The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGA TION OF THE | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY = THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. KER. | ain i ee FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. TV. No, 259. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927 PUBLIS Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents HING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. TRACTION WORKERS CHARGE LR. T. PERJURY PITTSBURGH A. F. L. MEET BEARS | BIG RESPONSIBILITY TO MINERS Strikers Expect at Least Nationwide Relief Drive and Union Assessment By AMY SCHECHTER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11.—Rank and file delegations have been elected by a number of United Mine Workers local unions in western Pennsylvania to the conference of union heads called for Monday by the American Federation of Labor to consider the attack on the coal miners’ union by the coal barons and the fed- eral courts. The conference will be held in the Roosevelt Hotel. It is hoped by the miners here that the conference will lay ae ¢plans for effectively combatting FVERAL BURNS the drive of the coal barons to smash the union. Tremendous interest centers around this con- ference throughout the whole| No Assurance That the Worst of Them Appear district. There is a widespread belief that BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Noy. 11.—The the conference of union officials will recommend a nation-wide relief cam- paign for the strikers and a general assessment upon all members of the American Federation of Labor. U. S. District Attorney’s office te- day stated that within a few days they “would announce results of the jury fixing investigation that will be a greater scandal than the Many Rumors. In many mining camps there are rumors that the conference will call on railroad workers to refuse to han- original Teapot Dome scandal.” * *. * WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The trailers and the trailed in the Teapot dle scab coal. There are also rumors that the conference will recommend Dome jury tampering investigation came face to face today. the calling of a general strike in sup- The entire jury that sat in the oil port of the miners. In official labor circles here the idea is scouted that the conference will do any more than issue a call for relief but thousands of miners cling conspiracy trial of Harry F. Sinclair, and former Secretary of Interior Al- pert B. Fall, watched one by one 13 of the Burns detectives who had kept them under constant surveillance dur- firmly to the belief that A. F, of L. leaders, confronted with labor-smash- ing the thirteen days of the trial pass before them. ing injunctions. which threaten the As is usual in this case, the govern- life of the whole labor movement, will call for militant action from all sec- ment failed to make much provision for getting aii oi the evidence. Burns tions of organized labor. himself was trusted for the produc- It is probable that among the min- ers there is confusion between what tion of the operatives to be indenti- fied, and could, if he thought it nec- the A. FP of L. conference ought to do essary, have supplied other detectives and what it will do. than those charged with actually ap- Big Responsibility. Nevertheless, it can be said with proaching and attempting to influ- ence the jurors. certainty ‘that unless the conference outlines and adopts a program that Two of the jurors, John Costinett and Gardiner Grenfell, had previously will give the miners new hope and concrete support, the effect on the told the prosecutor they had been ap- proached thus. struggle here will be bad. As each Burns agent was taken. be- In the opinion of all familiar with the terrible conditions here among fore the Fall-Sinclair jury, he ‘was asked his name and which juror he the miners and their families, a heavy responsibility rests upon the union leaders who will take pe in the| had had under surveillance. The woman who rented a room to one of the private detectives across Monday meeting. the street from the residence of one of the jurors also appeared, Burkinshaw, the prosecutor, re- fused to announce whether any iden- tifications had been made, but it is understood that the jurors failed to recognize anybody. | Sinclair, the oil magnate, and two of his lieutenants, H. Mason Day and Sheldon Clark, are charged with hav- ing conspired to illegally influence the jury to bring about an acquittal verdict. COLD SPELL COMING. A cold spell is advafhcing rapidly from the west, it was reported by the weather bureau tcday. The drop in temperature now sweeping over the Rock Mountain and Missouri Valley states is expected to reach New York and New England Sunday. It was predicted the drop here will be from 40 to 24 degrees above zero, \Chlorado Miners’ Relief | Mass Meeting Is Called | | For NY Labor Movement | A meeting to rally the York labor movement to the port of the striking Colorads min- | ers will be held today, at 4 p. m. in the Labor Temple, Second Ave. jand 14th St., under the auspices of | lthe New York industrial district | council of the Industrial Workers of the World. Speakers will be Rebecca Grecht, lof the Workers (Communist) |Party; Richard Brazier, of the I. W. W.; Forrest Bailey, of the American Civil Liberties Union; Rey. Tippet, of the Church of All Nations and formerly of Colorado; Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volk- zeitung, and Rev. Edmund Chaf- fee, of the Labor Temple. Harry Myers, of the I. W. W., cs preside. $$ DELEGATES FROM 1 LANDS PLEDGE DEFENSE OF USSR BULLETIN. government will support the most rad- ical plan for disarmament at the preparatory commission’s meeting at Geneva.” These words concerning Soviet Union’s participation in the forthcom- ing- preliminary conference on dis- armament were spoken today to an jaudience of 1,500 by M. Rykov. They were addressed to foreign guests and delegates to the opening of the congress of the “Friends of the Soviet Union.” % * * MOSCOW, Nov. 11. — Nine hun- dred and forty-seven delegates repre- senting forty-three countries pledged to defend the Soviet Union from an limperialist attack at the congress of (Continued on Page Four) ‘Workers’ Symposium on the A.F.L. Sunday at 2 at Central Opera House | mee “What must be the attitude of| working class parties and other labor organizations toward the A. F. of} L.2” This will be the subject of a sym- posium at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., tomorrow at 2 p. ms by Ben Gold, manager, Joint joard, Furriers’ Union; William F. unne, of The DAILY WORKER; Harry Meyers of the I, W. W.; P. Uditch, labor editor of the Freiheit; Charles S. Zimmerman, of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board, and Ren Lifshitz, secretary of the Jew- ish section of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Max Levin, instructor on trade unionism at the Jewish Workers Uni- versity, will preside. ® (irae Conference Adopts Its Resolutions; Against Mine Strikers MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., Nov. 11—A composite program to pro- hibit strikes in the anthracite coal fields, cut down the number of miners, reduce operating costs, get rid of the state tax on coal, and go in for big advertising was arrived at by the so-called “cooperative” conference here of officials of the United Mine Workers of America, coal dealers, coal mine companies and representatives of the state and national gevernment. -John IL. Lewis, International President of the U. M. M. W. of A., Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Governor John S. Fisher, of Pennsylvania, and Mayor “Book Burner” Thompson of Chicago formulated the pro- gram. Lewis advocated another five year contract to bind the coal miners. DRESS JOBBERS LIQUIDATE THEIR NY ASSOCIATION Local 41 to Picket Two Shops Monday The Dress Jobbers’ Association, consisting of more than 90 jobbers, has been liquidated, The DAILY WORKER was informed last night. Dissolution was decided upon in spite of an agreement with the right wing of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, signed after the ex- pulsion of the left witig from the In- ternational last year. Meanwhile Local 41, suspended local of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, has decided to be- gin picketing the, hemstitching shop of Brandes & Cheskin, 149 W. 28th St., and the Harrison Pleating o., 315 E. 36th St., M. E. Taft, manager of the local, announced last night. Picketing is to’ start at both shops Monday, he said. Workers Discharged. Both shops have instituted a policy of discharging workers without con- sulting the union, thinking to take advantage of the suspension, accord- ing to Taft. All shop chairmen of the local have formed a permanent organization, to meet every Thursday night, and have elected seven as representatives at meetings of the executive board of the local, Taft said. Members at one large shop refused (Continued on Page Five) Arrests Continuing In Strike of N. Y. ‘Window Cleaners: 2 Are Held MOSCOW, Nov. 11. — “The rile Arrests in the window cleaners’ strike continue, As John Kutyn and John Fels, striking window cleaners, were wait- ing for a street car at 23rd St. and| Third Ave., they were arrested by | members of the police industrial squad yesterday. Acting as inform-! ers for the detectives and accompany-| ing them were Joseph Katz, business agent, and Irving Gordon, president, of the Affiliated Window Cleaners’ Union of America, Inc., the company union, according to the strikers. The arrested men are charged with! attacking strikebreakers. Kutyn and Fels were coming from| the municipal court at 207 E. 32nd| St., where they had testified in a sui against their former employers, ¢he | Chicago Window Cleaning Co., for un- \paid wages. The strike is being conducted by the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, 18 DROWNED IN MANILA. MANILA, Nov. 11.—Eignteen per- sons were drowned when a sail boat sank off the coast of Ilocos, Norte Province, according to advices re- ceived here today. | members, Donato aeertllo and bseas pail: His Wife OF WORKERS NOT “Reform” Parliament S ROME, Italy, Nov. Injunction Against Dairy Union Backed By the Right Wing The. United Hebrew Trades, the right wing Retail Dairy and Grocery Clerks’ Union and owners of two grocery stores have united in an at- tempt to obtain an injunction against the striking Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union, the striking union re- ported last night. A petition for an injunction which would prohibit picketing the H. Her- H. Kimberg shop, 294 Cypress St., will be heard in the Bronx supreme court Monday morning. Samuel Markewich, former assist- ant district attorney, is lawyer for the right wing union, the United He- brew Trades and the employers. David Vacker, business manager of the grocery clerks’ union, said picket- ing would continue in spite of the | legal action. Arrest Union Secretary. J. Wasserman, secretary of the | Brooklyn branch of the union, and L. Zukerman and Joe Miller, active have been arrested on charges made by the right wing and the owner of the Freedman shop at 116 Thadford Ave., Brooklyn. They had entered the Freedman |store to protest against his employ- jing Frank Cohen, a strike breaker. | The* employer called the police. The se will be heard in the New Jersey Magistrate’s Court Tuesday morning. They are to have a hearing Wednes- day also on felonious assault charges made by David Heller, manager of the dual union. GOLD ADDRESSES HUNGARIANS. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, outlined the board’s immediate program at a large meeting of Hungarian furriers Thurs day evening at the Hungarian Work- ers’ Home, 350 E. 81st St. Mother, Unemployed and Hungry, Kills Herself and Four Children With Gas) Despondent because the fight to support herself and her four small children seemed to be going against her, Mrs. Hildegar Wywias yester- day killed herself and the children with gas. She broke the gas meter, which had been locked for non-payment of her bill, and opened all the jets. Mrs: Wywias turned on the gas while the children lay asleep in their . poorly furnished home. She knelt beside them to wait for death. Her arms were limp across the breast of her small son when the police and neighbors broke ino the room, They had smelt the gas fumes. Mrs. Wywias had been separated from her husband five years, neigh- bors reported. Since the separation she had been currying on the un- even struggle against poverty alone. zog shop, 521 E. 137th St., and the | FASCISTI TO FORMALLY STOP VOTE IN THEIR UNIONS o That Only Trusts and Blackshirt Party Will Be Represented 11.—Faced with the growing dissatis- faction of workers who hate the change from eight hours basic work day to a legal and customary day of nine or ten hours, at lower pay instead of higher, the fascist grand council today *abolished the pretense at uni- versal suffrage which has been, in’ force in Italy thruout their regime. The right to vote will be taken away, legally, as it is now taken away illegally, from all workers who do not belong to the fascist unions. Remoulding the Italian parliament so that only the fascist party and will anti-fascist “great producing organizations” be recognized and all parties abolished, was decided upon. It was also decided to reduce the number of deputies from 535 to 400. The senate will remain unchanged. The “great producing ing basis: Big Business Rule. “Thirteen economic, industrial _ agricultural organizations will gest to the grand council the esate | tion of candidates which the council will revise, cancelling those which are not not thorough fascists or are deemed able to represent the general interest.” The right to vote will be granted only to persons enlisted in working syndicates or presenting other proof that they are working. These “work- ings syndicates” are actually like American company unions except that they have national central organiza- tion. This is the second “reformation” of the Italian parliament that has been instituted by® the fascist regime and it makes that body more or less an organization for the confirmation of the government’s policy. Although there has been an oppor- tunity for opposition parties to hold seats in the assembly up to the pres- ent time, they have been virtually without a voice in the government as a majority, for the dominance of the fascist party was always assured un- der the terms of the first “reform.” Wide-spread Protest. The grand fascist council’s decision to “reform” the Italian and limit the right of franchise, at- tracted wide attention and a good deal of protest thruout all Italy today. | The proposals of the grand fascist |couneil would make the assembly a body composed entirely of fascists or sympathizers with the fascist cause | Pe and would deny the right to vote to all except the members of the so- called “working syndicates.” Ps OFFICER CASTE DROPS TWO. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 11. — Two midshipmen of the “United States navy, sons of wealthy parents, be- came so drunk and disorderly recent- ly that they were picked up by the patrol wagon on the streets of Mary- land. They have been dismissed a organiza- tions,” under the new ruling, will be allowed representation on the follow- parliament! WILLIAM BURNS COMMANDS ARMY OF TRANSIT COMPANY GANGSTERS; DIRECTS SIEGE OF UNION MEETING | (Police Also Posted in Railway Stations as/ Workers Were Preparing to Meet Judge Adjourns Henne on Petition of I. R. T.! for Injunction Outlawing Labor BULLETIN. The arrival of William J. Burns, notorious anti-labor detective, at the 86th Street Lyceum last night at the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Street and Electric Railway Employes’ mass meeting was announced from the platform by J. H. Coleman, organizer, who was presiding. Coleman told the assembled workers that Burns was directing 200 spies and company stool pigeons present from an automobile parked outside of the hall. Traction workers accused the Interborough Rapid Transit of- |ficials of perjury last night at the mass meeting in the 86th Street |Ly¢eum called .by. the Amalgamated Association of Street and | Electric Railway Employes. Surrounding union officials, a number of traction workers joffered to go to court and swear that their names, attached to| \affidavits alleging that they had been coerced into joining the }Amalgamated Association, and submitted as part of the injune- \tion application of the I. R. T., had been forged to the documents. Feeling was running high among the workers as man after { ?man denied that he had ever! signed such a statement. Inquiries as to the sentiment among the traction workers relative to a fight to a finish against the injunction and for the right to organize elicited the reply: “If you want'to know how we feel just take a ride along the lines and ask the men on the shift. They'll tell you.” The meeting last night was en- thusiastie with over 1,000 traction workers in the hall by 8:30, Outside the door were massed some 250 company thugs, foremen, super- intendent s and steolpigeons... The ion workers had to run this untlet to get in the hall and every S$ name and number was taken. ry traction worker or group of vorkers entering the hall was greeted by cheers from those already assem- bled. Am zement and indignation were sed as the contents of the in- ion application made by the L SSS j €LARENCE DARROW. R. T. became known. One al which aroused special ‘ndignation was the inclusion in the application of the names a number of traction vorkers in a statement alleging that, hey had attended a number of “se- cret” meetings called Ly Joseph alen, cretary of the Amalgamat- é ation local union. Despite loud protestations of legal- on the part of I. R. T. officials and atements made in court yester- by James K. Quackenbush, chief. ‘ction company counsel, that the : would not sort to oppressive brutal m to prevent trac- tion workers joining the Amalgamat- ed Union, the company caused to be posted and otherwise distributed in he barns of the I. DARROW TAKES GRECO-CARRILLO : FRAME-UP CASE : Joins N. ¥ Attorneys |. for Anti-Fascisti id Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, noted criminal lawyer, will head the defense counsel in the trial of Calogero and Donato Carrillo, anti- workers charged with mur the : Greco-Carrillo Defense League an-|~ E x4 nounced yesterday. t am informed that the Amalga- Darrow, who headed the defens« 1 Association of Street and Elee- counsel in the Dayton (Tenn.) “Employes has called @ on Page Five) “monkey trial,” agreed to defend the two Italian workers from the Ni aes state government’s electric Week is Fought by Local Capmakers {Isaac Schorr and Arthur Levy wil be associated with Darrow in the de- | fense, Filippo Greco, brother of Calo- gero Greco and secretary of the de- fense league, said. Ablest Defense Group. “Ours will be the ablest group of > Capmaker thoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth St, e& m. today to ke action on a stion by the ht wing admin- n that the v rs either work itional four hours a week or oluntarily take a reduction in wages. attorneys ever assembled in a case |of this kind,” Greco continued. Greco and Carlo Tresca, editor (Continued on Page Two) ion will meet at ct Four U.S.S.R. Meetings, In Jersey Tomorrow At a recent meeting Jacob Roberts, | ‘ sentria acting general se: ary of the union, | NEWARK, Nov. 11—Four Russian vosed that the workers agree to eke celebration meetings will), gus pension of the agreement with held in New Jersey Sunday by.the/the employers. It is not due to ex« Worke . + mm nist) Payer ,, |Pire untii 1929, Signed in July, 1926, They Flin it..!the agreement provides for a 40-hour Tp.” Ye week. Roberts based his plea on a Crouch and Sam Nesin; Newark, 3p. “crisis in the incustry.” m,, Ukrainian Hall, Beacon St., H. M.) —————— icks, J. J. Ballam and Pat Toohey; Int é west Newark, 3 p. m., Labor Lyceum, j 17th St. and Hyler Piace, Juliet vi ernational L abor Defense Conference News Is On Page 2 Stuart Poyntz and Abraham Mark-| off; Passaic, 8 p. m., Workers Home,| 27 Dayton Ave., Crouch, Wicks and William L. Paterson.