The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER VIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 140-KOUR WEEK eee’ Ee On Aner tl A LABOR PARTY Vok IV. No. 202. Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty ISKERS preferred should be in for a bull market if the leading | exponent of hirsute chi. protection | in American politics should decide to | be a candidate for the G. O. P. presi- dential nomination. Our man is Charles Evan Hughes. Charlie, being a cute politician does not throw his | hat directly into the ring. He sends | it C. O. D. N his return from Europe, the lead-| ing international legal expert of the Standard Oil Co., of New York, nominated Calvin Coolidge for re- election. Now, unless I am a worse prophet than I have been in the past (I was the first to predict the nom- ination of the Coolidge-Dawes team) | Calvin Coolidge will be busily engaged after his present term doing anything else except acting as Wall Street’s janitor in the white house. This does’ not mean to say that Hughes will fall’ into the job. * * * * UGHES is a brainy capitalist flunkey, yet it is doubtful if brains are an essential qualification for the presidency. Even his most ardent admirers never gave Coolidge credit for a normal supply of gray matter, | but he turned out to be one of the) most successful presidents in the his-| tory of the country. There are thou- sands of hungry college professors | who never have enough money to take their watches out of pawn who are quite willing to offer their ser-| vices to a brainless president for a moderate salary. * S has been stated in this column on another, occasion most of Wall Streets’ troubles with its presidents tronryaten gn 20g on Faye. Two) CLOAK WORKERS * # MEET FOR DRIVE - ON SWEATSHOPS Portnoy, “Hyman Call, Meeting In ‘the Garden’ | Unbearable conditions in the cloak | and dress shops of this city have led to the calling of a mass meeting of} all cloak and dressmakers in Madison | Square Garden on Saturday, Sept. | 10th, at 2 F. m. The call fer this meeting is ponedl by Louis Hyman, manager,’ and| Julius Portnoy, secretary, of the} Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers’ | Union, and according to the. an- nouncement, this will mark the be-| ginning of a drive to overcome the | present deporable working conditions | , by ending the strife which has been weakening the union for the past two seasons. Sweatshop Conditions Back. | “Ever since Morris Sigman, presi- der.t of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers Union, began his’ sys- tematic expulsion policy the stan- dards in our industry have been steadily falling,” says Louis Hyman. “Sweatshop conditions such as ex- isted previous to 1910, once more pre- vail in this city. There are more than 800 non-union shops in the gar- ment center, where people are work- ing 50 and 60 hours a week—instead of 44 hours as prescribed by the union agreement; ‘where they work Sundays and holidays, and for all this receive $25 and $30 less than they did when the shorter work week was in force. “As a result, even in union shops, the standards have been destroyed and wages reduced so that the most skilled worker cannot earn a living wage. There is now very little dif- ference between a union and a non- union shop. Piecework has been re- stored—in violation of the contract. Speed-up systems have been intro- duced. And the vicious sweatshop and home-contracting system has spread thruout the industry like a plague. Sigman Has No Support. “Mr. Sigman is powerless to con- trol this situation because he has/ lost the confidence and support of | the workers. He has tried to keep) himself in office and maintain power | thru the use of foree; but by em-| ploying methods of intimidation and, terror he has lost the membership. Altho his drive to compell all work-| ers to register has been going on) for 9 months, there are still hun- dreds of shops where the entire force has refused to respond to appeals} and varions forms of coercion. “There is a wide-spread determina- THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered ax second-ciass mu iy Wwe ut the Post Office at New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. , under the act of March 3, 1579. 7, 1927 GUNMEN WANTED TO WAR oN, RUSSIA! By FRED ELLIS ‘Coal Companies Break United Lockout Front As Fall Orders Pile Up pes) 2 RINGPIELD, | ill., Sept. (wey |The autumn demand for coal has | put over 10 per cent of Illinois’ 100,000 miners back to work though the lockout of April Ist is | still nominally in force. Two | operators, the Kickapoo Mining Co.| land the Hanna City Mining Co.,| who had signed paid advertise-| | ments stating that they would not) ;Yeopen under the old scale, have| | done so nevertheless, putting a bad) acne in the public front of the} Dairy Hen in Milk Scandal May Escape Indictment” by Jury idence of milk graft in New York City will be considered by the New York County Grand Jury, sworn in today. District Attorney Pecora has ex- pressed “doubts” about the possi- bility of securing convictions on the evidence regarding milk graft pre- sented by Former Justice Kelby. Kelby’s report, altho it contains some evidence against the little fry in the huge milk graft which is boosting the price of milk and cream in New York City, brought no evi- dence against the higher-ups. That an attempt is being made to cover up wholesale graft has been re- peatedly charged by persons in close touch with the situation. “Tmpure milk” has been used as an excuse by city officials, it is charged, to bar milk coming from dairy men outside of a circle of big New York dairy men favored by the Tammany administration. May Fly High but Won't Be Recognized Anymore PARIS, Sept. 6. — Jean Callizo, whose name was stricken from the list of French aviators because of an alleged fraudulent claim of a world altitude, will receive no recognition for any attempts he may make in the fu- ture to set new aviation records. All the aviation records claimed by }icans, the first ha }tice agents who put their heads to- “POLICE HOLD SIX FOREIGN WORKERS STRIKE OF FUR INCOMMUNICADO.IN BOR3 FRAME-UP RABBIT. WORKERS Grilling; Resembles A new Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up Six young Latin-American communicado by the police and to make them “confess” to a Brooklyn. Detectives yesterday announced that they were carefully scanning pictures taken of the Sacco-Vanzetti protest demonstrations at Union Square in the fond hope that the ar- |rested men may have been snapped | jin the huge crowds. Plan Defense Committee. Friends of the young men yester- day characterized «the arrests as a de- liberate frame-up. Plans are being | made at once for the organization of | |a-defense committee which will take lup the fight for the young worker: Close similarity between the a rests and those of Sacco and Vanzetti were being pointed out. In the 1 ter case, too, they were c the major crime of murder # had been casually picked up on sus- picion of being radicals. Foreign Born Workers. Seven were originally arrested, but one was released tonight. Those held are Mario Medreno, 24, Jesus Silva, 24, Julian De Hoyos, 25, Eugene Fer- nandez, 26, Joze Rosa Christozal, 25, and Victor Fern, 24. Medreno, Fern and heen a d at the Hotel St. George, Br: the other is a Hotel Bossert, Silva works as Childs Restaurant in De Hoyas and Ch 4 Ricans. De Hoyas is a laborer and Christozal is a restaurant worker. Fernandez, a Cuban, is a laborer. Arrest An Accident. A “trivial police episode” is respon- | sible for the arrest of the s ers, according to the énterpr z tectives who are already taking credit for solving the Brooklyn court house explosion, in addition to a number of {other bombings of a similar nature. Late last night Department of Jus. are Porto ‘gether with members of the New) York bomb squad and Brooklyn de- | tion among the cloak and dress-|Callizo were declared void by the | tectives and in a composite statement makers that this devastation struggle | in the union must end. Saturday’s mass meeting in Madison Square Garden will begin a vigorous offen- sive against Mr. Sigman and those allied with him who are responsible for disrupting our entire union by their policies of the past two years. 'The workers are ready to act, and the Madison Square Garden meeting will demonstrate this fact.” French aero society today. The or-} ganization has asked the aeronautic | international federation to corrobor- | ate its action. Swept out beyond her depth while swimming in the lower bay at the foot of Bayview Avenue, Rosebank, S. L, Genevieve Newman, 15, of 70} Maryland Avenue, Rosebank was drowned today, expressed the opinion that “the ar- | rest of the six suspects may also clear yup. the riddle of the burning of the ‘ bridge of the New York and Long {Branch road at Metawan, N. J., | fortnight ago.” A call to the Butler St. police sta- |tion complaining of a “noisy disturb- |ance” at 52 State St., where two of (Continued on Page Two) Sacco-Vanzetti Case s now in the making. workers are now being held in- continuously grilled in an effort bomb explosion which occurred Coe ALL SOUTH CHINA HIT BY GROWING PEASANT REVOLTS | British Rush } New Units! | Of Army to Shanghai SHANGHAI, Sept. 6.—Reports \from Hongkong continue to report ;Peasant revolts in southern Kwan- tung against the right wing admin- istration of the province. The provincial officials (right wing Kuomintang) have dispatched a puni- tive expedition against the peasants, A battalion of British troops ar- rived here and this move is accepted in Chinese quarters as proof that the British imperialists have abandoned hope of an early capture of the by Sun Chuan-fang. The northern ‘ar lore forces, despite the en- ouragement and reliance placed upon them by the foreign business | men who’ were their friends. and benefactors while Sun huan-fang held Shanghai and the rich surround- 1D country, are being defeated by united Nanking and Hankow ies. Ten thousand ‘prisoners hive arvived in Shanghai during the last few days. Pukow has been evacuated by the northerners. Five Killed in Battle < Between Nicaraguans | and Wall Stree! Troops WASHINGTC Sept. 6. Two clashes between Nicaraguan nationalists and the American-of- | ficored native constabulary, in| ported to the gtate department | day by Minister Charledlebrehardt, at Managua. ai) The revolutionists were affili- | Salgado who have refused to make peace with the Diaz government placed in power by the United States. ya 4 “Try -to Force “Confessions” nfessions” Following Hours of | STARTS T0 N AY New e DAILY WORKER York, FINAL CITY EDITI N. ¥. Price 3 Cents Taos Re STAG W RAG ‘UNHEROICALLY HIDE BEHIND PARIS POLICE AS WORKERS’ FURY MOUNTS |French Labor Refuses to Participate in Fete for Legion as Cops Patrol France | i j | PARIS, Sept. 6.—While the so-called “veterans” and “heroes \of No Man’s Land” are taking refuge behind the uniforms and | weapons of thousands of armed | landing-stages at Havre where | disembarking, and are massed |for long distances outside the cities @— ,thru which the trains bearing the un- | popular invaders must pass, the} lieeneh workers far from violently |retaliating for the insult which they | | feel is implied in the arrival of the | are tak-| jing solemn measures. to ensure that | egionnaires on French soil, |the khaki-tourists meet an absolute | boyeott by French Labor. The French |workers have established a united j front on this issue and the American Legion is being received in complete silonce by the masses. | Terrorism for Workers. | In spite of the efforts of the French government to terrorize the workers and to destroy the influence of L‘Humanite by throwing its editors into jails, the leading organ of French | Labor is still at the head of the work- |ers in their protest against activities j of the Legion and of the French gov- | | ernment in welcoming them. Resolutions and protests are pour- ing into all the Labor organizations |in Paris and thruout France, demand- ng that the workers take definite ‘boycott action against the American Legionnaires, Trade Unions Enraged. The Confederation Generale du Travail, the French Federation of La- ska in a resolution declaring that the ug = 1 Contnnied on Page Five) police who are guarding all the the American Legionnaires are in all the railw stations and U.S, GOURT WILL TAKE UP CASE OF “DAILY” TODAY A hearing on the petition for the dismissal of the indictments against The DAILY WORKER for the pub- lication of the poem “America” will be held this morning. Yesterday Joseph R. Brodsky, representing the defendants, appeared ready to argue the motion before Federal Judge Burns, but the hearing was contin- ued until today on the request of Assistant U. istrict Attorney Herman Foster. Seck More Indictments. Those named in the in which is part of the new against The Hider WORKER, are Dunne, David J. Louis Engdahl, iam F. Alex Bittlemaa, ae Miller, Gordon and Josepa Kalar. During all of ia: k members of the editorial, business ard mechan- ical staff of the paper were quizzed by the federal grand jury m an effort {to involve additional individuals, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF ‘To Organize. All Open The fur rabbit workers of Brooklyn | Shops and New Jersey will stop work this rive, pee of Local 58 of Brooklyn 25 of Newark held las early Monday morning near the Kings County Court House BE pening and start an organization | At a well attended joint meet- | and Local ht at the} Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave., near } 9th St., discussion decided on immediate ac-| ae to organize the open shops. ‘he the workers, after a lengthy Rabbit Workers’ Local 25, with | Siired ee at Newark, represents 38 MEMBERS IS CHOSEN BY FIFTH CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS PARTY Historic Unity Gathering iether nds With the Singing The Central Executive Committee, of 38 members, of “The International” was chosen by the | Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party as follows: |Israel Amter, Max Bedacht, | Haikinen, Abram Jakira, shitz, Jay Alexander Trachtenberg, A. Fred, Martin Abern, Philip Aronberg, John Benjamin Gitlow, J. Alfred Knutson, William F. Lovestone, Robert Mahoney, | Pepper, Henry Purso, Jack Stachel, Joha Schamiess, Norman H. Tallentire, William Louis Engdahl, K. H. Kruse, Benjamin Lif- Robert Minor, M. J. Olgin, John White, Bertram D. Wolfe, Alexander Bittleman, Earl H. J. Ballam, workers in Paterson, Jersey City, | R. Browder, James P. Cannon, William F. Dunne, William Z. Foster, Bud | Elizabeth and New Brunswick. | Urging the workers of both locals | he forget their past differences and to unite in their struggle to prevent {a wage s shop condi h and the growth of open unity. His sentiments were seconded | by Moe Harris, manager of the r local. i in from shops. lower an effort giving Open shops, paying workers | wages, have been getting an toppage today will be made to prevent importers their work to open increased share of the jobs. Many Conferences Held. During the last few months many! conferences have been held between y the committee of 10 representing | the two locals* and the Fur Rabbit Con- tractors’ Association that has an) agreement with the two locals. The 3 have been insisting that the union men work for less pay. They, have pointed to the fact that the) open shops have been doing the wor rk | for Many of the workers from Pater- | and other outlying came to the meeting in buses Jersey City less., To make it impossible for the con-} tractors to use that as an argument} in the future, and at the same time} to do away with scab production, last | night’s meeting w hired for the occasion, Police “Favor” Buses Owned by Tammany, Is William Bulock, ‘dicagtor City charged that 400 sightseeing bus ated with the leaders Sandino and | |8aid to be owned by Tammany inter- | jests, police. sioner are which five were killed, were re-| | Chanre of Commissioner | of the Affairs Bureau, yesterday being “favored” by the In a letter to Police Commis- Warren he demands that the buses be prevented from using busy streets corners and terminals, ons, Morris Langer, man- , ager of Local 25, made a plea for, mt on record for | Reynolds, John W. Johnstone, Candidates: Alex Bail, Anthony Bimba, Herbert Benjamin, Gomez and C. A. Hathaway. ’ Alternates: “harles Krumbein, | Wagenknecht, William W. NR: and epoeeDy Zack. Py CANDIDA’ TES OF THE Cc. E. C. Ellis Petersen, * ALTERNATES OF Biedenkapp, Bradon, Arne Swabeck, Alfred H. M. Wicks, Anna Damon, Rudolph Baker, H. Costrell, Manuel * THE C. E. C Borich, Borissof, Cantor, M. Ep- tein, Fislerman, Peters, Poyntz, Shklar, Walker, Weisbord, S. Epstein, Halonen, Otis, Schactman, Cowl, and M. Loonin. Bloomfield, Kerr, Central Commission: Jacob Mindel, K. Radzi, Joe Brand, Max Lerner Gehert and Grecht. The convention adjourned with the singing of the International, cheers for the Workers (Communist) Party and the Communist Intexs- national. CONVENTION DECIDES ALL NECESSARY STEPS MUST BE TAKEN TO LIQUIDATE FACTIONALISM HE Fifth Convention of the W decides that the incoming Cen to Part the p political differences. putting group loyalty the Party. It militates ent time in view Factia against t The conyention especialiy tion of groups or caucuses al distribution of any literature which ing Party sub-divisions is imperm The Fifth Convention calls incoming Central E Co task of uprooting f. Central Executive Committee. * CONVENTION | The convention declares its the war danger. prohil ongeide mit The Executive Committee to lead and ad: manner and calls upon the entire Party to rafly to the support of our * ACCEPTS REPORT. | A motion by Max Bedacht was unanimously aceeptance of the report of the Political Committee, its report of the trade-union department, mmunist) Party of Ameriea ive Committee shall take an absolute prerequisite rmful and dangerous at there are no fundamental oys loyalty to the Party thru ve the loyalty and interests of » development of the Leninist party. ; | the stoppage and organization drive. Our Party has reached the stage of development where no serious We must not allow the open shops! political differences stand in the way of inner consolidation and complete to grow, otherwise they will become) ynifieftion. Therefore the liquidation of the existing factions is a nee a giant,” declared Langer. eaulty for the Party. nization or continua- arty organization, The has not been authorized by the lead- membership to assist the in the accomplishment of this convention expects the new Central ninister the Party in a non-factional adopted as follows: and the report on The convention herewith empowers the incoming Central Executive Committee to prepare a resolution dealing with the above question line with the spirit and contents of the debate at the Convention,