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oer eee omens ee GERMAN WORKERS! Kosar Secwar of | DEMONSTRATEFOR | it Tee COMMUNISTPARTY Thirty Thousand March In Heavy Hail Storm ESSEN, Germany, (By Mail), March 6.—-A great mass demonstra- | tion took place today in Essen in} honor of the XI Party Congress of | he will be welcomed by Louis Borno, 23.—Seeretary of War Dwight F. Davis arrived here from New York yesterday. After reviewing the Sixty-fifth Infantry, he will leave for Santo Domingo and Hayti Thursday. No | obstacles will be placed in the way | of his admission to Hayti. Being a staunch supporter of American dic- tatorship and terrorism in Hay' SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March | | Hope for Koumintang Split. | The flood of propaganda sent ont | by the imperialist propagandists is on | the increase tho there is a tendency | jon the part of the governments to | build on a possible split in the, Kou-| the German Communist Party. 30,000 | so-called president of the “Haytian Ruhr working men and women | Republic.” “ streets in stormes of rain and hail to| ‘ : Re the meeting place which was crowd-| Workers and Soldiers ing class quarters every house, al-/ Keep Peace in Shanghai | most every window was decked with} In the hall demonstrators, repre-| The entire crew was killed. The czar- | sentatives of the foreign Parties, so-| ists were executed. peasant delegates and finally com- rade Thaelmann spoke. The demon- to the Saalbau where after a speech by comrade Eberlein, it dissolved. marched for hours through the} ‘ ed with demonstrators. In the work- | red bunting. (Continued from Page One) | cial democratic workers, communist stration then marched in close ranks For Thoro Discussion. } wiugke a . mintang Party rather than on a large | fi ESSEN, March ith.-The 12th and seale interventionist policy. The im- inal session of the Congress WAS | yerialists would not hesitate to make opened on Monday morning the 7th | March. At the commencement of the session the chairman nforimed the 3 “a i ‘ | cbaasrdiek Shckt aascae. agaist 40° thie masses and have too strong a grip on | laick of time, the trade union discus- sion could not be carried out with the| nerialist. hopes any more than a thoroughness originally intended. It! Gream, | was nevertheless the intention of the} The Heroic Bartender. | Central Commttee to open up a thor-| 4 story that is creating a lot of | ough discussion on this point in the |» erriment in the internationa’ set- | ; near future. : |tlement is the yarn of the exploit of | } After the closing speech of com-| bartender named Raymond O'Brien | ‘ rade Heckert the political resolution "who is said to have rescued the in- | was adopted with all votes against! mates of a hesieged convent. Saving | 8. That section of the resolution pro-| women from perdition is eqnaidecen'| hibiting the formation of groups in-|}jere a novel role for an American | side the Party was accepted unani-/| hartender. | mously. The following were then| With the expected arrival of Gen- | adopted: The theses upon the trade/¢ral Smedley Butler here on March | union question, unanimously; the or-| 25th, swaggering American residents } ganizational resolution unanimously, | talk glibly of “action.” But China is two votes being withheld; the resolu»| not Nicaragua and the “hero” who tion upon the work of the Party in/lorded it over the little Latin-Amer- the non-party mass organizations,|jean republic in 1909 will have a unanimously; the resolution on the| tougher nut to crack in the shape of | struggle against reaction in the! over 400,000,000 Chinese workers and school, una..imously; the resolution | peasants. referring to the Young Communist! League, unanimously; one paragraph | in which the Wedding opposition de-|cse people are now awakened,” Gen- | mantied that the question of con-|eral Pai Ching-Hsi, commander of | fidence should be raised on the gen-|the Cantonese forces occupying eral political line, against 9 votes; | Shanghai, declared in a manifesto to the agrarian resolution, unanimously; | the Chinese people today, according to ; * | | * LONDON, March 23.—“The Chin- 50 COMRADES IN HUNGARY FACING DEATH SENTENCE \Gendarmes Disclosed in| Brutal Murder BUDAPEST, Hungary. (By Mail) Comrade Zoltan Szanto, the left so- cialist Stefan Vagi and the fifty Communist workers arrested recent- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. Russian Workers Send 50,000 Roubles to Aid Mexican RR. Strikers MOSCOW, March 23. The Union of Transport Workers of the U, 8. S$. R. has sent 50,000 roubles to striking railroad workers in Mexico, following an appeal by Senor Barrios, general secretary of the Mexican Transpert Workers’ Union, FLAY AMERIGAN ly will be placed before the special | court of Horthy within eight days. The Hungarian government has example in the present case. This awful example will be trial before the special court. According to the Hungarian: law this court knows only one sentence:—death, + Must Raise Protest. The international working class has already once stopped the ‘hands of the hangnian by powerful mobili- zation of its ranks. for an action of relief for persecuted workers than it was at the time of the Rakosi trial. This means that we must carry thru our campaign’ with increased war on the left wing but the latter | power, that we must raise our voices, » z 4 have the support of the Chinese|more loudly than formerly so that /*Peakers included Homer Mo the power of the proletariat is not | the political and military apparatus | only felt by the hangmen of the Dan-| of the Koumintang to make the im-|ube but also by their masters on the! Thames. Assassins at Work. Concerning the murder of Comrade Loszy by the police, while being transported by train, the following information has been gained. Com- rade Loszy sat in a department in a third class between two gendarmes with fixed bayonets. He was already in a bad state. His left eye was swollen. The gendarmes insulted him during the whole journey’ in the lowest manner. It was at the station Buksfok when Loszy made. an answer to the insults. The gen- darme shouted: “Keep your mouth, dog!” The gendarmes then took him |from his seat and dragged him out-} side. It was early in the morning |and nobody could see what happened | on the platform. Excited yoices were heard. Then sound of two shots. A scream and the falling of a body. Somebody exclaimed: “On, quickly!” and the train began to move. Los Angeles Workers Today the in-| ternational situation is less favorable | | | stated that it intends to set an awful | IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, ' Minneapolis Meeting Raps Militarism MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., —At a mass meeting he Yeoman Hall, Minneapolis NICARAGUA arch 23. citizens unanimously approved a resolution protesting against war and interven- tion in Mexico, Nicaragua and Chin: S. A. Stockwell, prominent in Minne- sota farmer-labor circles, presided and known attorney, Representa’ E. 8. oungdahl, farmer-labay representa- iive in the state legislature, Maurine Boie of the Mid-West Student, a Uni- versity of Minnesota publication, and ‘Maud L. Stockwell, chairman, Minne- sota Division of the Women’s Inter- national League for Peace and Free- | dom, | Mr. Youngdah! flayed thé alleged | Christianity of these United States ‘and called upon the representatives of the government to go into battle them- slyes, if they were convinced of the |righteousness of their war aims. Mau- rine Boie characterized as “national isnobbery” the pitting of nationalities against each other, and Maud Stock- |well made a plea for greater interest | {and resistance to compulsory military | training in schools and colleges. Anti-Imperialist Conference. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Conference Against | Intervention in Mexico, Nicaragua and | China, a local organization formed some two months ago and containing some 300 members. The local secre- tary, Harvey Watts, stated that un- | precedented interest is being displa ed in the work of this conference, }and that all members are determined : imum. The leadership of ie eee nia Oe ee es - the Gh tt communal _ resolution, unani- | wcusly; the resolution upon the work | amongst the women was turned over) trend of events in China since the | to the Central Committee. A res- olution against the Centre Party and an appeal to the Christian workers was handed over to a conference to} be called in the near future. A, proposal to remove comrades Bartels, Grilewitz and Schlecht from | all their poses for the space of one} year and to demand from them that) they lay down their mandates on ac. count of continual breaches of dise’ pline and an attitude contrary to thi best interests of the Party, was car-/ ried with all votes against 9, { } Interborough Cheats on Number of Trains The Interborough Rapid Transit Co.g is failing to operate its rush-hour sub- way trains up to schedule, it was shown by testimony submitted yes- terday to the transit commission. Charles Lockwood, who headed the | hearings on building trades corrup- tion under Brindell, is conducting the present hearings. On some days, it was charged by the chief of the commissiun’s transit bureau on inspections, as many as i7 trains less the required number operated during the morning rush pe- viod from 7 to 10. BUY THE DAILY WORKER | AT THE NEWSSTANDS Britain Ruling India With Aid of Native Rich (Continued from Page One) cope with the nationalist-revolution- ary movement in China’? The explanation of this is as fol- lows: 1) England was the only imperial- ist power in India and had no rivals in the shape of other powers; 2) England was sure of the back- ing @f the native big bourgeoisie in| India, whose interests to a certain ex- tent coincided with the interests of Cireat Britain; ) The Indian peasant and labour molvement was to a considerable ex- tent isolated from the world revolu- tionary movement and had no Com- munit vanguard, $ inder Bourgeois Influence. ‘The\ Indian labour movement, from its wats birth fell under the influence of thé national bourgeois elements, The Ghandists were at the head of the nationalist movement from 1919 to 121, but they showed themselves unable to lead the nationalist eman- cipatory movement. England was able by making some political and econ- omic concessions to the big bour- geoisie and by using some repressive measures against the petty bour- geoisie, to reduce the movement to tl nent was transf : is Ghandists to the Swar afists, who ‘tary of State Kelloge declared today. a news dispatch from there. General Pai, after reviewing the first Chinese republic was lished, ad@ed that the’ Chinese peo- ple would distinguish between attack- ing imperialism and foreigners, and would not insult foreigners or destroy | their property. * Message to Chinese Unions. MOSCOW, March 23.—‘Imperial- Ee convinced that the Chinese unions will |ctand shoulder to shoulder with us to wage war against imperialism,” de- |¢lared a message to the Shanghai | workers from the All-Union Council |of Trade Unions. * Why Not Reeall Troops? WASHINGTON, March Can- ditions in Shanghai are improving and it will not be necessary for for- cigners to evacuate the city, Secre- Oi ate <7 He believes that danger te forcign lives and property has pessed. Consul Generai Gauss and Stirling Fessenden, Americgn representative on the Shanghai municipal council, have been empowered to negotiate the future status of the international set- tlement. BUY THE DAILY WORKER | AT THE NEWSSTANDS | endeavored to obtain ernment by a series of agrarian} measures succeeded in undermining | the influence of the Swarajist Party, convinced the peasantry that the British Government was a better de- | fender of their. interests than the- Swarajists, among whom were many | big land-holders, exploiting the peas- | antry. The good harvests of recent) years helped in the same direction: | peasant risings in Punjabi, on the Malabar shores, and other places,’ have subsided, | Labor Organizations. | The first years of tempestuous | growth of the labour organisations | gave place to a period of inaction) (1923-1925), after which a fresh and | more regular increase in the labour! movement was observable. | india knew nothing of the profound | depression experienced by other coun- tries. Industrial dividends for 1926 were higher than those for 1926, and the slight depression in the Bombay and Ahmedabad cotton industry was taken adva»tage of by the employ- ers to mp 1 offensive against the working © But this only led to the numeric. vowth of the textile workers’ union, and to an increase of strike activity. estab- | | | . |‘drew up a resolution which was sent Rap U. Ss. Imperialism \to resist by all means in their power e the imperialist war which seems to _|be the desire of the department of state, Copies of the resolution adopted were ordered mailed to the press and to all senators and representatives of the state of Minnesota in congress, a well as to senators Shipstead, Wheel- er, Borah, Heflin and Norris. LON ANGELES, March 23 yesentatives of six workers’ political | and indastrie! organizations decided to. affiliate with the All-American Anti-Imperialist® League, at a meet- ing held at the Needle Trades Coun- cil Hall, 224 South, Spring Street, March 13th, Protesting against American inter- vention in China, Mexico and Nica- ragua, the delegates at the conference Poultry Fight On. ALBANY, N. Y., March 23.—The Webb bill, incorporating the New York Poultry Exchange was before Gov. Smith today having been passed by both houses of the legislature. I was drafted by Attorney General Ottinger, republican who said it to senators and congressmen of the state. More than one hundred Mexican workers were represented at the con- ference. “Frente Unido,” Mexiean or- ganization, the painters’ local 1348, the Woman Consumers Educational League, the Workmen’s Circle and the Young Workers League were the or- ganizations which sent delegates to! the conference. Fascist Government of Chile Branded Tool of Anglo-U. S. Imperialism The Communist Party of Chile declares in an appeal that the dic- tatorship of Ibanez is intended to serve the interests of Anglo-Amer- ican imperialism. Two Communist members of par- liament have been deported. ‘Rights for India. The British gov- | that only 10 per cent. of the workers are organized. The first place is occupied by the postal workers. Fifty per cent. of whom are organized, and next to them come the railway workers. The industrial unions are consider- ably weaker, the miners are scarcely organized at all, (only about 0.2 per cent.) the textile workers are better, organized than the others (up to 10 per cent.). ‘The British Labour Party. The Amisterdamites and representa- tives of the British Labour Party have recently not without suecess em- barked upon work in India. During the last two years (1925-26) India has been visited by a number of rep- resentatives of the British Lahour Party—officially on the plea of fa- miliarising themselves with the posi- tion of workers in India, but actually in order to endeavour to get the In- dian labour movement under their in- fluence, The influence of the Labour Party is already beginning to be felt, In 1926, the Federation of Railway Workers joined the reformist Trans- port Workers’ International, their ex- ample being quickly followed by two eamen’s unions. i " ae ‘ ‘ t this is not all. dam leaders are exerting all would tend to lower poultry prices in New York City. Democrats in the assembly na- turally opposed the bill. They charg- ed it would mean higher prices for | Poultry. | Blood Marie Gains Point. BERLIN, March 23.—Prince Carol’s hopes for restoration as heir-apparent to the thfone of Rumania have been dimmed again and Queen Marie’s vision of becoming empress of the Balkans is brighter. ‘ The proposed trip of the King and Queen of Rumania to Italy where the grand reconciliation was planned to take place has been postponed indefin- itely, it was announced, on account jot the tension between Tialy and Jugo- | Slavia. Dominion- ; belonging to 200 unions, which means rergiés” to get the All India Trade ; Union Congress on their side. The question of the expediency of the Congress’s affiliation to the Amster- dam International was brought for- }ward but not decided at the Sixth (Congress (1926). ‘Britain Ruling India .. Gal. 2° | Trade Union Movement Split. Quite recently : tplit oceyrred in the Indian Trade Union movement. the leadership of the trade union movement has been split into two groups, the first falls under two sub- |groupings, Joshi, General Steretary of the Congress, and his followers, at present in power, and the group of the Congress striving for power. The second—numerically and insig- nificant group—is composed of work- ers’ representatives and a group of radical intellectuals supporting theni. A violent struggle over the time and place for the Congress is taking place on the very eve of the Trade Union Congress. This on the surface might appear to be insignificant, but in reality it is a very vital problem; the tire and place of the Congress determines the composition of the Congress. The impoverished unions cannot afford to send their represen- tatives too far, The farther from he eld the an stat wal ee the ot around Sirkar, one of the Secretaries | MARCH 24, 1927 BOSTON STRIKE - OF GAPMAKERS ~ IN EIGHTH WEEK Bosses’ Terms Rejected; Demand Pay Raise | BOSTON, —The Cap- |makers’ Union is entering upon the | 8th week of the strike with fine spirit and enthusiasm cf the entire mem- bership. State Federation of Labor | president, Van Vaerenwyck, was the principal speaker at the last meeting held on Monday, March 2ist. He congratulated the strikers upon | the fine spirit and stated that their {determination w a guarantee of jultimate victory. Central Trades Supports At the last mecting of the Boston Central Labor Union report was heard on the capmakers’ tion was adopted unanimously, en- dorsing the strike and pledging the | | Jof Boston to the striking capmaker: Bos s are determined to ent has been made. ss’s Proposal i ae + membership meeting |the expmakers rejected the proposal |of the manutactu that they shall | go back to work on the condition that lithe same rate of pay shall r in jund that 40 hour week will be gran- }ted in July providing the same will be done in other cent Limited To Five Minutes. ALBANY, N. Y., March 23.—In an | effort to speed up the work of the | lower house of the legislature, a reso- lution was adopted today limiting each member to debate of five min- utes on a bill. sembly usually are permitted to talk for 15 minute: Assembly Pa‘ ‘Treaty. ALBANY, N. Y., March 23.—The |assembly today passed the Dunmore bill providing for the ratification of the New York-New. Jersey-Penn- | sylvania treaty relating to the waters lof the Delaware River. Defeat Cuvillier Bill. ALBANY, N. Y., March 23.—The Cuvillier bill, providing for a legis- lative commission to investigate tax |exempt property, was defeated in the ssembly today, 66 to 84. Passage of the measure had been urged by the association of real estate boards. Wanted Excitement. Testifying yesterday in his own be- e and resolu- | fi m their struggle until a satis- | parts F | cently Members of the as-, se Three (Robert Dunn to Show | Up Tactics of Bosses In Paterson Lecture PATERSON Dunn, who m 3 2 cialty of posing methods that bosses employ in trying to smash organized labor, will analyze the latest tactics of em- ployers a lecture before the ciated Silk Workers of America, 201 Market Street. Laxge crowds of silk workers are expected to turnout to hear the in- teresting series of lectures which ha been arranged by the local. Othe speakers who are slated to sp dur- the next month are Pat Devine hn Ballam and Arthur C. Calhoun. Robert W. Finnish Paintings By sary of n Museum, a new yoom of nnish paintings of Roerich is to be opened on March’ 24. e paintings will be shown for the time in America on that date, and were acquired from Finland as a permanent part cof the Roerich Mu- full support of the labor movement |sewm collection. Most of these paint- | ings were completed in Tulola in 1917 and in Sortavali in 1918 and in other nland where Professor Ro- erich\ lived during the sunimer. Like the entire museum, the room will be open to the public daily after March 24th, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Spends Half Million on Picture. LONDON, — A New York art gallery will be the future home of the Northbrook painting re- sold for more than half a million dollars, it was stated here today. “Kined For Spanking. Abraham Lincoln Egrington, forty- three, a bond broker, with offices at 32 Broadway, was fined’ $50 in special sessions court, St. George, S. L, yesterday for spanking his 20- | year-old daughter, Ruth. Ralf before Coithty Judge” Maécrate | jana a jury trying him for the murder | | of his sweetheart Shirley McIntyre, | Walter B. Mayer, former bank clerk, declared the tragedy occurred because ‘he tried to satisfy her “appetite for | excitement.” i Militarist Presses Parents. | ALBANY, N. Y., March 23. — A| resolytion asking the legislature to | Citizen’s Military Training Camps | was introduced in the lower house to- |day by Assemblyman Cuvillier, New | York democrat. | Indict Synder and Judd. The Queens county grand jury late) yesterday returned indictments charging Mrs. Ruth Snyder and |Henry Judd Gray with first degree murder in connection with the slaying | of Albert Snyder, husband of the ‘woman and magazine art editor. County Bill to Pass. ALBANY, March 23,—Backed ‘by Governor Smith, the Westall bill pro- viding for a new charter form of gov- ernment for Westchester county will be rushed through the legislature dyr- ing the closing days of the session. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day tendance of representatives of petty unions, the surer Joshi’s victory. National Labour Party. The Indian working class is be- ginning to feel more and more strongly the necessity of a politica! organization of its own. In Novem. ; ber, 1926, under the strong influence | jof the British Labour Party the | National Labour Party of India was) organized showing very moderate} | tendencies. | | In_ conclusion—a few words re-} | garding Indian organizations in Brit- ‘ain. ‘Great activities are shown by the, following Indian organizations in} Britain: 1) Advisory Committee at-| | tached to the ILP at the ‘head of ; Which is Graham Pole, who was in| India in 1925-26; and 2) “the League | fo rthe Improvement of the Welfare | of Indian Workers” with Saklatvala jat its head, | The aim of the League is to spread \true information in England on the’ {position of the Indian workers, | The Congress of Trade Unions has entrusted the League with the repre-/ sentation of its interests in England. The League maintains connections with the Minority Movement, but so far has not shown much activity. | MES ESS ' ¢| urge parents to send their boys to the ; Read The Daily Worker Every Day Settle for Coupons | Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell Office opéh from 9 a. m. to 7 p.m. daily General Relief Commitiee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 Telephone Passale 6243, Michael J. Elias Connected with FUNERAL DIRECTOR HARRY JEWUSIAK 167 Third St. PASSAIC, N. J. Japanese Fibre Flowers Japanese Silk Flower a Specialty All Kinds of Decorations Done Quantity Estimate Cheerfully Given L, BROMBACHER, Manager 88 Sherman Ave. Jersey City, N. J. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day Lorenz, Surgeon, Says New Yorkers Gassed The lungs of New Yorkers em- ed-in the downtown district ape being affected by the enormous J p “\amount of monoxide gas. prevalent in the narrow, crowded streets, accord- ing to Dr. Adolph policeman, at school, ank Conkling, J 13, yesterday fired a bullet into his head from his parent and died a short nding over the scold- in his room. His hot, and rushing in 1g on the floor, the gun ver alo moth found } beside h Pamphlets by C. E. RUTHENBERG tHE WORKERS COMMUN. PARTY—What It Stands Why Should CENTS FROM THE THIRD THRU VHE FOURTH CONVENTION, —10 CENTS PHE PARMER-LABOR UNIT- ED FRONT. —10 CENTS Por Join Introduction by i. RUTHENBERG to Or THE Ccom- (Letter of the C, I, Mexican mmunist CENTS SECOND YEAR of the rs Cc. STRATEGY MUNISTS to the Party.) THE Work (i924) (Communist) With introduction by Vv. F. CALVERTON, Over seventy drawings and cartoons by ROBERT MINOR ART YOUNG FRED ELLIS WM. 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