The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGAD FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 269. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside New York, In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New The DAILY WORKER York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 1 ¥; OLUMBINE MINE MURDERS RALLY COLORADO LABOR COAL AND IRON POLICEMEN ATTAC AND CLUB MINERS FIGHTING FIRE Pennsylvania deiors Thugs Break Up Bucke Hons Burns Because t Brigade; Many Hurt PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 23.—Fighting both fire and the vicious brutal attack of the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s coal and iron police, 200 striking mine County, tried to put out the fire night, and failed. State troopers ington, and numbers of miners? and police are under the care of | physicians. | The home of William Cushey, | a union miner, caught fire. The | strikers in the neighborhood prompt- ly formed a bucket brigade and be-|} gan to extinguish the blaze. | The coal and iron police, thugs | hired and paid by the employers, but commissioned and given power to! make arrests by the state, then charged upon the bucket brigade and began to club the volunteer firemen | unmercifully. The strikers put up a brave fight, | but were unable to hold back the po-| lice long enough to put out the fire. The entire house and all of Cushey’s! effects were destroyed. | Feeling against the coal and iron | police, who have been guilty of many other assaults upon miners thruout the strike zone, is running higher every day. x * | WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—A con- ference of operators and miners to attempt a settlement of the soft coal strike may be called in the near fu- (Continued on Page’ Five) HEARST LUNCHES WITH COOLIDGE; | PLOT ON MEXICO? Execute 4° Who Tried to Murder Obregon WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—The Mexican situation and plans for the procedure of the representatives of the United States government, to- gether with American moneyed men interested in Latin America at the} coming Pan-American Congress at} Havana, are believed to have been discussed by President Coolidge and William Randolph Hearst at a lunch- eon at the White House yesterday. The Havana congress promises more and more to become the scene of a sharp clash about the question of American intervention in Nica- ragua and other interference in Latin-American affairs. To avoid an impressive anti-Wall Street demon- | stration has been the purpose of} careful study by the State Depart- ment and President Coolidge. Cool-|} idge has said he will address the Havana congress at its opening ses- sion, and it is still believed that he will attend. Hearst and Coolidge are believed to have devoted at least a portion of the conversation at the luncheon to the question of the advisability of making use of certain alleged origi- nal documents which Hearst claims were stolen from the “secret ar- chives” of the Mexican government. and sold to his newspapers. These are the same documents published in the Hearst newspapers expressly in} support of Coolidge’s policies in the | invasion and war against Nicaragua. | The documents are denounced by the Mexican government as forgeries, | and the most important of them was | proven by photographic evidence pub- | lished by The DAILY WORKER last Saturday to be a crude forgery. (Continued on Page Two) at Hackett mine, Washington in a fellow worker’s house, last have been called in from Wash- ROMPANY JUSTICE IN PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE DISTRICT iSeabs fin. Amuck, Strikers Are Jailed By A. S. CARNEGIE, Pa., Nov. 22 (By Mail).—-Decisions of Justice A. W. McMillan of Carnegie, Pa., and Ira H. Edmondson, of Mount Lebanon township, both*100 per cent company squires, in 27 cases of alleged disor- derly conduct, trespassing and incit- ing to riot involving striking miners and their wives have been reversed by Judge Ambrose B. Reid of the Court of Common Pleas as too piar- ingly prejudiced and legally unjusti- fiable tu stand. Refund Fines and Costs. Judge Reid signed orders directing the restitution of fines and costs as- sessed by the two company squires. Twenty-one cases were appealed from the decision of Edmondson, Pitts- | burgh Terminal Coal Corporation | man, and six from that of McMillan, | who does the job for the Pittsburgh | Coal Company. Coal Companies’ Favorite Judge. To Ira H. Edmondson, cafled! “Squire Guilty” by the miners, the, Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corpora- tion brings all strikers arrested. Throughout the strike area the companies follow the practice of tak- ing the miners arrested by their gun- men miles from the place of arrest, in order to arraign them before jus- tices that can be relied on to carry out company orders to the letter. “Coal and Iron” Police Term. In the case of the most brutal- Coal and Iron police attack in this section, {an attack which moved the local Squire, Beltzhoover, to demand from the district attorney protection from Coal and Iron police terror for the mining camps under his jurisdiction, | Edmondson comnived at the assault and permitted the bleeding victims to be taken into Pittsburgh by the “Yel- low Dogs” and jailed when the latter got through “(working over them,” in the darkened company barracks. Lat- er, when the men, still in bandages, and one with his eye kicked into sightlessness by the “Yell Dogs,” were arraigned before Edmunson, the company squire fined them for disor- derly conduct. “Justice” in Strike Edmondson’s lat mand for $3,000 bail for Ben Smith, constable arcund the Coverdale mines, sympathetic to the striking miners. Smith was brought before Edmondson by the Pittsburgh ‘Ter- minal Company Coal and Iron police for searching drunken scabs for the guns ‘and knives and razors with which they run amuck every now and (Continued on Page Two) PIECE WORK IN U. 8. “Well, that’s another job for me,” was the comment yesterday of Rob- ert Elliott, Sing Sing prison execu- tioner, when informed that the ap- peals of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray had been denied. Area. ploit is a de- Lumber Workers in South—1l1-Hour Work Day, 8, Wage Cuts Bring Rate to 18-25 Cents Per Hr. (By a Worker Correspondent.) i QUINCY, Fla., Nov. 21. (By Mail).! —Hearing that there were lots of lumber mills in these parts I was about to get off at some promising looking town, when a lumberjack, at- tired in a suit of blue overalls, board- ed the train, and took a seat beside me. “You work here in this section?” I asked. “Yes,” he replied, “I work for the McRay Lumber Company, located here at Quincy, but as I have a little business to attend to over east a ways I got a day off to look after it.” “Well, you are the man I am look- ing for. What’s the chance of get- ting a job over at your place?” I in- quired, hoping to get e favorable an- swer and stop off. “Ain’t no chances at all, ‘Cap’, (this is a very common term of address for a stranger in the south). Things are getting awful tight in this sec- tion,” he continued. “I was born and brought up about a hundred miles east of here; I’m going on forty and I ain’t never seen times as hard in my life as now. We ain’t gone hungry yet, Cap, but I don’t know how soon we may.” “Well, tell me what’s the trouble,” T said, 18 Years In the Mills. “It’s like this, Cap, for some, eigh- jteen years I’ve been working in the lumber mills. My home ain’t always been here in the Quincy section, but about a 100 miles east of here, Over (Contimaod om Pasa Five) ‘Boss Stevenson Gave Senator’s Wife Pearls| £ Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana admits that D. C. Stephenson, Ku Klux |Klan boss of Indiana before he was sent to prison for life for rape and murder, gave his wife a string of pearls and gave Robinson himself a Shrine stick-pin. Stephenson’s revela- tions about his deals with his old pals has put the mayor of Indiana out of his job and given him a jail sentence, and caused indictments against sev- eral other high - officers, including Governor Ed Jackson, FIRST OF KLAN FLOGGERS GOES TO JURY TODAY Terrorism Exposed by Fight in the Klan: LUVERNE, Ala., Nov. 23.—The case of Shelby Gregory, first of 39 persons on trial for alleged floggings |in Crenshaw county, will probably go to the jury today. Gregory, charged with kidnapping and assault and battery, was one of five persons who carried Annie Mae Simmons, Negro woman, off in an automobile and participated in her flogging, state witnesses swore. * This case is based on one of 102} ‘indictments returned in this county against members of the Ku Klux Klan who have created a reign of terror with repeated floggings of Negro and white agricultural workers, and mem- bers of their families. There might not have been any trouble for the floggers, many of them | in the “best families” of the land- owning aristocracy of the South, if a quarrel had not suddenly broken out between the States Attorney General and the heads of the Klan. The at- torney general was elected on the Klan ticket. So was the governor. The governor in public utterances defends the floggers, but the attorney general is prosecuting vigorously. Plans Being Hastened| for Union Sq. Meeting) for Colorado Miners Preparations for the big mass meeting to be held on Union Square Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock to protest against the shooting of strik- ers in Colorado, continued yesterday. A huge success, Final touches to the arrangements | will be given at a conference of dele-! gates from many organizations which will be held Friday evening at 8 o'clock in room 82 of the Labor Temple, E. 14th St. and Second Ave. Speakers already announced for the} Saturday mass meeting at Union Square are: Jack Walsh, representing the I. W. W.; Harry Meyers, of. the! - “You Can't Be A Half- Citizen” Under oi Ss. Flag \Federal Judge Tells Madame Rosika Schwimmer | New York Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee of the 1. W. W.; William W. Weinstone, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party; Robert Minor or William F. Dunne, of the DAILY WORKER; James P. Cannon, representing the International Labor Defense; Forrest Bailey, of the American Civil Liberties | Union; James Oneal, of the New Leader, and Norman Thomas, representing the so- cialist party, An advisory committee is being formed to function in connection, with the movement to support the Colorado strikers. Up to the present time the advisory committee consists of Walsh, of the I. W. W.; Cannon, of the Inter- national Labor Defense; Arturo Giovannitti, general organizer of the Italian Chamber of Labor; Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Martello, an Ital- ian labor paper, and Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney, (Communists Picket New York Offices i? BEGIN DRIVE TO Ne TROOPS | i | Anti-Imperialist League | Starts Campaign A letter announcing the opening of a campaign against American imperi- alism in Nicaragua and asking labor and liberal organizations to demand | |the immediate withdrawal of Amer-| ican troops and ma as been sent} i to the progressive and labor pr | thruout the country by the All-Amer jican Anti-Imperialist League, United States Section, M fnauel Gomez, |tary, 89 Union Squa: New City, it was learned yesterday. After deseribing the murder of Nicaraguans by American marines, | the letter says, “T All-American | Anti-Imperialist League ‘appeals to all labor organizations, to all organ- izations of farmers, to all organiz tions of any kind that represent pro- j gressive forces in America. We ask | you to join with us in a concerted) campaign for the recall of U. S. mil-} itary and naval forces, and for an end| to all U. S, intervention there.” Finance Czardom. Referring to the appointment of W. P. Cumberland to “investigate” the finances of Nicaragua, the letter says: Election Supervision, “President Coolidge has insisted that the marines are in Nicaragua only to supervise the 1928 elections. Now, however, an American, Dr. Wil- liam P. Canbriand, has been made financial dictator in Nicaragua. Ne- gotiations are reported to.be under way which will result in new loans totaling $20,000,000 being saddled up- on the backs of the Nicaraguan peo- ple—with the military and naval forces of the United, States serving |to guard the imperial investment of |the bankers. “Nicaragua is the test for all those ee the United States who declare |themselves opposed to the imperialist |policy of blood and iron. It is the ‘test which will determine whether or not American imperialism can go for- ward to the rape of one Latin-Amer- ican country after the other without any effective resistance from the masses of Americans themselves. If the imperialists are allowed to go ahead in Nicaragua there is no crime, no outrage, which they cannot pers |petrate in Latin America under~ the bloody profit-flag of the Monroe Doe- trine!” Jack ‘Noah,’ Right Wing Gangster Is Shot Here An alleged employer of gangsters | for the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Union of America, who is known and “Jack Noah,” was shot at Broadway and E. 11th St. yesterday by unidentified assail- ants. “Noah” was formerly a member of Local 4 of the Amalgamated, it is said. He later left the organization | to open a clothing shop. “CITIZEN” FOR COOLIDG | Philip M. Tucker, of Boston, who| |has started a chain letter to “draft” Calvin Coolidge for re-election to the | White House, is insisting on being | las “Jack Meyer” “Mother” Jones, Aged Labor Baitler, Pleads For eu ado Strikers 22 Nov. Ae veteran f the class war in the miners’ union, during the most militant | |neriod of its existence, today de- | |elared that the slaughter of the | |striking miners in the northern ‘olorado coal fields on November |21 was similar to the Ludl sacre during the strike the Rockefeller inter The lorado miners, workers and ent |support of the ment. York | ‘ALF. L DRAWS UP ANTHINJUNCTION BILL FOR SENATE. Will Try to Get Passed | Definition of Property| WASHINGTON, D. D. C., (FP) Nov. 23.—Finishing touches are being made by legal experts among officials at American Federation of Labor head- quarters in Washington to the short- est, most effective anti-injunction measure ever drawn. This measure will be presented to Congress when that body meets, and its passage will} be urged by every labor legislative agent at the capitol. Its immediate purpose is the rescue of the striking coal miners from further enslavement by such injunctions as have been is- sued by Federal Judge Schoonmaker in Pittsburgh. Includes Working Power. Injunctions against members of la- bor unions are issued, by courts, which are courts whose sg]e business is the protection of prop- erty when there is no remedy at law. Violations of the orders or injunc- tions of these equity courts are pun-{ ished as contempt of court. But ex- tension of the meaning of the word “property” has gone so far that it | is made to include the power to la- bor. Thus, the labor power of the coal miners in the struck fields i claimed to be the property of th coal companies. by the coaldigge with the applica- tion of each other’s muscle to the} regular digging of coal is a violation of the proper ight of the company. Indeed, any quitting of work is a rob-| bery of the company, in the view of | some injunction judges. Proposed Bill. The proposed anti-injunction : “Courts sitting in equity shall | have jurisdiction to protect property | when there is no remedy at law; and for the purpose of determining this | jurisdiction nothing: shall be held to be tra able; and all laws and parts | of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.” Since labor power is not tangible and not transferable, the proposed amendment to the Sherman anti- trust law would remove the present pretext for anti-labor injunctions. The Sherman anti-trust law has two main sections. In the first it | penalizes “any agreement or combina- entified by interviewers as “only an|tion in restraint of commerce or \ rican citizen who believes in /|trade.” It is an anti-combination | idge.” In reality he is a banker |Jaw. The second section prohibits | od broker, _| monopolies. Madame Rosika Schwi fight for United States cit will be carried on by the Ame. Civil Liberties Union, it was an- nounced Wednesday by Forrest Bailey, director of the organiza- tion. The executive committee of the Union has decided to sponsor the appeal of Madame Schwimmer’s case from the federal district court at Chicago, where her application for citizenship was denied by Judge Carpenter, Oct. 13, to the circuit court of appeals. Judge Carpenter ruled against Madame Schwimme after state- ments had been read in court quot- ing her as calling herself an athe- ist and declaring “I would not per- sonally go to war, had propounded Hi question: “If you were a nurse, caring for a wounded American soldier, and observed an armed enemy ap- proaching, would you take up a pistol and kill that enemy?” Madame Schwimmer rsplied: “No, but I would warn the wounded soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me.” Rising from the bench at her answer, Judge Carpenter pointed to the flag over the courtroom en- trance and said: “You cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. You must do what our constitution requires of all American citizens— promise to serve that flag and de- fend it with your life if necessary.” and after he hypothetical whole labor move- | | equity | and any interference | bill | y unless it is tangible and} PICKETING OF WwW Determined to in Strike | of Rockefeller; Four Are Arrested STRIKE COMMITTEE TELLS ADAMS * 4 MINES CONTINUES: Despite Massing Against. Them of State Troops and Tanks The chief developments ay the bloody struggle now being waged in the coal fields of Colorado, hetween the striking miners r jand the thugs of the coal barons aided by the state police, the state militia and all the forces of the st 1.—The total death strikers at the Columbine toll as a mine is expected to die from, their wounds, women, 2 26 Broadway, New bloody rule of the Roc cefellers tate oe nment today are: sult the firing on unarmed s now placed at six with others! including four of cores wounded, —The picketing of the Standard Oil Company offices at York, by w an orkers calling attention to the d other coal barons in Colorado. Four of the pickets were arrested. 38.—The serving of notice on \the strike 4.—Preparation for a monste sections of the workingclass move |New York City, neat Saturday at 5.—A statement ing to | Rockefeller- controlled s Six Known 1 Dead In Columbine Killings ~ More Deaths Likely DENVER, Colorado, Nov. 25.} —The latest news from the| Columbine mine massacre sets | the death total at six known | dead, and others expected to die | from wounds, scores wounded, | @mong them four women, leav- | ing eleven children fatherless. Determined to continue the | fight, despite the reign of terror { inaugurated by state govern-| ment, the strike committee of | the I.W.W, in Colorado, today served notice on the government that picket- jing would be resumed. The spirit among the strikers is splendid but | there is dire need of relief, especially clothing. Governor Abetted Murders. The strikers have pledged to }main on strike until those responsible the murders which Governor | Adams and the industrial commission aided and abetted are held to account. | There are now five hundred soldiers | supplied with tanks and artillery at |the Columbine mine. Sentiment for the impeachment of Governor Adams for turning the state gunmen loose on the workers is | springing up thruout the state. Den- ver labor is demanding the recall of Adams. To Bury Dead At Cost- The Louisville undertaker, in a {strike town, of which he is also mayor, has offered to bury the dead at cost. One woman is expected to die from the result of tear bombs used by mine guards. | It is now established that two min- | ers were killed by the state police before the marchers entered the prop- erty of the Columbine mine owners. * : | | re-| | for Investigation Scheduled, DENVER, Colo., Nov. A sweeping investigation of the fatal | labor.riot at the Columbine coal mine lin northern Colorado last Monday, | was scheduled to get under way today |at the inquest into the deaths of two | strikers. Five men were n by armed guards when 500 striking min- ers marched to the Columbine mine. The investigation will inquire as to ) whether the mine guard was justified in the use of firearms. Spokesmen jfor the I. W. W. declared that the | strikers were unarmed and were “shot | | down like dogs.” Death certificates for the other three men who died in a hospital after the battle were signed late yesterday by Coroned A. E. Howe, but today’s inquest will be concerned only hes the two men killed outright. Another point the authorities will investigate is whether or not machine guns were used by state police during the riot. According to Louis Scherf, chief of the state police, machine guns were mounted at points of vantage. ued by John D. Rockefeller, vade responsibility for the bloody deeds committed by the state officials of Colorado. Rockefeller’s Men | Charge WP Picketss | the Adams of Colorado by Governor commitite that picketing will be resumed. r mass meeting, representing all ment to be held in Union Square, | 2p. m. Jr., attempt- 10,000 See Arrests With six known dead atthe hands of state troops in the Rockefeller coal and iron domain of Colorado, Workers (Commun- jist) Party pickets focused the attention of the New York labor | movement on the general offices lof John D. Rockefeller, 26 Broadway, yesterday afternoon, while thousands watched. More than 10,000 men, women and children were attracted to the demonstration, in the heart! of the financial district of} finance capital of the United’ States Pickets Are Attacked. Rockefeller office guards, “watch- men” and institutionalized clerks | \charged the Party picket line. Far} outnumbering the pickets, they snatched placards and attacked men; and women indiscriminately in the picket line, that strung out along the; entire block in which the building | nds. Police watched the attack! yeral minutes without interfering | after arresting four of the pickets. “Lynch Them.” Shouts of “lynch them” and “ them” accompanied the charge pe the pic , who numbered about 60. | But many of the low wage clerks, porters and other employes of the | district were sympatHetic toward. the | demonstration, though they stood back » A in the crowd. \ Trial Postponed. The four arrested pickets were take ( en to the First District Magistrate’s Court but at the request of the New York police department’s bomb squad Magistrate Adolph Stern adjourned cases until Monday. All were (Continued on Page Two) ‘Coolidge Names Judah, Banker and Militarist, As Ambassador to Cuba W. ASHINGTON N, Nov. 23.—Col. Noble Brandon Judah, of Chicago, | today was appointed ambassador to Cuba, succeeding Gen. Enoch | H. Crowder, who recently ree | signed. The appointment was announced]. | by the White House. Col. Judah is ja lawyer and banker by profes- | sion, and is now associated with the Chicago Title & Trust Co. He} was born in Chicago in 1884, and educated at Brown and Northwes- tern Universities. He is a veteran member of the Illinois National Guard, having served on the Mexican border in 1916. During the World War he] was a major in the 149th Field) Nackinen RESIN x ry