The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1927, Page 3

DECORATED HEADS OF NAVY CHORTLE OVER CONFERENCE “Disarmament” Recog- nized as Fraud By HARVEY O'CONNOR. WASHINGTON, (FP) June 21.— Loud guffaws from the goldbraids in the spick and span new Navy Build- ing and polite chuckles in the gloomy corridors of the State Department ac- companied the opening on June 20 of the nayal armament limitation con- ference at Geneva. BRITISH MINERS "ARE DETERMINED ~ TO RENEW FIGHT ‘Conference Acc ep ts Hodges Resignation By Our London Correspondent. Determined spirit of the miners’ | delegates, at the first conference) held since the lockout, was revealed | in their challenge to the Baldwin gov- ernment over the anti-Trade Union bill. The delegates at Kingsway Hall, London, unanimously decided to car- Small wonder, for the Geneva con-|ry on their tasks of strengthening ference is their conference with all proposals framed after consultation and approval by the Navy Depart- ment. . @his Geneva will mark gains for the big navy advocates in all three countries, despite the ironic title of the conference as an “armament limitation” parley. The Republican administration thus not only satisfies the itch of big navy advocates for faster and better cruisers, but throws & sop as well to the peace-loving mid- | @ie west. . Political Gesture. Coolidge and his associates, intent on the third term for Cal, were alarmed several months ago by the revulsion against the administration’s imperialistic pdlicies in Nicaragua, Mexico and China. bright idea that a call for an “arma- ment reduction” conference would be} a red herring to.draw publie atten- tion from war-like moves in Latin America and the Far East. Whether the people out in what Washington likes to call the “pro- vinces” will detect the fraud or not, certainly no one here Significance of the jockeying in pro- gress at Geneva. The conference is seen as a typical sagacious stroke of Coolidge strategy in giving the mili- tarists what they want while hand- ing the pedple a pacifist goldbrick. | Neither Coolidge nor Kellogg takes the conference very seriously. minor diplomat, the American minis- ter to Switzerland, Hugh Gibson, heads the delegation, the other mem- ber of which is Admiral Hilary P. Jones, there to see that the navy’s “interests” are protected. U. S. Wants Big Ships. Other ironic features of the “limi- tation” conference include: 1, American demand fo¥ the reten- tion of the 10,000-ton maximum for cruisers, opposing the British-Japan- ese move for a maximum of 6,000 to 8,000 tons. 2. American opposition to reduc-| tion of tonnage figures for capital ships. The United States delegates contend that the figures of the Wash- ington conference:of 1921-22 cannot be revised at Geneva, as France and Italy are not represented. 3. American. refusal to discuss re- duction in her fortifications in Hawaii and other Pacific points or proposals to internationalize the Panama Canal. | No Race Prejudice Against Money. | NEW YORK, June 21.—Harlem, wherein resides the colored popula- tion of the city, began today to take official recognition ©f the society columns. é ‘ Tt comes about as the result of news from Paris that Josephine Baker, a colored beauty, and Har- lem’s own dancing darling, who is well paid for filling theatrical and cabaret engagements in, Paris, has been married to a real count—an Italian nobleman. Josephine thus be- comes the first American colored countess. * Special Summer Subscription Offer 2 MONTHS This offer is especially suited to those who wish to become acquainted with our paper. Ask your ‘friends and fellow work- », ers to try The DAILY WORKER. y for $1.00 RATES Per year ... Six months . Three months , In New Per year ... Six months . ‘Three months The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street New York Enclosed $....++ mos, sub to; for ... Name .seee Street ... Dty weveeee BEALE crceeseeeereeeenennee Then came the} is deceived | about the domestic and international | A} || “International unity and action in |,conjunetion with nationalization will ‘lend the chaos and misery now exist- || ing in the coalfields of the world. 4 '|and increased hours would not help || Wages. || intensified production British coal || French government has retaliated by || will engage upon a struggle to ar- || she had a German passport. | in Glasgow. a |the Miners’ Federation and of carry- ing on their trade union tasks to fight for their members irrespective of whether or not the Trade Union bill |is passed by the government. | | I saw A. ‘J. Cook yesterday and he} |emphasized the determination of the, | miners’ delegates to fight the govern- | ment both on the Trade Union bill} }and the 8-hour act. i | “The only opposition to the official | | resolution,” declared Cook, “was a | demand for militant action. This was | voiced by a Durham delegate, Louis} Martin, of Pelton Fell, who showed | that the government got such a} fright during the General Strike that it was anxious to see that a similar| strike would be impossible in the fu- |to oppose the bill. As a result of} rank and file pressure the resolution against the bill was strengthened and its effect now is that the miners will) work as if it had not been passed. | “Our conference also realized that) “As a first step towards a prac- tical solution of the mining situa- tion, with its private ownership and chaos, the delegates agreed upon the policy of nationalization of mines| and minerals without compensation for royalty owners. “In the reports from the districts {it was shown how the miners and| their families are suffering. Those} who are employed, in many instances, | ;are only working three days per | week, Some men are only working) |one day per week. Thousands are un-| employed—and in nearly every in- stance these are the one who were jthe best fighters in the Federation. “Victimization does not end with |starvation,. Evictions are taking| | place too, and forms of persecution. | | “Soft words and eloquent appeals | ;to the government and owners will |not stop the persecution now taking |plaee in the coalfield. * “We must get power in the shape of the Miners’ National Union backed jup by a 100 per cent organization.! | Then we will be able to speak to the } owners and the government in the! only language they understand. | “One of the most remarkable| |things that took place in the confer- ence was the detailed criticism and exposure of Frank Hodges made by} W. P. Richardson. The report an-| nouncing the resignation of Hodges as international secretary was carried unanimously. No Pals for Hodges. “Not one voice was raised to de- |fend him. This shows that the Brit- \ish miners are determined to have a | fighting international—and one that j will include our Russian comrades. | “The government should pay at-) tention to the determination of the miners’ delegates to strengthen their |contact with the Russian Workers. | This decision was arrived at in the} |same week that the Soviet represen-| |tatives were driven from Britain.} |International Labor unity will pre- |vail ovér the national hate and treachery of the Baldwin . govern- ment. Another Wage Attack. “Last year I said, reduced wages he mining industry. We now see what has happened. The miners are faced once more with attack on their The explanation is simple. With lower wages, longer hours, and forces down wages in other countries. “France, Belgium, Germany, Amer- ica, Poland, are all faced with wage reductions and unemployment. The closing their doors to British coal. “The only way out is for an Inter- national Miners’ organization that range the hours, wages, and working conditions. This would end the pres- ent cut-throat competition that is starving the miners in every capital- ist country in the world.” German Deported From England as Communist LONDON, June 21.—Kate Guss- feldt, a German Communist was de- ported ‘from Harwich today, although Fraulein Gussfeldt was arrested in England recently, charged with hav- ing attended a Communist Conference Busigess Men Get Together. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 21.—The fifth annual convention of the Na- Hoaal sanpeiats of Busi- ness Clu peyton with 500 delegates present, ‘ af THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927 This is the sonioter cae aaper to break strikes, and to govern all Page Three THE STRANGLER ' BROTHERHOOD BANKS TURNED OVER T0 (Continued from Page One) heavily themselves in these enter- prizes—they had had the. good sense |to take salaried positions in them | while allowing the engineers to throw their money into “capital stock.” Prenter’s High Finance. The leading officials, soon after it was decided to build the 21-story bank building opposite the 14-story office building, bought up real estate on the adjoining corners, which rapidly soared in value when the Brother- hood building program became known, At this time William Prenter, Stone’s successor, was buying an te in Cleveland Heights valued at 0,000,’ located on the corner of Coventry Road, where Cleveland’s wealthiest exploiters live. His wife had just died, revealing an estate of ane are anxious iv mse a China, for raids on the Soviet Umon embassy, big thang cog fa loeectcte elie if that is possible. The, Present Situation of the Kuomintang and the Wuhan Government Following upon the plenary session |ture. He urged for militant action|of the Kuomintang in March of this | order not to force the vacillating | counter-action and are now stationed year, democracy and the supreme position of the party were re-intro- duced in the Kuomintang and the Wuhan (Hankow) government, which ignore the bill and carry on with the|had been for some time dependent’ upon Chiang Kai-shek. In place of the dictatorship (Chiang Kai-shek capitalism has completely broken held -all the five leading posts as | Chenchow. The remaining forces of!one column in action against the| Brotherhood. down in the coalfields as elsewhere.|chairman of the party, of the Poli-| Feng which were left in West Shuy-|north, whereas the Wuhan troops are| that the | ) |tical Bureau, of the Supreme War uan have united with the Yenchisan| operating with three columns and are| Just a big white elephant, only one- Council, of the Organization Depart- ment and the Soldiers Department), the committee system has been in- troduced and the return of the popu- lar leader, Wang Ching-wei, the stu- dent of Sun Yat-sen, was decided | upon. Old Fossils Follow Chiang. With the defection of Chiang Kai- shek, of 36 executive members, 7 went with Chiang, of the 12 members of the Control Commission, 7 went with him, all of them being very old. When Chiang Kai-shek tried to call an executive session of the Kuomin- tang in Nanking on the 15th of April, in order to dismiss the Wuhan Cen- tral Committee and the government from the party, he was not able to obtain. the necessary quorom, so he decided to act on his own together with such people whom he had previous-- This means a direct threat to the ly in Canton arrested and dismissed as counter-revolutionary elements working together with the imperial- ists, as Wu Chow-chu, Wu Tiet-chen, Sinkevu, etc., and form a new gov- ernment and a new party-in Nanking. The Wehan government is com- posed of the following persons: Chair- |man of the government, Wang Ching- wei; his substitute, Tan Yen-kai; For- eign Minister, Chen Yu-yen; Justice Minister,’ Hsu Chieh; Finance Minis- ter, Sungzewen; Transport Minister, Sun Fox. After the plenary session in March, the following were added: Agricultural Minister, Tang Ping- chan; Labor Minister, Su Chow-kin and Minister for Education, Kuo Ming-yu. In contradiction to all other reports, all the ministers have re- mained loyal to the government. At the same time as Chiang Kai-| shek’s defection, the governor of the exemplary province of Chansi, Yen Chi-san attached himself to the Wuhan government and subordinated himself to the supreme commander of the national-revolutionary troops in China, Feng Yu-hsiang. The Wuhan government now controls the follow- ing Chinese provinces: Wuhan, Hupe, Kiangsi, Honan, Shansi, Shensi, Kansu, Northwest Shuyan and North Kwangtung. An area which stretches from the south to the north of China crossing both great rivers, the Yangtse and the Hoangho. The most important railway lines are also in this district. * The Chinese Areas of War. The advance of the expedition against the north which was tem- porarily held up by the negotiations of Chiang Kai-shek with Chang Tso- lin and the defection of the former from the Wuhan government, was re- sumed on the 19th of April of this year, The plan was that the soldiers of the southern front under the com- mand of Tang Sen-yi should advance against Chang Tso-lin along the rail- way line Hankow-Peking, and the troops under the command of Feng Yu-hsiang should advance along the Lunghai line. The aims of the move- ment were: The unification ‘of the Feng army with the Wuhan troops,| the final destruction of the Chang Tso-lin clique and the conquest of Hsuchow, the railway junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin, Pukau railway with a view to destroying the forces of Chang Tsung-chang, It was as- sumed that the forces of Chiang Kai- shek would dissolve of their own voli- tion after the unification of the forces of Feng and the Wuhan troops and their joint victory over Chang Tso-lin, for Chiang Kai-shek only has the first army corps of the national-revolution- ary troops which is scattered over a long front from Swatou to Nanking, whilst the greater portion of his army is composed of deserters from the armies of Sun Chuang-fang and Wu Pei-fu, troops which for years have their masters according to pomp edlyaeltorrtey No action was, jthe Park Lane Villa, on the edge of | Rockefeller Park. The Palace of a Fakir. George T. Webb, executive vice- |president of the whole financial hokus- pokus ‘of the Brothérhood, and the j real boss of the Brotherhood, was the |kingpin in lavish luxury. He took a \great mansion on Magnolia Drive, |Cleveland’s Gold Row near Wade Park. This great house is so big that an ordinary camera can snap only one \half the structure. It has baronial |towers, porticos, connecting |private gardens. Conservatively val- ued, it is worth at least $500,000 but probably nearer $750,000. A White Elephant. Webb was the evil genius of the When he discovered $7,000,000 bank building was }taken against Chiang Kai-shek. in) erals therefore undertook an energetic | troops under his command to take up|in northern Kiangsu. Chiang Kai- a directly hostile attitude towards the |shek intends to press forward towards Wuhan government. ;Shangtung and Chili in order to finish joff Chang Tsung-chang finally. There is little possibility of Chiang Kai-shek The Feng Yu-hsiang troops and the ‘taking Pekin. His forces are too far) | Wuhan troops are now united near) south and apart from this, he has only| Only Foreigners Save Pekin. |troops from Shansi and are advanc-| already carrying out an enveloping] third of whose offices could be rented, |ing along the Kalgan-Pekin line. An-| action against Pekin. jhe ead soya ed Gasp to eet other section of the Shansi army is) * ‘ aye up quick in order to keep the whole advancing along the Tayuan Dientien | Japanese Economic Influence in Chas financial structure from tottering in- line towards Pekin. Apart from the|, Since the world war, the economic) to bankruptcy. The bank building, in- |numerous troops of Chang Tso-lin| influence of Japan in China has in-| eigentally was erected in a part,of the | who have gone over to the revolution-| Ceased very much. It extends over| city practically stagnant. It is sur- ‘ary army, the main forces of Chang the whole of Manchuria where for-|+ounded by small, cheap structures. |Tso-lin are in full flight towards|™erly Russia competed with. Japan.|The real development of Cleveland is |Manchuria. Unless the foreign pow-|/t also extends over the one-time Ger-) g mile y, up Euclid Ave. lers interfere, Pekin will be taken by man sphere around Shantung. Fur-| To retrieve the stupid blunders in the Wuhan troops in a very short|ther, in the south, Japan has entered | adding more banks to the chain than | time. |the Yangtse district from Shanghai. could possibly be supported and the 1 Fe phe eaeane alone the Tientsin-| 2° Japanese have invested consid-| fina} error of building a huge struc- Pukau line, the troops of Chiang Kai. | table capital in China: ture which may never be able to pay | (one Yen’- 2 shillings) |its upkeep, Webb conceived a brilliant ‘ ,000 Yen| Scheme which meant millions—posi- shek and Chang Tsung-chang are| facing each other. After the defec-|In Manchuria 1 ‘tion of Chiang from the Wuhan gov Shanghai 00,000 | tively ane right ke ; ‘ernment, Chang Tsung-chang advanc Tsingtau 88,000,000 t The Florida Paradise. ing from Hsuchow has recaptured the) Wuhan (Hankow) 46,710,000 Florida! Magie word! That was in |town of Pukau (opposite Nanking). | Tientsin 34,600,000 1925 when Florida was El Dorado in- Kiukiang, and deed. Fortunes were being coined by, Chiang Kai-shek governnient in| other ports 25,000,000 mere signatures of the pen. Land | Nanking and a vital danger for those( | vacillating generals. who have gone| {over from Chang Tsung-chang to |Chiang Kai-shek with their troops. | | Recently Chang Tsung-chang has exe-| | cuted a number of backsliding exe-|SACCO Flo erals. Chiang Kai-shek and the gen-'SH A LL NOT D I E ! millions in a year. (PRUE ER — values were soaring higher than real 1,831,965,000 Yen estate sharks had ever dreamed they bicoige could—even in the palmiest California . days. and VANZETTI: The Brotherhood should plunge i: lorida, clean up ten, twenty, thirty And Webb could Sailing for Leningrad | | ane ee Six Weeks’ Trip to Russia A party of Americans is setting out for a sight-seeing tour.in the first Workers’ Republic, visiting Leningrad, | Moscow and near-by points. | $575 COVERS ALL EXPENSES for steamship tickets, rail fares, rooms, meals, and excursions to such places as Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, the mammoth power center at Volkhov-Stroi, museums, art galleries—-and the best theatres and concerts, too. WANT TO. COME? The time is short. The party is limited. Write immedi- ately for booklet and further information. WORLD TOURISTS, INC. Room 803 41 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Stuy. 7251 The above picture is the motorship “Gripsholm” of which will carry the party to ) the Swedish American line ingrad. , ,|Grass began to gr SCAB MITTEN MANAGEMENT | ee be sure that he would clean up also. Accordingly it was announced to |the world that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had bought 30,000 acres of choicest Florida land. Here a model city—Venice—would ‘arise. This year a swamp and @ wilderness 20 miles from the nearest town. Next year the Miami of the Flori If Coast, | the mud scows, the ditch | diggers, stump pullers set to work. Within a few months “avenues” and “boulevards” had been staked out in the wilderness. A few more months and a lonesome but imposing “Span- lish” hotel graced the site, along with {tumble down s! s and more shacks B to house non. on Negro labor. But back home the “brothers” were grabbing up choice lots six miles from the seashore. All best real estate promotion tactic rbs, pletures of a fairy city, the Riviera farm lands, manufacturers, industries—all the wild, idiotic nonsense of the Florida promoters done over for the benefit of locomotive engineers and others. And lots sold been expected, but And then The Big Smash, | Blooie—and the bubble of Florida real estate notion collapsed over night. The re were clogged with ‘autos seeking escape the ruins. on the “streets” jof million dollar promotions, The real estate gentry eseaped Florida in a | flood which swamped all the Pullmans 'which could be rushed from the North. And there was Venice——disconsolate by the waters. Millions sunk in the city, millions more to be sunk before a penny could be realized. Scab Labor Builds On. | There was nothing for Webb to do but keep at it. Orders went ahead for the non-union building mechanics to continue work. The construction com- pany demanded cash. No more eredit. And Webb bravely went along, sign- ing checks in the six figures and send- ing out hurry up calls for the “grand officials” back home to order the meimbership to kick through for lots —and do it damned quick. It got so that every one of the {90,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers knew he vould receive mail eve day—from Venice. A flock of lot sellers sailed into every railroad town, pestered division meetings, buttonholed bronzed old engineers, told them their last |cent should go into Venice “for old e,”” Then the New York banks had to jbe sold. Had to be sold to raise the eash to pay the relentless contractor. |No cash, no work. Millions just sunk jin the ground. Work had to continue. | The few lousy millions lasted a hile, then more were needed. Very well, the various Brotherhood holding t so many as had still some. jeompanies and securities corporations |began passing dividends. | Tenantless Scab Houses. | Not enough, not enough, cried the |contractor as Venice began to assume |the prospects of a real sure-enough \ city. Hotels,-apartment houses, busi- |ness blocks arose. Tenantless, The | town dead. But a change would come, | Florida was “sound,” if only we can hold out a few years, everything will |go all right. | Then another bank had to be let go. Philadelphia, it was, with the notori- tons non-union Mitten Management, {sworn foe of the Street Car Men’s \union, taking over that bank. Then a suit started out in Seattle. Investors were afraid the elaborate | Pacific Coast financial edifice of the | Brotherhood was shaky. | Workers Ask Questions. And then the convention, the trien- jnial meeting with angry delegates |from every division in the country de- manding to know what the hell is the matter. Plain, honest workers. Didn’t iknow much about finance but they ‘could see something was rotten. Ni dividends from the West Virginia mines. ... None from the securities corporations. . . . None from the hold- ‘ing companies. .. .?2?? And now the final stroke. Mitten Management, princes of “labor man- agement,” friends of the toilers, the | better-than-union experts, ‘over your banks, We'll reseve you, We'll let you have a few more mil- \lions for Venice. An alliance between the Brother- ‘hood of Locomotive Engineers, oldest of the regular labor unions, and Mit- ;ten Management, most successful of the anti-union “labor managers.” Trade union capitalism has flowers — ed at last into full blossom. ea Brother Engineers. Kick out Pren- ter, Daugherty, Webb and the rest of the rotten, corrupt gang. Take them — by the secruffs of their fat necks and ‘throw them either into Lake Erie—or into the penitentiary. Reseue what |you can from your “investments” in trade union capitalism. and good trade unionists that if you need more money—you know where to. get it. Put in a militant trade union leadership which will get you # money you need for old age—not fake investments—but from the mously rich railroad companies, owe you and the rest of the workers untold millions in wages. There’s plenty of money in United States. Use your un find out just where it We'll take — ‘And take a solemn vow as workers _