The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1927, Page 1

ae THE DAILY FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY WORKER FIGHTS: Vol. IV. No. 277. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8,00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act o- NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927 THE DAILY WO March 3, 1879 PUBLI MEPS. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION SHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents LINK WALL STREET HEAD TO BLACKSHIRT FRAME-UP “Tudlow Pat” Hamrock Runs Colorado Strikebreaking }J. P, MORGAN SHOWN AS “BOSS” MILITARY COVERS ALL COLORADO COAL FIELDS, HOLDS NINETEEN PRISONERS; STUDENTS GIVE AID Break Up Strike Meetings But Miners Stay Out; Press Admits Failure Governor Breaks Promise Given to Prisoners’ Attorney; Coal Barons Desperate DENVER, Nov. 2.—Nineteen strike leaders were taken from southern jails to military prisons and barracks in the northern fields Thursday and today by state rangers and military police. Pat Hamrock, notorious for his part as commander of the Rockefeller forces at Ludlow in 1914, is receiving reports from state rangers before they report to the governor and it is believed that Hamrock, nominally holding the office. of civil service com- missioner, is in direct charge of all strikebreaking operations. TRANSFER 19 TO MILITARY. The nineteen strike leaders, including Hugo Oehler, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party and Paul Sideler, have been held incommunicado without bail and without a charge eT oti ae a emg” “plated”. ‘against, ‘them. “Party. COMMUNISTPARTY OF SOVIET UNION NOW IN CONGRESS ee in Pravda Show Defeat. for.-Trotskyism (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Dec. 2. — With the in- auguration of the fifteenth Congress of the All Union Communist Party scheduled for this evening, the Pravda has published an editorial pointing to the changes in the domestic and inter- national situations in the last two years. spite of all difficulties,” the Travda says, “the proletarian dictator- ip has been consolidated and the yanks of the Party remain unbroken. Party unity is the gift which the E y presents to the Congress. Opposition Defeated. “The | Opposition’s speculations about imminent difficulties have fail- cd dismally, The Menshevist nature of Trotskyism has been exposed more clearly than ever before. The politi- eal paralytics are deserting the prole- tarian camp while tens of thousands of new workers are joining the Party.” The results of the pre-Congress dis- cussions of the question of the Oppo- sition published in the Pravda show that out of a total of 780,862 who participated in the discussion, 724,066 voted for the line of the Central Com- mittee, 4120 (0.5 per cent) for the Opposition and 2,676 (or 0.3 per cent) abstained. According to preliminary returns for November 70,340 working men and women applied for membership in the Wavkers Party tn Cable Greets USSR Communist Congress, The Workers (Communist) Party of America sent its greetings to the Fifteenth Congress of the All Union Communist Party by cable yesterday. | The text of the message follows in full: “The Workers (Communist) Party of America sends fraternal greetings to the Fifteenth Congress of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union.! Together with the whole Communist International we take pride in the tremendous achievements in Socialist reconstiuction of the toiling masses of the Soviet Union. The five-year economic plan submitted to the con- gress by the central committee con- stitutes another long stride in the di- rection of socialism and provided for further improvement of the conditions of the masses, including the introduc- tion of the seven-hour day. This is increasing the faith of the toiling masses of the world in Communism, (Continued on Page Two) ce Their transfer to the jurisdic- tion of the military authorities is another desperate effort to break the morale of the coal miners and crush the strike. The adjutant general of the militia refused Thursday to hold four pris- oners outside of the two counties where military law is in force. He refused not because he favors the strikers but because he wants to force the governor’s hand. The militia want martial law -and power to stop all meetings. The militia at present is spread all over the coal fields. It is not known what Colonel New- lon will do with the nineteen prison- ers but it is believed they will be held as a free speech fight is developing which will further embarrass the governor. Students who have been speaking at strike meetings have been threat- ened with expulsion from Denver University but they defy the author- ities and declare their belief that the strikers are right and that they will stand by them. . Twenty theological students at- tended a strike meeting Thursday and seven of them spoke for the miners. The capitalist papers admit today that the striking miners are stand- ing firm and that the efforts to re- open the mines has been a failure. Every dollar of relief aids the min- ers. Militia Break up Meeting. The militia broke up a meeting near the Leyden mine, close to Den- ver. The striking miners then went to Arvada, nearby, and sent a hurry call for students. The students ral- lied to them Friday afternoon. As many members of the militia are stu- dents these events are of great sig- nificance. It is clear that the strike can be broken only by wholesale intimida- tion and starvation. Governor Breaks Promise. The imprisoned strike leaders have been handed over to the military au- thorities in spite of the absolute as- surance that this would not be done which was given to A. A. Heist, representing the American Civil Lib- erties Union by Governor Adams Thursday afternoon. The governor quoted Ranger Mal- den as reporting to him that charges would be filed against Hugo Oehler and Paul Sideler at once yet these very men are among those on their way north in charge of the military. WOULD REGISTER LOBBYISTS. WASHINGTON, D.°C., Dec. 2. — bill requiring congressional lobbyists to be registered and denying privi- of congress who are lobbyists, will be \introduced in the house by Schafer (R) of Wisconsin, he an- nounced Ypday. leges of the floor to former members | Rep. | Sram ‘Miners Here For Mass Meeting to Raise General Relief Among the speakers at a mass meeting for the relief of the strik- ing coal miners Sunday at the Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. near 9th St., at 2 p. m. will be Anthony Minerich, Vincent Kem- enovich and Milan Sjervas, strik- ers direct from the struggle in the Pittsburgh district. The meeting, held under the auspices of the Miners’ Relief Committee, will urge support for the miners of Colorado as well as those of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Other speakers will be John Brophy and Powers Hapgood, mil- itant miners’ leaders. The three miners from the field of struggle will remain in New SEAN © Benito Mussolini York a week to address trade unions and other organizations. They will appear Sunday in their He clothes. GOOLIDGE'S REPLY TO. DISARMAMENT IS LARGER NAVY USSR Peace Plan Shows Up Hypocrisy WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Presi- dent Coolidge does not believe it would be for “the welfare of the world” to abandon navies entirely, as proposed by the Soviet delegation to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference, it was stated at the White House today. Although Coolidge has not exam- ined the details of the Soviet propos- als, he says he believes that it would be in no case applicable to the United States, who military forces are re- garded by him as limited to “police requirements” and the security of American mortgages abroad. It was also revealed that he contemplates some program in the forthcoming ses- sion of congress for the construction of additional cruisers. Eight cruisers have been laid down under this administration. The presi- dent says that many of the existing warcraft are “old and replacements are necessary.” . i. Waste Time. GENEVA, Dec. 2—The disarm- ament conference will end tonight or tomorrow night with no apparent re- sults. The Soviet Union, hqwever, has conclusively proved that the capital- ist powers do not want to disarm and that they will fight any genuine dis- armament proposal. After the straightforward concrete disarmament proposal put forward by Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviet Union’s delegation, the question of disarmament was not even discussed. The work of the conference revolved about the meetings of the security commission which accomplished prac- tically nothing. Britain Won’t Disarm. The attitude of the capitalist pow- ers toward disarmament was clearly expressed this afternoon by Lord | Cushenden, who in a statement to the press today declared that “Britain cannot disarm any more.” The Soviet Union offered its pro- posal with little expectation that the capitalist powers would accept it. Sev- eral days before the opening of the conference the Pravda in an editorial declared, “The Soviet delegation will go to Geneva not because the Soviet government has changed its position on the Geneva ‘talking club’ cause it wishes again to stress its { peace-loving policy. The Soviet Union will be in a position n Geneva to prove by indisputable facts those who really wish to disarm and th6se who lare irreconcilably opposed to it.” The Soviet delegation of sixteen members will leave for Moscow to- morrow, it was learned. The laying of the cornerstone to- morrow morning of the third and fourth block of homes of the Workers Cooperative Association at 180th St. and Bronx Park East will mark the latest step in the development of this project. The second block of cooperative homes will be completed and ready 'dancing. ‘New York Workers to Join in Cornerstone Ceremonies at Bronx Co-operative Sunday for occupancy at the end of the pres- ent month. Speakers representing the associa- tion, New York trade unions, the Workers (Communist) Party, The DAILY WORKER and “The Freiheit” will be on the program. Following the speeches there will be a program of entertainment and but be- | en Fascist dictator whose bloody re- gime is supported by U. S. Wall Street bankers, now also shown as backing Mussolini’s agents in U. S. who directs railroading of two Ital- ian workers to “death house by Christmas.” a, Pierpont Morgan Head of J. P. Morgan & Co., in- ternational bank, which supplies the golden props for Mussolini’s bloody dictatorship. ‘As revealed to- day, the banking house of Morgan has its connection also with Musso- lini’s gangster-organization in the U. S. thru Count di Revel, acknowl- edged chief organizer of fascisti in this country. LABOR LEAGUE CONFERENCE IS OPENING TODAY Two Hundred Delegates| Arnve “More than 200 delegates have sent in their credentials to the Third National Conference of the Trade Union Educational League, which opens this morning at the Central Opera House,” stated Wm. Z. Foster (secretary-treasurer of the league) when interviewed regarding the con- ference. “This response to our conference call,” said Foster, “which is the larg- est we have ever had, shows that the spirit of the ranke and file union members has not been crushed by the unprecedented war of suppression carried on against the left wing dur- ing the past two years. The T. U. stronger than ever before.” “The terrible struggle now being so desperately waged by the miners, the offensive against the very right to existence of the unions shown in the avalanche of court injunctions, the at- tack against the 8-hour day on the (Continued on Page Two) WORKER DES FROM BURNS. William Kotch, 89, a laborer of 102 Clay street, Brooklyn, died early yes- terday at St. John’s Hospital from burns suffered on Monday night when he fell into a vat of boiling water at the Ravenswood Paper Mills, Marion street and Payntar avenue, Long Is- land City, where he was employed. POET'S SENTENCE IN DAILY WORKER Upholding the $500 fine against the yr Publishing Company tion and sentence to the ot David Gordon, author | reformator of the poem “America,” but reve’ the decision of the court of special sessions under which William F. Dunne ser 0 days in the work ummer and Bert Miller ombs, the superior court |house Ia yesterds anded down its d mn in the *prosecution brought agains The DAILY WORKER by the Key: | men of America and the Veterans of | Foreign Wars, “patriotic” organiza- | tions. Will Appeal. Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney for the defendants, states that Gordon’s case will be taken to the supreme court. The publication of the poem “Amer- ica” in the magazine section of The DAILY WORKER on March 12 of this year was claimed to be a viola- tion of the New York statute pro- hibiting the publication of “lewd, las- eivious and obscene” matter. E. L. is emerging from this struggle GASE 1S UPHELD ‘MINERS’ LOCALS DEMAND MILITANT _ FIGHT FOR UNION | | Hundreds of of Resolutions| | Urge Organization (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Dee. 2.—According to miners in this district hundreds of | militant resolutions similar to the one | given below are lying in the waste- | IN GRECO AND CARRILLO FRAME-UP, Mussolini’ s Agent “Bond Salesman” for itecgall and International Bankers = OF COUNT DIREVEL, FASCIST CHIEF | |Two New, York Italian Workers Going to Trial! |Monday; To Get Death for Opposing Mussolini? | The Wall Street banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan and |Company was revealed last night as the principal behind Count |Thaon di Revel, head of the Fascist League of North America |and chief instigator in the prosecution of Calogero Greco and |Donato Carrillo, two Italian workers whose trial on ae charges opens in the Bronx County Court on Monday, December } 5, before the Bronx County Court in New York. | The connection of the organized fascist bands with Wall} Street’s biggest banking house, powerful in international polities | and in the Washington government, was made public today in al statement issued by James P. Cannon, national secretary of In-! ternational Labor Defense, 80! | Bast llth Street, which has |been conducting an investiga- tion into the anti-labor activities of the Fascist League of North! America. J oseph Carisi basket of the United Mine Workers of America officialdom in the district | and Indianapolis bffices. I have seen! a number—and heard of many more | —resolutions passed by local unions demanding a walk-out in all the dis- tricts, organization of unorganized fields, strike relief, cutting down of salaries of the international organ- izers thruout the strike area from the present scale of $10 a day and $10 and $15, or whatever it may be for expenses, etc, Demand Lewis Resign. One resolution from an Allegheny | Valiey local demanded, simply and | briefly, that Lewis get out of the job he had ‘stolen. It was without par-| liamentary flourishes, and all the whereases were omitted. Miners around do not need any whereas to| explain why Lewis should go. It ran like this: “Resolved, that Lewis stole an elec- tion and should resign and give place | to John Brophy who we elected.” 4\nother ress!uticn passed by & lu- | cal of some 1520 members at Vesta | No. 4 mine near the unorganized coke (Continued on Page Ywo) Students Anti-Drill Meeting Here Today The Student Council of New York has called a conference of students’ organizations of the metropclitan dis- | trict for 10 a. m. today at the Madison Square Hotel, 87 Madison Ave. The | |purpose of the conference is to mo bilize the students against military jiraining in the colleges, according to | ja statement yesterday, The conference is a direct result of the recent suspension from the col- lege of the City of Ni Rothenberg and Ale: for their opposition to m jin the college. announced yesterday that if not reinstated, ler Lifshitz ‘y drill | tion of v York of Leo \ a delega- | char dents will take the matter | As he posed in uniform of Mus- solini’s gangster organization in America, of which Count Thaon di Revel, connected with J. P. Morgan & Co. chief organizer. iCase Against Three |Window Washers Ends | After deliberating for nearly five |hours yesterday the jury in General Sessions Court, Part 8, with Judge | Otto A. Rosalsky presiding, dis: Jas to the guilt of Harry Hom Peter Lahowit and Nic Slobod- | Iniak, striking window c ed with felonious assault During the t over- jruled all objetcions made by “Jacques efore Mayor Walker. reinstated. Rothenberg for the m i of trade unic jury to forget that the the men grew out reman reported seven r acquital and five for | conviction. Daily Worker Will Feature Tre action Workers’ Next week the DAILY WORK- ER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, will begin the regular publication of the news of the New York traction situation. All the doings in the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Blectric Railway Employes of Am- erica, things that take place on the job, developments in the company union, what the men are thinking, what organized labor in general is ai ts | Fight Against Injunction, Company Unionism doing to help organize the most im- portant New York industry,—all of this will be reported in a di detailed and significant way ev day. Read the DAILY WORKER daily. Ask your news dealer to earry this valuuable paper on his stand and in his order book. Pass the word to your fellow workers that one powerful newspaper in New York will carry your message and help fight your battles. \° | Tillie Connection Kept Secret. Di Revel’s connection with the Morgan banking concern has been carefully kept quiet in New York fi- jnancial circles. Inquiries made by a |reporter for the DAILY WORKER at the Morgan offices, 23 Wall St., for information on Di Revel’s con- nections . were evasively answered. Requests for information by tele- | phone were firmly refused by the ap- |parently well-instructed secretaries. | Careful investigation finally re-= pvealed, however, that Count di Revel his attached to the Italian bonds de- |partment of Munds Winslow and |Company, at 1 East 42nd Street, and that he is directly connected with Morgan and Company, for whom he has arranged the sale of several Ital- ian bond issues. Admits Connecti Di Revel. unw this when he ad With Morgan. ely confirmed , ted to a Dé WORKER reporter his consi with the House of Morgan which have hitherto been so carefully con- cealed. “T have arranged the Italian bonds for Morg »’ said the count. “While I am not a member of the consortium, I have worked with the Morgan concern on the sale of many of their Italian issues.” Reached Thru Morgan Bank. Despite their reticence on Di Revel’s direct connection with the Morgan, concern, the office of the Morgan bank finally gave the DAILY WORKER reporter the information that the count could be reached at the branch office of Munds Winslow and Company. Calogero Greco and Donato Car- illo, anti-f st ¥ will go on trial for murder > Bronx County Court Monday morning. Clarence Darrow, leading criminal trial lawyer, in this ¢ been in the Br July 11, when (Conti is chief de The nse counsel defendants have County Jail since were arrested on ued om Page Two) PICKETS CLASH WITH N.Y. COPS; TWO ARRESTED That ing With to bri actively cooperate nployers in an attempt trike of Local 41, In- Garment Workers’ 20 shops where the po been locked out, is b .Jocal union officials. Member of the local have been locked ou, 1 growing numbers dur- ing the last two we due to their refusal register with the dual union ¢ nized | the right wing group of the I. S. G. W. Local 41 spo tion at the H W. 36th St. arrested yes! men cite police ac- n Pleating Co., 315 where two strikers were terday. Thrown On Sidewalk. ‘ox was the first to be taken jinto custody, the union reports, She |was thrown on the sidewalk, it is {ct rged, before being placed under ar When the arresting officer |reached the corner with his prisoner |Gertrude Steloller, shop chairman of the Harrison Pleating Co. workers, | also was arrested, Magistrate Dodge in the’ waynes (Continued on Page Five)