The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 275. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered as second-class matter HE DAILY WO at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 under the act of FINAL CITY EDITION March i, 1879, Sunday by The DAILY woeeere First Street, New York, Published daily except PUBLISHING CO. 33 Price 3, Cents “SCRAP ALL WAR MACHINERY!” SAYS SOVIET UNION PENNSYLVANIA COAL COMPANIES, ‘Litvinoff Proposal Creates Panic in Foreign Office: CHEERED BY COOLIDGE, RUTHLESS IN EVICTIONS OF MINERS? FAMILIES Courts Remove Last Barrier to Expulsion of Strikers From Their Homes SHOPS MOBILIZE Suffering Terrible as Building of Barracks Lags; Whole Communities Affected PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30.—Coolidge’s unhesitating and open line-up with the coal operators in their war of extermination against the miners’ union has encouraged the operators to in- creased virulence in their offensive. The operators announce that they are bringing a suit against the mine-workers to recover $1,000,000 damages “for the action of the miners in continuing to occupy their houses after the com- pany told them te vacate.” Pay for “Maintaining Order.” The damage suit will further seek to compel the miners to pay the Coal and Iron police for shooting and blackjacking them and carrying on a general reign of terror in the mining towns. Garment Workers Form. Picket Line A general mobilization of the lock- | ed out members of Local 41 of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union took place yesterday after- non at the Joint Board office, 16 W. 21st St. They were locked out dur- ing the last two weeks due to their refusal to register with the right wing dual union established by the reactionary elements of the I. L. G. W. U. } The assembled workers pledged | themselves to conduct an sarematye picket line at each of the 20 shop: where lock-outs have been declared AGAINST BOSSES | WORKERS IN 0 | Spee for the Workers at Arms Conference GENEVA HEARS COMMUNISTS DEMAND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT, ABOLITION OF MUNITIONS, GAS AND NAVAL BASES: ‘Rumor Revolt in Lithuania, Soldiers Setting Up! Soviet in Military Garrison Briand in Speech Declares France Won't Disarm; Cachin Points Out Danger of New War | GENEVA, Nov. 30.—The chief points of the Soviet delga- tion’s program for complete and immediate disarmament follow: 1.—Immediate universal disarmament by land and sea, begin ning next year. Es 2.—An international convention pledging the signatory na- Maxim Litvinoff, U. S. S. R. delegation to Geneva and aboye, Anatol Lunacharsky, on the delegation. left, head of \Co., and made publie by Philip Mur- MILITARY HOLDS STRIKE LEADERS IN COLORADO Re- Arrest Oehler and Others (Special to The Daily Worker) By FRANK PALMER DENVER, Colo., Nov. 30.—Hugo Oehler, organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party..who was released on Tuesday, has been ‘rearrested in front of the jail and rushed to Pueblo to be taken into the military district and held. Can Militia Hold Bell? 1 Attorney Rinn, counsel for Adam! Bell, leader of the pickets at the Col- umbine mine, and who was wounded during the murderous attack by the workers, demands of Goy. Adams whether Bell and other prisoners can be held by military authorities even tho he was originally arrested before the militia came into action. The coal operators are using the first snow storm to intimidate miners (Continued on Page Two) MINERS’ WIVES PROTEST BRUTAL EVICTION PLAN “Act of Inhumanity,” Says Wire to Fisher (Special to the Daily Worker). By AMY SCHECHTER. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 30. | iscores of others throughout the dis- | thounding of thousands *In the language of lawyers, “The coal companies will seek to be reimbursed for being compelled to hire special officers to main- tain order and safeguard their | properties.” | Thousands of Evictions. Within the coming week thousands | of families will be added to the tens of thousands evicted since Schwab | and Mellon opened the coal war and began evicting the union miners from their company houses twenty months before the Jacksonville Agreement expired. The decision handed down by the superior court of Pennsylvania removes the last barrier to mass evic- tion, Strikers whose houses were not bonded have already been evicted. wholesale. The Pittsburgh Terminat’ Coal Corporation injunction enjoined | the union and surety companies from bonding any houses in the future. Expelling Whole Communities. Evictions are teing pushed through | at top speed. Strikers’ families at all the Pittsburgh Terminal mines— Avella, Coverdale, Castle Shannon, Mollenauer—many hundreds in all— will have to be out within the next few days. In addition miners of the} Consumers Coal Company at Harmar- ville are affected, the Valley Camp Coal Company mines at Puckety Creek | and near Bentleyville, the Harwick | mine of the Harwick Coal and Coke Company, the Inland Colliery Coal Company mihe at Indianola, and trict. | Terrible Suffering. Terrible suffering will follow this families | from their homes in winter unless those who are with the miners at this critical turn of the struggle come | swiftly to their aid. Barracks have to be thrown together hastily because | the time allowed the strikers to va- cate their houses is so short—48 hours in some cases—poor protection against the piercing hill winds, Coolidge Cynicism. Every appeal of the miners against evictions has been lost. And now (Continued on Page Two) @ . ons The following telegram was today sent to Governor Fisher by officials of the union in the name of the wives of the locked-out coa! miners at the Indianola Mine Intind Coal yay. \The wire follows: The Message. “The undersigned women, mothers of families of locked-out mine work- ers, desire to make a respectful pro- test to your excellency against the action of the Inland Coal Co., at In- dianola, Allegheny County, Pa., in summarily evicting our families from their homes without giving time for the mine workers’ organizations to erect temporary domiciles into which we can move. “We are appreciative of the fact that the Superior Court of Pennsyl- vania has handed down a decision which ‘required the evacuation of those company houses. It is our in- tention to comply with the decision of the court just as soon as we can secure other shelter for our children. The weather is inclement and it will take some time to erect teraporary barracks. “Tt would be a brutal act of ‘nhu- manity for the Inland Coal Co, to set our families and goods and chat- tels in the public road with the storms of winter upon us. Will not your excellency, in the name of char- ity, use your influence to have this coal company stay actual ejectment for a reasonable length of time until temporary homes can be erected?” ‘Independent Coal Mines Consolidate; Rumors of | Lewis Group Assistance PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30.—Offi- cials of a number of bituminous coal mining companies met in the office of S. A. Taylor, coal mining engineer, here this afternoon, giv- ing rise to a report that a huge consolidation was under way. Capitalization of the company would be $50,000,000, it was re- ported. Efforts to talk to Taylor proved fruitless. Companies involved in the pur- ported deal include: Hillman Coal & Coke Co., The Bertha Consym- er’s Co., The Valley Camp Coal Co., The Fort Pitt Coal Co., The McLane Mining Co., The Carnegie Coal Co., The Duquesne Coal Co., | | The Chartiers Creek Coal Co., and The Youghiogeny & Ohio Coal Co. Coal circles here advanced a theory that the companies were merging under the influence of the Lewis administration of the United Mine Workers of America and would seek to curb production in the industry. The officials of the United Mine Workers are sev- | the workers, however. They were addressed by M. E. Taft} manager of Local 41; Rose Wortis, of the Joint Board; Harry Berlin x Local 10, I. L. G. W. U., and A. Wise, business agent of the Joint Board, The speakers told of strikebreaking! |by the right wing in the cloak and) dress industry and warned the work- | ers to expect similar action. More Lockouts. Right wing committees were active! in the market yesterday. The work-| ers of the C. & C. shop, 40 W. 25th! shops by the right wingers who at-| tempted to force them to go to the} right wing office for Apia area The workers ignored the threa’ and went instead in a body to ie office of Local +1. After conferring, with the local union officials, strikes | were ‘called in both shops. Drive Out Rights. When a right wing Soman ae] ited the Advance shop, 100 St., its members were Powby iy This is an in- dependent contracting shop whose agreement with Local 41 will not ex- pire until Jan. 15. So great is the vigilance of the po- lice in behalf of the employers that Rose Missner who is not affiliated with the union or the strike, was placed under arrest when she stopped to talk with a friend outside the I. \& D. Co., 48 W. 25th St., where a lockout is in force. Discharged in Court. When taken to the Jefferson Mar- | ket Court she was discharged. A general membership meeting of | Loeal 41 will be held Monday evening after work at Irving Plaza, Irving | Place and E. 15th St. “Arrangements to conduct an ag- gressive struggle against the employ- | {ers will be taken up at the meeting,” Taft said. Money Is Being Sent to Strikers in Ohio, Penna. and Colorade In response to an appeal by tele- gram from Frank Palmer, of. Denver, editor of the Colorado Labor Advo- cate, the New York Emergency Com- mittee for Strikers’ Relief has sent, $500 for food to the striking Colorado miners, the committee announced yes- terday at its headquarters at Room 1027, 156 Fifth Ave. A total of several thousand dollars and three large cases of clothing had been sent up to yesterday to the striking coal miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to the committee. | “The need is immediate,” Palmer's telegram to the New York committee said. Strikers Hold Ground. “The operators are attempting to break the strike this week before settlement by negotiation. The strik- ers are standing solid despite mas- sacre and brutality but need food. Can you do anything immediately? A few hundred dollars advanced, with a wire that it is coming, would! be a godsend.” John Brophy and Powers Hapgood, militant miners’ leaders, will be, among the speakers at two mass meet- ings for support for both the Colo- rado and Pennsylvania-Ohio mine strikes this week. The Miners’ Re- erely criticized by the progressives in the union for their program of reducing the number of miners in the industry, lief Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 540, has called one of them for Sun- day at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Sec- ond Ave., at 2 p. m. Miners direct (Continued on Page Fivey \ \ “INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE CHALLENGES SMITH ON FRAME-UP tions to destroy all war materials and reduce their armies to mere police forces over a period of four years, unless the powers are willing to disarm at once, 8.—Demobilization of all land, sea and air forces. 4.—Destruction of all heavy and light artillery, machin guns, army munitions stores, all warships of all classes and ¢/ 'Gréco- Carrillo Case Brot to a is Atbntion of N. Y.) lairplanes except those used for strictly commercial purposes. State Chiéf Executive 5.—Cessation of all military training. 6.—Demolition of all forts by land and sea and the reduction James P. Cannon, national secretary of the International} St., and the Seigel-Windy shop, 161, Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., New York, yesterday sent a tele- | |W. 28rd St., were driven out of their gram to Governor Smith of New York State, in which the defense | organization issues a warning of \of all naval bases. 7.—Striet control of all chemical works and chemists to pie vent the manufacture of war materials. é the danger that two more work- | 8.—Abolition of poison gas apparatus such as could be use \ers may soon be railroaded to the electric chair as were Sacco | in warfare. 1. R. T. INJUNCTION CASE POSTPONED; HEARING DEC, 21 Icity Hall in Bad, Say ®and Vanzetti, and that the ef- 9.— Abolition by all governments of war offices and mini: fects of such an atrocity would | tries of marine and aviation posts except those used in peacefu be felt, far and wide. \commereial air commerce. t ere en sn spun Cir 10.—Foérbidding of all military propaganda, in a different character from that of | 11.—Refusal by governments of patents for war making in- Governor Fuller of Massachusetts! yentions. who, the telegram states, became “a * * * direct instrument” of legal murder. COMPLETE DISARMAMENT. Greco and Carrillo are to be tried in the B x a: : ie : me Coney Gaur De- GENEVA, Nov. 30.—Complete disarmament within four cember 5. years was the substance of the sweeping program placed before Observers The full text of the preparatory disarmament conference today by Maxim Litvin= ; ee “2 off, hie of the Soviet delegation eet Ws dietay Aa ia ear ap Branding v. rious League disarmament conferences as “pure- plication for a restraining order another Sacco-Van-| ly decorative,” Litvinoff offer the League the most extensive sought by the I. R. T. Company zetti case? I ad- “disarmament program ever against the local union and the three milions of members of the American Federation of Labor by the Amalga- jmated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employes. The case was postponed until De- icember 21. December 17 was set, as \the date for filing additional affi- davits with the date of the hearing. Not Enough Time, Says Counsel. | Nathan Pearlman, of the legal staff of the union moved for postponement on the ground that insufficient time had been allowed to prepare’the an- swer to the voluminous injunction application filed by the traction trust. Strenuous objection from the Inter- borough legal staff had been fore- shadowed. Considerable surprise was therefore elicited when James L. |Quackenbush, general counsel for the company offered no objection. In some quarters the second post- ponement of the hearing, unopposed (Continued on Page Ywo) Cal. Bricklayers Vote To Demand 5-Day Week LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 30.— Bricklayers union here has voted t apse the 5-day week. Little objec- tion is expected from contractors, of- ‘ficials report. Three other unions here have the short week. They are Painters, Plasterers and Hod Carriers. VETERAN MILITANT DEAD. NEWARK, Noy, ,30.—Louis Yollis, 79 Hillside Ave., age 76, died yester- day. He was an active supporte the Workers (Communist) Party and the left wing labor movement. Bronx Police Oppose Greco-Carrillo Meeting: ve Anti-Fascists In Bronx, With Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fascists, in the Bronx County Jail since July 11, the Bronx police department is reluct- | ant to permit friends to hold public | meetings in their behalf. The Bronx police last night at first refused permission to the In- ternational Labor Defense to hold an outdoor meeting at St. Ann’s Ave. and 188th St. The desk of- ficer would give no reason for his refusal, except to ask why meet- ings were being held so late in the r of dress this question to you in connec- tion with the case} of Calogero Greco and Donato Carril-| lo, two Italian workingmen who are to be tried in the Bronx County Court before Judge | Cohen, en December 5. “A large number of people who | are familiar with the case and the| circumstances surrounding it are con-|.c OYSeYY drafted. The demobilization of all land, sea and air forces with- in a period of four years, the cessation of all military train ing, the abolition of war offices were among the proposals made by the Soviet delegation. HEARST STORY OF MEXICO - JAPAN TREATY 1S DENIED iptanted By AvFreo E-Qmira Proof of Good Faith, in this were con- Soviet participated because they vinced that Greco and Carrillo are A _ at the capltalistic govern- innocent men, victims of a conspiracy Statements cage able of accomplish- to frame them up by. perjury and in- a ha ack m the »” Litvinoff explained. timidation, and bring about their| WASHING TON, Nov. 30.—The « want the problem presented in a state department today refused to form and our efforts on be- death in thé electric chair for poli- cal reasons. “This case is aggruvated and made all the more obnoxious by the uncon-} cealed and cynical operations of the) Fascist League. of North America as the investigators and driving force behind the persecution. “This organization openly parades in America as the agency of a foreign power—the fascist regime of Italy, with its unspeakable record and creed of violence, murder and suppression of all democratic rights. These agents of fascism in America have let loose Yhousands Locked Out, a reign of violence and terror on the Italian population of America. It Ford Workers May Go organizes its adherents on a semi-mili-| Back By Christmas make any comment on the publication in the Hearst newspapers of an al- leged tentative draft of a treaty be- tween Mexico and Japan. the f non-aggression pacts with our neighbors show our good faith,” After setting forth the Soviet pra- Litvinoff declared, e created making it a-e state for any one of the points set £ Likewise state departmer to deny or confirm the existe’ government archives of a tr ee tween Mexico and Nicaragua, an al- leged copy of which v published in the Hearst newspapers Monday morn- ing. “A Weapon of Oppression.” “Armed force is a weapon in # (Continued on sian shanata, A Two) NY. FASCISTS D DINNER. ; Walker and General Pers ing will be among the speakers dinner which the New York A tary basis, dedicated to the theories eel Legion will give Edward E, Spal and practices of Mussolini. It miath-| DETROIT, Mich _ national commander of the dest tains a spy service to ferret Out) i usands wa the Hotel Pennsylvania Dee, 8, announced. me Italian workingmen who have fled to in order It thrown out « mn the Ford car was being planne E: America from fascist Italy to bring about thels deportation. Tt back to work at the Fordson an ee ee es 1 atighland: Park ‘plants Christ ord®of violence and terror and openly ‘ cohding ‘t + by an Povwinucd ain Pade Five) mas, ascording to a st ent by ar cfficial of the company aid tl Fordson might reach ag Jail Since Mid-Summer Be 40,000 at Highland P depending upon demands ccording to Louis A. Baum, | for the new car. of the Photographic Union. Permission was given only after a committee had called at the station to protest. Rockefeller Thugs Kil Strikers; Rockefellers before was ment at 100,- nig D. |Rockefe het {Colorado militia which killed se’ kers last week, each contribu Shingle-Makers ‘Cannot || Even Get § Seabs to Work | RIDEFIELD, V S peated attempts Greco and Carrillo are scheduled | Byatlic Bros. Milk § ea st trial Sites Bronx next |strikebreakers to replace members of | week on murder charges in connec- |the Shingle Workers’ union on strike | | mittee oat " 35,817 and tion with the death of two fascists |have failed. They refuse te accept | $23, elk. jected $; al last spring. _. {the low seate offered. ae ag , fund in Westchestel 2 according to the ; aign Permission to hold a_ similiar | County a meeting at Prospect Ave. and 163d St. was refused last Thursday.