The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGAD FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Vol. IV. No. 263. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter a mail, $8.00 per year, t the Post Office at New York, N. Y., NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1927 under the act of WORKER. Murch 3, 1879. Published daily exce; PUBLISHING FINAL CITY EDITION t Sunday by The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents co., “BREAK INJUNCTION” CRY AT PITTSBURGH MEET AID FROM MEXICO WOULD HAVE SAVED) NICARAGUA FROM IMPERIALIST REGIME DECLARES LIBERAL REPRESENTATIVE More Forgeries Published as Marines Slay Six| and Wound Seven in Southern Republic MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16.—‘“If we had had 150,000 pesos in| our treasury when the revolution started Diaz would long ag have passed into history,” declared Dr. Pedro Zepeda, representa- tive of the late Sacasa liberal government of Nicaragua, in the | course of comments upon the series of forged documents se published in in the United States | by the Hearst chain of papers. SENATOR GLASS ATTACKS NEGRO’S RIGHT TO VOTE Borah Dodges Issue, but Regrets Amendment WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 16. — Senator Glass of Virginia (D) has come out flatly in favor of violation of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, giv- ing Negroes the right to vote and ex- cuses all southern states where the lash and lynchers’ noose actually de- prive anywhere from a half to two- thirds of the population from voting. Senator Borah (R) of Montana, echoes him in feebler strain, In a letter to Captain Wm. H. Stay- ton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Glass strives to answer Stayton’s charges that Glass, while insisting on the strict enforcement of the eighteenth amend- ment, against liquor, winked at the violation of the fourteenth and fif- teenth amendments, giving civil rights to Negroes. Plain Reaction. Glass came back with an argument which can only mean, say political observers, that the ~ nian is con- fident that the present period of re- action is a good time to try and put the stamp of law on the illegal prac- tices now condoned by the law-—the murders and terrorism by which the: Negro is completely prevented from voting in national, state, county or municipal elections in the South. The Southern senator declares that the amendments giving human rights to the Negroes, and particularly the right to vote, were not properly adopt- ed, and that they need not be obeyed, inasmuch as laws for their enforcing were cheerfully neglected by the northern victors in the Civil War, who rode into’ power on the abolition pro- gram, but had very little use for it in private. Courts Allow Mobs. Glass glories in the fact that the federal courts, controlled by Republi- » eans, have never declared any state laws defining the rights of individuals to vote or refusing to punish mobs who interfere with this right, and goes on’ to say that there is “no fed- eral statute providing for the enforce- ment of the Fifteenth Amendment whith the people of any Southern state ‘deride, detest and spit upon,’ “And the white people of Virginia, within the limitations of the federal constitution, have complete control of their state affairs, without the least fear of disturbance by the blacks and with just as little fear of threats by negropholist newspapers and _politi- cians favoring the repeal of the Eigh- teenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. ] think this is true of every other Southern State, which, within the restrictions of the Federal Constitution, has legislated against the characteristics and habits of those who are too ignorant, too simple and too corruptible en bloc to administer the government.” Senator Borah, attacked by the same wet organization for his insist- ence on the enforcement of the 18th amendment, was also criticized for a statement made by him in the Senate some time ago that it was a tremen- dous mistake to enfranchise the Negro so rapidly, and that Congress evident- ly had all along decided that the Southern states could enforce or fail ,to enforce this amendment as they liked, for Congress had many times refused to define the limits to which individuals might go in persuading Negroes not to vite. Borah publically holds the opinion that the Federal government can do nothing if a mob in the South prevents Negroes from voting. But in his reply to the Wets, Borah evaded the issue by declaring that he was in favor of obeying the whole constitution, and all of its amendment its. jhad decided to ‘move against the oil It is held by prominent anti-imperi. | alists that if Mexico did not place an: |funds at the disposal of the embattled | Nicaraguan forces engaged in a fight | with American imperialism’s armed | invaders and the native hirelings un-| der Didz, it should have done so. If} 150,000 pesos would have saved Nica- | ragua from the clutches of Wall Street and its puppet president, Diaz, it was plainly the duty of the Mexican | government, itself threatened with the Yankee iron fist, as a defensive meas- ure in behalf of all Latin America, to place the money at the disposal of the liberal forces. Never Received a Cent. “T never received a cent,” asserted | Zepeda, “from the Mexican govern- ment for the Nicaraguan cause or for any other purpose. I should be will- ing for all American newspapers that published that false story to make the fullest inquiry as to whether I ever had such an amount in any bank, or if I ever sent any money from Mex- ico for the Nicaraguan cause. “Every cent that has been expend- ed for the Nicaraguan cause has been contributed by Nicaraguans and no Mexican ever gave a centavo to it.” Will Present Proof at Havana. That the liberal forces of Nicaragua willstry to piisent their case against American imperialism at» the Pan- American conference at Havana in January is indicated by the statement of Zepeda that: “There is evidently | jan effort on foot to create a false im- pression about the Nicaraguan revo- lution in advance of the international congress to be held at Havana in January. At that time we shall then present irrefutable proofs that we never had any compromises or any (Continued on Page Two) ab MUNISM IN SPVIET UNION \ SURE".-STALIN Gpecial Cable to DAILY WORKER.) “* MOSCOW, Nov. 16.4The fact that socialist industry has already secured the role of the dominating element in the national economy and leads rural economy is the best pledge that pea- sant economy will lead the way to further collectivization,” declared seph Stalin, secretary of the ll Union Communist Party when inter- viewed by members of the foreign delegations who attended the tenth anniversary celebrations of the No- vember revolutior Replying to eM vestion as to how the U. S. S. R. intends to struggle with anti-foreign oil concerns, Stalin declared this was the wreng way to put the question. If the question is put in such a form, he declared, it may look as if the Soviet oil industry concerns from other countries at- tempting to destroy them. As a matter of fact, he explained, certain oil concerns from capitalist countries are trying to suppress the Soviet oil industry, which defends it- self by raising the quality of its pro- duction, and especially lowering oil prices. The Soviet oil industry, he declared, is not a capitalist branch of industry, therefore it needs no super- (Continued on Page Two) t Greco - Carrillo Meeting Is Planned for Bronx A Greco-Carrillo defense meeting will be held Saturday at 8.30 p. m., at 188th St. and Brook Ave., the Bronx, by the International Labor De- fense, it was announced last night. Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Photographie Workers’ Union, will be among the speakers. P. Buckenberger will preside. Colegaro Greco and Do- - | tempting to conclude a contract with [Coolidge Again Says | Filipinos Won't Be Granted Independence | | | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, President Coolidge again categoric- ally declared that the “he Pa tion’s policy regarding the Philip- pine Islands had not changed. bility of independence | nds is remote, President | Coolidge said, using the familiar | argument that the islands “were | not yet prepared for self-govern- ment.” oe — MACHINE GUNS — AND AIRPLANES MENACE PICKETS Colorado Sheriff Denies Habeas Corpus Writ DENVER, Colo., Nov. 16. — State police, sent by Governor Adams into the Lafayette coal fields to break the strike of the coal miners, here today menaced a hundred pickets led by a girl dressed in red, with their machine guns. Airplanes equipped with ma- chine guns and bombs circled over the pickets, and added their threat to those of the troopers and mine guards, The pickets stood their ground in spite of violence offered and the charge of heavily armed troopers. The strike is still on and spreading in some sections tho there are continued | boasts by the Rockefeller Fuel and Iron Co. that it is about over. | Sheriff Lies About Writs | Sheriff H. C. Detienne and Jailer T. E. Keenan of the Pueblo county jail calmly deny that they received the habeaS corpus writs with which they were served when the case of their sixteen prisoners was brought ! before the federal court here. They are holding imprisoned, in most cases without even the formality of a regu- lar charge, Kristen Svanum, organ- | izer of Metal and Coal Miners Indus- trial Union No. 210-220 of the I. W. W., and strike leaders Hugo Oehler, Cc. R. Orr, Karl Klemens, A. S. Em- bree, A. B, Harris, Frank Menendez, | and E. M_ Huber. { “BOSSES WIN IN NEW AGREEMENT LOCAL 41 SAYS. 24 Cloakmakers Fired | at Right Wing Order That the right wing of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union sigmed an agreement in the name of Local 41, I. L. G. W., without , the consent of the membership was charged yesterday by M. E. Taft, manager cf Local 41, The agreement, signed early in the week by the right wingers headed by Harry Greenberg, an international vice president, is a victory for the employers, according to Taft. He pointed out that the portions of the agreement made public indicate that the right wing gave many concessions to the employers. Give Up Holiday. “Take for an example the legal holidays,” continued Taft. “In the old agreement the workers were paid for Christmas. In the agreement signed by the right wingers .Christ- mas is no longer a holiday. Decora- tion day is substituted, although it comes during the slow season when most of the workers have no jobs. “Another right wing ‘victory’ is the increase of novelty workers’ and hemstichers’ wages from $28 to $30 a week. This is a farce, as all work- ers in the trade are receiving more than that scale at the present time. “We have not been told the rest of the agrement, but if it follows the same line it is a bosses’ victory 100 per cent.” Hold Membership Meet. More than 500 members of Local 41 assembled in Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., Tuesday night pledged themselves to support the present Joft-Bing zcbninistration of the organization. The local was re- cently suspended by the right wing general executive board of the I. L. G. W. A resolution adopted by the as- sembled workers rejects the agree- |ment signed in their name by the right wing officials with the bosses’ association, pointing out that those who pretend to represent them in the (Continued on Page Five) Attorney Hendersen, who defended criminal syndicalism cases in South- ern California has appeared in Colo- rado to assist in Defense work. The I. W. W. general executive board has issued a call for all mem- bers to hurry to Colorado and help with the picketing. About 200 scab steel workers at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. plant at Pueblo have volunteered to assist the mine thugs and state troopers * “guard” the mines. British Water to Run Over Abyssinian Dam The J. G. White Engineering Cor- poration of New York is still at-| Right Wingers, Cap Bosses Plan Ending of Forty Hour Week The lockout of many capmakers which is expected hourly to force them to accept the lengthening of hours from 40 to 44 hours a week is a conspiracy between contractors and union officials headed by President Max Zaritsky, The DAILY WORKER has been informed. The closing, of shops for several the Abyssinian government to build @ $20,000,000 dam for irrigation pur- | poses on the upper reaches of the! Blue Nile, a London dispatch yester- | day said. Ten days ago premature | publicity almost caused an “interna- | tional incident.” weeks, it is expected, will be followed by a mass meeting at which Zaritsky | will attempt to compel the locked out workers to accept the lengthening of the hours. The contractors and Zaritsky are ‘holding many secret conferences, it is The British foreign office claims | |said. It is also reported in the market that under the treaty of 1902 between | that if the right wing-employer com- Britain and Abyssinia no such con-|bine are successful in ending the 40 tract can be made without British|hour week their next move will be approval, the dispatch said. England, France and Italy all have | large interests in Abyssinia and it is | feared any favoritism shown to any | of these countries would arouse jéal- | cusies. For that reason negotiations |ence at a Plenary Session today the application of officials of the New | were started with the American firm | adopted thirteen regulations govern- York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and | {and were practically concluded when he British claimed priority rights. |to institute piece work. RADIO CONVENTION R END WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The In- |ternational Radio-Telegraph Confer- jing “ship-to-shore transmission of messages. Atheist Society to File ~ Complaint Against “Faith Healing” at Straton’s Baptist Church Although John Roach Straton can conduct his “faith healing” ser- vices in Calvary Baptist Church without ‘fear of prosecution for practicing -medicine without a li- cense, according to the recent de- cision of Health Commissioner Harris, his right to do so will be challenged by the American So- ciety for the Advancement of Athe- ism, its president, Charles Smith, has announced. Smith said the society’s attor- neys would go before a magistrate to lodge a complaint against Dr. nato Carrillo, anti-fascist workers, will go on trial in the Bronx County Court Dec. 5 on charges of killing two fascists last Memorial Day. | Straton. Commissioner Harris, who had previously criticized the hearing services, backed down from his stand and wrote Dr. Straton that the “giving of treatments accord- ing to the religious tenets of any church” was exempted from prose- cution under the law governing medical practise. He said he would not attempt to interfere with this “basic provision of the law of the state.” If a complaint should be made that contagious diseases have been spread as a result of “healing ser- vices,” however, the ‘health depart- ment would be bound by the law to investigate. Dr. Straton’s attempted “faith cures” have included “treatment” of paralysis agitans. and insanity, BLACKMER, OIL WITNESS CITED FOR CONTEMPT Burns and] His Men May Be Held for Perjury Ww. ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. issued a ruling 16— to- wanted as a witness in the Teapot} Dome case, demanding the absent oil man to show cause why he should not be held in contempt \by next (Continued on Page Two) ITALIAN LABOR FIGHTS FASCISM. IN U. S. CITIES Sons of Ttaly Lodges Reject Appeals That the overwhelming majority of | jthe Italian workers in this country are opposed to fascism, the only group that supports them being pro- fessional men, is the information the DAILY WORKER Has received from | reliable sources. The members of the Sons of Italy, largest Italian fraternal society in America, are opposed to fascism, it is said. In New Haven, Conn., nine lodges of the Sons of Italy with a membership of ‘over 12,000 are con- tinuously throwing into the waste- basket all communications they ré- ceive from the Fascist League of North America or from any other organization they suspect is sym- pathetic to the fascist regime in Italy. Refused to Parade. In the past, New Haven Columbus Day parades drew 10,000 workers, This year the Sons of Italy lodges did not participate as they were in- formed that the fascists would be in the line of march. Less than 400 marchers joined the parade. In Danbury, Conn,, recently a fascist agent attempted to sell oil stocks in an Italian well, owned by the fascist government. When the (Continued on Page Two) Railroad Merger Is Temporarily Halted WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Exam- iners ofp the Interstate Commerce | Commissfon today recommended that | Nickel Plate Railroads, to be repre- sented on the board of the Wheeling | and Lake Erie Railroad be denied. It was further recommended that steps taken by officials of these | three roads to gain control of thej Wheeling Lake Erie be retraced | and the line continued as a trunk line, until the Interstate Commerce Com- mission is able to make further plans in the general scheme of consolida- tion of railroa WORKERS LEFT HOLDING BAG. Prospering while unemployment districts everywhere, Wall banking and brokerage houses are re- ported planning an employes’ ape mas bonus distribution this 5 ceeding the estimated $50,000,000 fee tal of last year. The bulk of the dis-' tribution allotted in every case ac- cording to income, will go to the exe- cutives and white collar straw bosses, observers point out, day in the case of H. M. Blackmer, | “A.F.L, DISCUSSION ON MINERS’ RELIEF ENDS WITH RESOLUTION TQ APPEAL TO PRES. COOLIDGE [Delegate From Seventeen | Miners? Local Unions! Demanding Militancy, Thrown Out of Hall ‘Representative of Pittsburgh Central Body Gets Applause Demanding L Labor Party BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Any appeal that the Ameri- can Federation of Labor may make to President Coolidge in behalf of the 130,000 striking bituminous miners in Penn« sylvania and Ohio fields, probably will be in vain, it was ins dicated on high authority here téday. The president “considers his hands are tied because there is no compulsory arbitration law under which he could act with specific direction.” He will make the present situation an excuse for recommending again passage of a law giving him strike-breaking powers in excess of those he possesses already. i eer 4 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16.—Demands yesterday by J. Sj , delegate to the American Federation of Labor conference! ee discussing brutalities against the striking miners and reli for them, that the conference endorse mass picketing and itself | proesed to break the federal injunction of Judge Schoonover, also} organize a labor party for independent political action and assess, one day’s pay from all organized workers for relief, continue to! be the sensation of labor and industrial circles. Though the con-} fereiice rejected the recommendations of Otis, he has placed these |two demands of the striking miners directly before the public. Pittsburgh newspapers reflect the consternation of the employing classes and the coal operators by putting Otis’ statements in headlines. | A BI ? 4 iW + PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16—The American Federation of | Labor Conference on the lock-out of the coal miners, attended by | representatives of 78 labor organizations, many of them the high- |est officials in the unions, has finally replied to the representa- * \tives of the starving and-evicted and enjoined <ca}-miners with GS bac and wordy resolution granting exactly none of the demands |the miners made upon the conference. The resolution finally adopted, in secret session, from which lal delegates of the local unions of the United Mine Workers were ge condemns the brutality of the @ coal and iron police, and as a remedy are 8 jealls for the executive council of the | itar Trainin | American Federation of Labor to pe- | at C.0.N.Y. Today tition President Coolidge and Gover- The opinion of the students of the |nor Fisher of Pennsylvania to have it! | College of the City of New York on | stopped. The petition refuses the miners’ plea for the organization of the question of military training will be expressed at a meeting at noon a labor party for independent politi- at the college by the Student Council, | jeal action, and reiterates the tradi- | of the miners that the A. F. of L. con-}it was announced last night. Repre- ference call on organized labor bodies | sentatives of the faculty also will to donate a day’s wages of their mem-| Present their views. bers to the relief of the miners’ fam-| This is the latest development in tional bureaucrats’ program of “non- |partisan political action,” which in this case means support for ex-Gov-; ernor Pinchot, one of the speakers @ | the first day of the conference. Rejects Miners’ Demands. The resolution rejects the request ilies, and instead issues a colorless ap-|the case of Alexander Lifshitz and peal for individuals to give what they | Leo Rothenberg, students, suspended can, and for “the churches, the educa- ry training at @ cizing milit: ast Thursday. tement issued yesterday by <off, president of the 1, in which he said*the ored the suspension, Was ply by many students tional institutions and all liberal-; minded and free institutions and or-| ganizations to come into Pittsburgh, to see what we have seen, to learn for themselves, to behold this degra- | §*U4 dation and oppression and brutality, oe z to witrless this economic and social Sort St They pointed out that tragedy, to learn of the perversion of | * ef issued his’ statements the judicial processes and of the feud-/OUt consulting members of the cous alistic police control in the state of cil and that the statement was) aiaam Pennsylvania.” his personal opinion. }has been spreading through industrial | Street | Evicts Mine Worker. The demands of the local unions of the United Mine Workers of Am were presented to the conference Secretary Minerich, of Local 4238, U. M. W. of A., directly repre- nting seventeen other local unions {of miners, When he rose on the |floor of the conference to speak on the resolution calling for mass viola- |tion of the injunction, organization of poe unorganized, the labor party, as- | nt for relief, he was forcibly sacked from the hall, | | District 5, an office he holds thru ‘having stolen the election last year |from his progressive opponent, Fred Siders, rushed at Minerich, shouting, |“Sit down, damn you, sit down!” The Bellowing of Lewis, | John Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of | America, joined in the chorus, yelling, :“Be seated.” Minerich had only time to say: Union |i Faker Threatens Worker. The convention was in an uproar for ten minutes, Miners present \shouted: “He is a striking miner; let him speak!” Pat Fagan, district president of} Deny Withdrawal. Lifshitz and Rothenberg in a state= ment last night denied stories that they sppeered in morning newspapers 1 nting them as hav~ i erick B. Robinson, sident of the college, withdrawa ing their opposition to military train- ing. ted that they wrote the ent informing him that not a personal issue, thereby clarifying the issue. “We do not want to distort the sue,” both said. “Our attack is not against members of the faculty but against military training. We have and will not withdraw our oppo- on to military drills.” The Liberal Club of the college held a meeting at the college last night with Norman Thomas leading a discussion on military Baie Siberian Agriculture Increasing Rapidly MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (By Mail) —The jrapid development of Siberian agri- “All} culture is shown by figures recently made public here which show that the sowing area of Siberia increased 11 right, John, just sit down,” when the machine men got hold of him and (Continued on Page Two) ing at a faster rate than agriculture, © Agricultural machinery is rapidly — being introduced in Siberia, _ ’ a per cent, with dairy produce increas. ~