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

} THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZEP FOR THE 40-HOUR WESK Porm 4 LAHOR PARTY 1, 250. WM SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $¢.0v per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Poxt Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Marrh 3, 1578. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1927 PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, Socialist Evades Debate Offer THOMAS REFUSES TO DEFEND HIS PARTY’S RECORD. Manhattan Rally Called By Workers Party Norman Thomas, one of the prin- cipal spokesmen for socialist party, has refused to defend the rec- ord and platform of the socialist party and its position in tt campa W. Weinston New York di (Communist) Party. ’ refusal i him jj Trwin Fralkin, Workers paign manager. Weinstone is an op- ponent of Thomas in the &th al- dermanie district. Last Indoor Ra Mr. Thomas’ refusal received on the eve of the closing indoor cam- paign mass meeting of the Work This meeting is called for t t at the Manh: 4th St. The doo: Worker the of Workers of the open candi- 1 Weinstone will be among the speakers, who will include also M. J. Olgin, editor of the Hammer; B left wing New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, ard Rebecca Grecht, Party candidate in the &th assembly district. The refusal of Mr. Thomas to meet Weinstone in the de- tate to which Weinstone challenged him will be dealt with from the plat- form, arse Thomas Declines. “Tt seems to me that just about the avorst time.and place in the world for debating the difference between the Socialist and Workers “Parties in the 8th or any other aldermanic district imediately before an election,” Mr. Thomas said in his letter of re- fusal. “Most emphatically I will be party to no such debate. “Tf the reports that reach me are correct—and I know that rumor usu- ally exaggerates and distorts—my friend, Weinstone, is ‘spending his time not in discussing election issues | and attacking Tammany Hail but in attacking the Socialist Party and me personally, sometimes on the basis of a misrepresentation of what I have said. Whether tactics like these make for a united front, you can judge. “T suppose since you agree with us pretty well on the immediate issues in| this campaign you have to have some- thing to talk about. But even so I) should think that Tammany Hali) might furnish you a little more mate-| |Coloradio Miners’ Strike | Mass Meeting Is Called | By N.Y. Relief Committee | Relief for the striking Colorado || miners will be asked of the New {| York labor movement at a mass meeting at the Church of All Na- tions, 9 Second Ave., Saturday at 8 p. m. William F. Dunne, Rich- ard Brazier, Charles Cline and Ar- thur C. Ward will speak. The meet- called by the New York i Relief Commit-| tee. sting was previously announced erroneously for Friday | ‘FUR WORKERS TO 70 BUILD STRONG The m > COLORADO MINE r ORDER FAILS TO HALT STRIKERS Governor Urged to Use National Guard DENVER, Nov. 1.—According te Denver coal dealers, there is only a 48-hour supply of coal in the city in case the temperature falls. The gov ernor is being advised to use the na tional guard troops to stop picketin: in the coal fields. National euard of. ficers have already deliver®Y an ul timatum to the I. W. W. leaders in Paul Koundouriotis charge of the strike. ee ee rientene Ge urecee, @ at-| WALSENBURG, Colo. Nov. 1 | tempted assassination is made the ALSED is 21 | ¥ ' Developments in the coal strike under | Sete for brutal ang Communist I. W. W. leadership which has prac-| activities by the government, tho his | tically stopped coal production in the/ assailant, Zafiri Goussios, was not a) AFFIDAVITS /Canada Building Workers ‘Refuse To Be Bulldozed By Injunction on Strike ; TORONTO, Ont., Canada, Nov. | 1.—Building trades workers here have retaliated to the injunction granted their employers yesterday | ! by refusing to even talk about terms of work as long as the court order stands commanding the In- ternational Trades Union not to go on sympathetic strike against shops struck by the International yotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Justice Logie issued the injunc- ion, and Canadian labor is up in wms against the introduction here of United States tactics. |ARINES MURDER Prosecution BULL tives who were sent here to placed in the custody’ of United St AARINES NIGARAGUANS IN persons who have heen interested i of the Fall-Sinclair jury. Published dafiy except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. Says Indicted Spies; May Declare Mistrial at the close of the grand jury session. foretell the extent to which the alleged jury tampering plot has involved FINAL CITY EDITION | Price 3 Cents J. BURNS NAMED IN OIL GRAFT JURY SCANDAL RE Mae CHARGING “FIXING” IN TEAPOT DOME TRIAL CAUSE QUICK STOP OF COURT PROCESS \Fifteen Detectives of Agency that Daugherty Put in Charge of Secret Service Found Oil Baron Hired ETIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1.—A number of the 20 Burns opera- “work” on the Fall-Sinclair jury were ates Marshal Snyder this afternoon It is impossible at this time to n the progress of the trial. An unexpected development today was the summoning before the grand jury of Donald A. Woodward, ington’s largest department stores and employer of one of the members wealthy proprietor of one of Wash- WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 1.—Wm. J. Burns, head of Burns Detective Agency, and chief of the secret service during Gold, leader of the jx state since the miners quit to enforce their demands for the Jacksonville scale are as follows: 1.—Byron Kitto and 23 other mem- bers of the I. W. W. have been ar- rested and held under $1,200 to $1,500 bail following a mass meeting of min- ers at the Ludlow monument. The miners in the Berwind Canon proper- ties have walked out. } 2.—Milka Sablich, girl strike lead- er has been arrested in Trinidad and held under exorbitant bail. 3.—Picketing has been suspended temporarily following the threat of martial law made by Colonel Hart of the Colorado national guard speaking in the name of Governor Adams. 4.—Enthusiastic mass meetings| have been held in Trinidad, Aguilar| and Walsenburg at which the miners) voted unanimously to stay out until a| final settlement is made with the! coal compaities. 5.—Reports from the various strike fields show that coal production is at a standstill and that the miners are supporting the I. W. W. leadership of the strike. 6.—The Colorado Fue! & Iron Com- pany, working on a big contract for the Santa Fe railroad, has been forced to close its Pueblo steel mills for lack of fuel. I. W. W. Press Report. The following dispatch sent out by the I. W. W. Press Committee has been received by The DAILY WORK- ER: * * * WALSENBERG, Colo., Nov.. 1.— Latest reports from the various sec- tions of the strike area show the splendid fighting spirit among the FIGHTING UNION Cooper Union Meeting Cheers Gold rkers against s and the ion of a and the adory resolution in favor of a’ nployed fur workers to union on the payment of $8 “cr a membership meeting of the Joi ers Union at Cooper union t wine last. night. Two resolutions were adopted by the workers who packed the historic building. One calls for a new offen- sive against the joint attacks of the bosses and the right wing. The other protests against the action of the grand jury in.dismissing charges against right wing gangsters who several months ago nearly killed Aaron Gross, chief business agent of the Joint Board. Greet Gold With Cheers. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, wes epplauded when he rose to speak. “Before tonigt Gokl said, “I meeting opened,” one of the fur ald (Continued on Page Five) Klansman Is Given \ Six Months in Pen Two men convicted on a charge of assault as a result of disturbances ‘attending the Ku Klux Klan Memo- rial Day parade in Jamaica, Queens, Communist, alist. GRECO, CARILLO IN JAIL WHILE WEEKS DRAG ON To Ask Dismissal for Anti-Fascists After waiting three and a half months for the prosecution,te act, the defense yesterday annovndéad it would ask the Branx county coat “ely next week to dismiss first degree murder indictments against Donato Carillo and Calogero Greco, charged with killing Joseph Carisi and Nicholas Amorroso, fascists. Carillo and Greco have been held in jail since their arrest July 11. Carisi and Amorroso were killed last Mem- orial. Day in connection with a fas- cist parade. The defendants were in- dicted, July 26. No date for their trial has been set. Notice that a mo- and is probably a roy-| NEW AIR ATTACK ‘Liberal Troops Defeat Conservatives MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 1— Five Nicaraguan liberals were killed and many wounded when a group of |liberals in the district of Chipote ! were attacked by American marines. | An army plane was used in the at- | tack. | Liberal troops, , operating lto have decisively defeated a group | of Conservative bandits in the vicinity | of Ocotal. The Conservatives who were led by General Anastatio Her- nandez, are reported to have lost | seventy men in the engagement. | Hernandez is said to have attacked | unprotected villages in Nueva Segovia | and to have killed a number of civil- }ians. He is reported to have looted many towns in the region. | Almost a thousand Nicaraguans | have been killed by American marines jsince May. Two Followers of Trotsky Expelled under | General Jose Leon Diaz, are reported | the period when Daugherty was attorney general and the Tea- pot Dome oil lease frauds were perpetrated, was today di- rectly implicated in juror shadowing by an affidavit which may j}cause the present Fall-Sinclair trial to be declared a mistrial be- | cause of tampering with the jury. The evidence shows that Burns was hired directly by the vice-@- ~—— ae : president of the Sinclair Ex- ploration Co., and indirectly by Harry F. Sinclair himself, one of OPE ithe defendants in the trial for conspiracy to commit fraud. Many Killed, Wounded in Bombardment Four sensational affidavits pre- sented to the presiding justice of. the Teapot Dome trial charged, first, that a juror openly had boasted he ex- pected to gain from an acquittal ver- dict, and, second, that fifteen Burns Detective Agency operatives have rendered hour-by-hour reports on the/| activities of eack juror since the trial! began. ae, 4 #. J. Kidwell is the involved juro: SHANGHAI, } 1—A numbi Two affidavits quote him as expect./ of Chinese soldiers were killed and ing “an auto as long as this block if! .ounded by shell-fire from the British gunboat Cricket when that vessel |shelled the banks of Yangtze river |above Kiukiang it was learned today. The Cricket was struck by a few tray bullets’ while patrolling the iver. The bullets are believed to have come near the vessel as a result of fighti between Nanking and Hankow forces. “The results of the same (reports) | ; were reported * * * to one Day, whose correct name I am informed is \A. Mason Day,” declared an affidavit. tion for dismissal would be made has} been given to District Attorney Mc-| MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—Tue Central Geehan, the Bronx, by Newman Levy,/|Control Commission of the All Union defense counsel. |Communist Party yesterday ordered | fer Miialets |the expulsion of Catherine Feodorov; ie eo {and Charles Gruenstein, members of | “I think if the district attorney is| 0 ne i sition f: the Par- not ready now to try the case Hel ee Eroteky Opporivion trom: the Ear | Day is vice-president of the Sinclair Exploration Company. “Tt is my belief and I aver that the real employer of said detectives is Harry F. Sinclair, a defendant in this case,” concluded the assistant dis- trict attorney. ee jast summer, were sentenced to New York penitentiary in the court of special session at Jamaica yesterday. | They are John Kipp of Farragut road, Yonkers, who said he was a_ miners of the coal fields of Colorado Who are fighting under the banner of the I. W. W. Miners coming out on strike answering the call to stand together with their organized fellow- rial. Perhaps it does. way I have not retorted in kind. (Continued on Page Five) Jbership, sentenced to 30 days. Seamen Razz Axtell’s Speech on Russia; If so, reports! member of the klan, sentenced to six|workers have done so and also have that reach me are not correct. Any-| months, and John Marcy, of Hast-|joined the organization by the thou- I) ings-on-Hudson, who denied member- | sands. | | ] Furuseth Cuts Water Front Meet Short. By Worker Correspondent. Silas B. Axtell, the lawyer who has been getting columns of publicity in the capitalist press by disagreeing | with the rest of the trade union dele- gation to Soviet Russia, met with a cold reception last night at his first attempt to speak to a workers’ meet- ing since his return. The meeting which was called by the Marine Fire- | men, Oilers and Watertenders Union| and held in the Union Hall, was an-, jounced as a mass meeting for all samen with Andrew Furuscth, presi- dent of the International Seamen’s Unjon, and Silas B. Axtell as speak- ers, Axtell, who is the attorney for the |Seamen’s Union, was to talk on) tions in Russia. The Seamen Are Wise. Owing largely to the fact that the {nternational Seamen’s Club has been fayniliarizing the seamen with the rt of the Trade Union Committee, a large number of men turned out to hear and ouestion Axtell. As each .man entered the hall he was handed a leaflet put out by the International Seamen’s Club consisting of quota- tions from the Trade Union report, pointing out the splendid conditions of the Russian workers. The result was that Axtell contracted a severe attack of cold feet and was complete- “Jy scared off his subject. Except for ‘a brief statement, lasting not more con ¢of appearing before the Supreme | Court. Axtell Is Shaken Axtell then proceeded to outline a beautiful class collaboration scheme {with no strikes and perfect peace | between shipowners and seamen. To ‘his soft-spoken question, “Don’t you \think it would be much better that way?” came a thunderous “No!” from the audierfce. “We won’t never get nothing that way!” Axtell, already badly shaken, lost his composure more and .more as like questions brought more and more militant answers. Furuseth’s speech consisted as usual of a long description of all the things he has done for the seamen. De- scribing how the Seamen’s Act is be- ing systematically and ruthlessly vio- jlated by the shipowners, he called ‘upon the seamen to help him get mere laws passed. Furuseth Wants Finks. | He further instructed them that the |only way they could remedy their jposition was by acting as finks and |stool pigeons and reporting to the {Department of Justice any of their |shipmates who in their opinion may |have got their Able Seaman certifi- cates or citizenship papers illegally, so that they could be imprisoned) seven years for perjury. This filthy suggestion was met with a frozen silence by the seamen, Needless to, | move toward a position on the side of | The strikers have taken cards in |this organization, demonstrating that ‘they want it understood that not only do they sympathize with the Wob- blies, but also are themselves part of this militant phalanx of the work- ers. Gov. Adams has made his first the mine operators by sending five officers of the national guard to Wel- senburg. After a careful survey of the situation they decided to call on the I. W. W. officials to ask them to refrain from picketing. Under the diplomatic demands and after much sugar-coating of their propositions they made hint of mar. tial law and taking over the duty of | civil constituted authorities by the military. In order to avoid the rupture of a| conference taking place at the state house between mine operators and striking miners, the committee pre- sented the propostion before the min- ers after having asked Gov. Adams’} representatives for a delay of 30 hours in order to take a vote among the members throuot the field. The) delay was granted and picketing op- erations were temporarily suspended. Make Protest. However, it was impressed upon the minds of the state officials that by this action we did not relinquish the right of communications and con- versations and that we would use our rights of free speech and free assem- blage as guaranteed by the constitu- tion of the United States and the state of Colorado; that also we pro- than two minutes, that the Russian seamen were gocd fellows but didn’t get much wages, Axtell confined ‘himself to the safer subject of the | blessings of American democracy and the sacred freedom of the Seamen’s Union to hire an expensive lawyer He like himself and enjoy the privilege K \ say, Furuseth failed to suggest im-|tested against the unwarranted ac- prisoning any of the shipowners who tions of the sheirff’s force of Los violate the Seaman’s Act with the| Animas county in using the picket) utmost freedom. |law as a means to arrest any man As usual the meeting was quickly actively connected with the strike. closed as soon as Furuseth had fin- Today at Berwind cannon mines ished his sob stuff, without allowing the miners walked out from the camp | wy questions or discussion. | (Continued on Page Two) Bt never will be,” Levy said last night. “Tf there was enough evidence to ar- rest the men in the first place there ought to be enough evidence to try them. I think McGeehan’s witnesses (Continued on Page Five) Upholsterers Picketing Los Angeles Shop While ‘Red Squad’ Aids Scabs LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 1—The militant upholstcrers, Local 15, has called a strike against the Hill Bros. | shop, which has been attempting to | put over a wage cut on the men and women in the shop. The shop re- fused to deal with the union’s shop committee and declared a lockout after the men protested. The strike committee is actively picketing the shop, defying the threats of the “red uad,” which is in reality the city’s strike-breaking department. Scabs have been successfully pulled out of |the shop as fast as they get in, and the strikers are determined to win the fight against wage cuts. The | strike is in charge of Business Agent H. Chait. Lighter Captains Out; Longshoremen Work A strike of the Lighter Captains’ union has been called on lighters op- erated by coastwise shipping compa- niesssuch as the Morgan, Clyde and Savannah Lines. These companies refuse to pay even the low union scale of $32.50 a week. The men provide their own food out of their wages. Most of the men have an- swered the strike call and are deter- mined to hold out until their demands ‘are met. The Lighter Captains’ union is affiliated with the International Longshoremen’s Association, which has not succeeded in organizing the dockworkers on the struck lines. If the longshoremen would support the striking lighter captains they could more easily win their demands. ty. Gruenstein and Feodorov are charged with having organized a se-| |eret printing office near Moscow and |to have used materials stolen from |the Central Club for the education of WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—With a federal grand jury investigating charges of jury tampering, Federal Judge Frederic L. Siddons this after- | workers. | ea 48 Workers Back Party Leadership. MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—The regional Communist Party conferences at Mos- cow and Leningrad and numerous dis- trict conferences in provincial towns as well as Communist cell meetings noon adjourned the Fall-Sinclair con- spiracy trial until tomorrow The charges were presented to the judge at a secret session this morn- ing, attended by opposing attorneys and the two defendants, Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall. It is said that two members of the jury are held for questioning by the grand jury. Climax of Scandals. |are engaged in a discussion of the re- |sults of the recent plenum of the Cen- tral Executive Committee and the Central Control Commission of the] The present scandal comes merely |Communist Party» as a climax to persistent talk about | The action of the prenum in expell-| the Teapot Dome oil graft trial be- ling Trotsky and Zinoviev from the|ing a mere formality, a method by Central Committee is almost unani-: (Continued on Page Two) |mously upheld and demands for 3 £255 strong action against the anti-Party activities of the Opposition are being | made. | | The Opposition has very few follow-; | ers among the rank and file, the meet-| [LOVESTONE IN NAME OF the defense won.” It is understood here that all Burns Watched Jury. foreign war craft have been ordered A raid on the Burns headquarters here led to the seizure of their re- ‘to use their guns when struck by bul- lets from shore. jports on the surveillance of jurors * * * (American and British gunboats have shelled Chinese towns and bar- racks on a number of occasions when struck by stray bullets. A large num- |ber of civilians have been killed by American and British bombard- | ments.) Ca ems SHANGHAI, Nov. 1. Big Ameri- can business men entertained high of- ficials in the right wing Nanking government at a dinner given by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday eve- ning. Mutual problems were discussed |at the dinner, which took on the char+ acter of a business rather than a so- cial affair. Dr. C. C. Wu, the foreign minister; Wang Chung-wei, Minister of Jus- ice; Sun Flo, minister of finance and |other officials high in the Nanking Government attended the affair. COMMUNIST PARTY HAILS UNIVERSAL 7-HOUR DAY ESTABLISHED |ings show. ‘The policies of the Ogn-| IN THE SOVIET UNION ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY | tral Committee are being heartily ‘en- | |dorsed by the proletarian and peas-| by rs lant elements in the Party. | A cablegram hailing the decision to - —_—— establish the seven-hour working day lin the U. S. S. R. by the government | Utica, Niagara Falls,’ | Celebrates Revolution UTICA, N. Y., Nov. 1—The tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion will be celebrated Saturday at 131 Washington St. An address will be made by S. A. Prenis. Dancing | will follow. niversary was forwarded yesterday to International Press Correspondence, in the name of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of America by Jay Love- stone, secretary. It reads as follow “After years of devastating v and counter-revolution and surri * * * by an iron ring of impe ‘i P ys Nov. the Soviet Union is so migh eee rina to Velbrate’ the |vietory as to be able to proceed with Russian Revolution will be held Sun-|the establishment of a seven-hour day. day at 7:30 p. m. at Jugo-Slavian In prosperous America, with — its Club, 1305 E. Falls St. |much-vaunted efficiency and with an sn jimperialist clique which has been TRAIN PARTY WORKERS. |fabulously enriched by the World Among 18 courses offered for the | War, millions of workers are con- theoretical and practical training of |demned to slums, victimized by in- of the Soviet Union on its tenth an- < Y) Vanzetti, Workers (Communist) Party fune- tionaries by the Workers School is the course in “Communist Party Or- ganization” to be given by Jack Stachel, national organization secre- tary. It will meet 12 consecutive |workers the establishment of the|for Sunday mornings at 11 a, m.. f jjunctions, denied the right to organ- lize and still fighting for the eight- hour day. The American capitalist | press has organized a conspiracy of silence to hide deliberately from our seven-hour day in the Soviet Union. labor Het perialism and and finance their masters will venting this historical ut not even the vi letariat. ment of capitalist A nurdered in cold blood is robbing 7 govern- has just co and farmers of land and the fruits of their toil, »bil its injunction gunmen, troops to crush the striking > repeat the Ludlow mas mir and sacre in Col “The prole Soviet Unior n government of the t the same time im- proving the workers’ housing, can- celling the debts of the peasantry, and establishing the seven-hour day, Such a contrast in policy between the Work government of the Soviet ;Union and the imperialist govern Hag, of the United States is boynd in the long run to be an eye-opener even the most political American workers.” backward ¥