The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 2

¢..ner.for the Civil Liberties Union THE DAILY WORKER YORK, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 1927 $600 MISSING “AFTER COPS QUIT RUINOUS SPREE One) Wal- (Continued from doe Martinez, sec Page of the MINERS FACE HUNGER, COLD, DESTITUTION IN THE STRIKE AREA; NEED RELIEF lorado State Police Wreck Striking Miners’ Hall; Demolish Furniture MORGAN NOW U.S, STEEL HEAD ‘Complete Trust Control Goes to Financier Senburg local was shot in the back » by a scab. After the raid yesterday, | ' in which 64 miners were beaten up James Pierpont Morgan appears and arrested “for g in the openly today as the chairman of the strike headquarter: workers ‘com- tng to the hall found that it and all their furniture there was completely trust). she meeting of the board of wrecked, presumably by state police. directors, behind closed doors today, i Hold Palmer. issued a short and highly significant i : } r tatement: i Attempts made throughout Satur- s i ‘ i day to en MBE ai ig Greely jail “The chairman of the board of di- i released before Christmas were un rectors is no longer an executive offi- I availing. Governor Ad: eet cer of the company. | by labor votes, continued his anti- labor policy of leaving the control or the situation with the militia. He refused to interfere with any dispo- Sitions the militia might have or- dered. The district court had pre- viously refused to re the men on writs of habeas corpus, because the “state of insurrection,” ¢ by Governor Adams in two Colorado counties. An appeal will be taken to higher state courts and to the Federal courts, if necessary, to get Palmer) and Bell released. foe EER ceed This photo taken in the strike area at Lick Run, Pa., is typical of conditions in all the miserable little mines where the workers are making a desperate fight for existence against the coal barons. homes is always one of the means used by the bos The companies, as usual, have at their command the U. S. government, the courts with their injunctions, ses to force the striking workers back to the coal pits. the police and coear ae: Evictions from their While comparatively comfortable company homes at the right go untenanted, with windows boarded up, the families of the striking miners shiver in the make-shift barracks across the street. To the governmental strike-breaking agencies are now added fierce winter weather—all aimed to destroy the miners’ organization and increase their degradation. DEFENSE FIGHTS | 75 Register for L. A. Workers’ School HEARST FORGER Man, Wife Fail to Eat for Three Days GROUP GETS $300 board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation (the steel Farrell President. “James A, Farrell continues as president of the corporation and be- comes its chief executive officer un- der direction and supervision of the finance committee and board of gi- rectors. “John Pierpont Morgan becomes chairman of the board, and Myron C, Taylor becomes chairman of the finance committee.” Complete Power. Since control of the board gives complete power over the corporation, \the language about “no longer chief executive officer,’ with which the Students and other young people = | steel trust cloaks the assumption of oem nes Pegs ree a | A a | LOS ANGE Calif., Dec. 27.— Unable to find work, a man and his power by Morgan, is regarded here earn were given to pas chil- a he A class in s of Political Edu- wife, wandered into a police station as_merely camouflage, to soften the re ‘ catior effect of this admission of a further | dren. | . * * declaring that the release of Calo- | \ , is being conduct- 8 p. m., at 122 om 105. This class | (Continued from Page One) yesterday and stated that they had not eaten since last Friday, and had Three hundred dollars in cash was concentration of direction into the hands of Morgan. en MODERS: 0 Greco and Donato Carrillo, ABC’s is open to all|R. Sheffield for $10,000. walked the streets, homeless. The | turned in to the office of the DAILY| Farrell, the president of the steel i Mean ee The ee victory | eed by the jury in the Bronx : This part of McLaughlin’s testi-|man, who had worked as a marine | WORKER yesterday by the Sub-Bu- trust, was selected for promotion in the coal strike hearing w |county court from’ the charges of y Organi-|mony is considered to have been in- engineer in Europe, s: he was un-|reau of the Lithuanian language frac- years ago by the elder Morgan, who ed before the state ind mission went to the r commission gra’ ruled that operat tified copies of th v ear endir respondent, who was arrested without warrant at a mass meeting of strik- ers, farmers and business men ir Longmont Thursday night by the mil- itia, is stil] being held in the Greeley which is investigating the abroga- tion of constitutional rights in the this country, is those reactiona in this cow an inces anti-f for the labor movem Active in Defense. rs as a victory | it | The I. L. LD. was the most activ sources for a movement in their be- oalf. ‘The statement points out that the inst them with} ; Party Public y regist- Dec. 2 WASHINGTON, D. C., William Joseph Kelly, office of Congr house ONE MORE CHURCH FIRE. QUEBEC, Canada, Dee. 27.—When |spired by the state department to try |to create the impression that the pro- | fessional forger, vila, was in no |way connected with the United States | government. | McLaughlin said he knew Avila ‘Europe, and give it to Avila, he said. Forgery Business Rushing. “Avila was notorious in Mexico as | a purveyor of these documents,” the | witness said. dence between Secretary of State Kel- logg and Ambassador Sheffield would be given me for $10,000. able to obtain a license in this coun- The woman sought work as a serubwoman. The pair eyed hungrily a plate of sandwiches the policemen had just Sentence of death in the electric chair |during the week beginning Feb. 26, | as imposed in the Middlesex superior | ‘iminal court today upon Jerry Ged- izium, alias “Jerry the Pole,” by “7 did not commit this crime, nor do I know who did,” said the prisoner when sentenced. tion of the Workers Party, District 2. A committee elected especially for |the purpose of organizing help and |collecting money for the DAILY (Communist) | party organ is raised, when it is done | upon the Bureaus of all the language fractions to follow suit and elect spe- vrganization interested in the de-! 1 he lived was destroyed i ‘ & Jail without charges. A writ of hab-|iense of the two indicted workers, | by fire. had re-entered the build-| “Avila came up to my apartment | Judge David J. Lourie, following con- | cial committees of the language frac- » €as corpus was filed in his behalf this|und was also the first national or-|ing to wake his neighbors many of|and showed me a typewritten state- | Viction a year ago of the murder of | tion bureaus to lead the work of or- afternoon by Guy D. Duncan, attor-| ganization to mobilize ali its re-| whom he had already roused. ment saying that all the ecorrespon- | Edward C. Ross. ganizing support for the DAILY WORKER. ECONOMY G.O.P. CRY. in an organized manner is surprising,” | the committee said. They also called | promoted the foundation of the mer- ger which formed the trust. RAILROAD MAN DIES ON JOB. BELLEVILLE, Ill, Dec. 27.—J. C. Venable, 52, employed by the strike, particularly with reference to|iessons of the Sacco-Vanzetti case|the summer headquarters of the| On another occasion, McLaughlin ie Dar aeRO? ee Republicans of New Jersey have} militia activities. are being learned by the workers,|Maizerets Seminary in the outskirts said Avila came to him with a copy BODY OF WOMAN FOUND. found an issue on which to base their Although Fred Farrar, general|and attributes the victory in the|of this city went up in fiames,|of a telegram supposed to have been| SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 27.| 1928 campaign. According to Senator counsel for the Colorado Fuel & Iron| Greco-Carrillo case to the swift ac-|Joseph Pageau was overcome by |sent by General Pina, under secretary '—HAnds tied across her breast, and| Emerson L. Richards, economy, made Go., had announced at roll call that|tion and preparedness of labor. An|smoke, but he, together with his wife,,of war, to the commander of a Mex- feet bound together, the body of a|fashionable by Coolidge, will bring he was present as an observer only,{appeal tor 4 nation-wide fight|iour children and father, were|ican gunboat, ordering him to come Woman about 45 years old was found |in the votes. January 21 he took an active part in objecting to |against the frame-up system and ior | rescued. to Mexico City and load up with arms Yesterday in Lopez Canyon. She has the commission’s ruling, asserting that the operators could not be forced to submit income tax statements. The operators were granted 30 days in which to present the required data, but the taking of evidence will con- tinues and the hearing will not be suspended for 30 days, as asked by the operators. C. F. & I. Most of the bitterness of the release of all class war prisoners was made at the same time. | Fight Frame-Up. “The time is epportune now for this fight,” the statement concluded. “The new struggles which are coming will bring new v of capitalist persecution and S$ vengeance. It is imperative that the labor move- the RADIO STATION SILENT. LF, at Bellmore, more than five morning, when the em that keeps the e up. round-up g plumbers bled the ume operations at 3:12 Radio station W. .» Was silent on Monde station to r bee |rebels in Nicaragua. McLaughlin added that he did not buy the docu- ment. “Why did he bring it to you?” “T don’t know, unless he thought I uld turn it over to the American embassy.” Petty Panhandler. ‘He simply showed you a single copy and ammunition for delivery to the Not been identified. Work Dally foc the Daily Worker! Hail the Fourth Anniversary of the Daily Worker! Is Lenin Memorial Day For this day, for individ- ual reading—for books to give to your shop- mates — for Communist 7~ eupies of t aigu against progressive work- | oy very well, having met him first in|procured for their lunch. A collec-|~ 7 tiaras he | Southern Railway, was found dead turns; and that asses and the militanc iubor move-| -On Mond 2, all|1924 through Joseph DeCourcy, Mex-|tion of a few dollars was made, and| WORKER, reported yesterday at the! \ith his hand on the throttle of the : ties in which coal mines iment,” the national office of int y speak tionaries wil! |ico City correspondent for the New|the food divided between them. !Daily Worker office that in the few| locomotive. The train was standing ; must present data on the ae uational Labor Detense, at 8U t to diseuss the Trotsky Opposi-| York Times, who introduced him as a weeks of its existence it had succeed-| at the time. * valuation of the mines in their r lth St, thru its secretary, James | tion, | representative of the Havas News| d E ed in raising this sum of money. spective counties. . Cannon, yesierday, issued a state- nite eee ! Agency. McLaughlin had an’ article SENTENCED. “ph with which help for the Frank Palmer, Federated Press cor-} ment greeti i of the| WORKER HERO DIES IN FIRE. |he wished to have published in| CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 27. — Wieaee | od IS OPENLY MADE «| Although only northern operators | ment be ized. and on guard|P- m. “Did he ask for money?” age | were officially present at the hear- ete growing eae It “No, Avila’s method was very | Party units ing this morning, developments al- give gencrous and vigorous sup- Nu SIX MILLION. unique,” said McLaughlin, of the for- * i | feady indicate that the real battle » national campaign now| New York ul popula-|ger who furnished the documents for For Lenin Memo i will be between the miners and the un by International Labor|tion of é ye boroughs |the Hearst anti-Mexican campaign. | rial Meetings the strikers is directed against the C. F. & L, and it is believed that the other operators will follow their lcad | in whatever agreement they may make. The miners arc asking for the Jack- sonville wage scale, with a basic wage of $8 a day in the northern fields, the enforcement of ten state mining laws which are being violated, and the remedying of the notoriously bad | against frame-up sys- Carrillo Thanks I. L. D. for Exposing Frame-Up December 24, 1927, Then he came around vith a pho at. He would then bring an original. He was always broke and always asking for a few 2 document. Can you cast any light on the gen- uineness of these (Hearst) docu- ments?” asked Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. “No, I can’t,” said McLaughlin. “I went over the documents as they ap- TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE SPE- CIAL JANUARY 13TH EDITION SIGN-SEND YOUR GREETINGS Send not less than 50 cents with every name to The Daily Worker, 33 First St., New York, N. Y. | we present this special | list of books and other i items. Some of these are being offered at special prices. | ABOUT LENIN , LENIN—His Life and Work— J, Yaroslavsky. 25e he Great Strategist sky. N ‘Morking conditions in the mines. | peared in the press. I noticed the FULL NAME ‘ | Amt. ii Naw he 4 Fred §. Caldwell, former assistant | Internationdl Labor Defense, al number of errors in the gram- H aie? | ‘sttorney general, is acting as chief} 80 East llth Str., mar and punctuation.” ! ubalgghe es \ | gounsel for the strike committee, with; New York City. “What do you mean by ‘usual num- Fetal / Fd Delaney, of the defense commit- P ber of errora’?’? a8 ‘ise i tee, as assistant counsel. These two,! Dear Comrades: “I mean I saw the errors in the S. TROTSKYISM with Tom Connors, secretary of the documents which were pointed out Choge nay to Denver Saturday and lodged in the executive committee of the striking miners, are leading the miners’ side of the case. Meanwhile legal efforts are being made to obtain the release of men held in jail who are needed as min- ‘ers’. witnesses in the hearing. The strikers charge that the recent raids | and arrests by the national guard have been for the purpose of inter- fering with the strikers’ case, since valuable witnesses have been jailed the Walsenburg Jail Friday after- noon and rearrested at the I. W. W. hall after he had demanded that the _ officers secure a warrant was brought My first words after the triumphant acquittal in our case are addressed to you: In the hour of our victory, we wish to extend our greetings and thanks to the workers of the world for fighting fascism to the last, ings to all those who fought end Also we are extending our fraternal greet- worked hard for our liberation. It was tho monstrous case of Sacco and Vanzett1 which gave us the experience and the conviction that all the worrers of the world must stand together and be ready to repulse all the conspiracies and frame-ups prepared by the capitalists << our enemies. We are hoping that our case will help out the case of liberating all the class war prisoners. I wish that all the workers of the world will under= stand the value of this great organization of the working class, As soon as I came out into freedom, my first thought later,” the witness replied. BOY ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. OTTOWA, Iil., Dee. 27.—Charged with the murder of his mother, whose ty was found buried in the ba: ment of her home, Harry Hill, 22, goes on trial for his jife today, after spending 4 months in the La Salle County jail. JACK, FAMOUS CATERER, DIES. than countenance “night lite,” died in home at 115 Hast 53 Street yes- terday. | JANITRESS DIES IN FIRE. GREETINGS—Accepted from workingclass organizations at $200 per full page (fractions of a page on this basis) and $1.50 per Order a Bundle of the Daily Worker TOTAL and documents intended for evidence I thank very mich with all my heart the International John Dunston, famous caterer inch. 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