The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 257. Outside New York, by mail, 85.00 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, $8.00 per year. * E DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. per year, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927 PUBL Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER u FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ISHING CO. 33 First Street New York, N. Y. WALL STREET-COOLIDGE REGIME SEIZES NICARAGUA COMMUNISTS DOUBLE 1826 VOTE INN. Y. ELECTION, POLL 10,000 Labor Party for 1928 Urged by Workers Party On Basis of Return The Communists in the election Tuesday New York district executive > 4 > { | James Maurer, Who Led | Delegation to Russia, | Elected to City Council READING, Pa., Nov. 9.—James |H. Maurer, president of the Penn-} | | sylvania State Federation of Labor) | land head of the first American trade union delegation to’ Soviet | | | TORTURE WORKERS IN COAL SECTION FOR STRIKE ACTS ‘Miners Fight Schwab’s| Donato Carrillo er 4 1. S. OFFICIALS ADMIT NEW PLAN FOR “BUFFER STATE” TO OIIDE MEXICO FROM OTHER LATIN NATIONS ‘Haitian Dictator Appointed to Supervise All more. than doubled their New York! committee of the Workers (Commun- Russia, was yesterday elected a ay iS @ { 3 : oe vote of last year, returns showed yes-| ist) Party last night issued the fol-}-|city councilman of Reading, a large Mercenar 1e€s Nicaraguan Financia! Matters terday. lowing statement: on yesterday’s re- | | industrial city. ih A | ig OSA SAE ES Although it was an “off” year and ene of the least stimulating cam-! paigns since 1915, a total of 2,521 Communist votes were counted for Charles\Zimmerman, Workers (Com- munist) Party candidate for judge of General Sessions in Manhattan, andl 2,360 for Anton Bimba, Party candi-, date for Kings County riet attor- ney, returns showed. This vote com-| pares with 1,032 in Manhattan, and} 1,424 in Kings County in 192 | 10,000 Communist Vot | Oy the basis of these figures a to-/ talfof 10,000 votes were cast for the} rkers Party candidates Tuesday, as against 4,691 cast in New York City for the Party candidate for gov-! ernor of New York last year. In every election a large number of votes for Workers Party candidates are counted incorrectly or, are dis earded entirely, according to the New| | strict office votes ci actually reported a: returt by the New York Election Board are as follow: | General Sessions, judge, Manhat-} tan, Chas. S. Zimmerman, 2,521. 2nd Municipal Court, judge, Alex- ander. Trachtenberg, 1,267, York Comm of the Party Tuesday and} ¢t nted in the} ®t ay’s election: won the elections and the republican party, 2 twin parties of capitalism, maintain their firm grip upon the state The Communist Party, however, ceeded in raising its vote in the city from 4,600 to 10,000. ie) is a di ictory for work- class pol a! action and indi- aan ing cates the possibilities of mobilizing the workers for independent political action in the campaign of 1928. 8. P. Defeated. “The socialist party was defeated in its major campaign by the victory of Tammany Hall over Judge Panken. This outcome was no surprise. Only the Communists put up a real chal- lenge to the capitalist parties. La- bor of the city, tied to Tammany and the republican party by the non-partisan policy of the la- , was not organized and ‘ious campaign on the vi- ting their’ interests, injunctions, police violence, ion swindle, the housing sit- ion, ete. Labor Not United. “While the corrupt Tammany Hall ine undoubtedly resorted to cor- on and floaters to defeat Pan- | Maurer ran on the socialist} | ticket, and carried with him a full} city administration of socialists. No other party secured any city! office. J. Henry Stump is mayor.; | TROTSKY GROUP MOSCOW WORKERS Won't Hear Factional Opposition Speeches (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Nov. 9. — The attempts of the Opposition leaders to utilize the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the November revolution for fac- tional purposes failed dismally when Mescow workers turned their efforts into a demonstration against them. As the “leaders” of the Trotsky op- position tried to attract the attention of the demonstrating workers they | HOWLED DOWN BY : BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Nov. 9.— C. M. Schwab's mines out at Bent- leyville in Washington County, Penn- sylvania, are an armed camp with machine guns mounted atop piles 200 feet high commanding e entrance to the mines, and powerfu searchlights set above the guns sweeping the roads and the hillside all night long, picking out every c: man approaching. itary touch, some of the mines have the -stars’ and stripes floating above their machine guns. Three-Year War on Union. At its six mines around Bentley- ville the Bethlehem Stcel Corporation has been carrying on a bitter union- years; and today the desolation in th mining towns of this section is lik vading army. I was told of men breker by torture up in the Coal and Iron police barracks. I saw people maimed for life by bullets fired by Schwab’s gunmen, and utterly without redress. I heard of ease after case of women beaten up by the police—-one just @ week ago. I saw. waxen-faced children like famine children, and children barefoot | } and | To complete the | emashing campaign for over three | | the desolation in the wake of an in-} GRECO, CARRILLO DENIED VISITORS -iWt BRONX SELL |Canal Route Issue Seen as Decisive; New York! Firms Backing New Aggression } WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Determination to establish a com | plete and lasting protectorate over Nicaragua has virtually been made by the American state department, it was learned today. This far-reaching decision was marked by the dispatch ta that country of a “financial dictator’ who with the marine die tatorship practically places that country under the control of the | United States. A definite treaty, which is to embody this form of protecs itorate, will await the Nicaraguan presidential elections of 1928, '1t was learned. | The United States will now more firmly establish a sphere of |Latin-American influence in® | Nicaragua, it was learned. It is TEXTILE WORKERS |tecting American acquired lrights to an inter-oceanic canal |tection of naval bases on both! \the Atlantic and Pacific sides of RESULT OF FLOOD | For purposes of diplomacy and pos- | jsibly for domestic political reasons|State Officials \for the prime purpose of pro- |across Nicaragua, for the =<! WITHOUT JOBS AS republic and also for the protection of | j little is said about the matter at this Ignore jthe Panama Canal. time. . Officials wish to avoid any, Relief, Talk Contracts ASP j ken, the defeat was really caused by | y i isi District attorney, Kings County,| . _ eal were met with general derision and |. 4 tr 5 | hie nigh i mary?) the Bolte of the poalee party, by }booing that compelled them to with- te Ne cay to poet saree |charge of imperialism in the coming ee a Preeti eol ay ae _,| is failure to rai e class issues|draw, From their lodginj veral 7 : Victi i jcampaign, and probable attacks on| STON. Nov: Over aa Register, I 3 C ity, - Car: * ig seve: f: 7 algn, P: le attac on| ‘ 50, ee tar, Kings County arrie} which could mobilize the workers |members of the Opposition hing pore) Hu roads Besanse Bethlehem Stee! ‘TWO ictims of Fascism American policies at the Pan-Ameri-|New England :nill. workers will be Brey Matis Gccnee aiteea| BLS the capitalist parties and by |traits of Trotsky and Zinoviev with has thrown nat Re aA: ighb Aiso Denied Bail }can congress at Havana next January.| Without jobs during the next few - Zs Bs. reactionary policy of seeking lib-| placards bearing inscriptions like |°f the two schools in the neighbor-| = | This is of paramount importance,| Weeks, at least, as a result of the Wagenknecht, 1,943. County clerk, Ragozin, 2,927. hood and only lets in the children of| seabs. 1 capital support for its candi-|‘Long Live the leaders of the revolu- tion, Trotsky and Zinoviev.” Long col- umns of workers and soldiers, how- It will provided the | destruction caused by the flood in United States with a buffer between j Massachusetts, New Hanpaticy, Wer btm. atialnier | RO Coei aad mont and the Hudson Valley of New nazeds of sympathizers FM tad te declare. | fr iends of Calogero Greco and Donato | Kings County, Ray| e socialist party, ignoring the One Heroic Incident. 5th assembly district, Bronx, Mois- saye J. Olgin, 276. 6th ‘assembly ‘district, Kings éiantrendene soeeae t ty, Chseter W. Bixby, 145. 8th assembly district, Manhattan,| Wm. W. Weinstone, 213. | 17th assembly district, Manhattan, | Juliet Stuart Poyntz, 109. { 28rd assembly district, Kings Coun-| ty, Bertram D, Wolfe, 154. | 8th Aldermanic, Manhattan, becca Grecht, 193. | 17th Aldermanic, Manhattan, Julius! Codkind, 99. | 29th Aldermanic, Bronx, Belle Rob-| Re-| 1 for a united labor ticket and werkers..for. inde= class political ac its face toward petty elements and sought en- : capitalist sources in tion, bor di its attempt to return Judge Panken | to cffice. It did not make the vital demands of labor the demands of its campaign and thus aided in keeping labor riveted to the capitalist par- and exposed itself as a party of s and petty business men he game of the capitalist pro True to Workers. ever, marching towards the Red ware Were: iidignant at the attempt of the Opposition to utilize the cele- brations for their own purposes and tore down the pictures and placards. Hoot Opposition Leaders. On the balcony of the former Paris Hotel, stood Preobraejensky and Smil- ga shouting the Opposition’s slogans | —shouting “Long live Trotsky and Zinoviev.” “Down with you! Clear (Continued on Page Two) | Traction Workers to One of the Bethlehem Steel Corpo- brought back to Bentleyville to be buried the other day. Her tall, bent husband told me about it. Jn 1925 he company house they lived in at the Cokeburg Mine. The sheriff’s notice allowed them ten days to get out, but even that was too slow for Bethlehem Steel, and to hasten things along the company kept coal from being brought That was effective. The young wife up to the house, It was February. ratien victims,;-a 23-year-old girl, wary and his wife'and their babies, one and} two years old, were evicted from the} Carrillo/ imprisoned victims of the anti-labor campaign of the American section of the Italian fascisti, are be- ing turned away from the gates of the Bronx County Jail. In every case visitors are notified that the imprisoned men may not be seen. Greco and Carrillo have been jail with no bail fixed for them since their arrest. July 11 on a charge of killing Carisi and Amorroso, of the ist League .of North America, in conection with a Memoria! Day pa- rade in the Bronx last spring. “Not Today.” in} Wand the Panama Canal. Sager cerd sg State. ‘most i importance, it is pointed Catia ae Canter eee tions in the event of war, of srtack| Manufacturing Company, the Paciti on the Panama Canal oe AE Ghar Mills, the American Woolen Company, : ; Aa Se eee: 4 Latin apse countries declaring| ny, the Laweecnce Mowulaeatail war on the side of A: i ies. 9 es Ma ! * ‘ eae enemles./ Company, and the Merrimac Manus facturing Company. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.— e rete Cc | Coincidentally with the release from Bile! Neaean ee ae a it re a v the navy department here of an ecs the regular agencies, the suffering |two navy air bombers who fell while jin the act of blowing up Nicaraguan |tatic story of the “heroic” actions of | nationalists and were killed in battle | and misery of thousands of homeless workers and small farmers continue. tion to put over fat road-building con- » \ bins, 764, “Only the Communists remained fell sick with pneumonia, and pneu-| Amo those recently denie@ ad- 2 A .. | Especially is this true in Vermont 50th _Aldermanie, Kings County, | true to the needs of the working | monia developed into tuberculosis. She Rerariat pest the iail is Filippo Greco, lee heede ete ee in | where the havoc caused by the storm Benjamin Lifschitz, 150. oh Only they raised the banner died in Denver alone. Her husband] brother of Calogero and secretary of | nounced the Ae eee af section (72S greatest. While frantic pleas te hae endent working class politi- ee OMOrrOW 0 came there a month ago, to be near;the Greco-Carrillo Defense League.| section of the Nicaraguan govern-|*%¢ bes made for food, clothing and GARFIELD, N. J., Nov. 9.—Mayor| ca on. Only they exposed fear- her, and got a job in the Colorado} (Continued on Page Five) ment, to be alt vets f | tempor: shelter state officials are William Burke, bitter enemy of the! and aggressively the police vio- sy |field. But then the strike was called,| Washington “'y 470™ | utilizing the present desperate situa- textile workers during the last strike, | against the workers, the par- Answer I R T Suit and “You can’t go scabbing,” she told The United States has decided to| ‘79°, Arsuing that the rehabilita- atte aa f was defeated for reelection yesterday. Ja He received 1,433 votes as against! 2,410 polled for Anthony Perratato,} the victor. { Gus Deak, president of-the district | 7 council of the United Textile Work-| ers and candidate on the United La-' bor Ticket for councilman in the fourth ward, polled 191. Sabe was elected with 425 votes. ‘John Di Santo, labor candidate in the fourth ward, ran third in a field of four candidates, Felix Panerisi, labor candidate in the third ward, was last of four candidates. The campaign of the United Labor Ticket is syed to have played an impo:tanit part in Burke’s defeat. (Continued on Page Five) peste ia Sica Foster ‘Will Address Paterson, N. J. Meet On 10th Anniversary ‘ wae Z, Foster, head of the in- dustrial department of the Workers’ (Communist). Party, will be the chief speaker in Paterson, N. J., Friday at 8 p. m. at Helvetia Hall at a mass meeting called to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Kevolu- tion. Foster, who was in the Soviet Union in the days of the famine, again at the beginning of the new economic policy and again last year, will tell the workers of Paterson of his own observations of the progress of the Soviet Union in the different fields of life. ther tenth anniversary meetings scheduled for New Jersey are: Eliza- ‘beth, Nov. 18, 7 p. m., 515 Court St., ‘Nesin, Crouch, speakers; Newark, Nov. 13, 3 p. m., Ukrainian Hall, Bea- con St., Wicks, Ballam, Hoohey; West g junction menace, the dan- ger of war, and pointed out the need for a Labor Party. Only the candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Party zided in organizing labor for struggle on the economic and politi- (Continued on Page Five) SECOND SINCLAIR OFFICER REFUSES TO ANSWER JURY WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.— Tomorrow an attempt is scheduled to force Sheldon Clark, an official of Sinclair’s oil companies, to eitner tell something about the hiring of the Burns detectives to shadow, and it is charged, intimidate or bribe, the jury in the Sinclair-Fall oil graft cose, or else follow the example of U1. Mason Day, xnd admit that to testi?y would incriminate him. Won't Talk. Today Clark was before the grand jury which is investigating evidence of’ jury fixing in the Teapot Dome fraudulent leasing of Teapot Dome oil fields to Harry F. Sinclair, He stayed only about four minutes, and absolutely refused to testify. The district attorney’s office does not say why he was not forced to the-wall at once, but has implied to interviewers that tomorrow it will ask him a pre- pared list of questions, designed to make him enlist among the defend- ants in the jury fixing charge, or tes- tify against his employer. New York, Nov. 13, 3 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 17th St. and Hyler Pl., Poyntz, |Markoff; Passaic, Nov. 13, 8 p. m, 27 Dayton Ave., Crouch, Wicks, Pater- son. A meeting will also be held in Yonkers, N. Y., November 20 at 8 p. m. at 20 Warburton Ave. o It is recognized, however, by those close to the case, that Clark is a little bigger fish than Day, was was imme- diately charged and placed on $25,000 bail, He comes more within the class of Sinclair himself, d Sinclair is not under arrest, The warrant against (Continued on Page Two) Two mass meetings for workers of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co. are scheduled for“tomorrow at the Labor Temple, Third Ave. and 84th St., as a partial answer of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America to the I. R. T. injunction of- fensive. The I, R. T. has asked the supreme court for an injunction which would make it a crime for the street car men’s union or any other union af-; filiated with the American Federa- | tion of Labor to organize the New} York traction workers. | The meetings are scheduled for 10 a. m. and 8 p. m., permitting both day and night workers to attend. William Green, president of the him and sent him away. 2 Starvation—Eviction—Scabs. Bethlehem Steel owns over fifty mines in West Virginia and Pennsyl- vania. First, Schwab broke the union in his West Virginia mines, in 1924. Then, as soon as he was getting suf- ficient coal out of there, he turned his attention to Pennsylvania. First he shut down, and then opened up the mines “scab,” one after another. Evic- tions were begun=-systematically, so many every week, as the scabs were brought in. It was not long till not a single union family was left in any of the Bethlehem Steel Company houses. Horrible Hardships. The strikers’ families scattered around the region, sometimes two families to a room, and sometimes three. Some are still living like that (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Ywo) Election Day Solidarity , Threat to Discharge How Election Day solidarity saved’) the jobs of several workers and fore- stalled an attempt to break down union conditions at the Harrison Pleating Co., 315 E. 36th St., became known yesterday. The shop is one of the largest in the industry. , All the workers at the Liarrison shop are members of Local 41, Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers’ Union. Due to its militancy and its consistent opposition te employer- union collaboration, the bosses as well as the right wing’ administration of the I. L. G. W. have attempted to destroy it. The lccal was recently dis- banded by the international general executive board. The workers of this shop under threat ‘of dismissal were told last Mordey t« report for work Tuesday, election day, though election day has always been a union holiday, under a! Makes Bosses Retract Hemstitchers of Local 41 After consulting with union head- quarters the Harrison shop employes ima block remained at home election dey in defiance of the company’s order and reported for work yester- day as before. work. Union Too Strong. “The company had obviously ex- pected to take advantage of the op- position of. the right wing interna- tional administration to our local, be- lieving we were toc weakened to en- force our agreement,” Taft said yes- terday. “But the company found its own workers and our union stronger than ever. Backed by Loca! 41, the workers were resolute in taking their rightfu! holiday and returning to their places the following day.” The Harrison Pleating Co. did not take steps to enforce its anti-union order, Preparations for future activities clause in the union agreement, accord- ing to M. E. Taft, manager of the local, of the local will be mare at a meet- headquerters, 6 W. 21st St. And they remained at | RAIDING MINERS STATE POLICE ARE HALLS IN COLO. WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 9.—A raid on the miners’ hall here where | I. W. W. speakers were talking to a big meeting of strikers, was led yes- terday by Major William Howells, heading state police and mine guards. There was no legal basis for the raid and no warrants were served. The miners drove the police and gunmen from the hall and had the best of the encounter until reinforce- ments for the police arrived. Un- awed by his military title, a miner knocked Major Howells senseless. Many police and miners were in- jured. Break Up Meetings. The authorities are openly break- ing up mass mectings throughout the strike area in an effort to prevent plans for picketing being communi- cated to the strikers. Police squads under command of; national guard officers, are patrolling the mining camps and the highways. |tion cf the roads if essential, officials ‘ a * Par .. |of the stricken states are concentrat- fairs as well as its military affairs ling upon the appropriation of funds Have Selected Prozonsul. |for this purpose, entirely ignoring the As the first move in establishing immediate need of relief the “national receivership” over the| Suffering Great. conquered territory, the United States} At Hartford, Conn., it was observed will send Dr. W. P. Cumberland to| today that, while the flood waters of Managua to supervise the proposed| the Connecticut river are slowly re= reorganization of the Nicaraguan fin-| ceding, it will be a week before the ancial structure. : | lowlands are entirely free from water. Cumberland, who is American fin-! Snow and dropping temperatures ancier advisor to the Haitian govern-| added to the suffering of families who ment, is expected to resign that post, 2re camping out on high ground at once. j awaiting the retreat of the waters Part of the financing provides for | from their homes. an immediate loan of $2,000,000 to the} A general survey of all the flood Wall Street controlled Diaz govern-|sections in Connecticut, Vermont, ment to meet claims arising out of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and the’ resistance of Nicaraguan nation-| Rhode Island today showed that sup- alists to domination by the United) plies w still acutely needed. As States. far as complete recovery is concerned, Eventually, additional American state officiels who have studied first credits totaling approximately hand reports from scores of communtie 000,000 will be extended to mect simi-| ti lar claims and to build an inter-ocean ‘ade can the affected people win bale railway across the Nicaragua Isth-| What was theirs before the flood. mus. administer Nicaragua’s financial af- Supercede Brown Bros. ‘Bad Furnace Used in A New York banking group, head- | rs ed by J. & W. Seligman & Co., is| iagara Post Office Blows Up; Risk Lives . underwriting these loans. Brown! (Continued on Page Two) og iced NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 9. —More than a score of persons had 250 Deputies in Pueblo. ' At Pueblo, where 25 I. W. W. strike | leaders are held without bail, the | sheriff has mobilized 250 deputies armed with riot guns. The streets | are patrolled for two blocks on each | side of the jail. All passers-by are | challenged and forced to tell their | business, y Governor's Ruse. The governor ha& evaded the open use of the military by allowing the| use of an unlimited number of spe- cial state police and county deputies against the miners. Arrests of all strike leaders, the breaking up of mass meetings and the prohibition cf picketing are depended ing called for 6 p. m. today at union|upon by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to break the strike. vets | Smith Defeated as Ja narrow escape today when fire Mayor of Detroit) swept the Post Office Building caus- ~ ling damage estimated at $40,000, DETROIT, Nov. 9. — John C.| The first resulted from an expt Lodge, alleged to be supported by |sion which blew out all the windows klan elements, was elected mayor of |in the building and damaged nearby Detroit, by majority’ of 9,060 over | structures. The cause of the explo- John W. Smith, present incumbent. |sion is undetermined but is believed Smith’ was a rabid wet and was |to have occurred in the basement fur- supported by the official! machine of |nace. The wife of the caretaker and the Detroit Federation of Labor.|her child were rescued from the top Frank X. Martel, president of the | floor. Detroit Federation and one of the PSHE hE AR leaders of the so-called progressive | SMOOT MACHINE WINS. party in the International Typo- | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 9. graphical Union waged an aggres-|-—Almost complete returns indicate sive campaign for the re-election of|that the republican machine con- Smith and the defeat of the mayor|trolled by Reed Smoot, the sugar is a hard blow to the loca) labor} trust senator, carried the city elee- politicians, tions with John F, Bowan, as mayor, Dae! *