The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1927, Page 1

\ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGA ON OF THE UNORGAD FOR THE 40-HOU FOR A LABOR WEEK PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 Vol. IV. No. 273. NAVY-ARMY CUT URGED BY SOVIET DELEGA In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., u per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927 THE DAILY WORKE 1879. nder the act of “Larc' Publis Coal Barons Laud Coolidge Decision; File $1,000,000 PENNSYLVANIA COAL BARONS WANT UNION TO PAY COSTS OF THEIR Supreme Court Decision, Legalizing Evictions, | Backs Companies’ Damage Suit Operators” Push Drive to Throw Out Miners;| Thousands Added to Homeless Army BULLETIN. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Noy. 28.—President Coolidge’s refusal to inter- fere in the coal strike is the cause of much rejoicing here on the part of the coal operators. *“This means that we are to be allowed to carry on this fight for the open shdp to a finish,” said a spokes- man of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company today, “without any action one way or another by the federal government.” “We feel that this is a real victory for the principle that every American worker has a right to secure employment where and when he pleases and to work under any conditions he sees fit,” said this spokesman, an attorney who helped to prepare the draft of the injunction application which legalizes evictioi “The decision of the president,” he stated further, “upholds the right of private property by his tacit refusal to interfere in the eviction proceedings now being carried out against the members of the United Mine Workers who occupy company houses but who refuse to accept employment on the company’s terms.” 7 * * * (Special to The DAILY worker.) By A. 58. - PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28.—Western Pennsylvania coal com- panies are preparing a million dollar damage suit against the United Mine Workers of America following a decision of the Penn- sylvania supreme court upholding the right of the coal operators Sect | General Demands More | Strikebreaking Militia Authorized by Congress. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — In- | crease in the authorized strength of | |the national guard to 100,000 men, | A | approximately 4,000 more than the} | |present strength, was asked by | | | |Major General C. C. Hammond, | chief of the militia bureau, in his| | | }annual report issued today. | The program recommended also | provides for the “organization of | 21 headquarters and 78 units dur- | ” < | {ing the fiscal years 1929 and 1930.” | _ ALEXEI IVANOVITCH RYKOV __ The national guard is the militia | | chiefly for d BURNS GETS HIS “GITATIONBEFORE. ~ CONTEMPT JUDGE Oil Graft Case Becomes| Question bf Dignity | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — Per- |sonal service was today made on Wil- liam J. Burns, W. Sherman Burns and Charles L. Veitsch, all of the |Burns International Detective Agen- cy, requiring them to appear in the district supreme court next Monday jand show cause why they should not j be adjudged in criminal contempt of jcourt for their alleged part in the mistrial of Fall and Sinclair. The contempt ruling arose from the mite PUBLISHING hed daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKDER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥ Price 3 Cents EE MOVE BY GREAT BRITAIN AND | FRANCE TO BALK DISCUSSION OF _ DISARMAMENT AT GENEVA PARLEY ‘Pravda Reminds Imperialist Powers That Soviet | Government Exposed Secret Treaties Lithuanian “Revolt” Rumors Show That Polish Rulers Intrigue for Conquest GENEVA, Nov. 28.—When the Preparatory Commission Dis- armament conference opens Wednesday, the Soviet delegation, headed by Maxim Litvinoff, will offer a program of complete disarmament. Altho France and Great Britain are expected to make every | effort to confine the discussion at the conference to the question of “security,” the Soviet delega WORKERS PARTY ASKS RESISTANCE OF INJUNCTIONS |Leaflet Points to Drive Against Unions “Workers, the injunction menace must. be fought to a finish or it will finish all of us,” states the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America in aj being | leaflet of which 300,000 are printed, “We must break the injunc- tion blockade against our right to or- ganize, our right to strike, our right \to picket and our right to the pursuit \of life, liberty and happiness,” con- \tinues the committee. “If the enemies ation, aided by the German dele- ®gation, will attempt to force the powers to face the disarmament | question. The Soviet Union will come out unequivocally for immediate disarmament. The Soviet Union’s position is clearly stated in an edi- torial which recently appeared in the Moscow Pravda which declares: Stress Desire For Peace. “The Soviet delegation will go toe {Geneva not because the Soviet gov- |ernment has changed its position on | the Geneva ‘talking club,’ but because it wishes again to stress its peace- loving policy. The Soviet Union will be in a position in Geneva to prove by indisputable facts those who reale ly wish to disarm and those who are irreconcilably opposed to it. ot “The Soviet Union will remind the assembly that the Soviet government repudiated the predatory treaties of ~ |tsarist Russia, will remind them of Genoa, the Moscow disarmament con- |ference of 1922, the Economie Con- to evict striking miners. Thousands to Be Evicted. $ jtaiatetel ofthe oil conspiracy case: of Harry F. Sinclair, New York million- The coal companies are pushing their eviction drive at top lates eed taeiien Sect ie a ' speed and in the course of the next two or three weeks thousands |terior Albert B. Fall. The govern- of miner families will be thrown out of their homes to add to the ment produced affidavits declaring thousands already evicted since the Pittsburgh coal company first |that Sinclair had engaged the Burns Rykov is president of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The delegation of Soviet Russia to the Geneva conference will report back to the Council of People’s Commissars. bf the’ workers get away |present injunction drive against the } |workers then every gain and every jright it has taken us scores of years | |to win will be wiped out in quick} ime.” Injunction Epidemic. treaties of peace, etc.” Ask Protection. The Soviet delegation which are rived here the day before’ yesterday has insisted that the Swiss govern- ment guarantee it adequate police ference at Geneva in May, 1927, a 4 with their | Whole series. of gi > a Latest Rumor That (Greco-Carrillo Case” : és v4 a lagency to keep “an improper surveil- broke the Jacksonville agreement in August, 1925. lance” over the Fall-Sinclair jury for The leaflet begins by pointing out | protection against the possibility of Savage Blow. | the purpose of “bringing about a mis- This is one of the most savage blows ever aimed at a section | of the labor movement and the suit is designed to recover “dam- | trial if necessary.” Oil Men Called. Cited with the two Burnses and ages” from the union as a result of the continued occupation of Veitsch are Sinclair and two of his houses by miners and their fam- ilies after the coal companies have ordered them to vacate. Demand Payment from Victims. The coal companies are also demanding that the United Mine Workers reimburse them for all expenses incurred in evicting | the miners and their families, includ- | ing wages of the coal and iron police for shooting and blackjacking miners, their wives and children. The union must pay for the costs of the reign of | terror established in the mining | camps by the armed bands of the coal | barons, the companies contend. ia SUN CRED tio 2 evel on CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 28—Sheldon|of direct rule by big business men mest rk win oat sea ied di the ts si otseeg ii ple’ oes sien ics" e eT ® In addition to this the coal opera- Hae ‘at the Columbine mine the Clark, vice-president of the Sinclair|and the governor-generalship of the | Wadistonos URganlene Cok thas New BoM Ge aiacsting andi Rong rbie froin Poli ages sion, accor to tors seek to recover damages on the toming of Nov. 21 show that /Oil Company was cited here with a| Philippines is a satrapy With such) vo district of the Workers (Com- (Continued on Page Iwo} 2 Wolff despatch from Koyno. grounds that they have been deprived of the use of their houses and that this interfered with the operation of their mines and curtailed production, WANTED — MORE READER® rear care ee | aides—H. Mason Day, of New York \and Paris, and Sheldon Clark, of |Chicago—who are charged with be- ing “contact men” between their chief MACHINE GUNS s and the private detectives. | The contempt trial will convene in | Justice Frederick L. Siddons’ court a i week from today. Approximately 60 \witnesses who appeared before the ILLEGALLY USED \grand jury to testify concerning the \to testify. | Burns’ defense is on the technical Helmets Ordered ShowsS point of “being twice placed in jeop- Massacre Premeditated *” jury tampering charges are expected | * * * Another Charge on Clark. machineguns were ordered removed | Warrant charging contempt of court from the mine property 2 days previ- for failing to appear during the fed- ous, that the orders were disregarded |¢Tal investigation of the jury fixing and that rangers sent to Denver for |i7 the Fall-Sinclair oil graft trial. steel helmets at midnight before the | The trial was for conspiracy to de- massacre early in the morning. Sen- fraud the government out of $30,- §, ARE YOU GETTING THEM? RRS TS v b <tiarelt (Continued on Page Two) ‘Workers of America Must Get Into Action! 120,000 Coal Miners Are in A Bitter Struggle To Keep Their Union and Their Living Wage! WHOSE VICTORY SHALL IT BE? WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? Millions of Workers Must Cast Millions of Ballots . and Encourage The Coal Miners to Fight On and Win! SIGN YOUR NAME — CAST.YOUR VOTE MAKE RETURNS TO PENNSYLVANIA-OBIO MINERS RELIEF COMMITTEE 611 Penn Avenue, Room 307 Pittsburgh, Pa. BALLOT SHEET MN 729 |000,000 of] rights at the now famous ‘Teapot Dome oil fields in Wyoming, and the supreme court in the civil suit for recovery of the fields has already ruled that gross fraud was practised, Fall was secretary of the interior at the time the lease was granted to Sinclair, and personally issued it. Resumption of " Trade With Soviet Russia, Recommends Ivy Lee PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 28.-— Ivy Lee, public relations advisor to numerous American corporations and banking houses including the Stand- ard Oil Co., advocated the resumption of trade relations with Soviet Russia in an address before the opening as- sembly of the fifth annual session of the Philadelphia Foreign Policy As- sociation, yesterday. “There are unlimited opportunities for the extension of American busi- ness in Russia,” he declared. Lee, 120,000 Coal Miners Ask “Where Do You Stand?” who has recently returned from a tour Czar Over Filipino Will Be Big Banker WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28,— The latest of the many rumors which have intrigued political circles as tc the future governor general of the Philippines is that none of the men hitherto mentioned will be selecto’ but that Coolidge will do something like what he did in the case of the Ambassador to Mexico, pick out a banker or big industrialist so power- ful and reactionary that he will g< thru the Senate simply because no one dares to vote against him. Coolidge is known to be in favor magnificence and power attached to it, such opportunities to graft, anc such a lack of responsibility, that even another Morgan partner mig be attracted., Great secrecy attends the choice. Only a few of the in- siders are said to know. The name is expected in the President’s mes- sage, of soon thereafter. Senator Capper’s Way Of Helping Farmer Is To Raise Tariff Rate WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28, -— Senator Capper, of Kansas, “gentle- man farmer and owner of a publish- ing house which puts out technical farm journals, has appealed for an in- crease of the duty on grain by fifty per cent, under the “flexible tariff right to make such an increase. The present import duty is 15 cents a bushel, and the increase would be 22 and one-half cents. Capper argues: ‘The imports from Argentina have grown from 724,167 bushels in 1926 to 8,500,000 this year. I think the huge sum of money re-, quired to buy this grain should have | been spent with the producers in the United States. CONGRESS GETS HIGHWAY BILL. clause” which gives the president the | pR, Branded As Fascist Plot at Meet Here Protesting against the frame-up of Calogero Creco and Donato Carrillo, inti-fascists, 2,506 workers in Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Sunday afternoon, under the aus- pices of the International Labcr De- fense, condemned the preparation by the New York police of another Sac- co-Vanzetti case. “Communist organizations thruout the world, the International Red Aid in Europe and \South America, will demonstrate and strike unless Greco munist) Party, said. “District At- torney McGeehan is in dead earnest when he says he hopes to have Greco and Carrillo in the death house at Sing Sing prison by Christmas, just as Judge Thayer was in earnest when he swore Nicola Sacco and Bartolo- meo Vanzetti would be executed. On- ly the organized strength of labor can save Greco and Carrillo.” Several speakers said the case of Greco and Carrillo, who go on trial Dec. 5 in the Bronx, charged with killing two fascists last Decoration Day, was part of a movement of “Italian fascism and American capi- talism to terrorize the labor move- ment in this country.” Reckon Without Labor. “Tf the capitalist class,” said Robert: Minor, editor of The DAILY WORK- “thinks it can carry out another Sacco-Vanzetti murder it will be reck- oning without the mass of workers. in America and the rest of the world. The movement to save Greco and Carrillo will be larger, if necessary, than the Sacco-Vanzetti liberation campaign.” Minor also pointed out that (Continued on Page Five) in PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis., Nov. torstate commerce commission STINE FAURE |28.—Three trainmen were probably | against. the company on. its pedi WEALTHY RAPIST STILL IN. | fatally injured here today when two/that the commission does not. hal WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—The|?ailway freight engines and twenty | jurisdiction in the tipping prot to the workers of America that they are being robbed of the right to or- ganize, their unions are being wiped out, and that a vast open-shop con- spiracy is on foot, all heralded by an epidemic of dras injunctions sweep- ing over the country. A veritable “Government by In- junction,” brazen and open in its de- fiance of the democracy which the American workers have been led to believe they possess is under way, and it means to substitute company junions for real unions, “yellow dog” eontracts for collective bargaining, and lower wages and longer hours for |the already too low wages and too long work day. Mining Cases. Instances selected by the Central {Executive Committee in this warning are the assaults on the miners’ union Marching Miners Vote Trek to London Huge Success at Big Meet LONDON, Nov. 28.—The efforts of reactionary leaders were responsible {for the refusal of Premier Baldwin to vreceive the delegation of Welsh miners, who marched with their com- rades to London a w ago. The march was voted a s at the meeting. A resolution to this effect adopted at a huge mass meeting here yesterday. upon the Labor Party to use structive tactics in’ Parliament in or- der to force out the Baldwin govern- was ob- yment. The enthusiastic meeting | of Sleepin Porters here. which was addre . J. Cook Public on the meeting by the and other spea Ss ed the| brotherh aled its true nature miners’ march an unqualified success. | h pparently f Two Trainmen Killed WhenEconomyProgram Cuts Out Switchinen another murder such as that of the assassination of Vorovsky, Soviet delegate to the Lusanne conference. * * Blame Poland. BERLIN, Nov. 28—Premier Walde- maras of Lithuania in a telegram ain charged that Poland was using Lithuanian emigres to foment a pro- Polish revolt in Lithuania. The pro- test made to Sir Erie Drummond, secretary-general of the League of Nations. | Lithuania, he declared, did not re- linquish its claim to Vilna. Report Martial Law. The situation in Lithuania is still, tense, according to reports from Kove Despatchts declared that the country had been virtually placed, y martial law by Premier Wal- Pullman Co. Plans Another resolution called | Small Wage Boost To Hoodwink Men CHICAGO, (FP) Nov. 28.—The Pullman Co. has been its employe: tion to g the purr their com lieved by ils of the Brotherhood “Loyalty ating the brotherhood, a withdrawh, “Yellow Dog the brotherhood called th also bi Petitic and this | Word is re ed here that the ing of Russia, has written a book, “Rus- ‘sia, Poland An Enigma,” in which he strongly advocates trade relations PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 28. —. De- , of votes to back up the coal miners in jwith the Soviet Union. manding to know whether you “are | their fight.” | The Standard Oil of New York has for the mine owners or for the mine} With the slogan of “American, been drives by need of raw materials workers” the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min- | Labor Must Declare Itself — Silence; for Eastern competition to make a ers Relief erates has flooded the | Helps the Bosses!” the relief com- ith ballots, calling upon | mittee hopes to awaken the thie ‘workers to cast millions | (Continued. In Support of Their Struggle Against Starvation ‘the Royal Dutch Shell is hor- ponent, rified. | contract with the U.S. S. R. Its op-|°S 9 three billion dollar. bond issue WASHINGTON, Novy. 28,—A cam- paign for the creation of a vast sys-| tem of trans-Continental Highways and airplane landing fields will be launched in congress. A bill authoriz- Supreme Court today dismissed the box cars left the rails and piled up in brought by the union. appeal of Arthur Rich, youthful scion | ditch. of a wesithy Michigan family, now| The train, on the Minneapolis-St. serving a life sentence in prison after | Paul branch of the Chicago Burl LONDON, conviction of attack upon Louise|ton and Quincy Ra , northbou d,! successful attem: King, Battle Creek co-ed. The court struck an open switch. The road has' the Atlantic to Newfoundland wai ATLANTIC to be repaid by a gas tax and license fee. on. auutomobiles, Sune held that no federal question was in-| been cutting down its staff, and there} made today by the Junkers volved in the case. The rich young|@e not enough switchmen. D-1280, according to western man ca, now ask the governor for a eth ate ST advices from the station at H pardork, ‘ BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!(,\zores. ;