The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 1

} FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. THE DAILY WoO Entered as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1579, Vol. IV. No. 229. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: he | Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty NOTHER counter-revolution has broken out in Mexico and the Calles government, supported by the trade union movement and the Com- munist Party is taking drastic steps to crush it. Already two of the chief ‘military leaders of the revolt have been executed and many of our capi- talist papers, even some of those that jhave been friendly to Mexico, regret that Calles was not able to convince the opposition that a change of gov- ernment could be accomplished with- out recourse to armed force. Intelli- gent people do not waste time dis- cussing the folly of dropping lighted cigarettes in the underbrush when a forest fire is raging. 4 bee latest outburst in Mexico is only another attempt of the feudalists, supported by the international mach- ine of the catholic church and fi- nanced by Wall Street to overthrow the Calles-Obregon combination which has been a thorn in the side of Amer- ican imperialism since the overthrow of Carranza and particularly since the defeat of the De La Huerta re- volt. Calles and Obregon are the leaders of the social forces in Mexican life whose historical mission it is to crush feudalism and with it the catho- lic church which’ is the political as well as the spiritual expression of feudalism in Mexico. * * Calles is no friend of labor, simply using the workers and peasants as instruments in his strug- gle against the big landowners and the catholic church, his regime has done much to eradicate illiteracy and thus help prepare the ground for the next step in the transformation of the country from a nation of serfs into a nation of emancipated workers and peasants. The rising Mexican bour- goisie at this period are on the side of human progress, in so far as they are fighting against the mighty power of American imperialism which seeks to fasten its grip on South America from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, * * * ~~ those shallow-pated or dishonest American scribblers who sneer at the Mexican people because of their alleged disability to govern them- selves according to the political code of Cicero, Illinois or the Ku Klux Klan, hark back to the period follow- ing the successful rebellion of the American colonists against Great Britain, when the country was torn by dissension and revolt. If Mexico had no oil or other precious minerals in her soil, there would be no revolts because Wall Street would not care to spend any money financing them. It is now the duty of every American worker and sincere opponent of im- perialism to give the utmost aid to the Calles government in the present crisis. *~* * ne the time these lines appear in print Peking may have fallen to the armies of General Feng and Gen- eral Yen-Chih-san of Shansi. The enemies of Chang-Tso-Lin are march- (Continued on Page Two) LL.D, GATHERS PROOF OF POLICE - GUILT IN “RIOT” Cheswick Woman Club- bed for Shielding Baby PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 7. — Five hundred dollars, sent by the national office of International Labor Defense, has just been reccived here to start the legal defense of the twenty min- ers arrested and indicted on three counts in connection with the break- ing up of a Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting held by the miners of Ches- wick by state cossacks, in which hun- dreds of men, women and children were severely injured. Instead of any | action having been taken against the violent assault of the state troopers upon the gathering, which was called in solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti, a number of miners were arrested and held, and are in danger of being rail- roaded to long terms of. imprison- ment, Collect. Evidence. Details of the brutal attack made by the cossacks, known and hated by every Pennsylvania worker for their vicious anti-labor work in every strug- In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. MEXICAN WORKERS FIGHT COUNTER-REVOLUTION —_— NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1927 “WELCOME COMRADES!” By Fred Ellis WHILE HIS VICTIM American Federation of Respite From Ant LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. grounds that they were “Reds”, Meanwhile oneof-their victims, Sid- ney Bush of the Workers (Communist) Party, is still held without bail on} charges of “suspicion of criminal} syndicalism.” Carl Haessler, manag-| ing editor of the Federated Press,| held and quizzed, is released after proving that the organization which) he heads is merely a cooperative news agency which has as voting members some of the most “respectable” A. F. of L. papers in the country. | Samuel Globerman, a recent candi- date on a local labor ticket in Los Angeles is released, and Al J. Bock,' IS HELD IN JAIL Labor Convention Has i-“Red” Agitation 7.—Apparently resting content with the arrest since the convention started of four men on officials of the American Fed- eration of Labor for the first day yesterday let go by opportuni- ties to assail the progressives and condemn Communism. — business agent of the Cleaners’ and) Dyers’ Union is out of jail, but watched by the police. Passaic Strike Comes Up. Altho not attacking the Commun- ists so far today, Spencer Miller yes- terday spent his speaking time try- ing to show how the educational bur- eau “pushed the Communists out of Passaic.” Owing to the police terror set up by Woll, Morrison and Green, an in- sufficient numbers of progressive were present to properly refute Miller, tho (Continued on Page Two) CROUCH PRAISES WORK OF LL, D. ON VISIT HERE Tells of Its Service to Cause of Labor Paul Crouch, the Communist soldier visited the office of The DAILY WORKER yesterday. Here to address a monster anti-war rally to be held at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place on Friday evening, Oct. 14th, &, WINDOW CLEANER BOSSES CAVE IN: Gt WORKERS WIN Get Demands Prior to Strike; Victory Soon More than half of the 1,200 window cleaners who were scheduled to go on strike yesterday morning to enforce their demands for. union recognition and a weekly increase of $3 in wages achieved a victory without leaving Crouch praised enthusiastically the work of the International Labor De- fense. : “The I. L. D.,” he said, “is appar- ently as powerful as the U. S. war department. I owe my freedom today to the magnificent work of that or- ganization which mobilized the labor protest against the vicious sentences inflicted against Walter Trumbull and myself.” Received Brutal Sentences. The two ex-soldiers, convicted in 1925 of organizing a Communist League while serving with the army in Hawaii were sentenced to long terms in the Alcatraz military prison, ' San Francisco Bay. Crouch received a 40-year sentence and his comrade 26-years for “conducting propaganda contrary to military discipline.” So effective was the campaign of | protest organized by the I. L. D. {Crouch told The DAILY WORKER that the war department was forced to reduce the sentence to three-years each. Crouch served -a total of two years and four months in the prison and Trumbull a little over a year. I. L. D. of Vital Importance. Crouch said that the national con- }ference which the I. L. D. is calling in November is of the utmost im- portance to labor thruout the country. “Now when the reactionaries are gle, are being collected by the de-| intensifying their fight on militant fense. The meeting was being held workers, it becomes the most vital nec- in Cheswick, at Gala Grove on Au-|essity to build an organization like gust 22. soda pop and (Continued on Page Four) The workers had brought|the I. L. D. which fight valiantly for sandwiches for sale as| workers framed-up for activity in the {class struggle.” their jobs. Peter Darck, secretary of Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, announced last night: “We are win- ning rapidly; more than half the work- ers are back on the job, their demands granted, and before many hours have passed the others should have the same advantage.” 20 picketing committees yesterday called at the shops of non-union and company union employers and noti- fied all employes that the strike was on and that all found working by this morning would be classified as strikebreakers. The fact that the Central Trades and Labor Council has officially en- dorsed that strike and has promised moral and financial aid in the walk* out is having the desired effect of bringing non-union men into the ranks of the strikers. Peter Darck, secretary of the Protective Union said that 115 men, former members of the company union have reported at union headquarters and have joined the strike. Business Good As Yankess Win Again The New York Yankees defeated the Pittsburgh Nationals here yes- terday 8 to 1, making three out of three games for the American League champions. The weather continued to favor the baseball magnates. The crowd at the Yankee Stadium was estimated at 62,000. Furrier Sentenced to Five Years WOLL BOOSTS INSURANCE COMPANY,S, KURLAND GETS LONG JAIL TERM IN SING SING Chicago Right Wingers Try to Obtain Funds Sam Kurland, militant fur worker, was sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison..yesterday morning by Judge Donellai* in the court of gen- eral sessions. Kurland was convicted several months ago on a charge of felonious assault. Several right wing scabs accused him of attacking them dur- ing the recent fur strikes. This was part of the general right wing frame- up against the fur workers support- ing the furriers’ New York Joint Board and its progressive administra- tion. In sentencing Kurland, Judge Don- ellan admitted it was severe punish- ment he was meting out. When Kur- land appeared before the judge last Tuesday he was asked to involve Joint Board officers. He refused, maintaining the innocence of all. Donellan gave Kurland until yester- day to “change his mind.” He did not change it. Plans to appeal this unusually sev- ere sentence are now being prepared by Jacob M. Mandelbaum, attorney of the union. To Continue Bail. for 137 fur pickets pending their ap- peal from conviction and sentence. The appellate court decision will not be made for 10 days. The court of special sessions recently confirmed the convictions. The workers were originally convicted in the Jefferson Market Court by the labor-baiting Judge Ewald. Sing Sing Warden To Head Fight On the Death Penalty “The theory that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to crime is abso- lutely false,” Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, who will soon head a national campaign against capital punishment, said yesterday. The campaign will be conducted by the League to Abolish Capital Punishment. “The United States,” said Lawes, “is a nation that leads the world in scientific progress, yet has a record In the face of this, why do we cling blindly to capital punishment?” Barbarous and Stupid. - Lawes asserts that when he as- sumed the wardenship of Sing Sing he believed in the death penalty, but! his experiences and study since that | time have convinced him of. its inef- fetéiveness and barbarism. Together with Lawes, George W. Kirchwey, former dean of the Col- umbia Law School, and Arthur Gar- field Hays and Frank P. Walsh, at- torneys, will address meetings “COMMUNIST PARTY 0 KER. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | - Ee — | 33 First Street, New York, N. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ¥. F MEXICO ASKS U. S. WORKERS TO SUPPORT CALLES AGAINST THE FORCES OF REACTION ‘Masses of Mexican DAILY WORKER: “Reaction has launched the Government.” |policy of the Mexican Communist © | Soviet Union Orders Goods, and California Machinists Get Work, || 8, —<| LOS ANGELES, Oct. Pacific coast are practically at a/ standstill a few are working full | | crews of machinists and helpers, | | “as they just got some nice orders | from the Russian government,” Lodge 311 of the machinists an- | nounces. PEASANT RISINGS NEW THREAT TO Mexico City, October 6, 1927.. revolt. Workers and Peasants Are Armed; Oppose Wall Street Oil Men’s Insurrection : The following telegram from the Communist Party of Mexico was received yesterday by The “We request agitation on behalf of Mexican proletariat in its struggle jointly with (Signed) MEXICAN COMMUNIST PARTY. Party in the present crisis. (it is probable that the telegram was filed at an earlier date but held up temporarily by censorship.) The foregoing telegram in harmony with all reports from Mexico, is taken as indicating the The Mexican Communist Party in its general policy opposes the Calles government, which is |not a government of the working class and peasants, and condemns Calles’ weakness and way- ering before American imperialism, especially the repeated surrenders to the Morgan banking house and to the United States oil interests. « As against the present counter-revolutionary attempt of agents of the United States oil speculators, allied with the whole landlord and clerical group of reaction, to overthrow the national government of Mexico in the interests of this group of American capitalists, however. the Com- munist Party of Mexico calls upon the workingclass and peasantry to resort to arms in defense of the Calles government, and urges the workers and farmers of the United States to support the Calles government against the counter-revolutionary reaction. "REACTION FAGES THE HOSTILITY OF MASS OF THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7.—Government troops are still pur- formerly commanded by the |General Gomez, are in hiding. Though most oil-tool shops on the| | suing the remnants of the reactionary Serrano-Gomez forces in |the mountains of the state of Vera Cruz, where detachments imperialist-feudal-clerical agent, Whether Gomez is still in command is not known, as reports | indicate that he had fled throu followers to their fate. " Population Hostile To Rebels. The whole population of the country is infuriated at the at- tacks being made against the government. Reactionary de- tachments hastily organized -by agents of various American Jacob M. Mandelbaum, lawyer of the Joint Board, expects to appear before Chief ‘Justice Cardoza this morning to request he continue bail of 10,000 homicidal deaths each year. | Ruined Masses Take Up| Arms Against Gov’t | | | SHANGHAI, Oct. 7.—The Chinese | papers report that ten districts of the | Tientsin region are rampant with dis- | satisfaction of the peasants who are | utterly ruined by the endless military operations. In many villages the population has | formed various partisan detachments which have established liasons with the Red Spears, the peasant military organizations. The partisan detachments are well armed as the population collected | arms from the battlefields after the | retreat of the various armies that'| have fought in that region. The papers point out that the armed | detachments have actually grown to serious proportions in the struggle against the government troops. These detachments number many thousands of men well-trained in guerilla war- fare and are a grave menace to the reactionaries trying to suppress the revolution. Ge Force Attack on Peking. _ PEKING, Oct. 7.—Revolutionary groups, formed thruout the provinces of Chili, Shansi and Shantung, nom- inally held by the “Ankuochun” or “Army for the Pacification of the Country,” as the military alliance be- tween Marshal Tso-lin and other generals is called, are forcing the present campaign against Peking, in the opinion of observers here. At present the lines of battle have advanced to within thirty miles of Peking. General Feng Yu-hsiang’s troops are attacking toward Tenchow, toward Tsining and Teinan, and to- ward Suchowfu—all important mili- tary positions south of Peking. The Nanking armies are planning to join! Feng Yu-hsiang at Suchowfu and | Tsinan. The governor of Shansi prov- | ince, the “model tuchun,” Yen Hai- | shan, is engaged in battle with Chang Tso-lin’s Fengtien troops at Nankow pass, and at Paotingfu. Nankow pass is only thirty miles from Peking, but is considered a strong defensive posi- tion. CHINA REACTION | capitalist groups are experienc- jing almost instant annihilation be- |cause the population denounces them to the Mexican government’s military authorities whenever they show their faces, Alfonso De La Huerta Dead. Alfonso De La Huerta, brother of a former Wall Mexico, tried to organize an insur- rection among the Yaqui Indians, and succeeded in inducing but eleven of them to join him when he was set upon by federal troops, captured and executed with one of his aides, Gen- eral Modina. the attack by government forces. The citizens af Nogales, across the American border from Arizona, took the body of the executed general and propped i+ against a tree in the plaza,/| until th. federal officials forced its removal to a morgue. Prevent Border Running. Numerous adventurers, whose iden- tity is known, are hovering near the border in an effort to invade Mexico, } but the vigilance of the population] which realizes the nature of the reac-| tionary movement prevent them crossing. Only a few days ago De La Huerta was living in El Paso, Texas, where his residence was a rendezvous for political conspirators plotting the reactionary insurrection against the Calles government. Execute Gen. Quijano. Gen. Alfredo Quijano, commander (Continued on. Page Two) Street president of | The Indians fled after} gh fear of capture, and left his ‘Workers Party to _ Name Candidates: Convention Sunday The Workers (Communist) Party will hold its city nomination conven- tion Sunday at 10 a. m. at the New York district headquarters, 108 East 14th St., Room 46. The convention will have before it the drafting of a program dealing with the present general situation in the country and a detailed program \defining municipal and state issues. United Ticket -First. The United Labor Ticket as a first step in the direction of a labor party will be perhaps the most important project that the convention will dis- cuss. The action of the courts in is- suing injunctions in every important strike in this city in the past year, |the police brutality in the struggle of | the needle trades workers, the trac- \tion workers, the truckmen, the paper box makers and all other workers on |strike, makes the need of indepen- {dent political action by labor more necessary than ever. The convention will probably ad- dress a letter to the socialist party on the United Labor Ticket in this election campaign. Final nominations will be made by | the conference for the most impor- |tant assembly, aldermanic and judi- cial didtricts. | Ben Gitlow, William F. Dunne, William W. Weinstone, Alexander Trachtenberg and others will speak. HUGE THRONGS AT “RED BAZAAR” IN GALA NEW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Thousands of Workers Will Attend the Gigantic Affair Today and Tomorrow Thousands of workers continued to pour into Madison Square Garden last night where the First National Bazaar for the bene- fit of The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT is being held, and which will continue today and tomorrow. The doors to the huge Garden will open today at 1 p, m, and at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Varied merchandise amount This Game Is a Business. Jack Levy, baseball ticket agent, is charged with cheating on the in- dustry. He has been ordered to show cause why he should not be sentenced to six months and fined $10,000 for selling baseball tickets at an unau- thorized price. bs ‘ jand Pennsylvania who came to a undertaking. Theatrical Performance. During the evening a theatrical per- formance was put on. This included Westergarde’s European Acrobatic ing to thousands of dollars were bought by workers from New York, various cities in New Jersey t in making a success of this | Troupe, presented for the first time in the United States, and a group of international clowns, (Continued on Page Three) vd \ 4 ) i