The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZ sUNORGAN FOR THE 40-HOU FOR A (ON OF THE WEEK LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 264. TEXTILE BARONS’ S QUOTES PRESIDENT GREEN TO HALT SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New York, by mail, PY AGENCY HEAD / UNIONIZATION OF MILL WORKERS Chief Spy Writes to Geiges, Head of Philadelphia Hosiery Workers’ Union Threatens Dire Consequences if Budenz, Organ- izer, Is Not Fired; “To Aid A. F. of L. That certain detective agencies are attempting to co-operate | with officials of the American Federation of Labor in driving out | of the labor movement those who employ militant methods to or- | a letter that has just come into | ganize the workers, is proved by the hands of The DAILY WORK ER. The letter is addressed to Gustave Geiges, president of the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ Union of Philadelphia, affili- ated with the United Textile W! Hie tear eat ee ESS NATIONAL LOCK- orkers of America. Geiges’ or- ganization is one of thes most progressive bodies in the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. It gave generously to the Passaic strike and to the Henderson, N. OUT PREDICTED critic FOR CAPMAKERS Ginsberg Here to Lead Workers’ Betrayal the possibility of a nation-wide eee et capmakers is indicated by the arrival in New York of Percy | Ginsberg, former international vice- president of the Capmakers’ Union and at present manager of the Chi- cago Cap Manufacturers’ Association, The DAILY WORKER was told yes- terday. Ginsberg when connected with {he union was chief ally of Max Zarit- sky, president of the union, who at) present, instead of leading the strug- gle of the 300 capmakers who were locked-out Wednesday is attacking the left wing and the Communists in the organization. Attacked Left Wing. The 300 locked-out capmakers met at Beethoven Hall, 210 Hast Fifth St., yesterday afternoon. Ab the sieoting Zaritsky made an attack on militant members of the union. In the next breath he said the only remedy for discord in the industry is the institu- tion of piece work. At a similar meeting last Saturday | morning Zartisky suggested that the | eapmakers work 44 hours weekly in-! stead of 40 hours. The assembled | workers refused to consider the retro- gressive proposal of the union official. At yesterday afternoon’s meeting the locked-out workers voted to de- clare strikes in the shops that have locked them out. Workers Face Crisis. Militant capmakers agreed last night that the workers in the indus- try are facing a, crisis and that the arrival of Ginsberg in the city means that the employers are preparing at- tempts to break the union. They stated that Zaritsky was working in close cooperation with the employers against members of the organization. The Capmakers’ Section of the Trade Union Educational League is- sued a statement yesterday calling upon’ the workers to continue their struggle in spite of all obstacles. Greco-Carrillo Meeting In Bronx Tomorrow The International Labor Defense will hold a Greco-Carrillo defense meeting tomorrow at 8:30 p. m., at 138th St. and Brook Ave. to rally the workers of the Bronx to the support of the two anti-fascisti. The speak- _ers will jnclude Louis A. Baum, sec- retary of the Photographic Workers Union, and Joseph J. Padgug. P. Buckenberger will preside. A similar defense meeting will be held Thurs- day evening at Prospect Ave. and 163d St. f Calogero Greco and Donato Car- rillo are charged with killing two fascists last Memorial Day. Joseph Freeman, Floyd) Dell Lecture Tonight Joseph Freeman and Floyd Dell will talk on “The Wilsonian Era in American Literature” tonight at the Workers School, 108 East 14th St., at 8 o’clock, This is part of a sym- posium on “Social Forces in Amer- ican Literature.” A STARTLING REVELATION WILL BE MADE IN TOMORROW'S DAILY WORKER Start Organization. Some months ago this organization engaged Louis Francis Budenz, Edi- tor of “Labor Age,” an independent labor monthly of New York, Budenz was asked to go to Indianapolis and to investigate a company union called the Employees’ Mutual Benefit As- sociation, operated by the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. Good Results. The result was so successful that in jless than a month fully 90 per cent of the workers were in the Full Fash- ioned Union and the very men who had acted as “representatives” under the company union were most active in the “outside organization.” As soon as the heads of the Real Silk Mills, Inc., discovered that their workers were in the union they hired A. R. MacDonald, Inc., a New York “industrial engineering” concern, to break the union. MacDonald recom- mended the “Yellow Dog” as a sure antidote to unionism. Two contracts were drawn within ten days and pre- sented to the workers. Most of them were compelled to sign. Some who re- fused were discharged. Others who appealed the case of the discharged ones to the company union were like- wise discharged. Detective Methods. Meanwhile MacDonald had made {himself known to the workers. He had his “operatives” in the plant spying on the men. But he also appeared himself in the manager’s office help- ing to intimidate the workers and to force them to sign the contract bind- ing them to belong to no union except the company union. As workers sus- pected of belonging to the Geiges ex- ganization were brought to the office he would put them through an exam- ination his first question being, “Are You a Communist.” He also forced them to sign statements against the union which were then printed in the company magazine. “The Red Menace.” MacDonald also called on the union headquarters in Philadelphia in an ef- fort to persuade Geiges and his asso- ciates to call off their organizers and discontinue the fight against the Real Silk Co. In this he failed completely. It is also understogd that MacDonald is working for a number of other hos- iery, concerns that have employed him to fight the union. Failing in this brazen method he decided to show the Full-Fashioned Union that he had found areal “Red” in their midst. He promised Geiges he would prove that Budenz is a “paid agent of Moscow.” In the letter which he wrote to-Geiges on November 7th he attempts to prove this point. Two Aims. The purpose of this letter may have been to scare Geiges and to make him drop his Indianapolis organizer. But ano less important purpose is to show :|the manufacturers that he—MacDon- ald—is an expert on the radical move- ment and that he knows all about the movements of Communists. This intention is borne out by the fact that as soon as he had mailed the letter to Geiges, MacDonald had it printed and mailed to several hundred textile and hosiery employers. One of them through a friend, passed the letter on to the DAILY WORKER. The Letter, vember 7, 1927. “Mr. Gustave Geéigas, President, American Federation of Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers’ Union, Phila- \delphia, Pa. “Dear Sir: Doubtless you will recollect that some time ago the writer called at the headquarters of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ Union where he interviewed you and Mr. Smith, the General Exee- utive Seeretary of your organization. “At that time you were advised that there were Communistic in- fluences at work in the Hosiery || Union, whereupon you made a chal- lenge—-that the name be given you of any Communist who was working among members. This challenge was readily accepted, and the name of the (Continued on Page Five) In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. 86.00 per year. | \ | \ A. R. MacDONALD, formerly of Sherman Detective Agency, a strike- breaker “dick” who wants to help “respectable” labor officials (and open-shop employers) to “clean” the Communists out of the unions. PREVENT VOTE ON MILITARY DRILLS AT CCNY MEETING Student Gathering Ends in Disorder Fearing the passing of a resolu- tion condemning military training and American imperialism, students influenced by the faculty of the Col- lege of the City of New York pre- vented a vote being taken yesterday at a meeting arranged by the Stu- dents’ Council to discuss military training in the college. This is the latest development aris- ing out of the suspension last Thurs- day of Alexander Lifshitz and Leo Rothenberg, students, for criticizing military training. The meeting yesterday attended by 600 students was opened by a mem- ber of the Students’ Council, who introduced Dean Klapper of the School of Education. The dean de- fended the position of the faculty. Pockets Resolution. The members of the Social Prob- lems Club who were present then sent a resolution to the chairman attack- ing military training. On receiving it the chairman placed it in his pocket. Simon Gerson, president of the club, then took the floor and demand- ed that it be read. Unwilling at first, the chairman was forced by the clam- or to read the resolution. A debate on the resolution followed, several of the students demanding that the por- tion of the resolution assailing Amer- ican imperialism be struck out. This the sponsors of the resolution refused to do, Disorder followed. The meet- ing ending without a vote being tak- en. Students from Columbia, Hunter and other colleges joined in the dis- cussion and the clamor that followed. Earlier in the meeting telegrams supporting the anti-military training campaign were read. They were sent by various student organizations. Frederick B.-Robinson, president of the college, warned the Students’ Council prior to the meeting that any student that discussed the question of military training in a manner un- satisfactory to him would be “disci- plined.” More Floods Feared As Rivers Swell in Upstate N. Y. Cities ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 17.—A steady driving rain today continued to pour down throughout the Genes- see Valley causing fears of possible floods. The Genessee River had risen more than four feet at the Mount Morris power dam, Mellen, RR. Wrecker for Morgan, Is Dead Charles S. Maen! taemery presi- dent of the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. and other roads | - MENAGEPICKETS. | | | | | | t | | | |number of these weapons have been | ® | placed at strategie points. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1927 AIRPLANES AND MACHINE GUNS Colorado Strike Leaders | Still Held | (Special to the Daily Worker). DENVER, Nov. 37.—Four national guard airplanes, flying so low that! the wind from their propellers andj} the explosions from “the exhaust | could be felt by the strikers, swooped ! down on a picket dine at the Colum- bine mine near here today. The management of the mine has announced that the picket line would be met by machine-gun fire and a State Police Aid Gunmen. Reinforcements have been added to the mine guards, and state police sworn in by order of Governor Adams are present in large numbers. Entrances to the mine are sur- rounded with barbed wire entangle-! ments and barricaded with sand bags. The “Columbine mtine is the only coal property in the northern fields | that has operated since the strike. | Its miners are vittually on a mili-| tary basis* and pi¢kets are kept off) the property by open threats of mass | murder. * * * Demand $2,500 Cash Bail. WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 17.— Cash bail as high as $2,500 per man is demanded by the authorities who still hold almost every known Com- munist and I. W. W. strike leader in the jails here and Pueblo and Trini- | dad. No charges beyond that of “held | for investigation” have been made. * * * DENVER, Nov. 17 (FP).—Whole- sale arrests of leaders in the 1. W. W.| coal strike in” Colorado, marked by | brutal treatment of strikers by Gov. Adams’ “special state police” and flouting of constitutional rights has resulted in the taking of a public stand on the strike by the official la- bor movement here. The Denver Trades & Labor Assembly, heretofore | silent, voted to form a committee of (Continated. ai “ige Two) PUBLL Nicaraguan To Be Disarmed Before Elections Take Place MANAGUA, aragua, Nov. 17 The Diaz government that was placed in control of the country af- |ter American marines had dis- | persed the lib government of Ir. Juan B. S sa, ha: I ;s ecree that all p | iction of th s issu-| | e pern ; All persons other than the po- and sold! will be di the presidential the population | will be at the complete mer: jthe reaction when the superv lof the elections take place. Rye } | lice | before elections, s of | | BLACKMER WON'T TESTIFY HE SAYS Contempt Investigation | Supposedly Under Way) PARIS, Nov. 17.—Harry M. Black- | mer, the American wanted in the United States to testify in the Fall- Sinclair oil conspiracy case, will con- | tinue to defy the American legal au- thorities until he decides that the time is propitious for him to return | home, it was revealed today by in- timates of the missing witness. “I shall return to the United States, but only when I consider the time opportune,” Blackmer told friends. “I shall not return before that time.” Blackmer is the man charged with a guilty knowledge of the connection of the Harding-Coolidge regime with the oil thefts, and other such inci- dents. He has stated to friends of his in Paris that he is not greatly worried over thé order by Judge Sid- dons that $100,000 worth of his Amer- ican property is to be confiscated un- less he comes: home: to testify. * * * | Day Wants Less Bonds. Woman Teacher Who Lost Job for Help In Strike, Elected LYNN, Mass., Nov. 17.—Mrs. Della! | H. Clifford has been elected on the School Board of the City of Lynn. She was a teacher for 16 years until discharged by Mayor Bauer last winter. The reason why Mr. Bauer, the bitter enemy of organized labor, made Mrs. Clifford loose her job, is because at the time of the tele- phone girls’ strike, Mrs. Cliffprd was doing all in her power to help the girls win. She arranged many tag- days to raise money, and many times addressed their meetings, urging them to organize a union. She also tried to organize a Teachers’ union in Lynn, In 1925 Mrs. Clifford ran for mayor, but was defeated by Mr. Bauer, the favorite of the chamber of Commerce and the Shoe Manufac- turers’ Association of Lynn. Expect ‘Cloakmakers’ Release from Prison; Local 35 Refurnished Arthur Zinn, cloakmaker, who ma. rearrested after serving nine months in Harts Island prison for participa- tion in the cloakmakers’ strike, will be released on bail next Tuesday to await trial, it was learned yesterday. The office of Local 35, Internation- al Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 10 E, 22nd St., whose furniture was confiscated Tuesday by the right wing in cooperation with the sheriff’s office and the police department, ig) now ,completely refurnished. Many workers brought flowers Wednesday and yesterday and held impromptu group meetings in the office. * * | * CHICAGO., Nov. 17. — Sixteen} cloakmaker pickets convicted yester- and the best known of all the elder ! day for picketing were fined $5 each. J. P. Morgan’s lieutenants, is dead in his 77th year at Concord, N. H. When Morgan, back in the days of the Roosevelt panic in 1908, was grab- bing steel mills, coal mine, and rail- roads, Mellon was his handy man in New England. He grabbed the steam- ship lines of the coast and took the trolleys of Rhode Island, Massachu- setts and Connecticut.and threw them all into the Morgan melting pot with the N. Y., N. H. and Hartford. In a few years he had wrecked the most prosperous road in the country, in addition to banks and other allied property. FOOD WORKERS ORGANIZE. The Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union will hold a meeting to organ- ize the bakery workers in New York’s large open shops Saturday, Noy. 26 at Cooper Union. BOUNCING BABY BOY. Edward Kuchauski, 4, fell 50 feet from the third-story window of his mother’s apartment at 238 Kingsland Ave., Brooklyn, yesterday and landed uninjured on the sidewalk a few feet from his mother, Mrs. Mary Kuchau- ski, who was on her way to the store, vet (the union issued a statement yester- |the members of the Fur Dressers and WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—An at- | tempt by attorneys for H. Mason Day, | vice-president of the Sinclair Explor- ation Company, to have his bond re- , duced from 000 to $10,000 failed | jtoday. Jus McCoy in District Su-| |preme Court refused to grant the re- | duction, although he gave permission | to Day’s attorneys to argue the case further next Monday. Day is one of the associates of | Harry F, Sinclair, millionaire oii mag- | nate, who is charged with Ha eeiea| to tamper with the jury in the Fall- | Sinclair conspiracy case to steal $30,- | 000,000 worth of government oi! rights. U. S. District Attorney Peyton Gordon and his assistant, Neil Bur- kinshaw, who have been presenting | the case of the jury tampering in the Fall-Sinclair trial to the federal grand jury on Friday to explain the statutes under which indictments are to be asked, it was announced this afternoon. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER York, |ranks of the SHING CO. 33 First Street, New FINAL CITY EDITION N. Price 3 Cents | ¥. Population” HEARST DOCUMENT FORGERS EXPOSED AS WOULD-BE BLACKMAILERS ;ATTACK _ SWINGS TO MEXICO-SOVIET RELATIONS | Relate Bed Time Stories About Calles Importing Communist Propagandist from Soviet Union | Famous ‘Exposures’ Peddled About Mexico City3, None So Simple as to Pay for Them WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 the we ‘ithe Union of Socialist Soviet Republics < The fact that Alexandr Mexico. arrival at Mexico City is cited to Although there is not a line concerning the ‘Vat of Melted Steel in | Chicago Explodes; Kills And Mortally Injures 7 CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—One man was fatally burned and six others lare not expected to live as the re- sult of a blast in an iron and steel | plant here today. | The explosion was caused by a} stream of cold water striking a vat | containing molten metal. | The continual speeding up of the | men working in the steel mills, forced by the part time work and the threat of unemployment, and| the carelessness of the companies | in providing safeguards in the way of equipment has caused many fatal accidents recently. Apes eee es are Window Bosses fo Sign With Union; Leave Association That the break-up of the Window Cleaning Employers’ Association is imminent became apparent yesterday when a number of employe ap- proached officials of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8, and suggested terms for the settle- ment of the strike which has been in progress for six weeks. The group who negotiated with the striking union are tisfied mem- bers of the bosses’ association whc insist on an immediate settlement of the strike. The terms proposed of settlement are said to be acceptable to the strikers and unless the em- ployers’ association comes to terms with Local 8 within the next few days it is believed a split in the employers will’ take place. Benefit performances of Em Jo Basshe’s play, “The Centuries,” will be given at the New Playwrights’ Theatre December 2 and 14. Fur Dyers Issue Statem Pointing out the serious conditions | in the dressing and dyeing locals of ‘the International. Fur Workers’| Union, a committee of representatives and rank and file workers of locals 2, 8, 54, 58, 25, and 88 representing | all the dressing and dying locals in day calling for immediate action to end the crisis in the organization. The statement shows that the open shop evil is growing while the union’s money is being wasted to fight mili- tant workers instead of being used for organization work. The statement! calls for the end of the internal fight in the union and the reinstatement of all expelled and suspended locals and members who belong to the Fur Workers union. The statement in full, follows: Text of Statement. “A call to the International from} reads as Dyers Locals: “We turn to all honest and con- structive elements in our Internation- al Union with this call for immediate and concrete support. | “This is the first time in the his- tory of our International Union that a committee representing every local of the dress industry comes out open- ly in the press about the conditions in these locals. The reason for this is that the danger now completely in- volves every local.in the Internation- al. “The dressing and dyeing locals are on the verge of a serious crisis. The biggest shops are being moved out of the center of the industry into various small towns and are being operated| ent Calling for Ending of Fight on Left Wing in the Union on the open shop basis. One shop drags along the other one. There is already in existence a large number of open shops in Jersey City, Som- merville, Paterson, Yonkers, Mt. Ver- non, Ridgewood, Bronx and in Brook- lyn, not to speak of the very big open shops such as Hollander & Williams. Open Shops Multiplied. “The results are very bad. At this time when the union shops have no work the open shops are busy. Of the four and a half million skins that were dressed in the fur industry last year more than half of this number were dressed in open shops. And this year the open shops have increased. Competition of the open shops have become sharper and many large firms are carrying around plans to remove their factories and introduce open shops. “Due to the destructive struggle that the International is carrying on against the locals of the New York Joint-Board, against Local 25 and against the Boston local, as well as against other so-called insurgent lo- cals all over the country, the Inter- national is powerless to undertake any sort of a fight against the small- est open shop. The International is financially ruined and morally bank- rupt. To our great sorrow the chief efficers of our International have ab- solutely no interest in organization work. It is sufficient to bring out into the open the fact that when the workers of the Ridgewood open shop were prepared to declare a strike in order to compel the firm to settle with the union our International president said to a committee, “Let (Continued on Page Five) | The | Soviet Union in Mexico, promised for a jing headlines came to a laughable climax tod ria Kollon the Soviet Union to Mexico, was officially nd of the{ number of days in flam-{ in the “revedling’*! known fact that there are diplomatic relations between } id the government of} , former minister of} 1 comed upon her! uphold the He e. es of Mme. aly be construed as exceeding r diplomatic mission, the] vague suggestions, the implica-} tions of the stc are written} with the idea of creating the ims] pression that there is something} irregular about the fact that Mexico! | welcomed her, Old Story Reversed. There is one original note, how-~ ever, in the Hearst story. The charge) jis made that the Calles government} jis financing Communist propaganda instead of the Soviet Union financing} such activity. This is a reversal off |the time-worn story that has gone the rounds of the anti-working elass| press since the revolution in Russia! of ten years ago. Further “Disclosures.” In general the other “disclosures” are as ridiculous as yesterday’s and pretend to show that President Calles of Mexico ordered a warrant for the sum of $25,000 to be placed at the dis- posal of some unknown “secretary of the Russian legation in Mexico,” for “expenses of Communist propagan- da.” In the news part of the story Hearst’s Mexican “specialist,” John Page, repeats the ancient hoax that “free love is advocated by Commun- ists.” Bed-Time Stories, Appeals to smut-hounds are made in a part of the story appearing this {morning under the usual copyright to the effect that a “night restaurant is ;maintained where revelers make easy conquests of attractive women, who |rob them, not of money, but of seeret jand sometimes valuable information.” A final touch is added to this bed- time story nh the observation that “men not ed of knowing any« thing are fortunate with the female habitues of this place.” World’s Greatest Propagandist. | Another heroic and eminently pas |triotie service of Hearst’s man Page jis the discovery of the most sinister jand malevolent propagandist knowm to history, Dr. Gustave Petrovochi,) alleged to be a “Communist propa. gandist imported from Russia” by the Mexican government. 1 Petrovochi evidently did such efs fective work among the youth and adults of Mexico that he had themj all lined up for Communism, so he |was entrusted to journey to Guate« mala where he made many conv to Communism among the Indians the Peten district. All this work was accomplished with the expenditure of but $30,000, of which $5,000 for the Mexican children and $25,000 for thi Indians of Guatemala. Offered To Peddle Forgeries, Th } identical documents now the Hearst papers |against Mexico and Nicaragua, and |branded by the Mexican governmen’ jas forgeries, were the basis of blacka |mail plots in Los Angeles as long age {as last August. In_an official statement yesterday jthe Mexican foreign office at Washe ington the documents were again matized as forgeries. The statement said in part: | “The publicity given to the faked jdocuments regarding Mexican activie jties in the recent case of Nicaragua | (Continued on Page Two) Foreign Labor Office Finds U. $. Worst in Slaughter of Workers bape pe! sey 2VA, Switzerland, Nov. 17. International Labor Office announces that it has reports of 25,000 workers killed last year in the United States. Industrial accidents in the United States amounted to about 4,000,000 said the labor office, while in France similar accidents during the same period amounted to only about]: one-twentieth that amount. The United States is the worst of- fender in the slaughter of indus. trial workers. Speed and the ab-{! solute immunity of the largest com |' porations from obedience to any]! safety laws is the cause. ©