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The daily worker., 1927-04-12

was seated behind Murray, looked at
him and moved uneasily evidently
not liking the dangerous subject
about which Murray spoke.
His Purse Was Full.
Lewis is an actor with a good voice,
He told the miners how the Nanti-
coke high school students, boys and
girls, presented him with flowers,
and how they pleaded with him to
carry on good fight for an agree
ment which would make il possible
for their fathers to give them a real
start in life.
"Out of the fullness of his heart"
he promised those children to do
everything possible so that they could
get an education and would not have
work as hard as their fathers. We
will see later how he kept his prom
Use.
Not Truthful.
1t was some time in January, 1926,
when the miners heard Lewis. The
strike dragged on into the fifth
month. The situation looked bleak.
The miners wanted to hear their
leaders opinion on the outcome Of
the strike. From the beginning and
all during the strike streams Of prop
aganda were let loose on the miners
they were confused-Lewis must
speak.
A mass meeting was arranged in
Town Hall in Scranton with Lewis as
the main speaker. The hall was jam
med with miners, five thousand or
more were present. In his speech he
gave himself away without being
aware Of it. He told the miners that
they were now stronger than ever be-
fore-what lie! In 1922 when the
anthracite and the soft coal miners
went out hundred thousand unor-
ganized miners were on strike with
them. They were stronger than in
all the history of the United Mine
Workers of America. He double
crossed them twice, first by making
separate agreements and second by
not organizing the unorganized min
ers into the U. M. w. OF A., leaving
them without an agreement. Those
workers could have been brought in
to the organization with one swing.
Poor Excuses.
He went on to tell the miners that
they would gain more this time than
before; and then, as if excusing him
self, he added that the operators
wanted to smash the union and that
they (this he brought out meekly)
did not want to sign a longer agree.
ment in 1922 which would run out
simultaneously with the soft Goa
agreement. He must have sensed the
strong desire for unity of the two
parts of the union.
The miners went home with some
hope and in better spirits. 1t was
only few weeks after this meeting
when the present anthracite five year
arbitration clause, with no closed
shop agreement was made.
Let Lewis Do II.
Already the anthracite miners feel
the pressure of the coal barons for
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
Martial Law In New York.

What amounts to martial law was
established in the New York fur mar
ket yesterday by members of the po-
lice force and the industrial squad,
When workers came to their shops
in the morning, they found an officer
posted at every door and IL two work.
ers stopped on the street they were
quickly showed on and told to keep
moving.
This same guard was present at
noon and at five o'clock, and during
the lunch hour Fanny WarshofslIy,
a member of the Furriers' Joint Board
was arrested for distributing leaflets
announcing a meeting Of the shops in
the building at $50 West 30th Street.
She was released when arraigned in
Jefferson Market Court on a charge
of disorderly conduct.
ReactiOnaries Aid Police.
With this open cooperation Of the
police force, the reactionaTy right
wing forces of the A. F. of L. and
the international Fur Workers Union
are proceeding with their efforts to
force workers to registration.
When even methods OF intimidation
fail, they announce that certain shops
have registered, whether they have or
not.
Repudiate Lies.
On Saturday, the Jewish organ of
the right wing stated that all the
workers Of the Papert & Cohen shop
Of 13S West 25th Street have regis
tered with the "ten cent" union of the
international.
Indignant at this lie, the workers
of the shop held meeting last night
and drew up a resolution, pledging
allegiHSce to the Joint Board.
AltI6 two or three Of the workers
in the shop had been registered thru
the terrorist tactics of the rights
htrong arm squad, they as we'll as
all other workers, signed the resolu-
tion which says:
Withdraw Signatures.
"We, the workers of Rapert &
Cohen, assembled at meeting Of our
shop on April II, 1927, hereby pro-
test against being continually poster
ed by the firm to register in the
scab union We further protest
against the threats of discharge if we
should fail to register. Some of us
have signed, but we withdraw our sig
natures and pledge our moral and
financial support to the Joint Board
until we shall defeat those who are
trying to break our union"
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Liebowitz' Statement. /.

That this case is a deliberate
frame-up is the belief of all Joint
Board members whose convictions in
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
ATTENTIoN;-Cloak and dress

ATTENTION;-Cloak and dress
shop chairnen!
Come to Manhattan Lyeeum
Lyeeun right after work today.
Protest the falling of the militant
fur workers. The furriers must
be freed. The reactionary forces
OF the A. f. of l.. must be de-
feated in their union-smashing
program.
Every shop chairman come and
raise your voice in protest, Today
at 5 p. m.
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
Mail Pilot Dies In Crash.

SEATTLE, Wash, April 11,-Ray
Small, coast air mail pilot was killed
and Joe Carol, a passenger, was in
jured in an airplane crash at Sand
Point naval air field near here last
night.
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
ny A Miner)

The United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, once q united fighting powerful
organization which bettered the con-
ditions Of the mine workers by hard
and long struggles, is now being
systematically disintegrated.
A few years after j. l.. Lewis be-
came International President the first
great blow in dividing the anthracite
from the soft coal union was struck
in the 1929 strike settlement.
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
HOLD LEFT WING FURRIERS In JAIL WITHOUT
BAIL WHILE POLICE ESTABLISH MARTIAL LAW

the matter were expressed in state
ment issued by S. Liebowitz, acting
manager of the Joint Board, last
night.
"Altho the American Federation
of Labor special reorganization COM
mittee has consistently refused to Of
fer any proofs Of its charges Of gang
sterism made against the fur workers
who are loyal to the Joint Board,
these unauthenticated statements are
not only being used to influence pub
lie opinion thru the press, but are to
be used to prejudice judge and jury
against Ben Gold and other fur work.
ers in the Mineola case, judging by
what happened in court this morning.
A. +. of L. Fears Hearing.
1.-TWO weeks ago when Magistrate
Louis Brodsky requested both fac
tions in our union to appear before
him to discuss the charges of gang
sterism, representative of the Fur
riers' Joint Board was present and
anxious to give Judge Brodsky all the
facts. The A. +. of l.. and right wing
officials refused TO appear. We have
also challenged them to present the
facts in this matter to an impartial
committee for investigation, and they
have refused that too.
Nevertheless, these same irrespon-
sible charges were used by the dis
trict attorney of Nassau county to-
day as the basis for his argument
that bail should be revoked That
this argument was made with the full
intentions of prejudieing the case was
evident from the fact that he spoke
before the whole group Of prospective
jurors.
Judge Prejudiced Bitter.
Judge Smith even denied attor-
neys for the furriers any chance to
argue on the question Of bail. All
of this shows a presumption of guilt
which is undoubtedly the result of
the campaign of malicious slander,
deliberately carried on by the A. F.
Of L. against the leaders of the Joint
Board.
at is apparent from what happen
ed in the Mineola courtroom today,
that there are forces at work behind
the scenes trying to bring about the
conviction and railroading to Jail Of
Ben Gold, Shapiro, Mencher and the
other Joint Board members on trial
There is no doubt from the appear
ance in court today of five adherents
of the A. F. of l.. and International
Fur Workers Union, that it is these
forces who are at work on this frame
up.
KIan Dominating Factor.
an a community which is notori-
ously hostile to labor, and Ku Klux
Klan center, the A. f. of L. leaders
are spreading propaganda aiming to
diseredit our workers and so pre-
iudice the whole trial. The same sort
of provocative tactics were used to
create an atmosphere of hostility in
the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. 1t
is deliberate attempt of the A. F.
of L. and International Fur Workers
Union officials to Jail the Joint Board
! leaders so that they may seize con-
i troll of a union where they have al
ready been repadiated."-S. Liebo-
witz, Acting Manager.
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from all the defendants and ordered
them to Jail.
This unprecedented procedure was
followed in spite of all objections of
Joint Board counsel, which in addi-
tion to the lawyers named, also in
cludes George Medalli and Frank p.
Walsh. The Judge refused TO listen
to any argument from the attorneys.
The men were sent to Jail, and trial
postponed until Wednesday. In the
meantime counsel for the workers are
seeking a writ of habeas corpus to
force the judge to release them all on
bail. Those in prison are Ben Gold,
l. Shapiro, S. Mencher, J. Schneider,
Otto Lenhardt, Joseph Katz, Martin
Rosenberg, Joseph Weiss, Leo Frank
lin and Maurice Malkan.
Meiliff In Tombs.
Oscar Meiliff, who is alone one of
the defendants in this case, is at
present in the Tombs having been
sentenced last Friday to six months
term on the frame. up charge Of a
right wing agent that Meiliff had
threatened to attack him."
A motion for appeal of this case is
being made today. The district at
torney at Mineola took particular
pains to emphasize the fact that
Meiliff was already in Jail and there
fore not able to attend the trial.
Assumes Guilt.
This same defender of the law
showed by his every act in the court
room yesterday that he assumed all
the defendants were guilty-even be-
fore they have been tried. He rough
ly ordered them to cline up along the
wall there; and then demanded of
each one in a surly tone, "What is
your name? Who are you?"
Five Rats.
He already had in court, evidently
ready to be called as witness, five
men from the international Fur
Workers Union. One of these was
Charley Zorenberg, who, during the
proceedings of the A. f. of l.. Inves-
tigating Committee, swore out vari-
GUS affidavits against the leaders of
the Joint Board.
However, even Matthew Woll had
70 discard these statements when
Zorenberg's disgraceful record in the
union was shown to him.
Where Is Justice?
That they cannot possibly have any
connection with this strike case is
But in the Mineola courtroom JUS
evident to any unprecedented observer.
tice is conspicuous by its absence.
y hen this case first came TO trial,
with Franklin, Malkan and the stool
pigeon Basoff as defendants, neither
the complaining boss nor anyone con-
nected with the case ever mentioned
that Ben Gold, Shapiro, Mencher,
Schneider, Lenhardt, Meiliff, Katz,
Rosenberg or Weiss had any connee-
tion with the affair. Their being
drawn into the case is without doubt
the work of those who have repeated
ly and openly boasted that they
would put the Furriers' Joint Board
leaders behind prison bars, and thus
complete the destruction of the fur
workers union.
Liebowitz' Statement.
That this case is deliberate
frame-up is the belief of all Joint
Board members whose convictions in
The daily worker., 1927-04-12
6O-Day Jail Term
Given CIOakmakGr
Active in Strike

James Piasanti, member Of cloak
makers Italian Local AZ. was SEN
fenced to sixty days on Monday by
Judge Simon, Healy, and Herbert in
special sessions on charge Of mali
cious mischief" pressed against him
during the cloaImakers' strike by an
employer.
Evidence Weak.
Piasanti was arrested in front of
Wooley Brothers at 406 Second Ave-,
during the strike and accused by the
employer Of having damaged some of
his goods. Although the employer
who testified against him was never
able to say that he was certain Of
Piasantfs identity, and probation Of
ficers testified as to his good char
acter, he was given the long sentence.
In commenting upon the case, Louis
Hyman, manager of the Joint Board
noted that seven Judge Rosalsky had
put on probation men accused Of this
trivial misdemeanor."
Piasanti was an active picket dur
ing the cloakmakers' strike, and is
said to have incurred the special
enmity of the>employers on this ac-
count.
Girl Pickets Arrested.
Anna Liebowitz, Helen Shapiro
and Esther Rushner, dressmakers
from Local % were arrested on Mon
day morning as they were picketing
the AL Dress Shop at 36l West 36th
street. Police insisted that they haC
no right to picket the building be-
cause of the injunction obtained for
the A. w. Dress shop by the associa.
tion of dress manufacturers. The
two shops are in the same building
Both shops were called on strike be-
cause of the discharge Of workers
who refused to register with the In,
ternational. The girls were parole6
until Saturday by Judge Gottlieb Of
Jefferson Market Court, until tht
status of the two shops under the in
junction could be determined by him
Meeting of Shop Chairmen.
The shop chairmen of the cloal
and dress industry viii meet on Tues
day, right after work in Manhattan
Lyceum, to hear the report of this
council of shop chairmen on the pre-
sent situation on the struggle o.
the workers to save their union
Speakers will include Isadore Brau
ner, Louis Hyman, c. S. Zimmerman
and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
Great Britain and the League.

Britain will acquant League Nations with
developments in the Chinese negotiations but does not in
tend to ask the League to mediate stated officially
today"-News item
Somebody always taking joy Bulls life by
putting him in awkward position tearing off the mask of
hypocrisy and exposing him for the arrogant
and brutal mperas robber of them ALL unless that
honor to his willing pupil Uncle Sam.
John Bull organized the league of nations to prevent
Catch John with gnobe purpose In reality the aim of the
league to maintain peace between the mperiast powers
that they could efficiently the nations
the league would be useful John in stealing marches his fell
low mperasts thru control of the creara of the league
ne planted his man, Sir Eric Drummond, secretary.
But the league did not prevent loot Poland grabbed
Wilma from Lthuana and the league an image
Buddha Italy sheed Corfu Greek island egaue
not nod 1t snored Great Britain quarreed Turkey
Mosu oil and this time the league acted gave the oil
Great Britain and the Turks Again league
when the Greek and Bulgarian marss quarreed
ora loot The imperiasts could afford quarrel between
two pigmy nations stopped the ruction mighty quick
Then France got busy aughteng the Moroccans something
Spain had been doing not we'll for previously
The league did say word Denseess peoples were made
exploited and unwilling to be exploited to be slaughtered
until they the light.
Finally the Chinese proceeded to clean up
\ the imperialsts The Peng government perfectly polite
league to east aggression to the landing of troops and
other acts of The Cantonese continued put vasene
their bayones and ignored the league Still they had
cooked what the league would reply Peng
eminent wanted to put Great Britain on the carpet
This where Great Britain and uttered the
ment expressed the opening paragraph of this editorial The
Perish the thot The best John Bull win do advise league
as business keep quiet John Bull will take of his
affairs He will send his warhp to China and his big
and his soldiers II he cannot get what he wants by diplomacy
he will by He may get what he way
because the Chinese old hands the art of diplomacy and
they apt pupils in the art of modern warfare.
Here have the league of nations exposed scabby
nakedness mperas tool erected to fool the gube into the
belief that possible under capitalism that the makers
also be the agents of everlasting peace
This is the political bawdy house that vrtuous liberals
vte the working class to support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

Can the Negro be altogether I'M
concerned about events in China,
when the issue in China is the same
issue facing the Negro in his home
land, Africa, and in the New World:
The issue of the "divine right" of the
white robber imperialist nations to
rob and spoil subjugation, and DOM
mate the darker peoples of the world :?
Negro Endangered.
There is the grave danger of the
Negro becoming confused as to the
real issue in China. For months now
the white daily press, with the excep-
ton of labor papers like The DAILY
WORKER New York;, have been
busy attacking China and camouflag-
ing the motives of the robber posers
who are seeking an opportunity to in
tervene in the present struggle be-
tween the victorious Cantonese INA
tionalist) armies, sweeping northward
and the discredited Chinese militarists,
like Chang so-lin and WI Pei Flu, one
the tool of Japan, the other the in
strument Of England.
Smoke Screen of Bolshevism.
The literary prostitutes who edit
the average American newspapers, in
their anxiety to serve the interests OF
the capitalist gang upon whose adj
vertising and credit support the sue
cess Of their papers depend, have
shown their readiness to go to any
length to malign and discredit the
Chinese Nationalists, even raising the
old familiar bogy of Bolshevism
against the Cantonese, offering as
proof of Chinese bolshevism the sim
pie fact that Soviet Russia, unlike the
powers, has consistently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
By WILLIAM BOUCK.


n ONGRESS is just now in the
~ throes of another sham battle.
The daily and weekly propaganda
press of the country is paving the air
and throwing dust in the farmers
eyes.
They are much interested pro and
con in this years crop of bunk to
! eddie to the farmers.
The very latest "Mumba-Jumba" is
the so-called New McNary-Haugen"
bill. Is it any good? Will it be of
any service to the farmers?
Well, first go back few years.
About $3.50 years ago congress and
the propaganda machines of the
country woke up and helped us far
lners get the railroads regulated, and
they passed the law creating the
Interstate Commerce Commission, -
from which has descended a whole
crop Of so-called regulatory meas
ures. Is or has it helped the farmer :?
We rather guess not, with big N.
Then we farmers were pursuaded
W Jul AlASiuS IA@e VIC HSSuSu hSAP-
financial this time-so congress got
busy. Our friends kicked up another
dust-screen, and we got the Federal
Farm GU Loan System, from which
has descended some of the most
vicious laws creating farm loan banks
and other monstrosities.
Is the Farm Loan System any help
10 the farmer today? Ask. some fell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
The McNary-Haugen Bill

low in it. Now, we have tariffs on
wheat and a whole lot more of such
functions which our money grabbing
friends said we needed-and do they
help us? To say they do is to create
laugh among a group Of farmers.
Then we got a law regulating the
packers-in the supposed interest of
the farmers-and the great and bene-
VIOLENT Secretary of Agriculture is
the one whose judgment is made SUI
preme in the enforcement of its pro-
visions. Is that law operating in IA
vor of hog and stock raisers? No
intelligent farmer says or thinks so.
Now the farmer is much lower in
the economic scale than ever before.
Re is rapidly progressing down a
CREASED toboggan, and his friends are
going to administer another strength
ening pill, with plenty of opiate for
his mind. It's called the "New Nc
Nary Haugen bill and is being sol
EMMY debated in congress and out
as a real effort to help the farmer.
Briefly, let's examine its provis-
ions. 1t proposes to establish board
to handle the surplus ca products
Of the farmers of the U. S.
Here's how the board is to be APP
pointed;
One from each Federal Reserve
District in the country.
How appointed? By the president,
A committee of five from each dis
trict, elected by convention of farm
organizations, chosen by the Secre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10

customs. They claim extraterritorial-
ity for Chinese tariff and customs.
They claim extraterritoriality for
their nationals, that is the right of
Englishmen, Americans, ETC., to vio-
late Chinese laws and customs with
impunity and to be tried in their own
courts, under their own laws.
Russia and Germany Neutral.
Only Germany and Soviet Russia
do not claim extraordinarily or
hold concessions in China. Germany,
as result of the world war, having
been forced to surrender her conces-
sions and extraordinary status, and
Soviet Russia having voluntarily re-
linquished those claims as the result
of the overthrow of capitalism in Rus
STA and the creation Of a workers
state.
Fight Imperialism.
1t is against this system of impe-
rialist exploitation of the Chinese
masses, that the Chinese Nationalist
government is fighting. 1t is because
the Canton government represents
the interests and aspirations of the
downtrodden Chinese masses and has
declared its determination to fight I'M
til the imperialist system, in which the
Chinese people have been slaves of
the capitalists, is destroyed, that
masses have rallied to it's support.
Negro Attitude.
In the face Of this consideration,
what is TO be the attitude of the
Negro masses in the United States
What the attitude Of the Negro press :?
Is 1t to be one of continued apathy and
unconcern towards one Of the great
est social manifestations in the world
Of color--a struggle replete with sig
nificance for the Negro masses and
the oppressed and exploited Of all the
earth? Is the Negro to continue in
different to this tremendous phase of
the universal liberation struggle?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-10
CHINA'S RISING TIDE or COLOR
BY G v BRIGGS (fOrmer editor CRUSADER Magazinel.

editor Crusader Magazine).
recognized the right of the Chinese
to rule and possess their own coun-
try, refusing to participate in the
arms embargo by which the imperial
list powers hoped to disarm the Chi
nese and make them powerless and
ready for the plucking.
Forced Opium on China.
The record of the imperialist pow
ers in China has been one of brutal
and wanton aggression. Imperialist
England, leading exponent of the
amazing policy of European eminent
domain, made the Yangtze Valley a
special sphere of interest" since
1877. In 1912 she seized the island
of Honkong after a three-year war
fought by the Chinese to keep opium
out of their country and by the Brit
ish to inflict that deadly drug upon
the Chinsee masses.
Later she forced a weak Chinese
government to give Indefinite leases
on 400 square miles of mainland near
Hongkong and the seaport of Wei
haiwei. In 1918, when Tibet, then a
part Of China staged British slim
ulated revolt, England forbade China
to suppress the rebellion. In addition,
as the result Of a second war with
China, the British have possession of
several strategic areas varying in size
in the center Of cities of Shanghai
Annoy, Hankow, Kiuking, Chinkiang
Newchang and Tientsin.
These concessions fly the British
flag, are policed by British troops and
ruled by British law. They constitute
convenient refuge for Chinese Grim
inals. And, in order further to Grip
pie China, the imperialist powers
have control of the Chinese tariff and