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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
BRITISH LABOR OPPOSES RAMSAY MACDONALD
CuryentEUentS
By t. J. o'FLAHERrY.

r HE civil war in China has taken
dramatic tho expected turn with
the betrayal of the revolution by
Chiang-Kai-Shek and the right wing
elements of which he is the leader.
The workers and peasants who do
not relish the idea of substituting
new set of imperialist tools for the
nothern militarists are determined to
carry on the struggle for free China
z ROM now on Chang Kai-Shek who
1 was the object of considerable
abuse from the capitalist press will
he praised and petted. He has bowed
the knee to Baal and taken the thirty
pieces Of imperial silver. This is the
classical way of describing treason
for a cash consideration since Judas
turned over his leader to the Romans,
according to history or mythology.
Chiang-Kai-Shel1 no longer has any
quarrel with Chang-Tso-Lin. They
are both in the same pew. Perhaps
the imperialists would prefer to do
business with Chang than with
Chang. The former is not bandit.
NOT that tn. imperialists have any
~ objection to doing business with
bandits. After all they are brothers
under the skin. But the imperialists
arc forced to make concessions to
what is called public opinion. Lib
erals who have no serious objection
TO living on dividends extracted from
the ill-paid labor of Chinese coolies
might feel embarrassed if the princi-
pal lieutenant of the big fellows who
manage their investments happened
to one who rose in the world from be-
ing a common bandit and murderer
to dictator Chang would fill the
bill.
THE foreign editor of one of the
great French dailies is writing Chi
nese sketches for his paper from the
spot. He describes a gang of coolies
loading a Japanese vessel with bales
each weighing not less than $50
pounds. Men with hooks lift the bale
ard a coolie receives it on his neck
Continued on Page rpo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
How the United Front Of Labor Hating Capitalists
and High Salaried Union Officials Works
THE CIVIC FEDERATION TAKES OVER THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

that upon which Gompers depended
for his balance of power-the secret
of his long reign. President Green's
principal base is the United Mine
Workers Union and railway organi-
cations less fortunately situated than
the small monopoly crafts, dealing
with powerful corporations and fore
ed at times-like the U. M. w. A. is
at present-to struggle to preserve
their living standards. Whatever diff
ferences there may be between the
policy of Green and Woll-and this
difference will become clearer as the
offensive of the capitalists is inten-
sified-is due largely to difference in
the economic status of the main blocs
of supporters.
AT present the war on honest and
"A militant trade unionism operating
under tin slogan Of "down with the
Commw lists and the left wing" is
led by Vol. For him this is labor
of love. By birth, religion and econ
omic position he is opposed to any
thing smacking of radicalism.
Vol, and Frayne and McGrady, his
lieutenants, belong to the militia of
Christ wing of the American labor
movement. Green is said to have
strong leaning toward the Ku Klux
Khan and both he and Vol find pleas
ure as well as profit in smashing
needle trades unions composed prin-
cipally of Jewish workers especially
as thousands of these workers are
Communists and Communist SYM
pathizers.
RUT Woll is the real leader Of this
y offensive. His position in the Civic
Federation assures him of moral and
financial support from powerful la
bor-hating organizations who fully
Continued on Poge Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
ILLINOIS MINERS
HUNT OTHER JOBS
FOR LONG STRIKE

CHICAGO, April t7.---Coal Diggers
from southern Illinois tell a tale Of
widespread migration out of the mine
fields. They also bear hints Of pre-
par9tions by Illinois operators for
ruthless var against the United
Mine Workers.
a couple Of miners from Moatgom-
cry county, father and son. f,ivvered
TO Chicago looking for jobs. They an
ticipate a mine shutdown of at least
three months. The mine they worked
in rostcd notice Of 90-day lay-off.
To rig Cities.
The father, who is over so and has
worked in practically all the districts
Of the central competitive field and
in West Virginia before the war, was
in reminiscent mood.
Militia March Ont.
eve didn't fight the bosses in this
Silent do-nothing way in the old days"
he said. owe protected our jobs
"Then the governor sent the militia
from another country to have that
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
HIS OWN PARTY
VOTES NOT TO
RUN HIM AGAIN
Against Both English
And Chinese Labor

1.-THE defeat of Macdonald by an
overwhelming majority in his own
party-the Independent labor party
lis a severe blow to the socialist
party officialdom, the Forward and
the right wing of the trade unions
who sent B. Charney Vladek to
England to escort Macdonald here
and who paid his expenses for the
trip in return for his agreement to
use his prestige against the Con1s
munists and left wing in the labor
movement. That prestige has now
departed and it is strikingly APP
propriate that the two main
charges against Macdonald were
his hostility to the Chinese liberia
ton movement and his opposition
to the wage program of the Bri-
fish trade unions.
Kerensky, brought here by Civic
Federation labor officialdom to aid
their campaign of union destruc-
ton, and Macdonald, brought for
the same purpose, can now greet
orr another with real feeling. They
have a common bond.
The workers of the two countries
with the most powerful labor and
revolutionary movements, the
Soviet Union and Great Britain,
placed them on trial, considered the
evidence and rendered their verdict
guilty of treason to the working
class.-Editor's Note.)
LONDON, April While he is on
vacation in the United States former
premier Ramsay Macdonald has re-
ceived a severe rebuff from a section
of his followers. After three hours
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
new STRIKE IN
SOUTH CHINA To
PROTEST RAIDS

SHANGHAI, April 1.-THE reso-
lutions adopted at the Marking con-
ference calling for the expulsion of
the Communist members from the
Nationalist government do not repre-
sent the views of the rank and file
of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist
News Agency declared today.
They merely represent the views of
the Central Control Committee, which
is dominated by Chang Kai Shek and
in no way bind the plenary session
which is expected to settle down 10
business on Monday.
GunbOats Kill Chinese.
Reports received here state that
imperialist gunboats have been sail
ing up and down the river in the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
SACCO, VANzETTI
MUST co FREE
DEMAND OF 10000.

The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency
Committee has called conferences
of delegates from trade unions
and fraternal and labor Organiza-
tons, next Friday April 22nd, in
Labor Temple, 243 East Saith ST.,
at p. IN. TO discuss plans for
strike. and for the calling of Ma
tiOnal Conference Of labor.
Over 10000 workers crowded into
Union Square Saturday afternoon.
while from four platforms, in vari-
GUS languages, speakers from many
labor groups.
At the close Of the demonstration
a resolution was adopted calling upon
"all workng-class organizations, re-
CARELESS of their political differences
uniting their forces to free Sacco and
Vanzetti that the movement be sup
ported for a National Conference at
which the question of national action
be discussed and that "this meeting
is intellectually in favor of a gem
eral strike movement, to free Sacco
and Vanzetti."
They stood for hours before the
platforms and booed and Kissed every
mention Of the name of the judicial
tool Of tho Boston Back Bay textile
aristocracy, Judge Webster, Thayer,
who sentenced these two fighters for
the working class to death. Wave
after wave Of indignation rolled from
Continued OIL PAGE Ttpol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

MATTHEW WOLL, vice president
"i of the American Federation of La
Dor and acting president of the Civic
Federation of Labor following the
framing of Ben Gold and ten other
furriers, announces in the capitalist
press the formation of Citizens
Committee to investigate Commu-
nistic activities in New York City.
The names Of the committee will be
made known in few days" Thus
the New York Times.
This mysterious committee, for the
organization Of which Woll, Hugh
Frayne, A. F. of l.. organizer, and
Edward McGrady, special A. f. of l..
representative, claim credit, is said
to have been formed at a luncheon
ATTENDED by representatives of the
church, law, education, labor and en-
ployers."
ONE need not, in our opinion, look
" far afield for the base of this
united front of reaction. It's base is
the Civic Federation, the caucus of
the capitalists and their agents inside
official circles Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Matthew Vol, acting in the Jekyll
and Hyde role of A. F. of l.. vice
president and acting president Of the
Civic Federation, is the chief of the
anti-labor caucus.
VOLTS base in the American labor
movement is first his own union of
photo-engravers, small group Of
highly-skilled workers who are or
ganized on the basis Of complete
cooperation with the bosses.
IN addition to the photo-engravers
AWoll is supported by collection of
other small unions--a similar bloc to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
BaSoff On Stand to
Be Cross Examined
In MineoIa Today

The stool pigeon Barnet Basoff goes
back on the witness stand for further
cross-examination this morning when
the trial of Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, S.
Mencher and other members of the
New York Furriers' Joint Board,
charged with responsibility for an as
sault said to have occurred in a scab
shop during the strike, is resumed be-
fore Judge Lewis J. Smith at the
Nassau county court house, Mineola.
Contradicted Himself.
Basoff was on the stand for four
hours last Friday and contradicted
himself so continuously that his tes-
timony served as clear evidence Of
the fact that these fur workers are
in a courtroom, and facing a possible
jail sentence, as a result Of a frame
up.
Members Of the union are in no
doubt as to who has brot about this
frame-ur. They are seeing the day
by day attempts of Matthew Vol,
Edward F. McGrady and Hugh
Frayne to smash the furriers' union,
to force registration with the scab
international by methods of terror
ization, and by having workers dis
charged from their jobs. They re-
member McGrady's boast that Gold
and the other leaders would be put
in ia,l.--and that would end the strug-
gle IN the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

-.'-e.I1'-'1- q ~ -. = 1f.VIa-
ticn President OF the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co, Whose grating
practices are being exposed by The
DAILY WORKER, director of the
Metropolitan Trust Company, direc-
tor of the National Surety Company,
director of the Pittsburgh and West
Virginia Railroad Company, director
West Side Belt Railroad Company.
This is the type of individual with
whom Woll aud A. f. Of L. President
Green unite with TO railroad workers
to Jail for winning strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

and PRIOR articles.
BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON.
The advertising literature of the
big -Four" stresses the fact that
these companies are mutual" COM
panies. BY giving their swindled pol
icyholders a measly hand-out which
they are pleased to call a dividend, the
directorates of the Insurance Trust
feel that they have eased their Wall
Street consciences.
Actually this dividend Is not divi-
dcnd at all, but is merely partial
refund of the exorbitant premium
originally charged for the policyhold-
cr's coverage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
APPEAL TO AMERICAN WORK
ERS AND FARMERS.

Working Men and Working Women:
Energetic efforts are being made
by the imperialist governments in
GLIDING the government of our own
country to plunge the world into an
other orgy of mass murder, into an
other world war
Thru a new world conflict, the i'm
perialist powers, particularly Great
Britain and the United States, hope
to destroy the Chinese revolution and
to smash the Soviet Union.
Let every worker be on his guard
Not since 1914 has the. world faced
so grave and imminent danger of
war.
Preparing a New World War.
Every step that can be taken to
plunge us into war is being taken.
For a long time the international
bankers, especially those of Britain
and the United States, have been fl
nancing the militarists and counter
Continued on Page Fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Lands Award Flouted
By Closed Shop Pact

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April ia closed
shop agreement has just been signed
by the Builders Employers Associa-
ton and the Hold Carriers and Build
ing Laborers' Executive Council of
Chicago, which went into effect April
Is. 1927.
The signing of this agreement puts
the sl1ids under the Citizens Com
mittee to enforce the Lands award
and places the last of the building
trades on a closed shop basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

eAs,s AOossss -ew,sns
EXECUTIVE eonnIrTaE
art Of The Public -,

UHcurNR COMMITTEE
On the part Of the Public,-
EILHy roof Hsr~er Secretary Of sats,. New York
FRANKLIN MsevEAoH tower Secretary Of the
treasury. Washington. D. c.
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND CPubBeistl. waShinston. 2. C
7. COLEMAN % POINT u. S. SENATOR. New Yort CIV
MORGAN }. o,BRIEs gOrusr JudS', New York Court
Of Appealsl. New York CITY.
Luuy-col- THEODORE ROOSEVELT New York City,
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER president Columbia
UnversitY). New York City
MARCUS NJ MARKS (former President Borough Of
Aanhhttanl. New York CITY
ROBERT NJ THOMPSON president American Olympic
Assosaton). Washington. D. C.
JEREMIAH W. JENks Political EcOpOmssl. New York
City.
TALcoTL WILLIAMS, LID. (Professor Emeritus School
Of Journalism. columtsA UaIversityl. New York City.
WHEELER P. BLooDGOoD tAnorDeyl. Ml~sutee, via,
WILLIAM SL,s II;c WILCOX former slr%s9; Ssw York
On the part Of EmpLoyerS:-
WILLIAM D BALDWIN tchsIrmAn Of the Board. o,s
Elevator CO... Nee York City
NICHOLS 2; BRADY president New YORK Edison Oh
oEoRoE a coRTELYoU dresden, Consolidated oAs
Co,l. New York CITY
P. 3. CROWLEY PRESIDED, Eev York Central LiDs''.
New York CITY.
OTTO NJ EIDLITz building Trades Employer As-o
aatlonl. New York City
MARSHALL FIELD (Banksr,. Hs- YorE city.
BAILEY FIsKE president Metropolitan Life Insurance
Coz. New York CITY
RI HALk yieeSsre.issns A Ar. Telephone 'nd
ELoN q HOOKER president Hooker Eiee,rOchemicAl
JOIN MARKIE tADibradts Coal operstOr,. New York
SAMUEL MATHER CPekAnd,. Ms,hsr a cO). cs.e
land. Gaia
oopEs w NILS LIS director International Paper Col
aEoRDR NJ REYNOLDS tcnairmsn o. the Board Con-
tinental and Commercial National Bank. Chicago, H.
HAIRY rAyLoS G.s.S $ss g"ed States OS'Nu'
DANTEI, WILLARD president BAiumOr, asd 'nAio Raj
rcAd Col. Baltimore. Nd
On the part of Wage Eorners:-
ANTHONY j. clILoPRK president International I1ur
shOrenens Association. Buffalo.
JAMES DUNCAN First Vloe4Prcydent American Fed
GRAFTON Of LaSorl. Quincy. MnaA
FRANK PEENRY president international usDa Of
Elevator Constructorsl. Philadelphia. Pa
MICHAEL j. EEoUGH president AtionaI Mcsdsrs
Union Of North Amerieal Cincinnati. Ohio
Cleveland. Ohio.
THOMAS MCMAHON qntsrnanoaL President. United
Textile Workers Of America. Nsw York City.
EDWARD J. McGTvERN. tPresident Operative Plaster.
ers Cement Finsbers' International Association
WILLIAM D. MAH0N president Aasramstsd Assoas.
too OF Street Ry. Employees Of AMI. Detroit Mich.
AssaaoS q he g G 80 csn sJ rSiss i p
DAVID ROBERTSON president brotherhood Of Loco,
motive Firemen and Engnemeul. Cleveland. Ohio
L & SHEPPARD president Order Of Railway cou-
ductors Of Americsl. Cedar Rapids. Iowa
MATTHEW woLL President International Photo Nh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

The "Big Four" makes upwards Of
fifty million dollars a year on lapsed
(forfeited) policies. Not a cent Of
this money is ever returned to its
mutual" policyholders. And this is
but one item in this enormous fraud.
2 The liquid assets of the "Big Four"
are more than twice as large as they
should normally be. They are now
nearly Four Billions of Dollars, where
as they should actually be about
Two Billions Of Dollars.
All big Four" death claims, ma
tured endowments and all other ex-
penditures are paid out of the yearly
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Millions Withheld from
,Mulcted big Four" Customers
WHAT'S WHAT IN WORKER INSURANCE
EXPOSE

Todays article starts the second week IN The DAILY
WORKER exposure of the Big Four Insurance Trust Which
consists Of the Metropolitan Prudential John Hancock and the
Colonial Life Insurance Companies If the reader insured
Wh Of these he ao find ensuing articles of
great interest Precious articles haze made specific charges of
fraud misrepresentation misuse of the public funds Names
prominent IN financial and business circles figure largely this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
HANDS OFF CHINA,
STOP WORLD WAR,
COMMUNISTS SAY

CHICAGO, April 17.-Reviewing
the recent Notwithstanding develop
ments in the struggle of the Chinese
people against Imperialism and the
suppressive role played by the United
States government in conjunction
with the other powers, pointing out
the reasons, therefore, calling atten-
ton to the danger of a new imperial
list world war and urging the workers
and farmers of America to stop ag-
gression against the Chinese masses
and end all imperialist war maneu-
vers, the Central Executive Commit
tee Of the Workers (Communist) Par
ty has issued the following state
ment:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

1850 OF he ehatu of
n
on leaders and Ben Gold Wo the
TINS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIzED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
ru.,-oss A.-l..o,s4I.s..

3sap FtooR METROPOLITAN TowER
Nrw YoRk Cry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

In closing the address 10 Which T
have referred he expressed his heIte
that. by the best ruitivs-
ton of the physical world beneath anil
around us and the intellectual and
moral world within US, we shall secure
IN indiVi dual social and political pros.
periiy and happiness whose course
shall 5e onward and upward. anil
which, while the earth endures, shall
not pass away
while he did not fail 10 place :,
proper emphasis ON the cultivation
of the physical world around us. he
IhOroItCnlY understood that this must
ne supplemented by a cultivation If
Inc intellectual and moral world
within MS. The human soul will AL
WAYS rebel at any attempt to confine
IT to the physical world. Its dwelling
place is in the intellectual and moral
world 1t is into that realm that all
true education should lead. Unless
our scholarship. however brilliant ia
to ne barren and sterile. leading to-
ward pcSSimiSm, more emphasis must
he given To the development OF our
moral power. Our colleges must
teach not only science hut character.
We must maintain stronger frmer
grasp on the principal declared in the
Psalms If David and re-echoed In the
Proverbs Of his son Solomon. that
The rear ot tho Lord is the beginning
Of Knowledge. >"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

II las been under their inspiration
that the amount OF production for
each person employed has been so
highly Increased and the productivity
of the soil 80 greatly stimulated
They created Il vast agricultural EN-
pire. lying between the Alleghenies
and the Rockies which has furnished
an increasing food supply TO meet the
demands of our growing population
SO many and so varying elements
went into the winning of the great
World War that much caution should
he exercised in assigning to any one
OF them a decisive influence. But |
think it is entirely within reason to
say that without the supplies that
came from the American farms it is
impossible TO see how the war could
have been won. Those supplies could
never have been furnished without
the capacity for production which is
directly traceable to the influence of
the American agricultural colleges.
The hand Of Abraham Lincoln reached
over the hattlefields of France and
was one OF the decisive factors in
turning the scale OF victory.
But these colleges are important
not only because of the economic re-
suits which have accrued from them
but even more because Of their
spiritual value. They are OF great
benefit in the domain Of land and the
various products of the soil. hut in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

orally Ineffective we should he with
out these advantages can I've at once
seen by the most casual observation
OF those nations among which they
have been neglected.
This Is by no means all that Is TO
be expected from American education
and American institutions. | can moi
conceive that the object of Abraham
Lincoln was merely 10 instruct men
how To raise more corn. to feed more
hogs, to get more money, to buy more
land and so on in the expanding CIR
Gle az the story goes. or course, he
wanted to teach men TO raise more
corn. but his main object must have
been to raise better men. We come
back to the query that is contained in
the concentrated wisdom of the ages,
What shall it profit a man IL he gain
the whole world and lose his own
soul?' All of our science and all of
our arts will never be the means for
the true advancement OF our Nation.
will never remove US from the sphere
of the superficial and the cynical
will never give us civilization and
culture Of any worthy and lasting i'm
portdnce unless we are able to see in
them the outward manifestation of
spiritual reality. Unless our halls of
learning are real temples which are
to he approached by our youth In an
attitude OF reverence. consecrated by
worship of the truth. they will all end
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-10

IN a delusion. The information that
is acquired in them will simply pro
vide a greater capacity for evil. our
institutions of learning must I've ded
icated In 4 higher purpose. The life
Of our Nation must rise To higher
realm.
knowledge Not Enough
There is something more in learn.
ing and something more in life than
4 mere knowledge of science a mere
acquisition Of wealth. a mere striving
for place and power our colleges
will fail in their duty to their students
unless they are able to inspire them
with broader understanding Of the
spiritual meaning of science. of liter
allure and OF the arts. Their giadu-
ates will go out into life poorly equip
ped to meet, the problems of existence.
to fall an easy prey to dissatisfaction
and despair. Many of our older uni
verSities were founded 10y pious hands
at great sacrifice for the express plr
pose of training men for the min
istry 10 carry light to the people on
the problems of life. Unless our col
lege graduates are inspired with these
ideals, our colleges have failed i'm their
most irnpprta function and our poo.
pie will he lacking in true culture
Abraham Lincoln, who was the most
spiritual OF our Presidents. had a true
appreciation of this principle.