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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
Employers, Police
Fail to ITrlprison
Two Union PiCketS

Another failure was registered yes
terday in the combined attempt of
the owners of window cleaning COM
panies, their company union and the
New York police department to i'm
prison pickets Of the striking Window
Cleaners Protective Union.
John Dawisa and Peter Lahowit,
members Of the striking
acquitted ye,
McIney in the Jefferson Market Court
of charges Of third degree assault
growing out of the strike, now in it's
sixth week. The court ruled the evil
dence was insufficient.
Police and Bosses.
A member of the police industrial
squad, though operating with the
rank of detective, served the sum-
on Dawisa and I.ahowit. on
the complaint of Samuel Hersch,
member Of the company union, which
calls itself the Affiliated Window
Cleaners Union of America, accord
ing to Jacques Buitenkant, counsel
for the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15

Hospitals Full.
Twenty bodies had been removed
from the debris at eleven o'clock this
morning and survey of the larger
hospitals showed that more than 200
were under treatment for injuries. All
the victims were workers.
For more than two blocks the build
ings in the vicinity were demolished
like egg-shells, carrying to death
many worllmen employed therein. The
city's asphalt plant. directly across
the street was demolished and ten of
the fifteen workmen employed there
met instant death and the other five
are dangerously injured.
Cause Reported Unknown"
The Equitable gas plant is a part
of the Philadelphia concern of the
same name, both the scab Mitten IN
terests of Philadelphia and the Mel
lon interests Of Pittsburgh are stock
holders in the concern. The cause of
the explosion is reported as unknown
by the representatives of the trust,
although one of the papers this after
noon published story to the effect
that it might have been caused by
workmen using an acetelyne torch
who did not know the tank was full
of gasoline. This is considered an in
vention on the part of the company
to escape heavy penalties for neglect
ing properly to protect the plant
against explosions.
Shattered Windows for Miles.
Nothing but gaping hole was left
on the site Of the tank that exploded.
Small buildings in the immediate
vicinity were crushed like egg-shells.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
LOCAL Al, L.L.C.W.
IS CONDUCTING
Z SHOP STRIKES
Strikebreaking Move of
Right Wing Defeated

With strikes in full swing at two
important shops, membership meet
ing of Local Al of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union will
be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and E. 18th St., tonight, with adj
dresses by Louis Hyman, manager OF
the Joint Board If the Cloakmasers
Union, M. E. Taft, manager of Local
Al, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz.
Pickets went on duty yesterday at
the two struck shops-the Harrison
Pleating Co., 315 W. 36th St., and
Brandes & Cheskin, 149 w. 28th St.
Local Al charges the employers at
both shops with discriminating
against certain workers.
Right Wing Strikebreaking.
Efforts by the right wing admins
tration of the l. L. G. W. to break
the solidarity of the workers at both
struck shops continued yesterday, ac-
cording to Taft. Harry Greenberg,
international vice president of the I,
L. G. w., is said by Taft to have writ
ten personal letters to the workers in
question urging them to return to
work, attempting to lead them to be-
lieve a settlement with the employers
had been made.
Greenberg obtained the names and
addresses of the workers from their
employers and sent the letters to
them individually at their homes, ac-
cording to Taft.
Close Alliance.
"This incident as much as anything
shows the close alliance between the
right wing administration of the in
ternational union and the bosses,"
Taft said.
Local Al was recently suspended by
the international.
Greenberg's personal solicitations
by letter were ignored by the workers
in each case, Taft added. Members
of Local Al were to continue picket
ing at both shops today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
BURNS AND SPIES
HAVE TALE READY
FOR GRAND JURY
Fake Affidavit Drawn
BY Ex-Justice Wright

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. a.
Assistant Attorney General Burkin-
shaw prosecuting in the Sinclair-Fall
Teapot Dome oil graft case, and u.
S. District Attorney Gordon today
sharply disagreed over the question
of bringing VIM. J. Burns, seff-styled
"The Eye That Never Sleeps" before
the grand jury to explain how he
came to be spying on and soaring the
trial Jurors, and whether it is true,
as one of his detectives says, that he
deliberately suborned the detective to
commit perjury in order to get his
clients, the defendants, mistrial if
they needed it.
Burns Would Explain"
"The- -That-Never Sleeps" to-
day came before District Attorney
Gordon somewhat inflamed with an
ger, and desired to go to the grand
jury, with VIM. Sherman Burns, ac-
tual manager of the VIM. j. Burns
Detective Agency, and fifteen or
twenty private detectives to tell the
story they have about VIM. MCMILLAN,
ths former Burns man who testified
that Burns had him sign fraudulent
and false and perjured affidavit about
a government agent talking with a
juror.
Burkinshaw advised that "The Eye"
and his crew be kept out of the jury
room.
"If Burns has something that can
refute McMullan's story, let him
bring it first to me-" said the prose-
cutor. "He can't make speeches to
the grand jury anytime he wants"
However, Gordon gave his permis-
sion. The jury, which it is said is
about to vote indictments for fixing"
the trial jury, perjury and various
other crimes connected with it, de-
clared recess, and refused to hear
Burns, "The Eye" or other parts of
his body Of spies until tomorrow.
Yesterday MCMILLAN told little
more about the framing of the affi-
davit. The affidavit told of his fol-
lowing Juror Glasscock to the Poto-
mac Flying Field, and watching a
nan with Lambs description get out
Of car with Lambs license number
to talk to Glasscock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
Rank and File Demands.
BY Amy Schechter.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. IA. = Local
unions of the United Mine Workers
in this district have adopted resolu-
tions for presentation to the confer
ence of union heads here called by the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor dealing with
the grave situation of the United
Mine Workers union.
y Delegations have been elected by the
unions to place the resolutions before
the conference.
The resolution, in reality program
for the continuation and extension of
the struggle against injunctions and
for the right to organize, reads as fol-
lows:
The Resolution.
Whereas, the bituminous miners of
Pennsylvania and Ohio are carrying
on life and death struggle to save
the union from being smashed by the
coal operators, and
Whereas, the coal operators in
their union-smashing campaign have
the full support of other large en-
ployers Of labor, business and bank
Continued on Page Tqvo)
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U. S. Radio Monopoly to
Be Granted Thirty-five
Favored High Power Co.'S

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IA.
The Federal Radio Commission,
now engaged in parceling out the
monopolies of ether waves where
they are politically advisable, has
just decreed through Admiral w.
H. G. Bullard, chairman of the
commission, that all competitors
to 35 of the largest and richest of
the National broadcasters will be
wiped out by relegation other and
less desirable parts of the dial, and
these 50 will have complete control
of the channel between 299.7 and
1888 meter wave lengths.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15

revolutionary tide, does not me;
advances and recedes before ats
tanning final victory" Stain
said. '"This was so in Russia
and will be so in Europe. We
are now on the eve of new revo.
lutionary events"
Hits At League.
The Soviet Union does not join the
League of Nations because she does
not wish to align herself with the
leagues imperialist policy or sub
scribe to her system of colonial ex-
ploitation thru mahdates, Stain de-
clared in reply to question.
Altho, the official statements made
by the league sound innocuous they
are meant to deceive the workers of
all countries, while the imperialist
statesmen of various countries are
holding secret parleys behind the
scenes.
Role of Social Democracy.
Replying to question about the
status of the social-democratic party
in the Soviet Union, Stain declared
that the social-democratic party par
ticipated in the struggle against the
workers and peasants dictatorship in
Russia and participated in the civil
war as an ally of the counter-revolu-
tionary forces.
Actually, he declared, the social
democratic party is aiding in the ere
storation" of capitalism and is fight
ing against the dictatorship of the
proletariat. Stain added that in the
role of the social-democrats in CAPT
talist countries is as an opposition as
an ally of the liberal bourgeoisie
against the most reactionary forces
of capitalism or as the governmental
party openly supporting capitalism or
the bourgeois democracy" against
the revolutionary movement of the
proletariat. In countries where the
workers conquer power, Stain de-
clared, the social-democracy has be-
come openly counter-revolutionary.
Freedom of Press"
Freedom of the bourgeois press
cannot exist in any country governed
by workers and peasants dictator
ship, Stain explained in response to
a question. Liberty of workers
press exists in the Soviet Union, he
Replying to series of questions
about the strength of the opposition,
Stain produced figures to prove that
the Trotsky group is insignificant.
The discussions carried on with the
All Union Communist Party to date
have shown $4,000 Party members
for the Central Committee as op-
posed to 2,200 supporters of the OPP
position.
Role of Opposition.
~ do not know whether such dis
cussion would be allowed III the So
party. As for US we
look very seriously at such discussion.
We will consult the whole Party and
you will see the pitiful role of the
Opposition" Stain declared.
''It is quite possible" he continued,
that the Opposition will not be able
to secure a single delegate at the fif-
teenth Party Congress.
"At Leningrad the Opposition Sc
cured only 39 votes out of 21,221, !
while at Putilov only 178 members of
the Party voted for the Opposition.
The Opposition seeks the support of
-proletarian layers dissatisfied
with the proletarian dictatorship"
Stain declared that the bravado of
the Opposition leaders and their par
Continued on Page Two)
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HEARST Government DOCUMENTS
BRANDED The RANKEST OF FAKES
BY MEXICAN REPRESENTATIVES
Attempt to Murder ObregOn Denounced AS
Undoubtedly Political Crime
Gales Signature Copied on Letter Claiming Toi
Be Orders to Chief of Treasury

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-In official statement issued
this afternoon the Mexican embassy denounced forgere the
documents published in the Hearst chain papers
Of the Wall Street campaign for intervention that country
The statement brief and said
"The documents given out today by American news
papers regarding the alleged interference Nicaragua
are nothing but gross and unequvoca forgeries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
Membership Meeting is
Called for Friday Night;
Jay LOvestOne to Talk

At Party membership meeting of
the New York district of the Work
ers (Communist) Party Friday at 8
p. m. in the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.
4th St., Jay Lovestone, national
secretary of the Party, will report on
the build-theParty campaign. Mem
bership books must be shown at the
door, the district office announced
yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
PITTSBURGH GAS TANK BLAST
ROCKS CITY, KILLING MANY
Many Workers Meet Death in One of City's
Worst Disasters

PITTSBURGH Nov. 14One of the greatest disasters
bee Pittsburgh occurred at 88 this morning when
tank exploded in the Reeddae street plant of the Equitable
the north side the heart
section of the city and the intersection Of the Monongahe
and Allegheny rivers
The streets crowded with workers their way
places of employment and the total number of dead unknown
but fire and police officials will possibly hundreds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
TO CURB CRIME"

OSSINING, N. Y, Nov. 14-The
number of prisoners in New York
state now exceeds the number Of cells
in the four state prisons by 1000 ac-
cording to statement by Commits
sioner of Correction F. c. Kieb. He
also declared the number being COM
mitted to the prisons is again on the
Increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
NEW WAVE OF REVOLUTIONARY
STRUGGLES NEAR" SAYS STAIN
Leader Of Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Hits League of Nations
Especial Cable To The DAILY WORKER.)

MOSCOW, Nov. 14-"Conditons ripenng for
revolutionary struggle declared Joseph Sa secretary
All Union Communist Party when interviewed by eighty members
of various foreign delegations yesterday.
The fact that the capitalist class able
revolutionary tide does not much the revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15

(1) The Federal injunction
restricting strike activities
against the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Corporation.
(2) The activities of ''coal
and iron or company police who
are deputized by the common
wealth of Pennsylvania.
The union heads are here for
the announced purpose of bring
ing political influence of labor
leaders to bear in behalf of the
western Pennsylvania miners.
While refusing officially to take
cognizance of the meeting, the man
agements of the Pittsburgh Coal
Company, largest bituminous coal
company in the world, and the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, an
other dominant firm, do not attempt
to conceal their intense interest in this
latest development.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
Especial to The DAILY woRKER.)

PITTSBURGH Nov. IA conference of labor leaders from
all parts of the country and representing all crafts regarded
the important btumnou coal strike situation
the lockout and strike began April opened here today
leaders here for the express purpose of "de
vsng methods attack against the United Mine Work
es by anunon coal their industrial financial and
political allies"
Two Important Matters.
Two matters especially will the attention of the
ferees. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
A,F, |, CONFERENCE ON COAL MINE
LOCKOUT STARTS IN PITTSBURGH
Local Unions Send Resolutions Demanding That
Officials Begin Mass Picketing
BULLETIN.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 14Al delegates credenhaed by
been barred from the secret
meetings of the F. of L. conference the mine lockout
allowed only the public meetings at which
policies discussed The first meeting today heard evil
terrorism and brutas by the coal and iron
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15

"The publication is only an
other item in the catalogue of
forgeries and malicious imagin-
alton with which some news
papers try uselessly to upset in
ternational relations"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS:
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
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JOSEPH MCGUIRE LAID
 ID H|s ETERNAL REST

Joseph McGurr was laid away to his final rest yesterday. The esteem in which he was held by his friends was marked by the large attendance at the funeral service which was held in the Seward Funeral Parlor, Rev. W. R. Macpherson officiating. The Jesse Lee Home choir rendered tender musical numbers over the still body of good old Joe who was one of the best chaps Seward folk ever knew.
 Pall-bearers were M. Holben, H. Lyons, c. McDougal, Joe Wilson, IT,, s. Samion and w. J. Norton.
 Joseph McGurr passed away last Tuesday from chronic heart ailment which he had been troubled with since childhood He's gone on his last stam- pede and it is the hope of his friends he strikes it rich.
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CONTRACT AWARDED KILL BY WASHINGTON
 BUILDING BRIDGES

By telegram yesterday afternoon, c. H. Keil, was notified from Washing ton, D. C., that he had been awarded the contract for the construction of bridges on the Seward-Kenai Lake highway, His was the lowest of three bids the exact amount totaling $38, 950 Other bids for the work were from Curtis Gardner of Portland, Ore. and Seims and Carlson, Spokane, Wn. The Juneau office of the Bureau of Public Roads recommended that MT. Keils bid be accepted.
 It was stated this morning by MT. Keil that the construction of camp at Mile 3, IA will be started immedi- ately but that actual construction work cannot go forward until the ar rival of special material from the States. The first shipment should ar rive in about two weeks.
 There will be approximately 25 men engaged on the project which will require at least three months to complete.
 During construction there will be time when 1t will be necessary to close the highway to traffic.
 The work, which was bid on aud for what the contract call3 for, con- sists of reconstruction Of two 102 foot trusses and about 37o feet of trestle superstructure on treated pill ing over a branch on Resurrection River and also runs over Mineral Creek. Truck approaches at both ends will also go in.
 At Mile 6, 90 foot tisstls will be built and at Mile 30 foot trestle. The projects are all located between points two and five miles out of Sew ard.
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LEGAL NOTICE

IN PROBATE COURT FOR SEWARD PRECINCT, THIRD JUDICIAL Dl- VISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA. In the matter of JOHN H. BROWN, ! Deceased.
 NO. 137.
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the undersigned is the duly appointed, acting and qualified administrator of the estate of JOHN H. BROWN, Deceas- ed; and, in accordance with an order duly made therefor, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE CREDI- TORS of and to all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit such claims, with the neces- sary vouchers, within six months after and from the date of this notice to the said administrator at his place of residence in Sunrise, Alaska, which the undersigned selects as his place of business in all matters connected with the estate of the said JOHN H. BROWN, Deceased.
 Dated at Seward, Alaska, October 9th, 1927.
 CHRISTIAN AMODT. Administrator of the estate Of JOHN H. BROWN, Deceased.
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TURKISH GIRL WINS SWIM

PRINKIPO, Turkey, Oct. 2S. (P- Sixteen year old Ismet Tahir Hanem is the new champion girl swimmer of Turkey. She won cup for defeating 13 others in a three-quarter-m mile swim along Prinkipo Island, near Con- stantinople. Her time was 3S min utes.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-28

Boys all wool school suits, long pants. Urbact,'s.
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ton is the guest of her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Harding, In
Mount Vernon Park.
Miss Louise Collins has returned
from a visit to relatives in Staunton,
of Stanton.
Mrs. Thomas n. Eddy is visiting
relatives in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. II. Hullings are
spending several weeks in Atlantic
City.
Mrs. w. II. r. F'inke. Miss Louise
Finke and Miss Elizabeth II. Phillips
have returned from Orkney Springs,
Va. where they spent some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. King com,
pleted a motor trip through Maryland
and West Virginia last week.
Miss Katherine 1sadore Wilkins has
returned from motor trip through
the West and into Canada. accom-
panying Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Ellzey.
Miss Mary Thompson and Mr.. G. {.
Ratcliff of McComh. Miss, who spent
several days with Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Wilkins before returning to their
Southern home.
Miss Regina Greene and Miss Car
roll Greene went to Atlantic City last
week. They will SO on to BridGeton
n. j., for the remainder of the sum
mer.
Miss Cora Duffey left Sunday for
trip to Carlisle. Pa.
Miss Hilda Pullman went Wednes-
day to Fairport. Va. where she is the
guest of Miss Nelma Mcneil.
Mrs. Albert Bryan. Mrs. Albert v.
Bryan and the latter's little son have
returned from Aide. Loudoun County,
where they spent the month of July.
Mrs. Albert V. Bryan and her little
son are remaining with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. u. Gasson, on Semi
nary Hill.
Mrs Kenneth Blunt has returned
from a visit to Mrs. s. G. Carter in
her home in Washington, y. {.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Francis left
last week for Ocean City. Md, for the
remainder of the Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman l.. William
son and Mr.. James Williamson mo-
tored to Norfolk last week end. and
were accompanied home by Miss Au-
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drew Williamson. who has been visit
ing relatives in Norfolk. and also Miss
Margaret Barlow. who will be their
guest for several weeks.
Miss IneZ Pierpoint left last week
for a ten.dav visit at Atlantic City.
Mrs. A. s. billiard and her son,
Douglas billiard, of Greensboro, n. Y,
arc the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Selden Washington. on Braddock
Heights. Mrs. Washington. Mrs. Dil.
lard and Mrs. Eugene G. Adams OF
Edgemoor. Md. recently completed a
motor trip along the Jersey coast
stopping at several resorts.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. il. Melton ana
their children have returned to thelf
home on South Columbus street after
a motor trim through the West to To
ronto, Capcda. and Niagara Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Allen. with
their sen. and accompanied by Mrs.
Rison, are back from motor trip 10
Newport News and Norfolk, Where
they spent the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gardner era
ham are spending a week in Atlantic
City.
Miss Edith Garrett is on trip to
Yellowstone Park and the West.
The Rev. Kirk 3. O'FarreH Mrs.
O'Farrell and their two daughters Oh
Cleveland. Ohio. have been the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. David \. Rust OF
Alexandria at their Summer home
near Lcesburg.
Miss Hebe Carter Sturgis. who spent
the Winter in Alexandria. is in her
home at Marshall, Va, through
August.
Miss Katherine Adams has returned
from a visit to Miss Katherine Fisher
in Logan. w. Va.
Mrs. Charles w. King is visiting
relatives in Charlottesville.
Mrs. Eugene F. Gray of Norfolk is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry w.
Wade. in Rosemont.
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Locals of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric Railway
employees of America are now electing
delegates to the national convention
of their organization. which is to meet
in Birmingham, Ala, beginning Sep
ten1her 10
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Smart new styles with new collar and cuff ef-
fects; newest fabrics in rich, soft velvetLke
materials. Some Of the choicest furs of prime
Winter pelts adorn these coats.
Every coat in this Sale is priced far below its
regular value. Coats upon which fashion
designers have extended their utmost efforts.
Each model is an inspiration.
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