The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1927, Page 1

TKE DAILY WORKER ricmTs: FOR THD ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK POR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 220. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1927 the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Street, New York, N. Y. Current Events By ". J. O'Flaherty [a ee ee ne here opened last Monday night and there are great doings in the immediate vicinity We wish to of our ial rooms. grateful acknowledge the many New Year greetings we have received from orthodox descendants of the In this part of the hanah ushers in the h ence, and Business y night that $s were opened a big rush on Third hops until the regular missing tri a f year of they may be was so b temporary and the Du ad- the ee of $10 to h ynagogue when the; s much noise for nothi when The D gotten (ATEAN philanthr soup kitchen ind delivered a Rosh-ha-Shanah message in which he claimed that Henry Ford’s reformation was one of the greatest victories scored by the Jewish people in the past year. Now if the Jewish moving picture magnates will call in the movies that grate on the patriotic sensibilities of the Irish people in America, we may look forward to an era of peace outside of a few worit wars. Nathan s did not men- tion the victorie capitalists in the ne tie trades unions when, with the aid of the Sigmans,! Beckermans and Hillquits they par- tially destroyed the unions rather than permit the Left Wing leadership elected by the workers to retain con- trol. red by his fellow; SIGNATURES FOR LOGAL BALLOTS 70 BE GATHERED The District Call Urges| Campaign Saturday The local election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party will get under way this week-end, when hundreds of party workers will ' gather the signatures which are nec- essary to place Communist candidates on the ballot in the coming election, The district organization has issued a call urging all members to obtain signatures this Saturday and Sunday. The local nominating convention will be held at the Irving Plaza, Irv- ing Place, and 15th Street, on Octo- ber 9. It has been postponed from October 2, so all party members can devote their time in obtaining signa- tures. At the convention, in addition to naming the local ticket, the party program for the election will be drawn up. Members Must Register. All members of sections 2 and 3 are instructed to report to the -head- quarters in the neighborhood in which they live and help get signatures. The members must register when they report Saturday or Sunday as a rec- | ord will be sent to their units. IOGRAPHIES are the rage in| The headquarters are located at literary circles nowadays. Paxton 2075 Wilkins Avenue, the Bronx; 81 Hibben, the insuppressible captain,| Hast 110th Street, the Bronx; 46 Ten has written a life of Henry Ward Eyck Street, Williamsburg, and 63 Beecher, the famous preacher. Ac-| Liberty Avenue, Brownsville. They cording to Hibben, Beecher was a will be open all day Saturday and regular fellow and sinned as much as Sunday. If the Workers Party candi- * * * he was sinned against. But about Beecher more anon. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was another he- man who had no more idealism in his soul than a weasel. He became rich by grabbing the main chance and developing a conscience like a fox. When his father remonstrated with him about marrying the girl of his choice, the founder of the House of Vanderbilt is alleged to have said: “There ain’t nobody alive kin talk to me like that. Find some one else to feed ye.” The commodore became re- ligious in his late years but he never allowed it to interfere with his busi- ness. * * x RESIDENT Coolidge is said to be annoyed because his beneficiaries refuse to take his “I de not choose”) dates are to appear on the ballot, all members must help to the utmost. WALKER RETURNS TO FACE SCANDAL ON HONOR DANCE 55 Per Cent Commission ‘Paid for Program Ads After kow-towing to Mussolini and for an answer, and insist on trying | the Pope, causing the ejection of sev- to organize a spontaneous mass move-| eral Negroes from a night club in ment that would demand a_ re- Rome, announcing himself as a fas- consideration of his Rapid City de-| cist and addressing his fellow-fascists cision not to run for re-election. at the Paris convention of the Ameri- Canny Calvin is said to be slated for can Legion, New York’s butterfly a $100,000 job with the Steel Trust.!Mayor James J. Walker returned In this job he can retain all the re- yesterday on the Ile de France from minders of his happy South Dakota 'a trip to Europe, where he was sup- (Continued on Page Six) to have studied municipal FRAME-UP OF TWO WORKERS CAUSED | Posed | problems. The stench of a sordid graft scan- dal connected with the ball arranged in Walker’s honor, spread over the city with the announcement of the withdrawal of Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee .and District Attorney Ban- ton. Big Profits. The discovery that a huge commis- j | BY DUCE ; sion of 55 per cent was being paid lto on the expensive advertisements Count Ignazio Thaon di Revel, head of the Fascist League of North America, appointed by Premier Mus- solini, is the moving spirit behind the frame-up of Cologero Grececo’ and Carillo, anti-fascists whom the sup- porters of Mussolini and the New | for the ball program caused the with- drawal of McKee and Banton. | The “Mayorality Ball,” which will be given at the Hotel Astor on De- cember 1, is being arranged by Miss Martha Maynard, 425 Fifth avenue, a “specialist” in arranging affairs of the sort. McKee Withdraws Name. Acting Mayor McKee had origin- ally consented to the use of his name because he was told that the proceeds York police authorities want to send} to the electric chair. | Revel has been warmly received by leading business men of America, holding many secret conferences at which he propograted the principles of fascism. It is said that many of his listeners have been very sympa- thetic to his message, drinking in every word eagerly. Caused Indictment. Wielding his great influence with prominent individuals in this country | it can be easily seen that it was not} difficult for Revel to cause the in-! dictment of two men who are opposed to the fascist regime in Italy. A vivid example of how the frame- up of anti-fascists is conducted is the case of Philip Nardone of the Bronx. Nardone was arrested together with 13 other men charged with murdering Carisi and Amorroso, se- | cret agents of Mussolini. He was_ held in jail for 27 days. After that, (Continued on Page Five) | of the affair would go to the Bellevue Hospital Social Service and the Art Theater, he said in a letter to Miss Maynard yesterday. When he discov- ered that the firm to which the con- tract had been let for the program |was to receive 55 per cent of the | proceeds, he demanded the withdraw- al of his name. i Will Let Prisoners Starve. THOMASTON, Me., Sept. -27.— Forcible feeding was not likely at this time as a means of frustrating the hunger strike of Benjamin H. Turner, Alberta, Towa, accountant, who continued adamant at states pris- on today, according to prison offi- cials, Turner was beginning the first day of a life sentence for the murder of James D. Hallen, disbarred lawyer and confidence man, Workers Party Opens City Election U. S. NAVY MENACES CHINESE AT SWATOW Dy+ix7c0 COMMUNISTS ON Drives AT DAIREN “GREETINGS!” Yeh Tee dame Moves Into Big City | { | jee, Wed JINGTON, Sept. 27. — | The state department is greatly worried over the situation at |Swatow. It was thot here that \the Chinese revolution had sim- mered down into “safe” chan- nels, in which military leaders, jready to “listen to reason” would divide the country among | them, and foreign capital be ful- |ly encouraged. However, alarm- list reports of the “capture of Swatow by Communists” have caused pessimism and anger |among the Chinese section of | the department. » | Well authenticated news that with the peasant army com- ;manded by General Yeh-ting in control of the city, Communist propaganda is widely distribut- ed and labor organization rapid- ‘ly continuing, has greatly dis- | pleased the secretary of state. Department officials are confer- ring on the question of sending additional naval forces to Swa- tow. At present the cruiser Ashley and five British torpedo A. F. L. MAY SET RESOLUTION FOR USSR DELEGATION Fitzpatrick, Just Back, Likely To Be Sponsor It was learned yesterday that a resolution calling for the appoint- ment of an official American Federa- tion of Labor delegation to visit the Soviet Union would probably be in- troduced at the convention to open at Los Angeles, October 3, by James W. Fitzpatrick, of the Associated Actors’ and Artists’ Federation, who returned Monday with the American Trade Union delegation. This is likely, it is said, despite the fact that Fitzpatrick declined to sign the preliminary statement issued by the Delegation praising Soviet econ- omy, and declaring that it was “im- pressed by the hopeful spirit with which the workews were participat- ing in the life aad activities of their country.” Maurer Laud: Workers’ Condition. James H. Maurer, president of the | Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, who headed the delegation, declared that “in spite of the post-war destru¢- tion, the blockade and the backwacd technique of the Soviet Union, social- istic forms of economy have proved their vitality and their advantages over capitalist economy.” Maurer, together with his wife and son, who came to New York to meet him upon his arrival from Soviet Russia, left for Reading, Pa., where workers there were planning a re-| ception in his honor. John Brophy, former president of | District 2, United Mine Workers of America, also left the city for Pitts-| burgh. Frank Palmer, member of the | von Aderkass, has been acquitted o Denver typographical union and for-| mer editor of the Colorado Labor Ad. vocate, left for the west. Coyle, secretary of the delegation and executive secretary of the all-Amer- ican Cooperative Commission, took | the train for Cleveland. * * * | Journalist Praises U.S.S.R. Housing. Housing conditions in the Soviet Union were enthusiastically praised yesterday by Upton Close, lecturer at the University of Washington and writer on problems of the Near East, who returned Monday with the Ame- rican Trade Union delegation which spent more than a month studying economic, political and social condi- tions in the U. S. S. R. Close, who was not an official member of the delegation, but joined it in Soviet Russia traveling by way Albert F. | = Lithuanian Fascists Sign Concordat With Pope to Rule Workers} CONTINUE FRAME FRENCH POLICE | ROME, Sept. 27—Premier Wal- demaras of Lithuania today signed! a treaty of concord between Lith-} ania and the vatican. The popu-; lation of Lithuania, except for the territory of Memel, which is peo- pled principally by protestant pea- sants, is 85 per cent Roman Cath- olic, according to the way the church calculates membership, that is, all babtised children are con- sidered catholics, whether they | want to be or not. The workers of Lithuania, most of them, have abandoned their fathers’ religion, and like the church no better than they do the) fascist rule of Waldemars. They regard the present concordat as reerely an alliance of their enemies UP BOMB RAIDS \U. S. Fascists Ignored | By Italian Workers NICE, France, Sept. 27.—French | police are boasting today that they have found anarchist literature in | the homes of well-known Italian an- archists who are refugees in south-| ern France from fascism. It is doubt- | ful, however, if this will seem extra- | ordinary to anybody above the men-| tality of a French policeman. The raids on the houses of the Italian refugees and the arrests of scores on frame-up charges in connection with the bombing of the French southern railroad over which trains, loaded with American legionnaires, were about to pass, are part of the French government’s plot to drive all progressive labor elements out of the country or to bury them in the French jails. Even before the frame- up of the Italian workers it was against them. BRITISH SPIES CONFESS GUILT; > ‘Boy, 10, Coabeees to | Slaying Sister; Clears ‘| Uncle of Murder Charge @ , | | | The confession of ten-year-old| William Saltarelli, according to} the police, that he had accidentally shot and killed his younger Bister, Angeline, yesterday brought exon- eration to his uncle, Braggio As-| senio, who had been arrested, | third-degreed and practically con-| victed by the police for murder. | HOUSE OF MORGAN AND B-M.T, FIGHT FOR N.Y. SUBWAYS. Untermeyer Scheme to! Boost Fares While New York toilers continue to | ride in over-crowded and badly-heat- | ed trains and subway workers con-| ADMIT FAILURE MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.; Sept. 27.— That they acted from despair and under fear of death should they re- fuse, that their efforts were wrong, needless and senseless, that in Com- munism and not in monarchism lies the hope of the masses, such are the penitent confessions of the four con- demned monarchists now facing exe- cution in Leningrad for terrorism and espionage in the U. S. S. R. un- der the direction of the white monar- |chist generals and the Latvian secret service backed by British gold. The five men are Balmassov, Sol- ski, Stroev, and Somoliov. A fifth, terrorism and espionage, but will finement for entering the known that the French intelligence and secret services had received ex- plicit instructions to stop at nothing in persecuting, imprisoning or de- porting workers. The police action was at first alleged to be an answer to the French workers mass protests against the murders of Sacco and Vanzetti. Hundreds of workers were deported at that time and the leaders of the Communist Party were thrown into jails. The present frame-up charges against the Italian workers grew out of the bomb explosion which tore up a few feet of track on the southern railway three days ago and out of a second “discovery” by the police of |another bomb at La Bacco. A third tinue to receive pitifully low wages for working long hours, the Morgan| | interests, represented by Samuel Un- termyer and the B.-M.T. continue to | wrestle over the Untermyer’s “unifi- cation” scheme. ! Officials of the B.-M.T. announced |yesterday that they would continue! |to fight against the Untermyer |scheme. The B.-M.T. is earning jabout’ 7 per cent on an enormously | inflated stock and it is fighting tooth | and nail to prevent the recapture of | its subway lines by the “city.” The | “unification” plan includes as one of its provisions the recapture of the | Sea Beach and Brighton subway | lines. Altho the Untermyer scheme !played up as an attempt on the of the city to operate the s be |condemned to ten years solitary con-| Soviet | attempt” against the Legion was|\" . * ie 4 Iso reported by the police when | it is believed to be a smoke attiaee et ib |for a ten-cent fare. It calls for : une boulders: were see bathe the | board of control composed of southern railway tracks, but these | business men and three city represi |the Latvian se of Manchuria after having spent (Continued on Page Two) ; iu . ter proved to be the work of a Union as a secret monarchist courier, | !# cr ie tho he was ignorant of the fact that | landslide. his organization in the employ of service, Italian Workers Hostile. “Ideals False.” | GENOA, Sept. 27.—In spite of the Before the court retired to consider efforts of the blackshirts to make the | the verdict, Balmassov, made the fol-jarrival of their colleagues in the biked Say tn Aigaoict | American Legion a gala occasion, the | “When I joine e anti-Soviet Or-'jegionnaires have expressed them- ganization, I sincerely believed that | selves as amazed at the hostility 5 Sire Ay on Petes showed them by the Italian workers. i p mye} A large delegation of the black- " i ” i igi Ene ot Date ome ‘shirts was on hand at the station to Stroev, a former mid-shipman in \greet the “veterans” but their salutes the czar’s navy, made a bitter speech | Were so theatrically official as to vevealing the depths to which the /S¢e™ forced and the legionnaires, who monarchists have sunk. “I worked |i" their joy at escaping the sullen not for money but for ideas,” he as- contempt, of the French workers were serted. “Mine were the tactics of | telling “the whole world” a few hours despair. My past life was shattered.|before that “Italy is all right,” are (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) * * * , tati MILLINERS MAKE 3,000 BE THE BIG RED BAZAAR Millinery workers and dressmakers, * | living at the United Workers Coope- | rative House, 2700 Bronx Park West, \will make three thousand hats and | hundreds of dresses for the giant Red |Bazaar at Madison Square Garden, | | October 6-7-8-9th. A millinery shop has been opened | jin one of the houses, where millinery | workers are putting in their best ef-| | forts evenings, holidays, Saturdays and Sunday in making hats for the} Bazaar, The best materials are be-| ing used fer the hats which will sell! boats are there, a’ is also.a Jap- anese war vessel. * MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 27,— A part bf the peasant detachments, acting jointly with Yeh-ting have en- tered Swatow. Yeh-ting’s regular army occupied Chaochow on the 28rd jof September and started the march on Swatow the same day. ee at | DAIREN, Sept. 27.—On Sept. 19th, the Dairen district court opened its hearing in the trial of sixteen Chin- ‘ese who, together with Teng-ho-koo, are accused of organizing the local Dairen committee of the Communist Party. As stated in the act of ae cusation, the organization connected with the Dairen committee had 32 branches, to which affiliated ver 220 e workers chiefly from the Dairen railway shops, the south Manchurian railway, and sta- dents. Commuters on Long Island R. R. Revolt Again: Ask for Seats Straphangers on the Long Island Railroad rebelled again yesterday wher a shortage of trains on the Port W: ivision compelled hun- dreds of men and women bound for Manhattan on the 8:11 from Brooklyn, Flushing, to stand. The 7.49 train ad ed to appear and 250 boarded the train at the station. Trainmen recalling the incident of the day before, when straphangers indignantly refused to pay their fares, announced that they would collect fares from all sengers, even if were standi oe hington » compartment and delivered atum: “No seats, no fares.” s stopped on the Flush- s and did not move until UTIFUL HATS FOR AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN at prices under $5; many of the hats vre worth more than $15. The milli- ners are cheerfully devoting all of their spare time to building the Red Bazaar. Dressmakers are making dresses of material turned into the offices of the National Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square, New York City. Housewives in the Cooperative are , working with the dressmakers and nilliners and are making various ar- ticles for the Bazaar. A rich and va-— ried assortment of white goods will be sold cheaply at numerous booths,