The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1927, Page 1

FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NIZEO FOR THO 40-MOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 279. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. “ CONTINUED SPREAD OF COMMUNISM IN U.S. $B, REFUTES OPPOSITION / Industrial Progress Is Also Reported At Party Convention In Moscow (Special Cable to The DAILY WORKER.) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927 MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Dec. 5.—Enthusiastic reports dealing , with the phenomenal growth of membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the achievements of the trade unions; | and the attitude to be taken toward any attempts on the part of the leaders of the Opposition to form a separate party, were if -————© among the outstanding phases | Mine, near Denver. ‘THE DAILY WORKER. MINERS DECLARE TO LEAGUE THEY RELY ON LEFTS discussed at yesterday’s session of the Fifteenth Congress of the \Communist Party of the Soviet | Union now being held here. | The discussion was opened by Ug- | ]anov, secretary of the Moscow organ- | | ization who declared that “during the | jlast two years antagonisms have | grown graver between the U. S. 8. R. land the capitalist countries of the world.” This belies the allegation, he | said, that the world bourgeoisie con- iders that the Soviet Union is de- |My, ; his i aseating and adapting the eee ade Union Education Conference Pledges Aid lests of the November Revolution to| the interests #& the capitalist coun- tries. That only. the left wing and militant support of the miners in their present critical struggle can save the labor movement was the tenor of the re- port of several rank and file miners | from the Pennsylvania coal fields to PRAVDASCORES LEAGUE POWERS ONDISARMAMENT Says Capitalist Powers Don’t Want Peace MOSCOW, Dec. 5. — Newspapers here scathingly denounce the break- ing up of the Preparatory Disarma- | ment Commission at Geneva as an- | other nail in the League of Nations coffin. | Solidarity Develops. ‘ “The Opposition accuses us,” | said Uglanov, “of bringing a spirit of limited nationalism into Lenin’s Pravda, official organ of the All- Union Communist Party, declares: “The imperialist robbers shout peace, but do not want it. About this fact the bourgeois politicians will not be able to cheat the people much longer. By refusing to discuss the Soviet proposals they have bared themselves as fakers.” a a * GENEVA, Dec. 5.—Intensive diplo- | theory regarding the possibility of building socialism in only one coun- try. However, the Opposition appar- ently forgets about the development ‘of the spirit of international class solidarity.” Referring to the struggle in other \countries, the speaker said: “Is not ithe support we rendered to the Brit- lish miners and the Chinese Revolu- |tion an example of international sol- idarity? The doubts expressed by | matic negotiations concerning Polish-|the Opposition at the Fourteenth Lithuanian controversy and the com-|Congress regarding the building of | mercial and diplomatic relations be-|cocialism denies even the validity of tween the Sovict Union and Great Britain preceded the opening of the League of Nations Council meeting here today. Although the Soviet Union is not a member of the league, Maxim Lit- vinoff, head of the Soviet Union dele- gation to the League Preparatory Dis- armament Conference, was one of the most active of the statesmen assem- Chang Loh, Peking minister to France, presided over the first ses- sion, which was called to order just before noon. Forty-eight states are represented, i Briand, who came to Geneva Sun- day, received delegates from eleven countries, including the Soviet Union. It was then that Litvinoff asked the French minister’s aid in the arrange- ment of an interview with Austen Chamberlain. Immediately after conferring with Briand, Litvinoff called upon the Lith- uanian delegates and asked them to take a “moderate” attitude, also to employ every possible means for a settlement. SEE POLITICAL TRICK IN DAWES BOOSTOFLOWDEN WASHINGTON, Dee. 4.—Republi- | ean leaders gathering here for the party love feast that always accom- panies a republican national commit- tee meeting greeted with bland iles today Charles G. Dawes’ an- ncement that he is not a candi- datte for the presidency next year. hely do not consider that the gener- al hehs removed himself from the re- publiecgn vieture any more than Pres- jdent Cyolidge did when he said enig- maticall\y, “I do not choose to run.” ‘As a \natter of fact, a number of the comitteemen pointed out that (Comtinued on Page Two) ne FULLER’S TRIP SECRET. Governor Alyan T. Fuller, who | ruled for the death of Sacco and Van- zetti, returns to his desk December 7 after a secret trip to Europe. Fear caused the secrecy that surrounded his departure. zs — Litvinoff, Chamberlain. | Confer at Geneva; Not Agreed at First Meet GENEVA, Dec. 5.—Maxim Lit- vinoff, head of the Soviets Union's delegation to the Geneva disarm- ament conference, conferred with) Austen Chamberlain, British for- eign secretary here this afternoon. A brief statement issued by the British delegation to the League of Nations Council immediately after the conference declared that “it had not,been found possible to _|reach any basis of agreement with- in the course of the interview.” Fes ait aldain Name hae Me the proletarian dictatorship.” | Parting of Ways. Uglanov declared that the only paths left to the Opposition is either to eapitulate entirely or to pursue its activities directed againSt the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union in full cooperation with the social-demo- crats. “Leaders of the Opposition,’ he ation of another party and against any split whatever. That these dec- larations of the Opposition are in- sincere is shown by its Bulletin 27 in December in which the Opposition toward the Communist Party. “The Opposition,’ Uglanov con- cluded, “can remain in the Commun- ist Party only on condition that they completely and sincerely capitulate.” Improver Technique. Prior to the address by Uglanov the congress heard the report of Kursky regarding the work of the Auditing Commission especially re- garding its work.on the improyement and simplification methods and the work and apparatus of the Central Committee. Kaganovitch, of the Ukraine, de- \clared that the Central Committee of fields of work, “Since the Four- teenth Party Congress,” he said “the said “stated they were agains: the cre- still persisted in its hostile attitude | the Communist Party is in a position }to record enormous successes in all! | the concluding session of the third an- ; nual conference of the Trade Union | Educational League, held at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave- nue, New York. | The enthusjastic response oi the | three hundred delegates and the two | thousand visitors to the appeal of the miners’ delegation was a significant indication of the important role to be played by the delegates, | Miners Appear. | Interrupting its regular procedure, | the conference listened to a detailed | account by the first speaker, Brother | Smith of the United Mine Workers Union of conditions in the Pennsyl- vania coal fields. “The coal compan- j ies,” he said, “are controlled by Sec- retary Mellon and others who are out |to smash the miners’ union and other unions. The fight in Pennsylvania and in Ohio has been going on for 8 months. The miners have sa¢rificed as much as they possibly can; they have given up their livelihood, homes, freedom. They have been beaten up and driven into the highways; they \are now living in barracks and their children go to school barefooted. . . Left Wing Concerned. “What would it mean to the teft wing to have the miners’ union | smashed? If this union is broken up | we will have to fight all over again to regain the little which even now remains. Without the help of the left wing, we are sure to lose.... “We have come here to see what you will do for the miners .... It is your duty to do everything to help the miners. . . . You must show that the left wing is stronger than the right wing. You must act. The present struggle is a life and death struggle.” Brother Anthony who followed Smith, gave an intimate account of (Continued on Page Two) i ‘Co-operative Central Exchange Asks Members Help Colorado Miners, SUPERIOR, Wisc., - Co-operative Central Exchange, the largest of American co-operatives, | has sent to its members the fol-| lowing letter, asking for donations | for the Colorado striking mines. The letter follow: Fellow Co-operator The Striking’ miners in Co are waging a most bitter fight.| The capitalists are using rifles and} machine guns to kill the picketing miners. Both men and women | have been killed. “*Over a hundred~ thousand | minefts are on strike in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-| ginia district. The strike ha: lasted already for a long time. The | coal companies have evicted the | strikers from their homes, for the own all the houses. “This is a splendid opportunity for the co-operatives to demon- strate that they are instruments of the workers, and that they wil? | help the workers in all their strug. gles. | FINAL CITY EDITION March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, York, -N. ¥. _., SEVENTIETH CONGRESS WILL NOT AGT ON VARE AND SMITH UNTIL AFTER COOLIDGE MESSAGE TODAY Two Price 3 Cents New ‘Resolution Reciting Corruption Bars Strikers lying in hospital beds after being shot down at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Columbiz Six were killed. Some of the wounded may die. “KILLERS AFRAID “OF REAL PROBE Miners Support for Grows ial To The DAILY WORKER.) By FRANK PALMER. ENVER, Colo., Dec. 5.—A nation- | | wide investigation of the facts re-}| garding the massacre at the Colum- bine mine in which six striking coal | miners were murdered by rivat company guards and state |due shortly. Denver Ministerial today unanimously passed ja resolution calling on the Federal Council of Churches, Catholic Welfa Council and College of Jewi to send an outside comn state to acc themselv: | Gucis of the strike and t {of the most element nm to the 3 with the he abrogation lkerties. Strikers Pleased. Strike ‘eaders here are highly Rabbis | Crooked Politicians at Door Congress Seats James M. Beck, Agent of Vare, in Spite of Protest at noon today with the f senate. of the survivors of the “Ohio g: Harding, Harry M. Daugherty and a ruptionists, was reelected speaker of the SEATS VARE act of Longworth resident of Washington, D. C delphia district of the state of of the Mellon-Vare political m ington as a lobbyist for the ste trust. Beck was “elected” to} ‘the seat in congress vacated by |Vare when the latter began his |drive to enter the senate. The| 'democrats protested as a bloc on the | ground that Beck did not live in Penn- sylvania but in the District of Colum-| |bia when he was elected. Longworth | lignored the protest and swore in the | Successor of Vare. | Stop Vare and Smith. In the upper house of congr {the senate, William S. Vare, the poli- | tical boss of Philadelphia, who is| ‘known to have stolen his nomination land election, and Frank L. Smith of |Illinois, agent of the Samuel M. In- \sull electric power trust, who also WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The sevent ling of the In the house of representati th cor s convened els in both house and Nicholas Longworth, one ich produced Warren G. t of other political cor- body. ng HOOLIGAN. swear into office James to represent the Phila- nia. Beck is an agent has been living in Wash- RACTIONUNION TO MAKE FIGHT OW ALL FRONTS Union Takes Offensive; Calls Mass Meeting was to ne o the traction work- will not be abandoned. continue to fight for the or- ganization of these workers no mat- “You can si “Send .all donations to the, Co- | operative Central Exchange. All funds will be divided equally among the two strike districts, unless some prefer to help any one district, in which case the funds will be so handled. Act promptly, for they need our help! _Eyaternally yours, H ~ Qo caperiitive Cenuwl Exchange, G. Halonea. | pleased with the prospect of an inve: | tigation or any probe which will give the world the facts’ of what is ac- | tally happening in Colorado ut the |present time, and they are especially |desirous that the truth about the Col- umbine massacre become publicly known. The strikers are hoping that the investigation will take: place be- fore the state police get themselves freedom technical murd2r. Charges. Sentiment For Strikers. There has been a tremendous in- crease of favorable sentiment toward the strikers in this state during the {spent hundreds of thousands of dol- |lars to corrupt the electorate, were jstopped virtually at the door of the | stance of a statement given out in an [senate chamber. Both were chal-| interview yesterday at the headquar- lenged by Senator George W. Norris | tors of the Amalgamated Association of Nebraska, the moment their names | of Street and Electric Railway Em- were called. Both Norris motions ployes, Hotel Continental, Broadway were made under “a question of the| and 41st St. highest privilege.” | At the same time announcement Both grafters were forced to stand|was made of plans for a mass meet+ aside While the oath of office was |ing of traction workers and members yates to thirty other senators | and officials of other trade unions to (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) | ter what the outcome of the injunc- tion proceedings.” This was the sub- the part played by John L. Lewis and ; |Party has succeeded in profiting by |the contradictions between capitalist | countries, defer the outbreak of a} new war, and at the same time en-/ hance its prestige with the broad masses of the workers in the capit-! alist countries.” Three More Pickeis Arrested !n Strike | Kaganovitch said that never before have the Communist Parties of the world been so united and so cohesive. Turning to the danger of war against the Soviet Union, the speaker said that the defensive capacity of the country was one of the most im- portant questions before the workers. “The workers,” he said, “must be so educated as to be at any moment jready to repel an attack against the Soviet Union. The Opposition’s as- sertion that an economic crisis in the |Soviet Union is inevitable has been |completely refuted. Industry, and particularly the heavy industries, are \rapidly developing.” | 70,000 Want to Join. | The best proof of the correctness of the political line of the Central Committee is, he said, the fact that 70,000 applications for affiliation in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been received from work- ers as a result of the October call. “This fact,” said Kaganoviteh, “is the best refutation against the. cal- amnies of the Opposition against the Communist Party leadership. Tre Oppesizion’s declarations regarding the cessation of activities against the Party cevtainly will be insincere. Such declarations would be but a manoevre of the Opposition in order to further remain within the Party and ke in a position to carry on their rare work within the organiza- ion, Workers Judge Opposition. of NY Hemstitchers Three women pickets were arrested yesterday afternon while pjcketing the shop of Tramhetz & Schotskin, 149 West 28th St. Local 41, Interna- tional. Ladies’ Garment Union declared a strike there wher? the company locked out its workers, it is alleged, for refusing to register with the right wing dual union fos- tered by the international office. The pickets are Hilda Cohen, Sadie arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct at the instigation of the right wing officials, according to spokes- men for Local 41, which has been sus- pended by the international officials. The pickets were released on bail in time to receive the applause of about 500: at a special genera! mem- bership meeting of Local 41 at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. last night. Hyman Speaks. At this meeting a resolution was drawn up endorsing the leaders of the union in whatever policy that might adopt to oppose the tactics of the right wing in conjunction with the bosses in their attempt to destroy the union, The chairman of the meeting was L. Rubin, member of the executive board of the local. The speakers were Workers’ , Poretz and Gussie Potter. They were Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint | Comrade Jadnov, delegate from|Board of the International Ladies’ Nijny Novgorod, said that the best|Garment Workers’ Union; Rose Wor- proof of the correctness of Cen-| tis, manager of Local 22; M. E. Taft, tral Committee policy is th sa iad manager of Local 41; Abraham Weiss, activity among the former organizer of the local, and A. (Continued on Page Two) Alle » chairman of Local 41. . i nt a i vag POSTPONE APPEAL OF MINEOLA LEFT WING FURRIERS McGrady Frameup Case Needs Preparation Hearing on the appeal of the nine furriers who were framed by right wing officials of the Furriers’ Union because of their participation in the successful strike of 1926, and who were convicted at Mineola, L. I, was postponed to Jan..4, 1928. The date originally set for the hearing was Dec. 12, when the appellate division | of Brooklyn was to pass on the ap-/ peal. The postponement was granted | upon the request of the district at- torney. - | The nine progressive furriers, who | were convicted in Mineola last April | as a result of the charges framed by the right wing McGrady gang with the help of the Minéola district at- torney are: Jack Schneider, Sam Mensher, Philip 0. Lenhart, Morris Malkin, George Weiss. Joe Katz, Os-) ear Millaf, Leo Franklin and Martin Rosenberg. “Reasonable Doubt” of Guilt. The original indictment involved eleven leading figures of the strike, but the McGrady union smashing forces did not present their framed evidence skillfully enough to effect a conviction of the two well-known left. wing leaders, Ben Gold and Isa- dore Shapiro. The framed furriers were released after conviction by a certificate of reasonable doubt, signed by Judge Mitchel May. The case grew out of the successful strike led by the left wing in 1926, in which the furriers won a 40-hour week concession. FOREIGN BORN MEETING. The New York Council for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born Workers will hold a conference Sunday at 2 p, m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. Plans to combat anti-abien legis- lation in the present session of con- gress will be made. \ | RATIFY FASCIST TREATY | ROME, Dec. 5.—The Chamber of | Deputies this afternoon ratified the \Italo-Albanian treaty of alliance without debate. | PARIS, Déc. 5—Former Crown Prince Carol, of Roumania, pro- fessed slight anxiety today over the alleged plot to assassinate him just revealed to the French police, past week due largely to student a FASGIST MURDER FRAME-UP AGAINST ‘Pullman Porters Gat |icvciss Amora, fascists, in ties. Prof. Bramall of the U: 9 versity of Colorado spoke before > MUSSOLINI S FOES huge crowd of students at Boulder| | last Sunday, calling the I. W. W. “the | | hope of the hopeless” and defending | z | the strikers in their demands. Other| |Mmunity Promised if Anti-Fascist Leaders Are |speakers voiced similar sentiments! “Framed” oa Murder Plot jand declared the students right in go-| | ing into the coal fields to get the facts | ie for themselves. | Revelations of a fas st intrigue to obtain “framed-up” evi- dence with which to convict Calogero Greco and Denato Carrillo SE bull sad tease wale full | Ot murder, and by the same means to involve Carlo Tresca, head story of the massacre will be revealed| Of the Anti-Fascist League, by means of threats and violence, at any moment, the state police in-| Were made yesterday by Mario Gilleti in his trial before Judge volved in the Columbine killings are| Albert Cohn in the Bronx County Court, Tremont and Arthur id soretening itis ae murder | Aves., on the charge of shooting two fascists Jan. 25. aga. =} 2 S Si @ j i i is ae, vee aaa inekaintely pa The revelations involve District Attorney John E. McGeehan | ” o ta “tives rac j (Gbatsnucd: dw: Pigg’ Pind) | of Bronx County and detectives. It was disclosed that under the. | threat of being implicated in the*~ ap SER 1 jkilling of Joseph Carisi and SINCLAIR ADMITS DENVER, Colo., Dec. 5.—Knowing | |Gilleti signed documents in the| joffice of the Chicago Italian | ‘Pledges of Support - For Possible Strike | By ESTHER LOWELL. (Federated Press.) First steps to gain public support for a possible strike of pullman por- ters and maids are being taken by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po: ters. Conferences similar to the } !York one, including representat |of all Negro groups, will be held in jall the union strongholds—Chicago, | Philadelphia, Des Moines, St. Louis, ‘Omaha and other centers. Not until now has the porters’ union hinted at the possibility of a | strike. For over two years its organ- |izers, A. Philip’ Randolph, Roy Lan- |caster, Frank Crosswaith and the ‘rest, have been building the union’s strength. They have patiently tried out the machine of the railroad mediation board set up by the Wat- |son-Parker act. Now they are wait- ‘jing the hearing of their appeal to \the interstate commerce commission, | Jan. 11. i Strike May Follow. | If the interstate commerce commis- sion denies the porters the living | wage they ask for, the union threat- jens to call a strike. The brotherhood ‘has asked the commission not to per- mit the Pullman Co, to count its em- |counsel last October under thé ‘direction of Leo Luyri, secre-) tary of the Chicago branch of | jthe Fascist League of \North | | America. Try Implicating Tresca. + Luyri induced him to claim that |Carlo Tresta, editor of Il Martello, anti-fascist newspaper, directed the killing and shooting of fascists, Gil- |liti_ testified. When he visitéd the office of the | Italian consulate, due to the f; he was penniless, Luyri or« to implicate his four roommates the “shooting of two fascists Brooklyn,” Gilleti testified. The trial was halted at one point until the women left the court room |at Gilleti’s request to permit him to testify as to the storage of dynamite jand ammunition at a certain E. 16th | St. address. “Did you tell the police that had dynamite, guns and powder you !den on E. 16th St.?” the district attorney asked Gilleti. In his question the prosecutor named the street number Gilleti refused to reply until the women had left the court room. The 2m to leave, id he had so told the police but emphasized the fact that he did so after he had been subjected jto torture. The torture cor of pressure applied to his testic! i |leti testified. ORDERED DAY TO HAVE JURY SPIED: Burns Confesses Dicks, followed Jurors WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5. Oil Baron Sinclair admits having H. | Mason Day, his vice president, hire: the Burns detective agency to spy on the Fall-Sinclair jury. America’s best known oil mil- lionaire, aside from his rival Rocke- feller, and hero of the Teapot Dome oil steal, stood with his hireling, Wm. J. Burns, self-styled, “The Eye That Never Sleeps,” before Federal Judge ddons in the District of Columbia Supreme Court today, surrounded by one of the greatest array of legal talent money can buy. They were there on the charge of tampering with the Teapot Dome oil jury, in which trial Sin- a co-defendant with former of the Interior Fall, who granted him the fraudulent lease to Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Confess Espionage. The first move, after the govern- ment presented the charge of spying with the purpose of causing a mis- trial if no acquittal could be obtained, was the reading of the statement in behalf of Sinclair in which he declar- i Ph 1 | 4 ployes’ tips as part of their pay. The; Calogero Greco and Donaio Carril-|ed that he did, and alleged that he union won a point when the commis- | Jo, anti-fascist workers, were later! had a right to cause H. Mason Day sion decided to hear the argument and |charged with the Decoration Day |to engage the Burns agency to watch ordered the Pullman Co. to appear.| slaying and are now on trial in the |the jury. The company had alleged that the |Bronx County Court before the same| The Sinclair brief, challenged the ( ak gan on Page Fivey (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two), ;