The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1927, Page 1

ay THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGAFIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FoR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 243, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outsice New i cia, vy mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents COLORADO PICKETS SMASH JOHN D.'S GUNMAN LINE ANGER OF NEW WORLD WAR DEFINED! BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY U.S. Labor Party Based on Trade Unions Urged | in Election Program Points to Police Brutality, Injunctions, Traction and Housing Evils Emphasis is laid on the war danger and the connection of the New York elections with the international and national struggles of the working class in the statement and program issued today by William Weinstone, organizer of District 2, Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. “The American working class is being mobilized for imper- ialist war,” the statement says. The fact that both Governor Smith and Charles Edward Hughes are mentioned prominently as the heads of the democrat and republican party tickets for 1928 is mentioned as showing the important role played by the New York capitalists. Wall Street as the center of world finance lends additional signifi- cance to elections in New York, the statement says. Bara oe rh Police Brutality. | Attention is called to the police HEAD OF BRITISH brutality under the present admini- | stration of the state and New York |city which has been an outstanding |feature of all strikes in the last two |years. The Baumes laws are charac- |terized as “a powerful reactionary , ‘instrument for use against the whole |stratum of the poorer section of the SPIES IN USSR, ee | The open use of the city authority Nae wees to prevent organization of the trac- Trial in Moscow Proves | tion workers and the appearance of _ |the frame-up system in the needle Espionage There | trades strugges are shown as evidence : (of increasing reaction. MOSCOW, Oct. 24.—Today’s sit-) ting of the high court in the trial of the British spies, the Public Prose-| eutor Kondrushkin pointed out that thru his own statements the accused | had proven beyond doubt that espion-| age against the Union sof Socialist Soviet. Republics liad. centered in the British mission at Moscow. Hodgson, head of the British mis- sion, personally directed the work of the spies with the coopeation of Charnoks and other officials of the mission. The trial further shows that Brit- ish imperialism is exerting all efforts to destroy the Soviet Power. The espionage for which the British mis- sion sought agents in circles of the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois intel- lectuals is one of such means. Kondrushkin demanded capital pun- ishment of the brothers Prove, of | The increasing use and the growing viciousness of injunctions in all labor struggles is shown by the report to be further evidence of the use of the state power against the labor move- ment and also of the failure of the official labor leadership to establish a labor party but instead continues its policy of supporting’ the capitalist parties. The Role of Socialist Party. Relative to the socialist party the statement says: “There has been set up in New York state by the socialist party lead- ership, as part of its national policy, an open and shameless alliance with the most reactionary section of A. F. of L. officialdom. The frame-ups, sluggings, wholesale raids and ar- rests, injunctions against the rank and file, imprisonment of hundreds of strikers and pickets, the open use of Korepanov, formerly jurisconsult of Umen and gangsters, the war on the revolutionary military council, and of Nanov, who was an official of the war department. He asked imprisonment for Podreskov, who was an official of the war depart- ment. The high court passed sentence of capital punishment en the brothers Prove and upon Korepanov, and gave a two-year jail sentence each to Nan- ov and Podreskov. * * * LONDON, Oct. 24.—According to a rumor being circulated here, negotia- tions for a solid anti-Soviet bloc of European powers are under way. Great Britain is playing the leading role. Britain’s offer to satisfy the imperial ambitions of Germany and Italy are said to make the possibility of an agreement in the near future possible. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, is reported to have discussed the proposed agreement with Briand, Primo de Rivera, Span- ish dictator and German and Italian) epresentatives. | Gy Tey Workers of Arbuckie | Sugar Refinery Must Toil 13 Hours Daily (By }a Worker Correspondent.) That Brooklyn workers today are, forced to work shifts of from 11 to 13, hours may seem astounding news to; most Brooklyn residents. But. these | are the actual conditions that obtain | in the Arbuckle Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn. Outside of the actual refinery de- partment, the shipping department and mechanics have an 11-hour day.| The night shift is 13 hours long for many. Firemen work in a blazing boiler room for 8 hours. , The Arbuckle Sugar Refinery is one of three sugar refineries in) Brooklyn. Conditions there are typi- cal of the sugar industry in Brook- And for this long day of slavery! under the most exacting conditions, the pay is pitifully inadequate. La- borers get 46 cents an hour. Me- chanics get little more. Women get @ pittance of 30 cents an hour. Need it be added that we workers in the sugar industry have no union? militant trade unionism that has been carried on in the needle trades for the last two years in cooperation with the government, the bosses and the police, all have received the sanction and open support of the socialist par- ty leadership.” “In the field of social legislation the socialist leaders appear,” says the statement, “as a reformist veil for the absolute reaction which continues to make the policy of the labor move- ment that of support of the capitalist parties.” New York City is characterised as “the worst slum center in the United States,” with school children of work- ers’ families underfed and teachers underpaid. “Graft and corruption re- sulting in high prices and poor qual- ity of food used by workers” is shown to be inseparable from the capitalist party city and state administrations. Under the head of “Proposals for United Action” the New York Dis- trict of the Workers (Communist) Party says: ~ Proposals For United Action. “1. We stand first of all for the | organiation of a labor party based on the trade unions and including all | workers’ organizations and_ political parties supporting a minimum pro- gram agreed upon and opposing the ism in all election campaigns. “Pending the establishment of a labor party we’ propose a united labor (Continued on Page Five) ‘Gold Gitlow. Weinstone. Address Needle Trades Rally Tomorrow Night Principal speakers at a needle trades mass meeting of the Work- ers (Communist) Party tomorrow at 6 p. m., at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St., will be Ben} Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board; Benjamin Git- low, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for assembly, fourth dis- trict, the Bronx; M. J. Olgin, edi- tor, The Hammer; Charles S. Zim- merman of the Cloak and Dress- makers’ Joint Board and William W. Weinstone, district organizer of ee Workers Party. ‘Saertine Court Hurries | Appeal to Release Rich Man Convicted of Rape WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — The supreme court today granted the petition of Arthur Rich, son of a wealthy Battle Creek, Mich., manu- facturer, to advance for hearing his appeal from conviction in Michigan on a charge of assault on Miss Louise King. Rich is now serving a life sentence. The case was set je oral argument on November 21. GROCERY UNION SINS CONTRACT WITH 176 BOSSES 75 Per Cent of Workers Return_to Jobs More than 75 per cent of the mem- bers of the Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union who struck yesterday morning returned to work in the af- ternoon with their employers’ signa- tures on union contracts, the union strike committee reported last night. About 100 new members also joined the union yesterday and volunteered for picket duty, the committee said. L. Rosenberg, a picket, was arrest- ed yesterday afternoon in the Bronx. He was later released on $500 bail charged with disorderly conduct and is scheduled for a hearing in the Fifth District Magistrates Court, 161 St. and Brook Axe., the Bronx, this morning. Strike headquarters are at the Har- lem Educational Center, 62 East 106th St. The union terms are a renewal of the old contract which calls for a imum wage of $38 weekly and 57 work a week. Contracts for 1927-28 have already been signed by 176 employers. Reasons Given Why Trotsky Is Ousted By Party Central (Special Cable to Daily Worker). MOSCOW, Oct. 24.—The following is the text of the resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party in regard to the ex- pulsion of Zinoviev and Trotsky from the Central Committee: “The joint plenary meeting of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission in August, 1927, showed the utmost tolerance and con- ciliation in regard to Trotsky and Zinoviev, having ‘given these comrades the possibility to keep the obligation which they undertook on the %th of August to abandon factional strife, and having confined itself to making a last warning. “However Trotsky and Zinoviev once again deceived the party-and most grossly broke their own promises, not enly refusing to eliminate ‘the ele- ments of factional strife’ but, on the contrary, bringing factional strife against the Party and against Party unity to a measure bordering upon the creation of a new anti-Leninist party jointly with bourgeois intellectuals, “Therefore the joint plenary meet- ing of the Central Committee and the Gentral Control Commission further resolves to submit to the Fifteenth Party Congress for examination all data in regard to the factional activi- ee | | | | | | |political parties of American capital-|tieg of the leadérs of the Trotsiyist opposition (organizing illegal anti- party printing office for the purpose of destroying the Party, formation of the bloc with the renegades, Maslow, Ruth Fischer and Souvarine for the purpose of destroying the Comintern, etc.), as well as Smirnov’s group.” Speed-up In New England. from the production of cotton to silk on a large scale is the opinion of the Massachusetts Utilities Investment Trust that has just completed an in- tensive study of the subject. New ma- chinery is being installed and old ma- chinery and buildings are being scrapped for faster and greater pro- duction, i Aviation and Real Estate. Tentative plans for the creation of a class “A” passenger, mail and ex- press airport in Westchester County were announced yesterday by the air- port committee of the Westchester County Realty Board, | ARMED WORKERS PURSUE REMAINS OF GOMEZ ARMY Legion Delegates Greet Morrow at Train MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24.—More than a hundred workers, employed in the Santa Rosa cotton mills, have taken up arms and joined the agrarians now cooperating with the federal. troops in a campaign against remnants of the counter-revolutionary Gomez arm- ies, it was learned today. A counter-revolutionary band. under | Genera] Lozada, was dislodged from its position in the mountains near Orizaba by agrarian troops, operating | under General Jesus Aguirre. Daniel Cruz, bandit leader, who attacked a train on Au- gust 23rd has been killed by federal troops. according to reports received from Mazaltan. * * * Legion Greets Morrow. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24.—Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico and formerly a partner in the House of Morgan, took charge of his post today. Morrow arrived on a spe- cial train from Laredo late yesterday and was greeted by delegations from the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion. Wholesale Murder reactionary { BERTRAM D. WOLFE. Workers Party candidate for assem- bly from Brooklyn. BROOKLYN WAGE WORKERS URGED TO SHOW POWER ‘Workers Party Points to Polls Nov. 8 WOMAN LEADS 150 TO BERWIND AND CALLS OUT WORKERS IN THREE MINES \Production Falls As County Commissioners Debate Calling of State Troopers Large Mass Meetings Extend Strike in Spite of Attempts to Awe Workers By Arrests TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 24.—One hundred and fifty striking. coal miners, led by Sunda Benas, a woman, today marched up a mountain canyon to Berwind, 15 miles north of here, broke thru a line of mine guards and deputy sheriffs and succeeded in hold- ing a meeting of the men in the three mines near Berwind who then joined the strikers. ; The woman leader was finally arrested, but the miners charged the sheriff’s automobile, effecting her release. In a melee, when Frank Sanders, mine guard, tried to stop the woman and her followers, Sanders was struck by one of the marching miners. He was not seriously hurt. Sixteen picketers were reported arrested in this district. Informations were. filed in district court against Kristen Svanum, I. W. W. leader, charging in-®— citing to picketing, and his pending arrest is expected to increase the ten- L sion. | Concentrate In South. WALSENBURG, Colo., Oct. 24.—| Satisfied that the miners in the northern coal fields of Colorado are DESPITE CROM sued orders for a special effort to! eee make the southern fields’ strike one| hundred per cent effective. Local Governor Helps coming out in greater and greater numbers, the strike committee has is- | With just a week of successful i Y } j |strike behind them, the miners con-! Militant Workers * * * ) | | Candidates of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the Nov. 8 election in Brooklyn will represent the demand of the militant section of the organ- Of Nicaraguans to Continue, Is Order ized workers of Brooklyn for improved housing conditions, for improved \factories and for the industrial and a political solidarity ofall workers. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (FP).—} Bertram D. Wolfe, former New Answering the statement of Amer- York City high school teacher, now ican mining engineers in northern director of the Workers School, 108 E. | working conditions in the mills and | Nicaragua that the entire population in certain regions of the republic is sympathetic with the native forces that are resisting the American con- quest, Secretary of State Kellogg de- clared on October 22 that these na- tive forces are simply outlaws and bandits. He was reminded that the navy’s own reports show that 540 of the Nicaraguans have been killed by American marines and constabulary since May 4—the date when Special Commissioner Henry N. Stimson an- nounced that Nicaragua was “paci- fied.” He was asked whether the American policy of killing these na- tive Nicaraguans would continue, re- gardless of the extent of the uprising in future. Calls Liberals “Outlaws.” Kellogg refused to reply to this question, but asserted that even Gen. Moncada, former Liberal commander, agrees that the armed forces led by Gen. Sandino are “common outlaws.” Moncada is about to consult Kellogg as to his chances in the Nicaraguan presidential election of next year, Furriers T, U.E.L, In Large Meeting: Girl Is Arrested Developments in the fur industry last night and yesterday included a Trade Union Educational meeting at Manhattan Lyceum and the arrest of a member of the union for distribut- ing leaflets in the fur market. The meeting last night was ar- ranged by the furriers’ section of the Trade Union Educational League. Ben- | jamin Gitlow, secretary of the needle trades section of the T. U. E. L., told the assembled workers that socialist party members and American Federa- tion of Labor officials acted as agents That New England is changing|of the employers in the struggle against the fur workers. Gitlow told of the 1926 fur strike and said the right wing attempted to break it, their failure to do so result- ing in better conditions for the work- ers in the industry. Louis Cohen pre- sided at the meeting. Dora Kaplan was arrested at noon yesterday at Sixth Ave. and 27th St., while distributing copies of an open letter to Edward F. McGrady, special A. F. of L. representative attached to the International Fur Workers’ Union, from the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union. When brot before Magistrate Jean Norris in the Jetfer- son Market Court she was fined $0. 14th St., New York, is the Workers Party candidate for the assembly in the twenty-third Brooklyn district. Alfred Wagenknecht, who was strike- time chairman of the Central Relief Committee in Passaic, N. J., is the Farty candidate for Kings county |sheriff. Teachers’ Union Members Runs. Ray Ragozin, member of the Teach- ers’ Union, former New York City school teacher and now an instructor in economics at the Wogkers School, is candidate for Kings county clerk. Pen Lifshitz, of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, is candidate for ithe Board of Aldermen from the fif- tieth aldermaniec district of Brooklyn. Chester W. Bixby, of the Shce Work- ters’ Protective Union, is candidate for assembly from the sixth Brooklyn as- ‘sembly district. Anthony Bimba is candidate for dis- trict attorney, Carrie Katz for regis- trar and George Primoff for alder- man from the forty-ninth aldermanic district. For Their Own Class. These candidates in their campaign |are voicing the opposition of the wage \earners to the outlawing of unions by injunctions. Through The DAILY Py é | tinued with perfect morale and great | (Special to the DAILY WORKER) determination to picket in spite of every effort of the company gunmen} and deputy sheriffs. The coal pro- duction of Colorado reached some point near to zero at the end of last | week, and. a hastily summoned con- ference of Huerfano county commis- sioners is being held to decide on the best method of “controlling” thé walk-out. The present decision is to not call state troopers or militia un- |til the larger force of deputies being |sworn in can try its luck at suppress- ing picketing. More Vote To Strike. A large number of mass meetings of miners not yet on strike were ad- dressed by members of the strike committees and in practically every case voted to tie up the mines, de- clared Roger Francezon, chairman of the General Executive Board of the I. W. W., which issued the call for the strike. Francezon predicts that within a few days every mine without excep- tion will be shut down. ae peg Women and Babe Jailed. WALSENBURG, Colo., (FP) Oct. 25.—Twenty miners wives, one with a babe in arms, were among 60 pic- kets arrested at the Ideal mine in thi |vicinity in the drive by county an company authorities to stop the mass strike movement that already num~- bers 8000 in all Colorado fields and that is esulting in the daily closing {of new mines. ' Two mines were chosen for the |picket drive and written instructions {concerning duties ‘and location were | given each of the 500 pickets as they | WORKER all have joined in an ap-|left the headquarters of the Indus- |peal to Brooklyn workers to march! trial Workers of the World, the or- |te the polls Nov. 8 to cast their votes | ganization leading the walkout. They for them, for the Workers Party pro- | succeeded in closing down the Cam- \gram and for their own class. “We are calling attention to the constant use of police and militia|cern, but were met at the Ideal mine, | against workers on strike, when vio-| another C. IF. I. property, by a large | jeron mine, belonging to the Colorado 'Fuel & Iron Co., a Rockefeller con- | MEXICO CITY, (By Mail)—To- | wards the end of August the radical mine workers of Jalisco, belonging to the local state federation, drove out the non-union elements recently introduced. by the companies owning the Amparo mines. They seized the mines, and under the leadership. of two Communists, David Siqueiros and Reyes Peres, established an armed guard over the property, pending guarantees that the non-union work- ers would not be restored, that the company would treat with the ma- jority, would grant wage increases and certain safety devices. The workers introduced by the com- pany were agents of the CROM and the Catholic unions who were hastily organized and admitted into the CROM. The action was partly due | to the desire of the companies to | break the radical unions; and partly to the determination of CROM to get a foothold in the mining industry, since most of the miners were out- side of CROM. Boss Propaganda. To the same end, a national decree was issued earlier taking the solu- tion of all miners’ strikes out of the hands of local governors and vesting t in the Department of Industry, Sommerce and Labor, i.e. under tha | direct control of Morones and CROM.. | To meet the situation the mine j workers in Jalisco seized the mines. In this they were aided by the armed peasants of the vicinity. The mine workers, seeing themselves out-man- euvered, had recourse to diplomatie channels and sent out extravagant jStories of “red revolts” and “danger to foreign residents.” Morones at the same time demanded that the CROM workers, who he declared to be in the maj , but menaced jthe combined ce of the arm workers and peasants, be reinstated, Governor Aids Workers. It seems certain that Calles ordered lence is always directed particularly |force of armed company thugs who|the sending of troops and the dig lagainst pickets, the shock troops of ‘a striking union,” Wolfe said last night. “We are urging the formation in Brooklyn of a united labor ticket both as an instrument of immediate day-to-day power and as a concrete advance toward a workers’ and farm- ers’ government,” | Traction Workers Need Union. The Party’s Brooklyn candidates are stressing the need among Brook- lyn car workers for a union, as a means of raising theid wages and de- | (Continued on Page Five) Capital Centralized In Ten Corporations York Stock Exchange have a market valuation above the half billion mark. with $2,305,000,000; American Tele phone and Telegraph, $1,951,000,000 General Electric, $988,000,000; Stan- dard Oil of New York, $966,000,000: Du Pont, $891,000,000; Woolworth, $729,000,000; Pennsylvania Railroad, $669,000,000; New York Central, $648,000,000, and Consolidated Gas, $514,000,000, A Ten corporations listed on the New| In order they are: General Motors | theld the pickets under cover of |weapons until the deputies arrived land arrested 60. | Bonds For Pickets. Bonds of $500 eac behalf of the 17 pi yosted in ted and held since the seco day of strike for violation of a state law i 1 unless But pick of 500, in- still stand- many wor tch ¢ Aguilar ar County 1e vicinity of ing w king ap- vle them | propr |to sw ugh deputies to handle the 1 r of pickets. The | Col Iron Co. has an- n s intention of asking th |aid of state police. * * . CHICAGO, (FP), Oct. 24.—The fexican consul at Denver is engag- «@ in strikebreaking activities, char- the | (Continued on Page Three) Testify Petlura | Stlaughtered Jews To Extort Money | | PARIS, Oct. 24.—That General Pet- |lura, White Guard leader, personally erdered the wholesale murder of ; thousands of Jews in the Ukraine, was charged today by Morris Gold- tein, president of the commission that | investigated the Ukrainian pogroms, jat the trial of Samuel Schwartzbard, ;who admitted killing ,Petlura, “to avenge the Jewish massacres.” “General Petlura demanded ran- United States Stcel, $1.067,000,000;| ges the Industrial Workers of the} som from Jews,” Goldstein testified. World in a protest addressed to Pres, | “If they were unable to pay, the men’s Calles of Mexico. Lee Tulin, general | beards were shaved off and they were secretary of the I.W.W., charges the|made to dance for the amusement of Mexican consul advised Mexican-born | their soldiers. Women were mistreat- strikers in the Colorado coal fields}ed as well as men. After an orgy that “to continue the strike might| lasting overnight the Jews were shot (Continued on Page Two) down like dogs,” +