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ee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Eptered as second-clnsn matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 299. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $0.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927 PUBLISHING CO. Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents MINE RELIEF BODY DECLARES FRAYNE HALTS AID COLORADO CHIEF MURDERER LEADS 250 VIGILANTES Drive Miners From Hall Arrest 42 More By WINIFRED R. MOOERS. (Special to The Daily Worker.) DENVER, Dec. 29.—Continuing the reign of terror in southern Colo- rado where Rockefeller interests dominate, which began with ra aund- wholesale arrests of strikers Sunday, Louis Scherf, the thug who led the murderous attack on the Col- umbine miners, last night headed a force of 250 special deputios sworn in by the Trinidad mayor in a raid on the strikers’ hall. The mayor issued a call for “able- bodied citizens” to form a ‘vigilante” committee and under the lead: ‘ip of Scherf, the special deputies join- ed by state police marched on the hall and broke up the meeting that was in progress. Threatened with guns, the miners | were driven out of the hall. Forty two were arrested. It appears that an effort is being made to fill the Trinidad Jail which can hold 300 men. Seventy-two men from the previous raid were already there. Attorney Henderson tried to pre vent possible blocdshed by seeking restraining order against the attaci but failed. Rob Aged Woman—Assault Attorney Tn the raid on the same hal! Sih- day night the apartment smashed was (Continued on Page Five) CAB MEN T0 TEST POWER OF POLICE Announcement has been made by Hugo Weber, president of the Brod Street Taxi Owners’ Association, that his organization is plannine a tria) case to test the powers of Police In- spector Ruttenberg, in charge of the hack trials. The question over which special | agitation has arisen in taxi circles is | the recent decision of “Czar” Rutten- berg to raise the charge of the ta axi | driver’s medalion-from $5.00 to $10 09. | The medalion is the insignia taoed | on the side of the cab by which it | is designated as licensed to operate. | Charge Inspector Exceeds Rights. Charges are made that Inspector | Ruttenberg has gone beyond his| rights in making this arbitrary de- cision. In the past the activities of the police department have gone more or less unchallenged. Thousards of taxi drivers have been discrimin- | ated against not only by the insnec- | tor’s department but by individual police officers. If present efforts initiated by Hugo Weber are success- ful, it may mean, according to well informed observers, the beginning of further challenges to police discrim-| ination. | Hackmen Must Gexkaiss. Taxi drivers of whom over 53, 009 | in greater New York have been left} unorganized in New York City by the| International Brotherhood of Team- sters, are now treated virtually as) criminals through the contro] exer- ised over them by the police depart- | tent. There are over fifty regula-| tilns held over them by the police of-| ficials, most of which, it is learned | from reliable taxi drivers, are so en-| forced as to make a virtua! slave of | the driver to the whims of any po- lice officer. During the past few months, it was learned, the ‘Sentiment for trade union organization has been growing among the cab men who now state openly that every other means of solving the many problems in the in- dustry have failed completely. * # a The DAILY WORKER will here- after publish regularly the news of | the taxi. drivers’ struggles, for or-| ganization, against police discrimina- La for decent conditions. Ask for e DAILY WORKER at any news- stand. Buy several copies for dis- tribution among the taxi drivers. Work for the organization of the taxi drivers! “PRIDE OF DETROIT” TOO HEAVY. DAYTONA BEACH, Fia., Dec. 29. --After running along the Ormond- Daytona Beach for three and one- half miles in an attempt to take off on their world endurance ‘flight, Ed- ward F. Schlee and William S. Brock round-the-world fliers, were unable today to get their heavy monoplane, “Pride of Detroit.” into the air. 4 t aR Eile ca a al Defied Machine Guns “Flaming Milka” suc.ca, 19-year- old girl strike leader of the Colorado ‘miners in New York to address huge mass meeting at Central Opera House |next Monday night for relief work. | Jailing, clubbing and_ intimidation have only added to her determination to continue in the fight for the strug- | gling miners. SINCLAIR LOSES‘ TEAPOT OIL LEASE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 29.— Teapot Dome, Wyoming naval oil land asserted to have a value of $100,- 000,000, lease of which to Harry F. Sinclair by former Interitor Secre- \tary Albert B. Fall created a nation- al scandal, was formally returned to | the United States government today. Federal District Judge T. Blake Kennedy signed the final decree af- | ter declining to grant Sinclair’s de- ‘mand for quit claim rights acquired prior to the Teapot lease. SUES CHIEF FOR $10.000. JERSEY, CITY, N. J., Dec. 29.— liam F. Clossey, chief of the Boule- vard Police force here, will be sued | for $10,000 for assaulting Lieutenant {Thomas Henley. Henley told the }court that he had been arguing about police matters with his chief, when the latter hit his eye, thus causing blind- ness for several weeks, and badly bruising him otherwise, Remus States That He Was Offered Freedom If He Turned Rum Spy CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. 29.—Judge William H. Lueders of the Hamilton County probate court will decide soon whether George Remus, “bootleg king,” recently acquitted of wife- murder will be placed in the state hospital for the criminal insane or be set free. “I was told by a committee of sen- ators,” said Remus, “that if I would tell the ramifications of the boot- legging industry, I would not have to serve one day of my sentence.” Alienists are now giving their opinions on Remus’ habits, and a de- cision is expected soon. His case, Remus has declared, had been the subject of two discussions in one day between Senator Reed at Missouri and Coolidge. - | TO END-EVILS ROUSE MACHINE TRIES TO GAC PRINTERS’ VOTE iiies to Block Stisrton! Hour Demand The membership oF New York Ty graphical Union No. 6 (Big Six) ee voting today on a five-year agreement | ‘in the job shops. The ballot upon} |which the vote is being taken was submitted by the job scale conference committee and completely abandons the main demand of the job composi- | tors which was for a five-day—40- hour week in place of the present five ‘and a half day, 44-hour week. Printers Are Furious, Many of the members of the union | iwho realize that the political machine | |of Leon H. Rouse, president of “ ie eee has again failed to fight for a} reduction in hours, are furious at the | jaction of the scale committee is not giving them a chance to vote on the ‘question of hours. | The five-year agreement provides 'that hours remain just as they are, |44 hours for day work, 40 hours for |the night shift and hours a week } |for the third shift. A dollar a year | {increase is also provided over the | five-year period. Milliken Assails Ballot. | D’Arcy Milliken, former candidate | ‘for president of “Big Six” in opposi- | tion to Rouse, in an interview with a | representative of The DAILY WORK- | | ER, ,branded the proposal submitted | | to the membership as a crime in view | jof the present unemployment prevail- i iCunneder or Page Two) N. J LABOR ACTS | (Sperial to Tie waily Worker.) | |. NEWARK, Dee. 29. Jersey State Federation of Labor,| thru its secretary Hugh V. Reilly and president Arthur A. Quinn, have sent jout a call for all trade unions and | central bodies to send three delegates | each to a conference scheduled for | January 8th at which proposals will | be discussed looking to the creation | of a militant legislative program for 1928, | Move Against Anti-Labor Forces. | The conference which is to begin at 1 p. m. at the Newark Labor Lyceum, 708 S, 14th St., is the outgrowth of a resolution passed at the last conven- tion of the New Jersey Federation of Labor at which it was reported that (Continued on Page Two) Woman so Poor. She Would Sell Ears An elegant lady in Chicago adver- tised sometime ago that she wanted prettier ears, and would pay a neat | sum iftsomeone would sell her a pair. Many offers have come to her in the United States. The latest, how- ever comes from a widow of a Ger- man worker slaughtered in the world war. : “I have five children,” she wrote. “I have only a meager orphan’s al- lowance. Why shouldn’t a German woman sacrifice her ears for her children. This is not spleen: it is only misery.” INDICT MILK INSPECTORS. Five indictments charging three unnamed former milk inspectors with extortion in New York’s bootleg milk trade were returned yesterday by the Grand Jury. | triets — The New!S. Soviets | Set Up it in Villages Near Canton PEASANTS TAKE | OVER LAND; AID IN GOVERNMENT Canton ‘Reactionaries Hold USSR Officials HONGKONG, Dec. 29.—A number of priests from the Hol Lufkung dis- who were held prisoner by | workers and peasants on the charge of counter-revolutionary activity and | who were later released when the Bri- | tish destroyer Seraph threatened to | bombard a number of villages, de- | clared that practically the whele:y | vicinity is in the control of workers’ and peasants’ governments. Soviets have been set up and large | landholdings have been confiscated, they declared. The priests were re- leased when the British destroyers , cleared for action, trained its guns on Swabue, where they were held, and prepared to land a detachment of | marines. Consul’s Life Endangered. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 29.—Pokhvalin- sky, Soviet Union Consul General in Canton, who is now being held prison- er by the reactionary authorities at Canton, told a Japanese journalist, who visited him in jail, that his life |and the lives of the members of the ‘consulate staff who were arrested) with him were in danger. | He and his colleagues were arrested December 14th, he declared, in a raid | by the Cantonese police and were led | handcuffed to-the quarters of the Fourth, Army. €orps. A number .of women were amuhg the prisoners. At Mercy of Cantonese. H Pokhvalinsky declared that the U.| . S. R. prisoners may be strangled or beheaded any day, being at the complete mercy of the Cantonese au- thorities. | Pokhvalinsky confirmed the report that Khassis, Vakulov, Ivanov, Mak- arov and Popov, members of the staff, were shot on December 13th by Li Fu- ling’s soldiers. Traces of Handcuffs. When the journalist told Pokhvalin- | sky that a representative of the com- missioner of foreign affairs of the Nanking government had assured him that the prisoners were well treated, the U. S. S. R. consul smilingly showed the correspondent his clothes, which had not been changed for two weeks, and the traces of handcuffs on |his wrists, Regarding the fate of the prisoners, the representative of the commission- er of foreign affairs declared that he had not yet received instructions from the Nanking government. * * * Gen. Li Takes Canton. LONDON, Dec. 29.—Gen. Li Chai Sum’s reactionary army formally took possession of Canton today, ac- cording to a Central News dispatch from Hongkong. BUY INTO BRITISH MOVIES. The United Artists Theatre Cir-| cuit, Inc., Joseph M. Schenck, presi- dent, has arranged to obtain a 25 per cent interest in “The New Standard Film Co., Ltd.,” a British company being organized to take over control of the Provincial Cinematograph The- atres, Ltd., the leading motion picture circuit on the British Isles, it was learned yesterday. TAMMANY MOVES Escape Chair; Back Free from the shadow of the e chair but a few days, Donato Carrillo and Calugero Greco, anti-f cist clothing ers, have already thrown themselves back into the New York labor movement with Both will attend the costume ball of the Joint De- fense bazaar at Grand Central Palace, tomorrow * added energy and enthusiasm. 46th St. night. and Lexington Ave., Picture shows Carrillo with his six- year-old son and wife after being from a fascist frame-up by a jury dict, ’s ver- Both Carrillo and Greco spent over five months in the Bronx county jail. Into Labor’ s Fight! lectric work- freed TO HIDE GRAFT Another step in the Tammany “re- | organization” plan was disclosed yes- | terday in the report about to be made | GARMENT UNION WILL NOT YIELD Announcement was made yester- day by leaders of the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board that it will in no way E §, EMBREE AND SABLICH AID Ns Y, RELIEF PROGRAM Huge Mass Meeting Is Set For Monday With union miners’ headquarters in the Colorado strike field being raided by self-constituted “vigilante committees” and with evictions of | miners’ families being accelerated in Pennsylvania, plans were being inten- | sified here last night for New York’s lfirst large scale mass meeting for miners’ relief. It will be held in Central Opera House, 67th St. near Third Ave., Mon- day at 8 p. m. with E. S. Embree, or- ganizer of the Colorado strike, and Milka Sablich, 19-year-old girl strike among the speakers. he dispatches of today tell only part of the story of the struggle of the 150,000 miners and their wives and children in the Pennsylvania-Ohio | field and the Colorado field,” Embree | said last night at the headquarters of | the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Min- ers’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway. Other speakers at the \night meeting will be William F. ;Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER; }Tony Minerich, |vania miner; Bishop Paul Jones, of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Solon De Leon. Robert W. Dunn, la- bor economist, will preside. The meeting will be held under the joint auspices of the Pennsylvania- Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Com- | mittee, the Emergency Committee for Strikers’ Relief, the Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee and the Youth Con- | ference for. Miners? sPAtigf see Frayne Echoes Operators. Replying to statements by Hugi Frayne, published in yesterday’s issue of the Daily News, the local commit- tee | of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colo- |rado Minezs’ Relief, with offices at Broadway, takes issue with rayne and points out that his state- ments relative to an “unauthorized by Mayor Walker’s subcommittee on/| yield to the attempted pressure of | drive for relief of coal strikers” are Plan and Survey containing recom- mendations for drastic reforms in New York City government. The report soon to be made public will recommend a proposal to elimin- ate the borough executive depart- | ments completely, substituting for them unified city control. The reason given by Tammany Hall | for this proposed wide scale reorgan- ization is the saving of money to be | affected. It is known, however, that | the plan has been arrived at as part | of the program of Al. Smith and his} banker supporters to eliminate the | eruder forms of graft and centralize | all grafting activities under one head in the democratic machine and thus to avoid the periodic revelations of | corruption such as, for instance, is now being disclosed in the sewer scan- dal in Queens. New Jersey Battery Men | Strike for Wage Boost NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Dec. 29. | —Seventy men employed by the Na-| tional Battery Co. went on strike| yesterday for higher wages. claring they are unable to meet liv- ing expenses at their present wages. Police are “guarding” the plant | but no attempt to picket has | made. Five hundred women who reside at the Workers’ Cooperative House, 2700 Bronx Park, East, the Bronx, will at- tend the Joint Defense Committee ball at Grand Central Palace, Lex- ington Ave. and 46th St., in a body tomorrow. They will be conveyed in trucks specially hired for the occa- sion. Arrangements are completed for a reception at the Bazaar tomorrow to Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti-fascists, acquitted of a fascist murder plot last Friday. The two released workers will yelate their ex- perience. Carlo Tresea, editor of “Il Martello,” anti-fascist weekly, will speak. Book on Sale. The long awaited book, “The Mine- ola’ nui ”” by Paul Novick, edi- ‘tor of “Unity, ” left wing needle 500 Women from the Cooperative Colony | to Attend the Bazaar Tomorrow Evening ‘the senate to delay action on the tax trades weekly, will be placed on sale at the bazaar tomorrow. The book recites in detail the frame-up of the nine leaders of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, and contains the criminal records of gang- sters used by the right wing admin- istration of the International Fur Workers’ Union. Reduce Prices. All merchandise will be reduced in price tonight, it was announced yes- terday, and merchandise that is not sold tonight will be removed to the balcony. The ..ain floor will be de- voted exclusively to dancing tomor- row night. The committee of judges on the best costumes includes Greco, Carrillo, Tresca, Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, Cloak | and Dressmakers’ Union; Ben Gold,! manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union; Lydia Gibson, artist; Adolf Woiff, poet and sculptor; William Z. Foster, secretary, Trade Union Edu-! cational League; Schachno Epstein, associate editor, The Freiheit; Lud-| wig Landy, manager, Joint Defense Committee; Hugo Gellert, artist, and Rose Wortis and Charles S. Zimmer- man, of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Unioh. FUNERAL FOR FIREMAN, Funeral service for Bernard} O'Kane, the fireman who was killed when fighting a fire in Brooklyn, was held yesterday. The procession | left’ the O’Kane home, at 631 MeDon- | ough St., Brooklyn pat i a a Lo | for 1927 taxes are due. the contempt order issued against | eighteen of its members by a decision of Referee Murray Hulbert. The Joint.Board, it wa# stated, was continuing its activities in carrying out the instructions of its member- ship without regard to the moves on the part of the employers, the right wing officials and the court orders aimed solely at destroying the legi- timate union in the trade. While every effort is being made to defeat the contempt proceedings in the higher courts, leaders affected by the recent order stated, decision will be Secured by strength of the rank and file sup- port behind the Joint Board. “The recent stand of M. E. Taft,} | manager of Local 41, against an un- enforcible injunction,” it was an- nourged, “is the best example of what is the duty of trade unionists under such conditions.” Ball for the Daily By Workers of Flint FLINT, Mich, Spel 27. (By Mail). ; The | —A masquerade ball will be given | workers have been receiving 40 cents| by the Workers (Communist) Party | an hour and demand 60 cents, de- | local branch, Saturday evening, Jan-} uary 7, at 829 Tilden St. Half of the| proceeds will be donated to the| DAILY WORKER as a gift to cele- | brate its isctid paey: Tax Cuts or Big Navy ‘Problem for Congress WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Treas- ury approval! has been given the plan put forward by republican leaders in bill in the senate until after March 15, the date on which first payments Coolidge and the financiers want little reduction and a big navy, industrialists want) tax cuts. Soviet Union Devotes More to Protect Labor MOSCOW, Dec. 17.—(By Mail).— Forty-three billion roubles will beyde- ‘voted by the Commissariat of Labor |for the protection of workers in in- dustry next year. Thirty-seven mill- jon roubles were spent for protection last year. The metallurgical and electrical in- dustries received over thirteen mill- ions last y « the final | the} published in connection with a coal | operators’ story denouncing the strik- \ers and only serves the purpose of hampering the collection of money, clothes and food for 250,000 miners, wives and childrert The committee statement says: “Published by the Daily News on the same page and immediately un- der the vicious lead to an interview with the chief of the Pittsburgh Ter- |minal Coal Company’s private army of gunmen, denouncing the strike and the strikers, the statement of Hugh (Continued on Page Five) IN FORTY 10 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 29, | 40 industrial towns will be visi Rebecca Grecht, Workers P organizer, on her tour of Pennsylvania and Virginia. astic meetings have already in the unorganized ffelds of th nelsville coke region; Bro Daisytown and Bentlyville. A meeting was arranged in Yoorhis, a small mining town wl the miners have been on strike s April 1, but the owner of the hall |fused to permit the meeting to ahead at the last minute.. The ers of this town, determined Grecht’s message, proceeded on to Bentlyville, and there behi | enthusiastic reception. | Meetings have also been held steel towns of Benessen, Corapolis, New Brighton, Castle. Despite the strike situation and | reign of terror in the Pittsburgh dis. | trict, Grecht’s tour is stre | the present party organization. h Labor Party idea, Grecht reports, being accepted by workers where with great enthusiasm. X-Ra; plet- © n he ®_¢y and woven hat tionay process a more, This was of Missouri, speaking American Association vancement of Science, here Monday — striking Pennsyl- 4 ,

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