The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 1

| : Mecca Temple tomorrow night! One of the biggest auditoriums in’ New York will be the center toward which thousands supporters of The DAILY WORKER will wend their way in order to celebrate the Fourth Anniversary of the founding of the only Communist daily in the English language. For more than a week the cables, radios and telegraph wires have brought messages of greeting from the foremost leaders of labor of | TOMORROW NIGHT! SASCHA JACOBSEN the whole world, which will be read Trom the stage of the Mecca Temple on Fifty-fifth street, near Seventh Ave. Not merely is the celebration an event of first magnitude to the masses of New York and of the United States; it is a world event that is recognized~by all who are strug- gling against the mighty power of dollar despotism. Unusual features characterize the celebration tomorrow night that make this also one of the events of the theatrical season, inasmuch as there DORIS NILES are brought together on one stage four of the eminent artists of the dramatic, concert and operatic stage, any one of whom can fill the largest theatre in town. Special interest i attached to the final appearance of Nina Tarasova, the noted Russian singer of folk-songs before she starts her European tour. All who have seen this star will want to see her again. Then there is Doris Niles, premier danseuse, who is without a peer in classic and _ interpretative dancing. Sascha Jacobsen is one of ALTHOUSE PAUL FOURTH piel Ae Aes ag ‘DAILY WORKER CELEBRATION! ing of the younger while the eminent Althouse, noted interpretation of the heroic of the world’s greatest will complete the program. committee in cha ion predicts a capacity e who have not y reir tickets should do so at once in the most promi school of violin: dramatic tenor, Paul The celebr: to avoid disappointment. Tick- yet be secured at the local WORKER office, 108 East THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered ax second-cliss mutter at the Post Oifice at New York, N. . under the act of March 3, THE DAILY WORKER. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 9. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker ; Publishing Association, Inc, 33 First Street, New York, x. x. PYice 3 Cents WILBUR DEMANDS $800,000,000 FOR WARSHIPS SENATE APPLIES WHITEWASH TO HEARST; ADMITS PAPERS FORGED Disregards Evidence of Publisher’s Hand WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Altho Heart’s Mexicar, documents were branded as “spurious” in‘a special committee report presented in the United States Senate today, William Randolph Hearst was beautifully and effectively whitewashed as the in- nocent victim of Miguel Avila, who sold him, the documents. The fact that important changes were made in the documents in the Hearst offices (as the Daily Worker revealed several months ago) was (Continued on Page Two) I, R. T. DECISION AIDS UNION WORK The reversal by the Court of Ap- peals of the injunction granted against the leaders of the 1926 Inter- borough strike has had the effect of speeding up organization steps among the traction workers, according to an announcement made yesterday after- noon at the Amalgamated headquar- ters, Continental Hotel, Broadway and 41st St. “This decision,” it was stated, “should help us in our other proceed- ing which comes up for hearing on Jan. 23rd.” At the same time this of- ficial pointed out that the situation had somewhat changed since the first injunction was granted. The Inter- borough has in the meantime issued a new form of “yellow-dog” contract covering the precise clause, one speci- fying a definite term of contract, which forms the basis of the Court of Appeals, reversal of the first in- junction. Cannot Win in the Courts. The case, so far as the injunction is concerned, appears to be where it was. In denying the injunction, the Court of Appeals was careful to add that the principle of the injunction was not reversed. It was stated that the one gran‘ed was “too broad,” and that another turm might be secured. Notwithstanding the announcement of the Amalgamated officers, it is known that the workers on the road have lost all confidence in the method of fighting the organization battle in the courts, and advocate open viola- tion of such court orders. QUIZ 4 AIDS OF SEWERBUILDERS Justice Townsend Scudder, investi- gating the $29,500,000 Queens sewer graft, yesterday secretly examined four more witnesses at the prelimin- ary hearing which he is now conduct- ing. The identity of the individuals was not revealed but it is understood that they are employes of sewer con- tractors who are said to have enjoyed a lion’s share of the graft secured with the aid of Maurice E. Connolly, borough president of Queens, and his Tammany henchmen, Scudder was served with another subpoena yesterday calling upon him to show cause why summonses which he had issued for a Queens contrac- tor should not be declared void. This is considered part of the procedure to smother the probe of the gigantic swindle. « Legislation permitting a pool of all American rubber interests to fight foreign monopoly has been advocated by the American Automobile Associ- ation. | | | | —© Dollar Line Guards Violently Club 120 Chinese Seamen ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT FACTS BEING KNOWN Crew Tried to Save Clothing in Fire About 120 members of the under-|§ paid all-Chinese crew of the Dollar Line vessel President Polk were se-|' 4 verely beaten with clubs by special Dollar Line dock guards in Jersey City, when they attempted to rescue their belongings from fire that threatened the ship and their own lives early yesterday. Only meager reports of the attack were available late yesterday. Every effort is being made by the American officers of the vessel, the Dollar Line office, the special police and Dock Capt. Abenetti to prevent reports from circulating. ~ Crew Seeks Safety. Fire broke out on the President Polk at Pier 9 shortly .after midnight in the forward hold. It spread swift- ly and threatened the entire vessel. Later, apparently about dawn, the crew threw their belongings into hasty bundies and gathered on deck at the gang plank, thinking to find safety for themselves and security for their belongings on the pier. Quartermaster Arthway called for help and a large squad of special dock police charged the defenseless Chinese seamen as they started down the gang plank. Clubs were swung right and left, according to longshoremen and other dock workers. Held As Prisoners. The seamen were herded on the burning vessel again, according to witnesses, though the vessel by that cime was listing badly from the water being poured into the hold from fire boats. They are held virtual prison- ers on board the President Polk a. all times and as a result of this inci- dent many are believed now to be under inhuman discipline. The Dollar Line employs, several hundred special police officers to pa- trol its docks. At least 200 are to be seen on the property with regu- lation police night sticks at all times. $10 A Month Wages. The Chinese seamen employed by the Dollar Line are paid about $10 a month, as against from $80 to $100 a (Conran on Page Two) Ne Ys ‘Cabinet Meets _ Mayor Walker yesterday sum- | moned his official cabinet of twenty- | cight department and bureau heads for his annual family talk behind closed doors. At the Mayor’s office it was denied that the conference had anything to do with the recent charge of William H. Allen, director of the Institute for Publie Service, that twenty department heads had filed no reports since the last admin- datration, Tickets or Money for Worker Concert Must Be in Office Friday’ No tickets for the fourth an- niversary concert of The a Worker at Mecca Temple tomor-! lrow night will be accepted after | the concert. Every ticket must | either be paid for or returned be- | ‘fore tomorrow noon at the local} office, 108 E. 14th St. | All units of the party and other | organizations that have obtained greetings for the fourth anniver- sary edition of The Daily Worker are requested to send them also to the local office before six p. m, today so that they may be pub- lished. Suk Gitiete of Pennsylvania Coal Barons Terrorize Strikers With Rapid-Fire Rifles CLUBBED BY COP; FINED BY JUDGE; Benjamin Baraz, business agent of the Joint Board Furriers Union, was fined $5 yesterday in Jefferson Mar- ket Court by Magistrate Dodge after having been brutally beaten up and arrested by a policeman in the fur market, at 29th St. and 6th Ave., on Tuesday afternoon. Baraz had been participating in a discussion in the fur market, where hundreds of unemployed furriers con- | gregate in the hope of finding a few hours’ work. Here the workers gather in groups to discuss ‘the struggle their uniin is making against the de- structive attacks of the right wing. Cop Aids Right Wingers. A few right wingers had been cor-| nered in the middle of the group and/ Baraz was making them feel very un-| comfortable when a cop pushed his way through and with a blow to Baraz’s face ordered him away. When | he insis'ed on his right to stay there and began to jot. down the police-| man’s number, he was thrown to the! ground, severely clubbed and then ar- rested. At the police station on 80th St. he was freed on a $200 bond. Workers insist they saw him being pointed out to the cop by a right inger just before the assault. 5 COMITADJIS KILLED ! BELGRADE, Jan. 11.—Five Bul- garian comitadjis were killed and several wounded in fighting with Greek frontier troops, according to information received here today. The Greek government, it is Grgereonar has protested to Sofia. ® |same Vesta four mine, DAISYTOWN, Pa., Jan. 11.—With Thompson automatic rifles levelled at them, seven families of striking miners were driven out of the Vesta (Four) Coal Company houses here last Saturday into the biting cold of a Pennsylvania winter before the crude barracks which the union was building to accommodate them were not yet ready for occupancy. Two ether families were evicted in Cali- fornia and Richville, making a total of nine. 50-Shot Rifle. Men, women and children, shivering as they left the homes in which they lived for decades while the bread- winners worked for the coal bosses, ‘gazed into the business end of a fifty- |shot rifle held in the hands of Lieu- tenant Thomas C. Landon, in com- mand of the Vesta coal and iron police. Members of one Shondred and fifty other miners’ households looked sul- lenly on knowing that their turn would be next. The first man to be evicted was Mike Ventura who lost one leg in this where he worked for fifteen years. Another evicted miner had worked for the company for twenty years and during that time had paid for the com- pany house in which he lived many \imes over in rent. The evicted miners’ furniture was pitched violently into trucks and dumped on the roadside, some of it being smashed. Andrew Durisek, of one those 7 Miners’ Families Driven Into Cold; Furniture is Smashed | been elected mayor of Mexico City for evicted, was assured by the sheriff of ashington County on Thursday be- fore the evictions that the miners had three or four more days grace | before the eviction orders would be} executed. But on Saturday when Durisek noticed Lieutenant Landon outside Ventura’s home with his Thompson machine gun, he went into| the house and asked the deputy sheriff who was superintending the eviction, why was the promise of a three or four day’s grace violated, and why were the families being thrown out before the barracks were ready? The deputy replied that “they had nine months to get these here bar- racks ready.” He then warned Duri- (Continued on Page Two) Mexican Labor Leader Elected Mayor of City MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.—Jose Lo- pez Cortez, secre_ary-treasurer of the Mexican Federation of Labor, has 1928. No serious opposition was made against Cortez and no charges were made that as a labor leader he woula threaten the existing economic order. Worker Is Killed Frank Vemike, 50-year-old worker of 89 Scholes St., Brooklyn, was crushed and killed yesterday when the jack supporting the wheel of a Borden Company milk truck slipped. NEGRO MINER TELLS OF STRUGGLE Strikers Stand Solid m Coal Fields, Says Charles Fulp The Negro miners in the coal fields ; of Pennsylvania have shown them- | selves to’ be made of the stern stuff, of militant trade unionists. ‘This is | the message brought to New York by Charles Fulp, Negro organizer from the Washington County, Pa. coal field. Tall, brawny, soft spoken but with | a fearless eye, fresh from the coal mines, Fulp is now in New York with several of his fellow workers to aid the work of the Pennsylvania-Ohio- | Colorado Relief Committee 799 Broadway. Tells Miners’ Story. | Here several weeks, they have daily appeared before enthusiastic working class audiences, und by their simple recital of the tragic situation of the miners and their families succeeded in raising many thousands of dollars | and great quantities of clothing for their comrades in the cold snd food- less barracks back home. Fulv. a real fighter. told a DAILY CHARLES FULP WORKER reporter of conditions in the Carnegie-dominated Washington County coal region; of the miners’ police une evic- | tion notices to striking miners liv- ing in shacks ‘at Daisytown, Pa. owned by the Vesta Coal Com- orders to the shiv- ering families of Thompson fire automatic rifles. (Picture rough, unfinished, freezing barracks where the evicted miners make their FUR DRESSERS TO “ACTON WAGE CUT A joint meeting of Locals 25 of | Newark and 58 of Brooklyn is to de-| cide this afternoon at Stuyvesant Casino whether they are willing to| arbitrate the question of a reduction in wages which their bosses have de- manded, This was the decision arrived at by | the union representatives at a confer- ence with the Consolidated Rabbit | Dressers Association held Tuesday at the Hotel McAlpin. Altho the em- ployers had persistently demanded a wage reduction of 25 per cent at all the previous conferences, they showed | a great desire to arbitrate the ques-| tion on Tuesday. Overrule Right Winger. The union refused to arbitrate, | stating that the present agreement was to have been in force till June, and that the manufacturers’ demand was a violation of this contract. How- ever, they want to show the bosses | the attitude of the membership. This joint meeting of the two lo- cals will be the first of its kind since | pany fortified their | the workers with | rapid- | on left.) The pic- | ture (right) shows | “homes” without | light, water or sanitary equip- ment, __ONLY STARTER FOR PROGRAM IN NAVAL RACE Wall Street Investment To Be Safe WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— Eight hundred million dollars for a new warship construction program was asked by Secretary of the Navy Wil- |bur before the House Naval Conimit- tee yesterday. Consideration of naval programs of other powers has con- vinced him that “America needs a first class navy,” he said. | It was later reported that Seere- {tary Wilbur considers that this re- |quest is only a starter for a 20-year | building and replacement program. | The sum of $800,000,000 would cover | only the next five years, in the sec- jretary’s opinion. | The proposed 20-year program | would provide for forty-three 10,000- ton cruisers as well as additional sub- miafinés and destroyers. ~~ The immediate program calling toe the expenditure of more than three- fourths of a billion dollars would pro- | vide 25 cruisers, 32 submarines, 9 de- } stroyer leaders and 5 aircraft car- |riers, all to protect Wall Street’s in- vestments in China, Nicaragua and | other countries. RUSH MARINES TO EMPTY TOWN Nicaraguans ( Gone With Ammunition A large detachment of marines has been rushed to Smotillo, town about eighteen miles from Chinandega, which was captured by an armed patrol alleged to be operating in sym- pathy with the Liberal army under General Augustino Sandino, accord- |ing to a despatch from Managua re- |ceived in New York. The marines found only the empty the dispute with the bosses arose sev-| town which the patrol had evacuated eral months ago. Moe Harris, right | several hours before, carrying with wing manager of the Brooklyn local|them a machine gun, rifles and sev- had persistantly refused to consider | eral thousand rounds of ammunition. the proposals of the Newark local,| When the armed patrol troops at- that both unions meet jointly to con-/| tacked Somotillo, most of the Nicar- sider their problems, which were iden- | aguans of the National Guard turned tical. Harris’ membership, however, |their guns against their American insisted on joint action, after an ad-|marine commander, forcing him to dress made by Morris Langer, left wing leader of the Newark dressers, at a Brooklyn membership meeting | last Thursday. | 15 Hurt in Elevator Fifteen persons were injured yes- terday when an elevator in the Uni- ted States Government Stores build- | ing, Christopher and Washington | streets, fell two stories to the base- ment. <A defective cable was given | courage and solidarity despite great hardships, and of the failure of the bosses and their allies, the reaction- ary Lewis machine, to drive a wedge into the solidarity of the white and Negro workers by scurrilous attacks on the Negro race. Was Secretary of Local. Hailing from McDonald, Pa., 22 iniles west of Pittsburgh, this coal digger has long:been active as mem- ber of the United Mine Workers. He was for three years secretary of Lo- eal 2012 of the Primrose Mine, and its president for two years. In these positions he earned a_ reputation mong miners thruout the Allegheny Valley as a hard-fighting progressive, never sparing himself to defend the miners’.rights. The workers, white and black, expressed their trust in him by making him head of their pit (Continued on Page Two) ! a aaa as the reason by the police after an investigation. Ambulances were summoned form St. Vincents Hospital and the Mar- ine Hospital where the injured were taken for treatment. 9 pensss Workers Party Calls Membership Meet to Act on War Tonight An important general member- ship meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The Nicaraguan situation and the party membership drive will be on the order of business. All Party mem- bers should attend and bring along their membership books. is © take refuge in a nearby village. They |then joined forces with the victorious attackers. * * . Liberals Leaders Aid Sandino. MANAGUA, Jan. 11.—Unexpected strength of the Liberal forces is lead- ing to a rather tense political situa- tion here and charges are being (Continued on Page Four) Bills Aim to Make Baumes Laws Harder ALBANY, Jan. 11.—Seven bills re- lating to parole and probation of pris- oners were introduced in the legisla- ture today by the Crime Commission, headed by Senator Caleb H. Baumes. Later.on the Crime Commission will introduce a number of other bills, de- signed to make the present anti-crime laws more severe. Another year’s time for a fuller in- vestigation of Governor Smith’s plan for the sentencing of criminals by a commission of penologists and psy- chologists is asked of the legislature. A bill providing for the supervision of anyone who served a jail sentence, for a period after his release equal to the term served, and one making it obligatory for prison authorities to notify the police prior to a prison- er’s release, are also incorporated in the report. }