The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | ribet etme tedacaae’ Sc A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 283. | THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y4 under the act of NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927 AiLy Wo March 3, 1879. PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY York, N, Y¥. AL CITY EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents HEARST FORGERIES START SENATE INVESTIGAT oe | | | | | | | SENATE STUDIES FORGED MEXICAN BRIBE CHARGES Document Sa; Says 4 U. S.| Senators Got Cash WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.—A sena- torial investigation was ordered today into the charges appearing Washington Herald and associated Hearst newspapers to the effect that | the Mexican government ordéred paid sums aggregating $1,215,000 to four in the} United States senators in the further- | ance of Mexican propaganda in aay country. Senator David A. Reed (R) of} Pennsylvania, sponsored the resolu- tion of investigation and it was adopted without a dissenting vote. The fraudulent character of the Hearst letters, which was exposed in| The DAILY WORKER severa! weeks | ago, was disregarded in the discus-' sion of the resolution. A demand made upon Reed for an} explanation as to why the Hearst papers smudged out the names of the senators bribed, if there were real names there in the first place, was answered by Reed with a plea of ig- norance. Special Committee. The resolution authorized the ap- pointment of a special committee of five senators to conduct the inves- tigation and Vice President Dawes im~ mediately named Senators Reed (R) of Pennsylvania, Jones (R) of Wash- ington, Johnson (R) of California, Robinson (D) of Arkansas and Bruce (D) of Maryland. The resolution concluded with the vsual delegation of authority to the committee to.take evidence ‘at any. ‘place or time-end-giving if: cite to the senate for contempt any witness who refused to give testi- mony. * . * MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9.—Censor- ship of news, particularly that per- taining to the revolution in Mexico, was done away with today, by order of President Calles. ® 5 * The New York American and other newspapers of the Hearst combine yesterday resumed the publication of the spurious documents alleged to (Continued on Page Two) Laundry Drivers of Brooklyn Have Shui Six Shops In Strike —— Striking laundry drivers of Local 810, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, have suc- ceeded in shutting down completely six of the nine shops against which their strike was declared last week, it was announced yesterday. Two other shops are making an unsucess- ful attempt to operate while the union has been able to obtain recog- nition of its demands from the ninth _company. “, It was announced yesterday at the Yeadquarters of the union, Borough rk Labor Lyceum, 14th Ave. and St., that a complaint had been lodg! d against police partiality in iz to protect union pickets from the who beatin: Two Station Houses Named. re continuing their practice of we up union workers. toe laundry owners hired sluggers,' Precinets 28 of Coney Island and| 30 of Borough Park, Brooklyn, were especially condemned in the charge. In the Borough Park precinct the in- spector in charge, it was reported, promised to do everything possible to protect the pickets in the future. New members- are joining union, a fact which is considered un- usually significant by the union of- ficials for the reason that the laundry drivers who are signing up in the face of the strike are workers without any previous experience in union activi- ties. ‘ W. Z. Foster Talks at School Forum Sunday William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League and leader of the steel strike of 1919 and the packing house strike, will talk a the Workers School Forum 108 E. Ith St. tomorrow evening at 8 on ption in the an Labor the Clarence Darrow JURY IS: PICKED TO TRY CASE OF GRECO, CARRILLO Fascism Shown As First Issue In Frame-up With the political nature of the case made apparent soon after the drawing of the jury began, Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fas- cist workers, went on trial yesterday in the Bronx County Court on charges of killing two fascists last Memorial Day. The talesmen were suestioned as to their attitude towards the fascist re- gime of Mussolini in Italy. A large number were challenged for cause. The jury was finally completed at ice “Darrow, Chicago crimina] lawyer, led the defense in the exam- ination of prospective jurors, assisted by Arthur Garfield Hays, Isaac Shorr and Carol Weiss King. Defendants Ml. Greco and Carillo appeared hag- gard after their five months confine- ment in the Bronx County Jail. The jury consists of salaried peo- ple and small business men. The case will be resumed Monday at 10 a. m. with the opening state- ment of the prosecution. The defense is prepared to prove that the entire case is built on a frame-up instigated by the Fascist League of North America, according to James P. Cannon, secretary of the International Labor Defense. The jury which will decide whether or not Greco and Carrillo are to die in the electric chair consists of John F. Cratin, clerk at the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.; Theodore Thomas, wholesale millinery salesman; Doug- las J. Tilton, rubber salesman; Harry Kahn, proprietor of a retail women’s clothing shop; Eugene F. Kirk, ship- ping clerk; Charles D. Johnson, cot- ton goods salesman; Max J. Rettig, salesman for the National Button Co.; Jacob Augin, wholesale ribbon sales- man; George W. Reiss, bookkeeper for the Western Union Telegraph Co.; Gustav Hemme, mechanic employed |; by the Buick siotor Uo.; W. J. simp- son, painter; William G. Pease, tin- smith. Court Crowded. Long before the trial was scheduled to begin the courtroom was jammed to the doors. There was very little room for spectators. Most of the seats were occupied by newspaper re- porters and talesmen. About 11 a. m. Mrs. Lina Carrillo, wife of one of the defendants, en- tered the courtroom, accompanied by Antoninio Thomasino Greco, sister of (Continued on Puge Five) Poor Suffer Intensely In Severe Storms Over Country; Thirty Dead) CHICAGO, IIL, Dec. 9.—Blizzards, floods, cyclonic gales and sub-zero temperatures, sweeping many sections of the nation from coast to coast, today had left wake of at least thirty dead, miliions of dollars in property loss, intense human suffer- ing, left ships piled up in the Great | Lakes and sent scores of other ves- sels scurrying for shelter, Montreal reported five men swept to their deaths when trapped by flood waters while releasing log booms above the Gatineau River Dam. They were hurled over the dam to their deaths in the roaring tail race. Partial employment in the big in- dustrial centers thru the summer left the industrial population nabule to withstand what promises to be an un usually eae, FREIHEIT HEAD HELD FOR JURY; Sigman Suit Is Attack| On Left Wing Meilach Epstein, editor of the Jew- ish Daily Freiheit, and Paul Novick, editor of the Jewish Weekly Unity, were remanded to the grand jury yes- terday for possible indictment on a charge of criminal libel in the West Side Court before Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky. A similar charge against William Gropper, cartoonist of the “Freiheit,” was dismissed. The case is an outgrowth of the prolonged campaign of attempted suppression which Sigman’s right wing international administration has carried on against the left wing in the needle trades. Similar charges were dismissed against the following others at a pre- vious hearing: Rubin Salzman, busi- ness manager of the “Freiheit”, Ben Gold, thanager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board, Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloakmakers’ Union, and Jos. Borochovich, manager of Operators Local No. 2. | Owns Amusement Park. Testimony at five hearings showed Sigman did not enjoy the publishing in the Freiheit of a series of articies and cartoons which exposed his own- ership in Storm Lake, lowa, of an amusement park where non-union iabor was employed, while Sigman was serving as president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Sigman maintained that he brought | suit to clear the name of his wife, who, he said, was accused’ by the Preiheit of being part owner of a “roadhouse” Fee to the amuse- ment park. #irst Libel Suit. “This is thefirst case of criminal ibel in the Jewish labor movement,” apstein said last night. “But I am siad of the opportunity to drag Sig- man from behind the skirts of his wife antl prove in open court that the charges were brought against us be- eause we attacked him for breaking the needle trades unions. We will re- tract nothing. We will prove every- thing we have said.” Nineteen Arrested Pickets of Local 41 Dismissed In Trial Four hemstitchers arrested earlier in the day under the injunction against Local 41, International Ladies’ Garment Woykers’ Union, as well as 15 additional pickets taken in- to custody Thursday, were discharged by Magistrate Henry Goodman in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. The four arrested yesterday were picketing the Bell Pleating Co., Arc Novelty Co. and the Manhattan Pleat- ing Co., where strikes were declared in answer to lockouts, + Hires Gangsters. It was said at the office of Local 41 last night that Morris Sigman, right wing president of the I. L. G. W. U. in his campaign to break this local, has sent hired gangsters into the shops to compel employers to lock out workers. * * ” A conference called by the “Com- mittee of 50” to consider the present situation in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union will open at 2 p. m. at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., today and hold a second ses- sion tomorrow. Representatives of shop committees and shop chairmen from shgps registered with the right wing as well as those loyal to the | Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board will be present. | GREEN FOR N. Y. FIREMEN. All local unions in Greater New York received a communication yes-} terday from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, urging support for the eight hour day movement of the New York Uni-} formed Firemen’s Association, Local 94, affiliated with the A. F. of L. TRUSTIFIED VAUDEVILLE. With total assets of $100,000,000, 75 per cent of the vaudeville houses in the United States and Canada were grouped under a single cuntroll- ing corporation yesterday with the TRIAL WELCOME: |fice of the Workers long pending merger between the - | Keith-Albee and the Orpheum vaude- | ville circuits, ' N “Anti-Trust” Law Hailed As Best Union-Smashing Device | Covering Colorado With | Strikers’ Petitions Militia Head Tries New Tactics DENVER, Dec. 9. — State and strike leaders were mystified when lajor four I. W. W. leaders who were pris- oners brought to the State House on statement that they would see the In- dustrial Commission, then stayed in} session with them for hours, telling | them how nice and intelligent they | are, released them and promised to release all other strike prisoners. They did not see the Industrial Com- | mission and the commissioners never had expected to see them. Ardourel Chief Stoolpigeon. Ardourel has been tht chief stool- pigeon, so his actual purpose is un- «nown, but the strike leaders are} with the corresponding understanding that labor organizations | carefully watching, thinking he may want all active leadefs in the state to come into the open so that they can get them. He may have had orders from Gov- ernor Adams who has been besieged with protests agaist the abrogation of civii liberties, even both capitalist papers here editoriaiizing on the crude way the state has handled the} strike. Strikers Circulate Petitions. Meanwhile, the strikers’ State Ex- ecutive Committee taxes its first act- ual step toward settlement of the strike by circuiating petitions over the entire state which will realize the hearing before the Raduatern) Com- mission” The new move does not express confidence in the commission, for the miners have none, but they have con- fidence in their case if presented to the masses, despite what the oper- ators’ commission may do. The commission may be so afraid} of losing their jobs as to give a de-| cent decision because the state has been aroused against them and is de- manding that the governor anything, knowing their record. Three Weeks’ Food Needed. The strikers must be fed for three weeks more to complete a great vic- tery. Yet relief donations are falling off alarmingly. “We may whip the state and operators but be beaten by hunger,” says Lee, strike leader. Volunteers Called For Daily Worker- Freiheit Gala Ball Volunteers are now being mobilized for The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit | Ball at Madison Square Garden Dec. | 17, which is to be the most brilliant event of its kind ever held under the auspices of the militant labor press of America, A total of 500 volunteers are need- | ed to make the ball a success, ac- | cording to an announcement by the arrangements committee yesterday. A meeting of volunteers has been called | for Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., | Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p. m. All! who can assist in any way in the pre- lirinary or final work necessary to the success of this gala color-light event are expected to attend the} nieeting. Gay and Significant. The great floor of the Garden will | be gay and colorful with decorations, | dancers and music. And a statement issued by the New York district of- | (Communist) |* Party, over the signature of W. W.| Weinstone, district organizer, gives) (Continued on Page Four) Painters’ Locals Will Discuss Official Graft Unusual interest is manifested in a pre-election, inter-local painters’ union mass meeting called for this afternoon at Park Palace, 110th St. and 5th Ave. Sponsored by locals 1011, 905, 848 and 499 of the painters’ union, the meeting is being called for the purpose of discussing conditions in the trade and is held to be especi- ally significant in view of the current exposers of graft within ere Council 9. Ardourel of the militia had | ignore | them, but the miners will not risk} CORPORATION LAWYER AT MINEVG CONGRESS LAUDS COOLIDGE, HIS COMMISSIONS, COURTS AND ACT Interpretation of Anti-Trust Laws Most “Sym- pathetic” in History, Says Spokesman \“More and Bigger Consolidations” | Being Stabilized by Crushing Unions (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The federal government never has trust formations are not only permitted but invited and protected | are to bear the full weight of the anti-trust laws, according to re- | ports*at the Mining Congress here. This is the view of Gilbert H. | Montague, prominent corporation lawyer, who addressed the con- | gre 8, composed of the executive and technical staffs of the great —— mining corporations and whose SENATE DENIES members are the real adminis- |trators of their labor and pro- | duction policies. OATH 10 VARE Coal Barons Joyous. The coal operators appear to be satisficd—as they.were never satis- fied before—with the efforts of the courts in manipulating the present anti-trust law. Union labor is being} crushed out, while mergers, trusts and Man | consolidations are held to be legal. No resolutions were adopted by the congress on this point but it ap- plauded the statements and advice of Follows Insull’s Smith Outside | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The sen- ate this afternoon denied Wiliam 5. | Vare of Pennsylvania the right to take the oath of office and referred his case to the special Reed investi- | zating committee for further inves- ligation. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, his co-politician, fought hard to get him] |seated, even pro: |later be excluded because Vare, Philade!phia (Continued on Page Two) STALIN REPORT SCORES TROTSKY based hoodlumism and every form of petty | machine upon | thievery, wanted to have the “honor” of serving even a short time as sena- tor, in order to enrance his political | career. No Faith in Promises of Opposition The same proceudre was followed | (Specia] Cable t to Daily Worker) in shutting out Vare as was taken) MOSCOW, Dec. 9. After re- in denying the oath Wednesday td) viewing the errors of the Opposition Senator-clect Smith. The two substi-| and asserting that it had virtually tute resolutions offered by Senator | degenerated to Menshevism, Joseph David A. Reed (R) of Pennsylvania Stalin, Secretary of the All Union |giving Vare the oath, were first de-| Communist Party, declared in his |feated and then the amended Norr resolution, denying the cath and re-| gress that he had little faith in the | ferring his case to the Reed commit- | pledge of the Opposition to submit tee, was adopted. to all Party decisions. The first two votes were identical,| explaining the expulsion of Trot- $1 to 55. The first substitute by Reed | and Zinoviev from the Party, | sk, | (Continued on Page Two) alin declares: oats “Why were Trotsky and Zinoviev Olgin Talks at Workers expelled from the Party? Because ‘School ‘today at Z p. m. they organized an Opposition, cause they decided to break \P: | rules, because they wanted privileged ons in the Party. . . If the Op- position wants to stay in the Party, let it submit to the — The fifth lecture by Moissaye J. | Olgin, on the Russian Revolution, will | be given today at 2 o'clock at the will of the Party | question of the maintenance of power by the workers and peasants of the The section of Stalin’s report deal- Soviet Union after the November| ing with the Opposition follows: litevolution; the policy of military Explains Issues Communism, the relationship towards the aan eaaiiee: Leite |the peasantry and the v cage bah heath Ak will ie dis mental controver @| tween the E | First, the ion of the | Fifteenth Congress of ; alist cons | The O delegation to the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Inter- | | national. The remainder of Bukharin’s report will be presented tomorrow. No session will be held this’ eve- ning. Zinoviev'’s Position. “Kamenev and Zinoviev accepted the insurrection under pressure.) Lenin forced them into it with the! threat of expulsion. Trotsky was for insurrection voluntarily only on (Continued on Page Three) Business Is| | been so well organized to assist business as at present and huge | “= GROUP POLICIES | report to the Fifteenth Party Con-} Workers School, 108 E. 14th St. and its rules without reservation and | | This lecture will deal with the; unequivocally. If it does not want that, out with it! | | a -| probably be r USSR Communist Party sx possibilty 0 Ke “Den this possibi Hears Bukharin Report position adopted the Men ‘ a sition. On this ground | | (Special Cable to Daily Worker.) | Discioe redcied tas | MOSCOW, Dec. 9.—After list-| | (other || ening to the conclusion of Orjoni-| a eyes | kidze’s report and electing an tartan . volt Tas | | editorial committee to draft a fe pander . a Ne resolution on the report of the} |™ BA ae ahi ‘ ba + Central Control: Commission, the a auapoatars t think ‘that tha Fifteenth Congress of the All| | be Preposte! % iy ia " Union Communist Party heard | Russian Bevelanon Bie stand Bukharin report for the Party's against cons ative Europe. Striking Miners’ Chil- dren Faint in School Try to Live on Threé Dollars Per Week PITTSBU. RGH, Dec. 9.—At ings, a mining camp 2,000 set up in the Allegheny Moun- tains, District No. 2, a striker’s child fell down in the road from hunger and cold the other day, and lay there ti® semeone passed along and carried it home, Throughout the distret the \limit of physical endurance has | been reached among the miners, | and the winter is bringing added misery. An Exhausting Struggle. months—in some places for the locked out miners in these For | years isolated camps have been carrying on their lone struggle in defiance of company violence — blackjacking, shooting, wholesale armed eviction— and slow starvation. Today with winter here—10 and 20 below in this |region—hundreds of miners and their {women and children are shoeless and in rags. | No Funds or Fuel. | Funds have given out for coal to heat the cellars and old garages and shacks that the miners have been liv- ing in since their eviction. Neither the miners nor the local unions can |pay the rent for these m iserable quar- | ters any longer. The landlords keep jdunning them, and some of the fam: ilies have been evicted for a second time. Children Faint in School. | ‘Teachers tell of children fainting im {school from hunger, and of hundreds {kept home from school for lack of j}shoes or clothes. Up at Nanty GloT saw children hobbling along through the snow with their bare feet thrust into big cast-off rubbers tied on with “They are so perished-looking their little old rags of old ” said an Irish woman up at «k coffee, black cof- read, sometimes two, three >, no bread” is the a miner put it. $3 Per Week Maximum. Three dollars p week per family is the maximum relief that miners in Central Pennsylvania are getting. (Continued on nued on Page Five) ‘Smith Forces Fail To Get Delegation Pledged From Ohio The fight for the selection of a com- vention city has now begun in the leadership of the democratic party, ,| with Cleveland as the most likely city to secure the nominating convention next June. The for pporting Al, th, governor of New York, view the proposal to send the convention to Cleveland with disfavor, because the state machine of the Ohio governor, Vie Dohaney, is opposed to Smith. Bf- forts of the Smith machine to get the Ohio delegation was blocked this week by supporters of Dohaney. feat Smith Plans. select an Ohio delegation o forme tor Atlee ed for ap- nd exeeu- n Columbus has already Smith. This the Dohaney on the com- iot stand for 1 t became nec- o the field another A compromise will hed whereby the dele- port Pomerene, | as but after he asted his strength, the votes will be thrown to Dohaney instead’ of set of de to Smith. TEXAS G. O. P. FOR HOOVER. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. — Texas will support Herbert Hoover at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City next June, R. B. Creager, Texas member of the Republican Na- tional Cammittee, said here today in a formal statement. G Mi