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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
VISIT OF Green
With WALKER IN
MYSTERY STROUD
Mayor Not Available
For Statement

No confirmation could be obtained
yesterday of the press announcement
that William Green, president Of the
A. F. of L. and ice-President Vol,
also Acting President of the National
Civic Federation, were to be conducted
to Mayor Walker thi smorning in
crder-as on of the New York papers
expresses ito present him with
evidence in connection with Com
munists' charges that members of the
police force were bribed during the
last strike Of fur workers in this
city,.
Walker Dodges Giving Views.
Efforts to question Mayor Walker
or his secretary about this matter
yesterday were unavailing, as both
were reported to be gin conference.
INJURIES at te hotel where r. Green
usually stays in this city disclosed
the fact that the Federation presi-
dent was not there, and was not ex-
pected.
In the meantime there is per-
sistent rumor that Joseph p Ryan,
president Of the Central Trades and
Labor Council Of this city, and other
officials Of that body, have been called
to appear this morning before Dis
trict Attorney Banton in connection
with these charges made by American
Federation of Labor officials against
members of the police force.
It was Mr.. Ryan who denied Vice
President VOLTS statement that the
police had been bribed by the strik-
ing fur workers. This was especially
significant since Mr.. Ryan himself
was a member of the committee,
headed by Mr.. Vol, which carried on
the so-called investigation Of the fur
lier's strike and its expenditures.
Perhaps Mr.. Vol treated men,
bers Of the committee as he did the
officers Of the Joint Board Of the
Furriers Union.
According to Ben Gold. Manager
Of the Joint oBard. when Mr.. VOLTS
committee had finished its question
ing Of union officers, the minutes
were never submitted to the union
for CORRECTION as had been promised
Continued on page
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Manufacturers, Army,
Navy, Write $4,000
Brief Against Labor

National employers organizations
are aiding the fight against further
labor legislation in New York, one
Of the most important industrial
states. The $4,000 brief of the
national industrial conference board,
prepared for the associated industries
of New York, to present before the
legislatures industrial survey COM
mission, shows this. The conference
board has affiliated with it all the
big national manufacturers organi-
cations, together with army and navy
ordnance departments, army air and
military intelligence services.
The conference board brief at
tempts to show that New York's pres
emit labor legislation has placed the
state at competitive disadvantage
and that more labor legislation would
make the situation worse. The brief
indirectly pays tribute to the com.
paratively advanced legislation or
ganized labor has largely aided il
securing in the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
ARBITRATION IN
NICARAGUA URGED
BY GUATEMALA
American BayOnets Will
Decide the Question

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 23.-
Guatemala has again offered its
good offices in the controversy be-
tween President Diaz of Nicaragua,
supported by American bayonets,
and President Sacasa, supported by
the Nicaraguan people.
While Coolidge is willing to listen
to arbitration proposals in Nacara-
qua, he spurns arbitration in Mexico.
United States marines are planted in
Nicaragua and they intend to stay
there. The decision Of any arbitra-
ton committee that would not be ia
vorable to Diaz would be spurned BY
the American government. There are
no United States marines in Mexico
yet.
The conduct of Senator Borah in
acquiescing to the administration
policy in Mexico and Nicaragua, out
side of an oratorical effort in the
senate, has disappointed liberals who
usually mistake sound for sincerity.
Borah roared for an hour and a
half for the benefit of the Idaho
voters and then announced that Cool
idge must be allowed to work out
his policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Says Daily Worker is
Smasher of Shams

greet the first New York issue
of the "Daily Worker.
The "Daily Worker" is the only
daily newspaper in the English Ian
guage that voices the protest of the
workers against the domination Of
capitalist rule, and against corrupt
and bureaucratic trade union leader
ship. Together with the "Freiheit"
the "Daily Worker" will help the
New York workers to smash trade
union bureaucracy and amalgamate
their unions into strong instruments
for their daily struggle with the en-
ployers for better life. The daily
Worker" will help the workers free
themselves from capitalist domina-
tion,-Aaron Gross. Business Agent,
New York Joint Board, Furriers
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Not
Willing To
Arbitrate
May Fight To Preserve
Properly Rights"

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 23.-
Pres. Coolidge is decidedly opposed
to the arbitration Of the matters at
issue between the United States and
Nicaragua and the United States and
Mexico. Political observers here take
this to mean that Wall Street is of
the opinion that it stands to gain
more by straight negotiation than by
bringing in a third party.
Calvin Coolidge, alias the "official
spokesman" gave out the word that
what the United States government
was concerned with was ''confiscation
of property in the Mexican situa-
ton. In Nicaragua the Coolidge adj
ministration has not any kind of a
plausible excuse outside of warships.
The Clash At Washington
Developments in Washington touch
ing on the Central American situa-
ton are:
A resolution introduced by Senator
Robinson providing for the submits
sion of differences between the Unit
ed States and Mexico to an arbitral
tribunal, Mexico in the meantime re-
framing from confiscating property
until after the question has been ar
bitrated
Senator Frazier of North Dakota
introduced a resolution expressing
opposition to the dispatch of war
ships and troops to Mexico or to the
Mexican border during the recess of
congress.
Senator Borah considered an OPP
ponent Of administration policy con-
tinaci Is No. lis usual rolousf
"shock-absorberp for the Coolidge
Kellogg policy. Borah favors the
Robinson resolution which is salts
factory to the administration.
Reed Supports "CaP
Senator Reed of Missouri, demo-
cratic critic of the administration pro-
posed giving a free hand to Coolidge
in his Latin American policy.
From what can be gathered here
the administration does not want to
create the impression in Latin Amer
lea that its hands are tied by re-
fractory senate. The general belief
is that war is not an immediate pro-
liability but Coolidge wants to give
Latin America the impression that
the United States will not stop short
of war to protect the interests Of
Wall Street.
Coolidge made it quite clear that
he would continue to prop up presi-
dent Diaz of Nicaragua on his usur-
ped presidential throne regardless of
what sundry orators in the senate
thot.
At the moment Wall Streets policy
is on the top Of the heap in Washing
ton.
So far William Green, president Of
the American Federation of Labor
has not protested against the attack
on the rights of the Nicaraguan peo-
pie nor against the threatened war
on Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
SHOPS
THAT DISCHARGED
FOES OF SIGMAN
Joint Board Reiterates
Challenge to Audit

Picketing begins this morning in
front of six cloak shops which have
been called on strike by the Joint
Board Of the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union because
they have discharged workers who re-
fused to register with the Interna-
tioHal Union
According to Louis Hyman, gen.
eral manager of the joint board,
these strikes are being called to pro-
tect the interests Of the workers
whom the international Union is
trying to prosecute in this way, for
their allegiance to the joint board
and local officials who represent
them.
Workers the Victims.
"The international officers. caring
not for the workers but only for
maintaining themselves in power,
are using the employers n an effort
to force union members - register
with Them" says Mr. Hyman.
"They are willing to take the
bread and butter out Of the workers
mouths in order to further their own
interests. They think that the
weapon of hunger will force the
cloakmakers to surrender to their
traitorous leadership.
Joint Board Protects.
"But the cloakmakers' joint board
will fight for the workers interests
against these employers, who are al
lied with the international officials,
Just as we have fought, continually,
the battle of the members of the
union against Sigman and his clique,
who have usurped power and are
trying to take the union away from
the mass of the workers who have
built it."
IEHT MAN, Complete Audit VA =
Mr.. Lyman TO-DAY expressed once
more the joint boards willingness to
have an audit of its expenditures
adding,
"But we want an audit of the books
for the past five years, and we also
demand an audit of the books of the
international office for the same
period.
ut would be of great interest to
the entire membership to know just
how the l5c per capita tax is ex-
pended, and what was done with the
special $3.50 tax levied, supposedly
for strike, just before the workers
demands were turned over to the
Governors Commission in 1924"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Havana Unemployed
Defend Themselves
When Attacked

HAVANA, Jan. 23.-Four hundred
unemployed men attacked the Ward
line wharves today demanding work.
Led by two men recently discharged,
the stevedores were driven back once
only to return to attack guards who
had been sent to protect scab prop
erty. One guard was seriously hurt.
Several of the strikers were ar
rested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
SHOOT DOWN IS STRIKERS IN SOUTH
AMERICA TO Save U. S. PROPERTY"

BOG0TA Columbia Jan. 23--Fifeen strikers have been
killed by in the Baracabermeja oil fields
where they have been striking against the Tropical Oil Company
American According latest stevedores
other workers the Magdeena river have joined the strike
which is continuing to spread.
The has declared siege placed
Victor NJ Saazar in charge of its forces the strike
AS usual the cry of Communist influence" being
as the main issue by the company officials
Teegraphc connections TO Barrancabermea have been de-
royed close censorship being established messages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
welcome DAILY WORKER.

Welcome DAILY WORKER.
The meeting was advertised as
also welcome to The DAILY
WORKER and the great audience
was enthusiastic about that, too.
Every reference to the arrival of
"The DAILY" in New York, the an
nouncement that beginning with
Mondays issue it would appear reg
ularly on the New York news stands.
and the auctioning off-Moissaye
Olgin, auctioneer-of the first auto
graphed copy of the special Madison
Square Souvenir Edition, was greet
ed with vociferous joy.
Other copies, also hot from. the
press, were sold by the thousands
thru the audience.
Ovation For Lenin's Name.
Chairman William Weinstone in
the first few words of his introduc-
tory address, "Lenin Day." struck
the keynote that prevailed thru the
meeting. At his first mention Of
Lenin-prolonged applause.
When he said DAILY WORKER .
loud and sustained applause. Cheer
ing and applause when China was
spoken of, when Marks name was
first heard, when he began to talk
of the Russian revolution. The de-
claration that this enormous meeting
was held under the auspices Of Dis
trict 2 of the Workers Communist
Party Of America resulted in more
enthusiasm.
Leninism In America.
"Lenin is looked upon by some as
belonging to the European proletar-
lat, and as one whose teachings do
not apply in bourgeois America, 4"
said Weinstone.
"But when the American workers
are ready to establish their dictator
ship of the proletariat, the name Of
Lenin will be on their lips, and
E.eninism will be their inspiration"
Weinstone introduced ]. Louis
Engdahl as "Comrade, the Editor of
The DAILY WORKER"
Leninism In China.
Engdahl described the worldwide
nature of the celebration of Lenin
day, and the reasons for it. at is
no accident" said The DAILY
WORKER editor, "that the trade
union council is troubled and revolt
ing Shanghai has announced that the
trade unions of that city are cele-
brating Lenin day"
He described the effect of Lenin-
ism on the workers movements, and
told the history of the Russian revolu-
ton by way of illustration. 1t was
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
British Government
Transporting Indian
Troops to Shanghai

LONDON, Jan. 23.-The British
government has chartered trans
ports to transfer Jhansi Indian
troops to Shanghai according to
central news dispatch from Cal
cutta.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 23.-Fifty
Chinese strikers were injured here
today in a conflict with foreign
police under the direction of the
mill owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED.

ROUND ROCK, TEN, Jan. 23.-
Eleven persons were killed, five in
jured, probably fatally, and four
others were seriously hurt here today
when a train hit bus carrying the
Baylor university basketball team
and students from Waco to Austin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Dock Worker Fractures
Skull; Fifth Serious
Accident This Week

While repairing the hold Of the s.
S. Asina, Pier 81, East River, Victor
Nicoletti, %, Of West New York,
slipped from the ladder on which he
was standing and fell to the deck. He
was taken to st. Vincent's Hospital
suffering from a fractured skull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
2O,geCheer Lenin
AT "The Garden
Workers Party Meeting Welcomes DAILY
WORKER on Famous Anniversary

In Lenn honor the third anniversary his DEATH
twenysecond anniversary Bloody Sunday twenty
New workers crowded into Madison Square Garden
Saturday night considered the largest demonstration
Lenin Day thus far witnessed in America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Most Critical
Gathering of
Unions History
Delegates Will Attack Official
MiSmanagement
BY JACK KENNEDY
Especial to The Daily WOrker)

INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 23.-With
hundreds of delegates copverging on
this city from every union mining dis
trict of the United States and Canada,
lines we're being drawn today for the
most critical convention in the history
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea.
From eastern, central and western
Pennsylvania, from far away Nova
Scotia and Alberta, from nearby IL
linois and dozen other mining states
the delegates bore down upon Indian
apolis. On the busy streets they were
easily identified, not by badges, but
by faces scanned with the telltale blue
black marks where powder had burned
its way into the flesh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Special Passaic Edition


Wilmington DAILY WORKER
andf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
Lewis Uses Booze

! A score OF conferences were under
way as progressive and machine
forces laid down programs and out
lined convention policies upon whicl
hangs the fate Of the greatest indus
trial union in America.
While liquor flowed freely in hotel
rooms as regular" delegates were be-
ing told what they were to do in re-
turn for their convention excursion,
progressives and left wing forces
gathered in earnest groups to deter
mine the line Of action planned to ave
the Miners Union from the disastrous
policy Of President John L. Lewis.
Union Weakened
Almost exactly three years ago the
last miners convention met here.
Eighteen hundred delegates repre-
senting 100000 coal diggers in every
mining district on the continent north
of the Rio Grande opened that conven-
ton with the union at the height OF
/ its power Today great gaps were
apparent, with West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and other
districts represented only by lily
handed international representa-
tives.' Optimistic predictions of total
delegate strength ranged from 1000
to 1900 while outside limits of union
membership We're set at 250,000.
In those fateful three years in
which the destiny Of the Miners IN
ion had been entrusted to Emperor"
Lewis, West Virginia with its 100000
and more miners had been completely
lost. Central and western Pennsyl-
vania had suffered staggering losses,
entire states west of the Mississippi
had been lost to unionism while prom
Using holds on Kentucky and Tennes-
see had completely slipped.
Delegates Angry
To say left wing delegates were in
an angry mood is undertaking the
case. Realizing the desperate plight
of their beloved organization, know
ing full we'll that continued control by
Emperor" Lewis means the death of
the union in the soft coal districts of
Pennsylvania and Ohio, the progress
slve forces were determined on a bat
tie to the finish to save the union
from impending humiliation.
This 30th consecutive and seventh
biennial convention, opening tomor-
row, is scheduled to be in session until
February 5. It's main immediate bust
ness is to decide upon demands to be
laid before operators when union rep
resentatives meet them February ID.
This conference, to be held probably
on Florida's gold coast where A. F. Of
L. and U. NJ, w. A. officials love to
disport themselves, will try to nego-
tate an agreement to succeed the
famous Jacksonville agreement, which
lapses on March /. If no agreement
Continued On page 2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

bodv."
D UT the thousands of workers gath
- cred inside the big auditorium were
not there for themselves alone. 1t is
true that they would not be there,
that they would not be in the move
ment unless such activity gave them
pleasure but the outstanding fact is
that they have developed social con-
science which is all the more thrill
ing because it is directed into a work
ingclass channel. Revolutionists do
not feel that they are sacrificing any
thing. They are not. All people
either do what they want or do what
they cannot avoid. Why plant the
Iaurels on their brows?
ITO see twenty thousand revolu-
4 tionary workers in a monster
mass meeting which went thru its
program without a hitch is an inspir-
ing scene. The workers maintained
order-an easy task. Not an individ-
ual stood to gain anything in ma
terial sense q am speaking of money
or it's equivalent) from the meeting,
vet each one collected more satisfac-
ton out of the success of the affair
than could be purchased for hundreds
of dollars. Pity the poor devil who
was once radical and has lost faith.
Nothing remains for him but the
river. Unfortunately those of little
faith find the water too cold.
WHEN the papers announced that
w the officialdom of the American
Federation of Labor joined with the
bankrupt socialist leaders in the
needle trades unions in a war on the
Communists, people expected that the
workers would come in their thou
sands to express their hostility to
radicalism. The capitalist press did
the best it could to help the socialists.
All the arrangements were perfect
Halls were large and spacious. The
orators were on hand. The police
were there to protect the faithful from
the radicals. Only the workers were
missing. They went to hear the
radicals at Recommendations.
Which proves that the active work
ers follow the radicals. The inactive
workers stay at home unless they are
forced to show their loyalty at the
point of gun or at the threat of a
missing pay check.
A SURGEON on the United States
n liner President Roosevelt had a
busy time while returning from Eu-
rope. He treated few patients on
other ships by radio but unfortunately
for Curt Neiderlander, he was on the
same ship with the surgeon and was
not saved by long distance. The sur
geon took his life. If there is moral
to this story it is that passengers
should use the radio. Do doctors
know anything about medicine or the
art Of healing? They do, but they
are more efficient bill collectors than
healers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

POLICEMEN were there in scores
L but they had nothing more siren
lous to perform in the matter of duty
than indulging in innocent kidding"
Of young girls who felt called upon to
lecture the policemen on whatever
subject that appealed to them. "You
must admit" said one limb of the
law, "that those people stick togeth-
er." Said another policeman: what
he hell? These fellows inside here
are pulling off big racket, but they
are out for themselves, same as every
BODY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
IMPORTANT NOTICE

Address all mail for The
DAILY WORKER to 33
First Street. New York.
N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. ]. o'FLAHERTY

A T least twenty thousand New
IA York workers crowded into the
gigantic arena at Madison Square
Garden last Saturday night to honor
the memory of Nikolai Lenin, the
greatest leader of the revolutionary
workers that history has thrown up.
The meeting was held under the aus
pices of the Workers (Communist)
Party and aside from honoring
Lenin's memory the meeting greeted
the transfer of The DAILY WORKER
from Chicago to New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

Withdraw the Marines from
Nicaragua
Recall the battIeships from
Chinal
No War with Mexico
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

The Daily Worker Fights:
f the Organization of the I'm
org lied.
F Labor Party.
For the 4O-HOur Week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-26
COUNT STORM DEAD
Crew of Wrecked Schooner
Is Missing.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 26.-Two
men were known to have been
drowned and fears were expressed
for the safety of the crew of the
schooner j. G. Lockiand today.
The schooner j. G. Lockland was
found bottom up today four miles
off Ship Cove. One man was dead
in the rigging and there was no
trace of the remainder of the crew
Albert Cloutt of the schooner
Moxhall was lost, Captain Kearley
reported today, when he arrived at
Flat Rock, near st. johns, with five
of his men. The Noxhall, laden
with coal, was cut through the bows
in collision with the tanker Veda
McCoan yesterday morning.
The captain had taken a damaged
dory and started for shore with five
oars. Three of these were lost.
They had no food nor water. For
fifteen hours the men pulled toward
land while the dory threatened mo-
mentarily to sink. They arrived ex-
hauSted. "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-26
HIGH TAXES OPPOSED
Realtors Want Rate Kept
Down Next Year.

A plea for keeping the tax rate
down was made Thursday by di-
rectors of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board. A statement prepared
by President L. H. Lewis was ad-
dressed to George N. Montgomery,
Marion County council president,
and City Clerk William Boyce Jr.
1.-THE indianapolis Real Estate
Board, while not posing as an or
ganization Of experts in the subject
of taxation, feels amply justified in
saying that the tax rate fixed by all
local taxing units in 1927 should be
held down to reasonable basis" the
statement says in part.
1.-THE cost of operating our govern
ment has increased in recent years
by leaps and bounds. 1t is time to
have a recess-there can be no harm
in taking time out for recapitula-
ton. We realize this is a swift mov-
ing age in more ways than one, that
conditions change over night, but at
the same time we feel warranted in
saying a short delay in spending
bgi money will work no injury"