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Page Two pe" THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1927 by INTERSTATE CLAUSE OF DECISION AGAINST U..M. W. BLOW TO RIGHT OF ORGANIZATION (Continued from Page One) fective the strikes ¢ to the policy of the u The supreme court de the recent decision of court of wes hibiting case makes ppeal by the union from the Per x on fruit- less. The United Mine Workers unions of these two decis' from organizing ¢ in the two states producing st amoun tof soft coal. e court decision in the makes the com- union officials to| t im- ways | Aes e the of sburgh of gr to consider the aiding mine | seems hardly ble that erence can meet without tak in a fundamental fa question of the struggle} the outlawing of the labor movement by federal unetion. COTTON MILL, MOVED SOUTH, DOUBLES ITS EXPLOITATION B GASTONIA, N. Manville-Jenckes, le barons, who called out the militia of Rhode Is- land to quell their northern cotton mill workers 1 may have to send in a call North Carolina militia to dr southern work- ers back into G a’s biggest and worst mill. In ry 110- Loray m loying 2,500 “ Manvill are instituting ruthless dup drive which is bringing workers to the verge of des- peration. “Need Union.” “What we need is a union,” said young Bill Thomas, who looks 16 but says he has worked in the Loray mill 6 years. “We need some one to lead us. We're yaller, always waiting for the next fellov take the lead, or we'd be out now “JT was making $15 a week as a frame hand, but with the new man- agement, I’m getting only $10.50 a week for 60 hours now.” 68 Cents—Half Day’s Work. “Hello, Bill,” calls another young worker. “I’m going in to get her now,” he says. “I’ve got 68 cents coming for half a day’s work.” He disappears through the guarded mil gate to the paymaster’s office. “About 4 months ago they had a shake-up in there,” Bill continues, nodding toward the general offices, set apart from the main building. “Fired all the supervisors, cleaned ‘em out and got in a new bunch, BOOKS on the Music, Poetry, Lit- erature, Cinema Theatre and Education in SOVIET RUSSIA ERE ts a let of books on H the great development of real culture in _ the world’s first workers’ goy- ernment. All are beautifully bound—all should be in every worker's library Modern Russian Composers By Leonid Sabaneyeff Written in ® brilliant style by one of new Russia's gifted com- posers, here is @ book to please ev- ery lover of musio, Over forty composers and thelr work is discussed in a delightful manner. 82.75 RUSSIAN POHTRY An anthology of both old and new Russian poetry— with an introduction and o biographical sketch of Rus- sia’s new poets—chosen and translated by BABETTE DBUTSCH and A, YARMO- LINBKY. P22 (FP)—\ em ECAUSE UNION IS LACKING -boiled and tough as they make ‘om down in South Carolina. “First it was speed up. Wi was doubled up and hundreds were laid off. Some of them old workers, too. They don’t want the old worker. Then wages came down. I figure there’s been between a $3 and $5 cut for the men, judging by what I hear.” Recruit New Ones. “Hell, what can we do about it?” Bill answers to the usual question. ai “They got labor scouts up in the hills getting new ones to take our places And where can we go? Here in Gas tonia the mills are all filled up. We have a big line-up every morning at| hearted manner in which the govern-| excerpts from this mill of people asking for work.” Torture Workers In New Rumanian Wave af Terror BUCHAREST (By Mail).—The question of the dissolution of the Uni- FALL, SINCLAIR TRIAL FOR OIL GRAFT STARTED Half-Hearted Attempt to Prosecute Pair eo | WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The first | of the trial of Harry F. Sinclair, il magnate, and Albert B. Fall, see re y nterior in the Harding cab- inet s frittered away in the ex- amination of prospective jurors. Fall and Sinclair are being tried in the criminal branch of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, charged h conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment in connection with the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Reserve oil! field in- Wyoming. Twent x veniremen were exam- ined, using up the first panel. At least another ¢ will be spent in the selec- tion of jurymen, it is expected. Half-hearted Prosecution. Altho the trial com n the heels of the decision of the United States supreme court that the Teapot Dome hot thru with fraud and ’ it is regarded as unlikely either Fall or Sinclair will be icted. With millions of dollars at his com- mand, Sinclair has purchased the ser- | (Continued from Page One) |his lawyer, former Assistant District Attorney Markewich, that the right wing ‘was not well represented in the various committees. Among the places mentioned was Brooklyn, where the international president said he On cross examination by Louis B. Boudin of counsel for the defense, Sigman admitted that the man in question, a certain Cherchorie, had been in charge of Brooklyn for over ay before the left wing adminis- t on was organized in the Joint Board. Also that at the present time “he is “a loyal union man.” The wit- ness also admitted that Cherchorie at present is connected with the Man- hattan. office of the right. ;wing. Sigman assailed . the Workers (Communist) Party declaring that “the. strike: Jeaders. vere -not- inter- ested in the workers and the union but were taking orders from the Communist Party and the Red Inter- national in Moscow.” Several hundred cloak and dress- make: who- were interested spec- taters broke in laughter and were warned by Magistrate Louis B. Brod- sky that another outburst would re- sult in the court being cleared of all except the defendants, and complain- ant. Reads Fake “Thesi Sigman’s attoney, Markewich then | vices of shrewd lawyers. The half- ment has been pushing the case is also regarded as, pointing to the ac-| quittal of the pair. Big Graft. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob-| erts, special counsel for the govern- ment, will make an especial effort to prove that Sinclair diverted to Fall| {some $220,500 of the profits of the| started to read what he claimed were “Communist theses.” Joseph R. Brodsky, of counsel for the defense objected to Sigman read- ing the alleged “Communist theses.” If you want to obtain the real point of view of the Workers (Communist) Party I will bring the head of that organization here as a witness. Defense counsel then discovered that which was supposed to be | defunct Continental Trading Company | ‘Communist Theses” was a pamph- of Canada, in exchange for which Fal! turned over to Sinclair the lease on the Teapot Dome reserve. Bosses Order a Tax Cut. WEST BADEN, Ind., Oct. 17.— jlet with the title “The Communist Plague In Our Unions.” Sigman started to quote from the pamphlet certain passages which he said he had read to the left wing leaders of the joint board prior to} trade unions, raised by former | Lewis I. Pierson, president of the U,| the strike as points that he opposed. ter for Labor Tranku Yassi, has|/S. Chamber of Commerce, declared| They ineluded a section devoted to not yet been investigated by the Buk-|here today that Coolidge should eut| the move for the formation of a harest courts. The government and the secret police are, however, doing their utmost to destroy the unitary trade unions without waiting for a decision of the courts. Not a week, not a day passes by without arrests of workers and their leaders in some part of the country. taxes on corporations by $400,000,000 jin spite of the administration’s plans for a bigger navy. Pierson said the naval appropriations could come from |#™ining of Sigman that the pamphlet | room. |some other source, Realtors Cause Death. Mass Arrests. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17—A man Over 1,000 persons were arrested | believed to have been a New York jin Semigrad and Banat on the death| Surgeon, was found last evening on lof the king of Rumania, as a precau-| the pistol range in Elysian Park. He |tionary measure for the guarantee of | had committed. suicide by pulling the \law and order. The greater part of | trigger of a shotgun with his toe. |those arrested were peasants and} The suicide seemed to be impoy- | workers known to be in sympathy | erished, and is believed to be a vic- | with the unitarian trade unions or the | tim of one of the real estate swind- {Communist Party. There were also | lers who throng in southern Califor- among the arrested representatives of |"ia and practically rule the city. national minorities, rank and file} Hungarians and Germans. The secret police carries on a sys-| tematic persecution of the class or- ganizations, the press and the lead- ers of the class-conscious workers, During the strike in the Oradia- Machine Guns Blaze In Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Joseph “Red” Goodman, professional football play- er, was shot and killed, some 80 men and women were «terrorized and | robbed of $10,000 in money and jew- Maru engineering works the secret police arrested 12 workers. When a delegation of workers con- }els today in a sensational machine ;gun raid on “The Barn,” a country | roadhouse, by eight bandits. All of sisting of 500 persons appeared be- fore the police to demand the libera- | white masks, He had a black stock- tion of these workers, the police ar-|ing puiled over his head rested another 28 persons from the) delegation. All 40 were turned over to the military courts, After six| the bandits save the leader wore Professor Kills Self LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 17. —Dean _months’ imprisonment and 19 days’ hunger strike the accused were set free pending investigations. Labor Paper Suppressed. The government prohibited “Ber- P. F. Walker, head of the school of engineering at the University of Kan- sas for more than 15 years, shot and | killed himself here today. In a note addressed to his wife Walker stated labor party. | Admits Statement Not True. | It was brot out in the cross ex- |was published by the right wing controlled general executive board. Sigman first stated that it was pub- lished in 1924, | “Was it published in 19272” Sig. }man was asked by Boudin. When Sigman insisted that it was pub- lished in 1924, the defense attorney pointed out that many of the articles | quoted were not supposed to have j-been written until 1925. The right wing president finding himself in a tight position admitted that what he had said was not true. ing to_build up his case by charging that William Z.° Foster believes in class- éollaboration. | Right Wing Betrayal. In .xeferring to the. strike again, Sigman told how. at:a special meet- ing of the general executive board held December of last year they de- cided to end the strike over the heads of the regularly elected officials of the New York Joint Board. Sigman | Under cross examination admitted | Several minutes later that at a meet- \ing held several days later in Madi- son Square Garden, the cloakmakers repudiated the action of the right had great objection to the men chosen | to lead the struggle in that section. | | Sigman also read alleged -quota-| jtions from Strike Strategy attempt- | SIGMAN CAUGHT DISTORTING FACTS WHILE TRYING | TO MULCT THE FRE JHEIT IN LIBEL SUIT six months after the end of the con-| vention?” asked Boudin. “I don’t} know,” was Sigman’s answer. “Do you mean to tell me that you, | as president of the organization and | | who presided do not know who intro- {duced such an important motion?” | Sigman then started to read the | book of minutes and mumbled for | everal minutes. He then admitted that the sponsors for the motion to | wait six months were not in the book. | Defense counsel, however, did not find in the book mention of a substi-} jtute motion introduced by Julius | | Portnoy, left wing delegate calling | for the vote to be taken within 90} days. | Boudin then asked Sigman if at the | last hearing held the previous Tues- | day at the 57th St. he had not ad-| mitted that the motion passed by | the convention called for a vote with- | | in six months. “When you saw a} misprint in the minute book you de- cided to take advantage of it,” Bou- din charged. On the question of the peace treaty that was signed at the convention at which the 78 suspended left wing leaders were reinstated, Sigman tried to brush it aside as compara- tively unimportant. Sigman at first tried to create the impression that it was’ not a victory }for the left wing. It was then brot | out that after the convention the left wingers were elected to the leading | positions in the New York joint | board, including Hyman as manager | in spite of the fact that they| had been suspended several months previous by the right wingers. It was brot out in the testimony that Sigman was a member of the I. W. W. at the time the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was in existence. These were the years 1905 to 1908. Socialists Once Attacked. i Boudin tried to bring out before he | ruled out of order by the magistrate, | jthat charges similar to those made | by Sigman against the Workers | | (Communist) Party were leveled against the socialist party many years ago by Samuel Gompers. Also \that most of the associates of Sigman | | today in his struggle against the left }wing are members of the socialist | | party. } | The hearing will be resumed at 11:30 a. m. today in the same court (K.K.K. Terror Against) ‘Negro Is Big Business | (Continued from Page One) the coal and iron and water-power in- terests centering in this city. The .recent floggings which have aroused nation-wide attention are an extension of the anti-unicn and anti- Negro campaign the chief incidents of which have been listed above. Today, under the beneficent aus- pices of the Coolidge administration, the trustification of all southern basic industries—water power, coal, iron and | steel, railways and chemicals—is be- jing encouraged. Organization Demanded. But the rapid industrialization of the southern working class, both Ne- gro and white, is bringing a demand for organization. The labor movement jin the North must understand that the terroristic activities conducted by the kland and by other agencies of the southern capitalist classes have little if any other purpose than to per- petuate and bring into the centralized Yndustry which now dominates the ‘SERA RA SLR ERI IIR IS Aeroplanes are exploring the great forest regions of Brazil, and the rich back country. Diendonne Costes (above) and De Brix (below) after flying across the Atlantic from Africa are now making a long flight over the state of Matto Grossos and will go on to Argentine. 4 Aftermath of A. F. L Meeting Is Wave of Anti - Progressivism LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 17. — {P. D. Noel, editorial columnist for the Southern California Labor Press, has expressed strong disapproval of the actions of the American Federa- ‘SUE TO PREVENT “JIM CROW" LAW IN GARY SCHOOL Negro Pa rents Not |Heared at Council Meet GARY, Ind., Oct. 17.—A group of residents of Gary who do not want to | see the vicious “Jim Crow” statute for | separate schools for Negro children be | sustained have filed suit against the city council to enjoin the city offi- | cials from actually spending the $15,- 000 recently appropriated for that | purpose, Inspired Strike. The “Jim Crow” decision of the | council was the result of a so-called | strike of_ pupils of Emerson High | School. Accusations are made that | this demonstration, called by the pupils a “strike” was the result of | activity by white business interests | and directed by the Ku Klux Klan | Emerson High School is in the dise |trict inhabited by mill bosses, store« | keepers, and the business men gener- ally. A redistricting was demanded by these white residents, so as to exclude {colored pupils from the school, but | this was changed finally to a demand | for segregation of the colored students | in the district. | The school board and the city coun- |cil agreed rapidly to this plan, and jammed thru an ordinance appropriat- ing the money without hearing any of the Negro parents assembled in the galleries at the council meeting and demanding to be called to testify, ‘Woll’s ‘Speech 6 Sons Of Revolution Attacks Revolt in the Unions LOS ANGELES, Oct..17 (FP). — Revolutionary spirit in the labor movement is under successful control |everywhere except in the New York City metropolitan area, Matthew Woll of the American Federation of the American Revolution. He offered no proof but the Sons of Revolution did not ask it. Labor told the Los Angeles Sons of. |tion of Labor convention in their red- | \baiting campaign against Communist | |delegates and visitors. He declared, |“I do not agree with the Communists and their tacties, but no labor official | has the right to collaborate with the police as they have done to persecute | Communists who have criticisms to make of the A. F. of L. Detectives have no place in the labor movement. | Greetings SOVIET RUSSIA on the Attack Cleaners and Dyers. The Industrial Association of San | Pedro, powerful organization of the | shipping interests which broke - the | I. W. W. seamen’s strike, has issued a | circular letter, instructing the clean- | ing and dyeing plants to refuse to deal with the Cleaners and Dyers’: Union as long as it is headed by a |Communist organizer. Disappointed at Not Hearing Maurer. | Many delegates and local labor of- | |ficials express their keen disappoint- | ment that- James Maurer did not | come to the A. F. of L. convention to | give a report of the delegation which | just returned from the Soviet Union, | wing general executive board. When the afternoon session start- ed, Magistrate Brodsky allowed the |remnants of pre-war agriculturalism, the feudalism and which this old system typified. anti-Negroism | |munkast,” the paper of the Unitary Union of League Workers, published iu Kluje, The secretary of the union | was arrested and handed over to mili- tary court for an article on the Vien- nese ineidenta, | ed Leaders of the printers’ strike were’ Extend Scepe of Dry Law arrested in Bukharest and also hand-/ WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — Res- ved over to the military court, not-|taurants and cafes to which guests |withstanding the fact that Bukharest| bring their own liquor may be “pad- doce not come under the “military | locked” under the prohibition laws, the zone” (two-thirds of Rumanian ter-| supreme court held today in refusing ritory {8 at present under martial | to review tho cxse of Mike Fritzel and law), | William Rothstein of Chicago. Much The seeretary of the worker-poas- | police graft is collected now from the ant bloc, and the editor of “Viata! owners who sell liquor, but this de- Munchitoare,” Comrades Nihalllan| cision opens a new field. and Forls have been arrested in Buk- | —— harest, They were at first handed /is the explanation of the fact of the over to the military courts in Yasse |frequent hunger strikes in Rumanian and later to the military courts {n prisons, Political prisoners are sys- Bukharest, which latter acquitted | tematically beaten and placed in pun- them, ‘Ishment cells, and those awaiting sen- tenes are forced to do hard labor, Tho Hunger Striko, | he had been a failure. Kansas is one of the universities which have recent- ly tightened their grip on the free ex- students. : More Suppresstons, “Borotba,” the organ of the Buk- pression of opinion by faculty and | | present to sit in the prisoners’ cage giving them an opportunity of being |nearer the witness, the judge and the | lawyers. Reads Fake Records. | A great deal of time was taken up |on the question of proportional rep- resentation to union bodies and con- ventions. Sigman read from what was supposed to be the minutes of the last national convention of the union. The section he read was supposed to be a motion passed by the conven- tion that the vote on proportional representation should not be taken until six months after the end of the convention. Boudin brot out the fact from Sig- |taen that the minutes were published by the right wing controlled G. E. B. under his direction, Has Very Bad Memory. | “Mr, Sigman, who made the motion | Uhat the vote on proportional repre- several hundted workers who were | FLYING OsSIP Bhort stories by the best of the now writers of Soviet , $2.50 qwin-Ukraine 8, D, Party (left ten-| Workers and students tary Zone,” Na, eee : detected reading “Borotba” are ar- hevoLurion jrested and handed over to the mili- by LHON TROTSKY ‘tary court, In which thero is o frank | The crown was put upon all these eriticiam of all the new Rus- wan writers—ond a brilliant Gipavsston of the development of « proletarian Iiterature, ‘measures by the aet ef the Bukharest |peeret police in ealmly sealing up the [premises ef the Bulcharest unitary dency), was prohibited in the ‘mill. | At first the prison authorities en-| sentation should not be taken until deavored to forco over 100 political) It is in this light that all stories j of rape, (“insulting of white women”) and “righteous indignation” expressed Ly white mobs must be interpreted. | Negroes Want Assistance. Against the Negro population, now being rapidly industrialized, are used to the same methods with which white workers who go on strike in northern industrial sections, notably in the coal mining and steel districts, are familiar, The Negro population here, prob- ably more than the white workers, are desirous of securing assistance in or- ganizing as a section of the American labor movement. Because of the cir- cumstances under which they labor, und because of the traditional hostil- ity of the southern ruling class, their appeal for sympathy and aid should be accorded the exceptional considera- tion given by all labor movements to their menbers who are in the hands of their class enemies. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS prisonors in Jilava, whero Boris Ste-| fanov, former Communist deputy and) other comrades ara confined, to hard | labor, For refusal to work 8 com-| rades wove sent to tho punishment | jeells, Then all the poliifeal prisoners | {declared 4 hanger strike, and pre- sented the prison administration with | HY NOT in the DA ADVERTISE | ILY WORKER Despite the daily attacks on the Com- Find “Communist” Resolution. convention of the A. F. of L. which thru the eye of a needle, trated in the fate of a resolution in- troduced by the Office Unions of Seattle and Los Angeles. change the name of Stenographers, Typewriters, Bookkeepers and Assist- ete., on the theory that typewriters referred to a machine, .nd typists to the white-collared slave that worked on it. : The “Plot.” All attempts failing, a resolution to that effect was introduced into the convention, and was considered by Matthew Woll’s resolutions commit- tee, The committee pondered for a long time on the proposition, prob- ably poring over many dictionaries to find sufficient authority for the | revolutionary change. There must munists which came with monotonous | | regularity, it was noticed that none of | the speakers directly spoke against | the recognition of the Soviet Union. | A progressive resolution could no | more get any consideration before the | closed Friday than a camel could get | The comical | |fear of the officials that some Red | plot might be hatching is best ilus- | Workers | For some time the A. F. of L. had/ been petitioned by these two locals to | ants’ Union to Stenographers, Typists, | be something wrong | unions and arresting four workers, tha declaration demanding to be treated as polltieals, Tho hunger istrike simultaneously broke out in| | OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE They Bring Resulte, Rates Are Reasonable, NOW THKATRY AND including the seeretary of the Bul ‘A through study of the out any cour} decision and with the uaRien |mare pomark thas the gnitary uniens And 17 wood-oute, must be eonsidered as disselyed,” The oh ion motion pla+ PSotonrey ss avvested faye been handed evap to WIN sOVEERD the mili ray a | r Hues, a og Sy RR | on ep haweve: ti i reine ut snd ron ers in Rumanian prisons BE sacgoe sort of rights or privileges, and therefore any ameliov- ation in seg BE pote hag tq be achieved py theip own efforts, This THE DAILY WORK BOOK PHPT, 8§ FIRST SF. NEW FORK Doftan, where political prisoners on| whom senteres has already been) passed ave’esnfined, Here aino the! priseners demanded an improvement | lof plein position, Ab ene tima 190/ |gomvades in the two prisens were on) hanger strike, The strlke eontinued |@ days and ended jn the investigation ef the matter by the prisen author|- ties and the satisfaction of many of the demands, BUY THR DAILY WORKER 47? THR NEWSSTANDS t MAS FEO! ’ soak mast Int Bireet, Pheer Hast idth @treot, “hea WORT Hiatt Het Bees, —_— APPLY T0 THE DAILY WORKER ApvERTISING DEPT. 59 FIRST STREET Phone Orchard 1680 | NEW YORK,N. Y. | i Advertising Offices of The DAILY WORKER HARD it Oorrich— 0 Srd Avenue, at 116th Street. Br OFFICH— 2) Hrd Avenue, at 149th Street, B WICK — ete yok orev, EE 1, ‘with a resolution, they reasoned, that came from the Office Workers Union |that had sent a Commun':‘ to the | | convention. | “discovered” in time to purge the con- The delegate ha! been vention of his obnoxious presence,” but perhaps this was a hidden plot which they covld/not see thru! After careful and painstaking study the committee reported to the convention that the resolution should be referred to the Executive Council for further investigation. Another Communist plot had been nipped in the bud! BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | N the special issues of The DAILY WORKER to be printed on November 7, the opportunity to send personal greetings to Soy- iet Russia is given to American workers. These names will appear in the special Honor Roll in The DAILY WORKER. To cov- er the expense of printing, 25 cents will be charged for every name. 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