The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 3

™ THE DAILY WORKER, y YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927 Page Three } Eaget ‘ ‘ 4 | | Current Events (Continued from Page One) |meantime the international protest | will continue. « * * HE New York World has gotten it- self into a nice mess for refusing to accept Heywood Broun’s articl defense in oL | What angered the _ plutocr: par- ticularly was Broun’s rete! to Harvard ty as “Hang House.” President Lowell ot vard head of the f commission that was bring in an impartial repo ease. Now Broun is going to and speak for this cause as he fit and he will have a larger audie ' MAURICE DROUHIN, who will than even the one suppiied by tk pilot the Columbia, Levine’s plane, Vorld, when it makes the return trans- * atlantic flight, ..— 4 ANFORD MAC NIDER, secretary of ‘war, ‘a | American Legion for the | made by several people of tion of Paris as a meeting * . pl . Opposition ‘LENINGRAD AND MOSCOW SUPPORT LINE OF PLENUM Totally Bankrupt in Evory Way ne meetings the Moscow the report of d the Leningrad 2 report of Com- d unanimously ted plenum e and the on of the tty. At the Party activ- Th MOSCOW, Au of one ent, out y| city, but with "Wages and Working Conditions in China | By EARL BROWDER (Continued) EERE we made special inquiries as to the exast numbers of the vari- ous. trades among the artisans. B: ives seem to be more or pproximations, but we were as- ed that the following were based upon trade union admittance (40 cents), and the monthly fee ents per.month) paid by the m s. The figures given were: Ri orkers, 1,400; Boatmen, 1,2 Tai- lors, 1,100; Dyers, 1,000; Docker 1,000; Masons, 800; Hosiery workers, 500; Shoemakers, 260; Barbers, 120; Printers, 40, ! i VU. ARTHER down the river, 150 miles, is the city of C gshu. A smaller about the same social jand economic conditions, only he: the right wing Kuomintang held pov all|é a weaving mill; two branches for two} territory controlled by Chiang Kai- silk w ing mi nd two branches|shek the trade unions a being of artisans working in scattered’ crushed, id much these gain: small shops, one of dye workers! Wiped out. It yet remains to be seen how long this condition can last. 9 ment and the other of hosiery workers. the number of artisans amounts to specifically revoluti £ th tu WEN the mil the work running at city earn an average of 50 cents per day in the big mills. When I visited the big Dee Yee mill, however, business was slack, with the result that the r ser of spin- mb dles for each work s reduced, so that they were earning 30 cents per d Dee Yee mill is the larges owned and operated, and employ ,700 workers. Like all ionary coup d to install anot there when he cr th s 100 per cent. union- ized and works under contract with the union. This contract has gained the workers the following benefits: the mills,'i other group t itis a tribute to the A fine modern’ oven these trait just outside the factory Talk About Heywood Broun Heywood Broun Homa sai se thousand present, |r and oppr trade unions.|~ _ buildia ; f formal adherence was well-known aris is supposed to be a wicked burg ern W Wage », having | is set aside for the union headquar-| of the trade union 1 5 1 | but the gallant legionnaires are not Seow me | been average|ters. Here is as up-to-date union! the rights of the workers. In as a writer for the | afraid of it. A few years back they |, es sof §7 per month (daily rates from 10| offices as could be found in the] cities the trade unions are gradu New York Wom } took comps rebate yaaa teased sweat deci the) cents to 60 cents per day, varied not ane Ee aes the|PUt surely taking over buildings New York World, i /ern city and turned it into a Sodom. | ©! Paes a ARCOM ee pematione wat toven get inion, “Pieketa:) “Uheke', ame lal noes aoninensurate with their ows - i [We are of the opinion that the swivel eee guess Re EE The erccciige oe nemo guards for the union and labor Ce ee which boasted iI chair veterans Wi experience is ‘i * a , op a ha " 's n parati 7 " 3, | Movemen’ gene y. tive nundred a Mi ‘ f s, me 2. oO ris an. y vi r e Ye a eee Betas Has : 4 oa drill; a body of 60, the personne! made in the introduction of rep- * is French workers should Sacco and | aces 0 of the opposition | manhses,_ Out of & pofel Senbersinl abeveed) a fiiree. cmUlhtien spine imeauntativastttane: unlotia din taduainia:| | asa liberal paper, Vanzetti be burned by the Massa-| before the ple on questions of the| 1 the city of 9,000, full time to this duty, being paid by | trative bodies in industry. This has|#| fair to all sid S A (64 C O chussetts executioners. |defense of the ‘ Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi Pro-| the mil already been done on the railroads || air sides. * * - [ee me ee 4 ; ©)" vinee, the reaction of Chiang Kai-| Education: Hach month the em-| running out of Hankow. | | THE only vocal effort made by the/R. showed the ideological! shek was rampant. Trade union|ployers pay $4,000 into the educa-| Everywhere the working class is| | a OM VANZETTI yl DeValera republicans on their | bankruy 3 It wholly | jeaders were in hiding, and their! tional fund of the Hupeh General} beginning to develop its own armed | | i | trance into Dail Eireann was a speech | 8pproved the de to administer | headquarters were guarded by sol-| Labor Union, to be expended for the | forces under the name of Trade | | Fi i Anthology of Verse lon the government’s finance bill de-|a strong rebuk ve warning to|diars of a “left” army to prevent| education of the textile workers. Union Pickets. The work done by | The arbitrary | livered by one of their number. He] Zinoviev and T \their destruction by soldiers of the) Hours of work: Work only six these pickets in taking Shanghai be-| A splendid collection of verse on Sacco and Vanzetti by seventeen well-known poets including: MARY CAROLYN DAVIES LUCIA TRENT | Wall Street Paper In Panama Insults | Nicaraguans More |. PANAMA, Aug. 14.—A short time ago the Panama and Herald | published an editorial of advice to Nicaraguans that for sheer wanton insult and patronizing qualities has never been excelled in Spanish Amer- }ican journalism, The article blames all Nicaragua’s woes on her “prediliction for revolu- tion” and entirely overlooking the |fact that the present Diaz govern- {ment came into power by a revolt, aided by American money and mar- | ines, calls on all Nicaraguans. to obey | its dictates, and to “regard all revo- SIEGFRIED HENRY REICH, Jr. and eight others A timely and interesting col- lection of inspiring verse, 25 Cents ey The case of Sacco and Vanzetti By FELIX “FRANKFURTER A review of all evidence in the case in a brief popular style, by a well known lawyer and professor at Har- vard. $1.00 Clothbound THE DAILY WORKER —PUB. CO.— 83 First Street—New and not as patriots.” The article winds up, “Coffee raising is better | business than revolution.” | King Ben Admits Bigamy | ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Aug. 14. — “King” Benjamin Purnell, leader of the House of David admitted that he (never divorced his first wife, An- gelina Riley, of Kentucky, whom with her baby he deserted before marry- ing “Queen” Mary. York Piiniitic Our Shiels: Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? oo H ie er % 1&3 192794! If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- row it may be too late. For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: lutionists as traitors, to be erushed, | tablish Party wu The resolution |warns that all efforts to break this | truly last attempt to make possible jan honorable retreat and approach to |the Party for the opposition cannot |be explained otherwise than deliber- jate separatism and a desire to break | with the Party. Only one member of the opposition, \Ivan Smirnoff, took part in the de- | bates on Rykov’s report. His efforts were so ridiculous that they provoked jonly laughter d indignation. | The meeting was a brilliant dem- jonst isolation of the opposition. Leningrad Approves. The meeting of the active membe |of Leningrad, after hearing Bukhar- | in’s report, refused to open debates on |the report and all voices against six| passed the resolution approving the| ions of the plenum of the Cen-} de tion of the final and absolute | |women, was paying 15 cents per day | without food; 40 per cent of ail work-| ers were unemployed. ye Kiukiang, on the Yangtsekiang, | we again found traces of modern] industries again. The principal | groups and their wages, were ascer- | tained to be as follow: | Railwaymen, 2,300 employed, | | maximum $15 month, average $10. | Chinesé-owned factories, 2,700 employed, 30 cents per day. Foreign enterprises, 2,000 em- ployed, 30 to 40 cents per day. Artisans, 20,000 employed, cents to 20 cents per day. Clerks, 3,000 employed, $3 to $10 per month. Coolies, number not given, cents per day, without food. Ix. 10 15 |tral Committee and Central Control; At Hankow, Headquarters of Nation- |Commission which was unanimously | passed the day before after lively AS aE NEOW: is the capital city of Na- |bates by the Provincial Plenum and | Control Commission. | ticipating in the meeting of the active | members advanced another draft of a resolution, containing affirmations regarding the false line of the Cen- |tral Committee and even alleged |“thermidorianist degeneration” of the | Party leaders. }ed to this utterance by stormy indig- The meeting respond-|" alist Government, tionalist China. It is the indus- | trial and commercial center of China, One of the six oppositionists par-| having the most modern industry and | developed working class of any city xcept Shanghai, which is in many re- expected, therefore, the labor move- ment here is the most highly devel- oped, There are 300,000 trade union mem- |bers in the Wuhan cities (Hankow, nation and in spite of the presidium’s| Wuchang, and Hanyang) which make }motion refused to hear the whole text} up one economic center, separated ;of the resolution, as they considered | the warning given to the opposition jas the last, and resented the resolu- jtion as a new attempt to continue | factional disruption. Appeals to Opposition. | The Leningrad organization ap- |pealed to all comrades adhering to the opposition to break with their | past and pass over into the Leninist ranks of the Party. The meeting | promised absolute support to the Cen- | tral Committee for the defense of |Party unity from separatist activity of the opposition bloc and considers | it necessary to carry on a determined | struggle against all fractionalism and all infringements of the agreement | to submit to the Party decisions. France Hums With ~ Andignation Over NATIONAL OFFICE 1113 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. Mountain ‘Naming’ | PARIS, Aug. 14.—The utmost dis- gust is being expressed here among many sections of the population at the ‘action of fascist organizations which assembled at the foot of Mount Blane, the highest peak of the Alps, and rechristened it “Mount Benito | Mussolini.” The point over which the | French reactionaries even, are exer- cised, is that the mountain is well within the French boundary, tho one slope extends over into Italy. CHICAGO, ILL. ui \ Next Number Out July 25th. It will be a combination of July-August issues. Retail price the same—25 cents. THE BEST EVER. nor Turati, who said: “The peak cannot bé inaugurated while we are standing in the valley. | You boys will christen this peak by jclimbing it and planting your flags there, just as later you will do: like- wise,for all the peaks of Italy.” This the French consider a plain provocation, .and only the latest of many. For a long time large fascist armies have been stationed on the French-Italian border, shells and rifle bullets frequently fall into French territory, and French travellers are subjected to insult. Italy is said to covet a*slice of Wrance’s mountain land, and of course, the French col- lonies in Africa. ‘ Watch for the announcement | of contents, \ REAL TIMELY ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. Cent, C The COMMUNIST a UO ML + Washington Blvd. 25 ree Year PY \ CHICAGO, ILL, ” Canada, Chicago, and Foreign countries, $2.60 a year. Sample copies on request, free. Subscribe! The fascisti were addressed by the! secretary general of the fascisti, Sig-| j only by rivers, and which we usually |mean when we speak of Hankow. | Properly, the collective name is Wu- (han. | PN order to have a definite idea of the conditions of these 800,000 | workers, it is necessary to examine in detail a few separate groups. For this purpose I have chosen the tex- tile workers, as representing those workers most thoroughly brought un- der the conditions of modern machine production; and the rickshaw and cart coolies, who are the least directly in- |fluenced by modern methods in their work. These two groups may be taken as the two extremes of the working class in Wuhan. Conditions of artisans here are much the same as elsewhere. | JHE rickshaw and cart coolies are |* very thoroughly organized. There }are 29,900 members of the union; {of these, 17,000 are public rickshaw pullers, the others being: Private | rickshaws, 3,000; carters, 5,000; car- | riages, 800; automobiles, 600; lorries, | | 1,700; bicycles, 400; car repairers, ! 700; car manutacturers, 700. | |THE basic group is the public rick- | shaw pullers, whose earnings set, the standard upon which other coolie\ | wages are set. The secretary of the| |union informed me that an extensive investigation by the union (since the union raised fares) has shown aver- age gross earnings by these men of 2,000 cash (the large copper coin is 20 cash, therefore 1U0 coppers, which were worth at that time 160 to the Chinese dollar). Out of this, the man must pay rent for the rickshaw, li- cense, tax, and “squeeze” for one or two middlemen, totaling 1100 cash (equals 55 coppers). He has left as his net earnings, on the average, 45 coppers, or 900 cash, which are worth 28 cents Chinese silver (equals 28 kopecks Russian, 14 cents American, or 7 pence English). ‘Out of this he must support him- self and family. As a result, their living conditions are unspeakably miserable and vile. ‘HE Textile Workers’ Union of ree han has 37,096 members, these fig- ures being taken from the member- ship fee records, which all pass thru one office, They are organized in 11 branches; six branches represent as many cotton spinning mills, one branch to each mill; one branch for spects a foreign city. As might be! bith a woman worker gets six weeks’ | ling rapidity. This is one of the! vacation with full pay Special rooms | great guarantees for future progress. | r vided for feeding children. are provi ‘or feeding children |GTRADILY, ed HESE workers are strongly organ- momentum the Chinese working | ized and highly disciplined. They | class is consolidating its power. As| are fully conscious of their power,| jt does so it is improving its wages | and are stu g the industry with| and working conditions. But already | a view to taking over direction of| jt fully realizes that this task in-| production. They say they know]j cludes another one, namely, the com. | production cannot be ir ed under plete reorganization of the economic present private exploitation, but] ite of China. they are sure they could increase | while at the same time cheapening | with increasing | For the Chinese workers it is no| cloth, They are moving slowly, as|longer a debatable question as to they themselves expressed it, in| Whether China shall be developed as| order not to embarrass the Na-|4 capitalist country, or whether it| tionalist government, which as yet|shall now proceed upon the road to| hesitates before the nationalization |Socialism. It is the latter path upon| of the mills, |which they have firmly set their ve feet. | Some General Observation. | ALREADY, in spite of their ter- . gees and working conditions are rible obstacles, their property and distinctly better in Canton,/misery, they have made progress | where the unions have been at work|that puts to shame the workers of | for some years. Yet even here, only|technically more advanced countries, a beginning has been made toward a|who, misled by the traitors of social living wage. In the newly conquered | democracy, hesitate before their his- territory improvements is being rap-| toric tasks, while the Chinese work-| idly made, wages having been in-jers press forward with a tenacity, a} creased 30 to 50 per cent. in the|courage, a determination, that win course of half a year, still leaving /for them the admiration of conscious | Canton in the lead, however. In the|workers all over the world. | [ATIN-AMERICA EXPECTED TO BOYCOTT U.S. GOODS AS RESULT OF SACCO-VANZETTI CASE (By Federated Press.) \If, from August 10, 1927, Latin| WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. — When! American workers and liberals refuse the state of Massachusetts, through|to touch any product marked “Made/| its executioner sends thousands of/in U. S. A.”, American trade will| volts of electricity crashing into the|drop with a suddenness which will hapless bodies of two Italian work-| jolt America’s business men for the ing men, it will not have settled the first time into a realization of the Sacco-Vanzetti case so far as Wash-| Seriousness of the Sacco-Vanzetti| ington is concerned. Not that every | case—after Sacco and Vanzetti are official in the national capital from | gone. Secretary Kellogg down would not| President Green of the American like to write “finis” on the celebrated | Federation of Labor was offered an case. But like Banquo’s ghost, the | opportunity to make a magnificent spirits of Sacco and Vanzetti will not| gesture in the Sacco-Vanzetti case down, so far as America’s foreign re-| when a committee appointed at al lationships are concerned. In fact, large workers’ meeting called at his the Sacco-Vanzetti case is merely en-| offices to ask him to bean a resolu- tering a new and far graver phase. |tion to Governor Fuller condemning | Swift messages leaped across the| his role, Green however was out of Atlantic, when Fuller’s decision was| the city. announced, warning ambassadors and| “Governor Fuller’s decision prob- ministers to redouble the guards| ably dooms Sacco and Vanzetti to about their embassies and legations. | death, but it doesn’t settle the world- And that is just the beginning of the| wide controversy as to their guilt, or) fear, of the “consciousness of guilt”) whether they had a fair trial,” ene which will write itself across the|ments the Washington News in an visage of every American diplomat) editorial appearing in all Scripps-| on foreign soil. For Europe and| Howard newspapers. Latin America are convinced through and through that the two anarchists) “What the world demanded,” con- either are innocent, or have suffered enough punishment. The first opin- ion is adamant among the ranks of) workers, liberals and intellectuals. The second conviction is held even by the most conservative foreigners, who feel if Sacco and Vanzetti are guilty, their crime was strongly political and has been expiated. European contempt of American materialism and dollar-worship will! be intensified by the murder of Mass-! achusett’s famous victims, A barrier of loathing disgust will be raised be- fore Americans, all of whom. will have been felt to have shared in the act of electrocution. But hard-faced American business men can stand/| that. That’s all in the game, they} will say with a shrug of the shoul- ders, But Mr. Babbitt is going to sit up when the Sacco-Vanzetti boycott hits his pocketbook. The boycott has been threatened for years; already it has affected American trade. ‘Particu- Jarly in Latin America will it be ser- ious. A three-cornered commercial fight of world-wide significance is being waged from Mexico to the Ar- gentine between America, Britain and Germany, with Italy and Spain minor factors. American exporters are by no means supreme in those markets, tinues the editorial, “was a new trial/ in open court, before a jury of peers of the indicted men and an impartial) judge. What it finally got from Gov-| ernor Fuller and his commission of eminent citizens was a trial jn star chamber and a public statement of a) decision based on secret. hearing of | the evidence. “Governor Fuller hasn’t helped a} vicious situation. He hasn’t vindi-| cated Judge Thayer, He hasn’t in- creased respect for the laws, the| courts and judicial procedure of | Massachusetts. The world doesn’t yet | know whether or not Sacco and Van-| zetti had a fair trial or whether they are guilty or innocent.” | | Canadian Loan Marks al |New Step in American! Penetration of Canada News that Canada is contemplating the floating here of a new American loan of $100,000,000 has caused a stir in the American money market and a hasty review of Canadian obliga- tions. Canada has internal obliga- tions amounting to $90,000,000 matur- ing here this year, and her credit rating is extremely good. 3 Henatevin tthe Gache nuance’: Su ain Will Be Last Warning. tick prison. Wages and work-| days per week but get paid for seven| fore the entrance of Chiang Kai-/™| Censorship placed dited. Pr ie | aed Mi . . | official garriso: ges and w He E - : ‘ i | By HENRY HARRISON | the government spokesman. The} The resolution considers | this deci-|ing conditions were the worst we had | 4 : A da y's work still remains 12 shek S troops is well known. Not so| | over Broun’s speeches were not understood by ten sion as the last attempt at the least seen. The artisans were receiving 10 hours minus a stop for lunch of 30/ well known, however, is the fact | per cent of the deputies. This is one| painful solution of the internal Party |to 15 cents per day; the hosiery in-| ™inutes. : . that _the same kind of bodies are | : : (aa) | kind of patriotism. struggle by a d re to es- aes Gael vike a large arte of| Protection of women: At child-| growing up everywhere with start-| articles, condemning the death decision in the Sacco-Vanzetti, case, is but one other example of the bias and prejudice of thie capitalist press, even the most “liberal.” oO EE This incident shows that the capitalist press cannot be trusted to tell truthfully and fairly the news of any important class issue, like the Sacco-Vanzetti case. S26 There is but one paper, which can be ‘fully trusted to tell:the truth of the case. That paper is the Daily Worker. a @ Our Daily Worker Army should utilize this splendid example of the real character of the © capitalist press in the drive for Five Thousand New Readers, g AE 2 ERK, Tell the story to your fellow workers and win them for the growiti®. . > Daily Worker Army.