The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1927, Page 1

[ cH DAILY WORKER FiGHTs: | DAILY WORKER FIGH FOR THE ORGAWIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKE Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. CITY EDITIO? Vol. IV. No. 236. SEVEN HOUR DAY FOR SOVIET UNION WC SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1927 COMMUNIST AT AFL CONVENTION TO FACE TRIAL Change Charge Against Bush; Set Date Oct. 28 LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 16. — Sid Bush, arrested at the A. F. of L. convention last’ week, and booked on a charge of “criminal syndicalism,” was released on bail and the charge was changed to “vagrancy.” The Los Angeles Examiner and |8,000 Chinese Tobacco | | by t Workers Strike; British || Troops Rushed to Scene (Special Cable to Daily Worker). SHANGHAI, Oct. 16. — Hight thousand Chinese workers in Brit- ish-American tobacco factories have gone out on strike. British troops have been moved into the Chinese quarter of this city, des- pite the protest of a representative of'the Chinese foreign ministry. The five Soviet citizens arrested | | here by French police. have been transferred to the Chinese military authorities. No charges have yet been brought against the persons ted. Red Army Defends Workers’ New ‘Standards Of Living in Soviet Union | PUBLISHL Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER NG CO., First Street, New York, N.Y: Price 3 Cents RKERS CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AT FIRST CAPITAL OF BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION ON EVE OF 10TH ANNIVERSARY ORDERS CHANGE | Scabs Enter Coal Miners’ | Benefit Dance and Shoot Boy; Enforce Injunction | | \ | |_ PITTSSURGH, Penn., Oct. 16.—| | John Seankus, an eighteen year old| Castle Shannon striking miner was ' Unusual Piuicers ii lata in indigies During Last Few Years Justifies Reduction of Hours |Decrease in Peasant Taxes; More Land for Poor Peasants; Pensions Also Decreed LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Oct. 16.—The seven-hour day for the Record both claimed that the A. F. of L. leadership could very well battle Communists without the assist- anec of the police. Further evidence of police assist- ance in unseating Communist dele- gates and arresting visitors at the convention was shown when it was found that the police chief of the “red squad” admitted that he had ad-} yance information that the writer would be unseated, and that further | action would be taken against the Communists by local and national la- | | shot by one of a band of three at- | |tacking scabs at Mollenauer, near | Mine No. 3 of the Pittsburgh Ter-| | {minal Coal Company during a | dance Saturday night for the bene- |fit of locked out miners’ families. | the workers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! This is the decision announced today by the Central Execu- | tive Committee of the All-Union Congress of Soviets, the highest governing body in the workers’ and peasants’ republic, at its |meeting in the first capital of the Revolution, amid the en- The assailants escaped. The boy! |thusiastic welcoming demonstrations of the whole population. et nia) eee ‘The present session of the Executive Committee is held here in- ‘itis tijunotion ‘in being teatovest | stead of in Moscow because the revolution of November 7, 1917, by coal and iron police in the Pitts-| | began in this city. | |burgh Terminal Company mines. All streets and houses are gaily decorated with flags, throngs gathered at the railroad station to welcome the members of the At Castle Shannon No 2 all j : i BOK : ee ‘ pickets were driven away. At) | committee on their arrival, and in the crowds were the representa- The first is vice-chairman M. Unschlicht, left, and M. Voroshiloff. of the military council of the U. S. S. R. and the latter is People’s Com- missar for War. They lead the Red Army, which bars the way to cap- italist reaction which would change the new seven-hour day to one of fourteen if it could. RESUME SIGMAN Terie naiy ste BREAKERS IN EASTERN OHIO MINES SIGN “YELLOW DOG” Third Session of Case! Salts for Damage { \ | ! bor officials. Detective Hynes is reported to have threatened that he is out to “get” Bush and run him out of town, and | hopes to send him up for six months’ imprisonment. Hynes demanded and obtained a jury trial for Bush, evi- dently because the case is such an obvious frame-up that he feels he could get better results with a Babbitt | jury than with a judge. The Office Workers’ Union adgpted a resolution of against the “stool-pigeon methods” of the Central Labor Counci!, which with the assistance of the police depart- ment, informed Secretary Morrison of the A. F. of L. that Wm. man was a Communist and should not be seated as a delegate to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor Convention. Schneiderman was unseated on the evidence furnished the A. F. of L. by the chief of the police department’s “yed squad.” Threats of the A. F. of L. to with- draw their promise to grant an in- ternational charter to the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Unions have forced A. J. Beck to resign as business agent of the Los Angeles local. Bock denies he is a Communist, but was never-| theless forced out while the A. F. of L. Convention was in the midst of its red-baiting campaign. Threaten Strike When Scabs Get Schsol Jobs Camden, N. J., (FP) Oct. 16.— Representatives of the Camden Build- ing Trades Council are conferring with the Camden County Vocational Schoo! Board in the hope of averting a strike on the new trades school, now under construction. Labor lead- ers warned the school officials of the strike danger when it was discovered that contracts had been awarded to Franks and Sweeney, electricians, and Harry Knecht, heating contractor, two concerns gis ee to organized labor. , tnsurance Gra\' Aids Doctors in has Tf AK worker goes 7 a doctor or} dentist and is half butchered he can never hi to realize any damages from anycourt. This fact is brought | to light img a complaint to the state in- | surance dppartment made by Edward A, Kohlega lawyer of this city. It! seems tht certain insurance com- panie; tably the United States / Fidelity a§d Guarantee Company, in- ‘ gared doctrs, dentists and other so-; called benefactors of the human race, against having to pay damages for | maiming or killing their clients. The eminent doctors agree not to testify against any other of. their ' profession, hence it is impossible for the victim of the bungling of the! professional healers to produce “ex. | pert” evidence in court. Mr, Kohle is | so simple-minded he hopes the in-| -suranee department will do something about it. He evidently doesn’t knew} that the insurance companies ‘have considerable influence with the politi- eXl job holders in the department. Drama League Meets Tonight. The Workers Drama League will hold a rehearsal 8 o'clock tonight at their headquarters, 64 Washington Square. Two one act plays being pared are “The Scab,” by Max Geta, aig “Solidarity” by by John protest | Schneider- | | Against Gold, Hyman The third hearing on the criminal! libel charges brot by Morris Sigman, | Garment Workers’ Union, against > Ben Gold and Louis Hyman, militant |needle trades workers, and the staffs, lof the Freiheit and Unity, left wing | publications, will begin at 11:30 a. m, |today in the Tombs court, Franklin. |St., before Magistrate Louis Brodsky. These progressive workers and newspapers are charged with libeling the right wing head of the I. L. G.! |W. U. in reference to his amusement! ipark at Storm Lake, Iowa, where he! employs non-union help at low wages.| Sigman in his complaint also cites articles charging him with ar the membership of his union. Have Proved Charges. In hearings held Oct. 3 and 11 in the 57th St. magistrates court, i seph R. Brodsky and Louis B. Boudin, | attorneys for the defendants, brot out i (Continued on Page Five) | Consider Borah's B.| 1} MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Ohio, Oct. 16 16.—Sceabs in the eastern Ohio} ‘coal fields are free to sign a contract or not, just as they please. | |The following is the contract that they “choose” to sign. president of the International Ladies’ are not responsible for the bad spelling in the contract, which is! ® Membership Meeting | Wednesday to Discuss | Election and U. 5. 8. R.) A general membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held Wednesday, 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The order of business will be the election campaign and the 10th Anniversary of the Rus- —_ Revolution. Remus Says He Will Cal Atty. General; Frightens Officials CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 16. eorge Remus, “Bootleg King” under ‘indictment for the murder of his wife, (We) |printed by a scab printer.) “Employment Agreement.” | “This 10th day of Oct., 1927, in con- | sideration of receiving employment) |from the Atlantic Contracting Com-} | pany at its Florence coal mine, at| |the rate of wages now in effect, 1) | |Beree to abide by all the rules and jregulations of the above mentioned | company, “TI am not a member of the United | Mine Workers of America, or I. W. | W., or any organization that inter-| fears with the mine laws of this com-| pany. I understand that this | pany may discharge me whenever Fay ‘© services become unsatisfactory, or I| may resign at any time. | “I have been notified about the | strike existing at this mine, and 1| know there is a strike there, because} it has been explained to me by com- | pany representatives, | “This contract has been read, ex plained, and interpreted to me. agree to pay back all expenses in. cured by shipping me; the same shall be deducted from my wages. Taadine rate per ton. .58c.... other mines the hundred foot |clause renders picket posts use- 1 i | less for apprehending and com-) Mine Workers of America is pre-| municating with scabs. The United paring contracts for the erection of barracks to house families evicted under injunctions. Over a thousand families are immediately involved and the situation is ex- ene grave. ‘Miners’ Local wil Fight Lewis Scheme To Punish Demohak By ED FALKOWSKI. SHENNANDOAH, Pa., (FP) Oct. | 16.—Mike Demchak, an active mem- ber of the United Mine Workers in| the hard coal belt, must face trial and answer the charges preferred against im by Christ Golden, president of District 9, U. M. W. of A. Demchak sponsored the workers’ ducational movement here last win- ter. Originally from District 2, of | which John Brophy was then presi- | dent, Demchak allied himself with the | Brophy movement during. the last | union political campaign, and was re- today threw official circles of the gov- - Approval of Norri — APDTOVAL CF NOTTS _ Shows Latter ‘Safe’ $ | e ernment and the bootleg ring into | consternation by announcing that he WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. — Sen. | would subpoena seventy-five of the Borah announces that he is ready to| support Sen. Norris for the republi- can presidential nomination next year, | which may be a further proof of the! growing suspicion that Norris is “bought off.” His old associates are asking what, it is that Borah really wants. That | ‘he will actually make a fight for Nor- iris is beyond their credulity. He has ‘never bolted the regular nominee of |the party—whether it was Taft in | |1912, Hughes in 1916, Harding in | 1920 or Coolidge in 1924. And he, | mever joined LaFollette or Norris in} tany of the score of battles they have | |made. | i A Cautious “Progressive.” Borah waited until this past sum- jmer, when Congress had adjourned, to assail the power trust. Last year he voted against the Me- Nary-Haugen farm relief bill, after ‘having recited the sufferings of the farmers in the west. He made no) {speech against the bill. Now, it is indicated, Borah is ready to vote for the bill when it comes again before the senate. But he’has conceded that ‘his vote against the measure last | spring disqualified him to win the \farmer vote in presidential primaries) in the west, Norris voted for the bill, after his own more effective plan for} jfarm relief had been sidetracked as) jbeing tco esis ‘Detrick, Opponent of, Communists, Arrested; | Stole Funds of Union NEWPORT, Ky., Oct. 16.—Fred H. Detrick, labor fakir of Gary, Indiana, and president of the ,Lake County Central Labor Union, who has always been an aggressive fighter against the Communists, and who has been missing from Gary with $3,200 of the here toda ‘IpuILD THE DAILY leaders of both to testify in his de- fense. He declares he will show uj the l|graft and ruin the trade of his asso- ciates if he goes on trial. Among | those whom he will call, he says, are: Attorney General Sargent, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Com- missioner Blair of the Internal Reve- nue Bureau, Roy Haynes, former pro- hibition commissioner, Representative LaGuardia of New York, and the man- agers of the Commodore and Roose- velt hotels. He also wants the testimony of Dr. Doran of the prohibition department, Howard Jones and Edgar T. Hoover of the department of justice, John W. Snooks, Warden of Atlanta Prison; District Attorney Clint Hager of At-! lanta and District Attorney Albert B. Ward of Indianapolis. Remus charges. that a liason he- tween Prohibition Inpsector Dodge and Remus’ wife, now murdered, was ‘ormed to mulct him of his millions of dollars ‘of bootleggers’ profits, while keeping him in DH at Atlanta. Carteret Laundry Men Strike When Wages Are Cut; Form Local Union CARTERET, N. J., Oct. 16.—The drivers of the Roosevelt Laundry here have gone on strike against a wage cut recently put into effect. The ‘strikers have organized a union with the assistance of the Cen- tral Labor Union of Perth Amboy and the Laundry Drivers Union>of New York City. Demands including a $6 increase in wages, improved . con- ditions for workers inside the laun- dry. Several unorganized laundry work- ers of Elizabeth and other neighbor- ing cities have come here to join the organization as a first step towards the unionization of the laundries in | their own cities. ‘WORKER! Board per week ..$10.00.... sponsible for one large mass meeting No. of years. Five (5). here at which he officiated as chair- | DAY ROME cy sos om see | man, with Powers Hapgood and other | “Transportation, office fee charge,| Speakers denouncing the policies of} $12.55, |the Lewis administration.’ It was at “Signature .. this meeting that Demchak “seemed “Witness .. » | pleased with the remarks made,”—one him. The i . {of the charges against Pe ees eee ed Local Stands By Him. must sign if he goes to work for the, The case pended for many months Atlantic Contracting Company. This while Demchak waited for a copy of company is a bogus company, exist-| ; ing only on paper. the charges, that he might accumulate It was formed} ‘ the evidence for the defence. To date goes ae mouebs: Seog wien Mr. sia ea such definite charges have been bins, head of the Ohio coal operators’ d association, as its president, Mr. Rob- Ea ert ere nate he Came ee ie) He preieny Bie of the “Y. {munist activities, and having his & ©.” Company, which leased “the| ome on the payroll of the Commu- (Continued on ee Five) nist Party. ” The last clause is amus- Teapot Dome Graft "2 sen we cone Trial Starts Today; Prosectition Weak Now that Demchak has returned from the soft coal region where he helped strike activities for a few months, the case reopens with more vigor than ever. His whole local | solidly behind him, the officials are WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Former| Secretary of the Interior Albert B.| Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, head of | the Sinclair Oil Co. and big’ race- horse owner, will face a jury tomor- row on charges of conspiracy to steal compelled tc push their case in de-| Teapot Dome oil fields. fiance of the local of which he once |was president. Demchak Will Fight. | District President Golden being at} the Los Angeles convention of the | American Federation of Labor, the | The defendants start under the marks, stating his innocence of the handicap that the supreme court has | eharges, and saying he would fight to already, in a civil suit, declared the the last before he would give up. his granting to Sinclair of Teapot Dome) ynion membership. was “shot thru and thru with fraud.”| At one moment the local voted to Money Counts. | grant Demchak his transfer card, and } ‘But on the other hand, both are} wealthy, and are seated today in con-! ference with their ‘million doliar ar- | ray of counsel” at one of the best! hotels in Washington. And for some} unexplained reason, very little money , has been coming from the present ad- {had neither authority. nor evidence ‘ enough to push the case last Saturday | at the meeting of Demchak’s local. | ;Demchak made a few vigorous ro-! |basket, but Demchak refused to ac- cept this kindness, feeling it would, |be better to fight the matter to the jend. The case will probably remain | ‘closed until Golden returns. Mean- | while Demchak is working in one of | throw the accusations into the waste | t ministration, successor to Harding’s| Ohio gang in whose cabinet Fall sat. | The trial is expected to be long and |the mines wondering what is going) to happen—if anything. Demchak | was among those beaten up at the | Indianapolis convention. : tives of the workers of many factories and the members of work- ers’ delegations from abroad. Bands p layed lation celebrates. The executive committee has had be- |fore it a careful report by the best | economic experts in the country, de- | tailing the amazing progress of the | Soviet Union industries during the jlast few years, It has accordingly issued orders to the Presidium of the Central Execu- tive Committee and the Council of Peoples’ Commissars various means |of taking advantage of the increased | production for the benefit of the work- jers and peasants of Russia which it |represents in administration of the affairs of the country, the first of which is to make the transfer from the present eight-hour day to one of | seven hours, without reduction in | wages for a day's work. The Central Executive Committee jin its statement explains that it is in | full agreement with the whole policy | j of the Soviet government, and de-} |clares: “The proletarian state pursues | the aim of raising the living condi- |tions of the working and peasant | | Mmasses, contrary to that of all capi- | talist countries where, without excep- classes, deprived of all rights. “The Union of Socialist Soviet Re- | publics considers it to be its earnest | task to develop by all measures all} the forces of the proletariat and to promote the unceasing growth the | prosperity of the toiling masses of the towns and villages.” The Seven-Hour Day. Then follows the order for the in- stitution of the seven-hour day: “On the threshold of the tenth anniver- | sary of the October (old style, Nov. 7, new style) Revolution the Central | Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ordains: “First: year the transition from eight hours | working day to seven hours working day ‘without reduction of wages, and to instruct accordingly the Presidium } of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of Peoples’ ‘Commis- | sars of the U. S. S. R. to begin not | later than one year the gradual ac- complishment of this decision in re- gard to industrial factories and the workers in different branches of in- | dustry in conformance with the prog- ress in new equipment and the ration- alization of factories, works, and in-} dustrial enterprises, and the growth) of labor productivity. Better Houses for Workers. “Second: To increase the compari- son with last year by fifty million abordinate officials felt that they|youbles the sums allotted for. con- [ern Union Telegraph struction of houses for workmen in regions es special uffering from the housing crisis. Exempt Peasants from Tax. “Third: To propose improvement of the material conditions of poor peasa by exempting ten per cent of the p ant households from pay Idi ant Itural tax in cent of the pes ly released from this ment of the agri households alr tax. “Fourth: To cancel the peasant households on loan to them: by the state durin harvest of 1924-2! rears yet unpaid pane arrears of the agricultural taxes lof the average peasants for the p to cancel th tion, the working class and the peas- | |antry occupy the position of exploited | To assure during the next | ‘| of the K and the entire popu- Leningrad Starts Work On Typewriter Factory; To Be First in U. dy S.R.| MOSCOW, l s 2 Oct. 16. —Building operations are proceed: in Leningrad for the construc- | tion of the first typewriter factory in the Soviet Union. were im- ee typewriters ported. KKK FLOGCED — 102 IN SINGLE ALABAMA COUNTY |Indict Preacher Among Leaders of Burtality LUVERNE, Alabama, Oct. 16. The Crenshaw county grand jury had |such strong evidence presented to it of the crimes of the Ku Klux Klan lin this vicinity that it w forced yes- terday to bring indictments of some {of the most prominent religious and jlay leaders of the community. It |found 102 true bills against 28 men of this county and 8 of Butler county. | The crimes were incipally flog- gings, many of a revoltingly cruel |nature, and most of them inflicted upon Negroes whose morality, espec- ially in the matter of giving a long | hard day’s work for a miserable pit- | tance in the plantations, the K. K, K. j set itself to enforce. Preach On List. Among those singled out for indiet- {ment are James Esdale, grand dragon {of the Klan in Alabama; Cecil Davis, |former great titan of the southern province of the order; the Rev. L. |.A. Nalls, exalted cyclops ef the Geor- jana Klavern, and Ira B. Thompson, | exalted cyclops of the Luverne Klave ern. “We find that in most, if not all of |the cases, these outrageous acts of {hooded mobs wearing the regalia the Ku Klux Klan are the evil fruits of leadership,” the report reads. | Many Get Telegrams. Attorney General McCall today is- | sued instructions for a subpoena call- ing on the local manager of the West- ompany to pro- | due f all tel ams exchanged bet: firam W. os, imperial of the Ku Klux Klan, and > Western hanged Esdale, lux Kian . Wilkinson of of the State m; the Rev. L, A, ing minister, who failed to summors by the grand jury; Geeil Davis, said to be former grand titan of the southern province and George H. Thigpen, ntendent of insurance. in Torace B a member Boxing Cc | Nall, the mi state sup Dry Machine Raises Fund. ST. costly—and the munitions of war are not’ provided for prosecution, a cir-| cumstance materially useful to the} | yxKENS, Pa., (FP) Oct. 16.—Five defense, men inspecting a burning mine of the Atlee Pomerene and Owen J, Rob-| Susquehanna Collieries Co, were in- rts are special counsel for the prose-| ured in an explosion and sent to a cution. tal, Five Burned In Explosion. rs, to reduce the arrears in fine Mo., Oct. — The \for the indigent strata of the town | Missouri ti-Saloon glint today |and rural population in all branches {launched a campaign to raise $50,000 of taxation, and to instruct the Pres-|to oppose the presidential eandidacies - idium of the Central Executive Com-|of either Governor Al Smith or Sen- mittee.of the U. 8. S. R. to issue these |ator James A. Reed, according to (Continued on Page Two) Parker Shields, state superintendent.