The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 1

a) wIRST SECTION | This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. Entered ax second-class matter at the Post Office nt New York, N. ¥., THE DAILY Wo under the act of March 3, 1879. KER. VATIO} EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Vol/ IV: No. 205, THE WORK OF THE va-TH NATIONAL] CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS PARTY Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party. The Fifth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party | was called at a time when the Party was under fire, when a severe attack was being prepared against it, as symbolized by the | indictment of The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit editors, by the attack of the bureaucracy against the left wing and the Com-| munists, by the renewal of the Michigan prosecution and by such | acts of brutal attack upon the working class as the murder of | Sacco and Vanzetti. { This attack upon the Party and the left wing is aimed at the | working class as a whole, for the master class feels that before it can decisively defeat the American workers, it must first de- | feat the most militant and leading section of our class, the ret wing and the Party. At the same time, the convention met under the shadow of | | gathering war clouds as exemplified by the energetic efforts of | Great Britain to cement an alliance with imperialist powers against the Soviet Union and against the Chinese revolution. The | government of the United States has¢ in recent times become increasingly! the march of American imperialism; | (wen and aggressive in its attacks | and laid down a series of concrete upon the Chinese revolution, upon| Proposals for fighting against Ameri- Nicaragua, Mexico and the oppressed | C8” imperialism and the danger of a peoples of other parts of the world. |"°W War; measured the progress of The convention faced also the jour work in the trade union field and problem of terminating a long period|f0rmulated the perspective and tasks, of inner struggle which had weak- before the Party in its trade union | ened the Party’s effectiveness for|W0tk and discussed a series of spe-| coping with its tasks. cial problems dealing with all of the The Central Executive Committee| Phases of the Party’s activity. is able to report that meeting under Unification of the Party, these circumstances, the Fifth Con-| Im the matter of the consolidation | vention ef the Workers (Communist) |°f the Party and the unification of } Party proved to be of such character| its ranks, the Fifth Convention marks | as adequately to meet the difficulties) 2" epoch in the development of Party | and tasks that the situation and the|i"ner life. It is the culmination and | needs of the party set for it. The de-| end of a long period of gradually les- | & bates were on a high political level, Seting factional controversy, With} of a constructive character and of, ' ion, the agreement, the] great. concreteness in analyzing an and convention discus- solving the problems of the Party sions, the basis for a Altho there were some few moments} unified party has been completed, | when old differences tended to sharp-! | political differences reduced to a} en the debate, at no time did the dis- fminimum such as is normal to any gussion assume a sharply factional] party, the rganizationa! forms of | character, and the general progress| actionalism abolished by unanimous | towards unity and the atmosphere of| agreement, and the Party stands now | the convention was such as to over-| before the task of eliminating the! come these difficulties in a construc-|last vestiges of factional spirit which | tive way. no longer find justification in the | The convention analyzed the poli-| Party situation, tieal and economic ; situation if, the | lowing resolution Was” adopted: country and its plate in world econ-| “The Fifth Convention of omy; analyzed the war danger and (Cc ontinued on Page. Two) fhe A. ag. Bocas | By T. J. J}. OF taherty | | gel yore warfare continues unabated at the present session of the league of nations. The Polish pro- posal for the outlawry of war has the galleries applauding, but Poland and, the galleries count for very little in the final disposition of this plan. In-| deed it is as futile to attempt the | was received in audience today | Mussolini. « In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. To this end the iol, :| FDEMONSTRATION OF PROTEST) | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Fake Welcome For American Legion ACT AS STRIKEBREAKERS AGAINST N. Y. TEAMSTERS The first step of the bosses in their effort to smash the strike of the for decent wages and reasonable hours involved a shrewd stunt aimed to, prejudice the New York newspapers again the workers. a polboeinne eget Socialists Deplore “Degeneration” | Of Viennese Uprising La Waa voncdine official organ of| the Socialist Party of Argentina, describes the recent worker’s up- rising in Vienna in the following }; two-line streamer: | | } IN: VIENNA DEGENERATES | INTO POPULAR UPRISING ROME, Sept. 9.—Mayor James wv Walker, of New York city, by Pope Pius x] and Premier The Mussolini interview took place late this afternoon, sev- outlawry of war under capitalism as| eral hours after Mayor and Mrs. Walker and their party had been it is to essay the elimination of a dis-| received by the Pontiff who aap sid his blessings and presented- agreeable odor by making the sign of Bi cross over its source. AIL the | medals to his visitors. fake peace proposals put forward by| “I can remember when Italians in| the small nations may sound good to|New York were practically all elt the ears of pacifists and may have al tblacks or street cleaners,” the may desirable political effect on the con-|told Mussolini. “Today among the | gtituencies of the proposers but they are }iudges and great merchants,” Mussolini was keenly interested in the American Legion Convention in| Paris, asking if many of the sagt naires were coming to Rome. Premier Mussolini and mayo r Walker conversed for 46 minutes the| latter said after the meeting. | “It was so interesting that the time |sped by rapidly. We talked about} American Government and _ politics. The duce showed much’ interest in} Tammany and said he admired its organization. I informed the pre- | mier that the Italians are making ex- will not bring world peace a day } nearer. That blessing can only come thru a class war that will crush im- Perialism and enable the workers and §armers.of the world to start laying the basis for a socialist society on the @uins of the capitalist system. * * * HE masses in all the capitalist countries of Europe and Asia are earrying a terrific burden in the shape of taxes to pay for battleships and other instruments of war. The only way they can dump this load is by » dumping the capitalist system and by overthrowing the governments that serve. that system. As the situation stands today the small nations that were “emancipated” frém foreign rule as a result of the war are possibly worse off now than ever before. They are still the vassals of foreign imperialism in addition to having their own flunkeys to support. The optimistic souls in the formerly foreign-ruled countries who expected milk and honey when the iron heel of the stranger was lifted from their|. aves are beginning to realize that the only gainers from a change o: masters are the new ones. * * * 5 liens dispatches bear out yesterday’s “agnosis of the cause of the tur- moil at the league assembly. In ad- dition to domestic reasons for the fake peace proposals it is obvious that France is making as. much trouble as she possibly can for her ally Great Britain. Germany has se- cured a seat on the Mandates Com- mission which has to do with the colonies. Germany may get some of ‘her colonies back, apparently with British assistance. It is not evident that France is enthusiastic over the military and economic recovery of Germany and Briand is reported to be ready to back the Polish proposals with an oratorical blast. (Continued om Page Two) Bh {New York Italians bankers, | cellent citizens and that they are playing a most important role in building up the United States.” . Hearst, Smarting For Loss of Plane, Sends Belated Aid ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept..9. — The steamship Kyle sailed from this port at 4 o’clockethis afternoon to under- take a search for the missing mono- plane, Old Glory. The ship will fol- low the course taken by the plane. It also will keep watch for any trace of the missing Canadian plane, the Sir John Carling. Other ships have abandoned the search, at the only time when there would be any chance of finding the men alive. The sailing of the ship is regarded here as another Hearst publicity stunt, designed to lift some of the ignominy for the loss of two airplanes recently with their crews, in desperate attempts to make news. The Kyle is chartered by Hearst’s “New York Mirror.” BRITISH ISSUE FAKE PAPERS IN DRIVE ON USSR Fight to Still Demand For Recognition Here. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The unprecedented raids on the Soviet em- bassy compound in Peking, instigated by Great Britain early this year, were | brought up with the receipt by the) State Department of a series of five pamphlets under the heading of | \“Soviet Plot in China” purporting to} contain photostatic copies of “docu-| ments” alleged to have been seized in the raids. Documents previously published were proved to be clumsy frauds by experts who declared that old Rus- sian used in the wording of the doc- uments proved them to be the per- petrations of White Guards. British Propaganda. The five pamphlets received here are regarded as part of the vast in- ternational propaganda - campaign that is being conducted against the Soviet Union by the British tory gov- ernment. The growing demand for the rec- ognition of the Soviet Union in this country has led the-British to intens- ify their propaganda campaign. The distribution of the pamphlets, which are issued in English, is regarded as the work of British propagandists. Stocks Sell High. After reaching the highest price levels in the current movement, es- pecially the U. S. Steel, industrial stockseran into a moderate reaction i \ | in| Two hundred m “= | rendered to the demands of the strik- MAYOR WALKER AND MUSSOLINI SIT IN CONFERENCE; JEER BOOTBLACKS ‘Fascist Chief Voices Admiration of Tammany; Sends Greetings to Legionnaire Friends TRUCK GO. FRONT; YIELD TO UNION 100 More Ma deneniients: Also Grant Demands e firms have sur- ing truckmen and signed agreements | with them yesterday. One-half of this |number are independent concerns and ;the rest are members of the Mer- chants’ Trucking Association. In set- | tling with the union the latter have therefore violated the policy outlined by the boss strike, At the same time serious efforts were made yesterday morning to re- eruit strikebreakers in an attempt to move the enormous amount of freight which has piled up since the 7,000! truckmen walked out early Wednesday morning. These attempts met with | little success, however, the bosses’ as- sociation admitting that the situation | was still acute. Workers Win Demands, As a result of union victories thus | far, nearly 1,500 workers have re-| turned to their jobs under new con- | tracts which call for an average wage | increase of $5 a week, $1.20 an hour | for overtime, and an eight-hour day. The strike now threatens to spread | to New Jersey. This became clear when the United States Trucking | Company which employs nearly $00 men in handling the freight in the/ | Erie Railroad yards in Jersey City, in’ anticipating the strike move, began | bringing in strikebreakers to sleep in “dormitories” arranged for them in the yards. Bosses Here Strikebreakers. The two strikers arrested Wednes- day following a riot which wanied when police fired 12 shots into a crowd {of 1,000 workers at Houston Strect | and Second Avenue were yesterday | discharged in Yorkville court. Following a conference at their headquarters, in the Woolworth Build- ing, the bosses’ association announced that they had hired Jim Waddell, notorious profession strikebreaker, i begin recruiting scabs at once. INDICT. MINERS WHO PROTESTED | BOSTON MURDER PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 9.—More than a score of miners were indicted by the grand jury in Cheswick, Pa. police, at the beginning of the | | jout, trict, * if it is made with an actual wage re- today for participating in the Sacco- | duction. Vanzetti demonstrations, which were ;2nd unofficially cireulated e story brutally broken up by mounted state|/that a resumption of work on the | was explained by the defendants was! promises*—to sabot jbasis of the Jacksonville scale for The miners are charged with incite- \miners will be allowed if the miners ment to riot, unlawful assemblage |make concessions on wage rates for 7,000 teamsters who are out fighting load of paper, consigned to a New York newspaper, was carried on a truck driven by a scab and pro- It was b deliberevely shunted into a police-engineered ‘ 100 FIRMS BREAK fy eas Disillusioned ‘ ‘Veteran’ Finds L‘Humauite Reds Beardless and “Decent | 5 — A lonesome Ohio Legionnaire who rejoices in he name of Ovid Dally, has in- own with| ich he proposes to ove tt of contempt, the aire, that. the ‘Frer have thrown around the upholders of the'murder of Sacco and Van- zetti. Whenever Ovid, who is offi- cially reported to be oftenest found in the tough districts of Paris, mee A man W. won't speak to! him, he takes him into a cafe and | skfma eaeee of drinks. | lt | | { | i! t to the offices of be ’Humanite mecenthy in sees to} n into ja I went wrong. Daliy was a militan | revisionist when he entered the of- | fice but tne Zirm cour of the | editors calmed him and, as the | phrases of his broken French es- ;caped between hiccups, he sank back into his chair and everything seemed rosy in the light of those two suns which he distinctly saw; float: over Paris. | Asked how he was received by the terrible reds, Ovid Dally de nied they had long beards, “They | are decshent fellowsh,” he is r ported to have said, “I wash look- ing for trouble but I found them willing to lishten to me, They did not shee my way but I am going back tomorrow.” Dally has been making daily vis- its to the office of L’Humanite in his efforts to find some one in peenls wh6 will talk to him. Stil Negotiating For Senarate Peace | In Ullincis Mines. CHICAGO, Sept. 9. — Negotiations | a continued in secret today between the | representative Mine Workers of America, and the the s of District 12, United | Illinois Coal Operators Association. Members of the miners union anxi- separate contract for while the rest of the field is focked as both District President Fish- wick and International John Lewis desire. Not only would the separte he progre: but it would be especially bad The operators have quietly as the result of profit taking and pro-| and resisting officers of the law. The | unskilled and semiskilled labor around fessional ae near the clone: of the market to ing the miners. , International Labor Defense is defend-| coal cutting and loading machinery, do more “dead work” free. ‘MORE FASCISTS SAIL AS FIRST | »'in order ®|Jesus Silva are ously watch to see that their reaction- | ary leaders do not sell them out and} laecept a the | Ulinois miners to go back to work |rooms of the young Mexican work- President | book of model love letters and an ex- Payrool dis. | trict agreement be a bad thing, sa ive miners of this dis- INVADERS FLEE FOR MUSSOLINI Legionnaires Leaving ide. Paola for Italy to Avoid French Workers’ Rage BULLET I No The last batch of fascists sailing for the American Legion con- vention in Paris will leave teday aboard the Leviathan. Bidding them good-by on board the Leviathan last night was an array of the hardest-boiled reactionaries in the country. Among the speakers addressing the meeting were Howard 1 vage national com- mander cf the Legion; Vice President Charles G. Newton D. Baker, former Secy. of war; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Dwight F. Davis, secretary of war; Major General John A. Lejeune; General John J. Pershing and Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. 4 * Thousands of American Legionnaires who had no opportu- nity to “visit” France during the late war sailed yesterday, twen- ty-four hours York with another immens: are swarming “over there” bursting. Fascists Playful. The “veterans” were in a hooligan mood and romped around the decks like school-boys, pelting one another with raisins and pieces of orange peel |and fruit pits and rinds. Asked about the apparently unlimited supply of after six huge liners had weighed anchor from New contingent of the khaki-tourists who now that the grenades have stopped @ most westerners and middle rners have never seen before, display violent sky-blue, crim- and rainbow-hued uniforms and caps, and indulge in wild conjectures of what “over there” may look like. To these ex-servicemen most of whom z were never got beyond an American raisins and oranges, the “veterans” training-camp, France is a barbarous announced that these were only part country where there are no bath-tubs of 10,000 packages of ra’ )| and where the wine and the lights are crates of orang hich the western }all red all night. Paris means noth- Legionnaires are carrying to Paris|ing but a good time to them and the to pelt the French crowds. | officers are encouraging them in this belief. of the The Legion officials‘are making a determined effort to raise the spirits of the men, m of whom had heard the stories of the contempt with which the first contingents of th Most Homesick. How far from a good time for the American Legionnaires Paris is, can be read on the faces of the first Legion to arrive in Paris are being|groups of the Legionyaires to reach received by the French workers, by|France. Sitting at the little round trying to discredit such reports and| sidewalk tables in front of the Mont- by accounts of the welcome which|martre cafes while at least one will await the men in the French cap-| gendarme without whom they do not ital. For most of the so-called veter-|dare to leave their hotels is always ans the trip to France means a holi- | in silent attendance, these unfortunate day, and strutting around the decks) pioneers of the second imperialist in- of the great ocean-going liners which | (Continued on Page Three) EXPOSE WEAKNESS IN “EVIDENCE” Price 3 Cents AGAINST BOMB FRAMED VICTIMS - Police Admit Failure of Star Witness to Aid Prosecution; Subway Maps Explained The case which the New York police authorities, in coopera- tion with the writers of lurid news stories have attempted to | build up in an effort to connect six young Latin-Americans with | the planting of a bomb near the Brooklyn courthouse early Mon- )day morning is rapidly evaporating. j With the entry of lawyers for the Mexican consulate as ade ivisors to the men who have been held without bail since. their jarrest, and incommunicado until quite recently, the elaborate po- lice superstructure began to i Secret Frame-up. When Robert Wilson, of Frueauff, | {Robinson and Sloan, 67 Wall Stre appeared in court to ask for a post |ponement of the hearing on the case he announced that the a a re gov- ment was eager to avoid “a repe- tition of the Sacco-Vanzetti ¢: ie Yesterday District Attorney Dodd, | who is in charge of the case, admitted | that contradictions have crept into the | testimony of the principal witriess, an unnamed Negro, who has asserted that he saw Julian de Hoyas, who, with aceused of setting |the bomb, run from the scene of the | bombing and enter an automobile. He “FEEBLE VERBIAGE REFORMIST REPLY TO TORY ATTACK Pravda Hits Edinburgh Congress Break EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 9— | declare! s that he heard De Hoyas talk- Confining thelr action dgaiee the, ing to Silva, the former asking, “Is ¢, trade union bill passed by” \everything alright?” the Baldwin government to ineffege Witness of No Value. Inasmuch as it is admitted that the arrested men ordinarily goeak Span- tual speeches, the reformist leaders of the British Trade Union Congress adopted a resolution _ protesting ish, the testimony of the Negro is against the act. \eonsidered a liability to the district) J. H. Clynes, a leading parliae | attorney. mentarian in the reformist movee ment, declared that labor would never “respect” the act and would do its b to “evade its purposes.” The “reformist leadership hag ;, fought the call of the minority lead- ers for militant action against the n re, having repeatedly declared Il its actions would be confined constitutional” methods. Apparently embarras by the re- sults of the tests made by their own i chem on a bottle of “milky fluid,” prosecution has convenient! falled: to make public their findin, “Anarchistic” Literature. “violently revolutiona ’ literature which the e so sure they found in the The. ‘anarchi lice v and po- it . 9.—Pravda, in ite yesterday, under the heading, “British General Council On of Imperialis writes: iding upon a ruptare of the ian ¢Committee the Gen- fulfilled Chamberlain’s direct order. The actual international ignificance of the Edinburgh decision cannot be considered otherwise than ssisting and facilitating the im- list preparation for war against Soviet Union, From pacifist 4 ging the cause of ie assist them in finding their way)the struggle against intervention in | around the city. Policg admitted that | China; from sabotage—to direct sup- the possibility of disproving this as-|port of’ British tory government in sertion and “connecting” them with| organization of war against the U the subway bomb explosions still re-|S. S. R.—direct to avowed social-im- mains slight. (Continued on Page Two) MOSCOW, admitted to ading editoriz a book Jers is now more than be nothing | le: of card tricks, a “In de Anglo-Russ eral Council posure of Spanish police methods. Explain Marked Maps. A bit of “evidence” which the police considered the most compelling dur- ing the early stages of the case con- | sisted of a map on which a ‘number of subway stations had been marked in red. The reason for the m the