The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Ratio Conference Exposes Itself as Scrap for Profits | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—| The International Radio Telegraph} Conference here listened patiently | yesterday to “Ringmaster” Herbert | Hoover's laudation of the Guatemalan minister Latour who died a few days ago af! i ase down to the serious business guarding the profits of radio equip- ment manufacturers in the various countries. England and France control the automatic danger signaling appara- tus, wherefore the delegations of hese two coun tried to jam thru a measure requiring all danger signais to be sent on such machines. Hoover’s Majority, however, having secured plenty of consideration already for American radio monopolies, rallied to | | } | the cause of liberalism and defeated | the motion. The French, German, Belgian and New 1d delegations, where broadcasting is largely in the hands of the governments, tried to have a elause inserted in the amateur radio motion providing for a ur opera- tors passing a very severe examina- tion. This was defeated by a com- bination of England, China, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa and Aus- tralia. BUY THE DAILY WORKER TWIN CITY FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN TO ACT ON PROGRAM Progressive Measures for Coming Convention MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 11—Lodge Number 814, Brotherhood of Logo- motive Firemen and Enginemen, has Galled a meeting for Nov. 18 at Wood- ruff Hall, corner of Prior and St. Anthony avenueg, St. Paul, (the Mid- way district) tO which all members of the B. of L. E. and E. lodges in the Twin Cities and neighboring ter- minals are invited, for the discussion of a program for the coming national convention. Grand Lodge officers have been in- vited to attend. The program which will be placed before the meeting for discussion by the committee of arrangements con- sisting of S. O. Peterson, F. 0. Hud- son and P. G. Hedlund, contains the following points: Progressive Program. Organization of the unorganized railroad workers. Progressive Amalgamation of the railroad Crafts, with Oae Union in the railroad indus as the ultimate goal. For a Labor Political Party instead of a Labor Lobby. Repeal of all gag laws in our Con- stitution. * | Free expression for our member-| ship in our Brotherhood Press, | Space for membership corre-| spondence in Labor, if we are going to continue to pay for that paper. The . establishment of Railroad Councils in terminals to overcome the many handicaps of the present Craft System. Reduction of Grand Lodge Officers’ salaries. Other questions if time permits. Prepare Other Meetings. | C. R. Hedlund, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has been invited to lead the discus- sion on the above program. The circular advertising the meet- | ing and distributed in the various ter- | Minals states that “steps will be taken at this meeting to arrange similar | Meetings in Chicago and other large terminals to muster support for this | BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! British Tory Cabinet | Talks Abyssinian Grab. LONDON, Nov. 7A special cab- et meeting has been called for to- Morrow to consider the controversy eaused by the reported Abyssinian concession to the J. G. White Cor- poration to build a $20,000,000 dam atross the Blue Nile at Lake Tsasa. The Egyptian premier, Sarwat Pasha, delayed his departure from London today at the request of the British government in order that he might attend the cabinet meeting. The meeting is expected to result in formulating a definite line of pro- ¢edure. OLD INDIAN CULTURE FOUND BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 11—Evi- dences of an extinct ‘race of early California Indians, who attained a decree of culture higher than that of any other California tribes, have been unearthed on Santa Cruz Island, 24 miles off the Coast from Santa Bar- bara. Approximately 20,000 specimens Were found in excavations on the sites of the old Chumash villages. These included carved ornaments, skeletons, -kitchen utensils, mortars, pestles, pipes, fish hooks, basketry, matting, hammer, stones and dishes. { | MANY BIG UNION DELEGATIONS T0 LABOR DEFENSE Known Labor Speakers at First Session Numerous trade unions will be represented by their delegates when the rd annual conference of In- ternational Labor Defense opens at ving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Ir- ving Place, today at 1 p. m. Unions as far apart as New York and Chi- cago will participate in the confer- ence which will review the work of the erganization since the last con- ference and lay out plans for future activities, Arnold of Chicago Painters Here. Emil Arnold, of the Painters’ Union, Local 275, one, of the best known men in the Chicago labor movement, has just arrived to repre- sent his organization at. the confer- ence. Other unions have sent warm greetings of support to the confer- ence, being unable for financial reasons to send delegates there. “Wishing you the best of luck and progress,” writes the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joint- ers of Chicago, Local 1786. The Chi- eago branch of the International Wood Carvers’ Association of North | America writes that it “is heart and soul with you in your constructive work and wish that our greetings to the convention will be fraternally sub- mitted in the above spirit. This branch has just terminated a five months’ hard strike.” Other Chicago Union Delegates. Other Chicago unions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor which have pledged their support to the confer- ence, and are affiliated with the Chi- cago local of I. L. D. include the Bak- ers’ Union, Local 237, the Machinists’ Locals, Lodges 84, 337 and 390, and the Chicago Joint Council of Cloak and Dressmakers Special greetings were sent for the conference by the International Association of Machin- jists, Lodge 124, New York Delegates. From New York there will be a large delegation cf representatives of local labor unions. Two of the bakers’ locals of the Amalgamated Food Workers of America, Locals 8 and 164, are sending delegates. The Architectural Iron, Bronze and Struc- tural Workers’ Union of New York and’ vicinity, the Bonnaz Embroidery Workers’ Union, Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers’ Loacl 35, Dressmak- ers’ Local 22, Cloak and Suit Tailors. Local 9, Sample Makers, Cloak and Suit Tailors Local 3, Locals of the Furriers’ Union, the Glass Blowers’ Local 528, Local 17 of the Interna- tional Jewelry Workers’ Union, Lo- cals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the Paper Box Mckers’ Union, and Locals of the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica from New Jersey and New York are among those who will be repre- sented at the conference. From Philadelphia, the Metal Cor- nice Roofers’ Union is sendimg Wil- liam Whitman and Ben Gallen as its delegation to the conference. More Coming. It is expected that when all the credentials ere handed in to the con- ference at its opening session today, there will be many more delegates from trade unions in all parts of the country. In addition to the labor union delegates there are scores of other working class organizations, fraternal societies, working women’s councils, and branches of the Inter- national Labor Defense that have al- ready sent in their credentials. Opening Business. It is intended to open the confer- ence, after it is organized and its of- ficials selected, with the report of the work of the organization in the last year and the program for the coming |period, which will be given by the ational secretary, James P. Cannon. Discussion from the floor by the dele- gates will follow the report. Prominent Labor Speakers. Among the speakers who will ad- dress the conference will be Lucy E. Parsons, who will speak on the Hay- market martyrs and the significance of their heroic struggle; Carlo Tresca, who will give a report on the status ‘of the Greco-Carrillo case; Earl R. Browder, just returned from the Colo- rado mine fields, who will speak on the strike that is going on there at the present moment; Paul Crouch, Communist soldier who was recently released from Aleatraz Prison to which he was confined for carrying on revolutionary propaganda among the soldiers stationed in Hawaii; Charles Cline, noted I. W. W. who served thirteen years in a Texas pris- on for his work in support of the Mexican revolution; Ben Gitlow, noted former class-war prisoner, who will speak on the persecutions of workers in other countries, and many others. More than three hundred delegates are expected to attend the conference. COMMUNIST MURDERED? WARSAW, Nov. 11—Deputy Pas- ezuk, a Communist member of the Sejm, who. has been mysteriously missing for some time is believed by a number of Jabor papers here to have been murdered by agents of the “ilsudski Government. GET A NEW READER! ‘ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927 Centralia Prisoner Calls for Fight 1 to Win’ Freedom Darrow Takes Greco- Carillo Case (Continued from Page One) Il Martello, were present at the con- ference. Definite plans for the de- fense will be made Sunday. Greco and Carrillo are scheduled to go to trial in the Bronx County Court Dee. 5th, The defendants are charged with killing Joseph Carisi and Nicholas Amorroso, fascists, last Memorial Day in connection with a Bronx pa- rade, Won’t Repeat Mistakes. “We are not going to repeat mis- takes made in the Sacco-Vanzetti case,” Greco continued. “We are planning’ an elaborate defense both in court and before the public. Al- ready our defense league is being queried by European and South American newspapers in connection with the case.” The International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, with 350,000 members, is cooperating in the defense. Darrow is a member of the national commit- tee of the I. L. D. “We are convinced that Greco and Carrillo are victims of an anti-labor frame-up by the Fascist League of North America,” James P. Cannon, national secretary of the I. L. D., said last night. Plan Protest Meeting. The Greco-Carrillo case is promin- ent on the agehda of the third annual conference of the I. L. D. tomorrow and Sunday, Cannon said. A meeting in protest against the prosecution of Greto and Carrillo will be held Sunday at 2 p. m., at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., with Forrest Bailey, of the American Civil Liberties Union, as the principal speaker. GET A NEW READER! Chicago Death Rate High Among Negroes Survey Indicates By JOE BLOTKIN. CHICAGO, Nov. 11. — The recent health survey in the Negro communi- ties of Chicago proves the Negro death rate is twice as high as that of the city as.a whole. In 1926, the survey reports, almost 10 per cent of Negro babies died in their first | year. The tuberculosis death rate is six times as high among the Negroes as among the whites. The reasons for this is very obvi- ous if one would only see how the Negro works in cesspools of blood like in the great Chicago stock yards, and other such health-breaking in- dustries. Poor and Overworked. Pneumonia deaths are 30 per cent more numerous then among the whites.. Deaths caused from diseases of infancy are 50 per cent higher. This is not only because of the mis- erable working conditions. The Negro communities are the poorest in the city. It has also been shown by the health department survey that the schools in the Negro sections are con- ducted in a more careless manner than those in the rich sections. Con- trol of contagious diseases in public schools which children of poor work- ers and Negroes attend is not effici- ent. The health survey commission reports these are the primary reas- ons for the high death rate among Negroes. WE FIGHT ENGLAND NEXT? WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (FP).— Kaiser Frederick the Great’s bronze statue, which was laid by the heels and dragged off its pedestal at the Army War College, in Washington, in 1917, is likely soon to be pulled out of the basement where it was hidden, and restored to a place of honor. Secretary of War Davis announced on November 5, that suggestions that this be done had “become general” in military circles, and he saw no rea- son why the statue should not again be set up where it could be looked upon by young officers. This statue was presented to the) United States by the former imperial government of Germany. It symbol- ized the triumph of the sword over the gentler modes of expression in| German life. As such it was deemed | useful at the War College. Now that the American public is losing interest in the army, the War College feels the lack of Kaiser Fritz’s grim fel- lowship. SWING SAYS BOULDER DAM MEASURE IS SAFE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (FP).— Belief that Boulder Dam will be con- structed as a result of passage by the coming session of Congress of his bill for that purpose, is voiced by Rep. Swing of California. He is not impressed by the nationwide cam- paign which the Joint Committee of National Utility Associations, headed by Josiah Newcomb as Washington lobbyist, is directing against the measure. IMPERIALIST NAVY GROWS. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Noy. 11. — The navy yard here launched yester- day the largest mine-laying submar- ine ever built. It will carry eight officers and eighty men, and is es- . ° Mrs. Eugene Barnett and Clifford. I Grouch Tells How Defense Conference Protects Workers “The sentence which Walter Trum- what capitalism has in store ‘for all who dare to support the cause of the workers.” This was the warning issued today by Paul Crouch, Communist soldier arrested ‘and courtmartialed in the barracks of Hawaii, and sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment in Alca- traz prison, a term later reduced to threé*yearss ~Prumbull, his “buddy,” was sentenced to 26 years on the same charge of organizing a Communist organization in Hawaii, but served only one year. Labor Defense Cut Sentences. “It is due to the campaign of the International Labor Defense,” con- tinued Crouch, “that the War De- partment was forced to reduce our sentences. Had it not been for the efforts of the International Labor Defense I would in all probability still be facing a living death in Al- catraz prison. “The repetition of such sentences can be prevented only by building up the power of the International Labor Defense. One thing not generally known is how much the International Labor Defense is doing to make prison life more tolerable for those behind bars. Only the men who have been imprisoned can appreciate the mate- rial atdogiven by the International Labor Defense. Aid to families of political prisoners is a great relief to those imprisoned for fear that their wives, children or parents may be starving in a greater torture than imprisonment itself. Conference to Help. “I hope the coming conference of the International Labor Defense,” concluded Crouch, speaking of the Third Annual Conference which opens at Irving Plaza Hall here Saturday, 1 p. m:;, “will help to pave the way to a greater defense organization in the United States, the stronghold of world capitalism, and that it will be- come such a great power thateit will force the release of every political prisoner.” and guests of the conference and is scheduled to address the delegates at an early session on the story of the case which is unique both in American army annals and in the history of the labor defense movement of this country. GET A NEW READER! SSS SSS GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem RY) (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 On Receipt of Money by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106 University Place New York City In Lots of 5 or more $1.25 each. No Charge for Postage. bull and I received are typical of! Crouch will be one of the delegates | An ineident of the anniversary yes- terday of the American Legion raid on the Centralia, Washington, I. W. W. hall on Nov. 11, 1919,-which result- ed in the frame-up and imprisonment of a group of I. W. W. in Walla Walla Penitent‘ary, was made yesterday in a letter by Eugene Barnett, one of the imprisoned men, which she has sent to the International Iabor De- fense. Barnett was sentenced to Walla Walla Penitentiary together with John Lamb, Bert Bland, James Me- Inerney and others for defending the W. W. hall on Armistice Day against the deliberate assault of armed American Legionnaires who wanted to clear Centralia of the “wob- blies” because of their activities in behalf of the lumber workers of the district. Wesley Everest, ex-soldier and member of the I. W. W., was kid- napped by the lumber trust hench- men and lynched by a masked mob in the dead of night. “With You In Spirit.” “Teannot be with you in person on this fortieth anniversary of the Hay- market martyrs,” writes Barnett to the International Labor Defense, which is holding its third annual con- |ference in New York beginning to- | morrow, “but I want you to know that T am with you in spirit and through the International Labor Defense to speak a few words to the many. dele- gates who I know will assemble under your banner on this memorable day to pay tribute to those brave souls who purchased the eight-hour day with their lives forty yeats ago. “November 11th is not only the day on which young capitalism murdered the leaders of the movement for the eight-hour day in 1887, but on No- vember 11, 1919 in Centralia, Wash., this demon killer sank its talons into the flesh of labor once more. “I am one of the victims of the reign of terror that followed. Murder of Everest. “This November 11th is the 8th |anniversary of the American Legion raid on the I. W. W. hall in Centralia and the murder of Wesley Everest. It is the eighth anniversary of the in- ‘earceration of the innocent victims jwhom the legionnaires and Commer- ‘cial Club members were unable to ‘murder before the light of another day caused them to slink away after their night of carnage to wash the ,human blood from their hands. | “Can you imagine what it means |to a man to be Shut up in a place like |this, away from his wife and baby, jaway from his fellow-men and the | bright sunshine for eight years be- jcause he cherished the ideal of a world without a. master or slave, a world where’ poverty would be no more? “That was my only crime! “The parole board admits I’m inno- cent but postpones action from board to board, and refused to act. Only \the organized power of the workers ‘can compel action and it is up to you las the leading defense organization |to make our case known to the world’s workers. To Intimidate Workers. : “Remember that the men in prison are kept there for the sole purpose of intimidating the workers ‘on the outside, keeping them unor- 'ganized and in slavery!” Dependent upon Eugene Barnett lare his wife and little son, who are |made to suffer by the vengefulness of the lumber trust and its thugs. |The labor defense organization in- ‘tends to send $25 to each class war prisoner, $50 to each of their fam- ilies, and $5 to each prisoner’s child as a Christmas gift from the work- ers on the outside. It is now con- ducting a campaign to raise the fund for this purpose. TRANS-PACIFIC FLIER. READY. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11+~— Cap- tain Frederick A. Giles, British air- man, is planning to hop off from Mills Field to Honolulu tomorrow if conditions are favorable. He had pre- viously announced that he would not take off until Monday. Giles plans to fly to Australia via Pacific points. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? to pecially equipped for tropical service. |S \ GREETINGS DAILY WORKER | from os DR: MENDELSON LYNBROOK, L. I. the TROTSKY GROUP TO BE BROUGHT TO COMMISSION Anti-Party Attitude of Opposition Hit (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Nov. 11.—After consid- ering the hostile attitude recently tak- en by the Trotsky Opposition towards the Communist Party, the Central Committee of the All-Union Commu- nist Party has decided to submit the question to the Central Control Com- mission. It has addressed the fol- lowing communication to all Party organizations: “The Communist Party as a whole, particularly the workers’ nuclei, have definitely and clearly separated them- selves from the Opposition which has been isolated as an antti-Party sec- tarian handful. Rally Hostile Forces “Realizing their isolation, the Op- position leaders are now proceeding to tread a/ ‘new’ Menshevist path. They are turning away from the Party, breaking their last ties with it and proceeding to ask help from forces alien and hostile to the Party —from petty bourgeois and bour- geois intellectuals and from other non-proletarian groups. “The anti-Soviet actions of Trot- sky, Zinoviev, Kameneff and Smilga in the streets of Moscow and Lenin- grad during the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the November revolution, the seizure by force of the Moscow High Technical College for an illegal Party meeting, the rough-handling of adeherents of the 4Party policy at the illegal meetings organized by the Opposition—all these and similar events of the last efew days have tended to show that the Opposition, having been defeated in the Party struggle and having lost their credit with the working class during the November 7th celebra- tions, are now beginning to rally forces hostile to the working class and preparing other anti-Soviet ac- tivities, Central Contral Commission. “The consideration of such activi- ties on the part of the Opposition and its leaders are absolutely inad- missable and are. incompatible with the membership of our Leninist Party. “The Central Committee of the All- Union Communist Panty deems it nec- essary to submit to the Ceytral Con- trol Commission questions relating to the anti-Party actions of the Opposi- tion. At the same time, the Central Committee resolves in order to in- struct al] Party organization@ in their work for a Leninist policy and for the preservation of the unity of our Party, firstly, to adopt energetic measures against the attempts of the Opposition to carry Party discussion beyond the limits of the Party; sec- ondly, to have all Party speakers ad- dressing non-Party groups to explain the necessity of defending the Party’s line. Must Take Severe Steps. “The members of the Opposition addressing non-Party meetings and attacking the Party’s policy must be immediately expelled from the Party, and should illegal meetings be called by the Opposition in spite of meas- ures undertaken by Party organiza- tions they must be dissolved by Party organizations and workers.” WANTED — MORH READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? Terrific Losses in Maiy Towns, Gities _ Hit By Great Flood MONTPELIER. Vt., Nov. 11. — With the work of rebuilding many of the sections damaged by the terrific floods of last week now commencing, fthe actual losses incurred thru the negligence of tha state officials to [take proper precautions in anticipa- tion of such a contingency, are being reckoned up. From numerous towns in this state, Massachusetts and Vermont are e@ming detailed reports cf the damage and loss of life and property, including the following: 150 families homeless at Johnson; in Waterbury, 27 houses destroyed, 200 damaged, 300 families driven from their homes; loss, private, $1,000,000; public, $1,- 000,000. State officials have already granted appropriations totalling $600,000 for the construetion of bridges, the con- tracts going to “friends of the fam- ily.” Funds for actual relief work, however, are not yet forthecming and the thousands of homeless are de- pending upon the routine agencies like the Red Cross and _ private sources, all insufficient. & Russian Old Church | In Assembly MOSCOW, Nov. 11.—A_ general assembly of followers ¢6f the old church residing in the territory of the U. S. S. R. has been cénvoked on November 2nd in Moscow by a group of old church bishops recognizing tha, Provisional Supreme Ecclesiastical Council. This group of bishops is headed by the Don and Novotcherkask Metropolitan Metrophanes, the arch- bishop of Sverdlovsk Gregory and the archbishop of Moghilev Constantine. In the memorandum dealing with the convocation of the assembly the authors note the schism within the Orthodox church. Metropolitan Peter wo succeeded Tikhon did nothing to promote the convocation. of the as- sembly of the legalization of the church organization. After Peter had retired from the government of the church the bishops raised their voice in favor of the old canonic order and elected seven bishops to organize the small assembly, which was given the name of the Provisional Supreme Ec- clesiastical Council. At the begin- ning of last year this Provisional Council obtained the legalization of the church organization. The Council several times 4; proached Metropolitan Sergius Pe emphatically reclined the invitation, to work together. However, he.how sud- denly proclaimed himself as the patriarch-viecar and set to administer the church by himself. In view of this, the Provisional Ecclesiastical Council recognizes as illegal all the actions of metropolitan Sergius and his following and upon all that is actually happening looks as upon an- other rebellion. “Tt is With a sense of horror and indignation—i®further stated in the bishops’ memorandum—that we must note that there are already eleven |nominees to the patriarchate, namely ‘metropolitan Agathangel, whom the followers of metropolitan Sergius re- |fuse to recognize, metropolitans Cyril, |Petér, Sergius, Michael, Arsenius and archbishops Joseph, Thaddeus, Cor- inelius, Seraphim, Arcadius,” The followers of the old church also draw a distinct line between them- selves and the new church, which they refuse to recognize, LECTURES AND FORUMS AT COOPER UNION (8th ST. and ASTOR PLACE) At 8 o’Clock SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13th PROF. WM. P. MONTAGUE “The Freedom of the Will” TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15th PROF, HARRY ELMER BARNES “The Contemporary Challenge to Democracy” * FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th EVERETT DEAN MARTIN The Psychology of the American Public—“The Nation With tlie ‘New Start?” ADMISSION FREB. Open Forum Discussion, ~ THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE Muhlenberg Branch Library (209 WEST 28rd STREET) At 8 o’Clock MONDAY, NOVEMBER l4th ERNEST BOYD Literary Main Currente—“Frances Literary Renetion” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th EDGAR WIND A Metaphysical View of Science— “The Metaphysical Presnppositions of the Scientifie Method” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17th DR. E. G. SPAULDING Questions People Expect a Philos- opher to Answer—#Is Philosophy @ Science or an Art?” SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19th MORTIMER J. ADLER Philosophy and Silence—The Episte mological Predicament — “Where. One Cannot Spenk: the End of Dialectic.” Tomorrow Night 8 o'clock William F. Dunne Editor of The DAILY WORKER will speak on “THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT IN 1927” An evaluation of the work of the recent convention of the American Federation of Labor in Los Angeles At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 EB 14th Street NEXT SUNDAY: Robert MacDonald will speak on “CHEMISTRY AND THE NEXT WAR.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS LABOR TEMPLE 14th Street and Second Avenwe THIS SUNDAY 5 P. M—The Book of the Month DR. G. F. BECK ‘O’Neill’s ‘Great God Brown” ADMISSION 25 CENTS 7315 P, M.— EDMUND B, CHAFFEE “War On 100% Pacifism” ADMISSION FREE 8:30 P. M.—Open Forum DR. HENRY NEUMANN “Ten Years of Soviet Russia” ADMISSION FREE