The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 2

_ mittee conducting the campaign for| “four progre: r Page Two it THE DATLY WORKER, New YORK, WEDNESDAY, DETY 21, 1927 DRAMATIC TRIP | BEGINS RIVALRY FOR RULE OF AIR Europeans Put Ships on} Routes Years Ago 3, Dec. 20. are be- ing felt b tral and of Charles ambassador a rd South 4 the aviatior Von Bauer, Gerr German hydro; operation some y public of Colo devised to co sre put Hess Thorn, engineer of this his job altogether. na and Cuba, big busin ENGINEER AND SEVEN OTHER: locomotive, pulling a Kansas C Spree . United States pricked up By Say ee a and their mouthpiece, Coolidge, in his \W orkers Back From message to congr ted that “We ala ss : are particularly us of having | USSR Speak Tonight the United States take a leading part | E in the development” of aviation in| _ (Conrinued from Page One) Latin America. denies the statement which is made Regular Mail Service. generally in the United States, that Under the leadership of Von Baue the Russians have torn down _the @ regular mail and passenger servic hurches, or have forbidden religious was established in 1921, and developed | ¥ orship. SP Ee to the point where twelve passengers | _ ‘I am a Roman Catholic,” said Mr. are carried in each hydroplane. When | Cush, “and I have yet to see in free the German operators attempted to} America what I saw with my own establish a landing field in Cristobal, |¢yes in Communist Russia. the United States, which controls this | Hunted Church. territory, refused to allow it, and pre-| “The first Sunday morning that I pared to do some developing on its| was in Moscow I hunted up a Catho- own hook. | lic cathedral. It was not hard to find Lindbergh was obviously sent as the|one. I admit there was some curiosity advance agent to inaugurate inj|in my going, I had heard so much in dramatic style, the ited States’ | Ar ica that I wanted to see for my- competition in Latin America. Si Machine Uses Fraud! In Painters’ Election Elections in Painters District Coun- eil held | aturday at Yorkville Casino, hz brought out evidences of “repeating,” illegal ‘voting, and} ne) : general counting out of the progres- | <nelt at all, who kep ; 1 ace mem be ording to the facts |fzom the people about him, that im- Gabmitted Inter-local .Com- | mediately my suspicions were aroused. Probably he was here to see that things weren’t carried too |far! The cathedral s crowded. The service lasted from noon until two o'clock, I have never seen so much ceremony in all my church-going life, It was a Polish church, that may ac- count for some of it, but the people seemed to partake of the service in the same way that they did every- thing else in Russia. “There was one notable exception to that, however. I couldn’t help but notice one individual who by ti ve ocatse The counting of the vote which was Page : not completed until last night re-| ,, Cariosty) pasta Nae vealed that over 1,500 “repeaters” | ‘My curiosity was so far aroused, were brought in by the intrenched | that through my translator, I asked District Council machine. The watch-| ‘the sexton after the service, who that ers for the Inter-local Committee re- | ™4" might Be Poe aun oe lish fused to sign the tally sheets and the) Geos Said he, ‘is the Polis indecisive situation may become the} liga cs : subject of a rank and tile protest in| Le the Trade Union Delegatior See Mramediate futuie. as in Moscow, they found later that Machine Us bread riots had been reported going on there in the London dailies. The | Methods. | ted to obtain” by the ma.| Soldiers and the police were joining the people in arms. “J suppose it is needless to report that we didn’t see any such thing,” chine group. David apiro, the’ own candidate, was credited with hav-| ing received 3,175. In addition to 5 said Cush. “Nor did we see any of the more an 1500, “repeaters” |e. uprsing. Which the: New York : 3 “|Times advertise king place in bers of the trade, the reactionary Times advertised as taking p the Ukraine. I suppose it would be jvery convenient for the Bri if such things were actually happening as they wish for so openly. English Hate U. S. S. R. “We didn’t realize how thoroughly the English were in their hatred of all things pertaining to the Socialist and admittedy corrupt district coun- cil, according to watchers of the pro- gressive committee, adopted the prac- tice of “brazenly counting out” the candidates of the other side. The following method, it was] charged, was resorted to: Votes taken | ee, ones were called out) Republic until we hit Scotland Yard it ie Eaported inane) watchers al.| ° our way home. We were almost most uniformly shouted the name ot oeoee tes ue ele Mactan ‘ ees ; sy gave every! » we possessed. their own particular candidate. When yey weve. & ae Gi ces alee pa challenged, the corrupt officials mer ot the Be fa Bat ‘yale ok iharsicleven ly agreed that they had made a “mi chaps found that we were getting ae oe spueen cicada i away with some posters that had niall e Tecord on the tally) Russian on them. That was the sig- | nal for a recall and another examina- | ,|tion. They questioned us as if we | were crimi They turned every- | thing upside down. In the end, they | took away every sheet of paper that Protests Disregarded. “In spite of persistent and repea protests,” the committee leaders d elared, “we were una to change Be Aieee tithe case of tonis Mor, je¥en hdd the word Russia ‘on it, but : Louis Bloom| tney jet us go with our lives. of Local 1,011, progressive candidate |") coe faa «ay aieterent “This experience m that which we received on our in the Soviet Union that it s comment. Every other border throughou » length of Eur. ers, demanding see what we had. Probably the st formidable was the Polish There, where the houses all ready to tumble down ar a slight breeze, and where everyone seemed barefoot, but the soldiers, a my of ‘uniforms surrounded must be a soldier for every zens of Polanl, and all sta- an border! France America must be for Business Agent, the tactics of the machine were especially v : committee pointed out. “The: not |} the least doubt that Bloora won by many hundreds,’ leaders of th mittee declared, “but by the most brazen, corrupt and unasham ods he was counted out by 136 Bloom receiving, according to report, 2,930 votes and Ginsberg of Local 892 receiving 3,066 vote: Local 261, that from which Gins-| berg was the candid: 8 the one], from which several officials were re- | eb at cently convicted because of misrepre- aned sentation of union funds. This local}. 44 is one of the bases of the District S KILLED IN WRECK Florida Special on the Frisco R. R., near Portia, Ark., was making up time according to orders when a freight train loomed up in the fog ahead. The official excuse is that the passenger should have waited on a siding for the freight to pass. But the road has been laying off men lately, and Thorn didn’t want to go on the “extra board,” or lose The engineer and seven others were killed. ernment, judging by the size of the army they pay to keep Poland and the rest of Europe from being con- taminated. And Scotland Yard only got from us those few things—com- paratively—which the Polish army by some queer chance didn’t find. Anything about Russia they seized and destroy ruthlessly. - No Soldiers in Sight. | “How different it all was to enter) into Russia! Hardly a soldier in sight. A few of the Red Army, greetings, and we were speeding towards the brass bands and the singing ‘com- rades’ waiting for us at the first stop.” Besides Cush, Edward Romese, William Mackenzie, William Watkins, Ben Thomas and William G. Hearing, all of the delegation will address the Cooper Union Mass meeting. All the local unions of the city, as well as the Central Trades Council have been in- vited to attend the meeting. * * . The following short article on the oil industry in Kussia is by Peter Jen- sen, Chicago, member of the Second Trade Union Delegation: Baku is the largest oil district in the U.S. S.R. It was in the. aands of the British and Mensh~ ...s until 1920. | From 1907 to 19?4, there were 250,000 | ms of oil from this district each mont In 1926, 620,000 tons were ta).cn. NW methods of drilling are being iftroduced, but they are still using the old cable method in some places, | because of a lack of modern) machinery. Oil refineries are rapidly being modernized with new machinery and distilling equipment. Oil wells in the Baku fieids last as long as 10 years. About 3,500 wells are now in operation. The new method of jrillng takes from two to three months to drill a well. The old methods of cable drilling takes from | eight months to a year. Need New Capital. New capital would enable them to! discard the old cable method of drill- ing. Most of the new oil refining and drilling machines must be obtained from the United States. Recognition of the U. S. S. R. by the United States would greatly help the Rus- sian workers build up their industries, and would have a tendency to help re- lieve the unemployment in the United States. 9 The workers in the oil fields seem very well satisfied. Their homes are better than the average workers’ homes in the United States. They are solidly built of stone and finished in conerete. The rooms are large and airy. The houses have tiled bath- rooms, toilets, electricity, modern American gas stoves, hot and cold running water, and gas heat. These houses are rent free to the workers, and there is no limit placed on the amount of gas and electricity used. Streets are gradually being paved, parks are being laid out wherever pos- sible, and the workers are making lawns and flower gardens around each house. : Addition for Rent. In eases where the industry has not as yet built houses enough to ac- commodate all the workers, they are allowed nine roubles a month, which covers light, rent and heat, in ad- dition to their regular salaries. In the event that a worker obtains employment in another factory, he may retain his house, until such time as he has found satisfactory quarters in the vicinity of the new factory. We saw several new houses under construction, Inelines were being used instead of ladders on the outside of the buildings, to eliminate danger. AT THE NEWSSTANDS Council machine. 5 eR No definite announcement as to its next step was made by the Inter- local Progressive Committee beyond the fact that the progressives had refused to sign the tally sheets and would challenge the results of the Keep This Saturday election scandal. BOMBER WILL BE SHOWN. A huge aeropiane, The Guardian, Will be brought to Washington to be demonstrated before army officials. Igor Sikcrsky, builder of the huge war plane which can carry 2,600 Ibs, | bombs as well as huge guns, hopes ‘e build a fleet of them for the army January 13t Day Open! Colorado Miners Win A Victory (Continued from Page One) . “Only Four Scabs. CRESTED BUTTE, Colo.—No men | are working in the Colorado. Fuef and | Tron. mine,. or the Ross Coal Works, | or the Smith Mine. In the Buckley mine, however, four scabs are work- ing, but the striking miners promise that they will be convinced by morn- ing, and a humdred per cent strike re- port will be forthcoming very soon. * * * Newspaper-Operator Scheme. COLUMBINE MINE, Colo.—When strikers investigated the stories run- ning in the daily newspapers here | about the huge number of men work- ing in the mines of northern Colorado, it was learned that the few scabs were rounded up each morning, sent down the shaft, and directly after the of- ficial count was taken, most of the scabs were sent on to neighboring mines to participate in other “offi- cial” gounts, * ie gira Poor Bosses Must Dig. LAFAYETTE, Colo—The Puritan mine just out of this city has instruct- ed all supervisors and other “bosses” to dig coal. Strike leaders think that they will soon make application to join the union, since digging is a tough job to which bosses are unaccustomed. * * * Strikers Available To Speak. LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Speakers, fresh from the strike fields, are being routed by the State Executive Com- mittee for speaking tours throughout the country, Organizations who ‘de- sire speakers are instructed to write |to one of the following, dependent upon the district: Byron Kitto at Box 542, Butte, Mont., H. C. Duke at Box 2, Arcade Station, Los Angeles, Calif., | A, S. Embree and Roger Francezon | at 3333 Belmont Ave., Chicago, Ill. Donations are being sent to the Col- orado Striking Miners’ Relief and De- fense Committee, Box 93, Lafayette, Colo. . 2 WALSENBURG, Colo., Dec. 19.— The conditions that were responsible for bringing on the strike are respon- sible for driving scabs off the job as well, Three scabs who were brought | into Aguilar by an escort of state po- lice to work in the Broadhead Mine, objected to having a large percentage of their wages deducted to maintain the mine guards. Four others from Green Canyon made similar complaints. Twelve scabs from Pictou complained that they couldn’t earn a living there, so gave up their jobs, Due to the sub- traction of 75 cents per day per miner from wages, the day’s pay is lowered to its former level. Mayor Woods of Trinidad owns the Broadhead Mine. * * * School Fer Scabs, WALSENBURG, Colo.—A_ school for scabs was established by the Sul- livan Demonstyator Company of Den- ver, who sent Elmer Bird, “tutor of scabs,” to the State Mine at Erie. The trifling amount of coal that has come over the tipple thus far, indicates that either the scabs are not apt students or Bird a brilliant instructor. * + COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When the men at the Pike View mine here protested their rate of pay, aj two cent per ton increase was granted to the loaders, and forty cent per day was given the company men. Two days later, a check-up was made, and it was learned that miners were re- ceiving less than ever, for they were being robbed of pay for from two to} eight hundred pounds per ton of coal loaded. 1 Ova SR Jails Supply Scabs, DENVER, Colo.—A new system for inveigling scabs has been established through the kindly cooperation of the jails and mine owners. Men who are arrested here, and charged with va- grancy, are hailed before the courts and sentenced to 60 days in jail. But an obliging jailor soon informs the victims that fretdom awaits them if they will agree to work. As soon as | they assent, they are taken to the mines to scab, Thus far, none of the victims of this system have remained at the job. DAILY WORKER TO CELEBRATE FOURTH YEAR Jan. 13th Anniversary, a Labor Event ~ | Announcement was made yesterday | by the Committee in charge of th program for the fourth anniversary | of The DAILY WORKER, that active | preparations are now under way to | make this the most important event {in the history of the paper. | The affair which is to take place on | |January 13th at Mecca Temple, 56th | St. and Seventh Ave., will mark the \completion of four years of as mili- {tant and difficult a struggle as any revolutionary organ in America has joys had to face. | | Speaks for Vanguard of Struggle. Speaking always for the vanguard of this struggle, pointing always \fearlessly to the direction in which |labor must travel, guiding and direct- jing its none too sure progress in the country of the most powerful imperi- jalism, The DAILY WORKER, organ jof the Workers (Communist) Party jof America, has been steeled in the clash with reaction and tempered by the heat of capitalist fire. During the period of its existence it has passed through a siege of the most aggressive assault against the labor movement in American history; during this period also has come the most bitter attack on the militants and progressives yet witnessed; with- lin the last year of its existence has joceurred® the open alliance of the lead- ling labor officials with the govern- \ment and the rulers of the govern- iment in the capitalist class. Fought Always Unflinchingly. | Throughout this period The DAILY | WORKER has: held up. unflinchingly the banner of militant class struggle. In the vel of the combined attack of the right wing labor officialdom and the government, facing always the most serious problem of making ends meet, threatened with suspension of publication rights on framed up charges, yet it has managed to grow |Steadily in Communist vigor and working class consciousness until now it can without apology speak for the rising Party which it officially rep- resents. The fourth anniversary promises to |be not only an event in the history of the Communist movement in America | but a milestone in the development of |the American working class. | peat antes WOES | i ae | Sentiment Grows. for General Strike | (Continued from Page One) strikers realize that the battle must be fought out in the coalfields. elo * Sick Couple Evicted. PITTSBURGH, Dec. —Coal and} jIron police at Harmarville, carrying | | through evictions for the Consumers | Coal Company, subsidiary of Whceel- jing Steel, yesterday forced Joe Leb- | reski, striking miner, and his wiie, both sick, to get out of their com- | Pany-owned houses in the pouring | rain, The sick couple had to be learried over to the unfinished barracks and laid down, on the bare floor. No stove, no beds, no tar paper | jon the roof—just the boards laid |across with the rain ¢oming through. ; The mass evictions taking place in| |the coalfields of Pennsylvania, in- jereased by thousands through the {latest decision of the State Superior Court are on a scale unheard of in |any. previous industrial war. \ This is Class War. | The tragedy of mass eviction is the |tragedy of war refugees used to the full by the capitalist press of the [country to whip up feeling to a white {aeat during the world war. But the |coal war is class war, so the gapitalist | ‘press maintains silence on the vast | ‘desolation spread throughout the | Pennsylvania camps by the brutal up- [rooting of tens of thousands of strik- | \ers’ families and the suffering of the exiles through the soden winter days. | | At Harmarville the miners have | been forced to build their barracks | }on a piece of swampland out at the edge of the town used as a dumping } ground. Andrew Mellon, Czar of the | Pittsburgh distrigt, and owner of the | Pittsburgh Coal Company, leader in the union-smashing campaign, owns all the land for miles around Harmar- ville, and his agent told the strikers they could never lease a foot for bar- racks at any price. ‘ Women Fight Too. Harmarville is known by scabs and Coal and Iron police as a fighting town; and all through the lockout the women have fought alongside the men, They came out. on the picket line, held dances up at the Miners’ Hall with a boy accordion player from the next camp for music to keep up the strikers’ spirit. They got beaten up and iniled by the Coal and Irons} and deputies, got out and started in all over again. H But barrack life in a swamp in De- | cember is hard to face, with hunger | terrifyingly close at hand; one of the | pickets said he saw a woman crying | so he could hardly bear it as she walked into the bare wooden box that was all the home she would have till the fi«ht is won, | Lindbergh’s Flight South Shown as Business Move to Beat Air Competition Impeachment Judge Senator Mac Q. Williams, appointed president pro tem. of the Oklahoma senate to try Governor Henry John- ston for graft, moral turpitude, etc. But the governor is holding power by the simple means of sending the mili- tia to break up meetings of the Sen- ate or House. COURTS PONDER OKLAHOMA FUSS OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 20. —Though the state militia still point their bayonets at any legislators who wander into the state capitol building and still stop any attempt of the House or Senate to meet there and conduct impeachment proceedings against Governor Johnston, the courts grind on unceasingly. The District Court, which has be- fore it the question of the validity of the “impeachment meetings” of the legislature down town in a hotel room, has summoned to come before it to- morrow the governor himself, and Mrs. 0. O. Hammonds, “The Female Rasputin,” as she is called by the legislature, otherwise known as Gov- ernor Johnston’s secretary, and co-de- fendant with him against charges of “moral turpitude” launched by the legislature’s committee formulating its case. BAYONNE WORKERS AID PAPER BAYONNE, N. J., Dec. 20. — The International Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has sent $12.50 to the DAILY WORKER, being one fourth of the proceeds of a social held October 29. PAPERS FORCED; SENATE DECIDES _ AGAINST REARST Sheffield Tried to Buy Mexican Officials WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 20.— The senate committee investigating the Hearst forgeries against Mexico today ended the bribery angle ebrupt- jly, in the absence of its chairman, | Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, the man who provoked the inquiry in the form of an investigation, not of Hearst, but of senators accused in the Hearst forgeries of taking brihes from Mexico, The committee voted a resolution that the four senators men- tioned in the Hearst stories were “aneorrupted and incorruptible.” thus vroving part of the documents were forgeries, Stirs Up Talk. However, the investigation. having onee been started, has stir-ed up so much talk that it could not be dronned at once, and the questioning of Mnr- ray. one of the men mentioned in the documents, continued. resulting in evidence that U. S. Ambassador Sheffield himself was trying to cor- rupt Mexican officials, Murray said that Avila, Hearst’s man in Mexico, who swore on the stand yesterday that he purchased the papers in Mexico, came to him and offered to sign an affidavit swearing one document was a forgery. The witness added that Avila didn’t want to make the affidavit while in Mexico but offered to go to New York ta sign it. Asked for $300. “He asked for. $300,” added Mur- ray. “TI told him it wasn’t worth that to me.” “Did you say ‘that Ambassador Sheffield had all this stuff before Hearst did?” asked Senator Johnson. “Yes,” said Murray. “It was my information that the American em- bassy had been very generously on the market for a long time for this sort of stuff.” ‘Do you men that the American embassy was buying documents relat- ing to Mexico?” “Yea! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! New Gold $250,000 ‘GOLD BONDS. 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