The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL ; ] THER DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 46-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY | | Vol. IV. No. 144, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as.second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y,, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. uw NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927 ider the act of March 38, 1878, PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. SENTENCE 46 WOMEN FURRIER PICKETS T0 JAIL By T. J. O’Fuanerry. HE which men was again brought to public atten- conditions under on board ship frightful work to tion when 85 Chinese managed leave the Holland-American liner Rotterdam, after she reached port a few days ago. The Chinese joined the “blackhole gang” in Rot- terdam and were promised shore leave when they arrived in Hoboken. They were obliged to work for tl miserable wage of $3 a week, wh white workers received $8 a week. Wwe * * * EN the Rotterdam arrived in Hoboken the captain broke his promise to the Chinese , but pacifism is not now a Chinese virtue, if it ever was, so the ceived stok- ers armed themselves with weapons of various kinds and proceeded to cut their way thru to shore. They waded thru all opposition until a considerable portion of the armed forces of New York City was mobil- ized to block the advance. At that only 54 of them were arrested. The rest are probably quenching their thirst with fairly good beer and en- joying the movies. * * HE 85 Chinese workers that fired the Rotterdam on her way from Holland to the United States received less for their week’s arduous toil than the wages of four New York carpenters for a week’s work under union conditions. The conditions un- der which toilers of the sea work are almost intolerable. ‘They have no union worthy of the name, the,’scab outfit headed by the arch-strikebreaks er Havelock Wilson of Great Britai being a stool pigeon agency for ithe British government and a tool of the ehipping. ¢companies. workers, on ‘a ers: Japanese, Ma lay, Filipino and» work- ingelass natives of other Oriental countries, It was calléd the Oriental Current Events) n ish goods. The landing of Japanese | Boukharin Brands Feng Traitor; Says Chinese Revolt Takes New Turn} MOSCOW, June 30.—Branding Feng’s alliance with Chiang Kai- shek as a betrayal of the Chinese | revolution, N. Bukharin in an ar- || ticle of the Pravda points out that the alliance means the consolida- tion of the big native bourgeoisie, whose aim is counter-revolutionary and whose tendency is towards an open alliance with feudal militar- ists and the imperialist powers. “Feng Yu-hsiang has passed in- to the camp of the enemies of the people’s revolution and a relentless war must be declared against him.” Pointing out that the revolution || takes a new turn with the defec- | tion of Feng, Bukharin says, “Tho |] Wuhan should fall surrounded by |] enemies the struggle would be car- || tied on in new forms. The liberal counter-revolutionaries are incapa- ble of even a half solution of the agrarian and peasant question.” SHIPPING BARONS SHANGHAI, June 30.—British and | Japanese shipping interests are suf- | fering heavy losses as the result of the anti-imperialist boycott that is| rapidly spreading thruout southern | China. | the attempts of right wing | headed:-by .Chiang: Kai-shek to prevent the boycott, workers and peasants thruout the lower Yangtze Valley are refusing to purchase Brit- ‘oops ‘in Shantung “has aroused a great deal of indignation here and has made the boycott even more ef- fective than it would otherwise have been. BOYCOTT, STRIKES \ HIT IMPERIALIST G DEAL eae ~ ? ee Bites “s ae bs . Drawn by WM. GROPPER BECKERMAN ADVOCATES PIECE WORK. Call Special Membership Meeting of Workers Party The District Executive Commit- tee is calling a special Party mem: FULL VICTORY 1S WON BY STRIKING “| before and after arrest.” | IMIS 132 IN iTelly of Professional! Assassins Hired | In a moderately phrased letter, ad- | dressed in respectful terms to Mayor | Walker of New York, Frank P.| | Walsh, former head of the War |Labor Board, recites a cold and ap- palling list of charges against the} police department, and the gangsters hired-by the right wing in the needle | trades unions of New York, each| charge specific and all of them of a most serious nature. | “What began as an industrial dis-| | pute ... has degenerated into a state }of organized crime which in recent| | days includes numberless cases of} | criminal assaults, attempted assassin-| ations, acts of mayhem, outrageous | reatment of citizens, men and wom- mn, and countless felonies and mis- |demeanors,” says Walsh. | Police Also Criminal. “The crimes are committed by no- |torious criminals and_ professional }assassins, ail known to the police,” Walsh charges, and police officers, | he says, instead of stopping the viol- lence, have themselves “committed {brutal assaults upon innocent and law abiding men and women both Frank P. Walsh is an outstanding figure in American history. In ad- dition to a long and distinguished |legal career he has held among |others the position of. president of \the Kansas City Board of Civil Ser- |vice, Chairman of the Federal Com- ‘mission on Industrial Relations, joint! chairman, with ex-President Taft of ithe Wear Labor Conference Board, and representative of the people on the National War Labor Board. He was also chairman of the American . Commission on Irish Independence land in that capacity argued the case }of Ireland at the Versailles peace Walsh’s letter requests an answer TO MAYOR WALKER === POINTS OUT POLICE BRUTALITIES; MAGISTRATE ALL; FIVE GIVEN SIX MONTH TERM tight Wing Lawyer Is Aid to Judge A sto’ in Jeff morning Ewald sentenced the fir who were brot | ndignation broke loose to five orkhouse. days e During the m 2 workers all told, we { 2 men and women were being d by the magis- trate, gz greeted the decis of the Held for Contempt of Court. Incensed by this demonstration Magistrate unced that the demonstra Id be held in contempt and indiscriminately sin- gled out three men, Broday, Shuster- man and Ga an and two women who were sentenced to six months’ terms. One of them, Brody, was given an additional two months’ for | picketing, bringing his sentence up jto eight months. The only crime that jone the: s committed was | to hold a new r in his hand. MAYOR WALKER New York’s chief magistrate who Frank P.. Walsh notifies of police brutalities against the striking left wing needle workers. Showed His Colors. | After sentencing the five workers | for contempt, Magistrate Ewald, ven- {ted his spite on the other workers who followed. One girl was given 80 days, while the other women were sentenced to ten days in jail with a | choice of a $25 fine. They all chose the former. The men were given 15 days each. with no choiec of a fine. Altogether 46 women were jailed. te ” Yesterday evening-only. nine of thy- Street Cleaners Win Raise by Strike Threat | CHICAGO, (FP) June.30~-By. threateninge to strike July 1st the! 46 Oinekge © street: claynens . “aniin ©X-! bail. Most of them are mothers and tracted 6 promise of a 25 cents a day have to take care of their children. raise from the finance committee of Right Wing Assistant. the city council. They had demanded | While the workers were being sen- eo: cents. <The. new Wager be) tenced; Samuel. Markowich, counsel] $5,60 a day. ‘ |for the right wing International and former assistant. district attorney of |New York County, acted as an. un- State Prison Cases, Wait. OSSINING, N,-¥., June 30.—0f- | NOT DIE! women asked to be released on’, NEWARK BARBERS 2:2 | Seafarers’ Association and did splen- bership meeting for Wednesday, rf official prosecutor, pointing out pick- | from the mayor, buf*to date nothing did work while it lasted. The reac- tionary bureaucrats of the ADF. of L. refused it affiliation, and it passed out. Now, the Oriental seafarers are Coupled with the boycott is the walkout of officers, engineers and “(Continued on Page Two) July 6, 8:00 P. M., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourt street, to discuss the present international situation, particularly: ‘Union Recognition ‘and ‘More Pay for 1000 Men has been received from Walker. The letter in full is as follows: . : * ficial announcement is made today by officials of the state department of correction that inmates in the four state prisons and other penal insti-| ets to the magistrate. In the “contempt” cases, Ewald refused the plea of Jacob N. Mandel- baum, attorney for the strikers to completely: at the mercy of the ship- 1, ‘The attack against the So- J June 28, 1927. ermit them to «choose their own PB ping bosses. How long until all workers who participate in the trans- portation of passengers and. -com- merce on sea will join hands. for their mptual benefit? a ME wise sleuth has discovered 0 N) that the “Russian. Soviet”—the ass’s designation for the U.S.S.R.— is. or ene “the Negroes in the United ‘States for the purpose of aa hed ptt a ter P. Mills had been removed as ad- oar several 0 students are. at- ministrator at New York for “dis- tending a university in Moscow|¢iplinary reasons,” growing out of where they are being trained in the|the revelation that third degree meth- art: of $0 hip. The startling }ods had been resorted to by u “expose” appeared in ‘the Herald-|subordinates in New York on recalei- Tribu non-pure trant prisoners. te ipo mouthpiece of ‘ ¥ ‘, Calvin ¢ * * a stoolpigeon would modicum of idiocy ne- stand the ridicule usu- i EREVER «the _ onpressed raise eir voices for more liberty -or anize to take it by any feasible ins, the apologists and hired meni- : als of the oppressors immediately id Workers. ic men for the struggle for freedom. 5 highest compliment, that pald to the lic. . It praves and 2 “trast and that neither) Magazine, Alexander Bittelman; a joleries | ‘threats, the clink-| Joseph Kalar. F ry pen plank bie pe Sy Frankly and cynically the go ei. Sales , F ‘ Ms ot Purpes*’ saults upon business men, thé trade union’ bi ‘toa ae Pe hg we must meet this new a‘ as we met the previous one. between the Unite tes} us in the dark days of a month ago, : ‘and he “Britain as soon as the a i Geneva Ay A pagitiers up its stakes to destroy the lab movement of this (Continued on Page Four) the goyernment of the Soviet the government. cf ie women charged : responsiblity of keeping the on,the right road have been to : Apologize for Kicking Out Prohibition Dicks Who Used Third Degree WASHINGTON, June 30.—Deny- ing there was any “politiés” in the shake-up of prohibition enforcement personnel, prohibition commissioner Doran declared today that Maj. Ches- viet Union and preparation for a campaign for defense of the So- viet*Union. 2. The. present situation in China and the prospects for the Chinese revolution. . 8. Immediate danger of ‘war and what our Party can do to counteract it. Bring your membership cards with you. All members of the Young Workers League. are asked to attend this meeting. Seymour Lowman, assistant. secre- tary of the treasury, recently, said in a public statement that Mills had been “promoted.” Doran’s statement today was “the first official; admission that Mills had been “disciplined.” y ‘ened: first point of attack. . _ ers, expressed throuj survive. | Street, New York City. he terrific drive against: thet: ‘No sooner had we recovered from that. crisis, t cieties who were doing the dirty work of the master r against face. the organized power of) the capitalist sta i United States government in the form of indictments on char; sentences of five years and $5,000 fine or both. Those indicted are both edit Louis. Engdahl and-Wm. F. Dunne; the business manager, Bert Miller; the editor of th Ohio Mine Operators Try Open Shop. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June80.—The Ohio} Mine Operators’ «Association has galled on all its members to re- sume work in their mines July 1 on a non-union basis with a wage cut of a dollar and a half. The association assumes that it will get enough strike breakers to do this, but the union men in the district are certain that the mines will open at a loss esist Latest Attack on Daily Worker The first blow was delivered at atime when we were faced with mo: reverses. When the state courts attacked us we deemed it our duty to state frank] ers the real situation. For weeks we did not know from one/day to the next, whe ld ever again publish our paper. But the admirable loyalty of our comrades and read-” personal sacrifices to enable us to weather the storm, enabledéus to’ bi . % . » that Governor Fuller's; reprieve is ‘of; te. This t a] Fy 2 ‘ : bor movement-in the United States that is even by assaults upon such conservative unions as the building trades, that has already weak- be miners, that is playing havoc with the needle trades unidns, has met with determined, | militant resistance from but one source—the Workers (Communist) Party, In order to strike a blow at,the Party, its official English daily organ, Th 3 unbounded: fury of thepatriotie so- s in thei nd two contributors to our ¢olumns, David’ Gordon’ and. ‘ 4 i s rmment admits that we are attacked because of our as. eaucracy, attacks on the church, etc. Comrades, 0 Let every comrade that stood by ain rally to defy the forces of reaction’that are trying mtry. Send contributions at once to 33 Hast First NEWARK, N. J., June 30. — An overwhelming victory was today won by 1,000 barbers who were on strike for the past two weeks when the Master Barbers’ Association acceeded to all of their) demands, including union recognition, increase of wages and the closed shop. Besides winning a” basic «weekly rate of $35, a uniform working schedule was also agreed upon, the hours hereafter being from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. tai } One off-day every other week was also agreed upoh by the bosses’ at yesterday’s conference. Prior to the strike the average pay of the barbers was $25 weekly. “LONDON, June 20.—A number of persons have been killed’ and injured, many are homeless and enormous damage has been done to pioperty by serious floods in Southern Norway, according to a.central news dispatch ftom. Oslo today. Avalanches were orted cutting off villages, ‘i ! ? characterized e DAILY WORKER, was chosen asthe i st menacing financial f vee our er we. ‘desire to crush us, than’we nthe rry ews the attack comes fr that, on conviction ors, Comr ; Pt 4 y “if f |Hon. James J, | Wilker | |My dear Mr, Madlyor, I would respectfully call. your at- tention, as Chief Magistrate of the City to a condition of affairs now éxisting, which, in my opinion, calls for your immediate interposition and | action: 3 1. In the garment manufacturing city, there is a complete breakdown (Continued on Page Two) CITY LABOR BACK |tutions under this. bureau have now district, comprising a very large in- : | dustrial and residential area of the|” begun to decrease. (Continued on Page Five). COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TAKES UP QUESTION OF TACTICS IN BRITAIN By J. LOUIS, ENGDAHL. (Special to The DAILY WORKDR.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Mail) —Considerable attention was given the situation in Great Britain by the Plenum of the Exec- utive' Committee of the Communist International meeting here. factit was one of the three big questions before this gathering | | SAGCO, VANZETTI Union Sq. Protest On, Thurs., July 7 at 4“ Despite the fact that Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, has granted | |@ one-month stay of exécution to} Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo’ Vah-| etti, framed-up Italian .workers, the | New York City Sacco-Vanzetti Emer-| y Committee is proceeding with| its plans,for a one-hour mpnster pro- test’ st! which is schéduled for 1 ‘ STRIKE TO FREE f the representatives of the Communist Parties from a multitude of countries. The other two questions were the War Danger and Chinese Situation. 4 After calling for the setting up of,Councils of Action as in- struments of struggle, the concluding paragraph of the resolution onthe British situation declares: 3 “The Plenum believes that the Com- ~~ Tog ee munist Party of Great Britian, in this ‘4 Y diffi¢alt hour which the British and) ie ania ers 0 Be on Strike world ‘proletariat is now experiencing, | willbe able to mobilize the masses for a real active struggle against the re- actidnary government, which is now launghing an, attack on the British work€rs, the Chinese people and pre- £ i paring. new and terrible wars directed i$ ening Tues firstl¥ against the Union of Socialist eR 1 Soviet Republics.” i % — It i because the situation in Great; Ab@ut 1,000 capmakers employed in Britain ic considerably linked up with | Contracting shops are expected to go bycig 7th at 4 p. m. “| THe committee, which is the local! the P central organization directing the} Plans for the mass demonstration on ythe 7th, ii the unanimous; opinion | no great significance and has been) . } granted merely for the purpose\to al ‘low more time for the advisoty-com- } ittee to the governdr to complete | {their report. The strike conm is} ging its 26 affiliated bodies to in- | H ie Chek aefivities for the com-| demonstration” , ‘ing ! ie \ecording to plan, after the’ down- Hing of tools next "Thursday, the Strik-| ing workers will’ proceed to Union Square where the demonstrators will be addressed by prominent speakers, including William G. Thompson, coun- sel for Sacco and Vanzetti; Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Oswald Gar- rison Villard, Arturo Giovannitti, Vin- teonzo Vgcirca, and of ) ? ji « |on strike next Tuesday morning to lems facing the workers of ents ThsAT WOU waek, Chat wa agreed upon‘one year ago. At the time of the “agreement” hee tween the bosses and the union signed the Ugited States, that this resolution | shouldgcarry extreme interest to the westerm shores of the Atlantic. The War on the minority, movement: July 4926, the manufacturers were by thelabor bureaucracy. im Great) given until July of this year to put Britain now parallels the attack in the! the 40%hour Week into effect. United States of the American Ped- eration fof Labor officialdom against! that a year’s «elay was necessary to the lef€ wing and progressive ele-| allow the ‘bosses to adapt themselves ments; the anti-trade union bill con-| tofthe new methods. The left wing tains many of the vic restrictions warned that by waiting 12 months the- embodied in the American “criminal /bosges would have time to prepare to gyndicalist” laws tecently declared! fight ‘against the shortening of hours, constitutijnal by the United» States That the left wing stated the ques- Supreme Court; in both countries the | tion che cct is proven by same desperate attack against the jwhat has taken place since then. Last Soviet Union develops; both American) month the capmaker bosses of the and British imperialisms are in the nation formed a national association forefront of the attack on the Chinese to fight against the 40-hour week. revolution; both countries face a crisis, On top of that the right wing admin« in the coal industry, in both countries | istration has agreed to “standards of (Continued on Page Three) production,” ‘ « The tight’ wing at that time said a —_