The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1927, Page 2

Page Two ay THE DAILY Passaic Mills Menace Health of Workers in Other Cities Nearby NEWARK, | } \ | | | | uly 17 (FP).—Mills on the Passaic River not only drain « the health of r workers but en- danger the well being of all com- munities on the stream, Dr. R. C. Smith, chief chemist of the Passaic Valley Sewage Commission, has annquneed. Smith reported his findings to the commission that the river is rapidly’ becoming an open sewer. Samples of cloth dyed from the river after Paterson and Lodi dye mills emptied t waste into the water were shown by Smith. Al- Most 2,000,000 gallons of raw sew- age is dumped into the stream daily now and the amount is in- +-treasing, Smith declared. Oxygen cannot be found at all in some _-} parts of the river. “Fa Apologizes to Sapir: Pays Cash to End Libel: Case DETROIT, Mich., July 17. sel for Aaron Sapiro and Hen signed a of the “Cooperative King” against the “Auto King.” Ford apologizes for remarks against Sapiro in the Dearborn In- dependent, his weekly magazine, and a sum of money, the amount of which neither of the parties would make perfect, has been handed over by Ford to Sapiro. Ford, in his apology declares the charges. against Sapiro were false but blames them on the writer of the ttlement out of court yes- | terday which ends the famous libel HEDLEY T0 USE POLICE TERROR - INLR.T. STRIKE Yellow Dog Contract May Be Arbitrated Frank Hedley, president and gen-| eral manager of the Interboro Rapid Transit in a statement issued Satur- day threatened the subway workers with police terrorism in the event of a strike when he said, “The men are | employed for a definite period end-| ing April 30 1929, if molested, I am sure they will be given adequate] | police protection, if not they will see to it that the public continues to re- ceive regular service on the Inter-| | boro system.” | Last year the subway strikers were | set upon by a gang of police and | | detectives and severely beaten up as | they were coming out of a meeting the Manhattan Casino at 115th} eet and Efght Avenue. | ‘Men are working seven days a week, twelve hours a day and for as} low as 29 cents an hour”, declared | P. L. Shea of the Amalgamated As-| sociation commenting on the report | that the State Industrial Survey Com- | mission has expressed a desire to in- | quire into the situation on the I. R.| T. with regard to yellow dog con- | | tracts and general working conditions. | | The commission, which is scheduled to reconvene today, is an official | body which inquires into and reports | dustries. = | of the Amalgamated Association, said | that the I. R. T. twice admitted in the last week that the yellow dog} contract submitted to the subway workers was weak. Coleman was of | |the opinion that the Interboro’s new | method of having the “contracts”|} itnessed by notaries was an admis- CIVILIAN FLIES OVER PACIFIC eae YORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1927 TO HAWAIL HORRIBLE LIFE IN NEGRO FLOOD ~ CAMPS REVEALED WASHINGTON, (FP) July 17.— | Sharp criticism of the Red Cross {crow colored camps for flood refu- }gees in Louisiana, Mississippi and | Arkansas has forced Secretary of Commerce Hoover, in charge of flood relief, to name a colored advisory commission. Dr. Moton of Tuskegee Institute, heads the commission with two other Negro college presidents. Even Whites Object. Reports reaching Washington indi- | eate ineredible conditions in the Negro camps at Greenville, Miss., Crowley, La., and Sicily Island, La. At Green- ville 3,000 refugees are crowded into Contest in Angel City! Qld and New Agents of Daily Worker Compete! LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Near- ly 500 pieces of “Mental Dynamite” have Ween distributed weekly on the streets and other public places in Los Angeles the last few weéks. The new DAILY WORKER repre- sentative, Comrade Susman, i8 hereby challenged to do the same. If he does that, the writer promises to continue the selling of 500 pa- pers, etc.—thus making the total | weekly distribution 1,000. ATLANTA, Ga. July 17—By a decision of the state supreme court handed down yesterday, 4 wage scale ordinance recently passed by the At~ lanta City Council is declared void. Earnest Smith, right, and the plane, “City of Oakland,” on which he crossed the Pacific from San Fran- cisco to Hawaii, the first civilian flier to make the trip. With him was Emory Bronte. SLUMS OF QUEENS AND BROOKLYN T0 BE INVESTIGATED Match-Box Shacks for Thousands of Workers The thousands of cheap shingle match-box houses that line the out- on labor conditions in various in-| lying streets of Queens and Brooklyn | will be investigated by the legislative J. H. Coleman, general organizer |commissfon for the revision of the | Tenement House Act today. The investigation is a result of tes- timony recently submitted to the com) miner, was finally starved into com- mittee regarding the unsanitary and hazardous conditions of the one-story frame houses that across the East River. Enormous Slum. White Bearded Scab in Injunction Trial | (Continued from Page One) { SECRETLY DEPORT a measure of success at present. CHINESE WORKERS Not only the brute force of the utilized by the operators, who staged | their first injunction ‘hearing very | by heaven that he would take gun} i Ne in hand and protect his aged wife’s | Lawyer Gets Writ to law and of private gunmen*but also | more subtle psychological methods are | ON FLLIS ISLA ND effectively, They put on the stand} ja venerable, bearded fink who swore;Sent to Rotterdam As | right to bread before any union could Sa ae CET |tell him to starve. That little bit of| While investigations as Iowa papers and even made the na-|Seamen who had left the liner Rot- i aonal eee wires. | aeiees at Hoboken, June 28, after | * | they had been refused shore leave, | pc E eee ee Ha Te aang they) were bare | Sikes aE RIC weed Cote oe (held eaallig Teland. | mitfi eS) pemtevd ine The action of immigration officials | [Pan itera perien OR jg in allowing the removal of the sea- that he served on four different fronts | en was condemned by workers in jin the great world war, in the 134th | their interest. Congressman La- * * their | play acting got a big hand in the Status were going on, the 38 Chinese | | which is more intolerant in its lynch-| The ordinance would have put into effect scales of wages for skilled la- a small camp whose hospital facilities drew the criticism even of white doc- tors. Forty thousand refugees on the levees up and down the river, from Greenville are served from that camp. | Laborers at Greenville staged a r | volt when white overseers with x | volvers strapped to their sides intro- duced conscription. A Negro com- | mittee thought it better to avoid | trouble by using the “war volunteer” | system and advised their people to | “offer” their services rather than be | | drafted. The guns were then re- moved, Mostly Negro. | Eighty per cent of the 600,009 flood |refugees in these three southern! | states are Negro. Most of them have | lost their homes, crops and much of their live stock, Many of the younger | members of the families, aftvr help-| ing relocate their parents on the | flood-washed lands, are leaving for northern cities. The plantation system, which borders on peonage, the three months school term, the oppressive conditions under which they labor and the dom- inance of the “poor white” aristocracy That Bosses Fear and ings, mob terrorism and jim crow- | | EVERY BOOK REVIEWED | Machine Gun Battalion of the Sit suerte announced he would take the Division, and successfully resisted | incident to eee poptdee. | underlying reasons for their decision |}} gas attacks of every possible sort. | _ LaGuardia Protests. ‘to quit, for good and all, the flood- Now the cruelty of a coal compan: “This is not’ only outrageous and | »yined country. Before only a miser- mproper,” said LaGuardia, “but it! f sends him to seek his death by gas. |! . “ s jable existence could be wrung from t jis an indecent, flagrant violation of OR ADVERTISED IN The DAILY WORKER you will find at THE JIMMIE HIGGINS articles. This is as serious a re- traction as could be ected, inas-| would not hold legal water. much as Jim Reed, presidential car “Lawyers are trying with every didate and senator, defending F ord | sultelty known to their craft to de- in cougt, insisted that they were all/prive subway workers of their rights v | ism even than the employers, are the } sion that the ‘so-called agreement The area to be investigated is tak- | ing the shape of an enormous slum, | much vaster and much more danger- ous than that on the east side, ac- cording to Thomas Adams, director of | ; Sh aid all Ford def OO ihoctawNe ako os hi a he soil but now, with no hopes for BOOK SHOP Tue, 90 aid al’ the Ford defense,|as citizens,” he said. “First, these |the Regional Plan for New York and| z | Rae aw Dy the steamship company.!a crop this year, the colored popula- % and Ford himself did not object. | workers were compelled to sign the|environs. Cheap match-box houses, Masses Demand Action he’ Ellis Island officials virtually | tion will scarcely live above the star- 106 University Place The ‘suit brought out much evi-|contraet without even being shown |whose shingles are rotten and whose Against China Traitors ether ie the. kidnapping ot these | vation level. | NEW YORK. dence ‘of enormous charges made contents. Our attorneys publi¢ly |dank rooms are visible thru sagging bres sale Wee ith ial LUM ate Undo ——_—_ | : upon the farmers whom Sapiro ed the fraud and deception in this|and decaying walls will be investi- cials were investigating their status.) Keep Up the Sustaining Fund brought into his r with the truth ord’s hired writers. “cooperatives” and | (Continued from Page One) method. Now they are having the | Same contract signed over again. Can any one doubt that these are the | tactics of men bent on deception and | gated by the commission, “We have potentially the greatest slum in New York in these tremen- Pa a : dous areas of small one-family 5 jen't Forget the Sustaining Fupd!| abuse of the workers? houses,” declared Henry Wright, an attempting to destroy a at Front and Thompson Streets,|architect testifying at a previous 00 liquor distilling plart and | Stapleton, S. I, prohibition agents | hearing. 300 gallons of alcohol which they d seized i id upon a building caused a fire which damaged the Violate Building Codes. building to the extend of $15,000. | The lives of the thousands of work- Aitractive Offers | for New Readers of the Daily Worker These valuable premiums, worth \ers who live in these houses are con- | stantly endangered by the fire hazard. The solid area of clapboard and shin- gle houses violate such protection as is supposed to be afforded by the building codes, according to Mr. Wright. 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Thousands of these |shacks were erected overnight and | rented or sold on the installment plan. |Tenants in many of the houses have STORIES, PLAYS jal half finished paying their in- * stallments on the houses, en : | Bright coats of paint covering the oe pert faa Adams ‘}\cheap wooden walls deluded workers nae OEY -0f the corrupt into purchasing these match-box Contin ae nes Hughes, ‘1! houses on the installment plan. Now eerie American political life, i} |the paint has worn off and the cheap rotting walls of houses are exposed in Any One of These Splendid | Books | Each Worth $2.50 nine nntinnnennnge | for some time. Grave apprehension is felt for the existence of labor or- ganizations as the military spies and agents of the war lords have already taken action against many workers ‘organizations. The majority of the central com mittee of the Wuhan Koumintang yielding to the demands of the mil tarists and are resorting to desperat measures in face of the threats on the part of the masses of workers and peasants that aim toward fore ing decisive action against the trai- tors’ government at Nanking. It is a matter of days only, perhaps hours, when the workers organizations will be destroyed and wholesale butcher- ing of workers will set in Hankow and other cities under the Wuhan government. Military Rule Looms. There is no question that as far as Wuhan is concerned that the wavering elements of the Koumintang have gone over to the military adventurers and are subservient to the enemies |of the revolution. Tang Sheng-shi has returned from the Changsha, where he carried out frightful per- secutions of the labor organizations and Communists. He held lengthy conferences with corps commanders and also actively participated in the work of the council and political bureau of the Koumintang. Before leaving Changsha this war lord, who has been wavering between Feng and Wuhan issued orders to his troops to “prevent any troubles, even if such |The fact that Secretary of Labor) Davis was prosecuting an inquiry | | was well known to the officials at| the island. | “I look to Secretary Davis to, find |out exactly what happened. Tg hink | |that Ellis Island officials “snowed | | themselves to be used as marionettes | by a private steamship company is| e206 10 100 Saturday, July 30is PICNIC DAY lisgusting. | | While the Chinese workers were | |being secretly deported, Hugo Pol-| jlock, their attorney, was preparing affidavits preliminary to asking for a writ of habeas corpus in their be- half, and telephoned to Deputy Com- | missioner of Immigration Uhle to in-| quire if the attitude of the govern- | {ment representatives had changed. | Uhle informed Pollock that the sea- | }men had already been deported.! When Uhle was asked if he did not! |think such action highhanded, he re-| | plied, it cannot be helped.” Enveigled on Board. | The 38 workers were part of the} jerew of the liner Rotterdam, who| were hired at Rotterdam to serve in, place of sailors who went on strike. ‘They did not know until they reached ;mid-ocean that they were filling the |places of strikers, They went on | strike at Hoboken and 54 of them) |were jailed, many of them being se- | | verely beaten and held 72 hours with- MORE THAN 15,000 WORKERS will gather at the Freiheit Picnic (Includ. 50 Workers’ Organizations) 5 Workers Party Branches, 18 Workmen’s Circle Branches, 19 Workers Clubs, 6 T. U. E. L. Sections, F 2 Women’s Councils ULMER 25th AVENUE, PARK BROOKLYN out permission to see counsel. Six-) |teen of the men were recently re- | turned to Rotterdam, | * * * Dancing Refreshments Workers’ Sports GENERAL MERRY-MAKING Soccer Games =000 100i J i WASHINGTON, July 17.—Fifty-| Organizations can still buy 500 tickets SS Otter ELMER GANTRY their dingy nakedness. No. 3 by Sinclair Lewis Record Fire Threatened. ietineeietrthe aku | “There is absolutely no doubt,” said tion of the hypocrisy and Mr. Wright at one of the earlier hear- ieoowee sham of the American clergy. ‘Flings of the commission, “that if a a sas a fire broke out in the southern part of ff IMPER S ‘ iad sche BOR JONES Queens and in the neighborhood of No. 4 by Eugene O’Neill and other plays Includes the popular plays seebewee “Gold” and ‘Che First Man.” PR RR RE nn Rockaway Boulevard on some night when there was a strong wind blow- ing in from the sea, it would take in the entire section. The apparatus we have available would not possibly troubles start on orders of party | three Chinese seamen, who refused to | | (Koumintang) committees. All re-|2¢t as strike-breakers on a Holland- | fusi to submit +4 order. will be | American line steamship, were heid, uma dealt with,” which means | 8 Ellis Island without legal author-| that they will be executed with the|1t¥ and in defiance of the immigra-| fiendishness characteristic semi-feudal military leaders. Betrayed Sun's Three Principles. | Department of Labor as an “accom- Tang Yen-Tai, chief of the political ™0dation” to the steampship com- department of the Wuhan army has 222Y, although burebu officials _ in | left for ‘an unknown destination, leay- | Washington admit the entire proced-_ ing a statement in which he declares. that he resigned his post because the | H Pe a! leadership of the revolution (the gration authorities, the Chinese sea- Value $125.00 for $20.00. ; Profit, of $105.00, ) | Directions: B. M. T.—West End Line to 25th Ave. Station. tion act of 1924, This was done by: of the the Bureau of Immigration of the OLS OL OL OL OO EO e200 =——10E10 Wuhan government) has abandoned the three demands of Sun Yat-Sen, ure is “informal.” ' YOUR In the eyes of Washington immi- | @ Uu CONVENTION 0 a men are plain mutineers, “likely to | STAMP ° viot and endanger life,” although § ‘. MARXIAN CLASSICS meet it, We would have, probably will have sooner or later the greatest otter ECONOMIC THEORY OF |} fire ever, in history. It will put New No.5 THE LEISURE CLASS York on record as having one more ‘ by N. Bukharin of the greatest things in the world. Thoughtful Marxist read- |} a ers will find in this book a | 3 ‘ rs iiefasoiaists Sf the mod: J Austrian Regiment Aids » fe. TI ki * written" by” the foremost {| Wienna Worker Rebels .Marxian theorist of the day. | r r (Continued from Page One) TE JRE AND Ot SAE uTIOS BERLIN, July 17.—Ytalian troops No. 6 - A 4 , hel Trotsk are concentrating near Brenner in yen preparation for an attempt to crush} Ke Mabe Gav, Rtarace eres ||| the revolt of the workers of Vieyna, ings in Russia, and a dis- |f|according to reports received here by cussion of the relation of art || the Frankfurter Gazette, ..to life. hy oh aban offer MARX AND ENGELS i ROME, July ARTE rp vaca Italy Ne. 7 by D: Rissanov is closely watching the Viennese re- A striking account of the | lives and theories und prao- | tical achievements of the founders of scientific social- ism, by the Director of the + ++e++.Marx-iingels Institute, { These Offers Are Good Only \ Until August 31, 1927. } | 1 volt and may actually intervene is in- dicated in the following statement ap- pearing in the Giornale d'Italia, semi- official fascist organ: “A small state as Austria now is, which has asked and obtained assis- tance of an international character, Italy taking a principal part in this, cannot indulge in riots, and must be watched in order to prevent their} leading to unpleasant results.” Have Paid Your Contribution to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? poe uae he considers it impossible aly cepts A by bane In) urther to follow the path whieh the |18¢t, epended : ¢n-| sure 0: ‘enerals, Will Carry a Fight. entire case. Even if the Chinese are in conan Yen-Tai wm | mutineers, and not indignant victims that te a babghees sien? bei Dacea Sof an employer's trick in hiring them | 4 =tint not give up his revolu-|to take strikers’ places without” in-| tionary work and that he will carry! forming them of the use to which! on the fight under other forms ' they were to be put, the law was vio-| Against those who would detiver China! jated on the interpretation of Wash- into the hands of her enemies and ex- | ington officials themselves. The law ploiters. In taking tais attitude the former chief of the political division. |of the army follows. the path that lis being followed b¥ thn masses of. workers and pea@ants. to the home port on the same vessel. | Accommodate Company. “But this is a very extraordinary | were pointed in their demands nos toy be quoted. “As an ac™mmodation eSANSAS CITY, Mo., duly ts triking at varied spots over a wide tothe goin . pany, we held the seamen! area, high winds last night left de- at Ellis Island. If they were allowed | Whe ae wits a dozen communities. \the freedom of the port for 60 days, | ¢ death toll variously reported at| ; ‘ i foom ‘abet to.4ah3 ‘as allowed by law, the company r bonds, or $1,000 for cach sailor. & ~~ “Both to protect ourselves against | | LADY WANTED these men gaining illegal entry and| To do light office work in a South-||to save the Holland-American line} ern City. from forfeiting so much money, we! Write Box 1, clo Daily Worker,| |held the Chinese at Ellis Island until 83 First Street, New York, N. Y.| |the company could provide trans- portation back to Holtand.” \ { requires mutineers to be taken back | ff case,” declare bureau officials, who }ht a) would have had to put up $53,000 in Kk) your unit organizer has none— your unit organizer has not sold them— your unit organizer has not sent in the money for them— your unit organizer is not pushing the sale energetically— NOTIFY THE NATIONAL OFFICE! It is the only way to finance the Convention and prevent you from losing your right to vote. Money must be sent in today—50c to the National Office - 50c to the District Office WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. SECRETARIES: Be sure to mention invoice number when mak- Fe ing payment. * oso mS0f10r10r0 om0e——0 mor 0m 10