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DEVELOP UNITY
IN |. |. G. ". U.
WAR ON S|GMAN
Shop Chairmen Hold
Union Against Reaction
Especial to The Daily Worker,

especial to The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK, Dec. 80. - A perman-
ent organization of shop ehairmen,
welded into a unit to fight for the
rights Of workers to a democratic
union, is being built as a result of a
meeting of more than a thousand shop
chairmen in the cloak industry section
Of the international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union.
Plan Roll Call.
An executive committee Of As mem
bers, including the shop chairmen of
several of the largest shops, was elect
ed, and met to elect its officers.
The committee will arrange at once
to carry out the instructions OF the
mass meeting to hold roll call of all
the shop chairmen in the industry, as
a means of indicating the opinion of
the mass of the workers In the pres
ent dispute between a bureaucracy in
the international and the progressive
leaders in the joint board.
90 FeF Oent Represented.
The shop chairmen, representing
about IS per cent of the entire in
dustry, denounced in resolutions the
action OF the General Executive
Board in appointing provisional execu-
tive boards, consisting of the most
discredited people in our union, in
nIooo ~ o1,r d,,lxy aIaotad ,oAaoars aud
in issuing union books at the rate
of so cents apiece to all who make
application, thus generating the
scabs from punishment and flooding
the market with an overflow of work
ers to compete with the cloak and
dress makers"
They declared that they would
ignore all instructions given by the
international and bring complaints,
pay dues, and take instructions from
the officers we regularly elected"
Characterizing the officers of the
international as "splitters and destroy
ers of our union" the resolutions call
ed for the establishing of a permanent
shop chairman organization ito mQbil,
lie the great mass of the workers." for
a struggle to be carried on until the
rights of the membership have been
indicated"
Speakers at the meeting were Louis
Hyman, manager of the joint board,
c. s. Zimmerman of the dress division,
and Ben Gold of the furriers union.
Lyman announced at the meeting
that plans for the regular elections in
locals 2. 9 and 35 were being COM
pleted and would be held In spite of
the opposition of the international,
which seeks to disenfranchise the
members of these locals by appointing
provisional" executive boards and Of
ficers.
Reaction Draws Small Crowd.
While the shop chairman's meeting
packed Webster Hall, meeting called
by the international for the installa-
ton of the officers of Cutters Union
Local 10, was held in Cooper Union.
Altho it was widely advertised that
American Federation of Labor officials
including Matthew Woll, vice presi-
dent, Hugh Frayne, New York repres-
entative, and Joseph P. Ryan, presi-
dent of the Central Trades and Labor
Council would speak and assure the
workers of their support in driving
out the Communists the meeting was
poorly attended, according to reports
received.
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U. 5. Censorship in Nicaragua Is
Exposed; Kellogg Forced to Admit
False Statements in Explanation

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3O.-The state
department admitted in formal state
ment that censorship had been estab-
lished in the Nicaraguan neutral zones
by Rear Admiral j. T. Latimer, COM
mander of American naval forces
there.
Previously Secretary of State Kel-
logg had said there was no censor
ship in Nicaragua, altho DR.. T. c,
Vaca, representative here of the lib
eral government, presented messages
which had been held up by United
States censors."
To cover up the departments lies
CONTINUED ON page 81
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Condition of Winter
Wheat in Illinois Is
Good, Reports Bureau

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 3O.-Con-
dition of winter wheat in Illinois
seems satisfactory. despite some COM
plants by farmers. according to the
weekly statement issued by the
weather bureau here.
II was a rainy week in eastern and
southern counties, the report states,
while good husking weather was the
rule in only northern counties.
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Two Must Hang.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. Dec. 30.--Clem-
ency was denied by Governor Len
Small to Thomas McWane and James
Gricious, doomed to hang at Chicago
next Friday for the murder of Marie
BLANC and taxi driver. The gov
ernor acted on recommendation of the
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-kss..s,x Se..1
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

THERE is considerable agitation in
i the ranks of the socialist party
over the introduction of w. Client,
war-socialist, to the readers Of the
New Leader as one who never forsook
his social theories. Client joined
everything during the war that howled
for German blood, guaranteed a rea-
sonable degree of safety and was in
the habit of passing out the pay
checks. 1t appears that the gentle
man is now out of work, or else hav-
ing collected competence is on the
lookout for political party that will
contribute to the well-being of his ego.
WHATEVER the cause may be,
w Client is again contributing to the
socialist press. He showers abuse on
tlss socialist party for its "un-Ameri-
canism." A few muddle-heafed soeial'
lists who mistake the bible for Das
Kapital take issue with the lingo, but
do not succeed in making matters bet
ter for the socialist party. One sym
posiumizer, however, succeeds in be-
ing extremely amusing. His name is
Berenberg, and l believe he writes
poetry for a Greenwich Village tour
lists guide in addition to contributing
to the New Leader. Mr.. Berenberg
seems to be in the grip of the famous
theory of misery" He confesses his
belief in the efficacy of any kind OF
activity at the present moment, hav-
ing for it's aim the rehabilitation of
the working class.
DUT Berenberg has his political
II field glasses on and his vision
pierces the future. He sees ter
rible industrial crash on the horizon
with the automobile industry the first
casualty. This means that hundreds
CT thousands of workers will be flung
on the slave market. Poverty WIN
drive them crazy, so they will look
around for an organization suitable to
their mental condition. In some way
or other they will hear about the
Workers (Communist) Party. Per-
haps the ubiquitous Communists will
distribute literature among them!
THE result will be, prophecies Ber-
4 enberg, another wave of red raids,
patriotic hysteria, another crop of po-
iitical prisoners, broken heads, and
finally apathy. Now this is where the
socialists come in. When the workers
reach the apathetic stage they will
look around for an organization suit
able to their psychological condition,
ana they will learn about the exist
ence of the social party--perhaps from
fortune tellers. Then the socialist
party, iazzed up with a new injection
OF apathy, will show signs of life and
long era of peaceful progress will
have arrived. If this is not amusing
il is my fault.
DBRNARD SHAW would abolish
Christmss on the ground that the
living season Is an unbearable
ice and rebounds to the profit of
,dlord only. The trouble with
liz that he is an impractical
Continued on page p
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Borah Goods"

Borah Goods"
The declaration of Wheeler
came just after the administra-
ton was breathing more easily
after succeeding in quoting
Sen. Borah, chairman of the
senate committee on foreign
relations, who had previously
denounced the state depart
ment's action in Nicaragua.
Borah is now seen as closing his
eyes on the affair and is merely max
ing feeble statements to the state de.
partment. After a Conference" with
Coolidge and Kellogg, Borah made
the statement that "the landing Of
troops was apparently o. X, but we
must not be tricked into interven-
ton"
Vigorous Denunciation.
However, vigorous denunciations OF
the Washington governments policy
are reverberating thru Washington.
Even old-line senators are disguised
with the state department in what
they call its latest "bungle" and are
joining the criticism.
Senator King of Utah administered
Vitriolic attack on the governments
invasion of Nicaragua and denounced
the country's entire Caribbean policy.
This Is War"
Coolidge and Kellogg say that we
have not interviewed in Nicaragua"
he declared, "but nevertheless we
have troops there and we have no
business to have them there. That
is an act of war.
I'VE were not made to be the po-
licemen Of the world. II those coun-
tries want Internal waifare, that is
Continued on page -
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Especial to The Daily Worker)


CANTON, China, Nov. 81 t5y MaiI)
NO outstanding events marked the
final full week Of November, but
numerous reports from all the prov
inces now under nationalist control in
dictated that the general situation,
both from the military and the goIitl-
cal point Of view, was very favorable.
The processes for consolidating ma
tionallst control Of the Yangtze prov
inces were moving along rapidly and
efficiently.
Preparations were being made for
the important conference to be held at
Nanchang, the Kiangsi capital, be-
tween the ministers of the nationalist
government, who left Canton Novem-
Der II for the overland trip to that
place, and the military and political
officials in the field.
Summary.
Reports from the various provinces
as to the general situation may be
summarized as follows:
Hupeh Province.
The whole military situation in this
province has been greatly eased by
the accession of General Yang Sen OF
Szechuan to the nationalist forces.
With his position underlined, his army
was constant threat to western
Hupeh. This portion of the province
Continued on page A.
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srindeII Dies in Now York.

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Robert P.
Brindell. one-time car OF the building
trades industry of the Greater City,
died of tuberculosis today in the
Lenox Hill Hospital. He had been ill
virtually ever since his release from
the Great Meadow prison on Dec. 20,
1924, after serving three years and
nine months of the five-year sentence
following conviction for extortion.
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CHINA SURVEY
SHOWS POWER
OF CANTONESE
Kuomintang Principles
Are Spreading

NoTE-This is another dispatch
from the bureau Of information of
the department Of foreign affairs Of
the Canton revolutionary govern
ment in China, by which the readers
of The DAILY WORKER are given
direct, accurate information about
the events in China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-02

Every Worker should read The
American Worker Correspondent.
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The Daily Worker Flights:
For the Organization Of the Tn
organized.
For Labor Party.
For the 30 Hour week.
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r1BRNARD SHAW would abolish
Christmss on the ground that the
yiving season is an unbearable
ice and rebounds to the profit of
idlord only. The trouble with
is that he Is an impractical
Continued on page 81
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IN order to escape action OF the
eenafa
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Reports today sho1ced the cruiser Denrer at BlaefeIds
the flagship Rochester at Puerto CGbe7a the cruiser CIeUe
land from the latter port Rio Grande Bar the
cruiser Galveston at COriatO the reS coast and the
destroyer Barry Rio GrGnde Bar The destroyer Brooks
is at La Cejbd, Honduras, sohere local difficulties
required her presence temporarily.
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These men may be innocent of
robbery, but they ARE guilty of being
strike-leaders and rebels. Let them
die"
SACCO AND vANZETTI MUST
NOT DIE.
The coolies shout this slogan in the
slum streets of Canton. The London
workers >hurl it at the stolid British
lions who guard Trafalgar Square.
The blue-bloused gallant workers of
Paris scream the message into the
ears of frightened bourgeois riding
in : limousines. The sad-eyed heavy
proletarian mothers carry red banners
with this slogan through the squares
of Berlin and Hamburg. In Peru, in
Japan, in India, in Checko- Slovakia,
Australia, Africa, Soviet Russia,
wherever there is a factory, wherever
there is a peasant or worker who
has felt the lash of a boss, the cry
rises and falls:
SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST
NOT DIE!
The workers of the world remember
the Haynarket murders; that memory
is fixed for all time by the sacred
day called May First Now another
Haymarket martyrdom is in the max
ing, and for the same reasons. And
the workers have sent up a protest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-10
By MICHAEL GOLD.

lived for four years in New Eng
land. l remember the dull, drab tex
tile towns, where the workers lived in
shabby frame houses next to the rail
road tracks, and the bosses in fine
mansions on the hill.
I remember Harvard College, where
gilded youths swanked up to their
classrooms in Rolls-Royces, and dwelt
= $4,000 a year apartments on the
Gold Coast
/ remember the decayed aristocratic
odor that assailed one in certain high
New England circles, where pride of
family, and fear, narrowness, poverty
and sheer stupidity dwelt in the same
human bodies.
I remember q certain strike in the
little town of Plymouth, Massachu-
sets, where the Pilgrims first landed.
It used to be clean Puritan village
with austere lovely houses, and shaded
streets, and old-fashioned gardens,
and delicate cid ladies who read the
Atlantic Monthly and delved into gen
ealogy.
1t had been flooded by the new ris-
ing Mississippi of industrialism, and
when came Their one slushy freez-
ing January morning, l saw factories
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For New England is slipping indus
trially. The textile mills are being
moved south, where there is much
cheap, docile Anglo-Saxon labor. The
mill-owners blame the rebellious Ital-
ians and -Slavs for this decline, and
all of them say openly that Sacco and
Vanzetti must die.
They have chosen sthe frame-up
method for their revenge. 1t is a pc
culiarly American institution. Joe
Hill, the brave singer of the l. W. w.
harvest hands and lumberjacks was
disposed of that way; Tom Mooney
in California was picked off that way;
they almost got Ettor and Giovannitti
inc Lawrence in the same manner;
the frame-up has put out of the way
hundreds of others of our unknown
soldiers Of the proletariat.
Maybe it is American Puritanism
that reveals itself in this queer round
about murder method known as the
frame-up. Italy gave Fascismo to the
capitalist world; America has given
it the frame-up.
The Great War was a crash Of
that revealed all the inn
mense hypocrisy of the capitalist
peace.
The Sacco-Vanzetti verdict is an
other such revelation. In its stark,
cruel light the American workers can
see plainly that there is no justice in
this country-vthat there is only class
war and class justice.
Most neutral observers who have
read the evidence say that these men
are innocent. But the mill-owners of
say frankly:
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Whats What WoshirlSftonI
COAN, DETECTIVE WHO TRAILED OPPOSITION
SENATORS, NOW SPINS FANCFUL RED" YARN

WASHINGTON, Aug, (FP). =
The national capital had hoped that
the last had been smelled of the moi
some Blair Coan. But this handy
man of former Attorney General
Daugherty in perpetrating some of
his blacklist corruption, is back
again, dragging another dead cat be-
hind him. This time it is Blood
Money, a book which exposes the
plot against civilization known as
bolshevism."
A flashback Of Coan shows him in
the palmy days of Harding, Daugh-
erty and the little greenhouse on X
street, where Coan nearly wore a
groove in the threshold. He was the
back-alley politician who did Daugh-
erty's slickest sleuthing. About that
time two senators from Montana,
Walsh and Wheeler, were making life
miserable for Daugherty and his
pals, Albert B. Fall, E. L. Doheny,
Harry Sinclair, Edwin DENLY and
other pillars of Republicanism. 1t
was all over a matter of graft in the
Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil lease
cases.
Trailed Senators.
Coan was sicked onto Walsh and
Wheeler Go get 'em, snarled
Daugherty, and Coan, aided by de-
partment of justice money and 20
agents of William j. Burns bureau
of investigation, slid out to Montana
to "get the dirty" on the two senator's
He tried to hang a 1918 Butte cleo
ton scandal on Walsh and some In
dian reservation charges on Wheeler,
using all the well-known devices of
perjury, bribery and fraud, but to no
avail. Burns was fired from the de-
partment of justice by Daugherty's
successor. it is said, when he found
that federal detectives had been
working under Coan spying on Unit
ed States senators.
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but LABOR NEVER F0RGETS It's MARTYRS

and slums surrounding the dying cul-
ture.
There was strike in the cordage
mills of the town, led by the anarchist
Galleani. Two thousand exploited
Italians earning $12 a week, living
like cattle in miserable huts, had af-
fronted the fine sensibilities of the old
Atlantic Monthly ladies, and their
sons, the mill-owners, by going on this
strike
1 talked to some of these older
Americans. They resented the strike
as if it were q personal insult. They
felt that foreigners had no right to
strike>-that they ought e grateful to
the superior Anglo-SaXons. for per-
hitting them to live and work in a
free country.
/ remember how thoroughly scared
the Anglo Saxons seemed. There We're
hundreds of police concentrated for
some strange reason in the little town,
ard the newspapers were screaming
with headline alarms-the usual bomb
stories.
Galleani was a dignified old man,
with full white beard, and the be-
nevolent smile and bearing of pa
triarch. The Italians looked up to
him as to father The strike was
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Sells Blood Money"

Now Coan shows up with a book to
prove that he is still sleuthing
Blood Money, on sale, of course, for
real money, reveals that "Moscow
lis a huge psychopathic ward, domi-
mated by egocentrics, who, in the
United States, would be under obser-
walton by alienists or confined be-
hind the bars of asylums for the
criminal insane" Coan may even be
angling for a job in Kellogg's boil
shevik bogey-hunting state depart
nlent, to Judge by the blurb, which
continues: Special attention is given
to the far-flung relationships of the
red conspiracy. Its activities in the
Orient, and especially in Mexico,
Nicaragua and other hot spots in
this hemisphere are described"
There is no record that Coan made
his startling discoveries in Russia,
and so progressives are wondering
where he got his latest dope.
The New Bribery.
The interesting case of Charles C.
McChord is typical of a growing
type Of high government official. 1t
is chronicled of McChord that in the
year after he quit the Interstate
Commerce Commission he made ten
times as much as he did in ten years
of commission service. His salary
was $4,000 a year, and so it figures
out neatly that the Van Sweringen
brothers dizziest evnooa,,ts of from
zied railroad consolidation, paid him
at least 100000 for twelve months
services, Immediately after his resig-
nation.
The question arises, did McChord
make an undue sacrifice during his
ten years with the commission, or did
that service make him just so much
more valuable to the Van Sweringen
spectators.
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that will have reverberations as far
reaching as the Haymarket affair
No, Massachusetts, culture and in
dustry will not be revived by this
murder, gentlemen. Massachusetts
will be hated, America will be hated
by a world of millions. The South
executed John Brown for his protest
against Negro slavery. Eight months
later the Civil War broke forth.
There will not be Civil War in
this country within the next eight
months, nor maybe in the next eight
years. But there will be growth in
q certain feeling that is not very good
for Won, gentlemen, nor good for your
profits. Already boycott on Massa-
chusetts is proposed here; and labor
boycott in Europe on American goods.
Neither boycott may be effective.
Nothing may be effective just now,
as it was not in the Haymarket case,
nor as it seemed to be in Russia in
1905, or in France in 1785.
But Labor never forgets its mar
tyrs. And the future of Labor is the
future Of the world. And Labor, like
a giant with his back to the wall, is
shouting in dangerous accents all over
the world:
"SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST
NOT DEF
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: spontaneously A. f of L. had not
started it, nor even the 1. w. W. Con-
ditions had grown so bad that the
workers had marched out one morn
ing, and then sent for Galleani, whom
they all knew. That was all that was
ever done about organization; the
strike remained purely local.
Vanzetti was one of the leaders in
this strike. remember the tall, quiet
young Italian with his steady eyes,
his air Of simple courage and ideal
ism. He worked day and night, he
made speeches, he devised relief meth
DDS, he stood at Galleani's side when
the police threatened to assault the old
man.
1t was a curious strike, a kind of
family affair, the revolt Of peasants
who have been suddenly thrust into
factories, and have no sense of or
ganization
1t was kind of Passaic on q small
er scale, and though it was lost, the
Plymouth mill-owners never forgave
the few leaders involved. There is
always this bitterness in New Eng
land textile strike; the industry is
rotten from stem to stern. The mill
owners have the same dread of
strike that the Southern white has of
a Negro revolt. They know that with
so much corruption, decay and injus-
tice lying about the smallest match
may prove to be the brand that will
start conflagration.
Vanzetti was only an obscure and
hard-working lieutenant in that
strike; but he was the same faithful
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/ worker in other strikes; he was type
of immigrant the mill-owners hated,
resented and feared
Today they are having their re-
venge on him. They are determined
to kill the brave, quiet worker who
helped Galleani in the Plymouth
strike, who did his loyal share of the
work in other strikes, who never
swerved or grew discouraged in his
defiance of the immense, flag-wrap-
ped, feudal mill-owning autocracy of
New England. That has been Vanzet-
tbs real crime.
Boston was once the hub Of culture
in America, 1t was there the aboli-
zionist movement started, and that
the first native literature and philoso-
ply was brought to flower by Emer-
son, Thoreau, Holmes and others. To-
day President Lowell of Harvard is
symbol of all that has remained of
that culture. This naughty, mediocre
little man, living in kind of cultural
incest with other decayed specimens
of his group, has nothing left in his
heart but shabby pride of family
and a great poisoned hatred of the
immigrant workers-who in the eyes
of such as he, have ruined the ancient
beauty of cultured Massachusetts.
1t was fitting that he should be one
Of the hangmen Of the workers, Sacco
and Vanzetti. And it was also fitting
that Governor Fuller should be an
other-this rich man who sees the
profits of his state going down in
general industrial decadence.
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Supreme Sky Terror Hindered.

RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 9.-The
navy's plans for building super
lghter-than-air ship, three times the
size OF the ill fated Shenandoah, are
headed for the rocks, secretary. Of
the navy Wilbur indicated today. In
surmountable differences have arisen
between the department and the con-
tracing firm and unless congress can
straighten the matter out next session
the idea will be abandoned The
hitch has come over the question Of
whether or not the Goodyear Zeppelin
Company shall have a cost-plus con-
tract or build on, fixed basis.