The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1928, Page 3

|, TONORTH CHINA g THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 Page Three ENTS FOREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPOND JAPANESE RUSH _ MORE MARINES Anti-Imperialist Protest Spreads in Amoy TOKIO, April 17.—In addition to a large fleet which has already been despatched to Amoy and ports in north | China, the Japanese cabinet decided today to order marines landed at Tsingtao. The question of despatching additional marines from Japan to Tsingtao will be taken up tomorrow. The question of reinforcements is being taken up in connection with the widespread agitation against Japan- ese encroachments in Shantung. * AMOY, April 17.—The strikes and boyeotts which were launched ‘here after the arrest of four Korean na- tionalists by the Japanese consular police have spread thruout Fukien province in spite of the arrest of many of the strike leaders. The Chinese naval authorities are ‘cooperating with the Japanese and American marines in an effort to break the boyeott. Altho the demon- strations were originally launched against Japan, they have taken on the character of protest against all of the powers, including the United States and Great Britain. Foreign trade has beer hard hit as a result of the boycott. WILL PIGKET AT POLISH CONSUL Detroit Workers Demonstration DETROIT, Mich. Avril 17,—Ir spite of the stormy weather scores of Detroit workers turned out fer the protest demonstration before the Po- lish consulate here arranged for last Saturday. The demonstration wa postponed until April 21, however. The Hromade persecutions taking place in Vilna have aroused the na- tianal elements resident in Detroit whose homeland is under the Polish fascist heel more than any other of the terrorist acts of Pilsudski. With an added week for agitation and fair weather the workers of De- troit should be able to stage a monster demonstration. Every worker should be there at 10:30 a. m. April 21, at 80 EB. Gar- field Street, between Jchn R and Woodward. HILL COMMITTEES GALL HUGE MEET 58 Mill Shut Down by Strike of 30,000 (Continued from Page One) terly critical of the “way in which the strike has been handled by the Council offiicals. No meetings were ealled even for the union member- ship on the the first day of the strike, No machinery was organized for con+ solidating the ranks of the strikers, by preparing them for the inevitable strike-breaking activities of the em- ployers. These are complaints to be heard on all sides. The only remarks made by the union leadership on its attitude to- ward the great m: of unorganized workers were made by Batty when he learned of the unanimous re- sponse to the strike call. He said, “Our position is strong.in eyery qu” ter, we are receiving support fro the non-union workers.” This is }ooked upon-by the worker: as a declaration that he has no in- tention of organizing the 23,000 un- organized textile operatives. Mill Committees Form The speed with which mill commit- tees are being formed in among all the strikers insures the unity of the union and non-union men, ‘in ‘their joint fight for the restoration of the wage cut. The slogans raised by the Textile Mill Committees, who in leaf- lets are criticising the union leader- ship for refusing to put forward d- mands as an answer to the wage cut pronosal of the employers, are (1) A 20 per cent wage increase; (2) The 8 hour day and the 5 day week: (8) Elimination of the speed-up system. To Spread Strike. No one here doubts the fact that the mill barons will immediately be- grin to rally all the powerful strike- breaking forces at their, command And yet the workers point out th” Textile Council is doing nothing ir the way of safeguarding the so! darity of the strikers ranks. An- nouncements made by the mill com- mittees show that immediate at: tempts will be made to organize pic ket lines, and that steps will be taker to spread the strike to other centers New England, where over 100,09 I have recently suffered wage Plan Z =. Henry Ford, who is believed to have gone to England to arrange for MI | Ford Won’t Give Up Rubber Empire in Brazil WILBUR REPORT FAKES FIGURES ON NICARAGUA Underestimates WASHINGTON, April..172=The American’ marine occupation of Nic~ aragua has cost the United States Government $1,662,222" “over. nermal expenses,” Secretary of the Navy Wilbur reported to the senate this Num-| ber of Natives Murdered | Rae Mussolini Launches New Series of “Red Raids” TRY TO BAR “FIGHTERS MAY "ELECTION NEARS |Move by Hindenburg to Cripple Party LONDON, April 17. — The German | government contemplates the issuance ding active partici- general election by red front fighters” of an order forbi ' |pation in the Mz the purchase of raw rubber on a large scale, has announced that he won't give up his plans for “developing” his huge rubber plantations in Brazil. A Brazilian senator recently announced that he would furnish evidence of a afternoon. Wilbur . also. reported that . 21 American marines were killed, 45 |the Communist }on the ground it is an organization of | “violence,” according to word received striking nature concerning the cessio 2 of Ford’s rubber empire. HAITI WORKERS | AITKUAND LAW Imperialist Attempt to Dispossess Peasants By HENRY C. ROSEMOND. (First Advisor of Haitian Patriotic Union in America). In all the cities of Haiti, especially Port au Prince, mass protest meet- demand of the government of Wash- ington presented by John H. Russell, the so-called high commissioner of the United States in Haiti. The demand is a new law authoriz- ing the Americans to dispossess the Haitian peasants who haven't any identification papers as owners and state certificates, mentioning the dae, the quantity, the price, from their lands. In a way of speaking, no Haitian in the republic of Haiti has any of the papers that the new law or any other law of that kind would require. If this law goes through in Hai i, jt will be an addition to the misery of that country. The Haitian peas- ants are now working for extremely small salaries. Three hundred Hai ans at the American Sugar Company in. Port-au-Prince are working at _v cents a day. In the civil service there are Americans in every department. 'Phe American engineers get from $200 to $500 a month and the Haiti- an engineers who have just as much experience or more experience than most of the Americans in Haiti get [$40 to $75 a month, Most of the Haitian engineers were educated in France; Germany, England and a few in the United States. It is reported that the idea of this new law is to get the peasants out of their native lands because they do not want to sell them to the agents of Wall Street in Haiti, who desire to start new rubber and sugar ‘cane plantations in the mountains of the south of Haiti—especially the moun- tains of Petion Ville, the coolest state in the east of Haiti. The Haitian people are calling on all the American workers and the workers of othtr nations to help them to protest against these daily crimes that are committed in Haiti, and es- pecially this coming imposition on the Haitian peasants by the Amer- ican Wall Street imperialists, which is a short road to further enslaye- ment of the Haitian republic by the United States. SENATE STALLS N INJUNCTIONS WASHINGTON, Apr. 17 (FP).— No report on anti-injunction legisla- tion has yet been filed by the sub- zommittee of the senate judiciary “mmittee which conducted hearings n February and March on the Ship- stead bill. Senators Norris, Blai and. Walsh‘ of Montana compri sub-committee, Under the agreement reached last |December between the Norris pro- gressive group and the administration republicans in the senate, whereby the latter were enabled to organize the senate, anti-injunction legislation was made one of the three main issues to be brought to a rolicall before ad- journment. — SSS With the first repercussions of the general strike of 30,000 New Bedforc textile workers mating itself : felt hove by unrest among the workers in the Amoskeag Mills, the company 0’- ficials have decided to do all possible to prevent similar action by their workers. - The treasurer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, F. ©. Du maine has announced -that he is ‘sit’ in at the meetings of the “work- ers’ congress” which will be held Sat- urday night. The mill owners are even afraid to trust their company inion when their recent 10 per. cent. wage cut is discussed. He will there- ‘ore attend to give the “tone” to he discussion of trade problems. The meeting is not one of all thé workers »ut of about 260 delegates of the 10,000 workers employed by the com- i ings are being held against the new! |Berlin Glove Workers | | | BERLIN, April 17—Two thousand \ workers in the fabric-glove manutac- tories went on strike in Chemnitz, when the manufacturers refused to grant their demands for a 10 per cent | inerease in wages. Many thousands of textile workers and machinists are striking in the city of Chemnitz for the past few. | weeks, ITALIAN FASCISTS ACTIVE IN BRAZL RIO DE JANEIRO (By mail). — The Italian anti-fascist newspaper “Fanfulla” published in Rio De Jan- eir vas raided by a band of Italian fascists and much material and ma- chinery destroyed. Nobody was ar- rested. During the recent election of the | Executive Committee of the Italian Benefit organization of the Emp!oy- ees of the Press, Italian fascisti, led by the first secretary of the Italian embassy, invaded the meeting place by force, took possession of the hall, drove their opponents out in the meet- ing with clubs and guns and “elected” their own candidates. Part of the local press is attacking the Italian embassy as openly foster- ing acts which disregard Brazilian. sovereignity. HOUSE IS SPLIT ON FLOOD GRAFT Mississippi Contracts Will Total $395,000,000 WASHINGTON, April 17.—With charges of another “Teapot Dome” being widely circulated, the house to- day took up the $325,000,000 Jones | Reid flood control bill with prospects of a final vote being reached Savur- | day. The senate passed the bill 69 to 0. President Coolidge, according to | Rep. Madden of Illinois, is insistent | | upon the secretary of war being given | ; authority to control the letting of} contracts. Flowage rights or ac.ual | purchase of 4,000,000 acres of land | for floodways are involved. ‘ Rep. Frear says that 70 per cent of {the land is owned by corporate in- terests and that the possibilities oi | | ereft in the sale of land to the gov- ernment would cause another “Teapot | Dome.” 1 Mcthids vof spending the millions | to-be- appropriated by congress for | flood relief were diseussed in private | recently at the White House at al breakfast attended by Mayor William | H; Thompson,’ of Chicago, and other interested persons from Illinois. USSR GOLD WILL BERLIN, April 17. — The $5,201, | 000 Soviet gold bullion which is bein brought to Germany from New Yori. where the United States Government refused it official admission is due in Bremen today. Officals of the Soviet state bank said it would be deposited in a Berlin bank pending orders from Moscow. While the gold was in New York the Bank of France filed suit in the American federal court seeking pos- session of the bullion, The Graduate School WICHITA, Kan., April 17-—-I B Walston, former chief of police; C. C Dehner, former city’ commissioner and Chester A, Conner, city electior commissioner, were arrested yester day eerged with conspiracy to vie late the Volstead Act. Others arres. Strike for Pay Raise) marines wounded, 8 Nicaraguan Na- tional Guards killed and four wounded in the fighting there to date. He added that 202 Nicaraguan natives were \“known to have been killed,” along {with “two women and one child, who were slain accidentally.” He said the native casualties were believed much higher. * * * That Secretary of Navy Wilbur considerably underestimated the num- ber of Nicaraguans killed by Ameri- can troops is indicated by reports from Washington based on marine figures as well as by reports direct from Nicaragua. More than 300 Nicaraguan men, women and children | were reported to have been killed by marine planes in the bombardment of Ocotal last year. Statements made by General San-} at growing in Italy. King Victor E shortly after the bomb explosion. | here today from Berlin. This move on the part of the Hin- denburg regime to cripple the Com- munist Par the election campaign will meet with a strong protest gn the part of the workers. Milan ( q above) fourteen is believed to have been planted by Mussolini agents to furnish a basis for a new series of red raids. With wages lowered, unemploy- | ment doubled in less than a year and prices steadily rising unrest is | manuel (above) arrived in Milan WAR ON PAY CUT IN BRITISH WILLS Workers Fight Increase in Number of Hours MANCHESTER, Eng., April 17.— Senate Votes Bigger Personnel for Navy dino also indicate that the number of | Repregentatives of cight unions of the marines killed in engagements with Nicaraguan nationalist troops is con- siderably larger than that given by Secretary of Navy Wilbur. Articles written by an American marine aviator and a newspaperman who accompanied him in the bombardment of Chinendaga indicate that the number of women and chil- dren killed by marine bombs is more likely to,be three hundred than the three cited by. Wilbur. American marine planes have praciically wiped out a number of towns in the interior. | Just how large the cost of the Nic- |araguan war has actually been is not indicated by Wilbur’s figures which indicate “ihe above normal expenses.” textile workers’ federation are meet- ing with the employers to discuss the wage reduction again demanded by | the textile manufacturers’ association. The mill owners also demand that 48 hours a week be worked irrespective of cleaning time which adds a number of hours to the week’s work. The employers make these demands after the textile workers had threat- ened a general strike against the pro- | resal of the manufacturers that wages be cut 1216 per cent and hours be in- creased to 52% a week. | Even the employers’ press here is cf the opinion that the workers will fight against any attempt to lower | No attempt has been made to bar }cist organization from the coming | elections. | WASHINGTON, April 17 oo) — FASCISTS MURDER Increase of the navy personnel from! in the senate, Chairman Hale of the| committee on naval affairs said the | larger number of men was required Hi ane more men are needed in that| Try Thousand Workers ranch, Sen. Norris fought to place in the} quiring withdrawal of the marines from Nicaragua. Dill and Wheeler! joined him in asking why the marines | while running an election in Nicara- gua. Wheeler also asked about the! money used in keeping Sen. King out} |the Steel Helmets, semi-military fas- 83,250 men to 86,000 men was voted! THREE IN JAPAN by the fact that aviation is develop- re naval appropriation bill a clause re- were allowed to use public funds) of Haiti last summer. | ‘Porters in Oakland OAKLAND, Cal. April 17.—The |members of the Negro Porters Union Taking Vote on Strike as Radicals TOKIO, April 17—Three members of the Minseito Party, opposition party in the Diet, were killed today when a number of members were at- tacked by seven members of the re ation known as tae ion for the Preser- Four other members ito Party were severely National As vation of Peace. of the Minse: injured. With the approach of the opening of the Diet, the fascists have become extremely active. A member of the |Labor-Farmer Party, who returned t@ |Tokio after a spe: g tour, was at- |their working standards, nc matter|in Oakland, which has a large Negro | what the action of the reformist lead- | population, are taking a strike vote i jers of their unions. Every time a|at the present time along with the for G. O. P. Convention | mill owner tried to install lower stan-| Test of the union nationally, and it aaa " |dards it was met by an immediate | is admitted everywhere that the por!- WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.—| strike without waiting for union sanc-|ers in Oakland are overwhelmingly Plans for the segregation of Negro | tion, jin favor of a strike, following the jbreak-down of the negotiations and “Jim Crow” Plans Made delegates who will attend the Re- publican national convention in Kan- LINER TOWED TO SAFETY. STAY IN BREMEN | “issecsreceet™ sas City in June are being carried out. In letters transmitted to members ey: f s rafts of Republican national Committee con- | cages gc camene = peal Bt taining contracts for accommodations | Phas 4 nee Saint te ike “Cape Cod for their delegations, Charles Panel: was towed safely into the har- Curry, secretary of the local com-/ mittee on housing arrangements, ad- | bor here yesterday. The 400 passen- gers were removed. vised the national committeemen that | Wnt BOSTON, April 17—The Eastern the contracts he enclosed did not in- | clude arrangements for the accommo- | dation of “Negro delegates.” | \the refusal of the government board to accept the demands of the union. | } Although there are no official re-| | turns as yet, the vote for a strike will probably be almost unanimous in Oakland. HOTEL EXPLORER DIES Elsworth M. Statler, unfamous ex- ploiter of labor, hotel man, head of the Statler chain of hotels, died this morning. -Execut of the Pennsyl- vania Hotel confirre¢ ~sporis of his death, but refused details, eo TRODIKY ODPOSEION ~~ or Pains ‘1 Relieved Its Hed Safely with for (CAN Sante Midy WORKERS Sold by All Druggists, 8 f Bertram D. 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