The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWIZATION OF THB UNORGAFIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY === THE Vol. IV. No. 239. SHERIFF TRIES TO CONFISCATE STRIKERS’ FOOD More Out in Colorado; Eighteen Arrested TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 19.—With| the entire lignite field of Colorado tied up by the coal miners’ strike, and with more men walking out ev- ery hour, the business interests here began today the arresting of I. W. Ww. sgeakers and active strikers, The I. W. W. issued the call for the strike. In‘ retaliation, the sheriff of Las Animas county has arrested eighteen men who are held in jail here without charges filed against them. The strike committee contends that such an arrest is highly illegal and has retained an attorney to try and get them out. Starvation Tactics. Reports that the strike committee was importing four carloads of food to Walsenburg, Colo., were investi- gated by Sheriff Harry Capps, of Walsenburg, who has boasted to busi- ness men interested in the strike that he will permit no striker to eat in this vicinity if stopping the food supply will do it. To cover the illegal seizure of foodstuffs evidently contemplated, a rumor that a number of rifles are concealed in the cars is being indus- triously circulated. | Great Mass Meetings. | The strike is practically complete} in the northern fields, where only one mine is reported working, and that very slowly, today. Over 4,000 men are out here. In the southern fields the men are coming out constantly, their x 2mbers being estimated at four or fix. thousand. A meeting was held at Lafayette fast night in which 2,000 strikers as- sembled and declared their willing-} ness to fight on to the end. It is| planned to start relief after about; two weeks’ time. ECONOMIC GAINS JN SOVIET UNION ibids them to raise the price of their SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mafl, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. THOUSANDS MORE | | i JOIN STRIKE OF | | j | { |Aid Given by Workers | of Ruhr District BULLETIN. BERLIN, Oct. 19.—The German government ordered several hundred police into the strike area in central Germany today when armed skirmish- es between mine guards and strikers ensued as a result of the attempt by the companies to introduce strike- breakers into the lignite mines. Trade union leaders announced that all strike-breaking attempts had fail- ed while the companies admit that only a small fraction of the mines continue to operate with reduced forces. Industrial circles prophesy that the success of the strikers will lead to a quick decision in their favor when the government arbitration committee brings the unions and the company chiefs together tomorrow. » = * BERLIN, Oct. workers have joined the 80,000 lignite miners of Central Germany who walked out Sunday night when their demand for a 6% percent wage in- crease was refused. The lignite miners work ten hours a day for $1.50. Ruhr Miners Aid. According to the decision of the strike committee, striking miners have been granted a week’s wages. Miners in the Ruhr district. who are not on strike have doubled their dues| in order to aid the lignite workers. Police, heavily armed, are patroll-j} ing the lignite districts, The lignite operators admit that the miners deserve an increase, the aver- age wage being only $1.75 daily; but the operators assert they cannot grant the increase while the government for- product. Campaign Material for Democrats in Mrs. Knapp Inquiry _ ALBANY, Oct. 19.—Election cam- yaign material for the New York state democratic party continued to develop here today in the inguiry into the administration of the $1,250,000 state + GERMAN MINERS. 19.—Thousands of | { } GET T-HOUR DAY Agriculture Up to Pre- War; Factories Beyond MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Oct. 19.— Kuybychey, the chairman of the Su- preme Council of National Economy, speaking at the jubilee session of the Central Executive Committee, re- ported on the amazing results of the reconstruction during the last ten years which forms the basis of the seven-hour day just decreed and other important improvements. Kuybychev emphasized. that the | Mrs. Knapp was secretary of state census fund by Mrs. Florence E. S.| Knapp in 1925. and a republican, Governor Al Smith’s | democratic administration through an appointed commissioner is attempting to show relatives of Mrs. Knapp re- ceived $25,000 of the state fund with- out performing any work for the state. Democrats have charged that other beneficiaries of the fund were half- pint creditors of the republican state committee, DAILY WORKER. SS Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1579. AMERICA Left to right, rear seat: John Brophy, former president of District 2, United Mine Workers of America; James Maurer, president Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, of the American Trade Union Delegation to U. 8. 8. R. riding thru the streets of Moscow. ® Indian Worker Given | Five Years for Going to Moscow University (From a Correspondent) “As a person thoroughly danger- ous to the peace of India he de- serves no compassion or mercy. I sentence Fazal Ilahi (Qurban) to undergo rigorous imprisonment for five years.” “This sentence was proncunced last month by J. H. Thompson, Esq., Assistant District Magis- trate at Peshawar, on Fazal Elahi Qurban, whose sole crime was that he had attended the Eastern Workers’ University in Moscow CHARGE BRITISH MISSION HEADED SPYING IN USSR Ogpu Cites Evidence of Tory Espionage MOSCOW, Oct. 19.—That members of the British Mission which remained | to represent the British government until after the Arcos raids in Moscow, were engaged in wholesale’ espionage is the charge made in a statement | issued by Ogpu (Soviet: political po-| lice) to the Soviet press yesterday. “From the outset of their arrival in Moscow certain members of the British Mission, utilizing their dip-| Jomatic immunity carried on spy work | y N LABOR MEN IN SOVIET UNION| Soviet Union W Says Delegation NINETY-THREE PERCENT OF WORKERS BELONG TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONS NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927 PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New Rule, “Bomb” in Coal Town Church Explodes When Cops Ready to Arrest PITTSTON, Pa., Oct. 19. — An explosion which was heard for miles damaged St. John’s Catholic Church here today. State police who were stationed handy to the scene said a bomb had been planted in the entrance. Police arrested a number of “suspects,” within a very short time after the explosion which is reported to be suggestive of stool pigeons. Government Planning Most Interesting Soviet Union. WORKER. * 70 NIGARAGUANS SLAUGHTERED IN FIERCE MASSACRE Marines and Constabu-| lary in Latest Attack | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 19.— Under the pretext of searching for| Lieut. E. A. Thomas of Richmond, | Ind., and Sargeant Frank F. Dowdell | of Carbondale, Ill., marine aviators who are said to have fallen in a plane, United States marines and native} constabulary attacked some of the| liberal forces under command of Gen- | eral Sandino, killed eighty of them| and wounded scores of others. No| marines were hurt, but four of the native guardsmen were killed. Excuse For Hounding Natives. It. is reported that ‘he airplane con- taining Thomas and Dowdell, who were engaged in hurling death and destruction into native villages, fell to the ground and they were seen They are supposed to have been killed or captured by natives whom the American military authorities describe as “bandits.” Under the pretext of hunting for them bands of native constabulary, recruited from the most backward! elements of the country who, for pay, | will do anything they are told to do,| under command of marine officers, | are roaming the country in a cam- paign to exterminate every vestige of opposition to President Diaz and his government which is maintained in power by American bayonets, can- non and bombing planes. | running from it. ~ Published datiy except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER York, N. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents wr. orkers Commission Newest, Economie Organ The DAILY WORKER will publish serially the full report to the, American workers of the first American trade union delegation to the} The first imstalment will appear in Friday’s DAILY. * * The report of the first American trade union delegation to Diego Rivera ARMED MASSES BEAT REACTION, Soviet Russia, excerpts from which became available to the press, yesterday and the whole of which will be released for the morn- ing newspapers Friday, pays a tribute of admiration to the re- markable successes which the report says have been made in the; construction of industry under the rule of the Russia workers andj peasants. The astonishing increase in the welfare of the work-, ers and the decisive role played by the trade unions are noted in‘ |xtensive detail. | SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION. H The “Gosplan” (Government Planning Commission) which |maps out the main line of development for Soviet Union industry |and establishes minimum production standards over five-year per- jiods, is described in the report of First American Trade Union | Delegation to the Soviet Union as “the most interesting technical body now functioning in the world.” “The guiding principle of this board of industrial strategy,” says the report, “is to build up those industries—such as coal, iron, water power, machine making—upon which the other in- dustries depend, financing this development, so far as may be, |from the surplus earnings of the more profitable industries, such |as oil, textiles, rubber. In this way a balanced national economy |can be achieved, over-extension in certain lines prevented, the business cycle eliminated, with an enormous saving of economic waste and loss.” ? 15 Per Cent Production Increase. COYLE SPEAKS 10 The latest estimates made pub e/ |by the Gosplan show that production | | for the current fiscal year which | |ended October 1 exceeded that of last) 5 Mexican Communist On Way to Soviet Russia apply some American standards in| |year by approximately 15 per cent. | The delegation report says: } : § A YS R IVE R A | “At the present tempo, failing cox- (}F USSR SUCCESS jelgn wars and ‘acts of god,’ the Gos-| Re es |plan five-year program calls for a 178 per cent increase in industrial | production and a 30 per cent increase {in agricultural production by 1931. |That there is more than a fighting {chance to realise sych increases is Diego Rivera, Communist leader| evidenced by the close correlation of and the most noted of all present-day|the actual figures to the plans, as artists of Mexico, who sailed last| achieved in the first year of its opera- night from New York by special in-/ tion. vitation to attend the Tenth Anni-| “If they are realised, a delegation versary celebrations of the Russian| visiting Russia five years hence may revolution at Moscow, gave The| perhaps forget the East, and begin to DAILY WORKER an interview on Will Address Big Meet at “Garden” Sunday Albert F. Coyle, secretary of the junofficial Trade Union Delegation to Russia, who will speak at the huge |Madison Square Garden mass meet- ing Sunday, told New York newspa- permen yesterday the story of the |delegation’s journey to the U. S. S. Coyle met the newspapermen at Bolshevik revolution took place at the the revolt of reactionaries led byjits judgment of Russian economic! . Fined Fifty Dollars moment of a tremendous fall of the! productive forces. The country was ruined, said Kuybychev, by the im- perialist war. This was followed by a disastrous civil war. Fruits of Victory. | The victorious end of the civil war | created conditions making possible the economic revival and Lenin’s new eco- nomic policy assured its successful de- velopment, and the result of this great work of re-establishing industry, said Kuybychev, is expressed in certain fig- ures. Thus: the total production of (Continued on Page Five) Wolger, Arrested on Suslalist Complaint, Solomon Wolger, left wing trade unionist, arrested July 7th, when the police with the cooperation of the so- cialist party broke up a Sacco-Van- zetti demonstration in Union Square, | was convicted of felonious assault in special sessions court yesterday morn- ing. Judges Solomon, Herbert and Ely sentenced him to 10 days in the workhouse or a fine of $50. 8. Levy, active socialist party mem- ber, brot the charges against Wolger. The International Labor Defense paid the $50 fine. Jacob M. Mandel- baum was the attorney. Vincent Leatea and Max Levine, _ progressive workers arrested at the same time, were discharged several months ago. At the time of their ar- rest scores of workers were beaten by the police. A. N. Weinberg, cam- Y manager of Judge Jacob Pan- ken, socialist party candidate, and Au- ‘ gust Claessens, local secretary of the socialist party, aided the police by identifying left wing workers who were marked for assault. ' | He is the workers’ candidate for the | zansky. GITLOW, BARRED FROM ELECTION, MAKES ANSWER. | Benjamin Gitlow, of the Workers | (Communist) Party, ruled off the bal- | lot in the forthcoming election by the | New York Board of Elections, reiter- ated in a statement last night his de- termination to continue his campaign. assembly in the fourth assembly dis- | trict, Bronx. i Supporters of Gitlow and the pro- gram of the Workers Party are ex- pected to write Gitlow’s name on the | ballet Nov. 8, placing a cross oppo-| site his name, as a mass protest! against the Election Board’s action in this and previous elections. Gitlow has been barred from the ballot three |times previously. H | Barred Four Times. i “This is the fourth time the Board | of Elections has ruled officially that I cannot be a candidate for public of- fice in spite of the fact that the re- (Continued on Page Four) ppoint Lazansky As State Court Justice ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Gover- | nor Smith today announced the ap- pointment of Supreme Court Justice Edward Lazansky of Brooklyn as pre- siding justice of the appellate division, second department, to succeed the late Judge William J. Kelly. Justice William B. Carswell was designated by the governor as an as- sociate justice to succeed Justice La- Al Justice Lazansky recently returned from Russia with a favorable report on conditions there, giving particular attention to conditions among the Jews. te collect information as to the Red} Army and the fleet and the aviation | industry. There fell into the hands of | Ogpu correspondence between the | head of the mission, Robert Hodgson | and Consul Preston at Leningrad, of | which various extracts have been read by Rykoff to the Moscow Soviet. | “The most active collaborator of the head of the British Mission,” the | statement continues, “was Secretary | E. V. Charnock, who recruited spies among the employes of the war de- partment. The accused admitted means whereby Charnock compelled waverers to work for English military intelligence. To one of them he said: ‘No one can refuse espionage, be-| cause the British arm is long and pow- erful and can punish not only the unwilling recruit, but his relatives’.” Expect More Revelations. Startling revelations of British es- pionage are expected at the trial of five White Russians before the mili-} tary section of the High Court within two or three days. i ee a U. S.-French Tax Deal | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19,—France today was added to a list of 18 na- tions whose citizens are granted ex- emptions from American taxation on income derived from operation of ships under foreign registry. France has authorized equivalent privileges to American citizens. This acts as a bonus for ship owners of both coun- tries. \ Mencken Refuses To Perform. | CHICAGO, Oct. 19—H. B. Mencken, editor of American Mercury, refused yesterday to testify in the Andrew school board hearing. He was relied upon as a star witness by Mayor William Hale Thompson. Oil Swindler Released. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct. 19.— | Berlin has been purchased by the Wiliam Green Now Publicity Man for Los Angeles Prison LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19—This city has one of the most accomodating | jails in the United States and-one of | the most hospitable sheriffs accord-| ing to William Green, president of | the A. F. of L, Mr. Green was showing the frater-| nal delegates from Great Britain the | city’s beauty spots. He'did not miss! the pen where a Communist visitor | to the recent convention and a pro- Gomez and Serrano, which he says |and social life.” has been successfully defeated by the} masses of workers and peasants of Trade Unions and Industry- Mexico. The lifting of Soviet industry “The uprising was crushed so ra-|from the chaos of the immediate post pidly and spread so little,’ said/ war period, described by the deleg: ion as a “miracle,” can be under- stood in its actual technical, social and political significance only by an lunderstanding of the decisive role of the trade unions in the life of the Soviet Union. Fortunately for American workers the report of the delegation goes into great detail regarding every phase of trade union organization, poli and activity. In its general intro- ! duction to the trade union section of its report the delegation says: Rivera, “because the laboring mass of the country workers and peasants were unanimous in opposing the counter-revolution. In many places they terrorized the military officials | who wanted to revolt and where up-|! risings occurred the peasants them- | selves without aid of federal forces | in most places cut little rebel bands} to pieces. Would Take Away Land. “Gomez and Serrano had issued declarations in the campaign that! even the little land which the Obre-! gressive labor journalist were incar-| cerated by the police for a period be-| cause their presence at the conyen- | tion was obnoxious to Mr.°Green. | Should the sheriff of Los- Angeles | decide to sell his jail he ean. quote! the following eulogy by. William! Green: | “It was at the request of the sheriff | of this country that we had the priv-! ilege of visiting this wonderful insti- | tution, It was a revelation to all of | us and we enioyed it very much.” Imperialism At Work. An issue of $20,000,000 of 5% per cent one-year gold notes of the Com-} merz und Privat Bank of Hamburg- Chase Securities Corporation, Blair| & Co., Inc. and Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc. This institution is the fifth) largest commercial bank in Ger- many, has more than 7,500 employes and conducts domestic and foreign business with offices in 200 cities. Carrol] Is Now Cleansed. Earl Carroll’s wife, his sister and brother, left New York yesterday for Atlanta to accompany the theatrical Gordon Campbell, Montana oil pro- moter, sentenced to two years for using the mails to defraud in con- nection with the sale of oil stock, was geleased today. producer home from the federal peni- tentiary, where he has served four months for perjury in connection with his famous bathtub party. gon and Calles government had dis-|lutionary bodies, with constitutional tributed would be taken back. This determined the imposing unanimi with which the easant-worker masses opposed Serrano and Gomez and supported the government against the counter-revolution in spite of their deep grievance against it. “The Communist Party under- stands that the rk and peasants are not yet suffi y well organized | and developed to conduct a separate electoral campaign with their own candidates. They saw on one side the petty bourgeoisie trying to de-/ velop an economy independent of for- eign imperialism. t “These efforts of the pe militant socialist unions in Amer- a. They are not interested solely in a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work. They. stand on the basis ‘of the international class struggle of the | proletariat,’ and aim ‘to foster the development of the world-wide revo lutionary class struggle for the over- throw of capitalism and the rea tion of socialism thru the proleta dictatorship.’ A Distinct Difference. iet unions are thus more t unions’ in the contin- e of the term, for they have geoisie are feeble, It is e already passed through their period rified. It compromises, vacillates. of revolutionary conflict and ar now But still it makes some effort and | devoted to the business of consolidat- needing the support of peasants and|ing the state power of the workers workers made some concessions to|#"¢ Peasants and the building up of them. ja non-capitalistic society. “On the other side are lined up for-| “In addition to these general aims, tty-bour- leign imperialism, especially oil, and|the more immediate day-to-day ob-| the landowners and church. Gomez| jects of the unions at the present and Serrano represented these reac-|stage of their development are: To tionary forces, |protect the economic and legal inter- “Obregon and Calles represent the|ests of their members and to im- petty-bourgeoisie with its weaknesses | prove their material conditions; to and forced and sometimes too ready | raise the general cultural level of the concessions to American capital on|workers; to participate in the organ- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) ‘ieee oe tn Oi Nii ame “The Soviet trade unions are revo-| preambles much like that of some of the Yale Club, Vanderbilt Ave. and 44th St. | “The Soviet Union is a workers’ governitent whether you like it or not,” Coyle said. New York labor at 2 p. m. Sunday will hear the findings of the delega- tion in one of hte largest mass meet~ ings ever held at the Garden. The speakers will include James Maurer, |president of the Pennsylvania State | Federation of Labor; John Brophy, of | the United Mine Workers of America; ‘Coyle, former editor of the Locomo- tive Engineers’ Journal; Frank Pal- mer, editor of the Colorado Labor Advocate; Paul Douglas, expert on industrial relations, University of |Chicago, and Tim Healy. Free To Criticize. “The workers of Soviet Russia havg full freedom to criticize the offici: of the government,” Coyle continu in his address to newspapermen. “In fact, they do it daily. Thousands of worker correspondents write letters complaining about various situations they are not pleased with. The workers living in the Soviet Union have more economic freedom than the workers in any other coun- -\try on the face of the earth, “The workers pay no rent or very little. Ten per cent of the profits of all government trusts go toward the building of new homes for the work- ers. In the oil industry, 30 per cent of the profits are used for building new dwellings for the workers. In Moscow, 72,000 workers are living in homes built recently by the coopera- tives.” Spikes Green’s Gossip. Coyle told his hearers, William | Green, president of the American Fed- |eration of Labor had been spreading a story to the effect that the labor | delegation had received “$50,000 from | Moscow” to pay the expenses of the |delegation. “Green has a diseased | mind,” Coyle said, The secretary of the delegation said instead many of the members of the delegation paid their own expenses. © Canes on Page Five) , {