The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1927, Page 1

‘\ \ THE DAILY WORBEK FIG! FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WPEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of Murch 3, 1878. SER FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSC! Vol. IV. No. 289. RIPTION RATES: Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 In New York, by matl, $5.00 per year. per yeor. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1927 33 First Street, Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, New York, Price 3 Cents N. Y. BRIBE OFFERED BY FASCIST FOR MURDER VERDICT SENATE CHALLENGED TO FACE - HEARST WAR FORGERY INQUIRY War Provocation Against Mexico Real Crime, Daily Work er Charges Demand that the committee appointed by the Senate to «in- vestigate Hearst’s forgeries ag: ainst the Mexican government desert its superficial dallying with the minor charges of attempted bribery of senators and plunge into intensive examination of the infinitely more important charge that Hearst is breeding war with Mexico by the use of forged documents, was made in a tele- gram sent yesterday to each member of the committee by The PALMER ARRESTED FOR SPEAKING T0 COLORADO MINERS Lafayette Union Head Jailed; No Warrants DENVER, Colo., Dec. 16.—Frank Palmer, former editor of the Colorado Labor Advocate and correspondent of The DAILY WORKER was arrested for speaking to a strike meeting last night at Longmont. With Secretary James Allender of the Lafayette Min- ers and seven others he was held at the guard house of the Columbine mine. Break Up Meeting. State guardsmen, without authority or warrant, made the arrests after breaking up the meeting which was being conducted in the Longmont city hall. Palmer and Allender must face the charge of “addressing strike meet- ings.” Attorney Penn Collins, repre- -senting. the: International Labur De- (Continued on Page Two) ~~ Ssoverninent Youttis’ and Women's Conferences Plan Relief For the Miners The Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief will meet tomorrow at 5.30 p. m., at the New School of Social Research, 465 West 23d St. Delegates from many youth organizations, trade unions and church and fraternal or- ganizations will be present. “The purpose of the conference,” states the conference call, “is to en- list all labor, student, and other youth organizations in the task of helping the coal miners who are on strike to- day in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colo- rado. After many long months of struggle against the coal operators, injunctions, the private police of the | operators and the state militia itself, | the coal miners and their families are facing winter with no food, clothing, or housing facilities. The coal opera- | tors have begun turning the miners | out of their houses in order to try | and bludgeon them into capitulation. | The miners are fighting a hard strug- gle and the entire labor movement is aroused.” Plan Mass Meet. Before the conference is opened a mass meeting will be held in the same hall. The speakers will be Powers Hapgood, United Mine Workers; Tony Minerich, United Mine Workers; John Williamson, Young Workers (Com- munist) League; George Daveherty, American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers; Betty Dublin, Barnard Col- Tge; Edward Falkiwski, United Mine Workers; Leon Platt; Youth Cultural Organization and Tom Tippe, Brook- wood Labor College. Wyne White, Union Theologica! Seminary, will pre- |. side. * Women’s Conference. A women’s conference to raise funds for the striking miners of Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Colorado will be | held tomorrow at 7.30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The conference is called by the United Council of Working Class Wo- men, 80 East 11th St. Fraternal and labor organizations have been invited to send delegates. The conference is open to the public. * * AUDIENCE GIVES TO MINERS. Following an appeal from the plat- form by Anthony Minerich, Pennsyl- ®DAILY WORKER, Failure to change the direc- tion of the probe from the trivial to the important, The DAILY WORKER charged in its telegram, would convict the committee of col- laborating with Hearst instead of ex- posing his war mongering. Sent to 9 Senators. The telegram, besides being sent to each member of the investigating committee, was sent to each of the senators who have been accused by Hearst. The following senators were sent the message: Reed, Jones, John- son, Robinson, Bruce, Borah, LaFol- lette, Norris and Heflin. The senators were informed that the spurious character of the docu- ments the Hearst papers have been running to bring about war with Mexico, had been proved by an expose that appeared in The DAILY WORK- ER, November 19. The mechanism of the expose was explained. Telegram in Full. The telegram, in full, follows: “The DAILY WORKER calls your attention to the superficial character of the present investigation of William Randolph Hearst’s charges in connec- tion with Mexico, The investigation thus far deals only with one phase of the clumsy forgeries of the Hearst papers—the charge that the Mexican bribed United States senators. While it is absolutely cer- tain that this, like the rest of the charges of Hearst, is based on for- geries and therefore untrue, we insist that this is only one side, and the least important side, of the matter. Of far greater importance is the fact that Hearst, a very powerful mag- nate of the press, has published and continues to publish brazen forgeries for the purpose of inciting war with Mexico. Forgery Shown. “We urgently call attention to the fact that William Randolph Hearst, as publisher of the New York Ameri- can, caused to be printed in three different editions of the issue of that paper on Monday, November 14, three different, alleged, photographic re- productions of same alleged ‘original’ documents. The first edition printed 1926, and filed July 2nd, 1921. “In the second edition of the same issue of the New York American the filing date July 2nd, 1921, was de- leted. In the final edition of the same issue of New York American a new | filing date, July 2nd, 1926, appeared in what purported to be the same pho- tograph of the same ‘authentic’ docu- ment alleged to have been obtained from archives of Mexican govern- ment. War Provocation. “We submit that it is clear that Hearst is trying to provoke war against Mexico by means of at least one forgery made or amended in his own offices. This is a greater crime than has been alleged or suggested on either side during this investigation. We demand that the senate committee investigate this phase, failure to do which would show the senate commit- tee to be collaborating with Hearst instead of exposing his criminal war mongering for private gain, Coolidge’s Policies Gain By Forgery. “We call attention to Hearst’s re- peated assertions in his papers dur- ing this forgery campaign that he is actuated by the motive of supporting Coolidge’s policies in Latin America. Therefore silence on this subject would mean a conscious effort to bol- (Continued on Page Ywo) an alleged document dated June 12th, l: @ 1@ ‘Coolidge Approves Navy | Race With Britain; No More Tax Cuts Desired ©WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. President Coolidge has approved the $800,000,000 naval program, program submitted to congress this week, he told callers this af- ternoon. Coolidge at the same time de- clared that the tax reduction bill passed by the house goes entirely too far. The impression was obtained that Mr. Coolidge will veto the measure if it passed the senate in its pres- ent form. WILL REPORT ON USSR PROGRESS Rank and Filers Will Speak’ at Cooper Union Six of the eight members of the second trade union delegation to the Soviet Union who returned to Amer- ica Wednesday morning will report on theirexperiences in the Workers Re- public at a meeting to be held at Cooper Union, Third Ave. and 8th St. next Wednesday at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced yesterday, The meeting has been artanged by the New York Committee of the American 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. » qhist of Speakers. The speakers at next Wednesday’s meeting will be William Watkins, chairman of the delegation and pres- ident of the Switechmen’s Union, Lo- cal 206, Minneapolis; Willaim McKen- zie, Carpenters Union, Stamford, Conn.; Edward Romese, United Mine Workers, Nanticoke, Pa.; William G. Hearing, Stamford, Conn.; Ben Thom- as, Machinists’ Union, Philadelphia and E. P. Cush, Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Steel Workers, Pittsburgh, all members of the delegation and Robert W. Dunn, of the first delega- tion that returned recently. Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati will preside. TRADE UNIONISTS REACTIONARIES | BURN WORKERS © IN RED CANTON Soviet Vice-Consul Executed BULLETIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 16— It is reported here that in Canton the wildest orgies of slaughter are being performed by the troops of the reactionary generals who have recaptured the city from the work- ers and peasants. All arrested are shot. Communist men and women are killed wholesale, tied together in batches, then wrapped in cotton soaked in benzine and burnt. A score of working women were seized, stripped of their clothing, and burned alive with oil soaked cotton cloth,’in the presence of a large crowd. Unprecedented white terror is rampant. * * * HONGKONG, Dec. 16.—In an un- precedented raid on the Soviet con- sulate in Canton, the Soviet Vice- Consul Hassisi was shot down, accord- ing to reports received here. A num- ber of other citizens of the Soviet | Union are also reported to have been | killed in the raids. Claiming that the Communist lead- | jer, Yeh Ting, was in the Soviet Union |consulate, the government troops at | |Canton attacked and looted the con-| |sulate. Twenty-one Communists, a} number of them citizens of the Soviet | | Union, are reported to have been’ exe- jcuted. Before the executions the prisoners were brutally beaten andj) paraded along the streets of the city. | Raided In Hankow. Reports from Hankow state that the authorities raided the Soviet} ; Union consulate there this morning. All members of the Soviet consular \staff were placed under arrest. Widespread raids made in Hankow early in the morning resulted in the arrest of scores of Communists who were marched thru the streets in their night attire to the jail. Women were roped together and dragged thru the streets to the jail. Many of those (Continued on Page Four) I. L. D. CONCERT AND BALL. The German Branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense will hold a concert and ball tonight at Sokol Hall, | 525 E. 72nd St. WORKER-FREIH DAILY WORKER-Freiheit Ball The number of tickets already sold guarantees the great arena will be crowded with a record at- tendance. 25,000 is the conser- vative estimate of the Arrange- ments Committee. Representatives of every trade and profession in the city will be there and of every racial group in the world. There will be traction work- ers, painters, carpenters, joiners, nurses, doctors, chiropractors, vege- tarians, meat eaters, tea-tasters, dish, washers, pretzel-polishers, osteopaths, excavators, engineers, pedagogues and professors from the Workers School. Finnish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Greek, Trish, Hungarians, Americans, New Yorkers and Bostonians, Scotch, and but for the havoc created by the French revolution we might have some old Bourbons there. The rest of the world should not | take any offense because of our fail- ure to mention them individually. 29,000 CROWD ASSURED FOR DAILY Tonight is the night when all men and women of the working class who have the use of their limbs and the price of a ticket will be marching on Madison Square Garden, to participate in the in New York City, by a radical organization. | M. Bouchwald and G. Abram. EIT BALL TONIGHT , thé greatest frolic ever staged There is no implied insult, the omis- sion is due to lack of space, Students and Musicians. The Freiheit Singing Society and Mandolin Orchestra will be there and so will the students. of the Jewish Workers University, as well as of the Workers’ School. Miners from Pennsylvania will be there and mill workers from Paterson and Passaic. Class War Prisoners. All the cloakmakers and furriers who were in jail or are facing jail sentences will be there. So will the following prominent leaders of the | |revolutionary movement: Jay Love- stone, Robert Minor, William Z. Fos- stein, Melich Epstein, William F. |Dunne, Stirling Bowen, Harry M. | Wicks, Ben Gold, Sascha Zimmerman, Rose Wortis, Lazar Weiner; Louis Schaffer, Michael Gold, A. Razin, R. Saltzman, A. Levich, Edward Royce, | A. Ravitch, Ben Lifshitz, Bert Wolfe, | |former member of the ‘LABOR MOVEMENT IN GRAVE CRISIS ASSERTS GITLOW | Starts Nationwide Speaking Tour “The American labor movement faces one of its gravest crises” de- clared Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Political Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, and for years an outstanding figure in the labor movement cf New York City, New York state assembly and candidate for Vice-President of the United States |in the last presidential election, when interviewed by a vepresentative of The DAILY WORKER before leav- ing yesterday afternoon on a tour that will take him to all the princi- pal cities from New York to the Pa- cific Coast and back. For a Labor Party. “The crisis in which industry now finds itself means a period of suf- fering for the masses of labor and furnishes an additional opportunity for the employing class that has been waging a relentless fight to de- stroy organized labor,” said Gitlow. “My tour will take me into practi- cally all the big centers where the labor unions have suffered defeat af- ter defeat under the blows of the employers and the reactionary la- bor leaders. I hope to be able to speak to the masses who furnish the base for a powerful left wing move- ment that will defend the elementary interests of the working class. I will also visit the agricultural states, where the farmers have been suffer- ing for years under an ever-increas- ing depression, with hundreds of thousands of the dispossessed. I feel that we must strive to bring to- gether into one powerful class party of labor the two great exploited groups of the country—the workers and farmers—to wage a determined fight next year against the two old parties.” _SerGitow 'FASCIST OFFERED BIG BRIBE IN GRECO CASE, WITNESS SAYS Attempt to Pur chase “Identification” Is Brought Out In Testimony Count di Revel, head of the Fascist League of North America, onstration last Memorial Day. |agent of Mussolini in the United States, offered a bribe of $2,500 | to Giacoma Caldora, a former member of the organization, if he , would identify Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo as the mur- derers of the two Blackshirts slain on their w The bribe was offered thru Carlo y to a fascist dem- Vinta, di Revel’s private secretary, according to testimony at the Greco-Carrillo trial yesterday. “You must accuse Greco and® | Carrillo,’ |told at the time the bribe was ’ Caldora said he was offered him. “They are among the most dangerous enemies of fascism in America.” Fascist Crimes Charged. This was the high point of Cal- | dora’s testimony yesterday in Bronx County court, were the two Italian clothing workers are being tried on |framed-up charges of murder before Judge Cohn and a jury. “I resigned from the Fascist League of North America,” testified Caldora, “because of its criminal ways,” especially the criminal ways of Count di Revel. The witness said that he knew “some criminal things | when they was preparing two bombs to drop.” Caldora apparently re- ferred to a premature bomb explosion September 11, when two fascists were killed on their way to an anti-fascist meeting held at 116th St. and First Ave. He is now president of the Fas- cist Alliance Il Duce, That portion of Caldora’s testimony dealing with the attempted bribe was ordered stricken from the record by Judge Cohn, following an objection by the prosecutor that it was “irrele- vant,” Dismissal Asked. The prosecution closed its case with startling suddenness about 45 minutes after the court had convened. Arthur Garfield Hays, defense counsel, moved for the dismissal of the indictments against Greco and Carrillo. Judge Cohn promptly denied this motion. Hays then requested that the court direct the jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal. In moving that the court dismiss the indictments, Hays pointed out the absence of any valid identification. He ridiculed the contradictory testi- mony of the star “eye-witnesses” brought in by the prosecution. Motions Denied. The judge denied this motion also “for the time being,” thus leaving the door open for reconsideration. Caldora was the first witness called by the defense. was among the 14 or 15 blackshirts (Continued on Page Four) THESE JOBLESS KINGS. on New Year’s Day for Rio De Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The for- mer ruler is related to the last Brazilian King, Dom Predo. y Injunction, “Yellow Dog” Contract, Company Union; the Unholy Trinity in Traction (Article IIL.) By ROBERT MITCHELL. | The Interborough “yellow dog” con- | tract and its company union form the! junction sought by the company will, | if granted, become the apex. This air-! tight and binding legal structure will | become an institution of enslavement | and oppression which only the mass} power of the workers can break down. | Since 1916, the law and the power | used in the creation of this Unholy Trinity in Traction. For this reason, the fact may seem somewhat surpris- jing that the Interborough and par- ticularly its general counsel, James L. Quackenbush, have not always put their greatest trust in legal proceed- ings. In earlier times “Rough Stuff” Quackenbush relied upon more direct | and less “civilized” methods. “Strong Arm” Methods. “All the law that’s required in this policeman’s billy,” was the reported boast which Quackenbush made in the beginning of the 1916 strike. It is generally understood that for a time he received with little favor,the rec- | | Justice The fascist leader | BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Former King | Ferdinand of Bulgaria plans to sail | | | | gamated and A. F. of L. filed an an- | “truce”. junion denied that any such condition | howe | workers. | similar situati cials of the cc TRACTION UNION AGREES IT WILL NOT USE STRIKE Injunction Hearing Is Adjourned to Jan. 23 Counsel for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, co-operating with counsel for the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employees, met with Supreme Court Wasservogel yesterday and arrived at an agreement postponing until Jan. 23 the hearing on the com- pany’s application for an injunction against 3,000,000 members of the American Federation of Labor. It was announced at the headquar- ters of the Amalgamated, Broadway and 41st St. that the union agrees |to issue no strike call or make any | similar move except with the consent of the court. “No Overt Act.” Officials of the union further an- nounced that James J. Quackenbush, general counsel for the Interborough, “after having been pinned down”, agreed to make no overt act against the union in the interim. The Amal- swer to the company’s injunction peti- tion Thursday. In agreeing to the condition that it would call no strike, counsel for the union hesitated over the implication that the union would discontinue or- ganizing efforts in the period of the Later an official of the had been agreed to. the union to It is understood, “inflame” the tyre u # Concession Not CJear. It was not made car what was {implied by the alleged Interborough concession that it would commit no overt act during the period. Under ons in the past, offi- any have been able to continue training new motormen to replace those who might be expected to go out on str and even to dig- charge union members without admit- sting that these workers were let out for union activ Local labor als who were ask- ed by the DAILY WORKER to com- ment on the agreement stated that this last move was “the beginning of a final abandonment of the issue”, }One union leader, who did not wish to be quoted, declared that the whole method of handling the local union ig- sue had been tated by Tammai hall, and this last agreement nee |base of the triangle of which the in-|case will be found at the end of a| ommendation of Ivy Lee, capitalist | propagandist and publicity faker, that the Interborough. More recently, however, and with every passing year, Quackenbush has relied increasingly on the use of the law and the dourts in his lifelong bat- tle against organized labor, In this culminating application for an in- (Continued on Page Two) TONIGHT! The Daily Worker-Freiheit vania striker, the audience at a recent performance of “The Centuries” at the New Playwrights’ Theater gave a total of $63 to the Miners’ Relief mittee for the striking miners of ennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado, BAL The entire cast of “The Centuries” now playing at the New Playwrights’ Theatre, the members of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party and the whole rank and file, the editorial and business staffs of The DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT, radicals of various shades and none colorless, poets, painters and people from many parts of the world, all will be at the Color-Light and Costume Ball Tonight. L Pe “Thy MADI é “TONIGHT! SON SQ. GARDEN @ ter, James P, Cannon, Shachno Ep-| of the courts have at every step been |a company union be established on | BALL | | cil 9, toda paves the way for q final surrender by the union offici Prosesties ‘Painters | Going to Polls Today In All Union Locals intensive anti-cors gn under the aus= Foll ruption 1p: pices of a pro 2 inter-local committee, all New York Painters* Union locz slect new officers, | including o of District Coun= | The elections will be held at sino, 210 E. 86th St, . to 8 p.m, The pros r e named the follows slate: Peter. Rothman, Local n 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, whe} has been responsible for the devel= opment of the progressive move- ment within the district council | The committee urges all prog sive members to vote, that nothing will be done ay ee