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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Progressive Painters
Making Good Showing
ir District Elections

Results in the elections in the
painters District Council 9 up to a
late hour last night indicate that the
progressives had made an encourag-
ing showing under most difficult
election conditions.
Out of 9,067 votes cast, 4,604 had
been counted. For the office of day
secretary of the union, Peter Roth
man, progressive candidate, appeared
to be within striking distance of the
machine candidate. Of the four busi-
ness agents who are running, the
progressives appeared to have won
two offices. The final count is ex-
pected this evening.
The progressive struggle in the
painting unions has been followed
with deep interest by local trade
unionists. A number of officials y
the Painters District Council have
been convicted of misappropriation of
union funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
19 HEMSTITCHERS
WEDNESDAY ON
CONTEMPT CHARGE
Same AS Case Facing
Joint Board

Nineteen leaders of the fuckers ,
Pleaters', and Hemstitchers' Union,
Local Al, International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, have been or
dered to appear in the supreme court
Wednesday to face charges of con-
tempt ofecourt for alleged violations
of an anti-picketing injunction, OBJ
tanned by the Employers Association.
The contempt proceedings grew out
of the alleged violation of an injunc-
ton obtained by the employers, based
o naffidavits by International Vice
President Harry Greenberg. The in
junction prevents the union from call
ing strikes or picketing against shops
where workers have been locked out
for refusing to register with the dual
union established by Morris Sigman,
international president.
Similar Case.
This case is of the same nature as
the one scheduled for today before
Supreme Court Judge Erlanger. In
this case 18 left wing leaders of the
Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress
makers Union, face damages of $10,-
900 recommended by Murray Hubert,
referee.
Judge c. T. Grain, sitting in the su-
preme court, will decide whether the
injunction granted against the Hem
stitchers' Union shall become per-
manent. Samuel Markewitch, attorney
for Sigman, will argue for the per-
manence of the bosses injunction and
Louis B. Boudin, counsel for the union,
will attempt to show sufficient rea-
sons for the dismissal of the injunc-
ton, which has already caused the ar
rest of about 45 workers.
Name of Workers.
The nineteen named in the con-
tempt case to appear Wednesday IN
the supreme court are NJ E. Taft,
julius Stone, Louis Rubin, Mollie
Millstein, Celia 4angert, Goldie
Lockert, Marie Tei,eman, Sam Ros-
enzweig, Nat Standard, Anna Rosen-
blatt, Louis Weintraub, Harry Vein
berger, Francis Grass, Gussie Post,
Shirley Baron, Anna Stein, Jacob
Ehrlich, Victor Miletsky, and Bernard
Film.
1t is stated in some quarters that
these proceedings are result of the
desperation of the right wing, which
faces growing mass opposition
movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
1 Girls SMASH
armed Line OF
STATE MILITIA
State Troops Break Into
Homes; No Warrants

DENVER, Colo, Dec. 18.-Defying
a Gordon of Militia thrown around a
strikers mass meeting at Longmont,
four Denver High School girls got on
the platform and pledged support to
the striking miners. After giving ap-
propriate yells and songs which they
had composed for the occasion, each
girl spoke, saying that they were
completely with the strikers, heart
and soul.
Morale of Strikers Good.
The militia during the meeting
made every effort to break the
strikers morale, but the audience was
very enthusiastic and the hall was
packed. Frank L. Palmer spoke, at
tacking Annear, chairman of the in
dustrial commission and on the
Democratic State Committee, Capt.
Charles White of the Militia, who is
also secretary of the Democratic State
Committee and Lieutenant William
White, calling them "strike-breakers
and stool-pigeons.'
He was then arrested by Lieutenant
White and taken to the guard house
at the Columbine mine.
James Allander, secretary of the
Lafayette union, was also arrested
during the meeting, but released Fri
day. Eight other men were arrested
before and after the meeting, three
were Immediately released.
Polish Hall II ided
The Polish lodge tall at LAFAYETTE
was raided Thursday night after
midnight by militia. The secretary
OF the lodge, his wife and their four
teen children were forced to get out
of bed and the whole place was
searched. The militia confiscated i'm
portant documents which were to be
used as evidence at the industrial
commission hearing next week. The
papers belonged to the Polish miners
They also took the lodge records and
Sits in cash.
Wholesale Arrests.
The militia are raiding homes and
gathering places of the strikers and
have arrested miners by the whole
sale for the purpose of holding men
wanted as witnesses against them
and their brutalities and are destroy
ing evidence they find which could be
Continued on Page Tsoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
BARROW TO CALL
GRECO WITNESSES
AT TRIAL TODAY
Defense May Summon
IS to Testify in Case

Witnesses for the defense will be
called this morning when the trial of
Calogero Greco and Donate Carrillo
is continued before Judge Cohn and
a jury in Bronx county court. The
two workers are being tried on
framed-up charges of murder in con-
nection with the Staying of two fas-
cists on Memorial Day.
1t is understood that total of rs
witnesses have been subpoenaed by
defense counsel, headed by Clarence
Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays
but it is likely that only a portion OF
this number will be called to the wit
ness stand to testify.
Wife To Testify.
Mrs. Lima Carrillo, wife of one OF
the defendants, is expected to be one
of the witnesses called by the defense
before Judge Cohn charges the jury.
A large number of other witnesses
friends and fellow-workers of the two
Italian tailors, will also testify in
their behalf, it has been indicated. Sc
contradictory was the evidence given
by the professional fascist witnesses
that the defense moved for dismissal
of the indictments. Judge Cohn per-
functorily denied the motions, how
ever.
Four and half days were con-
sumed by the state, which opened up
last Monday morning.
The first witness placed on the
stand by the defense before the trial
was adjourned to this morning was
Giacoma Caldora, former member
of the Fascist League of North Amer.
lea. He testified that he was offered
bribe of $4,000 by the secretary of
the fascist organization if he would
agree to identify" Greco and Carrillo
as the slayers of Carisi and Amor
roso. Caldora swore that he was Of
fered $1,000 on the spot and the bal
ance after he had given his testimony
Bronx Workers Protest.
Several hundred workers gathered
at 1347 Boston Rd., Bronx, yesterday
afternoon to protest against the
threatened frame-up of Greco and
Carrillo. Max Shachtman, editor Of
the Labor Defense, Louis Sisselman
and R. Yuquelson, of the staff of the
F'reiheit; Louis A. Baum and John
Pippin were among the speakers who
denounced the attempt of the Fascist
League of North America to "get''
the two workers.
May Rosenblatt Of the Bronx In
ternational Labor Defense was chair
man.
Another protest meeting will be
held Friday evening 715 E. 138th St
Speakers will include Shachtman
Baum and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Unionist Is To Co
on Trial Today in
Taxi SCab'S Death

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 18.-Harold
Meltzer, Is, union taxi driver, goes
on trial tomorrow morning before
Judge Finkead charged with murder
ing George Evans, strikebreaker,
during the taxi drivers strike here
last April.
The strikebreaker who was killed
was George Evans, of West New
York. He was shot April % while
operating the car of striking driver.
John Dodge, hired guard was wound
ed at the same time. Dodge will ap-
pear as the principal witness against
the unionist, it is said.
Former Assistant Prosecutor John
F. Drewen and George E. Cutley will
defend Meltzer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
CONSUL ATE OF
RUSSIA GUARDED:
WOMEN SEARCHED
Whole Shanghai Staff
Reported Arrested

SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.-Police sur
round the Soviet Unions consulate
at Shanghai and do not permit any
one to enter the building. Wives of
members of the consulate staff who
return to the building are stopped,
taken to the nearest police station
and searched. The wife of the Soviet
Unions consul general here has been
subjected to this procedure.
According to reports received here
the whole staff of the Soviet consul
ate in Canton, with the consul gen.
eral, have been arrested by the
Chinese authorities and placed under
guard. Thus far no exact informa-
tion has been received here regard
ing the fate of these consulate Of
ficials.
All Members Searched.
In Shanghai all members Of the
consulate have been subjected to
searches, while persons not living in
the consulate have been prevented
from entering the building. Members
of the Soviet trade mission are pre-
vented from leaving or entering the
building.
When the Soviet vice consul at
Shanghai called on Yada, Japanese
consul general to enquire at whose
order these unprecedented outrages
were being committed, Yada ex-
pressed extreme CONSERVATION at the
arrest and search of the wife of the
Soviet consul general and at the
peculiar manner in which munich
pality of the international settlement
was fulfilling" the instructions re-
ceived from the dean of the consular
CONTINUED on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Filler LINDBE:RCH
TO SEE BOMBING
OF NICARACUANS
Advertises Coolidge's
Plan for Air Navies

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 18.-Colonel
Charles Lindbergh has declared that
he would fly to Nicaragua, thus con-
tinuing by air the peaceful mission
of the marines who "subdued" the
Nicaraguans by killing more than
500 Of them. Continual bombing
flights will be made against Nicara-
guans, and Lindbergh may see some
of them.
The Colonel's successful flight, fall
ling in line with Coolidge's recon-
mendation that the air, as we'll as
the sea fleet be greatly increased to
conform with the newest develop
ments in warfare method, is respon-
sible for bill to carry out the pres
ident's suggestion.
A cabinet committee, composed of
representatives of the war, navy,
commerce, state and post office de-
partments approved the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
''ORCANIzE AND
STRIKE" URGES
WORKERS PARTY
Appeal Is Issued to NY
Traction Workers

Calling upon the traction workers
of the subway, elevated and surface
lines of Greater New York to Cor
ganize and Strike!", The Workers
(Communist) Party of America
through District 2, has issued cir
cular urging the use of the mass
power against anti-labor injunctions.
Text of Statement.
The statement follows:
Fellow Workers, you must organ
ize and strike to establish a union and
beat the traction barons Of New York.
These traction barons working as a
group have applied for an injunction
against the whole labor movement to
defeat your attempts to free your
selves from the tyranny of the COM
pany unions because they think that
you are weak and will not fight
''This traction trust counts upon the
aid of the courts, the police, Mayor
Walker and Governor Smith to break
your spirit and keep you tied to their
yellow-dog individual contract sys-
tenn. They want you to remain unor-
ganized, separate individuals without
power while they are organized from
Wall Street to City Hall, from the
State House in Albany as far as the
White House in Washington. They
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
MINERS GOODS
HELD FOR RENT;
WOMEN REVOLT

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 18.
AT Renton where the Union
Galleries properties are, the
miners wives as a last resort,
have telegraphed Governor r
Fisher to please intervene to
save their few sticks of furni-
ture from being sold at con-
stables sale.
The coal companies are speeding
evictions, and threatening to use even
more violent methods than they have
used before, if that were possible, to
get the houses from the strikers.
They have made it impossible for
the miners to move by taking liens on
their household articles and furniture
in lieu of the rent the miners could
not pay.
Brutal Scenes.
Renton is the scene of brutal state
constabulary attacks upon strikers,
the prelude to the one by body OF
troopers who attacked miners during
the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation.
When the Renton mines reopened
with scab labor, armed cossacks, some
carrying tear bombs, rode down the
mass demonstration of strikers, wom-
en- and children, lined up to meet the
first shipment of strikebreakers.
Beat Up Women, Children in Homes
h They broke into locked homes OF
xhe strikers where the women and
oSildren had taken refuge, and beat
theln numerically.
Appeals to Fisher Useless.
The appeal that the miners wives
sent to Fis, YER will be useless as other
appeals have been made and abso-
lutely ignored by him.
He is a former attorney for the
Central Pennsylvania Railroad and
Mining interests, known as corrupt
and anti-labor republican politician
He is directly linked with Central
Pennsylvania Railroad to smash the
unions. He is also a director for the
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpora
ton owned by the New York Central
Railroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Daily Worker Freiheit Ball Is Mighty Left
Wing Demonstration for Militant Labor Press

Eighteen thousand New York work.
ers-men, women, boys and girls
filled one of the largest auditoriums
in the world, Madison Square Garden,
Saturday night. Every available inch
in the giant hall was filled with hap
py, enthusiastic, eager dancers. 1t was
the first annual Daily Worker-Frei-
heit color-light costume ball.
AS mighty left wing demonstra-
tion by New York labor, it formed
the question whether militant work.
ers' press is to be supported. The
answer was an exultant "yes."
Promises All Kept.
From p. M, when the doors of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Workers Aid Campaign
for Miners Relief On

The International Workers Aid 799
Broadway, has started nation wide
campaign for the striking Pennsyl~
vania, Ohio and Colorado miners re-
lief it was announced yesterday. Par
ticular attention will be given the
children and women in the stricken
mining regions. Reports have reach
ed the headquarters of the workers
relief organization that wholesale
evictions and famine are threatening
ne lives of hundreds of strikers and
h ir families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Theodore Dresser Pleased with Soviet Union,
Head of Workers Relief Committee Reports

at was not love at first sight but
admiration which seemed to fill Theo-
dore Dresser when he arrived in Mos
cow" said F. G. Biedenkapp, national
secretary of the Workers Internation-
al Relief, who just returned from
there and at whose invitation Mr..
Dresser paid his visit to the Soviet
Union. When asked what the cities
of Moscow and Leningrad looked like
he said "like bee hive" Everybody
busy-working-playing and smiling.
Biedenkapp also attended the
Fourth Annual World Relief Confer
ence which was held in Berlin Nov.
1s to 90 as the representative of the
| American action of the Workers In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19

the Garden were first opened until
past midnight, hundreds of workers
streamed into the vast building.
True to all promises, the affair was
medley of brilliant color and joyous
music. The spirit Of revolutionary
camaraderie was revealed in spohta-
neous song. Groups, joined in an old
world "kasatsky" and peasant folk
dances.
The Worker" Girls.
In the grand march, which began
at midnight, the DAILY Worker
Girls" were brilliantly conspicuous.
Symbolic Of the proletarian power
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
Picked Herring Story
Riles School Faculty

The heavy hand of the faculty CEN
sors of the University of Wisconsin,
fell once more. upon the student staff
Of the literary magazine of that
school. The page on which the story,
Sherwood Anderson Buys Some
Picked Herring" is ordered torn out
of all copies.
The article, according to the Daily
Cardinal, the student paper twas
meant to be a satire upon the works
of Mr.. Anderson. The story is an
irrespective study of the thoughts
Of the author while buying and eating
some fish of common color and un-
mistakable deadness."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
ternational Relief.

ternational Relief.
Biedenkapp stated that the most
urgent work for his organization at
present was to bring immediate re-
lief to the Pennsylvania and Colorado
striking miners and their families. A
nationwide campaign is already in
progress. The National office of the
Workers international Relief has
been moved from Chicago to New
York. The new and larger headquar-
ters will be located at No. l Union
Square, Room GOA, beginning January
1, 1928. Until then all donations
should be forwarded to International
Workers Aid, 799 Broadway, Room
237.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
NANKING NOTES
AID IMPERIALISM
SAYS CHICHERIN
Reactionary Governor
Never Recognized

SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.-In re-
ply to the Nanking governments
note severing diplomatic rela-
tions with the Soviet Union,
George V. Chicherin, Commissar
of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet
Union, has despatched a note to
the Marking regime declaring
that the Union Of Socialist
Soviet Republics has never rec
ognized the Marking govern
ment and charging that the
Marking government acting un-
der pressure of imperialists,
have thought it advisable to
have in the terrific under their
control only con of those
powers that maintain unequal
treaties with China"
Denying that Soviet officials had
carried on any propaganda in China,
Chicherin's note, which has been
handed to Kuo Tai-chi, Markings vice
minister of foreign affairs yesterday,
declared that U. S. S. R. consulates
existed on Chinese territory by virtue
of the treaty of 1924 by which the
U. S. S. R. had accorded China full
equality.
"The Soviet government is con-
vinced that the attitude of the Chinese
authorities at Shanghai will do harm,
first of all, to the Chinese people and
the Nationalist interests of China,
and that the people who so lightly
start hostile policy against the
Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics
will be the first to feel the harm
thereof" )" states the note of the Soviet
Union Wa ~ -----aA-.-
| The U. S. S. R. makes three main
points, the first being that:
"The Soviet government never
recognized the so-called Chinese Ma
tionalist government of Nanking, in
whose name the note of Dec. Is was
handed to the Consul General of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
at Shanghai.
"The Nationalist government must
be acquainted with the fact that all
consulates Of the Union of Soviet So
cialist Republics exist on Chinese ter
ritory in consequence of the treaty
concluded between China and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and signed at Peking in 1924.
'In consideration of these facts, the
statement concerning cancellation of
recognition of the consuls can only
mean that the generals who have
seized power at Marking, acting un-
der pressure of imperialists, have
thought it advisable to have in the
territory under their domination only
consuls of such powers as maintain
unequal treaties with China"
Then follows emphatic proof that
the Soviet Union consulates have alb
f! stained entirely from propaganda in
tended to affect the course of events
in Chinese politics, and the third is
the warning that this high handed
procedure of the Marking government
is merely making it the tool of i'm
perialist powers, and that all China
will regret the attitude of Marking,
in thus submerging its Independence
beneath the rule of foreign militarism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
RELIGIOUS HYSTERIA IN
COMMONS.

LONDON, Dec. 18.-"Protestant-
ism is saved!" was the cry in the
house of commons, as the new pray
erbook which had been strongly sup
ported in the house of lords was de-
feated. Women wept, bishops moved
about in great CONSERVATION in the
gallery, and both houses were in chaos
as international problems were swept
aside and result announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
APARTMENT COOKING OK.

Cooking will be permitted in apart
ment hotels, according to a temporary
injunction restraining city officials
from revoking certificates to apart
ment hotels on the ground of cooking
by tenants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-19
THE NEGLIGENT STATE.

Archie C. Mann, who was perman.
emily disabled when he crossed the
"death trap" bridge constructed by
the State of New York, has beer
awarded $4,000 damages. 1t was
found that the "state was guilty OF
the grossest negligence"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
FUR MARKET CLOSES.
Winchester Bartering Ends-Aver
age Price Hard to Strike.

WINCHESTER, Va, February 81.
Operations wer> suspended Saturday
night by the local fur market until the
list of next December. The trapping
season closed February IS, but those
with pelts to sell were given until yes.
terday to clean up their stocks. Au-
thorities said they had found no evi.
dence OF any trapping being done after
the final date allowed under the law.
The last day of the market saw a
large crowd attending the curb trans
actions in the vicinity of the county
hitching yard. headquarters of the
trappers and buyers. Agents of New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
firms were on the ground negotiating
with the trappers, and virtually all
stocks were cleaned out. Most of the
pelts We're those of red and gray fox,
minks, skunks. bobcats, wildcats and
weasles. Prices varied to such an ex.
tent on all skins that Il was difficult,
If not impossible. TO strike IN aver.
age. Most OF the trading is done In
little groups scattered here and there
over TIE old hitching yard, laid out
many years ago, when horses still
were useo to haul farmers to town
on Saturdays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
FOOD EXPORTS DROP.

BALTIMORE. February "a (Spe-
ciaD. exports last week
show decided drop from the pre-
vious week, according to the Maritime
Exchange. Against 1,04S,565 bushels
of grain announced as being exported
the previous week We're 1874 for the
week Just ended. They were repre-
scented by 99,543 bushls of wheat. So
545 of barley. 44,753 of rye and 500
of corn. Only 912 barrels of -four
We're exported. 100 barrels of lard and
1,se4,22S pounds of copper, all of
which showed a decline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21

Foreign Weekly Index.
Crump's Uondon Financial Times)
index number for England:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
TOBACCO QUOTATIONS.

2 BALTIMORE, February II (Spe-
ciaD.-Receipts Of Maryland leaf to-
bacco last week totaled lat hogsheads,
while sales amounted to 476 hogs
heads. but were mostly of lower and
medium grades. This leaves a stock
in State tobacco warehouses of 2.1S7
hogsheads and 726 hogsheads of
ground leaves.
Quotations today: Interior and
frosted, firm leaf, 300aS 90: sound com
mon and greenish, 9.00a14.00; good
common. 15.00a24.00 medium, 25.0oa
34.00; good to fine red, "a. 00a51. 90;
fancy, $500; seconds, common to
medium, 6.00a20.00; seconds, good to
fine. 2l.00a40.00; upper country air
cured. 7.00a35.00; ground leaves nomi-
nal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-21
EXPAND SILK PRODUCTION,

TOXIC. February 81 0P.-Increas.
ing dema nd for artificial silk in japan
is expected 10 bring about a decided
expansion of the industry in the EN-.
pire this year. The country's present
output of the product is around
5000, 900 pounds annually. but yearly
consumption is estimated at II .45O, 900
pounds. This necesSitates heavy i'm.
portation of foreign artificial silk.
Three new large mills are to he CON
structed soon and it is hoped that the
1927 production will lac somewhere
near IL, 900. 900 hounds.