The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 1

j ! NQcres that the right wing clique :@r union is responsible for this THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | THE DAILY W' Hatered an second-class inutier ut the Vust Offiee at New York, N, ¥., under the act of NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 296. CHARGE BRITAIN — SUPPORTS SOUTH CHINA GENERALS: Protest Against Canton | Massacres Growing (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Dec. 26.—That Great | Britain has actually placed taree | million pounds stering at the disposai of a number of reactionary geuerais in southern China is the charge maue in an editorial appearing in the Pravda, The text or the rravda edi- torial follows in full: “Great Britain is the most bitter enemy of the Chinese toilers, and within these last tew days she has increased her supplementary creaits for intervention in China and has ac- tually placed three million sterling at the command of the South Cainese Generals. “kverybody in China sees that} Chiang Kai-shek and his associates are Chamberlain’s lackeys. With the U. S. S. R. having no aggressive im- perialistic designs in China, the Nank- ing rulers break off reiations, while they fraternize with the imperialists. The representatives of the only coun- try which realized the principle of equal rights with China are murdered by Nanking scoundrels while the lat- ter sell themselves wholesale and re- tail to the worst enemies of China’s independence. * Workers Will Struggle. “By the infamous murders of our comrades ‘it is impossible to destroy or shake the great authority of the U. S. S. R. in the eyes of the Chinese people. A break with the U.S. S. R. will make this authority still more powerful. The hatred of the workers and peasants against the masters i Chiang Kai-shek will grow. The fighting spirit of the Chinese Com- munist Party will be hardened, the great historical initiative of the Can- tonese workers will not. be lost. “Soviet Canton, torn to pieces by blood thirsty henchmen, will rise again. All further struggle of the Chinese workers and peasant masses will proceed under the slogan ‘So- viets!’ Struggle will not cease until the fundamental problems of the Chi- nese Revolution are sowed by the workers. A powerful tide of protest is rising throughout the toiling masses of the U.S. S. R., and the U.S. S. R., undoubtédly will be supported by the international proletariat.” Protest Growing. Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Ver- khneudinsk, Kazan, and numerous other cities have held mass meetings to protest against the white terror in Canton. Voicing the readiness to de- fend a peaceful policy the resolutions were adopted at these meetings with a call to strengthen the ties with the revolutionary workers and peasants of China and render them every moral support. Chicago Cap Bosses Rumor Strike End CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 26.—That the Chicago cap manufacturers are re- gretting the step they took by lock- ing out the capmakers of Chicago al- most 4 weeks ago, is verified by con- tinued rumors of an impending set- tlement with the union. Upon enter- ing the 4th week of the strike the workers find their spirit and deter- mination to win more intensified than ever. The recent statement made by Per- sy Greenberg, the representative of he employers, that he doesn’t want ,e progressive leadership of the on to get the credit for a victor- settlement, proves the belief of statement of the bosses. Saare Railway | Strike BERLIN (By Mail).—The strike of nine thousand railway workers in the Saare Basin is being continued. Tex- tile workers in the Saare region have won a wage increase, Chi Booze Kills 3 CHCAGO, Dec. 26.—Three dead, 14 in hospitals and more than 150 locked up in police stations was the toll to- day of Christmas liquor in Chicago. KEY WEST-CUBA SERVICE A regular passenger service be- tween Key West and Cuba, which will cut travel time to 1 hour and 10 minutes, a reduction of about seven hours, according to an announcement made by the Pan American Airway yesterday. Air mail service has been effective for the past two months. | YELLOW CAB HEAD DEAD SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, ty mall, 85.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, 86.00 per year, Coal Barons Starving 250,000 for O Police Thugs Missed S-4 Death Bee ke A Roger Braley, 21, Newport, R. I. discharged from S-4 two days before trip started. WILBUR WILLING TO HAVE WRECKS BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 26. — As- serting that “it is the first duty of a submarine crew to watch for sur- face craft,” and that “surface craft were not warned that a submarine was near because the military effi- ciency of a submarine requires that it find surface craft itself,” Secre- tary of the Navy Wilbur washed his hands of the responsibility for the |death of the forty men in the §S-4 crew. Wilbur, while on his way back from an inspection of diving operations which are expected to put three chains under the sub and raise her some time this winter, enunciated the savage theory that hereafter subs and surface craft can collide if they don’t watch out, so far as the bureau- eracy safe in padded chairs in the Navy Department is concerned. Forty coffins wait for the S-4 when she shall be floated at last to Charlestown navy yard. It is rather expected that some divers will be lost in the salvaging operations. (Special to The Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, Dec. 26—Rumors that a settlement has been reached be- tween the local transit companies— Insull interests—and the Amalgama- ted Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employes have been de- nied by Alderman Oscar Nelson, se- lected to represent the union in the arbitration proceedings. Nelson has stated that “we are as far from a settlement as ever.” Hearings will be resumed tomor- row. The traction workers. are in- censed at the long drawn out pro- ceedings. Their demands include a 15 cent an hour wage increase, sick benefit at $20.00 a week and a life insurance of $1,000 per man at the expense of the company. Progressives See Scheming. The progressive traction workers suspect two main reasons for the present delay. First, to make sure that the holiday rush be safely passed (Coatinued on Page Two) Quake in Italy ROME, Dec. 26.—A_ five-minute earthquake shock was felt in Rome this afternoon at 4:05 o’clock. No casualties were reported. JAILED, STARVES TO DEATH. SALISBURY, Md. Dec. 26.—Wil- liam M. Cooper was dead here today as result of a three weeks hunger strike. Since his indictment on charges of embezzling $29,000 from a building and loan association, which he founded, Cooper had refused food. By ROBERT MITCHELL. The past week may well be named Injunction Week in the local labor movement. No less than a half dozen restraining orders have been made effective within the past five days. The hero of this injunction-mad per- iod is Justice Thomas C. T. Crain, sitting in Part I, special term, su- preme court. Justice Crain will probably become “famous.” Not be- cause of any special accomplishment on his part, however, but because he has been fortunate enough to have been defied by M. E, Taft, manager - CHICAGO, IIl., Dec. 26,—Charles W. Gray was thrown from his horse in Jackson Park and immediately kil- led. He was president of the Yellow Cab Company. a of the Hemstitchers’ Local 41. * * * Signs of Growing Militancy. Of perhaps even greater importance than the injunction issue is the evi- ferch &, L8TD Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O, 3? Firat Street, New RIOT GUNS IN POSITION BEFORE STRIKERS YIELD Excuse Used (Special to The Daily Worker.) TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 26.—Police, deputies and gunmen: sworn in as “peace officers” raided the I. W. W. hall here early this morning. 64 striking miners and I. W. W. strike organizers are held in the Las Animas county jail, many of them badly beat- en and otherwise injured. A Flimsy Pretext. Seeking an excuse for interfering with the use of the I. W. W. hall as | sleeping quarters for strikers, Chief of Foudy, with a number of officers, or- dered strikers out of the hall on the flimsy pretext of “unsanitary condi- tions.” Gunmen Surround Hall. The miners refused to leave and a fight took place. The authorities called in a squad of deputised gunmen and all regular po- lice officials. The hall was surround- ed and rifles and riot-guns trained on it. A fire engine was brought to flood the hall. The strikers then agreed to submit to arrest. Raid Follows Disclosures. | The raid takes place just a few which the strike committee has made some startling disclosures relative to intolerable working conditions in the mines and the huge profits of the coal companies. Say C. F. and I. Ordered Raid. This county is dominated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and (Continued on Page Two) RIGHT WINGERS HAVE 4 JAILED DONORA, Pa. Dec. 26.—Four workers were arrested in the town of Donora on the 16th of December and charged with “sedivion.” Some members of the Croatian Fraternal Union were angry over the winning of the elections by the left wing of the lodge, they tele- phoned to the police that these work- ers were a lot of “reds” and Bol- sheviki and should be arresied. This the police believed and they proceeded to plan in regular Sherlock Holmes style. The result of this is that four workers: Nick Knezovich, Ivan Ceh, Joe Hitiak and Matt Garretto were held under $1,000 bail and will have a hearing before Squire Jas. P. Cast- ner at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of January the 10th. M. D. Anderson has been retained by the workers to look afver their interes's. CHRISTMAS FIRE KILLS 6 HOPEWELL, Va., Dec. 26.—Six dead was the toll today of a fire which on Christmas swept the Grand Central Hotel. Several persons were injured. About 50 guests were in the hotel when the fire started. The front and side of the three story building fell in, but firemen escaped the falling debris. Progress and Forecast of Events of New York Labor A Weekly Review and Estimate of the Outstanding Events in the Local Labor Movement. dence of continued and spontaneous strikes which are taking place in var- ious trades. These are for the most part rudimentary developments, small shop strikes and initial organization efforts. The laundry drivers both of Brook- lyn and Mgnhattan are engaged in such shop strikes. The grocery clerks are on strike, likewise in both bor- oughs. The window cleaners have finished the main strike against the Employers’ Association but must con- tinue to battle with individual firms. The waiters are similarly engaged. Then, of course, there are the larger activities in the needle trades. It is significant that the majority of these elementary movements are among sec- (Continued on Page Five) y i} { Men Sleeping in Hall) Police Cleary and Night Captain | | | | | | | | | Shorr in the defense. Friends Cheer Greco, Carrillo DEFEAT FRAME-UP OF MUSSOLIN’S BLACKSHIRTS e _ After Five Months in Prison’ i Friends continued to call on ald fare Greco and Donato Carrillo in their | © ‘In: ’ ° ; ||Miners’ Relief Offices Call for More Help sont f a Se et Preserve Worker Li The Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, New York City, is taking donations for the relief of | |both the Colorado strikers and the | |locked-out or striking miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The head- quarters of the Pennsylvania-Ohio- Colorado Miners Relief Committee is at 611 Penn Ave., Room 307, Pittsburgh, Pa. These are two of a chain of relief offices being opened up all over the country to try and stem the starvation and cold on which employers rely in | | their union smashing campaign. Lindbergh Told to Avoid the Liberals MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 26.— The dramatic entry of.Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his plane, which is expected here some time next week, will” envoy is being planned, but the controlled government of Nicaragua, in an attempt to quiet the animosity against marine rule. A huge publie reception and dance in honor of the United States “good- will’ envoy is being planned, but the manner in which the Nicaraguans will respond remains to be seen. Fear that the liberal forces under Sandino which are stationed in the Nueva Segovia district might not be over-cordial to the “friendly” flyer, was expressed by Real Admiral David Foote Sellers, commandant of the special service squadron and marines who are “maintaining peace” in Ni- caragua. : REPAIR CABLES IN COLD. With a bitter wind intensi the 10 degrees above zero, 40 expi cablemen repaired the telephone bles connecting New York City with many cities to the west and sou! 4 Working in the glare of search- lights and in shifts of ten minutes each the splicers succeeded in repair- ing the damage caused by fire in what company officials admit as the record time of eighteen hours. FIREMAN KILLED IN FALL Bernard O’Kane of 631 McDonough St., Brooklyn slipped and fell from the roof of a four story tenement, where he had been fighting a fire He was killed instantly. The fireman left two young boys and his wife énancially dependent. COAL PRODUCTION. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The pro- duction of hard coal in the Donetz basin has exceeded the early esti- mates. In November Hepenee tons of coal were produced in the “Donugal” pits. ! days after the opening of the ses- | Brooklyn homes yesterday. They congratulated the two Italian workers on sions of the industrial commission at their escape from the fascist frame-up conspiracy which had threatened them with death in the electric chair. 5 Months in Jail. Friday night the two anti-fascists walked out of the Bronx County court- ‘room free men, after being confined for ower five months in their cells in jail adjoining the courthouse. So overjoyed were they at the verdict of the jury which had listened to the carefully coached witnesses groomed by the local fascisti, that they nuarly went from the courtroom without bid- ding farewell t¢ their lawyers who, at the defense table, did not disguise their happiness at their victory. Home Again. Greco was at home on Christmas day with his aged mother and his brother, Felipo, the handsome, gray- with his wife and six-year-old boy. Hailing the acquital of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fasc- ist clothing workers, as a tremendous victory fro th eworking class of the United States, the International Labor Defense yesterday declared that their release is “proof undeni- able that only the immediate mobil- ization of the working class can save framed-up workers from being rail- roaded to the electric chair.” Baron gives Statement Rose Baron, secretary of the New York section of the I. L. D. in a statement issued yesterday, declared: “In spite of the fact that the evi- (Continued on Page Five) Bronze Workers’ Union To Elect This Evening The Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union will hold its regular elections tonight at the Rand School, 7 E. 15th St. In a statement issued by the union the importance of the election is stressed. The organization’s de- mands to the employers will soon be presented. haired musician. Carrillo was at home |, There was mutual congratulation in the Bronx county courthouse, last Friday night when Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, clothing workers, were found “not guilty” on the murder charge inspirec by Count Di Revel’s Fascist League of North America. Picture shows scene near counsel table in the court a few minutes after the jury rendered its verdict. Left to right are: Vito Marchantonio, Italian interpreter for the defense counsel; Clarence Darrow, whose searching cross-examination of the coached fascist witnesses broke down the specious theory of “identifi- cation”; Greco, Isaac Shorr (in rear), Carrillo and Arthur Garfield Hays, associated with Darrow and GRECO, CARRILLO TO ATTEND FAIR Calogero Greco and Donato Car- rillo, the two clothing workers ac- quitted Friday by a jury in Bronx County Court of the charge of having murdered two fascist paraders last Decoration Day, will be guests at a banquet tendered in their honor by the Joint Defense Committee Cloakmakers. und Wayriers. The banquet will be held at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th St., where a nine-day ba- zaar has been in progress since Friday. New Year’s Eve is the date set for the wind-up of the nine-day fair with a costume ball, as a most appropriate time to welcome back to the ranks of the fascist workers who barely escaped with their lives from a frame-up en- gineered by Mussoliri’s henchmen, Announced Daily. In addition to the costume ball on New Year’s Eve daily programs of (Continued on Page Five} Hickman Confesses Murder of Girl WILLOWS, Calif., Dec. 26.—Will- iam Edward Hickman has made a complete confession of the murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker of Los Angeles, it was announced by offi- cials late this afternoon. “The Fox” made his confession, believed to im- plicate himself alone and to deny his previous statements that the murder was committed by an accomplice, after hours of grilling. His statement, giving for the first time the complete story of the kid- naping and murder of the little Los Angeles girl, is now being taken by a stenographer in the compartment) occupied by Hickman. International Labor Defense Gives $1,050 to Colo. Miners The National Office of the Inte tional Labor Defense yesterday s another check for $500 to Colorado for the defense of the Colorado strikers and strike leaders who are being ar- rested and transported from one jail to another, in different parts of the strike field, by the state militia in an effort to intimidate and break up the strike. ¥ This makes a total of $1,050 alt dy appropriated for this purpose by the National Office of the International Labor Defense. 4 e- Will Do More. tary, said in a statement just issued, James P. Cannon, national _|that the International Labor Defense is prepared to go further and will do all in its power to mobilize the full support of the class-conscious work- ers in all sections of the country and in all industries for the support of the heroic |fight of the Colorado min- ers against the conditions of indus- trial slavery prevailing in the mines | of that state and the military despo- tism set up by the state authorities. “Unexampled Courage.” “The Colorado miners are fighting | with unexampled courage and solidar- | ity for the elementary rights of the | working class,” says the statement, | “and thereby they are fighting for | the interests of all workers in all trades in all sections of the country. The attempts of the coal barons and their hirelings to break the strike by jailing the leaders and active spirits in the strike, by transporting them from one state to the other under a widespread campaign of publicity, supplemented by the provision of ade- quate legal defense. “The International Labor Defense has entered into an agreement to (Continued on Page Two) Z York, labor movement the two anti-| FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents N. Y. ben Shop Beat Up and Jail 64 Colorado Miners BOSSES BOAST ALL EVICTIONS BY JANUARY { Water Turned Off From Entire Villages PITTSBURGH, Dec. 26.—The sor- riest holiday season in their history confronts the miners and their fam- ilies in the Pen ia coal camps. The mass evictions of whole com- munities of miners, legalized by a re- cent court dec ng carried | out during the hc days. ictions Jan. 1. The largest operators like the Pitts- | Finish | burgh Coal and the Pittsburgh Ter- | minal Coal Companies have announced | their intention to start the year with- | joxt a single union miner’s famil pousee owned by these companies. | Unable to pay the back rent piled jup while waiting for the court’s rul- ling, the scanty furniture of families is being sold by company agents. No Water—No Coal.’ Water has been shut off by the companies and entire villages and towns are compelled to rely on wells jand streams for their supply. { An epidemic of typhoid threatens. | Hundreds of families have been |starved out of districts where they | spent the greater part of their lives | Thousands of husbands and fathers have had to leave for other places to look for jobs which the industrial de- pression makes ever harder to get. | Meanwhile their families exist on the scanty and irregular relief—some $2 |to $3 per week-—that the union and ether relief agencies can afford Government Backs Coal Barons. Continued om P. Tvorsa$ ( inued om Pege Towed KELLOGG DENIES HIRING AVILA WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The for- gery scandals against Mexico haye forced the office of Kellogg, Secre- |tary of state, to issue a denial that |his. department or former Ambas- |sador Sheffield trafficked in forged |documents. The state department |denies that Miguel Avilla, the chief jforger thus far uncovered in the senate committee’s investigation into |the Hearst forgeries, was ever em- |ployed by the department or by |Sheffield in Mexico. | In this denial Kellogg did not ex- jplain the source of his “information” ~ jupon which Under Secretary of State |Olds in November, 1926, imparted. to press correspondents. Olds told the press in “confidence” that President Calles of Mexico was known to be fomenting a plot to create a “Bolshe- vist hegemony” over Latin America and that he had evidence to sub- stantiate his charges. This interview was published broadcast Amaleamated Opens Cocperative Houses Five of the six cooperative apart- ment houses built by the Amalga- | mated Clothing Workers’ Union have teen formally opened. Three of these buildings, which are on Van Cortlandt Park South, are fully occupied, while the other two are partially tenanted. A dinner for 500 guests was held at Ambassador Hall, Third Ave, and Claremont Park- way, Sunday, in celebration of the opening. The six buildings were erected at a total cost of $1,825,000, and cortain }accommodations for 303 families, After an original investment of $500 is made a tenant is required to pay a |maintenance rental of $1 1a room. Workers Doubtful. Many worke ‘4, out, however, |that the mem ‘the Amatga- |mated are not} thusiasite, and | that only the leaders are celebrating: |the opening of the houses. The work- jers remember the great mass celebra- tion held at the opening of the Amal- |gamated Bank, a union financial in- military control, must be defeated by | stitution now serving the needs of the \clothing manufacturers and not workers. The speakers at the Sunday included Rep. F. H. LaGuardia, Circuit Court Julian | Judge n 4 Ah o lIN owt istr ter.) ith a) Sovii »brate com ‘evolu h wa dd im strug oviet: re al ext it Jnion uiniar £ the on of tories 1 the work- raine cope Ss set ini gan, eat- Ard a to ring atu- the for ter, dly fi- our py ate To smash the union the coal oper. a \