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LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTSt FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY ' No. 144. VoL IV. SENTENCE 46 WOMEN FURRIER PICKETS TO JAIL >' " 1 ■' ."V Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERry. - ■* THE fi-ightful conditions under * which men work on board ship was again brought to public atten tion when 85 Chinese managed to leave the Holland-American liner Rotterdam, after she reached port a few days ago. The Chinese joined the “blackhole gang” in Rot terdam and were promised shore leave when they arrived in Hoboken. They were obliged to work for the miserable wage of $3 a week, while white workers received $8 a week. * * * WHEN the Rotterdam arrived in " Hoboken the captain broke his promise to the Chinese stokers, but pacifism is not now a Chinese virtue, if it ever was, so the deceived stok ers armed themselves with weapons of various kinds and proceeded to cut their way thru to shore. They waded thru all opposition until a considerable portion of the armed forces of New York City was mobil ized to block the advance. At that only 54 of them were arrested. The rest are probably quenching their thirst with fairly good beer and en joying the movies. * * * THE 85 Chinese workers that fired * the Rotterdam on her way from Holland to the United States received less for their week’s arduous toil than the wages of four New York carpenters for a week’s work under union conditions. The conditions un der which toilers of the sea work are almost intolerable. They have no union worthy of the name, outfit headed by the arch-strikebreak er Havelock Wilson of Great Britairi being a stool pigeon agency for the British government and a tool of ttie •hipping -companies. The col workers on the ships are the worst sufferers thru lack of organization. * * * COME years back there was an or- ganization with headquarters in New' York City w-hich took in Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Filipino and work ingclass natives of other Oriental countries. It was called the Oriental Seafarers’ Association and did splen did work while it lasted. The reac tionary bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. Refused it affiliation, and it passed out. Now, the Oriental seafarers are completely at the mercy of the ship ping bosses. How long until all workers who participate in the trans portation of passengers and com merce on sea will join hands for their mutual benefit? ♦ * * COME wise sleuth has discovered that the ‘‘Russian Soviet”—the ass’s designation for the U.S.S.R.— is organizing the Negroes in the United States for the purpose of overthrowing this government. He has made the remarkable discovery that several Negro students are at tending a university in Moscow where they are being trained in the art of leadei-ship. The startling “expose” appeared in the Herald- Tribune, simon-pure mouthpiece of Calvin Coolidgc. * * * MOBODY./.but a stoolpigeon would possess the modicum of idiocy ne cessary to withstand the ridicule usu ally poured out on the sap, who breaks into print with such .an obvi ous truism as, for instance, that water is wet. Negro progressives have been, working their fingers off for several years trying to attract public attention to their activities, which are designed to better the con dition of their doubly exploited and persecuted race whose members are lyiliened, burned at a stake and tor tured with impunity by the proto types of the fink who wants to make a few shekels by pouring the drip ping’s from his mental sewer into the -rtl.uroas of a capitalist sheet. * * * WHEREVER the oppressed raise ” their voices for more liberty or organize to take it by any feasible means, the apologists and hired meni als of the oppressors immediately blame the government of the Soviet : Union for the struggle for freedom. This is the highest compliment that could be paid to the government cf! the Workers Republic. It proves i that the men and women charged with the responsiblity of keeping the U.S.S.R. on the right road have been true to their trust and that neither cajoleries nor threats, the clink ing of coin or the clanking of swords swerved them from their purpose. * * * ALL signs point to a furious naval ** race between the United States and Great Britain as soon as the Geneva conference pulls up its stakes (Continued on Page Four) THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, SB.OO r»er year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ! ' MB,. , . Boukharin Brands Feng Traitor; Says Chinese Revolt Takes New Turn MOSCOW, June 30.—Branding ; Feng’s alliance with Chiang Kai- I shek as a betrayal of the Chinese revolution, N. Bukharin in an ar ticle of the Pravda points out that ! the alliance means the consolida : tion of the big native bourgeoisie, | whose aim is counter-revolutionary ! and whose tendency is towards an ; ppen alliance with feudal militar ! ists and the imperialist powers, j ‘‘Feng Yu-hsiang has passed in to the camp of the enemies of the 1 people’s revolution and a relentless war must he declared against ; him.” Pointing out that the revolution takes a new turn with the defec tion of Feng, Bukharin says, “Tho Wuhan should fall surrounded by enemies the struggle would be car ried on in new forms. The liberal counter-revolutionaries are incapa ble of even a half solution of the agrarian and peasant question.” BOYCOTT, STRIKES HIT IMPERIALIST SHIPPING BARONS SHANGHAI, June 30.—British and Japanese shipping interests are suf fering heavy losses as the result of the anti-imperialist boycott that is rapidly spreading thruout southern China. Despite the attempts of right wing officials, headed by Chiang Kai-shek to prevent the boycott, workers and peasants thruout the lower Yangtze Valley are refusing to purchase Brit ish goods. The landing of Japanese troops in Shantung has aroused a great deal of indignation here and has made the boycott even more ef fective than it would otherwise have been. Coupled with the boycott is the walkout of officers, engineers and (Continued on Page Two) j Apologize for Kicking Out Prohibition Dicks Who Used Third Degree WASHINGTON, June 30.—Deny ing there was any “politics” in the shake-up of prohibition enforcement personnel, prohibition commissioner Doran declared today that Maj. Ches ter P. Mills had been removed as ad ministrator at New York for “dis cipliitary reasons,” growing out of the revelation that third degree meth ods had been resorted to by Mills’ subordinates in New York on recalci trant prisoners. Seymour Lowman, assistant secre tary of the treasury, recently said in a public statement that Mills had been “promoted.” Doran’s statement today was the first official admission that Mills had been “disciplined.” Resist Latest Attack on Daily Worker!; The terrific drive against the kbor movement in the United States that is ; characterized even by assaults upon such conservative unions as the building trades, that has already weak ened the miners, that is playing havoc with the needle trades unions, has met with determined, militant resistance from but one source—the Workers (Communist) Party. In order to strike a blow at the Party, its official English daily organ, The DAILY ,WORKER, was chosen as the first point of attack. The first blow was delivered at a time when we were faced With most menacing financial reverses. When the state courts attacked us we deemed it our .duty to state frankly to our readers the real situation. For weeks we did not know from onefday to the next whether we would ever again publish our paper. But the admirable loyalty of our comrades and read ers, expressed through personal sacrifices to enable us to weather the storm, enabled us to survive. No sooner had we recovered from that crisis, to the unbounded fury of the. patriotic so cieties who were doing the dirty work of the master class in their desire to crush us, than we against face the organized power of the capitalist state. This time the attack comes from the United States government in the form of indictments on charges that on conviction carry sentences of five years and $5,000 fine or ooth. Those indicted are both editors, Comrade J. Louis Engdahl and Wm. F. Dunne; the business manager, Bert Miller; the editor of the New Magazine, Alexander Bittelman; and two contributors to our columns, David Gordon and Joseph KaJar. Frankly and cynically the government admits that we,are attacked because of our as saults upon business men, thfc trade union bureaucracy, attacks on the church, etc. Comrades, we must meet this new attack as we met the previous one. Let every comrade that stood by us in the dark days of a month ago, again rally to defy the forces of reaction that are trying to destroy the labor movement of this country. Send contributions at once to 33 East First Street, New York City. I j E.t.red .. ....r.d-clans is.Ms: at ibe Post Ofllca at N.a fork. N. V.. u.idtr tta act at March i, lit*. THE RIGHT WING IDEAL | BECKERMAN ADVOCATES PIECE WORK. Cali Special Membership Meeting of Workers Party For Wednesday at 8 P. M. The District Executive Commit- j tee is calling a special Party mem bership meeting for Wednesday, July 6, 8:00 P. M„ at Manhattan j Lyceum, 66 East Fourt street, to discuss the present international I situation, particularly: 1. The attack against the So- ! viet Union and preparation for a campaign for defense of the So- I viet Union. 2. The present situation in China and the prospects for the Chinese revolution. 8. Immediate danger of war and what our Party can do to i counteract it. Bring your membership cards j with you. All members of the Young Workers League are asked to attend this meeting. - Ohio Mine Operators Try Open Shop. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June JO.—The Ohio Mine Operators’ Association has called on all its members to re sume work in their mines July 1 on a non-union basis with a wage cut of a dollar and a half. The association assumes that it will get enough strike breakers to do this, but the union men in the district are certain that the mines will open at a loss 1 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927 full victory is WON BY STRIKING NEWARK BARBERS . . Union Recognition and More Pay for 1000 Men NEWARK, N. J., June 30. An I overwhelming victory was today won I by 1,000 barbers who were on strike ! for the past two weeks when the ; Master Barbers’ Association acceeded |tp all of their demands, including | union recognition, increase of wages | and the closed shop. Besides winning a basic weekly rate of $35, a uniform working | schedule was also agreed upon, the I hours hereafter being from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. i One off-day every other week was also agreed upon by the bosses at yesterday’s conference. Prior to the strike the average pay of the barbers was $25 weekly. LONDON, June 30.— A number of persons have been killed and injured, many are homeless and enormous damage has been done to property by serious floods in Southern Norway, according to a central news dispatch , from Oslo today. Avalanches were I reported cutting off villages. FRANK P. WALSH IN LETTER TO MAYOR WALKER POINTS OUT POLICE BRUTALITIES; MAGISTRATE JAILS 132 IN ALL; FIVE GIVEN SIX MONTH TERM Tells? of Professional Assassins Hired I In a moderately phrased letter, ad- j dressed in respectful terms to Mayor: Walker of New York, Frank P. Walsh, former head of the War j Labor Board, recites a cold and ap palling list of charges against the : police department, and the gangsters hired by the right wing in the needle | trades unions of* New York, each charge specific and all of them of a 1 most serious nature. “What began as an industrial dis pute . . . has degenerated into a state of organized crime which in recent days includes numberless cases of criminal assaults, attempted assassin ations, acts of mayhem, outrageous treatment of citizens, men and wom en, and countless felonies and mis demeanors,” says Walsh. Police Also Criminal. I “The crimes are committed by no j torious criminals and professional I assassins, all known to the police,” i Walsh charges, and police officers, j he says, instead of stopping the viol ! ence, have themselves "committed brutal assaults upon innocent and I law abiding men and women both | before and after arrest.” Frank P. Walsh is an outstanding figure in American history. In ad dition to a long and distinguished legal career he has held among others the position of president of the Kansas City Board of Civil Ser vice, Chairman of the Federal Com mission on Industrial Relations, joint j chairman, with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Conference Board, ; and representative of the people on the National War Labor Board. He was also chairman of the American Commission on Irish Independence and in that capacity argued the case of Ireland at the Versailles peace | conference. Walsh’s letter requests an answer i from the mayor, but'to date nothing has been received from Walker. The letter in full is as follows: m p* * I June 28, 1927. Hon. James J. "bilker My dear Mr. Mrfyor, I would respectfully call' your at tention, as Chief Magistrate of the j City to a condition of atfairs now j existing, which, in my opinion, calls' for your immediate interposition and L action: 1. In the garment manufacturing district, comprising a very large in dustrial and residential area of the city, there is a complete breakdown (Continued on Page Two) CITY LABOR BACK STRIKE TO FREE SACCO, VANZETTI j Union Sq. Protest On; j Thurs., July 7at 4 ; Despite the fact that Governor . ; Fuller of Massachusetts has granted a one-month stay of execution to ' Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- , zetti, framed-up Italian workers, the New York City Sacco-Vanzetti Enter- ! I gency Committee is proceeding with J j its plans for a one-hour monster pro- ‘ test strike which is scheduled for July 7th at 4 p. m. 1 The committee, which is the local 1 central organization directing the 1 plans for the mass demonstration on i the 7th, is . of the unanimous opinion n that Govertior Fuller’s reprieve is of no great significance and has been j granted merely for the purpose to al- ] low more time for the advisofy com- ] mittee to the governor to complete t j their report. The strike committee is : { urging its 25 affiliated bodies to in- , tensify their activities. for the com- . mg demonstration. ( According to plan, after the down- : i ing of tools next Thursday, the "Strik- i ing workers will proceed to Union j i Square where the demonstrators will <: be addressed by prominent speakers,, 5 including William G. Thompson, coun- j sel for Sacco and Vanzetti; Clarence i Harrow, Upton Sinclair, Oswald Gar- i irison Villard, Arturo Giovannitti, Vin- i Iconzo Vpcirca, and of Published Dally except Standay by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.. 23 Flret Street. New York. N. Y. 1 hf%**r % * ’U dfe I S .rmm MAYOR WALKER New York’s chief magistrate who Frank P. Walsh notifies of police brutalities against the striking left wing needle workers. Street Cleaners Win Raise by Strike Threat CHICAGO, (FP) June 30.--.-By threatening* to strike July Ist the Chicago street cleaners union ex- j tracted a promise of a 25 cents a day raise from the finance committee of the city council. They had demanded 40 cents. The new wage will be 55.60 a day. _ State Prison Cases Wait. OSSINING, N. Y., June 30.—Of ficial announcement is made today by officials of the state department of correction that inmates in the four state prisons and other penal insti tutions under this bureau have now' begun to decrease. 1 COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TAKES UP QUESTION OF TACTICS IN BRITAIN By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail). —Considerable attention was given the situation in Great Britain by the Plenum of the Exec ! utive Committee of the Communist International meeting here. In fact it was one of the three big questions before this gathering ! of the representatives of the Communist Parties from a multitude !of countries. The other two questions were the War Danger and ; the Chinese Situation. After calling for the setting up of Councils of Action as in . struments of struggle, the concluding paragraph of the resolution out the British situation declares: Plenum believes that the Com [ munist Party of Great Britian, in this j difficult hour which the British and world proletariat is now experiencing, will be able to mobilize the masses for a real active struggle against the re actiqpary government, which is now launching an attack on the British workers, the Chinese people and pre paring new and terrible wars directed firstly against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” It i|j because the situation in Great; Britain i: considerably linked up with the problems facing the workers of the United States, that this resolution shouldicarry extreme interest to the western shores of the Atlantic. The iyar on the minority movement by the?! labor bureaucracy in Great Britain now parallels the attack in the United -States of th< American Fed eration of Labor officialdom against the left ’ wing and progressive ele-. ments: the anti-trad union bill con tains many of the vicious restrictions embodied: in the American “criminal syndicalist” laws recently declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court; in both countries the same desperate attack against the 1 Soviet Union develops; both American and British imperialisms are in the forefront of the attack on the Chinese revolution; both countries face a crisis in the coal industry, in both countries (Continued on Page Three) FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ; Right Wing Lawyer Is Aid to Judge A storm of indignation broke loose I in Jefferson Market Court yesterday morning when Magistrate Georg 6 Ewald sentenced the first 12 furrier* j who were brot before him to five | days each in the workhouse. During : the morning 132 workers all told, j were sentenced. When the first 12 men and women | were being sentenced by the magis i trate, booing and stamping greeted j the decision of the court. Held for Contempt of Court. Incensed by this demonstration i Magistrate Ewald announced that j the demonstrators would be held in contempt and indiscriminately sin | gled out three men, Broday, Shuster -1 man and Ganterman and two women j who were sentenced to six months’ I terms. One of them, Brody, was : given an additional two months’ for picketing, bringing his sentence up to eight months. The only crime that one of these workers committed was t.o hold a newspaper in his hand. Showed His Colors. After sentencing the five workers for contempt, Magistrate Ewald, ven ted his spite on the other workers who followed. One girl was given 30 days, while the other women were sentenced to ten days in jail with a choice of a $25 fine. They all chose the former. The men were given 15 days each, with no choiec of a fine. Altogether 46 women were jailed. Yesterday evening' only nine of th,' 46 women asked to be released on ! bail. Most of them are mothers and have to take care of their children. Right Wing Assistant. While the workers were being sen tenced, Samuel Markowicb. counsel I for the right wing International and former assistant district attorney of New York County, acted as an un official prosecutor, pointing out pick i ets to the magistrate. In the “contempt” cases, Ewald refused the plea of Jacob N. Mandel- I baum, attorney for the strikers to : permit them to choose their own (Continued on Page Five) 1 31 Capmakers to Se on Strike Here This Coming Tues. - . About 1,000 capmakers employed in : contracting shops are expected to go on strike next Tuesday morning to enforce the 10-hour week lliat wag agreed upon one year ago. At the time of the “agreement” be» tween the bosses and the union signed July 1926, the manufacturers were given until July of this year to put the 40-hour week into effect. The right wing at that time said that a year’s delay was necessary to , allow the bosses to adapt themselves to? the new methods. The left w f ng warned that by waiting 12 months tha : bosses would have time to prepare to fight against the shortening of hours. That the left wing stated the ques tion co rrec try is proven by what has taken place since then. Last ' month the capmaker bosses of the nation formed a national association to fight against the 40-hour week. | On top of that the right wing admin- ! istration has agreed to “standards of production,”