The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1927, Page 1

x . ee ° Jaw BLP ' PE THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; 7 r r FOR THE ORGANIZAT N OF THE ‘ 4 FINAL CITY UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK e EDITION FOR A LABOR PARTY + Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of Mareh 3, 1579. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Price 3 Cents Street, Vol. IV. No. 267. COLORADO POLICE SLAUGHTER UNARMED STRIKERS SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF 7 RACE DISCRIMINATION IN’ SCHOOL In First Sessions After Recess on Record for Jim Crew Law, Tax Exemption of Rich Kull Four, Maim Many; Women Shot Down, Martial Law Declared; “A Second Ludlow” COOLIDGE DENIES | Special To The DAILY WORKER. } BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 21.—Four miners were killed outright, dozens wounded, a number of i women among them, when-rifle and pistol fire from mine guards and: state police mowed down HELP T0 MINERS unarmed pickets at the Columbine mine near here today. Adam Bell, well known miner leader, Nick Skis and Z. Vickels are known killed. of the wounded are expected to die. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21:—The Supreme Court today | declared the legality of segregation of white and colored children in schools, by ruling favorably to the state of Mississippi in the i A ease of a Chinese girl who was excluded from a public school on number } the ground that she was “colored.” They incidentally subjected the Chinese race to persecution wherever Jim Crow laws exist Workers Party Meet ii Manhattan Lyceum This Evening at 8 O'Clock The Build-the-Party campaign | of the Workers (Communist) Party will be reported upon at 2 general membership meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., by Jay Love- stone, executive secretary of the Party. All members are urged to attend. o= SENTENCE HEAD OF UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL TO 3AIL Cleveland Judge Cares Nothing About Hungry CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 21.—Joe Judson, leader of the Cleveland Un- ~~exaployed: Council, was’sentenced Fri- day to 30 days at the Warrensville Workhouse, on a framed up vagrancy y fixing their status as that of la “colored” race. The decision carries a certain jhalf hearted injunction to the | state officials to provide as good schools for “colored” pupils as for | those of white race, but leaves it. to jthe states making such divisions jamong its school children to decide |what is as good. One of the points in the. Chinese girl’s suit was that the Negro school to which she was sent was much inferior in equipment to the white school. Refund to Big Companies. | The Supreme Court today decided ,|that the Board of Tax Appeals has | authority to review decisions of the |commissioner of internal revenue in- voking special methods of determin- ing war excess profits. The decision paves the way for tax refund suits against the government totalling $100,000,000. | Saves Rich Man’s Tax. By a five to four decision the Su- preme Court today held that a gift tax assessed against John W. Blod- gett of Michigan was illegal because congress attempted to apply the law retroactively. The court held that the act was applied unronstitutionally in Blod- gett’s case. He was taxed on » gift made in January and the act was not passed» until June. « Hits Another S. O. Rival, The Federal government today won JUSTICE F, L. SIDDONS, MAY HAVE T0 60 OVER SIDDONS TO REACH JUROR Teapot DomeJudgeDoes Not Bother Kidwell WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.— A move to institute contempt pro- éeeding against the juror Kidwell in the Fall-Sinclair trial for conspiring to steal Teapot Dome oil fields from the government by the district attor- ney’s office; in another court than that of Justice Siddons, was hinted j today. Siddons, the'trial judge in the conspiracy case has been acting very curiously about the whole affair, since declaring the whole case a mis- trial, a:culmination towards which the Burns Detective Agency reports made public show the defense was also working. Seems to Be For Defense. Siddons’ recent attempt to place District Attorney Peyton Gordon on a committee to investigate whether contempt proceedings could be ABUSED BY COPS A.F.L. Issues Appeal to Unions for Relief Presidents Green of the A. F. of L. and Lewis of the United Mine Work- ers of America, were told by Presi- dent Coolidge that he could:do noth- ing to prevent the use of ¢oal and iron police to break the " miners’ strike, and that an investigation of the misuse of injunctions was also out of his jurisdiction. Crawling Doesn’t Help. This rebuff was given the commit- tee representing the conference of American Federation of Labor chiefs, in spite of the almost cringing ter- minology of the resolution they passed, empowering and appointing | the committee to visit Coolidge. The president suggested that he could give his good offices to delega- tions of miners or operators, not ad- | visably a joint conference. He again lamented the fact that he did not have (Continued on Page Two) HEBREW TRADES: ASK COURTS TO Tear gas bombs were used to break up the picket line before the massacre. John Ruzicka was shot at n nany times while trying to care for the wounded. The order to fire on the pickets was given by Louis N. Scherf, chief of the State Law En- forcement Department, directly i n charge of the state armed forces at the Columbine mine, act- ing under orders of Governor Adams. MARTIAL LAW. DENVER, Nov. 21.—Governor Adams declared martial law in the northern coal fields today, WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 21— following the killing, by state police and mine guards, of four unarmed striking miners and the A delegation of union heads, led by wounding of many more at the Columbine mine. I. W. W. leaders and local unarmed. labor union officials declare that the miner pickets were entirely It is admitted by the state authorities that not a single weapon was “found on the killed and wounded men and women. -~— CREEN INTRIGUES FOR OUSTING OF GOOD UNIONIST Whole A. F. L. Council | Attacks Schneiderman LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 21.— William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, has sent the following letter to the Office Workers’ Union, Local 15,251, which as refused to carry out the instruc- ions of General Organizer J. B. Dale expel Wm. Schneiderman from the union arid the Central Labor Council: Green’s Threat. * * * ANOTHER LUDLOW. J WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. 21.—The attack upon unarmed pickets by mine guards and state police, acting under instrue- tions from Governor Adams, at the Columbine mine in the north- ern fields, has brought a great revival of strike activity in this district. Hundreds of miners are coming into Walsenburg and the roads are jammed with machines carrying miners from the sur- rounding properties. “Another Ludlow,” is the phrase on the lips of thousands of workers here when they speak of the Colum- bine massacre. DENVER, Colo., Nov. 21—Moving rapidly, 300 members of cavalry, tank corps, infantry and medical outfits were at the # ~—®¢Columbine mine within a few International Labor Defense ewe eee the shooting. |The troopers were equipped Pledges Fullest Support to Colorado Miners’ Struggle | with automatic revolvers, rifles jand machine guns, _ } One of the four killed was identi- fied as Adam Bell, prominent strike charge. a $150,000,000 tax case in Supreme| brought was denounced by the 1 “While the Executive Council of the A ang , yy the latter ri 7 leader. Judson’s trial followed his arrest at |Court when the court ruled that in-| in a hoe letter in which he accused American Federation of Labor was in cori ce oe ae ae Wosiid “Woaiess, the office of the Unemployed Council | come derived from oil extracted from|the judge of trying to put him in an DESTROY J session in Los Angeles, on Saturday, the nirtherh Colteai coal Saldie(| ; : ae last Monday, At this time new/Indian tribal land by a non-Indian| equivocal position. October Ist, prior to the opening of| | 7.7 2°" Cannon, secretary of the| | rere byes ys included charges were placed against him and | operating lessee is not exempt from Siddons’ failure to move against 4 the convention on Monday, October | Tateepational Sahar Tedanes among the wounded. hey were he was arrested without the formality of a warrant. He was held incom- municado until late the next day when the charge of vagrancy was placed against him and he was released ‘on $300 bail. No Vagrant. Judson presented, thru his attorney, Yetta Land, evidence that he had lived in the city for the past three years and that most of this time he had worked for one employer where his record was excellent. No attempt was made by the prosecution to disprove this evidence. Thruout the trial the prosecuting attorney and Judge Bell raised the “red” bogey. The case is palpably a frame-up pure and simple to deprive the Unem- ployed Council of its ledder as a firs’ step to break up the organization, which has caused the staid city fa. thers in the city council some unea: ness thru its repeated and aggressive demands that the city government take action to relieve the unemploy- ment situation. i The Unemployed Council has an- nounced that an immediate appeal will be made. Judson ig out under $300 bond pending the appeal. - Sigman Libel Suit Re-opens Today In N. Y. Police Gouri ‘fhe criminal libel suit instituted by Morris Sigman, president of the In ternational Ladies’ Garmen Workevs Union, against The Jewish Daily Tieiheit, Communist newspaper, and Unity, organ of the left wing in thi needle trades, will be resumed at 2 p. m. today in the Jefferson Market Court, Sixth Ave. and Ninth St., be- fore Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky. Sigman has brought the two mili- tant newspapers to court to accuse them of libeling himself and wife in connection with his amusement park at Storm Lake, Ia, This morning’s session will be the fifth held. At previous sessions Jo- seph R. Brodsky and Louis B. Bou- din, counsel for the defense, showed that Sigman employed non-union la-: bor at the amusement park and’ that he has acted as a strike-breaker against the left wing in the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ - Union. Samuel Markewich, former assistant district attorney, is Sig- man’s lawyer. taxation. Destroys State Tax on Fortunes. The Supreme Court today denied the petition of the New York State Tax Commission for review of a de- cision of the State Court of Appeals olding unconstitutional the statute 1925 imposing a flat rate tax of wo per cent upon inheritances from estates of deceased non-residents, whereas a progressive rate is applied |te resident estates. | Lines Up with Press. | The jurisdiction of the Interstate | Commerce Commission extends to de- | ts ng the reasonableness: of rates jon newsprint shipped from Canada to | the United States, the Supreme Court | ruled today. The case was originated by the q Syndicate Company, which se- ured an order f commerce Commi thirty-seven cent y es through rom Thorold, Ontario, to New York rate i City, was unreasonable. Reparations to the amount of $15,000,000 was or- | dered. | Vindictive Prosecution Of Remus Starts; Won’t ‘Let Him Call Sec. Davis COURT HOUSE, Cincinnati, Nov. 21.—Walter assistant 5 ee in the opening statement ‘ the stave at the trial of Remus to- vy, declared that “Remus and his +d” deliberately planned the slay- sand that Remus, the former boot- ey King carried it out. Remus shot wife in Eden Park on the morn- g of October 6, when she was on her way to court to divorce him. Every effort is being made to keep “emus from telling any of his secrets of government graft until he is safely ‘n the death cell, from which no news comes out unless the warden permits it. Declaring that tho state had exer- ised a privilege he was not allowed to use, Remus made a motion in court today, reiterating his demand that James J. Davi bor of the United States be sub- poenaed to produce records having to do with him (Remus). This motion had been denied by Judge chester R. Shook. K. Sibbald, GOING BACK TO WAR PAINT. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 21.— The War Department has just issued an order for certain officers and non- commissioned officers in the older regiments to wear their continental army uniforms at ceremonies. To “cultivate esperit de corps and morale,” as a substitute for variety in army life, ‘ . Secretary of La-| Kidwell when the latter boasted that he found Sinclair “a very democratic gentleman” and that he would get “an auto as long as this block” out of the trial, has aroused much comment here. Fish Scurries to Cover. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York has retracted his accusa- tions against Doheny, a millionaire oil man whose contract was revoked on the grounds of fraud by the U. S. supreme court recently, Doheny was tried along with Fall recently, for bribing Fall, but was acquitted under suspicious circum- stances, and Fish was reported as having accused Doheny of tampering with the jury. HEARST CHARGES CALLES FINANCED CHINESE REVOLT According to Hearst’s New York American and his other publications | thruout the country, President Calles of Mexico not only financed the lib- eral forces in Nicaragua in the strug- gle against the government of Diaz, the Wall Street agent who is main- tained in power by the invading forces of American marines, but he also financed Russian Bolshevist propaganda as well as the Chinese revolution. The material appears in {Continued on Page Two) Farmers Demand Senate Fight Confirmation of ‘Meyer as Loan Director WASHINGTON, D. €., Nov. 21. — Senators Norris, Nye and others of the so-called “farm bloc” today served notice on all that they would fight the confirmation of Eugene Meyer, ap- pointed by President Coolidge to be chairman of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau. The farmers of the Middle West would turn against their sena- tors if Meyer were not attacked, poli- ticians say. Meyer was one of the bitterest foes of farmers while chair- man of the War Finance Corporation. No hope is held out here for the passage of the McNary-Haugen farm loan bill. Coolidge has again an- nounced he will veto it if passed. Grocery Clerks Target of Injunctions A drastic injunction prohibiting the Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ YUnion from functioning as a labor union is demanded by the United He- brew Trades. A temporary injunction was served yesterday on I. Wasserman, secretary of the union, which prohibits the or- ganization from calling union meet- ings, carrying on ordinary office de- tails or calling itself by its rightful name. j A petition for a permanent injunc- | tion will be argued today at 10 a. m. in the Brooklyn supreme court be- fore Justice Richard May. He issued | the temporary injunction yesterday. | Signed By Feinstein. The United Hebrew Trades request for the injunction is signed by Morris Feinstein, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, and Samuel Heller and H. Rilbner, officials of the right wing dual clerks’ union. According to Wasserman the right wing organ- | ization has eight members in addi- | tion to its two officials. I Two other injunction cases, spon- sored by the right wing, are dock- eted for the Bronx County court this morning, These injunctions would | prohibit the unien from picketing the Kimberg grocery, 294 Cypress Ave., jand the Herzog store, 521 E. 137th St. Strikes were called in both stores several months ago. Assemblyman Henry QO. Kahn is the union’s attorney in both the Brooklyn and Bronx cast 5 eats ae gh 6 International President Of Upholsterers Betrays Strike in Open Shop Town LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 21. In the fourth week of the strike of Upholsterers Union, Local 15, against the Hill Bros. firm, Inter- national President William Kohn has declared the strike illegal, de- mapding it be immediately called off, the strikers stop picketing and the men go back to work. The strikers have been picketing the shop in defiance of the Anti-Picket- ing Ordinance of the City of Los Angeles, and this betrayal of the strikers by the International Pres- ident has caused great indignation, especially as victory is in sight. President Kohn has wired from New York that no strike benefits should be paid the strikers, 8rd, the Executive Council was in- formed that the delegate William Schneiderman, elected by your organ- ization to represent it in the Amer- iean Federation of Labor Convention, and whose credentials had been turned in on the convention, was an avowed Communist. The Executive Council appointed two of its members to in- vestigate the matter. The investiga- tion resulted in fully sustaining the | complaint. and further that Mr.| Schneiderman admitted that he is a} Communist and that he takes pride in | that fact. As you know he was re-| fused a seat in the convention. | “In conformity with the further ac- | tion of the Executive Council at this meeting you are hereby advised that it is the decision of the Executive Couycil of the American Federation of Labor that William Schneiderman be expelled from membership in your local. You will please read this letter to the next meeting of your local and advise me what action has been taken in conformity therewith. Fraternally yours, (Signed) Wm. Green, Presi- dent, American Federation of Labor.” Allied With Detective. Secretary Frank Morrison and Matthew Woll, the committee men- tioned in Green’s letter, at a meeting during the convention when Schnei- derman was unseated, received docu- | ments from Wm. Hynes, chief of the Red Squad notorious for arrest of radicals in this city, which they claim prove Schneiderman is a Communist. Hynes, the police detective, was pres- ent at this committee meeting, and} during the entire convention, it was quite evident that he was workiag in close collaboration with the officials of the Central Labor Council and the A. F. of L., for right after the unseat- ing of the Communist delegate, other | Communists at the convention hall were arrested. Labor officials have never denied this fact. Schneidermann was expelled from | the Central Labor Council after a} hard fight in which many members | expressed disgust at Green's action. | K.K.K. Heads on Trial In First of 102 Cases; | Kidnapping, Flogging | LUVERNE, Ala., Nov. 21. ie first of 102 indictments of members of the Ku Klux Klan for wholesale floggings and other brutality in Crenshaw, county of Alabama, went to trial here today. The indictments | were for assault and battery and kid-| napping. Ira Gb. Thompson, demo- cratic political leader and “Cyclops” of the Luverne K. K. K., was among those itylicted. ° ;Stfuck by bullets from the large cali- stated to a DAILY WORKER rep-| |bre revolvers of the state police, representative yesterday. | Reports from the southern field at “This incident should arouse the| |noon, where quiet has prevailed for entire labor movement to the tre-| | more than a week in the strike, called mendous importance of the Colo-| | Oct. 18, told of “a series of police ac- rado strike and the necessity of |tiyities in the Aguilar camp near nation-wide support for the min-|/|Trinidad, Forty persons, including ers. The International Labor De-| |three women, were arrested follow- fense is one hundred per cent on] |ing fist fights between striking min- the side of the workers in this} ers and mine’guards. No shots were fight. We have been sending funds | | fired. to assist in their struggle end in- tend continuing to do so in order to strengthen the battle lines and d in their defense.” The coal camp near Colorado Springs was guarded by a force of thirty deputy sheriffs during a mine jers’ meeting. Open Railroad Crossing | Without Guards Wrecks Bus and Injures Many JONESVILLE, Mich., Nov. 21.— A Detroit-bound _ Chicago-Detroit | Governor Adams announced that highway bus skidded into a fog-hid-|™martial law would pobably be pro- den freight train at a crossing here|¢laimed in the northern coal field, today, injuring the driver and 23 pas-| giving the militia complete control of sengers, according to reports from | affairs there. Hillsdale, Mich. | First Shooting. The driver, J. C, Tunney, Cora| jt was the first time since the Mackanza and Jan Bongognas, are |gtrike went into effect Oct. 18 that eee Hospital, seriously in-Jarms have been used by either side. * ¥ ‘ f Several of the pickets injured i . Mackanza, oye of the seriously 2M! the pitched battle ones a = jured, has been in an Illinois hospital | + several weeks. He was being brought) The massacre began when 500-strike back to Detroit by two friends. There |!" Miners, with a woman at their were no guards stationed at the cross-|h¢ad, started their daily demonstra- ing, nor any viaduct or signals. (Continued on Page Two) Mobilize Troops. Colonel Paul Newlon, adjutant gen- eral of the Colofado guard, was ine | structed by Governor Adams to mob- \ilize as many guardsmen as the sit- uation demanded. Martial Law and Murder! Rally to the Colorado Miners! Help the Colorado Strike! Stop the Colorado Massacre! (Declaration of the Central Executive Committee of the Workexs [Communist] Party). Martial law has been declared in Colorado! Guard has been called out. Four pickets have been murdered by machine gun fire. Thirty others. wounded, eight of-them dangerously, State troopers and armed company gunmen under the command of state officials turned machine guns on unarmed pickets. Tear-gas bombs, airplanes, machine guns, all the ine struments of “civilized” warfare are being used against the strike ing coal miners. The Colorado of the Rockefellers is living up to its bloody traditions. The Colorado massacre of 1914 is being repeated in 1927. Governor Adams, the democrat, is jealous of the bloody reputation of ex-Governor Ammons, the republican who directed the massacre of 1914. Open war has once more been dec upon the American workers and all the machinery of American government from the injunction-making courts to the arme& (Continued on Page ss The National