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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Jury Of 1900 in
Mock Trial Find
Traitors Guilty

IL didn't take the jury, compris-
ing over 1900 fur workers and their
wives, very long time to determine
the guilt of 0izer Schachtman, ].
Winnick, A. SorlSin, Isaac Wohl, and
other officials of the reactionary
International Fur Workers Union
tried on charges Of betraying the
interests of the workers and con-
spring TO destroy the fur workers
union.
Ben Gold, manager of the Joint
Board of the Furriers' Union and
Louis Hyman, of the Joint Board
of the Cloakmakers' Union acted as
prosecutors in the Knock trial. held
yesterday afternoon at the New
Star Casino, 107th st. and Lexing-
ton Ave.
The trial arranged without re-
hearsal by the shop chairmen's
council was participated in by
large number of witnesses, who
brought out the evidence against
the officials of the International.
Proceeds from the affair will be
devoted to assisting in the defense
Of cloakmakers and fur workers
framed up on charges of assault in
connection with the recent strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
SICMAN'S SABOTAGE OF WORKERS
% IN PRISON EXPOSED BY DEFENSE

Sigman hireling active as their at
torney.
an the midst of the trial, Mr.. Bus
hell suddenly withdrew from the
case, thereby making it appear that
the men were guilty and for the first
time giving the affair a serious as
pect.
Serious Charges.
at is important to note that in all
these cases the defendants had been
charged with very serious charges
such as assault in the first and Sec
ond degree, malicious mischief and
in many cases had been indicted on
all these counts.
"These defendants were charged
with the commission Of felonies
which in the event of conviction mean
possible long sentences. The defen-
dants were lead to believe that if they
were to accept pleas of guilty of sim
pie assault, which is merely mis-
demeanor, nominal punishment
would be meted out, in small fines
etc.
Hoping to save their union the en-
Continued on Page Five)
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While Nthe Joint Defense and Relief
Committee for Cloakmakers and Fur
riers has been busily engaged putt
ing into operation plans to raise mon
ey for its work, Morris Sigman pres
ident of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union seems to
have been just as busily engaged
with a campaign of SANDER, in des-
pegate attempt to destroy confidence
in The committee and its work.
"Mr. Sigman is quite astute," said
II. Robbins, chairman of the Joint
Defense and Relief Committee for
Cloakmakers and Furriers, posing
as the champion of the workers, his
statements frequently deceive those
not acquainted with the Sigman brand
Of hypocrisy.
Score In Jail.
"There are now more than score
Of cloalSmakers and furriers in jail.
Others are in the tombs awaiting
trial and sentence, and the number is
growing. The first few cloakmakers
were betrayed into the clutches Of
capitalist justice by Hyman Bushell,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Prepare Troops
For CbicagO's
Poll Riots
Capitalist Politicians Incite
to Election Violence

CHICAGO, April 3.-Troops are
being held in readiness for the gang
sterism and bloodshed which always
attends an election in Chicago. Ten
sion in the mayoralty campaign in
creased tonight as the city was flood
ed with a fresh deluge Of inflamIAa-
tory campaign literature and vitriolic
speeches. The election is Tuesday.
Rioting at the polls is foreshadowed
by the belligerent attitude of rival
capitalist party gunner in half a
dozen wards.
Troops Ready.
Plans went forward tonight to
throw troops into the city at the first
indication of disorder.
Possibility of a clash between the
militia and the police force was not
overlooked by observers. The police
are loyal to Mayor William E. Dever,
democrat, who is being bitterly OPP
posed by William Hale Thompson,
Governor Len Small and
the higher officers of the militia sup
port Thompson.
Distribute Machine Guns.
Machine guns were distributed
among 105 squads of five police each.
They will cruise through the danger
zopes in flivvers and on motorcycles.
Try To Start Race War.
Thompson forces bitterly arraigned
the Dever forces for injecting the
race question into the campaign. La
borers were told by Dever ieutenants
that Thompson's election would mean
Chicago flooded with Negroes to take
their places in mills and factories.
Thousands Of circulars were being
distributed tonight containing a car
toon showing train loaded with Ne
Continued on Page FiUe)
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Invitations have also been sent to
the labor bodies of Canada, Mexico,
and the South American countries on
the Pacific, the Philippines, Japan,
Korea, India, Indonesia and to all
European labor declarations having
connections with the Far East
through colonial or other affiliations,
including those of Great Britain,
France, Holland and the Soviet
Union.
Canvass Whole Field.
"The program arranged by the pre-
paratory bureau, which has been
working for a long time on the pre-
liminary details of the conference, in
cludes the bureaus report, the re-
ports of delegates from the countries
represented, the Pacific countries and
the international trade union move
ment, labor and Imperialism, interna-
tional regulations regarding wages
and hours, threats of war in the Pa
cific, labor and immigration prob
lens, and closer relations between
the labor movements of the Pacific
countries.
Eastern Labor Movement.
dThis congress assumes great i'm
portance because of the growth of the
labor movement in the Far East fol
lowing the success of the Chinese
Nationalist cause and its emphasis
upon trade union organization AND
the rising national movements in the
countries of the East under European
and American imperialist influence
The gathering menace of a world wal
in the Pacific and the interrelations
of labor interests everywhere, be-
cause of the international character
of production and investment, add to
the crucial nature of the conference.
"In the name of the Trades Union
Congress of the Commonwealth OF
Australia and of the All-China Fed
Grafton of Labor the labor organiza-
tions of America are invited to send
delegates. Fraternal greetings"
The cablegram is signed by the
preparatory bureau of the Pan-Pa-
cific Labor Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
ROsalsky Plays
With Case Of
AntOnOtsky
Keeps Him In Jail By Setting
New Date For Hearing

That persecution has become a
habit with Judge Otto Rosalsky of
the State Supreme Court is shown
Enthusiastically in his outrageous treat
ment of Louis AntonOfsky. who was
once again returned to the Tombs
without hearing on Friday and his
case set to come up for the third
time an April Str. This means the
innocent man win have been in prison
for nearly two weeks without being
allowed to speak one word in his own
defense.
Antonofsky is one Of the cloak
strikers who was paroled by Judge
Rosalsky three months ago and has
to report to him at regular intervals.
On February 23rd, Antonofsky was
one of three workers framed-up by
right wing sympathizers, Morris
Katz, who declared he had been at
tackled by these men.
Katz Remembers"
Katz, when he first told his story,
said he did not know who had at
tackled him. Later under the stimu-
lating effect of the reactionary right
wings influence, he decided he re-
membered Antonofsky, and Aaron
Wortuns, both workers who are loyal
to the Joint Board of the cloak and
dressmakers. At the hour when Katz
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Danger Menaces
Chinese People

To all labor and peasant organiZa-
tions of the world A great danger
menaces the Chinese people. British
imperialism is again preparing mill
tary Intervention. Several places
have been already bombarded by their
battleships. By shameless provoca-
tons they are trying to drag the
other imperialist powers to their side
in order to achieve their aim Of crush
ing the Chinese revolution. Their
claim that Europeans were killed at
Marking by Nationalist troops is
made the pretext for military inter-
vention and is an absolute lie.
The killings at Marking were per-
petrated by agents provocateur sub
sidized by imperialists and by defeat
ed northern militarists. The truth is
that British and American warships
have bombarded Marking, killing
over six hundred defenseless Chinese
men, women and children.
Criminal Policy of Imperialism.
The Marking affair is but fur
Their development Of repeated prova-
cations by British imperialists during
the past few months in all parts Of
China for the purpose Of justifying
military intervention. After the obi
Gus massacres Of Shanghai, Shameen
Wansien, and Hankow, the latest at
Marking is but a shamful repetition
Of the criminal policy of Imperialism
in China. Armed imperialist inter-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
U.s. LABOR INVITED TO PAN-PACIFIC CONGRESS
Six More Killed in
.Non-uniOn CoalMine
Two Hundred Thousand Involved as Lockout
Extends; More West Virginians Strike

WASHINGTON, Pa, April 3.-Six coal miners were killed
and number of others badly burned coadust explosion
the Cokeburg mine of the nOnunOn Ellsworth Galleries yes
terday This the third fatal accident almost concidng with
the drive against the union and the declaration the great
out in the central competitive fields
Miners here take it omnous sign the things to be
expected thruout the entire American fields the EMPLOYERS
are successful in breaking the resistance union All coal
dust explosions are preventab according published statements
OF the u s. Bureau of Mines but slight cost to the
involved and only union organization has ever been able
to force employer take the necessary precautions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Labor Has Part Of It's
Disease Laws Passed

The labor movement did not sue
coed in getting a blanket occupation
al disease law through the New York
legislature. The manufacturers lob
by proved too strong. Silicosis-
"stone cutters consumption"
chemical poisoning of many different
kinds, are among the injuries against
which the worker is not protected I'M
der the law.
John M. o'Hanlon, secretary Of the
New York Federation of Labor, how
ever, reports that the amended law
slightly increases the list of acci-
dents for which payments will be
made. Loss of hearing in one ear
now becomes compensate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
u. S. JOINS INDEMNITY
DRIVE AGAINST CHINA
Chang Offers to Pay
For Any Foreign Loss
Nationalist Commit

SHANGHAI. April 3.-General
Chang Kai-shek today stated
to the press that the Nationalist
government would be willing to
make complete recompense for all
loss Of foreign life and property in
Marking or elsewhere in China
if the Nationalist forces were
proved in any way responsible for
the loss.
In as much as there is evidence
that all losses up to date were
caused either by the foreign i'm
perialist's bOmbardment or by the
northern Chinese troops which are
practically allies of the invaders,
this was little satisfaction to those
demanding ''indemnities."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Issue Orders For
Mobilization Of Third
Regiment Of Marines

WASHINGTON, April S-Orders
for the quick mobilization of third
regiment of U. S. marines at San
Diego Calf, by the Navy Depart
ment were issued today as the Chi
nese situation became more acute.
The mobilization is 20 be COM
plete by the end of next week. The
marines are expected to sail then.
With one regiment in Shanghi, an
other now en- route to San Diego to
embark Sunday, this will make the
third regiment for far east duty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

vention in China is pregnant with
immense dangers not only for the
Chinese people but also for humanity
as a whole.
The armed intervention of British
Imperialism in China will be a signal
for a new bloodbath, and new world
war. In these tragic circumstances, the
Chinese people count On immediate
action Of the international proletariat
to prevent armed intervention and its
consequences.
During two months our delegation
has visited hundreds of workers, peas
ants, merchants, students, and wo-
mems organizations as we'll as the
Continued on Page Fipe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
BRAND Takes Action"
Against Communist For
PrO-ChineSe Addresses

PARIS, April 3.-Because JAG
ques Doriot. Communist member of
the Chamber of Deputies. has made
pro-Nationalist speeches in Shan
ghai and Hankow. the French gov
eminent has decided ito take action
against him."
Foreign Minister BRAND has al
ready presented the Ministerial
Council with reports of Doriot's
speeches and alleged attempts to
fOment revolt in the Far East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Australian, Chinese
Unions Set Meeting
On May l, in Canton, Delegates of Workers
Discuss Imperialism, Make United Front

CHICAGO April (FP)-The Federated Press has received
the following cable from Canton China inviting the American
labor organizations to send delegates the PanPacc Labor
Congress which opens under official Australian and Chinese
labor auspices in Canton, May L. The cable reads
he Trades Union Congress of the Commonwealth of Aus
aa has authorized the All China Federation of Labor call
Pacific labor congress at Canton May 1927 under
the joint official auspices of the labor organizations The
organizations of the United States invited
send as many delegates their resources permit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
S-HOur Measure
Debated In Reichstag

TOXIC, April 3.-Charged with at
tempting to organize Nationalist
movement in Korea, ninety-nine
Koreans arrested in the red raids OF
last summer will be prosecuted by the
Japanese courts.
More than 800 Koreans were ar
rested last June for alleged attempts
TO free Korea from japan. japan an
nexed Korea in 1910.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Send 5000 More Troops.

LONDON, April 3.-Great Britain
moved closer than ever to open war
on the Nationalist Government when
the war department announced that
five thousand more troops would be
dispatched to China.
Whether or not the Foreign Office
succeeds in dragging the United
States and Japan into an openly hos
tile attitude, the Cabinet is determined
to fight the Nationalist. In a speech
in which he bitterly attacked the Ma
tionaist government, Neville Cham
berlain, Minister of Health, urged
Great Britain to demand that "such
reparations as possible" be paid "for
injuries done" in Marking.
Wang Ching Wei To Shanghai.
Wang Ching Wei, the chairman of
the Hankow executive, is reported to
have arrived in Shanghai from Han
kow for a conference with Chang
Kai Shek.
japanese bluejackets at Hankow
are reported to have clashed with
Chinese there, after which residents
of the Japanese concession in Han
kow decided to leave.
1t was stated at Aldershot tonight
that the Second Scots guards and
the first Northampton regiment, or
dered to China, would sail from Eng
land on April eleventh.
In diplomatic circles, it was stated
that exchanges were continuing be-
tween the United States, Great Bri-
tain and Japan, regarding the de-
mands to be made for reparations
arising out of the Marking outrages
and it is probable that a joint COM
munication will be sent to the Peo-
pies Government within few days.
Clamor of War.
The die-hard press is clamoTing for
blockade of Chinese ports.
The dispatch Of the 5000 troops to
Shanghai will raise the British "de-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
22,OOOWOrkers
Mass to Cheer
The Freiheit
Unanimously Pass Resolution
Against U. 5. War on China

Resolutions vigorously denOuncing
the massacre of thousands of Chi
nese at Marking and insisting that
II. S. Government cease at once its
unofficial war against the Chinese
nationalists were unanimously adOp-
ted by the $4,000 workers who
damned Madison Square Garden
Saturday night to celebrate the fifth
jubilee of the establishment of "The
Freiheit," Jewish Communist daily.
Meloch Epstein, Moissaye ]. Olgin,
Shachno Epstein, NJ. Saltzman, Ben
Lifshity, general secretary of the
Jewish section of the Workers (Com-
hunist) Party, and Louis Hyman, man
ager of the New York Joint Board
of the cloak and dressmakers, joined
in declaring that "The Freiheit" was
engaged in fighting the battles, not
only Of the Jewish worker in Ameri-
ca, but of all workers throughout the
world.
A Fighting Organ
The speakers told of the origins Of
the fighting Jewish daily, and of the
need which it fills in the lives of the
thousands of workers in America,
and particularly in the industrial
cities Of the east.
The establishment of The DAILY
WORKER in New York was greeted
at the celebration and hopes for its
growth and usefulness to the workers
in their daily struggles were ex-
pressed.
Greet Chinese Revolt.
The resolution on the present situa-
ton in China is as follows:
"Whereas the Chinese people I'M
der the leadership of the Chinese
workers are engaged in mighty
struggle to throw off the chains of
imperialist oppression and native ty-
ranny, and
"Whereas our government has sent
marines and battleships to China
without being at war with that coun-
try, at the command of the bankers
and imperialist investors in China, and
our marines have participated in the
shameful massacre of Marking at the
instigation Of the Standard Oil Co. of
New York (Socony) and other invest
ors, and
New War Threatened.
"Whereas we are thereby threat
ened with a new world war Of the
imperialist powers against China and
the Soviet Union;
Therefore be it resolved by this
meeting of $4,000 workers in Madison
Continued on Page 1-Uo)
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The Cokeburg mine was considered
q very dangerous one. The Ellis
worth company would have been
guilty of the death of about four
hundred men if it had not in other
parts of the mine used some rock
dust, the approved method of COM
batting disasters of this sort.
The dead miners are Frank Smith,
Eastman White and Joseph Jordan.
married, and Henry Kelley, William
Gibson and Tony Habotts, single.
The company has published, in an
effort to excuse itself, the ridiculous
story that the explosion was started
by miner trying to break a stick
of dynamite by hammering it over a
rock.
West Virginia Strike
About ninety per cent of the non
union miners in the Clarksburg, West
Virginia, region are out on strike.
Because of the Sunday holiday,
and because the strike is spreading
from mine to mine, in the way of
non-union strikes, the number strik-
ing in other parts of the key West
Virginia district is not known yet.
100000 Involved
The number of men IN the shut
down as a whole is now estimated
at 100000 or over. About fifty
thousand union miners of Kansas,
Oklahoma and small southwestern
fields were involved when til e
negotiations started before the strike
by International President Joh n
Lewis failed. The contract proposed
there was for a temporary agree
ment, similar to those in Wyoming
and other outlying districts.
Would Cut to S.
About thirty mine companies in
Ohio have signed such agreements.
The conference to which the Ohio
Operators Association and President
Lee Hall of District 6 of the UNI.
w. A. have agreed, the operators now
say, will discuss lower wage, if it
meets at all. 8. H. Robbins, presi-
dent of the operators association to-
day issued statement that he would
propose basic wage of S. per day,
but did not expect the miners to ac-
cept it at this time.
Pittsburg Terminal Scab
PITTSBURGH, April 3.-With the
miners and operators in Western
Pennsylvania, the heart Of the ma
TONS bituminous coal producing
area, farther apart than ever, the
stage was being set today for show
down in the wage controversy
AT the offices of the Pittsburgh
(Coutjnued M, Pane Tbreelt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
WORKERS DELEGATION TO HANKOW
DENOUNCES lMPERIALISTS' ATTACK
Especial Cable To The DAILY WORKER.)

HANKOW China April 3.-The International Workers
Delegation visiting has just issued proclamation to the
workers world calling upon them the imperial
lists making upon the Chinese people 1t as follows
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
More GunbOats;
More Marines
Sent East
Consul Sends Report Con-
tradicted by Chen

WASHINGTON, April S.-That the
United States may attempt to smash
the Chinese nationalist movement ap-
peared likely last night when the state
department made public Conclusions"
of John X. Davis, consul at Marking,
attacking the Nationalists and declar-
ing them responsible for the Marking
"outrages."
$500 Marines Sail.
In addition to the 1850 marines sail
ing from San Diego this week, another
1900 are being modified for service
in China and regular army troops in
Philippines and Hawaii are ready to
sail for Shanghai at a moments no
tice.
Davis's report comes on the heels
of a vigorous denial by Eugene Chen,
Nationalist Foreign Minister, that Ma
tionalist troops had anything to dc
with the attack on foreigners at Nan
king. The disorders were due to Shan
tungese and White Russian mercenar-
les, he said.
Demand Huge Indemnity.
That huge indemnities viii be de-
manded by the United States from the
Nationalist for the "outr es" com
mitted by the Shantungese and the
White Russians at Marking, was
clearly indicated in government cir
cles. The administration is prepared
to act upon the conclusions" present
ed by Consul Davis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
CurY9ntEUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERrY.

THE new police commissioner is
4 Tammany man. We have this on
the authority of Mayor Walker, so
there should be no doubt as to the
gentleman's qualification for the
post. Further assurance is given us
by grand shiek Olvany's statement
that Tammany has no intention of
interfering with the police depart
ment, tho Mr.. Olvany admits that the
new commissioner is an organization
man and the mayor tells us that his
dues are paid up to date. Which
makes US suspicious that there is
something wrong since people usually
explain to hide facts, rather than to
confirm them.
CTRANGE how people continue to
Obelieve the statements of capitalist
politicians no matter how often they
are bamboozIed Calvin Coolidge con-
tinues to insist that his government
is playing a lone hand in China and
that the only object of the presence
of American warships and marines
in Chinese ports is the protection Of
American nationals. Yet American
commanders join with England in bonn
harding Chinese city and the naval
officers do not receive even a slap
in the wrist from the administration.
Less American shrapnel from the
Coolidge administration and less ly-
ing is what the Chinese want.
THE soft coal miners in the CEN
4 trail competitive fields have laid
down their tools or rather hauled up
their tools. The life has ebbed out
Of the Jacksonville agreement and
the operators have refused to renew
it or discuss its renewal with the
union. John L. Lewis is suspiciously
silent. The voice that Numbered so
consistently and eloquently against
the progressives is now reduced to
something less than a whisper. The
charges made by the Communists
that Lewis intended to betray the
miners and wreck the union are now
being borne out by events.
THE capitalist papers and the or
i gans of the coal associations are
now chortling with glee over the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

THE capitalist papers and the or
i gans of the coal associations are
now chortling with glee over the
Continued on Page Three