The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 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. 258. PITTSBURGH COAL THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 CO. MAKES THIRD WAGE CUT; SCAB SHOOTS UNION MINE Big Concern Declares Wages Will Be Cut to West Va. Non-Union Basis By AMY SCHECHTER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11.—-William Hunter, a member of the United Mine Workers, was shot morning clash between a truck Big Five mine in Eastern Ohio. Five union miners were arr by a scab yesterday in an early load of scabs and pickets at the ested and are held on charges of assault with intent to kill, inciting to riot and carrying concealed weapons. Additional arrests are expected today. No scabs were arrested. The Big Five mine opened STILL HOLD |. W. W. STRIKE LEADERS WITHOUT BALL Governor Adams Obeys | John D.’s Orders DENVER, Colo., Nov. 10. — The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, with the state police entirely at its disposal and Governor Adams carry- ing out its instructions, is using every effort to smash the miners’ strike while practically all prominent I. W. W.’s and miners’ leaders are held in jail without bail. Strikebreaking by State Police. State police are patrolling the highways and mining camps in the Rockefeller districts in the southern part of the state. Governor Adams | has also made it clear that he is ready to give similar assistance to the coal operators in the northern section. Reactionary As Usual. The miners,. however, are not abandoning their demand for the Jacksonville scale. The Denver Trades and Labor Assembly, having taken no favorable action on the strike until now, has endorsed a reso- lution sponsoring a “citizens’ move- ment” in behalf of a wage raise for the miners, This movement is tied up with the political machine of the governor and has in view a mass meeting at which the governor will preside. Role of Local A. F. of L. It is apparent that the role of the A. F. of L. leadership in the situ- ation here is to try to continue the fiction of Governor Adams’ “friend- ship for labor” at the time that state police forces are doing everything possible to break the strike. It is the opinion here that some further concession will be made to the min- ers but that the Rockefeller interests have ordered their political hench- men to permit no axtension of organi- zation in the coal fields. Arrests Wholly Arbitrary. The I. W. W. leaders have been jailed without any semblance of ordi- nary legal procedure in the hope that their absence will demoralize the strike. “No more open use of the state machinery for strike-breaking pur- poses has ever been seen,” said an attorney who is working for the re- lease of the arrested workers.” Lud- low was more violent but not any more arbitrary than the present pro- cedure,” he said. * Hemstitehers Walk Out When Employer Discharges Womtai The workers of Dranders and Ches- kin, 149 W. 28th St., all of whom are members of Local 41, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, stopped work yesterday morning when the employer discharged Grace / Macio, one of the workers in the shop. This is the second attempt within week by the employers in the hem- | stitching trade to take advantage of workers due to the absence of an | agreement. Local 41 was recently guspended by the right wing general executive board of the international union. The employer gave many excuses to the angry workers yesterday when they asked why Grace Macio was dis- charged, according to M. E. Taft, . walked out in a body to assemble in ‘ the union office, 6 W. 21st St. where | they voted to support Grace Macio. The stoppage was still in force at quitting time yesterday. up Monday with 100 scabs as a fake “cooperative” mine on a company union basis. The scabs were accosted by union pickets jnear Bannock and the fight fol- | lowed. | The third wage cut instituted by |the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com- | pany became effective yesterday. | This company declares openly its in- | tention of the reduction of the Penn- |sylvania miners’ wages to. the West | Virginia non-union scale. | The right of appeal to the U. S. | Circuit Court of Appeals from the | preliminary injunction issued a month lago by Judge Schoonmaker expired | today. et ood PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10.—The lock- out of the Pennsylvania and Ohio soft coal miners, now in its eighth month, has resulted in a very, serious situa- tion in many of the mining:camps. | Food, stockings for children, shoes |head the list of requirements received \by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee. The thousands of evictions have brought about a situa- tion which makes the need for aid for, the miners in this struggle of para-) mount importance. | } Call For Aid. | A call has been issued to-organized relief committees in all industrial centers as well as in the smaller ci- ties where individuals and organiza- tions sympathetic to the miners’ jse.can be found, oc | ord has come from Boston that a number of workers’ organizations are soon to call a meeting preliminary to starting a miners’ relief drive. For Philadelphia the Pennsylvania-Ohio selected a representative in the per-| son of Clara Thomas, well-known in the labor movement of that city. The central committee at Pitts-! burgh expects soon to hear from Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minne- apolis, Kansas City, Seattle and San Francisco, Friends who read this and desire to make contributions are ask- ed to address the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn} Avenue, Room 807, Pittsburgh. 200 Delegates Send I. L. D, Credentials Credentials for more than 200 dele- gates have been received for the third annual conference of International Labor Defense, which will open its sessions at Irving Plaza Hall tomor- row at 1 p. m. The 200 delegates whose credentials have so far been sent in, represent organizations with a membership totalling more than 50,000 workers. The conference headquarters estim- ate a considerably greater number of | delegates will report when the actual opening takes place. . Among the delegates whose creden- tials have so far been received are Ella Reeve Bloor, Oakland; Gino Marketeygiani, Bridegport; Minnie Newcombe, Arden, Dela; Earl Brow- der, Chicago; Emil Arnold, of the Painters’ Union, Chicago; Robert | Zelms and Mrs. J. L. Henderson, Bos- \ton; Louis Littenberg, of the Inde- pendent Workmen’s Circle of Boston; Philip Jacobs of Chelsea; Fred E. Beal, Lawrence; A. E. Phillips, Springfield; William Reynolds, Louise Morrison, Dan Pantelich and Rose Katz, all of Detroit; Celia Brietman, Louis Barnett, Bronislaw Drenkowski, Alexander Wielanchowski, Andrew Smith, Philip Fischer, Morris Nov- eck, R. Hyman, S. Silverman, Mary Thalaineh and Ludwig Wicha, all of Newark; Andy Kovacevich, Camp- bell, Ohio; J. J. Cicci, Martins Ferry; Mary Fradin, Youngstown; Nick Ko- rich, Luzerne; A. Kozakoff, Wilkes- Barre; I. Lerner, Galveston, Texas; John Cicci, Neffs. About 27 delegates are expected from Philadelphia alone. Chicago is reported sending a large delegation, headed by George Maurer, local I. L. D. secretary, Emil Arnold, of the Painters’ Union and Lucy Parsons. International Labor Defense organi- zations and local unions and fraternal bodies will send numerous delegates from New York City and surround- ing territory, Cannon said. Miners’ Relief Committee has already }. | Fall-Sinclair jurors, has stated that DAILY WoO Entered as second-ciass matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1870. per year, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927 PUBL! Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER ISHING CO., 33 First Street, New Y a t FINAL CITY EDITION ork, N. Y. Price 3 Cents Build A Powerful Union For Traction Workers! Burns Detective Hidi | | Profession! spy who calls himself | Douglas Sydney “Catchim,” but who was caught himself, just on the point of leaving for Haiti on a government transport, in a marine’s uniform. He is wanted in the investigation of | charges of jury fixing in the Teapot Dome trial. OIL OFFICIAL IN. JURY FIXING IS GIVEN FREEDOM Clark Is Charged But} Not ‘Arrested | WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — An-| other Sinclair official, Sheldon Clark, was formally charged by the. govern- ment today with conspiracy to tamper with the jury in the Teapot Dome conspiracy trial, but was not formally arrested or placed on heavy bonds. ~ Harry F. Sinclair, the millionaire oil magnate, who was on trial with ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and H. Mason Day, vice presi- dent of the Sinclair Exploration Co., have already been named in the jury tampering accusation. } Approximately thirty questions | were put to Clark by the grand jury. In each instance, it is understood, he declined to answer on the ground that he feared he might incriminate him- self, Clark Involved. Charles G. Ruddy, boss of the Burns detective agents who trailed the he reported both to Day and Clark, and it is on this statement that they are charged with being “contact men” between the detectives and Sinclair. No explanation was given as to why Clark was released on $10,000, where- as Day was forced to put up $25,000, or why no warrant was actually is- sued for Clark. As the situation now stands, no at- tempt will be made to serve an arrest warrant on Sinclair. Bench warrants may be issued for the three men “Financial Affairs of Jurors.” The complaint ynder which the Chi- cago oil man was bonded charges that Sinclair, Day “and others” unlawfully conspired to influence the oil trial jury through an improper surveillance and an investigation into the finan- cial affairs of the jurors. The move had been expected by the accused man. As soon as the party reached Turnhage’s office, Beach picked up a telephone and call- ed a local bondsman, telling him to “come right down with that $10,000 bond I arranged for.” Clark when brot with his two at- torneys before United States Com- missioner Turnace to go thru the for- malities of giving bond, appealed dra- matically for an instant trial. The prosecution secured a two weeks’ stay, and in the course of the argu- ment disclosed that no adequate check had been kept on the communications of the accused. Joseph Freeman, Proletarian Writer, Talks at Workers’ School Tonight; Olgin Tomorrow}? Joseph Freeman, radical journal- ist, will talk on “The Wilsonian Era in Amorican Literature” at the Workers School, 108 East 14th St., tonight at & o'clock. This talk is part of a series on “Social Forces in American Literature,” being con- | ducted by Freeman and Floyd Dell. Others who will appear in this symposium include Michael Gold and John Dos Passos, of the New Playwrights’ Theatre; Paxton Hib- ben and V. F. Calverton, Moisgaye J. Olgin has been se- cured by the school to give a course of six lectures on the “Russian Re- volution” to begin tomorrow at 2 p.m | |tion with a*Memorial Day parade in me CHARGES AGAINST. FASCIST DROPPED BY AUTHORITIES. Police Assist Fascists, Workers Say The New York district attorney office has dropped all charges against a fascist held accountable for the 116th St. bomb explosion of 1926, the Greco-Carrillo Defense Leagu¢ | said yesterday it had learned. The League said the decision to | drop the prosecution in this case was further proof of its charge that the district attorney’s office and certair members of the New York police de | partment were collaborating with the | Fascist League of North America in the suppréssion of the workers’ vp- Position in this country to the fascist regime in Italy. The Greeo-Carrillo Defense League and the Inteynational | Labor Defense are organizing the de- fense for Calogero Greco and Donate | Carrillo,. New York workers charged | with killing two fascists in connec- the Bronx Jast spring. Evidence brought forward by the] American section of the fascisti is agerly accepted by the police and} district attorney, according to Filippo } Greco, brother of Calogero Greco and secretary of the Defense League. | Evidence presented in behalf of the workers who are opposed to fascism, in this country or abroad, is rejected, he added. (See page 2 for more about Greco and Carrillo.) DEMAND TROTSKY EXPULSION FROM COMMUNISTPARTY Moscow Committee Hits Opposition Tactics MOSCOW, Nov. 10. — The expul- sion of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamen-{ eff’ from the Communist Party for their attempt to start a factional dem- onstration during the celebrations of the November Revolution is recom- mended in a resolution adopted by the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The resolution calls the Opposition’s | action “hostile to the Soviet Union” | and declares that it considers neces- sary the expulsion of Trotsky, Kamen- | eff and Zinoviev and other leaders whose actions are unbecoming to members of the Communist Party. Calling the action of the Opposition | “menshevist” and as an attempt to} rally all anti-Soviet elements, the res- olution also declares that it considers it inadmissable that the Opposition leaders be left in the high official posts which they now hold and abuse in the interests of their own faction. Pioneers Celebrate 10 Years of Soviet Union The Young Pioneers will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution at 3 p. m. today at the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave. The program includes motion pictures of child life in the Soviet Union and dances. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow} of Albert R. Parsons, executed dur- ing the Haymarket frame-up of 1886, has been invited to speak. Mrs. Rob- ert W. Dunn will speak. TO FIGHT PROHIBITION LAW. HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 10.—For the purpose of trying to repeal the Indiana Wright bone-dry law, modify the Volstead law, and to repeal the eighteenth amendment, the Anti-Pro- hibition League of America was in- corporated here today. This course is one cf three courses added to the curriculum in connection with the observance of the tenth anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution. Many interesting and significant questions will be taken up in this class, including the conquest of power, building up of socialism, the new economic policy and military Communism. The fee for the course is $2 for the six sessions, If taken together with the course in, the Russian Re- volution by Max Bedacht, given upon the completion of Olgin’s course, the combined fee is $8.50. ’ ’ } PASSAIC WORKERS FACE JAIL; LABOR EFENSE TO HELP Rubenstein, Leader, Attends Conference “The Pa ic mill barons are rail- ing to prison workers who par- ated in the textile strike as a mbol of what happens to labor when it stands up and fights for its interests in defiance of the powers that be. They and their local politi- eal henchmen intend to ‘teach the workers a lesson’ for the future by throwing all the active fighters into the penitentiaries of New Jersey. One of Labor's “Jailbirds.” This was the statement today of Jack Rubenstein, one of the most act- ive leaders of the recent Passaic strike, over whose own head hang a number of indictments for which he is now awaiting trial. He has already served “time” in New Jersey jails for picketing and organizing during the strike. He is now being held on three indictments which involve some $15,000 bail. “The Passaic strike,” said Ruben- stein, “like all other battles of the working class in this country has its victims. They are now languishing in jail for their militancy. There are a number of them already imprisoned on framed-up charges. They must (Continued on Page Two) STRIKING MINERS OF HARMARVILLE FIGHT FOR FUEL By A. 8. HARMARVILLE, Pa., Nov. 10— The Consumers Coal Company, sub- sidiary of the Wheeling Steel Cor- poration, is trying to freeze out the miners at its Harmarsville mine in the Alleghany Valley, by preventing housecoal from being brought into the camp; but the miners are a good match for the coal and iron police and deputies. The Company is not having much luck with its plan. The Har- marsville miners get their housecoal from a small independent mine in the neighborhood employing about 20 men at the Jacksonv lle scale. The coal is brought in by truck, and the company plan is to use force to keep the trucks from going up to the company hotises. Stopped By Deputy. The other day a deputy stepped out on the road and halted a truck load of coal coming in. Two pickets took the driver off, and put some of their own men on the truck, and began driving up into the camp. Coal and Iron police came to reinforce the deputies, and stopped the truck again. Then men and women and children came running down the road ready to fight to get their coal in. The Yellow Dogs took a look at the threatening srowd and decided it would be to quit. -The pickets drove the truck up into the camp and the families got their coal. Harmarsville is known as a fighting town. About 830 men were employed at the mine before the April 1 lock- out, and up to date only one has gone back,‘and he was more of a profes- sional bootlegger than a miner the men say. The women are fighters as well as the men. They make things about as hot for the scabs as the men themselves; they run the same. risk as the men too, for the Yellow Dogs don’t spare them. The coal company at Hearmarsville follows the practice, pretty general in Western Pennsylvania, of quarter- (Continued on Puge Two) re r ti > | | et _ “THE DAILY WORKER” URGES ALL ~ TRACTION WORKERS TO GO TO THE MEETINGS TODAY READY TO FIGHT - Injunction Can Not Be Beaten By Delay and Dickering With City Hall Politicians Disregard the I. R. T. In for Real Union Into To the Traction Workers on the Lines of New York City: The Interborough Transit ¢ | barons as a group, has applied fo: American labor movement, to restrain ¢ helping you to organize as part | For years you have been | working conditions, for years yc ja union which would protect \In 1926 you engaged in a strike jof several weeks’ duration jagainst the company unions of |the traction trust. | Last summer you were ready jto strike again. } On every occasion trust has fought you. {of the city pclice who slug; ne from your meetin, th the aid of the courts, th have tried to break vour spirit an force you to take without protest their “yellow-dog” individual contract system, They want you to remain unorgan- lized, separate individuals without | power, while they are organized from Wall Street to the city hall, the state house in Albany, yes and as far as the White House in Washington. The traction trust has not been able to stamp out the desire for organiza- tion. The traction workers still want to organize and improve their condi- tions. You have been ready to strike in the face of the I. R. T. injunction. The traction barons know that you have not agreed to be slaves to their company union. Traction Trust Goes Limit. Now the traction barons go one step farther. They have applied for an injunction which seeks to outlaw the whole labor movement forever the traction With the aid 1 you as any source. They want to set up in the sub- ways, the elevated, the surface lines, in the power-houses and switching stations, a nation of their own, with Hedley and Quackenbush as king and prime minister, from which organ- ized labor shall be barred. Fellow workers, this is the extreme limit to which the traction barons, or any other set of bosses in America, have ever gone. Other injunctions have been asked and issued against workers but this is the first time that a huge corporation dares to say that it wants the whdle labor movement outlawed, that it will not permit a single union man to talk to a traction worker about organization. It wants, in simples words, to have the workers in the whole gigantic traction indus- try declared industrial slaves, This is a danger which threatens the life of the whole labor movement. \Jf the traction barons succeed in this attack then very soon an attack will be made on the workers in other in- | dustries, The injunction menace must be smashed, The whole American work- ing class suffers from it. It is not the fight of any one section of the labor movement but the fight of all workers, The recent convention of the Amer- (Continued on Page Fi ve) Student Film of Soviet Union Will Be Shown at “Russia Today, the Land Nobod; Knows,” a motion picture made and to make their company union su-} preme. They want to make it impos-| sible for help to come to you from) (Fifth Avenue Playhouse pai junction — Bring Battle Transit Industry Subways, Elevated and Surface the traction on against the whole ized workers from of the American labor movement Jompany, ac ran inj and free yourselves from the tyranny of the company unions j}eontrolled by the traction bosses. trying to get better wages and yu have be ruggling to build your interests. In 1916 you struck. MASS MEETINGS ARE CALLED IN | TRACTION FIGHT I. R. T. Goes to Court Against Union With their union facing outlaw proceedings in the supreme court to- day, New York members of the Amal- gamated Association of Street and | Electric Railway Employes of Amer- ica will assemble at mass meetings this forenoon and evening to plan \their campaign. A hearing on the petition of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. for an injunction to prohibit the organi- zation of its traction force is sched- uled for today. The union mass meet- ings, which will probably be addres- sed by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, ) are scheduled for 10 a. m. and 8 p. m. at the Lyceum, Third Ave. and 86th | St. William D. Mahon, president of the street car men’s union, and ore | ganizers of the union will address the meetings also. Would Outlaw Unions. The injunction which the f. R. T. | prohibit efforts at organization in the sut by the street car men’s union or any other union affiliated |with the A. F. of L. | Green conferred with Mayor James J. Walker yesterday relative to the injunction petition and the attitude of the New York City government to« ward the street car men’s union and the principle of unionism. Mayor Walker is reported to have assured Green that the “agreement” which jthe mayor fostered last summer bex tween the union and the traction in« terests stipulated that no pre; i members of the union be ex d. A strike was cal at that time by the union officials jon the strength cf the mayor’s proms | ises. Six Are Fired. The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transtt Co., however, recently discharged six. employes for membership in the union. The I. R. T. caused the arrest of two men for distributing adver< tisements for mass meetings on on of its lines. And the injunction dee manded by the I. R. T. if granted will he the most drastic in the history off the United States, effecting the en tire labor movement of the country After the conference yeste with the mayor, Green reiterated faith in the collaboration poliey of the executive council of the A. FB. of L. “The American Federation of Las {bor is committed to a policy of indus- |irial peace and cooperation between |employer and employe,” he said. iN. J. Laundry Strike Ends in Labor Victory the first American Student Delega-| GaRTRERET, N. Nov. 10,—The tion to the Soviet Union, will be! five.weeks’ strike against the Roose- |shown at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse,: jt Laundry here ended in a victory 66 Fifth Ave., beginning tomorrow. !¢o. the workers today. They steucl The picture is in the nature of 8] against a wage cut and were given report, the delegation states. Scenes|wage increase in the settlement, taken in factories, along bus routes) Morris Kaufman, strike organizer, re and along the Volga are portrayed as| ported. A dance to celebrate the wie the delegation saw them. The funeral! tory will be held in the Labor Temple of Arthur McManus, of the Commun-jat Elizabeth Saturday evening. $ ist Party of Great Britain, in the pA ar t Kremlin, Moscow, is shown with} MOSCOW, Nov. 10. Bucharin delivering a memorial ad-| Tehitcherin, Soviet commissar fow dress, in addition to the Red Army|eign affairs, is suffering from on parade, Defense Weck maneuvers|betes, and is in bad he yi and scenes at rest homes for workers. | rumoi