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

“ « ~ ) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1928 Page Three Canton War Lords Fear New Worker-Peasant Revolt; Execute More Than 300 REVOLUTIONARY ARMY GAINS IN DRIVE ON CITY Report New Victories | Near Swatow CANTON, China, April 5.—Fear- ing an uprising within the city, the authorities here executed seventy- three more workers today. Two hun- dred and thirty workers were executed earlier in the week. With reported for the worker-peasant troops in the vicinity of Swatow and with a well-equipped army of worker-peasant troops marching on Canton from Kweilin, former capital of Kwangsi province, the Kuomintang authorities fear a re- volt in Canton similar to the one which took place last December when workers set up a Soviet government. Numerous villages in the vicinity of Canton are in complete control of workers and artisans who have set up their own governments, The au- thorities here are reluctant to send troops to the outlying villages for fear of a revolt within the city. They were compelled several weeks ago to recall troops which had been senz to Kweilin. AUSTRALIA LABOR RAPS FAKE PEACE victories Turn Down Bruce Plan| for Collaboration | MELBOURNE, April 5—The trade union organizations of Australia have almost unanimously rejected the in- dustrial “peace conference,” proposed by Prime Minister Bruce and modelled along the lines of the Mond confer- ence in Great Britain. The proposal has been branded “hypocritical” by a number of trade union leaders, who point to the Amending Arbitration Bill now before Parliament as an at- tempt to smash the trade union move- ment. ‘ The Bruce plan called for « con- ference consisting of thirty-six miem- bers, 8 selected from employers or- ganizations, 2 from financial cireles, 10 from the Australian Council of Trade Hall Councils of all states, four by the Australian Workers Union, 4 from the National Council of Women and 8 from conservative agricultural organizations. SANDING FORCES BAFFLE MARINES MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 5.— With the rainy season a few weeks off, the Sandino forces continue to elude marine detachments which have been spread out over northern Nic. aragua, The Nicaraguan nationalists have succeeded in completely baffling the | marines, who are using every devise | to locate the main Sandino fa- Altho the American troops have clashed with a number of small ‘«- tachments of nationalists in the vicinity of Trinidad, the moverents of General Sandino are completely un- known. NECKWEAR FIRM BOSTON, Mass., April 5.—Kramer- Schneier, Inc., a. neckwear. manufac- turing firm of this city, applied to the superior court here for an_ in- junction to restrain the Neekwear Makers’ Union, and the Women’s Trade Union League of Boston from ealling a strike in its plant. The hear- ing is to be held in the superior court in the near future. i The several local unions involved called a strike in this open-shop when two workers belonging to.the union were discharged for their activities. The demands of the workers are a 45-hour week, a wage raise, and recog- nition of the union. On: TWO OF A KIND. Wall Street speculated today as tc the probable successor of Chauncey M. Depew, as chairman of the New York Central Railroad’s Board of Directors. Most prominently men- tioned was Patrick E. Crowley, the present president of the road. LIFE TERM FOR YOUTH, William Fisher, 21 years old, is scheduled to be sentenced to life im- prisonment April 13 by Judge Frank F. Adel in Queens County Court. He has been found guilty of petit lar- ceny. The life term is mandato: under the Baumes law after a four conviction, syorg tats Proconsul of American Empire Takes Up Job 4 Seopa Henry Stimson, after performing his little imperialist job in Nicaragua and purchasing General Moncada has been made Governor General of the Philippines. Photo shows Stimson throwing out the standard imperialist pap about im- proving the Filipinos in his inaugural address delivered in Manila several weeks ago. With the Filipino independence movement steadily taking on a more emphatic mass charac- ter, Stimson has a tough job on his hands. Starvation Unemployment Features U.S. Rule in Cuba Starvation wages, disease, unemployment are among the blessings brought by United States rule in Cuba that go unmentioned in the capitalist press. So 3 > i FASCIST REGIBE Cuba. Of this $750,000,000 represent sugar plantations and refineries un- der American control. | Seventy per cent of the total pro-| duction of Cuba is represented by} sugar, and most of the sugar and to- | Workers Demonstrate bacco production is under American; j control. Almost all the hotels, banks, | n Venezuela CUCUTA, Colombia, April 5. — A electric light and power systems, tele- graphs and telephones, are American-! midnight demonstration against the | owned. The railways are still, as in| Gomez dictatorship in Vene many Latin-American countries, UN-!| held in the streets of Trujillo, and a der British control. | statue of Gomez in the public square Under the influence of American | overturned, a report received from capital, Cuba became a “one | crop | country,” depending almost entirely zuela was |that city states. Travellers coming import coffee, rice, meat and even) unrest fruits and vegetables. The “pros- perity” which American — capital against the Gomez thruout Venezuela. Informatiqn received about events regime VUNCTION, | brought to Cuba is visible in rows of | magnificent hotels and palatial coun- | try residences, inhabited mostly by | | Americans or retired Cuban politicians |and former government officials. One | of the former presidents of the Re- | public, General Gomez, demons‘rated | Cuban prosperity by retiring after one | |term of four years with $20,000,090.) General Menocal, his successor, who! held on for two terms, was able to} |accumulate for himself the sum of} $40,000,000. Starvation Wages. Wages are among the lowest ‘n all La in-America. There is a great re- serve of unemployed. Negro workers are imported from Haiti for the sugar crop work. Recently, it is reported, many large establishments have been dismissing all their Spanish and Cuban workers in order to @aphy exclusively Poles (Polish Jews) who came to Cuba in the hope of reaching the Uniied States and are actually starving in the streets of Havana. TI whole island is in a permanent cris of bankruptey and unemployment, but “prosperity” In 1877, 25 years before the inde- pendence of Cuba, under Spanish rul- \the island had only 1,50: | ants. Twenty-five years later, at th date of ihe proclamation of ‘inde pendence in 1902, the population had ased by 85,000. But in the 2h years, under -“inde- | pendence’ and American. rule the population doubled to the number of 3.561,640 inhabitants at the end o/ continues unabated. | 291 inhabi | 1926, ford to pay for the papers. miners. them get the Daily Worker. Thousands of Miners are asking that the Daily Worker be sent to them. 3 “The mine workers are on strike. They cannot af- TYe financial condition of the Daily because of the attacks makes it impossible to meet the requests of the The Miners Need the Paper. They appeal to all class conscious workers to help Workers, the miners’ fight is the fight of the entire labor movement. The miners’ struggle is your strug- gle. Send them a subscription to the Daily Worker. in Venezuela is v: fragmertary be- cause of the rigid censorship of news by the government. : ‘ * * Thirty students and workers were killed in Caracas several weeks ago when they protested against the rich concessions granted by Gomez to American and British oil interests and demanded the withdrawal of Amer- ican marines from Nicaragua. COOLIDGE FIGH FLOOD CONTROL. WASHINGTON, April 5.—Presi dent Coolidge today launched a d to have congress modify certain tures of the Jones-Reid Comprorni: Flood Control Bill. The measure has passed the senate. He discussed his objections wih Rep. Madden (R) of Illinois, Chairman of the House Ap- propriations Committee. REPORT FORD IS SEEKING RUBBER | DEAL IN BRITAIN’ Will Continue Work on| Feudal Tract in Brazil LONDON, April who is now on hi may enter into ne- gotiations with British and Dutch § rubber producers | to buy raw rubber at low prices, which are now pre- vailing as a result of the British gov- ernment’s decision to remove produc- tion restrictions on November 1, it was reported here to- day. It is even believed in some quar- ters that Mr. Ford had advance knowledge of the government’s ac- tion and timed his European trip ac- cordingly. The rubber market was further de- pressed today by Premier Baldwin’s announcement in the house of com- mons that the British restrictions in Malaya and Ceylon will be removed and it is possible that contracts may be possible within a few weeks at approximately 16 cents a pound. The | prediction was made by Sir Robert Hutchison, chief liberal whip, that the price may sink to 14 cents a pound. In spite of the drop in rubber prices, neither Ford nor Firestone will aban- don their projects for rubber produc- tion. Firestone has already started | work on a huge rubber tract in Li- | beria, while Henry Ford will begin | work on his rubber grant in Brazil. The Stevenson restriction act was | voided, it is understood, because it |faiied to maintain the price of the \eommodity at 1 shilling 6 pence, as} originally planned, and because re-| striction of production had encouraged the production of rubber by Dutch | and later Americzn investors. | -Henry Ford, way to Europe, | | | ! | t Henry Ford | |Trouble Again Brews In Balkans; Yugoslav | | Protest to Albania | VIENNA, April 5. — The relations | between Albania and Yugoslavia have j; become more tense since the Albanian | !on its sugar crop. It is compelled to| here from Caracas report a growing |Government has announced the “clos- ing of the frontier” because of the | alleged presence of spotted typhus on the Yugo-Slav side. The frontier has been closed, the | Yugoslav press charges, in order to | permit the formation cf raiding bands, 'which, it is charged, are being organ- ized by Italian agents. Thousands of | | Italian soldiers are being sent into Al-| \bania to further the Italian struggle | against Yugoslavia, it is said. | Court Takes Its Time | CHICAGO, (FP) April 5—The) United States circuit court of appeals is taking its own time in the locomo- tive firemen’s wage award case, The} western roads appealed the arbitration) board’s decision, which was favorable | to the men, to the district court. The | court ruled against the roads with} leave to appeal and they went to the | higher court in February. Nov. 8, 1928, up to Harry Blake, cio. SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning 21, 1928. — For information write to First Street, New York City, and including Nov. Daily Worker, 33 THE DAILY WORKER Enclosed find $.......... you send the Daily Worker to a strik- ing miner for ........ months, RATES as 838 FIRST STREET New York City to help } $6.00 months $3.50 months $2.00 months | $1.50 months | $1.00... month | trical railway: | lighting purpos 'U.S.S.R. ENGINEERS HERE MINERS OF RUHR Make Survey of Electrical Development THREATEN STRIKE P. A. Maximov, president of the) aseists Negotiate Soviet Electrotechnical Trust, has ar- |rived in this country accompanied by B. I. Bukhovtsev, production manager of the trust, to make a study. of the electrotechnical industry and of elec in this country, the | the production of this c of equip- ment in 1913, as the electrotechnical industry of Russia has developed only | ar during the past four years. | Railways Electrified. | “The introduction of electrical power | in industry, tran on and for] is proceeding now} on a scale never before known in} Russia,” declared Maximov. “Soviet | public utility power plants produced | last year two billion kw. hours, three | times the figure for the pre-war | years. We have at present under construction in the Soviet Union new power plants with an aggregate} capacity of over 2,000,000 kw., exe ing the capacity of all the existing stations in the country. Some of th« new plants will supply power for several railways now being electri- ar’ Gr he: ernment has d. Athens, the rebel forces are repor to Pact for Extending | FOR B-HOUR DAY Empire in Near East Bosses Refuse Demand s for Wage Increase MILAN, Italy, April 5.—Italian en- }Amtorg Trading Corporation an-)., shmant.ii, Agia Maree Geil be : a ics Se nouneed J ertsraey. tated Diet the confer-|_ DUBLIN, Apel S "the RUBE The § trust last year produced exbecheiee whic PuabsAl Bey, for. (10° ousand miners Hee ! k se Tena Liat Heit heen’ eign minister of Turkey and Premier = » rejection o the total value o: 000,000. The ss es pao Sh output of the trust is ral times large icccetmante ple a sk and f of for the employment technicians on public utilities key. EVOLT BREAKS OUT IN GREECE Czech Recognition of Soviet Union Likely WASHINGTON, April 5 (FP is near to formal re Union of Socialist in the opinion of in W jew made upon news that the government d a commer- LONDON, April A revolution- y movement has broken out in reece, according to reports received re. The dispatch Czechoslov ognition Soviet 2 Re! tated that the gov d martial law. In| rec ed| have seized the public buildings fied. Many Plants Built. “The Electrotechnical Trust was called upon to provide some of the equipment for the new electrical pro jects. Our study in this country is connected with the new development in the industry, Considerable equip- ment is imported into the U. S. S. R from abroad, and such imports wil undoubtedly continue for some timc to come.” The Soviet Electrotechnical Trust | has plants at Moscow, Leningra Kharkov and in the Urals. Last 5 the Trust completed the electrical i stallations for the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union, running / from Baku to Surakhany in the heart | of the oil district. i Maximoy expects to stay in this| sountry about six week: With | tukovtsev he will visit Schenectady, | oston, Chicago, Milwaukee and other | ters of the electro-technical in-} | HEAVY STORM IN WEST KILLS TWO KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5. — Two persons are dead and several} IN THE APRIL LABOR UNITY Official Organ of TUEL SHOW-DOWN IN THE LEFT WING WINS SHOE MINERS’ UNION STRIKE AT HAVERHILL (The why and whither of the y WM. J. RYAN (Leader of the present struggle.) ke). nee eee MINERS SMASH LEWIS WARS—GOOD WILL BRAND |] MACHIN (On Yankee imperialism in Cen- FRED BELLIS. tral America.) By SCOTT NEARING. THE BRITISH LEFT WING MOVEMENT TODAY By HARRY POLLITT Minority Movement). 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