The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE #-KOUR WEEK FOR 4 LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1878. THE DAILY WORKER ° FINAL CITY EDITIO Vol, IV. No. 231. WINDOW WASHERS | CHARGE BOSSES NOW HIRE THUGS Ranks of Strikers Grow. As Picketing Continues Charging officials of the employers’ association in the window cleaning in- dustry with employing guerillas in the present strike, Peter Darck, sec- retary of the Window Cleaners’ Pro- tective Union, Local 8, yesterday sent a letter to Harry Fink, manager of the Manhattan Window Cleaning Em- ployers’ Association, protesting against the use of the forces of the underworld in the struggle. Darck’s letter read in part: Try To Terrorize Workers. | “We have been informed from au- thoritative sources that your organiza- | tion has employed an East Side gang | to terrorize members of our union in} the present struggle for recognition of our union and better and fairer working conditions. “A member of your ‘strong-arm squad’ has come to use and offered his services for more money than you are said to have offered him; we r fused his service as this union is dedi- cated to the principles contained in} the constitution of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, of which it is a chartered member. However, we have warned our men that under, the cir- cumstances they should use every means within their power to protect their lives against the assault of your hired gangsters.” | Strikers’ Ranks Grow. Registration at union headquarters showed that nearly 1,000 men are out on strike. The number is increasing (Continued on Page Five) | COURT DECLARES LEASE OF TEAPOT DOME FRAUDULENT Trial of Sinclair and | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. {campaign headquarters at the dis- California, and corresponding profits Fall on Monday | WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—After; more than three years, the lease by) which officials in the Harding cabinet | | lished. Outside New York, by mat, $4.00 per year. — Legionnaire Votes Push Fascist Thru As Leader of “Fidac” War Veterans LONDON, Oct. 10. — Largely thru the support of representatives of the American Legion, Nicolai Sansanelli, notorious as Mussolini’s right-hand man, was elected presi- dent of Fidac (the Federation In- terallie des Anciens Combattants). Altho the majority of delegates from Great Britain, France and Belgium favored M. Reiseroff of Belgium and fought Sansanelli as a fascist, the solid American bloc oushed the fascist thru to the presi- jency. Hundreds of legionnaires visited their fellow-blackshirts in | i QUARREL OVER: “BOULDER DAM” Pigeon \Divide Along Lines of| Business Interests LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Oct. 10.— The American Federation of Labor Convention "has concurred in the belated proposal of its executives to hold a meeting of officials in Pitts- burgh to discuss the miners’ relief. | The convention, reaffirming the reactionary policies of its executive council, voted against a labor party. * * * Italy recently and paid their re-j | pacts to Mussolini. i) BEGIN COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN: HOLD RALLIES TONIGHT Red’ Nights to Stir Up ‘Workingclass Sections kg eee With the filing today of petitions, The representatives of California | naming Workers (Communist) Party and Arizona take the lead, California | candidates in ten New York districts, delegates echo the real estate propa- plans are being laid for: a vigorous ganda of Southern California, which campaign between now and election sees in irrigation from the dam waters | day. and possibly cheaper power a certain | According to those in charge of the rise in the values of land in Southern | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10.—In ad- dition to a report on the Mexican situ-! ation from the executive council of | the American Federation of Labor to} its convention in session again here} in today after two days vacation Southern California resorts, the prii cipal thing before the convention is} Boulder Dam. | The convention applauded mildly the | decision of the executive council to! approve of the Regional Confedera- tion of Labor of Mexico, and delegates began to discuss the “important ques- tion” of the dam. | | | trict office of the Party, 108 East for those who control the sale of that 14th St., hundreds of open air meet- land. ings will be held before election day, The Arizona delegates use the argu- November 8. Several large indoor ment of the Arizona power compan- rallies are also being arranged. Can- ies, and argue state rights. Arizona, didates and other leading labor they declare, should be compensated spokesmen will address the thousands for the “damage” done “her” electri- of workers. jeal power interests by competition To Hold Red Nights. with a government-owned power plant, Among plans now being drawn up auxiliary to the irrigation system. by the campaign committee is a, They want the state to build the dam series of “Red Nights” in the impor-|——the state being more directly con- tant working class sections of the trolled by the power interests. city. Certain Saturdays and Sundays) Speak In Pulpits. will be named when the entire bat-/ On Sunday, after having “rested” tery of Party speakers will concen-' and “recuperated” from the trip to trate in a section, holding about 20. Island, the “strenuous ef- meetings within the radius of about’ forts” during the past week, 24 lead- one mile. Thousands of leaflets and ing laborites mounted the pulpits in special issues of The DAILY WORK- | 94 local churches to treat the re- ER and The FREIHEIT will be pub- | spective congregations to a combina< |tion of spiri - Two open air meetings will bey held | tory. crt a tase Dec ec tonight. They will be at 163d St. and} There was no recurrence of last Prospect Ave., with Charles Mitchell, | year’s regrettable incident at Detroit NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1927 AFL. DELEGATES —— eee ‘Coal and Iron Police | Beat, Jail Four Strikers; | Scabs Attack and Lose | PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10. — The | coal and iron police terror at Castleshannon mines of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Company has reached the point where today Jus- tice G. H. Beltzhoover of Castle-| shannon Borough is asking Dis- trict Attorney Gardner of Alle- gheny County for protection for citizens of this borough against po- lice violence. The immediate cause | jers and another youth were taken | into company barracks, beaten and | jailed. One is in the hospital ser- iously injured, At the Gallatin Pittsburgh Coal Company mine where the children’s ke oc- curred, two armed scabs were wounded in a clash with strike Many witnesses, including busin st provoked the strikers. | HUBS SOLIN MUS NAPOLEON DREAM OF ASIAN EMPIRE France Bars Duce’s Wa to Jugo-Slay Attack PARIS, Oct., (By Mail). — The press-war that has broken out between Greece and Turkey is an ominous sign. The Turks are accusing the Greeks of having aided and abetted the band of conspirators under Haji Samy, which landed last month in Asia Minor from Samos with the intention of assassinating Mustapha Pasha Kemal. Haji Samy was killed; a number of the others were captured. Their con- fessions, says the ‘“Hakimiet-i-Mil- liet” (which is an official paper), es- tablish definitely that they had been helped by the Greek general staff. It is noticeable that the accusation is made not against: th» present. goy- ernment, but against the general staff. For the suggestion which un- derlies this is that, whereas the gov- ernment has been adopting a correct, and even rather friendly, attitude to- wards Turkey, the army, under some other influence, is pursuing an en- tirely opposite policy. men, declare the scabs repeatedly | | turned over the rich Teapot Dome} Max Schachtman and A. Gussakoff Rome and Athens. " | Published datty except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents » N.Y. Authorities In Border ¢ Tf | Chief ‘of a revolt in reactionary Mexico when Obregon was president, }De la Huerta, now in Los Angeles, jhas announced that all of his white |terrorist crew that escaped into U. S. |will try to unite with Wall Street’s |man, Gomez, now leading another at- | tempt. De la Huerta’s brother has recently been killed while at the head of a band of marauders in northern | Mexico. Gold-Hyman Libel Case Is Resumed: Will Call Sigman The criminal libel case against Ben Gold and Louis Hyman, of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union Joint Board, and the editors of The FREIHEIT and Unity is docketed for resumption before Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky in the 57th St. court at 11 a. m. today. Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ States Assist Gomez | Adotpho de ta Huerta | ET GOUNTER-REVOLUTIONISTS 60 of the request was that four strik-| | ACROSS BORDER IN ARMED BANDS Three Groups, Many Rifles, Known To Be on Way to Attack Nueva Laredo LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 10.—Inte rho is e unde fate of General Gomez, with his army either jaleng the America an | smuggling of arms in large quar ‘yeactionary bands to be recruite “refugees,” that is, former opp and workers who have been dr been waiting in Texas and Arizona “MEXICAN LABOR G00D BOYS LIKE US,"—MATT WOLL ‘“Didn’t Attempt Labor Govt.,” Report States LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10. — “Since they have not established any labor government, nor attempted, as was charged, to establish an army of the jworkers and peasants of Mexico, the |Regional. Federation of Labor of ! Mexico is all right, and deserves the {support of the American Federation of Labor” — that, in substance, is the report of the Executive Couneil of the A. F. L. on Mexican affairs, |delivered today to the convention. | The report is the result of a so- !called investigation conducted largely ‘by Vice President Matthew Woll and his aides, during the year passed ince the last convention. It is offi- t shifted away from the vidently a fugitive in Vera Cruz, sd or nearly so, to the activities bord Ypen and notorious ntitie ng on, for the use of d on Mexican soil, or made up of s of the Mexican peasants en from the country and have towns for a chance to return. Three se e columns of reac- tionary troops, reported to have been recruited on the American side, are planning to at Nueva Laredo within the next 36 hours, according to word received by the Mexican con- sul at Laredo, Texas. Serious disappointment was ob- served among the impending attack- ers late last night when it was learned that General Enrique Torres, staunch Calles supporter and one of {the most prominent generals in the | Mex can army, took over command of |the federal garrison there, He re- j Places General Gonzales, considered an anti-Calles Sympathizer. Nueva Laredo, with Juarez, is one of the most strategic border cities and fre- quently changed hands in revolutions of the past. In possession of Nueva Laredo, the counter-revolutionists would be in control of the most im- portant point of entry from the United States, thus opening the way £ arms and munitions from, the . AL General Gonzales, the former com- mander of the Garrison, attended a meeting of the counter-revolutionary Junta held at Laredo last night. It 1s reported that he will lead one of the columns against Nueva Laredo, lV Truck loads of arms and munitions ‘oil reserve out of which Sinclair had) ..confirms the belief, generated by oil reserves to Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, has been declared “fraud- ulent” and has been cancelled. The stench of the scandal was so strong that even the United States Supreme Court in its lengthy ‘deci- sion yesterday unanimously declared that the lease “was shot thru with fraud” and “tainted with corruption.” | Justice Butler, who read the decision declared that all circumstances “point to a fraudulent conspiracy.” Aids Imperialist Navy. The decision means that the rich | hoped to make $100,000,000 will re-| vert to the navy department to be used to promote American militar- ism, If the gigantic fraud, in which a number of cabinet officers were concerned, had not involved the ques-} tion of naval oil supply, it is doubt-| ful if Albert F. Fall, former secretary of interior, would have been gently censured in the decision as a “faith- less public officer.” Referring to the $230,500 in Lib-| erty Bonds that were given by Sin-| clair to Fall, Justice Butler said, “the clandestine and unexplainable acquisition of these bonds by Fall other circumstances in the case that he\ was a faithless public officer. Theke is nothing in the record that tends to mitigate the sinister signif. icance attaching to that enrichmen’ Fall‘Sinelair Trial Monday. Fall and Sinclair will both go on} trial Monday charged with conspiracy to defraud the government. Reimbursement Denied. In its decision the supreme court held that the Mammoth Oil Company ) (Sinclair’s) was not entitled to re- | imbursement for expenditures on the reserve. Sinclair won a temporary victory in the district court in Wyo- ming when Judge Blake Kennedy up- held the lease. The government ap- pealed and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed the lower court. The supreme court up- held the circuit court and ordered the return of the reserve to the govern- ment. when the “labor-preachers” found the church doors barred. Big business is! immune from the organizing fever in this city, and has therefore no reason to interfere with the preaching pro- gram. Last night marked the con- vention celebration in the city, which culminated with a monster dance at !some local dance hall. The entertain- ment program will continue on | |as speakers, and at Rutgers Square, H | with Solon de Leon, George Primoff | and H. Gordon as speakers. UNTERMYER BARES The other influence is, of course, fascist Italy. Relations between Rome and Athens, very close in the days of the Pangalos dictatorship, cooled sensibly when Pangalos fell. This summer, when M. Michalopunlas visited Rome, it was loudly trumpeted that they had again been firmly re- established. Union, who accuses the defendants of |cially the work of the Executive Coun- libeling him and his wife, will bejcil, however, and was read to the cross-examined by Joseph R. Brodsky | convention by President Wm. Green. and Louis B. Boudin, counsel for the | “Not Socialistic.” defense. The report declares the Regional | Federation of Labor of Mexico was (Continued on Page Two) ’ * * To Continue Defense Fight. Representatives of more than 90; | Wednesday with a joyride in auto- There was some basis for the labor organizations attended a confer- | ence of the Joint Defense Committee were reported to have been sent to the border from San Antonio, Police A t Gomez. It is remembered here that General de la Huerta, shot in battle a few {days ago, led his little army of mer- ;cenaries out of the United States into Mexico without opposition at all from the American border patrol, ale CCNY Men Get Nobby t — Registration for next month’s permitted to vote. ISTRATION FOR NOVEMBER 8TH ELECTION TAKES PLACE ALL THIS WEEK 6 WATERED ST0C |mobiles and with a visit to some of | the leading cinema-studios in Holly- SUBWAY : R 0 FITS (Continued on Page Two) H Fark ong ty ii Morgan Spokesman Hits U, S. §. R. Welcomes Dahl-Chadbourne Gang. 1 000 D l t By ROBERT MITCHELL. i g % e fa 8S at That the five-cent fare is doomed’ is becoming increasingly clear as the! Women’ hand of Tammany Hall is seen be-; $ Ongress hind the smoke screen of the various! Ske tel Cea iene of ¥ |The Congress of Working and Peasant: Yesterday it was Samuel Unter-| women opened today in a large the- myer, special counsel of the transit ater here, Delegates were present commission, who announced that the tom local Soviets in all parts of the five-cent fare could live. The day be-| soviet Union. fore Mayor James J. Walker made an) Among the 1,000 women delegates equally pious observation. Tammany | aye representatives of Oriental peo- Hall, now completely sold out to the ple. The huge theater is decorated, open shop, Morgan interests, nods as-|+eq prevailing. There is the greatest sent. lenthusiasm among the delegates. } Zealous Mr. Untermyer Everybody feels that these women In a long statement in reply to | representatives of so many different | |Charles Edward Smith, Controller|peoples are animated with one sole Berry’s transit expert from St. Louis, desire to do their best for the rein- Untermyer announced that Smith’s forcement and defense of the revolu- | “unification” plan was the propaganda ‘tion. of the traction interests. Untermyer| The congress testifies to the po- pointed out effectively that the plan jlitical maturity and interest of the was yery little of transit policy and working women in the political, eco- very much of increased fare propa- nomic and cultural life of the Soviet ganda, Union, | Untermyer failed however to indi-| Particular importance is attached to ‘cate in his long bitter denunciation of this congress. It meets at a moment | Smith the reason for his own zeal in| when the first workers’ republic is pressing the plan which he‘had earlier | threatened by imperialist powers. launched. That the Untermyer plan| The delegates’ speeches show the is the offspring of the Morgan brains | devotion with which the toiling wo- is evident from the speed with which men do their duty for the defense of (Continued on Page Five) |the Soviet Union. i The congress was opened by Kal- inin in behalf of the presidium, cen- tral executive committee of the Sov- ‘iets. Welcome speeches were made by Bucharin on behalf of the Com-} -munist Party of the Soviet Union; In New York registration hours until Friday are from 5 p. m. to , y, the final day, registration booths will be open election takes place this week. All workers who expect to vote for the Workers (Communist) Party candi- dates must not forget to register. Those who do not register will not be ng Tomsky on behali of the Central Council, Labor Unions of the Soviet Union. Voroshiloff spoke for the Red Army and Roy for the Communist International. Marguerite Anne greeted the congress in the name of ‘the toiling German women, who sent p delegation of ten. ; claim: but less than M. Michalopun- las had hoped. Italian support of the Pangalists has by no means stopped. It will not stop unless the present government in Athens will subordinate its policy completely to that of Rome. Other- wise we may look for a steady in- crease in Pangalist activities, and probably for a new coup d’état with- in the next few months. Turkish Charges. If the Turkish charges are well based; if the Greek general staff really “in cahoots” with Turkish anti- | Kemalists on the one side, and with the Italians on the other, then one must suspect that there is good chance of the coup succeeding. If it does, Eastern Durope will be faced by an Italian dictatorship and |and I. Shapiro addressed the dele-| a Greek dictatorship in active alli- ance; and with Bulgaria, in all prob- ability, as a third member of the partnership. Then the question which has al- ready vexed many diplomatic minds will pose itself in very serious fash- ion indeed. What will be Mussolini’s objective — Anatolia or Albania? A war with Turkey or a war with Jugoslavia? That is a question which it is ex- ceedingly hard to answer. Military preparations give little clue. They are going on in Venezia Juliana, near the Jugoslav border. But they are also going on at Rhodes, which would be the jumping-off ground for an at- tack on Asia Minor. Perhaps the odds are on Anatolia. For one thing, the risks would seem Open Communist Fight In Passaic Next Sunday Workers. (Communist) Party will open its election campaign here Sun- day at 3 p. m. with a meeting at the Workers Home, 27 Dayton Ave. The speakers will include William W. Weinstone, district organizer of the Party; Emil Garos, New Jersey or- ganizer; Rebecca Grecht, Millinery Workers’ Union; J. 0. Bentall and the } of the Cloakmakers’, Furriers’ and| [Jniform for Jingo Drill Dress Makers’ Unions at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., Sunday. To continue the fight for the relief and defense of the needle trades work- ers the delegates voted to sell $200 worth of tickets for a bazaar that will be held December 25th to Janu- ary 2nd. The place will be announced later. The conference was addressed by I. Landy, manager of the Joint De- se Committee. He pointed out that ing the eight months of its exist- nce the committee has raised $111,- 10, of which $91,619 has been used for defense and relief. Hyman and Shapiro Speak. Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint | Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, gates. Shapire warned the workers’ representatives that they should pre- pare for new frame-ups by the right wing. | Pirated Ships Worth Millions. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. — The su- preme court today continued until March 5th next hearing of a dozen| cases involving claims of German ship | }companies for about $100,000,000 on account of merchant ships seized dur- ing the war by the Uni tinuance was granted on request of the ship companies, pending action by congress to dispose of alien property AGKNOWLEDGE AID | militant workers of this city for The exact proceeds realized have not been learned but they (Continued Juggling of classes and discrimina- tion against those who decline to take military drill are the reasons given by active members of the Social Prob- lems Club of the College of the City of New York for the larger registra- tion in the jingo drill than in the physical training courses. College officials, in announcing that four-fifths of the incoming freshmen preferred the military ‘training class to “civilian” physical education courses, neglected to say that nobby army uniforms, including shoes, cost- ing the government $30 each were given to all who enrolled for the R. O. T. C., according to these students. Students registering for physical education courses are compelled to pay |themselves of $7. Many of the stu- idents use the army outfit for per- | sonal uses off the campus. ‘Tammany Hall to |for a shoddy uniform at a cost to| Ways anxious to suppress any sup= port for Calles, | The police departments of border towns are reported warning all Calles sympathizers that no “spying” on the movements of the Gomez-de la Huers ta clique will be tolerated, and that any attempt to find out what they are about will be considered unwar- ranted assumption of the privileges of police officers, and punished as such, Mexican federal troops are rapidly closing in on General Gomez, coun- ter-revolutionary leader, and his dee feat is expected within three or four days. Gomez has about 1,000 men at a ranch 100 miles from the city of Vera Cruz, the dispatch said. There are 10,000 loyal federal troops in the state of Vera Cruz and 5,000 reine forcements are being rushed in, it was saie at the war department to- |day. Hi catoee | Take Over Some Property. | MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10.—Property estimated at 10,000,000 pesos (ap- | preximately $5,000,000) will be seized by the federal government to pay the 1 Greet Legion Head | FOR THE DAILY WORKER AND FREIHEIT | The remarkable success of the “Red Bazaar” for The DAILY WORKER and The FREIHEIT is being regarded as an excellent PASSAIC, N. J. Oct. 10. — The'l indication of the possibility of mobilizing support among the the expectations of the Bazaar Arrangement Committee. In a letter addressed to hundreds of organizations thruout the United States who have contributed to the bazaar’s’ over-|by cost of the military campaign against Edward E. Spafford, the new na-|the Gomez-Almada rebels, it was an- tional commander of the ‘American | nounced today at the attorney gen- Legion, who was the favorable of |¢*al’s office. Tammany during the election which) Among the rebel leaders whose followed the. recent bibulous conven-| Property will be confiscated are Are tion in Paris, will be given a recep-/nulfo Gomez, Gen. Ignacio Almada, Gen. tion by the city officials here today. Viscarra, Gen. Fontes and F. i 9 civi thos used of responsibility for the 1 ing as part of the campaign to \force the accused reactionaries to de- fray the cost of the suppression of the, revolt and to reimburse persons 'that sustained losses through the in- {surrection. Instructions have been sent to the scate legal authorities throughout the republic to begin proceedings against local insurrectionary leaders at once, Abel was officially announced that its will be brought against its daily press, from the collosal four-day func-! Rodriguez, newly appointed tion at the largest building of its kind, Madison Square Garden,| governor of the state of Vera Cruz, are known to have exceeded all|has gone from the city of Vera Crus to the capital, Jalapa, to take up his duties, He was accompanied by a of federal congressmen, headed se Del Carmen Lopez. They will (Coptinued on Page Two) on Page Five) Uhene