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

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1928 i Page Three FOREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS BRITISH SPREAD! Vert C™ SOCIALIST TRADE. COUNTER-REVOLTS eee See Hand of Deterding in False Rumors MOSCOW, F Lb. 2.The reports of u evolutionary outbreaks in raine which haye been widely lated in the United States and continental Europe are attributed by! Soviet Union officials to Sir Henri ieee head gf the Royal Dutch Sell Oil Company. The reports are vtterly without foundation, the offi- cials state, The circulation of the reports, it is | i t Viseount Goto, Japanese envoy, shown in Moscow, which he visited for the negotiation of a concession of rice lands in East Siberia. UNION CONGRESS. ENDS IN FIASCO ‘Germans ‘and *British Squabble for Power BERLIN, Jan. 21, (By mail). —-The erlin session of the International | ederation of Trades Unions has end- ; The session ed faithfully the internal weak- and national limitations of the | Amsierdam International, The urg- jent questions of the class struggle | were not even mentioned, At the con-; ‘clusion of the sessions only a week | declaration was adopted concerning ed a a Rumanian Priests into which they hurl say Rumanian priests, whe helped instigate the recent pogroms, marching to the Dumbovitza River, ices every year in a primitive ceremony. Help ite Wholesale Murder of Sows MILITARISTS OF 5 Bie —HANKOW KILL § MORE WORKERS {Many Arrests in New Reign of Terror t Cable ANGHAI sts were e arrested in the ré Hankow Monc arrested in Toe DAILY WORKER.) ‘eb. n- authorities fear the re growing influence of the Gomr in towns and villages in the pointed out, come on heels of the! the eight hour day, but this was more fi ie od ; = ‘i the Wah price war between the Standard Oil| PLAN 2 fo 000 |to cover the hollowness of the session | é | olish Envoys Leave rol of wi } company of New York (which is mar- 3 5 than with any serious intent, { 3 | Soviet Union Before | = set up their q keting Soviet oil in the Far East) and The.three ques.ions which faced the own governments. nions in the Wuhan the Royal Dutch Shell interests. Im- |session, i, &., the question of the future | | Commercial Meeting F ie Most of the : mediately after the announcement by 2 |seat of the headquarters of the I. F.} 2 | 4 said PA T RE jcities have been raided and closed the Standard Oil that it would con- T. U., the election of the chairman and | | : esl 2 A |Scores of trade union leaders have tinue to market: Soviet Oil. (and. un- . eee |the election of the secretary, were} i WARSAW, Feb. 2. — Two envoys neen executed. Workers who v dersell the British interests) in the ° “ \none of them settled. It was decided . ose 2 sent by the Piis i regime to eae ag , [active in the recent textile strike in Se East, Sener of copnten rave) ps Diaz Hopes Marines be Pastngne a decision in Bll eae Kill Priest Whose Ganig | negotiate a trade agreement with the| Talk of Italian War in | Bepkow, have been ex or im- ionary outbreaks were circulate j ; | Amsterdam will, therefore remai ‘“ 3 Soviet Union, et i oostanaae ‘ prisoned. from Riga, Bucharest, and other Will Remain jheadquarters of the I. F. T. U., and| Tried Armed Reaction |“ Smom relumed yesterday) 1930; to Cross Germany| = e White Guard centers. e Sassenbach will remain the provision- — | 2 naving ehbered. »inko. Any. | UNION PAPERS EXHIBIT Soviet Union officials point out that Plans to float a $20,000,000 loan al secretary. of the Interpational.| MEXICO GITY, Reb, 2.—Five hun- negotiations.. The return of. the en- Alleged “revela- | Every LONDON, Feb. 2 (FP). — Sir Henri Deterding, head of the ee new railroad and Get There is no chairman at. all. | dred armed Catholic fanatics were de-|voys is generally regarded a result of a Jugo-Slav secret treaty | textile union publication in the w Royal Dutch Shell interests, was bank in Nicaragua are now under) ‘The official report says towards the| feated at Jiquilpan, state of Jalisco,| of the conviction of the Roman Catho-|With France purports to disclose the | will be on display, it is hoped, at t charged with subsidizing whit d- | Wav, according, to despatches from) 44: “{t can be taken as a certainty | and their leader, Crescencio Esparza, | j; ; ws we \efforts of the French financiers to| International P xhivition to be peared * Bans, WAS SUATE Star, ‘Adolfo: Di ‘ is y a 4 ons 3 KY 0 £8parza/lic Prior Skalski for espionage in|© 07> és ‘ rene | ¥ nit ist leaders in an international forgery | Managua. olfo ee SUP-| that the executive will come to a pos-|a priest, was killed, according to Risse caret dices @ joust their Italian rivals in the|held at Cologne t All labor plot to lower the value of Soviet |Ported tool of the Wall Street in-| itive decision in its next issue.” A | patches received by the war office | “°5COW Several days ago. | Balkans, |papers, including textile Union currency. COLLABORATION’ | FOR AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE, Feb, 2.—A confer- De ox Ooms mer United States ambassador t0| German secretary. and if possible a of the seaplane service, fort on ence between Australian industrialists | Wexieo, Henry Pletcher, who owned | German cctaay but gig case . of the Adriatic coast and the closest and the leadership of the Australian | mine holdings in Nicaragua. Heiss rita. ces weamistachisy tant daceton cians }contact. betw the staffs of the trade unions “to promote greater co- % * * 2 » | operation between labor and captial” has been proposed by Premier S. M. Bruce. The proposal was along the lines of the conference between Eng- lish industrialists, headed by Sir Al- fred Mond, and the Trade Union Coun- cil leadership, Altho the more conservative lead- ers of the Australian trade unions .. ‘at « in furthering their war propa- | have made clear their willingness to * : stich = “They must become our shock Be Spe 5 hel A participate in such a conference, a sete * iegamee Chat, < GEORGIA CAR NEN Sy seam of asking the Dean of troops, and perpetuate ‘the warlike lds ig lt aed and their large section of the trade union move- x ‘ f i Nations to merely exercise such in-|+ oditions of the Arditi, dagger be- | ” Sage ment is opposing Bruce’s suggestion. W. MacDougall,. president of the Chamber of Manufacturers, declared that he would welcome such a. move. Anthracite Miners Make Boss Keep Safety Men TAHAGUA, Pa., Feb. 2 (FP). — United Mine Workers of Panther Creek Valley have forced the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. to keep top. und bottom men on shafts and slopes whenever men are working in the mine. The company violated the state mine laws by having mine foremen hoist men up and down on days when the colliery is generaily idle. vestors, who made the admission is anxious for the construction of the railroad connecting the east and west coasts since he claims it will aid the jconservatives in controlling the coun- \ try. connects Managua with Corinto on the west coast. “T hope the marines will not with- draw for years,” Diaz is quoted as saying. Diaz is a protege of the for- Cancel Protest Meet: as MANAGUA, Feb. 2.—President Diaz today cancelled his call for a mass meeting of conseryatives to dis- cuss the McCoy election bill which of Répresentatives. It is understood Representatives. It is understood that the United: States legation fa- vored cancellation of the proposed McCoy supervise the national election in October. Make Chinese Build U.S. Gunboat Guam PEKING, Feb. 2.—Trial runs of the new United: States river gunboat Guam, which was built in the Shang- hai yards of the Kiangnan dock and engineering works, have proved it fit for immediate service in the Yangtse river, according to word received here today from Shanghai. The Guam is the first of six river gunboats sanctioned by the United States congress to cost $1,500,000, |The crew of. the Guam has already (been selected. British Labor Movement : Faces Severe Political Crisis By THOMAS. BELL. | Collaboration Programs. At present the only railroad} similar promise was however, made at the Paris conference. Despite this the | Berlin session did not dare to come to a decision by a majority voce, Yecause | this would have led to the disruption of the I. F. T, U. and the defection of one or the other of the national | groups. The Germans wanted to haye the headquarters in. Germany under all} circumstances, they also wanted a |posed by the British section, i. e. Purcell, The British group demanded that Brussels be made the headquar- | ters, opposed the idea-of a German secretary and insisted on their own candidate for chairman, The whole! session was typical of the present state of the Amsterdam International. GET WAGE RAISE ATLANTA, Feb, 2.—Threat of a strike has brought an increase in pay for members of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Elcetrie Rail- way Employes’ local of this city. But the increase is very small and is entirely unsatisfactory to the men. A strike was urged by the men but ficials of the union insisted on “nego- tiations” with the Georgia Power Company, the emplaying firm. An increase in pay. from 2 to 4 cents | was awarded, Motormen and con- ductors will receive 50 cents an hour for the first nine months, 55 cents for the second nine months and 58 cents an hour thereafter. Operators of one- man cars will receive 65 cents an | hour. H icy eae | While very low, the increased wage ‘announced in Atlanta is higher than the wage now received by the work- T. L. Bayer, president, and other of- |. from General Anselmo Macias, the federal commander today. This bat- tle was the third reported from Jalis- co in the past 10 days. The band had been ravaging the countryside trying to start a counter revolution. PROTEST FASCIST GENEVA, Feb. 2—The Little En- | tente protest, against the shipments | of Italian arms te Hungary in viola- tion of existing treaties was received hy the League of Nations yesterday. The notes were sent separately by Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Ru- mania. fluence as it muy have with Italy, the notes request the matter be taken | up at the next meeting of the Council | of the League. The next session of the council will take place in March. The protest refers to the discovery of a,shipment of 2,000 machine guns on the Austro-Hungarian border. | Other large shipments of arms were | made to Hungary, it has been charged. Calls “Mother India” Full of Half-Truths' ‘ Dhan Kopal Mukerji, a Hindu au- thor and lecturer has joined the num- bers of Indians who are attacking “Mother India,” a propaganda book by Katherine Mayo who appears from the contents to have been subsidized by the British government to write her attack. Declaring that since the Amritsar massacre nothing has occurred to so enrage the India people, Mukerji of- fers to assist Miss Mayo in re- writing the book with a view to the s + © | The treaty, according to the “veve- | to send copies to the Gern MOSCOW. ation 3 is based upon nine points. | tion of Labor, 6 Inselstrass 2 R caine ce ig to send a naval mission to} S. 14. diplomatic officials. have expressed) Jugo-Slavia while Jugo-Slavia is to} ——————— surprise at the sudden departure of |send France an increasing number of | the Polish commercial delegation. {naval officers for special instruction, | pas Bo. Te as: | cs is to organize a Jugo-Slay FASCISTS ADDING eet composed mainly of submarines | Feb. 2.—Soviet Union|} nd light craft. Other measures call | French rganization of the ar- | at aro on the Adri: and | sen: French and Italian nav In event of war, the Jugo-Slav navy is to take | = 5 Fi " . its orders from the commander-in- | occasion of the founding of the fascist | chief of the French. fle In return militia to make a new imperia Din thee Cara Ten Pras G48 gesture, Mussolini has announced that |}4. her naval materials and supplies henceforth the militia will form an in-|¢.55. French ar ent concerna, Gependent we ath Ais national SUnY | The Italian fascists are reported to} in event of war, reports from Rome be making capital out of the “revela- | state. in fur : GENEVA, Feb. Utilizing the | * tween the teeth, grenades in hand and | a supreme contempt of danger in the | heart,” the blackshirt chief declared | in an address on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the fascist militia. | See German Invasion. | What purports to be an elaborate | French scheme for the invasion of | Germany “in -an event of a war | ay oo choaraq | tween Italy and France is being pub- Five hundred army officers cheered |i shed by the German fascist press. | him to the: echo, The plan calls for a sudden occupa- | The action of the fascists is seen’tion of South Germany: in. order to | particularly as a veiled threat. to |establish contacts with the Jugo-Slavs | Jugo-Slavia to whom Mussolini re-| who will be allied with the French in | e Misleaders f cently gave official notice of six |the Italian invasion. o months’ grace to “rectify” its Italian} The Italo-French war is set for| | abor policy. 1930 or a little later. ; eee By W. Z. FOSTER PLAN A DRIVE . 4n thievery and treachery of the of- ficialdom of the American Fed~ eration of Labor. Paper $1.25 Cloth $1.75 BERLIN, Feb. A strike that threatens to tie-up the principal re- 1 shops in Berlin loomed yesterday vhen employes. demanded a 15 per cent increase in wages. Unless their demands were granted, the employes ——- | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 2. — Indicating a union-smashing Order from Workers Library Publishers cam- 39 East 125 St. New York. paign in the printing and building trades, following along with the pres- ent growing depression in building, stated, they would strike at the end of March. ‘ correct presentation of the facts. The book is a “medley of opinions” ‘with generaliza- | LONDON (By. Mail).—Without any! Take the present. Industrial Peace !ers on the New York City traction doubt the labor movement in Great Charter and the present’ wave of|jines, in a city in which the cost of Britain is passing through a- severe) “class-collaboration” programs. What jliving is much higher than in the the “American Pian Open Shop Con- ference” went into session today with IN A erisis. This crisis-is more than a de- fect in organization. Organizational weaknesses are there, but the crux of the crisis is political. We may bewail the imperfections in organizational machinery. We cannot, nor must not, ignore the failure to organize a 100 per cent membership in our most important unions, We cannot ignore sectional- ism, for example, amongst the miners, where each district and county is a law unto itself. Closer amalgama- | tion and one union. for engineering and metal workers is as urgent as. one union for the miners. We want! more power vested in the General | is the significance of this? What is | the meaning of the present wide-| spread eulogy of our General Cauncil by the capitalists? When. the whole | trade union. movement was backing | the miners, and when that support forced on an unwilling General Coun- | cil the genural strike, we did not hear | many flattering remarks about our leadership. Indeed, there was nothing too vile for the capitalists to say-about them, Cabinet minister after cabinet minister spat out the foulest venom on our trade union movement and particularly those leaders who were then classed as “lefts,” and followed it up by an anti-trade union bill Council as a means of coordinating ; which was enough to make-the pion- the whole industrial struggle of the|eers of trade unionism turn in their working class, not forgetting, of | graves, course, a change in leadership. ‘| Why then this sudden flattery of “Leaders” Sidetrack Issue. | trade union leadership and: passion for But these things given, still the “collaboration” which is reciprocated j. urgent problem is the question of poli-| with the most ignominious and huni tical policy. Organizational weak | iating deportment of our leaders? nesses are invariably bound up wish, This is a most important question for political policy. Bs Wat ou of the | ae ag mavement if oe coun- present crisis is to be: found. more in | try. @ must get to the bottom of an examination of the direction in, ae and understand it clearly, for, un- political policy. ‘less we do; we cannot hope to iake Those leaders who rail at politics in| the offensive against capitalism. On the unions, and try to revive the 19th the contrary, we are more likely te bi Nia TibeLab poliey: af centoalitas” launder: about. for $ long time to either ignore e@ character of the ,come, cursing our fate, and cach modern labor struggle, or, and this is | other, while capitalism. continues its rearer the mark, are deliberately side- jown sweet way of exploiting and de- tracking the workers’ Movement in| moralising our ranks without the RY ee of pad Aycan pies pe Seen ne. Ren ostened i whom they are collaborating, is.) ‘e do x esitate to say that the type, of which the Spencer-Wilson | present situation. is characterised by erew are examples, are a manifesta- /a victory of capitalism over socialism, tion of the present crisis rather than | Before the general strike the workers an adequate cause. The greater dan- | had recovered from the heavy defeats ger comes from the type of leader| sustained in 1921-2, A/steady confi- south, Three Workers Injured When Derrick Breaks NEWARK, N. | workers were in, J., Feb. 2.—Three jured, two of them seriously, when the arm of a derrick, which was lifting a 14 ton steel beam, snapped and dropped the girder to the street. The workers. were engaged in con- struction werk on a 10 story addition to a department store here. Carmine Cnappa,. who received) internal in- juries, and John Grinn of Kearny, with several fractured ribs, are the most seriously injured workers. “13: a 46 | Building Aviation | i Bs a ALBANY, No ¥., Feb. 2. -- In a speech before the American Legion here, Assistant Secretary of War Dayision told of a new plan to utilize the.posts of the legion in speeding up! the development of aviation in this state. Commercial aviation is closely allied with military aviation. is speech, which included an ap- peal to the members of the American Legion to support the full naval bill ‘and an “adequate” national defense, jrevealed the role of the legion on the eve of a membership drive ‘scheduled to open in New York City today. Wood Cutter Killed tions,” he asserts, Given College Student Arrested at Navy Yard Simon W. Gerson, student of the College of the City of New York who was arrested during a young workers’ and: students’ anti-militarism demon- stration at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Jan, 14, was freed yesterday by Magistrate Harry H. Dale on a sus-/ pended, sentence. It was evident that college author- ities, who. had threatened to expel him if he was convicted, had hand in at- | - tempting to obtain a conviction, be- cause of his anti-militarist activity in the college. He was defended by Attorney Jac- ques Buitenkant, retained by the International Labor Defence. Compensation Is Urged For Industrial Disease | (By Federated Press) Only a blanket provi ion compelling compensation for all forms of indus- trial disease can adequately aid work- ers, declared Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard University medical a A She spoke at a meeting called by the New York League of Women Voters to outline its legislative demands. Dr. | Hamilton is a specialist in industrial diseases, particularly those of poisorf- out trades. She is an adviser to the Workers Health Bureau. JOIN RE |representation from all parts uf the = = = — leountry. The speakers ard their topics are divided into three divisions, |ranking in importance as follows: | building des, printing, manufac- turers. In the printers group speakers are Philadelphia, Am Publishers’ Association; mer of Chicago, Employing Printers’ | | Association; Tanners’ Freeman of | i leveland, Employing Photo Engrav- i ers’ Association, and W. P. Mickel | |of Nashville, .secretary-manager of | the Southern Master Printers’ Feder- | |ation and Southern School of Print- | and_ publishers | W. H. Flagg of an N paper | J. M. Voll- AL FIGHT! DRIVE |. AGAINST now to be found at the head of the great trade unions; the bureaucrats who still have the confidence of large numbers of workers. These elements form the most important factor in the present crisis afid the most serious menace: to the: advance: of socialism, dence was heing built. up in the or- ganized power of labor. The “Back to the Unions Campaign” had repaired much of the damage inflicted in the severe capitalist offensive following | 1921-2. ' (Po be continued) — Others. who declared for a more JERICHO, L. L,, Feb, 2.--Stanley| adequate state: compensation law. in- Grudzinstik, 52, a worker on the es) oluded assemblyman Phelps, republi- tate of the late steel trust head, El+| can, and senator William L. Love, M. bert H. Gary, was fatally injured) D., democrat. Phelps has introduced when ‘a tree which he was. chopping] a blanket compensation provision into down-fell o» him. the state legislature. ing. OES ae Organization of the unorgan- ized. Miners’ Injunctions. lief. Company. Unions. and Defense of the Soyiet Union, A. Labor Party. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Unemployment. 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