The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER ricuT FOR THD ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK WOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No, 233. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., un NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. der the act of Marrh 3, 1879. | Published dafly except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, F el AL CITY EDITION : Price 3 Cents N. Y. PITTSBURGH UNION-SMASHING INJUNCTION SIGNED STATE TROOPERS CRASH IN’ DOORS [ous ois iin OF MINERS AND CLUB THEIR WIVES: Colliery Superintendent at Renton Bosses Job; Yells, “Beat "Em Up Good” : By A.S. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12.—In the six months since the lockout of coal miners went into effect here in western Pennsyl- | jments between soft coal miners] | vania the state troopers have knocked the idea of class struggle} into people’s heads more effectively than years of propaganda * could have done. It is not only the miners themselves who have shared in this instructin but their wives and children too. At the Union Colliery Coal Com-7 ae Reuss pany mines- at Renton, in Alleghany county, the day the mines opened up and the first truck-load of scabs was brought into the camp, one of the most brutal clubbing bouts of the lock-out occurred. Since the troopers not only charged the crowd, beat them up and threw tear bombs, but went on up to the miners’ houses and broke in the doors and beat up the women and the children, who had stayed be- hind. The women and children know the full bitterness of the coal opera- tors’ war against the miners as well as the men themselves. The other night I was present at a} meeting of the recently organized Ladies’ Auxiliary of the union local at first: reports on by at the sub-district meetin, an affair held to raise funds for re- lief of local families hard hit by the long months of the lock-out. Then a young miner from a neighboring town began to speak of the miners’ fight{ond was paid to Director of the Bud-| and the use of the state troopers against the miners. Deecrous atten- tion changed to tense interest; and (Continued on Page Two) Former Department of; Justice Man Wants to Testify Against Remus LANSING, Mich., Oct. 12—Frank- lih L. Dodge, former department of justice agent, has offered to testify against George Remus, “the king of the bootleggers,” in his trial for the murder of his wife. Dodge denies Remus’ charges that he was intimate with the bootlegger’s wife during the investigation of Remus’ rum-running activities. The former department of| justice agent ridiculed the charges that together with Remus’ wife, he had got hold of $1,800,000 of the boot- legger’s fortune and was now hiding it in a safety deposit box in Lansing. The former agent is demanding that the state of Ohio place him in the wit- ness stand where his experience in distorting facts on the department. of justice staff may come in handy. Roosevelt Continues War on Smith; Bosses Endorse His Charges Colonel Roosevelt, whom the re- publicans are reported to be groom- ing for a presidential running-mate in 1928, continued’ his fire on. Al. Smith in his speech before a gather- ing of. 400 republican women at the Dorset Hotel here. Re-asserting his charges that vice and corruption had “crawled to the capitol steps” in Al- bany, Roosevelt repeated his denun- ciations of the Smith qdministration as corrupt and dilatory. Indicative of the future which the sepublican bosses are planning for Rrosevelt is the recent endorsement of sensational charges by the re- publ state organization. , German I. L. D. The German International Labor Defenge branch will hold a conference early frext month, At a conference held ionday night at the Labor Templle, 243 East 84th St. delegates represtpnting over 2,000 workers ‘were pjresent. fong organizations represented “wy the Carpenters’ union, local 2090; Bakers union, local 3; two branches of the Sick ‘and Death Benefit Fund; German Singing So- ciety and the Workers Club of York- ville. The delegates instructed the executive committee to arrange an entertainment in the near future. Another Flier Overdue. GRAFTON, Mass., Oct. 12—Fears were held by officials of the Whittall flying field here for the safety of Alfred Desjardines, pilot, and Paul Savage, newspaper photographer, who took to the air at 11 a. m. today and have not been heard from- since, Whittall Field is the airport for the city of Worcester. ; TINK OF THE SUSTAINING fly, ‘FUND AT EVERY MBETING!] just have ‘STRANGLING CASE AGAINST FALL BY HOLDING UP FUND ‘Government Economiz- | es on Trial Expense |. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — Atlee |Pomerene, special federal oil counsel, j associate, Owen J. Roberts, to try} former Secretary of Interior Albert ‘all, Hary Sinclair and E. L. Doheny r their alleged participation in the 1923 “oil. scandals.” He is seeking $100,000, his first ‘call was at the White House, his sec- the first deficiency appropriation. “Since the last deficiency bill failed in the filibuster they closed the last congress.” said Pomerene. “We’ve been stalling off the landlord and paying expenses and salaries out of our own pockets.” To date, Roberts and Pomerene have spent $240,000. They have reclaimed $24,000,000 worth of oil properties. N, Y. Plumbers Helpers Ask for Admission to the International Union Job steward meetings and dances are helping to keep up the interest of the membership of the American Assn. of Plumbers’ Helpers that took part in the recent plumbers’ strike with the journeymen. The helpers’ job stewards at their weekly conclave discuss methods of approaching non- union men and are addressed by well known labor men. The dances are a big amusement feature. The next will be held at Labor Hall, 32 East 2nd street, November 5. the Intl. Plumbers’ Executive Board meeting in Chicago, early in Novem- tional on the same basis accorded steamfitters’ helpers. McLaughlin To Be New Brooklyn Trust Head George V. McLaughlin, Tammany’s | former police commissioner, is to be- come president of the Brooklyn Trust! Co, Dee. 1. What arrangement Mc-| Laughlin has made with the Mackay telegraph and. cable services, with whom he was reported to have ac- ‘cepted $75,000 a year job, is not known but he is said to have “pro- cured the approval of Mr. Mackay” before making the change. It is un- derstood McLaughlin will remain as |a director of the executive committee of the Mackay companies, Injunction Judge Dies; Was Tool of Shoe and Railroad Interests The death of Judge William Joseph Kelly, presiding justice of the appel- late division of the supreme court, de- prives the bosses of one of their most active and relentless lackeys. Kelly, who was a notorious tool of the vest- ed interests, had long been in the employ, of the Long Island Railroad. He was best known, however, for the infamous injunctions which he hand- ed down against the shoe workers last winter. Judge Dies; Prisoners Wait WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct. 12.— Owing to the funeral of the late Justice William J. Kelly, presiding Justice of the Appellate Division be- ing held in Brooklyn, there will be no court sessions in any of the parts of the supreme court at White Plains tomorrow morning. Prisoners held waiting trial will was sent around town looking for | money today to enable kim and his} get, Lord, the sum to be included in| The} helpers are sending a delegation to! ber, urging admission to the interna-| ‘election campaign statement last night. Ot, if tie “ATTACK PICKETS | Union Negotiate For A Separate District Truce, IN DAIRY CLERKS Workers’ Union officials in Ohi ‘STRIKE; USE CLUB |coal miners’ lockout be negotiated) | Union for 1928 COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 12—A| | i |to be made to Ohio operators, sug-| | on a basis similar to the agree-| | proposal by the United Mine! | jgesting that a truce in the soft Fifty Shops Settle With | | 3 «|| Three pickets of the Retail Grocery and operators ithe | Ps pi weey | P An. other states: Mt | ind: <Datey .Glerka - Union. , were as- |the central competitive field, is! i F ‘ | | under consideration, it was learned! saulted by. meneaters while picketing | |here today. The letter, proposing} | the Polinsky Grocery and Dairy, 170 | |a conference with operators, has | Orchard St. yesterday noon. . jnot yet been sent to the operators, Max Bakrow, one of the pickets, mine union officials said, although| | ¥?S slugeed ‘ha an iron bar. Two | |a preliminary draft has been sub- of his teeth were broken off. Two | mitted to the various sub-district| |Stitehes were taken in his cheek at | presidents, and will later be sent| |* hospital. The face of Hyman Vack-| | |to the operators. | er, another picket, was painfully | | If this t the he| | bruised from several blows. | | sereement goes. thru, the Injured Men Replaced. | A bone in the wrist of Julius Lin-| der, a third picket, is believed to have | been fractured by a blow with a club. | | Ten other pickets replaced the three| injured men and the picketing con- | | striking miners of Pennsylvania, | |many of whom were not affected | | by the first lockout but have come | | out in solidarity to the rest of the | | union, will be further isolated. °. tinued ‘with increased vigor. | | According to members of the strike | aa committee of the union the attack } jwas directed by Samuel Haller, dis- |charged business agent of the union, ATTACK WORKERS {and organizer Brown of the Furni- | ture Drivers’ Union. Linder reported CARRY jthat Patrolman No. 494 turned his back when he pointed out one of the fleeing gangsters after the assault. | Four Hoboken Men Are Severely Hurt Try To Prevent Settlements. | - The assault was a further effort! on the part of union-wrecking agen- cies to interfere with the union’s rapid progress in settling with em-)| [paren for 1928, according to the) ras F strike committee. | ae ae hers Nope Haller is now organizer of a dual autieFanciet ogee pace of Shem | wage with an actual membership of were. given siedieel atecation: re Tse only five. Brown and Haller are said ; by the three pickets to have pointed cal hospital, were brutally attacked them out to the sluggers this morning by members of the Expelled From U. “yn T. (Squadrista,” the terrorist section of} The witb was expelled from the the Fascist League of North Amer- : ica. Touring the Italian working class district in groups of 15 or 20, the fascists, dressed in full facist regalia, set upon every worker whom they suspected of being opposed to Musso- lini’s regimé in Italy. Armed with whips, knives and canes they attacked or threatened many. | Had Upper Hand. As today is Columbus Day, the fas- jcists held the upper hand until eve- |ning. Most anti-fascist workers were not able to take a holiday thru fear \of losing their jobs. But when news of the fascist rally spread thru the workers’ neighborhoods a committee left for New York for aid. A mass meeting of the defense of Carilo and Grecco, anti-fascists workers, in the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave. was hastily adjourned. The workers (Continued on Page Five) on choosing it own delegates to that body. The officers controlling the U. H. T. opposed the militant ten- dencies of the union’s three repre- sentatives. The clerks withdrew from the American Federation of | Labor in 1920 and since have func- tioned as an independent local cov- ering Greater New York. 50 Employers Settle. | Settlements for the ensuing year) with about 50 shops have been ne-} gotiated since the settlement commit- | tee of the union began sitting regu- larly last Monday, the union reported | yesterday. The present contracts will | expire Friday. Among the more important settle- | ments reported are those with the United Workers Cooperative Stores, four stores of the Triangle Dairy, two stores of the Tremont Dairy and two stores of Siegel’s Dairy. WORKERS PARTY ANSWERS PANKEN, SOCIALISTS, ON UNITY OF LABOR Charges Panken and Socialists Want Capitalist Support Like Tammany Judge Jacob Panken, the socialist party’s candidate for re- election, was repudiated by the Workers (Communist) Party in the name of all militant workers in the New York district in an} Judge Panken places the interest of * the capitalist class above the inter-| ests of the workers, the statement charged, and would defeat the pur-, United Hebrew Trades for insisting | Paul Crouch Speaker at | | Huge Anti-War Meeting Here Friday Evening’ Paul Crouch, soldier-Communist, | free after serving two years of a! 40-year commuted sentence im- posed upon him for revolutionary activity while in the Haw will be the speaker at an anti-war meeting to be held tomor-| row night at Irving Plaza Hall,| Irving Pl. and 15th St. | Crouch, who has just completed | nation-wide tour for the All- merica. Anti-Imperialist League, | 8 ks here under the auspices of the Young Workers League and the Workers (Communist) Party, District Two. AFL OFFICIALDOM THANKFUL ABOUT FURRIERS’ SPLIT Hits Mexican Labor by Means of Agreement LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—The convention today defeated a resolu- tion denouncing American imperial- ism and slaughtered an anti-fascist resolution while on the positive side they passed one thanking the exec- utive council for splitting the fur workers’ union by “reorganization.” A resolution calling for a labor good- will mission to Latin America was referred to the executive council. Delegate Lee Hall denounced judge Schoonmaker’s decree against the United Mine Workers in Pennsyl- vania. The resolution to ask legislation against Canadian workers who live in Canada and commute to jobs in the United States was argued and |finally referred to the Executive Council for further consideration. For Merchant Marine. Despite its traditional opposition to government ownership in industry, the American Federation of Labor convention went on record here today as favoring a government-owned merchant marine by which the United States can maintain a “commanding position on the seas.” The action of the convention was taken while the opposition was lining up for a fight on any endorsement by the A. F. of L. of the Boulder Dam and Colorado River develop- ment projects. . Opposition in the convention to the Swing-Johnson bill calling for a gov- ernment built dam in Boulder Cany- on, has been based solely on labor’s heretofore unalterable stand against government control. The Thirsty Brigade. With a mighty roar of “ayes” the delegates passed a resolution in favor of “wholesome beer” and the modi- fication of the Volstead Act. The puny protest of the foes of alcohol was drowned by the torrent of anti- (Continued on Page Two) SRT Seca Na Raia “Tammany Hall Juggles Transit Propaganda But Bankers Direct the Act Gov. Al. Smith has announced he would maintain a hands-off policy 4 crac awe: Glly Appropriation characterizes him as harmless. | For Enoineers’ Pay | Panken Declines, The Workers Party recently in-) | vited the socialist party to partici- pate in the creation of a United La- nerease fn ma bor Ticket for the election Nov. 8,. | agreeing to support Judge Panken| , east for the sake of the political unity of et sh iy ice ee | Lae ues seats veterans for city employes, has protested that mivwarnend In a statement rejecting the $660,000 tentatively appropriated the Workers Party proposal he placed BLP panes a a purpose is not 7 | sufficient. Dudley Babcock, president baila, oa su ARE | of the Union of Technical ees, tas Sash aus dtatoviiodt ‘oh the written Mayor Walker stating that, | Workers Party, issued by the district lay by engineers will he satisfi ‘ with a $1,200,000 appropriation, $¥00,- gxecutive committee of the PArty,! ong is too little. Even the $1,500,000, 6 Babcock pointed out, would not be a “The Workers (Communist) Party| a5 per cent raise, as recommended by expected that Mr. Panken would re-|the chief examiner of the civil ser- Jeet the support of revolutionary | vice. A mass meeting of the engi- workers. The socialist party and Mr. |neering department employes hae been bere oi eee a al be called by the union for Oct. 20. POUT BeOS ree op orty coe ar, | While there Is a $25,000,000 sur- Save. ate Lets andr idl el plus over and above the amount ap- enKen: Rave ng “|propriated by the tentative ‘budget, | paign in the manner of capitalist can-| Pith Pratt republican, and the onl didates and secking the support of| oman member of the Board of "Al. various capitalist elements. tl debian / Ae abetting ta? Wee tha at This is gery papentannes party | gineers get their raise. She attacked a party every the increase and her resolution was "(Continued on Page Five) is referred to the finance congmittee. in the battle which is now rang- ing ostensibly between two trac- tion plans but actually between the Morgan banking group and the Chase National Bank-Dahl-Chad- bourne gang over control of the New York transit lines. Under the pretext that the | Transit Commission officials are paid huge salaries to decide the issue the Morgan controlled Tam- many governor of New York State has refused to act. Tammany Hall has gone further by playing up on the one hand Controller Berry’s increased fare propaganda through the camouflage of his Charles W. Smith’s traction plan| and on the other by supporting | the Morgan transit commission| program for which the great in- quisitor, Samuel Untermyer, is the chief spokesman. Mayor Walker yesterday tilted with Controller Berry to throw a smoke screen over the fact that Tammany Hall is behind both “unification” schemes, Tammany is talking the five cent fare, sell- ing out to the Morgan interests and paying city money for in- creased fare propagnada at the same time. ’ + army at! | man,| | sible in PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. junction is the mos only as to its prov The injunction also arbitrs right of the company to chase cision to let them stay in their the ordinary civil right of suing ing a suit from him, is a GOMEZ HIDING IN U. S-OWNED OIL Calles Admits Allowed Reactionaries Leeway VERA CRUZ, Oct. 12.—General Gomez, with a small band of reaction- ary followers, has fled to American oii fields in the vicinity of Tuxpam, and is seeking refuge there, accord- ing to reports received here today. Closely following him are scouting parties of Federal troops, under the command of General Gomzalo Esco- bar, who routed the reactionary for- ces on Monday in a decisive battle. More than 650 men, most of them troops who marched out of the Mexi- co City garrison, were captured in the battle, according to statements is- sued by the Federal headquarters. Suspect Oil Men’s Aid. That Gomez is receiving aid from American oil men in the vicinity of Tuxpam is regarded as likely, if dis- patches reporting his arrival in the oil district are correct. American oil men are known to be partial to Gomez and are believed to have aided his revolt. * * * Welcome Obregon. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 12—Assur- ing him of their support in the com- ing election, thousands of workers stepped off the train this afternoon. The welcome also served as a demon- stration against counter-revolutionary coup recently stamped out. That the Calles Government failed to stamp out the counter-revolution when it might have done so without difficulty was clearly revealed with the publication of a statement issued by President Calles late Monday night. Calles knew about the revolt jearly as August, the statement s: “With statements constantly made to me in the course of their duty by jnumerous commanders of the army who. were invited to revel and with (Continued on Page Five} yesterday made permanent his union smashir tion granted the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. § sweeping and drastic in recent history, not sions, but because of the g¢ it is issued. The precedent established, if this de to stand and is obeyed by the strikers will hinder or prevent any strike of any size in the future. United Mine Workers of America is prohibited by Judge Schoon- maker from effectively picketing the preperty of the Pittsburgh |Terminal Coal Co., because some of the product of that company is involved in interstate commerce. homes by shutting off the wate: such other approved methods, by ruling collected or spent by the miners for lawy or in any other way appeal to the courts of the state for a de- *astrous to the mir LAND, I$ REPORT - greeted ex-president Obregon as he|, CANT DEFEND HOMES IN COURTS If Not Effectively Resisted No Big Strike Pos- Future —Federal Judge Schoonmaker temporary injune apt. 30. The in- s on which > is allowed is directed, The ‘0 vainst whom y decides the question of the riking miners out of their tearing off the roof, or that no funds must be , court costs, bonds, its st r supy houses. This wanton usa] of the employer in court, or defend- welcome to the compar it is dis- The present injunction is ¢ effective as from It prohibits the r from “con- gregating, parading, or gathering about or near the plaintiff’s property h minal Coal Co.’s formal and permanent lared by the judge date Sept. 30. tipple: ing the s ing minor exceptions One picket post may be maintained upon or immediately adjacent to each public highway leading to each mine of the plaintiff, but not upon its property, and the posts must not be |closer (no matter what the nature of ithe country or landseape) than 100 feet apart or the same distance from }any company building or other prom{*” jerty (except company dwelling ; houses) used by the company as an }office or in any of its operations, | The judge intends to permit not jmore than three persons at a time in any picket post, and no person is per- mitted to stand or Joiter at any place | within 100 feet from the limits of any |picket post for any purpose what- | soever. | Posts Easy To Dodge. | Each picket post permitted under the provisions of this injunction shall not e nd over 100 feet in length along the y its limits shall be ign, flag or | marker, at it is a | union pic purpose of jthis pr miner: the | coal and iron police, the pickets at points can be avoided while rum f conscript or windled them to the mines, In order to prevent if possible, even | three pic! aining on duty at on Page Two) THE “RED” NIGHTS BEGIN SATURDAY; MEETS ARRANGED series of “Red” turday in Wil- rs (Commun- es 4 ronnecti ith the A vote for the Workers Party is a cbanioetat iratilag vote against injunctions. Register to- Fi = Rela in. se Ea you do not register you can- zi ai before “ialaae ‘Soviet Union to Send || Trade Representative to Vienna Very Soor 1 VIENNA, Oct. 12,.—Financial |arrangements are being completed with the Soviet | here for trade Union. It is expected that an agree- ment between the administration | | | | ment of trade contracts made by | | Viennese firms with the Soviet Union will be signed today. The Soviet Union which has signified its accepting the terms | of the agreement will send a trade | | Planch to Vienna. eee ee Register today so that you can cast your vote for a United Labor Ticket. of the city of Viena and Austrian | ' banking houses guaranteeing pay-| | Speakers will include William ¥. ’. 8, when militant labor rt the ‘am. than a dozen rallies in Wil- ourgh Saturday will be addres- by loeal candidates and other members. At 10.30 p. m. par- rallies will as- ixtention for a Party’s candidates and pro Mor Will Use Trucks. ers will talk from trucks when I are not available. Meetings will be held at Grand St. and Manhat- }tan Ave.; Varet and Graham Sts.; | Ellery and Tompkins Sts. and else- | Dunne, candidate for assembly in the |6th district (Williamsburgh; Ray | Ragozin, David Benjamin, Kate Git- How, Anthony Bimba, M. Gordon, E. Koppel, Herman Ehrlich, Chester W. Bixby, Samuel Nesson, Joseph Brahdy' and John Marshall. All speakers first will report at Williamsburg headquarters, 29 Gra- (Continued on Page Five) ’ :