The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 1

SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI! q ALL NEW YORK WORKERS DOWN TOOLS be : JULY 7AT4P. M. DEMONSTRATE AT UNION SQUARE, COOPER UNION, WEBSTER HALL | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 147, Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. ATS off to Alexander Rercusias| the international white hopeful! He} believes that the “arly..downfall -of| the U. S. S. R. ison the agenda. If he hed not believed this for several years people might think he was full of vogka, but when a man exhibits signsof political derangement for| severd! years something else must be thé matter. Alex has made more, Pfedictions of a similar nature than! any man living or dead with the ex- ception of Grand Duke Nicholas and William J. Burns, author of the| famous interviews on the Wall Street |. explosion. * * | Ns aa spent four m as the guest of a New triet attor the socialist part chambers of commerce and the ican Federation of Labor. He deliy-| ered the goods, That is, he told those, lads what'they wanted to hear, in re- | turn for their coin. The Czarist emigres: have little else to buoy up their courage in these dark days ex- cept false hopes. It is the duty of the more mentally agile among them to’ furnish the dope. In the United States, the offi of the A. F. of Le fear that the militants in t unions ied by the ¢ § progressives in gencral may them out into the cold. It is con- soling to learn from an authority like) Kerensky that “Communism will come * much sooner on Mars in the United States.” VIDENTLY Kerensky has not suc- ceeded in convincing the Unite States government that the revolution will take place in Mars be- fore it bestows its ¥le: workers of this cow government authoriti* euld not be so anxious to pu*_The WAEFLY WC 8 ER out of bus AS fi \Conference Probably to ‘duly reported by “Admiral SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 U, §. DELEGATION AT GENEVA READY WITH ULTIMATUM Break Down Soon GENEVA, July 4.—The American delegation to the “disarmament” con- ference is utilizing the holidays in| preparation of what in plain language | would be called an ultimatum, to/ England, that unless the latter’s| i program is modified im-) , the United States will em-| kK on an armament race, with un-j; mited building of cruisers and prob-| ably of battleships also. | including the highly skepti- C ch “observers” see this as the real reason for the existence of} the conference. That is, impossible conditions will be laid down to the British and Japanese, and when the conference breaks up in disagree-| ment, the way will be clear for the! Coolidge administration to go before the American voters with the argu- ment: “We offered to limit navies,| and Britain and Japan will not con-| mt, therefore national security de-| mands that we build immediately and extensively.” Then, as the more or! mysterious “Admiral B’ who in the French papers all the se-| of the supposedly confidential) held among the delegates,! ‘there will be joyful activity} among munitions makers and ship yard owners.” Small Ships Advantage. The British held a conference a few ago and formulated in highest secrecy 2 program for $600,000 tons of cruisers for both Unite? States and England, all of them to displace! tnder 7,500 tons apiece. Thi, being} has) Ss another CL egy Alexandiy {4 sore! been uncomfortably ar’ cit! be, “RR ire te Ea Ob: ire MO aS MEAINly voiteck. ‘by ne yrtish* pact of the Russian’ preletarian-!deleeates, The joker, as all can see,} peasant boot on hig political posterior When he was sent flying ihto space from the Winter Palace to make room for the Bolsheviki. Kerensky is human, hence we understand the rea- son for his chronic emission of bile. Being grateful for small mercies we note with pleasure that he has left the country as a first class passenger on the Homeric, no doubt at the ex- pense of members of the American bourgeoisie who would like to see this parasite in power in Russia so that they would have access to the im- mense wealth that is awaiting ex- ploitation in that country to the great profit of the exploiters. * * Eds EAS Mrs. Florence Kelley sup- | ported legislation for the protec- tion of children and mothers, the D.) A, R. (Daughters of the American} Revolution) has issued a savage at- | tack on her thru a paper called “The | Common Enemy.” Those old hussies | whose minds are as light as :. whiff) of cigarette smoke, have not the in-| telligence to understand what Mrs. | Kelley and people like her stand for.! In fact Mrs. Kelley is a perfectly good | and harmless liberal, good because she | means well, and harmless for the rea- | son that her efforts to chisel off the | rough. edges of capitalism are as in-| effective as an attempt to change the | character of the savage leopard by! clipping his claws. | * * > | be | RK one respect this country is the most Jawless in the world; in other | respects the most orderly. There is! of Pennsylvania expects to raise by|movement. Early Tuesday morning Jess heckling at public meetings in) this country than in England. This| ‘is so much so, that when heckling in-| jcidents take place, even such a well-| ‘balanced and restrained organization las the Civil Liberties Union trembles | for the right of free speech. In Eng-| land, cabinet ministers are lucky if) decomposed tomatoes and cabbages lare not added by way of good, measure to the vocal discord. | * * * | ERMANY had a reputation for, other virtues besides efficiency. | compared to the volatile Latins, the! ‘eutons were supposed to be staid and orderly. But if this was true of the| past it certainly is not true of the} present. At a recent session of the russian diet, Communists, socialists | hnd nationalists, mopped a_ beer-| soaked floor with each other. Had ‘his happened in ‘the United States! vongress it would provide headline. naterial for a week. “You are a do-| tile people” said Lord Northcliffe, as! e looked thru a lower Broadway win-! low at American conscripts marching | lown to the boat on their way to france in 1917, to fight~for Wall | street and the British Empire. | * * * HE new dry chief for the New York district promises to use a re- ‘trained and discreet mop. He will (Continued on Page Three) is that the large number of small) cruisers asked for, gives England, ' with her abundance of fueling and naval stations, an enormous advan- tage, since neither the United States! nor Japan can send such small ships far enough to do much damage to} the widespread British empire. | U. 8. For Big Ones. | On the other hand, the American! osal for only $800,000 tons of} uisers with an upper limit of 10,000 tons will enable the United States to} compete equally with England any-| where in the beginning of the war, and give time for the superior eco-| nomic power of the Americans to out-/| build England during the early! months of the conflict. | Both these proposals are, for home consumption, disguised as economy. Britain says, “Why build large cruis- | ers—you don’t need big ships to} crush colonial rebellions.” | Hugh Gibson, head of the Ameri-| caan delegation says, “Great Britain is playing a dangerous game—pro- posing to build twice as many ships! as the United States desires” and his | experts will present the British with | a threat to declare all limits off and| build in open rivalry to England. To-| morrow will probably bring the con- clusive clash, | U. of P. Raises Cash. | PHILADELPHIA, July 4.—Over | $9,000,000 already has been obtained | by the University of the $45,000,000 | endowment fund which the University 1940, it has just been announced. | SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI! Riffians Fight Spain On Continuous Battle | Front Across Morocco MADRID, July 4.—In spite of the severe censorship that stops all news out of Morocco, which |) Primo Di Rivera has several times |} recently declared, “completely sub- dued,” a war office dispatch just issued betrays that the country is so far from submission that a bat- tle line stretches across the coun- try thru Yebals and Gomara reg- ions. The communique was a boastful statement that “three Spanish columns had stormed and captured Bab Taza (which prev- ious statements had always treated as already in Spanish hands) and that the Riffians had lost a hun- dred prisoners and fifty dead. Spanish losses were heavy, but not enumerated, and the declaration is then made, “Spanish forces in Yebala and Gomara have effected a junction and the front now con- stitutes a continuous line.” \arranged before the jon strike. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y, uuder the act of March 3, 1878, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 per year. THE CONFERENCE AT GENEVA | Drawn by WM. GROPPER. Nothing will come of it but an armament race. Needle Workers On Street! ee { PICKET GALL BY. JOINT BOARD OF |. L.6.W. ISSUED All active members of the Interna- | tional Ladies’ Garment Workers) Union are urged to be on the picket! line this morning in a statement is- | sued by the Organization Depart- ment, Joint Board, Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union. Pointing out the open alliance of the bosses, right wing and the police, the call urges the workers to sacri- fice to the extreme to make victory possible for the workers. It reads as follows: | | “To all active cloak ang dressmak- H ers: “The occurrences of the past week} have revealed again the perplexed condition of the right wing bureauc- racy. At the behest: of the “The For- ward” and the corrupt officialdom of | the A. F. of L., more than 300 inno-| cent workers were sent to prison to serve terms ranging from ten days to eight months. Open Alliance. “An openalliance has been effected between the right wing, the bosses, Mayor Walker, Governor Smith, the city magistrates and others in an ef- fort to crush the present strike. “This fight will end only when an overwhelming victory is achieved. Be ready to sacrifice yourself, if neces- sary,, for the existence of the labor a huge picket demonstration will be shops where members of the Joint Board are now “Workers will meet at 16 West 21st Street at 7 o’clock.”—Organiza- tion Department. USSR Textile Output | * theréaslng “Rapidly: Tops Pre-War Level WASHINGTON, July 4.—Tex- tile production in the Soviet Union is eonsiderably above pre-war level, according to the Soviet Union Information Bureau. Textile production in various lines for first six months of the current fiscal year (October 1 to March 31) shows an increase ‘of from 18.6 to 34.1 per cent. The building of new factories and the use of new equipment is respon- sible for the increase. For the same period the output of cotton cloth amounted to 1,198,- 900 meters, while the output of woolen cloth reached the total of 42,288 meters. Four Hurt As Ferry Crashes Into Pier Pandemonium reigned among the two thousand passangers on the Stat- en Island ferryboat American Legion Sunday night when the ferryboat, swept on by a flood tide and a wind, crashed into the floating bridge on | Market Court when they meted out} the end of its slip. Twenty feet of the floating bridge were crumpled Failure on the part of its captain, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents POLAND, TORY PUPPET, PREPARES | NEW ATTACK ON USSR; COMMANDS TROOPS, “BE READY FOR ACTION” Soviet Boycott Hits Britain; Obtain German Credit; Moscow Celebrates Defense Week MOSCOW, July 4.—The danger of a British attack on the SC Polish Chamber of Deputies des in Poland. f Officers of the Polish Reserve, the manifesto states, have been ordered to complete their equipment and be |ready for an urgent call to action. | “The sharpshooters” and other fascist organizations, with a total member- |ship of 250,000, have been ordered to jprepare for an “immediate emergen- }ey.” Arms and munitions factories are working at feverish speed, often on two or three shifts, the manifesto states. | Recent evidence submitted at the | trials of captured white guard bandits | | proved that monarchists and British! spies have long used Polish territory as a base for action against the Soviet Union. The Pilsudski regime has openly encouraged Ukrainian | white guard bandits, according to aj} statement recently issued by a promi-| nent member of the Polish Chamber | of Deputies. | The leniency with which the Polish | {authorities dealt with Kowceda, the} |murderer of Voikoff, Soviet minister | |to Poland, is also regarded as evi-! dence of the openly anti-USSR policy | pursued by the Pilsudski regime. * * EXPECT BEN BOLD TO LEAD FURRIER LINE HERE TODAY Ben Gold is expected to lead this morning’s picket line in the fur dis- trict when thousafds of workers will hold one of the largest demonstra- tions since the beginning of the | strike. The furriers will show by their |mass power that all the terrorism lof the police and the right wing | gangsters can not break their fighting spirit in the struggle to advance wages and working conditions. “After Tuesday’s demonstration the ‘in spite of all the forces they have }at their disposal,” stated an active \ striker yesterday. To Be Released Today. It is hoped that today will see the release on bail of many of the strik- ers who are serving sentences rang- ing from five days to six months. The attorney for the Joint Board furriers’ union in his appeal will point out the | played by the magistrates in Jefferson |the sentences. | He will show how the attorney for |the right wing, Samuel Markowich, jat one occasion appeared as council open hostility dis-| | BERLIN, July 4.— Anglo-Soviet | trade will come to a complete stop in \the very near future, according ‘to |statements.from the Trade Conwhis- \ sary appearing in the Moscow press. | The stoppage of Anglo-Soviet trade conforms with the declaration of the Soviet Union that it would boycott Britain after the tory government had smashed the Anglo-Soviet Trade | Agreement and broken diplomatic re- lations with the Soviet Union, | Although Premier Baldwin | pressed the pious hope that trade be- |tween the USSR and Great Britain would continue after the break, the | Soviet Union expressed its intention lof boycotting Britain. The Arcos |raids proved to Soviet officials that trade with tory Britain was not a very safe business. Better Credits In U. S. A. | The Soviet Union can trade on bet- |ter terms and receive better credits {in the United States than in Great |from Germany. | Exports from the Soviet Union dur- ling the first eight months of the cur- ‘rent fiscal year are officially reported as totalling 516,000,000 rubles, while | exports for the same period last year} | amounted to only 421,000,000 rubles. {Imports dropped from 516,000,000 ex- | | Soviet Union thru its puppet, Poland, looms closer than ever with the receipt of a manifesto from the Communist faction of the ibing feverish war preparations $7,200,000 LEVY IS OPPOSED BY MANY ENGINEERS Demand For Special Convention Made (Special to the Daily Worker). CLEVELAND, July flood of telegrams from members protesting the unparalleled assessment of $7,- 200,000 placed upon them in a des- perate attempt to rescue the sinking business enterprises of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, has served to show the Inquiry Commit- tee of Ten and the convention itself that there exists a strong feeling in the organization against throwing good money after bad. Arithmetical Exercises. The membership quite evidently has USSR Boycotts Britain. | been doing some rapid exercises in |} division and multiplication. It has |been discovered in cabs and round- houses that the assessment means that-each engineer: “figuring “onthe basis of some 70,000 effectives (with | allowance for overhead of collection, ete.) will be required to kick in with | about $120. This would not be so bad if it were not for the fact that the 1 bership | has been led to believe that as a re- | sult of the activities of the self- styled financial wizards at the head the union, it would receive divi- dends instead of having to pay as- sessments. Want Special Convention. The opposition to the assessment and the deep suspicion which pre- vails among the membership since the | carefully censored disclosures have | been made, is expressing itself in the demand for a special convention. | It is felt that the membership which jis called upon to pay the bills is en- |Matthew Wolls, McGradys and the | Britain, according to statement in the | titled to a much more detailed report rest of the crowd will realize that| USSR. The Soviet Union has already | than has as yet been given as to the |they cannot break the furriers union| received a 300,000,000 mark credit | real status of the fa -flung “invest~ ments” made under t Stone-Pren- | ter leadership and which range from | an $8,000,000 venture in permanently | moist Florida real estate (called Ven- (Continued on Page Two) he |rubles for the same months last ver AIT BRITISH TAX |to 411,000,000 rubles. | * * * | Celebrate Defence Week. MOSCOW, July 4. — “Defence Week,” which began in Moscow yes-} |terday, was featured by the gradua-_ {tion of several hundred officers from John Bauman, to reverse his engines for the right wing and later told the | the Soviet War College. in time was assigned by ferry of-| court that he was the lawyer for the ficials as the cause of the crash. Alarmed by the shrieks and screams of the 2,000 passengers, police, fear- ing that the accident might be a) y serious catastrophe, assaulted report- | ers in an endeavor to suppress news | of the accident. bosses. He said the latter when he questioned the arrested pickets, try- ing to make them say things that uld result in their sentences be- ing morg severe. Twenty-eight fur pickets (Continued on Page Two) now “We Are Fighting With Our Backs to the Wall The new attack upon The DAILY WORKER with ail the force and power of the federal government, is by far the most serious threat against the existen dictment by the Federal Grand Jury backed by the Dollar Patriots of our paper. The in- opens up the perspec- tive of a long hard battle, in which The DAILY WORKER will have to enlist the ablest legal talent obtainable. The proteedings in the Federal courts are expensive in the extreme, requiriag the printing of voluminous records and data.’ The bail alone for our comrades, be- fore any sessions of the grand jury begin, will run into many thousands of dollars. The cost of the case at this time is estimated to be at least $25,000. Comrades, we have two courses open to us. We can put up little or no defense. We can allow ourselves to be meekly crushed, after the splendid fight we have waged for more than three years. We can allow our leading: comrades to go to jail, and suffer an: irreparable loss to our movement, if we do not meet the powerful attack which is being launched against us. Or on the contrary we can capitalize this attack to arouse new sympathy and loyalty to our DAILY WORKER. On the basis of this attack, we can draw in new readers and new supporters for The DAILY WORKER. Which shall it be? our case, the resources which you give for the defense, the energy and speed with which you respond to the appeal of your DAILY WORKER, will determine whether this new attack of the capitalist class will be successful or whether we shall instead turn it into a new y triumph for The DAILY WORKER, The support which you give “Defence Week” will be celebrated | thruout the rest of the Soviet Union from July 10th to July 17th, | Outlining the object of Defence !Week, M. Rykoff, chairman of the iCouncil of Peoples Commissars, de- \clared that the Soviet Union was not safe unless “our probable enemies, | brought to realize that the Red Army. {backed 100 per cent by the worker and peasant masses, is fully alive to |the danger and fully prepared to meet it, shall shrink at the last moment from odds too formidable to tackle.” Consider Moscow to Tokio Air Lin€ in Journey of 4 Days MOSCOW, July 4.—An air line, connecting Moscow and Tokio, which are 7,000 miles apart is be- {| ing contemplated here. Three Zeppelins, capable of carry- | ing thirty passengers and four If tons of mail and_ perishable !] freight, are being constructed by the Soviet Union and 1 be used | for journey. The Zeppelins will F be luxuriously equipped. The air journey, with stops, will take four days, it is calculated. The trip by train across Siberia and Manchuria takes fifteen days. BOOSTBY STRIKE: THE UP SHANGHAI Right Wing Continues Terror in Canton (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) SHANGHAI, July 4.—The Chinese taxpayers’ strike has virtually closed all of shops in the International Settlement. Although the strike has not been extended to industrial enter- prises, a large number of mills are idle. The strike was called to protest against the order of the Municipal n increased municipal 14 to 16 per cent. The nese, most of the taxes the International Settlement, ob- to being taxed by a British-con- rolled Cou a The Association of Chinese Tax- Ss has decided that if a compul- tax raise occurs again, a strike will be called pending the settlement of the question thru negotiation. * » * SHANGHAI, July 4.—Reports from Canton state that the execution of left wing labor and student leaders eon- tinues. Armed troops are patroling the streets, The anti-Japanese and anti-British |boycotts that have been organized to , |protest against the landing of * * rialist troops at Tientsin ar tung are spreading rapidly Yangtze ‘ee “im ,