The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1927 A, F, OF L, MAKES Long Distance Hop = of German Plane ts Delayed By Accident BERLIN, Sept. 29. - necke, the SCAB HOTEL L0S ANGELES CENTER Delegates Arriving As Pre-convention Starts | | Offici- tion of nal LOS ANGEL als of the Amer Labor wh fort; convention is to open here on are already appearing on the str of Los Angeles. Heads of the me trades, the building trades, the rail- road and other departments of the A, F. of L. have arrived early in order to attend the sessions of the departmental convention which takes place before the general meeting be- pt. 29. gins. larrived here today from Japan by I protest against your obvious discrimination in a land where such is ihe officiel ‘headquazters | chips” aniourised: that following thei unknown except insofar as it was brought here by such action as yours. American Federation of Lab Angeles is the Hotel Alexandria. 1 hotel was decided upon despite strong fight put up by the Culir | Workers’ Union in the Los Angeles Central Labor Council. The Culinary Workers declared that the Alexandria | is a notoriously scabby hotel and that they have so far refused all at-| tempts to organize their help. | President McGarry of the Angeles, will open the convention. George Greyer, the anti-labor mayor} Los | of the city will also make an address. | them from spying on fortresses. The | While it is not expected that there| will be any considerable changes in| the leadership of the A. F. of L. dur-| ing the convention, the year’s bitter | struggle within the ranks of organ-| ized labor, especially among the gar-| ment workers and the Furriers Union| will in all probability find its echo in Los Angeles. The fight of .the| progressive elements to prevent their being driven from the A. F. of L. unions is almost certain to be re- flected in the proceedings of the pre-| sent convention. | One of the most important prob- lems which the convention will be| called upon to consider will be the question of the formation of a united Labor Party. There is also the ques-|trate Power at Belle Isle today by} one w tion of the organization of the auto-| motive industries and of the condi- tions among the steel workers and| the striking miners. The United Mine Workers will report upon their hard struggle to maintain the Jack-/| sonville agreement in the bituminous coal fields. There is also the juris- | dictional quarrel between the Opera~ tive Plasterers’ International Union | Siof De ja new Otto Koen- German Cologne-to-San Fran Bagdad, Ir: ling to a dis- I led might have been lost met with a delayi Caspar monoplane “ to fears in the de: mani * Broek, hiee to Try Record. SAN F ISCO, Sept. —Wil- liam S. Brock and Edward American round-the-world fly return to Detroit in their plane “Pride roit,” they will attempt to set vorld record in an endurance flight. Brock and Schlee decided to hop from Crissey Field where their plane | was taken on a barge, to Mills to prepare for a hop-off carly tomor- row for Detroit. The “round-the-world trip” of these {aviators ended prematurely in Japan, which made great efforts to prevent fliers seem not to have been interested in anything this side of Japan. * * * French Ace Cautious. PARIS, Sept. 29.—Dieudonne Cos- tes, famous French ace, today aban- doned his plan to attempt a flight acer the Atlantic Ocean to New York. The aviator announced he was considering a filght to Buenos Aires by way of Dakar, Pernambuco and Rio De Janeiro. * * * May Be Hearst Writer? ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 29.—The sighting of the body af a man in Con- ception Bay was reported to Magi J. Kelly and his son. Possibility tha the body was that of one of the mem- bers of the crew of the ill-fated trans- | ” Atlantic plane “Old Glory,” or of one jof the planes which disappeared on the disastrous flight attempts from Europe to America was indicated by the fact that the men said the head vas covered by what looked like an ennecke, | Field, | cs BRedies of Nicholas Amorroso and Joseph Carisi, fascists who were killed last Decoration Day in the Bronx \lying in state in Rome. Altho the dead men were supposed to be just rank and file members of the fascist party the funeral ceremony proved that they were important figures in the local fascist circles. Donato Carillo, anti-fascists are today in jail awaiting trial for the murder. FUNERAL OF TWO FA are SCIST AGENTS I N ROME x \Labor Delegates Laud | the Soviet Union | (Continued from page 1) in the U. S. S. R.,”” Coyle said, “is in the hands of the workers. “The gigantic growth truly amazing. Although strictly dis- ciplined and centralized the trade unions are very democratic. “Trade unions in America spend | their energy in petty, economic, and | frequently purely craft struggles. In |regard to economic struggle our re- sults are ridiculously small compared | with yours. For instance: throughout | North America we have only three rest homes accomodating about 400 | people. To get into such a rest home be aged and sick and one |must have paid preliminary fees for a number of years. “I have inspected your sanatoria, }spas and rest homes for workers. I }am amazed at and delighted with everything.” Jerome Davis of Yale considers the accomplishment of the | Soviet government as little short of of trade} 5 unions and their control over the re-| WORKERS | motest districts of the country are| | | LEADER OF WIRE | 1 In an effort to stem the organiza- | tion drive of Local 107, Wood Wirers’ and Metal Lathers’ Union, thugs em- | ployed by open shop bosses shot and | killed Henry M. Smith, executive board member of the local. Smith was murdered as he left thi headquarters of the local, 228 Eas +104¢h St., Monday night following a} meeting at which details of the or-| ganization drive were discussed. He | had barely walked thirty feet from the headquarters of the local when a volley of shots rang out from an au-! tomobile standing on the other side of | the street. | Smith Threatened. | Smith was one of the leaders in the | drive to increase the membership of | the union. He had been repeatedly ; \ jand her thin neck was thrust like a | / > "PROTEST LEGION’S “JIM CROW” TREATMENT OF _ | NEGRO VETERANS BY FASCISTS’ HOUSING PLAN | PARIS, Sept. 29.—Twenty Negroes, veterans of the woild war, came | | with the so-called white “veterans” to France to attend the convention) {to which they were delegates. In Paris they were segregated and so| | | flagrant was the discrimination against the Negro veterans, that Major | Wm. S, Bradden, of the 8th Regiment, Mino ational Guard, wrote the| | following letter to Edwin W. Thorn, the chairman of the legion’s hous-| | | ing committees, protesting against the mistreatment: 5 | “Sir: As a member of the American Legitn, Giles Post, No. 87,| | | Chicago, Ill, and as an officer of the U. S. army of thirty y standing || | | mittee of which you are the chairman. Why have you placed all Negro) | delegates to the convéntion at No. 61 Rue Blanche, and No. Rue Foun-| | |taine? Not that any fault is. found with the places or people—but they | | themselves have asked the question, “Why. have you sent all Black Amer- | | ieans’ to our place? Is it that they are undesirable?” “T submit that the housing of 20 Negroes in one place is no mere| | | freak of chance, but the result of a well-worked out plan. Therefore, in| behalf of 12,000,000 American citizens at home; in the name of 100,000| | Negroes who fought on French soil that ‘All men might be up, not} | some men down’; in behalf of our honored dead who have kept their ren- dezvous with death and now sleep in the cold embrace of French soil, Bradden.” eae BOSSES KILLING OFF SOUTHERN TEXTILE WORKERS (Signed) “Wm. Gatogero resco o™ WITH FAMINE WAGES, FOUL CONDITIONS AND DISEASE | (Continued from Page One) *within drainage distance, and- open \ i | Pres. Von Hindenburg |, al supply, Just now deductions are! privies are behind every house. A | | being made for groceries advanced} wind brings a stockyard atmosphere. |through a private store in the early| And all this combined with low-vita- days of the strike. |min food—hog-back meat and white Slow Starvation. jflour predominating—and the 11- “I just can’t live,” the woman was/hour day shift or 12-hour night—all saying. She was suffering from| bring disease. Milk costs 10 cents a {chronic emaciation—not due to the! pint, not delivered. | strike, for the workers said they lived T. B. Thrives. better on relief funds than they had) A tubercular woman, more ema- jlived on wages. She had been over-|ciated than thé one mentioned above, worked and badly fed all her life. Her) came outs to greet the organizer, ;skin was of a jaundiced yellow. It/She had a lovely smile that trans- ‘stuck tightly to jaws and cheekbones! figured her face when it flashed, but when the smile went, her head was ghastly, tragic. “How is the boy?” asked the or- ganizer. |poks out of the cheap cotton dress! | “I declare,” said the next woman,| | she wore. |“L wish my oldest boy was 14 so he, “He still has night sweats, that had jcould work in the mills. We got to|that I’m afraid,” she said. Then she jlive. I want my boys to get larnin’|told of the mill where she works— but we got to live.” the foremen had fired several al- The third woman said her last) ready, but she was sticking with the |week’s wages amounted to $3.75 be-| union anyhow. fore deductions were made—a lower) This was on the “Hill.” Over in |wage than the average at Hender-|Mocassin Bottom it is worse. The son, and Henderson’s are below the) houses are literally falling apart; |average mill wage in North Carolina,| plaster tumbling; many windows | which is itself far below the average | broken; roofs leaking from shingles | American worker’s income. askew; not a touch of paint. And | ‘As! we drove through the village|the only well-fed looking man was viator’s helmet. tract “I visited Russia before |we met a woman carrying two buck- | the bootlegger—a bold spirit who re- and ‘the Bricklayers’, Masons’ and pact “Old “Glass was a! Hearst ef soba are oa a the bopienibe threatened with a beating as the re- | ets of water from an open well. It|belled against mill life and openly Plasterers’ International to be He-| newspaper plane in the apiiien of ex- af: ihe chal eae" Davis ‘stated «y| Sult of his union activities. 200 yards from her company | proclaims his sympathy with the cided. be rigs , Pon 2 ; s . ag iin Are Blamed | or Gambling at bong Beach By Grand Jury| I |. Y., Sept. 29.—Hight | including six professional | alk concessionaires of Long perts overweighted by the carrying of a Hearst editor as press agent. Two Jamaica Policemen In Bullet Fight; One Is Now in L. I. Hospital Orville McAllister, attached to the was | witnessed the complete ruin of the national economy of the country and T now venture to say that the Soviet | government has worked a miracle in kregard to reconstruction of the na- tional economy. “Of particular importance is the planning system in your economic life. lof the. automobile, which was-reported | | know that inevitable mistakes are'| made in your economy, but owing to The idea of robbery was discarded when witnesses testified that the | gangsters who fired the shots did not | leave the automobile to search Smith’s | body.. acta | Altomobite Stolen. i Investigation of the license number) by. a_bystander, proved that it be- longed to Douglas Warner, 912 Fifth Beach, have been indicted by the Sep-| Jamaica precinct, suspended tember term of the Nassau County | from the Forge and arrested today grand jury as a result of that body’s| it! the Richmond Hill Station on a recent investigation into the gambling charge of felonious assault. Patrol- situation in the county aceording to|™a" William J. McGee, of trafffic @ report in the court house today |*°U®d ©; Manhattan, whom ‘ following the public @hnouncamant of lister is aceused of shooting during the grand jury’s presentment on the|®".,@tereation under the Long Is- subject. land Railroad Viaduct at 135th a Churches, “as well as fraternal andl ticle noe cee SACO ee ce See eoeg are blamed | immaculate hospital, Jam y the grand jury for permitting the) bullet lodged in his left thig use of gambling devices at h. McAl- | in the Mary| : with a|~ the planning system you steer clear| Aye, son of Truly Warner, head of lof those terrible crises which bring)’ chain of hat stores. Warner de- | starvation and unemployment to the|¢lared that the automobile had been working class of America. | stolen-from him at the point of a pis- “I visited Russian villages before) tol a week ‘ago. \the revolution and I was always struck |~~ Laem se | | with the down-trodden look on the : Pita of the peasants. This is at- International Labor |ferent now. The people have become| Defense Meets Nov. 11 ergetic and fully-alive. Your youth! me as particularly energetics} “T am amazed at the broad demo: (Continued from Page One | craey of your State institutions. In} | President Von Hindenburg working class, whose birthday cele- bration will probably be upset by the Berlin street-car strike. Berlin Workers Strike. 'As Hindenburg Plans to, Celebrate His Birthday BERLIN, Sept. 2 planned in celebration of | Germany, extreme conservative, sus- pected monarch¥st, active foe of the — Festivities | of President! The open wells have been) union. pronounced a menace to health. The| Seeing one of the members of the | Harriet Cotton. Mill officials prom-) Harriett firm speaking at the rear of \ised to clean them up after the strike. \ the crowd at a night outdoor meet- |But when a professional weil cleaner jing, he called him into.the light: sought the contract he was turmed}“Come in like a man and don’t be |down. |hanging about like a damn snake in | Hogs around in their filth the grass.” root ‘Beach, in Hiding, Says “Spirit Fingerprints” He Won’t Surrender Expert Overlooks Fact per nl | Sadia eee That Stunt Is Exposed While twenty troopers and county de-| PARIS, Sept. 29.—With an invitas tectives continued a relentless mMAN- ition to skeptics to “laugh that one mnt tonight through tke wood for | of,” Malcolm Bird, research officer the gray-haired admirer of Mrs. Mar-|of the American Society for Physi- garet Lilliendahl, Willis Beach, charg-|cal Research, today exhibited spirit ed with having aid@d and abetted in!finger prints in wax he said were the murder of. Dr, Lilliendahl, his| made this year by the teleplasm hand neighbor. the poultryman’s lawyer, | of Talter Stinson of Boston, who has I herein protest against the apparent discrimination of the housing com-} | | public! | ories by railying the forces for a pow- | Hindenburg’s eighticth birthday were| bazaars and other functions M ; x no other country in the world is the} ful : h 7 other functions. More Queensboro Bridge Traffic. | . nee erful movement against the system a | population drawn to such an extent | jt tears our best fighters from us, | encountering WASHINGTON, Sept. .—Re-| . Work on improving traffie facili-| into State administrative work as is| (72) tears. k ports to the United States Publie|ties about the Queensboro Bridge| the ease in your soviets.” oan aae ow ‘pel ae tel A ae of waiters and cooks in Health Service today from 86 states, Plaza in Long Island City, Queens, James Maurer, chairman of the | develo, vane see fi peiaterd ae ee Berlin’s: hotels (and restaurants is showed that 545 new cases of infantile| Was started yesterday when workmen, Delegation made the following com- pm Sr eo MOTE MON?, to 3 paralysis had developed during the began tearing up the walls on the’ tt “y aint already past the dge| Prevent new frame-ups and to release |threatened for Sunday. A walk-out 2s 3 * - 3 )ment: § M ‘ Se inl Bs thi itentiaries th ‘t vic-|of street-car employes is booked for) week ending Sept. 2 red | nor s sides a. e vary. € |trom the penitentiaries the past vic with 656 ated in 43 ait mel a eee ee |e Tegan, ee ae baSipsmteaed beta of this system, is the best monu-|the next twenty-four hours, and a Edison Hedges, declared that Beach | been dead for 15 years. confronted today with the prospect of | would not surrender until indicted. | Bird declared the Bertillon experts | labor difficulties on} Hedges said that even an indict-jof the Boston police department had iment against Beach is illegal, unless |}examined the wax prints and had in indictment is returned at the same | Certified that they were the same as time against a person accused of the | those left by Stinson on the handle murder. 5 \of his razor the day before he died. Finger Prints Forged. | The opposition points out that the week ending Sept. 17. about something, but what I was able Bazaar. | to see during my short stay in the | Soviet courtry exceeds all my ex- | Coming! "The Big Red Last Opportunity! To Participate in the JUBILEE TOUR TO SOVIET RUSSIA Registration Closes in a Few Days! Sailing October 14th, 1927, via Cunard liner “Carma- nia” and return Dec. 15th (8 weeks) to London -- Leningrad -~ Moscow Aaa Che Tourist the privilege of participating in the Grand Celebrations and Sie i ing featherweight contender, was , z 4 ican working class,” 1 The i 8. { Festivals of the 10th Anni- say contemplating ile package) Ut? 4k, Re in every, action of|'O8Y WONNE Ca Bi eee bite ee ee 7 ete i of chipped glass today—-a pack: Sia pene 5 | jakers Boast Production. Sie 7 Wied ae, Russian Re 1 ree coat nice $2,800-—end lotgtig ee of we ee sees he Organ | {GHICAGO. Sept. 29.—More that AppLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. I vi ion. a “get them two bozos in a 16-foot|i#¢ 4 Stubborn resistance e agents | 12,340,000,000 loaves of bread are pro- ‘REET iy olution ntire cost $600. be a a and instruments of the fratne-up sys-| duced ‘annually in the Uriel conn 33 FIRST STREET Phone Orchard 1680 | NEW YORK, N. Y. i You Must Apply Immediately! | “Then two Bozos” were two suave | tem. it was announced here today at the ie World Tourists, Inc, 69 Fifth Ave., New York TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 ." . i King sas Cea YORKVILLE OFFICR— % Are You Keeping Busy for the best workers in our|Are You Keeping Busy for the 354 Hast 81st Street, ee can yok Street. Pn rnbeat Benross iart Delegation will have jpectations. I am sure that the re- | port of the commission of our experts | | will be useful to the United States as | well as to the working class of the | U.S.S.R. ‘Policeman Held for Six alienists reported today they | have found former Patrolman Da- niel J. Graham, Jr., sane and, as the result of their finding, Graham must go on trial for his life as the slayer of Judson Pratt, Construction Super- \intendent shot during a holdup. Three. of the alienists were em} ployed by the state and three repre- | sented the defense. They held that | Graham “is of sufficient mental ca- | pacity to comprehend the nature of | already assured of the attendance of the proceedings against him and is \capable of consulting with counsel.” | class-war prisoners who will be there The findings were given to judge Collins in general sessions, the court ‘counsel for the lunacy commission. It Graham will go on trial shortly. ~ Pug Buys Gold Brick. | Herman J. Sousa, known to puglistic world as Babe Herman, lead- gentlemen who, though dumb in ring |togs, outsmarted the little battler in civilian apparel. Police learned they had worked the old “diamond smug- | gle” game on Babe. K | Alienists Find Graham, | are witnessing a frame-up in the mak- -—='Murder, To Be Sane| then dismissed a motion by defense | delegates to the conference and join appointment of a@/ with us in building 2 mighty national is expected | non-partisan labor defense movement the} ment that we can erect to the already | imperishablé memory of our martyrs. Defense Needed. i “The fight against the frame-up system in this country is one of the mest pressing needs of the working \class. - Already, with the ashes of | Sacco and Vanzetti hardly cold, we {| ing in Cheswick, Pa., where a num- ‘ber of workers are being ‘put in the cars’ for railroading \to the peniten- tiary. And in New York, another case is being concocted against two Ital- ian workers who have fought fascism in this country. We know this, that ‘Massachusetts justice’ is not confined to that state, but that it is similar to capitalist justice throughout the e ( Powe haye invited hundreds of la- jor organizations, unions, and units of the International Labor Defense to this conference. In addition, we are a number of well-known released jas fraternal delegates. We know that scores of labor organizations will send against the infamous frame-up sys-} tem, What happened in Chicago forty years ago, in Massachusets one month ago, and what is being plan- ned in Pennsylvania and New York, “We. are. convinced that .the third conference of International Labor De- fense will lay the basis for a broad movement and prove to the enemies of the working-class that they cannot impunity jail, torture i. L. D. Will Defend wage crisis has arisen among the mo- tor-bus workers. Cheswick Miners (Continued from Page 1). and their indictment on three counts is of spécial significance coming on the heels of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Not only was the meet- ing a demonstration for Sacco and Vanzetti, but it is feared here that an arbitrary arrest may be made here any ‘day in order to find a frame-up victim to he charged with the killing of the trooper. Experience with po- lice and juditial methods in this state which are, if anything, worse than those of Massachusetts, lead those familiar with the situation not to pre- clude the possibility of an even more | dastardly frame-up than was recently | brought to its terrible culmination in | thé electric chair in Massachusetts. hese workers to the penitentiary without the most bitter fight,’s said ames P. Cannon, secretary of In- ternational Labor Defense, which is in charge of the ease. “We will make not only a legal fight in the courts for the release of the indicted men, | but also a campaign of publicity and protest to bring this new frame-up to the attention of the whole Amer- annual convention of the American Bakers’ Association. The annual bakery bill of 23,000, 000 housewives in America each year is $1,617,000,000, it was estimated, | quest for. unemployment data has | | Labor of local unions in 18 indus- | wish to know unemployment trends.” “There will be no railroading of | Unemployment Data Is Requested by Green WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — A re-|} | | been made by William Green, presi- | dent of the American Federation of trial centers of this country. , “There has been no attempt to as- certain the extent of increasing un- employment which is reported in) many localities,” said Green. { “Because such trends are of vital} significance to trade unions I ask your assistance to have regular in- formation on this subject. My plan is simple and involves little work on the part of those co-operating. Fil a post card with the proper figure: for the first of September, and mail. “I am making this request of local unions in 18 industrial centers. My office will tabulate the veturns and! they will be available for those who} | HY NOT ~ in the DAILY WORKER | stage magician, Houdini, used as part of his regular expose of mediums to make spirit finger. moulds with rub- ber gloves, and that Alfred Wehde, an American class war prisoner, has published thru Tremonia Publishing Co., of Chicago, a book giving de- tailed information about the methods used in forging finger prints. Little Fighters To Meet. RALEIGH, N. C.. Sept. 29.—The flyweight championship c= che world , will be settled on October 7 when Frank Genaro, former champion, now chief contender for the crown vacated by Fidel, La Barba when he gave up the ring to enter Stanford University, and Montie Gold, Philadelphia maul- | v, clash in the city auditorium here, 4 it beeame known today. The winne; of the bout will be given a diamoyd- studded belt emblematic of the cKam- pionship, according to Promoter Jack Laken, of Philadelphia. ¢ All Hands Out for the Bazaar! | ADVERTISE OUR ADVERTISHMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE: | Advertising Offices of Y OF FICE— 3 Jast 1st Street. LOCAL OFFICE— Room 35, 108 st 4th Street, The DAILY WORKER HARLEM OFFICE— 2119 3rd Avenue, at 1 BRONX OFFICE-~ 2829 3rd Avenue, at 149th Street, th Street, 4