The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUB: Vol. IV. ‘No. 272. Entered as second-class matter SCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. at the Post Office at New York, N. Yo NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1927 under the act of March 3, 1579. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, FINAL CITY EDITIO WORKE ie N. Price 3 Cents War Drums Throb in Europe on Eve of Geneva Meet WILL ASK BURNS SPIES TO TELL OF JURY FIXING 75 Subpoenaed for Con- tempt Case WASHINGTON, D. C., No The Burns detectives note cited for contempt of court for “spying upon, | bribing and intimidating” the jury trying Harry F. B. Fall, are subpoenaed to testify | against their bosses. Practically all | the sixteen Burns “operatves” who | summoned trailed the witnesses. jury are as MeMullin, or “Long” who already | testified that Burns, his son, and/ Charles G. Ruddy, manager of the Washington Burns Detective agency office, had him forge an affidavit. Bribery Is “Contempt.” Those charged with contempt of | court for the orders to “spy ur pon, bribe and intim the Fall-S a clair oil graft trial jury are Wm. J Burns himself; W. Sherman Burns, his son, Harry F. Sinclair, the oil mil- lionaire on trial; Sinclair’s two as ciates, H. M. Day and Sheldon Cla: and C, L. Veitsch, “pay-off” man for the Burns spies. Among ‘the witnesses are Ruddy, of the Burns. agency, and .ex-Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose part in the case is most mysterious, but who seems ‘to know something about how MecMullin came into it. Seventy- | five in all are subpoenaed. The case is set for Dee. 5. The grand jury is turn indictments against a considera- ble number of persons tomorrow or soon thereafter, for the’ fixing of the Teapot oe jury. ORDER GARVEY T0 BE DEPORTED AT ONCE TO JAMAICA Wife of Negro Leader Denounces Banishment NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 27.—Mar- cus Garvey, famous as organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, arrived here today prep- aratory to being deported to Jamaica, the place of his birth. He was or- dered released from Atlanta Peniten- tiary last week where he had been serving a five-year term for violation of the U. S. postal laws in connection with his organization of the Star” steamship line. The release pa- pers stipulated that Garvey was to be deported to Jamaica at once. Immigration authorities declared here that Garvey is being deported from the United States as an “un-~ desirable alien.” He has lived in thiq country for many years. Thousands of demands for Garvey’s release have been pouring into the White House ¢ontinually during the | four years of his imprisonment. Both \the Universal Negro Improv 2ment | ,.ssociation, of which he was the head | ated the American Negro Labor Con-| gr@ss have been making repeated re- | mee that Garvey be unconditionally | (Continued on Page Twe) \ Cathedral Bowicers = Cleveland Snatch Books Away From Unemployed CLEVELAND, Ohio., Nov. 27. —Some of the unemployed in Cleveland, in an efort te raise a little money to keep from starving, put a stand in front of Trinity Cathedral at Euclid and 22nd St., as they did in other parts of the city streets to sell the hook writ- ten by Bishop William Montgomery Brown, “Christianism and Com- munism.” The sign read: “This book sold by unemployed, buy it for 25e. The book and sign were seized by the caretakers and ushers, when an effort to get them back was made, the stand was damaged and ten copies of the book were stolen. The police were called, and the men did not get the ten books back. It was found necessary to call an at- torney to get the books, and fail- ing—to start action civily or crim- inally against the caretaker and ushers of ini cathedral. Sinclair and Albert | j Included among them are | IN THE SENATE, expected, to re-| “Black | 7 | Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave.,| | the New York police of another Sac- "Daily Worker Will Carry Full Story of Kidnapping Of A. K. Orr-By Himself | The DAILY WORKER has re-| ceived the following wire from A. K. Orr, Colorado strike leader, the | |story of whose kidnapping and | |beating we carried Friday: DENVER, Nov. 27.—I was re- leased from Pueblo county jail) |Wednesday after being held 17 | |days without a charge against me. | | was taken into the hills by state {police who beat me about the face severely and fired two shots at me. Accompanied by Attorney Hen- derson I saw Governor Adams to- ay but he would not promise im-)| mivilidbe action. I am a British sub-| ject and have requested the British ambassador to investigate. Details will follow by air mail. Ic i ee ee VARE AND SMITH TO BLOCK WORK Seat Buying Case Is Cause of Deadlock WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27.— Ic ongress assembles Nov. 5 to take up of the killers. Where Governor Adams’ Troopers and Rockey Mountain Fuel Co. Killed Six Pickets; the Columbine Mine, Near Denver Lower picture shows three wounded strikers after the shooting, under arrest and guarded by one | |Bukharin Calls Pale Desi D | Soviet Union; KONIGSBERG, Germany, | leader Colonel Pletskaitis and h | been attempted. | Colonel Pletskaitis has his has used as a center for a pro-P sudden visit of Marshal Pilsud | evidence that Poland is attemy iuania as well as planning a mili LABOR HERE WILL FIGHT |. B. T. ON INJUNCTION MOVE IIRT W' orking Conditions Described |the discussion of the right of Vare of | Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois to sit in the senate—these two. men be- {ing charged by the Reed committee | | appointed last year to investigate |: the misuse of funds in senatorial elec- | tions and primary elections with prac- | tically buying enough votes to get themselves into power. Strictly speaking the senate will decide, but since no legislation can take place without the senate, and since the senate can pass only the formal motions without settling or! side-tracking the case of Vare and | Smith, there is practical deadlock until some disposition is made. | Administration Weak. | The reason for the deadlock is that in the senate the Coolidge adminis- jtration has so far discredited itself with the country that there is grave doubt as to whether it can muster a bare majority even with Vare and Smith seated, and it certainly can- not without them, unless somebody goes to the trouble and expense of buying over a few democrats. The line-up in the senate is 46 re- publicans (without counting Vare and Smith), 46 democrats, and Shipstead, who was elected as a “Farmer-Labor” man, but who usually votes “progres- COLORADO COAL DIGGERS KEEPING Columbine Shi Shuts Down; | Relief Needed By FRANK PALMER DENVER, Nov. — Federated | press correspondent has just co: 27, actual situations in various coal fields affected by the strike and finds that real miners are standing solidly for the Jacksonville scale. sive" republican. Columbine Super Quits. | The Procedure. In Northern Colorado, where the | Smith and Vare have announced | Columbine massacre took place Mon- day, not a pound of coal is being dug. Ted Peart, superintendent of Col- umbine mine announced Thursday that the mine would open Monday, but he “resigned” Friday and the mine will remain closed during the strike. The massacre made the men more that they will try to take the oath of |office and seat themselves in the sen- ate on the first day.. The expected _XContinued on Paye Two) Gieco-Carilo Case | Branded As Fascist Plot at Meet Here Protesting against the frame-up of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, | | anti-faseists, 2,500 workers in Central | of breaking. their ranks soon. Some! two thousand men are involved here. In Southern Colorado, where largest fields are, there are about half as! |many men working as before the! strike, but they are not producing the workers, ete., not knowing the/ | business. Most Effective Strike—Gunmen Everywhere. Old miners say the soutn was never closed so tight in any strike so far experienced where coal miners were | concerned. Every camp is guarded by thu: |co-Vanzetti case. ; With pistols, rifles and machine guns, “Communist organizations thruout | but they can’t dig coal with machine: jyesterday afternoon, under the au |pices of the International Laber Do-| fense, condemned the preparation by tory. The whole question of success | here depends on relief which is seri- oysly needed immediately. About half the miners of the state, fix thousand, work here normally. (Gontinved on Page Five) lin Europe and South America, will |demonstrate and strike unless Greco and Carrillo are liberated and return- ed to the working class,” William W. Weinstone, organizer of the New | rea tleee’ inued on Page Five) AT EES ea pa VEET SE ARNE ‘North African Flood Takes “300 Lives London ‘Hears; 250,000 Homeless; Property Damage Big | LONDON, Nov. 27.-—Three hun- | dred persons have lost thcir lives and 250,000 are homeless in de- vastating floods which swept North Africa over the weekend, accord- ing to an Exchange Telegraph Dis- | patch from Algiers. Property damage estimated at 10,000,000 francs has been done in the regions around Mostaganem and Peregaux, which were hardest | hit by the catastrophe. All rivers in the devastated re- gions have overflowed their banks, sweeping away bridges. destrovin: railroad lines, obliterating smaller houses and causing the collapse of foundations. The Peregaux Dam, 500 yards long, 30 yards high and 40 yards thick at its base, gave way under the tremendous pressure of tor- rential rains and a huge wall of water plunged through the valley wiping out towns and villages. The apparent weakening of the dam before the break caused warning to be sent broadcast in advance, but many persons could ‘not be reached in time.” MINES TIED UP Fras, because they are college boys, | beet |the world, the International Red Aid| guns and miners stand pat for vic-| larger. structures by washing out {+ olorado and Penna. Miners Struggle ' \Red Trade Union Heads | | Issue Appeal for Support | OF Colorado Coal Strike MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 27. —The Executive Bureau of the Red Trade Union International to- day issued an appeal to workers of all countries expressing its soli- darity with the Colorado miners and protesting against the bloody actions of the employers and the i oe authorities against the strik- \ rot m: pleted an automobile tour of ef UNION SQ. MEET a thousand miles, making survey 0} RALLIES WORKERS TO COLO, STRIKE As a result of a demonstration at- tended by thousands of men and women workers in Union Square Sat- urday afternoon, relief and support | been stimulated notably throughout determined and there is no possibility | the New York district, reports to The | DAILY WORKER showed last night. Protesting against the murder of | six mine pickets in Colorado, 5,000 j workers assembled in Union Square Saturday. afternoon pledged to do {their utmost to help bring the strike to a victorious conclusion. The assembled workers were ad- idressed by a score of speakers from | ‘three platforms. Speakers included | | | representatives of the Workers (Com-! munist) Party, the Industrial Work- ers of the World, the In tional \ Labor Defense and other labor organ- |izations. Many banners were dis- splayed in the crowd with timely slo- | gans calling attention to the murder jof the six workers, Display Mass Power. \ William F. Dunne, associate editor of The DAILY WORKER, said, “ihe mist of mass murder that hos been in the Colorado air for a month, ever | since the strike was called, has 1airen | ‘in a bloody rain. “We have had another example of Rockefeller ruthlessness but we must not forget that Colorado differs little from Pennsylvania and Ohio, where thousands of miners are on strike and (Continued on Fage Five; ————— NEW YORK COST DOUBLES. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Cost of “running” New York City has doubled since 1917, the Commerce Depart- ment revealed today. Maintenance and operation of gen- eral departments was $52.98 per per- son in 1926, while in 1917 it was $25.64 the report showed. In total figures, New York spent $318,829,106 to keep its huge muni- cipal machine functioning last year for a population of 5,924,000. for the striking Colorado miners has | By ESTHER LOWELL. | (Federated Press.) | While Interboro Rapid Transit Co. attorneys are putting the final \touches on the briefs they will pre- sent to the supreme co lin their application for 2 | against William Green and the 1000 members of the American Fed- leration of Labor, the trade unions are [zngenising for more than a court COAL SITUATION IDEAL I$ VIEW Mpa officials who attended the eee, conference of the A. F. of { |plan action at the next |board meeting. The cen’ body h | already resolved to support the Amal- gamated Assn. of Stree Railway Employes in th idge, Fisher Satisfied WASHINGTON.—Unless the Uni- ted Mine Workers of America, backed | ’|by the American Federation of Labor, | organize the subway and elevated shall promptly secure the passage searhars of a Senate resolution empowering J Unions Will! Aid. a special committee to investigate the reasons and remedies for the present bituminous coal strike, the hope for investigation of the condtions in the coal fields will go glimming. That is the view of men in Wash- ington familiar with the political financial and commercial aspects of the situation after studying President Coolidge’s refusal to summon the op- erators in special conference to settle the str! Big C What Other local unions are expected to fall in line with the aid offered by the bricklayer: ’ Typographi eal and Actors’ Equity for the big} fight for the right to organize fre (Continued on Page Five) Bratianu Declares sacle Hostile to Ul, $. S.R. »: . Despite ice that has been officially proclaimed by all parties until the burial of Jon B much underhand political activity taking place. It is expected that after Monday the politi will make public their decis of a coalition government interval is being utiliz ing political line up. Especial tion is being paid to Juliu leader of the National Peasant Pa who is understood to be sympathetic to the Carolists, and who may take a leading part in bringing Carol back to Rumania in the troubled time which are anticipated bination to Crush Union. the union ‘must show the country, these coal experts say, is that the unionized fields in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia are being deliberately crushed out by a combination of financial and political powers that are interested in shifting the industrial empire in the United States to the low-wage region of the southern Appalachian coal fields. John L. Lewis has charged that the | Pennsylvania Railroad heads a con- (Continued on Page Two) ‘| Am in Politics | Yet,” Says Grafter Forbes, on Release ns and the In a statement to the press co: pondents, Vintila Bratianu the ney LEAVENWORTH Kansas, Nov. 27.|Premier, declared that he is willing | —Col, Chas. R. Forbes, convicted of|to form a coalition government with | grafting on the injured soldiers in|the parties represented according to \the great war, stepped out of the/their numerical strength. He will not, he asserted, permit the dissolu tion of Parliament maintaining that elections at this time, when the get has not been ratified, would lead to uprisings in the country. While some strength has béen lent to the | Federal penitentiary today, well ahead jof his assigned date of release, hale and hearty and showing none of the Ul effects of prison life which (humbler inmates suffer. It was evident from the Colonel’s |first remarks that he had an easy|coalition proposal by the acceptance |\time, “congenial work” at surveying|of the former premier Averescu of | within the grounds, and the food the|a post in the Cabinet, success is guards eat, hot prison fare. ‘generally considered problematic. That the Vintila Bratianu intend to continue his brother’s hostile pol toward the Soviet Union shadowed in his od closer relations Rumania. He also refuses to ent tain any question of the po “T haven’t quit politics yet. I may |be at the Republican National Con- vention,” said Forbes. Hl He then launched into a defense of President Harding, calling him one of | his best friends. Harding was chief } executive at the time when Forbes swindled as head of the Veteran’s|cf autonomy for the oppressed min- bureau,, and while the oil graft con-|orities allotted to Rumania as her were hatched. share of World War booty. sree USSR Deleg Noy. from Kovno stated that a revolt led by supporters of the emigre -|the atianu, | in the matter} Guards POLES PLAN NEW NEW ATTACK AGAINST LITHUANIA; SEE WORLD WAR DANGER a Move Against rates Reach Geneva es ig ns .—An unconfirmed report aving the support of Poland had The report stated that proclamations had been posted about | Kovno calling for a revolt against the Waldemaras government, Vilna, Lithuania. which he The head olist l rters at a revolt in Lith- ssary. to in tary invasio ng n if nece \ * Pubteiih On Poland. ; (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Novy. 27.—Poland, in preparing for military action against Lithuania, is threaten- \ing the. pe of the world, Nie- olai Bukharin declared at a meeting of the Moscow section of the All Union Communist Party yesterday. The Polish activities are di- rected against the Soviet Union as well as against Lithuania, Buk- harin declared. The absorption of Lithuania Poland, he continued, would enlarge the Polish base of Yr ations for an attack oviet Union and would Moscow to an attack. attention of workers thruout world should be centered on the Polish question, which carries the |most acute threat of world war, he | said. xpose The Lithuania Protests. BERLIN, Nov. 27.—Declaring that and voted there for a policy of] ney independence was being threat. defiance of injunctions in the nila need by Poland, Lithuania has ad- lpessttiegt Ot ithe Ganeal Teaden ead Raat acconiing to's) Te70s) aaa 1 Labor Council, tells the Fed ed Pr i Wald f Lith . -| New York labor body will remier Waldemaras of Lithuania Morgan, Mellon, Cool-|Press the New York lal Beal pigeon ewer mond, se declared general of the league, Lithuanian emigres ta: tha’ .| were being armed by Poland, which was milite organizations his government, Kovno reports. forming for the ¢ accor —The German last night that attitude of the in the Polish- govern it will rictest Lithuanian Altho the g nt makes no se< ish designs ude is to ned by the Ger- sts who complain that ja protest to Poland would hurt the renewed trade negotiations recen | with | * Delegates Arrive. NoYs The Soviet » Preparatory erence, headed by nes noff arrived here yes- terday. Litvinoff 1 sed to make jany statement befor: e meeting of nee Wedne: Litvinoff the Soviet dele- » Anatole Lunachar- the confer Besides f education; Theo smber of the Cen- ral i General Sime atcheff, vi ief of the gene of the army, and Ade ~ | mir formerly naval @ tache in Lon don. eo * Jugoslavs Ratify Pact. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 2%, |—The Franco-Jugosl treaty of |“friendship” was signed yesterday by ing Alexander. Feeling here against Italy has been considerably intensified by the Ital- ian-Albanian treaty, which is regard- ed move on the part of Italian imperialism to complete the process of absorbing Albania as a foothold by military operations against Jugo- |slavia, The Italian-Albanian treaty is also regarded as a threatening an- swer to the nco-Jugoslav treaty. Italian encroachments in Dalmatia have been bitterly protested in the | Belgrade pr | ASHAMED OF EXPULSIONS. YLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 27.—Of- ficials of Otterbein University which s located at Westerville, home of the’ Anti-Saloon League of Ameri¢a, ad- mitted that they were forced to adopt y |disciplinary measures against ten stu- dents who got drunk after the Otter- bein-Hgidelberg game, and added, “We r}e ashamed of it.” sees