The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER vricwYs: FOR THD ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR -WEERK FOR 4 LABOR PARTY THE ! DAILY | we Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. TRIN, AL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 pei Vol. IV. No. 234. In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. x year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1927 Published dafty except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents SIXTY MINERS ENTOMBED IN PENNSYLVAN A MINE, BENERAL OBRECON VOWS HE WILL | ENFORCE ALL ANTI-CLERICAL LAWS Military-Landlord-Clerical Revolt Secured Mass Following NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, Oct. 13.—“There is no chance of piloting Mexico into the League of Nations. A weak nation in the League of Nations is placed in the position of a rat that would play with the cats,” said General Alvaro Obregon in a declaration made here yesterday. The “revolt” against the pres- ent Mexican government, in-| spired by Wall Street and car- ried out by their agents has} been crushed with the aid of the! armed peasants and workers of Mexico. General Alvar ro Uae COOLIDGE LINKS BUSINESS a | gales from ri "City today | said, “The revolt cannot be termed Lauds Aieaw Melon in| revolution, because revolutions are| Pittsburgh Address | made by the people and not by a few} disloyal soldiers who took part in this simple riot. Only one group of PITTSBURGH, Oct. 13.—Speaking | military men, who dreamed to hold} | today in the industrial heart of the! power by means of violence without! nation, President Coolidge declared | accepting a democratic fight, revolted|that America is justifying its quest with a very small number of follow-| for material gain by using its vast ers and filed. In no state of the| wealth to advance the cultural and republic,” he said, “have these lead-| spiritual life of the American people. ers any following.” “We have gone far enough,” said The defeat of the agents of Amer-| Mr. Coolidge, to see that the great jean imperialism in Mexico which oc-| mass of the wealth of our country has eurred almost simultaneously with| not been used merely for selfish in- the confirming of Dwight L. Morrow! dulgence and ostentatious luxury. It as ambassador to Mexico makes the has been used to raise the life of the Sign at the Appreach tn a Mining Town Which State Troopers Recently Raided JOla U. A. W. OF . AnD: HELP ro Wik The superintendent of Renton mines of the Union Colliery Co., per- sonally directed the Pennsylvania state trooper attacks on women and children of strikers in their own homes a short time ago. Such attacks | Photo shows a sign which the miners | are frequent in mining towns. had erected at the outskirts of the the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Renton local, America. ‘Soviet Unio Recalls | Rakovsky; Dovgalovsky — Is Appointed to the Post MOSCOW, Oct. 13. — Foreign Minister Tchitcherin today issued orders recalling Rakovsky, Soviet ambassador to France. A report is| that Dovgalovski, Soviet ambassa-| | dor to Tokio, was being considered as a possible successor to M. Ra- kovsky. | | * * * PARIS, Oct. 18. — The French] foreign office received notice from the Soviet government today that Christian Rakovsky, Soviet ambas- sador to France, whose recall the French government demanded, | would be replaced by M. Dougalow- sky, hint Soviet envoy to danas! CROUCH IS ANTL WAR SPEAKER AT MEETING TONIGHT - 'Soldier-Communist Was Jailed for Activity | Paul Crouch, soldier-Communist | jand member of the National Execu- ive Committee of the Young Work-} town. The girl is the secretary of United Mine Workers of jers League will be the principal ;speaker tonight at the Irving | Plaza, 15th St. and Irving PL, at the; Municipal Engineers \first of a series of anti-war meetings | " ONE HUNDRED OTHERS IN JESSUP, PA, MINE MAKE THEIR WAY TO SAFETY |Rescue of Trapped Miners | Net Possible for a Day or Two; Protest Poor E SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 18.—Rescue crews of miners late to- night were reported working desperately to reach 60 of their fel- low miners who were trapped by a cave-in at Jessup near here this aftrnoon. Whether any or all of the trapped men were killed by the cave-in is not now known. Fear is held for all of them. There appears to be no way out for them until a cable is repaired. These repairs may require two days. Cause Is Broken Cable. The cave-in took place in the Pecks shaft on the Glendale Coal Co. property. A broken cable is given as the cause. Miners have long protested against the use of defective equipment in the mines in this field. 100 Others Escape. About 100 other miners in an upper vein narrowly escaped being entombed also, They were fortunately able to make their way out of the workings, thru other openings than the one ‘DISPOSSESSION CASE OF MINERS IN HIGH COURT quipment Pope Offers to tae Vatican for Chance to Spread More Propaganda | ROME, Oct. 13. — If the Pap-| acy is granted autonomous terri-| tory, the. Pope will leave the Vati- can, according to an artiéle in to- issue of the Observatore | declaration of Alvaro Obregon issued | at Nogales of the highest signifi-| cance as to the future policies of the| Mexican government in its relation with the American imperialist state. | No Compromise With Reaction. “There is not any. possibility,” he! said, “of arriving at any understand-| ing with those who were of the old| vegimes and who are again seeking; power because theit tendencies are| against new governmental programs | and aspirations of the great Mexican) family toward fulfilling the right to| be treated with the spirit of equity] and fraternity. This is why the peo-;! ple know how to set aside these poli-| ticians who lack in material and mo al support and who depart from the’ eountry and in foreign lands conspi | against the government. There can} be no meeting of the minds of the so-| called factions.” General Obregon gives guarantees} that the policy of the present Calles government will be carried out in the separation of church and state thus preventing the catholic church from being used as the pawn and tool of American imperialist designs on Mex- ico. On this issue Obregon declared: “T propose to demand from catholics and other religious denominations entire respect for our laws for the purpose that those religions will not enforce any influence in any way nor} intervene in governmental affairs, as the catholic priests have done. This (Continued on Page Five) ‘Red’ Tourist Group Leaves Today for the Soviet Union The second group Bae Americau tour- ists are sailing today on the Cupa liner “Carmania” for Soviet Rus to witness the jubilee celebrations « the Tanth Anniversary of the Russian ill travel to London, where a y stay is being arranged for shorter tprogram will be followed. An oVernight train will carry the American tourists into Leningrad, where the major activities of the party will commence. The preliminary stay in the city at the mouth of the Nova will be a few days only, owing to the fact that the party is due in Moscow No+ember Ist, to be present at the gigantic inaugural of the Tenth An- niversary celebrations in that city. The initial stay of the tourists in Len- ingrad will be utilized to the full by visits to the various palaces of the former nobility, visits to theatres, workers’ clubs, children’s villages and industrial centers in the environs. Vast Demonstrations. With their arrival in Moscow, the tourists will find themselves in ‘the (Continued on Page Five) A vote for the Workers Party isa lege bine alba ad aes | kets of the world. people into a higher realm.” Coolidge’s address marked the an- nual observance of founder’s day at Carnegie Institute and attempted to draw an object lession from his sur- | roundings <which included the steel lmills of Pittsburgh) to refute the ‘charge that the United States is a land of “dollar-chasing materialists.” The Lower Half. Within plain — view. ..of.. Carnegie Music Hall, where he spoke, the great mills and factories of the Pittsburgh industrial where thousands of under- paid workers toil were belching forth lack smoke as they forged their pro- duets of iron and steel for the mar- Gathered about him on the stage (Continued on Page Five) WINDOW WASHERS ASKING POLICE TO END GANGSTERISM Letter Charges Police Aid Employers Officials of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, yesterday applied to Police Commissioner Jo- seph A. Warren for protection from gangsters which they charge are be- ing used by the employers’ associa- tion to intimidate members of the striking union, In a letter to the commissioner, |Peter Darck, secretary of Local 8, \said in part: “We wish to call your attention to the fact that the Man- hattan, Window Cleaners Employers Association is using the police for what it. is pleased to call “protec- tion.” In reality this police protec- tion means that the cloak of author- ity is thrown over the illegal and criminal operation of hired thugs which the employers and the officials | of the company union, the Affiliated Window Cleaners’ Union of America, ! Inc., are using in an attempt to ter-| rify our members.” The present strike has been ‘en- dorsed by the New York Central Trades and Labor Council which rep- resents more than 700,000 organized workers in this city, the letter said. Asked For Investigation, “We know that you should not| sanction the use of the police force against striking workers and we ask that you look into the charge that we} make,” Darck continued. Nicholas Slobodianuk and Peter! Labowitz, two — strikers arrested Wednesday morning in union head- quarters, will be tried in the 151st St. magistrate’s court next Wednes- day. They are charged with felonious (Continued on Page Five) IMPARTIAL GROUP ’ IN MOVE TOWARDS FUR UNION UNITY, to Make Protest at Broken Pay Promise: Resentful at-the action of the city \board of estimate in setting aside only | $600,000 of the 1928 appropriation for | ‘increases in the salaries of municipal engineers, a mass protest meeting has! organized by the Young Workers League, District Two, and the Work- jers (Communist) Party. | Besides Crouch, other speakers at} the anti-jingo demonstration will be | Philip Frankfield and Sam Don, of | \the Young Workers League, and Will- | jiam W. Weinstone, representing the | Want New Elections for N, Y. Joint Board Plans to end the present strife with- in the Furriers’ Union was discussed last night at a meeting at Astoria Hall, East Fifth St., called by the recently organized Impartial Commit- tee of the Furriers’ Union. The immediate formation of a “citi- zens’ committee” to include Samuel Untermyer, Louis Marshall and Rabbi Judah L. Magnes, and which will aim to persuade both the officials of the New York Joint Board, of which Ben Gold is manager, and the scab union headed by Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L. representative, to resign and new elections held, are among the fun- damental plans of the committee. To Arrange Meeting. They also propose that a meeting be arranged in Madison Square Gar- den or Cooper Union at which both | the right and left wing should: be in- | vited. At the meeting they would both be asked to resign, the “Citizens’ Committee” to conduct new elections with the cooperation of the Impartial Committee of the Furriers’ Union. Last night’s meeting in Astoria Hall was presided over by Max Zuck- erman, chairman of. the Impartial Committee. Tells of Suffering. . Sam Bacher, another member of the committee, told of the thousands of fur workers starving and suffering as a result of the destruction of the union machinery. “We want ene union in the fur industry,” Baeher said. Gen- eral discussion from the floor followed. The impartial committee was orig- inally formed last -Friday at a meet- ing held in the Astoria Hall. In addi- tion to Zuckerman and Bacher, the other members of the committee are N. Kastenbaum, Max Ackerman, Mor- {ris Lobel, A. Claufield, Max Cooper- man, J. Brownstein, J. Rabonowitz and L. Strober. Banker’s Kids Ride; Worker’s Child Killed One of the automobiles of Richard F. Hoyt, 32 E. 67th St., old Eugene Balun, child of a worker, according to a police report yester- day. The boy was struck while play- | ing in the street in front of his home at 404 E. Tist St. Hoyt’s chauffeur at the time was on his way to the Hoyt home to take the Hoyt children for a ride. banker and | | sportsman, struck and killed 5-year- | \Workers (Communist) Party. Al.; _|Shaap will be chairman. Just returned from a nation-wide | been called by their orga ization for next Thursday evening. Dudley Babcock, president of the! } Union of Technical Men, in a state- {tour for the All-America Anti-Imper- ;ment just issued, said the sum tenta- lialist League, ‘Crouch, who is now ‘tively agreed upon by the Tammany free after serving two years of a 40- officials would provide barely © seven Year commuted sentence for revolu- per cent of the 35 per cent increase tionary activity while a stationed in recommend by Tammany Hall’s civil (Continued on Page Three) service sone A.F.OF L. UPHOLDS INVASION IN CHINA AND NICARAGUA Reverses Pan-Amegican Conference Action BULLETIN. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13. — The} American Federation of Labor con-| vention today voted thru a mild reso- | lution favoring independence for the | Philippines. It also passed the reso- | lution asking a pardon for Sart Mooney. The convention passed a tesolutton| which President Green supported by a speech attempting to link toether Communism and fascism. The practice of some unions in sup-| porting militant strikes or contribut-) ing to defense of progressives ae have led strikes not approved by t bureaucracy of the A. F, of L. was! attacked in a resolution which called! Mar an Ambassador upon all unions to consult President Green before donating any money from their treasuries. {| WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 138.—} The convention voted for coopera-' The insurgent group around Senator tion with the farmers, and ended the Norris, (R) of Nebraska, probably Boulder Bam fight between Arizona will forget their campaign arguments and California delegates by referring against Wall Street and vote for the it to the executive council without de-, confirmation of Dwight W. Morrow, cision. member of the firm of Pierpont Mor- !gan & Company, as ambassador to \ | | | | PAUL eee CROUCH. Norris Dodges Out Of Fight Against ele ae LOS ANGELES, Oct, 13. — The Mexico. unanimous repudiation of the New! Norris comes from a constituency York State Federation of Labor res-! Which is opposed to bankers’ control, | olution citing the imperialist tactics but his history in the past shows of the government, calling attention ™&ty cases where he has “seen the! to the danger of war and demanding light” when a real crisis is on. | withdrawal of gunboats and troops alae pan aeces bie etapa Bene 4 ; © fa lee am- (aantrieg be eke A. Tr af te connent |bassador without, Wall Street connee- ot hi x bellavad ‘ti k tions, but that Morrow’s great bank jon ‘here is believed to mark a closer ing interests would not bar him from (Continued on Page Two) | serving in Mexico. | “I don't think there will be any A vote for the Workers Party is a serious fight against confirmation of vote against injunctions. Register to- Mr, Morrow,” said Norris, “My mind day. If you do not register you ean- is open and I haven't any reason suf- not vote. ‘ficient to fight his confirmation.” WILL BE GARRIED |place on the most important co low, Anthony Bimba, Gordon, E. Koppel, Herman Phr' Chester W.| | Bixby, Samuel N: in, Joseph Brah- v »ge will} day’ ‘Ss Romano, official organ of the Vat- ican. This offer, if granted, will af- ford the Papacy a base for Catho- lic propaganda, it is believed, and fe open the possibility of world tours by the Pope. PARTY'S PROGRAM BEFORE WORKERS Dunne, Gitlow to Speak Both Candidates The first indoor election campaign rally of the Workers (Communist) Party next Wednesday night at Bry- ant Hall will be addressed by Ben Git- low, the district executive committee of the party announced last night. Gitlow is the party’s candidate for judge of the general sessions court. “Red” nights and indoor meetings will be held in all working class sec-| tions of the city as the campaign progresses. They will include the Bronx, East Side, Harlem, Browns- ville and lower Bronx. One indoor} meeting each has been arranged for the Bronx and Harlem. Both will be held Sunday, Oct. 30. Place of Meetings. The Harlem rally will take place at the Finnish Labor Temple, 15. West 125th St. The Bronx meeting will be} held at Hunts Point Palace, 163rd St.| and Southern Boulevard. Prominent | members of the Workers Party address both meetings. will B Victim’s Relative Stops Attempted Eviction PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 13.—Over 100 appeals against the eviction pro- ceedings brot by the Consumers Coal Co., a subsidiary of the Wheeling , | Steel Co. against its locked-out miners in Harmarsville, near Russelton, Pa., have been advanced for hearing Oc- . tober 26° before the state Superior Court, in Philadelphia. The injunction granted the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Co., as from date of Sept. 30, by Federal Judge Schoonmaker prohibits the raising of funds by miners or the hiring of at- torneys, giving of bond or paying of court fees in an attempt to defend themselves legally against disposses- sion proceedings, However, the in- junction recognizes that defense of the cases already before the courts can not be stopped by such a decree, Using the Injunction. The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cay today began operation with non-union labor under the “protection” of this bitter anti-union ukase. The traditions of the great steel strike of 1919 have been brot into the, miners’ union strike, and the struggle. to save the miners from being! thrown out of their homes, The Republic Iron and Steel Co. has failed for the time being in its at tempt to drive locked-out miners from their homes at Russellton by selling off their furniture. The com wanted the room for scabs which they, hope to import. When the miners poor furniture was placed on sale aff constable’s auction Fred Broad, @ resident of New Kensington, a nega by mining town, advanced the money, to buy it all for fourteen thousand nd return it to the mineraJ s done th fore, for ta Complete Plans. Plans for the first of a series of|* Red Nights to be held tomorrow eve- ning in Williamsburg are completed. |s More than a dozen rallies will take They will end simultaneously at 10 p. m. when the assembled worker will adjourn to Grand St. Extension} for a mass meeting. The speakers will incluc ¥. Dunne, candidate for a the 6th district (Williamsburg) Ragozin, David Ber in, Kate dy and John Marshal! be held at Grand S! Varet and ¢ ind} tilery and Tompki Five open air meetings will be held| y the party tonight at Seventh St. nd Ave. A.; 25th St. and 8th Ave.;| Fifth Ave, and 110th St.; Madison| Ave. and 116th St., and Pitkin and Hopkinson Aves. Register today. If register you cannot vote. you do not CROUCH SPEAKER AT ANTI-WAR MEETING TONIGHT Am IRVING pr ATA. PIETHENTH STREET AND IRVING PLACK when the Cons , a subsidiary of the Company, tried the same i Relative Murdered. is a son-in-law of Fanny the heroic union organizer nurdered by Allegheny Steel s during the great steel . Broad is making e Broad miners’ “~>aiture, and lof waiting for repayment. * * © c "HIC AGO, Oct. 13, (FP). — Re- »al companies from Western e that the wage bonus t that has been paid to s there since prior to the strike and lock union fields will soon be the settleme in the removed. out Dry Machine: Convenes. ERVILLE, 0., Oct. 18.—The selection of a successor of Wayne B, Wheeler as legislative superintendent and general counsel of the Anti- Saloon League will be the major fea- ture of the program of the league’s annual convention at Washington, Dec. 5-7. Plans for the support of the league to dry candidates for president and for congressional posts also will be formulated at this session, the an- nomncement spid. :