The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1927, Page 2

“Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBE 7 ceeaeiahiieeasinnintaaneleneiinemmmeimiaeaienmemmmmamamamaammmmmammmmamemmemeeeaeammetenammed ALF. L. CONVENTION NOTES OPPE)? PRAVDA EXPOSES) “Release loony aad —'BRITISH LACKEYS) "(Ree smn ‘OF IMPERIALISM SHOPPERS W | Ay. F. OF L. By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. is proving ho: le enough to President Wm. Green and Angeles his iates 2 reason is t hard LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6,—By to find. The e an- junanimous vote the Los Angeles} swer in the fo vn” ——— Central bor Union demanded | in the union res oe MacDonald and Thoma junconditional “pardon for “Tom} 'ed- Mooney and Warren Billings, who are now in ‘California penitenti- s and have been for the | ven Fs by union la eration of I under Mr. rs, and ervice outside gencies Fighting the Masses BULL the for redn 1 they h TIN. LONDON, Oct. 6—Evidently feel- ing secure and confident of the pres- | one of th spread of ir > of the governir years to combat Con prey standing a bulwark tions of lib if no oth e ration officers and| ent right wing leadership of th body expre delegates welcome they receive in this city.” British Trade Union Congress a lief in tk innocene: Any com , superfluc Labor Party, the employers are in- | |and Billings are mar | Still In Scab Headquarters. ———_——-—| troducing ‘the ten-hour day into the ‘| A. F. of L. in Califo: symbols | ne of the Ce La- hich was being used as offi-' steel industry. The first attempt to of the determination of the em- Sage: Wins and I mvention headquar-| substitute two ten-hour shifts, with plo: v trade unions of the Culin- The delegate | against the regard of his union. The/ of the council were furious. Buzzell jumped to his feet houted a demand for immediate purnment, and the council wa: Get No. 1 3 | hastily adjourned without a vote be-!| .MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 6. STRIKE iS QVER: ing taken, to save Green and Morri-) Pravda, official organ of the Com- j y further embarrassment. The} munist Party of the Soviet Union in WEFP SAM ‘ | IE WAGE still the official head-| discussing the program put forward speed-up practices, instead of three eight-hour shifts is made by Dor- man, Long & Co., Ltd., one of the largest firms belonging to the em- ployers’ association. The change is made at their works at Middles- borough. n a i in’ the political 1 economic life of the state. * a : by the Blackpool Congress of the B Arizona Labor Fights Boulder Dam. ish Labor Party declares that Ram Arizona labor delegates to the A.) MacDonald and J. H. Thomas, are . oe OO ee eee | san tei! in phate Bai 8 as the | Compromise Results As y e | pending election campaign by con- FF “ factories Close Down cmmmammenomncmm fighting the government Boulder} ducting an energetic fight against any | t P Ww |Dam project on the Colorado River.| spirit of revolt in the organization, | |Benjamin F. Carpenter, editor of the| thereby consolidating their relations Subscribe—Get Every Issue CUMAMUNIST INTERNATIONAL (Olid Cage tthe Sawcntee Camano he Comtmaren nmrmanens jAvizona Labor Journal, declared the} with the trade union bureaucracy with | Arizona delegation would “resist to| whose help they expect not only to |the last ditch” any efforts on the| yeceive working class votes but als part of the California branch of the] trade union funds. ie of window glass workers ended here today when representatives of the Window Glass Cutters’ arid Flatten- ers’ Association compromised with 10 CE A COPY HA. F. of L. to have a resolution Yor Imperialism the American Window Glass OCom-| Arpehinee passed endorsing either of these} aoa é A ee pany on a wage scale agreement. $2.00 a Year. $1.25 Six Mos. measures. ba tom electioneering. purposes, The workers agreed to return to | Labor Party leaders are exerting the | utmost efforts to transform all the or- ganized labor movement into a bul- | wark of imperialism. However, it is | doubtful if the lackeys of the bour- “aneee will be able to fully carry out |the mission with which they are ; ’ ‘ | charged by their masters. The British | Pe convenes es idle pers, labor movement is passing thru a} lhe strike had parallyzed the indus- é e It lasted about a week. eo “ f try. san | S¢Vere crisis under the direct fire of | ~” aes f ian Shi i : L, urged the repeal of the Canadiai @ capitalist offensive and over five tariff which places a duty on union|~ .\ an | bs . millions of British workers contrary lahels smported inte Ghat, conetey, aS \to the will of the reformist leaders rks were not salable and} ‘. : ie oe ae. < are seriously preparing for coming battles. The abyss between the broad working masses and the Labor Party | Officials of Angeles ‘is growing ever wider while at the Wages of Buildin ° * |same time a bitter struggle is de- g f Unions Held by Police | veloping inside the trade inalons: The | {more the old leaders expose them- Trade Workers Seen | selves as open agents of imperialism | the more rapidly will the way be clear- | jed for the revolutionary masses and By ESTHER LOWELL, | the consolidation of the Communist} (Federated Press). | Yq % | pars et | Are building trades unionists in the | | United States to be offered some sort f B. & O. union-management coop- BLACKPOOL, England, Oct. 6. —| eration scheme as the price of present | Jack Jones, labor member in parlia-| high wages? Or will they be given! ment, again engaged in a brawling | wage cuts? | |attempt to suppress the discussion of| Neither proposition was explicitly | birth contro) by the Labor Party Con- | voiced by E. J. Mehran, vice president | gress. He clashed with Cook, leader! o¢ MeGraw Hill Co. (publishers of |of the miners’ strike. And raged|trade journals), in his address to the jMhen the delegates began to shout, |New York Building C | ¢ ‘ g¢ Congress: But his | “Chuck Jones out.” Cook termed him, | seit Wak RGHO! 2. + |“The fool of the Labor Party.” subject was Foreign Competition E A warning against investing the funds of American labor in European stocks because of the impending in- dustrial crisis in Europe was sounded sefore the building trades department convention by Richard Coppock, Bri- tish delegate. The convention of the Printing Trades Association of the A. F. of | work at the present wage scale pro- |viding their pay will be increased | proportionately with any increase in the sale price of window glass. The manufacturers agreed to eliminate a clause permitting a termination of THE DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPT. 33 First Street New York. (Continued from Page 1). his program that wages should par- allel productivity. Green’s remarks were also an at- tack on the progressive and left wing elements, as well as the Communists. | He said, “We take no dictation from | Moscow and stir no class hatred, but uphold the American traditions.” An attack on the power of the {courts to declare workers in con- tempt for violation of injunction pro- ceedings was made by Delegate Rals- ton. Jones Fiehts Birth Control. Resolutions Introduced. Among the 97 resolutions before the convention are the following: A proposal for the establishment of a In the new GLASS WORKERS. FRANCE SHOCKED BY SMASH GIVEN HER OVER TARIFF “Can’t Believe America ‘Would Raise the Duties” |< PARIS, Oct. Ministry of Cor |lief today that t | between Franc be com hington in certain French goods. One high official said he could not dit the of ing the duty on from Washington. He Feels Hurt. “It is diffic' to imagine the authorities is time,” s by the State: bound to emt ss future s. We have had no offi- notification from the United |States of an increase in tariffs. The | hard to believe.” | After declaring his belief that an Jineredse in American duty upon |French imports would “make a fina lagreement nearly impossible,” the French official continued: e} g 2 | .“France’s action on tariffs was not} . 3 eee PITTSBURGH, Oct. 6—The strike | directly solely at America but ap-|f Belgium along with the “official” | plied to all countries. But now the United States incr the duty on French products, which shows that the action was directed solely against France. Argument Goes On. America and France are at present engaged in diplomatic exchanges over the tariff situation. Washington con- tends that France is discriminating against American goods by increasing the duties. The American government suggested the negotiation of a new commercial treaty between the two countries, and France replied by stat- ing the conditions upon wi | treaty might be concluded. * * * Hate “Reciprocit: WASHINGTON, Oct. tion of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman in increasing the tariff on certain articles imported from France has not aggravated the tariff dispute between that country and the United States, it was said at the state department today. State department officials did take exception, however, to Lowman’s statement that “the American policy is one of reciprocity.” British Consul Seizes, USSR Citizens in China | (Continued from Page 1). | able to Feng Yi-hsiang, broke out on | the Shansi province border at a point | about 140 miles on the railroad west of Peking. The attacking forces exe cuted a cavalry flank movement which { drove back the Peking army. Chang’s | SOVIET UNION TO IGNORE FRENCH DIE-HARD REQUEST FOR RAKOVSKY RECALL, IS REPORT || According to a dispatch released by the International News S$ | bearing a Moscow date line, George Tchitcherin, commissar for | |affairs, declared yesterday that the Soviet Union would ignore irs | {demand for the recall of Christian Rakovsky, ambassador to France. i | The French die-hards, inspired, it is believed, by British oil interests,| | | headed by the Royal Dutch Shelf, have been demanding the :ecall of | | Rakovsky, using as a pretext an Opposition document signed by him. { & British Gene n made in dispatches | ying. | upon | 1} Patronize “Select” — Group From Legion { LONDON, Oct. 6—280 state com-| |manders and past commanders of the | American Legion, headed by former ational Commander Howard P. avage, arrived here teday for a six- day ceremonial visit. | This is the “official” visit of the | Legion to England, and only super- |snobs of high financial standing or peculiar fame as politicians in their {home country are included in it. | Bearing in mind the incident a few days ago when sundry “unofficial” Hepighnalves tried to battle their way |in the royal palace and see the King | party made up of men who rank | higher in Bradstreet, the British |government has massed the streets | with soldiery. | Even among the chosen “official” | jlegionnaires, some are more official |than others | After leaving the train the legion- \naires formed on the platform with |unfurled flags. British dignitaries inspected them, speaking with those |that wore medals. | The British war office was pre- sented at the station by. Major Gen- jeral Charles, Gen. Townsend and others. The foreign office also was | represented. Functions for the Legion started with a speech by the Prince of Wales, who uttered the stereotyped jaddress of welcome, referring to the great need the Empire had of Ameri- ean troops in 1918, The most “official” of the “offi- cial” group will be received hy King George on Monday. ris NEEDLE TRADES: CONFERENCE TO BEHELD SUNDAY To Discuss Relief at | Irving Plaza Meeting | By BEN RUBIN. Next Sunday the Needle Trades Relief conference of all workers’ or- ganizations called by the Joint De- fense and Relief Committee will take place at Irving Plaza Hall, East 15th St. and Irving Place. The Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittee has been in existence for about eight months. During this time the committee has helped the joint boards of the) Gloakmakers’ and Furriers? untons to carry on their fight against attempts of the bosses to smash the unions and install sweat shop systems and company unionism. | Aids Imprisoned Workers. The Defense Committee has also helped défend victims, of black-terror | in the cloakmakers’ and furriers’ mar- | ket. It has supported families of | arrested victims while they were in jail. | From the first day of its inception the Defense Committee became what |it had to be—the organ thru which | the masses send their supvort to the | fighting, cloakmakers and furriers. | The, needle trade workers understand {that only with the help of large masses of workers will they succeed |in repelling the attacks of the right wing clique and the bosses and again | build their union. The recent strikes of the Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ unions have drained the treasuries of the unions. Originally the conference consisted of New York organizations only. Very soon it extended its activities to De- troit, Boston, Philadelphia and even Royal Betrathal Is |such distant cities as Los Angeles. “In many of these cities conferences | were called and defense committees | established. All these committees work in close co-operation with the New York Joint Defense and Relief Committee. Workers Still in Jail. At this time dozens of workers are . . Ital il Bul alla still in jail. The appeal of the nine ; furviers who were sentenced to long |terms on a frame-up will be heard very soon and must be won. The conference will adopt ways and means to <nlve all these problems. LONDON, Oct. 6.—Ofticial circles in Rome were engaged today in com- OCTOBER issue of the New Masses SACCO and VANZETTI Anarchists and The Revolu- tionary Science By MAX EASTMAN chain of broadcasting stations by the} unions, an annual tax of $1 a member to cover the expenses. It also calls} for an investigation by the. federal | authorities of the charge that “radio is controlled and fast becoming mon- | opolized by capital and vested inter- | ests to the exclusion of the rights; {of organized labor and others.” The other resolutions attack the Sherman anti-trust law, one asking | its amendment to prevent its applica- tion to labor and the other demand-| ing the repeal of the law. | Other resolutions demand a mini- | mum of $1,500 a year for federal} employees, an eight-hour day and six-day week for all field workers, j}elimination of convict labor, opposi- | tion to fascism, principal of govern-| ment rehabilitation of the Mississippi Valley and conttol of flood waters, | A Symposium on SACCO-VANZETTI by and support of the eight-hour day | Glarina Michelson for sailors of the American merchant | Michael Gold “Srey Uae if Jas. Rorty Chamorro Begs Kellogg | ‘To Let Him Misrule Nicaragua for the U.S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Gen, Em- ilano Chamorro, former dictator of Nicaragua and high in favor with tke American bankers, is now back in Washington, begging for removal for the o: al ban upon his running for the presidency of his country. } hus far Secretary Kellogg has not indicated any change in his policy, declared last year, that Chamorro can never be recognized by the Uniced | States as president of Nicaragua. ban, is due to the treaty signed by the Central American States and oved by the Sate Depar-ment, A. Giovannitti Wm. Patterson Grace Lumpkin Joseph Lilly Wm. Gropper OTHER ARTICLES, SHORT STORIES, POEMS, CARTOONS by leading writers and artists. 25 Cents a Copy SUBSCRIBE! $1.00 Five Mos. $2.00 a Year. coming to power is based on a military coup. Chamorro seized power in Nicaragua, tWo years ago, a military coup. When the Liber- THE NEW MASSES 39 Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y. him, Kellogg sent American d marines to crush the Jf Diaz, known as the i0 Chamorro, was then made president by “legal election” at Enclosed $........ for .... | mos. subscription. 1 And Chamorro was sent to Europe jas minister for the Diaz government. ; Diaz will be maintained in power by American marines and American- officered constabulary until after an election is held in the fall of 1928, fects “the. Building Industry. .. He warned that modern industrial” Ger- | y, vi i i plank on birth control was barred | Aap rhs ceamieelieation cot grodue. from the Labor Party platform “be- | tion and labor-employer- édoperation, cause it conflicted with religion.” lthreatene this country’s industria! | a ET DET | prestige. | Business Men Say Truce). Where the building industry conies | . * jin is that “it places a burden on} Wili Hurt Miners | every shoestring, and typewriter, (Continued from page 1) ; every machine tool, and electric motor | that is shipped across the sea, and on are determined to enforce a lower|¢very shoe, or yard of woolen goods scale when the present armistice is| or pocket knifeé-made in this country, ended. ;and that must meet the competition | The Ohio Coal Operators’ Associa-| of foreign articles,” tion has issued a statement saying) “The building burden on manufac- that the situation in Illinois will have | tured goods is both direct and indi- no bearing on the struggle in the/ rect,” seid Mehren, “direct in the Ohio coal valleys, although the offi-| charge for factory and office build- cials of District 6 of the union de- ings, indirect in the rent element in clare they are willing to agree to a/ every salary check and in every wage similar arrangement. envelope.” If home rents are high, The chairman finally came to Jones’} aid and arbitrarily announced that al forces abandoned Kalgan, 116 miles | pleting arrangements for the immin- west of here. The retreating army de-| ent betrothal of the Princess Giovan- stroyed a bridge just beyond Kalgan|na, third daughter of the King and to delay pursuit. The Shansi troops| Queen of Italy, to King Boris, of entered Kalan yesterda: Bulgaria, according to a Daily Mail Within 50 Miles. dispatch from the Italian capital: As a main line of defense Chang is | concentrating his troops outside the/ religions question was the object of Great Wall. The defense line centers | the visit of King Boris to the pope on the railway at Hwai Lai about 50) yesterday, the Bulgarian monarch miles from Peking. Artillery is being | hoping to arrange a solution similar massed on the surrounding moun-| to that used when the Italian Princess tains. A rear guard action is being | Mafalda married the Prince of Hesse, fought to the west of Peking. The/a protestant. Boris belongs to the new line of defense protects the a) Bulgarian National Church. passes through the mountains to the} ‘The wedding is looked - plain on which Peking is located. | fectly in aésord with Tealy's ‘ollay of } On the Hankow railroad, which Pek- | extending her power and prestige in ing seeks to control for an attack) the Balkans. upon Feng, Peking troops have fallen Reports were that discussion of the | With this Sunday’s conference the Defense Committee will open a new page in the history of the struggle in the needle trades. The conference is important and must be successful. All workers’ organizations that want to fight not only against the installa- {tion of the sweat shop system and jcompany unionism but against right | wing betrayals must send delegates. Test Proves Paternity. VIENNA. — Anthropolgical tests ;made by Prof. Reche of the Univer- sity of Vienna have established the paternity of a child to the satisfac- tion of a Vienna court. BUY THE DAILY WORKER back five miles to a point north of} Chengtin, which is 150 miles south! of the city. * * * The operators in Western Pennsyl- vania where the struggle has been} most contested and where the miners have had to battle against evictions and injunctions, also have refused to consider even a temporary truce on the basis of the Jacksonville wage seale. On the contrary, the strategy of the operators there is to tie the hands of the union by injunction and then reopen the mines on a scab basis was wages the same as in West Vir- ginia and Kentucky. * * * Force Increase from Rockefeller. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 6—(FP)— Strike agitation of the Industrial Workers of the World in the south- salaries and wages must group pro- portionately and the cost of goods goes up, he asserted. | In suggesting a survey of building costs, Mehren included labor costs, city building code, state factory laws, |prices of materials, and relations be- | tween architects and contractors, con- tractors and material dealers. He pro- \posed that the Building Congress, com- posed chiefly of employers with a few trade union officials, “find ways and | means” of making the survey. | He mentioned that the New York \industrial survey commission might be the agency. This\state body, ap- pointed by the legislature, has already extended its life from one to two ried to regain power by revolt | {the hands of a Chamorrist congress. | ern Colorado coal fields, controlled principally by the Rockefeller inter-| years. It has included building costs, ests, had foreed the Colorado Fuel & | with emphasis on union practices, in |Iron Co. to increase miners’ wages| its investigations. |by approximately 12 per cent. The} * linerease was effective October 1, 17) days before the scheduled I. W. W. istrike. The daily wage scale will now| trades workers interviewed 9 . - ‘a " yesterday be $6.20, compared to S502. 4.500 by The DAILY WORKER, Mehren is coal diggers are affected. e LW.W. acting as spokesman for the building jasked $7.75 a day. triides bonnes! In spite of the increase, it is under- - gto ni Some of the workers were of the stood that I. W. W, leaders are going opinion that Mehren’s remarks meant jahead with their plans for a strike 4; 3, Led October: 16: chs stelle vote te now that an offensive to reduce wages is not impossible in the near future. Wants Wage Reduction. According to many active building | Foreigners Frightened. TIENTSIN, Oct. 6.—The capture of Kalgan and continued advance of Yen Hsi-shan’s troops towards Peking has | caused the greatest panic among for- eign business men and other govern- ment supporters here. It is consid- ered that Peking will fall before long, and those who have openly espoused Chang Tso-lin’s rule will suffer the | loss of their concessions. | Second Game of World Series By Wide Margin PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 6-—The New York Americans defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by a wide margin iin the second game of the World \Series. The final score of the game jwas 6 to 2. ensuring the owners of the two ball clubs large profits. The owners of the two contending teams get forty |industrial law. I. W. W. leaders re- port more than 1,500 workers in the coal fields have joined the organiza- tion since the campaign began 2 months ago. being taken to comply with the state WANTED MORE READERS! Carroll Not Paroled. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Earl Car- The constitution forbids Diaz running New York Yankees Win . | A large crowd witnessed the game per cent of the total gate receipts. Last Opportunity! To Participate in the JUBILEE TOUR TO SOVIET RUSSIA Registration Closes in a Few Days! Sailing October 14th, 1927, via Cunard liner “Carma- nia” and return Dee. 15th (8 weeks) to London -- Leningrad -- Moscow Aaal” ‘The Tourist Delegation will have the privilege of participating in the Grand Celebrations and | | | | | Are You Working Night and Day for the Big Red Bazaar? NEW ADDRESS OF WORKERS PARTY The National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party is now lo- Festivals of the 10th Anni- versary of the Russian Re- volution. Entire cost $600. You Must Apply Immediately! World Tourists, Ine. 69 Fifth Ave., New York TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 | roll, New is theatrical producer, sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for for re-election. Hence Chamorro is appealing to Kellogg to declare !Chamorro now eligible to take over the running of Nicaragua. cated at 43 East 125th St., New York City, All mail and telegrams should | perjury, will not be released from|be sent to the new address. District organizations, Language Fraction prison on October 9, when he is eligi-| Bureaus, Party Auxiliaries, Party Units and Party members as well as ali ble to parole, it was learned today. | labor organizations will please take notice, | q