The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER rieuTs: _ FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZER FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK : YOR A LABOR PARTY f 4 net Vol. IV. No. 212. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. Qutside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class mutter + NEW st Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Marcb 3, 1879, The DAILY W York, /Mshed Daily except Sunday by BLISHING CO. 38 First Street, New | FINAL CITY ra) ON ORKE N. GENERAL STRIKE ON RE — 1h Current Events. By T. J. O'Flaherty . PUT COMMUNIST | IN TRISH DAIL; CCORDING to an editorial in the| New York Telegram, George| Bernard Shaw said that men without religion are physical as well as\moral cowards. In all probability, by the Coserave Government time, this Shayian saying has made * . the rounds of editorial pages from the IN Desperate Straits metropolis to Sauk Center, George ‘i —- will emit another chuckle and dub the DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 18,—The election to the Irish Dail of “James | in, Irish stvike leader and a one e imprisoned under the New York ate “criminal anarchy” law marks rliamentary gains of the League, a member of than t International, and meat presages in the opinion of all here the w is emergence of revolutionary workins movements onto ‘the polit: 'd until now occupied by question: natjonalism. Larkin won by a big majo > seat as a deputy in the + North Dublin. He is the first Com to ever sit in the Irish par- trusting editorial hacks a lot of ‘gullible saps who did not realize that the notoriously inconsistent Celt was kidding thém. * HAW believes no mcre = % atheist and his ng ¢he of on of humanity in return x coin. Shaw is consistent! ing political and philosophical saults, He is branded as perhaps he is, as sociali adays,. but certainly not of the Engels brand. for ament, Slowly, Count Votes. The Irish election count precedes owly but indicates that the govern- life discovered the knacl ment parties are not increasing theii ting his name mentioned in publ : strength very much, as the Cosgrave : yea hao! an of politicians hoped would be the re- dramatic cri iit aye reer sult of the voting. Considerable bar- Beas Bee aining has to go on between the attend pub! lic meetings with a s ipply hae pakticamkaveralof whicunEnee pri: hers . it, +,, votes enough to throw the govern- eae. en ee ance ment out or keep it in power. i The government and the De Valera * * in his of get- HE wealthy dramatist, e LARKIN ELECTED voulk a s s to the si would hand one of those cards to sero ied hares Oth painting ahaha vee chairman who invariably read it out Joud before he had time to think Pense of Farmers, Independents, Na- tional League, etc., and are about about the unusual publicity stunt. i equal in strength. The originality of this method got Shaw his/ihitial publicity and he has | Thomas Johnson was defeated in the improved his technique every year County Dublin _election. Cosgrave since. Not so long ago he was thoroly, won in Cork City and Carlow. In hated by conservative Britain and Dublin P. F. Baxter, Farmer’s Party particularly by the orthodox glergy, lenge lost his seat. ORT Pak oari liite SELF I S RLE BEE ir erie stad Los Angeles Militiamen Breaking Into Jail for “Cutting” Tuesday Drill Li ake a few years back Shaw de- LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 18. fended the proletarian dictator- ship in Russia in an article which was —Recent publications of statistics on misdemeanor cases in this city published in the “Labor Monthly” of England. He still remains on speak- indicate that no less than 500 dif- ferent National Guardsmen have ing terms with the Soviet Govern- been brot before judges and either ment, but he is lined up solidly with the reactionary wing of the trade threatened or fined and imprisoned for failing to appear at drill. unions in his hostility to the Commu- nists. Shaw loans money to British Most of these delinquents are clerical workers who have been municipalities and insists on his in- terests. Tho he pokes fun at the either forced by their employers or enticed by the “glories of war” as British bourgeoisie occasionally he is an imperialist at heart and his fame related by recruiting sergeants into enlisting in the national guard. adds lustre to the empire. Shaw is \ having a lot of fun, tho we often Most of them are willing to shoot | | workers if necessary, but the grind wonder if the role of literary clown is more spiritually invigorating now of summer drill palls on a dancing || man, after a while, and some of than it was in feudal days, when the! them have “played hookey.” The court jesters were repaid with kicks, between goblets of mead and chunks California state law then goes into operation. The latest to stand of pork. is . = trial is Randolph Cook, age 17. RTI RENEE RE & —o | easy the souls and perhaps the) bodies of the American Legion- naires should be polluted by contact with a certain section of the female, population of the gay city of Paris, prefect of police Chiappe, has cleared the boulevards of the provocative |, females who look with hungry eyes : i. on the patrons of the side walk tables} Insull Finds Rivals « and the wines thereon. If we know) : our gallant veterans of many a, Tp rbecoen en in giddy swivel-chair, the boys that; andin ain ferreted out the “Germans in aa Mary baad € dangerous files of the department o. 5 justice in Washington, we BALTIMORE, | Sept. 18 abe oe Chiappe will have to do better if he, Insull _public lat erage 4 wants to save the immortal souls ot | Shele al bala urned een the our puritannieal warriors from the| Maryland utilities commission was temptation of “Paris Nights.” upheld in circuit court in its refusal A z 7 |to permit the sale of four western i 'Maryland plants to the big Chicago HIAPPE’S pate reminds us that | company. Insull bid as high as four ; the, French police have not yet’ times the value of the plants, a prac- 4 (Continued on Page Three) | tice viewed by the commission with ee | misgivings as leading to overcapital- | a ‘ization of the properties and gouging Local Babbits to “stnen | | Maryland thus takes its stand be- i : ‘side Maine which has turned down | Gf LW] {the Insull crowd flat in their plans MW e come d ey | for mass exploitation of the tremen- / ;dous undeveloped waterpower in that state. Fancy offers have been made ll p t [ Here © owners of hydro-electric - plants and of power sites but the Maine government has resolutely opposed PARIS, Sept. 18.—After boasting, the Insull tactics so far. last week that he knows “nothing of | eT international polities and complica- Grand Jury to Get Facts tions,” Mayor Walker, New York’s! , ri jazz Prince of Wales, has just ia. | OF Clubbing of 53-Year mented the lack of “a pen of a Balzac or a Daudet” in which to express ‘ic Old Woman by a Cop admiration for this city. i Raa ? already frdternized with some of the | wn? ial Sens ales beens Jeading imperialists and fascists in| ¢ isattan'?) A ‘s paar Bane Europe. Especially was he full of ad-| ahtetick rmy worker, » wi a | aati for Mussolini and his k Alay | miatretatiide: atioriey han Caisee as nt by the giddy | heard testimony of a physician who cont ae Pe FUCK ated and treated Mrs. Nicholson. He declares \ receptions. He was also officially told|that he found ugly bruises on her that he would receive a “big welcome” | back and right arm. by the Advertising Club of New York upon his arrival on the Ile de France mA eh. Om oe pear WANTED — MORE DERS! LARS YOU, GETTING - THIM? £ “OUR MAYOR” IN ROME )@ oo 7 Killed, 4 Near Death In Crash of Overloaded Plane on “Bargain” Day | PLAINFIELD, } , Sept. }—-Four of the five persons {survived the plane n | Hadley Field, in which Hed yesterday, appeared to ht for their live he Muhlenberg h of the the to snea | will be able |‘ime. Hy: | gripped thei heir mentalitie: The accident occurred whe eriously overloaded with who took adv g offer of hed into an orchard et, N. J. Both tk nechanic had no expe he plane until the day of the a ident. Villaid Describes — | Brutality of N.Y. Police in Article The vicious third-degree method in| all its brutal variations as practised by members of the New York police department, are described by Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of “The Na- LABOR'S BOYCOTT OF LEGION COOLS: JINGO “WELCOME”, Reveal New Imperialist Aims at Many Meetings PARIS, Sept. 18.—The facts about the last imperialist war were being told in halls thruout the city to thous- ands of workers while the salaried militarists, led by “Black Jack” Persh- ing, attempted to revive jingo pro- paganda by stereotyped ceremonies at the graves of victims of the slaughter. |. Marshal Foch followed Pershing at the staged “pilgrimage” to Mount | Valerien, one of the many American | cemeteries in France. Belying the peace speeches of the generals were | the long lines of infantry and the} municipal guard standing with fixed bayonets, while overhead the French army biplanes hovered low over the rows of crosses. Orgy Continues. Meanwhile the Opera Comique and a dozen other theaters put on gala performances for the Legion dele- gates, acting according to hints from the government which seemed to have the force of orders. The Montmarte section had laid in thousands of extra bottles of cham- pagne, and the high-spirited dance halls were preparing for a record pa- tronage. It is understood that only “veterans” with plenty of money came | over in the “Second A. E. F.” { Pershing and Foch clasped arms} as they entered the “House of Amer- ican Nations” which will be used as | the headquarters of the American) fascists during their riotous stay here. | 4 r Legion includes a dinner which the | French government is giving in honor | wit) {eo} of Pershing and Howard P. Sav national commander of the labor-hat- Labor Movernent of jroil-call for the ninth time to keep the American labor and sane for the employing class in order to gi fornia, the ri Widow's Court Action Shows Governor General Somehow Made $100,000 | BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 18. —Running the Philippine Islands for American big business is not exactly a thankless job, as the suit of Major General Wood’s widow for papers of administration indi- cates, The rather blood-thirsty medical man whom President Roosevelt chose to advance over the heads of so many other and older officers in the regular army left about a hundred thousand dollars worth of loose belongings, the application discloses. He had a legal residence in Pocasset, Mags., all the time he was actually in the isiands. Southern Cal, Pays To Entertain A.F.L, LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.—The American Federation of Labor ,Con- | counter-revolutionaries vention to open here October 3 will |s live up to past standards from the | measures of the proletarian govern- point of view:of showing the dele-| ment directed against persons and 0} gates a “good time.” i movement is being mulcied in order The local labor to furnish more or less free enter- tainment for the prosper gentle- men who annually ma the trek across the country to iswer the movement safe Over ten thousand dollars ha: eady been raised by various mez e the “fat boys’ who gene: staff a omprise labor's taste of the hospitability of the sun- Tomorrow the program of the ny "Ja: nd of oranges and jails.” The officialdom of the A. at ho hern Cali- radise,. as there is rapi less d ing gang, at the Palais d'Orsay. At i sf fen tA becas ain eae that time Premier Poincare and a/ iy, pecdaa number of leading reactionaries will te greet them “ in the name of the ro public,” Meanwhile even right-wing and cialist elements in Paris and in t provinces are systematically bo ting all official “receptions” to the Legion. The stand taken by L'Hu-| manite., militant Communist dail, immediately following the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, has becn adopted | by practically all liberal coctions of} the population, who refuse to show the slightest interest in the Legion, |b! Contempt for Legion Unive: who they characterize as “the Amer-|tho best means of further tying the|and justice of the eoming socialist fgon ascessine.” u | ith offi i thas 1 he parasiti of the Ameri- ean trade unions are supposed to old th solomn deliberations as to ions to the capitalist wheel. ‘WORKERS CONTROL . of L.] pr |tion” in the current issue of Harpers’ | Magazine. Citing his facts from the Society of | Penal Information and other official jsources, Villard tells of the various ‘tortures inflicted by uniformed men \and detectives in extracting “confes- | sions” from prisoners awaiting hear- 1 ings: i wn Quote Police Reporter. | | Villard quotes A. G. Sedgwick, aj SAY NORWEGIANS New York police reporter: | “The ‘shellacin’ has started. Blow | after blow from the rubber hose, , ‘ | blackjacks and nightsticks. The blood Labor Delegation Finds pours from their faces. They spit and ‘6 ey, (cough blood. A detective kicks the | New Order Being Built prisoner in the face, pulls him to his| \feet, props him against the desk, then | MOSCOW, Sept. 18.—“The work. | with the bd a att | 13, Cred . m a gash In his head. he victim jing class of the Soviet Unen holds i Hatiakent (othe hospital @o'Uhe editor | its hands economic and political POW- | also t er,” declared the Norwegian Labor | prone bodies of prisoners from tables | Delegation which has just adopted an|and chairs. jaddress to the Central Council of| Villard relates the case of George | | | : \Trade Unions of the U. §. S. R., and|Pons “who was beaten for an entire t < eer ae z _|night and rope around his neck was [the Leningrad Provincial Trade Coun liitled every sow. and‘then” when he | [cil 5 , ; _ {reported the murder of a friend to | “Having without hindrances studied | Commissioner Warren on May 31.) jthe situation of the working class|“Two days later, he was discharged |here,” the visitors from Norway de-|from a police court as innocent. Oth-| jclare, “we are convinced that it not/ers have received fractured skulls.” | only, has economic and political power Rubber Hose a Favorite. | but that the Soviet workers and (Acoesa The writer declares that a favorite ants will bring its task of building so-} y rats i faliei to" acaueeaaate coumtuator ? jmethod of the New York police is to | ae eras s ‘ |use a rubber hose, which hurts more | AN Oe Tees eRecen 0 leaeae es ‘that billy or a club yet leaves | “We thoroly understand that frée-| marke, nes Lh Salas {dom of speech for the bourgeoisie and | Villard, in concluding says that the : is inadmis-| barbarity of the local cops is found in! . We also thoroly understand the | other cities thruout the U. S. j Tourists Return. ; Some 4,800 American tourists re 53! x |turned yesterday on five trans-Atlan- xpressing the cos that the tic liners which steamed into the port jexecution of the 20 counter-revolu-\of New York, keeping customs and | tionaries was necessary to prevent! immigration men on the jump all day. ic acts, the statement | of the Norwegian workers further| Plans Fly to Const. states that it considers it necessary; Twenty-seven airplanes will hop off to establish close connections between | from Curtiss Field today in the New the labor u of the U. R.,/ York-Spokano air derby. ‘Upholsterers to Aid Red Bazaar of DAILY striving to destroy the —@ on unity of the inter- | and mutual aid in| | i social conflicts. ge labor gation left "el an labor delegation lett’ WORKER and Freiheit 1 of tho delegation, Krimpel, iss r of the Esthonian|| Progressive memhers of the up- holsterers’ union of New Yor that the de’ the U. st voted to The DAIL which J le, E {I held uare Garden on October will be in eiheit nd 9, are being made by them || to provide a large amount of high- || grade upholstered furniture for || this event, in which hundreds of | | labor and fraternal organizations | | e for the the Soviet thru the broadly that the truth U. S. S. R. will be | spread,” mpel concluded, “the | stronger will be the faith of the work- ing class of the world in the strength thruout the U. S. are participating. | | A meeting of the upholsterers | | | will be held on Wednesday at the | Freiheit building, 30 Union Square, on Wednesday immediately after work, order.” « ells of detectives jumping on the | , {the } | quibble ral railroad The Kowlung the Canton- ton-Hankow a series ovincial zes and work- nded that the same of workers i railway. ed Demands. The gover not only re- fused to e demands but announced that it had decided to “revise” conditions of labor and he Canton-San- shui ring that the level as the on the Governmen wa lway, uy collective agreement with the workers of that railway was signed under the pressure of threats on the part of the Com- munists. Unite for General Strike. The workers. of the Canton-San- shui railway, having learned of this answer of the government joined forces with the workers of the Can- ton-Hankow railway for a joint pro- test against the action of the gov- (Continued on Page Two) Living Conditions Grow Werse, State Polish Unionists WARSAW, growing ept. 18.—With wide among the working Marshal Pilsudski s attempts to transform republican state into an open fascism. The trade unions have lined up against Pilsudski. The central body by a large m y has passed a res- olution which that living condi- tions for the working class are be- coming ste: se, that the in- dustrial and the large © landowners i Support Parliament. resolution also threatens against the present dicta- r if he does not yield to the pare ment, with which he is now in @ bitter struggle. He is accused of at- The measure t tempting to overthrow parliament altogether. He has twice overawed it by massing troops in the streets, and forcing it to revoke decisions he does not like. But the army is ne longer quite so reliable, and it is still doubtful whether another such move would eed without considerable bloodshe id perhaps a long ¢'! war, Constitutional Struggle. Recentl been , the “premier” and the taking advantage succes- ° red tape provisions of Po- loosely drawn and complicated ic law. » the parliament a law making it r house by a bare y to dissolve and order new eletions. _ Pil i dissolved parlia- ment before could be passed. That utional. But it was also ional for parliament to re- convene on the signed call of a cer- tain number of deputies, and this ssion. But do any n from refused. some legal vercoming this state of is now ready to go g Pilsudski the choice compromising with it, or throwing out and ruling alone. The ma- in parliament is held by rich and small basiness men. mont! mpted to y njo. ow itutionally permi he has found busine: Parli g Cooperative Opens New Store. A cooperative fish store will open this morning at the Workers’ Coop- erative Home of the Bronx. This is the fifth establishment of this kind to be starjed at the colony, i ¥