The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Y / ; i intered as second-class matter ALY at the Vout Office at New York, N. \. under the act of CER. farch %, 1879, re FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 288. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. WORKER Price 3 Cents “Soviet Government Firm in Saddle in 5 China Districts” COLORADO STOPS MEETING T0 TEST CIVIL LIBERTIES Militia Attack on Strik- ers Feared By FRANK L. PALMER. (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., Dec. 15—Charg- ing that bloodshed was planned at a meeting to test the right to hold meetings, under the direction of George Collins, the New York repre- sentative of the American Civil Lib- erties Union, Major Ardourel of the militia, prohibited the meeting this afternoon. | Feared Militia Attack. Collins derided the idea that either | he or his associates planned blood- | shed, and denied that others knew of | the meeting before Thursday. How- ever, Collins dismissed the meeting to prevent possible attack by the militia upon the strikers. A habeas corpus proceeding was started in the federal court on behalf of twelve strikers who are being held by the militia in northern Colorado. Either a decision will be given in three days, or trials will be started by the Relief Committee. | Militia Raids Continue. | The militia continues raids night and day, searching homes and arrest- | Clarence Darrow (left) and Isaac Shorr, attorneys for the defense in the trial of two anti-fascists in a Bronx court. Under their questioning the “identification” of Greco and Carrillo by prosecution star witnesses broke down. COSTUMES BY N. Y. ARTIST WILL FEATURE WORKER-FREIHEIT BALL One of the features of The DAILY WORKER-Freiheit Color- light Costume Ball in Madison Square Garden tomorrow night will be costumes designed by Lydia Gibson, New York painter, which will be worn by DAILY WORKER Builders and others ac- tive in the labor movement, and in the literary and art world. SPECTACLE IN -~ SENATE. PROBE A group of artists have been \Borah, LaFollette and engaged for two weeks under the direction of Comrade Gibson Helfin Take Stand BULLETIN. making those costumes. Not WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 15. only will valuable prizes be given to those wearing the best costumes, but prizes will be awarded to those iden- —Consu] General Elias. appearing voluntarily. before. te commitiee investigating the Hearst forgeries refreshments between acts. 500 Volunteers. Five hundred volunteers met last night in Manhattan Lyceum and per-} fected arrangements for the ball. | There is a special costume contest between The DAILY WORKER and Freiheit staffs. Both the Freiheit ‘COACHED WITNESS. tifying the wearers. The judges will work in relays and will be served with about the Mexican government, de- nied that he ever had any money | with which to bribe senators, de- nied absolutely the authenticity of any of the documents, and the charges based upon them, and point- ed out that the alleged Mexican letters were on the wrong kind of paper to have come from govern- ment files. * * * WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The New Haven, is coming to the ball with | his entire membership, in a new Ford | There will be a special train | Youths’ Conference Called For Miners’ ing strikers. “Home to home” picket- | ing is charged, whatever that is. | The operators’ effort to prevent a) great mass meeting Friday night may be successful as the city authorities objected at the last moment on Thurs- day to the use of the auditorium for a meeting of the Fellowship of Recon- ciliation for Peace. | Three university students, the chair- | man of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Ministerial Alliance, a college professor and George Collifis and an- other minister were to speak, This meeting was a vital issue for the} “Peace with Justice” movement, land The DAILY WORKER can boast | et ee ‘of a staff member who looks as if he {never had a shave. Both of them will} CHARGE | R T lhe taken to a good union barber Sat- L] a i jurday and both staffs depend on their jown man to win the prize for the |most original disguise. | The arrangements committee an- nounces receipt of applications for " blocks of tickets from other cities. DESTROY LABOR George Siskind, district. organizer in | i car. se aeai Cakats cain ine from Philadelphia packed with left head of a nation-wide conspiracy of Wgers and CORM BR CoS. from Bos- employers to destroy the American ton, Baltimore and Washington, tabor movement, officers of both the The famous cartoonists, Fred Ellis American Federation of Labor and and Morris Pass, will be there in per- che Amalgamated Association of son with their sleeves rolled up ready Street and Electric Railway Em- to take on all comers for a sketch. ployes yesterday filed answer to the Every racial group in the world Interborough application for an in- (with the exception of the Scotch: junction to prevent the further or- Pat Devine being on a speaking tour) ganization of the New York traction and every radical who has attended a workers, meeting or a ball for the last five Answer Comprehensive. years will be there. It promises to The answer to the Interborough be the biggest affair of its kind ever application, filed before Supreme held in this city. You cannot afford Court Justice Wasservogel, was made to pass it up. And in behalf of the American Federation’ Its success means the difference be- of Labor and William Green, its presi- tween virility and pernicious anemia dent, the Amalgamated Association of for the Communist daily press in Street and Electric Railway Employes New York City for some time to and Wm. D. Mahon, its president; come. Hugh Frayne, New York State organ- izer of the A. F. of L.; P. J. Shea and J. H. Coleman, organizers for the Amalgamated Association, and others. The reply begins with an attack on the “yellow dog” contract and the company union and is based on the .gight of labor to exist and function. Attacks Company Union. The answer attacks the company | vnigyn on the ground of “illusory” | yalutegand calls it a “bogue” union | perpstrated upon the workers without ‘ their consent and desire. The “yellow, The: Youth Conference for Miners dog” contract is declared to be illegal Relief will hold a mass meeting and on the grounds that it was drawn Conference next Sunday afternoon and under compulsion and duress when ¢Vening, respectively, at the new ‘company agents threatened to dis- School for Social Research, Tenth charge workers who did not sign the Ave. and. 23rd St. Representatives instrument. |of many youth organizations are ex- Further charges against the Inter- | P¢cted to attend. Relief Here Sunday borough are that in reporting to the | Many Delegates Present. Transit Commission the company de- liberately concealed “from the city of New York and from its citizens” large sums of money expended for such un- lawful purposes as spying, strike- breaking and fighting organized la- ~~ bor. f ™ tool.” » Wednesday. In the attack on the company union it is pointed out that the workers have no right under this “eompany The company officers have * complete control over the general conimittee of the brotherhood, accord- | ing gto the union’s reply. | hearing upon the Interborough application and the reply of organ- ized labor will take place next lson, Young Workers League; A recent preliminiary conference was attended by. representatives of the Young People’s Group of the Church of All Nations, Young Peo- ple’s Group of the Community Church, students of the Union Theo- logical Seminary, students of Barn- ard College, Young Workers (Com- munist) League, American Associa- tion of Plumbers Helpers, Millinery Workers Union, Local 43, Young Pro- - <4 Sand Brownsville Youth Center. Hapgood Will Speak. The meeting Sunday afternoon will be addressed by Powers Hapgood, United Mine Workers; Tony Minerich, United Mine Workers; John William- on ih names of the four United States sen-| ators that were erased in the faked | | documents published in the Hearst | chain of sewer-rags were brought out | today before the senate committee | selected to investigate the latest of | the series of lies, fakes and forgeries | being published by William Randolph | Hearst’s publications. They are Sen- | ators Borah of Idaho, Helfin of Ala- | bama, Norris of Nebraska and LaFol-| llecte of Wisconsin. Hearst a Sorry Witness Even in front of a friendly senate committee composed of Hearst law- yers, Mellon oil senators and old guard | Mellon-Collidge lackeys, comprising | Senators Reed of Pennsylvania, John- son of California, Jones of Washing- ton, Bruce of Maryland and Robinson of Arkansas, tle millionaire publisher |of smut-sheets, William Randolph | Hearst made a sorry spectacle of him- self and was afraid to vouch for the authenticity of any single one of the | documen.s that his papers have been | publishing against Mexico, Nicaragua, } the Soviet Union and every other {country or group or individual he ‘sought to besmirch. Mysterious “Man” Furnished Fakes. When asked the source from which he had secured the so-called secret documents, Hearst replied that he would be giad to tell provided he could refer to “ong man” without menvion- ing his name. He explained that to mention this name might cause con- siderable embarrassment to the man in question, for he is still in business in Mexico. Reed asked for the name “privately,” and Hearst wrote it out on a slip of paper and gave it to the committee. $ “This gentleman was in Mexico,” said Hearst. “He communicated that to Edward Glary, the executor of my mother’s estave, by letter.” Retreats On Charges. Questioned specifically about the documents relating to senators, Mr. Hearst said he was convinced that (Continued on Page Two) Daugherty, American Association of Plumbers Helpers; Betty Dublin, Barnard College; Edward Falkowski, United Mine Workers, Leon Platt, ‘outh Cultural Organization, and Tom Tippet, Brookwood Labor Col- lege. Wynne White, Union Theologi- pe Seminary, will preside. FIND FASCISTS i AGAINST GRECO “Tf you keep this up I’ll say yes, he | ination. Darrow’s questioning of the witness brought cut a hesitant description of the two occasions upon which Alfano was taken to Brooklyn to identify Greco. Each time Alfano was ac- companied by several policemen and fascists, including Caso, 9 Bronx de- tective, and Rocco, organizer and sec- retary of the Bronx branch of the |Faseist League of North America, who, with Alfano are the chief props of the prosecution in its frantic at- tempt to send Greco and Carrillo to the electric chair. | “How did you get to Brooklyn?” | Darrow queried. | “In two automobiles,” the witness replied. “What time of the day was it,” Darrow asked. “About 5.30 in the afternoon.” Greco Pointed Out By Fascist. Alfano’s testimony revealed the fact that he was taken to make the identification in front of the shop | where Greco was at work. He was sitting with several fascists detec- tives in the parked car on the oppo- | he admitted to Darrow. “Did you identify the man you were looking for?” Darrow asked. “Some young man passed, a little lame, and I think it was him,” the witness responded. Darrow asked Alfano if he had been shown pictures of various anti- fascists. The witness admitted that he had. “Was it before or after you were taken to Brooklyn?” Darrow per- sisted. “Before,” the witness admitted. Fascist Leader Behind Prosecutor. “Did you see Greco among the pic- tures?” Darrow asked. “No,” said Alfano. The picture was that of “a very large man,” the witness added. Alfano was forced by Darrow to admit that Vindi, the national secre- tary of the Fascist League of North (Continued on Page Four) : Five Window Cleaners Placed Under Arrest Two striking window cleaners were arrested yesterday by members of the police industrial squad who invaded strike headquarters at Manhattan! Lyceum, 6 E. 4th St. Those taken into custody are Matthew Nagy and James Osman. Earlier in the morning members of the industrial squad attacked a group of pickets at Spring St. and Broad- way. The pickets were attacked with clubs and blackjacks, several suffer- ing severe cuts and lacerations, union officials stated. Following the as- sault three pickets were arrested and charged with felonious assault. They were John Risko, John Skula and William Sasosky. State Witness Refuses| to Identify Greco | e ERIE TOPS i | Trust | Charge Steel Forced Its Workers | To Vote Republican | || PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15 (FP).—4| | |Miners here are intevested in an | | Associated Press dispatch from declares the | | {Harlan, Ky., which |United Sta Coal & Coke Co.,| * r a |mining subsidiary of U. S. Steel | Reactionary Nanking | Corp. is accused by J. G. Forester, | | |defeated independent candidate for is the inanj. andjo home. But why | ireuit Judge with compelling its should I send a man to jail for noth- ing when I’m not Sure,” shouted Luigi Alfano, star “eye-witness” of the prosecution yesterday in the murder frame-up against Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, now on*trial before Judge Albert Cetn,and a jury in Bronx county court charged with the slaying of two fascists last Decora- tion Day. Thus refusing to identify Greco in \Bro$x county court yesterday, Alfano, his ' head lowered, and trembling, nearly wrecked the elaborate legal structure build up by the district at- torney, with the aetive aid and coop- eration of the Fascist League of North America. A minute later the witness fairly screamed: “I’m a Catholic. I must die, too. Why should I say one thing when I mean another.” Death Blow to Prosecution. These answers were all in response to impatient questions by the prose- cutor as to whether “Greco looks like the man who did the cutting.” Alfano’s testimony in court yester- day, which was interpreted by a court | attendant, is almost a death blow to the prosecution, which banked heavily on him as the second “eye-witness” to identify Greco and Carrillo as the slayers of the two fascists last Mem- orial Day on their way to a Black- shirt demonstration. Darrow Pierces Frame-up. The defense scored all round yes- terday, Alfano, a state witness, was subjected to questigning not only by the disappointéd distric) atiorney, but also sat for three hours under Dar- row’s keen and relentless cross-exam- | |employes to vote for D. G. Jones, | | the regular republican. candidate | | | |who was declared elected. The | |grand jury brought in a true bill | jagainst the company and Forester | | | |is contesting the election on} { | grounds of fraud. | Pittsburgh miners say such tac- | |ties have been used in Fayette | | County by the H. C. Frick Co., the Pennsylvania subsidiary of U. S. Steel. The corporation thus seeks | to control government. 1} © ee ee “PEACE” MEETIN IN MINE STRIKE ENDS IN FIASCO Miners Show Hypocrisy of Conference WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—After a flat statement by Secretary of Labor Davis that “it is useless for small bituminous operators to attend any conference unless the major operators attend and agree to remedial meas- ures.” Davis’ “Peace conference” of soft coal operators and miners broke up today without reaching an agree- ment. This was the result expected Imperialist Ally Bars Consulate of USSR In China (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Dec. 15—The Nank- ing government today severed diplo- matic relations with the Soviet Union when Quo Tai-chi, vice minister. of foreign affairs, handed the Soviet Consul General at Shanghai his pass- ports and requested that all repre- sentatives of the Soviet Union leave PF PIES government within a week. Commercial as well as diplomatic government demanding that all com- mercial agents from the Soviet Union leave within a week. Imperialist Allies. That the recent successes of work- ers’ and peasants’ revolts and a de- sire to strike a bargain with Great Britain and the United States precipi- tated the move was indicated in the official statement issued by the Nank- by progressive miners since the con-|ing government. The communique ference call was issued. ‘declared that the Nanking govern- The two groups were asked to sul#)ment feared” wide-spread revolts of mit later recommendations on which|workers and peasants similar to that a settlement could be negotiated. in Canton, territory controlled by the Nanking | relations were severed, the Nanking | PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15.—Although a few minor coal companies have ac- cepted Secretary of Labor Davis’ in- vitation to the joint conference with the miners’ officials opening in Wash- ington today, it is clear that Davis’ offer is only a cover for strike break-} ing, and there is small chance of any speedy settlement or change in the lockout situation, and it seems cer- the American University Club last night expressed the hope that the ini (Continued on Page Two) POWERS EVADED | Quo Tai-chi at a dinner given. by | DISARM ISSUE IS tain that the miners are facing a long winter of pitiless war. Big Operators Reject “Offer.” | site side of the street from the shop, : Twice the large coal operators, the decisive factor in the coal war, lead by the Mellon-controlled Pittsburgh Coal Company, have contemptuously rejected the conference call, and re- affirmed their refusal to have any dealings with the miners’ union. “We haye definitely and perman- ently sevefed all relations with that organization,” states the Pittsburgh Coal Company. “We will not meet with representa- tives of the United Mine Workers of America with whom we have no con- tract,” is the answer of the Ohio Coal Operators’ Association to Davis’ tele- gram. It would not benefit the miners who remain unemployed, because we have already offered and yet continue to offer them employ- ment at the highest wages now pos- | sible. “Our mines are not closed to them as individuals and our information and belief is that many would return to work but for the misleading and unwarranted advice of the union of- ficials.” Out to Smash Union. In unmistakable terms the coal op- erators of all three districts declare that they are out to smash the union, bring the open shop into Pennsylvania and Ohio to stay, and establish the slave conditions and starvation scale of the Kentucky, Alabama and West Virginia fields. In all the strike districts the food situation is daily more official. In the majority of local unions the dis- |trict has been unable to increase its LITVINOV CHARGE | surrounded it and isolated it from the Reviews Work at Gene- va at Party Congress | MOSCOW, Dec. 15.—That the capi-| talist powers took every possible | measure to prevent the discussion of disarmament and elbowed aside the proposal for complete and immediate | disarmament when it was brought be-| fore the conference by the Soviet Union’s delegation was the charge} made against the Geneva Preparatory Disarmament Commission by Maxim Litvinoff, Vice Corfmissar of Foreign Affairs, at the Fifteenth All Union Communist Congress today. j Litvinoff said that the correspond- ence concerning Soviet Union’s par- ticipation in the conference em- phasized the Soviet Union’s lack of confidence in the League of Nations’ disarmament activity. Things seen and heard at Geneva left this lack of confidence unshaken, he said. Evade Issue. | “The International Disarmament Convention draft, elaborated after prolonged work, contains no disarm- ament cypher,” he declared. “The draft contains not a single important | (Continued on Page Three) | Union; the Unholy Article IT. By ROBERT MITCHELL. COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CALLS WORLD LABOR TO RALLY FOR AID OF CHINESE REVOLUTION IN NEED Government Breaks Relations with Soviet Union \/Renegades Want U. S.-British Financial and Military Help Against Masses Workers Asked to Demand Withdravsal | Of Foreign Troops (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 15.—Declar- ing that Soviet governments are in complete control in five dis- tricts in Kwantung Province, the Executive Committee of the Communist International has jissued an appeal urging workers |thruout the world to demand the immediate withdrawal of imperialist troops from China and to prevent the despatch of ships carrying troops and munitions to China. | The workers and peasants in South {China are making steady gains in {spite of the attacks of native reac- naries who are allied with the im- perialist powers, the appeal states. |The text of the appeal, which is ad- dressed to all workers and to soldiers jin all imperialist armies, follows in | full: Unfurl Red Flag. The. fvowkers «and: pee China seized the glorious town of Canton after a severe struggle and unfurled the red banner of revolution jin the capital of south China. “The incomparable heroism of the Canton workers is a great act of world significance. All counter- revolutionary forces have united against the workers and peasants— the foreign imperialists, the bloody militarists and the counter-revolution- |ary bourgeoisie. Workers Struggle. “These forces are conducting a fur- They have i] od. lious struggle for Canton. world, The bourgeois news agencies report that Canton has fallen and that the mass executions of workers and Communists has begun; but workers’ revolutionary detachments broke thru the cordon. “Tf the reports of the counter-revo- lutionary victory at Canton are true, the victory cannot be stable and hast- ing. The Soviet government is firm- ly saddled in five districts in Kwan- tung province. New battles‘are in- evitable. The movement is growing in spite of partial defeats. The bour- geois counter-revolutionaries and the hangmen generals will be smashed. The imperialist cutthroats will be driven from Chinese territory. Aid Struggle! “However, the heroic Chinese work- ers’ and peasants’ revolution now suf- fers under their blows. “Speed help! Speed aid to the Chinese Soviets! “Not a soldier, not a sailor, not a gun, not an arm to throttle the Chi- |nese revolution. “Refuse to load munitions! “Demand immediate withdrawal of imperialist forces to China. “Long live the Chinese Soviet gov- ernment. “Long live the international revolu- * tion. Injunction, “Yellow Dog”. Contract, Company’ Trinity in Traction ing or even attending certain church services at which they might meet with the strike breakers. =) | relief allowance for months, yet every casas week finds more families destitute The injunction which the Inter- and in need of immediate relief.| borough Rapid Transit Company will seek to obtain on Dec. 21 against the whole organized labor ‘movement (Continued on Page Two) gan be made even though in these days of Injunction Democracy it ig no longer simple to carry off the Will Be Held Tonight The Russian revolution celebration | ™ i . meeting stopped by the Newark po-| highest laurels in the fields. lice Nov. 13 will be held in Newark] In the past injunctions have sought tonight at New Montgomery Hall un-|to prevent the organizing of workers, der the auspices of the Workers|the collection of dues, picketing, the (Communist) Party. speakers | payment of strike benefits and other will be William W.- Weinstone, dis-|union activities. The recent injunc- trict organizer of the party; John|tions in the Pennsylvania coal fields Williamson, Young Workers (Com-| have ordered the striking miners not munist) League, and Juliet Stauart|only to refrain from speaking to Poyntz. “scabs” but also to refrain from sing- * | will in most respects break the ex- Newark USSR Meeting) ting injunction record. This claim| But the injunction sought by the | Interborough goes even farther. If |this order is granted and observed, its ultimate effect will be to legis- late the organized labor movement out of existence. Indeed, this is ex- actly what the order is intended to accomplish. Injunction, a Political Weapon. In the case of other injunctions a certain pretense might still be Main- tained that they arose out of the variation of purely economic strug- gle. In the case of the Interborough injunction no such pretense can any longer be held out. An instrument aimed at millions of workers in every part of the coun- (Continued on Page Two) BAN ia