The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 1

| \ (ea al UE THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE | UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY { Vol. IV. No. 260. THE DAILY WORKER. second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1878. NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered a i a FINAL CITY Ik EDITIO Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, York, N. Y, Price 3 Cents New Burns, Double-Crossed By Own Stool-Pigeon, Defiant As Coolidge Agents Menace Former Ally With “Atlanta” HUNDREDS OF DELEGATES MEET IN| Threstenie tettr From the Interborough THIRD LABOR DEFENSE CONVENTION Ovation When National Secretary Introduces | Lucy Parsons, Widow of Haymarket Martyr | 286 delegates from 30 cities to the Third Annual Conferen fense, meeting Saturday in | and an equal number of visitors | of the International Labor De-| ng Plaza Hall, rose and cheered) aged Lucy Parsons, widow cf the leader of the Haymarket mar-| tyrs when James P. Cannon, national secretary, reporting for the| national executive committee announced that she was present as| a guest of the conference. g “T know it is not I whom you are honoring,” said Mrs. Par-| sons replying briefly to the ova-| tion, “but the name I bear and) the memory and the martyrdom of the Haymarket fighters.” Honor Prisoners. In his report James P. Cannon paid tribute to the fallen and imprisoned fighters of the working class—) Charles E. Ruthenberg, Eugene Vv. Debs, Sacco and Vanzatti, the Cen-| tralia I. W. W. prisoners, Mat Schmitt, J. B. McNamara, Tom Moon-| ey, Warren Billings and the Passaic prisoners, “We pledge ourselves to carry on| the great traditions of the American labor movement typified by the Hay=+ market martyrs,” said Cannon, “and to work unceasingly for the defense of all fighters for the working class, for relief for their dependents and for the abolition of this gigantic prison} —the capitalist system.” Cannon Chairman. | After the conference was opened by | Cannon he was elected chairman, with! the following as vice-chairmen: Jes-/ sica Henderson, active in the Sacco- Vanzetti campaign; Charles Cline, of the I. W. W., who served 13 years in a Texas prison; Robert W. Dunn, co- author of “The Labor Spy” and other works; Louis A. Baum, active in the labor movement for a score of years; Lucy Parsons and George Maurer,| secrefary of the International Labor Defense. | Greco and Carrillo. Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Martello, told of the frame-up of Cologrzo| Greco and Donato Carrillo and the} need of rallying labor’s forces in their } behalf to forestall a second Sacco- Vanzetti case. They are scheduled for trial in the Bronx Dec. 5 on charges of killing two fascists. Earl R. Brow- der, editor of Labor Unity of Chicago, | who recently visited Colorado, spoke of the coal miners’ strike in that! state. Leaders of the strike are an- xious for the support of the Interna- tional Labor Defense altho John Ga- han, editor of Industrial Solidarity, the I. W. W. organ, has attacked the aoe organization, Browder report- | ed. William J. White, a steel worker, | told of the Cheswick (Pa.) frame-up, | (Continued on Page Five) Basis of Hearst Drive || for Latin-American War’ | | In a copyrighted story published in the Hearst newspapers today, jcertain documents which the Hearst papers say were taken from the secret archives of the Mexican government are published with the intent to show that the Mexican government helped finan- | cially and otherwise the Nicaragu- jan movement in resistanee to the aggression of the United States in that country. The effort of the Hearst papers | | is evidently toward promoting a | war of the United States against | Mexico. | The statement is made in the} [ |same copyrighted story that the!) Hearst publications will in the) | course of subsequent articles im- | | plicate the government of the] | Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- | | lies in what it characterizes as an) | effort to establish a BBE | | government in Nicaragua in op- | | position to the United States. | | The DAILY WORKER will it- | | | self undertake to expose the jcriminal activities of imperialists jof Wall Street who are trying to | lay the basis for a new imperial- ist war against Latin America. | Watch for subsequent issues of The DAILY WORKER. ey jers were arrested at a celebration of |the tenth anniversary of the Russian | Revolution here today, including Pat-| |fourth precinct police station. | |the assembled workers of the progress | the company had seabs driving ma- POLICE ARREST § SPEAKERS AT. NEWARK RALLY 10th Anniversary Crowd Locked Out of Hall | | NEWARK, Nov. 13,—Six Speak- | vick Toohey, militant anthrocite min- er, and E. Gardos, sub-district organ- izer of the Workers (Communist) : | A crowd of about 300 men and! women watched the police hurry the! speakers away one by one to the! Police at Door. | Police Chief McCrell first revoked a permit to the Workers Party to hold the celebration in the Ukrainian Hall, 94 Beacon street. When the crowd and the speakers arrived about 3 P. M. they found themselves locked | out and a squad of police posted at the door. | The other four arrested were Fox, | Matlin, Lederman and Gaffe. A decision to hold the meeting inj the street in front of the Hall was made hastily. Forbid Meeting. A spokesman for the police squad announced that the meeting was for- biddem. But to protest against the suppression of the meeting and to tell of the Soviet Union mounted the front (Continued on Page Five) HARMARVILLE, PA,, LABOR PARTY HAS HARD STRUGGLE By A. S. HARMARVILLE, Pa., Nov. 13. — A miner and a miner’s daughter have been elected to office here on the La- bor Party ticket. Polly Yates, elected as town auditor is president of the women’s auxiliary of the local union, and vice-president of the sub-district woman’s organization. John Midelle- mas, elected constable in the place of J. H. Burns, a 100 per cent com- pany man, was: machine boss at the mine and came out with the men and stuck. The two labor candidates for justices of the peace lost by only about eight votes. All Election Day till the polls closed | chines around bringing in people to the polls. The farmers in this dis- trict are solid with the coal compan- ies.” , Elected—Fired. | The day after Election Day, Midel- | lemas, constable-clect, came to the! Dusquesne Light and Power plant! where he recently landed a machin- ist’s job. “Are you the Midellemas elected on the Labor Ticket?” they asked him. He said he was, and they fired him, Every Weapon to Beat Miners. In Harmarville the logic of a La- bor Party ticket is particularly clear. The operators use every available Weapon against the miners, from coal and iron violence to eviction, and the men, through all the seven months of the lock-out have carried on the strug- gle with unwavering vigor and de- termination. Still today, when the long strain of the lock-out is making itself felt, and want of. food and clothing is beginning to weigh heav- (Continued on Page Two) |made by the capitalists, except that | | today? But the ‘Soviet Union exists Gomfpuniyy AM 165 Breadeay Prandant % Gravel Mameyee To All Members Interborough Rapid Transit Compe of The Brotherhood of __ 1 am intormed that the Ameigamated Employees has called 2 mass meeting to be AVE Np November te ny Employees Assouration Of Siree: and Elecir & held on Friday November ith 1 invitations to attend this meeting may ve distributed among the employecs Company : I. theretore, deem 1 my dots again ty call your artention to the fact that assoc ation with the Amalgemated @rgamzation 1s management and been ratified individually by practically ever: You have exercised your Constniunional sight to orgamz bs borough Brotherhood It was a wise choice rule gives better protection and complete co! the management without any interterence by ‘ On October 17th. 1927. 1 wrote sou cal your Brotherhood on July 28th 1927, in whic was under contract with your Brotherhond to and that becoming identihed in any manner ,dismissal from the Brotherhuod and from the ithe letter I advised you a8 follows “You ma ‘Company to live up to yout contracts in eve: loyal men to he annoyed or intimidated by If they do so they will be proceeded against in dence showing the facts.” It 1s common knowledge that the Amalgamated and their ageitts have tinued to annoy and intimidate our employee: pany has started such proceedings in the cou to the end with a view of fully protecting th ployecs and the rights of the Company Several meetings have been held by th Interborough employees have attended — Sor « employees of this Company, which contr: in siolauion of the contracts between 1 cls, as you know h have ) one of the employ joing the Inter becaus« the Brotherhood through hom Hective bargamng between yourselves and out-of-town labor leaders. ling attention to the letter addressed to kT stated im part “that the Interborongh employ only members of the Brotherhood with the Amalgamated was a cause for employ of the Company” Further on in } be assured that it isthe purpose of the ty part.cular. It 1s not intended to permit Atmalgamated organizers or their agents. the courts in an orderly manner upon evi- s, and this is to inform you that the ¢ rts and will prosecute these ‘proceedings ¢ rights of the public, the rights of the em- ¢ Amalgamated m the past A very few me of the few attended out of curtosiy 1 ADVISE YOU TO PROTECT YOUR OWN INTERESTS AND NOT AT. TEND ANY MEETING THAT MAY BE CALLED BY THE AMALGAMATED. Branit Prendent and General Manager. § OF FRIENDS OF SOVIET TAKES STAND AGAINST WAR MOSCOW, Noy. 13.—The appear- | ance of Bukharin at yesterday’s ses- | sion of the. Congress of the Friends | of the Soviet Union was greeted with |er far more rights than are possible | mated. tumultuous applause. | Bukharin, leader of the Communist | International, in his speech dealt | mainly with Communist tactics as | compared with the tactics of the so- cial-democrats, and particularly in view of the recent speech of Loeder in the German Reichstag; the letters of Maxton Brockway, and the speech- es of the Austrian social-democrat | Bauer and others during the celebra- tion of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in Vienna. Bukharin Analyses. Bauer on that occasion declared that the greatest error is to attempt to transfer Russian methods to other countries, and the furtker error is applying terrorist methods against social-democracy are the only possi- ble consolidation and democratization of the country, and the other the abstention of Communist maneuvre tactics in western Europe. The political content of these con- ditions, declared Bukharin, means the substitution of “democracy” as it is practiced, for example, by Germany, England, America, and Austria for the dictatorship of the proletariat. The second condition, he continued, means the demand for the liquidation of the Communist Party. This, he said, is nothing less than the demands the latter are more modest than Bauer. | “What is the result of social-dem- ocracy?” declared Bukharin. “They have had ministers and premiers in many countries, but where are they today.” workers, peasants, co-operators, pressed peoples, and individuals gaged in art, science, education and/ The proletarian dictatorship, Bukh- arin declared, is nothing else than pro- letarian democracy allowing the work- under any other government. * * (Special Cable to THE DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 18.— The Congress of the Friends of the Soviet Union concluded its sessions last night amid scenes of tremendous enthusiasm and prolonged cheering. Prior to its closing it passed unani- mously the following manifesto: “Against imperialist wars, for the Union of Socialist Republics, for rev- olutionary China.” “We, the representatives of the op- en- literature, members of socialist and | other working class political parties, Communists and members of the na- tional revolutionary parties,—all who met at the Congress during the glori- ous days of the Tenth Anniversary of the November Revolution, consider it our duty to inform the world that |we consider a war on the U. S. S. R.|at the Irving Plaza, 15th street and|the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company la shameful counter-revolutionary act Irving Place, yesterday, and the greatest crime against world labor. “A war against the Soviet Union would be a war against the working class and peasantry in the interests lof the landlords and the capitalists.|Of Mussolini’s agents in the United A war against the Soviet Union is to declare a crusade against socialism and in support of capitalism. “We call upon all honest citizens in all countries; all brain workers to fight relentlessly against war prepa- rations against the Union of Soviet (Continued on Page Three) Thirteen Children of Passaic Strike Prisoners Are Honor Guests at I. Thirteen children of six Passaic textile strike prisonerg were among the guests of honor at the third annual conference of the Inter- national Labor Defense at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. yesterday and Saturday. Applause by hundreds of dele- gates and visitors greeted their en- trance and their introduction by James P. Cannon, executive secre- tary of the I. L. D. Sharing in the applause were the mothers of the children, all of whom also were strikers in the textile strike of 1926, which arroused the labor | L. D. Conference Here movement of the entire Some of the children their mothers’ armst mothers were present. Cannon announced that the I. L, D. was contributing to the support of the families of the eight prison- ers, who were sentenced to prison by New Jersey judges in the strike zone for their militant activity in the long bitter struggle. Though they were not present the eight prisoners themselves also shared in the applause. The im- prisoned fathers are Kovacs, Sik- ora, Pochno, Kostomak, Bellene and Ozanak. country. ved The Chief Spyof NewYork Traction Barons Caughtby Agent'sStory TRACTION WORKER SIGNER OF FAKE MASSES GATHER | | AFFIDAVIT. SAYS TH =p DICK ORDERED IT Jury Fixing By Burns One More Incident In Long Anti-Labor Career The downfall Burns via the federal jt route, comes toward t long ca: r of spying, ir strikebreaking and Bur and his organization of de- tectives, has specialized in “labor case: His agents Namara brot of William /Pinchot and Oil Rivals: |Make Perjury Exposure (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov.’ 13.—Not since the Teapot Dome ndal “broke” and deluged of- ficial Washington with its evil organization campaigns exposed to] |flood, sweeping away the Hard- the corporation by his agents.!/'44 administration on its crest Burns capitalized the Wall Street | |‘"& @¢ministration on Its Crest, explosion in 1921 and indirectly at] |has the nation’s capital exper- least responsible for the death} jienced the thrill which recent of Salsedo. Burns detectives} | disclosures in connection with staged the Bridgeman raid on the} | nar all tptal hae aay aa Copnsbuniate tn 18: the Fall trial have given it. His latest anti-labor activity is Two Currents of Rumor. | the organization of spies and thugs Two main currents of rumor for the Interborough Rapid Tran-} |are to be discerned; one is to the sit Company. 1 aes eae . (Gaoabbatona hes seni accamedicot jeffect that the activities of Will- jury fixing, in the Oregon land jiam J. Burns such as jury- frauds zase. ishadowing, “fixing,” and covert SE {if not open threats of blackmail, ete., were carried on with the full knowl- edge of the White House if net wagm | its consent and encouragement. Their Argumerts. Advocates of this theory base their 1000 COLORADO MINERS, WIVES ccc Case Persecutes Labor potas hounded the Me-| ‘s, members of the Workers Union, one now 14 s, the other in for | numerable unions have be rupted by his spies and do: Week-end developments in the of the tion workers for on and the attempt of the traction barons to prevent it by an injuncion outlawing the entire Amer- ican Federation of Labor were: (1) Announcement by President |Mahon of the Amalgamated Associa- | tion of instructions issued to try to srng every traction worker in New York City into the union. | (2) Pledges of full assistance to} }the Amalgamated by the Typographi | \cal Union—“Big Six,” the largest lo- jeal union of printers in the United States—the Actors Equity Associa- tion and the Jewelry Workers Union. (3) A further statement by Presi- | jdent Mahon to the effect that injunc- | tions are based not on law but “upon judicial precedent.” If this were a matter of law we would know where | we stand,” said the head of the Amal- | gamated, “but it isn’t. We cannot | |stand for judge-made law.” An intimation by union offi- | charge of traction | g or sympathizing amated would be in- ‘an overt act” justifying strugg 2 workers for join lwith the / “Discharge of men for jail. joining the Amalgamated certainly will to the administration that the “Ins {constitute an overt act by the transit % i diana scandals and the prosecution jofficials,” said James H. Coleman, Start Organization Tour |of high state officials have given a {general organizer of the Amalga-| 2 } n to the Bolshevists.” The t ended in a conviction, of Atlanta oss the White House, unofficial voices, would bring the shadow -1,000 striking | Penitenti following a in North | (5) Departure of prominent union | =e jofficials, including President Green| DENVER, Noy. 13. jof the A. F, of L. and Mahon for|miners and their wiv |Pittsburgh to attend the enlarged|mass meeting at Lafayette, have b given mon conference of the executive council ted on a tour of the 19 coal prop- until the pressure | which opens its sessions today. jerties in the northern part of the ng presidential year made (6) Statement by I. R. T. officials | state. n the court room where |that- “loyal” | being| It was stated by the miners’ lead- and fers that the I. W. W. organization i in the northern coal Coolidge: : ; The Second Explanation. at preparations are being y on the strike indefi-} employes are trained to serve as motormen switchmen in the event of a strike fol- | consolidated n Fall, a former cabe et-mate o | The second sehool of thought, if | Washington gossip can be dignified by this term, maintains that the death Harding, the ruin of Harry Daughe, the shooting of Jake Hamon by 3, the mysterious “suls of Jesse Smith and the expos Ultimatum. cide |sure of Fall, clear the skirts of the administration of the last traces of Teapot Dome—with the exe ption of that holder of many dark William J, Burns. aim is made therefore, and need wit boldr which ase ed habitues of the }lowing the injunction hearing on | fields and th Nov. 30. made to | eee aon jnitely if nec ry. ' | Coal Compan. OR FRS GATHER | Speaking in Kans one of the high officials of the Vi ‘tor American Coal Company, which Te Al VICTIMS supplies the Denver market, i ¥ |that the company had de ide the! Coolidge | event that 80 per cent of its working | force was not available for operatior i OF Mi i] § § 0 L | N en its mines would be closed for | ‘the winter. SF Organizers Still In Jail. In the southern coal fields, where | Several hundred workers gathered tounds even ha el an lobbies, | dominates the situation, all known I. |W. W. and Communist organizers to protest ‘against the frame-up of Galogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fascist | still held in jail. Only cash bail will ‘workers, at present in the Bronx|be accepted, the authorities state, and County Jail under false charges of|by the time this is raised it is hoped murder, preferred at the instigation! that the strike will have been broken. | State police are patrolling the high- ways and rhining camps and the hun dreds of special deputie n in by |Defense League. Among the speak-|the county authorities still lers were Robert Dunn of the Inter-| duty. {national Labor Defense, Arturo Gio- | | vannitti, poet; William Manning of | {the I. W. W. and other George | Procopo, of the A Cloth- }i ling Workers of Ame 1 grave with false empted “fixing” d in certain quar- Coolidge administration ll three birds with one : the last stain of Sine credit William J. Burns he reveals out of @ sinister knowledge, no one doubts, will nd put forward the in 1928 as the one ion that stands for nt of laws and not of not afraid to clean its |States. The meeting was held under 1 ‘the auspices of the Greco-Carr on » tenor circulated din Orth- Dunn Traces History. ert Dunn traced the hi to date and pointed o: League of North 'men’ of y that Amer. are being made | estigators delve jica its members to perjure the Fall trial. themselv in iden Greco is ¢ ain. William J. }and pointed out that i , the jaunty but | in Italy commit murder t f whole 3 t Se al their ends the fascists in ebnatona aie Gotee preaiael |America would perjury themselves to Tie’ selalr che trembled in the heyday of the Hard } (Continued on Page Two) tion to the ing administration, ‘yee? Ce Over WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18-0. Wm. J. Burns will have to leave his job as chief boss of spies and-stool pigeons for the Interborough Rapid combatted, will certainly mean the| Transit Co. of New York and rash destruction of the Catholic faith of | back to Washington to defend : many of these people and later on|Self against charges that he . (Continued on Page Two) | (Continued on Page Two) ~ “RUSSIA TODAY” IN PICTURES. “Russia Today,” produced by the first American Student Delegation to the Soviet’ Union, is playing this week at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, 66 Fifth Ave. The motion picture shows contemporary life in the Work- ers and Peasants Republic. rado. They May Wake Up. “This is a real menace, which if not