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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Plumbers Helpers to
Ask Chartered Union
Tn Greater New York

Delegates Of the American Asso-
citation of Plumbers Helpers were
given final instructions last night in
the matter of petitioning for char
ter for Greater New York from the
International Plumbers Union.
The delegates are scheduled to
leave tonight to go before the inter-
nationals executive board in Chicago
with their petition. The charter would
include all plumbers helpers in
Greater New York, where there are
four plumbers locals.
The plumbers helpers union was
1ormed last December. Four months
later they struck in sympathy with
the plumbers of Brooklyn, who were
demanding $14 a day and 5-day
week.
The helpers delegates are C. E.
Miller, M. Patrick, S. Seewald and
M. Helfand. A dance will be held for
them at Astoria Hall, Ga E. 4th ST.,
prior to their departure this evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
COAL COMPANY
MOVES To BEAT
Miners STRIKE
Stool Pigeons Tactics
Bring Reprisal
By A. S.

YORKVILLE, Ohio.-The Lorain
Coal and Dock Company has decided
to abandon it's four big mines in the
Bridgeport section of eastern Ohio
and to move to West Virginia. James
Kunick, expelled renegade union Of
ficial and stool pigeon, used by the
company to persuade its 1,700 locked
out miners to return to work at a
5000 day wage, has decided to keep
out of the way of strikers fists in the
future.
Biggest Properties.
The Lorain Coal and Dock Com
pany owns the largest workings in
the section-the Blaine mine, employ
ing 600 men before the lockout, the
Stanley, with 450, the Crescent with
800 and the Lincoln with 450 Ap-
parently forced to the conclusion that
trying to get out coal with inexperi-
enced scabs and with efficient pickets
on the job is a losing proposition, the
company has made repeated efforts
to get back it's union men at wage
below the $3.50 Jacksonville scale.
On Sept. 1 compromise" offer of
5000 was proposed and was flatly
refused by the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
FIRE And ARREST
TRACTION LABOR
TO SMASH union
Workers Organize AS
Injunction Looms

Company unionism and the anti
union injunction offensive of the en-
ployers continued yesterday to draw
a closer unbroken line around the New
York traction workers. Meanwhile
the officials of the American Feder-
alton of Labor and the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America issued
more vague statements while gazing
nervously but hopefully toward May
or Walker and Tammany Hall.
Union Officials Waver.
While the officers of the street car
mems union wait for the arrival in
New York next week of William
Green, president of the A. F. of L.,
the magnates of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Co. and the Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit Co. move forward
step by step toward their dual objec-
tive, the driving Of the union out of
the New York subways and the gen
eral extension in America of the open
shop.
Two employees Of the |. R. T. have
been arrested on the Ninth Ave. ele-
waited line for distributing hand bills
advertising a meeting of the street
car mems union. The day previous
six employees of the BIN. T. were dis
charged for membership in the union.
The I. R. T. continues to advertise
among its unskilled workers for vol
unteers for reserve force of motor
men for use as strike breakers should
the present crisis result in strike.
Hearing Nears.
A hearing is set for Nov. IL on
the application by the l. R. T. for
an injunction which would forbid ef-
forts by the street car mems union
or any other union affiliated with the
A. F. of L. to organize the traction
workers. The officials of the union
have decided not to act until Green
reaches New York to advise with
them. Green, however, is not sched
uled to reach the scene of action un-
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
New Playwrights Theater Wants Labor Audience
BY JOHN HOWARD LAWSON.
(Member of the New Playwrights' Board.)

Some people expect a labor theatre
to spring full-grown from the arid
soil of New York. They forget that
the creation of any growth so differ
ent from the stereotyped commercial
plants that are matured in the
Broadway lighthouses is matter of
slow development, careful experiment
tation and much study of ways and
means.
Revolutionary thought is built slow
ly in any field; it has to contend with
a tremendous weight of inertia, the
active antagonism of conventionally
minded people, the old hatred of the
new thing for the simple reason that
it is new, the passive disregard of
those who ought to be the first to
welcome new creative movement and
who have the most to gain from it.
Important Experiment.
Down side street off Seventh
Ave., in cramped playhouse, with
only the most economical and neces-
sary equipment, an important theat-
rical experiment is being carried on.
Don't misunderstood me! / don't
mean to pretend that these produc-
tions SAVIOR of genius or even of per-
fection in writing or directing or act
ing. / don't mean that the young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Company Thug Ambushed
Behind Y. M. c. A. Strikes
Down Colorado Picket.

WALSENBURG, Nov, 1.-The
second day after the coal mines
were shut down 100 per cent and
the picketing was called off, the
continuation of violence on the
part of the enemies of the miners
added TO their list OF victims the
name of yanita Sadivar. Sadivar
was one of the active strikers and
good picketers in the camps near
Walsenburg.
Sadivar left his home in Pictou,
camp three miles from Walsen-
burg about five o'clock in the
morning to go to headquarters to
see what was needed of him for the
day and also in order to get some
groceries at the store. AS he
crossed the street a large auto
came out from behind the Y. M. C.
A. building and turned the corner.
Pausing to let the auto pass, Sadi-
var found that it was coming full
speed at him and before he could
dodge it had knocked him down
and run over him breaking five
ribs and possibly leaving some in
ternal injuries. He is at present in
the hospital in a critical condition.
At such an early hour with few
on the street the identity of the
car or thug could not be obtained.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Charge N. Y. Police
Aid Fascist League;

"The police of New York are doing
their utmost to please Mussolini, y
charged Carlo Tresca, president of the
Anti-Fascist Alliance last night in re-
ferring to the long delay in the trial
of Cologero Greco and Donate Car
lilo, anti-fascists held in jail since
July II. They are charged with kill
ing two fascists in conection with a
parade last Decoration Day. Tresca
also cited the arrest last Wednesday
night of three other Italian workers
charged with assaulting fascists. They
are Petro Bencich, Bernard Godeno
and Charles Kasacassutta.
Since we issued a statement sew
eral days ago that the police were
working hand and hand with the fas-
cists," Tresca continued, "no denial
has been made by either the police or
the fascists.
A defense motion for the dismissal
Of the case against Greco and Garlic
is set for hearing Monday.
Isaac Shorr, counsel for the Inter
national Labor Defense, is in charge
of the defense Of Bencich, Godeno
end Kascassutta.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05

home in Dunglen, Ohio, and
stood in the driving rain thru
the ceremony at his grave.
Wreaths of flowers were sent
by local unions of railroad men
as well as by many miners locals.
Picetti's murderer is the son of a
sheriff of Boone County, West Vir-
ginia, who was active in anti-union
activities in 1924.
May shot Picetti after an argument
with striking miners which followed
Mays inquiry as to the location of a
scab mine where he was going to
work.
May and his three companions were
captured by a posse comitatus of
striking miners who trapped them at
Dead Mans Crossing, between Ray
land and Martins Ferry.
A revolver with one chamber emp
ty was found in Mays pocket.
A close guard is being kept over
the prisoners in Jefferson County
Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05

"playwrlghts who are running this en-
terprise or the young actors who are
giving their energies to it are in
themselves exceptional people.
They are exceptional in only one
way, and it is in such an important
way that they deserve the support of
everyone who feels that the theatre
has any place in social conflict. that
| it can have a vital battling part in
daily thought and daily action in
stead of being relegated to the duties
of an elegantly inconsequential cour-
tesan. The point is that the New
Playwrights' Theatre is the first the
atre in New York that has ever been
socially conscious, that has ever at
tempted to grapple with current prob
lens, to fight current battles, and to
fight from proletarian point of
view.
Thinking in New Terms.
This doesn't mean propaganda; but
it does mean thinking of the theatre
in new terms, creating it new from
every point of view, undertaking new
difficulties and Of necessity making
mistakes along the way.
We do not believe that the aim of
such a theatre is propaganda, because
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Manhattan, Harlem.

Manhattan, Harlem.
In Manhattan, at the Central
Opera House, 9th St. and Third Ave,
the Pioneers of New York will give
an elaborate pageant in pantomime
dealing with the revolution. The New
Star Casino, 10Th St. and Park Ave,
will be the meeting place of the Har-
lem workers. There a comprehensive
program of Russian songs will be
given by a Russian baritone.
In Arcadia Hall.
A change in program has been an
nounced for the Brooklyn mass meet
ing in Arcadia Hall, Broadway and
Halsey St. Besides the violin recital
by Comrade Rubin and the program
of revolutionary songs by a highly
trained chorus under the direction of
Walter Zukas, an address will be de-
livered by William z. Foster, strike
organizer fer $4,000 packing house
workers and 250,000 steel workers in
1919. He recently returned from
Soviet Russia, where he made an in
tensive study of trade union methods
and the conditions of Russian work
ers. Other speakers will be M. J..
Olgin, whose twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of activity in the militant labor
was widely celebrated, and
Bittelman, who also re-
Gently returned from the Soviet
Union.
The doors at all meetings will open
at / p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Communist Campaign
Viii End Tonight

In spite of the weather the Work
ers (Communist) Party held success
full "Red Night" rallies yesterday in
the Bronx and Williamsburg. Tonight
the campaign will end with "Red
Nights" in Brownsville and down.
town Manhattan.
At last nights "Red Nights" a
dozen meetings were held in both Sec
tions ending at 1890 p. M, when the
workers assembled at central meet
ing places.
At this evenings "Red Nights"
similar closing rallies will be at Stone
and Pitkin AYES, in Brownsville and
at Tenth st. and Second Ave-, in low
er Manhattan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Non-UriOn Labor Hired
By Subway Contractors

At the Central Trades and Labor
Council meetings at Beethoven Hall
Thursday night George Mullan, dele.
gate from the Carpenters Union, re
ported from the floor that non-union
labor was being employed at less
than half the union rate of wages in
the new subways now being con-
structed in Manhattan on Eighth
Ave. and the west side.
Delegate Mullan said it was in vio-
lation Of city ordinance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
WITHDRAW WARRANT CHARGING OIL
BARON INFL LUENCED TRIAL JURORS
Lots of Evidence But District Attorney Says 1t
Would Make Defendant Too Much Expense

WASHINGTON Nov warrant for the arrest of Harry
Sinclair mutmonare oil magnate charges conspiracy
to influence the jury In the Teapot Dome conspiracy trial.
issued here this afternoon by Assistant District Attorney Neil
Burknshaw and revoked by District Attorney Peyon Gordon
within an hour
The revocation of the Sinclair warrant followed conference
between Gordon and George Hoover Sncars attorney At its
conclusion Gordon announced that the had been recalled
Pressed for Gordon said it had been revoked because
did not want it issued at this time
This is the latest sensational development criminal trial
simply loaded with evidence of couon conspiracy corruption
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
.Steved0res May Join
Lightermen's Strike

Five hundred shippers of the har-
Dor lighters that haul perishable
goods from the New Jersey mainland
to New York are striking for a $3.50
week wage increase. The strike
may soon include the entire 1000
shippers in the harbor. Joseph D.
Ryan, international president of the
longshoremen's union, with which the
men are affiliated, is talking about
calling out the stevedores in SYM
pathy.
No union longshoremen or team
sters will handle stuff moved by
strikebreaking hghtermen, Ryan
warned employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
Meetings All Over the Country for tn =
Anniversary Celebration of Bolshevik Revolution

The celebration of the tenth ami
versary of the Russian revolution by
the workers of the United States will
last for an entire week. Besides the
mass meetings arranged for all parts
of the country. many affairs of So
cial character are scheduled.
Meetings have already been ar
ranged as follows:
Minnesota Tours.
st. Paul, Nov. s; Minnesota, Nov.
6; Superior, Wis, Nov. 7, 1880 p. m.;
Duluth, Nov. z, $3.50 p. m, Iron
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05

Range, Nov. s. Benjamin Gitlow
speaks at the above meetings.
Ohio Meetings.
Akron, Nov. II, 1880 p. m. /. Am
ter, H. Scott. so Howard street.
Cleveland, Nov. 6, 2:30 p. m. A,
Bittelman, l. Amter, E. Boich, F. Yes
sikoff (YWL), Revolutionary Play,
and Concert. Moose Hall, 1000 Wal
nut street.
Canton, Nov. 6, 1880 p. m. A. Bit
telman, H. Scott.
Continued on Page T4oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
TOMORROW will BRING THOUSANDS
TOGETHER TO HONOR REVOLUTION
New York Workers to Hear Speakers, Musicians
On New Russia's 10th Anniversary

will be the first day of week of workers cele
brations anniversary of the Boshevk Revolution
The workers of York will congregae in Manhattan,
Harlem and Brooklyn halls Sunday afternoon to listen to ad
dresses prominent labor leaders and members of the Workers
Comunis Party the subject of the significance of the
revolution of October 1917 the achievements that have
marked the ten years that followed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05

and bribery. Yesterday wit
nesses testifying before the
grand jury connected Harry F.
Sinclair, oil magnate who leased
the Teapot Dome naval oil re-
serve from the government by
what the supreme court terms a
fraudulent lease, with the hiring Of
sixteen Burns detectives to spy on the
jury in his trial now declared mis-
trial. Also Mark B. Thompson, at
torney for Albert B. Fall the secre-
tary of the interior who granted the
fraGGulent lease, admitted to the
grand jury that in the present case
he had the active help of a former
employe of Falls, D. R. Jackson, now
established in the department of jus
tice as an assistant attorney general.
Gordon's Excuse.
There was also evidence to show
that the Sinclair-Fall jury was
"fixed" and that the trial would have
gone on to an acquittal or hung jury
if it had not been for the unwelcome
publicity caused by the loose boasting
of one of the jurymen. Justice Sid
dons gave this publicity as a reason
for declaring a mistrial.
After first refusing to state why
he squashed the warrant against Sin
clair, charging him with corrupting
the jury, District Attorney Gordon
later in the day issued statement
saying that the accusation still
stands, but that Sinclair is in his
opinion under sufficiently heavy
bonds in the conspiracy to defraud
indictment, and will not be arrested
on the new charge.
Day Again Refuses.
The warrant against Henry Mason
Day, nominal president of one Of
Sinclair's corporations, "The Sinclair
Exploration Co.," is still out. Day ad-
mits being the Contact" man who
hired the VIM. J. Burns Detective
Agency to shadow the jurors. Who
directed him to hire them and who
they reported to, he refuses to say.
Day was accompanied to Justice
McCoy's court by his attorney, Judge
Wright.
"When you said you stood on your
constitutional grounds" asked Wright
Of Day, "did you mean you were re-
fusing to testify because you might
tend to incriminate yourself?"
81 did" said the reluctant witness.
Charge of Corruption.
The complaint against Sinclair and
Day under which the warrants were
issued, stripped of its legal verbiags,
follows:
Henry Mason Day and Harry r.
Sinclair, and others, in violation Of
Section 81 of the penal code of the
statutes Of the United States, did un-
lawfully conspire, confederate and
agree together to commit an offense
against the United States. To wit.
to attempt to influence the action and
decision Of a petit juror or juror then
and there serving as such in the case
Of United States VS.. Harry F. Sin
clair and Albert B. Fall, and in fur
therance Of said conspiracy did COM
NIT the following, together with overt
acts, did employ and direct certain
private detectives to influence and at
tempt to influence the action and de-
cision of petit jurors then and there
serving as such, and did further col,
ect reports from the said private Az
teetives with regard to their activ
IN the matter of investigation 81
contacts and the fnanc.
affairs Of some or all said JURORS"
Albert B. Fall took to his apart s
nents as soon as the jury scandal got
lnder way"
A motion calling upon H. M. Black
Continued on Page Tloo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
SINCLAIR DEFENSE SEES PROSECUTOR; NO ARREST
Colorado Miners Strike
Mass Meeting Tonight;
Church Of All Nations

Aid for the striking Colorado
miners will be urged at o'clock
tonight at the Church of All Ma
tons, 9 Second Ave-, at a mass
meeting called by the New York
Colorado Miners Relief Commit
tee. The speakers will include
William F. Dunno, Richard Brazier,
Charles Cline and Arthur C. Ward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
10000 MARCH TO FUNERAL OF BOY
KILLED BY Ohio MINE CO, SCAB
Murderer Is Son of Notorious Anti Union
Sheriff; Strikers Capture Him
Especial To The DAILY WORKER }
BY AMY SCHECHTER.

PITTSBURGH Nov. 10000 miners from every local
union in five countless yesterday marched the cemetery behind
the body of John Pice 9yearod union and son of
union miner, shot to death by LIMA May scab
army miles from Pcettis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
EXPECT ; CLOAK
Makers RELEASE
FROM JAIL today
Local Al ILGW Supports
Left Wing Leaders

Five cloakmakers arrested during
the last strike are slated for release
on parole from Hart Island Jail this
morning. They have served nine
months of their intermediate SEN
tences, officials of the Cloak and
Dressmakers' Joint Board announced
last night.
They are Samuel Grossman, Ar
thur Zinn, M. Bernstein, Harry Field
man and Paul Kalidman. Joint Board
leaders state Bernstein is to be re-
arrested on his release on an indict-
ment issued through the efforts of
the right wing group of the union.
Joint Board spokesmen said that
they hoped to obtain the release soon
of two other cloakmaker prisoners
now at Sing Sing Prison-A. Roman
chick and Joseph Perlman.
Papers Signed Thursday.
The parole papers for the workers
on Hart Island were signed Thursday
and delivered to Hart Island yester-
day. A committee of the Joint Board
will be present to greet them when
they come out.
If Bernstein is rearrested on his
release this morning he will immedi-
ately be bailed out, Joint Board
spokesmen said.
Local Al Supports 'Lefts."
"The attempt of the right wing to
reorganize Local Al has failed com
pletely," M, f. Taft, manager of Lo-
cal al, International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, said last night in
referring to the suspension of the To-
cal last week by the right wing gen.
eral executive board.
"The workers are supporting the
progressive leadership of the local
100 per cent" Taft continued. "Since
the suspension every shop meeting
has voted unanimously to support US
in the fight against the right wing.
eve have notified the Pleaters' and
Stitchers' Association they must sign
the new contract with us as the over
whelming majority of the workers
,are behind us and will support us to
Nhe end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-22
It's Snappy

The University Of Oklahoma is sit
uated in the town Of Norman. 1t
occupies 140-acre campus, receives
$1,2O0,0O0 from the State annually
and owns 100000 acres Of land in fee
simple.
Its atmosphere is snappy and
Democratic. You don't feel you have
entered a tomb when you enter the
administration building. Everybody
is busy, but not to such an extent
as to make you feel like an intruder.
Such an element of contact 10 often
lacking in the university with hoary
traditions and big endowment.
But please don't get the impression
that discipline is lax, or standards
low.
Nonresident students are not per-
mitted to have cars and nocturnal
festivities are restricted to Friday
and Saturday nights. Even then the
students must be in by II o'clock.
w. B. Bizzell is president of Okla
homa University. 1 used to know
him in Texas where he was presi-
dent Of the agricultural and mechani-
cal college for eleven years.
Before that he was president of
Texas College of Industrial Arts for
four years. DR.. Bizzell has all kinds
Of degrees but you would never guess
it. He shakes hands like a human
being. I speak Of this because it is
typical of the western scholar who
regards education, not something by
which to get cap and gown, but as
a means by which to help other
people help themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-22
Washington, Pioneer

If George Washington were to
come back on this 195th anniversary
Of his birth he would find great COM
fort in this West of which he
dreamed, but never saw.
He would marvel at the great cities
Of the east, no doubt, at the brilliant
ly lighted streets, the whirring autos,
the radio, vacuum cleaners and
canned music. but he would find it
easier to understand the men of the
great prairie section, the mountain
wilds, the desert and the Pacific
slope.
George Washington was pioneer
by nature. a promoter and developer.
AS a young man, he sought the
wilderness with surveyors kit on
his back. As an old man, he owned
vast tracts of land that lay beyond
what most people regarded as the
limits Of civilization. 1t was by
travelling far ahead Of the crowd that
he got his real training, learned to
meet emergencies, to run straight
course and stay with it, no matter
where it led. He would find a
thrill in all that is taking place west
Of the Alleghenies, in the miles of
new roads, the great reclamation
projects, the inception OF new and
bigger undertakings, the awakening
of broader public vision.