The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1927, Page 5

SOVIET OUTPUT OF OIL GAINS AS TRUSTS QUARREL Pratt to Join Teagle In London Herbert L. Pratt, president of the Standard Oil Company of New York, and next to the Rockefellers, the most powerful figure in the corpothtion, sails early Sunday for England on the Aquitania. In spite of his qlaim that he is on a vacation his departure at this time is taken to indicate that he will join the conferences being held ‘Stalin Declares Murder | Of Voikoff British - Plot To Incite European War | MOSCOW, July 28. — Joseph |Stalin, general secretary of the lexecutive committee of the All- |Union Commuffist Party, charged today that the British government instigated the assassination in| Warsaw of the Soviet minister, | | Voikoff, in order to precipitate a | | European war. || “The first open attack by the | |eonservative government of Eng- | | land against the Soviet was deliv- | | ered through the raid on the So- | | viet embassy at Peking,” wrote | | Stalin in Isvestia, organ of the! | | government. “That failed. The second pub- ! THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927 FARCE AT GENEVA SIGNAL FOR BIG NAVAL PROGRAM. London and Washington @ JAILED LEFT WING FURRIER LAUDS JOINT BOARD |Union Officials On FIGHT AND DAILY WORKER IN LETTER FROM CELL months on Welfare Island, because a scab, and who is under a sentence in which he expresses his sorrow at against reaction and lauds The DAIL labor: Dear Comrade Shapiro, Oscar Mileaf, militant left wing furrier, who is now serving six | | he is alleged to have “threatened” | of from 2% to 5 years as a result of the Mineola case, has written a letter to I, Shapiro, Joint Board leader, his inability to carry on the fight Y WORKER as an organ of militant| | “July 22, 1927. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY Their Way toUSSR: Economists Go Too With James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and the Workers Education Carnival Tickets Must Be Returned. Carnival tickets must be turned in at once to cover payment of bills in connection with the affair. Send money to 108 East 14th St. * ‘ Notice To Party Speakers, Admit Failure —— |Bureau, obtaining his passports un- All party open air meetings LONDON, July 28. — As the tri- partite naval conference today re- sumes in Geneva, the fegling here is that it will not last long. This at- titude is based upon statements of Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign min- ister, whose utterances yesterday re- vealed that the tory outfit has aban- |doned all hope of any agreement. Just a few lines to let you kno w that I am feeling fine in health.| | | There is one thing that I worry about and makes me feel that I am in jail, that is because the honest and loyal workers in the needle trades| | | are out on a bitter struggle to win an honest and loyal union, and I |am not there to do my duty. Well, you know as well as I that if it was up to me I would be with| | you all, doing my share; and I | will do my utmost for the worke | | rank and file as soon as I get my fr between Walter C. Teagle, of the New| Sec ie taeenci Ouse WA Bene when at) ne ree Renae the Rovaat eas | Chamberlain tried to soften the ef- fect of the collapse by asserting that ‘an promise the working class that I} | n the future. I will be back in the| | reedom, | Since I read The DAILY WORKER, I learned a lot about what | is going on in the working class, and by reading this paper, I gained Deterding, head of the British Royal Dutch Shell trust, the great competi- tor of the American trust, regarding the war over the question of Russian oil. Also significant is the fact that the ex-secretary of state in the Hard- ing-Coolidge administration, Charles Evans Hughes, will be in Léndon as attorney for the New York concern. May Fight Royal Duteh. The world wide economic struggle that has raged for years between the two giants of the oil world may break into open hostilities, with the whole world as witness to she recriminations the heads of the competing trusts | hurl at’ one another. Already Sir Henri Deterding has unloosed a bar- rage against the Standard of New York-Vacuum combination for enter- ing into trade relations with the Sov- iet government oil trust. It is probable that the Standard of New York will grant certain assur- ances of unlimited support to the Standard of New Jersey, the most direct competing branch of the Ameri- can trust against the British-Dutch trust, Russian Oil Output Gains. While the war rages between the expitalist trusts, the Russian fields go on constantly increasing their pro- duction. The stock exchange quétes President Solovinoff of the SdViet Naptha Syndicate as declaring that campaign of the Royal-Dutch agiikat Russian oil will be ineffective tnd that by October Russia’s oil experts will amount to 2,000,000 tons, or twice the amount of pre-war shipments. Boston Billy Gets 50 Years. James F. Monahan, alias “Boston Billy,” urbane jewel thief, was sen- tenced to half a century of hard la- ber in Sing Sing prison by County Judge Smith yesterday. Try Giant Bomber. PETERBORO, N- J. July 28-—The new giant air bomber recentlf con- structed here by the Atlantic Air eraft Corporation, was given its first tests yesterday. | | delivered in London by the raid on | | Arcos House and the breach of | | Anglo-Soviet relations. It also) | | failed. || “The third open blow was de- | )livered in Warsaw by an organiza- | | tion of murder. Voikoff’s murder || was organized by agents of the | | conservative party and was intend- | || ed for the same role as the mur- || der at Serajevo in 1914. This! | | also seems to have failed.” | Telegraphers Win Small \Raise From Arbitrators Judge Edward Owings Towne, sit- ting as arbitrator in the negotiations between International News Service, | Universal Service and United Press on the one hand, and the Commer- | cial Telegraphers’ Union on the other hand, presented yesterday his dzci- sion as to a new wage scale. Judge Towne recommended that the wages of Morse telegraphers re- main at their present level without change in any particular. He recom- mended the following scale for prin- | ter machine operators: | present proposed {Bureau points day $37.25 $40.00 ditto, night $39.75 $42.50 bureau relay points, day $37.25 $42.50 night $39.75 $45.00 New York and Chicago $2.50 dif- ferential in addition to above. overtime, day $ 875 §$ 96 overtime, night $ .975 $1.05 | Saturday night $7.25 $8.00 Local Tammany Split. | The split in the Tammany organ- |ization at Washington Heights was opened wider with the renewal of the | war between John Mara, local Tam- | many leader, and William J. Murphy, | insurgent. | Charge Municipal Graft. {| TRENTON, N. J., Jaly 28— | Charges of graft n the conduct of | the Camden municipal government were levelled in a report filed by Walter R. Darby here today. Saturday, July 30 isPICNIC DAY 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, 2 Women’ 's Councils | the British government would not ob- | ject to the United States building as many cruisers as it can between now j and 1931, when, according to the de- , cisions of the Washington conference, the whole question of naval arma- ments will be reopened. This is viewed as a mere evasion, as before 1931 the world will be aflame with war and such a confer- | ence will be out of the question. Not even the tories themselves dare look ahead to that date. They feel that | they will not be the dominating party jat that time and take the pragmatic \ attitude that any sort of patch-work | is acceptable that will enable them to hang on a bit longer. * Washington Knows Game Is Up. WASHINGTON, July 28.—No hope |for the Geneva naval conference | reaching any conclusion other than | collapse was seen here today as facts | regarding Sir Austen Chamberlain’s ; Stand reached the state department. |The assertion of the British foreign | secretary that the formulas of the | Washington naval treaties was inap- | | plicable at this time makes further | sessions of the Geneva conference al- most useless according to official ex- pressions of opinion. The raee for cruiser supremacy will be on full blast at the next ses- | sion of congress when huge approp- riations will be asked in order to | build new flocks of cruisers to extend | the tentacles of the rapacious imper- ialism of Wall Street. Pacific Relations Fight Over Chance ~OFU. S-Japan War HONOLULU, T. H., July 28.—Af- ter a bitter argument as to whether the United States and Japan were | certain to fight in the Pacifie in the near future, the Institute of Pacific Relations settled down to the usual complimentary #waddle. The Japan- ese and American delegates mutually assured each other that war was 1m- possible. Previously, however, Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt had alluded to Jap- an's population problem as certain to make treaties with that country useless unless land was afforded her for colonization, and F. W. Eggleston of Australia had shocked the Amer- ican propagandists by proposing that naval bases be abolished, thus mak- ing the U. S. navy unable to reach the Philippines. Eggleston stay in their home waters, little dan- ger of war existed in the Pacific. But his words were unwelcome to the American delegation. NEW YORK OPENS | more spirit and more courage to face those rotten skunks who are mis- stated | rather frankly that if navies had to} leading the workers. I hope that all the workers realize what the right wing is doing, and as soon as the workers do, the sooner we will have an honest and loyal union. left Your everlasting | P. S. Please write to me once i | | are getting along in the strike. Right Wing Renews Its War On Cloakmakers (Continued from Page One) jand will undoubtedly be at their ma- chines again this morning. The boss | refused to yield to the right wing |pressure and discharge the four | workers who continue loyal to the | Joint Board. | Thugs Hold 28. The 28 workers who yesterday were held in the International office all day, had a similar experience | Wednesday, when 20 thugs entered the shop and forced them to go to |the right wing office. They were} |kept there all day while two of the/ | workers in the custody of gangsters | |were taken back to the shop where \the boss was made to give the thugs} {$200 for back dues. | | The needle trades market is ex-| campaign to organize the trade. Two, Trade Commission. | eited over this latest move of the} right wing. Whenever workers con- | gregated yesterday it was, the main topic of conversation. a * Chicago Right Wing In Action. CHICAGO, July 28.—A move for the expulsion of the militant ele- ments of the International Ladies’) Garment Workers’ Union is looming. The fake trial committee consist- ing of four international vice-pre: jdents and John Fitzpatrick, presi- ldent, and Ed. Nockels, secretary of \the Chicago Federation of Labor, | cross-examined I. L. Davidson, or- |ganizer, and Mr. Levine. secretary of |the Internationa] Ladies’ Garment |Workers’ Union Joint Board yester- day. Aided N. Y. Cloakmakers. was charged with was organizing the| committee of 100 to raise funds for the New York cloakmakers. Fitzpatrick and Nockels were bit- ter in their remarks. They stated) that “the Chicago Federation of} Labor will drive out every progres- {sive from Chieago, including those | who are on trial.” Nockels and Fitzpatrick are acting jas judges. Nockels asked Davidson lif he would carry out the decision of |the committee. In a brilliant speech Davidson an-| swered the accusations. His main |point was that he was working for) ja democratic trade union movement) jand on that basis he had carried out! all of his past activities. | | The main witness against the pro-| | gressives, Rappanort made the usual jery of “Moscow” and attacked the! | Trade Union Educational League bit-| I have nothing else to write, so I close this letter hoping that the wing workers will be succesful in this bitter struggle. | paper pal and comrade, OSCAR MILEAF. Let me know how things | n awhile, A F of L Accepts Paper Box Makers’ Union The Paper Box Makers’ Union’ has | been accepted as a federal union by | the American Federation of Labor.| It has been given a charter and is| now known as local 17962. | An important conference has taken | place at the office of the union, with representatives of important labor| organizations, representing employ- e who ,work, on commodities for| which paper boxes are extensively | used. The conferees pledged the full| support of their membership to the| box makers, unanimously agreed on a wide plan of organiza-| tion work. A letter signed by the| committee was drafted which the| union will send out to the entire membership. The union has been carrying on aj successful mass meetings have been held and were well attended despite charge their workers for goirg to the| | charg their workers for going to the | University of Chicago, meetings. | Carpenter Local Turns Bown Both (By Worker Correspondent.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 26. —Local 184 of the Carpenters and Joiners Union at a special meeting Davidson was questioned for over|called July 20th to vote on two réfer-| Fisher of the an hour. The main crime which he/endums sent out by the International, | policy Confer opposed both unanimously. The first, that no member can hold office or vote on wages or working | and other European countries conditions unless he has been a mem- ber for at least one year, roused the | rank and file to a high pitch of resent- ment and anger. Every member of the local present, voted against this proposal. It was hinted that next year, following such undemocratic precedents, President Hutcheson will} eall for a referendum vote on perpetu- ating himself in power, and making it impossible to put him out of office. Oppose Increases. The second proposition on the ques- tion of increasing general officers’ sal- | aries met the same fate. It was point- ed out that the General Officers are already receiving more salary than they deserve for the little work they are doing. A charge was made on the} ATTACK AGAINST | floor that the only result for the work- | terly. Jers out of the $350,000 squandered in| Trial A Farce. ;San Francisco, was the Open Shop. | Manager Levine replied. pointing|“Our General Organizers,” said one ULMER PARK lout that the trial is a joke, “The | 25th AVENUE, BROOKLYN Dancing Refreshments Workers’ Sports GENERAL MERRY-MAKING Soccer Games Organizations can still buy 500 tickets Value $125.00 for $20.00. Profit of $105.00. Directions: B. M. T.—West End Line to 25th Ave. Station. Completel Phone: Algonquin 6900 Camp Nitgedaig et y Renewed BEACON, N. Y. Renew your physical energy by spending your vacation here. Week-enders must register before leaving for camp. Campfire, Ball and Games, Concerts, Hikes, NEW YORK OFFICE: 69 5th AVE. xcursions, etc. Camp: Phone; Beacon 731 _——————————————————————— SSS 7 THE WAR DANGER |. New York’s campaign against “The |War Danger” got under way Wed- \nesday night with an enthusiastic |mass meeting held at Bryant Hall, | Sixth ave. and 42nd street, under the \direction of Section 2, Workers’ | (Communist) Party, made up in large | part of furriers and ladies’ garment ‘workers. Other similar meetings on |a larger scale will be held as the fami develops, | “The working class of the world | is on its way to another shambles,” | said William F. Dunne, editor of The | DAILY WORKER. “The workers are not awake to the | fact that capitalists the world over }are getting ready for another war. | The danger is that they will not wake ‘up until it is too late.” | J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The | DAILY WORKER, was the second speaker. He pointed out the con- |erete evidence of an attack on the Soviet Union shown in the Royal | Dutch Shell Oil-New Jersey Stndard (Oil efforts to patch up their differ- | ences; and in the new arrests of large numbers of Communists in Germany and France. Joseph Freeman gave some of his recent experiences in the Soviet Union; and M. J. Olgin, the last speaker, rehearsed the many at- tempts at intervention that have been made by the world powers and showed that the present attack is |decision has already been agreed up-} lon,” he charged. “It is planned to} jexpel all progressive elements. It is! jintended to break up the Chicago |movement just as the New York union has been destroyed. | “The plan in the long run will not |sueceed any more in Chicago than it | will in New York.” Frame-up Election. Salvatore Ninfo, one of the right wing vice-presidents, declared that only those who support Morris Sig- man will be allowed on the ballot in the coming union election. The present trial is a result of the recent action of the General Execu- tive Board of the International stop- ping the yearly election of officials. It sent four vice presidents, Ninfo,| David Dubinsky, Mollie Friedman! and H. Krindler here. They got in touch with the Chieago Federation of | Labor, the present trial resulting. 11 Dead As Chicago Pleasure Boat Sinks CHICAGO, July 28."Eleven bodies had been recovered at 6 o’clqck from the capsized excursion boat Favorite, which went over in a storm off the municipal pier at 4 o’clock this af- | ternoon. Rescuers said the death list would reach fifteen. Many of the victims were women and children. At a local meeting of the workers} 7 speaker, “are leading the workers away from their own and towards the | bosses’ goal.” | Mitten Buys Buses. | PHILADELPHIA, July 28,—The| Mitten Management, which operates | the Philadelphia Rapid Transit, is_ about to close a deal to purchase the | Yellow Cab Company of Atlantic City. | Spend Your Vacation at || A Workers’ Co-operative SUMMER RESORT in White Rock Mts. WINGDALE, N. Y. All conveniences; all sports; hiking; fishing; rowing; swim- ming; dancing; amusements, FOR REGISTRATION AND IN- FORMATION: "Freiheit” Office 2 to 8 P. M. 185 Lexington Ave., Unity House, and Harlem Co-op. erative House, 1786 Lexington Avenue, New ‘York City, BUSSES leave Cobperative House, The boat carried excursionists be- tween the municipal pier and Lincoln | 786 Lexington Ave., cor. 111th St., Saturday at 1:30 and Fridays der difficulties the trade union dele-, called off this evening due to the gation to the Soviet Union and other! Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations. Part; European countries finally sailed on| speakers should report to the nearest the S. S. Roosevelt. The delegation meeting and prepare to speak. will study labor, industrial and poli- . ‘ : tical conditions abroad and report its | findings on its return in October. One month will be spent in Russia —as the land about whose labor movement there are the most contra- dictory reports, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Czecho- slovakia, Poland will also be visited. Accompanying Maurer are the fol- lowing trade unionists, with one or two more perhaps joining the delega- tion later: John Brophy, for 10 years presi-| dent of Dis 2, of the United Mine Workers, now a resident of Pitts- Functionaries, Section 3, Attention! Owing to the Sacco-Vanzetti pro- test demonstrations, the function- aries’ meeting of Section 3 has been postponed until Thursday, August 4th, 7 p.m. The meeting will be held at 100 West 28th Street. ° Bath Beach Affair. The Bath Beach Nucleus of the | Young Workers’ League will hold an affair August 6 at 1940 Benson Ave., Brooklyn. Labor Organizations burgh. Albert F. Coyle, for the last 4 ces years editor of the Locomotive En- Harlem, Attention! tee Rea eh All members of the Harlem Inter- ie . ", Tor several years | national Labor Defense must report editor of the Colorado Labor Advo-|at 81 Bast 110th St, 6:30 p.m. to- ca =. ' j | night, without fail—G. Ginsberg,.or- James Fitzpatrick, president of | ganizer. the White Rats, the national union of | * * * vaudeville actors, an integral ‘part of | NominaGiin> Tonight the Actors’ Equity Assn. and the} American Federation of Labor. \ While the trade unionists are in- specting labor organizations and in- dustrial plants a staff of economists} will be making broad economic svr-| veys. The economists include the fol- lowing: Stuart Chase, author of the Tra- gedy of Waste, an industrial study which the Workers Education Bur- Nominations for officers of the American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers will be held tonight 8 p. m. at the Church of All Nations. Cloak and Dressmakers Hold District Meetings In view of the approaching season _ eau uses as a text book. Chase is|im the cloak and dress industry, the also part of the Labor Bureau, Inc. Joint Board has arranged See of Some years ago he won national at.| district mass meetings, the first of tion by his expose of the Packers’ | which was held last night. Other Trust, undertaken for the Federal| ™eetings are scheduled as follows: | On Tuesday, August 2nd, at 8 p. m. Guy Rexford Tugwell, a professor | there will be a meeting of all cloak of economics of Columbia University.| "4 dressmakers residing in Harlem Paul Douglass, economist of the|# Park View Palace, 110th Street | and 5th Avenue. Jerome Davis, of Yale University] On Wednesday, August 3rd, at 8 faculty. |p. m., there will be a meeting of all B. Brebner, of the economies de-| cloak and dressmakers residing in partment of Columbia. | Coney Island at Pythian Hall, 2ist J. A. Hopkins, of the Committee of | Street and Mermaid Avenue. 48. On Thursday, August 4th, at 8 p. The delegation is hastening back|m., there will be a meeting of all in October because of the press of|cloak and dressmakers residing in their private duties. Brophy, for in-| Brownsville at Hopkinson Mansion, stance, starting a labor paper in| 428 Hapkinson Avenue. Pittsburgh; Maurer, though his exe-| Louis Hyman, Chas. S. Zimmerman cutive board in Harrisburg has en-| and J. Boruchowitz will report on dorsed his tour, must also not delay| the present situation at all these his return beyond early October, as| meetings. the others likewise. | posit CHICAGO, July 28 (FP).—Atty. Clarence Darrow and Secy. 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