The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Vol. IV. No. 274. POLAND PLANS LITHUANIAN WAR | DESPITE NOTE, DECLARES PRAVDA, Disarmament Conference to Open at Geneva Today; 26 Countries to Attend | MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—Commenting on the Polish note claim- ing that the Pilsudski regime has no designs on Lithuania, Pravda, official organ of the All Union Communist Party, today says, “The hypocritical statement of Warsaw’s purposes is a disguise for new plans for attack and occupation.” The Polish note was handed to the Soviet foreign office by the Polish charge d’affaires yesterday. : Asserting that the “threat of armed conflict is coming closer and closer,” the Pravda states that the Soviet Union in warning Poland against attacking Lith-¢——— eee after serving his sentence. He, together with ten other Passaic textile strikers, was arrested. during the strike on a bomb plot “frame-up” and placed under bail aggregating $430,000. They were held in jail for four months pending trial, and were finally given sentences ranging from one to 20 years. Those now serving inthe State Pris- . * Ir uania was acting for the preser- FREE ONE VICTIM vation of peace. ; if “The Soviet Union holds that | the disagreement between the | two countries must be settled) peacefully by Marshal Pilsudski and Lithuania,” Pravda continues. “The| : note of the Polish government doesn’t | Sete the continued possibility of further | LO Hold Big Bazaar for threats. It in no y diminishes the Wives of Victims fear caused by recent events, ae ‘ “So long as Poland’s peaceful dec- | PASSAIC, Nov. 29. Nicholas lavations are accompanied by armed | gchillaci, a textile striker who was interference in Lithuania thru such! sentenced to one year in the State as the possibility of a repetition of | Zeligowsky’s attack hangs over Lith- | uania and so long as the Polish tele- graph agency disseminates provoca- tive rumors of uprisings, the Polish government’s note will not have the have.” | Constant Danger. Referring to the technical state of | war existing between Poland and | on‘for their strike activity are Adolph Lithuania, the Pravda says, “The | Wisnefski, on a sentence of five to juridical proclamation of a state of twenty years at hard labor, Joseph bility in the relations between na-|three years, Paul Oznak, three years, tions and makes for constant danger.|Tony Pochno, three years, William No one advises Lithuania to continue | Sikora, three years, Paul Kovac, one to hold this position, but if she aban-|to five years at hard labor, Charles doned it she would not settle the issue |Current, one year. Tom Regan, who any more than the fact that the Soviet |was also held in jail for four months Further Threats. | FRAMED IN BOMB keep this means open and permits | agents as Colonel Plechkaitis, so long | Prison at Trenton, was just released calming influence which it claims to war without action makes for insta- | Bellene, three years, Alex Kostamaha, Union refuses to declare a state of | pending trial, was acquitted by jury. war over the Rumanian annexation ® * * of Bessarabia, means that the Soviet , Union accepts or recognizes it.” | Fi ew | Complete Disarmament. | GENEVA, Nov. 29.—When dele- gates from 26 countries meet for the fourth session of the preparatory dis- | armament conference tomorrow, the) Soviet delegation wili undertake to} shift the discussion of “security” to the proposition of complete and im- mediate disarmament. Altho the Polish-Lithuanian dispute | is scheduled to come up at a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations December 5th, it is said that | the Soviet delegation, headed by} Maxim Litvinoff, is certain to refer to it at the conference. The presence | of Marshal Pilsudski of Poland and Premier Waldemaras of Lithuania will very likely bring the question before’ the disarmament conference whether or not the powers wish to face it. A new Geneva newspaper, The As- | sault, suspected of being backed by prominent British capitalists, con- tains a vicious attack on the Soviet Union and asserts that members of | the staff of the League Secretariat have been associating with the Soviet delegation. * * * Kovno Conference. RIGA, Nov. 29.—An important pol- itical conference was held in Kovno, at the home of President Smetona, | of Lithuania, at which leaders of the pposition groups presented concrete pkoposals dealing with the Vilna ques- i , according to reports received ere. | en the conference broke up at| 2 o’@lock this morning it was an. nounced that no @efinite agreemen had been reached. \ Hopeful Waldemaras! Premier Waldermaray madea speec’ in which he declared that there is no likelihood of war between Poland and Lithuania “becanss sie + + would involve the downfall of the | League of Nations which was formed bi to prevent such clashes,” Angry exchanges took place be- tween Waldemaras and President Smetona, the former declaring: “The present government is not de- pendent for its support upon political parties, but relies upon the army which brought it into power,” & * +: 4 Josef Washington Hall, author and lecturer, claims that the Japanese delegation is likely to align itself with Germany in supporting the Soviet disarmament proposals at the Geneva conference. He pointed to Viscount posed trip to Moscow significance. Goto’s pro- as of great ‘STATE POVERTY AIDS PRISONER. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 29. — Due to lack of official funds, ‘Wagner, condemned for the slaying of ‘two state troopers, remains in the Erie County jail today when, accord- “ing to schedule, he should be enroute i to his death cell at Sing Sing prison. Food for Children. A nine day bazaar beginning Sat- urday, December 3rd and ending Sun- day, December 11th, will be held at the Gatden Palace, Passaic for the re- lief of the families of the textile workers who are serving long ser} tences in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Winter is approaching, and coal, shoes and clothing must be furnished these families besides food. During the textile strike, there were about one thousand arrests. There are still many of these cases pending in the courts. Bail bond premiums must be paid, and legal defense pro- vided. Organization Week. Not only will this Bazaar be one to raise money for the strike prison- ers and their families, but the United Textile Workers of Passaic will make |the Bazaar week an organization week for the textile unions. There will be an “Organization Booth” at the Bazaar, special Bulletins will be issued, and many other ways will be used to get new members into the tex- tile unions. An appeal has been issued to all workers and friends of the Passaic strikers to help out in this Bazaar by | contributing articles and sending them ito 748 Main Ave., Passaic, and to come to the Bazaar to witness the in- | vincible spirit of the textile workers in their determination to forge ahead. ‘Coolidge Comes to Aid ‘Of Corporations Whici Seek to Shift Taxation WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. — Presi- |dent Coolidge “feels there is no valid |argument against the proposal of the Touse Ways and Means committee to | reduce the corporation income tax col- lectable for the year 1927.” Big business, in the opinion of ob- thus ann com- ces the The power of the s to cut their taxes se of their congressmen ted so “far by the de- 'mands of investors in foreign coun- tries for huge navy to browbeat } debtor nations. A working agreement eems to be found in the present pro- posals to find new revenues at the ex- pense of the little companies and in- dividuals, cutting down corporation in- come taxes to profit the big men. | Coolidge Out? | President Coolidge will not attempt |to influence the selection of the 1928 | Republican Convention City, it was {said at the White House today. The city will be chosen here next g ‘through the ‘has been li In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | es Sees ee oe Y Flood States Borrow between the industrial and | THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1579. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. NATIONAL EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents Agonized Death Takes Sixth Victim _Of Rockefeller Gunmen in Colorado Not for Poor but to CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 29. — A special session of the legislature conyened here today to consider plans for flood relief and déter- mine a financial policy for the re- construction of bridges and roads. At the same time, a special ses- | sion of the legislature of Vermont, called by Gov, John E. Weeks, was gathering at Montpelier for a con- sideration of the same problems to- morrow. No opposition is seen here to the proposed bill giving the governor and council authority to borrow up to $3,000,000 on short term notes to |be refunded by a bond issue. An in- crease of one cent in gasoline. tax, making a total of four cents, is the proposal of Gov. Huntley N. Spaulding, as a means of financing the payment of the interest and principal of the loa. An official assurance is given that the money will not be “wasted” in providing food for the poorer victims but will be used to re-establish busi- ness. Of European Labor As He Hides Abroad BOSTON, (FP) Nov. 29.—Callers at Massachusetts state house have at last discovered that Gov. Alvan T. Fuller sneaked off to Europe Nov. 4. For three weeks the governor’s secre- tary stalled off inquiries about the governor’s empty office. Fullex, “after his arduous summer with the Saeco-Vanzetti case,” secretly slipped abroad with his mother and his per- sonal physician. Squandered Workers’ Money. Last time Gov. Fuller went to Eu- rope, early this year, his grinning face was pictured in nearly every newspaper. Abroad he spent a quar- ter of a million dollars on one paint- ing and more thousands for several others. But that time, too, he re- ceived at his ship a letter signed by all the editors of labor papers in New York City. The governor was urged to impeach Judge Webster Thayer for his vicious role in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In France, early this year, Fuller was approached by several groups of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. He met a committee of distinguished lawyers who asked him to free. the two Italian workers then facing death, now killed, in Massachusetts. Sneaks Away. But since Fuller’s last trip to Eur- ope, England, France, Germany, Rus- sia and other countries have seen tremendous worker demonstrations in the vain effort to free Sacco and Vanzetti. The have heard Fuller de- nounced after the executions and called a murderer. So now Governor Fuller of Massa- chusetts has had to sneak off secretly when he goes to Europe. He dared not invite hostile demonstrations by the otherwise pleasing publicity at- tending an American governor’s trip abroad. He cannot openly face the workers of Europe, for they accuse him, the richest man of New England, of sending two innocent men to the electric chair. Senator Says Congress Practically Being Sold On the Auction Block BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 29.—Senator Nye, of North Dakota, in an address here yesterday declared that the United States government was being sold to the highest bidder if present tendencies go unchecked. After reviewing the oil graft s- dal, with its culmination in the f of the Fall-Sinclair jury, Nye took up the case of Smith and Vare, whom the Reed committee found had bought |their seats in the United States Sen-! ate by liberal use of money in primary elections. Nye said: “I tell you that if these men are not denied the seats which they seek we move much closer to that day {week by the Republican National, When every public office in the Uni- | Committee. F Committee will be satisfactory to the | tion block ¥ Wilmot Leroy | president, the White House declared. down to the highest bidder. | It may be, say rumors from the| same quarters, have something a little more definite to say on the subject of choosing to run in 4928, however. Any city named by the) ted States will be placed on the auc- and virtually knocked This was all preliminary to Nye’s that the President will! boosting of Norris for the presidency. He did not comment on Norris’ re- cent white-washing of U. S, imperial- ya in Nicaragua.- GARY NEGROES’ ‘Re-establish Business | | Fuller Fears Wrath UNITED FRONT -—ENDS JIM CROW Mayor Asks Council Not GARY, Ind., Nov. 29.—A deter- mined stand in the Indiana courts, financed by the Gary Branch and the | National Office of the National As-| sociation for the Advancement of Col- | ored People, with cooperation,of col- ored attorneys, has squarely ‘defeated ' the tempt to segregate colored | students in the Emerson High School | ‘of Gary, Mayor Floyd E. Williams be- | ing quoted in the Gary Post-Tribune, | a white daily, as saying, “he was convinced the action of the school board in appropriating the $15,000 for the temporary building was illegal and that it was a useless waste of money to try to defeat the injunc- tion.” The injunction against the appro- priation of $15,000 for a segregated | school was brought in the names of A. \J. Terry, and Charles Hawkins, both colored taxpayers of the city. On the night of September 29, the | city council of Gary voted $15,000 for |a “temporaty” high school to house the colored students then studying in Emerson High School. On Monday, Oct. 3, the N. A. A. C. P. filed suit for an injunction to restrain the ap- propriation of taxpayers’ money ~tur such a purpose. On Oct. 13, William Pickens, Field Secretary of the N. A. A. C, P., who had gone to Gary to assist in the fight, reported by telegraph that the case had been ,venued from Lake to Porter County, as the mayor reported too much prejudice for a fair trial in Lake County. yeas, On Nov. 7, the original rest¥aming order against the appropriation for a segregated high school was continued as a temporary injunction and. final | hearing set for Dec. 12. On Nov. 18, the mayor of Gary was publicly quoted as saying it was useless to fight the injunction. The Gary Council met Monday night, Nov. 21, to act on the mayor’s recommenda- tion that it rescind its action appro- priating the $15,000. The motion rescinding the appropriation has passed its first and second reading and the final passage is expected at the next meeting of the council on the first Monday in December. The victory in the Gary fight is a testimonial not only to the devotion of the colored attorneys in the case, but to the united stand of the colored people of Gary. The attempt to segregate the col- ored students came after a K.K.K. inspired “strike” of white pupils in Emerson school against Negro pupils. Mother and 2 Children Killed; Open Crossing CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 29.—A mother and her two small children were instantly killed when the West Jersey and Seashore Express train struck and demolished an automobile at a crossing near Ioha, 25 miles | South of here, today. The dead: Mrs. |W. Robert Drew, 35, her son, Robert, |6, and her daughter, Muriel 5. Mrs. Drew was driving her children to school. The crossing was unguarded and without a viaduct. Turkish Ambassador i Declares Gerard Was | Lying About Massacre WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29, — Characterizing as “piffle” the charges of ex-Ambassador to Tur- | key Gerard that he and the gov- | |ernment of Soviet Russia conspired || to massacre 30,000 Armenians, the new Turkish ambassador, Ahmed | Moukhtar Bey, arrived in the cap- ital today and will be received by| the state department just as though | | Gerard had not made his little speech. Moukhtar Bey’s statement proved absurd as Gerard’s argumbent that | the revolt of the Armenians, Tar- | tars and Georgian workers against their capitalist government, the so- called “Republic of Armenia” a League of Nations fiction, was| merely a slaughter planned by! Moukhtar while envoy to Soviet i \| | i i | to Segregate Children | Claud Brierly VIDOVICH, PICKET, ~~ EXTREME PAIN, OF SLAIN: 7 Massing of Operators’ One of the first strikers to die un- Forces Attention of der the fire of mine guards and state | troopers at the Columbine mine, Col- | orado. & Boston Police Shoot Up & 1] ||mine slaughter died today. ; \English Miner, Beaten Up “Like American, DIES AFTER SWELLS TOTAL — MORE MINES OUT’ Forces and Lies by the! Industrial Commission Fail j wi ' British Ambassador By FRANK PALMER, (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) DENVER, Colo., Nov. 29.—Another victim of the Columbine His name is Mike Vidovich, and he} Negro Tenement; Wanted Safety During Raiding BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 29. — For | |is the sixth known and identified member of the group of pickets | troopers and Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. mine guards on Nov. 21. Vidovich was not killed outright. Leg Amputated In Vain. } ||to die as a result of the murderous attack upon them by — Evidence Hits Tal Of‘ Negro Murderers’ lin the brush after the widow had | fe would ask congress to reimburse hours today police from three sta- tion houses bombarded with rifles, shot guns and tear gas bombs a WY 0 M | N G C0 A L Negro tenement house in the most congested part of Wellington St. i When the battle was over,| | the police had succeeded in arrest-| | ing two women and two men, whom| | they accused of resisting arrest and COLORADO MINERS creating a row during a drinking bout. Mass Meeting Protests Outrages | (Special to the DAILY WORKER) | ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Nov. 29. — |At a mass meeting here Sunday at- |tended by coal miners, other unionists |and progressional people, aid for the |Colorad@ strikers was pledged unani- mously. | A committee Wee appoiiited to draft la resolution. of protest to be sent to |Governor Adams and to the press. The resolution is as follows: The Resolution. “Be it Resol by this meeting of Rock Springs citizens: First, that we agge |earnestly protest the violation of the B Mrs Lilliendall <tt> rights now being ac- i |corded the striking miners by the state jof Colorado. MAYS LANDING, N. J., Nov. 29.) “That we affirm our confidence in —Margaret Lilliendahl’s story that|the justice and fairness of their de- two Negroes had killed her husband, |Mands and assure them of our largest outraged her and robbed both the | Possible support. dead man and herself which she later, (Rock Springs is the largest coal denied and then insisted upon, was mining center in Wyoming. Other attacked today by state witnesses | United Mine Worker local unions in who pointed out that her body bore | Crosby and Gebo, Wyo., have already no bruises to substantiate her account | pledged their support to the Colorado of the alleged attack. | strikers.) The police claimed they did not dare to go into the house and make| | their arrests, and laid siege to it’ | with implements of modern warfare instead. Three of those arrested were Negroes, all were suffering from wounds. The only policeman injured was a patrolman who got the effects of a gas bomb flung by one of his nervous fellow police- ee | Frank J. Harold, who direeted the | = murder investigation, testified that | Mrs. L4lendah's description of the| Cain | Wal Negroes was contradictory and jakee) rf } ll herent. He pointed out that she | could not agree on the amount of iJ money the Negroes had stolen. Favor af Handi Through Frank E, Smith, a bank | employe, the state sought to show | that Lilliendahl had in his possession | H H Hin only $25 which had been drawn on| | 12 il ions the day of the murder, instead of the | sums which, according to the atates| Mrs. Lilliendahl said was $200 at cue | time, and only $100 on another oc-/ Walsh (D) of Montana, who led the casion. fight in the senate to cancel the Tea- Another state witness, Dr. Louis pot Dome oil leases and to recover | R. Souder, who described the autopsy the oil lands for the government, be- and removal of three bullets from the | jjeyes that Edward L. Doheny should doctor’s body, stated that there WaS|be paid the $13,000,000 that his com- no indication that a ring had been | pany forced from the doctor’s finger as oar sai 7, Mrs. Lilliendahl ‘had iyformed fe er ea eO ME Be coll wee vey | Se Stash an undertaker, identi. Pele wee proper ubeay.s. Attorney ied as writ -watoh whieh ha prea | Frank J. Hogan, who announced tha told troopers that the Negroes figa| Doheny and his associates for their taken her jewelry. | expenditures at Pearl Harbor, Sena- Mys. Lilliendahl’s story about the tor Walsh said: two Negroes started a statewide| “It is my conviction that if it i search by infuriated people ready to; made to appear to congress that th jlynch any Negroes who answered to/tanks are necessary and it is the pur- her description. pose of the navy to utilize them, the government ought to pay for them.” Copper Company Tool. Senator Walsh is known in Mon- ana as the tool of the Anaccnda Min- ing Company. His fight against the oil thiefs was in line with the policy Detective Harrold identified maps found in the car which bore pencil marks drawn befoze the killing, show- ing the exact spot where the murde: was committed. The attorney fo: the defense raised a series of objec- tions but the evidence which is con- sidered the first big score for the[0! the democratic party to get the state, was sustained by the bench, |“00ds” on the republican adminis- —_——. tration, also with Walsh’s own po- | litical ambitions. Forbes, Veteran Bureau "Now that this purpose has been * la lished Walsh is willing to let Grafter, Immediately jccomPlishe hycomeeond aaiaeas In Touch With a Judge |Doheny for his ill-fated oil steal. | PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov. 29. —-| MAY DIE ON TECHNICALITY. Colonel Charles R. Forbes came here this afternoon and was met at the | 29.. Russia. The answer given by Moukhtar is that he wasn’t envoy and had no part in the Turkish government at, the time of the liquidation of the “Armenian Republic.” ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. —Be- Kingston Railroad Station by a |cause he is not a licensed physician friend, Judge Harry B. Davis. Col-|in New York State, Dr. Clarence J. onel Forbes was released before his/Neymann, noted Chicago’ alienist, full time sentence for a swindle in|, i rarnt the veterans’ bureau had expired. His will not be permitted to examine trial indicated graft on the wounded Mrs. Ruthy Snyder in the Sing Sing death house as to her sanity. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Senator | spent to build storage tanks at | support After being picked up in front | f the Columbine property! where heavy calibred bullets / fired by troopers and company thugs had struck him down, he, was removed to a hospital, his leg was amputated, but he lived only until 8:30 this morning, suffering intensely all of the time. Green Scabs Cause Two Deaths. At the same time, the attempt to operate the mines with scab labor re- sulted in two more deaths. Green strikebreakers in the southern field have by their inexperience caused a series of accidents, so many that the older and less reckless scabs have be- gun to retreat from their posts, but finally,one who had been a “miner” for jess than a week—that is, had ex- perience only as a scab, caused tim- \bering to give way and crush him and another working with him under |tons of rock. Bosses Lie; Strike Proceeds, In spite of the quiet exodus from the mines of strikebreakers afraid to work alengside of some of their fel- lows new to coal digging, Monday was a critical day in the struck fields. |The operators are spreading broad- cast the state industrial commission’s false statement that “the strike is over.” The strike is absolutely con- tinuing and growing stronger, and any reports to the contrary are lies. The reactionary Denver Post is publishing propaganda stories that the miners are going back to work, jand the superintendents and gunmen throughout the fields made strenuous |efforts to get crews Monday morn- jing, and put up a bluff of working | the prope | The stri everywhere rallied in ; mass meetings, and came out in force on the picket lines in the northern | fields. Seven More Mines Closed. | The total result of this clash of forces was that the workers in seven | independent lines in the mines of the ° {southern fields struck with the min- ers, and the companies admit that \they suffered a net loss of about four hundred employes, more than offset- \ting the reopening with a small force jof the bloody Columbine mine yeme terday. The miners have won their great est tactical victory so far. More Help Needed. e headquarters has announced | mittee of the first funds of the cam- paign for relief. More is needed at once to prevent suffering. The strike | are holding so! yy e them much misery. In Walsenburg the strike commit- tee is feeding two hundred and twen- ty men daily, and also taking care of (Continued on Page Two) Waris ® Arrange Lodgings for Delegates to Big Labor | Conference in New York Out of town delegates to the Third National Conference of the Trade Union Educational League will be provided with jodgings while jin New York by the local T. U. E. L. members. The local committee in charge of jarrangements will meet the dele- |gates who arrive Friday, Decem- ber 2, at the T.U.E.L. National of- | fice, 2 W. 15th St., Room 314, |Those who arrive Saturday morn- ing will go'direct to the Conference | Hall, Central Opera House, 67th Pee and Third Avenue. ‘ + Oa A é) —. pt from the New York com- -