The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1927, Page 2

FORTY DELEGATES FROM UNIONS AT JOBLESS. MEETING Cleveland Conference | Builds Co-operation | ym VEMBER 29, 1927 GAG FOR REMUS - WHEN GRAFT IS TOUCHED UPON Judge’s Ruling to Hide Prohibition Scandal CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 28.— | |The ruling of trial judge Shook in ithe Remus murder case here. today, |that no evidence relating to the con- | spiracy Remus charges against the | | prohibition agent Dodge and his wife | jean be admitted at present is said by observers here to indicate {he formula of the court and the prose- | jeution by which the former “bootleg ! | king” will be prevented from making | |any revelations of government gratt. | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MILITIA TAKES OVER MINERY’ COTTAGES 1 hegewe Lynch Negroes To Gain Aequittal HEARST PAPERS <— IN NEW ATTACK _ AGAINST MEXICO Print Faked Nicaragu- an “Secret Treaty” COLORADO oe nat | _ The latest Hearst contribution tc I imperialist. journa with the faking documents from the ar Mexican government, 2 publi- cation yesterday morning in the New York Anferiean and other Hearst pub- lications throughout the United States of what purports to be a “provisiona secret treaty” between the Calles gov- ernment of Mexico and Juan B. Saca- sa, the liberal president of Nicaragus whose government CLEVELAND, met tonight v unions and ate tions present. John of the Unemployed that over 7,000 work sented. A permanent Ex repre- | 2 Committee ; Zon | as overthrowr of eleven, giving ntation to | When Remus was first arrested for through intervention of Americar the unemployed < |the murder of his wife he threatened | marines. union labor was e |to rock the prohibition service from | With the customary trappings of deriference ae ltop to bottom by “telling all about! the dime-novel sensationalist, the el cooperatio employed and the workers who ar still have lowing the Committees we the Cleveland Feder enlist the support o represented at the to call on the Comm relief. Little help i this last source ho the past actions of the ing down app unemployed w A committee of ten so elected @ attend the meeting of the ouncil next Monday night in a f effort to bring the city govern to a realization of its responsibilities te the thousands of unemployed workers. of Labor to Colorado Pickets (Continued from Page One) ‘/sational developments are expected hourly as investigation of the shoot- the miners by state police was expected from the cor- tion of the mas- ise the inquest was held in ming community near the coal mn and because essential a not yet available. However, workers have hopes that tion of Adam Bell, leader who was st to death, and others. ts Visit War Zone. liege boys in the militia, a score of other college ent to the coal fields Frame-Up. The City Council has previously | flatly turned down the demands of | the unemployed, and thru the police has tried to break up the Unemployed | 2 ‘ Courcil, thru the arrest of a framed} up charge of vagrancy, of Joe Judson, | local leader of the un loyed. At} the last City Council mecting seven beaten alr Studen ing ¢ with the st reading: kers ci banners All Col ying members of the Unemployed Council lidarity, Students and were ‘arrested and ejected from the ot All College Girls Are Council Chambers for raising their bs,” “Stick, Miners! Students voices against the police ban on meet-| Ate With You. ings of the organization and the Carry on Strike. frame-up of Judson. Attempting to stir up trouble The Conference called a mass meet-|among southern miners incensed by ing for Sunday, November 27, at|the m re in northern fields Moose Hall to protest the frame-up | Trooper R. R. Maiden threatened the of Judson and his sentence of 30 days | Strike committee Tuesday, saying, “If on a vagrancy charge. The police ban| you folks want trouble you will get| on meetings of the Unemployed Coun-| plenty of it.” Under Wobbly direc- cli was hastily withdrawn after the|tions miners are holding firmly to militant demonstration against the| Peaceful carrying on of strike, stay- “denial of free speech at the last City | ing out of the mines and keeping out Conncil meeting. of trouble. It is not believed possible EA ene jto arouse men, except by another DONATION FROM MUTUAL AID. | massacre. / CLEVELAND, Ohio., Nov. Nine days before the massacre, in- The Russian National Mutual Aid So- jdustrial commissioner Annear said ciety Branch No. 2 sends The DAILY this was the most peaceful strike in WORKER a check for $8.25, one-third | history of the state, but after the| killings he asked a gold medal for 5 | ss tied ee DONT eee ee a. | Trooper Scherf, who commanded the | killers. See eke: 3 facts | facts will} develop in time to prevent prosecu- | solidarity | ge Men Are| ere On Strikes In Colorado— : 7 aed miners are at grips with the bosses. This only another of mary great fights of American Labor, Ther inspiring reading in all these books that will show you the glorious fighting tradition American workers: AUTOBIOG JONES— (Who great struggl Years and has be fights of the C gt of PHY ( THE GREAT ST By Wm, Z. Foster PASSAIC By Albert Weisbord 15 HE PASSAIC TEXT! STRIKE By Mary Heaton GOVERN: c BREAK Paper .i In England % BRITISH STRIKE y Wm. F. Dunne RAL STRI BETRAYAI Vor BI gr 80) .~ GENERAL By John Pe JMBANING 0: cary RIK "By R. Palme Dutt REDS AND TH .. STRIKE—By C Read Also The WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 B. 125 St. New York. | By FRANK PALMER. | LAFAYETTE, Colo., (FP) Nov. 2 |—The coroners jury called to fix»the blame for the massacre of striking Colorado militiamen take quarters in miners’ cottages at Erie, Colo., north of Denver, fol- lling of six pickets by state troopers and Columbine mine guards, | | Machine Guns to Kill|Evicted Miner’s Family Near Martins Ferry, Ohio! 2 such facts as that the governor or dered the machine-guns removed from the mine property on the Saturday |before the massacre, but the rangers disobeyed and that the rangers sent for their helmets at midnight before the killing. Both facts support the |charge of a frame-up freely made | by strikers. Miners’ Unarmed. The inquest was featured by a strong indictment of methods used, made by Guy Duncan, Civil Liberties union attorney, representing families of slain. The district attorney of- |fered to throw Duncan out of the jroom, but he stood his ground for a square deal.’ It is believed that, but for his action, the verdict might have | been worse. Even in their own stories the |rangers only claimed 4 bullets were |fired over the heads of strikers and | abandoned the story of finding nitro- |glycerine on strikers. Pickets wer |searched every day, including Mon- .|day, before going to the mine and jcould not have had guns, but where {the bullets came from is a matter yet \to be settled and is expected to be part of later developments. Not All Seab: The whole state f the matter |miners at’ the Columbine mine of the | Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. brought in a verdict, which declared that state | jpolice had killed the miners,’ “said | |death not being felonious.” |yet entirely a mystery which must | This was expected by those who|be cleared up. . Newspapers have | jknew the situation. Strike leaders | been asking sympathy for militiamen realized before the hearing that the|because “college boys face strikers.” matter was not to be settled there | Wedne day night college boys and and that the purpose of the strikers’? girl pped out in front of the | counsel should be to prevent a verdict) strikers to face militiamen for them, (OTIS some of the jailed strike} when a dozen attended a meeting at | leaders responsible. The jury did not} Lafayette and pledged their support | ame strikers for the riot as charged|even to going to jail for the miners. in the capitalist press. A erravan of college students will | Murder Premeditated ‘start Friday morning for southern The district attorney is reported| fields where rangers have been con- |undecided as to future action in the|centrated since massacre and threats atter, but he may be forced to bring| have been made against the miners. arges against the strike Jeaders.| They carry banners: “Not All College This is not expected to be successful.|Men Are Scabs,” and “Stick Miners, Rumors persist that sensational de-|Students Are With You.” The first velopments impend which will definit-| move for a settlement was made late ly place responsibility where it be-|Wednesday when the strikers com- | longs. jmittee presented petitions to Gov. Meantime independent investiga-| Adams asking him to bring about a are slowly bringing te light}conference between operators and ' CALIFORNIA STATE MILITIA KILLING F miners. There is tremendous senti- ment in the state to force operators jinto-acconference despite their re- fusals in the past. Habeas corpus proceedings have forced the rangers to put charges against the I. W. W. strike leaders and it is reported that 5 will be ad-| | mitted to bail immediately. The |leaders were arrested more than 3 | weeks ago in an effort. to break the strike. They had been held incom- municado and without charges and without bail, until legal action forced the hands of the rangers. There are jstill some 60 in jail at Walsenburg and -strikers furnished them aj Thanksgiving dinner there. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—A gen- eral alarm was sent out today for two army flyers, E. R. Emory and |W. D. G. Zollman, who. have been |missing in Douglas 0-2 Biplane i when they left Bolling nbus, O. Both are en- Bolling Field. |listed men a Plan to Hang 6 Folsom| Prisoners, Leaders in| som Prison here by the harsh regime of Warden Court Smith will go on trial for murder in the first degree, | states the district attorney of Sacra- mento county. In spite of the fact | that the mutiny took place only when | life became unbearable from poor food, the dark cell, punishment by fumes of chloride of lime, and over- work in the prison rock quarry, the prisoners are to be held guilty if the district attorney has his way. The fact that the prisoners killed only in self defensep killed one guard and lost ten of their own number, as well as thirty wounded from the rifles and machine guns of the state mil- itia and deputies, is not taken into account by the prosecuting attorney. OLSOM PRISONERS the bootleg graft” if he were placed on trial. His plea of temporary insanity a relied as a means of presenting some | of this, since he charges that the! and {Prohibition Agent Dodge to steal his money from him was the cause of conspiracy between his wife that insanity. Can't Tell It. But when Franklin Edwards Shaw ja race-track timer began to tell of between Mrs. Remus and Dodge, the state relations he had noticed objected and was sustained. “You must show independent testi- {mony of a diseased mind before you | can go into these things which you | claim caused the insanity”, said Judge | Shook to the defense. MRS. LILLTENDAHL. Lilliendahl Case Resurrects Lie of “Negro Murderers” MAYS LANDING, N. J., Nov. 28. —Willis Beach, alleged clandestine , of Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl with .whom he jointly murdering the woman’s hu mitted the murder on the day a war- rant was sworn out for his arrest, the | jury was told here today. ive 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 agreater 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 . . eto give our readers aews—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- ER can.live on it! Tks Vray- Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. Fill out the following blank and mail ét to THE DAILY WORKER 38 First St., New York, N. Y. Enclosed $ I pledge I will send you $ every week. Name ... Street .. City . State ... Sete e ee ee enone Beach, a poultry raiser and neigh- bor of thd Lilliendahls, confessed to a friend that he had slain. Doctor Lilliendahl, the prosecutor asserted “he was trying to taise funds for his ense when he mt to his friend with the admission.” Appeal to Race Hate. Counsel for Mrs. Lilliendahl and Beach have fallen back on the story, once’ admitted by Mrs. Lilliendahl to be false, that the murder of her hus- band was committed by ‘wo Ne- | groes.” | When Dr, Lilliendah! was riding with his wife in a lonely place in the woods, he was shot dead, but not! jrobbed. His widow immediately set (on foot the “Negro” story, which |caused lynch mobs to circle over the state looking for victims. | very suspicious cireumstances throw- ling doubt on her own relations with | her husband and with the rich poul- try raiser, Beach, came to light in the general investigation, and finally, under question she broke down and jadmitted the Negro murderers’ tale was fiction. Signal to K. K. K. | Indictments for herself and Beach on murder charges resulted. Certain | | latest attack reeks with references t | Machiavellian intrigue, diabolical con. |spiracies, all calculated to alienate |from ‘the gracious and benevolent | friend of the weak and oppressed peo- ples of the earth, Uncle Sam, the af- |fections of the Nicaraguans, anc jbring them under the baneful in fluence of the sinister Plutarco Elias | Calles, | Such is the fiction as presented by Hearst and his publications. Beaine these bed-time stori the grin realities of the j tions of the Unr j and other agents of W }oil and banking intere |America. instead of viewing tne | United States as a defender of the | rights of smail nations, every country jin Latin America on which Americar Imperialism has lett its ploody im | print, looks with loathing and detesia jon upon dollar despotism. The tlearst attacks are tor the two |fold purpose of wying to terroriz ;4residenct Valles and his associa: mm to abandoning the 1911 constitutior | which places restrictions upon Ameri ;can ou, mineral and land thieves wh« jor years have conspired to pillage |the great natura! resources oc tna |rich country and ensiave the Mexicar | population and to jusiity the ravaging | of Nicaragua by American marine: who dispersed the quly constitutec jgovernment of Juan . Saca: anc j Substituted the Wail street puppet | Diaz, } Justifies Nicaragua Crimes. The story in the Hearst papers yes. | terday morning deciares that the pub- lication of the fraudulent documen jcalled @ “provisionat secret treaty’ between Catles and Sacasa “proves the | Present military intervention by_ the United States in Nicaragua to have been unavoidable, it the interests o/ the American people were to be pro- tected.” These interests are the right ts build a second canal from the Atlantic j to the Pacitie as a part of the gen. jeral imperialist policy of the Unitee | States and for the specific purpose oj establishing new and stronger nava s governmen ! street land m Latins S But the attorneys for the defense, |and military bases for further attack: jin their opening statements declared | against the Latin American republics | they would “not only bring evidence | Hearst tries to create the impressior to show the defendants were innocent | that the voracious hawk of Americar but evidence pointing out the guilty |!mperialism is in reality a dove oj Negroes.” And rumor says the K. K. K. lynchers are waiting the signal to , go. Workers Party Asks for Fight on Injunction (Continued from Page One) *\ing relief or appealing court cases, \cases to evict miners from their homes, The Transit Workers. Another case considered in ‘this leaflet is the attempt of the Inter- boro Rapid Transit Co. of New York |to prevent by injunction any member jof the American Federation of Labor from talking organization to any. |member of its employes. | The leaflet calls especial attention \to the fact that both republicans and historical mission as democrats are involved in the present | persecution of workers. The supreme court, with its reactionary decisions, \stands at the head of a bipartisan |legal hierarchy. The Democrat -Pal- mer, the Republican Daugherty, the | Progressive-Democrat Adams of Col- orado and the admitted Reactionary Republican Fisher of Pennsylvania | ‘ties and the destruction of the lasi alike atiack the lives and liberties of the workers, What To Do. | The leaflet closes with an appeal to workers to join the Workers (Com- munist)’ Party, 43 East 125th St., New York City, and to ; “Hurl back the concerted upion injunction drive. “Disregard, disobey, break every jinjunction. Tear every injunction jedict to pieces. Treat every injune- | tion as a serap of paper, | “Build a powerful labor party to |help fight the battles of the workers \against the exploiters.” anti- |Posters ‘in War A gainst USSR Oil as Sales Grow | | LONDON, Nov. 28,-—“Don’t Buy | Soviet Oil,” is the motto on small | stickers beitig pasted up in prominent places thruout Great Britain. This is the latest move in the of- fensive of the British -oil interests against the Soviet Union. Buyers, ‘wwever, seem to be paying very little heed to. the stickers, as oil from the || Soviet. Union is selling at 8 cents sales | | i | peace. | Should Defend Niearagua. If it were not for the crude mannel ;in which the secret docu- | ments were forged, the fakery of the ame papers would not he so evi- dent. Certainly the Mexican govern. | ment, as a defensive sure to com {bat imperialist con Diraci directec jagainst its own sov eignity, ought | to take the leading role in endeavor- {ing to rally the Latin American na- tions against the murderous rapacity of Yankee tyranny and it would have ; been fully justified had it placed al) possible resources at the command oi the liberal forces of Sarcasa whe ; Were trying to repel the invading for.” ees of Wall Street despotism, So, even though the Mexicans hae defended the; liberal-forces in Nicara- gua, it would only be fulfilling its the leadin, tion of the Latin American peice | No amount of cheap publicity ane j hysterical fakery based upon forge¢ ‘documents can erase from the min of the masses of Latin America thi¢ | knowledge of the base motives that impel the United States toward ithe attempted subjugation of their coun. alleged stices of national independence, orkers Library Witl Handle “International Press Correspondence Thru arrangements just concluded | by cable the Workers Library Pub- |lishers of New York become sol2 American distributors of the English vedition of the INPRECOR (Interna- jtional Press Correspondence) a weekly news service magazine sup- plying news and special features to tHe revolutionary press thruout the | world. The arrangements include the hand- ling of not’ only agency orders but j also subscriptions to individuals as well, Which are made at the rate of | $6.00 a year in the United States. | The current issue of the INPRE- |COR features articles by Stalin and Bucharin and of special value is the first speech made by Lenin after the October uprising of the Bolsheviks |in 1917. This issue, as do all others, ineludes valuable information on the main features of the Labor movement