The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 1

4 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-lHOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥. under the act of THE DAILY WoO Murch 3, 1879. KER. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 292. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mati, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1927 PUBLIS HING CO., 33 First Street, New Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER York, Chinese Red Guards Hold Out in Provinces, Masses Rise While Reaction Slaughters SENTIMENT FOR GENERAL MINER STRIKE GROWS: Locals in Pennsylvania | Pass Resolutions | By AMY SCHECHTER. CRESSON, Pa., Dec. 20.—Today the first attempt was made by the Com- pany to start scab operations here. The United Mine Workers local passed unanimously the general coal strike resolution being circulated throughout district two by the Port- gage local. The resolution was also adopted unanimously or by,a large majority at Galitzin, Liley, Nantyglo, Rossiter and many other locals. The senti- ment for immediate militant action is strong and is steadily growing in Dis- trict 2. Criticize Officials. The rank and file are becoming in- creasingly aware of the gulf between their own fighting spirit and the ab- ject policy of the official ‘leaders. There is wide comment on the coal operators’ refusal to confer with the union and criticism of the Lewis machine for going to strikebreaker Coolidge for strike settlement. The TAXLFRAMEUP CASE WEAKENS (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) JERSEY CITY, Dec. 20.—Harold Meltzer, 18, on trial before Judge Kinkead charged with killing George Ewans, alias “Peanuts,” a strike- breaker, during the taxi strike in West New York last -April, took the stand in his own defense late this afternoon. ; The youth denied having killed Ewans and stated that he never saw Henry Allan Dodge, Ewans’ guard on the taxi he was driving when killed, until he was brot to the Hud- son County jail to be picked trom a line-up shortly after his arrest. Covered With Blood “I was put in line-up of 15 men,” stated Meltzer. “At first Dodge said he could not identify me but those in charge urged him to continue. I was compelled to wear my hat which was covered with blood ttrom the beating I received when arrested. “Ewans passed me twice in the line-up and then stated: ‘I think this is him.’” The defendant stated that at thet time of Ewans’ murder he was home with his mother, sister and brothers due to his niece’s illness. Meltzer also told of his arrest. “When I asked why I was arrested,” he said, “I was answered with a wallop on the head.” The defendant’s mother preceded him on the stand and told of his being home on the night of the mur- der, Many Workers Attend. The trial has created a great deal of interest in this city and adjoining towns. | The court is crowded with workers, | many of them obviously taxi drivers | who are dressed in their working clothes. Meltzer was still on the stand when yt was adjourned until tomorrow orning. * * JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 20.— Ewans was killed while driving a taxi as a strikebreaker during the recent taxi-cab strike here. The prosecution is trying to prove that Meltzer and a woman companion rode in the cab, and then shot the driver after emerging. No eye-witness to the shocting has so far identified Meltzer as the shooter. | Bring In Sacco Case. The prosecution’s big gun this morning was Major Calvin Goodard, one of the firearms experts engaged . Jurymen are shown returning to the Bronx County courthouse where an attempt is being made to send Calegaro Greco and Donato Carrillo to the chair on framed up charges, e COLORADO MINE | Two Children Die When WORKERS SCORE)" Bes Home Ore Inflammable Factory DENVER, Dec. 20.—The miners 4 ‘ LARCHMONT, N. Y., Dec. 20. — drew first blood in the hearing he- ~ While their parents were visiting fore the Industrial Commission this | neighbors last night, two colored morning when their demand that the | children were burned to death in operators be required to present cer- | their home at 606 Fifth Avenue, tified copies of the payroll, income | here. The victims were Julian tax statements and tax assessors’ | Harris, 5, and Doris Harris, 2, son statements, was granted by the Com- | and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. mission. Claude Harris. C. F. & 1. Lawyer Gets Busy. The first floor of the building Fred Farrar, chief counsel for the | was used as an upholstery shop, C. F, & I, who previously stated that | and the inflammable material he was not present as an attorney | Stored there added to the rapidity but as an obseryer, injected himself | With which the flames spread. _ into the proceedings at that point and Overcrowding and high rents in declared that the C. F, & I. would|| the part of town to which social never agree to bring in its income re- | pressure confines the Negro resi- port. The commission granted the op- dents as responsible for the dan- erators 30 days to submit the docu- gerous location of the Harris home. CY ments; meanwhile the taking of tes- ae eae Bosses Will Settle Jail Relief Committee Chairman. A caravan of fifty cars on the way to Valdez, 18 miles from Trinidad, was turned back by the state police Sunday and two men were arrested. J. B. Childs, formerly chairman of the strike relief, rushed from Walsenburg to Denver Saturday, after being re- leased from Walsenburg jail, and was re-arrested within two hours. Although from Saturday until to- day he was kept closely confined in a cell, this morning he was arraigned in police court on a charge of va- grancy and sentegced to 90 days. The case will be appealed. Santa Claus will visit 5,000 children in the northern fields and 250 in the Colorado Springs district as friends of the strikers plan Christmas par- ties, but funds are badly needed for 8,000 southern children, who will have no Christmas unless money comes from outside the state. (Continued on Page Two) WORKER GETS VERDICT. A jury before Supreme Court Jus- | tice Dunne in Brooklyn yesterday re- turned a verdics tor $2v,ueu .a .avor of Richard O’Connell, 9 Grafton Court, Malverne, L. I., father of eight Information has been received by The DAILY WORKER that the four- teen weeks’ strike of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union will in all probability be settled in the course ofthe next 48 hours. After a six-hour conference between the employers’ association and the union yesterday it was evident that the bosses were in a mood to settle. Company Union Issue. The issue of the company union in the industry broke up the conference ja week ago. though the employers |had previously agreed to meet all de- jmands of the union. Other demands {made by the workers are a $45 week, |recognition of the union, ne discrim- lination against any union member or cfficial by the employers’ association, a 44-hour week. BUFFALO, N. Y. | tary snow plows toc to the 200 marooned _torists on the ‘highway twenty miics from Buffalo ‘after 87 of the number, including children, in his suit against the New|women and children, many of them! York Dock Railway Co. Last March, | ill, had remained cooped up for 48) O’Connell was struck by a train while! hours in a two-room cabin practically at work at the foot of Pioneer St. without food. Booth Construction Starts jor. Big Defense Bazaar are®certs, puppet shows and carnival sports. On the 2nd ‘floor of the Pal- ace 20 games will be run, among them the Saucer Game, Balloon game, Dart game, the wheel auto and others; movies and dancing are on the pro- grant daily. ‘ On Friday night, booths completed and gaily decorated, and the halls flooded with light, the doors will be opened to the thousands of visitors who will come to celebrate with danc- ing and bargain-hunting, the soli- darity of the labor movement which makes possible such an undertaking | for its own benefit. Tickets are on sale in single ad- missions for 35 cents week-days, and ec. 20, — Ro- ought relief All out-of-work carpenters asked to apply to-morrow morning | with their working cards at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th St., to help construct booths, * * * The building of booths has begun today at the Grand Central Palace for the gigantic Joint Defense Com- mittee Bazaar. A large corps of car- penters and electricians are busily at work putting up the 150 booths for the display and sale of a quarter of a million dollars worth of merchandise. Many unemployed comrades are work- ing all day, while others come in after the day’s work, to do their share of by the state of Massachusetts to swear away the life of Sacco and Vanzetti. Goodard, in the Meltzer case as in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, stated that the bullets shown to him as those found in the dead man’s body came from the gun of the sus- pect. é However, under cross examination, Goodard admitted he might be mis- taken. Atty. Drewen for the defense (Continued on Page Five) building and constructing and to help get the Grand Central Palace in readiness for the opening of the Bazzar on Friday night. Carpenters and electrician volunteers are still needed and are urged to apply im- mediately at the Joint Defense office, 41 Union Square. The Bazaar is receiving widespread 50 cents for’ Friday and Sunday; Sat- urday Dec. 24th admission will be 75 cents; Saturday, Dec. 31st New Year’s Ball, admission is $1.00. Week-day combination tickets, eost $1.00, complete combination tickets, excluding only New Year’s Eve Ball are $1.75, and for 75 cents with this With Window Union CARRILLO, MRS. GRECO TESTIFY Donato Carrillo late yesterday took the stand in his own defense in Bronx County court where he and Calogero Greco, are on trial on framed-up charges of murder, Carrillo’s testi- mony containing much colorful detail, especially regarding his actjvities Decoration Day, when Carisi and Amorrose, fascists, were murdered at 183rd St. and Third Ave. Eight witnesses in all had taken the stand to support Greco’s alibi de- fense. Yesterday afternoon Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, defense counsel, called a number of witnesses who unhesitatingly told of seeing Carrillo on the morning of Decoration Day in the vicinity of his home. Ld Carrillo’s Early Life. Bernard Cohn testified that Carrillo a little after 8 a. m. Decoration Day purchased candy and a newspaper at his confectionery store near Carrillo’s former home. Cohn was followed by Pietro Bar- one, a tailor, who said he met Carrillo at 72nd St. and Riverside Drive early in the afternoon of Decoration Day. Carrillo had followed the parade from 45th St. to that point, where the fascists were scheduled to assem- ble. Carrillo, who sometimes needed an interpreter when the questions of the district attorney became deliberately involved, told of his early days on his father’s farm in Italy. He arrived in the United States in 1913., For two years he worked for the Norfolk R. R. at Roanoke, Va., he testified. He returned to Italy to join the army in 1915, he said, because he was under the impression that his “country was fighting for liberty.” He added he found he was “mistaken.” felis of Arrest. Carrillo returned to America in 1918 and learned the clothing workers’ trade at which he now works, he tes- tified. Henderson’s cross-examination last- ed about 49 minutes and concerned itself largely with a statement al- leged to have been taken by District Attorney -McGeehan in the High- bridge police station, Bronx, the night ‘Carrillo’ and Greco were arrested, July 11. Carrillo indignantly denied many portions of the “statement,” de- claring no interpreter was’ present at |the time and that the document wes not read back to him before he signed it. Judge Cohn sustained the objec- ton of aefense counsel. Mrs. Vita Greco, 82 year old mother of Calogero Greco took the witness stand yesterday morning. < The entire courtroom, from Judge Cohn and Clarence Darrow down, were visibly touched by the testimony of the aged woman, Assisted by a court interpreter, Mrs. Greco, in answer to questions from Arthur Garfield Hays, defense attorney, said that she pre- (Continued on Page Five) : Fourth Anniversary of : DAILY WORKER to Be Subject of Talk The fourth anniversary of the founding of The DAILY WORKER, official organ of ‘the Workers (Communist) Party, will be the subject of addresses by William F. Dunne and H. M. Wicks, of The DAILY WORKER, at a meeting of all section and sub-section —® ticket, admission will be granted to the Ball too. Come to the Bazaar with all your “sande and shop mates. comment all over the city and is ex- pected to bring about 150,000 visitors in the 9 days. Different entertain- ments are arranyed fires ae. wgents of the paper Thursday at 8 p. m., at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St. ' PE See MLAB NPN A TE A WORKERS BACK FROM SOVIET TO SPEAK TONIGHT Cooper Union Meeting to Greet Delegation New York workers will get first hand information on Ri a tonight when the rank and file trade union delegation, just returned from the land of the Soviets, will be welcomed at a mass meeting at Cooper Union, Third avenue and Eighth street, at 8 o’clock under the auspices of the New York Committée, American Trade Union Delegation. Speakers will include William Wat- kins, Switchmen’s Union of Minne- apolis, Chairman of Delegation; Will- iam Mackenzie, Carpenters Union of Brooklyn; Edward Romese, United Mine Workers of Nanticoke, Pa.; William G. Hearing, Moulders’ Union of Stamford, Conn.; Ben Thomas, Ma- chinists’ Union of Philadelphia; E. P. Cush, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers of Pitts- burgh; also Robert W. Dunn, Mem- ber of the First Labor Delegation to Russia; Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati, will be chairman. Cush who will speak tonight (Continued on Page Two) NEEDLE TRADES UNION ENJOINED M. E. Taft, manager, and 18 other officers and executive board members of the Pleaters’, Tuckers’ and Hem- stitchers’ Union Local 41, of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, are scheduled to appx this morning at 10 a. m., in Part 1 of the supreme court before Judge Thomas C. T. Crain, charged with contempt of court for alleged viola® tions of an anti-strike injunction. The injunction was temporary and was issued against the union when they had called strikes against em- ployers who had locked out their workers. The contempt proceedings charge that in addition to picketing the union had issued a leaflet signed by Taft which calls upon the workers openly to violate the injunction. The leaflet says in part a8 follows: General Strike Needed. “Brothers and Sisters! The time has now come when the need for a general strike in our industry has hecome an absolute necessity. time has come when the members of Local 41 must answer the injunction by leaving their shops until such a time as the bosses are compelled to recognize the union and grant union conditions to the workers in our in- dustry.” Judge Crain yesterday postponed his decision on the request of the Employers’ Association to make the injunction permanent. The | Her Boy on Lost Sub ie Mrs. seans news of the attempt to rescue Katherine Snizek anxiously the trapped seamen on the S-4. One of her sons, a common sailor, is im- prisoned. S-4 GREW TAPS GROW WEAKER BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 20.—After thirty-six hours of fussing around the submerged S-4 with divers, lines and paraphernalia with which she might so heavy, it has occurred to Rear A miral Frank Brumby in charge of res- food, and soda-lime into the im- prisoned men’s compartment throug! the forward torpedo tubes of the syb- marine. full of mud, but half a day’s work will clear it. the men within will live that long, as of air, and the tapping they make has | become very weak. * * * “Degree of Culpability.” WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 20.— While the last six men alive in the wrecked submarine S-4 are still gasp- ing away their lives, a naval post- mortem has already been started. The navy department reports that a board of inquiry has been appointed to de- fine the degree of culpability of the submarine commander, the com- |mander of the tender Wandank, nor- |mally in charge of the safety of the submarine from collisions, but absent |from the course during the fatal trip |of the S-4, or the guilt of any su- | perior officer who might by giving wrong orders, have brought about the destruction of the ship and her crew. Naval court martials almost never convict a high-ranking officer. The fault in case of wreck is invariably |laid on the shoulders of some sub- ordinate. 800 HOMELESS IN FIRE. WHITESBURG, Ky., Dec. Eight hundred residents of the moun- tain village, Blackey, ten miles west of here, today were homeless, and many penniless, as the result of a fire that wiped out all but one build- ing last night. BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Dec. 20 Rebecca Grecht, a national organizer for the Work addressed a joint meeting of nine lo- cals of the United Mine Workers of American here. She found sentiment good for a labor party, and for the principles of solidarity for which she spoke. All in the audience were striking miners, most of them from the mines owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co. The hall was jammed. For Labor Party. Grecht spoke on the miners’ situa- tion and the labor party, the prob- lems of the miners’ union, the fight to save the union, the need of organi- zing the unorganized, the necessity of getting rid of the Lewis machine in the miners’ union, and of connecting up the miners’ struggle with the gen- eral labor struggle. Grecht’s remarks were illustrated by stories of the brutalities of the coal and iron police; she also mentioned the connection between Governor Fisher and the Clearfield Coal Co., which obtained the most drastic of all bh iy 's (Communist) Party, | Penn Miners Strong for Labor Party, Grecht Finds njunctions, and the ownership of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. by Secretary of the Treasurer Mellon. | Party Policy Told. | Speaking on the Workers Party, | Grecht cited its policy of support of | militant labor in strikes, organizing | the unorganized, fighting for a labor | party, actively participating in the every day struggle, securing relief of | strikers, and told of its activities: in Detroit, and in Passaic, and its con- | stant assistance of all workers’ b: tles through The DAILY WORK Applause throughout the speech was \frequent and prolonged. After the speaker had ceased, several miners took the floor and declared the crowd’s agreement with the views stated. About a hundred miners came to this meeting from Van Voorhis, an- other mining town several miles away, where the speech was first advertised, but where the union officials, mem- bers of the Lewis reactionary mach- ine, refused to grant the only hall in town, the union hall, to Grecht as soon as they heard she was represent- Workers in Fallen Cities IREBEL POWER have been raised if the sea were not |2¢Co™ 4 q- | held for execution, cue work to try and introduce oxygen, | It is doubtful whether | their last messages tell of exhaustion} 20.—| STAYS FIRM IN RURAL SECTION | Girl Student Shouts Defy to Slayers HONGKONG, Dec. 20.—De- spite the wholesale execution of Communists in Canton, numer ous towns, villages and rural dis- tricts in eastern Kwangtung are still in the control of Commun- ist-led peasant organizations, ac- |cording to the reports of refu- gees and travellers. Lufkung, Chipsing and Muiling are said to be in complete control of workers’ and jpeasants’ organizations which have | set up their own government, Peasant organizations have swept | out owners of large landholdings and have distributed the land among poor | peasants, the reports state, | * * * | Red Raids Renewed. | HANKOW, Dec. 20.—Twenty more |Communists were executed in the re- jnewal of the “red raids” here. Sev- jenteen citizens of the Soviet Union who were taken in the raids are being held by the Hankow authorities are ding to current rumors being Lined up against a wall awaiting execution one of the four girl stu- jdents sentenced to death on the n|charge of having aided the textile workers’ strike shouted “Down with iinperialism.”” ‘ The government is said to have A diver reports that the tube is| seized seven hundred Communists or |Communist sympathizers in the raids which took place over the week end. * * . | Consulate Staff Leaves. | (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—Ordered by |the Nanking regime to leave imme- |diately twenty-three members of the {Soviet Union’s consulate staff in Shanghai have left fro Vladivostok by way of Japan. Another group of Soviet Union officials, headed by Coh- sul General Kovlovsky will leave to- morrow. The members of the Soviet Union’s consulate staff at Hankow, also ex- pelled by the authorities, arrived here and will leave within a few days. 2,000 Executions. According to reports from Canton, the white reign of terror is being con- tinued and executions now total two thousand. Reports regarding the fate of the ‘Soviet Union consulate still conflict. According to some reports the Consul General, the Vice Consul and the personnel of the consulate have been arrested. According to other despatches received here, the Vice Consul was among those exe- cuted. | The building of the Soviet Union consulate in Canton is occupied by the government and by Russian White Guard troops who have confiscated all movable propert Soviet Citizens Killed. The execution of ‘nine Soviet Union citizens in Canton is reported, altho no exact information has been rTe-+ ceived. All Soviet Union trade organiza- tions in Shanghai have been closed and are surrounded by cordons of po- lice. The municipal police made a fruitless raid on the office of the U. S. S. R. trade delegation and of the Sovtorgflot. Straton Charge Against Atheist Is Dropped John Roach The charge that Rev Straton brot against Charles Smith, president of the American Associa- t for the Advancement of Atheism, has been thrown out of court by Judge ain in supreme court. Smith mailed Straton free thought literature which the preacher charged “annoyed” him, (Communist Workers Face Trial Tuesday The case of the four Workers (Com- munist) Party members arrested Dec. 6 when distributing anti-injunetion leaflets in Brooklyn has been post- poned for the second time. It will come up again next Tuesday morn- ing before Magistrate Reynolds in the Fifth e Court. sai = f é