The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1927, Page 2

i q t 4 _ Announced that he would go to Cin- Page Two a ’ 4 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBE 6,927 seventieth Congress To | Hesitate Over Vare (Continued from Page One} elect who won elections at the polls last November and whose election ex- penditures were not a subject of in- vestigation, their backers being able to manipulate the machinery more cleverly than the Vare and Insull machines. A Attack Vare Expenditures. ; The preamble to the re olution against Vare declared that $765,000 had been spent in his primary cam- paign. It then incorporated a letter, written to the senate by former Gov- ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who charged that Vare’s election was -“partly bought and partly stolen. | “4 man not honestly nominated is not honestly elected,” Pinchot added. — The resolution proposed the exclu- sion of Vare in these terms: “Be it resolved tha ture of such a large sum of money to secure the nomination of the said William S. Vare is contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the dignity and honor of the senate, dangerous to the perpetuity of a free € . and, together with charges of corrup- tion and fraud made in the report of said committee and substantiated by the evidence taken by the said com- mittee and the charges of corruption and fraud officially made by the gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, taints with fraud and corruption the credentials of the said William re, for a seat in the United senate, and “Be it further ved that the} said William S. Vare is not entitled to take the oath of office and is not| entilted to membership in the senate | of the United States.” Memories of Newberry. | The Vare resolution also used some | cf the identical language used in the | famous fight over the seating of Tru- man H. Newberry of Michigan, whose | seat in the senate was contested be cause he spent the sum of $190,00 in his campaign. This sum is triv al Te ipared with the enormous. expendi- | tures of Vare and Smith. A cam- paign was waged against those sen-| ators who voted to seat Newberry and | most of them were defeated. Although a titter ran around th senate at the revival of the Newber memories, it was apparent that tho: who must face an election campaign next year fear the issue. | Resolution Bars Smith. Samuel insull’s name was promin ent in the indictment of Frank L Smith. Emphasis was laid on the fact | ¢hat Smith was chairman of the Iilin- | sis state public utilities board, and yupposed to regulate the power and traction trust activities, in which In- sull is the chief owner, at the iden- tical time that the slush fund was raised, The Smith ouster clause read: “Be it resolved by the senate of the United States that the acceptance and expenditure of the various sums of money aforesaid in behalf of the eandidacy of the said Frank L. Smith is contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the dignity and honor of the state, dangerous to the perpetuity | of free government, and taints with | fraud and corruption the credentials | for a seat in the senate presented by | the said Frank L. Smith, and “Be it further resolved that the said Frank L. Smith is not entitled to take the oath of office and is not en-/| tithed to membership in the senate of | the United States.” a “Armistice” for Coolidge. After the remaining senators-elect were sworn in the republican floor leader, Charles S. Curtis of Kans asked for an armistice until tomor-. row when the Coolidge message is de- livered. He obtained unanimous con- sent for the adoption of the necessary | organizational resolutions and notified the house of and the president that it was “ready to do business.” Then} it adjourned to convene tomorrow and hear the Coolidge harrangue. governme Remus May Expose | Prohibition Graft; Darrow to Testify CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 5. — George Conners, former partner of George Remus, “liquor king” who is on trial on charges of having mur- dered his wife Imogene, was subiect- ed to a rigorous crore mination. Remus, who threatened to expose the graft practised by the prohibition enforcement service, is expected to earry out his threat tir h Con ner’s testimony. Conners nonchalantly admitted that he had been a hootl . and man- ager of Dater’s Farm in Death Val- ley which had distributed booze. ille- gally. He also stated that at present he was an official of the Kentucky Distributing Company, dealers in medicinal whiskey. « * Darrow for Defense. CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 5.—Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer who has been active in many lahor cases, ¢innati to testify as a ¢ ness in behalf of Remus. aracter wit- MORE FLIERS KILLED | LONDON, Dec. 4, — Twe fliers were killed when a plane of tne Royal Air Force was lost in the fog and crashed into a garden in Enfield Both the pilot and observer were killed immediately, and the plane was completely wrecked. The machine barely escaped hitting the house which the garden surrounds, thus saving the occupants from injury. BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!) aes Flogging Witness a This is the only picture saved from a camera wrecked by Cecil Davis, Alabama deputy state tax collector and former high official of the Ku Klux Klan, who recent- ly held his Klan oath superior to that of the state. He was sum- moned as a witness in flogging trials at Luverne, Ala., where this picture was snapped. Fascist “Murder Frame Hit By Confession (Continued on Page Two) judge. The Greco-Carrille case yes- terday, however, was adjourned until Thursd e of the Giileti trial: Clarence Darrow, of- Chiczgo, chief detense counsel, will come to New York Thursday to take charge of the Greco-Carrillo defense. “You are to say that Ribarich (one of Gilleti’s roommates) was mixed up in the Brooklyn shooting,” Mel- ti in his trial yesterday said Luyrie dvised him. He was also told to claim that Gilleti stabbed a fascist on 69th Street and that Ribarich, who also lived with him, was “dangerous and in this country illegally.” More Double Crossing. “T was also told to state that Val- dalgia, Michchil and Lucci, anti-fas- ists of Philade]phia were on the pay- roll of the left wing of the Dressmak- ers’ Union and were hired by a man med Moskowitz,” the witness con- inued, On the order of the Chicago fas- ist leader he also implicated three nti-fascist girls, who he alleged had taken charge of the pistols of the anti-fascists after they had shot mem- bers of the blackshirt organization. Gilleti is reported to have been beat- en in the Italian consulate at Chicago prior to his “confession.” “The fascist secretary.” continued Gilleti, ‘also mentioned Bruno Silver, who is supposed to have been killed when manufacturing bombs in 35th Street. I was compelled to claim that he was anti-fascist so that people would get the impression that the anti-fascists were bomb throwers.” “Enter” Dynamite. Melliti said that he was also asked to implicate a certain Liquina, who was to be charged with having taken dynamite at a fascist meeting in Brooklyn. d the, morning session Gilleti ted that Count Thaon di Revel, head of the Fascist League of North Amerita, on one occasion urged him to become a fascist spy in this coun- try. “Luyrie told me to say that I met Tresca in Rochester and that he or- dered me to shoot fascists,” the wit- ness said. Referring to Detective Casso, who s active in combatting the anti-fas- ist_ movement in New York, Gill testified the detective sad to him: “We want to give Tresca a ride.” “Witness” Is Arrested. The witness then told how after he was arrested in St. Louis on the shoot- ng eharge and brot to New York, Distriet Attorney McGeehan attempt- -d to have him sign a “confession.” “Count Revel is my friend, and has promised me a new automobile when be caso is thru.” Gilleti testifie: Detective Casso told him before he wes brot to trial. “MeGeehan promised to drop tne hooting charge against me if I prom- ised to appear against three other anti-fascists,” the witness continued. The witness then testified that he s held incommunicado 20 days af- er being brot here from St. Louis. ng that time the only one al- d to visit him was a Catholic Father Carfuzzi, who, accord- Afterward, he continued. he was slowed to send letters, which he dis- covered were held up for several days ‘before mailed. Changes His “Mind.” “At first I said I did not want a vitness because McGeehan had prom- d that I would be freed,” Melliti id. “Therefore I pleaded guilty. I ured it would be better than being harged with the murder of Joseph Carisi, whom I lived with for a short time.” ‘“Why did you not tell MeGeehan he truth?” Gilleti was asked, “Because he called me an anarchist »nd a Communist,” the witness an- wered. Peter Sabbitano, former assistant listriet attorney in Manhattan, is Me- lit’s counsel. Assistant District At- ‘orney Albert Henderson is in charge f the prosecution. Gilleti also testified that he mad, ipplication for membership in the Bronx branch of the Fascist League ind that Joseph Carisi signed his ap- plication card. Miners Declare They Rely on Left Wing (Continued from Page One) | other labor officials in the struggle. |“We fought in the strike of 1922,” he | pointed out. Lewis broke that strike. At that time the labor leaders stressed | the sacredness of the agreement with | the coal owners, but when Mellon | broke the agreement, these leaders did nothing. “Today the police are being sent | into the strike area. Boys of 4 years| j are being sent to prison for ‘inciting |to riot? . . . Before Governor Pinchot | | was elected he promised he would use | no state police in labor disputes but the police are still there. ... | The miners are in need of all the |help that can be given them. The A. | F. of L. meets and passes resolutions but one cannot eat resolutions. They | promised to organize relief commit- |tees but since they met things have | become worse, not better... .” | League Will Help. In response to the appeal, Wm. Z. Foster, Secretary-Treasurer of the | Trade Union Educational League, pledged the league’s unstinted support i s’ struggle. he said, “is a strike to save the very life of the miners’ union. The welfare of the whole labor movement is at stake. Unparalleled in our labor history, the strike is a monument to the treachery of the Lewis administration of the United Mine Workers of America. “The purpose of this strike could have been accomplished years ago, had Lewis organized the unorganized mine Instead of the union now fighting for its life, it could be fight- ing for an advance in the conditions of the miners... . “What is the left wing going to do about it? Are we going to stand aside and see the destruction of the miners’ organization. In the past we fought side by side with them, and we will continue to,fight side by side with them in the future. ... “We will rally to the support of the miners and organize relief; also for the miners in Colorado. We will unite our forces ... in the work for the or- ganization of the unorganized that will not only win this strike but will drive out all the union traitors who stand at the head of the U. M. W. A.” Enthusiasm For Pledge. The importance of the pledge to various struggles in the labor move- ment was met with the greatest en- thusiasm by the delegates and visit- ors. Immediately in response to the appeal over fifteen hundred dollars was raised for miners’ relief. Resolutions on Miners Relief, on the International Labor Defense, and on support of the Soviet Union against the war danger were passed with equal enthusiasm. Telegrams to Mooney and Billings, the Colorado prisoners, and the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners pledged the left wing to the task of working unremittingly in behalf of these victims of the class war. Foster Re-Elected. Wm. Z. Foster was re-elected unani- mously for the position of Secretary- Treasurer of the League. Meeting at a period in the history of the American class struggle when the forces of reaction both in and out- side of the labor movement are cen- tering their drive against the mili- tants, the third conference of the Trade Union Educational League con- ducted its sessions in a spirit of the fullest realization of its obligations and tasks. By far the largest and most momentous conference yet held by the League it was at the same time one which created a record for the clarity of its understanding of the problems and difficulties before it. (See Resolutions and Cables on Page 4) See Political Trick in Dawes for Lowden (Continued from Page One) there is a lot of similarity between the Coolidge and Dawes statements. Mr. Coolidge said, “I do not choose o run,” Mr. Dawes said, “I.am not 1 candidate.” But neither of them stated that he would refuse a nom- ‘nation if the convention proffers it. Dawes Fears Primaries. The practical politicians that make up the national committee feel that Gen. Dawes not only will not enter any primary contests, but will refuse to let his friends put up his name in any state, Playing the Game. Some of the politicians who deal in futures professed to see some very deep laid strategy in the vice presi- dent’s position. They doubt Gov. Low- den’s ability to win the nomination even with Dawes’ support. What would be more natural then, they ask, than for Lowden, after he has had his run, to throw his strength to Dawes? They believe something like that is going to happen in the convention. Codlidge Plans Not Known. Meanwhile, the gathering of ‘the committee here to select a convention ity, has failed to clear up to any’ ap- preciable degree the confusion that | ill prevails among republicans gen- erally over Coolidge’s status. When the president said at the White House last week that he would have “a few remarks” to make to the committee when it calls on him at the White House next week, the impres- sion was general that Coolidge would take advantage of this occasion to clarify his position. Ex-Senator Wm. M. Butler, the committee chairman, dispelled this impression today by passing around the word that the president would have nothing to say about his per- sonal political fortunes, rally the left wing in support of the | | | | | | | | Detroit. the Department of Labor prevents them from coming to work. | real estate men are rather glad. (Immigration Ruling Shuts Workers Away : From Their Jobs Across Canada-U. S. Line | Crowd gathered before U. S. consulate at Windsor, across from | They are Canadians who work in Detroit. The new ruling of Detroit Colmbine Killers Fear | Probe Over Killings | } (Continued on Page Five) jcleared instead of waiting until the actual facts come out. Get New Facts. Investigations going on quietly are |causing great fear among the groups | Fesponsible ig the murders. As the jconviction grows that the full story |has not been.told, together with the fact that many college students are inquiring into the real facts of the slaughter and returning with reports | |to the campus that the miners were) | right and were unjustly attacked, | | state sentiment is growing for an) | oustanding outside investigation which will clear up the facts. Louis Scherf and Tom Annear |know these facts and will probably make charges of murder in addition} to eventual charges against Jesse Welborn as an accessory. Coal miners and other workers await the beginning of a real investi- gation, "Punish Student Editor. Robert Berkov, editorial writer for the student paper of the University of Colorado has been ordered dropped from the staff because he wrote an editorial after the massacre which was friendly to the miners, Pres. Norlin of the university obtained a galley proof of the editorial after it was set in type and ordered it out of the paper. Various professors who asked for an_ investigation were clamped down by Norlin, but one member of the faculty is announced to speak at a church off the campus in Boulder next Sunday, and students from various schools in the university have announced that they will attend en masse. Threaten Expulsion. Threats by college authorities of expulsion of students at Denver Uni- | versity and the Iliff School of Theo- logy were withdrawn when it was seen that the students were standing solidly by their principles. The local papers are screaming that “three campuses are shaken by the coal | Strike.” Two More Mines Close. | Two mines have given up the fight against the workers in the southern district and have announced that they will close down for the duration of the-strike. Other mines are oper+ ating ‘in the north with hardly enough men for maintenance. Relief Needed. The mine strikers are standing solidly. but, are seriously in need of relief at once. Wholesale arrests of all the leaders are expected hourly. The attempt of the militia to start trouble has thus far been unsuccess- ful. | Protest Colo. Miners’ Massacre at Second -Chicago Mass Meeting CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (FP).—David | Rhys Williams, liberal _ minister, | George Kirkpatrick, author of “War! What For?” and Samuel Levine, man-| ager of the Chicago Joint Board of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, spoke at a second mass meeting here yesterday to protest the massacre of coal strikers in Colorado by state po-| lice. The meeting was held by the| Chicago Committee for Relief and De- fense of the strikers, ousands of Workers ‘Fail to Find Work in, New Ford Production DETROIT, Dee. 5 (FP).---Workers should not be misled into seeking jobs in Detroit by reports that the new Vord model will mean many workers | added to the Ford Motor Co, force, ac- | cording to an announcement of the | Detroit local, Intl. Assn. of Machin- ists, It says: “Thousands are being turned away from the Ford employ- St. Louis Builders in Favor of 5-Day Week ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5 (FP).—Resolu- tions endorsing the 5-day week as the proper work week for building trades- men and urging all buildiig trades unions to secure it in their work agreements were passed by the St. Louis Building Trades Council. This is the first formal action taken by the council here on the shorter work week. give us your helping hand HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day after 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 aews—information about the Labor movement— and other good features. We ask only this much from every reader: Pledge yourself to give only as much as you can and, won’t miss—every week. You won't miss it « and The DAILY WORK- ER can live on it! ° 7 Tia Wey Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. Fill out the following blank and majl it to THE DAILY WORKER 83 First St., New York, N. Y, Enclosed $...... I pledge I will send you $.. every week. ment offices. There are thousands of production hands here who will not be absoxbed by the Ford plant.” Continued Growth of Russian Communist Party Refutes Alarmist Theory of Opposition (Continued from Page One) masses, the raising the level of their political education, and the develop- ment of workers’ democracy. ‘The results of the discussion, he said, show the greatest confidence of the The villages, the speaker said, are becoming real centers of public life by organizing the peasants and by rallying them to vital questions. Much attention has been paid by the party to the questions of the organ- masses in the Central Committee, | ization of the poor peasantry. “ine Opposiuon,” tne speaker said, “Yau to ste now it sinks eyer deeper, bus’ the workers see it clearly, there- fore they are brushing the Upposition aside, “We agree with Stalin’s statements regarding the tuture of the Opposi- tion: either they must capitulate or leave the party.” Gasa, deiegate from the Putilov works of Leningrad, declared: “After their removal trom the arty posts the Opposition prophesied that the development of the Leningrad indus- try would thereby be stemmed. The facts now prove that the Leningrad industry is prospering without the Opposition, The production in the Putilov works during tne iast three years has risen from nineteen to vhirty-two. million roubles,” Leningrad Indusiry Grows. The average wages of the Putilov workers, the speaker continued, has | in the same period risen from 80 to 106 roubles. “The inner-party de- niccracy,” he continued, “has broadly developed the Pariy’s ties with the working class; they were never so strong as they are at the present time, The efforts of Zinoviev, ivdokimoy and other Opposition leaders to win the influence of the Leningrad workers has resulted in’ dismal failure. Recently a new dem- agogic - leaflet has been circulated among the Putiloy workers by the Opposition. The Putilov workers, however, firmly believé that the Fif. teenth Party congress will do away with the Opposition.” A number. of other delegates like- wise vigorously criticized the anti- party work of the Opposition. Workers More Active. Kossior, reporting to the congress on the organizational work of the Central Committee, declared that the last two years were marked by ac- celerated growth of activity among the working class, the growth of mass organizations and the consolidation of the party’s ties with the working class. “Such,” he said, “are the main achievements. The work of the trade unions has improved; the work com- mittees are standing nearer to the masses than ever; meetings are bet- ter attended; and more workers are found among the speakers.” Influx Into Unions. Kossior reported that over 1,000,- 000 non-patty workers are actively engaged in trade union work, “The trade union organs are invigorated thru ‘the entrance of fresh forces. Consequently the trade unions are facing’ the task of educating these new active workers. Tens of thous- ands of workers have been drawn in- to the creative work of socialist con- struction thru special conferences within enterprises dealing with the subjects in respect to production methods. “About 15 per cent of the working class,” the speaker said, “have been drawn into the work of such confer- ences which discussed the most im- portant questions of our construc- tion.” More Schools, Kossior said that the consolidated Communist clubs have also enhanced this work. “At the time of the last Congress,” he said, “there were ap- proximately ten papers per every twenty-seven workers; now there are ten papers per every twenty-one workers. Evening schools have in- creased. The percentage of worker- members of the urban soviets are higher by 2,000 workers, who are en- gaged in various soviet sections. “These two past years the Party had done immense work in the vil- lages. The result of this work is keener activity among the agricul- tural workers and poor peasants and consolidation with the middle peas- ants.” Sinclair Admits Had Spies Trail Jury (Continued from Page One) jurisdiction of the court and said the government had no case, He denied he had instructed Shel- don Clark of Chicago, vice-president of the Sinclair refining company, to engage Burns operatives, Day and Clark jointly are charged with hav- ing been “contact men” between the Burns agency and their chief. Clark denies connection with the case. Burns Wriggles. Burns declared that there was nothing improper in fhe surveillance of the jurors in the Fall-Sinclair trial, because, he said, none of the jurors were approached in any way. There was no attempt to “bribe, mol- est, intimidate or influence said jur- ors,” his answer asserted. Burns claims that he had nothing to do with the making of the false affidavit by William J. MeMullin, a Burns agent. This affidavit alleged that Juror Norman Glasscock had been in. con- versation with an assistant to the attorney general, Some of the Burns’ agents reports, however, show attempts to bring pres- sure on jurors, or their’relatives, and Mamie FIA ee ay a most suspicious interest in the fi- nancial affairs of the jurors. One Street... oeeceie sa decidos vow juror, Kidwell, caused the first move City for a mistrial by boasting to a news- spare acs 5 at WN ir nhre paper reporter that he “would get State -..ccsssedsseccesace an auto as long as this block” out of the case, and that “Sinclair was a <a anaiiaciiaag ne. democratic f 2a “At the time of the last Congress,” we ‘were only setting. ourselves to the task of this work. Now it is actually on a firm foundation.” The speaker declared that the Party had done big work in connec- tion with the struggle against bureau- cratism and for the improvement of the state apparatus, wherein a num- ber. of Communists increased. greatest attention has lately been de- voted by the Central Committee to the questions of inner-party work, es- pecially the question regulating the social composition of the Party. Increasing Membership. The Central Committee put into ef- fect a series of measures drawing the workers into the Party: from 1924 to 1927, 488,000 new members joined the party, and of this amount ninety per cent remained in the party ranks up to the present time. The October call to the Party has produced 70,000 ap- plications from workers. “This,” the speaker concluded, “is a magnificent response of the work- ing class to the anti-party calumnies which are spread by the Opposition among the masses. Beside the so- cial composition of the Party Central Committee these last years faced another problem, namely inner-party democracy. There has been intensive revival of work in the rank and file nuclei which has been responsible for putting additional life into the inner- party democracy.” Kossior concluded __ his < speech amidst prolonged applause. Many Trapped by Fire; Four Dead, One Dying ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec, 5.—Four women are dead and a fifth is expect- ed to die, from injuries suffered early today when they were trapped by a fire in the Buckingham Hotel annex. Seven other persons were seriously injured in the fire, which caused a loss estimated at $100,000. The 75 guests and employes who were in the hotel when the fire started, are thought safe although theré may be other unknown victims trapped, BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! 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