The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927 Conference Here For Foreign Born Plans Aggressive Fight BILLS, AIMED AT THEM TO BE MADE ATTACK TARGETS Bureau To Be Set Up in Washington ign against the on now befo: > present. The p adopted by establishi ington tion at hearings feet the foreign bo a fight r e work e conf t of a bur ment ager ke advantage | the carrying | apaign to build ctions of the movement opposed to the at- tempt to discriminate against foreign born workers. Elect Executive Board. The conference elected an executive hoard of 21 members cach language group present having representation. up the influence cf al labor A president, vice-president and treas- urer for the local council were also elected. The conference was opened by Jeanette Pearl. national field orga- nizer of the national council, who told the purposes of the orranization. “The aim of ihe N Connell for the Protec of Foreign Born Worker: jt “Gs to defeat all legislation befor that dis- eriminates against the foreign born workers. Wonld Deport “In the last se such bi first day congress Workers. ed. On the mt session of Il was proposed that has as its purp the denortation of the foreign born workers. Since that time, several bills of a similar char- have been introduced. There * great danger that some of these s mav be nasspd.” Pr. Edmund B/ Chaffee of the Labor nile in addressing the assembled Aclerates that “es an old time American, whose ancestors fought in the revolutionary war, I want to pro- test against what is being proposed against the foreien born workers in America today. What is planned for the foreign born today y be the lot of the Ameri nm tomorrow if success is the t of the first attempt.” The confe by Robert Civil Li August tary of the York cou month, cil meet the confere once a e coun- time before onthly a Milwaukee “Telegram” Party For Defense Dee. be hel kee Local of I fense Sunday, January A Arrangements oeing made for an excellent musical program in the afternoon, to be followed ‘by dance in the evening. Tt is aimed to advertise this New Year’s Party widely. One of the Gnique features at the dance in the evening, will be a “Telegram Dance” “Are you expecting a telegram? Come to this affair an Yeceive one,” s: of congress all} i nak Motormen on the B..M. T. receive one cent an hour more than those on the 1. R. ‘t. who are among the lowest paid motormen in the country. workers who have been “good” during the year. ~ Gold Medals, Poor Pay, for These Brooklyn Motormen Once a year the B. M. T. passes Tammany President of the Brooklyn Borough, Byrne. The score of workers singled out above comprise less than one fifth of one percent of the B. M. T. employees since this railroad employes over 12,000 workers. even worse than that of the I. R. T, Last summer, officials of the company fired a half dozen workers for joining the Amalgamated, and it is reported that the practice of “weeding out” union members is still going on although the reason given for discharge is always some other than the obvious one. The B. M. Here are twenty-eight employees being presented with the reward of a gold watch for operating their cars without accident. The rewards are presented by CHARGES FLYING © THICK AGAINST KLAN GOVERNOR Stage Set for Ousting Oklahoma Executive OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 18. —The mi compani acked in the state capita! building by Governor Henry S. Johnston to the legis- lature from assemblir vondue ing impeachment proceedings against to do over the week end. But angry buzzing groups of legislators con- tinued to meet here and there in hotel rooms. The state senate sticks to its declaration made last Friday that it will try the governor on the six charges already voted against him by the lower house, secretiy meeting in a downtown hotel, just before dawn, and any additional charges they may agree upon. The charges involve graft, incompetence, and appointment to office of felons. More Charges Coming. A : Additional charges are coming in thickly. The latest centers around the woman whose strange relations and equally peculiar influence on the gov- ernor have created a wave of seandal talk and brought an accusation out a “handout” to a few of its T. has a company union which is ‘Break Through Armed Cordon At Meeting (Continued from Page One) |used for the strikers at the hearing next week. | Deriver City officials, who first | torium to the fellow tion for their pe | lowed them to u: | . * | DENV R, Colo., De speech test meeting, was abdsulu of the orogated civil ‘according to a the American Ci Uniou from George L. Collins, its special | representative in the Colorado strixe area. in addition to entering homes and searching them and arresting the in- | habitants without warrant, and hold- H ing them without allowing habeas cor- pus proceedings to proceed, the state woeps are assisting in the eviction of i families trom their homes doing other services for the x al operators, according to Mr. lins, * * * Militia Scores Legality. VEKK, Coio., Dec. io.—Throw- |-D ing d “mereiy Lo keep order” tne Co radv Muda has detmuvey and opemy starved to attenipt ty break the striae vs ule coal miners, With the saw and usual disregard for any lega: forms tue miltua |recenuly surrounued a group of some «v Men on strine at the Asusseil’ mine camp and ordered them, ac the po.n. ot tne gun, to go bac« to wor« or geu out of the camp. ‘Lhere is a legai method of evicuing persons from prop- erty in Colorado, but the militia cares nothing for that. Evictions Shown. A good many of the men refused to ntimidated by the militia and were ity evicted as their aftidavit hows. While legal action wil be |taken to test the rights of tie militia, | |the workers are being told frankiy | that they should expect nothing from the courts. The entire power of the |State government has been turned | against them and will be used against \them as long as they stay on strike. | They have been told that the militia | will drive them back to work if they |ean; the industrial commission will ; trick them into going back to work |believe the strikers in other fields | Party Members and The anthracite Young Workers’ | So far we have three units. }members are eag |yet the wages are « that our members c: will be used for Y. W. L. members j who may t to read them, which thi supply us with books for the Y. W. In case you do not have any books, to purchase books. Come, let’s have Keep This One of to get knowledge and to read proletarian literature, | low in the mines, silk mills and garment factories ot afford to buy enough literature to keep up with their needs, so the Y. W. L. has decided to organize a circulating library for the three units and any other units which will be organized. The books Many Party members have many books have already read and have no more use for. They could easily tions of books or money should be given to the Jimmie Higgins Bookshop (106 University Place), which will forward them to the anthracite region. | January 13th Notice Sympathizers League is just beginning to organize. our main troubles is that while our and sympathizers and other workers L. library in the anthracite region., cash donations will also be accepted your books or money. All contribu- == -@ Day Open! denied the use of the municipal audi- | ‘Drift In Water Tank | 13 Days, Fighting Off | Sharks, Hunger, Cold ROMBAY, Dec. 18. — After being wrecked in a hurri- four men ard a boy, sole ivors of the erew of a sunken | ooner, lived thirteen days in a| ip’s water tank with almost no food or water. Huge sharks that attracted by three dead sea- en who had perished in the tank, d had to be fought off continu- y. threatened to overturn the | The survivors were rescued by | the liner Pilsna, on board of w | the boy died due to the recent | hunger and exposure, and brought |to Bombay. | || The rescued men explained that | | they had taken refuge in the water | |tank when the schooner’s water- logged life-boats were destroyed by mountainous waves. The only food they had for the thirteen deys was two pounds of biscuits, and the little water left at the bottom of the tank was soon spoiled by the | sea-water that was washed inside. \Plutecrat Ignores | Labor in Look Ahead An earthly paradise for 1977 was predicted by the millionaire ex-presi- of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Samuel Rea. Heating plants at the mines would eliminate smoke. Triple decked eets, would avoid congestion in ties. More aeroplane service would in effect. Everything in the opinion of this rich coupon clipper “xcept railroad operation and work- ng conditions for the masses will be changed. be \Royalty Doesn’t Pay; No Money, Goes to Jail | PARIS, Dee. 16.—Don Fernando de Bourbon, Duke of Durcal, and cousin )of King Alfonso, has been released from prison after a six weeks sojourn | for not paying his bills. His “aide de camp” Don Jaime Zu- lueta, etc., ete., served six months for trafficking in cocain | have quit so that they will go back to work if propaganda is effective. No Coal to Be Dug. But if they stay out of the coal you will be sure to} if all their wiles and lies are success- | mines, neither the militia, the indus- the Secretary, Cora | ful; the newspapers will make them | tial commission nor the newspapers’ | millionaire owners will dig any coal, \the I. W. W. leaders are telling the | miners, The miners have stayed out of the }mines and it is only coal shipped in from Wyoming and Utah that keeps Colorado from severe suffering dur- Jing these winter days. And the |miners in those fields are reported | restless at the idea they are scabbing {on the greatest fight the Colorado | miners ever made. The greatest problem in the strike lis the fact that Colorado is isolated from the sources of financial support for so great a strike and keeping up {even a beggarly relief fund is almost jan impossible task. é * * Chicago Mass Meeting. CHICAGO, IIL, Dec. 18.—In the in- terest of relief there will be an im- |mense Chicago Mass meeting for the Colorado strikers on Wednesday even- ing at 8 p. m. Dec. 21, at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren. The meeting will be addressed by many speakers of prominence, including Milka Sablich, “girl in red” strike leader who was ridden down by the Cossacks horses and Mrs. Sidney Un- win, splendid speaker and true fighter for the workers’ cause. Also sched- uled to speak are Max Bedacht, Roger Francezon, Geo. R. Kirkpatrick, Samuel Levine, A. S. Embree, Paul Hutchinson and others. (Consulate Is Guarded; against him of moral turpitude. “The Female Rasputin” the anti-governor legislators call her. Her name is Mrs. 0. 0. Hammonds. Her husband has been made state health commissioner by Governor Johnston, but that is a mere detail. Mrs. Hammond is a mystic, a self styled “seer,” an adapt and believer in Yogi magic, and said to belong to the seeret and occult or- der of Rosicrucians. The legislators charge that since making her his pri- vate secretary, soon after taking of- fice, Governor Johnston hss never made an important move w.thout cov- |.ultine Mrs. Hamrond, and has de- ferred, at her advise, umpo-.rant and necessary action be‘iuse “the stars showed malificient influences at work,” or “the winds came from a diabolical direction.” Governor John- ston, it mvey be added, was elected or a <u Klux Klan ticket, an: have taken the klan’s weird termin- ology of “windy days and@ terrible years” rather literally. The aceusation of “moral turpi- tude” is agreed upon by the House committee on impeachment charges, and is based on testimony of W. M. Franklin, a former friend of Governor Johnston’s, who told of a visit to the and beaten.” governor’s hotel rooms, made in the Heaps of Dead. smali hours of the morning by Mrs. The Canton correspondent of the |Hammond. Associated Press reports that he has| ‘The governor scoffs at the “moral in his possession photographs show-| turpitude” charge, and states that ing trucks bearing heaps of bodies of |Franklin is inspired by a desire for executed persons and bodies of exe-|political advantage. But the gover- cuted workers in rows along the pave-|nor keeps the legislature from regu- ment. Other photographs, the report | larly considering any of these charges says, show the extremely brutal man- against him. When they try to meet ner in which the revolt in Canton was |in their chambers, they face the rifles crushed. and bayonets of the state militia, over Alleged “witnesses” pretend that|which the governor appoints the of- the revolt was directed by citizens of | ficers. the Soviet Union, many of whom have} The state supreme court is also heen captured and executed by sol-| calling witnesses to consider making diers. Among those who were exe-| permanent an injunction requested by cuced, the reports state, were the|the governor, an injunction against Soviet Vice Consul and one woman. | any impeachment of himself. Oklahoma Legislature Meets “Underground” Women Searched (Continued from Page One) |body regarding the protection due to |the Soviet Union consulate in accord- Jance with the rules of international |law. f Staff Deported. Local newspapers report that the members of the staff of the Soviet consulate at Hankow with their families were put aboard a Chinese steamer. yesterday by the Chinese authorities and deported toward | Shanghai. | According to some despatches re-| |ceived here the whole staff of the Soviet consulate in Canton has beén | jarrested, while according to other re-| ports the Soviet vice consul and one woman were shot. The local papers published the fol- lowing report: “Yen Russians were led to the place of execution thru the streets. On the back of each was pinned a small pla- card inscribed on which were the vic- tims ‘crimes,’ Or the way, the vic- tims were struck with blunt knives Top view, group of members of Oklahoma House, meeting secretly at four 4. ui. Lo iiupeach governor. The militia were called out by the gov- ernor to stop the proceedings. In the center, photo of spectators watching the soldiers prevent the legislature from meeting in the capitol building. At left, below, Mrs. 0, O. Hammond, called the governor's “Female Rasputin.” Lower right, General Chas. F, Barrett, commanding the state militia for the governor. . him in the ordinary manner had little | Limelight Seeker hei O. wud are the forces of jingoism that are pre- paring the country for a new bloody mess. Rev. James R. Cox, above, of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. has just anncunced that if Miss Myrtle Brown, of Omaha, Neb., tries a trans-Atlantic flight to Rome, that he might accompany her. Drive Against Marine kule in Nicaragua Is Under Way; Issue Seals “Protest against marine rule in Nicaragua!”, is the inscription on the Nicaragua Protest Stamps now being issued by the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League as part of its, cam- paign against U. S. intervention in Nicaragua. The stamps 1”x1%4” in size, are for use as a special seal on the back flap ‘of envelopes and it is expected that they will soon be seen on correspond- ence going thru the mails to all parts of the country as well as abroad. They can be purchased from the United Sta tes headquarters of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union Square dt five cents per stamp or one dollar for a book of twenty. In announcing the stamp issue, the league pointed out the continuation of Seen by the United States marines in Nicaragua, as tragi illustrated by the bombing of tun, fortified town of Giudad Antigua last Friday, carried out by a marine air- plane, Education for Dicks Is Commission’s Desire Detectives need more education, claims the Baumes Crime Commis- sion. It will present a recommen- dation to the next session of legis- lature, asking that the board of re- gents be given the job. Too many people, especially “reds” have been arrested, only to be réleased as soon as a judge reviews the cases, after large costs were involved. WOULD-BE MILLIONAIRE IN GRIEF. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 18.— James Moore, 19-year old boy from Lawrence, Mass., who has taken Al- ger stories seriously, was arrested again because he slept in a truck “to save money so that he might become a millionaire.” He was sentenced to ninety days for sleeping in the subway in New York, but a group of brokers, touched by his belief in their myths, arranged for his release. This time he may be committed to an institution. 1 KILLED, 2 HURT IN WRECK. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 18.—An investigation of the derailment of seven coaches of the Detroit Limited of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which resulted in the death of one, the serious injury of two others, and slight injuries of scores of passen- gers, was started today. A section foreman’s report implied that the wrecking was deiiberate. a SO AIRPLANE GROWTH SEEN. Five-passenger airplanes will soon take the place of five-passenger au- tomobiles, said Harry F. Guggenheim before the Railroad Club yesterday. If 350 engines and 50 planes were produced annually, the cost would be about $12,000, and less if production were increased, he claimed. PEACE PLAN LAUDED. The Capper Peace Plan, which pre- tends to insure the abolition of war through treaties and international ar- bitration, was lauded by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia. Russia’s plan to abolish war by scrap- ping all armament was not mentioned. WEST POINT, N. Y., Dec. 18.— Reports that Major Charles L. Byrne committed suicide were denied by of- ficials at West Point yesterday, Thc body was found in a stone quarry. Oymy yoning | “AID CHRISTMAS DEFENSE FUND,” | PARTY APPEALS ‘The Central Committee | Makes Declaration The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party | has issued the following appeal to aid \the Christmas Fund of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. “Dozens of American workers are | still confined in the prisons of capit- {alism in this country for their loyal devotion to the labor movement. Some of them have suffered in the Ppenitentiaries for almost ten years. In most instances, their wives and children are without any means of support and suffer want. “There are today forty class war prisoners in America and the number is growing. . The progressive miners of Zeigler have just been sentenced to serve terms ranging from one to fourteen years. Three workers in Woodlawn have been sentenced to five years in prison and one of them to, two and one-half years. In Colorado, the ferocity of the coal operators has brought scores of victims to the ranks of the strikers. In New York at this moment Greco and Carrillo, two cloth- ing workers, are being tried for mur- der on framed-up charges. We must not forget the seven Passaic strikers in the New Jersey Penitentiary, the Centralia prisoners, Mooney and Bill- ings and the rest. “The workers of America must per- form their sacred duty toward these courageous fighters. This is partic- ularly true of the revolutionary work- ers, those imbued with clarity and class-consciousness, who are in the ranks of the Workers (Communist) Party. The capitalist class of Amer- ica, which imprisons and kills our best fighters, uses the Christmas holi- day each year to choke off the resent- ment of poor workers with the soggy crumbs of charity which the masters drop from their heavily-laden tables, “The International Labor Defense is doing a great work in making a drive for a Christmas Fund for the class war prisoners, and their families in order to send each of the men $25, $50 to their wives, and $5 to each child. “The Workers (Communist) Party urgently appeals for the support of this campaign on a lange scale. Let us make every worker imprisoned by the capitalist reaction feel concretely the growth of the revolutionary move- ment which will finally break down the walls and bars that confine them in the dungeons of America, Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party.” Los Angeles Will Hear Discussion on Trotsky LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 18.— Sidney Bush, sub-district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, will be the speaker at an open forum to be held Friday evening, Jan. 6th, at the Co-operative Auditorium, on the subject, “The Opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” The large auditorium will accomodate the crowd of workers who will turn out. All organizations are asked to keep this date open, and all workers are urged to come. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS A Good Example Of Official Corruption ILLS, Legislative Repre- W entative of the Locomo- tive Engineers at Wash- ington, has been an official of the union for almost 50 years, His salary was $8,500 per year. Not content with this, plus a large political slush fund for which he was not required to make accounting, he charged the union $6.00 ‘per day for hotel expenses although he was living at home. At pres- ent he is 79 years old. At the age of 70 he became eligible for pension, 20% of his salary. For nine years he drew’ this pension money although he Was on full time salary. Mr, Wills, a typical black reac- i is reputed to be worth e by the conve: land, which last ed for six weeks and cost th railroad workers a half m lion dollars. The full details, making dramatic reading, are in the new book by Wm. Z. Foste Wrecking the Labor Banks,” 25 cents, which can be secured from the Workers Library Publishers, 125 St, New York, N. 39 East ¥ Help Us Hel Needed at Once 799 BROADWAY Of Pennsylvania—Ohio—Colorado Money! Blankets! Clothes! SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERS’ RELIEF COMMITTEE ROOM 233 p the Miners! on Three Fronts NEW YORK CITY was fired from ft