The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1927, Page 1

+ miners out on strike and picketing has FOR THE 40-HOUR W: FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 256. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: | THE Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter a per year, ALY Wo! t the Post Office at New York, N. Y., NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1927 under the act of March 3, 1879. Published PUBLISHL ‘The daily except Sunday by NG CO. First DAILY We York, Stre New FINAL CITY EDITION RKER Ae Price 3 Cents COLORADO STRIKE LEADERS JAILED; BAIL 1S DENIED. Miners Protest; Machine Guns Are Reply WALSENBURG, Colo. Nov. 8.— In a desperate effort to smash the strike of miners which has tied up coal production, the authorities, act- ng in conjunction with the coal com- panies, have arrested and jailed all kmown I. W. W. organizers and of- ficials here. | A number of the prisoners have | been taken to the Pueblo jail. | Hold Organizers Incommunicado. | Among those arrested are Roger Francezon, Kristen Svanum, Byron Kitto, Paul Seidel and A. S. Embree. They are held incommunicado. State forces have been sent into} doth this field and the northern field. | They consist of officers of the na-| tional guard and specially deputized | police. Intimidation. « evidently trying to timi, date the strikers and to create a atmosphere of danger justifying the | ase of open force, the authorities have | mobilized heavy forees of armed | guards in and around the Walsenburg } yourt house. A machine gun has been | placed in the building covering the entrance to the jail. A body of police and a machine gun with 50,000 rounds of ammuni- tion have been sent from here to seme | point whose location was not stated. | Two hundred armed deputies have | peen sworn in at the Pueblo jail. More Miners Strike. The miners are holding demonstra- | tions protesting : st the arrest 0: the strike leaders and are demandin; their release. Attorneys here state that the rest of the I. W. W. organizers i without any legal basis. When picketing ceased for a time al few days ago there was a2 slight in. crease in the number of miners werk ing. The arrests have brought mor ¢ een resumed, Rockefeller and the Government. The whole procedure by which th Rockefeller interests, whose mine: and mills are most affected by the} strike, are trying to break it, evi dently has been arranged with the | | state and county governments. The | 4 mobilization of armed forces by the |. voal and iron companies and the au-} thorities is said to be the most ex-| tensive since the Ludlow strike and) massacre. The tone of the capitalist press is| vicious in the extreme. Thousands Face Hunger and Cold In Flooded Area BOSTON, Nov. 8- —Starvation is the gaun tspectre now stalking in the wintry blasts over the desolate flood- swept areas of Vermont today. Vermont was admitted on cvery | | | | i FLUNG INTO A COLORADO JAIL FOR LEADING COAL STRIKE Sheriff Marty of Las Animas County, Colorado, with the full consent and co-operation of Governor Adams, has arrested these three coal strike leaders and many’ others. Francezon, chairman of the Gencral Executive Board of the I. W. V Looking thru the , Byron o— | (Miners? Relief Committee | ‘Asking Relief Funds for Miners Driven From Home FITTSBURGH Nov.. 8. Continued reports reach the Penn- | sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Com-| mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 307, | Pittsburgh, Pa., among evicted = and central Fenn : tions are continuing and the locked | [out miners without. wages now | Pay since April, are living in hastily.) | constructed barracks and tents. | with winter coming on. The Relief | Committee is conducting a nation: | al drive for funds for their relief. | It can be communicated with if! se above address. Later and Liberals Are Urged to Rally for Greco, Carrillo Filippo Greco, secretary of the Greco-Carrillo Defense League, anti- fascists held on charges of killing two fascisti, in a letter sent to all liberal and labor organizations yes- terday said, “Unless there is a power- ful wave of public opinion Greco and Carrillo will go to the chair. The fas- cist government will stop at nothing to see that Greco and Carrillo are made examples of to all anti-fas- J cisti.” Dr. Charles Fama, anti-fascist, yesterday said, “The fascists will go as far as hell to peresecute their enemies. Greco and Carillo are in- nocent and anyone with an ounce of brains knows it. Only a short time hand to be in dire distress. Workers having no funds with which to leave neivhborhoods as the employers hav- ing already done, are the easiest vic- tims of disease, hunger and cold. The hand vf starvation was grip- ping many cities in Vermont. Even drinking water was on a ration basis in many cases. Of the 180 known New England flood dead, 114 were in the state of Vermont. Those who traversed the Green Mountain State were of opinion that ‘it will take months to restore rail- oad transportation. j ‘ube menace of fire is still abroad. | With food supplies ‘already danger-| ously low, the Ludlow, Vt., fire added | to the town’s troubles by leveling the only bakery. From this shop, the citi- zens had been receiving their daily ration of half a loaf of bread. At Springfield, frantic and weary) men found it necessary to repair | broken water mains before water} could be directed on the fire which| broke out there. Most of, the refugees are gathered in school Runinee: theatres and similar buildings. Wood is water logged while many cellars which had been stocked early with winter coal sup- plies were still flooded. | Flood Children Are Cold. Children of workers in the flood- swept areas of New England are in need of warm clothing. Temporary homes have been found and adults have been supplied with clothing but it has been impossible to secure cloth- ing for the children. Many stories of acute suffering and immediate need came from the ill- (Continued on Page Two) ago Count Di Revel told a news- paperman that Mussolini personally sent him to America to crush the anti-fascist movement. The count entered this country as a film sales- man but his real object in coming here is the terrorization of all anti- fascisti and I am proud to say I am one. The Fascist League of North America, which the count heads, is a terroristic organization and should be rooted out of New York.” Meeting November 13. On Sunday, November 27, a mons- imown speakers will hold a Greco- | Carrillo meeting at Irving Plaza, |15th St. and Irving Place. On Sunday, Nivember 27, a mons- ter mass meeting will be held at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. This meeting is under the auspices of the’ International Labor Defense, an organization de- dicated “to the defense of workers in prison as a result of their labor or radical activities.’ Speakers at this later meeting will include Carlo Tresca, James P. Cannon, Rose Baro Robert Minor, William Weinstone and others. "TWILL HAPPEN AGAIN. Ernest F. Dunham, a broker, do- ing business as Dunham & Co., at 64 Water St., will appear before Su- preme Court Justi¢e in Brooklyn tomorrow to answer charges that he owes 2,000 customers over $2,000,000 and has little left with which to pay it back; that he has bucketed orders and that customers could obtain neither an accounting nor a settlement. “NEW YORK LABOR / VOTES AGAINST OWN INTERESTS. Millitant Workers Cast) Communist Ballot BULLETIN GARFIELD, N. J., Nov. 8.—Gus Deak, United Labor Ticket. candi- date for councilman in the second ward, was shown polling a large vote when the count was started here SOnieht . Election returns last tight showed ©) that New Yi labor had again voted against itself. The political strength of the work- ers as in the past wa® dissipated at the polls. No impact of the will of the workers was felt against the doors of Tammany Hall in New York City and the State House at Albany, where for days prior to the elections trade union officials were in confer- ence with democratic party organiz- ers, swapping the votes of the organ- ized workers for political favors. Workers Confused. Confused or intimidated by official trade union policy and by the illusion that the socialist party differs radi¥ cally from the two established capital- ist parties, the New York workers di- vided their great political strength * publican parties with little real dis- crimination. The only definite expression of workers’ politica! power was found in the ballots cast or marked for the candidates of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Benjamin Gitlow, one of the leading candidates of the Workers Party, was barred from the ballot be- cause of his service of a sentence in Sing Sing Prison for activity in the labor. movement. Hundreds of Workers Party sup- porters were disenfranchised; through | legal technicalities. Many Workers Party votes in the past have habitualy been left uncounted. Yet the Work- ers Party New York district head- quarters said last night that in yes- (Continued on Page Five) Barred From Voting: KK. K. Given Blame Association for the Advancement of Colored People reports a “conspiracy” here to disfranchise colored voters in ltoday’s election, the names’ of 5,000! | Negroes being reported stricken off voters’ lists. Attempts to intimidate Negroes by arrest arg also reperted as well as the placing of the letter C jin front of every colored voter s name Norman S. Dikejon the lists. W. Hayes McKinney, Detroit law- yer, and chairman of the Legal Re- dress Committee, Detroit Branch of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, imputes the attempt to the influence of the _Ku Klux Klan, ; between socialist, democratic and re-| Detroit Negtoes Are : DETROIT, Nov. 8.—The National} jail bars, from left to right are: Roger | Kitto, and Paul Seidler, District of Columbia | Court Throws Out Suit —_— Painter Union | Nov. 8.| | bia Court, 1 ined the lower court in dis- | of the Barker} inting Co., of New York against | \the Brotherhood of Painters, Dec-| | orators and Paperhangers, asking | damages because the union men in) 1923 refused to work on a,Wash- | lington job usless..their Pules: be sustained. The union rate was| $10.50 for a five-day week, Open) The | a five-and-a-half day week. company was compelled to pay the | union rate before it could get New the | j a York workers. It alleged | union to be a conspiracy and nonopoly. USSR CONTINUES CELEBRATION OF “NOVEMBER 7TH” MOSCOW, Nov. 8.—The celebra-| tion of the Tenth Anniversary of the November Revolution was continued today with unabated fervor, as thirty- four airplanes, built by popular sub- seription were presented to the Red Army with elaborate ceremonies. An amnesty for 1,200 prisoners was also issued today in connection with the anniversary celebrations. Show “November” Film. Today’s ceremonies followed last night’s enthusiastic celebration, a feature of which was showing of the film “November” produced by Eisen- stein, at theatres and workers’ clubs thruout the city. The celebration was slightly marred ;when some fifty or sixty adherents ;of the Opposition, most of them stu- dents, attempted to express their sympathy for Trotsky and were boo-| ed and hissed by marching workers. | Preobrajensky, recently expelled | |from the Communist Party for anti- |Party activity, attempted to address he marching workers from the bal- cony of the Old Paris Hotel but was prevented from doing so by the hisses of the workers and the interference of the authorities. Zinoviey and Ra- dek were shouted down when they ‘attempted to cry “Long Live the Op- | position” at a 9 seninerad meeting. Window ‘Cleaner Picket Placed in Jail George Varawii, a striking win- dow cleaner picket was arrested yes- |terday at 54th St. and Park Ave., jand arraigned in the 57th Street Court. The usual charges of felon- ious assault were preferred. “The frame-up offensive against the. striking window cleaners contin+ ues unabated,” Peter Darck, secre- tary of the Window Cleaners’ Pro- tective Union, Local 8, said yesterday. Four other pickets arrested Mon- day at union headquarters, 68 East Fourth St., were dismissed when they appeared in the first district magis- trates’ court yesterday. — € ‘. {shops in Washington paid $9 for | | Governor Fuller Hides: Hasn’t Been Seen Since Friday; May Be Abroad | eae: | BOSTON, Nov. 8. Alvan -T. | missing from the state house t |day. The man who put his seal on| |the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti | disappeared on Friday. He had re- jcently been sharply criticized for England fl®ods. A persistent report at the state house said that the governor sailed |from New |France. But Herman A. MacDon-} ald, the governor’s secretary, this | afternoon issued a denial. | | || Another the | report was that }governor and Mrs. Fuller wer in| |the vicinity of Albany, N. Y.,| | |tends a private school. The mother ; superior of this school, a catholic | |} convent, » denies he has been there. I R. 7. INJUNCTION “MENACE 0 LABOR MOVEMENT OF U.S. Ww ants inion. Billed for. | Seab Expenses BY ESTHER LOWELL. (Federated Press.) faced injunction suit of the Interboro Rapid Transit Co. against the whole Amevi-% can Federation of Labor. A study of subway operator shows that this un- precedented injunction brings organ- ized labor practically into a fight with company unions. Green, president, and 47 als, as well as the f L. are named in the j complaint having “wilfully, mali-j ciously and unlawfully conferred, con-; federated, combined, agreed and econ- spired among themselves for the pur- | pose of eliminating and wholly de- | stroying all employe representation | plans and so-called ‘company unions,’ ” To Bar Organizers. Every member of the A. F. of L.) and affiliated unions would be barred | jworkers into the Amal. Assn. of Street & Electric Railway Employes. | They would be enjoined from ‘inter-! fering in any way’ with the Interboro | company union and its ‘present agree- | ment’ with the big firm. The injunc- tion would set a precedent by which | company unions everywhere could bar} out free trade unions—company unions set up in a hurry for no other| purpose or older established ones. Besides the knockout injunction,| the Interboro wants $130,000 dam- ages from the Amalgamated and the} A. F, of L.—the estimated cost of its | strike-breaking preparations in the| | walk-out threatened last July. The street car men’s union is re- ported planning a series of mass meetings for next week. | BOASTS HE HAS — Governor | | Fuller was mysteriously | | lack of preparation for the New| | i ||Attempt to Bring Back Europe; Can Tell of York on Saturday for; | |where one of their children at-| | Never hefore has organized labor | so serious a challenge of. its! very tight to exist as it does in the, the 370-page complaint made by the} jfrom seeking to organize Interboro | Prove Falsity of Affidavit Used By Burns to Justify Spying HEAD OF ANTI-LABOR DETECTIVES JURIES FOR 1 BEEN SHADOWING THIRTY-FIVE YEARS two More Officials 0 of § Ss | WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— 35 years and'I’ve got ‘a right to, the counter-attack of the Burn charges that its agents, at the d jsought to in fiuencs -Sit torn to pieces before his ey Assembling the prir in by one of the Burns operatives, >» which alleged the government it LU cy PARSONS. death | MARTYR’S WIDOW TO BE GUEST OF LABOR DEFENSE Lucy Parsons Comes to! I. L. D. Conference Lucy Parsons, widow of the famous | Haymarket martyr, is on her way east | from Chicago to attend as a guest of {honor the third annual conference of the International Labor Defense which opens Saturday, Nov. 12, at 1 |p. m. in Irving Plazd Hall, 15th Street {and Irving Place. She will speak at the opening session of the conference. Last of 8-Hour Day Pioneers. {hour day for workers in the United States which culminated on the gal lows of Cook county when the H: market martyrs, Albert R. Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer AContenued on Page Two) Axtell Blames Communis Minds of Seamen; W Silas B. Axtell, New York lawyer, who attached himself to the first trade union delegation to the Soviet Union, has written another letter. It is addressed to Albert F. Coyle, delegation. In addition to complain- ing against the unanimous opinion of the bona fide members of the delega- tion that the conditions of life the Russian workers has improved since the revolution of 1917, Mr. Ax- tell complains against the enlighten- ment of the seamen along South Street whom he addressed here re- cently. munists on the one hand and Coy on the other hand were in some way | responsible for this enlightenment. “Open Minded” Letter. The letter, in which Mr. Axtell re- fers to his own “open mind,” follows: “Enclosed is a circular headed ‘Sea- | men’, which contains various quota- | tions from your report or Russia. | one evening when it was indicated by another circular that I enclose that I was to address a meeting of sea- men. Quite a number of sailors have former editor of the Locomotive En- | gineers’ Journal and secretary of the} for | The letter alleges that Com- | This was circulated on South Street | ists for Enlightened rites Coyle About Russi these circulars. I didn’t talk about Russia very much, there. You nor ndbody commission would venture to di the truthfulne of what T si what I have said and what T to say about what I saw in Rt | Asked for Truth. on that spute a, | “The trade , Communists and Russians generally asked us to tell the truth about cor ns there. “However, am I wrong in drawing the conclusion that the people sig ing as the ‘International Club, 26 South Street’, are Commun- “Am I w rong in assuming that they | are members of the I. W. W.? “Am I wrong in assuming that you land others enjoying your confidence jin going to Russia are in close touch | with these people? ? “Am I wrong in assuming that you are in sympathy with the Communist | doctrine? “Are You a Communist?” “If it isn’t asking too confidential ‘a question, J would like to ask you, are you a Communist? “I gathered the impression while (Continued on Page Five) Connected With Outrage Unen vrecked the foundation of the Burns’ Co. Lucy Parsons is the last of the out- | anding survivors of the band of ighters who took a leading part in the movement to obtain an eight-| of | have | * |has testified that he rep Companies Are 1» Trial Jury inelair’a Runaway Witnesses in Money Given Fall I’ve been shadowing juries for shouted Wm. J. Burns today as s Detective Agency against the irection of Harry F. Sinclair, had nclair conspiracy trial jury, was ivolved in an affidavit submitted through Wm. J. Burns himself, self had tampered with the jury defense. ‘ Wm. V. Long, a Burns agent, had sworn he followed Norman Glasscock, Fall-Sinclair juror to a commercial flying field, a where he had engaged in a twenty- minute conversation with the occu- pant of a car tered in the name of H. R. Lamb, assistant to the at- |torney general. | Long Falls Short. Long, confronted with Lamb, could not identify Sm, nor could he pick “Lamb” out from a group of news- paper men. Lamb and Glasscock proved to be perfect strangers to jeach other. George Aikens, an auto ;mechanic, stated he was repairing |Lamb’s car at the time Long said it | was enroute to the flying field. Glass- |eock was at his place of employment on the day Ikeng mentioned: until-4 _ |o’clock, and then went home, remain- ing there for a birthday party given in honor of one of his children, and | did not go to the flying field. | The False Affidavit. i Lamb threatens to bring a damage |suit against the Burns Agency. The Burns agent’s affidavit alleged )the meeting between Lamb and Glass- cock took place on October 22. It was not brought to the attention of Jus- tice Siddons, who presided over the strial until November s after the trial ended. if he thought he had | videnes that warranted a mistrial, jhe did not file it at the time, W. | Sherman Burns yesterday said he | was waiting the order from H. Mason | Day, vice-president of the Sinclair | Exploration Co. and employer of tha | Burns men. Day is out on $23,060 |bond, charged jointly with Sinclair | with conspiracy to influence the jury. Two members of the Teapot Dome jury said today that unidentified. shadowers had solicited their opin- ions on the guilt or innocence of Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall while the tria] was in progress. Joseph J. Costinett and Gardner Grenfell were the jurors from whom these “shadowers” sought expres- sions of opinion on the case. Harry Jeffreys, chief clerk of the Sincla‘r Consolidated Oil Company, \testified today before the grand jury. Injection of Jeffreys into the investi- gation me as a direct result of yester testimony by William J. Burns and _ his W. Sherman Burns. More Than Burns Admitted. The following the probe were some prised, for both Burns and his son had indicated that H. Mason Day, vice president of the Sin- air Exploration Company, was the employer of the detectives. Waiting to appear before the grand jury while Jeffreys was testifying was A. Sheldon Clark, vice president jof the Sinclair Refining Company. He and Day are alleged by the gov- jernment to have been “contact men’ |between the Burns agents and Sin- ( s G. Ruddy, Burns man- in charge the jury stalkers, rted to both }men, Day is out on 000 bonds after admitting to the grand jury his testimony if given, would in- iminate him. | Subpoenaes are out for H. M, |Blackner and James E. O’Neil as wit- |nesses in the second trial of Harry F. Sinclair and Ex-Secretary of In- |terior Albert B. Fall for criminal con- |spiracy, set for January 16. Blagkmer and O'Neil, oil men, are | the ing witnesses” of the deal from which it is charged the money came with which Fall was bribed to lease the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve. Both men have been in Europe fos |the past three years t clair. ager of