The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-KOUR WEEE FOR A LABOR PaRnTY FINAL CITY THE DAIL Entered as sceond-class matter at the Post Offite. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1927 Austrian Aristocrat, Met by Kahn, Predicts New War on Soviet Russia WORKERS HERE TO "xs le Ye” COUNT GZERNIN SAYS BIG POWERS— WORKER. 4 New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, | EDITION Published datly except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 pee year. Price 3 Cents Z nae NSS leas Vol. IV. No. 251. Rumor Campaign for New TRACTION BARONS Runo- DEMAND COURTS ‘xtorer Goverument | At Canton Led by Chiang OUTLAW UNIONS ' Florence E. S. Knapp SHANGHAI, Nov. 2.—Rumors are current here to the effect that } i a number of counter-revolution- aries affiliated with the National- Ask That A. B: of L. Be| ist movement in the earlier stages Prohibited Entirely | | of its development intend to form a new government at Canton. ‘American Federation of Labor will meet here today to take action on the I. R. T. injunction, it was an- nounced yesterday. William Green, ‘ president of the A. F. of L. Wil- liam B. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway Employes, will attend the meeting. | * ° * | On November 11, Armistice Day, | the anniversary of the end of the war | “to make the world safe for democ- | ganizations in Canton are among | | those reported active in the move-| | ment. HELENA, Mont., Nov. 2, (FP). — Clarence Blewett, Butte Street Car Men’s Union, was elected ex- ecutive president of the Montana READY FOR INVASION OF U. S. SR, ing Steven Ely, incumbent, by | |Parked In Sumptuous Suite In Expensive Hotel, arge majority. | . Blewett’s election is hailed as a| Propagandizes Reporters victory for progressive elements in | a the metal mining industry of the} state. James Graham Livingston | Pro- | YEAR OF U.S. S.R., |Anniversary Leaflets) | Bring Arrest 2 Window Cleaners Are Given 30 Days; >! | | | | As November 6 approaches, the | jclass conscious workers of this dis- | trict are preparing to congregate at) |Henchmen of Hapsburgs Comes to America For | Support For Attack On Workers’ Republic , ‘ ; : : | halls in Manhattan, Brooklyn and | Was elected vice president. sees the eet honueh ee | Meeting Is Called Nee a pa a to celebrate the| | &Tessives were also elected to the a 5 ompan, v7 leman r | le ii 3 i istri are 7. 2 ag i i pany wi m. rom the district board. War against the Soviet Union and “Bolshevism everywhere” tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik | { | Revolution in Soviet Russia. | In small and large cities all over} Me | the world demonstrations of the work- | | ing masses will be held. In Manhat-| | tan and Brooklyn three large mass} courts an injunction against the en- pot Fi tire American labor movement, re-| Two striking window straining it, jointly or severally, from | Michael Tryzanski and Nicholas Ta- organizing, or trying to organize em-| baka, were yesterday sentenced to 30 ployes of the I. R. T. |days in the workhouse by Magistrate | The attempt to secure the most Douras in Washington Heights court) by a bloc composed of England, France and Germany was advo- cated by Count Attakar Czernin, of Austria on his arrival in New York yesterday. The count, former foreign minister in the Austro-Hungarian cleaners, | Graft Hearing Over { ney « strike action of this year, which was sweeping injunction ever applied for, exceeding in the width of its prohib: tions even the famous Buck Stove and Range order, under which the late | President Gompers was sentenced to six months for contempt of court, is the latest anti-labor move on the part of the I. R. T. It aims to stop the inroads on its company union which culminated in the strike of 1926 and} in the organization and contemplated thwarted by an agreement between | union officials and Mayor Walker. | This agreement between officials | of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Employees and Mayor Walker, with the I. R. T. as |made a denunciatory speech against jon charges of disorderly conduct. In pronouncing sentence the judge} their union. | Tryzanski and Tabaka while picket-| ing at 110th St. and Eighth Ave.) Monday were provoked into an argu-}| ment by a strikebreaker, who sudden-| ly lay on the ground, pretending he had been hit. At that moment an au- tomobile containing three members of the industrial squad arrived. The strikers were arrested . Meeting Tonight. Bitter resentment against the sen-| tence prevails among the striking window cleaners, who will meet to- meetings are being arranged for thousands desirous of demonstrating | unity with their Russian fellow-| workers. These meetings will be held at the Central Opera House, 67th St. near Third Ave; New Star Casino, |107th St. and Park Ave., and Ar- Mrs, Knapp Returns To University Desk The recent Albany graft hearing |cadia Hall, Broadway and Halsey St., Day Refuses to Testify | was inconvenient and even annoying | Brooklyn, all are scheduled for Sun-| but it did not last very long. And now | day. i . that it is over Mrs. Florence E. S.} Leaflets Bring Fine. es Knapp, republican woman politician; While plans for these _ meetings whose friends and relatives were| were being made, E. Vafiades was given well-paying jobs with no work |being convicted of the crime of dis- attached, is free to return to her edu-|tributing Tenth Anniversary leaflets cational duties. in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. She was and still is the dean of the | He was arrested in the fur district jnight at the Manhattan Labor Ly-) the party of the third part, was sup- (Continued on Page Five) WORKERS PARTY MESSAGE HEARD BY THOUSANDS Four ‘Red’ Nights Will Be Held This Week | The Workers (Communist) Party | position on present campaign issues | was explained to 2,500 workers who packed Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East} Fourth St., for a final indoor party} election rally last night. | The speakers included William W. | Weinstone, Communist candidate for} assembly in the 8th district; M. J.| Olgin, editor of the Hammer; Ben| Gold, manager, Joint Board Furriers’ | Union, and Rebecca Grecht, party) candidate for alderman in the 8th dis- | trict. Jack Stachel, national organ- ization secretary of the party, pre- sided. Campaign “Red Nights” will be held in the Bronx and Williamsburg Friday and in Brownsville and Man- hattan Saturday. As in similar dem-| onstrations last week in Harlem and’ Brownsville, 100 Workers Party} speakers will address street meetings | at strategic corners, defining the Party program, with particular em- phasis on housing and traction prob- lems and the need of the working class for a labor party. | Ben Gitlow, Party candidate for as-| sembly in the Bronx, was barred from | the election by the New York Board} of Elections but his name will be! written on the ballots by militant| workers, He will be one of the speak- ers at this series of outdoor meetings. | Other speakers will be Ben Lifshitz | dates in Brooklyn; Juliet Stuart} and Anthony Bimba, Party candi-) Poyntz and Julies Codkind, candi- \ ete in Harlem, and Weinstone and Rebecca Grecht. ichard Zober, Passaic. Strikebreaker, Dropped For Having Stolen Car. i STROSS | PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. .2 (FP).—} Richard O. Zober, chief of police and | chief clubber of Passaic, has lost his | job till he can explain where he got | a stolen sedan car. The night sticks of Zober’s mety| helped to smash the textile strike of seven years ago. But the spirit of | the woolen workers last year proved too great an obstacle. Thousands of arrests and many brutal clubbings failed to break the movement, which lasted 12 months, till the biggest firm recognized the union. DREISER ILL IN BERLIN. BERLIN, Nov. 2. — Theodore Dreiser, American novelist en route to the Soviet Union to attend the cele- bration of the Tenth Anniversary of the. November revolution postponed his journey a day because of illness. ceum, 68 East Fourth St., to plan an| college of home economies of Syra- cuse University. When she checked extension of the strike, now backed! out of her expensive New York hotel by 1,000 union members. Speakers at the meeting will in- clude Peter Darck, secretary of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, which is conducting the strike; Charles W. Nicholson, An- thony Fiora and Hugh Frayne. Charge Faseisti In Control of Frame-up Of Greco, Carillo | | | That the prosecution in the Greco- Carillo frame-up has been directed, if not actually conducted, by the Fascist | League of North America, was) charged last night by Carlo Tresea. | head of the Anti-Fascist League and | member of the Greco-Carillo defense | sommittee. Calogero Greco and Donato Carillo, anti-fascists, have been held in jail in the Bronx since July 11 on charges of killing Joseph Carisi and Nicho- las Amorroso, fascists. No date has been set for their trial, though in- dictments against them and a third un-named person were returned July 26. Carisi and Amorroso were slain in connection with the fascist Memo- rial Day parade. “The aim of the Fascist League of North America is to fight radicalism and radicals,” Count Thoan Revel, head of the Fascist League, said yes- terday in the sumptuous brokerage office of Mund & Winslow, where he is a client. Through the collaboration of mem- bers of the New York police force (Continued on Page Five) Genevieve Taggard At Workers School Friday with her secretary yesterday she an-/| nounced she was going back to in-| struct her students in the administra- tion of the home. Witnesses at the graft hearing tes- tified that many thousands of dollars of the 1925 state census fund were misspent. Mrs. Knapp, as secretary of. state .and.administrater of the fund, placed non-working relatives and many idle but “deserving” re- publicans and democrats on the state payroll, witnesses said. Testimony involved not only Mrs. Knapp and her inner office personnel but demo- cratic and republican leaders and committees. Rumanian Troops to Guard ‘Peasant’ Party Meet: Fear Carol Coup) VIENNA. Nov. 2.—Premier Rra- tianu, of Rovumania, has ordered a regiment of infantry to guard the convention of the National Peasant Party, which will open at Alba Julia. eee Leaders of the “National Peasant” | Party are behind the movement to place Carol upon the Roumanian throne in the place of his six-year-old son, King Michael. Isolated clashes between members of the party and government troops were reported last week. Fight on Small Fishing Smack Died of Hunger SWATTLE, Wash., N 2.-—Their small fishing craft unequipped with radio, the eight persons, found dead on board the Ryo Yei Mayo, which drifted into Port Townsend. died of starvation, according to physicians who went on board the vessel yester- day. That a number of members of the crew in their desperation resorted to Genevie' on ‘d, - " ¢ be hapa 1 AEE cannibalism was also the claim of the \in American Literature” conducted by \6 Workers Killed, 20 poetess and critic, will talk on “Con-| temporary American Poets” at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th St., tomorrow evening at 8. This lecture is part of the series on “Social Forces Joseph Freeman and Floyd Dell. In her talk Miss Taggard will dis- cuss Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Carl Sandburg, Robinson Jeffers, and E. E, Cum- mings. Others who will talk in this sym- posium include Michael Gold, W. E. Woodward and Paxton Hibben, PEN er | Hurt as Fire Destroys Small Spanish Factory MADRID, Nov. 2.—Six persons were dead and twenty were in hospi- tals seriously injured today following a fire which occurred in a factory in the village of Arcediano, in the prov- ince of Salamanca. The blaze was caused by a short circuit in an electric lighting cable. physicians. End Lynching, Demand On Crime Conference By N. A. A. C. P. Here The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yes- terday telegraphed the National Con- ference on Crime which is meeting in the New Willard Hotel, Washington, asking that the conference consider means to end the crime of lyuching and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. The telegram is signed by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the association. To Construct Ten More Railway Lines in USSR MOSCOW, Nov. 2. (By Mail).—In 1927-28, apart from ‘the construction of the big Turkestan-Siberia, Railway line, the construction of eight more lines 1,800 kilometres long altogether, will be expected. Sixth Ave. and 27th St . The magis-+ trate imposed a $5 fine, which was (Continued on Page Five) Filipino Leaders ~ In Washington; to Talk io Coolidge WASHINGTON, Nov.+2.—Manuel [ise Quezon, president of the Philip- lpine senate, and Sergio Osmena,| speaker of the lower house of _the | Philippine legislature, have arrived | lin Washington at the head of a dele-| | gation and have arranged to talk with President Coolidge on the issues in |dispute between Manila and the | Washington government. | | Quezon said frankly that he would) |stay until ,Congress met, and then | would appeal to it once more to pass an act granting independence to the Islands to the House of Representa- | Washington as a delegate from the Islads to the House of Representa- tives. In recent years he has been leader of the independence ‘movement at Manila. Sergio Osmena, formerly in the senate at Manila, is more con- servative than Quezon. Van Sweringens Trying Once More to Organize Great Railroad Trust WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The final drive for the Van Sweringen brothers before the interstate commerce com~- mission regarding their proposed railroad merger was begun today. With the full commission sitting, oral argument was begun on the ap- plication of the Chesapeake & Ohio, controlled by Van Sweringen inter- ests, to acquire stock control of the Pere Marquette and Erie and thus form the nucleus of a gigantic sys- tem linking up tidewater Virginia with the great region north of the Ohio river. Minority interests of the Chesa- peake & Ohio, following their success in defeating the original Van Swer- ingen merger, centered a new attack on the Van Sweringens, alleging that their plan was a financial “specula- tion” and not a transportation pro- posal. BROKER BEATS WIFE. DEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 2.—A di- vorce decree was granted today to Mrs. Rose Burger of Brookline from her husband, Louis Burger, Boston stock broker. The divorce was not contested. In her suit Mrs. Burger |testified she was sworn at, struck and shoved around by her husband. MARINE SERGEANT, A SUICIDE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2,—Sergt. James F. Miskell, U. S. Marine Corps, stationed in China, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself with his service pistol, according to a dis- patch to the navy today. Miskell’s SCANDAL ENDS BIG QiL GRAFT TRIAL About Hiring Burns WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2.— Amidst expressions of regret from all | sides, Justice Siddons today declared the graft case a mistrial, excused the jury, and remanded the defendants for a new trial. Fall-Sinclair Teapot Dome oil/| empire, was met at the pier by® |Otto H. Kahn, member of the powerful banking firm of Kahn, |Loeb and Company. | Czernin, who represented the for- |mer Hapsburg monarchy at the sign- ing of the Brest-Litvosk treaty, is in |with his son, Count Hans Czernin. | The war by the three most capi- talist powers of Europe and against the Soviet Union is inevitable, de- |clared the count, because the existing jorder cannot tolerate a government |that means disaster for the present system. The war will take place | believes. this country for a few months’ stay sooner than most people expect, he ; Count Czernin is no longer an of- ficial representative of either Austria or Hungary but he voices the opinion of a powerful group that favors a war of extermination against the "Soviet Union. Important Banking Connections. Count Ottaker Czernin, a member of the old school of European diplo- macy, is said to be closely in touch with the British foreign office and is a leading member of one of several groups in Austro-Germany that are striving to line Germany up with the program of immediate war on the Soviet Union. That Count Czernin is not without The judge gave as part of his| Britain Busy Against Russia. jimportant connections among the fi- grounds for dismissal a novel and| The count declared quite frankly ; unusual reason, one of many peculiar | +}, jover again because of the “wide pub- | hinder : = 4 “’* |tha€ Great Britain was busily en- features that have marked this trial. |gaged tryir, to WE The differences He said that the case had to be tried between France nd Germany which| licity given to the affidavits and the panrine cece triple Cree proceedings in chambers,” relating to|against the Soviet Union. The war the alleged bribing of a juror to | against the Soviet Union in his opin- prevent a conviction and the discov- jion will take place as soon as Britain ery that fifteen Burns detectives |is confident that she can mobilize the were shadowing’ the jurymen. ~ ™""" | forces neécessaty to crush the U. S./ Fine Jury Ruined by Talk. |S. R. With this aim the count is in} Special Prosecutors Roberts and|thoro accord. i Pomerene, whose generosity to the} As one looked around consummation the sump- jdefense in the matter of accepting|tuous suite in which Count Czernin jurors excited curiosity in the first|and his son are housed it was hard days of the trial, looked visibly glum.|to believe that here were two scions Defendant Albert B. Fall, who, as|of a once powerful aristocracy of a secretary of the interior in Hardin; defeated empire with which the cabinet, issued to Harry F. Sinclair | United States was once at war in the (Continued on Page Two) interests of “democracy,” spreading eLwie propaganda, with impunity, against |a people with which the United States was never legally at war and which, |in overthrowing its feudal aristocracy COLORADO MINES nancial giants in the United States was revealed when he was met at the pier by Otto Kahn. Otto Kahn is a member of the great banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Co., second to the house’ of Morgan, and joint holder with it of the Jap- anese loan. Old-School Diplomat. Thiseyreverf among. symp: with the Soviet Union who were in- clined to regard the position of the Communist International as alarm- ist, should take not of the statement made by Count Czernin, this experi- enced diplomat whose ears are close to the key holes of the chancellories of Europe. Challenge Will Be Accepted: Count Ottaker Czernin, who threw the naked blade of imperialism on the negotiating table at Brest Lit- vosk in 1917, only to see it splintered against the iron union of the workers and peasants of Russia, again gives voice to the challenge of a death duel between imperialism represented by the capitalist powers, and freedom for the exploited of all lands, repre- sented by the government of the U.S.S.R. gave the most concrete possible ex- pression to one of the principles for veMi HUNDREDS OF WalsenburgMinersVote | for Action | |which the United States allegedly en- tered the war, i. e., the rights of na- Special to the DAILY WORKER. By HUGO OEHLER. tional entities to govern themselves according to their own needs and de- WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 2. — Picketing of the mines is to be re- sires. sumed here following a mass meet- | ing of miners which heard Kristen Nineteen-Year-Old Strik Strikebreakers; Svanum of the I. W. W. just released | from jail, advocate the formation of | new picket lines. | The Trinidad jail is still full of strikers but there are no prisoners at present held in Walsenburg, 39) having been released on bail. They | are to appear on Nov. 14 to answer to charges of picketing. * PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2.—H to Smithfield in a funeral demons ee 0 MINERS MARCH KILLED BY SCAB er Won Argument With One Shot Him (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) By AMY SCHECHTER. undreds of striking miners of Sub-District Number 5 of the Ohio district of the United Mine Workers of America are marching today from the Dunglen mine tration for John Picetti, 19-year- old striker shot and killed by a scab last Saturday afternoon. DENVER, Colo, Nov. 2,—The threat. of the national guard grew more menacing over southern Colo- rado coal fields as striking miners prepared to resume picketing in de- fiance of Gov. William H. Adams’ ultimatum. Adams not only ordered the return | of three guard airplanes from Pueblo | to Walsenburg but recommended the | arrest of all pickets. He announced, as a strikebreaker. May approached some locked- out union men and a heated ar- gument developed. May and three other scabs, John Lanje, Orville Huefel and William Cupt, too, that the guard would be called | out if necessary to stop picketing. The governor's action came in an- swer to a vote at meetings called by the I. W. W. in Walsenburg and Trinidad to resume active picketing. “If the miners carry out their threats and picket and if county au- thorities are unable to handle the sit- uation, it will be necessary for the | state to take the final step of mobil-| izing the guard,” he said. | EARTH SHOCKS IN TOKIO. TOKIO, Oct. 31.—Nearly one hun- | dred earth shocks rocked the prefect- ure of Niigata during the past week, | home was given as Beaver Lick, Ky. from being greater. did serious damage, although residents | temblors. found the argument going against them and left in their car. After their dep: and two other Richard § on and Frank Spears, went on toward Rose Valley. They again encountered the scabs near Dillonvale and Linza May pulled his gun and fired, accord- ing to Picetti’s companions. Picetti was fatally wounded in the neck and Spears, who was sitting with his arm around Picetti, was wounded in the neck and Spears, who was sitting with his arm around Picetti, was wounded in the shoulder. The scab Lanje declares that Picet- John Picetti ar- a check disclosed today. None of them |ti reached for his hip pocket as if to| get a gun but the murdered boy’s sence of winds prevented the damage |of this section still fear recurring |companions declared no hostile move was made. | Miners from all the 80 or more local unions are expected to | join the march. The murderer, Linza May of Iron Valley Mine where he was to act® ton, was bound for the Rose May is held on a charge of first degree murder, Feeling is running high among the miners of eastern Ohio where the coal companies have been carrying of a vicious campaign against the union with the aid of sweeping injunctions and United States marshals to en- force them. At a conference of over 300 miners of Subdistrict 5, Ohio, held in York- ville Miners Hall yesterday, diseus- sion of the urgent need for relief which must be continued was taken up. Many locals were represented in- cluding local presidents and secre- taries, The local treasuries have long been exhausted, the sub-district treasury is also becoming exhausted. No re- lief from the national office is forth- jcoming. One local distributed $100 among ‘its 250 members in seven | Leataeainte help is urgently needed, miners here say. ™