The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1927, Page 1

i | NATIONALLY KNOWN SPEAKERS— Foster, Olgin, Weinstone, Cannon, Ballam, Trachtenberg Doors Open at 1 P. M. Sun FULL CONCERT and others. day Aft. Nov. 6 PROGRAM CELEBRATE r THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE USSIAN REVOLUTION THREE GIANT MEETINGS SUNDAY, NOV. 6, AT 1 P. M. Arcadia Hall, Halsey & Broadway, Bklyn. Central Opera House, 67th St. & 3rd Ave. New Star Casino, 107th St. & Park Ave. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF me | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK Rf OU ces Zep tale ae A LABOR PARTY SUBSC Vol. IV. No, 253. SINCLAIR DEFENSE SEES PROSECUTOR; NO Al THE DAILY WorRKER. RIPTION RATES: Outside In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, FINAL CITY | _—«EDITION&: Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First York, N. Y¥. Sicest New Price 3 Cents TOMORROW WILL BRING THOUSANDS TOGETHER TO HONGR REVOLUTION New York Workers to Hear Speakers, Musicians On New Russia’s 10th Anniversary Tomorrow will be the first day of a week of workers’ cele- brations of the tenth anniversary The workers of New York Harlem and Brooklyn halls Sunday afternoon to listen to ad- dresses of prominent labor leaders and members (Communist) Party on the subject of the significance of the revolution of October, 1917, and the achievements that have) marked the ten years that followed. ; EXPECT 5 CLOAK- MAKERS? RELEASE. FROM JAIL TODAY : Local 41 ILGW Supports |? Re Left Wing Leaders | of the Bolshevik Revolution. will congregate in Manhattan, of the Workers Manhattan, Harlem. In Manhattan, at the Central | Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., BS Pioneers of New York will give an elaborate pageant in pantomime dealing with the revolution. The New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., val be the meeting place of the Har- em workers. There a comprehensive program of ian songs will be} given by a Russian baritone, | In Arcadia Hall. | | A change in program has been an- nounced for the Brooklyn mass meet- | g in Arcadia Hall, Broadway and Halsey St. Besides the violin recital by Comrade Rubin and the program} 'Gulatalls Miners’ Strike Mass Meeting Tonight; Church of All Nations Aid for the striking Colorado} miners will be urged at 8 o’clock tonight at the Church of All Na- tions, 9 Second Ave., at a mass meeting called by the New York Colorado Miners’ Relief Commit- tee. The speakers will include William F. Dunne, Richard Brazier, | Shacies Cline and Arthur c. Wares FIRE AND ARREST TRACTION LABOR TO SMASH UNION Workers ‘Gheenine As Injunction Looms | Company unionism and the anti- union injunction offensive of the em- ployers continued yesterday to ony a closer unbroken line around the York traction workers. heer the officials of the American Feder- Fall Juror Who T | SUDDEN NOTORIETY has been achieved by Edward J. Kidwell, the juror in the Fall-Sinclair trial in Washington whose alleged conversa- tion with a reporter helped bring on a mistrial. being questioned by reporters just before telling the Washington grand jury about that auto “as long as a block,” which he is reported to have expected to get out of the trial. alked Is Quizzed WITHDRAW WARRANT CHARGING O1L BARON INFLUENCED TRIAL JURORS Lots of Evidence ‘But Diack District Attorney Says It Would Make Defendant Too Much Expense WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—A warrant for the arrest of Harry F, Sinclair, multi-millionaire oil magnate, on charges of conspiracy to influence the jury in the Teapot Dome conspiracy trial, was issued here this afternoon by Assistant District Attorney Neil |Burkinshaw and revoked by District Attorney Peyton Gordon | within an hour. The revocation of the Sinclair warrant followed a conference | between Gordon and George Hoover, Sinclair’s attorney. At its learelasion, Gordon announced that the warrant had been recalleds | Pressed for a reason Gordon said it had been revoked “because I |did not want it issued at this time.” This is the latest sensational development in a criminal trial | { | | | | pel ener loaded with _evidence of collusion, conspiracy, corruption cay and. bribery Yesterday wit- nesses testifying before the ICompany Thug Ambushed | Behind Y. MC. A. Strikes | ‘| Down Colorado Picket) grand jury connected Harry F, Sinclair, oil magnate who leased the Teapot Dome naval oil re- serve from the government by what the supreme court terms a He is shown above fraudulent lease, with the hiring of sixteen Burns detect to spy,on the | jury in his trial now declared a mis- WALSENBURG, Nov; 4.—The| second day after the coal mines| were shut down 100 per'cent and Five cloakmakers arrested during |of revolutionary songs by a highly the last strike are slated for release | trained chorus under the direction of on parole from Hart Island Jail this | Walter Zukas, an address will be de+ morning, _ They. -haye...served nine | livered by William Z. Foster, strike months of their intermediate gen- | organizer’ for 350,000 packing house tences, officials of the Cloak and| workers and 250,000 steel workers in; Dressmakers’ Joint Board announced |1919. He .recently returned from last night. |Soviet Russia, where he made an in-! They are Samuel Grossman, Ar-| tensive study of trade union methods thur Zinn, M. Bernstein, Harry Feld-| and the conditions of Russian work- man and Paul Kalidman. Joint Board |¢rs. Other speakers will be M. J. leaders state Bernstein is to be re-|Qlgin, whose twenty-fifth anniver- arrested on his release on an indict- | sary of activity in the militant labor ment issued through the efforts of | movement was widely celebrated, and ation of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America issued | more vague statements while gazing | nervously but hopefully toward May- or Walker and Tammany Hall. Union Officials Waver. While the officers of the street car men’s union wait for the arrival in New York next week of William Green, president of the A. F. of L.,! the magnates of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and the Brooklyn- Manhattan Transit Co. move forward Murderer Is Son of N of (Special To The D By AMY SC PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4.—10,000 miners, 10,000 MARCH TO FUNERAL OF BOY KILLED BY OHIO. MINE CO. SCAB chor otorious Anti-Union) Sheriff; Strikers Capture Him AILY WORKER.) HECHTER. from every local) | |the picketing was called off, the| | trial. Also Mark B. Thompson, at- continuation of violence on the! |torney for Albert B. Fall, the secre- part of the enemies of the miners of the interior who granted the added” to their list “of victims the ent lease, admitied to thé name of Wanita Sadivar, Sadivar| |grand jury that in the present case 7— was one of the active strikers and| |he had the ve help of a former good picketers in the camps near | employe of I’s, D. R. Jackson, now | Walsenburg. jestablished in the department of jus- | Sadivar left his home in Pictou, | tice as an assistant attorney general. a camp three miles from Walsen- burg about five o’clock in the morning to go to headquarters to || see what was needed of him for the day and also in order to get some Gordon’s Excuse. There was also evidence to show |that the Since! jury was | “fixed” and that the trial would have }gone on to an acquittal or hung jury the right wing group of the union. Alexander Bittelman, who also re- Joint Board spokesmen said that) they hoped to obtain the release soon | of two other cloakmaker prisoners now at Sing Sing Prison—A. Roman- | ghick and Joseph Perlman. Papers Signed Thursday. The parole papers for the workers | on Hart Island were signed Thursday and delivered to Hart Island yest day. A committee of the Joint Board | will be present to greet them when | they come out. If Bernstein is rearrested on his | release this morning he will immedi- | ately be bailed out, Joint Board| spokesmen said. * * % | Local 41 Supports “Lefts.” “The attempt of the right wing to reorganize Local 41 has failed com- pletely,” M. E. Taft, manager of Lo- | cal 41, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, said last night in referring to the suspension of the lo- eal last week by the right wing gen- eral executive board. “The workers are supporting the progressive leadership of the local 100 per cent,” Taft continued. “Since the suspension every shop meeting has voted unanimously to support us jn the fight against the right wing. “We have notified the Plesters’ and | Stitchers’ Association they must sign} the new contract with us as the over- whelming majority of the workers we behind us and will support us to} e end. Plumbers’ Helpers to! Ask Chartered Union| In Greater New York | the Bronx and Williamsburg. Tonight jat Tenth St. and Second Ave., in low- [cently returned from the Soviet Union. The doors at 1 p. m. | Communist Campaign Will End Tonight In spite of the weather the Work- ers (Communist) Party held success- ful “Red Night” rallies yesterday in the campaign will end with “Red Nights” in Brownsville and down- town Manhattan. At last night’s “Red Nights” a dozen meetings were held in both sec- tions ending at 10.30 p. m., when the workers assembled at central meet- ing places. At this evening’s “Red Nights” similar closing rallies will be at Stone and Pitkin Aves., in Brownsville and step by step toward their dual objec- Union in five counties, yesterday marched to the cemetery behind | |tive, the driving of the union out of the body of John Picetti, 19-year-old union miner and son of a at all meetings will open|the New York subways and the gen- ynion miner, shot to death by Linza May, scab. ___The army of mourners marched the three miles from Picetti’s eral extension in America of the oa | shop. Two employes of the I. R. T. have! been arrested on the Ninth Ave. ele- vated line for distributing hand bills advertising a meetng of the street car men’s union. The day previous} six employes of the B.-M. T. were dis-' charged for membership in the union. The I. R. T. continues to advert: among its unskilled workers for ver| unteers for a reserve force of motor-} men for use as strike breakers should the present crisis result in a strike. | Hearing Nears. A hearing is set for Nov. 11 on the application by the I. R. T. for an injunction which would forbid ef- forts by the street car men’s union or any other union affiliated with the A. F. of L. to organize the traction workers, The- officials of the union have decided not to act until Green reaches New York to advise with them. Green, however, is not sched- er Manhattan. : |uled to reach the scene of action un- (Continued on Page Four) By JOHN HOWARD | LAWSON. (Member of the New Some people expect a labor theatre * \to spring full-grown from the arid soil of New York. They forget that \the ereation of any growth so differ- ent from the stereotyped commercial | plants that are matured in the Playwrights’ Board.) aia New Playwrights Theater Wants Labor Audience playwrights who are running this en-| terprise or the young actors who are giving their energies to it are in themselves exceptional people. They are exceptional in only one |Way, and it is in such an important | Broadway hot-houses is a matter of | way that they deserve the support of Delegates of oe Sariaeiann Asso-| |slow development, careful experimen- | jeveryone who feels that the theatre elation of Plumbers’ Helpers were | tation and much study of ways and|has any place in social conflict, that|company has made repeated efforts given final instructions last night in} the matter of petitioning for a char-| | means, Revolutionary thought is built slow- | jit can have a vital battling part in daily thought and daily action in- ter for Greater New York from the, lly in any field; it has to contend with stead of being relegated to the duties International Plumbers’ Union. The delegates are scheduled to active antagonism of conventionally tesan. /a tremendous weight of inertia, the of an elegantly inconsequential cour- The point is that the New leave tonight to go before the inter-|™inded people, the old hatred of the! | Playwrights’ Theatre is the first the- national’s executive board in Chicago |neW thing for the simple reason that |atre in New York that has ever been ith their petition. The charter would include all plumbers’ helpers in Greater New York, where there are four plumbers’ locals. The plumbers’ helpers’ union was ed last December. Four months ter they struck in sympathy with the plumbers of Brooklyn, who were demanding $14 a day and a 5-day ‘week. The helpers’ delegates are C. E. Miller, M. Patrick, S. Seewald and M, Helfand, A dance will be held for them at Astoria Hall, 64 E. 4th St. prior to their departure this evening. d | who have the most to gain from it. it is new, the passive disregard of | those who ought to be the first to welcome a new creative movement and Important Experiment. Down a side street. off Seventh Ave., in a cramped playhouse, with only the most economical and neces- sary equipment, an important theat- rical experiment is being carried on. Don’t misunderstand me! I don’t mean to pretend that these produc- tions savor of genius or even of per- fection in writing or directing or act- ing. I don’t mean that the young socially conscious, that has ever at- | tempted to grapple with current prob- lems, to fight current battles, and to fight from a proletarian point of view. Thinking in New Terms. This doesn’t mean propaganda; but it does mean thinking of the theatre in new terms, creating it new from every point of view, undertaking new difficulties and of necessity making | the .mew subways now being con-|ranged as follows: mistakes along-the way. We do not believe that the aim of such a theatre is propaganda, because (Continued on Page Four) COALCOMPANY — MOVES TO BEAT © MINERS? STRIKE |Stool Piguenis Tactics | Bring Reprisal By A. S. YORKVILLE, Ohio—The ‘vont | Coal and Dock Company has decided | to abandon its four big mines in the | Bridgeport section of eastern Ohio and to move to West Virginia. James | Kunick, expelled renegade union of-! ficial and stool pigeon, used by the company to persuade its 1,700 locked- out miners to return to work at a $6.00 day wage, has decided to keep out of the way of strikers’ fists in the | future. | Biggest Properties. | The Lorain Coal and Dock Com- ;pany owns the largest workings in| lthe section—the Blaine mine, employ- ing 600 men before the lockout, the | | Stanley, with 450, the Crescent with 800 and the Lincoln with 450. Ap- parently forced to the conclusion that | trying to get out coal with inexpe enced scabs and with efficient pickets on the job is a losing proposition, the | to get back its union men at a wage below the $7.50 Jacksonville scale. | On Sept. 1 a “compromise” offer of $6.00 was proposed and was flatly | refused by the miners. Non- Union Liki Hired | By Subway Contractors | At the Central Trades and Labor | Council meetings at Beethoven Hall | Thursday night George Mullan, dele- gate from the Carpenters’ Union, re- ported from the floor that nen-unis | labor was being employed at less | than half the union rate of wages in structed in Manhattan on Eighth Ave. and the west side. Delegate Mullan said it was in vio- lation of a city ordinance, \Stevedores May Join |Jongshoremen | groceries at the store. As }erossed the street a large auto came out from behind the Y. M. C. , A, building and turned the corner. Pausing to let the auto pass, Sadi- | var found that it was coming full | speed at him and before he could dodge it had knocked him down lel and run over him breaking BE \ the ribs and possibly leaving some in-| if it had not been for the unwelcome | publicity caused by the loose boasting of one of the jurymen. Justice Sid- dons gave this publ a reason jfor deel: e | After first refusing to state why |he squashed the warrant against Sin- charging him with corrupting j D y Gordon | | later in the day issued *home in Dunglen, Ohio, and stood in the driving rain thru the Aoesierias at his grave. aths of flowers were sent Iby I He unions of railroad men} atement | | ternal injuries. He is at present in| | ., that the accusati still (= well as by many miners’ locals. | | the hospital in a critical condition. | nds, but that Sinclair is in his Picetti’s murderer is the son of a At such an early hour with few) |. = ae x hour opinion under sufficiently heavy | anenst? of Boone County, West Vir-| | on the street the identity of the| bonds, in the conspiracy to defraud ginia, who was active in anti-union) car or thug could | not be obtained. | | indictment, and will not be arrested 9: activities in 1924. on the new charge. May shot Picetti after an argument % with striking miners which followed Char 2 N. y, Police Day Again Refuses, May's inquiry as to the location of a The warrant a scab mine where he was going to Day, | work. May and his three companions were “The Sinclair still out. Day ade Aid Fascist League: captured by a posse comitatus of | mits bee the “contact”. man ‘who striking miners who trapped them at; ‘ : aul hired the Wm. J. Burns Detective Dead Man’s Crossing, between Ray- The police of New York are doing Agency to shadow the jurors. Who land and Martins Ferry. their utmost to please Mussolini,”| directed him to hire them and who A revolver with one chamber emp- charged Carlo Tresea, president of the|they reported to, he refuses to say. ty was found in May’s pocket. i Anti-Fascist Alliance last night in re-] Day was accom d to Justice A close guard is being kept over|ferring to the long delay in the trial | McCoy’s court by his attorney, Judge the prisoners in Jefferson County|°f Cologero Greco and Donato Car-| Wright, jail. illo, anti-fascists held in jai! since] “When you said you stood on your constitu of Dz jJuly 11. They are charged with kill- ing two fascists in conection with a |parade last Decoration Day. Tresc |also cited the arrest last Wednesday Lightermen’ 8 Strike | jnight of three other Italian work Five hundred skippers of the bass charged with assaulting fascists. They bor lighters that haul perishable|are Petro Bencich, Bernard Godeno grounds,” asked Wright d you mean you were re* because you might to incriminate yourself?” I did,” said the reluctant witness, Charge of Corruption. goods from the New Jersey mainland jand Charles Kasacassutta. Day ne ee to New York are s g for a $2.50, “Since we ed a statement sev- ripped of its legal veil pir. wage increase. The strike|cral days ago-that the police w ae bet nae soon include 2 entire 2,000, working hand and hand with t | nry Mason Day and Harry F. 1 n violation of of the Joseph D. dent of the union, with which the the fascists. e affiliated, is talking about} A defense motion for the dismis the case against Greco and Carill et for hearing Monday. No union longshoremen or team-| Isaac Shorr, counsel for the sters will handle stuff moved by (national Labor Defense strikebreaking lightermen, Ryanfof the d of | warned ‘employers. le nd Kascassutta. | Meetings “All Over the Countr y for th Anniversary Celebration of Bolshevik Revolution eontinued, “ ippers in th i le by either the police or Ryan, intern enal code fed of the Ll conspire, ether to commit U ait ed men juror or Ss such the case ates vs. Harry F. Sine rt B. Fall, and in fur- conspiracy did com- g, together with overt acts, did and direct. certain private detec to influence and at- tempt to influence the action and de- cision of petit jurors then and there , serving as such, and did further col; lect reports from the said private # tectives with regard to their activ mit the f The celebration of the tenth anni-; |Range, Nov. 8. Benjamin Gitlow versary of the Russian revolution by! speaks at the above meetings. the workers of the United States will Ohio Meetings. last for an entire week. Besides the; Akron, Nov. 12, 2:40 p.m. I. Am-. mass meetings arranged for all parts|ter, H. Scott. 50 Howard street. of the country, many affairs of a so-| Cleveland, Nov. 6, 2:30 p. m. A, in the matter of investigation {cial character are scheduled. | Bittelman, I. Anter, E. Boich, F. Yes- conducts, contacts and the {mane Meetings have already been ar-| sikoff (YWL), Revolutionary Play, affairs of some or all said fara NY jand Concert. Moose Hall, 1000 Wal-| Albert B, Fall took to his) apart. 7 nut street. $00 Canton, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. AvBit-lunder wage ne amy scandal ae 7m A motion calling upon H. M. Black« telman, H. Scott. (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Minnesota Tours. St. Paul, Nov. 5; Minnesota, Nov. 6; Superior, Wis., Nov. 7, 7:30 p. m.; Duluth, Nov. 7, 8:30 p. m, Iron