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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Weinstone Challenges
Thomas to Debate on
Labor Election Issue

William W. Weinstone, Workers
(Communist) Party candidate for as
sembly in the 9Th assembly district,
in letter yesterday challenged Nor
man Thomas, socialist party nominee
for alderman in the same district, to
debate with him on the proposition
chat the socialist party by its poll
cies and tactics is obstructing the de-
velopment of labor party in the
United States"
"The present election campaign
affords possibility of clarifying the
issues affecting the working class, P"
the letter said. "The outstanding is
sue in this election campaign, partic-
ularly in preparation for the cam
paign of 1928, is the issue of inde-
pendent working class political ac-
ton.
"Our party has declared that the
socialist party by it's policies and
tactics in the trade union field and
on the political field is obstructing
the development of labor party in
the United States. The socialist
party has, on the contrary, asserted
chat the tactics of the Workers
Party hinders the development and
formation of the unity of labor on
the political field"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Cabinet
Officials in Fight
Over the Patronage

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-The de-
partments are breaking up in mutiny.
Quarrels which have been going on
within the war, navy, state and COM
merce departments, either thru juris-
dictional jealousy of the heads, or be-
cause of under secretaries and other
employees resentment of the promin-
ence of their rather idle superiors is
forcing its way into the open.
When To Expose EN-"
When conditions get too bad for an
assistant secretary of something or
other, the public knows of it thru a
sudden exposure" of his superior's
shortcomings, which is all the more
effective if the underling, expecting
to be fired so words his criticism that
it appeals to manufacturing interests
who may hire him.
Thus Assistant Secretary MacNider
is now expected to "resign" following
his declaration to the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers that the
army is without ammunition, and
should buy lot at once. The manu-
facturers approve of large purchases
of ammunition.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur is
engaged also with Assistant Secre-
tary Robinson, who made few well
chosen remarks about "bureaucrats
running the navy" in his "Navy Day"
speech at Philadelphia yesterday.
Rows Enlarge Militarism.
And all of this concentrates atten-
tion on the building of a larger army
and navy.
It is remembered here that just be-
fore the U. S. A. embarked upon it's
campaign for the largest air fleet,
Colonel Williams, then head of the
jr service, went on the warpath in
much the same way as the present
mutineers. 1t removed him from a
nominal office, and placed him in a
more strategic position as head of an
air league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Miners Advertise
To Keep Men From
Working in Mines

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, (FP) Oct. 28.-
Meeting advertising with advertising
the United Mine Workers of District
No. 2 in the central Pennsylvania
cield have carried their message into
the want columns of the newspapers
in Johnstown. Ads like this appear:
NOTICE TO MINERS!
Men wanted to stay away from
Amsbury, Pa, as we are on strike for
The Jacksonville scale.
United Mine Workers.
Similar ads of other struck jobs
run through the want columns and
between them appear the appeals for
scabs inserted by the Pennsylvania
Coal & Coke Corp, a New York Cen
tral subsidiary, and various employ
ment offices. The scab ads promise
the 1917 scare for tonnage workers
and $500 a day to day men, rate a
dollar and oAlf a day under the
Jacksonville scNe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Stolen Car Purchased
By R. 0. Zober, Passaic
Copper Strikebreaker

PASSAIC, n. j., Oct. 2S.-Chief
of Police Richard o. Zober, who
was official strikebreaker for the
mill owners in the Passaic textile
strike, has been forced to surren-
der his automobile to Motor
Vehicle Commissioner Dill on the
grounds that it is a stolen car
Zober said he bought it for $1,000
"in good faith" Investigation
under the authority of Police Com
missioner Turner showed the bill
Of sale given to Zober was forged,
Turner's office reported. Investi-
cation showed also that Zober did
not attempt to register his car,
as required by law, and that he
had bought two cars previously
from the same source. A warrant
has been issued for a Bagota
IN. j. citizen who is said to have
sold the automobile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Knapp Graft Hearing
Ends Without Accused
Taking Witness Chair

ALBANY, Oct. 28.-Investigation
of graft in the 1925 state census end
ed today without Mrs. Florence E. S.
Knapp, former secretary of state,
taking the witness stand. Testimony
showed the republican woman poll
tician placed non-working members
of the republican and democratic par
ties and her own relatives on her
$1,200,000 payroll.
Chief among the charges made
against her were:
THAT she signed the names of
other persons to census salary checks
and expense vouchers without their
consent or knowledge.
2.-That she burned official census
records after having them shipped to
her Syracuse home.
3.-That she placed half dozen of
her relatives on the census payroll
and paid them $4,000 for work they
never performed.
4.-That she paid her own bills
with census checks made payable to
her relatives.
5.-That she placed the name of a
Syracuse lawyer on the census pay
roll without his knowledge or consent
and paid him $218 with census checks
for legal services he had previously
rendered her.
6.--That she travelled thousands of
miles about the state and into other
states on pleasure trips, and then
charged the expense of the trips to
the census funds.
Testimony showed how individuals
and committees of both the major
capitalist parties brought pressure to
bear upon Mrs. Knapp to place
friends and political creditors" on
the graft list.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
FURRIER
MASS MEETING
NEXT TUESDAY
Joint Board Tells Of
Scab Union Actions

Calling upon all fur workers, in
cluding those registered with the
right wing, to attend huge mass
meeting after work Tuesday at
Cooper Union, the Joint Board of
the Furriers' Union, last night issued
a statement showing the contrast in
the methods with which the right
wing and left wing solve job problems
of rank and file fur workers.
Tuesdays meeting, according to the
Joint Board, will discuss measures for
ending the right wing attack on the
militant section of the furriers.
"An apparently small incident will
illustrate the treachery of the right
wing scab union," the statement says.
"a cutter, Joe Kantor, who has
worked II years in the fur trade, was
forced to register in the scab union.
He worked for the firm of Fischbein,
251 West 30th ST., eight weeks. In
the middle of the week during the
week of Labor Day he was discharged.
Brother Kantor went to the scab
union to make a complaint and the
officers of the scab union laughed at
him.
Paid No Attention.
Brother Kantor was very indig-
nant and raised a loud protest. Fin
ally Winnick, vice president of the
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
DUES COLLECTION
PLAN OF RIGHTS
Barred BY HYMAN
Warns Needle Workers
Against Sigman

Branding the present so-called or
ganization campaign of the right
wing of the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers union a "fake," Louis
Hyman, manager of the Cloak and
Dressmakers Joint Board, issued an
appeal to the Joint Board member
ship yesterday not to be fooled by
right wing gestures.
"The same methods which were
employed to force you to register in
their last so-called organization drive
will now be used to force dues from
you," the statement says.
The statement also points out how
the right wingers are suggesting
that the cloakmakers accept piece
work, though piece work has not i'm
proved the conditions of the dress
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Trotsky Opposition
DeCisive|y Beaten
In Moscow Voting
Especial to The DAILY woRKER)

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
MOSCOW, Oct. 28.-The Trotsky
Opposition suffered an overwhelming
defeat at numerous meetings Of ac-
tive members of the Communist
Party held thruout the Moscow dis
trict yesterday, at which the Opposi-
ton received only twenty-eight votes
out of total of more than twelve
thousand.
Thousands Of Party officials at
tended the meetings, at which the
theses of the Central Committee of
the Party on the questions of the
agenda for the Fifteenth Party Con-
gress as we'll as the expulsion Of
Trotsky and Zinoview from the Gen.
trail Committee were almost unani-
mously approved. Kameneff, Rakov-
Nsky, Smilga and other Opposition
Apeakers met with the same indignant
reception that was accorded them at
the\ All-Moscow meeting, at which
Karneneff and Rakovsky were COM
nailed to leave the platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
DEATH TOLL OF
IMMIGRANT SHIP
SAID TO Be 331
Reporters Not Allowed
Among Survivors
BULLETIN.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 28.-It IS
believed here that no further rescues
are to be reported from the Italian
vessel Mafalda, and that the balance
Of the 1858 persons abroard the Ma
falda perished in the shark infested
ccean nearly 100 miles off the coast
of Bahia.
A dispatch from Recife announcing
the arrival there of the italian steam
er Rossetti, carrying 27 passengers
rescued from the sunken Principessa
Mafalda, brings the total recorded
rescues up to 937. Leaving 331 pas
sengers of the Mafalda still unac-
counted for. Three other rescue
ships. the French freighter Formosa,
which was first at the scene of the
disaster; the French liner Massilia,
and the Dutch steamer Athena,
brought 910 passengers from the lost
italian liner to the ports Of Bahia,
Recife and Rio De Janeiro.
The hundreds of unfortunate VIC
tins of the Mafalda explosion who
were brought to Flores Island, the
immigration center in the harbor
here, today were made comfortable
with warm food and good beds in the
immigration Hotel.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 28.--The
death toll continued to grow today,
as one after another the rescue
steamers came into port from the
scene of the shipwreck of the "Princi-
pessa Mafalda" which sank off the
coast here two days ago.
Every effort is being made by the
italian ministry, the consuls of the
Fascist regime, and their friends in
the Brazilian government service to
keep the facts secret.
The statement of the Navagazione
Generate Italiana, the owners OF the
immigrant tub, Principessa Mafalda,
that only 68 lives were lost is being
maintained vigorously by all officials,
however much conrradicted by what
ever facts leak out.
Survivors Injured.
The Dutch freighter Athena ar
rived late last night with 531 shiver-
ing, suffering survivors. The captain
of the vessel had wirelessed ahead for
aid reporting that about so of the
survivors were injured several of them
seriously.
Immediately after the vessel ar
rived several doctors went aboard and
food and drinking water were sent
out in a tug.
The crowd of refugees aboard the
Athena presented pitiable sight to
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Cline, Prison Hero,
viii Take Part in
Labor Conference

Charles Cline, veteran I. W. w.
who served thirteen years in Texas
prison, today issued a statement call
ing for support to the Third Annual
Conference of International Labor
Defense which opens in New York
City at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th St
and Irving Place, November IL.
After his release last year Cline
proceeded to the second annual con-
ference of the International Labor
Defense which had aided in the work
that led to the prisoners liberation
"The coming conference Of the In.
ternational Labor Defense" SAID
Cline yesterday, "calls to mind the
second conference in Chicago last
year. The expression of all the dele
gates was to the end that the Interna.
tional Labor Defense would become
a bigger and better defense organiza.
tion than it has been. This is fast
becoming a reality.
"We must encourage the labor
prisoners by raising a strong bulwark
of labor defense movement. Rally
into the folds of the l. L. D. and ere.
ate a strong defense organization and
have the courage to defend it on every
hand"
Cline, as a former class war pris-
oner and member of the national
committee of international Labor De-
fense, will be one of the fraternal
delegates to the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Injunction Secured in
Jersey Laundry Strike

CARTERET, N. j., Oct. 2S.-As a
last resort before going down to de-
feat before his striking workers, the
owner of the Roosevelt Laundry has
secured a temporary injunction pro-
hibiting picketing.
The employer has admitted that
since the strike started four weeks
ago, the amount Of work he was
handling has decreased from 1000
to 100 bundles of wash daily.
A hearing for a permanent injunc-
ton will be held Tuesday before
Chancellor Walker in Newark. The
strike is being conducted by the
Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauf-
feurs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
OIL, COOLIDGE AND WAR.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-An eff
fort by the most powerful oil inter
ests in the country to alter the Sher-
man antitrust laws in order that
they may be enabled to take con-
certed action for conservation of the
Gwindling supply Of petroleum will be
made in the coming session of con-
gress, according to notice understood
to have been received from them by
President Coolidge today.
President Coolidge is vitality con-
cerned in any plan that may be
evolved for protection of the oil sup
ply because of it's vast Importance
commercially and its vital need tc
the country in the event of war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
WORKERS PARTY
SPEAKERS DRAW
HARLEM CROWD
Red Mite Demonstrate
for Brownsville

Thousands of Harlem workers
gathered around a dozen platforms at
strategic street corners in Harlem to
hear the message of 100 speakers OF
the Workers (Communist) Party last
night. The audiences were urged to
vote for the Party candidates in the
election Nov. s.
Harlem, the congested section OF
thousands of exploited workers, plain
" welcomed the message, which in
cluded the Party program for the
election, with its concentration on is
sues of deep significance to Harlem
masses.
Candidates Speak.
Among the speakers were Juliet
Stuart Poyntz and julius Codkind,
local candidates for assembly and al
derman; William w. Weinstone, sec
retary of the New York district of
the Party; Robert Minor, editor of
The DAILY WORKER; H. M. Wicks,
of The DAILY WORKER; Bertram
D. Wolfe, director of the Workers
School and Jack Stachel, national or
ganization secretary of the Party.
After these simultaneous street
meetings all speakers adjourned to a
rally at 10th Street and Fifth Ave-
rue.
Tonight Brownsville will be the
scene of similar "Red Night" Two
large indoor campaign meetings will
be held Sunday, one at the Finnish
Labor Temple, Is West 126rh ST,
and another at Ambassador Hall.
1861 Third Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
& T % year YORK SATURDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1927
Catholic Priest Chases
Negroes to Jim Grow"
Churches in Washington

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. %.
The race war among Catholics
started when Rev. Cornelius j.
Dacy of St. Paul's Roman Catholic
Church last Sunday invited mem
bers from the Negro districts to
go back to their own churches, is
still raging. The priest lodges the
issue raised by his words, saying
he did not mention whether he
meant Negroes or Whites. But
those present whom he desired to
eject were Negroes and they have
complained bitterly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
international Labor
Defense Sends $3.50
For Colorado Aid

Two hundred and fifty dollars for
the defense of the striking miners
has just been sent to the Colorado
Miners Defense and Relief Commit
tee at Walsenburg Colorado, by the
national office of International La
Dor Defense.
In addition, the International La
Dor Defense has sent two prominent
Denver attorneys into the mine fields
to aid in protecting tie legal rights
of the strikers and challenging the
attempts of the authorities to insti-
tute lynch justice. The halls of the
miners have been raided in many
places and considerable property de-
stroyed. Scores of miners and many
women, who have played a heroic
part in the walkout, have been ar
rested. Attempts are being made to
put the Jail lid on the strike. The
l. l.. D., through its attorneys, is
moving to release the imprisoned
strikers and their wives, sisters and
sweethearts, and to put a halt to the
institution of lynch law or martial
law under the direction of the noto-
rious Colorado uniformed gunner.
Cites Colorado Tradition
'"The strike of the Colorado miners
is of great significance" said James
?. Cannon, secretary of the Inter
national Labor Defense, "and it will
have an electrifying effect upon the
entire labor movement"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Background Of Cheswick
Frame-Up Shown in New
Illustrated Articles

Within a few days The DAILY
WORKER will publish another
series of articles by "a. S." on the
conditions in Pennsylvania mining
camps around Cheswick, where a
new Sacco-Vanzetti case is being
prepared as the result of the shoot
ing of a state trooper during
brutal attack on a miners meeting.
The articles will tell of the evic-
tions at Russelton, the meetings
of militant women, and clashes be-
tween miners and mine company
gunner. They will be illustrated
by drawings by Don Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Chalapin, Russian Bass, Sues for Divorce in
Moscow Court; Realizes Value of Soviet Law

MOSCOW, Oct 28Feodor Chalapn world famous Russian bass
until recently held the title of Peoples Artist of the Republic the
artists Soviet Union filed suit for divorce
Italian baeria Julia Tornagh the Moscow dis
trio tcourt.
He offers to her $500 aimony monthly for life
petition through Union Embassy
in Paris
Chaapn lost his title Peoples Artist the Republic due to his
obligations Soviet Now, however,
although he another take advantage of
Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Smith Opposes Four
Year Governor Term

BUFFALO, Oct. 28.--Gov. Smith,
in an address here, declared that he
is opposed to the constitutional
amendment providing for four-year
term for governor. Originally he
was in favor of such proposition
with the election falling on year
when there was no presidential cleo
tion. Since the republicans may
carry the state during a presidential
election, he opposes the proposition.
Senator John Knight, republican, was
in favor of it for the same reasons
that Smith is against it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
COP DoNs SMOKED LENSES.

Lines and scenes have been deleted
from several local plays about which
the police said they received anony-
nous complaints, according to current
reports. James P. Sinnott, secretary
of the police department, is reported
to have recommended several dele
tions after visits to the shows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
IA HURT IN FERRY CRASH.

Fourteen persons were injured yes
torday when the ferry boat Syracuse,
missed it's slip and crashed into a
bulkhead at 42nd Street. Most of the
140 passengers were massed at the
front of the boat, ready to land, when
the crash came.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
RUTH ELDER BREAKS RECORD

PARIS France, Oct. 28.-Ruth FL
der and Pilot Haldeman, flying in a
borrowed plane from Bayonne to
Paris, broke the speed record. They
averaged $50 miles per hour, and ar
rived two hours ahead Of schedule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29

9Sent here at once.
No Strike Yet But New Mexican
Governor Orders Out Troops.
SANTA F'E, New Mexico, Oct. 3D.
Fourteen national guardsmen have
been ordered to Colfax county by
Governor Dillon in expectation of
strike in the coal mines. The follow
ing telegram was sent to sheriff
William Davis by the governor:
eve want no interference from the
LW.W. with New Mexico industries.
Am sending national guard officers
Immediately, instructing them to in
vestigate and make necessary plans
to prevent trouble and protect min
ers."
The Acknowledgment has informed
the governor that the troops are
ready and can be mobihzed in few
hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-29
Wide Support for Miners.

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 28.-Follow-
ing the ultimatum of the Columbins
mine at Serene, Boulder county,
northwest Of here, notifying striking
miners that they must either go back
to work or get out of the company
houses, the sheriff, a labor sympa-
thiser, ordered the company not to
evict any families or use force Of
any kind unless they have the proper
papers issued by his office.
l. L. d. at Work.
William Penn Collins, attorney For
the International Labor Defense, rep
resenting the miners, has advised
them to remain in possession Of the
houses and to accede to none Of the
company demands.
The Civil Liberties Union has en-
ployed the firm of Whitehead and
Nogel to handle legal defense work
in the northern fields. William Penn
Collins will work in the southern
field but have "Aarge of the work
in the entire state. y
The Negro u.44ers in the northern
fields are all on strike and have
leader who is one Of the outstanding
figures in the strike.
One of the remarkable demonstra-
tons Of the sympathy and support
for the strikers among other sections
of the population was the donation
Of gasoline and other supplies to the
miners in Lafayette and other towns
for the trip to Fremont county.
The gas stations donated from 90
to $50 gallons. The International
Labor Defense pledged so gallons to
miners who could not afford to buy it.
4
Civil Liberties Protest.
In a telegram today to Governor
William H. Adams of Colorado, the
Continued on Page TlDo)
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-12
CLAIM FUR RAZ|NC BUNGALOWS |S NOT
 ALLOWED, MCCALL
YEARS AGO HoUS- Es WERE REMOVED MAKE
 WAY FOR THE 4. R. R.

WASHINGTON, Nov. F. P)-A claim for $2,00O made against the Gov ernment by Bishop P. T. Rowe of All aska for destruction of two bungalows at St. Marks Mission agout g years ago to clear the way for the Alaska Railroad was disallowed by Comptrol- Ter General Mccall.
 The ruling in effect was that the conductors of the Little Mission were squatters who failed to patent their land in which event, it was said, a legal question probably could have been raised.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-12
CROSS |S UNVEILED ARLINGTON CEMETERY
 MEMORY AMERICANS
NO FORMAL CELEBRATION TOOK PLACE IN WASHINGTON, Q. C.,
 YESTERDAY

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (R-Nine years have rolled by since the barking of guns along the western frontier ceased and since those more than four years destruction, slaughter, emotional outbursts and struggle swept over the entire world; and that day, as in the past since the first wild outbreak, there was no formal celebration yesterday.
 An American new touch was given the day, so far as Washington was con- cerned, with the unveiling at the Arl- ington cemetery of a cross of sacrifice erected by Canada in memory of the Americans who fell in the ranks of Canada's fighting legions
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-12
N. $. DONALDSON |S ALMOST CAUGHT IN
 |CE BER|NG SEA
CREW FORGED MAN PUMP CON TINUOUSLY TO INSURE VES-
 SELLS SAFETY

DUTCH HARBOR, Nov. 12. P- After narrowly escaping being frozen to death in the ice off Nome the "A foot motor vessel Donaldson, enroute to Seattle, arrived leaking badly.
 The crew were forced to man pump continuously to insure the vessels safety. After repairs the ship will continue southward.
 The Donaldson is owned by the Arc tic Transportation Co.,, and left Nome with the M. s. Sierra. Both vessels fighting their way thru 10 miles of cie. Shortly after clearing the ice the ships ran afoul of a heavy gale.