The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927 ontinent Shudders as War Danger is Disclosed by Investigation Figures ARMED MEN IN CENTRAL EUROP i" | | E| BEAT 1914 FIGURE Military Al 3 of France And England Warlike VIENNA, De ope, “mother o Ntw Year's prospects for the there are 300,0( arms at the be: there were just | of the Great Ws 1914 that che ‘ Hungary” plunged Fear War Next Y Throughout and Ozechoslo regard 1928 w least of their wo Eur- | f i the Baltic i Sea in the more powers gather armies. Though si: Austro-Hun; weaker finan Josef’s old E up standing Big Peau tions. Official statistics ¢ trian authoritie mpiled by Aus- the following ihree dam, celebratio: Jugoslavia, 1 Roumania, Hungary three workers men, working on ihe Jersey bridge, were drowned when bottom of river blew up under large coffer- These victims are never mentioned when the politicians join in at the completion of the “feats of engi Photo shows diver who made unsuccess! WORKERS ALWAYS VICTIMS uew Hudson River ‘ineering.” 1 attempt to save the The peace str¢ Hungarian ar 420,000, and Serbia, 12 550, eee (Continucd ble fo: from Page One) ers ae heating their ing Beers Wa from unorgan- zed territory, cursing the company, approached the Harmonville picke’ post and declared the company was cheating in weight. They complained nothing in the pay state-| but deductions for support of | oal and iron police and a number of , other items, including what is called] | “protection.” .| The strike breakers are starving and Yy | want to leave but after weeks of work a cent for train fare and S are worn through so that feet touch the ground and campaign of » workers in| Thursday, Jan. Irving Place and the Workers (Con The speakers Dunne and DAILY WO! nese leader o: Olgin, editor ¢ monville scab is reported W. Weinsto di from a knifing in the back ad- the Party, pr ‘ed by another scab. * k be held j series of the world to atrocities comm nese wo! held in massacre. thro} COVERD DALE, Pa., Dec 28,—Stan- ley Reachel, a striking miner at Cov- je, Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Cor- mine, has been arrested by coal and iron police for resisting an jattack upon himself and his family Vote $60,000 More for "u's Late in the evening strike-breakers “Disarmament” Talk n throwing stones at his windows WASHINCTO and door. Reachel, going outdoors to investigate, was immediately set up- es on by a crowd of scabs armed with kas just approp guns, pick handies, and blackjacks. to pay the exp: 2 eighbors Evicted. delegates to the ce of | There were none to come to Reach- Preparatory Comm on Arm- e most of his neighbors aments which is to be held at Genev. been evicted and the few next Friday. This talk-f: ing staged v on with fr oscow imm: Dec. 28—Congress $60,000 more f the American the easel ilants | two coal and iron policemen came on he scene and put him under arrest for disorderly conduct. n icouraging con- by seabs on Coverdale most important Pitts- Coal mine is here, and any is using eve: is to en back on non-union terms them away from the camp. Miners Hospital. ittsburgh Terminal Coal nauer, two miles from have been sent to sult of the constant tation of Naval the recent League at Geneva. TROY, N. Y., Carboni, a tru » min was struck by a Dela son milk train on crossing. Mrs. Geor, also killed when her : overturned. Thi rike-breakers are le of the company mpany announces nllenauer evictions are to hed through and will be com- during the week before New The miners’ rank and file declare ly thrown out, not follow- present practise of moving |quietly after agreement between the ompany lawyer and the lawyer for United Mine Workers of Amer- ad jnation indicat- as the cause of | The ‘strike for famille $ say that it is not rare t this camp, about seven le of Pittsburgh (recently oolidge for its prosperity) lo without eats for two or three ies at a time” also that “bread and 1| coffee are becoming standard food,” and that many children are not only barefoot but also hungry: “some are | PORTUGAL. All VY STORM 1 Port «: Relief Shipments of Food and Supplies Reach Strikers _| Labor Lyeeum, \35 Miller St., jveal bad, and it’s a pity to look at them.” * * * Women to Help Miners. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. “What Can,Woman Do to Help the Miners Win Their Struggle?” | city, Friday, December 30th, which will be addressed by well known speakers and labor organizers such as Rebecca Grecht, Juliet Stuart} | Poyntz and striking miners. Hunger Stalks Area. One hund red and twenty thousand miners are on stri Their women and children are hw y. They are living in wooden shac protected against vain ough blankets or coverings. Every worker and those friendly to] labor should attend t Women wor! al pecially invited. women’s organi: vicinity are u members to es tions of the city and ¢ to the ne Provisional Committee Striking Miners. For Relief os Conference Planned. This ,committ of repre- sentatives of various women’s organi- | zations of Pi free. The commi meeting also ar in charge of the ounces that it plans to call a women’s conference for relief Moose | Temple, Penn and Sixth, on January purposes to be held at the 22nd. Unemployed Mulcted By Position Agency DALLAS TEX. -A neat methed of obtaining two dollar bills from the unemployed is being used by the so-called International Service Co. of this city. The company places advertisements in the country to olfiain in newspapers large cities calling for positions throughout the young ‘men ie, unemployed ¢ the advertisement, they re- ceive a printed letter in reply, which after reciting the advantages of posi- tions in South Ameri Africa and other places, requests $2 for the fil- ing of the application. The company di ot promise to place the appli- cants in positions, their names being kept on “file.” Oakland OAKLAND, Cal., Dee. Robert E. group of abandoned near the day. tically ransacked them. offered Smith a “job” at $1.25 per week as caretaker, and took Evelyn “to his wealthy mother.” She has not been heard of since, 23.— This | burning and timely question will be| answered at a mass meeting at the this which are not and snow. They have no coal to burn and not ble for them to walk home er meeting on and friends | Secretaries of ‘ged to invite all their meeting, which was arranged by the Women’s Admission is in workers Mobs Search For Reputed Abductor 28.—Lashed to wild fury by a report that little Evelyn Smith, 11-year-old victim of McClelland’s false Christ- mas charity, has been found in a railroad huts Southern Pacific yards, a mob of neighbors formed at noon to- Shouting threats of vengeance, the mob raced to the huts and fran- McClelland ‘SOCIALISTS HURT ‘COLORADO RELIEF; WON'T COOPERATE | Worker Party Demands They Face Issue | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 28. Pointing out that the Socialist lead- Rees were allowing their narrow par- | | tisan interests to cause them to sabot- | age the work of raising funds for the striking Colorado miners, and demand- | ing from the Socialist Party a clear answer as to what they were going to do about it, the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, subdistrict of Wisconsin, | | has issued a leaflet telling of the \failure of the attempt to draw the | | Socialist officialdom into the relief | campaign, | “The brave struggle of the Colorado | miners had a healthy influence upon the labor movement of America. The | workers felt that they must close their | | ranks in front of the common enemy | and that the fight of the Colorado miners is their fight» In some of the larger cities, like New York, Chicago and others, labor organizations of dif- ferent shades of political opinion, joined hands and arranged meetings under joint auspices for the support of the Colorado miners: “In Milwaukee, unfortunately, Mr. Wm. Coleman, the State Secretary of the Socialist Party, informed the | Workers’ Party that the Socialist Par- ty will have nothing to do with the proposed joint mass meeting in sup- port of the Colorado miners. This compelled the Workers’ Party to hold the meeting under its own auspices. |The meeting was held on Sunday, De- cember 4, at the Labor Temple, 8th St. and Walnut St., and was success- ful. Seventy dollars and sixty-five cents were raised in a collection, and a check for thirty-four dollars—the net proceeds of the mailed to the Defense and Relief Com- mittee of the Colorado miners, at Wal- senburg, Colorado. “At this mass meeting it was de- leided to appeal to the Federated | | Trades Council of our city to organ- | lize a more systematic and extensive | support for | Pennsylvania miners. its Socialist officials, refused to hear the plea of the several hundred work- ers of Milwaukee for the support of the Colorado miners on the ground that thist plea was presented: py the representative of the Workers’ Party. ‘Hickman Victim Died | Of F bright, Decision LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 28.— The fact that Wm. E. Hickman’s child victim died, according to the decision of physicians friendly to her father, of fright and exhaustion and not of strangulation, opens a possible argu- ment by which the kidnapper may escape the extreme penalty, in the opinion of lawyers here. Hickman, according to the district attorney, has signed a statement that this paper while on the train locked up in a compartment with Chief of Po- lice Klein, one of the most brutal third degree experts in the world. And Hickman is, according to psy- chiatrists here, one of a fairly nu- |merous group afflicted with a par- |ticular psychopathic condition. His jcrime seems to have been not primari- ly for the low ransome, but dictated by desires not normal in man. Chicago Gangland War Fatal to Two CHICAGO, Dec! 28.—“Law and or- der’ was rufiled again here today hen the Chicago gangland beer war lared anew, and two men fell in a rain of rifle fire. The dead are Charles Miller, bootlegger, and John Davis, said to be a member of the gang that attacked Miller in an out- ying roadhouse. The death of Miller occurred, it is} aS tablish himself as a small-time boot- legger in territory controlled by one | of the syndicates controlling the $75- 900,000 vice, liquor and gambling “in. vests” in Chicago. Prehistoric Finds Battle Now in Court PARIS, Dec. 28.—-The controversy, which has raged over the genuineness of the so-called prehistoric discoveries at Glozel, having failed of settlement by the scientific experts, is now to be aired in the courts, M. Rene Dussand, one of the scien- | tists vouching for the authenticity of the discoveries has announced the fil- ing of a suit against the international committee of experts who have re- ported the findings to, be fakes. Sentenced to Death CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 28.—As Jerry Gedzium was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of Edward C. Ross, a bank messenger. He said, “I did not commit this crime, nor do f know who did or anything about it,” meeting—was | both the Coioraao and} The Federated | Trades Council, under the influence of he choked her to death, But he signed | ved, when he attempted to es-| _{admiration for our nation’s heroes,” Famous Dancer at the 4th anniversary celebration of thi nia and began her artistic studies at© the age of eight. Two years later she was brought to New York.to obtain a thoro dancing technique at the Chalif | School. | She became a pupil of Gertrude Kelse and Marion Morgan, eventually |becoming a member of the latter’s | | touring ensemble. Later she studied |with Mihail Fokine and became a member of his ballet company. Miss Niles received her training in | Oriental dancing from Roshanara, | with whom she has also appeared in | | public. Michio Itow, the noted Japan- | ese dancer, taught her the dances of | |his country, and native American | | dancing she studied with Chief Dan / Red Eagle. Her knowledge of Span- ish dancing, an art in which she is es- | | pecially distinguished, was received | from Aurora Arriaza and from native | dancers in Spain. MOVIE OPERATORS: DEMAND MORE PAY. CHICAGO, Dee. 28.—Moving pic- ture owners and members of the op- erators’ union in Chicago are again | deadlocked over the question of an in- ‘erease in pay for the operators after the first of the year, it became | known here today. Demand for a 25 per cent increase in wages was made upon the theatre owners last night, but was flatly re- jected today, according to Ralph O’Hara, general organizer of the un- ion. Another conference between the two factions is to be held tomorrow. N.Y. Printers Get $1 Wage Increase (By Federated Press.) About 3,500 printing pressmen of |Local 51, New York city, get $1 a {week wage increase beginning Jan. 1 and extending to Sept. 1, 1929. This} makes the scale for cylinder press- men at the beginning of the new year $56 a week; and for job pressmen, $47. The old agreement ended Oct, 1, 1927. When direct negotiations between the union and employer failed to bring a new agreement, John Fitch was chosen as arbitrator, Dec. 19. By Christmas eve he gave his decision, which is binding to both parties. The pressmen of local 51 are employed in job shops and on magazines and books. The newspaper pressmen are in another local. Civic Fedevation’s Poverty Dope False Figures issued by the National Civ- ie Federation regarding the number of individuals dependent upon charity after they reach the age of 65, were ridiculed yesterday. Abraham Ep- stein, secretary of the American As- sociation for Old Age Security,” de- clared that “the Federation has mere- | * |ly set up a straw man and delights | | in knocking it down.” Epstein asserted that there were lover 2,000,000 people who are de- {pendent on outside aid. Truth or Not, Mayor Must Have Patriotism CHICAGO, Ill, Dee. 28.—The pa- triotie Mayor Thompson will not have Washington called a rebel, Hancock a smuggler, Patrick Henry a drunken lawyer, and it doesn’t matter whether | it is true or not. “Our patriotism is built upon our | | | | | | i i 1 he declaimed yesterday, “and when they ridicule the heroes, the stars fall out of patriotism.” Thompson has changed his tactics, and announced that he would “kick Superintendent McAndrew out, but do it legally.” Anti-Class Struggle Conference Is Opened | The first lap in a pious fourney to “introduce the ethics of religion into business” was completed yesterday with the conclusion of the industrial seminary called by the department of social relations of the congregational churches of the U. S., held at the Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway and 56th St. Lucius R, Eastman, president of the New York Merchants Association, several ministers, and various labor officials including Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated cloth- ing Workers of America, offered pre- scriptions for taking the fight out of the class struggle, at Anniversary Celebration Doris Niles, the celebrated dancer, Friday evening, January 13 at 8.15 p.m. She was born in Redlands, Califor- Will Appear will appear with a group of artists e DAILY WORKER in Mecca Temple, commer neater & LABOR OFFICIAL GETS INJUNCTION AGAINST LABOR Nolan Fights New York Shoe Workers (Continued from Page One) organizational work so he proceeded to revoke the charter of the district council and some of the local unions on the fimsy pretext that they called strikes without sanction. Members Stood Firmly. In spite of the revocation of the charters the membership of the locals stood firmly with the leadership of , DORIS NILES CATHOLIC CHEERS GRAFT TARGET February 1st was yesterday an- nounced as the tentative date set for the opening of the public hearings on the sewer scandal in Jamaica. Judge Scudder of Gray-Snyder fame will preside. Former U. S, Dist. Attorney, Emory R. Buckner will make out the formal case against the crooked borough President, Maurice E. Connolly, and Max D. Steuer, high- priced lawyer, will try to “defend” him. Yesterday the President of the Catholic Big Sisters of Queens called on Connolly and offered her con- dolences on his present unhappy situa- tion. Buckner and his six young assis- tants have taken a suite of six swanky offices in the Court Square building, and announcement is made that New York City will foot the bill. While Buckner and his aids are get- ting into shape the formal charges | against Connolly, the borough presi- dent is building up “moral support” for himself and his dubious adminis- tration. The majority of his Tam- many sattelites, dependent for their jobs on whether or not Connolly is; white-washed at the termination of the Scudder hearings, are announcing their faith in the “integrity” of their erring chief. Sold for Medical Test! Then Swindled, She Says The sum of $500,000 is demanded by lawyers for Mrs. Mae L. Brearton, | , of 120 Riverside Drive, from the es- tate of Elden C. De Witt, the late president of a patent medicine con- cern. The complainant alleges that she had made an agreement with De Witt by which she was to act as subject for medical experiments for which she | was to receive $1,000 a month for the rest of her life, and didn’t get it. the district council and made a he- roie fight against the employers. us it became necessary for | Nolan and Fitzgerald to further aid the employers against the shoe work-. ers by starting injunction proceed- ings against them to prohibit them even organizing the unorganized, or even themselves remaining in a shoe workers’ union. Will Violate Injunction. In keeping with the general con- tempt in which labor is coming to hold injunctions the leaders of the New York shoe workers declare they will fight against the injunction and violate it wholesale. Two Alleged Organizers. Aiding and abetting the strike- | breaking, union-wrecking Boston 9 als are two alleged organizers, . individual who calls himself Jack Conley when he is in Brooklyn and is a member of the Children’s branch of the Shoe Workers’ Union, signed the affidavits upon which the injunc- tion was obtained, as did also a so- jealled Italian organizer, Gennarao Quintialiano, who somtimes parades as a radical in the labor movement, but who for a salary of $65 per week joins the capitalist offensive against labor and aids the courts crush the workers in his own industry. ‘Scientists Meeting in Backward Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 28.— Tennessee, the State where the anti- evolution law was_ inaugurated, heard man called “an accident” at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in session here today. “Man happened to be descended from a stock that had curiosity. Got out of the tree, walked erect, had a thumb that enabled him to handle tools, and imagination with which to juse them,” said Allan L. Benson in a [paper read before the 3,000 dele- | gates. Bi * NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 28. — In the very state where fundamentalism is in flower, and where the late Will- liam J. Bryan made a victorious fight |to prevent the teaching of evolution, a significant scientific conference is now being held. A broad program for “pushing the boundaries of man’s knowledge of man” has been laid before the scien- tifie world by Dr. Clarence Cook Lit- tle, president of the University of Michigan, speaking before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ITALIAN SHIP WRECK. DEAL, -England, Dec. 28—The Italian steamer Capovado is reported aground on the Godwin sands and in great danger from a fierce gale. Life- boats have been unable to reach the ship. BOOK BARGAI AT SPECIAL PRICE? At 5 Cents Each . 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