The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1927, Page 1

: | Wi, STOP THE THREAT OF A NEW WAR! HANDS OFF CHINA! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF za. | | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK ron Anson Paar | FoR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 137, Current Events} SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yo! Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. by ‘SACO, VANZETTI By T. J, O’FLAneERTyY. EMERGENCY MEET We see in the society columns of the | newspapers that Mrs. E. Morris | de Peyster has purchased the Cross-| ways “formerly the villa of the late} Mr. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and is occupying it this season.” This is at Newport. Mrs. de Peyster is pictured under a sunshade and with a troubled look on her countenance. No doubt! the poor devil is worrying over the | trials and tribulations of her next “at home.” Supposing the fools her on the gin! * * * b editchi cai intriguing bit of informa-| tion for the hard-working steno-| grapher is the reported marriage of Florence Gibb Pratt, daughter of two more Pratts, who was married in St. James’s Episcopal Church, The couple will reside in Cheshire, Eng-| land. The bride did not carry a bouquet, but instead a white prayer book. How perfectly pious! What the attendants wore and where they wore it wag minutely described in the society columns. As if it mattered a damn! * * * bea! you imagine something like this appearing in the society col-| umns?: “Miss Mary Feiteltoot, daughter of Mr. Moses Feiteltoot, well known rabbit-worker of Chrystie Street was joined in wedlock yester- day to Mr. Isaac Patrick Muldoon, son of Mr. Barney Muldoon, hodcarrier of 481 West 46th Street by Rabbi Scholem O'Keefe. the happy couple subwayed to the| Roxy theatre where they enjoyed} “Thy Neighbor’s Wife’ Mr. -and Mrs. Muldoon will live on the east side after they have made the proper connection’ with an installment furni- ture house.” You can imagine read- ing this in a capitalist paper, but) that’s about as far as you will get. Another reason why you should read The DAILY WORKER for all the} news that’s not fit to print anywhere else. . * * ERE is something bookish in the » Sn aine avound* -Washingten Square. One who has read the American Mercury, the New Masses and our Saturday supplement, and who therefore knows a thing or two about the world he lives in, cannot help being pitched into a ruminating mood as he looks at the_quaint houses where now-famous writers, once spent their days in tribulation and indigence. And as if sensing the psychological effect of the environ- ment on the book-loving pedestrian a number of go-getters have opened bookstores in the vicinity. This is a typically American trait. Regardless of what Sinclair Lewis said about Babbitt he knows his business. Of course Babbitts do not run radical bookstores, . * . AVING become more or less re- sponsible for the success of the Jimmie Higgins Book Store, I must announce that he has moved his wares from 127 to 106 University Place. This Jimmie is an elusive fel- low. No matter how often you call on him you will be told that he is out. His assistant would give you the impression that he is always in need of money, and as a branch of a nationally known pawn shop is close at hand, you will be told that Jimmie is there trying to bene money. * * BE that as. it may, he ae a splendid staff in charge of the store, pleas- ant to the eye as well as to the ear. A nice place to spend a few hours examining! the latest books. And it is very seldom that anybody will ask you if you need assistance which is another way of saying that if you have no money you will not be insul- ted by a suggestion that this is a bookstore and not a z00. Yet I am told that Jimmie sells a lot of books. wey * * * smallest dog and the largest \, that I have seen anywhere a circus stood outside the door lap-town store a few evenings {n fact the dog was so small » first I thot it was a discarded eam cone. But my curiosity was ened by a piece of string that from the tiny thing on the side- valk to a hand that seemed to be away up in the air. The flunkey that held the string in his hand was uni- formed and he stood at attention as if the slightest sign of canine dis- pleasure would mean his economic doom, Shortly, a stout lady with a ginny countenance came forth, picked up the ‘dog and implanted three re- sounding smacks on its nose. She entered a limousine, and biting the pup’s ears she was driven away b uniformed chauffeur, the flunkey sitting beside him. * * * Wat has happened to the “revolu- tions” that were breaking out all over the Soviet Union like rash on an excema victim? Has Lindbergh (Continued on Page Four) bootlegger | After the services, | TOMORROW NIGHT, Third Labor ( Conference at Labor Temple The third conzrence of the Sac- co-Vanzetti Emergency Committee will be held at the Labor Temple, 244 East 14th St., tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, The conference will discuss pre- parations for immediate demon- strations to be held in New York. All labor unions and fraternal organizations who have not already appointed delegates to the confer- ence are urged to do so at once. * * * Héighten Agitation. The campaign for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti, slightly abated | during the private hearings con- ducted by Governor Alvan Fuller of Massachusetts, is again being re- {sumed with increased intensity. | Realizing also thaf the advisory | committee appointed by the governor after insistent demands had been made is a star chamber committee | and is making no attempt hear the facts of the defense, the Inter-/| national Labor Defense has called for the immediate resumption of agitation on behalf of Sacco and Van- zetti on a nation-wide scale. | Deep Apprehension. With the week of July 10, the date set for the execution of the two framed-up Italian workers approach- ing, deep fear is being felt by those who have been leading the campaign | \for their liberation. The I. L. D. has announced from its |national headquarters in Chicago \that new petitions with signatures reaching into the hundreds of thous. | ands will be gathered and torqerded, to the governor. | ‘The week from June 27 to July 4| has been set aside as Sacco-Vanzetti Wéek, and the campaign will react its height on July 4, Independence Day, with protest meetings thruout the United States. * * * Roscoe Pound Hits Prosecutors. OBERLIN, Ohio., June 22.—Dean/} Roseoe Pound of Harvard Law) School, in a commencement speech here, “criticized severely the tactics} used by the prosecution in convicting Sacco and Vanzetti, and said that! “the execution of these two obscure men is demanded regardless of their guilt or innocence on the ground that it is essential for the preservation of a stable society.” KLAN INFLUENCE WORKED TO KILL JEWISH PATIENTS N. Y. Hospital Anti- Semites Sabotage How the Ku Klux Klan element of the Kings County Hospital of Brook- lyn mistreated Jewish patients of that institution is now coming to light as a result of the hazing of three internes there last Monday. A Jewish woman of Brooklyn, former patient of the hospital will be one of a number of persons who have had dealings with the hospital to appear before the mayor. She will relate how she was left unattended for five hours, and how the interne who was in charge of the ambulance in which she was taken to the hos- pital called out with profane con- tempt, “Here’s another Jew!” Nathan H. Sweedler, council for the three Jewish internes, yesterday related how the nurses who worked with the internes refused to cooper- ate with them. He said nurses were lax in wards in which Jewish internes had been as- signed and not only insulted the intern- es but refused to carry out their orders, particularly if they concerned Jew- ish, patients. And Jewish patients, Sweedler added, were insulted by narses. Sweedler charged openly that the Ku Klux Klan is directly responsible for the actions of the doctors and nurses at the hospital. Workers Lose Eyes “Hundreds if not thousands of eyes, and millions of dollars are still lost annually because of the eye hazards of industrial occupations,” says the National Committee for the Preven- tion of Blindness in a news release urging adequate safety measures and mail, $8.00 per year. srontaaee. f WOEL, Mc GRADY & Co vred as second-class matter at the Post Ofrice at New York. N. Y., under the act of Maroh 3, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,, 38 Firat Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SAY GOVERNOR SMITH PROMISED TO ‘BREAK FUR STRIKE; TOLD MATTHEW STRIKE BREAKERS FURNISHED AT REASONABLE Rally to the DEADLOCK STILL GRIPS DELEGATES | OF THREE POWERS: Senators Sceptical of Geneva Results | BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 22.—Early collapse of the Geneva arms con- ference unless Great Britain ac- cepts the limitations for warsips suggested by the United States is confidently expected in high offi- cial quarters here. Whether the British will give under pressure or the threat from the United States to launch a build- ing program is in doubt, officials declare. The impression is that they will not, or that if they do decide to make.some minor con- cessions, these will be still se far from the American view as to be unacceptable. * * * GENEVA, June 22.—The tri-par- tite conference on limitation of naval armaments continues its deadlock. The disagreements between Britain and the United States on the first day are standing out in sharper re- lief thaf ever, after the delegations have had time carefully to analyze the real import of the various pro- posals. It resembles more nearly a council of war than an effort toward peace. “Experts” in Hot Debate Spirited debate broke out in the ex- perts’ committee of the tri-partite naval disarmament conference this afternoon over the question of con- version of merchant ships into auxil- iary cruisers. Sir Frederick Field, British expert, ridiculed the idea that British mer- chant vessels could be converted into valuable wartime auxiliary cruisers. Admiral Jones Assails British “A merchant liner equipped with) six inch guns can be made just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than a cruiser,” interjected Admiral Jones, U. S. N. “Cruisers below a certain tonnage have armor plate just as fragile as the ‘eggshell’ hull of a liner. “When you start reducing the ton- nage of cruisers you rapidly reduce the thickness of their armorplate.” Japan Refuses U. S. Terms. Hugh Gibson, head of the Ameri- can delegation, called upon Admiral Saito, head of the Japanese delega- tion today and it is known .that Saito reiterated Japan’s refusal even to con- sider the extension of the 5-5-3 Wash- ington conference ratio to include cruisers, destroyers and submarines, It is understood that Saito stated he was prepared to make other con- cessions. * * Senators All Sceptical. Defense of the Soviet Union! Declaration of the Central Executive Committee lof the Workers (Communist) Party of America The stage is all set for a new world war. All of our warnings of the past two months are being verified. Step by step Great} Britain has driven ahead towards the cementing of a united im- perialist front against the Soviet Union. The Coolidge government has shown by its actions that it is| participating in this united front. The war danger grows daily, and at the ratehat the situation is sharpening, the summer of 1927 gives promise of eclipsing the summer of 1914. During the last few weeks, the attack against the Soviet, Union has sharpened immeasurably while the acts of aggression | Matthew Woll, WOLL MASS ARRESTS WOULD DO IT Chief Executive of New York State Offers Aid of Tammany to Union Smashers Police “Justice” Exposed When Authorities Try to Shield Right Wing Gangster That Governor Al. Smith is rests of the fur pickets in the gained circulation in Tammany I It is said that Smith has Tammany Hall in this move. Some Evidence. Phinting to the conclusion; that Governor Smith is directly back of the unusual police severity and the policy of mass arrests in the furriers’ | strike is an incident two days ago in the trial court where fur workers ap- | pear daily as a result of these arrests.) | Two policemen admitted under a fire| | of cross questioning by defense coun- sel that they had orders to arrest whenever they found more than twaive striking fur workers on a block. Who Is Boss? It is known that the captain of |the Thirtieth St. | charge would never dare to issue such drastic and illegal commands unless he had been given clear authority to do so by his superiors. It was also brot out in the last Central Trades and Labor Council meeting that Po- lice Commissioner Warren was not | acting as viciously against the pick- jets as the Matthew Woll, anti-left a higher than Warren? And who is the big boss, if not Governor Smith? But this is only one of the bits of | evidence, all pointing to the man who is determined to remain popular) | enough to run for president and solid enough with the monied interests to| | police station in} wing A. F. L. committee expected. | Question: who gave the orders, if not| responsible for the wholesale ar- present strike is a rumor that {all circles yesterday. reached an understanding with who is the American Federation of Labor spokes- {man in the needle trades disruption campaign, by which the gov- |ernor has promised to see to it jalleged that Smith gave Woll a that the strike is broken. It is promise of the full support of Anita Whitney Sends $50 To The Daily Worker To Show Approval; Give Aid Charlotte Whitney held under the Criminal Syndicalist Law who has just been pardoned by the governor of California has sent $50 to The DAILY WORKER, which money will go towards the appeal fund. Here is a woman who, when she was facing a long prison sentence thought immediately of that brave organ which was to continue the fight for the principle for which she stood while she was in jail. She realized fully the tremendous. power and influence of the paper in propagating for the cause for which she is fighting. Comrades, our case is not yet won, the defendants are only tem- porarily out of jail. A conviction and a heavy fine still stands against the paper. We must not leave The DAILY WORKER in the lurch in its case after we did such +] splendid work for many weeks. On guard, Comrades, stand fast until victory is obtained! Paul Goodman, a worker loyal to the | Joint Board. WASHINGTON, June 22.—If the American delegation at the Geneva naval conference returns with a treaty that prescribes anything less education. (Continued on Page Two) against the Chinese Revolution have continued unabated. The propaganda mills of the capi- talist press are working overtime, as are the aeroplane factories and the poison gas and chemical warfare fac- tories. The campaign of slander and| hatred against the Soviet Union ini- tiated by Great Britain, and energet- ically backed by the United States, has culminated in the brutal murder} of Voikoff, the Minister of the Soviet Union to Poland. The real responsi-| bility for this murder rests upon the} international band of imperialist as-| sassins that are attempting to plunge the world into a new war. The raid| on the Peking embassy of the Soviet | Union, the raid on Arcos, the lying} stories circulated to the press of the entire world, the provocative speech of Ambassador Herrick on Decoration Day, the deliberate financing ‘of bands of terrorists and spies by Britain and the United States, these are responsi- ble for the Voikoff murder, greeted with approbation by the anti-Soviet! Press of England and the United! States. Poland was secretly encour- aged to add insult to injury by a light| sentence to the self confessed murder, | and a provocative note of reply to the complaint of the ep aa isioseri * The very conferences which the ne perialists pretend to call to maintain | peace in the world have been sys- tematically used to further the plans! for war. At Geneva, during the past week, the government of Great Brit-| ain has approached each of the pow- ers with a demand that they join with it in a common war against the Chi- nese people and the people of the Soviet Union. Chamberlain openly re- quested from the German government permission to march troops over Ger- many to attack Russia when the war! begins. In China, the Coolidge government has openly accepted the place of lead-| ership in this plot against world peace and against Chinese people which the Tory government of Great Britain has attempted to thrust upon ite? te did} this at Nanking, where American bat- | tleships opened fire on an unfortified | city. It did this in the identie Five Power-note where our State Depart-| ment joined with the Governments of our other countries in an impudent demand for a money indemnity for the Nanking massacres perpetrated by our battleships and those of Great Britain. Now our government has moved marines northward of Tientsin, taking the leadership in this new at- tack of aggression against the Chi- nese Revolution. In the Orient, where 175 battleships and tens of thousands of troops of eight powers have assembled in Chi- (Continued on Page Two) Shore Workers Party General Membership Meeting to Be Held This Evening A membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tonight, 8 p. m. at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. . The order of business will be a report and discussion on the situa- tion in the country in general and New York in particular. The at- tack on the unions, the left wing and the party will be taken up. Admission by membership books only. The District Executive Com- mittee calls upon all party mem- bers to be present. 1. R. T. WORKERS RESENT COLEMAN “PEACE” TACTICS Discontent Is Is Growing Among Sub Workers Without invitation and on their own initiative Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federa- tion of Labor, and Patrick J. Shea and James H. Coleman, officials of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes visited Samuel Untermyer, special council for the transit commission, at his office on Tuesday and assured him that there was not the slightest foundation for rumors of an impend- ing strike om the Interborough or any of the other subway or elevated lines. This visit was prompted by wide- spread discontent becoming manifest among the slaves of the traction sys- ‘tem on account of Untermyer prov- ing before the commission that the Interborough management compels all its employes to belong to its scab company union, This was interpreted by some as incitement to a strike for a genuine union, although it is well ‘known. that Untermyer had no such intentions when he attacked the “la- bor policy” of the traction magnates. Public Incensed at Lines. In order to gouge dividends out of the watered stock of the traction lines the wages of workers have been (Continued on Page Five) get campaign funds, and who would) therefore do his _ strike-breaking| lA quietly. pe Goodman had previously worked for | Weickstein, 333 Seventh Ave., | where Rosenfeld is a foreman. Leav- Another striking example of how |ing that shop recently, Goodman got | the police are attempting to shield the | work elsewhere. At noon time yester- right wing gangsters, was given yes- | day, Rosenfeld went to the shop terday when the police released Wiilie | where Goodman is now working and Rosenfeld, a foreman, after he had|cut him up. They were both arrested, painfully cut the face and body of | (Continued on Sane Two) FENG PLANS THREE-FOLD DRIVE ON PEKING; TROOPS PUSH INTO CHIHLI Anti-Japanese Boycott Looms; Losovsky Greets Opening of Trade Union Congress PEKING, June 22.—Reports from Hsuchow state that Gen- eral Chiang Kai-shek has agreed to operate under General Feng Yu-hsiang in a triple offensive against Peking. The offensive will be along the Tsinan Fu, Kinhan and Lunghai railway lines. (According to persistent reports the /( Nationalists may form a temporary military alliance with Chiang Kai- shek in order to hasten the capture of Peking. For Chiang Kai-shek there is no way out of an alliance} with the Nationalists except imme- diate annihilation. difficulties, popular discontent and an open revolt of his troops. Many of his soldiers have openly deserted him for the Nationalists.) * . * Anti-Japanese Boycott. being taken here for the organization tion for the landing of Japanese troops in Shantung. Reports from other cities state that similar measures are being taken thruout the Yangtse Valley. (Special Cable To Daily Worker.) Greet Labor Congress. HANKOW, June 22.—The first ses- Congress was featured by greetings from M. Losovsky, on behalf of the Red Trade Union International, N. Roy, representative of the Communist International, and representatives of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist gov- ernment, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth, the political department of the army, peasants and students, pioneer organ- izations and others. The business of the Congress began yesterday. Reports from the Nation- alist government, the Central Commit- tee of the Kuomintang, reports on the world labor situation, labor movement, the revision of sta- He faces financial | SHANGHAI, June 22.—Steps are| of an anti-Japanese boycott in retalia- | sion of the All-China Trade Union} the Chinese | |tutes concerning the elections of the | All-China Labor Federation and or- | ganizational questions are the princi- | pal items of business, It is expected that the Congress will close on June 30th. * aan Nationalists Advance. | HANKOW, June 22.—Reports from Chengchow state that Nationalist troops continue to cross the Yellow. |River and cross into Chihit Province. | * Report ‘teungtas Fall. SHANGHAI, June 22. — Chiang Kai-shek’s troops have occupied | Tsing-tao on the Kiachow Bay in |Shantung Province, according to re- | Ports published in vernacular news- |papers controlled by Chiang. | (Tsin-tao was German leased ter- |ritory, acquired after the war by | Japan. | linquish it in 1922.) | (Japanese troops have been concen- trating in Shantung despite protests from organizations thruout China. Reports from Shanghai state that a move is under way to organize an antt-Japanese boycott as a result of Tsing-tao.) Mee ne Sa WASHINGTON, June 22.—A sum- Haass of the mandate issued by |Tso-lin, Manchurian war Ragen appointing himself nominal as well as actual head of the Peking pers ment” has been forwarded here by China. The mandate makes Chang plete dictator. Japan was compelled to re- the dispatch of Japanese troops to John V. A, MacMurray, minister to