The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 3

By with his progress to the White House. FOREIGN NEWS ATH WORLD RED LABORCONGRESS OPENS THURSDAY To Discuss New Attack on 8-Hour Day (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Mareh 12.—The Fourth World Congress of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions, which repre- sents more than 15,000,000 workers, will open here Thursday. The Chinese question, the British trade union question, the —interna- tional attack levelled by capital against the eight hour day and the alliance between the trade union re- formists and international capital will be among the problems discussed iat the Congress. * * * The membership of the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions, with headquarters at Amsterdam, has shown a sharp decline since 1926, ac- cording to figures made public by the Amsterdam Bureau. The total membership of the I. F. T. U. on Dee. 31, 1925, the I. F. T. U. admits, was 13,366,387, the -total membership on Dec. 31, 1926 was 12,- 839,387. While the membership of the I. F.| T. U. has dropped, the Red Interna-| tional of Labor Unions has steadily gained in membership. TURKS TO ATTEND | ARMS CONFERENCE ANGORA, Turkey, March 2—| Turkey will participate in the coming session of the preparatory arms con- ference, it was announced today. The delegation will be headed by Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The League of Nations several days ago invited Turkey to partici- pate in the conference at the request of the Soviet Union. The U. S. S..R. delegation, headed by Maxim Litvyin- off, is expected to propose complete and Sokiercner Somes shinssreeiahy TOLLIN BRAZIL SLIDE OVER 40 SANTOS, Brazil, March 12.—While an army of workers labored feverish- ly today clearing away the debris of Saturday’s landslide from the peak of Monte Serrat, the authorities were checking up on the casualties.’ The death list is put at about 46, but others are missing and their fate is not yet known. Between 200 and 200 persons were injured. All night long beneath the glare of searchlights the work of tearing away the wreckage went forward in hope of saving survivors who were pinned beneath their shattered homes. Soldiers, policemen, firemen. vol- unteers and laborers from nearby cof fee plantations are attacking the mountain of earth and stone which roared down the mountain. ORR MEN KILLED TRAPPED IN GAB SYRACUSE. | N. Y., Mareh 12. Two workers were killed and a third seriously injured when they were trapped in a burning caboose which rolled down an embankment near Watkins yesterday. ; The dead are Carl Muser, 80, and John Lynch, 28. both brakemen on the New York Cen- tral Railroad, and both of Syracuse. Conductor Harry B. Dean, the in- jured man, is in Montour Hospital, and is not expected to recover. Muser was widely known as an athlete, and at one time stroked the Syracuse University freshman crew. A broken truck on a freight car caused the derailment, and the ca- boose caught fire after toppling over. Other members of the crew risked their lives in attempts at reseve. Hoover Strategy Based On State Committees WASHINGTON, March 12.—Her- bert Hoover as a candidate for the republican nomination for the presi- dency will not be called upon to make speeches or otherwise take personal part in any state, and no national BY Pas ae . pee, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928 CABLE AN D Sandino Eludes : Marsnes aie. Attack; U. S. Prepares for \ Next Imperialist | War Photo on right shows detachment of United States marines leaving Matagalpa in a vain search for the nationalist troops under General San- dino. Photo in center shows Captain W. C. Byrd, who was killed when his plane was brought down in Nicaragua. Photo on left shows war officials eS ated over final plans for an inspection tour of the Panama Canal, which is a strategic outpost of United States umnperialism. BLAME COMPANY BARE BLOODY .RULE OF OIL BARONS FOR MINE BI AST| American and and British Imperialists Exploit Venezuelian Labor Recover Bodies of 25 Mexican Workers MEXICO CITY, March 12.—-Eleven |miners still remain trapped in the Aurora mine at Teziutlan, according to a report received here today. by El Universal. The toll today stood at twenty-five dead and. forty-five injured. ‘The majority of injured are suffering from the poison gas which flooded the mine. A committee of the Regional Con- federation of Labor which conducted an investigation blamed the company for the aecident. ec jee MEXICO CITY, March 12.—Bodies of 25 miners killed by voisonous fumes in the Aurora Mine, near Te- ziutlan, state of Puebla, had been re- covered today. About 40 other min- ers are still trapped in the lower levels of the burning mine and their fate is unknown. The mine caught fire last Thursday afternoon. Smoke and fumes from the burning | shaft hindered the work ef rescuers. GREEK WORKERS | WILL DEFY GOVT. Civil Service Employes to Go on Strike ATHENS, March 12.—In spite of the government’s decree prohibiting the proposed walkout, Greek Civil Service employes have decided to go on strike for an increase of wages. The government has issued a state. ment declaring that it will consider all of the strikers guilty of, “mutiny.” With the growing protest in rural districts against taxation and the re- cent outbreaks in the army the gov- ernment is facing a serious situation. Sir Frederick Halliday, the head of the Rritish Police Mission, is taking measures to prevent possible. out- breaks in Athens. 5 Union Musicians Is Chicago Radio Rule CHICAGO, March 12 (FP). — The Chicago Federation of Mus ns has donated $1,000 to WCFL, the labor) radio, which was of great assistance last month in the successful eampa of the union to bring remote-contro! broadeastir stations under’ union control. many musicians were ing their iobs beeause of broadcasting of dare, hotel and theatre orchestras that the union demanded employment for 5 musicians by each small station and 10 by each large station -using music not, originating in its studio The wages were to ba naid whether or not the studio musicians” were ealled on to play. WCFL immediately complied anh was instrumental in having WGN and a number of important stations agree to the wrotective ruling of the union. Local 1 of the ironworkers has con- tributed $870.50 to WCFL and Local 54 of the painters $75, Local 2 of the bakers has assessed its members $1 a year for the same cause, DOLLAR LINER HT BY, GALE. LONDON, March 12.—-The ‘Dollar liner ‘President Lineoln, bound from American to Japanese ports, which wes eaught in a terrific gale off the Japanese coast, was reported safe in advices received here today from Tokio. The President Lincoln reached port about 24 hours overdue in badly bat- Hoover headquarters will .be estab- tered condition. lished previous to the Kansas City oonvention, This is the strategy of the Hoover management, it having been decided ‘to leave the contests in each state in the hands of those who have volun- teered to work for his nomination, the general idea being that if he re- ceives the nomination there will be no pre-convention sores to interfere Birth Control Meet A meeting in support of the Olson birth control bill now before the state legislature will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. at 25 W. 39th St. The speak- ers owill include Mrs. Margaret Sang- er, leader of the birth ‘gortttol move- ment in America, ¢ ; Curacao. _ case. (EDITOR—This is the first of a series of articles by a correspondent in Curucao, describing the exploita- tion of workers in the Dutch West | hridies by American and British oil barons. The Venezuelan Govern- | ment is cooperating. with the Dutch | authorities in keeping the Vene- zueclan werkers who are shipped to | the island in subjection. In spite of this, the protest against American and British imperialism and the bloody tacties of the Venezuelan dictator Gomez is increasing.) * * * By J. N. CURACAO, Dutch West Indies, (By Mail).—A few miles from the coast of Venezuela, which groans under the| yoke of the most ruthless and bloody | rule of savages, headed by the aged bandit, Juan Vicente Gomez, and sus- tained by British and American im- | perialism, are located the Dutch group of the Lesser Antilles, the most im-| portant of which is ‘the Island of | Years past Curacao w: considered by the persecuted Vea zuelan revolutionaries as a have wherein they could seek refuge, f: the dungeons and torture chan of Juan Vicente Gomez. However with ! the vast extension of oil production in the Venezuelan fields, Curacao, be: cause of its excellent harbor facilities | and its nearness to the Maracaibo and Falcon oil fields, becamé impértant to the Royal Dutch Shell interests, as a point of establishing its refineries, and with it the political policies of the Dutch rulers of the Island changed according to the dictates of the British Royal Dutch. These dictators demand an iron hand over working class of the Island and persecution of those who would raise a _ protest against the murderous Royal Dutch sustained governing clique of Vene- zuela. Contract Labor. The establishment of the huge oil refineries has brought to Curacao workers from all parts of the globe the most numerous group of which are Venezuelan laborers. The ex- ploitation of these foreign workers is intense. Skilled workers brought on contract from Holland and Germany, are exploited for a wage return which does not average over $1.50 a-day of nine hours in the tropical h Lesser skilled workers from other European countries, who as immi- grants, fail to gain entrance into the United States, are ‘thru lying propa- ganda, diverted to Curacao, where they are compelled to except the un- oat BISHOP BROWN TO # TALK IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, March 12.—Bishop Wi}- | liam Montgomery Brown wills | at the meeting to commerate 57th anniversary of the Paris C. mune to be held next Saturday, at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Ve at Rurén Sts., by the International La- bor Defense. The topic of the bishop’s will be: “Hands Off China and Nicaragua.” Other speakers will be Max Be dacht, district organizer, Worke (Communist) Party and Ai Glotzer, Young Workers” Muutanseh League. fib ib =] Pullman Porters May> Threaten Walk- Out | Creation of a Hattonal “emergency,” which means threatening a country- wide walkout of Pullman porters, is the next move of the Brotherhood of | Sleeping Car Porters. General organ- | izer A. Philip Randolph makes this | announcement following the dismissal . by the Interstate Commerce Cominis- sion of the union’s plea to have the | company pay full wages instead of | counting on tips. Preparations for this action have/ been going on for sometime, says! favor of the porters had been hoped for but not counted on, The Pullman Co.'s influence proved too strong, ‘however, for approval of the porters’ |group of wor 8, ‘| days, according to United State Randolph. Decision of the I. C, C. in); But the most ex- unhumanly treatea are the hundreas of laborers brought over like cattle from the coast of Venezuela. 80 Cents a Day. About two thousands of these un- fortunate workers ntrated in WAHABI TRIBES PREPARE ATTACK |More Demonstrations in| Egypt Against Treaty LONDON, March | 1. —British out- ‘posts along the frontier of Trans- | ordonia are being riletea nba by 10,000 rabi_ tribesmen, are massed Tebuk, ac- ing to a Jeru-} salem dispatch to the Daily Express j today quoting re- {ports received 4from Amman. 4 Emir Abdullah, of Transjordania, is “ yeported to have asked Lord Plum- er, British high commissioner to Palestine, to take “defensive” measures. human conditio: ploited, the m ho Sarwat Pasha, British tool * #08 CAIRO, March 12,—In spite of numercus arrests, demonstrations against the Anglo-Egyptian treaty are being held in Cairo and other cities. The British ultimatum has aroused-a storm of protest. Sarwat Pasha, Egyptian premier, who negotiated the treaty, is in vir- tual ‘retirement, After Loan Sharks An inquiry by the federal gYand’) jury of the activities of loan sharks | in this di will start in a few At torncy Charles H. Tuttle. The sharks, it was stated, operate by mail and newspaper advertisements. They es- tablish headquarters in states» wher thom nreeno laws against usury and | solicit business by correspondence. 7opERrRMERrErRENNMeN love! reer A psychological $ study of sex-rela- tions in the post- war period, by Mme. Kollontay. wer RAR AANA ARR AAAA RRAAR ARRAN RA RK AR AL RARCRRRARRRRRREREKARERAER A love-story with a new, reju- venated world as a background. many, | Special from $2.50 to $1.50 (Advertised In error at $1.00) Rane, Workers Liprary Pus- LIsHERS, 39 East 125th ‘St. New York City. an encampment where sanitary condi- tions are the worst. They are housed in sheds which could hardly have been intended even for four-legged live stock, lack of flooring, no sanitary provision, and exposed to vermin of every variety native in the tropics. Illiteracy is complete, and such a thing as a school, even a Company school to provide for the children of workers, is unheard of. The heaviest and most dangerous labor, is the part of these Venezuelan workers, and the wage reward 80 cents per day of 10 hours. In addition to Company exploita- tion, the Venezuelan workers are sub- ject to the brutal intimidations of the political machine of the criminal | Gomez’s spies, headed by the so called consul of Venezuela, Leiba. Vene- zuelan workers at times turn to the consulate for protection against mal- treatment of part of Dutch police and Company blackguards, but they are |quickly disappointed, when they see that “their” consul in every case sides with Dutch and Company “Justice.” Fearing that the Venezuelan work- |ers were coming to work in Curacao, ight, away from the dominion of Juan Vicente’s henchmen, become in- euleated with ideas of organization, vad voice their protest against the ctatorship of murder and rape, and ‘midation, to which the working class of Venezuela is subject during ne more than 20 years of reign of a Bang of criminals and sadist land- lords united around the ignorant de- generate Juan Vicente Gomez, the Venezuelan consul has spread a net work of espionage among the work- ers, and those that dare to utter the slightest word of protest, are quickly pointed out to Company and Dutch police, and after being accorded brutal treatment must submit to will of Gomez’s representatives, or face the danger of depor'ation to Vene- zuela, where torture and death awaits the victim. 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Moore formerly was ambassador to Spain, having been appointed by the late President Harding. Officials of the state department made mild ob- jections to his selection to the new | post because he is nota “career man,” | but the president made the appoint- ment as a “personal” matter. Moore, as ambassador to Spain feught for the control of the Spanish oil market for the Standard Oil in- terests and threatened the Spanish government with an American textile boycott. Woman Is Presidential | Candidate of Left Wing In Argentine Elections BUENOS AIRES, March 12. — A} woman, Angelica Mendoza, will rep- resent militant Argentine workers in the coming presidential elections, it was learned today. Angelica Mendcza will receive the support of the Communist Party, ac- cording to reports. Page Three MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS CHILE DICTATOR FEARS UPRISING; ARRESTS FORTY iene Maintained by | U. S. Interests SANTIAGO, Chile, March 12— The Ibanez dictatorship which, it fs widely stated, is supported by the |Guggenheim copper and nitrate in- |terests, has arrested forty more in- | tellectuals and workers on the charge jot participating in a “Communistic | plot” to overthrow the government | Among those arrested is a son of Ar- | turo Alessandri, who was ousted from the presidency. All those arrested will be exiled by the government to islands off the «| coast, Tbanez has already exiled hun- | dreds of left wing workers and liber- jals. The government in a come |issued yesterday charged that Dr. | Jose Salas, former minister of health, | was responsible for the plot and had | despatched instructions to followers Jin Chile for the overthrow of the } | Ibanez regime. ae | General Ibanez became president of | Chile after forcing the resignation of President Emilio Figuerroa-Larrain. The Guggenheim interests, it is be- lieved, have placed and are maintain- ite him in power. Reserve Officers to Demand Larger Navy (Special to The Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, March 12.—The mili- tary-minded reserve officers from the 13 states represented in the ninth naval district are going to make a vigorous fight for more and more cruisers. At their annual meeting here they endorsed the Coolidge naval program. Real Admiral H. J. Zieg- meier deplored the modification of | the original building program “which jonly called for an appropriation of $740,000,000,” to the cheers of the re- jserve officers. | They pledged themselves to use all their influence at home and with con- gress to help the administration pro- gram, MILK GRAFT CASE POSTPONED. | The trial of Harry M. Danzier, al- leged milk graft manipulator was ad- journed yesterday morning until to- day by County Judge Frank F. Adel in Queens County Court. 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