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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
COMPANY HIRELINC JAILS FIVE
WORKERS BEATEN BY COAL POLICE
One May Lose Eyesight; Taken to Hospital After
Working Over" by Company Thugs
By A. S.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 18-Folowng the assault of the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Coal and Iron police
striking miners of Castle Shannon No g. and fifth youth
ue Muenow of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters attack
property tpossesson company
and Iron barracks and beaten up kicked around the
face and body and vouy abused described yesterdays
DAILY WORKER the Victims bruised and bleeding suffer
ing seriously from their injuries taken before Squire Ira H
Edmondson hrelng and thence to Pittsburgh Here
four of them jailed and held refused bail without
charges being them The young carpenter
lose his eyesgh result of the attack badly hurt
that he had to be removed to ST. Oseph hospital where three
the Yellow Dogs the called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Soccer League Shows
Workers Can Create
Sport Organizations

Clubs affiliated with the Metro
politan Soccer League are teaching
the New York labor movement that
workers can build their own sports
organizations.
Getting grounds on which to play
is a serious problem but one which
can be solved, although teams occa-
sionally have found it difficult to find
fields for their games, according to
the league executive. Officers of the
league say they aim to make soccer
accessible to all workers clubs.
Since the league season began
nearly 30 scheduled games have been
played in the "a" and "B" divisions.
A referee group also was recently
formed.
Those desiring information should
communicate with the Metropolitan
Workers Soccer League, 1109 Frank
lin Ave-, Bronx, Lester Balog, secre-
tary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
THOUSANDS OUT
ON STRIKE IN
COL dorado COAL
Defy Terror of Com
pany That Killed

AGUILAR, Colo, Oct. 18.-Thou-
sands Of miners are on strike in the
Colorado coal fields in a great walk
out, called by the I. W. W. The
strike has been announced for several
weeks. The miners demand the regu-
lar union wage prevailing in other
states before the present lockout of
the United Mine Workers of America.
A "Vigilante" committee of bust
ness men in Walsenburg has started
an "anti-Red" drive, and has ordered
all l. w. W. members to leave town.
The sheriff Of Aguilar is swearing in
more deputies, and the same action is
expected in other countries.
The state industrial commission is
making frantic efforts to rouse the
community against the l. w. w.
speakers, calling them advocates Of
Violence and repeating all Of the an
cient fables about the organization.
Lewis Men VIII Scab
The strike is Of great assistance to
the locked out miners in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, and is an evidence
Of the feeling of solidarity among
the miners of Colorado, but the small
locals of the United Mine Workers of
America in Colorado, one Of Inter
national President Lewis paper dis
tricts," useful in controlling conven-
tons, have been ordered to scab thru
the strike. II is expected that many
of them will refuse to obey such a
command from their district officials,
and will come out with the strikers.
The walk-out started last night in
the Walsenburg district, spread to
Aguilar and other towns, and was
strengthened by great meeting at
Lafayette, at which miners from the
Boulder district voted to carry the
strike into their mines, thus assuring
at least four thousand more miners
on strike, in addition to the approx
mately four thousand already out.
The companies made a promise Of
a raise in wages from the prevailing
$3.50 per day, but refused to come
up to the $3.50 demanded or to grant
any of the working conditions the
men, are asking for The offer of a
raise was considered by the miners
to be merely maneuver to avoid a
strike.
Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company is the chief operator
in Colorado. 1t is the company gull
ty of the Ludlow massacre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
TheO. Dresser Leaves
For Visit To US. S. r.
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
ton Sinclair enjoyed the greatest
popularity in the Soviet Union.
"It is quite understandable, /"
Dresser said
"How do you explain Sinclair's
popularity there ?"
well, Upton Sinclair in his novels
expresses the political and economic
ideals of the Russian people. Of
course, he sometimes mars a fine
book like oil by bringing in extran-
eous arguments"
Dresser was then asked if he be-
lieved it was possible for book to
be a work Of art and at the same
time have highly propaganda
value.
Certainly it is" Dresser replied.
/" Uncle Toms Cabin and The Con-
fessions of st. Augustine are GER
tainly good literature and were in
their time also mighty forces for en-
lightenment."
Art PrOstituted In America.
Success has bought off at least 30
per cent of the writers whose artistic
concepts would otherwise have per
mitted them to do fine work" he
said.
"There is hardly a newspaper in
the United States" Dresser, himself
a former newspaperman, continued.
(which is not in one way or another
bound by economic interests. When
worked on "a paper in Pittsburgh
hardly word favorable to labor was
permitted to appear in that paper, or
in any other in the city, for that mat
ter. The labor editor told me per
sonally of many things that hap
pened that never got an inch of space
in the paper.
"As for myself, was permitted to
write harmless things about the beau
ty Of the city, its towering buildings,
mills and factories"
Labor Must Fight For Own Interests.
Asked if under these circumstances
it was not vital that the workers
movement build it's own labor press,
Dresser, his massive frame leaning
against wall lined with books. re-
piled artlessly, Il don't know about
such things. But l will say that if a
group doesn't fight for the better
ment of its own economic and social
interests, they're damned fools"
Dresser has never been in Russia
He will not write a book upon his re-
turn, he said. care you dead set
against it," he was asked.
"A man who invades a foreign
country and then writes book on it
can't do much of anything" he an
swered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Belt Auto Shop Play,
Is First of It's Kind

"The Belt" by Paul Sifton a play
dealing with revolt in an automobile
factory in Detroit, will open tonight
at the New Playwrights' Theatre, 40
Commerce St, Greenwich Village.
This play, which will be reviewed
tomorrow, is the first proletarian play
of its kind to be produced in America.
1t is in the style of Meyerhold's
Theatre of Moscow, with much mass
action on the stage, an actual scene
Of the men working at the moving belt
in an auto plant, and with musical
themes throughout. A labor audience
of needle trades workers and staff
workers from The FREIHEIT and
The DAILY WORKER attended a
special dress rehearsal Monday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Labor Leaders To Talk
On US. S. r. at Garden

Continued from Page One)
States on July 27. In their trip
through Soviet Russia, the trade
unionists were accompanied by a
group Of American specialists IN var
ious fields including Prof. Jerome
Davis of Yale University; Prof. Paul
Douglas of the University Of Chi
cago; Prof. r. G. Tugwell OF Colum-
bia University; Prof. Alzada Constock
Of Mt Holyoke College; Prof. Charles
Israels of Columbia University: Rob
ert w. Dunn, author of American
Foreign Investments; Carlton Wash
burn, superintendent of public schools
in Winetka, H.; George s. Counts of
Columbia Univ, sity; and Melinda
Alexander, research director Of the
National Bureau of Information and
Education.
Mr.. Hunts statement goes on to
say that during their travels in the
Soviet Union, the American trade
Gnionists and the specialists accom-
panying them had every freedom of
movement and observation" They
visited Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov
and other large centers, the statement
declares, and interviewed officials in
Guiding Stain, Trotsky. Kalinin and
Tchicherin, as we'll as workmen and
peasants. The delegates. according to
the statement, used their own inter
prefers, and moved about factories.
farms and offices without interfer-
ence.
Although a number Of European
countries have sent trade union dele
cations to the Soviet Union, the state
ment says, this is the first time that
an American labor group has visited
that country, and its report. which it
Is expected will be off the press on
the day Of the Madison Square Gar
den mass meeting, will be the first
American trade union survey on the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
PARTY ACTIVITIES
NEW YORK-NEw JERSEY


A pioneer functionaries' meeting
will be held today, p. M, at 108
East 14th st.
Hereafter all news of pioneer af-
fairs and meetings will be found in
this column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19

Iron police were asked to let the men
(the prisoners) sign the bonds, so
they could be loosed on bail They
refused Question asked, could they
legally refuse.) No, they took away
these mems constitutional rights
It's a wonderful damage suit they
have got against the Company.
''They were taken to Allegheny
County Jail, in Pittsburgh, and con-
fined on charges of disorderly con-
duct. That was in default of 5000
bail apiece; but they were not allowed
to give bail.
Police Stand Over Him.
"About nine o'clock Sunday morn
ing we got Squire Edmondson to ac-
cept $25 cash apiece and he gave us
releases, and we released the four
men from the County Jail, and went
to st. Joseph's Hospital where the
fifth man was confined as a prisoner
with a Coal and Iron officer standing
over him. They had three over him
before. We finally got him released
into the care of his own physician.
"On Sunday afternoon we had the
five men examined by DR.. Scott, and
some had internal injuries, and
one had rib stove in. In the case Of
the one confined to the hospital they
are not sure if he will retain his
sight.
Men Appeal Case.
"On Monday Squire Beltzhoover
took the boys into District Attorney
Gardner to show the district attorney
the true physical condition of the
men,"
At this point our friend the Pitts
burgh Terminal squire comes into the
case again. On Thursday evening last
the five men were given hearing on
the charge Of disorderly conduct be-
fore Squire Edmondson, and-band-
aged, bruised and limping as they
still were from the effects of the Coal
and Iron police attack-were found
guilty, and fined $500 apiece and
costs.
The men have appealed the case,
and 1t Will come up Tor hearing on
Wednesday, October 10Th.
Hush Up Matter.
Outrageous and sensational, too
think of the headlines if it had been
five college boys instead of five young
union workers who had been beaten
up), as this case is, it is only thanks
to Squire Beltzhoover's protest and
appeal to the District Attorney that
the case has reached the columns of
the local capitalist newspapers. A
of other instances of compa-
ny terror have occurred at Castle
Shannon No. and the other Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Company mines
in the neighborhood since the lockout
began; but because these outrages
have been perpetrated by one of the
most powerful coal companies, and
the victims have been the locked out
and their families they do not
appear in the columns of the general
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
LABOR AND FRATERNAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Banquet For Olgin Friday.

A banquet in honor of NJ. J. Olgin
will take place Friday at Stuyvesant
Casino, Ninth st. and Second Ave.
II will be given by the Shop Chair
mems Council of the Furriers' Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Garfield Labor Rally
To Be Held Thursday

GARFIELD, n. j., Oct. 49, - The
United Labor tikcet campaign commit
tee viii hold a rally for their candi-
dates Thursday evening at Belmont
Park. The local candidates and sew
eral speakers from New York will adj
dress the audience Edward HALEY,
independent" candidate for mayor, is
in reality the mill owners candidate,
according to United Labor ticket sup
porters. Trucks Of the Passaic Wor-
sted Mills are carrying banners urg-
ing his election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Daily Worker Agents Meeting.

A DAILY WORKER Agents con-
ference will be held tonight, 8 p. M,
at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and
18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Settle For Tickets.

All comrades are instructed to set
tie for The DAILY WORKER-FREI-
HEIT Bazaar tickets at or ce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19

mounted guard over him.
Police and Civil Rights"
1t is worth giving in detail the ac-
count of what ensued, as told by
Constable Siskind and corroborated
by Squire George H. Beltzhoover of
Castle Shannon Borough. 1t is a good
lesson in just how much miners
civil rights are worth where the coal
companies are in control. Squire Beltz-
hoover, not being company man, as
the miners declare Edmonston to be,
strenuously objects to the action of
the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Com
pany in handing over his borough to
the rule of imported thugs. This week
he appealed to District Attorney
Gardner of Allegheny County for
protection for the citizens of the Dor
ough against the constant outrages
perpetpated by the Coal and Iron po-
lice since the company brought them
in when it opened up it's mines on a
scab basis.
No Complaint
After the assault, then, "The Coal
and Iron police took them" (the four
mem said the constable "to No. Po-
lice Station in Pittsburgh" They
lodged no complaint against them,
but simply asked the Police Depart
ment of Pittsburgh to detain them.
No charge was preferred against
them; the Coal and Iron Police simply
said: keep these men for us"
"The Police Department locked
them up. At twenty minutes to ten
a bondsman and Squire Beltzhoover
and the constable appeared at No.
Police Station. They had real estate
bonds to the amount of $1,000 apiece.
Altogether we had $4,000 worth of
bonds to liberate these men, and we
had $400 in cash.
''The Pittsburgh police could not
turn them loose because there was no
bail on them-they simply detained
them. 1t was detention.
No Warrants.
we called up Squire Ira H. Ed
mondson of Mount Lebanon tthe
CViiipotHg HIdIl1 W inquire WIlelHGI dlly
information had been made against
these men or warrants issued. There
were none by twenty to twelve.
cat twenty to twelve the Coal and
Iron police preferred informations
fined on charges of disorderly con-
duct. (They We're absolutely sober
and men of good character.) The De-
tective Department of Pittsburgh
called up the Coal and Iron police
and said if there were no informal
tons lodged against the men by IL
o'clock they would turn them loose.
Taken to Hospital.
cat three minutes to IL the Coal
and Iron police came in with four
commitments to the County Jail. In
the case of one man commitment was
refused because he was too badly
hurt; he was taken to st. Joseph's
Hospital. AS soon as the Pittsburgh
police turned those men over to the
Coal and Iron police the Coal and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Costumes of All Lands
at ]. L. d. Ball Friday

The International Labor Defense ball
Friday at the New Star Casino, 10th
st. and Park Ave. will be attended by
many national groups in their native
costumes. The mingling Of national
dress in one blaze of color will give
the ball an international spirit.
Features of the ball will include
buffet bar and 1O-piece jazz or
chestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Yonkers Meeting Every Thursday.

The Yonkers International Branch
meets every Thursday, 8 p. M, at the
Labor Temple, 20 Warburton Ave.
Members should bring dues books.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Section 2 Meets Friday.

The enlarged Executive Committee
meeting of Section 2, called for last
Friday has been postponed to this
Friday, $50 p. m sharp. All mem
bers Of the Section Executive Com
mittee and subsection organizers
must be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
MAY PRODUCE TIRES
Synthetic Rubber as By-Product
Predicted by Chemistry
Expert.

That automobile tires in the tuIure
may become by.product of the Pc
troleum industry, produced synthet'
ically In large manufacturing plants,
was the statement made recently by
DIR. Roger Adams, head of the Uni
versity of Illinois chemistry depart
ment.
Rubber has ,lready been made
synthetically," DR.. Adams says,
land the types of raw material nec-
essary are we'll known. The serious
problem is to find a source of this
new material which Is cheap enough
to make possible competition of syn
thetic with natural rubber Petroleum
offers a possibility.
when the high-boiling petroleum
is cracked to obtain low-boiling
fractions which can be used as gas
there are contained in these low
fractions butadiene and its deriva-
tives, the type of compounds which
have been shown to be convertible
into synthetic rubber.
1T remains for the scientist to find
how the yield of these butadienes may
be increased and how they may be
economically removed from the close
ly related products which accompany
them.
when this difficult problem is
solved, synthetic rubber is not far off.
Suppose that a S per cent yield
of butadienes might be obtained by a
proper cracking and extraction pro-
cess. On this basis, and assuming
that the butadienes might be convert.
ed quantitatively into synthetic rub
Der IA goal which. to be sure, has not
yet been reached), it would require
the cracking of 80 million barrels of
petroleum to provide the necessary
butadienes for forming four billion
pounds of rubber"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
DRIVERS WARNED. .
|. OF SPEED HAZARDS
Higher Maryland Limit Calls
for Greater Caution, Baugh-
man Declares.

Parking an automobile just beyond
the crest of hill or at the end of a
curve where the view is obstructed,
always very dangerous practice, has
been made greatly more hazardous by
the raising of the Maryland speed
limit to 40 miles an hour, according to
+. Austin Baughman, State motor
vehicle commissioner.
The practice so often INDUCED in
by many drivers of stopping at once
to repair a punctured tire or to adjust
missing motor, and not observing
how close they may be to the crest
of a hill or the entrance of a curve.
always has been a dangerous one. "
says Mr.. Baughman. THE hazards
Of such a practice have been greatly
increased with the boosting of the
speed limit at which a following car
may top the crest of a hill. Certainly,
if it was difficult to stop a car in
an emergency while travelling at IS
miles an hour, this difficulty has been
multiplied many times with the 40
mile limits enactment.
The driver of following car has
the legal right when he goes around
q curve or over the top of a hill. to
expect that his own side of the high
way will be clear. If it is not, he
sometimes can swing to the left and
pass a parked car or other obstruc-
ton. But this is dependent upon
there being no traffic coming toward
him. When there is such approa CHI
ing traffic, he either must be able to
stop his car before reaching and col.
l1dinG with the parked vehicle on his
own side of the road or run the risk,
If he cannot stop in time. of running
through and possibly sideswiping or
colliding head-on with the other NOV.
ing vehicle.
Certainly the dangers from such
situation cannot help but have been
multiplied with the increased speed
limit. Just as certainly it is a much
more sensible plan never to park ones
car unless all four wheels are well
off the paved highway. or unless there
is clear and uninterrupted view far
enough in either direction to permit
speeding cars to stop before reaching
one in an emergency"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
Three Touring Tips

Tire irons in the tool kit may come
in very handy on the touring trip.
Trying to get tire io on y the hss rim w may
out the proper tool equipment it may
be impossible.
Before accepting the hospitality of
any wayside inn it is the part of wis
dom to give 1t a thorough inspection
on the inside. The view may be beau.
tiful, but this often is poor compen-
sation for uncomfortable and unclean
quarters and poorly prepared meals.
Advancing the cars timing may
prove worth while If the touring trip
is to be made through country that
is comparatively level. If many hills
are to be encountered a change in
the ignition. above normal. may be
inadvisablAs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
MAPPING Of TOURS
HELD MONEY SAVER
Ernest N. Smith Urges Mo-
florists to Make Sure of
Directions First.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars
can be more wisely applied If 1927
tourists will make absolutely certain
of their directions before they set ont
on any trip, long or short. This point
is made by Ernest n. Smith, general
manager of the American Automobile
Association, who declares that the ag-
gregate losses in time and money
caused by haphazard touring consti.
tute a staggering total.
The wrong road may be long road
or a dangerous and difficult one with
the threat of damage to the car or
harm to it's occupants, Mr.. Smith
points out.
Figures of the American Automo-
bile Association indicate that the Ma
tons motorists are too casual in their
methods of approach in planning a
Journey" says Mr.. Smith.
"Motordom should become conscious
of the fact that getting on the wrong
road is much more than annoying.
1t can be expensive and dangerous as
well. During 1926, clubs affiliated with
the A. A. A. found hundreds of cases
which proved this point. While there
was a relatively small number of in
juries directly traceable to losing ones
way, there were hundreds of instances
where motorists paid heavy bills for
car repairs that were entirely unneces-
sary.
Modern automobiles will stand a
great deal of hard usage, but they
sill can be damaged considerably by
fast driving over some of the poor sec.
ondary roads where service establish
OeufS a a ra1a fivelv few
Having a trip mapped in advance is
inexpensive and simple and no motor
list can afford to fail to take advantage
of this fact. 1t will result in tre-
mendous saving If this practice is
adopted by every tourist this year"