The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1927, Page 1

~ Paine — Snh DAILY WORKER TIGHTS) FORK THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGASIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WERK YOR A LABOR PaRTY Vol. IV. No, 248, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, 88.00 per year, THE DAILY WoO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office 21 New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579, Outside New York, by mail, $0.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1927 Published dafly except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NY. cy Negro Kidnanped From Terre Haute By Georgia Sheriffs; Badly Beaten TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 30, —Kidnapped, apparently by com- plicity of the local police depart- ment, Samuel Kennedy, a Negro resident of Indiana, is being rushed in an automobile, in the charge of Georgia deputy sheriffs, to a prison cell in the South. A letter smuggled out of the county jail at Henderson, Ky., where the party stopped off for the night, says: “J have been handcuffed all the time since leaving Tere Haute. I have been beaten cruelly; my head is tied up and I am bloody all over. Everywhere they stopped they beat me up and there are several holes in my head. ‘Stop him if you can, before he gets to Georgia.” Kennedy was arrested in Chi- cago, and charged with breaking jail in Georgia. He offered proof of an alibi, and was allowed to go on bonds to Indiana, to gather evidence. At Terre Haute he was thrown in jail, and again got out on habeas corpus proceedings. The Georgia officers who had followed along then simply carried him over the state line. Greek President Is Wounded by Bullets Assalaitt Disarmed: 4 LONDON, Oct. 30.—President Con- douritis of Greece had a narrow es- cape from death by assassination to- day when a young man 25 years of age, giving the name of Zafiris Goussios, fired upon him as he was leaving the town hall in Athens, where he had just. participated in the| inauguration of the Greek mayors’) congress, Condouritis received a slight wound: in the head. His assailant was dis-) armed and arrested before he could! fire a second shot. He gave no ¢x-) planation of his act. There is much unrest in Greece) over bad economic conditions and many accusations of graft have been) levelled at the cabinet. There is also) an extremely reactionary movement which wishes to set up a monarchy, It is possible that the shooter be- longed to a monarchist group. - * * Attack Workers. | ATHENS, Oct. 20.—Stringent | measures to combat Communism and | attempts against the existing social | order in Greece were decided upon tonight by the cabinet following the attempted assassination of President Condouritis this morning. The presi- dent tonight is resting comfortably in a hospital. The cabinet decided to suppress subversive articles in the Communist (Continued on Page Five) Big Military Budget In Poland Bolstered By American Dollars WARSAW, Oct. 30.—Twenty-five per cent of the Polish budget will be spent for increasing Polish arma- ments, it is planned. Estimates made for the upkeep of the army total $32,- 000,000. A large part of the ex-) penses, it is believed, will come from | the American stabilization loan,| negotiations for which were recently concluded. Tho Poland is predominantly agri- cultural only $5,000,000 has been as- signed to the Department of Agricul- ture. WANTS UNION FOR MODELS. A movement to organize the artists’ | meédels in a trade union has been be- gui, by Bentley Mulford, a profes- sional model. Mulford is awaiting re- plies requests to the American Fed- eration of Labor and the Guild of} Free Lance Artists to aid in the or- ganization. 7 ‘Conference to Discuss | Miners’ Relief Meets In Pittsburgh Nov. 14 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (FP). President Green of the Amer- jean Federation of Labor has fixed Nov. 14 as the date for the spe-} cial conference to be held in the; Roosevelt Hotel, Pittsburgh, at the! order of the late convention of the | A. F. of L. in Los Angeles, to dis- | cuss means of aiding the striking | coal miners in the central compe- | titive field. Officers of national | and international unions, and of the Pennsylvania state and ens | OE Ei central labor bodies, will attend, with the federation council. | LEAGUE MEETING — Greetings from Y. C. 1 | tion in which Stalin pointed out that | YOUNG WORKERS |". WEESSTONE | H IN CONVENTION it Read to Delegates | | : Greetings from the, Young Com- munist International and the Work- ers (Communist) Party marked the opening of the fourth national con- vention of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League yesterday morning at the Hungarian Workers Home, 30° East 81st St. The presidium seletced by the con- vention seated 30 delegates. The presidium consists of Herbert Zam, John Williamson, Paul Crouch, Leon Platt, Gilbert Green, Al Plozer, Pat Toohey and Tony Minerich. Minnie Luyrie was eletced secretary. | Paul Crouch Presides | The convention was opened by Nat) Kaplan national secretary, who! turned the chair over to Crouch, chairman of the first session. Max Bedacht then reported for the Cen- tral Executive Commitice of the Workers (Communist) Party. He greeted the deelgates in the name of the C.E.C. and pointed out that great | clarification has taken place in the! league during the last two years. | “The league must grow faster than| Workers (Communist) Party Candi- date for Assembly. THOUSANDS HEAR WORKERS PARTY basis than the party.” ‘To Dispose of Panken Bedacht told of Stalin’s speech to! the American Trade Tia renee | Issue at Rally the Young Communist League of the; With thousands of workers in Soviet Union was a broad organiza-| Brownsville, Brooklyn, Manhattan tion, including in its ranks non-Com-|and other sections already familiar munist elements. A general discus-|With the Workers (Communist) sion then followed, participated in by | Party election program, the final in- 10 delegates. |door campaign meeting of the Party At yesterday evening’s session Will be held in Manhattan Lyceum Kaplan reported on the last plenum |Wednesday at 8 p. m., the New York of the Young Communist Inter-| district office of the Party announced national. last night. (Continued on Page Five) Outdoor meetings will continue un- ‘Citizeng’ League’ and et Parodie Lyceum is at 66 Pittsburoh Police Get ‘Goods’ on Each Other Big Indocr Meetings. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 30.— Several thousand Harlem and Bronx workers attended rallies yes- Safety Director Clark today informed Dr. J. Alvin Orr of the citizens Com- terday afterncon at Finnish. Labor Temple, 15 West “120th “St, and’ Am~" bi mittee that evidence against high of- ficials of the league which he holds assador Hell, 3861 Third Ave. Speakers included Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for assembly. 17th district; Julius Codkind, for alderman, 17th distri Stachel, National organ‘zation secre- tary of the Party; Ren Gitlow, Party (Continued on Page Five) in the form of a letter and affidavit from Miss Ruth Parnott, former stenographer in the league office, will not be made public if the league drops its conspiracy charge against Superintendent Walsh of the police department. Orr, when notified that Miss Par- nott had made charges against vari-| ous people which, in the lan-: guage of the safety commissioner “will involve in scandal men who are prominent in league affairs and high in the civic and social affairs of Pitts- burgh, he would make no comment beyond stating that the stenographer had evidently “tied up with the police gang.” 2 Wm. L. King, secretary of the lea-| gue has made another of his peri- odical disappearances. He has in his possession all the vital evidence needed to convict some dozen or more vice cases held on the court calendar. Compelled to Attend School on Part Time An increase of part time schedules | in the public schools in the working class districts is shown in a report) made public by the bureau of research ° and statistics of the board of educa- | tion. In the Bronx last month 3,886 chil- dren were on part time, an increase of 3,215 over a@ year ago. | In Brooklyn 25,191 children are, compelled to go on part time, an in- crease in one year of 5,203, the re- port shows. For the city as a whole part time figures show increases of 2,387 and 6,097 respectively over a year ago and last June, bringing the total number of part time pupils to |70,202, During the last year there |has been a slight decrease in Queens land Richmond. Secy. of Agriculture | Jardine Considereda Greet Austrian Labor Load on Party, to Quit, Delegatesin USSR for WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30. —! November Celebr ations Reports from personal friends of | MOSCOW, Oct. 16.--A delegation Secretary of Agiiculture Jardine that | 5¢ ‘Austrian workers, the first labor he is being forced out of his cabinet | gojegation to arrive here for the cele- post by the feeling among the repub-}} ation of ‘the tenth anniversary of lican party leaders that he is almost | :ho November revolution was greeted as unpopular as Coolidge and bad 4, numerous representatives from ballast for the election next year are | tie Central Council of Soviet Labor prevalent here. (Unions and the Moscow Trades Coun- | Jardine is ¢ 1 to take a po-'-il as it stepped off the train yester- sition with the } ida Fruit Grow- jay. ers’ Associatic ‘An enthusiastic demonstration of wealthy plantation owner: he fraternal-solidarity of the work-! Jardine fought farmers’ relief in| ers of the Soviet Union and Austria public speeches made this ‘ye was held. ~ Charge Strike-Breaking Passaic Police Head Is Profiting as “Fence” for Stolen Car Gang Workers Children Are! FASCIST SHIP RAMS FISHING BOAT; 11 DEAD Captain and Nobleman Jointly Blame Victims BOSTON, Oct. 30.--Captain An tonio Martinalick of the Fascist Ita! ian steamer Presidente Wilson, ing rammed the Gloucester fis! schooner “Avalon” and drowned but three out of its crew of fourteer men, has issued a formal state blaming the schooners’ crew. Blames the Dead. The Martiriolici claim is that + changed the eourse of the President Wilson on secing the fishing boa’ ahead, but that the schooner als: changed its edurse and came broad. side on in front of the liner, which had the right of way. The schooner sank in four minutes. Its boats were swamped by the wash from the liners’ propellors. Martinolici admits that he was on the bridge at the time of the accident. The Italian counsel in Boston, Marguis Agostino Ferrante has hired attorneys to work out ¢ case along the line suggested by th< captain of the Presidente Wilson. The three survivors of the schooner Nicholas Walsh, Frank Hemon ané Edmin Fleet, all old residents of th fishing community at Glouster, a were the captain and other memh of the Avalon's crew deny that their navigation was at fault, but are handicapped by the death of the other eleven who would have been witnesses on their behalf. Tried to Dodge. Edwin Fleet testifies that he was a che wheel of the schooner, which wa proceeding under sail. When it be came apparent that the liner wou run down the little boat, and that had made no change in course .uxiliary motor of the Avalon \ started and amattempt made to clea the path of the liner. The speed atid lack of cooperatic: on the part of the st er, however made this impossible. Passengers on the Presidente Wil son state that there was much con fusion aboard when it became knowr that their ship (had collided with an other, nnd that there were cries ffo1r the water of “Hurry, hurry,” whic’ finally ceased before any boats wer launched to look for survivors. MAYORS JEER “BIG BILL.”, CHICAGO, Oct. 80.-—Mayors * of cities of over 20,000 population, in- vited by Mayor Wm. Haie Thompsor to join his league to keep King George out of Chicago seem tu be doubtful as to whether it is worth the ten dollars Big Bil: has askea. Most of them refuse with jeers and contumely. [Colorado Strike Relief | | Mass Meeting Is Called By New York Committee | Tein A mass meeting for the relief of | | the striking Colorado miners has| been called for 8 p. m. Friday at} the Church of All Nations, Second Ave. between First and Houston Sts., by the New York Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee, Speakers at the meeting will be William W. Weinstone, Richard Brazier, Charles Cline and Avthur C. Ward, the committee announced last night. “The speakers will discuss the strike and its relationship to the class struggle,” the announce- ment said. “The strike is state- wide and from latest accounts is snreading fast, taking in New Mexico, Steel mill men voted 10¢ per cent to go out with the miners Show your solidarity by attending this meeting. Admission will be I ree. STRIKE STARTS WHEN SPEED-UP FOLLOWS A GUT PEABODY, Mass., Oct. 30. — The strike of a thousand men working in the A. C. Lawrence Leather Co. plant here has b out the bad conditions under which they have been toiling. One of the talesmen referred to} n addition to the wage cut put over st July by the company, there has been curing the last few months a continuous speeding up of operations, Wrecking men and breaking down their standards of living. In anawer ito 'a bitter attack on the! strikers by Charles H. Eglee of the Rotary Club, who calls himself “In- dustrial Copnsellor” and has advised he strikers to go back to work, the ‘eather workers’ union has issued the following statement: Low Pay. “The workers in the A. C. Lawrence Leather Co. do not receive the high- his caravan of seventy automobiles | est wages paid in Peabody to leather workers. “The average wages received by the workers who are now on strike of automobiles, showing I. W. W.| (Continued on Page Two) Opposition Acguired ‘Muddlehead’ Treints Lost Working Class BERLIN, Germany (by mail).— The Maslow-Ruth Fischer-Scholem group, expelled from the Communist Party of Germany, organized an open-air meeting in Berlin a short time ago to announce to the people their “victories.” Of course they kept quiet about their “victory” in Al- tona, where they received 364 votes as against 19,000 received by the Communists. They also kept quiet about: the final results of the elec- tions in Hamburg and Konigsburg on the one hand and Lodz on the other, which are vather in dissonance with Trotsky’s theory about the long of defeats, Dut instead, the spea of that renegade group, particularly Ruth and Scholem, expatiated rather lengthily about their “victories” in ance and Holland. “Poor Fish” Treint in Opposition. What are those “victories”? The French “victory” consists in the fact that “Treint himself” raised Trotsky’s and Maslow’s banner. On the basis of reliable sources known by him only, Scholem announced the fact that Treint went over to Trotzky. It is clear that Scholem simply speculated on the absolute ignorance of his au- dience, thinking that it will take a fly for an elephant. Neither the French Party nor in the Comintern Garvey Will Not Be Allowed Any Parole Atty. General Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 30,—Gaston B. Means and other prominent con- viets may be pardoned, parolled, or |otherwise released from the federal | ponitentiaries, but there is no hope from the U. S. government authorities for Marcus Garvey, head of the Un' versal Negro Improvement Associ- ation, now in Atlanta penitentia) Attorney General Johr has announced’ that the ple: yey’s attorneys directed to the house have all been turned over to him, and that he will ref all re- ce. sen- f Ger- 2 because of sg hundre Negroes into a racial org: The technical charge on ernment detectives “got” alleged irregularity in the of the Black Star Line, owned steamship line. is of hich gov- n Maximilian Harden Dies Suddenly in Switzerland BERLIN, Oct. 20.—Maximilian Harden, famous German publicist and ae 2'the strike illegal. Mine Guard Attack on Girl Shuts More Mines “MILKA SABLICH, ARM PARALYZED, I$ STILL IN FISHT; ROGKEFELLER PRESS “MORE VICIOUS; ADMITS COAL TIE-UP Mass Picketing Effective; Some Demoralizatien Evident in “Law and Order” Forces Some Companies Want to Settle; Negotiations Going On; Woll Aids Coal Barons By ROGER RANCEZON. (Chairman Colorado Miners’ Defense and Relief Committee.) WALSENBURG, Colc., Oct. ¢ nearby camps arrived in Walse indignant over the assault commit their fellow-worker, Milka Sabli gravely injured and has her side by horses of mine thugs. Every mine in this district ve hundred miners from today. They are bitterly 1 by company gunmen on young girl leader who was fter being trampled nbur ch ALL MINES CLOSED. is closed after the aroused work- jers held meetings in every mining camp, those partly insoperation and those in which the strike was in full force. Company thugs are disappearing and many’ are in hiding, tho no violence was contemplated on the part of the workers. A jury trial for the men ar- rested for picketing has, been de- ‘manded by Attorney Collins in the Trinidad court. He chal- lenged for cau # cight prospec- tive jurors who veadily admitted ‘prejudice against the workers. the strikers as “rattlesnakes.” After the defense lawyer, William Penn Collins, proved that the men ; were arrested on trumped-up charges, jfour of them were acquitted. Two |were convicted, their “crime” being that’ they were on the running board of a car while speaking to men going to work. Collins charged that the anti-picketing act was unconstitution. jal. | | Greets Embree Under Airplanes. Walsenburg workers gave an en- thusiastic reception to Embree and enroute to Fremont County. | Airplanes from national guard units are flying above the procession signs and slogans which could be seen clearly from the sky. The local press jis becoming more vicious in its at- jtack against the I. W. W. The gov- jernor is being blamed for his leniency. All papers are urging the governor jto send out the national guards | Steel Mills Closing. | Steel mills are closing up for lack of fuel in Pueblo, apartmet house: feeling already the shortage of coal. Several schools are closi x Col- orado Fuel and Iron offic perate but stubborn - in tion not to deal with organized labor. However, several coal operators are ready to start negotiations for settle- ment. | Mass Picketing Success. The ruch-heralded death and bur- jal of the I. W. W. had the companies tent that the organization could eall a strike. The Industrial Com- mission made the mistake in calling However, they are afraid to try legal action because they realize that the mines cannot be op- erated in this manner. Mass picketing has disorganized the g up. Officialdom Parleys. Bitter controversial confabs are being held by sheriffs and county ssioners where politics is being the sheriff being republican t commissioners democrats. The governor himself is playing poli- tics. The authorites refuse to recog- nize the I. W. W., yet they meet in conference with delegates who are ali I. W. W. members, The committee chairman for the miners, Clemmons, (Continued on Page Two) | ESOL ESAT ie * CALLS FURRIERS — INTO ACTION AS MEETING NEARS |Gold Presents Program of Joint Board | Questions of immediate impo that will be answered from floor §nd platform in tomorrow night’s meeting of rank and file furriers Avere presented in a statement issued yes- ‘terday by Ben Gold, manazer of the New York Joint Board of the Fur- riers’ Union. The questions pertain to the right wing’s so-called re-organization cam- |paign and the problems on and off \the job it has raised for the workers. | Gold’s statement urges registered as well as unregistered workers to attend tomorrow night’s meeting, which will start immediately after working hours at Cooper Union, Fourth Ave. and 8th St. The meet- ing was called by the Joint Board. | Destroyed by Right Wing. The statement charges the solid {front which the fur workers once pre- ted to the yers has been de- ed by the right wing adminis- m of the International Fur in collaboration with eration of Labor. ty | sho will we overcome the treacehrous deal (Continued on Page Five) Communists Gain in Election at Prague PRAGUE, Oct. 17. — The municipal elections (By Mail). in Prague in or- sheriff's offices of the affected area.|reuslted in considerable success for |the Communists and for the workers? | candidates in general. The coms |munists received 70,416 votes and 17 |mandates, as compared with 66,762 votes at the elections in 1925. The Tcheckish socialists received 8 votes and 23 mandates. The Tcheckish social democrats 47,103 otes and 12 mandates (1925—41,- ). The separated wing of the |Tchekish socialists, the Stribrny Party received 11,158 votes and 2 ;mandates. The fascists received 9,473 ‘votes and 2 mandates. t The Daily Worker Only Paper to Carry PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 30-—In- vestigation of mounting evidence which is believed to show that Chief of Police Richard Zober is doing a considerable and profitable business in stolen cars was to con- tinue here today. Chief Zober acted as chief official strike-breaker for the mill owners in the Passaic textile strike. The fourth automobile to pass through his hands was found and surrendered yesterday. Zober is re- ported to have sold it to Carrol D. Hipp, insurance broker and son-in- law of William P. Laytman, pres- | m ‘ 3 ident of the Eagle Iron and Brass Foundry. Hipp said he paid Zober $850 for the car One car alleged to have been stolen was found in Zober’s posses- sion by Passaic authorities last week. Two others are reported to have been sold by Zober to other Passaic residents. Zober said he took the cars in question “in good faith.” The motor vehicle commissioner announced Saturday night he would take the case to the federal grand jury if evidence indicated any of the cars had been trans- ported across the state line. was Treint ever taken seriously. The name “muddle-head” has so well at- tached itself to him that he is usually listened to with a smile, even if he says the right thing. Only one in absolute despair, one clutching at a straw, can hail Treint’s joining the opposition as a victory. The “victory” of Trotzkyism in Holland is of the same nature. Sneevleit from Nassa (National La- bor Secretariat) has proclaimed the opposition slogans in Holland. Sneev- liet has long ago left the Comintern on his own iniative, When he was in the Comintern, Zinoviey warned the Dutch comrades that to depend on (Continued on Page Two) writer died tonight at Montanovernla, Switzerland. | He was born in Berlin in 1861. Hi most conspicuous work was the ex | posure of the “round table” scandals which shocked the world about fifteen , years ago, leading to the exile by the Kaiser of members of many powerfu!; German families. RUSSIAN VESSEL SEIZED. CAIRO Oct. 80.—The Soviet steam- er Tchitcherin, which has been load-' ing cotton at Alexandria, has been seized, on an order from the mixed courts at the instigation of the own- ers of the steamer Costi, which was recently seized at Odessa by the Soviet authorities, by strike leaders. | day history of this great struggle | | battleground. | The daily developments in the ER. Colorado News From Strike Leaders The DAILY WORKER is the only daily paper in the United States that is publishing Colorado strike news written on the field of action » The news stories carried by The DAILY WORKER are the day to American class struggle. 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