The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGAPIZED FOR THD 40-MOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter ai the Pout Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 246. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1927 Published datiy except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING €©0., 33 First Price 3 Cents Street, New York, N. Y. TROOPS OUT, AMMUNITION ISSUED, IN COLORADO OPPOSITION IS REPUDIATED BY THE USSR RANK AND FILE COMMUNISTS. Central Committee Upheld at Leningrad and Moscow Meetings; Defend Seven-Hour Day (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—At two large meetings of active mem- bers of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at Leningrad and Moscow yesterday, the Trotsky-Zinoviev opposition suffered | a sharp defeat while the Central Committee of the Party was} upheld practically unanimously. | At the meeting of 2,500 active party workers in Moscow, | 80% ; 22,499 votes were cast for the} Central Committee and one for} the opposition. | Two meetings in Leningrad of 6,000 party workers passed a} WORKERS PARTY “RED NIGHT” FAqR resolution pledging support to at T na i ae Committee in its fight * HARLEM TONIGHT ‘ Molotov reported for the Central ommittee, after which speeches ¢ made evoking strong expres-} sions of disapproval from the au-| dience. Kamaneff’s attacks on the} Central Committee caused such a stir | of indignation on the part of the au-| Indoor Meet for Bronx Workers Called Thousands of Harlem workers are ‘Wages of USSR Workers Show Twelve Per Cent — Rise in Eight Months MOSCOW, Oct. 15. (By Mail).— The wages of workers of the So- viet Union have been increased 12| per cent in the last eight months of the fiscal year, it was announced by the Central Council of the All- Union Trade Union Congress. This exceeds the program which called for a ten per cent increase during the year. | | | | | BUSINESSMEN SAY THEY MUST HAVE TRADE OF RUSSIA Rumors That Govern- ment Will Recognize WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Increas- ing pressure from many directions, says Hearst’s International News Service, is being brought to bear on RESCUERS STATE 400 KILLED IN MAFALDA WRECK Facsist Officialdom in Attempt to Minimize RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. 27. —wWhile the Italian embassy and the, Italian office of the shipowners con-! tinue to assert that only “sixty-eight” | human lives were lost in the wreck of the immigrant steamer Principessa Mafalda, sharp contradiction is made by survivors and the crews of rescu- | ing boats, who assert that at least four hundred perished when the boat | went down. The sea*was crowded by men, women and children, who were drowned in the darkness or eaten by | sharks, | One of the first stories of the ac-| jtual situation at the wreck was told jhere today by Antonio Ferreira, one (Continued on Page Four) | | | | i} | | | \ ‘Anti-Government Office in Bucharest Right Wing Agrarian | Party Moves Against Mexican Labor Party’ MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27.—The National Agrarian Party announ- ces the launching of candidates in the Mexico City elections. The Agrarian candidates are considered official Obregon candidates. This move is made to weaken the can- didates of the Mexican Labor Party, under the control of Mor- ones and is interpreted as widen- ing the breach between Obregon and Morones, that is, between Ob- regon and the leadership of the Mexican Federation of Labor and of the Mexican Labor Party. The Agrarian Party has for many years been under the leader- ship of Soto y Gama, who has been steadily going to the right. He tried to move the mass of his na- tional party in the same direction but the majority refused to follow. When the last revolt broke out under Gomez and Serranc the Na- tional Agrarian Party forced its leadership to vote unconditional support of the Calles government. In several localities the National | Agrarian Party locals formed united fronts with the Nationa! Peasants Leagues, (i.e., poorer DENVER WITHOUT GOAL AS MINERS MARCH AND SPREAD THEIR STRIKE | American Legion and Chamber of Commerce Threaten Pickets Entering Fremont Nineteen Year Old Girl Leads Fifty Strikers ana Breaks Line of Gunmen at Deluga DENVER, Colo., Oct. 27.—Troops have been ordered out by Governor Adams. Ammunition has been issued to the military units. The number of miners on strike has increased to 9,000. Only 6 mines in the whole state are working. i Denver is without coal. The newspapers are wildly predicting bloodshed and calling for the suppression of the strike. Assaults by company gunmen on miners are continumg as are the mass arrests. The Colorado Fuel Company in a paid advertisement asserts that the miners “are fully satisfied and are only terrorized by five ‘wobbly’ organizers.” Since these organizers are widely known by name and repu- tation, and one of them, A. S. Embree, was active in the metal miners’ strike in Butte in 1917, where Frank Little was muy dience that they refused to listen to|the Coolidge administration to have peasants with revolutionary inclin-| | dered, this advertisement is considered in labor circles here to be Oe rE am SSS ee LOLOL EEL IH expected to listen to Workers (Com munist) Party speakers tonight at a series of open air meetings to be held throughout the district. Tonight’s “Red Night” in Harlem will be followed by a similar demon- stration in Brownsville tomorrow night. On both occasions 100 speak- ers will address assembled workers from platforms on a dozen corners. They will constitute a “flying squad- ron,” using automobiles or trucks for platforms and for transportation be- tween the strategic points chosen for speeches. Mass Rally Scheduled. At 10:30 p. m. all meetings will end in a mass rally at 110th street and Fifth avenue. Speakers: will in- elude Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Julius Codkind, local candidates for assem- bly and alderman, respectfully; Wil- liam W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York District of the Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Ben Gitlow, Party can- didate for the assembly, Bronx; Bert- vam D. Wolfe, director of the Work- ers’ School; Jack Stachel, national organization secretary of the Party: H. M. Wicks, of The DAILY WORK- ER; Rebecca Grecht of the Party District Executive Committee, and James P. Cannon, of the Central Executive Committee of the Party. Brownsville “Red Night.” In Brownsville tomorrow the same plan will be followed. All meetings will end at 10:80 in_a general rally at Stone and Pitkin avenue. An indoor meeting. also will be held in the Bronx tonight at 542 East 145th street. The speakers will in- clude Joseph Boruchowitz, of the Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board; John J. Ballam, of the Party Central Executive Committee; Wicks and Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Photographic Workers Union. Belle Robbins will preside. Two Rallies Sunday. Two large meetings will be held Sunday at 2 p. m, at Finnish Labor Temple, 15 West 126th street, with Stachel, Codkind and Juliet Poyntz as speakers, and at Ambassador Hall, 8861 Third avenue, with Gitlow, Baum, Rebecca Grecht and Belle Robbins as speakers. Schwab Gets Gary’s Job his speech and when he continued, he/the United States recognize the Union was foreed to leave the platform.}of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Rakovsky, who persisted in his at-|campaign, which is now on in full tacks on the Central Committee and/swing, is being sponsored in business who asserted that the revolution could not be carried out, withou' “Trotskyist leadership” was forced to leave the platform, Overwhelming Vote. The assembly voted twenty-fi hundred against one vote for the res| lution approving the decisions of tl Central Committee and the Centi Control Commission and the decisior and theses of the Central Committel to be presented at the Fifteenth Pa: ty Congress. The resolution points out that im- portant. successes in socialist con- struction have been won by the Par- ty under the Leninist direction of the Central Committee since the Four- teenth Congress, the best example of which is the resolution for the intro- duction of the seven-hour day. Defend Seven Hour Day. The speech of opposition leaders at the plenary session of the Central | als@) circles. Administration officials are being deluged with letters, most of which lask for an early settlement of the “Russian problem.” The letters are being supplemented by personal calls at the White House land state department, officials of the llatter department having in the last |several weeks received more than a hundred visitors who have aired theiy views on the Soviet question. Reverse Old Policy. refuse to comment, although liable sources it is reported that the government’s Russian policy is in the process of being overhauled. The ad- ministration has taken cognizance of the change in financial and commer- | accordingly. Some proponents Meanwhile, administration officials re jcial opinion and is shaping its course of recognition } Committee and the Central Control| have pointed to the increase in Rus- Commission as well as their illegal) sian-American trade as an argument activities and their writings prove|in their favor, contending that with that they have severed all connections | recognition this commerce would grow with Leninism, the resolution says.|even faster, For the fiscal year end- The opposition entered reformist ed Sept. 30, they point out, the Rus- waters when it opposed the seven! sian trade amounted $90,000,000, a panied him into disgrace. hour working day, the resolution con-| 100 per cent increase over the average tinues, | pre-war figure of $48,000,000. ‘he Party is not only facing within ; its own ranks the question of a strug-) Uphold Conviction of gle between Leninism and Trotskyism but must also reckon with the pos-| Worker Arrested for sibility of the formation of a new! 2 ae oe His Political Opinion anti-Bolshevist international. Hits Opposition Methods. The organization of the illegal) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct, 27.—Tony Trotskyist faction, the Trotskyist} Kovocovitch, who was recently tried bloc with bourgeois intellectuals out-|/ and convicted at Mercer, Pennsyl- side of the Party and the open sup-|yania, under the Flynn Sedition Act, port which it has rendered to ultra-|pas been denied a rehearing in the left and ultra-right renegades abroad, Parrell County court in a decision proved that the opposition has adopt-| handed down by Judge J. A. Me- ed methods which the Party cannot | Laughrey. possibly etates Scerates. abe resolution| The judge dismissed all of the 53 H The Communist Party will em. |Te28ons for a new trial given by the | . ‘attorney of the International Labor 'phatically declare at all meetings that | Hefense, which is sponsoring the de- either the opposition must submit tO! fonse. the decisions of the Party or the Par-} at ‘ 1 é& ” ity will eject them as it did Maslov} _ The convicted area crime)”, con- and Souvarine. | sisted in membership in the Workers The resolution furthermore ap- | (Communist) Party. proves of the expulsion of Trotsky The case grew out of a police raid ) | | ees Headquarters of the so-called Pop-| ular Party in Roumania, accused by | the regency of “Bloody Queen Marie” of plotting to put her exiled son, Carol, on the throne. Carol has made preparations by discarding the woman companion who voluntarily accom- The gov- ernment has also made preparations by declaring martial law, cutting the | telegraph service to neighboring ‘states, and arresting recklessly all suspects. Intense dissatisfaction pre- \vails among the oppressed population. } is Rumanian Crisis — Continues, Meagre Dispatches State BERLIN, Oct. 27.-Reports that Queen Marie has fled from Bucharest have been officially denied. Belgrade reports continue to state that troops are ready to crush an an- ticipated revolt. The Belgrade dispatches state that meetings of the National Peasants ’arty have been forbidden and that and Zinoviev from the Central Com- mittee. | Leningrad Party Meeting. . \As Leader of American in January, 1924, upon the South the party leader, M. Maniu ha’ taken Slavic branch of the Workers Party yofuge in a Royal Castle to escape panera ® the police, } ations) to fight against the coun- ter-revolutionary bands. A move is now on foot to form a united front between the National Peas- ants Leagues and the National | Agrarian Party. This is being fought by the leadership of the National Agrarian Party, who fear the influence of the more militant peasants and especially of the Mexican Communist Party. Three Large Mass. | Meetings to Honor Tenth Anniversary The celebration of the tenth anni- versary of the Russian Revolution will be opened here Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p. m, with three large mass meetings at Central Opera House, New Star Casino and Arcadia Hall. Speakers will include William Z. Fos- ter, secretary of the Trade Union Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, under whose auspices the meetings will be held; Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of The Hammer, Jew- ish Communist monthly, and James P. Cannon, of the Party Central Exe- cutive Committee. At Central Opera Hovse, Third Ave. and 67th St., in addition to the other speakers, the assembled work- ers will be addressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Workers Party «andidate for the assembly in Harlem; Melech Ep- stein, editor of The Freiheit, and Her- bert Zam, representing the Youn: Workers (Communist) League. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will provide rausic. William W. Weinstone, secre- tary of the New York district of the Party, will preside. Freiheit Singing Society. Jack Stachel, the Parcy’s national organization secretary; Rebecca Grecht, of the Party district. execu- tive committee and Shaehno Epstein, a-sceiate eduior of The Freiheit, also wil! speak at the New Stur Casino, Park Ave. and 107th St. The Frei- heit Mandolin Orchestra will play. Alexancer Trachtenberg, lecturer ard tenchcr, will preside. Breoklyn workers will assicble in Arcadia Hali, Halsey St. and Broad- encouragement for a duplication of the Little lynching. A call for defense' funds has been issued by the Committee for Relief and Defense of the Colorado Miners. All funds should be sent to T. B. Childs, Box 87, Walsenburg. . * TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 27.—Led by Milka Sablich, a 19-year-old girl, fifty miners and their wives and daughters, broke thru the line of gunmen at the Delagua mine near here today and persuaded 400 miners to join the strike, A dozen pickets were injured in the clash with the gunmen. pickets were arrested. This is the third big mine to be closed in this district in three days. * * + LAFAYETTE, Colo., Oct. 27.—The American Legion and the chamber of commerce of Fremont County have decreed that there shall be no strike of miners in that county and that mem- bers off the I. W. W. are not to be allowed to cross the county line, according to messages received here. 300 miners and their families have taken up the challenge }and have started the 200 mile trip to the Fremont mines. The trip is being made in autos furnished and provisioned by volunteer subscriptions taken up at meetings of some 6,000 miners * Three and sympathizers here. Six thousand hands went up in response for a call for volune Survivors of Mine Explosion Evicted By N.Y Central R.R. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., (FP) Oct. 27.—Survivors of the terrible Clymer mine explosion that blew out the lives of 44 union coal diggers a year ago are now being put out of their com- pany houses into the street by the New York Central Railroad interests that employ them. The Clymer men have refused to accept the dollar and a half a day reduction demanded by their employers. At Ehrenfeld where five New York Central workers lost their lives in a blast last March, the same tactics are being used. Families are being evicted to make way for imported strikebreakers. Hires Thugs. Evictions are part of the fight in| the bituminous coal fields, and the teers and 300 men pledged them. |selves to furnish cars and food The proclamation of Governo Adams, referring to the I. W. W, as “an un-American” organize tion, and assuring the county authorities that troops are available in the event the county forces cay not stop picketing, coincides with th news that the Colorado Fuel and Iroa mines in the Trinidad district are be ing closed by the strike. Two of the largest mines shut dows yesterday. The Trinidad district is a Colorade Fuel and Iron Co. stronghold and the Rockefeller interests have boasted that their company union made workers immune to “agitators al outside influence.” All companies are recruiting addh tional gunmen which are deputized by the sheriffs, | William Penn Collins, attorney fot the International Labor Defense, th |charge of legal defense in this field jhas filed a suit for $120,000 againsj | various city and county officials for ;damages to miners’ halls and othet New York Central fights like the rest | Property suffered in the raid at Wak of the operators. It is now hiring |Senburg and other places. thugs, with big 38 caliber revolvers) The women are making a gloriow at their hips. Visitors to New York/record in this strike. The jails an fvon and Steel Industry | At the Leningrad meeting which| | The Roumanian censorship prevents |wey. Wi F. Dunne, +f ‘the Central towns see the faces of the |filled and the authorities offer to re 5 5 ’ i Qharles M. Schwab, chairman of Was attended by six thousand, a reso- Markewitch, Sigman’s ! accurate checking of these reports. DAT x WORKER, and Sam Don cf} same plug uglies who were toting |lease women pickets on their ows | tie Si of directors of the Bethle- lution upholding the Central Com- Steel Corporation, was today ™ittee was passed after speeches had Lal phate of the yyictesd been made by Bukharin for the Com- | Iron and Steel Institute, succeeding Mittee and Yevdokimov and Bakayev| the late Judge Elbert H. Gary. for the opposition. The company reported for the’ Uphold Central Committee, quarter ended September 30 net in- The resolution approved all of the come of $2,788,058 after interest, de- resolutions adopted by the Central preciation, depletion, etc. against Committee and the Central Control $4,550,978 in the same quarter of Commission. In reference to the cal- Lawyer, Now Defender | Striking Miner Brings In ‘Little Augie’ Case Samuel Markewitch, former as- sistant district attorney and coun- sel for Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies Gar | Charge Against Guard) the Clarkson Coal Company were} Davies here as a result of the evic- | dress ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0., Oct. 27.—| Revolutionary songs will be re1dered | ‘hugs, Charges against two mine guards of||v the Lithuanian Chorus 1926. UNION FORUM OPENS. The open forum of the Architec- tural Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union will begin tonight at 8 o’clock with a lecture by Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers, School, on “The Kind of Education the Workers Need.” TRY COMPANY OFFICIAL. Next Tuesday another attempt will be made to postpone the trial of Col. Harry C. Dalton, 129 Hickory Grove, an official of the American Car and Foundry Company, on a charge of assault in the third degree brought by two neighbors who alleged that he struck their children. sent Workers Union, according to he Freiheit, Jewish Communist ‘aily, has been retained as counsel ‘or Jacob Shapiro and Louis Bu \:- ouse, arrested in connection with he recent killing of ‘Little Augie.’ ‘Sugie,” before his death was sid large sums to recruit gangs- ters to assault left wing needle vades workers. He was suppo edly slain by competitors for this “business.” Markewitch is counsel for Sig- man in a ‘personal “criminal libel” suit against the Freiheit and Uni- ty, left wing publications, grow- ‘ng out of published accounts of Sigman’s operation of an amu e- ~ent park in Iowa. Markewitch is also attorney for the LEG Ws | umniatory rumors spread by Trotsky | and Zinoviev alleging that the Lenin-| grad workers sided with the opposi-| tion, the resolution declared that Len-} ingrad proletariat “scornfully depre- cates this maneuvre of the bankrupt opposition leaders.” | } Press Breaks Faith With Flier. | | OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine, | Oct. 27.—Anger flashed from the eyes ‘of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson this ‘afternoon when she discovered that the general public had known since yesterday afternoon that pilot Wilmer L, Stultz was quitting the projected flight to Denmark, “I won’t give out any more news,” she exclaimed, stamping her foot. “I’m through with jnewspaners and newspapermen.” tion of Lon Bledsoe from the com-}| pany house at the Provident Mine, | jwhich is being operated as a non-| union mine, It is charged that the! guards evicted Bledsoe without “due | process of law.” A damage suit} against the coal company is in pros- | pect, attorneys for the United Mine ,Workers of America announced. | DRAMA LEAGUE TO REHEARSE. | The plays, “The Scab” and “Soli- darity,” will be put into immediate rehearsal following the first enterered membership meeting of the Workers’ | Drama League at its new herajuar- ters, 33¢ East 15th St., tonight at 8 o'clock. BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! he Young Workers League, will be additional speakers at this meeting. | Witham Touras, editor of the J a1s-e, ‘ithuanizn Communist daily, will ad the audience in Lithuanian. John J. Execu- Balam, of the Party Cent filed in the court of Mayor H. M.! ive Committee, will preside. Expect Grocery Clerks Strike to End Today; 100 New Union Shops The Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks Union strike is expected to end today with mere than 100 addi- tional stores being conducted under union conditions. At a late hour last night Hyman Kowarsky settlement committee chairman informed The DAILY WORKER that less than 60 amploy- ers have not yet signed up with the union. “We expect to have them sign up by Friday,” continued Kowarsky. “In about two weeks time we will start an organization campaign.” guns for the Buffalo, Rochester &|recognizance. Always they refust Pittsburg Railroad coal companies,|!and demand the release of all picketa when the latter were smashing the | When they are released they ge union in 1925-26. straight back to the picket line, State police stand by to help the for the state policemen’s master, Governor Fisher, is a New} York Central man. Till shortly be-| ‘An unfortunate condition exists ix fore his election he was the attorney |the coal fields of this state by rea and the vice president of the Clear-}son of the I. W. W., an un-Americar The governor’s proclamation is at follows: field Bituminous Coal Corp. ‘Arrest 70 Communists Regime Fears Overthrow. | WARSAW, Oct. 14. (By Mail). | —Seventy persons have been ar- rested charged with taking part in a “Communist plot.” The recent successes of the Communist Party in the elections at Lodz, Grodno and Warsaw have led the Pilsudski regime to resort to repressions amounting to a reign of terror. ~—=~~<9 In Poland as Pilsudski | | organization, having attempted. te ? bring about a strike, and in this at |tempt has openly and publicly advo and practiced defiance and vie of the law, “Picketing and intimidation an |unlawful. Every man has a right te quit work if so inclined. Every mar jhas an equal right to work and it |entitled to protection in that right. | “Our state statutes provide that ithe local peace officers of counties | shall enforce the law, keep and pre jserve peace, If at any time it shall develop that they are unable to so, the state stands ready and f give them any and all assistance necessary, and use every instrumem{ (Continued on Page Two)