The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: fn New York, by mall, Outside New York, by mail, 36.00 per Vol. IV. No. 270. i tn HE DAILY Wo Hntered as second-class pritter $8.00 per year. year, - NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1927 at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. ry FINAL CI EDITION New York, N Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHL y Price 3 Cents RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR SEES WM. GREEN ALSO GUILTY INDEATHS OF COLORADO MINERS President Lewis of United Mine Workers Like- | wise Bears Responsibility, Says Statement MOSCOW, U.S.S. B., Nov. 24.—The followiyg cable has been | sent to The DAILY WORKER by the Executive Bureau of the | Red International of Labor Unions to which is affiliated the trade unions of the Soviet Union with approximately 10,000,000 mem- | bers, the Unitary Federation of the French trade unions, the ma- | jority of the unions of Czecho-Slovakia, the All China Federation | of Labor and the militant minorities of the world trade union Pa : —© movement: | world in defense of the Colorado | IN FOLSOM RISE 1 | miners against the capitalist’ as-| i sassins and their servants: j | The R. I. L. U. Statement. | Rifles, machine guns again| Four Coal Miners of SEIZE CONTROL |intier ‘thie dtunten th clgae hee-| Desperate Protest Over \ Warden’s Cruelty | REPRESSA, Cal., Nov. 24.—With | national guardsmen rushing by auto | and train to the Folsom state peni- tentiary here, seven hundred prison- ers are in revolt against one of the most brutal regimes maintained by any prison authority in the United! prison officials and guards, hired killers who have a horrible record of murder done on their helpless charg- es, wanton shootings, torture by chlorine filled dark cells, and assaults.. They besieged Warden | States. They drove out ‘the hundred Court Smith in his office, trying to} capture him and use him for a shield with which to pass the gates, on which machine guns are trained. Prisoners Shot. An unknown number of the prison- ers have been shot, key has been killed and two wounded. Warden Smith, while locked in his office, ‘constantly telephoned the . State capital for more assistance. ‘ Governor Smith has called out a | battery of artillery and a regiment of ' infantry of militia, and a national guard airplane is hovering over the Two hundred special special clubbings } One prison turn-! mony of the American workers | and employers. | The coal miners of Colorado are | striking for a wage increase and the ‘enforcement of the safety laws and against company unionism. Parad- ing unarmed with their families they were brutally shot down by:the police richest man in the world and the own- er of Colorado mines, and the head ox |religious, philanthropic movements, |ty wounded, many fatally, including a number of women. |dered workers en masse. Nineteen) men, women and children were killed | at Ludlow, Colorado, in 1913. | Responsibility of A. F. of Leaders, Not all the responsibility lies at the | ‘door of his tool, Gov. Adanis of Col- orado, who, despite claims that he is a “liberal” and “a friend of labor” has | | mobilized tanks, aeroplanes and all | the war weapons to crush the strike. The chief blame for the Colorado |massacre of the workers’ wives and ‘children. lies. upon. the unspeakably. |corrupt ‘reactionary leaders of the} | American Federation of Labor, and | firstly upon John L. Lewis, the head |of the Miners’ Union, whose agents and the whole official A. F. of L. bureaucracy have united with the hirelings of John D. Rockefeller, the! Five workers were killed and twen- | This is not the! |first time that Rockefeller has mur-| Avella, Pa., Who Were Brutally Assaulted by Company Police | Reading from left to right: Geo. Harkoff, who lay in hospital weeks after being assaulted by drunken coal and | iron police; Angelo Simonetti, shot at twice and beaten; Joe Lazar, brutally clubbed; Albino Jalggini, sent to hos- , Th pital, by gunmen of Pennsylvai:ia government. | GARVEY SENT INTO’ Activity In Organizing, i aaaten and police are hu ng to plese ee ot sheet ae | the prison, preceding the militia.' ie iteement a eiter octet | { Desperate Protest. Red International. i The revolt came gs a_ protest While the rifles were speaking, | against the rotten food served on;Green & Co., whose hands are wet} Thanksgiving Day, There have been | with workers’ blood, was pretending sa succession of desperate outbreaks | to defend the interests of the miners in Folsom because of the unwarrant- | they betray, by their bootlicking visit ed shooting of prisoners in the yard |to Coolidge. by guards ensconced on the prison!/ Call For Aid To Miners. | wall, because of bad food, and con-| The Executive Bureau of the Red stant driving of half starved workers |Interna€ional of Labor Unions ex- to heavy exertion on the prison rock pile. | I. W. W. Led Strikes. i I, W. W. prisoners, confined under the California criminal syndicalism law, have led several prison strikes in “The Twin Hells”: Folsom and San Quentin penitentiaries. Court Smith is a former “city mar- shal” of Tulare, Californie, a small tants. His mediocre ability as mar- shal caused him to be retired by the yvoters, but by playing republican \party machine politics,/he secured a , sheriff's job and then the appointive || | { job of warden at Folsom. He is hard- _ ened, cruel, and stupid. ‘Greco-Carrile Meet To Be Held; ionore Fascist Terrorism Threats from the Fascist League i of North America headquarters that attempts will be made to smash the scheduled Greco-Carrillo mass meet- ing Sunday are being ignored by the | sponsors of the meeting. at 2p. m, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Its purpose | is to rally the New York workers to the defense of Colagero Greco and Donato Carillo, anti fascist. workers held for the murder of two fascists | presses its profound indignation at | the massacre of ht« Colorado miners, vand sends its warmest greetings to ithe striking workers as heroic fight- fers for the interests of the American | | proletariat. i |_ The Red International of Labor | Unions calls upon the workers of the | | Whole world to raise an energetic pro- | | test at the bloodbath which puts the | same level as European fascism and the Chinese counter-revolution. Down with the capitalist assassins! Negroes Blamed | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Nov. 24— Marcus Garvey, famous as orgahizer | of the Universal Negro Improvement | | Association, who has been in Atlanta | Penitentiary since February 8, 1923, | will be deported to Jamaica, his birth | place according to statements of gov- | ernment officials here. | The announcement is that the! Negro leader will be “released”—but | it is admitted that this is only on condition of his exile from the United | States, where he has been a resident | for many years. | Disapprove Deportation. | Numberless demands for Garvey’s | release have been pouring into the} White House continually during the | four years of his incarceration. The | Universal Negro Improvement nel town of four or five thousand inhabi- | American bourgeois democracy on the!ciation as well as the American Negro Labor Congress sent repeated telegrams and other communications | to Coolidge some months ago, asking | own with the corrupt bureaucracy A . of L.! Long live th ‘brave miners of Colorado! F last Decoration Day. Their trialewil begin in the Bronx County Court Dec. 5. | “We are convinced that Greco and | Carrillo are victims of a frame-up, said Rose Baron, secretary of the In-, ternational Labor Defense, yesterday. “We know that the forces pitted; against these two workers will stop | ‘at nothing. road them to the electric chair.” Instructions have been given to all !seeretaries of the defense organiza ition to mobilize agitation and defense ;machinery to make the Greco-Car- ,villo case not only a national ‘but an \ipternational one. jwas affiliated with “labor defense bership of more than 7,000,000. WASHINGTON, Nov. ° 24.—Rear Admiral W. H. G, Bullard, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission died suddenly here today. Trade Union and Fraternal Organizations | To Support Huge Labor ,Press Ball Dec. 17 So great is the interest already be- ing shown in the labor press ball be- ing arranged by The DAILY WORK- ) An offer has been made these or- | ganizations by the management com- } {mittee in charge of the “Red Ball.” | Sympathetic groups will be given They are trying to rail-|° that Garvey be released and not de-| orted. H The Workers (Communist) Party, | in demanding Garvey‘s release, has! declared that, though it condemned | jactions and policies of Garvey, never- | Antbassador Dwight theless his imprisonment was an act | of hatred committed by the govern- | ment against the Negro people. | y was convicted of using the | mails to defraud in connection with i Africa” movement of | Tt: is the belief of the progressive ele-| ment among the Negroes, that the | government sent Garvey to prison be- | cause it wishes to cut short his work | \of organizing many thousands of the working class Negroes. Although Garyey’s behavior after the Black Star steamship line. Rose Baron said her organization his arrest in offering political eonces-jone of the matt sions and attempting to ke over | The protest gathering will be held | bodies in Europe having a total mem- tures to the Ku Klux Klan are sharply condemned by progressive Negro leaders, they declare that he was persecuted. j Interesting parallels have been} \drawn between the handling of the! Teapot Dome affair, and Garvey’s | leged offense which pales into insig- jnificance by comparison with the for- | mer. While Burns, Daugherty and | Coolidge have gone to great lengths ith protecting the Sinclair gang, they have meted the maximum punishment Garvey, A Negro leader said yesterday that |“whatever Garvey’s faults, Coolidge , ER and the Freiheit at the New Madi- | ¢190 worth of tickets for $80, it was |who sends him into exile should be _son Square Garden Saturday, Dec.) announced last night. ° jashamed of his own record as the | 17, that. a large number of trade In addition to a union jazz orches- ‘principal’ in the Teapot Dome affair, ‘unions and fraternal organizations |tra for the dancing there will be a|beside which the crimes of which Mr. have already applied for block tickets | theatrical and concert program. Val- |G: for the event. uable prizes will also be offered. arvey is accused would be petty of- 7 ” EXILE BY US COV". INMOCK RELEASE" COLORADO MINE STRIKER WOUNDED Photo shows J. B. Childs, head of the Colorado coal strike relief committee, reeling from the effects of a blow from a state trooper, at the Columbine mine where five strikers were shot and killed and sixty wounded, one dying later. The man standing, trying to give aid to Childs is T. S. MeGill, of the 1. W. W. ‘Sigman Libel Suit To Be Resumed In Police Court Here Morrow Broods On Move to Follow Up Oi) Case Decision MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Nov. 24—| The libel suit instituted | Morrow has|by Morris Sigman, president of the secured the full text of the Mexican | International Ladies’ Garment Work- Supreme Court’s decision in the case | ers’ Union, against the Jewish Daily of the Mexican, Petroleum Co. (a|Freiheit, Communist newspaper, and United States concern) which yields | the right to tax retroactively foreign oil companies which began drilling before 1917. Two special international law ad-| fore Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky. visers are assisting Morrow with the “our sessions of the hearing have presentation of the evidence to the , been held. Joseph R. Brodsky U. S. State Department. d Louis B. Boudlin are the defense The right to ta ; oil companies is D ohiateee aicatnidtitne: Gok lakes in contest between | joyenapers are a result of Sigman’s the Wall Street group which Morrow | oy tion of a non-union amusement represents, and the Mexican govern- k at Storm Lake, Ia., and his ac- maint | tivities in hiring strikebreakers to re- | place workers in struck cloak and dress shops. criminal De Ja Huerta Scared LOS ANGELE 3 Nov. 24.— dolfo De la Huerta, Mexican counter- revolutionist who attempted a couple of years ago to seize the government of the country, and is now under in-| Contracts for the long awaited dictment in the United States for|Nassau-Broad St. subway loop have violation of the naturality law com-/been let by the board of transporta- mitted since the failure of his revolt,|tion to the Marcus Contracting Co. is trying to capitalize the death of |and to Moranti and Raymond. They | his brother in the Gomez counter-| will receive $10,000,000 for the job. revolution just ended, by pretending} It is conceded that the job will be that he fears somebody is trying to|the most difficult subway excavation assassinate him, He has a squad of jever attempted. As in all such cases | | Los Angeles police and federal depu-|the sand hoagers and other workers|was turned down by Tammany Hall | will bear the brunt of the labor and daily face the hazards, Many will be or injured. and wages will be ties assigned to “guard” him. CRT A NEW READER! COLUMBINE GUARD IGNORING FACTS \Defense Attorney Finds Strike Is Legal GREELEY. Colorado, Nov. A coroner’s jury of rich farmers and merchants last night white-washed the mine guards and state troopers who two days ago slaughtered six pickets at the Columbine mine of the Rockey Mountain Fuel Co. in a mas- sacre second only to Colorado’s Lud- low. \ROCKEFELLER MURDERS THRU CONTROL OF COLORADO GOV'T, SAY COMMUNISTS ‘CORONER ACQUITS “ROCKEFELLER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MASSACRE” Says Workers Party, Statement “It is common knowledge that the} Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a Sta 1 Oil s y, that oper-) ates the largest group of mines andj steel mills in the state of Colorado,! ninates the labor policy of thel P f Colora ays an official statement of the New York district! organizations of the Workers (Come| munist) Par William W, imade no effort to identify exactly | |. The verdict was rendered over the The jury announced that the two miners, John Eastness and Nick Span- dahkis, “came to their deaths at the hands of persons in the State Law Enforcement Squad, who had no in- tent to commit any crime.” The cor- oners of Weldt and Boulder counties, who presided jointly at the inquest Weinstone, o zer, replying to thel | denial of responsibility for the Colum! bine massacre by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., following the picketing of the | Standard Oil offices here Wednesday} by Communist workers. Feels Guilt. “The fact that Mr. John D. Rocke- \ feller, Jr., found it nec ry to issue ‘a statement in connection with the Mineie<Wuarmed Columbine massacre indicates that ss 2 2 fr. Rockefeller himself feels respon~ the plorado uation,” the d com e of the Workers (Communist) Party says. The statement in full is as follows: Statement of the District Executive Committee, District 2, Workers (Communist) Party “The fact that Mr. John D. Rocke- feller, Jr, found it sary to issue ja statement in connection with the |Columbine massacre indicates that Mr, Rockefeller himself feels respon- sibility for the Colorado situation. It is common knowledge that the Color- jado Fuel & Iron Company, a Stand- ard Oil subsidiary, that operates the who among the troopers and company thugs fired the fatal shots. | bodies of miner pickets found on the }ground in front of the Colfimbine |property. They were unarmed, and riddled with the high caliber bullets \of the troopers’ automatic pistols and rifles, e white-washing verdict came from a prejudiced jury, in the face jof clear evidence that the mine guards |and troopers committed a deliberate | murder, | Chief Gave No Warning. | Ten strikers testified that the dem- {onstration of the pickets was to show | (Continued on Page Two) } pe I neci mills, in the state of Colorado dom- inates the labor policy of the state of | Colorado. “The: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. mines have been shut down | i | i |going on. The Columbine mine was | working with scab labor and for that reason the strikers turned their ef- forts to have the workers-of this mine “urgest grovp -of mine’ -ct.jwidell Ms |by the strikers and production is not . Jnity, organ of the left wing in the | trades, will be resumed at 11} m. today in the Jefferson Market | rt, Sixth Ave. and Ninth St., be- | [New Subway Contract Awarded; Workers 1 ‘Will Face Death or Injury on $10,000,000 Job join the striking miners. The Col- orado Fuel & Iron Company, realiz- ing the importance of keeping this |one mine open in the northern coal {fields caused the massacre of the Colorado workers by its control of the | state government. Cannot Hide Behind Technicalities “Mr. Rockefeller cannot hide be-= hind any technicali in evading re- sponsibility for the Colorado situa-, tion. One has only to remember Lud- how: One has only to know the vio- lent, labor-hating policy of Mr. | Rockefeller’s Coal & Iron Corporation |to know that they do not hesitate to employ thugs, gunmen and the state police, and resort to violence |and murder in order to maintain their tyrannous company union and to keep the miners enslaved. Cites Fight On W. M. W. A, “New York workers will remember that the Co: idation Coal Company of West Virginia, Kentucky and. Som- erset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Mr, Rockefeller a short time ago, |fought the United Mine Workers for | (Continued on Page Two) —— ‘New York Workers Will || Cheer Colorado Miners At Union Square Rally are to gather turday after- ass protest demonstra New Yor! in Union § noon in an | This is the man who is the largest owner in the Colorado Fuel and Iron| |" ° the killing; pepe | en and onment of Colorado ;Co., which in turn owns the state gov-| | mine strike pickets. ‘ernment of Colorado. He is the bit- | Definite plans for the mass | terest enemy of the coal strikers | | meeting are to be laid at a con- {there, and is suspected of having an| | ference tonight of spokesmen for linterest also in the Rocky Mountain| |°'amizations representing liberal ie ne ey 2 ountzin | | opinion and all sections of New |Fuel Co. at whose Columbine mine | | 7h Tuya npoeare: © |the miners’ pickets were slaughtered. abor. Temple, ond Ave. and E, m ns | | 14th St at 8 p.m qi i e mass meet- ing will start 1 p. m., with speakers representing the Workers (Communist) E the Industrial Workers of the World, the Inter- national Labor De e, the Amer- jican Civitt Liberties Union, the DATLY WORKER, organ of the Workers Party, and other organ- ations, An advis kept below the health line by the con- tractors and City Hall. The loop will carry trains over the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges south to the Municipal building and back to Brooklyn by way of Nassau and Broad streets and the Montague St. tunnel to De Kalb Ave. | Maurice Blumenthal, lowest bidder, committee is being formed in w York to function |in connection with the movement | to support the strikers, whose prin- cipal enemy is the Rockefeller- owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co, % on the ground that he failed to meet the board of transportation “require- ments.” [3