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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Missionary Shot
In China Drew A
Gun, ANatiOn''

The American killed at Marking,
j. e. Williams, vice-president of Nam
king University, was shot as he drew
a revolver on the threatening Chin
ese soldiers, according to a report
cabled to the New York Nation"
from Shanghai. Four other Amer
cans who were with Williams when
the shooting occurred were not in
jured. G. A. Kennedy, an American
resident in China and a graduate of
the Columbia School of Journalism,
is responsible for the statement.
Mr.. Kennedy went to Marking for
the purpose of investigating the out
rage. His report states that there
were over $4,000 soldiers Of the Nor
thern army in Marking when the first
Nationalist soldiers entered the city
lat 3 a. m. on the oath of March, and
that it is impossible therefore to hold
the Nationalist responsible for what
occurred.
"The attacks on foreigners in the
morning and afternoon of that day,
resulting in the deaths Of one Amer
lean, two British, and one japanese.
and the looting of the consulates of
those countries, cannot be conclusively
fixed upon the Nationalist soldiers.
"The fist of the four foreign
deaths, thas of J. E. Williams, vice.
president of Marking University, oc-
CURED at a. m. on the twenty-fourth.
1t has been proved that four other
Americans were with Williams at the
time the soldiers threatened. Williams
drew his revolver and was immedi-
ately shot dead. The others were
not hurt. The three other foreign
deaths occurred in the late afternoon
before the bombardment, which was
at 4.30 p. m. The Nationalist gem
eral entered the city at $50.
"The foreign houses burned or loot
ed were all on the route taken by
the Northerners in their efforts to
escape from the city. Foreign houses
were not the only houses looted. Hun
dreds of Chinese were robbed and
many killed by the soldiers, presum-
ably, again, Northerners running
amuck.
".The physical effects Of the bonn
bardment by the British and Amer
lean war vessels are comparatively
slight. About fifty Chinese houses
were wrecked, and one foreign-inhabit-
ed home was demolished. The num-
Der of Chinese casualties was PROB
ably under one hundred. But this Is
uncertain, as they have not yet been
recorded"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Harris Island. New Yorl

Those figures have no parallel in
any other country. The huge reserves
of $35 billions in deposits easily crowd
out competition from any and all 9TH
err capitalist nations. Look at the
first 10 banks:
l. Midland, London. S1,783, 100000
2. Lloyds, London. 49,. Il ,6S4, 000, 900
3. Barclays, London. :. .50s, 100000
4. Westminster, London1, 1856. 900 900
s. National Provincial
London $50. ......1 ,261 100000
6. National City
New York. .t.... 1,0S3 100000
7. Federal Reserve
New York. .~.. .92s, 100000
S. Chase National
New York. 100000
o. Bank of England
London $3.50 ...... sos, 100000
10. Bank Of Montreal
Montreal ..s.... CSC, 100000
The English banks rank first be-
cause they constitute the Big Five,
with control over practically the en-
tire banking structure of England.
But the combined deposits of the $50
largest Anglo American banks are
split nearly $3.50 between the Brit
ish and the United States, with $17,-
900 100000 in 81 u. s. banks and
S17,SS5, 10000 in SO British Empire
institutions.
The far-flung Empire is represented
in the 10th bank in size, the Bank of
Montreal, Canada; the 18th, the Royal
Bank Of Canada of Montreal; the nth,
the Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
in Sydney; the 18th, the Canadian
Bank of Commerce in Toronto; the
21st the Imperial Bank of India in
Calcutta and so on. Other empire
banks with deposits of more than
$500, 100000 are to be found in Hong
kong, Manchester, Edinburgh and
Halifax.
The only force which could ever
overthrow such colossus is that of
the exploited peoples of the world. AL
ready the workers Of half Of Europe
and Asia, as represented in the Soviet
Union and China have thrown off the
possibilities of bondage to London and
New York. The great Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation, with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Pole Loan Strikes
SnagjU. Bankers
Want Govt. Control

WARSAW, April S.-Negotiations
for the $S0,0000OO American loan
struck a snag yesterday when the
American representative, NJ. Monnets
insisted on control Of state finances,
the management ofathe credit policies
Of the Bank Of Poland and the APP
pointment Of four of sixteen direc-
tors Of the banks board.
1t is understood that the Polish
Government had struck a tentative
agreement with the American bank
ers providing for an American OBJ
server who would not be a member
Of the banks board but who would
act as adviser in all financial tran.
sactions.
Later, however, il was learned that
the American bankers wanted great
er control over Polish finances, and
that NJ. Monnet was not authorized
to sign an agreement on those terms.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
GARMENT WORKER PRISONERS WRITE LETTER TO
COMMITTEE OF HUNDRED COMMENCING CAMPAIGN

morally and financially in order that
your committee shall be able to carry
out the great undertaking for our
freedom.
In the name Of our beloved wives,
children and families whom we are
so much in need Of, we are thanking
you and wishing you success in this
great undertaking which means our
freedom.
Joint Board Cares For Them.
We are also glad to inform you
that the New York Joint Board Of
the Cloak and Dress Makers Union
at 100 East 25th ST., N. Y, under the
leadership Of Louis Hyman and
Joseph Borchowitz, Charles thinner
man and Julius Portnoy are up to
the present time taking care Of us
in prison and our families at home
financially.
We will also appreciate a repre-
sentative Of your committee to call
on us, or communicate, if any in
formation is required
Yours for our freedom, and hoping
to hear some good news from your
committee, Sincerely yours,
Max Bernstein (No. 46S49); Morris
Turettsky (No. 46703); Harry Fried
man mo. 46S94); Paul Kalechman
mo. 4670S); Arthur Zinn mo.
46733); Samuel Grossman mo.
46711); Charles Wolfish mo. 46705);
Tony Morandine (No. 46704); A.
Kutzuk mo. 4672S),
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Current EUentS

Continued from Page One)
there are certain alleged radicals who
seem to forget that countries long
under the yoke of imperialism, coun-
tries like China, India, Egypt and
races like the Jews and the Negroes,
are the victims of propaganda de-
signed to humiliate them and render
them objects of universal scorn.
ENGLAND is a past master in this
TART. She is working it off on the
Chinese just now, as well as on the
Hindoos. Sure, England would have
no objection to United India or a
United China if only the Chinese and
Hindoos stopped killing each other!
Indeed, England is engaged in the
altruistic work Of protecting the peo-
pies of those countries from each
other. In Ireland it was the catholic
and protestant religions that prevent
ed the Irish from getting freedom.
The fact is. that British money and
British intrigue is the chief cause Of
the disunity of those countries which
British imperialism holds for pur-
poses of exploitation. She fastened
the opium trade on China at the point
of gun, exploited Chinese workers
at the point of the bayonet and now
tries to block the onward march of
the Nationalist movement with war;
ships, tanks and purchased Chinese
generals.
THE same attitude is being develop
ed here towards the Filipinos and
Latin Americans. The idea is being
planted in the public mind that those
people cannot live together in har-
mony. The bayonets of American
soldiers must be interposed between
the perpetually warning factions. 1t
Is the old imperialist method under
the slogan divide and Conquer"
Radical workers should be careful not
to ape the bourgeois flunkeys from
the editorial scribblers to the buffoon
comedians on the stage. The battle
array against world imperialism will
find the insulted, bullied, exploited
and Inundated subject peoples lined
up with the exploited workers and
farmers Of the so-called free coun-
tries against the common enemy, un-
less our stupidity throws them into
the arms of the foe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
LECTURES and FORUMS
THE PEOPLES INSTITUTE

At Cooper Union Is st. a Aston Pl)
mt q o'clock Admission Free
Sunday, April 10-Dr. Edward J. v.
Menge, DAILY Living and Recent
Scientific Experiments"
Tuesday, April 12-Dr. Michael
Levinei Some Biological Prob
lens"
Friday, April 15-No meeting.
AT MANHATTAN TRADE SCHOOL
Lex. Av. g. ed ST., at O'Clock.
Single Admission, 25 cents.
Reduction for Course Tickets.
Monday, Apr. fl-HOustOn Petersoni
Flaubert and the Worlo OF lllu-
sion.-'The Temptation of st. An
thony'': An outline Of Religion.
Wed, April 1S--Dr. Irwin Edmnn;
Three Metaphysical Poets. -
Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Poet
of Pantheism.'
Thurs, Apr lf--Dr. ". G. Spauldingi
Questions People Expect a Philos-
opher to Answer" - There Any
Ground for Religion
Sat. April 16--Dr. scott Duchnnani
Platonic Attitudes. - philosophy
as Criticism of Morals"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Expert Puts Spot
Light on Gigantic
Insurance SWindIG

This Monday The DAILY WORK
Err, the only national labor daily, and
1.-THE Freiheit," Jewish Communist
daily, with combined circulations Of
10000 in the metropolitan area, lead
off with a series Of articles attack
ing the graft and corruption with
which the industrial weekly pay
ment) life insurance business is sat-
urated.
Writer Well Equipped.
Prepared and written by Charles
Yale Harrison, intimately associated
with insurance activities for a num-
Der Of years, the articles which will
run for 80 days will describe wildly
and in lively style the technique Of
the huge insurance combines in
swindling, millions Of dollars from
workers throughout the country.
Praised by Nation Editor.
Lewis s. Gannett, associate editor
of "The Nation" after reading these
articles in a preliminary form, de-
clared that "this ought to start an
other Armonstrong investigation"
In 1917, b. p. Armonstrong, the
late president Of the late American
Union Life Insurance Co., said: "In-
dustrial insurance lis a swindle Of
such gigantic magnitude that its lit
erature should be excluded from the
mails, its business suppressed and
taken over by the state"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Rank and File Miners
Against Split Contract

Continued from Page One)
killed in the march on Cliftonville
in 1922.
Over fifteen hundred people gath
cred in front of the P. and w. Hall,
and formed in marching order for
the parade to the cemetary.
The line was headed by the Can
nonsburg Band and followed by the
children from the Avella schools.
Then came the local unions with the
flags and banners of the union, and
in addition banners bearing slogans
calling for general strike of the en-
tire coal industry.
Slogans On Banners.
Other banners read:
eve want no sliding scale because
it will always slide down.
"Oragnize the unorganized miners.
mo separate agreements. Keep the
United Mine Workers united.
Eve want a general strike of
American workers for the freedom of
Sacco and Vanzetti, and many 9th
ers."
When the crowd gathered around
the monument to the Cliftcnville
miners, truck was provided for a
speakers platform, and Fred Siders,
president of Local Union 1881 u. NJ.
w. of A., and candidate for district
president on the Brophy "Save the
Union Ticket" in the recent election,
opened the meeting.
Dislike Partial Agreements.
Siders recounted the purposes of
the meeting, among which was that
of calling for a general strike of all
mine workers, to defeat the bosses
lockout of the miners of the central
field.
David Hickey, who spoke in the
name of the district organization did
not meet with favorable response
when he told the signing up of small
mines on temporary agreements. He
was interrupted with cries Of "No
separate agreements! Keep the mine
workers unitedw
Participants in the Cliftopville
march spoke, as did also d. F.. Farley
Of Pittsburgh, who took the stand
for the international Labor Defense,
and to call attention to the Sacco-
VanZetti case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Communist Position
Towards China Given
By AmtGr at Meeting

CLEVELAND, April S.-The Chin
csc Community Association of Cleve-
land held banquet to celebrate the
capture of Shanghai by the National
Revolutionary Party. About 100 per-
sons were present, including Chinese
students at Oberlin University.
Among the speakers were Mr..
Lewis of the Y. NJ. G. A, Judge Mills
and Captain Kirby Mr.. Lewis ex-
planned the demands of the Canton
government, and ascribed some Of the
looting at Marking to Communist
agitators." Judge Mills assured the
+ Chinese present that the American
people are in sympathy with the Gus
titled demands of the Chinese peo-
pie for independence" He warned
the Chinese that they must be wary,
for the hardest period will come when
they have to establish law and order.
They must be careful to institute laws
that would be equal to rich and poor
alike"
Captain Kirby told of his experience
with the Chinese beginning with his
acquaintance with two Chinese in New
York. Very instructive as far as the
present Chinese situation is concerned.
China's Friends.
I. Amter, district secretary Of the
Workers (Communist) Party, began
his address with the words, "Chinese
comrades and American friends"
Amter blasted the so-called inter
est of Americans in the struggle of
the Chinese people for freedom. He
assured the Chinese that their friends
were Soviet Russia and the Commun-
ist International, to whom Sun Vat
Sen had sent a letter on his DEATH
bed. In answer to the insinuation
that Communists instigate looting,
Aniter said that the Communist Par
ty and the Young Communist League
of China work hand in hand with
the Kuomintang. The industrial work.
ers of the capitalist countries and the
oppressed peoples Of India, Afghani-
tan, Java, Egypt and Africa are the
friends and supporters of the Chinese
revolution. Hands Off China must
be the slogan emanating from the
friends of China"
Wants Realism.
Mr.. Mong, secretary of the Chin
csc Students Club, a Columbia stu
dent, begged the assemblage to come
down out of the realms of idealism
to the plane of reality. "It would
be splendid if the American people
were all in sympathy with the as
pirations of the Chinese people. I'M
fortunately they are not. Theoretical
ly, even business men are in sympa-
thy, but practically the question is
different. "What is to become of our
concessions, settlements, investments
they ask. That is the hitch to the
question" Mr.. Mong explained in de-
tail what is going on and what the
Chinese revolutionary party intends
to do.
The meeting closed with the adop-
ton of a resolution demanding that
American warships and marines be
withdrawn from China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Brooklyn Dances For !
Daily Worker Tonight

A Concert and Ball for the benefit
Of The DAILY WORKER will be held
tonight at the Royal Palace Hall, l6
Manhattan Ave-, Brooklyn, under the
auspices OF Section Of The Workers
(Communist) Party. The Freiheit
Mandolin Orchestra, Max Margolis,
violinist and Yetta Stein in a piano
recital will be on the program. There
will also be double band for dancing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
ANGLO AMERICAN BANKS DRAW TRIBUTE FROM
EVERY PART OF EARTH WHICH CAPITAL RULES

it's s2SO,0O0,OO0 deposits, which es-
sayed to rule the Far East from its
vantage point on the stolen island
Of Hongkong, already enters the
eclipse. How soon before the I'M
perial Bank of India and the Central
Bank of India in Bombay fall before
the revolt of Asia's rising masses?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Dawes Decides Graft
Probe Can Continue
Reed Will State Plan

CHICAGO, April s.--Plans Of
the Reed Senate Committee in
vestigating campaign fund ex-
penditures were expected to be
announced today in Detroit by
Senator James A. Reed, following
the ruling here yesterday Of Vice
President Charles G. Dawes that
the committee did not lose its
power with the adjournment Of the
sixty-ninth congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Harlem Young Workers
Opening Forum Tonight

The Y. W. L. of Harlem is or
ganizing for the coming month four
open forums. The first will be held
this Sunday at 81 East 10th st. at
8 P. NJ. Carl Weissberg will speak
on Opportunities for Young Workers
in America" Admission free. All
young workers are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Propose Illinois Conference.

SPRINGFIELD, H., April s. -
Harry Fishwick, president Of District
IL, U. M. w. Of A., has invited the
operators to a conference. President
Rice Miller, Of the operators associa-
ton, has replied that he will meet with
the miners officials only if they are
prepared to discuss a reduction in
wages.
The southwestern operators asso-
citation and the union officials of Kan
sas, Oklahoma, and other southwestern
states have adjourned without an
agreement They are meeting In
Kansas City. The conference will con-
tinue tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
|. I. D. CALI Cor Conference.

L. H. De AdAlS AuI
The International Labor Defense IN
its statement, called for the immediate
organization of a national conference
for Sacco and Vanzetti.
"a national conference embracing
all workers organizations and SYM
pathizing bodies and uniting all for
ces for Saeco and Vanzetti must be
organized without delay" says the
statement.
"The necessity for this national ex-
preston Of the workers unity and pro-
test is so obvious as to need no argu-
ment. Opposition to such a mobiliza-
ton is assistance to the executioners.
Protest Can Stay Execution.
"The International Labor Defense
firmly believes that a mighty protest
movement Of the masses can yet stay
the hands Of the murderers and bring
about the triumphant liberation of
Sacco and Vanzetti. All our energies
and resources will be devoted to the
organization Of this movement"
Agitation Must Be Revived.
The national office of the l. L. D.
has sent instructions to its local or
ganization in 200 cities throughout the
country to revive the agitation for the
freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti on a
bigger scale than ever before. The
preliminary stages of this work of the
/. L. D. locals as laid out by the ma
tional Official calls for the loding of
mass meetings and demonstrations
circulating petitions, distributing leaf
lets, stickers and posters printed by
the national office of the l. L. D. and
the sending of letters and kilograms
to Governor Alvan T. Fuller at the
state house, Boston, demanding the
release Of the two victimized agitators.
They Must Not Die.
''The whole agitational movement =.
says the statement, must lead up to
the holding of gigantic national con-
ference at which the faith and soil
daIity of the masses in the cause of
Sacco and Vanzetti viii be dramatized
before the whole country.
"SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE
INNOCENT AND SHALL NOT
DIE!
This slogan proclaimed long ago
oy-Eagene V. Debs is the slogan Of
our fight" ISL
BOSTON, April Worldwide APP
peals calling for the freedom Of Nj
cola Sacco and bartholomew Vanzetti
reached Gov Alvan T. Fuller today.
The executive chamber is being flood
ed with cablegrams from every cor
ner of the earth.
Cablegrams arrived from the Red
Aid, the German organization formed
for the defense of class-war prisoners
and which is similar to the Interna-
tional Labor Defense in this country.
Wires were also received from 20
members of the British parliament,
whose names have not as yet been
made public.
General Strike in Buenos Aires.
Coincident with the appeals to the
governor, word comes of a 49-hour
general strike in Buenos Aires as
protest against the action of the
Massachusetts courts in refusing to
grant new trial to Sacco and Van
zetti in spite of the overwhelming in
sistence on their innocence by millions
throughout the world, including disin-
terested lawyers who have been stirred
by the fragrant injustice Of the case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09

The nine prisoners held at Harris
Island because Of their activities in
the cloakmakers' strike appealed to
the committee of one hundred to
"give us helping hand" in a letter
received yesterday by Ann Washing
ton Grafton, secretary Of the commit
tee.
Thank Committee.
The prisoners had read in the news
papers the attacks made by Morris
Sigman Of the International upon the
committee and it's attempts to raistt
defense fund to work for their re-
lease, and to give aid to their fam
lilies. They declare in their joint let
ter eve are thanking you and wish
ing you success in this great under
taking which means our freedom"
Their letter is as follows:
New York Penitentiary
Harris Island, New York.
Sec. of Committee Of Hundred,
Civic Club, Is f. 10 Street, N. Y.
Dear Miss Ann Washington Grafton:
We, the undersigned prisoners of
the recent garment strikes, at Harris
Island read a statement in the press
that a committee of one hundred has
been organized for the purpose of
freeing the prisoners Of the recent
cloak and furrier's strikes.
We wish and hope that the fair and
liberal minded people Of this great
country will give you helping hand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Defense Rallies to Save
SaccO and VanZetti


liant labor movement. The fight for
SaccO and Vanzetti is the fight Of
the working class.
"The need of the hour is an organ
lied, united movement of protest and
solidarity on a national and inter
national scale. In this movement
unity must be the watchword. All
partisan aims, all differences of opin-
ion and all controversial questions
must be put aside. All forces must
be united without delay on the broad
est possible basis for the struggle to
free Sacco and Vanzetti. Organize
the protest movement!
"Unite all forcesl
Free Sacco and Vanzetti!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09

BUY THE DAILY WORK ER
AT THE NE wv s STAN DIS
Evening star., 1927-05-15
CAPITAL TRAPSH0TS
BEAT ORIOLE TEAM

Trapshots of Washington Gun Club
yesterday got back at the Ofiole Club
Of Baltimore for recent defeats when
they Vanuuished the latter at the Ben
ming traps in the final singles team
race of the season. 912 to S94, and also
won the doubles, 206 to 203. The vic
tory made Washington's total for the
season 3. against 4 for Baltimore.
Breaking So in 100, G. c. Fawsett
of the local team led the entire field
to win first honors in class a and
shattered Al in so TO cop the second
doubles prize.
II. y. Edel. who powdered 90 of 100.
topped the Baltimore marksmen to
win class b honors. DR. Nardigo, the
other winner in this class. won out
after tying II. G. Mittenger at 81.
w. G. Blundon and r. p. Williams.
both Washington representatives,
took class c honors. Blundon was
first with 81 and Williams second
with 81.
DR.. Parsons was the class d high
gun with 90. followed by Wagner
with 90 and Shelton with 9S, re-
spectively.
and DR.. Earring with 3S were dou-
bles winners under the Lewis class
system.
+. +. Williams and Bob Lee were
winner and runner-up, respectively,
in the high-ovcrall contest for both
singles and doubles for the season.
There was a difference of but two i'm
their score for the campaign.
Tomorrow the Washington Club will
entertain the physicians attending
the medical convention in this city
IN a handicap shoot, starting at l
O'Clock