The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1927, Page 1

& THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGARIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WERK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 241. FIRST TRADE UNION DELEGATION REP THE DAILY WORKE! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1579. | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927 Rockefeller Company Demands Use Of Troops! HUNDREDS PICKET COLORADO MINES AS STRIKE GROWS Rockefeller Company to Call For State Police | |the government arbitration commis- German Mine Strikers | Secure Eleven Per Cent | | Wage Raise; Ask Fifteen BERLIN, Oct. 21.—The 70,000 striking lignite miners won a vic- tory today when they compelled —@ sion, after two days of deliberation, to decide that they should receive an 11 per cent reise in wages. The commission gramted the compan- ies and the trade unions until to- morrow evernng to determine whether the;- will accept the de- BULLETIN. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 21.—Nearly 100 persons, including a dozen wo- men and girls, said to be members of the I. W. W. were arrested today for picketing coal mines in the Southern Colorado field near Wal- senburg and Trinidad. No violence was reported from the district up to noon but mine guards are said to be heavily armed, and plans were being considered at Walsenburg to request mobilization of the national guard if Huerfano county officials were unable to ar- rest all the pickets. Scores of spe- cial deputies have been sworn in. Riess: WALSENBURG, Colorado, Oct. 21. The sheriff’s ‘forces were unable to stop the hundreds of pickets who} flocked to the coal camps today, and | many mines not already closed down liave suspended. The pickets slip past | the company gunmen and sheriff's deputies, mingle with the men who are unorganized and do not under- stand the issues at stake, and per- suade them to come on out. * cision. It is doubtful whether the miners will accept the offer. The miners demand a 15 per cent raise. The owners declared that no raise could be granted. In case either side rejects the arbitration decision, the arbiter, under the German law, can declare the decision binding. After that ‘ruling a continuation of the strike would be illegal. If the miners should accept the decision it would mean that the basic wage of the miners will be raised from five marks, 20 pfen- nigs, or about $1.25, to fifteen marks, 80 pfennings, about 80 pfennigs, about $1.40.. The strike is expected to bring wage demands throughout German industry. > U. S. Lent $44,000,000 to R. R.} WASHINGTON, Oct. 218—The New | York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road by the pyynient of $48,000,0e¢) in principal and $1,100,000 in interest Lead Coal Diggers SB ee On the right is Isaac Mousey, president of Local Union No, 2881, United Mine Workers (Aurora Mine of Duquesne Coal and Coke Co.). man on the reader’s left is Martin Kaveich, treasurer of, the same local union. Pennsylvania Strike ; The larger AVELLA MINE PICKETS SHUT OFF PRODUCTION DESPITE TERRORISM ytle with the Gonjez forces, his in-| Workers’ Delegations From Soviet Union to | | | Visit Other. Countries e MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—For the Tenth Anniversary of the October} | Revolution, the AUCTU is sending | to Germany and Czecho-Slovakia | | delegations of Soviet workers.Theee | delegations will consist of metal, | textile and chemical workers and| | miners. 1] The delegates will familiarize themselves with workers’ life abroad and will give information about the life of workers in the U. S. S. R. e GOMEZ PLEA FOR ARMED INVASION BY U.S, Reactionaries Who Blew Up Train Captured MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21.—Federal | forces under Gen. Jose Escobar were} reported tonight to have Gen. Arnulfo| Gomez and his band of counter-| revolutionaries trapped in the Oriz-} ada Volcano region, where Gomez} sought refuge after his defeat near} Ayuhualeo ten days ago. | Gen. Escobar is in active command. | A report that Escobar had been} wounded and brought to a hospital} here was denied. If the federal com-| mander was wounded in the last bat-| juries were not so serious as to keep! AGENT IN FINAL CITY EDITION datly exe NG CO. ay by The DAILY WORKER Street, New York, x, RTS SUNDAY MADISON $Q, GARDEN MEET SUNDAY IFT RUSSIA FROM THE TO HEAR OF SOVIE AMERICAN TRADE UNION DELEGATION ad Price 3 Cents |\Coyle, Secretary of Labor Delegation, Attacks Account in N. Y. Herald-Tribune Maurer, Brophy, Hapgood, Dunn, to Speak at Huge Labor Demonstration The tremendous and enthusiastic response among the thou- jsands of workers who will listen to the favorable report of the \first American trade union delegation to the Soviet Union at New Madison Square Garden, 50th St. and Eighth Ave., tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, has evoked a counter-campaign on the part of reactionary elements. A reply to this move has already been made by Albert F. Coyle, secretary of the delegation. Feeling that the monster demonstration will be the beginning of a militant campaign to bring about the recognition of the Soviet government by the United States, and resentful against the enthusiastic findings of the trade unionists who were headed by James Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, interests hostile to the first workers’ republic have begun a program aimed to discredit their conclusions, some of which have been made public in consecutive issues of The DAILY /ORKER during the current week. RANK AND FILE WORKERS GROUP Will Reveal Findings. At the demonstration tomor- row, which will be composed of all elements of the labor move- ment, members of the delega- tion will report on conditions in the Soviet Union. Unhampered in their investigation, given perfect a \fregdom to observe and study. all. as- SAIL FOR USSR Sheriff Ties with Rifle in Ambush’ to: Shoot \has liquidated its indebtedness to the jpeers of Russian economic and social Rockefeller Calls Gunmen. | him from continuing in. active com-| | | The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., the | government, the treasury announced Rockefeller concern which perpetrated the Ludlow massacre, has announced | that unless the sheriffs of the coun- ties are able soon to stop picketing, they will call for state police or militia. And it is the general opinion in this vicinity that the Rockefeller gang has only to call, and whatever the state has it will receive. The in- | dustrial commission has already, with- out a shadow of right to do so, termed the strike “illegal.” Tho strike was called by the I. W. W. and is to raise the wages of the (Continued on Page Two) i today. Outstanding advances made by the | government to railroads approximate $152,000,000. The N. Y., N. H. & H. was looted several years ago by an “inside ring” and the government has been making good the loss hy means ef loans at a cheap rate of interest. Southward Ho! Charles Seilito, at the age of 67, will start for Miami, Florida, tomor- row in a 12 foot row boat. He wants to be the first to row a boat over the 1,500 miles of sea. 2 Start Campaign to Publish More Communist Literature The Workers (Communist) Party of America, as announced yesterday at the New York headquarters of the Party, is proceeding with arrange- ments to have published a series of pamphlets and books dealing with timely subjects of interest to the American workers. This Marxist-Leninist literature will be published for the Workers Party by the Workers Library Pub- lishers, Inc., located at 39 East 123rd St. The Workers Library Publishers has been organized on the basis of a fund established to publish especi- ally the American Workers Library Series. The pamphlets and books published in this series will be writ- ten by outstanding authorities on spe- cial subjects. ; The statement made yesterday is ten thousand dollars must be y d by Christmas in order to make cna literature publication pro- gram\ The initiators of this fund, B. an S. Rubin, have given a con- tributipn of two thousand dollars. sympalthizers and friends of the Communist and labor movement thru- out thé country are said to be re- sponding enthusiastically to the idea of raising $10,000 to put over this ex-, tensive literature publication pro- gram. Daily Worker to Share Proceeds. By special arrangement with the Workers Library Publishers, 50 per seent of its net proceeds, will go to the DAILY WORKER. Beginning November Ist all literature formerly handled by the DAILY WORKER will be transferred to the Workers \Library Publishers and thereafter \yill be handled by them. Members “and sympathizers of the Workers | (Communist) Party thruout the coun. try who can afford to give substan- ‘tial contributions to this fund should ‘immediately make out their money orders or checks, or send cash or tele- graph their contributions to the E “Workers Library Publishers, 39 East St. ye agttractive pamphlet by J. Louis Engdahl, “Ten Years of the Seviet Union,” has just been pub- lished. The tentative list of further publi- cations, which the Workers Library Publishers is proceeding to get out is the following: Lenin—“On America.” December). Lenin—“On War.” (Ready in De- cember). Bukharin—‘*Proletarian Revolution and Culture.” Stalin—“Questions and Answers to American Trade Unionists.” (Ready in November). “4 Bedacht—“The Story of American Democracy.” Foster—“The Decisive Battles in American Labor History” — “The American Labor Movement — What It Is and What It Ought to Be.” Pepper—“America and England.” Moore—“The Negro Worker.” Lovestone “Communism for Americans.”—“The American Commu- nist.”—“America Today.”— ‘Ruthen- berg.” Dunne—“The tration.” Wolfe—‘Study Courses for Work- ers Classes.” Minor—“The Frame-Up As An American Institution.” Knutson—“The Working Farmer.” Stachel — “Communist Organiza- tion.” (Author to be announced) — “The Working Woman.” Lovestone and Foster—“The Labor Party.” Bittelman—“The Workers and the Coming Elections.” This program is to cover the period beginning with the Tenth Anniver- sary of the establishment of the Sov- iet Union thru the Sixth World Con- gress of the Communist International, held in the summer of 1928, Orders for the first number of the series, the pamphlet by J. Louis Eng- dahl, “Ten Years of the Soviet Union,” can be placed immediately. ‘The prices are: 15c per copy, 12 cents in lots 10 or more, 10 cents—100 or more, 9 cents—300 or more, (Ready in Coolidge Adminis- Unionists After Company Thugs Beat Them Up In spite of all the scabs brought in the owners of the Aurora mine of the Dusquesne Coal and Coke Company at Avella, Wash- ington County, Pa., are finding that they can’t get out the coal. After three months of scab operation the present production is about 1,700 tons a week, where before the lockout it was 1,600 to 2,000 a day. In other words, under scab operation it takes a week to produce what it took a day to produce under union opera- tion. © The owners are in a hurry to get Lae aS the miners out of their houses, stop Victim of Coal and Iron picketing, fill up the mine with scabs, ‘ Police break the strike and get the miners back to work on an open shop basis. xe In addition to serving eviction notices ; the company is carrying on a cam- paign to terrorize the miners and their families. The picket line main- tained all through the night is not alone for regular picket duty but also keeps watch over the houses of the locked-out miners’ families to protect them from night raids by the Coal and Iron police and deputies. Four Miners Assaulted. Today there are two miners in the | Washington County hospital and two} at home, badly injured as the result} of the latest Yellow Dog attack last} Sunday night. The young doctor of! the union local at the Aurora mine} said his office lodked like a slaughter- house when the men were brought in. | George Harkow has a fractured skull and several deep lacerations of the! scalp; Albino Galiginni has his. whole lip torn through, and lacerations of | the scalp; Angelo Simonetti and Joe} Lazar also have lacerated scalps, and} the former a seriously injured eye. | Wanted Help From Picket. All last Sunday afternoon the miners had seen Yellow Dogs boozing in the sand-shack just outside the} company stockade. Around 5:30 one of them beckoned to a picket on the} i | three to six shift and demanded to} Albino Galginni, mine worker, | be told where he could get more moon-| member of Local 2881, U. M. W. now shine, and drunkenly waved around ajin hospital at Washington, Pa. This | bunch of bills. He didn’t get much| worker in Aurora mine of Duquesne | information from the picket. Then} Coal and Coke Co., out on strike, was | at 6:30 one of the coal and irons|assaulted and severely injured by came out of the sand shack, and sud-|“eoal and iron” police. denly walked up to Harkow, who was | on the picket line, (on the public), ‘s f é road), pulled out a black-jack, and|Kngineer Firms Believe began. | Harkow happens to be a big husky | Too Many Workers Die; | fellow and resisted again and again, | [f’ but the Yellow Dog had the tes Bad for Production: jack, and he kept on till Harkow was down, with a fractured skull. YORK, Pa., Oct. 21.—There has | been an alarming increase in the num- | | | mand of the drive on Gomez, and no report was made. The region where the operations} are being carried on is very rough and several days may be required to complete the movement. * * * EL PASO, Texas., Oct. 21. — The Mexican government has purchased a number of aeroplanes and war ma- terial in England, according to semi- official reports received here from Mexico City. * * = SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 21. —| The counter-revolutionary forces, led by Gomez and Almada, made an open appeal yesterday for the invasion of Mexico thru Jose Elguero, journalist, recently expelled from Mexico for counter-revolutionary propaganda. After indulging in a tirade against the Calles Government, Elguero de- clared, “There can be no peace in Mexico, no future for the people, no hope, for any one as long as the Washington Government persists in maintaining Calles in power.” After reciting alleged “acts of violence” on the part of the Mexican Government, Elguero, making a direct plea for American intervention says, “I am sure the American Government, if it knew the real facts, would not per- mit such outrages.” In view of the hostile attitude taken by the State Department in its re- lations with the Calles Government, “the support” referred to by Elguero is taken to mean the absence of armed intervention. Reactionaries Killed. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21. — The \bodies of Colonels Jose Ortiz andj|¢ |Triana, both members of General | Ru (Continued on Page. Two) Jubilee Session of U.S.S.R. Plans More Gains Snds Meetings with Resolutions Guaranteeing Workers’ Progress in Industry, Education LENINGRAD, October 21.—Important several reports detailing the enormous progress jlife, traveling continuously for sev- eral weeks over thousands of miles in i the vast country, they will reveal and for Moscow Celebration amplify what they have observed. i ‘ Seated on the platform wll be a Tw y-six rank and file trade f sociologists, i i BE. R. | midnight for the Soviet vee on ne |Columbia; Prof. Clarkson of the Col- Cunard liner Lancastria. hey go to |lege of the City of New York; and see how the trade unionists and farm-!Geroid T. Robinson, of Columbia, who ers man and manage the factories,)has just returned with an enthusiastic mines, railroads, farms, theaters,|report about conditions in the Soviet playgrounds and pleasure resorts of | Union where he spent two years com- the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-| piling data on a forthcoming book on | publics. agricultural life in the U. S. S, R. Though they go primarily to study | Ra ithe conhiots under which the Rus- Coyle Refutes Axtell. |sian workers and their families live | |they will arrive in time to partici-| Albert F. Coyle, secretary of the | pate in the celebration of the Tenth|trade union delegation, to Silas F. | Anniversary of the Russian Revolu-| Axtell, a lawyer who accompanied the tion. mission, joining it in Europe, accord- All Industries Represented . ing to the Herald-Tribune which pub- | This delegation is distinct from|lished in yesterday’s issue a state- the trade union delegation to raed |ment attacking the report of the dele- lof which James Maurer. president of |gation part of which have already | the Pennsylvania State Federation of |been made public, Coyle challenges | Labor, was chairman. The new dele-| Axtell’s contentions and accuses him | gation will be far on its way toward of misrepresentation. | Moscow when leaders of the first | Coyle’s letter follows: | delegation are making a verbal re-; ,, |port of their findings to the New| Dear Mr. Axtell. | York labor movement in a huge mass} “I note by this morning’s New | meeting at Madison Square Garden| York Times that you have given a statement to the press relative | Sunday afternoon. | | The new delegation consists of} to conditions in Russia investi |rank and file workers in the mining,| gated during the past summer by |textile and building trades and ma-| the American Trade Union Dele- |chine industry. All sections of the| gation and the technical and ad- country’ are represented. A few | visory staff accompanying the | members carry credentials from local delegation. I have several times unions. The others are traveling as| endeavored to reach you by tele- phone at your office today in or- individuals. Guests of Trade Unions. | der to learn whether you were During the period they are in the| correctly quoted by the press. workers’ republic they will be the Nails Lies. sts of the central council of the “Because the statement reput- ed to you is so sharply at var- ian trade unions. The delega- with the conditions and 4 (Continued on Page s as they were investigated by the delegation in Russia, I am loathe to believe that you were responsible for the allegation that “Russia has no laws, only decrees handed down from above.” We have both had the legal training that should place upon us the obligation to gather and weigh evidence carefully. Everywhere we went in Russia we found local, county and state councils or leg- islatures, elected by a larger proportion of the adult popula- tion than participated in the last presidential election in this coun- \26 Depart at Midnight In a sharp letter sent yesterday by a iance — fa of Executive olutions on the of the workers They got Galginni coming down the road on has way to.the doctor’s office for medicine for his sick child. Lazar had just stepped out of the picket shack on the other side of the bridge when some of the other Yellow Dogs attacked him. Simonetti I saw the following day, lying in bed at home, with a big bloody pad over his eye, and a big swelling plastered up on the back of his head, and his thin dark face drawn with pain. Two (Continued on Page Two) BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ‘ ber and severity of industrial acci- dents, and unless accidents are di- minished to “an irreducible minintutn,” the nation’s industries will fall short of maximum production, it was ad- mitted today in a report of a nation- wide survey of safety and produc- tion discussed by the administrative board of the American Engineering Council. The study involved the accident and production performance of 28 indus- tries and 60 product groups. Reduc- tion of product, rather than mete loss of human life and limb was the chief concern of the investigation, land industry in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics were adopted at the closing meeting yesterday of the Tenth Anniver- sary Jubilee session of the Central Executive Committee of the All Union Congress of Soviets, and while recognizing the progress | try. As you are also aware we found not one single instance in which the laws enacted by these (Continued on Page Two) made, called for still more effort ta achieve the gos Bolshevik revolution. The resolution on the report.of Lu-| nacharsky, the People’s Commissar} for Education, pointed out that there was a general cultural growth in the country and especially among the pro- letarian masses. Nevertheless, the decision is that in comparison with the great aims of the Bolshevik revo- lution and the tremendous demand for instruction on the part of th~ set by the oe ee aah | “Garden” Ushers Needed. masses the results reached as yet are : ? | Young Workers League mem- insufficient. The resolution acknowl-| | hers who can assist in ushering: at edges accordingly that one of the lithe: Madiaon Square Garden sweats chief tasks of the Union of Socialist ling nerf hes | Sun when the American Soviet Republics is further persistant | |prade Union Gelegation to Soviet work in order to assure the cultural| | Russia makes its report, are re growth of the country, co-ordinating | | quested to report at the Eighth the cultural development with avenue entrance at 12 noon and; ask for Miss Paxton. ; e problem of industrialisation in a reso