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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
Fascist Plan Death for Labor Leaders in
Italy; Workers Party Calls for Protests

class and the anti-fascist opposition
by crippling and destroying the most
militant fighters against the fascist
rule of Mussolini. Another Sacco-
Vanzetti affair is about to begin. This
time it is in fascist Italy.
"Some Of the defendants are facing
death as>r~result Of this trial. Most
~ them are facing prison sentences
For life under a regime Of brutality
and torture.
Labor Leader in Danger.
Among those facing the heaviest
penalty are Professor Granci, the
most outstanding theoretician of the
Italian labor movement and the father
of the shop committee movement,
which stands in the very center of the
present-day struggle against fascism;
the popular leader of the peasants,
Picelli, one of the most courageous
fighters against fascist rule and inn
perialist war; deputies, scientists and
prominent labor leaders like Fabrizio,
Maffi, Riboldi, LoSardo, Alfini, Trra-
cini, Ferragni, Scoccimarro, Tagliati,
Continued on Pcge Tscol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
Relief for Colorado
Strikers To Be Urged

The story of the Colorado miners
strike will be told and support for
the strikers will be asked at a sec
ond mass meeting called for next
Saturday at p. M, at the Labor
Temple, Second Ave. and 14th st.
The meeting is called by the New
York Colorado Miners Relief Com
mittee.
Speakers will include Richard Bra
zier, of the Industrial Workers of the
World; a representative of the
Workers (Communist) Party; For
est Bailey, Of the American Civil Lib
critics Union; the Rev. Donald Tip
pett, of the Church of All Nations,
and Edmund Chaffee, manager of
the Labor Temple. Rev. Tippett for
merly lived in the zone Of the present
strike.
A first meeting was held at the
Church of All Nations last Saturday
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
GOVERNOR ADAMS
SENDS 30 MBER rs
AGAINST STRIKERS

DENVER, Colo, Nov. 7.--Gcv. W.
H. Adams, elected by labor votes,
today assigned twenty officers Of the
state police equipped with airplanes,
machine guns and bombs to stop
ricletinr in the Colorado coal fields,
promising them as large a force as
they might require to bring about the
destruction of the miners picket
lines.
The governors office particularly
instructed the picked men sent
against the strikers to use all modern
implements of war if they found it
necessary.
DENVER, Nov. 7 (FP).-The state
industrial commission which has
steadfastly refused to recognize" the
strike of coal miners in Colorado be-
cause it says the l. W. W. is an Gun
American" organization has been
forced to change its policy. The com
mission, which refused to consider the
I. w. W. demands prior to the calling
of the strike, has now announced that
if petitions incorporating the de-
mands are signed by the strikers it
will hear them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
Lightermen's Strike
Off, Workers Return

The shippers of the harbor lighters
on strike for a week voted to go back
to work yesterday at a meeting
held Saturday at their headquarters
210 Court ST., Brooklyn.
j. X. Johnson, president of the To-
cal, said yesterday he feared an in
junction might be issued if the strike
continued. He also said that another
strike would be called when condi-
tions were more favorable for victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
DARCK Arrested
At union OFFICE
IN STRIKE CASE
Window Cleaners Claim
Leader Is Framed

Five members of the industrial
squad of the New York police depart
ment went into the office of the
striking Window Cleaners Protective
Union to arrest Secretary Peter
Darck on felonious assault charges
yesterday morning, according to a
report by Harry Feinstein, business
agent.
The officers were accompanied by
Joseph Katz, business agent of the
Affiliated Window Cleaners Union,
the dual company union, Feinstein
said. Protective Union pickets were
at that hour reporting for duty.
Darck Arrested.
"I don't see the man want here"
Katz said to the officers, according
to Feinstein. Shortly afterward Katz
is said to have added, 81 want Darck"
as Darck here?" detective de-
manded, according to the Protective
Union business agent.
Darck is reported to have stepped
forward saying, Here l am"
He was placed under arrest and
taken to the Fifth st. station and
thence to a magistrates court for
arraignment on the felonious assault
charge.
Anthony Jacob, a picket, was ar
rested on a similar charge.
Darck Not Present.
Katz charges strike-breakers were
attacked at Broadway and Spring
St. Saturday morning. Officers of
the Protective Union say Darck was
at his office throughout Saturday
forenoon.
Since October about 800 union
window cleaners have been on strike
in New York for SAG a week and
union recognition. Darck was black
lacked by unidentified gangsters on
October IA but no arrests were made.
"The present arrest of Darck is q
frame-up attempt to break the morals
Of our men," Feinstein continued.
"The employers have been trying for
six months to have Darck removed
from union affairs because of his
loyalty to the men,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
Mine GUARDS ATTACK STRIKERS IN
BLAIRSTOWN, Ohio; JUDGE UPHOLDS
COAL DICGERS FAMILIES EVICTION
20 Miners Burned in HooversviIle Pa. Explosion
Have Narrow Escape
Union to Fight to Last Ditch Against Pittsburgh
Injunctions and Starvation

BLAIRSVILLE, o., Nov. 7.-String miners attacked
today by guards following argument the picket
line
miner John Pcett shot by scab Rose Valley
week. Ten thousand striking miners followed his body to
the cemetery many wreaths by miners and
raiwaymens' local unions.
The memory the steel strike Yorkiue in 1922 when
company shot the town has not tended to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
IN DEFENSE, PUTS
Up AN AFFIDAVIT;
PROMP TLY DENIED
Jurors Terrorized By
Queer Phone Calls

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov.
7.-Wm. J. Burns and his son,
w. Sherman Burns, of the
Burns Detective Agency, ad-
mitted today before the grand
Jury and to the press that they
were hired by H. Mason Day,
vice president of the Sinclair Explora-
ton Co., to put detectives on the
trail of the jury sitting in the trial
of Sinclair and former Secretary OF
the Interior Albert B. Fall for con-
spiracy to defraud in the matter of
the Teapot Dome oil lands lease.
VIM. ]. Burns tried a counter at
tack in the case which has been in
volving him deeper and deeper in the
charges now made that the defense,
with the assistance of the Burns op-
eratives, wrongfully influenced the
iurors in the big graft trial. He pre-
sented an affidavit from one of his
detectives. a certain VIM. Long, that
the government. prosecution itself
was trying to influence the jury, out
of court. The trial judge and the man
accused by Burns both deny impor-
tant parts of the affidavit of the
Burns man.
Burns Hireling Swears.
VIM. j. Burns, on appearing before
the grand jury investigating the jury
fixing in the Fall Sinclair "mistrial'
announced he rad presented Justice
Siddons, the trial judge, with a COM
plant and affidavit charging a gov
eminent official with having ap-
preached member of the jury while
the case was in trial.
Justice Siddons denied that he had
received the Burns complaint.
Burns complaint was in the form
of an affidavit sworn to by VIM.
Long, one of the Burns operatives.
1t set forth that Norman Glasscock,
one of the jurors, was observed to
have been approached at local fly
ing field by car which investigation
showed to have been registered in the
name of H. R. Lamb, an assistant to
The attorney general.
Affidavit Denied.
The Burns affidavits were seriously
damaged by Lamb, who Immediately
came before the grand jury. Lamb
said he had never seen Glasscock in
his life, had never been to the Poto-
mac flying field or on Eighth street
where Glasscock lives.
On Oct. 22nd, the day tAat the op-
erative reported, Lambs automobile
was in the shop being repaired. He
got it in the early afternoon and went
to play golf.
q never had anything to do with
this case" said Lamb. "It is true
own an Oakland roadster which
keep in a garage in the rear Of my
house. There have been times when
the garage door was unlocked, but to
the best of my knowledge no one has
ever taken it except when it has been
in the care Of very competent me-
chanic.
Falls Man Hunted Him.
81 have never had any connection
with any juror in this trial"
Lamb said he didn't know the assis-
tant to the attorney general, Dan
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
over MILLION WORKERS MARCH IN
MOSCOW Anniversary PROCESSION
Delegates From All Parts of World Honor Lenin
Celebrations Begins Early in Morning

MOSCOW, Nov Women workers. bearing army rifles
their shoulders marched alongside the workers.
iary armed mighty procession of than 100000 work
and $4,000 Red soldiers and sailors marched through the
streets here today celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Com
munist revolution which put the Sovets in power.
the whole CITY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08

From CaFEl ~ DUSK the WI
Red Square, beneath the halls of
the Kremlin, was forest Of RI
file barrels and red banners as
Soviet workers and delegates
from all parts of the world paid
homage to the memory of Lenin
and to the memory of the thou
sands of Bolshevist worker SOL
diers who were killed in battle.
Recent rains and melting SHOWS
turned Red Square into sea of mud,
but this was not allowed to interfere
with the parades. Thick fog hung
overhead preventing airplane maneu-
vers.
One group carried a picture of a
two-headed dragon, one head labelled
Chamberlain" and the other Mus
solini" Another carried standard
showing Chamberlain and Mussolini
being decapitated by the sword of the
world revolution.
Still another banner bore prints of
two tombstones labelled Chamber
lain" and "Mussolini." One called Sir
Austen and Mussolini "enemies of the
Soviets" and depicted them as being
dragged at the end of a rope pulled
by workers.
The procession of the Red soldiers
and sailors was preceded by thousands
of men and women workers, armed
with rifles, and by delegates from
trade unions, students and Pioneers.
Especial Cable to DAILY WORKER.)
MOSCOW, Nov. THE celebration
vember revolution began in Moscow
of the tenth anniversary of the No
today.
The official celebrations began at
nine o'clock in the morning in the
Red Square where the platforms were
filled to capacity by representatives
of foreign sections of the Communist
International and members of foreign
delegations.
Stages of Revolution.
On the platform on the top Of Len
ms mausoleum were representatives
of the Communist Party, the trade
unions and various Soviet organiza-
tions. The Kremlin wall was draped
bolizing the stages thru which the
in rcd cloth, bearing inscriptions SYM
revolution has passed in the last ten
years,
Uglanoff, chairman of the Moscow
Soviet, opened the meeting in the
name Of the Moscow Committee of the
Communist Party. On behalf of the
Central Executive Committee, Kalen-
in declared:
Kalerin's Speech.
"The toiling masses, all honest citi-
zens of the Soviet Union are celebrat-
ing today the ten years of existence
of the Soviet system. After long bat
ties and great sacrifices, the working
class of the Soviet Union has achieved
victory. We are celebrating the jub-
lice in the midst of our task of social
ist construction. The fact that thou
sands Of foreign worker delegates are
participating in our celebrations
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
OHIO CUNMEN ATTACK STRIKERS; EYICTIONS UPHELD
Burns Confesses He Spied on Oil Graft Jury
Police Bar November
Revolution Meetings
In Toxic; Arrest 27

TOXIC, Japan, Nov. Twenty
seven workers were arrested when
police broke up meeting of the
Labor Party called in honor of the
Tenth Anniversary of the Bolshe-
vik Revolution. All meetings and
demonstrations were barred by the
police today.
Six reactionaries raided the
headquarters Of the Peasant La
Dor Party, smashed the furniture
and destroyed many documents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
White Russian Bandits
Shoot Up Polish Town;
Murder 9 and Wound II

WARSAW, Nov. Mime per-
sons were killed and II wounded
when White Russian bandits raid
ed and shot up the town of Po-
motka on the Russo-Polish from
tier. The bandits escaped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
20 Miners Burned.
(By Federated Press. }

HOOVERSVILLE, Pa. (FP).-
Twenty Miners were burned, one SER
iously, in the Knickerbocker Coal Co.
mine here. 'fhe men were on man
trip into the mine when powder ex-
plosion occurred, giving them mar
row escape from death. Stephen Nal
ak, 81, is in Johnstown Hospital, ter
ribly burned about face, chest, legs,
arms and hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08
Judge UphOlds Miners Eviction.

Judge UphOlds Miners Eviction.
EBENSBURG, Pa. (FP).-
Judge John E. Evans rejected
the plea of James Miller, coal
miner, that the Springfield Coal
Corp. be restrained from evict-
ing his family from their home
in Nanty-Glo. Miller argued that
the lease provided a guaranteed
tenure. Many miners are being
.evicted during the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-08

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS, /,
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF TIL
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
WHEAT GOES LOWER
IN TODAY'S DEALING
Prospective Large Shipments Fro
Argentina Give Grain a
Bearish Trend.

DS the ASsoc1iled Press.
CHICAGO. January 13.-Faced
prospective big shipments from Al
gent1na, wheat averaged lower earl
today. a forecast indicated 2072. 0D,
bushels would be exported from Ar
gentina this week, compared with
759. 900 bushels last week. Openina
unchanged TO Il cent off. wheat raj
lied a little and then sagged ali
around to below yesterdays f1niSh
Corn and oats We're firm, corn start
ing at Is to Il cent advance. ana
subsequently showing further gains
Provisions tended down grade
In connection with estimates tina,
Argentine wheat shipments this week
would be greatly enlarged. totalinr
nearly three times as much as las
week, advices were at hand that Al
Sentine wheat was being offered IT,
Europe today 10 cents below UniteG
States parity. Meanwhile talk wa,
current that only a small amount o..
export business in North American
wheat and rye had been done over
night.
Reports of snow all over the IVES.
counted as an additional bearish fac
tor in wheat. being taken as lke,
TO prove of much benefit to the Win
ter crop. Kansas throughout was saiG
TO have received an average of ii
inches of snow, preceded by rail-
breaking a long-continued drought
the western part Of the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
TRADING IS BROAD
IN BOND MARKET
New High Records Again Are
Numerous in Today'S
Dealings.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. January 13.-With n
abatement in activity or strength tn.
bond market broadened out today L.
include many issues up to this time
neglected, especially in the class OF
underlying rails. Advances in this
part OF the list were numerous. among
them being such typical bonds as New
York Central AIS. Kansas City South
ern IS, Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
ourgh 4l2s, Great Northern 512s am
New York, Chicago and St Louis
o'2s. Some OF these made new high
records for recent years.
81. Louis-San Francisco prior lie,
A-4s sod above SO for the first tim,
on the movement. Higher Welding
Donds pushed steadily ahead into new
hlgh ground. Hudson and Manhat
tan incomes were conspicuous, selling
at new high for all time. st. Louis
san Francisco incomes. above 9S
We're higher than AT any time since
the bonds have been dealt in on an
ana interest basis. Western Mary
land rs on a heavy turnover wcr.
quoted above anything in years pas
New Haven convertible 6s touched II,
for the first time. Chicago C;reaf
Western As and Denver and Efo
Grande Western 5s Joined I'm the adj
vance.
Among the industrials Information
Mercantile Marine 6s ran up a hal
point 10 within q fraction of the 1875
top. Heavy buying orders carried
Barnsdall 6s with warrant to a re-,
ord high above 1914. keeping pac.
with the stock. Special buying an.
peared in the Sinclair bonds, with tha
greatest interest shown in the 6iys
on the other hand. Brooklyn Manhat
tan 6s had a setback. They were evi
IDENTIFY feeling the effect of the Offer
ing by the War Finance Corporate
of. large block Of the issue repr,.
senting loan to the old Brookllq
Rapid Transit Co.
Foreign bonds We're strong. Italian
as made another new high recori
since issue. The gain was moderate
but transactions were heavy, In m,
French group Department of tn,
Seine ~ crossed 80 for the first tim,
since they originally were offered
German IS were active, one block o.
S2O5 900 par value selling at 1O7. CITY
OF Yokohama IS, Poland IS and Hun
garian 712s were other foreign bono
to go higher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
Wall Street Briefs

NEW YORK. January Is R).-
Large demand for passenger cars and
miscellaneous coaches is said to be
an unusual feature of the railroad
eauiprnent market at present. orders
Tor I54 having been placed since the
first OF the year. Inquiries for BAG
more are now in the market. among
them 10 gasoline electric coaches from
the New York Central.
The rubber companies of the United
States will sell at least 10 per cent
more tires in 1927 than in 1926, in
the opinion of II. S. Firestone, presi-
dent Of F'irestone Tire and Rubber Co.
Sales of Fairbanks Morse & Co. in
1926 were S32, 03S,739. against $751;
66S,77S in 1925.
Amerada Corporation Oil had its
most successful year in 1925, says
President De Golyer. Estimated net,
after all expenses. is put at $4,915, 900,
against $2,498,429 in 1925, which
would be equal TO 5000 a share.
Earnings the year before were equiva-
lent to $4.24 share.
Gillette Safety Razor declared an
extra dividend Of 1919 cents and the
regular quarterly of 81. which was
Increased from rs cents three months
ago.
November operating income of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. declined
to $1,10s,337 from 81 1898, 1855 in No
vember, 1925, and for the first IL
months of 1926 to $14.066, 800 from
sl4.703.S73 in the same period of 1925.
Gross for the IL months was $122,-
sRn ne.f -,
the previous corresponding period.
Salt Lake City dispatches say Ana
conda Copper has made an important
strike in the North Lily ground in
the Tintic district. yielding lead, sill
yer and gold.
Additional shipments of $500 900
in gold reached New York from Can.
ada yesterday and $4,000, 900 arrived
from France on the steamship Paris
consigned to the American Exchange
Irving Trust co. for the account of a
correspondent.
Consolidated Laundries Corporation
declared an extra dividend of / per
cent in stock on the common stock
and the regular cash dividend of 81
cents, both payable January 81.
Bradstreet's report on building op
orations for 1926 shows a decrease OF
$3.50 ,542, S57 compared with 1925
thereby ending streak of seven con
secutive annual gains.
Directors of the American Seating
Corpora ton have authorized redemp
ton of all of the company's con
Nertible cumulative preferred stool
on February IA with the privilege O
conversion into common stock, share
for share.
Net profit of Ward Baking Cor
poration for the 10 weeks ended DE
cember % WAS $l.033.S87. compared
with S91S,009 in the same period o
1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
SOME STOCKS HAVE
BIG RUN-UPS TODAY
Lehigh Valley and Republic
Iron and Steel Feature.
: Reading Climbs.
BY STUART p. WEST.
- ra;-,,,tfh IN The star,


NEW YORK, January IA few
rather striking advances in special
stocks provided the chief incident IN
rho market today. These advances
were due to special causes and mao
no significance for the situation as
whole ~
Iehich Valley was the big feature
among the rails and Republic iron
and Steel among the industriais. LIE
high Valley has long been actlhg az
a stock would act in which there was
a competitive demand. Increased rep
resentation. it is believed, IS oelns
sought by one party, Whlle Inc othei
partv is determined not to lose any
nf it's grin. What occurred in Lehigh
Valley this morning was certainly
not an ordinary market operation. ii
looked as if the buying orders had
heen placed with rather wide dlscre-
tionary limits and that even then the
stock was extremely difficult 10 get
hold of. The stock, once started, rose
with considerable violence.
Republic Iron and Steel has been
ma nifestIv under accumulation for
several DAYS past. Until TO-DAY II
moved quite apart from the rest OF
the independent steels. 1t has oeen
little influenced by the fluctuations III
United States Steel. Republic IRON
and Steel paid 81 dividend and might
Increase the rate to 50 later IN the
wear. In the meantime, the motive
for huving appears to lie in the eX-
necration of a highly favorable 1926
rcnort This report is likely to show
The common dividends earned more
than twice over.
The rise in Reading. which was
selling eX the quarterly dividend was
more On, less sympathetic with the
Tehigh Valley jump. Wheeling and
Lake Erie preferred made new hlgn
for the year. The street believed that
The Wheeling stocks have been oought
recently on merger prospects rather
than upon earnings.
Other Independent steel shares
;oinad in moderately with the advance
in Republic. Stocks like 1oungs-
town Colorado Fuel and Iron. Gulf
states and Bethlehem Steel had been
.ather holding back for the last few
DAVIS. They became more prominent
today. The little furry of Wednesday
in Anaconda quickly subsided and
other copper and smelling shares
we're comparatively neglected. The
motors as a group were less consplcu-
ois and their variations more uncer-
rain. Hudson Motor was the strongest.
During the greater part of the time
The rest of the motor and motor
truck shares moved within fractional
limits.
Postum Cereal was a leader among
the industrial specialties with a
sharp rise above 100. Operations for
the rise were renewed in international
Nickel. but ran into a. lot of stock
a hove AZ. Another of the customary
upturns occurred in the erratic Com
T1ercial Solvents B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK, January 10 LP,.
Flour-Firm; Spring patents, 7.25a7 So.
soft Winter straights. 6.35a6.65: hara
straights. 7.15a770. Rye
Firm; No. ? Western, 1.135s f. o. b.
New York and Ills C. i. f. export
mailing. SS34 a9O24 C. l.
New York. Lard-Easier: Middle West
2.SOa12.90. Tallow-Firmer: special
bose, IA; export, rs. Wheat future
opened steady; domestic. May, l+3
other articles unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
BUY GLASS FIRM STOCK.

TOLEDO, Ohio. January 10 OP).-A
banking and Industrial syndicate, rep
resenting American and Belgian capt
tai, has bought the stock carrying con.
troll of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass
Company here. subject to the approval
Of the probate court. The purchase
which has been accepted by the eXecu.
tors Of the Libbey will. is for the hold
ings of the late Edward Drummond
libbey. The syndicate. which bid more
than $4,000 900 for the stock, includes
the Semet-Solvay Co. of Belgium; Ora
ham Brothers, Lehman Brothers,
brokers, and Marshall Field, Glore,
Ward & Co., brokers'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
ACREAGE IS LOW.

NEW YORK. January 10 OPT
average price of stocks of Souther
cotton mills closed 1926 at the loves
level recorded since pre-war days. il }
shown in a survey by r. S. Dickso
& Co., Inc, of New York and G;'
toAia, S. c. The average for 25 stock
was put at $11O.56 q share again.
$144.54 at the close OF 1923.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
CONCESSIONS IN IRON.

NEW YORK. January IS R.-
Youngstown dispatches say recent
sales of $500 tons of basic iron at
SIS ton represents a concession OF
20 cents and establishes range of SIS
20 $3.50 for that grade. No. foundry
iron business is developing for first
quarter delivery, although the bulk
Of buying for this period has beer
done.