The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 268. CONFESS PLOT 10 MURDER OBREGON IN MEXICO CITY Two Held for Reaction- ary Conspiracy MEXICO CITY, Nov, 22. bassador Dwight W. Morrow, make a special report soon to the state department on the decision ren- dered by the supreme court in the Mexican Petroleum Company’s in- junction suit, it was learned here to- day. The ambassador will be assisted in preparing his report by two inter- national lawyers of high standing. Until these two experts complete their analysis of the official text of the court’s decision, Morrow will have no comment to make. eat, Am- Oregon Plotters Confess. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.—General Roberts Cruz, chief of police of the federal district, today announced that | an engineer named Luis Segura, “in- tellectual author” who inspired the in- effectual attempt to assassinate Gen- eral Alvaro Obregon Nov. 13, acted in behalf of the Catholic Defense League. Segura is now under arrest, Cruz said. Also being held because of the affair is a priest named Miguel Agustin of Juarez. “When they were arrested,” General Cruz said today, “they were subjected to lengthy interrogatories and con- fessed themselves to be the authors of the attempt to kill General Obregon. Segura insisted upon assuming all the responsibility iff order to have the po- lice cease their activities against his accomplices. “Segura also confessed to having been the means of securing arms and ammunition to rebel elements in the states of Zacetas and Jalisco, and to be the owner of 7,000 Mauser cart- ridges.” #) ae Almada Escapes to U. S. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22. — Gen- eral Hector Ignacio Almada, former chief of staff for General Eugenio Martinez, who initiated a revolt last October by leading four contingents of the federal district garrison, today was unofficially reported to have es- eaped to the United States. He is said to have been located in San An- tonio, Texas, by Mexican secret serv- ice agents. Almada has been sought for weeks in the mountains of Vera Cruz by a federal force under General Jose Gon- zalo Escobar. Roceea 3 Reorganize Nicaragua Guard. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 22.— The puppet government of Diaz, Wall Street agent, has drawn up an agree- ment with American marine officials designed to reorganize the national guard, so that native mercenaries, commanded by United States marine corps officers, can take the place of the American forces that have been waging war against all elements who refuse to submit to the usurpation of Diaz. Brig. Gen. E. R. Beadle, now in com- mand of the national guard, announced that the work of reorganization was proceeding rapidly and that in the De- | partment of Chinandega effective po- lice methods have been put into ef- fect with the result that the liberal movement is completely extinguished and the population is now “loyal” to the Diaz or ramen * VOiner iia pedeationulibed crowd- ed the series of articles against Mex- ico, Nicaragua, the Soviet Union and China off the first page of the New York American yesterday and its “Mexican expose” was used to call the statement of the | Mexican foreign office that the faked documents were offered to one of its representatives at Los Angeles, a lie. Claims Hearst Had “Documents.” The Hearst publication declare: “This statement issued by the Mexi- can government is a deliberate false- hood and ean be proved as such. “On the date mentioned—August 24, 1927—these original documents were in the possession of Hearst executives in New York City. “As a matter of fact, these docu- ments had been in the possession of the Hearst newspapers since June last! “The fact that these documents were in New York—and not in Los| Angeles—on August 24 was known to William Randolph Hearst personally cuxi tu not tewer than seven of his executives.” A Feeble Alibi. Since the Hearst organization is re- sponsible for the series of spurious documents against Mexico it is to be expected that Hearst and his hire- lings will endeavor to defend them- selves against the charges of the Mexican foreign office that the docu- \ ments were formerly in the hands of persons who tried to use them for purposes of blackmailing the Mexican government out of $25,000. In view of the fact that the Hearst publications have formerly been ex- (Continued on Page Two) will | was confined to} less than a column, most of which | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6,00 per yenr. —> ‘President Coolidge Now Says He “Hopes” He Is Not Asked to Run in ’28 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22. —Cornered by newspaper men who | have been trying for weeks to get some kind of statement from Pres- ident Coolidge as to what he meant by “I do not choose to run” in 1928, the President at his regular bi- weekly conference today made a weak gesture, of the same sort, in jalmost as equivocal terminology. He said he “hoped” that circula- ‘tion of petitions asking him to run again in 1928 would be discontin- ued. He did not state he would not | give heed to them if they were cir- (eorae and presented. CONTEMPT CASE AGAINST BURNS Day, Clark, Young Burns, Veitsch Charged WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov. 22.— Acting independently of the grand jury which is investigating the per- jury and jury fixing angle of the Tea- pot Dome oil graft trial, Justice Sid- dons, the trial judge, today issued summons to Harry F. Sinclair, the oil millionaire; William J. Burns, head| of the agency; two assistants of Burns and two of Sinclair, to appear before him Dec. 5 and show cause why they should not be held in con- tempt of court. Gordon With Siddons District Attorney Peyton Gordon asked for the citations, thuc appa- rently swinging over to Judge Sid-| dons’ attitude, and probably fore-| stalling action of the grand jury and | exposing evidence that the grand jury has before they finish their delibera- tions. Judge Siddons, who has failed to move against those charged with fix- ing the trial jury except for some }very suspicious fumbling and. jocket+ ing of the case, was apparently spurred into action by the fact that the grand jury deliberations were (Continued on Page Ywo) Conferenice Friday to Prepare Union Sq, Meet Saturday Plans for a monster Union Square demonstration Saturday at 1 p. m. to protest against the murder of six mine pickets in Colorado and to rally mass support for the strikers will be formulated Friday at a conference at which dll sections of the New York labor movement will be repre- sented. The conference will be held at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and East 14th St., at 8 p. m. Among the organizations invited are American Federation of Labor unions, the I. W. W., the Workers (Communist) Party and the socialist party. Several men prominent in the labor movement are said already | ; to have arranged to cooperate with the movement and to attend the ocn- ference. The speakers at Saturday’s Union Square demonstration will include |Jack Walsh, representing the I. W. AND SINCLAIR “g., THE DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1927 Photograpu o this the comp. ai miners @ Cleveland Whoopee Boys | Raise Big Fund; Victims Of System Aid Campaign (By a Worker Correspondent). CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 22—I’ve been out of a job for over a month and I may have to apply for help soon from a welfare agency. But I don’t love them because they might stake me to a meal and a bed. | The capitalists of Cleveland | have been collecting $4,600,000 for | their annual ‘Community , Fund) drive. Prisoners in the county jail | have donated $6. Isn’t it one great | joke? The victims of capitalism take up a collection for bigger and better chains. Too bad those oo wan’t be kept in jail for life. | STOCK DECLINE PAVES WAY FOR BIGGER MERGERS marching im orderiy proc Ly thu s and state police at Columbine mine opened fire, Big Fellows Take Ad- vantage of Depression By H. M. W. Following a week of desperate ef- forts to stop the downward move- ment of industrial stocks that char- acterized the previous week’s move- ment on the stock market, a renewed fall took place on Monday that re- sulted in the leading stocks again sinking. The last business days of last week witnessed a gradual rise. the principal stocks selling one- eighth and one-quarter of a point higher each day, but Monday’s de- cline completely wiped out all the increases and in some cases brought stocks down to new low levels. Leaders Decline Rapidly. A number of the day’s declines ranged from 4 to 6 points. General Motors fell more than 3 points and United States Steel common lost more than 2. On Tuesday, however, industrial stocks were deflected only fraction- ally from their opening and before the close of the market had practi- cally all recovered, remaining as they were at the low close on Mon- day. But the two recognized stand- ard bearers, General Motors and United States Steel, although experi- encing fractional recoveries in the \W.; Harry Meyers, of the New York |Colorado Miners’ Relief. Committee lof the I. W. W.; William W. Wein stone, district organizer of the Workers Party; Robert Minor or William F. Dunne, of the DAILY WORKER; James P. Cannon, repre- senting the International Labor De- fense; Forrest Bailey, of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union; James Oneal, of the New Leader, and Nor- man Thomas, representing the so- cialist party. Wives of the Striking Window Cleaners Plan Festival for Defense Proceeds for the defense and sup- port of the striking Window Cleaners’ Protective Union will be the object of a concert and dance to be given by the Striking Window Cleaner Women’s Relief Committee of Great- er New York Friday at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 8 p. m., The New York window cleaners have been on strike several weeks. In. an announcement of the concert and dance, issued yesterday, the com- mittee calls attention to the hazards of all trades to help win this strike of the occupation. to new low levels before the session was ended. Meaning of Movement. The rise and fall of stocks that seems so bewildering to those who vegard the movement as a thing in itself, separate from general indus- trial conditions, is easily understood in the light 6f the present paralysis that is gradually creeping over all industry. In every crisis the more powerful financial combinations take advan- tage of those less fortunately situ- ated and force them to unload their industrial stocks. Preparations are made for new and ever more power- ful mergers, concentrating formerly independent concerns into large com- binations controlled by the more pow- erful financial interests. Taking advantage of the declines of the past few weeks new consoli- dations are now actually taking place through the purchase of stock on the market. The rises in the price of stocks have taken place as soon as the speculators were aware of the nature of the movement. New Motor Consolidations. Hupp Motors and Mack Trucks are the objectives of powerful financial forces that have bought up the stocks of these concerns with a view to consolidating them, possibly with the General Motors group. When a “We appeal to all men and women and build a strong union,” the an- nouncement says. sufficient amount of the stock is in the hands of those working toward (Continued on Page Two) forenoon of yesterday, again dropped’ i on way to pi March 3, 1879. COLORANO MASS PICKETING cket mine. into just such a group as POLICE LOCK UP 10 PICKETS BUT STRIKE GOES ON Sigman Libel Suit Ofe Till Friday Ten workers arrested yesterday | morning while picketing the cloak shop of L. Margulies, 525 Seventh Ave., were discharged by Magistrate | Louis B. Brodsky in the Jefferson | Market Court later in the day. The strike at the Margulies shop | was called several weeks ago when | workers were discharged for refusing to register with the right wing dual | union. @bout 60 workers are affected. While the workers were forming their picket line yesterday morning | one-of the policemen assigned to the | shop announced that no more than | two pickets would be permitted. | Ten Arrested. When the..workers pointed out that many more were effected by the strike he arrested 10, including Isa- dore Weisberg, manager of the dress | department of the Cloak and Dress- | makers’ Joint Board. | When cross-examined by Jacob M.} Mandelbaum, attorney for the Joint | Board, the arresting officer denied | that he had stated that no more than two pickets would be allowed. Magis- trate Brodsky then discharged the de- fendants. Postpone Libel Suit. | The criminal libel suit brot against | the Jewish Daily Freiheit and Unity by Morris Sigman, president of the! International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, was adjourned until 11 a. m. Friday by Magsitrate Louis B.| Brodsky in the Jefferson Market Court yesterday. | ° | “Tampering” Case Two U. S. senators and a for- mer ambassador have been subpoenaed to testify in the su- preme court “tampering” case against the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, above, head of the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana. Attorney General Arthur: Gilliom »charges « he attempted to influence the su- preme court through Senators Robinson and Watson and Henry Lane Wilson. QR GER. Dry Politician, Sent To Jail, Threatens Political Pressure INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 22. — Edward S. Shumaker, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League denied hav- ing requested Senator James E. Wat- son to cat upon, the Republican State The Freiheit is the Jewish Com-| muhist Daily, Unity is the organ of | (Continued on EE Bee Five) | the State Penal Farm and fine of “Daily” Builders Plan Campaign to Gain New Support Delegates from 80 units of the! Workers (Communist) Party met} Monday night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., to lay plans for | more systematic ‘work in extending | the influence of The DAILY WORK- ER. Pat Devine, New York manager, presided. “Today after four years of contin- | uous struggle against all the forces | of reaction The DAILY WORKER| stands as the only avowed English | speaking expression of the revolution- } ary masses,” said ‘William F, Dunne, | of The DAILY WORKER editorial } staff. Many Crises. “We have passed through many crises, too many, comrades say. Nevertheless it is much better to live esr on sic hone ‘Workers Party Calls Members to Report at Office This Moraing The New York district office of | the Wérkers (Communist) Party | last night called upon all Party | members to report at the district | headquarters, 108 E. 14th St., at 11 a, m. today for important party work. The call was signed by William W. Weinstone, district organizer. \terday to Gov. Committee to condemn Attorney Gen- jeral Arthur L. Gillion for making a | motion before the Supreme Court that Shumaker’s sentence from 60 days in $250 for indirect contempt of court be increased, Gillion accused Shumaker of cor- ruptly attempting to influence the de- cision of the court in his case. Civil Liberties Union Protests Killing of Miners in Colorado Pointing to the slaughter in Colo- rado Monday of five or more unarmed miners and the wounding of many others as “an example of the tragic | potentialities of a situation in which \the state joins forces with the em- ploying interests in an _ industrial \struggle,” Forrest Bailey, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sent a telegram of protest yes- | Adams of Colorado, | whose state police did the killing. The complete text of the telegram | follow: is. accurate instead of a frenzied attempt to prejudice the public and justify the incredible ac- \tion of the police in shooting down /unarmed men, the Columbine Mine | |affair signally exemplifies the tragic | potentialities of a situation in which |the state joins for with the em- |ploying interests in an industrial |struggle to suppress the strike and ‘defeat its reasonable aims, This or- thoughtful citizens throughout the | | United States, earnestly appeals to |Your Excellency to withhold the mili- tary, to refrain from declaring mar- tial law and to restrict the state po- lice to legitimate business of protect- ing the public peace without preju- dice to the strikers. Such a humane policy is the surest way to bring pres- ent conflict to an end without dan- gers of a bitter and ruthless class “Even if eyewitness Lacy’s lurid | | narrative ganization, representing thousands of Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY W oe R PUBLISHING CO., 38 First Street, New Yor! FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents k, [INTENSE INDIGNATION ALL OVER * ' COLORADO BECAU | OF PICKETS AT Strike Leaders Arrest DENVER, Colorado, Nov. striking miners and a wounded {two women hung up by the stat lan ominous calm settled today over the | Colorado. But a terrible anger has been ge | thr uout the state Ww. hose indignati EVICTED MINERS IN BARRACKS; STICK TO UNION Injunction 1 at Rossiter | Tries to Stop Relief RUSSELTON, Pa. No About 155 evicted miners fam living in hastily constructed ba: here, and 250 others are in private homes of their friends, halls and rented shacks, The barracks, single-story affairs 20 feet wide and 120 feet long, are constructed of single boards and lined with tar paper. Each structure con- tains twenty rooms 10 feet wide and 12 feet long. Each row is built on posts and is raised off the ground. Each family of six or less is given two rooms as their “home”; a family of twelve or less gets three rooms, and a larger one, particularly if there are grown children, warrants a four- room “house.” There are no bathrooms in the bar- racks... Water is obtained from three wells and a spring. Little children playing about the temporary houses are smiling and ap- parently cheerful. Relief forevicted miners should be sent to Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn avenue, Room 307. PITTSBURGH, Pa,, Nov. 22.—The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpora- tion, which had made an unsuccessful attempt to operate the Rossiter Mines, two weeks ago was granted N. Langham, of Indiana County Dis- trict two. The text is as follow “We therefore do strictly enjoin and command you, the said defend- ants, your associates, aiders, abet- tors, agents and all other persons, that you do from henceforth desist: Prohibits Picketing. “From attempting by any scheme, combination or conspiracy among themselves, or with others, to annoy, hinder or interfere with or prevent any person or persons from working for the plaintiff or seeking employ- ment with the plaintiff, or from any and all acts, and from the use of any ways, means and methods, such as assaulting, attempting to assault, beating, threatening, picketing, ter- rorizing, intimidating and annoying the employes to fear violence in plaintiff’s employ, causing explo- sions, writing or causing threaten-| jing letters to be written to employes jor families of employes of plaintiff, or obstruct the to hinder, impede plaintiff from operating Rossiter Mines. “From picketing and parading in, upon or through the public roads, streets, alleys, bridges, railroads and other places, past, near in the |vicinity or in the neighborhood or leading to the Rossiter Mines or the dwelling houses of the employes of the plaintiff. Bans Assemblies. “From loitering assembling or con- gregating about or near the property of the plaintiff or trespassing there- jon, from visiting the dwellings, |boarding houses of the ¢ loyes of {the plaintiff, to intimidate them or |their families, from obstructing the said or streets or roads of Rossiter, from |congregating about or near in the |town of Rossiter where the employes |and their families go, from operating {and maintaining automobile patrols {on the streets and roads of Ros siter, | from erecting or causing to be erected or maintaining bill for the purpose of displaying signs warning men to stay away from Rossiter, from congregating on the Magyar Presbyterian Church lot, or any other lot, lots, place or places at the time the employes of the plain- tiff enter the mine and at the time the employes of the plaintiff come out of the mine, from singing songs in (Continued on Page Two) Company Official anc 2 the following injunction by Judge J.) | putting or attempting to put any per-| son or persons in fear which will tend | the | or} boards | SE OF SLAUGHTER COLUMSINE MINE Five Already Dead, Sixty Wounded, Cold Blooded Attack on Strikers Result of oo But Warrants For 1 Gunman Not Served —With a murder tell of five casualty list of sixty including; e constabulary and mine guards, industrial battlefield of/ rated among the workers sing to white fury against] who shot down in cold blood a ion is r *the murde | their comrades |the behest of the coal operators. Nearly four hundred members ofj |the state militia are patrolling the, |Columbine mine district in the north-| fern Colorado coal field. A special train is held in waiting here which |will be used in car ng troops |the southern coal field: Strikers Arrested. Four strike leaders are held in att under heavy guard at Greeley, bu |tho warrants have been issued for the | arrest of Theodore Pert, superin~ |tendent of the Columbine mine, and for the under sheriff of Weld Countysj on a charge of the murder of _ miners no arrestS have been made ye' on these warrants. Governor Adams announced that he had relieved Louis N. Scherf, coma! mander of the state police, of respons sibility for the shooting and murder of the miners. On the contrary, he praised him for his “great patience and wonderful courage.” “Hired Assassins.” David Sheehan, member of a come mittee of miners, in the northern field, declared that, “The men of the Columbine mine who fired on us are hired assassins of John D. Rockefel- ler, Jr., and the miners are seriously considering going to Governor Adams in a: body to protest his sending mili- tary forces to the..northern coal fields.” Sheriff Robinson of Weld County declared that he would arrest the Columbine mine boss and the county under sheriff despite an announces |ment by the Weld County district at- jtorney, that no complaints or war- rants would be recognized except those issued from his office. War Material. The streets of the coal towns are deserted. Major A. P. Ardourel, quartermaster-general of the Nation- al Guard, is ready with war material for the southern coal field where res sentment over the murders in the north fields is growing. | Students of the University of Cole orado are on strikebreaking duty with the National Guard. Two war tanks are patrolling the area and the troope ers carry full regulation packs. The Columbine mine has been turme; (Continued on Page Two) i TMORE JAILED * IN CLEVELAND JOBLESS CASE Even CouncilmanThin “Democracy” Fails CLEVELAND, 0O., Nov. 22. |more members of the Cleveland Un-} j} employed Council were arrested last; |night after they appeared before the City Council to protest the arrest of their leader, Joe Judson, who has been} sentenced to 30 d in the Warrens- ville workshop on a vagrancy charge and whose case is now under appeal, They also complained against police intervention in not allowing hall pro prietors to rent their halls to the Uns employed Council for protest meet ings. However, they were soon Be leased. Tom Johnson, Joe Judson, Jeg Foley, Sadie Van Veen, Carl Hacker, Sam August and John Boris were are {rested, one after the other as each demanded a hearing. They Ww ken to the city jail while great |erowds protested to the police and detectives who scattered themselves \throughout the crowd. “I read that in China, men were |thrown in jail for expressing opine ions,” said Peter Witt, member of the City Council. “Precisely that is hap- pening here. The police department’s action reflects the spirit of the Coun- cil, and if the denial of the right of free speech is democracy, why did our boys die in France?” The Unempioyed Council will con- tinue its protests, adding the demand for free speech to their other de« {mands. in turr