The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF ‘THE UNORGANIZED | gor THE 40-10UR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 294. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by msail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. KEutered as second-cinsa uintter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of “March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927 Published PUBLISHE FINAL CITY | EDITION | Price 3 Cents daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER NG CO. 39 First Street, New York, N. ¥ BRITISH PRESS CRIES FOR WORKERS BLOOD IN CHINA RUSSIA ON WAY TO SOCIALISM; REPORT OF RANK AND FILE LABOR Delegates Praise Labor | Conditions in USSR Designated as “Ambassadors of the American Working Class with full powers to the Russian Proletariat,” members of the second Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union, re- turned and presented on Wednesday evening to a packed audience at Cooper Union, a picture of economie and cul- tural development in the first Work- ers Republic such as literally brought their listeners to their feet with en- thusiasm. “We went over there with an open mind, some of us prepared to find the many evils which we had been led by the capitalist press to believe existed there,” was the substance of their troductory remarks, “but we can that if what we have seen were known by the workers of America it wouldn’t be long before we had a Soviet Republic in America.” E-Mayor Chairman. Henry T. Hunt, attorney and for- mer mayor of cinnati, was the chairman of the meeting and in in- troducing the first speaker he de- elared that even when he was him- self in Russia over two years earlier, the experience of witnessing the great rise of a new civilization was the most “exhilirating” adven- ture in his life. Wm. G. Hearing, a member of the Moulders Union of Stamford, Conn., was introduced as the first speaker. Hearing, typical American represen- tative of the -working class, began’ his talk with a matter of fact recital of practical movements being under- taken by the Soviet authorities to (Continued on Page Two) Clerks’ Union Again Defeats Right Wing The right wing in the United He- brew Trades met another setback yes- terday in its efforts to break the Re- tail Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union. The United Hebrew Trades, repeat- ing its unsuccessful attempt of a week ago, yesterday sought to obtain another injunction against the lead- ers of the clerks’ union. As before, Justice Mitchell May, in Brooklyn Supreme Court. denied the application, holding as irrelevant an unproved charge tHat the union show- ed Communistic tendencies. He held that the union had the right to or- ganize and seek to increase its num- bers. Right Wing and Bosses. Officers of the union pointed to the fact that the attorney for the right wing, Louis Marcus, was at the same time attorney for the Employ- ers’ Association in the industry. The union has renewed its strike against the Bickhoff shop. 718 Sara- toga St., Brooklyn. Announcement was also made that active plans are under way to take back into the union rmembers of Brooklyn who have been \ fowwed by the methods of the United Hebyew Trades to leave the organi- Tao. ‘These members, it was said, are attxious to return to the union. Children Relief Scouts \for Miners Are Formed The Childrens’ Provisional Commit- tee for Miners’ Relief, 186 E. 24th St., is organizing Miners’ Relief Scouts to assist in the work, it was announced yesterday. Three meetings to organize scouts of the children of furriers and cloak- makers will be held during the next three days. A meeting in the Bronx will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave., at 7 p. m. Coney Island children will meet tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. at 2901 Mermaid Ave. A Brownsville meeting wili be held Sun- day at 10 a. m. at 606 Sutter Ave, ea On account of the holiday { of December 25, The DAILY ! WORKER will not publish an edition for Monday, Decem- | \ber 26. On:account of the holiday of January 1, The DAILY: WORKER will a’so noi pub- lish an issue for January 2, ‘Greco-Carr DARROW LINKS “DISTRICT ATTY. Verdict in ‘Frame-up Is | Expected Today In their closing arguments to ,the jury yesterday Clarence Darrow and ey in which the district attorney's of- fice was implicated with the Fascist League of North America. Darrow and Hays, of counsel for |Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, based their arguments on the proposi- tion that the case in which these two New York clothing’ workers are \charged with murder is a “conspir- jacy” and an “outrage.” “I can’t understand how the district attorney’s office allowed itself to be- |come a party to such a conspiracy,” | Darrow said at one point in his two- | hour argument to the jury before | Judge Cohn in the Bronx County Court. | Death Demanded. | In°* contrast to Darrow’s appeal that the two anti-fascist workers be restored to their families and friends Jerson, assistant district attorney. H demanded their death in the electric \chair at Sing Sing prison. Hender- |son’s closing argument for the prose- cution called attention to the war record in the United States army of | Joseph Carisi, one of the two fascists whom Greco and Carrillo are charged |with killing last Decoration Day. “Do your duty as American citi- zens,” Henderson shouted to the 12 | jurors. Henderson also stressed the’ fact that Carisi when killed was on his way to join other fascists in a Deco- ration Day parade. attempting to “justify” the murder. ito his feet to object. Henderson in |his accusation had referred to Dar- {row’s previous verbal, sketch of the background of the campaign of vio- lence which the fascists of New York as human beings,” Darrow said, Warns Against Darrow. “Don’t allow yourselves to be be- guiled by the magic words and per- sonality of my famous opponent,” Henderson told the jury. The second fascist killed in the case in question was Nicholas Amor- roso. Greco and Carrillo have been in jail since their arrest July 11. Darrow in his argument devoted almost as much time to admissions and inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses as he did to amplifying the case of the de- fense. f tions in the state’s case would alone be a sufficient defense,” Darrow said. Identification “Worthless.” He described the so-called identifi- vation of Greco and Carrillo as “worthless.” The only two witnesses who were really witnesses for the state, he said, were Alexander Rocco, secretary and organizer of the Bronx fascist or- ganization, and Luigi Alfano. Both contradicted each other and them- selves on many points, Darrow said. He pointed out that Carrillo had been nowhere identified even vaguely. “And as for Greco,” he continued, “Alfano sitting in the witness chair positively refused to identify him. Can’t Kill “For This.” “All that Rocco said of Carrillo was that he got a fleeting glimpse of him running away from the crime scene,” Darrow said at another point. “Even an anti-fascist can’t be electrocuted for this. “The district attorney’s office in (Continued on Page Five) Baldwin Will Appeal Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union re- turned from Europe yesterday to make an appeal to the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals for the reversal of the six month sentence imposed upon him for his part. in the | the Paterson Textile strike two years z0. When the hall hived by. the strikers as clo to them by the police, | Baldwin a jers from the steps of the City Hall buiiding as a free speech and assem-, Jblage test. was the demand by Albert F. Hen-| lvessed the striking work- | WITH FASCISTI Arthur Garfield Hays characterized ; the Greco-Carrillo case as a conspira- | | | | } | unfinished, illo Attorneys Expose Fram aS e-Up in Closing Arguments } | } | ‘the Courts always operate against the workers. picture of Mrs. Vita Greco, mothe with Donato Carrillo, have been “framed” by the fascisti. Fascist Victim’s Mother Pleads to See Him Above is the r of Calogero Greco who, together Mrs. Greco, who is pictured together with Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, attorneys for Greco and Carrillo, pleaded with Judge Cohn to be allowed to v it with her son. EVICTION KILLS WIFE OF MINER (Special to The Daily Worker) By AMY SCHECHTER. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 22.—Kate Lebreski, wite of Joe Lebreski, a striking miner, died in the Harmar- ville barracks at 4:30 today. Last Thursday, Kate Lebreski, al- ready sick, was evicted from the com- pany house together with the rest of her family. She was taken to the | laid there in the bitter cold till other i | ( have been carrying on against the | New York workers of Italian descent. | “I was merely addressing the jury) | | “These admissions and contradic-; strikers managed to get hold of a stove the next day. Pneumonia developed. It was im- possible to move her from the rough shelter. She grew worse rapidly and Henderson also accused Darrow of | today dhe died. The miners feel that the coal com- Darrow on hearing this charge leaped | pany has murdered Kate Lebreski and feel her death as a climax to the savage persecution which the coal company has been carrying on against its locked-out miners for the past nine months. . * Money for Relief. Over two hundred dollars was col- lected for the benefit of the sttiking Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado miners at the recent DAILY WORK- ER-Freiheit Bali, according to an announcement by the Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, New York. Suivey Commission Hits N.Y, Labor Laws . What is announced as a wholesale investigation of the New York State Labor Department, but what appar- ently is only an attack on the few labpr laws protecting the worker's in the state, has been launched by the Industrial Survey Commission, a body organized for the purpose of inves- tigating industrial conditions, in the state. Announcement has been made by Henry D. Sayre, executive secretary of the commission, that the whole administration of the labor depart- ment may become the subject of in- quiry in view of the current revela- tions of alleged irregularities in the handling of compensation cases. Charges False Claims. Sayre charges that the commission has uncovered a store of evidence of false claims and deceptive data on the part of claimants for compensation. Certain attorneys acting as advisers to these claimants may be prosecuted, it was announced. Independent investigations reveal a somewhat different picture. The In- dustrial Survey Commission was a body formed, by the Albany senate and assembly ‘about two years ago for the purpose of investigating indus- trial conditions and making recom- mendations to the legislature. Insurance Trust Propaganda, The reports of the commission and the records of its hearings reveal that from the very first it had become a propaganda organization for the in- surance interests which have to do with the payment of compensation in- surance to injured workers. Its data, according to its own ad- missions, are based on the findings of * Sg National Cqnference Board, the (Continued on Page Five) ( . unheated barracks. and | “DRINK WATER” IS MINE BOSS’ CURE (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., Dec. 22.—“If you don’t like to work in water, drink it? This is the polite way a miner at the Sterling mine was answered by a foreman when he complained about several feet of water in the mine, he testified before the Industrial Commission this morning at the con- tinuation of the hearing, mine is merely a sample of what ex- ists in all Colorado mines, with min- ing regulations violated, bad air and intimidation. Safety Regulations Violated. The best evidence introduced this morning was when the mine inspec- tor’s report on the Sterling mine was brought in, showing a long list of complaints carried from one in- spection to another, proving the wit- nesses’ story that regulations were not obeyed by the mine owners. This was introduced by the operators but proved a boomerang, showing clearly the justice of the men’s grievances. A mass meeting will be held at Longmont Friday night at the same hall where militiamen broke up the meeting last Thursday, arresting Frank Palmer. Unusual interest is being shown and a group of students | will speak in protest of the action of the militia at the previous meet- ‘ing. Also A. P..R. Drucker, formerly jhead of the business administration |department at Colorado College and now teaching at Commonwealth Col- lege, will speak. Dr. Drucker is on (Continued on Page Two) Hundreds of Library Workers May Lose Jobs A new device for stamping cards of persons taking out books from the public library, has been installed at the 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. branch. This will involve the release of hun- dreds of trained workers. Although officials state that the librarians will be used to aid users of the library, it is generally believed that if the machine proves success- ful, hundreds of workers will be dis- missed. RELATIVES ON PAYROLL. Charges that Register James A. MeQuade’ of Brooklyn had carried relatives on his payroll were repeated | by Dr. William H. Allen, director of the Institute of Public Service, at a public hearing before Deputy Control- ler Frank J, Prail, Allen contended that an investigation would substan- tiate his charges. The testimony about the’ Sterling | RIGHT WINGERS | MOVE TO WRECK BAZAAR IS HiT Here Tonight ar On the eve of the gigantic baz which the Joint Defense and Relief Committee has anged for to night at the Central Pal- orkers who are still languishing behind iron bars and se enough funds to bring back the unions to their former strength, the union betrayers are working hard to put in jail 18 of the foremost lead- ers of the rank and file. “Each time the Joint Defense has arranged an affair for the purpose of raising funds,” says Ludwig Landy, manager of the commiftee, “the pro- vocateurs, with Sigman, McGrady and Co. at their head, have schemed to make the Joint Defense spend the money on court proceedings and thus |prevent them from carrying on 2 |struggle to save the unions from de- struction. Fight is Planned. “But this time it is the final act of the treacherous drama which these betrayers have been playing for the past year. During the entire time of the struggle they have tried desper- ately to send to prison the leaders of the rank and file of the Cloakmakers’ and Furriers’ Unions. They have not succeeded in this yet, nor will they succeed. This time, as in every pre- vious case, the Joint Defense and Re-, lief Committee will appeal the cases and fight for freeing the leaders. “Already the néwspapers Speak of’ a $10,000 fine which may: be imposed. If such an outrageous fine is im- posed the answer of the workers will be to raise $10,000 in a single day! In the event they should succeed in sending to prison the best and most loyal fighters for the workers it will by no means end the struggle. It will only mean more and harder Sac- rifices on the part of those of us who are still free. “The year’s strugyic nas coined many ardent and stubborn fighters. If there were any workers who were in doubt about the treachery of the leadership of Sigman and his clique, the past year has convinced them ihat he and all the rest of his kind are the most dangerous enemies of (Continued on Page Five) Elmer Gantry to Be Dramatized Soon The dramatization of “Elmer Gan- try,” Sinclair Lewis’ novel which ex- poses the hypocrisy of ministers who capitalize the remnants of medieval superstition fostered by the church for personal ends, will be completed by Patrick Kearney within six weeks. Bayard Veiller, who was making a play of thé same novel, destroyed his manuscript at the time of the recent censorship agitation, to avoid “further attack upon the stage.” NIGHT WATCHMAN KILLED. | William Thompson, 60 years old, of 117 Park Ave., Brooklyn, night watch, | man for the Van Iderstyne Corpora- | tion, Borden Ave., Long Island City, | Queens, was struck and killed by a} Long Island railroad train on the | Penny Bridge over Newtown Creek | between Hunters Point, Long Island | City, and the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn early yesterday. He was on his way home. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22.— The navy department has ordered twenty amphibian planes, which will cost $503,003, as a follow-up to Cool- idge’s demand for a better war ma- chine and Lindbergh’s “good-will” flight. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. — The special senate committee investigat- ing the Mexican documents published in the Hearst newspapers held a sec- ret session today. Two persons were called before the committee. Their names were not dis- closed, and the committee refused to divulge what happened at the meet- ing. Four members were present, Sen- ators Johnson, Jones, Robinson and Too Hot! Senate Conducts | |taining the i Secret Session on Hearst | Bruce. Senator Reed (R.) of Penn-| sylvania, chairman, is out of the city. | The committee will hold its next open session on December 27. * * . Mexican Exposes Hearst. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 19.—William | Randolph Hearst is to branded a war-} monger, a debauchee, a swiller of champaigne and a companion of dis- solute <lgments in a series of articles (C¥ntinued on Page Four) Harold Meltzer ms) ‘SUPPRESS TRADE UNIONS, MURDER NY IN HANKOW Workers Protest Terror in Wuan Cities *) i) A MOSCOW, That Great raids on the isulates in China is 2 made by Izvestia, official ment orgdh. The British cireu- on in Shanghai demand- of U. 8.15. ae the paper charges. editorial recalls the viet Union legation in ng and the previous attack on the et Union consulate in Shanghai. Dec. the a pet the wit on th * * ‘NOT GUILTY’ IS (Special to The Daily Worker) MELTZE VE | SHANGHAI, Dec. 22—The British |press in Shanghai is continuing its |campaign against thé Soviet Union consular officials and is blaming the JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. _|Nanking government for not adopt- A verdict of “not guilty” in ase |ing “immediate energetic measures” of Herbert Meltzer, 18, on trial for| against the Soviet organizations. the murdér of a taxi scab was brot | Reports ai: - in at 6 o’clock tonight. «The jury was | ctate out for seven hours. Rs * (Special to The Daily Worker) rts from Japanese that General Chang Fak-wei (reactionary general driven out of _ The youth was charged with kill-| Canton by the workers and peasants ing George E kebreaker, | and now back in power) who arrived during the taxi drivers’ strike in West | at Hongkong told the Japanese consul New York last April. that more than 20 citizens of the Meltzer was not released this eve-|Soviet Union have been arrested. ning being held on two assault |Eight of them, including the U. S. S. charges. One accuses him of) shoot-|R. Vice Consul, have been shot, he ing Henry, Allan Dodge, Ewans guard | said, at the time of the marder. The other Loot Consulate. is in relation to. the shooting of ite i Charles Jacobson, another strike- Boy keer ee ye ke at, breaker who was wounded one week | “no, 2'tived here stated that on. De- after Dodge's murder. Meltzer was|jmect 18 representatives of the [ fe , : 2 takon into custody at the time that 7 oneassionst aan isulate, accompanied by two thous- soldiers. While negotiations were going on with reference to the note handed to the U.S.S.R. by the Hankow authorities hundreds of soldiers entered the consulate and arted to loot the premises. Members of the staff were given ifteen minutes ta get ready, Plitche | , and were then led to the office Z f |of the Commissioner of Foreign Af- Was Framed-up. fairs, and in the evening sent on That he was then placed in a line-| board a Chinese steamer to Shanghai up in the Hudson County Jail with) under very trying conditions. about 20 other men, Henry Allan ‘ Dodge, guard on the taxi when the strikebreaker was killed, being as- sisted his identification by a jail material confirming the state- official named Ambruster. This was| ment of Chinese authorities concern- admitted on the stand by Herman|ing “Communist activities” of the Spleig, prison guard. consulate, The youth presented an alibi that} Most of the staff of the Shanghai proved that at the time of the mur-| consulate and the personnel of the der he was at his home at Long) Hankow consulate has left for Vla- Beach, due to the illness of his neice. | ¢ tok by way of Japan. “Gun Expert.” | (oe During the trial it was brot out | that Dodge, principal state witness} SHANGHAI, Dec. 22.—Trade un- is an escaped inmate from a lunatic ions were virtually suppressed in asylum at Maricn, Ia. Another wit-|Hankow today when General Hu ness for the prosecution was Major | Tsung-tu, garrison commander, closed Calvin Goddard, “gun expert: appeared against Sacco and Var during their trial in Massachuset Jacobson was shot. After being charged by aaa ze Kin- kead, the jury retired at 11.15 a. m.| to deliberate on a verdict. At 4 p. m. they ate lunch and then returned to the jury room. During the trial it was brot out that Meltzer viciously beaten when he was arrested one week after the death of the scab. No Evidence. As nh of the premises produced no * * es and shops whose em- » affiliated with labor of- and executed a number ders on the charge that they 5 is were “Communists.” Hemstit Hu declared that the unions en- | eis | dangered business and threatened to take decisive action. . . . e is widespread unrest among Continue Picketine elements here as the result of 4 the execution and the closing of the union factories. A series of strikes to pri against the new attack on the unions is regarded as “Picketing is going on in ful] force and injunctions will not stop us,” de- clared M. E. Taft, manager of the ‘Tuckers’, Pleaters’ and He Union, Local 41, of the I have been arrested Ladies’ Garment Wo: * bd terday. Taft openly d is BERLIN, Dee. 22.—The German ment Wednesday when he told Su-| Government has been asked by the viet Union to represent its inter- territory preme Court Justice Crain that the American labor movement must take a stand against the growing menace of anti-union inj Condemning President Morris S the ‘ in occupied by the nent in view of the f U.S.S.R. consular offi- South China, The Ger- ment has consented, it is y stated. rom n Gover ing ob- | autho: sociatic n tion by furnishing them with , in ord to re- i ther with tdi in oer tani | (Committee Members Are with those of his cho Taft point-| | Urg.d to Report Today _ For Needle Trades Fair | All cashiers, floor managers and salesmen for the Joint Defense | Committee Bazaar must be at | | Grand Central Palace at 10 a. m. | ae the comraittee’ announces. All | ed out that the only, way to answer the injunction evil which is threaten- ing to strangle the life of the labor movement in America, was by openly violating such injunctions. “Tf all labor union offi to come into court and openly defy the injunctions, while at the same} time organizing the workers to vio- late them on the picket lines, this weapon of the bosses’ courts would soon prove useless/” Taft added. a other committee members. will be | at they ball at 5 p. m. . cay oma & » a }