The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF T=B UNORGAFIZED FOR, THE 40-ROUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PaRTY Vol. IV. No. 252. Burns, Anti-Labor “Dick” Caught in Jury-Fixing Dragnet; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1878, year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 FINAL INAL CITY | |. __ EDTION * Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York. N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents Oi] Graft Defendants’ Own Attorney Acts as “Prosecutor” CESSPOOL OF BRIBES SHOWS JURY, THREE HUGE MEET! NGS TO GREET REVOLUTION’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY Thousands Will Hear Speakers and Musicians| At Sunday Celebrations In New York | Plans for the errr ainment of workers who will gather in| three halls in this city Sunday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik revolution have been successfully com-| pleted. Besides addresses there will be musical numbers by sing- ers and four pantomime presentations in pageant by the Pioneers | of New York. At the Central Opera House, 67th St. near Third Ave., the | pageant given by the Pioneers wu nder the direction of H. Elbaum| will consist of, “1917,” “Funeral March,” “Working” and “Re-| joicing.” The Pioneers also w achievements of 10 years of Soviet rule in Russia. ill give a tableau showing the) The partici-| pants in the pageant will be in variegated native costumes. At Arcadia Hall. oo -At Arcadia Hall, Broadway and! Halsey St., Brooklyn, there will be | additional feature in the chorus of 0} ighly trained voices under the aizee-| They will give} ‘Aida’) tion of Walter Zukas. several numbers including In many ways this meeting will be} impressive. A well known Russian| itone will sing Russian folk songs| and revolutionary numbers. He will be followed by Comrade Rubin, with| [Jnion poe ae Consider Violin. All of the speakers at Arcadia Hall (Continued on Page Five) BRITISH LABOR PARTY GAINS 'N LOCALELECTIONS: LONDON, Nov. 3.—Establishment | of a net gain of 128 seats and the capture of 7 new ‘councils in the municipal elections was claimed for the labor party today by the Daily Herald, the labor organ. The newspaper based its claim on the almost complete returns of the elections and also declared that the labor victory was at the expense of every other Party. The elections have brought the total of labor controlled municipal- ities to 16, the Herald said. The results of the municipal elec- tions are regarded as less of a victory for the leadership of the labor Party than a protest of British workers against the policies of the Tory gov- ernment. The Anglo-Soviet break, forced by the Baldwin government, is believed by many political observers, to have been largely responsible for the drop in the Conservative vote and for the gains of the Labor Party. Dissolve Diet to Prevent Criticism Of Pilsudski Reign WARSAW, Novis 8.—To prevent the \Opposition from voicing its criticism the Pilsudski regime, Vice Premier ‘artel today dissolved the Polish Diet and Senate. By the decree both houses are dissolved until the end of | November. The fight against the administra- tion largely centers about the huge | militarist budget, recently submitted | to the Diet with totals, but no spe-| cified appropriations mentioned. The recent victories of the Com- munist Party in the elections at War- | saw, Lodz and Grodno are said to have caused the Pilsudski regime con- siderable concern and are said to be | responsible for the renewed wave of | | arrests and suppressions. ad Believe Steamer Sunk | With Crew of 12 Men LONDON, Nov. 3.—Fear was felt | today that the steamer “Loophead,” with a crew of twelve, was lost dur- | ing the gales which swept the British Isles Jast Thursday causing the death of more than forty Galway fishermen and wreaking havoc to coastal terri- | . teria and shinning. 1, S. LABOR FACES NEW CRISIS THRU NY. INJUNCTION Traction Strike With six employees of the Brook- lyn-Manhattan Transit Co. discharged ifor affiliation with;the street rail- way men’s union and with the Inter- rough Rapid Transit Co. plotting \a blanket -antidabortinjunetion, offi- cials of the union and of the Ameri- jean Federation of Labor continued in uncertainty to confer last night. The I. R. ‘I. officials and battery lof high-priced lawyers are preparing jarguments for Nov. 11 in their suit |for the most sweeping anti-labor in- {junction in history. The injunction they have demanded of the courts would prevent their employees join- ing the Amalgamted’ Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America or any other union affili- ated with the A. F. of L. Attempts / at organization under the injunction | @ would become a crime. | Walker Again? | William Green, president of the A.} F. of L., was reported due in New} York last night to plan the union’s future course with William D. Mahon, international president of the street) car men’s union, and James H. Cole-| man and Patrick J. Shea, New York | organizers. Indications were that| they would again knock at the door | of Mayor Walker, who engineered the last fake settlement, for a way out of the present crisis, which citally | affects the entire labor movement of the nation. May Strike This Week. The crisis may precipitate a strike this week. If a strike is to be called it will probably be called prior to Noy. 11, the date set for the first (Continued on Page Five) \Italian Cloakmakers to ‘Meet Tonight at Union| All members of locals 48 and 89, | International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, are urged to attend a meeting tonight immediately after ; work at 16 West 21st St. Speakers jin Italian and English will address |the meeting. | Jewish Students Beaten ‘In Bucharest Outbreaks BUCHAREST, Nov. 3.—The Jew- ish students were mobbed and severely |beaten in another anti-Semitic out- | break here yesterday. A series of | anti-Semitic riots have occurred in }all of the universities of the city. Altho the government has made re- peated promises to suppress the riots, Hi it has taken no action yet. $5,000 AWARDED PRISONER. ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 8.—Climax- ing one of the most unusual cases it has ever considered, the state court of claims today awarded William J. Dietz, 28, $5,000 for injuries to his right hand suffered while working in the Sing Sing prison tin shop. Dietz is still a prisoner, serving a ten-year sentence for manslaughter. \fascist headquarters. } } | In The Colorado Strike Zone | | | tivities of the sixteen Burns detectives who Also a connection was discovered be- |of the Teapot Dome jurors. _ DETECTIVES, GOVERNMENT “FIXED” TO ACGUIT TEAPOT OIL LOOTERS. In Shadow Coolidge’s Prosecutors Hailed to Grand Jury WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—The exposures of the web of in- trigue which made impossible the continuation of the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case, the Teapot Dome oil graft case, before a “fixed” jury, were amplified today and witnesses before the grand jury directly linked Harry F. Sinclair, the oil millionaire, with the ac- “shadowed” eleven |tween Falls’ attorney and the Department of Justice. This resulted in subpoenaes |mediate appearance before the | Upper left, mine buildings in the southern Colorado coal field; upper right, the Rockvale tipple in the Canon | City district. Below left, the Berwind mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., an objective of one of the first | marches by miners in this strike; lower right, another of Rockefeller’s C. F. and I. mines, at Robin ~~ \Change Hungarian Noble Living In Hollywood Is _ “Hit and Run” Driver HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Nov. 3— Albert’ Pongracz, a Hungarian baron who claims to be an attache of the Hungarian embassy at Washington, was held in jail here today on charges of driving an automobile while intoxicated andj} failing to render aid after an acci-| dent. | It is charged Pongracz sped | away in his automobile this morn- ing after striking a milk truck and} toppling the driver to the pave-| pen d 3 ANTLFASCISTS. ARRESTED; HELD WITHOUT CHARGE Case Related to Greco- Carillo Frame-up Three anti-fascist workers arrested late Wednesday night on complaints made by members of the Fascist League of North America are being held in the Raymond St. Jail, Brook- lyn without bail for a hearing Nov. 14, They were first charged with felon- ious assault. Later this charge was dropped, workers active in their de- fense said last night. No new charge has been made. The arrested workers are Petro Bencich, Bernard Godeno and Charles | Kascassutta. When originally tuken into custody the police said they were | arrested in connection with shootings Jan. 1 at a fascist meeting in Tremble | Hall, Brooklyn, and at the Manhattan | Cases Related. Wednesday night’s triple arrest is related to the case of Cologero Greco and Donato Carillo, the Greco-Carillo | defense committee said last night | through Carlo Tresca, member of the committee and president of the Anti- Fascist League of North America. Greco and Carillo have been held in custody since July 11 on charges of | having killed two fascists in connec- tion with a fascist parade last Deco-| ration Day. “The fascists have been instructed to take revenge for the deaths of their fellow-fascists,” Tresca continued. “Mussolini himself stood in the Ital- ian Chamber of Deputies when the news of the Memorial Day murders reached him" and swore venegance. The fascists want victims irrespec- tive of guilt. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS “Count di Revel is an Italian noble- man who was sent to New York to (Continued on Page Twa) 2. DEMANDS ARE MADE BY MINERS OF COLORADO Conference e Elects Six On Executive (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | DENVER, Nov. 1 (By Mail).—A)} conference of striking miners held | | yesterday in Lafayette, attended by! delegates from the various Colorado fields, adopted a program of 22 de-| ®|mands which have been presented to |the coal companies. All or most of the delegates were| members or sympathizers of the I.} W. W. The committee elected which, | according to the program, forms a official leadership of a coal miner union in the state, is composed of | miners who were employed at their trade up to the time of the strike. A. F. of L. Maneuvers, Coincident with strikers’ conference | a new move of the United Mine} der way to take over the strike. John Gross, secretary of the state) Federation of Labor, and two union "Colada Miners? Families | Need Food, Clothing ol | Shoes; Ask Aid Be Sent} WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 3. |—The striking miners and their families here are in need of cloth- | | ing, food, shoes, etc. Unable to | | save anything from the bare sub- | sistence wage they have been re- | | ceiving, the strike finds them pen- | | niless. There is no complaint from the strikers but their needs are such that relief must be forth- coming if the strike is to be carried on successfully. Send all donations — money, \clothing, shoes, etc.—to Box sr | Walsenburg, Colo., care of Colo- Committee. (MARINES MURDER NIGARAGUANS IN ! Workers’ officials appeared to be un-}| 1 MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 3—| ) More than sixty Liberal troops were | & killed or wounded by American Mar- rado Miners’ Relief and peer || and his son W. ‘Edw. J J. Kidwell, Juror| Who Let Out Secret ee “DONT TALK” IS. ORDER OF BURN BOSS 10 HIS MEN Grand Jury Continues | to Question Jurors WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. The grand jury before whom e dence of the fixing of the Fall- pees |Sinclair oil graft trial jury was pre- fice in New. sented today spent some time ques- |tioning the trial jurors and had also | before it Charles G. Ruddy, Washing- ANOTHER ATTACK ton manager of the Wm. J. Burns Detective Agency. Subpoenae Phone Record. Eleven jurors were investigated to- gether while E. J. Kidwell, the one juror whose language caused the d officials from Aguilar have had ajjnes in Tuesday’s fighting near Ja-|covery of the whole state of affairs, It is M. conference with the governor. understood that he urged the U. ro, it was learned yesterday. The Nicaraguans, followers of Gen- | sat outside in the corridor. Hotel records of all the telephone W. of A. to file a petition for hi gher | oral Sandino liberal leaders, were at-|calls made by Fall and Sinclair and wages with the state industrial com-/tacked by the marine patrol and dis-| their attorneys have been subpoenaed. mission, endeavor to get the miners back to work and then proceed in ac- (Continued on Page Two) I per: sed. Two National Guardsmen | were killed and one marine wounded | in the fighting. Pravda Begins Publication of Daily Worker for Tenth Anniversary | Fora 1261 Subscription Lists wewcows CARLTON. roasioen ‘WESTERN UNION CABLEGRAM _ Received at 40 Broad Street (Central Cable Oifice,) New York, N.Y. “5vahy° D 26 x0 Moskva 18 2/0800 DAIWORK ny 5 SUBSCRIBERS DAILY WORKER PUBLISH ING First LIST NEW CLASSCONCIOUS SU! WEW FIGHTER CAUSE LIBERATION TI OMLING MASSES PRAVDA ULUANOVA Word that the publication of the growing lists of Tenth Anniversary subscribers to The DAILY WORK- ER has begun in. Pravda, Moscow, organ of the Russian Communist Party, was received in the accom- panying cablegram from Moscow yestexlay. The cablegram is signed by Uljanova, sister of Lenin and a leading member of the editorial staff of the paper. Lists of new subscribers to The \ . DAILY WORKER are being sent to Moscow for publication as a form of greeting from revolutionary American workers to the workers of Russia in observance of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion. The Tenth Anniversary sub- scription campaign of The DAILY WORKER is bringing thousands of new readers for the only English language Communist daily paper in the world. » These calls, it was said, are ex- |pected to throw some additional light ~|on the activities of the sixteen Burns |detectives who shadowed the jurors | night and day. Prosecutor Burk |shaw has sworn to his belief that ‘the | detectives were employed by Harry 'F. Sinclair, the millionaire defend- /ant, who leased the fraudulent Teapot | Dome oil fields while Albert B. fetasea however, to let the boys Fall, his co-defendant, was secretary of in- | terior. “Don’t Talk.” Charles D. Ruddy, boss of Ito the grand jury room for questio {ing after the Fall-Sinclair jury was excused for the day. After his appearance bef d jury, Ruddy went ow sed for the photographers. le fee He nap three of his operatives. “Now play fair with me,” he said jover his shoulder as he walked a The three unphotographed tives remained behind. Ruddy walked ja short distance, stopped, looked’) around and shouted back: “Keep your mouths shut now.” “I’m not doing any talking to any one,” snapped back one of them, |I am, you'll be all right.” Sherman Burns, secretary the | | Burns’ crew of operatives, was ¢ ‘alled | haps de 8 |you don’t do any more talking than being issued demanding the im- grand jury of William J. Burns of the detective agency. *All records in Burns’ offices, particularly dealing with who paid for the jury surveillance and the source of funds expend- ed were ordered brought to the rict attorney’s office. Day, vice president of Exploration Company an and em- in refused to y on the grounds that “it might i inate him.” Day was cited to appear before hief Justice McCoy of the District supreme court tomor- Mason Sinclair Columbia of row morning at ten o’clock at which time the foreman of the grand jury | will ness to’ answer questions propounded by the district attorney. Fall’s Man In D. of J. The trial of alleged jury tampering was extended into the Department of Justice and the defense counsel camp of Albert B. Fall when Mark B Thompson, Fall lawyer, suddenly was called before the grand jury to testi- fy concerning telephone conversations he had had with special As torney General D. R. J jeerning a mysterious was mentioned six times in the re- ports of the Burns detectives seized by the government. Thompson Admits It, Thompson admitted that he asked ness who Jackson at the Department of Jua= tice to obtain certain information ~|from the my pus witness. Jack- worked in Fall’s law ofe Me xieo. He was brought m New York, where son former]; to Washingto: gz the Department of Justice in the conduct of a law- suit. This w: first time that any of Fall’s lav have been brought in- to the j tampering inquiry. Sheldon Cl of Chicago, Sinclair Oil Company executive and regarded -/as one of Sinclair’s most intimate as- now being sought to ap- the grand jury next. Mon- sociates, pear before day. Cleveland Cloakmakers Want Establishment of an Unemployment Fund CLEVELAND, Nov. 3.—A demand for the creation of an unemployment jfund in a new agreement between the kmakers and the emnlovers’’asso- n will be arbitrated by a board , it was announced today. F s’ Union proposed deposit 1 per cent of of the workers in the fund, rs refused to agree. The ‘ees were given poweP spute. of refere: 2 Cloa t the bo: ettle the di a 'Bargemen’s Strike Ties Up Food At Docks Here Perishable goods continued to pile jup on the Bro ook lyn docks yesterday 2 strike of the barge- shipping that start- The strikers are mem- bers of the Independent Tidewater Boatmen’s Union and are demanding $180 a month and sanitary conditions, JAPA? TOKIO, SHIPS SINK. 3.—Ten Japanese n wrecked off the with the resultant according to the Nov. mers hav hatka ¢ 50. liv In a statement issued the press, | Nichi Nichi, a Japanese newspaper, Senator Brookart said he “might” ask | today. for an investigation of|lieved to have been secretly fishing Congress Burns’ activities. piney BA The destroyed ships werg be- in forbidden Russian waters, } As Burns Is/ ask the conrt to force the wit- —