The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 1

| { \ your arrival irf the United States, » waits THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTs: | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 255. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. side New York, by mall, $6.00 per year, oO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March i, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY W PUBLISHING C0., First New Street, York, N. Y. —— THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION ORKER Price 3 Cents OHIO GUNMEN ATTACK STRIKERS; EVICTIONS UPHELD Burns Confesses He Spied on Oll Graft | IN DEFENSE, PUTS "Pole UP AN AFFIDAVIT; © PROMPTLY DENIED, Jurors Terrorized By Queer Phone Calls WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7.—Wm. J. Burns and his son, W. Sherman Burns, of ne Burns Detective Agency, ad-| mitted today before the grand) jury and to the press that they were hired by H. Mason Day, vice president of the Sinclair Explora-| tion Co., to put detectives on the) trail of the jury sitting in the trial} of Sinclair and former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall for con- spiracy to defraud in the matter of the Teapot Dome oil lands lease. Wm. J. Burns tried a counter at-) tack in the case which has been in-| volving him deeper and deeper in the} charges now made that the defense, | with the assistance of the Burns op-| eratives, wrongfully influenced the} a in the big graft trial. He pre-| sented an affidavit from one of his detectives, a certain Wm. Long, that the government prosecution itself} was trying to influence the jury, out of court. The trial judge and the man aceused by Burns both deny. impor- tant parts of the affidavit of the Burns man. | Burns Hireling Swears. | Wm. J. Burns, on appearing before) the grand jury investigating the jury fixing in the Fall-Sinclair “mistrial” antiounced he Had» presented Justice Siddons, the trial judge, with a com-| plaint and affidavit charging a gov-| ernment official with having ap- proached a member of the jury while the case was in trial. Justice Siddons denied that he had received the Burns complaint. Burns’ complaint was in the form | of an affidavit sworn to by Wm.! Long, one of the Burns’ operatives. | It set forth that Norman Glasscock,| one of the jurors, was observed to have been approached at a local fly-| ing field by a car which investigation! showed to have been registered in the, name of H. R. Lamb, an assistant to} the attorney general. | Affidavit Denied. | The Burns affidavits were seriously | damaged by Lamb, who immediately, came before the grand jury. Lamb) said he had never seen Glasscock in| his life, had never been to the Poto-; mae flying field or on Eighth street} where Glasscock lives. On Oct. 22nd, the day tuat the op-; erative reported, Lamb’s automobile) was in the shop being repaired. He; got it in the early afternoon and went. to play golf. | “T never had anything to do with) this case,” said Lamb, “It is true I) own an Oakland roadster which I! keep in a garage in the rear of my| hou: There have been times when| the garage door was unlocked, but to} the best of my knowledge no one has| ever taken it except when it has been| in the care of a very competent me- chanic. { Fall’s Man Hunted Him. | “T have never had any connection | with any juror in this trial.” i Lamb said he didn’t know the assis- tant to the attorney general, Dan) (Continued on Page Two) i | | CHEERS RELEASE OF CLOAKMAKERS }ed the greeting of the released prison- if ers. Bar November | Revolution Meetings | In Tokio; Arrest 27, TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 7.—Twenty- | seven workers were arrested when police broke up a meeting of the Labor Party called in honor of the | | Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshe- vik Revolution. All meetings and demonstrations were barred by the police today. Six reactionaries raided the headquarters of the Peasant La- bor Party, smashed the furniture and destroyed many documents. -2 oe MASS GATHERING Cooper Union Filled By Left Wing | A mass celebration was held at Cooper Union last night to celebrate the release from Hart's Island of three members of the Cloakmakers’ Union, victims of the right wing ad- ministration’s policy of employer- labor collaboration, Harry Friedman,| M, Borenstein and S, Grossman. In addition to the prisoners J. Bor- ochowitz, Ludwig Landy, manager of | the Joint Defense Committee of the| Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ Union, Slonim, writer for the Day, Salomon and, Louis Hyman, manager of the) Cloakmakers’ Joint Board, spoke. ~ Flowers and Applause. | Flowers were sent by the Cutters’) Welfare League and the workers of} a number of shops. Enthusiasm mark- | The speakers were given pro- longed applause. “Every attempt to release the pris- oners was met by opposition from the Sigman clique of the right wing inter-| national ‘union administration,” Boro-| chowitz said. “Let the reiease of our | (Continued on Page Ftve) | | | 13, by Bert Bland, one of the defen- | DISEASE HUNGER |dants in the famous Centralia case, 5 | who is now serving a long term in | workers. They were placed there by the lumber trust and the American OF FLOOD REGION MONMPELIER, Vt., Nov. 7.—Pes- | tilence and fire have been added to | |the prospect of starvation for thou-|T anor Defense. That is the Centralia | sands by one of the most devasta-| ting floods in the history of New! England. With the toll of the dead reaching at least 125, and with 50,-| 000 persons homeless, the danger of | typhus epidemic caused by the drink- ; ing of impure surface water is facing | the thousands who were driven from | their homes by the catastrophe. i With almost total suspension of in- | dustry in those sections near the river | bank, thousands of workers face. the prospect of unemployment for an in- | definite period, Over 2,000 homes in | this state alone are estimated to have been seriously damaged by the flood. (Continued on Page Two) \Anti-Imperialist League Nationalists; Urges Reliance on Masses | Greeting him as the leader of “a movement which has inscribed upon’ its banner the slogan of complete, immediate and absolute independence for the Philippine Islands,” the All- America ‘ Anti-Imperialist League today addressed an open letter to Man- uel Quezon, president of the Philip- pine senate, who is now in Washing- ton conferring with President Cool- idge over possible appointees to suc- ceed the late Leonard Wood as governor-general of the Philippines. The open letter follows in part. Demand Freedom. “Dear Senor Quezon: “As the spokesman of the organ- ized nationalist movement in the Philippine Islands you represent to us a movement which has inscribed upon its banner the slogan of :‘Im- mediate, Complete and Absolute In- dependence’ for the Philippines; and it is because of this that we extend to you the greetings of the All-Amer- junder foreign yoke. | does not mean progress, but in fact blocks the way to progress. Greets Filipino home country of American imperial- ‘ism. “Our league, which has nationa) sections in eleven countries of Latin America as well as in the United States, wholeheartedly supports the demands of the Filipino people for liberation from American domination. We believe that all talk of ‘further progress’ in the Philippine Islands is a fraud and a sham so long as the twelve millions of Filipinos remain Imperialism Coolidge, The Imperialist. “President Coolidge belongs to the Party which appointed Governor Gen- eral Leonard Wood, who systematic- ally made himself the instrument for defeating all Filipino Nationalist as- pirations, subjecting the Filipinos completely to Wall Street and Wash- ington. General Wood earned the enmity of all. ica anti-Imperialist League upon the 4 “In the light of these things it (Continued~on Page Two) FLOOD SWEEPS WORKERS AWAY FROM JOBS Streets and freight yards in industrial district of Bellows Falls, V workers are homeless, many are drowned. Jury — | Have Narr ‘Union to Fight to Last D |here today by mine guards follos 5 | line. The situation here has bee |yailwaymens’ local unions. Hundreds of -» under water. Enis the situation. White Russian Bandits | Shoot Up Polish Town; | Murder 9 and Wound 17, WARSAW, Nov. 7.—Nine per- | |sons were killed and 17 wounded | when White Russian bandits raid- ed and shot up the town of Po-| jmotka on the Russo-Polish eae | |tier. The bandits escaped. CENTRALIA BOYS GREET DEFENSE’S: THIRD CONGRESS L W. W. Victims of the| Legion Write Regards if Greetings and good wishes for suc- | cess, is contained in the message sent | the third conference of International Labor Defense which will be held inj} New York City on November 12 and} {prison with a number of his fellow- Legion. | “There is no one who would like more than I to see the membership of the International Labor Defense at a hundred and ten millions,” writes Bland. “There is a case now that | seriously needs and has always need- | ed the attention of the International | case. A more dirty piece of work has | never been done by the capitalist sys- tem. The victims in this case were given sentences, not like many other class war prisoners, but ranging from 25 to 40 years. In the Centralia case, seven of the jurors have made affi- davits that they rendered their ver- dict through fear of violence to them- | selves, and that their verdict should | have been not guilty.” { John Lamb Writes. i Bland’s greeting is echoed by one} of his fellow-prisoners in the Gen- | tralia case, John Lamb. “We are hop- | ing,” writes Lamb, “that the third | annual conference of International | Labor Defense is a perfect success. All labor organizations should be per- | (Continued on Page Two) | Relief for Colorado Strikers To Be Urged | the strikers will be asked at a sec-| ond mass meeting called for next} Saturday at 4 p. m., at the Labor} Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. The meeting is called by the New York Colorado Miners’ Relief Com- mittee. | Speakers will include Richard Bra- zier, of the Industrial Workers of the World; a representative of the Workers (Communist) Party; For- est Bailey, of the American Civil Lib- erties Union; the Rev. Donald Tip- pett, of the Church of All Nations, and Edmund Chaffee, manager of the Labor Temple. Rev. Tippett for- merly lived in the zone of the present strike. A first meeting was held at the erat of All Nations last Saturday | with the parades. OVER MILLION WO MOSCOW ANNIVERSARY PROCESSIO Delegates From All Parts of World Honor Lenin; Celebrations Begins MOSCOW, Nov. 7—Women streets here today to celebrate th munist revolution which put the . From dawn +>. duskithe whole city was a-seething mass and Red Square, beneath the halls of ; the Kremlin, was a forest of ri- fle barrels and red banners as} Soviet workers and delegates) from all parts of the world paid' homage to the memory of Lenin | and to the memory of the thou-! sands of Bolshevist worker sol-| diers who were killed in battle. Recent rains and melting snows turned Red Square into a sea of mud, but this was not allowed to interfere Thick fog hung overhead preventing airplane maneu- vers. BKERS MARCH IN |Judge Uphoids Miners’ Eviction. a | EBENSBURG, Pa. (FP).— Judge John E. Evans rejected |the plea of James Miller, a coal jminer, that the Springfield Coal \Corp. be restrained from evict- jing his family from their home jin Nanty-Glo. Miller argued that ithe lease provided a guaranteed | itenure. Many miners are being levieted during the strike. Early in Morning workers, bearing army rifles | | upon their shoulders, marched alongside the men workers, sim- ie |ilarly armed, as a mighty procession of more than 1,000,000 work- ;ers and 50,000 Red soldiers and sailors marched through the) 20 Miners Burned. (By Federated Press.) Soviets in power. {Twenty miners were burned, one ser- P iously, in the Knickerbocker Coal Co. ee eae lérip into the mine when a powder ex- GRECO 6 RRILLO | plosion occurred, giving them a nz j ak, 21, is in Johnstown Hospital, t ‘ribly burned about face, chest, legs, |Miners Won't Give Up In Pittsburgh IN BRONX DEG, 5 "set? led Mine Workers of America wil peers aad fight the anti-union Pittsburgh coal Judge Refuses Motion |® oe ee e . the answer of the union to injunction to Dismiss jvictories won by the coal companie e tenth anniversary of the Com-| HOOVERSVILLE, Pa. (FP). mine here. “Ihe men were on a mat |row escape from death, Stephen Mal T0 60 ON TRIAL jarms end hands. ! . * 2 INDIANAPOLIS (FP).—The Uni operators to the last ditch. This was in the Pittsburgh district against The union’s | young miner, John Picetti, was shot by last week. Ten thousand striking miners followed his body to /the cemetery and many floral wreaths were sent by miners’ and striking coal miners. policy in the strike, which is now in its second year, was discussed at a meeting here of union officials. There One group carried a picture of al Calogero Greco and Donato Car- two-headed dragon, one head labelled| rillo, members of the Anti-Fascist “Chamberlain” and the other “Mus-| League of North America, must stand solini.” Another carried a standard’ trial for first degree murder, Judge “Tt 5 isa showing Chamberlain and Mussolini{ being decapitated by the sword of the) court ruled yesterday. world revolution. | Still another banner bore prints of} two tombstones labelled “Chamber-! lain” and “Mussolini.” One called Sir} Austen and Mussolini “enemies of the| Soviets” and depicted them as being} dragged at the end of a rope pulled) by workers, | The procession of the Red soldiers}; and sailors was preceded by thousands | of men and women workers, armed with rifles, and by delegates from! trade unions, students and Pioneers. | Pate cc (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—The celebration vember revolution began in Moscow) of the tenth anniversary of the No-! today. * The official celebrations began at) nine o’clock in the morning in the, Red Square where the platforms were filled to capacity by representatives | of foreign sections of the Communist |International and members of foreign| delegations, i Stages of Revolution. | On the platform on the top of Len-! in’s mausoleum were representatives) jof the Communist Party, the trade! state police eq unions and various Soviet organiza- tions, The Kremlin wall was draped 'bolizing the stages thru which the) pro’ The story of the Colorado miners’ in red cloth, bearing inscriptions sym-| ti strike will be told and support for j revolution has passed in the last ten destruction years. | Uglanoff, chairman of the Moscow} Soviet, opened the meeting in the! Communist Party. On behalf of the) Central Executive Committee, Kalen-| then asked the court to set a date will be no change in tactics. question of which side can hold out the longest—the operators against financial loss or the workers against privation,” said union leaders. Barracks have been constructed to care for the miners’ families and pub- Albert Cohen in the Bronx county They have been in jail since July 11 on charges of killing Joseph Ca- risi and Nicholas Amorroso, fascists, in connection with a Memorial Day parade in the Bronx last spring. Judge Cohen made his ruling in act- ing upon a motion by the defense for a dismissal of the indictment. State Asks Delay. Schorr, defense service to house the evicted ones, Lightermen’s Strike Off, Workers Return The skippers of the harbor lighters on strike for a week voted to go back to work yesterday at a meeting held Saturday at their’ headquarters 210 Court St., Brooklyn. J. K. Johnson, president of the lo- cal, said yesterday he feared an in- junction might be issued if the strike continued. He also said that another strike would be called when condi- e tions were more favorable for vict Isaac counsel, for the trial while John E. McGee- (Continued on Page Five) GOVERNOR ADAMS SENDS BOMBERS AGAINST STRIKER Fascisti Plan Death for H. Adams, elected by lahor votes, ie today ass twenty officers of the Outlining the progress of Musso- ped with airplanes, ! jini’s which now threatens? to Colorado coal fi and bombs machine guns e in the @ them as large a force might require to bring about t of the miners’ stop | the death ife imprisonment of nin romi: ninent labor and ders of the Italian the Workers (Communi picket | party of Ame s on workers 4 re lie buildings have been pressed into MINE GUARDS ATTACK STRIKERS IN | BLAIRSTOWN, OHIG; JUDGE UPHOLDS COAL DIGGERS FAMILIES’ EVICTION 20 Miners Burned in Hooversville, Pa., Explosion ow Escape itch Against Pittsburgh Injunctions and Starvation BLAIRSVILLE, O., Nov. 7.—Striking miners were attacked wing an argument on the picket sing in tensity since a a scab near Rose Valley n increé | The memory of the steel strike at Yorkville in 1922 when | steel company gunmen shot up the town has not tended to ease DARCK ARRESTED AT UNION OFFICE IN STRIKE CASE Window Cleaners Claim Leader Is Framed | | Five members of the industrial | squad of the New York police depart- ment went into the office of the j striking Window Cleaners Protective | Union to. arrest .Seeretary Peter | Darck on felonious assault charges yesterday morning, according to a report by Harry Feinstein, business agent. The officers were accompanied by Joseph Katz, business agent of the | Affiliated Window Cleaners Union, the dual company union, Feinstein said. Protective Union pickets were at that hour reporting for duty. i Darck Arrested. “I don’t see the man I want here,” Katz said to the officers, according to Feinstein. Shortly afterward Katz \is said to have added, “I want Darck.” Is Da: here?” a detective de- anded, ording to the Protective nion busingss agent. Darck is reported to have stepped forward saying, “Here I am.” He was placed under arrest and taken to the Fifth St. station and thence to a magistrate’s court for arraignment on the felonious assault charge. Anthony U Jacob, picket, was ar- r charge. Not Present. rike-breakers were iway and Spring ng. Officers of 2 Union say Darck was throughout Saturday St. S jthe P iat his o forenoon. © Octe Ww w cl in, New union r nut 800 union been on strike r $46 a week and 1. Darck was black- ied gangsters on S were made, f Darck is @ the morale Feinstein continued. s have been trying for to have Darck removed rs because of his ce Labor Leaders in e anti-fascist opposition nd destroying the most against the fascist Mussolini. Another Sacco- affair is about to begin. This is in fascist Italy. the defendants are facing mili ru Vanz lines. everywhere to demonstrate their golideath : t of this trial. Most The governor’s office particularly |idarity with them. + vi them Jaré facing prison sentences instructed the picked men_ sent Condemn this conspiracy of the|for life under a regime of brutality |name of the Moscow Committee of the | ngainst the strikers to use all modern fascist , government against Italian implements of war if they found it) labor,” says the statement. “Demon- necessary. ‘strate and protest in front of the Ital- in declared: ae ! jad fate {ian embassy and consulates”! Kalenin’s Speech. | DENVER, Nov. 7 (FP).—The state) The text of the statement is as “The toiling masses, all honest citi-| jndustrial commission which has| follows: zens of the Soviet Union are celebrat-| steadfastly refused to “recognize” the | Rally to the Defense of the Victims ing today the ten years of existence) ctrile of coal miners in Colorado be- of Italian Fascism. of the Soviet system. After long bat-| cause it says the I, W. W. is an “un-| “Nearly ninety prominent leaders tles and great sacrifices, the working) American” organization has been|of the Italian Labor and Peasant class of the Soviet Union has achieved| forced to change its policy. The com- movement, among them most of the victory. We are celebrating the jub-| mission, which refused to consider the Communist deputies of the Italian ilee in the midst of our task of social-| {, W, W, demands prior to the calling parliament, are being put on trial by ist construction, The fact that thou-| of the strike, has now announced that | the Mussolini government onsthe basis sands of foreign worker delegates are| if petitions incorporating the de-|of the exceptior\ laws of November participating in our celebrations| mands arf signed by the strikers it|19, 1926. This is\an effort to deliver (Continued on Page Three) will hearj them. one more blow at the Italian working and torture. Labor Leader in Danger. “Among those facing the heaviest jpenalty are Professor Granci, the most outstanding theoretician of the Italian labor movement and the father of the shop committee movement, which stands in the very center of the present-day struggle against fascism; the popular leader of the peasants, Picelli, one of the most courageous | fighters against fascist rule and im- | perialist war; deputies, scientists and | prominent labor leaders like Fabrizio, Maffi, Riboldi, LoSardo, Alfini, Trra- scouts: on Page Two) “ys cini, Ferragni, Scoccimarro, Tagliati,