The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1927, Page 2

Rockefeller’s Militia To Stop, Picketing (COAL COMPANY'S | ence with F ing a confe (Continued from Page One) ‘ t to know what the I. W. W. is| RR R going to do.” | It was agreed finally that the I. W. WwW. tee could have two hours! | aye . : s Gis adaatian me GROWING WORSE First Reaction to Industrial Depression to Place Burden on Slaves j | ad been holding meetin and Aguilar, the commi the governor’s military Noy. 14 Conference in Pittsburgh of A. F. L. Indications Are That Present Crisis Wiil Be More Severe Than 1920 delegation, at 30 P. M., with the correspondents : | = f the United P: d Associated | By LAURENCE TODD. ok : for 30 hours| By H. M. WICKS. INGTON, 0 31, (FP). y the Pitts- Co. and the} but sworn into | on of pick Coal and ase Facing industrial depression the employers of labor are al- ourgh ready openly discussing the reduction of wages and lengthening To Consult Rank and File. Roger Francezon, chairman of the the State. of Bennsyic| |the hours of labor. At the autumn meeting of the American Iron “ommittee, stated that the committee > the bituminous | and Steel Institute, with the statistics of the decline before them, nal decision stern end of the |the main topic of discussion was the reduction of wages. Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, opened ip as |s' d by a drastic 2 organ- | to discuss the n “How much asked Col at least a reach the nor Stay At this junctu onel Hart ini return Hart i stay is all right with The I. W. W. dele; that should continue picketing they would do so despite all ultimatums. The meeting! then adjourned. Miners to Decide The situation arising by x the governor’s ulti um is being} placed before all striking miners in| the state. | need,” Id take | me to 30)) Sell. you Agreed On. xed by a federal judge ° during The ugherty regime. an Feder: s called a special con- ourgh, for Nov. 14, to the labor movement d Mi living wage and the Problems. hundred-odd_ executives nal labor unions gather urgh they will face three the raising of funds for the the making of effective re- e to th on, and the cre- ation of public sentim of coal and iron police to ‘foot the strikers and their When th and inter mple un ‘am- i Funds should be raised without dif- desperate. | against the | vtiS FREOERICHI, LAWRENCE CLAnice Toe THOMAS ino one in the industry wishes to con- template”’—meaning a reduction in wages, Reports in the capitalist prgss as- sert that the general opinion ‘at the linstitute was that “unless a better |price can be obtained for the pro- |ducts, it will be necessary to revise |the wage schedule.” Admit General Depression. Reports of discussions at the in- stitute brought out the fact that the general decline in the industry had been a topic of grave concern long before the unfavorable character of |\the earnings of the United States |Steel, the Bethlehem Steel and the |Republic Iron and Steel Corporations |the question of wage reductions claiming that “everything con- |ceivable had been done to reduce producing c jonly remaining step was one “which@--—— ” and that the | In plain words the condition of the {world market is such that it cannot | orb the products of industry. The revival of European industry has af- jfected the favorable position that the |United States held during the long period of reconstruction when heavy }demands were made upon the Ameri- jcan market. Also the heavy American invest- ments in Europe are bound to react for the simple reason that the pro- ducts of European industries must find. a market in order that the Wall Street imperialists may realize inter- est on their investments. Thus, instead of solving the an- unfavorably upon American industry « jarchy in capitalist production that {formerly produced in eyery country ever-recurring crises thé intervention The I, W. W. committee members |ficulty. Building, printing and many |became public. have left, for the various mining | Other trade unions have had no seri- | The Republic Iron and Sinelair’s Name On ar rane With unemployment setting in, the MINING MACHINES! camps—Kitto to Ludlow, Jacobs to|0US drain upon their treasuries in the Aguilar, Bell to the northern fields, Past four years; they could raise ten Childs, Harris and Orr have gone to the Huerfano county districts. * * = “Redblooded Workers To Rally to I. .W. W. | Strike,” Says T.U.E.L.| CHICAGO, Oct. 30—The Trade Union Educational League, over t signature of William Z. Foster, secre- | tary, has issued the following state- | ment calling for aid for the Colora-| do miners’ strike. | “Every redblooded worked will ral-} ly to the support of the I. W. W.! Colorado miners’ strike,” says the statement. “The Colorado coal miners are on strike again. Under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World, the exploited workers in the mines of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com- pany’ and other mining concerns have | delared. war on the Rockefeller in-| terests. The struggle, the first on a} major scale among these workers} since the great strike of 1912, which climaxed in the Ludlow massacre, promises to be most bitterly fought, with the combined powers of capital- ism, courts, police, and pitted against the miners. It is a} situation which calls for every red blooded worker to rally in support of the I. W. W. Colorado miners’ strike. Unorganized For 14 Years. “For 14 years the Colorado miners have remained unorganized. Rocke- feller has used every trick of com- pany unionism and terror them disunited and helpless. most powerful demoralizing influence ‘was the corrupt leade: p of the United Mine Worker While pre- tending to stand for the interests of the miners, these misleaders in real- ity functioned a 2 of the C. F, & I. to keep the workers demorali: The quic s of the I. W. W. this fie that the men were “vipe for organization and that the corrupt officialdom of the Lewis ma- chine made no effort to unite them. Failure of Lewis’ Policy. “The failure of Lewis’ policies in Colorado is only one phase of their failure in the coal fields generally. Betrayal of the workers in wage ne- gotiations, war against the left wing, vefusal to organize the unorganized } miners—-these are but a few of the ruinous policies that have wrecked the U. M. W. of A. in Colorado, Ken- tucky, Alabama, West Virginia, and are now threatening the very exist- ence of the organization nationally. Reaches Lowest Depths. “The fatal Lewis poliey reached its depths in the present bituminous! strike, which is ending so disastrously for the union. If at the outset of the strike Lewis had made even the slightest effort to organize the min- ers in West Virginia and other un- organized territories, they would have responded en masse, despite his rec- ord of betrayal, and would have turn- od the strike into a great victory, in- stead of what it now is, a big defeat for the union. Militant Bid For Mines. “It is high time for the progressive and militant elements in the U. M. W. of A, to take an aggressive stand against Lewis and his clique and to wrest the organization from their hands, Otherwise it will be de- stroyed. The Lewises, the Farring- tons, the Van Bittners, and the hun- dreds of other officials like them, agents of the coal operators, must be driven out of the ranks of the organ- iwed workers. “All hail the struggling Colorado miners! They must be helped in every way. They have burning need for funds. Money must be gathered and sent them at once. Let every left wing and progressive worker stand shoulder to shoulder with them in this struggle.” | the rest, | But the sm to keep | ; nillion dollars in two months without straining their giving-capacity. t years the miners have donated many times that sum to smaller labor organizations that were struggling for survival. Police Obey Organized Capital. The injunction and the coal and iron police, however, imposed by political power, and im- posed at the demand of organized y organized labor. Pennsylvania congressmen say nothing. Organized coal miners in Pennsylvania have no political party. They have no active sympathizers in the councils of the Republican party. The bosses have Andrew Mellon run- ning the Coolidge cabinet, Gov. Fisher directing the state cossacks, and the county officials in the state lending aid to every scheme of the coal com- panies to break the spirit of the strik- One possible line of attack is the in- junction law itself. The A. F. of L. convention at Los Angeles ordered a special conference to be held in Wash- ington to draft anti-injunction meas- ures. The coal conference, after refer the coercion issues to this con- ference in Washington. Chiang Kai-shek Visits Japanese Imperialists TOKIO.-—What the real signific- ance of Chiang Kai-she recent an. n China ay be seen from his nt associations in Japan. Chiang din Tokio some time ago and has been si ng at the home of the prominent J se chauvinist, Depu- ty Toyama. 4 ma has large personal inter- r nehu: and Mongolia. For a long time he has been reported to be on the closest terms with Chang Tso-lin, the war-lord agent of Japan- ese imperialism in Manchuria and north China generally. D g his stay in Tokie, Chiang Kai-shek has made repeated visits to the home of Baron Shibushawa, known as “the J. P. Morgan of Japan.” In} re forces of coercion, | Steel COmpany Evicts (Continued from Page One) are side-tracked, pushed from one siding to another and recently a car loaded with lumber was sent to the railroad shops for “repairs” and held for days. The Russellton mines have been shut down since the beginning of the lock-out. Several weeks ago the Re- public Iron and Steel Company began its preparations for opening them up on a seab basis,—erected a stockade around mine No. 1, began bringing in more Yellow Dogs, getting mine bosses sworn in as deputies, and ar- ranging for bringing in scabs. The Russellton miners have had seven months without work or pay to drain their resistance and still they are only at the beginning of their fight. Now they are facing the sev- ere winter of the hills in flimsy shacks the coal operators would re- fuse to house their live-stock in, and the opening of the battle against run- ning Russeliton No. 1 and No, 2 as scab mines. The struggle in the other camps of the district will' be repeated |—clashes with Coal and Iron police |and troopers—arrests—attempts to |pledging funds to the strikers, may |smash the picket line, attempts to | terrorize the women and children,— |as a miner from the next town put it | speaking to ¢he Russellton Women’s | Auxiliary of conditions at his own mine—wherever you turn guns, guns, guns, | Injunction Aids Evictions. The sweeping Pittsburgh Terminal jinjunction on evictions — recently |handed down restraining the U. M. | W. of A. from defending its members lin eviction cases has established a |powerful precedent. A number of other companies are now pushing evictions and thousands of miners and their families will be forced to spend the winter months in barracks and tent colonies. Relief—money for fuel | to keep the cold out of the roughly built shacks, warm clothes and food fore to back the miners and their ;families in the long struggle ahead, and keep the coal operators from win- {ning out in their use of siege tactics ‘for crushing the miners’ fight to pre- serve their union. The First Volume of the New Workers Library Publications ae ITouis Lngelabi; paien 15 cenre your fellow workers in the 154 12 cents The DAILY WORKER (Book Dept.) 33 First St., New York : 10 cents in lots of 100 or more 9 cents in lots of 300 or more The TENTH YEAR. The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia By J. Louis Encpant EGINNING the se- ries of new attrac- tive publications ‘The Tenth Year” is a valu- able account of the great achievements. of the world’s first workers’ government. Written in a popular simple style, here is a most interesting new book to present to your shop-mates on the 10th birthday of Soviet Russia. Buy one for yourself—BUY TEN (or more) to give to shop and trade union, lots of 10 or ‘more becomes more urgent than ever be-/| INSTALLED UNDER ig Officials ae Union in Illinois Yield Again CHICAGO, (FP), Oct. 31. — Labor- saving machinery may be installed in all Illinois mines and the operators will have the right to determine who shall run them, according to a tempo- |rary agreement between the United Mine Workers union, District 12, and the coal mine owners. This announce- ment was made by the Illinois joint wage commission of miners and oper- ators, which has been in session since the end of the long stoppage. Until now the union ‘has claimed the right to pick the men to run new mine devices. The new agreement, ef- fective Nov. 1, permits the operators not only complete freedom to install whatever new equipment they choose but also the men to run it. Operators Fix Load. The operators are also given the right to determine the capacity of loading machinery, no restrictions be- ing made as to number of cars. Either operators or miners may open the question of tonnage rates at any time. The commission is to report to the full wage conference of miners and operators on Feb. 1, at which time |they are to present a complete agree- |ment on all questions of wages and jconditions to go into effect April 1. The pact giving the miners the Jack- sonville scale expires on that date. The terms of the agreement on ma- chinery conditions and wages will be put into effect temporarily until the meeting of the full scale body, the small commission having full power | meanwhile. Prison "Officials Meet; Crow Over Filled Cells | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31.— A_ conference of prigon officials, scheduled for this city tomorrow is preceded by a report of officers of the conference to the effect that there | has been an unprecedented increase in | the prison population within the last | few years. Narcoties and prohibi- tion prisoners make up one fourth of the inmates of the federal peniten- tiaries. The number of narcotic cases has increased 700 per cent in nino years. DEAD COP AND WIFE DRUNK, _CHICAGO, Oct. 31. — “I cooked a big dinner and he barely tasted it.” | said Mrs. Rose Emrich today in ex- plaining to police why she killed her ‘husband, Paul, a police officer. Mrs, Emrich told how she and her husband | Contract In Oil Sale |stee magnates feel that they can with impunity reduce wages even below CONTROL OF BOSS | (Continued from Page One) that the company was created for some illegitimate purpose.” Senator In the Deal. Former Senator Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, attorney for Humphreys, identified the contract, He explained that Sinclair was present when it was drafted and that he had insisted on |Sinclair’s signature because he had |never heard of the Continental Trad- ing Company and didn’t want to sign a $32,000,000 contract with an un- known concern. Justice Siddons gave another of his decisions so useful to the defense then, when he ruled that Thomas did not have to say whose name was in the original draft of the contract as the buyer of the oil.. He admitted that whatever that name was, it aroused controversy among the gen- tlemen present, and was afterwards changed to “Continental Trading Co.” When asked point-blank whether that name was “Harry F. Sinclair,” the judge came to the rescue of Thomas and the defense. “Profit” Is 25 Cents a Barrel. Cross-examining Thomas, Martin W. Littleton, Sinclair attorney, sought to show that H. M, Blackmer, formerly with the Midwest Refining Company, was the dominant figure in the Continental. Blackmer is in Paris and has refused to obey a sub- poena to appear in this trial. H. L. Phillips, president of the Sin- clair Crude Oil Purchasing Company then took the stand and produced a contract under which that concern bought the oil from the Continental at $1.76 per barrel. This was a profit to the Continental of 25 cents a bar- rel—$8,000,000 in all. Sinclair had guaranteed the Continental contract which made possible the taking of this profit from his own company. BUY THE DAILY WORKER 18 Hours’ Difference in * Time Gets Man Life Term Instead of Six Months BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 31. -- | Eighteen hours on the wrong side ‘of August 31, at which date the new law making the limit in grand larceny $100, went into efect, sent Edward Orchard to prison for life today. Orchard was convicted of steal- ing chickens, and was sentenced under the Baumes law, as the chickens were, worth more than fifty dollars, tho less than $100, The judge, ironically calling at- tention to the few hours that sep- arated a comparatively slight of- fense from one carrying a penalty of life imprisonment, told Orchard (had been drinking, and how she had been ordered to prepare “a good din- | ner,” which the drunken officer would | not eat. | that if he liked the way he was acting in prison ten years from now he might apply for ‘a pardon for him, fp Hiern i ‘THE FOLLOWING NEW REA DERS SEND THEIR GREET- INGS TO THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION OF “THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION J. Lans Daniel Loschinko John Smith F. P, Meehan C. J. Stromme C. J. Stromme Frank Dankhoff Edna Huebel Chris Hansen Jos. Horvath Claus Ross H. Engelberg F. A. Graca W. A, Little B, Punderson Steve Tarealli John Olson I. Aaronson Thos. R. Riley Zena Getzels: Wong Feature Christ Pappas N. Horovitz lV. Solbrig Albin Stoezel Peter Watson G. Kish A. Lapinski Helen Loinonkir W. H. Aggus James Polworth Steve Shmidt Sam Johnson Herman Carlson Brotsky Mary Woodall J, Komisar | F. Ibauer W. J. Bowman the present standards which are so jlow that -heads of families cannot |make both ends meet. In the steel jregion whole families are forced to |work in the industries in order to ob- tain the equivalent of what one man fought to obtain, even according to the }economic laws of capitalism. | Future Looks Dark. | As the stock market continues to |fluctuate and as each slight recov- ery is followed by a worse decline evey the most optimistic have to ad- mit that depression is widespread. The financial columns of the New York Times, usually the last of the Metropolitan papers to admit indus- |trial depression, are filled with cau- |tious warnings as they frankly admit |that they cannot prophesy a favora- |ble turn in the near future. That the present depressing trend is unmis- timists are chided for failure to per- ceive the impending crisis. However, the Times admits that the question of veturning strength cannot be prophesied. | “When it will be attained depends | ...on actual developments in a trade situation which is not less perplexing because its present trend has become unmistakable. Many Warning Signals. “That perplexity cannot be as- cribed to what Wall Street calls the unaccountable . suddenness with which reversal of form has occurred in trade and industry. No picture of the season’s developments could be more incorrect. The truth is that practically every trustworthy industrial indication was pointing, as far back as midsummer, to dis- tinct change from the expanding activities of 1926. Individuals who saw and who correctly interpreted these indications were waved aside by speculative Wall Street, which classed them either as people ‘out of touch with present-day condi- tions’ or merely as ‘bears on the market.’ But that is itself the rea- son why, when Wall Street at last and found itself qonfronted with awoke with a start from its dream certain stern’ realities, it should have asked with bewilderment what could have Happened overnight.” Worse Than 1920 Crisis. That the present depression will be worse than that of 1920 is plainly in- dicated by comparison of the devel- opments then and now. In 1920 the months of July and August produced nothing to indicate the impending de- pression, whereas mid-summer of this Year clearly indicated the present de- pression. Nor can the present decline be con- sidered a mere reaction from the high point of 1926, for the simple reason that already prqduction is from 20 to 60 per cent below 1925, the beginning of the “boom” period. Steel, motors and more than fifty other branches are on the decline (varying from 20 to as much as 60 per cent) while rail- way loadings are from 7 to 8 per cent below that of last October. News from London, Paris, Berlin |and other capitols of Europe indicate ‘that the decline in industry is world |wide. From a state of feverish ac- \tion in the middle of the summer the | industrialists in the London exchange are rapidly falling and dispatches speak of the period of reaction set- ting in and states that “some anxiety is expressed concerning the position of the market during what may prove to be a critical period of liquidation.” |Many losses already have occurred |and there is a distinct note of pes- \simism bordering on despair. © | Most depressing also i& the situa- ‘tion on the continent. The forma- ‘tion of the steel combine, consoli- dating the German, French and some British industries, resulted only ina ‘temporary revival and it is now ad- \mitted that there are no orders in \sight to ensure even half time opera- ion of European steel plants. takable is admitted and even the op-| jof Wall Street in Europe causes new complications. For the working class the present situation is characterized by world economic crises in which the level of the lowest paid workers and their standard of living wiil become the goal toward which the capitalists jot each country will try to beat down |their own working class in their ef- j forts to solve the irreconcilable con- tradictions of the system. Against this tendency the workers must fight with all means at Hand. Say Oklahoma Governor Is Rosicrucian; Faith In Witches, Astrology | OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 31. Friends and political foes of Gover- nor Henry S. Johnson are loudly de- bating as to whether he has left An- glo-Saxon protestanism for purely Saxon mysticism. Specifically, the governor is accused of having joined the oceult religion of Rosicrucianism and to be a believer in witches, spells, black and white magic, fairies, astrol- ogy and wicked demons. It is said that his confidential secretary, Mrs. ‘0. O. Hammand led him into the cult. The governor has gone so far as to state that he “belives the Rosicru- cian fellowship to be a powerful and persuasive presentation,” and that he has become a vegetarian. He is sign- ing bills by the time table of astrol- ogy, having on at least one occasion postponed a signature until between 11.26 and 12.30 of the following Thursday, because ‘all the signs of the zodiac would be favorable then.” The Rosicrucians are a group of harmless freaks, supposedly confined in recent years to Southern Califor- nia, until apparently they made a bid for state power in Oklahoma. 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