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Page Two “Break Injunctions” Cry | THE DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1927 Blast Wrecks Building Near Gas Tanks At A. F. LL. Conference (Continued from Page One) threw him out, amidst threats from the Lewis and Fagan supporters, Weak Decision. The single realistic touch in the en- | tire proclamation, adopted by the co! | ference as reported in by the commit- | tee appointed from among interna | tional union heads by President | Green, is an equivocal, veiled admoni- | tion to the strikers to violate the in-| junction of Judge Schoonover in the} federal court her rdering them not| fo picket except u impossible cir- | cumstances, and prohibiting the col- lection of funds with which to fight| is a substitute for the lo-| , eal unions’ delegation demand that | the A. F. of L. heads at the confer- ence call for m violation of the in- | junction and come themselves to lead | the picketing. | The A. F. of L, decision is a bit/ of advice to the miners to care for| “the full observance of the law as| prescribed in the American constitu-| tion and to pay no heed to power as-| sumed by those who are unauthor-|} ized under the law to limit, circum-| seribe or repress their rights as citi- zens.” Delegation Sees Fisher. When the official delegation from the conference today laid before Gov- ernor Fisher at Harrisburg the re- quest for an investigation of coal and! iron police brutality, he merely waved it aside with a promise to look into any “new” specific instances of po- lice brutality. Fisher A Terrorist. Governor Fisher has already an- swered another demand from union labor for an investigation of charges of violence against the coal company’s coal and iron police (company thugs uniformed and armed by the state but paid by the coal operators) by appointing one Mock, a captain of the state constabulary to “investigate.” The captain’s report cleared the po- lice of all their crimes, but made a series of framed charged against the miners themselves. Moreover, Lewis himself declares Fisher to be a di- rector in the Clearfield Mining Cor-! poration, which is carrying on a vic- Blackmer, Oil Witness In Contempt (Continued from Page One) \ January 6, unless he makes an ap-| pearance at the trial. The judge also| ordered Blackmer’s property to be! seized to the extent of $100,000 and} held to satisfy any judgment that may be rendered against Blackmer jin the present proceedings. | Testimony of the western oil man) is sought because he is said to be in a position to tell of the $250,000 that passed to Fall thru the Continental {Trading Company, Ltd. of Canada| after the former secretary of the interior leased the Teapot Dome} Naval Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair. With the labors of the grand jury investigating the jury-fixing activi- ties of William J. Burns, in the Fall- Sinclair trial practically at an end, rumors were flitting around here to- day that prominens persons not j hitherto named in connection with the case would be involved in indict- ments for contempt of court in con- nection with the derailed trial. ious campaign of terror against the miners in its territory. Otis’ Militant Speech. In spite of the rough treatment of Minerich, John Otis, delegate from the Pittsburgh Central Union and the} In this conflict between rival cap- machinists’ union held the convention | jtalist groups, one with government for 20 minutes with a forcible speech| packing, Burns, the labor-hating on the necessity of organizing the|master of stoolpigeons suffered one unorganized miners on a_ national) of the worst setbacks in his career, Scale, and not merely locally in Penn-| when William McMullin, one of his Ivania, as recommended in the re-| most trusted sleuths, turned out to port of the committee that was fin-|be a government operative while he ally adopted. was investigating jurors for Burns. " speaker pointed out the neces- MeMullin, who admitted that he 4. sity for mass violation of the injunc- | signed faked affidevits at the orders tions, declaring that even Samuel|of Burns operatives may bring his Gompers stood for violation and he | former. master to trial for perjury demanded that the whole conference | Charges. _ i go out and break Judge Schdonover’s} Those involved in the conspiracy injunction against picketing. ;to purchase the Fall-Sinclair jury For Labor Party. pores é Otis pointed out the immediate | Here Is the List. — : need for organizing a labor party and| Harry F. Sinclair, who, with for- the complete bankruptcy of the A. F. | mer Secretary of Interior Albert B of L. system of supporting individual | Fall, was standing trial for conspir- candidates of the old tickets in the|@¢y to defraud the government of face of the complete capitalist con-|"4Val oil reserves; ; trol of both old parties and the whole|, H- Mason Day, vice president of machinery of government. | the Sinclair Exploration Company, iGreen and Woll Heply: jalleged “contact man” between Sin- with such applause from among the al oa eres ee 1 rank and file present that Vice Pres- |‘M¢, Sinclair Refining Company, also ident Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L,| "id to have been a ‘contact man; and President Green of the A. F br William J. Burns, titular head of Mr dath felt themselves Hosted ey the private detective firm which was make lengthy speeches in reply. engaged onipek ann EM It was after Otis’ speech that the| jurors under constant surveillance; : ‘ W. Sherman Burns, son of W. J., report of the special committee @p- | and secretary-treasury of the agency, pointed Monday 5 was brought in, a re-|to whom reports were made, and port in complete variance and contra-| was field marshal of the operatives dictory to the loudly applauded speech | that did the investigating work; of Otis. But it was the miners pres-} Charles G. Ruddy, manager of the ent as “visitors” without votes who | flying’ squadron assigned to trail the applauded Otis, and it was the high | jury; official delegates from international | William J, MeMullin, Burns oper-} unions who voted on the report—the | ative known to them as William V. Same delegates who threw Minerich|Long, who turned government in-, out of the convention. former; | _ Fourteen Burns operatives, report- . jing as “0-14,” “SIQNZ,” etc., who| Frey Resigns as Head were assigned to checking up*on the of Ohio Federation {movements of the jurors, their fi- |nancial condition and the nature of | i ie} BOLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 15. — John |" “ene: P. Frey, president of the Ohio Feder- i ation of Labor, has resigned from his | office. Frey is secretary of the metal | NO WORD ON INDIA FLIGHT LONDON, Nov. 16.—Up to ‘a late trades department of the American|hour this morning, no word had been Federation of Labor, to which he was| received of the airplane “Princess elected at the Los Angeles convention | Xenia,” carrying Captain Robert Me- of the A. F. of L. B + Hinkler Intosh and his pilot ANOTHER NEW BOOK Sacco-Vanzetti—Labor’s Martyrs By MAX SHACHTMAN This new book is a popular dra matic presentation of the whole case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Their early lives, their work in the Labor move- | ment—the effort of world labor to free them from the electric chair. The stery is complete, and vivid— the kind to inspire every worker. It is issued with an unusual cover in two colors with the photographs of the two martyrs. $ .25 CARTOONS on the case of CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI By Felix Frankfurter. (Cloth) $1.00 Sac Vanzetti. By Elli LIFE AND DEATH OF/SACCO-VAN- PO RY ON SACCO- ZETTI. Eugene Lyons, (Cloth) $1.50 ZETTI WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 39 E. 125 St., New York DEATH LIST 27 IN GAS BLAST: MORE MISSING Rescuers Show Heroism Hunting for Bodies PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16.—With 38 wor! listed today as “missing” possibility arose that the total death toll from the Equitable Gas Company tank explosion here Monday, may ex- ceed fifty. Already 27 are known dead, others are expected to succumb to their injuries and of the missing, many are lying dead be- neath tons of debris. The cellar of the Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company, now a mass of tangled wreckage, may yield many of the missing men. The plant employed 117 who were fat work when the nearby tank of the Equitable Gas Company let go its terrific blast. Several days will be required to pen- letrate to the bottom of the cellar. early a hundred of the 500 in- jured were still confined to hospitals today. A definite check has not been made. The bodies of the last two victims were found in the flooded |basement of the Clay Pot Company. jIt had previously been estimated that ten or more had been drowned there |like rats, The two bodies were found at the foot of the steps leading from the ceilar. Apparently the men had been unable to ape the onrush of water, for their bodies were -not mangled. The coroner said they died from drowning. The remaining structure of the ex- ploded tank was scheduled to be jvazed today. Other tanks damaged by the explosion will not be repaired until the investigation into the cause of the blast is completed. There is some speculation’ whether they will be rebuilt. ;_ Edwin Smith, an employe in the Joseph Horn Warehouse, injured by the explosion, died in a hospital dur- ing the night, increasing the death list to 27. Additional bodies are expected to |be found in the tangled mass of ruins of the Clay Pot Company. Workers toiled all through the night eutting steel girders with acetylene | torches, to enable crews to clear away |the tons of debris, in which it is |hoped to find the bodies of the mis- sing or establish the fact they were {not killed. Rescue a believed workers were acclaimed heroes today after entering the base- ment of the Clay Pot Company dur- ing the night. They worked in it while others attacketl the huge pile of debris above them. There was a possibility that the mass woul& come jtumbling down on the heads of tue |searchers in the basement. Unde- |terred, the searchers pressed on and |were rewarded with the finding of |the two drowned bodies. | ‘Arnold Miners Begin Conferences for Self- Education, Relief ARNOLD, Pa., Nov.,15. — A Work- man’s Circle for Scientific Culture is being organized here, largely among mine workers. Sports as well as edu- ‘eation will be sponsored. A library | will be established. A series of con- \ferences is envisaged, the first of which is called for Nov. 24, at 3 o’clock at which the topic of discussion will be “Our Miners—Their Mines.” Ad- mission is free, but a collection will be aa up for the striking miners’ re- let, ‘Describes Growth of ‘Nationalism in Africa ij | The growth of nationalism in Af- rica is more momentous than in China |and promises to give birth to 9 clash between the Negroes arid whites, ac- (cording to Stanley High, author and | journalist, just returned from a trip \to Africa, in an address at the an- |nual meeting of the Methodist Epis- copal Boatd of Foreign Missions Mon- day. Aid From Mexico Would (Continued from Page One) obligations with any foreign govern- | ment in the world.” | a ee | Thrills for Morons. | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.— The} third of the copyrighted articles based upon forgeries jagainst Mexico and | Nicaragua, appeared today in the/| Washington Herald, the local Hearst} sheet. Written by one John Page, it| bears all the familiar trappings of a| cheap detective story of the “Nick | Carter” or “Old Sleuth” variety. | One of the doeiments branded by | Mexican authorities as forgeries pur- ports to be an order from Calles di-| recting. that 100,000 pesos ($50,000) | be. placed.at the disposal of the Mex- | icdn“ambassador in Guatemala, “for | expenses for newspaper propaganda | in favor-of Mexico,” the sum to be| charged-to “secret expenditures of the | department of foreign relations” of | ‘the Mexican government. | Even those who at first suspected these Hearst stories were based upon stolen documents are now convinced | that they are forgeries, in’view of the | latest series of alleged “secrets” of | the Mexican government. It is point- ed out that the clumsy and romantic | designation: “secret expenditures of | the department of foreign relations” is not the language of diplomacy, but | only the product of the imagination | of those interested in trying to estab- | lish a spurious case. | In order to convince those who read and believe the Hearst publications there is a note of “historical explana- | tion,” stating that the word “citizen” | applied to the representatives of the | Mexican government “is a vadical nomenclature, first used during the French revolution, and corresponds to the Communist ‘comrade’ ”. | “Conspiracies Everywhere.” | Even the establishment in Guate-| mala of a Mexican embassy is viewed | by the Hearst “journalists” as a con- | spiracy to lower the alleged prestige | of a nonentity who as American min-| ister, carried out Wall Street’s impe- | rialist ddsigns in that country and thereby discredit the United States Have Saved Nicaragua! | Bootlegger King Geo. Remus is his own lawyer whom he accuses of consorting with a prohibition agent, and with the agent’s help, swindling him out of prohibition service with his revelations of official graft. . Handling His Case | | ‘ ' in his trial for murder of his wife millions. He promises to shake the A o (Continued from Page One) profits, while the capitalist oii con- cerns cannot do without the immense | super-profits. The Oil War. Generally Soviet goods, particular- ly Soviet oil acts in the world mar- ket as a factor for lowering prices, ‘thus relieving the position of the con- sumer-masses. Therein, said Stalin, is the secret why the oil magnates of all countries, and particularly Deter- ing, are raising loud cries against the Soviet government and the anti-So- viet oil industry. Their policy, he continued, of oil prices and robbing the consumer- masses in fashionable phrases about “Communist propaganda” is thus a mask for their activities. Peasant Problem. In answer to the question how col- lectivism is being realized in the mat- ter of the peasant problem, Stalin pointed out: “We intend to realize collectivism in the peasant problem gradually, by economic, financial and cultural measures of a political kind.” Several years ago, he declared, numerous middlemen stood between industry and rural economy in the Commyuism In Soviet Union Sure Says Stalin \° WYints To Oil Production As Lesson a these propositions were contained in Rakovysky’s well-known _ interview. eous receiving of credits for the U. They are conditional upon simultan- | cy { \ | | | Daily Worker Agents | Very important. meeting of all} [unit, sub section and section or-| ganizers and DAILY WORKER} Agents will be ‘held on Monday ;November 21 at 8:00 p. m., Man- \hattan Lyceum, 66 HE. 4th St., New York City. Many Speakers to Talk at National Membership Meets | The membership meeting of the | Workers (Communist) Party in con- jneetion with the “Labor Party Cam- | Paign and Build the Party Drive” at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St, which was to have been held Friday > form of private capitalism. The ‘situa- }evening has been postponed to next vere “ | Tuesday evening, Nov. 22. This merely means that while we Other national mectings in the cam- maintain the validity of the well- | jaign are as follov known decree about the abolition of; py; ‘ov. 18, Duluth-Superior, t debts, we are at the same | at Workers’ Hall, 6th & Tower Sts., ing by way of a practical’ Superior, Wis. Max Bedacht, speak- agreement to make some payment cn | er, the pre-war debts, provided that in| Saturday, Nov 19. Twin Cities at return we receive credits which we Party headquarters, 215 So. 3d Street, need and which in turn will be useful | Minneapolis, Minn. Max Bedacht, to French industry. The October Re- | speaker. |volution is a fundamental negaticn| Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8 o’clock. |of the imperialist war, and the tsarist | Party headquarters, 38 Howe St., New debts are connected therewith, | Haven, Conn. Jay Lovestone, speak- Moreover, the U. S. S. R. cannot |&- 5 fi strike off from accounts those rob-|__ Saturday, Nov. 19. Detroit, Mich. beries and acts of violence which our | Hall to be announced later. Alex Bit- country suffered during the several |telman, speaker. years of intervention by foreign, Sunday, No é states and wherewith are connected | headquarters, 8 certain counter-claims of the U. §.|Alex Bittelman S. R. The imperialist rulers are apt Monday; N to forget these disagreeable things, ak Hall, bth & but they should know such things can- |delphia. : one, speaker. not be forgotten.” Tuesday, Nov. o’clock. Folkets inal | Hus, 2783 Hirsch Bivd., Chicago. Max | Vodka Monopoly. | | Bedacht, speaker. To the question of vodka monopoly | and anti-alcohol campaign, Stalin re- {S. S. R. 20. Noon at Party 0 Eagle St., Buffalo. peaker, at 8 o’clock. Slov- 1ount Ave., Phila- government. The money issued for “propaganda” is said to have been used by the Mexican ambassador, Al- | fonzo Cravioto, for articles in the| Guatemalan papers, to make him a| “formidable rival of Arthur H. Gess- | ler, the American minister and dean of the diplomats there.” | The Mexican government is charged | with the “crime” of raising its Guate- | malan legation to the status of an| embassy so that the Mexican repre- | sentative could achieve “social and diplomatic preeedence over the Amer- an minisier, Mr. Gessler.” lots and conspiracie 8 are every- where evoked by the fertile Mengin tions of the Hearst scavengers, forg- | ers, bribers and paltry propagandists | for the imperialist ravaging of Mex- ico, Nicaragua and all Latin America. “War on Weaker Country.” A note of unconscious humor is| struck by the Hearst writer who | charges that Mexico’s alleged financ- | ing of the liberal movement in Nica- ragua was for the “purpose of mak-| ing war on @ weaker country.” | This observation is the laughing | stock of Washington today. Even the | open and avowed imperialists cannot conceal their mirth at the audacity of the thing in view of the bulldozing of the weaker nations of Latin America by the iron fist of the American in- vaders, The publication of the third install- ment confirms the conviction that the whole campaign is based upon crude forgery. | i RE More Nicaraguan Murders. MANAGUA, Nicaragua,:Nov. 16.— On Sunday American marines again launched another attack against the political opponents of the Wall Street puppet president, Diaz, killing six men and seriously wounding seven, according to their own reports. There was no fighting whatsoever and no casualties on the side of the marines —just plain murder of defenseless peoples. These attacks were made by marine patrols who are said to be on reconnaissance and combat duty. Fascisti Trying To Kill Greco, Carrillo (Continued from Page One) workers of Danbury discovered that the stockselling scheme was promoted by the fascist government they walked out of the hall. The Sons of Italy doge of Danbury rejects every letter from fascist sources. Sing Revolutionary Song. In Passaic several months ago fas- cist agents attempted to sell Littorio national loan bonds in the Italian colony. At a meeting called to boost the bonds attended by 75 workers, only two arose to salute when the Italian hymn was played. The next minute the entire audience sang Banderia Rosa (the Red Flag), a rev- olutionary workers’ song. The work- ers then walked out of the hall with- out any of the bonds being sold. “Only doctors, business men, pharmacists, people who expect to get the title of Cheveliar or Duke,” the ‘informant continued, “or some other ‘honor’ support fascism. They try to use these titles to more easily prey upon the Italian workers in this country.” - “WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? tion, however, has radically changed since. and the village, the share of the co- operative movement and the state commercial organs may be considered not only prevailing, but dominating, or even monopolist. As an example he cited the production of sugar, beet- root, cotton, ete., raw materials, prices and quality determined not elemen- tally (not as a result of game in a disorganized market), but as a result of definite preliminary contracts be- tween sugar and textile syndicates on the one hand, and tens of thousands of peasant economies organized in beetroot and cotton-growers coopera- tive societies on the other hand. It may be confidently said, Stalin con- tinued, that all branches of agricul- | tural,-including grain production, will gradually pass over in such a form a development which will be a direct approach to collectivization of the rural economy. Ultimate Collectivism. All-embracing collectivism, he said, will be achieved when the peasant economies will be reconstructed on ‘a new technical basis thru mechaniza- tion and electrification, and when the greater part of the peasantry will be embraced by tooperative organiza- tions, and when most villages will have agricultural societies of a collec- tivist type. Marx said, continued Stalin, that no new social order can be consoli- dated in history without being in- tensely financed with hundreds and hundreds of millions being spent for this purpose, “I believe,” he said, “that we are entering a stage of development in rural economy when the state begins to be in a position to intensely fi- nance the new social order. The fact Today, Stalin continued, in the! exchange of, goods between the town | plied: | “When we introduced the vodka| monopoly we were faced with the al- ternative either to surrender to capi- talists the whole series of the most important works and mills and re- ceiving in return a certain amount of means necessary for tiding over, or to introduce the vodka monopoly in order to receive the necessary float- | ing capital for the development of in- dustry with our own forces. “The members of the Central Com- mittee, including myself, then had a} conversation with Lenin who recog- nized that unless we receive the iec- essary loans from abroad we should have to admit openly and directly a vodka monopoly as a provisional ex~- traordinary measure. j “This monopoly actually yields 500 | million roubles income. Actually, to | give up vodka would mean to give up this income whie at the same time allowing no reason to affirm that al- ;coholism would decrease because the | | peasants would proceed to produce | \their:own vodka and poison them- selves with home-made spirits. Nothing to Gain. “If the vodka business were to be handed over to private hands, this would first result in strengthening | private capital and would further re- sult in the government foregoing the possibility of duly regulating the pro- | duction and consumption of vodka. In addition the government would make | it diffieult for itself in the near fu- ture to abolish the production and consumption of vodka. Actually our | policy consists in the gradual reduc- tion of production of vodka. I believe that in the nearest future we will be | in a position entirely to abolish the | Republicans Defeat Tax WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—A pro- posal which would levy a tax on wealth of large corporations which cannot be reached by taxation under the present revenue laws, was voted down by the solid Republican majority in the House Ways and Means Conx mittee on Tuesday. The proposal was to levy a tax on undistributed profits 20 per cent higher than the rate on distributed profits. It was advocated by the ad- visory committee on taxation and was supported by democratic members. o First Number of the New Workers Library Publishers EPRICE AS rex The Story of the Rise and vodka monopoly and reduce the pros) Achievements of the Soviet that socialist industry has already se-| ‘duction cf the spirit to a minimum | cured a role of the dominating ele-|necessary for technical purposes, and ment in the national economy, and; then altogether cease selling vodka. leads rural economy, is the best! “I believe we possibly might not pledge that peasant economy will fol- | have had anything to do either with low the way to a further collectiviza-| vodka or many other disagreeable tion.” War Communism. After replying to the question as to what were the main difficulties under war Communism when an attempt was made to suppress money, Stalin replied to the question on “Scissors,” pointing out that the industrial pro- ducts are still being fold somewhat dearer than they might be under other conditions, This, he declared, is due to the fact that industry is still young and it is necessary to protect it from competition from without. To do away with this negative point for the peasant economy the government and the Communist Party set themselves the object of carrying thru the policy | of gradual, but constant reduction of prices of industrial goods. “The example is well-known,” de-| clared Stalin, “that during the last year we: have been able to reduce from eight to ten per cent of the prices of industrial goods. Industrial organizations systematically bring down the cost and selling priees of industrial goods. The cornerstone of Soviet economic policy without which it is impossible to have either im- provement or rationalization our in- dustrial economy or consolidation of the union of working élass and the| peasantry.” - French Loans. Answering the questions as to what proposition the Soviet government made the French small holders in re- gards to debts, Stalin replied that things if the Western European pro- ‘letarians had taken power into their | hands and rendered us necessary help.” Regarding Ogpu. | Regarding the question of the state political department of the U. S. S. R., (Ogpu) Stalin declared that many people reach the utmost leniency and {advise the abolition of this depart- ment. “However, who can guarantce } that after the abolition of the state political department the capitalists of | all countries will refrain from the or- | ganization and financing of counter- revolutionary groups of plotters and} terrarists and bomb-throwers? | “To disarm the revolution with uo | guarantee that the enemies of the: revolution will be disarmed—would | that not be stupid? Would it not be: 8 crime against the working class? We do not wish to repeat the mis bakes of the Paris Communards. The Paris Communards were too lenient toward: Versailles, wherefore Marx | was quite right to blame them. For | their leniency they paid with the lives | of tens of thousands of workers, shot by the Versaillese when they entered Paris, } Lessons of Commune. “Perhaps the comrades that the Russian bourgeois Jand-owners are \less blood-thirsty than Versaillese France. At any rate we know how they dealt with the workexs when they occupied Siberia, Ukraine, North Caucaus, in alliance with the French, Union — in a handsome 10th Anniversary Editiot. Other Books On Russia RUSS{A AFTER T YEARS Report of the First Amer- jean Trade Union Delegation’ to Soviet Russia. Paper $.50 Cloth $1.00 RUSSIA TODAY Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet ussia, $1.25 ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA by Magdaleine Marx Cloth $1.00 RUSSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 by Wim. Z Foster 25 GLIMPSES OF SOVIET RUSSIA by Scott Nearing RUSSIA ‘TURNS EAST by Scott Nearing ITUTION, CIAL 10 —10 f LABOR SURANCE —10 WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, Inc. 39 E. 125th St. New York. a British, Japanese and American intern: yentionists. “We must remember that the in- ternal in our country are not isolated individuals. They are connected by a thousand threats with capitalists in all countries who are supporting them | by all forces end all means. We are a country surrounded by capitalist states. The internal enemies of our revolution are agents of capitalists of all countries. The capitalist states are bases and rear for internal enemies of our revolution, In fighting domestic enemies we therefore fight the coun- ter-revolutionary elements of al! countries.” aaiticecntitecenehseninnipeamnsy irritate nse LAURA oy