The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Rockefeller Is Guilty, ="
Says Workers Party

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the establishment of open shops by
starving workers, evicting them from
their homes and using the state police
and their private gunner in osder
to destroy the union of the United
Mines Workers.
Revelations of Walsh Commission.
'The investigation of the Industrial
Relations Commission appointed by
President Wilson showed that the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company dom
mated the state government and that
they resorted to every foul means
in order to maintain their control
over the state machinery even voting
mules in order to elect their lackeys
to office. The situation Is not
changed today.
For that reason the Workers Party
has picketed the headquarters of Mr.,
Rockefeller. At the same time we
have been calling attention to the
struggle of the miners Of Pittsburgh
and Ohio who are subjected to the
same injunction rule and oppression
in the efforts of the coal barons to
destroy the United Mine Workers.
Protest Police Action.
1--WE protest against the action OF
the New York police in interfering
with the legal right of workers to
picket, which they were doing peace
fully before the offices Of Mr.. Rookie
teller. and we particularly protest
against the interference of the Bomb
i,quad and the action Of the police
In arresting these peaceful pickets at
the same time that they let the en-
ployees Of Mr.. Rockefeller assault
these picketing workers.
"The Workers Party will partici-
pate in a mass meeting arranged in
Union Square Saturday afternoon
where it will join in the protest
against the murders in Colorado and
agains. the Pittsburgh and Ohio t5al
barons who are trying to destroy the
United Mine Workers.
William W. Weinstone,
District Secretary"
-Four Workers (Communist) Party
pickets arrested in the demonstration
conducted by the Party before the
general offices of John D. Rockefeller
al &c Broadway Wednesday face trial
Monday in the First District Magis-
trate's Court. They are charged with
Cigorderly conduct.
The demonstration, III the heart OF
the New York financial district dur
ing the noon hour, was IL protest
against the killing of mine strike
pickets in Colorado by the militia OF
the Rockefeller controlled state gov
ernment. Reports received by The
DAILY WORKER yesterday and last
night showed the demonstration had
simulated greatly the support being
given by New York labor to the strik-
ers.
= fne Qickets arrested, while 10000
watched, are Milton WITCH, Julius
Fleiss, Sophie Margolies and Mary
Kaplan. 10y were released on bail
at their arrangement before Magis-
trate Adolph Stern Wednesday after
noon. Counsel retained by the Inter-
national Labor Defense urged an i'm
mediate trial but the magistrate COM
piled with the request of the New
York police bomb squad for an adj
journment.
Building guards and other institu-
tionalized employees at the Rockefeller
offices charged the pickets, who num-
bered about 60, and struck many of
them after the arrest of the four by
policemen.
No. 26 Broadway is the headquar-
ters not only for the Standard Oil Co.
but for the Colorado Fuel G. Iron Co.,
the most powerful of the Colorado
corporations against which the miners
are sstriking. 1t was this company
which ordered the Ludlow'tent colony
massacre in 1914, when IL children,
two women and a miner were shot,
burned or bayonetted to death.