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10 s. STEAMER STRANDED.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 4. - The
American steamer Schenectady" Of
Philadelphia, was stranded on the
rocks at Vinga, near Gothenberg, to-
day.
Salvaging tugs and ships have
rushed to her assistance.
The Schenectady" left Gothenberg
Tuesday on her way to New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Soviet Union Plan
For Next Year Out;
Industrial Advance
U.S.S.R. NATIONAL ECONOMY IN
1928.

The State Planning Commission of
the U.S.SR. has published draft con-
troll figures (orientation plan) of the
national economy of the Union for
the financial year 1929.
Although all the possibilities of the
postwar reconstruction period are
exhausted and the economic develop
ment of the U.S.S.R. has been pro-
ceeding at a rapid rate during the
last few years, we can say that the
Forthcoming year will witness a still
more rapid development of national
economy as a whole as well as in its
separate branches, which means con-
siderable consolidation of national
economic power.
INDUSTRY.
Compared with 1926-27, there is to
be a 17.6 per cent increase of pro-
duction in 1929. This increase is
possible owing to big capital expen-
diture during the last two years,
which is to be continued in 1929.
In regard to value, the production
Of manufactured articles will increase
only 1927 per cent, because it is pro-
posed to reduce in the coming year
the cost of production by as per cent
and wholesale selling prices of manu-
featured articles, 6.1 per cent.
LABOR.
The Supreme Council of National
Economy expects the average yearly
increase of workers in the big indus
try to be, from 1,983,00O this year to
2,O34000 in 1929, or 2.7 per cent
Productivity of labor is expected
to increase 1873 per cent, and wages
6 per cent.
1t is proposed to raise designations
for the protection of labor from 31.3
million roubles this year to 34.6 mil
lion roubles, or 10.5 per cent.
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION.
1t is proposed to invest in the
Forthcoming year $500 million
roubles in capital construction, an in
pared with the current year.
crease of 800 million roubles, COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05

Articles and stories by people who
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Otto Soglow
TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED
Joseph Freeman
JOHN REED AND THE REAL
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Michael Gold
LAND AND BREAD AND PEACE
Drawing
William Chopper
ANOTHER UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Rose Strunsky
IENIN WAS AN ENGINEER
Max Eastman
REPRODUCTION OF RUSSIAN
LITHOGRAPH POSTER
10 YEARS RUSSIAN MOVIES
Ernestine Evans
WHAT ABOUT THE
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H. N. Brailsford
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Robert w. Dunn
CLASS WAR BULLETINS
Anna Rochester
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
Fitzpatrick and
Nelson Break On
Chicago Elections

CHICAGO, April 1.-Two stall
warts of reaction in the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor, John Fitzpatrick
and Oscar Nelson, have split because
of the frenzied struggle being waged
between Mayor Dever, democrat, and
William Hale Thompson, republican
former mayor. Fitzpatrick supports
Dever, who is also supported by
Thomas E. Donnelly, proprietor of
the notorious scab printing firm of
Donnelly G. Sons, and also head of
the open-shoppers in this city. 1t
was Donnelly and his Citizens Com
mittee" who organized against the
building trades workers and put
over the infamous Lands Award"
Nelson supports Thompson, under
whose administration the open shop
drive against labor was launched in
Chicago.
Divide Like open Shoppers"
The agents of the employers at the
head of the Chicago Federation of
Labor are thus divided along the
same lines as the employers them
selves. Some of the scabby "Citi-
zens' Committee" support Thompson
while on Dever's campaign committee
there are the names of 81, seven of
these organized labor haters.
At yesterdays meeting of the Fed
Grafton there was an exceptionally
large crowd on hand, expecting the
fight between Fitzpatrick and Nelson
to break out in open hostilities.
After a few parties, Nelson made a
motion to adjourn the meeting, there
by avoiding bringing the issue before
the delegates of the various unions
represented.
Vincent "Schemer" Drucci, leader
of the powerful northside beer gang,
was shot and killed by policeman
late today in the first Of a series of
election roundups.
Drucci was arrested in front of the
Commonwealth Hotel by a squad of
policemen. He made an attempt
to get his gun and Detective
Dan Healy shot him dead.
Drucci, who was said to be a sup
porter Of William Hale Thompson,
republican, was believed to have lined
up his henchmen to create havoc at
the poll tomorrow. The police sup
port Dever.
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IMPERIALISTS THREATEN TO lombard HANKOW
Fur Workers Held
Upon $4,000 Bail
On Framed Charge

Oscar Meiliff, an active member
of the Furriers' Union was held in
$4,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate
Silverman in Jefferson Market
Court charged with "felonious as
sault."
The case is declared by members
of the union to be the most notori-
Gus and obvious frame-up since the
reactionary right wing officials of
the international, the fur manu-
facturers and the police joined
hands to smash the Joint Board.
Meiliff was arrested and brought
before Judge Silverman on the
flimsiest sort of evidence" the
charge against him being the re-
suit of an international stool-pigeon
named Weiner pointing him out
to member Of the industrial squad
in the fur market yesterday, and
saying, "that man threatened to
attack me-"
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made against the Empros which is
a powerful weapon, especially in
waging the fight of the Greek
workers in the fur industry, and
also in the hotel industry where
the Greek workers predominant.
But Empros also wages the strug-
gle of the Greek workers in the
steel, coal and other great indus
tries. The drive develops, not only
to establish the Empros as a sue
cessful Greek Weekly in New York
City, but TO build it into a Daily,
by May list If possible. The DAILY
WORKER greets the arrival Of its
brother organ, the Empros, in New
York City. II halls the growth of
the Weekly Empros into a DAILY
EMPROS in the very near future.
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Labor Daily Secs Biz War

wing chief, in political matters, the
military arm of the government be-
ing entirely subordinate to the poll
teal government.
The general had a lengthy confer
ence with Wang. Chang stated that
he would be fully engaged from now
on with the campaign against the
northern militarists.
The Usual Lying.
The imperialist correspondents with
their customary disregard for facts
construed Chiang's submission to the
authority Of the Kuomintang as a
maneuver designed to bring Wang
over to his side. The fact is that
Chang, if he ever had any intention
Of breaking with the party now
realizes that his position would be as
precarious as that of any northern
general if he betrayed the confidence
reposed in him by the 100000 mem
bers of this powerful and remarkable
organization which has branches in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
FUR UNION RIGHT
WING GIVES BOSS
ALL HE CAN WANT
Trades Away Workers
Rights For Support

Charges that the reactionary Of
ficials of the international Fur
Workers Union in agreements just
made with the fur bosses had for
feited the rights of workers that it
had taken years to achieve in return
for cooperation in smashing the
Furrriers' Union, were made yester-
day by Ben Gold, manager of the
Joint Board.
For aid to be given the entrenched
officialdom of the International in
their efforts to force registration of
workers the bosses are to have the
right of "piece work" and standards
of production" Wage schedules will
also be determined by the manu-
facturers, it is charged, with the re-
suit that the influence of the workers
on the job will finally disappear.
Leaflet Explains.
Precise details of the deal made by
the, officials of the International and
the bosses are contained in a leaflet
which will be distributed in the fur
market today by the Joint Board.
Gold Offers Test.
Ben Gold, manager of the Joint
Board of the furriers' union, in an
swer to the assertions of Edward F.
McGrady, Of the Especial reorgan-
ization committee" of the A. F. Of L.
that the Defense Committee of one
hundred "is being used to shield
gangsters and not to defend indicted
and imprisoned strikers" challenged
him, Matthew Woll and President
William Green to produce evidence to
prove that the Joint Board officers
ever employed gangsters since they
entered office.
Should they establish the truth of
these assertions, the officers Of the
Joint Board will resign at once, ac-
cording TO Gold.
Ready To Prove Case.
eve are prepared to prove to any
impartial committee" he said, "that
all of its prisoners are honest work
ers, working in fur shops for years.
These workers have all been active in
the strike, and were arrested as a
result of the direct Indictment and
frame-up of McGrady and his asso-
GATES" ......
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
SapirO Admits Half
Million Farm Craft
Before Detroit Jury

DETROIT, April 4.-Nearly half a
million dollars in fees is the sum
already revealed to have been paid
Aaron Sapiro, on his own admissions
in federal court here where he is
suing Henry Ford for libel because
of series of articles published in
Ford's paper, the Dearborn indie
pendent.
Continuing his testimony before the
jury in the case, Sapiro admitted, un-
der cross examination of Senator A.
Reed, chief of Ford's counsel, that he
received $4,000 from the American
Cotton Growers Exchange, and
further admitted that his present
salary from the Exchange is at the
rate of $4,000 year. These fees
brought Sapiro's income from cotton
growers alone up to $149,505 and his
total income from all sources so far
revealed at the trial to nearly $780,
900 in the last ten years.
Half of Operations
Thus far but trifle more than
half of Sapiro's cooperative activities
have been examined before the jury.
If his other activities prove as profit
able as those already examined he has
realized close to million through his
pillaging of the farmers and produce
growers and marketers throughout
the country.
Ford to Be Called
Ford, the nations first Millionaire,
who is accused of libeIling Sapiro,
will be called to the witness stand
sometime this week, according to the
announcement of Sapiro's counsel,
William II. Gallaghev. Ford's APP
pearance may be delayed, however,
because of the injuries suffered by
the open shop auto magnate in an
auto smashup week ago when one of
his flivvers was showed into a ditch
after being in collision with larger
car.
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which definitely prohibits the express
sion of views on foreign policy by
any party member or official with
out the authorization of the Central
Executive Committee, on penalty Of
expulsion from the party, and which
centralizes control of foreign affairs
and appointments of all kinds every
where in the hands of the foreign
ministry.
4. A similar Capitalization Of fin
ance in the hands of the finance min
istry. This will directly prohibit any
financial measures being instituted
by military officials under pain Of
severe disciplinary r sures up 20
expulsion from the party.
5. Abolition Of all "chairmanships"
whether Of the party, of the party's
Executive Committee or of its Poll
teal Council. These bodies hereafter
are headed not by an individual chair
man but by presidium of three or
five, anyone Of whom may sit as
chairman at any session Of these
bodies.
6. The elimination of certain per-
sonnet from the party organs.
United Basis.
In all these changes there is now
complete concurrence. The very in
dividuals and groups which seemed
aimed at in some changes
have now signified concurrence in the
new status quo.
It may definitely be stated, the
Continued on Page Five
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train plunged down the plane and
crashed at the junction with the main
entry. The crash raised cloud of
dust and it also snapped an electric
trolley wire. There was an electric
arc flash and a tremendous dust ex-
plosion. The shock was felt all over
the villages of Ehrenfeld and South
Fork, far overhead, and the windows
of the towns were broken.
Only Luck.
At first the news spread that the
300 men underground had all been
killed. Let Pat Stapleton, for 81
years an Ehrenfeld miner, tell of his
escape. He attributes it to sheer
"luck." He says:
My gang was working in rooms
three miles back in the mine off the
main drift. When the explosion oc-
CURED we thought it was an earth
quake. We were shaken up, but after
few minutes we realized that we
had been spared. When we came out
of the rooms we figured the scene
of the blast was about a mile and
quarter from the drift mouth. Know
ing our way out that drift was i'm
possible, we turned to the rear and
finally, four and a half miles back
we came on an unchanged air shaft.
It didn't take US long to scamper up
this hole to daylight. I'm an exper-
fenced miner, but have never felt such
a sensation. It was just sheer luck
that every man in the mine was not
killed outright"
The dead are Dan McConeghy, John
Fesko, William Connolly, and John
Shedlock, all members of the United
Mine Workers of America.
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The DAILY WORKER Halls The
ARRIVAL or OUR creek WEEKLY,
THE EMPROS, IN new YORK CITY

"A MOTHER fighting organ of the
"a left wing of labor, Empros,
our Greek Communist weekly, es-
tablishes itself this week in New
York City. This will no doubt
cause additional squirming not only
among the reactionary officialdom
Of the needle trades, but among
the imperialist agents wherever
they are to be found in the ranks
Of the working class. Empros
comes to New York from Chicago.
When The DAILY WORKER NOV
ed to the metropolis Of the nation,
President William Green and Vice
President Matthew Wolf declared
II was done for the express pur-
pose of developing the struggle of
the militants in the needle trades.
The same charge will no doubt be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05

every country in the world.
The fall of Picking before the Ma
tionalist army is certain. The only
doubtful factor is how soon they will
be able to reach their goal.
Changes Rear Endangered
1t is reported that Chang Tso-Lin
has been obliged to return to Mukden
because of murmurings in Man
churia.
Reports circulated here and cabled
to foreign countries that the Japan
csc bombarded Hankow this morning
are unfounded. The British official
news agency has a tremendous staff
working night and day turning out
lies for British and American con-
sumption.
All efforts to seduce the French
admiral in command of the French
fleet here to cooperate with the
British and Americans have been
fruitless.
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the nationalist government.
Crisis Past.
The tremendous tensile strength of
the party fabric, this minister as
serted, has been unequivocally proven
by the fact that this great issue has
been cleared up in the midst of revo-
lutionary activity of the most critical
sort, while the actual military cam
paign is in progress. The govern
ment has stood the test, the military
campaign is going on with undimin-
ished strength. The revolutionary
structure has held fast. Now that
the crisis is past the Nationalist
revolutionary movement is in a posi-
ton to move on unhampered by the
slightest suggestion of inner con-
flict.
This minister of the Nationalist
government said in the course Of an
interview that the majority section
of the party had recently become
convinced that the utterances and in
some cases the acts of what might
be termed the "Nanchang Group"
had seemed to tend toward the in
PRODUCTION into Nationalist policy Of
personal element in much the same
way as Peking has been dominated
by personal elements for centuries.
This basic struggle between the per-
sonal elements has been definitely
solved by the plenary session of the
party's executive committee just con-
cluded.
New Measures.
The struggle has been solved by
the following measures:
/. The establishment Of the
military council, which comprises
various leading revolutionary gen.
erals, including Chang Kai Shek,
Tang Sheng-chih, Feng Yu-hsiang,
and others, as we'll as several civilian
members.
2. The establishment of a military
commissary department, which would
be responsible for supplies Of food
and other materials required by the
army.
3. The Capitalization of control of
foreign policy in the hands Of the
foreign ministry under a resolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
MCGRADY RACES
at nnAARAITTrr
III UUNlIWIIIEE
OF A HUNDRED
Appears At It's Meeting,
Wants Jail For Labor

The Committee of One Hundred
for the Defense of the Imprisoned
Needle Trades Workers, which met
late yesterday afternoon at the Civic
Club, 10S East 10th St., for the pur-
pose of electing an executive COM
mittee and planning its campaign
for the raising of funds, was heatedly
assailed by Edward F. McGrady, re-
presenting the American Federation
of Labor, and Abraham Beckerman,
manager of the Joint Board of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union, who were given the courtesy
of the floor to voice their opposition
to the relief work which the commit
tee has planned.
An attack on the personnel of the
committee and its object was also
made by Morris Sigman, president
of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, in letter which was
read by julius HICKMAN, one of the
International's vice-presidents.
Only For Relief.
Altho the Committee of One Hun
dred in its official announcement, and
thru the statements Of several indi-
vidual members, had made it clear
that it has been organized to raise
funds for the relief of the families
of those furriers and cloakmakers
who are in Jail for their strike activi-
ties, Sigman, in his letter which was
read by HICKMAN says eve will re-
serve the right to expose the COM
mittee, at every opportunity, for its
supine willingness to be used as a
tool, in the name of humanity, by a
group of cowardly rascals."
Right Wing Shows Up.
The committee has been called to-
gether by the secretary, Ann Wash
ington Grafton, for a discussion of
routine organization details; but be-
fore the meeting opened a large group
of reporters from the leading capital
list papers were on hand, and Becker
man, HICKMAN, McGrady and several
other labor representatives arrived
with the request that they be adj
mitted to address the members of
the committee. Since it had been
announced that the meeting was to be
a closed one, this request was at first
denied; but after the committee had
Of preliminary business, it
voted to admit reporters and listen
10 what the right wing representatives
wanted to say.
Henchman Raves.
Following the admission of the
press and the guests, Arthur Garfield
Hays, who was acting as chairman
of the committee meeting, read
letter to the committee from Frank
L. Walsh outlining the work to be
done in behalf of the prisoners.
julius HICKMAN was then voted
permission to read Sigman's letter,
which was full of references to the
lett wing "gangsters" whom the COM
niittee was in danger of helping, and
which quoted the recently published
Statement" from the four cloakmak-
ers who denounced the raising of
funds for themselves or their fellow
prisoners.
There was no comment upon Sig
mans letter except formal vote to
Continued on Page Five)
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Threaten Pickets.

Threaten PlcketS.
The Pittsburgh Coal Company's
Gallatin mine, operated open shop,
was the scene of the assault. State
police met a force of $50 men form
ing picket lines in the vicinity of the
mine and ordered them to dispense.
Corporal G. f. Pierce, in command
Of constabulary stationed at the
North Belle Vernon barracks, said his
men were carrying out an order to
permit the assembly of no more than
three persons in connection with the
suspension.
Corporal Pierce admitted that the
crowd dispersed promptly, but said
that his men were Kissed and "booed"
by the union sympathizers, and that
this justified him in menacing them.
Apparently no miners have been seri-
ously injured yet.
Condemn Company.
The union pickets took up their
posts at strategetic points near the
Gallatin mine an hour before the
non-union miners started to work,
state police said.
Policies of the Pittsburgh Coal
Company, which is trying to break
the unions hold on the western
Pennsylvania bituminous field, were
condemned by the pickets both YER
bally and on huge banners.
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Daily Worker Shows Up
the Insurance Graft;
Announcement: Page z

Turn to Page 2 for the announce
ment and description of the most
startling exposure of the year so
far: how millions and millions of
dollars are swindled away from
workers thru the organized insur-
ance graft.
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KUOMINTANG ENDS inner CONFLICT;
UNIONS, PEASANTS CONTROL PARTY
New Program Against All Oppression; Calls
On Workers and Colonials For Support

HANKOW April 4-The Penary session Of the Kuomntang
Central Executive Committee which has just concluded its
ons here has thoroughly clarified the
sona authority according to authoritative statement made to
the Nationalist News Agency today responsible minister of
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Cripple West Virginia Mines.

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, April 4.
The mines of the Monongahela coal
field are crippled by the strike Of
non-union miners here, but the opera
tors are making a pretense of keep
ing them running, so as to avoid en-
couraging the miners locked out in
the rest of the industry.
Only about a quarter of the work
ers are actually on the job, according
to unofficial surveys. The owners
claim more, but even the most brazen
statements by company officials do
not assert that more than fifty-five
per cent of the crews are at work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
PENNSYLv ANIA CONSTABUL BEGIN
TO THREATEN union PICKET LINES.
Monongahela Field Badly Crippled Altho Owners
Make Pretense of Operating

PITTSBURGH, April with the strike so new yet that
neither union officials the operators tell its
attacks by Pennsylvania state constabuay company po
lice on the union pickets have already started.