The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1928, Page 3

} THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928 Page Three Canton Militarist Murders 270 More Workers; Fear New Revolt in City ARRESTS 2,000 AFTER HOUSE TO HOUSE SEARCHES Alarmed by Victories of Peasant Troops yted and 2,000 arrested in the past faw days by the ‘Canton authorities, ycording to reports received here. ) After closing all union headquar- ‘ers General Li Chai-sum, who is now in control of the city, arrested scores of labor leaders who were immediately ; executed. The city is virtually under law, with house to house searches, wholesale arrests and ex- martial ecutions a daily occurrence. The large wave of arrests and exe- cutions in the last few days has fol- lowed the recent victories of worker- peasant troops in northern Kwang- tung. General Li Chai-sum fears a new reyolt in Canton. er PEKING, .Feb. 6.—Thousands of peasants in Shantung and Chihli haye died of starvation in the famine which has swept the two provinces. Large amounts of grain are being shipped abroad by the northern militarists in spite of the e famine conditions. DESCRIBES PENN MINERS’ MISERY , (Continued fram Page One) “Wherever you go, you hear the kids singing and cheering the strikers and shouting to the scabs to come out. When they’re hungry, they sing. When they are freezing, they sing strike songs to keep them warm.” Miners Eager for Conference. Sabitini declared that the miners in all the strike areas he yisited in his recent tour for the union, know about the coming conference and are looking forwar ifs-success, hoping it will relieve“the terrible crisis they are now living through. Although there are a number of striking miners in New York at pres- ent engaged in relief activity, young Sabitini was sent by the strikers as a direct emissary to the conference, and he will retugn to the strike fields immediately after the conference to report the results, The Pennsylyania - Ohio - Colorado Miners Relief Committee of 799 Broadway requests that any organi- zations which have not yet received the conference eall, apply at iis of- fice for credentials for two delegates. All workers’ organizations and social clubs must ynite in sending relief to the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. The Pittsburgh office at 611 Penn Aye, buys food in wholesale quantities to send to the strike fields, ebieen Calta: At a conference for Miners’ Relief held in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Sun- day, at which various workers and social organizations of Brownsville participated, a permanent Browns- yille Committee for Miners’ Relief was formed. A chairman and secre- tary were elected from the floor,— Sam Hoffman and Charles McClin,— and. the executive committee elected is composed of one delegate from each organization represented at the conference, Among those who addressed the XA —- conference was Steve Paich, a strik-} ing miner from Western ” Pennbyl- vania, and Laurence Ross, of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee of New York, The organizations represented were the Brownsvilie and East New York Workers’ Centre, Bricklayers Club, East New York Non-Partisan Club, Jewish Culture Club, Brownsville I. L. D., Workers Party, Brownsville Section, East Flatbush Social Club, Councils 7 and 16 of the United Coun- cils of Workingclass Women, and the Non-Partisan Workers’ Childrens’ School. . A resolution was adopted by the conference to be sent to the striking miners of all strike areas, demon- strating the solidarity of the workers of Brownsville and East New York) — with their brother workerg of the eoal mines. A’ huge mass meeting for February 24th was discussed, as well as plans for a house-to-] house collection and visits to unions and other workers’ organizations for the purpose of activizing their relief work, Friendliness i in US. S.R.| BOSTON, ah. ie A general atti- tude of, courtesy and friendliness dis- tinguishes the attitude wrich all classes of the population of the So- viet Union show towards foreigners, writes the Moscow eorrespondent of “The Christian Science Monitor.” The writer adds that this was especially noticeable during the celebration of ton 10th anniversary of the revolu- < SHANGHAI, Feb. 6—Two hundred | and seventy workers have been exec- | oat MARSEILLES, Feb. 6,—Scores of fresh strikers continue to leaye the Barcelona factories following Primo de Rivera’s ultimatum that all work- ers who do not return to their jobs| this morning will be discharged with- | ! out opportunity for appeal, while the ‘factories that remain idle will be closed with the complete loss of wages to the strikers. The ultimatum was met bya fur-| ther walk-out of groups of workers not preyiously affected by the strike The stevedores who load and unl, lumber have joined the general strike. together with almost all the remsin-/| ing workers in the textile industry. | making the tie-up virtually complete | ce | | | HENDAYE, France, Feb. 6—Re-| ports of police outrages practised against the Barcelona general strik- ers continue to arrive here in spite of the efforts of the Spanish authori- ties to prevent any detailed story of the situation in the city from leaving the country. Eighty-three workers are reported | to have been seized by the police dur- ing recent raids. Several of the pris- oners are women, it is stated. The women were arrested during a police attack on a demonstartion againgt a candy factory where the women were trying to urge the workers to join the strike. The women resisted the efforts. of the police to rout them, The candy workers subsequently walked out. Police are running all street cars and the busses thru the working class quarters of the eity. Cordons of po- of the factories altho the strikers have been mopesble eyen under the re- jon | jobs and | dressed to the (SPANISH STRIKE GROWS Workers Disregard Fasci Fascist Order to Stop: peated provocations of the police. The strike has completely tied up industry in the interior towns where the peasants are reported to be inj sympathy with the strikers and the situation, in view of the Catalonian separatist feelings prevailing th out the province, is regarded as se ous by the government. A decree of Primo de Riyera, or- dering t ers back to the mills Monday under pain ng their wages together with a shut- down. of all factories, has been ad- people of Barcelona and the whole proyince of Catalonia. and is regarded as indicative of the extent of the strike movement. . Soe MARSEILLES, Feb. 6,—The cist government of Primo de Riv is making an effort to maintai demands for a tax of $1.87 on the} vag of all workers earning ten | esetas daily. In a telegr sent to the commit- | tee of foremen who visited him in Ma- drid in conneétion with the general strike, Primo de Rivera declares, that he “feels obliged” to maintain the deeree calling for the wage tax. “I hope,” he says, “that good sense will avoid a situation which can only in- jure the working class.” An appeal for the end of the general strike is made by the fascist dictator in the name of “a lofty sense of citizenship and a just estimate of the proposals of the government in the interest of the working class.” The answer of the Catalonian workers to this tele- gram as well as the former order to lice haye been thrown around most!return to work was a furthér walk- out from the mills and the complete tie-up of the waterfront. FISHERMEN LOST ON FLOATING ICE BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 6.---Captain Paul H. Forner, coast gard com- mander, today apperled for airplanes to seareh for the ten or rore fisher- men facing death on Lake Erie on a rigantic field of ine, six inches thick, which broke away from the off-shore pack seven miles aeEsEaes of Wind- | mill Point, Ont, Sunday afternoon. The plight of the fishermen was warned from telephone calls from sev- eral residents along the Canadian Shore. The men were at work fish- ing in groups of two or thyee, about three miles off-shore when the break came, and the southwest wind carried the field out into the lake about six | miles. Later the wind shifted to the north and late last night the ice field was being carricd south across. the lake ten miles or more from the Gan- adian shore and has not yet heen lo- eated. \ The fishermen carried wood .to! kindle a fire but only enough to last until this morning; the weather is DE VALERA CALLS. IRELAND PRISON Calling for complete independence from England, Eamon De Valera, the Irish republican, spoke yesterday be- fore 4,000 sympathizers in Mecca Temple, De Valera, who is here to raise jfunds for the establishment of a re- publican paper in Ireland, quoted from the Free State constitution to show how far Ireland is from being free. He compared his country under the Free State government to an Eng- lish prison where the inmates were Jallowed to choose their own repre- sentatives in order that a large police | force would not be needed. He point- ed out the policy of his group in the opposition party was to obtain con- trol of the Dail, SANTIAGO, Feb. 6.—The bubonic plague has broken out in various dis- tricts of Peru, Eeuador and the Ar- gentine aceording to reports reaching. here. The minister of health has very cold. ordered all precautions taken to pre- yent the disease entering Chile, | (Continued from Page One) expected to follow from this “discus- sion,” Woll illustrates from the con- dition of the mining industry. “In! the present coal mining situation,” Woll declares, “it is recognized that | the erux of the problem lies in, the| fact that there are 2,000 too many mines and 200,000 too many miners and this excess could be eliminated only through agreements which would be in contravention of the Sherman act.” The second “question” stated by. Woll-is: Assuming that the employer has the right to refuse to employ a man because he belongs to-a trade union, can this apply with equal force toe his belonging to a certain church or lodge? And should such employ- ment contracts be protected by law or are they contrary to public policy? Propaganda Trap. * This second question, it is believed, is related to the propaganda now be- ing carried on by the American Bar Association for the establishment of a law to enforce “voluntary” agree- ments entered into between employ- ers and employes. ‘third question js stated as fol- | lows: Assuming that the employer has the legal right to organize a company union, is there any practical method whereby the trade union may cope with this new and powerful op- ponent? The results which are expected to follow from this ‘discassion” between |the labor officials*and their open shop fellow workers js a plan to re- concile the “fight” which is, now be- ing conduet in the newspapers against the company union by the A. F, of L, officialdom. An “arrange- ment” may be made, it is believed, by which the labor officials under the protection of government legislation wil] be able to cooperate with the company unio‘ ‘The fourth question is states Should | the courts be prohibited from issuing against the’ unions injunctions which | operating with the National Civic Fed- ~ Woll Aids Open Shoppers in New Anti-Labor Move have upset what labor believes to be its_constitutional rights? » Largest Open Shoppers Among those on the committee co- eration and Woll in working out the “discussions” are, Nicholas F. Brady, president of the New York Edison Company; Irving T. Bush, pres’ of the Bush Terminal Co.; Rus! Butler; chairman of the Industri lations Committee, of the Am Bar Association; Robert E. M. Cowie, | president of the American Railway| Express Co.; Lincoln C. Crowell, of the Merchants Association of New York; P. E. Crowley, president of RUSH MARINES TO | STOP SANDINO'S IMAGINARY RAID: Coffee Growers Feared | Workers’ Uprising MANAGUA, Feb. 6.—An appeal for protection from wealthy coffee plantation owners who believed that General Sandino with a strong patrol was in their neighborhood brought a |truck load of United States marines on a wild goose chase to Matagalpa yesterday. The plantation owners feared that the appearance of Gen- eral Sandine would lead to an out- break of the oppressed coffee serfs who have been kept down during the {last year by detachments of marines “lent” to the hacendados, These de- |tachments were hurriedly with- |drawn during the offensive against the army of independence under Gen- eral Sandino, The main forces of General San- dino are reported to be-somewhere north of Matagalpa in the region of Jinotega. The troops are said to be excellently equipped and strength- end after suecessfully eluding the in- vasion of the superior American forees. * * Demand Passports. MANAGUA, Feb. 6.—In an effort to prevent re-enforcements and in- formation reaching the Nicaraguan army of independence the reactionary government has issued a deeree order- ing all persons traveling in the north- ern districts to carry passports. All persons and vehicles must be regis- tered with the police before journey- ing to the north. Lindbergh on Wall St. Tour Will Leave for Havana Confab Soon SANTO DOMINGO, Feb. 6. Bound on his last hope before his final flight to Havana, his ultimate goal in his swing through Central America, Charles A. Lind- bergh will take off today for Port ay) Prince, Haiti. There he will re- main two days and then fly to Havana where he will be a spectator at the sixth Pan-Ameri- can conference now in session. + C. A, Lindberg Wail St. Envoy Four Thousand Honor Slain Mine Worker PITTSTON, Pa, (FP) Feb. 6.—Four thousand union miners paid honor to Thomas Lillis, treasurer of the local of the United Mine Workers, at a tmemorial meeting in Pittston. Lillis was slain on the street, His friends insist that the supporters of contract mining are responsible for Lillis’ death. He opposed the contractor system and had been eleeted docking boss at one of the Pennsylyania Coal Co. mines, With Alex Campbell, another ponent of the contractor system who had just been elected checkweighman, Lillis was not allowed by the com- pany to function. The Pennsylvania company’s mine is now closed while automatic machine loaders are being installed. The miners are demanding equalization of work between the var- ous mines of the Pennsylyania Coal Co. Some of the mines haye been working while other& were not. ‘|Ship, Rejuvenation Row WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Accusa- tions and counter-accusations are be- ing flung at one another by the offi- cials of the United States Shipping Board and the representatives of pri- the New York Central Railroad; Wm. L, Debost, president of the New York State Chamber of Commerce; Otto M. Fidlitz, well-known contractor who has been conducting a cit: ide cam- paign against the pbuilding trades unions; Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Go.; Rob- ert P. Lamont, president of the Amer- ican Steel Foundries, Inc.; Mortimer L. Schiff, of Kuhn Loeb and Co.; Daniel Willard, president ‘of the B. \& O. Railroad; Owen D. Young, chair- | man of the board, General Blectrie Co.; in addition to many other rep- Tresentatives of powerful industrial and financial groups. The Labor Bureauerats. On the list on the side of labor are: | Wm. G. Lee, president of the Pi road Trainmen; Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textile Work- | ers; James Maloney, president of | Glass Blowers; Hugh Frayne, State representative of the A. F. of | L.; John P. Frey, secretary Metal | Trades Department of the A. F. of L.; Michael Keough, president of the International , Molders’ Union; Wm. D. Mahon, president of the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes; David B. Robertson, president of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginemen and a nuitber of othérs. From the list it is already apparent Neve vate shipping intere: with Senator Copeland in the yan. { The government-controlled ship- ping lines propose to re-condition two | former German liners which have} been lying in New York harbor since | the war, and install new machinery. | The Shipping Board claims it can! make profit on the venture. Opposi-) tion to the project estimates that the| boats haye ten years to live at most | and that the re-conditioning plan is) a waste of tax PAYS ee | Detroit Fascists Form DETROIT, Feb. 6. - The Detroit | ‘chamber of commerce has organized | a young fascist organization for the, | purpose of spreading militaristic and) jingoistic ideas among young workers jand students. The Young -Worke '(Communist)~ League 6f Detroit. is \eombatving its influence, —————— eee that the A. F. of L. and the railroad | brotherhoods largely, are acemiie the move. A fact of further interest is noted | The group cooperating in the plan while representing some of the larg- est employing and finance interests in the country, are believed to be those which have not indicated their sup- port of the recognition of Soviet Rus- sia. op-|. it idge in answer to written questions | USSR Scientist Draw Leo Theremin, young scientis' by drawing musie from the magnetic waves in ether which are con- verted thru the diaphragm of a loud speaker into sounds of regular Theremin is a member of the faculty of the Scheel of Physieo-Mechanies of thé Russian Polytechnic Institute, vibration. NANKING SEEKS — JAPAN SUPPORT the the con- SHANGHAI, Feb. ‘That Nanking Government is secking support of Japan is the genera’ elusien drawn here from the a ment of Huang-Fu, who is noto: pro-Japanese ueceed Quo T. as foreign minister. The Nanking, government since it of the So-| had vi dismissed represent yiet Union from ter eontrel has been the support of G United States and Wu has been appointed to commission to tour European cour under in, tries and the United States in order for the Nank- to fgster “good-will” ing Goyernment. WASHINGTON . (FP ) Feb. Disappointed in the amount of favor- able publicity resulting from his twice-a-week press conferenc President Coolidge has become so sulky at recent ridicule the that he has virtually a shed these meetings. The immediate occasion of his action was the publication of the fact that, in referring to’ Secretary Hoover, he had said “President Hoover,” either by mistake or other- wise, Henceforth, nothing said by Cool- ” submitted by correspondents at these meetings is to be used as an item of news. His remarks are not to be published as being the views of the President. Such, at least, is his present decree. Hides for Soviet Union| MONTEVIDEO — steamer Commik i: with several thou destined for Ode been purchased by the ment. Feb. 6. The being loaded her The hi Soviet have n- The price of hides has dropped re- cently owing to the lack of American and European bu with the ception of the Soviet Ur on, its |‘ bid for | the » $}an explosion. id hides which are | s Music From the Air | | | } t, who has ereated a sensation here ‘CONTEST SEAT OF VARE SUBSTITUTE W. dem n- | sent nia, jelection sean a climax be: INGTON, Feb. 6. — The atic contest to unseat Repre- ive Beck, republican of Pennsyl- involved in the Pennsylvania als of last fall, neared re the house elections m was made that Beck th the federal constitu- of Pennsyl- by. Representative pointed ; ative Beck | ington and had his there, he had attempted | sidences in Philadel- night, N. J 10n al vania, Kent jout was m of Pe that Ww Brachice | pita, "and 8 ‘Fires in Two Homes’ Cause Five Deaths WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 6.—A <er and two children were killed in a tenement house here st The fire was said by ten- | ants of the house to have been due to The dead children were Joseph and John Moynihan, aged seven and nine respectively. Two fire- men were injured. * * * WOODHAV: L, L, Feb. 6.—Kos- tanty Katenaks, a restaurant owner, and John Prizichodni, a roomer, were burned to death in a fire which de- stroyed a two story brick and frame house in the working class district here on Ninety-seventh Ave. early yesterday. A defective flue is blamed. Groups From Guatemala Federation of Labor | GUATAMALA CITY, Feb. 5. | After a number of conferences, fif- }teen Guatamalan labor organizations have united in a federation, The ac- |tion of the’ labor organizations follows la period of struggle the bodies leomposing the new federation. The} ences which formerly split the \fifteen groups are now reported to have been titled or compromised or the present, | cor SPARED Greet the Students! SPEAKERS; Jay Lovestone Wm, Z. Foster W. W, Weinstone Bertram D. Wolfe Ben Gold A Student Tr ‘| Three Months National Day IRVING Irving Place and 15th Street Admission 25 cents, ih |double the total for Dee |cials express the greates |with the COLLECTIONS OF GRAIN IN USSR SET NEW RECORD Government Figures, Show Big Increase MOSCOW, 6.—Grain collee- tions in the Soviet Union showed a considerable increase in the last few we with eollections for the last five-day period in January new record of 443,000 tons, This is |the largest amount of grain x col- ted by the government for a sim- | ilar period since the revolution. Colleetions for January totalled 1,300,000 tons, which more than Offi- atisfaction results of the collection, There has been less difficulty experi~ | enced in collecting the grain than was |generally anticipated: ng a |Research Shows Luxury Of Kings in Slave Days CAIRO, Egypt, Feb, 6—Many jars of exquisitely carved semi-translu- cent alabaster containing Tut-ankh- Amen’s viscera, miniature coffins holding golden figures of ancient kings, a flotilla of 18 boats to facili- tate the king’s passage into heayeny-— weapons, furniture, gaming boards and vases of all shapes and sizes were discovered in the third and fourth chamber of the ancient king’s tomb by Howard Carter. In a full report made public by Carter here, he declared that the ob- jects in the fourth room were in extreme disarray, suggesting either an earthquake or a visit of thieves. The tomb is now open. to the public. sy NEWS gc S.S. R. Report of the First American Rank and File Labor Delegation to Soviet Russia Price 25c. 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