The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST HURRY! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol, IV. No. 138 Current Events By T, J. O’Fuanerry. HE Boston Post is one of the most vicious foes of the USSR, and its indictment of the Communist regime in that country is chiefly predicated on the alleged low ethical level of the Soviet government. The manner in| which the workers and peasants ex- | propriated the capitalists and rich | landowners sat heavily on the Post’s | political stomach. It called the pro- cess theft, But what about the Post’s morality? It got one of its reporters @o steal material from the Rumford Press in Concord, New Hampshire, in- tended for publication in the Atlantic | Monthly, that was not intended for | publication until it had first appeared fn that magazine. So much for the ethics of the Post, which by the way sold itself to the republican party and is now a fervent booster of Calvin Coolidge tho formerly a democrat or- gan. * * * CHOLAS LONGWORTH, noted because he is the husband of Alice Roosevelt, got rid of the following piffle in an address before a graduat- ing class at the University of Michi- gan: “An all-wise providence has given: proof to the world within the last month that there are in this country two Americans who possess the three essentials of success in every walk of life—character, per- severance and courage.” He was re- ferring to Charles Lindbergh and his mother. Had this all-wise providence allowed ‘the elements to drop Lind- bergh into the ocean the young man’s virtues and those of his mother would not mean a thing to them. * * * E kosher butcher helpers, or shochtim, may go on strike. In fact they may be out now. This would cause serious inconvenience to | members of orthodox congregations | who want their chickens slaughtered according to the ancient ritual. The | Rabbi Board of Trade has debated the | question of the right of the shochtim | to strike. The shochtim advised the rabbis that argument was useless, | Their kosher-fed customers could de- file themselves with non-kosher meat or die of hunger as far as they were concerned unless they got more money. An empty stomach is poor soil to scatter religious seed on. | * * * | COMMITTEE of leading bankers | representing American holders of | Russian bonds, declares that it will] fight the granting of credits to the Soviet Union until the old debts con- tracted by the czar to crush the work- ers and peasants of Russia are taken care of, Circumstances alters cases and sometimes cut thru perfectly | sound formulas when expediency de- | mands a compromise, but it certainly | does not seem fair that the Russian people should be expected to pay the | debts contracted by their former | tyrannous taskmasters. And our American bourgeoisie are supposed to personify the square deal. * * * | We commented recently on the recall of Lieut.-Col. Edward Davis, mili- tary attache at the American embassy in Mexico City. When he arrived in} Washington the state department an- nounced that his visit had no diplo- | matic significance. It was from Davis’ safe that the compromising documents which revealed that Kel- logg was plotting against Mexico and interfering in the internal affairs of that country, were extracted. Calles made good use of the documents. He returned them to the state department tho it is presumed he made photo- static copies. The state department declared them forgeries. Now, Davis has been relieved from his duties in| Mexico City! | * * * E French have placed an embargo | on the import of coal, and the out- | ‘Yook for British export coal is gloomy. ‘the French embargo persists many “th colleries will have to close thus intensifying an already ‘ industrial crisis, At a time very market was essential to seovery of British industry the tories decided to break with the _st Union, thus robbing the manu- . uring interests of a rapidly de- be ping market. This may be another ~ease of those who aré doomed to destruction being driven mad. Cae * ROR sending a copy of the Truth Seeker to the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church, the clergyman and John 5. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, brought charges of sending in- decent’ matter thru the mails against Charles Smith, president of the Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Atheism. The paper aroused the ire of those two notorious snoopers THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927 CLOAKMAKERS ROUT RIGHT WING THUGS THE ONLY SUPPORT OF THE TRAITORS McGRADY—Help, Brother, without you I’m lost altogether. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY | EDITION | Price 3 Cents PICKET ARRESTED GANGSTERS ATTACK WORKERS WHEN BY COP ON ORDER THEY PARADE TO UNION OFFICES OF SCAB KINSMAN Of Settled Shops Upon complaint of a police officer who was off duty, and patroling the furriers’ picket line in the interests of a relative who is in the fur busi- ness, a girl striker, Ray Epstein of 1412 Charlotte St., Bronx, was sent) to the workhouse for two days by Magistrate Rosenbluth in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. Jacob Mandelbaum of 1 Madison Ave., who is attorney for the Joint Board Furriers’ Union, is planning to submit to Police Commissioner War- ren today a transcript of the court minutes in this case, for it shows that officer 11338 of Simpson St. station acknowledged that he was not assigned to duty in the fur market, and stated on the stand that Miss Drawn by WM. GROPPER VOIKOFF MURDER BLESSED BY COURT SAYS ROSENHOLZ 30 Bandits, Aided ‘by Pilsudski, Captured (Special Cable to The DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, June 23.—The trial of M.* Kowceda, murderer of Peter Voi- koff, Soviet Minister to Poland, was conducted in a partial manner, ac- cording to M. Rosenholz, who has re- turned from Warsaw where he had been sent to represent the Soviet Union at the Kowceda trial. The court did everything to con- ceal the source of the funds with which Kowceda purchased the revol- ver with which he killed M. Voikoff and did all it could to shield the ac- complices who aided Kowceda in his crime. Judge Encouraged Attacks. The attorney’s speech, according to M. Rosenholz, was a defence and a moral justification of the murder, the solicitor making a series of violent attacks" on the Soviet Union, while the presiding judge permitted and en- couraged his attacks. The verdict was the most lenient which the extraordinary Court could possibly inflict. The whole trial is re- garded by M, Rosenholz as a stimulus to further terrorist activities of mon- archist organizations which are (Continued on Page Two) Organized Miners Help Striking Textilers to Picket Carbondale Mill CARBONDALE, Pa., June 23.—For the last two months the workers of the Klotz Silk Co., have been on strike here. During that time out of 850 workers who walked out of the mills, about 280 have also joined the union. © The strike started over the action of ‘the bosses in sending one of the girls home for belonging to the United Textile Workers. | Fur Unity Committee to Hold Big Demonstration | At Union Sq. Tomorrow | A monster open air demonstra- tion will be-held tomorrow, 1 p. m. mittee of the Furriers’ Union. The at Union Square by the Unity Com- meeting is being arranged to pro- test against the mass arrests of pickets, also to oppose the right wing gangsterism. Well known speakers will address the meeting. N. J, State Troopers Guilty of Attack on Meany, Young Farmer FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 23.— A jury in county court this after- noon convicted Matthew A. Daley, a New Jersey state trooper, of assault and battery on Timothy Meaney in connection with the siege of the Meaney farmhouse last December wher a sister, Beatrice, was shot and killed. Two other troopers were last Sat- urday convicted of manslaughter for her death. Others Indicted. Seven other indictments are now and two agents of the, “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals,” who’ originally inspired the charge that Meaney was underfeed- ing which resulted in the serving of the warrant and the subsequent at- tack. The troopers rained bullets on the farmhouse the whole night, it was proved in court. Loom Fixers Strike for Recognition of Union CHICOPEE, Mass., (FP) June 23. —Thirty-four loom fixers are strik- ing “yr union recognition at the Chicopee Manufacturing Co. under the leadership of the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives. STANDING OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE DRIVE FOR SUSTAINING AND DEFENSE OF THE DAILY WORKER These figures include donations from March 1 to date. WHERE DOES YOUR DISTRICT STAND IN PROPORTION TO ITS MEMBERSHIP? District Contribution Standing heeause of a satirical article on the subject of birth control. Birth con- trol may be alright, but the ship has sailed, It should have been in opera- tion thru dictatorial decree prior to the birth of Straton and Sumner.. 1,455.46. 968.40. $13.49. 457.51. 407.80. District Contribution Standing 213.20. +9 172.56. -10 162.75. it 97.37, 12 53.50, 13 27.50... iu pending against 11 other troopers | SACCO, VANZETTI INNOCENT;STATES GEORG BRANTING Protest Meetings Now \Planned Thruout U. S. | BOSTON, June 23,—Positive con- viction that Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti were framed up on a charge of murder was expressed yesterday by Georg Branting, famous Swedish lawyer, in a cable sent to Stockholm. Branting, who came here to study the case, declared that the “prosecu- tor’s evidence on decisive points are outweighted by counter-evidence,” and declared that he could only ex- plain the verdicts by the “prejudice against Italian witnesses and radical defendants.” * * . Many Meetings Planned. CHICAGO, June 23,—The Interna- tional Labor Defense here is receiv- ing word of meetings being organized in many cities of the U. S. during the Sacco-Vanzetti Week, June 27 to July 4, which has been set aside for in- jereased agitation for the release of the two framed-up workers. | en es | Protest Meeting In Cleveland. CLEVELAND, June 23.—A “Save Sacco-Vanzetti” mass meeting is be- ing planned here for Wednesday evening, June 29, at the Labor Tem- ple, 14th St. and Woodland Ave. Among the speakers will be Otto Cook, chairman, C. L. U. committee for Sacco and Vanzetti; Rev. Joseph Myers, Jy., W. J. Adames, of Missouri State Federation of Labor; and Dr. E. A. Burkhardt, of the International Labor Defense. Herman Winters, president of the Cleveland Central Labor Union will be chairman of the meeting. Butler Gets Fascist Honors for Services To Mussolini in U. S. ROME, June 23,—After having been received by Mussolini, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University and ardent exponent of Fascism in the United States, will attend a dinner given by the Italo-American Society in his honor. To-morrow Rome University will confer an honorary degree on But- ler. Butler has even exceeded El- bert Gary in singing the praises of Fascism. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! }a member of the union’s law commit- | officer said no, he was sure the man Epstein had not committed any breach of the peace. Spoke to Scab. As stated by the union’s attorney in court, Miss Epstein spoke to a scab who was walking with the of- ficer, who was in plain clothes. The officer then threatened to “break her head” if the girl did not leave the block; whereupon Herbert Schneider, tee, went over to a uniformed offi- cer and asked whether he knew this man who had made the threat. “Is he a detective, or a member of the force?” Schneider asked. And the was not a detective. So Schneider called Ray Epstein from the next bleck..and asked the policeman to place the man under arrest for threatening violence. Arrests Girl. Officer 11338 then showed his badge and announced that since Schneider made such a fuss about the matter he would have the girl ar- rested, and he carried out his threat in spite of Schneider’s protests. He) showed no intention of making an) arrest until the union members ac-} cused him. On his complaint, and in the face of the statements he made/ on cross examination, Magistrate Ros- enbluth gave a two day sentence. List of Settled Shops. The Settlement Committee of the| Joint Board Furriers’ Union yester- day made public the first part of a| | | Fur Manufacturers Inc. who have} settled with the Joint Board. | This list does not include many} settled shops which have particularly} requested that their names should not | be published; and it does not include shops which have settled since the end of the first week of the strike. These additional names will be an- nounced as soon as they have been properly checked and the union rec- ords are complete. There are 24 shops on the list) given out yesterday. These are Ra-| wicz, 142 West 26th St.; Grossman | (Continued on Page Five) 1,400 Engineers to Serve Ultumatum On City Commissioner New York subway engineers plan to serve an ultimatum on John H.| Delaney, Tammany chairman of the city’s board of transportation. Last night at Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., a meeting was held to decide on the policy to be de- termined to force the commissioner to listen to their grievances which he/ has consistently ignored for the past several months. Committee Chosen. A committee, chosen to address the communication to Delaney, will tell him precisely how much time he has| to consider their demands if a strike of 1,400 engineers is to be averted. The men, members of the Union of Technical Men, will meet again in a very short time to listen to the re- port of the committee. If it is ad- verse, it is declared, a definite move in the direction of a tie-up on sub- way construction work will be taken up. Increase in pay and sick leave are among the demands of the men. The average yearly pay is nj $1,560.! New York Police Defend Gunmen as They Slug Hundreds of Men and Women Joint Board Issues List'gi¢man Followers Defeated in Attempt to Terrorize yesterday afternoon. As usual Militants the police were on hand to pro- tect the gunmen and guerrilas and at the same time beat up the militant workers. The fight took place on 25th St. between Fourth and Lex- ington Ave. Marching from Cooper Union where they held a meeting, 2,600 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Many Delegates Expected At Sacco-Vanzetti Vital Conference Tonight at 8 Tonight at 8 o’clock the third conference of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee will be held at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. Plans for organizing at once demonstrations in this city calling for the immediate and uncondition- al release of the two framed-up workers will be made. Delegates from a large number of labor and fraternal organiza- tions will attend tonight’s confer- ence. At a meeting held last night at 56 Manhattan Ave., the Brooklyn Sacco-Vanzetti Conference decided to affiliate with the New York body and voted to send five dele- gates to the conference tonight. .Workers’ Union, banners flying, proceeded up Fourth Ave. until jthey reached 28rd St. | Police Break Line. The police being informed of the workers’ approach, broke the line ug when it reached that street. Those that were in the front continued until they came to 25th St. where they marched east to Number 128, the of- fice of Local 2, which the Joint Board is using as its temporary headquar- | ters. | The rest of the paraders after being |stopped by the police turned on 28rd |St. and went east to Lexington Ave. |going up that street to 25th St, Right Wing Celebration. | The workers that came from Fourth | Ave. reached 25th St. first. In ffont jof the old Joint Board building at | Number 130 the right wing were hold- ing a celebration meeting of their oc- {eupation of the building that was |given to them as a result of a fore- closure of a mortgage and certain legal chicanery on their part. When they arrived a right winger |was addressing about 250 people from | the second floor of the building. Near. (Continued on Page Five) WORKERS FACE DEATH FOR PLANNING TO BOYCOTT BRITISH IMPERIALISTS ‘Chiang Rushes Executioners South as Revolt of Workers and Peasants Looms SHANGHAI, June 23.—Because they attempted to organize an anti-British boycott in Chekiang Province, left wing leaders face Ningpo. arrived at Ningpo with a bodyguard of 200 men and 12 executioners, and intends to carry on wholesale execu- tions of local labor and peasant lead- ers, the dispatches state. In his bid for the support of the imperialist powers, Chiang Kai-shek is making every effort to stamp out/ It) anti-imperialist demonstrations, is around the question of imperialism that the conflict between the work- & Ratowsky, 214 West 29th St.; J, ets and peasants and the right wing) {officialdom has been taking place.| Chiang Kai-shek has been catering to the imperialist powers while workers jare organizing anti-imperialist strikes | elections to the Warsaw Town Coun- and boycotts. (Although the suppression of the boycott is given as the reason for the impending executions in reports re- ceived here, the imminent Nationalist revolt against Chiang Kai-shek in the southern provinces is presumed to be a fundamental reason for dispatch of Yenghu to Ningpo. Workers and peasants throughout southern China are rebelling against Chiang’s terrorism. Reports received several days ago stated that workers were demonstrating against the right wing officialdom in the streets of Canton, while earlier dispatches re- ported two regiments in Fukien Pro- vince had rebelled against Chiang and had openly declared for thc” Nation- alist government.) * * HANKOW, May 16 (By Mail).— Despite the opposition of the right wing, organization among the peas- ants of Yunnan Province is taking place rapidly, according to a report of commissioners sent by the peasants department of the Central Kuomin- tang. The offices of the provincial pea- sants’ union at Anking have been raided and ogeupied by reactionary troops, Ten peasant leaders were ar- rested and two of them are said to have been executed. The report of the special commissioners states that within four months ten peasant dis- tricts have been organized. {——— | The right wing general, Yenghu,| commanding the Shanghai area, has) death at the hands of the subordinates of Chiang Kai-shek, list of members of the Associated| renegade Nationalist, according to reports received here from COMMUNIST VOTE TRIPLED IN THE WARSAW BALLOT nderground Party Won Masses to It (By BELSHOYA.) WARSAW, (By Mail).—At the \U cil, held on the 22nd of May last, the left candidates, Communists, and the lefts of the Polish Socialist Party and Trade Union Opposition annulled by the authorities, got more than 77,- 000 out of 388,000 votes, chiefly from the working class districts in War- saw. The elections brought to light an enormous growth in the revolu- tionary spirit of the Warsaw working class and the increase of Communist Party influence among the toiling masses. Anniversary of Coup. The Warsaw elections took exactly a year after Pilsudski’s detat. During this year Pilsuds' government has had an opportuni’ to show its Fascist nature, the formists have finally displayed treacherous policy, The electi were the trial by the Warsaw work- ing class of the government and the reformists and the Warsaw working class pronounced on them its severe sentence, There were neither more nor less than 27 lists of candidates for elec- sented small chance groupings. The (Continued on Page Three) Young Girls in Long Swim. KINGSTON, June 23.—The thi year old twins, Bernice and Ph who are swimming from New York, took to the water ‘shortly after 10 o'clock today. tion. Many of these of course repre- — SACCO_AND VANZETTI MAY DIET et A RMN DIR TB Ree SHEN