The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1928, Page 3

_ tory collapsed and fell in the city THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU AY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928 Fae Three Revolt Against Rivera Regime Looms As General Strike Ties Up Barcelona Competition - for Fat SEIZE WORKERS ate IN CLASHES AT FACTORY GATES Soldiers Man “Busses as| Strike Hits Province (Contcnued: roe Page One) been driven to strike by a tax of ten} pesetas placed on their wages. | A general strike is in force, the re- | ports state, and add that clashes have occurred between guards and workers near the factories. | Hendaya is a village on the Franco-| \ | | | { } { Spanish frontier. ee ik Soldiers Seize Busses. | MARSEILLES, Feb. 1.—The gener- al strike of all workers in Barcelona began this morning in protest against a tax of ten pesetas on the wages of all textile workers. ' Police swarm thruout the city and} many workers have been arrested for} alleged attempts to interfere with the tram and bus communications in the workers’ section of the city. The| busses have been seized and manned | by the military authorities. Police are | attempting to keep open train com-/ munication with the provinces, tho it) is feared that the city may be even-} tually cut off. The strike is spreading gradually thruout the province of Catalonia ead has already gripped the factories out-| side Barcelona. The towns of Sabadell | and Tarrasa “are tied up. The work-.| ers in Manresa, another important in- | dustrial center are still working =. Coolidge Lauds Consul | unrest is growing and threatens to| ; Who Ordered Shelling send the men on strike by | at latest. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — For {directing signals to the war vessels . in the Yangste which ‘bombarded “Ol, Henry Stimson 'n Philippine Grab | Nanking and killed several hundred | Chinese civilians last March, Consul | John A, Davis of Ohio has been pro- | moted in the consular service and has been sent a letter of praise by Presi- WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Urging| jn Nanking to Socony Hill, and sig- the United States government to come} nailed the gunboats in the river for out frankly with a| aid. The United States bombardment measure announc-| was the object of a world-wide pro- ing that the gover- | test, dent Coolidge. nor-gmeral is the whole government} «your conduct at Nanking was in of the Philippine | keeping with the best traditions of Islands, Is aur! the service...'The department has al- Galbadon and Pe-/ready commended you... but I dro Guevara,| wish to add my commendation of Philippine commis-| your zeal and courage which have set sioners here today | an example to your colleagues and in launched an attack|a large degree enhanced the prestige on the Kiess bill.| of the foreign service.” The bill would au- One of the reasons’ Charles establish air lines in Latin Americ: ing the same concessions. ordinary business purposes.” GETS PRAISE FOR NANKING MURDER Col. H. Stimson — thorize Governor- in Philippine General Stimson to | grab set asi $125,000 q of the Filipino re-: ceipts for the purpose of hirmg as sistants and advisers. “You would be saving our people a@ great deal of expenditure,” the Philippine commissioners stated, “and would teach us a lesson in sincerity if, instead of resorting to subterfuge, you should come out squarely and frankly and enact a law making the governor-general of the Philippines the whole Philipjine government.” Passage of the Kiess bill would! amount to a slap in the face for the whole Filipino people, Guevara as- serted. He called it a degrading and Pemiialne: ae: _ WORKERS SUFFER LONDON, Feb. 1—Before the war Poland and Russia were politically united under the czar. Since the fall of tne Romanovs, the workers of both countries have trod different paths. In the report submitted to the forthcoming congress of the Interna- tional Textile Workers Assn. and writ- ten by officers of the Polish T le Workers Union, is reyealed misery and unemployment. among the slaves of cotton gnd wool unequalled in Eur- Tepe: While textile workers in the U. S. R. averaging now 7's hours a day France Will Ww ithdraw ‘ rch ahead toward thea 7-hour day, 10,000 From Rhineland pes shes! tose too ota iaet PARIS, Feb. 1. — The French Gov-| 2* 16 hours a day at their frames and ernment will withdraw 10,000 men } looms. Ten hours is general and Ag from the Rhineland, reducing the | s, under the dictatorship of Pil- French Seetipation Lccigie by no means rare. forces to 50,000, France, » England and America ¢cen- was announced last tinue to pour miliiens into Poland to night. The order! bolster it up against the Soviet Union.} for the withdrawal; Economic authori boast that Pil- of the troops fol-| sudski’s land is on the way toward re- lows the attack on) covery and stability, thanks to the re- the French oceu-! cent $80,000,000 loan from New York pation by Gustave! and London. Stresemann, Ger-| Starvation Wages. man Foreign Min- ister. } But the Polish Textile Work | Union reveals that recovery is built on semi-starvation wages. Women to reply to Strese- | | average four zlotys a day, or 45 cents, | mann’s charges in and men consider their wages com- the Senate Thurs: | paratively good at 7 70 cents, Tn Russia day afternoon and | the general average is $la day, the} to state his position on the occupation | S#me as for Germany and France. of the Rhineland. * Workers in Lodz, chief textile cen- | tex, are wondering now what good {they will receive from the $10,000,000 | Form verte Imperialist loan advanced by Wall Street to their | League Branch i in India | Cotton Spinning Employers Assn. pa | Polish textile workers are hopeful MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The All-| for the future. With the example be- India Nationalist Congress at its re- fore them of Russia, Germahy and cent session adopted a resolution to Czechoslovakiay where their fellow establish an anti-imperialist league. workers are much better off, they in-} x tend to keep up the fight for the 8- newspaper dispatches from India re- ae ’ Cae bay hour day and better wages. Not The congress also recommended a powerful in union organization as their G Czech comr: strike on Feb. 3rd against the Simon ete ermatt and. Czech’ comrades, Statutory Commission. Foreign Minister | Briand is expected | (. Stresemann Attacks French and faced by a hostile rather than friendly government as in the Soviet Union, the Poles hope by militancy to march ahead. But so long as the Po- lish government is merely the tool of imperialist powers aiming at the U. 8. .S. R., their Struggle will be de- term by factors beyond the im- mediate control of the Textile Work- of Palmira. fers Union. -* COLUMBIA WORKERS KILLED. BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb, 1— Seven workers were killed and three injured when an old building which had been remodeled for a soap fac- Davis led United States Residents | In his letter to Davis, Coolidge said, | | ed a little. *| before. Air Line ‘Contracts Lindbergh toured Latin-America was to boost United States aviation companies which are seeking to a. European capitalists are seek- Michel Zuniga (above) vice consul of Belgium at Los Angeles has planned a flight to Latin America, fol- lowing Lindbergh’s trail,'to “proye that aviation may be used for | OIL MAGNATES T0 TALK TO MORONES Mexico ‘Abolishes Taxes MEXICO CITY, Feb. 1—Luis. Mo- rones, ministe! of industry; commerce and labor, will con- fer with the Mex- ican representa- tives of foreign oil companies regard- ing regulation put- ting the recent Calles amendments to the oil laws into effect. Represen-| tatives of United} } | ies have already been authorized by their offices to con- fer with ‘Morones. The announce- ment of the con- ference comes with the publication of a decree in the Diario Official abolish- ing all taxes on oil lands, oil con- tracts and royalties derived from oil exploitation. United States oil companies are be- | lieved to be satisfied with the new {amendments to the oil laws, which | abolish the clauses granting them | only a fifty-year hold on oil property. At the conference with Morones, how- lever, representatives of the American interests will attempt to eliminate the word “concessions” from the regula- tions. The oil men state that they will refuse to ‘exchange what they say are their rights in fee simple for any kind of sancegsign, concession. Luis Morones aids magnates VICTIMS STRIKE BELGRADE, (By Mail).—The ter- rorism of the police against the im- prisoned revolutionaries, and in par- ticular against Rada Vouyovitch and his comrades is being continued. In eonsequence of the bestial treatment litical prisoners by | , ete, the for mer | ; haye d n on hunger strike | a number of times. vee of outside. pr sure, the conditions were ameliorated | from time to time, but these improve- ments were immediately withdrawn when public interest in the cases wan- In such cases the tervor. ism was even exer For jnste ago Rada Vuoyovitch y concrete cell half full of ten days. A hunger strike | “on his part was necessary.in order to force} the prison authorities to remove him to a “normal” cell again. Up to the present he has not been handed over) to the care of the public prosecutor. | which is the normal usage, but is be-/ ing kept under the notorious police | regime, « | Australian Fascists Raid Matteotti Club! MELBOURNE, Australia, (FP).— A feud has broken out between mem- bers of the newly-established Mat- teotti Club and the fascist organiza- tion in Melbourne. The fascists have declared that the 500 members of the club are anarchists and must have their activities restrained. Already, the fascists have made several attacks on the club. The Matteotti Club is, of course, not anarchistic, though it is certainly anti- Lg tistict on Oil Lands | nation-wide States oil compan-} | American states, the Soviet Union will TE’ ST |open a commercial house in Buenos | Ayres, Baranoff, USSR commercial ALL OVER INDIA Simon to See Masses of | Striking Workers Literally millions of Indian work- ers are expected to walk out in. gen- eral strike the day | the Simon Statu- tory Commission sets foot on the soil of India, re- ports from Bombay declare. Over the length and breadth of the country, the trade unions municipalities and student organiza- tions are prepar- ing to participate in the hartal, or general strike, which will com- pletely tie-up Indian industry transport, it is announced. Boycott organizations are springing up everywhere and are broadcasting | 2ppeals to all Indian workers to lay in supplies before the strike hits the] country. It is declared that it will be! impossible to purchase even the neces- sities of life on Friday, the day set for| the cessation of all work. The authorities have announced that they will not tolerate a strike called for political purposes but they realize they are powerless in the fact of the Staniey Baldwin enemy of India and movement of protest against the Simon Commission sent by the Tory Baldwin regime. Strong re-enforcements are being assembled by the British and they are prepared to shoot down the Indians should the least appearance of “disorder” follow the excitement at the time of Simon’s arrival. Simon will virtually be in the arms of the military and police forces from the moment the commission lands. |Plans are being made to have the | commissioners leave the ship between jfiles of heavily armed soldiers, The movement for the strike and the boycott of the commis- sion express the intense feeling of the Indian masses against their ex- ploitation by the British. The general strike’ and boycott were decided and called for in resolutions published by the All-Indian National Congress in Madras and re-affirmed by the All- Party Convention recently held in Benares. The All-Party Convention is re-convening at Delhi to consider further measures for anti-British ac- tion. ARGENTINE TRADE WITH USSR GROWS MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 1—In order | to further the rapidly growing trade} between the Soviet Union and Latin- jenvoy, said yesterday. * | A number of commercial houses will be established in other South Amer- ican cities, including Montevideo, he announced. These houses will arrange for the purchase of USSR products by | Latin-American countries and will ar- |uprising of workers and | the Canton regime finds its j}notes have jfind no takers. | take the almost worthles: | troops in northern Ky | rest in the city. | likely and the militarist « {designed to render the trade unio general jentirely subservient to the govern- | inery. CANTON, Bab te — Detar a We | peasants, Canton authorities have closed 150! trade unions and haye issued an or- der prohibiting all public meeti A virtual state of martial law here, with houge to house sear conducted daily. The general the workers has been increased by the! serious financial situation in which Bank ¢ and unrest among slumped 75 pi Worker: rr e to notes which many employers are offering them in lieu of wages. The recent victories of Commun gtung h lso added to the general state of un- A new revolt in the ) is not regarded as un- $s in contr rol | of the city are concentrating their | troops in preparation for an outbreak. | A large number of left wing labor | nedr future {leaders have been executed, or jailed. | | One hundred and fourteen member: the glassmakers union were arre: two days ago in a raid on the union | headquarters. PARTY PLANS 10 FIGHT TORY BILL Australian Co Communists | Rap Anti-Union Act | | SYDNEY, Australia, (FP) (By | Mail} —At ‘the annual conference of | the Communist Party of Austral) held at Sydney during the last week | in December and attended by dele- gates from all parts of Australia, there was a spirited debate on the} bill which the federal government is| introducing to smash trade unionism | in Australia. Delegates said that| many features of the measure were identical with those of the Baldwin government’s measure, which were SSS EE ee See STS ment. The programme adopted in opposi- tion to the bill calls for an intensive propaganda in all parts of Australia, with a policy of action in which the unions as a body will challenge the right of any government to interfere with the internal work of the unions. Delegates urged that the occasion provided an excellent opportunity to| demonstrate the extreme futility of the workers expecting any permanent benefits from the arbitration mach- The huge increase in unemployment throughout Australia was also con- sidered by the cqnference, and it was }agreed that Australian conditions were in this way being brought into line with those of the older countries. | | by Profes: Un neover cover Buried City A lost city, buried beneath the sands of the Arabian desert, yielded up relics of a civilization over 5,000 years old. 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