The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION | This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. ae Vol. IV. No. 235. TRADE UNION DELEGATION TO U.S.S.R. TO AMERICAN LABOR WILL REPORT Madison Square Garden Engaged for Monster Rally on October 22 The first American labor delegation to the Soviet Union will report its finding to a monster mass meeting to be held in Madi-| son Square Garden, New York City, on Sunday, October 23, at 2 p. m., according to a statement issued yesterday by the New York Conference Committee for the Trade Union Delegation, of which Henry T. Hunt is chairman. The speakers will include James® Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor; John Brophy of the United Mine Workers of America; Professor Paul H. Doug- las of Columbia University; Albert Coyle, who until his trip with the delegation was editor of the Brother- JAMES MAURER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. hood of Locomotive Engineers’ Jour- nal, Robert Dunn, author of “Company CELEBRATE ONE THE DAILY WORKER. | Entered as sécond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1578, ‘Mine Union Officials | Compromise Coronado | Case for Cash Payment FORT SMITH, Ark., Oct. 14.— The Coronado suit against the} United Mine Workers of America| has been settled out of court by| payment by the union of $27,500 to the company—each side bearing | their own cost of litigation. The| ; case was on the eve of its fifth trial in the U. S. district court. | The Coronado Coal Co. attempted to get what it termed “triple dam- ages” for loss to business caused by the 1914 coal: strike, and put up the usual argument about “vio- lence” committed by the miners. The last two trials resulted in mistrials. The case has been twice in the U. S. supreme court. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927 Typical Group of Young Coal Miner Strikers In Pittsburgh District, Penna. PUBLISHIN Published daily except Sunday by FINAL CITY EDITION G CO. 33 First Street, New York, The DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Ne Oo¥e ALF. L. CONVENTION REORGANIZES WORKERS EDUCATIONAL BUREAU TO SQUEEZE OUT JAMES MAURER (Comes to End Amid Speeches of Self-Laudation By Reactionary Officialdom LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14.—The convention of the American ficers unanimously reelected. | Federation of Labor adjourned at noon today with all the old of- The shorter work-week was en- |dorsed and workers’ education also approved, but there was a recommendation that the workers’ education bureau be reorgan- ized, so that it would be possible president of the Pennsylvania St to squeeze out James H. Maurer, ate Federation of Labor. It was | decided to renew the fight for a federal child labor law. A resolution advocating academic freedom in colleges, uni- |yersities and other institutions of learning was buried. The con- |vention defeated a resolution favoring affiliation with the Am- |sterdam international, but commended the Pan-American Fed- Unionism” and other books, and Powers Hapgood. | First Public Appearance. H This will be the first public appear- | ance of the delegates since their re: turn from the Soviet Union and i view of the lively interest which the workers of this country have in the | conditions under which their brothers and sisters in the Workers’ Republic | live, the committee expects the great | arena to be packed from ground floor | to balcony. | The delegation consisting of James j Maurer, Jolin Brophy, Frank Palmer | and Albert Coyle left for the U. S. S.! } R. last summer. They were accom- } panied by a staff of experts. After | | visiting and studying conditions in| Great Britain, Holland, France, Bel- | gium, Germany and Poland, the dele- gates traveled thru the Soviet Union visiting Moscow, Leningrad, Karkov | and other large centers. | Travelled About Freely. The delegates were permitted to go! _ | where they wanted to and had fre access to all avenues of information. | | eration of Labor. | At no session of the convention was there any mention of |Sacco and Vanzetti. | In closing Green referred to it as the “most wonderful, inter- \esting and constructive convention.” eee LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14.—Without even a demand for the The Union Col- | pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, who personify in \their prison cells the whole struggle of labor in this reactionary 'state, the forty-seventh convention of the American Federation WIVES AND SONS OF COAL MINERS jof Labor came to an end yesterday. | All officials were reelected. New Orleans was selected as DEFY STARVATION , the next convention city. : BATTLE GUNMEN 5 Fear Mass Mooney Defense. When Husband Tries to Scab at Inland Colliery The action of the convention in referring the case of Mooney |and Billings to the executive council and declaring that affiliated Wife Knocks Him Out With Club 4 By A. S. trial centers of the country. A com-| organizations should be guided solely by its recommendations in plete list of the meetings will be an-| In the struggle of the miners of Western Pennsylvania} |whatever action is to be taken is in effect a step to prevent a 'mass movement outside of regular A. F. of L. channels, similar nounced later. ‘against the war of the coal operators on the union, women and WEEK FOR TENTH. YEAR OF SOVIETS Workers (Communist) Party Plans Meetings The entire week from November 2 to November 8 will be occupied with celebrating the 10th anniversary of| the Russian Revolution by workers in all cities and industrial districts of the U. S. Hundreds of meetings are! being arranged throughout the coun-| try by the Workers (Communist) ! Party to celebrate the historic event. Large demonstrations are now be-| ing arranged in New York, Chicago,/ Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pitts- | burgh, as well as all the large indus- | me Posie WORKERS URGED TO KEEP BLOOD FOR OWN CLASS Crouch Anti-War Meet Hears Dunne, Others These young proletarians are on strike at Renton, Pennsylvania, the town in which the Pennsylvania state troopers recently broke in | miners’ houses and thrashed their wives and children, liery superintendent ordered the assault. to that which arose in 1917-18-19, being organized to free these two victims of California capitalist class justice. Systematic Reaction. The convention has been marked by a systematic opposition Workers gathered at Irving Plaza ast night were made to feel that he menace of a new imperialist war { \ \ They were made to feel at home in the office of the ministry of foreign (Continued on Page Two) WILLIAMSBURG WORKERS WILL ATTEND RALLY Party Holding Series of Election Meetings Williamsburg workers will listen to Communist speakers when the first of a series of “Red” Nights arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party is held tonight. More than a dozen meetings will be held simultaneously with addresses by local candidates and other party speakers. They will be held at Grand St. and Manhattan Ave.; Varet and Graham Sts., and Ellery and Tomp- kins Sts., ending simultaneously at 10:30 p. m, At that hour all meet- ings will adjourn to Grand St. Ex- tension for a large demonstration. List of Speakers. The speakers will include William hangs over the working class of the | United States when Paul Crouch, Communist soldier, addressed a mass ;meeting against the militarization of American youth. The meeting was arranged by the | Young Workers (Communist) League rand District.Two of the —Workers (Communist) Party as a demonstra- tion also against United States im- |perialism and its contemplated wars. | Other speakers were William F. |Dunne, member of the central execu- tive committee of the Workers Party, William W. Weinstone, party organ- \izer of the New York district, and |Philip Frankfield and Sam Don, both fof the league. Al Schaap, of the \league, was chairman. Crouch was \recently released from Alcatraz |prison after serving two years for organizing with Walter Trumbull a Young Workers League in the United States army barracks at Hawaii, where both were soldiers, Not A Volunteer Army. After telling of the efforts of many young soldiers to leave the army by trickery or self-destruction, Crouch told the working men and women be- fore him that the United States army was not in fact a volunteer army. “The United States claims to have a volunteer army,” he said, “but that is not true. The United States army is recruited by economic necessity, by unemployment, hunger and the fact In addition to the meetings ar- ranged by the Workers (Communist) Party other features are being ar- ranged for the week. To Hold Symposiums. Many symposiums on the question of the recognition of the Soviet. Union} w@take place as well as celebrations | by “many local trade unions in var-| ious working class centers. | The week of rejoicing over the! tenth birthday of .the first workers’) and peasants’ government will come; to a close on election day when many dances and concerts will take place. A great deal of Leninist literature is expected to be’sold during the week | of celebration. Books and pamphlets by Lenin, Stalin and Bucharin, it is believed, will be read the most. international! Wants $10,000; Furriers Balk Personal appeals by international) officers for funds for the internation- al office fell on deaf ears at’ a mem- bership meeting of Local 2, Interna- WALKER ALLOWS girls and boys and even small children are playing a part that fully measures up to that of the men themselves. The women are right in the front line of the stru on the pieket line, battling with ggle—in many places coming out the Coal and Iron police and the} troopers, daring merciless clubbing and coming back to the fight) with cool cotitues again after they have been beaten up, \ FASCIST MARCH 1 ; im a way the brunt of the hard- }ship entailed by the attack of the |coal operators falls on the wives of the locked-out miners. They are the jones that have the heart-breaking job of trying to feed their men and their children after six months of lockout | without a cent of pay coming in and} the bottom of the flour barrel in) sight. Thousands of the miners’ families are still going along without | relief of any kind, and even where re- to progressive measures and on the other hand by evidences that the official leadership is making every effort to conciliate the employers in a positive way. The only militant note struck was on the issue of injunctions but this was nullified by the failure to outline and-adopt-a cenerete program of ac- tion against these vicious measures. A Black Record. Proposals for a labor party met with no consideration. Anti-imperial-| ist and anti-war resolutions were buried in committee and the only one to see the light of day was one from the New York Federation of Labor. This was defeated unanimously. Resolutions calling for the organi- zation of Negro workers and the abo- lition of all discrimination against jlief is coming in about the highest amount a family gets is $2.00 a piece Tresca Assails Mayor |for man and wife and 50 cents a { For Allowing Parade |piece for each child. Imagine feed- | |ing yourself on $2.00 a week, let A charge that Mayor James J./|alone getting anything else you may them were likewise defeated. The con- vention refused to demand the with- drawal of troops and warships from | Nicaragua and China. | No progress was reported in the by the Fascist League of North America in the Bronx Sunday after- noon, Oct. 23, because of sympathies | toward Mussolini and fascism was made in a statement by Carlo Tresca, president of the Anti-Fascist League of North America, last night. | Tresca pointed out that Mussolini} gave New York’s mayor a reception in Rome recently when Walker was touring Europe. | Walker intends to sanction a parade|need; or feeding a growing boy on) 50 cents a week (arid prices are definitely higher here than in the cities)—and you will begin to under- stand what these women are up} against today. | Determined to Fight. | Despite everything, however, the overwhelming majority of the women organization of the millions of work- * ers in basic industry nor was any practical plan for carrying on this work submitted. Laud Union-smashing. The action of the executive council and its special committee in the New York needle trades unions, which has resulted in this committee, the police, (courts, gunmen and bosses combining into a union-smashing agency, and the | jailing of hundreds of Communists in the locked-out camps are un- shakable in their determination to keep up the fight for the union. In STRIKE LEADER ~ ASSAULTED BY BOSSES’ THUGS Darck, Window Cleaner Secretary, In Hospital The strike of nearly 1,000 New York Window Cleaners was marked by further boss gangsterism with the assault and serious injury of Peter k, si ary of Local 8 of the dow Cleaners’ Protective esterday forenoon. Darck was attacked by two uniden- tified men outside the door of union headquarters, 15 East 3d St. The assailants were hidden on the first floor landing of the building in which the union offices are located. As Darck was climbing the stairs he was clubbed with iron pipes. He fel§ to the floor unconscious. He suffered the loss of two teeth, lacerations of F. Dunne, candidate for assembly in| that one must eat in order to live.” {tional Furriers’ Union, Brooklyn,) Two fascists were slain in connec-| (Continued on Page Two) |and left wing needle trades workers, the scalp and a possible fracture of the 6th district (Williamsburg), Da-| Dunne defined various phases of|heretofore considered one of thejtion with a fascist parade last Mem-! eae Ma was endorsed. _ ss the skull. : ‘ vid Benjamin, Anthony Bimba,|{nited States imperialism, pointing|right wing international administra-|orial Day in the Bronx. Galogero ‘ | Bitter hostility to the Soviet Union| The assault is believed to have been George E. Powers, John Marshall, | out that the government was rapidly | tion. Greceo and Donato Carillo are| of 5 was voiced. planned by the employers’ association. Joseph Brahdy, Herman Ehrlich and|poing on a war basis, He charged| International Vice President Kal-|charged with the slaying and are in ie urgen $ | No preparations were made to It was witnessed by Mrs. Mary Mi- Chester W. Bixby. this imperialism had absorbed the|minoff pleaded that the international / jail awaiting trial. Tresca in his strengthen the labor movement renetz, who called for help while Among the future plans of the campaign committee are the publica- tion of a special election issue of The DAILY WORKER. Twenty-five thou- sand copies will be published. Ar- rangements for house to house dis- tribution of popular leaflets are also being arranged. Today is the final day for regis- \ tration for next month’s election. The ‘hours are from 7 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. “Workers must egister today other- | wise they cannot vote. Arrange Indoor Meetings. Several large indoor meetings are being arranged, one to take place at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave, and 4®rd St., Wednesday, Oct. 26th. Ben Gitlow, leadership of the American Federa- tion of Labor and pointed out that the present attack on the United Mine Workers of America and other unions | was a part of a general preparatory mobilization for war, » Crouch said soldiers were recruited exclusively from the working class but were used to defend property of the capitalists at home and abroad.| He said no recruiting signs were to (Continued on Page Three) Chicago Superintendent of Schools Being Tried CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—The shadow ‘pected to fall in line. candidate for judge of the court of | of George III, king of England dur- general sessions, will be the principal speaker, The following Sunday ral- lies will be held at the Hunts Point Place, 168rd St. and Prospect Ave., the Bronx, and at the Finnish Labor Temple, 15 West 126th St, French Cabinet Pleased ‘With U. S. Tariff Note today and discussed France’s reply to the latest American tariff note. At another meeting Tuesday the definite text probably will be approved. “We are extremely pleased with the tone of the latest American note | and negotiations with Washington are _ proces normally,” said Minister of Commerce — Bokanowski after the PARIS, OCT. 14.—The cabinet met! ing the revolutionary days in Amer- iea, was projected into the trial of Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew here today. McAndrew, political enemy of | | Mayor William Hale Thompson, is; ‘charged with insubordination and} | permitting alleged pro-British text- ‘books to be used in Chicago schools. | McAndrew has been one of the bit- j terest opponents of the Chicago Fed- eration of Teachers since his arrival ‘in Chicago, during the Dever admin- istration. , The Thompson administration, after earning many votes by promis- | ing to remove McAndrew, significant- ly leaves out of its charges against) him his anti-labor record. TODAY IS LAST DAY TO REGIS- TER FOR NOV. 8TH ELECTION, BOOTHS OPEN FROM 7 A. M. TO, office be given $10,000. When re- sponses were not forthcoming he re- ported dolefully that the international officers were not even being paid their salaries, due to the condition of the treasury. Kalminoff then asked for $5,000. International Secretary- Treasurer H. Begoon took the floor to support the plea of his fellow- official, But the local, which is the largest, of the locals not affiliated with the| New York Joint Board, voted down} the request. H The executive board of the local) had previously voted forthe .dona- tion and the membership was ex: | Owing to the interference in the industry and in local union adminis- tration on the part of American i'ed- eration of Labor officials, the work-| ing conditions of the members of the | Furriers’ Union have been seriously lowered, according to a statement is- sued yesterday by the Furriers New York Joint Board. Work was plenti- ful for the membership and agree- ments with the bosses were being en- reed in 1925 and 1926, prior to this nverference, the statement continues. The statement also reminds the mem- bership that the nine furriers sen- tenced for alleged felonious assault in Mineola are still awaiting the hear- ing of their appeal for a new trial. Junkers Plane at Azores HORTA, The Azores, Oct. 14.—The Junkers seaplane, piloted by Fritz Loose, arrived here today at 11:15 from Lisbon, on its flight from Ger- many to New York. statement charges also the decision by Count Thoan di Revel, president) of the Fascist League, to hold the} parade in the Bronx is an attempt to! provoke more serious trouble. Mayor Repays Mussolini. “Jt is necessary to remember that! soon after the tragic events of Deco- | vation Day Commissioner Warren is- | sued a statement forbidding parades | of black shirts in the future,” the |, statement said. “Undoubtedly Mayor Walker in going over Warren's head | is giving the fascists a free hand in return for the royal reception he re- cently received in Italy. Workers Were Stabbed. “If the experience in Brooklyn last, year, where peaceful bystanders were stabbed and blackjacked by fascists, if the killing of two fascists in the Bronx is not enough warning that; any display of the murderous insignia | of Mussolini’s assassins is cause for trouble, the mayor will be held re-| ont. will be promoted to chairman- | sponsible for what may happen | should the parade take place. | Went For Instructions. | “Tt is well to remember that Count | |Revel left New York as soon as the) two innocent workers were indicted) for the murder of the two fascists, for the first time since he was put in’ charge of the fascists’ activities in| this country and conferred with his | master, Mussolini. His present pro- vocative acts are being carried out on the orders he received from Mus-| solini. | IF YOU DON’T REGISTER TO- DAY YOU CAN'T VOTE. | Chairman ,abandoned his opposition to Morrow's | lations; To Get Good Jobs, And Will Be Good WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14.—) Republican leaders today announced! that the “insurgent bloc”-or group of “independents” which is supposed to} {make trouble for the more open |representatives of the business in- |terests in Congress would be so well) | taken care of that they would have! “no kick coming”—and presumably | !would make none. | This influencing of “Insurgents” lean best be illustrated by the fact |that one of the expelled senators— Lynn J. Frazier, republican of North | Dakota will be given the important |chairmanship of the Indian affairs |committee, while two more independ- | ships and four more retained in their present posts as heads of other large } committees. One of{the promotions will go to Senator Hgbert B. Howel republican of Nebri » who will | come chairman of Public Lands | Committee. | The “insurgents” and “independ- ents” retained in hi posts will be senators George W. Norris, Neb., as of Judiciary (He has; appointment); William FE. Borah, Idaho, as Chairman gf Foreign Re- Hiram W, Johnson, Cali- fornia, as Chairman of Immigration, and James Couzens of Michigan, as Chairman of Education and Labor. against the attack of the bosses which has already beaten down the United Mine Workers of America—the Fed- cration’s strongest union. Arrests Feature Convention. One of the outstanding features of the convention was the cooperation between the A. F. of L. offic the police force of this shop city, resulting in the arrest of Carl Haessler, managing editor of the Federated Press, Sidney Bush of the Foot Workers’ Union and the unseat- ing of William Schneidc gate from the Office Wo1 nion, as part of a “red scare” designed to create atmosphere for the convention. The forty-seventh annual conven- tion is characterized by A. F. of L.| officials as “the most constructive ever held,” by the capitalist press as “the sanest and most conservative.” Progressives join in declaring it the most reactionary and bar hope for the labor movement i of the A. F. of L. since the of the armistice in 19 U5. Investments in Reich Over a Billion With the $30,000,000 loan to Prussia, American investments in Germany exceed a_ billion dollars.) About 70 per cent of the money bor- rowed by Germany since 1924 has come from Wall Street. Banking firms which draw millions in interest from German workers are J. P. Morgan and Co., Dillon, Reed and Go., National City Co., and Har- ris, Forbes and Co. =, * 7? . Darek was being slugged. She said that as Darck fell one of the gang- sters kicked him in the face. Attack Was Expected. The attack was expected. Joseph Katz, business agent of the company union, the Affiliated Local 1, is ree potred to have said: “We are going to get Darck.” “This atta y the hired guerrillas of the employers indicates the desper- ate situation in which they find them- selves,” Harry Feinstein, business agent of the striking union, said last night. “Our men will fight until the company union is destroyed in fact and in principle in our industry. The bosses will come to terms with us.” Darck In Hospital. Darck was taken to the St. Marks Hospital in a serious condition. Among employers who have settled are the Sterling, Rainbow, Mineola, Contracting, Advance, Guarantee, Ber- gen-Ryan, Sun Ray and Anchor Win- dow Cleaning Companies. Negotiate With Another Group. Negotiations are now under Away with a group of employers who’ are not in sympathy with the tacticsyof the Manhattan Window Cleaning Bm- |ployers’ Association, Local 8 officials }expect that more than 30 additional . | companies will settle this week. A spokesman for the minority group in the employers’ associations said yesterday that the association threat- ens all employers who settle with the Protective Union with cancellation of compensation insurance. The Empire State Insurance Company is controlled be sane on Page Three)