The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Bare Plot to Torture Colorado Prisoners | (Continued from Page One) been scenes of spontaneous walkouts and demonstrations in protest against the killing of miners in the north. At Aguilar the I. W. W. hall was. re- opened by the miners after authori- | ties attempted to padtock the building. State police arrested 20 strikers there, setting high bails. Berwind Canyon miners have come out en masse. Tanks and Guns, In the north all is quiet save for the marching of national guardsmen, armed with machine guns and ar- mored tan Pickets have been ask- ed by strike leaders to remain in their homes to prevent clashes between the strikers and the militia men. A check-up of casualties of Mon- day’s massacre reveals 6 strikers dead, including 1 woman, and 25 in- jured. Little hope is held for the re- covery of at least 6 of the wounded. 4 women were among the wounded and 1 is expected to die. The bullets fired into the pickets by the gover- nor’s officers left at least 11 children fatherless. “We Will Stay Out.” “We will remain out until the rats guilty of the murders, abetted by the governor and his industrial commis- sion are brought to justice,” is the strikers’ answer to the mine operators and the gunmen. Two of the pickets killed were shot down before the general massacre be- gan. This caused the enraged pickets to advance toward the property and the wholesale shooting began. Ma- chine guns and tear bombs were used by the police. None of the pickets were armed, having been carefully searched before they were allowed on the picket line, Militia In Many Camps. Five hundred national guardsmen have been stationed at the Columbine mine and the mine, the last to at- tempt to operate since the strike, is now closed. Three companies of mil- itiamen have also been sent to neigh- boring mine camps. Tanks are par- | ading the highw Roads leading | to southern camps also being pa- trolled. Agitation has begun for impeach- ment of Gov. W. H. Adams, who was | elected with labor’s support on a plat- orm opp 1 to use of state officers | on labor disputes. * 4: oe (Special Telegram to Daily Worker.) LITTLETO. Colo, Nov. 25.— Strikers were delighted when they heard th York workers were pick the Rockefeller of- g bef ices in the Standard Oil building for <illings which will eventually be laid| Rockefeller’s door. Mother Jones From THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927 COLORADO STRIKERS IN WALSENBURG iparies feller had ching through the streets of Walsenburg, w. oto of sicikers against Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., and other smaller coal mining h is not far from Ludlow, the place where Rocke- s men kill eighteen women and children in a tent colony in the last strike before this one. The lower picture shows part of 4,000 miners and their families eating a meal in their general mess hall in Walsenburg. CHICAGO WORKERS, MEET TO ASSIST COLORADO STRIKE ‘Emphasize Attack On Company Unionism CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 25 (FP).— |Finaneial aid for relief and defense | of the striking Colorado coal miners | will be given by Chicago liberals and jtrade unionists. A call for immediate | contributions to the Committee for Hospital Cheers Colorado Strikers { Vigorously denouncing the action of Governor Adams of Colorado in send- | ing troops to b: he miners’ strike, | Mother Jones ha sent a message of e and greetings to| the nes, | who is} now confined in a hospital at Wasb-| ington, D. C., has been the leading | spirit and fearless organizer in dozens of miners’ fights thoughout the coun- try. She was one of the most active leaders in the Colorado mine strike of 1913-14 which culminated in the terrible Ludlow massacre. “High Class Burglar.” _ Referring to John D. Rockefeller head of the Colorado Fuel and Tron company against which the strike is chiefly directed, as a high class | burglar, the aged fighter who has| spent scores of years in working class battles has written to James P. Can- non, secretary of International Labor Defense, the following letter: “Dear Comrade Cannon: “Regret very much that I am unable to go to Colorado and help those wo- men, owing to my failing health. I have to do the best. I ean. Keep Up the Fight. “I send them grectinzs for their fine spirit in defendin their children, the future of e if you starve the’ child, the on has to pay the penalty in the 3 to come. | “If is an outrage to think that a! governor would b | Relief and Defense of Striking Coal Miners headquarters at room 709, 166 . Washington St., has been issued. A mass meeting at which the facts of the situation will be laid before Chi- eago workers and liberals has been called for today at Wicker Park Hall. nited Front. The Chicago committee includes: {E. C. Wentworth, chairman. John A | Gahan, secretary, Lee Tulin, treas- urer, Anton’o Presi and Ida Winsberg, Robert Morss Lovett, W. H. Holly, Frank J. Guscetti, Emil Arnold, sec- |retary, Chicago Painters No. 275, John Edenstrom, Albert Hanson, George Maurer, I. L. D, secy., Chicago, Sam Massler, W. G. Hayes, secy. Hotel & Restaurant Employes No. 7, Ralph Chaplin, Lucy Parsons, Louis C Jos. Schlessinger, pres. Machi No. 887, Anna Thompson and 8. Mammersmark. Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert Par- sons, Chicago Haymarket martyr, will be the main speaker at the mass meet- ing here. Other speakers will be Emi! Arnold and Joseph Tumulty. Bs Great interest is being displayed by Chicago workers in the Colorado strike. News of the ruthless shooting of strike pickets at the Columbine mine, when 6 strikers were killed and scores wounded,’ was met here with renewed energy toward relief work. The Colorado strike is a strike against the company union and for the Jacksonville scale, says a statement ‘ssued by the Chicago committee. Col- orado miners were forced to join the Rockefeller company union shortly after the great strike of 1914 which culminated in the Ludlow massacre. “Every worker of the United States sts fi Fishers’ Coal Company) j, Gets Injunction (Continued from Page One) | among the locked-out miners and | their families, which is interpreted and enforced as including food, cloth- | ing and all manner of relief. | Evicted Already. The injunction omits mention of evictions because every one of the union families at the Rossiter mines of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation have already been evicted. | The text of the injunction states in part: | = “We do therefore strictly enjoin’ and command you, the said defend-| ants, your associates, aiders, abettors and agents, and all other persons, — that you do from henceforth desist: “.|,..From picketing and parading in, upon or through the public roads, streets, alleys, bridges, railroads and other places, past, near or in the vi- cinity or in the neighborhood or lead- ing to the Rossiter mines or the dwelling places of the employes of he) plaintiff. .From loitering, assembling or congregating about or near the pro- perty of the plaintiff or trespassing thereon...from erecting or causing to be erected or maintaining bill- boards 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 plaintiff ‘lenter the mine, and at the time the employes of the plaintiff come out of the mine, from singing song or songs in hearing of the employes of the plaintiff of a threatening or hostile nature. Don’t Tell Them To Quit. | “From suggesting danger to or giv- | ing the appearance of danger to the | employes or their families; from say- ing or doing anything to cause the men now working to quit, or cause | men seeking work to refrain from so! doing; from interfering with or ob- structing men from going to or re- turning from work; from the use of vile, opprobrious and _ ridiculing names, and especially the word “scab”; from distributing pecuniary | contributions, in furtherance of the} conspiracy to keep men from employ- | ment or seeking employment with the | plaintiff, from doing any act to in- | terfere with the right of the plaintiff | and its employes or persons seeking | ‘United Mine » Workers i in Wyoming Pledge to Stop Coal to Colorado Plants LAFAYETTE, Colo., Nov. 25.— The following message from Uni- j ted Mine Workers’ local unions in Wyoming has heen received by the Colorado Striking Coal Miners’ Committee here: “Be it resolved, that we, the miners of Local 2671 of Gebo, | Wye. and Local 2700 of Crosby, iyo! United Mine Workers of America, in meeting assembled, j unanimously pledge ourselves to support the miners of Colorado, so | that it may be possible for them to form an organization which will enable them to protect them- selves.” : The Coiorado Striking Miners’ Committee states: “Information reached this office that coal is being shipped across the state line from Wyoming. Upon communicating with the miners of that state we were immediately as- sured that immediate action wi!! be taken and these coal shipments will stop at once or the produc- | tion of coal will ecase.” s cect, UA Reese with the miners must learn from their enemies, and sce that, injunction or no injunction, the miners and their families get—in abundance—the mon- ey and food and warm clothing with- out which the strike cannot be won. Send contributions to the Pennsyl- vania Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, |/611 Penn Ave., Room 807, Pittsburgh, |pa. vr oe WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 25.— Two collieries, employing 1,000 min- ers, were made idle today when fire of undetermined origin destroyed the | tipple at the No. 7 breaker of the Susquehanna Collieries Company at Nanticoke. * | The fire, which broke out shortly after midnight, burned for three hours, causing damage estimated by officials at Se 000. Needle Trade Defense The entire history of how nine | will cali Coolidge Message WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— President Coolidge is preparing his annual message to congress, which will not be delivered in person the rumor says, because Coolidge has at last come to realize the poor figure he cuts on the platform. It will be read by the chairman of the house on Dec. 6. The message is known to be of a highly reactionary nature. It will op- pose tax cuts, not because of the needs of flood relief, though that will he nsed as one of the reasons. The real reason will be what Coolidge “adequate naval defense.” Chains for Filipinoes. pendence, it is expected the president will oppose independence in no meas- ured terms. He will go further and | ask that the customs receipts in| America on Philippine products be turned over to the governor general of the islands, instead of the Filipino legislature, thus strengthening the| imperialistic character of United | States control. Sell Muscle Shoals. Cooltdge is expected to demand the sale of Muscle Shoals to some big nitrate or power company. The president will repeat the “farm relief” measure which callea down, upon him the scorn of Middle Western farmers. The Coolidge pro- gram 1equires the organization of a giant corporation controlled by bank- ers, to administer the loans from a $250,000,000 revolving fund. GET A NEW READER! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! Q1V us your helping hand HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day after day. . never stopping. The DAILY WORKER. can continue its battles for the Labor Movement, but financial difficulties prevent The DAILY WORKER from becoming-a greater news- paper—of greater use- fulness to fighting La- bor. We do not want to conduct financial cam- paigns. We need the space to fight the boss . . . to give our readers news—information about the Labor movement— and other good features. We ask only this much from every reader: Pledge yourself to give only as much as you can and won’t miss—every week, You won’t miss it and The DAILY WORK- | On the matter of Philippine inde- | | | | 1916—$14.11 for 54.6 hours; 1918— |average hourly earnings decreased INDUSTRIAL MAGNATES USE SLIGHT DECREASE ~ By LELAND OLDS (Fed. Press). Are the financial powers behind the country’s great corporations prepar- | jing to use the declining profits of the! last half of 1927 as an excuse for a| new attack on wages? This question is raised by the monthly business re- view of the American Bankers Assn. journal which reports that the 8rd quarter profits of 125 leading corpo- | rations were down 12.8 percent com- pared with the same period 1926. The profits of these companies for the 3| months ended Sept. 30 totaled $216,- | 692,000 compared with $248,386,000 in | the same quarter a year ago. This decline in profits, however, is | not going to work any hardship on those who live on the work of others. | Even without recourse to the huge| accumulations of undivided surplus | profits they will not miss their div dend and interest checks. For 1926 profits were far above normal and the super profits were carried over into the first half of the current year. ‘The owning class is still collecting a trib- ute unequalled in the annals of the long struggle between those who work \ | | Boot and Shoe Workers’ Wages Decline WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (F?)— Average full-time weekly earnings for} boot and shoe factory workers in the United tSates, in the year 1926, were $25.87, as compared with $26.97 for} the year 1920, says the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has just pub- lished a study of wages and hours of various occupations jn the boot and shoe industry since 1914, based on a number of establishments - ranging from 91 in 1914 to 154 in 1926. Average full-time earnings per week, in each year, ran as follows: 1914—$13.26 for a week of 54.7 hours; $17.54 for 52.3 hours; 1920—$26.97 for 48.6 hours; 1922—$24.45 for 48.7 hours; 1924—$25.28 for 49 hours; 1926—$25.87 for 49 hours. So the year 1920 was the peak of the boot and shoe workers’ good times, both as regards weekly earn- | ings and short hours. Average hourly earnings were in 1920 two and one-third those of the year 1913. Between 1920 and 1922 about 10 per cent, and between 1922 and 1926 increased 5.4 per cent. The average hourly earnings for the in- dustry in 1926 were, for males, from 35.1 cents for lacers in the finishing department to 95.7 cents for hand machine folders; for females , the hourly wage ran from 29.8 cents. for tack pullers to 59.2 cents for rounders of outsole or insole. In 28 of the 81 occupations the wages for men are higher than those for women employes. The difference ranges from 56 cents weekly for sock liners to $21.01 for folders. FORD PRODUCTION SOON. DETROIT, Nov. — The new} Ford car will be exhibited next Fri- day, December 2, and will be produced with an expenditure of $800,000,000 in 1928 for labor and materials, the Ford Motor Company announced to- day. Capacity production will be reached shortly after the first of the year. The Ford company deliberately closed down its plants and threw thousands of men out of work for months to work out plans for this to mt jdecline of $24,494,000 or |to a record level. somewhat more profitable car. | IN PROFITS AS EXCUSE FOR SLASHING WAGES To Be Worst Yet; Cal Won't Read It for a living and those who do rots Says the journal: “If the earnings, for the first months be cumulated they show ‘that 1927 profits of industry as a whoie a | Will not quite measure up to the vec- ord 1926 figures, ‘ye! will not fai ma- terially below. Combined es arnings of the 125 corporations es the 9 months with $899,050,000,ccbicl repr 63 companies were ahead of and 62 were behind.” General Motors Clean The ‘extraordinary profits of Gen- eral Motors continue to play a major part in holding industrial profits‘ ‘up With General Mo- tors eliminated the 3d quarter profits vf the remaining 124 corporations de- clined from $192,354,000 to $152.- 184,000 or 20.8 percent and the 9 months’ profits from $54: 218,000 to, $481,968,000 or 11.1 ; ent. There. will be plenty of profits the future but they Willygo more-and more to the giants dominated by Wali Street. Southern Jury at Once Acquis KKK Of Flogging = LUVERNE, Ala., Nov. Crenshaw county jury (all white planters) yesterday, as was expected, acquitted Shelby Gregory of the Ku Klux Klan of assault, the horsewhip- ping of a Negro woman. Z This was the first trial of. the first of 102 indictments rendered by~ the grand jury accusing over thirty Klansmen of kidnapping and~ cruel flogging in their attempts to force tenant farmers to greater and great- er labors. Attorney General C. C. MeC2'l; one time a Klansman, but now betraying their secrets because of a quarrel with the leaders of the order, wil! try to convict the next man for flog: ging a white woman. 25, FINN COMRADES DONATE. INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Nov..18. —The DAILY WORKER has received the following letter: “We, a small group of Finnish workers, send this money ($11.20). as a present for The DAILY WORKER. + Stomach ' Troublis. Vanish Many thousands of people “After jong suffering found permanent relief from their digestive troubles through the use of the famous, pleasant “Syxtem. 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ERNEST JOHNSON “Ethical Foundations in the Modern World.” FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd EVERETT DEAN MARTIN The Psychology of the American Public—“Yhe Puritan and Yankee in Americun Life. Wrom Cotton Muth- er to Horace Greeley.” ~ THE PEOPLE’S: INSTITUTE 3 Muhlenberg Branch Liber (209 WEST 23rd STREET) | At 8 o'Clock MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28th ERNEST BOYD ~ Literary Main Currents—“ttaly: Literary Makebelieve” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th EDGAR WIND A Metaphysical View of Sciéhee— “The Metaphysical ‘scheration of the System of Scie THURSDAY, DECEMBER 41st DR. E. G. SPAULDING” Questions People Exy ¢ ig pher to Ans\.er—*Wideh da? tee Basic, Re: m or Intul SATURDAY, DECEMBER MORTIMER: J; AD. Philosophy and Silence-@h 1 preg Hi - s A sey 4 daar mological Predicament—« ® med mur- | believing in the right to strike and employment to agree upon such wage | members of the Furriers Union were ER can live on it! o ee tre ae ea mosphere of Valucn: the Wither ot derers to break of wornen | Picket must express his solidarity with] ay is agreeable to them, from doing | framed up and charged with felo- | (stints , Objectivity.” defense of the high-|these courageous and militant Col-| any act, directly or indirectly, to test |nious assault and convicted to five class btrglar at 26 Broadway. He con- trols the whole administration and yet he is an absentee owner. “Keep up the fight and do not lose your spirit. The brave and t but once, cowards and eften and they have hor at that. “With my armest wishes for your success, I remain, “Truly and loyally yours in the battle for justice, “Mother Jones.” As part of its activity in behalf of Coloradols striking miners, the Inter- national Labor Defense, through James P. Cannon, today telegraphed die e deaths itors 1 Tom Connors, in charge of the defense | work for the strike in Colorado, that the I. L. D. is frwarding the first part of its contribution of three hund- red dollars for the defense of the im- prisoned and persecuted strikers. Ar- vangements have already been made for the closest collaboration between International Labor Defense and the | I. W. W. committee which is function- ing in the strike area. die | orado strikers,” says the Chicago statement. “If the strikers are not to suffer want of the barest necessities workers of the country must con- tribute funds immediately.” | RAISE MONEY FOR CHESWICK | ARNOLD, Pennsylvania, Noy. 25.--- Under the auspices of the local Italian branch of the International Labor Defense, the moving picture Volga Boatman was shown at the Star Theatre, Nov. 20. The affair and the interest demonstrated by the| local people was more than expected, it revealed plainly the amount of in- terest the masses take in helping militant workers. After deducting all expenses $190 was cleared, most of it will be sent to provide legal defense for the Ches- wick case. Ramando Siena collected $9.75 for Cheswick. |_ SUPERIOR, Wis., Nov. 25. — The | Daily Worker Booster Club of Super- jor has sent $36.60 to the DAILY WORKER. This is net proceeds from a dance recently held by the club. the nerve, courage and strength of | those desiring to work.” New York Central, The Clearfield Bituminous Coal | Corporation is a subsidiary of the | |New York Central Railroad, one of | |the leading agencies in the conspiracy | to smash the miners’ union. The firs st | attempt of the’ company to open up |‘ its Rossiter mines on a scab basis, a | couple of weeks ago, was a failure. | Picketing was effective, and the |strikebreakers left as soon as they came. Then the company turned to its courts for aid in crushing the min- ers’ spirited resistance, and the in- junction resulted. The outrageous clause against “dis-¢ tributing pecuniary contributions puts a deadly weapon into the operators’ hands, leaving the way clear for the use of the company gunmen to keep supplies from the locked-out miners and starve them and their wives and children into submission, The operators und@stand the tre- mendous role that relief plays in the {~nning of a strike. Those who staid |years’ imprisonment for- activities |during the fur strike will be revealed lin the book that is being issued: for \the nine-day bazaar of the Joint De- fense Committee of Cloakmakers, Dressmakers and Furriers during the week of Dee., 23. The book will contain a list of those who have helped to carry on the fight for the release of the workers, Defense Buttons Ready The buttons which the Defense Committee has ordered for the special Mineola Drive, to be given to every worker who collects the minimum of $5 on a Mineola list, are in the office of the Joint Defense Committee. BOSTON Y. W. L. MEETING A membership meeting of the Young Workers League local Boston will be held on Sunday Nov. 27, 8 p. m. at the district office 36 Causeway St., Boston. A report of the 4th national con- vention of the Y. W. L. will be given. All must bring their books. ° True VWay- Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. Fill out the following blank and mail it to THE DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N. Y. || Tomorrow Night 8 o’clock ROBERT MINOR Editor of the “Daily Worker" will speak on America and the Next War Imperialist conflicts, the plot against tie Soviet Union, sources of conflict in the Pacific, Anglo- American rivalry-—torm the subject matter of this lecture. At the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 Mast 14th Street Admission 25c. NEXT SUNDAY: Rertram D. Wolfe ils a on “THE Gey wns D&A THER. C. iy Enclosed $..... . I pledge - I will send you $.......... every week, Name ,..... eeveces soredes Strode... ees desrerdee \ 14th Street & LABOR TEMPLE 24th street & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27th 200 p. m.—Lecture Dr. G. F. Beck—“The Book of the ae oes “7:15 p. m.—Am, Int. Church, Chaftce—"The Unpardonable BRONX OPEN FORUM” 2075 Clinton Ave. (near BE. 180 Sti) Sunday, Nov. 27, 1927 ~ at 8:30 P. M. promptly~ “1928—And a Labor Party?’ will be discussed by Bert Miller. The role that will be played by" the A. F. of L., the Liberals, the Socialists’ and the Communists in. the coming year will be analyged, Questions and discussion, _ Dec. 4--M. J. Olgin--*Ten Red’ Yedts’ Under the Auspices of the BRONX WORKERS’ SCHOOL. EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM®= At the Church of All Nations ® Second Avenue (near Houston) SUNDAY, NOV, 20, S330 PL M. DR. ponies Lats will 8) “rie PEOPLE'S FIGHT FOR” ICAL POWER” ELE Admission Free. Everyone Invited. rks