The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY WORKER FIGHTs: Vol. IV. No. 291. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 mail, $5.00 per year. Wntered as second-clans mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927 per yeor. HE DAILY WORKER. March 3, 1878, Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New Yo FINAL CITY EDITION te, Ree Price 3 Cents SHOOT 5. CHINESE GIRLS, 3 STRIKERS, 4 STUDENTS GRECO ON STAND. SHOWS HE DIDNT SLAY 2 FASCISTI Called to Testify in Own Defense | Surprising the prosecution and the crowd of spectators, Calogero Greco was called to the witness stand in| his own defense late yesterday in the | Bronx County Court, where he andi Donato Carrillo are being tried on} charges of killing two fascists last Memorial Day. | He testified he was at his home in| Brooklyn, two and a half hours by subway from the scene of the crime, at the time of the slaying and that he had never been in the neighbor- hood of Third Avenue and 183d St., where the murder was committed. Greco testified that he was 35 years old, that he arrived in the Unitea States in 1920 after serving five years in the Italian army and thai| he worked as a presser of children’s | clothiag, having formerly been a} shoe worker and at other times an automobile mechanic. - i In the Italian army he served largely in Africa, he said, and left the scrvice with the rank of sergeant-! major. On the morning of the slaying Greco rose in his home at 8 a. m., he testified in answer to questions by Arthur Garfield Hays, of defen? counsel. Helps Brother. “I help my brother in his music store in the front of the building where [I live,” he continued. Greco named five customers on whom he waited. “About 11:30 I went to the Can- arsie section to see a customer about some Italian calendar orders,” he said. “This customer ordered 400 troni~me.” “ Greco here explained in reply to questions that as a result of a stab wound suffered a week before at aj} fascist meeting he was unable to| work at his trade at the time in question and for that reason helped his brother. Ignorant of Slaying. “I got back from Canarsie at i o’clock in the afternoon,” he said, “and after eating I went to Prospect ‘ack in Brooklyn with a friend. We were there until about 6 o'clock.” He said he first learned of the} slaying in the newspapers either that night or the following morning. “I was never arrested before in my life,” he added in answer to another question. Hays created a mild sensation earlier in the day when he called Al- bert Henderson and Israel J. P. Al- derman, assistant district attorneys, to the stand. He sought to show that a certain document relating to one of the witnesses had been obtained by the Fascist League of North Amer- ica. Testimony by both district attor- (Continued or Page Five) "N.Y, Labor to Hear USSR. Delegation A large attendance is assured from all sections of labor for the mass meeting Wednesday evening at which members of the second Americar Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union will report. Great interest has been aroused in news of the developments in the first Workers’ Republic, due in part to the ‘\y ort of the first Trade Union Delega- om. Many unionists who did not if the opportunity of hearing the ‘irst delegation are planning to come to the Wednesday meeting. Switchman to Preside. William Watkins, chairman of the delegation, president of Switchmen’s Union, Local 206, of Minneapolis, wil! be the chief speaker. | William Mackenzie, of Carpenters’ Union, Local 210. Stamford, Conn.; Edward Romese, United Mine Work- ers, Local 898, of Nanticoke, Pa.; William G. Hearing, Moulders’ Union, Local 161, of Stamford, Conn.; Ben} Thomas, Machinists’. Unicn, Local! 159, and also member of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and E. P. Cush, Amalgamated Iron, Tin and Steel Workers, of Pittsburgh, wili also tell what they have seen and ex- perienced in Russia, Robert W. Dunn, a member of the first labor delegation to Russia, will sy HEARST BRANDED AS WAR Avila, contradicting himself in various ways, told the Senate committee he purchased the forged documents in Mexico. Miguel Senator David A. Reed, a Mel- lon man from Pennsylvania, heads the investigation which apparent- ly was originally planned to white-wash Hearst. 1500 Colorado Miners Demand (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | DENVER, Colo., Dec, 19.—“We in- sist on a living wage in the coal in- dustry, whether the operators get a) fair return or not,” declared James | Buchanan, member of the Denver) University group which investigated | eoal field conditions, speaking. before | a strike peace meeting in Denver Fri- | day night. “If the present system | will not insure a living wage, some | other method must be found. Any | ¢ompromise on this principle, based rather on the preservation of the econ- omic system than the recognition of the sacrifice of human life, is impos- sible.” Buchanan is one of three student Pena, Miners Cheer for General Strike (Special to The Daily Worker} By AMY SCHECHTER. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa., Dec. 19.— Three hundred miners at Local 1736, Rossier Mine, Indiana County, Central Pennsylvania, the scene of Judge Langham’s notorious anti-picketing, singing and relief injunction, owned by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal and Coke subsidizing New York Central, | Gov. Fisher, Vice-President, passed a resolution for a general coal strike unanimously “with a shout” as the miners put it, Suspension Or Revolution. Robert J. Slee, young secretary- | treasurer of the local, stated they wanted to add to the resolution when forwarding to Lewis, “and if they won’t have a general suspension, then let’s have a revolution.” | Throughout the district, the resolu- tion is being adopted. The miners realize that the operators’ final re- | fusal to confer with the union means } a life and death struggle to save the | union. The Rossiter miners adopted sing- ing on the hillside which was barred by the injunction outside an abandon- ed church, as the most effective meth- od of reaching the scabs at the mine on the opposite hillside, since picket lines are useless owing to the distance of the mine entrance and scab bar- racks from the public highway. The Songs. The singing, with clarinet accom- paniment, was timed in the morning and evening to coincide with scabs’ en- trance and exit at mines. Hymns and patriotic songs were effectively chos- en. For example, Rally Round the Flag, with thunderous emphasis on “Hurrah for the union, hurrah, boys, | hurrah, Down with the traitors.” Railroad Workers Aid Miners. Miners say scores of scabs already on the mantrip would leave as the singing reached them. Since the in- junction, the strike sign has been torn down by the coal and iron police. The railroad ownership of the mines in this section brings the railroaders close to the miners. The railroaders cpilect relief for the miners and tell thém to stick it out or “we'll be next.” ° The last eight of the 300 Rossiter (Continued on Page Five) Breaking Chains Is_ | Success on Coast LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dee. 19.-— Over two thousand people paid admits- sion to see “Breaking Chains,’ moyie also speak. Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati, will preside. The of the Russian Revolution her. The |fort to secure their release. crowd gave generously to +. ¢ ‘lection speakers who branded the Rockefeller plan a failure and stated there could be no peace in the Colorado coal fields until the miners have a labor organization of their own choosing.” Fifteen hundred braved the blizzard to attend the meeting which was held under the auspices of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Although the chairman asked that there be no ap- plause except at the end of the speeches, cheers burst forth. spontan- eously several times as the students | gave their report. Frank R. Palmer, | former editor of the Colorado Labor | Advocate and Federated Press corre- | spondent, is only one of 10 men ar-| rested at Longmont Thursday who}! are still held. Trained Machine Guns on Crowd. Writs: of habeas corpus and many damus will be filed Monday in an ef- The Na- tional Guard officers deny there were The man with the big teeth is Wm.Randolph Hearst, owner of many yellow newspapers, in which he prints forgeries he claims are documents stolen from He is shown here in W The dubious man with him is E. H. Clark, files. began to collapse. Hearst’s lawyer. pe : SENATOR NOKKIS VICTIM. DEMANDS “JAIL FO, FORGER WASHINGTON, Dec. 1%—In a blistering open letter to , William the Mexican government ashington, just before his case MONGER BY SEN. NORRIS j — A Arturo M. Elias, Mexican Con- sul General at New York, who de- nies absolutely that any part of Hearst’s documents are genuine; they are even on the wrong paper. Big Unions, fices of certain of the large labor the influence of the labor press, wrong | en, are made by Wm. Z. Foster, | leader of the great steel strike, pack | g house organizer, national secre- | ary of the Trade Union Educational | League, and for many years an out- | | standing figure in the labor move-| ment. | These charges are explicit and de-| tailed, naming names, citing dates | jand places, stating sums of money, and are contained in a 336 page book, \“Misleaders of Labor,” published by {the Trade Union Educational League, ‘ogi 2 Waest:1 btiy St.,.New. York, : No Favorites Played. : No favorites were played by Fos- | ter in his sweeping and drastic at-/ bayonets and riot guns at the Long-| Randolph Hearst made public this| tack. This book, says Foster himself, | mont meeting, but Longmont business | morning, Senator George W. Norris|“is a complete outline of the system | men attending the meeting made affi- davits that the audience marched out between a doubie line of fixed bay-! onets with Lewis guns trained on the crowd. Hearings Start—Relief Needed. The hearing before the Industrial ; Commission started yesterday while! charges are made by the strikers that! there is interference with the wit- nesses by the militia.” Christmas is assured the strikers’ children, as the university students plan a tree and|and to practice deception upon the | ing the San Francisco building Eanes party for 5,000 children from the |northern field, and the young people | of the Grace Church, Denver, plans | that on the witness stand before the | the same for the Colorado Springs | senate area. Relief is coming in, but a cri- tical time is at hand as the strikers |four senators named in the savings are giving out. Arrange for Memorial **< Pageant for Lenin Arrangements for a Lenin mem- orial meeting at Madison Square Gar- den Jan. 21 are going forward, it was announced yesterday by the district office of the Workers (Communist) Party. Among the features, it was an- nounced, will be a pageant showing the Russia of the ezars compared with the Soviet Union of the present time. It is being arranged by Adolf Wolff. Another feature will be a red ballet under the direction of Edith Segal. The artists collaborating in the ar- rangements for the affair indlude David Burlik, Hugo Gellert, Lydia Gibson, Jan Matulka and Otto Soglow. ——— a war-monger, as utterly without honor and a swindler and scoundrel for his publications of alleged secret ; documents alleged to have been stolen ;from the archives of the Mexican government. In a 3000 word document, dictated from his sick bed, Senator Norris charges Hearst with “a constant at- jtempt to draw conclusions not ju | tified from the articles themse. American people.” Sarcastically recalling the fact committee Hearst declared jhis personal belief that none of the 000 Mexican |eeived any bribe story eve of the money Norris “Tf you wanted to be perfectly hon- lest with these senators why did you | not state when the articles were pub- (Continued on Page Four) Anti-Injunction Meet Will Be Held Tonight “Injunctions and the Labor Party,” will be the topic at a mass meeting arranged by Section 2, Workers (Communist) Party, at 7 o’clock to- night at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 41st St. Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers Party, and William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER, will speak. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will preside. ) and financial bribery.” | | Officials like Robert P. Brindel, | |building trades czar in New York, | convicted in court of taking $20,000 | | and $50,000 bribes from the employ- | ‘ers, Frank Farrington, president of | |the Illinois Mine Workers, who wa | thrown out of office for taking $25,-| 000 a year from the biggest coal com- | | pany in the state, and P. H. McCar- thy, caught taking $10,000 while rul- | are referred to. | Upper Ravks Corroded. But Foster charges that the whole | upper ranks of the trade unions are corroded with Brindelism and Far- ringtonism. He cites Frank Feeney, prominent in A. F. of L. conventions and adherent of the extremely reac tionary wing in the republican par in Philadelphia; Feeney is quoted as stating cynically to the head of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor: “Sure I’m a grafter.” Among those harpooned are Major George L. Berry, president of the pressmen’s union, and strikebreaker. Details of a thousand dollar junket taken by Berry to Florida excursion grounds are cited. Foster makes also grave accusa- | | YOUTH IN PRISON. | ALBANY, Dec. 1 Forty-four per |cent of the crimes in New York state |are committed by boys under 21 years of age, the state commission of cor- |rection reported today, Boys between |16 and 21 are overflowing the state’s ‘penal institutions, charged with all kinds of crimes, the commission said. BULLETIN (Special Cable to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—The plenary meeting of the new Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held after the close of the Congress of the Com- munist Party has elected the po- litical bureau of th Party, com posed gs follows: Bukhayii Vorbshilo: hii . Gay sheng hey,) Molotov, Ion. igh zutak, Stalin and Tomsky, mem- bers of the Political Bureau; and Petrovsky, Uglaunov, Andreyev, Ki- rov, Mikoyan, Kaganovitch, Chu- bar and Kossior as deputy members. Joseph Stalin was elected general meeting will be held under the aus-| appeal by the Internationai ,, 6fkéts|,secretary and Molotoy. Uglanov, pices of the New York Committee of the American Trade Union Delega- a Aid, under whose auspic.s the film was shown. “Potemkin” and “R Russia” come to Los Angeles soon, Fe n Kossior and Kubiak, secretaries. To the organizational bureau ave been elected: ommunist Party Elects Leaders} 98 Anti-Leninist Oppositionists Ousted Stalin, Molotov, Uglanoy, Kossior, Kubiad. Moskvin, Bubnoy, Artiak- hina, Andreyey, Dogadoy, Smirnov, | Rukhimovitch and Sulimoy. Bukharin was elected chief editor of the Central Party organ, the Pravda. ‘ * x (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dee. 19.—After review- ing the anti-Party policies and tactics of the Opposition, the Fifteenth Con- gress of the All Union Communist Party decided to expel ninety-eight leaders of the Opposition and to per- mit rank and file members of the Op- position to remain within the Party. The resolution authorizes the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee to carry on ideological work among the rank and file mem- bers of the Opposition and to expel those who persist Trotskyist views. Among those who are expelled are Kameneff, Radek, Smilga, Piatakoff, Rakovsky, Smirnoff, Yevdokimov and Muraloff. After an address yesterday by Mo- jlotov, the Congress received Ordjon- \ikdze’s report on the work of the {Central Control Commission dealing with the Opposition and adopted the following resolution: Adopt Resolution. “The 15th Congress, on receipt of |the report of the Commission which |studied all material concerning the Opposition, records the following: “First: In the ideological sphere, the Opposition, from differences of a tactical nature, went over to dif- in adhering to Graft, Corruption, Rule in Foster Charges Charges of wholesale graft, cor-jtions against Matthew Woll; “Um- ruption, and incompetence in the of-|bLrella Mike” Boyle, convicted of tak- ing bribes in Chicago, but still a of organized labor in Chiacgo”; of Labor; Mahon, union official and open shop manufacturer of Detroit; John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America, exposed in the | Farrington - Lewis correspondence; nd Hillman, Sigman and other of- icials of the needle trades. A drastic exposure of the graft in (Continued on Page Two) Nectle Trade Labor Facing Injunctions Louis B. Boudlin, counsel for the cf Nebraska brands the publisher as} of control of the unions by political | Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, charged yesterday before Su- preme Court Justice Erlanger that Referee Murray Hulbert had misrep- |resented facts in a report in which he recommended that 18 left wing leaders of the Cloamakers’ Union be punished for contempt of court and ined $10,000. The 18 are said to have violated an anti-strike injunction. Justices Erlanger will decide the case in a few days. * Another Injunction. In Part 1 of the supreme court a petition for a permanent injunction against the Tuckers’, Pleterers’, and Hemstitchers Local 41, of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, will be argued before Judge Thomas C. T. Crain. A temporary njunction forbids the union from call- ing strikes against shops that have locked out their workers for refusing to register in the right wing dual union formed by Morris Sigman, na- tional I. L. G. W. U. president. Nineteen officers and members of the executive board of Local 41, have called to appear in the supreme court on charges of contempt®of court based on the temporary injunction. Youth ig on Trial For Death of Scab (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) JERSEY CITY, Dec, 19.—Harold Meltzer, 18 year old taxi driver, went on trial here today before Judge Kin- kead charged with killing George Ewans, alias “Peanuts”, in the taxi drivers’ strike in west New York last April. The principal witnesses against the youth at the first day session were Henry Allan Dodge, guard on the taxi that Ewans was d and Charles Jacobson, strikebreaker. Did Not See Shooting. On cross-examination by former Assistant Pro John F. Drewen, who with George Cutley, is defend ing Meltzer, Dodge testified he once escaped from a Marion, Ia., hospital for the treatment of mental diseases. The witness testified that Meltze and a woman engaged the taxi cab | Ewans was driving at the Weehawken | ferry and rode to 14th St. and Hud- son Ave., west New York. the defendant and the woman then alighted from the car. afterward, he said, six or seven shots were fired. He said Immediately “I did not see who fired the shots,” Pa on Page Three) he testified. = ng when killed, 700 CANTONESE ARE EXECUTED; SWARMS. FLEE Counter Revolutionary Split Develops BULLETIN. HANKOW, Dec. 19. — Five university girls and four men students, charged with having |aided in the textile workers’ | strike were executed here today. |Three labor leaders were also lececdied for having taken part in the strike. * * 700 Executed. HONGKONG, Dec. 19.—More than 700 men and women sus- pected of having participated in the workers’ and peasants’ re- volt in Canton were executed in one group, it was learned today. At least five citizens of the Soy- * unions of America, charges of de-| power; “Big Tim” Murphy, who still Jet Union, including the Soviet liberate betrayal of strikes, of selling | expects to “make another million out | Vice Consul Hassi: those slain in the re si, were among ign of terror that licies, union officers’ use of gun-| Owens, of the Cleveland Federation |followed the recapture of the city by the troops of Chang Fak-wei. | Executions are still going on in the |streets of Canton, reports received here state, and thousands of the in- | habitants are fleeing from the city. | Split Develops. It is reported also that General |Li Chai-sun, who was ousted from |Canton eral weeks ago by General Chang Fak-wei, has returned to Swa- tow and is planning to march against Canton. That there appears to be a serious split in the counter-revolution- ary camp was indicated at the meet- ing of the Central Committee of the |Kuomintang. * * * Mme. Sun Yat Sen Protests. SHANGHAI, Dec. 19.—More than a hundred citizens of the Soviet Union, including the members of the Soviet consular staff, the Voluntere fleet and the Dahl Bank, who were ordered to leave Shanghai immediate- ly by the Nanking government, have been granted an indefinite r spite in order to wind up their affai: The recent action of the Nanking government toward the Soviet Union is severely criticized in a cable re« ceived here by Chiang Kai-shek from Mme, Sun Yat-sen, who is now in Moscow. The cable reads: Heard Proposal. “Just as I was on the point of re jturning home I learned of your pro- posal to break off relations with Soviet Russia and demand the with- drawal of the Soviet consulates. This act, if carried out, will be suicidal, isolating China and retarding her progress, for which history will hold you to account. “If you possess a particle of your leader's (Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s) vision or remember that close cooperation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, drag- ging with you the fate of your coun- try. “I am remaining here as a moral protest against your decision unless at the last moment steps are taken to avert a break. I believe your al- leged grievances can be settled by agreement with Soviet Russia.” Chiang Kai-shek in his reply ree quested Mme, Sun Yat-sen to returm to Shanghai “to view the situation for herself.” WILL INSPECT BIG BOMBER. ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. L, Dee. 19, —The Guardian, a huge airplane |bombér will be inspected by army of- ficials today. This is the third war plane to be investigated, and a fourth two twelve-cylinder 600 horse power Curtiss motored plane is being preé pared for inspection. These planes contain huge guns. IZober, Strikebreaker, a Facing New Charges; Testimony All Taken PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 19. — The | taking of testimony at the depart-_ tal trial of Richard 0. Zober,) ended police chief, charged h possessing and selling stolen | automobiles, was completed today jafter four additional charges were) entered against him. Zober became notorious during the textile strike [ies for his strikebreaking \- ties.