The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, | be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No. 217. 7} Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty ME. Dwight Morrow of the House of Morgan nominated by President Coolidge for the Mexican ambassador- ship is not expected to experience serious opposition when congress is asked to pass on his availability for the most important diplomatic post in South America. Senator Borah threatens to ask perfectly harmless questions and when those are answered to his satisfaction it is be- lieved that he will support the ad- ministration’s candidate. In all probability only a few members of | the left wing of the republican party and a few democrats will vote against confirmation of Coolidge’s appoint- ment of Morgan’s man. ih tac ‘ALL STREET would not have had the nerve to act so brazenly a few years ago. The very mention of a Morgan financial pillar for a diplo- matic position would raise a storm of} protest all over the country. The alfalfa in the wide open spaces would tremble with indignation. Tobacco- chewing congressmen and senators would invoke the shades “fathers” of their country. There would be talk of “predatory wealth” and the unhappy Wall Streeter would be obliged to take a vacation on his yacht until the storm blew over and his nerves were restored to normaley. | to riding in a bus with Negroes out | * * * ‘ALL STREET is now feeling its oats. Big business has been steadily growing in power since the outbreak of the world war. Its gold of the| THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. DARE WALKER TO REPLY TO NEGRO- W. Pickens Denounces Him for Cafe Incident Commenting on Mayor Walker’s de- mand that Negroes leave the cabaret recently, William Pickens, field sec- retary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yes- ‘terday issued the following state- ment: | “There is a report, so far uncon- tradicted, that Mayor Walker of New York, objected to the presence of Negroes in a cabaret in Rome, Italy; that he ‘did not as the Romans do’. “But we can say about American whites in genera] that they often as- more exaggeratedly than they assert them at home. This is probably due to the fact that their prejudices or opinions become more sensitive when it gets into an atmosphere that is unfriendly toward it; it feels the need {not approved or is disapproved. So ‘we sometime have the strange phen- j}omena of white Americans objecting jof Paris, France when they are ac- }groes out of New York and in Vir- ; ginia. Their {so much on the defensive in their BAITING CHARGE he was visiting, when he was in Rome , sert their peculiar prejudices abroad | DAILY W Entered aw second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., un MORROW—THE NEW COLLECTOR NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1927 | of self-assertion where it is naturally | customed to ride in busses with Ne- ; prejudices do not feel} © is now making slaves sweat in every|home atmosphere, and are therefore part of the world, and from the toil iless sensitive. of men and women of all colors and/ Sls aN ie PA of varied creeds profits are flowing back into the coffers of Wall Street. | Thru its agents in the American trade | union movement, it has succeeded in| sapping the militancy out of the, union Thru direct and indirect, bribery of ali publicity avenues it has | psychologized the people of the Uni-| DEMANDED GRAFT, = ted States into a condition bordering | on military hysteria. Indeed, the sub-| | A R jects of the Kaiser of Germany be- | fore 1918 were no more in the grip of war mania than are the masses of the United States today. * * * ILLIAM GREEN, president of the, A. F. of L., christens battleships and is given the title of honorary aid to the war department. The whole A. F. of L. bureaucracy is allocated its place in the war machine when the bugles for the next imperialist carnage ring out upon our ears. Should Mr. Morrow fail to shackle Mexico with fetters of gold; should the Mexican government refuse to:ac- cept the slave conditions of Morgan, speaking for dominant American capi- talism, then the war drums will beat again and the young manhood of this country will be sent to bring the blessings of American civilization to the benighted people of Mexico. * * * 'HOUSANDS of workers who see thru the injustice and hypocrisy of the capitalist system express the opinion that the workers are not worth fighting for, that it is a thank- less business to sacrifice oneself for a class that hails their exploiters and joins the latter in assailing those who would help them free themselves. They point out that the workers per- (Continued on Page Four) Italian Troop Train Wreck. ROME, Spt. 23.—A special train carrying 1,100 former Italian soldiers from Naples to Rome, collided at 6; o'clock this morning with a freight train near the Tiburtina Station. {U.S.S. R. Unions Will - Fight Tho Reformists Shatter Labor Unity MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 23.— Andreyev, a member of the Presi- dium of the Central Council of Labor Unions of the Soviet Union, clive before a meeting of the railway workers in Moscow con- cerning the rupture in the Anglo- Russian committee, declared that, in spite of this new betrayal on the part of the leaders of the General Council, the trade unions of the Soviet Union do not intend to re- vise their tactics. “We are willing to enter into an agreement with any trade union organization in the country with a view to uniting the struggle against the onslaught of capital. We are ready to carry on the struggle for the unity of the trade union move- ment of the world. Tho the at- tempts of the reformist leaders of Amsterdam and the General Coun- cil isolate us from the international and British labor movement, /the trade unions of the U.S.S.R. will respond by increasing their inter- national work for realizing the united front over these leaders’ heads, and for maintaining con- '|nections with the masses. The trade unions of the U.S.S.R. will exert all efforts to raise the im- portance of the Profintern and to become its most active force. $1,000 Paid By Bronx | Tee Cream Man | Additional details of the thriving off-hour business engaged in by De- partment of Health inspectors who made thousands by systematic bribe- taking were told yesterday afternoon Doe inquiry being conducted by Jus- |tice Arthur S. Tompkins. by witnesses appearing in the John} der the act of March 3, 1570, By Fred Ellis | | | Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., ———— FINAL CITY EDITION a | ER. Price 3 Cents 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- WORKER-PEASANT ARMIES IN CHINA CAPTURE THREE MORE BIG CITIES Right’ Wing Extraordinary Committee of Kuo- mintang Denounces Sun’s Principles SHANGHAI, Sept. 23.—Recent reports warrant the follow- ing conclusions concerning the position of the revolutionary armies of Yeh-ting and Ho-lung. The advance of these armies thru Fukien towards Kwantung has aroused the revolutionary enthusiasm of the peasants in the Chaichow-Meikiang district where there has been an outbreak of peasant revolts. The detachments of peasants have; seized many places including Mei- kiang, Chaochow and Fukshan. The press de these places have been taken by the troops of Yeh-ting and Ho-lung owing to the fact that in many sections the peasant forces have called themselves the vanguard of the revolutionary army. LEGION SESSION ENDS AMID HATE OF ALL FRANCE Revolts Increase. The operations of the peasant par- tisans at first caused much pani¢ which later somewhat subsided after it became known that the revolution- jary troops were still at the Fukien-| Kwantung border. The peasant re- volts are not only not subsiding but are embracing ever more regions in- cluding Haifeng, a district with a | well-organized peasantry. The latest reports show that the troops of Yeh-ting and Ho-lung are advancing in two directions, towards Taipu and Chungchow, both of which lie in Kwantung on the Fukien border. The vanguard is already crossing the Kwantung frontier. * * * 'U. S. Tariff Ultimatum Cools Official Adieus PARIS, Sept. 23.—Caustic com- ment on the American tariff ultima- tum continues as indignation thruout |France is mounting at what all | classes feel to be a piece of insolent |commercial brutality and tactlessness |in the face of the French govern- |ment’s attempt to popularize the stay jof the American Legionnaires de- | spite the widely-expressed hatred jagainst the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti on the part of the French workers. The scandalous actions of |the legionnaires on French soil and |the recent insult to the French au- thorities when the legionnaires re- fused to remain at the official Ver- dun reception and left before Premier Poincare had finished speaking has \infuriated the French. -The action of |the legionnaires is widely regarded Reactionaries Betray Cause. MOSCOW, Sept. 23.—The extraor- |dinary committee of the Kuomintang, elected at Nanking, has issued a dec laration attempting to justify the re- actionary line of the Nanking and Wuhan governments. Endeavoring to ‘ (Continued on Page Two) U.S, UNIONISTS’ RETURN FROM THE U.S.S.R, MONDAY ‘Delegation, Headed By! Maurer, Will Report The American Trade Union Deleé- | gation, headed by James H. Maurer, | How an inspector, Bartholomew} ; vani % Philltca guked S801 and aot $100 forte Gop Gat cee te giving his “final approval” to repairs | York Monday morning on the United \involving over $7,000 to his ice-cream | States liner, Leviathan, from its visit plant was told on the stand by Sam-'to the Union of Soviet Republics. : uel Berlin, of 783 Beck St., the Bronx.| Since the delegation left July 27th, _,, Graft for “Approval.” lit has been away almost two months, Phillips declined to give his O. K.| practically all of the time available to the expensive alterations even af-| being spent within the borders of the ter Berlin had been. compelled to sus- | first workers’ republic. pend manufacturing for over a month. Sra sili CITE Oy ae “Why do you make me spend so} il Make Report Soon. much money,” Berlin asked the in- spector. In reply the latter-invited him to a restaurant on 14th Street, and they met the next day. “He asked me for $300 before he’d O. K. the place,” testified Berlin. “I said I couldn’t afford it. There was much, talking and then he finally agreed to take $100.” $1,000 Paid to Others. Aladar Brody, a bookkeeper in a slaughter house in the Bronx, Zim- mering & Co., testified that $1,000 was paid to an inspector named Mc- Cauley, and Daniel Haggerty, clerk of the special service squad of the health department for approving a site for a proposed slaughter house being contemplated. Brody said he was referred to these functionaries as a result of a session with Dr. Samuel Buchler, secretary was recently charged with making aid “hospitals in Transylvania.” The jury declined to convict him. Milk Poisoned. The present quiz was forced after revelations of scores of bribes paid to department of health inspectors., The traffic was especially rife among the milk inspectors, thus resulting in millions of gallons of polluted milk being sold consumers in this city. Killed Working On Radio. “While trying to lengthen the out- side wires of his radio receiving set yesterday, Stephen Jost, 546 West 35th St., lost his balance while stand- ing on a plank placed across the air- shaft at the top of the building, and was killed. The Event — The Red Bazaar. The Time — October 6-7-8-9. The Place—Madison Sq. Garden. It is understood that the members | of the delegation have been devoting all their time on the boat crossing the ocean to preparing their report, which will soon be available. Returning on Monday, Maurer will jhave plenty of time to attend the an- nual convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor meeting at Los An- geles, Oct. 3, to give it a report on conditions within the Soviet Union, at he is permitted to do so. The members of the delegation in addition to Maurer include John Brophy, candidate for president on the} progressive ticket in the recent elec- ‘tions in the United Mine Workers of America; Frank Palmer, editor of | the Colorado Labor Advocate; J. W. | Fitzpatrick, of the Federation of Ac- ‘tors and Artists; and Albert Coyle, | editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ | Journal; Silas B. Axtell, attorney for} |shoremen’s Union; Stuart Chase, | | economics at Columbia University; | | Attorney Arthur Fisher, president of | |the Amalgamated Bank in Chicago; | Professor J. B. Bredler, of Columbia} University; Dr. Carlton Washburn, J.! & © ‘Maurer Writes Letter About Findings in His Tour of Soviet Union The DAILY WORKER has se-) cured, thru the Federated Press, the complete’ text of a letter writ- of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, on conditions as he found them in the Soviet Union, as head of the American trade union dele-} gation visiting the first Workers’ The letter was weitten after the first several weeks spent in the Soviet Union and gives an indication of the type of favorable report that the delegation as a whole will make upon its return to this country, *which is expected shortly. Look for Monday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER in which this letter will appear. Get a few extra copies and pass them around| among other workers, thus help- ing them to get some of the truth jabout conditions in the Soviet Union. Lowis Officials in Colorado Interfere With Miners’ Strike AGUILAR, Colo., Sept. 23,—The officials of the district administration of the United Mine Workers here are pursuing a very devious policy. The bulk of this district is unorganized, yet ‘the miners have signified their willingness to strike in the near Republic. of the department of docks. Buchler the Seamen’s Union and the Long-| future not only for.a gain in wages and working conditions which are bad personal use of money collected to | economist; Rex Tugwell, professor! put also in support of the nearly 200,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America, on strike farther east. In spite of this, M. Negro, presi- A. H. Hopkins, Miss Lillian Herstein,|dent of District 15, U.M.W.A., (Col- of the Chicago Teachers’ Union, Jer-|0rado) has interfered with the pro- ome Davis, of Yale University, and| Posed strike in two different ways. 1 Douglas, of the Chi Univers- | rial ie ome dict et aa Aa LW., which sent out the strike call for Nothing is known of the definite | Colorado miners, from using for mass plans of the members of the: delega- ; monument, but at a recent meeting of tion upon their arrival in this coun-| 44, single local of the U.M.W.A., in try. It is claimed that both Coyle Colorado, Negro deliberately told them and Palmer have lost their positions that the strike of the I.W.W. and un- as editors of the publications they) organized would not concern them at have been connected with, because | gj}, and that they should stay at they insisted on making the trip. |work. There is resentment here, All of the members of the delega- among the members of the local, at tion have registered in repeated in-| the attitude taken by the officials. terviews their enthusiasm over the/This is one of International President tremendous strides forward achieved | Lewis’ “paper districts” which sends by the Russian workers and Peasants) under Soviet rule. ) large numbers of delegates to con- ventions, but organizes few miners. "ISAAC DON LEVINE jin government circles as having been inspired among the rank and file by |the American officials, as a result of the American changed attitude in BOSTON SACCO-VANZETTI COMMITTEE \ Plenanee sc SCE, TR ‘arlo Tresca Tells Civie Club Two Framed-Up ‘Workers in New Pork Must Have Real Defense ten by James H, Maurer, president! | { Speaking before the Civie Club at its first meeting of the sea- son called especially to discuss case, and at which Carlo Tresca, similarity between the frame-u chusetts and that now being pe Isaac Don Levine was another speaker. | CONVIGT MAYOR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 23.— Mayor John L. Duvall was convicted yesterday of violation of the corrupt practises act. He was fined $1,000, sentenced to 30, days in prison, and | deprived of electoral privileges for four years, | The jury found that Duvall had ac- | cepted $14,500 from Wm. H. Armit- age, an Indiana contractor, on prom-| ise to let Armitage appoint the men! he would have to deal with on the} board of public works. he lessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti editor of Il Martello, exposed the of the two workers in Massa- |connection with the tariff war. French Financiers Backing Down. Indignation has been further accen- ated by the fact that the French |financiers are already being com- lielled to put. the soft pedal on their |actempts at economic reprisal against | their creditor. Confronted by the lgrim attitude of the American im- |perialists, which finds expression in \the tariff ultimated presented by the |Washington government, the Paris |representatives of the French finan- \ciers are already stating that it is jtu DUVALL OF GRAFT; rpetrated on Grecco and Carillo. |not tariff reductions which their ac- jtion in raising the tariff barriers A x : |against the United States’ goods has ) Levine is a@ newspaper correspon-/in view, but the granting of certain | dent of the widest experience, and the | «facilities” by the American authori- | audience was treated to an eloquent] ties ‘The nature of these “facili- attack on» the wrong method of de-| (Contaned Pa Two) fense, drawn from a criticism of the TUROMER OFS eWay |mishandling of the Sacco-Vanzetti |case by the Boston Sacco-Vanzetti | | Defense Committee. the defense work,” declared Levine. “There were membrs of the Boston committee who seemed to have the idea that all they needed was legalis- tic activity, and they wasted their time in court. They thot there was nothing to be done but to save two lives and were antagonistic to pub- licity and to demonstrations. They even sabotaged them. They took no lessons from the famous persecutions of the past, the Dreyfus case, for ex- ly thru the extra-legal activity of publicists and by the organization of mass sentiment, Fatal Policy. Duvall’s trial was the first to grow} ago. Others now under indictment as a result of the third grand jury in- Ed Jackson, George Coffin, republi- of Jackson. twhile Jackson was secretary of state +to be raigned October 2nd. An active booth will be conducted First National Labor Bazaar for The DAILY WORKER and The FREI- HEIT to be held at the Square Garden, October 6,7, 8 and 9. At that time’emblems, rings, and sickles and hammers will be made for sale to the thousands of workers ‘from New York and adjacent cities who will attend the mammoth affair. Other articles of a similar nature, | “The Boston Sacco-Vanzetti De- prosecuting attorney, and | judge, | The disastrous result of re- ; court. }apparent, Not only were the men’s | Vanzetti and the good of humanity ample, where men were saved entire-| OPPOSITION IN ALL-UNION PARTY |Exposes Work With | Renegade Groups MOSCOW, Sept. 23.—The danger; ;to the whole international movement |that is manifest because of the con- tinuous flirtation of the opposition in the All-Union Communist Party with jthe expe lled and_ discredited renegades of the French and German out of the Indiana political scandal |fense Committee thot they had to|Communist Parties is pointed out in precipitated by charges of D. D. Ste-|have a perfectly respectable Boston |a blistering editorial in Pravda. phenson, former Klan Dragon, a year |!awyer, because there was a Boston | “Pierre Monatte, former syndicalist leader of France who came over to |the Communist Party only to become quiry into the charges are Governor |Spectability and legal technicalities is most disgusting apostate, and his group spoke before the congress of can chairman of Marion county, and | lives lost, but years were wasted that) the Unitarian Confederation of Labor Robert I. Marsh, former law partner Might have been spent in raising a demanding that no connections be These are accused of |gigantic protest against their being| maintained with conspiracy to bribe Warren T. McCray | murdered. The safety of Sacco and | Party. the Communist “This action,” says Pravda, “is out- and McCray was governor. They are |alike demanded a different policy right and shameless arrogant oppor- | tunism, ‘SICKLES, HAMMERS AND OTHER REVOLUTIONAY He has not only prohibited the I.W.! | EMBLEMS TO BE SOLD AT HUGE “RED BAZAAR” |}meetings the grounds of the Ludlow, by a group of jewelry workers at the | Madison , 1 (Continued on Page Three) This protest against Com- s - a munist leadership of the trade unions is nothing more nor less than going | completely over to the French re- formists and is playing their game. It is tantamount essentially to a struggle against the Red Interna- . ¥ 5 : tional of Trade Unions and means jineluding pins, cameos, earrings, ctc.,;complete agreement with Amstere will also be sold at amazingly low | dam.” prices, it is announced. Progressive members from many unions of New York and other cities |)... Maslov ran thei ‘ have already announced their “inten- | aid ceciggrn gee ee oe ae - ) A ; idate in the last elections to the tion of actively cooperating in the | Hamburg evince! im: moat ay: * j a t 'g se s mtomatic first “Red Bazaar” for the Labor (Continued on Page Two) Press. Upholstery workers, among i Nari others, held a meeting this week and Denounces German Apostates. “The fact that in Germany the Ur- made detailed plans for joining in the cooperative labor enterprise. International Youth Day Demonstration, Union Sq. Today 1 P i SPEAKERS: HERBERT ZAM, JOHN WILLIAMSON, NAT KAPLAN, SAM DON, W. Coen W. WEINSTONE, BEN GITLOW AND OTHERS ‘Governor Smith. in Bed With Bronchial Attack | Governor Smith is reported to be |in bed at the Biltmore as a result of ja sudden attack of bronchitis. Too frequent attendance at public func- tions as speaker is said to be the cause of the attack., : i é = 4m w. \ vA, aree n s ‘s % n o 3. a- 1e 4. tt