The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 1

' be t ¢ 4 | Sigman in Secret Meet With Bosses, “Cordial” to Bid to Drop 40- se pie Week THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY sel Vol. V. No. 4. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928 Publish ing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, INAL " MNAL city | EDITION Entered as see Iiny maaiicr ac tne Pose Ulfice at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 2, 1879. Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker New York, x. ¥.PYice 3 Cents INDEPENDENT REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC IS PROCLAIMED IN NICARAGUA AS U.S. MAKES WAR SIGMAN TRADES 40-HOUR WEEK FOR BOSSES AID Amazing Secret Deal: Against Cloakmakers Joint Board of Union| Brands Treachery | The truth of the statement made | by the left wing leadership of the) Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress- | makers Union that Morris Sigman, | right wing International president, | had surrendered the forty-hour week | in return for their support, was made | apparent yesterday when Sigman at! a conference held between him and ‘the employers at the Pennsylvania Hotel arrived at an agreement in whieh he is not to try to install the forty-hour week on July next. July of this year is the time when the change from the forty-two to a forty- hour week should take place, according to the agreement won by the 1926 general strike of the cloakmakers under the leadership of the left wing administration of the Joint Board. Sigman “Cordially” Helps Bosses. The conference between the Indus-! trial Council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc., and Sig- man, was called as a secret parley. by the bosses. The bosses frankly | »-told Sigman that since there is no! vnion control in the industry he) should not entertain anysidea of in-| stalling the forty-hour week. Accord- ing to manufacturers, the cordiality with which Sigman replied to this re- | quest of the bosses, convinced them! that they will have no trouble on this vital issue. But Wants Bosses Aid. Sigman,’ however, requested the | bosses to be more diligent in the | matter of not allowing non-registered | workers to work in their sldps. and| complained that there were too many: left wing workers in the shops of the Industrial Council who had not registered in his bosses’ union. This statement is made in spite of a year’s (Continuec cn Page Five) HIT NIGARAGUA, CHINA SLAUSHTER N. Y. Workers Protest at Mass Meeting A meeting last night at Irving Plaza, originally called to dis he present tendencies in the C e Revolution and to denounce the mur- der of worker and peasant leaders by the imperialist agents of the Nan- king government, was turned into an intense demonstration against the wanton slaughter by U. S. marines) of native liberal forces fighting for Nicaraguan independence. Speakers at the meeting, held un- der the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, included William F. Dunne and H. M. Wicks, of Tne DAILY WORKER; M. J, Oigin, edit-| or of “The Hammer,” Jewish Com-' munist ‘monthly; and P. T. Lau of the Philadelphia Hands Off China, committee. Bert Miller, organization secretary of District 2 of the Work- ers Party, acted as chairman. { Attack Invasion. J The activities. of American capital- ot te China and Nicaragua are part of tite general program of world im- perialism which is now more “ram- pani” and “insolent” than ever, the speikers said. dE all the history of despotism,” Wicks said, “there is no more viie record*than that of the government of the United States in Nicaragua. Impudently invading the country, overthrowing a duly constituted gov- ernment expressing the wishes of the majority of the population, and plac- ing in the presidential chair a puppet president, subservient to yankee tyranny, the Mellon-Coolidge-Kellogg administration has written one of the bloodiest chapters in modern times.” The Chinese Revolution has at pre- sent entered a new phase, declare’ Dunne. Despite temporary defeat, h. (Comttoned om ae Tangy ‘the nation-wide celebration. of “MINER LEADS BRAVE FIGHT AGA AINST Deine CAPTURE UNITED STATES =| Gen. Augusto C. guan army of liberation, putting up a brave struggle against the American militarists. Picture (left above) shows Nica- | raguan peasant soldiers. They suf- | fer for lack of military equipment. | The picture at the left (below) shows the kind of machine guns which the Nicaraguans obtained from U, S. marines in the recent battle of Telpaneca. Zepeda, rep- resentative of the Nicaraguan Lib- erals in Mexico City, revealed that _ “the better equipment of the San- dino army which U. S. Colonel Gul- ick said was supplied by Mexico, was really captured in battle by the Nicaraguan soldiers from the U. S. marines. Daily Worker Anniversary To Be Big Event of Season Nina Tarasova, the famous Russian singer, will make her last New York appearance of the season and pos- sibly of the next two years, at Mecca Temple January 13 when she sings at the Fourth Anniversary DAILY |WORKER concert with other stars. The concert is arranged as part of the Fourth Anniversary of the founding of The DAILY WORKER. Thousands of workers throughout the country will celebrate in various ways this ee which is of internaticNa im- rtance, inasmuch as it indicates that in spite of the reigning reaction in the United States there is still a Powerful support for an organ of the | proletarian revolution. Exceptional Program Something different in the way of celebrations is introduced in the Mecca Temple concert where a num- , ber of the foremost stars of the musical and theatrical world will ap- pear. Nina Tarasova has captivated American audiences as well as audi- ences in every important country in the old world with her inimitable Russian songs. Everywhere shehas appeared on her American tour she has been acclaimed one of the world’s greatest artists and her admirers will take advantage of this opportunity of seeing her again before she starts a foreign tour that will compel her to remain away from this country for some time. Chicago Hails Tarasova. In her recent appearance in Chi- cago the critics, without exception, proclaimed her performance one of the best ever give in the middle western metropolis. W. L. Hubbard, teens on meee eo Russian Revolution Pageant at Lenin Memorial Meeting “What we are doing is no less than murder for the sole purpose of keep- ing in power a puppet president and acting as a collector for Wall Street,” wrote John S. Hemphill, father of one of the American marines killed in Nicaragua, to President. Coolidge. This letter is not the sort usually made public by the war department and it reveals an undercurrent of {dissatisfaction between the rank and file in the army and the general staff. What happens to imperialistic mili: tary staffs will be graphically de- picted at the Fourth Memorial at Madison Square Garden, January 21., when a scene in the mass revolu- tionary pageant will portray the tak- ing of power by the soldiers, work- ers and peasants at the Smolnyy In- stitute in Petrograd. In Imperialist War. There, as here in America today, the soldie®$ and workers were being sacrificed in a useless imperialist war. The third scene in the pageant will represent the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The greater part of the massive Madison Square Garden main floor will be used in the staging of this scene. cerpts from the ada nn thie hadasts aaae be broadcast through microphones throughout the auditorium. From Manuscript. The following is a quotation from the manuscript of the pageant writ- ten by Adolf Wolf: “Interior of the Smolny Institute. Full session of Congress. of Soldiers and. Workers’ Deputies. Abramovitch and other Menshevik delegates try to bolt the Congress amid jeers and denunciations of the delegates. The Bolsheviks have complete control. Cannonading of the. Winter Palace by the Cruiser Aurora in the distance. An officer gets up to speak. Shouts from the soldiers delegates: ‘You represent the officers, not the sol- diers.’ Another staff officer rises to speak, More cries. ‘You speak for the generals—not for the army.’” One Thousand Actors. The Lenin Memorial Committee announces that nearly 1,000 worker- actors will take part in this stirring pageant. Edward Massey and John Dos Passos, both of the New Play- wrights Theatre, will direct the spectacle, In addition to the mags scenes in the pageant a ballet of 100, headed by Edith Segal, will depict ‘scenes from the Russian Revolution. Sandino (upper , right) is the leader of the Nicara- , “Will Fighyto Death!” Says Sandino, Miner- Soldier The DAILY WORKER has just received from Nicaragua the following fiery declaration by Augusto C. Sandino, the Nicaraguan coal mine worker who has become the general of the little army of workers and peasants fighting agginst the invasion of their country by American marines. The DAILY WORKER publishes for the first time in English this statement of the leader in the heroic struggle. The declaration was contained in a letter to Froilan Turcios, a prominent poet of the near-by republic of Honduras. By Augusto C. Sandino. You may rest assured—and kindly pass on this message to ‘all of Central America, to the intellectuals, to the workers and artesans and the whole Indo-Spanish race—that I shall not lay down my arms until I have driven the invaders from my country. I want you to know that your pen has vibrated through the heart of my army, as it has in mine; you clearly reflect in all your work the love for your country, for which kindly accept our brotherly gratitude. No one better than-you can be a faithful representative and exponent of our sacred rights to defend our national sovereignty, and no one has served our cause better than you. Your words of patriotism, love for our country, will bear fruit in the hearts of the youth, hungry for liberty and independence. I have imbibed your teachings for a long time and your writings a lesson for the whole youth of Central America—as a liberalizing prologue of the weak against the strong, which will prove to the civilized world that the rights of the weak are more sacred than of the strong— and if the strong because of pride refuses to acknowledge this it is necessary to seal this lesson with blood. I promise you personally, on my honor as.a soldier, that my present attitude will in no way effect the stability of the gov- ernment of Honduras, nor of any other sister republic; my acts are directed solely, with the appropriate decorum of my race, to the defense of the sovereignty of my country. Under these circumstances, I do not authorize, nor have I ever authorized, nor will I in the future authorize any soldier or military chieftain to make incursions into the territory of Hon- duras. My desire is to defeat with dignity all imposition on my ;|country by the assassins of weak peoples. I shall make them un- derstand that their crime will cost them dear—for they have no right whatsoever to intervene in our internal political affairs. I am on the verge of a bloody combat against these con- querors and traitors. Nicaragua shall not be the patrimony ‘of imperialists and traitors and I shall fight against them as long as my heart beats. And if itis the fate that all my army be lost, which I do not believe, rest assured my esteemed friend, that in my arsenal there are 100 quintals (ten tons) of dynamite which I shall fire with my own hand; and the crash of this cataclysm will be heard for 400 kilometers; and those who hear it will know that Sandino has died; and they will know that he did not permit criminal hands of invaders and traitors to touch his remains. And only omnipo- tent God and the Panis that hear will know how to judge his work. Miss | dying immediately. Heart disease in- al is a ballet: instructor and dan-|duced by overwork is said to havc CHARLES (“DOVE”) SCHWAB, A commercial peace medal has been presented to Charles M. Schwab, COLLAPSES AT WORK: John Sokol, 55-year-old veteran Ac Shrewdest diplomats in an effort | House, 432 E. longshoreman, collapsed at the Fall hi hi River pier mite: ats work -yeatarday, ead of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., by the American Arbitration Associa- tion. Schwab’s best known public ac- | been the cause. t tivity was as chairman of the U. S.! war indugtries board during the war.' ER in a few days. Sandino’s Peasant Troops Captured U.S. Marines’ Arms Nicaragua Talk Barred| at Havana Cabinet Miibere Come to Overawe Delegates WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The| United States delegation to the} Havana Conference and Presi-| dent Coolidge will do everything in their power to prevent the discussion of the Nicaraguan situation at the conference, the, State Department emphatically an- nounced today. State Department of- ficials also made it clear that they would oppose any move on the part of Argentina, Mexican, or Haitian delegates to introduce any resolution referring directly or indirectly to the United States intervention in Latin- American states. Proposals “defin- ing” intervention have: already been drawn up by a number of Latin- American delegations. The State Department has selected prevent the discussion of thé raguan situation at the Pan-American congress. In addition to President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg, who are not officially members of the delegation, the United States dele- gates will include Charles Evans Hughes, Henry P. Fletcher, Dwight Morrow, U. S. ambassador to Mexico, and Oscar Underwood. * * * The Bankers Club, 120 Broadway, will entertain the Brazilian delegates to the Pan-American conference to- day. NEW YORK CITY POLICE TERROR FOR UNEMPLOYED 5 More Arrested When Applying for Shelter Fiye unemployed workers were roughly handled and arrested last night when they applied for shelter at the New York Municipal Lodging 25th St. This is the second round-up at the public insti- tution within two-days. When the workers appeared at the sheltering house they, together with more than 500 others who applied for admittance, were questioned as to their friends and relatives. Those whose answers were not satisfactory to the officials and representatives of the police department were shoved into a detention roof to wait for their trip to the night court. A patrol wagon and ten policemen waited outside of the lodging house. They later took the arrested workers to the court. Investigation yesterday and last night showed that the New York de- partment of public welfare, the Brooklyn borough president’s office and the lodging house* administration are co-operating with the police de- partment in its persecution of New (Continued on Page Five) Buffalo Mine Relief Committee Succeeds BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 5.—Big success in its short existence has been reported by the Miners’ Relief Com- mittee here. Relief stations are in charge of G. Celli, 25 West 10th St., and 308 Seneca St., and also located at Zimbel’s, 245 Adams St., and at the Valo Club, 159 Grider St. All workers are urged to give clothes and money at these stations. The committee will announce a big mass meeting in The DAILY WORK- fea- | New Government Coins Money; Bars’ Drink | Military Landing Tied | Up by Strike BULLETIN. | MANAGUA, Jan. 5.—Fearing that the strike of Corinto steve- dores which has completely tied up the port will halt the United States war against the Sandino | liberal forces, General Jose Mon- |cado, who helped negotiate the Stimson “peace” and who is believed to have sold out to United States in- terests, has started for Corinto in an effort to break the strike. Altho the Corinto dockworkers when they walked out made demands for a wage increase, they declare they have struck in sympathy with the Sandino peasant army, which has declared an independent republic, as against the Diaz Wall Street government sup- ported by United States marines. Se gee ee Republic Declared. MANAGUA, Jan. 5—A_ Nicara- guan republic, pledged to maintein the independence of Nicaragua, hes been proclaimed by the leaders of the Liberal army headed by General Augustino Sandino. The new repub- lic comprises the whole departmert of Nueva Segovia and a considerable portion of northern Nicaragua which is under the control of the Liberal forces. Money is being coined in the name of the new government and the sale of intoxicating liquors has been forbidden, to increase the efficiency of the army of independence. A heavy penalty has been authorized for those found guilty of selling in- toxicating liquor. The Liberal goy- ernment is said to be taking over mines and declaring them the prop-' jerty of the new state. The United States marines and Nicaraguan constabulary under ma- rine officers holding the town of Quilali today were keeping a sharp look-out for a possible surprise at- tack by the Liberal forces under Gen- eral Sandino. Supplies Rushed. It was thought news of reinforce- ments and supplies being rushed to Quilali may have reached General } Sandino’s headquarters. The extreme quiet prevailing since the counter. attack last Sunday has caused offi- cers experienced in colonial warfare to exercise all precautions. The main force of the Liberal army is cencentrated at El Chipote, which is an almost inaccessible mountain stronghold. It was understood San- dino has prepared to withstand any |attacks by the marines at this point. Just how large a force Sandino commands is not definitely known, but from evidence gathered during the recent clashes with marines the Liberals appear to be will armed and well trained. * * * Murder for Wall Street: ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5.—“What we are doing is no less than murder for the purpose of keeping a puppet presi- dent acting as a collector of Wall Street,” declared John S. Hemphill, of Ferguson, Mo., whose son was killed Saturday in Nicaragua, in an open letter to President Coolidge. Hemphill termed the United States attack on Nicaragua as a “disgrace- ful war against a little nation.” * * * War Unauthorized. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—A mo- tion for an inquiry into American activities in Nicaragua was made to- day by Senator Wheeler (D) of Mon- tana. Wheeler charged the “executive department of the government” with “usurping the powers of Congress by declaring war in Nicaragua.” The inquiry also would involve all American concessions and invest- bak ego on Page Two)