The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 3

e THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925" Page Three —— Strikes and Lockouts Loom for 1,500,000 German Metal and Mine Workers SANDINO FORCES TAKE TWO TOWNS. INNEW CAMPAIGN May Cut Important Line | From Managua MATAGALPA, Nicaragua, Feb. 17. ~Increased marine activity against the forces of Gen- eral Augustino; Sandino were be-| ing prepared tod following conf mation of the re-| ports that a Na-| tionalist detach- ment had taken two towns, and were about to at- tempt to capture a third. | A detachment of | about 100 revolu- tionary troops at- tacked Trinidad and drove the lo- oe Gen. Sandino, rebel leader zal police out. . The band was headed by General Ferrera, Honduran revolutionist who was forced to leave Honduras some time ago and who has been working with General Sandino. He has left in the direction of San Isidro, a town of 300 or 700 persons. San Isidro is about two hours from Sebaco. If the oand succeeds in taking this town the main line from Matagalpa to Man- ague would be cut off. Following the Trinidad raid there was much marine activity in the re- gion of Jinotega. The provisional bat- ‘alion of marine mule cavalry unde Major Rockey established a base ir the northeast, it was reported. Two airplanes covering the marc! aave dropped massages concernin: she battalion’s progress and it was expected that Major Rockey’s portabl: radio would be forwarding reports to jay. Dutch Keep Protesting “Laborite” From Java Hardy Jones, a Labor member « the House of Commons has been r- fused permission by the Dutch a1 thorities to travel in Java. As an > planation, the officials declare th: Tones is a member of the Internation: League Against Imperialism and tha’ | 10 representative of the league wi!” de permitted to visit the Dutch pos- sessions. Hardy, however, denies thet ie has anything to do with the League Against Imperialism. The Dutch authorities are makin- every effort to cover up the terroris’ activities which they are carrying on against the natives of Java and their! other East Indian possessions. Carol Aide “Willing” To Be Made Premier PARIS, Feb. 17.—Prof. Jorga, for- mer president of the Rumanian cham- oer of deputies, and tutor to Prince Sarol, who is in Paris for a series of lectures at the Sorbonne Univer- sity, said this afternoon that he is ‘willing to accept the premiership” f it is offered to him. . Commenting upon a Berlin dispatch in the Paris Midi saying that the re- gency was exerting pressure to com- pel the resignation of the Bratianu zabinet in favor of a government formed by Prof. Jorga, Jorga said: ‘I had not heard of that, but I would not refuse.” | | | | The Soviet Union is going ahead with its plans for the improvement of its oil industry. Soviet Union Improves Its Growing Oil Industry Photo above shows new improvements in the rich Baku oil region, Pipe lines are now being built from Baku to the Batoum. SCORE RENEGADE | LEADERS OFWEST "UKRAINIAN PARTY Betray Communism; Aid | Pilsudski Terror | (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Feb. 17.—The leading group in the former West Ukrainian | | Communist, headed by Vasilkiv and Turansky, having formerly revealed serious nationalist opportunist devia- tions (which expressed themselves in the wrong leadership of worker-peas- }ant organizations, the support of Shumsky, who fell under the influ- jence of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie. | }and the substitution of the slogan| the peasants”) openly came out against the Polish Central Commit- tee, against the Ukrainian Party and against the Communist International in creating a second party. The second party in order to de- POLISH CHILDREN CHEER COMMUNISM Schoolboys Smash Windows, Parade to Protest ‘Red Raids’’ WARSAW, Poland, Feb. ee Protesting against the arrest of a number of Communists in Rzeszow,| Galicia, schoolboys in Sirzyzow, a nearby town, smashed school window and school equipment and paraded ru the st ing, “Long live Communism.” In a new Anthony Fiderkiewicz, former Com-; munist gains made in the lotal elec- munist deputy, and a former resident| tions at Grodz, Lodno and Warsaw, the authorities have arrested severai hundred Communist leaders, and have of Pittsburgh, Pa., was arrested. Numerous other arrests have been made here. The new series of raids is being series of “red raids,”| tions. ets of the town, shout-| conducted by the Pilsudski govern- ment with a view to the coming elec- Alarmed by th huge Com- arrests and raids. Sash Waste Bary, ce a proved deceptive. The group has fal- wing union headquarters. . Ulcrain: | Workers have held numerous| ‘e” under the influence of the Ukrain- demonstrations against the wholesale ceive the masses called itself the West | Ukrainian Communist Party and cap-| tured the Party organs. During the Polish elections to the Sejm (parlia- ment), the “leaders” put forward a separate ticket and carried on a cam- paign against the overwhelming ma- jority of the Communist Party of West Ukraine which remained loyal to the Communist International. All of the admissions of mistakes and promises to make good have ian bourgeoisie which is making com-| mon cause with international imperi- alism and Polish fascism against the! GERMAN CABINET SWASHUP NEARS Stresemann Fears Left Gains in Elections BERLIN, Feb. 17.—The probability at the Marx cabinet will resign by the end of the week was admitted in political ‘circles last night, as a re- sult of the coali- tion parties being unable to agree on a program of leg- islative measures which President Von Hindenburg requested be set- tled before the Reichstag dis- solves. The resignation of the cabinet would automati- cally be followed by dissolution of forces “er' Stresemann, elections for Marck 25. It is under- stood that the president wii] ask the present cabinet to continue as a “working cabinet” unti! the elections are over. The crisis is generally believed to have been forced by Foreign Minister Stresemann, who is seeking a more left. party coalition as a basis for a new government. Anticipating a gen- Ya jag te the left in the coming elections, Stresemann, it is said, is attempting to eliminate the national- ists from the coalition and to include the socialist elements. Filth and Torture for Jailed Chinese Workers Chinese jails are mostly one-story yards surrounded by high palisades, such courts, gates. jails are built without windows. The rather broad corridors are approached thru narrow doors. Beside them stand cages with heavy iren. bars. The cages are separated from one another by thick walls. 12 Men in a Cage. In every cage are from ten to 12 prisoners. All of them are bound with heavy iron chains which are fastened to their necks by means of another chain. In some cages broad iron rings’ are forged around the prisoners’ necks so that the slightest movement of the neck tears the skin and causes the blood to’run from the sores while the prisoner cries with pain, The prisoner’s feet are often forced into special holes cut in a beam. The miserable wretches who are locked to- gether in this way cannot rise year in and year out, but are compelled to spend their whole time sitting or ly- ing down. The: needs of nature have to be fulfilled in the cage and no one removes the filth which impests the air not only of the individual cages, but thruout the whole prison. Buried Alive. For solitary confinements there are By J. SCHABSIN. buildings in the middle of huge court- Very often there are one or two of In order to enter the jail itself it is first necessary to pass thru By official decree the Chinese@——--—- -~-----..--—_—- = separated from each other by’ thick walls. They have little, heavily bolted doors. In these small cells there are wooden coffins standing by the walls and a man is locked into every cof- fin. The filth is never removed from |these either. The half-rotted bodies of these victims of Chinese cruelty | are swarming with maggots. The prisoners either receive no food and in that case their relatives | have to provide food for them, or they are given a handful of rice in a stinking eup once or twice a day. Madness, Sickness, Death. The lack of nourishment, the, frightful sanitary conditions and the savage regime result in disease and a huge mortality among the prisoners. It is very seldom that the prisoners live out their terms. Wast- ing away, filthy, in rags, covered with ulcers and sores, they soon go crazy, lose all likeness to human be- ings and die in their coffins. Distinction is seldom made between the political and the criminal prison- ers. The political prisoners find themselves in the same cells with the criminals, are subjected to the same regime and have as little cruciform underground corridors at|hope of coming out of these death the sides of which are Pre ‘rooms J vells alive. Ukrainian Soviet Republic. The| |“payment for land at prices fixed by} Litvinoff, Vice Commis- Maxim sar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union may attend the coming arms conference at Geneva, At the last session in December, Litvinoff urg- ed complete and immediate disar- mament. SEVENTY MEXICAN BANDITS KILLED MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17.—Seventy reactionary bandits were killed in skirmish with federal troops, accord- ing to reports received here from Guadalajara. Reports received from General Figuero, commander in the state of | Jalisco indicate that heavy fighting | has been going on in that area, and | that the reactionaries have suffered | heavy losses. COAL MINERS TO DEMAND BETTER HOURS AND WAGE Metal Lockout to Start February 22nd (Continued from Page One) ned to prevent the eight hour y emphasized by the an- nouncement of the Siemens concern, employing 100,000 workers, that the -out would go into effect within was y in May also appears cer~ the month of April, eds of wage agreements will ex- the workers have already no- >d mine owners that they will rike unless they receive wage in- creases. Altho no concrete demands have | yet been formulated by the workers, a general assembly of miners’ unfons is expected to present a minimum wage schedule at least a month be- fore the expiration of the agreements. | The German arbitration court, it |has been stated, will attempt to | “mediate” the coal dispute, | | | iament and the calling of new] British Labor Party Is Worried About Jobless In U. S.—Not England LONDON, Feb. 17.—The Labor Party newspaper “The Daily Herald,” printed an editorial today declaring that, despite the prosperity of the United States, American workers are suffering as much as European. It quoted figures to show there are 4,000,000 unemployed workers in America and said that long lines of idle men stand in New York for a “hand out” of coffee and bread. See EN eee ARCOS IN TURKEY CLOSES OFFICES CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 17.— Leaving its interests in the hands of ithe Soviet Commercial Legation, the Arcos Corporation closed yesterday. | In the widespread “red raids” sev- eral months ago the members of the Arcos staff were arrested on the charge of “spreading Communist propaganda.” At the trial which took place in December, the prosecutor de- clared that members of Arcos have been carrying on propaganda. This has been denied by officials of Arcos. Whether the Arcos was closed as a protest against the arrest of the two members of its staff or whether it was closed by the orders of the government is yet unknown. TORY MANDATE TO OUTLAW HECKLING LONDON, Feb. 17.—Fearing labor demonstrations at coming conserva- tive campaign meetings, the govern- ment has issued an order to the police to curb “heckling” at political meetings. The official reason given by the Home Office for the order is that certain “organized attempts have been made by the more irre- sponsible elements ... to curb free speech.” ’ At a meeting of the London Labor Party recently left’ wing workers, who booed and hissed Ramsay Mac- Donald, were ejected from the hall. ATH 119 EAST 14th STREET 15 SEAMEN DEAD IN SHIP BLAST U.S. Tanker on Way to Yokohama Blows Up TOKIO, Feb. 17.—Fifteen seamen were killed when the American steamship Chuky, bound from Cali- fornia to Yokohama with 72,000 tanks of crude petroleum on board, ex- ploded 100 miles off the Japanese eoast, said dispatches printed here this evening. Most of the survivors} were injured. Pi The Japanese steamship Matsu Ya- mamaru rescued 21 survivors, includ- ing 14 Americans. They were cling- ing to wreckage, and, after being picked up, were taken first to Misaki, then to Yokohama. The Chuky left the United States on January 19. (Insurance) WORKMEN’S FURNITURE | FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY (Incorporated) (Workers’ Furniture Fire Established 1872.— Main Office: New York and Vicinity. Office hours: From 9 A. M. until 6 P.M. Saturday until 1 P. M.; Mon- day until 9 P. M. at 227 East 84th Street. Tel.: Lenox 3559. Sundays and Holidays closed. Brooklyn: Every Monday and Thursday from 6:30 P. 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