The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928 Democrats Threatened with ek Between Ku Klux Klan and Catholics “MARINES BOMB WOMEN”-SANDINO EFIES WALL ST. Bar Nicaragua Question at Havana Conference (Continued eek Page One) “mors that General Sandino, revolu- tionary leader, had been ed by an airplane bombing expedition last Sat- | urday. The department was_ incredulous about the report much as no word has been received from Man-| agua headquarters. Unconfirmed re- ports had stated that Sandino had | been killed in an American bombing raid. * S508 ossacks Called Out to Bar Discussion. | HAVANA, Jan. 19.—In order to} prevent any discussion of United | States intervention in Nicaragua, a| brand new committee, called the com-* mittee on initiatives, has been created by the Pan-American Conference. The committee will consist of the chair- men of the various delegations, and will pass on any matter that is not on the official program for discussion. The committee is designed to pre- vent the introduction of the Domini- ean republic’s intervention resolution | as well es a number of similar reso- lutions. The Dominican resolution fol- Tews: | Hit Intervention. “No state may in the future, di- rectly or indirectly, by reason of any motive, occupy even temporarily any portion of the territory of another state. The consent given to the oc- eupying state by the st” ~ccupied will not legitmatize the occupation ” | of The congress split up todas eommittees to start the “worl the conference. The most important of the commit- tees are those dealing with the modi- fication of international law and the future of the Pan-American Union. The law committee, to which ex-Sec- yetary of State Charles E. Hughes assigned himself as chairman of the American delegation, will deal with interpretations of international law, including what constitutes interven- tion. Severa] of the smaller countries ave insisting that the union be given arbitrative powers . of sufficient <Soreneth and scope tg, deal with such questions as the present situation in Nicaragua. The United States delegation is op- posed to both proposals. Washington does not want this conference to write a definition of intervention that might be embarrassing. 5s Dwight W. Morrow will leave for New York Monday afternoon, MASS VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION (Continued from Page One) on the premises of the striking miners. Another carload of coal and iron police, nine of them, rode up and be- gan running around the barracks, brandishing their weapons and threat- ening to drive the strikers out of their homes. They took Tony Chip- chik from the union barracks and placed him under arrest. Kill Woman’s Pet. The coal and iron police were in a murderous mood. They wanted to kill something. Th was a dog in front of Rudolph h’s barracks shanty. One of the company gun- men shot at him and missed. Mrs. Tomasich, the o of the dog ran out of the barracks with her baby in her arms to bring in the dog. When she was within two feet of the ani- mal two shots rang out and the dog fell dead. A coal and iron policeman took the license that hung from the hi enimal’s neck and put it in his pocket. |” All this took place while four mem- bers of the state constabulary were on the ground. Scabs Cheer Thugs. _ There were forty coal and iron policemen involved. While the company thugs were run- ming amuck around the barracks, seabs and their wives and children ‘were on the hillside cheering the out- rage. The anger of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Company has been aroused by the decision of the striking miners to start mass picketing and smash the injunction, The miners’ wives and daughters also appear on the picket line. The Coverdale strikers are receiving relief from the Pennsyl- yania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee which in addition to giving relief urges the miners to fight to save the union by mass picketing and the vio- Jation of all strike-breaking injunc- . As a result of this policy sev- eral locals have already started mass ey, and the movement is spread- The Pittsburgh Terminal Com- pany’s scabs in Coverdale were origin- ally armed and frequently fired on the union miners. When a miner’s wife appealed to a state trooper for _ aid he simply told her that if the | Oyster fishers of Mobjack bay, Virgii Restrict Se ster. Fishers’ Fishers Efforts to Make Living , must dredge at night as well as daytime to eke out a decent living. Governor Byrd, in efforts to stop night dredging, called out the state troops as well as police patrol boats, Three companies of the Nationil Guard are shown pitching camp at Severn Wharf in upper photo, and inset shows oystermen at work, while patrol boats (in lower picture) patrol the bay. Soviet Union Concrete Force Toward International Peace “The most powerful and concrete international peace is the Soviet Union,” force in the world today making for Robert Dunn, labor economist, told the Northern New Jersey section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the first ‘ ternational” luncheon arranged by that organization in Newark. Dunn was a member of the ad- visory staff of the first trade union | delegation to the Soviet Union last summer, “The Russian delegates to the re- cent Geneva disarmament conference practically dared the capitalist na- tions to scrap all warships, forts, am- munition, guns, warships and military training,” Dunn declared. ‘‘The} answer of the silky diplomats of Gen- eve was cynicism, evasion and cries of ‘propaganda.’ The Soviet dele- gates performed a unique service to the workers of every nation by thus exposing the immeasurable hypocrisy of the imperialist powers.” Not Moscow Gold. “Much .as the professional patriots and their labor allies of the National Civic Federation may whine about Soviet Union propaganda in America, trade relations with the Soviet Union are growing every year. The unrest and radicalism among American workers is created by American con- ditions,—injunetions, coal and iron police, yellow dog contracts, evictions from company houses, and open shop campaigns,—-and not by Moscow gold. An Accurate Picture. “The more shaky becomes the rule of the imperialists in their home coun- tries, the more they will launch their attacks against the Soviet Union and all that it represents before the work- ers of the world.” “If you want to get a reasonably accurate picture of conditions in the Soviet Union, do not listen to the wails of the Civic Federationists,” Dunn continued. “Read instead, the report of the Rank and File Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Re- publics, just issued.” Want BillionDollarNavy WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.— Admiral Chas. F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, testifying before the House committee on naval affairs, said that the $740,000,000 asked by the administration for the 5-year building program for the navy is not enough to provide a “sure” chance for the naval protection of the country. It would, he said, afford only a “fair” chance. An adequate building pro- gram, in his view, would require at least $1,000,000,000 in the coming 5 years. ‘in- strikers were American citizens they knew what to do. While the miners were still in the company shacks the coal and iron police ripped off the roofs of their homes and cut off the water supply. * * * Bentleyville Miners Aroused. BENTLEYVILLE. Pa., Jan. 19.— Striking union miners here went out LEGION ABANDONS ANTI-LABOR PLAN Effort to Bites Lenin | Memorial Dropped (Continued from Page One) ence to interfere with the right of freedom of speech and thus contrib- ute through a mistaken martyrdom to the success of such meeting.” Workers Remember. Many are of the opinion that Gum- pertz’s letter may have been written to ‘mislead the militant workers of | New York as to the legion’s inten- tions. It is felt, moreover, that the letter, even in its literal sense, raises the question of the right of labor to choose its own holidays and memorial days. It recalls the record of the le- gion in its violently repressive at- tempts against organized labor in the past, when it has not stopped at mur- der and torture, as at San Pedro, Cal. The memorial meeting will be the its kind ever held here. This statement is confirmed with hard facts from the 27 ticket stations scattered throughout the city. Agents at each station report the demand of large numbers of workers for tickets for the meeting. The Last Rehearsal. At the central station in the Frei- heit Building, 30 Union Square, it than 2,000 tickets had been sold a’ that station alone. At many places lines formed last night with demands for tickets. The last rehearsal of the Lenin memorial pageant will take place in the Garden itself on the Specially con- structed stage. One thousand worl ers and actors will take part in the spectacle. Members of the New York Symphony Orchestra and 200 voices of the Freiheit Singing Society will provide the music, largest and most spectacular affair of | was reported yesterday that more | MURDER FIGHTING [Lillies Killed After a | Strike Meeting (Continued from Page One) ers have been carrying on some mysterious maneuvers in the last few weeks, One of the which has caused considerable com- }ment was the discharge of Rosen-hal, | the attorney who has been represent- jing the three district organizations lin the anthracite 1, 7, and 9, and em- ;ployment of one Marianelli by Cap- |pelini as at.orney for District 1. Confidential Adviser. Marianelli was quietly admitted to the bar in Pittston about two weeks Jago. It is claimed that he had been practicing in Oklahoma, but is best | known as a one-time manager of Pete Li , a prizefighter of some repu- jtation in. this section for. whom he secured bouts for in Oklahoma. The assumption here is that Mar- confidential adviser of the Cappelini machine than as attorney for District 1 and the murder of one of the lead- ing opponents of the Cappelini re- gime immediately after his appoint- ment has set in motion a whole cur- rent of rumor and gossip. Miners Incensed. The membership of the Pittston lo- cals are incensed by the murder of Lillies and since there is obviously a direct connection between the proposed rievance strikes and the murder of this opposition leader, left wing min- ers are advocating a mass protest strike. To the serious unemployment here, ranging from 40 to 50 per cent, and the constant violation of the agree- meng by the operators, has been added itant miners believe to be the Iepthning of a terror campaign tinst all who oppose the operators nd the Cappelini machine. Immedi- ate organization of all honest opposi- tion forces to meet this situation is jurged here by progressives. | Marine Mission “Peaceful” MANAGUA, Jan. 19.—Major Gen- eral John A. Lejeune has announced that his mr ion to Nicaragua is one of pure peace. “My mission and that of my men is entirely peaceful,” Le- jeune is quoted as saying. A in full force on the picket line yester- day despite an injunction against mass picketing. One picket was ar- rested by a coal and iron policeman, but was released after being warned that he was violating an injunction. The scab mine belongs to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of which Charlie Schwab, the noted “friend of labor” is head. A large delegation from the Bentleyville lo- cal attended the recent emergency A. F. of L. conference in Pittsburgh, which considered relief for the strik- ing miners, but did nothing more. The Bentleyville miners supported resolu- tions for mass picketing, a Labor Party, violation of injunctions and a broader relief action at the confer- ence. The local is on the relief list of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave. Pitts- burgh, Pa. Book of Rebel Poems “MINOR MUSIC” By Henry Reich, Jr. MANY OF THESE POEMS HAVE APPEARED IN THE DAILY WORKER AND OTHER RADICAL PAPERS, An Excellent Gift From One Rebel to Another Order from: LARGE-SIZE BOOK, CO- BALT BLUE COVER, STAMPED IN GOLD. REG- ULAR EDITION—$1.00 PER COPY. WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS, 39 NEW East 125 St. YORK. INERS’ LEADER developments | ianelli is to function far more as a! COSGRAVE, GT. | BRITAIN’S PAID SERVANT NEARS Capitalists to to Welcome] | Workers’ Foe | | | | With an assurance worthy of a more deserving cause William T. Cos- | grave is nearing the shores of the | United States with the brazen effront- | ery of expecting those of Irish birth | and blood in this country to accept him | as a representative of a majority of | the residents of the Irish Free State; ! and the political machinery here has been subjected to considerable capital- istic influence in order to put the reception over big enough so as to} blind the people to the real facts about this mercenary vassal of the ancient tory order. Not only the same old crowd of bootlickers have been on the job to make the Cosgrave reception a thing out of the ordinary but even the giant machinery of the state department has been lending a hand. It has al- lowed its diplomatic representative in Ireland to desert his post and come to this country in order to make smooth the way of the former Irish grocer who would appear as a great leader. Who He Is. Right here is as good a place as lany to tell just who William T. Cos- |grave is and why. Previous to the jpartition of Ireland he was a grocer who inherited his business from his father. Neither father nor son ob- jected in the old days to receiving |such little political crumbs as the Brit- ish government in Ireland allowed’ the natives. They were nominated for such offices as they received by the grace of the Roman Catholic church, the custodian of all such jobs. A Safe Man. With the new order, which was and is nothing but the old order camou- | flaged, Cosgrave was pushed forward as “a safe man” by the churchmen. He was minister of this and minister | jof that until opportunity thrust him | into his present position where he has | spent more than four years without | accomplishing anything. Indeed at | the last general election the result was \ so close that he is only hanging on to | his official job “by the skin of his | teeth.” Keeps Out of Dublin. It will interest Americans to know that while Cocgrave is a resident of | Dublin he has never dayed run for membership in the Dail Eireann in |that city. He has always been elected jin outside counties, Carlow and Kilk- jenny, where the Catholic bishops hold the political whip hands without fear of interference. British Bidding. Another fact about this creature of the Roman Catholic church and of the British government in Ireland that should be known is that he is not the president of the Irish Free State, a position which the capitalistic press insists on giving him. His actual job is president of the executive council of the Irish Free State to which he is Wm. T. Cosgrave : elected by his fellow members, his | principal job being to do the will of |the British government and the Cath- olic church. He holds no fealty to the | people of the Free State as they have had no share in his election. To com- pare Cosgrave to de Valera as a lead- er is more or less absurd. The former | has never developed leadership stature while de Valera has proved ability of a certain order. To Meet “Jimmie.” When the steamship docks, it is due Thursday morning, the mayor’s committee will be on the job to assist in receiving Cosgrave. en, chairman of the committee, has become so accustomed to greeting all | kinds of European press-agented dig- nitaries that one more won’t make much difference in his busy life. Of course there will be a great crowd of “cops” to add to the dignity of the oc- easion, and then Jimmie Walker will do some “wise-cracking” to the false alarm president, and ete., etc. and so forth as they say in the Dublin fish market, Host of Coolidge. After the mayor’s reception the party will move on Washington where President Coolidge will be host to Cosgrave. ings in which, of course, the bankers’ representatives in the state depart- ;ment will participate, other receptions will be held throughout the country. 'It is expected that Cosgrave will-be back in New York about February 1, and it’s then things will begin to hap- }pen when the trusty Irish patriots, Dan Cohalan, John Devoy, Roddy | Kennedy and the rest of the boys get out their dress suits. Grover Whal- | After the Washington do-| CLUB SENATORS INTO LINE FOR ROBINSON 0, K, ‘But Hearst Forgeries /Ruin Fake “Harmony” WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.— |Senate democrats were whipped into line today at a conference held to de- cide between Senator Robinson. min- ority leader on the senate floor and | Heflin of Alabama. They voted an endorsement of Rob- inson’s handling of the investigation ef forgeries printed in all Hearst pa- pers, and obviously intended to bring about a war between United States and Mexico. Had to Admit Forgeries. Robinson’s investigating committee had been content with merely declar- ing the Hearst documents forgeries, | there not being a particle of deubt on that score, as even the handwriting experts engaged by Hearst admitted \ they were not genuine, | But the Robinson committee failed to fix any responstbility or motives for the malicious hoax, and was at- tacked on this*point by Heflin, who charged a Catholic machine was ap- erating inside the democratic party, to bring about the conquest of Mex- ico for the purpose of ruling that country, and to nominate Smith of New York, a Catholic, in order to bid for power in the United States. Split Looms. In a bitter contest in the open sen- ate yesterday, Heflin challenged Rob- inson to resign, and put the matter to a test. He called on any senator jn the democratic party who opposed j his views to rise and speak, but none did so, except Robinson. However, by the time the demo- eratic senators met today, the Rob- inson faction had the upper hand, and strenuous efforts were being made to cover up the very evident anxiety among democratic party leaders that the carefully staged “harmony” of the Jackson dinner would break down in the face of the real possibility of a split on the Catholic versus K. K. K. issue. BIG POWER STEAL AFOOT IN SENATE (Continued from Page One) bright beads. But the object is the same. Lieutenant Governor McCormack, a former Non-partisan Leaguer, and Mr. Jellison of Kallispell have just ar- rived in behalf of the farmers living along the shores of the Flathead Lake to combat the passage of the bill. They claim that the rising of the levels of the lake by the proposed dams would inundate the countryside and cause fifteen millions dollars loss to the farmers besides destroying the seenic beauty of the whole district south of Glacier park. The Progres- sive Farmers and other farmers’ or- ganizations are vigorously opposing jthe giving away of the last power site in the west to private interests. Fight For Control. The Montana Power Company, a Standard Oil subsidiary is making a supreme effort to gain possession of this site which it needs for the elec- trical development of huge phosphate deposits it has been quietly accumula- ting in Western Montana and North- ern Idaho for several years. Besides the Montana Power Com- pany a Mr. Wheeler had put in a bid for the lease. Wheeler is unknown in the electrical field and is believed to be a decoy used by the Montana Power Company to detract attention from themselves. accent ‘ AGAINST 1. injunctions. 2. Company, Unions. 3. Unemployment. 4. 5. War. Address . Rates outside New York $6.00 a year, 3,50 for 6 months, 2.00 for 3 months . Persecution of the Foreign Born. 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