The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-H0UR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 271. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE BAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 26, 1927 March 3, 1879. WORKER. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents SHEER OBRECON AS HE DEFIES CHURCH KILLERS. Hearst Tries to Smirch| Brazilian Arbitrator MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Nov. 25. 4General Obregon, speaking at 2] Jnner to celebrate his escape from »ssassination by bomb throwers a few | ‘ays ago, roundly condemned the | 3atholic Church hierarchy which | 1opes to fasten its control upc Wexican land and assert its a nfluence over the government, tooping to such reprehensible res as secret assassination. He wa ‘oundly cheered. j A curious crowd earlier in the day | ‘ollowed the coffins cf four men exe- | cuted after conviction of having been | he plotters of the attempt at assas- | sination. They are all supporters of he clerical counter-revolutionary | nody, “The League for Catholic Free- | lom,” and of the “Catholic Defense | veague.” One of the conspirators | ‘xecuted was a priest, Luis Seguar | Jilchis. | “The men who attempted to assas- | inate me,” said General Obregon, | “gonfessed that they did not know me ersonally and had no personal griev- he crime was inspired by their fear hat I, if president, will continue the Jalles’ policies, If this is my cri accept the responsibility for tt rime. “This attempt shows that we must @ alert against clerical reactionaries vho demonstrate their intention to ontinue to the utmost their activi- * * * Hearst Attacks Octavio. In an attempt to throw discredit m the character of the Brazilian,ar- | | The twenty wounded. rendered at guards the: ies in, combatting our cause, oven to | tig = nost reprehensible methods.” e; a pe U. S. Imperialism Is | Menacing World, Says | War Danger Congress) States and Mussolini were branded as the greatest menaces to world peace at the opening session of the International War Danger Confer- ence here “Americ is undoubtedly the most ruthless and aggressively im- perialistic nation at present,” said —o LONDON, Nov. 25.—The United | | ~ DISCHARGED IN SIGMAN'S SUIT ‘Action Against Freiheit ( Nears End | Four of the eight remaining de- fendents in the criminal libel suit J. W. Brown, vice-chairman of the Natio: Federation of Profes- sional “Tt is in the im- policy of the United | States t ai danger exists for future Former Ff er Nitti of Italy stated that the. world had armed se mad! i the as since the of gue of ng instituted against left wing news- papers and editors in the needle trades by Morris Sigman, president | | Workers Union, were discharged yes- erday afternoon by Magistzate | Louis B. Brodsky in Jefferson Mar- jket Court. | Those released are M. J. Olgin, | | . | president of the Freiheit Publishing j fussolin “character 2; | Association, publisher of the Jewish vain madman, and Ital a| {Daily Frieheit, communist newspap- | prison. jer; Rubin Saltzman, business man- i ee ---@ ,ager of the paper and Louis Hyman 1,500 MUTINEER: IN FOLSOM PRISON RETURN TO CELLS hee against me, They explained that | Vile Conditions - Were FIL ina! ir guns. SOM PRISON, Cal., ‘Nov. 25.— casualty list in the prison | rebellion shows eleven dead and over The prisoners sur- 30 A. M. today to war- den Court Smith. They released the} had held as hostages and | Mm Was a prisoner in his own office since yesterday and as soon as the battle was over he told the press that he made no concessions to the mutineers. {and Joseph Borochwitz, members of the editorial board of Unity, weekly left wing newspaper. | Decision Dec. 9. | Whether the other four defendents | will also be discharged or held for |the grand jury will be decided by Magistrate Brodsky Friday, Dec. 9,} at the West Side Court, 54th St. and} Eighth Ave. These defendents are/| Melich Epstein, editor of the Fric- heit; William Gropper, cartoonist of | the paper; the Freiheit Publishing} Association and Paul Novick, editor: ‘Responsible for Revolt) or unity. The Magistrate instructed counsel for both sides to submit briefs at once, Defe Witnesses. | Yesterday’s session of the hearing | was devoted to testimony by wit- (Continued on Page Five) OWNERS FLOOD MINE FIRE, LET ritrator, chairman of the Mixed} ‘Leaders Take Full Responsibility. aims Commission which passed ad-| ‘Phe sp’ \ rebels told | ‘ersely on the United States demand | the war ¢ e willing to | f a-heavy indemnity from Mexico} accept full respoue.-- or the out- | ‘or a bandit raid, Wm. Seay break, in order to save the others from ‘ in all his aa Tearst today published iewspapers what purports to be a etter from the Mexican government wehives, in which President Calles ‘alls for the payment of $50,000 to Jon Rodrigo Octavio. Octavic was he neutral arbitrator. The letter as published contains the same smudged seal, and the usual in- ‘dusion of language which could not erve any purpose except to’ make it iseful to Hearst. The DAILY WORKER several lays ago published photographs to how how a similar letter from the Jearst stock, published in his papers, vas forged right in Hearst’s own rewspaper offices in New York. Defense Rally for ‘Greco and Carrillo . Today and Sunday ‘ 1 preparations are to be made By aor a meeting for the defense Galog yero Greco and Donato Car- io antti-fascists to be held tomor- w at 20 Pp. m. at the Central Opera ‘ouse 6 th St. and Third Ave. by the Inte: ational Labor Defense. | Greco attd Carrillo will go on trial in'the Bronx Dec. 5 charged with the ‘killing of two fascists last Decoration Protest Tonight. 4, An open air meeting for the De- ense will be held tonight at 163rd St. and Prospect Ave. by the Inter- mational Labor Defense. The _prin- ipal speaker will be Louis A. Baum, | Lecretary of the Photographic Work- | brs union. | Speakers tomorrow will be James | . Cannon, national secretary of the nternational Labor Defense; Nor- an Thomas; Robert Minor editor hf The Daily Worker; Arturo Giov- nitti, of the Italian Chamber of bors Carlo Tresca, editor of II ‘artello; M. J. Olgin, editor of the fammer; Robert W. Dunn, of the merican Civil Liberties Union; Wil- iam W. Weinstone, district secretary if the Workers (Communist). Party, nd others. A United Front. The Greco-Carrillo Defense League, New York yesterday announced its members represented a united front to bas ite efforts on he part of the Italian ment to terro’ F go so ea “Magistrate the punishment which may include the scaffold for the leaders of the revolt. The national guard was ready with machine guns, tanks, sawed-off shot- guns and poison gas when the sur. render came. The governor had or. dered airplanes brought to the prison for reserve The uprisi: noon on Thur: y and a general jai delivery might have followed. * * a SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 25.— The 1,500 prisoners who were on strike here. since yesterday surrender. ed to the authorities on terms which it is believed the prison officials wil viglate as soon as they have the pris. oners separated from their leaders. Four hundred national guardsmen and police had surrounded the cel house where the prisoners—estimated 1,200 and 2,000—were at between cooped in. Atrocious Conditions. The revolt is atributed to the ter. rible conditions that prevail in Folsom Prisoners are shot down on They work on the rock pile and sometimes when prison. the slightest provocation. a prisoner who has earned the resent: ment of a guard stoops to pick up a stone to break the guard shoots him on the ground that the prisoner in: tended to hurl the stone at him. The warden said the prisoner who acted as spokesman for the group stated that the terms of their sur- render were that they should “not be beaten, abused or starved.” surrendered Warden Smith sent back word that the leaders in the attempted break After the prisoners would be placed in solitary confine. ment with one meal a day. FOR A LABOR PARTY. Bert Miller, organization secretary of the New York district, Workers (Communist) Party will lecture on “A Labor Party for 1928” at the Bronx Workers’ School Forum, 2075 Clin- ton Ave., at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow. started shortly before 5 Lost Below Ground; i -|One Was Brave Rescuer | -| SUPERIOR, Ariz., Nov. 25.—Offi- | cials of the Magma Copper Mining Company ordered their mine here flooded a few hours after a fire broke 1;out, and while five miners were still | below, and probably alive. They will be drowned by the water. Forty-nine men of the grave-yard | shift (11.30 to 7.30 a.m.) were at work | when the fire started below the 1,550 | foot level. There were forty-nine men in the shaft when the fire started and forty-two escaped. One other man, Zeno Daley, an Indian, escaped with the forty-two, but rushed back below 1|¢°, try and rescue some of the seven missing. Two Bodies Found. The flames spread rapidly through the dry: timbering, and turned all -| underground workings between the 1,- 650 level and the 2,200 foot level into a furnace. Rescuing parties found two charred bodies and brought them out. This left five men unaccounted for. -|Miners who knew that it was quite possible that the men might be bar- ricaded in some old working place, or -|either below or above the fire zone, pleaded with the mariagement not to flood the mine before further rescue work could be tried. However, the flames were con. stantly destroying more timber, and the company refused to wait. 1 ATHIEST HELD FOR TRIAL. Charles S. Smith, president of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Athiesm, was held in 8500 bail by Magistrate Gottlieb yes- terday for trial in a higher court on charges brot by Rev. John Roach |Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist | Church and a leading fundamentalist. | Straton accuses the athiest of annoy- ing him by sending him free thought | literature. Unemployed Penniless Worker Gets Jail Berth At Own Request In the Jefferson Market Court Unemployed for a long period but with a job promised him next Monday, Barney Berger asked Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky in the Jefferson Market Court yesterday to "re him a week-end’s lodging in jail. Berger, had no overcoat and no money for food. “I got discouraged,” Brodsky. Berger told “IT finally asked a policeman to lock me up. . I thought I’d be sure of a meal that way and a place to sleep till I can go to work. Twe got a job promised me for Monddy but I need a place to sleep till then.” Berger is pne of the growing throng of thofsands of unemployed men on Ngw York streets. FOUR MORE ARE | Jot the International Ladies Garment} | | word: "NEW PENNA. INJUNCTION OUTLAWS STRIKE RELIEF Pennsylvania, to the Clearfield Bitu- minous €oal Corporation, of which | Governor Fisher is director and at- | torney, completely puts an end to picketing in any form, even prohibit- ing the display of signs warning the | strikebreakers that a strike on in; the camp, or gathering ow e thej church, pr singing. But the outstand- | ing feature of the injunction, unpar- alleled in its brutality, is the clatae'l enjoining the union or strike sympa- | thizers from distributing mone | . | | Propaganda Committee | | Committee of Revolutionary Min-/| class, and expressing ceepest | Starvation Tactic | jlatest injunction ued in the coal “Long live international | jtack on the rights of the locked-out of eviction cases, or surety compan- AGAINST KILLING i: M. Langham of Indiana County, s COMPANY TRIES — Scores Colorado Murder s ers today passed a resolution | anger at the | war goes even further than the vi- | working class solidarity against | 1 + ——® | miners. ies from bonding strikers’ houses, Union Sq. Meeting For by Hy ? | ‘ International Miners | FISHER § C0 AL | i | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov, 36. | 10 STOP RELIEF —The International Propaganda | | | greeting the coal mine strikers in! Clearfield Injunction Is Colorado as fighters for.the work- | | 2 murder of their; = brothers by the capitalist state.| | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 25.—The |The message concludes with the} jeious Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cor capitalism,” and is signed by Sa-| | poration injunction in its sweeping at- bottka and Abramoff, | | ‘The Pittshurgh Terminal Coal Cor- x 1 poration injunction enjoined the union from using its funds for the defense VOICE PROTEST and placed rigid bounds to picketing. | The injunction just issued by Judge Colorado Strike While the miners of Colorado are carrying cn their strike against the enemy corporations of that Rockefel- ler-controlled state, thousands of men and. women workers of Greater New York will gather in Union Square this afternoon to urge them or. to vic- Tiiaasisetiettnsimtiinsite S POOLIDGE STANDS BY WATCHING THE (Continued on Page Twoy ing of six pickets at the Colum! mine, near Denever, and the wound- | ing of 27 others, including women.) They will pledge all possible finan- cial support to the strikers, who need | food and clothing, according to yes- | terday’s dispatches from Denver | and Walsenberg. And both the crowd | and the speakers will proclaim that | the struggle of the Colorado miners, | ke that of the Pennsylvania and | Ohio miners, is the struggle of all who work for wages. Meeting at 1 p. m. i @ thunderous protest against (he ae} | MINERS STARVING } Sees Lock - out as a Re-organization Plan | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. The meeting will begin at 1 p. m. : : aos hone h Jew | (FP).—President Coolidge looks upon iTS ap, al-call vege se veday. the Aare | the bituminous coal strike as merely "4 ado Miners’ ief Com-| oat York Colorado Miners’ Re‘ief Com ari Me Gate tacident OF ac ae mittee and was seconded by organi- atch at tha ase Oeal zations and individuals representing poe ‘ beau | h ’ 3 ness. From the White! all sections of New York labor, in Sk earees hee | addition to liberal groups and per- come a declaration that | eae way of settling the con Speakers will include William F. Dunne, representing the New York district of the Workers (Communist) Party; Jack Walsh and Harry Meyers, of the Industrial Workers of the TROTSKY GROUP FORMING PARTY, STALIN STATES (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Nov, 25.—Joseph Stalin, | secretary of the All Union Commun- ist Party, in a speech at the Moscow Provincial Conference of the Party declared that the Opposition had been Cootidge Won't Help completely wrong in its theses on the} WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Pros. relations between the working class | pects of a conference between op and the peasantry and that the Op-/tors and miners to terminate the position’s predictions of the inevitable | tuminous strike in western Pennsyl- | failure of the ‘revolution had been! yania, Ohio and West Virginia have groundless. ;not brightened since President Cool- The revolution had not failed, but |idge received labor delegates early the Opposition had, Stalin declared. this weck. In conclusion Stalin declared: For the second time “The platform of the Opposition | delegates laid the mine testifies to its complete separation |fcre the president it was s' from the Party, the working class and | dicated at the White How the preletarian revolution. It is the | that the president docs no platform of intellectuals who have/|# conference under ti broken from Leninism and lost a per- the government would be advisable. spective of the realities of life. Thu matter is still before the de- Must Dissolve Group. |partment of labor, but ry “No wonder then that the Party and | Davis’ recommendations and find the working class have absolutely | ° fact have not been given to the turned the Opposition away. It is Rabat ail ; impossible to: remain in two parties at the same time; to adhere to the old AIRCRAFT WORKER HURT. Leninist Party and belong to the new| PLAINFIELD, N. J., Nov. 25. — Trotskyist Party. It is necessary to| Harry Berger, mechanic, and two choose between the two parties. passengers were seriously injured at! “Either the Opposition must dis-|Hadley Field after dark tonig’ solve the Trotskyist party and frank-|when a three-motored Fokker air- ly recognize their mistakes or they | plane crashed igto a tree in attempt- will not do so and suffer expulsion |ing to land. The passengers are Jo- from the Party.” hannes Plumm and Paul Rothman, of The meeting greeted Stalin’s speech | Oyster Bay. The pilot, A. L. Caper- loud applause, tin, was not hurt. a5 | By House has he sees no flict in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wes: Virginia by calling a conference of | operators and strikers, because coa can be sold to northern industries and j railroads at a, lower rate—coming | from the southern non-union fields-— than the cost of mining coal in the northern fields at union wages. Lets Them Starve. The Coolidge position, therefore, is one of standing aside and letting star- | vation take its course, until the min- ‘ers in the strike zone are forced back |to work at a wage so low as to com- pete against the non-union wage and | j thicker veins of fuel in the southern | fields. He wil! sharply resist any plan for | nationalizing the coal mining bu: s, thereby placing all coal produc: tion under a si le program and gi ing maximum regular employment at saving wage. | since labor ’ case be- ongly in- | Secret 5 |W to Torture Colorado Prisoners 1. Colorado strike leader, released from Pueblo jail, turned over to state rangers who take him into country and beat him up. 2. Prove Columbine pickets killed outside, not on, company property. ste : f oa 8. Pennsylvania injunction judge tries to stop relief. 4. International Miners Columbine shooting; greets 5. Mother Jones, in hospital, applauds courage of mine pick= condemns murder in Colorado. 6. Big Wyoming locals of U. M. W. A. shipments to Colorado. 7. Mass meet Propaganda Committee condemns brave str kers. ets, resolve to stop coal ngs for relief in Chicago, New York. 8. Coolidge gloats over starvation of coal miners. MINERS’ PICKETS AT COLUMBINE WERE KILLED OFF THE PROPERTY Hundreds Working in Southern Fields Come Off Jobs to Protest Mass Murder BULLETIN, NVER, Colo., Nov, 25.—The kidnapping, beating and attempt . K. Orr following his release from the Pueblo jail con- firms sus ions here among strikers and sympathizers that there is a general policy of terrorization against arrested strikers and their leaders which the state police are carrying out. DE. to shoot * * By FRANK I. PALMER. (Special Telegram To The DAILY WORKER.) LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 25.—A. K. Orr, miner organizer who was arrested more than three weeks ago and held incom- municado, was released and taken up country in an automobile where he was dragged out of the car and attacked. : BADLY BEATEN. # Two, teeth knocked ‘out. and anottrg badly -hart, caused a heavy flow of blood. Wheh he finally escaped and ran up the road, shots were fired after him. Despite the loss of blood which caused extreme weakness,.Orr made his way to a farm house, | where, after much difficulty, he persuaded the farmer to take him to Pueblo. When he reached the city, he discovered that rangers and deputy sheriffs were patrolling the roads. He was forced to disregard his wounds, hide in a hotel, and take the first train to Denver the next morning, where he was finally cared for. Str aders ha heard vague rumors that prisoners would be treated with violence, but this was the first verification. STATE RANGER LIES. Raymond Henderson, attorney for the wobbly organizer, had agreed not to prefer charges of false arrest if Orr was immediate- ly released. R. R. Maiden, second in command of the state ran- gers, told Orr that he was released only because his attorney had agreed that the prisoner would leave the strike field immediately. This statement of Maiden, when reported to Henderson was branded a lie. TURNED OVER TO THUGS. Maiden then told Orr that some friends of his were waiting outside, and turned him over to a man who is believed to be State Ranger Bates, who took officer and prisoner to the city jail. There Orr was handed over to the two men who drove him about seven miles up country and attacked him. No charge had been preferred against the leader. * Cae’ y DENVER, Nov. 25 (FP).—The clash between the state gunmen and the Colorado miner strikers at the Columbine mine which culminated in the slaying of 6 workers and wounding of 27 others was started when, without warning, 2 of the pickets were shot down and killed outside the company property. This fact wa: vealed when first excitement over the mas« sacre began to subside and the true story of the shooting was pieced together. The operators, through the kept press, as usual claimed that the shooting began when the pickets crossed the property line in violation of a threat that pickets would be shot if they did so. The fact is that 2 of the workers were slain when a group of pickets, including women and children, marched peacefully and unarmed near the property. Angered when 2 of their comrades fell, mortally wounded, the pickets apparently invaded the property. The state police and tompany gunmen then mowed them down with machine gun and rifle fire. —* Orders of leaders of the strike | alone have prevented reprisals ; by the workers for the slaying |of the pickets, all groups of the state agree. Orders were given Furrier Arrested For Distributing Leaflets Rae Epstein, member of the Join’ Board, Furriers’ Union, arrest s-;by I. W. W. leaders that the terday morning in the fur market miners refrain from violence as they while distributing leaflets, had her | had all during the strike. se postponed until Friday, Dec. 2, News of the massacre has shocked n she appeared before Magistrate is Denver labor leaders into definite ac- B. Brodsky in the Jefferson tion on behalf of the strike and offi- Lou {Market Court later in the day. Jo- cial American Federation of Labor seph R. Brodsky appeared as her at- unions here have begun a drive for torney. relief funds, BELINEtSnn DoW cr Wa sei ; MAY DITCH GAS TAX. ete tn ee Aroused by the massacre of I. W. W. pickets by state police at the Col- umbine mine in northern Colorado Monday the coal miners in southern Colorado who have heretofore re- don his plan to request a gasoline mained in the mines are walking out tax at the next session of the legis- ,#nd joining the strikers. The strong- lature by pruning the estimated $235,-'e8t scab sections in the south have 000,000 budget, (Continued on Page Two) 4 With the state treasury surplus for the current year already estimated at $23,000,000, it was announced yester- day that Gov. Smith expects to aban- . % + \ i “