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FUTURE DAYS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
Decisive Defeat of Macdonald
Forecasts Defeat of Reaction in
the American Labor Movement

To the list of reactionary refugees fleeing from the
wrath Of the workers they have ncensed and finding asylum
in imperas America the of Ramsay Macdonald must
be added.
The working class section of the Independent Labor
Party in its wrath and repudiaed Macdonald and his
policies by the astounding vote of 32 to 49, The verdict of
the working class delegates the Independent Labor Party
conference must be given the utmost consideration by the
American workers 1t marks phase in the develop
ment of the British labor movement expresses the rapid
swing Of the left the which has been going
since the general strike and which has given to the
whole world by its reputation of Macdonald notification
that it intends purge the ranks of labor of the leadership
responsible for the betrayal of the miners and the whole
labor movement.
The main indictment of Macdonald seems to have been
made by Fenner Brockway secretary of the l. L. p who
at the Brussels Conference Against Colonial Oppression
represented the party officially.
Brockway charged Macdonald with aiding British i'm
periasm and to anyone who has been following the Mac
Donadtes policy is that the late leader of the l. L.
has been of the greatest aid to the tory campaign of
gression in China.
The Daily Teegraphs Picking correspondent able to
reports for instance. that MacDonads uerances earn
appreciation here and the mperiaist sheet could
edtoay that eve able to quote Macdonald with salts
faction"
On January 81 when the decision of the imperial mill
conferences to send warshp and troops to China had
been made when troops already embarng their
mission of slaughter Macdonald endeavored to quiet
protest by writing in the official of the British labor
party, the Daily Herald:
at may be assumed that there is intention whatever
of any Western foreign Eastern fighting the Canton
army. 1t is not there the danger lies"
Macdonald Tin company with other reformis leaders of
his party gave unqualified endorsement to the Chinese
memorandum of the foreign offcea typical example of
Shiny British imperalst diplomacy. Macdonald INDUCED in
explanatory ricism in prang this documena document
which part of foreign office to halt
protest and gain time gunboat and troop ship
ments Admirable admirable excellent, said
Macdonald.
During his term as premier Macdonald sent gunboats
China and wrote official letter to the Indian Nationalist
Continued Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
4 Forward" Crimes
To Be Related at
3 Meetings Sunday

Spokesman for the American and
Jewish labor movement in New York
will tell how the Jewish Daily For
ward has been betraying the inter-
ests of the workers during many years
in three separate halls next Sunday
afternoon at o'clock,-The Central
Opera House, 9th St. and Third
Ave-; New Star Casino, 10th St.,
and Park Ave; and Manhattan Ly-
ceum, sc East 4th st.
Will Expose Forward"
Precisely at that hour, too, j. RAM
say Macdonald, just repudiated by
the influential Independent Labor
Party of Great Britain, will be the
guest of honor" of the Forward"
which is celebrating the Both year of
it's existence.
Macdonald, who declined to COM
ment on the notorious Sacco-Vanzetti
decision on the pretext that he
doesn't want to interfere in Amer
lean internal politics." has been
brought here by the Forward" and
the reactionary trade union officials
and socialists to assist the white
guard, Kerensky, in the campaign to
gloFify treason to the working class.
Indifferent to Verdict.
MacDonald's GOODNESS toward the
fate of the two framed-up Italian
workers is all the more remarkable
in the face of the protests against
the verdict sent to Gov. Fuller Of
Massachusetts by practically all lead
ers of his own party in the British
parliament.
A large number of speakers will
offer testimony giving exact details
of the consistent treachery of the
Forward" in its relation to the work
ers of America, and particularly Of
New York.
Many Crimes Listed.
The indictment against the yellow
sheet presided over by Abraham
Cahan, contains a large number Of
important counts. Included among
them are: The treachery to cloak
makers in 1912 by che Forward
the "Bisnow affair."; the Hour
witch affair" in 1884; the General
Strike of 1916; the struggle of the
operators in 1918; the campaign
against the waist-makers in 1920; the
campaign against joint agreements in
1922; in the campaign of the Joint
Action Committee in 1925; the gen.
eral strike Of 1926, the treachery of
the forward" toward the furriers
during the strike of 1926.
Behind Move to Jail Gold.
This eliminated in the present at
tempt to railroad Ben Gold and the
10 other leaders of the furriers to
prison, together with 40 other active
Continued on Page TqVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
HIGH CHURCHMEN
DEMAND QUIZ ON
.SACCO, VANzETTI
Labor Turnout Country
Insists on Freedom

BOSTON, April 18-Bishop Will
lam Lawrence of the local Episcopal
diocese and four other prominent Bos-
tonians today joined in asking Gov.
Alvan 7. Fuller to name a commits
sion to inquire into all the vital facts
of the case of Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, framed-up Ital-
ian workers now facing possible death
in the electric chair.
Included among the signers with
Bishop Lawrence were Roland W.
Boyden, F. w. Tassig, Henry J. Burr,
and Charles 7. Curtis, Jr.
Boston Labor Demands Quiz
Organized labor of Boston has
joined in the demand for the freedom
Of Sacco and Vanzetti with a reso-
luton just adopted by the Central
Labor Union here calling upon Gov.
Fuller to stay their sentence, and to
have a commission appointed to re-
view the evidence in the case, and to
free them if the committees findings
favor the defendants.
Resolutions Pour in on Governor
DOWELL, H., April 18.-Resolu-
tons have been adopted by Local 3703,
United Mine Workers of America, de-
handing the unconditional release"
of Sacco and Vanzetti.
CLEVELAND, April 1s.-Resolu-
tions were last night adopted by the
Cleveland local of the American Negro
Labor Congress eondemning the YER
dict in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti,
and demanding their immediate re-
lease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
MINERS RESENT
SUPPRESSIONOF
MASS PICKETINC

NEW EAGLE, Pa, April 1S.-The
coal and iron police company police
operating under sanction of the stated
and the Pennsylvania state constabu-
larry continue to break up picket lines.
The miners as continually reform
them.
Local Union No. $50, of the United
Mine Workers of America, has passed
and made public a resolution which
expresses the feeling of the working
class section of this community,
against the action of the sheriff in
issuing an order against picketing.
The miners feel that to permit the
scabs to operate in numbers of any
amount, and to allow whole companies
Of coal and iron police to parade the
highways, and at the same time TO
permit pickets to go in couples only,
never so much as three together, is
putting it on rather strong.
Their resolution points out that the
miners fiaht for nothing more than
living wage and bearable working
conditions, and says:
Whereas, the sheriffs of Allegheny
and Washington Counties posted no.
tees throughout the counties prohibit
ing picketing Of the scab mines ex-
cept in groups of not more than two,
and
Resolved, that we Local Union ESQ
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea of New Eagle, Pa, protest against
this action of the sheriffs of Allie
gheny and Washington counties aud
request that their order be withdrawn
and that the scab mines be allowed
to be picketed by the union men on
strike, and be it further
Resolved, that mass meetings be
allowed to be held by the unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
SPY SWEARS USE
.SCAB UNIONS TO
"GET" BEN COLD
Have No Success With
Oral "Confession"

When detective, accompanied by a
stool pigeon, is looking "for informa-
ton" about members of the New
York Joint Board of the Furriers'
Union he visits the two scab unions
Greek headquarters, formed by the
reactionary A. F. Of L. leaders from
the old company union; and the Inter
nationals "ten cent" union formed of
all the old gangsters and other dis
credited leaders who were driven out
of the union by the workers.
Dick" Testifies.
This was the testimony of Detec-
tive Benjamin Grebe of Nassau coun-
ty who was a witness for the prose-
cution yesterday when the trial of
Ben Gold, l. Shapiro, S. Mencher and
s other fur workers for an alleged
assault during last years strike, was
resumed before Judge Lewis j. Smith
in the court house at Mineola.
With Bernard Basoff, the stool
pigeon, who turned states evidence
and who over and over against last
Friday, and again yesterday, contra
dicted his testimony and stated that
he had deliberately lied at his former
trial, Detective Grebe came to New
York on number Of days hunting
for the fur workers whom Basoff
planned to identify.
Look For Information.
eve went thru the fur market be-
tween one o'clock and three" said the
detective in discussing the particular
day he was searching for Otto Len
hardt, Jack Schneider, Joseph Katz
and Joseph Weiss.
"Then when we did not find them
there we went first to the Greek
union, and then to the International"
"You went to the Greek union hunt
ing Jewish furriers? ?" asked Attorney
Henry Uterhardt.
Wanted Squealers.
mo, we just went for information.
II was before this testimony that
Detective Grebe, who with Basoff's
help, arrested Ben Gold, l. Shapiro,
S. Mencher, Jack Schneider, and Otto
Lenhardt, swore that every one of
these workers with the exception of
Gold confided to him, almost as soon
as they were arrested, that they had
taken part in the Rockville Center
trip during which an assault was said
to have been made on two brothers,
Michael and Jack Barnett. Gold, he
said, acknowledged that the raid took
place.
did you get these confessions in
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
Sen. Heflin Hits
Smiths Abb on
Catholicism Issue

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Gov.
AL Smiths reply to the Marshall
letter, while praised by numerous
commentators today, did not serve
to mollify his chief senatorial
critic, Senator j. Thomas Helm,
Of Alabama.
"Gov. Smiths statement is
evasive and unconvincing," said
the Alabama senator. at is, in
some of the essential questions
raised by Mr.. Marshall, in direct
contradiction to the teachings
of many of the popes and the
priests of the Roman Catholic
church. 1t was intended, of
course, to make a favorable i'm
preston for Gov. Smith on non
catholic citizens"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19

the majority of the Nationalist civil
ians, a large portion of the Nation
alist army and practically all of the
Kuomintang leaders. Whether or not
Chang will openly ally himself with
the Northern war lords is problem
for speculation here.
Leaders Oppose Chang.
That none of the leaders of the
Kuomintang attended the Marking
conference has been definitely ascer-
tanned. Not only the Communists in
the Kuomintang, but Sun Fo, son of
Sun Yat-Sen, Eugene Chen, Nation
alist foreign minister, Mrs. Sun Yat-
Sen, T. V. Soong, Nationalist min
lister of finance and Wang Chin Wei,
Sun Yat-Sen's disciple, have de-
nounced the Marking conference as
an attempt to split the Nationalist
movement.
Chang Kai-Shek, who has repre-
sented the interests Of the wealthy
bankers and industrialists in the
movement, has been led by personal
ambition to betray his party, it is be-
lieved. Since November Chang has
received more than S90,000,000 from
the Nationalist treasury for his
northern campaign for which he has
rendered no accounting.
The attempts of the Nationalist
leaders to curb his all-embracing
governmental activities and money
offered him by native industrialists
for suppressing labor unions are re-
ported to have been the causes of his
desertion.
The greatest Indignation has been
aroused here by reports from Nank-
ing that Hou Shao-hiu, a professor
in Shanghai University, was executed
in Marking on April 9th at Chiang's
orders. Professor Hou was we'll
known for his left wing sympathies.
In the meantime Chang Kai-Shek
is continuing his raids on labor
unions, Swallow reporting raids by
his troops resulting in the arrest of
the chairman of the General Labor
Union and ten other leaders. Reports
Continued on Page TiOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19

million individual lives-one-fifth
Of the population of the United
States and Canada"
This statement is perfectly true
and serves to show to what extent
the fraud Of industrial life insurance
has bees perpetuated upon the
understanding public in this coun-
try and Canada.
II the reader pays for his life or
endowment on insurance weekly basis
he is a defrauded victim of the "Big
Four" In view of the fact that there
are 90 million weekly payment
policyholders throughout the country
there is little chance that he is not
a victim. Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
CHANG KAI-SHEK ISOLATED FROM
MAJORITY OF KUOMINTANG PARTY
Treachery Causes Suns Family Nationalist
Leaders, Civilians and Soldiers to Oppose
BULLETIN.

April 1s.-A fvepower the Nationalist
Chinese practically complete and will be dispatched
obtained where the ministerial crisis
delaying approval o the final draft.
The ministers the five Pekng have been each sent
according infor-
nation from the foreign office tonight there will be difficulty
finding the which hits occasion expected
be joint document with the United States taking
SHANGHAI April 18.-General Chang Kai-Shek right
wing Nationalist general reported to be practically isolated
in his attempt to split the Kuomntang.
Although of the much-adversed "anti Boshevk"
conference Marking has yet reached this city, confidently
predicted that by the end of this week. Changs ambition will
lead him into open only with the Norheners but with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
Reed Gets Indigestion;
Cause of Adjournment
of the FOrd-SapirO Suit

DETROIT, April ia twenty
four hour adjournment was taken at
the $1,000,000 Ford-Sapiro libel suit
in federal court today because of the
Illness of Senator James A. Reed, chief
of Henry Ford's counsel.
Reed was stricken with acute indi-
gestion on a train nearing Detroit, as
he returned from weekend trip to
Washington.
The senator was hurried to a hotel
where physicians were called to at
tend him.
Counsel for Aaron Sapiro, so-called
cooperative king, agreed to the adj
journment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON.
Haley Fiske, the venerable presi-
dent of the gigantic Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, recently
made a most remarkable discovery.
He has come to the conclusion that
his "a million policyholders are all
capitalists. He says so in PAM
phlet to his defrauded customers en-
titled, "Your Rights as Capitalist"
Mr.. Fiske starts his opus on the
newer economics with this statement
of fact:
1.-THE Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company has in force more
than So million policies. insuring "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
big Four Insurance Directors
Elected by Fraud


The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of
Industrial" (weekly paymenD Insurance trust Precious
tces haze dealt a0ik the methods employed By the big Four
isusg mutdW assets to the benefit of the banks ohic
operate hand glove a0ith this powerful combine The Big Four
composed of the Metropolitan PRUDENTIAL John Hancock and
The Colonial Life Insurance Companies. Names prominent
financial and government circles haze figured largely the
series Charles Evans Hughes Governor Smith, Supt of
James Beha Charles NJ SchaOdb Adnson B. Hogh
and others among those present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
Hang Man to Settle Argument.

DELAND, Fla, April 1s.--Charlie
Brown, alias Pisselli, was hanged in
the county Jail yard here today for
the murder Of Hotard Usher, Day
tona Beach taxicab driver.
Sheriff Stone, after the execution,
wired Browns mother, Mrs. Rigsio,
in Brooklyn, N. Y, to learn what dis
position she wanted made Of the body.
1t marked the last legal hanging
in Volusia county and probably in the
state. Several times Brown narrowly
missed electrocution in the state pris-
on at Raiford, each time stay being
granted on the ground that at the
time he was sentenced to die in the
electric chair, hanging was the legal
medium Of execution in Florida. =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
German Communist Youth
And Red Front Fighters
Meet Ruthenberg Ashes

HAMBURG, April Isl. Louis
Engdahl, conveying the bronze urn
containing the ashes of Charles E.
Ruthenberg for burial in front of
the Kremlin wall in Moscow, was
met on landing here by delega-
ton from the Young Communists
congress and the Red Front or
CARNATIONS. A reception takes
place today in Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
New Japanese Premier
To Be Named Tomorrow

TOKYO, Japan, April ia new
Japanese premier will be appointed
Wednesday, it was expected today,
following the resignation of Heipiro
Wakatsuki and his entire cabinet.
Until the appointment of a success
sor, Wakatsuki will CONTINUE to serve
as premier.
The resignation Of the Wakatsuki
cabinet followed action of the privy
council in vetoing relief plans for the
Bank of Formosa
Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
Kiwar Pasha, Premier
OF Egypt, and Entire
Cabinet Leave Office

LONDON, April Is. The
Egyptian Government, headed by
Premier Kiwar Pasha, resigned to-
day, according to an exchange
telegraph dispatch from Cairo.
The Kiwar Pasha Ministry, in
which Kiwar Pasha, held the port
folios of premier, foreign minister
and minister of the interior, was
formed March Is, 1925.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
3 Million Chinese
To Be Represented
AtLabOr Congress

BERLIN, April 18.-(FP)-Three
million members of labor unions will
be represented in the 1927 trade
union congress in China, according to
Chen Kuen, general secretary of the
Chinese Seamen's Union, who de-
livered a lecture in Berlin on the
position and tendencies of this move
ment.
"On May 1, 1924" he said "the first
trade union congress was attended by
160 delegates representing 200 unions
of some 100000 members. At the
second congress, in May, 1925, the
trade unions had a membership of
$4,000. This congress was followed
by the founding of the Ali-Chinese
Trade Union Center. When the third
congress was held in 1926 the dele
gates represented 100000. This
years congress will represent 3,O0O,-
900 members.
With r. /. L. u.
"The All-Chinese Trade Union Cen
ter is affiliated with the revolution
airy Red international of Labor Union
1t has not the slightest sympathy
with pacifist or reformist principles.
However, a united front including
all the workers and the bourgeoisie is
absolutely necessary at the present
moment"
This statement was made before it
became evident that General Chang
Kai-Shek, backed by the southern
Chinese merchants and middle class
in general, would repudiate the radi-
cal aims of the All-Chinese Trade
Union Center and seek to crush the
growing power of the trade unions
in Shanghai, Canton and other cities.
WORKERSi PROTEST. AGAINST
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-19
CN1Y9ntEUentS
By T. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

THE Monday morning papers carried
several important and interesting
stories. From the point of view of
local or nationalist interest Alfred
4. Smiths reply to the question
whether allegiance to his church
might prevent his full allegiance to
the government of the United States
comes first. AL replied cautiously
and cleverly and convincingly. Al is
as patriotic as the best of them and
more so. AL is right. His allegiance
to his church does not conflict with
his duty to American capitalism.
A LFRED E. SMITH, whose reply to.
"A the leading question referred to,
was written by Jesuit hand, is as
loyal to his government as Mussolini
the former atheist is to the capitalist
class of Italy. Religion has no more
to do with the loyalty of capitalist
politician to the system on which he
fattens than has the religion of one
of Ford's slaves to do with his wage
scale. The catholic church is power
full ally of capitalism, not only here
but in all countries. 1t supported
feudalism with equal loyalty but
veered around like yacht under the
direction of good helmsman when
it saw that obstinate opposition to
the rising capitalist storm would
mean disaster.
VET All Smith may never occupy the
white house as president. We're it
q question of a show Of hands the
men AMI women who like their beer
and wine might give him a majority.
But there are more votes in the wide
open spaces than most people think.
And the millions who believe the pope
is out to overthrow perfectly good
capitalist government will not vote
for Al. And the fat boys in Wall
Street don't particularly care. Al
may be the wisest. available tool on
the political horizon but their system
is still sound and if four years from
the next presidential election the
social weather is stormy a popular
:ellOw like Al Will be still available
barring accidents,
A MOTHER sweet bit of news is the
n Shanghai dispatch that appeared
in the N. Y. World from Vincent
Sheean who was Morocco correspon-
dent for the Chicago Tribune until
he got himself fired for writing too
much of the truth. Sheean spills the
chop suey all over ng-Kai-Shek's
imperialist uniform and ties the can
to him, politically. According to
Sheean, Chang is deserter from the
Koumintang, a would-be war-lord
who thot he could ignore the party
and get away with it, AS it is he got
away with several millions of dollars
but is lucky if he retains his head.
Practically all the members of the
Koumintang executive are against
him and the great majority of the
army.
r. HIANG-KAI-SHEK staged a fake
" nti-Bolshevik drive as an excuse
TO break with the Koumintang party
and become the tail that wagged the
dog. But the Chinese masses know
that the Communists are the steel
rods that run thru their revolutionary
organization and keep it firm in its
purpose. In order to hold the favor
of the masses Chang had to mouth
anti-imperialist slogans much to his
disgust. Now he cannot serve the
imperialists and continue to agitate
the Chinese against the robber sys-
Continued on Page Three