The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 ee | FOREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS CELEBRATE RED ARMY BIRTHDAY - THRUQUT USSR Workers and Peasants Plan Festivities (Special To are being made thruout the Soviet Union for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red Army. At the directions of the Central Executive Committee the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has already emphasized that the celebrations should demonstrate the readiness of | the Soviet Union to defend itself and should display the close ties between the toiling m s and the Red Army. The festivities Communist Party urges, should involve the largest num- ber of workers and peasants possible. MANY INJURED BY JAPANESE JINGOS TOKIO, Jan. 11.--Because the radi-| ing of the | cals advocated a_ shorte! term of military service, a party of conservatives armed with guns, spears and swords broke into the radical headquarters. A number of persons were injured in the fight. The radicals plan to protest against the raid and to demand the punish- ment of the conservatives who par- ticipated in it. More Than Twelve Die As Fire Sweeps Naval Depot Outside of Rio RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 11.— At least 12 persons were killed and more than 50 injured in a fire that swept the naval depot at Cobras Is- land inside the bay today. It is feared that the casualties will be increased. At 10.30 a. m, the fire was still burning. | Sp The DAILY WORKER.) | MOSCOW, Jan. 11.—Preparations | London Workers Di EE es 7 Top photo shows scene in streets of Canterbury, following the The fifteen workers who lost their lives did not lose them in cottages like these. Thames flood several days ago. in the basements of tenements in shows Thames embankment, Lendon, following the blizzard which started the trouble. dn’t Drown Here CHIANG KAI-SHEK TAKES CHARGE OF WAR ON WORKERS Nanking Peace With Chang Tso-lin Likely | SHANGHAI, Jan. 11. — General | | Chiang Kai-shek has again been put | in cemplete charge of the Kuomin- | \ tang armies, it was announced yester- | | day, and will probably leave for Shan- | | tung in a short time-to take command | | of the troops on the northern front. | As commander of the Kuomintang’) troops, Chiang will face struggles on | the one hand with workers and peas- | |ant armies which have sprung up in | various sections of southern and mid- | \dle China and with Chang Tso-lin’s | | armies in the norch. That Chiang may | reach an alliance with Chang ‘Tso- jlin is regarded as possible. | | In an effort to unite the various | |sections of the Kuomintang which are in open war with one anothei, | Chiang has issued an appeal.to the| “public to oyerlook petty differences | | and to unite their strength.” 1 | LENINGRAD PARTY | RAPS OPPOSITION Approves Decision of Communist Congress They were trapped the slum districts. Lower photo Seizure of Arms Crossing Frontiers BERLIN, Jan. 11.—Another seiz- ure of arms being transmitted across international boundaries aroused Eur- ope today when German customs au- thorities at Kiel confiscated 250 tons of rifle ammunition billed for Palla New for the Norwegian steamer Aka, which was bound for Vladivos-ok. Polish Socialists Aid in Pilsudski Lithuania Scheme By S. BELSKAYA WARSAW, (By Mail).—The Polish reformists have been in a state of for- mal opposition to Pilsudski’s govern- ment since Jaguary last. The policy of the government scattered all the illusions the masses may have har- bored with regard to Pilsudski. Plentiful evidence, such as the broad / strike movement, the elections to the Sick Benefit Societies and Municipal Councils (Warsaw, Lodz, ete.), dur- ing which the workers despite re- pressive action voted in their thou- sands for the annulled Communist lists, the May Day and 7th Novem- ber demonstrations, the protest demonstration after the murder of Voikov, convinced the reformists that the working masses were slipping away from them and openly going over to the side of the Communists. This spontaneous movement even found a certain reflection in the trade union movement, The reform- ist leaders were forced, on pain of being left behind by the masses, to embark upon a regular system of op- positional maneouvres, beginning with the resolution passed by the Central Commission of Trade Unions on the 18th of January, 1927. This resolution declared: “The Cen- tral Commission of Trade Unions con- spiders that the policy of the present government is hostile to the interests ot the working class.” In April the Central Commission declared: “The Government is waging a campaign against our trade unions on the terri- tory of the State concerns ... the development of organizations of a fascist type cannot be allowed to come to pass.” 2 Alliance with Pilsudski. While, however, that section of the Polish Socialist Party, which was nearer to the masses was adapting its tactics to the spirit of the masses, many prominent members of the party—-Morachevski, Goluvko, Yavor- ovski and others—-took an active part in Pilsudski’s policy. Incessant ar- guments went on within the Polish Socialist Party between the open ad- herents of Pilsudski and the trade unionists. This internal struggle be- eame still more acute after the pags- ing of the famous “Dictatorship Resolution” by the Central Commis- sion of Trade Unions and the decision of the Party Court to expel Morachev- ski from the party for his participa- tion in Pilsudski’s government despite rty instructions to the contrary. ‘he Zhulav secretary of the C. C. of Trade Unions remarked; in a letter in the “Workers’ Economic Review” (or- gan of the C. C.) that “this resolu- tion (re Dictatorship) evoked strong commentary and protest even in so- cialist circles.” The expulsion of Morachevski brought protests from other adherents of Pilsudski feeling themselves threatened with expulsion, The trade unionists, on the other hand, began to demand the intensifi- eation of trade union influence in the Party. “Closer bonds ‘must be estab-| fascist government. H | lished between the trade union move- ment and the socialist party”... the trade unions are deprived of par- ticipation in the most important ques- tions of labor policy ... “the most prominent leaders of the biggest trade unions are not placed at the head of lists of candidates for the Seim . . .” “this isolation of the trade union movement from the socialist party is the principal cause of the success of the Communists among the workers,” complains a leader in the organ of the metalworkers’ union “The Metal Workers” for the 30th of Octo- ber, 1927, . Aid Imperialism. The Central Council of the Polish Socialist Party, however, decided to reverse the Party Court’s decision to expel Morachevski. This decision amounts to the annulment of the Party Court’s decision and encourages all Pilsudski adherents in leading} government posts to go on and pros- per in their zealous and “idealistic” service of Pilsudski. The Polish Socialist Party is whole- heariedly supporting and actively par- ticipating in Pilsudski’'s policy in the Polish-Lithuanian conflict, with soothing-syrup for the masses in the! form of assurances that “the Polish Socialist Party 1s against armed in.er- vention,” “the Polish Socialist Party believes that Lithuanian democracy will be revived by the efforts of the | Lithuanian people themselves” and | the like. The vice-mayor of Vilna, Chizh, a member of the Polish Social- ist Party attended the Congress of Emigres in Riga, Goluvko and Vacil- | evski took part in Pilsudski’g Vilna Councils; the Polish Socialist Party organized a political meeting for the Lithuanian social-democrat Anzevi- zius, one of the leaders in the military plots against Lithuania, with Chap- inski in the chair, and this is merely the declared “Lithuanian” work of) the Polish Socialist Party. There can| be no sort of doubt that the Polish | Socialist Party leaders are taking a first-hand part in the direct prepara- tions for an attack on Lithuania. To give the devil his due the Polish Socialist Party is fulfilling this task of struggling with Communism with unremitting zeal. All means have been mobilized, the smashing of the economic campaign, the squeezing out | of Communists from the trade unions | by setting up mixed executives and by police measures (the Polish Social- ist Party has its own’ men both in the management of concerns and in the secret police), armed Polish Socialist Party bands and scurrilous press libel | (e.g. the rumors recently spread to the effect that. Chuma, secretary of the revolutionary Chemical Workers’ Union, was in the pay of the police). It is on these grounds (the struggle with Communism, both on the’ trade union and political front) that the Polish Socialist Party leaders are consolidating and the reformists con- templating rapprochements with the MOSCOW, By Mail).—The meeting | jof active workers of the Leningrad {organization of the Communist Party {of the Soviet Union which was at- jtended by 9,000 people discussed the | Gretzianu Tries to 4 \decisions of the XV Congress and de- | ogrom ae oe: them to be correct and com- |mensurate with the interests of the working class. “While endorsing the decisions of. the congress concerning the Cpposi- fon,” says the resolution, “the meet} George Cretzianu, the Rumanian minister to the United States, has at- Serpeed: toe juey the aureeities ling declares that the Party can seri- which his government is charged with lously consider that the real state- having incited during the recent po-|ment of the expelled Opposition ele- groms in ‘'ransylvania. {ments of the Zinoviev-Kamenev group Writing to Representative Siro- only if they fulfil.loyally and in a vitch who recently introduced a reso- |Bolshevik manner all the conditions lution in congress calling for an abro- | contained in the decisions of the con- gation of the treaty between the | gress. United States and Rumania, Cret-| “In regard to Trotskyites who have zianu attempted to* place the sole; remained loyal to their views, the blame for the pogroms on the stu- | meeting is of the opinion that an even dents. At the same time, he admitted | more energetic struggle be carried on that many of them had been liberated | against them than before and that in or had received trivial sentences. | the event of them developing an anti- Commenting on Cretzianu’s eva- |Party and anti-Soviet activity, all the sions, Leo Wolfson, president of the | necessary self-preservation measures United Rumanian Jews of America, Provided by proletarian dictatorship said, “What I resent in Cretzianu’s | be applied against them.” letter is the attempt to place the en-| Similar resolutions were pa’ tire unfortunate matter on a basis|® series of other big organi 3 which is far from the real truth, | Kharkov, Rostoy, Voronejh anc oth- While some students have been sen- | ls: . tenced most of those who have been | arrested have been freed as hereto- |Police Arrest Eight re} he Protest Heavy Taxes | were killed and a number wounded days | the result of the Communist ago, when police fired into a der n of Calvi, Cor: stration of villagers, according to re- | ports received here. the region are ATTACKS fluous and vulnerable by Rear Ad- miral Thomas P. Magruder yesterday, | of the seven Atlantic coast navy in ending his 11-day testimony be-|yards be transferred to the Pac fore the House Naval Affairs Com-j| where three-fifths of the navy is lo- mittee. recommended that four'cated, and there are but two y ‘ Profits On Lindbergh’s Jaunt Start to Roll In Map shows route of proposed Cuba-Panama air line, which will not only yield fat profits to be extremely useful for Ame of view. American plane manufacturers but will ican imperialism from a military point Below, view of Colon, Panama, one terminus of the proposed line. BRITISH KILL? ‘FRENCH SOLDIERS INDIA PEASANTS REBEL; ARREST 15 LONDON, Jan. 11.—Two villagers | ar Puangde, Burma, severai The nativ protesting against | they | son: avy taxation. The fracas followed the arrest of | soldiers a number of natives suspected of lead- | ing the protest against the capitation | stop singing when ordered to do so tax. The arrest of a woman was pro- | and barricaded themselves in the de- | tested by the villagers, who attempted | tention room. to rescue her when the police opened | battered in and the Communists put fire, Three of the villagers were seri- | in,irons. ously wounded. Y¥. NAVY YARD Jan. 11 WASHINGTOD PARIS, French soldiers have been arrested as Troops in the C |cording to repo: }in a complete state of insubordina- The New/|tion. It is likely that they will be York navy yard was declared super-|transferred to another garrison Open Fire as Villagers | Communist Prisoners Sing In Jails (By Mail). mers were d began singing The door was Fifteen tiny gged from s in|their cells and put into irons when revolutionary h were taken up by other in the barracks. The Communist soldiers refused to then vi garrison, ac- are He rds. COMMUNISTS WIN IN SCOTCH MINE UNION ELECTION Win Six Out of Seven ositions in Fife By J. K. CAMPBELL: LONDON, (B 1).—The recent re 2 in the Fife n illustrate the munist Seven re open election, two per- t officials (or agents) and five tives from the Fife Miners’ S sh Miners’ Exe- of a series of h the majority ticipated, show have been elect- nent officials’ posts and one left f Fife represen- Scottish executive. wh that two ¢ ed to th und four ( he s on the result is due to a very con- extent to the excellent work med by the Party in this area during the miners’ lockout, when the actual leadership of the workers in the st in the hands of the Comm t ar sympathetic left wing workers, the right wingers cutting no figure in the struggle at The voting for those posts com- menced last June, and during the close of the first vote the right wing launched their usual attacks on the Communists for fraction work and intrigue within the union. A copy of a Communist fraction circular con- taining instructions to delegates at- tending the County Monthly Dele- gate Meeting was culated and it was claimed that this circular showed quite cle: that the Communists were obeying the dictates of a po- litical party and not the dictates of the rank and file of the union. The various questions raised by the cir- cular were, however, questions in vhich the miners themselves were in- terested and of which they approved. So far from the production of this circular having a bad effect it helped the Party, inasmuch as it showed that ihe Party representatives were work- ing in an organized fashion to carry through the policy on ‘which they were elected. The result of the first vote that was taken showed that the | Communists headed the list of votes for the two permanent officials, and the five posts on the Scottish Exe- cutive, PHONE TAPPING CONTINUES. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10— The supreme court recently refused to disregard evidence secured by pro- hibition agents by the tapping of tele- phone wires. Many here view this as ja dangeror precedent, saying that ,| millions of people will be subject to spying by agent: to seek evidence who will pretend relating to crime. fore.” & | Workers as Terrorism Pole Police Arrest ee ee we Leading Communists fers, suspected of Communist sympa- |thies, have been arrested by the Pal- stine police, reports from Jaffa tate. The authorities are carrying on 3 F |a reign of terror against all progres- WARSAW, San. Me: Practically | sive and labor bodies. In one place the entire Central Committee of the they broke down the door of a room Communist Party of Poland and the |where they expected to find revolu- Young Communist League have been |tignary literature. There was noth- arrested, ‘according to Warsaw polic ing of that kind in the place but the ita aes ante ayatoninile DatrO™ holon seized what there was and as been carried on since the Christ- | yasti i s mas holidays. Households raids Fe okies SLs ers addsily occurrence, | DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. The terrorism which is aimed at/Maude Royden, British woman all progressive organizations is par- preacher, now lecturing in the United ticularly strong against the Commun- | States, will not be permitted to speak s, Pilsuds police agents are | before the students of the University ruthless in seizing workers merely on | of lowa or Grinnell College, it was re- the suspicion of Communist sympa- | ported yesterday, owing to her liberal- shy and throwing them into the in-;jsm toward smoking by women and describably horrible Polish jails. {atria practises. 10.— Join in a Reai Fight! La Organization of the unergan- ized, Miners’ Relief. Injunctions. 1. 2. so Company Unions. 8. Unemployment, 8. 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