The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 1

— THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THT ORGANIZATION OF THA UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A TATOR PARTY re AILY Entered ay second-class matt t the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of } ch 3, 1879. EDITION FINAL CITY Vol. IV. No. 207. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927 BLIS, lished Daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents HING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. 100,00 CHILDREN MINUS SEATS AS OLS OPEN; MILLION ENROLLED SCHO Mayor Walker Leaves | Rome Singing Praise Ls of Pope and Fascism | ROME, Sept. 12.—Mayor James fimes of the American Legion The American Legionnaires, on their present visit to Paris, will not dare to attack the headquarters of the French Communist Party, nor the office of its daily organ, L’Humanite. they would’be run out of France by French workers. If they tried it, During the REAL FRENCH VETERANS FIGHT TO | BAR AMERICAN FASCIST MEETING Legion Saloon Abolished as Workers Protest New York Teachers to Resume Fight for Wage J. Walker of New York City left war hysteria, and the red-baiting era that followed it, the American Increases; Will Build Organization One hundred thousand pup attend school part-time or go \ rear. Under the tutelage of a Tammany a made the entire school ficient buildings and adeq football, the congestion will be g¢ Despite the p: dic announcemenis of ambitious “building little has been done to rel pelievably archaic conditions exist in the schdols thruout the city. Over a Million Pupils. Precise. figures on the pased enrollment of pupils in the five bor oughs will not be available until Fri- day, but it is generally estimated by school authorities that the under- paid and overworked teachers will face a greater problem than ever in handling the surplus population which will exist this year. It is ex- pected that about 1,200,000 pupils will attend the schools. Manhattan’ is the only borough which does not report an increase in the school attendance. This is es- pecially true in the downtown section of the city where manufacturing and office buildings are rapidly crowding out the cheap apartments and the slum tenement district. The greatest increase in enrollment is found in the Bronx, particularly in the Hunts Point and east side of the borough populated mostly by) workers’ families. | With the opening of the schools the teachers, thru their organizations, will resume their fight for increase in salaries. Defeated in their gram during the past few years due to the fact that the question was used for political capital by both the Current Events pases ves meacanen ? By T. J. O'Flaherty HILDREN. of striking union min- | ers in the Pittsburgh riistrie® have refused to attend ,schoo! with the children of seabs¢They absented themselves fiom th® elassrooms when police protection was given to the pro- | geny of the strikebreakers. What to do with these subversive children must present a difficult problem to the Pittsburgh Coal Company, who con- trol the local government. The children were born in the neighbor hood, so Moscow cannot be charged with exporting them to the United States. - sible to find a jury that would con- viet them of violation of the state! anti-syndicalist law, so that weapon is unavailable., We can see only one civilized means by which’ the opera- | tors can punish these youthful reb- els. They may be able to reduce them to starvation by refusing their par- ents access to a job. * * * WISE judge in an Ohio mining town recently issued an injunction to 2 coal magnate whose employes are “on strike forbidding all but native Americans from picketing the scab properties. Since almost “the entire mining community, is composed of foreign born workers and their de- pro- | It would be almost impos- > ils in New York City will either; vithout seats during the coming! dministration which has the problem of suf- ries for teachers—a political | reater thi tions, the teache ceiving only 70 per cent of their pre- war schedule in real w » will be- gin again the agitation for’ the new sal. scale, Salaries As Low As $19.50. For teachers in the kindergarten to 6-B, the minimum salary is now 620 a year and the maximum $3,-| (Continued on Page Two) are now r Rome this morning after a four day stay, mouthing praises of fascism, Mussolini and the Pope. | Legion crowd was bu: courts. left for Paris, where he probably; | Robert E. Bentley Post No. 50. will be greeted by. the hisses and jeers of i whose hatred of great as workers who booed! butterfly mayor sev- ago. of Cincinnati, Ohio. His story was damaging to might overtake him. ing ‘at ‘Long Beach. on the boardwalk Gamk Gan-bling the started to hear pear as witnesses. I 2 y attacking the headquarters of the workers in this country, their vandalism being supported by the capitalist One of these cases is to be found in the attack on the r ; the legion and, confessedly because of this, | members seized him in Daytona, Ohio, threw him from the mud and water of a river, and went away regardless of what fate | | This raid in Cincinnati was only one of the many that have been per- petrated upon headquarters of Communists and socialists. of | wrecked and the literature was thrown into the streef and burned. The suit Long Beach will be investigated by|for damage was brought against the post; but altho the essential facts Nassau county grand jury that| Were not disputed the jury returned a verdict in favor of the legion. evidence yesterday. |commander of the post was quoted as | About 50 men and women will ap-' warning to all that the distribution of seditious literature, and seditious | meetings, will not be permitted in Cincinnati. Mr. Reis was subpoenaed as a witness in| connection with a raid on the headquarters of the Communist Labor Party a high bridge into} The place was The ying exultantly: “The verdict is a THE TEAMSTERS BEAT THIS GANG e By Fred Ellis | | A MAKES GESTURE AGAINST MELLON FOR INTENSIVE FIGHT GN YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS By ART SHIELDS. the big Indianapolis Real Silk Co. PHILADELPHIA, (FP) Sept. 12.—| have signed their workers on these Redoubling its campaign against the|individual contracts, pledging them openshop plants remaining in the|to keep out of the union. In Indian- knitting industry the American Fed-|apolis 95 per cent of the hosiery pendents this judge did his master’s! i d io Bellheadt eration of Full-Fashioned Hosiery| workers joined the Federation before job as neatly as an expert bull-hea Workers at its 16th annual conven-|the company sprang the yellow dog, CompanySendsCossacks | skinner flays his fish. The Ohio Sol- ‘emon’s ukase served the purpose of creating a division — at least this was one of the objects — betweer the native-born and the foreign-born min- ers and gave the operators legal sanc- tion for the use of gunmen, private and official. IN VIEW of the gencral use of gov- ernments, local, state and national against the workers in industrial dis putes, it seems almost incomprehen: sible to the uninitiated that the lead- evs of the American Federation of Labo» should be opposed to class poli tical action on’ the part of the wor ers. Capitalist government officials always serve the owning classes. The exceptions are so rare that they are unworthy of mention. Even the ske!- eton of a Labor Party would serve notice on the capitalists that their slaves were beginning to awake. Then why are the Wolls, Greens and Gradys | opposed to a Labor Party? Because | the Wolls, Greens and Gradys are) (Continued on Page Six) | Girl Pickets Sentenced to Three Days in Prison Two girls were sentenced to three, days in jail yesterday in the Jeffer-| son Market Charles Stampler’s restaurant, Sixth Ave, The girl pickets were urging em- ployes not to scab, They are Louise | Court for picketing | 340 H Nager, 19 Hamilton Place, Hem- stead and Pearl Cherber, 795 East 161st St. J * . To Bully Miner Children | i | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12.— | | The executive council of the American | | Federation of Labor has at last issued | a mild statement taking cognizance ‘of the misuse of power by the state | 'of Pennsylvania and the placing of | | police authority in the hands of coal company officials thru the creation | of a force of coal and iron police. | The council threatens political ac- } | tion against the Mellon regime now in | power in Pennsylvania. Its statement is, in full, as follows: | The executive council of the Amer- ‘ican Federation of Labor at its ses-| ‘sion Sept 9th, unanimously voted to | |consider ways and means by which | ‘assistance can be given the United | | Mine Workers of America .in its ef-| |forts to protect its membership in| | their homes and preserve their con- stitutional and economic rights. Phil- ip Murray, vice president, and Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the nited Mine Workers of America, ex- plained to the executive council the situation in western and central Penn- sylvania where more than 80,000 mine workers have been on strike since | April 1. The executive council proposes |among other things to take the mat-! ter into politics. In announcing the action of the |executive council, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said: “The information submitted to the (Continued on Page Two) tion authorized a $100,000 campaign| reported Louis F. Budenz, editor of fund for the fight on the yellow dog| Labor Age, who had charge of the contract. Real Silk fight. The yellow dog con- Three scabfirms in Philadelphia and (Continued on Page Two) Janan Suspects That Rabbit Workers te World Fliers Really Start Mass Picket Are American Spi2s of Shops This Week TOKYO, Sept. 12. — Delayed at NEWARK, Sept. 12—The fur rab- Omura flying field, about 600 miles bit workers who are conducting a from here, by fog, the Pride of De-| campaign to organize the open shops, troit, will resume its round-the-world | plan to start mass picketing soon. flight early Tyesday, according to} f « advices received here today. The navy | They also expect to sign up one of will send a plane to Omura to escort | the open shops within a short time. {the American plane here. At a meeting of the wiion mem- | Japanese authorities have investi- | bers who stopped work litt week to ‘gated the charges that Wiliam Brock | organize the scab shops, hvid at Mont- jand Edward F. Schlee, pilots of the} omery Hall, H. Begoon, secretary. of | Pride of Detroif, flew over a fortified | the International Fur Workers’ Union 'zoné during their flight from Shang-|SP0ke. His remarks were based on jhai. Following the investigation, the | the principle of peace in the union. \chief of the aviation bureau that the | He said that he did not come to dis- car tolated ilita cuss the suspensions and expulsions js apie Rep e nete | that have taken place in the organi- zation. Morris Langer, business agent of the Newark local also spoke. The stoppage is being conducted jointly by Local 25, of Newark, that That the United States will detogs | nize the, Soviet Union is the belief of Irving ,T. Bush of the Bush Terminal Company. Bush’s statement is made in the magazine which the “Brook- lyn Central” will appear September has jurisdiction of all rabbit shops in New Jersey and Local 58 of Brook- lyn, The former is a left wing local, the latter a supporter of the right 28rd. wing International administration. EL ROUNCIL ” oguny. Hoek -comemn RAISES 100000’ TRHCKMEN DELA MEET TO RATIFY | | | | | & Y WAGE AGREEMENT 7,000 Win $5 Increase After Militant Strike ‘The meeting of the New York truckmen to consider: ratification of the verbal agreement with bosses Saturday evening scheduled to have been held at Beethoven Hall last night has been postponed. Get $5 Raise. By its terms the workers, whd struck last Wednesday will get an increase of $5 in wages, making their pay $45 a week. A large number of the workers, members of Locals 282 and 807 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs have al- ready returned’ to work in anticipa- tion of the official ratification of the peace which they won. Display Militaney. The truckmen achieved their vic- tory in the face of a determined strike-breaking program on the part of the bosses, who had hired a pro- fessional scab-herder, Jim Waddell} and appropriated $25,000 to break the men’s union. Police of New York ac- tively aided the bosses; they not only gave protection to scabs who tried to man trucks carrying freight, but in some instances actually drove the trucks themselves. MONTRAAL, Sept. 12.—Major Gen. John F. Ryan, of New York, presi- dent of the Colonial Air Transport Company, was here today with plans to form: a Canadian company for in- auguration of a commercial air ser- vice between Montreal, New York and other American eastern points. > Vandalism of Swivel-Chair Soldiers ae PARIS, Sept. 12.—Despite thoritie protest BULLETIN. “Now I know how three r Communist Labor Party headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which ROME, Sept. 12.—Four hundred American Legionnaires can make a-countr he said.} the legion won out when suit for damages was pressed in the courts. have arrived here, having fled to their brother fascists in “The Pope, Premier Mussolini and The facts follow: . a m e ; ei Puree Petsistailt have, been the - + * | Italy from Paris which city they found extremely uncomtort high lights of our visit. Walker! Frederick Reis, Jr., a young lawyer, was a member of the legion—| 2ble because of the protest of French workers. effor of the municipal au- supported by the Poincare administration, to smash the of the Paris workers against the American Legion con- vention, demonstrations against the fascist holiday are rapidly gaining strength. « Arrest Militant Workers. Wholesale arrests of militant work- ers as well as an effort to curb the antics of the legionnaires which have even antagonized middle class ments are the measures adopted by the chief of police, Chiappe. The saloon in the legion hut here where American fascists have been carousing since their arrival has been regretfully abolished by the munici- pal authorities. The action of the authorities was forced by the growing protest of French workers against the vandal- ism of drunken legionnaires who swagger about the streets of Paris. Real Veterans ht Fascist Even socialist workers have fol- lowed the lead of the left wing in its demonstration against the convention. A large proportion of French ex service men have announced their in- tention to boycott the fascist parade and gathering. Contemptuous of the swivel-chair heroes who are flocking into the city, poilus affilia with the International of E ice Men and a large proportion of those con- nected with the Independeat War Veterans’ Ass ciation have declared START OFFENSIVE TO DEFEAT RIGHT WING OF 1, L. 6. W. Fur Unity Committee Discusses Problems The Cloak and Dri akers’ Joint Board, in its new offensive t» end the present chaos in the industry, has started to put into effect the deci-) sions of the rm meeting held at dison Square Garden last Satur- The most important decision at taat demonstration was that the Joint Board should form a closer con- tact with the rank and file in the shops. To this end the Joint Board yesterday issued a call to the work- ers in all cloak and dress shops to elect shop’ committees. the shop committees will be two-fold; first to see what can be done about improving conditions in the shops;| and second to make an end the} chaos in the union. As the situation is now, the worker is absolutely defenseless. He has no- body to take up his grievances. Those registered cloak and dressma ers who have tried to complaints to the Sigman clique, quickly became convinced that it is useless. It is impossible to get any- ele-|/ The task of! 4- ;that they will have nothing what- lo with r to d the legion ¢conven- , a leader of the as- d several days ago participate in any demonstration for the legion because of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Seek Signs of Slaughter. ABOARD S&S. S. LEVIATHAN, Sept. 12.—American Legionnaires who missed the pleasure of dodging aeroplane bombs in the late war be- cause of their ptedeliction for staff jobs and swivel-chair sgldiering in |general are taking’ a keen interest now in the fate of “Old Giory” the most spectacular recent case in which brave pilots have given up their lives in the effort to extend and improve still largely military science of aviation. Seventeen hundred gaily bedecked and homeloving warriors en route to the legion’s convention in Paris get a living thrill out of lining the nd lodking for wreckage as the han plows thru the seas that in all probability cover the bodies of “Old Glory’s” crew. “Atwood Talking Wildly | of ‘Reds, Yellov's, Pinks’ Demands Exile for Aliens BOSTON, Sept. 12. — An echo of the Sacco-Vanzetti case came this afternodn wher Representa. tive Harrison H. Atwood, of Bos- ton, filed with the house clerk a bill asking congress for a national census and registration of all al- iens, with deportation of all “an- archist” aliens. Representative Atwood said he wanted the country cleared “not only of reds but of parlor pinks and native yello whether con- y institutions | y the common gh of learning or mer garden variety.” The representative was also pre- paring for consideration by the in- coming legislature a bill modeled on the California criminal syndi-| calism law. 1 JAPAN'S RULERS TROUBLED BY NEW mine oe MANGHURIAN RIOT MUKDEN, Manchuria, Sept. 12. thing from a bosses’ union by com-| Intense hatred of the Japanese mili- plaining against the bosses. The /|tarists is growing in this section of Joint Board, together with the shop committees, will devise means to put! an end to this situation. This is the only way left to the workers. Against Sigman Gangsters. With the shop committees,” the Joint Board will also take steps to carry on a still more energetic drive against the guerillas which Sigman is sending down to the shops. The com- mittees will strengthen the picket lines, declare and conduct strikes for union conditions, and in such ways build up the union. The Joint Board calls upon the workers of each shop to elect such a committee and have its members im- mediately get in touch with the Joint Board office at 16 West 2ist street. In those shops where block commit- tees now exist, these committees can take the place of shop committees if the workers so decide. Ever since Saturday, the Madison (Continued on Page Five) aa | tober 6-7-8-9. Oriental goods and trinkets reminiscent of the exotic east, will be sold at the booth. Labor and fraternal organizations and Workers Party units are urged to send in their advertisements for the program within the next few days. ASIATICS PLAN ORIENTAL BOOTH FOR GIANT BAZAAR AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN OCT. 6 | Natives of various oriental countries are cooperating to build a gen: luine oriental booth for the First National Bazaar arranged by The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit at Madison Square Garden for Oc+ | Asia, so long under the domination of Japanese headed by Chang Tso-lin himself. Yesterday another violent outbreak took place when a Japanese police- man attached to the consulate here tried to remove an anti-Japanese pos- ter stuck on the walls. He was in- stantly knocked down by a rush from all the Chinese within sight. Chang Tso-lin has been several times recently reported as involved in a quarrel with his protectors, the Japanese government, probably over money matters. He is reported as having insisted that Bolshevism can- not be exterminated from China with- out more and heavier subsidies than heavily taxed Japan is willing to give, and threatens that unless he does get money in large quantities and soon he may even turn Nation- alist. governors, > aromatase — ——~ ”