The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 2

&nd steel plants and te is figure, “thar double the orders in this class Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 | Soviet Union Trade With the United States Shows Notable Increase AMTORG ORDERS Death Ship Goes: to wets With U. Ss. chia NEGRO ORGANIZER LARGER IN 1927; SUM $100,000.00 Increase In Industrial Goods Noted ne Amt 165 Broadv by the cor ment to the S » fc timated that the e¢ business between ean concession: soyus and S Soviet Union 1927, was close compared with a total of $7 in 1926 and $48,00! in 19138. Amtorg’s Largest Year. A statement by Saul G. Bron, chair- man of the board of directors of the| Amtorg, follow: i “The year 1927 proved the biggest | in the existence of the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, which is-+doing the bulk of business with the Soviet Union | outside of cotton purchas Orders | placed by us during the year totaled} $81,199,834, which is three and one} half times the figure for the preced-| ing year, when Amercan-Soviet ee experienced a_ slump. noteworthy has been the i the amount of orders for ind 00,000,000 to 2 70,000,0: and electrical equipment. - reached the record figure of $11, 313,- 750. Raw Material Second “Purchases by Amtorg included oil | é6quigment worth $4,646,177 mining | ay equipment valued at $ 209 equipment for glass Second largest group of orders was for raw materials, including met $6,868,177, and crude 204. the two principal groups of commo- dities that the Soviet Union will pur- chat e in the American market. Purehases of agricultural mach- ikery, binder twine and live stock also made up last year a considerable totaling $7,252,727, or more placed in 1926. Other important items on the Ammtorg purchasing list were ehemical products, electrical equip- tment, automotive equipment, con- stfliction machinery and office sup- pleyes with drastic layoffs, and ru- typewriters.” HEARST PAPERS FORGED, REPORT (Continued from Page One) | ¢ompletely disregarded in spite of | H the telegrams which the Daily/| Worker kad sent to all members of the committee calling their atte ntion | to the changes. | Innocent Mr. Hearst Senator Robinton (D), Arkansas, a member of the committee, ex-| presses bis implicit faith in Hearst | and made it clear that he was of the |!’ pinion that Hearst believed the} daeuments genuine. The Daily | Worker, in its telegram to Robinson, fad pointed out that three editions df the New York American bore thfee different versions of what pur- ported to be one document. Senator Reed who made the report declated that he suspected Av who had furnished Hearst with most | 6f the documents, of “forgery” and believed that John Page. whose sig nature appeared over the articles, has “committed perjury” before the committee. Documents Forged The report after declaring that the | documents had heen found forged by | @ number of handwriting experts, | Yeached the following conclusions: 1. There is not a scintilla of evi- dence that any U. S. Senator has ac- eepted, or was promised. or was of- | fered, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing, by officer or representative of the tnment of Mexico, 2. The pretended evidence, that $1,215,000 was withdrawn from the | Mexican Treasury and sent to the a. Consul General in New York uty to be paid to U. S. Senators is not genuine but is spurious and fraudulent, and in so far as it pur- ports to be signed by the President f Mexico or the Secretary of the sury of Mexico, it is forged. The Innocent Senate "The Committee has thus far been | unable to determine to its satisfac- tion the identity of the manufac- turers of these spurious documents, and has no witnesses now under sub- ma from which such information is | ‘ely to be obtained; but i: appears to be advisable that the committee shall not yet be finally discharged. Later the committee will render a supplemental and final report which, with the present report, will con-| of the | stitute a completed survey whole ficld of investigation that the "| Yale Li ber, $1,370,- | ; Industrial equipment and raw} ¢ materials will probably continue to be |. ——} sana town navy of 500 marines and officers to s Nicaragua. S. mine-layer “Oglala” yard, Boston, for Hampton Roads, Va., to take on a force All will be placed in the field against the forces of Gen. Sandino who is leading the ee eageee liberation movement. 4 | A | = | | a | is shown sailing from Charles- upplement the marines already in i, 19 Yale Students for Attacking Sweat Shops NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 11—Nineteen Yale students who distributed exposing conditions in local neckwear factories, charging local news- Uae pe wit! and charged nuisance by suppressing facts about with “committing tering the streets.” The handk published by al Club, were circulated y of the Stern & I an & Adler shops. ere moved here r he vicini the union in N > operating with a entirely new staff of non-union work- ers and continuing the hatea policy of home work. Charge Subterfuge. Although the city ordimance was quoted when they were artested, the students declared that the charge was merely a subterfuge to cut short their agitation against sweatshop conditions and the homework policy. They were veleased on bond. The Ameriean Civil Liberties Union is aiding in their defense. The arrested students are John L.| , Edward M. Fleming, Howard | Sayre of New} Levi: P,. Williams and W. F. York City; John R. Toop, Philadel- phia; J. J. Patterson, Milford, Conn.; China; | Conn.; john D. Mi ichael Henry Pettis, Peking, Ansonia, Sali J. ‘isons, C.; Will A. Davis; West Bar batty R. 1.; Lewis S. Prott, Detroit, Mieh.; Gery stiller, New Haven; Koy mron, Huntingdon, 1 B. Easton Jr. muel F. Miller, ‘Loveland Co, iPa H Fred E. “feveder, Reedly,, Cal: Walter Myers, rie, Pa, and Frederick CG Hyde, Boston, Masé: . * * POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Jan. 11. —Max Heller, member of the local neckwear makers’ union, is scheduled for trial today in the local court for alleged beating of a scab. The union has been conducting a sirike against he firm of Stetn and Amear for many months in spite of a sweeping temporary injunetion which the f is trying to make permanent. For- merly of New York, this firm recently moved to this city to eseape union conditions. WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 11.—An lairplane in which George W. Knowl- |ton and H. E. Stickney were flying over the airport at North Gafton to- day went into a nose dive and crashed to earth. Both were rushed to City etal here in a serious condition. $e | (Continuea from Page One) yj}month paid seamen on lines where ‘<| union standards prevail. ‘|admittance to the vessel. ;,”.|fevred a spy might over-hear them. Arrested the workers’ side, have been arrested DOLLAR GUARDS | BEAT 120 CHINESE The Chinese amen, moreover, are not permitted 0 go ashore at any port, though the Dollar Line boats cover all parts of the world. “Well you know how it is,” Dock | Capt. Abenetti said last night after | \denying the report of the incident. “There was a little scuffle, I guess. I suppose the quartermaster got hurt.” Ne referred to a report published {in a New York capitalist paper that Quartermaster Arthway, of the Presi- dent Polk, was injured.in trying to | prevent the Chinese from leaving the vessel. “If this Chinese crew had caused ja rumpus they certainly would shave jbeen laid out,” one of the ship’s of- | ficers said in denying that a clash jhad taken place. He stood at the |foot of the gangplank and refused An air of secrecy prevailed on the | properties. All workers on shore Most of the $1,500,000 cargo of crude rubber and other merchandise j was destroyed and the liner was {badly damaged. World cruise pas- sengers had left the vessel when the fire broke out. Ousted from Church Velma West, who is accused of killing her husband with a ham- mer in their home in Painesville, 0., has been refused admittance to the Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. E. P. Wrest. TELLS OF GREAT Urgent Relief (Continued from Page One) committee, picked by the men to voice their grievances to the mine super- | intendents. The Primrose Mine, where Fulp worked, is owned by the Carnegie Coal Co., and employs about’ 375 men. The Carnegie Company in its 40 mines }|around Pittsburgh employs over 6,- 000 men, 2,500 of them Negroes. The fact that nearly every pit committee | head is a Negro proves that the min- ers have realized the futility of ra- cial quarrels in the face of their fight against the common enemies. Attacked for Loyalty. In 1924 Fulp was summoned to the pit bosses’ office and found himself before an assemblage of min2 offi- | cials and district officials of the Uni- | ted Mine Workers. Present were the organizer of Sub-district 1 of Dist. 5 of the U. M. W. A., Buazarello, James '', Flood, president of the sub-dis- | trict, and Pat Fagen, president of District 5, all cogs in the Lewis ma- chine, smoking cigars with Superin- tendent. Lindon and other mine of- ficials. “You're fired for helping those God-dafnned Hunkies,” Lindon shout- ed at Fulp. Shortly afterwards right wing officials conspired in the same way with mine officials to get rid of Tom Ray. For two years Fulp set quietly about instilling progressive ideas into the minds of the Washington County miners. In the meantime the opera- tors, in open violation of their Jack- sonville agreement with the United Mine Workers, began discharging progressive miners and putting non- union men in their places. The reac- tionary district officials of the United Mine Workers made no protest against this, even encouraging mem- bers of Local 8633, at Midway, com- posed solidly of native born whites, many of them being kukluxers, ‘ work with the scabs. Strike Betrayed. Finally, on April 1, 1927, the Jack- sonville agreement for a $7.50 basic daily wage expired, and the operators refused to renew it, offering instead the 1917 scale of §4 a day for outside wotk and $5 for inside work. Only then did the International officiais take action, ordering all the men out. Then in the very conduct of a strike which théy themselves had “ordered, the reactionary Lewis machine los the faith of the rank and file miners. The strikers found themselves in seri- ous financial straights, for the offi- cials of the union were withholding all strike benefits. In July, 192%, fourteen locals in the Allegheny met at Hawick and elected Steve Kurepa, Tony. Minerich, Vincent Kamenovich and Fulp as a relief committee to present the miners’ case to the Inter- national officials of the U. M. W. Form Relief Committee. The officials were invited to a sec- ond conference in Pittsburgh, but re- fused to attend. Fagen, president of District 5, and Thomas Kennedy, In- ternational secretary and treasurer, met their pleas for funds with “Go to Hell,” and when the miners told them their families were starving, Kennedy said, “Eat grease.” The five progressives thereupon or- ganized the Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee with head- quarters at Cloakmakers Union Hall, Pittsburgh, later removing to present quarters, 611 Penn Aye. Tony Kam- enovich was chosen secretary, Min-| erich chairman, and Fulp field or- ganizer. Meanwhile scabs were being im- ported from outside, while the United Mine Worker officials were doing their best to break the strike. Among the scabs less than a third wete negroes, yet Lewis officials tried to foment discord among the strikers by telling them the negroes were go- ing back to work and scabbing on them. They told the workers that Fulp was receiving money from the mine owners to feed the men, and “HEYWOOD BROUN WANTED HIS SALARY” ‘Reader Tells Why Columnist Returned to Job on on the “World” Editor, DAILY WORKER: A litle boy has misbehaved. He gets a spanking. He cries. The mother, being touched, offers a penn: The child’s self-pride momentari does not permit him to take the penny. But the power of money is tremen- dous. The child fearing the los | published in “The World” in reference to this “incident.” Translated in open and everyday parlance it meant that | H. B. can at any time come back pro- vided he conforms to the principles of “The World.” Well, what the hell! $450 a week »| is nothing to sneeze at. quietly, without saying a word, goes} Broun’s “self pride” did not allow over io his mother and grabs the) him to go back so readily. But, my penny. And everybody is happy! Heywood Broun’s highly, superficial touch of hypocritical and emotional liberalism had been offended by Gov. Fuller’s corffmittee on Sacco and Van- zetti. Broun attacked the decision. For this misbehavior he was thrown out of “The Werid.” sommittee shall then have covered.” © We remember Mr. Pulitzer’s letter | friends, the power of money is real: after all. H. B. feared the loss, and some at that, feared that he may have to work in the subway or sell insurance; so quietly, without saying a word, he ran back to “The World. History’s most flagrant, heinous, legal and civilized murder passes by | without rousing the dormant intel- Hectuals of America. Asleep they ‘were as to the grasping and under- standing of the causes that were bringing about the murder of the two innocent martyrs; asleep they re- mained after ihe execution. They keep on writing on prohibition, art, the fu- ture, “Sex, tolérance, and, of course, on baseball. And that is the way of America’s recognized culture, Heywood Broun’s insincerity should be another convincing proof to the workers that any furore emanating from so-called liberal organs, or so- called liberal individuals towards a reactionary event is quickly forgotten and buried; is poisonous in so far as it tends to rally the workers to their side, and is soaked with treachery when a definite, clear and public showdown is demanded. —EMILE ZENBERT. Bronx, N. Y. MINE STRUGGLE 'Here to Aid Drive for as an airplane carrier. death and destruction. A, W. Marshall, her commander. “Saratoga” was recently commissioned. U. S. Spends $39,000,000 to Deal Death This tremendous floating fortress, the “Lexington” is to be used She can hurtle thru the ocean at a speed of 40 miles an hour, releasing, as she does so, 80 airplanes, to carry She cost $39,000,000. A sister ship, the Inset is picture of Capt. LEADERS ON TOUR FOR MINE RELIEF Embree, Bloor, Sablich to Speak By ART Assuring friends that the Colorado coal strike would won, A. S. Em- bree and “Flamin: Milka Sablich, two of the strikers’ representatives, have left New York for a 30-stop tour pany with Ella Reeve Bloor, to urge support jointly for the striking min- ers of the Pennsylvania-Ohio field and the Colorado field. In the last two weeks, in which Embree and Milka Sablich have been addressing audiences in New York, thousands of dollars for miners’ re- lief in addition to quantities of cloth- ing have been raised here. Embree, the first organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World to enter-the Colorado fields in the pres- ent revival of that organization in the Rocky Mountain coal region, is a veteran of the western radical move- ment. Nearly 20 years ago he edited the daily newspaper organ of the gold miners in Nome, Alaska. More re- cently he spent several years in a Boise penitentiary under the Idaho syndicalism law. Two years ago, he began quietly organizing in Colorado. In an interview with the Federated Press, Embree told of conditions as he observed them in the Fuel & Iron Co! mines, the Rockefel- ler institution that dominates the coal industry of the state. Local Officials Harsh. “I found very little interest in the Rockefeller ‘plan’, or company union,” said Embree, “Its meetings were very poorly attended. Three to ten men from a mine would be present ordinarily. The company used the ‘plan’ to raise the rent on company houses while I was in Colorado.” Cc. F. & I. foremen and superin- tendents are just a little rougher than coal bosses elsewhere. Embree failed to discover the tactful Rockefeller la- bor policy that is so often touted. The harshness of local company officials had much to do with provoking the revolt, he said. Gunman rule prevails in the C, F. & I. camps and the Colorado labor laws are not enforced. The law pro- viding for checkweighmen is a dead letter, as hearings betore the Colora- do state industrial commission are now bringing out. When the coal leaders elected their own representa- tives to stand on the tipples and watch the scales that weighed the coal for Which they were paid by the ton, they were driven away by gun- men unless they winked their eyes to fraud. that Fulp would later betvay them into signing a bad agreement. These silly tales were laughed at by the men, who knew Fulp’s sterling hon- esty. The negro strikebreakers, Agi re- vealed, were trapped into se#bbing, labor agents coming down to the southern farms and telling. them about “wonderful farm jobs” up north. Once the negroes reached the mines they were piaced under guard and held as prisoners. But iuip got to many of them and many joined the strikers after eluding the guards. In Constant Danger. Fulp’s life is constanly in danger in Washington county. Both the bosses and the Lewis machine are out to get him. He is always followed by stoolpigeons; at night a guard of strikers watches his house ever since an attempt was made on him by two unknown assailants while he was asleep early in the strike. Fulp stressed the point that the struggle is a rank and file drive against dishonest Lewis machine of- ficials in the union as well as a fight against the operators for a decent liv- ing wage. Fulp asks that all militant workers and their sympathizers send aid in the form of money and clothing di- rectly to the Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn eve, Room 307, Pittsburgh, Pa. between Boston and Chicago, in com- | Colorado | TMINERS FAMILIES LOSE THEIR HOMES: Driven Into’ Cold at Point of Guns (Continued from Page One) sek “you better get out. You are on company property.” During the nine months of the strike Vesta No. 4 has hired approxi- mately six thousand scabs, but only 600 could-stand the gaff. The mine employed 1,500 men until the Ist of April last. . “We have been on strike for nine months” said an official of the local union to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh,” but we are ready to stay on strike for nine months more if we get relief. The miners are standing firm and the spirit of the women is equal to that of the men. If the labor movement stands | with us in this struggle there is no doubt but victory willsbe ours, which will be a victory for the whole trade union movement.” Picture of Gun Taken. The Vesta Coal Company now in- dignantly denies an automatic rifle was ready for use when the evictions took place, but fortunately for this alibi, a photographer took a picture with the cossack obligingly pointing {the gun at the miners’ shacks. The gun can be taken apart and carried in a hand bag and put together in a few minutes. The union is hastily constructing barracks to accomodate one hundred families, but they will not be ready for 15 more days. The minimum number of rooms required to house the evicted miners and their families in the Daisytown section is five hun- dred and twenty-two. | Cannot Desert Miners Shall the American workers who are fortunate enough to live in houses thru which the wintry winds do not whistle, who have food and clothing for themselves and their families turn a deaf ear to the suffering coal dig- gers and their dependents who are holding the fort for labor on the in- dustrial battlefields of Pennsylvania? On their answer depends victory or defeat for the miners. Wear a Lenin Button Every militant worker, every Com- munist, should get his fellow-worker to wear this button! The price is: up to 25--10e per button. Over 25—Tc per button. Party organizations should order thru their district organizers. Other working class organizations order from the National Office, Workers Party, 43 East 125th St, New York City. PRS Sf aS, The button represents a beautiful pioiure of Lenin surrounded by a lively g*oup of children. Around the whole setve nre the words; “Organ- ize the ChXdren,” Every we.%ers’ child should wear this button and every working class parent should yet this buttom for his children, These children’s buttons may be ordered from the Young Pioneers of America, 43 Hast 125th St., New York City. The prices are: Up to ten, 10¢ per button; orders of from 10 to 100, Te per button; orders of over 100, 5c per button. SHIPPING WIERGER DISPLACES MEN IN SHIP YARDS |About 2,000 Draftsmen Effected WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—An im- portant further move in the conso!'- dation of industry and the elimination of skilled labor is seen in an an- nouncement by private ship building interests that attempts are being made to pool drafting work now be- ing conducted separately by various concerns. * Between 1,800 and 2,000 skilled draftsmen employed in the engineer- ing plants of the government and private yards will be affected by this merger. During the war one private ;concern imported 150 draftsmen from Great Britain. Mass Preduction. C. L. Rosemund, president of the International Federation of Technical engineers, Architects and Draftsmens’ Union, said: “This scheme appears to be based on the theory that the last |word in practical ship design has been spoken and that the industry can now go on a mass production basis.” The Navy Department is a party to this so-called economy plan. By en- dorsing a central drafting office the Navy Department becomes a princi- pal factor in the plan. Officials Lack Remedy. While the American Federation ot Labor and its Metal Trades Depart- ment oppose the “economy” plan, no constructive proposals are being of- fered by the Federation for adjusting its organization to the inevitable trend toward mergers now taking place. Spanish Bank Combine Will Control Country MADRID, Jan. 11.—With the tacit backing of the fascist government of Frimo de Rivera, a group of large Spanish banking firms has formed a combifie for the alleged purpose of financing enterprises thruout Spain and Portugal provided they will purchase Spanish machinery and products in the undertakings. In this way it hoped to bring the whole in- dustry of the peninsula under the sway of a small centralized combine of financiers. Standard Oil Worker Hit by Train; May Die BAYONNE, N. J., Jan. 11.—Peter Mango, 41, a Standard Oil laborer employed at Constable Hook here, was struck by an engine while cross- ing a track within the Standard Oil yards. He received a fracture of the skull from which he is not expected to recover, and his leg was crushed so badly that it had to be amputated. 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