The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1927, Page 1

\. s } ee THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THD 40-ROUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matter THE DAILY t the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Mareh 3, 1879. 14428 Vol. IV. No. 228. UBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y, Price 3 Cents MORE ARRESTS DURING A. F. of L. C Current Events | By T. J. O'Flaherty noe 2G, the monarchist} i president of officially republican | Germany opened up his big heart on} the anniversary of his 80th birthday | and amnestied several hundred con-| victed persons. But big-hearted Hin-! denburg would not make public thej list of pardoned prisoners lest the re-| latives of those released might feel) embarrassed over the publicity. This| lends plausibility to the suspicion that those amnestied are not members of} revolutionary workjngclass organiza-| tions, since the relatives of revolu-| tionary workers do not consider it aj} disgrace to have members of their families tagte the bitters of ‘prison life for an honorable cause. * * * 'E do not have to rest our suspicions | “NY entirely on imagination. News leaked out that among those am- nestied are Buckrocker and, the re- actionary leader Custrin, Putsch, who made an attempt on the life of for- mer chancellor Scheidemann, then suspected of being an enemy of the kaiser, Professor Fuchs, an agent of the French government and count Arco Valley who assassinated Kurt Eisner, head of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet republic. * x Bur Hindenburg did not release Max Holtz, the proletarian revolutionist He is called a bandit by the capitalist press. Hindenburg is nobody’s fool, but the tool of the monarchists and fascists of Germany who are care- fully feeling their way until they con- sider the time opportune to establish a blackshirt dictatorship and install a monarchist on the throne. The sap- headed liberals who have been hailing Hindenburg as a notable convert to republicanism may change their minds about the loyalty of this mon- archist veteran to a form of govern- ment which sits uneasily on his stomach when the opportune moment for the next putsch comes. * * * AMSAY MACDONALD and his so- cialist. imperialists are sitting nicely on the prostrate form of the socialist members of the I. L. P. at the Labor Party Conference in Black- pool, who want “socialism in our time.” MacDonald has little use for these “easie-oosie asses.” He hates them only a little less than the Com- munists, less because the Commu- nists make more trouble for him. Capitalist reporters were amused at the successful efforts of the socialist leaders to avoid the use of the word socialism. MacDonald feels that he is now in a position to form an al- liance with the liberals. Having used the I. L. P. socialists in his war on the Communists he is now getting ready to put the skids under the I. L. P.ers who still give lip loyalty to Karl Marx and Keir Hardie. * * * RITISH Communists like ourselves, have been taunted by our left wing socialist co-workers in the pro- letarian vineyard with tactlessness and bull-in-china-shop methods in the conduct of our propaganda campaigns against capitalism and the labor lead- ers who have thrown in their lot with the capitalist system. Communists were accused of using unseemly and harsh language and the Communist International was made the recipient of sharp slaps on the wrists by the perfumed intellectuals of the I. L. P. who professed sympathy for the aims of the C. L, but did not like its ad- diction to plain language. (Continued on Page Four) Robber Gets $25,000 Jewels. \LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6—A_ lone bandit obtained $25,000 in a daring daylight hold-up here this afternoon. Walter, Dore, a jewelry salesman, was the victim. As Dore drove up to the curb in\his automobile, the bandit greeted him with a drawn gun. Make Way for the Big Bazaar. THE TRAP | | | EXPOSE PLOT OF WALL STREET IN. MEXICAN REVOLT Morrow Takes Oath as New Ambassador BULLETIN. | ambassador in order to direct the WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Dwight Morrow, partner of the House of Morgan, who is to go to Mexico as base intrigues against that country, took the oath today of that office. After conferences here next week with President Coolidge and state | department officials he is expected to leave for his post in Mexico City. Already Morrow has conferred with his Wall Street associates and will probably lay down the law to the governmental lackeys at Washing- ton, Coolidge and Kellogg, as to what is expected of them in rela- tion to developments in Mexico. * * * Wall Street Plot Exposed. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 6—The de- tails of the conspiracy of the Wall Street agents, the late General Fran- cesco Serrano and General Arnulfo Gomez, have come to light since the crushing defeat of the rebellion. The insurrection was to be launched while there was no American ambassador in Mexico and a “provisional” govern- ment was to be established before the (Continued on Page Three) BUSINESSMEN SAY COAL TRUCE WILL HURT THE MINERS CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—A number of Illinois mines began hoisting coal fol- lowing the week-end announcement of the temporary strike settlement entered into between District 12 of the miners’ union and the Illinois operators. The effect on other sec- tions of the country of the sectional settlement in this state is reported as negligible except in Kentucky scab mines where it is reported the oper- ators have decided to cancel wage bonuses and reduce prices of coal further and in Iowa where a similar peace is tentatively decided upon. The Chicago Journal of Commerce, competent to express the feeling of the Illinois operators, has the follow- ing to say about the truce in Illinoi “The operators accept, for a six- month period, the Jacksonville wage scale. The operators refused to ac- cept this scale at all in the spring. If they accept it now, for a six- month term, the reason is that the coming six months are the busiest of the year for the coal industry so that high wages can more easily be afforded during this season. “The miners accept the contention that the Jacksonville scale cannot be retained permanently, but must be re- vised, the implication being that it will be revised downward to permit the union mines of Illinois to com- pete with the low-priced product of the low-waged non-union mines of Kentucky and West Virginia.” The operators have shown by this :|of a five-cent fare. Oil Companies Fail To Kill Calles —Drawn by Fred Ellis | | | Given Three Months for | ‘SQ. GARDEN WITH BIG ATTENDANCE Running Up Hotel Bills | | Rather than see his wife and/ three children “sleep in the: streets,” Charles J. Wahl, Ghicago | accountant, stayed at hotels and ran up bills totalling $416. Yes- terday he was sentenced to three months in the workhouse. “I thought I could get work and square up the accounts,” Wahl de- clared after his arrest. “EXPERT” REPORT NEW ATTEMPT TO GET HIGHER FARE $25,000 Fee to Smith Is Severely Criticised A new move for a boost in New York City subway fares loomed yes- terday with the publication of the re- port of Charles Edward Smith, St. Louis engineer, advocating a seven-/| cent fare. The report was made at the request of Comptroller Berry. Tho New York subways working) even under an uneconomic and waste- ful system of private ownership yield their operators fat profits, Smith de- clared that the transit system can- not possibly be operated on the basis Opposed By Tammany. | Smith’s proposal, it is certain, will} meet opposition, from Mayor Walker, who favors the Morgan-sponsored! “unification” scheme advanced by Samuel Untermyer, special counsel for the Transit Commission. The Un- termyer plan presented in an appar-} ently painless form is understood to aim ultimately at a ten-cent fare. Tammany Hall is solidly back of the Untermyer transit scheme for the “unification” of city transit. While Dwight Morrow, recently ap- pointed ambassador to Mexico and prominent member of the House of Morgan (he has nominally resigned from the firm), openly sponsored the Untermyer scheme. The House of jactive members of the Amalgamated} ter the news of revolutionary victory | and many other statements that their; Morgan has heavily invested in the acceptance, temporarily, of the $7.50|bonds of the Interborough Rapid Thousands of Workers Attend Mammoth Event To Aid Labor Press; Continues Three More Days All roads led to Madison Square Garden yesterday. Begin- ning at mid-afternoon and continuing until late in the evening, thousands of workers from New York and neighborhood cities poured into the huge building where the First National Labor Bazaar for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and The FREI- HEIT is now being held. The bazaar will continue today, Friday and Saturday. . Nearly 50 booths conducted by representatives of a large number of labor, fraternal and Party organizations sold articles of all kinds and sleseriptions. ctor we BRITISH CONSUL Decorated with revolutionary bunt- ing, flags and pennants, the enor-| mous hall was converted into a buz- we ciagerati trast AY AMOY SEIZES "'RANK AND FILE FROM AMERICAN UNIONS Fux OWN DELEGATION TO TRAVEL IN THE U.S. S. R (By FEDERATED PRESS.) sands of dollars worth of merchan-' dise gathered together by sympa-) thetic organizations. | Active progressive members of} numerous unions took charge of! many of the booths which were pa-| 4 | arriving here from Swatow was by tronized yesterday by thousands of} es 5, ti New eka) Workers: udese 06 inet ene British consul’s orders searched | ‘i : . | and five citizens of the Union of So-} aoe up the labor press in this coun-| ciglist Soviet Republics. Aaa and A modern and excellently cauipped| on board ie a ea ee. — restaurant and cafeteria, supervised : A right wing Kuomintang insurrec- by Michael Obermeier served regu-|tion is taking place in Swatow, dur- lar meals and sandwiches to those|ing the absence of the troops of Yeh- ee ae the eae ene ms | ting, which have marched to the west- | ments from Canton. It is not believed | nearly 200 wrokers, many of them that the reaction will survive long af- | USSR CITIZENS AMOY, China, Oct. 6—A steamer Food Workers’ organization. comes from the peasant commanders. | Jewelry workers, garment work-| At present, however, bands of reac- ers, furriers, members of the United | tionaries are arresting and murdering | Council of Working Class House-! labor leaders, and there is fighting in| wives, cooperative groups, students! the streets. of the Jewish Workers’ University, | * * * end countless other organizations; PEKING, Oct. 6—Chang Tso-lin, are taking a leading part in the af-| Manchurian war-lord, was massing fair which is by all odds the most! troops outside the Great Wall today colorful event ever arranged in the|to prevent the fall of Peking before | history of the New York radical|the steadily advancing Shansi prov- movement. |ince forces. Sell Statue of Revolution. | The Peking army is falling back. | Clothing, groceries, furs, men’s | The city is quiet but civilians are a) and women’s apparel, knit-goods, little uneasy. Train service to Tient- | books and ert works are being sold Sin is normal. ‘ | at ne “Red Bazaar.” At the booth A tight censorship was clamped | being conducted by the Jimmie Hig- gins Bock Shop, a remarkable photo- / down last Monday evening. ONVENTION OFFICIALS OF LOS ANGELES UNIONS TAKEN UP, QUIZZED AND RELEASED Police Say Green, Woll and Morrison Assure Them Progressive Resolutions Are Killed LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 6.—Police terrorism, evidently with the assistance and co-operation of the officials of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, continues at the convention here, Fol- lowing the arrest yesterday of Sidney Bush, a member of the Workers (Communist) Party, on suspicion that he might be try- ing to introduce progressive resolutions into the convention, Sam Globerman, a member of the Los Angeles Central Labor Council and a recent candidate on a local labor ticket, was arrested, ques- tioned, and finally released, as was also Al. J. Bock, business agent of the Los Angeles Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Union. William F. Hynes, chief of the Police Intelligence Bureau, has notified Green, Morrison and Woll of the A. F. of L. that he fears some of the progressive r duced into the mass of resolutions before the convention. has been reassured, he told the p who state that there is not the‘ | slightest chance of such resolu- tions passing the committees ap- pointed, and appearing on the floor of the convention for dis- cussion. “Communist Plot.” The local. press is making much of the “Communist Plot at the A. F. of L. Convention,” and calls upon the delegates to vote down “all Commu- nist resolutions, such as those for Mooney and Billings, against the Watson-Parker bill, against imperial- ism or class collaboration.” The convention itself has taken no notice officially of either the resolu- tions, the arrests or the press cam- paign. Police say they have under surveil- lance thirty Communists in Los An- geles. fhe Strictly Regular Farmilo. The Canadian fraternal delegate, Farmilo, in his address to the con- vention assailed the “Reds” and all independent unions. He lauded the American Federation of Labor as the type of conservative organization he) approved. Delegate John Frey, of the Metal Trades Department, spoke, reiterating (Continued on Page Two) esolutions may have been intro- He s, by the officials mentioned, STRIKE OF 120 WINDOWCLEANERS ON THIS MORNING Workers Ratified Strike Call Last Night Decision for, an immediate strike was made by more than 600 window cleaners last night when the execu- tive committee of the Window Clean- ers’ Protective Union, Local 8, unan- imously accepted the resolution call- ing for a general strike in the indus- try. The strike will affect all of Greater New York, The meeting was held at the Manhattan Labor Lyceum, at 68 East 4th street. The strike is to take effect this morning. i The strike” vote followed severa’ speakers who pointed out the griev- ances which the union officials said exist in the window cleaning busi- (Continued on Page Five) ‘ORTY rank-and-file American tra union movement as against about president of the Pennsylvania State ing the invitation, officers of the rank-and-file committee cabled to execu- | tives of the Soviet labor organizations for fu can labor representatives would be given a observe andéstudy conditions of trade unionis The Russian union council replied with a pledge that it would “gladly! help fully study conditions of Russian trade union workers.” de unionists are going to Russia “to find out why over 90% of the Russian workers are inside of the trade 10% in our own country.” William Watkins, president of Local 206, Switchmen’s Union of North America, and chairman of the organizing committee, makes the announcement. The group was invited to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the! Russian revolution and observe labor and economic conditions. | The invitation was extended by the All-Russian Central Trade Coun-| cil to the rank-and-filers immediately following the return of the un-| official American Trade Union Delegation, headed by James H. Maurer,| Federation of Labor. Before accept-| assurance that the Ameri- and full opportunity bed d people.” { ine rank- and-file excursion, however, does not intend to undertake an expert econ- omic survey of Russian conditions, Trade Union Delegation. such as that made by the American; It does expect to find out why the Russian|’ workers are so much better organized in unions than the American workers, Participants in the rank-and-file delegation are all members in good standing of American Federation of Labor unions, Watkins asserts. Their sole purpose in undertaking the trip is to ascertain and bring back to their fellow workers in this country the real facts about the status and power of labor organizations in The rank-and-file delegation’s cludes, besides Watkins, former Congressman Association of Minneapolis Farmer-Labor union, Seattle; Powers Hapgood, Un the Soviet workers’ republics, national organizing committee in-+ Ernest Lundin, of the M. R. Miller, carpenters’ ited Mine Workers, Pittsburgh; R. L, wage scale is due entirely to their ability to make higher profits during the seasonal demand and that they (Continued on Page Two) Transit. Ignores Traction Slaves. The Smith report launches into a (Continuea on Page Five) graph of Lenin has been placed where | Attack Along Railroad. © | Hostilities between the Peking gov-| Kling, machinists’ union, New Haven, Conn., and Harvey ©’Conner, re- search director, Washington, D. C. Departure date for the rank-and-file delegation is October 21. % Wat- ernment and the Shansi provincial | government, aided by elements favor-/| | “(Continued on Page Two) | it can he seen from many parts of the huge hall. Communist bodks, (Continued on Page Five) kins may be reached until that time York. at Room 432, 80 East 11th St., New + Bargains at the Daily Worker-Fretheit Bazaar TODAY! BARGAINS: Clothing for Men,. Women and Children, Hats, Caps, Dresses, Art Objects, Cameras, Raincoats, Overcoats, Furniture, Knitgoods, Books, Furs, Jewelry, Jewelry Repairing, Shirts, Articles of ‘All Kinds at the Lowest Prices. Don’t Opportunity. ATTRACTIONS: FRIDAY—Westergarde’s. European Sensation, first time in America, Dotty, famous clowns, in their side splitting stunts. Doors open at 7 P. M. SATURDAY—International Costume Doors open at 1 P. M. SUNDAY—Maria Montara’s ballet of Spanish dancers, just completed engagement at Roxy Theatre. ; Grand finale and closing of Bazaar. 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