The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKE FIGHTS; FUR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-0UR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 286. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Entered as secoud-ciass mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927 per year, ( THE DAILY WORKER. March 3, 1878. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 32 Firat Street, New York, FINAL CITY EDITION WORKER-PEASANT REVOLT SPREADS IN CHINA COURT RULES TO EVICT 4,000 MORE IN PENNSYLVANIA MINER FAMILIES 500 Cases and Several Companies Involved In Decision on Appeal by State Court (Special To The D. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 14.—Another heavy blow was dealt | AILY WORKER.) the locked out and starving miners of Pennsylvania today, their | wives and children, by a sweeping decision of Judge Cunningham | of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania sustaining evictions is_by several coal companies, applying‘ to four thousand members of | miners’ families. The companies immediately in- volved are the Hillman Gas Coal Co., the Vesta Coal Co., the Pittsburgh | Terminal Coal Co., the Youghiogheny | and Pittsburgh Coal Co., consul for | all these having entered into a stipu- lation to accept the decisions in the | cases immediately under appeal, | claiming that the same technicalities were involved in these and five hun- dred other cases. Four thousand more miners’ women and children will be thrown out of their homes and forced to face a Pennsylvania winter in the near fu- ture as the result of the court’s de- cision today. Tens of thousands are out already, living in union barracks, or wherever Eee can, NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS RALLY TO JOINT BOARD Thousands Pack Cooper Union Hall . Packing halls, aisles, seats and the platform of Cooper Union while thousands were turned away to make an overflow meeting at Manhattan’ Lyceum, over 5,500 workers in the cloak and dress industry, last night pledged support to their officers and voted to continue their struggle against the reactionary Morris Sig- man administration in the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union until victory was secured. The mass meetings were in -re- sponse to a call by the Joint Board. Enthusiasm of rank and file mem- hers, numerous observers said, was greater at last night’s meeting than at any time since the struggle against the Sigman machine began a year ago. The height of the meeting was reach- ed with a declaration by Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Joint Board, that no matter what sacrifices the battle may yet require, the struggle | against the Sigman machine, the bosses, the police and Tammany Hal! would continue. Histury Told. Speaking as the chief representa- tive of the cloakmakers, Louis Hy- man, manager of the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board, traced the history of the struggle during the past year and} said the increasing right wing demor- | alization would “inevitably end in a speedy victory for the rank and file: Among other speakers were Joseph Borachovich, manager of Loeal 2, M. E. Taft, manager of Local 41 and E. Kudrenetsky, of Local 35. Charles S. Zimmerman, presided. Resolutions were drawn calling | upon the International office to re- instate expelled members and locals | of the Joint Board. Another called ‘or a general election under the sup vision of an impartial committee any! for a general referendum within they International to obtain propor- tjontil representation. A third called upon the membership to rally around the Joint Board TRACTION RANK AND FILE FOR CHICAGO STRIKE CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—Efforts to pre- vent a traction tie-up on the Chicago elevated and surface lines may prove entirely unavailing if results of the TRADE UNIONISTS DECLARE SOVIET RUSSIA PROSPERS “Defend USSR,” Says Returned Delegation Eight members of the second trade union delegation to the Soviet Union returned yesterfay on the Cunard liner Berengaria’ with high praise for the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics. The eight rank and file workers were unanimous in their enthusiasm over what they described as the sreat strides madé by the workers in the | Soviet Union since the Russian Revo- lution. “Before we left the Soviet Union,” | Peter Jensen, Chicago union machin- jist and secretary of the delegation, said, “we told the workers of Soviet Russia we would do our utmost to prevent an attack on their workers’ republic.” Returning Delegates. The other members of the delega- tion who returned yesterday are Wil- liam Watkins, chairman of the dele- gation and president of the Switch- men’s Union, Local 206, Minneapolis; 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. “The results of the investigation of Russian industries and labor con- ditions made by the 25 rank and file trade union delegates will be pub- lished within a month,” Watkins, chairman of the delegation, said last night. “We saw the Russian workers and peasants and Red Army celebrate the tenth anniversary of the revolu- tion Nov. 7th and 8th in a manner that was very inspiring to us. | | Labor Power Organized. | “From the trade union point of | view we found that organized labor in | Russia now has a power which the | American worker is dreaming of. The workers in Russia together with the peasants are guiding the destiny of the Union and Socialist Soviet Re- publics. “T can not say that the Russian |worker enjoys the high standard of jliving that we do. But in hours of | work, control through the union of job conditions and pay, state provi- sion for education, accident, unem- ployment and old age, we American workers may well pattern after the Russian trade union movement, Na- \turally the social classes that former- ily lived on the backs of the peasants and workers are at a_ constantly |growing disadvantage. This is inevi- table in a country owned and admin- jistered by the workers and for the | workers. | Workers Solve Problems. | “Problems left unsolved and entire- ly disregarded by the corrupt and brutal eczarist regime have been splendidly handled by the Soviet gov- ernment. We wonder why when these. facts are known our own United States does not extend the hand of fellowship and establish diplomatic relations with this great nation oc- |eupying one-sixth of the earth’s sur- ‘face. Now that we are home we will |certainly oppose any attempt on the part of our government to in any way harrass the U. S. S. R. Newark USSR Meeting Is Called 1 for Friday The Newark (N. J.) workers’ cele- present so-called arbitration confer-| bration of the Russian Revolution, ences now being conducted between officials of the unions, the city and traction company do not bring forth satisfactory results within a few days. (Continued on Page Two) * BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! Stopped by the police Nov. 13, will be held Friday at New Montgomery Hall. William W. Weinstone, New York dis- trict organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, John ‘Williamson, of the Young Workers (Communist) League, and Juliet S. Poyntz will speak. , ‘Attend Ball Saturday, ee Workers Party Urges N. Y. Party Members Support by all members of the Workers (Communist) Party for the costume ball of The DAILY WORKER and The Freiheit next Saturday night in Madison Square Garden was called for. tast night | by Jay Lovestone, executive secre- tary of the Party. He declared that the affair on next Saturday night will tell whether those two | | Communist organs will be able to function effectively in the future as organs of tne class struggle or | will be handicapped by financial stringency. “All members of the Workers (Communist) Party are urgently requested to give active support to The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit Color-light and Costume Ball,” Lovestone said in a statement. “On the success of this affair depends the ability of those two powerful instruments of the class struggle to carry on effectively their work in the irczrests of the oppressed masses. Every member of the Party in the New York district must consider it a Communist duty to heep make this affair a success, In behalf of the Central Executive Committee I ask all our comrades | | to put taeir shoulders to the PS: in this task.” | | | | HYMAN AND AIDES IN CONTEMPT FOR $10,000 Fine Proposed ~ For Joint Board Recommending that Louis Hyman, LEADING STRIKES IDENTIFICATIONS FAIL IN. GRECO-— | CARRILLO TRIAL ' Prosecutor + Stumbles in| Frame-Up | After half a day of cross examin- | \ing one witness, Clarence Darrow, de- fending Donato Carrillo and Calogero | |Gfeco, young anti-fascists charged | with murdering two fascists last | Memorial Day, yesterday afternoon | ‘secured admission of a statement in | the records by which he expects to prove the “identification” of his| clients false. The statement, which | was finally admitted over bitter prosecution protests, was issued by Alexander Rocco, fascist leader, after the murder. It contained descriptions of the slayers, which, Darrow as- serts, correspond in rio way with the actual appearance of the accused |men. Wild Imagination. The statement by Rocco was made to Assistant District Attorney I. J. P. Adlerman of the Bronx, who ques- |tioned him on the night of the mur- |der, May 31st. A reading of the depo- sition to the jury by Darrow revealed the following testimony, after giving a description of the details surround- ing the killing of the two fascists on their way to a demonstration down- town: “The fellow that done the stabbing was almost six feet in height. He |was slim, wore a gray suit, a dark brown soft hat. The fellow that done the shooting was about 5 feet 10 inches high, had a long face. And the left part of his face was yellow.” This description fits neither Greco nor Carrillo according to defense} ‘counsel. Greco is five feet five and ja half inches in height, and Carrillo lis exactly five fect six iriches. ! Rocco, who under Darrow’s cross- | examination had admitted that he is manager of the Joint Board, Cloak the secretary and organizer of the and Dressmakers’ Union, and 19 other Bronx branch of the Fascist League Joint Board officials be considered in|of North America, which the defense Commands et A= eva WITH REACTIONARIES | Communist com- mander, fought the Northern reac- tionaries along with the Kuomin- | tang until they betrayed labor, then | aided in the seizure of power by | Tang Yen-ta, red guards in Canton. He is chief of the workers’ army defending Soviets in South China. LOCAL PAINTERS CALL FOR CLEAN UNION CAMPAIGN Urge All Progressives to Vote Saturday “Calling upon the members within the jurisdiction of District Council 9 of the Painters’ Unions to “ put aside all local partisanship” and to unite to “establish an honorable leadership that will serve the interests and carry FOR CANTON; M ERCENARIES ARE EMBOLDENED BY U. S. A. TROOPS Report 1,000 E x | Reactionary Naukine |Right Wing Troops Kill Thousands of Workers; ecuted in Streets Government Announces Break with USSR; Seeks Imperialist Support SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. here. Altho a battle is still raging in the | streets of Canton for the contr }cenary troops, the territory in the vicinity is completely in con- ol of the ci , attacked by mer- /trol of workers and peasants, according to despatches received Reports from Hankow state that towns and cities thruout \the provinces, and especially the villages are completely in con- trol of peasant organizations which have driven out landlords and | set up governments of their own. Early reports from Canton which stated that the city was completely in control of the reactionary forces were modified by *later despatches which declared that the workers’ and peasants” |corps was still holding the po \lice headquarters and a number of other buildings. The reac- tionaries are emboldened by the presence of American marines armed with artillery. | 4,000 Killed. | The reactionaries attacked the city |late last night and gained control of | certa ain sections. Hundreds of work- |ers and peasants taken in the sudden | attack were summarily executed with- out any semblance of a trial. Re- ports received here state that four- |teen thousand were killed in the street- fighting last night and early this morning. The American consular re- port gloats over the slaughter of workers, and places the number of executions at 4,000. Leads Canton Soviet pare } Yang Shen-ta, Yeh Ting, and the head of the Hongkong Seamen’s Union, San contempt of court and be fined $10,- 000. Referee Murray Hulbert, Tam- many Hall official, yesterday filed anti-picketing injunctions with the! Supreme Court. The injunction against the Joint sociation of Dress Manufacturers, calling strikes or picketing dress shops affiliated with the employers’ association. At that time union spokesmen pointed out that the in- junctions were obtained with the co- operation of the right wing of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, headed by President Morris. Sigman. Foreign-Born Council to Campaign Against Two Anti-Alien Bills. The New York Council for Protec- tion of Foreign-Born Workers an- nounced yesterday through its secre- tary, Milton Goodman, that it is un- dertaking a fight against the two bills introduced last week in the House of Representatives demanding the registration and deportation of non-citizens, The first decisive step toward or- ganizing the forces of opposition to these bills is a general conference called by the New York Council for Sunday at 2 p. m. at Irving Plaza, 15 Irving Place. The conference call has been sent to ali local labor or- ganizations, fraternal orders, foreign- language societies. Among the speakers will be Dr. Edmund B. Caffee, director of The Labor Temple; Robert W. Dunn, as-, sociate director, American Civil Lib- erties Union, and August Burkhardt, national secretary of the Amalga-, mated Food Workers. his report on the alleged violation of | Inc., prohibits the Joint Board from! charges is behind the entire frame-up against the two workers on trial, was | jrecalled to the witness stand when court opened yesterday morning. Un- der Darrow’s questioning the fascist (hesitatingly described his trip to Car- /rillo’s home in Brooklyn, accompanied Board, secured last spring by the As-|by two Bronx detectives working up | \the case. State Witness Retreats. | The “star” witness of the prosecu- tion was forced by Darrow to de- seribe the details of the “identifica- tion” of Greco and Carrillo the day they were arrested. No pretense at a “line-up” was made in the magis- trate’s court, it was revealed yester- | day, Greco and Carrillo being the on- ly prisoners present at the time. Besides the district attorney, there | were “a lot of detectives and police | in the room,” Rocco testified. Regarding the deposition made by | Rocco on the night of the fascist kill- ings, it was learned yesterday that; Darrow has issued subpoenas for As- sistant District Attorney Adlerman | and for all records of the police de- | _partment concerning the arrest of | | Greco and Carrillo. Adlerman, in ad- | dition to questioning Rocco, also su- pervised the taking of statements of | the majority of the persons brought in by the police as witnesses, At the opening of court yesterday | ; Darrow got into the record, without ; encountering any opposition from the | prosecutor, that there were twenty-| two steps to the “L” stairway lead- | ing up to the 183rd St. station, rather | than twelve, as Rocco testified. Protest Meeting Sunday. A meeting to protest against the |frame-up of Greeo and Carrillo will be held next * o'clock at 1347 \-oston Rd. The meet- | ing, which will ue addressed by Max} |Shachtman, John Pippin, and others, | is under the auspices of the Bronx | branch of the International Labor | Defense. More people than flocked to Madi-~ son Square Garden to see Jack Demp- sey put the muffler on Sharkey, the loquacious Lithuanian, will be present in that giant arena next Saturday night to demonstrate their loyalty to The DAILY WORKER and to grab off an evening’s enjoyment never con- ceived of since the old days when Vik- ings visioned a life after death where flagons of Swedish punch were in abundance and the Celtic conception of heaven was an everlasting war. Those were the happy days. Modern industry has decreed that life cannot be one continual round of gayety for the proletariat and the orkers are too busy fighting to turn ‘Color-Light and Costume Ball In Madison Square Garden Saturday Night to Bring 25,000. this dreary world into a Soviet heaven | to take stock in the bibulous dreams of the jolly old pagans. But they do insist on having a merry time when the opportunity presents itself and The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit ball is one of those occasions, “Those Who Have Eyes.” For those who can use their eyes, their tongues and their feet, Satur- day night will be the end of a perfect week. 25,000 workers of both sexes, all over the five boroughs and even in distant cities like Philadelphia, are looking forward to this event as a pair of fundamentalist lov would long for their honeymoon. There i isa (Continued on Page Fivey nday afternoon at 2; out the mandates of the general mem- bership”, a committee of progressive members of the various unions in the industry today issued a circular ap- peal to the 14,000 painters, decora- tors, paper hangers and other locals in the trade. The appeal follows closely a recent mass meeting where 1,200 painters | pledged to support to their inter-local progressive committee, joined to end corruption in the union, Officials Repudiated. | Sentiment among the rank and file |members of the unions indicates that recent exposures of corruption among the officialdom of District Council 9 |has resulted in an almost complete repudiation of the leadership of the district council. Interviews with officers of Locals 1499, 848, 905 and 1011 show these) locals have gone over entirely to the} progressive leadership. These offi- jeers declare that large sections of other locals are ready to repudiate the | {district council. Prediction is made | | by the same leaders that the election next Saturday will result in a com- plete victory for the progressives, | Accuse Officials. The circular, printed in English and | Yiddish, reviews the critical situation of the industry, traces the responsi- | bility of the, reactionary group of | “wire pullers” for having brought | about the existing chaos in the trade | and points to the immediate dangers facing the workers. | The officials of District Council 9, according to this circular, ‘plan to | abandon the interests of the member- |ship by co-operation. with the bosses in a plan to permit the present agree- ment in the trade to expire with at- | tempt to renew it. It is pointed out | |that unless a progressive slate is re- ‘turned in the elections the tendency | |toward “alteration work” will bring | ¢ {problems and difficulties which may | © |destroy the union. | Urge Solid Vote of all Workers. | The elect will be held at York- | | ville Casino, 210 E. 86th St., from 8| to 8 Saturday. The pro; ives have jnamed the- following ‘ | |Rothman, Local Union 499, for day | | Secretary of the district council |Emile Just, Local 499, John Hilfertz, Local 848, Louis Koslof, Local 905, and Harry Bloom, Local 1011, all for business agents. The secretary of the inter-local progressive committee is Thomas Wright, of Local 499, who has been responsible for the development of the progressive movement within the district council. The committee urges all progressive members to vote. DU PONT AND GEN’L MOTORS. It is generally reported on Wall St. that the DuPont's interest in United Sou Chen Ging, head of the Can- ton Soviet. Chairman of the All China Federation of Labor, on strike committee of Chinese Sea- men’s Union. SENATORS WALSH ‘AND WHEELER BIG BUSINESS TOOLS Aiding Anaconda Com-| pany in Power Steal By P. J. WALLACE, Editor Producers News. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—While the copper controlled press of Mon- tana is devoting much space to the proposed investigation of power com- most gigantic power steals in the his- | tory of the nation is being engineered | here by the Montana Power Company with the connivance of the State’s two representatives in the Senat The Flathead power site—a veritable Niagara, and one of the T. State’s richest resources — is about | to be bartered away. Kerr on the Job. Frank M. Kerr, the astute President and General Manager of Montana Power is heading a corps of skilled lobbyists here working for | legislation that would result in his |company getting a permit to l-ase the |site from the Government. ‘le is a daily visitor to the office of Senator | Wheeler as is frequently seen in the lobbies and environs of the National Japital with his arm around (Continued on Page awe) Injunction, “Yellow Union; the Unk Me (By ROBERT MITCH. Next week on Wednesday, J there is scheduled to take pl fore Justice Wasservogel of the New York State supreme court, the final hearing on the application for an in- junction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company against some 3,000,- 000 members of the American Federa- tion of Labor. If this injunction is granted, there will be established over the lives of 40,000 traction workers the rule of an unholy trinity—yellow dog contract, company union, injunction, which will \have the effect of almost completely States Rubber is in behalf of the Gen- eral Motors Corp. i shutting off these workers from all intercourse with the rest of the world. Until recently the great majority of panies by Senator Walsh, one of the | sure | Vice- | the | Dow. Contre act,” Chen-ging, are still holding out, us- ing the post office building as a base, according to reports. Whether or not American field guns which were landed at Canton actually fired on the city is not yet known. The United States gunboat Asheville joined the gunboats Sacra- |mento and Pampanga at Canton yes- terday. Their commanders are bit- | terly hostile to the Communists. * * * USSR Hails Soviets. MOSCOW, Dec. 14.—The establish- ment of a Soviet government in Can- } ton marks a new phase in the history of China, N. Bukharin declared in a ; speech at today’s session of the All | Union Communist .Congress. The news of the spreading revolt work- | ers and peasants thruout South China was wildly cheered by the delegates at the congr The strike movement was spreading: | rapidly thruout China, Bukharin de- clared and a general strike in Canton was not unlikely. * * * Nanking Breaks With USSR. SHANGHAI, Dec. 14.—Following his announcement that the Nanking nment welcomed more friendly tions with Great Britain and the d States, Chiang Kai-shek de» clared tt the Nanking government would definitely sever relations with the Soviet Union and would take | measures to force the withdrawal of Soviet consulates from territory con- trolled by the Nanking government. The break with the Soviet Union, |which has long been threatened, is arded as marking a new move on the part of the Nanking government | toward an alliance with the imperial- ist powers and as a further departure from the policies laid down by Sun | Yat-sen in his final message to the tang and in his letter to the Executive Committee of the | gov Company Trinity in Traction the workers in the»American Labor Movement, against whom the injune- tion is aimed, had probably never éven heard of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. ceivable plan could any considerable portion of them be brought to New York as part of a mass drive to or- ganize the traction workers, Thousands For Spy System. What is the meaning, then, of this apparently childish move on the part | of the Ipterborough ? The application for the injunction, More will be said of this presently. The cost for printing it alone undoubt- edly ran into thousands of dollars. In ( id on Page Two) By no readily con- © itself, is a document of over 300 pages, The workers and peasants led by * ‘