The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928 _ Pane ee Three CHINESE WORKER-~PEASANT ARMY TAKES TWO MORE KWANTUNG CITIES 800,000 FRENCH TEXTILE WORKERS | JOBLESS OR IDLE EmployersBreak 8-Hour Laws; Slash Wages PARIS, Jan. 29.—“Le has French textiles in its grip. unemployment, and at the Paris head- quarters of the Unitary Textile Workers’ Union they tell you that 250,000 are jobless and an equal num- ber on short time. The union, which embraces textiles and all branches of the clothing in- with 2,000,000 workers, has 40,000 organized. The conservative union has from 25,000 to 50,000, de- pending on the source of information. Chomage” dustry, same. French employ re playing havoc with the legal 8-hour day. Inspectors fail to notice that women work 9 hours a day. Labor rules are openly violated. Wage reductions ported from the important northern textile area on the Belgian side, from Lyons, the great silk and rayon cen- are re- ter, and in the wool regions, although} spinners average but a dollar a day and weavers 80 cents. After metallurgy, clothing constitute the dustry of France. More than a mill- ion workers are employed in and around Paris in the service of world fashion. Alchongh the workers who are organized are split into different unions, employers by no means follow their example. Cotton, wool and silk manufacturers have their powerful syndicates embracing nearly every spindle and loom in France. These in turn are grouped in such national or- ganizations as the General Confedera- tion of French Fruducvion and the Federation of industry and Com- merece. textiles Leport Organizers, pr ns bear mblanve to America’s of large numbers of ‘Peas of thousands of Polish and italian workers find jobs in Wrench textile milis ana employers do not hesitate to take advantage of their ignerance ci French conditions to use these workers against the na- tives. As in ae uaicn ‘“‘agita- tors” among + lvalians are superlig in the ; foreign w depression ultra-patriots join witl some more conservative unionists t érg.” Textile and clothing unions affilia- ted with the Unitary Confederation of Labor merged three years ago and have found added strength in united forced. Their main problem is to or- ganize their industries. The union is at the head of scores of strikes each year in defense of the 8-hour day and wages. In Algeria, France’s rich African province, the union is organ- izing colonial workers. SOCIALISTS TO EXPLOIT CONGO It is | The Christian unions claim about the | i and | biggest in-|.. a! ruthlessly eta and in times of Chingse coolies who are forced t American Imperialism Fights Nationalism mn Nicaragua, China| WAR LORDS SHIP Picture at left shows peons forced to drive mules bearing-food and ammunition thru the mountains of Nicaragua for United States marines. are fighting Wall Street’s battle to crush the Nicaraguan independence movement led by General Sandino. United States marines “protecting” property of Standard Oil Company in Tientsin where a fire broke out several weeks o work for a few cents a day. GRAIN ABROAD AS PEASANTS STARVE [Lives of Four Million Endangered in North CANTON, Jan. |troops with the aid of arm | have taken two villages on tt jern bor of Kwantung, jreports received here. The ace The marines marched south from Hunan province, the re- Communist troops ago. Marines are shown bullying | ports state. BEES SSNS oe PILSUDSKI FEARS. LEFT SUCCESSES |Wholesale A Arrest of | Lodz Workers | | | WARSAW, (By Mail).—With the | approach of the Polish general elec- |tion, Marshal Pilsudski, the fascist jdictator, is beginning to show that he is mindful of the big successes won last year in the municipal elec- | i tions at Warsaw, Lodz, and other in- lustrial centres, by the militant Workers’ Left” Party. In every big working class area} | “Polish Socialist Party” (P. P. S.),| which, itself a bulwark of Pilsudskt | and fascism, of the leading parties of the Second | International. | After last year’s elections, Pilsud- ski showed his fine freedom from democratic “prejudices” by simply declaring null and void the votes cast for “Workers’ Left” candidates. In preparing for the general elections, he is trying to anticipate matters by suppressing all forms of agitation against the dictatorship—including, is at the same time one | ment, but the peasantry, the subject peoples of Poland, ete. ‘Thus, 20 workers—many of them |youths under 19 years of age—have | been tried at Lodz on the charge of constituting a local group of the Young Communist League (which is |illegal in Poland). Three have been months, six to 8 years’ imprisonment. | Voyevudsky, a former peasant M. |P., has had his house raided, and all make life miserable for the ‘“furrin- | sued by a new Peasant League seized. Numerous students of Warsaw Uni- ported, in chains without trial, to the fortress of Czenstochowa. Other ar- rests—cn the charge of distributing | |Communist election _leaflets—take | place in Warsaw daily. INDIAN CONGRESS VOTES STOPPAG LONDON, Jan. 19 (By Mail).—A | a ; complete cessation of all werk thru- BRUSSELS, (By Mail).—The Bel- gian Workers’ Bank, which is under the direct leadership of the Belgian Labor Party (social-democrats) is en- deavoring to secure a concession to exploit the natural resources in Kiwi (Belgian Congo) jointly’ with the Catholie Agricultural Cooperative. The company which it is intended to ferm will be under the control of the “Soeieté Generale.” One of the socialist papers “Ba- taille Socialiste” protested against the exploitation of natives in Congo, a “socialist” organization. It would signify the death ofthe Party, this paper writes, ¢ such an immoral contract to exploit Negroes with our worst enemies. The organ of the Communist Party “Drapeau Rouge,” flays the policy of the social-democrats, and points out that the social-democrats ave ready to buy certain reforms for the Belgian workers at the expense of the black workers in Senge, 10TH BIRTHDAY OF USSR UNIONS (Special Cable Vo DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—The tenth an- niversary of the Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions was celebrated on Sunday. Trade union papers published ar- ticles and statements from most prominent trade union leaders em- phasizing the role of trade unions in the task of construction in the Soviet Union which make the Soviet trade _unions one of the principal supports of the proletarian dictatorship. if we were to enter | out India on Febro- | ary 3rd (when the Simon Commission | Jands in party conference at Benares under the nuspices of the of the Indian Na- tionalist {Sir J. Simon, | Haperanae attended by repre- sentatives of the All-India National- the National League and the Hindu Sabha. A suggestion was made at the Con- ference that an Indian Commission, ‘consisting of elected members from jall the legislatures, be appointed to | parallel the Simon Statutory Com-/ inission. It was proposed that the ;Commission travel thruout India, as- sembling information which it would report to the All-India Nationalist , Congress. | The All-Party conference re-con- |venes at Delhiv on February 12, for the purpose of calling an All-India Convenston: The ferment is great thruout India | as the date of the arrival of the, Simon Commission draws nearer. Despite the threat of the govern- {ment that it will tolerate no strikes | for “political purposes,” plans are be- | ing actively carried forward for a! general strike when the Commission | lands. Toledo Has Two Lenin| Memorial Meetings TOLEDO, Jan. 29.—Two Lenin memorial meetings held here during “the last week netted the Party sev- eral new members and considerable % actually beat the old-established | !not only the working class move-| entenced to 18 months, eleven to 12) copies of the election manifesto is- | | versity have been arrested and trans- | Bombay) I was voted by an all- | Working Committee | Congress. | The conference was | Liberal | Federation, the National Home Rule | oes es Se Ae ee ee * TSING-TAO, Jan. 29.—With four meee, ee es ’|} million peasants in ntung and Workers at Gibraltar BOMBAY TEXTILE | Sentence Kier Prior 'BIs H OP HEADING Chilli on the verge of starvation tbe nort uthorit are do- Strike Against Wage For Organizing Plot 0 ing nothing to remedy the sling Cut; Tie Up Vessels LONDON, (By Mail).—All coal la |borers at Gibraltar went on strike yesterday, following the posti g by the Gibraltar coal merchants of no- tices that wages of coal-heavers would be reduced from February 1, says the Central News. Steamers in the port quently unable to bunker, and depar- tures may have to be postponed. are conse SOVIET WOMEN OF FAR EAST CONFER MOSCOW (By mail).—A ence called at the initiative of the | Central Executive Committee of the USSR has been opened in Moscow to deal with the questions of the’ im~- provement of conditions of labor and life of the women of Soviet East. Speeches were made by women dele- gates of Azerbeidjan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and other Oriental repub- lics and national autonomous regions of the USSR, who gave a vivid picture of the situation of the Oriental women in the Soviet Union. The Azerbeidjan delegate charac- terized the position of the Turk woman as being a very diffieult one. Assassination of wives by their hus- bands, for the participation in Soviet and public work is yet far from being a thing of the past. Often can one hear in Azerbeidjan such a thing as that “It is easier to kill one woman than to embezzle public funds.” Big difficulties stand in the way of the struggle against wearing veils and “paranji’ by women. Women dele- |gates from the Tartar republic and other places spoke in the same spirit. co: | From what the delegates told it is \clear that energetic work is being car- \ried on locally by the so-called com- missions for improving conditions of akbar and life of Oriental women. \'These commissions organize industrial \enterprises for women, ambulatory | medical consultations, special estab- ishments for removing _ illiteracy, aeeple 's gardens, ete. Co-operative Course Is To Be Conducted at ‘Workers School Branch Those ‘itereatet in the co-opera- tive movement who want to have a better understanding of its work, will be offered an opportunity by the co-operative branch of the Workers School in the coming spring term, when a course in “The Co-operative “Movement” will be given by George Halonen, one of the leaders of the co-operative movement in America. He is head of the educational de- partment of the Co-operative Central Exchange, a member of the executive | committee of. the Co-operative League of America and delegate to the re- ‘cent International Co-operative Con- gress, This course will consist of three lectures to be given on Thursday and Friday evenings and Sunday after- ncon, Feb. 12, 13 and 15 respectivel {at the headquarters of the Co-opera- | \tive Branch of the Workers School, | 2700 Bronx Park. Other courses to be given in the spring term of the Co-operative Branch are six classes in elementary, ,intermediate and advanced English, with Sonia Ginsburg and Farny Rep- ‘ansky as instructors, a course in “Fundamentals of Communism” and fone in the “history of American la- | bor.” Those who wish to register for any ‘a these courses, or for the lectures on | the co-operative movement, may do so at the office of the school, at the Bronx Park address, sales of The DAILY WORKER and |Communist literature. One meeting was held in Bulgarian language, the other in English. Both were well attended by an enthusiastic ‘erowd. lly regarded onsible. via (which is this port) are destined for for which they are gene as being primarily res a Be ren in Mane hours fror s of Against Soviet Union J for STRIKE SPREADS MOSCOW, pionage prior of the Found gi Poland, Theop! "MEXICO REACTION < in| | Japan and Europe | huge May involve 150,000, was sentenced to ten years er Reported japan 824 Purope. as Fees g the charges made agains this port, e¢ Report Says ee ee Mea ie untatiteed| « (Jalisco Province lalive thousands of dying peasants, | The food shortage in Shantung is \s | > Polish spies in the Kiey Catt eon i A bess LONDON, (By Mail).—According|who has erossed the fror IEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—A city- | generally attributed to excessive to reports from the Indian News Ser- | military information. He wt wide seatch for Bishop Miguel de la | t@xation by the militarists andeto the vice the strike of Bombay textile} cused of having aided in the @ instigated the new| Confiscation of crop pected of havi t haing instigated the new outbreak is be- Warned of the | workers is spreading rapidly and is | zation of a secret group ‘of I likely to involve the 150,000 workers | tellectuals in the Ukraine wh in Bombay textile mills. A number |were hostile to the Soviet Union. of cotton bales stored up by mill own- SS rar etd 2,300 TO EXILE The strike started as the result of the attempt of the employers to in- iensify the speed-up system. British police broke up a workers’ demonstra- tion soon after the oucbreak of the Despite eerie of the Italian fascists that there are only a few hundred exiles on the Lipari Islands, | jrecent reports from Italy estimate hat the actual number of political | f strike The emplo; a wage reduction for Norris Offers Muscle Shoals to Cyanamid Co. | prisoners banished to the archipelago | lis at least 2,300. These are by no means all the Italian political pri oners who are suffering for the} “crime” of attacking the dictatorship ; 5 of Mussolini. At least 10,000 are re-| Arrest of Turkish | Workers Continued | * 1s May Stop Ship “Gifts” WASHINGTON, | at has voted, to unanimous vote of the Board membership before ¢ League| government vessels to in- |terests should be legal. This rollealt ended a long and heated controersy red persons rounded up|over the Jones Bill, which was de- ago, ten priests have | signed to stop the virtual giving away od at the police head-|of government shipping at the order lof President Coolidge. 29.—The Sen- t quire a hipping y sale of ie ved to have left the city. s of the Catholic ded and incriminating ved by the’police. Of the} have been planning ome montlis. Reports from Jalisco state that fighting has taken place be-| ween reactionary bands and federal | pops und General Figuerroa. | ilitary operations in the state of sco are being directed by Gen. Amaro, Secretary of War. FOR YOU HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA k out of anothersena- tor and the show- up of another cor- Free for Fifty Years WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The sell ported to be suffering, in the fascist jails, pected in’ Senator Conditions on the islands are de- Norris’ proposal to seribed as unspeakable. There no | YDON (By mail)—The arrest of | give the American drinking w ter, meat or vegetables. workers and intel- Cyanamid Co. a all of which have to be brought from lectuals charged fifty year free the mainland.. The exiles are housed with Communist Ms sympathies is be- ing continued by in oblong barracks, containing in some rovided the; ; ; Ieate pr , instances from fifteen to thirty pris- veally manufacture y the -FARMER. the cheap nitrates | ¢ners. All quarters are terribly the Turkish Gov- | Special Prices During eae they are promising cramped. : ‘ ernment, Mustapha | of This “Ad” the farmers if| Prisoners may receive and write Kemal is making | é their Muscles|only two letters a month and these = effort to halt 5 Lbs. $1.25 ; bid is ac-|aze subject to the censor. are the growing in-| Sen. Norris ee permitted to read only fascist news- | : fluence of the left 6 Lbs. $1.40 Aids Power Grab “i.” ogger was| Papers and literature. | Mustapha Kemal, wing in industrial 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” centers. | ORDER BY MAIL The wave of ar- | MENTONE, .—Vin-| rests follows the strike of Constanti- | JACK FEURER cente Blasco Tbe h writer | noble tobacco workers who re- | 3656 Park Ave., Bronx ~ and politician, died here yesterday of | joe to*contribute a day’s wages to | New York City. pneumonia. | the government aviation fund | refused by the president of the Amer- jr Turkish Ruler ican Farm Bureau Federation, who was defending the company’s bid as a boon to the farmers. Norris offered to amend his proposal in such a way that the Cyanamid Co. would have control of the nitrate plant while leaving the power cghtrol for a later divvy. Latin A r. Youth Raise Recruits to Fight With Sandino| That the Latin Amercan youth in- tends to support General Sandino} with deeds, is shown in the news of a committee formed in Bogota, Colum-| bia, to aid young men who wish to go| to Nicaragua to fight in the army of Sandino, The methods with which the Cen-| tral American youth are ready to ‘fight against armed intervention by the United States” sets an exampic for the American young workers who must also recognize their common enemy. The U. S. imperialism which is try | ing to subdue and crush the workers | of Mexico, Central and South Amen- ca—consists of the same bosses who are exploiting the young workers! here in the U. S. A. And the U. S. im-; perialism which ig so anxious to get the canal and naval base in Nicara- gua as part of its preparations for the new world war—will mean thc same kind slaughtering for the young worl at home and abroad when this final fight for the world’s profits gets under er way. 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