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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
PRAvDAS SCORES
LEAGUE POWERS
0NDISARMAMENT
Says Capitalist Powers
Don't Want Peace

MOSCOW, Dec. 5. -. Newspapers
here scathingly denounce the break
ing up of the Preparatory Disarma-.
ment Commission at Geneva as an
other nail in the League CT Nations
coffin.
Pravda, official organ of the ALL
Union Communist Party, declares:
"The imperialist robbers shout
peace, but do not want it. About this
fact the bourgeois politicians will not
be able to cheat the people much
longer. By refusing to discuss the
Soviet proposals they have barred
themselves as fakers."
GENEVA, Dec. 5.-Intensive diplo-
matte negotiations concerning Polish
Lithuanian controversy and the COM
mercial and diplomatic relations be-
tween the Soviet Union and Great
Britain preceded the opening of the
League of Nations Council meeting
here today.
Although the Soviet Union is not
a member OF the league, Maxim Lit
vinoff, head of the Soviet Union dele
cation to the League Preparatory Dis
armament Conference, was one of the
most active of the statesmen assem-
bled here.
Chang Lob, Peking minister to
France, presided over the first ses-
sion, which was called to order just
before noon. Forty-eight states are
represented.
BRAND, who came to Geneva Sun
day, received delegates from eleven
countries, including the Soviet Union.
1t was then that Litvinoff asked the
French minister's aid in the arrange
ment of an interview with Austen
Chamberlain.
Immediately after comforting with
BRAND, I.itvinoff called upon the Lith-
uanian delegates and asked them to
take moderate" attitude, also to
employ every possible means for a
settlement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
Cooperative Central
Exchange Asks Members
Help Colorado Miners

SUPERIOR. Wise. Dec. 5.-The
Cooperative Central Exchange, the
largest Of American co-operatives,
has sent to it's members the fol-
lowing letter, asking for donations
for the Colorado striking miners.
The letter follows:
Fellow Co-operators:
The Striking miners in Colorado
are waging most bitter fight.
The capitalists are using rifles and
machine guns to kill the picketing
miners. Both men and women
have been killed.
cover hundred thousand
miners are on strike in the
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia district. The strike has
lasted already for a long time. The
coal companies have evicted the
strikers from their homes, for they
own all the houses.
"This is a splendid opportunity
for the co-operatives to demon
strate that they are instruments of
the workers, and that they win
help the workers in all their strug
giles.
"Send all donations to the, Co.
operative Central Exchange. All
funds will be divided equally
among the two strike districts,
unless some prefer to help any one
district, in which case the funds
will be SO handled.
Act promptly, for they need our
help!
sFraternally yours,
G5-operafive CentswI Exchange,
G. HaIonen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
TRACTION union
TO MAKE FIGHT
ON ALL FRONTS
Union Takes Offensive;
Calls Mass Meeting

"You can say to the traction work.
ers that they will not be abandoned.
We will continue to fight for the or
ganization of these workers no mat
ter what the outcome of the injunc-
ton proceedings" This was the sub
stance Of a statement given out in an
interview yesterday at the headquar-
ters of the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway EN-
ployes, Hotel Continental, Broadway
and 41st st.
At the same time announcement
was made of plans for mass meet
ing of traction workers ana members
and officials Of other trade unions to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
Three More PiCketS
Arrested In Strike
Of NY HenlstitChers

Three women pickets were arrested
yesterday afternon while picketing
the shop of Tramhetz & Schotskin,
149 West 28th ST. Local Al, Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union declared strike there when
the company locked out its workers,
it is alleged, for refusing to register
with the right wing dual union fos-
tered by the international office.
The pickets are Hilda Cohen, Sadie
Poretz and Gussie Potter. They were
arrested on a charge of disorderly
conduct at the instigation Of the right
wing officials, according to spokes-
men for Local Al, which has been sus-
pended by the international officials.
The pickets were released on bail
in time to receive the applause Of
about 500 at special general mem
bership meeting of Local Al at Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St. last
night.
Hyman Speaks.
At this meeting a resolution was
drawn up endorsing the leaders of the
union in whatever policy that might
adopt to oppose the tactics of the
right wing in conjunction with the
bosses in their attempt to destroy the
union.
The chairman of the meeting was
l.. Rubin, member of the executive
board of the local, The speakers were
Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint
Board of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers Union; Rose Wor-
tis, manager of Local %; M. E. Taft,
manager of Local al; Abraham Weiss,
former organizer of the local, and A.
Liller, chairman Of Local Al.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
Litvinoff, Chamberlain
Confer at Geneva; Not
Agreed at First Meet

GENEVA, Dec. 5.-Maxim Lit
vinoff, head of the Soviet. Unions
delegation to the Geneva disarm-
ament conference, conferred with
Austen Chamberlain, British for
eign secretary here this afternoon.
A brief statement issued by the
British delegation to the League
of Nations Council Immediately
after the conference declared that
sit had not been found possible to
reach any basis of agreement with
in the course Of the interview"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
FASCIST MURDER FRAME-UP AGAINST
MUSS0LINFS FOES Barred AT TRIAL
Promised if Anti Fascist Leaders Are
Framed in Murder Plots

Revelations of fascist intrigue obtain ramed-up evi
with which to convict Cagero Greco and Douato Cao
murder and by the to involve Carlo Tresa
of the Anascs League by of threats and violence
made yesterday by Mario Get in his before Judge
Albert Cohn the Bronx County Court fremont and Arthur
Aves, the charge of shooting two fascists Jan
The revelations involve District Attorney John E. Mcclellan
of County and detectives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06

threat of being implicated in the
killing of Joseph Carisi and
Nicholas Amorroso, fascists, in
the Bronx last Decoration Day,
Gilleti signed documents in the
office of the Chicago Italian
counsel last October under the
direction of Leo Luyri, secre-
tary of the Chicago branch of
the Fascist League of North
America.
Try duplicating Tresca.
Luyri induced him to claim that
Carlo Tresea, editor of II Martello,
anti-fascist newspaper, directed the
killing and shooting of fascists, Gil
liti testified.
When he visited the office of the
Italian consulate, due to the fact that
he was penniless, Luyri ordered him
to implicate his four roommates in
the shooting of two fascists in
Brooklyn" Gilleti testified.
The trial was halted at one point
until the women left the court room
at Gilleti's request to permit him tc
testify as to the storage of dynamite
and ammunition at a certain e. 10th
st. address.
"Did you tell the police that you
had dynamite, guns and powder hid
den on E. 10th St? the assistant
district attorney asked Gilleti.
In his question the prosecutor
named the street number.
Gilleti refused to reply until the
women had left the court room. The
judge asked them to leave.
Gilleti then said he had so told the
police but emphasized the fact that
he did so after he had been subjected
to torture. The torture consisted of
pressure applied to his testicles, Gil
lett testified.
Calogero Greco and Donate Carril.
10, anti-fascist workers, were later
charged with the Decoration Day
Staying and are now on trial in the
Bronx County Court before the same
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
SINCLAIR ADMITS
ORDERED DAY To
HAVE JURY SPIEDt
Burns Confesses Dicks.
Followed Jurors

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 5. -
Oil Baron Sinclair admits having n.
Mason Day, his vice president, hire
the Burns detective agency to spy on
the Fall-Sinclair jury.
Americas best known oil mil
lionaire, aside from his rival Rookie
feller, and hero Of the Teapot Dome
oil steal, stood with his hireling, VIM.
j. Burns, self-styled, "The Eye That
Never Sleeps" before Federal Judge
Siddons in the District of Columbia
Supreme Court today, surrounded by
one Of the greatest array of legal
talent money can buy.
They were there on the charge Of
tamperiny with the Teapot Dome oil
graft trial jury, in which trial Sim
clair was co-defendant with former
Secretary Of the Interior Fall. who
granted him the fraudulent lease to
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve.
Confess Espionage.
The first move, after the govern
ment presented the charge of spying
with the purpose Of causing mis-
trial if no acquittai could be obtained.
was the reading of the statement in
behalf of Sinclair in which he declar-
ed that he did, and alleged that he
had right to cause II. Mason Day
to engage the Burns agency to watch
the jury.
The Sinclair brief challenged the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
SEE POLITICAL
TRICK IN Dawes
BOOST or L.oWDEN

WASHINGTON, Dec A.-Republi-
can leaders gathering here for the
party love feast that always accom-
panies q republican national commit
tee meeting greeted with bland
smiles today Charles G. Dawes an
nlouncement that he is not candi-
daMe for the presidency next year.
They do not consider that the gener-
al h,hs removed himself from the re-
publican picture any more than Pres
;dent Coolidge did when he said enig-
maticalRy, "I do not choose to run" :"
AS a natter Of fact, number of
the com t1itteemen pointed out that
" (Cotttinued on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
FOREIGN BORN MEETING.

The New York Council for the Pro-
lection of Foreign Born Workers will
hold a conference Sunday at p. m.
at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
st. Plans to combat anti-alien legis-
lation in the present session of con-
gress will be made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
FI7LLER's TRIP SECRET.

Governor Alvan I. Fuller, who
ruled for the death of Sacco and Van
zetti returns to his desk December 7
after secret trip to Europe. Fear
caused the secrecy that surrounded
his departure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06

PARIS, Dec. 5.-Former Crown
Prince Carol, of Roumania, pro-
fessed slight anxiety today over the
alleged plot to assassinate him just
revealed to the French police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
RATIFY FASCIST TREATY

ROME, Dec. 5.--The Chamber of
Deputies this afternoon ratified the
Italo-Albanian treaty Of alliance
without debate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
SEVENTEEN CONGRESS- Will NOT
ACT ON ware AND Smith UNTIL
AFTER COOLIDGE MESSAGE TODAY
Resolution Reciting Corruption Bars Two
Crooked Politicians at Door
Congress Seats James NJ. Beck, Agent of Ware
in Spite Of Protest

WASHINGTON, Dec 5-The seventeen congress convened
today with the falling of the gaves both house and
In the house of representatives Nicholas Longwoh
the Oho gang which produced Warren c.
Harding Harry NJ Daughery and host of other political
ruptionsts, reelected speaker OF the body.
SEATS WARE HOOLIGAN.
The first of LongWorh to into office James
Beck resident of Washington D. c. represent the Pha
epa district Of the state of Pennsylvania Beck agent
the MeonVare political machine and has been living in Wash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
CONTINUED SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
IN U. S. S. R. REFUTES OPPOSITION
Industrial Progress Is Also Reported At Party
Convention In Moscow
Especial Cable to The DAILY WORKER }

MOSCOW, u S. S. r., Dec 5-Enhusastic reports dealing
with the growth of membership the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union the achievements of the trade unions
and the attitude be taken toward attempts the part OF
the leaders of the Opposition form separate party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-06
Pullman POrterS Get
Pledges Of Support
For Possible Strike
BY ESTHER LOWELL.
Federated Press.)

First steps to gain public support
for a possible strike Of pullman por-
ters and maids are being taken by
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters. Conferences similar to the New
York one, including Representatives
of all Negro groups, will be held in
all the union strongholds-Chicago
Philadelphia, Des Moines, St. Louis,
Omaha and other centers.
Not until now has the porters'
union limited at the possibility of a
strike. For over two years it's organ
izers, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Ian
caster, Frank Crosswaith and the
rest, have been building the unions
strength. They have patiently tried
out the machinery Of the railroad
mediation board set up by the Wat
son-Parker act. Now they are wait
ing the hearing of their appeal to
the interstate commerce commission,
Jan. H..
Strike May Follow.
If the interstate commerce commits
sion denies the porters the living
wage they ask for, the union threat
ems to call strike. The brotherhood
has asked the commission not to per-
nit the Pullman Co. to count its en-
ployes tips as part of their pay. The
union won point when the commits
sion decided to hear the argument and
ordered the Pullman Co. to appear.
The company had alleged that the
(Conttn,ted on Page FiveJ
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
MRS. GRAYSON'S
PLANE Is LOST
DURING NIGHT
Woman Who Started For Har-
Dor Grace Yesterday Re-
mains Unheard From

Boston. Dec. 24.-(AP)-The
Dawn, Mrs. Frances Wilson Gray
sons amphibian plane which left
Roosevelt Field, New York, at 5:O7
p. m. yesterday for Harbor Grace,
New Foundland, was not heard from
during the night or early today.
The last authentic report up to
9 a. m. today was that the plane
had passed over the French Cable
Telegraph company's station at Or
leans, Mass, on Cape Cod, at 7:25
p. m.
Radio stations along the New
England coast and in Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland kept sharp watch for
signals from the Dawn's wireless
apparatus but heard nothing. The
weather was clear over the entire
course, with brisk northwest wind
along the New England shore.
In Boston it was the coolest morn
ing Of the winter. Apparently it
was warmer in Newfoundland, as an
early morning dispatch from Harbor
Grace said that it was mot freezing" !"
and that the wind was very light.
The plane had been expected to ar
rive at Harbor Grace soon after sun
rise.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
POLICE DOUBT
STORY THAT HE
HAD PARTNER
Three 'Cramers' Cleared OF
Suspicion-Tw0 Have Been
in Jail Since August
OTHER CLUES FOLLOWED
ANDREW Cramer' and June
Dunning' Reported in San
Diego and Phoenix

Los Angeles, Dec. 24.-F)-The
Los Angeles search for the elusive
"Andrew Cramer," named by Will
liam edward Hickman, confessed
kidnaper and accused slayer of
Marian Parker, as the actual mur-
derer Of the school girl. took new
start today.
The police. announced that three
"Cramers" who had been investigat-
ed had been cleared of suspicion.
Two Of them, Andrew Oliver Cra-
mer, also known as Kramer, and his
brother, Frank Cramer, have been
prisoners in the county Jail since
last August. A third brother, Al
bert Cramer, has been working for
his father in Lankershim, the po-
lice said. 4
The police foresaw the collapse Of
this investigation rs added founda-
tion for their contention that the
implication Of Cramer and { "June
Dunning," in the confession was the
work Of 'splausible liar"
No June Dunning Found
The pursuit Of the June Dunning
named by Hickman ran up against
what the police declared blank
wall when Frank Cramer told them
that Rose Dunning, mentioned by
his brother, was Franks wife and
that he had never heard Of June
Dunning. His wife, he said, had
sister, Mabel Dunning, but that she
had died nine months ago.
The Andrew Cramer in jail, when
shown Hickman's photograph, said
he had q vague recollection of
knowing him and. when pressed for
the time, declared it was about last
June.
The police, however, who have
maintained the belief that Hickman
was alone in the kidnapping and
staying, as yet have failed to OBJ
tain q satisfactory answer to the
puzzling quantity Of clues and testi-
mony of witnesses tending to show
that Hickman had the aid of asso-
ciates.
Problem Is Unsolved
They have not been able to solve
the problem Of how the youthful
"fox" brought into the case the
name Of Andrew Cramer and the
Dunning woman. For the name and
description Of Cramer tallies, des-
pite the iron clad alibi Of his jail
term.
Considered as perhaps one Of the
most significant points Of possible
supporting evidence Of Hickman's
story Of an accomplicc was the re-
port last night that 4 stranger
answering the description Of "An-
drew Cramer" called at the Herald
hotel il San Francisco the night aft
er Hickman had left there in his
northern flight.
The. stranger asked for the "man
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
ONE KILLED AND
9 WOUNDED IN
BANK ROBBERY
Santa Claus Bandit and Four
Others Rob Bank at Cisco,
Texas, Friday
FOUR ROBBERS ESCAPE
t.
Chief of Police killed-One
Bandit Wounded, Besides
Several Bystanders

Cisco, Texas, Dec. 24.-(AP)-Gun
play resulting from an unsuccessful
attempt Of a bandit dressed as Santa
Claus to lead four companions in the
robbery Of the First National Bank
here caused the death of one officer
and left at least nine persons
wounded.
The "Santa Claus" bandit con-
fronted Alex Spears, cashier, short
ly after noon yesterday with a pistol
and orders ito reach for some sky"
As Spears complied four more
robbers lined up bank officials and
customers and began scooping up
all the cash in sight. A woman
escaped from a side door and called
police. When officers appeared in
the street, the bandits took their loot
and, using two men as a shield, ran
toward two automobiles.
Use Children as Shields
When they reached the sidewalk,
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
Monday Is Holiday

Business will be at q standstill
Monday, which will be observed
in Bismarck as a legal holiday
for Christmas day, which this
year falls on Sunday. All
stores will be closed, as will
banks, the library, and city.
county and state offices.
Housewives are warned to lay
in q supply Of groceries and
meats tonight to tide them over
until Tuesday, as groceries will
be closed all day Monday.
There will be no Sunday de-
livery of ordinary mail, Post
master o. Lundquist announces,
but there will be both city and
rural delivery on Monday.
Holiday schedules will be in
force Monday at the postoffice,
with the general delivery win
dow open from IL a. m. to noon
only. Incoming mail will be
distributed and outgoing mail
dispatched as usual, however.
There will be no issue Of the
Tribune Monday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
PEACEFUL GOOD
WILL INCREASES
AMONG NATIONS
Sir Eric DrummOnd, Secretary
General Of Nations
League, Says So

Geneva, Dec. 24.-(AP)-Peaceful
goodwill among nations is on the
increase, says Sir Eric DrummonJ,
secretary-general Of the League o.
Nations, In q Christmas message
written especially for the Associated
Press. The message:
I'VE in Geneva ask ourselves xari-
ous questions: Is here any progress
since Christmas, 1926? Does more
goodwill exist among the nations ?
Is peace more secure?
Happily the answer to all these
questions is yes, and we therefore
know that the League Of Nations has
fulfilled its great primary aim.
There Is throughout the world q
general increase in the number OF
men Of goodwill. The council AMI
assembly Of the league now COM
prise the responsible representatives
Of nations which less than decade
ago wer. engaged in the fiercest
warfare the world has ever expert
enced. These men meet at fixed In
tervals to take counsel together as
to the manner In which information
al cooperation can best be promoted
and international peace achieved.
"The history Of the League Of Ma
tions since December Is, 1926, Is
nothing more and nothing less than
an endeavor to effect, internatioa-
ally, peace and goodwill.
Does not Article II Of the cove
nant. by which any nation has the
right as friend to bring before the
league, with e view to peaceful set
tlement, any circumstances which
affect good understanding between
Nations upon which peace depends,
express the essence Of the spirit Vt
Christmas?"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
SOLDIERS, INDIAN GIRLS, INMATES
OF STATE INSTITUTIONS WILL live
HIGH XMAS DAY R0CRAlNS PLANNED
Mess Sergeants at Army Post
Vie With Each Other to Pro-
vide Most Elaborate Christ.
mas Menus - Big Dinners
Planned at Indian School,
Penitentiary and Training
School

Soldiers Fo.s11incoln, girls at
the governnle... indian School at Bis
marck, and inmates oA the state
penitentiary and the state training
school will not 60 hungry on Christ
mas, = survey Of menus planned at
these various places reveals.
Many . man will will probably
wish he were "in the army now" over
the holiday season, At least, when he
reads what the soldiers at Fort Lin
coin will find on their banquet tables
Christmas day.
Mess Sergeant Frank Coleman and
Cooks Obit T. Brown and Arthur B.
Moore have prepared the following
Christmas menu for Company /, COM
manded by Capt. i. C. Wright:
oyster soup and crackers, celery,
combination salad, olives, roast tur-
key, oyster dressing, gihlet gravy,
cranberry sauce, candied sweet pota-
toes, peas. mashed potatoes. parker
house rolls and butter, layer cake,
cream banana pie, assorted candies,
assorted nuts, Yakima apples,
oranges, coffee and cigars.
Not to Be outdone, Mess Sergeant
Frank Kozikowski of Company K,
commanded by Capt. w. A. Plats,
announces that the hungry mob" in
his barracks will partake Of the
following: cream tomato soup, oys-
ter crackers, roast turkey, raisin
dressing. baked sliced ham, siblet
~ KAA
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-24
WORK
ON SUBMARINE
COMES TO HALT
Gales and Rough Seas Make It
Impossible For Divers to
Continue Work

Provincetown, Mass, Dec. 24.-F)
With one tunnel completed under
the sunken submarine S-4 and work
started on second, operations were
at q halt today because of gales and
rough seas.
The completed tunnel was about
10 feet aft of the bow. A four inch
manila cable was passed under and
looped. The same procedure will
be followed when the second open
ing is forced through the mud, 46
feet from the bow. Then stout bat
tleship cable will replace the ma
Mia and both lines will be in readi-
ness to attach to lifting pontoons.
The initial burrowing operations
were not accomplished without con-
siderable hazard to the 10 divers
employed in the work.
A strong northwest wind which
swept against the bortside Of the
Falcon, flagship Of the fleet Of 20
vessels on the scene and headquar-
ters Of Rear Admiral Frank II.
Brumby, commanding the opera
tions, added to their danger and
eventually compelled work to cease.
The wind loosened the Falcons
lines to mooring buoys and caused
the anchors to drag in the soft mud
so she could no longer maintain her
position over the sunken submer-
sible.
= Divers Have Mishaps
Three OF the 10 divers met with
mishaps before the squad was called
off duty last night. Frank Crilley
was blown to the surface when IN
air valve in his diving suit opened
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