The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 3

Wholesale Arrests in Venezuela as Uprising Against Gomez Is Crush ed PALAGE GUARDS JOIN FIGHT ON FASGIST REGIME Many Killed in Street Fighting CARACAS, Venezuela, April 10.— Numerous arrests have followed the second attempt within the last two months to overthrow the Gomez dic- tatorship. The revolt took place early Satur- day morning when the garrison of the Miraflores Falace, home of the aictator Gomez, wounded Colonel Anibal Garcia, sub-commandant of the garrison, and started for the San Carlos barracks in the northern sec- tion of the city to seize arms and munitions. The rebellious troops were Jcined by students from the nniver- sity and a number of workers. A num- ber of the mutineers were killed when troops in the barracks opened fire. Saturday’s uprising followed a clash between students and the police in February. Students and workers demonstrated against the ¢overnment policy of handing out rich oil con- cessions to British and American in- vestors and against the American in- vasion of Nicaragua. Gomez has been extremely friendly | to the United States. American oil companies have invested heavily in Venezuela, which has already sur- ae Mexico in the production of of. Ambassador’s Son Charged Wih Fraud BUCYRUS, 0., April 10.—William| G. Sharp of Elyria, son of the late William Sharp, former United States ambassador to France, is scheduled to appear in court here tomorrow on | charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is charged, along with two other men, with selling $1,000 worth of fraudulent stock, Blast Kills Two HANOVER, N. J., April 10—Two workers were killed and three in- jured when a stick of dynamite placed in a stove by mistake exploded on a farm on Hanover Neck Rd. near here. The dead are Martin Jajuga. and Zegal Benedict. The injured are Frank Cacon, Steven Gurnitz and Se- pon Jajuga. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928 rane Three Photo: above | ANTI-LABOR DRIVE funds Needed to Repel | Attacks on “Daily” ‘Comtinued from Page One) WORKER is not yet over. Marvin and his allies in the National Civie Federation, of which Matthew Woll, jnotorious labor misleader, is acting president, are being well paid for their services to the capitalist clas: They have succeeded in sending David | Gordon, the 18-year-old author of the |} poem “America” to the reformatory | for three years, and in imposing a fine jot $500 on The DAILY WORKER at | time when they know that the paper | |has hardly sufficient funds to bring out the daily issues. Indictment Pending. | But these jingo agents of the cal ter class are not yet content. A fed-! | eral indictment is still pending, which | may resnit in the jailing of William | ‘FP. Dunre, J. 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Toroff, East Toledo, Ohio ... \ The V- Build Bigger and Better Submarines for a Bigger and Better War | | | shows the V-4, largest American submarine commissioned at the subma- rine base at Portsmouth, N. H., where she was built. marine constructed for the U. S. Navy and is part of new preparations which Wall Street's j black republic of Haiti w ey is making for the coming imperialist war. 4 is the first mine-laying sub- jgram for the “spoliation” of thc s made pub Pee | lie yesterday by James Weldon John % ‘ ; on. secretary of the National A CO OMBIA STRIKE oon DAR. SUPPORTS| WALL STREET POWER 5 IN HAITI INCREASED A romantic picture of ‘Gondiions Gas Bega in Haiti under American officials is drawn in the annual report for 1927 ioner to that Tepublic. clares that the prosperity and happi-¢- Hi. Russell, American high commi ness of the Haitian people has mate- rially increased, and the financial pol- | icy inaugurated by | President Bornc in| 1922 has ri in establishing their finances on a sound basis. Bud- getary expenses have been met, the report declar the rapid retire a5 tinued. Law and order reigns in Haiti, ac- cording to the re- port. The relations Louis Borno, Wall St. tuoi between the Unit- ed States marines, jand the natives are cordial. While martial law “is of necessity” main- tained, its operation is practically nil, the report says, being a “purely moral force.” Due to the efficiency of the gendarmerie (controlled by Ameri- cans) there has been a decrease in crime. Haiti’s prosperity is attested by the fact that it imported over 2,000 automobiles during the year, Trade Decreases. This happy picture is destroyed by the report itself, which shows that 1927 imports and exports both de- creased compared with the previous year. Imports exceeded exports. Gver 75 percent of all Haitian imports come from the United States, while only 7.8 percent of all exports are sold to the United States. About 47.5) {percent of the exports go to France. The imports for the fiscal year 1926- 27 were about $15,751,320, a decrease of 16.4 percent compared with the pre- vious year; exports were $15,299,900, a decrease of 24.4 percent, compared | with the previous year. Government receipts for the fiscal year were $7,- 772,300, about 14 percent less than the previous year, but more than dou- ble the amount the “government” (i. e. the American financial “advisers” collected during the first year of American occupation (1916-17). Gen- eral Russell points out that in 1907- |08 government receipts were about $2,000,000, but since the occupation never less than $6,200,000 a year—a good result from the American point of view, since a large part of these receipts go to pay off loans floated by American bankers. Disarm Workers. The report records the expiration of the monopoly of cable messages by the French Cable Company, and the new contract with the All-America Cables. Another section describes the excellent results of the gendarmeries’ target practice, and the fact that only 734 revolver licenses have been issued in a republic of 2,000,000 people, disarmament of the Haitians is j fied on the ground that the “gendarm- erie and police rurale” (controlled and officered by Americans) “affords am- ple protection.” Strengthen Dictatorships, The strengthening of America’s im- perialist control of Haiti, through the puppet government of President Borno, is shown by several political changes recorded in the report. Re- cently the Haitian government, which is completely dominated by Washing- ton, passed thirteen amendments to the constitution which strengthens American dictatorship. These amend- ments give the president of Haiti, who for all practical purposes is an appointee of the United States, great- er control over the judicial system, and gives constitutional sanction to the press censorship which has pre- vailed in fact since the American oc- cupation, Haiti is nominally independent. Ac- tually it is dominated by the Amer- ican high commissioner, the American minister, the American customs su- pervisor, the American financial “ad- viser,” and the American marines, which have been there for twelve years. President Borno was elected in 1922 by a council which he had himself appointed. Borno was Wash- ington’s choice for president. He is still in office. Since 1917, when the Haitian leg- islature was dispersed by the Amer- ican marines for trying to adopt a sonstitution, no new legislature has Seen elected. Haiti is theoretically -soverned under another constitution assed in 1917 by a “plebiscite” su- orvised by the American troops. This astitution provides for a legislature. dictatorship of of General John _The report de- JAPANESE RULERS CONTINUE TERROR |Suppress More Militant ( Organizations the ment of the public | ' debt has been con- TOKIO, April 10—A number of; ganizations have been suppressed | here following the arrest of over 1,000 revolutionary workers. The! ;Most recent act of suppression on the part of the government is the “disso- lution” of the “Ronoto” on the ground that it “menaced security and order.” | In an effort to justify the repres- | sionary activities of the government, | the procurator general today said that Japan is faced with an “extremely | grave situation from Communism.” —————————— has | However, \elected. no legislature been { Re-elects Himself. | Formally, government is carried on by President Borno and his council. | Under the constitution approved by jin that year Borno issued a manifesto declaring that the Haitians were too illiterate to vote, and had his council re-elect him for a second term. Actu- ally, | state fee, at Washington and the American “treaty officials” in Haiti, who draw up every piece of legislation for the little republic. |to the acts of the American dictators. The recent amendments to the con- stitution increase the term to six years. Borno will thus hold office until 1930, when he will ; {be in a position to have his council |re-elect him for a third term of six | years. | Change Constitution. The constitutional amendments r lating to the courts are especially sig. nificant. Hitherto the Haitian courts have been one of the few institutions | through which the natives had been | able to express something of their hatred for their American “proprie- tors.” During the recent Pan-Amer- ican conference at Havana, the voting, on occasion, against the Unit- ed States. It turned out that they | had been appointed not by Borno, but by the supreme court of Haiti, whose partial independence they reflected. The American officials in Haiti have opposed the courts consistently. The high commissioner attacked them _| bitterly in last year’s report, and in the new report refers to their inde- pende: as a “lamentable and dis- graceful condition,” calling for a “drastic purification” of the judiciary. Some of the constitutional amend- ments aim at this “purification” by subjecting the courts to the control by the president, giving him the right to make changes in the personnel and even the judicial system. Arrest Editors. The high commissioner’s report is completely silent on the arrest of ten newspaper editors during 1927 for criticising the Borno government. Two of these were labor editors whom the Borno government prevented from attending the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor congress at Washing- ton, to which they were delegates. Following protests from American liberals the ten editors were released. The report also conceals the fact that last year the American Senator King, who on several occasions has opposed American occupation of Haiti, was forbidden to enter the republic by President Borno at the instigation of his American “advisers.” Haiti’s economic life, like its polit- ical life, is completely dominated by Americans, Its national bank is con- trolled by the National City Bank of New York; its public utilities by the Haitian Corporation of America; and its sugar crop by several American companies which have established a plantation system rapidly driving the, small Haitian farmer into peonage. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? left wing political and trade union or-! the the United States, a new president | the striker: |should have been elected in 1926, but | government is carried on by the | Borno simply gives formal sanction | president’s | Haitian delegates caused surprise by | NEGROES PROTEST 900 Chincse (JAPA N LAND Miners Kil Hed FRE STEAL IN HAITI: ey 10. 1 10—F ive hundrec ‘| d when a dam col-| MA nese-owned Fushun | NA Wii agen miners were tat the Jap: huria, according to eived here today. { noe : |Bore ah Addressed by U.} trom the faultily-eonstracted| Boyeott Sprea 3 S. Association dam trapped the miners in the gal-) out Fuk ien Pr —- lery of a mine. The men had no An open letter to Sen. Borah a) means of escaping. FOOCHOW, Ch chairman of the sen diatiatosie on \foreign relations asking an i | gation of the stat e departinent. oe DOCK WORKERS IN for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Ave. sociation letter cites the Bierce oyu eeeeor Order Out Troops - t6 e state department, which would] Wai ee net require the Haitian pea Break Walkout jh nts, who] e held their lands for gener r a BOGOTA, (By w ut document, to show title Mail) de tion with the gener wv Ami 4 that a ch ‘i of | port of Barr E enact it,|the Interior of Colo gover i tion t tution, the Ha Baie provided a r jof land in Haiti, was a preliminary to the proposed bill. Also h that Haitien judges forme jing life tenure v made to ing ge the ships. | remov: ‘al by the ctor-general police of The boycott ¢ e goods lereature of the A ed a has proved ¢ tive and rith a view to ¢ them of f n: and Social-' pas brouzht J > in Fukien ye pendence in a ting land titi 1g bombs” in a stand still. rrovinee almost t ning revol nt to of The proposed me; Johnson's letier, “is organized robbery with the pov United States navy and the|t Marines to back it against a helpless M h | MOSCOW, April 10 small ppoR i hos 4 ar a | Vanzetti museum will be : c Bi ggest LOTION Yor ean ER e0 n Soviet Union Trade | documents involved in th TAXI DRIV RS Here w the pepe t month in|NEW U.S.S. SR. COA y for Soviet Ru merican industrial ugh Amtorg, offi Cc 1 purcha machine; ial trade ag ch as two | he arranged on three quarters | on the {| MOSCOW, (By ON STRIKE INN J. years wa NEWARK, N. 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