The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 1

} A Une ‘ see: ——————$—$— THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORUANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK YOR A GABOR PARTY pe SS Vol. IV. No. 216. Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty AYOR James (Jimmy) Walker is} in Paris, and in a generous mood. | Indeed who would not under similar} circumstances? ‘With the franc look- j ing up at the dollar and champagne | looking down at the franc there is no! reason why a New Yorker in Gay} Paree should not be willing to give} things away, even those things that} he hasn’t got, unless he be one of those gloomy mortals that scorn joy and good cheer. * ar appears that our “Jimmy” likes the big guns of Europe as much as he likes the big gats of the United; States. There is gold in them thar big guys for those who know how to} * * dance to the right tune. And Jimmy | eral of the Philippines since the death | Gay in commenting on the Franco-American tariff negotiations. - is nothing if not a good glider. Walker | liked Mussolini and therefore it is| not surprising that he likes Poincare. Benito is a legalized Fascist and) Poincare is one in spirit. Jimmy} would not make a good “duce” but he | { admires the dueces. talking wae i mayor was reminded by the} French premier that France was be- ing sued by the City of New York for $400,000, the value of land France} purchased from the city during the/ war days when every day was Christ-| mas Day. France spent a lot of money buying guns and poison gases} for her little allies, Poland, Checho- | Slovakia, Roumania and Jugo-Slavia | and also in punishing the Syrians and} Moroecans for their impudence in in-| sisting that the self-determination point in Wilson’s famous collection of 14 should be put into operation. They thot better of it after thousands of them were massacred with the sanc- tion of the league of nations and christian civilization in general. * * * y hahaes France spent a lot of money and is used to borrowing, that paying debts is now a rather disagreeable task. When the matter was broached to Jimmy—the $400,- 000 debt—he flicked the ashes from his cigarette and said that he was willing to forgive and forget but that other members of his cabinet insisted on collecting. It is no wonder that Jimmy is popular in‘ Paris, But we venture to say that if the em- ployes of the city of New York de- sired a small raise to help make life more pleasant for themselves and their dependents Jimmy would not be so willing to relieve the treasury of financial congestion. * * | to Poincare our * HE demands of 40,000 New York longshoremen for an increase in wages were turned down by the em- ployers. The papers say that presi- dent Joseph Ryan of the I.L.A. has a substitute proposal to make. We fear that by the time Mr. Ryan gets thru exhausting the possibilities of “peaceful” settlement that the em. ployers will have the men licked. We are decidedly of the opinion that the example set by the truck drivers a few weeks ago, in calling a strike without long-drawn-out negotiations is the best and surest guarantee of victory in an industrial dispute. The longshoremen should give the em- (Continued on Page Six) LONDON, Sept. 22.—Great hilarity has been caused here as a result of the robbery committed at the home of the chief sleuth of the British Empire. Supt. George Nicholls, head of Scot- land Yard, is the victim and the sec- ond personage connected with the fa- mous detective organization to have the experience. T Convention of Calif, PS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Philippines’ Boss SISGOOOORESE SCID SARA ie Ss Reese: eR 2 BE F. A. Gilmore, acting governor gen- of Major General Wood. Picture taken in his palatial office in the Arguntimento, Manila. LLG.W. HAS DEBT OF $1,900,000 I$ REPORT AT MEET Postpone Trial of Five; Framed-up Workers BOSTON, Sept. 22.—That the right wing controlled International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is in debt to the extent of $1,500,000 was admit- ted today when Abraham Baroff, sec- retary-treasurer gave his report to the general executive board meeting here, Of this amount some $990,000 is cash bonds posted by employers as evidence of their “good faith” in cot- ducting union shops. * + * Postpone Cases. Five of the eight cloakmakers re- cently arrested as the result of a right wing frame-up had their cases postponed until October 5th when they appeared before Magistrate Brodsky in Jefferson Market Court yesterday morning. They are out on $1,000 bail each. The other three workers were discharged Monday morning. Five other needle trades workers jailed during the recent furtiers strike also appeared before Magistrate Brodsky for a new trial. When orig- inally arrested they were sentenced for terms ranging from six to eight months by the notorious labor-baiting Magistrate George E. Ewald. After serving part of their sen- tences they were released on bail so they could obtain a new trial. Yes- terday they pleaded guilty. Louis Broad, one of the workers was sentenced to one day. The other four will be sentenced on October 5th. They are Ethel Schuterman, Ida Eis- man and Frank Geinar. Jacob M. Mandelbaum is attorney for the workers. “YOUTH? PROTEST HERE TOMORROW IN UNION SQUARE Many Speakers at: Anti- War Demonstration International Youth Day, celebrated } Entered as second-class watter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1870. COOLS THE OFFICIAL LEGION FETES lIncensed at Insult to Poincaré When Legion- naires Leave Hall Before Speech Ends U.S. TARIFF ULTIMATUM TO FRANCE BERLIN, Sept. 22.—Gen. Pershing’s declaration that the United States would come to the aid of France if “the enemy stood again at her doors,” proveked another attack against the American Legion today. Taglische Rundschau, the journal of Stresemann’s national party, headlines its dttack with the charge that the legion is a “nationalistic, militaristic, chauvinistic organization which far surpasses similar or- ganizations in other lands in its extravagances.” * Pe i PARIS, Sept. 22.—“Here is another proof that one of the in- |delible characteristics of American temperament is never to mix |sentiment with business,” the newspaper Le Journal declared to- | “While Paris, its chief government ministers and its populace jare feting the American Legion,” the paper continues, ‘‘at Wash- |ington the functionaries of the department i onseted ignore \the legion parade and signify their intentiof of engaging in a |commercial war which can only be disastrous to both countries. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 \e-- “The Americans demand a favor | . . | which our legislation forbids us to} | Drunken Legionnaires grant without a reciprocity clause.| In Paris Gloat Over | The United States legislation forbids j granting this clause, throwing the} | | {negotiations into a vicious circle.” | wt | “The United States is demanding a! | Freedom From Wives, {uni-lateral measure of us,” was the, | |comment of Le Matin. | French Capitalists In Fury. Fae) v V | This outburst from the French uWe ve got no wives with us. |press follows the delivery of the lat- |;-There may be wives jest demands of the American finan- ‘With some of you guys, _ | |ciers, working thru the government} |“But we've got no wives with us.”| |in Washington, to the government of Fitting these mocking words to|| France. While the terms of the note a sing-song tune, American Le-| | have not been made public and will! gionnaires, unencumbered with] | not be, unless upon the express de- better halves, are rubbing it in on sire of the American state depart- | their less fortunate comrades ment, it is pretty generally known | | whose wives accompanied them to| |that the communication is in the na- the convention. : ture of a commercial ultimatum and While the “Bachelor” contingent] |the fury with which it is being re- regales itself with all the stimu-| | ceived by the French capitalists and lants in sight, the unfortunates sit| | their puppets in the government’ is disconsolately in the cafes under] | qistioult to overstate. the watchful eyes of their wives} The: noth danas ts “openiwith a. and the police guards, sipping . f Tyandils Seoitionable PE ted statement of the disappointment and for coffee. | | Surprise of the Washington govern- ment at the plans for tariff dis- i . a crimination with which France is Poison Charge Does asevws Arse, gee as ian) Not Stop Legion’s Endorsing Tunney France will do well to remember that Article 317 of the Fordney Tariff gives the American government fhe At the time that this edition of The DAILY WORKER went to press no decision was as yet right to raise its tariffs against any nation which discriminates against it. available on the Tunney-Dempsey fight. 22, PARIS, SEPT. “We've got no wives with us, Bokanowski Non-Committal. The question of tariff discrimina- tion is being much more fiercely dis- cussed in American than in French circles, however, the latter being now entirely occupied with belaboring the American ultimatum. Maurice Bo- |kanowski, French minister of com- imerce, who recently returned from |the United States shortly after his review of the West Point cadets in PARIS, Sept. 22.—The American | company with the American mili- Legion Convention today unanimously tarist, Major-General Charles Sum- adopted a resolution to send a cable- | merall, refused to be drawn into any gram offering the convention's “hear- discussion of the Amefican note... He ty good wishes to Comrade Gene expressed himself guardedly with the Tunney” in his fight to retain his title terse comment that “each country tonight at Soldier Field, Chicago. The wants to keep its independence in the vote of the resolution was taken amid» atter of how it imposes its tariffs.” a tumult of cheering. Tunney back- France, it would seem has no inten- ers are accused of poisoning Dempsey tion of backing down before the big at the Philadelphia fight. |stick of the American capitals, at 2 8 * least not until a period has elapsed Weighing In. sufficiently long to permit the Paris CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Altho sur-|/ government to surrender “without rounded by a guard of police, a hilari-| sacrificing the national honor.” ous Tunney fan nearly put his cham-| The fury of the French imperial- pion out of the fight when the latter’ i+. against their rivals in the United entered the Illinois Athletic club to-' tion in the official attitude towards night by knocking a screen from an crates has had an immediate reflec- upper window on him. The screen “ soak : i missed the boxer and crippled a news- | the American Legion. Without de * * * paperman. * Jack Dempsey tipped the scales at 192% when he weighed in officially the world over as a mobilization of the working class youth in the strug- Labor Demands Troops at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon in ‘the! Illinois Athletic club. Gene Tunney was to weigh in privately at the. same sisting from the fierce persecution and terrorism which it instituted | against the French workers because lof their hatred for the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, the French capi- talists with the connivance of the Withdrawn from China SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., \Sept. 22.—The California State ‘ederation of Labor at its conven- tilon here today adopted resolu- tions demanding the immediate withdrawal of all U. S, military forces from China, and the recog- nition of China “as an indepen- dent sovereign nation.” Resolutions against the “present high tariff’ were also adopted, claiming that the highest protec- tive industries such as the silk and sugar industries are the worst. from the standpoint of the work- ers. A resolution, proposed by dele- gate S. Globeerman calling for the appointment of a delegation, by the American Federation of Labor to investigate conditions in Soviet Russia was defeated only after prolonged discussion, The convention made no changes in the administration. gle against imperialist war and capi- talist oppression, has been chosen for a huge anti-war demonstration to be held tomorrow at 1 p. m. at Union Square. . Arranged by the Young Workers League of this city, the demonstra- tion is expected to call out thousands who will. pafticipate in a protest against the plans of new imperialist wars. Besides a large number of speakers from the league, there will be prom- inent representatives from the Work- ers (Communist) Party. Lindbergh Flies Ford Plane. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 22.—Col- onel Charles A. Lindbergh, piloting a 12 passenger Ford monoplane, took Paris government are turning a cold face towards the legionnaires. While this change in the govern- ment’s attitude has not yet gone so far as to lead to official discourtesy there is a new feeling that the Amer- jean Legion is a diplomatic burden and a disgrace and that its actions in Paris would be a scandal to any people. U. 8S. Attitude Also Changed. } Meanwhile a subtle alteration is also visible among the American leaders and the feeling which they have succeeded in inspiring among place at 2:30 o'clock. Bandits All at Fight. Not a machine gun has been fired since the out-of-town fans began swarming into the city. One lone stick-up was the sum total of Chi- cago’s banditry record from 6 P. M. last night until 6 A. M. today. “We expect the visitors to go away saying Chicago is the dryest town they’ve been in,” said Deputy Pro- hibition Administrator Alexander Jamie. It was obstrved, however, that some hilarity prevailed last night at a num- ° { | \Jail Three Coal and ‘Tron Police for Gun Flourishing in Ebensburg EBENSBURG, Pa., Sept. 22 (FP).—“There has been too much gun-toting, id County Judge Mc- Cann imposing sentence of 5 days in jail on 3 coal and iron policemen employed as special officers at a non-union coal mine in Cambria county. The men—C. J. Zimmer- man, S. J. Brande and L. L. Weber, arrested for pointing fire- at strikers. Ju McCann elected on a coalition Labor Party-Democrat ticket. | | | | STONECUTTERS REFUTE CHARGE | OF GOVERNMENT Union Officials Take Stand at Trial . The government’s case against the Stone Cutters’ Association was con- siderably weakened yesterday when several union witnesses denied the charges of conspiracy leveled against it by the federal government. Peter Miller, former president of Newark Local of the Journeymen Stone Cutters’ Association, witness yesterday. Miller was questioned in regard to an alleged bribe said to have been paid to Edward Dillon of the New- ark Local in connection with settling the strike of the Pavonia Branch Library in Pavonia, N. J. He said he had no knowledge that Dillon got any money. The next witness was Peter Mc-| Nulty of Harrison, N. J., business agent for the Newark Local. He said Dillon was not a member of the Local now. McNulty stated neither he nor his organization made any threats or interfered with the library job or the Orange, N. J. High School job. He said the stone was made out of town, delivered, and the jobs com- pleted, that his local never interfered on any job in New Jetsey where the stone was made elsewhere. McNulty stated he told a Mr. Mc- Carthy, secretary of the Board of Education of Orange, N. J., that the stone that was to be delivered on the | ‘n- Orange High School job was fair.” Edward Griffin of Jamaica, busi- ness agent of Local 84 of bricklayers, plasterers, masons and derrickmen of New York City, was the next wit- ness. He said his organization had no jurisdiction outside of New York City and Long Island and never in- terfered on any jobs where stone made outside of. the metropolitan district was used.- Walker, Returning To U. $, Grateful for “New Insight” PLYMOUTH, England, Sept. 22. — After fawning praise of every city which he has visited since he arrived in Europe, Mayor Walker, leaving to board the French line Ile de France homeward, declared that New York surpasses any other city in Europe. The mayor enumerated the “vir- tues” of the various cities which feted him, and declared himself enormously benefited by the “insight into foreign municipal processes.” He praised Ber- lin as “clean and efficient”; fascist Rome, “with its modern vitality” and Paris “with its cultural eminence.” While in Paris Walker spent much of his time touring the cabarets in the Montmarte district. Yale Man Minus $35,000 Nursing Broken Leg; Arrested for Swindling His $30,000 Florida “clean-up” spent in courting a girl, his leg broken, and the rank and file. The changed American attitude was reflected to- day in the curt speech with which General “Black Jack” Pershing cut (Continued on Page Three) ber of the prominent hotels. The stupendous spectacle is ex- pected to draw a record gate of $2,- 600,000, of which Gene Tunney will receive $1,000,000 and Jack Dempsy off from Mahoney Field here at 8.501¢450,000. ‘The Federal Government o'clock this morning for Los Angeles. | wil] profit to the extent of $227,273 in Lindbergh will land the plane and |taxes and Illinois will receive a like its capacity load of passengers at/amount. Throughout the country it some field in Los Angeles not yet |js. hat $10,000,000 has b shoremen’s and harbor workers’ com- | York h ce etd Ur ental erie From “ail pensation act will be heard in the of-|from a second-story window, decided upon, according to officials|wagered on the outcome. at the D, F. Mahoney Aircraft Com-|indications the weather will be clear|fices of the Shipping Board on Oct.|his leg. pany. ! and cool. Dockmen’s Cases To Be Heard. The first of over 3,000 cases that have arisen since passage of the long- under arrest for alleged swindling— | this was the predicament of a youth who said he was William Neely Mal- lory, 24, a former Yale student and a real estate operator in Florida. Mallory escaped from detectives who charged him with swindling de- partment stores. He fled to the New Athletic Club where he jumped breaking Shots fired by police missed him. International Youth Day Demonstration, Union °q., Tomorrow Published daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., | FINAL CITY | EDITION The DAILY WORKER New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents 33 First Street, GENERAL TANG SHEN-CHI DESERTS NEW NANKING RULE; HOLDS HANKOW ‘Mutiny and Splits Thruout Traitors’ Army as Armed Laborers Clash With Troops HANKOW, Sept. —The right wing Kuomintang regime, after having been painfully patched together by the treacherous |leaders of Nanking and Hankow who united in a single govern- j ment last week on the basis of a fight against labor and the peasantry, has been split into fragments again today by the sud- was aj {den declaration of independence |tioned at Hankow, and actually occupying witl and Hunan provinces. ' | Tang it was, whose armies on their entrance into K-: w a short time ago completed the ousting from offi- cial position of all labor and liberal jelements, forced the vacillating mid- {dle group of Kuomintang officials jinto a war of extermination against the Communists, and appeared as the “strong man” of the right wing. Now he has betrayed the Sun-Fo, T. V. Soong combination, and proved to all honest elements in the Kuomintang | that the split with the labor and peas- jant. elements was Rescue Hankow is today under martial law, {and the streets patrolled by | |Tang’s soldi s does not pre-| |vent a strong 1 underground labor, | party from existin pation of Comm . Yesterday a flying squadron of jarmed workers att: ed a strong pa- |trol of Tang’s milite police and re- leased a Communist prisoner who had |been turned over to the patrol by the | Japanese authorities. The rescue was effected after a sharp fight, with casualities on both sid The Japanese autho: are aiding Tang by arresting all labor union| , With the partici- | supporters. Officials of trades unions, and Communists who come within their jurisdiction. Fifty pris- oners are held by Japan for delivery to Tang’s executioners. H * * * | Mutiny at Nanking. | NANKING, Sept. 22.—The attempt \to disarm troops which do not entirély | agree with the new coalition govern-| ment established as a result of the| |conference here between Kuomintang | leaders last week proceeds badly. | Several divisions are in open mutiny, | and tho there has been severe fight-| ing between these units and those loyal to the new regime, no decision has been reached. The Thirty-first Division, sent to Nanking by the military council to| keep down the populace, which is | growing very restless against the) regime of the right wing traitors, is itself insubordinate. It is composed of very unreliable troops from north- ern Kiangsu, part of the monarchist armies under the command of Geén- eral Chang Hsun in 1917. * 4 * Strikes Develop. SHANGHAI, Sept. 22.—The strike movement is developing rapidly. In addition to several thousand workers striking in Japanese textile mills, 1,- 000 metal workers have gone on strike in British enterprises. Over a thousand dock workers have also joined the general walk-out, in both| the latter cases as a protest against the dismissal of several workers. The Extraordinary Committee of | the Kuomintang elected at the Nan-| king Conference resolved to take un- der their control all departments of | the Central Committee, and to place| at the head of each department a special commission. The Presidium! elected an Extraordinary Committee | consisting of Wang Ching-wei, Tsai Yuan-pei, and Hsia Shi. It also pro-| posed to abolish the Political Bureau and its local branches. The Extraordinary Committee com- posed an addtess to Chiang Kai-shek, of Gen ral Tang Shen-chi, sta- 1 his troops Hupeh DEBT AGREEMENT BETWEEN SOVIET UNION AND FRANCE Hailed as Victory for Workers Diplomacy MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Sept. 22.— The Soviet Union and the French gov- ernment have come to an agreement on the debt question, Maxim Litvinoff, chief of the Soviet legations abroad, announced today. Interviewed by s, the Soviet Union news agency, Litvinoff said: “T emphatically affirm and author- you publicly to report that be- tween the Soviet and French delega- tions a full agreement has been reached on the debt question. The general agreement has not been signed nly because the French have not yet ie ; accepted our proposals in the matter of credits. “Although agreement in principle has been reached on the question of credits, a complete understanding re- garding their size has not been reached. Payment Ready. “However, all doubts will soon be set at rest when the French public will learn that the Soviet government ~ ize you publicly to report that be- to deposit in an agreed bank the first half yearly installment of 30,000,000 gold francs (about $6,000,000) from which the first payments can be made to the French holders of Russian se- curities immediately after the ratifi- cation by both governments of the general agreement on debts and cred- its as we authorized Rakovsky (Sov- iet ambassador to France) yesterday to declare to the French delegates.” Soviet Union Victory Izvestia, official organ of the Sov- iet Union, commenting on the debt settlement with F ce hails it as a victory of Soviet Union diplomacy, stating that it undermines the ground beneath the bitter anti-Soviet ele- ments in France by settling a much aggravated problem. After stating that Ambassador Ra- kovsky had been instructed to notify the, French delegation of the readiness of the Soviet government to deposit the first payment of 30,000,000 gold francs, the balance to be paid in an- nuities of 60,000,000 gold francs for sixty-two years, Izvestia says: “Evidently this compromise means a concession on our part as well, but with this agreement, which substan- tially is advantageous to us, we knock the bottom from underneath the ele- ments of the French bourgeoisie which Wang Ching-wei, Hu Han-min, re- incite the masses of petty French questing them to withdraw their| bondholders hit by the annulment of resignations and return to their posts. ‘the czar’s debts.” The Central Executive Committee of the Work- Units and Sympathetic Behind Bazaar Week, ers (Communist) Party Calls Upon All Party for The DAILY WORKER and the FREIHEIT Organizations to Rally Sept. 23 to October 1, At this particular moment of the becomes most vital to the growth of The bazaar has been arranged to two Party organs. Garden, in New York City, an eve The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party considers the Joint Bazaar arranged for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit for October 6-7-8-9 at Madison Square nt of highest national importance. fight of the left wing against the labor bureaucracy, and of the growing war danger and the menace against the Soviet Union, the maintenance of our Party’s central organ, The DAILY WORKER, and our party’s largest mass paper, the Freiheit, our Party’s prestige and influence. supply much-needed funds for our The Central Executive Committee has therefore decided to set aside September 23 to October 1 as the National Bazaar Week. We ask all units of the party, thruout the country, as well as all sympathetic or- ganizations to lend every effort to make the bazaar a success. The Bazaar Committee reports that they are in need of articles for sale, of names for the Red Honor Roll for the Souvenir Program and adver- tisements. In view of the fact that this bazaar is the first affair of a national character, which has yet been arranged by the party, it becomes of the utmost significance, as a demonstration of our ability to mobilize the entire forces of the party, in one supreme effort, for a big enter- prise of this kind. We are confident that the party will respond to the test enthusiastically, and that it will do everything in its power to make the bazaar not only a success for our two party organs but also a real achievement for our party. JAY LOVESTONE, For the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist Party. x