The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1927, Page 1

) } Vol. IV. No. 285. | 4 Ohio THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8,00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1870. per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WORKER-PEASANT RED GUARDS CAPTURE CANTON Mine e Fight Sharp on All Fronts COAL CONFERENCE FAILS; OPERATORS WILL NOT COME Miners’ Union Wants General Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12.—The ar- rogant and final refusal of the coal operators to take part in the joint conference proposed under federal aus- | pices, and which constituted a Cool- |} idge gesture aimed to placate the min- ers, has brought home with smashing force to the rank and file here the bankruptey of the official policy of appealing to the sfate and national | government. Even former supporters of John L, Lewis realize now that the time has.come for the union to fight—or be exterminated. Call for General Strike. Sentiment for a general strike is increasing steadily. Local Union 570 at Portage, District 2, Central Penn- sylvania, where thousands of miners and their families are on the verge of starvation, has sent out a resolu- tion to all local unions in the district asking for joint action in demanding that President Lewis call a strike in all coal fields unless a settlement is reached by Dee. 15. Follow Mellon Lead. All important ccal companies have folowed the lead of the Pittsburgh Coal Company and Pittsburgh Ter- minal Company in regard to the pro- posed conference. All the compani adopt the attitude of the Mellon con- cerns in ignoring the union as a fac- tor in the situatioz. S. H. Robbins, president of the Coal Operators’ Association wired: “We will not meet with rep- resentatives of the United Mine Workers with whom we have no con- tract and with whom we have severed all relations and who have no inter- est in the properties we control.” West Va. Operators Hostile. The Monongahela Coal Operators’ Association, an organization controll- ing a number of mines in West Vir- ginia, wired in response to the con- ference invitation: “There is no con- nection, contractual or otherwise, be- tween the members: of our associa- tion and the United Mine Workers and therefore we wotld not be inter- ested in or affected by any of the problems that might be considered at the conference.” STRIKE VOTE AT LOCAL 41 MEET NOW PREDICTED A general strike vote will be taken at a mass membership meeting called by the Tuckers, Pleaters and Hem- stitchers Lopal 41 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, for Thursday at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., after work. The strike if called will be effec- tive against all manufacturers in the pleating industry, except those who have recently renewed their agree- ments with the union. Violation of the injunction recently ‘obtained against Local 41 by. the Manufacturers’ Association in the in- dustry led to the arrest of 16 more strikers yesterday who were. picket- ing the shops of the Harrison Pleat- ing Co., Landau Bros., and the C. C Pleating Co. which had locked out their workers. The arrested workers were discharged in Jefferson Market Court yesterday afternoon by Mag- istrate H. Stanley Renaud. “Sigman, Will Fail.” M. E. Taft, manager of the union, said in spite of the hired thugs. he Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies\ Garment Workers’ Union, thru whose assistance the in- junction had been obtained will not succeed in compelling the membership to register in the dual local he has established was sending into the shops. “If the bosses think that they can conspire with Sigman to break our union and destroy the union condi- tions of our members the workers will make them change their minds,” Taft added. “Next Thursday’s strike meeting will show them that if they want t: continue in business they will have to we bi | | | | Wm. Watkins, president, Switch- men’s Union, St. Paul (chairman of the delegation); R. S. King, Ma- chinists’ Union, New Haven. U, 8, UNIONISTS ARE BACK FROM SOVIET RUSSIA Meeting Is Planned For Rank and Filers Eight members of the second trade union delegation to the Soviet Union will return to New York at 8 o’clock tonight on the Cunard liner Beren- garia, which will dock at Pier 54, in the Hudson River at West 14th St. The other members of the delegation’ are expected to return Dee. 27. The delegation left America Oct. 21 and reached the Soviet Union in time te participate in the celebration. of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Re- volution. Before starting on their re- turn trip the delegation issued a pre- liminary report urging the American workers to resist the imperialist at- tacks on the Soviet Union To Hold Meeting. A mass meeting to welcome the re- turn of the delegation will be held Wednesday. Dec. 21 at Cooper Union. The meeting will be held by the New York Committee of the Amer- ican Trade Union delegation, the same committee that arranged the large Madison Square Garden’ meet- ing for the first trade union delega- tion, headed by James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor. Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati, will pre- side. Members of the delegation will speak. Those Returning. * Those returning today are: Wil- liam Watkins, chairman of the dele- gation and president of the Switch- men’s Union, Local 206, Minneapolis; Peter Jenson, secretary of the dele- gation, of the Machinists’ Union, Chi- cago; Ben Thomas, Machinists’ Union, Philadelphia; William G. Hearing, Stamford, Conn.; William McKenzie, Carpenters’ Union, Stamford, Conn.; Edward Romese, United Mine Work- ers, Nanticoke, Penn.; Edward Stock, Electricians’ Union, San Jose, Calif., and E. P. Cush, Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Steel Workers, Pittsburgh. COLORADO NOW RECOGNIZES THE MINE STRIKERS Evidence Lays Shooting to Rockefeller By FRANK PALMER. DENVER, Dec. 12.—The State In- dustrial Commission “ate dirt” Sat- urday when it announced the accept: ance of petitions by the strike com- mittee and called hearings on its grievance For this, it recognized the legality of the strike and recognized the ¢om- mittee, which the Commission knows was I. W. W. after wild statements never be recognized and that the com- mission would not deal with the 1. W. W.’s. Hearings will begin early this week and will be concluded by Christmas, the Commission says. Annear Continues Strikebreaking. Chairman Annear promptly an- nounced that half of the men had gone back to work in the northern fields, doubling the wildest claims of the militia who “always had figures by a wide margin. Annear has shown himself an ineffectual but determined strikebreaker during the controversy but is not intelligent enough to cause a real break in the ranks. The strikers who believe the Com- mission will be afraid to give a de- cision as bad as in the past and are confident that victory is near, would not consider scabbing after almost ten weeks of wonderful solidarity. Democrat Heeler Led Raid. It has been learned that the man leading the raid of militiamen Friday night named White may be Captain, Charles White, secretary of the demo- cratic party, of which Annear is chairman. The party has been sup- ported by the Colorado Labor Feder- ation for ten years, especially by the Ahnear- White e SrOuy: * (Special to rhe Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., Dec. 12—A mass of circumstantial evidence pointing directly to tke Rockefeller Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. as responsible for the massacre of striking miners at the Columbine mine of the Rocky Moun- tain Fuel Co. the Federal Council of churches’ | vestigating committee: in- take the right to put certain individ- uals on the stand to reveal the story of how the bloody Rockefeller com- pany conspired to. hang the killing on another company, and get control of field. Here is the chain of evidence. The Background. Just about the time the strike started Miss Josephine Roche, a mem- ber of the Juvenile Court staff under Judge Ben Lindsey, inherited domin- jant (though not'a majority) interest in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Com- pany. She discharged Walter Belk, notorious since Ludiow days, as head gunman’ at the Columbine and an- nounced they would not dig coal un- der guard. Fire Peart. She “accepted the resignation” of George Peart as general manager and of Judge Jesse G. Northcutt, the lead- er in the fighting at Ludlow, as gen- eral counsel. Then they ordered that Ted Peart, } son of the former gencra! manager _ SContinuied o7 on t Page Two (25, 000 WILL ATTEND WORKER-FREIHEIT BALL; PROLETARIAN, POET AND PEASANT TO BE THERE Proletarians, poets, playwrights and sdbueh ordinary human beings to reach the big total of 25,000 are auditorium of Madison Square Garden, 51st St. Saturday night, when The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit ball will be held. Under the direction of the Joint Arrangements Committee 500 volun- teers will be groomed Thursday evening, 7:30 p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, to handle the great crowd, According to reports received by The DAILY WORKER this affair s to be the biggest ever staged by the revolutionary Jabor move- 64 East Fourth St., ment in New York City. + HUNDREDS A jazz band wmexcelled for the encouragement it gives to trippers of the light fantastic has been secured and the number and originality of the |. costumes promise to establish a new record. ‘awarded. ‘4 _ For the first time the editors of ‘fhe DAILY WORKER and The Frei heit can be seen under the same roof. and fred Ellis, who performs a similar function at The DAILY WORKER, will appear disguised as two prosperous real estate agents. The members of several local WORKER that they will attend the The thousands of Workers (Communist) Party members in New York City are actively engaged selling tickets for the ball. ball meats much for ‘the future of Workers (Communist) Party expects every pied al a sympathizer to do his (her) duty. expected to gather in the mammoth and Eighth Ave., next OF PRIZES. Hundreds of prizes will be Morris Pass, Freiheit cartoonist, unions have informed The DAILY ball in a body, The success of the the two Communist organs and the that the strike was illegal and would} © awaits the coming of} Many here believe that it will only} a leading company in the northern} | Children Starve, No Job, Man Offers Self As Slave for a Year FORT WORTH, Teas, Dec. 7 (By Mail},—Because he is unable to provide food and clothing for his wife and five children, Alexander Christian Maddox, 31 year old war veteran ig ready to sell himself into slavery. The public auction, which is s¢heduled to take place on the lawn 6f the Tarrant County Court House, will not be interrupt- ed by them, county officials said. Maddox has been unable to find | employment for a long time, and as a last desperate means to raise money to feed his family, he offers to sell himSelf into a year’s volun- tary slavery. His “master,” he ays, will be able to impose any | kind of Work and any number of hours of Tabor he chooses | The only condition Maddox de- mands, is that his “buyers” pro- vide his ¢hildren with the neces- sities of life. PROBE OF HEARST STORIES SEEN AS ORUDE FRAME-UP Seek to Learn Secrets of Mexico WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.The in- troducticn of a resolution to inves- tigate the story of bribery of United States senators by the Mexican gov- ernment introduced by Senator David A. Reed, old guard.Mellon republican of Pennsylvania, is meeting with op- position from the representatives of the Mexi rovernment. From un- official "nih it is learned that the Mexicans consider the proposed in- vestigation merely a pretext to se- eure information regarding the Mex- ican government that will be of inter- est to the imperialists of the United States. The whole Hearst series of articles against Mexico is known to be based upon forged and fake documents of the calibre familiar to the Hearst chain of papers. However, their pub- lication may serve as a pretext to try to learn secrets of the Calles admin- istration that have not yet been learn- jed through the regular spying activi- ties of American agents in Mexico. Would Question Elias. | | One of the subpoenas issued by the senate is for Arturo Elias, Mexican financial agent in New York, through whose hands the money is alleged to have passed. The Mexican embassy considers that Elias has diplomatic standing and is immune to subpoenas, but a contrary view is taken by some senators. Consular officials and other em- ployes of foreign governments are not exempt from summons except where it is so specified in treaties, ac- cording to senate authorities. No such treaty exists with Mexico. To this contention the Mexican embassy replies that it is “established prac- tise” to consider consular officers in the same class with other accredited diplomats. DISCLOSE HEAVY TAMMANY GRAFT jof recent charges by George U. Har- |vey, republican alderman of Queens. \It is being conducted in a taxpayers’ ‘hearing before the Board of Assessors lin the Municipal building, When the hearing was called to or- ‘der yesterday it became, apparent that Tammany Hall, represented by Com- | missioner of Accounts James A. Hig- gins, was determined to control the hearing as far as possible in an at- tempt to shield its appointees. The commissioner refused the request of Henry" H. Klein, attorney for a group of taxpayers who arg sponsoring, the investigation, that a joint investiga- AGontiwiet on Page Two) | Militarists Lose Base in South; United States Sends Warships SHANGHAI, Dec. 12.—Three United States gunboats are rushing to Canton as the result of the capture of the city by workers and peasants under Communist leadership. The gunboats Sacramento and Pampango were immediately despatched from this city when reports received here announced that armed workers and peasants had taken over control of the city. ‘The | U. s. gunboat Asheville is heading for Canton from Hongkong, it was learned. GRECO-CARRILLO DEFENSE SHOWS UP PROSECUTION State Witnesses Fail to Break Alibi From the Bronx County court- room Donato Carrillo who, together | | with Calogero Greco, is being tried on a murder charge instigated by local fasci yesterday gave out a brief message to the American workers: “We are confident,” said Carrillo, | “that our innocence will be estab- lished through the good work of - our lawyers and the Defense Com- mittee, Tell all the good com- rades—.” i At this point the questioner was | | interrupted by a court attendant and Carrillo was forbidden to con- tinue. Defense Outlined. A definite promise to show how the Fascist League of North America has been guiding the police in building up| | the murder charge against Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo was made yesterday morning in Bronx County court by Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, defense lawyers. | “There has been a relentless, re- sourceful group pursuing the definite objective to ‘get’ two victims for a} murder which they are unable to} solve,” said. Hays in his speech to the jury. Henderson Demands Death Verdict. Hays spoke after Assistant Attor- | ney Henderson told the jury that he would ask them to return a first de- gree murder verdict against Greco | and Carrillo. “The police,” declared Hays, “over- looked many clues which might have led to the real murderers in an effort (Continued on Page Fivey CHICAGO TRANSIT | of the WORKERS RESENT OFFICIAL DELAY (Special to The Daily Worker) |i CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Rising pres- | sure of the rank and file members of the Chicago local of the Amalgamated | Union of traction workers may yet | HONGKONG, Dee. 1 housand military reservist morning and swept counte Canton from the city, Bukharin Tells Party Congress of Soviets Being Formed in China MOSCOW, Dec. 12.-N. Bukhar- in, secretary of the Communist In- | ternational, speaking before the} Congress of the Russian Commu-| jnist Party, now in session, stated Friday: | “The tremendous impetus of the} Chinese revolution, which is still | alive despite temporary defeat and |is accumulating its forces despite | the terror for a new onslaught. . . The Chinese revolution not | crdshed; it is not dead, but devel-| ops on an absolutely different basis | | than hitherto. Most probably we | | will witness in the near future new | | forms of the Chinese revolution, as |all the revolutionary forces of the | pgoletariat and peasantry are now| | consoHdating in China. Consider-| lente revival in the revolutionary | | movement is n@ticeable. | “A real Soviet government is be-| |ing organized in many districts, | jand is fighting a war against the | gentry and all counter revolution- | [ary forces.” is BUKHARIN. REPORT SEES REVIVAL OF CHINESE REVOLT | Hits ALF. L. Bu Bureaveracy at Party Congress MOSCOW, Dec. 12—“We have en- tered a new phase of olutionary ruggle,” Nikolai Bukh declared in his report.on the internatianal sit- uation before the Fifteenth Congre All Union Communist Party. “The tremendous Chinese Revolution, which is still alive despite temporary defeat and is ac- cumulating its forces despite terror for a new onslaught,” he declared, “the indonesian rising, the beginning of bio revival of the nationalist libera-| | tion movement in India, the awaken- ing of thé colonial peoples of the East lis of a general character. The col- onial front of world imperialism is collapsing. “The British general strike and the lutionar according to reports received here meeting was held to decide upon the formation of a work impetus of the! IN SEWER RING force the officials of this union to | °0al strike and the Vienna rising re- call a strike on the Chicago surface | Vealed the internal decay of the capi- and elevated lines. io list system in Europe. The rising Incensed at Company: (Continued on Page Three) Resentment by the workers of the | company refusals to deal with the! Postpone Case of Four’ jened strike last summer. This resent- ment reached its breaking point last | ‘Distributing Lea f 1 ets j week. On Monday a meeting of the | union has been rising since the threat-' Workers Arrested For | Circulars pointing to the failure of past arbitration proceedings and calling upon the workers to yield to no compromise have been issued to (Continued on Page Two) FILL UP REFORMATORIES. ALBANY, Dec. 12.—Boys who are |courts must resort to such methods in|I have she said, “will bail and defend any other workers arrested for demanding their rights to organize. The charge against the men who distributed the |anti-injunction leaflets has been de- fined as ‘conspiring to undermine re-| {spect for the courts of law.’ If the| ; and peasants, aided by five n armed revolt early this , elements contending for A mass ” and | be asants’ government in the city The attempt of General Chang | | Fak- -wei, who set up an anti- }working class government in | Canton several weeks ago, to re- capture the ci were frustrated | when the Seamen’s Union called |a strike which tied up boat and |rail service. | Take Over Offices. | Armed peasants red bands on their sleeves are pa- jtrolling the streets of the city pre- \pared to meet any counter-revolt. All Jof the offices of the government ‘have been taken over. Committees of workers and peasants are in full con- |trol of the offices of the Kuomintang, the Department of Finance and Mili- tary Affairs, All telephone, tele- jgraph and railway stations are in the |hands of the workers. | and workers with In a proclamation posted thruout lense reports state, General Li sun, reactionary leader, Wang ei and General Chang Fak- are denounced as traitors to the revolution. The proclamation an- jnounced that the workers and pea- jsants had taken over control of the | city. | “The Red peasants, workers and paadices are the only ones who ean protect the masses,” the proclamation 2 | stated, Maintain Order. | The workers took the city after a bitter six hour struggle which started {at four o'clock this morning. Hun- dreds were killed and wounded in the fighting. Armed patrols of workers maintained perfect order in the city after its capture and prevented loot- ing. Officials of the government set up | by General Chang Fak-wei several |weeks ago are reported to have fled |to Honan Is eit | HONGKO. Dec. 12.—According to advices reaching here of the “red” revolt in Canton, the revolutionists have not interfered with or molested the foreigners in the city. The capture of Canton by armed workers and peasants end at present the hope of the’ counter-revolutionary |group headed by Wang Chin-wei to |set up a government at Canton. The |session of the Central Executive Come mittee of the Kuomintang, just closed, clearly revealed that General Chang Fak-wei, who had taken the city from General Li. Chai-sum several weeks ago, was backing Wang Chin-wei and that the whole basis of the Shanghai conference was a program of extere mination of the workers’ and peasants?’ organizations, General Li Chai-sum, who was |driven from Canton by Chang Falke represented the interests of the ) Nanking government. Chiang With Imperialists. SHANGHAI, Dec. 12.—After mak- ing an open bid for the support of the United Sta and other impere executives of both the elevated and! The cases of four “Worke (Com-} - ebigaee Shey surface lines under pressure of the|munist) Party members arrested last cage pained rk” lead- ood ‘rank and file forced a decision tojweek for distributing anti-injunction Kucmintere’ ei ‘ Hi eo the That sums totaling many millions | strike. \leaflets were postponed until next the Soviet Union eons pine on of dollars of public funds have been | Call Off Mass Meeting. |Monday by Magistrate Iota in the| onto made in an i tone state- obtained in graft, that the whole | ; i ‘ty |Ninth District Court, Brooklyn, yes- ‘ an interview! 7a ‘Tasibeany roaiine lethe Borough of | In order to forestall this eventuality farday. day are regarded as forgshadowing a % ee acem reenter ne a | leaders of the International, including | (..°).)0) 0 are threat. clear and open alliance between Queens is directly implicated and that |. 7 M one i ‘Anti-labor injunctions are thres I i : ies in all probability the Walker city ad- Wm. D. Mahon, president, have called Bing to paraleess the labox. Chiang’s faction and the imperialist wo tten te TEs, tc a joff the rank and file mass meeting i can igen tiene RG ><, | powers against the Communist work- ministration is likewise involved in : ;- movement in America, Rose the proceedings, are facts revealed in scheduled for next Wednesday in archi) secsataty “oerthe York ¢'S 29d peasants who are reported to the investigation of the sewer scan-|Tder, it is believed, to prevent the| ition of the Internd ,.| have taken Canton. |dals in Queens County. EA AEST Sas cal ete fense which is cohducting the def Attacks U. S. S. R. | The investigation came as a result ks! Seta Solid 3 i ead ne hel e International Labor Def “Regarding foreign policy,” Chiang declared in an interview yesterday, “I will do everything in my power to gain the friendship of the powers with the possible exception of the Soviet | Union.” Referring to the United States, | Chiang declared, “President Coolidge, heard, is considering the ap- being sent to Elmira reformatory|order to bully workers‘ into submis-!pointment of a commission to study these days are a more hardened type sion, then we are pretty well om the than those of previous years, accord-|road to a Mussolini dictatorship. ing to a report of the stat¢d commis-| “Here in the city of New York we sion of correction, made public today. | have witnessed the attempt of the In- During the fiscal year ending June 30,|terboro Rapid Transit Co. to secure 1927, 710 young men were sent to the|an injunction against the 3,000,000 Elmira reformatory. were under 21 years of age. of Labor.’ the Chinese treaty question. China would consider such action a friendly gesture. “It would help tremendously to unify Chinese opinion and might re- sult in the Nanking and Péking gov- Of these 466|members of the American Federation jernments uniting on a commission to meet the United States delegation,” ay A as |