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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Walsh Opposes
Governor Smith
As a Candidate

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. AL
though not mentioning his name,
U. S. Senator Walsh of Montana, in
a speech before the National Wom-
ems Democratic League, let it be
known that he is opposed to the nom
ination of Al. Smith, governor of New
York as a presidential candidate.
Walsh, who was chairman of the last
democratic national convention, de-
clared that nomination by the demo-
Gratis of an Outstanding wet" would
defeat the party at the polls next
year by injecting the wet and dry is
sue into the campaign.
Criticizes Foreign Policy.
In his speech Senator Walsh also
demands radical change in the for
eigH policy of the government, de-
claring that the United States while
not exactly hated by the world, is not
regarded by any nation with any de-
gree of goodwill. He also commented
en- the suggestion that the headquar-
ters of the Pan-American Union be
transferred from Washington to a
South American city and declared
that is a protest on the part of
Latin-Americans on what they regard
as aggressions by, our government"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
RayOn Workers Of
BGmberg, lennon
Strike Once More

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, Nov. Is.
Three hundred of the workers at
the Bemberg Works (rayon) Of this
city are on strike, and efforts are be-
ing made to tie up the entire mill en-
ploying 1900 men and women.
Conditions in this mill are abonin-
able. The bosses do not know what
humanity is. They work the 1oen 6S
to u hours a week at wages Of 70 to
5? cents an hour. The girls and wom-
en- work 10 hours day, and Sc hours
q week. They begin with SS.96 for
56 hours. The average scale for
women is 20 cents an hour after they
learn how to do the work.
Living expenses, on the other hand
are as high as in the big cities. Board
and room cost from 81 to $40 week.
Unhealthy Work,
The work is unhealthy for the
women, and many of them get tuber-
culosis. But there is vast reservoir
OF workers in the hills of Tennessee,
West Virginia and Kentucky 70 draw
on-innocent, ignorant "hill-billies,"
who are being turned into industrial
slaves.
The workers in this plant have
struck before. Last spring they were
on strike, but after three days went
back defeated. This time they are
demanding 8 hours work and higher
pay. They are trying to form local
union and hope this time that they
will win. Up to the present only 800
have gone out, but these men and
women are doing everything possible
to get out the 1000 others.
When workers begin to strike in the
southland twice within period of
few months then there is hope for
the American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Miners Congress Closes
Demanding Unity to Stop
Onslaught By Operators

Especial Cable to Daily WOrker.)
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. Is
The International Miners Confer
ence here ended today. 1t had rep
resentatives Of nine countries:
France, Belgium, England and
others.
A resolution for unity was
adopted also stating that the mine
owners onslaught in all countries
calls for struggle by the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions.
Under the craftsmanship of A.
Lunacharsky, the International
Conference of Proletarian Writers
opened. Lunacharsky reported on
the situation of literature in the
Soviet Union. He pointed out that
the November 7th Revolution pro-
noted the free creative work and
encouraged literature in many
tongues representing the several
scores of nationalities in the So
Wet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Grand Jury Refuses To
Hear Detective Burns

Continued from Page One)
affidavit which Rudy and Judge
Wright drew up for McMullin to
sign, alleging that the attorney gem
erals office was itself corrupting the
Fall Sinclair trial jury. The report
is that Gordon was trying to get Rud-
dy to "come clean" and testify against
his chief, Burns. However. when
Ruddy came out, he went into con-
ference with Burns
Pinchot's Part.
Owen J. Roberts, government coun-
sci in the Teapot Dome oil graft trial,
stated today that he would testify for
McMullin, if his character was at
tackled, and that he believed ex-Gov-
ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania would
testify for him too"
Pinchot plays a curious and as yet
unexplained part in the whole affair.
1t was he who brought McMullin to
the prosecution. Some say he plant
ed him in the Burns camp There
are free charges that the Rockefeller
interests are determined to finally
ruin their rival, Sinclair, and also that
the White House is anxious to see
Burns discredited, since he has all the
inside information Of the Harding
Coolidge regime at the height of the
Teapot Dome and their big deals and
might want to talk some time.
McMullin, when he joined Burns,
took the name of friend of his, VIM.
V. Long, former sergeant in the
New Jersey state police and later a
runner for an insurance company.
Long wants to prosecute McMullin,
and has written the U. S. district at
torney a letter exposing" him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Charge Tax Cutters
Got Hundred Dollar
Bills From Wealthy

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Is
Half yelled charges that the state
governors, legislators and judges
brought to testify before the tax
committee, were bribed by rich men
anxious to have the federal Inherit
ance tax revoked are contained in a
letter from Representative-elect r. c..
Johnson of South Dakota.
johnson refers to the "alleged
ways and means committee" conduct
ing the hearings, because of his con-
tention, also in the letter, that the
committee is without legal authority
to hold the hearings.
The Lobby In Action.
"In one of these cases before the
alleged ways and means committee"
says Representative Johnson, "per-
tinent. evidence was secured with ref
erence to tax laws, in spite of the
fact that witnesses, evidently we'll
advised as to their legal rights, re-
fused to testify concerning well
financed anti-inhcritance tax lobby.
Says $4,000 Was Paid.
"Had this committee possessed
legal powers it could undoubtedly
prove that the payroll man of this
group at the Raleigh Hotel recently
had approximately $4,000 in hun
dred-dollar bills and paid off those
hired to be in Washington to make
the demonstration before the alleged
committee. Had it legal powers it
could have shown that approximately
$4,000 was paid to Oregon men alone
and $700 to one man from Arizona.
About $500 was, as can be shown,
paid to men from my own state of
South Dakota, who were brought
here to convince the alleged commit
tee that that state desired repeal of
the inheritance tax.
at could have been shown that
100000 was contributed to this fund
by one Montana corporation or indi-
viduals interested in it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Think Gas Tank Blast
Killed Pottery Workers
Continued from Page Ome)

continued from rage One)
Frank Kuepferele, 80, foreman di-
recting the hosting of twisted steel
girders from the wrecked Joseph
Horne Company warehouse, was IA
tally injured when a mass of rein
forcing steel fell on him from the
hoist. His skull was fractured and
he died a few minutes later in a hos
pital.
Anthony Coyne, 18, working with
Kuepferele, suffered decorations of
the head, arms and hands. He was
treated at hospital and taken home.
Workers Killed.
Following is the list of known
dead:
A. M. Beaver, %, VIM. Bellam, 81,
George Bentfeld, %, Fred Bishop, 45,
tank repairer; Mary Congelier, %;
Joseph Harris, %, Negro worker;
John A. Mccall, gas company en-
ploye; Charles S. Mitchaels, 45; John
w. Miller, 60; C. R. Hardy, tank re-
pairer; H. T. Sobeck, 80, tank repair
er; P. w. Price, tank repairSr; Jason
Warner, 45, tank repairer; Frank
Ubrey, IS; John Moore, Negro work.
er.
Seven unidentified bodies, two of
whom are so badly mutilated identi-
fication seems impossible, are reeov-
cred
Company at Fault.
The Equitable Gas Co., tank blew
up at quarter to nine yesterday
morning, sending showers of metal,
brick and glass all over this section
of the densely populated industrial
and working class section of the CITY.
! demolishing building all around it.
The top of the tank, huge mass of
steel sored highed in the air, turned
ever and fell with a terrific crash
on part of the pottery works nearby.
How many workers are buried under
it, no one can even guess.
The tank was under repair at the
time, and should not have been filled
with gas. The company disavows
blame, and without explaining how
they came to send men to rivet and
cut steel with acetelyne torches,
claims that torch light burned thru
the tank and set off the explosive
mixture of gases.
When the tank blew up, bodies of
some of the repair men, employed by
the Riter-Conley Co. were blown for
a hundred feet through the air.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Foster, Steel Strike
Leader, Urges Labor
Mass Behind Miners

Especial Dispatch to Daily Worker.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15.-William
u. Foster, leader of the 1919 steel
strike and head of the Trade Union
Educational League, now in Pitts
hurgh, made the following statement
regarding the miners lockout and
the American Federation of Labor
conference now in session here.
1.-THE present coal lockout in Penn
sylvania and Ohio is pregnant with
far-reaching consequences for the
whole labor movement. The coal OPP
orators have smashed the miners
union in West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Colorado and
other districts. This lockout is a
drive at the very heart of the union,
IN the strategic Pennsylvania and
Ohio districts. The aim of employers
is to establish the open shop in the
entire coal industry. If they can beat
the union here the next points to be
attacked will be the Illinois and an
thracite districts. The union is in a
life and death fight. It's defeat would
enormously stimulate the open shop
movement generally and weaken the
trade unions in every industry. This
Ia one of the most important strug-
giles in the history of the labor move
ment.
Lewis Policies Responsible.
John L. Lewis wrong policies are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
MANIFESTO OF THE THIRD
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF IN
.TERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE

The capitalist class of America has
imprisoned and murdered manv
members of the working class of this
country. The memory of Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is still fresh
IN the minds of the workers of the
world. These two noble heroes of the
working class were burned to death in
the electric chair solely because of
thelr answering devotion to the cause
OF labor's freedom. The martyrdom
OF these two rebels is an urgent an
peal to all the workers to organize
their determination to fight against
the repetition of such a frightful ex-
ample of capitalist Justice"
Prisons Filled with Labor Fighters
Dozens of American workers are
today languishing in prisons from
coast to coast for their activities in
the labor movement. Tom Moonev
and Warren k. Billings, innocent men
OF labor, have been buried for fen
years and more in California peniten-
tlarles. In Walla Walla prison in
washington, eight members of tho 7
W. W. OF Centralia have suffered for
elght years for daring to defend thei,
hall from the brutal assault of Amer
can leglonnaries. In New JERSEYS
prisons almost a dozen of the textile
workers of the Passaic strike uus+
rot Tor years as symbol of the
Vengefulness of the mill barons
In other parts of the country tho
prisons Of capitalism have also been
filled with working class fighters
Sacco- Vanzetti Frame-Up Victims
Sacco and Vanzetti were victims
OF the frame-up system. This in.
famous system has already claimed
many fighters, and it is ALREADY
reaching out for more. In New York
the two Italian workers, Greco and
Garlic, are being dragged along the
same road of terror and death that
ended in the electric chair for Sacco
and Vanzetti. In Cheswick, Pennsvl-
vania, twenty miners have been n
dlcted for participating in Sacco-
Vanzetti protest meeting, which was
brutally attacked by the notorious
Pennsylvania Cossacks. In New
York, the cloakmakers and furriers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16

must still run the gauntlet of the
courts for their courageous resistance
to the efforts of the employers to
lower their standard of life. In Colo
RADIO the jails are already choked with
striking miners who dare to fight
against the Rockefeller interests.
Not day passes without the news
Of another attack against the work.
ers. Injunctions against labor and it's
organizations, laws against picketing,
police brutalities, the corrupted courts
and the kept judges, the criminal
syndicalist laws, the immigration de-
partment and the department of Gus
tlce"-all of the governmental ma
chinery of the ruling class-are all
modified to railroad to prison or
| death the best workers. The new
struggles that are already visible on
the horizon will bring with them an
even greater number of victims of the
class battle.
Urge Fight on Frame-up.
"All of these workers must be sur
rounded by an army of labor that
will keep them from the cynical bru-
tally of the capitalist class. The en-
tire working class of this country
must be aroused to the menace of
that already well-established Amer
lean institution-the frame-up sys-
TEN. Its organized strength must b
directed toward preventing the i'm
prisonment of workers for their DO
Iitical or economic opinions or activi-
ties
1--WE must build a movement Of Ia
Dor solidarity for those workers id
prison and those who are beins
groomed for the penitentiary. Tho
labor movement must fulfil it's duty
to the men behind the bars. 1t must
swing open the doors that confine
these men. 1t must aid them and
their dependents with relief meas.
ures. 1t must fight with it's entire
energies for their release so that they
can be welcomed back into active SER
vice for the labor movement.
Build Defense Movement.
"The International Labor Defense.
which for more than two wears has
worked to build a class movement for
labor defense, on the basis of non.
partisanship and unity of all forces.
calls upon the workers of America
to rally its great power for this move-
ment. The |. L. ID. seeks to build A
movement to serve as an arm of the
working class. 1t is becoming a
shield of the labor movement.
1--WE call upon the workers of
America to join in the fight for the
release of Tom Mooney, Billings, the
Centralia, I. w. w., the Passaic strik-
ers and all other imprisoned labor
fighters from prison. All workers,
irrespective Of their opinion or af.
filiations, must join in the great
movement of solidarity for this strug-
gle.
Build a wall of labor defense
against the frame-up systeml
Fight for the release Of all the
class war prisoners!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
MORE ARMY PROPAGANDA.

Several units Of the United States
army is being loaned to the Pathe-
Bray Productions, film company, to
help take a picture called "The Men
ace" the scene of which is located in
the Grand CANYON Of the Colorado.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
Anniversary Meetings
VIII Last Turnout the
Month; Here Are 2 More

The celebration of the tenth ami
versary of the Bolshevik revolution
by the American workers will last for
almost an entire month. Many meet
ings have been arranged for the next
two weeks. Meetings will be held in
the following cities of Washington and
Maryland.
Washington, Nov. rs, p m. Play
house, 1918 N st. N. W; w. W. Wein-
stone, speaker.
Baltimore, Nov. 20, p. M, Hippo
drome Theater, Eutaw and Baltimore
Sts.; Jay Lovestone, speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16

responsible for the crisis Of the
union. For several years the employ
ers have waged an especially aggres-
sive and general campaign to destroy
the union, using the most drastic
means. Instead of replying to this by
vicious campaign to organize the
unorganized districts, Lewis has prac-
tically surrendered these districts,
even prosecuting and expelling whole
sale those union members who have
insisted upon a militant policy. Thus
the union has lost position after po-
sition in the industry. Within two
years it lost 100000 members. At
the beginning of the present lockout
the union miners were digging only
30 per cent of all soft coal produced,
whereas three years ago they were
digging 10 per cent. Manifestly a
life necessity of the union was to or
ganize the unorganized miners. The
men were responsive. But Lewis did
nothing to unite them, consequently
the union went into the struggle with
the odds greatly against it. It's pres
ent critical situation is the inevitable
result of the disastrously wrong pol
icies of the Lewis administration.
Conference viii Do Nothing Effective
The A. F. of L. conference will do
nothing to meet the crisis. The A. F.
of L. officials, like the miners lead
ers, are saturated with the same
spirit of non-militancy. With the
capitalists everywhere on the often
sive against the unions, they, instead
Of building the unions and leading
them in aggressive action, are weakly
calling out to the employers to coop
crate with them. Thus the unions are
constantly driven backward.
Part of General Crisis.
"The crisis in the miners union is
phase of the general crisis of the
whole labor movement. The A. F. of
L. conference will only voice futile
complaints against the suppression of
the workers rights, plead with the
employers to be "fair," advise the
workers to support friends" on the
old party tickets, make few empty
gestures about strike relief-all of
which means nothing for the winning
of the struggle. What is necessary is
right about face in policy. Mill
fancy not sychancy, must be the key
note.
"The whole labor movement should
be rallied to furnish money for strike
relief and to provide organizers to
unite the unorganized miners in the
non-union districts. The present in
functions should be broken down with
mass violations, the workers being en-
couraged to picket freely.
Concrete Steps Must BE Taken.
"Steps should be taken to prevent
the production or hauling of any coal
by union workers until the locked-out
miners get settlement. A call should
be issued, not for the workers to
further support capitalist politicians,
but to form a Labor Party.
indispensable Measures.
"These measures are indispensable
to save the miners union. But this
gathering Of reactionary union lead
ers is incapable of formulating and
applying them. That is the task Of
the progressive and left wing rank
and file elements, and it must be done
in the face of the strongest opposi-
ton from the Lewis administration"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16
GENERAL McRAE ATTACKS REDS

Speaking in Christ Church yester-
day, Major Gen. McRae assailed paci-
fists because they interfered with the
work of the army in exterminating
radicals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-16

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Adopt Manifesto.

The Conference, at the conclusion
OF Its sessions, also adopted a mani
festo addressed to the working class
OF the United States, reading as fol-
lows:
, 1927-02-11

Fort Worth Decor Frederick, . com
petent explorer ard oil promoter who IS
serving a fifteen year sentence for using
the mails to defraud in pr0moti0nal
schemes, will apply for five years proba-
ton under the recent Federal law extend
ing the authority for such proposals TO
the trial courts. He is sIXty-0De and has
already served more than three years OF
the sentence.
Washington. The recent death at
Louisa. Kentucky, of Mrs Mah0la Huff.
one hundred and eight years old, took
No. l from the Federal pension rolls. Mrs.
Huff was one of seventeen surviving
widows If participants in the war OF
eighteen twelve and the oldest pensl0ner
OF the records.
Washington. The S ate Department
has u.sc.almed tie knowledge Of urovi-
sjeas under which four United States ci.
items are serving under contract with
The Diaz forces in Nicaragua. Two Us
Avialors and two II. s. instructors is in
the Conservative C0~nstabulary,
Halifax. The American Liner "2resi-
dent with seven hundred passengers,
resumed the "Trip TO New York after q
night in the dark, due to the fuel tank
leak which completely drained the oil
supply.
London Lisbon dispatches which
escape the censorship continue to reflect
the gravity of the revolutionary move
ment which began last week IN ODorto
and has .since spread to the Portuguese
Capitol.
Psking The Cabinet discussed the
British proposals ter The treaty revision
conference, bur delays action, peading
, 1927-02-11
Cling Waldo

To be king Of three little islands and
dozens of little jsIets out in a tropic
sea. where ones word is law and where
the palm leaves wiggIe in appreciation. -
such is the destiny of Captain Waldo
Evans. u. s. N. retired, one time com
mandant OF the Great Lakes GID Ma
val Training Station, onetime Governor
Of Samoa, who was last week appoint
ed by President Coolidge TO be king
of the Virgin Islands. His official title
is Governor, but he IS the sole military
, 1927-02-11

twice LAST night, and retrestad towards
Ochomoge followed by the Conserva-
lives who lost II killed and 40 wounded.
Liberals losses are unknown Ibid.
, 1927-02-11
MORE FL5HIIN5 IN NICARAGUA.

San Juan del sur, Jan. 3O.-It was
announced the Liberals attacked Rivas
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Evening star., 1927-12-06
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS
TOPIC AT CONFERENCE
Commissioner Dougherty and De
partment Heads Discuss Projects
Now Under Considera ton.

Projects Of the various departments
Of the municipal government under
the administrative supervision of Com
missioner Proctor l.. Dougherty We're
discussed at the first of series of
monthly meetings between the Com
missioner and his department heads
Yesterday afternoon.
The monthly conferences have been
held among the heads of the engineer
ing departments and the Engineer
Commissioner for several years and
Commissioner Dougherty hopes the
adoption Of this practice for his de.
partment heads will result in co-ordi-
nation of activities and stimulus to
obtain results.
Department heads who met with
Commissioner Dougherty were Mai,
Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of
police: William ~. Harland. traffic di-
rector: George s. Watson. superin.
tendent of the Fire Department.: Or.
William c. Fowler, Health Office:
George NJ. Roberts. superintendent of
weights and measures, and Wade II.
Coombs. superintendent of licenses.