The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTs: 1 FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-110UR WEEK H FOR A LABOR PARTY | ——$——$— THE DAILY Wo March 3, 187% Published daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year, Vol. IV. No. 230. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK WORKERS TO ANSWER MINERS COSTUME DANCE | gees 7 TO END DEFENSE BAZAAR TONIGHT Embree, Sablich, Greco, Carrillo to Attend The nine-day bazaar of the Joint Defense Committee, Cloakmakers and Furriers, will end tonight with a bril- liant costume ball at Grand Central Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th St. Guests of honor will include Calo- gero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anti- fascists acquitted of a fascist murder plot last week, and A. S. Embree, organizer of the Colorado miners’ strike, and Milka Sablich, Colorado Grand Jury Unmasks Burns Spy Prosecutor THOUSANDS TO INDICT BURNS SS ee AT GIANT RAL _ New York labor will cern “Presentment” Exposes its solidarity with the st PiantoLetTren co | CQAL OPERATORS CHARGE | day night at 8 o’clock for New Yo , first large-scale miners’ relief | meeting. : BOMBINGS BY STRIKERS "2 vo. coco see. anda Bars PS LA , J vai House, 67th St. and Third Ave,, 2 | forced the hand of U. S. District At- = | 'torney Peyton Gordon, prosecuting jvather feebly the case of jury spying, and the “fixing” of the Sinclair-Fall ininers of Pennsylvania, Ohio Colorado by filling Central WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 30.— The District of Columbia Grand Jury | ganizer, and “Flaming Milka” Sab | 19-year-old girl leader, will tell of girl strike leader, | Teapot Dome oil graft jury. c . ae w 3 Bose ncn | snares gee gi for orga’ Issues Appeal. . s 66 t ” r z < - 2 |tion and a living = Beings fay Bree es ¥ Per | Other speakers at the meeting will An appeal to support the bazaar was issued last night by Ludwig Lan- dy, manager, Joint Defense Commit- tee. “While the bazaar is still on,” says the statement, “the news comes that 18 of the most loyal leaders of the Cloakmakers’ Union must pay penal- ties totalling $17,500 or go to prison for six months. “This decision affects not only the | cloakmakers but the entire labor move- ment of this country. It is an open challenge to the American working A. 5. EMBREE. EMBREE’S STORY IS OF STRUGGLE Long activity in the front lines of the class struggle have meant years in| orders of Sinclair and friends; W. | | The grand jury brought in a “pre- sentment,” that is, a result of find- ings, accusing Oil Baron Harry Sin- ‘clair, his assistants, Henry Mason |Day, of the Sinclair Exploration Co., land Sheldon Clark, of the Sinclair | Refining Co.; W. Sherman Burns, the self-styled “eye that never sleeps” |and owner of the labor hating Burns Detective Agency, and Burns’ three assistants, Chas. G. Ruddy, manager of Burns agents in Washington who spied on the oil graft jury at the ~ ew awos D |be William F. Dunne, of The D, | WORKER; Tony Minerich, | Pennsylvania miner; Bishop | Jones, of the Fellowship of ciliation, and Solon De Leon. |W. Dunn will act as chairman. The meeting is being held € | joint auspices of the Pent | Ohio-Colorado Miners’ | mittee, the Emergency Strikers’ Relief, the Colorado 3 | Relief Committee, the Workers’ In |ternational Relief, and the You’ | Conference for Miners’ jail for A. S, Embree, organizer of | the sttiking Colorado miners. Introduced to the principles of | Marxism in 1896, Embree was at Nome, Alaska, in 1908 and in Bisbee, Ariz. in 1916. Today he is in New York and with Milka Sablich, Colo- rado girl strike leader, appealing for | relief funds for the striking miners of Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “In 1916 I was at Bisbee,” Embree said yesterday, without any attempt at a chronological account. As a Miner. While talking about the present) struggle and, at the request of a} DAILY WORKER reporter, about | | himself, Embree sat across the table | from the interviewer in the office of | the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Min- | ers Relief Committee, 799 Broadway. “I was doing copper mining in Bis- bee,” he continued. “I worked for the class. It is an attempt on the part of the bosses to deprive the workers of their fundamental right to strike in this country. Repulse Attack. “The American workers will re- pulse this outrageous attack and will (Continued on Page Five) WAGE INCREASE TO FOOL MINERS DENVER, Colo., Dec. 80.—In an obvious effort to get the striking miners to return to the coal pits, the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. today an- nounced a wage increase for coal min- ers in its southérn mines. The basic wage is now set at $6.52, and is ef- fective January 1. * Sherman Burns, the son of the found- er of the agency, and Frank J. | O’Reilly, contact man between the spies and Day. The presentment of a grand jury is| normally followed by an indictment, but Gordon, for his own sufficient reasons, whatever they are, an- nounces that there will be no indict- (Continued on Page Two) POLICEINRAID ON TAXI DRIVERS Swooping down upon a number of | hack stands in the vicinity of the} Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, police | Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. until| inspectors yesterday “stripped” at | the strike started in June, 1917, 1 least four cab drivers, depriving them had been a miner for years.” jof their rate cards, and held up at} Deported In Bisbee. least 30 others in a continuation of | Embree told of the deportation that ops Teen Gt poles ceeeae, Eee 5 ‘4"'the past year has been in force ee of the 1,200 miners from Bis- lagainst the New York scab men. | ie ; C | Cab drivers in disclosing details of | It was in the early morning, of July the affair spoke in hesitating tones | 12, long before daylight,” he said.in fear of the consequences which, More than 2,000 armed men came to-|they stated, would inevitably follow | gether in the town. They were made | should the police discover the names | up of some of the local business men, |of those giving out information of professional law-and-order fellows, | the raid. No special reason could be | Labor Supports Miners. Monday’s meeting is confid | pected to be a further demio |of the support of the miners’ (By Altwater) A bomb, found at Terminal Mine No. 3 of the Pittsburgh Termin=" Coal company. Operators — | | | (NEWS photo) Col. G. W. Freeman, head of the . Coal and Iron police of the Pitts- ‘burgh Termiial Coal company. ‘4 Pittsburgh Coal oor sins yer?- sarons Bitterly Cite Cases of Rioting iw Mine Field | (This is the third in a series of articles detailing the reault of in- vestigations into the soft coal situ- ation in central and western Penn- sylvania.) FOR OHIO By AMY SCHECH Special) To The DAILY PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dee, {are going to try to bring | the Hocking Valley, a mit | which is the scene of some of |heroic battles of the union m | the past. | A thosuand locked-out coal | | \, I< By LOWELL LIMPUS. “The pickets are getting very bad at this mine. They gather at the entrance ofthe mine and curse | pack . \the truck drivers as they go in and Bese ers ‘ a Be out, others stand on the hill where: 1 nt ae the barracks are being built and jSelves to resist attempts yell continually. “This morning, as | mines with mass marching the men were entering the mine, } \limit, defending themselv: the pickets kept up a continue, illegal violence practiced age yelling ‘Scab!’” if the coal companies re: ? The foregoing is an extract from llence. P the report of Sergt. Robert H. Freeman of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal] corporation's police de- partment, Mine No 2, on Dec. 13,1 1 * * A. S. Embree, organizer of the Colorado mine strike, now in New York to address a relief meeting next Monday, said here last night that the raise announeed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., a Kockefeller concern, amounts to only thirty-two cents, and not one dollar as announced in de- spatches from Denver. “Last September,” Will Lead March. — bas | 3 the_operators start these strikebreakers, thugs, and you men Embree said, } “the basic wage was $5.52. After we| (Continued on Page Two) \ascertained for yesterday’s police at- | (Continued on page 15, column oS said Orial Daugherty, had served notice of the strike but} PeDRE ae |tack. | Pe ee trict president of the Unit before the men actually walked out, | Without Warning. | Workers of America, a8 h the company announced a wage raise JOINT BD WILL | Without warning a number of po- | | Two hundred and fifty thousand of sixty-eight cents, making the scale | ‘ llice inspectors lined up for “inspec- men, women and children are fight- | “Vl not stop you. Tl Daugherty stated that taking any salary dur The meeting not resolution on i breaking tactics — but carried another manding the a: working under t portions of the fiel provide relief for out. i Immediate relief in Pennsylvania.” sand men are out nine months of § with winter gett 'eently there wi $6.20. This does not interfere with! the walk-out, however, and will not bait the strikers into returning to the mines.” It is pointed out that the C. F. & I. Co, has been able to recruit compara- tively few scabs in the present strike. Moreover, the absence of a union or- ganization makes it possible for the company to repudiate the present “in- crease” and revert to the old scale. (Continued on Page Five) _Three Workers Hurt, . 1 Killed, as Cement Works Blows Up Again ing for unionism and against the open shop in the coal fields of Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Colorado. Thou- sands of families have been evicted. Hunger, cold and destitution is their permanent problem. In a vicious labor-hating tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, a subsidiary of the reactionary Chicago Tribune, Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. general organizer, attacks the work of re- lief not under the official direction of the federation. Picture shows page in the News in which is contained this vicious tion” about a score of taxi drivers. \“We are from the hack bureau,” the | \officers announced, “and you fellows | |are going to be looked over.” | . * 7 Objections by some of the drivers | A motion will be heard in the Ap- to being thus treated as if they were pellate Division Court Jan. 6 tp annul criminals, brought the familiar threat. penalties totalling $17,000 imposed| “[f¢ you say ‘another word, I will by Supreme Court Justice Erlanger break you,” the inspectors said, the upon Louis Hyman, manager, and reference being to the practice of or- seventeen other leaders of the New dering cab drivers to appear at t York Joint Board of the Cloak and Hack Trial Bureau where for trivial Dressmakers’ Union, for violating an cause or none at all drivers have anti-picketing injunction. Judge Mc-| their licenses revoked. Avoy of the Court of Appeals grant-| “Strip” Four Innocent Hackmen. | ed a stay of the execution of the sen-; Jn the process of “inspecting” the tence, i se group of taxi drivers, four workers An editorial appearing in “The were immediately accused, on the esis ‘Arrest Four Miners On Sedition Charge Lindbergh and Gun In British Colony pas ae New York Law Journal,” a profes-| most trivial Gh te sent attack against the miners in the |N hi g ; Zi pretexts, it is reliably re- : ; : the | Now there is BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 30.—Onc| sional daily newspaper of court news, ported, as having violated one of the| BELIZE, British Honduras, Dec.| The American Civil Liberties} form of an interview with the chief |every two wei man died in the Lackawanna Hospi-| criticizes Judge Erlanger for over-'59 regulations with which the police |30—Charles A. Lindberg, flying |Union reports that four coal miners of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal tal today and three others were suf- fering serious injuries as the resuli of a flare-back in the kiln at the Great Lakes Portland Cement Co. Lacey Smith, 22, of Lackawanna, was Killed by the blast, which slightly in- jured a number of othe workmen. Constant accidents take place in this stepping his authority. Boudin and! control the drivers, Wittenberg, attorneys for the Joint dresses of the witnesses to this affair, Board, are confident of a reversal of |as well as the exact location of the in- this sentence, which means jail for cidents are being withheld by The the defendants on their failure to pay| pAILY WORKE i the penalty. Of the total penalty, SE beihs Be the rediiony (Dt $10,000 is listed as damages for the! employers. (Names and ad- (Continued on Page Five, District Meet “ambassador” for the war and state departments of the United States, who is showing the natives of Cen- tral America how easy bombing fleets from El Paso or San Antonio could wipe them out, landed at this outpost of British imperialism today. He was well received by the officials. Lindbergh throughout his Central were arrested on sedition charges in Donora, Pa., near Pittsburgh, and will be given hearings January 10. They are Nick Knezevich, Ivan Ceh, Joe Hitiak and Matt Goretta. revolutionary literature, including a The evidence consists of labor and copy of the report of the American labor delegation to the Soviet Union. Company’s private army of gun- men. Under it, curiously enough, is Frayne’s attack against the re- | lief agencies. } Whitewash Killing of | 3 Coffer Dam Workers shop and nothing is done about it. Four Wor! members arre! tributing anti-iz sued by the Dry Dock, trial in §; Magistrate 5th District terday. The worl Thomas | g Ne ‘Postpone CIGARETTE MAKER DIES. | STALLED ON R. R. TRACK. WESTVILLE, N. J., Dec. 30.— Howard Smith, truckdriver, narrowly escaped death today when his dis- abled truck stalled on a railroad track as a fast freight train bore down on, him. He jumped. HACKENSACK, N. J., Dec. 30. — The receiit “blow” at the Coffer Dam here, through which three men were killed was called an “accident” by the committee which conducted the inves- tigation. Six Cops, One Monkey Chattering triumphantly, and ges- turing derision at its pursuers, a black monkey led six Brooklyn patrolmen of the Poplar St. Station a merry chase yesterday. Jocko finally was cornered in the hallway of a dweil- ing on Willow St. After making sev- eral determined efforts to escape, he realized he was outnumbered and al- lowed himself to be ae My be phe Haig ciety for the Prevention Le; i oe workers, American and Mexican trip is equipped wth the regulaton U. S. army rifle, which he keeps in the |cockpit of his machine. s $50,000 for Atheism CAMDEN, N. J., Dee. 30. — The New York Association for the Ad- vancement of Atheism is bequeathed a $50,000 endowment by the will of dy Aaron S. Cades, on file here today. ing an all-year school session, Eg- Hf " ward P.Hmith declazed before an ¢ The will also provides $25,000 for ‘semblage of teachers yesterday tHat | cducational institutions provided they the “40 week year dates from the|“do not teach religion in any form.” time when we were an agricultural people, when pupils were needed for The executors of the estate an- harvesting.” The summer term is a nounced they would contest the ac- | Evolutionist Wins in Tennessee Meeting NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 30. — Henry Fairfield Osborn, one of the foremost of evolutionists, was today @lected president of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of 7 Science, now holding its annual meet- ing here. DYNAMITE OPENS TRAFFIC. CKPORT, N. Y., Dec. 30. — The on the barge canal at Pendle- “were opened yesterday by dyna- the ice. The ice had blocked low of water for the first time years. The shortage of water local factories to shut On account of the New Year’s_ Holiday, The DAILY WORKER will not publish an edition for Monday, Jan, 2. ALL YEAR SCHOOL URGED. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 30. —Urg- Michael Schinasi, cigarette manu- | The full meeting of the district exe- collapsed yesterday in the Pennsyl-; Workers (Communist) Party, sched- vania station and died before medical uled for Monday, has been postponed 5 eg |to a conflicting meeting. Movie Is Enjoined by A report on the political and in- Anti-Cruelty Society given. The meeting will continue dur- cherie ‘ing the entire day. ing of the motion picture “Boy of the Street,” was obtained yesterday vention of Cruelty to Animals, The society charges that the picture particular scene complained of shows a dog catcher throwing a small boy’s facturer, of No. 35-37 Maiden Lane,|cutive committee of District 2, aid could be summoned, \until Sunday, Jan. 8, at 10 a .m., due dustrial work of the district will be An injunction prohibiting the show- | by the American Society for the Pre- places it in an unfavorable light. The pet dog into a wagon marked A. 8. “a PLC. A. } bles: 1g and not a curse he insisted. ‘tion in court. to Animals. \ iv ea datas ~ hes ee eC