The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-0UR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE SUB Vol. IV. No. 281. SCRIPTION RAT In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, RYKOFF DEMANDS DISSOLUTION OF OPPOSITION IN PARTY DISCUSSION: Kameneff Admits Trotsky Group Won’t Abandon } Views In Speech at Communist Congress (Special Cable To Th e DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Dec. 7.—The complete dissolution of the Opposi- tion was advised by Alexei Rykoff, president of the Council of | People’s Commissars, in the dis that since the Opposition is in a STALIN STRESSES PEACE POLICY OF USSR IN REPORT Declares Britain Seeks Anti-Soviet Bloc MOSCOW. — Declaring that Great Britain’s efforts to create a united front of capitalist powers in its drive against the Soviet Union were un- successful only because of the con- flicting interests in the imperialist camp, the opposition of the European working class and the fear that an attack on the Soviet Union might lead to workers revolutions at home, Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the All Union Communist Party, in his report to the Fifteenth Party Congress, again stressed the Soviet Union’s desire for peace: His report declares: Britain Led Attack. “The British bourgeoisie assumed the initiative in intensifying the inter- ventionist tendencies. Evidently the help rendered the British miners by the Soviet workers, and the sympa- thies of the working class of the USSR for the revolutionary movement in China, could not but add fuel and fire their animosity. “All of these facts -aceount for the rupture between England and the USSR, and the straining of relations with a series of other states. There are two tendencies in this struggle in the relations between the capitalist world and the USSR, the main tend- ency of military aggression (above all Britain) and the tendency to maintain peaceful relations with a series of other capitalist countries. These are therefore the main facts in the sys- tem of our foreign relations given at the moment. U. S. S. R. For Peace. “Facts showing a tendency towards peaceful relations of the period are under review: non-aggression treaty with Turkey, guarantee pact with Germany, tariff agreement with Greece, agreement with “Germany which reciedits recognition with Uru- guay, guarantee pact with Afghanis- tan, guarantee pact with Lithuania, the initial guarantee pact with Latvia, (Continued on Page Three) . ‘Don't Shop Early’ Wait for the Big Defense Bazaar! The Xmas shopping slogan is to be yeeversed this year, according to the Jc int Defense Committee of Cloak- makers and Furriers. Instead of “Do you shopping early”, havel announced the call to “Delay ail buyi for the Grand Central Palace f 28rd r, December te New Hasten Preparations. All workers and workers’ organiza- tions are feverishly engaged in pre- parations for the Bazaar. An entire shop, the W. S. G. Dress Shop at 100 W. 21st St. has been turned over to vhe production of beautiful dresses hy the score for the Bazaar. Not to be outdone by the Dressmakers, the Capmakers have announced a contri- bution of 5,000 caps for the Cap Booth, while the Millinery Workers are preparing 50 doz. new and fash- ionable ladies’ bats for their booth. Fur Repairs. Expert Furriers will operate a Fur Repair Booth, and will make repairs at unusually low rates. Judging by the Xmas articles that are pouring in, the Gift Booths will offer many attractions for those who wish to make presents of jewelry, fountain pens, etc. Register for Committee Work. Registering of voluntcers for help at the Bazaar goes on all day and until 7 p. m. at the office of the Joint Defense Committee Room 714, 41 Union Square. Come to register. Do not be a slacker. cussion of the Opposition at the | Fifteenth Congress of the All Union Communist Party yesterday. | Leon B. Kamenev, in speaking for the Opposition, declared ; minority in the Party, and can-' not put over their conditions, | the Opposition cannot do other than submit to the Party after a hard struggle, and accept all the decisions of the Congress. Won’t Abandon Viewpoint. “We undertake the obligation to engage in criticism only within the limits of the Party, but nobody can demand that we abandon our view- point. We will prove by deeds, the sincerity of our declarations!” (Cries from the floor: “Hypocrisy!” “You have repeatedly deceived the Party!”) Replying to Kameney’s speech, Rykoff declared, “The resolution of the Tenth Congress on the anarcho- syndicalist opinions of so-called work- ers.of the Opposition proves that even then the Party demanded the cessa- tion of propaganda of opinions hos- tile to the Party. Prepared For Revolution. “Can we use other methods in re- gard to the Trotskyist Opposition af- ter all they have done? We cannot close our eyes to the fact that the Opposition was preparing for new revolution, for new civil war. The Opposition handed us their declara- tion only because they were defeated. After seeing the methods employed by the Opposition, we must talk to them not only as comrades, but also as politicians! “Here we must record their respon- sibility for activity hostile to the Party, activity that is in the history of the Party. This congress must settle this question, and definitely do away with the Opposition.” (Storm of applause.) Opposition View. In the evening session, Bakaiev, a speaker for the Opposition said, “Bukharin proclaimed an energetic struggle against the well-to-do pea- sants. .Stalin did not speak on this issue. Does it follow that Bukharin expressed an individual opinion, and not the Party attitude concerning the agrarian problem? “The Party decisién does not strengthen the proletarian elements within the Party, and it does not realize on the other hand that the peasant element is rapidly increasing in the Party.” In reply to Bakaiev, Mikoyan said: “The eleventh Party. Congress de- clared the proletarian dictatorship. Since then the Party has instituted the economic capitalist elements and rich peasan- try. Loss of Faith. socialist construction, and consequent- ly fails to see annypconomic progress. This bitter anti-sarty struggle brot the Opposition to a creation of a sec- ond party, and an alliance with non- Party elements, vism. Kamenev and Zinoviev are j traitors to the Party and must be ies with especial severity. The Par- ty traitors.” Following Mikoyan, Yaroslavsky said, “Bakaiev’s contention concern- ing the social composition of the Par- ty contradicts the facts and slanders the Party. Never was the proijetar- ian kernel as stvong as it is now, when the Party has 756,000 workers, bership, Won't Stop Struggle. “The Opposition’s declaration con- cerning the abandonment of factional activity, and the con’ ation of the propagation of Opposition views with- in Parity limits is a compromise be- tween factional groups. “We do not believe that the Trot- skyists will stop the struggle after (Continued on Page Two) WINDOW CLEANER KILLED. Falling from a sixth story window of the Roosevelt apartments, 1475 }Grand Concourse, William Murphy, |24 a window cleaner, was instantly killed yesterday. They will all be there: militant New York workers, members of the staff of The DAILY WORKER and “The Freiheit,” prominent left wing leaders, directors and actors of the New Playwrights’ Theatre and thousands of visitors from Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities. : All will be present at et economic retreat of the, policy of a systematic elimination of | “The Opposition has lost faith in| “Trotsky has returned to Menshe-; cannot make peace with such} mail, $8.00 per year. (“Starvation Hoover” May Get Nomination i Well fed Secretary of Commeree, | specialist in human misery. After | capitalizing the Mississpipi flood for | the bankers, he issues a report saying | that the workers are better off than | ever before. He is being boosted for! the presidency. GILLETI FOUND GUILTY; GRECO TRIAL FRIDAY Plot Victim Convicted | After 12 Hours Mario Gilleti, accused of shooting two fascists Jan. 25, was found guilty of second degree assault yesterday morning by a jury in the Bronx Coun- ty court before Judge Albert Cohn. The jury was given the case at 8 p. m. Tuesday and sat all night. Calogero Greco and Donato Car- rillo, anti-fascist workers, will go on trial Friday in the same court on mur- der charges closely connected with the Gilleti case. They are charged with killing two fascists in the Bronx last Decoration Day. During the Gilleti trial it was brot out that he was at first threatened with the charge of killing the two fascists for whose death Greco and Carrillo are to be tried. The dead men were Jo- seph Carisi and Nicholas Amaroso. After being locked up for delibera- tions Tuesday night, the jury returned to the court room on three occasions to have testimony read to them. Judge Cohn announced Gilleti would be sentenced next Tuesday. According to Gilleti’s own testi- mony, officers of the Fascist League |of North America conspired with po- |} |lice authorities and the Italian con-| sul at Chicago in an attempt to force} him by threats and torture to impli-} cate Carlo Tresca, head of the Anti- Fascist League, and others in ancl solved murder cases, | Frame-up Exposed. | His testimony was said yebterday | by James P. Cannon, secretary of the | International Labor Defense, to be a} complete exposure of the frame-up} method of prosecution, By this! method, according to Cannon, the) Bronx County district attorney, the! police and the Fascist League are at- tempting to send Greco and Carrillo | to the New York State electric chair. bor and criminal trial lawyer, and H (Continued on Page Five) |Prenter, Former Rail | Union President, Dies. Prenter, former presidefft of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-' neers, whose removal from office fol- | ‘hood labor bank, died yesterday at! ‘his home in Cleveland, at the age of | 72. | i ————__— } Sigman in an attempt, it is alleged,’ gy, ‘Legion Tries to Force Collector Out of Job ! Claiming ‘that he did not meet the | \official American Legion — require- | the congress, hence this congress! ments during the last war, a number | ence called {or Saturday and Sunday :of New Jersey Legion posts are de- |manding that John R. Rogers, recent- | ily appointed collector for the fifth | district, be relieved of his office, They ; have received the reply that the ap-' pointment is strictly a matter between President Coolidge and the republican | | party. i Press Ball planned by The DAILY | WORKER and “The Freiheit” for | Madison Square Garden, 5ist St. and Eighth Ave., Saturday, Dec. 17. | To avoid inconvenience for the | thousands of friends of the militant labor press, a large number of ticket stations have been set up by the management committee in charge of the affair.’ — Militant Workers, Spokesmen and - Writers A cade preg Will Attend the Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball | Local 35, I. L. G. W.'U., announced) night to ¢ Ally Wo Entered as second-class muticr at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of N=W YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927 “Mare REPUBLICANS IN. DEADLOCK OVER 1928 CANDIDATE Coolidge Word Now | Held to Be Final | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — Presi-| dent Coolidge has pretty well suc- ceeded today in convincing even the} most hard-boiled skeptic that he is) out of the 1928 presidential reckon-| ing. | His re-statement to. the republican | | national committee that he i8 not a) | candidate, coupled with his advice to} the party to “proceed vigorously to} the task of selecting another candi-; date” left those who have been lead-| ing the “draft Coolidge” movement) but little ground to stand on. | Still Indefinite. | It is true that Mr. Coolidge did not say, as he did not say last August, that he would not accept a nomina-| tion were it offered to him by the) republican convention next June. He) has never said that, and apparently} has no intention of saying ir. t An “Ohio Song” Candidate. | A great majority of the national) committee, as well as a great major- | ity of the republicans in congress, | however, were won over to the idea) that the president was not in the | race. 1 Dawes Plays Politi-s. | Vice-president Dawes, everywhere} considered a candidate, has announced “I am not a” candidate,” Herbert Hoover has made no statement of his position, but his friends have pen actively .promoting his candidacy; Governor Frank 0. Lowden has merely | stated “No man ever can ruh away from the presidency”; and Charles E. Hughes has remained aloof and! silent, awaiting developments. Only) two men have actuaily announced | themselves as candidates since last August—Senators Curtis of Kansas) and Willis of Ohio. Most of the practical politicians now, here for the session of congress and) the meeting of the republican national | committee believe that the 1928 race will settle down to a contest between | Hoover, Hughes, and a Dawes-Low-| en combination. | A h| SIGNS | Reed slush fund committee the senate | i LOG L over the seating of William S. Vare| UP INDEPENDENT PLEATERS’ SHOPS Announcement was made yesterday at the headquarters of Tuckers’, ers’ Union, that a number of inde- pendent manufacturers had _ been forced to sign up with the union as a result of energetic strikes carried | on by this local against various lock- | outs declared by employers. It was pointed out by union offi- | CLEVELAND, Dec. 7.—William S. | cials that these shops have signed UP ‘perialist agents. with the union in spite of a letter by; Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | they | constituting 65 per cent of the mem-|lowed the collapse of the Brother-| Union, advising manufacturers not to renew agreements with legally | elected officers of Local 41. to further*right wing attempts to’ break up this bona fide union. + * * Rig Response Expected. Representatives of many shops are expected to attend a two-day confer-| by the Committee of 50 of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. Shop chairmen and shop commit-| tees of shops registered with the right wing and those affiliated with the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union will attend, according to yes- Pressers Meet Today. A group of progressive pressers of | yesterday that they had issued a call for an open forum to discuss methods | of rebuilding the union today at 2 p m, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Registered and. non-registered pressers are invited in the call. Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! Work Daily for the Daily Worker! Many senators have bought their seats, but the work of Senator elect Wm. S. Vare (top) of Pennsylvania, and Frank L. Smith (bottom) of Il- linois, was so crude and flagrant that the senate is debating whether it dare admit them. DEBATE SEATING OF VARE AFTER BARRING SMITH Reed Slush Fund Com- mittee Again Active WASHINGTON, barring Senator-elect F of Illinois, and reviving the . Smith ANoUs this afternoon plunged into debate jof Pennsylvania, who also tried to} strike bribe his way into the senate. The Vare supporters went into the battle with heavy hearts in view of the senate’s action in denying Smith his oath by the overwhelming major-| ity of 50 to 32. The Reed committee which instigated slush fund charges in both the Pennsylvania and Illinois senatorial primaries, was revived by a vote of 55 to 21, when the senate Greco and Carrillo will be repre- Pleaters’ and Hemstitchers’ Local 41,' ordered it to hold further hearings sented by Clarence Darrow, noted la-) International Ladies’ Garment Work- on the charges against Smith. The only concession won by Smith came when the senate extended him the “privileges of the floor.” Me}lon Man Aids Vare. The Vare defense was opened by nator Dayid A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania, one of the Mellon gang of im- 1 Borah Would Seat Vare. Defending the right of & elect William S. Vare, of Pennsy vania, and Frank L. Smith, of Ilino! oaths of office, Senator torah, of Idaho, demanded t the senate swear in both men permit them to sneak in their defense againct slush fund yne faint hopes af in the of the Smith and ‘are leaders with this declaration but (Continued on Page Two) EGRO PROBLEM. Moore will lectur< t the & p. , the Bronx. Daily Worker Readers B. “The Negro Problem Richard on Bro: Open Forum Sunday 2075 Clinton Ave. Published daily except PUBLISHING CO., Slush Fund Senators | Sunday by The DAILY New ¥ 33 First Street, FI EDITION y¥ WORKER ork, N. Y, Price 3 Cents Twenty Thousand Chicago Car Line Workers Ready to Strike MAY NOT WAIT SANCTION FROM PRESIDENT MAHON; MEN FIRM |Company Played With Arbitration Rule In the ty thousand traction workers are |demands for a wage increase. | i | The wage demand v agreed to arbitrate to avert a |strike. Since then they have |plocked every attempt to pro- \ceed with the arbitration. | William D. Mahon, national presi-| ;dent of the Amalgamated Associa. |tion of Street and Electric Railway |employes, will be in Chicago Monday lat the request of local union officials. The strike call is being withheld for | his sanction. Sentiment of the work- | | i | ‘ers is overwhelmingly in favor of an| |immediate strike. Their wrath | against the companies is all the great- ler for their attempting to evade the |demands of the men and the wage jissue by stalling off arbitration. It \is doubtful if Mahon’s failure to ap- {prove the walkout, should he decide |so, will prevent a strike. The work- | ers demand an increase of 15 cents an hour to raise the scale to 90 cents. “Mahon’s presence here will not help much unless there is immediate action toward arbitration,” William Quin- |len, president of the street car men’s union, declares. Little attention has been paid to a ; Statement issued by Mayor Thomp- {son “that there would be no strike.” | Nothing except movement toward ar- bitration by the companies will avert it, officials of the union declare. A special meeting of all traction workers has been called for Dec. 14 by the executive boards of the two unions. This will be the deadline date for a decision of tlre companies to ar- bitrate. Judge .Kickham Scanlan, | !“workers’ arbitrator,” is making elev- enth hour attempts to have the com- panies realize the detern So far his efforts have been unavailing. Calling Bosses’ Bluff. men have lost patience be- | of the dilatory tactics em-j to arbitrate and in on al r an immediate wage in-! crease, 1 am Quinlan, presi-| }dent of the Street Car Men’s Local. Elevated emplo. t involved in the wage disput jised to strike in sympathy with the j surface car men. “The cause ploy d Fuller Sneaks Unto New York Under An Alias: Protected by members of the bomb} squad, and still under the ali “Peter Bond,” he used while skul through European countries ,and Vanzetti, the blood- | ernor of Massachusetts, / jler, sneaked into New | from the liner “Olympic.” | Avoided “Social” Obligations | When asked by reporters why an 1 ‘ork today | used a fictitious name to conce identi mere s and other citie: Fulle d the lie that it v not to » the wrath of the work ers but to avoid “social obligations” and “to be in a position to have som: fun of my own.” Ie was noncommittal on the nierta.nment he sought + ee to See Performance of “Centuries” Tonight At Playwrights’ Theatre Readers and friends of The DAILY WORKER are expected to- into the New Play- 40 Commerce St Whig 1 east | ing. The play—-the second to be put on by the insurgent group of drama- tists who have broken away from the traditions of Broadway and are | striving to builc genuine } ing class theatre-—is a graph trayal of life on the east sic | prior to the of labor un | The perfor e tonight | a special benefit for The | WORKER. During the | weeks a large number of | r fraternal organizations have taken special nights at the theatre, in- cluding the striking window clean- ers, the Greco-Carrillo Defense League and Anti-Horthy League. work- por just be | DAILY | jonly unforeseen developments c¢ transportation tie-up here in years. | elevated lines unions have voted unanimously to strike to enforce made in June and the ination of | s: }ed on a national eae 2 Union Constitution; Postponed Issue (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 7—Plans for a strike of Chicago’s twen- moving ahead and, it is believed, an prevent the most complete Members of street car and companies TRACTION LABOR HEARS PLEDGES OF N.Y. UNIONS Mass Rally Strengthens Solidarity Here Hundreds of rank and file trade unionists, traction workers of. every line, shop and terminal in New York sity and Brooklyn,—employees of surface lines as well as workers #n elevated and subway lines,—listexed last night to trade union officials pledge the support of the entire labor movement in the fight against the in- junction sought by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and in the struggle to organize the New York City trac- tion workers. News was received at the meeting of the vote to strike cast by 20,000 traction. workers of Chicago, follow- ing the refusal of arbitration by the Chicago traction interests. The Chi- cago strike vote was being discussed everywhere on the floor of the New York hall while the meeting pro- gressed. Workers Determined. Braving the presence of over 300 company spotters and under-cover men, a number in excess of any pre- iously assigned to the task of in- timidating and provoking union mem- b the traction workers and their mpathizers had literally to force their way into Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116th St., where the meeting was held. The determination of the workers to carry on their battle for a labor union status w t in the ap- as apparen plause v peakers attacked the anti-union policies of the traction mployees, , Hugh Frayne pledged continuance of the federation’s efforts against injunction, launch- 2 Wednesday at when illiam Green, A. F. of L, View Woll and repree Amalgamated Asso- nd Electric Railway » work out plans for Washington, ciati the union v Brickla s Join Fight. s included John Gill, he board of directors of ys’ Union, who urged the ‘s to get into the union Brick} clion wo! do their y to overthrow the m of slavery instituted by the ction interests, and Walter V. e. inte tional vice president of s, who spoke for the rs in the interna- id, would unite to to opp! in every possible attemptsto substitute com- unionism for legitimate labor . Shea of the Amalgam- ive board member, in of local organization activities, for the present the effort » continued to defeat the in- on legal grounds but that (Continued om Page Fivey Mone Workers Jailed For Distributing An Anti-War Throwaway | Four workers were arrested yes- |terday near the Morse Dry Dock, Brooklyn, for distributing a leaf- let issued by the Workers (Com- munist) Party entitled “Down With Injunction: 3 The workers arrested are Emil Makvista, Thomas Thorsen, Erie |Hennonen and Neils Knith. They jare held in $500 bail each. The | International Labor Defense is con- ducting the defense, (oy oY oh ”