The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927 WIVES AND SONS OF LOCKED OUT COAL MINERS DEFY , HUNGER AND COMPANY THUGS (Continued from Page One) ‘Assistant Secretary On fact, there are stori old around H some of the mines that show that | sometimes the miners’ wives are| War Department Flight firmer and more militant than their | an To Advertise Aviation Here are two Nes | miners told them. ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 14—Lieu pened up at Indi incidents as the| The first one hap-| la, a mine be-| A x Lester J. Maitland, trans-Pacific| | 1g Jolliery Com-| , | “eed ‘9 Ke aes eae aks flier, f tant Secretary of | | Be Gee ee are, Trubee Davison, together) Yne day a miner came home to | mblyman A. B. Borkow- ie county, arrived here his wife, and told her to fix his din-| |“ he| | $4 ner bucket. ‘I’m going to work, , suid “Where ea you going to| | today in an army transport plane ee ke || |from Buffalo to address local work?’ ask his w She is a girl] |*°°* bs y chamber of comm jation. nly about sixteen. says. ‘In the mine? ing to fix your bue Sey “She went outside and got a two- by-four, and came back and hit him over the head a couple of times—and | . that was all. “After « ‘In the mine,’ he cM Alright, I'm go-| of the best « on ithe picket line; but he rated by his g as if he himself had} shameful and became | the Union Hall, she s and girls were laugh-| said when bo who that,” said the man ing and talking together, he would was telling the sto: a miner from|sit al off in a corner, though the} Harmarsville, the next town to In-| others who liked and respected him dianola, “he was on the picket line évery day. And now he even comes over here to Harmarsville, when he has the time, asking if we don’t need help on the picket line here,” Children Shame Father. And here is another story from the same section. A miner went to the mine office to go back to work, and came home with his loader’s check. Later, he changed his clothes and th children found the check in his pants pocket. They went to their “pap,” as they say round here, and started in calling him “Seab, Scab,” and then | ¢¢ they went in and told their mother. Then their mother said to him: “If you go scabl V’ll take the children | and go away and let you scab.” Then he threw out his loader’s check, and he didn’t go scabbing. would go ov in with the rest. and try to draw him Now he is trying to find some work | y side the camp so he can go board- ing and get out of his father’s house. | And then there is the 12-year old) } in the same camp whose teacher told him he had a chance to be president of the United States when he grew up, and who answered he didn’t want |to be president, he wanted to be a union miner, Must Save Union. It is only up here in the mining] yns that one realizes how com- pletely the union is the center of the militant miner’s life, and the full ex- tent of the cataesphe that the | break-up of the union would involve. Apart from the worsening of material |conditions, the defeat of the union To the miners’ wife and children) would mean the destruction of the the union does not represent merely | very foundations of his life. Some of something that helps the man of the}the beaten-looking West V: house get more pay, or keeps him out| miners you see around here o nights at meetings. A young girl at|ionally give you some idea of what the Renton mines w telling me| the victory of the coal operators and | about the time she worked in Pitts-|the reduction of the mines to the slave | burgh a while. Her scorn for the|open shop ba vould mean to the unorganized workers she met in the| miners of this district. city was tremendous. It was un-| The rank anéd-file of the locked out thinkable that people could be willing| miners are among the most militant | to work without'a union, and let the| and unbreakably courageous fighters boss run things and get away with | in the labor movement, and today anything he wanted to. they are fighting for their lives. If Watch them coming out of the | they are conquered, starved into sub- shops in the evening,” she said. “They| mission or driven from the mines, it oo Sy ahaa ee a | will be an irr parable blow not alone ; 4 i at their) for the U. M. of A., but for the mine, eighteen or nineteen years old,/ whole working ‘class. It is already oe 6 aS Ree |far too long that they have been |left to fight their battle alone; for | its own sake the rest of organized | |labor cannot afford to wait, to come | {to their aid. until it is too late. a ‘UNREST IN SPAIN; © U.S, AMBASSADOR ‘AIDED DE RIVERA ‘Premier a Blackmailer; Workers Dissatisfied MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 14. — Spain is reported in dispatches smug- gled past the censorship of Premier de Rivera to be in a state bordering on revolution. A series of scandals of magnitude, which involve the king, the premier, and Ambassador Moore |from the United States of America, is becoming generally known, and gives an excuse to the center and |liberal elements to unite temporarily with the thoroly dissatisfied workers ‘and peasantry. U. S. Ambassador Guilty. Ambassador Moore is directly con- nected with the ascension of Primo de Rivera, according to these stories. The battle of Monte Arruit in Mor- {oceo, which was directly ordered by |the king’s pet generals, caused the oss of 20,000 Spanish peasant boys and roused such a storm of indigna- tion in Spain that King Alfonso and American Ambassador Moore, with other “dark forces,” conspired to overthrow the constitutional govern- ment and establish military rule in- | stead. Moore Right On Hand. Rivera carried out his coup d’etat and on the train which carried the king from his position of safety in France back to Spain to profit by the} The new state of affairs was Moore. American Ambassador likewise forced the recognition of the new govern- ment by the powers of Burope thru |his immediate announcement that the United States would recognize it. There followed quarrels between | the king and Rivera, according to the present dispatches. Then on the question of calling an assembly, the king opposed and Rivera insisted. In the end, Rivera Had his way, and the story is that he threatened the king he would make public some very in- discreet letters sent him before the Spanish fascist regime was estab- lished, written on the royal station- ery, signed by the king’s name, and highly treasonable in content. Distrust Assembly. The masses of Spain are not tak- ing much interest in the opening of the gagged and packed assembly. Only a handful turned out at the jopening ceremonies. The official press has gone to the extreme lengths of publically complaining about this indifference. But beneath “capampes oe [GOMEZ TROOPERS| * TRY TO BLOW UP R, R. PASSENGERS, Driven Off by Federal | Troops After Battle | BULLETIN MEXICO CITY, Oct. 14. — Ina lively battle fought at Huatusco, Vera Cruz, yesterday, a band of 200 armed peasants assisted by a small federal detachment beat off 200 counter revolutionists, remnants of Gomez’s army, who left a score of dead and wounded on the field. The defenders of the town reported half a dozen killed and twenty wounded. | President Calles wired his felici- tations to the agrarians. ek * EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 14 hundred Mexican reactionaries, Jose Barcenas, constituting a frag- ment of the counter-revolutionary | army led by Gomez and Almada, at- tacked a passenger train on the Cuer- |navaca branch of the National Rail- ways near Pimentel station, but were | driven off by the federal train guards after a two hour fight, said a teh ived here today. Guards explor- g the tracks ahead of the train found WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14 This woman’s husband is a good union man. But she is the sort of healthy, courageous proletarian type that is the despair of coal and | two dynamite bombs. iron police trying to beat down the Three thousand Yaqui Indians, stir- morale of the locked-out miners. red up by American dil interests, who ae {went upon the war path acetate the ' |Calles government in the state of So- ARMY FINANGE nora, have surrendered. The Mexican 3 § | government is planning te send them | into various Mexican states. Gen, Francisco Mumzo reported that two of the leading chiefs, Mutus and Mori, | were among the prisoner: | Govt. Uses Bombing Planes. GRAFT ON LEVEE The Mexican war office has ordered the new Douglas bombing planes, re- cently bought in California. to operate oss * lagainst the counter-revolutionary Flood Victim’s Misery I orcus in the regions of Perote, Jalapa . izabi in the state of Vera Cruz. Considered Argument (*¢ OW*h iD Me Sate! | Confiscate Counter-ievolutionists’ Property. Two different bodies are ‘about to re-| MEXICO CITY, Oct. 14. — The pore ete U. S. government on the | government is rapidly confiscating the Mississippi Valley flood area. t property of counte volutionists in- oe SOEInETE separ ene is ole ive dn the. Got Jmada revolt, army is known to have pre-|anq it was estimated today that al- pared a statement of the means to be | most enough mohey had been recoy- adopted for future flood control. They lered by the government ‘to cover the advocate merely bigger and eee cost of putting down the uprising. bridal me of the almost unan-| “Gen, Arnulfo Gomez, reactionary imous opinion of foreign aayerts that | | leader rebel chief, was, beiieved to be levees alone are useless during very | til at large, although the country high ‘water. ‘through which he has been pursued Money In Levees. | since Sunday is;so wild that the fed- The levee system is required in the | eralg cannot communicate with the |the indifference is loathing and con- | tempt for the present government. | The popular feeling is apathetic to- | wards the assembly because that is | but a part of the government appar- |atus, and the masses hate the whole. FOURTH CONGRESS on the Plans Expedited fo Save 100 Passaic | Strikers from Jail | PASSAIC, N. J, Oct 14, — The| in greatest attention to the defense of | OF R. l L. U. WILL Music, Poetry, Lit- |! erature, Cinema | Theatre and Education Modern Russian Composers By Leonid Sabaneyeff Written gifted com- of in SO v IET | eleven Passaic strikers, facing charges | | RI ISSTA |this state, is requested of organized MEET MARCH 15TH [labor by the district council of the| Hie a list of books on | oe the great development o \ment made a's fi 1 “This determined struggle of the ideale lei cio vorld's first workers’ gov- s determined s * Vg Penk: Pat oes benutitu MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Oct. 14.—The worker's library, |duced some results,” says the council) Union International will be held on |and continues: “Two large corpora-| March 15, 1928 in Moscow the Exec- right of the textile workers to organ-| filiated organizations yesterday. ize in Passaic is legitimate. Some of| ‘The agenda includes the report of | the disputes that now arise in the | mills are mutually settled by a com-|the international trade union move- t ment, the struggle against imperial- tatives of the mill-owners. This means | that the recent strike won for the|war, the Chinese revolution and the s the right of collective bar-| tasks of the Chinese trade unions, the gaining. However little gain has been made, it was achieved only through | struggle against fascism and against fascist “trade unions,” and the trade jbelp of the labor movement of the United States and Cana of a serious nature in the courts of | United Textile Workers, in a state-| (Special Cable to The real culture” in the bound—all should be in eve textile workers of Passaic has pro-| fourth congress of the Red Trade (aa) ices were forced to admit that the| ytive Bureau informed all of its af- the Executive Bureau, the tasks of mittee of workers with the represen- ism and against a new imperialist wo: | tasks of British militant labor, the a tremendous struggle and with the | union movement in colonial countries. “In their zeal for revenge on the| posers, a State Bazaar. The new campaign here is a workers, the mili-owners framed up| for funds had the endorsement of the be k to bieeae eee eleven of the bravest men on charges | New Jersey State Federation of La- oy) aaa es of bombing, and sent them to the New | bor, at their last convention. eR huts: Adhapeneve Gok Jersey State Prison for terms rang-| “This bazaar to be held in Passaic, their work is discussed in delightful manner, —: RUSSIAN POETRY ing from three to twenty years. |December 3rd to 11th, will be the “Among the approximately one | biggest of its kind in the history of hundred cases pending, there is the |New Jersey and a real boost to the a anthology of noth: old case against Albert Weisbord, who is | textile workers of Passaic in their new Russian poetry— : Sas oon titomction ane a under $20,000 bail. There is also the |¢fforts to organize a 100 per cent biographical sketch of Rus | Jack Rubinstein case, which is to be| Union in the industry in Passaic and era cey Hore cheren heard shortly in the New Jersey state | Vicinity.” DEUTSCH and A. YAR | supreme court. | ee ee LINSKY, = Aacaceueaniann: | IF YOU DON’T REGISTER TO- FLYING OSSIP DAY YOU CAN’T VOTE. “Winter is now approaching. More} United States partly because the pres- | tige of the engineers themselves is | staked upon it, and even more be- | cause there is big money in buildi ng | embankments, The U.S. army is rec- | ommending that about $500,000,000 be | used within the next year or so, and| this goes to grading contractors. An- other point affecting the decision is that the rival plan, of reservoirs at | the head waters, leads inevitably, to government ~owned power plants, a thing the present administration de-| sires to avoid. | The°U. Sv chamber of commerce | committee which has toured the flood- ed area reports merely something of | the enormity of the damage and uses | this as a recommendation for cen-| tralizing the power of administration | of levee building—and aiayensation of contracts. |barracks’ program, it was made known }at the White House today. Observe Misery. “When they returned,” said spokesman, “having seen for them- selves the vast extent of the desola- tion, the misery and the suffering of thousands of flood victims, the finan- | cial collapse of river communities, destruction of transportation lines, the blotting out of crops, the wreck- age of homes, the paralysis of trade in large areas of the flood sectors, they realized this was a question for national and not local or state solu- | tion. There was no division; the finding was unanimous.” Biggest Capitalists. The committee advises also that the| levee building bill be considered as a! the | | | separate piece of legislation in con-| gress. Celebrate 10th Anniversary BRUSSELS, (By Mail), Plans to) celebrate the tenth anniversary of | the Russian revolution were made at | a meeting of the Federation of Trade Unions of Brussels held recently. A delegation will be sent to Mos- cow for the siete. eplenyetions. by th st of Biiort, stories by the best of funds than formerly are needed for | the new writers of Soviet | na : Russia, $2.50 |the families and children of the pris- LITERATURE AND oners. The cases now on the court REVOLUTION jcalendar must receive adequate legal by LEON TROTSKY In which there is a frank eriticism of all the new Ru: HY NOT defense. To secure those funds the | textile workers have decided to hold Farm Labor Wage Falls sian writers—and a brilliant in the DAILY WORKER | | ADVERTISE. | THE NEW THBATRE AND CINEMA OF SOVIET RUSSIA by J. HUNTLEY CARTER A thorough study of the |As Jobless From Cities Flock to Open Country They Bring Results, © OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE Rates Are Reasonable. 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COVERS PLAN FOR lexpenditure of $22,000,000 for build- | enough barracks to provide for a large TER FOR 1 40:80) P.M government. A’) | GENERAL'S TALK LARGE NEW ARMY: More Barracks of Same ||! Sort May Be Result WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Presi- dent Coolidge will ask congress for large appropriations for the army Congress has already authorized the ing new barracks, it was stated. The Coolidge “economy” administra- tion thus takes instant advantage of ihe excuse offered by General Sum- merail’s recent “discovery” of unsan- itary and unhealthy housing conditieus of soldiers in Texas and elsewhere. Summerall is called into consulta- tion by President Coolidge to advise jas to the method of expenditure. Both are known to favor the building of conscript army if necessary. TODAY IS LAST DAY TO REGIS- NOV. 8TH ELECTION. BOOTHS OPEN FROM 7 A. M. TO Lectures and Porro LABOR TEMPLE 14th Street and Second Avenue THIS SUNDAY 5 P. M.—The Book of the Month DR, G. F. BECK “The Prometheus of Aeschylus” ADMISSION 25 CENTS 7:15 P. M— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “Personal Virtues and the Social Gospel” ADMISSION FREE 8:30 P. M.—Open ae “As the Nicaraguans See Fe? ADMISSION FREE Porewwsenenceeeneee The East Side Open Forum At the CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS 9 Second Avenue (near Houston) Mr. BENDUKOV of Russia vd will speak on ‘Russia and Her Economic Future’ Sunday Eve. Oct. 16, at 8:30 P. M, DELIVERS REPORT (Continued from Page One) jaffairs as well as in the factories, | where the books of the factory com- | mittees were open to them to see in black and white how industry was faring under the socialist economy. They interviewed Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Kalinen, president of Soviet | Russia; Vorishiloff, head of the Red Army, and many other government officials as well as workers and peas- ants. Prisons were visited and the dele- gates talked to former white guard cfficers thru their interpreters and to Mensheviks who were bitterly opposed to the government. The delegates had their own interpreters. During the ten years of the eink. | ence of the first workers’ government } the trade unions of Soviet Russia have | grown So that today 95 per cent of the workers in the Soviet Union are} organized while in the United States, | under the devastating policy of class collaboration as practiced by the mis- | leaders of the American Jabor move- | ment less than 15 per cent of the American working class are organized into trade unions. The American delegation to the U. S. S. R. was organized after the be 1925, then president of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions nd of the Bri gress. President L. E. Sheppard of the Order of Railroad and Railway Conductors, who was unable to ac- company the delegation at the last minute, was elected chairman and the delegates and their economic left the United States in June and July, returning on September 26 after | spending a month in the Soviet Union. European labor delegations have been visiting Soviet Russia regularly | since the workers and peasants suc- ceeded in defeating intervention and suppressing the counter-revolution. The report of the British labor dele- gation in 1924 aroused the interest of the organized workers in the great achievements of the first workers’ re- public and it was followed by trade } union delegations from Germany,} Sweden, Bélgium and other countries. The United States was behind the rest of the world in establishing con- tact between the triumphant workers of Russia and the American working class due to the bitter opposition of reactionaries to making a first hand) survey in the Soviet Union, The standing, of the members of the American Trade Union Delega- tion to the Soviet Union in the trade | unions makes their visit a landmark in the relations between the trade | unions of the United States and those of Soviet Russia. it to ‘America of Albert A. Purcell | sh Trade Union Con-} advisers | ‘TRADE UNION DELEGATION TO SOVIET UNION AT MADISON SQ. MEETING | | The published report of the delega- tion which is expected to be available Garden mass meeting promises to of the American trade union move- ment and among the working class population in general as did the re- | port of the British delegation in 1925. ARREST, SEARCH 5 CITIZENS OF USSR IN CHINA aren, British Police | Aided by White Guards | (Special Cable to The (DAILY WORKER) | _ SHANGHAI, Oct. 14.—Five Soviet | citizens, who were arrested and searched at Amoy on October 4, and | kept under surveillance by the police, arrived here on board a British | steamer and were immediately placed | under arrest. | Upon the steamer’s arrival in the port of Shanghai, a detachment of |thirty Chinese policemen and four Russian White Guards in the service jof the administration of the French |concession and the munig¢ipal council |of the international settlement at Shanghai. Subjected ‘to Search. The five Soviet citizens, one of whom was a woman, were. subjected to a search altho no warrant had been issued against them, and were put |under arrest. They were taken to the police station at the French con- cession. A lawyer and a representative of 'the Soviet press who were present | were not allowed to follow the ar- rested Soviet citizens to the quale ) station. The charge against the prisoners is ‘unknown. It is rumored that the Shanghai authorities are urging the French concession ‘authorities to hand over the arrested to the Chinese police. According to infgrmation received |here, Sorokin, the Shanghai repre- | sentative of the Soviet Trade Mission, |who left Tientsin recently was taken \off the steamer ot Taku and arrested jby the Chinese authorities. | TODAY IS LAST DAY TO REGIS- TER FOR NOV. 8TH ELECTION. BOOTHS OPEN FROM 7 A. M. TO 10:30 P. M. ee New Cooperative House with all. Improvements All Rooms Are Large, Airy and Light. OPPOSITE CENTRAL PARK. | ELEVATOR SERVICE. 1800 SEVENTH AVE., Comer 110th St, Telephone Monument 1110. Office Open Every Day From 8 A, mee to EHH T inmate jarouse as much interest in the ranks | for distribution at the Madison Square | papncgrcenenom i i e