The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927 MASS MEETINGS — “GATHER” HUGE RAIL SYSTEM ES ‘SUIT FOR FALSE: | OS eee, (ILLINOIS BOSSES IN PORTO RICO DENOUNCE NAVY of Oppressors’ Fleet No Henor” "ARREST AGAINST ~ ALIQUIPPA COPS Postmaster Admits He Stops Daily Worker By ABRAM JAKIRA. THREATEN EXILE OF FOREIGN-BORN Admit Cheating Cloth- ing Strikers on Last Pay _PONCE, F 10—In a { By CARL HAESSLER. vigoror ot / n PITTSBURGH, Pa.,—The attorneys | (Federated Press). aggression in } the Pones |for Peter Muselin of Woodlawn, Pa., WAUKEGAN, IIL, Feb. 10—How Local of the Party of | who is suing the Aliquippa Chief of | the foreign born worker on strike Porto Rico ously voted Police for ten thousand dollars dam-~- will be hounded, third-degreed and for a re. nou ages for false arrest, rested their case | possibly deported by the government Cooli: 2 p today after a bitter legal battlewhich | if the anti-alien bills go through con- protest lasted several hours. Four witnesses be be ‘ is i ress is illustrated on a small and Sie atarshine to Porto Rico. ese newrogt testified for the chief of police when | Passengers and crew. of the “President Harding” suffered in the cold Hlegal scale in the garment strike at of the North Atlantic for several days while the ship Jay helpless without Waukegan, lights or fires—because of a leak in her oil tanks. She was finally rescued.| The Acial mated Ciothing Work. Oil fuel, which is rapidly displacing coal on steamers, is useful to the owners ers have sie trying for nue a ar largely because it cuts down the size of the engineroom gangs. It is far more|{. unionize the eapAWae ia of dangerous to handle. Rothschild & Granert, formerly under union agreement in Chicago. The whose movements were the court adjourned until Tuesday | North America by the 2 | morning. | shies : | Chief Was Sure. lists Map shows the Van Sweringens’ Nickel Plate system, if all the merger | Several witnesses testified © that | plans are approved; white lines show Wheeling & Lake Erie. 2m” Brown, the Chief of Aliquippa | | Police raided, on the night of July | Ss expected The Nat The Van Sweringen brothers—M, J. and O. P.—-of Clevels ; r ded methods of O., ope dlivmucshs thie ‘edie ae a ou beste 2ith, 1926 a peaceful meeting of a| IQ | shop was signed up after a strike m are exposed. thaw ial ft ehiethe! itaien talteond hold Ee f ‘cai he Mer eas ; are picnic committee of the Croatian | ENOUNCE last summer but it broke the agree- F No Honor. trok in the W: 4 tex act Tho Repay Y) RU TCIAAI NEE A a1x to Lents Leneficial Lodge to settle the accounts ment at the first opportunity, The The resolution. copies of which trol in the Wheeling & T. rie railroad. Other roads which joined for a pienice which was held on July | | strike has been renewed with a strong Coe ae. sant to the 1 Sand in the obtai of a working control through a spectacular market ¥5th, When he was asked for a war- | but law-abiding picket line that has municipal authorities, the senate, the coup and a private deal with John 1D. Roekefeller are the New York ant he stated: “I don’t need no god- | | ‘ earned the respect of the police. house of represen . the mayor Central and Baltimore & Ohio systems. Reports in New York have ,ed warrant for you.” -Several | | Thteaten Deportation. of Ponce and the municipal assembly, it that plans have been considered for a probable combination of the | men were arrested and then released | | Failing to get the usual police co- says: “The Porto Rican people con- Van Sweringen Is, New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio into | without even being questioned after LA E AUDIENCES SYNDICALISM BILL operation in breaking a strike, the sider the visit of the American ma- the greatest railroad system of all—35,000 miles, capital $3,650. _| having spent in jail for some time. | k Sint Reker fo na f egg ee rines and war fleet, announced by 662 1 canian ht telatec ‘lel, app Sahay nestion About Party. ON nefit of assistance from the federa' n the meantime, minority stockholders of the Che sapeake | ee W.D. Craig, who, together | ' eee authorities, They are attempting to the press, undesirable, and hereby & Ohio o ? ae ‘ : ro | I Py : : fl ppose the Van Sweringen grou: petit to the Interstat , : | lp: * : - 4 * “da ~ nema bene a aac: Commission for that ea e Jobin spy tora h attorney Richard 8. Holt, repre;| Negro Workers Glad to Big Employers Appear aS ike siaaaie cee sat cleieaee oe lo not consider it an honor to ‘i + Brown, stioned the 8 * . eal il me interest in the Pere Marquc!‘c and Erie railroads. t oe ae ae thelr’ afeiiation with Discuss Problems | For It at Hearing aliens and there is talk in the news- length as 2 | panies 6 he visited by the armies that aid in r r “ - the exploitation of the small repub- shoe papers in this connection of deporting lies of Central America, and do. not want invitations extended to them.” The strong resentment of the Porto Rican workers against American imperialism is being further aroused by the visit of the American fleet, and it is expected that many mass meetings will be held in protest. MEXICAN FOUL PLAY IS DENIED Odds and ends of news the Middle Western Metropolis ————— | the Workers (Communist) Party, and | CHICAGOLETS their personal beliefs on the question | of the overthrow of the American crnment and the establishment o! | Soviet form of government in. the | | United States. Numerous objections | raised by attorneys | and Henry H. Wilson, who represent Peter Muselin, the plaintiff, were con- CL an analysis of the race question, solution. Lovett Fort Whiteman, organizer EVELAND, Feb. 10.~—An en- gov- | thusiastic crowd gathered in the as- f a|Sembly room of the Mt. Zion Congre- gational Church in Cleveland to hear Boston, Feb. 10.—A hearing before a senatorial committee on Senate Bill No. 162, the criminal syndical- ism Bill, brought unanimous protests against its passage from all labor George J. Shaffer | showing that organization is the only, unions in the state, the Civil Liber- ties Bureau, the Association to Abol- ish War, the Community Church, and those not born in the United States. Counsel for the strikers immediate- ly showed that the law gives no au- | thority the right to question anyone about his citizenship unless he has been indicted for a felony. The at- torney advised the strikers to give no information, either to the sheriff, who others. was acting for the federal agents, or ‘The head of the state federation of|to the federal people themselves. labor, J. J. Van Wearnyck, denounced | Give No Information. it as only camouflage to say it was, “We shall stand pat ‘on our rights for the purpose of preventing a revo-| and refuse to give federal officers iution by force and violence. He told| any information about ourselves,” is »{ experiences in other states where! the statement from strike headquar- ch laws were always invoked in| ters. “If they pick us up we shall ime of strike, to throw strike leaders| get out immediately on habeas corpus into prison, and sometimes to rail- and shall sue for false arrest. They road them to long sentences for|are attempting to establish a dan- what, after all, was a matter of opin-|gerous precedent by questioning ion. | strikers as to citizenship.” Who Uses Force? |_.Secy. of Labor James Davis, a Van Wearnyck was scornful of the| Pittsburgh banker, is urging congress argument about force and violence| to pass the -bills for registration of anyway. He lifted the veil from the! aliens. He also favors finger print- deeds of those who talked so glibly, ing _ Mies bene fess foreign At the hearing of the committee 7 4 ‘lite ss ionists ‘of| Of the horror of force and violence,| born. aukegan incident shows » 20n. threes o? schools Alderman Nelson paid i further the ec alee eT wn I ga eeainlliriianis vf! and showed these same people using! how such information would be used his compliments to Alderman Toman | ican Legion. He; nae . 7 iS f tee every form of violence on the workers,| —to break strikes by intimidating the by telling him: he was watching the mails hiss dre Business for Prejudice. in the coal regions of West Virginia| Strikers of foreign birth and even to ‘Half the time when you come in from the Workers Party headquarters | caddie Van Veen, organizer of the and Pennsylvania and in the Law-| Prevent union organization work in Alderman Toman, you aren’t vot cern: te a radical irl Cleveland committes which called. the| rence strike “of 1919. “a basic eons seat the foreign sober!” e tooknit, upoq himself to bid “| meeting, acted as chairman and) Woul * ies . | born constitute a large part of the Hon. Toman veplied: idolivery of the issues mealies. | said: “The prejudice and traditions! ‘The bunsoliet Hida Sb civin| Working force. : “Yes, and you, Alderman Nelson, WORKER (he bond Aaa po |of America against the colored peo-| Liberties Union called the bill un-| _ Bosses Stand Together. are a liar!” i : : DAILY Meester 6s it os coh. | Ble have no justifiable reason for ex-| american, and said that under this) Rotidarity. oF, she: aueninn: Ore There you are. We are impartial, day before delivering i : ae ticle | iStence and their continuation is due! jaw, if it were passed, George Wash-|Dloyers against union progress is and therefore will take the word of seribers) which contained ; - Gotan. | Solely to the fact that it benefits big| ington could have been arrested and|%¢monstrated by the American Steel two or three members, to send in, Francisco Deralga tor of po-| Pothrof them. ... . about Queen Marie, entitled Cotzu-) business to have a divided class. Only) ;mprisoned for plotting insurrection,| ©, Wire Co.'s discharge of 3 employes ote Sy i _ Francisco Deralga, inspector of P fanista, He testified that Muselin has | organization, regardless of color, race| He would be jailed today, if he -;who expressed sympathy with the election returns for John L. Lewis.’ lice for the northern district of Lower PUR eae a “had character” and when pressed | 5, dex, can win’ tr the dally hartel ¥ e jailed today, if he came carment strikers. The company also These locals also sent delegates to | California, explained that what Keat-- Mayor Dever and a few other poli-| jy the attorneys he was compelled goainst the bosses. The American! to life again, and by his own sons/yamed two of its men whose wives the international convention on Jan. ing had discovered was an abandoned ticians are patting themselves on'the ¢, admit that this was his own opin- Neate Valen Gauges was OMEAIIAE! and hos eae This last was a shot)... garment strikers that unless the 25. grave-yard in the old river bed and’ back, calling attention in their cam-| jon, as Muselin favored the Soviet | for that paroonet tat the Sons and Daughters of ges denarted: tie. patuit pikat * ; . ? : s! is - + American Revolution, which organi- }. . Real Organizers Idle. that bodies had been exposed by flood| puign speeches to the wonderful | ¢orym of government in the U. S. A discussion followed the presenta-| zations are behind the present sein | one anes see ae eta There are plenty of good, honest waters. He said his office had.com- | achievements of the Chicago-school| ‘witness after witness testified that | tion of the question and the local of} inal ‘dicali pill organizers in the state that will dg/ plete records of every alien who had system, lca dost: thelsmae eteone thie. or! mo AN E.-C. of Cleveland Was ehel eee Th Rothschild & Granert firm has well in organizing, but these are «ied and had been buried there. In ‘They do not mention, of course,| gnother while working in the Jones! jarged by about a dozen new mem-| Unions Object. |admitted guilt in shortchanging em- not wanted by John L. Lewis. He the last three years only two Amer- that there is an a 1 shortage of | ynd Laughlin steel mills just’ because | pers, | Speakers from \ the Amalgamated] ployes on the final payroll when the must have his confederates on ‘the 1¢ans met death in his district, he’ about 100 seats the schools.! i: was discovered that they were | " age Yea ¢ | Clothing, Workers, the International) strike began. It has paid 6 claims payrgll. added, and but one American has dis-; and that schools are being platooned.) ,..qijcals. i Whiteman at E. Liverpool | Ladies’ “Garment Workers, the Up-| totaling $25.15 in just:ce court. Suits Some meetings were held in inde-/) appeared. 4 A couple of strikes of the school peat . LIVERPOOL Oh bisa f as the, Bolsterers union, and other unions! for $25.95 in addition will be started pendent outfits. They did not dare Louis Manss, customs inspector at children and the raids by the angry h . es" it th Fe teat Nes er pe | took the floor and criticized the mo-! by the strikers. The claims were set- ) to appear in Colorado Fuel & Iron| the boarder, supported Deralga’s parents on the board of education Master Mechanics Eig on vee 3 vat ced Winter “-\ tives of the proponents of the bill. | tled in spite of a widely heralded pro- |*coal camps, which are the key of |Siatement. He could recall only one/ and the city hall are also forgotten | Get Gold Buttons; he shal a ered aia Speakers for the bill were Mr.) fessional audit of the firm’s books by their district. jcase where an American had disap-'jn the campaign speeches. But the e ’ sai ae ay beh es ae tae Elks Sherwood of the Master Builders’) order of the chamber of commerce in I would be ashamed to accept my | peared in Mexicali. Deralga said his| parents do not forget. A mass pro- Wages Unchanged jon spe bed e Roflored ©°S) Association, and Mr. Squaly, a big! which the auditors reported that all ‘his was the fourth and most suc- check from the union unless I got | ecords. contained 28 descriptions of test meeting’ called by the North | building contractor, ‘Their argu-| Wages had been paid in full. new members for the pnion in re- |" ing persons such as Keating is| West Side Parent’s League filled ALS : PGR SS AROS ER Laity “yita.| ments consisted largely of abuse of! The strike is in its 10th week with- |, turn. They do not dare to attack | seeking. . |the basement of a chureh. eee ype ee wha oT hie Bie Peak a acd the Workers Party, and reading of|out the desertion of a single striker. construction of the Central Merean-| classes and types were drawn to the | CXcerPts of cases from criminal syn-, the coal companies in their lectures | r ae it i ~ The bluff may go with the pu , > organizati Pi ¥ 0} : ri rents. “ h rs ¢ ypes tl Saal ea but do not spare other organizations. Peaches ow To Be Reopened. but not with the parents. They have tile Building at Fifth Ave., and Forty! meeting and judging by the undivid-| dicalism ead me | Fourth St. on Monday. ed attention given the speaker, they; Like California Law. There are at the present time} Possibility of a new and startling, learned by experienc locals ,i ilar, .. With | devel t in the Brownin ara- a > Pees tar F Y a ON, ar Pree EGR § ital merberstiy of 160 ress "An | toa chee loomed: today Wien 1 Sap Big Hau! On Vessel. The N. ¥. Building Congress be | were informed of things of an inter-| Senate. Bill No. 162 is almost an} ‘ “EME these men that voted, with the |reported that one of the. witnesses at} LOS: ANGELES, Feb. 10—Fifty| lieves that: lobor ‘has not previously; esting and vital character that before) exact copy of the familiar measures) Textile Interests , iy sip ate exe) aotat de |peen sufficiently recognized for its they had given too. little attention. jused in California and other states. wee Express Optimism exception of three, voted for John|the recent trial at White Plains had) one thousand dollars in currericy dis-| Fs st : , ia . ren 1 le te ead re i aon That proves that the miners |signed a confession that he was| appeared from the strong box of the! Part in building construction, or for "The potice, the politicians, the) It 2 aces le acer Sieh ead wanted the progressive candidate, |“forced” to enter a conspiracy to §. S. Colombia while the vessel was! it8 superior craftmanship, and so pro-| workers who had assembled to soe ae Y otint ies ie Doses picks £ They wanted something new and|blacken the character of “Peaches”|enroute from New York to Los ceeded to remedy matters with gold the lecture, were held to close iasies BY a definition of criminal syndi-| LAWRENCE, Mass. Feb. 10,— better. Browning. Angeles harbor. buttons and diplomas. Mr. William) tion by Whitemans masterful, analy-|calism as any doctrine which advo-| Representatives of the various tex- : z ¢ G. Ludlow, who made the presen-| sis of present world conditions. He| cates force, violence or crime, or| tile corporations of this city; in a tation said nothing about an increase also gave a clear conception of*the| Sabotage to accomplish industrial or) meeting with the newly appointed In- in wages, or the hazards that make! Negro and his. position in the impe-| political reform, dustrial Commission, expressed their la building work particularly danger | rialist society of America. The evils) Plain Murder All Right. belief that conditions of their indus- | ous, of segregation and Jim Crowism were| ‘According to the wording of the} try will improve in the near future, tinually overruled by Judge Wm. A. \ of the congress, outlined the interna- McConnel. | tional situation and showed the strug-| Legion Communist Committee. | gle of the colonial and semi-colonial The arbitrary e in Woodlawn of | peoples and oppressed races for free- “s the Jones and Li hlin interests came |dom. He explained why China is ago Women’s Club when the 4, jieht today when Mr. Simson, the | fighting imperialism for her life and y postmaster of Woodlawn, was called | also India, Mexico and Nicaragua. geons attempted. to stop he upon to testify for Mr. Brown. He | Speaking ot the purpose of the con- speaking. «5. was compelled to admit that he was| gress Whiteman said: “It stands to Feb. 10.—Declar- a the ba abcess she nee ; member of the American Legion hia a the cuore beh into i at reception. he Department o. re ty speci om- | trade unions and to fight against a (By Worker Correspondent.) ing of Los Angeles that Mexicali, ce men had enough intelligence si va Raber ue pie Dents in-| rimination in the. trails unions; AGUILAR. Colo., Feb. 10.—The! Lower California. a’ town where) not to attempt to stop her speech at ss red pig to combat Communism | but wherever it is not possible to get miners of this coal field, District 15|many Americans have met with foul)the Workers’ House. They knew abet He was formerly an em-| the colored workers into the regular of the United Mine Workers of; play and were buried in- shallow un-/there were’ no saps’ at 1902 W. Di-| joue of Jones ‘and Laughlin Stee] | unions, then the Negroes must be or- | America, are rapidly becoming mi-| marked grayes, have been met with) vision St. civhoratinn i ganized separately and the A. F. of gratory workers. They drift aim-| quick denials from both American H corpora Ne aa cut 1. be “forded ‘to: veebquize then ‘ait lessly from camp to camp, trying to | and Mexican authorities. He’ used “his odtive of postmaster | accept them as locals. There is work find the conditions that used to be,) Keating returned here. yesterday} - and trying without result. from a fruitless sear Offi is Watch Games. missing men from Los Angeles, .and| The district ‘officials spend their |1eported that he had iowna ine sanus time watching the baseball games| of the Colorado Madura River below --in-town,-and-there is practically no the Mexican town strewn with bod- organization work going on. ies. Many of the dead" he believed to But just before the last election , be Americans. | (December, 1926) for international) Persons killed in Mexicali were officials of the U. M. W., the district frequently buried without / any at-| officials here got busy, ard formed | tempt at identification by the auth- a lot of little locals, mostly with only | orities, Keating charges. Municipal police expect much trouble if the marines are given shore- leave, because of the prejudice’ against them. Colorado Coal Miners Drift Around Looking For Some Organization Los ANGEL — ution by Deputy Sheriff Walter Keat ro by her. lect Inion. There was almost 2 riot at ° t Abandoned Graveyard | Chicazo %. ° | ndred percenters and the Uncovered, Claim : Pa ss Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. ee | | The men.who were awarded these bared to the people. ‘The relation of bill, advocating crime, force and vio-| This follows an active campaign ‘on a \trinkets are: V. Hartnagel, bronze the Negro to the 13th and 14th lence for private purposes, or any) the part of these corporations for the worker; H, N. Hotchkiss, sheet metal, amendments to thé constitution of the| other reason than a desire for re-| past number of years to negate the | worker; John Hayes, plasterer; Al-| United States was shown. {bert Wurth, electrician; James, “Only. rats act cowardly and run/| | Hunt, marble setter; James Breen, to their holes when one of their num- | form, would be all right—at least ia the absence of other laws. The bill then goes on to prescribe penalties forty-eight-hour law for women and children. They are also asking the state to favor them by lowering their |voofer; James Hall, plumber; Wil-'ber is trapped and burned, We won-| of ‘ten years’ imprisonment, and $5,-| taxes, so as to “save them from liam Mosher, glazier; Edward Ken- der when.Negroes will stop imitating C00 fine, or both, for any one who | ruin.” The two theories of “impend- td ! ‘nell, stone earver; Ernest Falken-| rats and demand the rights of men,” commits criminal syndicalism, by|ing ruin” and “good year ahead” | berg, elevator constructor; John| said Whiteman, | written or spoken word, or who joins | were not correlated by the commis- , | Hawkesworth, tile setter; Louis! Oy ee any organization that does so. sion. | Stephensen, aeevoaen James ‘cee, Mass Meeting at Passaic. | : r y * “4 | stone setter; James Downey, metal) s NS Bas * GIVE MONEY PLEASE! For Coal for the Strikers’ Homes! lather; Otto Ruzicka, painter; Peter! j, pene, pus i eraip pene: Rage irr For Bread for their families! They have made a hard fight! Coleman, bricklayer. ° | Feb. 14, at 7:30 P. M., at which Now they are winning! Now you must help more than ever! |{) The building was recently sold at 4 Loyott Fort-Whiteman will speak un- Give all you can!’ MAKE VICTORY COMPLETE! aes ‘der the auspices of the American ‘ | = . ase Negro Labor Congress. The lecture John D, Gets Reckless! "| will be at Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton h DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10 Ave:, near Monroe St., Passaic, N. J. te, John D. Rockefeller started a run Problems of the Negro workers will ‘on his dime bank today. While golf-! be the subject. Admission is free. | ing with Father Leonard he came NOAA ete puts altmiats soln pla pe ae: vas across the son of an old friend, Mr.) af olinist, play solos from Wienawsky. Tolle, Gb years old, and gave him « Students’ Newspaper ANNE PALBEY and MISS RIGHTHAND will play a four-hand duet fist full of bright ten-cent pieces. | Re 6 ym oven’ ymphony, "*f pabes AMC bieake. my bank,” thel Retracts Red Charge} j.p,"scrocken will dance "The Toller,” accompanied by SUZAN ‘ i there’s enough to care for yourself, jas retracted in an editorial on. Jan, jchildren and grand-children, along) 91 the charge made in an editorial with your brothers. | of Nov. 16, that the Civil Liberties TONIGHT t 8:30 is the Given by the ; PAPER BOX MAKERS’ UNION at STAR CASINO, 107th Street and Park Avenue. | VALENTINE RIGHTHAND will play piano solos from Chopin, Make all cortributions by check or money order to GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE NEW YORK CITY 799 BROADWAY Room 225 HODKIN. GEORGE RIGHTHAND will play on the saw. Rixe “FELDMAN'S “BIG SIX” BAND will play at the Ball. HAT CHECK 250, benoit Get 10c Coupons and sell then TO HELP US FHED the Strikers’ Children. ; ADMISSION 50C, LE a aE i a tw | Union is “the official organ of the rt ; When replying to these advertise-| Vhird International, of Russia prim- 4| ments mention The DAILY WORKER. | arily, byt world-wide in seope.” Steinway piano used by courtesy of Steinway Piano Co. - ’ ——