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NEWPORT NEWS, VA, June "a
The Grand Lodge, K. Of P. wnlcn
has been in session here since Tucs-
dav morning ended in condition
that has caused old timers to regard
with dismay. 1t portends the dis
solution of one of the best Grand
Lodges in the country. Peace and
harmony have prevailed in both de-
partments for more than quarter
of a century. Tuesday and Wednes-
dav and even Thursday. the forces
led by Grand Vice-Chancellor j.. h.
Pnryear were in the ascendency, w.
p. F. Crowell, W. H. G. Brown
and Joseph R. Pollard had lost
favor. This was emphasized, wnen
the report of Grand Keeper OF re-
cords and Seal Eugene West sup
nerted the statements as to the bad
financial condition of the Order IN
the State and the payment OF FUNDS
of the Grand Lodge to w. II. &
Brown and Joseph R. Pollard.
A STAGGERING BLOW.
The staggering blow came when
West showed that the Grand Lodge
was practically without FUNDS ana
when Supreme Chancellor S. w.
Green, as late as Thursday made the
announcement that he had not re-
re we'd a penny of the amount OF the
Supreme Lodge Tax. He wanted the
Grand Lodge to- pay in full on lts
entire membership, whether tho
money had been collected from the
individual lodges or not. In addl-
tion he announced that he wanted
6 per cent interest paid Tor not
sending the amount in time. West
announced that he had signed
check for $4,000 90 payable 70 tho
Supreme Chancellor, but Crowell and
Pollard had not signed it.
THAT ss,O000O.
Crowell had stated in his report
that the Grand Lodge had $4,000 90
on deposit, but John T. Taylor
wanted to know where the money
vas deposited He had not secured
the information up to the latest
report Finding these questions EN-
tarrassing and the members becom
ing uneasy, a political trick was
resorted to. Charges were filed
against F. E. Puryear, Grand Vice
Chancellor and Eugene West, Grand
Keeper OF Records and Seal and
these charges were referred to
committee of FIVE. Charges were i'm
mediatelv filed against w. B +.
Crowell. Grand Chancellor; w. H.
e. Brown. Grand Attorney: Joseph
X Pollard. Grand Master Of Exche
cuer. This committee was referred
to as a grand jury, but it acted in
the capacity of a trial committee.
ALL CHARGES ILLEGAL
The charges against the last three
were dismissed and those against
Puryea- and West were sustained,
and upon recommendation Of the
committee they were declared sus-
pended. AS matter OF fact. &C
cording to the Supreme Lodge Law,
page so. charges cannot be enter
tanned unless they are flled, and laid
over for 30 DAYS. Instead these two
men were railroaded out OF the
Grand Lodge in violation of the law.
This carried dismay to the ranks Of
the opposition and others ran to
cover with the result that the ma
chine had a walk over. The OUT
come OF all this is yet to he saen
DEMANDED THE MONEY
Richmond planet., 1927-07-02

to the endowment tax with the eN
Cuse that age being used as basis,
there would be an increase in the
amount CT some Of the policies.
GOT THE MONEY.
The reaction in the State is yet
to be seen. The Grand Representa-
tives in many sections were out
spoken in their opposition. Joseph
r. Pollard admitted that he got the
money as stated in the collection cf
the money from the Mechanics Saw
ings Bank. The editorial in the
Newport News Star, which criticized
the conditions existing and virtually
charged that the delegates were
hoodwinked has set many people
here to thinking. The disruption OF
the Order is seen and unless some
thing is done quickly. the destruc'
ticn of this fraternal order N fhis
State is in sight. Danville was
named as the next meeting place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
PITTSBURGH UNION SMASHING INJUNCTION SIGNED
Ohio Officials of Mine
Union Negotiate For A
Separate District Truce

COLUMBUS, o., Oct. ia
proposal by the United Mine
Workers Union officials in Ohio,
to be made to Ohio operators, sug-
gesting that a truce in the soft
coal miners lockout be negotiated
on basis similar to the agree
ments between soft coal miners
and operators in other states in
the central competitive field, is
under consideration, it was learned
here today. The letter, proposing
a conference with operators, has
not yet been sent to the operators,
mine union officials said, although
a preliminary draft has been sub
mitted to the various sub-district
presidents, and will later be sent
to the operators.
If this agreement goes thru, the
striking miners of Pennsylvania,
many of whom were not affected
by the first lockout but have come
out in solidarity to the rest of the
union, will be further isolated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
City Appropriation
For Engineers Pay
Increase Too Small

The Union Of Technical Men, which
has led the fight for increased pay
for city employees, has protested that
the $6G0,000 tentatively appropriated
by the budget for this purpose is not
sufficient. Dudley Babcock, president
of the Union of Technical Men, has
written Mayor Walker stating that,
while the engineers will be satisfied
with S1,200,000 appropriation, $780,
COO is too little. Even the 81 100000,
Babcock pointed out, would not be
35 per cent raise, as recommended by
the chief examiner Of the civil SER
vice. A mass meeting of the engi-
neering department employees has been
called by the union for Oct. 20.
While there is a S25,000,00o sur
plus over and above the amount ap-
propriated by the tentative budget.
Ruth Pratt, republican, and the only
woman member of the Board of AL
dermen is unwilling to see the en-
gineers get their raise. She attacked
the increase and her resolution was
referred to the finance consmittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
.STRANGLING CASE
AGAINST FALL BY
HOLDING UP FUND
Government Economic
es on Trial Expense

WASHINGTON, Oct. Y. = Atlee
Pomerene, special federal oil counsel,
was sent around town looking for
money today to enable him and his
associate, Owen J. Roberts, to try
former Secretary of Interior Albert
Fall, Harry Sinclair and E. L. Doheny
for their alleged participation in the
1928 coil scandals"
He is seeking 100000, his first
call was at the White House, his sec
ond was paid to Director of the Bud
get, Lord, the sum to be included in
the first deficiency appropriation.
"Since the last deficiency bill failed
in the filibuster they closed the last
congress-" said Pomerene. We've
been stalling off the landlord and
paying expenses and salaries out OF
our own pockets"
To date, Roberts and Pomerene have
spent $4,000. They have reclaimed
$24,000,000 worth of oil properties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Former Department of
Justice Man Wants to
Testify Against Remus

LANSING, Mich, Oct 12.-F'rank-
lin L. Dodge, former department of
justice agent, has offered to testify
against George Remus, "the king of
the bootleggers, in his trial for the
murder of his wife. Dodge denies
Remus' charges that he was intimate
with the bootlegger's wife during the
investigation of Remus' rum-running
activities. The former department Of
justice agent ridiculed the charges
that together with Remus' wife, he had
got hold of $1,S00,0OO of the boot
legger's fortune and was now hiding
it in safety deposit box in Lansing.
The former agent is demanding that
the state of Ohio place him in the wit
ness stand where his experience in
distorting facts on the department of
justice staff may come in handy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Tammany Hall Juggles
Transit Propaganda But
Bankers Direct the Act

Gov. Al. Smith has announced he
would maintain hands-off policy
in the battle which is now rang
ing ostensibly between two trac-
tion plans but actually between the
Morgan banking group and the
Chase National Bank-Dahl-Chad-
bourne gang over control of the
New York transit lines.
Under the pretext that the
Transit Commission officials are
paid huge salaries to decide the
issue the Morgan controlled Tam
many governor of New York State
has refused to act. Tammany Hall
has gone further by playing up on
the one hand Controller Berry's
increased fare propaganda through
the camouflage of his man,
Charles w. Smiths traction plan
and on the other by supporting
the Morgan transit commission
program for which the great in
quisitor, Samuel Untermyer, is the
chief spokesman.
Mayor Walker yesterday tilted
with Controller Berry to throw a
smoke screen over the fact that
Tammany Hall is behind both
"unification" schemes, Tammany
is talking the five cent fare, SELL
ing out to the Morgan interests
and paying city money for in
creased fare propaganda at the
same time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

At the Union Colliery Coal Com
pany mines at Renton, in Allegheny
county, the day the mines opened up
and the first truck-load of scabs was
brought into the camp, one of the
most brutal clubbing bouts of the
lockout occurred. Since the troopers
not only charged the crowd, beat them
up and threw tear bombs, but went on
up to the miners houses and broke
in the doors and beat up the women
and the children, who had stayed be-
hind. The women and children know
the full bitterness of the coal opera
tors war against the miners as well
as the men themselves.
The other night l was present at a
meeting of the recently organized
Ladies' Auxiliary of the union local
at Renton, held at the Miners Hall.
The meeting was not very interesting
at first: reports on bylaws adopted
at the sub-district meeting, reports Of
an affair held to raise funds for re-
lief of local families hard hit by the
long months of the lockout. Then a
young miner from a neighboring town
began to speak of the miners fight
and the use of the state troopers
against the miners. Decorous atten-
ton changed to tense interest; and
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
n. Y. Plumbers Helpers
Ask for Admission to
the international Union

Job steward meetings and dances
are helping to keep up the interest
of the membership of the American
Assn. of Plumbers Helpers that took
part in the recent plumbers strike
with the journeymen. The helpers
job stewards at their weekly conclave
discuss methods of approaching non
union men and are addressed by
well known labor men. The dances
are big amusement feature. The
next will be held at Labor Hall, 80
East End street, November 5. The
helpers are sending a delegation to
the init. Plumbers Executive Board
meeting in Chicago, early in Novem-
Der, urging admission to the interna-
tional on the same basis accorded
steamfitters' helpers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

Judge Panl1en places the interest Of
the capitalist class above the inter-
ests of the workers, the statement
charged, and would defeat the pur-
poses of labor unity. The statement
characterizes him as harmless.
Panken Declines.
The Workers Party recently in
vited the socialist party to partici-
pate in the creation of a United La
Dor Ticket for the election Nov. 8,
agreeing to support Judge Panken
for the sake of the political unity of
the workers. Judge Panken, how
ever, refused to participate in such a
movement. In statement rejecting
the Workers Party proposal he placed
his own interests above the cause for
which the Party pleaded.
Last nights statement of the
Workers Party, issued by the district
executive committee of the party,
follows:
"The Workers (Communist) Party
cNpeCteu tHdt WI. dilhen Wouiu iS-
ject the support of revolutionary
workers. The socialist party and Mr..
Panken are interested in support from
bourgeois circles and bourgeois
groups. The socialist party and Mr..
Panken have been running the cam
paign in the manner of capitalist can
didates and seeking the support of
various capitalist elements.
This is because the socialist party
is a party that has abandoned every
(Continued on Poge F'ive)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
AFL OFFICIALDOM
THANKFUL ABOUT
.FURRIERS' SPLIT
Hits Mexican Labor by
Means of Agreement

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.-The
convention today defeated a resolu-
tion denouncing American imperial
ism and slaughtered an anti-fascist
resolution while on the positive side
they passed one thanking the exec
utive council for splitting the fur
workers union by reorganization" !"
A resolution calling for a labor good
will mission to Latin America was
referred to the executive council.
Delegate Lee Hall denounced Judge
Schoonmaker's decree against the
United Mine Workers in Pennsyl-
vania.
The resolution to ask legislation
against Canadian workers who live
in Canada and commute to jobs in
the United States was argued and
finally referred to the Executive
Council for further consideration.
For Merchant Marine.
Despite it's traditional opposition
to government ownership in industry,
the American Federation of Labor
convention went on record here today
as favoring government-ow
merchant marine by which the United
States can maintain commanding
position on the seas"
The action of the convention was
taken while the opposition was lining
up for a fight on any endorsement
by the A. F. of l.. of the Boulder
Dam and Colorado River develop
ment projects.
Opposition in the convention to the
Swing Johnson bill calling for a gov
ernment built dam in Boulder Cany-
on, has been based solely on labor's
heretofore unalterable stand against
government control.
The Thirsty Brigade.
With mighty roar of "ayes" the
delegates passed a resolution in favor
of Wholesome beer" and the modi-
fication of the Volstead Act. The
puny protest of the foes of alcohol
was drowned by the torrent of anti
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
N. ]. BLACKSHIRTS
ATTACK WORKERS,
CARRY WEAPONS
Four HOboken Men Are
Severely Hurt
(SpecAl to the Daily Worker)

HOBOlAN, N. J., Oct. 12.-Four
anti-fascist workers, two of whom
were given medical attention in To-
cal hospital, were brutally attacked
this morning by members of the
"squadrista," the terrorist section of
the Fascist League of North Amer
lea.
Touring the italian working class
district in groups of Is or 20, the
fascists, dressed in full facist regalia,
set upon every worker whom they
suspected of being opposed to Musso-
lini's regime in Italy. Armed with
whips, knives and canes they attacked
or threatened many.
Had Upper Hand
AS today is Columbus Day, the fas-
cists held the upper hand until eve
ming. Most anti-fascist workers were
not able to take a holiday thru fear
of losing their jobs. But when news
of the fascist rally spread thru the
workers neighborhoods a committee
left for New York for aid. A mass
meeting of the defense of Garlic and
Greece, anti-fascists workers, in the
Church of All Nations, Second Ave.
was hastily adjourned. The workers
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
ATTACK PICKETS
in DAIRY CLERKS
STRIKE; Use CLUB
Fifty Shops Settle With
Union for 1928

Three pickets of the Retail Grocery
and Dairy Clerks Union were as
saulted by gangsters while picketing
the Polinsky Grocery and Dairy, ITO
Orchard ST., yesterday noon.
Max BORROW, one of the pickets,
was slugged with an iron bar. Two
Of his teeth were broken off. Two
stitches were taken in his cheek at
a hospital. The face of Hyman Vack-
er, another picket, was painfully
bruised from several blows.
Injured Men Replaced.
A bone in the wrist of julius Lin
der, third picket, is believed to have
been fractured by blow with a club.
Ten other pickets replaced the three
injured men and the picketing con-
tinued with increased vigor.
According to members of the strike
committee of the union the attack
was directed by Samuel Haller, dis
charged business agent of the union,
and organizer Brown of the Furni-
ture Drivers Union. Linder reported
that Patrolman No. 494 turned his
back when he pointed out one of the
fleeing gangsters after the assault.
Try To Prevent Settlements.
The assault was a further effort
on the part of union-wrecking agen-
cies to interfere with the unions
rapid progress in settling with en-
nloyers for 1928. according to the
strike committee.
Haller is now organizer of a dual
union with an actual membership OF
only five. Brown and Haller are said
by the three pickets to have pointed
them out to the sluggers.
Expelled From U. H. 7.
The union was expelled from the
United Hebrew Trades for insisting
on choosing lar own delegates to that
body. The officers controlling the
U. H. T. opposed the militant ten
dencies of the unions three repre-
sentatives. The clerks withdrew
from the American Federation OF
Labor in 1920 and since have func-
toned as an independent local COW
ering Greater New York.
so Employers Settle.
Settlements for the ensuing year
with about SO shops have been ne
gotiated since the settlement commit
tee of the union began sitting regu-
larly last Monday, the union reported
yesterday. The present contracts will
expire Friday.
Among the more important settle
ments reported are those with the
United Workers Cooperative Stores,
four stores of the Triangle Dairy, two
stores of the fremont Dairy and two
stores of Siegel's Dairy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
MINERS CAN'T ARGUE WITH SCABS;
CAN'T DEFEND HOMES IN COURTS
If Not Effectively Resisted No Big Strike Pos
sible in Future

PITTSBURGH Pa. Oct. 12.-FederaI Judge Schoonmaker
yesterday made his union smashing temporary nun
on granted the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. Sept 30 The in
junction is the most sweeping and drastic in history
only to its provisions but because of the grounds which
is issued The precedent established if this decree allowed
stand and obeyed by the strikers against whom il directed
will hinder prevent strike of in the future The
United Mine Workers of America prohibited by Judge Schoon
maker from effectively pcketng the property of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co.. because of the product of that
is involved in interstate commerce
The injunction also arbitrarily decides the question the
right of the company chase its striking
such other approved methods by ruling that funds be
collected spent by the miners for lawyers court costs bonds
in other way appeal to the of the
cson to let them stay in their houses This refusal
the ordinary civil right of suing the employer defend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
THE RED" NIGHTS
BEGIN SATURDAY,;
MEETS ARRANGED

The first Of a series Of "Red"
Nights win be held Saturday in Will
liamsburgh by the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party in connection with the
present political campaign. Similar
"Red" Nights viii be held in other
working class districts before Elec-
tion Day, Nov. s, when militant labor
will support the Party's candidates
and program.
More than a dozen rallies in Will
liamsburgh Saturday will be address
sed by local candidates and other
Party members. At 1890 p. m. par
ticipants in all the rallies will as
semble at Grand St. Extention for
mass meeting.
viii Use Trucks.
Speakers will talk from trucks when
platforms are not available. Meetings
viii be held at Grand St. and Manhat-
tan Ave; Varet and Graham Sts.;
Fllery and Tompkins Sts., and else
/ where.
Speakers will include William r.
Dunno, candidate for assembly in the
9Th district (Williamsburgh: : Ray
Ragozin David Benjamin, Kate Git
low, Anthony Bimba, M. Gordon, E.
Koppel, Herman Ehrlich, Chester W.
Bixby, Samuel Nesson, Joseph Brahdy
and John Marshall.
All speakers first will report at
Williamsburg headquarters, 20 Gra-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Roosevelt Continues
War on Smith; Bosses
Endorse His Charges

Colonel Roosevelt, whom the re-
publicans are reported to be groom
ing for a presidential running mate
in 1923, continued his fire on AL
Smith in his speech before a gather
ing Of 400 republican women at the
Dorset Hotel here. Re-asserting his
charges that vice and corruption had
"crawled to the capitol steps" in Al
bany, Roosevelt repeated his denun-
Citations Of the Smith administration
as corrupt and dilatory.
Indicative of the future which the
.epublican bosses are planning fol-
Roosevelt is the recent endorsement
of fis sensational charges by the re-
publican state organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Paul Crouch Speaker at
Huge Anti-War Meeting
Here Friday Evening

Paul Crouch, soldier-Communist,
free after serving two years of a
40-year commuted sentence i'm
posed upon him for revolutionary
activity while in the army at
Hawaii, will be the speaker at an
anti-war meeting to be held tomor-
row night at Irving Plaza Hall,
Irving Pl. and 18th st.
Crouch, who has just completed
nationwide tour for the ALL
America Anti-Imperialist League,
speaks here under the auspices of
the Young Workers League and
the Workers (Communist) Party,
District Two.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Mclaughlin To Be New
Brooklyn Trust Head

George V. Mclaughlin, Tammany's
former police commissioner, is to be-
come president of the Brooklyn Trust
Co. Dec. 1. What arrangement Nc
Laughlin has made with the Mackay
telegraph and cable services, with
whom he was reported to have ac-
cepted $4,000 year job, is not
known but he is said to have "pro-
cured the approval of Mr.. Mackay''
before making the change. 1t is un-
derstood Mclaughlin will remain as
director of the executive committee
of the Mackay companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Injunction Judge Dies;
Was Tool of Shoe and
Railroad Inter e S t S

The death of Judge William Joseph
Kelly, presiding justice of the appel
late division of the supreme court, de-
prives the bosses Of one of their most
active and relentless lackeys. Kelly
who was a notorious tool of the vest
ed interests, had long been in the
employ of the Long Island Railroad
He was best known, however, for the
infamous injunctions which he hand
ed down against the shoe workers
last winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
German /. L. d.

The German International Labor
Defense branch will hold a conference
early hext month. At conference
held Monday night at the Labor
Temple, 243 East 84th st. delegates
representing over 1000 workers
were present.
AEffong organizations represented
wore the Carpenters union, local
2090; Bakers union, local 8; two
branches of the Sick and Death
Benefit Fund; German Singing So
ciety and the Workers Club of York
vile. The delegates instructed the
executive committee to arrange an
entertainment in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13

YaStrous to the miners.
The present formal and permanent
injunction is declared by the Judge
effective as from the date Sept. 80.
1t prohibits the miners from "con-
gregating, parading, or gathering
about or near the plaintiffs property
(the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co.'S
mines, tipples, cars, etc. or from
picketing the same," with the follow
ing minor exceptions:
One picket post may be maintained
upon or Immediately adjacent to each
public highway leading to each mine
of the plaintiff, but not upon it's
property, and the posts must not be
closer (no matter what the nature of
the country or landscape) than 100
feet apart or the same distance from
any company building or other PROV.
erty Except company dwelling
houses) used by the company as an
office or in any of its operations.
The judge intends to permit not
more than three persons at time in
any picket post, and no person is per-
mitted to stand or loiter at any place
within 100 feet from the limits Of any
picket post for any purpose what
soeyer.
Posts Easy To Dodge.
Each picket post permitted under
the provisions of this injunction shall
not extend over 100 feet in length
along the highway and its limits
shall be indicated by a sign, flag or
marker, pointing out that it is a
union picket post. The purpose Of
this provision is understood by the
miners to be for the convenience Of
the strikebreakers and coal and iron
police, as it localizes the pickets at
points where they can be avoided
while running patches of conscript or
swindled recruits past them to the
mines.
In order to prevent if possible, even
three pickets remaining on duty at
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