The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1927, Page 2

ro nae rea omnes “Rockefeller Is Guilty,” Founder of y Ss s Workers Party nued from Page O the establishment of oper starving work evicting their homes and using t their private gu roy the union (Conti and t Wilson ‘uel & te government a to every foul n their even voting th ys means control ch pickete Rockefeller. At the t been ra ruggle of the m same ion of Pitt ealli to the and oppre barons same injunction rul in the efforts of the coal destroy the United Mine Workers. Acti Protest Police the Dynasty John D. Reckevelier, the elder, By his unserupulous and cunning tactics, he iit the first big trust in the oil usitry, and has made his name a ymbol for grasping greed all over the His money financed the rest | the coal mining busi- fjmess of Colerado, the New with the legal right of we picket, which they were doit y before the offices of and we partic gainst the interference <jquad' and the action of th im arresting these peaceful pickets at! - Swindier in Vet's “= Gontracts Finishes the same time that the: the em- i ployees of Mr. Rockefeller assault | these picketing workers. Wo- Bal al ral nm 1 partici- | police | “The Workers Party tranged in pate in a mass meeting | Union Square aturday rnoon } ¢ police in LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 24— | ganizer, will report on the recent | national convention. | | i ® Remus Defense to Begin Soon; May Bring Graft Sto CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 24. - The prosecution of George Remus, on trial for murder of his wife, Imogene, whom he accuses of having joined with the prohibition agent, Dodge, to swindle him out of several million dollars bootleg profits, is about ready to close, Remus has stated that he will ex- pose, during his defense, much graft on the part of the prohibition enforce- ment service, The court yesterday ruled that the state had not proved that any con- | spiracy to kill existed, and that there was no evidence to show that there was any attempt made by Assistant District Attorney Sibbald to intimi- date Remus’ chauffeur, George Klug, | a witness for the charged by Klug. Klug declares that Sibbald stood over him in his cell, watch in hand, prosecution, as jand gave him a time limit within which he must decide to swear that where it will join in q against the murders in Colorado and agains: the Pittsburgh and Ohio &%al barons who United Mine Wor! 5 “William W. Weinstone, District retary.” Workers (Communist) Party rrested in the demo ed by the Party before the offices of John D, Rockefeller vay Wednesday face trial sroai rotest | |two year term for defrauding the| which the killing took place, This | Friday. [bay the $10,000 fine which was im-| Work Daily for the Daily Worker! }posed upon him, and signed a pau-| |per’s affidavit, which allowed him to ration } | Coroner Defies Facts harles R. Forbes will complete his|he drove Remus from the park in government in his disposal of Vet-|\ould have been an important step erans’ Hospital contracts at midnight | towards proof of a conspiracy. He insisted that he could not | canabnieewies sey serve thirty days instead, _and Acquits | the First District Magis-; ourt, They are charged with | oe y conduct. j (Continued from Page One) monstration, in the heart of|the strike-breakers that the strikers | district dur-|had numbers and were determined to | hour, w in protest | win, and not to attack the mine pro- | killing of mine strike | perty, | olorade by the militia of: They emphatically denied the state- | <efeller-controlled state gov-j ment of the mine guards that shots | . Reports received by The; were fired by miners. | Y WORKER yesterday and last! All witnesses agreed that Chief; showed the demonstration had| Louis N. Scherf, of the state police | ad greatly the support being ' lied when he said that he warned the | New York labor to the strik-| pickets not to come on the grounds | | of the company, or that he would fire on them if they did not retreat from ned, are Milton Wich, Julius|in front of the Columbine property. Sophie Margolies and Mary| The only thing the chief said was *+-y were released on bail | “You will be carried away dead” just at r arrai, ent before Magis- | before he gave the order to fire. Hl trate Adolph Stern Wednesday after-| Mrs. George Kubick, a miner’s wife | Counsel retained by the Inter-|with the pickets, stated that the nal Labor Defense urged an im-| shooting was immediately after ay mediate trial but the magistrate com- | trooper tried to tear an American flag | plied with the request of the New|away from a striker who was carry- York police bomb squad for an ad-!ing it in the procession. journment. * * Building guards and other institu- Lawyer Finds Trickery. tionalized employes at the Rockefeller TRINIDAD, Colo., Nov. 24——R. W. offices charged the pickets, who num- nderson, defense attorney for the bered about 60, and struck many of ado strikers has investigated the er the arrest of the four by fornia and states that most of the en. ‘situation here since his arrival from ts of pickets are illegal, since e ew York financ noon s given by pickets arrested, while 10,000 | . 26 Broadway is the headquar- | a ters not only for the Standard Oil Co. but for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., the of the Colorado ast which the miners It company hich ordered the Ludlowstent colony massacre in 1914, when il children, two women and a miner were shot, burned or bayonetted to death most powerful made by the State Law En- Bureau, which has no au- utside of enforcement of the jon statutes. He finds that every effort was made by the miners to comply with the law, and that the strike was once postponed because of the Industrial Commission’s objection that not suf- ficient time was allowed after the calling of the strike before the date! of the walk-out. A Quibbie. The final ruling that the strike is illegal, Hen on finds a mere quib- 1 on the fact that discharged the men , for the very pu7- it illegal, and is an ne law by the cornmpanids Henderson finds that the ere bad, wages low, and the outbreak almost spontaneous. He doubts the constitutionality of the state compulsory arbitration law. Dollars Buy Doty Free; Deserted French Legion PARIS, Ne 24,.—His father’s American money has won final free- dom from military service for Be nett J. Doty, whose desertion from the French foreign legion caused his imprisonment this year. An official in the French ministry of war stated | privately that he did not wish the French press to give publicity to the ease since “it is favoritism shown to an American.” condition: MAX EASTMAN’S ATTACKS ON COMMUNISM ANSWERED BY BERTRAM D. WOLFE | ‘TRADE UNION PRoBLEMS” | -by Jay Lovestone; “THE \. F. or L. Convention” --by Wm. F. Dunne and other features including book reviews. Send for this copy surely— | In the Current Issue of The Communist BRILLIANT answer to Max Eastman’s at- tacks on Communism and an exposure of Max East- man’s present counter- revolutionary role will be found in this article whieh features the current issue of The Communist. Other features include: “Some SusscriBE: 25c @ Copy $2 @ Year, $1.25 Six Mos. THE COMMUNIST 43 E. i25 St. New York : e us your helping hand HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day after day .... never stopping. 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SINCLAIR ALL COMMUNIST LEADERS SCORE TROTSKY GROUP Engdahl Makes Address for Workers Party (Special Cable to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Novy. 24. — Delegates \from fraternal Communist Parties | Joined the Moscow Provincial Party | in a complete endorsement of the | policies of the Central Committee and in condemning the Trotskyist Oppo- | sition, | J. Louis Engdahl, speaking on be- j halt of the Workers (Communist) |Party of America pointed out that numerous resolutions had been adopt- led by leading committees of the | American Communist Party approv- ing the measures of the Central Com- }mittee of the All-Union Communist |Party and denouncing the methods of the Opposition. | Hits Lore. | There are many elements outside of the Party, such as Ludwig Lore, editor of the New York Volkzeitunge and Max Eastman, author of “Since | Lenin Died,” Engdahl said, who have | been carrying on propaganda in favor of Trotsky. Resides these certain organs of the "o's" nessa, he continued, have sided with the Opposition, while the | » sapere the Jewish Daily For- | ward, which has been extremely hos- | tile to the Soviet Ke ade sg papoused | the cause of the ‘Opposftion? | According to Engdahl the reaction- ary American Federation of Labor may be expected to defend the Oppo- sition in the near future. Engdahl declared that he considered it neces- sary to carry on the broadest ideo- logical campaign against the Oppo- sition. Apreye Central Committee. | Following the declarations from |the fraternal delegates a resolution was adopted at the meeting approving the directions of the Central Execu- itive Committee for the development | of Soviet economy. The resolution furthermore record- led the failure of the attempts of the Trotskyist Opposition to create an |international fraction. The fraction, the resolution declares was supported only by such renegades as Ruth | Fischer, Souvarine, ete., while the (fraternal parties emphatically con- | demned the factional sectarian policy of the Opposition. Hit Revisionists. | | | Bin. The resolution approved the de- (cision of the Central Committee laecinst the Trotskyist Opposition which is striving for the revision of the Party program and particularly | approved of the expulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviey from the All-Union |Communist Party and expressed con- |fidence that the Fifteenth Congress jof the All-Union Communist Party | will decide that affiliation with the | Opposition is incompatible with Par- tty membership. | Braun read the declaration of the | German Communist ‘Party condemn- ing the Opposition, approving the ex- |pulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev and | pointing out the necessity of expell- \ing other members of the Opposition. j Vaillant Cou of the French |Party pointed out that the recent ac- | tivities of the Opposition had failed jand that even the expulsion of Trot- isky had not provoked those senti- mental feelings--which the Opposi- tion might expect in France. The | Opposition, he said, had been decisive- \ly beaten at the last session of the Central Executive Committee and Treint had been expeiled from the | Central Committee. The Party wil! |continve to pursue the most yesolute | struggle “against the Opposition, he ‘declared. Bela Kun’s Speech. Bela Kun decjared that the Hun- garian Communist Party expresses its full solidarity with the attitude of the Central Committee of the All- Union Gommunist Party. The former mistakes of the Hungarian Commun- ist Party, he declared resulting from a position similar to that’ now held | by Trotsky. These mistakes, he said, brought about the overthrow of the proletarian dictatorship in Hungary. Murphy declared that the British Communist Party solidly supported the position of the Central *Commit- | were charged with conspir' | $30,000,000 worth of oi, rights at! CONTEMPT GASES | CORE UF DEC. 5 iClark Too Faces Charge of Jury Tampering | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2 Wm. J. Burns, of the Burns Dete pall Agency, and Harry F. Qinelair, mff- | |lionaire oil man, accused of bribing | | Secretary of the Interior Fall with {a suit-ease full of Liberty Bonds, | will | face the court Dec. 5 on con-| tempt charges. Sinclair, just out of | a mistrial with Fall in which they | i gz to steal Teapot Dome, will be in Washington | Dee. 5 te face the contempt case in| Judge Siddons’ court. | Sinelair is charged along with Wm. J. Burns, of the Burns Detective Agency, his son, Wm. Sherman | Burns, and Charles L. Veitsch with | tampering with the jury in the Sin- clair-Fall case, subjecting them to constant and intimidating shadowing! | by detectives of the Burns agency, | and in general séeking to bring about either an acquittal or a mistrial— “in contempt of the court.” Indictments Up. Also on Dee. 5, Sheldon Clark is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before U. S. Commissioner Needham Turnhage on a charge of conspiracy to influence a petit jury. Clark is an official of one of Sinelair’s com- panies, and active for the Sinclair- Fall defense. Further, it is not unlikely that the | first Monday in December will pro- | duce grand jury indictments against | most of the above mentioned for con- | spiracy to obstruct justice. i All moves of the district attorney’s office are the outgrowth of submis- sion of affidavits charging that Sin- clair and his lieutenants had engaged | the Burns agency to maintain ‘“anj improper surveillance” over the Fall- Sinclair jury. Murder Trial Soon of Woman Who Falsely Accused ‘Two Negroes’ HAMMONTON, N. J., Nov. 24.— The murder trial of Mrs, Margaret | Lilliendahl and her friend Willis Beach jis to start Monday, and counsel for the defense are assembling. Mrs. Lilliendahl took her aged husband for a ride,} and when she came back re- ported | that two Negroes had killed | him. She stuck to this story while | lynch jobs combed the countryside. | The fen for “two Negroes” finally ended when suspicion fastened itself on Mys. Lilliendahl herself and on Beach: , tee of the All-Union Communist Party Opposition on Mexico. Stirner of Mexico demanded that the work of the trade unions be re- inforeed as the experience of Latin- America showed elements sympathiz- ing with the Opposition, at the same time acting against the tacties of the united front. \ Krebich demanded that the Execu- tive of the Communist International react more rapidly against calumnia- tory slanders spread abroad via the | Opposition, as this would consider- | ably facilitate the struggle against the Opposition on an international scope. j Sen Katyama pointed out that the Opposition, which has already form- ed a second party, is prepared to} commit any crime against the Soviet power. Katayama demanded the most energetic measures be taken against the Opposition just as against the counter-revolutionaries and fas- cist elements. Badulescu of the Rumanian Party nointed out that a special campaign is necessary against Rakovsky’s ac- ‘ions. The Rumanian Communists must expose Rakovsky’s actions the ore so because the latter is popular in Rumania, he declared. No Inflfence In Poland. Purman of Poland pointed out that |the Opposition has searcely any in- fluence. with the Polish Communist Party. The recent Plenary session of the Central Committee definitely con- demned the Opposition. However the/ latter is being made use of in the general political life of Peland, es- neciallv at the actual moment when | Pilsudski is prenared for the oceupa- tion of Lithuania. | Maggi declered that he brines the | Ttalian Communist Party’s solidarity | with all measures adonted by the All- Union Communist Party against the | Opnyosition. He demanded a. resolute | atruegle against the Opposition ‘on | an international scope. | Draft Resolution. Kabakchieff. on behalf of the Bul-| garian Communist Party; Silen on| behalf of the Scandinavian Commun- | ist Party: and Sirola on bellalf of the | Finnish Communist Party, called for | a reinforced struggle against the Op- | position. | \ Accused Sleuth | BRATIANU DEAD; CIVIL WAR IN ~ RUMANIA LOOMS | ‘Martial Law Declared; _ Treops Guard Border BUCHAREST, , Rumania, Noy. 24, |—Premier Bratianu,: virtual dictator |of Rumania, died during the night fol- | lowing two throat operations. Bra- jtianu was taken ill with influenza | last week. | Immediately | nouncement WM. J. BURNS following the an- Bratianu’s death, a UN P YMENT strict censorship was established by ‘the Government and troops were the principal public thrown about GROWS FASTEST “= | Brother Gets’ Job. News of the premier’s death spread Qf {through the city and country like ‘ i ‘WW | wildfire, and excited crowds soon {gathered before the premier’s palace |for confirmation of the news. |. A meeting of the regency, called ‘immediately, appointed V la Bra- jtianu, brother of the deceased pre- \mier, and finance minister in the By LELAND OLDs. |Bratianu cabinet, head of the govern- (Federated Press.) iment, Interstate commerce commission | Guard Frontiers. railroad. employment statistics again! Vintila. Bratianu immediately raise the question whether shopmen |nounced that the present order w have really gained increased stability |be maintained at all costs, all gar- of employment on roads which have | risons were placed on a “footing of accepted the union-management . co-| alarm,” and all frontiers were closed operation program. The contention |and strictly guarded in anticipation that such cooperation means better | of possible riots. employment was advanced sto counter Figures Prove Class Collaboration Fatal i | the criticism that wages are no high- |er on carriers where such cooperation prevails. Charts in the wage report for Au- gust show for 8 leading systems the jcourse of shop employment August, 1925 to July, 1927. The commission | contrasts the Baltimore & Ohio with the Pennsylvania, the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul with the North- ern Pacific, the Southern with the Atlantic Coast Line and the South- A meeting of the cabinet council was called and it was decided not to | allow Prince Carol to return to | Rumania. | Thus the Bratianu policies will be continued, at least for the present, through the continuance of the “Bra- tianu Dynasty,” as the dead premier’s |cabinet was called, because of the |fact that Bratianu had placed his jelder brother in a position to succeed |him at the head of the cabinet, and | possibly as a member of the regency, ern Pacific with the Santa Fe. The |; Genes GE Kits oan “daath: chart comparing shop employment on | rit ° the Baltimore & Ohio with the Penn- | ‘ Position Shaken. : sylvania is significant because the B,| Bratianu’s death came at a time & O. took the lead in cooperating with , When he considered his position some- the unions while te Pennsylvania, | What shaken by the furore aroused by under Atterbury direction, led in the {the court-martial and subsequent fight to make the railroad shops non-, acquittal of M. Manoilescu, finance union. |minister in the Averescu cabinet and More Jobless On B. & O. close personal friend of Prince Carol, The trend. of at 1 {who was arrested at the Rumanian e trend of shop employment on ‘border, when he was found to be both the B. & O. and the Pennsylvania \carrying letters from Carol to , pole has been downward since March, 1926, | iti fea as Ruane but the decline was much more rapid ? Samii: estat Pea on the B. & O. On the other hand at} 5, ‘i the end of the period employment had | Carel Hancist Loo, fallen somewhat more below the aver- | PARIS, Noy. 24.—Prince Carol of age on the Pennsylvania than on the Rumania, when told today of the B. & O. |death of Premier Bratianu, declared In the 3 months March-June, 1926, “when I say that in the death of shop employment fell off 9% per cent \Bretianu Rumania lost an ardent |on the B, & O. as against a reduction | Patriot, I do not forget the harshest of less than 5 per cent on the Penn- | criticism which I have recently made sylvania. By September employment |#2ainst his political methods,” Carol in B. & O, shops was more than 11) said. per cent below the March level while 5 in the Pennsylvania shops it was still White Guard Leaders. at a level less than 5 per cent below; The Bratianu brothers, huge land the peak. When the year ended em-|owners and powerful bankers, have ployment on the B. & O. was down | virtually dominated White Guard 10 per cent and on the Pennsylvania |Rumania since the World War except less than 3 per cent. |for a brief period when Averescu was Plan Helps Firing. Premier, The Bratianu brothers led the wave ™ * In. the 2-year period the range of | employment on the B. & O. was from | about 8% above the average in March, 1926, to 7 per cent below in May, | 1927. The lowest figure meant that | about 14 per cent of the shopmen em- ployed at the peak had been laid off. | In Pennsylvania shops the correspond- ing range was from 6 per cent above! average in March and April 1926 to \largely of terrorism, being particularly active in the suppression of unions and peasant organizations. They were responsible for dragging Rumania into the World War. At the time of his death Premier Bratianu was planning to consolidate his position still further and planned to establish a dictatorship like that of Primo de Rivera in Spain. A draft of a resolution was unan- imously adopted, based on the” wor! of Kusinen, Zetkin ‘and Gallagher, emphasizing that the conduct of the leaders of the Opposition means the betrayal of the interests of the inter- national labor movement and the ‘be- trayal of the Communist Interna- tional, jon the B. & O, than on the Penns: 11 per cent below in July, 1927. Here | the lowest figure meant a lay-off to} about 16.1 per cent of the workers employed at the peak. The fluctuation in shop employ- ment on the B. & O. and Pennsylvania roads, expressed in percentages of the 24 months average taken as 100 per | cent, appears in the following table based on tke commission’s chart: Fluctuation in 24 mo. average, 100% shop employment Lindsey, Advocate of Companionate Marriage Gives Advice in Letter GIRARD, Kansas, Nov. 24.—Ben B, Lindsey, author of “Companionate Marriage” whose pioneer work in |sane handling of juvenile cases cost Be: Pennsy- | him his job as judge in a Denver ane 1Br ee |court, gave advice to Josephine Halde» October 105 100. |man-Julius and Aubrey C, Rovelle tw November 104 102 ja letter made public by the bride's December 105 103 \parents today. et January, 1926 107 tot My hearty ‘congratulations upoa February 107 105 |your marriage,” said the letter. ‘My Mareh — 108 166 | still, beartier, congvatulations pon April 104 ids |your honesty in openly entering into day 100 101 |a companionate marriag. Jane 98 i | “Order your lives by your own ine duly 96 i | dividual wishes and not those of age- August 99 100 jold greed, tyranny and ignorance. Aahamher 96 aay hThrow off all such shackles that bind Octcter 96 on )| your right to reason and to happiness, November 96 be | Thas you will be joyfully unafraid.” December 97 103 | iiecanie tee : esd 1927 08 w2 |Admiral Bullard: Dies; Apel 4 i ©=|Left Yangtse Bombard Line & Po Head Radio Trust July bd ny, | Sheen WASHINGTON, D..C., Nov. 24. Big business today lost. its efficient head of the bureau in control of grant- £at¢ ling radio monopolies to the biggest S/and safest broadeasters. Admiral “| Bullard, chairman of the U.S. Radio oe git a A 3 earl heart disease. The last post he held Sepvete managements toward ite in the navy was that of commander shop unions appears to have little ef. |°. "e Bah A polcrbtee stein iy fect on their employment policies the copartment 0 e naval forces , which engaged in the bombardment of + , {the unfortified town of Nanking a Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! ‘short time ago, IL we take employment in October | 125 as 100 per cent we find that «m- pleyment Les fallen to about the sa: degree on both roads with the f off beginning about 12 months ea' the |