The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER 'W YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927 Passaic Workers Face| | SHALL IT BE AGAIN? erve long terms in New Jersey’s penitentiaries because of their loyal | support to the strike. In most cases, Term in Prison rom Page One) of the imprisoned men e none other to + than their work- will demand their " “The s of this country will have to rally to their defense. The International Labor Defense has al- ready done excellent work in their| behalf, and it will have to be the one | r sentiment in rikers in prison ing prepared for that will organize le this country for the Conference Timely. “By taking up these New York conference tt’s Saturday, the International Labor f #4 tse will, I am sure, take such s mA‘ as will guarantee the most stu. fight the imprisonment of the who fought so wel for the f the exploited mill slaves national Labor ably comes The Rub Defense unquestion- t a timely moment.” ein case involves sen- tences of a number of years in prison if the 1 owners’ courts are able to successfully convict him. It is an- nounced that the International Labor Defense, which is in charge of the defense of the case, will contest it vigorously. Declining Stocks Help| Float Government Bond WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — The slump in the stock market and the resultant shifting of investments from industrial stocks that were on the decline to government and other bonds drawing a fixed rate of interest have enabled the treasury depart- ment to close its offering of $400,-/| 000,000 in seven-month 8 and one- eight per cent bonds. The issue was oversubscribed two and _ one-half times, subscription totalling $1,867,- 000. The money will be used in re- tiring outstanding bonds of the sec- ond liberties. European Exports Fall Off and Add to General Industrial Depression Exports to Europe have fallen off to a marked degree the past few months, contributing to the general depression that is gradually spread- ing over all industry in the United States. The Department of Commerce re- port on September’s exports and im- ports by countries of destination and origin showed that the $22,759,608 | total decrease in the month’s exports was chiefly due to $13,045,445 de-| crease in exports to Europe. To England, in particular, $21,898,508 less was exported than in September, 1926. Imports from Europe during the month increased $4,784,128. First Number of the New Workers Library Publishers 8 and suffer ter- | number of others ous charges, and | The Passaic mill | y give up their} Dses at its | The conference of Inter- | | | CALAGERO GRECO, from a snap shot taken this Summer. Negro Lawyer Out For Republicans Meets Big Rebuff | . PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 10. — Should the Negro race, over ninety- |five per cent of whom are workers, | support the republican party repre- |senting the oil and steel magnates jand the profiteers of America? Or should the Negro support a labor | party? There were the two outstanding questions that last Sunday’s debate at the forum of the Philadelphia Council, American Negro Labor Con- gress precipitated. The debaters were: Edward G. Dickerson, Negro lawyer and Julian St. George White, | Secretary, Philadelphia branch, N. A. | A. C. P., affirmative; and A. J. Carey, | labor leader, and Thomas L. Dabney, |organizer, Philadelphia Council, {American Negro Labor Congress, | negative. The lawyer asserted that the work- ers are lazy and ignorant while envy- ing the rich for their wealth; he de- clared that if the radicals are not satisfied with conditions in America they should go to some other country. The lawyer and his colleague, White, contended that the Negro must sup- |port some party in power, and since the “republican party has stood for jequal rights for all,” the Negro | should support it. | The Answer. | A. Jo Carey, in a penetrating | speech interspersed with irony and | sarcasm, showed how ridiculous it was |for the Negro to support a party | which has not only done nothing for a |the Negro within the last 30 years, id b Louis | price 15 cents The Story of the Rise and Achievements of the Soviet Union — in a handsome 10th Anniversary Edition. Other Books On Russia RUSS{A AFTER TEN YEARS Report of the First Amer- Trade Union Delegation oviet Russia, r $8.50 Cloth $1.00 RUSSIA TODAY Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia, $1.25 ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA by Magdaleine Marx Cloth $1.00 RUSSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 by Wm. Z, Foster GLIMPSES OF SOVINT RUSSIA by Scott Nearing —10 RUSSIA TURNS EAST by Scott Nearing —10 CONSTITUTION, LABOR LAWS, SOCIAL INSURANCE IN THE U. S. S. R. — 10 eS WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, Inc. 39 E. 126th St. New York. | but which, because of its relation to the business interests of America can never do anything fundamental for the Negro. z | party of the rich,,Carey reiter- ated, cannot represent the interests of Negro workers. Carey pointed out that the republicans refused to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, altho they had a majority in both houses of congress when the bill was con- sidered. Segregation. Both Dabney and Carey showed that the Negro is suffering from many injustices and discriminations |in the very states where the repub- |lican party has complete control of |the government. In Philadelphia under republican rule Negro children are segregated in the schools and the policy of segregation is being ex- \tended gradually to all the schools. |In Washington with the republicans in power the segregation of Negro government employes begun by the | democrats, is being extended by the | republicans. In Gary, Indiana, New Jersey and other northern sections where the republican party has con- trol the segregation of Negro chil- dren in the public schools aided by the nefarious and lawless Ku Klux Klan is spreading while the repub- lican party takes no action whatso- ever. During the debate Carey styled lawyer Dickerson and such Negro leaders as bedfellows of Rockefeller, | who at present has his armed thugs }and hired gunmen murdering Colo- {rado miners in cold blood because they dare to strike for a living wage! | And Negro miners are striking there. | Not ona person who participated in the discussion defended the republican party. WANTED — MORE READERS! YESTERDAY, SACCO AND VANZETTI — TODAY, GRECO AND CARRILLO By JAMES P. CANN (National Secretary, International | Labor Defense) HE ashes of Sacco and Vanzetti are hardly cold when the frame-up | gang is again at work to murder two ‘more workers in the electric chair. | Donato Carrillo and* Calogero Greco, two anti-fascist workers, are being |groomed for death by the direct |agents of the tyrant Mussolini and ‘by the willing policemen and judges jwho have become the instruments of |the Italian dictator’s campaign of }death to his enemies. The legal assassination of Sacco {and Vanzetti showed that even the most obscure of workers are not“im- |mune from the vengeful hatred of the American capitalist class if they remain loyal to the interests of their class. The arrest and imprisonment of Greco and Carrillo are additional proof of this. Another Frame-Up. The Greco-Carrillo case must be {added to the already too long list of frame-ups against the American working class. It is only a few months old, but already its every aspect conforms with the develop- ment of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The familiar machinery of the deadly frame-up is being set in motion and we know toward what end it is aim- ing. The horrible precedent set in the Sacco-Vanzetti case by the unpre- paredness and weakness of the work- ing class which enabled the Massa- jchusetts bourbons to carry their con- spiracy to a conclusion must not be repeated in this case. ‘We must issue a solemn warning jat the very beginning that unless }the working class vigilantly guards |Greco and Carrillo, unless it sur jof iron, it will suffer the ignomin: of their legal murder. rounds them with a protecting wall | We must not rest confident in the |knowledge that even many capitalist papers in New York have admitted |Greco and Carrillo’s innocence of the charges made against them. The in- nocenge “of Sacco and Vanzetti was jalso, admitted; it was well-known, but it did not prevent their assassins from burning them to death. During the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign it was the proud boast of the. Mew’ York press and officialdom that such a esty of. justite would not occur in this -shates But ti. this..is,.a hollow joke in ‘the"face"Of the préparations that are being made .téd strap, these], ‘death |" | two Italian . workeve”-in t ‘chair’. The capitalists’ of New York are not one whit different from their brothers in Massachusetts, and we can expect the same measure of “justice” from either of them. |__ The important-lesson of the’ Sacco- Vanzetti case must be applied to the case of Greco and-Carrillo: that the hopes for a successful. struggle and for their liberation lie chiefly with | the organized power of the working class. To rely solely upon the “jus- tice” of the capitalist courts is to help dig a’ grave for the two workers. A-campaign of enlightenment and organization must be begun immedi- ately and carried on without cessa- tion until they are freed. The Inter- national Labor Defense, which has already come to their defense, will start a national campaign for Greco and Carrillo with a special report on the case at the third annual confer- ence of the organization which opens in New York City at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl., Novem- ber 12. We intend to organize a ;counter-movement to the plans made tby Mussolini dnd his Italian and merie¢an agents to kill Greco and Jarrillo. | Remember Sacco and Vanzetti and jact.swiftly. Save Greco and Carrillo | froni: @-Similar “fate! © APIS FON {Kellogg Scowls at the League of Nations for Attending Havana Meet WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — If the League of Nations carries out its intention of sending an “ob- server” to attend the Sixth Pan- American Conference at Havana next January it is probable that he will receive a very chilly welcome. That much was made plain at the state department today. The department denied that this gov- ernment has invited the league to send an observer. The Cuban em- bassy denied that the Cuban gov- ernment had done so. And on be- half of this government it was said at the department that there is no need for a league official at Havana. The league announced yesterday in Geneva that it was sending an official observer. The U. S. state department regards this as poach ing in the back yard of the Amer- ican empire. Newspaper Man Implies Coolidge \Lies About Nomination Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 10, — Louis Ludlow, president of the Na- tional Press Club, is another who evi- dently doesn’t believe Cal. Coolidge is any too truthful when he says he doesn’t “choose to run” for president next year. In an address before the Women’s Press Club of Indiana, Lud- low said: | “The master politicians of the re- publican party already have picked the next republican presidential can- didate; they have chosen Calvin, Cool- idge. There may not be a hard and (fast understanding among the master \politicians, but they are driving ahead with a common inspiration and a com- mon purpose, “Their plan is to fill the convention with a large number of uninstructed delegates and with delegates instruct- ed for favorite sons. This combined mass of delegates is to be held for delivery to Coolidge. The plan con- templates that as far as possible, all delegates shall be sent to the conven- tion uninstructed, but wherever an ac- tive presidential candidate invades or threatens to invade a state the master politicians who are supporting Cool- idge will bring out a favorite son of that state who will hold the state delegation intact until such time as Coolidge’s name is sprung in the con- vention, when the delegation will flop to Coolidge.” FATAL MAYONNAISE. RIO JANEIRO, Nov. 10. — Several the hospital in serious condition as the result of eating poisoned mayonnaise dressing upon fish at the Hotel Tell Bear. The cook at the hotel, who prepared the dish, has lost his job. PIRANDELLO HURT, PALERMO, Italy, Nov. 10.—Luigi Pirandello, the noted playwright was injured about the face today when his automobile, in which he was riding with the prominent actress Marthe persons are dead and 85 others are in| Textile Mills to Stop Production Of Surplus Goods Woolen and worsted goods mills are to discontinue the manufacture .of surplus stock goods and confine their yperations to orders obtained from firms, aecording to an official state- ment issued by the Botany Mills, with industries at Passaic, New Jersey, and in various parts of the world. This was made in connection with the ics, and indieates a drastic cur- tailing of production, thereby. in- ‘reasing the unemployment situation |in the textile industry. | Other Mills Will Follow. “The policy of -carrying quantity tocks of various fabrics will not be ontinued by this company,” the tatement emphasized, “but merchan- \dise to a great extent will be manu- |factured for orders only. The trade in general seems to realize that in order to cover their wants they must place their stock orders in advance. and it js assumed that other mills will work along the same lines for 1928.” Indicates Depression. This action of the Botany Mills is indicative of a general slackening of demand in the clothing industry, as orders have fallen off to a marked de- gree during the past season. The gar- ment manufacturers complain that they are unable to place the big or- ders that usually accompany spring buying and have adopted a policy of “hand to mouth” buying, afraid to be caught in a general slump with stocks on their hands that cannot be mar- keted. The retailers are also carry- ing a minimum of stocks for the same reason, North Dakota Could Use Part of Mississippi WASHINGTON, “Nov. 10—Crea- tion of a diversion channel ‘from the Missouri. River headwaters. in North Dakota:to stop the waters which’ he said.flowed a thousand miles to swell the Mississippi flood tide was urged before the House Flood Control Com- mittee today. Mis- | A channel can be cut from the souri -River in -North Dakote® to Devil’s Lake, a great salt water body fast drying up, and diverting the |overflow thence either’ northward to |Red River or through the James | River, in South Dakota, CHICAGO CIVILIZATION CHICAGO, Nov. 10, — “Smiling” Joe Lewis, premier funny man of Chi- |cago cabarets, will never smile again, physicians said today. Lewis, his face and body disfigured from knife wounds inflicted by three unknown assailants who entered his hotel room while he slept, is in a critical conditton ot a local hospital. ents REPOR .)..NK1NG DRIVE. NANKING, Nov. 10. — The Nan- king forces today launched a general offensive along ‘the Tientsin-Pukow railroad with Houchowfu as their ob- Abbas, crashed into a milestone, jective. i e * ‘ : ANS I |opening of orders for spring, 1928, ; DONATO CARRILLO and his little son photographed at Coney Island a few weeks before his arrest. Anthracite Meeting Hears Lewis Agree to Bind the Miners MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., Nov. 10.— Wilting under the threat that Wm. Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, | would be there to speak, the confer- ence of anthracite coal operators, coal dealers and officials of the United Mine Workers of America, hastily agreed, late yesterday, to try and rush their meetings to an end and hold no session tomrorow. The feature spéech of today was one by John L, Lewis, international president of the U. M. W. of A., in which he declared that the best way © carryout Secretary of Commerce Hoover’s suggestions made yesterday jas to peace in the industry was to ‘bind the miners with another five year contract. Tied For Years. The present contract in the anthra- cite between employers and miners has still three and a half years to run, and is bitterly resented by the progressive miners because it is en- forced on the men by their own re- actionary officials, violated by the operators with impunity, and forces them to become involuntary strike breakers in the great bituminous lock-out which has lasted all summer. President Lewis also found him- self in accord with spokesmen of the operators and of the government in the matter of cutting the costs of mining by the use of more labor dis- placing machinery, any form of speeding the work, and extensive sales campaigns. Practical results of the conference will be embodied in the formation of & permanent committee, which will be given some measure, how much is not certain, of compulsory arbitral powers, The committee will claim to represent both employers and em- ployes in dealings with each other or “the public.” Soviet Scientists Back From Asian Expedition MOSCOW, Oct. 27 (By Mail). — The expedition of the Museum of Oriental Cultures which worked in Middle Asia under the direction of Professor B. P. Denike has returned to Moscow. The work of the expedi- tion centered on the pity of Termez, on the Amu-Daria. Termez, as testified to by Chinese travellers of the seventh century and Arabian biographers, was an import- ant centre of Buddhist, and later, Moslem culture. The expedition not only ascertained brilliant flourish of culture in Termez in the past cen- turies, but also made a series of most valuable scientific discoveries. A PRINCE IN JAIL, PARIS, Nov. 8.--Prince Louis Ferd- inand deBourbon, cousin of the king of Spain and brother-in-law of grand duke Cyril, pretender to the Russian throne, is languishing tonight in a French provincial jail at Melun. He is charged with vagabondage, with attempts to evade payment of a hotel bill and with carrying a false pass- port. 9 KILLED IN BLAST. ALFONSO PENNA, Bahia, Brazil, Nov. 10.--Nine persons were killed and more than 50 injured by an ex- plosion in a dynamite factory here today. The whole city was rocked and several houses were unroofed. | drunkedness Striking Miners Fight for Right to Buy Coal (Continued from Page One) ing some of its strikebreakers in the company houses right alongside the union families. It is not pleasant for the women living alongside these scabs with their noise and filth and and _ the prostitutes, thoughtfully provided by the com- pany, but they stick. They know that for every family that moves out of a company house a dozen or so scabs will be brought in. In one three room house in Harmarville the com- pany has 18 scabs and three prosti- tutes, and sometimes the men say, the number runs as high as 25 to a house. | Stage a Parade. The women manage to the arrangement, though. When scabs were first moved into one street of houses, not long ago, the women living on that street decided to stage a fitting reception. Two of them dréssed up as scabs in miners clothes—with cap and dinner pail complete; and one as a deputy sheriff with a big club and a pillow tied on in front for a big belly like a particu- larly detested deputy, to follow along and chase the scabs to work. The three of them went and hid down by the entrance to the mine, and at four o’clock when the scabs came out with a Yellow Dog guarding them from work they paraded along after them. All along the streets the other women lined up ready with pieplates and saucepan lids to give the scabs a good tinpanning, as this method of Serenading scabs is called. Then one of the woman left her house and crossed the street, and the Yellow Dog escort knocked her down. She had just given birth to a Child, and the blow made her sick for a long time, the women say, But that has not kept the other women from going on with their part in the fight against making their town a scab town. Civil Rights Junked in Colorado, Says ‘Labor Unity’ Editor “All pretense of civil Tights has been abandoned by the government authorities in Colorado, in dealing with the striking miners,” declared Earl Browder, editor of Labor Unity, upon arriving in New York yesterday from the Colorado strike area. “Every strike leader has been ar- rested, is- being held without bail or right to communicate with friends, while the police, sheriff, and courts openly admit that the “crimes” charged are merely the incidents of leaving work and persuading fellow workers to strike. Worst Treatment on Record. “Treatment in the jails is foul be- yond description. I have been in 413 jails myself, but never have I seen worse jail treatment extended over a }period of many days and even weeks. Hundreds of workers are crowded into cells intended for a dozen or so; no beds are provided, and they must sleep on the cold cement; friends and relatives are not allowed to bring the prisoners any blankets or even cigar- ettes. Defense at Work. “The Denver branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense had sent a lawyer down into the fields, at the request of the strike leaders, who is doing all he can to protect such legal rights of the workers as can be saved from the arrogant officials. The min- ers themselves organized, while I was in Walsenburg, a defense and relief committee to systematize the work in the battle areas and to stimulate out- side aid for the struggle. Part of Mine Crisis. “This Colorado struggle must be considered as one part of the great crisis of the whole mining industry. Relief and defense for Colorado must be given the same whole-hearted sup- port which goes to the same objects in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Full support must be given the Colo- rado strikers.” Arrange N. Y. Meeting For Striking Miners Miners direet from the struggle of the striking United Mine Workers of America as well as speakers from the labor movement at large will address a mass meeting for miners’ relief at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., Dec. 4. Among the speakers will be Alfred Wagenknecht, of the Workers (Com- munist- Party, who is now engaged in relief work among the striking miners in the Pennsylvania fields. “The situation of the miners and their families is acute and immediate relief is necessary,” Wagenknecht wrote from the strike zone in a let- ter received yesterday. Chicago Waiters and Waitresses Celebrate CHICAGO, Nov. 10 (FP).—Mem- bers of the Chicago Waiters’ and|7Z Waitresses’ Union are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the local organi- zation. A banquet attended by more than a thousand members was held in observance of the silver jubilee. Pres. Edward Flore of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Interna- tional Alliance, attended, Miss Nestor lauded the memory of Elizabeth Maloney, for 13 years’ busi- ness agent of the Chicago local, known as the “mother of the 10-hour day.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER let the | scabs know what they think about | Another Meeting of the Negro Labor Forum on Nov. 13, Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 10. — The American Negro Labor Congress forum will hear Charlotte Jones, at- torney, on the subject: “Is There Jus- tice in the Courts?” at its next meet- ing, Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2.30 p. m., at 610 South 16th St. Se We Ti A Revolutionary POST CARDS — BUTTONS MEDALLIONS — PHOTOS ‘OR your correspondetce—why not use a revolutionary post- card? 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