The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER. H Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act ef March 3, 1879. | Vol. IV. No. 286. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14, 1927 CANTON SOVIET GOVERNMENT IS PROCLAIMED ornen AUT NIZATION O% THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY | FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents | jie omer.a Workers, Peasants Take Power as U. S. STEEL AND COAL COMPANIES SHUT OFF MINERS WATER SUPPLY: M0) "=s=°"" ||” Lands Guns; General Strike in Shanghai FAMILIES EVICTED: LAUD OPEN SHOP. =s"33 Beginning with the Thursday edition The DAILY WORKER will} By AMY SHECHTER. Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | begin the publication of a series of | | news articles exposing the slave| None PITTSBURGH, Dec. 18.—The water supply to locked out miners’ homes was cut off yesterday by the Jones and McLaughlin |system in the New York traction} SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.—According to reports from Canton, peasants |industry: What the injunction Steel Company, which owns the Vesta mine, for the purpose of 4) speeding up the evictions. Mme. Sun Resigns From A “ 2 tang: | jointly with a part of the regular troops, captured government strongholds. lie Batt of titanisationt Tie exe | Kuomin ? Declares It | After disarming the guards of “the Peace and Security Bureau” the revolutionary troops oc- This action is causing great hardship among the miners’ families and necessitates carrying water long distances. It in- tem of stool pigeons, spies and| | | f | cupied the premises of this bureau. The government of Canton passed entirely into the power of |company henchmen; The challenge| | | Betrays Husband sldeals peasant-worker troops. ‘ to the labor movement, ete. BRUSSELS, Dec. 13.—Declaring | PROCLAIM REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT. Immediately after order was restored, the revolutionary troops issued the following procla- volves also the danger of a typhoid epidemic. Evicting 400 Families. A similar action by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Read this series beginning! | | that she considered that the Kuo-| Thursday. Ask your newsdealer to mintang leadership had betrayed K mation: “United workers’ and peasants’ forces have taken power into their hands in Canton. The ma- was reversed after a storm of protest from the mining communi- ties at Mollenhauer and Castle Shannon. order your copy of The DAILY|||her husband’s ideals, Mme. Sun| WORKER in advance. Buy copies Yat-sen announced her resignation | hi sans of the revolution belong to troops of the home defense. The Red Workers’ Corps, counting 5,000 men in its ranks, and acting under direction of revolutionary troops, has The Vesta Coal Company is evicting 400 families in the next F H t H y two weeks. The striking miners are racing against cold weather ascis | 3 a et S$ to complete barracks on time. | | . . Hope In Trial, Fails | | U and workmen acting for distribution among the New from the Kuomintang at yester-| jority of the par disarmed the guards and captured the Bureau of Peace and Security.” Reaffirm Open Shop Plans. York, Chicago, and other traction day’s session of the executive com- | workers. mittee of the International League 2 ©) | against Imperialism. Both Mme. Sun and the Kuomin- TAKE OVER OFFICES. tang delegate, who also announced 2 ne 2 : ‘ his resignation from the organiza- “After that, all the premises, all the adminis trative organs of the counter-revolution were oc- tion, were wildly cheered by the| cupied: the staff headquarters of the 4th Army of Defense, the Bureau of Peace and Security, the The Vesta Coal Company joined with the Pittsburgh Coal and oes and other Oriental dele-) Kwang-Tung section of the Kuomintang Ministers of War and Finance, the telephone and telt- gates. Baa ¢ ilrog = son.”? the Pittsburgh Terminal companies in rejecting the invitation to ee “ 4 graph stations, the Central pee and the coat Segeiae sy nee the federal coal conference and reaffirmed their decision to push a | Fe is teas m ane hy are ang sane suburpe of ete the fight until the union is smashed and open shop conditions fully are full of armed peasants and workers wearing red scarfs. edlablished. The posters set up by the revolutionary forces bear such in- | o Authorities Try to Stop Miners’ Relief (Special to The Daily Worker) By FRANK PALMER. DENVER, Dec. 13.—Militia raids on private homes without warrants continued Sunday, when the Louis- ville home of William Lofton, Negro leader, was searched a few minutes be- fore he arrived from Colorado Springs where he has charge of activities. The militiamen are unknown in this case, but the identity has been established of Captain Charles White, state secretary of the democratic party, as leader of the raid of militia- men on the Reese home in Lafayette | Saturday. Shut Off Credit. Believing the militia reports twet relief money was exhausted, Lafayette grocers shut off credit Saturday, but Monday the strikers opened their own stores with more than a thousand dol- lars worth of goods to distribute. Fight grocers in other Northern Colo- redo towns went to the state head- quarters to assure the committee they would extend all credit necessary. Try to Stop Relief. Realizing the vital effect of a short- | age of relief, the officials are using all means to stop the inflow of funds; hut while there is no margin of safety and great anxiety over the situation exists, everybedy had been fed so far. The companies are trading scabs in| Northern Colorado to. make a better showing, while the Rockefeller vic- | ‘Intend to Continue War | On Mine Union | (Special to The Daily. Worker) | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—With a full representation of the United Mine Workers and only a handful of operators present, Secretary of La- bor Davis’ coal parley got under way here today. The refusal of operators in Central and Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Northern West Virginia to participate threw a wet blanket on the proceed- any real peace would ve obtained. No List of Operators. ; John L. Lewis, president, Phillip | Murray, vice president, respectively, of the United Mine Workers, led the union forces. Davis refused to give out a list of the operators present. After a three hour session Secre- tary of Labor Davis’ coal parley re- cessed until this afternoon,: the min- ers’ representatives are scheduled to meet alone at 2 p. m., while the hand- ful of present operators will meet an hour later. Whether there will be an- |other joint session was not revealed. | No News Given Out. The morning session was behind |closed doors and no information was _ forthcoming either from Davis or the | two groups involved. | Big Bosses Ignore Meet. | The refusal of the big associations jof coal operators in Ohio, Pennsyl- vania and West Virginia to take part inthe conference is understocd here ings and little hope was held out that | Defense attorneys, led by Clarence ) Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, in tinued to shatter the murder frame-up Carrillo, anti-fascist workers, charged with the killing of two Blackshirts last Decoration Day at Third Ave. and 183rd St. The much-heralded “star” witnesses of the prosecution failed obviously to sustain the theory of “identification” of the two clothing workers as the assailants of Joseph Carisi and Nich- olas Amoroso, the two dead fascists. So deflated is the legal superstruc- (Continued on Page Two) Hemstitchers’ Union to Vote on General Strike; 4 Arrested Tomorrow the Tuckers’ Pleaters’ and Hemstitchers’, Local 41, will act on the question of calling a general strike against all manufacturers in the pleating industry at atmeeting at Webster Hall. In a circular the officers of the local declare as follows:* “Monday, Dec. 5, the members of our union in- structed the executive board that in the event the bosses of the industry did not come to an agreement with our union and take back the workers | Bronx county court yesterday, con- | against Calegoro Greco and Donato ¥ | To Move Greco DUTY \ftands off Soviet Canton! Stand by Revolutionary Chin! (Declaration of the Central Executive Committee of the | Workers [Communist] Party.) We must defend Soviet China. We must defend the Soviet | Union. We must stop the imperialist war on the Chinese revo-| lution. Workers of America! cee The workers and peasants of China have risen against the yoke of foreign oppression and native tyranny and set up their own government in Canton. American marines have been landed and American battle- ships speeded into the Canton harbor to smash the new workers and peasants’ government of Soviet Canton. The workers of the United States must rally to the defense of their brothers, the Chinese workers and peasants. We must prevent this new criminal attack upon the worker’ and peasants of China, We must hold meetings everywhere to raise again our demand upon the government: “Hands off China!” We must compel the withdrawal of troops and battleships from Chinese soil and Chinese waters. There is imminent danger that the attack upon the Chinese revolution will be followed by an attack upon the Soviet Union, whose existence and example is an inspiration to the oppressed Chinese workers and peasants. The workers and peasants of China have recovered from the temporary setbacks resulting from the betrayal on the part of the) Chinese bourgeoisie and the degeneration of the Kuomin- tang. Neither betrayal nor persecution nor armed intervention has been able to stop the wave of revolt against foreign imperialism and na- tive tyranny. The struggle merely took new forms, became deeper and more firmly rooted in the independent action of the awakening masses. | This time the Chinese workers and peasants enter as an independent his- | torical force and bid for power on their own behalf. They follow the| leadership of the most consistently revolutionary section of the Chinese | working class, the Communist Party of China. The revolution has entered into, a higher phase where the workers | and peasants struggle for power and where Soviets are being formed. | | scriptions as the following: “Down with Li Ti-sin, Chiang Kai-shek, Chang Fak-wei and Wang Ching-wei—the enemies ‘of the peasants and workers.” counter-revolution.”” “Land to peasants. the masses.” A mass meeting of peasants LATIN-AMERIGAN FIGHT STRESSED Stress Importance of Labor Struggles MOSCOW, Dec. 13.—“The future tasks of the Red International of La- bor Unions calls for maximum atten- tion to the Pacific and Latin American labor movements,” A Losovsky de- clared in the discussion following Bukharin’s report on the international situation at the Fifteenth Congress of the All Union Communist Party. Stresses Latin-America. “The future R. I. L. U. tasks call AT PARTY MEET HIT KUOMINTANG. “Down with the Kuomintang which is defending t’ e cause of Rice and meat to workmen.” } “Red peasants and troops are the only force able to defend HOLD MASS MEETING. and workers was held yesterday where questions of the organization of the revolutionary govern- ————e >ment were discussed. The suc- cess of the revolutionary troops is attributed to the fact that a majority of the regular troops stationed in Canton camé’ over {to the side of the revolution. Chang Fak-wei and Kwan Tsi- tsiang escaped with great dif- ficulty and left Canton. * * * (Special to The Daily Worker) Pravda Hails Canton Revolt. MOSCOW, USSR, Dec. 13.—Toe day’s Pravda writes, concerning the Canton events, that the difference be- tween the present Canton rising and the Yeh Tin and Ho Lung rising is, that not only troops and peasant masses, but working masses are also playing a determining and decisive role now. his circumstance makes the rising historically immortal. “The counter-revolution is “~power- jless to destroy its historical signifie- jance,” the Pravda say: victorious rising of the peas locked out by them the executive board would be authorized to take all necessary. steps to mobilize for a gen- eral strike. | Strike Is Necessary. | “The time has now come when a general strike has become an absolute necessity. The merftbers of Local 41 must answer the ‘injunction by leav- ing their shops till the bosses are compelled to recognize the union and grant union conditions in the indus- try.” Four more strikers were arrested while picketing the shop of Landau Bros., 316 W. 36th St. They were discharged by Magistrate H. Stanley Renaud at Jefferson Market Court. They are Bertha Kaufman, Rose Her- man, Tillie Fox, and Gertie Osteller. The bourgeois leadership of the nationalist movement has become counter- : bs ee — revolutionary, made its peace with imperialism, turned its back upon the | sue Tata As eat to the Pacific) taught the lesson of bourgeois be- movement-of the toiling masses and sought to suppress the unions and pa re Saion th aad Hears jtrayal. The f task to make the - peasant organizations. But despite betrayals and persecution, the out- | meu acta ai ee eaeh oan | ising vi¢torious is to consolidate and lawed unions have continued to maintain themselves and to enter into iene fee z i L a . anaes retain the victory. strike after strike. The peasant unions have continued to develop and | stricele against’ convey intone a to struggle for the land and the defense of their own interests. In the] | a erica, continuation of the united| “The Canton workers and peasants nationalist army, demoralized 2 the ie saved of SaueweM leaders, | front tacting? in possession must organize theme tions of the troops loyal to the revolutionary movement have revolted. | eae lgelven anthra dl uti ‘ x The heroic answer of the Chinese workers and peasants to treachery and | Tskhakaya, Chairman of Trans- aide eelbae dtc heh ag work: fi he rising in Swatow and now the Soviet govetn-| | C2¥casian Asia, dealt with activities | ¢rs and peasants’ government. They enh ee aalli ag Sad : me oeeer the country comes news of strikes, of | of the Georgian Mensheviks abroad|must organize mass power, and cre- TSA Co Setbe Rea See oe Sate. : ad and the Georgian Opposition, declar-|ate worker, soldier and peasant sow | uprising, and of movements to buil eae s. loyal to the vevotutionary| {iS that the Trotskyist Opposition |iets, as the organized basis for re Henan a“ sd meee oe at at ae are th a wane opened. the possibility of a revivial| volutionary power. movement founded by Sun Yat Sen, are abandoning the Kuomintang! | of chauvinisé and menshevist activ-| “The revolutionary government which has become counter-revolutionary in its nature and bee oe a ftiua dit titnanncarionita: linuist dactaxe’-« eiawcitben pri their lot with the revolutionary workers and peasants. Hereafter the | POAbant Kaisviby, ‘against all relics of feudal oppres- workers and peasants will lead all fighting elements and will carry on} v- be, 5 Pr : : | haut M delerat iq| Sion, and urge peasants to forcibly the revolution to a-successful conclusion, to a destruction of the remnants ismin, See Geen’). BOLO a eutaten anditavdes aid aie the of feudalism, the ending of militarism, the driving out of foreign im-| that among the shortcomings in tlie | politian oe coke: sla perialism, and the building of a new social order under workers’ and | | 2¢tivities of the C. I. sections was the | - if peasants’ rule, weak activity among the peasants. Communist Party Must Lead. International imperialism, the money kings of Wall Street and Lon- ee Desseny masses,” he said,/ “The strength of the Canton rising don, of all the stock exchanges of the big imperialist countries, are swift Bibl oe uepered {vr the coming war | in revolutionary initiative | illustrates to realize the significance of the rising in Canton, Battleships of the | |*® Side with t ns ee the Pe The | the determination of the toiling mass- United States, of England, of Japan, and other imperialist powers, are Lapa aniel bcipba mae 2 Pyae : Petes to combat the exploiters, robbers 4 already speeding from all sections of the Chinese coast and the Pacific | |; i ae ‘ a is $ is one of the| and throttlers of the Chinese people, immediate C. I, tasks. land to end their activities. The sue+ } tims in Southern Colorado strike af- ne a declaration of intention to pro- ter a visit by college students, and an-| ceca with the union-smashing= cam- ether small mine closes in Fremont! paign they are carrying out in their county. Realizing that victory is | respective territories. rear, the miners are enthusiastically | The replies of the coal operators standing solid as the Industrial Com- \are all couched in the same tone and mission announces hearings in Den-| <1) jgnore the United Mine Workers ver Monday. = * as the representative of the mine The biggest coal companies of Colo- |. oors, ‘ \ rado, including Rockefeller’s Fuel and} Gated as a result of an appeal to Iron Company, the Denver Post’ Coal] pyosident Coolidge by John L. Lewis | Company and the National Fuel Com-|¢f the United Mine Workers, the con- \ pany, operating with scabs are NOW| ference has served no other purpose charged with cheating customers by|than to show the determination of the short weights in coal sold in Denver} doa} operators ‘to continue their war since the strike began. They will! on the union an‘ to conceal to some appear Wednesday in police court.| extent the fact that in this drive they Several small companies have been!}aye the full support of the govern- fined for short weight in the last few| ment and the courts. oat to sachin ' THOUSANDS OF COLORED LIGHTS TO TURN MADISON Threat of state police raids in th SQUARE INTO MAGIC GARDEN ON SATURDAY NIGHT south do not stop the strikers and ime ball! Must Organize Soviets. two mines have closed this week. } Wyoming Local Backs Strike. both donated to the ball by tie | \eorge Collins, representing the | q ~~ Civ¥l Liberties. Union, is interviewing | ctrikers, attorneys and operators, ¥e- | fusing te announce his plans but he | ybody who knows anything knows what-a cos- European Phonograph Co., Ave. A and 10th St. expresses determination that the na- .tion shall hear of the abrogation of civil liberties and amazement at some of the stories related to him, which he has not yet verified. Gebo, Wyoming, Mine Workers’ Lo- | cal calls on that district to back the strike and give funds, and urges all locals to take the same action. This local has given nearly a thousand dollars itself. . DARROW AT N.A.A.C.P. TEA. Clarence Darrow, attorney for Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, and Mrs. Darrow are to be the guests at a tea Sunday to be given by the women’s committe eof the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Walker Studio, 108 W. 136th St. at 4 p. m. At the tea Rosamond Johnson and Taylor Gordon will give a recif of Negro spirituals, James lon _ Johnson will read from his sok, | “God's Trombones,” And-Darrow will tume ball looks like, but a color- ball is not so clear, tho therg will be thousands of little lamps throw- ing light on the situation, Now the secret is out. All this- is about DAILY WORKER - Fr | which is expeeted to b: | workers to Madison Square next Seturday night. | This ball is already the talk of ; vadical circles in New York, It will | be a combination of the Masses affairs, a dress rehearsal of | the Playwrights’ Theatre, a glass of tea in a Second Ave. restaurant and the annual ball of the Freighthand- lers’ Union. A Little Biz Too. In addition to the fun that can be had for the taking there are ma- terial considerations which should induce the practical to purchase a ticket. Attached to every ticket is a number and somebody is going to | ride home in a taxi with a radio set : mehody elve sith “ the great New | a. {the 1927 furriers’ strike. Among the attractions at the ball will be Alex Ford, the world’s fa- mous strong man. He will take a bar.of iron and with as little diffi- culty as if it were a string of spa- ghetti he will’ orm it into a hammer and kle, emblem of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Volunteers Attention. Five hundred volunteers are asked | to be present Thursday evening in | Manhattan Lyceum to receive final instructions for service at the ball. Every nationality in New York. which means in the world-—will be at The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit ball, some dressed in native cos- tumes, but all dressed with an eye 4 (Continued on Page Fivey ‘ FURRIERS ACQUITTED. Three furriers were found not guilty of felonious assault in general sessions yesterday. Nick Harris, Philip Kloberg, and Michael Tnuntos were indicted on the above charge in of jand to all oppressed peoples throughout the world. for an attack upon it, . The American government, so sensitive to the slightest wish of Wall | Street, has already landed marines from the Sacramento and has three gunboats in the Canton harbor. At the command of our masters in Wall Street an effort will be made to drown the rising Chinese revolution in blood and to set up the bloody dictatorship of the Chiang Kai-sheks and the Chang Tso-lins, who have suppressed the labor unions and executed countless‘ labor and peasant leaders. Wall Street and International imperialism are planning also to attack the Soviet Union, whose example is an inspiration to the Chinese masses Unless the workers prevent it, the landing of marines in Canton is the first step in a new and more bloody world war. This new effort at intervention, this new criminal attack upon the | workers and peasants of China, by American marines and battleships, this | new menace of an international united front of all the black forces of | world imperialism against the Chinese revolution and the Soviet Union, this armed’ intervention which again brings the world to the verge of a new world war, must be stopped! Workers of Amerca! Rally to the defense of your brothers, the Chinese workers and peasants! Rally to the defense of Soviet Canton! Rally to the defense of the Soviet Union! Hold meetings everywhere, raise again the demand upon the government for “Hands off China!” Demand that the battleships and marines of the United States be with- drawn! Fight against this new attack upon the Chinese masses! Defend the Soviet Union! Defend ihe Chinese revolution! Stop the imperialist war! G CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS SERS AUNTS TAARTY OF AMERICA. Skripnik of Ukrainia said: “Zino- Committee’s plenums Ukrainization, as Chauvinist work. The Central Committee of the Ukrainian Commu- nist Party requested that the Exec. utive Committee of the C. I. revis the Ukrainization activity. The C. I. fully approved this activity and | (Gontinued on Page Three) Cloakmakers Observe | One Year of Struggle, It is announced at the office of the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers’ Union that the outlook for the mass meeting to be held at 6 p. m. atnight at Cooper Union is more than fav- orable. Overflow meetings are predicted. Joseph Borochovich, manager of Lo- cal 2 stated that the mass meeting would sum up the lessons of a year of struggle against the bosses and the right wing Sigman machine in the International Ladies’ Garment Work- pee owned by the Standard Oil ers’ Union. viev designated at one of the Central | rect leadership. ss can be guaranteed only by cor- and only the Chinese |Communist Party can guarantee com rect leadership in the coming Red Canton difficult struggle. And the revolution can only. be kept alive by determinedly marching onward. “The imperialist world is watching Chinese struggle with vicious hatred and it will soon learn through the ex- ample of the Chinese, just what @ victorious worker peasant revolution Workers Control City. SHANGHAI, Dec. 13. — With a workers’ and peasants’ government in complete control of Canton and with workers’ and peasants’ armies moving on scores of towns in the Kwantung area, the United States gunboat Sac- remento has landed field guns at Canton. The guns were placed in the foreign concession dfstrict at’ Sha- meen, Armed launches from the United States gunboat Pampanga and armed on Page Two)