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Page Two THE DAILY Wi ORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 192? WORKERS 10 HEAR REPORT OF U. S. TRADE UNION FAL] WAS TOLD DELEGATION TO UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS (Continued from Page One) On the contrary we stated legislative bo were over- initely in our report thrown by any higher authority, hat Russia still has a long, long even though in practically all of road to travel. But we would be the local bodies the Communist less than fair and honest with members are in the minority. Praises Workers’ Condition. “Whether Russia be ‘the mos dismal -and unhappy Yr g were ever in, is of course a ter of personal or tried to be e curate in m tion, and have con: ent cond not with conditic States or Western Euror conditions in R to thé world w tion. Upon re: you will r ie: Ru . 2 United of rer with prior n Soviet flec Ag which conditions in asis on the public as well as ourselves if we did not say emphatically | that by every criterion of judg- ment ggested by our expert some of whom were by no means predisposed to the Soviet government, conditions in Russia today are materially better than in 19 present tender continu ted by the. coopera- tion*and good will of thé other nations of the world, Russia will travel much further from the un- happy state existing prior to the Revolution. “(Signed) ALBERT F, COYLE.” Members of Delegation to Speak. | In addition to Maurer the speakers jat the giant labor demonstration will linclude John Brophy of the United |Mine Workers of America; Albert editor of the Locomo- ing 4 Journal; Frank Palm- inter Labor Adv people, t+ on indu: present r not a Henry C. Hunt, for- who w mayor of Cincinnati; Powers tions Hapgood, militant young mine lead regime |; Robert W. Dunn, labor economi plies F The body of day in the E Mott avenue, r City, Queens, has been iden Peter | Farrell, 54 years old, of 37-40 Sixty- fifth street, Woo: the father of 10 child r he had been Death was cau missing several 2d by drowning. Boost Woman for $8,000 Job. United Ste Senator Simeon D. Fess is reported to have recommend- @d to President Coolidge that Miss Genevieve Cline, Cleveland woman at- torney, be appointed to the court of custom appeals in New York. Miss Cline, now fed of mer chandise for the port of Cleveland, if appointed to the new post will be one of the highest paid women in gov- ernment The office pays $8,- 000 a year. Marquis’ Son Gets Blisters, Miguel de Cardoba, Tarrytown, who claims to be the son of a Spanish grandee, the Marquis of Villanova, was under a suspended sentence ‘to- day on a charge of permitting an wn- licensed minor to drive an automo- bile Speaking with a Castilian lisp, the i refined” young man exhibited and blistered hands to Magis- rl Smith in traffic court. said he had permitted a six- teen year old boy to drive his truck} for him because he himself was un- Hble to hold the wheel. for the November s in all parts of country. A New THE YEAIR The Rise and Achie of Soviet Russia Book T ements By J. Louis Encpau. The first ofa series of new publications to be issued by The Workers Library Pub- lishers. With cr InGs to Ameri- can workers the 10th Anniversary of Soviet Rus- sia from KaLEntn, presi- dent of the Soviet Union. on The Tenth Y ear—in a new attractive edition of the W orkers Library will be off the press next week. 15¢ ORDER NOW From DAILY WORKER Boox Derr. 33 First St, New York. ~ @-w =_ew se, see cew Sow eee Gee se co ee a ce eo oy ey ey Goa tu rt Chase, of the Labor Bureau. NEARLY THOUSAND | | NICARAGUANS DIE “INU, S. ATTACKS 540 Killed Since May | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — More |than 540 Nicaraguan liberals. have }been killed by. American marines May, a compilation of officials’ |casualty figures revealed today. The |figures only include casualties re- | ported to the State and Navy de- ;partments of the American legation in Managua. The number of Nic- jaraguans who were killed and un- | accounted for in the casualty figures, jincluding civilians murdered by | American bombing planes, swells the total to more than a thousand it is believed. rines have been killed and only one | Seriously injured. Four members of the American-controlled native con- in battle. Number of Wounded Unknown. The figures indicate that marines |smashed the small and poorly-equip- |ped armies of the native Nicaragu- ans in ten pitched battles. The list |of engagements and the number of dead and wounded follows: May 15-16 at.La Paz Centro, 14 |Nicaraguans killed; number of ;wounded unknown; two marines killed. 500 In One Battle. | July 16—Ocotal, 300 to 500 Nic- | araguans killed, more than 108 known }to be. wounded, one marine killed. |. July 20—San Fernando, six Nic- |araguans killed; 15 ta 20 wounded. One marine wounded. July 27—San Fernando (during pursuit by United States planes of |fugitives from battle of July 20) 20 Nicaraguans killed or wounded. Pi AR eco nar ad | ‘There will-be no session of court Saturday, and Siddon’s ruling is ex- pected Monday. | Two Nicaraguans killed. Sept. 3—Telpaneca, five Nicaragu- ans killed or wounded: Sept. 8 (reported Sept. 15th)—So- nato, five Nicaraguans killed. Sept. 19.—Telpaneéa,°20 Nicara- guans killed; 50. wounded.. Twe ma- | rines killed. Sept. 21—Telpaneca, unreported |number of Nicaraguans killed and | wounded. No mention of mafine éas- | ualties. | Oct. 9 (reported to. Managua Oct. |16).—67 Nicaraguans killed or | wounded. Four members of native guard killed. No marine casualties. Most of the fighting has taken place in the north, particularly in the mountainous jungleland of Nueva Se- covia, | | | | ee . | Organize Cooperative Colony. | A cooperative colony will be estab- lished on a tract of land in Westches- |ter County near Croton Lake. HY NOT Invading Marines Boast | During the same period, five ma-) |stabulary are listed as having died | NO “DRAINAGE” WAS PROBABLE Oil Graft Defense Puts Up Immunity Plea WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. — ' After hearing testimony from two } geologists to the effect that there is no truth in the defense of Harry F. Sinel*r and Albert B. Fall that the Teapot Dome lease had to be granted immediately, the jury in the oil graft case was sent out of the court room and the rest of the day spent in a long involved argument as to whether Sinelair’s admission before the senate investigating committee granted him immunity. | Fall Knew Oil Was Safe. | Dr. George Otis Smith, director of |the Geological Survey, today blasted one of the chief contentions of the ‘all-Sinclair defense when he testi- ed that there was neither danger of drainage from Teapot Dome when the naval oil rese was leased by ex- Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall to Harry F. Sinclair, nor that Fall was ignorant of the safety of the oil re- serves. Smith said Fall called him into con- ference and directed him to send an excerpt to the reserve to investigate drainage conditions. Smith sent K. C. Heald, former head of the oil and gas section of the bureau. “Heald reported there was no im- minent danger of drainage of Teapot Dome,” Smith said. “Did you report this to Fall?” asked Roberts. “Yes.” Never Called Again. “Did he ever again call you into conference on Teapot Dome?” “No,” answered Smith, “that was the last time.” | There is laughter in Washington to- night over the evident political in- nocence of Geologist Smith, who did not seem to understand what kind of a report was required of him by the then secretary of the interior. Heald, now chief geologist of the Gulf Oil Company, took the stand to | tell personally of his findings at Tea- pot Dome. He repeated. what Smith had already told the jury. Martin W. Littleton, Sinclair at- torney, struggled valiantly to make the jury think Heald didn’t know his business. Question of Immunity. The prosecution then offered as evidence the testimony Sinclair gave to the senate investigating committee, and another legal battle began. The defense planned to fight admis- |sion of this testimony to the last \ditch. In the Fall-Doheny trial the senate records were finally admitted. Siddons excused the jury while the lawyers argued. | Littleton read from the statutes, which state that no testimony given |by a witness before either house of congress shall be used against him in a subsequent criminal trial except |when the charge is’ perjury. Rule on Immunity Monday. | Roberts argued for the government. He denied that Sinclair had been sub- jpoenaed, but rather had been “in- [vited” to appear. | A man is held under law to be a |competent witness, Roberts declared, juntil his disqualifies himself by plead- ing a reconized immunity, and the government attorney held Sinclair’s lawyers were trying to evade the sen- {ate testimony on other and improper | grounds. ANEW NOVEL Glo Sinclair $2.50 CLOTH BOUND The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK, N, Y. | ADVERTISE in the DAILY WORKER eo OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE They Bring Results. Rates Are Reasonable. APPLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. 88 FIRST STREET Phone Orchard 1680 NEW YORK, N. Y. MAIN OFFICE— 33 Hast 1st LOCAL OFF Room 35, 108 East 1ith YORKVILLE OFFIC 364 Hast 81st Street. treet Street, » at 416th Street. , at 149th Street, BROOKLYN OFFICE— 46 Ten Byck Street, RED a1 Republican Machine Hanged at Marion MARION, Ti, at in the, amazing his political rule of the Birger gang of beer runners, dive keepers, gunmen and political bosses in Southern IIli- ncis came today when Rado Millich, once an expert killer for the gang, was hanged in the Marion jail. Two hundred spectators, more or less opposed to the official career of the Birger men witnessed the execu- tion: Oct. Safe For Awhile. Birger, the head of the group, is also under charges which may mean his death. It is considered certain that the conviction of the Birger outfit would have been impossible if some of their vassal gunmen and resort owners had not split with them and broken up the grip on local and county office which the group had built up thru playing inside republican party polities in Marion county and other parts of Southern Illinois. State and Union Politics. William Sneed, state senator (re- publican), and a vicious opponent of every progressive measure in the U. M. W. of A. of which he is district vice-president got a large part of his pfaetieal support from the Birger gang, and thru him their influence reached into the counsels of men much higher up, even it is said, to those of Governor Len Small. Field Warfare. At any rate, while they presented a united front, no Birger beer runner was ever bothered much by the au- thorities. For a time, before the split among the gangsters finally ruined them, public officials calmly watched while regular little armies in the pay of rival gangster groups assail each other with airplane bombs and ma- chine guns. An unknown number of killings resulted, and the control of the gangmen weakening, some of them were finally arrested. Hundreds Picket Mines ; In Colorado (Continued from Page One) miners to the union scale, and im- preye conditions of living. Aitho numbers of strikers out al- ready can only be gstimated, it is be- lieved that there e at least eight thousand. Ce aoa | (By BYRON KITTO) PUEBLO, Colo., Oct. 19 (By Mail). —The following is a skeleton of the reign of terror led by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company’s gunmen who are given the support of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Legion and mu- nicipal authorities: At’ Walsenburg, October 15, there was a meeting held at the court house where plans were made for the storming and sacking of the I. W. W. headquarters. After the meeting, around the hour of midnight, the mob, which included the mayor and other city authorities, marched in military fashion down the main thoroughfare to the I. W. W. hall. Upon their arrival they demanded Fellow Worker Byron Kitto, who was alone in the office at the time, “to come out, you bastard.” Not having any means of protection, Fellow Worker Kitto re- fused them admission, whereupon they shot out the front window and battered down the door while the gun- jmen made threats of lynching. The fellow worker escaped thru the rear window. ‘"Marehed Out at Gun Point. The next day eleven of our most active members were marched at the point of gun out of town. The same thing happened at Agui- lar. In Pueblo the next evening a meet- ing was to be held for the workers of the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mills. At 7 p. m., one hour before the meeting, there were stationed in front of the hall twelve city police, seventy-five C. F. & I. deputies, the mill) superintendents and numerous foremen. Threaten Workers. As the slaves approached the meet- ing hall, the foremen would threaten them. with being fired. As this, in most cases, had no effect on the worker, the C. F. & I. thugs with drawn guns routed the workers. And when Fellow Workers Kristen Sva- num, Paul Seidler, and Byron Kitto, who were supposed to speak at the | mass meeting, arrived they found the |doors padlocked with the thugs in | full charge. Raid in Pueblo The next day the eity police raided our Pueblo headquarters, seized our} property and turned all of it over to! the Colorado Fuel & Iron officials. | In Trinidad. seventeen of our mem- | bers have been arrested. We are sending yellow press ac- counts which do not seem to hide the issue., We will appreciate it very much if you will give these outrages space in your paper. Any particular factors that you want illustrated, kindly let us know. Yours for industrial freedom, * * * P. S.—Twelve hundred miners are at present out; this includes the northern and southern fields. U. M. W. have officially stated that they woulgd.do all in their power to break the “strike. ON TIPPING WAGE Discharges Eight When | (Qy Federated Press.) Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | reports that the Pullman Co. has dis- | charged 8 members of the brother- hood in the Washington, D. C., di-} vision, and is threatening to let out | another hundred unless they drop their union cards. At the same time the company is circulating a long pe- tition for the signatures of the por- ters pledging their loyalty to the| company and denouncing the brother- | hood and its organizer. The threat of discharge is used to obtain signa- tures to this yellow-dog-like docu- ment. | This attack on the union comes on| the eve of the annual elections to the | Pullman company union and just be- fore the brotherhood is presenting its case against. the company to the Interstate Commerce Commission. - The brotherhood is filing a lengthy brief with the commission, asking for an investigation into the tipping prac- tise which it disapproves. The ex- pectation is that such an investiga- tion will lead to an order from the commission forbidding tipping. Passengers Have To Pay. Henry 1. Hunt, former tnayor of Cincinnati, who is representing the union before the commission, charges that the Pullman Co. is responsible | for the tipping evil, and is passing a wage burden of $7,000,200 annually on | to the public. Proof that the com-/ pany is to blame for the evil is given by Hunt referring to the testimony of Robert T. Lincoln, former president of the company, before the Industrial Commission. “Mr. Lincoln,” says Hunt, “said that the reason why tips were not abolished was that wages would have to be raised in that case, that porters would have to be paid a living wage.” Tipping, saws Hunt, is a form of bribery, and it leads to discrimina- tion towards the passengers who tip the most. As a common earrier the Pullman company has no right to.en- courage such discrimination, argues the brief Hunt is presenting. And since the porters are expected to en- force laws the company has no right to eountenance a practise that leads to lawbreaking : * * Rabbis For Porters. Social Justice Conference of Amer- ican Rabbis declares the porters a fine type of manhood with a deep sense of moral responsibility to the travelling public. It supports the por- ters inalienable human rights of or- ganization, self-respect, and safe- guards to health. A statement issued takes note of the special obstacles which Negro workers, struggling for human rights must overcome. | Roerich Museum Opens Lecture Series on Art | The Roerich Museum, 310 Riverside Drive, will open its lecture series for this season with a lecture by Claude Bragdon, author and architect, on “The Light of Asia,” Tuesday at 8.30 p.m. Especial interest attaches to this lecture in view of the fact that Brag- don will be associated with Walter Hampden this season in presenting Edwin Arnold’s “The Light of Asia,” which outlines the life of Buddha. The lecture series presented each year at the Roerich Museum is open to the public and includes lectures on various phases of the arts, as well as concerts. ORDER NOW Od BOOKS and Pamphlets | for ALL. MEETINGS, SALE and DISTRIBUTION on the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION | | Watch The DAILY WORK- | ER for lists of books on SOVIET RUSSIA Send for catalogues and lists to the sanitary and-“axtigambling}1-"~"* In Native Rumania ROME, Oct. 21.—Crown Prince ‘arol’s sudden desertion of Madame C | They Remain Unionists | Lupesch is a political maneuver de-| signed to place him at the head of |a new Rumanian fascist republic, ac- | Roy Lancaster, secretary of the|cording to a dispatch from Paris to| While the strikevagainst the factories the Italian press. The Italian papers find it partic- party at Bucharest, his ardent back- ers. Recent emissaries from Bucharest, among “them Nicholo Manin, former political genius of Rumania, are said to have told Carol that an indispen- sable con®ition for his return would Gomez Agent in Plea for U. S. Intervention (Continued from Page One) Arnulfo Gomég’s counter-revolution- ary staff, weré found in a deep ra- vine in the mountains of the Zongoli- day. It is supposed the. men fell from eral forces. General Marcelo Car- javes, military commander of Chihua- és i hua, arrived in thé capital today. He |and shot at Simonetti. reported Chihuahua tranquil. * i* * Capture Gomez Terrorists MONTERREY, N., L., Mexico, military garrisots here and at San Luis Potosi have trapped the band of counter-revolutionaries who dyna- mited a southbound national railway passenger train south of San Luis Potosi Tuesday with a loss of eight at the garrison here from General Angua, commanding the federal forces. The rebel band is headed by Fran- cisco Delara, famous bandit chieftain who recently joined the counter- revolutionary, faction. Although his men are weli armed, federal troops are reportedsas having the rebel band bottled up in a ravine. --Pynamite Train, Two dynamite bombs were placed on the tracks. One of the bombs exploded under a second class coach. The force of this. explosion set off |the second bomb which tore up sey- jeral yards of the track. The rebels, according to dispatches received here by National Railway ot- ears of about 100,000 pesos in gold and silver which was consigned to the Bank of Mexico in Mexico City. were wounded by the machine gun ire. $70,179 For Contractors. A sealed verdict opened Island City yesterday by Supreme Court Justice | awarded $70,179.55 to the Gotham |Construction Company, 50 Church street, Manhattan, for work done in erection of an “L” structure for the city in Corona in 1924. The tion that transit commission gineers had given faulty data neces- sitating extra expense in construc- tion. 10,000 Indian Railway Workers Locked Out (From Our Correspondent) AHMEDABAD, (By Mail).—The debate in the Legislative Assembly on the recent Kharagpur lockout of 10,000 railwaymen shows clearly how the trouble arose. The Bengal Nagpur Railway au- thorities decided in the name of re- trenchment to discharge all at once about 2,000 workmen from the Khar- agpur Railway workshops in the name of retrenchment. The workmen, who had reason to believe that it was not a bona fide retrenchment but a subtle form of re- prisal against them for their share in the recent strike, protested, and after all persuasive methods had failed, started passive resistance. To this the railway authorities replied by de- claring a general lock-out at the workshops against 10,000 workmen. Halloween Dance for Defense CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—The Billings branch of the International Labor Du- fense is giving » masquerade dance |on Saturday, October 29, at 8 P. M. at he Viking Temple, 3259 Sheffield Ave., on the School Street entrance, to help raise funds for the sending of a delegate to the Third Annual Conference of Internationa) Labor De- fense. There wil] be good music, re- freshments, dancing and prizes for best costumes. All workers are in- vited to attend. Defective U. 8. Plane Falls. DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPARTMENT 33 FIRST ST., NEW YORK NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 21. —Leo Willinger, department of com- merce pilot, failed to clear telephone wires on the Plainfield-New Bruns- wick line at the edge of Hadley Fi today and received severe lacerations be the abandonment of Mme. Lupesch. ca section in the state of Vera Cruz, it was reported unofficially here to-) caught hold of his coat and ripped it, Oct, 21.—Federal troops from the|legs. lives, aecording to a telegram received ficials, looted the express and mail| Several of the train’s troop escort) in Leong, Townsend Scudder | Gotham Construction Com- pany based its action on the conten-| en-| Gunman for Birger ~PULLMAN FIGHTS Say Carol Plans a (MURDER WORKERS | TO KEEP PORTER Fascist Uprising IN CHINA WHILE STRIKE GOES ON Kill Active—Unionists | And Communists SHANGHAT, | | | | | | \ China, Oét. 21+ of the Anglo-Americah—tohaceo—eomt- |pany continues, and pickets placed ularly significant that Carol’s action | before the factories prevent work be- came simultaneously with the immi-|ing done by strikebreakers, the” fe- nent caucus of the rich peasants’ actionary government is executing Communists and active unionists. | Fourteen Communists have . just been executed in Wuchow, Kwangsi ‘| province, after several months’ ifi- | prisonment. Among them were four | labor union leaders, and three women |students. In Kiukiang, Kiangsi | province, twelve Communists have been executed within the last three | days. 7. ‘Avella Mine Pickeks | Cut Off Production | (Continued from Page One) Yellow Dogs had stopped him on his way home from the picket. line, jand began beating him up with their |black-jacks. He broke away, ‘and ja eliff while being parsued by fed-| then one held him and the other-beat jhim. Finally he broke away again, and then one of them pulled his gun | Liickily the | Coal and Iron was: so full-of‘moon: |shine that even at such close rangé ‘he could not hit him. He was‘so near, | Simonetti says, that he could see |the flash of the shot through’ his His wife showed me ‘the: oat the had worn, all daubed: over owith | dried blood. Sart The Sheriff in Ambush. Witnesses who *came. when. they heart the shot (blackjacks are con- ‘| veniently silent) say that they saw the deputy sheriff crawl out of the bushes by the bridge with a rifle in {his hand. According to the men he must have been hiding “ready. to finish off the job.” This may seem a strange role for an office of the law, sworn to the protection of the citizens of his country and. the main- tenance of order, but. it would mot surprise anyone in-the coal regio In theory, the deputy sheriff is an impartial county official. In practice, however, the deputies are hired ‘and paid by the coal: conipanies, and in many cases are officials of the com- pany. This is the case at the Aurora mine, where the. other deputy is the mine superinterident, who “had him: self sworn in at the beginning of the lock-out. The local -here is: known.as a fighting local, and the superintend- ent wanted to make sure of having every weapon that he could Jay hands: on before attacking: it;-coal-war legal ity allows him to get them. * \Building Industry:- ~~ Accidents Growing; 179 Killed in: Month: (By Federated Press). That the construction industry™is becoming more hazardous to its work« ers is a fact brought out in the current monthly report of the New York state labor department. Reporting a total: of 68 deaths in the construction in: dustry in September the depariment | points out that this is a larger nam |ber and a*larger proportion of: the |total industrial fatalities than at any |time in two Years. Accident prevens | tion work is urged. 5 |° A total of 179 workers were killed? on the job in September in New York: state, of whom 38 per cent weré ‘evii= struction workers. Manufacturing in-’ dustries killed 41 or 23 per cent; and transportation took 25 lives, or 14 per cent of the total. : A news release from the National’ Committee for the Prevention “of Blindness, says industrial eye hazards are especially bad in this state, more: than $1,700,000 having been paid out’ in compensation to’ blinded. workexe last year. Lectures and Forums LABOR TEMPLE; 14th Street and Second Aveun THIS SUNDAY ~ 5 P. M—The Book of the M DR. G. F. BECK “The Prometheus of Shelty’* ADMISSION 25 CENTS | Tite te EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “What and Where Is God” ADMISSION FRED 8:30 P. M.—Open Forum W. E. B. DU BOIS “The Negro and the Future of America” ADMISSION FRED Pow nant enn enn ene EAST SIDE OPEN FOR near Housto! * eeerCuCiL, HEADRICK will speak on “Henry Ford and Indust Feudalism” October 28, 8:30 P. M. Admission Free. Everyone invited.)