The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1927, Page 1

/ j — / FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Vol. IV. No. 223. In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1927 PUBLIS: Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY, EDITION Price 3 Cents HING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥- U. S. COURT MAKES DRASTIC ANTI-LABOR RULING SE ene ea sone eater oe WINDOW CLE ANER' ON TO THE REVOLUTION! THE CHINESE PEASANTS REVOLT! UNION PREPARES MONDAY STRIKE That a strike of more than 1,200 | window cleaners for union récognition | and a three dollar wage increase will take place early next week, appeared certain when it was announced yes-! terday that officials of the Manhattan Window Cleaners’ Employers’ Asso- | ciation repudiated an earlier state- | ment and declared that they would | not confer with the men. | When informed of the statement, | (Continued on Page Three) { Sy | Current Events { By Tr. J. O'Flaherty i AVID MITCHELL, a Negro, and} Frank Moore, a-white man, were sentenced to serve from forty to} eighty years in Sing Sing, on the} specific charges of ‘stealing $61 from} an A. & P. grocery store and $26} from a James Butler grocery store.| The christian judge who passed sen- | tence regretted that he could not im-| pose heavier sentences and indulged | in sly humorous digs at the sentenced | men. No doubt the celerity with) which justice moved on this occasion | will be applauded by capitalist edi-} tors, with few exceptions, and the} honorable and just judge who figured | in the case may have his name pro-| posed as nominee for the presidency | of the United States between now and | 1928. Courage must be rewarded. | * * . | HILE those two unfortunates = doomed to spend the remainder of | their lives in prison for misappropri- | ating sums..ofsmoney,.thatswould not | | cover an hour’s serious drinking for | one of our best citizens, there are eases hanging in court involving men who have stolen millions, but’ men | who are respected by society and | | dealt with leniently by the courts be- | cause they stole on a large scale. The | same rule applies here that operates | in murder cases. A poor devil, tem-/| porarily crazed from some cause or | other, will be executed by a just gov-} ernment for taking a human life | iim without due process of law. But capi- talist governments will embark on al war that will send millions to death and the more people that get killed) | as a result, the greater the glory. * * * S FOR getting away with money! | { We have often warned bandits of | | the fifth, sixth and seventh categories, | | not to carry their business cards when out on ventures that do not go into| HOLDING PEKING box ear figures. If they get nabbed | with less than one grand in their kicks, up the river they go. On the! pprKING, Se y i : ° { SKING, Sept. 30.—Yen Hsi-shan, ee cat ama i Tee of Shansi province, has at- 2. express 0: ‘ iti ? Cass r }tacked the outlying positions of “Bes ationd threatens an attack on Pekin, | such activities purchase !ook at the | From the west. . | Sane of Big a phe ate of Chicago.) Both armies are tearing up the PEK jrailroad and advancing against each | po. Tim aS not what he used to be, | other. This is taken here as indica- * he is still & prominent citizen of | tion of the breakdown of negotiations | the Windy City. He was the chief |hetween the Peking government, dom- | attraction in Henrici’s famous eating | inated by Chang, an ex-bandit who house inthe Loop and was to Hen-|has been lately quarreling with his rici’s what John’s is to east side. Japanese backers, and subordinates, i Tim was particularly valuable 2s a. practically independent war-lords who drawing card while under several in-| surround him. The entire political RULER OF SHANSI ATTACKS RIVALS ‘ictments for murder, and at least tuation in North and Central China twt, for holding up federal consign- | iy in a state of chaos. ments of currency to the tune of} $3,000,900. It is reported that when [im’s \runk was opened by sleuths The advance ‘of the peasants’ arm- | ies continues beyond Swatow, accord- ing to latest advices. AMNESTY FOR PRISONERS MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 30.— |Amnesty for political as well as criminal prisoners of proletarian and \peasant “origins, whose early lives were spent in an adverse social en- vironment in the dark days of ezar- ism, will be granted an amnesty as part of the tenth anniversary cele- bration of the Bolshevik revolution. IN SOVIET UNION TO MARK TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS A specially appointed commission is now busily at work revising the capital punishment law with especial regard to prisoners recently sen- tenced to death and to future cases. The commission is __ scientifically studying the influence of environ- ment on crime. RIGHT WING OF NEEDLE TRADES THANKS AF. OF L \LL.G.W. Will Introduce Resolution at Angeles Isadore Nagler, of Local 10, Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ ened like $500,000 discov- ere, that the owner of the! > 4 Idghed and said this would) Are You Keeping Busy for the (Continued on Page Two) i Bazaar? Two Hours of Wonderful Entertainment Promised Sunday Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin to Appear for the “Daily” coat ise: Se ae aS The Moscow Trio, the well-known concert musicians have been selected to furnish the musical program. Ad- | mission will be only 65 cents. The program arranged for the bene- | fit of The DAILY WORKER for Sun- day, October 2nd at the Waldorf Theatre, 50th Street and 7th Avenue will include two hours of the finest | entertainment yet offered to a New! York audience. The film, “The Temp- tress,” is considered one of the most | popular products yet produced in mo-| tion picture fields. It revolves around | an exciting story of adventure in Ar- | gentina, with Greta Garbo, the Swed- ish actress, acting as the heroine, | “The Champion” with Charlie Chap- lin, alone would be a drawing card | that would pack any Broadway house. The picture is particularly timely in) view of the recent world champion-— ship fight, and will furnish the fight | fans who missed the Chicago affair, Sree See, 1 GRETA GARBO x. fa see another bor la Charlie Chi | " TH, E TEMPTRESS Union, ally of David Dubinsky, will represent the right wing administra- |tion of that organization at the Amer- jican Federation of Labor convention when it opens next week in Los An- geles. | Altho the union is entitled to send five delegates to the convention they |have decided only to send one, their \financial situation being unusually | serious, To War On Left Wing. Nagler will present two resolutions at the convention, one thanking Wil- liam Green, president of the A. F. of L. and the executive council for its help in fighting the left wing. The other resolution will be in the ‘Membership Meeting of | Young Workers League | Will Be Held Tomorrow A general membership meeting | of the Young Workers League will| be held tomorrow, 2 p. m., at 108 East 14th St. The meeting is; called for the purpose of discuss-| ing the Unity Resolution adopted by the National Executive Com- mittee and other important prob- lems confronting the league in the| pre-convention period. A com-| raderie will be held after the meet-| ing. { OLGIN WILL GIVE HISTORY OF USSR AT PARTY SCHOOL The Tenth Anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolutionary of November, 1917 is being observed by the Workers iform of thanks to the unions that jhave loaned money to the right wing /so they can continue their fight \against the militant rank and file. The unions mentioned are the miners, machinists, printers and hosiery work- ers. Woman Gas Victim. School thru the offering of three spe- cial lecture courses appropriate to the occasion. These courses are: two on the Russian Revolution with Mois- saye J. Olgin and Max Bedacht as the lecturers, and one on the History of the Russian Communist Party with Alexander Bittelman as the instruc- tor. YONKERS, N. Y., Sept. 26.—Mrs. Josephine Archer, 45 years old, was found dead in a room in an empty house at 42 Bailey Avenue, here ear- ly today, a victim of gas. The first of these courses begins on Saturday afternoon, October 15th, and runs for six Saturday afternoons at 2 o'clock. Moissaye J. Olgin, who (Continued on Page Three) he SE RE ln @ ee ask Widow, Husband Killed in fines, Shoots Judge, | Rejecting Damage Plea SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 30.—A widow, with four minor) children, shot Justice Tillman_D.| Johnson of the United States Dis- trict Court here today because he had rendered an adverse decision in her suit for $25,000 against the Utah Copper Company. The suit grew out of the death of her hus- band in the mines. Justice Johnson, in a local hos- pital, is in a serious condition, it was reported. Shock also enhances the danger, it was said. - The widow, believed to have been crazed by the decision, was seated in the front of the court || room. when Justice Johnson as- | }cended to the bench. She fired one shot at him which took effect below the waist. o— CONGRESS FIGHT ON RECOGNITION OF U.S.8.R, SEEN Report of Trade Union Delegates Important The Intérnational’ News Servite (Hearst’s) in a dispatch under a Washington dateline declared yester- day that a new drive to secure Amer- jean recognition of the Soviet Union will probably be launched in congress this fall. The American Trade Union Dele- gation, which returned from the Sov- jet Union last Monday will undoubt- edly launch a drive for recognition, —> be added to the drive by members of congress who spent a part of the re- Borah’s Position. “The chief proponent of Russian recognition has been Senator Borah of Idaho,” the dispatch says. “He urged the United States to recognize the Soviets in order to re-establish friendly trade between the two peo- ples.” Borah has declared, “My position is that if Russia is recognized, we can easily settle all these other matters. Russia stands ready to arbitrate every question raised between the two gov- ernments, and we can’t enter into ar- bitration until we recognize their gov- ernment.” Delegation Report Due Soon. The American Trade Union Dele- gation meanwhile will issue a full re- port of its investigation of conditions in the Soviet Union. This report prob- ably will be made public next month and its chief recommendation undoubt- edly will be the recognition of the JUDGE SCHOONMAKER ISSUES INJUNCTION TO STOP PICKETING MINES OF PITTSBURGH TERMINAL COAL BECAUSE PRODUCT SHIPPED ACROSS STATE LINE Unionists Suspect Operators’ Influence Was an Important Factor in Decision lf Ruling Stands Large Scale Strikes Become Almost Impossible; Law Badly Wrenched PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30.—Judge Schoonmaker has dealt the United Mine Workers of America the worst blow it has received since the strike beginning April Ist in granting the injunetion applied for by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company. The injunction prohibits the Mine Workers from picketing any of the company’s properties and is granted on the ground that the strike interferes with interstate commerce. Local labor officials see in this decision evidence of strong }coal company influence upon the courts. OVERRULES UNION ATTORNEYS. Judge Schoonmaker found that the element of interference with interstate commerce enters into the controversy and that therefore the federal court has jurisdiction in the case. This point was severely contested at the hearing which pre- ceded the issuance of the temporary injunction by attorneys for the union miners, who held that SSenNNEEEaneeees - ‘ |their efforts to reduce the out-| jput of coal at the non-union} mines of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Corporation could) not be construed as interfering DENY AMSTERDAM with interstate commerce. The injunction was granted as re-| quested by the coal company’s c | oun- sel, but “the court is of the opinion that it should not enjoin any of the} individual defendants from prosecut-'Green Rants Against ing in the state courts any. appeal now pending in the courts.” This re-| “Reds;” Carpenters In fers to the miners’ protests against) evictjon.of umion men from company; LOS ANGELNS,. Sept, 20.—Pre- own'd houses. | corivention theetifigs “of departments Broke Contract With Union. of the American Federation of Labor The Terminal Corporation is the| are under way here. They take place largest union coal operator in the| at the moment when the Federal country to renounce the union and | government has by two court deci- endeavor to operate its mines with| Sions, in the Stone Cutters’ case in non-union labor since the bituminous |New York and the Pittsburgh Termi- miners’ walkout, on April 1, at the | mal Coal Co. injunction case in Pitts- the dispatch states, while “fuel will} cess in visiting the Asiatic republic.” | expiration of the Jacksonville wage agreement. Philip Murray, international vice |president of the miners’ union re- ceived first information that the in- junction had been granted from In- ternational News Service. “T will have to examine the injunc- tion,” Murray said, “before I can make any comment.” The decision virtually prohibits all strikes against concerns whose pro- duct is an article of interstate com- merce. Law to Cut Down Youth Marriages Starts Today The Jenks child marriage bill passed by the legislature at its last session will go into effect today at the marriage license buteau of the municipal building. The bill provides that no person under 21 may be married in the city chapel except by the mayor or the justice of the court of recard and then only in case of emergency. This is expected to cut down the nimber of civil marriags. | burgh, practically outlawed strikes, | but in this atmosphere of labor bank- \ing, class collaboration and jurisdic- tional quarr little is heard yet of any measures of defence. iven the fact that the United Mine Workers of America, the largest union in the federation, is fighting for its very life in a lock-out now in its sixth month t stirred the prosperous labor of other de- partments out of their complacency. ject Amsterdam. The Building Trades departmental convention opened Wednesday, and its chief action so far has been to re- ject affiliation to the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amster- dam). Speaking before the building trades departments ¢ n, George Kappler of Dresden, Germany, secretary of the International Union of Building Trades, and Richard Coppock of Lon- don, tary of the British National Federation of Building Trades Opera- tives, voiced greetings from their respective bodies and intimated that such an international affiliation would be v the Met ontinued on proposals were laid before Trades department. Page Two) union. In a preliminary report the commission said the U. S. S. R. was “very desirous of attracting Amer-/| jean capital and investors” and that | it found conditions “very hopeful” in} District Office of Workers P: arly District Two Calls Local Membership to see Responsibility for Success of the Soviet Republic. A group of nationally-known eco- panied the commission. The technic- jans will make a separate report and if favorable, the report will go a long way toward strengthening the drive for Russian recognition. Health of Workers Menaced by Sewage The health of thousands of work- ers in New York City is being men- aced by water pollution, due to the inadequacies of its old sewage sys- tem, according to expert surveys made recently, Conditions in the Harlem River, which flows thru densely populated parts of the city are extremely dan- gerous, it is stated. Conditions in the Wallabout Basin, Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek, especially along the East River frontage are almost as bad. nomists and technical advisers accom- | System in New York! Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar, Held on October 6-9 TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS OF DISTRICT 2.—Dear Comrades: On October 6-7-8-9, The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT will hold their national bazaar at Madison Square Garden. The radical forces of the entire country have been enlisted behind this affair, in order to make it a success. Thousands of comrades in many cities have worked tirelessly collecting ar- ticles, securing names for the Honor Roll, and soliciting advertisements for | the souvenir program. Delegations from these cities are on the way to ‘take their part in the bazaar. The main responsibility for its success now |falls upon the comrades of our district, who will haye to shoulder the many | duties and tasks, which are nagessary in order to carry through the plans of the Bazaar Committee. A record crowd is expected at the affair, which | bids fair to be one of the biggest projects which the party has yet launched. Thousands of volunteer workers will be needed to fill responsible posts. In view of the importance of the bazaar for our press, the District | Executive Committee deems it necessary to call upon every party member to give his services for the entire period of the bazaar, in whatever post he may be assigned by the Bazaar Committee. Unless every party member re- sponds and covers his post faithfully, we cannot hope to make the bazaar a real success for The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT and for our party, as a whole, All party members and volunteers are therefore called jupon to report on Wednesday evening, October 5, promptly at 8 p. m. to be at Madison Square Garden where they will be assigned to their duties for the following four days. Unit organizers are asked to arrange that units jreport as a group, so that every comrade’s attendance may be checked and ‘accounted. Every party member should be personally notified of this order. Remember the party will be the backbone of the bazaar. Let us re- spond as party members know how to respond. Fraternally yours, W. W. WEINSTONE, District Secretary. es