The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE GRGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZER FOR TH™ 40-FOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 206. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, THE DAL Ly Entered as second-class matter at the Poxt Officdat New York, N. ¥., under the act of NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927 STOPS LEGION PARADE Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION rch 3, 1879. Street, New York, Price 3 Cents First Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty 1. capitalist papers of this little town were unanimously of the opinion that the striking truck drivers ; did a bad’ job for themselves and in- flicted a black eye on trades unionism in ‘general when they decided to pull | off a strike without spending a month or two trying to arrive at a settle- | ment with their employers before | taking such drastic action. The dear | public’s sympathy would be missing, | we were informed, and how forsooth, | could a strike be won without the | good will of the innocent bystanders? HE truck drivers in good old mili- tant fashion nply walked out when the employ refused their de- mands, yanked drivers who still con- tinued to work, off their trucks pro-| ceeded to make the air dark with fly-/ ing bricks and indulged in other | pleasantries not usually associated with the respectable conduct of a! modern strike.. The funny thing about the whole business is that the | strikers won their wage demands, rendering it necessary for the capi- talist editors to write another set of editorials explaining why the truck drivers gained their wage demands despite the ungentlemanly manner in which they conducted themselv * + * (pbs are signs that the French government is moving towards a break with the Soviet Union. When the French foreign minister and the) _ president of the republic visited Lon- | don prior to the raid on Arcos, the subject under discussion between | Chamberlain and Briand was the mu- tual relations of England and France to Russia. France was not in a po- sition to follow the British lead ‘then, but the threatened demand on Mos- cow that ambassador Rakovsky be) recalled for having signed his name to a manifesto of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union calling for | interr _.sglidaxita. of --lebax| against world imperialism, indicates | that France is moving step by step) towards an open rupture with the U.) 8.S.R. * * \ TALY is also expected. to make a) | hostile gesture towards Russia ac-' |“ cording to a Paris dispatch. The ex- | cuse will be, alleged encouragement | | tion has ered, but it is ex- | Balked in their efforts to crush the | ism. given to Italian Communists by-the} | pected that the huge educational) |strike by the importation of profes-} It is presumed that’, the ¢ Soviet ambassador at Rome. Where| | factories will be in full blast by! | sional strikebreakers, the employe | gress of Norwegian Trade U there is a will there is a way. If! | Tuesday morning: jled by the powerful United States! | which opens on December 4th Mussolini had been able to detect the |}4@————— District Soviet ambassador engaging in ac-! tivities foreign to his ambassadorial role, he would not be slow to make! a big noise about it. England is! bringing steady pressure on both | countries to break with Russia and is, persistently working on Germany| with a view to drawing the Reich in- | to the anti-Soviet entente. However, | there are many factors that militate! against the immediate success of this | conspiracy, not the least being the Red Army. * * HE capitalist préss din! ade. acter of the the Britigh The right plete swing in the opposite direction | y from the Scarborough conference of | Fernandez a few years ago. But even at Scar- borough it should not be forgotten! that even tho the so-called Left Wing, passed militant resolutions, they left; the right wing leaders strongly en- trenched in the apparatus, something | have an opposition on their hands! that is a menace to the labor move- trict’ attorney declares, “has been asked for an eight-hour day instead The Left leadership of the) a: British Trade Union Congress was a ‘held as a mate ment. false alarm as the General Strike fiasco proved. * * i is chuckling|will ask for indictments Tuesday |) o, ta . S over the antirevolutionary char-| against Julian de Hoyas and Jesus | Of i NU ea oe conference of | Silva, two young Mexican workers, | Enroll New Members. ‘ion Congress. | charging | i leaders had things|for the bomb explosion near the} pretty much their own way, a com-| Brooklyn |Roa, according to the district wttars| ‘ney, will be charged with “possessing \explosives,” and an indictment will| firms into the ranks of the union is be sought against Mario Medreno, declared to be ome of the reasons for that sincere politicians do not do| charging him with carrying a “con-/ the speedy victory of the workers. | when they are convinced that they | cealed weapon.” | ‘VA MURDERED AMERICAN ; by Fred Be EMPTY WHARVES AT CHERBOURG TO GREET ARRIVAL OF U. S. FASCISTS Reactionaries Gnash Teeth at Decision to Bar Welcome of General Pershing PARIS, Sept. 11.—The parade of American legionnaires at | Cherbourg, scheduled for Friday, has been cancelled as the re- i sult of nation-wide protest of French workers against the antics of the invading American f. 5 s | French fascists, who were planning to welcome the legion- | naires, headed by General Pershing, are gnashing their teeth as ithe result of the Cherbourg municipal council’s decision to bar {the Jegion parade. Raymond Dorey, a member of the National | Reception Committee, has already resigned his job and has writ- | ten an indignant letter to Foreign Minister Briand. | FRENCH FASCISTS YELP. | When the legionnaires step off the Leviathan Friday they | will be greeted by a reception conspjcuous by its absence. If a reception is held at all it will be an extremely feeble one, since the authorities fear huge counter-demonstrations on the part of the Cherbourg workers if there is any large formal welcome. In his helpless, hysterical protest against the victory of the French working class, Dorey declares: “The mayor of Cherbourg told us it was his wish, which was also ours to receive the American Legion at the City Hall. Last week in a meet- ing at the Subprefecture, the Sub- prefect told us he had not sufficient \men at his disposal to prevent unfor- result NZETTI by & @ Barbusse Visits USS. To Present Workers Of World With Real Facts (Special to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 11. | > manifestations. As a ‘A x Dea fe Rania marching across’ | ~~, Centralized attack against the the city with the legion and limit our- oviet Union i noticeable in ; nce, Henri Barbusse, interna- ves to welcoming them at the pier to “| Norwegian Labor| Group ~ Returns from (SSR. Wages Unity Cipmmittee MOSCOW, U. S.-S. B co cts 7000 TRUCKER "Sas This Morag WIN STRIKE; GET ~ SS WEEKLY RAISE. 1,100,000 school children -will be} Sept. 11. hemied % into go York’s educa-) | —The Norwegian Labfor Delega- fig guracks this mngising, oo ts ana . ape “| Sotiet Republics had Tes f Yor ho Wish er rene é the ofl { Agreement is Ratified The chalnah of the delegation de- thousands of pupils will again be put on a part-time basis. During} the summer months little was done to relieve the congested con- dition which has prevailed in the | orld’s wea t city. | Only half of the school popula- | | clared that the general} impression among its members wags that the working class of the Solviet Union jrealizes its full respon sibility in role as master of aif immense {country which is buildj{ng social. By Employers | This mor the 7,000 | ltruckmen whose militancy won them} la $5 a week raise, will be back at} work. t —- ——| Trucking Company finally announced BS surrender to the union early Sat-/ Aitorne urday morning. | J Agreement Ratified. The victory for the workers means H an increase of $5 making their wages $ ji IC men S /$45 a week. The Merchant Truck-| q | tt om rame-p The’ bosses, thru their organization, ‘had announced that they had hired 4s BED a \the notorious Jim Waddell, the pro- Despite the jek * crsenre Dis- fessional recruiter of strikebreakers. rict Attorney Dodd of Kings County |t,, addition they had set aside a fund propose that there be ir created a Norwegian-F, = z a Es Bi 3 =f ER = g 3 ° Ei 3 S a A delegation of Fi ers have returned tof Leningrad from Moscow. They hive issued a statement to the prefs that the news of the rupture off Anglo-Rus- sian labor unity by jthe English bureaucrats has mad@ them most indignant. | men’s Bureau, the bosses’ associa- tion, has already ratified the agree- ment with the man, HOOVER UNITING AGAINST MINERS which hastened the final settlement. Class Collaborationists Ps Bee . _|Previous to the actual ending of the| Assisting Prosecution, strike 200 firms had already settled/ to Hold Many Meetings By GEORGE PAPCUN Victor Fern and Jose Christozal with the union on the latter’s terms on Friday. The enrollment of large numbers of old employes of large SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 11.—On top of the speech which Rinaldo Cap- pellini, president of District No. 1 of sting the prosecution,” is being/of nine. They agreed to waive the|the United Mine Workers at Pitts- witness, latter demand for the time being. ton before the Pittston anis Club are being held, Joseph J. Ryan, president ot the! on September 6th, in which he pre- trike. them with responsibility courthouse last Monday morning. In addition to the demand for the Eugenio Fernandez, who, the dis-' $5 pay increase, the workers also The defendants without bail. Lawyers for the Mex-, Central Trades and Labor Council, dicted that the anthracite mine work- ican government are defending them. was said to have arranged the con-| ers had had their last strike, we find §T would be ridiculous to contend) 4 hearing on theirecase has been set/ ference which announced the termina-| that the Chamber of Commerce of that the Edinburgh congress does for Wednesday. not indicate a right trend on the part! of British trade unionism. Class’ collaboration, sired, damned and baptized in the United States is now being introduced to the British work- ing class by labor fakers and em- ployers as a substitute for the class struggle to which British labor lead- ers, with comparatively few ‘excep-! cities thruout the country are working feverishly for the success of the according to their statement,\and for not v tions, have given up lip service in the| past. The government, representing | the employers has worked assiduously } for several years and particularly! since the General Strike with the ob-| WORKERS THRUOUT COUNTRY START DRIVE 10 | Mt. Carmel is calling a conference of ———~_ the anthracite coal operators and the United Mine Workers officials, also the so-called consuming public. At the conference will be discussed the question of recovering of the mar- ket by the anthracite coal operators. BUILD HUGE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN BAZAAR Reports are coming in from as far west as Seattle, indicating that ;,, goeyoted to how to eliminate waste, ‘tion of the strike. First National Bazaar arranged by The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit greater eficianey wale rl ent saw i t 6-7-8- ‘expenses so that the coal can}be sold t Madison Square Garden, for October 6-7-8-9. more cheaply to the so-calkd con- Committees are being elected by party units and by sympathetic labor suming public, which above mlans the a 2. “Ameabienbieina?? lorganizations. Already the articles, names fox the honor roll and the ad- speeding-up of the miners. a gipionrgentipneys dakar vertisements for the splendid souvenir program are beginning to pour in. “Starvation” Hoover Comps. » Sy a ° 5 % ‘ ; } il | The committee in charge announces that the following articles will be, The conference will be Keld on izing it wherever possible and where NEveRLER Ta Bt OME Canna. Galie this method would meet with the hos-| tility of even the labor leaders, se- ducing the unions with proposals for employer-worker cooperation and the sharing (?) of the additional profits and children’s clothing, furniture, novelties, furs, raincoats, caps, millinery, merce and Mr. Richard F. G t | groceries, umbrellas, books, victrolas, radios, automobiles, and many other | Cleveland who acted as interediary |tered shops have worse working ‘articles are already being collected and are expected to be sold at bargain |jn the settlement of the 1945-1926 ditions than the open shops. i i i under way: men’s, women’s | sold at the gigantic booths which are already y: reheat. Hoover vamniaeee ok One nt of | prices. ‘strike in the hard coal field, will asserted tionally known French novelist de- clared in an interview today. The reformists in France, he de- clared, 1 the reformists thruout the world are siding with the forces of reaction. This was espe- cially noticeable during the demon- strations to protest against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, he declared. ‘After reflection, and greatly dis- turbed at the announcement of the local officials, the committee decided an appeal to you. We were told last \'Thursday that we could proceed with jour plans. Now we learn officially that the Securite Generale has for- bidden the parade.” In the meantime American fascists who have already arrived slink about streets of Paris and make f tf ther-salves— in Paris Workers Attend cafes, where they are often heavily” | guarded by police. A batch of them ‘are leaving for Italy, where they will be greeted by their brotherly black shirts. a ‘CLOAKMAKERS A MEETING DECIDE '15,000 y | “Garden” Rally Fifteen thousand cloak and dress- Barbusse said that he intends to stay in| the US. §. Re long enough to get acquainted with the actual situation in order to pre- western European workers a true picture of the U. § nate jmakers assembling at the call of the| A Fascist Holiday. E Barbusse will stay in Moscow |New York Joint Board held a meet-| Sixteen hundred fas romped e weeks and will then leay ing in Madison Square Garden Satur-|0 the decks of the Leviathan Satur- Sg ce ee eee PARIS PREPARES. FOR BREAK WITH SOVIET RUSSIA Rakovsky Recall Seen as First Move PARIS, Sept. 11. France has taken another step towards breaking | off diplomatic relations with the Soy- iet Union when the council of min- |isters voted to ask that Christian Ra- |kovsky, ambassador be recalled. Using a proclamation signed by Rakovsky as an excuse, the French government might go to the extreme against the Workers’ Republic. An official announcement of the re+ quest that Rakovsky should be ree called has not been made public as yet. That is on account of the abe sence of Foreign’ Minister Briand. |day afternoon. After listening to|¢ay as the giant ship slipped out of |speeches by several of ‘the leading|the harbor on its way to Cherbourg. |progressive leaders in the needle| Before the Leviathan sailed, Vice |trades, the assembled workers un-/| President Dawes walked the decks of |amiously went on record for starting | the ship, violating all its regulations ja new offensive against the Sigman /|by walking into the boiler room, with | clique-ir-the-union: {his pipe, made famous by the capi- The resolution adopted calls for a talist DEess, SOME at full blast. general election, under the supervision|, The Leviathan was the last o the | of an impartial committee, the restor- | twenty-six ships sailing for France | ing of union conditions in the shops| With herds of fascists. Nineteen and a referendum vote on the ques-| thousand legionnaires and __ their tion of proportional representation. families are estimated to have left Mileaf Is Greeted. (Reet aan: Among the high lights of the mapa | . ling was the welcome given to Oscar! Real Soldier Goes To | Mileaf, militant needle trades worker, | * : | t released from jail anes aces Jail As Desk Warriors | Sail To Invade France months. He was framed up by a right wing gangster. Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board) Thomas Hewitt, 2 veteran of the LS Me ae arte ae ih bosses | great war, having served as a flier in je! a conten = last week SO) both the French and American armies | they could help him organize the in-/ gid not get any chance to go across | eee ats a | jaunt of the American Legion. ie as if Mayor Walker would call @ con- | was in the police court line-up yester- i New! day. Hewitt was a soldier, not York and tell them to abolish erime. |; -; 5 a : Can you visualize them saying ‘yes!’| ei CAME A Dae a ‘ For Pi Ww 2 ***" lerty to him. He is arrested for over- a nd iece ie {drawing his bank balance. He has “Sigman has also made a statement! a wife and child to support. to the effect that the next meeting! fee ; of the general executive board will| take action to change the method of work. There ar€ only two kinds of | | work—piece-work and week-work. At | |the present week-work is recognized, o Sigman can mean nothing else ex-! ~ that he intends to force piece-! x upon the workers with the help jof the general executive board.” | Ben Goid, manager of the Furriers | Joint Bo: told the assembled work- | ers of the significance of the meet- ing. “The comb Forward-Woll- | Underworld-police alliance,” continued ! ‘Gold, “has net destroyed the union. The and dressmakers continue to the left wing. They do| ant peace that will be a burden | i dressmakers. Ten months ago Sigman said he would have the workers on their knees, but today the workers are just as deter- mined to win as in the very beginning of the struggle, Registration Is Fake. Charles B. Zimmerman, who pre- ‘sided said that Sigman’s registration campaign is a fake, that the re Thousands of American Legionaires are in France. Other thou- sands are on the Atlantic Ocean, in many steamships, hurrying towards the scene of their 1927 convention, in Paris. During the days ahead, The DAILY WORKER will publish additional material exposing the veal nature of these American fascisti. Today we publish the first of a series of “Crimes of the American Legion.” Our readers are invited to Send in aitictes’reporting the activities” of the Legion in their cities er neighborhoods. Some of our readers have eady done so. Others should do the same. i ipping activities, the Legion resembles in ma tion, the Ku Klux Klan, This is shown by these fac A glaring and authentic case of vic men occurred on May 16, 1 when Art Clark, editor of the Carpenteria (California) Herald, was whipped with a whide until his body was swollen with br s because he had written some articles about the American Legion that were resented by the local post, of which he was formerly a member, Mr. Clark was waited upon by a committee of six men, who dragged him to the Legion hall and into a prize ring (one of the attractions) where he was told he must cease his articles and print a retraction under a tw®@ column head. The alternative was to put on the clothes for a bout with any membef of the committee, the loser to receive fifty lashes with a rawhide. Mr, - Clark is small and middle-aged, and knewing that he steod no chance with any one of the husky young men of the committee, he folded his arms and answered; “Well, consider me beaten right now.” re at the hands of the Legion ton the cloak ar man’s campaign is a fake,” that might be gained thru increased efficiency. The ringleader then rained lashes upon him until his body was criss crossed from shoulders to knees. Five members of the committee were subsequently fined $100 apiece by a justice of the peace, before whom the jlatter said that while the treatment meted out to the editor had had the an ‘ ” ; ear +jgive the principal addresses \t this| Zimmerman, “he cannot: foot the \* is expected that delegations will be sent to the bazaar from every | give P ul nm, ‘ tl \important city, with an appropriate collection of material. All signs peint so-called anthracite coal confrence. Pere wis it. For 19 months Sig- to the fact that the First National Bazaar will not only be unique insofar |The following officials of the ED Se as Lea C4 to register the as it is the first national affair yet arranged, but also in the fact that | Mine Workers have signified tltir in-| workers, but has failed. He is now * ™ « E logical result of the resolutions T seuss at the Edinburgh congress will be a sharpening of the struggle (Continued on Paae Three) it is expected to be the most elaborate affair yet arranged by the radical | movement, (Continued on Page Tw tentions of attending this conf¢ence, | sending sluggers to union shops. He | approval of the post members in adyance, official action had not been (Continued on Page Three) taken, as that would have required a meeting with five days’ notice, 4