The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 262. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, DAILY WORKER New York, FINAL CITY EDITION N. Y, Price 3 Cents SIDETRACK COAL STRIKE AID FOR PINCHOT BOOM DEFENSE OF AMERICAN POLICY IN. | NICARAGUAN INTERVENTION SEEN AS OBJECT OF HEARST CAMPAIGN Nicaraguan Agents of Wall Street Also Claim to Have “Documentary Proof” TAMMANY PLAN BEHIND SIROVICH TALK, IS CHARGE Right Wing Confiscates|. Local 35 Furniture Congressman William I. Siro- vich, democratic party represent- ative from the East Side, who is attempting to win the needle trades workers for Tammany Hall, has come out in support of William Randolph Hearst’s anti- Mexican campaign. He has sent a communication to Secretary of State Frank Kellogg calling his attention to Hearst’s so-called exposure. The DAILY WORKER in another column, exposes the Hearst “documents” as forgeries. ee * That the intervention of Congress- man William I, Sirovich into the dif- ficulties in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is a move on the part of Tammany Hall to ex- tend ~its.influenge: in. the needle: trades is the opinion of many cloak and dressmakers interviewed yester- day. The workers charged that the ex- penses for the Mecca Temple meet- ing held by the so-called Committee of 50 Monday night were paid by the Jewish Day, an organ of Tammany Hail. “The demigogue speech of Siro- vich, said one active cloakmaker, “was delivered for the purpose of (Continued on Page Five) GRAND JURY DOES NOT LISTEN T0 BURNS’ CHARGES Pinchot Ready to Back Detective MeMullin WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.— Today U. S. District Attorney Gordon gave Wm. J. Burns the eight page typewritten statement of the former Burns’ detective McMullin to read. But the grand jury investigating Burns’ part in the fixing of the oil graft jury, was not so generous. It scoffed at two papers, both drawn up by friends of Burns, one of them his employe, making derogatory statements about McMullin, This was the evidence which Burns, “The Eye That Never Sleeps,” as the anti- labor detective has styled himself, boasted would “shoot full of holes” the jury fixing, and perjury charges made against him by his former de- “\tective, McMullin. Siddons Cuts In. The trial judge, F. L. Siddons, thrust himself into the public light again today by signing an order ap- pointing a committee composed of Peyton Gordon, special government oil counsel, John E. Laskey, former district attorney, and James S, Easby- Smith, local prominent lawyer, to conduct an investigation and déterm- ine whether there is any basis for contempt proceedings in the recently declared mistrial of the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case, Siddons’ order revolves around the j charges of loose and improper talk- ' ing by Juror Edward J. Kidwell. District Attorney Gordon seemed irked when he heard of Judge Sid- dons’ order. It was evidently ua- ' solicited and unwelcome. Earlier in the day, Chas. G. Rud- . dy, talked to the grand jury for an hour. Ruddy is ch: shadower for the Burns Detective ..gency and the man whom McMullin says inserted | Ass’t Attorney General Lamb’s auto Heense plate number into the false (Continued on Page Two) —s WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The second installment of the| Hearst “expose” against Mexico, based upon forged documents, purporting t tos show that the Nicaraguan liberal movement against -————®Wall Street’s puppet president, Diaz, was subsidized by the Cafles govern- ment, was even less convincing than the first. The threadbare tale originated by ; the state department in its attempts) ? to justify its armed intervention in Nicaragua are again played up by the| = Washington Herald, the local Hearst sheet. There is revised the old attack on the ground that the present nation- alist government of Mexico was try- ing to place that nation at the head of “Bolshevist Federation, to include the five Central American republics of Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salva- dor, Costa Rica and Honduras,” and later “as opportunity offered to add| the Carribean countries of Venezuela,| Columbia, Haiti and Santo Domingo, and perhaps eventually Cuba and ea ta Rico.” The facts are well known here| which go to show that the Calles gov- ernment has been only too hesitant in| its historical duty to make Mexico} the center around which the Latin American republics could be brought to rally in a bloc to save themselves from such depredations as exempli- fied in the Nicaraguan invasion. The fear on the part of the U. S. financial interests that a step toward such a role may be made by Mexico in connection with the Havana con- ference has evidently inspired the present attack. In fact the Calles government in many cases recently carried thru a policy antagonistic to Mexican labor upon the support of which a consistent anti-imperialist| policy (which Hearst calls a “Bolshe- vist” policy) would have to depend. More “Documentary Proof.” Official representatives of the re-| actionary Diaz government have an- nounced: that for some time the Nica-| raguan state department has been in| possession of “documentary proof of! the Mexican government’s connection | with the Sacasa rebellion.” These so-| called representatives are mere lack-| eys of Wall Street and their state-| ment probably indicated that the forgers have also distributed some of their handiwork to the Diaz govern- ment to be used in defense of the policy of American despotism in that country. These “documents” will probably be held in reserve until the Nicara- guan question comes up at the Pan- American conference and it becomes necessary to defend the course of the United States government in Nicara- gua. More Forgery Proof. Dr. Castro-[eal, charge d’affaires, and other officials of the Mexican embassy said there were no fewer than sixty “elementary grammatical errors” in the text of the six docu- ments published by the Hearst news- papers yesterday morning, which, they declared, could never have been overlooked by even the most careless functionaries. “Forgery mills whose business it is to turn out documents from the Mex- ican secret archives for the foreigner are found in Mexico City,” an embas- sy official declared, adding that some of the “mill products” drift across the American border, but ele- mentary grammatical mistakes were usually sufficient to peels doubt as to their source. if Fear Chinese Famine, Washington Is Told WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. -—- The most disastrous famine in history is about to strike China and millions are already feeling the pinch of hun- ger, according to authentic advices reaching government officials here today. The winter, always severe from Shanghai to the north, has set in and there is little or no food, it was stated. Dairy Clerks Wages Are Increased After Strike| Twenty striking clerks of H. & S.} airy Co. shops at 184 Rivington St., and 29 Ludlow St., have won an in- crease in wages from $40 to $42 and a reduction in hours from 57 to 54 weekly, the Retail Grocery and Dairy _ Clerks’ Union ananunont yesterday. B. and O. Road Taking Dead Bodies of Workers From Ruins; Flood From Broken Mains Hinders Rescue “IN DEATH HOUSE BY CHRISTMAS,” New York Prosecutor Says It Is State’s Hope;) Greco-Carrillo Defense Replies mas,” Filippo Greco, secretary of the Greco-Carrillo Defense League, charged the prosecutor’s office and the New York police department with ever growing prejudice against the two impris- oned anti-fascist workers last night. McGeehan’s “hope” was published in an interview in a New | York newspaper. yesterday. I$ THREAT IN FASCIST FRAME-UP |the miners and their families, organization drives in the non-union coal fields, and defiance of the, | injunction provisions—all urged upon the conference by resolution adopted by local unions of the cemetery Calogero Grezo, wother of the Leads Fight on Miners | (PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR WHOSE WHOSE COAL AND IRON POLICE, 'TERRORIZE MINING CAMPS, SHOWN AS COAL COMPANY: STOCKHOLDER; 3000 GUNMEN IMPORTED; 28,000 EVICTED! Emergency Conference of A. F. of L. Second in Twenty Years; Local Union Delegates Barred From Business Sessions '/Rank and File Resolution Given Wide Publicity By Pittsburgh Presss{ Official Conference Drafts Coal Strike Program (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.—Ex-Governor Pinchot has been made the central figure in the Amer. ican Federation of Labor emergency conference here, called to consider the critical situation of th United Mine Workers and the labor movement in general created by the concentrated attack oft the coal companies and the granting of a federal injunction outlawing the miners’ strike. PINCHOT BOOM FIRST CONSIDERATION ; It is apparent to everyone here that the organization of a nation-wide campaign for relief o! | United Mine Workers, have been pushed into the background in favor of a Pinchot boom for thai U. S. senate. It is certain that ex-Governor Pinchot’s S$ appearance at the conference, and his speech attack: | ing | the present state administration, is_preliminary to his entering the republican primaries defense league secretary,. and | Donato Carrillo are to go on trial lore 5 in the Bronx on ere of killing two fascists. | the fact that District Attorney Mc- |Geehan said that he hoped to have |my brother and Carrillo in the death | jHouse at Sing Sing prison by Christ- | |said. “With the trial three weeks |away and the defense witnesses yet ‘clearly shows the increasingly preju- | diced attitude of Mr. McGeehan.” to be heard from, this statement | | A statement attributed to Count Di| Revel that the Fascist League of | | North America contained between 12,- | 000 and 14,000 members is false, Car- \lo Tresca, head of the Anti-Fascist | League of North America, said. CARLO TRESCA | Di Revel’s organization is directly responsible for the Greco-Carrillo © non, secretary of the International THINK GAS TANK frame-up, according to James P, Can- ADJOINING PLANT \Schneiderman To Be | Expelled on Order of A. BF. of L. Chiefs LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 15. — The Executive Council of the Ameri- “My attention has been called to |. |mas,” the defense league secretary | : | frame-up Labor Defense. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.—With the} coroner and company officials work-| ing frantically to pin the fault of the) disaster in some way upon the work- men killed, others concentrated their} efforts today on reaching victims of| the Equitable Gas Company tank ex-| plosion who it is felt certain are| pinned beneath tons gf debris in the wreckage of the Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company, adjoining? the gas plant.) Seventy-one of the pottery employes) are missing. At noon the known death toll stood | at 43 and the number injured between! 500 and 600. In addition a’ workman | was killed this morning when a mass of steel fell on him from a hoist used! in clearing away debris. Pinned and Drowned. | Pumpers worked all morning drain- | ing the basement of the pot company} of water that rushed into it when the} concussion shattered water mains. | Many men were working in the base-| ‘ment and, it is fear, were drowned | without a chance of escape. Firemen attempted to clear the| wreckage with the aid of dynamite} \but abandoned the effort when this procedure failed to budge the mass of steel and mortar. (Continued on Page Two) PANKEN TO DEMAND RECOUNT. | Jacob Panken, socialist party judge | defeated for reelection in the recent election, will demand a recount of votes on the ground of fraud, Gilbert E. Roe, head of his non-partisan law- yers committee. announced yesterday. can Federation of Labor has instruct- |ed General Organizer Dale of the Of- fice Workers Union that William Schneiderman is to be expelled from | the union. Schneiderman is a very active | unionist in Los Angeles, and a strong left wing leader. He was elected del- {egate to the A. F. of L. convention in this city, but was driven from the floor by the official gang on charges |of being a Communist. The evidence | against him was furnished by mem- | bers of the strike-breaking police force of this open shop town. A police | detective was detailed to assist Presi- | the campaign against the Commu- nists, and Schneiderman was one of their victims. Strong majorities in the’ Office Workers Union and in the Central Labor Council have prevented any ex- pulsion of Schneiderman so far, —w More Window Cleaners | Are Arrested in’ Strike Three more pickets of the striking Window Cleaners’ Protective Union were arrested yesterday, the union re- ports. They are George Goulart and G. Zawasa, taken into custody at ' Myrtle Ave, and Tompkins St., Brook- jlyn, on charges of felonious assault, and D, Shyshkowski, arrested at Grand St. and Broadway for alleged | first degree assault. Harry Feinstein, business agent of the union, said in e statement last night that these ar- rests like: similar ones in the past were instigated by the employers LABOR DEFENS TO WAGE WAR ON | FRAME-UP SYSTE A nation-wide attack on the sinister ti-labor frame-up system which} flourishes in the United States will be one of the most important develop-~ ments from the International Labor Defense Conference that concluded its ssions here last Sunday. In a atement issued st yesterday | |from the defense organization’s head- quarters, it was declared that “The tem has become one of the gre dangers to the labor movement. The fight against this sinister menace must take a prom- inent place on the order of ae | of the American workingclass.” In a resolution denouncing the ial famous system that legally assassin- | ated Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo | Vanzetti, the conference pointed out that scores of workers are in United States jails, tho guilty of no crime, but because of their working-class loyalty. Call Attention to Many Cases. The resolution points out that not only Sacco and Vanzetti, but scores of other workers are also endangered by frame-ups. Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, now serving life sentences in California prisons, are indicated as victims of the frame-up, as are the Centralia I. W. W., Greco and Car- rillo, the fur workers and cloakmakers of New York, the Passaic strikers and the Cheswick miners. The_labor move- ment of the entire country is urged to join hands for a fight to put “an end to the murder and imprisonment of the working class fighters.” The conference also unanimously adopted a_ resolution endorsing the campaign made by the International Labor Defense on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, in which it consistently brought forward the class issues’ in- volved. _dent Green and Vice-president Woll in | Pledge Fight to Release Prisoners. In another resolution, the confer- ence. pledged the entire support of the organization for a systematic (Continued on Page Two) Provincetown Theatre Takes Over “The Belt” | Paul Siften’s satirical drama of mass production, “The Belt,” which is now running its last week at the New Playwright’s Theatre, will open next Tuesday night at the Province- town Theatre in McDougal St., the New Playwright’s directors announ- ced yesterday. Increasing support by workers en- | ables “The Belt” to continue at a second theater, Michael Gold, one of the New Playwright directors, said. “The Centuries,” Em Jo Basshe’s play of New York’s East Side, will open at the New Playwright’s The- ater Noy. 29. Answering a threat by district attorney MeGeehan that he | against Senator Reed with the support of union officialdom. “hopes to have Greco and Carrillo in the death house by Christ: | ears se Sey E | Atrocities of Coal and Iron aad Tnon Poles. Terrible Coal Camp Conditions Bared (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Noy. 15.—The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, | its for its “union-management coopération” scheme, bearing’ * | the endorsement of the American Federation of Labor, has been | discovered to be, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Railroad |and the steel trust, a “prime mover” in the conspiracy to smash the United Mine Workers of America. LEWIS STATEMENT EXCITES COMMENT. This statement was made by President John L. Lewis of the ,U Inited Mine Workers at the emergency conference of union heads here. It called forth surprised comment from both labor officials eee “and newspapermen since Lewis ii KY, lis known as one of the most en- XPEL TROTS | thus stic advocates of the “union - management coopera- LINOVIEV ; PARTY | tion” plan, beginning in its pres- ures made by speakers MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Nov. 15. —|é mn of the conference The action of the All-union Com-|Were of an almost equally startling up by the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission. Characterizing the recent activities jent form on the B. and O. and |now accepted as the official ‘ae of the A. F. of L. Other Startling Disclosures. munist Party in regard to tHe activ-| nature. ffidavits were produced, ities of the Trotskyist opposition was | Signed rs and members of officially made public yesterday with | Miners detailing the out- the publication of a resolution drawn s inflicted upon them by the coal and iron police—thugs deputised by the state but paid by the coal and steel companies. of the Opposition as hostile to the Soviet Union and the dictatorship of the proletariat, the resolution orde 28,000 miners’ families in this dise trict are subject to eviction. 8,000 eviction ¢: are pending. 3,000 guns the expulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from the All Union Communist Party. It also orders the expulsion from the Central Control Commission of Smil- ga, Kameneff, Rakovsky, Yev¢ men have en imported by the cors porations. Thousands of strike, reakers, some of them convicts, ave been brought in. Mining come munities have been turned into “live off, Avyedeff, Muraloff, Bak .{ing hells,” union officials stated. Peterson, Solovieff, Shklovsky and Governor Is Coal Owner. Lisdin, Opposition leaders. All Oppo- Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania was shown to be a stockholder in and ja director of the Clearfield Coal Come pany, owned by the New York Cen« sition leaders, furthermore, will (Continued on Page Y'wo) be STATE EXPENSES GROW. ALBANY, Nov. 15.—An_ increas« of $20,000,000 in the cost of New York State’s government for the cal year 192’ sight, ac ing to fiscal experts at the capitol. This will bring the total t of tral Railroad and is also an attorney for this union-hating corporation, e police, under orders of Governor *, have ridden down women and cord- ildren. , Wall Street Fights Union, Coal companies which are willing government for the next fisc r|to sign an agreement with the union 10,000. The 1927 budget to-| are threatened with ruin by the banks 000, 000. such corporations as Genera) Motors, a Wall Street corporation, ag jeording to Philip Murray, vice preste dent of the United Mine Workers, Murray named the Bertha Consumers Company, producing 3,500,000 tong annually, and an operator named Gil- more, as two concerns who had been prevented from signing a union con. tract. t 400 union officials are attending the conference. * jan ri Meeting of Membership ] | of District Two Called for Campaign Discussion| | A membership meeting of the New York district of the Workers (Gommunist) Party will be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., next Tuesday night, instead of next Fridey night as announced yesterday. Jay Lovestone, nation- al secretary of the Party, will re- | port on the build-the-Party cam- paign. The change in date from Friday to Tuesday was announced last night. | * : Conference Drafts Resolutions, 4 (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.—A come mittee, representative of all major unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, went into ses« sion here today to draft resolution 4 ~ a e