The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1927, Page 1

ry i —_ THE DA ¥ WORKER FIG S: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 266. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York; by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, THE DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1927 $6.00 per year, Mareh 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, EDITION N. Price 3 Cents ¥. HEARST AGAIN PUBLISHES FAKED LETTER EXPOSED BY THE WORKER Claims Faked Document “By Itself” Constitutes Proof cf Claims of I The Hearst newspaper, the New York American, again print- ed in its Sunday editions, the which was proved by The DAILY WORKER to have been twice changed in the New York office on last Sunday night for its | Monday morning edition in a continuation of its attack on.Mex- | ico and Nicaragua. In commenting upon the republication of the faked docu-| ment, which bears the filing dat sion after the earlier edition Window Cleaners’ - Pickets Beaten By Industrial Squad With their faces or bodies bruised or cut from blows from fists or black-jacks and with theix total bail raised to $26,500, eight pickets of the striking Window Cleaners’ Protective Union are awaiting trial on felonious assault charges. Arrested in a raid on the union’s strike headquarters by the New York police industrial squad Friday, the eight were held in police headquarters until about midnight for “general in- vestigation.” All wert beaten in an attempt by the industrial squad to force one or more of them.to im- plicate officers or organizers of the union in a fraudulent “confession,” according to Peter Darck, président of the Window Clearners’ Protective Union. $26,500 Bail Demanded. Arraigned finally in the E, 54th St. night court on felonious assault charges, all pleaded not guilty and were released on $1,000 bail each for appearance before Magistrate Simp- son in the First Magistrate’s Court Saturday morning. There they were ‘hoktfor tial with their bail inereasd te a total of $26;500. ‘This amount was furnished. trial was set. “One of the defendants was struck over the head with a heavy steel spring taken from a door at polic headquarters, by one of the dete tives,” Dark“reported yesterday, “iis head was cut and bruised.” Peter Krawchuk, Joseph Paskar and Stephen Cacharchuk, union p arrested Friday by the ind squad at Lexington Ave. and W. 34th St., are awaiting trial for alleged dis- orderly conduct on $500 bail each. The eight defendants are: Frank Higgins, Charles Daugherty, Joseph Diduck, Michael Sirkorsky, Ary Hum- enuck, Stephen Lechkie, Alex Saur- huk and Daniel Denianchuk. All of them have served on the picket line in the strike, now in its sixth wee’ Civic Federation to Campaign for Seve. Million New Voters An elaborate drive, involving the expenditure of large sums of money, to train young men and women “in the proper use of the ballot” for the maintenance of the established order will be launched by the National Civic Federation, John Hayes Hammond, head of that organization, has an- nounced. The campaign will be organized in 500 cities with a view to influencing the votes of 7,000,000 young people who expected to cast their first votes at the 1928 presidential election. The Federation plans to accomplish this task through the medium of such militaristic youth organizations as the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Ham- mond’s announcement said. Not only will the young people be approached, according to Hammond, but committees will communicate their influence on “the proper use of the ballot” to adults through per- sonal contact by the house to house method. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, is acting president of the National Civic Federation and as such acts as liaison officer for the A. F. of L. executive council -in this anti-labor organization. The A. F. of L. exe utive council continues to oppose t! creation of an American Labor Party and is expected to support the Civic Federation’s campaign for democratic | and republican party recruits, Incompetency Charges Facing Strikebreaker PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 20 (FP).— Beside the charge of dealing in stolen automobiles, former Police Chief Richard Zober of Passaic faces four more counts on incompetency during office. Zober was a chief director ivities against the strik- textile phn Sana workers a year ago. the American has the effrontery to No date for their a | sheet for Monday, the thing is a plain nterventionist Papers identical document the date of e of “Jul 2 1926,” (the final ver- rried the date “Jul 2 1921”) declare under the customary copy-| right: “Though this document is but one of seventeen published by the American thus far, it constitutes by itself documentary proof that the Mexican government not only sup- ported the Sacasa revolution in Nicaragua once it was going but actually helped organize and fi- nance it. In the document the spe- cific statement was made by Calles that the money was to be used ‘for the purchase of arms and muni- tions’ for the liberal army of Nica- ragua.” Mexico Knew of Document. That Mexico knew of the extstence of such a series of “documents” and considered their forgery so crude that they were harmless is evident fy the statement of the Mexico City foreign office that one Dr. Cutberto Hidalgo on August 24 last, offered the same documents to the Mexican consul at Los Angeles for the sum of $25,000. This attempt at blackmail having failed, the agent for the forgers tried to peddle them in Mexico City to American news agencies for various sums. Nothing more was heard of them until they began to appear in the Hearst chain of papers as “au- thentic documents.” But the princi- pal “authentic document” which the Hearst paper says “by itself” consti- tutes proof of the Hearst contentions, appears this time with the same era- sure and alteration, KK ie Crude “Diplomacy.” ~ | Even without the absolute proof furnished by The DAILY WORKER on Saturday that the first document published by the Hearst paper was al- tered in the office of the New York American, and that three different versions of the date of the alleged \“seeret” paper, were published in | three different editions of the Hearst fraud on the face of it. | For instance no one can possibly be- | lieve that if Calles issued an order on the Mexican treasury for a sum of money to be used for secret expendi- tures he would have to specify its purposes in the order. Everyone at! jall familiar with the secret expendi- | | tures of governments know that such appropriations are made for alleged egitimate purposes, that can be re- vealed at any time, and which always |appear to be “regular.” | Another of the “documents” speci- ‘fies that a certain amount is to be jset aside for “propaganda expenses in jfavor of Mexico.” Still another calls jfor funds for “secret expenditures of the executive,” while the mysterious Bolshevist propagandist, Pablo Palo- vichi, of whom no one either in Rus- sia or Mexico has ever heard, is paid the sum of $25,000 “for Communist propaganda expenses directed by Mr. A. B., secretary of the Russian Lega- tion in Mexico.” It seems that the president of Mexico had to inform his treasurer of precisely all the details of the expenditure of every peso! More Forgery Proof. It is plain to anyone that the is- suance of such orders, specifying inj} jdetail the purposes for which money | was to be expended, could not be any stretch of the imagination, be advan- (Continued on Page Two) Tuberculosis Increases Among Toiling Women, (By Federated Press.) A stratling increase in- the tuber- culosis death gate of young women jand girls is blamed by New York |State Health Commissjoner Nicoll largely on the conditions of women jin industry. Dr. Matthis Nicoll, Jr., ys the death rate for white men from 15 to 24 years of age has de- jereased four, times as fast as the rate for women of that age. The death rate from pulmonary tuber- cnlosis for boys of 15 to 20 decreased 10 times as fast as it did for girls, |from 1915-24, Young women workers are forced to spend long hours jndoors in fac- tory or office, often with poor venti- lation, Nicol! quotes from an investi- gator. They must strain and speed \up in the competition to hold their jobs and increase earnings. Nijcoll recommends eight hours or more | } | jresented by J. B. Dale, a former po-| | | jheld Thursday evening at Prospect sleep for young women workers and man-size meals, with exercise out of doors! * ‘Indiana Congressmen Signed Contract to Let K. K. K. Appoint WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Dis-| | closure at Indianapolis of contracts | signed by Representative Updike| | [and another republican congress# man from Indiana, in the cam- paign of 1924, showed them agree- ing to make whatever appgint- ments and recommendations for appointment to federal jobs they! | should be directed by D. C. Stephenson. Updike and Row- bottom were elected in 1924 with the help—or at the order—of| | Stephenson as master of the Klan in the state. They were re-elected last year, when Stephenson was in the penitentiary, convicted of mur-| | ANGELES CE LABOR COUNCIL EXPELS MILITANT Green’s Orders and No! Count on Ballots LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. — The Los Angeles Central Labor Council at its last meeting expelled Wm. Schneiderman as a Communist. It} acted under direct orders of President Green of the A. F. of L., and his council. Vice-president Matthew Woll and Secretary.Morrison had already, during the A. F. of L. convention here, used the strikebreaking police of ;|Los Angeles to drive Schneider-, man from the convention, to which he | was a delegate, The expulsion of Schneiderman | from the council, where he represent- ed the office workers’ union was not accomplished without a bitter strug- gle, in which many members rose and voiced their indignation at this vic-| timization of an active unionist for political opinions. Even delegates ath ap. “conservative” gainst expulsion and denounced Green’s instructions. ‘Trregular Vote. There is grave doubt as to whether any majority for expulsion was ob-/ tained, as the chairman refused aj count of the votes, and barred! Schneiderman from speaking to the} council, which adjourned in disorder. The forces of reaction were rep- lice officer of Vallejo, California, with a doubtful record, (now A. F. of L. organizer); J. W. Buzzel, who for years has been baiting Reds with the assistance of the police depart- ment; John Horn, formerly a scab- beer-wagon driver, but now vice- president of the California State Fed- eration of Labor; and J. F. Dalton, ardent admirer of the American Le- gion, now president of the State Fed- eration of Labor. The Office Workers’ Union of this city, Local No. 15,251 of the A. F. of L., has refused so far to expel Wm. | Schneiderman. The union has re- ceived a letter from J. B. Dale, gen- eral organizer in California of the American Federation of Labor, to the effect that at a special meeting of the executive council of the A. F. of L., meeting in Los Angeles directly after the convention, it was decided that the Offiee Workers’ Union should no longer accept any dues from Wm. Schneiderman, who was unseated as a delegate to the con- vention on the grounds that he was a Communist. Criticize N. Y. District Attorney at Carilio-| Greco Defense Meeting District Attorney John E. MeGee- ham of the Bronx was attacked by Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Pho- tographic Workers’ Union, at a Greco- Carillo defense meeting Saturday | night at 138th St. and Brook Ave., under the auspices of the Inter-, national Labor Defense. P. Bucken- | berger was chairman. | The meeting was part of a cam-| paign by the International Labor De- | fense for freeodm for Calogero Greco and Donato Carillo, who are sched- | uled to go on trial in the Bronx, December 5, charged with killing two fascists last Decoration Day. Baum charged McGeeham with collaborat- ing with the Fascist League of North America in a frame-up of the two anti-fascist workers. Another open air meeting will be Ave. and 168rd St. will talk. At Saturday’s meeting many ap- plied for membership in the Inter- national Labor Defense. Baum and others » BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! spoke |, LABOR SUPPORT MOBILIZING FOR TRACTION LABOR City Money Pays Spies, Union Charges Signs are multiplying that mem- bers of other unions look upon the| ! erisis faced in New York by the Amalgamated Association of Street | and Electric Railway Employes of America is a erisis for the entire labor movement, York but throughout the nation. Members of the Bricklayers’ and Plasterers’ Union here continued yes- terday to discuss the proposal that the New York district membership of 60,000 be deputized to a man as or- ganizers for the traction workers’ union. Hearing Nears. The date drawns near when the Interborough Rapid Transit Co will go into the Supreme Court to ask an injunction to prevent the organization of the traction workers by the street | car men’s union or any other union affiliated with the American Feder- ation of Labor. The hearing is |docketed for November 30, John Gill, president of the New York executive board of the Brick- layers’ and Plasterers’ Union, was quoted yesterday as proposing that bricklayers and plasterers in New York carry blank application cards for membership in the street car men’s union and interview every em- ploye they encounter on the elevated and subway lines. The Central Trades and Labor Council has yoted support to the or- ganized traction workers. * * * ‘ Asks for Investigation. _ (By Federated Press.) First indications of organized la- bor’s defense arguments against the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. in- junction come in the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes’ appeal to the New York Transit Commission. _ The ahion asks the tranateYody-to investigate the subway operator’s syping system. The I. R. T. operates the city-owned subway and charges |the city for the expense of its labor spies against union labor, the Amal- gamated states. The spies are kept to protect the Interborough’s com- pany union, which it maintains for a higher fare fight, declares Amal-} bands from heretodyne interference, gamated Organizer James Coleman. Counter charges of conspiracy will be filed against the I. R. T. by the Amalgamated and the American Federation of Labor, named in the subway company’s long complaint. The Interborough complains that the A. F. of L. and specifie union offi- cials, including President William Green, conspired and combined il- jlegally against company unions. The unionists will probably show the I. R. T. conspiring against the public. Capmakers To Go On Picket® Lines Today; Union Picket Freed Mass picketing of the 50 contrac- tors’ cap shops that locked out their workers last Wednesday is scheduled to start this morning in New York. Percy Ginsberg, manager of the Chicago Cap Manufacturers, was in Philadelphia yesterday attempting to persuade the employers of that city to join in a nation-wide offensive against the Capmakers Union, it was reported in trade union circles last night. Ginsberg is a former vice- president of the union and aide of Max’ Zaritsky, president of the or- ganization. * * BOSTON, Nov. 20.—Max Walkins, active member of the Capmakers Union, was released from Charles St. jail jesterday where he served one month on a frame-up charge growing out of the last general strike here. i On his release Walkins was given a reception at the union headquarters. J. Miller, business agent of the union spoke against frame-up tactics of the employers and reminded the as- sembled workers that three members of the union,—Kushen, Feiner and Putterman, were still in prison. “Joffe, U.S. S. R. Diplomat, Honored at Cemetery | MOSCOW, Nov. 20. — Adolph Joffe, well-known Soviet diplomat, was buried in the special section set aside for Communists in the Novo Devichi cemetery yesterday. Close behind the Joffe’s foreign office colleagues, headed by Tchi- cherin, commissar of foreign af- fairs, came wreaths with red ban- ners, one of which boré the in- scription, “To our dear comrade, brother and fellow-struggler.” not only in New} | Knocks Out Rivals ‘Minor and Dunne to Speak at Daily Worker Meeting ‘In Downtown Hall Tonight | Robert Minor and William F. Dunne, editor and associate editor, respectively, of The DAILY WORKER, will address agents and| support of this paper, organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. tonight at 8 p. m. Both speakers will appeal to the au- dience and through the audience to all militant workers to make the paper a national m:; paper. The | story of The DAILY WORKER’S| recent campaign against injunc- | | | | | tions outlawing strikes and labor | | | union organization activities will | | be told. | FY Selah eta danse aaa SEIZE BONDS OF BLAGKMER; LIKE "THOSE FALL 60T Siddons Still Fumbling With Contempt Case WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.— The government has seized $100,000 of Liberty Bonds owned by H. M. Blackmer as the first step in the at- tempt to enforce a new Federal law penalizing witnesses subpoenaed while abroad and refusing to come to court as summoned. Washington legal opinion thinks that the bonds are likely to remain in litigation for a long time to come, with Blackmer drawing the interest There seems to be little on them. (Continued on Page Two) Radio Commission covering house number and Coke Company Township, Allegheny County, Pennsyl-| vania; that I am not an employee of ; for said Company, that notices of dis- charge served upon me and I agree said Lessor loses or waives no right it now has against me in the matter | by extending leniency to me. ~ To Its Monopolies WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. —Swing- ing the axe on small radio stations ostensibly to clear the important 600- 1000 channel of the broadcasting the federal radio commission today | had changed the wave lengths, power and operating time of nearly 100 broadcasters. | Twenty-five of the 36 wave chan- |nels in this band will be cleared of interference by December 1 tinder the commission’s plan. Except in a few instances no two stations authorized to use more than 1,000 watts power will be in simultaneous operation on the same channel., Stations with power of 2,500 watts and greater are |being paired as a rule with 500 watt |stations and even these are in widely | separated localities. The favored sta- | tions thus secure valuable monopolies. | They are all politically “reliable.” Other stations which are oper- ating on bands used by the 30,000 and 50,000 watt broadcasters, of which there are four KDKA, WGY, WEAF, and WJZ—are paired, one on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific Coast. The large stations are oper- ated by the General Electric, Radio Corporation, and Westinghouse. In the 600-100 kilocycle band four of the cleared channels are shared with Canadian stations, of the 11 un- cleared channels two are shared with Canada. Officials said that steps will be taken at once to improve conditions in the remaining 11 channels. Soviet Union Petitions For $858,000 Held Here The Soviet Union has filed a peti- tion in the Federal Court here for the appointment of a receiver to acquire the proceeds of two judgments amounting to approximately $858,000 which were entered in the name of the government of Russia recently against the Lehigh Valley Railroad. It for munitions which were destroyed in the Black Tom explosion in 1916. The Soviet Union has not been able to collect the money because it is not recognized by the United States. The hearing will be held Friday before Judge Knox. 100 Girls Strike When Speed-up is Instituted WOONSOCKET, R. L, (FP) Nov. 20.—Over a hundred girls in the ra- yon winding department of Manville- Jenckes Co. mill at Manville struck against their order to run more spools for the old rate of pay. The speed of the skein winders was reduced, so (that the earnings were actually de- Witness: tana, into Harwick to handle the strike | situation, a around for the men to sign. men say they hunted up a dictionary and looked up all the long words and | tried to dope out what it was all/ about. clear as to the exact meaning of the agreement, but they do understand that something is being put over on them, and same declare that they will refuse to sign it. other strikers n could. The evictions which the union | °y to |possible, and save the companies any )sort of unpleasantness or disturbance. CRINGING ATTITUDE OF LEWIS’ ORGANIZER EVICTS COAL MINERS Harwick Coal Companies and United Mine Workers Lawyers Wr ite Terms of Surrender HARWICK, Pa., Nov. 20.—The following document drawn up in agreement by counsel for poration and counsel for the U the Harwick Coal and Coke Cor- nited Mine Workers of America is typical of the shameful no-fight policy on evictions being fol- lowed by the union bureaucracy in the locked-out fields. It jus- tifies the refusal of the coal operators to arbitrate the questieg and gives the company right to deal with him as an in- dividual, opening the path for the victimization of militant ele- ments following the strike set- tlement. * Village of Harwick, Springdale Township, Allegheny County, Penna. ——, 1927. a Oe November I, —————, do hereby admit that I am in default under my lease wi the Harwick Coal and Coke Comp al Harwick Mine of the Harwick in Spring have been hat the and termination In consideration of withholding by said Company of a writ of Habere|p Facais Posessionem to recover pos: le sion of said house, and other vaiu considerations I have received, I again agree that I will deliver up quite and said premises on or before December 10, 1927; that I will not after that |date oppose any proceedings or writs ‘to dispossess me and I do hereby renew my waiver of all errors and sion entered against me, and pro- ceedings therein and thereon, and again waive ali right of appeal, writ or error, cbjection or exception that might be taken thereto. (SEAL) Organizer Brought It. David McKeen, formerly of Mon- international organizer sent the agreement The brought They are not yet altogether Last Monday six Harmanville fam- ilies were evicted on 48 hours’ notice. They were forced to crowd in with families as best they is collaborating with the company to carry thru will affect some 80 ad- ditional families. Miners Indignant. There is hot indignation against the evictions in Harwick, as well as in camp after camp where the locked- out miners are being thrown out of | their houses. out word for the miners to refuse to go—back them up and let them fight it out with the companies—at least | wait till the deputies came and took their furniture out, as the strikers | did in Passaic—thousands of them would stay. If the union would send The strike would gain immensely in militancy and strength. But the Lewis group’s policy is to| advise absolute submission instead get out as quietly and quickly as Once again the splendid militancy of the locked-out miners that with real leadership would inevitably bring the struggle thru to victory, is being nul- lified by the abject and cowardly ; policy of the union machine. May Be No Tax Cut for|, Middle Class WASHINGTON, Nov. tary Mellon’s proposal for reduc in surtaxes on incomes ranging 20.—Secr on be- tween $18,000 and $70,000, designed to gain the support of the micd class, is meeting with consider: difficulty. The proposed cut in the corporation tax from % to 12 per cent, now under consideration by the Ways and Means Committee will probably paralyze Mellon’s proposal. Despite the prosperity Coolidge talks so much about, the slowing up in industry added to the proposed cut in the corporation tax, will reduce the tax returns to such a degree that at the, peaceful possession of the Company’s| ;.. defects in any judgment for posses- | | of the Jacksonville scale; legalizes the lock-out; concedes the compe | |pany’s right to carry through | signing of the document is no lo: the* evictions, admits that the miner nger an employe of the company, GUNNISON MINES ‘CLOSE WHEN’ MEN JOIN THE STRIKE ‘United Mine Workers of Wyoming Offer Help WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 20,— =| Two-thirds of the Gunnison county coal diggers, most of them workers r Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and n Co., alked out on strike. i ble addition to the The coal Ss country e Crested | | this country | | now. | Arrest Organizer. John Parko, of the strike commit- Id a meeting of miners to stars k-out, and was arrested. r Adams has recalled from the strikers the three | the national guard, and | th ‘o state militia which were posted around the jail at Pueblo. Re- cent release of many of the imprisoned strikers as a result of the activity of {Continued .on Page Two) Republican State | ~ Have Bei Bought INDIANAPOL 20th.— Clyde Walb, Republican State Chair- man, former klansman and promin- ently connected with the famous Ku Klux Klan gang of Indiana, has been offered ,000 by Republican poli- i salvage his personal fi- Considerable whis- ng has been going on for some time about just who the donors are. |However, Walb has promised the or- | s of this pool to resign his irmanship within six weeks, the lreport goes Goodrich Contributes. : Governor James P. Good- aid to be the principle con- Form rich i |tributor to the fund. Walb has been the right hand man of Senator James |. Watson, leader of the anti-Good- |vich faction of the Indiana Republican Party. oodrich was active is amassing 0,060 pool in 1923 on behalf of arren T. McCray, who was sen- tenced to Atlanta prison for using the mails to raud. McCray was paroled this summer. Another famous member gf the old Ku K an ang with j Which Wal and McCray conne . C. Stevenson, an and polit na. Stevenson is serving a life term in prison for having murdered 1 girl after raping her. al boss in Coolidge Anxious to | Prevent Any Increase Of Government Owning WASHINGTON, } ov. 20 (FP),— Not only in his Philadelphia speech November 17 but in a White House rence on November 18, Presi- dent. Coolidge’s hostility to publie jownership and operation of any profit-making enterprise was voiced, {Inasmuch as giant power develop- ment is the big economic issue before Congress this year, his speech is con- strued as notice to the country that he line up with the power trust for its program at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Canyon. This announcement of policy is ex- tended to cover the government barge lines of the upper and lower Missis- Missouri river, Coolidge holds these to be experimental lines—to be hand- ed over to privte parties as soon as creasing. The 2,000 employes of the|they will probably be insufficient to|they prove profitable, or to be dis- - mill are tilt onlz 4 days a week.!take care of the nation’s needs. continued if they do not make money, | ‘ ‘Chairman Seems to _ sippi and the proposed one on the ————