13AH,V WORKER FIGHTS: roll THIS ORGANIZATION OF THIS FINAL CITY FN ORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK EDITION FOR A LABOR PARTI THE DAILYEntered an second-class matter at the Poat Office at NewWORKER.York, N. Y« under the act of March 11, 1879. SIBSCRIPTION HATES: In , hy mnil, SB.OO per year. Published dally except Sunday by The Vol. IV. No. 256. Outside New York, l»y mail, per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1927 PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents COLORADO STRIKE FLUNG INTO A COLORADO JAIL FOR LEADING COAL STRIKE Prove Falsity of AffidavitUsed LEADERS JAILED; lififfigfflfKlL BAIL IS DENIED 1 By Burns to Justify Spying vliners Protest; Machine Governor Fuller Hides; Are Reply HEAD OF ANTI-LABOR DETECTIVES Guns Hasn’t Been Seen Since WALSENBURG, Colo., Nov. B. tn a desperate effort to smash the up Friday; May Be Abroad BOASTS HE HAS BEEN SHADOWING strike of miners which has tied joal authorities, act- production, the BOSTON, Nov. 8. Governor ing conjunction the coal com- in with Alvan T. Fuller was mysteriously panies, have arrested and jailed all YEARS missing from the state' house to- JURIES FGR THIRTY-FIVE known I. W. W. organizers and of- day. ficials here. The man who put seal on number of the prisoners have his A the murder of Two More Officials of Sinclair’s Companies Are taken the jail. oeen to Pueblo disappeared on Friday. He had re- Organizers Outrage Upon Jury Hold Incommunicado. cently been sharply criticized for Connected With Trial Roger Among those arrested are lack of preparation the New Byron for Francezon, Kristen Svanum, England floods. Kitto, Paul Seidel and A. S. Embree. Attempt to Bring- Back Runaway Witnesses in A persistent report They held at the state i are incommunicado. house said sailed Europe; Can Tell of Money Given Fall State forces sent into that the governor I have been from this and the northern field. New York on Saturday for j both field But Herman A. MacDon- WASHINGTON, been shadowing juries They of of the na- j France. Nov. B.—“l’ve for consist officers ald, governor’s guard and specially deputized the secretary, this ! 85 years and I’ve got a right to,” shouted Wm. J. Bums today as tional afternoon issued a denial. police. the counter-attack of the Burns Detective Agency against the Another report was that the Intimidation. governor j charges that its agents, at the direction of Harry F. Sinclair, had evidently trying to intimi- and Mrs. Fuller were in Quite the vicinity of Albany, N. Y., sought to influence the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial jury, was date the strikers and to create an j I where one of their children atmosphere danger justifying the j at- itorn to pieces before his eyes. of j tends a private school. The mother j of open force, the authorities have Assembling the principals involved in an affidavit submitted use superior of this school, a catholic mobilized heavy forces of armed j by one operatives, through | convent, denies he has been i of the Burns Wm. J. Burns himself, guards in and around the Walsenburg there.! which alleged the government itself had tampered with the jury A machine gun has been rourt house. Sheriff Marty of Las Animas County, Colorado, with the full consent and co-operation of Governor Adams, has placed in the building covering the 1 wrecked the foundation of the Burns’ Co. defense. three strike leaders and many others. Looking thru the jail bars, from left to right are: Roger • entrance to the jail. arrested these coal Wm. V. Long, a Burns agent, Francezon, of the General Executive Board of the I. W. W., Byron Kitto, and Paul Seidler. T, A body of police and a machine chairman U INJUNCTION . had sworn he followed Norman gun with 50,000 rounds of ammuni- Glasscock, a Fall-Sinclair juror sent from to some tion have been here to a field, point whose location was not stated. Miners’ Committee [Hstrict of Columbia IMENAOE TO LABOR commercial flying Two hundred armed deputies have Relief NEW Y3RKLABOR where he had engaged in a twenty- been sworn in at the Pueblo jail. | minute conversation with the occu- Out pant of a car registered More Miners Strike. Asking Relief Funds for Court Throws Suit S, I in the name The miners are holding demonstra- AGAINST MOVEMENT OF U. |of H. R. Lamb, assistant to the at- tions protesting against the arrest of ! Miners Driven From Home VOTES Against Painter Union; I tomey general. the strike leaders and are demanding Long Falls Short. U Long, their release. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 8. ; WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 8. | Wants Union Billed for confronted with Lamb, could Attorneys here that the ar- | i | District of Columbia Court' not identify nor could pick state | | Continued reports reach the Penn- OWN INTERESTS '--The he W. i |e; Appeals sustained the Expenses out from a of rest of the I. W. organizers is sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Com- today j Scab “Lamb” group news- basis. j | j ju Ivrtcnt of lower in dis- paper men. without any legal ! rnittee, 611 Penn Ave., Room 307, ] the court ' | Lamb and Glasscock a a i j ram’ng the of the BY ESTHER LOWELL. proved perfect strangers When picketing ceased for time ' Pittsburgh, Pa., of acute Millitant Workers Cast I suit Barker to be to days ago there was a slight in- I distress! Painting Co., of New against (Federated Press.) ! each other. George Aikens, an few | among evicted miners of westernj ; York j auto in the number of miners work- Communist Ballot the Brotherhood of Painters, Dec- mechanic, stated he was repairing crease | and central Pennsylvania. Uvie- : | i Never before ha 3 organized labor ing. The arrests have brought more ! orators and Paperhangers, asking | faced '.so a challenge Lamb’s car at the time Long said it i ! tions are continuing and the locked • BULLETIN serious of its • miners out on strike and picketing has ! damages because the union men in very light to was enroute to the flying field. Glass- | out miners without wage 3 GARFIELD, N. J., Nov. B.—Gus exist as it does in the been resumed. i now 1923 refused to work on a Wash- cock was at his place of employment since April, are living in hastily Deak, United Labor Ticket candi- injunction suit of the Interboro Rapid i 1 l ington job unless their Tales he on the day Lf'ng mentioned until 4 Rockefeller and the Government. ! j constructed barracks and tents. date for councilman in the second Transit Co. against the whole Amen-' by the sustained. The union rate was o’clock, and then went home, remain- The whole procedure which coming on. The Relief ward, was polling a large can Federation of Labor. A study of | with winter shewn $10.50 for a five-day week. Open ing there for birthday given Rockefeller interests, whose mines | is conducting a nation- started the 370-page complaint made by the a party Committee i vote when the count was in Washington paid $9 for and mills are most affected by the relief, shops subway operator shows that this un- in honor of one of his children, and al drive for funds for their j here tonight. day * * a five-and-a-half week. The go flying strike, are trying to break it, evi- at • precedented injunction jdid not to the field. It can be communicated with j to the brings organ- dently has been arranged with the company was compelled pay The False Affidavit, the above address. Election returns last night showed rate it get New ized labor practically into a death! state and county governments. The — S'' union before could fight j Lamb threatens to bring a damage that Mew York labor had again voted York workers. It alleged thej with company unions. mobilization of armed forces by the against | suit against the Burns Agency. itself. union to be a conspiracy and a j William Green, president, and 47 .•oal and iron companies and the au- political strength of the work- The Burns agent’s affidavit alleged The monopoly. , specified officials, as well as th-e thorities is said to be the most ex- past dissipated MARTYR’S WIDOW ) the meeting between Lamb and Glass- Labor and Liberals ers as in the wa». at whole A. F. of L. are named in the since the Ludlow strike and | place tensive the polls. No impact of the will of complaint as having “wilfully, mali- cock took on October 22. It was massacre. | j not brought to the attention of the workers was felt against the ciously and unlawfully conferred, con- j Jus- The tone of the capitalist press is doors of Tammany Hall in New York tice Siddons, who presided over the in the extreme. Urged Bally ussrlltinues federated, combined, agreed and con- ; TO BE GUEST OF vicious Ire to Albany, Fall-Sinclair mistrial until City and the State House at spired among themselves for the pur- ! November days elections 3, four days after the ended, where for prior to the pose of eliminating wholly ! trial and de- Asked why, if thought trade union officials were in confer- stroying all employe representation j he he had ence organiz- ! a mistrial, with democratic party CELEBRATION OF ” LABOR DEFENSE evidence that warranted for Greco, Carrillo plans and so-called ‘company unions.’ \ Thousands Face ers, swapping the votes of the organ- ;he did not file it at the time, W. for political favors. To Bar Organizers. Sherman Burns yesterday said he Greco, secretary of the ized workers j Filippo Every member of the A. F. of L. j Lucy Parsons Comes to : was waiting the order from H. Mason Defense League, anti- Workers Confused. Greco-Carrillo “NOVEMBER 7TH” and affiliated unions would be barred Day, vice-president of the Sinclair Hunger fascists held on charges of killing Confused or intimidated by official I. L. D. Conference and Cold seeking organize ! from to Interboro ; Exploration Co. and employer of tha two fascist:, in a letter sent to all trade union policy and by the illusion . Nov. B.—The celebra- workers into the Amal. Assn, of j Burns men. Day is out on $23,000 liberal and labor organizations yes- that the socialist party differs radw Lucy Parsons, widow the famous tion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Street & Electric Railway Employes, j of bond, charged jointly with Sinclair terday said, “Unless there is a power- cally from the two established capital- Haymarket martyr, is on her way east November Revolution was continued They would be enjoined from ‘inter- with conspiracy to influence the jury. In Flooded Area ful wave of public opinion Greco and ist parties, the New York workers di- 1 from to attend as a guest of today with unabated fervor, as thirty- sering in any way’ with the Interboro Two members of the Teapot Carrillo will go to the chair. The fas- vided their great political strength honor the third annual conference of Dome four airplanes, built by popular sub- company union and its agree- jury said today that unidentified BOSTON, Nov. B.—Starvation is cist government will stop at nothing between socialist, democi-atic and re- ‘present the International Labor Defense scription were presented to the Red ment’ with the big firm. The injunc- shadowers had solicited their opin- the gaun tspectre now stalking in the to see that Greco and Carrillo are publican parties with little real dis- An which opens Saturday, Nov. 12, at 1 Army with elaborate ceremonies. tion would set a precedent by which ions on the guilt or innocence of wintry blasts over the desolate flood- made examples of to all anti-fas- crimination. p. m. in Irving Hall, 15th Street amnesty for 1,200 prisoners was also company everywhere could bar Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall swept areas of Vermont today. cisti.” The only definite expression of unions and Irving Place. She will speak at Fama, issued today in connection with the out while the trial was in progress. Vermont was admitted on every Dr. Charles anti-fascist, workers’ political power was found free trade unions—company the opening session of the conference. yesterday said, “The fascists go anniversary celebrations. unions set up in a hurry no other Joseph J. Costinett and Gardner- to be in dire distress. Workers will in the cast or marked for the for Last of 8-Hour Day Pioneers. hand hell peresecute their ballots purpose Grenfell were the jurors from whom having no funds with which to leave as far as to candidates of the Workers (Commun- Show “November” Film. or older established ones. Lucy Parsons is the last of the out- enemies. Greco and Carillo are in- Today’s these “shadowers” sought expres- neighborhoods as the employers hav- ist) Party. , one of ceremonies followed last Besides the knockout injunction, standing survivors of the band of j nocent and anyone with an ounce of night’s celebration, a | sions of opinion on the case. ing already done, are the easiest vic- the leading candidates of the Workers enthusiastic the Interboro wants $130,000 dam- fighters who took a leading part in brains knows it. Only a short time feature of which showing of the Harry Jeffreys, chief clerk of the and cold. Party, was barred from the ballot be- was ages from the Amalgamated and the the movement to obtain an eight- : tims of disease, hunger ago Di a news- Sinc!a r Consolidated Oil Company, Count Revel told cause of his service of a sentence in film “November” produced by Eisen- A. F. of cost of its hour day for workers in the The hand Pf starvation was grip- paperman that Mussolini personally L.—the estimated JLJnited testified today before the grand jury, Sing Sing Prison for activity in stein, at theatres and workers’ clubs strike-breaking preparations in the States which culminated on the gal- ping many cities in Vermont. Even sent him to America to crush the the 1 Injection of Jeffreys into the investi- movement. thruout the city. walk-out threatened last lows of Cook county when the Hay- drinking water was on a ration basis anti-fascist movement. The count labor July. ! gation came as a direct result of The celebration was slightly marred The street car men’s union market martyrs, Albert R. Parsons, in many cases. entered this country as a film sales- Hundreds of Workers Party sup- is re- yesterday’s testimony by William J. when some fifty or sixty adherents ported planning series of mass August Spies, Adolph Fischer and Os the 130 known New England man but his real object in coming porters were disenfranchised through a Bums and his son, W. Sherman the Opposition, most of them stu- for next week. on Page Two) I flood dead, 114 were in the state of here is the terrorization of all anti- legal technicalities. Many Workers of meetings (Continued j Burns. Party in past habitualy dents, attempted to express their Vermont. fascist and I am proud to say I am votes the have Than Burns Admitted. been left uncounted. Yet the Work- sympathy for Trotsky and were boo- Mor> Those who traversed the Green one. The Fascist League of North Axtell Blames Communists for Enlightened Those following the probe were Vmerica, the count heads, is Party New district head- ed and hissed by marching workers. Mountain State were of opinion that which ers York somewhat surprised, for both a terroristic organization quarters last night that in yes- Preobrajcnsky, recently expelled Minds of Coyle About Burns \ it will take months to restore rail- and should said Seamen; Writes j and his had that be rooted out of New York.” (Continued on Page Five) from the Communist Party for anti- son indicated H. head transportation. Mason Day, vice president of the Sin- Party activity, attempted to address Silas B. Axtell, New York lawyer, these circulars. I didn’t talk about Tibe menace of fire is still abroad. Meeting November 13. j clair Exploration Company, was the I On the marching from the bal- who attached to the first Russia very much, as to l food supplies already danger- Sunday, November 27, a roons- workers himself what I saw employer of the detectives. With cony of the Old Paris Hotel but was trade union delegation to the Soviet there. You nor nibody else on that ously low, the Ludlow, Vt., fire added known speakers will hold a Greco- Waiting to appear before the grand Carrillo meeting Irving Plaza, prevented from doing so by the hisses Union, has written another letter. commission would venture to dispute town’s troubles by leveling the at Negroes Ire ( jury while Jeffreys was testifying to the 15th St. and Irving of workers and the interference It is addressed to Albert F. Coyle, the truthfulness of what T said, of only bakery. From this shop, the citi- Place. the | was A. Clark, vice president On Sunday, 27, of the Zinoviev and Ra- former editor of the Locomotive En- what I have said and what I will have Sheldon had been receiving their daily Nivember a mons- authorities. the Sinclair Refining Company, zens ter mass meeting will be held at the were shouted down when they gineers’ Journal and secretary of the to say about what I saw in Russia. Jof of half a loaf of bread. dek He and Day are alleged by the gov- ration Central Opera House, 67th St. Barred From Voting; attempted to cry “Long Live the Op- delegation. In addition to complain- Asked for Truth. i and eminent to have been men” At Springfield, frantic and weary Third Ave. meeting at a Leningrad meeting. ing against the opinion of “The trade unionists, Communists j “contact This is under position” unanimous Iwtween Bums agents and men found it necessary to repair the auspices of the International the bona fide members of the delega- and Russians generally asked us to the Sin- j clair. Charles G. Ruddy. Burns man- broken water mains before water Labor Defense, an organization de- K, K, tion that the conditions of life for | tell the truth about conditions there. Given Blame ager in charge of the jury stalkers, on the fire which K. Cleaner Picket am wrong could be directed dicated “to the defense of Window the Russian improved j “However, I in drawing workers workers has has testified that he reported to both broke out there. in prison as a result of their labor since the revolution of 1917, Mr. Ax- | the conclusion that the people sign- j Placed in Jail Day is on $25,000 Most of 'the refugees are gathered or radical activities.” Speakers at DETROIT, Nov. B.—The National tell complains against the enlighten- j ing as the ‘lnternational Seamen’s | men. out bonds f the Advancement of admitting to the grand jury in school houses, theatres and similar this later meeting will include Carlo Association for ment of the seamen along South Club, 26 South Street’, are Commun- i after George Yarenchuk, a striking win- that his testimony given, buildings. Wood is water logged Tresca, James P. Cannon, Rose Baro Colored People reports a “conspiracy” Street whom he here re- ists? [ if would in* dow cleaner picket was arrested yes- addressed ! him. many cellars which had been , here to disfranchise colored voters in cently. alleges Com- “Am I wrong in assuming that they criminate while terday at 54th St. and Park Ave., The letter that for H. early with winter coal sup- and others. today's election, the names of 5,000 munists on the one hand and Coyle are of the I. W. W. ? Subpoenaes are out M. stocked and arraigned in the 57th Street members as plies still flooded. | Negroes being reported stricken off on the other hand were in some way "Am I wrong in assuming that you ; Blackner and James E. O’Neil wit- were Court. The usual charges of felon- in the second trial ’TWILL HAPPEN AGAIN. voters’ lists. Attempts to intimidate responsible for this enlightenment. and others enjoying your confidence nesses of Harry Flood Children Are Cold. ious assault were preferred. Ex-Secretary Ernest F. Dunham, a broker, do- Negroes by arrest arc; also reported “Open Minded” Letter. in going to Russia are in close touch F. Sinclair and of In- workers in the flood- against Children of ing business as Dunham & Co., at 64 as well us the placing of the letter C “The frame-up offensive The letter, in which Mr. Axtell re- with these people? terior Albert B. Fall for criminal con- New England are in swept areas of Water St., will appear before Su- | in front of every colored voter s name the striking window cleaners contin- fers to his own “open mind,” follows: “Am I wrong in assuming that you spiracy, set for January 16. clothing. Temporary Darck, need of warm preme Court Justice Norman S. Dike on the lists. ues unabated,” Peter secre- “Enclosed is a circular headed ‘Sea- j are in sympathy with the Communist Blackmer and O’Neil, oil men, are homes have been found and adults in Brooklyn tomorrow to answer W. Ilayes McKinney, Detroit law- tary of the Window Cleaners’ Pro- men’, which contains various quota- doctrine ? the *».. issing witnesses” of the deal clothing Union, Local 8, said yesterday. J money have been supplied with but charges that he owes 2,000 customers yer, and chairman of the Legal Re- tective tions from your report on Russia. “Are You a Communist?” from which it is charged the impossible secure cloth- it has been to over $2,000,000 and has little left with dress Committee, Detroit Branch of Four other pickets arrested Mon- This was circulated on South Street “If it isn’t asking too confidential came with which Fall was bribed to ing for the children. which to pay it back; that he has the National Association for the Ad- day at union headquarters, 68 East one evening when it was indicated by a question, I would like to ask you, lease the Teapot Dome Naval Oil of suffering Many stories acute and bucketed orders and that customers vancement of Colored People, imputes Fourth St., were dismissed when they another circular that I enclose that are you a Communist? Reserve. immediate need came from the ill- could obtain neither an accounting nor the attempt to the influence of the appeared in the first district magis- I was to address a meeting of sea- j “I gathered the impression while Both men have been in Europe fa* (Continued on Page Five) past three years iContinucd or. Paae Two) a settlement. Ku Klux Clan. trates’ court yesterday. men. Quite a number of sailors have the