The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1927, Page 1

X %. \ , » «they will be on the road t6 success, LABOR M THD DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 140. ECAUSE the Royal Society for a prevention of Cruelty to Animals| is sponsoring an anti-vivisection bill, the prince of Wales, president of the| society has threatened to resign. This}! threat brought the executive com-| mittee of the society to its senses and | decided to leave the bill to its fate.| A rebellious member, Lady Cory, ex-| pressed her disgust with the action! of the committee and declared: “My | loyalty is to the dogs, 1 don’t care if all the crowned heads of Europe are against us.” Things are coming to a pretty pass in the proud old em-| pire when a “Lady” puts a dog ahead | of a king and lives. * * * AJOR General Leonard Wood, bet- ter know by the sobriquet of “Ivory Soap” is sojourning in the Black Hills of “South Dakota with president Coolidge. Wood is the} wielder of the big stick in the Philip- pine Islands. The Filipinos, declared the general, are almost unanimously | for freedom, but they are not ready | for it and furthermore the islands | are the most important outposts of | western civilization in the Orient. | Anyhow the general insisted if the| United States withdrew from the Philippines, the hemp, sugar and to- bacco industries would go to the dogs. * * = lgitos is not surprising from general | Wood. But Burton K. Wheeler, | who recently visited the islands ex- presses the opinion that the Filipinos | are not yet qualified to rule them- selves, There is not a single in- stance in history where a ruling class admitted that its subjects were able to take care of themselves if left to their own devices, This is the Brit- ish excuse for holding Ireland, Egypt, India and other people in subjection. The methods employed by two fleas in making a living are not more alike than the methods used by two im- perialisms in crushing and exploiting their slaves. y * * * * » THE British government is sending A-few minutes~later several lium} its army of “pacifists” and fake| peace-lovers to Geneva to support the die-hards in their struggle against the representatives of the American*em- pire over the question of naval power. Lord Cecil, one of the Cecil boys and a prime favorite in Ameri- can pacifist circles came to reinforce the contention of the British admirals that a shot from a six inch gun on board a merchant vessel was as harm- less as a mosquito bite or the tickling of a hive. The conference makes it quite plain that the ravalry between the United States and England is keen and deep-rooted and liable to burst out into a gigantic war for world supremacy. * * * 'HE threat of a U. S.-Japanese peace pact is not contributing to the equanimity of the British delegates at Geneva. Five years ago the British were obliged to scrap the Anglo-Japanese alliance under pres- sure from the United States in return for some other concessions. Now, the British naval superiority and Brit- ain’s insistence on maintaining this naval superiority seems to be driving the United States into an alliance with Japan. Perhaps it is only a threat and again perhaps it is not. Nothing is ever certain in diplomacy, but Anglo-American commercial com- petition is a fact and an alliance with Japan may be one of the steps con- sidered necessary by the United States to meet it. The old gag about blood being thicker than water means as little between imperialist powers as honor among thieves. * * * * E Mitten Management, Inc., of Philadelphia seems to have yrcrred the project of taking over banking and other business en- terprises of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers. Mitten is a notori- ous open-shopper. This however is not the reason for the collapse of the negotiations with the brotherhood. \ Mitten attributes the breakdown to “slow assets” in brotherhood enter- rises. This means impending dis- aster and “Mitten is clearing his skirts. Business trade unionism has fallen on evil days. . The sooner trade unionists come to realize that they cannot emancipate themselves from the evils of wage slavery by com- peting with the capitalists’ in the profit-making business, the sooner A CORRECTION, DISTRICT 1 (Boston) has con- tributed in all $654.16 to the Sus- taining and Defense Fund of the DAILY WORKER, giving the Bos- ton District fourth place in the en- tire country. The money collected by Comrade Devine on his tour be- ing credited to New York through a clerical error, New York’s pres- ent total is $7,924.24. {and McGrady Are Breaking Our | Johnny Broderick! See that you don’t SUBSCRIPTION RATHS: In New York, by matl, $800 per your. Outside Now York, by mail, §6.00 per year. AN BAILY WORKER. Untered as senond-class matters at the Post Office at Now York. N. Y¥., under the act of Maroh 8, 1879, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927 15,000 WORKERS HOLD BIG UNION. SQUARE MEETING Fur and Cloakmakers in Protest. Gathering Fifteen thousand workers as- sembled in Union Square Saturday afternoon to demonstrate their sup- port of the furriers strike for better wages and working conditions, the union shop and the right to picket, | led by the New York Joint Board of the union, and to call upon the rest of the labor movement for support. Listening to speakers from three platforms simultaneously the as- sembled workers cheered Ben Gold and Louis Hyman, leaders in the needle trades, while any reference to Morris Sigman, Matthew Woll or Ed- ward F, McGrady brot forth loud and energetic booing. Display Banners. Among the banners displayed in the crowd were those reading, “Woll Union,” “The Forward Supplies the! Money For the Gangsters,” “Sigman | Wants a’ Fascist Union,” “Mass| Picketing Is the Weapon of the Workers In Their Fight For Better Conditions” and “The Furriers Are Fighting For Their 40 Hour Week and the July Raises.” | Cheer Ben Gold. | More than an hour before the open- ing of the meeting thousands of workers were pouring into the park. At 1:40 p. m. when Ben Gold arrived the crowd went wild in expressing their enthusiasm. They crowded around and followed him from, Union Square to Broadway. dred children paraded into the park singing, “Solidarity Forever,” and carrying a banner reading “Why Don’t They Investigate the Use of Gangsters Against the Furriers?” Past the Freiheit. When the meeting ended the work- ers marched east to the Freiheit Building at 30 Union Square where they listened to a speech by M. J. Olgin who \addressed them from the second story window. While this was going on red confetti was being thrown on the workers below and red handkerchiefs waved by members. of the Freiheit staff. After 15 minutes the line once again moved, going south to 14th Street. Turning into 14th St. the thousands of workers stopped in front of the Workers Party headquarters at Num- ber 108. They cheered for the Workers Party, The DAILY WORKER and the Furriers Union. Some of the party headquarters staff dislayed a bust of Lenin and several red banners. This brot more cheers from the workers assembled in the street. Beats Up Worker. Suddenly and without warning, po- liceman 13024 dashed indiscriminately into the crowd and grabbed hold of a Italian worker. With one hand he held him by the neck and with the other he gripped his coat lapel. Drag- ging him into the hallway of the Workers Party headquarters, he star- ted to beat him viciously. At that very moment several other police- men and members of the Industrial Squad arrived on the scene under the direction of John J. Broderick. 4 After seizing up the situation and ordering the police to drive away the crowd, Broderick came to a group of reporters and said, “You boys are newspaperman, aren’t you?” When he was answered modestly in the af- firmative he blurted out “Well, I’m forget to mention it!” Then with a self satisfied air he left the repre- sentatives of the press and went to make arrangements for the removal of the prisoner who was in the building. Cop Tells Lie. When a reporter of The DAILY WORKER asked policeman 13024 why he had arrested the young Italian worker he was told that “he was in- citing the rest of them to make trouble.” The untruthfulness of this answer was remarked on by many present, including the representatives of the capitalist press. Reforming their lines the workers continued their march until they reached Rutgers Square and East Broadway where they booed the Jewish Daily Forward until driven! away by police. More than a half an hour: before the demonstrators arrived Rutgers Square was filled with gunmen of (Continued on Page Two) Political Disaster The Labor Movement Must Be Prepared to Defeat the Coming Drive of the Bosses The sharpening of imperialist conflicts, with China the principal sector in the world battlefield, shown by the clash. . of British, Japanese and American interests in Geneva over the question of naval supremacy, and the growing instability of capitalist relationships marked by recent kaleidoscopic de- velopments in European politics following the new offensive against the Soviet Union, is accompanied in the United States by important signs indicating a tightening up of the offensive machinery of capitalism all along the line but particularly in the field of production and still more specifically in heavy industry. American capitalism is speaking in a much sharper tone to important sections of the working ¢lass. and is not hesitat- ing even to announce to its agents in official positions in the labor movement that they are expected to prepare the work- ers for still heavier burdens. American capitalists are getting ready to make new de- mands upon the masses and to reject even the very modest requests which the labor movement makes thru its official spokesmen. Important steps in this direction have been taken already. We have already pointed out the meaning of such deci- sions as that of the Supreme Court in the Bedford Cut Stone company case and the increasing use of injunctions, extending even to minor wage disputes. We have stated also that the drive against the United Mine Workers of America and the prolonged resistance of the bosses in the needle trades (assisted by the right wing) to effective union organization expresses the true policy of American capitalists. That this basic policy of destruction of all organization except completely servile company unions has been disguised by the attempt at popularization of the worker-employer co- operation theory engaged in jointly by the official leadership of the union and, the-bosses, we have state¢ ‘time and time again. It has had as its main purpose the weakening unions to the point where they of the would have neither the morale nor the organizational strength to fight a winning battle against mdére open attacks upon the right to organize, the right to strike and picket and ditions. upon wages and working con- That purpose has been made clear by some recent devel- opments: ‘ (1) The public declaration made by Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the 10-hour day. The significance of this statement can hardly be over- estimated. It knocks the props from under A. F, of L. offi- cialdom which has sponsored the notorious “B. and 0.” plan and leaves it without argument of the “good employer” which, it must be admitted, was used with some effectiveness among wide circles of workers. The “B. and O.” plan, in the light of Willard’s statement, is seen in its true character as the first step in an attack on the workers’ standards and their unions all along the line. (2) The refusal of the mediation board set up un- der the Watson-Parker law to accede to a wage increase for conductors and trainmen on 55 western railroads. The Watson-Parker bill is in essence the incorporation of the unofficial “B. and O.” plan in the law of the land—it is, as we pointed out in recent articles on the British Trade Union bill, an important step toward the “governmentaliza- tion” of the unions-in the United States. (Continued on Page Two) Bulgarian Terror Gives Ten Year Sentences to Nine Young Communists SOFIA, June 11 (By Mail). — Nine young Communists have been sentenced to ten years in prison and fined each by a Sofia court today. The sole charge against them is that they attempted to form an “legal” organization. Five other opponents of the Bul- garian white terror were sentenced to five years imprisonment for membership in an “illegal” organi- zation and three others given three and a half year sentences, Jewish Doctors Score Attack on Internes In Kings’ Co. Hospital 21 Jewish doctors, who are visiting attendants at the Kings County Hos- pital where four internes were “hazed” by several .colleagues, met last night in Brooklyn and drew up resolutions condemning the incident. At the same time, Nathan Sweed- ler, lawyer for the internes severely criticized Dr, Mortimer D. Jones, sup- erintendent ne the institution, for en- couragi e trumped-up charges that thet had ‘molested’ the nurses CRUSH REACTION, CHINESE UNIONS ASK GOVERNMENT BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, June 26.—Organ- , ized workers and peasants are gaining control of Fukien province, according’ to reports received here, Troops are rebelling against the right wing administration and are declaring allegiance to the Nation- alist government at Hankow. Anti-imperialist strikes and boy- cotts are being organized, the re- ports state. (Reports received by The DAILY WORKER several days ago stated that two regiments of Fukien troops had rebelled against Chiang Kai- shek and had gone over to the Na- tionalists. Fukien is a province just north of Canton and has long sup- plied the revolutionary movement with some of its ablest fighters), * * *. (Special Cable to Daily Worker). HANKOW, June 26.—Pointing ‘out |that the Chinese revolution has en- tered a new stage whose characteris- ties are the betrayal of the revolution (Continued on Page Two) EVADE ISSUE IN SACCO DECISION Protests -From Every) Part of World I CHICAGO, June 26.—According to| reports published by International | | Labor Defense, protests from all over the world continue to be made } fe the threatened legal execu- | tion of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo | Vanzetti as a decision by Governor | Fuller of Massachusetts on the case in a few da The two radical workers were sentenced to electrocution in the week beginning | July 10. | expected | Among the new additions to the \imposing list of protests is the Col- lorado State Federation of Labor, | through a resolution adopted by its | recent convention, This labor body | has in previous conventions gone on record in support of the two inno-| cent Italians and at its last meeting reiterated its position. Eagles Ask Justice. | The Seattle Aerie No. 1, of the] Fraternal Order of Eagles, with a| membership of upwards of 18,000, has also taken a position for Sacco and Vanzetti in a communication to sas, William Allen White, has ad- dressed a letter to the Massachusetts (Continued on Page Two) | SIGMAN’S STORY Chief Still Water; They Don’t Always Run Deep RAPID CITY, S. D., June 26 Silent Cal Coolidge will be of: ally adopted f of the Sioux Indian tribe on August 4th, it wa: learned today. It is rumore as that he will be given the name Still Water. Chief Yellow Robe explained that the Sioux attach a great deal of sig- ce te names—but probably Sioux have no proverb about still waters running deep. Mrs. Coolidge will be named Laughing Water. “A dignified name must be given id Chief Yellow robe in an . “He is the president of the United States and is entitled to respect and dignity.” ONE - HOUR STRIKE CALLED TO FREE SACCO, VANZETT Thursday, July T at 4 Is Time Designated In a stirring resolution adopted at a meeting held in Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., last Friday, the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Commit- tee calls upon New York workers to join in a one-hour strike on behalf of the two framed-up Italian radicals, Thursday, July 7 at four p. m. The immediate release of the work- ers who have been persecuted for the pest. .geven. yoays- and: who. are -nowy faced with the electric chair will be OF NOT KNOWING: | with a parade and meetings at which | | speakers will again point out their! Governor Fuller. The noted editor of Emporia, Kan- “If You Didn’t Hire, | Why Defend Them?” | In answer to the denial of Presi dent Morris Sigman of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that the seven men arrested | Friday in the fur market were em- ployed by the International, as they stated; and his statement that no one had ever been hired for the purpose } of beating or attacking workers, | Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloak | and Dressmakers’ Joint Board, ee | certain specific assaults that have oc- curred during the past few months. “If the International does not hire such men, why does it defend them when they are arrested?” Hynan | asks. | Proves His Case. “For instance, Sam Cohen, a mem- ber of Local 38 of the I. L. G. W. U.,| was shot several months ago while | picketing a shop and three men were | arrested on the scene. These men were bailed by the International, and they were defended by the Interna-| tional’s lawyer. They admitted in| court that they were not members of | the union, and stated that they were a money lender, a garage owner, and a taxi driver. They were eventually freed. “Last January, Anthony Di Mola, a cloakmaker, was assaulted and very nearly killed in his shop for refusing to register with the’ International. The two men who attacked him pleaded guilty to the crime. They oth had criminal records, were not members of the union and stated they had come from Philadelphia. The men were bailed by the International and defended by the International’s lawyer and were finally given a sus- pended sentence. Di Mola was in the hospital for weeks and is permanent- ly injured to such an extent that the International paid him $2,000. “If the International did not hire these men, where did they come from?” Held Without Bail. The seven men arrested with iron bars after an attack upon fur strik- ers Friday were held without bail by Magistrate’ Silverstein in Jefferson Market Court. “But it was not due to any efforts of the assistant district attorney that these men were held,” said Ben Gold after the court adjourned. “It seems strange that this representative of the law, who for the past two weeks has been repeatedly demanding prison sentences for peaceful pickets when they were arrested, should urge the judge to release these seVen gangsters on $1,500 each he bi demanded in a vast demonstration obvious innocence. The resolution adopted by the com- mittee, which represents 85 ‘organi- zations with 500,000 members, is as follows (in part): The whole labor movement, irre- spective of differences, must present a 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 electric 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- onstration arranged for July ‘7th, 1927. USSR WORKERS T0 BUILD 60 PLANES; REPLY 10 TORIES MOSCOW, June 26.—Appealing to all trade union organizations to take an active part in the USSR Defense Week, which begins on the 10th of July, the Presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions has apportioned 75,000 roubles for the construction of airplanes in the 1 of the Central Council. The U Defense Week has been »rganized by the Society for the Promotion of Avi- ation. The Central Council has also ap- propriated 30,000 roubles for the pur- chase of small calibre rifles for sport centers of the unions. The miners’ union has assigned 40,000 roubles for the creation of an air flotillo, “The Soviet Miner,” and has er” ~on all members of the union t luntary contributions to the fm . . ’ Build 60 Planes. MOSCOW, June 26.—With “Our answer to Chamberlain” as a slogan, workers andspeasants of the Soviet Union have raised funds which will provide the aerial forces of the Soviet Union with 60 new airplanes. Various unions in twenty-three pro- vincial cities have announced their in- tention of building from one to twelve planes each, according to re- ports received here. Leningrad is leading in the difve to provide the Soviet Union with an air force cap- able of resisting the attacks of im- perialist forces. nes D THE LABOR DAILY Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents The Labor Bureaucracy Meets FEAR FULLER MAY [Cat Wit Be Gistned | COMMUNIST TRIAL AT BEAVER ENDS; STEEL 0, AFFAIR Jones & Laughlin Police Bribe Witnesses PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 26. The four Woodlawn Communists, tried on trumped-up charges of “se- dition,” were found guilty last night after a two hour jury session. Although defense attorney Wilson had pointed out in the course of the trial that the police force of Jones and Laughlin, giant steel corporation, | was backing the prosecution, that the captain of the force had attempted to bribe witnesses and that certain evis dence has been altered and forged by the Woodlawn police, the steel barons succeeded in convicting the four om three trumped-up sedition charges. After filing a motion for a new trial, the defendants were released on $5,000 bail apiece. Wilson summing up for the defense pointed out that the prosecution had failed to prove a single point of the indictment. Disregards Law. In his appeal to the jury, proseeuts ing attorney Craig demanded the con- viction of the men on the ground that they were Communists. Completely disregarding the technologies of the law, he made the issue one of Com- munism versus capitalism. Pete Muselin, one of the defend= ants, faces a new trial tomorrow on a framed-up liquor charge, which is the result of the general campaign of | terror waged in Woodlawn by the | steel barons. | Resetar and Mus@lin occupied wit. \hess _stand* entire “day, ‘yesterday. | Evidence submitted by prosecution | proved so weak that even Judge Me- Connell, who showed extreme intol- erance to defendants during entire |trial, had to announce at close of jsession after jury had been excused for the night that three out of six {counts with which defendants are charged will be dropped and only two counts submitted to jury for decision, These two counts deal with distribu- tion of literature and teaching or ad- vocating seditien. One of four unis dropped by the court includes men:bership in the Workers (Com- munist) P; | The Fl tion Act makes a crime of “joining or becoming a |member of a seditious organization” but does not make a crime member- |ship itself. The law also specifies | that defendants cannot be tried if jcrime was committed two or more | years prior to the filing of an indiet- ment. Party Membership A Crime. It was established th-* oll four de- |fendants joined W. (Commun- jist) Party much earl than the re- | quired two year period. This count is therefore dropped by the court re- lis seditious or not. | Heated and continuous clashes be- jtween the defense and prosecution continued during entire day, Judge |McConnel in all’ instances ruling |against defense and in favor of | prosecution. The evidence of prosecution ‘on- |sists largely of a bundle of Croation j}calendars found in Resetar’s home jand published in Chicago by the Workers Publishing Company, The >| Workers Monthly, especially issue of last July, a bundle of pamphlets pub- lished by Julius-Haldeman, and a book of red cartoons sent to Resetar }by DAILY WORKER as premium |for subscription manifesto of | Marx. Describes War Experiences, Muselin testified that he is a mem: ber of the Workers Party, believes in | dictatorship of proletariat, the Soviet form of government and explained | that it is the ousted ruling class that is resorting to force and violence |compelling the workers and farmers |to defend themselves. His testimony | about his experiences in the United | States army in France during the | world war, which he characterized 28 imperialist war for plunder, much ; attention. The question whether the first American . which was reproduced on cover last July’s issue of Workers’ Mi was red or white caused heated co: troversy between defense and eution and court was con bring from library old du inous dictionary of English which was shown to jury parison with reproduction in Monthly. : |gardless' of whether Workers Party. .