The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1927, Page 1

ee ee — sam sh amaemnaee al vestige of “folly” from the interna- | tional labor movement. _ ernments, 4 trade union cartel carry out what- safe. | ter over with his cronies in the Na-) } to fight for more food, clothing and SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI! DOWN TOOLS TOMORROW AT 4P.™. | MONS DE TRATE AT UNION SQUARE, COOPER UNI ON, THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED 40-HOUR WEEK LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class mater at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., DY ader the act of March 3, 1878. WEE FINAL CITY EDITION ui No. 148, Current Evenis By T. J. O’FLanerry. ATTHEW WOLL. has into a fully-fledged “internation- | alist.” From now on Matty should| @xperience difficulty in working up) moral indignation over the activities of “those subversive forces that are | trying to undermine our constitution | by injecting into our social anatomy | the political poison of international-| ism.” Woll proposed the organization of a “world trade union cartel” as a counter move to the organ ion of capitalist cartels. What i . Woll getting excited about? Surely he has} not suddenly changed his position and is now in favor of international trade union unity. HERE is a nickel under the heel we suspect. Unless one examined Woll’s statement on the subject the} following excerpt from it might create the impression that Matty had gone | to the devil and was corrupted by | “Moscow gold.” Look: “The time is| here when international labor forces | should no longer be divided because | of considerations relating solely to! political theories and political gov-! Now is the time for the’ workers everywhere to rally them- selves internationally on the economic | and industrial field, rid their labor | movements of the political follies of the past and unite in improving the working conditions of the wage earn- ers the world over.” The emphasis is mine. R. WOLL is the favorite capitalist labor lieutenant on the executive | council of the A. F. of I—the favorite | of big business. Green is considered mhore or less of a dumbbell who is loyal but lacking in originality. What Woll means by “political follies” is radicalism. His object in proposing a world trade union cartel is to serve the imperialistic program of the American capitalists on.a world scale as the Pan-American Federation of Labor is designed to serve those aims in CentraPund South America. The policy of the A. F. of L, follows that of Wall Street as diligently as buz- zards follow a retreating army. OLL calls attention to the giant steel combination that was organ- ized in Europe between France, Bel- gium and Germany. The United States Steel corporation looks on this devel- opment with a cold and fishy eye. So Woll thinks it would be well for American business to have a labor auxiliary to hold the fort against the labor fakers of Europe, who are sery- ing the interests of their own. capi- talists. Woll would eliminate every eloped r It would be transformed into a gigantic lash to} whip the workers into submission to imperialism and the workers of the various sections of this trade union cartel would be used to aid the em- ploying classes of their own countries in the latter’s clashes with their for- eign rivals. Woll would have the} American section of this international ever policy Wall Street adopted in its drive for world regemony. ‘HIS is the brand of internationalism that Woll favors, It is perfectly No doubt Woll talked the mat-| tional Civic Federation. Internation- alism is a wicked thing when it means the unity of the workers of all lands shelter now and for their ultimate freedom from wage slavery. When it means class-collaboration on an inter- | national seale it is a noble idea. | 5 workers should not be fooled by | this specious plea of Woll’s for unity to improve the conditions of the | workers all the world over. The man) who plays the role of strikebreaker in the United States cannot be expected to be anything better in some other part of the world. The man who is urging the police and the courts to) use more violence against the striking | furriers and inflict severer sentences | on them cannot be other than an ene-| my of the workers. The British min- | ers have just conferred the Order of ‘| the Hobnailed Boot on Frank Hodges, | 4a capitalist tool, with a record re-| markably like that of Matthew Woll. When will the American workers do the same to the scabby Woll? OHN HAYNES HOLMES is noth-) ing if not optimistic. He thinks! loyalty to one’s country should end when that country goes to war. This is about as silly as the threatened sex strike of the feminists some years ago when the wild and woolly male was opposed to letting them play with the vote. But boys will be boys and so with Mr. Holmes’s pacifists. When the war comes, they will either go to war or to jail, sell liberty bonds or be tarred and feathered. We hasten to add that it all depends on what kind (Continued on Page Two) 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 STRIKERS RALLY BY THOUSANDS IN FURRIER MARKET Sixty More Workers to Be Tried Today Thousands of fur workers poured into the market yesterday morning and held one of the largest demon- } strations since the beginning of thej strike called to advance the wages} and working conditions of the union- | ists that have, been periled by the seab tactics of the right wing. As usual hundreds of police were} on hand eager to provoke the peace-! ful workers. Thirteen pickets were per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1927 Picket Arrests Continue \ Zl arrested and fined $8 each by Mag-) istrate Abraham Rosenbluth in Jef-| ferson Market Court. i Did Not Interfere With Traffic. Jacob M. Mandelbaum, attorney for | the strikers made the police who were | pressing the charges admit on the} witness stand that the workers were | not interfering with traffic, and that the only reason that they were taken into custody was because they were picketing. The arrested workers are Nathan Meilef, Joseph Crane, Alexander Brucker, Nathan Noodelman, Joseph| Zucker, Jacob Brafman, Dora Rub- instein, Rose Wortis, Anna Liebowitz, Reba Dorn, Dora Halpern, Rose Kuntes and Kate Talfman. Snitkin Is Lawyer. The case of the seven rig gangsters who two weeks @ tally cut up four fur pickett, was postponed until Thursday when it came up for a hearing Before Magis- teate AP esenbluth yesterday morning. Former Judge Leonard A. Snitkin, who was disbarred several years ago and later resinstated, appeared as their lawyer. It is the opinion of many close ob- servers that Snitkin will attempt to have the case squashed before it is sent to a higher court. In this way the story of the right wing practices of engaging gangsters to cut and ‘brutally beat up strikers will not be exposed to the light of day. To Give Further Evidence. At a meeting of the general strike committee held last night action was taken to give to the city authorities further proof of the unfair methods used by the police department in their arresting of pickets, when the only “crime” they are guilty of is peace- ful picketing, It was pointed out that when picketing, every means is taken not to interfere with the traffic, and in that way give the police another exeuse for arresting them. But in (Continued on Page Two) wing “I. Soviet Syndicate Signs Contract With Standard Oil for Sale of Output Contracts for selling Soviet oil to the Vacuum Oil Company and the Standard Oil Company of New York have just been arranged by V. N. Kalnin, vice president of the Soviet Naptha Syndicate who has been on a visit to this city. The oil will be marketed by the Ameri- can companies principally in the Far East. According to. the contract the Soviet syndicate will supply fuel oil to the Standard Oil Company for five years at a rate of 100,000 tons a year. The litter will pick up the products in Baku and bunker it in Turkey, Port Said, Colombo and Ceylon. The arrangement with the Vacu- um Company extends last year’s contract until 1921, and gives the firm a concession to sell Soviet oil in Egypt. ALL CHINA LABOR | All China Congress of Trade Unions} CONGRESS CLOSES DENOUNCE CHIANG General Tang Betrays Nationalists | (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) | HANKOW, July 5.—The Fourth) closed today. Representing more than nine mil- lion organized workers, a representa- tive of the Soviet Union delegation presented the Congress with a ban- ner at the closing session. The Con- gress was also presented with ban-| ners in the name of the Ked Inter- national of Labor Unions and by .a Javanese delegate in the name of the All Pacific Labor Union Congress. Ask War Against Chiang. The Congress adopted an appeal to the Central Committee of the Kuo- mintang demanding a punitive expe-! dition against Chiang Kai-shek, The Congress also adopted a resolution asking that conditions of women and child labor be bettered. An appeal to the workers of all countries, calling upon them to join in a united struggle against reac- tion, was also adopted at the»Con- ference. * * * Tang Betrays Revolution. (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) HANKOW, July 5.—General Tang Sheng-chi, who directed the Nation- alist drive along the Hankow-Peking railway in Honan Province last month, has betrayed the Nationalist Government and will join Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Chiang Kai-shek in their counter-revolutionary alli- ance, it is said. He has left Hankow for Changsha. In a counter-revolutionary télegram to the Wuhan Government, General Tang declares that he considers cor- rect the removal of all Communists from power in Hunan and recom- mended to the Wuhan Government that no Communists be put forward by the Nationalist Government for posts in the new Provincial Govern- ment or for the new committee of the Kuomintang. Declaring that he would permit “open labor unions,” Tang declares in hisy telegram that he deems it necessary to reelect their leaders. Tang Won't Punish Traitor. In conclusion General Tang states ‘that. it is “impossible” to severely punish the officers responsible for the counter-revolutionary putsch in Changsha. In his telegram to the Executive. Committee of the Kuo- mintang, Tang Sheng-chi declares: “While negotiations for a. vmited front were under way, the realiza- tion of the front became impossible and a class struggle was encouraged. Seeing that the local organization of / the Kuomintang and public organi- zations transgressed the limits of the (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS IN NEW ENGLAND PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT 10 DAILY. WORKER (Special to The D. BOSTON, Mass., July 5.—Enthusiastic support of The DAILY WORKER in its fight for its life against the forces of reaction, was shown by the workers of Massachusetts in two meetings addressed by J. Louis Engdahl, the first on Boston Commons, Sunday, and the second on July 4th, at Worcester. JAILY WORKER.) { } | t | AND WOLL WANTS VIOLENCE From Moscow, to Report at Party Meeting Tonight J. Louis Bngdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER and members of the Central Executive Committee who was present at the Executive Committee of the Comintern which has just ended in Moscow, will re- port at the membership meeting tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. on the work of the Executive relating to the interna- tional situation, danger of war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese reyolution. The meeting of the Executive Committee of the Comintern was called specifically to discuss these questions. Cur Party must now mobilize for the campaign#in*défense of the Soviet Union and against war. This meeting will be a mobilization meeting of the Party membership for this campaign. Comrade Manuel Gomez, head of the anti-imperialist. work of the Party, will also report on the gen- eral anti-imperialist work of the Party and particularly on our gam- paign in behalf of the Chinese revo- lution. Admission by membership card only. All members of the ‘Party and the Young Workers League are asked to attend’ this most important meeting. Former Dry Chief and Assistant Asked About Third Degree Tactics Former prohibition administrator Chester Mills and his former assist- ant Major August Heise were wif- nesses yesterday before a federal grand jury investigating alleged 3rd degree methods declared to have been used by Major Heise in an effort to get unwilling witnesses to testify against law violators. The inquiry is the result of testi- mony given by Edward Briggs, re- cently acquitted as a collector for alleged drafting dry agents, who charged he had been tied to-a chair and beaten o¥er the head. Save Sacco, Vanzetti! Strike Thursday, July 7 Engdal, ust Retuned | PAINTERS BEATEN ( | | | UP BY POLICEMEN AS THEY PICKET ‘Four Arrested and Held Without Bail Scores of striking painters were brutally attacked by the police yester- day when they broke up a mass pick- eting demonstraton in Brooklyn. Many of the strikers are in a serious condition while four of them who were arrested are being held without bail for arraignment today. At Ocean and Foster avenues the police were most vicious, Using their night™ sticks they struck’ left “and right, felling workers so quickly that they piled one on top of the other. When the butchery was over medical attention was necessary for many of | them. | At Brighton Beach the police again got into action slugging many work-| ers and arresting the four of them who were nearest. The picketing demonstraton was held in front of all Brooklyn jobs under the control of the employers’ association. At a meeting of the Painters’ Union held Saturday at Lorriane Hall, Broadway, Brooklyn, a motion} |was passed that those employed in| independent shops should divide their | work with the strikers, also that all those working must immediately pay their $5 tax. Those who do not pay will not be allowed to return to work Thursday morning. The meeting also went on record to continue the strike until victory is achieved. It was pointed out that the bosses are aided by the Building \ Trades Employers’ Association which jis doing its utmost to break the ' strike. | * | Refuses Injunction. Supreme Court Justice Ingraham i decided yesterday that Harry Bloom, | president of Local 1011 of the Bro-| |therhood of Painters, Decorators and | Paperhangers of America was not en- | titled to an injunction against Allen | J. Fischer and other officers of the District Council of the same organ- ization. | Bloom asked that the officers be} ‘restrained from interfering with the * * Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. MINERS’ RANK AND FILE UNITES FOR STRIKERS’ RELIEF Armed Seabs Try Terror | On Spadra Min‘rs . PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5.—Fifty eight delegates representing th four striking local unions of U W. A. District five met in conference at the Walton Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, July 1st to consider the ques- tion of raising funds for the relief of the striking miners and-their fam- ilies. The conference was called by the Miners’ Relief Conference of Al- legheny Valley, an organization con- sisting of a number of miners’ locals of Sub-district Seven, District Five U. M. W. A. Struggle More Serious. In district five the struggle be- tween the miners and the coal opera- tors is assuming a more and more serious character. Iron fences are being built by the companies thruout the district in order to protect the scabs. Evictions, shutting off of the water supply and electricity, tearing off of roofs of the houses in order to compel the miners to move, are but few instances of the bitterness with which the coal companies are carrying on their attacks against the miners’ union. It is to be expected that the struggle will last for some time. The} miners realize this and are preparing for a determined struggle to the fin- ish. Their splendid response to the call for the Relief cconference leaves no doubt that the miners are ready and are preparing for a fight until victory is won. The conference organized itself into a permanert organization to be known as “The Miners Relief Confer- ence of Western Pennsylvania,” and adopted an elaborate plan for raising and distributing of relief. The head- quarters of the relief conference are to be established in Pittsburgh. Vic- tor Kamenovich of Daisytown was elected secretary. An Executive Com- mittee of eight was elected and the District Executive Board of the U. M. W. A. District Five was asked to add a representative to this com- mittee. Appeal to A. F. of L. A resolution was adopted appealing to President Green of the A. F. of L. to levy an assessment on all mem- bers of the American Federation for the purpose of supplying the striking miners with relief. Jt was also decided to appeal to all (Continued on Page Two) Saturday Holiday Thru Hot Months Urged for Worker in Trade Unions Urging all trade union headquarters in New York to set the 5-day week example in their own offices by giv- ing their clerical workers a Saturday holiday during the hot summer months Leonard Bright, president of ‘the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants’ Union, is holding up the painters’ brotherhood as a fine ex- hibit. Clarence E. Swick, international secretary-treasurer of the painters, has notified his members through the brotherhood’s monthly journal that the 5-day week is in effect in the brotherhood’s office, as well as on construction jobs. And members are requested not to send him telegrams that would arrive on Saturday. 25 criminal proceedings pending against! certain members of the council. local offices have already met his proposal. sons to the grand jurors States.” York. By this charge the Fede: Since the gathering at Worcester, at People’s Park, was the closing demonstration of the New England Conference of Scandinavian Workers’ (Continued on Pane Three) tivity. “The defendants, continuously thru- out the period of time from March ist up to and including the date of the filing of this indictment, at the Borough of Manhattan in the Southern District of New York and within the jurisdiction of this Court, unlawfully and feloniously conspired, combined, confederated and agreed together with divers other per- commit an offense against the United Quoted from the Grand Jury Indictment, Southern District of New shows clearly its very evident purpose to pro- ceed against The DAILY WORKER on ac- count of its Communist character and ac- This should be clear proof to those who were under the impression that The DAILY WORKER was being prosecuted simply because waged to destro ery. fested by those unknown, to talism not to against labor’s We Must Meet the Conspiracy Charge it overstepped the bounds of bourgeois morality. "The present attack is part and parcel of the offensive against the entire labor’ move- ment, the offensive which is now being y the Miners’ Union, to crip- ple the Needle Trades Unions, and to shackle the labor movement with arbitration machin The persistence and viciousness mani- prosecuting the case is due to the determination of the forces of capi be defeated in their drive most militant weapon, The DAILY WORKER. -Comrades, we must show a similar deter- ral government mination. influential than you are with us. 4 We must meet the attack in such a firm manner that not only will the enemy be repulsed and defeated, but we must emerge from the battle more powerful and before. We can do this if Show that you are by your contribution to the Defense Fund. Price 3 Cents CITY WORKERS IN SACCO - VANZETTI STRIKE TOMORROW 5,000 Protest Sentence In Mexico City MEXICO CITY, July 5.—Carrying ann protesting against the threatened execution of cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 5000 Mexi- can workers today staged a demon- stration before the United States Consulate-General. The demonstration was preceded by a parade through the streets of the downtown section of the city. Attend Demonstration. In an appeal to the organized work+ ers of the city by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee calling for a junited front in the one-hour general strike and mass demonstration which \is to take place tomorrow the com- mittee says: “Friends of Sacco and Vanzetti must not be lulled to sleep by the rumor that is being cautiously circulated that Governor Fuller, in whose hands the final decision on these two mili- tant workers is placed, may commute the death sentence to one of life-long imprisonment. This rumor is being spread so that the enemies of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Keymen of America and other labor- baiting organizations, may feel out the reaction to this plan among the defenders of the two tortured work- ers. They want to know if the splen- did show of working class solidarity which has struck such heavy blows at the Massachusetts legal hierarchy. will succumb to the sop of a commu- tation. Must Be Freed. We will not rest until these heroic workers are set free and restored to their families and loved ones. Until that time the fight must be waged re- lentlessly. The workers who have by their great show of power and solidarity prevented the execution of our brave comrades must continue the fight for their liberation with greater spirit and more grim determination. The hearts of the Massachusetts executioners have not softened with kindness, and their desire to murder our comrades has not changed. They are merely seeking for new methods {of torture. Workers of New York! Do not weaken at this critical moment. Agi- tate for the immediate release of | Sacco and Vanzetti. Do not permit |the New England textile barons to bury our comrades alive in a Massa- | chusetts bastle. | Support your comrades who have | been subjected to seven years of pri- |son torture, by downing tools at 4 |o’clock sharp tomorrow. Go to Union | Square and join in the mass demon- | stration for the liberation of capitalist bloodlust.” USSR BARES NEW WHITE GUARDIST PLOT IN MOSCOW MOSCOW, July 5.—That a Russian white terrorist attempted to blow up |the headquarters of the political po- |lice on the night of June 3rd and |succeeded in killing one man and {wounding two others before she was shot by Red Army soldiers at Smol- ensk was revealed in an official com- munique issued today. The attempt to blow up the head- quarters is the latest of a series of |terrorist attacks attempted by white | guards within the last few weeks. A communique issued several weeks ago | cited dence proving that white ter- rr have attempted to assassinate Stalin, Bukharin and Krassin, A |bomb explosion in Leningrad, en- |gineered by white guards, supported, it is said by British agents, killed | more than twenty persons a short |time ago. | The plot to blow up the headquar- | by a woman terrorist named Zakhart- |chenko Shultz, who entered the Soviet | Union from Finland, After the failure \of her plot to blow up the police head- | quarters, she fled with two male com- |panions. The terrorists killed one man |and wounded two others for refusing to assist them in escape. They were finally shot by Red Army troops as they were trying to escape after the murder.