The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1928, Page 3

‘HE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORR? TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1928 Page Three FOREIGN NEWS --- REPORT REVEALS LOW WAGE SCALE PAID IN HUNGARY Fascists Crush Militant Trade Unions By LELAND CLDS (Federated Press). The overdevelopment of capitalist industrialism in Europe, hastened by the emphasis on nationelism in the Versailles peace treaty illustratec in a report on Hungarian industrial development issued by the U. S. de- partment of commerce. Hungary, once the agricultural section of the Austro-Hungarian empire, has de- veloped its industry until row it must compete with the other industrial na- tions to keep its wheels turning. In Austria and Czechoslovakia, the in- dustrial sections of the dsmembered empire, over 200,000 workers are idle for want of market. Unemployment Severe. The textile industry. fostered by a’ high protective tariff, leads this post- wer expansion of Hungarian’ indns- trialism. Tertiles are generally the 14 Young Workers Jail- Coolidge Lauds Fascist Ruler of Portugal LISBON, Portugal, April 16. — A message from President Coolidge to President Carmona, expressing admir- ation for the Carmona dictatorship, was made public today. Coolidge’s message, sent on Carmona’s inaugur- ation, follows: “My cordial congratulations on this auspicious moment. May I express the sincere hope your admirable and wise administration will contribute io the prosperity of Portugal and to the happiness of your fellow-citizens. PALESTINE POLICE: jAIL MILITANTS ed for Protest JERUSALEM, April 16,—Fourteen boys and sixteen girls between the es of sixteen and twenty. were ar- rested at Telaviv today on the suspi- cion of attending a conference of a Communist youth organization. The arrests were made in connec- tion with the widespread demonstra- tions against unemployment and low wages in Palestine. A niimber of la- box icaders have been arrested for dc..ousivating for the relief of the unemployed. KENOSHA UNION OPPOSES GUNS KENOSHA, Wos., april 16.—Offi- cials of the American iederation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers and heads of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor have entered a protest with the s ate’s attorney general against the importation of private detectives as} strike-breaking agents by the com- | pany officials in the strike against \the Allan-A Hosiery Company. The importation of priva‘e strikebreakers ‘is prohibited under Wisconsin law un-| i ‘less they are registered. first sign that a new country has been infected w'th capitalist indus- trialism. Hungarian production in this field in 1926 was almost 3 times prewar. The gains over prewar in other in- dustries are stone clay and glass 22%, food products 14%, chemicals 7%. electric power 200%. Taking in dustry as a whole the increas over 1913 amounts to 12.8%. The number of factories has increased from 2089 in 1913 to 3.012 in 1926 or 44%, but the average outnut and number of workers. emnlo}-d ner factory has de- creased. This department says this shows how Hungary is over-equipped industrially in terms of the economic) condition of Europe. | Wares Beaten Down. The exploitation of Hungarian workers, to a considerably extent by) foreign canital which has taken ad-, vantage of the detotorshin. vealed in the hourly wages in Buda- pest. These fiew-e: ore avt show weekly earnings on the basis of the 48-hour week which prevails in Hungary and, in the caso ef men workers, are compared with the pre- war weekly wages. The figures are: \ ja ore. Wages in os 2 The workers, who are holding out Budapest 1926 1929 190 per cent in the fight against the i “| open shop here, are criticizing their Men: : ~|leaders for waste of efforts and of Tron & metal $528 $8.81/union funds in futile appeals to the Machinery, electric 5.28 8.81| Capitalist state authorities. The work- Textile 6.72. 5.31/eTS point out that even if the attorney + Food products 6.24 6.13, general forces the mill owners to ad- Rvildine 6.72 7.51) mit their hiring of thugs it would be Wood & bone 5.76 6,45: hecessary only to register them. Clothing 6.24 7.85) Picket demonstrations are. still be- |ing earried on by the workers in Wottn: ‘spite of a vicious injunction issued “Iron & metal $3.86 -——| forbidding it. Textile 3.84 ——| RO sated HATED oF Food products 432 ——| Clothing 335 —|Expose Ku Klux Klan Hotel, restaurant 5.76 =| i | After Hoover. ' The report emphasizes the low la-! bor organization in Hungary placing the trade urion membership at about} 180.000. (The white terror almost wiped out Hungarian unions after Herbert Hoover's relief organization helped to ernsh the workers’ govern-| ment in 1919.) At the end of 1927 about 12,000 or 7% of these trade unionists were unemployed. | The Hunear'an government is put-} ting over snecial laws to make it pos-| sible for Hungarian industrial 4 takings to secure lone term Inans under more favorable conditions. Among other provisions this legisla- tion will give the investment bankers floeting these loans the rght to in- tervene, in case of need, to assure the continued operation of a concern in financial difficulties. — British financiers are reported interested in financing Hungarian corporat’ons on these terms, and there is no doubt that with such favorable conditiors American canital will play a part in the exploitation of Hungarian work- ers. Cans Pleod Guilty MINEOLA. L. 1. April 16—Ser- meant George Considine of the Floral Park. T. 1. noliee departmont,. today. pleaded guilty before Connty Judge Louis 1. Smith here te an indictment charging him with grand larceny, sec- ond degree. Robert Ferris, chief of police at Floral Park, pleaded guilty to a similar charge last week, The charges grew out of the theft of on autero- hile containing $3.000 in liquor from Otto Hess of Floral Park last month. Nov. 7, 1928, up to 21, 1928.. —-For-in Harry Blake, clo.. |The Union Trast & Sav'ngs Bank, or SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning First Street, New York City. Political Corruption | CHICAGO, April 16—-David C, Stephenson told in his deposition to- day the methods of one faction of the Klan in accomplishing financial opera- tions and of instances in which whole state tickets were swayed by these poli ical activities. Stephenson was questioned in the Indiana State Penitentiary where he is serving a life term for murder. “Do you know any specific in- stances where the Klan acted as a diree; political force?” Stephenson was asked. “Yes,” he answered. “That prac- tice has been common in every state of the union where the Klan ha® ¢ | foothold. They told me on numerous | oceasions of forcing the Klan in Texas | to support a candidate for.the UL. ».} Scnae. They told me of spending | large sums of Klan money. They ex- plained to a speech at Indian- anolis that Klan candidates in Oregon, Colerado and California had sufficient | Klansmen in each state to elect county officials. Bank Formed With Union Aid Is Closed NEW ORLEANS, April 16 (PP). | ganized a few years back by the aid cf union labor across the river from New Orleans in Gretna, is in the hands of the Louisiana bank exam- iner, It failed to open for business due to a shortage in the accounts of Joseph W. Stinen, president, and “odfrey Owen, assistant cashier, who are under arrest. The shortage amounts to a little over $48,007 and including Nov. formation write to Daily Worker, 33 SUPPRESS TRADE UNION IN BRAZIL; MURDER MILITART Arrest, Deport Strike Leaders RIO DE JANIERO, (By Mail).— One of the largest trade unions of Brazil, the “Uniao dos Trabalhadcres Graficos” (the Union of Printing Trade Workers) was closed and pro- hibited from functioning for a period of three years, on the basis of the “Anibal Toledo Law” passed last year for the suppression of “anarchism” and subversive movements. This union is neither Communist nor anarchist. but rather a benevolent, reformist, mutual aid organization opposed to strikes, It maintains a school for the improvement of technical knowledge of its members and owns a large building and meeting hall. The vice-president of the large anion of Brazilian textile workers was discovered to have been an agent provocateur for many jars, who was engaged to enter the union and to re- port “dangerous” persons for arrest and deportation. The-press refused to report or to comment on this for fear of prosecution and the workers’ press} is practically non-existent. | Murder Workers. The ‘radical deputy, Azevedo. Lima. elected by the labor bloc in Rio de Janeiro and formerly active in the Sao Paulo revolution, called a large meeting in the hall of the Printers’| Union and exposed the provocateur. The latter arrived surrounded: by a} number of well-known spies, and re-| quested to be heard. When this was/ refused a shot was fired from the group surrounding the spy in the Ate, rection of the chairman’s table and immediately the police invaded the hall with drawn swords and began t shoot into the meeting. One worker was killed and another died later from his wounds. Sever?’ others were gravely wounded. This gave the government the pretext t- declare the printers’ union dissolved and to close their hall. Deport Leaders. | In the state of Sao Paulo, where} the coffee planters turned republicans and started a revolution because the ,Slavery was abolished, the procedure | is simplified. Wherever there is ap-| prehension of a strike the supposed | leaders are arrested and deported and! the workers’ meetings are dispersed | by the sabres of the police. Applications for 1928 USSR Tour Growing Numerous applications have al- ready been sent in to join the groups visiting the Séviet Union this sum- mer, the World Tourists, Inc. has an- nounced from its office at 69 Fifth Ave. Many more people will spend their summer holidays in the U. S. S. R. this year than ever before. Interesting sight seeing trips with every tour have been arranged with the co-operation of the “Russtour- ists,” the official travel bureau of the Soviet Goyernment, and the best of accommodation are assured, accord- ing to World Tourists, Inc. Bulgaria Quake Wrecks 3,000 Peasant Houses LONDON, April 16.—About 8,000 houses were destroyed by the -earth- quake that rocked southern Bulgaria on Saturday, said an Exchanve Tele- graph dispatch from Sofia today. Several towns were almost com- pletely. destroyed. The inhabitants to return to their ruined homes. Earlier dispatches indicated that | the loss of life was heavy. “BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Thousands of Workers Made Homeless by Floods in Eastern Canada FRENCH WORKERS ROUT POLICE AT COMMUNIST MEET | Expect Swing to Left in | Coming Election A number of hree policemen sh when police up an election French Commu- April 16.- and twenty injured in a ¢! apted to break atte meeting held by the Party yesterday. fighting occurred Rampaging rivers and swollen lakes have been causing much misery and damage in eastern Canada, jolent street and especially around Montreal, where sections of the city adjacent to the St. Lawrence river have been |when the gendarmes attempted to under water for days. Many homes were flooded and large numbers of families were compelled to seek we fi eee alee see helt vith neighbors and relatives. Top photo shows Notre Dame St., E., one of Montreal's main wrench away placards carried by hoped cia sil - Ree workers which icatured Premier ightiass Poincare, War Minister Painleve, See | ey a __ Paul Boncour and other members of INVESTORS STIR \UNEMPLOYMENTIN ®t it e . cad | i bearers of the banners and placards | took refuge on the top of a hill, where they w defended by a large body of workers. A number of policemen, who attempted to storm the hill, were hurt. REVOLTS IN COLOMBIA |TALY |$ DOUBLED BOGOTA (By mail) —Manifestations of regional “patriotism” in the | | Colombia, or for closer relations with| | east. jin parts of th’s district, | The frvit camnanies import Negro | workers from Cuba and Jamaica, con- is full of such separatist movements | favored by various economic condi-) tions and interests. | The government of Colombia is ap- | prehensive that it may lose the verj'; important district bordering on the Guif of Utaba by a new separatist Rubber movement for “independence” from chase Thousands SOLD AS SLAVES Panama. This movement is fostered} by the American United Fruit Cathe Quito, Ecuador, (By Mail).—The pany. | Ecuadorian minister of social welfare Smell Oil. who recently visited eastern (interior) The district is for many reasons'1art of the country, declared that h extremely important and would be of found there absolute evidence that na greater use to the American interests | tive Indiens are being sold into slav: and to the United States as an dependent” country than as a par of Colombia. The Gulf of Uraba on} the Atlantic Coast of Colombia cuts) ideep4nto. the’ foot ofthe isthmus.| ‘st four thousand. {nto thin. eulé-flows a river ftom the| Je Minister muhounced) that he Thus. another . inter-opeanic| Would make a thorough investize canal could be easily built here and|*° Ad an the Benecnonns sha most probably will be built some day | ais dedircedhs oe oe “ gk fe inves In addition, ofl wells are already | “#ation showed that ae ‘ Aig being exploited in the neighborhood “eames oi labia) Pabvclie : e of this gulf and the American Fruit); pes rey . Company has here its large and pro-\ o¢ the Peruvian rubber companies. A fitable fruit plantations. Further-| stave traffie in such large quantities s which still has some boundary claims! gonsent or cooperation of the local revelted. tracted, semi-slaves .who do, not understand the language of the coun ive years in jail and $2.000 fine any- try. Under the pretext of vaccination one who incites the Indians to revolt. they are branded so as to be recog-, ———_— e nized if they escape. The native Colombian workers are} unable to compete with these im-| that district in order to investigate | | conditions. The history of Colombia | } | Barons Pur-| “in. | ery to Peruvian rubber companies in | «| the district of Iauitos, on the Amazon | t River, and that the number of Indians | A thus sold recently amounted to more | 2 |the sale of the natives to the agents | more the district borders on Panama| ¢syiq not have happened without the | authoritics, against whom the Indians | The Ecuadorian government has is- | sued a decree punishing -ith one to} istrict of Uraba in the northeast corner of Colombia, at the foot of the * cs : panei Paniatie, begins to worry the government of Colombia. Its min- Twice as Many Jobless jster of industry was dispatched int sy ope ve" as Last Year GENEVA, April 16—Unemploy- |ment has more than doubled in Italy since last June, according to of 1 figures made public by the Ital government. According to the government fig- tres there are now 439,000 unemploy- jed workers in Italy compared to the | 215,000 figure for June, 1927. The lefigures understate the unemployment situation since part time workers are |not included in the unemployment | statistics. 1e figures for January and the ceding months follow: , 1928, ,000: December. : 000; Oc ; Sevtember, 306,000; ,000; July, 263,000; June, Oversubscribe Lottery Loan in Soviet Union | MOSCOW, (B |hanov, People’s jnance of the U, |the Hundred Mi an for the ( onomy, which w ment and il). — Briuk- sary of Fi- R. stated that mn Internal Lottery ation of Peasant issued by the ho! z0) proceeded in February and March, |has been fully sub The Finance Commi will pro- > middle the drawing to be done in eee realization | I The Communist Party is conducting an intensive drive for, the national elections which will take place this coming Sunday. In spite of the new electoral laws which are directed against the Communist and other minority parties, the Communists ex- pect to make large gains in the elec- and to return thirty-five mem- to the Chamber of Deputies. That the elections will show a gen- eral swing to the left is generally conceded. tion \Big Navy Propaganda Plot Seen in Senate WASHINGTON, April 16 (FP) — Rep. McClintic of Oklahoma, minor- y member of the house naval af- fairs committee, charges that enemies of the pacifist ana anti-militarist groups have tampered» with the franked envelopes in which he mailed lout copies of his speeches against |the big navy program. | Reply ing to charges that the Na- {tional Council for Prevention of War iF 1 enclosed some of its literature h his speeches in franked envel- opes, both McClintic and Frederick J. Libby, secretary of the council, de- jnied the accusation. McClintie sug- |gested that enemies must have taken |Libby® pamphlets and placed them in franked envelopes which, when sealed in his office, contained only his speeches. He has a nu.uwer os undelivered and returned copies, in- \tact, to prove that he enclosed no lother literature. iw are camping,in open fields, fearing}! Workers of the Worid Unite! ported slaves and are compelled to} emigrate. Thus the natives left in} the district ara mostly those who as merchants and pett;, employes, are dependent upon the fru't companics. | These classes are in favor of “in-| dependence.” An “independence” | from Colombia would give this petty} bourgeoisie certain advantages, as the} export taxes of this rich region would | go exclusively for their benefit in-} stead of for the central governnient of Colombia. | In addition to the native workers | ; the native farmers are suffering from| this invasion of the United Fruit! Company. The United Fruit Company | built a railway for the transport of | its product and prevents its use by! the independent fruit and banana! growers. 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