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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
FITZGERALD BAND AGAIN
BE One OF Big FEATURES;
WILL BROADCAST TWICE
Miss Owens and Mr..
Stokoe Others on
The Program

Plans for the mammoth mo-
torcade to celebrate the COM
pletion of the Dixie Highway
from Perry to Atlanta, the
longest stretch of continuous
completed highways in the
state are practically completed
and the date set for May 25th
and 26th, with every communi-
ty along the route from Jack
sonville to Atlanta pledging
support and cooperation to [.
Gelders, secretary of the Cen
trail Dixie Highway, who is en-
gineering the project.
Atlanta, through the cooperation
of Fred Houser, of the Convention
! Bureau and secretary of the County
Commissioners association, is making
extensive plans TO entertain the
/ thousands of visitors who will parti-
! cipate in the motorcade.
! Through the courtesy of the Allan
ia Journal, on the evening of the 26,
! WSB- the broadcasting station of the
Journal will be given over to the
Fitzgerald Community Band, with its
sixty musicians and speakers to be Sc
Iected from the official family of the
! Dixie Highway association, to whose
untiring efforts the credit for the com
pletion of this route is due.
4 Vocal numbers will also be render
ed by Miss Marjorie Owens, contralto,
and Burr Stokoe, tenor, and perhaps
1 a selected quartette of Fitzgerald's
best songsters.
The motorcade, which starts at
Jacksonville, will assemble in Fitzger-
aid noon May 25th and after lunch
con for the official guests, the cara
van headed by the Fitzgerald Commu
nifty Band will leave for Hawkinsville,
and at Perry will be entertained with
barbecue by the citizens of Houston
county.
The party will motor to Macon ar
irving there about 8 p. M, where
broadcasting program has been ar
ranged for on WMAZ, the station of
Mercer University.
| Chamber of Commerce Host
! To Band
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
will be host to the members of the
band during their stay in Macon, ac-
cording to arrangements made with
Ed Pendleton, chairman of the high
way committee of the Macon Cham
Der of Commerce = Special enter
tainment features for the evening
will be arranged for the entire party
, accompanying the motorcade to the
Central City.
Leave Macon s a. m.
The motorcade will form in Macon
at eight A. NJ, and leave for Allan
ia, making short stops at Griffin,
Barnesville, Forsyth, Jonesboro and
Hapeville, where the Atlanta commit
tee will take charge of the visiting
autoists and escort them to Lakewood
park, where they will be the guests
of the Fulton County Commissioners
at a barbecue, for which the city is
noted.
First Cars for Motorcade
VIM. l. McCranie, popular mana
ger of the Dixie Bus line, has enter
ed his seven passenger Buick for use
of the Community Band on their trip
to Atlanta. Mrs J. H. Palmer and
Mr.. j. L. McCarty each will carry
some members of the band on this oc-
casion in their autos. 1t will require
about seventeen closed cars to carry
all of the members of the band which
will lead the motorcade and receive
special attentions on this trip. Reg
ister with the Leader if you desire to
volunteer for this patriotic service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
Soviet Union About to
Recognize Nationalist
Government Of China

MOSCOW, April 13.-Early rec
ignition of the Nationalist govern
ment in China by Soviet Russia
is possible, the Peoples Commits
sar for Foreign Affairs said to-
day.
Rumors are current here that
Japan also contemplates early rec
ignition of the Nationalists.
More than one hundred thousand
workers gathered before the big
theatcr where the Soviet Congress
is in session to demonstrate
against the provocatory raids on
the Soviet embassy at Picking.
Speakers declared that the at
tempts of the imperialist powers
to draw the IT, S. S. R. into a war
are doomed to failure. They voiced
their full approval of the peaceful
note sent by the Soviet government
10 Picking.
Kalinin, presiding at the con-
gress, declared that the imperialist
powers would find Russian workers
ready to defend the proletarian
state when the proper time came.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
BRITAIN HANDS
CHANG TSO LIN
HUGE WAR CHEST

PEKING, April 13.-The first in
stallment of Great Britain's reward
to Chang Tso Lin for his raids on the
Soviet embassy was paid in the form
of note for 100000 sterling.
1t has been definitely learned that
the note was handed to Chang by the
Shanghai-Hongkong Banking Corpor-
alton, which had in turn received it
from the British inspector general of
the Shanghai customs.
The situation at the Soviet con-
sulate at Shanghai remains unchanged
according to reports received here.
The local British press continues to
insist upon the occupation of the con-
sulate and the expulsion of the Kuo-
mintang from the settlement.
Oppose Intervention.
Denying the report that workers
contemplated any attack on the In
ternational settlement, and asserting
that the military preparations of the
British were for offensive rather than
defensive, the Shanghai Council of
Trade Unions issued public appeal
protesting foreign intervention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
CHINESE SEAMEN
ISSUE CALL FOR
COMPLETE STRIKE
Tell of Workers Shot
By Right Wing

SHANGHAI, April 13.-Approxi-
mately 100000 workers have answer
ed the strike call issued last night
to protest against the raids on the
labor union halls by right wing ele-
ments here.
Organized labor is fighting for its
right to hold meetings and to bear
arms, as we'll as to protest against
the raids on union halls and the exc
cution Of number of labor leaders.
Cotton mills, street car lines and
shipping have been completely tied
up by the strike. The postal serv-
ice, bus lines and stores have only
been slightly affected by the strike
thus far
In an appeal TO seamen and dock
workers to JOIN the strike, the Sea
mems Union says:
make haste, all Chinese on ships.
The workers of Shanghai have OBJ
tanned arms by the sacrifice of their
blood. These arms have been taken
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
WeiSbOrd Greeted
As Passaic Labor
Standard Bearer
Especial To The DAILY WORKER. }

Especial To The DAILY WORKER
PASSAIC, N. j., April 13.-The
announcement that Albert Weisbord
would be a candidate for city COM
missioner, running with the endorse
ment of the Passaic Branch of the
Workers (Communist) Party, was
greeted with one of the most re-
markable demonstrations in the his
tory of this city, at two large meet
ings held here tonight.
Speaking at meetings that jammed
Ukrainian Hall, President St., and
Hungarian Workers Home, Dayton
Ave-, to the doors, more than $500
workers, most of them textile work.
ers cheered Justify when Weisbord
appeared on the scene. Many more
were turned away.
Remove The Chairs.
When Weisbord reached Ukrainian
Hall, the workers who were standing,
the chairs having been removed SO
more workers could be accommo-
dated, as one man gave him an ova-
tion that rivaled those of the strike
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
Chinese Ask Aid Of U. 5.
Workers Against Terror
Reign by Chang TsO-lin

In a cable from Shanghai adj
dressed to The DAILY WORKER,
the Chinese Aid Society appeals to
American friends Of the Chinese
liberation movement to help save
northern Nationalist leaders from
death at the hands of Chang Tso
Lin, Manchurian war lord. The
cable follows:
Shanghai, April IS. - Ii Tai
Chow, Chinese Nationalist leader,
and many students who have been
arrested in Picking by Chang Tso-
lin face execution. Their only crime
is sympathy for the Chinese liberia
ton movement.
Protest meetings are being or
ganized throughout southern China.
We appeal to our American friends
to protest against Chang Tso-lin's
terrorism; to demonstrate against
the attempt of Chang, who is back
ed by the foreign powers, to drown
the Nationalist movement in a sea
of blood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
VICTIM OF RED"
HYSTERIA FREE
AFTER 5 YEARS
US Thwarted in Desire
To Deport Engineer

The details of one of the most
brutal examples of American post
war red-baiting hysteria were learned
last night by The DAILY WORKER.
Nicholas j. Kamisaroff, d, me-
chanical engineer, and temporarily
living at 81 West 124th St., is now
free after more than five years of
confinement az hard labor at the New
Jersey state penitentiary in Trenton.
Hysteria Victim.
Kamisaroff. at the time a member
of the Novy Mir branch of the social
list party, was arrested in Jersey City
on May Day, 1922, charged with
criminal anarchy" An active mem
Der of the international Association
of Machinists' Union, Kamisaroff had
been making talks before Russian
workers at clubs, forums, and at street
meetings.
Held Incommunicado.
Held incommunicado in $4,000 bail
for more than nine months, Kamisar-
off, was not permitted to communicate
with friends nor to attempt TO retain
counsel. He was assigned to defend
him former district attorney of Sus-
sex county, the county in which he
was being tried.
Induced to plead "guilty" on the
promise of the state prosecutor that
he would receive "a light sentence,
and maybe a suspended sentence"
Kamisaroff drew down upon himself a
sentence of from Az to Z years at
hard labor in the state penitentiary.
Can't Deport Him.
Last April, according to Kamisaroff.
inspectors of the u. S. department of
labor visited the penitentiary and
questioned him with the view to ar
ranging his deportation to Soviet Rus
STA, where he was born. When he was
released from prison. after serving
the minimum sentence, Kamisaroff
was handcuffed and sent to the u. S.
detention prison at Gloucester, N j.,
pending his deportation.
1t has been impossible to deport
Kamisaroff to Soviet Russia, inasmuch
as that government will not accept
deportees from this country. The
present lack of diplomatic relations
between the two countries also make
it difficult to exchange courtesies of
this kind.
The government thwarted in this
respect, Kamisaroff was finally re-
leased on March 10th.
In U. S. Many Years.
The victim of the Americanization
program Of the United States came
to this country in 1906, when he was
rs years old. Since that time, and
up to the time that he was railroaded
to Jail he was employed by a number
of large corporations in this city, in
GLIDING the Mechan Engineering Co.,
Robert Howe Co., E. w. Bliss, Amer
lean Foundry and Machine Co., and
the American Can Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
By T. ]. O'FLAHERTY.

THE average American is Just
beginning to learn that there is
such place as China. But he does
not know what all the fighting is
about. Frederick Moore, Shanghai
correspondent of the New York
Times tells him that the Soviet Union
is back of the trouble. If he is a
one hundred per center he believes it.
If he is not that, and does not read
the DAILY WORKER he wants to be
informed And there are millions of
American workers who want to be
told the truth.
THE biggest news is coming from
China today. There is the cockpit
of the battle between Imperialism and
labor or between the economic sys-
tenn that is based on the exploitation
of the many by the few versus the
many led by a few of the many who
wish to transnose things and estab-
lish a social order where the pro-
ducers will dominate. Surely nobody
will seriously advance the theory that
the non-producers should rule the
producers. Thousands of American
wage slaves believe that United
States gunboats are anchored in the
Whangpoo River to protect Ameri-
can citizens from the revolutionary
Chinese. If they knew that those
gunboats were stationed there to pro-
tect the investments of Wall Street
bankers they would not be so enthu-
siastic about endorsing the belligerent
attitude of the government towards
China.
THEY don't. Thinking is not among
the five leading industries of the
United States. If the working class
were addicted to think there would
be no need for column of this ma
ture. They are not. They have been
trained to have their thinking done
for them. The priests do it for them.
The newspapers do it for them. +
know people in this city who would
do penance if they were compelled to
read the New York Tribune instead
Of the New York World. For the
special benefit of those who were not
brought up in the catholic faith,
penance means saying a prayer to
Continued on Page Tsoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
Arrests Made For
Aiding SaCCO and
vanzetti Protest

For walking with signs announcing
the Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting in
Union Square next Saturday after
noon, Annie Sasnovsky and Lizzie
Brilliant were arrested this after
noon on a charge of disorderly con-
duct.
Arrested In Fur Market.
When they were arraigned in JEFF
ferson Market Court, they weer given
suspended sentence and told by the
judge not to go to such crowded sec
tions as 7th Avenue and 36th Street
where the arrest occurred. Doubtless
they were taken into custody-altho
they were acting entirely within the
law-because they appeared in the fur
market where virtual martial law has
been established.
The girls were carrying sandwich
signs on one side Of which it said,
Protest Demonstration, Saturday,
April 16, D. m. at Union Square"
On the reverse side were the words
"Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die;
"Sacco and Vanzetti we are with you
to the end"
Greatest City Demonstration.
Thousands Of leaflets in English,
Jewish, Italian, Spanish are being dis
tributed by workers in the shops and
factories, and near their places of
work. This is to be the greatest out
door labor demonstration ever held in
this city. There will be four speakers
platforms in Union Square, and prom
inent men and women from the ranks
of labor, and from liberal and radical
organizations will voice their protest
against the sentencing Of Sacco and
Vanzetti, and will raise the demand
for new trial.
Saturdays mass meeting is being
by the Sacco-V anzetti Emer-
gency Committee, representing over
100000 organized workers.
"There is not the slightest doubt
of the innocence of Sacco and Van
zetti," says John Van Vaerenewyck,
the Massachusetts, FEEDER
alton of Labor. "Organized labor
demands that their lives be saved"
The Bay State trade union leader
knows the Sacco-Vanzetti case from
to end. His interest began
in 1922 when he was making an In
vestigation Of the case for the fed
GRAFTON. He visited Lola Andrews,
star witness for District Attorney
and heard her break down
and sob and confess that she had lied
when she identified Sacco as one Of |
The automobile bandits in front of
he South Braintree shot factory. !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
HUNDRED THOUSAND SHANGHAI WORKERS STRIKE
Organizing New Local
OF Miners Union in
MOundsviIIe, West Va.

DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio, April
ia meeting of 300 morgan
lied miners was held here, just
across the river from Moundsville,
w. Va. The meeting was held in
Ohio to avoid an attack by West
Virginia police.
The miners took up a collection
of $16.85 to help pay for the char
ter of a new local, United Mine
Workers of America.
Among those who spoke at the
meeting were William Cooper, j.
]. House and J. l. Powell, MEM
bers of Local 1856, United Mine
Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
WALL STREET BEHIND BIC four"
INSURANCE SWINDLING OF WORKERS
Company Official Exposes Big Grafters; Gov
ernor Smith Silent on Huge Fraud
Previous Events of Insurance Expos6

The tonong the fourth of series of articles urteu for
DALY WORKER exposing the fraud of Industrial (oeely
P"9m) Je insurance. The attack centers the Big Four
e. We metropolitan, PRUDENTIAL John and Colonial
Ve lSne~ce Companies This powerful combine supposedly
m"a IS IN reality the most corrupt quapubHc service
90@o@ mat ever dtSgrGced country The Big
np0ordS OF 40 million American 0orkrS Huge reserve funds
reoetg the property Of uuuap pocyhoderS actually
pate6 6y and for the benefit of crooked Wall Street gang
h9 fGncsers Names prominent IN the expose Charles
NJ Schwa6 Charles Evans Hughes ex-senator William J. T
Haley FGSke, Joseph p. Day and Others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
GOLD and OTHERS
ON TRIAL today;
ALL HANDCUFFED
Courageous Message to
Fellow Unionists

The ten fur workers whose trial
begins at Mineola, L. l., this morning,
have been held in Jail since Monday
at the request of a high official Of
the New York police department, so
Elvin Edwards, district attorney of
Nassau County, told Judge Stephen
Callahan of the supreme court in
Brooklyn yesterday.
According to Mr.. Edwards, the po-
lice official asked for this imprison-
ment because workers were being
prevented, by these members of the
Furriers' Joint Board, from register
ing with what he thinks is the legally
constituted union-the scab office of
the International Fur Workers
Union.
Why The Police?
Just why New York police Of
ficer should be concerned with the
problem of union registration of fur
workers was not explained.
Probably the reason could be made
clear by the members of the special
A. F. of L. investigating and reor-
ganization committee, Matthew Woll,
Edward F. McGrady and Hugh
Frayne. 1t was they who boosted re-
Gently that they had the full CO.
operation of the New York police in
their job Of "dissolving" the Joint
Board of the Furriers' Union.
Threats of Jail.
1t is also this infamous trio who
prophecied several weeks ago that
they would very soon have the Joint
Board leaders in Jail, a few Joint
Board members deported, and then
the fight would be over.
They are doing their best to carry
out this threat; helping the capitalist
court to create an atmosphere of
prejudice and hostility which they
hope will lead to the conviction of
these fur workers who are loyal to
the union.
Handcuff Unionists.
Each day Ben Gold and the other
workers are brought into the court
room handcuffed. 1t is another
Sacco-Vanzetti case in the making.
When Henry Uterhard, attorney
for the furriers, urged yesterday that
the trial be transferred from Mineola
because of the prejudice of the court,
Supreme Court Judge Callahan ruled
that he considered Judge Lewis J.
Smith of Nassau County fully able
to conduct the case.
Mr.. Uterhard pointed out that Dis
trict Attorney Edwards had delivered
an impassioned speech against the
defendants, last Monday when he was
arguing for withdrawal of bail, when
the panel of prospective jurors were
in the courtroom.
"Oh, we can call another jury
panel" said District Attorney Ed
wards yesterday.
"Well, will your" asked Uterhard.
well see about that later"
And then the case was ordered
back to Mineola.
Yet in the midst Of this hostile en-
vironment sit Ben Gold, l. Shapiro,
5. Mencher, Otto Lenhardt, ]. Katz,
J. Weiss, Martin Rosenberg, Maurice
Leo Franklin, j. Schneider,
ready to face this court, and the A.
Z. Of L. reactionaries who brought
hem there, with the same courage
hey have shown thruout their whole
light to save the Furriers' Union
Continued on Page Firs) j
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
Storm Kills Spanish Sailors.

MADRID, April 13. Enormous
damage has been done along the coast
near Alhucemas and twenty sailors
have been drowned, during a cyclone,
according to official advices received
here today.
The cyclone has wrecked many
small crafts and land communication
lines have been disrupted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
CONSERVATIVES
OF WASHINGTON
SPLIT ON CHINA
Many Dislike Coolidge's
Trailing of Britain
By LAURENCE TODD.
Federated Press).

WASHINGTON.-What does Presi-
dent Coolidge mean when he says, in
the Joint note of the foreign powers
to the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment: "Unless the Nationalist au-
thorities demonstrate to the satisfac-
ton of the interested governments
their intention to comply promptly
with these terms, the said govern
ments will find themselves compelled
to take such measures as they con-
slider appropriate?
When the powers were about to
pounce upon China in reprisal for the
Roxer killings and lettings a genera
ton ago, John Hay, then secretary of
state, sent note warning the powers
that China must not be treated as a
conquered country. Since that time
American prestige in China has been
relatively high-until Kellogg and
Coolidge fell in line with British pol
icy in this Marking ultimatum.
Post Criticizes.
In an editorial expressing bitter dis
appointment at the failure of the ad-
minstration to take friendly and in
dependent attitude toward China, the
otherwise reactionary Washington
Post says:
Secretary Kellogg has made seri-
Gus mistake--a mistake that may have
appalling consequences-in associat-
ing the United States with other pow
ers in making demands upon the Chin
csc. The Chinese people, both north
and south, cannot but regard the
United States as arrayed with the
other powers against them.
People Will Object.
"The United States in dealing with
China has nothing in common with
other powers. It's interests are not
their interests, and it's purposes are
not their purposes. They may resort
to force if they wish-the United
States cannot resort to force without
arousing furore of protest from the
American people,"
When the White House spokesman
was asked whether he would take Joint
or separate action, if the threat had
to be made good, he replied that he
anticipated that the Chinese would
make a satisfactory response, and so
he had not considered further meas
ures.
Administration Bluff.
Administration press agents have
spread the story that Kellogg and
Minister MacMurray persuaded the
British to abandon their plan Of
threatening an immediate blockade Of
Chinese ports held by the Nationalists.
Politicians and diplomats in Wash
ington say that the fact is that Cool
idge, Kellogg and MacMurray have
been used by the British as agents
for an attempt to ruin the National |
SITS and to "save face" for the British
IN the Orient.
It is held significant that the Joint !
demand upon the Nationalist by the !
British and their associates did not
'rovide for investigation as to whether
he Nationalists were in fact respon-
'ible for the outrages against for !
'igners in Marking. 1t is also pointed |
nut that if the Nationalist had want
ID to kill the foreigners they could
ave exterminated them all within a
ew minutes. Instead, after the first
mob violence, most of the foreigners
vent out unframed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
SACCO vANzETTI
DRIVE URGED BY
BOSTON WORKERS
So College Teachers Ask
New Trial

BOSTON, April 13.-With the an
nouncement that the Central Labor
Union of this city will take action on
the Sacco-Vanzetti case at a special
meeting called for the purpose next
Sunday, organized labor throughout
Massachusetts is being modified in
an effort to save the two framed-up
Italian workers from the electric
chair.
College Teachers In Protest.
Gov. Fuller today received a peti.
ton signed by Mary S. Wolley, press-
dent, and 81 members of Mt. Holyoke
College asking him to appoint an inn
partial commission to investigate the
vital facts in the case of Nicola Sacco
and Bartholomew Vanzetti. Hundreds
of other messages,-cables, tele-
grams, and letters,-are continuing
to pour into the executive chamber,
urging new trial for the two VIC
Tins of class verdict.
Swedes Demand Justice.
The Swedish social democratic Ia
Dor party today appealed TO Gov.
Alva I. Fuller to pardon Sacco and
Vanzetti.
The Swedish message, received hy
radio and signed by Hanson Moeller
of Stockholm, said:
THE Swedish social democratic la
Dor party, the greatest political party
in Sweden, joins with those who are
convinced that Sacco and Vanzetti
are innocent and have appealed to
you to prevent the execution and
thereby also prevent a deep offense
OF the general sense Of Justice"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-14
Injunction Forbids Strike

CONVICTION, Ky. (FP)-Under a
temporary injunction union carpen-
tiers, sheet-metal workers, brick
layers, hodcarriers and painters are
forbidden to strike the Covington
high school job. The sheetmetal
workers international is also named.