The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 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. 298. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. furch 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 39 First Street, New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Nu. O% Joint Board Keeps Stand Against Anti-Union Injunction WORKER-PEASANT TROOPS TAKE TWO CITIES IN CHINA imperialists Ask Death of USSR Consul (Special to The Daily Worker.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 28. — Revolution- ary troops commanded by Generals Yeh Ting and Ho Lung have captured Waichow and Chengshin, cities with- in one hundred miles of Canton, with the aid of organized worker and peas- ant corps, according to reports re- ceived here. (General Yeh Ting captured Swatow several months ago only to be driven out by the counter-revolutionary Han- kow forces. Both he and Ho Lung werg Kuomintang generals who broke with Chiang Kai-shek and later with the Hankow Government when it turned against the workers and peas- ants. Reports received here several weeks ago stated that Yeh Ting had been wounded in the fighting at Swa- tow.) * * British Want Blood. CANTON, Dee. 28. — British busi+ ness men in Hongkong and a number of officials in the Canton Government are demanding the execution of the Soviet Consul General who is now be- ing held. The Soviet Union Vice Consul Has- sisi was shot when the troops of Gen- eral Chang Fakwei recaptured the city from the workers and peasants. Troops of General Chang Fak-wei are preparing to evacuate the city. General Li Chai-sum, who is even more reactionary than Chang Fak-wei and who was ousted several times from Canton several months ago, is approaching the city with a large force of Kwaingsi troops. * * * (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Dec. 28. — Huge mass meetings protesting against the atroc- ities of the Chinese counter-revolu- tionists were held in Omsk, Khabar- ovsk, Samar, Nijninovgorod and other cities, according to despatches re- ceived here. Resolutions stating that the work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Union were solidly behind the workers and peasants of China were adopted. The resolutions also demanded that meas- ures be taken for the protection of the lives of U. S. S. R. citizens in China, FILIPINO LABOR CONTINUES FIGHT Dissolution of the “Legionarios del Trabajo,” the largest secret fraternity of labor in the Philippine Islands, has been followed by the organization at Manila of a new order, “dedicated to the principles of Bonifacio and of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.” According to information which has reached the U. S. Headquarters of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union Square, New York, the new organization is called “Legionarios del Pueblo” (The People’s Legion- naires). Its aims, as offically set forth, are: Work for Independence. “To work vigorously and unceasing- ly for the political and economic inde- pendence of the Philippines; to pro- mote and propagate the ideas of na- ‘tionalism, and to work for the wel- |! re and emancipation of the laboring class of the islands.” The Legionarios del Trabajo was oxganized to carry on the traditions | of the old Katipunan. It did not al- ways do this successfully; and espe- cially in recent years, had shown a tendency to degenerate more and more. Dedication of the new Legionarios del Pueblo to the principles of Boni-! facio and Dr. Sun Yat-sen would seem to indicate that the old spirit is by no means dead, but is on the contrary reinforced and broadened by the in- fluence of the Chinese revolution, Darrow Gets Release of Greco-Carrillo + Witness Clarence Darrow, defense attorney for Caogero Greco and Donato Car- rillo, anti-fascist workers who were last Friday acquitted of murder in connection with the death of two i Senate Meets in Secret to Oust Johnson OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 28, —Fearful lest the state militia and county sheriff’s office disband them, members of the Oklahoma senate con- vened in a secret session, somewhere in the Lee Huckins hotel here, this afternoon, a writ for the suspension of Gov. Henry S. Johnson, whose admin- istration has been under fire of the legislature for more than one month, was before the body. Only a few of the senators were advised in advance of the secret meet- ing place, and these escorted their colleagues, one by one through devious routes to avoid on-lookers and re- porters, to their “sanctum sanctorum.” The Oklahoma legislature has charged the governor with graft and incompetency, and various other high crimes. The governor says the legis- lature has entered into the plot of the cement trust to “get” him. The gov- ernor called out the militia to stop the legislature from meeting to im- peach him. * CONVICT SEVEN IN NEWARK MEET Heaping denunciation upon his ver- dict of guilty, Judge Howe in the fourth precinct court in Newark yes- terday imposed fines on seven work- ers who participated in the suppressed ,| Newark celebration of the tenth an- niversary of the Russian Revolution Nov. 13. “If it were not for my respect for your lawyer, I would give you the limit,” Judge Howe told the defend- ants. “I have no use for un-American people, such as you are. If you don’t like it here you ought to get out of the country. It is too crowded here anyhow.” Criticism Taboo. Judge Howe referred proudly to his own service in the United States army and said no “destructive criticism of the government or of capitalism would be permitted by the workers of New- ark in the future. The chief of police, who ordered the suppression of the Nov. 13 meeting, also gave defense counsel to under- stand that no permit would be granted for a Lenin memorial meeting under the auspices of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party in Newark January 27. The seven defendants were Patrick | Toohey, Emil Gardos, Irving Matlin, Harry Fox, Louis Jaffe, Constant Bobke and Albert Lederman. The In- ternational Labor Defense paid a $25 fine for each as well as the defense costs. An original charge of unlaw- ful assemblage had been reduced to loitering. Detectives Figure. It was learned at the trial that the attitude of Judge Howe was traceable in part to reports by detectives of ad- dresses by W. W. Weinstone and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, of the Workers Party, at a Russian Revolution anniversary celebration for which the Newark po- lice finally issued a permit Dec. 17. The “limit” under the Newark law which the judge was anxious to im- pose in this case is a year’s imprison- ment. Counsel for the defense was John Larkin Hughes. The prosecu- tion is reported to have advised the judge that it did not believe the limit in this instance was i pad | i MINERS’ CAMPS GET SHIPMENTS OF RELIEF SUPPLIES) Scabs Kick o on Heike! tions for Thug Hire (Special to The Daily Worker.) - PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 28. Strikers at the Harmonville, Alle- gheny Valley, mining camp, had to kindle fires for their Christmas din- ners, made possible by the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee food shipments, with old tornup shoes at last discarded that very day when others were shipped in by the same relief committee. The last of the coal supply gave out and there were no funds for more. Old shoes were the only fuel avail- (Continued on Page Two) TAX! MEN FACE POLICE CONTROL Nearly three hundred cases were tried at the Hack Trials Bureau, 165 Greenwich St., in the week ending Tuesday, Dec. 27th, according to rec- ords compiled by a DAILY WORKER reporter. ‘These cases of arrested taxi drivers’ brought up on various charges before Inspector Cummings constitutes a record of those so far drawn into the incessant police drag- net, Persecute Taxi Drivers. Nearly 150 of those who appeared received from one day to thirty days’ suspension; a large number had their charges against the taxi drivers were of the most trivial character. A fre- quent charge was that made by em- ployers of drivers who claimed re- ceipts not turned in. It is learned that this is a usual resort: of some bosses who desire to intimidate or punish their workers for some imagined or actual offense, entirely unrelated to that charged. There is no union organization among the 53,000 taxi drivers in Greater New York and to this cause the workers attribute the discrimina- tion practiced upon them from every direction. The International Brother- hood of Teamsters has been criticized for failing utterly to attempt the or- ganization of the taxi drivers, Sick Woman Evicted From Her Apartment Margaret Gordon, a: writer, 40 years old, has been evicted from her flat at 67 West:36th St., because of failure to pay her rent for. two months. She is suffering from influ- enza. Her rooms were invaded by an agent, of the landlord and a city mar- shall, who threw her furniture on the street. Due to her illness the bed was not moved. Strikers, Denied Coal, Kindle Fires os with Discarded Shoes ‘Flaming Milka” and Strike Leader Embree From Caled: Speak Here UNION T0 C ARRY cosicmmaianaaiial FINE RULING TO SUPREME COURT Defense to Place Issues Before All Labor ion to oppose the ruling junction case against leaders of the New York Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, made yesterday by Judge E er, with penalties totalling was voiced yesterday by ; Zimmerman speaking for his associates of the Joint Board. From other needle trades leadera @ similar line of policy was fortheom- ing. It is the intention to carry the case to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary and to organize back of the defendants a powerful mass defense which will place the vital issues in- volved before the entire labor move- |ment, according to Zimmerman; To Appeal. Pointing out that acceptance of the Erlanger decision, which was made public before counsel for the defense was notified, would mean surrender of the right to organize, strike and picket and would establish a prece- dent which could and would be used “Flaming Milka” Sablich, 19 year old Colorado mine strike leader who was beaten up and jailed by guards, to cripple other unions, Zimmerman and E. S. Embree, leader of the Colorado miners, who was also jailed, have arrived in New York direct from the Said. picket lines and will tell a vivid story of the front lines at a monster relief mass meeting, Monday night at 8 o'clock, at Central Opera House. RESIGNATION OF The resignation of Curtis D. Wil- bur, as secretary of the navy, is de- manded in a statement just issued by Congressman Loring M. Black, Jr.,! a democrat. Back bitterly denounced Wilbur as! unfit to hold office and bitterly con- demned the negligence which made possible the S-4 disaster and the re-} sultant death of 43 men. * + * PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 28. —Salvage work on the sunken subma- rine S-4 had to be suspended this aft- ernoon on account of a rising wind. Wreckage on the deck of the S-4 was cleared away this morning. Army Supplies Burn WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—A fire at Bolling Field, the army head- quarters, yesterday destroyed army supplies valued at $500,000. The cause of the fire is reported as un- known and a board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate. In the past such fires have been set by parties interested in the sale of new supplies and equipment to the gov- ernment, it has been charged. WINDOW CLEANER KILLED. Max Chupack, a window cleaner, was killed yesterday when he fell into the shaft of an eight-story office building at 4 Court Square, Brooklyn. Labor Officials Obtain an ! Injunction Against Union: and@in the indusiry. elected president of the union and|}<¢ John D. Nolan, president, Daniel M. Fitzgerald, secretary-treas- urer of the Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive Union, with headquarters in Boston, Mass., obtained a temporary injunction in Kings county supreme court yesterday against the officers and members of Brooklyn locals of the shoe workers’ union, whose char- ters Nolan and Fitzgerald had sus- pended. The injunction prohibits Louis Trubowitz, Chester W. Bixby, Hyman Levine, Sydney Yonas, and others from using the name of the Show Workers’ Protective Union or any name resembing that in order to carry on any sort of fight against the bosses. Long Story of Reaction. The unionists named in the injunc- tion have been the leaders of the shoe blackshirts, yesterday, obtained the release of Giacomo Caldora, a de- fense witness in the Greco-Catrillo trial. He had been held in contempt for failing to answer a supboena. The victory was technical, inasmuch as Cadora had already spent the ten days in jail waiting to be sentenced. workers’ unions in Brooklyn and New York for a number of years and have the confidence of the shoe workers. As leaders of the District Council of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union they were a thorn in the flesh of the larceny bosses of the district who favored, sweat-shop conditions}, / } / | | When Nolan was took office at Boston he and Fitzger- ald began to discourage organiza- tional work among the unorganized and took sharp issue with the mili- tant trade union policy of the Brook- lyn district council, which was known as. “No. 2.” Revoked Charges. When strikes were called in a num-| ber of organized shops Nolan and Fitzgerald protested and did every- thing to discourage such strikes, even refusing to send meagre funds for aid. They used the flimsy excuse for their opposition that the general of- fice at Boston had not sanctioned such strikes in spite of the fact thav orders had been given to the organizers in Brooklyn that such strikes did not require sanction of the general of- fice. An election was approaching in the national organization and Nolan feared the New York and Brooklyn shoe workers, who deeply resented his aid " the em} apt Be y neglecting Contd om Two) | Aircraft Exports Grow. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—A new record for exports of aircraft products by the United States has been estab- lished during the first ten months of 1927. The value of these products is estimated at $1,469,592, an amount con’ 2rably greater than the value) lot ( . products for the whole of 1926. The rise in air craft exports is at- tributed to the increasing importance of the United States in furnishing foreign countries with the means of } carrying on their wars against each gi yer. Four Workers Killed | BUFFALO, N. ee Dec, 28.—Four men are believed to have been killed late this afternoon when a ten-story apartment house which was under construction collapsed. Seven men were buried in the ruins, One man, William Klein, is missing. Sixty-one men were on the job when the crash came. SS aaEnEEE / INDIGESTION HALTS FLIGHT. CURTIS FIELD, L. L., Dec. 28.— The announced 60-hour flight to break ~~ {important mass rally of labor ‘ covery Mass Meeting “The company thugs called me a damned agitator and yelled that I should go back where I came from,” Milka Sablich, 19-year-old Colorado mine strike leader, now in New York, said yesterday, “but I was born |in the coal town of Forbes, Colorado, } and I mean to stay there and fight for my people.” | Milka, who has been beaten by |Colorado Fuel and Iron Company |guards and jailed by sheriffs in the employ of that and other labor-hat- ing corporations in the state, is in New York with E. jin strike relief work. Next Monday | night she will be one of the speakers jat a relief mass meeting for the | striking miners of Colorado, Ohio and | Pennsylvania. Embree to Talk. The meeting Monday, at the Cen- tral Opera House, will be the first for miners’ relief in the East. While plans have not yet been definitely perfected, it is expected that meet- ings will be arranged in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities. S. Embree to aid | in New York WILBUR IS ASKED —S»-—- Will Raise Relief Funds The others speakers will be E. S. The DAILY WORKER; Tony Miner- ich, striking coal miner from Penn- sylvania; Bishop Paul Jones, of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and So- {lon De Leon. Robert W. Dunn, re- cently returned from the Soviet Union | with the first American trade union delegation, will be chairman. Will Raise Funds. Milka Sablich, at the office of the | Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broad- way, yesterday afternoon said she left Colorado about ten days ago and would spend the next few weeks here fort to raise funds for relief. E. S. Embree, traveling with Milka jon a relief tour, has a long and mili- tant tradition in the western labor movement. “It’s a hard fight, but the workers are brave,” he said. such things as race lines in the class war in“Golorado at the present time. Forty-seven per cent of the miners (Continued on Page Five) 1 DIES, 3 HURT IN CRASH. SOMERVILLE, N. J., Dec, 28.— Fred Gray and Theodore P. Brokow were arrested on charges of man- slaughter. Their cars collided and Theodore Gray, eighteen-year-old brother of one of the drivers was killed, and three others injured. ROUND WORLD FLIGHT ENDS MITCHEL FIELD, L. L., Dec. 28.— The trip of round-the-world army flier, Major Frederick L. Martin came to a premature end today when his plane bunked into a barn on the McGunnigle farm at Hicksville, | L. I. Martin’s face was badly cut. Poison in Mine DENVER, Colo., Dec. 28. — An- |nouncement by authorities of what is jealled an “attempt to poison strike- ‘breakers at the Columbine mine,” al- ‘leged to have been revealed thru dis- of a chemical substance in} drinking water used by scabs and gun- men at the scene of the recent mur- |ders of coal strikers, is taken to in- dicate a frame-up to justify new ar-| rests calculated to weaken the morale of the strikers. Found in Water. The statement has been given out that a chemist found eight grains of bichloride of mercury in a bucket of drinking water. It is pointed out here that the character of the scabs | Water May Herald Frame-up Arrests lon, adjutant general of the national guard, that he believed a strike sym- pathizer had deposited the stuff in the | water after gaining ace to the mine | properties in the disguise of a scab’ is taken as meaning that the affair is |to serve as the basis for a frame- -up and new attack on the striking work- ers. The union miners are unanimous in |the opinion that such methods cannot |be regarded as having anything in| |common with their tactics in fighting the strike. The adjutant general made another accusation that “snipers” are firing on the scabs and gunmen and exhib- ited a horse which he said was his the non-stop record, planned by Bert}and the gunmen in national guard | own, with a wound in the shoulder as Acosta and Emile Burgin, has been|uniforms now being employed at the | proof of the firing. He claims that postponed due, it was stated, to an at-| mine since the murder of the strikers, | three men fired upon a national guard | suffered by|and the known existence of slum dis- | truck from the Monarch mine, after | tack of Acosta. indigestion eases among them might easily ac- count for the presence of the chemi. | |which he says they fled. Such facts as these, taken in con-| EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Dec, 28.—|cal, if such was really found and if its | junction with the recent arrests of 64 Eighteen hundred hogs were burned to death yesterday, when a fire broke out in the National stock yards here. presence in drinking water was acci- dental, The ge of Col. Paul P, New- strikers in Trinidad, seem to fore- shadow a gigantic frame-up in pros- aL speaking at labor meetings in an ef-/ “There are no| a ae | rganiza' “We want to make a test case of | this deliberate attempt of Judge Er- |langer to destroy our union,” Zim- ;merman continued. “We will carry our fight thru highest courts in the |land.” | @xceeds Recomme Judge Erlanger by his decision en- dorsed a recommendation by Murray Hulbert, referee in a hearing in which the Joint Board officials were charged Embree, organizer of the Colorado With contempt of court for violating mine strike; William F. Dunne, of @2 anti-picketing injunction. Murray Hulbert in his report rec- ommended that the 18 defendants be punished for contempt in addition to paying $10,000 damages to the Dress Manufacturers’ Association, Judge Erlanger by his decision imposed ® (Continued on Page Five) EXPECT 30,000 AT BAZAAR SATURDAY Arrangements are being made to accommodate at least 30,000 workers at Grand Central Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th St., Saturday evening at the bazaar of the Joint Defense Committee of Cloakmakers and Fur- riers. | A spectacular outpouring. of work- ers is expected that evening to greet Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fascist workers released from \prison last Friday evening, after five | months in the Bronx County jail one | fascist frame-up. For Workers’ Defense, The bazaar, which opened last Fri- day, is raising funds for the defense of needle trades workers arrested for participation in their union struggles. A $17,000 fine levied on 18 leaders of ‘the Joint Board, Cloak and Dress- jmakers’ Union, Tuesday, is the latest manifestation of the difficulties that the workers in the needle industry are facing. Since its opening last week thou- (Continued on Page Five) Postpone Injunction Leaflet Cases Here The case of the four Workers (Communist) Party members, are rested Dec. 7, when distributing anti-¢ injunction leaflets near the Morse . Dry Dock, Brooklyn, was again pos poned by Magistrate David Hers. fied in the 5th District Magistrate’s |Court. It is now scheduled for Fri- | |day. | The postponement was granted to ‘allow Jacques Buitenkant, retained as counsel by the International Labor | Defense, to file fa brief contesting the legitimacy of th court’s action. The workers }re Emil Makvista, Thomas Thorsei Neils Knith. | $1,000,000 TO TEACH POLITICIANS WASHINGTON, $1,000,000 has be George Washingto! establish a School tion: Eric Hennonen and ‘ty. | | te