The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 3

\ { | i} y / THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 — Page Three Rivera Government Calls Troops as General Strike Spreads Thruout @ MADRID, BILBAO MILLS AND MINES: HIT BY WALK-OUT Peasants Restive While | Factories Stand Idle | | MARSEILLES, Feb. 5.—The gen- eral strike that*began in Barcelona | and has tied up virtually the whole} province of Catalonia today threat-) ens to grip all Spain and upset the | government of Primo de Rivera as | the walkout of workers in Madrid, | Balboa and other industrial centers | becomes general. | Troops are reported to have been | called out and the police are taking | extraordinary measures to curb the spread of the strike, but have been unable to prevent the tie-up of the] THOMAS AIDS BALDWIN FRENCH TEXTILE Spain Reformists Betray Hungry British Miners) WORKERS HIT BY Conservative Chamorro Wants Gravy Too WITH SEVEN-HOUR | By THOMAS BELL. | { (Concluded from last issue). | To Return to USSR Take the example of the Welsh/| Miners’ March. Here is a concrete | lease. Tens of thousands of miners | ‘are without any. prospects of work, | ‘following the defeats of last year. | ' Destitution is rampant, and local gov- i ernment boards will not help. No! !by opportunist parliamentarians }a formal opposition to the govern- ;ment. A march of the unemployed miners on London could have rovsed | jand put just that “pep” into it that is | ;so badly needed. Such a stimulus | ‘would have had tremendous political | cratic machinery (aided by the Com- | Madrid mills and the Bilbao mines and factories. There is an uncon- firmed report that the harbor work- ers have struck in Bilbae and that | shins loading iron ore have been un- “Barcelona over a tax of $1.87 levi able to continue’ operations. The government is alarmed at the progress of the strike which began in by the government on the wages of the workers. Troops are reported | to have been despatched to the par. of the country affected by the strike as the Primo de Rivera fascist re- gime feels itself confronted by the} danger of an uprising. | * * * | Whole Province Tied Up. | HENDAYE, France, Feb. 5.—Police | continue to run the few trains and | street cars that are moving in Barce- | Diego Rivera, internationally- | known Mexican artist, who left for home yesterday after a stay of three months in the Soviet Union. Rivera will return to the Soviet Union in the fall. | the poor toni of the Party managers jin London) worked night and day to | Prevent the march. The excuse of a Communist “stunt” {will not wash. The march arose out of the appalling situation in the min- ing areas of South Wales where des- titution is terrible. What does it mat- ter if the Communists did teke the lead in preparing the first steps in| \Fists Raised but Only |the march? The facts are that fol- \lowing A. J. Cook’s appeal the local \abor erganizations were prepared to jrender every assistance until the Party “ managers from Eccleston |Square got the “wind up” and out- lawed the march. The real position s one of sheer funk and cowardice on the part of our official leadership |in the sole desire to curry favor with | the bosses and to do nothing to alien- SOCIALISTS ON VERGE OF FIGHT lona as the walk-out of the workers is reported to be practically complete. | All shipping is at a standstill in the | harbor, and textile mills in the city | and suburbs have ceased to operate. | Rumors of clashes between the workers and police persist but no de- tails can be gathered as the govern- ment is making every effort to pre- vent information from leaving the country. Unrest’ in the industrial centers of Manresa, Sabadell and Tarrasa has spread thruout the province and the | presence of the troops called out by the government is causing great dis- quiet among the peasants whose con- ditions are wretched and who have strong Catalonian nationalist feel- ings. Sabadell and Manresa are im- portant factory towns in western and ate votes to the general election. Aid to Capitalism. Words Fly in Vienna VIENNA Feb 5—Hard words flew! We do not hesitate to say that this areal ie ‘tted, but remained in Policy of repressing the fighting in- nie ate hls iste cad Ol cals | Stiacts of the workers is a direct ser- air, 2s alee Bee a in the Austrian parliament hurled at ue fo pe a Teshelps He rr one another charges and counter(y straval of the workers. But it will charges that blackmail methods dom- not always suseced,..The Communist inate the Austrian police administra- and left eye aha el nda way of | i *°-\ of saving socialism for the workin; cialist parliament, was loudest in the 3 - class. visitors’ gallery which was packed for; What is it the capitalists are aim- the oceasion by the socialists. | e ing at? The pclicy of the capitalists The storm broke when Mayor Kz r ap in this. country at present is quite Heitz, socialist who shot down the| clear. Faced with formidable world revolting Vienna workers in July, competition and fighting for their shouted “Tiar” at Nice-chancellor lives, they seek to extract more values Hartles. The deputies rushed for-|from the! workers. Reduced waces, | ward, one of them striking the brief ease of Chancellor Seipel so. that it | week, the union holds, will help al- BOSS COMBINES : Owners’ Organizations: War on All.Demands ! PARIS, Feb. 5.—Thoroughly class- jfiner ease could be taken up, even | conscious is. the mighty ‘lextie Cun-| States supervision of the elections be- sortium of Roubaix-lourcoing. Or whose sole concern is no more than | ganized eight years ago, it has. waged| fused to back him suceessful war against the power. ful textile unions in its territory Organization and money d i the whole of the workers’ movement, | Levying a per capita of 542 per cent} Henry Stimson last May. of the total payroll of its members, the Consortium last year had no les: than 28,000,000,000 francs in its j consequences. Yet the entire bureau- | union-fighting treasury. With this it| leaders headed by Rosenc maintained elaborate welfare and so. jmunist renegade, Wall, who acted as|cial services for the 100,000 workers! clear employed by its 360 members. special police force for use again: strikers, pickets and organizers, detective service to ferret out m tants within the economy service which informs the} Consortium of the most propitious moments to cut wages are maintained by the per, capita levy. Textile unions*have waged long and bitter strikes in this center of the French weolen industry, many of them defeated by the money bags of the bosses. But on the whole the bat- tle has been with the Consortium with the result that wages are in many cases 50 per cent below pre-war leyels. Many women get but 50 cents a day while the general average is under $1 for all workers. Want 44-Hour Week. The “English Week” of 44 hours is| one of the leading demands of the| French workers when they are not; defending the 8-hour day against em- ployers’ attacks. Texiile workers | have nailed the English week to their mast and in addition are fighting for | the 7-hour day. The shorter work- leviate the heavy unemployment. Every American tourist in Paris ‘mows the Galeries Lafayette, among the biggest and showiest of the} metropolis’ department stores. So do the French textile and garment work- ers, for the vast énterprise and profits of the Galories Lafayette are | founded on their bitter exploitation. The ‘store orders its drygoods from | contractors who in turn encourage sweatshops and home work on a scale | longer hours and a rationalization of | well known to New York garment| Swedish Workers Will = factories and an| The United States will go ahe ‘or the “supervisio guan, elections, ‘ank K. McCoy informed fol- |} ow of the conservative leader | Emiliano Chamorro, reports from | Managua state. | Chamorro, who has been seeking | the presidency, has opposed United | 1 Friend of Fascists Bt Brig. | with its plan: T cause the state department has re- | i candidate. | ccording to all | upport the “liberal” | who sold out to| The United Stat indications will General Moncada, At a conference between General McCoy, United States Minister Eber- hardt and a number of conservative Chamorro be | textile goods and to f DAY IN THE USSR extile Output Greater With Three Shifts MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The sev according to The thr ts which will introduced with the seven-hour day expected to raise the output of rere ral | ‘ | ment for 17,785 2 (brother of Emiliano), MeCoy made it} Richard Washburn Child, former | "stro cy | that United States marines | United States ambassador to Italy, | guced in a nurs pant Pe A} would “supervise” the coming elec-| appointed by Mussolini to revise the | Wage agreements recently concluded st| tions in spite of the action of the | English edition of kis autobigraphy. ice ulted in substantial wage in- | chamber of deputies which threw out thild, by his own admi con- | cy, day darwot niasbesl- ee ane -| the American-sponsored electoral law. spired with Mussolini to set up the e ‘the ‘eollectivl: adyaaxhenn Rake When Chamorro visited the United| bloody fascist dictatorship. \th tates recently, state department of- } icials declared that he would not be | recognized as-a candidate. This is} FASCISTS ABROAD generally regarded as an indication | ers’ Committee have about twenty e Donugol and the More work- {ing clothes and a higher ration of 2 fuel are also provided for in the hat the United States will reward{ agreement. Monrada’s betrayal of the nationalist movement by granting him the presi- deney. “FASOISTS STILL ay Sag | : x | GENEVA, Feb. 5.—Absolute obedi- Stimson Leaves for Job | ..c. 5 Mussolini from Italians living AS Czar of Philippines |™ foreign countries is imposed on these “colonists” by eight new ar- Sea ticles just made public by Pietro Pa- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.—Henry | yini, secretary-general L. Stimson, left here yesterday to take | cists, E up his duties as| Islands. ee The ment of timson | living in foreign countries.” | has been bitterly | The articles further call upon Ital- | criticized sby the} ions living abroad to obey the ‘in- mee radical WINE’ structions of the diplomatic represen- of the Philippine | tatives of their country and to avoid | independence! ) ticipation in the politics of the| Mabveniens, 3 wruile country where they may be residing. Tener ae Gh, The articles also provide spres | zon have greeted forms of punishment for infractors, Stimson’s ap- reprimand, suspension and expulsion. sointment. Stim-| Mussolini’s new acts are thought to ; | be aimed particularly at retaining the H. L. Stimson, Philippine czar portles,” Soviet Joint-Stoc has signed a contract with a number of the fas-|9f British, American, German and Dutch banks The first article defines foreign fas- | &" F soe 4 Ss t governor general! cist clubs as organizations owing fr the realization of Soviet timber of the Philippine | ohedience to Mussolini and whose) ©xPorts, to a total sum of s are “to group around the in-| pounds sterling. The foreign credits qppoint | signia of fascism colonies of Italians | oe NN 3 times as large as last | Soviet timber Bank, Hambros Bank, the British Overseas Bank, the Eastern Bank, Brown, Shipley Co. ete. | Among the American banks, ¢ have been received from the Equi! able Trust Co; from the German Di konto Dutch Niederland Bank. British, U. S. Finance Soviet Timber Exports MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The “Ex- Company, and firms regarding edits and advances for contracts 285,000 Among the British banks crediting exports are: Lloy Bank, Glyn Mi! Gesellschaft, and from the son left on board | ( is * A Italian allegiance of the large groups ne Maeeidene choy of Italians living in Argentina and| Aerie SE ey Brazil. FOR Y:0U & southwestern Catalonia and control jindustry are a means of prolonging. workers. Last year.the Galeries paid HEALTH the’ two railway ‘approaches from southern and western Spain. The only other railway communication from Barcelona is toward the French frontier on the north. KILL WORKER TAKING GOAL CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—George Pojak, 26, father of two children, was shot and killed by a watchman last night when he attempted to steal some coal from a car on the property of the People’s Gas Light and Coke Com- pany. Pojak had been unemployed for some time. Brun, the watchman, denied at first responsibility for the killing, but af- terwards admitted that he had fired the shot. He and Stephan Yergyich, who was helping Pojak, are being held for the inquest today. Haifa Terminus for Mosul Oil Pipe Line JERUSALEM, Feb. 5-—The long feud between French and British in- terests in the Turkish Petroleum Company over the terminus for the Mosul pipe line has been practically ended by the selection of Haifa, it is learned tonight. A combination of Standard Oil and British interests is seen in the de- cision which makes Haife, the harbor on which construction is. beginning the greatest in the Eastern Mediter- ranean. FIRE ENDANGERS WORKERS. skidded and hit him. The deputy im- their rule, especially if the trade) mediately apologized. Unable to main- tain silence or start a real fight, the unions are cripped by a policy of unionr ara evippled by a policy of | Party abandons socialism. Part of the process of bolstering up capital- | ism and in getting’ these objectives | is to win the labor leaders away from |a policy of resistance or struggle, and ‘to inveigle them into “Industrial Peace Campaigns” and pure “minis- | terialism.” This is the fundamental | policy of the “captains of industry.” | FEAR REVOLTS IN TOKIO, Feb, 5.—Thirty-three Ko. | register certain successes. ‘They have | rean Communists, a number of them | succeeded in forcing responsible mem- | women, were arrested yesterday in a bers of the T. U. C. to openly iden- | house to house search in Seoul, accord- tify themselves with industrial p: ace | ing to reports received here. |talk to the extent of some of them | Japanese officials fear an outbreak blavidishly formulating programmes, | in Korea. Hundreds of radical work- + thus laming the workers in the strag- | ers and students have been arrested '£le azainst the capitalist offensive. | in the last few months. - There is said to be differences be- | The arrest followed the discovery tween Citrine and Thomas: But these} of “incriminating” documents and lit-, AS ci gpa Mie Peed erature, the police state, Pita, dike aiding, G3 Ganeb Gaal ae , tween the general council and the | Suggested: Dutch Rule’s arte capitalist organizations (the | i | policy of Citrine) is even more deodly End; Gets 4 ail Ter m than the local pacts between the work- | = ers and the capitalists in particular | Jusuf Saman, the chairman of the |industries (the policy of Thomas and West Java’ section of the Sarekat | the railway companies). Both of them Islam, the Nationalist organization of | have the same end in view, viz., to the Javanese masses, has been sen- tenced to two and a half years im- tie-n the workers’ organizations to capitalism. y prisonment, reports from Sukabumi,| But is there a real objective basis West Java, announce. for this “class collaboration”? Can it Saman is charged with having “in- timated in a covert way” that the materialize with even limited advan- tage to the workers? We think not. Dutch domination of the East Indies ought to be overthrown. presiding officer was forced to ad- journ the session. Eritish capitalism has lost its world faonopoly. It is no longer able to exploit the colonies without challenge. A native industry and nationalist bourgeoisie is challenging the hither- DEPRESSION ADMITTED. | sented by an observer. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5. — Roth production of raw materials and manufacturing showed a decline in to undisputed rule of British capital. A growing proletarian movement in the colonies and dependencies now profits of 50 million francs against 40 million for 1926. * * * 50,000 On Strike. Fifty thousand textile workers in rope were on strike in the second half of 1927 mostly against speed-up and wage reductions in a score of centers. Silk Bosses Struggle. National federations of wodlen mill | owners in six countries,—France, | England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Czechoslovakia,—have formed an} international association to 3s | production, prices and rationalization. merican manufaciurers were repre- Among silk manufacturers there is no such harmony. An acute interna-| ional struggle is being fought by in- | terests of Lyons, Milan, Zurich, El- berfeld, Nottingham and Patterson. Titulescu Denies He Is Seeking French Credits PARIS, Feb. 5.—Nicolas Titulescu continues to deny that his visit here | is for the purpose of obtaining credits | |with which to stabilize his unstable |){ government, His recent conversations ||| with Poincaré, however, lend color to | the rumor. It is known that the Bra- | tianu government is close to collapse | es danger of a financial crisis nears | and it is supposed that Rumania is working on French interests in the | Balkans to secure a loan. Admits He Accepted Fee from Radio Trust WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Admis- sion by O, H. Caldwell, acting chair- \Co-operate With ‘Trade | Paris Commune Meets Unions of the U.S.S. R. Will Be Held March | 18 Throughout U. S. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—According | The fifty-seventh anniversary of to reports received here from Stock- ithe Paris Commune, the first work- holm, the annual meeting of the ing class government that was es- Sundswale district of the organiza-| tablished by the militant workers of tion of foresters and seamen voted | paris on March 18, 1871, will be cele- for closer collaboration of Swedish |},-ated thruout the United States this trade unions with those of the Soviet | year by mass meetings in all im- Union. |portant cities, in the week of March The meeting proposed that an 5th, it was announced yesterday tempt be made to draw Norweg: y the national office of the Inter- and Finnish unions into closer con-| national Labor Defense, 8¢ E. Jith | tact with Soviet trade unions. If this |St.. under whose auspices they will | proposal is rejected, the Sundswale |4e hela. organizaton will cooperate with U. S. Information and other materials S. R. unions independently. have already been sent out by the — oe national office of the organization to Yr . its locals in every part of the country New Bridg e Planned {onthe arrangement of the Paris Com- | Seas |mune memorial meetings, and it is! ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb. 5.— |expected that thousands of American | A $7,000,000 drawbridge between ; workers will attend this year to pay, Penn’s Grove, N. J., and Wilmington, 'tribute to the heroic memory of the at- Strictly Pure FLORIDA HONEY Guaranteed by the BEE-FARMER Special Prices During Run of This “Ad” 2 Lbs. $71.25 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER BY MAIL. JACK FEURER 3656 Park Ave., Bronx New York City. Nelaware, will be constructed within Paris Communards and pledge them- a year, it was announced yesterday. selves for the continuation of the Toll charges will be less than the defense of the victims of capitalist present ferry fare, it was said “class justice toda: = “ . . Side by Side We'll Battle Onward .. .” | tosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht died “Side by Side.” Learn the Woman’s Part in the Battle | from OU’ g readers Many of our readers like to get the DAILY WORKER at their newsstands or news- dealers, and for various rea- sons cannot get it. We ask our readers to ‘The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg’ Edited by LUISE KAUTSKY Cloth Bound. |man of the Federal Radio Commis- sion, that he is accepting an annual retainer of $7,000 from a publishing | company interested in radio gave rise CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 5. —|Pecember of 1927, the department of offers powerful resistance to a one-| Vire destroyed a roundhouse in which |commerce announces. Not only was |time unbridled exploitation. 29 locomotives of the Baltimore & ‘there a falling off from November, | Labor Faces Crisis Ohio Railroad were -standing, badly but the amounts were less than De- i & speak with their newsdealer, fill out the coupon, and send | it in to us, so that we will be | | able to make the necessary Reduced from 2.50 to 1.00, damaging all of the locomotives. ‘cemter, 1926. Fruit Trust Le vies Huge Tribute on Latin-America For its part in the development of the American capitalist empire in Gentral America, the Caribbean United Fruit Co. received a 1927 profit of $19,621,341 after all deduc- tions for interest and taxes. This reckoned as a return of $7.84 a share on the common stock and compares with $19,511,471 or $7.80 a share in 1926, é The real return on the investment of the owners is much larger than ppears on the surface. Changes in e capitalization include a 100% ‘tock dividend in 1921 and the ex- change of 2% shares of no par stock for each share of $100 stock in 1926 In other words the owners now hold 5 shares of common stock fgr each $100 share owned prior to 1921 and the 1927 profit represents a return of more than 39% on the investment. United Fruit dominates the banang trade of the country having shipped from the tropics 49,845,147 bunches in the course of the year. It also pro-| duced nearly a million bags of sugar on its Cuban preserves. In the last 6 years United Fruit has taken profits totaling over $100,000,000 as its share of the tribute levied on Wall Street’s Latin-American dependencies. ~ | iving is dearer. Unemployment in- British, capitalism therefore is no/ iIgnger able to afford concessions to! ‘jeven the labor aristocracy of the in-| \dustrial metropolis. This being so \there can be no objective basis for ‘carrying through a policy of class collaboration and industrial peace. Tee leaders of our T. U. C. and the 'general council and of the Labor Par-, ty, are, in these circumstances, sim-, ply playing the role of decoy-ducks | in their political direction. | The crisis in the labor movement as we have said, cannot remain long as it is. With no objective basis the present period of “peace” and “col- laboration” will soon get short-shrift. |The masses will not be restrained by faked conferences or after-dinner speeches. Stern reality will over-ride ‘all the “guarantees” of the gilded chambers. Even as the Labor leaders | put their souls in pawn and plead for |peace, wages are going down while} creases rather than diminishes. to a dispute in the senate interstate commerce committee today, industrial crisis of capitalism is not abating, notwithstanding the sacri- fices forced on the workers by the policy of surrender advocated by the Labor leaders. Struggle Is Imminent. More and mere, therefore, the pol- icy of struggle and battle must come te the front. The greedy necessities of capitalism will goad the workers into revolt. They will inevitably fol- iow the road indicated by the Com- munists. Nct through a policy of “in- dustrial peace” and “class collabora- tion” can the workers come into their own, but by ever sharper, deeper and wider conflicts with capitalism cul- minating in even more widespread and extensive general strikes than in 1926. There is no other way out of the “Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg” By MAX SHACHTMAN Short Biographical Sketches will help you refresh your memory while you are reading The Letters, Price 1bc. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY, Paper Bound. present morass: no other political The | policy will suffice, 2 | livered regularly. DAILY WORKER, 33 First St. | My newsdealer is arrangements, to have it de- CIRCULATION DEPT. New York City. (name) (address) No. of copies