The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1927, Page 1

RRS ae —~ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWITATION OF THR | UNORGASIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WEEK FOR 4 LABOR PARTY THE ALLY WORKE Entered as sccond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. | FINAL CITY | EDITION Vol. IV. No. 244. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1927 Published dafiy except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 23 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents THOUSANDS WILL ENDORSE LABOR’S ELECTION TICKET The Mine: Miners’ Strike in the Colorado Pr Press Feet above. the fhe cen level Pucblo Citizens: Good Health, Worker Party Speakers | to Lead Rallies | Beginning tonight four large indoor | meetings of workers in addition to | two “Red Night” outdoor programs} in Harlem and Brownsville will be} held in the New York district for the! purpose of endorsing cardidates of | the Workers (Communist) Party in| the election Nov. 8. | The first indoor rally of this series | of addresses and demonstrations wil) ‘be held immediately after working | hours tonight at Bryant Hail, Sixth Ave., between 41st and 42d Sis.| Among members of the Workers! Party who will speak on the subject | of labor unity are Ben Gold, leader of; the left wing furriers; Mossaiye 4.) Olgin, whose twenty-fifth anniversary | of activity on behalf of the labor | movement has just been widely cele- | brated, and Ben Gitlow, the Party jeamdidate for the assembly in the! fourth assembly district, the Bronx, Gitlow’s pame is to be written on! the ballot by workers in a mass pro-} (Continued on Page Five) GOMEZ CARRIES BUNDLE OF U.S. CASH IN FLIGHT Regarded as as Evidence} of American Backing | MEXICO CITY, Oct. 25.—After the defeat of the counter-revolution- ary Gomez-Almada forces, General Gomez fled with only fifteen foliow- ers and with $10,000 in American currency in his pockets, eccording to Luis G. Higgins, formerly private seeretary to General Serrano, reac- tionary leader. The large sum of| American currency in Gomez's pos-| session is regarded as an indication | that Gomez had the financial back- ing of powerful American interests. | Desperate fighting between Mex- ican federals and on the Orizaba| Mountain region of Vera Cruz was re-| ported here tonight. Losses have been heavy on both sides. The engagement opened last Sat- urday when the federals made a drive against Gomez and the few men that remained with him after he had beon defeated a week earlier. Apparently the Lozanda forces, who have long had almost undisputed command of the mountain region, joined with the | Gomistas to threw the federals back. SINCLAIR KNEW OIL LAND VALUE WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — Harry F. Sinclair in 1922 placed a valuation of $88,000,000 on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease, for the con- summation of which he and former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall sxe charged with criminal conspiracy, the trial developed today. The defense has contended the lease was a profitless burden which was undertaken for patriotie motives. The jury learned this from the min- utes of a board of directors of the frjaclair Consolidated Oil Company at. wh.'ch Sinclair effected a transfer of stoci, making that company a stock- hol in his Mammoth Oil Company, whieh operated Teapot Dome. Col Theodore Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, mean- while waited to take the stand. The Fall-Sinclair defense itself charges Roosevelt issued orders to keep Teapot Dome lease a dark secret. Tea Peking Students i Executed By Chang, Scores Under Arrest PEKING, Oct. 25.—One girl and! nine men students were executed and scores of other Chinese stu-| dents in Peking universities were! arrested today in furtherance of Marshal Chang Tso-lin’s campaign’ against nationalists and especially: Communists. The northern war lord is under- stood to have resolved upon drastic persecution of Communists within} his dominion of north China. } The girl and her ning compan: ions were executed in the temple of Heaven Ground. | cs ny National Guard May Be Called to City After Latest ‘Four Thousa Flare-Up Between Business Strike Promoters Is Rumor Walsenburg Strike ; er Belieyed Smashed Southern ‘oalsca out lw. w, fered ts ae agile 2 We oc rade is dri oe on in| PP Tenancy pig havb been 2 ; of citizens, ry | PUEBLO, COLORADO, MONDAY, OCTOBER .17, 1927. / OOLon Men and sanrel— ORGANIZATION MEMBERS WALK OY FORCIBLY DEPORTED E VIGILANCE COMMITT: © Che Vurhlo Chieftain 0 Fim al Corner OF SOUTHER ws SPREADS *S DistRiey Pages Today ot Reali t [MWA Amys ITATORS sof t WALSENBURG ROUTS I. W. W, AGI | 169,015 Pasa | Denver's Me Denver Post Circulation September Sunday {/ 259,384 |! Popatstion, 1927, Over 325,000 i FA Din The Clearly Class Character of the Struggle Fields Is Reflected in the Press. op a se BB» in the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Cecal The Vicious and Vioient Form of the Drive on the Miners and the Members of the I. W. W., Who are Leading the First Strike in the Rockefeller Mines Since the Ludiow Massacre in 1912, Is Graphically Depicted i in the Headlines Above. ECONOMY PLANS MADE AT PARTY MEETIN MOSCOW Explain Expulsion of Trotsky, Zinoviev (Special Cable to The DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Oct. 25.—Outlining its activities and explaining the ex- puleion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee of the All Union Communist Party, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission made public the following statement: “From the twenty-first to the twenty-third of October of the current | year, the joint plenary session of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union, work- ing with members of the Central Auditing Commission met. Plan National Economy. “The plenary meeting examined and approved with amendments the proposals of the special commissions at the plenary meeting and the theses proposed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on the ques- tions on the agenda of the Fifteenth Party Congress. “Among the questions considered are: first, directions for the drawing up of the five year national economy plan; second, work in the villages. “The plenary meeting further heard the report of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission and re- garding the factional activities of Trotsky and Zinoviev since the August plenary meeting of the Cen- tral Committee and the Central Con- trol Commission and decided on the expulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee. Criticize Opposition Stand. “In view of the disagreement of the Opposition leaders with the mani- festo of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Soviet Union, partic- ularly with the article dealing with the tragsition to a seven hours work- ing day, the Plenary meeting of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission deemed it neces- sary to take up this question and in a special resolution recognized the correctness both of the initiative of (Continued on Page Four) Window Cleaners Winning. Ten more window cleaning bosses have settled with the Window Cleaa- ers’ Protective Union, affiliated with the Building Service Workers’ Inter- aational Union. The strike of 900 window cleaners is now in its fourth week and to date about 40 employers, with nearly 200 workers affected, have been brougtt into line. The union demands recognition and the $45 a week wage—a $3 increase. Work Daily for the Daily Worker! * Chief Inspector of De. Law Held for Statutory Offense on Little Girl WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25. —William B. Robinson, chief in- spector of the Federal Prohibition Service resigned under fire today. Robinson is held under charges of committing a statutory offense against a nine-year old girl. He is out on $5,000 bonds. The nature of the acts committed upon the child call for the death pesality in Maryland. They are said to have continued thru a peviod of four months. The father of the girl is an army officer who has been a close friend of Robin- son’s. Robinson has a son who is also an army officer and a 4 Seacuaye of West Point. a ee SS EET oe Morgan Chooses His Foreign Sales Man To Lead U, §. Steal The House of Morgan has chosen as head of the United States Steel Corporation James A. Farrell, six four year old president of a subsi corporation, the United States Steel Products Co. J. P. Morgan took him from the subsidiary company, after calling him up to the Morgan home for a two hours’ inspection, and had him made president of the steel trust. That was seventeen years ago. Now he has been moved up into the higher office of chairman of the board of directors. Emphasizes Foreign Trade. The choice of Farrell is said to in- dicate the shifting in the outlook of the steel trust, one of the key cor- porations in the American industrial structure. For Farrell has been con- nected intimately with foreign, not domestic, trade thruout most of his career. His Pittsburgh Wire Co., the first corporation he headed, before the formation of the trust, sold half its product abroad in the panic year of 1892. Always Sold Abroad. When the Pittsburgh Wire Co. be- came a part of the American Steel and Wire Co., in 1899, Farrell became foreign sales manager. After ‘this too was merged with the United States Steel Corporation, Farrell handled the foreign commerce of the trust. The United States Steel Pro- ducts Co. was created entirely to deal in the foreign markets in the products of Morgan’s steel trust. As president of the United States Steel Co., Far- rell continued to devote his time to foreign trade. Dividend Granted. Therefore the selection of just Par- rell and none other for the chairman- (Continued on. Page Two) } TO HELP WORKERS IS UNITY SLOGAN Postpone ILGW Picket Cases in Chicago makers, Oressmakers and Furriers is- |sued an wepea! yesterday urging all ve enable the left wing to “defeat fiscism {n the trade union move- ment.” The a‘peal is signed by Louis retary. “Thraomt the past 11 months,” |reaes, “the bureaucr “ey of the s-edle trades has received the moral and financial support of all reactionary forces of +his corntry. Sigman trans- ferved $) 10.000 froia the cloak and and the “Forward” has contributed thousands to help force the yoke @ elavery on the great mass of our workers. in the cloak industry and the miser- able conditions that have resulted from this sriminal war, the workers ef our unions have deprived them- selves of the necessities of life so as to finance the struggle. Need Assistance. “Now, comrades, we have reached the point where, due to the dull sea- some impossivie for our workers te s@x the burden of this great strug- we which involves the lives and des- workers but the labor movement as 2 | whole without assistance from the werkers of other trades. There are| thousands of workers thruout the wantry who understand the vital is- 4aes at stake and have generously supported our cause. “Pay your one dollar tax immedi- ately and help win the struggle of the (eoneenued on Page Five) $1 TAX PAYMENT The Unity Committee of the Cloak- | |rilitant workers to pay a dollar tax | Hyman, chairman, and Ben Gold, sec- | dress unemployment insurance frmd | In spite of the long and bitter strike | sem end demvralizataion, it has be- | tmies not only of the needle trade | Outbreak C: Cais Cutting | of Roumanian Telegraph Wires to Neighbor Staie BERLIN, Oct. 25.—The veil that martial law and official emirate | | placed between the world and Rou- { mania developments became al blank wall at 9 o’clock tonight | when telegraph and telephone cor- | nections between Bucharest and| Belgrade were cut. H The last word to reach ae | before the break told of a mani-| festo isswed by General Averscu’s| party strongly protesting against | the arrest of former Minister! Manoilescu and denouncing as il-) | |legal the government of Premier} Bratiano. | The Bratiano government ar- rested Manoilescu at the frontier and confiscated from him letters | |from former Crown Prince Carvl, him on the throne. | Massed troops formed about the government buildings to support Premier Bratianu’s demand that the opposition declared its ie alty to the infant monarch. An ef- | | ficiai proclamation warned of the fuse nore measures” to suppress Employes Must Pay “Red Cross” | WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Rear ‘Admiral Charles P. Plunkett yielded | gracefully to the American Red Cross | itaatter of the solicitation of member- \ships inside the Brooklyn navy yard, With the full consent of Admiral Plunkett, commandant of the yard, a Red Cross worker will be stationed there this year as in the past to solicit memberships from civilian employes In his gesture towards barring the Red Cross from the yard, Admiral |Plunkett was making @ coneession to ¥. Rutaenserg memorial film will 16th street and Irving Pkct, Sund: and the films will ran continuously’ and conditions in Soviet Russia, It but a major picture. 106 University Place. They should “RED RUSSIA” AND RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL | FILMS TO OPEN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Red Russia, a film showing conditions in Soviet Russia. and the C. the | mass entimer nt of civilians. ij be shown at the I.ving Piura Bali, | lay. The doors will opm at 2 p. m. | until 9 p. m. | The Ruthenberg funeral procession will recall vividly the profundity of the loss suffered by the workers of this country when he died less, than a year ago ‘and will scrve to remind the audience that his militant activity is being energetically carried on by his comrades, “Red Russia” is the most comprehensive film record yet made of life is not a mere fragmentary news reel | The picture will be introduced by Workers (Communist) Party syeak-! ers and will mark the opening of the celebration here of the rere) Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. \ WALSENBURG, Colo., | | | whose friends are seeking to place| | JAILS ARE FILLED IN COLORADO Mag BUT COAL MINE STRINE SPREADS; WORKERS DEFY BOSSES’ TERROR overnor to “Investigate” Because Production |Stops; Rumor “Bull Pens” Will Be Established Oct. 26.—The tie-up of the coal jmines, involving all fields in the state, has induced Governor W. |H. Adams to begin a personal investigation of the situation. It has not been ascertained as yet whether the governor will jconfer with the I. W. W. leaders in charge of the strike. | In this district the strike is tically ¢ e. 25 mines ‘are shut down and the other fifteen are trying in with a hand- \ful of their former forces. The mass arrests of pickets appear to ha fect intended. The resentment of the mine. strike votes which add mine after mine to the 1e opposite ef- is expressed by list of those closed. 700 workers in the northern fields voted to quit today, stopping the Routt county mines. The jails in the strike districts are filled with arrested that the authorities intend to es- as in the famous Cripple Creek strike of the pickets and there are rumo \tablish “bull-pens” jold Nester Weverabon of Miners in 1908. FIVE ZEIGL : MINERS MUST n ON g mn) SAYS e of oe on Sentences eabody Com (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) ZEIGLER, Ill., Oct. 26.—Five coal miners—Henry Corbishley, teve Meanevich, Martin Simich, Ignatz Simich, and Eddie }Maleski—must serve prison te s ranging from one to fourteen years. This is the v he state supreme court which has just affirmed the decision of the TERE court in which the men BOASTS OF RULE QVER THE WORLD H COURT Left By Frank s “Union Leader” i i aug 'Herita or S oO” 5 Farrington, jcourt in the case of rank Uor- |bishley, Mike Caradich and Stanley »Paurez. The shade of Frank Farrington, - former president of District 12, Ilin- ois, United Mine Workers of Amer- lica, who about a year ago was ex- | posed as being in the employ of the | Peabody Coal Co., at an annual salary Demands Americans All ct $25,000 appeared with the an- nouncement of the verdict. At the Defend Loans Abroad |original trial of the men Farrington | not only led an active campa’ | against the accused miners, but ‘ |rected the hiring of a lawyer to aid cae the prosecution. HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 25.—Hail- ing the spvead of American invest- ments over the world as the basis a real policy of “America First” as spelling the death of “that fetisn | The Frame-up. of American isatation,” breathing | The Zeigler miners were brought ta half concealed threats towards Mex-| trial two years ago charged with as- ico, M. A. Traylor, presi t of the |sault upon a union official who was ‘American Ba tkers’ Association stir- | present during a meeting of the Zeig- red to enthusiasm today its mem-/jler Local No. 992 of the United Mine bers represented in its annual con-| Workers of America of which Henry vention here. | Corbishley was president. During a Enormous Conquests. | fracas which took place, one of thy Traylor outlined what has been| progressive members of the local, dane with U. S. money in the matter | Mike Sarovich, was shot in the stom- wf fo eign investment in the last th me yeurs. the United States loaned to Germany | alone cunsiderably more than $1,000,- 000,00%. He added that there is hardly a country in the League of Nations (Continued on Page Two) Strike of Grocery Clerks Nears Ends Bosses Signing Up The strike of the Retail and Dairy Clerks’ Union was ac- counted nearly 100 per cent victorious @ yesterday with 40 new shops added. Sixty more employers expected to eign contracts with the union in the near future. The crerks struck Mon- day against employers who refused to renew their contracts for the next) year. The 40 new shops signed when their workers, heretofore unorgan-| ized, joined the walkout. Picket Is Fined. L. Rosenberg, a picket arrested Monday afternoon in the Bronx, was fined $10 in the magistrates court at 163st St. and Brock Ave. yesterday. The strike and organization drives are being conducted in spite of op- position from right wing forces in Grocery local unions grouped around the Jew-| ish Daily Forward, socialist party or-) gan. The contracts being signed call for a minimum wage of $38 weekly and | 57 hours a week. A member of the Ku Klux Klan ar- rested in a clash between police and tho Klan in the Memorial Day par- ade in Jamaica last summer was Tickets may be obtained for 60 cents at the district office of the Workers Party, 108 E. 14th street, and at the Jimmie Higgins ie yee be bought in advance. found guilty of assault in special ses- sions court, Jamaica, yesterday, and. remanded to the Queens County jail for sentence. |ach and killed. Many ef the In that time, he said, | alleged that the killing was done fe notorious Ku Klux Klansman be |was never brought to trial. | Corbishley, however, was indicted the murder as well as for the charge. He is now released. Fight Against Short Weight. The fight in Zeigler arose out | the struggle that the local | there had been conducting ay \the Bell and Zoller mine com {which had been steadily sho ing the miners, The union tration in Zeigler fought vigorously, for just wage pa nta for the min ers and as a result came into com- stant sharp conflicts with the et. |ployers. The sub-district union \ ficials were present at the wi ~ ‘meeting on the night of the fight 1an attempt to soothe the anger of miners and to get them to repudiaéi | their local leaders. | During the trial, which bore all the | earmarks of a frame-up, the prosecu- | tion filled the court atmosphere with | prejudice against the workers because | of their labor activities and the fore eign birth of many of the defendants. ‘Despite the efforts of the defense, and the unassailable proofs of imnocence \produced the defendants were found guilty and eight of them were sen- tenced to long terms. | The defense of the case is con- ‘ducted by the International Labor De- fense, 80 E. Eleventh St., New York. “One of the big features of the case,” said J. P. Cannon, secretary of \the labor desense organization, yes- \terday, “is the role that was played by. the corrupt and reactionary ma- chine in the Illinois district of the {United Mine Workers Union, headed ‘at that time by Frank Farrington, in ‘bringing about this fourteen-year sentence of sincere union men, Frank !Parrington himself has long since left his position as district president, as a result of the disclosure of his acceptance of a salary of $25,000 @ (Continued on Page Two)