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—————— THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY | | | Vol. IV. No. 261. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING EDITION CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents FORGERY, ASSASSINATION EFFORT FOR MEXICO WAR A. F, L. CONFERENCE ON COAL MINE LOCKOUT STARTS IN PITTSBURGH ‘Foxconn ag Local Unions Send Resolutions Demanding That | Officials Begin Mass Picketing BULL PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 14 ETIN. All delegates credentialed by the local unions of miners have been barred from the secret execu- tive meetings of the A. F. of L. conference on the mine lock-out. They are allowed to attend only the public meetings at which policies are not discussed. The first open meeting today heard evi- dence presented of terrorism and police. * (Special to The D. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14.—A conference of labor leaders from | brutalities by the coal and iron * AILY WORKER.) RS \Seupiaus ial Diss far: || | | BURLINGTON, Vt. Nov. 14. — Attorney General J. C. Sargent, | | personal representative of Presi- | | dent Coolidge as head of the Red Cross arrived here yesterday to in- | |fluence the state and local relief | | agencies to put their main efforts into re-opening the roads for trans- | | portation. Transportation, since | | many business men and summer tourists desire to leave the flooded regions, says the relief authorities, must come ahead of relief for the | | miserable, half drowned and starv- | | ing mill workers who must remain in the ruined districts because they have no other place to go. President Calles of Mexico 1 HEARST ‘GOVE RNMENT DOCUMENTS’ BRANDED THE RANKEST OF FAKES BY MEXIGAN REPRESENTATIVES Attempt to Murder Obregon Denounced As! “Undoubtedly a Political Crime” Calles Signature Copied on Letter Claiming Toi | Be Orders to Chief of Treasury WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—In an official statement issued {this afternoon the Mexican embassy denounced as forgeries thei | documents published in the Hearst chain of papers in the renewal STRUGGLES NEAR,” SAYS STALIN one? ies 20". “The documents given out today by some American news-/ Leader of Communist Party of the Soviet Union all parts of the eountry and representing all crafts, regarded as the most important event in the bituminous coal strike situation | since the lockout and strike began on April 1, opened here today. | The union leaders came here for the express purpose of “de- | vising methods to meet the attack against the United Mine Work- ers by anti-union coal owners and their industrial, financial and political allies.” The attorney general made a brief survey of the flooded dis- trict. | Governor Weeks of Vermont} | preached a sermon at the Sunday services in the Montpelier Congre- gational church, lauding the results of the flood in bringing out the papers regarding the alleged interference of Mexico in Nicaragua are nothing but gross and unequivocal forge “The publication is only ane {other item in the catalogue of Two Important Matters. Two matters especially will occupy the attention of the con-| ferees. They are BURNS AND SPIES’ HAVE TALE READY FOR GRAND JURY Fake Affidavit Drawn By Ex-Justice Wright WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.— Assistant Attorney General Burkin-} shaw prosecuting in the Sinclair-Fall| Teapot Dome oil graft case, and U.| S. District Attorney Gordon today sharply disagreed over the question of bringing Wm. J. Burns, setf-styled | “The Eye That Never Sleeps” before; the grand jury to explain how he) came to be spying on and scaring the) trial jurors, and whether it is true,/ as one of his detectives says, that he) deliberately suborned the detective to! commit perjury in order to get his clients, the defendants, a mistrial if they needed it. Burns Would “Explain.” | “The-Eye-That-Never - Sleeps” _to-| day came before District Attorney | Gordon somewhat inflamed with an- | ger, and desired to go to the grand (1) The Federal injunction restricting strike activities against the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation. (2) The activities of “coal and iron” or company police who are deputized by the common- wealth of Pennsylvania. The union heads are here for the announced purpose of bring- ing political influence of labor leaders to bear in behalf of the western Pennsylvania miners. While refusing officially to take cognizance of the meeting, the man- agements of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, largest bituminous coal company in the world, and the Pitts- \burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, an- other dominant firm, do not attempt to conceal their intense interest in this latest development. * +, 2 Rank and File Demands. By Amy Schechter. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14. — Local unions of the United Mine Workers in this district have adopted resolu- tions for presentation to the confer- ence of union heads here called by the | executive council of the American Federation of Labor dealing with the grave situation of the United Mine Workers union. Delegations have been elected by the jury, with Wm. Sherman Burns, ac- | unions to place the resolutions before tual manager ‘of the Wm. J. Bushs | Fhe conterehce, : : Detective Agency, and fifteen or|_ The resolution, in reality a program | twenty private detectives to tell the |for the continuation and extension of story they have about Wm. McMullan, | the struggle against injunctions and | | “Jesson of the fellowship of man.” Aiea ers ae aS LOCAL 41, LGW. ~ 1S CONDUCTING 1 SHOP STRIKES Strikebreaking Move of Right Wing Defeated With strikes in full swing at two important shops, a membership meet- ing of Local 41 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Uftion will be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and E, 15th St., tonight, with ad- dresses by Louis Hyman, manager of }the Joint Board «f tae Cloakmakers’ Union, M. E. Taft, manager of Local 41, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. Pickets went on duty yesterday at the two struck shops—the Harrison Pleating Co., 315 W. 36th St., and Brandes & Cheskin, 149 W. 28th St. Local 41 charges the employers at both shops with discriminating against certain workers. Right Wing Strikebreaking. tration of the I. L. G. W. to break the solidarity of the workers at both struck shops continued yesterday, ac- cording to Taft. Harry Greenberg, international vice president of the Iv] L. G. W., is said by Taft to have writ- ten personal letters to the workers in | question urging them to return to work, attempting to lead them to be- Efforts by the right wing adminis- | Hits League of Nations (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Nov. 14.—“Conditions are ripening for a new revolutionary struggle,” declared Joseph Stalin, secretary of the All Union Communist Party, when interviewed by eighty members of various foreign delegations yesterday. “The fact that the capitalist class was able to stem the first revolutionary tide, does not mean much because the revolution advances and recedes before at-®— taining final victory,” Stalin said. “This was so in Russia and will be so in Europe. We are now on the eve of new revo~ lutionary events.” Hits At League. The Soviet Union does not join the |League of Nations because she does| not wish to allign herself with the league’s imperialist policy or sub- seribe to her system of colonial ex- ploitation thru mahdates, Stalin de- clared in reply to a question. Altho, the official statements made | by the league sound innocuous they | are meant to deceive the workers of | all countries, while the imperialist} statesmen of various countries are! holding secret parleys behind the} scenes. Role of Social-Democracy. Replying to a question about the| Be Granted Thirty-five = 2 Ey i= S = Se S S c= s WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.} |—The Federal Radio Commission, |now engaged in parceling out the | monopolies of ether waves where | |they are politically advisable, has | | just decreed through Admiral W. |H. G. Bullard, chairman of the |commission, that all competitors to 35 of the largest and richest of | the “National” broadcasters will be | wiped out by relegation other and} less desirable parts of the dial, and | these 35 will have complete contro] ; of the channel between 299.7 and 498.8 meter wave lengths. Favored High Power Co’s | Plotters Against Life of Obregon | Thrown !n Prison } MEXICO CITY, Nov. action was promised by police today against the perpetrators of the counter-revolutionary attempt to as- sassinate General varo Obregon, | presidential candidate. The general was slightly injured. Several persons were arrested after two bombs had been thrown at |Obregon’s automobile and many pis- tol shots fired at the occupants. { Obregon was driving through the streets with three companions yester- day afternoon when a closed car \drew alongside. Two bombs were tossed. One hit the side of Obregon’s car and bounced back to the center of the street where it exploded. The driver stopped Ob- regon’s car and the second bomb ex- ploded in front of it. Catch Bombers. | General Obregon was not severely shaken by the attempt on his life and, after the bombers had been pur- | | 14.—Drastic | forgeries and malicious imagin« ation with which some news~ papers try uselessly to upset ins ternational relations.” Started In Washington. The local Hearst paper, the Washington Herald, was select- ed to fire the opening gun in the present drive to wreak vengeance upon Mexico through provoking | armed intervention as Mexico is con- ered by Wall Street to be the lead- er of anti-imperialist sentiment in Latin America. It was carefully timed as a prelude to the Pan American conference that is to take place in Havana, Cuba, in uary, as the state departmen® fears that Mexico will there lead a movement directed against the pre- datory designs of Yankee imperial- ism. The story was carried simultan- eously in copyrighted articles in the Hearst newspapers in many cities. Charge Aid To Sacasa. The documents published by the Hearst papers and branded as for- geries purport to show that the Mex- ican government of Calles placed arms and ammunition at the disposal of the liberal Nicaraguan forces of Dr, Juan B. a, former president (Continued on Page Two) | status of the social-democratie party | Jin the Soviet Union, Stalin declared that the social-democratic party par- the former Burns man who testified | for the right to organize, reads as fol- that Burns had him sign a fraudulent and false and perjured affidavit about a government agent talking with al juror, | Burkinshaw advised that “The Eye” | and his crew be kept out of the jury | room. | “If Burns has something that can | refute McMullan’s story, let him| bring it first to me,” said the prose- | cutor. “He can’t make speeches to the grand jury anytime he wants.” However, Gordon gave his permis-, sion. The jury, which it is said is| about to vote indictments for “fixing”) the trial jury, perjury and various! other crimes connected with it, de- clared a recess, and refused to hear) Burns, “The Eye” or other parts of! his body of spies until tomorrow. Yesterday McMullan told a little more about the framing of the affi- davit. The affidavit told of his fol- lowing Juror Glasscock to the Poto-, _mac Flying Field, and watching a} man with Lamb’s description get out) hearing of the cases of: six speakers | lows: The Resolution. “Whereas, the bituminous miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio are carrying on a life and death struggle to save the union from being smashed by the coal operators, and “Whereas, the coal operators in their union-smashing campaign have the full support of other large em- ployers of labor, business and bank- (Continued on Page Ywo) 6 Newark Speakers to Face Trial for U,S.S.R, Celebration NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 14. — The lieve a settlement with the employers had been made. | Greenberg obtained the |addresses of the workers from their lemployers and sent the letters to them individually at their homes, ac- cording to Taft, Close Alliance. names and shows the close alliance between the ternational union and the bosses,” | Taft said. | Local 41 was recently suspended by the international. Greenberg’s personal solicitations | by letter were ignored by the workers | jin each case, Taft added. Members |of Local 41 were to continue picket- ling at both shops today. ‘Four Thousand Cloak and, Dress Makers at | ak iat Four thousand cloak and dress of a car with Lamb’s license number! arrested at last Sunday’s suppressed} makers last night in the Mecca Tem- to talk to Glasscock. Membership Meeting 1s| Called for Friday Night; | postponed until next Monday by agreement between both sides today. Representatives of the Workers (Communist) Party, the International | celebration of the tenth anniversary | ple applauded charges that the rank of the Russian Revolution here was | and file workers in this trade did not ; have rightful liberty in their union, , Among the speakers who made ‘these charges and pleaded for closed }ranks among the workers was con- Jay Lovestone to Talk | Labor Defense, the American Civil | gressman William I. Sirovich, of New At a Party membership meeting of| the New York district of the Work-| ers (Communist) Party Friday at 8| p. m. in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.} 4th St. Jay Lovestone, national! secretary of the Party, will report on} the build-the-Party campaign. Mem-}| bership books must be shown,at the) door, the district office announced | yesterday. | TO CURB “CRIME.” OSSINING, N. Y., Nov. 14,—The number of prisoners in New York state now exceeds the number of cells in the four state prisons by 1,000 ac- cording to a statement by Commis- sioner of Correction F. C. Kieb, He also declared the number being com- mitted to the prisons is again on the se, Liberties Union and sympathetic or- ganizations will attempt in a confer- ence with the chief of police next week to arrive at an understanding as to future indoor and street meet- ings, E. Gardos, Workers Party sub- district organizer and one of the ar- rested men said. Permit Revoked. A total of $950 bail was demanded Sunday night for the si*:, who in ad- dition to Gardos are Patrick Toohey; Fox, Matlin, Lederman and Gaffe. They were released after several hours. They were arrested in turn when they attempted to address a crowd of about 300 outside the Ukrainian Hall, 94 Beacon St., after the police closed the hall to them. The chief of police revoked the per- mit for the meeting. York. “You don’t have the liberty in your union you ought to have,” congress- jman Sirovich said. “Many ti have appealed to your offieer: they have denied you.” Committee of Fifty. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Committee of Fifty, The committee of 50 was organized several months ago at a meeting held at Cooper Union attended by several thousand cloak and dressmakers. On that occasion the committee proposed and wings. ficer of the International Ladies’ of the committee, Sea “This incident as much as anything} right wing administration of the in-| Mecca Temple Meeting | workers’ and peasants’ dictatorship in| |Russia and participated in the civil) | war as an ally of the counter-revolu-| |tionary forces. H | Actually, he declared, the social-| democratic party is aiding in the “re-| |storation” of capitalism and is fight-| ing against the dictatorship of the! proletariat. Stalin added that in the role of the social-democrats in capi-| talist countries is as an opposition as an ally of the liberal bourgeoisie! against the most reactionary forces) of capitalism or as the governmental party openly supporting capitalism or \the bourgeois “democracy” against the revolutionary movement of the proletariat. In countries where the) | workers conquer power, Stalin de-| | jcome openly counter-revolutionary. | “Freedom of Press.” Freedom of the bourgeois press by a workers’ and peasants’ dictator- a question. Liberty of a workers’ explained. Replying to a series of questions} about the strength of the opposition, ! Stalin produced figures to prove that! the Trotsky group is insignificant. The discussions carried on with the All Union Communist Party to date jhave shown. 135,000 Party members for the Central Committee as op- |posed to 2,200 supporters of the Op-| position, | Role of Opposition. j “I do not know whether such dis- cussion would be allowed in the so- |cial-democratic party. jlook very seriously at such discu: We will consult the whole Party and you will seé the pitiful role of the | Opposition,” Stalin declared. “It is quite possible,” he continued,| \“that the Opposition will not be able, |to secure a single delegate at the fif- |teenth Party Congress, “At Leningrad the Opposition se-! }cured only 89 votes out of 21,221,| layers dissatistied| Stalin declared that the bravado of}on the site of the tank that exploded. | Cleaners’ Union of America, accord- Garment Workers’ Union, is chairman|the Opposition leaders and their par-|Small buildings in the (Continued on Page Two) i vicinity were crushed like egg-shells,!for the defense, ue \ cannot exist in any country governed] ¢. press éxists in the Soviet Union, he ithe As for us we!, ROCKS ITY, KILLING MANY M PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14.—One of the greatest disasters that} ever kefell Pittsburgh occurred at 8:48 this morning when a huge duly constituted gas tank exploded in the Reedsdale street plant of the Equitable |* , near the heart of the business y and near the intersection of the Monongahela |try and was overthrown by force at gas company on the north side section of the cit; and Allegheny rivers. The streets were crowded wi clared, the social-democracy has be-|plaees of employment and the total number of dead is unknown | | but fire and police officials say it | Hospitals Full. Twenty bodies had been‘ removed rom the debris at eleven o’clock this morning and a survey of the larger f ship, Stalin explained in response to}iosnitals showed that more than 200 were under treatment for injuries, All victims were workers. For more t two blocks the build- ings in the vicinity were demolished like egg-shells, ing to death many wo ed therein. The ly across nd ten of n employed there d the other five ired, Cause Reported “Unknown.” The Equitable gas plant is a of the Ph me name, Philadeip city’s asph the street was demc the fifteen work met instant death are dangerously inj part part ts of Pitt ‘|holders in the cor the explosior by the represer though one of the ; »on published a to the effe that it might have been caused by yorkmen using an acetelyne torch |who did not know the ta was full of line. This is considered an in- vention on the part of the company a program to end disputes within the | While at Putilov only 178 membe 's of| to escape heavy penalties for neglect- | union. They suggested that paveral | tte Party voted for the Opposition. | in prominent Jews be asked to arbitrate |1%® Opposition seeks the support of| age differences between the right and left 200-Proletarian 1 A parr) Samuel Shelley, former of- with the proletarian dictatorship. properly to the t explosions. Shattered Windows for Miles. Nothing but a gaping hole was left protect plant immediate \ —— id of Mexico, who was overthrown with the aid of invading military forces of the United States army and marines, to aid him in his fight against the Wall Street puppet, Diaz, i any Workers Meet Death in One of City’s Worst Disasters tained in p republic ag: jority of people in Nicaragua. | Tissue of Lies. | Aside from the charges of forgery, | which are plainly justified, the story |appearing in the Hearst papers is a igned distortion of history. It re to Sacasa as heading “rebel” ces in a struggle against an alleged government, when facts are ly the reverse. The }government of Sacasa was the cone mnment of the coun Zi stitutional gov ‘ |the instigation of the United States | government in order to seize that ter= {ritory preparatory to the construction of anal between the Atlantic and will mount possibly to hundreds. | Pa Oceans. This canal is cons e~ s oh sential for American im- . rialism in order to furnish militazy. Employers, Police Fail to imprison ith workers on their way to thei e: | |and naval bases for complete domina= |tion of the Latin American countries, Kellogg Refuses Comment. — of State Kellogg today Secret denied all knowledge of the docu- ments published in the Hearst papers. H . and said: “The state department can- documen and material, concertie the stence and authenticity of h it has no knowledge or infors tion whatsoever.” € Another failure we in the |the owners of ‘panies, their cor |New York police terday ombined attempt of Consul Denies Plot Charge. An article appearing in the Hearsay wspapers today under the captio1 Mexie plots against the United misleading. and deplorable, ning com- n and the g to Arturo N. Elias, Mexi- consul general in New York City i ancial agent to the United " ‘ “I find after careful reading,’ rson Market Court said in a statement issued ph of third de that the article does not deal out of the strike, r in any way with Mexican plot veek. The court ruled the evi- | agai he United States but alleges ufficient. ice and Bosses. dence wa co favored the cause of Dr. Nicaragua. “In other words it deals entirely with a matter between Mexicans and | the Nicaraguans which is purely the business of these two peoples, It is true it happened that the United States government supported the side of the conservative group in Nicara- gua headed by Diaz, but that is a matter between the United States and _ <Continued on Page Two), | A member of the police industrial |squad, though operating with the jrank of detective, served the sum- |monses on Dawisa and Lahowit, on |the complaint of Samuel Hersch, ‘member of the company union, which calls itself the Affiliated Window ing to Jacques Buitenkant, counsel

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