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

i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928 Page Three Rush American Destroyers to Amoy As Anti-Imperialist Boycott Spreads ADMIRAL BRISTOL JOINS JAPANESE FLEET NEAR CITY More Workers Arrested by Canton War Lords | AMOY, China, April 6—With the anti-foreign boycott spreading rapid-| ly thruout Fukien province, an Amer- | ican flotilla of destroyers, under the | command of Rear Admiral ‘Mark L.} Bristol, has arrived at Amoy. | Altho the boycott was originally launched against Japan to protest! against the arrest of four Korean na-} tionalists by the Japanese consular | police, it now being directed against} British and American goods as well.} A clash between Japanese troops} and trade union pickets occurred sev- } eral days ago when the troops at-! tempted to force the loading, of, 2} Japanese ship. A number of pickets were captured by the Japanese who turned them over to the Chinese naval authorities. The pickets are believed to have been executed. * * CANTON, April 6—A number of! workers were arrested by the au- thorities today on the charge of par , ticipating in “Communistic activ:ti ties.” The authorities fear a new workers’ revolt in the city in sympa thy with the worker-peasant art who are marching on the city fror the direction of Kweilin, former cap’ * Chinese Workers Demonstrate Against Kuomintang War Lords j a | (Continued from Page One) } | | marked by clashes between the work- | sp MORKERS CENTER Czech Miners | # PRAGUE, (By Mail).—After |strike that lasted more than three |weeks, thirty thousand striking miners of Czechoslovakia have re- Hundreds to Visit New |ceeded in winning a wage increase of Left-Win Buildin |six per cent and in retaining their g & |six hours work day on Saturday. turned to work. The strike was bitterly fought and garian Communist daily, the Cooper- | ative Restaurant and the Workers | | Bookshop. | ers and the police. | Each of these organizations has| j decorated its particular section of the | building with appropriate posters and | slogans to greet the visitors. | | Plans are already under way for| D p an active campaign for $30,000 to purchase and finance the building. A | y short, but intensive drive will be con-| A!BANY, N. Y., April 6. — Tam- |ducted, culminating May 1. At a|™many Hall will make its bid for na- meeting of leading Party members of | tional power when Governor Al District 2, held Thursday night at the | Smith’s name is formally presented | presidential nomination at a meet- ? |ing of the democratic state committee Weinstone Speaks. | to be held in New York City, April 17 William W. Weinstone, district or- This was decided upon at a confer- ganizer, addressed the meeting and | ence yesterday behind closed doors be- pointed out the significance of the|tween the Governor and his boy new Workers Center as a unifying | friends, Judge George Olvany, leader force that would enable the Commun-|of Tammany Hall, and Lieutenant ist and left-wing movements of this | Governor Edwin Gorning, chairman of city to conduct their activities on a|the democratic state committee. wider and more efficient scale that} In order to recuperate from the would reach increasingly greater | strain of this decision, the Governor masses of the workers. Other speak- | will leave early next week for a two- ers were Ben Lifshitz, secretary of | weeks’ vacation at Asheville, N. C., cussed with great enthusiasm. The miners suc-| new building, the campaign was dis- | “to the nation” as a candidate for the |f CONTINUE WAR ON BRATIANU REGIME DESPITE “PEACE” Workers Keep Up Fight —Liberals Make Truce VIENNA, F i e of the truce ant Party ia, April 6—In hich the National appears to have patched up with Bratianu regime, 4 Bucharest workers 4 are still demand- | ing the resignation | of the government, reports from that city state. Many arrests in conneo | tion with the re-; cent demonstra-| tions against the{ government have; been reported. i The Congress of the Peasant Party; of which Manin {ie f the leader which, was to have held at Alba Julia | Bratianu, Fascist on April 22, has ] been postponed un- | til May, according to a despatch from: | Bucharest. Reports from Belgrade de=: clare that the Bucharest goverm |has sent large bodies of troops into | Transylvania in anticipation of peas } government demonstrations. tal of Kwangsi province. the Jewish Buro, Workers (Commun-| Where he will not be bothered by the | | Demonstration of worke: Guards overthrew the militarist government and set up Sovi was overth CORDON N own by the Kuomintang war lords, with the aid of the imperialist pow rs in the streets of Canton last December, when workers and Red rament . Fear- ets. The workers gor ROGUE'S GALLERY “America” Author Urg- es Aid for D al aily Worker a avtiowuad £ Pena tage that. fiehts for the vy Third Letter to “ y In a third communication to The » DAILY WORKER, Gordon reports the taking of his picture for the rogue’s gallery and gives further des- ing:a new revolt, the Kuomintang is executing thousands of workers and peasants in and near Canton. AMSTERDAM INT’L promise (which was given in 1919), refused to ratify the Washington con- HUGE OIL BLAZE SEHIKES NEW SNAG)= ita UAVANA | | | | By I. D. LE LONDON (By mail).—At the last session of the International Labor | Office held February 1st and 4th, the British government, contrary to its | V HAVANA, April 6.—This city was “—-—————vention on the 8-hour working day. | put in peril this afternoon when a} shift in the wind swept the flames of the burning Standard Oil Plant at) ist) Party, Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and A’exan- der Trachtenberg. Those present at the mesting als made a detailed inspection of the 5) and basement building, and al d the opinion that the acqui- | sition of the Workers Center would | ~~ |provide a tremendous spur to the rev- | olutionary movement in the stronghold of American capitalism. The meeting was also attended by | representatives of the building trades, who offered their services in remodel- ing the building. ‘Ford Reaches London; Dodges Rubber Issue sight of any of the nearby 1,000,000 | unemployed of New York State that | Ss j \“Al” has found it so convenient to | BERLIN, April 6—The si oti |forget about. the 15,000 metal workers h The conference also decided upon’ .aused the plants of a large num! he renomination of Senator Royal S.\ 5¢ Chemnitz textile machinery manu! Berlin Strike Grows Copeland, it is reported. facturing firms to shut down. Morej jin a clash near Jalapa, Gunajuato, z = | according to reports received here. A|E. M. Poirot, cf Golden City, Ma MEXICO FEDERALS CAPTURE BANDITS shut-downs are expected due to the paralyzing effect of strike on ine dustries not directly affected. NEW MACHINE REDUCES JOBS. GOLDEN CITY, Mo., April 6— Another instance of the way in which |labor-saving devices become under MEXICO CITY, April. 6—Fifty| capitalism a means of displacing pGeegiahdicatltagse) ae : none workers and reducing the standards taken prisoners by the federal troops} (6 ji ving is presented in an article by criptions of prison life. Li} | This refusal is another nail in the . ¥4 = r | b f reactionaries were killed| Poirot describes a new hay-storing - I ; Regla into an adjacent swamp threat-| SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April. 6,— | MUMDer oF reacti 5 “ y e ” ff; f£ thi terd; Int F i i i | fi vi Bc he eh aa eae BE ye U, S. 0 AWARD (tional. SOP agi eg Sas vote eames hi ening a gasoline tank containing 3,-}Henry Ford, American automobile)” the skirmish, the reports state. | machine, one of the advantages of for perhaps concealing a weapon, Who the devil wants to commit suicide for a measly reformatory sentence? I don’t. It won’t give me anything ex- cept a grave and it will cause unnec- essary bother and sorrow to some oth- ers. I presume all sentenced inmates here are likewise searched. “T counted 49 names ‘engraved’ on the cell walls. One fellow seemed hap- py to he sentenced to Hampton Farms (New York City -Reformatory), boast- ing that he is the ‘big shot’ of First Avenue, a jewel thief. Another make: the unpretentious assertion that he is sentenced to Sing Sing for robbery “From 20 Years to Life.” “A third one appears proud to state he is in jail for his second robbery ‘the last statement on the walls tells ef a sentence of from 20 years to life. My most heartfelt sympathies are ex- tended te the last young brother. “It is a pity that all the fire and spirit symbolized on the walls should he turned against the capitalistic sys- orcas a ee : . world bourgeoisie signifies that it is|states. The long established trend ; | | (= oes —— tem by the individualistic, futile meth- In Post Office Dept.|no longer in need of its lackeys of of the textile industry toward the [PY the, Pennsylvania department of Promptly | ods of assault and robbery. Even into |the Amsterdam International. The|South is rapidly being augmented by | ¢r the Rout deaportant 3A he nats Ccephtcalied St li I t 7 ee ik bourgeois ideology crept.| WASHINGTON, April 6—The post} Moor has done his work, the Moor|numerous silk manufacturing plants | 719° the Sadie eases WHEN Ae Santal Midy || alins interview Tebatieneoie praia tare the | office department’s investigation into can go. The. Amsterdam lackeys were | Lh A Raa eS communities, | workers labor in the factories are Sold by All Druggists with the | “Pop was here this morning. He reassured me that all that can be done is being done to release me. I don’t kave too much hope of release, but it’s worthwhile, I think, putting up a stiff fight so that if a case against the Communists or ovr DAILY | WORKER comes up again, our capi- talist courts will proceed with the prosecution with the full knowledge that the defendats wil fight it out to the end. FAT CONTRACTS WASHINGTON, April 6—A new list of projects under the govern-! ment’s $300,000,000 building program was sent to congress today by Presi- dent Coolidge. Appropriations aggregating $15,-| 163,500 were requested as initial cost | m land purchases and buildings ul- timately to cost $67,255,000. The largest item was $14,250,000 | for post office and other government | buildings at Chicago. An appropria- | tion of $300,000 was asked to start | this work. Two $2,000,000 appropria- | tions for the New York post office and court house, were requested, repre- senting the complete cost of these structures. Disclose Big Graft sale of federal patronage in the south resulted today in dismissal of two Florida postmasters. The International Labor Office, the altar of class collaboration, built by the joint efforts of the Amsterdamers and the imperialist powers, is falling | There ; asunder like a house of cards. was good cause for the laments and cries raised by the pillars of interna- tional reformism, who participated in the International Labor Office. Albert Thomas, director of the I. L. 0., stated that “the I. L. 0. is en- tering upon a critical stage of its) existence,” and Muller, leader of the German reformists, bitterly regret- | ted that the English proposal to re-| vise’ in 1921 the convention on the | eight-hour working day, which is} tantamount to a decline of the con-| vention, brings to naught all the ef- forts made during the past years for the establishment of “peaceful rela- tions” between workers and employ- ers. Reformists Stranded. This blow at the I. L. O. by the needed by the bourgeoisie during the revolutionary post-war years, when | States battleship Wyoming 000,000 gallons of gasoline. Police said that explosion of this tank would endanger Havana. The fire was under control this morning when the change of the wind caused a fresh outbreak. Fed by un- dergrowth the flames raced towards the gigantic tank. The full force of Havana firemen, a large force of Cuban soldiers and sailors and a fresh force of sailors from the United were rushed to the scene to help battle the flames. A woman was killed yesterday when her match-box hut was destroyed by the flames. Silk in the South PATERSON, N. J., April 6.—Louis Magnat, former business agent of the Broad Silk Workers Union here, is making a study of the development of the silk industry in the southern ANOTHER RAILWAY TIE-UP. capitalism was threatened by revolu-} tion from all sides. The I. L. 0. was] then set up for doping the workers. The Amsterdamers have been able to convince the workers they lead that through the International Labor 5 Route Dehed Office they are able to achieve ma- _ The -investigation into alleged “po-| terial improvements peacefully with- litical shakedowns” was undertaken at lout sacrifices and without struggle. | the request of Senators George and|The bourgeoisie now feels itself | They were Alvin L. Durrante at Frostpreof, and Leslie D. Roberts, act- ing postmaster at Avon Park. The department charged that Dur- rante offered $500 for his job, while Roberts offered $1,000. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 6.— Traffic both east and west, over the main line of the Boston and Albany as the result of a freight wreck at Woronoco, twenty miles west of this city. ROAD PAVING PLANNED. Railroad was tied up for hours today | |manufacturer, who arrived here to- day upon the liner Majestic, refused to discuss the rubber situation. He declared that his visit to Europe is \“partly for business and partly for pleasure.” It was reported in London that Ford’s visit might result in large }purchases of crude rubber from British and Dutch interests now that the price has been forced down by Premier Baldwin’s announcement that government restrictions upon the production of rubber in Malaya and Ceylon will be removed on | Nov. 1. Glass Mill Owners Exploit Children One-sixth of the workers employed in the glass manufactories of Penn- sylvania are under 18 years of age and one-fourth of these are children miserable. under 16, according to a report made | A great secret arsenal containing rifles, dynamite; automatic pistols and bombs was also found. The reac- | tionaries have been particularly} strong near Jalapa and have been terrorizing the district. The federal troops are conducting an intensive | campaign to clean all reactionary | bands out of Guanajuato. WARDEN OPPOSES KILLING HUNTSVILLE, Texas, April 6.— N. L. 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Taken to Be Photographed. “T was interrupted in the midst of | the harmless occupation of manicur- Longshoreman May ing my finger-nails and trying to re- i j i call whether it was 25 or 30 cock-| Die From Injuries roaches I killed yesterday by an order | HOBOKEN, N. J., Apr. 6.—Charles | to go to the ‘pen’ to have my picture |Tarsen, 46, a longshoreman, was seri- | taken before going to the ‘farms.’ (It| ously injured while at work yester- makes me smile to think that my pic- | day on the S. S. Southern Cross, of ture was in a Wisconsin paper as a/ the Munson line, moored at Pier 2 scholarship student and now it will jhere. A cargo sling loaded with mer- j tack. jquestion be revised in 1929. be featured in the rogue’s gallery.) “After being fairly stifled in some part of the jail, we were put into al thoroughly stinking calaboose and driven through the streets—through the stinking East Side streets—until we reached the ‘pen’ at 59th St.” More Funds Needed. These letters from Gordon that have been appearing in The DAILY WORKER record the feelings and im- pressions of a victim of the class war. The DAILY WORKER is also a vic- tim of the class war. In an earlier letter Gordon expressed the hope that the readers of the “Daily” would re- pay its $500 fine ten times. In view of the fact that The DAILY WORKER is now faced with a $50,000 libel suit instituted against it by Adolph Lessig, a former labor spy, and must also fight the federal in- dictment that threatens to jail Wil- liam F. Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, ert Miller and Alex Bittelman, ten chandise gave way, crushing the} worker to the deck, Larsen sustained a fracture of both hips and internal injuries which may prove fatal, Safety Bill Vetoed ALBANY, April 6.—Claiming that the legislature failed to make appro- priations to carry out its provisions, Governor Smith today vetoed the measure intended to apportion the cost of erecting signals at railroad cross- ings as between the localities, the railroads and the state, times $500 is not too much for ity needs. Every worker must come to the aid of his paper or The DAILY WORKER will be wiped cut of exist- ence, Immediate funds are needed. Save The DAILY WORKER! Send contributions to 83 First St., New York. $ { Harris, democrats, of Georgia. strong and has determ'ned to gt- England proposes that the After dallying with the question of the eight-hour working day for nine years, the reformist workers once} again find themselves stranded. It is no mere chance happening that the blow at the I. L. O. eman-| ates from’ England. The English bourgeoisie is now leading the world reaction. The defeat of the miners} and the anti-trade union bill, which! deprived the English working class) of all the rights won in a century | struggle, were the signal for an at-| tack by capital al over the world. Throw Off Mask. It should be mentioned that in England as a rule no more than eight hours is worked per day. It would therefore have been no sacrifice if England had ratified the convention. The refusal to ratify the convention, therefore, indicates the direction in which the English bourgeoisie in- tends to develop its attack against the working class. Evidently their intentions are to lengthen the work- WASHINGTON, April 6—Mor¢ than 20,000 miles of paved road will be built in the United States this year, reports to the department of |agriculture indicate. i Harry Blake, clo. 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