The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1927, Page 1

) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 282. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, ce THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927 March 3, 1879. PUBL Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER LISHING CO. 33 First Street, New FINAL CITY | coe EDITION Price 3 Cents York, N. ¥. HUGHES WILL BE KEY-NOTE ORATOR FOR REPUBLICANS Will Uphold Old Guard Political Policies WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Charles Evans Hughes, who has announced that he will neither “seek nor accept” the republican nomination for presi- dent is slated as the temporary chair- man and key-note orator of the re- publican convention to be held in Kan- sas City next June, it was learned here today. His selection for temporary chair- man is favored by a majority of the committee on arrangements, which is a Coolidge controlled outfit. Because of his adherence to the Coolidge ad- ministration and because he, himself, is definitely out of the race, he is con- sidered the ideal key-note orator for the convention. See Move for Hoover. Now that both Hughes and Coolidge are out of the race it is believed that the administration forces will concen- trate on Herbert, Hoover, secretary of commerce, as the old guard standard- bearer. Against Hoover there is only one candidate visible at the present time and that is Vice President Dawes, While Frank O. Lowden is nominally a candidate, it is now quite evident that he is a mere stalking-horse for Dawes and that the best Lowden can expect from the next republican ad- ministration is a place in the cabinet. Two “Favorite Sons.” Aside from the two outstanding candidates there are two “favorite sons” who have announced their can- didacy, but neither of them are of consequence. The first definitely to announce his candidacy was, Senator Curtis, who entered the field in an ef- fort to head off the Norris candidacy which is supported by the so-called progressive bloc. The other is Frank B. Willis of Ohio, one of the Daugher- ty-Harding survivors, who yesterday announced his candidacy. Labor Bazaar Will Be Held Here For Workers’ Defense What is expected to be the most brilliant labor bazaar ever held in New York will begin Friday, Dec. 23, and continue until New Year’s Day at Grand Central Palace, Lex- ington Ave. and 46th St. It-is to be held for the benefit of the Joint Defense Committee of the Cloakmakers’, Dressmakers’ and Fur- riers’ Unions. Ludwig Landy, manager of the Joint Defense Committee, estimated yesterday from the advance sale of tickets that a crowd of 150,000 would visit the hall during the nine days. Already more than $250,000 worth of merchandise has been purchased to be sold at the bazaar, he added. The bazaar will occupy twe com- plete floors. Art Club to Join In Daily Worker- ‘Freiheit Dance lans of members of the Jewish Club to masquerade as figures the Russian Revolution at The ‘Y WORKER-Freiheit costume light ball Saturday, Dec. 17, announced yesterday. St. ’ A radio and.a victrola will be among the prizes to be awarded in yarious competitions. The enormous arena, used on ins numerable occasions for mass meet- ings and conventions will on this date be the scene of one of the gayest affairs in the history of New York labor. (Turn to Page 4 for Photos). Execute 2 Officers in Salvador; Charge Coup SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 8. — Two army officers were court-martialled ‘and shot, charged with having organ- ized a revolt against the government. After declaring martial law, the government arrested a number of leaders and after a brief court-martial ordered the execution of the two army officers. ~ ‘Pittsburgh, Youngstown Conferences for Relief Of Starving Coal Miners PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 8.— Two conferences for relief of the locked out and starving miners are being held this Sunday. One is in Pittsburgh, Pa., at 2 p. m., in Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix St. The other is in Youngstown, Ohio, at 2 p. m., at the Building Laborers’ Hall, 819 West Federal St. Delegates will be present from workers organization, cultural and fraternal societies, trade unions, ete. ll others who are interested in | the miners’ struggle are invited to be present and take part in the | conference, 15 PICKETS ARE ARRESTED UNDER NEW INJUNCTION Hemstitchers’ Local 41 Faces Conspiracy Fifteen pickets of the tuckers’ and hemstitchers’ Local No. 41, of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, were arrested yesterday on their picket lines under a sweeping temporary injunction issued on the previous day by Judge Thomas C. T. Crain, of the Supreme Court, Part 1. The injunction and the arrests in the opinion of all rank and file needle trades workers show more clearly than ever before the existence of a conspiracy between the right wing }administration of the I. L. G. W. and the employers to smash this local. Contempt Charged. The injunction is directed against the local officers, members and sym- pathizers. It was served only yester- day morning on Morris Taft, man- ager of the local. Jacob) Ehrlich, business agent also has been served. The arrested pickets were charged with contemptyof court and released for trial today under $300 bail each by Magistrate Henry Goodman in the Jefferson Market Court. _ Greenberg Ajit’ Bosses. The injunction was obtained through affidavits made by Harry Greenberg, vice president of the I. L. G. W., and others. Attorney Markewitch, coun- sel for Morris Sigman, president of the I. L. G. W., is acting as attorney for the employers in the present in- junction case. The injunction orders the defend- ants to show cause in court Dec. 15 why the order should not be made permanent. It forbids the officers, members, associates and employes of Local 41 to picket or strike against any member of the employers’ asso- ciation or to “disturb” or “inconven- ience” any member. Members of the association have signed an agreement with the right-wing dual union fos- tered by the administration in its ef- fort to break Local 41, now under suspension. The Pickets. The 15 pickets were arrested at the shops of Landau Brothers, 861 W. 2 Co. The 15 are Gertrude Kaslan, Mary Paitelman, Lillian Rubenstein, Ther- esa Wohl, Bertha Kaufman, Lillian Barenblatt, Minera Shapiro, Reinish, Gussie Amato, Nathan Siegel, Milton Levine and John Katz. Cleveland Judge Forced To Release Joe Judson Of Unemployed Council CLEVELAND, Dee. 8.—Joe Judson, one of the leaders of the Unemployed Council was discharged by Judge Bell, ites had sentenced him to 30 days in the workhouse on a charge of va- |grancy. To his utter surprise, Judge Bell had to admit to Mrs. Yetta Land, lawyer for Judson, that there is no ordinance on the statute books con- !cerning vagrancy, and therefore there | was nothing to do but discharge him. | There would have been but one other | charge and that would be suspicious , character. }. The Unemployed Council has begun ‘holding neighborhood meetings ‘and is lining up the unemployed, some ,of whom have been out of work for |five or six months, with no hope of | relief. | This is proof, the situation is acute jand something must be done. The iwork of the Unemployed Council will go on, meetings being planned for every section of the city. SMALL COTTON CROP. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The Uni- ted States will have a cotton crop this year of 12,760,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. The Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agri- culture estimated today, gainings last year amounted to 17,977,000 bales. | Be Socialized 26th St. and the Harrison Pleating\ STALIN STRESSES LABOR PROBLEM IN PARTY REPORT Says Agriculture Must| (Special Cable to Daily Worker). | MOSCOW, Dec. 8.—The develop-} ment of state and co-operative farm- ing, the gradual amalgamation of | scattered peasant farms for collective | tilling and the mechanization of agri- culture were the solutions offered by Joseph Stalin, secretary of the All Union Communist Party, for the gradual socialization of agriculture in a report at the Fifteenth Party Congress in Moseow. Stalin declared: “Nationalized industry, owing to a price reduction policy, develops thru a rapproachement between the town and country —- a rapproachement between the proletariat and peasaht- ry and is unlike the capitalist indus- try which develops in a hostile at- mosphere of bourgeois towns and ruined countryside. Nationalized in- dustry, 6n the other hand, rests on working-class leadership for its de- velopment; it can therefore develop the technique of labor productivity, applying production administration to rationalization, with the support of the working class, a thing which is impossible under a capitalist indus- trial system. This is shown by the rapid growth in technique during the past two years, and the great develop- ment of new branches in industry. Shorter Day. “This is also shown by rationaliza- tion, resulting in a shorter working day and in the steady economic and cultural improvement of the working class position,—a thing which is im- possible under the capitalist system. The rapid development of our social- ist industry is a direct proof of the (Continued on Page Three) Labor Groups to. Campaign for Old Age Pension Laws A plan for an intensive campaign for old age pension legislation in this state was inaugurated last night by representatives of labor unions, civic ference called by the American As- sociation for Old Age Security, at the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ headquarters. That men over 45 years old find jit almost impossible to obtain em- | ployment, and the reward for years | of competent service is dismissal, was asserted by Thomas.J. Curtis, of the American Federation of Labor, who presided at the conference. 2 Out of 3 Dependent. Workmen who have labored for bosses all their lives are in great dif- ficulties when they grow older, stated | Abraham Epstein, secretary of the as- Rae ,Sociation, “and two out of every three | Cooperstein, Catherine Hudson, Becky! Persons over 65 need some sort of | support,” he said. Joseph Chamberlain of Columbia | University, outlined the history of old age pension legislation in Europe, }and recommended similar action in | America. Representatives of unions ‘pledged their support. U. S. Oil Firm Gets Big Concession From Peru A contract giving 1,500,000 acres of oil lands on the coast of the Province of Piura, at the extreme north of Peru, to the Phillip Petroleum Com- pany, an American firm, has been ratified by the senate of Peru. Oil is already being extracted in contiguous territory but the American company has not fixed the date when it will start operations. It agrees to pay a royalty on all oil extracted. A loan of 80 million dollars to the ;Peruvian government has been an- nounced by the American banking firm of G. & A. Seligman, but the de- tails are not yet forthcoming. Boost Union Label Is Slogan for December CHICAGO, Dee, 8 (FP).—-December is union label month in Illinois and various organizations are observing it with special meetings and propaganda campaigns to urge patronage of goods bearing the label. Workers are being especially urged to see that the label is on christmas gifts that are purchased, and fraternal organizations, at a con- | DONATO CARRILLO GRECO-CARRILLO TRIAL TO START IN BRONX TODAY Darrow Here to Lead the Defense wAfter many delays on the part of the prosecution the trial of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo will start |this morning before Judge Albert ; Cohn in the Bronx County Court, Tre- mont and Arthur Aves. They are jcharged with the killing of two fas- cists’ in the. Bronx last Decoration Day.) That the defense expects to call 75 witnesses was indicated yesterday when the clerk of the court gave one of the defense counsel that many sub- poenas for witnesses for the defense. Several days may be necessary to a jury. Jedge Cohn has an- ced that he is ‘prepared to panel additional veniremen. Clarence Darrow, who will head the defense legal staff, will arrive in New: York from Chicago this morn- bert Henderson and Samuel Foley will conduct the prosecution. It is not |believed that District Attorney John E. McGeehan will actively participate in the trial, though he was recently quoted as saying he hoped to have the defendants “in the death house by Christmas.” (Continued on Page Five) New England Mil Serfs Suffer Big | Slashes in Wages BOSTON, Dee. 8 (FP).—A 10. ver cent wage cut in the Pepperell sheet- ing mills in Biddeford, Maine, puts all the company’s northern plants on the |reduced seale. The:cuts began in the | Massachusetts Mills, at Lowell, a Pep-| perell subsidiary; they continued in the Lewiston bleachery plant of the} company, the third cyt coming in Biddeford where the shdeting is spun and woven. More than 3,000 workers are affect- ed by the Biddeford cut. Several thou- sand workers in other Maine plants were cut in November when the Pep- perell bleachery set the example. In New Bedford, where 30,000 cot- ton mill operatives are employed, a wage cut is predicted by Sanford & Kelley, bankers and brokers, in a bul- letin issued to manufacturers and | buyers of cotton mill securities. The ment that the industry will move to the lands of cheap labor and low tax- es in the South if reductions in oper- ating expenses are not made in the north and it advises that the first sav- ings should be affected through wage cuts, The Firestone Tire Co. owns a mill, employing 2000 workers, when run- ning, on the production of auto tire fabric in New Bedford. The,dominant manufacturer in the city is William M. Butler, former United States sen- ator, and still chairman of the repub- lican national committee, The defense of the two anti-fascist | financial house uses the ~old argu- | JUDGE ADMITS FOLSOM PRISON — LIKE MADHOUSE ‘Mutiny InevitableWhen | |Men Herded as Cattle’ (By OROVILLE, Calif., Dec. 2. Mail)—Judge H. D. Gregory, Butte County, arguing in a public speech for the building of more prisons and for using convict labor as slave labor in industries, still exposed some of the conditions in Folsom pris- on which caused the mutiny a couple of weeks ago, and resulted in the death of eleven prisoners from bul- lets fired by prison guards and the state militia. j Breeds Insanity. Judge Gregory gave the dedicatory address at the opening of Paradise | Memorial Hall. | “The California penal system breeds jinsanity and depravity |rather than |preparing the men for a return to society,” he said. “As far as the prison reform is con- éerned in California, we have none. |The revolt at Folsom prison was to |have been expected.” He gave a description of conditions at Folsom prison, which he visited six weeks before the riot, at the sug- gestion of Ed Rugh, county investi- gator, who said he desired the jurist to know conditions there. “T saw the cold gloomy cellhouse the steel bars locked three and four together were the convicts. | Terrific Roar. | Judge Gregory said he passed out- |side the cellhouse and heard a ter- rific roar. He asked what it was and was told it was the conversation | of the prisoners. “It was these poor devils talking jand shouting,” said Gregory. | Herded Like Cattle. ; . “If all the street cars of San Fran- |cisco could have been grouped to- | gether the uproar could not have been worse. They were talking—of what— of their depravity. “It is our fault. We herd men to- gether like cattle and crush them into the dust. They have nothing to hope for. That is what caused the revolt. We make demons out of them. They become crazed, almost insane.” New Poisons Used An Industry Hurt | { ing, defense committee spokesman said yesterday. Associated with | Darrow will be Arthur Garfield} | Women in industry in’ the United States are more susceptible than are |men to some of the industrial poisons, according to evidence cited by Secre- | tary of Labor Davis in his annual re- port, in dealing with the women’s bu- reau, This bureau has been instructed |to begin a study of industrial poisons —in view of the introduction, since the beginning of the world war, of | many new poisons into general indus- |trial life. It is scientifically estab- lished that these poisons have been transmitted, during pregnancy of working mothers, to their unborn chil- dren. \ Six Canadian Workers. Endangered by Storm PORT COLBORNE, Ont., Dec. 8.— With the momentary fear that the flimsy shack they are occupying far out on the government pier here may be swept into the pitching waters, hope waned today of rescuing six re- pair men trapped on the pier when! a 100-mile gale lashed the lake fifteen feet above its normal level. The six workmen had started out | during the storm to repair a damaged | Section of the pier when caught. by the full blast of the gale and forced to seek refuge in the shack. Water | was soon running three feet deep over the pier and with a tretmendous sea running today. It is feared the six men will be lost. Save Greco and Carrillo} HEART OF ST. JOHNS BURNS. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Dee. 8.—Fire broke out in an office block |in Water Street, in the heart of the | business district, this afternoon. With- in a short time the quarters of several firms had been destroyed. At 3.30| ed TWENTY DIE IN STORM. CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 8—Twenty- one persons lost their lives in the storm which gripped the Central Plains States today. Most of the deaths were due to automobile and train accidents, al- though deaths from exposure and cold were recorded in Iowa, Illincis and Missouri. ||,’ Secbioneae tates of | where the riot was to occur. Behind; o'clock the flames were still uncheck- | | Ginirek Poorer Driven Out by Flood BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 8.— Boats were torn from their moor-| ings. Buildings wrecked, windows | smashed and scores jof persons} marooned as the most severe storm in the city’s history left a wake of thousands of dollars in damage to- | day. Authorities were making} desperate efforts to reach five men marooned atop an automobile sub- || merged in five feet of water on the Hamburg Turnpike. No| provision ‘had been made by the! city for such an accident. The | poorer sections, those living on the towpath at Tonawanda were forced from their homes by the rising waters of the |Barge Canal and were marooned on rooftops today TRACTION LABOR KEEPS UP FIGHT Mass Meeting Brings Union Members With enthusiasm for union organ- ization greatlr stimulated among the New York traction workers by Wednesday night’s mass meeting, evi- dence was mounting yesterday that the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. is again “breaking in” new motormen from the other ranks of workers. This is taken by members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes to ;mean that the company is preparing for an emergency, Training Superficial. Motormen in the last few days have been forced to train new recruits and to subscribe to the capacity and skill of inadequately trained men after but a few days’ practice, according to union members, Under ordinary con- ditions the training period may ex- tend over one or even two years. In times of actual or threatened crisis it has been the practice of the Inter- borough to suspend these safety re- | quirements and testify to, the capacity of men after even a few hours’ train- ing. Confirmation of these charges on the part of the motormen is found in a call issued by the I. R. T. to 40 members of the Brotherhood Company Union, instructing them to report at the training school. The purpose of the summons. To Stand by Workers. It is generally understood that the Interborough Company has begun to react seriously to the recent an- nouncement of the Amalgamated Union that it would continue to stand by the men irrespective of how the (Continued on Page Five) Labor Officials Rally to Tammany In Capitol Meet WASHINGTON, Dee. 8 Federation of Labor officials and the heads of a score or more of interna- tional labor unions are getting on the Tammany bandwagon. The event is to be signalized by a luncheon here tomorrow in honor of the recently elected Tammany senator from New York, Robert F. Wagner. The affair is sponsored by Peter J. Brady, head of the Federation Bank and Trust Company, who plays the role of liason officer between Tam- many and the labor bureaucracy. In addition to the international la- bor officials, the list of whom reads }like a roster of the A. F. of L. con- vention, there are a number of New | York state labor officials, professional | Tammanyites who want to make the | | j whole labor movement as subservient |to the Wigwam on 14th Street as they | are. Wm. Pickens to Speak At Inter-Racial Dance William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, will speak at the Harlem Inter-racial dance tomorrow evening at Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. The topic of Pickens’ talk will be, “What Are the Causes of Race Dis- crimination and How Are We to Solve This Problem?” ——_—® COLORADO COAL ON INJUNCTIONS America| on | PILES DWINDLE; MINERS STAY OUT Military Still Holds Strike Leaders (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) By FRANK PALMER. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 8.—Despite | the admission by Judge Advocate-Gen- eral Mowry of the Colorado militia {that striking miners are being held! | prisoners illegally when arrested out- | side the militarized zone, there is yet |no outlook for the immediate release jof the worke | A numb rank-and-file miners |who had done nothing at all which could possibly be twisted into law breaking were released, but the lead- jers of the strikers were still held in |jail on Wednesday night. | Coal Shortage Develops. The strike is rapidly coming to a head with the state hit by the worst | blizzard in years. Denver coal deal- ers announce that the city is only 48 | hours from a coal famine while strik- Jers pass petitions among their main- | tenance men to meet the technical re- quirements of the state law so that the case may be put before the indus- trial commission. May Go to Commission. The belief is now general that the strikers will announce that they will accept arbitration by the state com- mission despite its known friendliness to the operators, but will withold the right to refuse the decision and carry on the strike unless the ruling reme- dies their grievances. The record of the industrial com- mission shows the coal miners have never had a square deal from them. Support For Miners Given. | Sentiment favorable to the strikers jis growing daily. Ministers, teachers and students and other middle class elements are making demands that miners be given justice instead of bru- tality and massacre. Company Union's End N.Y. Window Cleaners That the window cleaners strike will result in a sweeping victory for the strikers before the: end of the week became manifest yesterday Hayes’, Isaac D. Shorr and Carol| this special assignment was kept! when representatives of the employ- | Weiss King. | Th strictly secret, the men themselves|ers’ association tentatively accepted es aie } being in complete ignorance both as|the wunion’s terms of settlement. | McGeehan on Sidelines. i OS'S thezacaese: : jto the nature of their duties and the} After a three-hour meeting with Assistant District Attorneys Al-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (FP).—|reason for their being singled out in| members of the executive board of the Window Cleaners Protective | Union, the employers delegates took |the union’s conditions back to the membership of the Manhattan Win- dow Cleaning Emp! rs Association where they will be voted on tomor row. ie | Harry Feinstein, Harry Homleck, ‘Thomas Owerkin and Arthur Rothen- | berg represented the union, and Myer |Center, Abraham Schwartz ~ and |Harry Fink spoke for the employers, The conference took place at the Mee Alpin Hotel. y Union to End. accepted tentatively the unions’ proposals that the com- pany union be abolished. Represent. jatives of Local 8 hailed this accept ance as evidence that company union- ism will soon be dead in the window |cleaning trade. | Other points which were made by the union and which are to be voted the membership of the employ- ers a tion are: Recognition of Window Cleaners Protective Union, Local 8, 44-hour week, $45 minimum | weekly, 2 year agreement and liquid- ation of strike damages in favor ef the union. FORGET 150 IN "MICHIGAN MINE; ~ ALL MAY FREEZE ISHPEMIN Mich., Dec. 8.—One hundred and fifty men, marooned in Blueberry mine, near here, faced starvation and freezing death today as volunteer farmers and townspeople | battled gigantic snow drifts to convey food and fire to the mouth of the mine, The men were frapped beneath the |surface of the ground when massive |snow drifts collected near the mine land prevented exit. Snow plows, skiis and toboggans were rushed from all |parts of Michigan to Ishpeming to be used in an effort to aid the miners, The plight of the miners was learn- ed a short time after a winning fight with the elements to rescue twelve small school children marooned in a tiny school house. ls Seen By Striking