The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1927, Page 1

————$—— $$ THE DAILY WORKER VIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-EKOUR WEBK POR A LABOR PARTY ee Vol. IV. No, 214. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by majl, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents N. Y¥. HINESE REVOLUTIONISTS ADVANCE ON HANKOW By T. J. O'Flaherty the world-famous of King George,of England, per- or of India and the dominions be- yond the seas, was re-elected mayor of Chicago, he appointed as chief of police an enthusiastic gentleman by the name of Michael] Hughes who pledged himself to drive all bandits and other evil doers out of the city jnside of the customary hours. William Hale Thompson, HEN 48 beloved hammer; ub “Boost your city and yo’ He also decided to swirling waters of and to bring the fight to Chicago. getting rid of the he would leaye to h * * OW successful Mr. Hughes been may be gathered from t following news item bearing a C cago date line: “When a funny-look- ing mar. entered the Red Parrot Inn, a famous roadhouse northwest of Chicago, and mounted a machine gun in a strategic position, commanding a sweep of the dance floor, forty men and women patrons were curiously fascinated—What a novel act this going to be they thought. It was. A moment later four other men entered, more sinister looking than funny.! Two carried sawed-off shot guns and! two were armed with revolvers.— “Everybody lie flat on the floor,” commanded the leader. The terrified patrons obeyed. Then two bandits went through the crowd and took al] / eash and jewelry available. J twinkling of an eye the bandit quin- | tet was gone, escaping from the scene in an automobile after disabl~ 3 nection ; exulted as much over a rival gunman MANY SHOT DOWN American Style Election | Volleys Rake Streets | BULLETIN. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20.—Two vie- tims of gang warfare staged in con- with the bitterly contested | primary election campaigns in Alle- | gheny county, died today as the coun- | '.ty went to the polls. | eorge Faber, 24, and John Rohan, ere the victims. Faber, an inno-| bystander, was shot as he emerg- | ma store in the “strip” district | day and died in a hospital to- | Rehan was sitting in a parked bile when shot down from a} g car. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20. —} This city today experienced the best political fight for some time. Chicago tactics were freely used. Mobile arm- | ies of thugs dashed about the streets, | in spite of the promise of the gov-| ernor to send the militia, and shot| up the town. Members of parties in| the election referred openly and gloat- | ingly to their “mobile armies,” and | * * wounded as over the report of a close voting precinct won. Innocent bystanders have been dodging bullets not only today, but for several days past, as the prelim- inary skirmishes in the exercise of the free American and sovereign right of suffrage, modern style, were con- | ducted. Big Slush Funds. cnarges that more than $300,000 had been spent by the republican or- ganization of senator-elect William S. Current Foon | PHILADELPHIA IN Tow Morrow, a | SICMAN'S, <¢ ASE"! 1 oF ELECTION BATTLE; of Morgan, Appointed — _ Ambassador to Mexico WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Dwight W. Morrow, partner in the} financial firm of J. P. Morgan &| !Co., was appointed ambassador to) Mexico today. The appointment! was announced by President Cool-} idge. ) MORE MARINES DEAD IN THE U.S.- NICARAGUAN WAR 20 Liberals Killed, 50 Wounded in Attack WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. —Two more American marines have just been killed in the war which the U. S. state department is waging against remnants of the Liberal gov- ernment of Nicaragua which has refused to accept its rule, as laid down by Col. Stimson. At the same time over 20 Nicara- guans were killed and 50 wounded in |the skirmish with the marines and about twenty-five native constabu- lary. The fighting occurred at Telpan- eca and is reported to have lasted four hours. So far as the casualties go, the fight appears to have been the most serious since the Ocatal battle, in which several hundred Nic- araguans under Gen. Sandino were killed. ing all other machines nearby to pre- Vare in promoting the mayoralty and yent pursuit.” \district attorneyship campaigns of * ~~ Harry A. Mackey and “Judge John HOULD a citizen of the “Windy|Monoghan were made by former City” remind Mr. Hughes of his! Mayor J. Hampton Moore, the anti- promise to rid the city of bandits,|Vare candidate, here tonight on the that worthy can rightfully claim that/eve of one of the most eagerly await- the incident at the Red Parrot Inn/ed primary elections in Philadelphia’s took place outside his jurisdiction. | history. ° My. Hughes is a politician as well as; On the outcome of tomorrow’s a law enforcing officer, able to use/election hinges the immediate future his head as well as his feet. There|of the Vare organization in local poli- U, S, STATE DEPT. THREATENS TARIFF WAR ON FRANCE Charges Discrimination *® is reason to suspect that the police | tics. are as averse to the complete elimi-} nation of crime as the clergy are to the complete abolition of sin. With- out bandits unemployment would play havoe with the Chicago police department and without the devil clergymen might be obliged to make! a living, writing their experiences for | Volleys From Cars. Involving Germans The murder and thuggery which for | the last ten days have terrorized Pittsburgh spread to the outer dis- tricts over Sunday, when Oakland and Soho found armed gangs dash- ing about the streets pouring volley after volley from speeding cars. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The French government was sharply in- formed today that if it wants a tariff war with the United States it can have it. This was done in the state depart- ment’s note, handed to the French the “confession” magazines, * * * William Meade, 48 years old, of 814 | Cortlandt St., a taxi starter, was seri- NTEREST in the coming Dempsey-|ously wounded by a stray bullet last Tunney fight’ flagging, that expert night while at his. stand at Atwood showman Tex Rickard, decided that|and Forbes Sts. John Mutz, 21 years heroic measures should be adopted to|old, of 8711 Forbes St., and John} clean out whatever ducats remained, Rohan, 19, cf 3723 Orpwood St., are} i in the pockets of those who follow the manly art of prize fighting. Un- til now the scheduled combat between | the champion and the challenger was, as devoid of fire as a factional fight} between two groups of liberals. Some-} thing had to be done. So Dempsey’s | literary representative wrote a letter! to Mr. Tunney suggesting that the! latter might be able to allay public euriosity concerning certain suspici- eus financial deals entered into by elose associates of his when Dempsey | | lost the fistic crown to the battling bookworm, Moras picture magnates have en-! tered into an agreement to bury) sthe Sacco-Vanzetti case as far as the sereen is concerned. A trade journal | tells of this agreement and declares | that requests came from Europe to) the movie barons begging them to! do their share in the task of remov-| ing the famous case from public con- | sideration. This sheds a light on the! methods employed by the ruling classes in killing news that hurts the | capitalist. system. It also serves as) (Continued on Page Six) * * in the Homeopathic Hospital seriously wounded by gangsters’ bullets. .As a result of the Soho riots, Po- lice Captain Anthony Forrester was | suspended today. Lieutenant Earl Means and Policemen Thomas Mc- Guire and Fred Coberley also were re- lieved from duty. NEW STRIKE TALK AS BOSSES EVICT WORKER LEADERS. (By Federated Press) Now that the Henderson, N. C. textile strike is over the Harriet cot- ton mill firm is punishing the active men. A telegram from the local or- ganizer says: Relief Deducted From Pay. | “Special relief given strikers by) firm during early period of strike, (Continued on Page Two) | BOOTHS FROM RADIO WORLD'S FAIR TO REMAIN | that these constitute one-tenth of the FOR “RED BAZAAR” AT Progressive members of the up- holsterers’ union of New York have yoted to join in the preparations for the “Red Bazaar” being ar- ranged by The DAILY WORKER | and the Freiheit at Madison Square Garden on October 6-7-8-9. They will meet tonight immediately after work at the Freiheit building, 30 Union Square, to discuss details for cooperating. 4 * Arrangements have just been com- pleted with the sponsors of the MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | yesterday whereby they will leave al large number of their booths for the use of the “Red Bazaar.” These are of the most elaborate kind, with in- terior decorations of an unusually high artistic order. With the ac- quisition of these booths, the bazaar committee hopes to increase the gen- eral attractiveness of the forthcoming affair, which is expected to be a ma- jor event in the history of the labor press. Reports from cities thruout the U. S. are coming in daily with the an- foreign office, which brings to a cli- max the protest against rates on im- ports which the French have granted the Germans alleged to be discrimi- natory against American goods. The French were told that while this government can interpose no ob- jection to import duties imposed by that country, it will insist upon being treated on exactly the same basis as other nations. As an alternative the French were reminded that the American tariff law makes it necessary to ijipose a retaliatory duty on French goods of 50 per cent and if necessary declare a complete embargo if the diserimi- natory policy is carried into effect by France. The American note quot- ed freely form the Fordney-McCum- ber tariff law to show that there is no other course. Rates Discriminating. The American protest also empha- sized to France that it is the only nation which now has rates discrimi- nating against American commerce. It was pointed out that any nation has the right to fix its own rates as a matter of internal policy, but that every other nation in the world now feels that these rates must not be discriminatory one against the other. It was intimated that while the United States might raise an embar- go against luxuries which the French send here and which constitute the bulk of their exports to this country. These are gowns, perfumes, toilet articles, de-aleoholized liquors and medicinal wines. It was pointed out Frenchy exports while American ex- ports Yo France are only about one one-hundredth of the total. Officials of the state department said for publication that it has been suggested that France might send a commission here to arbitrate the question. It is their belief, however, that there is nothing to arbitrate. They point out that such a discussion could only prolong the existing dis- crimination against American pro- ducts going into France. They emphasize in this, as was stated in the note, that France must either give the United States the same preferential duties as are given to Germany, or take the consen- 4th Annual Radio World’s Fair which|nouncement of plans for cooperating |quences of retaliatory duties or the ‘enened at Madison Sauare Garden in the Garden event. emhareo, AGAINST HYMAN, COLD ON TODAY “Freiheit” Editors Also. Must Appear The criminai libel suit brot by Mor- ris Sigman, right wing president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union against the leaders} of the New York needle trades and the editorial staff of the Jewish Daily Freiheit and Unity, weekly organ of the Unity Committee, will come up again before Magistrate Brodsky in the Jefferson Market Court this morn- ing. When the case came up last week it was postponed until today at the request of Samuel Markewich, former assistant district attorney and lawyer for Sigman. Include Ben Gold. Ben Gold and Louis Hyman and the other members of the Unity Com-| mittee will be represented in court by Louis B. Boudin. Joseph R. Brodsky:| will be attorney for the members of | the Freiheit staff. They include Me-| lich Epstein, editor; R. Saltzman, busi- ness manager; William Gropper, well known labor cartoonist and Ben Lif- | shitz of the Central Executive Com- | mittee, Workers (Communist) Party. Five of the eight cloakmakers re- cently arrested as the result of a right wing frame-up will also come up before Magistrate, Brodsky this morn- ing. The other three workers were | discharged Monday morning and the | five who are still under charges had their bail reduced from $2,000 to $1,- 000 each. Jacob M. Mandelbaum is their attorney. * | * * Chicago PreparessNew Tacties, CHICAGO, Sept. 20. — The right wing-boss combine against the rank and file cloak and dressmakers con- tinues. Conditions in the shops get worse every day as the bosses with the assistance of right wing thugs reduce wages and lengthen the work- ing hours, Every ‘protest or support of the Chicago Joint Board results in instant discharge. Tovian, an old time presser | is the latest victim. For supporting | the progressive leadership of the union he has been thrown out of the shop. When the workers in the market heard of it they grew indignant. The Chi- cago Joint Board is calling a special meeting to take action on the right wing terrorism. Walker Ballytoos | Workers’ Parade Orderly. Seven ministries and two councils,| Eleven tobacco workers of a factory [ ammany all | The attack by the police came after on education and military affairs are'in Bosphorus have just been jailed As Legion Chi f | PARIS, Sept. 20.—Invited by the, New York “veterans” as part of the| campaign to elect Edward E. Spaf- ford as commander of the American Legion to succeed Howard P. Savage, Mayor Walker was its guest at a luncheon today. Spafford, who was former com-| mander of the New York State Legion | has received the approval of Tam-| many on a number of occasions. The chorus-man mayor of New) York sat beside General Gourard,| military-governor of Paris and Mar-| shal Foch.. Speakers at the. luncheon predicted that Walker would return to Paris soon as “U, S. senator or ambassador to France.” | | Dr. Lilliendahl, Victim) of ‘Mysterious’ Murder, | Was Buried Yesterday ., HAMMONTON, N. J., Sept. 20. —| | Mrs, Margaret T. Lilliendahl, held! under $26,000 bail as a material wit-| ness in the slaying last Thursday of | her 72-year-old husband, Dr. William | Lilliendahl, broke down at his funeral | today. Services were held early in the morning at a small funeral-par- lor here Dr. Lilliendah! was shot down in a thicket. adjoining a lonely road! near Hammonton. She says that} “two colored men” waylaid the car in which she and her aged husband were motoring and robbed her of ‘money and jewels. Interest centers around the fact that state stroopers have abruptly ceased their search for | ithe two Negroes, and the alleged’ \finding of a letter near the home of | Mrs. Lilliendahl in Vineland. The contents of the letter have not been disclosed. IFess Likewise lmplies. Cautions Cal Lied in |’ “Do Not Choose” Yarn WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. —| | Unless President Coolidge issues | another statement absolutely de-| clining to be a candidate, he will be renominated by the Republican convention, Senator Fess (R.), of| | | Ohio declared today. i He added that Mr. Coolidge! would accept the nomination. Af-| ter casting complimentary votes| |for favorite sons, most of the! | states, after the fourth ballot, will] |tration confirms this report, and jan to the president. He indi- | di a 1 th leated that Ohio might take the| | ees |lead. In this statement Fess sup-| | Cut t |ports the expressed opinion of | \the way to Hankow. ; Hughes, Mellon and Baseomb| | The authorities here, feeling the lemp. enormous popular resentment against ——_—_—_—__—__—_—_———_—————-—-®/them, and sensing that underground ;Communist organizations are active, is expelling from its rank 'y per- PARIS GENDARMES !son suspected not merely of Commun- lism, ut even of liberalism, or a la- |bor union sympathy. A state of war CLUB WORKERS AT proclaimed on September 10. It jhas just been prolonged for an indefi- \nite time, by official order. All the jimportant strategical points in the | city are constantly oceupied by troops |in full equipment. Se SRy | Fear of the poe beeen i j their victorious advance into the city Hundreds Hurt an Police er.. a feverish activity of fortifi- Outrages in France cation building. General Tang Sheng- = jchi has arrived with two divisions of PARIS, Sept. 20. — Hundreds of which one was immediately French workers were injured and trampled when Paris mounted and | southwards to try and stop the armi 3 headed by Ho Lung and the other is foot police attempted to break up the stationed on the Hunan-Hupeh bor- huge mass meeting at Clichy Where thousands of outraged workingmen |der, where a popular uprising against \the Kuomintang leaders’ treachery is were demandjng the immediate with- drawal or expulsion of the American | thomentarily expected. * Legion from France. * Police Beat Workers. The police who were massed in Three Thousand Kwant HANKOW, China, Sept. fied. News of partisan band risings continue. Nanking combination is rapidly * Troops Join Revolt. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—The Hong- | kong papers are emphasizing the new {element in the events which are de- veloping in Kwantung, namely that | railroad has been cut by partisan troops. PARTISAN BANDS NEAR TO SUBURBS CUT RAILROAD; “STATE OF WARY’ ung Troops at Weichow, Declare for Revolution; Others Neutral (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) 20.—The authorities here are terri- peasants’ armies, and popular up- The guerrilla movement against the Wuhan- The Peking-Hankow The railway adminis- adds the news that the partisans growing. he troops guarding the railway, blew up a bridge, and he telephone wires, and have occupied the last station on > UL. §, CAPITALISTS FORCE LEAGUE TO ASK TARIFF TALK Intend to Smash Walls Erected by Debtors WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — While the French tariff war hangs in the balance, American cap‘talist inter- ests have succeeded in having the League of Nations invite the United States to a general conference on tar- iffs. The U. S., says the state depart- ment in accepting the invitation, is concerned eb with the smashing r of American made goods which prevail in certain éf the “War baby” states, the new creaf 2 of the Allied s'cwers at the Ver | peace conference. | The invitation reads: | LEAGUE OF NATIONS f of horseback and motorcycles, watched the meeting without interfering un- til the crowds began to assume such given to disperse them. The police brutal ferocity -by the sticks and swords of the French cossacks. Blood platoons, with supporting reserves on | vast proportions that the order was | charged and the workers in resisting | were crushed back and beaten with | flowed from broken heads and bleed- ; ing noses, while the steady drumming | de 4 ‘ Geneva, April 2, 192% in Li Chi Shen’s detachment of 6,000} i+. On behalf of the Council» of men who are at Weichow southwest|the League of Nations I have the, of Swatow, 3,000 men declared them-| honor to invite the United States gov- Selves “red,” the other 3,000 neutral.| ernment to send a duly authorized SOR jdelegation to take part in an inter- oem of Five. ., |national conference with a view to SHANGHAI, Sept. 20.—A commit-| framing an international convention tee of five, drawn both from the Han-| fo» abolishing import and export pra- j|kow and Nanking governments has| hibitions and restrictions. been created to try and unite the) This invitation is addressed to forces of reaction here. This mew) states members and non-members of governing body is made up of the/the League of Nations in pursuance thud of the police weapons on the Saikara! tdies could bectiaacdcabove |chief traitors to the revolution, with lof the following resolution adopted the shouts and the gendarme’s yells. The resistance of the workers and the inability of the police to break up the Clichy protest meeting in spite of their deliberately brutal tactics in- furiated the gendarmes to such a degree that the square in which the jthe exception of Chiang and Feng,/hy the council on March 11, 1927: | who were not placed upon it. It con-| {sists of Hu Han-min, former gener | alissimo of the Kuomintang army; |Dr, Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Central Executive of the Kuomin-| | tang; Tsai Yon-pei, minister of edu- }eation in the first republican cabinet} “The council (a) approves the re- port of the Economic Committee on 's twenty-first session; (b) decides (Continued on Page Three) Eleven Turkish Tobacco |meeting had been held soon resem-| under Yuan Shi-kai; Tan Yen-kai, bled a battle ground rather than a/ member of the Executive Comittee) Workers Imprisoned for |suburban park. As a result of the | of the Kuomintang, and Li Lieh-chun, Communist Activities |police outrage four of the leading | former civil governor of the Province : {workers were jailed. of Kiangsi. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 20.— |ship in the democratic party. | Washington, it was said. a quiet and orderly parade in which | created. thousands of the workers with mourn-| The following positions have been ing bands around their arms proceed- | allotted: Foreign Affairs, Dr. Wu ed thru the streets of Clichy on Piel ae are ee on ey ah ae abe . jtate revolutionary eader, r. Sun (Continued on Page Two) | Yat Sen; Justice, Dr. Wang Chung- hui, an authority on international law; Communications, Wang Pei- chung, and Education, Tsai Yuan-pei. Meredith Organizing Democratic Party to Smash Governor Smiti) Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa, former, secretary of agriculture, has appar- ently seized the anti-Smith reater- HINTON, URGES In a) statement issued here in which he de-' scribes the virtues of a dry, farm bill platform for the democrats, and | denounces Al. Smith, James Reed and Ritchie of Maryland, he calls for or-| ganization behind himself to control the dembcratic party convention. Baker of Ohio, or Robinson of Ar-|; 3 renee’ e kansas as peed timber, and coyly in-| 1 wages for the new agreement timated that he might himself make|the men to accept. either a president or a vice president | The new offer was if asked and voted for. union representative: day morn- Said to be formulating plans for a '"& when they met with the Trans- move toward nominating Governor | Atlantic Conference representing the mid-west movement to oppose any| bosses at their headquart $ Washington today. The former sec-| Bridge St. The various i McAdoo was scheduled to depart for | north Atlantic ports will vote on the Al k proposal between today and Smith for president, William G. bosses’ ‘ retary of the pears also plans to | Sunday. On Monday morning the re- attend a prohibition conference in sults will be announced. New Wage Scale. The bosses conference agrees to pay |the longshoremen 85 cents an hour jand $1.30 for overtime. The demands N. Y. Bankers Conclude $ q 0 0 00 0 00 Loan to °f the union were 90 cents an hour and ’ “ id ‘ | $1.85 for overtime. The longshoremen the Polish Government will work a minimum of four hours {when called to work on Sundays and Negotiations for a $70,000,000 loan | holidays. : to the Polish government have just he bosses also offer to pay the been concluded by Blair & Company | checkers $6.50 a day. They are get- and the Bankers Trust Company | ting $6 daily, at present, The new group, it was announced yesterday.| agreement would prohibit them keing The negotiations have been going on| sent home until they have done a full for more than a year. day’s work: Checkers Also Given Pay Increase; Commence Vote on Proposition le to the | charged with “distributing Commun- ist propaganda.” They are further accused of f sing placards con- taining the words, “Hurrah for Len- in.” Another crime with which the workers aré charged consists of al- leged refusal to contribute to the ‘jingo aviation campaign |ducted by the government. being con- LONGSHOREMEN GET RAISE OFFER: BY MEN Workers to Today, The strike of 45,000 longshoremen has been averted by the He suggested Walsh of Montana, posses’ committee offering the union’s spokesmen a compromise which the latter says it will urge Joseph P. Ryan, president of the | Longshoremen’s union said yesterday io a DAILY WORKER representative |that he would recommend the accept- jance of the bosses’ proposals due to of he | the unsettled conditions in the trade. eting between com- mittees ning the union and the bos the second within 24 hours. When.they met Monday morn- ing, the Trans-Atlantic Conference spokesmen réfused to consider any ad- vances in wages. Ryan told the boss- es that such an attitude would result {in a strike on Sept. 30 when the pres- lent agreement expires. Yesterday’s m Fire Kills Woman. Mrs. Alice Meyers, 45, was suffo- cated to death early yesterday morn- ing when she caught fire in the hall- way of the tenement house at 175 |Summit Ave., Union City, N. J. Her ‘three children were injured.