The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 142. Current Events| By T. J. O’Fianerry. ‘HE fact that president Coolidge fae wearing a ten-gallon hat in the} South Dakota mountains does not} signify that the vacant space in the| headgear will contain anything) gtronger than the presidential head.} And judging from the speech that! Coolidge delivered to the South Da-| kota farmers the brain-waves on the| inside of the hat rack are not suf-| ficiently vigorous to put the hat out of shape. When a politician tells farmers that their economic condition is alright, while they are yelling for relief,—what he needs is not a hat | but a psychopath, | * * * DMIRAL Field of the British dele-| gation to the Geneva conference | picked on July 4th as the date on} which to give a banquet to the} American delegation. Such a ban-| quet if given in the United States, ! in the British. embassy or in some} other wet oasis, might be productive | of good results, but the Americans | in Geneva have access to the wine | shops as well as the British, so the} British admiral has nothing by way | of novelty to give them. * * * ores barons have been tie a} rushing business in the American | matrimonial market since the Rus- sian revolution cut them off from their bases of supplies at home. Lesser lights among the old aristo- eracy did fairly well, but the barons were sweeping everything before them. Girls with millions fell before their advances like a field of grain before a mowing machine. They lost Russia, but won the heart and bank- roll of the Americans that count. * * * ‘UT even as the Russian workers and peasants got sick of their aristocracy, the wealthy daughters of America’s leading capitalists are finding their aristocratic foundlings anything but assets. We have the sad case of the Baron Tornow in the uniform of an imperial Russian army | officer. He married the daughter of} Joseph Clendenin, millionaire mining magnate. The baron had too many eyes so he may soon have to go to work for a living or hire out as an anti-Bolshevik expert to Matthew! Woll and the Civic Federation. | | a * . * wor" about this remarkable indi- | vidual Rev. Dr. John Roack Straton! He is bringing up his son in the spook business and claims tha’ the young lad has a full-sized holy} ghost already rooming in his innards. | Had a doctor been present when the! holy spirit entered Straton Jr. he) ‘would have called an ambulance and prescribed ice for the back of his neck, but not so his father. The ol veteran was delighted and stood ir exstacy while his son groaned, raved and frothed at the mouth. This is! the real stuff. None of your anae- mic, powder-puff religions for “Doc” Straton. ‘OME of Dr. Straton’s deacons hin- ted that the old fellow was un-, duly influenced by Uldine Utley, the youthful lady evangelist who per-' formed recently in Carnegie Hall.) Uldine is now at a bathing resort, | according to snappy pictures in the) tabloids. This is reminiscent of Aimee McPherson. It seems that evangelists have a weakness for the seashore. The Rev. Straton admits that Miss Utley influenced him and is grateful to his god for it., That’s the way we like to hear a fellow talk. rs eh te ERE are two kinds of religious | convulsions according to Straton, or rather convulsions that appear ex- actly alike to the naked eye, appear in a different light when seen thru _ the spiritual microscope. For in- ‘, stance his son’s convulsion was the work of a genuine holy ghost, while other manifestations of a similar character on the surface are actually __ the work of the devil. This is one }, of the hazards of the business the Dr. suggests, but as we said before, every trade has its own peculiar difficulties, * * * CCORDING to Chinese news dis- patches in the capitalist press, hiang-Kai-shek, the so-called mod- erate militarist has issued a death warrant for Michael Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Hankow Nationalist government. Fortunately Chiang is up against the same prob- Jem that confronts a hunter. He must first catch his hare. Reports have it that General Feng and Chiang have entered into an alliance against Hankow, and that Chigng wants to have all labor unions outlawed, This may be true and it may not as far ‘as Feng is concerned, but there is no doubt but Chiang is fully com- mitted to the imperialist program has turned out to be an im- le and bloody enemy of the masses. (Continued on Page Three) * ? THE DAILY WORKER. uader the act of March 8, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 Entered as second-class ma‘ter at per year. Facing Starvation Mother Kills Self And Five Children Facing starvation, Mrs. Marie Freeman, 35, of Whitestone, Queens, opened all the gas jets in her bedroom Monday. Mrs. Freeman and her five children were all found dead by her neigh- bors yesterday morning. Mrs. Freersan’s husband had been killed in an automobile acci- dent last April and she feared that her children would be placed in an asylum. In a letter addressed to her, sister. she explained that she had killed herself and her five chil- dren because of poverty. i, L. D, Indorses the One Hour Strike To Save Sacco, Vanzetti At a well attended meeting of the International Labor Defense, York section held last night at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., the members after listening to a re- port by Rose Baron, local secretary, adopted a resolution in favor of the one hour strike on July 7th asa means of moulding opinion for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, In her report, Secretary Baron told of the work that has been done so far to save the lives ‘of the two Ital- ian workers and the necessity at the present of redoubling all along that line. It was announced that the Inter-| national Labor-.Defense has~ printed) 100,000 leaflets on the Sacco-Van- zetti case that must-be distributed at once. All workers were urged to | report to the office of the I. L. D.,| 799 Broadway and get a bundle of them. Daily “Worker Five Thousand New Readers Opens July Ist In answer to the call for five thousand new readers for | i | tions, and police brutality, The DAILY WORKER, issued mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, the Management Committee has decided to immediately launch an enefgetic New) TO TRY 244 FUR WORKERS TODAY; JAILED MONDAY Fanny Washofsky Only Arrest Yesterday The 244 fur strikers who were ar- rested Monday on the picket line will come up for a hearing this morning before Magistrate George Ewald in Jefferson Market Court. According to the magistrate, who released them Monday afternoon on $25 bail each, he will not be lenient jin dealing with them, since the con- ference between the lawyer of the Joint Board and the district attorney did not find a solution for the “prob- |lem” of mass picketing. Passed The Buck. As the conference which was held Tuesday did not result in anything that a passing of the buck by the legal department of the city, which claimed \that the magistrate in each case had |to decide for himself, severe fines and sentences are expected. A large picket line was in the mar- ket yesterday morning but there were (no arrests. However, at noon time, ”|when Fanny Warshofsky, a business agent of the Joint Board, was ype ing on 30th St. between Fifth a Sixth Ave., she saw a Mrs. Bites, = right winger, who is slightly dement- ed, coming down the street. To avoid the woman, Business Agent Warshofsky crossed to the other side. But that did not help, for as soon as Mrs. Bitez saw her she efforts; Started to shout insulting remarks. | At first Miss Warshofsky tried to ignore her by walking on, but to no avail, the right winger running after |her and continuing to yell. At last |Mrs. Warshafsky told her to “keep | quiet.” Mrs. Bitez then called for the po- ice who placed both of them under (Continued on Page Five) Campaign for | } | | by the Central Executive Com- } campaign to reach this goal. The campaign for five thousand new readers will open officially July 1st and will last until August 80. Every Party member, every DAILY WORKER reader, and every friend and sympathizer of the Party, is to be mobilized for this campaign. - The Management Committee has further decided to as- sist the comrades in this drive by making a special offer of the most attractive premiums which will be announced in these columns. The following quotas are assigned to each district and will sexve as a basis upon which we will judge the work of each district. Quota Quota Quota District of New District of New District of New ers Readers Readers 1 Boston ...... 225 6 Cleveland .. 300 12 Seattle ..... 100 2 New York... 2000 7 Detroit ..... 400 13 Los Angeles. 200 1 Philadelphia . 225 600 15 Lac 50 | 200 lew Jersey. 150 6 Pittsburgh .. 00 10 A seeee 150 he ‘workers of the remnants of union| industry. listers to murder the courageous fur ‘fought courageously against the reign ‘til we have won the right to dictate 'Dry Chief Resigns As Total .4.... 5000 cess. the Post Office at New York. NEW YORK, a JUNE 29, 1927 PUBLISHING Co, Army Officials Confess Honolulu Flight Is Just |! Preparation for New War |) | | HONOLULU, T. H., June 28— The non-stop flight of Lieuts. Les- ter Maitland and Albert Hegen- berger from California to Hawaii is part of a great war game, army authorities announced today. Theo- retically, the big plane is on a mission of attacking a Japanese ship midway between San Fran- cisco and Hawaii. Under the game being played, the plane will discover its return to the Pacific Coast blocked after dropping its bombs and must con- tinue to Hawaii. CLOAK AND DRESS | | } WORKERS CALLED : TO SAVE UNION ‘Shop Chairmen Issue a| Statement to Members| The problems facing the cloak and) dressmakers at the present time are discussed in a statement issued last} night by the shop chairmen’s council, | cloak.’ and | dressmakers, calling on them to attend tonight’s meeting at Manhattan Lyceum immediately after | work. | The statement reads as follows: | “The shop chairmen’s council is} calling a meeting of all shop chair- men and shop committees of the cloak ,and dress industry regardless of | whether they are registered or not | vegistered. The meeting will take) ' place on Wednesday, right after work, ‘at Manhattan Lyceum, “At this meeting the situation in the union as a result of the 28 weeks’ struggle in our industry will be taken up. | Condition of Union. “The many months of struggle has| reduced the union to a mere shadow! of its former condition. The condi-| | | | | / \tions we have gained as a result ot | Kat-shek, after four days of desper- Washington § Sees War British Children Come i our bitter strikes have been complete- | ly annihilated because of the internal | war forced upon our membership by | Sigman. This war has brought about | a deplorable condition for our mem-| bers now in the 28th week of the} struggle. Planning New Conspiracies. “Sigman is preparing to plan new conspiracies by which to deprive the conditions that still prevail in our} “Recent events in the fur market where Sigman, the president of our International, has sent hired gang- |strikers, proves that Sigman is ready Ito destroy not only his own union but the furriers as well. “Tt proves conclusively once more jthat Sigman hopes to get control of |the union by means of gangsters. The seven gangsters openly confessed in jthe police court that they were hired lby Sigman to do their murderous | work agaifist the strikers. Have Fought Courageously. “The cloak and dressmakers have of terror, against gansterism, injunc-. “We will continue this struggle un- \the affairs of our union and to con- ‘vert it into a real instrument in the linterests of. the cloak and dress- jmakers.” Protest Against Expose Of His 8d Degree Acts Aware that the best defense is a vigorous attack, Major Chester P, Mills, prohibition chief for this dis- trict, has resigned. His action came on the heels of his transfer after ovidence of brutal third degree meth- ods in the “handling” of witnesses had been proved. i Mills explained that he was “dis- gusted” because his subordinate, Au- gustus Heise, was fired from the ser- vice for his part in the torture Hee |Kwangtung general | Wuhan army. | Kwangtung province, and has reached | ‘who listened attentively _ spoke. KWANTUNG GETS CRUSHING DEFEAT BY NATIONALISTS |Canton Workers Revolt | Aids People’s Army HANKOW, June 28.—The National- | ist troops have occupied Ichang, and| Yangseu’s troops are in flight. This} establishes direct railway connection between the Wuhan cities and Chen- chow. Chen Ta-shun, the most powerful has attacked Kiangsi and was repulsed by the third He has fled to Nan- ching. The fourth Wuhan army has been sent as a punitive column against the |the border. The advance of the Wu- han army is assisted by revolts of the Canton workers. Reports declare that the Chinese of | Shanghai refuse to pay extra taxes| meet the military expenditures of foreign troops. They declare: “No taxation without representation.” Since the Chinese pay most taxes hes demand municipal representation. * * * SHANGHAI, June 28. — Despite | numerous ,and unsubstantiated rum- |ors about a halt in the advance of the} Nationalists, the imperialist powers |eontinue to rush troops, nlanes and tanks to Peking and Tientsin. | A detachment of 500 U. S. marines, accompanied by five planes, has land- led at Hsingho, situated between | Tientsin and Taku. It is reported} that an American aviation base will |be established there. The force at. Hsingho will be increased by the ad- dition of a thousand marines and twelve airplanes from Shanghai. It is expected that the Nationalist | government will send a note to the United States protesting against the establishment of an aviation head-| quarter at Hsingho. * * Chiang Suffers Defeat. LONDON, June 28.—The Chinese | expeditionary armies under General | Chiang Kai-shek have met with al 1 * severe reverse in the neighborhood of | Hsuchowfu, suffering 30,000 casual- | | ties, most of whom were killed, ac- | | cording to dispatches from Shanghai. Sun Chuan-fang, whom Chiang Kai- shek defeated before Shanghai, at- tacked Hsuchowful in force. Chiang ate fighting, was compelled to evac- uate his position and retire in the direction of Pengpu, representing a loss of 30 miles of territory. Herrick, Famed by Lindberg, Greeted at City Reception : Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, the| last of the Ohio gang still on Uncle Sam’s payroll, returned from France) yesterday and was welcomed at the! City Hall by James Walker, who of} course was assisted by Grover| Whalen. The welcoming took place about lunch time and thousands of down- town office workers witnessed the ceremony and listened to the music. Numerous inquiries of those standing around as to in whose honor the music! was being played resulted in a shrug of the shoulders and, “I suppose its another one of those trans-atlantic flyers.” It is said in Paris that Herrick) makes tremendous efforts to appear more French than the French. This was borne out yesterday when in his! address to Mayor Walker he punc- tuated his remarks with little French salon mannerisms such as shrugging | the shoulders and using his hands in| talking with the thumb and second finger forming the famous do-la-la circle, The ambassador speaks with that | tremulous voice so dear to the Amer- ican pblitician which he employed strenuously when he said, “We must give to France love, friendship and good-will, because we share common} ideals.” Herrick arrived on the Is! France, the latest addition French Lines, He was acco’ by a group of French indus; de | ) the! | To Instal Signals; ALLIANCE RISES Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. w="|POLICE BESIEGE UNION MINERS HOUSES STATE TROOPERS DRIVING PICKETS OFF OF HIGHWAYS I. R. T. Accepts “Order” But Not Till 1937, However The I. R. T. yesterday notified the transit commission that it will comply with the order to insta automatic stop signals and “L” tracks at a cost of $13,000,000. There was to be a hearing on the subject yesterday but the company’s ready “compliance” re- sulted in it being called off. The reason why the Interborough was so agreeable on the subject is found in the fact that it has until 1937 to fulfill the demands of the commission. In 10 years many things may occur, including sale of the road, which is now under serious consideration. 2 Dry Agents Found Guilty of Bribe-Taking By Jury i int US, Court == Jesse Harvey, of New Rochelle, and Richard Warner, of this city, former agents of the department of! y internal revenue, were convicted by a jury in Federal Court yesterday afternoon of accepting bribes from | liquor law violators and income tax/| hearing of this, placed his whole force dodgers. Three other agents with whom they were tried were acquitted. They were William McCann, Edward Briggs and Josiah Dixon. It was Briggs’ testimony during the trial, detailing alleged brutality by mem- bers of the prohibition enforcement squad, which lead to the recent dry| squad shake-up in this district, r sulting in the resignation of Major} Chester P. Mills, former prohibition administrator in this district. ANGLO-JAPANESE AT NAVAL MEET Threat in Pacific GENEVA, June 28.—In spite of their comical efforts to conceal their real feelings deep pessimism pervades | the American delegation because of | the announcement by Japan that it joins Britain in its determination to raise the question of capital ships at/| the naval conference which would be! a violation of the Washington agree-| |ment not to open discussion of such| ships until 1932, ten years after the close of the conference called by the United States under the Harding ad- ‘ ministration. Americans On Defensive. The American delegation is on the defensive inasmuch as they realize! jthat the failure of the conference will have political repurcussions in the elections of 1928 and would place the Coolidge administration at a disad- vantage. So determined are the Americans to conceal the failure that there are indications that the Ameri- cans, rather than break up the con- ference, would eventually agree to discuss the age limit of battleships, pointing out nevertheless that they | consider such discussions useless since any agreement reached here would be subject to revision in 1932 when a ‘LENINGRAD; DEFY ceived a passport by mere ch FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Vesta Company Gunmen Stone Children Miners Still | Fight for Drinking Water BROWNSVILLE, Pa., June 28. — Evidently despairing of getting enough scabs to work at a dollar and a half less per day than the union scale, the Vesta Coal Co. is trying to provoke, club and hound its former union miners into its now non-union mines. They surround whole villages and prohibit men from leaving house to picket. Mr. Joe Edwards, vice president of the company, which is owned by the aire hating Jones & Laughlin Steel p-, has called for additional | recruits to his force of coal and iron | police, and already gunmen from the gang haunts of the cities are on their: 5 way to enforce his edicts. Mass Picketing. Be On Mond the 20th about 300 eae miners from the Vesta No. 5 and No. 4 mine decided to picket Vesta Vo. 6, the last mine the company has ried to open and run non-union. The sheriff of Washington county, of deputies at the command of Mr, Mussler, the superintendent of Vesta No. 6. The superintendent also had 25 members of the Pennsylvania state constabulary (“the Cossacks’’) at his orders, and 28 coal and iron police, who are company paid guards, formed and given power to arrest by” | the state. The sargeant in charge of the state_ | police held a conference with the mine | superintendent, and then led his Cos- sacks into an attack on the miners, to (Continued on Page Two) PIONEERS REACH ENGLISH GOV'T Without Passports (Special Cable to Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, June 28.—The dele: gation of Young Pioneers who left England without passports because the tory government had refused to permit them to visit the Soviet Union \ arrived here today on the steamer Yushar, headed by MacK jlon, Young Communist from Glas; | Accompanying the delegation is | wife of Comrade Gallagher, a mem! of the Central Executive Committ of the British Communist Party. Len= ingrad Pioneers have arranged @ grand welcome for the delegation. " Members of the. delegation stat that they had come to the Union to become better acquaint with the life and achievements of Pioneers of the U. S. S. R. lon, who is directing the delegatic stated in an interview that he had from the local authorities while other children had left without p ports, having firmly decided to regard the action of the tory ment. To Study U. 8. S. R. Pioneers. The children do not believe th they will be barred from England, b believe that the authorities will conference will be held with Italy and France present. The Americans would maintain that the parties to the original Washington arms treaty | would have to make a definite ar- rangement before any capital ship re- placements could be laid down, This | would postpone actual naval construc- tion, under any provisional agreement that might be reached here, for at least four years. The question ‘of aircraft carriers of under 10,000 tons, which the Ameri- cans want to place within the limita- ‘tion classifications, and which the | Japanese want to remain unlimited, has been reserved for future discus- sion. * * * WASHINGTON, June 28.—Great Britain's (Continued on ay Two) yy eam ies | |some action against them on |pretext that they missed school. |ment of the Pioneer movement The delegation proposes to jlong enough to become thoroly wainted with the work of the Soviet Pioneer organizations. ‘The d iy England has been retarded, they lieve, by the lack of experienced les ers. The delegation hopes to much from the Soviet Pioneers. Bring MacManus Remains. The delegation will stay in grad for several days and will leave for Moscow. The Yushar, on which the Pioneers carried the remains of i Manus, late member of the Committee of the Co ive attitude at the |pis