The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNOBGARIZED FOR THE 40-EROUR WEEK TEAS evel ecient atl ances a A LABOR PaRTY Vol. IV. No. 249. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WoO Hnvtered as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, 1878. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927 GER. Published dafiy except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ROCKEFELCER’S MILITIA T0 PREVENT PICKETING Furriers Forced to Toil 46 Hours| | ASSOCIATED SHOP | INSTALLS LONGER DAY AT SAME PAY Board Calls Is Workers to Cooper Union | | | | | | | ( The last pretense of the right wing | | of the International Fur Workers’ | Union at being an organ of the work- | ers has been torn away, the Joint} Board, Furriers’ Union, pointed ce last night in connection with develop- ments in the shop of Schwartz and | | Dragutzky, 383 Seventh Ave. One of the largest and most influ- ential shops affiliated with the eee ciated Fur Manufacturers Schwartz | and Dragutzky hereafter will require | operators to work 46 hours weekly | and cutters 44 hours a week instead | of 40 hours. For this they will re-| ceive the same wages as for 40 hours, | however. The shop is registered with | the right wing dual union and employs 45 workers. Call. Mass Meeting. —— gutzky and its significance in the fur | market will be discussed by speakers ! at a mass meeting called for tonight i" at Cooper Union immediately after | Oe on Page bihales l | | USSR TO ATTEND ARMS CONFERENCE ; AT GENEVA SOON | League Commission to | Meet November 30th GENEVA, Oct. 31—The Soviet Union will participate in the prepar- atory commission on a disarmament conference, Foreign Commissar Chi- cherin notified Sir Eric Drummond, League of Nations secretary, League headquarters announced today. The commission will meet November 30. Chicherin’s telegram stated that in view of the settlement of the Vor- , ovsky incident by the protocol of April 14, the Soviet Union was will- ing to participate in conference on y} Swiss soil. For more than three years after the murder of Vaslov Vorovsky, Soviet delegate to the | Lausane conference ,the OHS8."S. had refused to participate in Geneva conference. Huge Polish Armaments. States bordering the Soviet Union have devoted enormous sums of money for the building of armaments. With the aid of the American-Brit- ish loan, Poland, according to its ten- tative budget, will have $80,000,000 evailable for the “maintenance” of {ts army in the coming year. | Other fascist states, bordering the LSoviet Union, are with the aid of Great Britain building up large stand- | ing armies. Large bodies of Rou- manian troops are reported to be stationed in Bessarabia near, the Russian border. { A BANQUET FOR HEALY. Timothy Healy’s old friends are jaMmouncing a dinner in his honor in observance of his retirement as presi- dent) of the International Brotherhood | ef Stationary Firemen and Oilers Januaty 1. The dinner will be given at the Hotel Commodore December 6, Healy was coroner of New York ), County many years in addition to be- j ing a labor union executiv , | | Fd Communist Indoor | The final Workers (Communist) | Party indoor rally of the present! election campaign will be held to- morrow at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. The: speakers will include William W. Weinstone, candidate for assembly in the 8th district; William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER; Rebecea Grecht, candidate for al- jorman in the 8th district; M. J. igin, candidate for assembly in he 5th district, the Bronx, and en Gold, manager of the Joint soard, Furriers’ Union. Jack Sta- uel, national organization secre- _vy of the Party, will preside. The action of Schwartz and Dra- | < nm @ | ‘Trish Fishermen Too Poor to Miss Night’s Work Drown in Storm LONDON, Oct. 31. — Seventeen | vessels are known to have been| lost in the week-end gale which} swept the British Isles, according to reportsyreceived by Lloyds Mari- time Agency up to mid-afternoon. The dead are estimated at more | than 50. The town of Fleetwood with 1,- 200 houses was wrecked by floods. Of the inhabitants 9,000 are ma- rooned. There is mourning throughout | Galway, Treland, where the death toll was heavy. * > * * GLASGOW, Oct. 31.—Practical- ly every breadwinner of Lackan, which is in County Mayo, was| drowned in the storm. The fisher- men had been warned against the) storm, but they were too poor to} miss a night’s fishing. They put out in rowboats promising to re- turn as quickly as possible. When the storm came up, the panic-stricken families rushed to) the beach. | | Window Cleaner Pickets Are Arrested in Harlem Members of the Industrial Squad |yesterday took the role of active | strikebreakers when they arrested two striking window cleaners at 110th reas and Eighth ‘Avenue, where they were picketing, according to Jaques Buitenkamp, counsel for the union. The two workers, Michael Tryzan- ski and Nicholas Tabaka, were held in $1,500 bail by Magistrate Douras RTT RTT ae i MRS KNAPP SILENCED:, -~+ Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former secretary of state, through her coun- sel, Alexander Otis, yesterday refused to appear before Randall L. Leboeuf, Moreland Act commissioner. For the last few weeks Leboeuf has been in- vestigating charges that Mrs. Knapp placed republican and democratic camp followers on the payroll who did no work in the compilation of the 1925 New York state census. SINCLAIR'S NAME * ON CONTRACT FOR OIL “WASH SALE” Senator Drew Uu Papers in Fraudulent Deal WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—The sig- nature of Harry F. Sinclair on an oil contract that produced profits, part of which found their way into the} hands of former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, was shown to the oil} conspiracy trial jury today. This connects Harry F. Sinclair with the giving end of a long and in- volved migration of $230,000 in Lib- erty bonds, the receiving end of which was in the safety deposit box of the then secretary of interior, Albert B. Fall. And just about that time Fall gave against the advice of every tech-j} nical expert in his department, a} lease on very favorable terms to Har-| ry F. Sinclair for about $30,000, 000 | worth of government oil lands. A Dummy Concern. The contract in question was be- tween the Continental Trading Com- pany of Canada and the late Colonel] A. E, F. Humphreys, of Texas, pro-) viding for the purchase by the Con- tinental of 33,000,000 barrels of oil at $1.50 per barrel. Sinclair’s name appeared on the contract as a guarantor of the Con- tinental. The concern was organized only for the Humphreys deal and has never since functioned. The part of the supreme court de- cision annulling the Teapot Dome lease which dealt with the Continen+ tal was read to the jury and said: “The creation of the Continental Company, the purchase and resale contracts enabling it to make more than $8,000,000 without capital, risk or effort, the assignment of the con- tract to the resale purchasers for a small fraction of its probable value, and the purpose to conceal the dis- position of its assets make it plain (Continued on Page Two) Workers’ Party, By WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE. The capitalist parties have gone on record in favor of a 4-year term for governor. In conformity with the whole plan of concentrating greater power in the hands of the capitalist class and removing still farther the already remote influence of the work- ers upon the elected officials, they have carried through the short ballot system and they now propose that the governor shall be elected every 4 years, the assemblymen every 2 years and the state senators every 4 years. In discussing this subject Norman Thomas in the current issue of the New Leader has the following to say: “My own personal conviction (regarding this proposal), which I do not want to urge unduly, is that frequent elections cost extra money and prevent public officials, espe- cially the governor, from having the time to learn their jobs and carry through their programs. Ideally the protection for democracy would be not such short terms as we have in New York but under proper re- strictions the right to recall. I fear that frequent elections promote not democracy but inefficiency.” | Essence of Reaction. Here we have the essence of all the reactionary arguments in favor of the long-term periods for capitalist of- | fice-holders and the reactionary ideo- logical background for the present | concentration of government power in The hands of the capitalists, which is @ | ticularly . the World War. | | | | gument, | i gle. taking place on an ever larger scale. | |'The trash about recall in the face of the power of the capitalist press does not detract from this reactionary ar- Thomas in his position on the question of four years for gover- nor is following up the support which he gave to the concentration of state power through the short ballot adopt- ed during the last elections. Thomas discusses the question of government power without any ref- erence whatsoever to the class strug- Living in the fog of abstract democracy he fails completely to see | what has been going on in the coun- try and in the state since the advent of imperialism in America and par- a Thomas Aids Anti-Labor Forces; S.P. in Contrast The capitalists have been busy pil- ing up reactionary legislation against the workers. The Baumes Law re- ducing trial by jury and concentrat- ing dictatorial powers into the hands BEN LIFSHITZ Candidat Alderman, Brownsville. Workers arty of the judges are a blow aimed a the working class and intended to de- stroy the few rights which labor he won in long years of struggle. Th paralyzing injunctions issued by ¢ courts, the consolidation of the sta constabulary, the increase in poli forces—all are aimed in the same « rection of giving greater power the government and removing st farther from any popular influen the elected officials of the capitali class. The proposal for a four-yer term for governor is a part of thi 4 (Continued on Page Five) BARRACKS AT RUSSELLTON THE REPUBLIG IRON AND STEEL COMPANY EVICTS ITS MINER Employers Try at Russellton, Pa. to Buy Up) Land Union Barracks Are On By A. S. By November 1, the Russelton miners and their families— about 1500 men, women and children in all—have to get out of the houses belonging to the Republic Iron and Steel Company or be thrown out. A few weeks ago the company tried to get them out by sending in armed deputies to seize their furniture and sell it, but Fred Broad (son-in-law of Fannie Sellins, U. M. W. of A. organizer murdered by steel* company thugs during the great steel strike), bought the furni- ture and returned it to the min- ers. pany threatened forcible evic- tion, and now November 1, has been set as the final date. Children Help Too. From six in the morning to long after dusk the miners have been working to get the barracks ready in time, and the women and children have been helping too. It rained heavily incessantly several days dur- ing the last two weeks, but they kept at the job hour after hour, wet to the skin. In all the camps where evictions are going on the companies are doing everything in their power to keep the miners from securing land to build on. Other corporations owning land in the neighborhood of the miners help along the coal operators, and in many cases the miners are forced to build in places that are unsuitable and in- accessible, and double the hardship of barrack life. Buy Up Barracks Site. At Russellton No. 1 as soon as the company learned that the miners had secured a good site bordering on the highway and within the town limits for their barracks, they offered the ywner a large sum for the property. n the neighboring town of Hamar- ille the miners have found that all he land for a long distance around che camp belongs to Andrew Mellon, d the real estate agent told them y could not get a foot of it at any rice. the Russellton No. 2 miners have d to put up their barracks in a rest clearing high up on the hillside t a good distance from the main! ad, 5, steep wagon road deep in mud a slippery trail leads to the »mpled muddy field uneven with erted furrows where the barracks » ranged in rows. They are shacks ‘lt of boards—a single thickness— ‘h tar paper over the roofs and a iple of openings for doors and win- ws. There is no sort of plumbing, course, and coal oil lamps for light, | water dragged in from the one i. Company Hinders. The company has been continuously ing obstacles in the way of get-! « the barracks built on time. Rail- ms cars with shiprtents of lumber (Cantinued on Page Two) Already last week the com- | Unsanitary Paper Box Factories Are Exposed in Report By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press.) The paper box makers’ charges of bad physical working conditions, crowded buildings, low non-union wages and a high accident rate in the industry, made in connection with last winter’s dramatic strike, are now confirmed by the New York state de- partment of labor. The department’s findings have just been made public. At union headquarters the state’s observations were received with great interest. The union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been showing renewed activity in the last two months, Shattered after the ‘Strike by the employers’ black- list and the weariness of its members, it now has opened a second officey#nd is planning to open a third to hendle new organizing activities. Women who buy their hats in pa- per boxes and men who get their ci- gars in the new-fashioned cardboard containers that are displacing wood boxes will also be interested in the government’ eport on this sweated industry. Two-thirds of the 5,000 New York paper box workers are women and this is what the state de- partment says of their Below General St | “This industry is, gener: ling, located in old buildings. rentals are of prime importance where large space is necessary to ac- commodate small value. For this reason physical working conditions in this industry are below the standard of many other industries. (Continued on Page Five) EDITORS OPPOSE REGISTRA- | TION. | Editors of foreign language news-' papers will meet with editors of Eng- lish language newspapers at a lunch- eon Friday at the Civic Club to per- fect plans for wide publicity against laws for the registration of aliens, the National Council for the Protec- tion of the Foreign Born Workers an- nounced yesterday. . vention BREAK STRIKE GROUP OF MILITARY OFFICERS TO OF COAL MINERS “We Are Not Here to An to Argue. the Point,” Says Colonel Hart to I. W. W. Committee | All to Assist the W DENVER, Oct. { hands of state military officers.. | given to Roger Francezon, in c | a committee of I. W. W. mem | P. P. Newlon, Major R. F. ‘Trade Union Educational League Calls Upon orkers in Walkout 31—The st strike situation has been placed in the Orders to cease all picketing have been ge of the strike for the I. W. W., and , by Colonel Arthur K. Hart, Colonel Trinstead and Captain Reister, all of the Colorado national guard, and George M. Taylor of the State Industrtal Commission. the mines. coal fields. declared that | the minute picketing ceases.” Fuel companies that they would Governor Adams has on his desk an order for 1000 troops to occupy It awaits his signature pending further reports from the ‘ Fred Farrar, attorney for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, “ninety per cent of our miners will come back to work Announcement was made by the C. F. & I. and the Victor-American attempt to reopen their mines after the four officers of the national guard had been sent to the mining district. | Several meetings of the striking miners were scheduled for today. The shortage of coal for domestic use is gradually becoming more acute here and in other parts of the state. * (Special to The D AILY WORKER.) By B. KITTO. WALSENBURG, Colo., Oct. 831.—Notice was served on I. W. Ww. headquarters at 9:30 P. M. yesterday that a delegation from the governor’s office wished to speak to I. W. W. leaders. The delegation was compos Colonel P. P. Newlon, Major R. F. d of Colonel Arthur K. Hart, Trinstead and Captain Reister, all of the national guard, and George M. Taylor of the State In- dustrial Commission. To the I. W. W. committee—Roger Francezon, A. Bell, J. B. Childs. and B. Kitto—the military delegation delivered the ul- timatum that emia Lager 5 longer be allowed. ‘FIND. THIRD BOY Colonel Hart, know ‘klansman, saféthat elke ed sion is not a threat” but that the | governor had said that patience) was no longer a virtue and they were there representing the gov-| ernor; that all picketing must} cease, Taylor Makes Charges. Discussion began as to what con-| stituted picketing. Francezon stated | that “we are not violating any law.’”| At this point Kitto read the statute | and showed that owing to its vague| wording that it could be used to pro-| hibit one neighbor from talking to an-| other. | Taylor of the Industrial Commis-| sion interjected: “But you have in your picketing activities unlawfully trespassed on private property and the men have been scared through threats of violence such as the blow- ing up of mines and tipples. This must be stopped.” Hardboiled Colonel Hart. Kitto stated that the I. W. W, had never made any threats of violence and cited the raiding of the hall in} Walsenburg as an instance of vio- lence on the part of miners’ enemies. Colonel Hart interrupted with the remark: “Oh, well that’s a local case. We are here representing the gover-, nor. We are not here to argue that point.” “Ultimatum,” Says Francezon. Francezon said: “We know very well that you are here to issue an ul- timatum altho it is not stated such, Let’s get down to busin One of the officers said, “Yes, we (Continued on Page Two) as | Rockefeller “Company LW By HUGO OEHLER. DENVER, (Air Mail) Se In less than two weeks the the Colorado mine: has through various ges until arrived at the brink of armed inte by State troops. In that short period I. W. W. leaders have carried on the campaign, avoid- ing violence and continuing mas picketing. In these two weeks the Colorado | t Fuel and Iron Co., have used every | method possible without success. To-|} day the fields are closed 100 per cent} and the solidarity of the rank rm file growing stronger everyday from ‘e United Mine Workers of America| to the I. W. W. miners and the great numbers of unorganized that have re- sponded to this struggle against the | Rockefeller interests. On the 29th/ the operators were forced to close all he mines in the southern field and now the 10,000 Colorado miners are preparing for new struggles. Support of Strikers Growing. Regardless of political opinions and | which caved jis estimat | have to be Crush the Miners Strike IN COPPER MINE CAVE IN HANCOCK Mich., Oct. 81—With HANCOCK, | the recovery this afternoon of a third body from the debris in Shaft No. 2 of the Quincy Copper Mine here Saturday and buried w of twelve, workers efforts to locate the seven of a redoubled t remaining Bellen of the men are alive was abandoned today. Those killed George Williams, in the eave-in wene: Henry Hirsckoski, Arvid Naas John Israelson, Ernest | Schilling, Emil Aitmaa and John Knosbe. cat Were Repairing Accident. The bodies of John Aitmaa and John Israelson were recovered last night. That of Arvid Naasko was brought to the surface this afternoon. Workers are be ng to discover tools in the debris indicating they are near the scene of disaster. Two skip loads of rock have been hoisted. It 300 loads more will ved. was repairing damage No. 2 caused by @ re n supports gave way. in took plae in an cunusus 9,000 feet, The crew The cz deep mine, and State Plan to » union affiliations the strikers » united to win their just demands. mall merchants of the camps > for the miners and many have od themselves with the workers in ruggle against the Colorado d Iron Co, and the state, s meetings in other cities are eing arranged for the strikers and he International Labor Defense is | mobilizing its forces for defense of the hundreds who are in jail for picketing. New Mexico-Wyoming Situation. District 22, of the United Mine Workers, the Wyoming miners, are tied to inactivity by the officialdom and its agreement with the companies, The officials have imitated company unions in most of the camps through- out the state that are property of the U. P., and a few mines owned by the Anaconda Copper Mines of Montana, — The sentiment of many of the ra and file workers in the state is f the Colorado miners, and tions are being collected. The offi (Continued on Page Siz) All hope that any .