The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1927, Page 1

BE THERE! AT THE WORKERS PARTY PICNIC! TOMORROW, SUNDAY, AT PLEASANT BAY PARK, BRONX FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 139, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 ber year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927 PUBLISHING CO,, Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents FUR GANGSTERS ADMIT RIGHT WING HIRES THEM By T. J, O’FLanerry. HE Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church has supplied himself with a spokes- man realizing how useful that mythi- eal person is to a politician in a tight corner. Straton finds his troubles multiplying as rapidly as the loaves and fishes under the miraculous hands of the lowly Nazarene, The atavistic clergyman got into trouble with his deacons because of his bizarre re* ligious rites to which he is becoming addicted. * TRATON looks like a Southern Illi- nois free lance methodist preacher. He has that lean and hungry look which worried Caesar and makes even such a happy fellow as Al Smith shiver when he sees it on the drawn visage of William Gibbs McAdoo. Straton considers joy and laughter sparks from the devil’s anvil and if fhe had his way he would stifle the happy gurgle of the child and burn the smile from the adult face. Of such would be his kingdom of heaven. * * * GION, like wine gains in virtue with age. Indeed that seems to be second nature to most old fashioned virtues. Dr. Straton was beginning to get fed up with the tendency’ to give religion a sand paper bath and fumigate it. He preferred to feast his smellers on the real thing. He looked back with a sort of melan- choly satisfaction on the days of his youth when the pious could shake off their sins at a good primitive spirit- ual debauch. The business.of religion was getting too darned respectable and scientic, “Back to Savagery!” be- came Straton’s war ery. * * * * * i igs is where he stepped in the, banana. Echoes of the fight inside his church were heard when Straton hired himself out to Hearst to inter- pret the Gray-Snyder murder trial to! Hearst’s intellectual customers. The | Calvary Church directors thot this} was a rather undignified way for a clergyman to add to his salary, but Straton stuck to his contract. Now, however, it has leaked out that the} clergyman stepped off the reservation | and had his congregation standing on their ears, climbing the bare walls, rolling on the floor, frothing at the| mouth and imploring the “holy spirit” to walk right in. Adding to the com- plications is the fact that a nurse from a local hospital played a stellar role in the services under the direc-! tion of Doc Straton. | * * 4 Straton loses his job he should open a gymnasium and cater to those citizens who are too well cush- 1B. & 0, PRESIDENT Current Events DEMANDS RETURN OF TEN-HOUR DAY Awful Shock to Class Collaborationists WASHINGTON, June 24.—One partner in the “B & O Plan” is com- ing out from under his cover of “Liberalism” and showing his true colors. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad de- mands the ten hour day. He is con- vinced that the class collaboration scheme he succeeded in getting his machinist and other shop craft em-| ployes to enter has sufficiently weak- ened the fighting spirit of the entire} staff so that he can make a direct! assault on their standard of living.| Union Officials Shocked. | Willard and eignt other railroad) presidents issued a formal statement) yesterday that the eight hour day) must’ end on the railroads and the nine or even ten hour day come back.) Willard’s friends among the upper} ranks of the railroad union bureau-| eracy are said to be both pained and) shocked at this sudden desertion by! their fellow class collaborationist. | Editor Fred.Hewitt of the Machinists’) Journal, after first fully assuring) himself that the report was official, | permitted himself to remark: “Ab-! surd! The railroads ean be quite sure that we do not intend to go back on the eight hour day after we have struggled years to attain it.” Good. By. “Good Feeling.” i It is understood that the ultra-con- | servative “Labor,” organ of the six-| | teen standard railway unions, will be) |} even more outspoken, and will review, the long slow struggle of labor to| establish the eight hour day, which} even Congress and the supreme court} had finally to advocate in the form of the Adamson law. “Labor” also will reprove the present combination of employers led by Willard for their temerity in ending “the era of ; good will obtaining on the roads in the last two years.” The rank and file workers in the railroad industry, those of them who have survived the gradual reduction of jobs during the last two years are not surprised. They feel that Willard is never less friendly to them than when he is advocating some strength A New Right Wing President But the Same Old Gang of Thugs . Drawn by WM. GROPPER. Convicted criminals, caught in the act of slashing strikers with knives, have confessed that they were hired by the right wing officials of the furriers’ union to try and break the strike led by the joint board. Philip Silverstein is the new right wing president of the International Fur Workers’ Union. GENEVA MAY BE FOLLOWED BY AN ARMAMENT RACE ‘Washington Furious at. Stand of Britain | GENEVA, June 24.—United States | | representatives to the conference for | limitation of naval armaments are} alarmed because of their conviction | that Britain and Japan are working | | together against the Washington pro-| | posals. They are fearful of the poli- |tical results in the United States of | a flat rejection of the proposals by| | both Britain and Japan, as they want |to save the face of the Coolidge ad- | ministration that called the confer-| | ence. | Are Still Deadlocked. | On the question of discussing naval | disarmaments with regard to capital ships, representatives of Great Brit-| ain and the United States to the tri- partite naval limitation conference, | remain at loggerheads. | | chinists’ union and other shop crafts | sapping program by which they are to assist the employers destroy union- | ism. Shortly after a meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of the conference | today, both W. C. Bridgeman, British first lord of the Admiralty, and Hugh} Gibson, chairman of the American to install the so-called “B & O” plan | delegation to the conference, issued of union-employer cooperation. This| Statements to the press outlining] plan has later been adopted b the | their stands on the question of ex-) B & O Plan Spreads. | Willard cooperated with the Ma-! ioned for their comfort in hot weather. | Canadian National, Chicago North- tending the disarmament proposals Yes, this is the Reverend Dr. John Roach Straton who is constantly on western and Chesapeake & Ohio. He was also instrumental in leading reached at the Washington confer- jence of 1922, to auxiliary vessels. Britain’s Assassin Who| Killed Voikoff Boris Kowceda, who admitted he/| was “acting under orders” when he) shot and killed Comrade Voikoff, am- | bassador to Poland from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. HIGH FINANCING FEATURES PROBE OF 1, R, T. LINES RIGHT TERROR AS CANTON WORKERS: made by the angry furriers who were | BOYCOTT BRITISH Rush More U.S. Marines To Peking Area BULLETIN CANTON, June 24.—The right wing administration has ordered | strong military patrols to guard the city and has mounted machine guns in the railway station in ex- | pectation of a rebellion by work- ers. An effective anti-British boycott has also aggravated the situation for the right wing, which is cater- ing to the imperialist powers. * * * SHANGHAI, June 24.—Prepara tions are being made to rush 1,150 marines to Tientsin on the United States transport Chaumont, it was learned today. That other marines will be di |patched north in the near future in| preparation for the Nationalist drive | against Peking was announced by! | Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, | | commanding the American marines in |China. “The transport Henderson is | | here from Manila,” he said, “loaded to | |the gunwales with supplies and the |aboard and ready for orders.” Butler expects that the National-| ists will reach the Peking-Tienstin | SEVEN THUGS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF CUTTING UP MILITANT PICKETS When Questioned by Police, State That They Were Sent by the International Had First Told Cops Not to Arrest Them as They Supported Right Wing Seven gangsters who admitted that they had been hired by the International Fur Workers Union right wing officialdom were arrested yesterday morning in brutally beaten and cut up four the fur district after they had pickets. Stepping out of a large Packard car on Sixth avenue, between 24th and 25th street, the seven riers who were standing there. back with an iron bar and stabbed him behind the ear. guerillas attacked the four fur- They hit James Metexas on the Frank Weiss was stabbed in the arm while Stephen Sergadian and Har- ry Steinhardt were cut on various parts of their bodies. Two of the gangsters, Moses Schwartz and James Eagan ure {holdup men with prison records. Call to Cops. | Seeing the approach of several | hundred other pickets who had heard | the turmoil, the right wing gangsters | jumped into the car and started to ride north. When several policemen and detectives joined in ‘the chase a couple of thugs yelled from the car: “Don’t chase us, we are with the right wing!” Apparently the police did not hear them due to the noise also pursuing them. After riding for another block and | seeing that ultimately they would |be captured, they started to shoot at those that were giving them chase. When caught at Sixth avenue and Twenty-seventh street they told the |detectives that they were |to do their bloody deeds by the lead- ers of the International Fur Workers Union. | In the car were found iron bars similar to those used to beat Sam |Winick last Monday and Samuel Barr a week previously. The iron bars, eight in number, hired| | Fur Unity Committee to '| Hold Big Demonstration at '| Union Sq., Today at 1 p.m. Thousands of needle trades workers are expected to rally at Union Square, 1 p. m. today when the Unity Committee of the Fur- riers’ Union will hold a tremendous demonstration against the mass ar- rests of the fur pickets and the murderous attacks on the part of the right wing. The speakers will include Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Julius Portnoy, Joseph Bourchwitz, Rose Wortis, William F. Dunne of The DAILY WORKER, and many others. found in the automobile were each a foot and half long and an inch in diameter. This is the latest attempt on the part of the American Federation of Labor officialdom in close co-opera- (Continued on Page Two) EMERGENCY COMMITTEE CALLS ONE HOUR STRIKE FOR SACCO-VANZETTI | Representatives of Half Million Workers Set Date for Four P. M., July 7 With delegates from eighty-five organizations, representing over five hundred thousand members present, the Sacco and Van- zetti Emergency Committee meeting in the Labor Temple, 14th |Chaumont’s 1,150 marines are all|St. and Second Ave., yesterday issued a stirring call for an hour’s | strike, Thursday, July 7 at 4 p. m. by all workers in order to impress upon the rulers of this nation the desire of labor that the two workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti be not 1 { Sharp Disagreement. |area between July 1 and 15. Foreign | the trail of modern literature that! ailway executives to approve the appeals to that part of the human watson-Parker act, which provides. Claiming that Great Britain’s pres- anatomy that located above the, chin. * *. COUPLING an Associated Press story from Indianapolis with the, attack made on the Communists by Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal, cireumstan- tial evidence is not lacking to con- vince the well-informed observor of the policies of John L. Lewis that. that individual has succeeded to his own satisfaction in attaining the aim) he set out to accomplish in the coal | “ag industry, namely, to reduce ber of miners digging coal by | one half. Searles hearkened | + the Herrin riots for ammuni- | gainst the Communists. He | 1 the radicals for the riots and | gaths of the strikebreakers, tho »limy liar knows as well as any- jody else that the action was spon-| taneous revolt of the striking miners | against the scabs that were imported into the country by the owners of a strip mine. * * * THE A. P. story from Indianapolis is obviously inspired. In substance it is as follows: There are too many men’ in the coal industry—Lewis’ is of the industrial patient. Tho John L. bellowed this point of | view at national and district conven- _ tions of the union he could not well take steps to expel the necessary number of men from the mines. But “accidentally” this solution is being automatically applied thru the policy of the international union executive (Continued on Page Four) machinery for the mediation and ar-|ence at the conference is to guaran- | law. | bitration of labor disputes to pre- ‘vent strikes on the railroads. Rank and file pressure on the dele- gates at the rerently concluded Switchmen’s union convention forced them to strongly repudiate the Wat- son-Parker act, and to call on their officials to fight it. Officials Forced to Act. The inadequate increases in wages, following tardily on the heels of in-| ereased labor per man and decreases in the number of men employed has vaisdd much dissatisfaction among the rank and file workers and forced other tnion executives to more or less plain attacks on the Willard plans, the “B & O” and the Watson-Parker Says C. J. Goff, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- |men and Enginemen; in formal dis- sent to the inadequate wage increase the conciliation board awarded the this week: “Skilled workers in other lines of industry have demanded and re- ceived their share of the national in- come. Railway employes in the pres- ent case, instead of forcing their claims, have petitioned for justice. It appears from this award that what is economic justice is not a matter which can safely be submitted to the judgment of others.” Continue Nungesser Search. QUEBEC, June 24.—The forestry service today started on a new in- quiry into a possible clue to the fate that befell Nungesser and Coli, the French Trans-Atlantic fliers. ‘tee her own defense, Bridgeman | stated emphatically that he felt the | British delegates to the conference jcould not leave without having dis- |eussed, and reached a definite con- | clusion, on the subject of limiting the {armaments of auxiliary ships. Chairman Gibson, in a brief state- ment, said that such a discussion at this time is “impractical.” | “It is impractical to discuss capital ships here,” Gibson said. “Such a dis- cussion would reopen the Washing- ton treaty and prejudice the rights of France and Italy. All the propos- als submitted at Washington were drawn up by the State and Navy De- partments and no political conditions were allowed to enter.” Admiral Jones, another member of the \American delegation, told the press the United States was not will- ing to limit guns on cruisers to six inches, but probably would be willing to limit guns on destroyers to five inches. * . * Washington Is Irritated. Officialdom in Washington has been gravely concerned, and not a little nettled, over Great Britain’s attitude toward further naval disarm- ament, as revealed this week at the Geneva conference. F Resent Bridgeman Declaration. Desperately trying to force Britain to take an inferior position to the (Continued on Page Two) BUY THE DAILY WORKER _AT THE NEWSSTANDS Financial juggling at the expense of the traction workers and the pub- lic was further revealed yesterday | in hearings before the traction com-| mission when Samuel Untermyer, spe- cial consul for the commission exam- ined Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the finance committee of the Brook- lyn-Manhattan Transit Company.| Wiggin and the Chase National Bank | crowd are being pilloried by Unter-| myer who is trying to turn the con-| trol of the traction systems of New! York over the Morgan’s banking com- | bine and the Rockefeller National) City outfit. Meanwhile the public | continues to learn startling facts | about the shady practices of all the plunderers in both camps. Millions Involved in Deals. Financial juggling in which fig- ures reached millions and, it was ad- mitted, “dollars were not earmarked,” when going into the B.-M. T, from the Chase National Bank, was dis- closed today at the readjustment hearing before the transit commis- sion. Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the financial committee of the B.-M. T. and chairman of the board’s board, admitted on the witness stand that $1,500,000 was borrowed for pur- poses of the New York Rapid Tran- sit Corporation. This money, he ad- mitted was paid by the New York Rapid Transit Corporation into the B.-M. T. coffers, thus enabling the latter to declare its dividend, Leon G. Godley, member of the commission, asked if Wiggin knew whether the borrowed money was actually used to pay dividends. troops are erecting barricades in pre- | paration for the advance of the Na- | tionalists. Rumors are being circulated that a temporary military alliance has been formed between the Hankow government and Chiang Kai-shek. Borodin is reported to have resigned. The alliance is said to have been made by General Feng Yu-hsiang and General Chiang Kai-shek at their con- ference at Soochow. Jewish Internes Brand As False Accusations Of Nurses at Hospital Denial of alleged charges that they had been intimate with nurses at the Kings County Hospital was made yesterday by the three Jewish in- ternes of the institution whose claims that they were hazed by gentile col- leagues precipitated an investigation by Mayor Walker. At the same time Dr. Mortimer B. Jones, superintendent of the hospital, denied that he had admitted the ex- istence of anti-Jewish feeling at the institution, Brooklyn Painters Get Alteration Union Help The International Alteration Paint- ers’ Union has gone on record in favor of the striking painters of Brooklyn. They have instructed their members not to work on jobs in Brooklyn where the strike is con- cerned. done to death in the electric chair. During the strike period, the com- | mittee is arranging a vast demonstra- tion with a parade and meetings at which speakers will tell of the abso- lutely sure proofs of the innocence of the two workers, of their false trial, and conviction by frame-up sev- en years ago, of their martyrdom | since as they awaited constantly an postponed in time to save them for the moment, but never countermand- ed altogether. The committee’s resolution, adopt- ed unanimously, is as follows: CALL OF THE SACCO-VANZET- TI EMERGENCY COMMITTEE to for a DEMONSTRATION and ONE HOUR STRIKE on JULY 7th, 1927, + * * The Sacco - Vanzetti Emergency Committee was established for the purpose of securing the freedom of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, and to arouse the workers of New York and vicinity to save these two labor men who are the victims of capitalist justice. no doubt as to the ghastly nature of the frame-up,against them, The Sacco - Vanzetti Emergency Committee has no other interest than to unite all workers and sympathizers of the labor movement in a common endeavor to secure the freedom of our two brothers and to expose the at- tempt to railroad them to the electric chair. The whole labor movement, irre- execution date that was always just | all organized labor and sympathizers | The innocence of Sacco and Van-| | zetti is so well established as to leave spective of differences, must present ja united front for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti and demonstrate to the world and to the persecutors |of our brothers the solidarity of labor |which by its organized power alone {can save Sacco and Vanzetti from the jelectric chair and open the jail doors. We, the delegates to the Sacco- | Vanzetti Emergency Committee con- ference at the Labor Temple, 244 East 14th street, Friday, June 24th, 1927, therefore call upon all organizations |represented to participate in the dem- jonstration arranged for July 7th, 1927. The Sacco - Vanzetti Emergency |Committee particularly calls uj the |25,000 needle trades workers r |bled in mass demonstration on Union Square, New York, this Saturday, June 25th, to adopt this declaration; and to participate under their ban- |ners, in the one hour strike and dem- onstration, to begin at 4 p. m. on July 7th, 1927. SACCO-VANZETTI EMERGENCY COMMITTEE. * . * Bomb Squad Out. The Emergency Committee Con- ference opened under the usual aus- pices; the New York bomb squad was present. As Secretary Rose Baron called the meeting to order she re- ported that two persons there had no credentials, they represented the po- lice. stated that they had to come, The chairman elected was Mo The officers apologized, and ag