The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1928, Page 1

VPage oe R FIGHTS: '@ TION OF THE New Members, =———— THE DAILY Entered as second-cluss maucr ac tae Mont Olfice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1924 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 88.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year, Machado Fears Anti- Coolidge Protests; Rumor Many Arrests Wall Street’s Delegates to Fight Discussion of Coolidge and His 10,000 New Dai Wall Street Agents on Way to Nicaragua at Co nference Today Expect Coolidge Will Evade Important Issues in Address, and Talk HAVANA, Jan. 15.—Coolidge at 3:53 p. m. on board the Unite “Good Will” Bunk and the American party arrived d States Battleship Texas., The crowd yielded good naturedly to the brusque orders of soldiery that watched over all, as the welcoming launch set out from the pavilion of President M a committee. * * achado, on the water front with * HAVANA, Jan. 15.—According to widely-circulated rumors, scores of workers and students hi who fear that a demonstration ave been arrested by the police, may be held against the United States delegation when it ar- fives. The police and military gp- President Coolidge on special train on way to Havana for Pan-American conference. soft-soap experts accompanying Coolidge are Charles Evans Hughes, S and Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur (extreme right). WORK 1879. Conquer Latin America Among the ecretary of State Frank Kellogg LENIN MEMORIAL WILL LAUNCH MAJOR DRIVS The fourth Lenin Memorial Meeting to be held at Madison Square Gar- den next Saturday, in which 25,000 workers are expected to participate, will mark the commencement of a national membership campaign for the |temorial meeting six weeks later. PROTEST MEETING CHEERS SANDINO Asks Aid of U.S. Labor in Brother’s Cause Published daily except § Publishing Association, 1 us 3 First Street, y by The National Daily Worker New York, N. ly Worker Readers, Party Goal NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents ¥ $1,000 Bounty Paid For Shooting Miner; Shut Ohio Scab Mine Eye Witnesses Tell of Walsenburg Slaughter The drive against the co where the state police are trying two men and wounding of two r incitement to strike, and also in| the Pennsylvania and Ohio dis- tricts, where mass picketing is being met by a mobilization of company | gunmen, sworn in as deputies and un- | der orders to kill unionists if neces- ; sary to keep the mines running open shop. | * * * By FRANK PALMER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) | DENVER, Colo., Jan. 15.—State po- | lice who killed two men at Walsen- burg Thursday are making desperate efforts to stem the tide of feeling lm for murder, assault to kill and} When State Troopers Fired On Parade Fatal Proclamation of Martial Law May Have Been # Forgery continues both in Colorado o shift blame for the killing of nore, and frame up some miners N.Y, POLICE CLUB DEMONSTRATORS AT NAVAL YARD Communists Protest U. Ss. War in Nicaragua Workers (Communist) Party which AIM T0 PARALYZE will continue until the Ruthenberg \ At the same time the entire Party machinery will be organized in'a con- certed campaign for building the cir- culation of The DAILY WORKER, of- ficial organ of the Party. This cam- paign will be allied with the mem- | precautions to prevent an anti-Cool- jidge demonstration. Workers and |students, the Machado goverment NATIONALISTS \fears, may attempt an anti-imperial- | soldiers who will line the streets from ‘Liberal’ Moncada Will |the dock to the presidential palace : where Coolid ill stay. Take Diaz’ Job; Rumor|" ee MANAGUA, Jan. 15+-Forty Ni- ments from the air. The casualty figures are those of the air squad- ron’s commander, Major “Rutsy” Rowell. mountain stronghold in Nueva Sego- via, when the airplanes. appeared. The planes hid in the clouds, diving down from time to time to deluge} time that hand grenades have ever been used in air fighting. The Nicaraguans have no adequate | anti-aircraft guns, their best being | campments, the Nicaraguans attempt- | ed to drive off the invaders with} rifle fire. The American reports (Continued on Page Two) | MARINES KILL jist demonstration. Orders have been lissued providing that spectators stand caraguans were massacred here yes- terday when marine corps planes Part of the Nicaraguan army of independence under General Sandino the defenseless nationalists with bombs, machine gun fire and hand improvised from iron mine piping} mounted on tripods. But as the air- | thorities are taking extraordinary AQ NICARAGUAN ‘at least twelve feet from cordon of dropped bombs on Sandino’s encamp- were encamped upon El Chipote, their grenades. This is said to be the first planes swooped down above the en- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.— In addition to the huge appropriation for a naval and aeroplane building program, Congress was asked for} $475,000 for commercial aviation, by Calvin Coolidge yesterday. The presi- dent would use the funds to illuminate airways in addition to the 2,500 miles of lit aerial routes taken care of under the regular .appropriation asked for next year. A huge air program, which is ex- pected to force out German air opera- tion already developed in Latin Amer- iea, was inaugurated by Coolidge for Wall Street interests. Charles A. Lindbergh’s “Good-will” flight to furnish “advance advertising” was the first move. \ May Appeal to Alumni) In Class Suspensions | WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 15.—As | a result of the suspension of three students from Clark University, for publishing an alleged obscene article; in the Clark College Monthly, many | students are threatening to appeal! to alumni bodies thruout the east.' Such an appeal was made when Presi- dent Atwood turned out the lights at a lecture by Scott Nearing in 1921, Those suspended are Frank Pheland, author of the article, Frank Sweitzer and Bertrand Levesque, editors of the paper. Only One Musician in Blind Orchestra Blind NEWARK,.N. J., Jan. 15.—-Concerts by the Blind Veterans’ Society of Baltimore have been banned by Police Chief McRell here, because he said there was only one blind veteran in the orchestra, The concerts are not held for the benefit of blind veterans as the orchestra has led the public to think, stated the National Head- quarters of the Blind Veterans’ So- A ciety. The United States delegation will do everything in its power to pre- vent the discussion of the Nicaraguan auestion at the Pan-American Con- ference which opens tomorrow. Presi- dent Coolidge, who will address the conference tomorrow, is expected to offer the delegates the customary ex- pressions of “good will,” while com- pletely evading the concrete differ- ences between Latin-America and the United States. Such criticism as the Latin-Amer- ican delegates are expected to bring against “United States intervention in Latin-American countries will in all prop@bility be buried behind closed ddprs, in committee conferen- ces. The United States delegation, it is expected, will encounter some dif- ficulty when the Commission of In- ‘ternational Jurists appointed by the Pan-American Conference at Santi- ago five years ago delivers its report. One of the recommendations of the commission is that “no state ‘shall intervne in the domestic difficulties of another state. Such opposition as the United States will encounter is expected to be feeble in view of the fact that a vast majority of the delegates repre- sent gevernments maintained or strongly influenced by the United States. Delegates of opposition groups, such as Dr. Bellegarde and Dr. Hundecourt of Haiti, have been excluded. * * * Hit Coolidge Policy. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.—Excelsior, Jarge Mexican City daily, expects very little from President Coolidge’s speech at the Havana Conference. Referring to the “hymn of frater- nity” which Excelsior expects from Coolidge the editorial says: “This is not the remedy for Nica- ragua. Sandino and his heroic com- panions will be annihilated. Violation \ of Nicaraguan sovereignty will be consummated. Again it will. be shown that the colossus of the North does not respect and does nqt wish to re- spect the rights of little nations.” Gov. Jackson’s Trial to Start February 7 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 15,— Trial of Governor Jackson of this state on corruption charges will start on Feb. 7 in Marion County Criminal Court, defense and prosecuting at- | torneys decided today. Robert Marsh ‘and G. V. Coffin, Republican leaders here, also go on trial with Jackson. Loses License for Joke BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 15.—Because Leslie B. Sanders of Newton objects to having a codfish on his license ,plate and painted it green to match the color of his car, his registration was revoked by Frank A. Goodwin, state register, who happened to notice it on the street. Huge War Plane Arrives "MANAGUA, Jan. 15.—The huge, tri-motor Fokker airplane, piloted by Major Louis N. Bourne, has arrived in Managua completing the first non- stop flight from the United States to. Nicaragua. The plane will be used in transporting troops and ammuni- tion from Managua and the United States marines invading the Indepen- | dent Republic which has been pro- claimed in the district of Neuva Se- govia bership drive, it is announced by the organizational department of the Party, of which Jack Stachel is na- tional secretary. To Extend Activity. Five thousand new members for the Party and 10,000 new readers for The DAILY WORKER are the goals fixed. On the Labor Front. Closely allied also with this cam- paign will be an intensification of Smith in an attempt to clear Tam-jthe campaign for the relief of the many Hall of responsibility in the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio scandal, was Saturday served with | ond Colorado, and for the preserva- additional summonses aimed to eX-' tion of the United Mine Workers of cuse vital witnesses from testifying. '4merica, The fight against the men- Some of these include sewer contrac- | aoe of anti-union injunctions will also tors and their employes. In addition }¢ accelerated. Legislation aimed at subpoenaes which Scudder had issued ¢o4eign-horn workers will be attacked. for subordinates of Connolly have ‘phe fight against unemployment will been set aside. The subordinates are }¢ strengthened. e Clifford B. Moore, consulting engi-| The struggle against imperialist neer; William Bishop, in charge of war as well as the defense of the sewer construction; J. F. Perrine, in soviet Union will be intensified and charge of sewer design, and Paul V.| the entire Party will be mobilized to- O'Dwyer, construction engineer. iward the formation of a Labor Party CONGRESS MOVES 2 Set Aside Subpoenas to! Vital Witnesses That complete paralysis of the scheduled investigation into the $29,- 500,000 Queens sewer graft is antici- pated by Maurice Connolly, president of the borough, and his cohorts has became clear. Justice Scudder, appointed by Gov. political and artistic viewpoints. More than 2,000 cheering workers {greeted Socrates Sandino, brother of General Sandino, Nicaraguan leader, jwhen he appeared on the platform at Irving Plaza yesterday afternoon to address a protest meeting against jthe American intervention in Nicara- gua. The balcony and main floor of the hall at Irving Place and 15th St. were filled. Hundreds crowded the aisles and rear of the meeting place. Cheering and applause on the appear- ance of Sandino continued for over five minutes until the youthful Cen- tral American rose to request silence. Cameras Click. Previous to the meeting a dozen newspaper photographers flashed pic- tures of Sandino, who was appearing before an audience for the first time. The meeting was called under the joint auspices of the United States section of the All America Anti-Im- perialist League and the National Confederation of Latin America. “My country cannot be put down by any intervention by a foreign power, even if it is a power as strong as that of the United States.” San- dino said in part. “The suppression and enslavement of our small land must not continue longer. It will come to a speedy end if the American workers will protest and support us. We cannot win without your help. It is your duty to come to our as- sistance. We are oppressed by the against them and the possibility of | murder charges by finding others re- | Reforming their lines six times sponsible for their acts, though one | after they had been broken by police, trooper, it is open'y charged, has col- | more than 500 members of the Young lected $1,000<,fc: killing Klementi | Workers (Communist) League, as- Chavez, a miner, av the I. W. W. hall, | sisted by members of the Workers | The program at the Lenin memorial (meeting will be unique both from the | } FOR LARGER NAVY WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—By unanimous consent, a program for additional ships for the navy to in- volve an expenditure of $740,000,000 and which calls for a completed job at the end of eight years, will be laid before Congress by the House Naval Affairs Committee. The plan specifically states that the president shall not have power to sus- pend work even if the administration should agree to do so at another naval limitation conference. Housemaids and Butlers Chartered As a Union CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—The Amer- ican Federation of Labor issued a charter last month to a household workers’ union, It is to be known as the Housemaids’ and Butlers’ Union, Local . 17,994... Ten hours has been fixed as the day’s work, but the ques- tion of wages and the days off are Prominent leaders of the militant la- bor movement will speak briefly on Lenin and his great service to the working class. A revolutionary pageant, written by Adolf Wolf and directed by Edward Massey and John Dos Passos, will depict scenes from the Russian revolution. Announce- ment has also been made that the New York Symphony Orchestra will furnish music, The scenes in the pageant and ballet will include por- trayal of Russia under the czar; a ballet entitled “Russia ini Revolt,” and another entitled, “The Workers Take Power.” There will also be a num- ber of unusually colorful mass scenes in the pageant. Announce Methods. According to plans announced last night by Stachel, the drive will utilize the following means in its course: 1, Regular shop recruiting and se- | curing of readers iff the shops and open educational meetings of shop nuclei. 2. Section and city mass meetings arranged on thé various issues in the locality and on the Party campaigns enumerated above. At these meet- yet to be decided. (Continued on Page Two) same forces which are exploiting you at home. If these Wall Street powers succeed in our country they will so much more easily continue against you here.” Applause greeted these words of the thin-faced serious young worker. “My brother will never give up while he is alive,” he continued. “For every Nicaraguan who is slain hun- dreds will arise to take his place until we have expelled the Wall Street invaders.” William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER, pointed to the signific- ance of the attack by the United States at this particular time. “This is but a dress parade, a train- |ing skirmish for the larger and more | bloody battles and wars in which the United States is about to engage,” he said. “It is intended to inform the other Spanish American coun- tries, especially Mexico, of what they may expect at the hands of American imperialism.” HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 15.—An- drew Jacobson, a 68 year old Erie Railroad worker, yesterday fell over- board while at work on a lighter here, and was drowned. OPPOSITION BREAKING ITS WORD (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—Pravde has just published two letters containing instructions from the Trotskyist cen- tre to Trotsky’s foreign adherents. The first letter said: ‘“Zinoviev’s and Kamenev’s treachery is a historical fact from which all necessary lessons can be deducted. We must ruthlessly break with those who capitulate, and separate openly from those who waver and hesitate. (This refers to the recent action of Zinoviev and Kamenev who declared they would sub- mit to the Communist Party’s decision against the Opposition. Trotsky de- nounces them as “surrenderers,”— Editor.) ‘, “In this respect Maslov’s and Ruth Fisher’s conduct seems ambiguous. | They practically try to justify Zino- viev and Kamenev. Their argument | is that they are not much worse than | others who are endeavoring to efface | the boundary between revolutionaries und surrenderers. Call Zinoviev “Traitor.” “As soon as the break occurred, the Opposition contrary to the surrender- ers, handed in the declaration of Smilga, Muralov, Rakovsky and Ra- dek. After this, the failure to dis- tinguish between the Opposition and surrenderers means: to consciously support the surrenderers, — “The declaration of the Opposition leaders to the Executive Committee of the Communist International is Trotskyist Letters Show New Hostile Activity Against USSR. (Pravda’s note. According to information received there is no such declaration in the Commun- ist International.) “It can Jeave no room for doubt and hesitation. If Maslov will ap- proach us in the future with Zinoviev and Kamenev, we shall have to look upon him as an avowed \adversary. We must expose the hina dhuerade by which this or that member of the Op- position can endeavor under pretext cf the struggle against Trotskyism to join the surrenderers. On this line one’s attitude must now be deter- mined. . With French Renegades. “The same criterion must be ap- plied to the French group. If Treint and Suzanre Giraud will waver be- herewith enclosed. (Corginued on Page Three) i ister = ms | during the police attack omit. It is known that persons connected with the operators passed around the word before the miners’ parade started that $1,000 would be paid any trooper who killed a miner or fired into the hall, and this trooper claims to have done | both. Trooper Johnston also admits he shot and wounded Pete Verlich when Verlich tried to carry Chavez’ body out of danger. No Firing From Hall. There was absolutely no firing from the miners’ hall, as is charged in the (Continued on Page Four) MOVE FOR NIGHT WORK FOR WOMEN BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 15.—An at- tempt to reintroduce night work for women in textile factories was made by the heads of fifteen large manu- facturing concerns in Massachusetts including the Boston Woven Hose| Company, Gillette Safety Razor Com-! pany, Florence Stove Company, etc., all of whom are interested in textile dividends. Fifteen petitions asking for legislation to legalize night work ing textile shops were presented. | While the bosses insist that the law | (Communist) Party, carried out a picketing demonstration in front of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Saturday afternoon as a protest against Amer- ica’s war on the Nicaraguan army of independence. Altho the picket line was charged time after time by mounted police, foot patrolmen and detectives, 5,000 leaflets were distributed appealing to the marines, sailors and workers to refuse to make war against the Nic- araguan workers, Only one arrest police tactic evidently being to use physical violence instead of making arrests. S. William Gerson, was the work- er arrested. He was held in $500 bail on charges of disorderly conduct and inciting to riot. After being taken into custody he was held in the Navy Yark for several hours before being removed to the Classen Street Police Station. The picketing demonstration was timed to begin at 4:45 p. m. when the civilian workers in the Navy Yard leave for home. At that time the first large group of pickets marched down Cumberland Street to Flushing Avenue, where the main gate to the yard is located. Distributors Get Busy. Several minutes later another division of pickets arrived from an is “discriminatory” against the textile industry, women workers in 6ther| trades declare that the law dis-| criminates against them and should be expanded so as to prohibit night work | in any kind of factory and taking | work home at night. | The capitalist petitioners demand } that either the section be repealed or an amendment be added to permit | working hours to extend until 10) o’clock at night. Present legislation | cites 6 p. m. as the latest hour that women may work in textile factories. | Workers plan to fight the proposal. Fake Colleges In | America Flourish | ) Fake colleges, universities and cor- | respondence schools, some issuing | diplomas for masters’ and doctors’ de- | grees for $5 and $10, are operating extensively in this country, seid W. | E. Humphrey, chairman of the Fed- | eral Trade Commission yesterday in ar address before the Association of American Colleges. There are 350} private correspondence schools in America, he said, with 2,000,000 en- rolled students paying over $70,000,- 000 a year. Hundreds Die in Bosnia PARIS, Jan. 15.—-Hundreds are dy- ing monthly, according to reports from Sarajevo, as the “blessings” of | the Serb rule which was foisted upon | the Bosniaks and Montenegrans be- | gin to make themselves felt. Death | end starvation are stalking thru the land, the report states, and all Mo-| hammedans are fleeing to Turkey for | safety as they fear the rising fury) ef the starving multitudes. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 15.— While Edgar Boerger of Irwin, Ohio, was operating an automatic clipper on a dairy cow in the barns of the Ohio State University where he is enrolled as a student, a short circuit passed through the short handle and cause his death through electrocution. adjoining street. With the appearance of the pickets who carried banners still another group with leaflets ar- rived. Many of them were members of the Young Pioneers. Standing directly outside the gate they passed out leaflets to the workers who were beginning to leave for home. A group of sailors in the yard came out to ask for leaflets. Many took them into the yard or to their barracks. Sev- al returned to request additional leaflets. Children Cheer. When the demonstrators first ap- peared scores of children ran to the front of the line, cheering and in many cases joining the line of march. Many were of Latin American ex- traction. The neighborhood is in- habited by Negro, Italian and Latin- American workers. Police Reserves Arrive After the pickets had passed the Navy Yard gate several times the first group of reserves from the Classen Street Police Station, under Sergt. Morris, arrived. Wielding their nightsti¢cks they drove the workers off Flushing Avenue into Cumber- (Continued on Page Two) Haiti Concern Crashes PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 15. —The American financial guardian- ship of Haili has been unable to pre- vent the failure for several hundreds of thousands of dollars of the firm of Oloffson, Lucas and Co., in what is reported to be one of the worst crashes in years, Walter Oloffson, the senior member of the concern, has disappeared, and the main offices and several branches of the firm thruout the island have been seized and sealed by the courts. Civil and criminal pro- ceedings are being entered into. HICKMAN PROMISES SUICIDE. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15.—A vow to kill himself before the state can Jo so was made by William Hickman, shild slayer, before examining alien. ‘sts yesterday. Unusual poli tality mE has bee? was wade’ tm * w