The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWIZATION OF TRB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WEEK m A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 238. THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mall, $6.00 per year. Outside New York, Ly Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. MEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1927 Published dally exe PUBLISHING CO. FINAL CI EDITION t Sunday by The DAILY WORKER First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents “RUSSIAN WORKERS POSSESS ECONOMIC FREEDOM TO A DEGREE ENJOYED BY NO OTHER COUNTRY” BY FIRS ee. FROM STATEMENT T . AMERICAN TRADE UNION DELEGATION TO SOVIET UNION $175,000 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, FUND USED TO FIGHT THE LEFT WING Sigman Exposed at Trial as Diverting Workers’ Money With Cooperation of Bosses er 2 “ACHIEVEMENTS FOR WHICH HISTORY RECORDS FEW PARALLELS", STATES FIRST U.S. LABOR DELEGATION Group From American Unions Returns With Message To Deliver To U. S. Workers Leaders of the first American Trade Union Delegation will report to! |a mass meeting of workers in Madison Square Garden, New York, next! | Sunday at 2 p. m. | Among the prominent American labor leaders who took part in the | delegation and will speak Sunday are: James Maurer, president of the | Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, John Brophy of the United Mine) | Workers of America, Albert Coyle, former editor of the Locomotive En- | gineers Journal, and Frank Palmer, editor of the Colorado Labor Advo-) | cate. | Paul Douglas, expert on industrial relations, and Stuart Chase will also speak. Frank P. Walsh will be chairman, 4 “Above all, the country seemed alive; a little shabby | That $175,000 of the unemployment fund of the International} Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was used by Morris Sigman, president, in his fight against the left wing was disclosed yes-| terday in the Tombs Court, Franklin and Centre St., before Mag- istrate Louis B. Brodsky. Sigman has brought criminal libel | charges against the Freiheit and Unity, organs of the left wing} workers in the needle trades. ae | This money, that was to a large 2) tent contributed by the workers in the, shops from their weekly wages, was to be used for the relief of un- | JURY CHOOSING | | man’s testimony yesterday only | $5,000 was paid to unemployed work- ers after the right wing took over control of the fund. Under cross examination by Louis ie ede aS ® employed workers. According to Sig- | American Trade Union Delegation in Moscow. In the center, James Maurer, Pres. Pennsyl- RB. Boudin, of counsel for the defense, Sigman told of the organization of the insurance fund in 1923. Origin- ally, he said, the union had only one representative on the board of trus- tees, the other members being repre- sentatives of various groups of em- ployers. Arthur D. Wolf, of the Chatham-Phenix bank, was chairman, | he testified. “In July of this year the situation changed,” Sigman continued. “So we | decided to change the function of the} fund, We arranged with the em-| Doheny Bank Clerk One to Pass on Oil Steal With the jury finally chosen in a suspiciously sudden manner, consider- ing that none who would admit hav-| ing read more than the headlines about | the case were allowed on it, the trial of Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sin- clair, former secretary of the interior and millionaire oil magnate respec- WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18.—| ivania State Federation of Labor. U.S.S.R., Lauds Soviet Leaders By SENDER GARLIN. “Any nation is entitled to adopt any means whatever to move) away from misery,” said Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, on the eve of his departure for the Soviet Union as the guest of the} International Workers’ Aid. “If that is what Soviet Russia is| Theodore Dreiser, Leaving for LABOR LEADERS : TO ADDRESS BIG CARDEN’ MEET (Continued on Page Two) tively, got under way today. On this jury, made up of two young ‘women and ten old men, is one man doing I don’t give a damn what means it takes. If that is the Russian ideal, I say go ahead.” |Maurer, Coyle, Brophy | Head the List amid its splendid relics, but vital, arresting and in some in- definable way, disciplined and strong. No one of us left Russia without the phrase escaping us: “Heaven help the nation, or nations, that try to conquer this people.” In these three sentences the First American Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union conveys, in the preamble to its report, released today, the tremendous impression made | upon its members by the close insight they had into the inter- nal life of a nation where workers and peasants rule and socialism is being built. | IMPRESSED BY WORKERS POWER. All thru the 96 pages of this report, many sections of it written in a statistical style combined with a political naivite | | He leaves tonight on the “Mauretania” and will remain in the U. S. S. R. for about three months,..visitingy schools, fac-' tories, workshops, libraries, museums and familiarizing himself! with the daily life of the Russian people. 1/2 p.m, wl member: 2 - 5 ‘ ; will re a Angvevehig: La: S CLageh Assecionn tends Any dela | of a mass proletarian power consciously working toward an ob- Meeting reporters in his apart-| tion to the Soviet Union will report | jective by all, swinging forward with a sweep and depth of knowl- ment on 57th street, Dreiser, who is their findings to New York labor.|edge and determination for which there is no comparison in the to be the guest not only of the I. W. Henry T. Hunt, chairman of the com-| capitalist world. 1A. but of the Society for Cultural Re-! |mittee in charge of the Madison 2 lations with the U. S. S. R., talked| | Square Garden mass meeting declared PERSONNEL OF DELEGATION. freely and enthusiastically about his| |yesterday that the standing in the} Signed by James Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania reasons for accepting the invitation | jlabor movement of men, like James’ State Federation of Labor, John Brophy of the United Mine Work- officially extended him by Mme. Ce ees ree eee enn van”? | ers, Frank Palmer of the Typographical Union and editor of the Colorado Labor Advocate, Albert Coyle, editor of the Locomotive iso intricately tied up with the for- \tunes of the Sinclair and Doheney in- \terests that it seems a most sufpris- ling thing that a prosecution, alert and . s 1 = 7 ‘ . of Mine Explosion vigorous and trying to convict, would thave let him get by. He has Framett by Bassas employed for the last 21 year: & iggs bank, one of whose directors s counsel for Doheney and Fall in e Elk Hills case. By ED FALKOWSKI. The Swindle Exists. See eae vation |, The Jury first listened to t 2 Saeed cate ee elosion at the Of Oratory in the Fall-Sinciair crim- Hammond Colliery which caused the |i2! conspiracy trial this afternoon, but adjournment was reached with One of the biggest mass meetings| which shows that its authors, in spite of their protestations to ever held at Madison Square Garden| the contrary, have attempted to apply American capitalist stand- is expected next Sunday afternoon at | ards to a revolutionary country, runs nevertheless this feeling Kameneva, of the Soviet Union, Up-} | | State Federation of Labor; John Bro- | on his arrival he will meet Henri phy, of the United Mine Workers of | oe * death of four workers and the prob- ably fatal burning of a fifth dis- closes evidence against the miners which looks fishy. No Safety Lamps Used. After the Hammond explosion fore- men’ from a dozen collieries were summoned to investigate and study the causes of the disaster. The acci- dent occurred in a gangway charged heavily with explosive gas. Only fafety lamps and battery lights could be used in a place so dangerous. Yet when the inspector went in, he found a can of carbide and a carbide lamp under a car, showing that the law had been violated by the use of a naked light in a gas-filled place. Whether this evidence is framed up or not, will probably never be proved. But experience of other ac- cidents leads one to believe that the carbide cans were actually placed there by one of the bosses in an ef- fort to lay the blame on the men, and save the foremen from being dis- charged, as would happen if the ac- cident were shown to be due to their neglect. ‘Communists fy Norway Largest Party tn Nation OSLO, Norway, Oct. 18.—Early re- turns indicate that. the Communist Party is the strongest party in the country, having received more than 72,000 votes in the general election, a gain of 24,000 since the tast elec- tien. The next highest vote was that of the Agrarian party with 63,000 votes, a gain of 7,000; then comes the Left party with 52,000, a loss of 6,000; the Conservative party polled but 36,800 votes, a loss of 17,000. Seventy-five per cent of the vote is already in and it is not thought the returns from the outlying districts ‘will change the indicated results. It is clear that the Lykkes conservative government will fall, although there is no one party strong enough to or- ganize an independent government. ‘There is a likelihood of a left gov- ernment with the Communists as the dercest party in the new minister, proceedings still running along in a dull and routine vein. Owen J. Roberts, federal counsel, ottlined to the jury what he hoped to prove in a snappy half hour ad- dress. Briefly, he said he would prove that Albert B. Fall, as secretary of the interior under President Harding, had given the lease on the Teapot Dome Naval Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire operator and sportsman, without the usual compe- titive bidding, and that in return Fall received $230,560 in Liberty Bonds. In the civil suit for recovery of Tea- pot Dome, the supreme court states fraud exists. Fall Doesn’t Care. Martin W. Littleton, Sinclair lawyer, was still on his feet at ad- journment reciting a rather uninter- esting version of the naval reserves punctuated by innumerable dates and technicalities. The substance of his argument, insofar as he had gotten, was that the Teapot Dome lease was ebsolutely essential. | For the second time Fall was late { (Continued on Page Two) Repays Five Cents Per $1 BOSTON, Oct. 18.—Announcement was made this afternoon that six thousand creditors throughout the East of the defunct stock brokerage firm of George F. Redmond and Com- pany, Ine., would be paid the first dividend of five per cent on October 27. It was estimated that more than two million dollars was lost by inves- tors in the collapse two years ago of the brokerage house. Cal to Buy Co-operator? Barbusse, Mme. Sun Yat-sen, and A.| J. Cook, secretary of the British) Miners’ Federation, who are also} guests of the I. W. A. of their re- spective countries. All will be pres-| ent during the Tenth Anniversary | celebrations. “What is your greater interest, the economic or the cultural life of Soviet Russia?” he was asked. | “T am eager to observe everything in the life of the Russian people,” he) | replied. | The author of “The American) | Tragedy” said givat things will sure-| determination, Dreiser-fsaid. “Lenin) ly arise from a country which “has|was one of the most remarkable men | produced such a great literature, and/in history; his world outlook was of where the approach to things is so| the broadest gauge.” } dynamic and bubbling.” The DAILY WORKER reporter) The present leaders of the Soviet asked if he knew the writings of Up-) Union are men of great courage and | (Continued on Page Five) | THEODORE DREISER | America and Albert Coyle, former editor of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers’ Journal, makes their report on the Soviet Union of unusua! interest to the American people. Nationally Prominent Speakers. Besides Maurer, Brophy and Coyle the list of speakers includes: Frank Palmer, editor of the Colorado Labor Advocate; Paul Douglas, expert on industrial relations, University of Chicago; and Stuart Chase, economist and author. Frank P. Walsh, noted labor attor- ney, will preside at the great mass meeting. Accompanied by Specialists. The Labor Delegation, the fi American trade union group to visit the Soviet Union, left the United (Continued on Page Five) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. | yelopments in the suit planned by| Henry M. and Wilfred C. Leland against Henry and Edsel Ford to} force them to pay between $4,000,000 and $7,000,000 to shareholders of the Lincoln Motor Car Company were moving swiftly today, it was claimed. The basis of the suit, now under preparation by attorneys Kenneth W. Stevens and William Henry Gal- RULE GITLOW OFF BALLOT; SERVED TERM FOR LABOR Benjamin Gitlow, Workers (Com- munist) Party candidate has been barred from appearing on the ballot in the Nov. 8th election. The board of elections made its rul- ing on the grounds that Gitlow served over two years in Sing Sing for his participation in the organization of the left wing of the socialist party. He was convicted of criminal anarchy on Feb. 4th, 1920. This is the fourth time that Gitlow WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—A. A.|lagher representing the Lelands, in- Betts, a member of the Arizona Co-| volves an alleged agreement between operative Commission, is receiving the Fords and the shareholders when strong consideration from President|Ford bought the company at public Coolidge for appointment to the In-|auction in February, 1922. terstate Commerce Commission, it] “Power of attorney assignments vas said at the White Honse today. are coming in by the bushels,” stated —_—_———_———— Stevens. “Wedo not expect all stock- holders to become parties to the suit, but there will be between $4,000,000 and $7,000,000 involved.” It’s a Horse on Cal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—President Coolidge’s cane electrical hobby horse has a stable mate. The mechan- ts ical steed has been covered with a Rats Costly in Britain blanket and rests quietly, while a] LONDON, Oct. 18.—Rats and mice shiny new “vibrator” hums in the|eat $500,000,000 worth of food in the White House. To use it the rider en-| British Isles every year, according to circles his body with a wide elastic | Sir Thomas Horder, physician to King hand attached to a cam-shaft, Georre. PLANS T0 MAKE Membership Meeting of FORD SHELL OUT Workers Party Will Be Held Tonight at 8 Sharp [ WITH PR 0 5 FE ns A general membership meeting q lof the Workers (Communist) Party ie | will be held tonight at 8 o'clock, | 18,—-De- | jat Irving Plaza, Irving Place and! | 45th St. The present election cam- | paign and the Tenth Anniversary | of the Russian Revolution will be | | on the order of business. All Party | 3c must attend. Cal, of Course, Not Really Angry at His “Critic,” Summerall WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — The Summerall incident is closed, it was indicated at the White House today. President Coolidge told callers that apparently Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff, had been misquoted in the newspapers when he criticized the army’s housing facil- ities. Mr, Coolidge will talk to Summerall today or tomorrow on general mili- tary conditions. It is the opinion at the war de- partment today that the Summerall- Coolidge-Davis maneuver will get the desired appropriations for barracks for a large conscript army. has been ruled off the ballot. The board of elections took similar action in 1921 and 1925 when he was can- didate for mayor and last year when he was candidate for governor. Gitlow will address ‘three large epen air meetings in Harlem Friday. They will be at 110th St. and Fifth Ave.; 106th St. and Madison Ave. and 116th St. and Madison Ave. Convicted Furriers Must Report All of the 137 convicted furriers’ union pickets who are out on bail are urged to communicate at once with Miss S. M. Algus or Isadore Shapiro at the New York Joint Board office, | 22 East 22nd St. Engineers Journal and compiled by them, and a number of prom- inent economists and sociologists, the report deals with practically all phases of life and work in the Soviet Union but with special emphasis on the trade union movement. EMPHASIS ON TRADE UNIONS. This section of the report is a carefully prepared analysis of the function and structure of the Soviet trade unions and their relations to the Soviet government. It is, however, fitted into |the picture of management and development of industry, the character of the government and the role of the cooperatives, cul- tural societies, schools, etc., so as to clearly define the decisive role of the trade unions. | UNHAMPERED INVESTIGATION. The report explains the extensive facilities afforded the dele- gation for securing the information it desired and the division of work by which it was able to get a comprehensive view of Soviet government, industry and social conditions. The delegation says: “The delegation realizes that it could not learn ‘all about | Russia’ in the time at its disposal. Yet the fact that each economie specialist covered a particular field in which he was well-informed | and put his research at our command; that the group divided into | five parts, each traveling almost continuously for several weeks, | covering thousands of miles—partly thru country untouched by 'yailroads; that we went where we wanted to go and saw what {we wanted to see; that we visited Moscow, Leningrad, and seven | other large cities as well as the great industrial center of the Donetz Basin, the Caucasus, the Upper Volga, the Ural mountains, the Crimea, the Ukraine, including Odessa and Kherson; that everything was open to us from the books of a factory to the office of the foreign minister; that we talked with workers, with leaders of both factions within the Communist Party, with former White officers and Mensheviks bitterly hostile to the govern- ment; that we had interpreters of our own and selected additional assistance carefully—lead us to believe that we achieved a more reliable survey than any one could secure individually.” . FAVORABLE FIRST IMPRESSION. : Responding to a request repeatedly made by workers and officials, the delegation says that it is its conscientious desire to “tell the truth of about Russia. No apparent effort was made by Russians to hide the bad,” says the report, “altho they displayed pardonable pride in showing us the best.” The first impression of the delegation was by no means a gloomy one: “The city streets were full of people. The majority of stores were open with goods on their shelves and plenty of business. Street cars were running regularly; in nearly every case the rail- road trains were strictly on time. Streets were lighted at night, the telephone service in Moscow was excellent, theatres and opera (Continued on Page Two)