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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Van Sweringens Trying
Once More to Organize
Great Railroad Trust

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The final
drive for the Van Sweringen brothers
before the interstate commerce com
mission regarding their proposed
railroad merger was begun today.
With the full commission sitting,
oral argument was begun on the ap-
plication of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
controlled by Van Sweringen inter
ests, to acquire stock control of the
Pere Marquette and Erie and thus
form the nucleus of a gigantic sys-
tenn linking up tidewater Virginia
with the great region north of the
Ohio river.
Minority interests of the Chesa-
pealze & Ohio, following their success
in defeating the original Van Swer-
ingen merger, centered new attack
on the Van Sweringens, alleging that
their plan was a financial "specula-
ton" and not a transportation pro-
posal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
WORKERS HERE TO
CT: |. L.E:BRATE TENTH
YEAR OF U. S. S. R.
Anniversary L e file t S
Bring Arrest

AS November approaches, the
class conscious workers of this dis
trict are preparing to congregate at
halls in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
New Jersey centers to celebrate the
tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik
Revolution in Soviet Russia.
In small and large cities all over
the world demonstrations of the work
ing masses will be held. In Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn three large mass
meetings are being arranged for
thousands desirous of demonstrating
unity with their Russian fellow
workers. These meetings will be held
at the Central Opera House, 9th St.
near Third Ave; New Star Casino,
10th ST. and Park Ave-, and Ar
cadia Hall, Broadway and Halsey St.,
Brooklyn, all are scheduled FOR Sun
day.
Leaflets Bring Fine.
While plans for these meetings
were being made, E. Vafiades was
being convicted of the crime of dis
tributing Tenth Anniversary leaflets
in jefferson Market Court yesterday.
He was arrested in the fur district at
Sixth Ave. and 9th st The magis-
trate imposed $5 fine, which was
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Charge Fascist In
Control Of Frane-uD
Of Greco, GARLIC

That the prosecution in the Greco
Garlic frame-up has been directed, if
not actually conducted, by the Fascist
League of North America, was
charged last night by Carlo Tresca.
head of the Anti-Fascist League and
member of the Greco-Carillo defense
committee.
Calogero Greco and Donate Garlic,
anti-fascists, have been held in Jail
in the Bronx since July II on charges
of killing Joseph Carisi and Nicho-
las Amorroso, fascists. No date has
been set for their trial, though in
dictments against them and third
unnamed person were returned July
26. Carisi and Amorroso were slain
in connection with the fascist Memo
rial Day parade.
"The aim of the Fascist League of
North America is to fight radicalism
and radicals" Count Thoan Revel,
head of the Fascist League, said yes
terday in the sumptuous brokerage
office of Mund & Winslow, where he
is a client.
Through the collaboration of mem
bers of the New York police force
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Rumanian Troops to
Guard Peasant Party
Meet: Fear Carol Coup

VIENNA. Nov. 2-Premier Bra
tianu, of Roumania, has ordered a
regiment of infantry to guard the
convention of the National Peasant
Party, which will open at Alba Julia.
Leaders of the National Peasant"
Party are behind the movement to
place Carol upon the Roumanian
throne in the place of his six-year-old
son, King Michael Isolated clashes
between members of the party and
government troops were reported last
week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

May is held on charge of first
degree murder.
Feeling is running high among the
miners of eastern Ohio where the coal
companies have been carrying on
vicious campaign against the union
with the aid of sweeping injunctions
and United States marshals to en-
force them.
At a conference of over 300 miners
of Subdistrict 5, Ohio, held in York
vile Miners Hall yesterday, discus
sion of the urgent need for relief
which must be continued was taken
up.
Many locals were represented in
cluding local presidents and secre-
taries.
The local treasures have long been
exhausted, the sub-district treasury
is also becoming exhausted. No re-
lief from the national office is forth
coming.
One local distributed $100 among
its $50 members in seven months.
Immediate help is urgently needed,
miners here say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

empire, was met at the pier by
Otto H. Kahn, member of the
powerful banking firm of Kahn,
Loeb and Company.
Czernin, who represented the for
mer Hapsburg monarchy at the sign
ing of the Brest-Litvosk treaty, is in
this country for few months stay
with his son, Count Hans Czernin.
The war by the three most capi-
talist powers of Europe and against
the Soviet Union is inevitable, de-
clared the count, because the existing
order cannot tolerate a government
that means disaster for the present
system. The war will take place
sooner than most people expect, he
believes.
Britain Busy Against Russia.
The count declared quite frankly
that Great Britain was busily en-
gagged tryir to re the differences
between France nd Germany which
hinder the consummation of this
powerful imperialist triple alliance
against the Soviet Union. The war
against the Soviet Union in his opin-
ion will take place as soon as Britain
is confident that she can mobilize the
forces necessary to crush the U. S.
S. R. With this aim the count is in
thoro accord.
AS one looked around the sump-
tuous suite in which Count Czernin
and his son are housed it was hard
to believe that here were two scions
of once powerful aristocracy of a
defeated empire with which the
United States was once at war in the
interests of democracy" spreading
propaganda, with impunity against
a people with which the United States
was never legally at war and which,
in overthrowing its feudal aristocracy
gave the most concrete possible ex-
preston to one of the principles for
which the United States allegedIy en-
tered the war, i. e., the rights of ma
tional entities to govern themselves
according to their own needs and de-
sires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

Valley Mine where he was to act
as a strikebreaker.
May approached some locked
out union men and a heated ar
gument developed. May and
three other scabs, John LAME,
Orville Huefel and William Cupt,
found the argument going against
them and left in their car.
After their departure, John Picetti
and two other strikers, Richard Shar-
on and Frank Spears, went on toward
Rose Valley. They again encountered
the scabs near Dillonvale and LIMA
May pulled his gun and fired, accord
ing to Picetti's companions. Picetti
was fatally wounded in the neck and
Spears, who was sitting with his arm
around Picetti, was wounded in the
neck and Spears, who was sitting
with his arm around Picetti, was
wounded in the shoulder
The scab LAME declares that Picet-
ii reached for his hip pocket as if to
get a gun but the murdered boys
companions declared no hostile move
was made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
ALL SORRY JURY
SCANDAL ENDS BIG
OIL CRAFT TRIAL
Day Refuses to Testify
About Hiring Burns

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. q
Amidst expressions of regret from all
sides, Justice Siddons today declared
the Fall-Sinclair Teapot Dome oil
graft case a mistrial, excused the
jury, and remanded the defendants
for a new trial.
The judge gave as part of his
grounds for dismissal a novel and
unusual reason, one of many peculiar
features that have marked this trial.
He said that the case had to be tried
over again because of the "wide pub
licity given to the affidavits and the
proceedings in chambers" relating to
the alleged bribing of a juror to
prevent conviction and the discov-
cry that fifteen Burns detectives
were shaoowing the jurymen.
Fine Jury Ruined by Talk.
Special Prosecutors Roberts and
Pomerene, whose generosity to the
defense in the matter of accepting
jurors excited curiosity in the first
days of the trial, looked visibly glum.
Defendant Albert B. Fall, who, as
secretary of the interior in Harding's
cabinet, issued to Harry F. Sinclair
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
z Window Cleaners
Are Given 50 DAYS.;
Meeting Is Called

Two striking window cleaners,
Michael Tryzanski and Nicholas Ia
baka, were yesterday sentenced to 80
days in the workhouse by Magistrate
Douras in Washington Heights court
on charges of disorderly conduct.
In pronouncing sentence the judge
made denunciatory speech against
their union.
Tryzanski and Tabaka while picket
ing at 10th St. and Eighth Ave.
Monday were provoked into an argu-
ment by strikebreaker, who sudden
ly lay on the ground, pretending he
had been hit. At that moment an au-
tomobile containing three members of
the industrial squad arrived. The
strikers were arrested
Meeting Tonight.
Bitter resentment against the SEN
tence prevails among the striking
window cleaners, who will meet to-
night at the Manhattan Labor Ly-
ceum, 68 East Fourth ST., to plan an
extension of the strike, now backed
by 1000 union members.
Speakers at the meeting will in
clude Peter Darck, secretary of the
Window Cleaners Protective Union,
Local 8, which is conducting the
strike; Charles w. Nicholson, An
thony Flora and Hugh Frayne.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
WORKERS PARTY
MESSAGE HEARD
BY THOUSANDS.
Four Red Nights Will
Be Held This Week

The Workers (Communist) Party
position on present campaign issues
was explained to $500 workers who
packed Manhattan Lyceum, sc East
Fourth St., for final indoor party
election rally last night.
The speakers included William w.
Weinstone, Communist candidate for
assembly in the 8th district; M. j.
Olgin, editor of the Hammer; Ben
Gold, manager, Joint Board Furriers
Union, and Rebecca Grecht, party
candidate for alderman in the 9Th dis
trict. Jack Stachel, national organ
ization secretary of the party, pre-
sided.
Campaign cred Nights" will be
held in the Bronx and Williamsburg
Friday and in Brownsville and Man
haitian Saturday. AS in similar dem
onstrations last week in Harlem and
Brownsville, 100 Workers Party
speakers will address street meetings
at strategic corners, defining the
Party program, with particular en-
phasis on housing and traction prob
lens and the need of the working
class for labor party.
Ben Gitlow, Party candidate for as
sembly in the Bronx, was barred from
the election by the New York Board
of Elections but his name will be
written on the ballots by militant
workers. He will be one of the speak
ers at this series of outdoor meetings.
Other speakers will be Ben Lifshitz
dates in Brooklyn; Juliet Stuart
and Anthony Bimba, Party candi-
Poyntz and jules Codkind, candi-
dates in Harlem, and Weinstone and
Rebecca Grecht.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

Count Czernin is no longer an of
fetal representative of either Austria
or Hungary but he voices the opinion
of a powerful group that favors a
war of determination against the
Soviet Union.
Important Banking Connections.
Count Ottaker Czernin, a member
of the old school Of European diplo-
macy, is said to be closely in touch
with the British foreign office and is
a leading member of one of several
groups in Austro-Germany that are
striving to line Germany up with the
program of immediate war on the
Soviet Union.
That Count Czernin is not without
important connections among the fl
nancial giants in the United States
was revealed when he was met at the
pier by Otto Kahn.
Otto Kahn is a member of the
great banking firm of Kuhn Loeb &
Co., second to the house of Morgan,
and joint holder with it Of the Jap
anese loan.
Old-School Diplomat.
Thoss, 'even among sympathigers
with the Soviet Union who were in
clined to regard the position of the
Communist International as alarm
ist, should take not of the statement
made by Count Czernin, this expert
enced diplomat whose ears are close
to the key holes of the chancellories
of Europe.
Challenge viii Be Accepted.
Count Ottaker Czernin, who threw
the naked blade of imperialism on
the negotiating table at Brest Lit
vosk in 1917, only to see it splintered
against the iron union of the workers
and peasants of Russia, again gives
voice to the challenge of a death duel
between imperialism represented by
the capitalist powers, and freedom
for the exploited of all lands, repre-
sented by the government of the
U.S.S.R
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Genevieve Taggard At
Workers School Friday

Genevieve Taggard, well-known
poetess and critic, will talk on "Con-
temporary American Poets" at the
Workers School, 108 East 14th St.,
tomorrow evening at s. This lecture
is part of the series on "Social Forces
in American Literature" conducted by
Joseph Freeman and Floyd Dell.
In her talk Miss Taggard will dis
cuss Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost,
Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Edna
st. Vincent Millay. Carl Sandburg,
Robinson Jeffers, and E. E. Cum
mings.
Others who will talk in this SYM
postum include Michael Gold, W. E.
Woodward and Paxton Hibben.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Eight on Small Fishing
Smack Died of Hunger

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 2.--Their
small fishing craft unequipped with
radio, the eight persons, found dead
on board the Ryo Yei Mayo, which
drifted into Port Townsend. died of
starvation, according to physicians
who went on board the vessel yester-
day.
That number of members of the
crew in their desperation resorted to
cannibalism was also the claim of the
physicians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Richard Zober, Passaic
Strikebreaker, Dropped
For Having Stolen Car

PASSAIC, N. j., Nov. 2 (FP).-
Richard o. Zober, chief of police and
chief clubber of Passaic, has lost his
job till he can explain where he got
stolen sedan car.
The night sticks of zober's mer.
helped to smash the textile strike of
seven years ago. But the spirit Of
the wooden workers last year proved
too great an obstacle. Thousands of
arrests and many brutal clubbings
failed to break the movement, which
lasted IL months, till the biggest firm
recognized the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
PICKETINC is TO
START AGAIN IN
COLORADO MINES
Observation-Disclosures
for Action
Special to the DAILY WORKER.
By HUGO OEHLER.

WALSENBURG, Colo, Nov. 2. -
Picketing of the mines is to be re-
sumed here following a mass meet
ing of miners which heard Kristen
Svanum of the 1. w. w. just released
from Jail, advocate the formation of
new picket lines.
The Trinidad Jail is still full of
strikers but there are no prisoners
at present held in Walsenburg, 80
having been released on bail. They
are to appear on Nov. Ia to answer
to charges Of picketing.
DENVER, Colo, Nov. 2.-The
threat of the national guard grew
more menacing over southern Colo
RADIO coal fields as striking miners
prepared to resume picketing in de-
fiance of Gov. William H. Adams
ultimatum.
Adams not only ordered the return
of three guard airplanes from Pueblo
to Walsenburg but recommended the
arrest of all pickets. He announced,
too, that the guard would be called
out if necessary to stop picketing.
The governors action came in an
swer to a vote at meetings called by
the I. w. w. in Walsenburg and
Trinidad to resume active picketing
"If the miners carry out their
threats and picket and if county au-
thorities are unable to handle the sit
uation, it wiil be necessary for the
state to take the final step of mobil-
izing the guard" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
DRESSER ILL IN BERLIN.

BERLIN, Nov. 2. - Theodore
Dresser, American novelist en- route to
the Soviet Union to attend the cele-
bration of the Tenth Anniversary of
the. November revolution postponed
his journey day because of illness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Austrian Aristocrat, Met by Kahn,
Predicts New War on Soviet Russia
Workers by Large Vote
Make Progressive Head
OF Montana Labor Body

HELENA, Mont, Nov. 2, (FP).
- Clarence Blewett, Butte Street
Car Mems Union, was elected ex-
ecutive president of the Montana
State Federation of Labor, defeat
ing Steven Ely, incumbent, by a
large majority.
Blewett's election is hailed as
victory for progressive elements in
the metal mining industry Of the
state. James Graham Livingston
was elected vice president. Pro-
gressives were also elected to the
district board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
RumOr CampaignfOr New
ReactiOnary Government
At Canton Led by Chang

SHANGHAI, Nov. 2.-Rumors
are current here to the effect that
a number Of counter-revolution-
aries affiliated with the National
ist movement in the earlier stages
of its development intend to form
new government at Canton.
Chang Kai-shek, Wang Chin
wei and Lii Chai-sum, who ordered
the suppression Of workers or
ganizations in Canton are among
those reported active in the move
menit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
TRACTION BARONs
DEMAND COURTS
OUTLAW UNIONS
Ask That A. F. Of L. Be
Prohibited Entirely
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor will
meet here today to take action on
the /. r. T. Injunction, it was an
nounced yesterday. William Green,
president of the A. F. of L. Will
liam B. Mah0n, president Of the
Amalgamated Street and Electric
Railway Employees, will attend the
meeting.
On November II, Armistice Day,
the anniversary Of the end of the war
"to make the world safe for democ-
racy," the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company will demand from the
courts an injunction against the en-
tire American labor movement, re-
straining it, jointly or severally, from
organizing, or trying to organize en-
ployes of the l. r. T.
The attempt to secure the most
sweeping injunction ever applied for,
exceeding in the width of its prohibi-
tions even the famous Buck Stove
and Range order, under which the late
President Gompers was sentenced to
six months for contempt of court, is
the latest anti-labor move on the part
of the l. r. T. 1t aims to stop the
inroads on its company union which
eliminated in the strike of 1926 and
in the organization and contemplated
strike action of this year, which was
thwarted by an agreement between
union officials and Mayor Walker.
This agreement between officials
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Employees and
Mayor Walker, with the l. R. T. as
the party of the third part, was sup
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
End Lynching, Demand
On Crime Conference
By N. A. A. C. p. Here

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People yes
terday telegraphed the National Con-
ference on Crime which is meeting in
the New Willard Hotel, Washington,
asking that the conference consider
means to end the crime of lyuching
and the activities of the Ku Klux
Klan. The telegram is signed by
James Weldon johnson, secretary of
the association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
HUNDREDS OF OHIO MINERS MARCH
in HONOR OF BOY KILLED BY SCAB
Nineteen Year-Old Striker Won Argument With
Strikebreakers; One Shot Him
Especial To The DAILY WORKER. }
By AMY SCHECHTER.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2-Hundreds of striking miners of
SubDsrc Number of the Ohio district of the United Mine
Workers of America marching today from the Dungen
to Smthfed in funeral demonstration for John Pcet 9year-
old striker shot and killed by scab last Saturday afternoon
Miners from all the 80 local unions expected to
join the march
murderer May ronon was bound for the Rose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
EARTH SHOCKS IN TOXIC.

TOXIC, Oct. 31.-Nearly one hun
dred earth shocks rocked the prefect-
ure of Niigata during the past week,
check disclosed today. None of them
did serious damage, although residents
of this section still fear recurring
temblors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
To Construct Ten More
Railway Lines in USSR

MOSCOW, Nov. 2. (By MaiD In
1929, apart from the construction
of the big Turkestan-Siberia Railway
line, the construction of eight more
lines 1900 kilometres long altogether,
will be expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
BROKER BEATS WIFE.

DEDHAM, Mass, Nov. "A di-
vorce decree was granted today to
Mrs. Rose Burger of Brookline from
her husband, Louis Burger, Boston
stock broker. The divorce was not
contested. In her suit Mrs. Burger
testified she was sworn at, struck and
showed around by her husband.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
6 Workers Killed, 20
Hurt as Fire Destroys
Small Spanish Factory

MADRID, Nov. 2.-Six persons
were dead and twenty were in hospi
tails seriously injured today following
a fire which occurred in factory in
the village Of Arcediano, in the prov
ince of Salamanca.
The blaze was caused by short
circuit in an electric lighting cable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
MARINE SERGEANT, A SUICIDE.

WASHINGTON, NOV. Z.-Sergt.
James F. Miskell, U. S. Marine Corps,
stationed in China, committed suicide
yesterday by shooting himself with
his service pistol, according to a dis
patch to the navy today. Miskells
home was given as Beaver Lick, Ky.
sence of winds prevented the damage
from being greater.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
COUNT CzERNIN SAYS BIG POWERS
ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY Get
READY FOR INVASION OF U. S. S. R,
Parked In SumptuOus Suite In Expensive Hotel
PrOpagandzes Reporters
Henchmen of Hapsburgs Comes to America For
Support For Attack On Workers Republic

War against the Soviet Union and Bohevsm everywhere
by bloc of England France and Germany advo
Gated by Count Attakar Czernn Of Austria his arrival
New York yesterday
The former foreign minister in the Hungarian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UE0RGANIZEp
FOR THE 40-RoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-28
CHURCH ROW IN
SCANDAL SEEN

A church scandal that threatens
to plunge several local Baptist
churches into a partisan fight
doomed today when it was revealed
that a secret meeting of Baptist
pastors and leading churchmen had
been called to meet tonight at Cal
vary Baptist Church when two ac-
tive members Of Maryland Avenue
Baptist Church will be accused of
gross misconduct.
The Rev. II. NJ. Lawson, pastor
Of the Maryland Avenue Church,
was noncommital today. He shraink
from discussing the affair involving
an officer of the church, who is
married and has two children. and
a young woman active in the Sun
day School and church societies.
Tonight's session was called by
an exparte council which met last
Friday night at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church and laid before
friends from several Baptist
churches the alleged charges. The
ex-parte counsel, composed of three
members of Maryland Avenue
Church, are said to be opposed to
further prosecution of the case
and will insist on giving both par
ties to the affair a clean bill of
health.
The affair" between the two mem
bers of the church is said to have
started more than a year ago. One
report is that the principals made
certain admissions, promised to pur.
sue separate course, and later
Haunted their affairs before the
world.
Some time ago, March II, the pas.
tor laid the case before the board of
deacons of Maryland Avenue Baptist
Church. The board accepted the pas
tors version of the case, but one
deacon refused to believe the story
and has since been fighting the bat
ties of the woman in the case.