The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1927, Page 4

Page Four Bove ARENA NSS BE Fork ‘a The Case of Greco and Carrillo By CHARLES YALE ill NE of the anti-fascisti workers ar- rested in the raids of July 11 HARRISON | was Mario Buzzi. He the ¢ way he would ever leave | fices of Il Martello pol would be by ning the burst through the door Karlier Buzzi refused again. the day ri 1 ¢ io were in assault took pla rested at their homes in Brooklyn. 1g from his nose | When Buzzi was brought into the;and ears the twenty-seven year old isolated bridge police i anti- st worker was beaten into the F Greco and Carr i ity. ready been “disposed of.” All this time Buzzi’s wife was tive brought Buz jignorant of his whereabouts and mediately two !frantie with fear for her husband. their feet and shoutec | * - one of the murderers, ¥ RINALLY the International Labor it.” The detecti hu em up Defense heard yi Buzzi’s plight and said in an ‘Don’t y that/and arrangements were made for and spoil our cé we know he didn’t | counsel to see him. $5,000 bail was commit the murders—we want him| provided and Bu was released. for something els Weak and suffering from the Carisi brutal treatment he received in jail, | fascisti, l »{he went to see the Dr. Fama whose (Memorial Day) fe {mame was mentioned in the “confes- remember, and sion” he refused to sign. Dr. Fama very emt f did not know Buzzi until he walked framers |into his office and asked for medical | The fi treatment. | with meeting. for May h charged released. saw Buzz. The ¢ wanted i he w taken intc oth m and toid that | he wa: be ¢ 1 with It-} ing and ing Ado Testa at al meet Chester on Marcl 2 detec- years | > you and! Tl talk tc (July 13) 1 town jail. That! 1, fatherly-looking m entered his cell ar t down to chat! with him. He told Buzzi that he! would like to help him, that he was in| ty bad but that if the young, he was told all HE foll night a bi did Buzzi was told that he must im-| plicate Vincenzo Vacirca, editor: of H Nuovo Mondo, Carlo Tresca, editor of Ii Martello and Dr. Charles Fama in a plot to murder Carisi and Amor- roso. The fatherly-looking man said that Buzzi must swear that while at work he heard Dr. Fama telephone Vacirca and tell him that since his protests against the fascist’s proposed Memorial day parade proved unavyail- ing, the anti-fascisti must act. Then Buzzi was told to say that he heard Vacirea arrange a confer- ence with Carlo Tresca and Dr. Fama lay in Tenth Street and that all three at the meeting. Then Buzzi was shown a paper writ- ten in English, a language with which he is not very far He was told that it was a confession, the outline of which had been told to him, and|{ that he must sign it. He refused to sign. The father-looking man said noth- ing and left the cell. A few minutes | | | later he returned in company with another man not quite so fatherly- looking. * * * Then Buzzi was assaulted. He was beaten and slugged with rubber-hose and a blackjack until he vomited blood and fainted. No medical attention was given to him and during the fol- lowing day he attended to his own bruises and cleaned hims: elf. and would accrue }and turned The next day his torturers returned told him of the benefits that to him if he signed the He was told that the} zation was powerful and | confession Port Chester charge » the night of March As for th gainst Buzzi, 20, when the hing was supposed | to have taken place, Buzzi w at home to help a trained nurse care for his sick wife Some time er his release Buzzi received a telephone call from Lieu- tenant Vinci, an officer in the Fascist Million Dollar Mellon Wedding AMY SHECHTER. _ Dollar Wedding for Mellon, Gorgeous Fairyland specially for Nuptials!” .the Pittsburgh papers announce. “A two million dollar wedding surpassing in jor the fetes celebrating the nuptials of royalty. America probably never before has seen preparations for a social function of such magni- By o Million \ficent setting.” The Mellon millions flaunted in the faces of the thousands of miners in the Pittsburgh distriet whom the Mel- lon interests are trying to starve into ubmission are a direct challenge to ll who stand with the miners in their fight. From the beginning the Mel- lon interests have been the leading aggressor in the war to choke the life out of the miners’ union in the bitu- minous fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Pittsburgh Coal Company, Mel- lon-controlled, was the first company openly to break the Jacksonville agreement—28 months ago, when the agreement still had 20 months to run. In August, 1925, the company posted 33 1-3 per cent wage cut, notices of a 33 and locked out its 19,000 miners. Then } Ae tered through the district, jobless and | it opened up 18 of its 65 mines, scab, brought in an army of 400 gunmen, its mining towns armed camps. * $100,000 For One Night. The company claimed that under the Jacksonville agreement its earn- ing were inadequate. wedding a pavilion was put up in the grounds of the Mellon palace at the cost of $100,000, for a single night. “Curved pillars of gold,” say the press accounts, “walls hung with an-/ tique tapestries...the glow of orange, blue and gold from the lofty ceiling | .-furnishings oriental in their sug- gestion, extravagant beyond descrip- tion.” Mellon’s millionaire guests—a Rus- sian emigre prince was there as well —must be guarded from the shadow | of a reminder that cold or discomfort exist. At enormous cost a device was perfected to drive winter from the golden millionaire world. Great lenses | cand myriad lights - were cone ar- THE FOLLOWING NEW READERS SEND THEIR GREET- r a INGS TO THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION OF Committee, nocos 307; 611 Pom ac | areesten alone has made profits to- THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION ‘'22-"22¢ 72! = ye. _MECHANIZATION OF FARM CONTIN Abe, Alex Hudwma, Michael Palmer, J. W. Arcod, C. Hetoy, John Paul, T. Andrichuk, Wm. Pandee, D. Brown, Wm. Jackum, John Peterson, E. Piliteri, R. Browder, Wm. Kaspar, Albert Pike, H. Bazdanovia, G. Kaufer, S. Belzak, Alex Kalodin, S. Raxboy, T. Boorstein, F. Kish, Nick Resnick, Sam Bondner, H. Kichyk, Harry Rosenberg, J. B. Bricklag, B. Krenik, Mary Riapko, John Belszca, P. Kmet, George Berger, Bella Kmet, John Shimay, Jack Bortnick, John Kowalski, N. Strok, A. Benben, K. Kastiw, I. Stutzen, I. Korns, Mike Kallske, Harry Cenusa, Lazar Cristy, Nick Stutzen, C. Sarkins, J. Schunzzhlig, Joseph Canari Looer, D. Stadnyk, P. Calliln, J. Semotiuk, A, N. Critchley, N. D. Mateff, Stanley Semchyshyn, A. Murat, E Derveck, Sarafan Mestaind Tull, A. Dubetz, W. Mekoff, M. Tscheff, George Melamed, S. Tulep, J. Eltfuk, S. Marbikos, T. Tymochko, John Eastwood, E. B. Marbikos, Ethel Makis, J. Utantos, M. Faust, Louis Morchica, B. Fisher, W. “ Moudol, Mary Vadnervynguaerd, Ed. ; Martison, N. Gross Wettman, H. Gurcheff, George N. S, Nucleus, Woetuk, P, Gorman, S. St. Louis Weinrit, Henry Grosh, M. Wasylewich, T, Ogul, J. in, Wm, Hodder, John Opirs, S. Wakoruk, Tom Hint, C, Helsemaler, H, Pessig, Stephen Zamorsky, M. @ , | methods Greco ae C: +a woman in child-birth, or the im- into | homeless. | taxes, depreciation and interest. This Lining Up Allies. | was an increase of about $4,000 over The sinister Mellon influence | the preceding year. It was more than For the Mellon | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927 League of North America who asked | that Buzzi meet him. A meeting was} ranged at which Vinci told Buzzi | unl the confession was signed | t League would see that | voperly taken care of, tha the he was The world acclaims, Fase HESE are the methods used to fix | the for. the Memorial Day} ist Through such illo now find | themselves in the Bronx County Jail | charged with first degree murder. | Congratulating the com guilt mur Stand aside now! THE TUNNEL | (Commemorating the opening of “the Holland tubes under the we OQ Hudson.) ' At last the work is done! And men say: “A brilliant achievement!” Patting the engineers upon the back, missioners. Where are the sand-hogs Buzzi remembered the night ae) Who labored here under pressure fascisti in Italy burst into his home} and killed his aged father before his | quadrista” attacked S njured” (that’s the word he used) her so that she is in a hospital to this day. Buzzi him- self has scars on his body made by fascists while they tortured him in Of compressed air, In imminent danger of Digging like moles in the dark Relentlessly for seven years, death, Tortured by boiling blood—‘the bends’? Italy. | Where are they? And in his office in West 45th | i i Street Count Ignazio Thaon Di; Thirteen workers died here! Revel, the imported head of the Fas- | cist League sits and directs the) if z frame-up of Greco and Carrillo. Di! The rest are at home, probably, Revel is a pallid, thin man who talks | z Eating dinner now, in an emasculated voice. His eyes are | shifty and he looks into one’s eyes | with great difficulty. All the elements of great drama are here with this difference, how-| er, that if the third act goes against | logero Greco and Donato Car rill, | the last Seene will be played in the! death house in Sing Sing. | Looking for work. What do they know Or banquets? They drove the tubes, | They erected the giant Holding the river out, Geese to cast the gentle radiance of a moonlit summer night over the pal- | ace grounds; in order, says the press, “that looking from the windows the | guests would see no bleak November They are the workers, The simple fare of the toilers. Perhaps some are tramping the streets now Of dedication ceremonies rings They cleared away the mountains of dirt, They paved and fitted the tunnels For the pleasure and convenience of men. They toiled and died here, EST REICH, Jr. landscape besmirched with fog or They did the job! Third Year of War. This is the third November of the Catia hal ah coal war in the grey mining towns of | the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Pennsylvania and Ohio for the miners who work to produce the wealth flung away in this grotesque ion; the third winter of evictions and hunger and police terror. Within six months after the 1925 | By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press.) | The steadily mounting profits of the big farm equipment corporations wage cut was posted in the Mellon| show one way in which New York mines every one of the 19,000 Pitts- finance is getting its share of the burgh Coal Company miners had been | purchasing power ‘of the farmers. evicted from the company houses. A | These profits are a by-product of the few days’ notice-—or none at all—and | advancing industrialization of agri- they had to be out. A sick baby, or | culture especially calculated to whet the appetite of Wall Street. possibility of finding shelter from the | cial writers are exulting in the fact Finan- | Farunt Frade Aesicd Profits for Implement Concerns iz'reding moter has forced a ridie- $1,789,000 in 1923. While .the Case ; Threshing Machine Co. showed a 1926 profit of $3,817,000 compared with $2,793,000 in 1925 and only $634,000 in 1928. These 3 companies, after through the period of depression in farm purchasing power, are again presenting their stockholders with a return which will mean extra divi- |dends and stock dividends in the fu- jture. The profit of the Harvester winter were no excused. Armed|that these enterprises are rounding deputies and Coal and Iron police | out what will undoubtedly prove the {righ stockibldeeaa-reminici of Tie sper were on hand to.see that the job was | best year in. the last decade. done. Two families in a room, or | three; then hundreds of families | forced away from the camps, scat- International Harvester, of $24,088,000 after all deductions for double the profits of 1923 when the swag amounted to $10,274,000. Profit In Plows. reaches far beyond the Pittsburgh | Coal Company mines. The Mellon in- | terests have lined up company after company in their anti-union war of) Be as Deere & Co., next in point of size, jextermination. The General Motors aay Ps the giant | | of the industry, showed a 1926 profit | for recent stock. dividends. Deere & | | BOOTH ie Trust, after allowing for 7 per cent | |preferred dividends, gave the com- jcent on their normal investment or about 24 per cent if allowance is made | |Company’s profit, after paying regu- lar preferred dividends, meant a re- turn of 2942 per cent on the par value | of the common stock while Case Threshing Machine also gave its) stockholders a return of more than | 20 per cent. The profits of these 3 farm imple- ment concerns year by year since repotted a 1926 profit of $7,662,000 |Company demands that the operators | compared with $4, 514,000 in 1925 and from which it buys coal conform to} | Pittsburgh Coal Company labor poli- | Farm jmiplowent 1918, as tabulated in the Chicago ___¢, Journal of Commerce, were: cies. The Mellon-controlled banks! trust profits * Harvester Deere Case have forced numbers of independent 1918 $15,872,000 $2,353,000 jmines to join the open shop drive un- | 1919 13,398,000 5,257,000 2,909,000 der threat of financial ruin. 1920 16,877,000 4,647,000 1,936,000 A tremendous combination of 2 4,149,000 2,752,000* 583,000* |forces is arrayed against the miners 5,540,000 2,520,000* 321,000 today. A supreme effort in. support 10,274,000 634,000 of the miners is needed if they are to | 15,557,000 147,000 {come out of the struggle victorious. 20,128,000 4,514,000 2,793,000 The friends. of the miners must take | 24,088,000 7,662,000 3,817,000 up the challenge and send aid gener- deficit pa | ously to the miners and their famili Even deducting the losses of the Got Reserves. |Shoes for the barefoot miners’ chil-| {dren, milk for the-thousands of min- jers’ children who have not tasted milk for months and years, food to put | Strength into men and women and ‘children for the long fight. The Pennsylvania Ohio Miners’ bad years 1921 and 1922 when the farmers were going bankrupt by the tens of thousand, these 3 companies have made combined profits totaling er $160,000,000 in the 9 years in- eluded in the table. International ; nue, Pittsburgh, Pa., is making a na-| about 175 per cent on its entire 1919 property account. All 3 companies are so wéll bul- warked with surplus profits and re- serves that they do not need to go to money lenders for working capi- tal. International Harvester at the end of 1926 had net working capital | totaling $169,402,000, an increase ot 1#26; 000,000 over 1923, New Holt caterpillar grain harvester, picks up bundles, cuts strings, threshes, and cleans grain in one operation, thus eliminating all of threshing crew except binder driver and shockers. It is an expensive thing for the individual farmer and will be bought with a mortgage on and grain dealers and rented to the farmers, the farm, or by the local. bankers unless co-operatives are formed to purchase such machines. passing | f ‘Billie Burke Back in| ‘Early Eighteenth Cen-) | tury Story OEL COWARD, prolifie writer of | plays, might have written “The | | Marquise,” now being presented at | |the Biltmore theatre, with Billie} | Burke as the star, especially for this | entertaining actress. That this not the case is evi-! dent when we recall; that the play was; originally produced in London with an- other actress in the role. In spite of its early eighteenth century costumes and setting, its dialogue is essen- tially that (of the Billie Burke modern sophisticates. | The story furnishes Co author with Dana Burnet of sufficient plot to hold | «pou» W: lis,” nov ts third month |the interest of the audience, but the | The ode Grell g excellent acting of the cast raises it} pe | to the status of a first class perfor- }made ‘furnishes the opportunity for |mance—one of the best now on the/admirable acting by Miss Burke, who | boards in New York. Coincident with | radiantly plays the mother, and |the announcement of the bettothal of | Arthur Byron and Reginald Owen, | ienne, daughter of Raoul de) who play the two old friends. Vriaac, to Miguel, the son of his old-| While such things may have hap- est’ friend, the marquise, Eloise de | pened in the early eighteenth century | Kestournel, arrives on the scene. The they never would have become the sub- proposed marriage has been arranged | ject of a play. There is one character | between the two friends who are the/in the play, a priest, who in an |fathers respectively of the girl and} eighteenth century play would have the young man, but is not at all/been presented in a heroic role. In |satisfactory to them. Miguel has a/a period when the church was the girl in Paris, while Adrienne in| most powerful bulwark of a dec! lining love with her father’s secretar: {feudal aristocracy, the priests de- | The youngsters agree not to marry |picted in drama were always heroes— }ao matter what happens. Subsequent | R ichelieus or Woolseys. In the pres- jd velopments prove this a wise de- jent play he is a ridiculous buffon, a leision, for Eloise is the mother of | snivelling, sanctimonious _ parasite, {both of them. This fact is unknown) who acts as spiritual advisor and |to the two old friends, but is event-|stool-pigeon for Raoul de Vriaac. ually revealed during the action of | William Kershaw, as the priest, does |the play. The revelation does not|some admirable acting in a_per- take place, however, until after the| formance notable for its exceptionally competent cast. For those who admire good acting and who are bored by so-called prob- m plays and who patronize the the- ulous priest to marry the girl and the | secretary of the girl’s father. Finally the mother of the children, herself but 42 years of, age, chooses} atre for sheer amusement, the new to marry one of her former lovers.| play at the Biltmore will be more | The final seene in in which her choice is than sati ying. —H. M. Ww. (l Bas BaN404 wall H AM M ‘PD EN | any .MP DE “AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” ' Thea., B’way at 62a St. Hampden’s “"ivininue at $) Matinets Wednesday and The Theatre Guild presents — Bernard Shaw's Comedy : | DOCTOR'S DILEMMA 1 | Guild YP: Mats thurs W. of Bway Byes, 8:40 PORGY atinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Extra Mat. Thurs (Thanksgiving Day) oT ay | Winthrop Ames Republic mete" ESCAPE nun sue rs | John Galsworiny’s xtra Mat. Thurs. ( New Play with Leslie Howard ——-—— et Max Reinhardt’ Midsummer Night’s Dream” CENTURY T RK 7 ea Sentral Par! Ray 8.: F a | hentre, 41 St. W. of Bway [eeenal 0, Mts, Wed.&Sat.2: 7 : Extra Mat, Thurs. (Phankegivinn Dao , “The Trial of Mary Dugan”. " Chanin’s W All Pertorr Winthrop Ames Gilbert & Sullivan See. Co. The Desert Song °":" | With Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buell Thurs Ib ond Yea By Bayard Bd with HARDING—REX © “REX CHERRYMAN in Eves. Ont RAT IMPERIAL THEA Sinead of Bway ERLANGER’S a Mats. Thurs. and Sat, AWALLS: STEER MALONES s with MUNI W: John Golden Henry Miller’s 3/3‘ ° Grant Mitchell Thurs.&Sa in ¢ Ame an Farce The LADDE R THE BABY CYCLONE eee TH. W. of B'wa: TRE, 42 St. vi 0, ; DAV oan PORT THEATRE Le: ateiOn Ave. 2:15 near Mat. Photie Madison Sa, “HAMLET” With BUTLER DAVE (HORT and <celle: GARRICK i} BASIL £Yy & and MARY BLLIs With Garrick F yan ers in the Modern TAMING of the Cul Wm. Fox presents the Motion ure Directed by SUNRISE LA . W. MURNAU a By HERMANN SUDERMANN : L if Symphonie Movietone Accompanime CU. | qimes Sq. BBs, 423 St. W. of B’ B'way, 46 St. Rvs, E DAIbY, 2: j FULTON Mats.Thurs.&Sat. 2 Fy [BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! Frances Starr IMMORAL ISABELLA 28,3848 | Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! rvez vh., W. 48th St. Mats. Wed, & 9m Limited Engagement From November 22 to December 4 The NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE production of THE BELT now playing at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE 133 MacDougal Street. ‘Telephone Spring 8363. Performance every evening (except Monday) including Sunday at 8:40, Matinees Thanksgiving and Saturday at 2:40. The first modern Labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories, © onedg th =, |