The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 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. 11. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. AILY WORKER. Entered as second-ciuss matter at the Fost Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Inc., 33 First Street, Publishing Association, FINAL CITY EDITION New York, N, Y. Price 3 Cents COLORADO TROOPERS KILL WALSENBURG MINER th ANNIVERSARY OF DAILY WORKER. & Noted ‘Artists Appear In Mecca Temple The esteem in which The DAILY WORKER is held by its readers was shown last night when nearly 4,000 workers of New York, Philadelpha, Baltimore and neighboring cities crowded into Mecca Temple, 55th St., near Seventh Ave., to participate in| a concert and celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of the founding of the only English Communist daily in the world. Leaders of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America spoke of | the place of the fighting daily in the revolutionary movement of the world and of its work as an-organ of the | workers in their day to day struggle | with the employers. Sacrifices Told. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, head of the women’s work of the Workers Party of New York; and Robert Minor, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, were among the speakers who told of the sacrifices made in order to maintain the militant organ of the American Workers. William W. Weinstone, or- ganizer of District 2, Workers (Com- munist) Party, acted as chairman. Noted artisis furnished the music. The concert last night, marked: by great enthusiasm, was one of the most successful of its kind in the history of New York labor. Four destinguished artists contributed to an extraordinary musical program. They were Sascha Jacobsen, noted violinist; Nina Tarasova, in a pro- gram of Russian. folk songs; Doris Niles, who gave an original series of (Continued on Page Five) — NATIONAL MEET Robert Elliott, of. Queens Village, L. 1, is hired by the sovereign state of New York to pull the switch of the electric chair at executions in Sing Sing prison. For each “job” he gets $150. Thursday night he earned $300 when Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were electrocuted. So dif- ficult is it to get a person willing to perform this kind of service, that El- York, Jersey, and Massachusetts. Na- turally, Elliott slinks from publicity. PRESS REVELS IN EXECUTION STORY Times, World, Vie Tabloids OSSINING, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Un- der motorcycle police guard, the bodies of Ruth Brown. Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were carried out of AGAINST HORTHY League Convention to Hear of Frame-ups Disclosures of the frame-up in the United States by opponents of the Horthy Hungarian white guard gov- ernment will be made at the national | convention of the Anti-Horthy League of America, which will open at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the Central Opera House, Third Ave. and 67th St. Documentary proof will be of- fered that the Hungarian government can conspire to bring about the im- prisonment of its political enemies in this country, according to aeeency members, A public mass meeting will be held; in the same hall at 8 p. m. Sunday when details of the disclosures, in- volving large sums, will be given. The speakers will be Rosika Schwim- mer, German pacifist; Dr. Hollos, Dr. Buchler, former’ deputy New York state attorney; Emory Balint, author, and Hugo Gellert, artist. Dr. Hollos is an internationally known tubercu- losis specialist, here on tour. Documentary Proof. The executive committee of the Anti-Horthy League is in possession of documents which prove that the Hungarian government has built up a, strong and widely spread spy sys- tem in America, Anti-Horthy League members said last night, There is also evidence that the Horthy government has set up an or- ganization in New York for the pro- duction of forgeries for the purpose of attacking the league. False docu- ments have been instrumental in framing up innocent workers and rail- roading many to jail, it is reported. Correspondence between the Kron Detective Agency, which league mem- bers say is a side business of the Amerikai Maquar Nepezva, Hungar- ian daily newspaper, with Jacob Nosovisky, international spy, will be disclosed at tomorrow’s meeting. Count Szecheny, Hungarian ambassa- dor, who -hired the detective agency, it is charged, pledged Nosovisky a fee of $100,000, The 10 a. m. meeting will be a dele- gate meeting. Greetings to ‘Daily’ Should Be Sent to | The Business Office: > Those having belated greetings for the anniversary edition of The DAILY WORKER should send Sing Sing prison early today. Metropolitan newspapers outdid themselves in reporting the execu- tions yesterday morning. The New York Times, ever proud.of its con- servatism in politics and in technique, devoted full nine columns to the de- RUTH SNYDER JUDD GRAY tails of the electrocution, and the background of the murder. In the Times it won the lead position. The New York World published seven full columns, most of it “at- mosphere” stuff. . Excel Tabloids, Both newspapers devoted more inches of space to the story than the tabloids, their reviled competitors, although the picture papers published almost nothing else. The entire first section of the final edition of the New York American yesterday was given over to the de- tails of the execution of Mrs. Snyder and Gray and the murder of Albert Snyder. It was especially garnished and illustrated with photographs of the executed pair, in a variety of poses, There were also cartoons, sketches, “original letters” and much feature material. The whole first page of the section was monopolized by the story. LANDLORDS GRIND TENANT NEGROES Absentee landlords chiefly con- cerned with returns, and grasping real estate men have caused an acute housing situation which is daily grow- ing more serious among the Negro population in this city, the Advisory Housing Conference was told yester- day by R. C. Bruce, manager of a plan for ideal apartments for Negro residents of Harlem. Houses are “in- them to the business office at once for immediate publication. liott is hired by three states, New | ANTI - GOOLIDGE DEMONSTRATION Coolidge Now on Way to Conference HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 13, — Dr. Pierre Hundecourt and Dr. Dates Bellegaree, leaders of the Haitian in- dependence movement, who hoped to bring the occupation of Haiti by | United States marines before the Pan- American conference, were intercept- ed today at Santiago and prevented from landing. Dr. Hundecourt and Dates charged that the Borno government was main- tained by the United States and did not represent the will of the Haitian people. The delegates appointed By Borno, they intimated, represented the interests of United States sugar com- panies and the National City Bank, rather a cross ‘section of Haitian opinion. Morrow There. Among those arriving today for the conference which opens Monday were Dwight W. Morrow, United States ambassador to Mexico and former | partner of J. P. Morgan and Company, ' the Mexican, Argentine, Bolivian, Ecuadorean, Peruvian and Chilean delegations. Fear Protest. The police and the military author- ities have taken extraordinary pre- against any demonstrations directed against the United States, delegates. President Machado fears a hostile demonstration ag@inst Pres- ident Coolidge on the part of work- * . * WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Pres- ident Coolidge, accompanied by part of the American delegation and more than forty newspapermen, left here today on a special train for Key West where he will board the battle- ship Texas for Havana. The train will make a short stop at Miami, Fla. A part of the delegation to the Pan American conference has already left for Havana. Among those who will accompany Coolidge are Charles Evans Hughes, Morgan J. O’Brien, Ambassador P. Fletcher and James Brown Scott. ers and students, * SANTIAGO, Chile; Jan. 13—Even ‘the conservative government organ Le Nacion bitterly attacks United | States intervention in Nicaragua and | declares that Latin-America “is rapid- ly losing confidence in the United States.” All Latin America, Le Nacion says, is “disgusted over the spectacle of an all-powerful nation with another in- finitely small, in its clutches.” There are only two forces working against the United States designs on Nicara- } gua, the paper continues: Sandino and Latin-American opinion. Le Nacion then ironically points out that “while Nicaragua is covered with blood, news arrives from Washington to the effect that the United States will not tolerate criticism of the Nica- raguan situation in the Pan-American j conference.” * Central America was severely cri- ticized in a resolution adopted by the Patriotic Union of Central America which’ met at the Hotel Ansonia Thursday. The resolution demands that the’ United States “repudiate its policy of armed intervention in order to sustain financial interests.” elena The 21 miners who were killed in mine No. 18 of the Industrial Coal Company at West Frankfort, IIL, shown here, adds to the large number who lost their lives as a re- sult of the greed and criminal negli- gence of the mine operators. A “friendly” coroner’s jury has just decided that the company is not to be hi eld to account for their deaths. WEST FRANKFORT, IIl., Jan. 13. —“Last week we were called before the superintendent of Peabody Mine No. 18, and told that we must ‘stop reporting the presence of explosive gas in the working places if we wanted to stand in the clear with the i state mine inspector, ” said one of the )mine inspectors in No, 18, testifying |before the coroner’s jury sitting on the deaths of 21 miners in a terrific explosion last Monday. - But the coroner’s jury of small business men and women friendly to the company, refused to listen to the | plain evidence nf negligence and fault on the part. brought in a sat “Gt deat “death asphyxiation and burning due to acci- dent.” A Hot Mine The miners are scornful of the ver- dict. “Everyone knew it was a hot mine” they said. Many men worked in the mine today. The company an- nounced work as usual. But in spite of the great need for wages among the miners of enol ad could NICARAGUAN TO SPEAK SUNDAY Gen. Sandino’s Brother to Tell of Invasion Socrates Sandino, brother of Gen- eral Augusto Sandino, commander of the Nicaraguan army of independence will speak tomorrow at 2 p. m. at a mass meeting arranged by the All- America Anti-Imperialist League and the Confederacion Nacionalista La- tino-Americana at Irving Plaza, Ir- ving Place and 15th St. The brother of the militant com- mander is a Brooklyn machine shop worker, who charges the invasion of Nicaragua by the Unite States gov- ernment is a “war against the whole Nicaraguan people.” Gomez to Speak. The meeting will be addressed by Toribio Tijerino, former Nicaraguan consul general in New York; Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, U. S. WORKER, and Robert W. Dunn, au- thor of “American Foreign Invest- ments.” The presence in New York of Gen. | Sandino’s brother became known only a few days ago. It will be his first public address. sec- | tion; Harry M. Wicks, of The DAILY | Those Reporting Danger at Frankfort Mine Threatned fot stand it. They left the mine of their own accord, and gathered in knots about the streets, discussing the fatal explosion. “It’s always so,” said one young miner, “they pass on the cause and call it an accident, when every one knows what the cause was. Greed of the owners of the mine was the cause. It costs a little to sprinkle the mine with rock dust; it costs a little to keep (Continued on Page Two) = MARINES MURDER TEN NICARAGUANS et Uabeest Toone ” WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Ten Nicaraguan liberals were killed by marine corps aviators, operating in conjunction with marine land forces, according to dispatches to the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Sel- lers. Aviators located a group of liberals at Latna Vista and raked with machine gun fire and bombs. The bombing attack followed another on Tuesday, in which nine of Sandino’s followers were killed. * * . MANAGUA, Jan. 13.—Leaders of the rebellion at Somotillo have es- caped to Honduras, according to re- ports reaching here today. The revolt broke out in the American-command- ed National Guard when a large num- ber of troops at the Somotillo garrison attempted t6 take the town and join the Sandino» forces. Three of the rebels were shot down in the fighting. Kellogg & Sons Dodging Payment for Men Killed Action is started to reduce the lia- \bility of Spencer Kellogg and Sons of iFort Lee, N. J., to $2,500 in the $4,- 000,000. suits brought against the company by relatives of those who lost their lives when the Linseed King, a launch with 100, workers aboard went down in the Hudson River in December 1926 with nearly jall on board. Plaintiffs charge that \the boat was unseaworthy and that its capacity was but 60. Few American workers endure fouler conditions than the 7,000 to 10,000 men and women engaged in doing the dirty work behind the scenes of the handsome, palatial, millionaire-endowed hospitals housing New York’s well-to-do ill and the pig- sties furnished by the city for its poor. The nurses, orderlies and maids administering to the needs and nerve-racking complaints of the bed- ridden, the constantly scrubbing por- ters clean filthier messes than most workers can stomach, the kitchen workers, dishwashers .and handicapped by antiquated age-old pots and cock- waiters, apparatus, solently unclean,” he said, and need-| roaches, all enjoy the benefits of the are ignored. 12-hour day. WHAT THE HOSPITAL WORKERS FACE They Work 12 Hours Under r Conditions Public Doesn’t Guess ae on and kicked by superin~ where is graft a finer art than among tendents and their assistants, and tor- tured by fear of losing their jobs whenever well fed boards of directors conceive the whim of hiring efficiency experts and reorganizers, the white collar lads and lassies in the hospital offices, themselves kow-towing right and left to the bosses, hold aloof from the lower, grimey half, the real work- ers. The holding of noses by $18 or $20 a week clerks when a sweating porter is in sight is comical and no- | Hospital workers are urged to send stories of their working con- ditions and experiences to The DAILY WORKER for publication. inline liinintt canine hospital superintendents and_ their assistants, efficiency experts and purchasing agents. The public, forced to pay from $3 to $5 per! day for wards and semi- wards, besides an additional bill of from $25 to $50 per week for other hospital services, bear in mind the fact that superin#tidents of hospitals average $12,000 a year and graft, with efficiency experts not far behind. What the workers make we shall now see. Trained nurses are of two sorts, special nurses and those who are on the hospital payroll. The former After fuor years of struggle for ex- (Continued on Page Four) { BELATED PROBE OF EDISON CO, Longacre Deal Under Charge of Crime Public criticism has begun an in- yeatigation of the numerous deals through which the New York Edison Company acquired the $100,000,000 Longacre Electric Light & Power Company franchise, it was learned today. Witnesses prominent in Wall Street banking, legal and public util- ity circles have been summoned to the New York County prosecutor’s office to testify to phases. of the complicated and somewhat mysteri- ous transactions. The immediate cause of the action of the district attorney’s office is the assertion of the New York Edison Company that $325,000 of notes made out in the name of the Edison Company were never issued by the corporation or with its lawful ap- proval, Permanent Monopoly. The so-called Longacre franchise is a perpetual right to conduct a power and electric light business in the city of New York. It cannot be voided by the legislature nor can an- other of like value ever be issued. Recognizing its immense value the late Attorney N. Brady, chairman of the board of the New York Edison Company, and others in control of the Consolidated Gas Company, started a-drive to secure the Long- acre franchise more than ten years ago. FIND OUT TIMES’ UNDERCOVER MAN Espionage activities in which large corporations cooperate with the New York Times, “frame-ups” against railroad workers, strike breaking maneuvers and the indifference of | union officials were among the rev- | lelations disclosed yesterday — by | sources close to the New York Times, |the most powerful organ of big busi- ness in America. When Local 807 of the Teamsters’ Union went out on strike on Sept. 1 of last year, five truck drivers em- ployed by the New York Times struck with other union men of the city. Practically every employer of the city promptly settled with the striking | drivers granting the $5 increase per | week demanded. Employs Strikebreakers. The New York Times, it is reliably | reported, immediately decided to re-! Haiti iti Independence Delegates Barred red from Havana MACHADO FEARS Coal | Operators Win Cam@icte Whitewash i in the Death of 21 Miners ROCKEFELLER GUN- "e MEN RUSH TO AID OFFICIAL KILLERS \Fire on Peaceful Parade | and Bombard Hall WALSENBURG, Colo., Jan. 13. — Rockefeller mine gunmen are being rushed into this town to reinforce the | state police who have created a reign |of terror here since they fired into a peaceful and unarmed parade of striking miners and bombarded the miners’ I. W. W. Hall with rifles and machine guns yesterday, killing one miner, wounding two more, and shooting one of their own crew in the melee, While the state industrial commis- sion was in session in' the county court house, a parade of striking miners was organized among men at the strike headquarters, amounting to five or six hundred, to march past the court house, and if possible testify to the commission. Wanton Shooting. The marching started about the middle of the afternoon, and was met at Seventh and Main Sts. by police who leveled guns at it and turned it west to Russel St., where it turned north and circled the block, still a block away from the court house. It was during this movement that the (Continued on Page Two) LENIN MEMORIAL PROGRAM READY 1,000 to Participate in Mass Scenes The detailed program for the New York Lenin memorial meeting to be held at Madison Square Garden next Saturday evening was announced yes- terday by the office of the New York District of the Workers (Communist) Party, under whose auspices the meeting is being held. The commemorative exercises will open with the singing of “The Inter- national” by the Freiheit Singing So- ciety. Prominent leaders of the mili- tant labor movement will then make brief remarks on the life and signifi- cance of Lenin. 1,000 In Pageant. A revolutionary pageant, written by Adolf Wolf, New York poet, will occupy the greater part of the eve ning. Stirring scenes depicting scenes from the Russian Revolution will be presented in vivid fashion by nearly 1,000 actors. The mass scenes are being directed by Edward Massey, director for the New Playwrights? Theatre. John Dos Passos, novelist and playwright, is planning startling scenes and lighting effects. The scenes in the pageant and bal- let will be as follows: Russia Under |the Czars—mass pageant scene; Rus- sia In Revolt—Ballet; The Workers Take Power; Reconstruction Dance— Ballet; Lenin Is Dead—Mass Scene; Carry On!—Ballet; “1928”—pageant and mass scenes. Members of the New York Sym- phony Orchestra will play revolution- ary music. RABBIT DRESSERS UNION WILL FIGHT fuse further dealings with the union and promptly replaced its five strik- | ing drivers with five strikebreakers | secured from a local agency. | Among these, according to reliable | information, was one G. E. Dobbs, who is still employed by the New York Times as an operator of one of its Packard delivery trucks. \ Anticipating the strike, the New York-Times had sent on Oct. 31, to a local detective agency for an “under cover” man. Dobbs in the guise of a regular strikebreaker was sent to- gether with four other men. | In addition to acting ‘In the capa- city of espionage agent for the Times, Dobbs has been employed by the Bal- | timore and Ohio Railroad on similar work out of Baltimore, also by the | Pennsylvania Railroad on the Long Island division. A monthly receipt ticket, now in (Continued on Page Five) fs Adjourning at the request of the {employers, yesterday’s conference be tween Rabbit Dressers’ Union Locals 25 and 58, International Fur Workers’ Union, and the Consolidated ‘Rabbit Dressers’ Association, has ended. The representatives of the employers ask- ed for time to consult their member- ship before answering the refusal of the union to arbitrate the question of a wage reduction. The workers by a vote of 600 to 9 had refused to arbitrate the 25 per cent wage reduction demanded by the | bosses, althoughMoe Harris, business agent of the Brooklyn Local No. 58, had urged the workers to accept © bitration. After a five hour discussion the workers definitely let it be under-