The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1928, Page 1

ame a ‘Striking Miners Will March to Shut Down Scab Mines in Eastern THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE VORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEE! FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 15. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-ciuns matter at the ost Office at New Nork, N. ¥., EW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. under the act of March 3, 1879, Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Ohio FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents CUBAN WORKERS CHEER SANDINO, BOO WALL ST. MINERS’ DECISION DESPITE MACHINE TACTICS IN UNION To Arrest 12 Miners for Defying Injunction (Special to The Daily Worker.) WHEELING, W. Va., Jan. 18— The miners will march to shut down || every mine in eastern Ohio scheduled || to open with scabs in the next two weeks as the miners shut down Rush Run Mine of Yioghegheny and Ohio Coal Company on Saturday, declared the rank and file of the miners’ union despite the opposition of the machine to such marches. Heavy guards of United States marshals and national guard officers in addition to deputies and mine guards are being stationed at Dillon, || Number 1 Mine of Wheeling and | Lake Erie Coal Mining Company and other mines scheduled to reopen. } Issue Warrants. Following alleged attacks by strik- ( ers Monday night on George Ayres | Mine, the boss at Barton Mine Num- } I ber 1, near St. Clairsville, which the Yioghegheny and Ohio Coal Com- pany is preparing to reopen, had warrants issued for twelve Barton strikers on charges of violating fed- eral injunction, after a conference held between Col. Caldwell of the national guard who is the personal representative of Governor Doheny; Captain Notle, in charge of fedeva. representatives in Ohio strike area, and Prosecuting Attorney Waddell. Refuse to Talk. Reports from the Provident Mine, where Ayers was working while Bar- hearing rumors of plans for opening of the Barton mine the Barton strik- ers sought out Ayers at Providen. Monday morning to confirm the rum- ors. Ayers refused to talk. At night word went around that Ayers was seen at Barton mine occupied wich preparations for the opening. Hated by Strikers. Two hundred strikers and women crowded to Barton mine to find him. Besides his present scab activities Ayers earned ha.red of strikers as deputy last summer when many yee were reopening and when the erators’ war on the miners in the section were at the same violent stage. MILITIA SHOOTS COLORADO SCAB Mistaken for Striking Miner By FANK L. PALMER: (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Col. Jan. 18,—usiilitia- men here shot Carl ‘Anoop, a strike- breaker, today mistaking him for a striker. Colonel Newion, in charge of the militia, offered the most pro- J fuse apologies. “It was a case of | mistaken identity,” the colonel stated. Knoop who was wounded in the shoulder, is not believed to be serious- ly injured. Intimidate Strikers. Militiamen here continue to intim- date strikers’ families by rapping’ on oors, ra.tling windows at mghy etc. Soldiers aiso attend meetings oi stvikers in spite of repeated promises of Governor Adams that the prasace weuld be stopped. Lewis Scherf, head of the state police who is held responsibie for the double killing at Waisen.erg last week, absolved himself and his men of all blame in a statement issued to- day. “The jury verdict was all wrong,” he states. “The best peopie of Walsenberg agree with me.” Their names, however, are not given in his statement. Protect Henchmen. Obviously there will be no murder charges filed by the Rockefeller con- trolled officials as it has long been the policy of the interests to stand faithfully by their gunmen in all dis- putes. The mayor of the city and Sherf insist that they will enforce their fake’ resolution which quotes a dec- laration of martial law. Such a dec- laration, however, has never been is- sued. \ ‘Phe city is living in constant dread «(that new murders will be committed. ton mine is shut down’ state that, |” Thousands of workers will march to the Lenin Memorial Meeting in bodies from their respective headquar- ters to take part in the mass demon- stra.ion at Madison Square Garden Saturday. Thirty-five councils of the United Council of Workingclass Women will assemble at headquarters and move as a “women’s battalion” on the auditor- ium. -Each council will carry its own banner and slogan. More than 1,000 members and sympathizers of the Council will be in the line of march. To Open Campaigns. Many unions repor< that their mém- bers will arrive at the meeting in mass, formation. Calls have been issued by | the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, the International Labor De- fense and the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union, calling upon the membership to appear at the meet- ing en masse. The huge meeting will mark the opening of national campaigns to in- crease the membership of the Work- ers (Communist) Party by 5,000 and the readers of the DAILY WORKER, the Party official organ, by 10,000 im- mediately. Outside Delegations Coming. Word has been received at the of- fices of the Workers (Communist) Party, under whose auspices the mem- orial meeting is being arranged, that delegations from nearby cities also will attend the New York memorial meeting. Delegations will arrive from Albany, Troy, Poughkeepsie, New- burgh, Passaic, Pa:erson, Newark, Schenectady, Philadelphia, Port Ches- |ter, Pottsville and many other cities |and towns. Rose Baron, secretary of the New York section of the International La- bor Defense, issued a call yesterday to che tens of thousands of members of that organization to take part in the Lenin demonstration. Thousands to March With Banners to Lenin The arrangements committee, is do- ing everything possible to arrange an interesting and inspiring evening. | tickets in advance to avoid waiting in line. The final rehearsal of the prole- Members of the famous New York| tarian mass pageant will be held Sat- Symphony Orchestra have been en- gaged to furnish the revolutionary music for the pageant and ballet. Final Rehearsal Saturday. Rehearsals of the mass revolution-| ary pageant, written by Adolf Wolff, indicate that this speevacle will be one of the most realisti€ and striking ever given here. s throughout the city advance sale of tickets Workers are urday at 1 p. m. at Madison Sq Garden (49th St. near 8th Ave. em-| ployes’ entrance. | | One thousand are needed for mass scenes, according to Wolff, and no ex-| perience is necessary. Russian cos- jtumes also are needed according to} Edward Massey, of the New Play- wrights’ Theatre, who is directing the | | production. being organized by the Workers Party (Continued on Page Four) Deacon Gets Life Adolph Hotelling, (below) is the church elder who presided at a com- munion several hours before he murdered and brutally dismembered the body of fiye-year-old Dorothy Schneider. The former deacon has just confessed that he attacked two other little girls in the Owasso churchyard in February, 1926 and April, 1927. Leslie Schneider, fath- er of the murdered girl is shown above. Hoteliing has just pleaded guilty in Flint, Mich., and was sen- tenced to life imprisonment. 2 LATIN AMERICANS AROUSED BY U. S, Demand Boycott; Speed | War Supplies to Front Latin-America is aroused. Hatred of American imperialism and deter-| mination to struggle against it are finding daily expression in resolu- tions and appeals calling for aid for) the Nicaraguan Nationalists and de- mandjng that the Latin-American peoples carry on a ceaseless economic | warfare against domination by the) | United States, according to reports reaching here from the southern coun- | tries. | A country-wide boycott of Amer-| fcan products is demanded by the! Uruguayen newspaper “La Tribuna Popular” as a protest against the The paper urges the government to prevent Americans establishing com- mercial air services in Uruguay, as they serve to aid American imperial- ism. Funds Being Raised. The Buenos Ayres Central Law School has voted to raise funds for the support of General Sandino’s campaign against the United States marine invaders, according to a Buenos Ayres despatch. The cable ! states that Argentine youth is uni- versally enraged over the Nicaraguan intervention and is openly calling upon all classes to oppose United States imperialism and aid the Nica- raguan Nationalists. A committee whose purpose is to in the Nicaraguan Nationalist army in reaching the fighting front has been formed: in Bogota, according to a despatch from the Colombian capi- tal. Many young men are reported to have availed themselves of the com- mittee’s services already. . * * WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—In pre- paration for a three months’ intensive (Continued on Page Three) Mellon Penn Ave., this city. Senator James E. Watson of In- diana, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, wheel horse of the Coolidge administration and candidate for presidency, declared that the commission was too occu- pied with other matters and would not have time to conduct an investi- gation for at least six weeks if at all. It is understood that Andrew Mel- lon, secretary of the treasury, boss of the cabinet and principal director of the Pittsburgh Coal Company which opened the fight on the miners’ union, warned the Interstate Com- merce Commission to keep its hands off the coal strike. Mellon Stops. It.. The resolution calling for the coal strike probe was introduced last week by Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia on the request of the mine union leaders. Senator’ David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a cog in the Mellon political machine, refused a similar request. The resolution introduced by ‘Sena- tor Johnson would k the facts on violations of the constitutional rights of the miners, evictions from their homes and the use of coal and iron Senators Stop All Probing of Coal Police By T. J. O°7FLAHERTY, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 18.—The senate will not investigate the soft coal strike in Pennsylvania and Ohio according to information received at the headquarters of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 © police, state constabulary and deputy sheriffs against the strikers. While Miners Starve. While the capitalist politicians in Washington are passing the buck or openly demonstrating their hostility to the cause of the striking miners, hundreds of thousands of men, wo- men and children are literally starving in the soft coal regions of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio. It is up to the (Continued on Page Five) on U. S. Revolution “Does America Need a Revolu- tion?” will be the topic for the de- bate arranged by. the Workers School of New York for Friday evening, February 24, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, an- swers “yes” to this question, and George Hiram Mann, attorney, an- swers “no,” Bertram D. Wolfe, di- rector of the Workers School, will be NICARAGUAN WAR | American intervention of Nicaragua. | assist Colombians who wish to enlist | Lovestone Will Debate | COURT GUARDED AT BOMB TRIAL | 5 Youths Represented | As “Dangerous” | In an obvious attempt to prejudice | the jury and create the impression that the defendants were “dangerous | characters,” the Brooklyn supreme | court was again heavily guarded with | uniformed policemen yesterday at) the trial of five Latin-American | workers charged with bombing. The defendants, who were brought into court handcuffed, are charged with placing a bomb near the court house building last Labor Day. They are Jesus Silva, Eugenio Fernandez, Joseph Roa, Julian De Hoyos and Vic- torn Fern. Fernandez is a Cuban. The others, all Mexicans, are being defended by counsel retained by the Mexican consulate here. All are un- der 26 years of age. Would Avert Frame-up. When the Mexican consulate an- nounced that it would undertake the defense of the young workers, the declaration was made that it was eager to “avert another Sacco-Van- zetti case.” Thus far only two witnesses have testified for the prosecution. A Negro testified he overheard plans being made for the bombing. The men named by him speak only Spanish and the Negro does not ‘say that he understands the language. Much Ado About Nothing. Michael Falvey, the detective who made the arrests, testified yesterday to seeing maps and various mechan- ical devices in Fernandez’s room at 52 State St., Brooklyn. The prosecution will try to prove that this material was used for the purpose of making (Continued on Page Five) Final Talk in Workers’ | School Course Tomorrow | The last session in the course in “Social Forces in American Litera- ture,” being conducted by Joseph | Freeman and Floyd Dell, will be held | Friday at 8 at the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St. Following the lecture there will be general discussion on the talks made before the students during the entire course, Included among those who have participated in the symposium are Genevieve Taggard, John Dos Passos, Michael Gold, V. F. Calverton the chairman. and Paxton Hibben, Senate Will Bar Smith, Is Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, — The Senate had its mind made up. today to deny a seat to Senator-elect Frank L. Smith (R) of Illinois because of huge expenditures in his 1926 cam- paign. A poll of the senate indicated that Smith would be excluded by an over- whelming majority through adoption of the Reed Slush Fund Committee’s resolution, holding him “not entitled to a seat” and declaring his seat va- cant. Smith, too, was so certain of the result that he made no effort to speak in his own defense nor even to attend the final debate. With Smith ousted and the seat held vacant, Illinois will be left with but a single senator., There were in- dications, however, that Governor Len Small of Ilinois, would name a tem- porary appointee to serve until after the next election. Photo shows huge procession led by active members of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty demonstrating jin Washington, D. aC. They carried banners exposing the imperialistic aims of the Amer- ican _ capitalists now makiag war on the Nicaraguan revolutionists. Sim- ilar demonstra- tions and vast pro- test meetings are being held simul- taneously thruout the United States. Meanwhile the war- makers are contin- ving their invasion daily despatching battleships and marines to the war zone. SICMAN AIMS TO STOP DRESS MEET Meeting Tonight In an obvious effort to interfere with the coming meeting of the dress- makers called for today by the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, has sent telegrams to all the shop chairmen in the dress- making shops, to come to a separate meeting called by him. The meeting called by the Joint Board is to be held in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., at 7 o’clock. The meeting will discuss especially the so-called organization drive re- cently announced by Sigman. Dual Union Graft of Brick- Layers’ Officials Is Exposed Acts of intimidation, disclosures of graft and possible frame-ups were revealed yesterday in a further exposure of corruption in th New York Bricklayers’ Union. Hugh O’Donne!l, a member of the Bricklayers’ Union, it was learned, has appealed a fine of $50 imposed upon him by the bricklayers’ execu- tive board, of which John J. Gill is chairman, to officers of the Interna- tional at Indianapolis. O’Donnell is said to have refused to participate in a frame-up against one Arthur Hart- man, another member of the union. Outgrowth of Old Case. The case is an outgrowth of bribery and extortion charges brought against Hartman last August. Hartman was at the time foreman bricklayer on a construction job at Madison Ave. and 26th St., being erected for the New York Life Insurance Co. Hartman was indicted Sept. 1, 1927, as a result of information brought against him by Gill, and was arrested Sept. 2 on tHe charge that he had accepted bribes of between $5 | and $10 from workers on the job to keep them at work. Hartman was released on $1,500 bail. The case has since been dropped by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Hasting for reasons not stated. Gill Wanted a Job. Investigation now discloses that previous to bringing charges against Hartman, Gill and Michael J. Griffin, business agent of Local 33 of the United Building and Common Labor- ers’ Union, demanded that Hartman leave the construction job with the New York Life Insurance Co. Their plan, it is learned, was for Gill him- self to become foreman bricklayer of the job and for Griffin to become foreman of the laborers. The United Building and Common Laborers’ Union is a dual union sponsored by Gill. When Hartman refused to surren- der his job, Gill and Griffin threat- | (Continued on Page Five) | Incomes Suffer | TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 18. — Ac- ‘tion of the Pennsylvania and Reading | Railroads in reducing fares from Phil- \adelphia to Atlantic City by nearly resulted in protests from mayors and business men of Bradley Beach and | Asbury Park, rival seaside resorts. Fares to their cities were nox reduced. Meanwhile Mayor Ruffu of Atlantic City continues to restrict buses which operate in Atlantic City. He is fos- tering an ordinance which would pre- vent buses from entering the city. Huge Lenin memorial meetings are | of Nicaragua and | Joint Board Calls Vital) one half, due to bus competition, has | MACHADO POLICE “ARREST MORE IN REIGN OF TERROR Expose Open Diplomacy as Fake Move (Special to The Daily Worker.) HAVANA, Jan 18.—Innumerable outrages have been committed in or- der to prevent any unforeseen demon- strations against the United States delegation. Several manifestos are being cireu- lated by the Communist Party of Cuba with a caricature in which ap- | pears a bull dog with Machado’s face, ; giving his paw to President Coolidge, in whose shadow appear the faces of Sacco and Vanzetti. Beneath the pic- ture is written: “the dog salutes his master.” Arrest Communists, Several Communists have been ar- jrested and have been imprisoned in |the Cabana Fortress, for posting this |caricature over the city. Many arrests have been made of workers and intellectual workers by |the police, and the government has given instructions to the newspapers |to refrain from publishing any news |regarding this matter. | The Anti-Imperialist League also |has published a manifesto, reading as follows: Anti-Imperialist Protest. “Long live Sandino! Down with Coolidge! whose, words will be drowned by the roar of the guns of |his marines in Nicaragua. Down with |the myth of the Monroe Doctrine! Long live solidarity of Central and South America and the Antilles!” Under this manifesto there appear the words reading: | “This manifesto has been published | during the administration of Gerardo Machado, Carlo Miguel de Cespedes | being secretary of public works.” ) These are the words which appear {all over the island wherever there is |any government work going on, and |for this reason they have been now jused on the manifesto, * *.2 | (Special to The Daily Worker.) | HAVANA, Jan. 18. — In spite of the arrests of workers and students jand the tacit agreement of diplomats | here to ignore the Nicaraguan ques- | tion, Nicaragua was brought to the ) fore today when a popular demonstra- |tion greeted the hoisting of the Nic- aragua flag over the National Thea- ter, where the Pan-American confer- ence is meeting. When the United | States flag was raised, boos and hiss- (Continued on Page Two) ‘CUBACOMMUNISTS RAP HAVANA MEET Point to U. S. Aggres- sion in Latin-America HAVANA, (By Mail).—*“Coolidg@ holds out his hand at Havana to the so-called delegates of the American | peoples and at the same time crushes }out liberty in these countries repre- sented,” declares the appeal to the workers of Cuba issued by the Cen- | tral Execu ve Committee of the Com- munist Party of Cuba. _ Pointing to United States aggres- ion in Latin-America and to the | Present war against the independence | of Nicaragua, the appeal declares, | “The very presence of the cunningly selected United States delegation composed of full-fledged representa- |tives of the Yankee oligarchy and open enemies of Latin America, the very presence of Coolidge whose sin- ister policy of expansion is well known, indicate quite clearly what the character and the consequences of the conference will be.” eer ak _ (The full fext of the appeal of the Communist Party of Cuba will ap- pear in tomorrow’s issue of The DAILY WORKER). \s FOR CLEAN FOOD, A drive against restaurants and cafeterias that violate the section of the sanitary code which requires that food on display be kept covered is promised by Health Commissioner Harris in a warning to the United Restaurant Owners Association and the New York Restaurant Keepers. Association,