The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1 Chang Tso-lin Spends Half Billion on Army, 4,000,000 Peasants Starving WORKER-PEASANT VICTORIES NEAR CANTON REPORTED Shantung Peasants Live on Bark of Trees PEKING, April 9. — More than $200,000,000 in gold were spent by the militarists 0! northern China for the maintenane of armed forces with the budget for 1928 calling for ex- penditures of $300,- 000,000 in gold. In order to raise these sums, Chang Tso-lin resorted to every form of ex- tortion and taxa- tion. I» addition to levelling heavy taxes Chang’s troops regularly con- fiscate crops in the provinces of Shan- tung and Chihli. According to a report issued by the Famine Relief Commission of Peking: famine conditions in the prevince of Shantung are so bad that parents are offering their children for sale. A large number of children have beer sold for as little as $5. About 4,000.060 peasants in the province of Sharntung are virtually starving, the report states. Millions of them are living on grass and bark Chang Tso-lin, CANTON, April 9.—The Kuomin- tang armies which were sent against the workers and peasants in the Hoi- fung and Lufkung districts are re- treating in bad order after a series of decisive defeats by worker-peasant armies. A large amount of ammuni- tion has been captured by the Red | Guards. War Predicted With England Over Trade That the cdmpe.ition for work markets will result in war with Eng- land, was the prediction of former Judge Daniel F. Cohalan, in a speech before the Clan-na-Gael organization at the Hotel Astor. “We are daily taking away English customers,” he said. “England is pri- marily a manufacturing country and must depend on foreign markets for existence. This means we .are driv- ing her to the wall. I think trouble of a more militant nature is in escapable.” Railroad Bosses Lose SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.—Rail- roads in this city have lost their fight in the federal court here to annul an erbitration award in favor of ferry- boat workers here. The workers won an 8 hour day and $10 monthly raise. | After the bosses had agreed to ar- bitration, they refused to aceept the decision FIRE IN MUNSON LINER. HAVANA, April 9.—With a fire burning in her hcld, the Munson liner Munamar arrived here today from New Orleans. ‘ARE TEA UNION ANS WERS “VY ES” To Organize Oil Workers | .> By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press). | Fields, Gas Well, and Refinery Work CHICAGO, Apr, 9—Every day in every way the American Federation | ee pk f ud a ef Teachers is becoming better and better known. swered an emphatic “Yes” when the que teachers are human. e are getting inquiries from all over the country regarding the so- called teacher blue laws,” said Secy. Florence Curtis Hanson of the federa- tion, which is a unit of the A, F. of L. “These blue laws restrict the, per- sonal freedom of teachers in ridiculous and often tyrannical ways.” Continually Bossed. In Oak Park, a Chicago suburb for example, teachers must be in bed by 10. In a West Virginia town the woman teacher is not allowed to wear galoshes flopping open. They have to be fastened all the way. Neither men nor women teachers may smoke at any time in Kansas City. In a lit- tle North Carolina hamlet teachers must promise to take at least 8 hours sleep every night. Many other in- stances of petty bossing over the teacher by school boards or superin- tendents who regard their subordi- nates as spineless slaves are on file in the union office. Union Will Convene. These tin tyrants get the surprise of their life when the American Fed- eration of Teachers steps in with its declaration that teachers are just as human as anybody else and just as much entitled to flop their galoshes or bob their hair or go courting as the next free American citizen, The matter is one of the principal sub- jects before the convention of the union which will be held at the Con- gress Hotel in Chicago June 25 to 29, To Diseuss Labor Problems. Other convention topics smack of the general problems confronting American labor today. Included is the yellowdog contract like that in the Peoria, Ill. and the Los Angeles school system that forces a teacher to agree 8 Page Three Eee _Wage Slash for British| ' Steel Workers, Rumor | | MERTHYR, Bagiand, (By Mail) —| |Rumors are current here that the |steel firm of Guest, Keen & Co., are| OF “ROTE FAHNE” ——— |soon to announce a wage cut of 10% j per cent under the sliding scale agree- | Pass One-Year Sentence j|ment at their, Dowlais plant. Work-| on German Communist |°:’, "ePresentatives here declare that | | if the wage-cut is actually announced, | : ., {it will meet with stiff resistance. (By Mail).—The editor | BERLIN, | of the “Rote Fahne,” official organ | of the German Communist Party, has been sentenced to one year imprison-| | ment and 100 marks fine for allege | offenses known as “the preparation) | Sp cee peut AGREEMENT ENDED | One of the offenses was the ae cation of an article protesting against the government ban against the Sov-/} kino film the “Cruiser Potemkin.” } LONDON, April 9.—The employers | |in the garment industry throughout England have been notified by the| Tailors’ and Garment Workers Union of the men’s and women’s clothing | that it intends to terminate the! agreement when it expires | Nominee’s Son Freed : | After Injuring Worker . June 20, | The reports received do not as yet} ate what demands were made by| 1920 democratie nominee for presi ‘s organization. The t- dent, and the victim a laborer, Mag-| ing agreement has:been in force for istrate Francis X. McQuade in York-| almost 8 years during which there ville court discharged James M. Cox, | have been no major struggles with the Jr, yesterday. employers. The ag nent is also | k }national in scope, affecting all Cox’s automobile struck and seri-|pranches of clothing manufacture in | ously injured the laborer, Peter Lo-/ all England. | renzo, March 23. Magistrate Mc-'! Al-hough the union membership is | Quade could find no negligence,! somewhat’smaller, a decision to strike | though Cox is alleged to have driven| would result in a stoppage of 150,000 | away from the scene of the accident | workers. without offering aid to Lorenzo and} to have been driving while drunk. —| Because the defendant is a Yale} | student and the son of James M. C ,000 Railway Clerks Get Small Increase ST. PAUL, April 9.—A total. of | MOSCOW, (By Mail’.—-The Cen-| 5000 employes of the Great Northern | trat Committee of the Miners’ Union |¥024 ate enjoying a 2 to 4 cents hourly | of the Soviet Union has sent an ad-| crease as a result of an arbitration ditional sum of 30,000 roub’es to the | Wea, by, the Brotherhood of Reilyay striking Swedish miners. This brings! - oe fbn eas a Suga pre the total sent to the Swedish minors |i the 4 cent class, clerks with 1 to| | to 170,000 roubles. | | Aid Swedish Miners | 2 year experience gettingy3 cents, and ;less than 1 year experience 2 cents. pee 33 Taborers are included in the 4 cent | ‘ . | gain. USSR R ‘Aid Meets The award is dated back to August { i. , 1, 1927, so most of the workers af- | | MOSCOW, (By Ma‘l)—The Con-| fected will get $60 in back wages. | | gress of the Red Aid of the Soviet | Though the “neutral” arbitrators were | | Union closed after the election of a| appointed by President Coolidge’s | Central Committee, consisting of | Mediation board the Great Northern | fifty members. Stassova was elected | management over-reached itself in chairman of the organization. |the proceedings, thinking it had a} sure thing, and finally antagonized the chairman by its bulldozing methods. CHERS HUMAN?’ | LONG BEACH, Cal., April 9.—The | International Association of Oi1} And all because it an- | TS Will ion arose in school circles whether | soon begin a campaign to or- ganize the oil field workers and abolish the 12 hour day and low} to have nothing to do with the trade! wages now in force. Overproduc’ion union of his craft. Another problem| od aster y i ie sing at gether? is wi! sider ri i - sands of the oil field workers in the} ia wot gu Sa tpider puaht eel Hache’) past few months. These workers labor company unions such as the National | every day in the year. | H | Education Assn., exposed by. Upton ~ eee Sinclair in his book on public school| SMITH SOUTHWARD BOUND. | education entitled “The Goslings.” ALBANY, April .9.—To win the |The vast majority of teachers. are | South for his presidential nominazion, still outside the union, making organ-| Gov. Smi‘h is arranging for his va- ization a paramount matter. Injunc-| cation in Ashville, N. C. He refused |tions and job control are other con-| yesterday to state exactly wlitn he | vention topics. | will leave for the South. French Militarists Warming Up for War Against ewe Soviet Union ' France, under the influence of Great Britain, is steadily adopt- : ‘BRITISH COTTON | 160 Communists Are Arrested in Salonika ATHENS (By Mai ing unrest among w trial centers 160 Communists been arrested in Salonika. With grow- ers in indus- have WORKERS WIN IN REPORT SOVIET | UNION REJECTS ing @ more and more hostile at- WAGE STRUGGLE There has been a great deal of| agitation against taxation in the ru-} ral districts. Crete peasants recently FARQUHAR PLAN titude toward, the Soviet Union. Phot o| shows President | Doumergue at right and Min- ister of War| Painleve, behind him, reviewing French cadets at St. Cyr, 2,000 BRITISH MINERS STRIKING Fight Wage-Cut Award in Durham District NEWCASTLE, England (By| Mail).—Ovyer 12,000 Durham miners | are now on strike in protest against the Plender wage-cutting award. In an effort to counteract the passive | policy of the union officials, the} rikers are planning to form a joint strike committee. Eight demonstrations held in differ- ent parts of the coal field elected representatives to demand that the Durham miners’ executive call Council meeting for the discussion oi the award, and that a vote of the men be taken at once on the accept- ance or non-acceptance of the wage- cuts. | GORDON PLACED jand a 12% per cent wage cut. jers in this plant as well as in the| | of this they point to numerous con burned down a government building in an effort to destroy the tax rec- ords. Halt New Attack Working Week MANCHESTER, Eng., April The determination of the membership of the textile trade unions here to} resist with a general strike any at-! tempt of the employers to reduce the hours or wages, has led the Federa-} tion of Master Cotton Spinners’ / sociation, the employers’ organiza a tion, to make a public withdrawal of Hoped to. Cash in by their demand for the 52% hour week “Revelations” This they did by expelling fr ember- = ey did by expelling from member WALTHAM, Mass., (FP) April 9.- One red-baiter has crossed this big ship the Livingstone Spinning Com-| BOR ie ee Cua creers i | Boston suburb off his list. He is Ed- | ward H. Hunter, Industrial Defense refusing to work 55% hours a wee The employers would have insisted} dase aviolles choad lonedis on their demands in spite of many|; ge aes top Slee ea Se oe : . -| tance expert on Bolshevism in Mexico, months of negotiations with the uni Dente and: otha landa officialdom, if not for the fact that| Dirt got. the AGiuEioah: Legion while negotiations were in progress | oct the Legion auxiliary, the D.AR. workers in the Aqueduct mill won a|the Boy Scouts and the mayor ailex. strike against a wage cut. The work-| cited about his revelations concern- ‘ ing the Communistic conspiracy which Livingstone mills did not even wait| includes Baptist Foreign Mission for permission to strike from their} Board, the W. C. T. U. and the League union leadership. The strikes were} of Nations. organized and carried out by the rank} and file in the factory and the union} officialdom was forced to endorse the} walk-out. The great majority of workers do not believe that the employers have definitely withdrawn their intentions to lower working standards. As proof on MASS, RED BAITER LOSING SUPPORT o— Even the Legion. The state American Legion, how- ever, has repudiated Hunter and in- formed the local legion to that ef- fect. Thereupon all prominent members jof the welcoming committee found pressing engagements eisewhere, leaving a politician to hold the bag s chairman. Hunter's appeal for the formation of a local patrioteering ferences of the mill owners to put through a huge merger of all mills in the textile area. The plan of the,committee to chase liberals out of employers is near completion, accord-|town was squelched and even the con- ing to dispatches. The amalgamated |Servative Waltham press was obliged |mills are to be known as the Lan-/to plead for fair play and fair speech. cashire Textile Corporation. Forum Planned. Liberals are busy with plans for a is that as soon as this merger is com-| Meeting to show up the Industrial The sentiment among the workers | labor legislation and trade A permanent open forum vleted the workers will be compelled | Defense Association and its activities |to face a new offensive of the bosses. | against |The militant left wing in the textile | Unlonism. junions is leading the union member- | ship in a demand for preparation for| the coming struggle. | (Continued from Pure eo to my alleged crime, but I believe it | determined what he wrote on that slip of paper which he covered while writing, when I said I was. additional heavy fines. Nor docs it} fear the $50,000 libel suit that has will be established, it is hoped, as the result of the Hunter fiasco. S. TREASURER RESIGNS. WASHINGTON, April 9.—Frank White, tveasurer of the United States |merely The DAILY WORKER. Our |crime is that I am ‘filled with Com-| |fights in the interests of the working- ening to jail its editors and to inflict “Tonight will be the last night—at/| ‘least for the present and I hope for- | Sig, a former labor ever—that I shall be uncomfortably | chilled here when I try to sleep. When| I awoke this morning, I was glad to! remember this fact, but I felt nervous. “What I was told by some of the! boys here made me feel more impa-| tient, nervous. In the reformatory | only incoming letters are allowed ‘daily; outgoing mail is restricted to| are urgently needed. one letter a week and to none but) relatives. The entire week I had v! |tually been living outside of jail by | International Branch of the Workers correspondence and half-hour visits. Now, whoever writes me will not) | know whether I say yes or no, whether | Secretary. I am glad of what is said or react | adversely. Convicted for Opinions. { “And visits are restricted to par-| ents and my lawyer, one every two! weeks. So that is the reformatory! | Still, there is surely more to learn.| Being there, observing things will teach me the rest. “That future is not alluring, but— At least if I were given a few days to get all my stuff from Wisconsin and make some ‘final requests.’ But) even this is denied me. i “I was not convicted because I am} I (you can see that I don’t count be-| cause I was inconsiderately dragged | out of school) and The DAILY) Worker was not fined because it is) munism’ and The DAILY WORKER} class.” Workers Will Save “Daily.” Gordon’s communications to The DAILY WORKER show that his} spirit is unbroken. The spirit of The DAILY WORKER is also unbroken. It does not fear the federal indict- ment that still hangs over it, threat- The mine workers are on strike. They cannot af- ford to pay for the papers. The financial condition of the Daily because of the attacks makes it impossible to meet the requests of the Thousands of Miners are asking that the Daily Worker be sent to them. 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