The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1927, Page 1

i THE DAILY WORKER riGHTs: {| FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR | UNORGANIZED FOR THD 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A TABOR PARTY THE Vol. IV. No, 227. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86. 00 per year. DAILY QHntered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥ + under the act of Mare NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927 Publishe! E+ KER. | PUBLISHING CO, 3 FINAL CITY EDITION unday by The DAILY WORKER irst Street, New York, N. ¥. d daily except Price 3 Cents ARREST COMMUNIST AT A. F. of L. CONVENTION pe oe ie By T. J. O'Flaherty ILLIAM GREEN stated at the opening of the A. F. of L. con- vention in Los Angeles that labor | beves American institutions. We re-| gret to note that American institu-/| tions do not seem to love labor, ex- cepting that section of the labor | movement that is composed of, Presi- | dent Green’s prototypes. Perhaps, | like the men that Oscar Wilde rhymed | about, all institutions kill the things | they love. The Pittsburgh miners who | are being evicted from their homes! by the coal barons would like to have Mr. Green use his good offices with the institutions that are so adored by labor, to have those institutions re- frain from issuing injunctions that} throw the armed forces of the state on the side of the coal barons in their evicting activities. ES ies: HERE is no reason why Messrs. Green, Woll, Lewis and company should feel hostile towards American institutions. They are theirs. They live in comfortable homes and pat- ronize the best hotels. They are con-} sidered and treated as members of the ruling classes. They have a func- tion. It is to keep the lid on the class discontent of labor and clap the brakes on the working class move- ment when it mations Be move for- ward, - (oe Chicago police vad hopped on to a new source of graft. Since the latest increase in-the personnel of the police force the bootlegging racket is taxed to the limit to provide the pillars of the law with the extra creature comforts they crave for. That little home which every ambi- tious American boy looks forward to and the little gas buggy to tote the wife and children around on the day off, cannot be realized, without pain- ful scrimping on the meager salary that Chicago gives its police for mak- ing that wicked city almost as safe for its inhabitants as a Ku Klux Klan klavern for an honest man, rs oer “ gest Chicago bluecoats intend to put more bananas in the family ice box. The city’s leading crooks—the habitues of city hall excepted—re- fused to leave the city on the invi- tation of the chief of police, but in- stead bought additional machine guns and proceeded to transact busi- ness in broad daylight within gun- shot of the municipal building. May- or Thompson is a big gun and is not afraid of the smell of powder, whether on a puff or on the nozzle of a revol- ver. But the gamblers who stick closely to their own game objected to being regularly held up and de- frauded of their honest earnings, protested and the mayor had to act. He did. On every Saturday his police round up a bunch of chronic evil do- ers, impound them in a police station and compel them to promenade like cloak models every Sunday morning in the station courtroom under the glare of spotlights while some of those who have suffered the loss of money or valuables during the week | look on. . re *. | THIS is where the graft comes in. Solvent gangsters will approach the squad leaders on their weekly man hunt and suggest that a hundred dollars a week non-identification money might compensate the officers for whatever sadistic pleasure they would get out of seeing worthy but misunderstood citizens held up to public contumely. The increase in the cost of living would force tae, gangsters to pass it on to the con-| \,sumers, so to speak. Crime would} Be UP, there would be fresh investi-| ge‘ions of the new source of graft, mekning more money for lawyers) and ‘special prosecutions and things | mene\pnsinue to rot in Denmark. * H (ARLES A. LEVINE achieved the distinction of paying a record non-| stop visit to the pope which secured | (Continued on Page Three) | AFTER EXECUTION | OF AGENTS OF U.S., |Gomez Fleeing for Fear of His Life BULLETIN EL PASO, Oct. 5.— General Gomez, former candidate for presi- dent of Mexico, who was a leading figure in the abortive insurrection, is reported to have been captured at Fort Peroto, near Vera Cruz, while fleeing toward the coast. He will be court-martialed and sum- marily executed by a firing squad. General Agaoito Lastra was exe- cuted at Torreon and General Ar- turo Lassa, clerical and oil general trying to lead bandit attacks against the government, has been shot at Pachuca. The government is com- pletely victorious in all former cen- ters of disturbance and the conspira- tors are fleeing from their usual haunts. * * * WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. (FP).— Dispatches received at the State De- partment confirm the early press re- ports, that the Serrano-Gomez revolt in Mexico, while using the argument that Obregon had no right.to run for re-election to the presidency, is in fact an uprising of military leaders rather than of masses of the people. Back of the revolt, the Mexican ggvernment sympathizers assert, is the enmity of the Catholic politicians toward President Calles, and the anger of the American oil operators who fear that the policy of Ambas- sador Morrow, newly appointed to Mexico, will be more friendly to the Mexican administration. It is thought in Washington that the rising was hastened by the news that Morrow would represent the United States at Mexico City. ee * rf MEXICO CITY, Oct. 5.—With Gen- eral Francisco Serrano, one of the leaders of the unsuccessful revolt against the Calles government, execu ted with thirteen of his general staff and the defeated and discredite General Arnulfo R. Gomez fleeing be fore pursuing federal troops an’ facing the fate of Serrano if cap- tured, Mexico is taking inventory of the frenzied political situation of the past forty-eight hours. Less than twenty-four hours after the revolt started Serrano and his entire staff were executed before a2 firing squad, after a trial before a federal court martial. Act of Mad Despair Both Serrano and Gomez are hire- lings of the imperialist bandits of Wall Street, agents of the oil trust, (Continued on Page Two) CROUGH GREETED BY WORKERS WHEN HE ARRIVES HERE Sing International in Pennsylvania Station Paul Crouch, Communist soldier, was dramatically greeted by a large group of young workers when he reached here last night to tell of his imprisonment at Alcatraz. Shouts for Crouch and the singing of the International featured the re- ception in Pennsylvania station. The ‘bomb squad was represented by two operatives who kept the workers (Continued on Page Five) Piniiavers Wreck House to Drive Union Miners’ Family Out of It j | | | | | | | | House of John Usnick, locked out coal miner at Coverdale, Pa., | after the roof had been torn off by Coal and Iron police hired by the | Lbgenct Terminal Coal Co. “THIS 1S A DIRTY SCAB TOWN—STAY OUT!” DECLARE COVERDALE MINERS By A. S. COVERDALE, Pa., Oct. The preliminary injunction against ie United Mine Workers of America allowing evictions and barring all picketing granted to the Pittsburgh Paes Coal Company by Judge F. . Schoonmaker of the Federal court bees the struggle of the locked out miners in Western Pennsylvania to a new and more bitter stage. It legal- izes machine-gun coal mining and gives full license to the terroristic methods that the coal operators are employing in their attempts to smash the union and establish the open shop in District 5. The Pittsburgh Terminal Coa! Com- pany has already tried violence of every description in its attack on the men locked out when they refused to accept a $2 a day wage-cut at the expiration of the Jacksonville agree- ment April 1 last. In addition to the use of the Coal and Iron police, deputies and state troopers to break up the picket lines and terrorize the mining camps, the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Company has tried out new ways of carrying on its fight against the miners—menacing the locked out men and their families with the danger of epidemic by cutting off the water supply, tearing the roofs off the houses, cutting off the lights, breaking into houses and carrying off the furniture. “Dirty Scab Town.” The largest mining town belonging to the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com- pany is Coverdale, lying out in the steep hills a few miles from Pitts- burgh. The first thing you strike walking up the road from the little trolley station is a sign, chalked up in huge letters by miners’ children on | one entrance to the company’s prop- | 5 j erty.— epee TS Is A DIRTY SCAB 'TOWN—KEEP OUT—WE ARE ON} STRIKE.” Further on, round a bend of the road is the rough wooden bar- racks put up by the miners outside the company property to house the first evicted miners. It is also union headquarters, with a cartoon about| the scabs pinned up on the outside | wall, and a big banner inscribed “The union for ever.” Standing outside} you can look across to the lower | ground where the road branches off} to the company property with its big | scab barracks and old railroad cars| used for housing scabs too, and the) searchlights high upon poles. com- manding the entrance to the mines, and a bigger searchlight atop the tipple alongside of the machine gun mounted all ready for action. Hit By Treason. On Sunday news had just come of the separate settlement put through by officials of District 12, U. M. W. of A. The men coming up to join the group around union headquarters were met with the news, and “Well, you ready to go back too?” ° They joked about it, but there was grim- ness and bitterness in their joking. The Illinois surrender is a tremendous blow to the striking miners in this section, coming as it does just at the moment when they are tightening their! belts and preparing for the life and jdeath struggle for their union preci- |pitated by the Pittsburgh Terminal |Coal Company injunction. | The Coverdale miners expect their! camp to be the center of the com- pany’s attack. It is the largest mine the company owns—about 840 men were working there before the lock- out. Then too, Coverdale has been a particularly hard nut for the opera- (Continued on Page Two) POLICE OFFICIAL, ASSISTANT OF WOLL, MORRISON, CHARGES BUSH WITH “CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM,” DEMANDS NAMES OF ALL COMMUNISTS PRESENT Baseball Magnates Rake | In Shekels as Yankees) Beat Pittsburgh 5 to 4] PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5.—The| | New York American League team | defeated the Pittsburgh Nationals | | today 5 to 4 in the first game of the World Series. Forty-five thousand people spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to witness the spectacle. Fifteen per cent of the gross re-| ceipts of all games go to om-| missioner Kenesaw M. Landis. In the first four games, forty per cent of the balance goes to the owners of the two contending clubs and the remaining sixty per cent is divided between the world series contenders and the teams which finish second, third and [sem in each league. ONE DAY TERMS GIVEN TO FOUR FURRIERS HERE Postpone Cases of Five Cloakmakers to Oct. 30 Four furriers arrested during the} furriers strike were sentenced to one day in jail by. Magistrate Levis B. Brodsky in the 57th St. police court yesterday morning. The four workers were originally | sentenced to six and eight month; terms by Magistrate Ewald in Jef-| ferson Market Court. They were {given a new trial on Sept. 22 and pleaded guilty, Louis Broad arrested at the same time was sentenced to} one day in jail on Sept. 22. Five cloakmakers arrested several | weeks ago had their cases postponed {until Oct. 30, when they will again appear before Magistrate Brodsky. Louis M. Mandelbaum is attorney for | the workers. * * * Chicago Terrorism Continues CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—The arrest of cloak and dressmakers pickets is con- tinuing. Ida Rothstein, Yaffne, Gar- finick and Duboff were taken into custody yesterday at the command of the right wing who helped the aad with the arrests. The Sigman thugs are creating a} reign of terror in the needle gine market, attacking all workers support the Chicago Joint ee Among those brutally attacked were | Pfeffer, an active supporter of the | progressive administration. . The right wing thugs are un- usually active outside of the shop of | Ellenberg, president of the Chicago Manufacturers Association. Several workers were viciously beaten up near this shop. * * * Rabbit Workers Meeting NEWARK, Oct. 5.—A joint meet-|* ing of local 25, Newark and local 58, Furriers Union, Brooklyn, will .be| held Friday, 2 p. m. at the Stuyvesant | 7 1Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. The two locals are carrying out an organization campaign among the rabbit fur shops of Brooklyn and} New Jersey to organize the industry. | All rabbit fur workers must attend] the meeting as important nee will come up for action. | chief of the “red squad,” who w Disregard Warnings By British Representative Against Class Collaboration Even Pugh, Speaking for Right Wing, Believes American Labor Approaches Slavery LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. The Los Angeles police who have been acting since the convention began in close cooperation with Vice President Matthew Woll and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor, again invaded the conyen- tion late yesterday and arrested Sidney Bush, a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Members of the police department “red squad” took him into custody. The actual arrest was made by the same officer, the seen in consultation with Mor- rison and Woll at their office® ip geen ga WINDOWCLEANERS TO VOTE STRIKE Bush was booked under the Cali- fornia criminal syndicalism law, and| held without bail, after being| searched for any copies of resolu- tions he might have been trying to BS scat into the convention. He| was also grilled by the police who wanted him to tell them the names of all Communist delegates to the convention. The California criminal syndical- Walkout Is Certain for ism law provides penalties of “from one to fourteen years.” It has been fought by the local labor men in California, but has not been pro- tested against by the heads of the | American Federation of Labor, who |have now, in fact, invoked its use \against workers who attend the con- vention. Friday Morning Ratification of the strike call of over 1,200 window cleaners of this city is practically a foregone con- clusion when the members of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, meet at a mass meeting to be held tonight at 8 o’clock at the Manhattan Lyceum, 68 East 4th Street. The Executive Buard- of “the Cen-’ tral Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday endorsed the strike call, and announced that it will issue appeals to unions in this city for moral and financial support of the union. At the same time it denounced the seab local organized and supported by the | bosses in an effort to crush the at- tempts of the workers to build a genuine organization. Demand Union Raise. During his speech to the building trades departmental convention which preceded the general conven-| tion of the A. F. of L., and also in} interviews with the press, President Green of the A. F. of L. declared (Continued on Page Two) Order of the | Sacred Treasure Awarded to J. P. Morgan for Loan TOKIO, Oct. loan to the} Recognition of the union is the | Japanese impe. func 1 demand of the men who | ately re-paid. i day morning. They jers, represent a week increase in houses making loans to the Japanese nified organization as- |banks in an effort to rehabilitate) ; them of a speedy victory the “shaky credit, t led by the st the bos earthquake, hea investment — in he meeting at Manhattan Lyceum Manchurian imperialist ventures, and the failure of the banking houses headed by Suzuki and Co. this spring, have been awarded the order of the Sacred Treasure. J nt will be addressed by Peter ecretary of the Local, Harry 3ernstein, business agent, Paul Kart, and others. Are You Keeping Busy for the Bazaar? . P. Morgan, as the heaviest in-| |vester, received the first class order of the S: ered Treasure. GIANT RED BAZAAR OPENS TODAY; EXPECT 100,000 DURING THE FOUR DAYS Over 100,000 workers, fe lticie wives Tee: children, are expected to attend the gigantic First National Labor Bazaar for The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT which opens at Madison Square Garden today at 3 o'clock and which will continue thru Sunday night. : On Friday evening the doors to the “Garden” will open at 7 o'clock and on Saturday at 1 o’clock noon. The largest at- tendance at the mammoth “Red Bazaar’ is expected on Sunday when the doors will open at 10 o’clock in the morning. At least $125,000 in merchandise has already been procured by the arrangement committee, and will be placed on sale in the hundreds of booths which will dot the enormous Garden. (Continued on Page Two) All Aboard for the Big Bazaar! Opens TODAY 2 P. M. BARGAINS: Clothing for Men, Women and Children, Hats, Caps, Dresses, Art Objects, Cameras, Overcoats, Furniture, Knitgoods, Books, Furs, Jewelry, Jewelry Repairing, Shirts, Articles of Don’t Miss This All Kinds at the Lowest Prices. Opportunity, ATTRACTIONS: THURSDAY—Official opening night. by distinguished leaders; Dancing. FRIDAY—Westergarde’s European Sensation, first time in America, Dotty, famous clowns, in their side splitting stunts. SATURDAY—International Costume SUNDAY—Maria Montara’s ballet of Spanish dancers, just completed engagement at Roxy Theatre. Grand finale and closing of Bazaar. Raincoats, speeches Acrobatic Poodles & Ball. FREINGIT & DAILY WORKER