The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, 'W YORK, SATURDAY, JULY ¥, 88%"? Consul Who Was 5 Shot (Chinese Trade Unions{Ousted Montana State] ‘Ask Joint Conference) |Federation Secretary) With Indian Workers WUHAN (By wall -—The fourth | just closed. A representative of the U. S. S. R./ delegation presented the congress| | with a banner in the name of the seven .million organized workers of | the U. S. S. R., and a Java delegate, Alimin, presented a banner in the name of the Pacifie Conference of Trade Unions. | The Congress adopted an appeal | to the Central Committee | Kuomintang demanding a punitive} |expedition against Chiang Kai-shek, | The Congress also made an appeal Above is William E. Chapman, U. 8./ to the workers of all countries, call- | Consul at Puerto, Mexieo, who so con-| ducted himself towards the citizens of that town that one of them shot him. 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For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: NATIONAL OFFICE i | 1113 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. <= 5)! ne emerererre AWSSISSY. CHICAGO, ILL. of the | Hangs Onto His Office} BUTTE, Mont., July 22, (FP).— | The reorganization of the Montana ederation of Labor whereby | the offices of president and ened were consolidated and Secy. E. Manson let out does not suit Siseics | who announces that he will keep his job until the end of his original term| Dec. 31. His contention is that the| convention usurped powers belonging | jby referendum to the entire member- | ship. The Montana Labor News, or-| gan of the Butte central body, pro-| |poses ditching both Manson and Pres. | Stephen Ely and putting in a new} man. French Police Raid Chinese Eastern R.R. (Continued from Page One) clared a hunger strike to protest against their unwarranted arrest and| the brutality with which they have} | been treated. | * * . Persecute Young Communist. SHANGHAI, July 22.—Recently | the persecution of the Young Com-/ munist League which commeneed| with the defection of Chiang Kai- shek, has been increased. The Young Communist League; organizations | which have been suppressed every-| where with the exception of the Pro- 4 Vince of Hupe, have to be carried jon illegally. The Young Communist} | League has at the present time 2,000 | members in Shanghai and 1,000 mem- bers in Canton. In the province of | Hupe, in particular in Wuhan itself, the League is growing steadily and) now has 8,000 members. The Young | {Communists are doing great work |amongst the youth sections of the | | Kuomintang. | The total membership © of the Young Communist League is reckoned at | | 81,000 members. There are approx-| | imately 1,000 members of the Young | Communist League in the Wuhan na- |tional army. 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Mass arrests |are also reported from the south of. |the province Hunan. Travellers ar- riving from Hunan speak of the) | growing discontent of the masses of | 'the people with the regime introduced | ‘by the renegade Chiang Kai-shek | | there. Despite all persecutions, the | activity of the Communist Party or- | ganizations in the districts under the control of Chiang Kai-shek is being | continued. ) * * * Martial Law In Canton. CANTON, July 22.—Despite the | terror of the ruling clique, the resis- tance of the working: masses to the | counter-revolution is growing. The | working masses are already com- The | trade unions have recommenced their attivity. Protest demonstrations are | being made against the persecutions lof workers, imprisonments and ex- }ecutions. Such demonstrations very often end in blood-shed as the police jand the military shoot into the |demonstrations. New strike com- mittees have been organized. The reactionaries have unsuccess- fully attempted.to dissolve the organ- ization of the Hongkong strikers | which has 40,000 members. | The authorities are using war |methods more and more in the sup- | pression ef the working class. Mar- | tial law has been declared in the }and executions are taking place. General Li Shi-shen is continuing | the struggle against Chiang Kai- |shek. At the same time he is giv- ing way to the pressure of the re- action. He has expelled the left- wing trade union leader Chen Fu-mo from the province of Kwangtung. Many trade unions have been dis- ‘solved. Delegations of workers pro- \ceeding peacefully to the Labor Bureaus to place their demands be- fore the authorities were received’ by fire from the police. There were many dead and wounded. Nanking Aids Japanese. There are 12,000 foreign troops in Tientsin. Of these 3,000 are British, 2,800 Americans, 2,700 French, 2,800 | Japanese and 1,200 Italians. The re-call of the Indian brigade in | Shanghai by the British is put down to the concern of the British author- ities at the propaganda amongst the Indian troops. The movement against Japan is growing weaker thanks to the pres- sure of the Nanking authorities in Shanghai. On the other hand the anti-Japanese movement in the south is spreading. Mass demonstrations have taken place in Canton and de- mands have been put forward for the breaking off of commercial relations with Japan. The persecution of workers in Shanghai has heen increased. Gen- | Jefferson Market Court eral Yang Hu well-known on account of the mass executions undertaken at his order in Ningpo has conducted searches on the ry of the foreign settlement w: the” assist- er GANGSTER CASES POSTPONED UNTIL COMING TUESDAY 'Diseord in 1 Right Wing Ranks Comtinues The cases of seven right wing | gangsters who have been beating fur- rier pickets haye been postponed until next Tuesday. Five of these came before Magistrate Adolph Stern in yesterday morning, and were postponed, the fothers:.were set over when they ap- | pearéd last Wednesday. The gangsters are charged with | brutally beating and cutting up four |¢YoD. active fur workers on June 24, when they were on the picket line. On Wed- nesday’s hearing, one of the gangsters had his bail withdrawn while the other had his increased from $1,500 to $7,- 500. In a statement issued yesterday the Furriers’ Unior Joint Board calls upon all members to be on the picke line Monday morning when a large demonstration will be held in the | market. Right Wing Discord. Discord within the ranks of the jtight wing of the Fur Workers’ Union is now beginning to manifest itself strongly. It is rumored that the rights are divided into four definite groups, all fighting for control of the organization. Fistie engagements between cohorts of the various groups are freqeut oc- eurrences and whenever a rank and file worker expresses himself to any | degree he is immediately beaten up and thrown out of the right wing headquarters. H. Schlissel Quits. H. Schlissel, who was appointed manager of the right wing organiza- tion when the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union was expelled, met a member of Local 25, Newark, yesterday and told him that he has quit his association with the right wing clique, being dis- gusted at their gangster tactics. He said that he would not continue to work with such men as Alex Fried and the other gangsters who are now dominant in right wing « circles. Several fur workers were thrown out of the right wing office on 27th Street, Thursday, when they went to ask Edward F. McGrady about the July raises, Winnick vs. Sorkin. Winnick and Sorkin, leading figures in right wing circles, who in the past fought together against the militant members of the Fur Workers’ Union, have come to the parting of the ways and are now bitterly combatting one another in their attempt to gain prestige in the right wing camp. In addition to the Winnick and Sorkin cliques, at least two more are in the field, while new ones appear any day. Don’t Forget the Sustaining Fund! Needle Trade Defense A group of members of the Gletz- ker Young Men’s Benevolent Associa- tion forwarded through their secre- tary Morris Torron, $15 that, they raised among themselves. They will | also take up the question of support- ing the Furriers Strike at their next meeting Arrested Women For Defense. A group of women who were ar- rested for picketing and sentenced to 15 and 30 days imprisonment, made a collection on their way to prison and raised $20. More Collections In Crotona Park Due to bad weather conditions the “yaten” in Crotona Park could not proceed with their work for the De- fense. The meeting on Sunday July 10th could not be held. But they re- fused to give up and decided to hold meetings during the week, at which $48 was collected on Wednesday and $17 on Thursday. Nathan Rubin- stein, is so active at these meetings that he has no time to go and see his sister who recently arrived from the west. THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AF EVERY MEETING! PRA TEM RR Ach a SS RCSD ance of theysecret policy. Numerous persons were arrested. Ten of these persons were executed for allged ac- tivity directed against the Nanking government. The names of those ex- ecuted are concealed by the press. In Canton the police has raided the University. Many students were arrested. Martial law has been de- clared in the town as the police de- clare that they have discovered an organization which attempts to smuggle weapons into Canton. How- ever, despite all persecutions, the revolutionary movement is growing. The town Taiseng has been be- sieged for two days by-a troop of irregulars numbering 5,000 men. . J * Suppress Harbin Union, HARBIN, July 22.—The Chief of police prohibited the activity of the Trades Council for the East China Railway district. The building of the Council was occupied on the 7th of July. The chairman and four secre- taries were arrested because they re- fused to cease work declaring that the activity of the T.U’s was per- fectly legal and that the police had no right to do as they were doing. er oe Keep Up the Sustaining Fund WASHINGTON, July 22. (FP).— Calvin Coolidge is planning on buying farm support for his third term, if need be, with a federal gift of $250,- |000,000. Persistent reports from the Black Hills, the summer capital, in- dicate that if forced to it by growing will be willing to allow a farm relief measure resembling the MeNary- Haugen bill to pass and become law. Quarter Billion Bribe. That Coolidge will be obliged to dip into the treasury for a quanter billion in the shape of a huge bribe for farm- ers’ votes is becoming more apparent as summer pogresses with reports of a bumper wheat crop and a slim corn Although the bumper crop stories make good reading for the city population, they mean bankruptcy prices for the wheat farmers who dominate the midwest from Indiana to the Rocky Mountains and from Okla- homa north to the Canadian boundary. The small corn crop, although it will end prices up, is hardly welcomed nee most of it is fed to hogs, on hich prices are still low. Another alarming indication of con- tinued farm depression is the report made public July 20 by the depart- ment of agriculture showing a decline of $600,000,000 in agricultural income in the last fiscal year. This means a drop in the rate earned on the farm- er’s capital investment from 4.3 per cént to 2.7 per cent in 1926-27. For the industry as a whole, net earnings declined from 5.2 per cent to 4.2 per cent, compared with the 13 per cent earned by corporations. The average ats What*Was COOLIDGE PLANS TO BUY FARM VOTE farm discontent, the administration) return to the farmer for the labor of himself and his family and for his management was $627. May Lose Anyway. The recent St. Paul farm confer- jence with its insistence on the Mc- | Nary-Haugen bill is believed to have east the die in forcing the president to agree to some measure of farm re- lief this winter, The Coolidge camp is desperately in need of some weapon |to knock the Lowden opposition in the | head. | Although unwilling in a non-election year to tolerate a law seeking to give the farmers a look-in on the prosper- ity enjoyed by the corporations, Cool- idge and his advisers cannot follow their own wishes in 1928. With any | appreciable opposition to his renomi- | |nation, the third term will vanish. The anti-third term tradition is held | to be so firmly rooted that only an} overwhelming demand which amounts | to “drafting” him in his party’s ser-| vice would permit Coolidge to run | again. With the farmers bought off, labor quiescent and progressive forces weak- | er than any time in the 20th century, | Coolidge may be able to put the crown | on his head for a third term. Unless| —and this is an important proviso— unless the financial and industrial forces behind the republican party de- cide that Coolidge has played his role} in tax reduction and that a “strong man” is needed now to reseue the country from the evil effects of Cool- idge’s foreign policy and his ineffec- tiveness in meeting national indus- trial problems, CLEVELAND, Ohio., July 22.— Seven workers were arrested here when police broke up a street meet- ing arranged by the Workers (Com- munist) Party in support of a strike called against a local concern by the Jewish Bakers Union. The strike was called four weeks ago ‘when Beckerman’s Bakery re- fused to renew their contract with the Bakery Drivers’ Union. The drivers struck and the bakers walked out with them. Refusal of Becker- man to sign the new contract is the opening gun in the bosses drive against the Drivers’ and Bakers’ Unions. In order to intensify their open-shop campaign the bosses are making desperate efforts to patch up the Master Bakers’ Association, which the Union succeeded in hreak- ing up some time ago. None of the other bosses have broken their ¢on- tract as yet. It is apparent’ that their attitude will depend largely on the outcome of the union’s struggle with Beckerman. For’ this reason considerable importance it attached to the present strike altho only seven men are involved. Policean Consults Employers. The first meeting of the Workers Party was held directly across the street from Beckerman’s shop. As soon as the meeting started the po- liceman on duty in front of the shop went in to consult with Beckerman, and then promptly arrested the first speaker. The speaker was released shortly and the meeting was allowed to proceed. A second meeting was ar- ranged for the following day after the meeting had proceeded over an hour and a half, a dozen cops appeared and tried to break it up by driving the crowd of 200 away. They charged into the crowd of workers several times pushing the audience away from the speakers’ stand and driving them across the street. A few min- utes after each charge, back the crowd would come in response to the speakers calls. Within 15 minutes after the police started their football tactics, the crowd had grown to 300 or more, and the police, built more for comfort than for speed, were be- ginning to sweat. They soon saw that all they were getting from their ef- forts was a lot of exercise, so they arrested the speaker, T. Johnson, Comrades Fishman and Amter fol- lowed. him on the stand only to be pulled down at once and hustled into the.patrol wagon. All three were later released on bail until their trial, fixed for August 5th. Another meeting was held later on the same corner with identical re- sults. Again the police attempted to drive away the large crowd of over 6500. When this failed they arrested the three speakers, Comrades Sadie Amter, Shafer and Hacker, as well as four workers who happened to be standing right next to the speakers’ stand. All were released on bail. The Workers Party is determined Motherly Old Lady Has No Appeal for Aimee’s Congregation; Revolts LOS ANGELES, July 22.—An ul- timatum, virtually demanding the ousting of Mrs. Minnie Kennedy from Angelus Temple, was issued here to- day when 200 members of the insur- gent group of the four square con- gregation signed a petition calling upon Aimee Semple McPherson to re- turn. Mrs. Kennedy is the evangel- ist’s mother, THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING! CLEVELAND POLICE ARREST MANY WORKERS | AT BIDDING OF STRUCK BAKERY BOSSES to continue the fight for the striking | bakers, and to definitely establish the | right of free speech in Cleveland, al right which is apparently abolished by the police at a nod from one bosses. Drive for Slave Labor Backed by Conscription | Bill in British Africa KENYA, (By Mail).—A Conscrip- tion Bill has been introduced here which makes military service com- pulsory for every white man, and does away with the oath of allegi- ance, | Forcing Native Labor. The great problem of the white | settlers in Kenya, Tanganyika, an Rhodesia is to obtain a constant sup- ply of cheap (or free) labor for the developing of big plantations. This means that land is to be taken from} the natives so that they may be forced | | to work for the white men and the| whole of East Africa turned into a great slave plantation. This point of view is expressed in a speech by a member of the Legis- lative Assembly in Rhodesia, who de- | clared: “They could not get a labor- | ing class out of landowners. Every | native in the country was a land-| owner and had no real necessity to go} and work. Raising the tax was no remedy, because that merely made the native produce more in competi- tion with the white men. | “Tn this district they were employ- ers of labor. In other countries they got their labor from the landless men, but here they had no landless | men. The man who made the best use of the land was the man who} had the right to it, and the white man did n@ conquer the country for the) benefit of the native but for him-| self.” This is the outlook of the white} planters in East Africa, In Rho-| desia these white men, a mere hand- | ful of the population, have secured | for themselves “self-government,” | that is, the right of unhampered ex- | ploitation of the natives; Kenya and | SAnRe a are now seoking the | same, and we may soon see a federa- tion of “independent” slave States in| East Africa. | Fear Labor Government. | Whale these people fear most is possible“ interference from a Labor Government in England, The Conscription Bill has now been read a second time, the missionary representative of native interests vot- ing for it. There is no question of the unarmed natives rising, and that the measure is intended solely to en- able the armed planters to resist in- terference by an enlightened anti- slavery Government in England is clearly hinted in a petition to the! King organized by opponents of the Bill. The petition reads: “The petition- ers further submit to your Majesty that the Bill now offered deliberately excludes the oath of allegiance to your Majesty. The petitioners have every reason to know that this has been done so that the military or- ganization the Bill creates may be available untrammelled by the penal- ties of military law in the event of certain contingencies well known to your Majesty’s Government.” The inference is clear: native Jabor is to be forced to work for the plan- ters. If the home Government, es- pecially a Labor ,Government, at- tempts to interfere with the robbery and extortion involved, the planters will resist by force of arms. 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