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P @ Page Two 13,000 (Continued from Page One) not care about being given the right towvote for a c will take away them.” On the questic the workers actu: y, he brought reedom from y of the U.S cent gr produc per empire in , contrasted with which is five per of the U. S. S. R. The fact that wage: States seem higher i Ingle cent less than that now. s in the United y than does for All. the to de- y from about | in| 1927, i of seven hours or during the next year. The goods and services, the real wages, which the worker gets now in the U. S. S. R., said Douglas, are about 80 per cent greater than before the revolution. “As an é stated )Douglas. nomist will say,” “that the Russian go ment has been paying genero’ dividends to the an people The govern because it is (founded the ave gained economic Chee andidate who | was applauded by 18,000 workers when introduced by Chairman Hen: T. Hunt, former Mayor of Cincinnati. | s “We have tried machine guns, shot and shell, soldiers, and blockade the Russian workers,” Davis t out. “We must now t ethods which so far have not be ried by America, in r ‘dealin Russia,” he continued, and d ared that those methods could only those of “cooperation and friend- e hip of ten million trade unions, the Russian peo- |ple enjoy a greater, or at lea t a measure of political and i ial democracy as does Americ they cannot be ignored, said enemies ot look been endure as “No Coal and Iron Police,” Hapgood. Hapgood, a miner of the United Mine Work- a, and prominent in the defense demonstra- tions in Bost recently, told of |working in the mines of the Soviet Union two years ago. He corrobo- rated in detail all that had been said of the cultural and economic advant- , oyed by the miners of the 's’ and peasants’ state and con- n, today, wh i» ers and other on own the gc _ |nationa. HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1927 | r Delegation Report Ss. those of even three en the country was just thru the terrific famine on by invasion and blockade. iprovements worked in this he characterized as un- ry, and too great bed at present. sh Workers in Strike. overy that the elves had given the support of the and to} Their in-| es alone but erever it is R. t need, zed the fact that the n Trade Union Delega- told wherever it went in sia to tell the truth and the whole| litions, whatever they | ood or bad, and that] was trying to do this. | to Challenge Us former president of | i Workers of Ough ohn Bro p Mine workers in Soviet | and the | workers there | The American | ought to come out finitely for recogni- ““\ CELEBRATION OF TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WILL LAST AN ENTIRE WEEK yn of the tenth anni- 'y 1e Russian revolution by the workers of the United States will] last for re week, Besides the arranged for all parts » many affairs of a so- heduled. ttle and several near-by ci- ties, there will be social affairs and banquets in which workers of many} ill take tw of Chicago will pre- ers of Leningrad a chment, on which are engraved| e Wo The we |tion during its stay in Europe. Nov. 6, in the Arena Gardens with Robert Minor as the principal speak- er. speaks at Flint, Mich., and at Muske- gon on the 138th. tion of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics by the United States.” The general situation in the Soviet Union, Brophy said, shoud be a source of inspiration to the workers of America and to the whole world. To Debate Shyster Lawyer. A feature of the evening was the acceptance from the platform of a chalenge to the delegation to debate on the subject of Soviet Russia. The challenge was carried to the chair- man by J. Robert O’Brien, head of a professional strike-breaking organ- ization known as the American Con- stitutional Association, and also head of. a strike-breaking agency, was signed by Silas F. Axtel, a laweyr who attached himself to the delega- * Albert F, Coyle, speaking for the delegation, said that it would be al pleasure to accept the challenge, the only difficulty being that he did not know how many of the delegation in succession Mr. Axtel wished to take on. : Axtel, since his return to America, has been trying to get an audience| over the radio and has given. inter views to the press in which he sa “Russia is a dismal place.” BOOST THE DAILY WORKE! Detroit will hold its meeting on On'“Noy. 4th Albert Weisbord| Wm. Z. Foster speaks at Paterson, N. J., on the evening of Noy. 11th, while on the 18th H. M. Wicks speaks in Passaic and John J, Ballam at Newark. New York and Chicago. On Sunday, Nov. 6, there will be MAY BAR BEST PROOF OF FALL SINCLAIR PLOT Would Exclude First WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23. — The question before Judge Siddons in the Teapot Dome graft trial of Harry F. Sinclair and former Secretary of Sinclair will be forced to explain why he testified one way before the senate investigating committee in 1923, and alleges thru counsel a diametrically opposite contention in his present trial. The point at issue is a vital one for the defense, as the presentation of the senate committee’s records would catch Sinclair in damaging admis- sions. He told the senate that the business which brot him to the home of Fall at Three Rivers, New Mexico, in New Year’s week, 1922, was to get from him a promise to turn over Tea- pot Dome oil lease to Sinclair and h friends. Changes His Story. Events since then have made it in- cumbent on Sinclair to allege that the trip was not for the purpose first stated, but merely a friendly visit, which no Teapot Dome lease was dis- cussed, but other matters entirely. Sinclair's attorneys now insist that Harry F. Sinclair, head of the Sin- clair Oil Company, and beneficiary by the Teapot Dome lease to the extent of some ten million dollars, really thot of leasing it only much later than the New Year’s call, and after the mys- terious $257,000 had passed into Fall’s hands, and that if Fall was bribed, it could not have been by Sinclair. Fraudulent. Lease. The United States Supreme Court has already been forced to render a decision that the Teapot Dome lease Oil Man Changes Story; | the Interior Albert B. Fall, is whether | S. S. R. Causes a stir GERMAN MINERS | |not carefully applied.” | FORCED BY GOVT, | | State Department Interested. ; different phase of the Soviet an-| T0 END STRIKE | nouncement is studied—the question i} countries of Europe, and eventually onia. ’ ie \ the working class in the western’ Right Wing Leaders | eight-hour convention drawn up at the | | Washington conference of the Inter-| |League of Nations has been struggling miners’ strike, in which more than for ratifications in the parliaments of | 80,000 lignite miners participated, ‘Seven Hour Day for U.' i} (Continued from Page One) Tn the state department a wholy | of its effect on social unrest in other hemisphere. For eight years, now, the | Aid in Betrayal |national Labor Organization of the BERLIN. ck as The German |the several countries. Thus far it has|was declared to beat an end by the not been applied in any of the great| right wing leaders when the govern- industrial nations, although Germany,|ment yesterday afternoon decreed France, Italy and Belgium have ap-|that the decision of the arbitration proached that point. Trade unions|court was not subject to appeals. hour day, and general laws regulating hours have been enacted in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Lat- via, Lithuania, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and part of Rumania. There are laws covering certain indus- tries in most of the other countries of Europe. But a 7-hour day, decreed by a gov- | | jname, is worlds away from the piece- meal concessions wrested from capi- |talist lawmakers and whittled away by their courts or brushed aside by powerful employers. once the most insidious and pervasive argument that the Soviet revolution has offered to the workers outside the Soviet Republic. Soviet Workers Haye Advantage. Latest statistics from the Interna- that the workers in Great Britain who have been waiting since 1919 for ra‘ fication of the Washington 8-hour con- vention total 11,690,287. Those ;Germany number 11,810,000; in France 5,494,000; in Hungary about 500,000; in Czechoslovakia 2,099,000; 000: in Rumania about 800,000; have fought consistently for the 8-) |ernmerit which holds power for the} | organized workers and speaks in their | It becomes at | tional Labor Office at Geneva show | in Poland 2,600,000; in Sweden 1,179,- | The court had voted to award the ‘miners an 11° cent increase in y, which the is not suf- cient to enable them to live. The owners a meeting held at noon erday voted against the court’s dling; the t+ elements in the unions at a meeting held a few hours later voted to accept the terms, de- ite the militant delegates at the ;conference who yoted to continue the ' strike. Tactics of Government. Immediately after the decision of the social-democratic leaders, Minis- jter of Labor Braun made known the decision that the court’s findings | were obligatory. | The decision is regarded as an in- |dication of the methods that the j government will employ in its efforts |to curb the wave of strikes, which is sweeping over Germany. “Most of the large strikes have been won by | the workers. in| | adhe . ; ; |three bi i i hi 2 , and has re-| Holland 1,011,000; i i AN Boy ais si gi Worke of Leningrad: Across three big demonstrations in New was highly fraudulent and olland 1,011,000; in Belgium 1,48 oa rages se 36 1 power, Ae ea oceans and continents, moved by| York City at the New Star Casino voked it. Standard Oil needs the!Q00; in Italy 5,470,000; in Finland The menace of war hangs over Ste Ets ERRE OTe an Reuik ichowisuire: lay EAuaneyRUlie Ie od the Central Opera House in Man-|lease. This decision, if it becomes a|¢29.000; in Ireland 225,000; in Greece NOVER ae PMs ne 2 ate strike or locked out is the victim of Struggle against, and in your|hattan and Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. tee ae we teas aie 208,000; in Austria 1,128,000; in Den-| vince iat England by using Poland Saar hedie MOL RED, ben NaC pe Ss Pie “7H sae ate ver ozaris ; In Chie: Nov. 6, Jay Love-| make it hard enough for a jury with| mark $43,000; in Spain 1,300,000, and| Gon .. and Roumania, will attack the Rus-|the most reckless brutality by Coal glorious vic Aedakete pens re A bated pbiee Many, Gy ay Love the best intentions in the world to- 3 » risers | Sinclair sian workers, but nevertheless, the policy of the government and of the workers is to maintain peace as long as possible. Douglas described the indutrial committees elected by the workers, the shop committees, industrial dem eeracy and the arbitration commi tees appointed, not by the state, but elected by the trade unions. He thot that the peasants had not profited to the same extent as the workers, but that they too, ly improved economically and cul- turally by the revolution. “We should help, and not hurt the] “Russian Revolution,” declared Prof. Jerome Davis, of Yale University, a technical expert accompanying the First Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union as he began the verbal report of the delegation at Madison Square Garden j erday afternoon. Davis was the first speaker, and enn ene Lenin and great leader—a book on n the Party,—and a bo the road of the Russian by J. Yaroslavsky by Stali were vast- | AT MPECIAL PR With a book by Stalin Here is a splendid fascinating account of the special rate—send for them today, LENIN—His Life and Work LENINISM vs. TROTSKYISM Zinoviev-Kamenev BOLSHEVISM—Some Questions Answered and Iron police, hired by the employ- er an uniformed by the state, is as- saulted by state troopers, or by na- t 1 smen or even by federal ol¢ the ployers desire. Whereas the workers in the Soviet Union coal mines get rent free, the miners of Pennsylvania are at this |moment being riven from their |homes by agents of the coal com- panies and of the state, who tear the roofs from over their heads, run them from their doors with guns, or shut off their water supply to force | them into the weather. Even in times industrial peace, he ican miners have absolute- \ly nothing free. |"Progress Unparalleled in History.” | Robert W. Dunn, author of “Amer- jican Investments Abroad,” “The | Spy” and other books, who t to Russia as a member of the } delegation, told of the difference be tween condition of life in the U. S. | : 8 EY Bolshevism the following differences ok by Stalin pointing out Party. These three at a ie o —.20 I, Stalin —.25, All for 50 cents HY NOT ADVERTISE | | in the DAILY WORKER od > They Bring Results. OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE | Rates Are Reasonable> Advertising Offices of MAIN OFFICE— 33 East ist Street, LOCAL OFFICE Room 35, 108 East 14th Street. YORKVILLE OFFIC 354 Hast 81st Street. APPLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. | 88 FIRSTSTREET Phone Orchard i680 » NEW YORK,N. Y. The DAILY WORKER HARLEM OFFICE— 2119 3rd Avenue, BRONX. OF FICE— 2829 3rd Avenue, BROOKLYN OFFIC 46 Ten Byck Street. at 116th Street. at 149th Street, ES 21 ha wi te e won a b; in our own class our own capitali: 1 that our own v only under the ban-} certain that your) Communist construction ide and inspire us in our| we, the workers of | uggling against the chains of American capitalism, greet you, the free workers of Leningrad, on the occasion of the Tenth Anni- versary of your victory on November 7, 1917.” Meetings have ranged as follows: Minnesota Tours. St. Paul, Nov. 5; Minneapolis, Nov. $s, convine can be ner of I ss in already been ar- Duluth, Range, Nov. speaks at the above meetings. Many Ohio Meetings. On Nover ngs will be i 30 p. m. (7:30 p. m.), Bel-| 7:30 p.m. H. Scott} > meetings. N.} ‘ will speak at Hungarian| Hail, Martin’s Ferry at 2:30 the af- ternoon of Nov. 6. | On the 5th Toledo will have its cel-| ebration, On Nov. 6, in the afternoon | Dayton will have its celebration and| in the evening Cincinnatti, with T.! Johnson as speaker at both meetings. At Youngstown, Noy. 6, J. Brahtin will speak. In the evening of Nov. 6 there will be meetings at Warren and Canton. The celebration in Cleveland will be held on Sunday, Nov. 6, at Moose Hall, 1000 Wainut street with Alex- ander Bittelmann, I. Amter, E. Boich and League and Pioneer speakers. | F. Amter speaks at Akron, Nov. 15th at 60 Howard street at 2:30. | Pittsburgh and Vicinity. | The Pittsburgh meeting will be! held Sunday evening, Nov. 6, at 8 o’clock at Labor Lyceum. On Satur-| day evening, Nov. 5, Ambridge will celebrate and on Sunday afternoon at 0 there will be a meeting at Ar-| H, M. Wicks will be the speak- | nold. er at all the above meetings. Boston and Vicinity. | On Sunday, Nov. 6th, ate2 p. m.,| Boston holds its celebration with Bert} Wolfe as principal speaker. Spring-| fld and Worcester will also hold} meetings on same day. Speakers to| » announced later. Philadelphia and Anthracite. , The Ph | held Friday, tute, 808 Loc F, Dunne and Jack Stachel as speak- | ers. Willi Dunne will speak at} Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, Nov. 5. | Connecticut Celebrations. { Stamford, New Haven and Bridge- | port will have meetings on Nov. 6! and Hartford on Nov. 11. All meet-! ings are in the evening except) | Bridgeport which is in the afternoon. | Waterbury will hold its celebration on Nov. 5. Many Other Meetings. | Kansas City will have its meeting} |Nov. 7th and Omaha Nov. 8th, with | Jay Lovestone as speaker at both |places. Stanley Hall will also speak at Kansas City. Buffalo will have its celebration at the Workers Party Hall on Noy. 6, in the evening, while Erie, Pa., will hold its meeting in the afternoon, ‘with Pat Devine at both ha adelphia meeting will be| 4th, at Labor Insti- | Ave., with William | Y|been arranged ‘but no definite date ‘| as soon as it is received, stone will be the principal speaker. A number of other meetings have has been assigned them. Among them are Denver and Pueblo, Colo., at which Hugo Oehler will speak; Butte and Great Falls, Mont., where Stanley Clark will speak. Baltimore will have a meeting that is not yet completely arranged. Meetings up-state are being ar- ranged for Pat Devine at Rochester, Syracuse, Schenectady and other places. Further information regarding meetings, halls, speakers, etc., will be published in The DAILY WORKER ward Sinclair to acquit him. If Sin- elair’s own admission before the sen- ate committee, contradicting his pres- ent story is allowed before them, their position will be painful in the extreme. Therefore the long argument over the immunity granted statements before the senatorial committee investigating the fraudulent lease, and the judge’s deliberation upon it. A ruling is cx- pected Monday. Some May Talk.’ The first week of the trial has ended without any of the more im- portant witnesses taking the chair. Among those expected to testify are |Col. Robert Stewart, chairman of di- |retcors of the Standard Oil of New | Jersey, now, but at one time a direc- READY In time for the November 7th meetings in all parts of the country. Ue A New Boox THE The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia By J. Louis Encpaui The first ofva series of new publications to be issued by The Workers Library Pub- lishers. With GREETINGs to Ameri- can workers on the 10th Anniversary of Soviet Rus- sia from Ka.enin, presi- dent of the Soviet Union. The Tenth Y ear—in a new attractive edition of the Workers Library will be off the press next week.” 154 ORDER NOW From 33 First St, New York. tor of the elusive Continental Trading |Co., which mixed in the Teapot Dome {leasing and from which $230,500 has | been traced to Falls bank account’ and | safety deposit boxes. | Former Senator Chas. S. Thomp- |son, of Colorado, who drew up the | Continental Company’s guarantee con- |tract, and Senator Thomas of the Mexico-Texas Land and Oil Company, |partakers in the wash sale of the | lease, will be called, and may or may not tell what they know of the affair. It looks like a long trial. The prose- eution has not thus far shown any | inclination to probe the reported im- | plication of President Harding in the oil seandal. APE, WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and his brother Archie, who was employed in Harry Sinclair’s New York office when the Teapot Dome naval oil scandal broke out, four years ago, are to testify in the Fall- Sinclair conspiracy trial in the dis- trict federal court in Washington. That the sons of the former presi- dent and conservation enthusiast will be given more limelight than they desire, when they explain their part in the intrigues that led up to the fraudulent oil leases and to the final exposure before the senate commit- tee, is assumed by the prosecution and the public. Extraordinary per- sonal and social pressure was used, during the senate inquiry, to keep “Young Theodore” in the background when Denby, his chief, was walking the plank. Brother Gets Fat Job. Archibald Roosevelt was given a job with the Sinclair concern in New York when Theodore, jr., held a biock of Sinclair stock and was assistant secretary of the navy. When Sen. Walsh of Montana, in Christmas week, 1923, secured startling evidence of the oil fraud conspiracy while on a trip to Palm Beach, Fla., to inter- view Fall and E. B. McLean of the Washington Post, Archie became alarmed. He telephoned Theodore in | Washington, who went to see him and advised him to come before the senate committee and testify. Archie and Theodore appeared together, at a hastily-summoned meeting of the committee, and Archie told of the gifts made by Sinclair to Fall, and the mystery of a sudden trip by Sinclair to Europe when the news of Walsh’s discoveries was published. Archie thought that Sinclair had fled abroad. Later in the investigation it was shown that Theodore, jr., had signed, as acting secretary of the navy, a letter to naval officers enjoining secrecy as to the construction of bor so on, These millions of workers, their | hopes of a short workday too long} deferred or denied, are the critical human material in either peace or civil war in Europe. Factory equip- ment in most cf their countries is} better than in Russia. Politicians fear that they will now challenge capital- ist Europe to give them the 7-hour day. serve tankage for naval oil. This | (@) R D E R was one of the points in the Fall-; Sinclair deal. Martin Littleton, chief |} counsel to Sinclair, stated on October |! § i 20 in court that young Roosevelt told | the press that his part in it was mere- | ters of reserve of fuel was a policy | | : of the department at all times. Walsh committee on the ground that! he might incriminate himself. Sin- |} B O oO KS ity of the committee and was sen- | tenced for contempt. He appealed |}! and Pamphlets pending. Before he adoptetd this policy of silence, which was due to} and DISTRIBUTION on the had delivered $100,000 to Fall, Sin- | clair told the senate committee that Mexico to consult Fall comcernin, ig the Teapot Dome lease proposal. In ing to keep this testimony out of the record. | $2.50 CLOTH BOUND The DAILY WORKER PUB. 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