The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THD 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE Vol. IV. No. 278, JSSR WANTS PEACE, STALIN TELLS °°°**?° * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, b: Outside New York, ALL UNION COMMUNIST CONGRESS Ypposition Must Disarm Completely to Remain in Ranks of All Union Party (Special Cable to The MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. DAILY WORKER.) 4.—Joseph Stalin, the General by mail, $6.00 per year, 3ecretary of the All Union Communist Party opened the morning session of the Fifteenth Party Congress in the Kremlin with an analysis of the international situation. He was continuously in- serrupted with loud and enthusiastic cheers of approval. U.S. S. R. Pregress Sweeping. After a powerful and sweeping picture of the development and consolidation of the Soviet Union under the leadership of a ~®Leninist Party, Stalin analyzed Entered aw second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927 y mail, $8.00 per year, Ee ae 1 ta ALY WORKER. March 3, 1878. TRIKE BREAKING MILITIA QUARTERED IN HOME OF STRIKING MINER AT COLUMBINE Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New GOVERNOR ADAMS | Columbine Would York, FINAL CITY EDITION Wi. ¥. Price 3 Cents SLIPS AWAY 10 “GARE FOR HIS CATTLE,” LEAVING LUDLOW KILLER 10 BREAK STRIKE Colorado Executive “Tipped Off” That Guard at Slaughter Pickets “Put the College Students Underground,” Say Militiamen Trying to Remove Witnesses (Special To The DAIT.Y WORKER.) DENVER, Colo., Dec. 4.—With Governor Adams quietly fad- ing from the scene to his ranch home twelve hours’ travel from | Denver to “‘care for his cattle,” and with the Colorado state militia POWERS DELAY — ‘ot ARMS MEET IN SPITE OF US.SR. Sonference Ends After Litvinoff’s Motion GENEVA, Dec. 4.—The Prepara- cory Disarmament Conference, which slosed yesterday, will not meet again itil March, despite the proposal of Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviet Union’s delegation, for a meeting sarly in January for the considera- ion of the disarmament question. Litvinoff attempted to separate the issues of disarmament and security which he claimed an entirely differ- mt. The “security” question .has seen used to evade the issue of com- dlete disarmament, it is charged. Delay Meeting. Despite Litvinoff’s resolution, the) Preparatory Commission will not! the international situation. pointed out the aggravation of the differences between the cap- italist countries and the growth of class contradictions within these lands. ° Dwelling on the problems of the Chinese Revolution, Stalin expressed the firm belief that its re- vival was only a question of time. The speaker pointed to the efforts of the Soviet Union to preserve peace in eontrast to the capitalist powers. Further development, Stalin declared, must inevitably lead to revolutionary shocks. Socialism Gains. The second part of Stalin’s speech described the achievements of the Party in the field of national economy, |The socialist sector of the nationalist economy has grown considerably at the expense of private capital, the speaker indicated. The rapid pace of the development of the Soviet Union’s industry is due to the fact that the entire people’s economy has been placed on a minutely planned basis. Referring, in the last part of his speech, to the question of the Oppo- Soldiers of the state of Colorado, sent by Gevernor Adams to kili miners if they picket at the Co- lumbine mine, resting in the home of a miner after he has been driven out. ers and Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. mine guards killed six strikers and wounded dozens more, At the Columbine state troop- = = | —= L = ] Pri _ = Lome] —_ Pra i] [ ——} ep: ! PLEDGES TO “SAVE THE UNIONS” Delegates Send Telegrams of Greeting To Tom Mooney and Warren Billings Two thousand workers, including three hundred delegates to meet again until March 15th. Lit- vinoff declared that he will serve as the Soviet Union’s observer at the soming meeting of the Security Com- nission. . Litvinoff has postponed his depart- ire for Moscow until Monday in or- jer to discuss the relations between he Soviet Union and France with sition, Stalin said, “If previously one could have asked in what lay the dif- ferences between the Party and Op- position, one must now ask whether there exists a single point of agree- ment between them.” What is to happen to the Opposition now? Stalin asked. It is being said that the Opposition intends to sub- Briand, as mit a declaration to the congress, in “Soviet Union’s reso-| the Party decisions and to dissolve its ution, Litvinoff declared, “We of the | fraction. At the same time, it adds the third national conference to the Trade Union Educational League were brought to their feet in enthusiastic applause in one of the most dramatic incidents ever to have taken place at a New York workers’ meeting, when three members of the Miners’ Relief Committee, dressed in their miners’ costumes, with their head lamps lighted as if prepared to enter the gloomy: recesses of a Pennsylvania mine, marched into the meeting chamber at Central Opera House, in which the third national conference of the Trade Union Edtcational League was being held, and called upon the represefitatives ta unite the forces of the lé’t wing move- ment in an attempt to save the miners’ union from, the destruc- Soviet Union are convinced that the date of the next session of the dis- armament commission should not de- pend on what may not be done by the special committee which is studying security. We do not regard the work of this latter committee as indispens- able to the success of disarmment. Moreover, the program drawn up for the attention of the security commit- | tee consists largely in an extension to remodejling the convenant of the League of Nations.” Coolidge Program. The news of the big cruiser pro- zram which. President Coolidge in- vends to urge upon Congress has at- tracted a great deal of attention here and is regarded in certain quarters as the answer of the United States to the Soviet Union’s proposal for com- plete and immediate disarmament. Mexican Reaction Says Morrow Fires Morones that it will defend within the Party the views it has heretofore held. Opposition Must Disarm. Amidst the stormy applause of the congress, Stalin declared that this will be vain. If the Opposition wishes to remain in the Party any longer it must “disarm ideologically and or- ganizationally,” and openly before the whole Party and the working class (Continued on Page Two) Military Training Hit At Students’ Meeting Compulsory military training in colleges was condemned at a confer- enee held Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Hotel, where 12 stu- dent institutions were represented. The meeting considered the cases of Leo Rothenberg and Alexander Lifshitz, students in City College who SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 4.— | were recently suspended for opposing Stories circulated here that Luis M. | compulsory military training. Rothen- Morones, head of the “Crom” the |berg was loudly applauded when he Mexican Federation of Labor, has re- | spoke. He has since been reinstated, tion with which it is threatened. the cheering of the visiting sym- pathizers and delegates. With banners flying and slogans held aloft they too symbolized the spirit of militancy and promise which has characterized the most significant conference yet to be held by the advance guard of the American working class. Telegrams to Mooney and Billings, prisoners of California class war jus- tice, as well as to the Colorado pris- oners and the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners were sent by the conference with the expressions of the solidarity and support of the left wing in the struggle to free these militant suf- ferers for the labor movement. The delegates representing the militant sections of the organized and unorganized labor movement of the country listened to a report. by} Hardly less picturesque was the Chinese delegation of mili- tants representing sections of Oriental workers as they paraded into the crowded auditorium to®@—________ _ —_— NEW LRT. ATTACK ON TRACTION MEN BY BOSSES? UNION ‘Workers Joining Union \In Increasing Numbers | That the Interborough Rapid Tran- |sit Co. officials by means of their j company union, the Brotherhood of I are plan- Interborough Employees, ning a new attack on the organiza- tion activities of its workers became }known yesterday. through interviev | with several union members of local division number 977 of the car mens’ Secretary-Treasurer William Z, Fo: ter, in which he analyzed the policies and past program of the League, and} rion, Members of the general comn ittee signed his cabinet post under Presi- | dent Calles because of the increase of | Morrow’s influence over Calles, are ‘oing around the counter revolution- | ry lexican emigree circles here. No \ official confirmation, is pos- ible. 3HIPW RECKED SAILORS’ SAVED GALV\ESTON, Texas, Dec. 4. Hight en were rescued from a wrecked stzhooner and picked up by the Japanese steamer Calcutta Maru, which is due to reach Galveston to- Lifshitz still stands suspended. Picketing of City College as a pro- test was suggested by several dele. gates. 104 DIE IN CASPIAN SEA. MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—The toll of the Caspian Sea Storm is now put at 104 drowned, with 900 fishermen still | missing. More than 500 fishing smacks are still) marooned in the ice. The crews of most of the boats are facing death as a result of lack of day, according to radio advices re- heard him issue a stirring call for renewed activity in a “Save The Trade Union Movement” ca |were Earl Browder, American dele- gate to the Pan Pacific Trade Union {national Situation; Wm. F. Dunne, lorganized; H. M. Wicks, delegate |from the Typographical Union left bor Party and Jack Johnstone, whos subject was Build the Left Win; followed the reports of these speakers | Other speakers at the con! erence : Conference, who spoke on the Inter- | whose subject was Organize the Un-| wing section, who spoke on For a La-| Genera! discussion by the delé ates | of the company union are kn | have met ing at whie to ceatly in a secret meet- h, P. J. Connoliy, pic sident of the Brotherliood, p on the orders of James L. Quacl bush, generai counsel for the In borough, that all men hereafter be placed under the p e ed sponsibi of the va bi of the th gen- eral comm be able 01 tion only on con- ition that the agitation of his men is reducéd to a minimum. Workers Indifferent. In addition, P. J. Connolly began {to mainta: Thomas W. Lamont President of pro-fascist “Italy- America” society and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., biggest Wall St. bank with which Count di Revel, organizer of “Fascist League of America” has | connections. The “Fascist League of America” is directly pushing prosecution of Greco and Carrillo, two New York Italian workers, who opposed Mussolini and | who will be “in death house by Christ- | mas” if fascist hopes are realized. MORE PROOF THAT WALL ST. BACKS GRECO FRAME - UP Lamont and Child Lead Pro-Fascist Society Con nation of the facts showing the interest of big Wall Street bank- ing houses in the case of Callegero Greco and Donato Carrilo, the two Italian workers who, according to District Attorney John E. McGeehan, jare to be sent “to the death house by | ,. | Christmas” in a murder trial result-| |ing from their opposition to Musso- }lini’s gangster organization in this |eountry, have obtained by The | DAILY WORKER since the exposure {inthe ec f this paper last Sat- turday of the |Thaon di Revel, organizer of the |fascists in the United States, with the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. The fact that Thomas W. Lamont, | now recruited up to full war s ength with thugs and the young ' boys in it all sent home, the way is clear for fresh massacres of the | pickets in the Colorado coal mine strike. | The notorious Colonel Pat breaking. WHO SLASHED | GROSS INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Assaulted Fur Leader During Strike wing gangsters who murderously as- saulted Aaron Gross, chief business agent of the Joint Board, Furriers Union more than six months ago dur- ing the strtke against the associated shops have been re-indicted by the grand jury, it was learned yesterday. When the assault took place dur- ing the strike, the two right wing jury. At that time they were bailed out by the right wing of the Interna- tional Fur Workers Union and were represented in court by former as- sistant District Attorney Samuel Markewich, counsel for the right wing of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union. There has been a great deal of re- sentment in many circles at the crude |way by which the attackers freed, without even the pretense of a trial. It is said that this caused Assist- ant District’ Attorney Pecora to ap- quest new indictments. Friedman was immediately taken into custody and will appear in the court of general sessions, part one, this morning. Cohen, it is said, ean not be found, a warrant being out for his arrest. Labor Here Pledges Support to Miners: in Their Support for the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado was B. Cohen and S. Friedman, right} thugs were jailed; later the charge, | however, was dropped by the grand} pear before the grand jury and re-} Struggle Hamrock is in charge of strike- He was commander of the militia sent to Ludlow, and *therefore onsible for the |massacre there by fire and bula lets of the miners’ families live jing in tents after being driven jfrom their homes in a strike. | Hamrock is now holding the office | of civil service commissioner, but his jconnection with the activities of thet militia now seems clear. | “Sleep Soundly.” | It has been ascertained that the jnight before the Colombine killing |was engineered, when plans had evi- | dently been made to slaughter pickets lin th ing, Governor Adams was |told by Louis Scherf, head gunmen of the Columbine, that “You can sleep; soundly knowing nothing will happen in the morning.” he morni What happened in the morning was that the peaceful, unarmed pickets, crowded together before the mine property, were fired into with rifles, automatic pistols and machine guns, the machine guns being posted il- legally on the company’s property. Governor Clears Way. Now the governor has sleep” twelve hours ride away from Denver. But before he left the Suns day News of .Denver stated: “The governor says the strike is about over and all danger is past, and he is go- ing to his rach to care for his cattle for ‘a week.” - Informed individuals fear for the |worst. The Columbine has failed to drive its men back to work, and the |reorganized militia, now under the |direct infuence of Hamrock and men of his type, are ready for more blood- shed. (Continued on Page Fivey ARMED SCABS AT COVERDALE RIOT THRU MINE TOWN State Troopers Refuse Aid; “Protect Property” PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4.—In accord ance with the coal operators’ present policy of pushing the campaign against the locked-out miners to a “gone to - climax, the Pittsburgh Terminal: Coal voiced at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. by the Miners’ Relief Committee. In spite of the storm a large body of workers were present donated $133 |to the relief fund and pledged to raise j|more money within the next few | weeks. | The | Powers Hapgood, and Pat Toohey, |leading militants in the United Mine | , connection of Count| Workers Union of America; Vincent | ;, | Kemenovick and Toney Minerach, who {came direct from the strike region in their working clothes. They were loudly cheered by, the assembled workers. Alfred Wagenknecht, also speakers were John Brophy, Company is formenting and organize ing mass attacks of scabs on the strikers and their Coverdale mine of the company, Ben Smith, miner-elected constable, who insists on searching and disarming scabs menacing the strikers was re= cently arrested by the company. At’ Coverdgle the atmosphere of violence and ister brooding over mp is becoming unendurable for , as the company means erdale is only five miles families. At the to be. Jout of Pittsburgh, but a trolley line only connection with the town, the camp is far up the om the trolley stop, on the hillside, solated, remote, j at : \ food. | the first of a series of ani ‘' ‘ . ke. L: Ross of the local | Scabs cotyed Lats oy wy ae after which the conference divided it-|to the workers in ahidhi he alain eee. an the firm of J::2 Morgen relief Somraleds presided. ara pain a we bi | nak . ; self into special committees for the|that letters are coming in to him| © ©» iS President of the “Italy geen. Soe mER aoe Se ee erie Building a Firm Base for the Struggle Against analysis of special topics relating to|from the men pledging their loyalty Popa oe it tia riod p ak Waal nears ea gf: ia es = c y a raleeccic. th sates ru whieh Italian merchants in is iy a ; Reaction— The Third National Conference |'"* coming years works the workers are entirely inditfor.|t® United States are coerced into|f IPQ OIRRTS: | tier of the company see The Fight on Reaction. Lento thoes” tastiag’ Py inaiit<T-| submission and support of Mussolini’s abl But about 200 additional ones—Oover~ of the Trade Union Educational League By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. The Third National Conference of the Trade Union Educa- tional League which ended its two-day session last night, attended by some’800 militant trade unionists from practically every sec- tion of industry, was the only trade union gathering in the last two years which gave hope to the American workingclass. 7 ‘At the conference were the delegated representatives of the’ ~~ left wing in the labor movement—the only section of the labor movement which has a program meeting the needs of the work- ers in this period when official reaction, coupled with the open “drive of the bosses against the unions, as in the coal mining /|movement of the united States and} industry, has created a situation in which the very life of the labor movement is at stake. Organization of the millions of workers in basic industry - who are outside of the unions, campaigns initiated by the existi by ps amp of, organization ions, or by the building Page Two) pee Foster, in pointing out the especial- | ‘ly critical condition of the trade union the unusual significance of the pres-| ent conference of the advance guard| of the workers, called attention to the increasing reaction of the bureau- cratic officials and their attempt This was the sign for redoubled Ae- tivity on the part of the left wing, he‘said. The Trade Union Educa- tional League had been proven en. | tirely correct in its estimate of the| situation and the slogans which had been issued. Previous Judgment Correct. He referred in particular to the slogans directed in the railroad workers’ and miners’ struggles. slogan of ‘Amalgamation or Anihila- (Continued on Page Five) 4 aces ip nation, At the officc of the Amalgamated Assotiation,~406 E. 149th St., the number of workers ‘oining the union is steadily increas- ing. The question as to when the union officials are planning w call | the expected strike 1s uppermost. That such a strike is inevitable and é ial thei to |that without it no mass organization stifle all militancy within the unio: can be accomplished is the conviction ot a majority of those with whom ne spoke, DAILY WORKER reporter On Own Ground. The injunctions sought by the I. R. T. and the activities concerned with fighting it in court, does not seem to interest the men to any great extent. As an old grey haired motor- man expressed himself: “Ydu can’t beat money and you can’t beat the The! courts on their ground.” When reminded of the recent state- (Continued on Page Five) | bloody dictatorship, is only one of a | series of facts now shown to add weight to the evidence. Morgan and Co. Hold Key Posts In addition to holding the presiden- ey of the Italy America Society thru Thomas W. Lamont one of the prin- cipal partners, the Morgan firm also controls the office of treasurer of the society, which position is held by Francis D. Bartow, likewise a mem- ber of the Morgan firm with offices at 23 Wall St. In the recent “elec- tion” of officers held by the society in April of this year, the committee which named the slate duly chosen at its recommendation, consisted of Thomas W. Lamont, and Francis D. Bartow. : That the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company exercises direct _ kContinued on Page Two) ‘ dale is a large mine—- are planted jright among the union families up Jin the company houses ia the “pateh” as it is called. The seventy families . Meet Tonight to Be in Cam aj Ve in the peayerbircts: g Paign all around, |The r ic rted late at night. ’ families were already | Arrangements for waging an en- sping and the patch was quiet. ergetic campaign against the hem-|Suddenly a wild-chorus of howls and ‘stiching employers and the union | cur and threats broke loose out- ‘smashing right wing of the Inter-| side and the crash of glass as a vol- national Ladies Garment Workers |!ey of rocks came hurling through ‘Union will be taken up at a meeting | the windows of the strikers’s shacks, of Local 41, I. L. G. W. U. tonight | 924 gun-shots sounded. — About three immediately after work at Irving | hundred scabs were milling around on ¢ alon Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The speakers at tonight’s meeting will be Louis Hyman, manager of the |Joint Board, Cloakmakers’ Union; | Board. {the hillside, hurling rocks at the {uni houses and yellings for the jstri sers “to come on out.”/ The scattered union families, un- prepared, outnumbered, were helpless, supervision Ben Gold, manager of the Joint| For hours the rioting went on, ’till (Continued on Page Two)