The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1927 LADY POLITICIAN UNDER CHARGES OF PLAIN GRAFT cans in a graft blast to the barrage hurled again them by the red light” speech at the republican state convention. For years it has been notorious that Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, gant lady and a leader of the feminine forces in the republican party, squan- dered hundreds of thousands of dol- lars during her extravagant term as secretary of state. It is alleged by the Tammanyites that she burned cen- sus records that would prove that she wasted the sum of $1, Political Mud-Slinging. This scandal wou ered up by Tamma for the fact that the p in New York § i with the object o idential aspira the keynote assailed the tence of the Smit without considering t nging contest wov mer republican offic yre: at “Inve: Now On. Govern ity of the a young J, LeBoeuf, o the charges mac and the rest of th It will be with a defe Knapp believes in t em, but confi Her mother, ter-in-law are alleged to igation and s' been orna- own rel- eae ORMER STAFF OFFICER: “At great expense, Ladies and Gentlemen, we have brot these two rem- nants of buck private miles behind the firing line.” ‘MINERS MUST HAVE HELP AS BITTER STRIKE s to Europe to prove to you that not all of the American Legionnaires were always ‘A. F, a UJ P H 0 Lp § | 2 Striking Coroners INVASION IN CHINA ‘AND NIGARAGUA (Continued from Page One) the state department. Approve U. S. Chinese Policy Referred by the recent conv: [contact of the executive council with | | ion tof the New York Federation to the Los Angeles convention, the resi jposition of the foreign policy of the fexecutive council which gives approy- {al to the Chinese policy of the state | |department. The committee report |states that a withdrawal of warships and troops now would be against the hu- ition was made the excuse for an ele | Colorado Qn Trial for Murder; San Francisco Frame-up SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 (FP) | ~The fourth triel of George Pesce | | and Gus Madsen, two of nine union | carpenters charged with murder as the result of jlast year’s strike in | | the Bay district, has begun before | Judge Conlan, who tried the other | three hearings. The previous trials | all resulted in hung juries. with power greater than that of Niagara Falls reared it- self in the American Federation of bor convention today as an ob- tacle to organized labor’s solution of River development prob- potential |best interests of “our government” |!€™s. |and rebukes state federations of labor | which permit the introduction of res- }ernment owner jolations similar to that from |New York Federation. Repudiate P. A. F. L. Action. jing “more concerned in pointing the finger of criti The committee also accused those responsible for such resolutions of be- m at the government they are in ascertaining the facts regarding the subject they at- | tempt to discuss.” a By its unfavorable and unanimous) '™ action on the New York resolution the | convention actually repudiated the | resolution adopted by the convention | jof the Pan American Federation of | ENTERS SIXTH MONTH AND FAMILIES STARVE by ZERO, Worker Correspondent. |{ PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. | Vesta Coal Company started its mines} but the miners have reached the point months of strike, The Miners’ Relief /AMERICAN WORKERS CELEBRATE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF To celebrate the completion of ten 3.—The| where everyone is in need after 6|yvears of successful proletarian rule in Russia, the American workers are jon open shop some time ago, tho up| Conference would give much more/planning a series of mass-meetings THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION The Chicago workers are also pre- paring a parchment which they will present to the workers of Leningrad | on the occasion of the tenth anniver- | Labor on July 19 urging the immedi- | forces on landssea and air in Nic- aragua....” | | Clears Its | Record. The A. F. L.’s usal objection to gov- hip in industry and S the | the contention that the three resola- |tions before the convention are in- | adequate in dealing with the Boulder |Dam issue may result in no definite {action being taken by the federation |to endorse the project when the meas- jure es are called up on the floor today. This bill provides for the govern- jment construction of a 550-foot dam Boulder Canyon. Box Makers Approve Collective Bargains; ® jate withdrawal of “the United States| Union Campaign Grows Opinion prevailed at a conference | between members of the Paper Box This reversal in policy enables the | Makers’ Union and a group of manu- sulting in the slaughter of hundreds both brought out that conditions in the in- jstate _ department to say that the/|facturers yesterday that an associa- | American Federation of Labor has|iion of manufacturers dealing with | made no official protest, against the |}ihe union would be advantageous to armed intervention in Nicaragua re- | sides. Union representatives paid some $25,000 simply jof Nicaraguans and the conquest of juntil now they have not had much dustry were chaotic, with wages re- ments in the census burea' May Compromise on Graft. There is a possibi that e will come of the the republican campaign managers can be induced to lay off the graft and vi charges against Tammany Tf no such deal can be made the sovereign voters will have a chance to see the leaders of the two old parties as they really are dur- ing the course of the mutual exposes. Most observers here state that one ean believe both of the camps, case on the | suce Their general manager and vice-president, Joe Edwards, prom- ised to everyone with whom he spoke, that he would have 100% production as soon as the mines started o: ortly after, That he lied to himself and to his company is evident, afte more than a month of try. The old men will not go back as Joe Edwards | predicted. So far he has at mine No.| 6, where Operation first started, 16) of the old men out of 600. At mine| No. 5, which was started next, he has 20 of the old men out of over 1,000. | At Vesta mine No, 4, he has 3 of the old men out of 1,450, tho the mine |has been in operation two weeks. No | relief was paid to the men in No. 4. | | Company Terrorism. | | To what limits this union-hating Conference was not blocked by the District and International Union. At time that the Miners’ Relief Con- Sroation Fraternal Untien, the Croa- and P. Murry, vice-president of the United Mine Workers, answered that his organization did not have anything to do with the Miners’ Relief Confer- ence which was not a bona fide or- ganization, and this despite the fact that the Miners’ Relief Conference was organized by bona fide local un- ions, and no action has ever been taken against anyone on the executive committee of the Relief Conference, or of any local union which has re- ceived help from them. The miners are waiting for the A. | Substantial help if the work of the |which will occupy an entire week, from | November 2 to November 9. From }the Minnesota District, news comes |that over one hundred meetings will ce asked a donation from the|he held in Minnesota and Northern | | Michigan. A mass demonstration will n Fraternal Union made inquiries | take place in New York, and other] |Tallentire on Michigan) | meetings have been arranged for Kan- | sas City, Los Angeles, Omaha, and \other cities throughout the West. The Chicago celebration will be held on Sunday, November 6, at 2 p. m. | Jay -Lovestone and Max Bedacht will |be the speakers. The Chicago work- ers have. arranged a series of living tableaux which will be presented at the demonstration. These pictures will symbolize the progress of the Russian Revolution, by showing some outstand- ing event in each year since 1917. The tableaux are as follows: sary. News of other meetings, and fur- ther details, will be published as soon as possible. Tour for Workers Party | | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 183— | nounced that Norman H. Tallentire, | Minnesota district organizer, will tour | at public meetings as follows: | Friday, Oct. 14.—Brantwood, Wis |consin in Finnish Hall. | Saturday, Oct. 15.—Ironwood, Mich- igan in Palace Hall. Sunday, Oct. 16.—Ishpeming, Mich- The Workers Party has just an-| |the upper Michigan section, speaking | that country. The seal of approval placed upon |partment, accompanied by the com- |mittee’s statement that States to avoid error with reference to China,” is taken as an admission }state department are touch on all questions where. the at- |titude of the labor movement is in- olved. The main text of the New York | Federation resolution is as follows: “Whereas, The United States gov-| jernment, contrary to repeated dec- the Chinese policy of the state de-} “President | Green and the executive council are, | ¢han cost, spokesmen said. e understand, giving earnest thot | ne 0 the problems as to what procedure | * is most likely to enable the United | headquarters at 640 Broadway, to ex- that the executive council and the |: Fi fee AS entanel tak to open a third office in the up- |town N. Y. district. duced and hours increased. Of several manufacturers’ associa- tions that existed during the recent strike, none is left. Competition is keen and boxes are being sold at less The Paper Box Makers’ Union, with tend organization. has opened an of- fice at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby Ave., and is arrang- A special drive for members from the Brooklyn and uptown shops will start immediately. Mass meetings will be held in all the paper box districts. | Work Daily for the Daily Worker! \eompany will go, no one knows, but|F- of L. to act, ‘but they fear that its here are some examples, A. miner| action will not be of such a nature worked for the company for over 3| as to give real help, The various in- | ternational unions will come into this 1917: November 7. ‘The Russian workers gyerthrow the exploiters and take power into their own hands. igan in Coming Nation Hall. Monday, Oct. 17.—Negaunee, Mich- igan in Labor Temple. Jarations for the self-determination |p. the Paper ¢ Fellow Worker! |of nations and for democracy of the batt acy Ads - | previous administrations under Wood- | Musie, Poetry, Lit- — eee cmmlmny erature, Cinema Theatre and Education . in SOVIET RUSSIA ERE is a list of books on the great development of real culture the world’s first workers’ goy- ernment. All are beautifully bound—all should be in every worker's library Modern Russian Composers By Leonid Sabaneye jf one of new Rugsia's fied com- sers, ery lover of music. Over forty composers and their work is discussed in a delightful manner. 82.75 ——" RUSSIAN POPTRY An anthology of both and new Russian poetry- with an introduction and « biographical sketch of Rus- sia’s new hosen and translated BE rE DEUTSCH LINSKY. PLYING OSSIP Short stories by the best of the new writers of Soviet Russia. 50 LITERATURE REVOLUTION LEON TROTSKY In which there is a frank criticism of all the new Rus- sian writers—and a brilliant discussion of the development of a proletarian literature 2.50 BE AND RUSSIA J. HUNTLE aR A thorough of the Russian stage and motion pic- tures—with 68 photographs and 17 wood-cuts. 86.00 EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA by SCOTT NEARING Paper $50—Cloth $1.50 THE DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPT. 83 FIRST ST., NEW YORK AND by by }years. After the strike was declared, he went on a farm. One day he want-| |ed to come into the Daisytown Camp, | |to visit a relative who was sick, and | he was not allowed to do so. Another | ;man who had his furniture in a com-| | pany-house, but was away for a few| months, came back and was going to be turned out at 1 o’clock in the morn- ling. Only after begging the Coal Company cop was he permitted to] sleep in his own bed, and he had to promise to go and see Joe Edwards |for a pass, or else, the cop said, he | would be arrested every time he came |into the camp. | This miner’s mother-in-law is sick tand he brought his wife home to take lcare of her mother. He was told by {the Sergeant of the Vesta Coal Com- | pany that he would be allowed to go {only to the ho where he had his furniture and where his mother-in-| tlaw was sick. If caught in any other !house he would be arrested for tres- | passing. b Production Low. a Coal Company is not) | 1S headway in its union- smashing campaign. The men they lare getting from the employment) agencies are not experienced miners | jand cannot produce coal. The Com- pany has three mines running and} is not producing as much as it used | to with one mine, There are rumors; that to eliminate some of the over-| |head expenses in running the three | mines, attention will be concentrated! |upon one mine. This may be the No.| 4 mine as is expected for many rea-| |sons. The major reason is that they |have built 300 new houses at the| | Richeyville camp of mine No. 4, and |they have a shaft there for letting |the men down into the mine. The |camp at Richeyville was small, about |40 houses, so there are not so many) |union men to the scabs. Also the’ | houses are on one side of a road and |the shaft is on the other, To elimi- | nate effective picketing, the Company }has built a 6-foot board fence all! |around the camp, and are building a |bridge over the road so that the| |miners can cross from the houses to} | the shaft on the bridge, and the union pickets will not be able to see how |many men go in or who they are. | They will not be able even to speak | with the scabs. | The men’ at mine No, 4 are deter-| mined to stick it out until they win.) And they will stick it out if relief is| given to them. But for the last 6) months no relief has been paid. The| local treasury was small, and Dis-| trict No. 5 of the United Mine Work- ers cannot take care of all the men} with the money they get from the In-! ternational Union. | Miners’ Families Starve. | The Miners’ Relief Conference will help some of the most needy cases, | various international presidents, vice- | district and make a few speeches, say- ing “how great a fight you are put- ting up” and that “they are with us,” that “morally we will win” since the “public is with us.” But all this will not feed our starving families nor keep scabs from coming in and taking | our jobs. The houses at Richeyville are built by union men, union plaster- ers are working on them now, If the| A. F. of L. stopped these men from) building these houses it ‘would really | help us to win more than their speech- s, and good wishes. Should Form Conferences. Talk of any kind will not win this} strike, least of all the talk of the! presidents, ete., etc., who are so dis- credited in their own organizations) that the only way they can keep their} offices is by vote-stealing, bribing}! and such tacties. What is needed is! bread. Instead of talking they should call upon all the A. F. of L. unions | |to assess their treasuries, to put thru special. assessments, and to call upon all central labor bodies to organize | Miners’ Relief Conferences in every town. To these Conferences they, should then invite all the fraternal and political organizations existing in: these communities, Then we should see how many democrat or repub- lican organizations would respond.) That they are afraid to do this, is evident from all their actions up till now. They don’t dare to expose the! political corruption of the old parties | since that would turn thousands of | workers from them and lead to the, formation a working class Labor! Party. It lies with the progressive ele-| ments in the American labor move-| ment to save the Miners’ Union, If they don’t act, and force the official families to act, the miners, left to themselves, poorly prepared for this long fight, will be starved into sub- mission. Everyone who knows any- thing, knows what that would mean for the American Labor movement. Up to the present very little help | has come for the miners. Only in the Croatian Fraternal Union some pro-| tests were raised against the execu-| tive committee for not paying the} $1,500 voted to the Miners’ Relief! Conference. “More help to the} miners!” should be the motto of ev-| ery worker in the United States. If} the miners’ union is smashed it will) be a signal for the bosses all over the} country to begin a union-busting, | wage-cutting campaign. Workers ev-| en |¢tywhere must help since the Inter-| national Union does not. It is up to your organizations and you. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? 1918: The treaty of Brest-Litovsk brings peace to Russia and leaves her free to begin the building up of her industries. 1919: The Red Army is organized to | protect the workers’ state from capi- talist enemies. The Communist International is or- ganized, and begins its task of guiding the revolutionary workers of the world. 1920: The capitalist countries, afraid of the workers’ state, blockade Rus- sia from the rest of the world. 1921: The Red Army and the work- ers gencrally defeat the capitalist blockade. 1922: Russia is stricken by famine. 1928: Russia begins the building up of her industries. 1924: The capitalist nations, seeing the success of the first worker’ state, begin a series of lies and slander about Soviet Russia. 1925: The suecess of the Soviet rule forces the recognition of Russia by nearly all the countries of the world, ° 1926: The workers of China, inspired and led by the Russian Revolutionary Movement, begin the task of freeing China from capitalist rule. 1927: International Capitalism con- spires against the Soviet Union. The international proletariat closes its 1927: International ETAOINETAOT ranks for the defense of the Soviet Union, Tuesday, Oct. 18.—Eben Junction, Michigan in Finnish Workers Hall. Wednesday, Oct. 19.—Iron Monn- tain, Michigan. Thursday, Oct. 20.—Bruces Cross- ing, Michigan, Paynesville Workers Hall. Friday, Oct. 21.—Mass, Michigan in Finnish Workers Hall. Saturday, Oct. 22.—South Range, Michigan in Finnish Workers Hall. Sunday, Oct. 23—Hancock, Mich- igan. All of these meetings will be held at 8 p. m. in the evening. The sub- ject of Tallentire’s lecture is “Amer- lican Workers and American Imperial- ism.” The public is invited to these meet- | ings. Admission is free. | | “Potemkin” in Bayonne | | BAYONNE, N. J., Oct. 18. — The most interesting event of the local theatrical season is the coming on Monday (Octcber 17th) of the first Russian produced film, “Armored | Cruiser Potemkin.” | | “Potemkin” will be shown at the Strand Theatre on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It will be presented each evening from 6:30 o'clock continuously. Popular prices | will prevail during the engagement. | BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! | ally reported to have been moved City. This address is incorrect. of the incorrect address. ere eee mene ere sere: CORRECTION IN ADDRESS OF NATIONAL OFFICE The National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party was origin- Office is 43 East 125th street, New York City. make note of the change because much mail is going astray as a result All mail intended for the National Office should be addressed: Workers Paty, 43 East 125th street, New York City. to 38 Fast 125th street, New York} | The correct address of the National All comrades should to eee a on an a HY NOT ADVERTISE | in the DA They Bring Results. APPLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. 83 FIRSTSTREET Phone Orchard 1680 ILY WORKER OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE Rates Are Reasonable. | NEW YORK,N. Y. Advertising Offices of The DAILY WORKER MAIN OFFICE 33 Hast Ist Street. LOCAL OFFICE—— Room 385,108 East 14th Street. YORKVILLE OF FICE— 354 Bast 8ist Street, HARLEM OFFICH— 2119 8rd Avenue, BRONX OFFICE— 2820 3rd Avenue, at 149th Street, BROOKLYN OFFICE— 46 Ten Byck Street. SP at 116th Street. nese people for their nationalist gov- | ernment; and | | working people will be called upon to | |wil reap the results; and of our government are plainly not in! | the interests of the common people of | the U. S .A., but serve the interests’ of Wall Street, and bring our coun- | therefore, be it eration of Labor, assembled here to- | day, declare our most determined op- | position. to this imperialist policy and | | war; and be it further ‘withdrawal of the war fleet and ma-_ rines from China, other countries occupied by the armed ‘forces of the U. S. A. * * LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 13,| “Mussolini has taker from the | masses of Italy every vestige of | liberty.” \ | |fore the American Federation of | ‘cism is the kingly theory under an- | \other name, and we are just as much munism.” ‘erican labor chieftain added. vision of a government built Boulder row Wilson, is actively interfering in the affairs of the South American | republics; and 1 “Whereas, The United States gov- ernment has despatched a large fleet of warships and troops to China in order to, together with Great Britain, | suppress the aspirations of the Chi-| | The War Danger. | “Whereas, These actions on the part | of our government bring us into for- | eign entanglements which inevitably | will lead to new wars, in which we, shed our blood, while the profitders | “Whereas, These actions on the part | try into disrepute as a despotism | used in the interests of big capital; | “Determined Opposition.” | “Resolved, That we, the State Fed-) ee ee ee ee ee “Resolved, That we demand the} { Nicaragua and! Denounce Fascism. This was the declaration made be- Labor convention here tdoay by its | president, William Green. t Green told the convention ‘fas-_ opposed to fascism as we are to com- “The government by fascism is a! reprehensible dictatorship,” the Am- | “Mus- | solini was at one time a socialist, and | { I think, now a Communist.” if (EDITOR’S NOTE: Agitation of | the Communists and the left wing, by arousing the mass sentiment of the | American workers, have compelled | William Green to take a formal stand against fascism. But he retaliates by trying to confuse fascism with its opposite, Communism. The Commun- ist Party is the only force that is erganizing the working masses against fascism in Italy, where the Communist press, although outlawed by Mussolini, has an illegal cireula- tion of 500,000.) 5 LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13, — The Ready Now! Lenin’s great work appear- ing in English for the first time Materialism and Empirio- Criticism Volume XIII in the only au- thorized English translation, made from the revised and edited texts prepared by the Lenin Institute in Moscow. 2OooXS After 1905 a mem- ber of outstand- ing revolutionary figures fell into a reactionary ed a positive dafi- ger to the revofu- tion. } Lenin exposes this attitude brilliantly, in a keen analysis of dialectic materialism jand its relation to other eystoins of philosophy, . For the first time this great communist classic is present- ed in English for Amefiean workers, It Is sure to be used in all worker's schools and it should be in eve! worker's library. In a beau- tiful edition, cloth bound, $3.00 Also by LENIN LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 31.50 STATE AND REVOLUTION 25 IMPERIALISM Paper —.60, Cloth —1.00 INFANTILE SICKNESS, or Leftism in Communism—15 oN CO-OPERATIVES 05 _ DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPARTMENT 38 FIRST ST., NEW YORK \ |