The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 Geneva Hears U.S.S.R.|NEW Demand Disarmament (Continued from Page One) hands of the great power: pression of people in s and the cyrvicte abvlit tents js the «rly real me anteeing security and preventing an outbreak of war. “Armaments by their endency to growth, inevitably 1 ymed conflict }ecween nations.” Forestalls Accusations, Hinting at the attac n the capi- | ust press on the Soviet proposals, itvinoff declared, “Yes, we shall be eeused of making propaganda. We | cr the g guar- | istence and d to te making it for peace and we shall tinue to mak The opening session of the confer- | ‘ehce was held in the well-known glass Yooms, the windows of which were Smashed late in August by thousands | of Geneva workers who marched thru | te streets of the city protesting the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Louden Opens Meeting. The meeting was opened by Dr. J, Louden of Holland who attempt to steer the discussion away f dis- armament to the less “dangero one of “security.” Litvinoff, however, asking for a hearing after a sugges- | tion by Count von Bernstoff that the Progress of the convention be cussed, brought up the Soviet pr Stam for complete disarmament. The participation proposal of the Soviet Union in the conference re- | Moves the pretext for armament that} has been employed by France and a number of Baltic states, which point- “d to the Soviet army as an excuse} “Maintaining large military forees. | Cannot Dodge Issue. | on the state line. rifles at the “ready.” while his men watch with loaded MEXICO MILITI Center, guards at Raton Pass. A BLOCK ROADS TO UNION ORGANIZERS ete een eet ny rifles. Roads leading into the state of New Mexico from Colorado guarded by militia, because New Mexico employers fear the coal strike in Colorado will spread. Motorists must prove they are anti-Labor to cross Above, troopers examining the credentials of a trayeller, while three soldiers stand with Below, sergeant examines papers of man from Ohio The Soviet proposal for complete | ili y ae at ®d_ immediate disarmament molete | Military Holds Str ike Leaders in Colorado mm the heels of the announcement that | he U. S. S. R. is willing to complete ; 2 pacts of non-aggression with the| (Continued from Page One) powers puts the disarmament issue|back to work by ordering eight fam- Squarely before the powers. lilies evicted in Colorado Springs. * * * | National support for a few weeks will win a great vi , and the leac ers of the strik nounce the of. ficial backing of the Emergency Com- Cachin Emphasizes War Danger. PARIS, Nov. 30. ommunist member Mareel Cachin, a of the French amber of deputies, in a speech to-| Ve ag tai oo elt +9 the fir t during the chamber’s debate on| funds. They also announced the re- ign affairs, declared that mace of war is greater “r before.” Lithuanian Revolt Rumored. : “the | ceipt of $650 from Gebo, Wyoming today than |jocal of the United Mine Worke | Very cabs. Those min Few which are trying to Reports received here by the In- | reopen are finding no scabs ready to} ‘rnational News Service from its j work. erlin correspondent state that a mili-| 2 case of A. K. Orr, strike or- who was held in jail for 17 that soldiers have set up|days and then taken out into the The reports come from Kovy- ia and brutally saulted, is tak- aw, the International |ing on international significance due states. jto the fact that he is a British sub- ds in the streets of K | It has assumed serious propor- \ reports pee: betaine that | 9 $ especially the face of the dchkai pro-Polish emigre, has | denial by the sheriff of Pueblo of the ¢n condemned to death and that a| story of the attack given by the state pes has been offered for his ar-|POlice. The sheriff declares that he ? | approved the men taking Orr away land says he released the prisoner ithe state police orders. Paul Sideler was released Tuesday only to be ordered rearrested. ¢ he has received no reply. vikers in the northern field sed a settlement which does lude their fellow workers in uth. * * , fwo War Threats, Nov. 30.—Two threats | 1 peace were hanging | ope today when the League aratory disarmament | ambled. They are: i ithuanian territorial | back five years | ~ e of Vilna (former capi- by Polish troops, a new Polish at- huania. n the Balkans over th of alliance between Italy which not only gives Hialy full naval control of the Adria- tie and a dominant foothold. in: the Western Balkans, but conveys an in- direct threat to Jugoslavia, . * * Briand Wants Army. PARIS, Nov. : are all going to France to re- nounge her military That is fine. But what guaranty have wel* that the others will reduce their mili- A EW NOVEL Gplon Ginclair t Geneva, they ti forces simultaneously?” declared | H Poreign Minister Briand in cham- ‘ber of deputies today. nw T U. 8. S. R. Observer. fs E ¥% 7 GENEVA, Nov. 30.—Hugh R. Wil- on, American delegate to the League iS § e Ee jf Nations preparatory disarmament {conference, cabled Washington this / «fternoon to ascertain if the United | tes wished an observer on the se-| rity committee. Dr. J. J. Loudon, ! io presided at the conference, had | ked Wilson if the United States de- | an observer's place on the cor ittee, but the American delegate he would have to ask for in- | KASTMAN REVISHS tions. And Corrects Lenin The Soviet Union declined an active By Bertram D. Wolfe iembership on the committee but | greed to appoint an observer, COMMUNIST Off the Press This Week MARX 3R RAISED TO A he Work of the of L, Convention EF, Dunne Jhicago UnionsSending ” Aid to Distressed Ilinois ee iners’ Families By Jay Lovestone RADE UNION PROB- HEMICAL WARFARE CHIQ@AGO, Nov. 30.—More than By Robert Macdonald 0M has been contributed by trade oF Tm RUSSIAN mionists in Ilinois to aid the famil- 1ON *s of Illinois mine workers dis- ressed by the recent strike, accord-| ng to announcement by Walter Nes- | Sao cATA bit, Secretary-treasurer of District 12,, 7," 74 1 oor ae Mine Workers of America. | ie Among the contributions were $2500 | t from the Chicago Board of the Amal. | gamated Clothing Workers, $1000 | from the Chicago Milk Wagon Dri-| vers union, $500 from the Carpenters & Joiners, Chicago Local No. 58, and | $300 from Chicago Tailors union No. ow | Bittelman BULLDING $2.00 « Year—$1.25 Six Mos. The COMMUNIST } 39 E. 125 St. New York, N.Y. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? | — Pennsylvania Company | Ruthlessly Evicts (Continued from Page One) Coolidge meets the United Mine} Workers’ delegation with the brutally | |laconie observation that in view of | he decrease in coal consumption due | the expansion of oil burning de- | | vices, ete.” it will be difficult for the |coal operators to sustain the present \level of w he believes, He is informed that there an abundant {supply of soft coal from the lower- |priced labor mines of the south.” | . Relief Vital for Victory. The mass evictions now in progress jintensify the immediate need for warm clothes, and shoes and food for the miners and their families. A new call for aid has been issued by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee (611 Penn Ave., Room 807, Pittsburgh) predicated up- jon the outlook today, which seems to jbe that the battle ef the miners jagainst the $1:50 to $2.85 a day open shop wage of the southern coal fields | which Coolidge champions will‘ last |through the winter. | Form New Relief Branch. | A local branch of the Pennsylvania |Ohio Miners’ Relief Conference has | been organized at New Kingston, a |town lying in the heart of the mine jarea of Allegheny County. Before the jlockout hundreds of miners and their | families used to come in to New Ken- sington Saturday nights to buy what | | they needed for the following week, | and the business men as well as the} | workers of the town are sympathetic | to the strikers, | Preacher and Miner Speak. The organization meefing was ad-| | dressed bythe Rev. A. Mastrotti, an} jatalian Presbyterian minister who car- | |tied on a campaign in behalf of Sac- | jco and Vanzetti, and is with the min-| ‘ers in their fight. An Italian miner | om \Kinloch Mine of the Valley} }Camp Coal Company over at Puck-| ety Creek a few miles distant told | ot the sweat and toil of the miner’s | life, and then of the fight as it is} | going on in his own camp. | A. Minerich, chairman of the Penn- | sylvania-Ohio Relief Committee, who | had come down from helping to put | ip barracks at his own mining camp | at Newfield where the miners have to | ve out in a few days, spoke in behalf of the committee. | sr ons Witnesses Shattering | | Widow's Accusation | | Against Two Negroes’ —The story told by Mi |Lilliendahl, that two Ne | killed and robbed her hu nd, which | 1: 3 ble for ineiting mobs | aga’ Negroes in New Jersey, is} being cffectively attacked by the| prosecution, | |. Harry F. Sanderson denied that he} had ever said he saw two Negroes! come out of the murder jane, thus puncturing the defense’s case con. siderably. Blood-Stained Money. The prosecution will base its case | fon the blood-stained paper money | ;found in the widow’s handbag, which | ‘was creased in a manner known to! be peculiar to the dead man alleging | that the woman did the robbing her-| self. Mrs, Lilliendahl claims that | two Negroes had stolen all the apse tor’s money. The prosecution will also stress |that her dress and stockings as well jas automobile maps were hlood- stained. she did not return to the car where her husband lay bleeding after she was dragged away by the alleged Negroes, but ran for aid. GET A NEW READER! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! ‘ a The widow's story is that | - g] us YOUr ‘HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day afte: 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 ... to give our readers news—information about the Labor movement— and other good features. We ask only this much . from every reader: Pledgé yourself to give only as much as you can and won’t miss—every week. You won't miss it and The DANLY WORK- ER can live on it! e - Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund’ Fill out the following blank and mail it to THE DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N. Y, Enclosed $. . I pledge I will send ‘you $.......:.. every week. Namessiaiy cs ee StL ieee ee nis oe o oie See eeee City FY ps sey ee helping hand | with Tunney because the champion took to heart the adage, that “he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.!’ Jack won his last legal fight with Kearns because} his opponent also ran. Down with Government by Injunction Smash the Open-Shoppers! The Workers (Communist) Party of America, taking the initiative in the growing union activity against the in- junction menace, today ed a warn- ing and call to the labor masses of America to gird themselves for battle. | Through its Central Executive Com- mittee, the Workers Party spread broadcast a message of which it is planned to print one million copies for distribution among the workers in every part of the country. After summarizing the havoc wrought by the injunction to the labor movement and pointing out the fact that by creating a system of injune- tion democracy, “the big employers are out to destroy root and branch the labor organizations which: you have built thru many years ‘of painful struggle,” the statement goes on to say: “Disregard, Disobey, Break Every Injunction. Tear every injunction edict to pieces. Treat every injunc- tion as a Scrap of Paper.” How important the struggle against the injunction is regarded by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers the unusual preparations which are being made for the widespread dis- | tribution of the statement which is to |be printed in the form of a leaflet to | be handed out wherever workers both organized and unorganized assemble. The whole forces of the Workers Party are to be mustered for the cam- paign. The leaflet draws emphatic atten- tion to the fact that Injunction Dem- ocracy is a system equally prevalent and vicious during periods of demo- cratic party control of the U. S. Gov- | ernment as under the notorious Attor- |mey General Palmer in 1919 and in times of republican party rule under the no less infamous Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty; that under the so- alled democratic-progressive Gov- | ernor Adams of Colorado and the re- actionary Governor Fisher of Penn- | sylvania the shackling of labor and |the stifling of its organizations go on equally. The only remedy points out the statement is to: Help Fight the Battles of the Work- ers Against the Exploiters.” Following is the statement in full: facing the most crucial test of your lives. You are all on trial. | Your right to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is becoming a junction”! | You are being robbed of the right | to organize. Your unions are being wiped out. | A devastating injunction epidemic jis plaguing the working class thru- cut the country. A gigantic open-shop conspiracy is afoot. The coal barons of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the traction kings of New York, the coal magnates of Colorado and the rest of the big employers are out to destroy root and branch the labor organizations which you have | built thru many years of painful | struggle. | Your enemies, the owners of indus- trade unions and to put in their place the fake bosses’ unions, the counter- feit company unions. Your bosses, your exploiters, are hell-bent ‘on crippling your fighting forces so as to force upon. you de- grading working conditions and star- vation wages. Deadly blows are now being struck jagainst every working man and country by the capitalist dictatorship, the employing class tyranny, operat- ing most brazenly as “Government by injunction.” Miners’ Union in Danger. The miners’ union, the backbone of the American trade union movement, is fighting for its life. The capital- | ists, the coal operators, their courts, their governors, and their senators | have placed the coal fields under a | state of virtual military siege, actual United Mine Workers of America and then be able to destroy the other la- bor organizations. sand scabs are now being protected by injunctions in the coal fields’ of Pennsylvania. At the same time, one hundred and \tifty thousand union coal miners and | their wives and children, all together totalling a population of nearly three |} quarters of a million are now facing starvation, suffering acntest misery, | | being thrown out into the streets to freeze, and brutally clubbed by the state cossacks and company thugs in ‘and out of the state uniform. This is injunction democracy with a cruel vengeance! On top of all this privation, desti- j tution, misery and hunger forced |upon the heroic coal diggers of Penn- sylvania and Ohio has come the vic- ious injunction handed down by Fed- eral Judge Schoonmaker of Western Pennsylvania. This is the hardest re- straining order in the history of our labor movement. The Schoonmaker injunction prevents the union from using money to prevent evictions of the miners. Czar Schoonmaker has even decreed that no surety company can put up any bonds to protect any (Communist) Party can be seen from | “Build a Powerful Labor Party to| Working men and women! You are} | tragic farce thru “Government by in- | \try, are out to smash the genuine | | working class femily in.the whole | | martial law, in order to smash the | One hundred and seventy-five thou- | System! anned. |families. Strike meetin, | Picketing is taboo. The Subway Slave System. | e York traction workers into a slimy company union knot but also would trestrain every member of the Amer- iean Federation of Labor, nearly three | million in number, from even talking lto these workers about their joining |a genuine trade union. Today it is the striking coal min- |ers who are being framed up, jailed, and starved thru government by in- | junction. - Today it is the traction | workers who are being hounded by | the dastardly espionage system of their bosses and thrown out of their jobs for daring even to think of join- jing a trade union. | Yesterday it was the hatters, the | stone-cutters, the machinists, the | garment workers who were paralyzed jhy injunction democracy. Tomorrow, unless we al! get to- gether to crush this injunction mania of our bosses, it will be the printers, the building trades workers, the rail- the working men and women. Why Are Injunctions Being Handed Down Against the Workers? Because in the eyes of the employ- ing class and its executive committee, the government, working class soli- darity is a crime. In the eyes of the entire government bureaucracy work- jing class solidarity is high treason against the capitalist profit system which it seeks to defend and perpetu- ate at all cost at the expense of the working masses. At the head of the strikebreaking Interboro Injunction Case Is Postponed (Continued from Page One) by the Interborcugh in the face of that company’s bitter objection to the first postponement, is being inter- preted as a confirmation of the be- lief that certain forces are working behind the scenes to “adjust” a most. uncomfortable situation in which the Tammany controlled city administra- tion finds itself as a result of the in- | junction proceedings. One Explanation. It is generally conceded. these ob- servers point out, that the traction | | | the city government, that Tammany |Hall in turn has a controlling hold jon the labor officialdom of the city. The smashing attack on organized la- bor launched by the open shop trac- |tion barons has been too open and extreme for even the many sided Tammany politicians to weather. Mayor Walker, in the eyes of the traction workers has especially suf- fered because of the doubtful part played by the Tammany mayor in the controversy for the workers last July during the threatened strike. Criticize Green. Some traction men even criticized Wm. Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor for his re- |cent statement that there would be no strike on be lines. Strike sentiment is rapidly develop- ing among the workers and it is the customary and openly expressed opin- jion of the more militant employes, especially among the motormen, that only by means of a strike mass move- ment would they be able to throw off the burden of the company union, destroy the “yellow-dog” contract, de- |feat the injunction and build a union under the workers’ control. Five Cent Fare Developments. New developments are taking place lin the city administration drama of |saving the five cent fare in the form of a suit instituted by the Citizens’ Union through its chairman, Wm. Jay Schieffelin in a taxpayers’ action to rcstrain the city from including in the city budget an item of $13,000,000 | ment on an authorized bond iseue for subway construction. “One Man” Organization. The Citizens’ Union promises to go a step further and will seek to pre- vent the issuance of the bond itself, come -852.009.000 whieh the inion claims is against the law under whieh \In this battle the Citizens’ Union, gonization without jcitizen following, is supporting the | position taken by Controller Berry in | Providing, according to some students lof the traction situation, the neces- its traction policies so that a realistic touch may be maintained in its role lof “preserving” the fast fading five \eent fare. Traction Article by Mitchell. The DAILY WORKER will shortly publish an article by Robert Mitchell on the developments which have taken place recently in the. traction situation. The article, dealing as it does with this most important local issue, should be read by every work- er, Watch for authentic, correctly in- terpreted traction news regularly in of the union miners and their starved |The DAILY WORKER. Save the Labor Unions! w | control of the government x way men, the textile workers, the au- | tomobile workers and all the rest of | linterests are pretty well in control of | ‘io be used -as an amortization pay-| subway building is being carried on. | which is known to be a one man or- | any substantial | y opposition to Tammany Hall in | End the Injunction ; Government now protecting the capi- talists and persecuting the |The democratic Attorney | Palmer led in breaking the cecal str! jin 1919 hy getting out an in | against “messages of encouragement ,or exhortation” to the miners. The ‘republican Attorney General Daugh- erty, co-hero with William J. Burns. ,notorious labor-baiting detective, in ithe Teapot Dome oil seandai, ordered the drastie injunction to ak the | railroad strike in 1922. The “progr: ve” democratic Governor Adams of Colorado and the reactionary repub- lican Governor Fisher of Pen jvania are both working overtime |the biggest coal oper Ss to sn | the miners’ ‘s’ union, to jail and murder | the strikers, and to starve their wi and children, Working men and wor king women! | The dangers are great. The threat: jare terrible. The capitalists and their injunction courts are out to + worst type of employing class slaver 'y. on you. The bosses are out to plun- der the tinion treasuries thru injunc- | tions levying heavy tribute on unions }organizing workers, ty Your voices are being stifled by in- | Junctions. Your unions are being | paralyzed by’ injunctions. Your best fighters are being thrown into jail | by injunctions. Your ves and chil- dren are being starved by injune- tions. The increasing menace of injunc- tions gives the lie to the pretense of jimpartiality on the part of the gov- jernment. It gives the lie to the theory |that the American workers can have |the slightest faith in the government |when class interests are involved. The injunction completely unmasks the |dictatorship of the employing class lover the workers. Fight the Injunction to a Finish. j Workers, the injunction menace |must be fought to a finish or it will finish all of us. We must break the | injunction blockade against our right to organize, our right to strike, our |right to’ picket and our right to the | pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. f the enemies of the workers get away with their present injunction drive against the workers then every gain and every right it has taken us scores of years to win will be wiped out in quick time. Working men and women: The | same capitalist courts and judges who |murdered Sacco and Vanzetti, who are keeping Mooney and Billings in | the California jails, are now handing ‘down injunction orders to jail the iminers of Colorado, to evict the min- jers of Ohio, to starve the miners of | Penncylvania, to terrorize and smash ithe union ranks of the New York |traction workers, Already five strik- (ing miners have Leen killed and twen- ty wounded in Colorado by the state |vangers in Colorado. ! Workers! There is only one way in ‘while to treat injunction courts and judges. That way is to show them ‘outright contempt. Every injunction \issGied must be disregarded and vio+ lated in mass. Every injunction jhanded down must be defied. Every injunction must be broken. No self respecting working man or woman ;should or can obey any injunction jorder. Let us speak to our ruling jclass the only language they under- | stand. The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all working men and wom ‘en to put aside their differences and unite to fight to the last ditch tha |damnable injunction menace—Go'v- ‘ernment by Injunction, Injunctiou | Democracy. The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all workers to show their class solidarity to unite their ranks politically into a mighty party of lae bor—a labor party—so as to help take effettive measures against the injunction curse. Let. us close oux ranks to beat back the open-shoppers’ offensive. | Let every labor organization de- nounce and condemn in no unmistak- lable terms the injunction epidemic. | Let every trade union pledge all its resources and unstinted support to the hundreds of thousands of worl. jing class victims of injunctions. Down with government by injune- tion! Down with injunction democracy! “Down with company nnionism! Down with the capitalist spy tem and strikebreaking agencies! | Down with capitalist political par- ties fighting the workers. Hur! back the concerted anti-union injunction drive. Disregard, disobey, break every in- ‘unction. Tear every injunction edict to pieces. Treat every injunction as a scrap of paper. Build a powerful Labor Party to help fight the batt'es of the workers against the exploiters. Let us gather our forces to fight for a workers’ yovernment, © — Let us make this battle against the injunction menace the battle of our CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUN. IST) PARTY. ‘ yet the.