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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
NEARLY THOUSAND
NIC:ARACUANS DIE
IN u. S. ATTACKS
Invading Marines Boast
$40 Killed Since May

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. - More
than $40 Nicaraguan liberals have
been killed by American marines
since May, compilation of officials
casualty figures revealed today. The
figures only include casualties re-
ported to the State and Navy de-
partments of the American legation
in Managua. The number of Mic
araguans who were killed and I'M
accounted for in the casualty figures,
including civilians murdered by
American bombing planes, swells the
total to more than a thousand it is
believed.
During the same period, five ma
rines have been killed and only one
seriously injured. Four members of
the American-controlled native con-
stabulary are listed as having died
in battle.
Number of Wounded Unknown.
The figures indicate that marines
smashed the small and poorly-equip-
ped armies of the native Nicaragu-
ans in ten pitched battles. The list
of engagements and the number of
dead and wounded follows:
May 1916 at La Paz Centre, IA
Nicaraguans killed; number of
wounded unknown; two marines
killed.
500 In One Battle.
July 16-Ocotal, 800 to 500 Mic
araguans killed, more than 108 known
to be wounded, one marine killed.
July 20-San Fernando, six Mic
araguans killed; Is to 20 wounded.
One marine wounded.
July 27-San Fernando During
pursuit by United States planes of
fugitives from battle of July 20) 20
Nicaraguans killed or wounded.
Aug. 16.-Along northern border
Two Nicaraguans killed.
Sept. 3-Telpaneea, five Nicaragu-
ans killed or wounded.
Sept. reported Sept. 15th)-So-
nato, five Nicaraguans killed.
Sept. 19-Telpaneca, 20 Nicara-
guans killed; so wounded. Two ma
rines killed.
Sept 21-Telpaneca, unreported
number of Nicaraguans killed and
wounded. No mention Of marine cas-
ualties.
Oct. 8 reported to Managua Oct
16).-67 Nicaraguans killed OF
wounded. Four members of native
guard killed. No marine casualties
Most of the fighting has taken
place in the north, particularly in the
mountainous jungleland of Nueva Sc
covia,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
R0erich Museum Opens
Lecture Series on Art

The Roerich Museum, 80 Riverside
Drive, will open its lecture series for
this season with lecture by Claude
Bragdon, author and architect, on
"The Light of ASIA" Tuesday at $50
p. m.
Especial interest attaches to this
lecture in view of the fact that Brag-
don will be associated with Walter
Hampden this season in presenting
Edwin Arnold's "The Light of ASIA
which outlines the life of Buddha.
The lecture series presented each
year at the Roerich Museum is open
to the public and includes lectures on
various phases of the arts, as well
as concerts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
WORKERS TO HEAR REPORT OF U. S. TRADE UNION
DELEGATION TO UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS

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legislative bodies were over
thrown by any higher authority,
even though in practically all of
the local bodies the Communist
members are in the minority.
Praises Workers Condition.
Whether Russia be the most
dismal and unhappy place you
were ever in, is of course a mat
ter of personal opinion. We have
tried to be eminently fair and &C
curate in making this investiga-
ton, and in order to do so, we
have consistently compared pres
ent conditions in Soviet Russia,
not with conditions in the United
States or the elder countries of
Western Europe, but rather with
conditions in Russia itself prior
to the world war and the Revolu-
ton. Upon reflection I am sure
you will agree that this is the
only reasonable basis on which
to judge present conditions in
Russia.
\ "In all Of our research cover
ing many thousands of miles and
interviewing many hundreds of
people, both for and against the
present government, we found
not a single worker or farmer
who wished to go back to condi-
tons existing upder the ears
regime. This by no means i'm
plies that conditions in Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Gmnan for BirgeT
Republican Machine
Hanged at Marion

MARION, ILL.,, Oct. 21.-Another
act in the amazing history of the
political rule. of the Birger gang Of
beer runners, dive keepers, gunner
and political bosses in Southern Hi
ncis came today when RADIO Millich,
once an expert killer for the gang,
was hanged in the Marion Jail.
Two hundred spectators, more or
less opposed to the official career of
the Burger men witnessed the execu-
ton.
Safe For Awhile.
Birger. the head of the group, is
also under charges which may mean
his death. It is considered certain that
the conviction Of the Bigger outfit
would have been impossible if some
of their vassal gunner and resort
owners had not split with them and
broken up the grip on local and county
office which the group had built up
thru playing inside republican party
politics in Marion county and other
parts of Southern Illinois.
State and Union Politics.
William Sneed, state senator IRE
publcan), and vicious opponent of
every progressive measure in the U.
M. w. Of A. of which he is district
vice-president got large part of his
practical support from the Birger
gang, and thru him their influence
reached into the counsels of. men much
higher up, even it is said, to those of
Governor Len Small.
Field Warfare.
At any rate, while they presented
a united front, no Birger beer runner
was ever bothered much by the au-
thorities.
For time, before the split among
the gangsters finally ruined them,
public officials calmly watched while
regular little armies in the pay of
rival gangster groups assail each
other with airplane bombs and ma
chine guns. An unknown number of
killings resulted, and the control Of
the gangmen weakening, some of
them were finally arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Halloween Dance for Defense

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-The Billings
branch of the International Labor De.
Tense is giving . masquerade dance
on Saturday, October 20, at P. M. at
the Viking Temple, 1853 Sheffield
Ave, on the School Street entrance,
to help raise funds for the sending
Of delegate to the Third Annual
Conference of International Labor De-
Tense. There will be good music, re-
freshments, dancing and prizes for
pest costumes. All workers are in
vited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
S70,179 For Contractors.

A sealed verdict opened in Long
Island City yesterday by Supreme
Court Justice Townsend Scudder
awarded $70,179.55 to the Gotham
Construction Company, so Church
street, Manhattan, for work done in
erection Of an al" structure for the
city in Corona in 1924.
The Gotham Construction Com
pany based it's action on the conten-
ton that transit commission en-
gineers had given faulty data neces-
stating extra expense in construc-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
MURDER WORKERS
IN China while
STRIKE GOES ON
Kill Active Unionists
And Communists !:

SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 21.-e--
While the strike against the factories
of the Anglo-Amerieah- tobacco eefn-
pany continues, and pickets placed
before the factories prevent work be-
ing done by strikebreakers, the re-
dictionary government is executing
Communists and active unionists.
Fourteen Communists have just
been executed in Wuchow, Kwangsi
province, after several months inn
prisonment. Among them were four
labor union leaders, and three women
students. In Kiukiang, Kiangsi
province, twelve Communists have
been executed within the last three
days. ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Marquis Son Gets BIisters.

Miguel de Cardoba, Tarrytown, who
claims to be the son of a Spanish
grandee, the Marquis of Villanova,
was under a suspended sentence to-
day on a charge of permitting an Nn-
licensed minor to drive an automo-
bile
Speaking with a Castilian lisp, the
frail, refined young man exhibited
bruised and blistered hands to Magis-
trate Earl Smith in traffic court.
He said he had permitted a six
teen year old boy to drive his truck
for him because he himself was I'M
able to hold the wheel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Boost Woman for $4,000 Job.

United States Senator Simeon D.
Tess is reported to have recommend
ed to President Coolidge that Miss
Geneyieve Cline, Cleveland woman at
torney, be appointed to the court of
custom appeals in New York. Miss
Cline, now federal appraiser of mer-
chandise for the port of Cleveland, if
appointed to the new post will be one
of the highest paid women in gov
eminent service. The office pays 49,
600 year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
FALL WAS TOLD
NO DRAINAGE"
WAS PROBABLE
Oil Graft Defense Puts
Up Immunity Plea

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 81. -
After hearing testimony from two
, biologists to the effect that there is
no truth in the defense of Harry F.
Sincl,Sr and Albert B. Fall that the
Teapot Dome lease had to be granted
Immediately, the jury in the oil graft
case was sent out of the court room
and the rest of the day spent in a
long involved argument as to whether
Sinclair's admission before the senate
investigating committee granted him
immunity.
Fall Knew Oil Was Safe.
DR.. George Otis Smith, director of
the Geological Survey, today blasted
one of the chief contentious of the
Fall-Sinclair defense when he testi-
fled that there was neither danger of
drainage from Teapot Dome when the
naval oil reserve was leased by ex-
Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall
to Harry F. Sinclair, nor that Fall was
| ignorant of the safety of the oil re-
! serves.
Smith said Fall called him into con-
| ference and directed him to send an
excerpt to the reserve to investigate
drainage conditions. Smith sent X. C.
Head, former head of the oil and gas
section of the bureau.
'Heald reported there was no i'm
minent danger of drainage of Teapot
Dome" Smith said.
Odd you report this to Fall?" asked
Roberts.
Eyes"
Never Called Again.
"Did he ever again call you into
conference on Teapot Dome?"
mo" answered Smith, chat was
the last time"
There is laughter in Washington to-
E. night over the evident political in
nocence of Geologist Smith, who did
not seem to understand what kind of
a report was required of him by the
then secretary of the interior.
Head, now chief geologist of the
Gulf Oil Company, took the stand to
tell personally of his findings at Tea
pot Dome. He repeated what Smith
had already told the jury.
Martin w. Littleton, Sinclair at
torney, struggled valiantly to make
the jury think Heald didn't know his
business.
4 Question of Immunity.
The prosecution then offered as
evidence the testimony Sinclair gave
to the senate Investigating committee
and another legal battle began.
The defense planned to fight admis-
sion of this testimony to the last
ditch. In the Fall-Doheny trial the
senate records were finally admitted
Siddons excused the jury while the
lawyers argued.
Littleton read from the statutes
; which state that no testimony given
by a witness before either house OF
congress shall be used against him in
; a subsequent criminal trial except
when the charge is perjury.
Rule on Immunity Monday.
Roberts argued for the government
He denied that Sinclair had been sub.
poenaed, but rather had been SIN.
rvited" to appear.
A man is held under law to be g
competent witness, Roberts declared
until his disqualifies himself by plead
ing a reconized immunity, and the
government attorney held Sinclair's
lawyers were trying to evade the sen.
ate testimony on other and improper
grounds.
There will be no session of court
Saturday, and Siddon's ruling is ex
pected Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Rabbis For Porters.

Social Justice Conference of Amer
lean Rabbis declares the porters a
fine type of manhood with deep
sense of moral responsibility to the
travelling public. 1t supports the por-
ters inalienable human rights of or
ganization, self-respect, and safe
guards to health. A statement issued
takes note of the special obstacles
which Negro workers, struggling for
human rights must overcome.
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Avella Mine Pickles
Cut Off Production
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Yellow Dogs had stopped him on his
way home from the picket line,
caught hold of his coat and ripped it,
and began beating him up with their
black jacks. He broke away, and
then one held him and the other beat
him. Finally he broke away again,
and then one of them pulled his gun
and shot at Simonetti. Luckily the
Coal and Iron was so full Of noon
shine that even at such close range
he could not hit him. He was so near,
Simonetti says, that he could see
the flash Of the shot through his
legs. His wife showed me the coat
he had worn, all daubed over with
dried blood. 7.-e,r-
The Sheriff in Ambush.
Witnesses who came when they
heart the shot (blackiacks are con-
veniently SILENT say that they saw
the deputy sheriff crawl out of the
bushes by the bridge with a rifle in
his hand. According to the men he
must have been hiding ready to
finish off the job" This may seem
a strange role for an officer of the
law, sworn to the protection of the
citizens Of his country and the MAIN
tenance Of order, but. it would not
surprise anyone in the coal regions.
In theory, the deputy sheriff is an
impartial county official. In practice,
however, the deputies are hired and
paid by the coal companies, and in
many cases are officials of the COM
pany. This is the case at the Aurora
mine, where the other deputy is the
mine superintendent, who had him.
self sworn in at the beginning of the
lockout. The local here is known as
a fighting local, and the superintend-
ent wanted to make sure of having
every weapon that he could lay hands
on before attacking it; coal-war legal
ity allows him to get them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

are perfect. On the contrary we
definitely stated in our report
that Russia still has a long, long
road to travel. But we would be
less than fair and honest with
the public as well as ourselves
if we did not say emphatically
that by every criterion of judg-
ment suggested by our expert
staff, some of whom were by no
means predisposed to the Soviet
government, conditions in Russia
today are materially better than
in 1913, and if present tendencies
continue, assisted by the coopera-
ton and good will of the other
nations of the world, Russia will
travel much further from the I'M
happy state existing prior to the
Revolution.
"(Signed) ALBERT F. COYLE."
Members of Delegation to Speak.
In addition to Maurer the speaker
at the giant labor demonstration wi
include John Brophy of the Unite
Mine Workers of America; Alder
Coyle, former editor of the Locomo
tive Engineers Journal; Frank Palm
err of the Colorado Labor Advocate
Paul Douglas, expert on industrial re
lations, and professor at the Unive1
sity of Chicago; Henry C. Hunt, fol
mer mayor of Cincinnati; Power
Hapgood, militant young mine leader
Robert W. Dunn, labor economist
Stuart Chase, Of the Labor Bureau
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
(By BYRON KITTO)

PUEBLO, Colo, Oct. 10 (By MaiD.
The following is skeleton of the
reign of terror led by the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company's gunner who
are given the support of the Ku Klux
Khan, the American Legion and mu-
nicipal authorities:
At Walsenburg, October Is, there
was a meeting held at the court house
where plans were made for the
storming and sacking of the I. w. w.
headquarters. After the meeting,
around the hour of midnight, the mob,
which included the mayor and other
city authorities, marched in military
fashion down the main thoroughfare
to the I. w. w. hail. Upon their
arrival they demanded Fellow Worker
Byron Kitto, who was alone in the
office at the time, ''to come out, you
bastard" Not having any means of
protection, Fellow Worker Kitto re-
fused them admission, whereupon
they shot out the front window and
battered down the door while the gun
men made threats of 1ynching.
The fellow worker escaped thru
the rear window.
Marched Out at Gun Point.
The next day eleven of our most
active members were marched at the
point Of gun out of town.
The same thing happened at Agui-
lar.
In Pueblo the next evening meet
| ing was to be held for the workers
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel
/ mills. At p. M, one hour before
the meeting, there were stationed in
front of the hall twelve city police,
/ seventy-five C. F. & l. deputies, the
mill superintendent and numerous
foremen.
Threaten Workers.
AS the slaves approached the meet
ing hall, the foremen would threaten
them with being fired. AS this, in
most cases, had no effect on the
worker, the C. F. & l. thugs with
drawn guns routed the workers. And
when Fellow Workers Kristen Sva-
mum, Paul Seidler, and Byron Kitto
who were supposed to speak at the
mass meeting, arrived they found the
doors padlocked with the thugs in
full charge.
Raid in Pueblo
The next day the city police raided
our Pueblo headquarters, seized our
property and turned all of it over to
the Colorado Fuel & Iron officials.
In Trinidad seventeen of our mem
bers have been arrested.
We are sending yellow press ac-
counts which do not seem to hide the
issue. We will appreciate it very
much if you will give these outrages
space in your paper. Any particular
factors that you want illustrated
kindly let US know.
Yours for industrial freedom,
P. S.-Twelve hundred miners are
at present out; this includes the
northern and southern fields. u. NJ
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Hundreds Picket Mines
In Colorado

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miners to the union scale, and inn
prove conditions of living.
..Aatho numbers of strikers out al
ready can only be estimated, it is be-
lieved that there Sre at least eight
thousand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Father of 10 browns.

The body of a man found Wednes-
day in the East River off the foot of
Mott avenue, Long Island City,
Queens, has been identified as Peter
Farrell, 81 years old, of 37-4O Sixty
fifth street, Woodside, Queens, the
father Of 10 children. A brichayer,
he had been missing several days.
Death was caused by drowning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Defective u. S. Plane Falls.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct. 81.
Leo Willinger, department of COM
merce pilot, failed to clear telephone
wires on the Plainfield-New Bruins
wick line at the edge of Hadley Field
today and received severe decorations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Capture Gomez Terrorists

MONTERREY, N, L., Mexico,
Oct. 21.-Federal troops from the
military garrisors here and at San
Luis Potosi have trapped the band of
counter revolutionaries who dyna-
mited a southbound national railway
passenger train south of San Luis
Potosi Tuesday with loss of eight
lives, according to telegram received
at the garrison here from General
Angua, commanding the federal
forces.
The rebel band is headed by Fran
cisco Delara, famous bandit chieftain
who recently joined the counter
revolutionary faction. Although his
men are we'll armed, federal troops
are reportedf as having the rebel band
bottled up in ravine.
.a,.%,-.g.- Dynamite Train.
Two dynamite bombs were placed
on the tracks. One of the bombs
exploded under second class coach.
The force of this. explosion set off
the second bomb which tore up sew
eral yards of the track.
The rebels, according to dispatches
received here by National Railway Of
ficials, looted the express and mail
cars of about 100000 pesos in gold
and silver which was consigned to
the Bank Of Mexico in Mexico City.
Several of the trains troop escort
were wounded by the machine gun
fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Gomez Agent in Plea
for u. S. Intervention
CONTINUED from Page One)

NOVIVIVtVtW IT Hg 7 Uy6 VII6J
Arnulfo Gomez's counter-revolution
airy staff, were found in deep ra-
vine in the mountains of the Zongoli-
ca section in the state of Vera Cruz,
it was reported unofficially here to-
day.
1t is supposed the men fell from
cliff while being pqrsued by fed
eral forces. General Marcelo Car
ayes, military commander of Chihua-
hua, arrived in the capital today. He
reported Chihuahua tranquil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Organize Cooperative Colony.

A cooperative colony will be estab-
lished on a tract of land in Westches
ter County near Croton Lake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
The DAILY WORKER

The DAILY WORKER
HARLEM OFFICE
2119 3rd Avenue, at l16th Street.
BRONX OFFICE
1929 3rd Avenue, at 149th Street.
BROOKLYN OFFICE
46 Ten Eyck Street. S@sssso al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

P. S.--Twelve hundred miners are
at present out; this includes the
northern and southern fields. U. M.
w. have officially stated that they
would do all in their power to break
the strike.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
NATIONALISTS
In CHINA PLAN
REORGANIZATION

SHANGHAI, Dec. 20, R)-Two i'm
portant designations in the Nanl1ing
Nationalist government today ap-
peared to presage a long rumored
reorganization of the government,
which is expected to follow upon a
conference of leading NationaliSts in
Nanking next month
DR.. G. G. WI, for the past six
months the most prominent of Ma
tionaliSt officials in their relations
with the foreign powers, resigned as
foreign minister, while Dr. Sun Fo,
son of the late Republican leader,
DIR. Sun Vat Sen, resigned as min
lister of finance. !.
In both cases the retiring minis
tiers declared that conditions made
it impossible for them to work out
their programs in their respective
departments and that consequently
they felt it proper for them to with
draw
DIR. Wu's successor is expected to
be General sKuang Flu, who was act
ing minister Of foreign affairs in
the Feking government of 1928 He
recently resigned as mayor of Shang-
hal T. ", Soong, finance minister
of the Nationalist government set
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-30
RESCUED SHIPS
CREW REACHES
San FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. % tFl - a.
tale Of tragedy and heroism at sea
was brought here today by five deSti
tute Officers rescued form lifeboats on
the Pacific ten days ago after the
south sea island trading schooner Doris
Crane burned $40 miles north of Homo
lulu The mariners arrived from
Honolulu on the Dollar liner President
Madison Two were injured
The five survivors were Captain
Hiram G. DavisonS OF Alameda, his
chief mate, Harold Davison, Second
Officer Charles Schilling, Chief Engi-
nccr II. A. Lynch and Steward William
Imme Voting Dawson was on
crutchcs. All had lost their, belong
ings.
"Wc are a. breakfast Oh the morn
ing Of December 10, nine days out of
Tanning Island when we heard an eX-
plosion," said Captain Dawson. "a
can of gasoline had capsized in the
engine room and the whole place be-
came q mass of flames.
"Two native oilers, Inaibo and Rorei
were inside and don't see how they
ever got out. Inaibo, barefoot, saw
age islander, was q hero. His own
leg badly burned, he struggled out on
deck dragging poor Rorei, who died
shortly afterWard
1--WE had no wireless and were $40
miles from land. We couldn't reach
the pumps. The copra cargo and fuel
tanks must have caught fire Strange
'ly enough, we couldn't stop the engines
and the ship churned ahead for three
hours. We put about, hoping to make
Honolulu. Then we sealed the engine
room, bored holes in the decks and all
hands got busy with buckets Of water.
We didn't stop for 10 hours and there
was three feet of water i'll the holds
when he left.
''I tell you we were bedraggled lot.
"a beam fell on my foot. Flames spread
to the cabin. went in and saved the
mail, but lost it later Then we had
to abandon ship. Two lifeboatS were
provisioned and we went over at 2:30
the next morning 1t was dark and
choppy The whole ship was begin
ming burn and we hoped someone
might see it. We were lucky. In the
darkness the steamer Niagara saw the
flames 35 miles away. We fired dis
tress rockets. She looked mighty good
as she came up to u.s."