The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER RIVERA’S IRON FIST FELT BY SPAIN WORKERS But He Deals Easily With “Socialists” By QUANTUORADO, (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, Spain, May 29—(By Mail) —The measures taken by the tyran- nous government of Primo De Rivera against the working class of Spain are becoming more violent day by day. The Spanish dictator plainly wishes to silence the voice of the workers en- tirely. To do this he has bought the ald of the leaders of the Socialist Party of Spain. While one after the other of the ac- tive memb: of the Communist Party of Spain have been imprisoned until 75 per cent of them are now incar cerated, to the socialists De Rivera has given government positions and official commissions. Three-Year Attack, Since September 13, 1923, when he assumed power by means of a military coup, Rivera has waged a continuous warfare upon the militant section of the working class. But the Commu- nist Party has struggled against his repression with surprising energy. In the past year alone, four members of the central committee of the party have been imprisoned successively. Two Years Without Trial. Joaquin Marin and Oscar Peres Solis have been in prison in Madrid for two years—and are still awaiting trial! The trial is finally called and will occur shortly. It is expected that the sentences will be extremely rigor- ous. Marin has 50 charges lodged against him. Only “Socialists” Safe. The “intellectual democrats” have come in for their share of punishment at the hands of De Rivera, whom they opposed from the beginning. The dic-. tator is proceeding against them vig- orously. Gimenes Asua, professor in the University of Madrid, has been only recently confined in prison in Spanish Africa. It would seem that only the “socialists” are exempt from the persecutions of the dictatorship. Muskogee Municipal Pumping Station Is Manned by Scabs MUSKOGEE, Okla.— (FP) — When the entire pumping crew at the Mus- kogee municipal waterworks walked out on sirike all places were at once filled by strikebreakers. There was no violence and no sabotage. The 100% strike came ag a protest against the discharge of two empioyes and is a result of the new anti-labor city administration's effort to “clean up the town.” It is said thet none of the strikers belong to a labor union. There is no sentiment for organization noticeable among workers in Muskogee. Portuguese Cabinet Resigns When Two Garrisons Revolt (Special to The Daily Worker) LISBON, Portugal, May 31. — The Portuguese cabinet resigned follow- ing revolts in the military garrisons at Braga and Oporto and the march of the rebel troops on the capital. PILSUDSKI WARNS POLISH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES OF HIS SWITCH AT PARTY (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, May 31—As a pre- liminary to the meeting of the na- tional assembly on Monday for the choice of a president of Poland, Marshal Pilsudski invited the aspir- ants for the chief executiveship to tea at the home of Premier Bartel. He had previously declared he want- ed to look them over, Party leaders accompanied their candidates to the gathreing. Pil- sudski appears to have been the only one willing to talk. “If you do not heed what | say,” he declared, “you will feel my switch.” Any nominee elected must meet with his approval, Pilsudski warned. This is taken as an open threat of dicta- torship. THE DAILY WOR.KER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 1118 W. Washington Blvd., (Phone: co. Chicago, I. Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.50 $4.50 Address al) mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, ——___—_. 4s an second cine mail Sept. 21, the act of ae with a calvacade of coppers on guard. HOPE TO SAVE FRANC BY BOOK KEEPING TRICK Cabinet Rietiases to Tax Capitalists PARIS, May 31.—The cabinet coun- cil of Premier Briand after continu- ous discussions on the financial situa- tion, announces its opposition to in- creasing the taxation, as demanded by the left parties because of the es- cape from taxation of enormous sums of French capital while consumption taxes are loaded on the already high cost of living. The cabinet also proposes that the dealings between France and the Unit- French debt to America, be kept se- cret and not discussed in the cham- ber of deputies. The cabinet thinks that one check on the downward fall of the franc may be made by a bookkeeping trick of enforcing the entering amounts of liquid capital held abroad by French- in a vicious campaign of repression against the Swedish trade unions. workers are making the fight of their lives. democratic rule takes care of his governmental problems at home. ed States over the funding of the| men in a special account in the Bank of France, thus making the credit side of the books look better, even if the money is held in foreign coun- tries. Massive Buddha Sold at Auction This colossal Chinese Buddha, now an antique because China is moving away from the superstitious worship of idols, was recently sold at auction in New York to a Chinese art dealer, was found to contain many old and valuable manuscripts and old precious stones in its hollow chest, The Bud- dha, which is cast in bronze, sits on a pedestal, consisting of a brass dram covered with 3,000 small engraved Buddhas, The god and the pedestal combined are more than eight feet high, and welen more than half a ton. Nancy Sandosky ' Will Speak in Utica Tuesday UTICA, N. Y., May 31,—Nancy San- dowsky, youthful Passaic strike lead- er, will speak on the Passaic strike at Hungarian Hall, 33814 Federal St., Tuesday evening, June 1, at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Internation- al Workers’ Aid, WRITE AS YOU FIGHTS Royalty Welcomed as Usual The Swedish crown prince and his wife, Princess Louise, are shown entering New York City from the boat In the prince’s own country at the present time the employers are engaged PRINGE OF WALES, AN OWNER OF COAL MINES, DONATES FOR “RELIEF” . LONDON, May 31—The Prince of Wales was today credited with hav- ing donated $50 to a fund for the re- lief of the striking coal miners of Wales. The cynical feature of this contribution is that the Prince him- self owns mines in Wales in which miners are striking. Workers here also’ remember that the Prince of Wales made a special trip to the Limehouse police station one night during the general strike to compli- ment the police on their clubbing of strikers. ‘SACCO, VANZETTI PROTEST OF 1500 CHICAGO WORKERS (Continued from page 1) thruout the country, A full list of them are given here: List of Meetings. Philadelphia, June 5, Labor Insti- tute, 8th and Locust Sts., with Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn, Arturo Giovannitti, and August Claessens. Pittsburgh, June 3, Labor Lyceum, 35 miller St., with James P. Cannon, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Washington, D. C., June 4, the Play- house, 1814. Street, N. W., with Robert Dunn ,and John S. Hornback. Baltimore, June 3, Conservatory Hall, 1029 E. Baltimore St., with Rob- ert Dunn and John 8S. Hornback,. Detroit, June 4, Majestic Theater, Woodward Ave., near Wilbis, with C. E. Rutheriberg, and other speakers. Cleveland, June 4, Moose Hall, 1,000 Walnut Ave., with James P. Cannon and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Minneapolis, June 4, Unitarian Church, with Robert Morss Lovett, William F. Dunne, William Mahoney, and Stockwell as chairman. St. Paul, June 5, Robert Morss Lo- vett and William F. Dunne. Kansas City, June 13, James P. Cannon. San Francisco, Robert Whitaker, and Tom Lewis, Los Angeles, Robert Whitaker, and James Fisher. Seattle, Moose hall, James Duncan, John C. Kennedy, Carl Brannin, George Vanderveer, C. B. Ellis, and Jean Stovel, Portland, John C, Kennedy. St. Louis, June 12, James P, Cannon. Buffalo, June 1. Gary, June 13, Stanley Clark. Chicago, New York, Lawrence, and Newark, N. J., have already held their meetings with good success. Prof. Lovett and Dunne Are Speakers at Mpls. Sacco-Vanzetti Protest MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 31. — A mass protest meeting for the de- tense of Sacco-Vanzetti is to be held here on June fourth, at the Unitarian Church, 8th and LaSalle, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of International Labor Defense. The principal speak- ers will be Prof, Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago and Wm. F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, Wm. Mahoney of St. Paul, editor of the Minnesota Union Ad- yocate will also speak, 8. A, Stockwell of Minnespolis will preside. At its regular meeting last Wednes- day, the Minneapolis Trades and La- bor Assembly voted to wire Mass- achusetts authorities demanding that Sacco and Vanzetti be given a new trial, St. Paul, will hold a mass meet- ing on June fifth at which Wm. F. Dunne will speak, as well as others. You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a The DAILY WORKER with ‘ih ol at story in it, 4 4 A lockout was declared recently and the In the meantime the prince Is enjoying himself in travel, while social- KU KLUX CHIEF HELD FOR BOMB THAT KILLED 3 Michigan em Leader Accused of Murder (Special to The Daily Worker) MUSKEGON, Mich., May 31— The focal leader of the ku klux klan and constable under the laws of Michigan, Asa K. Bartlett, is to be accused in a warrant of the murder of three per- sons killed by a bomb sent thru the mails of August Krubaech, which ex- ploded when opened, killing Krubaech and his daughter Jeanette, aged 18, and her fiance, William R. Franks, of Chicago. ‘The state prosecutor, R. Glen Dunn, |” states that Bartlett admitted familiar- ity with explosives and boasted that he was the only man in Blue Lake townsh =) who could make a bomb, In addition, the outer ) (wrapping on the parcel sent thru the mails, being re- moved before the inner one which set off the explosion, remains intact and shows labols identified as purchased by Bartlett and handwriting similar to his. Besides this, a gun without a ham- mer was found in Bartlett’s posses- sions, while thé bomb wag set by a hammer found in Krubaech’s body. The hammer was arranged to be re- leased when the string around the in- ner wrapping was loosened, permit- ting the hammer to fall by the action of a spring on a detonating cap that set off the explosive contained in the bomb. Two hammers were used to make assurance doubly sure. SUFFRAGE MEET MAY SEAT THE WOMAN'S PARTY Congress to Reconsider Former Action PARIS, May 31. — After much lob- bying on the part of the National ‘Woman's Party delegation to the In- ternational Suffrage Alliance congress here, which voted a few days ago to exclude them from the congress at the insistence of the league of women voters, it is declared that at today’s session the congress may reverse its decision and admit their delegation. The league of women voters in- sisted that the National Woman’s Party, whose delegation is headed by Doris Stevens (Mrs, Dudley Field Malone), should not .be admitted as the league sought to abolish the spe- cial protective laws for women in in- dustry. May Compromise. The French, Greek and German delegates pleaded to; the convention to reconsider its previous action, Mrs. Ashby, head of League of Women Voters delegation, intimated that she would favor a reconsideration of the acceptance of the National Woman's Party delegates and apologized for her attack on the National Woman’s Party declaring it was due, to a cage ot “nerves” and misunderstanding of the aims and background of the Na- tional Woman's Party. Agalns Special Laws. The congress by a vote of 70 to 38 amended the previous stand of the International Suffrage Alliance with a strong declaration against social legislation for the «protection of women in industry, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. || “White Civilization” Is Fearful for Daughters of Oil in the Orient By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘HEN the American ruling class speaks of “civilization” it means “white civilization.” Peoples of oth- er colors are not supposed to enjoy the great benefits to be found under the folds of flags flung to the breez- es by the white race. Every effort must be put forth to maintain this myth, It is therefore necessary to ex- plain away the recent crime of, “white civilization” in China, in what has become known as “the rape of Peking,” when the murders and massacres that have always been the favorite weapons of occi- dental armies were again inflicted upon a helpless people. oe * In speaking of the terror invoked in Peking, Charles Dailey, writing in the Chicago Tribune, declares: “It had been a_ terrifying fort- night. Crimes of the most shock- ing nature had been committed by the ruthless soldiery, all unchecked ‘by the Shantung generals and their Manchurian and White Russian al- lies. “Details of the crimes committed ‘by the Shantung bandits and thelr White Russian allies never can be written; they are too revolting. Their victims run into the thou- sands. “In a village outside the Tung Chihmen the men were driven from their homes, the girls and women subjected to almost continous out- rage, and when not thus abused were kept bound to stakes in the courts of the houses. This also by White Russians. “As for the villages farther from the walls of Peking there were cases where whole families were murdered except only the young ‘women and girls—even small girls.” That sounds like the excesses of the world war; of every war, and “white civilization” has been re- sponsible for the greatest wars. oe % No effort, of course, is made to explain who the “White Russians” are. The casual reader, ignorant of developments in the orient, and un- able to connect last week’s or last year’s historic incidents with those of today, will somehow identify this scum of capitalist militarism with the Russian Soviet Republic. It is therefore, well to emphasize again that these “White Russians” are the worst enemies of the Union of Soviet Republics. Not only that, but they continue to exist as a pow- er only because of the support they receive from the boasted “white civilization” of the great imperialist powers. American soldiers and sail- ors under the American flag were sent thru Vladivostok into Siberia in an effort to aid these “white com- rades” under Kolchak, to overthrow the rule of the workers and peas- ants and establish the bloody re- gime of the czarist murderers. The Chicago Tribune and every other hysterical mouthpiece of American “white civilization” frantically sup- ported this intervention. No men- tion was then made of the burning of villages, the massacre of great sections of the population, the rav- ishing of helpless women and girls, the destruction of means of trans- portation, of railroads, of bridges and public buildings, and the laying waste of great sections of the coun- trysides. These crimes were com- mitted against workers and peas- ants and were therefore, excusable in the eyes of the publicity agents of “white civilization.” 4 i ae) Yet the workers and peasants triumphed. These “white guards’ were driven off Russian soil. “White civilization,” however, took them un- der its protecting wing. Thousands have come to the United States where they now act as strikebreak- ers, Others have joined the impe- Mayor Dever Aids McAndrew in War on Teachers’ Union Mayor Dever declared that he would not appoint new members to the board ot education to replace the three trustees whose terms have expired. The terms of trustees J, Lewis Coath, and Mrs, W. 8. Hefferan end- ed April 10. Julius Smietanka is a holdover since 1924. According to the new law all will hold their positions until successors are appointed, Mayor Dever in commenting on the present board declared: “Why should I make any changes? The board, as it is, seems to be handling school af- fairs smoothly, 6o far as I am in: formed.” This action of the mayor endor: the attempt of Superintendent Will- jam McAndrew to break up the Chi- cago teachers’ union. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation opposes the re- appointment of Mrs, Hefferan and Smietanka, Coath has their endorse- ment. i a” WRITE AB YoU drowns rialist armies in the orient fighting the Chinese revolution. Now as ever they have the support and sympathy of the agents in the “Far East” of the so-called “great pow- ers.” They are a big factor in the armies of Chang Tso Lin, the Man- churian war lord, who has the sup- port not only of Japanese imperial- ism, but is heralded by American dollar rule as “the strong man of China.” It is, therefore, the exploit- ers of white, brown and yellow “civilizations,” as they are found in the western world, in Japan, and even in China itself, that invites against the emancipation struggle of the Chinese masses. Cee It 4s very evident that the Chi- cago Tribune's wrath over the mur- derous lust of the whife guard Rus- sians and the many crimes of Chang’s soldiery, did not grow out of any sympathy for the Chinese worker and peasant masses. It seems that little discretion was used by the mad soldiery turned loose to loot, rape and massacre. They selected some of their victims from among the class that “white civil- ization” is created and supported in an effort to protect. Here is the com- plaint: “There is the case of four Russian mercenary soldiers on the broad thorofare known as Pig Street near the scene of the fair held every ten days and so widely attended by foreigners, and known as Lung Fu- su. In possession of a command- eered cart they seized from among the passers-by five of the most re- fined and best dressed girls: they could encounter, bound them with ropes to the cart and conveyed them to their camp outside the Chao Yang-men, or East Gate.” Then again: “In the compound of a great for- eign ofl company outside the Yung Ting-men, or South Gate, where the sixth Shantung division occupied all the houses, the commander of the company took possession of the compound and drove out the staff, expelled the agent, installed himself in the office and had brought to him the virtuous, refined and attractive daughter of an official of the cham- ber of commerce.” se 8 It matters not what happens to the 400,000,000 of the Chinese peo- ple, degraded by imperialist bandit Tule, but the daughters of foreign oil companies and the chambers of the commerce must be protected. The Chicago Tribune screams for its own and the excesses of the white guard Russians and the imported mercenaries of every imperialist power, and the looting, bandit hosts of Chang Tso Lin will be curbed @ little, to avoid these complaints. But they will not be curbed inso- far as the Chinese masses are con- cerned. And that is one of maby reasons why the Chinese masses re- sist them to the utmost, “fe The Kuominchun (the National Revolutionary Army) is the army of the people. It does not loot, or rape, or murder. It therefore, meets with a growing sympathy among the masses. It fights for the mass- es, to liberate them from the grip of imperialist exploitation. The white guard Russian merce- naries, the imperialist soldiery of tthe United States, Japan, France, Great Britain, and other capitalist nations, were driven out of Soviet soil by the Red army of the work- ers and peasants. The Kuomin- chun, the developing Red army of the Chinese masses, will also run these invaders, as well as native tyrants, off Chinese soil and achieve a lfberated China. That is the night- mare that troubles the restless sleep of the world imperialists. Detroit Defense Rally Begins City-W; ide Drive DETROIT, Mich. May 31. — Detroit started off its campaign for the re- lease of Sacco and Vanzetti with a monster mass meeting at the House of the Masses, Sunday May 23, The meeting, which was the first to be held to arouse interest in the cases for some time is a guage as to whet Detroit will do toward the release of the framed-up comrades, and Vonzetti fun |Russian W. P. Fraction Meets Wednesday Night ‘The Chicago Rabeian traction of the Workers Party will meet Wednesday, June 2, at the Worker's House, 1902 Final preparations for the picnic to pho operons W. Division St. Se adc Enea Sormenti spoke in behalf of the Workers Party, Cyril Lambkin, for the local I, L, D. and Carlo Tresca, editor of Il Martello spoke, A col fection of $368.00 was seoured which will go to the I. L. D, for the Sacco i RNS CS SD a ae TERRORISM AIDS GOVERNMENT T0 WIN ELECTIONS Many RoumanianTowns -Denied Right to Vote BUCHAREST, Roumania, May 30— The government party won 75 per cent of the parliamentary seats in the recent elections. The Nationalist- Peasant combination won between 15 and 20 per cent and the Bratiano party won the remaining seats. Military Terror, These elections in Roumania were accompanied by the worst forms of military terror imaginable. Whole towns that were suspected of going for the Nationalist-Peasant party, which is in opposition to the present government party, were quarantined and the populace denied the right to vote. Candidates on the Nationalist-Peas- ant ticket were persecuted. In some sections they were thrown into jail in order to prevent them from elec- tioneering. Murder Opposition Candidate. In the Province of Ilfov an opposi- tion candidate and a priest named Turco were murdered by government adherents with the assistance of the gendarmes. Gendarmes were used by the gov- ernment party in many of the village election places to keep those who might vote for the opposition candi- dates out of the polls. Raids were staged on workers’ and peasants’ homes in order to terrorize the work- ers and peasants and keep them from voting against the government par- ties. A joint protest was handed to King Ferdinand by leaders of the Nation- alist and Peasants’ parties in which it charged that the parilamentary elections had degenerated into “a mil- itary offensive on the part of the army and the gendarmerie against the dem- ocratic forces of the country.” So. Chicago, Pullman, 9 Ill., Protest Jointly SOUTH CHICAGO, IIL, May 31, — Next Wednesday night, June 2nd, at 8 p. m. a Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting will be held at Templin Hall, 8801 Commercial Ave. Speakers will be in tlalian, English and South Slavic; L. Candela, of the Anti-Fascist Al- liance, Max Schactman of the Labor Defender, Martin Krasic of the South Slavic section of I. L, D. ; All workers of South Chicago and Pullman, regardless of race, or pol- itical opinion are asked to rally to- gether at this meeting to demand a fair trial and the release of the inno- cent victims of frame-up who have suffered 6 years in prison and now face death, Sacco and Vanzetti Brooklyn Meet June 3 NEW’ YORK, May 31. — A meeting of protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti will take place on Thursday, June third, at 8 p. m. in Montauk theater, Bath Ave., corner 20th Ave., Brooklyn, New York. Prom- inent Italian and English speakers will address the meeting. 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