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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
FREIHEIT HEAD
HELD FOR JURY;
TRIAL WELCOME
Sigman Suit Is Attack
On Left Wing

Meilach Epstein, editor of the Jew
ish Daily Freiheit, and Paul Novick,
editor of the Jewish Weekly Unity,
were remanded to the grand jury yes
terday for possible indictment on a
charge of criminal libel in the West
Side Court before Magistrate Louis
B. Brodsky. A similar charge against
William Gropper, cartoonist of the
"Freiheit," was dismissed.
The case is an outgrowtn OF the
prolonged campaign of attempted
suppression which Sigman's right
wing international administration has
carried on against the left wing in
the needle trades.
Similar charges were dismissed
against the following others at pre-
vious hearing: Rubin Salzman, busi-
ness manager of the "Freiheit", Ben
Gold, manager of the Furriers' Union
Joint Board, Louis Hyman, manager
of the Cloakmakers' Union, and Jos.
Borochovich, manager of Operators
Local No. 2.
Owns Amusement Park.
Testimony at five hearings showed
Sigman did not enjoy the publishing
in the Freiheit of series of articles
and cartoons which exposed his own
ership in Storm Lake, Iowa, of an
amusement park where non-union
labor was employed, while Sigman
was serving as president of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Workers
Union.
Sigman maintained that he brought
suit to clear the name of his wife,
who, he said, was accused by the
Freiheit of being part owner of a
"roadhouse" adjacent to the amuse-
ment Tsrk
First Libel Suit.
''This is thee first case Of criminal
bel in the Jewish labor movement, I"
epstein said last night. "But l am
glad of the opportunity to drag Sig
man from behind the skirts of his
wife and prove in open court that the
charges were brought against us be-
cause we attacked him for breaking
the needle trades unions. We will re-
tract nothing. We will prove every
thing we have said"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Laundry Drivers Of
Brooklyn Have Shut
Six Shops In Strike

Striking laundry drivers of Local
$40, affiliated with the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, have sue
ceeded in shutting down completely
six of the nine shops against which
their strike was declared last week,
it was announced yesterday. Two
other shops are making an unsucess-
full attempt to operate while the
union has been able to obtain recog-
milton of it's demands from the ninth
company.
1t was announced yesterday at the
h headquarters of the union, Borough
P.Nrk Labor Lyceum, 18th Ave. and
A2rtd ST., that complaint had been
lodeAed against police partiality in
fall ng to protect union pickets from
the laundry owners hired sluggers,
who are continuing their practice of
beating up union workers.
Two Station Houses Named.
Precincts % of Coney Island and
20 of Borough Park, Brooklyn, were
especially condemned in the charge.
In the Borough Park precinct the in
spector in charge, it was reported,
promised to do everything possible to
protect the pickets in the future.
New members are joining the
union, a fact which is considered un-
usually significant by the union Of
ficials for the reason that the laundry
drivers who are signing up in the face
of the strike are workers without any
previous experience in union activi-
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Nineteen Arrested
PiCkets Of Local 41
Dismissed In Trial

Four hemstitchers arrested earlier
in the day under the injunction
against Local Al, International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union, as
well as Is additional hickets taken in
to custody Thursday, were discharged
by Magistrate Henry Goodman in
Jefferson Market Court yesterday.
The four arrested yesterday were
picketing the Bell Pleating Co., Arc
Novelty Co. and the Manhattan Pleat-
ing Co., where strikes were declared
in answer to lockouts.
Hires Gangsters.
1t was said at the office of Local
Al last night that Morris Sigman,
right wing president of the l. L. G.
W. U. in his campaign to break this
local, has sent hired gangsters into
the shops to compel employers to
lock out workers.
A conference called by the "Com-
mittee of so" to consider the present
situation in the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union will open
at p. m. at Webster Hall, 119 E.
18th ST., today and hold a second ses-
sion tomorrow. Representatives of
shop committees and shop chairmen
from shops registered with the right
wing as well as those loyal to the
Cloak and Dressmakers' Joint Board
will be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10

mining corporations and whose
members are the real admins
traitors of their labor and pro-
duction policies.
Coal Barons Joyous.
The coal operators appear to be
satisfied-as they were never salts
fled before-with the efforts of the
courts in manipulating the present
antitrust law. Union labor is being
crushed out, while mergers, trusts and
consultations are held to be legal.
No resolutions were adopted by the
congress on this point but it APP
plauded the statements and advice of
Continued on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Fifteenth Congress Of .
USSR Communist Party
Hears Bukharin Report

Especial Gable to Daily Worker.)
MOSCOW, Dec. 9.-After list
ening to the conclusion of Orjoni-
kidze's report and electing an
editorial committee to draft a
resolution on the report of the
Central Control Commission, the
Fifteenth Congress of the All
Union Communist Party heard
Bukharin report for the Party's
delegation to the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Inter-
national.
The remainder of Bukharin's
report will be presented tomorrow.
No session will be held this eve-
ming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Olgin Talks at Workers
School Today at 2 .. m.

The fifth lecture by Moissaye j.
Olgin, on the Russian Revolution, will
be given today at 2 o'clock at the
Workers School, los E. 14th St.
This lecture will deal with the
question of the maintenance of power
by the workers and peasants OF the
Soviet Union after the November
revolution; the policy of military
Communism, the relationship towards
the peasantry and the various coun-
ter-revolutions will be discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Painters Locals Will
Discuss Official Graft

Unusual interest is manifested in
prediction, inter-local painters
union mass meeting called for this
afternoon at Park Palace, 10th st.
and 5th Ave. Sponsored by locals
1011, 905, s48 and 400 of the painters
union, the meeting is being called for
the purpose of discussing conditions
in the trade and is held to be especi-
ally significant in view of the current
exposers of graft within District
Council 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
GREEN FOR N. Y. FIREMEN.

All local unions in Greater New
York received communication yes
terday from William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
urging support for the eight hour day
movement Of the New York Uni
formed Firemen's Association, Local
"a, affiliated with the A. F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
TEXAS G. o. p. FOR HOOVER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. - Texas
will support Herbert Hoover at the
Republican National Convention in
Kansas City next June, K. B. Creager,
Texas member of the Republican Ma
tiIual Committee, said here today in
a formal statement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
w. z. Foster Talks at
School Forum Sunday

William z. Foster, secretary of the
Trade Union Educational League and
leader of the steel strike of 1919 and
the packing house strike, will talk
at the Workers School Forum 108 E.
14th St., tomorrow evening at on
Corruption in the American Labor
Movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
TRUSTIFIED VAUDEVILLE.

With total assets Of 100000, 900,
rs per cent of the vaudeville houses
in the United States and Canada
were grouped under single controll-
ing corporation yesterday with the
long pending merger between the
Keith-Albee and the Orpheum vaude-
vile circuits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Lawyer At MINING
CONGRESS- LAUDS COOLIDGE, HIS
COMMISSIONS, COURTS AND ACT
of Antitrust Laws Most Sym
pathetic in History, Says Spokesman
"More and Bigger Consultations; Business Is
Being Stabilized by Crushing Unions
Especial TO The DAILY woRKER0

WASHINGTON Dec. 9.The federal government never has
well organized assist business and huge
formations only permitted but invited and protected
with the corresponding understanding that labor organizations
full weight of the antitrust laws according
Mining Congress here This the view of Gilbert H.
Montague prominent corporation lawyer who addressed the
composed of the executive and technical sta of the great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
SHOPPERS CARRYING
MANY PARCELS HOME
Gift Buyers Aiding Department
Stores in Christmas Rush,
Shaw Reports.

Christmas shoppers in Washington
this year. impressed with the advan.
tage Of tightening the holiday rush of
delivery Of gift packages, are follow
ing out suggestions posted in many
downtown stores and are carrying
home small parcels. according to a
survey by Edward d. Shaw, secretary
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
The admonitiop to shoppers to
"carry your small packages with you"
MI. Shaw said, is made with a view
to decreasing the number Of mistakes
and disappointments which usually
attend the rush of the closing days Of
the annual holiday shopping season.
Small packages which are easily
lost are responsible for most Of the
Christmas day disappointments." Mr..
Shaw said. During the Christmas
season. and particularly during the
last two weeks, retail stores face the
most difficult operation period OF the
whole year. The overload on delivery
departments Is tremendous" ia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
]. M. RECTOR AT HEAD.

j. NJ. Rector, secretary treasurer of
the Chesapeake Beach Railway Co.,
has been elected president Of the
Washington Transportation Club,
composed of officials OF the local rail.
way. traction. steamboat and express
companies.
Other officers are: Vice president,
W. L. Clarke, of the Washington Rail.
way & Electric Co.; secretary.treas.
urer. r. p. Richardson, of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, and executive
committee, e. d. Ainslie, ]. H. Peak
and j. f. Wilmington, of the Balti.
more & Ohio; F. NJ. Mast, of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway; w. III.
Mccarthy, of the Capital Traction Co.:
c. L. Stewart, of the American Rail.
way Association: r. d. Voshall. of the
Washington Railway & Electric Co.
and f. n. Davis. of the Department
of Commerce.
Each Monday at o'clock from
January 16 to February 10 the club
will hold luncheon at the Occidental
Hotel. A banquet will be held at the
Raleigh Hotel February Is. The
annual meeting of the club was held
at the home of Odell Smith, 1881 SIX.
teenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
CHRISTMAS SEALS
PLACED IN BOXES
Association Starts Self-Service Plan
to Push Sales of
Labels.

With 100000 Christmas health
seals yet to be sold to the people of
Washington in order to meet the com.
ing years program of health activities
in the fight against tuberculosis, the
Washington tuberculosis Association
today entered the third week of it's an.
nual seal sale by distributing self
service boxes in all sections Of the
city. -
These boxes each carry a compile.
ment of holly decorated envelopes
filled with 10 Of the health seals, for
which the purchaser drops a dime in
the slot. They are now being placed
in stores, restaurants, hotel and bank
Hobbies, clubs, hospitals and other pub.
lie places, together with bright
poster illustrated with a Santa Claus
figure and bearing the words For
Sale Here"
In order to help in the sale of
Christmas seals practically all Of the
larger chain store organizations are
placing these self-service boxes in
their leading stores free of charge.
DIR. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent of public schools, will tell what
for the school children Of Washing
ton in a talk over the radio at station
WRC at $40 O'Clock tonight.
Tomorrow the tuberculosis Associa-
ton will open Christmas seals booths
in the larger department stores and
banks, tended by volunteer teams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
GROUP HERE WILL FORM
LOCAL HUGUENOT SOCIETY
Mrs. Longworth, Gen. Pershing,
Rev. Florian Vurpillot and
Others Are Interested.

Rev. Florian Vurpillot, 1859 O
street, is chairman pro tenn. of a COM
mittee which includes Gen. John J.
Pershing and Mrs. Nicholas Long.
worth to meet at his home this after.
noon at o'clock to consider plans
for the formation in Washington of
a Huguenot Society similar to ones
already established in several States.
About 60 persons are expected to
attend the organization meeting this
afternoon, including Gen. Pershing,
Maj. Gen. c. P. Summerall, Maj. Gen.
John A. Lejeune, Alexander B. Le-
care. George T. Marye, Louis p.
De Boer, William De C. Ravenel,
Henry Latane Lewis, Benjamin Nicou,
David st. p. Gaillard, Tench Marye.
Lynch Luquer, Thomas Campbell
Washington, Frederic A. Delano, Col.
4. HI. Abadie, DIR. r. L. De Saussure,
DR.. Middleton Fuller Cuthbert, DR..
Florian j. c. Vurpillot, Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Thomas f. Bay.
ard, Mrs. Longworth, Mrs. Woolsey
Aspinwall and Mrs. Ella Mitchell.
It is expected that the local society,
when formed, will affiliate with the
Federation Of Huguenot Societies Of
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
DR.. LAWSON SCORES
PENDING 'BLUELAW
Baptist Minister Holds Lank.
ford Bill Unconstitutional.
Criticizes Author.

Rev. DR.. H. NJ. Lawson, Baptist
minister. who is now editing a relig-
ious magazine here, told a meeting of
the Washington citizens committee
of the National Association Opposed
to Blue Laws held yesterday in the
Raleigh Hotel, that he would be arrest.
ed If the Landlord bill, designed to
prohibit certain activities on Sunday,
is passed, because he would be one of
the first to violate it. DIR. Lawson at.
tackled the measure as unconstitu-
tional and criticized the author, Rep
resentative Landlord, Democrat,
Georgia.
Repeal of the statute under which
Jean Monk. director Of the National
Fellowship Club, is accused on the
charge OF continuing a dance into Sun.
day morning, was advocated by the
meeting. Mr.. Monk told of circum.
stances leading to his arrest December
3. charged with violating an old Sun
day observance law. The group ap-
+. Barrett of the legal staff to plead
Mr.. Monks case, which is scheduled
to come to trial tomorrow.
A resolution denouncing the Lark
ford bill was adopted, after it's intro
duction by Linn A. E. Gale, secretary
treasurer Of the association. Mr.. Gale
declared that although the bill has
been slightly changed the principle
remains, and the principle of re.
ligious liberty is still at stake. A let.
ter from Clarence Darrow, noted Chi
cago lawyer, was read at the meeting,
and he supported the move to combat
the Landlord bill.
The meeting, which is the first Of q
series to be held this Winter through.
out the city. was presided over by
Prof. Henry FURY Of Eastern High
School. DR.. Joseph A. Themper, ma
tional president, gave an address, out
ZatiOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
FARM BOD|ESSPL|T |
ON RELIEF PLANS
President Hears There Is
Little Chance for Agree
ment of Factions.

There Is little likelihood of the
agreement as to a definite form Of
farm relief while this legislation is
before Congress this Winter. accord
ing to advices received today by Presi-
dent Coolidge.
The reports he is receiving are
sufficient to cause him to look for
another long-drawn-out fight when
this legislation comes up for discus
sion in the Senate and House. He has
reason to expect the situation to be
virtually the same as it was during
the last Congress.
The President was told today by
Chester III. Gray. Washington repre-.
sentative Of the American Farm Blu
reau Federation, that recent develop.
ments indicate conclusively that the
farm organizations have failed in
their efforts to join forces with the
view to throwing their united sup.
port behind one farm relief plan, and
that their individual strength will be
divided when the fight comes.
In the opinion of Mr.. Gray the
battle to be fought will be waged by
the equalization fee supporters against
the field. He reported to the Presi-
dent that the prospects of any COM
promise between the supporters of the
various plans of relief are not at all
bright. He reminded the President
that representatives of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, which or.
ganization is favorable to the equal.
ization fee idea: the National Grange.
which favors the tariff debenture plan
of relief, and the National Farmers
Union, which has indicated a willing
ness to go along with the other
organizations on any practical plan Of
relief. who endeavored to bring about
the confirmation Of the forces of
these organizations, have failed and
that there is no chance now of their
agreeing to any compromise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
ELIAS SUBPOENA
! SENATE PROBLEM
Rrestion of Forcing Mexican
! siTestimony May Go to
4 State Department.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
so Tunneling for facts in its investiga-
tson or charges that President Gales
: OF Mexico sought to pay $4,000 TO
-FOUR American Senators, the special
senate committee has unearthed a
problem that may require diplomatic
settlement.
q. 1t lies in the committees subpoena
ISSUED for Arturo n. Elias, Mexican
q consul general in New York, half-
brother of the Mexican President and
alleged to be the central figure in the
q banding of the million-dollar fund.
Hearst Is Subpoenaed.
>, Similar subpoenas demanding their
: Testimony keas IS committee nave
been issued for William Randolph
Hearst, publisher of the newspapers
printing the charges against Gales,
and Victor Watson, managing editor
81 the New York Daily Mirror. wat
Son was served in New York yester-
nay, but there was no confirmation OF
service upon the other two.
The committees right to summon
F'lias is questioned by the Mexican
Ambassador here. Manuel c. Teller,
who maintains that under interna-
tional law, consular officers are inn
hume from subpoenas. He doubts
that Elias would come to Washington
40 testify, while the Senate commit
Zee, led by Chairman Reed, Republi-
can. Pennsylvania, insists upon its
right to summon Elias and demand
Mis- testimony. All the books and
papers OF his Office, through which
eearly all of the correspondence from
President Gales concerning the mil
tion-dollar fund is said to have passed,
likewise have been sought.
i Course of Action Uncertain.
Whether the committees plan of
potion definitely will lead the Elias
problem to the State Department for
discussion with the Mexican govern
fnent has not been revealed by conn.,
tnittee members. The State Depart
fnent has kept clear of the embryo
controversy thus far, although a dis
position was noticeable to agree with
The Mexican Ambassadors viewpoint.
The committees public hearings will
begin Thursday and until the subject
is clearly in the open, it is keeping
tts plans under cover.
4 ETJAS REFUSES tn Talk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
ELIAS REFUSES TO TALK.
Nothing to- Say Of Subpoena OF
Charges, Mexican Declares.

NEW YORK, December IL R.-
Arturo NJ. Elias, Mexican consul gen.
eral, declined to comment today on re-
ports from Washington that he had
been subpoenaed in the Senate inves-
tigation of charges that President
Gales of Mexico sought to pay ST.
100000 to four American Senators.
Asked whether the subpoena had
been served or whether he would heed
It, he said he had nothing whatever
to say. He likewise declined to dis
cuss the charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
DEATH DUE TO ACCIDENT.
Coroner's Jury Reports in Case Of
John Furtney.

A verdict Of accidental death was
found by a coroner's jury at an
inquest conducted at the morgue to.
day in the case Of John Furtney. SO
years old, 1902 Third street northeast,
who died in Sibley Hospital Saturday
morning as a result of injuries re.
ceived the night of December z, when
struck by an automobile.
Furtney was crossing K street be-
tween North Capitol and First streets
when he was knocked down
by the automobile Of Baxter Gall
breath, Is years old, Of 20 X street
Gallbreath was the only
witness to the accident. The injured
man was given first aid at the hos.
pital the night Of the accident, and
his condition appeared to improve so
much that he was taken home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
FAIRCHILD FIRMS MERGE.

NEW YORK, December IL R.-
Consolidation of seven aircraft and
accessory companies OF the Fairchild
Interests under one holding company.
the Fairchild Aviation Corporation OF
Delaware. with a paid-in capital of
81 SIS. $50. was announced yesterday.
Firms included in the group are:
The Fairchild Aerial Camera Co., the
Fairchild Aerial Surveys. Inc; the
Fairchild Flying Corporation, Fair
child Aviation, Ltd, of Canada; the
Fairchild Caminez Engine Corpora
sion, the Fairchild Airplane ManuIac-
turing Corporation and the Compania
Mexicana de Aviacon of MEXICO:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
Foreign Service Appointee.

Arthur Bliss Lane Of New York
City. until recently first secretary at
the embassy in Mexico City, has been
named as chief of the Mexican divi.
sion Of the State Department. He sue
ceeds Franklin Mott Gunther of Am
herst, Va, who has resigned the post
because Of ill-health, but who remains
a foreign service officer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-12
Suffers Breakdown

COLUMBUS, Ohio, December IL O0.
Robert Mantell. 73, Shakespearean
acter, who suffered a general break
down here Friday while playing an
engagement at Columbus Theater, is
to be removed to his home in Atlantic
Highlands, n. j., it was announced
last night. All engagements for the re-
mainder Of the season have been can
celed and the entire company will re.
turn to New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
Our Letter Box
WITH THE FARMERS

Dear Comrades You have asked opinions of other
readers for our rights. So I writing of what
think. think that all Of the children Of the work
ing class should get together and later when we are
older will show the capitalists that the working
class isn't sleeping though we have not as
much money I will tell you what the capitalists
are doing in Michigan to the farmers. The cows are
being tested for tuberculosis and no farmer can
sell any until she is tested If he does sell one
any number he is fined 81 900 l wonder where
a poor farmer get all that money One man
whom | know had SIS cows. After they were tested
he had none left. Just because a farmer is lust
getting along nicely they take away all he has The
bad thing about it is that the government takes these
cows sells them to the butchers and the people buy
them to eat. Is that the way we cure our people
from disease? 1t seems to be a good remedy so
the rich fools think, They may give us $40 or $50
but that is not what bought the cows for One
farmer took out his shotgun and told the testers
that If they did not get out, he would blow them
out They left but returned with sheriff the next
day. When the testers come to our place they will
get just what they have coming Well | think I
better change the subject for | would like to ask
few questions. Can we not have friendship club
between the working class? would like to get ac-
quainted with some boys and girls in New York and
New Jersey for have never been at either place
L will close as working mans girl.
ELIZABETH YOSHONIS.