The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927 Wall Street Coolidge Gang Seize Nicaragua (Continued from Page One) | Brothers Company of New York, whol loaned Diaz $800,000 earlier in the} year to finance his fight against the liberals, is reported to have no part in| the new credit project. | It will be stipulated in the terms of the loan, the bankers say, that the| loan shall be used to pay for the con- trol of the Nicaraguan elections by the marines, and the expenses of the army of occupation which the United States placed in the country during the active period of Nicaraguan re- sistance. Several million dollars will be giv- en to the United Fruit Co. of U.S. A., and other Amer ers for “damag during the fighting. Abou 000 is set aside for the tran: railroad, which will follow the ro’ of the canal for which the United States plans. . MANAGUA, Ni The story told by n: death of the two / aviators, Lieut. E. ve v—| s of the} marine Thomas and A. Sergt. Dowdell, who are being praised by their superiors here and in Wash- ington shows the nes to be cruel killers, who respected neither non-| combatant villagers, nor obeyed the laws of war gard to prisoners. This marine corps plane was bomb- img and burning towns near Ocotal while that city was occupied by a de- tachment of marines, fighting Nicara-| gan nationalists on Oct. 8. The ; plane ran into a forest covered moun-| tain-side, and the aviators took off a| machine gun and tried to join the test of the marines, | They captured two non-combatant peasants, and with threats and vio-| lence tried to impress them as guides. Dissatisfied with the way the invol-| untary guides led them, they killed one with their pistols. The other es- eaped. The aviators camped in a eave, and the next morning, seeing a| detachment of the Nicaraguan nation- | alist army, and being afraid to sur- render because of the murder of the peasant, opened fire on it with their pistols and the machine gun. They were killed in the fighting. | See End of Franco-U. S$. | Tariff War—for a While PARIS, Nov. 9.—America’s latest! tariff note ends the tariff dispute | for the time being between the United States and France and the| way is now opened for the immédiate | negotiation of a provisional agree-| ment, according to opinion expressed | by nearly all the morning newspa-| pers. | Tt is expected that France will send | another note assuring Washington | that the French government is ready | to begin negotiations for an agree- | ment. | BALTIMORE, Nov. 9—The Young Workers League will hold a dance Saturday at Conservatory Hall, 1029 E. Baltimore St. There will be a first class orchestra and refreshments. Ad- mission 35 cents. ‘ Serving Fifteen Years; HOUSE COMMITTEE ‘Another Admits Crime ON FLOODS DODGE RESERVOIR PLAN Let Big Bill’s Caravan | Talk on More Levees WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — The; = flood control committee today } ued to hear public pleas for} ional action. It is consider- | y three definite plans. | e plans, representing the view- | s of spokesmen from widely-sep- | aaie of the Mississippi valy | Victor Patterson, 22 years old, serv- Eee vay ing a fifteen-year sentence in Sing A combination levee spillway <: . F scheme, with complete federal control Sing prison for a robbery which John of all tributaries of the Mississippi, | Maxwell confessed just before his ex- advocated by F. G. Jonah, of St. ecution. He may be pardoned—and ing 0} Tt | Louis, chief engineer for the St, Louis, then again he may not be. San Francisco railway. | 2. A permanent forestation and a} . A pert forestation Trotsky Group Howled rev: ainage policy in the upper Missindin pit Valley atidialohy its trib- | Down By ‘Workers . utaries, to stop flood waters at their | % source, urged by state senator W. H.| (Continued from Page One) Markham of Wisconsin, chairman of | out!” was the reply of the workers the state legislature’s committee on marching below. A group of work- flood control. ers detached themselves from the rail- 3. A plan to move levees southward | Waymen and climbing the balcony tore and create a huge diversion channel, |down the placards, demanding that west of the Mississippi at Cairo, Ill, Smilga and Preobrajensky leave the juncture of the Mississippi and Ohio , balcony. Bombarded with rotten eggs ad |partment of the U. S. rivers, suggested by Ronald Kingsley, representing the Cairo Chamber of | Commerce. Politics and Profit. ince the delegation from the Mis- pi valley is representative of the political interests of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson, the book burner, and the chambers of commerce of ‘the cities of the Mississippi valley, the plan ad- vocated by practically every, European | expert, of placing the main reliance on impounding of the head waters of the tributaries, especially the Missouri and Ohio, and using them gradually for government owned hydro-electric power, is not even mentioned. Levee Graft. The best experts at home and abroad are skeptical of the value of levees as a~main line of defense against floods, but the engineering de- army has staked its reputation on levee sys- tems, and an enormous private graft of contractors who build the levees is involved. The chambers of commerce, bankers and city politicians in Thomp- son’s crusade are fully cognizant of the benefits to them of maintaining the levee system. The plan of the Wisconsin group, far from levee building, is most like that offered: by real scientists. The plan of the Cairo Chamber of Com- merce involves most levee building and excavation of a giant spillway, with plenty of local “pork.” HOW BIG BIZ PAYS DEBT. and apples, the members of the Oppo- sition were compelled to leave the platform amidst derisive whistling. Call Trotsky “Traitor.” A storm of protest greeted Trotsky himself when he attempted to speak from a motor car. Before he could } utter a single word he was booed and hissed by the workers. He hastily rode away,-followed by shouts of “traitor.” The same indignant reception greet- ed the appearance of Trotsky, Kamen- eff and Muralof in a motor car in Semenovskaya street, from which the opposition leaders were compelled to turn back and ignominously quit the field. Opposition Badly Beaten. Thus the pitiful sallies of the Op- position, which transgressed all bounds of loyalty to the Communist Party and the working class were hopelessly defeated. The handful of members of the Opposition only dem- onstrated that they have definitely broken away from the masses, who with rare unanimity and in true fes- tive mood celebrated the tenth anni- versary of their great victory. The treacherous outbreak of the Opposition not only aroused the greatest indignation from the Mos- cow workers but also from the Com- munist members of the foreign dele- gation, who are guests in Moscow. * * s Install Electric Works. MOSCOW, Nov. 9.—The tenth an- niversary of the November revolution WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — The |continued to be celebrated throughout Pennsylvania tunnel and terminal rail- | the Soviet Union by the workers and road of New York City today asked authority of the interstate commerce commission to issue $25,000,000 of capital stock, to be delivered at par to the Pennsylvania railroad, in reduc- tion.of a demand note of $83,600,576. | Lenin “Politics is a science and an art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired gratis. defeat the bourgeoisie, it must train from among its ranks its own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik Party of Russia without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. We must organize a strong party in this country that will be able to organize and iead the masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in the fight for: A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. The defense of the Soviet Unio The organi Making e» The protection of the foreign born. Application for Membership in (Fill out this blank and mail to Worke: Name .. ~Oceupation (Enclosed find one dollar for initiation fee and one month’s dues.) tion of the unorganized. : ng unions organize a militant struggle. Said:- If the proletariat wishes to m and against capitalist wars. Workers (Communist) Party rs Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) peasants. The foundation for big new electrical works and wireless sta- tions in large industrial centers was a feature of the celebrations. Many cities and villages laid the foundation for new buildings, for schools and children homes. The foundation for the Dneiprosctroy, the most powerful hydro-electric station in the Soviet Union, was also laid. 600,000 March. The anniversary celebrations in Leningrad turned out to be a tremen- dous demonstration which was fea- tured by the march of six hundred thousand working men and women, Red Army soldiers and children into Uritsky Square, where they were ad- dressed by Rykoff and Kamaroff, chairman of the Leningrad Soviet. The announcement that a peasant university would be inaugurated in Mcscow and other cities was made at the meeting. Franco-Jugoslav Pact Provides for Common Action Against League BELGRADE, Nov. 9.:— Negotia- against any adverse decisions of the League of Nations affecting either country was revealed today. The agreement is contained in the third article of a friendship pact be- | tween the two countries which is to be signed in Paris on November 13. The third article makes both nations agree to take action together against any decisions of the league which might endanger the security of either one. tions between France and Jugoslavia | towards a pact to take common action | STATE COUNCIL THREATENS COURT WITH LYNCH MOB Says Framed-up Negros Must Be Executed WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9— sentencing to death of two Negroes, Nathan Bard and Runyan Fleming, by Louisville, Ky., courts, was ap- pealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, the attorney. genéral of the state of Kentucky threatened the. Supreme Court with riot and lynching in Ken- tucky if the case is reversed. If the Supreme Court should re- view the case and ‘set aside the con- viction; mob. violence: will: result, the ‘state of Kentucky says in its brief. “To the delays and uncertainties in the=courts wilt be sadded another in= Stance tending to encourage lawless- nel d-eriminal acts, and these in turn-avill-provoke the slumbering ten- deney-te- mob: violence.” e Race. Discrimination. Counsel for the condemned men de- clare that the question in the case is ‘whether these humble petitioners, being citizens of the United States are or are not entitled to the equal protection of the fourteenth amend- ment of the Constitution of the United States.” » They insist that Bard and Fleming “did not waive their constitutional rights to an orderly trial and equal protection of the laws, and they have not had these rights, and we respect- fully assert that under the evidence in this record should they be executed they would be executed in violation of these rights guaranteed them by our Constitution.” The case of Bard and Fleming was one of legal lynching. A number of assaults ¢n women had been com- mitted in Hopkins County, Ky., dur- ing April, 1926, shortly after a simi- lar series took place in Chicago, and in other cities. Instead of looking for a “moron” irrespective of color, the vigilante committees of the South east about for a Negro. Railroaded. Bard and Fleming were arrested and given practically no defense. They were arrested, tried, convicted, sen- tenced, and a motion for a new trial rejected all within three days, while the Kentucky militia Held the streets, and public officials made speeches to the mobs in the empty squares, beg- ging them, “for the good name of Kentucky” to let the -state hang the men. There was no opportunity given to secure defense witnesses, instead, Mrs. Fleming, wife of a defendant, who wanted to testify to an alibi, was herself arrested, locked up, and not permitted to appear in court. Could Hire No Attorney. The judge appcinted an attorney to defend the men, who had not been allowed to communicate with their friends, and were permitted to see even this counsel only a few minutes, and not until twenty minutes before being brought before the jury. A colored newspaper man from Louis- ville, William Warley, who attempted to report the trial, was run out of town by a mob. The conviction secured under these conditions, by a jury drawn without challenge from the defense from among the members of the potential lynchers themselves, was affirmed by the Kentucky state court of appeals. Germany “Overborrow- ing,” Declares Borah WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — Ger- many, as well as every other nation in Europe, is borrowing more than it can afford to borrow, in the American investment market,”*Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the senate for- eign relations committee, asserted to- day in relation to the ¢riticisms of the German government’s financial poli- cies by S. Parker Gilbert, American agent general of German reparations at Berlin. : > Gilbert, Borah added, apparently did not see the logic of what his criticisms might lead to when he gave his state- ment to the public. The senator | would not venture an opinion at this time of what the result would be. WANTED — MORE READERS! > ARE YOU GETTING THEM? Upon hearing that the case of the | "overiaaed Prediction | That Made Millions for | Cotton Bears Is False WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The United States will have a larger| cotton crop this year than was an- ticipated, the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture said today in forecasting a total production of 12,842,000 bales. Thic is.164,000 bhles, or about 1 per cent above last month’s fore- east, which, released under suspi- cious circumstances, caused enrich- ment of “bear” dealers in the mar- ket. Steel Trust Attrocity In Third Strike Year | (Continued from Page One) today. I saw three of these evicted families living in the Union Hall— one with seven children, one with five, and an old trainer and his daugh- ter. The hall was partitioned off roughly into two small rooms and a larger one, with a room for each of the big families to sleep in, and the larger one for all the 18 peovle to live and cook and eat in and do their washing in. The old man and his daughter had a couple of tiny boxes at one end of the hall. For 19 months, up to last June, the two large families all lived together in one room in the damp basement of a lodge building. Forced to Migrate. The rank and file in these mines have put up a splendid fight—three years of it—against Schwab’s gun- sen and evictions and attempts to starve them out. But a siege cannot zo on forever, and gradually the ma- jority have been forced to move away from the mines. In a section where five thousand miners lived and work- ed before 1925, there are not much over 450 union families left today. The Struggle to Live. Before the general lock-out of last April, some of the men could get work a few weeks a year at mines within a 20 mile radius—with a daily bus fare of 75 cents to $1.00 a day. Since then, some of these remaining around Bentleyville get an occasional day’s work on the roads, or at some other odd job; but a large number of families would be absolutely des- titute if it were not for the meagre relief they have been getting since the lock-out was officially declared on the first of April. » The Lowest Limit of Poverty. The poverty is appalling. In the case.of one family I saw, the father had been unemployed almost continu- ally since December, 1925. mother and children were barefoot and in rags. The shack, was bare. The father and 12 year old boy were out in the woods searching for mush- rooms for the family food. The 14 year old girl looked like a child of 11, and all the children were haggar and emaciated. Spirit Unbroken. Even among people who are suf- fering as this family is suffering, the fighting spirit still remains un broken. Just a few days ago scabs tried to persuade the woman to send The} Second Sinclair Officer Refuses to Testify (Continued from Page One) him was withdrawn and held in abey- ance when his attorneys “saw” Gor- don, the U. S. district attorney. Dicks Before Jury. One by one the Burns operatives, or detectives whom Burns says were the men sent to shadow the oil graft jury, appear before the grand jury and are briefly questioned. So far | little is known as to what they say. They are still under control of the Wm. J. Burns agency, and some of them are in the group told by “Chief Shadower” Ruddy a few days ago to “keep mouths shut.” Sinclair Man Hides. Harry Jeffreys of New York, chief clerk for Sinclair, who was subpoe- naed to come before the grand jury today did not put in an appearance. Steps will be taken to insure His ap- pearance tomorrow, it was said. . The story of a “pep meeting” held| at the Mayflower Hotel on the night! of October 22 at which the Burns| operatives working on the case were| given instructions and suggestions on| how best to conduct their jury shad- owing work was related by detectives | who appeared before the grand jury | today. The list of Burns detectives ordered before the grand jury, with the num-! bers by which the Burns Co. desig-| nated them while engaged in spying on the jury, is as follows: | X-12, G. H. Robbins, assistant manager; Q-14, F. J. O'Reilly, New York; M-20, Merritt, New York; S-81, Steer, New York; O-D, Dwyer, New York; 0-3, O’Neill, New York; B-4, Brennan, New York; K-27, Kline, New York; S-71, Stewart, Philadelphia; S-70, Sullivan, Phila- delphia; K-37, Knowles, Philadelphia; L-36, Long, Philadelphia; H-4, Hum-} erighauser, Baltimore; K-1, Kirby, | Baltimore. Look For Weakness. Observers point out that Wm. at Burns’ defense of shadowing Jurors | for their awn good and to see that the government did not corrupt them is not adequate to explain the great} curiosity of the “operatives” used by him as to the financial standing of the victims, Burns seemed to be looking particu- larly for cases of financial stringency, | impending bankruptey, ete., and this | desire for information about the debts | of the jurors extended to all their | friends and relatives. For instance,| the report of the operative “S-81,” an} agent named Steer, of New York, records the fact that a juror’s neigh- bor “seems to be well fixed,” and sold a house for $7,000. — Hoover Tells Union. Heads and Operator To Work Men Harder MT. CARMEL, Pa., Nov. 9.—Heads of the United Mine Workers of her man back to work, and she told them she and her man and children would die together first. The Third Winter—Send Relief. This is the third lock-out winter for this family and many more be- sides. There are a number of fam- ilies around Bentleyville where “it is only the relief given by the Ohio- Pennsylvania Miners’ Relief Confer- ence supplementing district relief that is keeping the families clear of actual starvation. Much _ greater funds are needed for this section, shoes and clothing, if the locked-out miners still remaining around the Bethlehem Steel Corporations mines are to last through still another winter of the long and deadly fight. CAL WON’T PLEDGE PEACE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9. — President Coolidge’s comment on the proposal of Wickham Steed, editor of the English Review of Reviews today indicates that he will refuse to follow the editor’s suggestion that the United States issue a statement that it will ‘not come to the defense of other coun- tries deliberately provoking a war. ROSSLAND, B. C., Nov. 9.—Luke Edmund Seney of Rossland, B. C., bets $100 with Basil Stewart that Premier. ‘Baldwin was right when he said that another» war means the downfall of the British Empire. iN By | vi KA SC Oe ee The Executive Committee of Harlem and Yorkville Section, ' District Two of the Workers [Communist] Party of América in the name of the members Welcomes the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and send their Greetings to the Workers and Peasants LT ‘ Your glorious victory and achievements shall act as an inspiration to us in our work in America. M. NEMSER, Section Organizer. AAA UT ied : A America, the operators’ association, and coal dealers today attended a conference here in which Secretary of Commerce Hoover called for sharp reduction of costs of coal mining, and “improvement in the hard coal sales organizations and its selling meth- ‘oda? Although Hoover declared that he did not advocate a wage cut for the miners, operators were satisfied that a campaign to speed up the work and supplant men with machinery would meet with his approval. Build a Trust. Closer combination and. association of the coal companies was put for- Mle Pe ee frobiegts of commerce under the slogan of “co i within the ihdaetry” eee The usual denunciation of strikes and “labor trouble” which “raises the cost of operation” was made. “The cost and price of coal should be re- duced,” stated Hoover. ‘Threaten to Prosecute Parents Who Refuse to Consent to Fire Traps LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 9. — Parents of 500 children attend- |, jing the West Vernon School, after |holding an indignation meeting, |have threatened to call a school strike and refuse to permit their children to attend the old wooden fire-trap school building where the jchildren daily risk their lives. |\ School authorities have refused to do anything about their protests, and have threatened in turn to pro- secute thoge responsible for the strike under the provisions of the compulso: hool attendance laws, Army Instructors ~ | Ween as Students Spurn Militarism MADISON, Wis. Nov. 9 (FP)— Disintegration of the R.O.T.C. unit at the University of Wisconsin due to apathy of the student body and ” onpesition by liberal elements is blamed on “pacifist and fadical” | teachers by army instructors. So few students have joined tha R.O.T.C that the military training at the University of Wisconsin must be discontinued altogether. The military instructors point out that coincident with decline in student interest fot military training, interest in the stue dent liberal movement is growing. Among professors who ere declared to be either radical or pacifist are: Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, head of the university’s new “experimental” college, Dr. Max Otto, philosophy, Dr E. A. Ross, sociology, and Dr. Fred+ erick L. Paxson. Pres. Glenn Frank is quoted,as declaring the militarist is comparable to the jingoist. WANTED — MORE READERS! GET A NEW READER! Revolutionary POST CARDS — BUTTONS MEDALLIONS — PHOTOS OR your correspondence—why not use a revolutionary poste card? 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