The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1927, Page 1

. THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 49-HOUR WERK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 141. Current Events By T. J. O’Fianerry. MASS ARRESTS THREATEN RIGHT TO STRIKE ‘HIS is not a fish story: It is rumored that General Wood, alias’ “Ivory Soap,” the tuchun of the to- bacco, rubber and sugar trusts in the Philippines has been recalled from the islands to make South Dakota safe for Coolidge, In addition to the ex- | ploitation of the Filipinos by the American tax masters, Wood's num- erous blunders made a bad situation worse and it seems that the adminis- tration considered attaching a shiny can to his political tail. * * | Ber the exigencies of politics modify | decisions and the reports now cur- rent around Rapid City, South Da- kota indicate that the political lobe of the President’s brain, calculates on utilizing the former Proctor-Gamble white hope in the task of capturing the electorial vote of South Dakota for Big Chief Still Waters. It should be noted that Wood carried South Dakota in the primaries that preceded the election of Warren Gamaliel Harding. So, canny “Cal” figuring that Leonard might like to take an- other trip to the Philippines in order to catch a legitimate disease that would enable him to retire without creating the impression that he was kicked in the trousers, may agree: to hold Wood’s blunders in abeyance in return for the votes he may be able to bring in to the Coolidge net. . . . EVERTHELESS~ we think that Coolidge could win more votes by suggesting a solution of the farmers’ ills than by importing a white ele- 7 * | wing can now feel safe to allow a SUBSCRIRTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 38, 1879, per year. SIGMAN'S BALLOT OFFER DESCRIBED AS A “GESTURE” After Expulsion Vote Is Absurd, Says Hyman Commenting on the “decision” of the General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers to allow the members of that or- ganization to vote on ‘the question of proportional representation, Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board of the Cloak- and Dressmakers’ Union stated last night that “the action of the right wing is merely a gesture. “First they kick out the left wing and then decide to allow the members to vote. “According to the agreement that was adopted at the 1925 convention | of the international, when the vote was to be taken, both sides were to| be represented on the committee of | tellers. By first expelling the left wing, which means the overwhelming | majority of the membership, the right vote of the proposition. Was Afraid of Members. Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party Issues Call for Five Thousand New Readers of The Daily Worker The increasing danger of a new World War, the oncoming offensive of the American capitalist class against the labor movement and against the party, make it necessary that the party strengthen and widen its contact with the workers are entering a period of renewed war preparations, during which the capitalist press will again come out openly as the willing tool of the war mongers. against the militant elements in the trade unions and against the party, the first step in the campaign to attack the basic rights of the unions to organize, to picket and to strike, is making full use of the press to prejudice the workers agains In this struggle The DAILY WORKER is the only daily newspaper in the English lan- guage which can be relied upon to bring to the workers the true facts and to indicate the policy to be followed in meeting this onslaught. For this reason the Central Executive Committee of the has decided to call upon all the forces in the party as well as drive on a nation-wide scale for Five Thousand additional readers for The DAILY WORKER. | We call upon every party member and every comrade who is with'us in this struggle against the imperialists and the reactionaries in the labor movement, fluence and power of The DAILY WORKER, and thus make stronger labor’s most militant defense against the onslaught of the combined forces of reaction. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. SOVIET WAR TRIBUNAL OFFICIAL I. L. D, Holds General Meeting Tonight For NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1927 Published Daily throughout the country. We The capitalist offensive t their most energetic fighters. Workers (Communist) Party | the party sympathizers for a to do his bit to increase the in- PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. |Shaap and Joseph Winogradsky { oar FINAL CITY EDITION except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents 244 PICKETS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN DISTRICT YESTERDAY MORNING Right Wingers Point Out Militant Workers to Police Authorities District Attorney Pecora Passes the Buck on Jailing of Fur Unionists Two hundred and forty-four pickets were arrested yesterday morning in the fur district. When brot before Magistrate George Ewald in the Jefferson Market Court they were released on $25 bail each for trial tomorrow. As an example of how the police carried out. their wholesale arrests, union officials pointed out yesterday to the case of Al, Right Wing Spy. Shaap and Winogradsky were walk- ing on Seventh Ave. going from 29th to 27th St. A right wing spy who ‘was in the neighborhood pointed them out to a policeman who followed them when they started to turn back and walk uptown, obtaining the assistance of several other policemen, Shaap and Winogradsky were placed under ar- rest as well as all other workers with- in reach. About 16 to 18 others were taken into custody in that one case, being duplicated many times during the morning. GOVERNOR WARNS. TAMMANY TO BAR RACE ISSUE’ NOW Klan Seen as Basis. of “In the past, the right wing clique *id not want to. allow the large locals to have a large representation | because that meant the end of their rule. But today, when they do not | j have to contend with this problem the right wingers can pose .as liber- | als. | “In every local they will have their | little clique vote, and no | phant. A “democratic newspaper states that Coolidge’s speech to a gathering of South Dakota legisla- tors left the latter cold. Coolidge was of the opinion that there was nothing the matter with the farmer. Something like Woodrow Wilson’s analysis of the industrial depression which he declared was “purely psychological.” He might as well at- tribute their troubles to the “sex Which way the ‘membership’ decides complex.” It would do them as much| the Sigman clique will have nothing ‘to fear for their power will con- | tinue to be secure. “In this move at the present. time the right wing once again shows | that they are not sincere. By al- lowing the ‘membership’ to decide whether they favor proportional} representation or not, the right wing | is throwing out another of their bluffs. This will not fool the work- ers of the trade; they have heard stories of a similar kind many times in the past.” matter | * * * 1 far the,.three-power..vaval con- ference in Geneva has accom- plished little beyond shedding light on the keen rivalry that exists be- tween the United States and England. Japan sits back watching every op- portunity to extract some advantage from this rivalry. There will be no reduction of armaments as a result of this conference. There will be a new naval armament race between! the United States and Great Britain. Mere The admirals ‘of both countries are H snarling at each other. This is : Verdict of Assault prelude to the boom of hostile cannon. "ainsi aercate Against Cossack in tween Fascists and Communists last Attack of Meane $ Sunday. The days of free speech and calm discussion of differences of} | opinion are passing in England. In! < pe hte d | those haleyon days of British capi-|. FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 27. — talism this orderly condition (much, 5tate trooper Alfred K. Larsen w: exaggerated at that) was attributed! tonight convicted of atrocious assault to’ the English character. What a iM connection with the shooting of calm, cool and collected brute this 2#mes Meaney in the knee just prev- | Briton was? No wonder he could) ious to the siege of his farm last} lord it over millions of subject peo December. y ples. But now he’ is getting as ex-' W245 killed at the same time when} i | TANT demonstrations against the anti-trade union bill are taking place in England. Hyde Park was the scene of a lively scrimmage be- Discussion of Sacco A general membership meeting DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED BY WHITE CITY PAYS RT iIvy Lee Says $212,000 Beatrice Meaney, a sister, | & of the New York section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, will be held tonight, 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lycuem, 66 East Fourth St. The Sacco-Vanzetti campaign will be taken up in great detail. No mem- ber of the I. L. D. should be ab- sent from this important meeting Defense Week |of the Moscow Army District, nation. His assailant has been | The attempt on Orlov’s life oc- }eurred inside the.premises of the 4 | of the assailant’s identity and motives | is still going on, it is stated in semi- | | offivial circles that the attempted UBLI i Y D | murder is part of the white guardist |campaign of murder and arson that jis being conducted with the support of the British tory government. AT HIGHER FARES The secret police thruout the So- viet Union are taking precautionary nemomasy: measures. Although the white guards are few in number, they con- hice a serious menace, operating j as they do in the interests of Great Spent Since 1919 Britain. White spies, in the employ lof the British Foreign Office, are The city treasury pays for the I. R.| said to be stationed in the army and T. propaganda aimed at higher sub-| navy. way fares, | The murder of Peter Voikoff, So- Ivy Lee, who calls himself a “public | Viet Minister to Poland, — several relations counsel” (which means a| Weeks ago, by a young White Rus- press agent) gets $12,000 a year from | Sian, who admitted that he commit- the company. |ted the murder “under orders” was “Publicity” for the higher fare has? the ape k for bg po risen ofa whist 3 4 * paign © mureer an arson. a poedy comp GALE 000 site ta | many of the white guards were. oper- ‘All this Lee testified to yesterday ating under direct orders from the during the hearings which Samuel! Byitish Foreign Office was revealed }Untermyer is conducting at the of-' in the confession of Riley, a captured fices of the transit commission. Inspired Scab “Union”. He declared that his major services British spy, published soon after the murder of Voikoff. Other evidence made public since Voikoff murder showed that Moscow Workers Make Plans to Celebrate | MOSCOW, June 27.—Chairman Orlov, of the War Tribunal result of the resumption of the white guard campaign of assassi- ‘tribunai, Althoun the investigation’ cited as a whirling dervish. Simply, j4 troopers and two agents of the|include the editorship of the “Subway the on July Tenth lies dangerously wounded as a arrested. WILLARD MAKES CLEAR HE WANTS. TEN-HOUR DAY Secretary Morrison Is; Confused rae WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27.— The statement made by Daniel Wil- |lard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in answer to criticism | of his advocacy of the longer work- | day confirms the belief that the | eight-hour day in the railway ‘indus- try is under attack. This Willard denies, but his second statement openly favors the abolition }of time and one-half for overtime worked up to 10 hours. The experience of the labor move- | ment has shown beyond doubt that | | without a penalty placed upon the | |employer for shifts over 8 hours the |8-hour day is meaningless. Inspired by Open Shop Roads. | because he is losing out in the strug- 4 i gle for world markets and threatened | ¢!ty to Animals” came to serve a, with revolution at home and abroad,|/We""nt o one of the brothers This refers to the British ruling class Charged with underfeeding his cattle. “Society for the Prevention of ru-| Sun”, but that he was also responsible| White bandits were using territory | for suggesting the Interborough’s labor policy, namely the “Brother- hood”, the company union. which is doomed to go and to the British workingclass which is about COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CAL to come into its own. Cet AT the French government bureaucrats is honeycombed with Fascist-Royalist sympathizers was , proved a few days ago when by a clever ruse the Royalist editor Leon Dadet, and an associate were released | from prison by confederates. A’ ® . royalist representing himself as the) | minister of the interior called the) ‘ prison commandant on the telephone! and ordered the release of the two| royalists and a Communist—the latter! ‘Included to give the order a show of} lausibility. { batt * * * } i Te ability of the conspirators to; ' 4 use the telephone in the depart- ment of the interior and the laxity of _ the prison commandant in releasing prisoners with a written order to that effect from the competent authority, would indicate a lack of discipline in the French governmental institution that would seem astounding here. ‘There is a suspicion that the prison commandant was in on the plot. He “is said to be a royalist sympathizer and embraced either Daudet or his eorey wife when the former was released. _ ** Perhaps both. P .* " Re eeAL Obregon of Mexico is a \ \ candidate for election to the presi- of the republic, The general _ in his maiden speech for the highest (Continued on Page Four) ihe ON OPPRESSED T0 LS OPPOSE NEW WAR To All Suppressed Peoples! To The Soldiers and Sailors! Text of the Appeal of the Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. TO THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS OF THE WHOLE WORLD! OMRADES! Brothers! Crushed and tortured, humanity is still groaning beneath the heaps of ruins of the great imperialist war, whose countless victims still live among us as fearful witnesses of. the horror and crime of this war. The new generation has not yet been able to free itself from this terror, and already there is increasing from day to day the bloody menace of a new world war. In China a vast population of many hundred millions of slaves is shaking from its eneck the pressing yoke of international imperialism. The .work- ing and peasant masses who are being stifled under’ the double oppression of foreign imperialism and the native exploiters are rebelling against the unbounded exploitation under which they suffer. The workers are re- fusing to work for fourteen hours a day for starvation wages for the benefit of the foreign and native profiteers, for the big industrialists; and the peasants are likewise refusing to toil for the big landowners, for the usurers and for the Generals, the hirelings of international imperial- ism, The Chinese revolution, born out of the misery and the exploita- tion of the people, is rising power- fully and vengefully against im- perialism; it is shaking imperialism’s | across the Polish border as a base of| Willard admits that the example of | operations. That Pilsudski not only|open shop roads like the Delaware | | knew about bandit raids in the Ukra-|and Hudson, where the work day is |ine, but actually encouraged them,|9 and 10 hours has aroused his envy. | was one of the startling facts brot| Secretary Morrison of the Amer- out by the evidence. |ican Federation of Labor has replied | Official Moscow is awaiting the|to Willard, but one clause of this Jacob Mandelbaum,‘attorney for the Joint Board, held a conference with representatives of the district attor- ney’s office yesterday. It was held for the purpose of obtaining an inter- pretation of “lawful picketing” from the point of view of the city authori- ties. Those present at the meeting in ad- dition to Mandelbaum w Assistant District Attorney Pecora, tant District Attorney Robert McCauley, detailed to Jefferson Market Court, to which the prisoners are ‘taken, Matthew Woll, Hugh yne, Edward F. McGrady, Edgar W ce, national legislative represen e of the A. F. of L., and Samuel Markowich, attor- ney for the International. At the end of the meeting Pecora stated that he had been delegated by the conference to be its spokesman. “The conference was called,” said (Continued on Page Five) RUSH U.S. TROOPS, PLANES, TANKS T0 TIENTSIN, PEKING Try Borodina; Native Taxpayers Strike BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, June 27.—Chiang Kai-shek is reported to heve dis- patched a note to the Nationalist (Wuhan) government demanding that it disband all labor and peasant unions. Other demands said to be contained in the note call for the dismissal of Soviet advisers and of ist) Party. That the Nationalist government wili arcept any of these demands is members of the Chinese (Commun- | results of investigation of the crim- jinal attack on Orlov. Preparations are being made here for the celebration of Defense Week, which has been instituted by the So- | beginning July 10. | annttntetneertin Rtas, 8,000 Klansmen Parade } * ‘But Rain Stops Formal Dedication of Church preliminary to the dedication of a church here more than 8,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan from 10 states marched in a two-mile parade. The Kluxers were masked and were headed’ by two bands and a drum corps. The actual dedication was postponed because of pouring rain which began after the parade started. ciety for the Promotion of Aviation, | STERLING, Conn., June 27.—As a! regarded as extremely unlikely. ee * (Special Cable to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 27.-The dispatch of imperialist troops to north China in preparation for the advance of the Nationalists continues, reply is causing considerable com- ment in labor circles. Morrison stated |that union shopmen would accept the Willard proposal only if time and one-half for time over 8 hours is paid. This statement confuses rather \than clarifies the issue, since it can be taken to mean that the 9 and 10 hour day will meet with approval in| accompanied by tanks and airplanes the executive council of the A. F.of|have been sent to Tientsin from L, if it is accompanied by an increase |Shanghai, while 350 French troops in wages which will approximate the |have left Hongkong for Tientsin. amount of pay for two hours’ over-| Two more Japanese transports | time work. bearing several hundred Japanese It is pointed out here that this is|/marines have arrived at Tientsin. a dangerous principle, since a forced | Tsingtao looks like an armed camp. reduction in wages would leave the Forty-two American warships are 10-hour day in force. anchored outside of the port. 1m * Try Mme. Borodin. PEKING, June 27.—The second session in the hearing of Mme. Boro- din and three Soviet diplomatic cour- Aviators Set for 2,400 Mile Flight to Hawaii) Eight hundred American marines, | unsteady stabilization and deepening the deadly crisis, in the clutches of which imperialism has been writhing ever since the last world war. y * * “* T= heroic example of the workers and peasants of China is awaken- ing the broad masses of the colonial peoples; the echo of their struggles and their victories resounds to Indo- China, to Indonesia and to India. The vampires of the imperialist capital (Continued on Page Three) 21 Women Workers Join Summer Study Group 21 garment workers, milliners, waitresses and embroiders are en- rolled in the summer school of Bar- nard College which opened yesterday morning. For a period of six weeks they will study economics, English composition, literature and general science. OAKLAND, Cal., June 27.—Tomor- | row morning is the time set for the| berger, to start their 2,400 mile hop to the Hawaiian Islands, From Honolulu came the informa- the camp of Richard Grace, the Holly- wood aviator, who hopes to be tht first to fly from the islands to the mainland. His plane was being gi a final examination by naval /me- chanies today. é i" iers is being held. The court at first refused to per-| two aviators, Maitland and Hegen-| mit the examination of witnesses in| whose presence the confiscated diplo-| matic mail was taken and opened, but after insistent demands of the ac- tion that gloom had descended over! cused decided to consider the ques-) tion. The court refused to comply with the request made by the defence that wires be sent to American schools where Borodina had studied, request- (Continued on Page Two) Kings Hospital Pogrom By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Sounds of internecine strife rum- bled and echoed down the dingy cor- ridors of Tammany Hall headquarters yesterday. The loyal sons of St. Tam- many are doing some soft treadihg and low tal these days, and all because Mayor Walker pulled a boner by raising a racial question just when Al, Smith wanted all religious issues played with the pianissimmo stop pulled all the way out. Grand Stand Play. ‘ Both sides of the contending fac ~ tions within the Tammany organiza- tion are clearly aligned in the Kings County Hospital fracas when Jimmy Walker jumped at what he thought was a fine popular e to enhance his prestige as a “friend” of the Jews by promising to sit personally on the bench to try th entile doctors who indulged in a mild sort of pogrom last Monday by viciously beating up three Jewish internes attached to the Brooklyn hospital. A city magistrate who was prom- inently identified with the La Fol- |lette campaign, and who particularly asked that his name be withheld said, “Governor Smith has issued orders |that all racial and religious questions must not be featured in New York politics. The governor is anxious not to embitter the klan states. The split delegations from southern states will |be very useful in 1928.” | Influence of K. K. K. Nathan Sweedler, the attorney for ‘the three Jewish internes, when in- terviewed yesterday intimated that {the Ku Klux Klan and Klan influ- jences have played an important role jin fostering the anti-Jewish spirit which has been so noticeable in New i] {York public institutions. | | “Do you think that the Klan exer- ‘eised an influence over the expelled ‘gentile internes which resulted in the 4 ‘so-called hazing?” he was asked. } “While I have my own opinions,” i jhe replied, “and they are substan- #2) |tiated by affidavits and competent y testimony, I cannot make open ac- cusations until Wednesday at which. time all the matter will be laid before Mayor Walker. Certainly it is a ques- | (Continued on Page Five) | Convict Officials of Telegraphone: Bell Co. Hired Them | to Sabotage 2%, WASHINGTON, June Charles D. Rood, president, and Charles A. Ballard, secretary, of the American Telegraphone Com- pany of Springfield, Mass., were held guilty of gross mismanage- ment of the corporation by justice Frederick L. Siddons in District Supreme Court today. An audit was ordered prepara- tory to awarding damages to stockholders, claimed by their at- torneys to be between $100,000,- 000 and $185,000,000. The - Telegraphone Company's product is an invention designed to | record phone messages when the phone is not answered. : Rood, stockholders’ attorneys al- leged, sought to wreck the com- pany for the benefit of the Bell Telephone System, a pro C competitor. | |