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WORKERS! JOIN THE ‘HANDS OFF CHINA!" DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT ATTHE ROYAL PALACE IN BROOKLYN! COME IN MASSES! The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- FINAL CITY organised. For a Labor Party. EDITION For the 40-Hour Week. THE DAILYEntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at NewWORKER.York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1873. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, fg.oo per year. Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Vol. IV. No. 31. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927 PUBLISHING CO.. 83 First Street. New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents BAR LEFT WINGERS FROM CENTRAL LABOR ONION Vote $25,000 Only for I NEW BRITISH CRISIS IS DEVELOPING New York Housing Crisis Can Investigation of Big Disrupters Expel Deal in Federal Jobs I OVER DEFEAT OF SON CHUAN FANG Be Solved Only By Workers WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. A Vanquished Militarist Looking for Speedy Vessel fund of $25,000 for the proposed Militant Leaders senatorial investigation into charges Bound for a Sheltered Port that federal offices were sold in Party Program southern states to the highest bid- [Communist] LONDON, Feb. —The British cabinet is meeting tonight in a special Ben Gold and Militant Leaders of Furriers and der, 17< was authorized today by the .session to consider the fhesh crisis in China which has arisen from the debacle senate committee on control of con- Ladies Garment Workers Read Out of Council assemblyman in charge the rent laws, of General Sun Chuan Fang's defeated army. The cabinet will also endeavor Edmund B. Jenks, of tingent expenses, in reporting the to an answre to the two demands of Eugene Chen, Cantonese proposes to formulate declares that “the housing emergency is over” and Norris resolution. foreign minister, which he insists upon, before he will deal with the British Union disrupters, acting under direct orders of the reaction- Emergency Rent Laws repealed. These laws at The limit of $25,000 was imposed j representative, General O’Malley, for an agreement as to Hankow. have the so-called after debate senate, ary officials of the American Federation of Labor, expelled 23 only have not solved in the and was j Chen’s demands are a reiteration best were a hopeless makeshift which not brought motion from 1 Chuan Fang, his front irreparably delegates Ladies’ about by a of those he made for the recognition militant of the Gament Workers’ and Furriers’ they were intended to meet, but have permitted it to of the Millions will [ 1 broken, is retreating in three direc- the problem opponents bill. of the government. His Union at the Thursday evening meeting of the Central Trades Cantonese ' tions leaving large of troops, get progressively worse. be spent to conceal any such com- | the repudiation of the bodies first demand is completely isolated at the mercy of and Labor Council. 1. They exempt certain newly merce in federal offices. Peking government. 1 The laws cover two matters: His sacond is ! the Cantonese forces. Sun is said to The expulsions mark another step in the campaign of re- years. the of the Shanghai de- Constructed buildings from taxation for a period of ten limitation be making a desperate effort to re- fense force to the brigade of troops actionary elements in the A. F. of L., headed by Matthew Woll of tenants in to increase rentals. | form his lines at Kashing, midway be- 2. They prevent eviction order already there. It is understood there ajnd local followers, led by Hugh Frayne, to “purge” the labor the problem of a city as enormous and as rapidly growing ; tween Hangchow and Shanghai. But Subway is a strong sentiment in the cabinet Sun is reported to be making en- movement of all militant workers. r Victims I legislation. While acceptance as New York is not solved bj such makeshift against the of either of quiries regarding passage for himself Woll, Frayne and Edward O’Grady, A. F. of L. representa- Com- Chen’s demands. .Tenks is declaring that the emergency is over, we find Health to Japan. Beside the treachery of tive, were seated on the Central Labor Union platform yesterday government Pao-San, the garrison missioner Harris admitting that the crowded slums are a source Well informed officialsi General Pei evening when the session came to order at Beethoven Hall. With- frequency Demand Action predict that the Shanghai defense ! commander at Yenchow who suddenly of a high death rate, of “tuberculosis and disease and force, China, ; forces, out wasting time, the machine steamroller got under way im- diseases. now en route to will be deserted to the Cantonese frequency of other communicable directed by wireless to proceed to) General Chang Tsung-Chang, the mediately. City Housing Shanghai without stopping at Hong of Shantung forces, Must Have Plan. f commander the Green Orders It. On Transit Kong. In the meantime, General Sun i is also believed to be deserting Sun. The emergency rent laws should of course be continued, but Letters from President William under them conditions have gone from bad to worse. What the Green ordering the expulsion were BAD MILK STIRS Ryan city needs is a socially planned building construction program Rush read. President Joseph P. of rapidly growing population and Legislators in to the central body then read the execu- j which would keep pace with' the EXPELLED DELEGATES IN PROTEST tive committee’s report, carrying out j STATE TO ACTION congestion, just as much as it needs a socially planned transit Appease Local Ire the orders. program. Samuel Liebowitz, assistant man- j Facing the rising tide of resentment Delegates Expelled From the Board, Just as new" bridges are being thrown over the East River Statement of the the ager of Furriers’ Joint AGAINST and new subways and bus lines are being constructed throughout of New York’s millions of tired, tor- and Emma Yenetski of Ladies’ Gar-1 GRAFT tured subway riders, the state legis- N. Y. Central Trades and Labor Council ment Workers’ Local 22 were on their! the city, so new homes, accessible to the workers, should be con- lature today was considering five feet immediately. Synthetic structed on a large scale by the city in a planful manner to keep separate transit bills. We, the undersigned, duly elected delegates to the Central Trades and “Why am I unseated,” Liebowitz Fluid Poisons pace with the growing population. Less than a year ago, in the None provided for municipal own- Labor Council of New York City, on behalf of over forty thousand workers asked. whom we represent, herewith voice our emphatic protest by our unwar- Workers’ Children lest state electoral campaign, the Workers Party proposed: ership and operation of the subways “You are not a delegate,” replied systems, admittedly the ranted and arbitrary expulsion tonight, which was carried through by Ryan. and elevated Egged on by the protests out- Workers Party Program. only practicable Joseph Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council on in- “Are we to be unseated without of solution. raged New York milk consumers, dwellings by municipal- structions of William Green, president of the American Federation of even a trial,” Yenetski fired at the; a (1) The construction of the Heated protests from hundreds of state wide campaign was launched to- riders about the nauseating Labor. chairman. ities for the workers to be rented to them without profit. subways This wholesale expulsion is flatly in violation of the day against “synthetic” or “recon- conditions in the so-called sanitary fa- constitution of “Sit down, sit down,” Ryan roared. given to the workers in the A. F. of L., of our respective Internationals, and our rights gen- structed” milk. Bern A. Pyrke, state Adequate representation shall be subways came of Sergeant Moves. cilities of the also to as workers. It is contradictory At Arms commissioner of agriculture consented the management of such houses. Mayor McKee jerally a head today. Acting the traditions of the American The sergeant at arms moved to do the job. (Z) to t*p. municipality for the above by the deluge of com- |to men-1 State credits was forced | labor movement and is an outrage acingly toward the expelled delegates Pyrke announced he had revoked to order the transit commis- y. stuck groupd, de- purpose. plaints S. SENDS MORE j upon the workers of this community as they to their the milk gathering license of the sion to special hearings February the unwarranted non-profit making co- hold ! and the trade union - manding reasons for Middle States Milk and Cream (3) The eiyouragement of exactly nothing movement at Com- 24 and 28. That will | large. action. pany, Inc., of New York City. This operatives for building construction by exemption from hearings ’New result from the unless We been expelled, not Ryan passed on to the “next order company at hearings Pyrke, and by at a low rate in- organized pres- have because before taxes and other fees loans of York workers bring MARINES AGAINST j wc. have violated any real principles of business,” completely ignoring left was charged with using a “homogen- freely predicted. terest. sure tot bear, was ! of unionism but because we have ven- wing protests. Replying to a demand izer,” a machine for making fresh were intro- session, (4) and extension of non-eviction, The five transit bills | tured to make a real struggle against for an executive Ryan coun- milk from evaporated or condensed Enforcement in the legislature by Senator is chartered by and duced the employers, and have advocated tered that “this body milk.