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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20

tions against Matthew Woll; "Um-
brella Mike" Boyle, convicted of TAX
ing bribes in Chicago, but still a
power; big Tim" Murphy, who still
expects to make another million out
of organized labor in Chiacgo";
Owens, of the Cleveland Federation
of Labor; Mahon, union official and
open shop manufacturer of Detroit;
John L. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers of America, exposed in the
Harrington Lewis correspondence;
and Hillman, Sigman and other of
ficials of the needle trades.
A drastic exposure of the graft in
Continued on Page T1Vo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
700 Executed.

HONGKONG, Dec. IGNORE
than 700 men and women sus-
pected of having participated in
the workers and peasants re-
volt in Canton were executed in
one group, it was learned today.
At least five citizens of the Sow
let Union, including the Soviet
Vice Consul Hassisi, were among
those slain in the reign of terror that
followed the recapture of the city by
the troops of Chang Fak-wei.
Executions are still going on in the
streets of Canton, reports received
here state, and thousands of the in
habitants are fleeing from the city.
Split Develops.
1t is reported also that General
Ii Chai-sun, who was ousted from
Canton several weeks ago by General
Chang Fak-wei, has returned to Swa-
tow and is planning to march against
Canton. That there appears to be a
serious split in the. conference.-the
ary camp was indicated at the meet
ing of the Central Committee of the
| IKuomintang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Arrange for Memorial
Pageant for Lenin

Arrangements for a Lenin mem
orial meeting at Madison Square Car
den Jan. 21 are going forward, it was
announced yesterday by the district
office of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
Among the features, it was an
nounced, will be a pageant showing
the Russia of the czars compared with
the Soviet Union of the present time.
1t is being arranged by Adolf Wolff.
Another feature will be red ballet
under the direction of Edith Segal
The artists collaborating in the ar
rangements for the affair include
David Burlik, Hugo Gellert, Lydia
Gibson, Jan Matulka and Otto Soglow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Penn. Miners Cheer
for General Strike
Especial to The Daily Worker
By AMY SCHECHTER.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa, Dec. 49,
Three hundred miners at Local 1876,
Rossier Mine, Indiana County, Central
Pennsylvania, the scene of Judge
Langham's notorious anti-picketing,
singing and relief injunction, owned
by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal and
Coke subsidizing New York Central,
Gov. Fisher, Vice-President, passed a
resolution for general coal strike
unanimously with a shout" as the
miners put it.
Suspension Or Revolution.
Robert ]. Slee, young secretary
treasurer of the local, stated they
wanted to add to the resolution when
forwarding to Lewis, "and if they
won't have general suspension, then
let's have a revolution"
Throughout the district, the resolu-
ton is being adopted. The miners
realize that the operators final re-
fusal to confer with the union means
life and death struggle to save the
union.
The Rossiter miners adopted sing
ing on the hillside which was barred
by the injunction outside an abandon
ed church, as the most effective meth
cd of reaching the scabs at the mine
on the opposite hillside, since picket
lines are useless owing to the distance
of the mine entrance and scab bar
racks from the public highway.
The Songs.
The singing, with clarinet accom-
paniment, was timed in the morning
and evening to coincide with scabs' en-
trance and exit at mines. Hymns and
patriotic songs were effectively chos-
en-. For example, Rally Round the
Flag, with thunderous emphasis on
"Hurrah for the union, hurrah, boys,
hurEah, Down with the traitors"
Railroad Workers Aid Miners.
Miners say scores of scabs already
on the mantrip would leave as the
singing reached them. Since the in
junction, the strike sign has been torn
down by the coal and iron police. The
railroad ownership of the mines in this
section brings the railroaders close to
the miners.
The railroaders collect relief for the
miners and tell them to stick it out or
well be next"
The last eight of the 800 Rossiter
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20

>those who persist in adhering to
.Trotskyist views.
Among those who are expelled are
kameneff, Radek, Smilga, Piatakoff
Rakovsky, Smirnoff, Yevdokimov
and Muraloff.
After an address yesterday by Mo-
lotov, the Congress received Ordjon-
ikdze's report on the work of the
Central Control Commission dealing
with the Opposition and adopted the
following resolution:
Adopt Resolution.
"The 10Th Congress, on receipt of
the report of the Commission which
studied all material concerning the
Opposition, records the following:
First: In the theological sphere,
the Opposition, from differences of
a tactical nature, went over to diff
Continued on Page Thres)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
N. Y. Labor to Hear
U.S.S.R. Delegation

A large attendance is assured from
all sections of labor for the mass
meeting Wednesday evening at which
members of the second American
Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet
Union will report.
Great interest has been aroused in
news of the developments in TIE first
Workers Republic, due in part to the
!, 'ort of the first Trade Union Delega-
n IN. Many unionists who did not
Nave the opportunity of hearing the
first delegation are planning to come
to the Wednesday meeting.
Switchman to Preside.
William Watkins, chairman of the
delegation, president of Switchmen's
Union, Local 2O6, of Minneapolis, will
be the chief speaker
William Mackenzie, of Carpenters
Union, Local 210. Stamford, Conn
Edward Rosnese, United Mine Work
ers. Local 89S. Of Nanticoke, Pa;
William G. Hearing, Moulders' Union,
Local 161, of Stamford, Conn; Ben
Thomas, Machinists' Unicn, Local
159, and also member of the Central
Labor Union of Philadelphia and E.
P. Cush, Amalgamated Iron. Tin and
Steel Workers, of Pittsburgh, will
also tell what they have seen and ex-
perienced in Russia.
Robert w. Dunn, a member of the
first labor delegation to Russia, will
also speak. Henry T. Hunt, former
mayor of Cincinnati, will preside. The
meeting will be held under the aus
pices of the New York Committee Of
the American Trade Union Delega-
tinn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
BULLETIN.

Especial Cable to Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, Dec. 19.-The plenary
meeting of the new Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, held after the
close of the Congress of the Com
munist Party has elected the po-
litical bureau of the Party. COM
posed IS follows: i
Rukharin, voEoshiloN KaIipin,
Nuibyshey Molotov, Rykov, Rud-
zutak, Stain and Tomky, men,
bers of the Political Bureau; and
Petrovsky, Uglanov, Andreyev, XII
rov, Mikoyan, Kaganovitch, Chu-
bar and Kossior as deputy members.
Joseph Stain was elected general
. secretary and Mol0tov, Uglanov,
Kossicr and Kubiak. secretaries.
4 To the orgonizational bureau
have been elected:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Especial to The Daily Worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker
MOSCOW, Dec. 19.-After review
ing the anti-Party policies and tactics
of the Opposition, the Fifteenth Con-
gress of the All Union Communist
Party decided to expel ninety-eight
leaders of the Opposition and to per-
NIT rank and file members of the OPP
position to remain within the Party.
The resolution authorizes the Central
Committee and the Central Control
Committee to carry on theological
work among the rank and file MEM
bers of the Opposition and to expel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
SHOOT 5 CHINESE GIRLS, 3 STRIKERS, 4 STUDENTS
GRECO ON STAND
SHOWS He DIDN'T
SLAY z Fascist
Called to Testify in Own
Defense

Surprising the prosecution and the
crowd of spectators, Calogero Greco
was called to the witness stand il
his own defense late yesterday in the
Bronx County Court, where he anc
Donate Carrillo are being tried OF
charges of killing two fascists las
Memorial Day.
He testified he was at his home il
Brooklyn, two and half hours by
subway from the scene of the crime
at the time of the staying and that
he had never been in the neighbor-
hood of Third Avenue and 1880 St.
where the murder was committed.
Greco testified that he was 35 years
old, that he arrived in the United
States in 1920 after serving five
years in the Italian army and thai
he worked as presser of children
clothing, having formerly been q
shoe worker and at other times ar
automobile mechanic.
In the Italian army he served
largely in Africa, he said, and left
the service with the rank of sergeant
major.
On the morning of the Staying
Greco rose in his home at a. m.
he testified in answer to questions
by Arthur Garfield Hays, of defe"s
counsel.
Helps Brother.
Il help my brother in his music
store in the front of the building
where | live," he continued.
Greco named five customers or
whom he waited.
about 11:3O l went to the Can
arsie section to see customer about
some Italian calendar ORDERS" he
said. "This customer ordered 40C
from ne."
Greco here explained in reply to
questions that as a result of a stab
wound suffered week before at a
fascist meeting he was unable to
work at his trade at the time in
question and for that reason helped
his brother.
Ignorant of Staying.
SOI 1IOill SctildIS DIG dI i
o'clock in the afternoon" he said
"and after eating l went to Prospect
ark in Brooklyn with a friend. We
were there until about o'clock"
He said he first learned of the
staying in the newspapers either
that night or the following morning
81 was never arrested before in my
life," he added in answer to another
question.
Hays created a mild sensation
earlier in the day when he called AL
bert Henderson and Israel J. P. AL
derman, assistant district attorneys
to the stand. He sought to show that
a certain document relating to one of
the witnesses had been obtained by
the Fascist League of North Amer
ica.
Testimony by both district attor-
Continued or Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
ZOber, Strikebreaker,
Facing New Charges;
Testimony All Taken

PASSAIC, NJ j., Dec. 19. ~ The
taking Of testimony at the depart
mental trial Of Richard 0. Zober.
suspended police chief, charged
with possessing and selling stolen
automobiles, was completed today
after four additional charges were
entered against him. Zober became
notorious during the textile strike
here for his strikebreaking activi-
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Especial To The DAILY woRKER.)

Especial To The DAILY WORkER.)
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 19.-"We in
sist on living wage in the coal in
dustry, whether the operators get a
fair return or not" declared James
Buchanan, member of the Denver
University group which investigated
coal field conditions, speaking before
"a strike peace meeting in Denver Fri
day night. "If the present system
will not insure living wage, some
other method must be found. Any
compromise on this principle, based
rather on the preservation of the econ
omic system than the recognition of
the sacrifice of human life, is impos-
sible."
Buchanan is one of three student
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Breaking Chains Is
Success on Coast

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Dec. 19,--
Over two thousand people paid admis-
sion to see Breaking Chains, movie
Of the Russian Revolution her. The
crowd gave generously to !. c lection
appeal by the International !. orkers
Aid, under whose auspices the film
was shown. "Potemkin" and "Red
Russia" come to Los Angeles soon. (
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Another Injunction.

In Part 1 of the supreme court a
petition for a permanent injunction
against the fuckers, Pleterers', and
Hemstitchers Local al, of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, will be argued before Judge
Thomas c. T. Grain A temporary
injunction forbids the union from call
ing strikes against shops that have
locked out their workers for refusing
to register in the right wing dual
union formed by Morris Sigman, ma
tional !. L. G. W. U. president.
Nineteen officers and members of
the executive board of Local Al, have
called to appear in the supreme court
on charges Of contempt of court
based on the temporary injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Needle Trade Labor
Facing InjunCtions

Louis B. Boudlin, counsel for the
Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers
Union, charged yesterday before Su-
preme Court Justice Erlanger that
Referee Murray Hubert had misrep-
resented facts in report in which
he recommended that IS left wing
leaders of the Cloamakers' Union be
punished for contempt of court and
fined $4,000. The 18 are said to have
violated an anti-strike injunction.
Justice Erlanger will decide the
case in a few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Anti-Injunction Meet
Will Be Held Tonight

"Injunctions and the Labor Party"
will be the topic at mass meeting
arranged by Section 2, Workers
(Communist) Party, at 7 o'clock to-
night at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and
41st ST.
Jay Lovestone, executive secretary
of the Workers Party, and William
F. Dunno, of The DAILY WORKER,
will speak. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will
preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
TOO CANTONESE
ARE EXECUTED;
SWARMS FLEE
Counter Revolutionary
Split Develops
BULLETIN.

HANKOW, Dec. 19. - Five
university girls and four men
students, charged with having
aided in the textile workers
strike were executed here today.
Three labor leaders were also
executed for having taken part
in the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
YOUTH IN PRISON.

ALBANY, Dec. 19.-Forty four per
cent of the crimes in New York state
are committed by boys under 21 years
of age, the state commission of cor
rection reported today. Boys between
16 and 81 are overflowing the states
penal Institutions, charged with all
kinds of crimes, the commission said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
WILL INSPECT BIG BOMBER.

KUUSENELT FIELD, L. l., Dec. 10.
The Guardian, a huge airplane
bomber will be inspected by army Of
ficials today. This is the third war
plane to be investigated, and fourth
two twelve-cylinder 600 horse power
Curtiss motored plane is being pre-
pared for inspection. These planes
contain huge guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Nine. Sun Yat Sen Protests.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 19.-More than
hundred citizens of the Soviet
Union, including the members of the
Soviet consular staff, the Voluntere
fleet and the Dahl Bank, who were
ordered to leave Shanghai Immediate
ly by the Marking government, have
been granted an indefinite respite in
order to wind up their affairs.
The recent action of the Nanking
government toward the Soviet Union
is severely criticized in a cable re-
ceived here by Chang Kai-shek from
Nine. Sun Yat-sen, who is now in
Moscow. The cable reads:
Heard Proposal.
Just as | was on the point of re-
turning home / learned of your pro-
posal to break off relations with
Soviet Russia and demand the with
drawal of the Soviet consulates. This
act, if carried out, will be suicidal.
lsolating China and retarding her
progress, for which history will hold
you to account.
IF you possess a particle of your
leaders (Dr. Sun Yat-sen's) vision
or remember that close cooperation
with Soviet Russia was his last will.
then you will stop this headlong
piunging toward a precipice, drag
glng with you the fate of your coun-
try.
Il am remaining here as moral
protest against your decision unless
at the last moment steps are taken
to avert break. l believe your al
legged grievances can be settled by
agreement with Soviet Russia"
Chang Kai-shek in his reply re-
quested Nine. Sun Yat-sen to return
to Shanghai "to view the situation
for herself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-20
Communist Party Elects Leaders, 90
AmhLe1lln1St Obb0sltOnists Ousted

Stain, MolotOv, Uglanov, Kossior,
Kubiad. Moskvin, Bubnov, Artiak-
hina, Andreyey, Dogadov, Smirnov.
Rukhimovitch and Sulimov.
Bukharin was elected chief editor
of the Central Party organ, the
Pravda.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14
U. S. IN Line FOR !
SOVIET ORDERS
Russia Ready to Pass Out
$75,OOO,O00 Business.

Bv United Press
BERLIN, June l4.-Disposition or
$75,OOO,0OO worth of orders. which
the Soviet government had in
tended, before the recent break in
diplomatic relations, to place with
Great Britain, will be decided
Thursday at a conference here Of
Soviet trade representatives in
Europe.
The United States, Germany and
Czecho-Slovakia we're expected to
be allotted the bulk of the orders
provided the problem of financing
the purchases can be solved.
Moscow is not adverse to trans
ferring large portion of its British
business with the United States If
credit facilities are obtainable," a
leading Soviet spokesman told the
United Press today.
Reports that British bankers
we're refusing to discount bills of
German manufacturers who are ex-
pecting Russian orders, coupled
with the severance of diplomatic re-
lations, may cause a complete re-
distribution of Soviet foreign trade.
Presence in Berlin OF the pres
ident OF the Soviet State Bank and
the recent luncheon Of Soviet For
eign Minister Tchicherin with OUT
standing German bankers and in
dustrialists we're interpreted as
signs of intense Soviet activity to
readjust its foreign trade.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14

BIZ United Press
BROOKLYN. June 14.-The
Lindbergh lure caught two
Brooklyn boys, one 6 and one
13. today and landed them in
trouble.
Samuel Schirello, l3, and his
brother. Eugene, 6, wanted to
see the young hero, who. they
had been told, gained fame be-
cause when he wanted to go
some place he went without
talking about it. They decided
to play hockey from school and
get to Manhattan some way.
The boys saw an automobile
parked near their home. They
got in and Samuel started the
car. They took the wrong di-
rection and we're heading away
from Manhattan when a po-
liceman stopped them.
Samuel, who, police said, re-
Gently was released from a re-
formatory after a term for au-
tomobile theft, was held. Eu-
gene was sent home.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14
STRANCLER Yet FREE
U. S., Canada Police Hunt
0n-$1, SOC Rewards.

BV United Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June IA
Although more than fifty suspects
have been questioned, the stranger
murderer, slayer of a woman and a
girl here over the week end, con-
tinued today to evade the combined
efforts of American and Canadian
authorities to capture him.
With rewards totallins $500
offered, additional agencies today
joined the man hunt. The province
yesterday posted a reward Of $500.
Today the city announced an addi-
tional reward of $500. Both call for
apprehension, dead or alive.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14
Number of Prescriptions Is
Nearly Million Less in
1926 Than 1925.

D WASHINGTON, June 14.-Liquor
as a medicine was less popular in
1926 than in 1925 by 968,770 pre-
scriptions, or almost 100000 gallons,
according to figures made public TO-
Cay by the prohibition bureau.
A drop in the steadily mounting
total of prescription liquor was
shown in the 1926 fiscal year for
the first time since 1922. The total
in the twelve months ended June
30, 1926, was 12,996,327 prescriptions,
as against 13,963,O97 for 1925.
New York, although supposedly
the wettest of all, showed the larg-
est decline in 1926, with 638,588
fewer than the previous year.
Members of Congress, both wet
and dry, are going over these sta
tistics in the belief that a demand
for removing restrictions will be
voiced the next session of Congress,
as requested in a resolution Of the
American Medical Association.
The States which LED LLe proCeS-
sion in 1926 werei New York, g.
1875, 1874 prescriptions; Illinois, 2,1S8,-
GAL; Pennsylvania, 1,044,755; Call
fornia, 1,O44,573; Massachusetts,
717,711; Missouri, 670,397; Ohio,
515,634; Wisconsin, 495,0O0; Texas,
487, 1874; Kentucky, 382,865.
In going over this list, certain dry
members of Congress have called
attention to the fact that, in their
belief, these are among the wettest
States in the Union. They are in
clined to believe that some of the
wetness is accounted for by the
large number of prescriptions. VETS
however, answer that these States
are also among the most populous.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14
TRIP is LAST
Boy Steals $4,000 Car. for
Niqht Rides.

Like the pitcher which went once
too often to the well, a 15-year-old
boy went back once too often to en-
joy the thrills of a night ride in a
$4,000 Mercedes auto.
The boy, who lives in the 1890
Block Washington Blvd, four times
took the auto from the garage of
Louis Schwitzer, 4401 Washington
Blvd, enjoyed a night ride, and re-
turned the car, detectives who took
him to the Detention Home say he
admitted.
He tried it again last night. When
he returned to the garage he found
the door locked. Schwitzer, who
has been out of the city, had re-
turen. He abandoned the machine,
with a broken back window, on
Washington Blvd. several blocks
from the house, where detectives
found it.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-06-14
TO Be TRIED ALONE
Dorothy Mackaye Will Face
Court Thursday.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal. June IA
Dorothy Mackaye, emotional actress,
charged with attempting to "cover
up" facts surrounding the death of
her tor-husband, Ray Raymond,
will face trial alone Thursday morn
ing.
At a brief hearing yesterday, Su-
perior Judge Burnell ruled the evil
dence against the actress might
prejudice a jury against Dr. Walter
Sullivan, Hollywood physician, in
dicted with Miss Mackaye, and
granted Sullivan's plea for a sepa-
rate trial.
Sullivan and Miss Mackaye, 1t is
charged, attempted to prevent au-
thorities from learning that Ray
mond had been beaten in fist fight
with Paul Kelly, screen actor. Kel-
~ now stands convicted of man.
slaughter in connection with the
death.