The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1927, Page 1

i iE DAILY WORKER rIGHTS: Fc*\ THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, 966 E DAILY Entered as serond-class matter at the Post Office at New York. }, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1927 PARIS BY SEPT. 19 a es te , wader the act of March Published Daily except Sumday by THE DAILY WORKER UBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. 3 Cents ail, $8.00 per year. year, Price Vol. IV. No. 196. PLAN scl -VANZETTI ASHES foe Events By f-J; J. O'Flaherty er, es of commerce is favored candidate of the admi tion for the G. O. P. presi mination. This she ould not su anybody. ficient tool of Ava can imper in the white house. He has Wall Street well for many years. Yet, Lowden, Dawes and others may be more adept at manipulating the po-! litical machinery than Hoover. s % * L SMITH is believed to have a good chance of winning the Democrat party nomination. His chief rival William Gibbs McAdoo is pretty well out of the picture. With Smith lead- ing the voters that follow the demo- crat banner and Hoover riding the: elephant, the financial! rulers of this country can take a trip around the world with an easy conscience know- ing that no matter which of the two loses, they will win. ers of this country seriously begin to » build a Labor Party the ruling-class- es of this country can sleep easily. { RT ce | 'UPERINTENDENT McAndrew of the Chicago school system has been temporarily ousted from his po- sition by the Thompson administra- Until the work- | § 5th Party Convention Opens Today’ “IRVING PLAZA HALL SCENE OF A-DAY MEETING Lovestone and Foster to Make Reports Business sessions of the Fifth Con- vention of the Workers (Communist) Party will begin today at,one o’clock at the Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th Street, when Jay Lovestone, acting secretary of the Party since the death of C. E. Ruthenberg in March, calls the delegates to order. The convention actually got under with the holding of the demon- ion of welcome at the Central Opera House last night. | Entire Nation Represented. i All sections of the nation will be represented at the convention by the 50 delegates, some of these coming from the states of Washington and wexcewm | California on the Pacific Coast. There | will be about 30 fraternal delegates tion. McAndrew is an extreme reac-|from various organizations. All tionary and aroused the anger of the |Party publications have been invited school teachers when he prohibited|t send fraternal delegates. o the teachers’ councils from meeting during school hours. Since he assum- ed office the teachers have had no say in determining what kind of in-|F struction should be given the chi dren. McAndrew’s discomfiture will! cause no pain to the school teachers. ee ee Loe CECIL has resigned from the} Baldwin cabinet because of disag- | reement with his colleagues over the |, It} question of naval disarmament. should not be assumed because of this that Gecil does not beiieve the Brivish Empire should have the largest navy in the world. He does. His disagree- ment with the rest of the cabinet is over method rather than a question of principle. His letter of resigna- tion, however, reveals that Great! Britain as well as the United States} and Japan did not have a serious in- terest in disarmament but were sim- ply jockeying for position. Confirma- tion of our own conviction from such an authoritative source is not to be sneezed at. ACCORDING to newspaper dispatch-| es from Martins Ferry, Ohio, the! striking miners and company gunmen are exchanging shots. Driven to des- peration by. the conduct of the strike- breakers the miners were forced to retaliate. What is John L, Lewis do- | ing or saying thosé days? There was a time in the history of the United) Mine Workers of America when the}! entire strength of that once powerful | organization would be thrown into the styuggle against the employers. Now} Lewis and-his good man “Friday” Searles, are too busy going around “exposing” radicals at chambers of commerce meetings to have any time left for fighting the miners’ battles. | ‘HE Sacco-Vanzetti trial was fair according to Attorney-General Ar- thur K. Reading of Massachusetts, | speaking in Buffalo. It was perfectly} ja! n LOWS: Acting Secretary Lovestone will make the report to the convention for »ster will report on the trade union rk of the Party. Four-day Conyéntion. will extend over four days. will be held after the first day as 10.30 to 1 o'clock; 2.30 to 5.80 o'clock; 7.30 to 10.30 o'clock. ‘Three Thousand Woke! Greet the Delegates % Three iveusand workers packed the Central Opera House, 67th Street and 83rd Avenue to greet the delegates. Referring to the inner party situa- tion, Jay Lovestone, secretary of the party said, “Never were our differ- ences so small. Never was there such a sound basis for unity. Unity is now more necessary than ever before.” & | than ever in view of the ruthless) power ‘that is being wielded by the, forces of reaction. Stresses Organization. izing the more than 25,000,000 Amer- (Continued on Page Five) ' OHIO MINE AREA; EVICTIONS GROW Wives and Dai Daughters of | Miners Fight Scabs the political committee. Wifliam Z., It is expected that the convention | Sessions | Lovestone urged greater party unity, In stressing the necessity of organ- \ ‘ADD GUNMEN FOR fair to the ruling class that wanted! . °, - | BELLAIRE, 0., (FP.) Aug. 30.— ea but if the farce was pro-!The ruthless determination of Ohio! longed for seven more years the two| mine operators to cut wages below | condemned workers would have n0/ the subsistance level is bearing fruit | more chance to escape with their lives fy in acutely strained relations in the! beri mouse who is being teased by mining camps. The lockout declared | ,on April 1 was simply the formal rec- jognition of a condition that had jexisted in some cases several years | |previous. The union scale of $7.50) a day would not be paid, the operators | lasserted, while coal was being mined | in West Virginia and Kentucky, ‘across the river, for $5 non-union. Gunmen Increase. Though some mines have remained | closed down, others have attempted | Carrying Red Flag At Union St. Meet |to resume on a non-union basis with. | strikebreakers brought from Pitts- Placido Rodriguez, a waiter who, burgh and elsewhere. These have en- was arrested Monday when the Sac- | cotintered unionists who in most cases co-Vanzetti memorial meeting in) | persuaded them by various devices to Union Square ended, was found guilty | cuit the job and clear out. There Convict Worker for \munist Party.” ‘Joint Defense Jamboree Will Jam the Starlight Park on September 3rd CHEN AND MADAM|. SUN YAT SEN ON} WAY TO Moscow (Special To Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Aug. 30.—Mme. Sun | Yat-sen and Eugene Chen, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, are on their way to Moscow via Khabarovsk. | In reply to the greetings of repre- sentatives of the Communist Party, |Chen declared, “The left wing of the | | Kuomintag has not been destroyed by | \the quarrels among the Wuhan gen- Postpone. Postpone all your hikes, outings, ete. so that you can attend the! | | Joint Defense. Jamboree. | On Saturday September 3rd in | Starlight Park Bronx. Buses will {leave Starlight Park for the vari- ous camps at the close of the af- | fair, If you want the’ militant Needle Trades workers to win the | | fight, rally to the support of this affair which is going to be the jerals. In the struggle which will de- | Bhan Re ene oeceee | velop in the very near future we will | car ‘ |be able to bring the revolution to vie-| | After the performance of ihe tory in co-operation with the Com-} | Grand Opera “Carmen,” a splendid | dinner will be served. Tickets for | the dinner may be obtained for one | | dollar from The DAILY WORKER, 108 Fast 14th St., The Freihei Eugene Chen and Mme. Sun Yat- sen left the Wuhan Government when it turned counter-revolutionary — | | ! sign o r fought the left wing elements and re-| | 30 Union Square, Jimmie Higgins fused to develop the agrarian revolu- | Book Shop, 106 University Place tion. | |} and the Joint Defens berms ghaeady | 4 ters, 41 Union | Square. UNION MEN STRIKE “CHICAGO MOVIES SUSPEND; 25,000 OPENING DAY OF AMERICAN LESION CONVENTION IS TO WITNESS GIANT: You See What I Did to Those Anarchist Bastards?—Judge Thayer WAEMORIAL RY FRENCH COMMUNISTS: | Luigia Vanzetti Plans to Sa to Sail on Cunard Liner} | Soon on Return to Italy It became more eeriain ene nee the ashes of Nicola! }Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will arrive in Paris before Sep- |tember 19th when the convention of the American Legion is, | scheduled to open. French workers are striving to offset the meeting of the American fascists with a giant Sacco-Vanzetti | memorial. } The ashes of the two murdered workers will be divided-and | placed in four urns, two of which will go to Paris with Latigia; Vanzetti, sister of Bartolomeo, two of which will remain in’ | Plymouth. Sailing on a Cunard liner in a little over a week, Luigia*Van- | zetti will reach Paris before the opening of the Legion convention. , Her arrival in Paris was once the occasion of a mass demonstra- |tion for Sacco and Vanzetti. But that was before her brother and; | Sacco had gone to their doom in the electric chair. The arrival of the ashes of, {~~ ak the murdered workers in Paris) Soviet Correspondent ® jis expetted to crystallize senti- | | ment against American capital-| Expelled from France |ism which perpetrated the mur-| | |der and to prevent the opening | of the American fascist congress | | in Paris. for ‘Exaggerated’ Report}. PARIS, Aug. 30- |the Paris Jules Broune, Luigia Vanzetti is expected to sail] with the ashes on either the Maure-| tania, which leaves New York, Sept. the 8th. | Belong to Working Class. | Mrs. Sacco, wife of Nicola Sacco,| | said yesterday that the ashes “do not} belong to any members of the family | | but to the working class of the world | which should decide their final des- | tination.” More than 150,000 workers have already vidwed the death masks, of | Sacco and Vanzetti at Stuyvesant Ca- | sino, Second Ave., near Ninth St. | Entire families pass by the platform | 4 on which the masks are placed. They | (Continued on Page Two) 7th, or the Caledonia, which leaves on | | correspondent of the Soviet Union’s News Agency, Tass, |has just been expelled from France | by order of the Minister of the In- | terior. | Broune, who has been sending. | too truthful reports of the brutali- |ties committed against the work- ers during the recent Sacco and | Vanzetti demonstrations in Paris, jis charged with “exaggeration.” His expulsion on such a charge is felt to be part of the campaign | Ne reassure the American Leegion~ naires that the French govern ment}, | will permit no action by the work- lers during their stay in Paris, LONG ISLAND R. R. FARE BOOST PLAN BARED IN REPORT |Profits Warrant Lower | Rates, Says Counsel 4 The plan of the Long Island Rail- road to mulct its docile strap-hang- ing commuters for a twenty per cent increase in commutation rates was jolted a littke yesterday when George P. Nicholson, corporation counsel, filed a brief with the Transit and | |Public Service Commissions arguing | against the increase. The Long Island had asked for per-| mission to increase commutation rates 20 per cent. but an exhaustive inves- tigation of the road’s operating costs has shown, says Mr. Nicholson, “that |commutation paid in 1926 above all| ~ |operating expenses, taxes, etc., a re- CHICAGO, Aug. 30. — Over 400/|turn of 6 per cent on the fair value | theaters in Chicago and its suburbs |of property used in the service, an| continue to be closed following the | additional net profi of over $2,000,- | strike caused by a dispute between | 000. This contrasts quite sharply with | | last the motion picture operators union | the company’s claim that not only ‘and the motion picture exhibitors’ as- | does it receive no return from the sociation. |commutation business, but that it jtually loses money out of its pocket | | with each commuter carried.” Charge Excess Valuation. As is usual in applications for rate increases, the railroad had placed ex- cess valuations on its land and struc- tures so that it could figure on this enlarged basis the percentage of rev enue it ought to receive. The c appraisers discovered that land which additional net profit of over $2,000. 000 was actually worth $25,000,000; structures and equipment rated 000,000 was actually worth 000,000, Rates Should Be Lowered. 900 Idle. Twenty-five thousand employes in| the theatres are affected by the strike | which was called by the union when | the bosses refused to reinstate four | operators in the Belmont and Orph- eum theatres. It is estimated that a half a mil- | lion people in the city were deprived | night of their usual form of amusement, with the result that other business activities of a similar nature reported flourishing incomes. Neither : today offered any hope of immed ement altho the | Gold, FURRIERS’ UNION MEETING TO FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT; ‘All Locals Will Meet Tomorrow Night A renewal of the struggle agaist the traitors within the furriers and against the bosses and the tractors, is announced in a leaflet, ing distributed today in the m which urges all registered and registered workers to attend the portant local membership mi which are scheduled for tomo: night. “The Joint Board is reor; the union machinery in order to gin the constructive organiza’ work,” says the leaflet; and in pre paration for this, elections are to be © held for paid and unpaid officers, The first and last chance for nominations! will be afforded at the membership) meetings in which all workers are! urged to participate. Thousands Unemployed. , In the call to the meetings, Ben Joint Board Manager says that “the need and the Scapa: of the iff Anpeal Year Jail Sentence Iniposed on Miss Denar Sent Q at ‘once of disorderly conduct yesterday by | have been troop movements and en- a ei ——-———-© theatre owners were to meet today to} The conclusion of the city’s find- Piet the mente be | ar’s ime Magistrate Goodman in the Yorkville "ment of mine guards. These are Three Tie-ups on LR.T. Mayor Walker Leaves consider whether they woul accept |ings in this case vas the: th a ; y on Mary Court. He was remanded until to-|¥men in company pay but de- . arbitr n in case the union made | gin of profit from commutator ‘ates Boston: morrow for investigation and sen- ak PEE Rane. APY bY, ine ‘Lines; Woman Is Hurt) for Munich Affler all overm is Tange enough to 2 uy . oy ad So t nittee, it fae iiordlg ccty charge was crim-| The companies are using methods | nt ARS ESE | Night Spree at Baden Ymides ey Solid. ._jgent increase. It is now up to the ee (ia ‘ jof warfare against labor unprece-/ Three accidents yesterday caused | | Representatives of the union, how- | Transit and Public Service Commis- 1 neiting to Rodriguez, together with thousands | jented in this state. They are copy | tie-ups on the Interboro subway. In; hari jever, declared that victory would come | gions to decide who wins the railr ng foot traffic? of other workers had started to fol-|ing the western Pennsylvania opera- \the last of the three a woman broke} BADEN BADEN, Aug. 30.—After | shortly, the men being 100 per cent | or the commuters, who year in result of Miss low the automobile bearing the armed | tors, ‘The Florence mines at Glen|her ankle and was taken to the hos- | sleeping until noon to recuperate| behind the strike. They explained | year out pay their 5, 7, or 11 do t week for plage Run shut off the town’s water supply | when the miners would not go under- | pital. She was Mrs. Ellen Edwards, ! of 11 West 117th Street. from a farewell tour of the cafes and} that the boss: beabareta here last night, New York,ag¢reement w interpretation of their 2 the Istter el m gives | stockholders. a month to keep up the dividends to, ing ng the words I did to those tedy. Because he was carrying a red| ground at the non-union rate, Evic-/ The “®rst tie-up occurred at the| butterfly mayor, James’ J. Walker, then: the right to fire work “when = —Judge Thay- flag he was severely beaten and then | tions from company houses are be-} Clark St. station, Brooklyn, Com-jleft for Munich at 3.23 this after-| they change their program” consti-| DES MO F nay 2ceo and Vatts placed under arrest hy two detectives. | coming more frequent throughout the pressed air rales on a northbound ex- | noon. tute a serious threat to their organi-| Charles A, Lindbergh took in Langone’s Mounted police rode into the crowd | district. The principal points of|press refused to operate. The Grand Walker came here after his de-, zation. this afternoon for Omaha, r in the north end (of struggle are Bellaire, Martin’s Ferry, Shadyside, ville m Central station saw the second tie-|parture from Berlin, where he was ‘inta signal trouble, Steubenville and York-|up. Here a southbound express ran aneee and ‘booed by workers gf the) heavy sales increased today as a re- is taking | Union in Meanwhile radio dealers reported | another leg of the trip that him into every state in the sult.of the shutdown af.the theatres. | the interest of aviation, Miss Donovan is now free un $1,000\ bail. i |