The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER. W YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1927 “Russian Workers Possess Economic Freedom” >gation shows its failure to understand?political freedom with real freedom. | (Continued from Page One) were well attended—often crowded. Moving picture ho es were frequent and busy, crews were rowing on the river, aerials were stretched from many housetops, bands were playing in the parks, | women shrieked as they coasted down the shoot-the-chutes in| Leningrad’s White City, museums and picture galleries were) everywhere open and extensively patronized, and everybody | smoked cigarettes—in incredible quantities. “A Miracle” of Reconstruction. The report describes the terrible consequences to the Soviet Union of the world war, invasion, blockade and famine—the low point reached in 1921. Production had dropped to one-tenth of the pre-war levei; “factories, pub- lie utilities, railway lines, harbo: i had been gutted and destroyed. The whole mechanism of trading, exchange and credit had been wiped out.” The report ch zes this period es the “zero point,” and the advances since that time a henomenal.” “In- dustrial production, ys the delega- tion, “has i by bounds, with ultural conditions following behind. From a state of utter disorganization and the economic structure has come | to nomra! in si This is an achieve- ment for which history records few parallels. For the West it would be a seven-d wonder; for the East it is a miracte.” Dominant Role of Unions. It is evident that the delegation was astounded by the pre-eminent part taken by the unions in all phases of life in the Soviet Union. was it impressed by the activity of the unions in the cultural field and in summing up this section the report says: “The cultural work of the union one of the sive achievements of the new Russia. There is no precedent for it anywhere in the world tcday.” But most interest ant—of the section ¢ unionis is the description of the titude of the Russian workers when asked concerning the relations of the unions and the government. The of- ficial American labor leadership, as part of their campaign against the Soviet Union, has insisted that the d leap: ruin, is —and import- ing with trade Soviet unions are “mere tools of Com- | munist tyrannts. Relations With Government. The statement of the delegation on this point is therefore of great im- portance. It says: “When the Russian workers whom we met in factory, shop and mine were questioned as to whether their unions were ‘controlled’ by the govern- ment, their answer was usually an amused smile or a complete failure to understand the point of view of the questioner. ‘It is OUR government. They are OUR unions,’ was the reply in many cases. ‘This is a dictatorship of the proletariat, not a capitalist gov- ernment,’ was another. ‘Our govern- ment never broke a strike,’ or ‘There | READY Especially | }look upon the union and | and anti-trade ia.’ The workers an independ- ent aid to the government and upon the government as the instrument of the workers’ power in the field of polit and international relations. injunctio. Ru are no ion laws in S Many of the trade union leaders hold | government, | important posts in the and the will of. the Central Council of Trade Unions in the matter of ap- pointments to certain public office’ is absolute and binding.” Weakness of Report. ctions of the report relatin 1 liberties” and par- ticularly in the case of the recent exe- cution of 20 monarchists that the dele- FACT BROUGHT OUT AT HIS SUIT AGAINST FREIHEIT | (Continued from Page One) ploy {the fund until June, 1928.” most impres-| z | | | at-} | | In time for the November the country. A New Boox THE TH YEAR The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia By J. Louis Encpani publications to be issued by The Workers Library Pub- lishers. can workers on the 10th Anniversary of Soviet Rus- attractive edition of Workers Library will be off the press next week. 154 ORDER NOW From DAILY WORKER Book Depr. 33, First St., reac asivritenatincee is sw camming S “Who was put in fund?” Boudin asked. Sigman admitted that was in ¢ sentativ charge of the he himself arge and that the repre- of the employers resigned that time. Julius Hochman and David Dubinsky, right wingers, were then added to the board, according to Sigman. These three men thereafter were in control of the fund, which at that time amounted to $380,000. Sigman was asked who became treasurer of the board of trustees after the resignation of the bosses’ representatives and the succession to their places of Hochman and Dubin- sky. Sigman became evasive, “Hochman was elected secretary,” he said. Caught Evading. “I did not ask you who was elected secretary,” continued Boudin. “I want to know who was elected treas- urer.” Sigman admitted that the treasurer jwas Sigman. Boudin next asked the, witness he had evaded the question. did not reply. why 7 | Sigman was next asked what was done with the $380,000 after it was given into the exclusive control of the board of which he was treasurer. “How much money was paid in un- employment claims?” Boudin asked. “About $5,000,” Sigman answered. Diverts $175,000. “How much was loaned to the in- ternational?” “$175,000.” “That’s almost half of the entire fund, isn’t it?” “Yes.” 7th meetings in all parts of | “Another $100,000 was used in pay- ing off second mortgages on certain union property testimony showed. The property in question up to that time had housed the offices of the New York Joint Board and the left wing locals, 2 and 9. The Joint Board and Locals 2 and 9, themselves | junabie to pay off the mortgages, oe chat | | The first of a series of new| the | \ were thus forced to vacate the pre- mises. The right wing under the di- rection of Sigman took possession. Sigman also told Boudin that only a few hundred dollars had been col- lected for the insurance fund since he and his two henchmen obtained ex- clusive control of it. A few seconds later he admitted several thousand dollars” had been spent during the same period merely for the administration of the fund and “in an attempt to collect outstanding funds.” For Right Wing Propaganda. “Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Sig- man, that you spent several thousand dollars to collect a few hundred dol- lars?” Boudin asked. Boudin also charged that the fund was being used to prepare propaganda against the left wing, pointing out as an example pamphlet, “The Communist Plague in Our Unions.” This pamphlet was introduced in evidence Wednesday by Samuel Mark- ewich, former assistant district at- torney and lawyer for Sigman. At- torneys for the defense showed by With crEETINGs to Ameri. |ctou examination that the pamph- |let was fraudulent. The Tenth Y ear—in a new | fice: the| asked if he agreed with this view. Quotes Pamphlet. Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney for sia from Ka.enin, presi-|the left wing workers quoted from dent of the Soviet Union,|the pamphlet the passage, “No, Com- munists must hold paid or unpaid of- in the union.” Sigman was “Yes,” he answered. Several minutes previously Attor- ney Brodsky had referred to a peace treaty between the right and left | wings in which the Sigman adminis- | ate against any members of the union | New York. | tration had, agreed not to discrimin- for their political opinions. “Do you still hold the view that a Communist should be allowed to run for union office?” Brodsky asked. In contradiction. to his later reply the witness answered, “yes.” Mrs, Tillie Sigman, wife of the in- ternational president, was the next witness called. She was closely questioned about Sigman j} | port, SIGMAN FOUGHT WORKERS WITH THEIR OWN MONEY— “Government Adnits That Unemployment Is Worse This Year Than Last WASHINGTON, Oct. Judge Louis B. Brodsky asked Mrs.| | level of employment for Septem- 1 ber was 4.6 per cent below the | |} level in Sept. 1926, and pay roll | | totals were 5.3 per cent lower, the | Department of Labor announced. representatives to suspend |man |bantamweight, Bud Taylor. the exigenci' surrounded by capitali Seemingly without consideration for the fact that these elements have| been responsible for the death of thou- | sands of workers, peasants and lead- | ers of the R an revolution, andj apparently hout giving weight to the fact that these agents of various | imperialist powers and monarchist or- | ganizations were engaged in a terror-| ist campaign, the delegation complains | that the s and executions were | “characterized by indecent speed and} failure to give the accused a proper chance to defend themselves.” This failure to grasp the fact that so far as relations with world im- perialism is concerned the Soviet Union i state of war, is one of the outstanding weaknesses of the re- revolution.” Freedom of Russian Masses. The delegation finds on the other d that the Russian workers en- a greater amount of freedom than ts in any other country. “Western iberals and those opposed to the Sov- iet government frequently confuse of a proletarian state |The former is patr of the latter, but enemies. | without economic freedom it does not | greatly benefit a man. The Russian workers possess this economic free- dom to a degree enjoyed by the work- ers of no other country . of such freedom as this, the workers naturally do not particularly resent the refusal of the government to allow them the privilege of voting for a capitalist party which would take away most of this economic freedom which has been given them by the . Because ! There is no question but that the |report of the First American Trade Union Delegation will cause a sensa- | tion in labor and liberal circles. spite of its shortcomings, rather be-} cause of them, it represents fairly well the opinion that would be arrived at by a great cross-section of the American labor movement—both as to its omissions, misunderstanding and | prejudices, prejudices which Ameriéan capitalist democracy has rooted firmly | 16 MEMBERS OF ‘SUDDEN END OF JURY CHOOSING IN TEAPOT DOME In but not ineradicably in the minds of | the working class. the amusement park owned by Sig-| at Storm Lake, Ia, known| | among needle trades workers here as| “Sigman’s Coney Island.” | Sigman if she employed women at the} park for “immoral or indeceat pur-} poses.” \ “Oh, no!” she answeisd. 1] Prosecution Closes.” EL seuass The prosecution closed its case by admitting that its evidence against Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board and a member of the executive committee of the Unity | than last. discontinued. “The Unity Committee is the publisher of the weekly Unity. Gold and Louis Hyman, chairman of, the Unity Committee, are co-defend- ants. The defense will begin putting in its case when the hearing re-opens in| the Jefferson Market Court, Sixth Ave. and 10th St., Nov. 22 at 2 p. m. The Boxing Business Selects Its Officers. | tay TOLEDO, 0., Oct. 18. — David A. |"#d caught Donahue was re-elected president and | Paul Prehm first vice president of the National Boxing Association in convention here today. The association voted today to rec-, ognize the following champions of the various weight divisions: Heavy- weight, Gene Tunney; middleweight, Mickey Walker; welterweight, Joe Dundee; lightweight, Sammy Man- dell; featherweight, Benny Bass; cleared the There is big money in managing professional. fights, all speakers agreed. GET A NEW READER! |that it was | KEY WEST, Fia., Oct. 18 , Mallory liner San Jacinto, arrived in | port here from Galveston tod: | |the crew fighting for their The usual slight rise over | | | August was even slighter this year | The September report was based on returns from 10,781 establish- ments in 54 of the principal manu- | These es- | had | com- | bined earnings in one week were | $79,212,908. Committee of the Fur, Dress and ae qe ‘ Cloakmakers, was a weak one and leant eee cs ‘ Agel asked that the case against him be | %. 79/0" employes, _ whose Crew Has to Fight Life Against Burning, Cotton Cargo in Gulf | fire. Texas port. in distress itself. Pravda, Moscow, U.S. S. R. vanguard. Soviet Union in an appropriate manner. Fraternally yours, A. MeMath Eva Natinsky Joseph Schwartz Swan Holmberg Mrs. D. Bridgwat M. Zalisko Charles Samarzia P, Paravina Leonard Kimble Alex Friedolin Sophia Mayman Eugene Stoll E. F. Noyes B, E. DeMott F, Badstuber L. J. Patterson Israel Lazarovitz Walter Cobak F. Kaufmann Matti Markkula Theo. Yrjana H. Laurikainen Ray Clark Thomas Triolo Geo. Vital Paul Grenko Geo. Morphis J. B. Suplit K. Tamkus J. Gasin W. W. Quirt G. Piccoli S. Honklie A. Refy John Soroka Josef Feiman John Piontka E. Tarkoff Reino Korhonen P, S. T. ¥. Lukutupa G. Holmes Steven Stanley Henry Wong Michael Yugovich 8. P. Pardeshi Mike Kartick Walter Trumbull Eugene Bechtold F. Solop Alex Kramer John Bodenna J, Patton Dr. J. B. Cass R. Semple EE CO eee RTS LL A A A | Oe: Oct. 18, 1927 Dear Comrades:—The following names of new sub- scribers to The DAILY WORKER are sent to you as revo- lutionary greetings from workers of this country who are taking this means of showing their solidarity with the world revolutionary movement of which the Soviet Union is the We should like to have you publish these names or call them to the attention of the workers and peasants of the BERT MILLER, Business Manager. Miss Sara R. Sherman Jake Aronow Mike Christ P. G. Panagopoulos S. Mosules A. Holt Mrs. E, A. Was Carlos Goltz I. Brooks Morris Reiley Chas. A, Nygress August Starew John H. Owens Dan Kellar John Kuey N. Khan Joe Koch Rd. Kerekhove B. Muukkona Theodore Levin George Stipich Dave Miller M. B. Joan Armenian Workers Ed. Club MC ecnavmecy | Sion to make the follov American Workers Send Subs as Revolutionary Greetings to the Soviet Union i} 18.—The | | for, — The with lives | against an overload of cotton, which The fire was discovered _ Sunday | ganization. morning, 12 hours after the liner had | Working in | shifts, the crew assisted by passengers | Central Committee, Vuyovitch was to who were frightened into doing some |jeaye for Voronje in th \ é of the labor have since battled the| Central Control Commission warning | flames. Bad weather encountered Sun day night and heavy seas added to the dangerous plight of the ship, Revenue Boat Shirks Rescue CAPE MAY, N. J., Oct. 18—Radio- | ‘he ranks of the Party. | ing that it had failed in its effort to|. F rescue four men and a women adrift | ine disobeyed the order of September | jon a barge, a coast guard cutter no- | 21st, having declared that he had no § | to consider as absolutely inadm | Clothes lost, the great trans-Atlantic liner Paris. RSL Dt REAR RR ER ES DCA Se ER TEA A EUR OPE ae dunnage lost, job gone—that’s what it means to the crew of a ship that is wrecked, when and if the crew is saved. Here are the suryivors of the ship Besseggen, sunk in the upper bay, New York, by The men are broke and are eating “coffee and.” “TROTSKY GROUP ARE EXPELLED Vuyovitch Disregarded | Orders of Party | | MOSCOW, Oct. 18.—Vuyovitch is | among the sixteen members of the} Opposition expelléd from the Com- |munist Party for violation of disci- | pline and for factional methods tend- | | ing to the creation of a new party. Vuyovitch, member of the executive committee of the Young Communist | International, was expelled by the | | Central Control Commission of the} | Communist Party of the U. S. S. R. for refusing to go to Voronje. Twelve ther members of the Opposition are eported to have been expelled at Kiev and three others at Tiflis. * * * Explain Expulsion. (Special Cable to Daily Worker). MOSCOW, Oct. 18—Explaining the expulsion of Vuyovitch from the Com- }munist Party, the Central Control | Commission in an editorial published | in Pravda declares: “The Central Control Comny¥ssion has considered Vuyovitch’s disobedi- | ence of the Central Committee’s order {sending him to Voronje for the pur- | pose of working with the Voronje or- Violated Party Order. “According to the decision of the ree days, the | 3 him, in view of the several decisions taken by Party organizations in re- gard to his factional activity, that in jease of his refusal to submit to the | decision, he would be excluded from “On September 28th Vuyovitch, hav- tified the Shore station this afternoon | intention of following it and declaring | {that he would stay in Moscow com- pelled the Central Control Commis- ing decision: ssable | | this infringement of Party discipline by Vuyovitch and to exclude him from | the Party in view of his factional anti- | Party attitude, which had been re-| peatedly condemned by the Party, and in view of the warnings given him b: jthe Central Control Commission.” y | | | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Failure of Private Ownership of Ships ~ Imipresses Senator | WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — Sen.| |Eletcher of Florida, ranking Demo- |! jeratic member of the Senate commit- |tee on commerce, has issued a letter demanding that the government adopt | government ownership and operation | of merchant shipping as its perma- ‘nent policy. | Fletcher charges that Republican } |politicians have centered their ener- gies on turning the government ships over to private ownership. In the process of getting rid of government iyeseels: he says, the administration has almost given them away. In in- stances it has issued circulars beg- ging private operators to tome and | take ships, saying that the price | would make no difference. | For U.S. In Winning War. | The government shipping board episode in American history was the result of the imperative desire of | | Wilson and the American capitalists |to win the world war, and not a de- ‘sire to interfere with private exploi- \ tation as such, However, for the sake | of making political capital, the Dem- | oeratic party has been pointing to the | | government merchant marine and its | successes and comparing it with the inefficiency of the private companies. ‘ WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? | Fall-Sinclair jury. To be a juror, one | worked seven years in a local bank.} | She denied having read TRIAL OF FALL AND SINCLAIR (Continued from Page One) ! returning from lunch and held up the afternoon session. a SBE | By LAWRENCE TODD. | WASHINGTON, (FP) Oct. 18.— Anyone who read the press reports of the naval oil scandal investigation four years ago and formed an opinion, and is still of the same! opinion, can have no place on the must have read nothing of the big- gest scandal in American govern- mental affairs since 1870, or he must have read it so listlessly as to have failed to form an opinion on the facts, This was the first thing impressed | on the public when Harry Sine! and Albert Fall came into the criminal | division of the federal court in the | | national capital, Oct. 17, to answer to | federal indictment on charges of con- | spiracy to defraud the United States.! Headlines Safe Enough. | George P. Hoover, counsel for Sin- | clair, examining prospective jurors, | raised the issue of opinion right away, The first person questioned was a young married woman, who had 1 “more th just the headlines” on the oil case: and she was accepted, temporar Samuel Cooper, naturalized Russian, said he had read the newspapers and | had an opinion. The defense quickiy | challenged, and he stepped out of the box.. Another woman qualified next, | on general ignorance of the case. She | nas worked for the telephone company | ten years. Next came a building, materials dealer, young and straight- forward, who said he had an opinion. Out he went. And then a retired | postoffice messenger seated when he swore he had no view and next to no information on the whole affair. Curiously enough the district at- | torney faied to challenge a paying | teller employed for the past 21 yéars in Riggs Bank. This man depends | for livelihood upon employment in the | biggest bank in Washington, one of | whose directors is Frank Hogan, , counsel for Doheny and Fall in the Elk Hills naval oil conspiracy trial last year and their counsel in their forthcoming trial for bribery. But the defence did challenge a_ young electric lineman who said he| read the local papers and had formed | an opinion as to the oil scandal. It | Was evident in his case, as in that of | | the others who had been challenged, | that he would have to be shown that | the defendants were not guilty. | Another challenge from the defence | removed a former war veteran and Red Cross employe, now in the real estate business. He was so definite in his answers to questions that the defense, in spite of his business con- | nections, seemed to find him danger- | ous. They accepted a hardware clerk 23 years of age, and the floor man- | ager of the leading local department | store. : 1 Sinclair is running his own defense. He sits just behind Hoover and Mar- jtin Littleton, his chiefs of counsel, and directs them in all details. He is heavy, dark, unsmiling, cynical in ap- pearance. Fall is taking little part. His chief counsel is Wm. E. Leahy. Fall looks stronger than when he was tried with Doheny a year ago, but his temper has not improved. He looks forward to four or five weeks in the courtroom. «The prosecution will show that Sin- clair organized a fake corporation in Canada, to buy oil cheap and sell it back at a profit, in order that these profits might be paid to Fall. Pay- ment of $230,500 to Fall by this dummy concern, in Liberty bonds, will be proven. After that, the jury will solemnly deliberate on the question— “Did they conspire and was this a bribe or a Christmas present?” Unwilling to face thé court, two of Sinclair’s associates—former Presi- dent O’Neill of the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. and Blackmer, former chairman of the board of the Midwest Refining Co.—remain runaways in Europe. 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