The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1927, Page 1

four days. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWIZATIGN OF THB UNOBGARIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK Fer A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 230. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offive at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3 NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. AS 3, 1879. PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, |< FINAL CITY | CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER N. y. Price 3 Cents MEXICAN TROOPS CORNER GOMEZ, WALL ST. AGENT Current Events By T. J. O'Flaherty E United States will not recognize Obregon, should he be elected president of the Republic of Mexico, as he is almost certain to be, accord- ing to a Washington news dispatch that appeared in last Sunday’s New York American. This story was fea- tured side by side with a statement issued by General Arnulfo R. Gomez, chief military leader of the latest at- tack on the present Mexican govern- ment, We are also informed that should Calles find it necessary to ask permission of the United States to purchase arms in this country the request will be refused. 4 walls is very interesting and omin- ously significant, as is the hin that Morgan’s right hand man Mor- row, may definitely postpone his de- parture for his ambassadorial post in Mexico. It means—granting that the story is based on fact and not on the fancy of an inspired Hearst correspondent—that the present re- volt in Mexico is supported by Wall Street and that the imperialist forces whose appetite for loot at the expense of the Mexican people, has been left unsatisfied by the Calles administra- tion, feels that this chance to un- horse the Calles-Obregon combination should not be passed up without ex- hausting all its possibilities. Tr United States government sup- ported the Obregon-Calles ele- ments against the De La Huerta re- actionaries in the. hope that Wall Street’s siren call would lure the Mexican revolution from the path which it followed with reasonable con- sistency, since the overthrow of Car- ranza. This hope was blasted and since the election of Obregon until this day, the relations between Mexi- co and the United States have been strained, in fact, a state of suspended hostility has existed. Ambassador Sheffield did his utmost to bring about a rupture of relations between the two governments. To say that his mission was a failure from the point of view of American imperial- ism-would be passing a hair-trigger judgment on a complex situation and mistaking surface appearances i realities. Ce governments—and all exist- ing governments are class govern- ments—use various methods to ac-| complish certain purposes. We musé not allow the method or the technique to blur the object. Whether a bluster- ing agent like Sheffield or a suave money-changer like Morrow is Wall Street’s representative in Mexico City, Wall Street’s object is the same, that is, to shackle the raw wealth and the manpower of that rich country to the profit-machine of American imperialism. A Soviet ambassador to Italy may wear a silk topper at a royal reception but underneath the aristocratic headgear there functions a proletarian brain or at least a brain that is functioning in the in- terests of the proletariat. Which is the main point. H Het imperialists are not misled by the dress worn by Soviet diplomats or by the language they use on state occasions. They know they are deal- ing with the representatives of a so- cial order that is in fundamental con- flict with the capitalist system. They know that’the two systems are at war with each other and that the present state of comparative peace is at best only a rather undiplomatic truce. We must not be fooled by polite con- versations between Coolidge and ‘Calles over the new long distance telephone that makes immediate com- ‘(Continued on Page Two) *RED BAZAAR” IS BIG, SUCCESS; TO AID LABOR PRESS Four-Day Event Ends at Madison Sq. Garden Successful beyond all anticipations, the four-day First National Bazaar for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT closed last night at Madison Square Garden with thousands of workers having al- tended. Similar events are being planned in other parts of the country. Over 50,000 workers of New York city and vicinity are estimated to have attended the affair during the About, 15,000 attended last night when | the. Program hide Urge Labor Unity Ticket WORKERS PARTY — CANDIDATES ARE PLAGED IN RAGE Party Addresses SPs Agrees to Panken Nomination of Workers (Commun- ist) Party candidates in ten districts, adoption of a city program, and tke sending of a letter to the socialist party proposing a United Labor Tick- et featured the nomination conven- tion of the Party held yesterday at the New York district headquarters at 108 East 14th St. The letter to the socialist party urges that the two organizations to- gether with union organizations nom- inate a candidate against Judge Otto Rosalsky, notorious labor - baiting judge. It also proposes that. Judge Jacob Panken who is running for re- election be a candidate on the United Labor ticket. List of Candidates. The candidates nominated are: sembly, Manhattan, 6th district, Charles Krumbein; 8th district, Wil- liam W. Weinstone; 17th district, Jul- iet Stuart Poyntz; 18th district, Abra- ham Markoff. Assembly, Bronx, 3rd district, Louis A. Baum; 4th district, Wiliam F. Dunne; 5th district, Joseph Borocho- witz. Assembly, King, 6th district, Ches- ter W. Bixby; 14th district, Sam Nes- sin: 28rd district, Bertram D .Wolfe. For Aldermen, Manhattan. Board of Alderman, Manhattan, 6th district, Bert Miller; 8th district, Re- (Continued on Page Five) BUREAUCRATS AT AFL. CONVENTION TO BAR MEXICANS Say Woll Report to Ask Immigrant Persecution LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 9.—Of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor state that when its sessions are resumed tomorrow, a_ report agreed to by Matthew Woll, vice- president of the A. F. of L., and E. Mujica and C. A. Vargas, fraternal delegates from the Regional Federa- tion of Labor of Mexico, will be pre- sented on the subject of immigration of Mexican workers into the United States. It will be a most drastic pro- posal for not only limitation of the numbers permitted to cross the bor- der, but for official and unofficial po- lice spying on those allowed or desir- ing to-come into the United States, and in which the reactionary leaders of the Regional Confederation of La- bor, and the Mexican government will be asked to cooperate to persecute any workers having radical tenden- cies, For Passports, The report is that the Woll com- mittee on immigration has drawn up a protocol containing statutes which the executives of the A. F. of L. and the Regional Federation of Labor of Mexico will ask the Mexican govern- ment to adopt, allowing Mexican workers to come to the United States only with passports, and providing that only enough passports shall be issued to keep immigration of Mexi- can workers to the U. S, within the limit that would apply if the U.S. immigration laws covered Mexican immigration. It is understood that the committee considered making the request direct- ly to the United States government to bar Mexican workers, but modified its decision to the present form to try and make use of the bureaucracy of the Mexican labor unions. Worker Still Jailed. Sidney Bush, Workers (Commun- ist) Party member arrested at the convention by police officers in close touch with Matthew Woll and charged with “suspicion of criminal. syndical- ism” because he was thot to have in his possession progressive resolutions which some of the delegates were to introduce, is still in jail. He is held without bail. Police detectives are shadowing all known members of the ( Bead on Page As-| General Arnulfo Gomez, Resctllery Tie, Now Hiding in Vera Cruz | | has now abandoned his easy chair Photo of the man who ran for Presidency of Mexico on the openly expressed platform of making the country safe for American Oil Com- panies. Despairing of getting a sufficient number of votes, he used funds supplied him from somewhere to corrupt part of the army, and The six o’clock whistle has the miners call them, around the? mine office and entrance to the com- pany stockade are on the alert to en- force the law beyond the letter. Heavy mist covers the neighboring valleys and closes in the hillside with the muddy yellow road and the stock- ade and the scabs and pickets and Coal and Iron police from the rest of the world. It is only about 35 miles out of the city of Pittsburgh, but as utterly isolated as if it were a thousand miles in the wilderness. Here the-company is supreme, civil rights a joke, and all authority vested in the “Yellow Dogs” and the state troopers. Just recently, in prepara- tion for the sharpening of the strug- gle presaged by the issuance of the preliminary injunction permitting eviction of the miner's’ families and prohibiting picketing, the sheriffs Proclamations posted around on fen- ces and telegraph poles, were taken down, and the deputy sheriffs removed from the Avella No. 9 mine; for al- though the deputies are paid by the company through the- sheriff, and their “impartiality” is of course a (Continued on Page Six) Secretary of War Dwight W. Davis called Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, late military oppressor of the Filipinos, the “ideal American” at a memorial service here last night. PITTSBURGH TERMINAL COAL 60. USES PEONAGE TO RUN SCAB MINE Coal and Iron Police Driva- Bos Drive Boys to ‘Work; Union Pickets Tell Them How to Escape By A. S. just blown calling the scabs to work in the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company mine, Avella No. 9. It is still dark, and the air is raw and misty. eight pairs of pickets stationed along the road leading to the en- |trance of the mine, 40 feet apart, as the law here demands, and \the grey-uniformed Coal and Iron police, or “Yellow Dogs” | as There are e ‘Registration for Next Months Election Starts Today; Ends on Saturday All workers RE Se expect to vote for the Workers (Communist) Par- ty candidates in next. month’s elec- tion must register during this | week, | Registration will begin today. On! the first five days of the week the | registration places’ will be open| from 5p. m. to 10.30 p. m. and on| {for tn 306 the final day, from 7 a} m. to 10.30 p. m. — | | | | | Anchrax Kills Another Worker; 2 Are Infected Another worker has been killed and two others have been infected by an- thrax. Joseph McCormack, 47 Oak Yonkers, is dead and Walter K 423 Neppenhan Ave., Yonkers, and Stephen Fabek, 423 Washington Ave., Hastings, are suffering in Yonkers City Hospital. The two are expected to recover. The three were employed in a large carpet mill and were re- ported infected through handling wool. CELEBRATION The first day in a week of activ- ities planned by the Workers Party. to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of \the Russian Revolution will be Tues-| day, November 1. It is called “Mob-' ilization Day,” and general member- ship meetings of all members of the Workers Party will be held in every) city and town of the United States in| MOBILIZE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, FOR THE OF SOVIET ANNIVERSARY | Anniversary buttons, blanks for new members to be used in a membership drive during celebra- tion week, Tenth Anniversary sub- seription blanks for The DAILY WORKER, throwaways advertising the mass meetings and the literature to he sold at the various meetings. The second day of the week of ac- (TELEGRAM FROM U. attempt. The telegram of the American party reads as follows: COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO, Mexico City. tions of the workers and peasants. | application | which there is a Party organization. | tivities is known as “Mass Education| Large cities may hold their member- | Day. ”’ This day will be used for open- (Signed) * DECISIVE BATTLE NEAR AS FEDERALS CLOSE IN | ON REACTIONARY BANDS MEXICO CITY, Oct. 9—Another he may tell whether the counter-revolution precipitated Sunday last under the leadership of Generals Arnulfo E. Gomez, candidate for the presidency, and Heetor Almada, former chief of staff of the) district,, will be snuffed out or dragged along indefinitely. : A bulletin issued from presidential headquarters in Chapul- tepec Castle predicted that a decisive battle between federals and the rebel forces probably will begin some time today near Perote,| |Vera Cruz state. Approximately 8,000 combatants are expected | to patente in this engagement, headquarters stated. Encircling Reactionaries. General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, |commander of the federal UNION WINDOW CLEANERS ARE NOW PICKETING |tial office announced. | Escobar | with Generals Gomez and Almada. The enemy evidently had received | advance notification of the approach jof the federal column and had de- | stormed the rancho, Federal Planes Bomb Foe. A report reaching Mexico City to- ‘pers Are Striking | cleaner’s strike was scheduled to be-j; jing Gomez and Almada had made gin today. jeontact with the enemy east of That the strike will be won within | two weeks is presaged by daily settle-/ some men in the fighting. The gov- ments with individual employers, ac-/ernment announced it has three cording to an announcement from the | columns of troops bearing down upon strike headquarters of the Window/ Gomez and Almada to prevent their Clearners Protective Union, Local 8,| escape southward to the Isthmus of which is affiliated with the Ameri-|Tehuantepec, or north to the oil can Federation of Labor. The |fields. Government bombing planes is endorsed by the Central Tr: Labor Council. |federal general, Escorbar, harrassing Charging that he is a Communist/the reactionary forces who were re- jthe employ adopting their usual} ported moving in the direction of the \tactics, are attempting to force Peter) Vera Cruz coast, pillaging towns and Darck, secretary of the local, from his | ranches in their path. office and from the union. Some} senger Service R {shops are reported to have named |, P Darck as the price of a settlement) *4Ssenger esumed, trains resumed service |parts of the world | column | | pursuing the revolting reactionaries | of the Nov. lis reported closing in on them today.| igreat Inte He has arrived at Rancho El Triunfo, | Pravda, |26 miles east of Perote, the presiden-| Union Communist Party, notes that Here General | the had expected to catch up| Annive More Than “900 Mem- | jcamped hours before Escobar's forces) Picketing in the New York window | jday said the federal columns pursu-| “CRIMINAL ATTEMPT AT COUNTER-REVOLUTION GY LANDLORD-CLERICAL REACTIONARIES, FINANCED BY U.S, GAPITAL, MUST BE CRUSHED RUTHLESSLY” 5. COMMUNIST PARTY TO MEXICAN PARTY.) The Workers (Communist) Party issued yesterday from its national office at New York the text of a telegram which it has sent to the Communist Party of Mexico in reply to a telegram re- ceived from the Mexican Communist Party (published in The DAILY WORK questing support of the American working class and farmers against the counter-revolutionary HR Saturday) re- New York, October 8, 1927. Criminal attempt at counter-revolution by landlord and clerical reactionaries financed by United States capital must.be crushed ruthlessly. Present crisis shows that only the mass activity of workers and peasants under arms can prevent weakness and vac- ilation in resistance to United States imperialism and its counter- revolutionary agents, and effectively defend the national inde- pendence of Mexico and accomplish the realization of the aspira- We are calling upon all American workers to break with labor imperialism and support Mexico’s struggle against United States imperialism. ieee (COMMUNIST) se acted OF AMERICA it — 4 BRITISH WORKERS. URGE COMBINING OF DELEGATIONS Counteract Plots on the © Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Werker). MOSCOW, Oct. 9. Pointing |; out that reports coming from various show that the working class and the oppressed masses of all countries are preparing to make of the Tenth Anniversary 7, 1917, Revolution a ational Labor Festival, organ of the All- official pre fc the Tenth particular expres- sion in int wn in the organi- zation of del ions to the anni- versary celebrations. ions t Many Labor Delegations. “Labor delegations to the U. S. 8. R. have long since become an in- | ternational f; in the labor moves ment. Howe keen interest is ac- |tually observable on the part of workers sending delegations is un- pre The sending of dele- Puebla, and that the federals had lost} | various labor | were said to be scopersiing. with the} gation part of the general en; among the ions originated idea that October starting point solidation of the r and peasant masses s of the first workers’ republic. and is maturing th celebrations be m for the fu unity of wor who are fri and peas: Initiative From F “The initiative toward initia the délegatio! in the Soviet capitol emenates from the British revolu- tionary proletarians. This idea meets with warm sympathy from workers of with the union. The strikers, how- |today between Mexico City and Vee Se Sadi Set Coen ever, have ignored the offer. They |Cruz, each train being equipped with rae A Pike Wea ae i \insist the administration of the union, |atmored c and. provided with a} | baat F pa a cn Pa dls a lthe conduct of the strike and the heavy military escort. Pre saat tee? Lohastiog e bre selection of the union's officers shall; Acting under direct orders of Pros-| 3100"), 10°.) “One ED. a National pereein, wane REA ee recenyemntent -abents 80; Committ te airanieaeal of, Isbog Thirty Shops Have Settled. day began ‘seizing the property of} gale sgations to the U. S. S. R. has : Serrano, Gomez and their political) ,, otified t rete ¢ Harry Feinstein, business agent of confederates, many of whom were| ren oh Sir by Lent aries of the the Protective Union, reports more executed during last week. The| trian. et bs ont caeetiee and Aus- than 30 shops have settled with the agents seized the motor. cars belong-' hye Lb hey vor tee # ey agreed strikers. and have accepted the|ing to Gomez which were left. be- ‘© Teanize joint conference to dime union’s terms. The men are striking for the recognition of the union and a $3 weekly wage increase. The pres- ent seale is $43. | By Saturday morning more than 900 men had answered the strike call, ‘according to Peter Da: secretary of hind when he fled. The confiscated property will be sold and the proceeds applied to payment of the govern- ment’s expense in putting down the revolt. Indian Tribes Aid Government. Five companies of Maya Indians, in ship meetings section by section. The program of these membership) meetings consists of a report on the! meaning of the Russian Revolution, the present situation of the Soviet Union, the war danger and the steps to be taken to bring these maters be- fore the American workers. This re- port will be followed by a general dis- cussion, a distribution of material for use in the -week’s activities and a summary by the one delivering the report. The material includes a leaflet pub- Gumhet: by the be oe Party, Tenth ing of workers’ classes and workers’| the union. schools, for the opening of bookshops | or literature corners for the sale of, literature of interest to workers, and | also for open air mass meetings. The other days of the week, which} will -be described in: detail in subse- quent issue of this paper, include Trade Union Day, Russian Recogni- tion Day, Celebration and Defense Days, and Farmer-Labor Party and Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Days. Special slogans, appropriate literature and appropriate activities |have fos outlined for each flay. duration. over in about two weeks.” He said based .on the strike registration. Every striker must carry a “striking | card” for identification. Predicts Victory In 2 Weeks. Darck said, “all strikes in this in- dustry in the past have been of short I think this strike will be) Feinstein said, “The employers are | split. Half favor recognition. The other half do not. We have settled with thirty-odd shops and expect the other employers to fall in line within a week or so.” \ s figures were | {lower Sonora state, the home terri- of General Obregon, offered tory | their services to General Obregon and | President Calles to assist in putting jdown the rebellion. The Mayas said |they were already equipped for war land ready to take the field. On the other hand, bodies of super-| Beith Yaqui Indians, already hos- tile to the Calles government, were reported encamped in the mountains } cuss the most fitting measures few the defense of th Soviet Union agains$ the war The British Na- tional © ittee inquires whether the Central Council agrees with this proposition and is prepared to make all necessary preparations for the or- ganization of such a conference. The Central Council wired reply agreeing to the proposition of a joint confer- enee and promised to undertake all measures to help the British and other delegations in the realization of their propositions. declares that this move should be carried out as opposition to the organized depredations of British imperialism that has: as its aim the isolating of the Soviet Union Pravda 300 miles south of the United States|and preparing a war against it. In- border, likewise equipped for war. + (Continued on Page Two)” deed in France, China, Belgium, Ger- (Continued on Page Three) —