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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
MACDONALD SICK;
OTHER TAKERS AT
FORWARD" SPREE
5000 Workers Razz Abe
Cahan and His Gang
By SENDER GARLIN.

Exhausted from too many recep-
tons given in his honor by mayors,
governors and ambassadors, j. Ram
say Macdonald, once a '1abor" pre-
mier Of Great Britain, was unable to
be the guest of the Jewish Daily
Forward" on the occasion of its
Both anniversary.
The Century Theatre, at 59th
st. and Central Park West, the home
of hundreds of musical comedies, was
the scene of the big blowout yester-
day afternoon.
Prima Donna Absent.
Lost, lost, were the dollars which
the Forward" expended in bringing
Macdonald to the United States.
Romantic little yarns about visits to
friends met on his honeymoon 80
years ago, Notwithstanding, the prin-
cipal reason for his hurried trip here
was to be the guest of honor at the
celebration in the Century Theatre
yesterday. There he would have sat
on the platform, thanked by the flea
ders" of the moribund socialist party
-Hillquit, Cahan, Algernon Lee
Victor Berger, and the rest.
Came to Sec English Royalty.
Comparatively few of the $500
people who joined in the singing OF
the "Star Spangled Banner" were
readers of the Forward"
From the "swell' automobiles and
jerky taxis alighted those New York
ers who wanted to see what Ramsay
Macdonald looked like.
Suave, precise and ingratiating
Morris Hillquit, high priest Of the
socialist party, was master of cere-
monies.
"The Forward" Hillquit boasted
lis a prosperous newspaper"
"The British Labor Party" de-
clared Hillquit, "has evolved new
principal of government. It is that
the people can run the government. "
According to the elaborate, gilt
edged program this was apparently
the introduction for Mac Donald.
With baited breath, the crowd who
paid nothing to get in admission
was by complimentary tickets) watt
ed for the mighty man from Britain
to make his appearance.
81 regret exceedingly" said the
socialist corporation lawyer, 81 re-
greet that due to illness, our honored
guest, who is now in Philadelphia,
will not be with us this afternoon"
Ishbel A Nice Girl.
But his daughter, friend and COM
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
Matthew Vol Appointed
To Place on Committee
To Drain Latin America

WASHINGTON, April "a (FP).
Matthew Vol, vice-president of
the American Federation of La
Dor and acting president Of the Ma
tional Civic Federation, has been
named by President Coolidge as
one of the nine American delegates
to the Pan-American Commercial
Conference, to be held in Wash
ington, May 2 to 5.
1t was to this meeting that the
chamber of commerce of Buenos
Aires and Rosario. Argentina, re-
fused to send delegates, because
they disapproved the aggressive
Imperialism Of the United States
in Latin America.
The other American delegates
arc: Lewis S. Pierson, Columbia
Bank a Trust Co., New York;
John H. Merrill, All-America
Cables, New York; Gano S. Dunn,
]. G. White Engineering Corp, New
York; F. Abbott Goodhue, Interna-
tional Acceptance Bank, New York;
Frank D. Waterman, Waterman
Fountain Pen Co, New York; Roy
D. Chaplin, president, National Au-
tomobile Chamber of Commerce,
New York; Franklin C. Remington,
chairman of board, The Foundation
Co., New York, and Daniel G. Wing,
president, First National. Bank,
Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25

can readily be seen that as an agent
Of propaganda he is invaluable.
In this connection it might be
pointed out that during the recent
campaign in favor of public owner
ship of water power in New York
State, the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company issued upwards of five
million pamphlets entitled "Your
Rights as a Capitalist" which was
dealt with in an article last week.
In this booklet Mr.. Haley Fiske OPP
posed all moves in the direction of
government ownership of public util-
tiles.
Plays on Ignorance.
AS the average worker ia notorious
ly ignorant Of business procedure, "a
condition that the powers that be
manage to perpetuate) and as the
wife Of the worker is still less posted
on financial matters-the agent of
the "Big Four" has an easy time Of
it. All sorts of bunk is spread about
with reference to the great institution
of life insurance.
For instance 20 payment life pol
icies are sold to industrial insurers
while the impression given at the time
of the sale is that the policy is on
the 20-year endowment plan. The
Continued on Page Tvo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
Hoover AppIauds
Chiang's Murder
Of Union Leaders

WASHINGTON, April 24-(FP),--
Secretary of Commerce Hoover's con-
Germ over the Chinese revolution is
reflected in a press memorandum is
sued by his department Apr. 20 which
begins as follows:
"Some encouragement for prospects
of trade at Shanghai may be had
from the attitude being shown by the
conservative or moderate elements of
the Nationalist forces at that point,
according to cabled advices to the De-
partment of Commerce from repre-
sentatives in China.
"With the financial support OF Chi
nese industrial and banking interests,
active steps have been taken toward
the suppression Of activities on the
part of radicals within the National
list Party and of labor disorder. Agi-
tators and others serving, as pickets
have been disarmed and the general
strike, which was ordered by the Cen
eral Labor Union for April 10, was
only partially successful, with pres
emit indications of an early termina-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST
DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI!
Ramsay Macdonald Does
Not Discuss Formation
Of Labor Party in U. 5.

WASHINGTON, April "a. -
Ramsay Macdonald, socialist ex-
premier of Britain, met no radicals
during his visit to Washington. In
his talk with officials Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, who ban
quoted him, Macdonald did not--so
far MS reported ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
upon any discussion Of basic work.
ing class issues. He explained the
dangerous features Of the bill
which the Tory majority in the
House Of Commons hopes to pass,
to weaken the Labor Party, but he
did not advise the formation of a
working class party in this country.
, He left that subject alone.
The question of affiliation of the
A. F. Of l.. with the International
Federation of Trade Unions he also
avoided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
Paul Crouch viii
Be Released From
Jail June First

SAN FRANCISCO, April "a
Paul Crouch, who is a class conscious
worker. in the ranks of the United
States Army and opponent of Ameri-
can Imperialism in Hawaii, the Phil
ippines, China and elsewhere and was
therefore lmpria med for period of
three years, at Alcatraz, is slated to
be released on June 1st.
One of the outstanding frame-ups
against militant class conscious
workers is that of the case of John
j. Cornelison who is now serving d
life term in San Quentin, after con-
viction on a charge of first degree
murder. Cornelison, q years of age,
is member of the Boiler Makers
Union. He took active part in the
shipyard strike of 1920 on the
coast, serving on the picket line, and
also the Railway Shop Crafts Strike
of 1922.
Scab Killed.
A scab was killed during the Shop
Crafts strike in September 1922, and
in the course of events, Cornelison
was drawn in, framed up and convic-
ted. He has already served four
years in San Quentin. This victim of
the class war has dependent mother,
70 years of age. Workers desiring to
write to him can do so by addressing:
John j. Cornelison, Box 37287, Cali
fornia State Prison, San Quentin,
Calf.
Similar case is that of Claude Mer-
rit, Al years old, member of Local No.
1885, B. r. c. of America, framed on
charge Of second degree murder.
The details in his case are much the
same as that of Cornelison, as he par
ticipated in the same strikes and was
framed and convicted on the same
case. He has already served four
years in San Quentin. Has a boy
seven years, living with friend; the
mother of the child is dead. Friends
may also communicate with him:
Claude Merritt, Box 1886, California
State Prison, San Quentin, Cal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
copyrighted by The DAILY
WORKER. 1929
Nv CHARLES YALE HARRISON
ARTICLE XIII

ARTICLE XIII.
Eighty percent of new weekly-pay-
1ent life insurance written every
~ is written in the homes of work
already insured with the "Big
Y The pyramiding of insurance
flr.s already covered is due to the
n liv' ,ess which the industrial agent
easy &C We homes of the workers on
has TO lion list.
bis ,crydr.tIal" premiums are payable
~ homes of the insured. The
st calls weekly and soon becomes
ssrsiIiar with all members of the
household. He knows their earning
capacity, age, the amount of insur-
ance carried, and during the late war
he usually undertook selling War
Saving Thrift Stamps to his har-
raised policyholders.
AS calls are made during the day
time his contact is largely with
women and children, circumstance
which has led to ugly rumors, more
or less unfounded.
AS the average agent covers about
two hundred homes every week, 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
workers Resist Chiang.


SHANGHAI, April 24.-Workers
here are organizing themselves into
military groups to resist the raids on
the labor unions by the right wing,
it was learned today.
In an effort to split the Nation
alists and to prevent communication
between unions here and the Hankow
Government, Chang Kai Shek has es-
tablished a rigid censorship on all
letters and kilograms from Hankow.
The united opposition of National
list leaders to Chang Kai Shek is
making the formation of govern
ment" at Marking extremely diff
cult.
Alienates Leaders.
Chang by his desertion has alien
ated every responsible Nationalist
leader and has been forced to seek
the support of openly counter-revolu-
tionary elements.
Reports from Marking state that
he has offered the Ministry Of For
eign Affairs to C. C. WI, who is no
torious for his friendliness to the inn
perialist powers. Whether or not WI
will accept the post is unknown.
Imperialist Alliance.
The offer of the Ministry of For
eign Affairs to WI is in keeping with
Chiang's open bid for foreign sup
port. 1t has been authoritatively
stated that Chang is willing to ac-
cept the imperialist demand for
Preparations for the Marking affair
without making counter-demands for
indemnity for Chinese killed and
property destroyed in the bombard-
ment of Marking.
Dispatches from Hankow state that
the city fears an attack by imperial
list war ships concentrated there
Eight of the forty-two war vessels are
American. They are the Isabel, Gin
cinnati, Noa, Preble, Pruit, Monacacy,
Pidgeon and Villa Lobos.
Appeal to Soldiers.
Propaganda is being circulated
among British troops to forestall a
massacre like those at Wanshien and
Marking. Poster displayed from the
British war memorial read:
British sailors, you are here to
fight urarmed people, inspired by
ideals Of democracy and independ-
ence," the poster read.
"You have been sent here to crush
a revolutionary movement struggling
against militarism and for govern
ment by the Chinese people, or the
Chinese people for the Chinese peo-
pie.
"Do not be fooled by your masters,
the British capitalists, and their SER
wants. Do away with those damned
superstitions of race hatred. We, your
friends, have more in common with
you than you have with your country
men Of the type who sent you here.
go home or join us for liberation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
|. |. D. Protests ANY
Sabotage Of Work for
SaCC0 and vanzetti

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-As
a result of the Socialist and right
wing labor union sabotage Of the
Sacco Vanzetti conference in this
city, the local branch of the Inter
national Labor Defense, thru its Sc
cretary, sends the following letter to
Sam Rudow, Manager of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers:
/. L. d. Letter.
Dear Brother Rudow:
Having read in the newspapers
various conflicting reports regarding
the outcome of the Sacco, Vanzetti
Conference held at the Labor Insti-
tute on Wednesday, April goth, |
hereby take the opportunity of ex-
pressing our view on the matter.
You will remember that the Gre
Dental committee took exception to
the delegations from a number of
branches Of the International Labor
Defense. We wish to state that the
delegates from the various branches
went to the conference with the earn
est desire and hope to be able to con-
tribute in the campaign to help save
the lives of our brothers, Sacco and
Vanzetti.
Followed Conference Call.
4 /, as Secretary of the international
4 Labor DeTense, wrote 70 my branches
asking them to send delegates bas
ing myself on that section in the cal
to the conference which says
"Please be sure to attend. If your
organization is not in session, cal
on your special officers-two dele
gates are requested from every 10
cal or branch"
We therefore believe that the
branches of the International Labor
Defense should have been seated
However, the great necessity to de
velop a national protest movement
against the attempts to execute Sac
co and Vanzetti must place in the
background any consideration Of the
seating or unseatirg of any dele
gates from any organization.
IL. d. Active.
The activity of our National Or
ganization on behalf of Sacco and
Vanzetti must be known to you. We
have helped to conduct their defense
and we have during the last two
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
KUOMINTANG DENOUNCES CHANG KAESHEK AS
TRAITOR; RIGHT WING LEADERS HERE SUPPRESS
CABLE ASKING SUPPORT OF HANKOW GOVERNMENT
Chang Seeks Alliance With Imperialist Powers;
Offers Posts to ReactiOnaries
Shanghai Workers Form Military Groups to
Resist Chiangs Wholesale Massacres
HEADLIGHTS OF TODAY'S NEWS

1CetrGt Committee Of KaonintGng at Hanko0 IN cdoe
American Kuomitang denouces Chang Kai Shek traitor
the Nationalist Increment and requests the erecve commit
Of the American KuOminang notify all branches to sup
port the HaRkOtC Government
2The e1ective committee of the Kuomintdng here sup
presses cable; fails to notify branches
3ShanghGi 0orkers organize military groups for defense
against right ICING raids.
4Chiamg has difficulty organizing coanterreUo~tton1rv
government offers Ministry Of Foreign Affairs to c. c. W."
notorious running dog of the mperiatSs"
5-HankoW expects inperGLst attack appeals to British
troops not to fight liberation Increment.
HANKOW, April 24.-In an effort to acquaint American
workers with the full significance of Chang Ka Sheks treachery
Nationalist the Central Committee of the
Kuomnang Hankow has sent the following cable to the Cen
Committee the Kuomntang in the United States with
headquarters at Oakland, California;
Chang slaughtered the people, he would overthrow the
Nationalist Government His party membership has been can
ceed and orders have been issued for his arrest Notify all
branches to support Hankow
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An Invisible Government.

WASHINGTON, April "a (FP).--
John Van Antwerp MacMurray, the
state department announces, is Amer
lear minister to China. AS such, he
is accredited to the Picking govern
ment," and not to Marshal Chang
Tso-lin who is the sole political and
military authority at Picking. Since
the actual cabinet at Picking disap-
peared some time ago, and its Amer
lean minister has had to maintain
himself without funds from home for
a year or more past, the United States
is now in diplomatic relations with
a real invisible government.
The case is somewhat like that OF
the Kerensky ambassador, Boris Ba-
khmeteff, who continued in posses
sion Of the Russian embassy in Wash
ington for five years after his gov
eminent ceased to exist. He was re-
cognized as Russian ambassador new
ertheless. And Minister SEE, accredi-
ted by the vanished government at
Picking to the government of the
United States, is formally recognized
at minister of China" Yet the adj
ministration never fails to declare,
when challenged, that it does not re-
cognize any of the factions" in China
neither Chang Iso-lin at Picking nor
Chang Kai-shek at Marking nor the
Kuomintang at Hankow.
The Bureau of the Socialist and
Labor international in a manifesto
drawn up in Paris April 4th calls
upon workers throughout the world
to demand the immediate withdrawal
of foreign troops and warships from
China at all May Day demonstra-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
CurY9ntEUentS
By I. ]. o'FLAHERry.
By T. ]. o'FLAHERTY


IT costs the Associated Press thirty
three cents for each lying word it
sends from Nicaragua to its members
in the United States to poison the
minds of the American people against
the liberal government Of that coun-
try. The New York Telegram, a
United Press member-paper points
out that it cost the A. P. $4.62 to
let the American people know that
"a band of fifty men wearing red
hatbands and carrying red flag" at
tackled a band of reactionaries within
the prescribed limit Of 1000 yards of
a railroad. The United States gov
eminent did the prescribing.
THE A.P. is the unofficial news
agency Of the dominant element
of the American ruling classes. Eu-
ropean governments have semi-offi-
cial news agencies. Reuters is the
English government service. 1t is
doing a good job for Imperialism in
China. The American workers, out
side of those that read The DAILY
WORKER, are completely at the
mercy of the Associated Press and
the almost equally poisonous Hearst
service for their foreign and domes-
tic news. Where there is no issue
Of a class nature involved those
agencies may be neutral, but in their
strike news and reports of events in
countries where the interests of
American Imperialism are involved
they are sure to lie like gentlemen.
THERE is reason to believe that the
new cabinet in Japan will adopt a
more aggressive attitude towards the
Chinese revolution, than the one fol
lowed by its predecessor. Indeed, the
recent cabinet crisis was probably as
much due to differences over the
Chinese policy of the government as
to the financial crisis thru which tbs
country is passing. The imperialist
\ lineup against China is becoming
more united. Britain has finally sue
ceeded in buying off France and tn
new Japanese government uses Ian
guage that conveys a sinister note
-
last Saturdays papers carried
ATokio news dispatch which sal
that Japan and Britain intend to sup
port Chang Kai-Shek as a Dictator 0
China. This is believable. Chang
Tso-Lin and his brood of under
tuchuns and inferior brigands, smell
too strongly of common banditry t.
enable the imperialist powers to in
troduce them in tall hats and spats t,
their publics. But Chang Kai-Shel
is a bird of different plumage. H,
has distinguished himself recent!
and endeared himself to the hearts o
the international bourgeoisie by muir
dering Communists and labor leaders
II remains to be seen whether thi
latest Chinese militarist will fare an.
better than his predecessors.
A GIRL of II able to speak six diff
nferent languages was unable Il
secure employment in New York Cit!
and landed in a Brooklyn court on ;
charge of vagrancy. A judge sen
Continued on Page TaUo)
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WEEKS dC Nassau OOuAlIy ONNA
House, Mineola, l.. L
The same jury which rendered this
verdict declared that Samuel Men
cher, Jack Schneider, Phillip Len
hardt, Morris Rosenberg, Oscar Mile
aft, Maurice Maxim, Leo Franklin,
George Weiss, Joseph Katz were
guilty Of second degree assault IN
connection with the raid on the shop
Of the Barnett brothers at Rockville
Center, on April 10, 1926.
Arrested Again.
Immediately, Gold and Shapiro were
re-arrested on the same charge made
by the second Barnett brother, Tor
the fur workers had been tried only
on one complaint.
The Judge paroled Gold and Shapiro
in the custody of their lawyer, so they
were able to leave the Jail at 2 a. m.
Saturday. 1t is within the power OF
the District Attorney to dismiss this
second indictment if he sees fit, but
what his decision will be cannot be
known until after May End, which is
the day set for the sentencing of the
nine workers who were convicted.
A Scab's Testimony.
The closing day Of the trial, Friday
the 22nd, was consumed with the
summing up of the case by lawyers
for the defense and the district attor-
ney, and the charge by the judge to
the iurv. The case went to the jury
at 5.15; they came in for further
reading of testimony at $50, returned
to the jury room at, 1915 and ap-
peared with their verdict at l.3O a. m.
It seems probable that it is the tes-
timony of the scab worker, Mary
Farkas-employed in the Barnett shop
at the time of the raid-who brought
about the conviction of the nine work
ers. Apparently, it almost caused the
Uslg1cJIUn or Slsespfro, also, fur II was
the Farkas testimony which the jury
asked to have re-read when they came
back to the court room at 9.35.
No Other Evidence.
This scab is the only person, ex-
cept the two informers, who claims
that Mencher, Schneider, Rosenberg.
Mileaf, Weiss, Katz, and Lenhardt
were in Rockville Center on April 10,
1927. The two bosses, Michael and
Jack Barnett, did not identify them i;
the other girl in the shop did not
identify them. They and all their wit
nesses testified they were not there.
Not even Mary Farkas identified
Lenhardt; but she said he was there.
On her statement they we're all con-
victed-she whose hatred of the union
is so great that she led the burst Of
clapping that broke out one day when
the district attorney declared the 'left
wing" of the union was now. expelled,
and no longer a part of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Walsh Condemns Unfairness.
Frank P. Walsh, counsel for SAM
uel Mencher, Jack Schneider and
Martin Rosenberg, was the first of
the defense attorneys to speak after
the court session opened. Beginning
in a quiet voice he condemned the
deliberate effort that had been made
during the trial to prejudice the
cases of these men, to blacken their
characters, so that the jury might be
influenced to judge not on the evil
dence but on their impressions of the
defendants.
He spoke also of the district at
torney's repeated attempts to give
the impression that these men were
no members of a labor union, but
mere gangsters.
"This (the Joint Board) is labor
Continued on Page Three
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Frank 3. Noyes, President of
Associated Press, with Big Four

Todoys thirteenth article Of series of thirty
;ug operations of the big Four insurance trust The COM
b;e consists of the Metropolitan Prudential John Hancock and
Colonial Life Companies In precious articles Mr. Ha
7on specific charges of graft misrepresentation mis-
use of mutual funds corruption Prominent public figures
in the exposure far bee Charles EUGns Hughes Charles
NJ Schoub Haley Fiske Sp of Insurance James A. BehG and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
NEWS IN BRIEF

German Fascists Pull Knives.
BERLIN, April 24.-Twenty-two
persons, including a number of wo-
men, were injured in gun and knife
battles when fascists attacked Com
munists during fascist demonstra-
ton at Essen in the Ruhr district to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25

COPENHAGEN, April "a. A
state of seige has been declared
throughout Lithuania according to a
message from Kovno. The govern
ment action is result of the growth
of the Communist movement, which
the fascist government of Lithuania
greatly fears
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
Armour w Falls III.

CHICAGO, April 24.-Philip d.
Armour Nv, 8. son of Philip d.
Armour Of the millionaire packer
family here, is III with typhoid fever
1t was learned tonight. The child's
father is first vice-president of Ar
mour & Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25
COLD and SHAPIRO ACQUITTED BY The.
MINEOLA JURY; nine ARE CONVICTED
Arrest Acquitted Fur Leaders Again on Same
Charge; Scab Testimony Prominent

At 80 A. NJ Saturday. Ben Gold Of the Furrlers
Joint Board Isadore Shapiro its chairman acquitted
of the charge for which they and nine other workers