The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 75, a LEFi PERU WORKERS’ GENERAL STRIKE THREAT GROWS Imperialist Oppression Unites Labor Forces (Anti-imperialist News Service) LIMA, Peru, April 7.—Denunciation ef all construction contracts between the Peruvian government and the Foundation company of New York, is Now being demanded by the’ workers and peasants in the face of President Leguia’s attempt to draft them into the unrequited employ of the com- Pany. This will surely be one of the demands of the Lima general strike if it is called. Anti-imperialist Feeling Spreads, Significant of the spread of anti- imperialist feeling, is the fact that the students are supporting all the demands of the workers and peasants, so that a united anti-imperialist front is being created in opposition to the so-called road-building conscription law. This, united front includes all classes. not directly corrupted by im- perialism, The . Peruvian students were formerly the leaders of the move- ment against Wall Street domination, but their organization was dealt. a series of severe blows when Leguia arrested many of the students and exiled, their leading spirit, Victor Haya de la Torre, from the country. As a result of mass deportation of student leaders, it was possible to confuse certain sections of the stu- tents for a time by raising the tawdry. banner of “patriotism” ‘and anti- Chifean. sentiment in*the Tacna-Arica affair. On the pretense of appeal against Chile, President Leguia turned the whole settlement of the Tacna- Arica matter over to American im- perialism. President Coolidge became “arbiter” and the first act began in the farce of the plebiscite that never was to be held. General Lassiter now runs things in the province of Tacna and Arica, and President Leguia’s “patri- otism” is now exposed as downright betrayal to imperialism. Bribe President Leguia, Meantime, bribing the tyrant Leguia with stockholdings in the Foundation company and other Wall Street con- cerns, American imperialism fastened its hold more and more securely on the territory of Peru itself, Peruvian loans, formerly floated in London, were now floated exclusively in New York. An American financial “ad- visor” took up his residence in Lima, as well as American customs inspec- tors. An American naval mission paid a visit—and helped fan the flames of “patriotism” against .Chile, in the interests of Wall Street and Leguia. Peru sunk to the position of a semi- colony of the United States, which is the position she occupies now. While the hypocrits of the United States government took a lofty tone in criticizing “the imperialist policies of Europe,” they have been quietly uri- dermining Peruvian independence for the sake of monopolist profits, Must Work Without Pay. The road-building conscription law, which conscripts Peruvians to work without pay for the Foundation com- pany, ds one of the most glaring ‘ (Continned on page 4.) %, RS . “ik . American Missionaries ‘ * pia Abandon China Mission (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, April 7 — Anti-missionary agitation in China has caused aban- donment of the American baptist mis- sion hospital at Wu-chow and the closing of the mission school, the American consul at canton reported today. Crowds attacked the Wu-chow hospital earlier in the week, forcing the staff to take refuge on an Amer- fean gunboat, The consul reported the American mission compound on Kacheki Island has been temporarily occupied by troops and is not in danger, oP Sn 2 oO One oF "0, a 9x “lf iption Rates: S ‘Ae 45. te, « @ ¥ In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chieago, by mail, $6.00 per year, ING ISSUE AT PI Labor's Fight for Peru 1, Peruvian government, hand and glove with Wall Street imperial- ism, signs $50,000,000 road-building and general construction contract with the Foundation company of New York, the terms of contract being scandalously “liberal” to the company, 2. Members of Peruvian congress protest against the contract. Their mouths are stopped by imprisonment and exile. 3. President Augusto B. Leguia, autocrat of Peru, becomes a stock- holder in the Foundation company together with some of his friends, 4. President Leguia commands and secures passage of law No. 4113, providing that every Peruvian who cannot buy his exemption shall be conscripted by the government to work 12 days each year (without pay) *on the road-building projects of the Foundation company. The Founda- tion company thus secures labor power for nothing. The Peruvian work- ing class is conscripted to produce super-profits for American imperialism. 5. Charges are raised on all sides that Leguia has been bribed by imperialism to betray his people. The history of the negotiations between Leguia, the Foundation company and the U. S. diplomatic representative at Lima, is cited to show that the conscription law was put thru in con- formity with a secret agreement under which Legula was given an in- terest in the Foundation company. 7 ¢ 6. Attempts to apply the road-building conscription law in the province of Arequipa and other places are met by determined resistance Of workers and peasants. Unprecedented brutalities by Leguia’s police. Imprisonments, deportations, massacres. that application of the law is postponed, Placards are posted in the city of Lima giving the population 45 days to register for conscription under law 4113. £ But the resistance is so great 8. All workers, organized and unorganized alike, denounce the law. Federation of Printing Trades Workers issues manifesto calling upon workers not to register. Similar manifestoes are issued by other unions. Larrea and Sierra, officials of the Printing Trades Federation, are brought before the minister of'the interior and summarily arrested, after being told that they can get their freedom by signing a statement 10. branches of the printing trades, 11, 14. United Sta’ COOLIDGE SEEKS POWER TOCRUSH TEXTILE STRIKE Congress ‘Will Act on Strike-Breaker Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7— A bill which would give ident Coo- lidge the power to break a strike is to be‘ reported out of committee and placed before congress for action. The bill would allow President Coo- lidge, the tool of the big business ‘in- terests in this country, to appoint a national. commission to . investigate causes, of a strike or a threat to strike and place the blame on the “guilty party.” This bill authorizes the president to intervene or break a strike at any ‘time that he may desire. ' President Coolidge intimated: his desire for this measure in his speech to congress on November. 1923, If this bill is passed Coolidge might attempt to smash the strike of the Passaic tex- tile workers. Riffians and Druses Win Attacks on French PARIS, April 7 — Riff forces at- tacked today in the vicinity of Taza, the foreign office announced. It is expected today’s attack may presage widespread attacks all along the front, » tee ied Druse Assault Wins, DAMASCUS, Syria, April 7—Druse tribesman have attacked a railroad train south of Damascus and captured jsix railway officials. Troops have been sent to the relief of the train. PERUVIAN TYRANT SEEKS $30,000,000 LOAN FROM WALL STREET FRIENDS LIMA, Peru, April 7.—The government is king a $30,000,000 loan in Wall Street. The Peruvian congress, which has been requested to authorize the government to conclude such a loan is scheduled to adjourn, but Presi- dent Leguia is expected to call an extra session. The approval of congress ig only a formality. his wo under way in New York. He is Augusto B. Leguia is supreme dictator in Peru and is law. It Is understood that negotiations for the joan are actually repudiating the manifesto of their organization and declaring them- selves in favor of the conscription law. Printing Trades Workers Federation declares strike of all Preparations are made for general strike of all workers for the “release-of Larrea and Sierra and forthe repeal of the vicious law No. 4113. 12, Students join. workers calling for a united anti-imperialist from of all Peruvians against Wall Street and Legui 1%. Printing Trades Federation sends message to the All-America Anti-Imperialist League asking for support of, all sections. section of All-America’ Anti-Imperialist League demands investigation of activities of the Foundation company and of U. S. diplomatic representatives in Peru. ENGINEER ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD SAVES _ 600 FROM NEAR DEATH (Special to The Daily Worker) Laboring at the throttle of his locomotive in the face of seemingly certain death, George Barthelman, engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad) saved 600 persons from possible death and injury as he brot to a halt a derailed suburban train at the edge of a viaduct late last night. SEND IN A SUB! WOMAN SHOOTS END OFF NOSE OF MUSSOLINI English Religious Crank) Is Poor Marksman (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, April 7 — Premier Musso- lini was shot at today just as he left the International Congress of Sur- geons where he had delivered an ad- dress. He was jist about to step into his auto when a woman fired at him, missing his forehead but striking the end of his nose, The assailant was immediately taken in chatge. She has been identi- fied as Miss Violet Gibson, a sister of Lord Ashbourne of England. She is 50 years of age and well-known in England and Ireland as a religious fanatic.. A year ago she tried to com- mit suicide in Rome by shooting her- self while in religious fervor. Owing to the recent long continued ill-health of the premier, there is a conviction that’ the consequences of the wound may be more serious than would normally be the case. It will doubtless interfere with his plans for @ grand triumphal sea voyage, escort- ed by a fleet of Italian warships, to the Italian possession of Tripoli. '* + Clap on Censorship. LONDON, April 7 — A censorship heavier than usual has been imposed on all news cothing from Italy since the first reportg:of the wounding of Mussolini. It reported that grea‘ gangs of fascistykoodlums are parad- ing the streets pf Rome, One crowd of -them. has » ly attacked’ ‘the. printing © plant Hi Mondo, one of the opposition ipers, and wrecked the building. Hrsonal violence is threatened tooleaders of the anti- fascist groups. Harder tovAct Napoleon. The premier’s injury is reported on more thoro examination not to be serious tho it isyvery painful and most embarrassing. Tie bullet pierced both nostrils and grazed the cheek. Friend of! King George. Miss Gibson, the assailant, has been a resident of Italy at various times. She was so close a personal friend of King George that he sent his private physician to attend her last year when she tried to commit suicide. Friends of hers in London are inclined to believe that her anger over the dic- tator’s attitude towards the vatican and the recent differences between the fascist party and Cardinal Gasparri, Plenty of Rooms at Fancy Prices the official director of papal foreign policy, may have aroused her catholic emotionalism to commit the act. Did you subscribe to The American Worker Correspondent? But there's no room for workers when low wages can't ten vy pay high rents, Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1926 ooh 3e 290 Published Daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Wi ages y THAR DAILY Drawn by William Gropper Election time is near and poor old liquor has replaced the tariff as the hokum to get the workers’ mind off the real issues. | POLICE ARREST, BEAT FURRIERS IN N.Y. STRIKE Strikers Holding Firm and Winning (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 7—In spite of the efforts of fur strikers to conduct a peaceful picket demonstration this morning, the police made numerous attempts to create disorder and se- verely beat a large number of work- ers. Twenty arrests were made, and three of these strikers when arraign- ed in Jefferson Market Court on a charge of disorderly conduct were fined. One fine was $25 and the other two were $5 each. The other cases were postponed until later this week, Plan Protest. Union officials have determined that a protest to Police Commissioner McLaughlin against the brutal inter- ference of the police has become an absolute necessity. Peaceful picket- ing is being’ interfered with con- stantly, and the provocative action of the police and their deliberate at- tacks upon workers are becoming unbearable. The strikers are prepar- ing to demand the same protection given to the manufacturers and their hired agents by representatives of the law, Bosses Disappointed. Those members of the manufactur- ers’ associations who believed the statement made at their meeting last Friday that 3,000 workers would re- turn to the shops when they opened this morning, suffered bitter disap- pointment, The shops were opened, but not a single worker entered them. ‘They were all outside on the picket line, thousands and thousands of them, in a greater strike demonstration than has been held since the strike started, Strikers Winning. With no workers in their shops in the city, and all their efforts to take work out of town being defeated by the union, the manufacturers are finding it more and more difficult to hold out against the strikers. The settlement committee reports that 80 shops have already settled on the union’s terms and they are kept busy continually taking care of the new ap- Plications from) Manufacturers who agree to the u Ye terms and want to sign the agreement. Grand Jury Probe, Judge Manctsb “dntiounced today that ‘the grand jury was planning to OTTO. HUISWOOD WILL SPEAK ON NEGRO AT BRONX FORUM SUNDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 7— On Sun- day evening, April 11} at 8 o'clock Otto Huiswood, organizer of Negro workers and of the American Negro Labor Congress, will speak on “The Negro and the Labor Movement,” at The Bronx Workers’ Forum, 1347 Boston Road, near 169th street. The Negro problem is a very vital one for the entire American labor movement, not only for the Negroes themselves. The great majority of th 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States are exploited tenant farmers, agricultural workers, and industrial workers. Their salvation lies in the general labor movement, not in any utopian Zionist dream of “Back to Africa.” Racial equality will follow eco- nomic equality; and the Negroes must be drawn into the trade unions and into the movement of the work- ers toward independent political ac- tion. The American Negro Labor Congress is one step toward this unity. Both Negro and white work- ers should come to hear Huiswood on this most vital American labor problem—the Negro worker. On April 25, the forum has sched- uled “What is The Socialis: Today?” with William Weinstone, general secretary, Workers (Com- munist) Party, New York, as the Speaker. Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. investigate the district attorney's | Statement that the union has been using gangsters in this strike. Ben Gold, strike leader, says, “This charge is simply a smoke screen! thrown up by the manufacturers’ as- sociation to hide their own actions, “The grand jury will find, if they investigate, that if any gangsters have been used it is the manufac- turers who have used them. They will find a number of instances where the police have arrested gangsters and they were found to be hired by the employers. But there is not a) single instance where the gangsters| were employed by the union.” A auh a day will help to drive ington Bivd., Chicago, IL NEW YORK EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents STEEL WORKERS’ CONVENTION ON IN PITTSBURGH Left Wing Attacked in First Session By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special to The Dailv Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aprii 7 — An attack upon the left wing and pro- gressives in the Amalgamated tron, Steel and Tin Workers Union marked the opening session of the unign’s fifty-first annual convention, The officials of the union seemed to think this every bit as much a ne- cessary part of the procedure as the opening prayer and blessing conduct- ed by Ben I. Davis, managing editor of the Union’s Journal. The convention was formally open- ed by Mike Tighe, president of the organization, and the address of wel- come to the delegates was extended by Mr. P. J. McArdle, former presi- dent of the union and now lawyer and councilman in the steel corporation city of Pittsburgh. A Tribute, The main business in the morning session consisted in passing a resolu- tion of tribute to a Mr. McNutt, for- mer member of the union gvho recent- ly died, despite the fact he had been working for the Western Bar Manu- facturers’ Association for the past twenty-five years. The policy seems to be that of forgetting working class fighters and paying tribute only to those who have been using the or- \ganization as a ‘stepping stone for jtheir own personal advancement, Invited Davis. A> fetter owas feveived “fronr” the secretary of labor, Davis, regretting that he could not address the conven- jtion due to illness. Mr. Davis, the strike-breaking member of the Coo- jlidge cabinet, who is the spokesmen for the various registration and finger printing bills aimed at the foreign- born workers employed in the steel |industry and other industries was in- | Vited by Mike Tighe to speak before jthe convention, It seems to be proof jenuf that Mike Tighe can no longer represent the interests of the steel workers in this country when he ex- tends official invitation to the great- jest enemy of the foreign-born workers |who constitute the majority of the workers within the steel industry, Officers’ Reports. The afternoon session was devoted until closing time to the officers’ re- ports and will be continued for at least a couple of days. Mike Tighe in his report is following. the same procedure as other international offi- cers have done in reporting to A. F, of L. conventions, making the usual attacks against Communism, Soviet- ism, etc. and proving to the masters how anxious they are to carry out the official class-collaboration policy, UPHOLSTERERS STRIKE TO GET WAGE INCREASE Union Demands the 40- Hour Week NEW YORK, April 1.—Upholsterers’ Union No, 44 has gone on strike de- manding higher wages and shorter hours. The union demandsya 40-hour week. The season in this industry is short, The workers are only able to get work four or five months in a year and thru the rest of the year they are forced to seek work at other lines or be jobless, The new demands will not solve the problems of the upholsterers. ‘They will only help a little, Many of the bosses have accepted the union conditions, The following shops are still on strike and uphol- sterers are warned not to go to work in them: Bristoll, 340 East 38th St.; Albano & Company, 306 East 47th st.; Orsemco & Company, Long Island City, Third avenue and 47th st,; Mar- selli, 232 East 59th St.; Fulner & Son, capital away. 404 East 14th St. COOLIDGE HENCHMAN INTRODUCES BILL AIMED AT FOREIGN-BORN WASHINGTON, D, C., April 7.—All foreign-born workers under 40 years of age, who have lived’ in the United applying for citizenship, are to be deported under a bill introduced in by Representative Manlove, republican States more than five years without congr, of Missour’. a“ a et ~+ | f