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

/ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK Rao A TARO PAPE A LANOR PARTY Vol, IV. SUBSC! RIPTION BR Outside In New York, by mall, $8.00 per yenr, York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKE Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of “Larch 3, 1879. W YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927 Published TELLEZ EXPOSES MORE FORSERIES | BY HEARST SHEETS Proves Dishonesty of Mexican Series WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—T | proof of the Hearst canipaign alf of the oil, against Mexico in b mineral and land thieves, intended to ju: 4 pe ot Nicara- embassy. published b; porting to reveal ¢ Nicaragua were ob according to an of sued by Ambas. In the forge supposed to hay “the Citizen Pri ber of Deputies.” cause, according to the bassy’s statement “in M as in the United Stat now a the past, the treaty ratifying powe is exclusively vested in the ATI and that the Chamber of Depu President included, have nothing to do with it.” Statement in Full. The following is the complete state- ment as officially released by the Mexican emba “The Mexican Embassy has been } following with incr ng interest and curiosity the daily in. iments of the story referring to Mexice which the Washington Werald and associated Hearst newspapers began to pubiish | two weeks ago and which is the pres- | ent outbrust of periodical romantic in- ternational intrigue for which those papers seem to have so much fondness | and which usually are worked on Mexico and another world power. Hold Hearst in Contempt. “The respectability of the papers in question and the documents printed to sustain these astounding international activities of Mexico, have led the Mexican Embassy to re- frain from commenting on this story after the statements made both by it- self and by the Mexican Foreign Of- fice immediately after the beginning of their publication, statements by which the authenticity of these docu- ‘ments was fully and categorically denied. Nails Latest Lies. “As yesterday’s installment, porting that the Mexican government entered into a secret treaty with cer- tain Nicaraguan politicians seems to have led some ingenuous persons to give credit to these forgeries and to collaborate with The Washington | Herald and associated Hearst news- papers in their endeavor, the Mexi- can Embassy deems it due to the sound judgment and fairness of the people of the United States, who are (Continued on Page Two) Aldermanic President Says School Buildings Are Pneumonia Traps pur- Hundreds of thousands of dollars must come out of the city treasury to pay for correcting faulty construc- m in New York school buildings ted during the last few years, ‘manic President Joseph V. Me- declared yesterday. at his jinstance, will condemn no few- er that 30 school buildings as “pneu- monia \ traps,” he said. Improper waterproofing has caused. the roofs to leak, he said, and allows rain to seep through the walls, Arrest More Painters’ Union Officers Here 4 om Ywo more union officials, bringing the total under arrest to five, were taken Into custody yesterday in con- nection with the alleged misappropri- ation of $200,000 of the funds of 13 brotherbood cf painters’ locals in New York. They are Allan J. Fischer, Bronx district president, and | Alexander Stein, also of the Bronx. Most of the money is said to have been lost in Wall Street speculation. Window Cleaners’ Jury To Be Charged Today Harry Homleck, Peter Lahowit and Nicholas Slobodniak, pickets of - the striking Window Cleaners Protective Union, will appear today in General Sessions, Part 8, before Judge Otto A. Rosalsky to hear his charge to the jury in the case in which they } he ar Haid Aalonlonel assault and also} s, its “Meeting for Miners to Be Held This Evening; Another Rally Sunday Miners from Peousyivania will speak at a mass meeting, ar-| ranged by the Emergeney Commit- | tee for Strikers’ Relief at the Com- munity Church, Park Ave. and 34th | St., tonight at 8:15. Other speak- ‘ers will be John Brophy, Powers Hapgood, Art Shields, eastern rep- resentative of the Federated Press; Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church; Arthur |Garfield Hayes, of the American Civil Liberties Union and Norman of the soc party. n working as well as Brophy and Hap- good, militant miners’ union lead- ers, will speak also at a mass meet- | | g called by the Miners’ Relicf Committee for Sunday at the Stuy- t Casino at 2 p. m. At both] ort will be urged for ang mine well as those of Pennsylvania Ohio. To r: | | and » funds for the Colorado s’ Youth Cénter entertainment and hold an hgge party “aturday evening at their headquarters, 122 Gsborn St., eee Wale cighaateiee anes ss kei THO MORE COAL MINERS DIE IN EARLY BLAST Miners Refuse to Ride) Seab Buses in Strike By ED. FALKOWSKI SHENANDOAH, Pa. (FP) - Dec. 1—Two miners were killed at the Tunnell Ridge Colliery, near Mahonoy City, the day before Thanksgiving, by an explosion of dynamite. They were Joseph Cook, 48, and George Brill, 20, both of Mahonoy City. An- other fatal szcident occurred the} same day in the Alaska mine near |¥ Shamokin, when a large picce of top| rock crushed James Lacrosse, 24, to| death. Seldom a day pass*s without a |fatality in the hard coal mines. This is a sad commentary on the “ef- ficiency program” to which the coal (Continued om Page Two) HEMSTITCHERS i} — WILL MOBILIZE FOR STRUGGLE ° | Right Wing ng Gangsters | Terrorize Market Preparations for a membership meeting of Local 41, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to be held Monday evening, at. Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. were reported nearing completion by the union officials last night. More than 20 shops of the local have been locked out during the last two weeks due to their refusal to register with the dual union organ- ized by the right wing. Monday’s meeting will mobilize the members of the local for a fight against! the union-smashing tactics of the right wing, which recently signed an agreement with the manu- facturers which rank and file work- ers characterize as a sell-out. List of Speakers. The speakers at the meeting. will be Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union; Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union; M. E. Taft, manager of Local 41, and A. Wise and Rose Wortis, business agents for the Joint Board. The workers of the Art Novelty , 149 W. 24th St., according to the | union went on strike yesterday after \20 right wing thugs who invaded the \faetory compelled them to leave the j shop. This committee of 20, Local 41 spokesmen said last night, visited many of the small shops yesterday jand sttempted to terrorize the girls working at each place into register- ing with the right wing. Gertrude Steloller, shop’ chairman at the Harrison Pleating Co., 315 W. \'Co. Esther Hirsh, rogiran a | Announcement Made by. } with | ganization | Press, but it is difficult to deny that 86th St., whose workers were locked Howard Lawson and John Dos Pas- out several months ago, will appear|sos, New York playwrights, George in the magistrate court at 170 E. 121st | L. St. this morning on charges brot by }Bloor, Ellen Hayes and Catherine] Bi and 168rd- St. Huntington, Internationa UM. W. PROPOSE TO SEND AGENT INTO COLORADO District Secretary | By FRANK L. PALMER (Special to The Daily Worker). DENVER, Colo. Dec. 1.—Felix} Pogliano, secretary of District No. 15 United Mine Workers of America, an- ; nounced today that President John} L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers | will send a committee to Colorado | shortly to organize the miners and to m agreements with any operator} ; Willing to deal with the union. | Ignored Union Before Strike. All operators had refused to deal the United Mine Workers of | America bef the present strike | broke out in this state. | coal mine in the state is operating ‘under a union agreement nd ue great strike. of 191. course of whicir Ludlow massacre oc- curred, was largely fought to force! cognition of the union, but was lost. | such agreement as is proposed! the mine union leader must, under | alleged national policy, inelude | Jacksonville agreement and ‘pi ally ali demands made by the L W. nthe present strike, with the ex- eption of the six hour day. If the miners split over the or- question it will be the st break in the solidarity of the ranks since the beginning of the rike on October 18. Strike Effective. The fact of I. W. W. leadership of the strike has been stressed and the subject -of attacks in the capitalist © they have ¢onducted the most effec- tive strike in the history of the state. Reorganize Militia. ‘ The militia is being filled with thugs as college. boys go home and the tactics which caused the Ludlow massacre are being repeated. There is a report that the state police will be reduced to two or three members and that former members of the force i n intelligence of- ficers of the militia. Whether ¢his means the spread of military rule to the southern section of the state and make possible the holding of prison- ers without charges, denied the right of release on habeas corpus proceed- ings or on bond, is not known at this time. Strike Leaders Rearrested. Paul Sideler and Hugo Oehler, re- arrested after their release, and Aurora Sanson, woman leader, ar- rested Wednesday, will not be taken north for military arrest, according to assurance given A. A. Heist, of the Civil. Liberties Union, by the gov- ernor of the state, although rumors to that effect persist. Fail to Open Mines. Efforts on the part of the mine owners to reopen the mines is an ad- mitted failure by the capitalist press. The News says that a dozen men showed up at a half dozen mines this morning and that several mines sup- posed to open did not do so. The Columbine, which was the scene of the massacre the other day, is oper- ating but with a reduced force. ‘Demand Right to Move. Heist asked the governor today for an order that all families held in armed camps be permitted to move when they desire and received prom- ise that such an order would be is- sued. It is reported, that many families are forcibly divided, some in Columbine and some in nearby towns, not allowed-to get out and in some cases not allowed to even go to the company store, so that actual suffer- ing for lack of food is near, Powers Hapgood Trial) Nears End in Boston; Others Soon to Follow BOSTON, Cec. 1.—The case of Powers Hapgood, member of the United Mine Workers of America, ar- rested during the Sacco-Vanzetti agi- tation, was expected to reach the jury with the conclusion of testimony late today. Cosmo Carvotta is a co- defendant, Among the character witnesses for Hapgood today were Hutchins Hap- good, author and journalist of New York, an uncle of the young man on trial, and James N. White, of Cam- bridge, Hapgood’s roommate for two years at Harvard University. Others awaiting trial are John Steeple, Ella Reeve (Mother) Rockefeller’s Gunmen Shot This Man Hi Photograph of George Mazzine, striking coal miner shot down by Not a single | orado state troopers and mine guards employed by the Rocky Mountain Fuel ee while fe qleetie before their se Lena mine. : GERARD ADMITS OIL RIVALRY 1S BACK OF CHARGE Hates Turk ¢ Ambassador | For Business Reason WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1. — James W. Gerard, war time ambas- sador to Germany. and Wilson’s right hand man in switching American pub- | lic opinion into line for the entry of the United States sinto the war, to- day himself brought into the case of his furious objections against the ex- | change of ambassadors between U. 8S. and Turkey, the oil motif, which has | | Col- | Six miners were killed. | Rockefellers na Graig Sinclair and Doheny in Oil Men’s One Big Union CHICAGO, Iil., Dec. 1. — The tanda Oil and its allies in the | American Petroleum Institute, is “mopping up” on Sinclair and Do- Letters emanating from York, in the vicinity of which | | the $ Standard has its strength, call | for the ejection of Harry I. Sin- clair and Edw. Doheny from the board of directors of the “insti-| | tute.” The reason given is their i bad repttte.on account of the oil | grafc. " y There has been all along a theory | | held emong oil men that the rea- 1 son for the continued prosecution of | | j Sinclair and Doheny is due more, | ' to business rivalry and the Roeke- | | fellers dislike for “preschers” than been apparent to political observers | all along. | Oiled Diplomacy. | Replying to questions as to whether | | he, Gerard, was not objecting to Mouktar Bey, Turkish ambassador to! Washington, because oil interests | which hoped to Te- establish the “Ar-| menian Repu ” were opposed to) friendly relations between the United States and Turkey, Gerard admitted that oil was concerned in the mattet. He charged that “oil interests he | would not name” were “backing the exchange of ambassadors.” This is thought to be a reference to | the sale of Baku oil to the Standard | Oil of New York, cutting out Ger- ard’s clients. Baku is in the old time |* “Republic of Armenia” as planned at the peace conferences ending the World War. President Wilson, Ger- ard’s friend, wanted to send troops to defend Armenia “against Turkish } massacre.” The point to send the troops, however, Wilson said, was not to the southern end of the “Re- public of Armenia” but to the oil fields in the north, where the work- ers were already agitating for a Sov- iet state. Defense of Greco- Carrillo Ready; Trial on Monday Final preparations’ for the legal} defense of Calogero Greco and Don- ato Carrillo, anti-fascist workers charged with killing two fascists last May 30, are to be made today and tomorrow, with Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, noted criminal trial lawyer, as chief defense counsel. Greco and Carrillo will go on trial in the Bronx County Court Monday. They face the New York State elec- trie chair. The International Labor Defense and the Greco-Carrillo Defense League charge the prosecution is a frameup plotted by Count Thaon di Revel and his Fascist League of North America. Mobilize Nationally. With Darrow in their defense will be Arthur Garfield Hays, Isaac, Schorr and Newman Levy. Branches | of the International Labor Defense throughout the pari? are . mobiliz- ing the defense machinery built up in the Sacco-Vanzetti ate An open air meeting has been call- ed for the defense of G: gn age rillo: for Monday. oe } the r over the stealing of gov- | donde at Teapot | NO PREPARATION FOR NEW FLOODS INN. Y, PENNA Hundreds Homeless; 2) Killed; Worse Coming | Without an iota of preparation for| relief sure to be needed, or any indica- | tion that the governments of their | states have any concern in the rural | districts, inhabitants of those districts today awaited with apprehension the floods bearing down upon them, in Pennsylvania and New York. Worst in Years. Western Pennsylvania today ex- pected one of the worst winter floods in years as rivers throughout. the section rose under continued heavy | rainfall. Reports from the northwestern section of the state showed rivers two and three feet above flood stage and still rising. At Bradford, in the extreme north- tier of counties, the business sec-| mn and the entire lower part of the town was flooded with water from Tuna Creek. The depths averaged | valued !from four inches in the highest sec- tions to four feet. * Cold For Refugees. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 1.—This| section of Western New York found a little relief in dropping tempera- tures today from the floods that have followed the record rainfall of 6.71 inches. Freezing temperatures checked the ing waters, which had already exacted a terrific toll. But the cold weather made the plight of the homeless worse. Livestock and small buildings were carried away at Addison when the Canisteo River swelled over its banks, with the business district under sev- eral feet of water. Cottages were washed down the Cohocton River in} this section, but as yet no casualties | had been reported today. All Erie railroad schedules East and | West have been disrupted. . * . Farm Hand Drewns, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec.) 1} Three hundred families marooned in their homes, public utilities crippled, * * PUBLISHING | ments by the United + ‘Borah Hails | division of regional infor: {and William Thompson. daily except Sunday by The CO., 33 First Street, New DAILY W York, ORKER i ASS Price 3 Cents “U. §. PREPARES FOR WAR,” STATES SOVIET UNION "FRENCH AND BRITIS H AGENTS OF IMPERIALISM AT GENEVA ARMS CONFERENCE Conflicts for Right to Plunder EVADE THE iSSUE World Prevents Capitalist Powers Disarming Sneers GENEVA, Dec. 1.—The ates Union of Socialist Soviet Repub! disarmament which was |security committee. Maxi | gation, attended the committee mee ‘annex” to the original S The ‘ > | tieized the capitalist countries of RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA UP TOCONGRESS Demand For Disarmament WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—United | States Senator Borah of Idaho on re- lceipt of the information that |bad demanded complete disarmament | at the Geneva conference stated: “I am particularly glad to see Rus- ‘sia standing by Germany in urging real disarmament of the world.” He then declared that though he did not hope for recognition of Soviet | Russia at this session of congress, jbut’ would introduce a resolution to recognize, anyway. Exports of the Union of Socialist "Soviet Republics (Soviet Russia) for months beginning October 1, ending June 30 1927, is} estimated at 6,674,000 metric tons at 577,807,,000 |rubles (1 ruble equals 51 cents) and ‘imports at 1,456,000 tons valued at 505,478,000 rubles, according to the ation on nine 1926, and Chervonets Cor- |the Department of Comme: responding figures for the fiscal year were: Exports 5,995,015 tons 517,411,000 rubles, imports tons valued at 603,104,000 rubles During the nine months of 19: a favorable trade balance achieved of 72,327,000 rubles in con- trast with an unfavorable balance of 85,693,000 rubles for the same period lin 1925-26. ¥ Street Car Union Officials Ignore » BStrike Leaders In a bORAte: bikgates to the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council the Amalgamated Association of previous valued 1,078, a and_ Electric Employes of 1 has ignored Edward P. Lavin James F. W: , leaders of t New York traction workers’ it became known last night at the semi- monthly Central Council me at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 5th Instead of Lavin a ficials of the Amalg: Joseph Phelan, tre: r of the uni The: night, the were |sworn in as delegetes la | Amalgamated having been sented in the Council pr Lavin and Walsh were not mentic Strike Sentiment Grows. Strike sentiment among the. trac- tion workers, particularly among the motormen and switchmen, has been growing to such an extent that the officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company have thought it necessary to suspend a] meetings of bridges and highways washed out and spy (total damage estimated in the mil- (Continued on Page Two) — SEER RTD nest i sibisben the company union, the Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany employes. “feverish construction” distrib m Litvinoff, the | & |Union of Socialist Soviet Republics| 'Diplomats Try to Conceal Hypocrisy by Cheap at Soviet Proposals Oo: severary at-j Citas | and Great tacked today in an annex to th e pro 1 es for co and immediate | iun ef the| Ecviet dele uted duri rely cri- zing in a construction” f the word frenzy of navel and particula: denounced the; Unitcd Sictes for its open advo- cacy of the use of chemicals in war. War Imminont. 1¢ to the tremendous fe and property in the last nex declared that were preparing, the capita for even grease: The annex de- clared that ‘the more men un- der arms in 1 before the war and that the r y budgets of all of the large countries, with the ex- tions of the Soviet Union and ry, exegeded pre-war expendi- ” | The annex placed the cost of the iworld way at $147 000,000, Great Britain and the United States |were especially singled out for the |Soviet attack which pointed to the jfeverish construction of aircraft and, jmachine gu Evade Issue. The question of genuine disarma- ment placed before the conference by Litvinoff yesterday has been shelved by the powers for the time being. The powers do not dare to discuss the question. Litvinoff, however, who is ryattending the security committee meetings as an o er, will bring: the disarmament question up again before the close of the conference, it is believed. Eduard .Benes of Czechoslovakia was elected president of the security; committee, Oe Japan Won't Disarm. TOKIO, Dec. 1.—The Soviet Union’s |disarmament proposals at Geneva are too “drastic” for support by the Jap. anese, it was learned from semi-offle | cial sources today. Japan, it is understood, will line up th Britain, France and Italy in op- jposing the disarmament programy meanwhile discussing the question of, |national * ’ as Japan has no, jindividual set of proposals to make af * Geneva. . . * 1 Baldwin Silent. i LONDON, Dec, 1.—Premier Stana ley Baldwin refused to make any com- ment in the house of commons today A (Continucd on Page Two) ‘No Counter-Revolution | In Ukraine,” Report of | | U. $-Jewish Committee) MOSCOW, Dec. 1.—Agents of]! | |the Moscow office of the Amer- jican-Jewish Joint Distribution |Committee, returning from an exe}j |tensive inspection tour in the Uk- | |raine, reported failing to find the | |slightest disorders, past or pres els took them to both d the Bessarabian y asserted they ne the most pros- in Russia, with culture progres- fond the Ukr r Lewis, American writ- ing here while he writes novel, said tonight: | “The Soviet is the greatest ex- periment in the creation of a state | jon the he of labor instead of | | slavery. “The fact that many years may be necessary to establish the state |does not lessen my deep sympathy toward it. If the experiment fails, the world will be set back ie years.”