The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 8. Bukharin, Once Active in SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, Outside New York, by mail, $6,00 per year, SANDINO DRIVES BACK U.S. MARINES U: S. Movement, Greets Daily Worker Anniversary Cablegrams to Be Read From World Leaders at Mecea Temple Celebration A cablegram to The DAILY WORKER from N. Bukharin at Moscow is one of the many received on the occasion of the Fourth Anniversary of the founding of the only Communist daily in the English language from world-renowned revolutionists who con- tributed directly to the movement in this country while residing here. While the czarist government existed in Russia many of the leading revolutionists were unable to live within its borders. Bukharin was forced to trave hounded by the czarist secret po-°———— lice. Whensthe first revolution | of 1917 broke out in Russia he, was living in the United States and in addition to his contributions to the Russian paper published here was devoting a great deal of timé to special studies of specifically Ameri- can conditions, especially the economic theories of the professors in the ser- vice of imperialism. Now World Leader. Then one of the opposition to the social traitors at the head of the so- ciai-democratic parties, Bukharin re- turned to Russia on the outbreak of the revolution in the Spring of 1917, and became one of the outstanding leaders of the Communist Interna- tional, his experiences in the United States enabling him to contribute to the solution of special problems con- fronting the revolutionists here. His eablegram, which wiil be read on Fri- day evening at the Fourth Anniversary celebration at Mecca Temple, 55th Street and Seventh Avenue, shows that Bukharin, who was considered by Lenin as “our foremost theoretician” has a keen appreciation of the tasks of our paper as the collective organi- zer of the working class. Many Cables Received. From many other leaders of the world revolutionary movement, from many lands, come other cablegrams congratulating The DAILY WORKER and offering invaluable revolutionary advice that will aid us in our strug- gles against the mighties' id. moi ” (Conte ox Pee haa) Rockefeller To Be Called for the Teanot Scandal Zaritsky, who had openly declared | in various countries, —— ‘Nicaraguan Question| {Will Be Discussed at) | |Party Meet Tomorrow America’s war on the Nicar- aguan army of independence under General Sandino will be discussed at a general membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party to be held tomorrow at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The party membership drive will ‘alee be acted mpon. LEADER DELAYS CAP STRIKE END Zaritsky Again Endors- es Piece Work CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 10.—Justifying the bosses in their lockout of the Chicago capmakers, and showing | them the method thru which they can get their demands, Max Zaritsky, president of the Cap and Millinery | Workers’ Union publicly said: “If the employers wanted piece work why didn’t they arbitrate the question,” thus practically repudiating the bit- | ter struggle which the local organiza. himself in favor of the piece work system, had come to Chicago to “ne- | gotiate” a settlement. It is the belief of the membership here that Zarit- sky’s attitude on this question is responsible for the bosses holding | out so long. They point to the fact | ‘that Percy Ginsberg, manager of the employers’ association and SORIMEELY | an official in the-Capmakers’ Union, | had come to the vnion with the piece WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and George E. Vin- cent, head of the Rockefeller Founda- tion, will head the array of impor- | tant witnesses to be subpoenaed be- | fore the new senate investigation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, it was announced today. Special Committee to Sit. | A special executive meeting of the ‘i Senate Public Lands Committee has Saturday, however, at a conference |", been called for tomorrow afternoon to map out the conduct of the investiga- tion, Senator Gerald Nye, republican of North Dakota, its chairman, an- nounced this afternoon. Nye said the inquiry will be con-' ducted by the full committee as was done in the original Teapot Dome in- | vestigation. Rockefeller, Vincent, | and “a host of others” will be called | to testify, he added, Rockefeller to be Quizzed. Mr. Rockefeller and other officials | of the Standard Oil Company (Ind.), including Colonel Robert W. Stewart, | as to what they know of the mys-j terious Continental Trading Company oil transaction by means of which, the | government contends, Harry F. Sin- | clair and his associates raised a slush fund of $3,080,000 to secure control of the Teapot reserve back in 1921, Trace Liberty Bonds. Liberty bonds totalling $230,500 par value have been traced from the $3,- 080,000 fund to Albert B. Fall, for- mer secretary of the interior, who Jeased the naval reserve 23 Sinclair. Beaten ‘by Detectives, Youths Sue for $50,009 While a suit for $50,000 damages | against three detectives atiached to the East 67th Street Station is being preferred by attorney for Alfred Schieler, Alfred Wenzel and Charles Dono for “brutal and inhuman as- sault,” a tardy investigation of the detectives’ activities has been ordered by Police Commissioner Warren. Boys Hired to Steal Accused of paying four small boy: 25 cents and a soda for each roll of tar-paper they stole for him from Frederick Kerr, a lyn contrac- tor, Joseph Greenbery, Brookiyn if i candy store owner, is formally charg- ed with receiving stolen goods. |work demand a few days after Za- ‘ritsky’s proposal of the same thing had been unanimously turned down | by the local executive board. The Chicago capmakers have been conducting a vigorous fight since De- cember 1, whem the lockout was made, jand it was generally believed that the bosses were on the verge of com- ing to terms with the union. Last held between the bosses and Zaritsky, | they refused to negotiate a settle- | ment with the union. The bosses will probably avaii }themselves of Zaritsky’s suggestion | jand go to an arbitration board with their demands. Peace, Wage Cuts Is Gpen Shop Prediction Industrial peace with wage cuts is the promise held out for the New York building trades workers by their } : o !employers, according to a prediction | chairman of the board, will be quizzed | ; rates hinds ‘4 nd B sien ia by the American Bond and Mortgage | Co. The last review issued by this con- cern says: “The decline in the volume of new building and seasonal low ac- is alveady being felt in a num- | ber of localitjes.” This condition, it is emphasized, “may give encouragement to wage reductions.” No Funds for Lepers Lack of funds is seriously handi- capping the Leper colony at Culion, in the Philippines, despite the fact ‘hat an almost certain cure exists for vis disease, which exiles the sufferer om the rest of the world. This was ne statement made by Mrs. Dorothy P. Wade, wife of the American patho- logist in charge of the work, in des- cribing cures of the disease by chaul- moogra oil at a meeting here. 1000 lepers have left the colony cured since inception of the new treatment. Stock Prices Fall Prices of stockss fell rapidly yes- terday when the stock exchange was subjected to one of the most active trading periods in its history. The sales for che day were far in excess of 3,500,000 shares. Both in- vestiment and speculative stocks were subjected to heavy liquidation and Entered ax secona-ciass nm by mail, $8.00 per year. ‘Labor Saving’ Machines | Fired the Blast WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, -— An industrial race between two | produc.ion records, was stated by coal !miners of this vicinity as the cause of the fatal “black damp” blast yes- | terday, which killed twenty-one min- coal company mine number 18 of the Peabody Coal Company. Both mines | | engaged in the production race are owned by the same company. Charges that officials of mine num- | ber 18 had failed to comply with the | state law and compelled miners to en- ‘ter the deep pits after a state mine official had reported the presence of gas and before a “gas cleared” report had been made, were made by Bert Brown, president of the miners’ union local of which the dead miners were members. i Four May Die. | In addition to che dead, four men are in the Union Hospital, in a seri- ous condition. careful checkup that lasted through the night showed that only a miracle kept the fatality list as low as che check showed. There were 628 men below ground when the explosion occurred. The mine uses electrical coal cut- ‘ting machines, a spark from which ould have started the blaze and ex- losion. Before the capitulation of ials companies. by 4 istrict 12 of the United Work- ers of America, to make the separace peace authorized by International President Lewis, the union claimed the right to choose the men to run ma- chines, where labor displacing machin- H (Continued on Page Two) k at (ae sont Utfice at New York, Jan. 10./ coal mines, bent on establishing high | ‘ers in the lower levels of industrial} ; town NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11, 1928 / . under the act of March 3, Puprs.ed daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, DISTRIBUTE BILLS “Don’t Shoot” Leaflets Put Out In Boston BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 8 (By Mail). —Thousands of leaflets pointing out that American marines are being killed in Nicaragua to sustain the Wall Street puppet Diaz, the usurper- president, were distributed among the sailors and marines in the Charles- Navy Yard, by the Young Workers (Communist) League. Many marines are cooperating with the league in distributing the leaflets and posting notices of a mass meet- ing on the walls of the Navy Yard. “Don’t” shoat, at the » Nicaraguan people!” “Stop the war with Nica- ragua!” and “Organize against being sent to shoot Nicaraguans who are fighting for their liberty,” were slo- gans used in tie leaflets} which the marines are reading with great in- terest. 2 Ousted for Singing Mine | Songs; 200 Pupils Strike | FREDERICK, Colo., Jan. 10.—Rebelling against the expulsion from | school of two pupils for singing I. W. W. songs, songs that thousands of |miners engaged in a bitter strike for half way decent working conditions in this state have sung in the face of » machine guns, 200 students of the, ' Frederick High School walked out on strike here, marched through the street with banners, and sang more | Wobbly. songs. girl, 6 \of Emil Riskofski, a striking miner, | were those expelled. Kiskofski headed a committee of !miners who attempted to call on the (schoo! superintendent, Nicholson. | They were barred from the superin- ;tendent by state militia, and forced at the points of rifles to disband and go home. Must Give Mortgage Tp Return for Work TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 10.—Cloak manufacturers in this city have been forcing their workers to give a money bond or a mortgage on their homes in return for work. This was proved by the seerctary of the local cloak- makers’ union when he produced a contract forced upon one worker. In addition to a mortgage, $10 weekly was deducted frem the pay of the worker, and a boy 14, children} HUGE CLOTHING — MERGER PLANNED CLEVELAND, 0O., Jan. 10..—Plans for a $100,000,000 merger which would involve every factor in the men’s clothing industry from the woolen mill to the retail store are be- ing considered by the trade, it is learned. It is expected that a year will be required before completion of the plans. The trust if achieved would be in a class with the U. S, Stee! Cor- | poration or the Standard Oil Com- pany. AS SEEN BY THE TIMES “No one was injured except the motormen,” said a recent issue of the New York Times in reporting a sireet car accident. Michael McMenamin, the motorman, of 106 W. 108rd St., is being treated for severe scalp laceration, and. possibly a fractured ‘cull, in the Columbus Hospital, how- ™ % Voom wits WAL STREET MPERUICT F IMPERIALIST WARS. PMO Hed AMERICAN y ARED FORCES. sRON PICARNGLIA Members of the Young Workers’ League of Phila- delphia led a dem- onstration against the shipment of U. S. marines to Nica- ragua. Picture (above) shows them carrying ban- ners protesting the war against the Nicaraguan libera- tion movement and urged the Ameri- can workers to stop the latest im- perialistic venture of the American investors in Latin America. On right is shown U. S. 8. “Texas” which will take President Coolidge to the Pan-American Congress at Hava- na. The confab, which opens on January 16, will be devoted to Wall Street propaganda against the libera- tion movements in Latin American countries. The state depart- ment recently an- nounced that the U. S. delegation would do every- thing in its power to prevent the dis- cussion of the Nicaraguan ques- tion at the confer- ence. ss Slaughter of Sandino’s Liberals AMERICAN WOReERSE Saute FONT moaren f aes “Ren gaan Baoriees ag ZOBER FIRED ON J., Jan. of Police Richard O, Zober was dis- missed from his post today by Com- missioner of Public Safety Ben F. Turner. He is charged with having sold several stolen automobiles. PASSAIC, N. Zober became notorious during the textile strike here in 1926 when he was responsible for the brutal beat- ever. ing and arrests of scores of strikers. day afternoon were packed into an overheated, stuffy room which com- fortably could not hold half that num- ber at the Hack Trials Bureau, 156 Greenwich St., while awaiting sen- tence before Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner Nelson Ruttenberg. Considerable astonishment was ex- pressed yesterday by the drivers at the unusual mildness of the sentences. “Offences” which ordinarily would have drawn 10-day or a month’s sus- pension, or even the revocation of the driver’s license, brought a warning or a suspended sentence. Persecution By Employers. A majority of the complaints were driven far below the previous|charged that drivers had failed to closing levels. yl kaon a written record of faras care Over 200 taxi drivers again yester-) ried. In the past such “offences” have drawn long term suspensions. The change yesterday was noticeable to all. The reduced severity of the penal- ties is attributed in part to growing criticism among the drivers of the persecutory tactics of the police ana in part to increasing demands among the drivers: for organization. , Police as Collectors. The practice of the police bureau in enforcing a provision that drivers keep an itemized record has been a subject of bitter criticism. Frequent- ly such charges against the drivers have been proved unwarranted. It has been pointed out that under the existing practice the police hack bu- Yaan acta in tha capacity of a virtnal 200 TAXICAB DRIVERS IN A DRAG-NET Opposition to to Police Tactics, Talk of Union Lightens P. Penalties collection agency for the fleet owners and particularly for the Yellow Taxi Corporation, Morgan owned and the’ largest employer in the industry. Threatens Revocation. There were no revocations of Tix censes although many were threat-j ened. A number of suspensions were drawn. Hyman Simon, 106 Sackman St., Brooklyn, was suspended from work for three days because he was accused of carrying “jugs” in his cab, the inference being that he had trans- ported liquor. Under the existing law a driver is not permitted to re- fuse a fare. But as in the case of Simon he is sometimes penalized for complying with this regulation. Lester Blacks, who had failed to (Continued on Page Five) THEFT CHARGES: 10.—Chief RAILROADS SPURN PAY RISE AWARD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Four western railroads have applied to the courts to set aside a verdict of an ar- bitration award under the Federal Railway Labor Act which established the eight-hour day and raised the wage $10 per month for several thou- sand ferry boat employes. These railroads, the Southern Pa- cific, the Western Pacific, the North- western Pacific and the Santa Fé, hqve in recent times paid out several hundred thousands of dollars through their so-called Industrial Association fighting unions. One company alone, the Southern Pacific paid $30,000 as a preliminary contribution “to main- tain sound relations between employer and employe.” The manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad is Paul Shoup, the ruling powtr in the open shop Industrial Association. The record of the “arbitration” awards have shown as a rule. t’ only those against the workers could be made effective. Donate to Miners The workers of the Sunshine Clean- ers and Dyers, 48 Broadway, Brook- lyn, have donated $30 and four bun- dles of clothing to the Pennsylvania- Ohio-Colorado Miners Relief Commit- tee, 799 Broadway, yesterday. 1ST ORDER OF BUSINESS ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 10.—One of the first bills scheduled for early pas- sage in the 1928 legislature provides for increased salaries for Governor Smith and members of the legislature. * New York, N. FINAL CITY EDITION . Price 3 Cents Bosses’ Efficiency Contest Kills er Coal Miners EMPLOYER GREED. Phtsteohia workers protest FORCED WORKERS INTO AFTER-DAMP TAKE SOMOTILLO; CONSTABULARY IS JOINING SANDINO U.S. Naval Guns Crush Portworkers’ Strike According to reports reaching New City the northwestern strict of Nicaragua containing the | only western port, Corinto, may soon be in the hands of the Liberal armies is seen in the seizure of the town of |Somotillo by an armed patrol of at least one hundred men after the de- feat of a band of United States ma- rines and National Guardsmen in a battle where one marine is reported to have been killed. Somotillo is only eighteen miles from the city of Chi- nandega on the Managua-Corinto rail- road. At the approach of the armed pa- trol, fourteen members of the Nica- raguan National Guard turned their guns on their American marine of- ficer and forced him to take refuge in the neighboring village of Villa Nu- eva. The fourteen men then joined forces with the armed troop, seizing a machine gun, rifles and several thou sand rounds of ammunition. Invaders Repulsed. Returning with re-enforcements, the marine officer, Paul W. Payne, later attempted to dislodge the Nicaraguan forces from Somotillo but was re- pulsed with losses, The victorious Nicaraguans then evacuated the town. They are sajd to be intending to carry on a guer- illa war in the mountains of the Chi- nandega district until their forces are sufficiently large to enable them to capture Corinto or march to re-en- force General Sandino in Nueva Se- govia. Detachments of marines are being rushed to Somotillo as the United (Continued on Page Four) COURT ORDER 10 HALT GRAFT QUIZ Sewer Builders Out to Kill Probe An order signed by Supreme Court Justice James J. Dunne in Brooklyn directing Justice Townsend Scudder to show cause, Jan. 12, why a num- ber of subpoenas issued by him call- ing for the appearance of certain of- ficials of contracting concerns to be whole questioned in connection with $29,- 500,000 sewer graft in Queens, should |not be declared void was served on Scudder yesterday. The order acts as an automatic stay upon the subpoenas and the men named need not appear before Justice Scudder until argument on the order has been heard tomorrow. The legal move yesterday is con- sidered as part of the general cam- paign conducted by suspected sewer contractors, aided by Queens politi- cians, to smother the investigation into the huge Tammany swindle. COUNCIL FEEDS 200 UNEMPLOYED CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 10.—Wheel- ing a iarge cart loaded with steaming hot food into the Public Square the Cleveland Council of the Unemployed, fed over 200 jobless men and women here. The food had been cooked in a nearby hall, and had been received as donations during the campaign conducted by the council for relief of the unemployed. This organization had recently led large demonstrations of the unemployed before the city an- thorities from. whom they demanded either jobs or support. Seriously handicapping the comple= tion of the Union Terminals Build- ing, 50 electricians, members of Lo- cal 88 of the Building Trades See- tion of. the Cleveland Federation of Labor, went out on strike last Mon day. John Fitzgerald, business agent of the union states that the employ- ers were allowing non-union electri- cians to work on the job.