The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1927, Page 2

‘THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK , FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927 \Britain Rivets Chains ‘On Egypt; Imperialist \Grip on Economic Life Richard Verhagen Dies; Was Party Secretary at Schenectady, New York SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 21.—Comrade Richard A hagen, Workers Party secre i at twelve noon, of inj July 8 (By Mail).—I 3 derstand the intense ed of Britain felt by Egyptians he present time and their n of the motives under: ing treatment so lavishly meted t te the puppet King Fuad in Eng- land Five years have elapsed | LONDON, to ved from a fall from a roof on wl , 1922, when, on the recommen- was helping his neighbo Mil Commission, the funeral will be held t ereignt and indepen- at two o’clock from his hor 1e Egyptian nation was Rosendale Road, Schenectady reoognized by Gr * st leaving over for further Long a Proletarian Fighter. and negotiation the four P whi form the pre- Br inued control; fighter, having security ¢ sh imperial com- ie ta the couse ations, including the Suez 1912-13 he was soc the defence of Egypt against sor, elected on ms other than Great * positien of British and n’ functionaries and resi- 1 the control of the Sudan. Strengthens Strangle-hold. te the Bhitish Govern- swept the Geo ministration into Schenectady v de a Was s@called “sociz Of that city bet and started his ca ment has r her former tical adventurerism that ce strangle hold on the cow him to congress and later t All Egyptian officers have been lieutenant-gov: ’s ch Sa Ml forcfhly ejected from control of the A. Verha- | Sudanese army, and the Sudan has gan was the leader of the so- beex placed completely under the mil- cialist fight against him itary contrél of the British rmy of occupation. An immense barrage has been oconstrueted on, the headwater: of the Blue Nile, in the inter |the British cotton growers’ syndicate, {thus controlling the flood waters of the Nile, and placing the whole eco- nomic life of Egypt entirely at the| merey of the British imperialists. | | Demands of Egyptians Resisted. | | The British Government has suc- | cessfully resisted Egypt's demand for | the establishment of a republic by| |buttressiug the unpepular King Fuad | with a fence of British bayonets; has \forbidden ZaghlwW Pasha to assume | | the premiership of the Egyptian Gov- |ernment in spite of the immense vic- |tory of the Zaghtulist party, the} |Wafd, in the last elections, and re- j}cently has succeeded in re-imposing jon Egypt the British control of her {army by the appointment of Spinks | Pasha, as Sirdar, or Commander-in- | chief ef the Egyptian army. The visit of King Fuad to England ises no benefit to Egypt, it has ned in order to shackle her | people yre firmly in their slavery jto their imperialist bosses. For ‘his trade union activity inst the powerful Western Electric Comrade Verhagen was driven from Schenectady and went to work in the steel mills at Gary, Indiana, whence he later moved his family. When the great steel strfke broke in 1919, Comrade Verhagen was in the front ranks of the fight at Gary, being a prominent mem- ber of the strike committee, dur- ing which time he also became active in the young Communist Party that ‘had just been or- ganized. When the strike was over he was blacklisted by the trust and forced by starvation out of Gary. After working in various places he finally came back to Schenectady but the General Electric never forgave him his activity of thirteen years ago so he endured a hard struggle there. In spite of all the perse- eutions he remained an undaunt- ed fighter at any post assigned him. Clerks Win Court V 5 WASHINGTON, (FP).— Seceding {members of Railway Clerks Lodge 37 of the District of Columbia must | account to the local for $1,000 in cash and the books and records which they took to form a “rump, outlaw” *or- | ganization, Trolley Car Burns. Twenty-five passengers, mostly wo- men, were routed from a Second Ave- nue trolley car which it caught fire yesterday at east 41st street, some of the passengers escaped by jumping from windows. Attractive Offers Tear fas Bombs [Anthracite Miners Will ‘Not Allow 4 Year Term Use | H 5 H | (Continued from Page One) | ll ners | ren 4 |delegation” tactics. The sentiment |was so strong against Cappellini in jthis case, that not even these mea- |sures were sufficient. | | Beat Wen With Club Won’t Talk Of Check Off. Rinaldo Cappellini in his report as president of the district took care to July 21.—State po-| avoid as much as possible mentioning nd tear gas bombs the things on which his administration on the str miners and their fam- | cannot stand criticism. He said little |ilies while the miners, their wives and | about his five year contract by which children stood along the highways to|the anthracite strike was betrayed and watch a shipment of scabs pass by. | the check-off virtually lost, along with The Renton mine of the Union Col-|the closed shop, merely stating the lieries Coal Company, where the com-|bare terms of agreement, and: briefly pany under the direction of Mr. Bart,|recounting the negotiations that led a well known labor hater is attempt-|up to it. ing to run open shop, was the scene Likes Side Issues. ild disorder when the state} The bulk of Cappellini’s speech, s came into town and without | what was not mere self praise or “soft beat the |soap” for other officials or the dele- gates, turned around the legislative program for minor improvements in c a word of warning began to men, women and children. The police used their clubs and also {or New Readers of the Daily Worker FREE With Every Annual Subscription or These valuable premiums, worth $2.50 each, can be secured to The DAILY WORKER a rawhide whip like the miners use jin the mines. Many of the children were beaten by these whi Not sat- jisfied with this they also used t }gas bombs and some of the babi |were nearly killed by the chemicals |the safety laws and for old age pen- |sions, ete. There was no call for a labor party, tho his own report showed complete defeat for the present plan |of lobbying with the old party assem- |blyman for these measures. ° Cappellini also devoted some time through payment of only $1.50 with 20 Coupons clipped from the i Newsstand Edition on 20 different days. | Offer GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) Any One of These Splendid | we.1 CAMERA Books | Each Worth $2.50 Regular Price : eee STORIES, PLAYS LRY amuel Hopkins Adams A story of the corrupt }/ regime of Harding, Hughes, Coolidge. 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All of the men with the exception | of one “Chick” Mangini who was a| ra pone eres om se the people | +, arguing for a button system to aed oe nomes and beats some W0-/ show dues payment instead of the present card tem, Instead of fore- The next morning when six men|ing the employers to take care of went on the pi line along a pub- | families of men injured in the mines, lic high » a cossack walked up to|Cappellini favors a fifty cent tax on Martin Penovschek, a picket and|the union membership for that pur- asked “Are you a picket?” hit him three times with h Twelve of the miners were taken | before a local justice of the peace} and fined twelve dollars on a charge | oe Represent 60,000. By P.H.T. The seventh biennal convention of the hard coal miners of the Wilkes- Barre-Scranton territory is in session aloo 9 * |in Town Hall, Scranton. Credentials alec » Me Scien pegs ial jwere presented totaling 400 delegates, anes Gn iagnle br hed — 'Y | representing some 60,000 members of job when’ he came, back from ‘the ©ON-| this district, seated on the basis of hes oe a biieans ditty one vote per each one hundred mem- One of the children that was beaten baie BBLS chi ine may “ey As usual, the bureaucracy indulged dent: some day, but I want to be in a lot of formalities before organ- izing the convention, their obvious purpose being to delay the transaction of business in order to permit the ad- ministration henchmen sufficient time \to mingle with the’ delegations and |line them up for the machine mea- War Is On | sures which will eome before the con- vention in the form of resolutions and pres a union miner.’ Gentlemen’s Agreement | Over State Judge Job , z . MARXIAN CLASSICS Collapses; otter ECONOMIC THEORY OF }) , no. 5 THE LEISURE CLASS | ALBANY, July 21.—The Demoerat- | hi by N, Bukharin |ic state convention will be held at Thoughtful Marxist reaa- |J| Albany in September and Jchn F. i ers will find in this book a |f| O’Brien of New York, at present a i Bees eolerlete oe ee neo IT Gudge of the Court of Appeals, will Te ha tee jhe nominated for that office. Judge ‘ + Marsian theorist of the dos: |f| O’Brien was appointed to the post by COUPON | Governor Smith some months ago. He fa 7-15-27 otter LITERATURE AND is a Democrat. & xo. 6 REVOLUTION Until a few weeks ago, it had been eee WORKER by Leon Trotsky generally expected, at least by Gov- f pala brilliant ernor Smith, that the Republicans | New York, N. Y peer Cae Tera pup would endorse Judge O’Brien so the j ” Inclosed herewith you will find _fubsion of the relation of art pelestion tee ser ua Fi amr ete tan |concerned, Then came the announce- Se aapieetoe. Offer MARX AND ENGELS, |ment by a group of Repuklican lead- | | fd No. 7 by D. Riazanov jers that th®y would oppose the en- % dollars with A striking account of the |[|dorsement of Judge O’Brien and f NEWESTANDS COUPONS hay nate vartiente tee ink |[| would have a Republican candidate j founders of scientific social- |[| for that post. Please send me Offer No. ism, by the Director of the Marx;ingels Institute. i Name .. These Offers Are Good Only Until August 31, 1927. we | — For years it has been the custom to |have both major political parties in | the state endorse the same candidate for Court of Appeals. Previously, leaders of both parties have insisted \there should be no politics in the | state’s highest tribunal. | ‘Have Paid Your Contribution to | the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? ) / also will be contained in the reports of the officers, Want Royal Power. The mest vicious piece of legisla- tion the machine wished to have adopted is the proposal to extend the _term of office from two years to four years and to revise the constitution |so that a candidate for office must |secure 25 nominations instead of the | present required five nominations. This move of Cappellini, heartily endorsed by International Secretary- | Treasurer Kennedy, is designed to create an actual monarchy insofar as the conduct of the affairs of the union |are concerned. This wove of the machine is very obvious, for it means, if the proposal \is adopted, that the present adminis- |tration would only have to stand for |“election” once in four years, and the |added difficulty of the increased nom- inayons for any aspirant for office mefns that the Cappellini gang will do everything in their power to hold on despite the anger and hatred of the membership, Judge Talks. The first day of the convention showed nothing startling. There was a speech of the Usual twaddle by | | Chicago, J. Hatch, New York dele- Upholsterers Beat Meove for Boost in Strike Assessment Lively discussion featured the third) day of the Upholsterers Union con- vention at the Hotel Cadillac when the delegates overwhelmingly de- feated a motion to increase the strike assessment from $7 to $12 a week. William Kohn, president of the union charged that the most reac- tionary forces of the’ organization wanted to have the motion passed as a means of embarrassing the ad- ministration of the union. He point- ed out that those elements preferred to prevent the development of or- ganization work of the union to sa- tisfy their own political ambitions. In the course of the debate it was brought out that at the last national convention held two years ago at gate has introduced a resolution to prevent more than fifty per cent of | | the officials of the union. being Jews. | Due to a compromise effected off the | convention floor it had never came up for a vote. Eulogize Jews. This statement acted as a bomb- shell among the delegates who one after another took the floor to ex- press their admiration for the Jew- ish race. For a short period the convention was turned into a testi- monial for the Jews. Among those who spoke during this period was delegate Hatch who apparently now wants to live down the resolution he introduced at the Chicago convention. The progressive resolutions on Russia, China, the Labor Party and others will come up. at today’s ses- sion of the convention. jis quite apparent, Judge George Maxey of Lackawanna | County, who told the delegates what wonderful men Cappellini, Lewis and John Mitclfell are. The credentials committee reported partially, showing that there is an overwhelming fake delegation and of- ficial family representation from the “peanut” locals. There were but two contests; the credentials committee will hear the contest and give recom- mendations later. Members vs. Bureaucrats. An air of tension pervades the con- vention. The division of the men on the platform and those on the floor Altho there was not much happening at the first day’s session to warrant a prediction of the ultimate outcome, it can be said that there will be many bitterly contested issues before the convention closes. The progressive wing have several exceptionally important resolutions before the convention, one dealing with support of the soft coal strike financially and otherwise by estab- lishing relief committees on a tri- district scale, another raising the is- sue of the check-off for discussion by the convention and the five year agreement (the five year sell-out), a Sacco-Vanzetti resolution, and a reso- lution calling for a national strike in support of the bitimunous miners. The report of the district tellers, re- porting on the “results of the last elec- tion” will be another bone of conten- tion between the administration and the opposition, The opposition will show how brazen and flagrant this election was stolen by the machine. The convention was in session no more than two hours the firat day. |Bengal Indians Form! Workers and Peasants) Party to Lead Masses | LONDON.—The revolt of the op-! pressed masses of Bengal has mani- fested itself in the recent uprisings of | the peasants in Barisal, Madaripur, | and other parts of Bengal. Because the majority of the Bengal | peasants (80 per cent) happen to be| Mussulmans and untouchable Hindus, | and their direct oppressoys \re chief- ly upper-class Hindus, the “upper”-| class leaders of both communities are | trying to misrepresent this healthy | spirit of the. masses of Bengal as/ communal strife, and are criminally| trying to misguide the discontented | masses in that direction. | Revolt There are many proofs that the! in Anti-Saloon Mussulman landlords (though very| few in number) are just as er cin | League Over Threat of and oppressive as the Hindu masters.| A D) Democratic Par .| What has been lacking hitherto has Ty fates ty been real working-class leadership. | 7 Pi WASHING i Put Boe ene oy zoEmied Workers'| Sphinn cre oti eee and Peasants’ Party of Bengal, with| 1. whether Wayne B. Wheeler, cenc| its clear-cut working-class program, | Tannin a » oo has supplied this much-needed leader- ship. Earl Browder, Returned | From China, Will Speak In Pittsburgh, July 25 PITTSBURGH, July 21.— Earl Browder, editor of Labor Unity, a delegate to the Pacific Labor Con- ference in Hankow this year, elected secretary of the conference, will speak at a public meeting ar- ranged by the Trade Union Edu- cational League, Monday, July 25, at Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix St., Pittsburgh. Admission is free, and everybody is welcome. aintained on the dry organization for many years, . A division of opinion has been re« vealed between Wheeler and his chi Lieutenants, Bishop James Cannon, and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton. Cannon and Barton have collabora- ted in a statement sent broadcast ‘Worker Correspondents | Reorganize in Chicago} CHICAGO, July 21.---When The {DAILY WORKER moved to New York the Chicago worker correspon- dents felt diMhemvtened. ‘Thal pub.| through the south, denying that | lication, The American, Worker Cor-| Wheeler spoke for the League when respondent was discontinued, they | he declared recently that if the did not meet with much encourage- | democrats nominated Governor Al {ment from New York. For a time| Smith, the “Dry Democrats” would} | worker correspondence from Chicago | be given an opportunity (presumably; {completely disappeared from The | by the League) to vote for a man of” |DAILY WORKER columns. But the) ‘heir choice. This was interpreted | elites struggle is still going on in| ® 2 direct threat to organize a “dry; | Chicago, the workers are still fight-|¢mocratic party,” should Smith bel ing and organizing, and the worker | Dminated. correspondents felt it their duty to| Other League officials considered) | get back on the job, back into the| the Wheeler threat as “unfortunate”; \fight. Street Nucleus 26 W. P. took|as the-League draws not a little of! upon itself the initiative to reorgan-| its support, financial as well as mor- | ize the worker correspondents. As aj al, from southern drys. beginning five comrades joined the} Wheeler is at present in Michigan. |group. They participated in the spe-| He is said to be taking treatment for cial Chicago edition of The DAILY |his health, which has been. not good WORKER. They are collecting labor) in recent months. There are rumors, news, discussing it and preparing it|impossible of confirmation, that | for the press. | Wheeler may retire before many | At every meeting of the group a| months. | discussion takes place on what is) es |news, how to get, digest and prepare| Have Paid Your Contribution to |it for the press, One of the most} ini ? |important weapons in the class | 0 Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund?, struggle is the press. The capitalists | |fully recognize this and are there-| |fore controling and directing it. The working class doeq not yet fully) understand this and therefore lacks | the proper enthusiasm in supporting its own press. A big majority of the | workers still read the capitalist press | and believe in it. It is the duty of| the worker correspondents to awaken | the masses, to interest them in their | press and to fight the influence wf | the capitalist press. The duty of the | worker correspondents is to write as | they fight! | Worker correspondents of Chicago! | Get back on the job! The labor press | needs you! Don’t be a slacker! It} is not only a duty, but also a privi-| lege to be able to WRITE AS YOU! GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem XQ (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 ent by Insyred Mail for $1.50 On Receipt of Money by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106_University Place New York City In Lots of 5 or more $1.25 each. No Charge for Postage. FIGHT! All worker correspondents who wish to join the group should send in their names and addresses to the group at 1902 W. Division St., Chicago. LONDON, July 21.—The American | | steamer Homestead is sinking near > | Mangarole, off the Malabar coast, ac- | cording to a Central News dispatch | |from Bombay. Several vessels are re- ported rushing to her assistance. | | Lloyd’s Register gives the Homestead | | as a vessel of 6861 tons, owned by the | United States Shipping Board. On April 25, the British sentinel ers’ co-operatives decided to make common cause with the Labor Party and the trade unions in the struggle against the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bills. In their decision eon- sumers’ co-operatives undertake to place their material resources at the disposal of the trade unions for this campaign. (Budenny’s March) Words and Musie Translation by E. C. Paul 5 Cents THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street, New York. Picnic In New Jersey. Next Sunday at Linwood Grove, situated between Metuchen and New Brunswick, all the Jewish progressive clubs combined into a state organiza- tion, will have their first annual pic- nic. All the proceeds will go to the re- lief and defense of the striking fur-|! riers and cloakmakers in New York City. Tickets are only 35 cents, Convention Elections Soon! Have You One of These @ ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ‘ a 4 4 t BUDE 5 192794 in Your Dues Book? ‘ : If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! See your Nucleus Secretary today. 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