The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 1

y \insurrection” declaration. SES a ae DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | SIT ge ses ceaht ease A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 297. INDIA WORKERS TO STRIKE; HIT TORY COMMISSION SUBSCRIPTION THE DAILY WORKER. | RATES: In New York, by siall, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year, Entered an second-cinss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1927 March 3, 1879. PUBL: Three Mine Strike Leaders Will Address Meeting Here EMBREE, SABLICH WILL APPEAL TO NEW YORK LABOR Rally for Relief Will be Held Monday With Milka Sablich and E. S. Em bree on the field in New York to aic in the organization of relief work, a huge mass meeting with Milka Sab- lich and Embree as speakers will b« held here at the Central Opera House next Monday night to spur the cam- paign for funds and clothing for the |§ striking mine: of Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylania. Milka Sablich, girl strike leader Colorado, and Embree, organizer the Colorado strike, will speak in company with William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER; Tony Mine rich, striking coal miner from Penn- sylvania; Bishop Paul Jones, of th Fellowship of Reconciliation, an Solon De Leon. The Central Opera House is 67th St. near Third Ave. meeting will open at 8 p. m., day. o Th Mon- | Joint Auspices. The meeting will be under the joint auspices of the Pennsylvania- Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, the Emergency Committee for Strikers’ Relief, the Colorado Mfaers’ Relief Committee and the Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief. Sablich, whose two brothers were killed in the Ludlow, Colo., massa- ere of strikers in 1914 and who was herself beaten by thugs hired by the mine-owners and dragged to jail by the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado state police in the present ‘strike, is |» known throughout the Colorado field s “flaming Milka.” Divide Proceeds. Proceeds from the meeting will be divided between the Colorado field and the Pennsylvania and Ohio fields. Robert W. Dunn will preside. Minerich is chairman of the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee of Pittsburgh. De Leon is treasurer of. the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee. Sablich is (Continued on age Five: MORE COLORADO MINE VIOLENCE, (Special to The Daily Worker) | DENVER, Colo., Dec. tigation into the wrecking of the min- ers’ hall at Trinidad, Colo., shows that after the 64 miners were arrested there for sleeping in the building, whieh had been “condemned as un- sanitary” by notices posted, but bear- ing no name of any member of the board of health, seventeen state po- lice entered it and wrecked it, also completely demolishing all furniture | of the apartment in the rear of the hall, occupied by the secretary of the strike committee and his aged moth- er. Six hundred dollars belonging to the secretary’s mother was. stolen, and other valuables are missing. All this happened in a country which is not under the governor’s “state of 27.—Inves- | It was learned today that Frank Palmer was offered his freedom Christmas night, when the other strik- ers in Greely Jail were released, pro- viding he would leave the strike zone. Palmer refused, and is being punish- ed by solitary confinement as “dan- gerous.”” . « DENVER, Colo., Dec. 27.—-Violence against the Colorado coal miners now on strike continues. On Christmas day th erg on eee Two) | Forty Turks Drown CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 27.— Forty persons were drowned in the Sea of Marmora today when two Turkish steamers collided, one of them, the Sevindji, sinking immedi- ately with all hands aboard. Ditch Prince Carol LONDON, Dee. 27. — The National Party, which led the movement in Roumania for the return of former ) Union” jed of subsistence for months. The holidays mean little to the miners. After nine months of courageous fighting, the striking coal miners are still holding their ranks. Holiday “cheer” was a grim joke to the wives and children of the coal miners who Mave been living on the ragged edge Photo shows an official of the miners’ union addressing groups of miners and their fais: The reactionary leaders of the | strikers have done ee in promoting the struggle of the workers tu maintain as fang eka | 2 PENN MINERS? | SPIRIT RENEWED By AMY SCHECHTER. PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27.—A message of workers’ solidarity | food and clothing sent out to thousands of striking miners and families throughout Alle- gheny and Monongahela Valleys and Panhandle _ section, camps in Ohio and Central Penn- sylvania was received by strik- | ers. In camp after camp miners, }women and children were out in full force to receive shipments. |Signs bearing relief committee name and slogans “Fight on for the Living Wage and your and “Down with the Open Shop” brought cheers from the men |and were taken from trucks and post- up in union halls and around camps. | Strikers facing the holiday season) in hundreds of cases literally with | nothing but bread in the house and children -erying from hunger were joyful over the shipments. They were deeply moved by concrete proof of workers in other industries at last beginning to rally to aid of miners in coal war and preparing to stand back of them in the fight. Besides staples and produce and | bacon the first milk hundreds of chil- | dren had tasted for months were sent | in and loads of apples. for children. | Shipments were especially welcome | in a number of camps where no re-! lief of any sort had been pected this week. A general statement of U.M.W.A. now puts three dollars weekly per family as the general average relief | for western Pennsylvania today with! ; Central Pennsylvania the same and | Ohio much less. A steady stream of imperative to carry- ing on the great struggle against the open shop to a successful conclusion. Ohio Relief. MORE HOURS, LESS PAY, | MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 27. | —The Cotton Spinners’ Federation, an inerease the working week by four hours and to reduce wages by 12% per cent, it became known yesterday. Altho the wage cut has not yet been acted upon, vigorous opposition by the workers in the mills is planned. FREE AIR. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 27.— Arguments on the request of certain residents of Scarsdale and New Ro- chelle to prevent planes of the Atlan- Crown Prince Carol, has deserted Car- ol and his royal aspirations, accord- ing to a report telegraphed from Carlsbad today. tic Airways Corp. from flying over their Jands and houses will be heard before Supreme Court Justice Mors- chauser Friday. in the shape of truckloads of) also | Send contributions to Pennsylvania- | employers’ organization, proposes to, No Haste Now to Raise Sub PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 27. —“‘It will be impossible to raise the S-4 sooner than next June,” said Tom Eadie, diver of the sunken undersea jeraft, just before going down today. “It is very cold down there and it is going to be a lot colder within®the jnext few weeks. It will also be a lot |rougher in the next few days.” But the navy is severely criticized by numerous seamen and some con- |gressmen for its slowness in saving the lives of the forty men on board, its lack of life-saving apparatus, and its tactics in sending out submarines |to shift for themselves, without any tender to warn surface craft. Secre- tary of Navy Wilbur says this is from now on a set policy of his department, which desires, at whatever cost of life, to simulate war conditions. Tammany Paymasters Fear 2d Investigation Attempts are being made to abol- ish the New York section of the Bridge and. Tunnel Commission hav- ing charge of the Holland Tunnel route to New Jersey and turn over |the present duties of this commission to the Porth Authority of New York, according to circles close to Tammany Hall. The present tunnel commission, a highly over-staffed agency, has a yearly payroll of nearly £1,500,000. | Fearing further disclosures of inef- ficiency and perhaps even of graft, |such as that revealed in the Queens sewer investigations, Tammany Hall, especially in the person of Al Smith, is hastening to liquidate the New York section of the Bridge and Tunnel Commission before triticism begins, Lit is reported. Five hundred forty employes on the present over-staffed commission, many of whom are known to be soft job holders, is the total of Tammany’s patronage in this work 3 MORE DAYS OF SALE AT BAZAAR Tonight and for three days mote bargains will be the main attraction at the Joint Defense Bazaar at Grand Central Palace. The Joint Defense Committee has decided, in order to dispose of its tre- mendous stock, that these last days of the bazaar shall be given over to the selling of merchandise at the low- est possible prices. Thousands of | articles, including suits, dresses, coats, | millinery and jewelry will be offered. | | In ordering to enable thousands of workers to take advantage of these last day sales, the admission to the bazaar until Saturday will be only 35 cents. This includes free movies and dancing and makes the bazaar not only the most interesting but the cheapest show in town. The best movie features are shown daily on the mezzanine floor. | Continue Bargains. | Bargain sales will continue until | Friday night, when all the remaining | merchandise will be removed from the | booths, and the two floors cleared for | the final event of the bazaar, the’ grand costume ball taking place on | Saturday, New Year’s Eve. For the | best costumes chosen by prominent representatives of the labor move-| ment including the needle trades, | prizes will be awarded. Word has been received that Calo- | gero Greco and Donato Carrillo will appear at the ball Saturday night. This is the first” time these workers will participate in a large gathering | of the labor movement since their im- | prisonment five months ago on a} frame-up charge organized by the Fascist League of America. The en- | tire labor movement will come out to welcome its fellow needle trades | workers and express pleasure at their escape from what promised to be an- other Saceo-Vanzetti Case. Tickets | to the ball are $1.00 and 75 cents. } \service reports that the textile, shoe, ® Hearst Forger Had Big Trade WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The sen- ate’s investigation. of Abe. Mexican documents published in the Hearst newspapers was resumed. here today with Frank Y. McLaughlin, an Amer- | ican oil man who has spent most of the last seven years in Mexico City, as the first witness. McLaughlin identified himself as a structural engineer who went to Mex- | ico in 1920, later becoming identified | with the El Sol Petroleum Company as director and vice president. He said he had many “personal relations” with Mexican officials. | Kellogg-Sheffield Forgeries. | The witness created a mild sensa- tion in the committee room when he testified that Miguel Avila, the Amer- ican-born Mexican who sold the docu- ments to the Hearst papers, once tried to sell him a confidential file of cor- respondence between Secretary of | State Kellogg and Ambassador James (Continued on Page Two) Unemployment Grows; 75,000 Idle in Md. City cas f ,| different occupations, |ment of one member, |D. W. Bellaver, Edward Codemo, E. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER New York, ISHING CO. 33 First Street, ee: Yard Was | to Confiscate Films On Sacco-Vanzetti Dec. 27. | LONDON, Scotland | | Yard operatives are searching for a film dealing with the execution {of Sacco and Vanzetti, it was learn- }ed here today. According to the | report, the film was brought from America about 10 days ago. They are said to be a historical record |of the case and are intended for working class audiences on the continent. It is said that European | ports have been watched for the | film for the past three weeks. 2ETURNED UNION MEN CHEER USSR Eleven more members of the rank and file trade union delegation to Soviet Russia returned yesterday on the Muretania. Members of the dele- gation were uniform in their expres. sions of enthusiasm with the condi | tions under which the workers in the | Soviet Republic are living. “As trade unionists from a dozen ”” was the state- “we were es- pecially interested in the contrast be- tween the Russian government’s at- | titude teward organized labor and the attitude of the characterized by tiens.” One section of the delegation. which was separated into three sections, re- ported about a week ago. Ancther is still in Europe. The members of the | |section which came in yesterday are: U. S. government, f@anion imjunc- . Lever, R. C. Kling, R. P. Harriet Silverman, Betty Yaris, Haessler, correspondent. * * * e4 (By Federated Press.) “Soviet Russia wants to learn froin} the United States and to buy from} (Continued on Page Five) INJUNCTION CASE A UNION vicTORY =: Morris Taft, manager, International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, who recently admitted | violating a supreme court anti-picket- ing injunction, was found not guilty of contempt of court by Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. T. Crain yesterday. The decision came as a surprise to| the New York labor movement, since | Taft announced in court when tried last week that labor must take a defi- | nite and militant stand against the anti-labor injunction policy dustries. “It is apparent that he misunder- | stood the order which was served upon him and had not intentionally dis- obeyed it,” Judge Crain said in dis- Employment in wae major industries | is decreasing, the U. S. Employment | Service of the Department of Labor | says in a report. The employment iron, steel, automobile, and building industries are all employing far less | than last year. * . * BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 27.—It is | estimated by merchants here that the | total dollars and cents volume of holi- | day trade will run far behind the year | of 1926, due to the critical unemploy- ment situation in this city. Labor of- ficials state that at least 75,000 men} are out of work, which is 50,000 above the average for this time of the year. } \ | | WASHINGTON, | gress is called upon to Dec. 27. ve” the in an official letter just made public the group financing munitions manu- close collaboration with the Dupont powder trust and the steel trust. He is a member of the board of directors rector of t! he is also secretary of the Davis es- tates. In one of the most brazenly. jin; documents since the armistice of 1918, % F aarp “ee ——— ce Ro balay Sate arsed A by Dwight F. Davis, secretary of war. | Secretary of War Davis is con- | nected through banking interests with | facturers, and while on the War Fi- | nance Corporation, always worked in) of the State National Bank, and a di- | Security Building Co.; | ~—- €on-» private manufacture of war munitions | “Make Munitions Privately,”’ Says Sec. Davis; He Has Connections with Big Powder Firms | Davis declares that “modern war is ! a war of machines; modern war re- quires these machines in numbers heretofore unheard of.” Davis says that the system of awarding contracts to the lowest bid- der is “very detrimental” to the pro- gram of the war department. The secretary of war offers a scheme whereby munitions manufacturers will hae placed with them ‘“educa- tional offers” in time of peace. WILL IMPROVE PORT ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, Dec. 27.— About $60,000 will be spent to im- prove the harbor here. Antofagasta is the chief nitrate port of Northern charging Taft. “The leaflet com- | plained of was in print, whereas the injunction language was ‘verbally or in writing’,” the judge added, refer- jring to a leaflet on which the case |was based. Over Taft’s signature it urged the workers to violate the in- junction in question. : . Jail Remus Witness CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.—John S. Berger, witness for George Remu recently acquitted of murder, sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $250 by Judge Chester R. Shook to- day for contempt of court in pre- | senting a petition signed by the jur- ers, asking that a perjury indictment against Berger. be dismissed. Insurance Plot Foiled ROCKY POINT, N. C., Dec. 27.— A plot to collect a large insurance | |fund by running off with an automo- to police, | |was upset when the car broke down here, and the license plate recognized | bile and reporting a “theft” \by the repair man. 58 Below; Mail O. K. CIRCLE, Alaska, Dec. 27.—Braving the severest storm in twenty years, with the thermometer 58 degrees be- low zero, Mail Sled Driver Jewell suc- cessfully delivered the mail on time from Chatanika. 7-Hour Day in in USSR MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (By Mail).— On January 1st, the 7-hour day will be introduced in four of the biggest textile factories in Ivanovo-Voznes- Chile. % ensk (textile centre of the USSR). Local 41, | of the| courts and the employers in all in-| | was | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Mut; DECIDE ON ONE DAY WALKOUT AT NATIONAL MEET First Session. Anti-Brit- ain; Proposes Boycott , Dee. Hundreds of of Indian workers are ex- rticipate in a one-day gene’ e accompanied by mass demon ons when the British Statutor Commission, headed by Sir John Simon, ar- rives on Indian soil, n response to reso- lutions passed by the All-Indian National- ist Congress at its opening session here yesterday. No Indians in Com- mission. In a session char- acterized by intense stility to British imperialism, the )00 members of the Congress de- }clared for a complete boycott of the ish Commission. The Commis- which was appointed by the sh Tory government to consider form of the Indian government, contains no Indian members. Further resolutions, calling on all x bers of the Leg |tive Council to |stain from voting \cept for the purpos jof opposing anti Nationalist legisla- tion or voting down ithe government. |were passed. BALDWIN, imperialist. > BIRKENHEAD, Appointee, Burra, | Defend “Untouchables.” Carl | The Congress then declared itself | unconditionally against “untouchabil- ity,” and has taken up the fight for equality of the sixty million Indian “untouchables,” of the lowest castes who are considered unclean and are for- bidden intercourse with higher castes. ‘ Mme. Sun Yat Sen, widow leader of Chinese Nationalists, de SIMON, has been invited by India’s Czar, yesolution of the | Congress to tour the country in the interests of the Indian independence | movement. Aid Chinese Revolution. | The Congress also voted to organize | and equip a Hindu Ambulance Corps to be sent for service with the Chi- nese Nationalists. Large sums of (Continued on HupH On SoG Three) TO USE $100,000 INGRAFT DEFENSE At least $100,000 will be spent by | Maurice E. Connolly, borough presi- the | dent of Queens, in an attempt to “defend” himself in the $16,000,- 000 sewer graft charges, it was | learned yesterday. Max D. Steuer, his lawyer, who lordinarily gets $1,000 a day and more for his service, will undoubt- \edly take a large portion of his sum. {Thus far Steuer, who will have \former U. S. District Attorney | Emory R. Buckner as an opponent, has limited himself to the job of ad- vance publicity for his client. Date Not Set. Buckner has just taken a suite of offices in the Court Square building. | Lafayette Pl. “I do not know when {the hearings will begin,” Buckner said. “The charges are not limited to sewer graft, I shall conduet a gen- |eral investigation.” | The hearings into the gigantic swindle which will be used by the republican party for its own politi- cal nest-building, will not be con- cluded until late in March, it is gen- erally agreed. At least a month will be taken by Justice Scudder, re- cently appointed by Al. Smith, Tam- many governor, to hear the facts |connected with the high-handed plun- / {derings of the treasury of Queens | borough, | Will Raise Big Smell. | Six bright young latvyers, former ly associated in his office while he |was U. S. district attorney, have | been hired by Buckner. They try to dig up all the unsavory which have culminated in the pi scandal. munication lines between the and Spanish zones in Moroceo we destroyed yesterday in the — which are.sweeping across the n of the country. 5 7