The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1927, Page 1

\ 1 Hi \7 t \ } THE DAILY WORKER WIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-FOUR WEEK FOR 4 LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 221. STRIKE OF 1,200 WINDOWCLEANERS SET FOR MONDAY Fight Company Union, | Want $3 Weekly Raise | More than 1,200 window cleaners]! will go on strike Monday unless their demands for the recognition of their union and a $3 weekly wage increase are granted. The bosses’ association has refused to meet the representa- | tives of the workers so far and al strike appears inevitable. For the past six months Local 8 of| the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union has been subjected to all the/ petty, mean trickery at the hands of the Amalgamated Window Cleaning Employers’ Association of which ‘a/ bosses’ outfit is capable. | Last October the window cleaners} waged a fight for better working conditions and a pay raise. After a} three weeks’ struggle with all the| forces of organized violence pitted against them, they forced the bosses to come to terms—and won. Chagrined at their defeat, the em-| ployers’ association resorted to the, time-honored stunt of fostering dis- loyalty to the workers’ organization. The agents of the bosses worked hard and had plenty of funds to carry on their scab work. In May the bosses began to violate clause after clause of the contract! which they signed with the workers. Men were discharged for refusing to work with non-union workers, the union scale was in many instances de- nied, and members of the Protective Union were discharged for inadequate reasons, In June the officials of the protec- (Continued on Page Five) Current Events | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. o~ Latest Events in China Described in Articles Starting Next Monday The DAILY WORKER will be- gin on Monday, Oct. 3rd, the pub- lication of a.series of articles by Sze Toh-li of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. Dated the first of August and mailed from Han- kow these articles picture the po- litical and military struggle which took place during the period when the Wuhan government was pre- paring the betrayal of the mass lib- eration movement and maneuvering for the surrender to Chiang Kai- shek and the Nanking counter-rev- olutionary government. The suppression of the trade | unions, the execution of workers’ | leaders, the war on the peasantry, the role of the various personali- ties with whose names news dis- patches have made American workers familiar, are dealt with in brilliant style. The class charac- ter of the liberation movement is shown clearly and the perspective for the Chinese revolution — laid down by the writer has been am- ply justified by subsequent events. Order.a bundle of The DAILY WORKER containing each of these articles and distribute them to your shopmates or subscribe for some | worker you know will be inter- pda eo LAMONT'S SPEECH TO U.S, BUSINESS, INDEX TO MORROW Mexican Ambassador Is Wall Street Envoy Dwight W. Morrew, of J. P. Mor- | | America, the so-called home of free- gan & Co., has been appointed Amer- | By T. J. O'Flaherty ican ambassador to Mexico. | What THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Poxt Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘SACCO, VANZETTI: ASHES TAKEN TO FASCIST ITALY Emergency Committee} Hits New Frame-Up | The ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and half of the ashes of Nicola Sacco left for fascist Italy on board the! ;Mauretania last night in a sealed’ package borne by Miss Luigia Van,’ 4 zetti. The ashes of the two martyred workers left for Italy with agents of | Mussolini busily at work with De-| partment of Justice agents framing evidence against two more innocent Italian workers, When informed that the ashes of Sacco and Vanzetti had left Boston for New York on their way to Italy, Miss Rose Baron, secretary of the! Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Commit- tee, said: An Ill-Bestowed Honor. “It is ironical that Italy, a country that is under the heel of a despotic, capitalistic dictatorship, should be honored with the ashes of two work- jing-class martyrs. “The parents of Sacco and Vanzetti \saw two young, virile men leave for ©|dom, and in return, Governor Fuller ‘and the class he represents, is re- turning a few charred ashes of the ‘sere of capitalistic class hatred. w Frame-up In Making. pavaly has one frame-up been disposed of via the electric chair than ;We see another in the making. Al- Iready the agents of Mussolini, work- jing in conjunction with the agents of the U. S. Department of Justice, have |teepetoened two more innocent work- jers charged with “murder.” Grecco lead Carillo will find that a stiffer re- {sistance will be put up on their behalf |than was the case in the defense of |Sacco and Vanzetti. | “Very little time will be spent on \appeals to the legal hierarchy. Only the organized power of the workers JULLING off news fakes is a com- mon practice with capitalist edi- tors. Many dispatches bearing a re- spectable “ foreign date line are imagined and written a few floors distant from the linotypes. Pictures cre taken down from the morgue and represented as fresh from some scene of action. The few that detect the fraud do not consider it their busi- ness to expose it, #and anyhow the means at their disposal are not ade- quate to cope with the lying machinery of the capitalist press. ™ * * NE notorious sinner in this respe is the Chicago Tribune. Every once in a while it trots out a picture which has been doing service since the 1903 revolution, with the object of showing disorder and chaos in the Soviet Union. The Hearst papers fabricate interviews with Stalin and other leaders of the U.S.S.R. Re- cently the New York Evening Journal showed an alleged picture of an al- leged Soviet executioner who could drop a fly at fifty yards with a re- volver. Some marksman! This man had a roving commission in the Cau- cusus and the pleasant task of shoot- ing everybody who fell into the bad graces of the G.P.U. The terrible person pictured in the Hearst sheet looked like a male fortune teller. Cee * Few people who read the Evening Journal will stop to doubt the au- thenticity of the picture and the Bris- banal editorial that accompanied it. Should such a celebrity exist there would be as much likelihood of his picture getting out of Russia as there is of the capitalists of this country turning over their government to the workers peacefully the day after the voters declare themselves in favor cf Va overthrow of capitalism at the} (Continued on Page Thr ree) I sort of a message is Morrow going |¢an save the victims of the frame-up to take to Mexico? The utterances system. The best monument that we of Thomas J. Lamont, the closest|¢an erect to the memories of Sacco | friend of Morrow, and partner of J. P. fend Vanzetti is a powerful, organized Morgan can be taken as instructions | working-class in America, so strong, to the new Biibassador. Speaking’ in janes future class murders will be im- Washington before the Fifteenth An-| possible.” nual Meeting of the Chamber of Cora-| Luigia Vanzetti was accompanied merce of the United States in May,|to New York by Mrs. Rose Sacco, Mr. Lamont discussed foreign loans) Who left at home half of the ashes and dealt in detail with Mexico. In| of her inks haha al husband. ect he indicated to Mexico that she | was imperilling her industrial future and her national finances by her 4 COMMUNISTS treatment of the oil property and ag-| vicultura! property of foreigners and} intimating that the full force of Wall Street government would be brot to! bear in behalf of American financial! and oil interests, Mr. Lamont on that} oceasion said: “Mexico, prior to the scries of rev-| olutions’ which all the friends of; NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT, 29, 1927 INJUNCTION HANDED DOWN AGAINST STONECUTTERS’ *Fonck Announces Air ' Service Between N. 1. | and Paris for Spring CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., Sept. | 28.—Captain Rene Fonck tonight | announced plans for a trans-Atlan- | tic airplane service between New} York and Paris, to be started next | Spring. The French flyer asserted that | he would first make a trans-Atlan- | tic flight from New York to Paris | before starting activities ona com-| mercial basis, but that he probably would not make a non-stop oa I GARFIELD POLICE STOP BIG LABOR POLITICAL MEET Deak Prevented From Addressing Raily GARFIELD, N. J., Sept, 28.—Act- ing under the direct orders of the mill owners, police last night stopped an open air meeting in the fourth ward that was being addressed by the labor candidates for councilmen in the coming election. When Gustav Deak, president of the district council of the United Textiles Workers’ union and labor candidate for councilman in the sec- ond ward, was addressing a large gathering of workers, a patrol wagon drew up and a sergeant stepped out. Asked for Permit. The sergeant asked Deak if he had a permit for conducting the meeting. Leak informed the police official that no permit is necessary to conduct a political meeting. The sergeant then left. Returning shortly, when John di Santo ,candidate for councilman in the fourtn ward, was speaking, the sergeant told the committee that the meeting must stop. He said that he had seen someone of influence who had advised him to stop the meeting. Hold Indoor Rally. The labor candidates unwillingly closed the outdoor meetin and let the crowd into’ a. nearbr’ 8 an enthusiastic meeting ‘was held. Fexil Panarissi, candidate from the third wara, and John Marshall spoke. There was great indignation and anger among the audience at the police action which was considered as a direct effort to prevent the labor candidates from exercising the rights of American citizens. More Meetings Arranged. Joe Harris spoke at the open air meeting before the arrival of the po- lice. Stephen Gedde, Jr., presided. In spite of the police interference an open air meeting will be held to- night at 7:30 o’clock at Belmont and Palisade Aves. in the second ward and on Saturday, 7:30 p. m, at ail where! © Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, en cee oe CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents N. Y¥. INTERNATIONAL UNION IN FEDERAL COURT IN N. Y,; GOVERNMENT LAWYERS GET “VICTORY” FOR BOSSES Evicted Miners foe To Build Barracks as Bosses Grab All Houses (By Federated Press). NANTY GLO, Pa., Sept. 28— Striking soft coal miners of Dis- trict 2, United Mine Workers, are having plenty of trouble housing themselves when evicted by their former employers, asserts William Welsh, district union board mem- ber. At Alverda the miners are constructing a 10-room barrack to provide temporary shelter. Twenty families were given eviction no- tices in one day at Nanty-Glo, says Welsh. The coal companies mean- while are trying to lease every available house to prevent the evicted miners from staying in town. Welsh considers this a move to try to force the men back to the mines in their desire to save their families from suffering for lack of housing. BUILDING TRADES WORKERS HIT AT COUNCIL SELLOUT Agreement W With Bos: Maintains Wage Seale | Progressive workers sity are bitterly attacking the Build- ing Trades Council, dominated by John Halcott, successor to Boss Brin- dell, for selling out more than 100,000 workers in thirty different crafts. The agreement concluded between the council and the Building Trades Em- ployers’ Association is branded as a »omplete sell-out. The agreement extends the present wage scale and working day for two years. Despite recent efforts of build- ing trades workers, particularly the Brooklyn painters and plumbers and the plumber helpers, to win higher wages and a five-day week, the Brin- dell council agreed to maintain the old agreement. Labor-Baiter Happy. The agreement is aimed directly at the progressive elements who remain outside of the building trades council. The plumbers, painters, bricklayers, thruout the | Action Result of Union the government,” down by Federal Judge W. Stonecutters’ Association president, four affiliated labor charged with “ anti-trust law.” Side by side with this boasted sin- gle identity of the government and| the bosses is the fact that the ae lawyer for the union, Sidney |Symes, appeared during the trial as |the chief witness of the prosecution. The lawyer attempted to refute a/ sworn statement made by Michael A.} Mitchell, president of the union, that|'| he was not aware of the contents of | a statement signed by him but drawn up by Symes concerning the question | of handling non-union materials. Application of U. S. Decision. 2B cent decision of the U. S. supreme | court in the case of the Bedford Cut} (Continued on Page Three) of North America, The present ruling follows the re-| Stone Company, and is a part of the| | Refusal to Work With Scab Material; To Appeal Decision Former Lawyer of Organization Appeared As Chief Witness for Prosecution Hailed by federal district attorneys as “a signal victory for despite the fact that the original action was brought by a group of employers, an injunction has been handed Grubb against the Journeymen international its bodies and nine other individuals restraint of trade” 1@ “violation of the Sherman @ and Plan Monster Reception | at- Garden for American | Labor Delegation Soon | Plans are being made for a mon- ster meeting at the Madison Square} | Garden to welcome the members |of the American Trade Union dele- | | gation ‘which returned Monday |from the Soviet Union, it was |learned yesterday. No date has |yet been set for the meeting. The trade union delegation was ! very favorably impressed with the Soviet Union. _ MUSSOLINI PERSONALLY DIRECTS _ FASCIST MOVEMENT IN AMERICA Plot to Railroad Grecco and Carillo to the Electric Mexico hope are now ended, borrowed | extensively in the foreign markets. happen to be chairman of an S588 tional committee formed in 1919 to/ endeavor to protect the interests of | the holders of Mexico’s foreign bonds | which aggregated (with accrued in- terest) about $725,000,000 (including | the National Railways debt) on the in-| vitation of the Mexican government, I visited Mexico in 1921 in order to study the foreign debt situation with | the government officials. In pursu- ance of agreements subsequently en- tered into, our committee asked and received certain guarantees from the Mexican government bondholders. It is true that this sum represents only | about a quarter part of what was due upon the original obligations. Will Fulfill “Obligations.” “Nevertheless, the remittance by the Mexican government of a sum as con- siderable as that stated is evidence of an earnest desire on the part of the (Continued on Page ive) “Fos Tu TRIO, SPECIAL FEATURE AT SHOWING OF \“THE TEMPTRESS” AT WALDORF THEATER SUNDAY A special musical entertainment inigne hy the Moscow Trio will be part of the program next Sunday at the Waldorf) Theatre, 50th St. and Seventh Ave.,| when the South American movie, “The Temptress” will be shown. In addition “The Champion,” star- | ring the greatest of all American comedians, Charlie Chaplin, will be shown. “The Temptress” has been highly praised both in the United States and) in Europe as a vivid and realistic presentation of life in South America. One of the sensational “shots” in the film is the scene depicting Brazilian cattlemen on the plains settling their differences with bull whips. The building and wrecking of a huge dam in the Andes, sensational rides over the South American plains in pursuit of the bandit, “Manos Duros,” played by Roy D’Arcey, are some of the exciting features of pictures. - Antonio Moreno and Greta Garbo| in this extraordinary film which was adapted from the story by Vin- jeent Blasco Ibanez. | GRETA GARBO The showing at the Waldorf Thea- tre next Sunday is especially for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and The hada Admission is 65 cents, 1 Duclos in 1 Dock Calis Workers to Fight War PARIS, Sept. 28.—The mounting |wave of reaction in France swept ‘André Marty and Jacque Duclos, | Communist deputies, and René Bel- anger and Henri Barbé, along with \it yesterday when the four fearless ‘class fighters were condemned to |sentences totalling thirty years by ithe corrupt French class courts. Expose Capitalists. André Marty, who has continu- ously exposed the French bourgeoicie from the day of his election to the |Chamber of Deputies until he was |incarcerated in a Paris jail, was sen- jtenced to 10 years imprisonment and fined 6,000 francs. The other men were given lesser sentences. Charges against the Communist \leaders grew out of the offensive which the French bourgeoisie have inaugurated against the workers anc jtheir leaders and in which the French police and secret service have re- ‘ceived orders to spare no one and no method in “getting” their victims. Marty and his comrades are ac- jeused of having fomented revolt among the French troops and reserv- jists and with spreading subversive jpropaganda in connection with ' | ea aes badass Be on Page Two) Norway Labor Delegate Norway Labor Delegate To USSR Says Workers Will Halt Tory Attack Moscow, U.S. S. R., Sept. 28. — Addressing the Presidium of the District Trade Union Soviet in Artemovsk (Don Basin), M. Ga- brielson, member of the Norwegian labor delegation visiting the Soviet Union declared: “We are full of admiration for everything we have seen here. This visit will always be remembered by us. Norwegian workers will not allow the oem to attack the Soviet Uni plasterers, marble workers and plumb- ers’ helpers are not in the council. The council is not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Great satisfaction with the agree- ment has been expressed by Christian G. Norman, chairman of the board Charles and Harrison Aves. in the third ward. Meetings at both places will be repeated the following Tues- day. There. wili be a big rally at Belmont Park on October 6, Teachers Fight fo Keep Pension Fund New York teachers are planning to resist any attempt to obtain a re- versal of the verdict of the state su- vreme court which declared the elec- tion of Irving Crane, a Bronx poli- ‘ician, as secretary of the retirement Soard. A trust fund of over $40,000,000, xt least $25,000,000 of which is teach- ‘rs’ money will be placed in the hands f a body with no teacher-represen- ‘ation if the decision is overruled, it s pointed out. Illegal. Say Teachers. Crane was elected on July 7th, last, four non-teacher members of the board having voted for him. The con- stitutionality of his election was vig- orously challenged by the city teach- ers who pointed out that it was in obvious violation of the provision of the law affecting pension rights which states that at least one teacher-mem- ber of the retirement board must vote fer the candidate. Miss Lillian A. Hatch, a teacher- member of the board who fought the appointment from the very beginning said Crane’s selection was due to pres- sure exerted by the Bronx County Democratic Association, according to the current issue of “The Union Teacher,” official organ of the New York Teachers’ Union. Denouncing the decision of the city authorities to appeal from the su- preme court decision which favored the contention of the teachers regard- ing the appointment of a secretary to the retirement board, the “Union Teacher” says: “The city of New York, too poor to raise teachers’ salaries without state aid is defraying all costs involved by the city members in the present pen- sion suit, but the teachers themselves, [fio DAILY WORKER. of governors of the employers’ asso- ciation, notorious for his anti-labor sentiments. U. S, FINANCIERS TIE POLAND WITH DAWES PLAN LOAN —- The WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. state department will approve plans of a New York banking syndicate to extend a $70,000,000 loan to the Polish government for rehabilitating the na- tional financial structure. The loan will be floated about Oc- tober 15th. Poland is to go under a modified Dawes plan, under which all financial operations will be under the super- vision of an American fiscal dictator. licaibioes in Southern Mills To Be Described in Tomorrow's “Daily”| | Art Shields and Harvey O’Con- nor, correspondents for the Fed- erated Press, who are making a special survey of labor conditions| in the south will describe the back- ground of the textile strike in Henderson, N. C., in a series of articles which will appear in The DAILY WORKER. The condition of women work-| ers in Henderson mills, a number of whom receive less than five do lars a week, will be described in an article by Art Shields which will appear in tomorrow’s issue of | Mussolini personally directs America,” workers, to the electric chair. , “Mussolini watches closely every move of his followers in this coun-| try,” continued Tresca. . “When the fascist government was formed in 1923, Mussolini gave the orders for the publication in Amenica of a week- ly newspaper called Grido dell Stripe, that coordinates all the black shirt activities here. Direct Connection With Rome. | “The Fascist League of North America was then organized with di- rect connections with the fascist par- |ty in Italy, Joseph Bastianni, mini: |ter of foreign lands, of the fascist party directed the work of the Amer- ican fascists from Rome. “In 1923 the International News) Service, a Hearst organization, start- ed an investigation of fascism in America. It proved without a shad-| ow of a doubt that the fascists here work under the direct control of Mus-| solini, that the central fascist office dinates by cable that are carried out) to the letter. Did Not Deny It. “The fascists in this country did not deny their connection with Mus- solini at that time. When the Wash- ington Post asked Prince Caetanti, who was Italian ambassador, he ad- mitted it openly. of this blunder on the part of Cae- tanti they removed him ‘as ambassa- dor as they desired to keep their con- nections secret. “The revelations. of the Interna- tional News Service and the Wash- ington Post acted as a bombshell. Senator William H. King of Utah started a campaign against fascism | in America declaring that it was a menace to the country. “When the storm passed the fas- cists here decided to reorganize and work under the’ direction of Italian- Americans giving the impression that is an American organization. These Italian-Americans formed a commit- tee headed by Giovanni di Silvestro, chief of the Sons of Italy. “It was fas the intention of the com- REVOLUTIONARY EMBLEMS RED BAZAAR AT THE An active booth will be conducted First National Labor Bazaar for The DAILY WORKER and The FREI- HEIT to be held at the Madison! in Rome sent orders to its subor-| “When the fascists in Italy heard! the Fascist League of North America| by a group of jewelry workers at the) | Chair Traced to Rome the activities of his followers in declared Carlo Tresca, editor of the I] Martello, in an interview last night. He was referring to the move that is being made to railroad Colegro Grecto and Donato Carillo, anti- fascist mittee among other things, to line up the Sons of Italy in the fascist camp. It is the largest Italian fraternal organization in America, having more |than 300,Q00 members. Silvestro failed as the Anti-Fascist League of North America was formed about the same time. This was in the begin- ing of 1924. Deny their Connection. “Another tactic employed by the fascists at that time was to proclaim |that they had no connection with Italy. That this was an obvious lie could be seen by yone who remem- bered the statements made the year previous by Ambassador Caetanti. “The next important move on the | part of the fascists in their plot to | build up a strong movement in |America was the appointment of Count Ignazio Thaon di Reval as j head of the Fascist League of North | America. He was sent here by Mus- solini. Having failed to capture the Italian fraternal societies due to the work of the Anti-Fascist League, | Revel devised new methods which is {known as militant fascism.” Sania cae In tomorrow's DAILY WORKER, Tresca will tell how the militant fas- jcists, known as the “squadistra,” works. He will also describe the con- ‘nection of the fascists with the. Ro- man Catholic church and the Tam- |many Hall politicians of New York. | Session of League of Nations Council Ends GENEVA, Sept. 28.—After author- \izing the representation of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and Greece on the | preparatory disarmament commis- sion, the council of the league of na- |tions today adjourned until next De- cember. The council also authorized its president to appoint a committee of five for the preliminary work on the |conference to be held at the Hague in 1929 for the codification of interna- tional law. The adjournment marked the end of the eighth session of the league. TO BE SOLD AT GIANT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN jineluding pins, cameos, earrings, etc., will also sbe sold at amazingly low prices, it is announced. | Progressive members from many unions of New York and other cities @) Other articles of a similar nature, | Square Garden, October 6, 7, 8 and/have already announced their inten- 9. At that time emblems, rings, and tion of actively cooperating in the sickles and hammers will be made/first “Red Bazaar” for the Labor for sale to the thousands of workers/ Press. Upholstery workers, among from New York and adjacent cities| others, held a meeting this week and who will attend the mammoth affair.;made detailed plans for joining in the cooperative labor enterprise. 0