The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of “March 3, 1879. soe FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 280. SUBSCRIPTION Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Price 3 Cents ¥. Meet Tonight to Fight I. R. a Injunction NEW YORK LABOR TO MOBILIZE TONIGHT FOR TRACTION BATTLE Subway and Elevated Enrollment in Union Grows | Despite Company Spies Every preparation has been made to launch a labor ‘move- ment drive to organize the New York traction workers, it was announced yesterday from the headquarters of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Workers, Continental | Hotel, Broadway and 4ist St. The mass meeting of traction workers scheduled for tonight to which other trade unionists prominent international and local labor officials will pledgé their | saa, “support to the traction workers’ Renew Attack to Stop Seating of Vare and Smith WASHINGTON, Dee. 6.— George W. Norris, republi gressive” of Nebr thi launched the democratic-insurgent hattle to bar Senators-elect Frank L. Smith, of Mlinois and William S. Vare, | of Pennsylvania senate. Senator mn “pro- The insurgent leader attacked the |that tonight’s meeting, scheduled for! vight of either Smith or Vare to sit | in the senate. He denouncee ti and declared that the senate would | have to “haul down the flag and raise | the dollar sign above the capitol” if |? they were seated. Norris charged that both men had purchased their scnatorial togas, that the eontributions to their huge cam- paign funds were investments on which the donors expected rewards, and that their election credentials were tainted with frand.. STALIN SEES NEW at the door of the | have been invited and at which | struggle, will be the largest | meeting yet held in the present | ;campaign, according to Amal- |gamated officers. Numbers and Power. “Judging from the number of A. F. | of L. unions which have offered sup- |port for our efforts, we are looking \for the most encouraging labor turn- out yet held,” one union officer said. “Unions such as the bricklayers, the/| | plasterers and the needle trades work- | afternoon | &T8 which are in this battle against | the injunction, because of their num- bers and power, insure the success of | our efforts.” Various other indications confirm ithe confidence of the union officials | |Harlem Casino, 100 West 116th St. yy |at 8 p. m., will bring an enthusiastic | elections as a “battle of millionaires,” | Fesponse from the traction workers | as well as other trade unionists of | the city, all of whom have been tho- roughly aroused by® the threat of the | injunction to their rights of organ- ization. City Pays For Spies. _ At the same time it was announced at the headquarters of the Amalga- mated that formal complaint has been 'lodged with the New York State | eau uantied or Page Five) REVOLUTIONARY YAVE AND STRESSES WAR DANGER |. (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Dec. 6.- =“urope is clearly entering on a new revolutionary tide,” declared Joseph Stalin, general secretary of | United the All Union Communist Party, in an address before yesterday’s | fest by the fact that, in order to en- | session of the Fifteenth Party Congress. Pointing to the refusal of the capitalist powers to consider the Soviet Union’s proposal for complete and immedifte disarma- ‘ment, Stalin declared that the®: imperialist struggle for colonies | and markets was rapidly coming to a head and was likely to cul. minate in a world war in the | near: future. U.S. S. R.’s Foreign Relations. “Our country lives and develops amidst capitalist encirclement,” de- clared Stalin at the opening of his speech, “Its international situation depends not only on its own internal forces but also on the situation in the capitalist countries, the encircl weakness of the oppressed classes of ment of our country, the strength or Nhe whole world and the strength or weakness of the revolutionary mo" . of these classes. «1\\.need not say,” continued Stalin, “that our Revolution is part of the interrtiational revolutionary movement of thé; oppressed classes. Therefore { cons}der that the Central Commit- tee’s eport must begin with a de- acription of the foreign relations of our country, the situation of the cap- jtalist countries and the situation of the revoluionary movement of those countries, Markets Almost Stable. Commenting on the question of world economy, Stalin said that “the essential fact is that the production of the capitalist countries during the last two years has exceeded the pre- war level. World trade is developing more slowly than production and is approaching pre-war level. In North America and Japan this level has already been surpassed. “This series of facts shows the technical progress of the rationaliza- tion of capitalist industry and the establishment of new branches and the more intense trustification and international combinations of indus- try. Does this mean that the stab- ilization of capitalism has become firmer and more durable? Of course not. In the report made to the Four- teenth Congress it was said that cap- italism may reach and even surpass the pre-war level; it may rationalize . fC A: jits production, but this does not mean that the stabilization of capitalism is \thereby made durable and that cap- can thus regain its~pre-war \s stability. Sees War Danger. On the contrary from the very fact that trade is growing and that tech: nical progress and productive pos bilities are increasing while world markets with their limits and spheres of influence of various capitalist groups remain more or. less stable. there arises the most acute crisis of world capitalism, pregnant with new wars and threatening the establish- jment of any stabilization whatso- ever, The growth of partial stabiliza- tion follows the aggravation of the crisis of capitalism and the growing crisis shatters the stabilization pro- cess—such is the dialectical develop- ment of capitalism given the his- torical moment. “Most characteristic of this growth of capitalist production and trade is the fact that the development is not following the regular line. This de- velopment does not proceed in such a way that capitalist countries move oné after another smoothly, without getting into one another’s way and overthrowing one another. On the contrary: it proceeds by way of this or that country being driven out, fall- ing, decaying, while other countrie: rise, and prosper. It takes the form of a struggle of life and death, of the continents and countries for the su- premacy of markets. American ‘Domination. “The economic center is moving from Europe toward America from the Atlantie to the Pacific Ocean. thereby increasing the specific weight of America and Asia in the world’s commercial turnover at Europe’s cost. This contradiction between the growth of productive possibilities and the partial stability of the markets has laid the foundation for the fact that the problem of markets is actu- ally the fundamental problem of cap- (Continued on Page Three) Fear 900 ‘Fishermen '| Marooned in Caspian Have Frozen to Death | MOSCOW, Dec. 6.—Fear that} the 900 fishermen marooned in the | ice-locked Caspian sea have frozen | to death or drowned in attempts | to reach shore, was felt today. | Pilots of airplanes who have been dropping food to the fisher- men reported that the number of occupants of the stranded boats| | ||has been greatly decreased. \ ee | | | ‘SINCLAIR, BURNS TO STAND TRIAL ~~ FOR JURY SPIES |Sinelair Hints John D. Used Congress On Him} WASHINGTON, Dee. —Justice |Frederick L. Siddons this afternoon | jruled that Harry F. Sinclair, William | J. Burns and four of their associates | must stand trial for criminal con- tempt as a result of their alleged jury tampering activities in the mistrial of the conspiracy case against § in- | jclair and former Secretary of the In- | terior Albert B. Fall. ' +| The justice overruled “without pre- | judice” the defense motion which would have dismissed the contempt rule without permitting the testimony of half a hundred witnesses to prove the government contention that the Burns Agency imposed a highly’ im- proper surveillance over the Fall-| Sinclair jury. Sinclair Accuses Rivals. Sinclair’s defense statement, a} lengthy document, hinted strongly that Rockefeller cil interests, ftrol of congress, had led a crusade | | against him to eliminate him, against |the rules usually followed when men | of great wealth are accused of looting the public lands. Clubbed by Congress. Part of his brief said: “He (sin-| ) has been made the object of-! ‘a special prosecution initiated, spon- | sored and nurtured by congress in a} anner and to an extent never be- ore visited upon a citizen of the | tates, and thi made mani- |able the special government counsel to conduct said prosecution in the jmanner they desired, special legisla- tion was enacted, as he believes, at the instance of said special counsel, for the purpose of abrogating long- established principles applicable to criminal procedure.” Capmakers Applaud Victory At Meeting; Retain 40-Hour Week Fifteen hundred capmakers affiliat- ed with the Joint Council crowded a mass meeting last night at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 5th St. in celebration of their victory in having forced the em- ployers’ association to reinstate the members of the union whom they had previously locked out in an attempt to break the existing agreement. Reporting to the membership, act- ing Secretary J. Roberts admitted that the bosses had been brought to! terms as a result of the solidarity of the membership, who two weeks ear- lier had voted to continue the fight against their employers. The union officials had recommended conces- sions to the employers but had been overruled by the membership. 40-Hour Week Stays. | Last night’s meeting was hailed as at fax victory by the workers both Bea the employers and the weak policy of their officials. The left wing program, it was claimed, was reponsible for the victory, in that the | workers under the guidance -of the left wing had voted to continue the struggle. In returning to work, the workers are assured of the maintenance of the 40-hour week according to left wing leaders. CONDUCT ANTI-WAR MEETING. CHICAGO, IIL, Dega#6. — An anti- war mass meeting will be held Janu- ary 8 under the auspices of the Young Workers League. Leaflets are being ice prepared to advertise the meeting. | soft coal strike. | began last April. {ers and operators into a joint confer- THREE GOVERNORS CALLING COAL STRIKE PARLEYS Move for "Separate Pacts Seen Bulletin. PITTSBURGH Dec. 7. — Bar- racks are heing erected by the United Mine Workers Unio coal mining camps in this vicinity to house the hundreds of strikers’ families who will be evicted under a court order given the coal com- panies. The evictions are to begin in two weeks. There is the greatest suf- fering among the miners’ families. Money, food and clothing are urg- ently needed. * st * WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—Re- ports reached Washington today that Governors Gore of West Virginia, | Donahey of Ohio and Fisher of Penn- | sylvania were planning to call separ-| ate conferences between miners and} ttle the| operators in an effort to These states have} been hardest hit by the tie-up, which | West V: irptaia has/ been least affected of the three. Advised of the outcome of | mediations, the federal government will make no move to get the work ence. Fit In To Lewis Policy. These separate conferences fit into} the general policy of President Lewis of the United Mine Workers who has | already signed a separate temporary agreement with the coal operators of Mlinois. { “Opposition to separate agreements is widespread in the miners’ union, however, and among the membership the coming conferences are looked upon as a further attempt to divide end weaken the union. |Valley Camp Coal Co. Thugs Slug Woman By W. J. WHITE Coal Region Terrorism. ’s wife, Mrs. Pauline Pat- s washing her clothes and g with some other women who had gathered at her house. Now it happens that Mrs. Patter- }son is a Russian and the other wonien and herself Slax were speaking in the sh language. Some time before this, the Valley Camp Coal Co. had} moved some of their scabs into the houses on either side of the Patter-| and when Mrs. Patérson| son house. began speaking, and joking with the other women who were visiting with her, these scabs thot they were talk- ing about them and complained to a coal and iron policeman by the name | of Geo. White who came to Mrs. Pat- terson and demanded that she pay a fine to him, and when Mrs. Patterson asked why she should do so, he pro- ceeded to beat her up and drag her around the yard, tearing her clothes and breaking down the clothes line where her newly washed clothes were hanging. Tore Off Clothes. Mrs. Patterson who is the mother of four children, tried to get the of- ficer to let her put on her clothes, she promised him if he would do so, she would go with him to the squire’s | (Continued on Page Four) these | f, be etn Daectalt if Cal olidge, of the U.S. who delivered a rancous chal- lenge to world iebor in his message to congress. He is the tool of those who mean to make American dol- lars rule all nations. president POLICE TORTURE GILLETI IN PLOT TO “GET” GRECO |Jury Bronx Court A fte of revelations of | intrigue carri on in New 1Y and other United States cen- the trial*of Mario Gilleti was | ei en té the jury before Judge Albert ‘Cohn in the Bronx County Court last ght. Efforts to obtain “framed” evi- dence with which to convict Calogero iGreco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fas- | cist workers, and at the same time to involve Carlo Tresea, head of the} Atni-Fascist.League. through threats | and violence, were disclosed by Gil-| leti on the witness stand. Gilleti Tortured. After being tortured and threaten- led with prosecution for murder, ac- \jcording to testimony, Gilleti signed i eerinacte in the office of the Italian from congress for stil] more power to}dition that she agree to take no ago under the direction y of the Chi- consul at Chis: of Leo Lu cago fas Gilleti is charged with shooting two fascists Jan. 25. Gilleti was forced to ments before the Italian enable the fascis to try Tresca and othe their absence, under an Italian fas |cist law passed for t purpose, G leti’s counsel told the jury in his clos- ing argument late yesterday. sign docu- consul to rs in Italy in No Witnesses. |plainants in the case did not identify him. He referred also to testimony | by Gilleti that he “confessed” to the shooting under threat of being im- | plicated in the killing of two fascists in the Bronx last Decoration Day. It was for this slaying that Greco and | Carrillo are now on trial in the same court, under evidence which the In- |ternational Labor Defense charges was framed in the same manner. Albert Henderson, assistant district attorney, in addressing the jury, at- | tempted to stampede the jurors by charging that Peter Sabbitano, coun- sel for the defense, did not represent the defendant so much as Tresca and |the Anti-Fascist League. | ‘BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! Results of Its Third Annual Conference Are} Summed Up By Trade Union Educational League | Following its session yesterday the new National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League, elected at the conference which adjourned Sun- day night, has issued the following statement summing up the results of | the Third Annual Conference, to its members and supporters: The Statement. Our Third National Conference has just closed its sessions. Meeting at a most critical moment in history, it has lessons for all of us to learn. The reports of delegates coming directly from industry and the strug- gles in and of the unions showed that the capitalists have started a nation- wide drive against the labor move- ment and that the official leadership, by failing to mobilize the workers for resistance in line with its surrender policy, has created a crisis in which the life of the labor movement is at stake. Spirit of Struggle Grows. The conference proved that the crisis in the trade unions is rousing larger masses to a sense of the ger, and to a ¥ struggle against the capitalist offensive. This awakening extends into every indus- try and locality. Reaction has not conquered the minds of the workers, but only disorganized them. Have Underestimaiazd Own Strength, ; Second, it show-d that while our ‘enemies have never underestimated |our strength, we ourselves have made this mistake. strated again the existence of unused tapped and organized, available for the building of a militant labor move- | ment. ° New Forces. Third, it emphasized the truth of the statement, that the progress of | labor depends primarily upon draw- jing new forces into leadership. For- |mer progressives and honest fighting elements, even though they have given valuable services in the past, if they are now pessimistic, skeptical, and slothful, are only an obstacle in the way of progress and must make (Continued on Page Two) vb, ( Has Gilleti Case In| government of Italy | The attorney pointed also to the | fact that no eye witnesses appeared | | against Gilleti and that even the com- | } The conference demon- | | sources of energy, only waiting to be | COOLIDGE URGES BIG NAVY, “pee STRIKE LAW WOULD DEVELOP AIRPLANE ROUTES TO LATIN AMERICA UNDER GUISE OF AID TO COMMERCIAL AVIATION WASHINGTON, Dec. congress contained nothing but repe \“republican prosperity” and was s gradually cr industrial paraly Insults Unemployed Workers Farmers With “Prosperity” Talk 6.—President Advocates Legislation to Outlaw Strikes in the Coal Fields and Impoverished Coolidge’s message to on of the propaganda of a direct slap in the face to the unemployed workers whose numbers are growing ever larger as sps over the country, and to the |impoverished farmers who have for years been clamoring for fed- leral aid to overcome the-cri s that i driving hundreds of thou- sands from the land to swell the ranks of workers in the great cities. That Coolidge is the spokesman for a policy of rampant im- |perialism is more than ever plain in his demand for a big navy wherein the predatory nature of \the repetition of the words of @————~-—~ |his recent address at Philadel- phia before the Union League} club. The increase in naval armaments, ‘in the army, in the marine corps is demanded because: “We are responsi- ble for the protection of a large popu- lation and the greatest treasure ever | bestowed upon any people.” This is a plea for the defense of the far-/} flung imperialist domains of the rul- ing class of the United States. Suppression at Home. Imperialist conquest abroad is to be |based upon the suppression of the |masses at home as indicated by the |recommendation for anti-strike legis- lation, under the guise of solving the coal situation. _ Legislation is _re- [quested * ‘authorizing a system of fuel administration and the appointment by the president of a board of media- tion and conciliation in case of actual or threatened suspension of produe- tion.” The reply to the miners’ re- quest for relief is met with a request aid the coal corporations in their union-smashing campaign. Opposes Farm Relief. For the farmers, Coolidge issues al warning that “government price fix- | ing is known to be unsound and bound subsidy would work out the same| |way. The most effective means of} (dealing with surplus crops is to re- jduce the surplus acreage.” He sug- gests that this can be done by farm }organizations “and especially through |banks and others who supply credit refusing to finance an acreage mani- festly too large” Taxation Irony. Tle proposes, instead of farm relief | |legislation, the setting up of a board to administer a revolving loan fund to assist cooperatives to market the | farm crops. With unconscious irony | jhe remagks that, “The national gov-| erument has almdst entirely relieved | the farmer from income taxes by suc- | cessive tax reductions. Will Maintain High Tariff. However, Coolidge demands that} the high protective tariff on manu- | faciures be maintained, to prevent “a! general shrinkage of values, a defla-| tion of prices, a reduction of wages, a general depression carrying our | (Continued on Page Two) i a Jugo-Slay Commander iBombed in Macedonian Border Village Fight | SALONIKI, Dec. 6. — Bombs were |thrown and revolvers fired when an attack was made yesterday on Stru-} mica, a village near the Bulgarian bor- | der. The attack is reported to have been made by Macedonian comitadjis in an effort to kill the commander of the Jugo-Slav garrison. The commander escaped but the bombs tore to pieces a woman and| child who were nearby. It ‘> lieved that the Macedonians @ number more than three. A cordon of troops has been thrown around the town, Alleged Assailants 1 of Fur Leader Held to result in disaster; a government | a |mines offered the 1E. Meyer Friedman and Ben Cohen, two right wing employees, alleged to! |have been hired last summer to make a murderous attack on Aaron Gross, one of the leaders of the Furriers’ Union, have been re-indicted before Judge Levine sitting in Part 1 of General Sessions Court. Friedman and Cohen are held without bail. the government was s revealed in in MINE STRIKERS DENIED DOCTOR IN COLO. JAILS {Mines Offered to .W.W. ‘For Operation DENVER, Colo., Dee. 6.—The re- fusal of the keepers of the Rocke- feller-controlled prisons of Colorade to give medical aid to imprisoned strikers is revealed by strikers whose reléases are effected after days of suffering. Milka Sablich, girl strike leader, is now ill in jail and is being refused medical care, according to a report just brought out by Otto Svobora. She was offered freedom on the con- She re- further part in the strike. \f Roger sed in spite of her illness. ‘ancezon is also ill and unattended. | | Svoboda himself was held 39 days without a hearing and obtained medi- cal attention only after desperate ef- Conditions in the Trinidad jail ery bad, Svoboda reports. Offer Mines to I. W. W. An offer of several coal mines to the Industrial Workers of the World for operation and a rumor that they will accept has caused a sensation in the ranks of the coal operators. The Rockefeller-owned Colorade Fuel & Iron Co. is said to be especi- ally frightened, since some of the I. W. W. connect Continued on Page Fivey Sewer Graft Inquiry Prompts N. Y, Gov. To Say a Few Words In a letter made public yesterday, Governor Smith announced his will- ingness in the sewer graft investiga- | tion to remove the Tammany borough president of Queens County, Maurice Connolly, should charges made against him by republican alderman Harvey be sustained. The charges made by Harvey and the revelations already disclosed by him have been made in connection with sewer construction contracts in Queens County by which favored con- tractors are alleged to have received several millions of dollars over the amounts called for by their contract) A “Formal” Matter. “If these charges are sustained”, | wrote the governor, “T shall remove him,” At the same time the governor specified that the charges must be made formally, a fact which will have the effect of postponing the actual investigation for a number of months, This announcement was received [with satisfaction by Mayor Walker, who requested commissioner of ac- counts, James A. Higgins to with- draw from the case. Higgins was prepared to investigate the case for the city. In some quarters it is believed that the present charges by the republican alderman, Harvey, are in the nature of a reprisal against Tammany Hal) for its recent exposure of the misap- propriation ¢: funds by the former republican secretary of state, Flor- ence E.. Knapp. an aa