The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE | UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 293. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927 per year. HE DAILY Wo ER, Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY PUBLISHING CO, 33 First Street, March 3, 1878, New York, FINAL CITY EDITION WORKER N.Y. Price 3 Cents GARMENT UNIONIST ASSAILS INJUNCTION IN COURT DEFENSE BAZAAR OPEN TOMORROW; 150,000 EXPECTED Unprecedented Affair) Promised The most elaborate bazaar ment will open tomorrow night for nine days and evenings at Grand Cen- | in the | history of the American labor move- ' } | | | | | | ' tral Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th It will be the gigantic Bazaar of | the Joint Defense Committee, Cloak makers’ and Furriers’ Unions. Noth- | I i ing of this character on such a scale | factory gang labor. Some bitter fi has been attempted before. Fully tion of machines that throw men out 150,000 are expected to visit the Ba- zaar booths. Everything is being done to mak the “1927 Bazaar” stand out as typi- | fying by its ardor and industrious- ness, after a year of terrific gle, the tremendous energ and re- sourcefulness of the militant work- ers of New York, according to the | committee. The entire progressive labor movement is determined to | make the Bazaar a success, the com- mittee s: Dressmakers’ Booth. The Dressmakers’ Union nounced a fashion show as its con- strug- | | has an-| Wedetoas for Defense. "Bazaar Will Assemble | for Final Instructions | | A meeting of all volunteers ap- | || pointed booth managers and cash- | jers for the Joint Defense Commit- | tee Bazaar will be held tonight at | Grand Central Palace, Lexington | and 46th St., at 7 o’clock iL Aves Coal pultine Machine That Cuts ees a shorter day to prevent unemploy ment. icture of the machinery that is changing mining from a trade to ights are waged about the introduc- of work. Militant unionists demand | US, GOVERNMENT IN HEARST MESS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Three of | the biggest capi newspapers in the United Stat the New York | Times, the New York World and the Chicago Tribune, became suddenly in- volved in the forgery scandals yester- ‘a constable’s s RENTON FORGED INTO BARRACKS Christmas Eve Date Set to Finish Sale PITTSBURGH, ‘Dee:.- 21. The Union Collieries conducted here today of the furniture ot Renton miners for back rent. The sale of the furniture of 81} families was completed and they now have to move into bare barracks cobs py the union. All Christmas Ev Guinteat eve is set as the date for finishing the sale of the furniture of the rest of the Renton miners Last week the wives of the miners wired an appeal to Governor Fisher to postpone the . The uselessness f these appeal ate or federal | officials Vice President Phillip Murr | of ary of labor Davis to halt the sales | {oy the Union Collicries Company. Murray stated that a represent: ive of the conciliation department of \the labor department had been sent | ,a¢e had also wired secre- | Striking Penn. Miners’ Furniture Sold to Pay Rent 81 FAMILIES IN Mining Scene in 1 Logan: County, | at Za: This once union territory was lost be e of the surrender tactics of the Lewis machine at the head of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica. Now the union is fighting with its back to the wall to save the rest argh the union a territory. POWERS INCITED | "ATTACK ON USSR. (Special to The | Daily Worker) | Toa acca of DAILY WORKER To i Talks on the fourth anniversary | MOSCOW; Dec. 21.—Charges that | jof t¢ founding of The DAILY |the impe t pow gated the >| WORKER, organ of the Workers ~ Chinese militar attacks on the} | (Cemmunist) Party, will be made ‘Soviet Union consulates in China ar | Jilliam F. Dunne and H. M. in an appeal issued by the | | , of The DAILY WORKE Be Subject of Talk | || On WORKERS MUST DEFY TYRANNY OF CLASS EDICT Needed in N. Y. iStrike J} Garment Shops me when the whole in the United States for the purpose of com- injunction evil,”—these M. E. Taft, man- G. W. U., rung 1 tones of king class de- | fi late yesterday afternoon be- !fore Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. T. Crane, in answer to the charge f having violated an injunction is- | sued inst his union. ore becomes nec y in the truggle of building the labor move- ment, to disregard unlawful and ar- hitrary injunctions, then there is but Jone course left: to refuse to abide by them.” With these concluding words, resounding throughout the hushed court room, in a voice charged | with the deepest emotion, the gray ‘haired veteran of a hundred working |class battles took up the challenge |to the life of the labor movement. Before Jury Again. the day before he had been |day afternoon in the hearing before | to confer with F. S. Love, president E j brought up before the same judge who tribution. Shops all over the city are | | Two or three representatives each : thax chi 4 xecutive Bureau of the Red Inter-| | ctaff, at a meeting of all section, | ; buzzing busily, turning out beautiful | | are to be sent from-workers’ clubs, | the senate committee Of four chargie| of the coal company and asked that| national of Labor Unions yesterday. | | sub-section and unit agents of the | |had issued the original temporary ‘re- styles that can be matched only in| | Trade Union Educational League | | with probing the eet ars ba e | sale be astral ny with ne results. | “The deliberate baiting of the| | paper tonight. The mee A order in a motion by the the expensive stores. An entire shop, s, women’s councils and sim- | | Hearst pup eaons that f lA ent| Secretary of La ee Matis COR | et Union ie iy ciiewal tHe hand || be hela’ Webster Hall, i ‘Association coun aa the W. S. G. Dress Shop, at 100 W. ; of the New Yor!: labor | Calles of Mexico had ordered the sum j ciliator as a gesture 0’ riendliness' |that is directing the actions of the | ith St, BE t 8 P. lee the order permanent. The mo- (Continued on Page Four) of $1,215,000 set aside to bribe four other United States senators. tion to be adjudged in contempt of the heels of the 2ist St., has been turned over to the | movement. se militarists,” the appeal says. ‘ourt followed on BEF workers to make garments which are to be sold almost at cost. The Downtown Workers’ Club has been given concessions for the man- agement of the restaurants.’ This or- ganization has been with the Joint Defense Committee since its incep- tion. It has managed the restaurants at all_pyevious defense ff s . Susy iggested Xmas ee Two rag nest fountain pen concerns will have booths displaying their wares. The jewelry booth will show about $12,000 worth ofpmerchandise con- sig+re-efimnarted and domestic jew- elry. The jewelry workers have prom- ised that anything they offer will be sold at 40 percent below store prices. | A watch and jewelry repair depart- ment also will be found at this booth. Bathrobes and slippers will fill two more booths at the bazaar. The children’s toy department will be very large and attractive. For their further plezsure, a children’s day has been arranged for Dec. 24. A concert for and by children, will be given on that afternoon, followed by | a tour of inspection of the children’s toyland. The doors of the Grand Central Palace will open daily at 1 p. m. Defense Funds Needed. A tourt referee recently found 18 leaders of the Cloakmakers’ Union guilty of contempt of court and rec- ommended that they be imprisoned | and the union fined $10,000. Money is needed for the defense of the union and these 18 workers, according to an appeal by the Defense Committee. “There is still another task before the progressive workers: to rebuild the Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ Unions and bring them back to their former strength,” the appeal said. . “The Bazaar is being organized to ‘\,aise enough funds to cover all these expenses and the Joint Defense Com- mittee therefore appeals to the work- erg to come to the Bazaar anc make their purchases there. Attend also ihe two Bazaar dances—the opening dance Friday night and the New All booth managers and cashiers | will meet also at Grand Central | | Palace at 10 a. m. tomorrow. All| registered workers not yet assign- ed to special work will report at 5 p. m. Friday to Zimmerman or the employment bureau at Grand Central Palace. The Bazaar will be held at Grand Central Palate irém F¥iday to New Year’s Eve. NY Building Workers ‘Want Ainaamation Charging that the Building Trades Council was not actively pursuing the program for a five day week and wage increases for the building trades workers and that it had failed utterly to begin the vital task of organizing the unorganized were made yesterday by Joseph M. Taylor, secretary of the Association of Progressive Build- jing Trades Workers, which has been | functioning for the improvement of {conditions in the building trades. Accuses Council. “The Building Trades Council,” Mr. | |Taylor pointed out, “has for its pri- mary purpose the task of gaining junited action in labor disputes and | ‘co-ordinating organizational policies. | But as every worker knows this coun- cil has failed completely to carry out its real duties. Instead, it is operat- ing not in the interests of the work- ers but rather as a sort of club be- tween the workers and the bosses, a weapon which the bosses wield in order to hold their employes in line.” In answer to the inquiries of The (Continued on Page Five) TENDER-HEARTED PILSUDSKI, a method of execution will be intro- duced in Poland to relieve the, army of the “painful duty of shooting crim- inals,” it was officially announced pee Oa taEA Fe Wes Eve peaaane ball, Dee. 31.” ‘Bloody Police Attack on al Meltzer Told in Court JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 21.—It was plainly proved in the trial here | \afraid to publish the documents for of Harold Meltzer, accused of shooting a scab in the taxi strike some months | |fear they would be proved to be ago, that the police framed up his identification by Henr, Allan Dodge the | gunman guarding the strikebreaker ® when he was shot. ° Meltzer was also beaten up by Lieut. Fullan of the Hoboken police, according to his testimony today. Guard Testifies. Spleig, a guard in the county jail, stated that a jail official named Am- bruster pointed out Meltzer to Dodge when he walked up and down the line of suspects. The judge himself called Spleig | back to the stand, later in the day, and by careful questioning, got him to change his testimony. The judge is one hundred per cent favorable to! the prosecution, The trial opened today with Meit- ver on the stand. He told how he was beaten up when arrested, Avril 27. on | “He said. ig Pollasman Mc-' inchs an ie hat off aa held it while Policeman Young knocked him unconscious with blows on the head. | When he recovered consciousness, he | was lying in front of the police sta- tion, drenched with blood, and another policeman was kicking him and say- ing, “Get up, you little Jew.” | Negro Good Witness. Julia Brown, a Negro registered nurse, was one of the best witnesses for the defense. She testified that she was on duty at the sick-bed of Lillian Meltzer’s baby. Meltzer’s alibi lis that he was sitting up with the ‘child with his divoreed sister, and this the nurse corroborated in every de- \tail. A vicious, hacking cross-exam- (Laptinued or Pave Fine) _@|ment df Mexico, WARSAW, Dec. 21. — Hanging as e “| Tribune correspondent, Seldes, to pub- State Department Involved. For the first time during the inves- tigation the American state depart- | ment was also involved and testimony was given before the committee hat the “American embassy had been very generously in the market” for forged documents that could be used in its ‘campwign ‘of insult; forgery und~pro- vocation against the Calles govern- in behalf of the American oil, land and mine thieves. Testimony Startling. The testimony involving the state | department and the three newspapers came with startling suddenness and took the committee by surprise. The witness was Robert H. Murray of 55 West 44th street, New York City, rep- resentative of the bank of Mexico. Murray testified that he had sued the New York Times for publishing a li- belous article against him charging him with trying to smuggle rare an- tiques out of Mexico into the United States. Involves Times Writer. The New York Times sent one of its Mexican writers, one Joseph De, Courey, to endeavor to get incriminat- | ; ing documents against Murssy to be | used in court against him when the libel case tame to trial. Murray teas tified that he learned that the Times | had paid De Courcey the sum of $500 | to purchase incriminating documents. The notorious Miguel Avila, Hearst’s principal agent in the series of forged and faked documents being run in the Hearst chain of papers, ap- proached George Seldes of the Chi- cago Tribune and offered to sell him documents purporting to show a gov- ernment order directing that the sum of $1,000 a month be paid to Murray, Dr. Ernest Geuening and “a third man by the name of Butcher,” for propa- ganda against the United States. De Courcey Faked Document. Murray learned of this offer and interviewed Avila, who told him that De Courcey forged a document, “made | it up, fabricated it himself,” accord- ing to-Murray’s testimony. The ob- jective was to induce the Chicago \lish them in the Tribune so that j copies of the paper could be used by |the New York Times in defending its libel suit against Murray. Later on, according to Murray, De |Courcey’ “got cold feet” and was spurious. Involve World Correspondent. Involved also in the business of jpeddling forged documents around |Mexico was a representative of the New York World, one Arthur Con- stantine. Murray testified that a féw days after his latest arrival in Mexico he was given a document pur- porting to be a letter from President | (Continued on Page Two) Must See Prince! When Isabella Rittenhouse, thirty- six, of Whitestone, L. I., said she came to England to see the handsome Prince of Wales, intmigration officers re- fused to admit her. She threatens to take the matter up with the state department in Wash- ington, | GRECO- CARRILLO TRIAL NEAR END Clarenée Dart wii! this’ morning make the closing speech for the de- fense of Calogero Greco and Donato | Carrillo now on trial on a framed-up charge of murder in Bronx County court. Darrow is expected to con-| sume two and one-half hours in his talk to the jury which will determine whether the attempt of the Fascist League of North America to railroad the two clothing workers to the elec- tric chair shall be successful or not. The case is expected to go to the} jury tonight after the summation by the prosecutor and the judge’s charge. The defense rested its case yester- day. Asst. District Attorney Albert H. Henderson then proceeded to call rebuttal witnesses in an eleventh-hour attempt to break down the testimony which the defense had produced in support of the alibi for the two Ital- ian clothing workers. Several witnesses were called by | | Henderson. One of them, Joseph Cas- uvolo, a fascist, testified ‘that he “saw Carrillo in front of the Church of All Nations on Broadway between 10th and 11th Sts. on the night of May 28.” An anti-fascisti meeting was being held there on that night, the witness said. He said that he overheard Car- rillo say at that time, “the Fascisti shall not march Monday.” Nothing Else “Remembered.” Casuvolo was a pitiful figure under the cross-examination of Clarence Darrow! “Did you see anybody else besides Carrillo at that time?” Darrow asked. “No, I did not.” “Did you hear any other talk in front of the church?” Darrow contin- ued. The witness said he had not. “Don’t you know,” Darrow hurled at the witness, “that the Church of All Nations is located on 2nd Ave., near Ist St.?” The witness answered, sure.” Defense Unbroken. All the witnesses called by the prosecution yesterday afternoon were questioned in an effort to discredit the testimony of Ciavoma Caldora, who was a witness for the defense. Caldora, a fascist, president of the Fascist Alliance Ul Duce, testified he was near the 183d St. “L” station at | the time the two blackshirts were killed. While on the stand he declared that he had resigned from! the Fascist League of North American because j}of its “criminal” activities. The prosecution witnesses yester- day did not attempt to challenge: the defense alibis of Greco and Carrillo. Attorneys Clash. When Hays smiled conspicuously at the obviously contradictory testimony of Joseph Casubulo, a fascist. Samuel Foley, who is assisting Henderson, jumped to his feet and charged that Hays was “putting on a demonstra- tion.” Hays retorted that he always smiled when something pleased him. r did the rapacious nature of |world Serperlatian manifest itself in| |such terrible nakedness as in the re- jcent events in China.” The manifesto urges workers of all | countries to support the Chinese | workers and peasants in their ea |gle against world imperialism. { . ® SHANGHAI, Dec. 21.—More than a| hundred persons suspected of being | Communists are being executed daily ey | o other: “What have you to say?” inquired he thin faced, time worn product of the judicial mill, “that I should not punish you for this violation of con- | stituted authority?” In reply Taft arose composedly AN sections of the New York la-|from his chair and addressing hie+—— bor movement were represented at|Self not so much to the court as to the mass meeting at Cooper Union| the people in attendance and to the st night when members of the rank | millions of workers who would hear and file American trade union dele-| and read his words, read a prepared NY WORKERS HEAR USSR DELEGATES: “T am not jin the reign of terror in Canton. Fear-| eation to Russian reported on condi- ing that the Workers’ Red Guards, | tions in the Workers’ and Peasants who escaped from Canton may at- | Republic. |tempt to retake the city, Canton au- | thorities are ruthlessly carrying on} included Speakers wholesale executions, which now total | poe (eg pe ES oy oe ‘pag wall'abowe. two thousand. vn; Edward omese, United _Mine Te hae ts definitely Te d th: 1 |W orkers of Nanticoke, Pa.; William | cetera epee Aepomarane ‘at | G. Hearing, Moulders’ Union of Stam- |the Soviet Vice Consul Hassisi was | ord, Conn.; Ben Thomas, Machinists’ |shot down in the attack on the Soviet | Union jot Philadelphia; EP Gash Vnion consulate in Canton. 4 num-| Amalgamated Association of Iron, ber o: sular attaches are also be- | :p; S r i 7 Tin and St rs s eved tochave bean Villed. in and Steel Workers of Pittsburgh, A party of Soviet Union officials will leave this city tomorrow, headed | by Koslovsky, U. S. eral here. Dunn, members of the First Labor Delegation to Russia and Henry T. . S. R. Consul Gen-| Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati, | chairman. | Other members of the delegation | remained in the Soviet Union to con- j tinue their investigations. They will _| return in the near future, according to Moscow reports. A large crowd received the addres jes enthusiastically. | The speakers told of conditions of | ute which the workers of Russia have A new injunction of the most se-} vere and drastic nature was yesterday created for themselves on the farms and in the factories. handed down by Supreme Court Jus- tice Thomas C. T. Crain, sitting in (A comprehensive report of the meeting will be published in the Special Sessions, Part 1, against the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, Local 1.| DAILY WORKER tomorrow.) The order is a culmination of the Tat ee aa Exchange Bakery case in which a temporary injunction was handed down last spring. In the present in- stance, making the order permanent, the union is restrained from all pick- eting, appearing in the vicinity of the restaurant affected, speaking to or accosting the employes of the firm, and in any way conducting itself as if there were a strike at the place. Decides No Strike. The decision of Justice Crain was |based on the question if there is at | the moment any strike in effect at the Exchange Bakery. In the argu- ment of counsels to establish this point, the judge took a hand by ask- ing the following question: “Are any prof the present employes of the firm BIGGER FORTS WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 21— tary “protection” by ak Governors Island and establishing the army post on a more elaborate elsewhere, were made by Representa- tive MacGregor in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of New York. Commenting on the Greco-Carrillo trial which is now in progress/at the Bronx County Court, the Internation- members of the union?” When it was |al Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., the established that only scabs were now | first national organization to come to employed, the judge immediately ren-/the aid of the two indicted Italians, | dered his decision stating that inas-/ made the followin statement. much as the workers employed were | statement sd by James none of them members of the union, | Cannon, nz there could be no strike and inasmuch} “Eyents in the G as there is no strike there could be | during the past ten days have proved The Ps no picketing. By this course cf rea- | conclusively that the case against soning, the judge arrived at one of | these two workers is a conspiracy of | the most brazen character. This the most drastic injunction orders yet handed down in the city. conspiracy has been completely ex- Precedent Ignored. | posed in court. In an earlier decision on this case,} “All the evidence adduced by the the Appellate Division has held that lade fense has shown that there was not the declaration ot the union was the | the slightest foundation for a prose- evidence of the existence of a strike, |cution case, and our contention that further stating that “picketing with-|there was a frame-up is thoroughly out a strike is just as Jegal as alestablished by the facts brought Sut strike without picketing.” This de-|in the court so far. cision was completely upset by Jus-| “The whole miserable affair is tice Crfin. clearly a barefaced attempt on the f > William Mac- | members of delegation; Robert W. | Recommendation for improving mili-| ndoning | No trial | Mass. challenge to the bosses and their rep- | resentatives on the bench, in the fac- | tories and in the government. Judge Is Startled. At the conclusion, the judge mani- festly startled by the ringing chal- lenge, scught ineffectively for some means as if to ward off the still re sonant call. Then regaining his com- posure, he declared: “After consid- ering the evidence, if I find that you have, flaunted that respect for con- stituted authority which is the foun- ation stone of our government, then uredly I shall punish you for your | deeds.” Attorney Berger, appearing for the employers endeavored to read into the records quotations from a leaflet is- sued by the Workers (Communist) Party calling upon the labor move- |ment to defy and disregard injune- tion orders. After objections by Jo- seph R. Brodsky, attorney for Taft, the judge decided for the time being not to consider the leaflet relevant to the issue, Contempt Ruling Expected. Justice Crane in reserving decision made such a manifestly strong in- dictment of violations of “constituted | authority,” that his words are being interpreted that Taft will be punished for contempt of court. Taft’s statement in full follows: “IT am charged here with violati n injunction of this court in that igned and caused to be distributed “| certain leaflets calling upon my fellow | workers in the tucking, pleating and | (Continued on Page Two) “Brazen Conspiracy,” Says LL.D. of Two Italians’ Trial part of the district attorney's office, in conjunction with the criminal labor- baiting Fascist League of North America, to eat the Saceo-Van- zetti case in w York. “Mr. McGeehan ‘and his assistants, Henderson and Foley, in New York, no less culpable than was Mr. man, the prosecutor in Dedham, Mr. McGeehan boasted last month that he would have Greco and Carrillo in the ‘death house at Sing Sing before Christmas, as quoted in | tie New York Telegram of November }15. This boast clearly proves that | the prosecution had every intention to railroad these two workers if it {were possible. “The fact that a number of work- jers’ organizations banded themselves together, provided competent attor- neys and dragged the infamous frame- up into the light of day, shows that the lessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti re case have not been forgotten,” — N