The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1927, Page 1

oe \ j THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-110UR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY T iE DAILY Entered am second-Cinss matter at tae Post Office at New York, N. larch 3, Y., under the act of 1s79. ER. FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSC Vol. IV. No. 280. RIPTION RATES: Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 In New York, by mall, $5.00 per year, per year NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927 Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Price 3 Cents 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. DON'T BREAK CHINA’S EQUAL TREATY, WARNS USSR. CONSULATE OF RUSSIA GUARDED; WOMEN SEARCHED Whole Shanghai Staff Reported Arrested SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.—Police sur- round the Soviet Union’s consulate at Shanghai and do not permit any one to enter the building. Wives of members of the consulate staff who return to the building are stopped, taken to the nearest police station and searched. The wife of the Soviet Union’s consul general here has been subjected to this procedure, According to reports received here the whole staff of the Soviet consul- ate in Canton, with the consul gen- eral, have been arrested by the Chinese authorities and placed under guard. Thus far no exact informa- tion has been received here regard- ing the fate of these consulate of- ficials. All Members Searched. In Shanghai all members of the consulate have been subjected to searches, while persons not living in the consulate have been prevented from entering the building. Members of the Soviet trade mission are pre- vented from leaving or entering the building. When the Soviet vice consul at Shanghai called on Yada, Japanese consul general to enquire at whose order these unprecedented outrages were being committed, Yada ex- pressed extreme consternation at the arrest and search of the wife of the Soviet consul general and at the peculiar manner in which munici- pality of the international settlement was “fulfilling” the instructions re- ceived from the dean of the consular (Continued on Page Two) MINERS’ GOODS HELD FOR RENT; WOMEN REVOLT PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 18. —At Renton where the Union Collieries’ properties are, the miners’ wives as a last resort, have telegraphed Governor Fisher to please intervene to save their few sticks of furni- ture from being sold at a con- stable’s sale. The coal companies are speeding | evictions, and threatening to use even more violent methods than they have used before, if that were possible, to get the houses from the strikers. They have made it impossible for the miners to move by taking liens on their household articles and furniture in lieu of the rent the miners could not pay. Brutal Scenes. Renton is the scene of brutal state constabulary attacks upon. strikers, the prelude to the one by a body of troopers who attacked miners during | the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation. When the Renton mines reopened with scab labor, armed cossacks, some carrying tear bombs, rode down the mass demonstration of strikers, wom- en and children, lined up to meet the first shipment of strikebreakers. Beat Up Women, Children in Homes. They broke into locked homes of strikers where the women and children had taken refuge, and beat {herm@ unmercifully. Appeals to Fisher Useless. apjeal that the miners’ wives sent to Fis\er will be useless as other appeals have been made and abso- jutely ignored by him. He is a former attorney for the Central Pennsylvania Railroad and Mining interests, known as a corrupt and anti-labor republican politician. He is directly linked with Central Pennsylvania Railroad to smash the unions. He is also a director for the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpora- tion owned by the New York Central Fascism Trying to Send These Two to Chair | 4 GIRLS SMASH Courtroom scene showing Lonato Carrillo (left), and Calo; sro Greco (right), two members: of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica, now being tried on framed-up charges of murder in connection with the death of two fascists last Memorial Day. The defense, led by Clar- ence Darrow and Arthur Garfield witnesses during the present week. DARROW TO CALL GRECO WITNESSES AT TRIAL TODAY Defense May Summon | %5 to Testify in Case Witnesses for the defense will be called this morning when the trial of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo is continued before Judge Cohn and a jury in Bronx county court. The two workers are being tried on framed-up charges of murder in con- “nection with the slaying of two fas- cists on Memorial Day. It is understood that a total of 75 \witnesses have been subpoenaed by defense counsel, headed by Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, but it is likely that only a portion of this number will be called to the wit- ness stand to testify. Wife ‘To Testify. | Mrs. Lina Carrillo, wife of one of ‘the defendants, is expected to be one ofthe witnesses called by the defense before Judge Cohn charges the jury. A large number of other witnesses, \friends and fellow-workers of the two Italian tailors, will also testify in their behalf, it has been indicated, So contradictory was the evidence given by the professional fascist witnesses that the defense moved for dismissal of the indictments. functorily denied the motions, how- ever. Four and a half days were con-! sumed by the state, which opened up last Monday morning. The first’ witness placed on the stand by the defense before the trial was adjourned to this morning was Giacoma Caldora, a former member of the Fascist League of North Amer- ica. He testified that he was offered a bribe of $5,000 by the secretary of the fascist organization if he would agree to “identify” Greco and Carrillo as the slayers of Carisi and Amor- roso. Caldora swore that he was of- fered $2,500 on the spot and the bal- ance after he had given his testimony. Bronx Workers Protest. Several hundred workers gathered at 1347 Boston Rd., Bronx, yesterday afternoon to protest against the threatened frame-up of Greco and Carrillo. Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defense, Louis Sisselman and R. Yuquelson, of the staff of the |Freiheit; Louis A. Baum and John | Pippin were among the speakers who denounced the attempt of the Fascist League of North America to “get” the two workers. | May Rosenblatt of the Bronx In- | ternational Labor Defense was chair- i} | Another protest meeting will be |held Friday evening 715 E. 138th St. | Speakers will include Shachtman, |Baum and others. & Judge Cohn per-! Hays, will call a large number of Hi 19 HEMSTITCHERS UP WEDNESDAY ON CONTEMPT CHARGE Same As Case Facing Joint Board Nineteen leaders of the Tuckers’, Pleaters’; and Hemstitchers’ Union, Local 41, International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, have been or- dered to appear in the supreme court Wednesday to face charges of con- tempt of*court for alleged violations of an anti-picketing injunction, ob- tained by the Employers’ Association. The contempt proceedings grew out of the alleged violation of an injunc- tion obtained by the employers, based o naffidavits by Internatiotal Vice President Harry Greenberg. The in- junction prevents the union from ecall- ing strikes or picketing against shops where workers have been locked out for rfeusing to register with the dual union established by Morris Sigman, international president. Similar Case. This case is of the same nature as the one scheduled for today before Supreme Court Judge Erlanger. In this case 18 left wing leaders of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress- makérs’ Union, face damages of $10,- 000 recommended by Murray Hulbert, referee. i Judge C. T. Crain, sitting in the su- jpreme court, will decide whether the jinjunction granted against the Hem- |stitchers’ Union shall become per- {manent. Samuel Markewitch, attorney for Sigman, will argue for the per- manence of the bosses’ injunction and Louis B. Boudin, counsel for the union, will attempt to show sufficient rea- sons for the dismissal of the injunc- tion, which has already caused the ar- rest of about 45 workers. Name of Workers. The nineteen named in the con- tempt case to appear Wednesday in the supreme court are M. E. Taft, Julius Stone, Louis Rubin, Mollie Millstein, Celia J angert, Goldie Lockert, Marie Teii.cman, Sam Ros- enzweig, Nat Standard, Anna Rosen- blatt, Louis Weintraub, Harry Wein- berger, Francis Grass, Gussie Post, Shirley Baron, Anna Stein, Jacob Ehrlich, Victor Miletsky, and Bernard Filin. It is stated in some quarters that these proceedings are a result of the desperation of the right wing, which faces a growing mass opposition movement. APARTMENT COOKING O. K. Cooking will be permitted in apart- ment hotels, according to a temporary injunction restraining city officials from revoking certificates to apart- ment hotels on the ground of cooking by tenants. \ Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball Is a Mighty Left Wing Demonstration for Militant Labor Press Eighteen thousand New York work-|the Garden were first opened until} ers—men, women, boys and girls— filled one of the largest auditoriums in the world, Madison Square Garden, past midnight, hundreds of workers streamed into the vast building. True to all promises, the affair was Flying for Glory, ARGIED LINE OF STATE MILITIA | State Troops Break Into | Homes; No Warrants | DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18.—Detying | }a cordon of Militia thrown around a | |strikers’ mass meeting at Longmont, | four Denver High School girls got on | the platform and pledged support to} the striking miners. After giving ap- | propriate yells and songs which they | had composed for the occasion, each | girl spoke, saying that they were | completely with the strikers, heart | and soul, | Morale of Strikers Good. | The militia during the meeting| made every effort to break the} strikers’ morale, but the audience was | very enthusiastic and the hall was | packed. Frank L. Palmer spoke, at-| |tacking Annear, chairman of the in-| dustrial commission and on the Democratic State Committee, Capt. Charles White of the Militia, who is also secretary of the Democratic State | Committee and Lieutenant William} White, calling them “strike-breakers | Cash and Wall The hard-boiled brand of diplomacy that the State Department prac- ticed in Mexico has been abandoned for soft-soap diplomacy, which in- cludes long distance flights by Charles Lindbergh, the Prince of Wales Sweet NANKING NOTES AID IMPERIALISM SAYS CHICHERIN Reactionary Governor Never Recognized SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.—In re- ply to the Nanking government’s note severing diplomatic rela- £2-— tions with the Soviet Union, =~} George V. Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, has despatched a note to the Nanking regime declaring that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has never rec- ognized the Nanking govern- }ment and charging that the {Nanking government acting un- der “pressure of imperialists, jhave thought it advisable to | have in the territo~ under their ntrol only cor of those powers that maintain unequal treaties with China.” Denying that Soviet officials had ott si and stool-pigeons.” He was then arrested by Lieutenant White and taken to the guard-house at the Columbine mine. James Allander, secretary of the Lafayette union, was also arrested during the meeting, but released Fri- day. Eight other men were arrested before and after the meeting, three weye immediately released. Polish Hall % ided. The Polish lodge Fail at Lafayette was raided Thursday night after midnight by militia. The secretary of the lodge, his wife and their four- teen children were forced to get out of bed and the whole place was searched. The militia confiscated im- portant documents which were to be used as evidence at the industrial commission. hearing next. week...The i egg iar Q ‘ie Polish miners. y also took the lod; $17.75 in cash. SPR ase tea Wholesale Arrests. The militia are raiding homes and gathering places of the strikers and have arrested miners by the whole- sale for the purpose of holding men wanted as witnesses against them and their brutalities and are destroy- ing evidence they find which could be (Continued on Page Two) Unionist Is To Go on Trial Today in JERSEY CITY, Dec. 18.—Harold Meltzer, 18, union taxi driver, goes on trial tomorrow morning before Judge Finkead charged with murder- ing George Ewans, strikebreaker, during the taxi drivers’ strike here last. April. The strikebreaker who was killed was George Ewans, of West New York. He was shot April 28 while operating the car of a striking driver. John Dodge, hired guard was wound- ed at the same time. Dodge will ap- pear as the principal witness against the unionist, it is said. Former Assistant Prosecutor John F. Drewen and George E. Cutley will defend Meltzer. Pickled Herring Story Riles School Faculty The heavy hand of the faculty cen- sors of the University of Wisconsin, fell once more, upon the student staff of the literary magazine of that school. The page on which the story, “Sherwood Anderson Buys Some Pickled Herring” is ordered torn out of all. copies. The article, according to the Daily Cardinal, the student paper “was meant to be a satire upon the works of Mr. Anderson, The story is an inrospective study of the thoughts of the author while buying and cating some fish of common color and un- mistakable deadness.” Taxi Seal’s Death of the American Empire. | “good-will” vaudeville show. FLIER LINDBERGH TO SEE BOMBING OF NICARAGUANS Advertises' Coolidge’s Plan for Air Navies MEXICO CITY, Dec. 18.—Colonel Charles Lindbergh has declared that |he would fly to Nicaragua, thus con- tinuing by air the “peaceful” mission of the marines who “subdued” the ;Nicaraguans by killing more than 800 of them. Continual bombing flights will be made against Nicara- guans, and Lindbergh may see some of them. The Colonel’s sucecssful flight, fal- ling in line with Coolidge’s recom- mendation that the air, as well as the sea fleet be greatly increased to conform with the newest develop- ments in warfare method, is respon- |sible for a bill to carry out the pres- \ident’s suggestion. | A cabinet committee, composed of |representatives of the war, navy, commerce, state and post office de- partments approved the bill. Progressive Painters Making Good Showing ir District Elections Results in the elections in the painters’ District Council 9 up to a late hour last night indicate that the progressives had made an encourag- ing showing under most difficult election conditions. Out of 9,067 votes cast, 4,604 had been counted. For the office of day secretary of the union, Peter Roth- man, progressive candidate, appeared to be within striking distance of the machine candidate. Of the four busi- ness agents who are running, the progressives appeared to have won two offices. The final count is ex- pected this evening. The progressive struggle in the painting unions has been followed with deep interest by local trade unionists. A number of officials \» the Painters’ District Council have been convicted of misappropriation of Bee funds. At the extreme left is President Calles, whose government is falling more closely in line with the designs of American imperialism; below is Will Rogers, professional humorist, who is also playing a role in the The appointment of Dwight Morrow as new ambassador to Mexico was confirmed by the Senate Saturday. “ORGANIZE AND STRIKE.” URGES WORKERS PARTY |Appeal Is Issued to NY Traction Workers Calling upon the traction workers of the subway, elevated and surface lines of Greater New York to “Or- ganize and Strike!”, The Workers (Communist) Party of America through District 2, has issued a cir- cular urging the use of the mass power against anti-labor injunctions. Text of Statement. The statement follows: “Fellow Workers, you must organ- ize and strike to establish a union and beat the traction barons of New York. These traction barons working as a group have applied for an injunction against the whole labor movement to defeat your attempts to free your- selves from the tyranny of the com- pany unions because they think that you are weak and will not fight. “This traction trust counts upon the aid of the courts, the police, Mayor Walker and Governor Smith to break your spirit and keep you tied to their yellow-dog individual contract sys- tem. They want you to remain unor- ganized, separate individuals without power while they are organized from Wall Street to City Hall, from the State House in Albany as far as the White House in Washington. They (Continued on Page Five) Workers Aid Campaign for Miners’ Relief On The International Workers’ Aid 799 Broadway, has started a nation wide campaign for the striking Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and Colorado miners’ re- lief it was announced yesterday. Par- ticular attention will be given the children and women in the stricken mining regions. Reports have reach- ed the headquarters of the workers relief organization that wholesale evictions and famine are threatening } he lives of hundreds of strikers and t vir families. “It was not love at first sight but admiration which seemed to fill Theo- dore Dreiser when he arrived in Mos- heodore Dreiser Pleased with Soviet Union, Head of Workers’ Relief Committee Reports) ternational Relief. Biedenkapp stated that the most urgent work for his organization at carried on any propaganda in China, Chicherin’s note, which has been handed to Kuo Tai-chi, Nanking’s vice minister of foreign affairs yesterday, declared that U. S. S. R. consulates jexisted on Ch 2 territory by virtue of the treaty of 1924 by which the U. S. S. R. had accorded China full | equality. | “The Soviet government is con- \vinced that the attitude of the Chinese jauthorities at Shanghai will do harm, first of all, to the Chinese people and |the Nationalist interests of China, and that the people who so lightly |statt a hostile policy against the |Union of Socialist Soviet Republics will be the first to feel the harm thereof,” states the note of the Soviet Union’ © y : The U. S. S. R. makes three main points, the first being that: “The Soviet government never recognized the so-called Chinese Na- tionalist government of Nanking, in whose name the note of Dec. 15 was handed to the Consul General of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubiics at Shanghai. “The Nationalist government must be acquainted with the fact that all consulates of the Union of Soviet So- cialist Republi ist on Chinese ter- ritory in consequence of the,treaty concluded between China and the Union of Soviet Social Republics and signed at Peking in “In consideration of these facts, the statement concerning cancellation of recognition of the consuls can only mean that the generals who have seized power at Nanking, acting un- der pressure of imperialists, have thought it advisable to have in the territory under their domination only consuls of such powers as maintain unequal treaties with China.” Then follows emphatic proof that the Soviet Union consulates have ab- stained entirely from propaganda in- tended to affect the course of events in Chinese politics, and the third is the warning that this high handed procedure of the Nanking government is merely making it the tool of im- | perialist powe and that all China jwill regret the astitude of Nanking, in thus submerging its independence beneath the rule of foreign militarism. to Vote Tuesday; Progressives Act Progressive barbers of Local 900, have announced their active mobiliza- tion of the progressive forces in the union for the election of their own |ticket Tuesday. In a circular distrib- uted among the members of the union attention is directed to the evils ex- isting in the trade. The leaflet points out that the mas- ter barbers of the East Side are cut- ting the wages of the journeymen. Progressive proposals include an jintensive organization campaign, es- |pecially among Spanish barbers, the {beauty parlors and the Greenwich | Village section; a centralized joint Se Oy en RT cow,” said F. G. Biedenkapp, national secretary of the Workers Internation- |present was to bring immediate re-/board with proportional representa- | llief to the Pennsylvania and Colorado | tion; unemployment insurance; semi- Railroad. |Saturday night. Every available inch a medley fd brilliant a and joyous jin the giant hall was filled with hap- | music. e spirit of revolutionary THE NEGLIGENT STATE. ‘py, enthusiastic, eager dancers. It fenmaradet was revealed in spohta- Archie C. Mann, who was perman- the first annual Daily Worker-Frei- ‘neous song. Groups, joined in an old- ently disabled when he crossed the poit color-light costume ball. jworld “kasatsky” and peasant folk- “death trap” bridge sonsrnad Oy As a mighty left wing demonstra- | dances. the State of New York, ba €N tion by New York labor, it formed The “Worker” Girls. awarded $35,000 damages. it woe | the question whether a militant work-| In the grand march, which began found that the Atae was guilty of 219 press is to be supported: The|at midnight, the “Daily Worker the grossest negligence. answer was an exultant “yes.” Girls” were brilliantly. conspicuous. ‘ * Promises All Kept. Symbolic of the proletarian power Save Greco and Carrillo! From 8 p. m., when the doors of (Continued on Page Five) RELIGIOUS HYSTERIA IN COMMONS. LONDON; Dec. 18.—“Protestant- ism is saved!” was the cry in the house of commons, as the new pray- erbook which had been strongly sup- ported in the house of lords was de- feated. Women wept, bishops moved about in great consternation in the gallery, and both houses were in chaos as international problems were swept aside and result announced. al Relief, who just returned from ithere and at whose invitation Mr. Dreiser paid his visit to the Soviet Union. When asked what the cities of Moscow and Leningrad looked like he said “like a bee hive.” Everybody busy—working—playing and smiling. Biedenkapp also attended the Fourth Annual World Relief Confer- ence which was held in Berlin Nov. 18 to 22 as the representative of the American ection of the Workers In- striking miners and their families. A nation-wide campaign is already in progress. The National office of the Workers International Relief has been moved from Chicago to New York. The new and larger headquar- ters will be located at No. 1 Union Square, Room 604, beginning January 1, 1928. 237. a should be forwarded to International |ola, Workers Aid, 799 Broadway, Room }guide; J. Magliacano, organizer, and oe monthly membership meetings and an attempt to improve wages and con- ditions in the industry. The circular ends with a call to “vote for the progressives and defeat the inefficient bureaucracy.” The candidates of the progressives are M. Truncale, for president-organizer; Al Until then all donations |Rudman, vice president; V. A. Brus- Ree. secretary; D. Ruggeri, P. Graditi, organizer. abe