Peking. Political committees for Honan, Shensi, and Kansu were appointed at a special meeting with five mem of the presidium of the political coun- cil present at the Chenchow confe ence. The five leaders were: Sun F Wang Ching-wei, Kou Men H Chien, and Tan Yen-kai, Feng Yu- hsiang was appointed as chairman of the Honan committee, Yu Yu-jen of the one in Shensi, and Liu u-feng of the committee in Kansu. A sub-politi- cal committee is to be in charge of party work in the three provinces s}and the annihilation of northern War| »| the | he China Courier, a Sino-Ameri- can newspaper here has carried an} expose of the brothels, and has pub- lished many protests from the Chi- {nese a t the brothels, without any denial coming from any quarter, including the North China Daily| ews, the official British organ in Shanghai, whose silence on this seri- ous charge is a sufficient comment on Locker-Lampson's denial uttered thousands of miles away in London, (The official denial referred to in the foregoing despatch is based on a mis-statement of the name of the city where the objectionable houses} were established. The labor member who made the charge in the House of | Commons said the brothels were in} Nanking instead of in Shanghai. Of course denial is technically correct: | | the brothels are not in Nanking.) | . * * Rumor Alliance with Chiang. | SHANGHAI, June 21.—Aceording | to persistent rumors circulated here| the Nationalist Government at Han-| »w may form a temporary military alliance with Chiang Kai-shek in or- der to hasten the capture of Peking | lords. From the Nationalist point of view alliance is merely a temporary : | makeshift to hasten the liberation of | vorite corner for killings, Woodland | foreign imperialism. Nationalist lead-| |labor and peasants’ unions. In Cleveland, Ohio, a bootleg war is heing waged. {Ghina from native militarism and_ picture of Chief of Police Jacob Grant, whose force admits that due to the | strange inability of the chief to capture many of the killers, the wages of a Philippines, lers have not forgotten Chiang Kai-| hired murderer have decreased from $50 a killing to $25. Murder is a rela- charges that emissaries of the Soviet shek’s betrayal of the Kuomintang’ (ively safe occupation in other Ohio towns also; in Canton, Ohio, the ex-chie! government were in the Islands plot- and his barbaric campaign against] of police is indicted for participating in the killing of an editor who WaS|ting to blow up the American navy exposing police graft in connection with bootlegging. AS WOOD BOASTS Of Island “Bliss” By JOSEPH FREEM Serious political disturban are ,|taking place in the Philippine Islands, according to dispatches in the Ameri- can press. Although these dispatches |make every effort to conceal the real |nature of the disturbances, enough jhas leaked out to indicate that they are agrarian uprisings Last month the p reported that 400,000 natives revolted under Flor Intrencherado, described as a mad- man with delusions of grandeur who }had proclaimed himself empgror. Intrencherado’s followers were over- powered, and the “mad emperor” him- | self confined in an asylum. Over 500 jof his followers were arrested. . The “Red” Bogey | A week after this episode, the Philippine constabul shot and killed Sultan Raya, a well known op- {ponent of American imperialism. The press merely reported that he “re- Picture shows fa- sisted arrest.” Insert is @/ Five days later Admiral Kittelle, American naval commander in the published sensational Ave., and East 25th St. lyard there. He based his charges on No Way Out for Chiang. |documents alleged to have been found Governor General Talks Test in D.C. Court ON SOVIET UNION WASHI ON, June 21.—Prep- arations were comple today by the . Federal Radio Commission to defend) Spy Was Finnish two court actions which challenge the —_—- authority of the commission and the} MOoscOW, June 21—The Soviet constitutionality of the 1926 radio | government today dispatched a caus- law. itie note to Finland in reply to the | Following the demand of station| pinnish “protest” against the execu WMSG, Madison Square Garden, New| tion of Captain Evelgren, white | York, for an injunction against the| guard spy, alleged fo» be a Finnish commission, station WGL, operated subject. The Soviet Union emphati- by the International Broadcasting | cally denies that Evelgren is a Fin- | Association, has taken an appeal to| nish subject and expresses amaze- the District of Columbia court of ap-| ment ab the tone of the Finnish note s from a wave length allocation | The hand of tory Britain is seen on. \by observers here in the Finnish This case is the first instance of an| note, In its effort to goad the So- appeal from a decision of the com-| viet Union into a war, Great Britain mission. The result will be the first is operating thru Finlahd. Her ef- actual test of the constitutionality of forts to provoke the Soviet Union the law, according to justice depart-!thru the murder of Voikoff was @ ment officials, who are cooperating | complete failure and she is now em- with the radio authoriti ying other Baltic states in her The radio commission was created catory campaign against the by special act of Congress, and has been busy assigning valuable mon-! opolies of the best wave lengths to! jished after the execution of Evel- stations that will stand for the es-| gren cited evidence proving that he tablished order in every way, and|and a number of other Russian white will be able to make good use of any | guards has been engaged in espion- |new inventions in the way of power | age for Great Britain. binary that may appear in the} . athe a Blind and Maimed of Lawyer Pleads Guilty Great War Parade in 'To Swindle of Million 1 Paso for Relief USSR Denies Executed The government communique pub- { | t named and was appointed with Feng, Yu-hsiang as chairman. The entire conference was con- For Chiang Kai-shek there is no 7 in Chang-Tso-Lin’s raid on the Soviet way out of the alliance except im- ID Conflict Cast: Needle Trade Defense | aa” pease Genbee }embassy in Peking. Although the ad- ‘In Auto Finance Deals| EL PASO, Texas, June 21.—More cluded within three days of intensive work, without formalities and ban- quets, those concomitants to political confabs used to prolong and render conferences thoroughly futile. Mem- bers of the Chengchow conference spent eighteen hours a day at the conference table to settle every ques- tion on the long agenda. The Hankow officials were gone a week. Returning they were greeted at every station by troops, the peo- ple, the Red Spears, Boy Scouts, and by representatives of public bodies| carious than had been previously sus-|Crotona Park not only for fresh air.| United States. Two regiments in Fukien | Last Saturday and Sunday, 11th ahd} Among the matters arranged at| openly revolted against Chiang and! 19th of June, they collected another | the conference was the re-opening of | declared their unqualified allegiance! $40 for the striking Furriers. with great ovations. |mediate annihilation. Burdened with | financial difficulties, facing the de- termined opposition of the workers }and peasants thruout the Yangtse sweeping north | wider support | masses. | Reports from Canton received here lin the last few days indicated that | Chiang’s position wag even more pre- among the Chines | pected. Two Dollar Seats. The $2 reserved seats for the Con- | valley and revolts among his troops|ey Island Stadium Concert are going show. his only hope of survival+~for the} fast, |time being—is an alliance with the|of getting a good seat. Tickets can/| Nationalists who have been rapidly| now be had in the Office of the Joint} American experts computed that, if | and gaining even| Defense and Relief Committee, Delay will lessen your chance 41 | Union Square, Room 714, the Joint | {t would give the Japanese a ratio in | Boards and the Local Offices. * * * More Air Money. The “Yaten” of the Bronx go to The the Honan railways by Sun Fo, the| to the Nationalist Government. Spor- money was forwarded to the Defense Minister of Communications. Kin-Han and Lung-hai lines will be re-opened to regular traffic as soon as troop movements permit. Re-open- ing these lines will materially relieve the economic situation, as Hankow’s prosperity depends upon the move- ment of merchandise. Bumper crops are reported in Honan. Shensi, and Kansu. At the conference Feng-Yu-hsiang reiterated his allegiance to the Wu- han Government and Central Execu- tive Committee. He stated that he will carry out all orders, resolutions, and policies of the Nationalist Gov- ernment and fight to put into effect the three People’s Principles of Dr. Sun throughout China, and will carry on the war against Chang Tso-lin ing out among the peasantry, while! in the streets of Canton workers are} openly demonstrating against the government. | Chiang Losing Support. The alliance which Chiang contem- plated for a time with Chang Tso- | lin and other northern war lords| | would have meant Chiang’s immediate annihilation as a factor in the Chi- nese situation. Close’ observers of the situation state that an immediate and widespread revolt would have! broken out among Chiang’s troops,| and that Chiang would have even lost the supoort of the large native mer- chants and industrialists who are the backbone of such strength as he pos- sesses. without compromise. ‘The | adic revolts against Chiang are break-| Committee by Victor Zibulsk. * * * More Workmen's Cricle Branches. We have already announced Work- men’s Circle Branches are giving wonderful support in the present struggle of the Cloakmakers and Fur- riers. The following are a few more examples: In response to an appeal by Brother Ginsburg, Branch 548 bought $100 worth of Bonds. The same evening Branch 344, with Brother Ginsburg present, donated $10 with a promise to give more. Branch 611 forwarded another $10 miral never (Continued from Page One) used it as an excuse to break up the ‘ 4 organization of navy yard workers. | what the present comparative figures | The leaders of the union denied the “ ice charge. Individual locals continue to Jap Provosels Favor. Britain. |function. A week after this incident, Guessing at what Japan means,| admiral Kittelle reiterated _ his | s e involving the Sov- |the Japanese proposal were adopted, Hauerceteent cana: nto: | auxiliary ships and submarines of ap- | Admiral Kitelle, Strikebreaker {proximately 3.7 to the United States| Close on the heels of these charges, five, while the British ratio would be |came a strike of 2,000 stevedores in still even higher than that of the| Manila. Admiral Kittelle sent a force jof strikebreakers at once. | This week one of the leaders of the If Great Britain should insist upon |!mtrencherado revolt of May was sen- | serious consideration of her proposals tenced to life imprisonment, and | in toto it is believed here that it would | twenty-three others to smaller terms. |be necessary to defer action for sev- The most recent dispatch describes eral years until France and Italy can | the concentration of “religious fan- be brought into a new conference to |@tics” on Siorgao and Dinagat Is- | reconsider the problems of the Wash-|!ands. It is reported that the con- | ington treaty. stabulary is “alarmed” and that rein- | There’ is no plenary conference |forcements have been requested. scheduled for today and tha delegates| General Leonard Wood, governor are meeting informally to decide upon of the Philippines, has just arrived methods of procedure. jin Canada on his way to visit Presi- ul bd dent Coolidge. In an interview with |newspapermen, General Wood said: The Old Bunk Failure Is Seen. ° | Washington Rejects Proposals. | WASHINGTON, June 21, — The| proved his charges, he| David Deutsch, a lawyer of No. 2 than a thousand disabled American |Columbus Circle, who was indicted | veterans of the great war passed in ‘on four charges of forgery in the| review here today. second degree growing out of an al-! The parade preceded the opening lleged wholesale auto finance swindle,| of the second session of the disabled pleaded guilty to one of the charges| veterans’ national convention. before Justice Levine in general ses-| A pathetic feature of the parade sions today. He will be sentenced|was the blind section, numbering June 30. | about two hundred men. The wound- Through alleged fake. mortgages | ed men want a little better treatment_ Deutsch is alleged to have swindled | linvestors out of close to $1,000,000.) from the government, and are hold- ing a convention to consider problems. WORKERS PARTY ISSUES CONVENTION STAMP: URGES ALL COMRADES TO BUY THEM AT ONCE | The Workers (Communist) Party jhas issued its convention assessment |stamps for the convention scheduled | | for July 10th, 1927. This stamp has been sent to all unit organizers all | ever the country. The sale of the stamp should be rushed and inmedi- ately any of them have been sold the |money must be forwarded, half of it ‘to the district office, and half to the {national office, | | Any member of the Party the or- |ganizer of whose unit has not re- Memoirs of a Revolutionist By Vera Figner | American delegates at the Geneva) | Arms Conference will not deviate very collected at their meeting. Independ-|fa* from the program of limitation | ent Workmen’s Circle, Branch No. 46 | formulated in Washington and pre- | of Boston, sent in $10. Brother Nel- | Sented to the conference. It was said son delivered $10 from Branch No. | today, that the program presented by 199 for the Defense. Tolmer Branch, | Hugh Gibson goes about as far as it | Philippine Islands. balance in the treasury and a heavy |The organizer of the unit should also balance of trade in favor of the communicate with the national of- islands. . I really think that the people | fice at once, because ‘in many cases “They are a peaceful, prosperous | ceived these stamps should immedi- | and happy people throughout the | ately communicate with the unit or- | There is a large| ganizer and with the national office. | | | in the Philippines are the happiest the organizers of units have haan} BRA FIGNER is now General Feng Yu-hsiang who is|No. 188 Workmen’s Circle collected |{s possible to go without putting the | people in the world. I am going to changed or they have changed their | V enty-five years old a - bf : i Jati A * 765 i i | United States navy in a position of Sooli S wel re: : i oli living in’ Moscow. ae commanding the Nationalist drive|$75 loans for the Unity Committee. | eee DAVY. by n of |see President Coolidge and the Secre-| addresses. Any slowness in selling | s he Brothels Kept by British. against Peking is reported to have| Branch No. 548 sent $100 more on| decided inferiority to Great Britain |tary of War. We will discuss the| these stamps, or in paying for them | isteee. Shee aree Sena Regarding the denial by Lolker-jleft for Soochow for the p rpose of to $20,000 Workmen’s Circles. jand Japan. Some give and take will |Philippine situation thoroughly. |to the national office, may result in} ago, and has lived to see the Lampson in the House of Commons | * * * |be necessary, it is anticipated here, | overthrow of the autocracy of the report that fifteen-year-old Chinese girls are employed by broth- els for British soldiers in the Interna- tional Settlement of Shanghai, it is pointed out that the houses here are operating openly, guarded by British Military Police, and frequent- ed by British soldiers. There is every evidence that the brothels are carry- ing on with official sanction despite the fact that prostitution is illegal in the International Settlement. GERMAN books We have received a lim- ited stock of the follow- ing titles from Germany, some of which have not appeared in English. By Bucharin Die Probleme der Chinesischen Revetution Me Die International und Innere Lage der Sowjetunton 25 Der Im livmus und die Akkumulation des Capital (Cloth) ——?5 Eutwicklungawege der Chine- xischen Revolution Fang Ping-Schen 1s Die Rergarbetterfrauen Eng- Jands Im Kampt Katherine Cant —10 Aus Dem Leben der Arbetter- der Sowjetunton jarskaya 10 Die Vereinigten Staaten dew , und Arbeiterbewegung—- 2.50 DAILY WORKER PUB. Co. —10 fur Wirtschaft, Poli- conferring with Chiang Kai-shek. * Protest Right Wing Terror HONG KONG, June 21.—Because a tax collector for the right wing government killed a merchant, all of the shops in Foochow today closed in protest. Angered by the murder of the merchant, crowds of demonstra- tors destroyed the house of the chief tax collector, reports from Foochow state. foreigners is threatened and political demonstrations have been organized. A representative of Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have arrived from Nan- king and is making a vain attempt to “restore order.” Bronx Co-operative To Build 3d Block Of Workers’ Homes A decision to commence the build- ing of the third block of homes for workers at Bronx Park Bast and Al- ;lerton Ave., was made at a meeting of the United Workers’ Cooperative held last night. The new building will contain 2, 3 and 4-room apartments with the Also Operate Camp. for the establishment of a group of cooperative stores to serve the resi- dents of the Community. “Nitge- daiget,” a summer camp for workers organized four years ago, is also un- der the supervision of the United Cooperative. Cash Disappears at Bank Police ,yesterday investigated the ‘raysterivus disappearance of negoti- able bonds worth $79,000 from the of- \fiees of the Garfield National Bank, A strike of domestic servants of |); {Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third St, Dr. Libergto Lecture. Branch No. 548 Workmen’s Circle. has arranged a lecture for this com- ing Friday, June 24th at which Dr. Liber will speak on “The Life of the Family, Today and in the Future.” The Branch has already sent in $100, a preliminary payment on the pro- ceeds. Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave. and Clare- mont Parkway, Bronx. This will be Dr. Liber’s only pub- ic appearance this summer. He is very busy and does not often appear in public, but as the entire proceeds of this meeting will go for the strik- ing furriers, Dr. Liber made an ex- ception in this case. All workers of New York and the Bronx are urged to come and hear Dr. Liber speak. * * * Volunteers Wanted. If you have some leisure time to spare, come up to the office of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee and inquire for Lena Chernenko. 400 Newark Barbers On Strikes 600 More Expected Out Soon NEWARK, June 21.—-Over 400 most modern improvements. About| barbers, members of local 877, went} 400 familiies are now living in the] on strike this morning, and 600 more colony which has a modern experi-| are expected out by the end of the mental school, a theater, library,| present weok. gymnasium and children’s nursery.|" ‘Conferences have been held with the bosses during the past few days, Plans are now also being made} but no agreement was reached on the demands of the workers for a basic weekly wage of $35, and 60 per cent commission on all income over $45 a chair daily, The journeymen are now working 70 hours a week, They demand a re- duetion of 10 hours in the working schedule. An enthusiastic mass meeting at- tended by the striking barbers wag held this morning with M, Tartam lo, 1, Ortario, S. Ripolo, and John B. Manger, secretary of the union, hers, There is no sign of Red agitation in the islands. There are no labor troubles to speak of either, for labor is well paid and treated.” There has been a tremendous in- crease in rubber and sugar produc- tion, General Wood said, as well as in coffee, tobacco, and hemp. He re- but the basic features of the Amor- ican program are not likely to be al- tered. The British counter-proposals are wholly unacceptable to the United States, The more closely they were examined today by naval experts here | the more unsatisfactory they became. | the disfranchisement of many mem-} bers of the Party in the election for | the forthcoming convention. There- fore it is the duty of all functionaries | | and Party members to see to it that’ |these stamps are sold to every mem- ber of the Party and the money for- warded to the national and district and the establishment of workers’ rule in Russia. Vera Figner is one of the last Revolutionary Mohicans. She was a member of the famous Naredmaya Volya in the 70's, and in 1881 partici- pated in the assassination of ‘Twar Alexander Il. She spent rs in the Fortress St. and Paul, and though jeted to death, her sen- The lecture will be held at} Japan's proposals, being somewhat }vague, are not understood in Wash- ington. Japan apparently is insisting upon a ratio of auxiliary ships greater than that allotted to her in capital ships under the 1921 agreement. This, of course, is unsatisfactory to the United States. * Japanese Press Hostile. TOKYO, June 21,—Editorial opin- ion in leading Japanese newspapers is against the acceptance of the pro- posals sponsored by the United States at the Tri-Partite Naval Conference now in session at Geneva. “The American proposals involve a oi ek tests the “Hochi-Shimbun,” “Japan is unable and unwilling to accept the American suggestions.” | The Japanese plan, according to the “Hochi-SWimbun,” is the fairest pro- posal before the conference. The newspaper “Jiji Shimpo” ob- jects to the American prospectus on the ground it means expansion and not reduction of naval armament. * * ” France Also Rejects Plans. PARIS, June 21.—The French for- eign office was reluctant today to make any comment on the British dis- armament proposals as set forth at on “It is natural to expect that Great Britain would ask the maximum at the opening conterence,” said the for- eign office spokesman, “in order to bring forth American and Japanese counter proposals. Future discussion of these proposals will greatly reduce them. If the British proposals tend toward revision of the Washington treaty we know that nothing will be | Sweringen had taken $129,000,000 of notify- | Chesapeake & Ohi ing France and Italy, What is signed|them to small holding companies pa bap Be ated cannot be changed by | which. he controlled and used them as done without the three powe: one.” fused to discuss the recent report of | ffices at once. No comrade will be was committed to life reduction in the present strength of | the British and Japanese navies,” pro- | visit to the Philippines, declared that the natives were critical of the mili- islands. |pines not only contradicted Admiral Kittelle’s sensational charges, and ig- nored the stevedore’s strike, but would create the impression that the present uprisings of the Filipinos are due to pure happiness. Van Sweringen Tol By Court to Expose Deals With Morgan WASHINGTON, June 21,-—Minor- ity stockholders of the Chesapeake & an American politician, who after a) taristic atmosphere prevailing in the | Thus the governor of the Philip-| te imprisonment in the Schitissel- burg Fortress, She spent twenty years in solitary ‘con- finement in that famous cit- adel where some ofthe great- est revolutionary spirits were imprisoned, In her book translated for the first time into English, she .tells the story of her youth and how she became a revolutionist. She describes the early Revolutionary Move- ment in Russia and gives a |permitted to vote for delegates to section, city, district. or national con- | vention without having this paid up, | jand the money properly forwarded. The stamp contains the words: |“Build the Party Fund, Convention $1.00” and the, | Assessment 1927, seal of the Party. | The assessment is for the purpose of paying the expenses of the district | jand national conventions, Therefore Resphic ce ts Ie 50 cents for every stamp sold should twenty years: she was con- be sent to the National Office and) fined there. |50 cents to the district office, except | Every revo- Jutionar® home in the case of members at large, who ahpuld. ‘basen |send the full amount directly to the | copy of is jane : ook, In it is inational office, | given the life eesinpehianmmeetis story of a great ' ere | revolutiont: | 3 Dead in One Family. | and {dentist vad | A triple funeral was planned yes- Illustrated, octavo, 320 pp. terday for two brothers and their! #3.00 sister. THE DAILY WORKE,; ‘ Shortly after he was told that) PUB. CO ri Henry and Henrietta Kuser, his aged | brother and sister, had committed sui-! cide by taking gas, Charles Kuser, 68, | collapsed and died. . 33 First St., New Yo Geneva, having received no report, from M. Clauzel, the French “inform. | | Ohio, who are opposing the merger of | | the road with the Erie and Pere Mar-| |quette, won an important victory to- | day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that 0. P. Van Sweringen, creator of the merger plan, must furnish detailed statements of his various financial transactions in connection with the roads. | Under the ruling Van Sweringen must furnish a statement showing the | monthly averages of deposits of the Vaness Co,, a Van Sweringen subsidi- ary, with the Guaranty Trust Co,, and J, P. Morgan & Co., since Jan., 1923, Henry W. Anderson, counsel for the opposing group, charged that Van Sweringen, as chairman of the Chesa- peake & Ohio board, was wrecking the road. 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