The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1928, Page 3

THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1928 Page Three War Lords hear Workers Uprising in Shanghai; Declare Martial Law STRIKES SPREAD ITASKS, OF C. L. PLENUM DESPITE TERROR BY MILITARISTS Arrests, Searches Are Continued in Canton SHANGHAI, Feb. 7.—Martial law was declared today in the native sec- tion of the city where the authorities tsar a workers’ uprising. Troops are patrolling the streets of the city and numerous arrests have taken place. The move was forced by numerous strikes which have persisted in spite of the attempts of the authorities to eurb them, The unrest among the workers was caused by the recent anti-union activities of the Nanking government, the arrest and execution of union leaders. According to current reports, the Nanking government has concluded the agreement with the Standard Oil Company of New York and the British-American Tobacco Company prevent strikés against these firms in return for a loan of $6,000,- 000. Reports of the agreement have been current for some time. i eae CANTON, Feb. 7—Scores of work- ers have been arrested here after a series of house to house searches. More than two hundred workers and students were executed yesterday. INVENTIONS IN USSR INCREASE MOSCOW (By mail).—The com- mission in charge of inventions has been 3 years in existence. During that period it received 22,063 projects from inventors. About 8% were ab- solutely useless, Of the others, some weré of minor importance. About 4,000 are valuable and recognized. They are of much importance and were patented. Four thousand inven- tions in the course of 3 years is an enormous figure. Before the revolution, about 75% of all. inventions..were by foreigners, primarily by Germanss Now the in- ventions by foreigners constitute only 10% of the total, the other 90% are by Soviet citizens. The number of worker inventors increases contin- vously. In 1924 there were 244 inven- tions by factory workers. In 1925-26 the number of 617 and in 1927, 1,056. Dry Fight to Cover to Boon for Al Smith| ALBANY, Feb. 7—The ground is being prepared for intensified strug- | gle between the wet and dry forces in the present session of the State Legislature. While chances for a sate prohibition enforcement bill seem slight Edmund B. Jenks, veteran prohibitionist, has indicated a new line of applying the principle of local option in prohibition enforcement. The whole fight however is seen as further playing into the hands of the Smith-for-president boom. N. Bukharin, member of the Po- litical Bureau of the AH-Union Communist Party, who wilk help represent his Party at the Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. RELIEVE MOSCOW HOUSING CRISIS To Spend “More Funds For Dwellings MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Plenum of the Moseow Soviet held on Janu- ary 8rd gave its serious considera- tion to the’ results and prospects of the construction of housing accommo- dation in Moscow and the Moscow gubernia. Ovér 73,000,000 roubles will be spent in 1928 for thé construction of workers’ dwellings in Moscow and Gubernia. According to the program for the coristruction of workers’ dwell- ings by the municipality and the co- operatives, 115 houses will be fit for habitation in 1928. Compared with 1927, building operation in 1928 will produce a housing area 24 per cent bigger than last year. From the bud- get of thé Moscow Soviet 5,940,000 roubles will be assigned in 1928 for the constuction of hospitals, and 3,- 750,000 roubles for school buildings. After an exchange of opinion on this report, the Plenum of the Mos- cow Soviet declared that in 1927, in spite of a number of difficulties, the plan fo¥ the construction of houses schools and hospitals was fully ca [ried out at the proper time and, gén- | erally speaking, in a Satisfactory imanner. The Plenum pointed out that preparations for building operations in 1928 are taking a normal course. EARTHQUAKE IN MINDANAO. MANILA, Feb. 7.—A severe earth- quake shock is reported to have shaken Davao Province in the Island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands. The province has a population estimated at about 120,000, mostly Moros. The region is mountainous and has been the scene of earthquake seismic dis- turbance in the past. g Polish Steel Workers in War Against 12-Hour Day By 8. BELSKAYA. WARSAW, (By Mail).=-The clause in the Working Hours’ Act in Poland, permitting the lengthening of the working day in eases of national nee- @ssity was exploited to intfoduce into the Upper Silesian stee] industry the 10 to 12 hour day, on the plea that only thus could the Polish industry | compete with the German. The 10- hour day was at first introduced as a temporary measure for 3 months. The employers and the government, however, with reformist support, were able to keep it up for three years. During the whole of this pe- riod the employers did their best to extend the 10-hour day in the steel industry to the other industrial dis- tricts—Dombrovsk, Cracow and Ke- letzki. In the end of November, 1927, a conference of fattory-committees from the iron, steel and zine foun- dries of Upper Silesia, resolved on the initiative of the opposition, to de- mand from the government the in- auguration of the 8-hour day and— in case of refusal or delay—to make it an accomplished fact. The response that this campaign met with among the masses is to be seen even from the reformist press. Strikes occurred in December in two factories with regard to this question. This cam- paign is going on parallel with the present struggle for the 8-hour day in the steel industry in Germany. Reformists Aid Bosses. The present state of the steel and zine industry in Poland is definitely Kern The output of iron up to. ) 1927 was 607,356 tons. as against 254,497 for the same period of 1927: the steel output for the same périod rose from 504,839 to 1 042,582 tons. The number of wor! was 38,483 in the end of 1926, ar ber of employed in zine and lead works rose from 10,343 to 12,060 However, the increase of workers jemployed is relatively less than the inerease in output. The boom in the steel industry was |favorable to the development of the campaign for the 8-hour day. The re- formists, however, as usual, nego- tiated with the secretary for Demo- |bilization and the Board of Labor, behind the backs of the sworkers. The Board of Labor promised to in- troduce the 8-hour day by easy stages for certain categories, this to be done in full for all categories from Au- gust 1028. Hit Gov.’t Bill. At the last conference of fa¢tory committees, held on the 29th of De- cember, 1927, and attended by 140 delegates, the question of working hours evoked, according to the re- formist press, long and heated dis- cussion, participated in by about 30 delegates, After the reformist ma- jority had broken down the opposition the conference resolved to protest against the government bill and pest- pone indefinitely the resolution passed in November as to the de facta in- troduction of the 8-hour day. It looks as if the reformists had been able this time to undermine the im- | Communist International Session Soon ers employed in the steel foundries | 45,769 in the etid of 1927. The num-} to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Feb. 7.—-A Pravda edi- torial devoted to the tasks facing the plenum of the Executive Committee of Communist International | points out that many questions of the Jutmost importance for the whole in- |ternational labor movement will be | discussed at the Plenum. | “In the face of the growing con- | tradietions between the working class and the bourgeoisie, in the face of | the swing of the working class to- ward the left and the more reaction- | ary attitude of the international se cial-democracy «(including the coali- tion with the bourgeoisie), the Com- |munist International must strongly lintensify its struggle against the in- | ernational social-democracy for the |purpose of gaining large masses to the side of Communism,” the Pravda declares. “The French and’ British questions will be included. The Plenum will moreover square up total results and take up the question of the political line of the Chinese Communist Party. | The Plenum will also discuss the in- | ternational activity of the Trotskyist Opposition i places its principle | stake in activity abroad. “The Plenum must push the Com- munist parties into intensifying their activity in denouncing Trotskyism as }one of the chief sources of lies and} ealumnies against the Communist In- ternational.” FEDERALS BOMB MEXICO BANDITS. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7.—Mexican federal troops are employing bomb- ing planes in their campaign against counter-revolutionary bands operating in the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Colima and Aguascalientes. These states have been the center of the| recent reactionary outbreaks. A close watch is being maintained by the troops over all roads, trails and highways. The Federal troops are making a determined effort to wipe out the bandits and reaction- aries who have been terrorizing towns and villages-in the four states. Thirty-six persons were arrested Sunday for participating in illegal mass. TERROR IN CHINA the | | | PLEASING GEORCE i} | LONDON, Feb. 7.—Peace between Great Britain and the world with especial reference to the proposed ar- bitration treaty with the United States, was stressed by King George today in his speech from the throne opening parliament. King Geerge commented upon the definite “im- provement in conditions” in China. Commenting upon the draft of the proposed arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States, submitted by Washington on Deéem- ber 29, King Gedérge said: “Tt is being carefully and sym- pathetically studied by my govern- ment in Britain and will) be con- side ed in communication with my governments in the dominions of the empire.” Engineers Would Chain Mississippi by Law Because of the great amount of jred tape involved in the Mississippi flood relief, and the resultant inac- tivity on the part of the government in aiding the victims, a committee of the American Engineering Council, appointed to study the situation, feels that an amendment to the federal constitution might heip. “It is the opinion of this commit- | tee,” the report reads, “that the au- thority of the general government to deal with such questions as are in-| volved in the Mississippi River prob- lem should no longer hang upon such slender threads as the general wel- fare clause or the regulation of com- merce clause of the Constitution, but that the Constitution should be amended to confer upon the general government the authority to control and administer the natronal waters and to assess damages and allocate benefits and costs in connection there- with.” No-War Amendment Is Shunned by Senators WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — The Frazier resolution, proposing a con- stitutional amendment to outlaw war, was unanimously rejected today by the senate judiciary committee. The committee voted the amend- minent struggle and reduce it to a] ment down on the ground that it was raat pen-and-ink protest, } “not the corrpet way to end war.” - CEE |pressed in unmistakable terms that |He asked that copies of his cable be BRITISH TEXTILE INDIA BOYCOTT SPREADS JAPAN AND GE WORKERS WAR ON \Growth of Protest ost Strike ke Believed Likely BRITAIN BATTL BIG WAGE SLASH Leaders Foreed by Rank| and File of Union | LONDON, Feb. 7.—The first con- ference held early this week between the Textile Workers’ Federation and the Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion ended in a complete deadlock | when the union representatives, fore- ed by rank and file demand, refused to make any concessions to the em- ployers’ demands that wages be cut and hour's lengthened. The union del- egates asked that a government in- quiry be started into the conditions of the industry, In opposing the 12%2% wage slash the workers’ delegation to the confer- ence was carrying out the instzuctions given it at numerous membership meetings of the textile unions all over the country. The workers had ex- no bargaining be entered: into on the | question of wages and hours, The proposed wage cut in the tex- tile industry is only one phase of a general drive against wages, accord- ing to A. J. Cook, seeretary of the British Miners’ Federation. In an open letter to the Daily Her- ald, organ of the British Labor Party, Cook attacked the so-galled indust: “peace conference” as’ a definite plan | “to commit the workers to an indus- trial truce with capitalism.” ‘Cook | points to the general offensive against | wages, particularly in the mining and textile industry, as an example of the \insincerity of the ot aided U.S. REVENGE FOR PORTO RIGO MOVE The fury of the American imperi- alists against the Porto Ricans who dared show up the real nature of “good will” flight to the Latin-Amer- jean countries by presenting a pro- test resolution to Col. Charles Lind- bergh was disclosed today in the res- ignation of Fifield Workum, from the finance committee of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto Rico. Workum, who is a member of the New York law firm of. Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, promised to do all in his power to cause the withdrawal of American financial as- sistance from the institute. He said that he had read the teso- lution presented to Lindbergh and since American domination - was’ re- sented he would see that the school is given as little money as:possible. posted in the school. ~ * SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 7.— Several of the trustees of the Poly- technic Institute of Porto Rico have called upon Governor Towner asking for an explanation of the resolution against American rule in Porto Rico. The governor is reported to have re- plied that he would ask Antonio R. Barcelo, president of the Porto Rican senate, and Speaker José Tous Soto of the house for an interpretation. Thompson Banquets Cost Workers $150,000 CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Since the in- auguration of “Big Bill” Thompson as mayor of Chicago last April at a monster banquet, no less than 30 tes- timonial dinners, costing $150,000. have been given here for municipal officeholders under Thompson. Tickets for these dinners, which are known) as the “banquet racket,” sell at $5 a piece, and the rank and file of the city employes are forced to “come across,” when asked to buy a ticket. Where the proceeds of the banquets go to is still a question. ee | Rapid Transit A rapid transit system, extending from Bayonne to Fort Lee, New Jer- sey, and conecting New Jersey with Staten Island and New York City, is being planned, according to an an- nouncement by the North Jersey Transit Commission. The route will connect with 178th St. via the Hudson River Bridge to be built from Fort Lee. * Moncada’s Son Joins Gen. Sandino’s Army; Takes Part in Fight MANAGUA, Feb. 7.—Generai Moneada, the Liberal leader who sold out to the United States by signing the pact of Tipitapa calling for disarmament of his own vic- torious army, is embarrassed by the action of his son Aquiles Mon- cada, in joining the army of in- dependence under General Sandino, Young Moncada has already taken part in several engagements. | swept the country since jhealth may | down |aged to keep their school jit is expected that these, also, will y wo BOMBAY, Feb. 7—Spread of the hace Envoy to Chi. ie general str prov- ed by utory | Conttaiswiot i s the boyeott of British goods which has the massacre Friday in aroused the of demonstrators Madras and Calcutta fury of the Indian ma: hb The British authorities admit that they are facing a serious situation and confess that the géneral strike and the unity among Indians of all shades of political opinion has upset the calculations of the British of- ficials both in England and in India. A rumor that Lord Irwin, the pres- ent viceroy of India will return to England to discuss the serious condi- tion in the country, resulting from the arrival of the Simon Commis- sion, are being persistently denied by @ : : Cor 3. E. Zuinini ~ the India office. It is admitted, how- ee ee ee pai ; Mussolini, as black- ever, that the state of the “viceroy’s = ize er to Chicago, necessitate the granting of a 1Have of HEeatea? Zuinini has served the interests of the faseisti in Chicago under The ment among the Indian ; a the more modest title of consul- masses reported to be intense and generat. the British police being increased 3 thruout the countr The murder of the demonstrators in Calcutta and Madras has’ whipped the fury of the Indians to @ white heat and the ac- | tivity of the British troop: |that they are prepa SPAIN NOW SCENE indicates ing for unrest. Persian Authorities Shut Mission Schools TEHERAN, Feh. the American mis Moslem faith or abstain from t ing the Bible in their scho caused all mission schools to be closed by the Persian government. The English missions have still man- open but Union to Aid Shortage MADRID, Feb. 7.—The the st oil shipments from the So- viet Union is expected to relieve the shortage from which the Spanish oil monopoly appears to be suffering. The contract with the U. S. S. R. calls for the purchase of 60 per cent of the Spanish oil needs in} the Soviet Union. The oil war is seen behind the move | of the American state department in protesting to the Spanish government against the taking over by the mon-| oply of stocks and equipment for- | merly belonging to American. im-| terests. Great Britain and France} are making similar protests in the | interest of their oil magnates. The value s to teac asoline be shut within a short time. No agreement foreseen between the Persian authorities and the missions. Chile Fascists Won't Allow Quake Warnings The latest act of the Chilean fascist government a ban on earthquake forecasts, according to a despatch from Santiago. Chile has long been subject to tremors which spread terror among the population. The Minister of the Interior has forbidden the pub- lieations of warnings’ against the shocks. is the total capitalization of the state monopoly, it is freported, and the Spanish trust has devised a partial deferred payment scheme for com- pensation. Ruhr Miners Demand Increase in Wages BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Bochum Free Miners’. Union, the largest union in the Rhur, has announced that it will terminate its present wages and overtime agreement on April 1st. With the «mechanization of the Ruhr mines, workers: have been sub- jected to speed-up conditions. The miners will demand a wage increase when a new agreement is negotiated, it is understood. They Lie The capitalist press lies about Peat Russia Get the “low dow | Baumes Urges Stricter||, 0"! ey ag meer Laws for Offenders ||| “The Press Bandits” | in, More and stricter laws in the prosecution of criminals were urged in a speech at the Government Club by Senator Caleb H. Baumes, chair- man of the state crime commission and author of the anti-labor criminal law code which bears his name. The 3aumes laws provide for life im- prisonment for “habitual offenders.” A worker arrested a number of times for picket duty can be framed up |} under them. | INPRECOR for JANUARY 12. | (Vol, 8 No. 2) | } A graphic description of the | murder of Karl Liebkn. and Ro xemburg by helm oie ek and other impos | | | tant articles. A yearly sub. $6. Six mo. $3.50, 10e a single issue. FIRE IN HOS DOBBS FERRY, N. Fire in the 70 year old Barrow Manor | Private Hospital imperilled the lives of 15 bedridden patients early yester- | day morning. The patients were re- | moved with difficulty. l Workers Library ublisners 39 €. 125% St. NEw YoRK Greet thé Students! SPEAKERS: Jay Lovestone Wm. Z. Foster W. W. Weinstone Bertram D. Wolfe Ben Gold A Student Three Months National Day Training Course IRVING PLAZA HALL Irving Place and 15th Street Admission 25 cents. Pay at door. SEE HEAR General Moncada at. first. at- tempted to deny the rumors of his son’s action, but reports have re- ently, been confirmed. RN Sooners: 0 a a oe Sterling Trio OF OIL STRUGGLE Petroleum From Soviet. + arrival of | of the American and} other foreign oil companies exceeds | ON CHINA TARIFF |Nanking Reactionaries Bargain With Tories SHANGHAI, |tween Japan ¢ Conflict be- ain over ernment, des, Cc Chinese |ing inspector general of th | maritime customs, on th a change in tariff duti Japan, it is ur opposed to the proposed p clare a transitory 12% per ¢ent | effective until the end of D Japanese industrial intere have been facing a dep of. ily impor | manufacti | __ The » negotiations | follow: battle over pore custom t- d commer -lin. secure ears from Chan; cz Report or on 1 USSR Will Be Given in Chicago Feb. 17 CHICAGO, Fet The American Trade Union Delegation to the Sb- viet Union will report Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 p. m. at a meeting to be held at Ashland Boulevard Auditorium, shland Boulev d Van Buren : by the American Committee on |Information About Rus a The speakers will be J | United Mine Wo Paul H. 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