The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 3

| | | | | — ot ' garia, said an Exchange Telegraph THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 British Imperialists Are Planning New Attack Against the Soviet Union HICKS LAUNCHES ATTACK ON USSR IN THE COMMONS See Hand of Oil Barons in Govt. Seheme LONDON, April 20. — That the } British Government may take meas- ures to terminate all existing commer- | cial relations with the Soviet Union was indicated today when the Daily | News followed Sir Joynson-Hicks at- | tackyon the Soviet Union with the | publication of a rumor that the Stan- | dard Oil Company of New York had obtained a “monopoly of the product of the Soviet oil fields.’ The Gov- exxsnent policy ,has to a large extent been determined by the Royal Dutch Shell oil interests, which have been waging a bitter campaign against the Soviet Union. ral Rumors that the Baldwin Govern: ment would take steps to end all com- mercial relations between England and the Soviet Union were current | when Sir William Joynson-Hicks, | Home-Secretary, charged that notes ! issued by a Soviet Union bank in Eng- land had been found on a number of Irish revolutionists. These charges were attacked by Saklatvala, Commu- nist member of the House, who de- clared that the notes might have} passed thru dozens of hands before reaching the revolutionists. In commenting on the rumored oil contract between the Standard Oil! Company and the Soviet Union, the| Daily News declares that the tempo- rary truce between the Royal Dutch | Shell and the Standard Oil Company ; had been ended. \ The charges’ made by Sir William| Joynson-Hicks are regarded as being} an attempt to work up a “red scare” | by methods reminiscent of the notori-| ous Zinoviev forgery, which the Bald- | win regime used for climbing into power. JAIL. THIRTY | FINN RED RAIDS Charged Police Killed Communist Leader HELSINGFORS, Finland, April 20. —Thirty Communist leaders, includ- ing two members of the Diet, were arrested by the police yesterday in a nation-wide series of “red raids.” Further arrests are likely. One of the arrested leaders who was | reported by the police to have com- mitted suicide died as a result of bru- tal treatment by the police, according to charges made by the labor press. In_addition to the two members of the Diet, two members of the Tam- merfors Town Council and a number of editors of Communist Party papers have been placed under arrest. ONE KILLED IN DENVER BLAST Several Hurt in Film Explosion DENVER, Apr. 20. — A terrific explosion rocked the Alexander In- dustries Corporation in Englewood Denver suburb, today. First reports said one-man was killed and several | injured. The gorporation manufac- tures films. fa Fire, said to have broken out in/ the paint shop, spread rapidly and is | believed to have caused the explosion in a building used for making film, where a number of girls were em- ployed. Five injured were brought to the Denver General Hospital. Transportation Board) Absolves Contractors The contractors in charge of the job at 174th St. and Broadway where three workers were killed Wednesday night when the earth caved in were given a clean bill of health by the board of transportation. The fatal slide was unavoidable, the board said. The board further states it classes the catastrophe as a “typical mining’ accident.” Bulgarian Earthquake LONDON, April 20.--One hundred persons are reported to have been killed by the earthquake which par- tially. destroyed Philippopolis, Bul- d'spatch from Sofia this afternoon. More than 5,000 houses are uninhabit- ny residents of Sofia, still ter- ror-stricken, spent the night in fields beyond the city or in park ‘ oa | Baron von Heunefeld, who was in charge of the trans-Atlantic flight of the City of Bremer Schiller. Photo on left shows Fitzmaurice and Schiller. SELLING GERMAN MONARCHY AND A PUPPET IRISH GOVER ies 2, ts a clev er salesman. flew the monarchist flag, Heunefeld was put up as a monarchist candidate for the Reichstag in the coming German elections. Fitzmaurice is head of the flying | corps of the Irish Free State, which is maintained by the British imperialists. Photo to left shows Fitzmaurice landing at Murray Bay, ina plane piloted by Duke Ie After flying the Atlantic in a plane which TORTURES OF SERB ‘POLICE REVEALED) {ATTACK PICKETS VIENNA, April 20.—Details of the terrorism which the Serbian police and their agents are carrying on against the workers has been disclosed in revelations of one of the political prisoners from the Glavniaca jail. “Then they led me into the jail,’ the prisoners statement reads, “where to foot. “At the hearing an agent ques- tioned me about events of which I had never even heard and when I would not ‘confess’ to them, he struck me in the face with such force that I bit my tongue and began to bleed profusely. “As I persisted in not ‘confessing’ the agent shouted, ‘Throw him into the flue-room.’ The gendarmes led me down to a cellar, opened a tiny door and thrust me into a hole that was used in cleaning the chimney ‘lues. On the floor lay filth, soot and bricks. I could neither stand nor sit but was cramped together in an in- describable posture. i Agony. “After a while I heard dull thuds in the next room and the cries of a man in agony. “About midnight a gendarme opened the door and I crept out, but |I was unable to stand and fell to the | ground. “The gendarme dragged me to the inquisition room where a few agents were standing. They attempted to wheedle me into ‘confessing’ all. As I still persisted in keeping silent they suddenly sprang on me like wild beasts. I was beaten, trampled un- derfoot, and choked until I was nearly strangled. They tore out my hair. Whipped. “Then my warder came in and an- nounced that I had hidden the door. to the flue-room. The agents began to redouble their assault. I was slugged and beaten with cow-hide whips. Then they took guns and beat me with the stocks. I finally fell down unconscious and they thrust me again into the flue-room. “When they brought me out again I was no longer a human being, but an unconsicous, agonized piece of flesh. I compromised innocent and unknown men, told things that I had never done and betrayed organiza- tions in which I had never been a member. “When I had completed my ‘con- ;fessions’ I was thrown into a cell. It was a room intended to hold six men at most. There were forty men in the cell. We lay over and under one another on. the floor and could scarcely move. Several of my cell mates were suffering from syphilis or tuberculosis and told me how they had been brutalized. “From the neighboring cell we heard frightful cries of men and women. I was afraid I would go in- sane.” The author of the above revelations was liberated shortly after the ter- rible experiences he describes above. OPEN SHOPPERS — BEGIN CAMPAIGN Indianapolis Scene of Coming Struggle INDIANAPOLIS, April 20.—Prom- inent open-shoppers of this state are conducting a fight against the trade unions. They are headed by Andrew J. Allen, secretary of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis, a branch of the National Association of Manu- facturers, in association with the Na- tional Metal Trades Association. At a meeting held last weck plans BUY PROFESSORS Howard Gets $5,000,000 in One Jump BOSTON, (FP) April 20.—Con- temptuous rejection by the legislature of the public utilities commission's bill allowing cities and towns to es- tablish municipal power and light plants, reveals the power of organized gas and electric interests. The legis- lature’s power and light committee, pet of the private power interests for years, reported recently against the bill. In the hope of saving something from the wreck, Rep. Henry L. Shat- tuck, chairman of the ways and means committee, put through the house a resolve for the creation of a recess commission to study the whole sub- ject and report next year. It is likely to meet death in the senate—the graveyard of progressive legislation in Massahusetts. The Propaganda Flood. The power trust has flooded the state with propaganda, paid for by customers of the gas and electric companies. Full page, even double page advertisements in the Boston papers by the Edison and other elec- tric interests, encourage the press te a policy of silence on the biggest cor- poration issue in years. The power trust has even invaded Harvard—the holy of holies of educa- tion in America. Professor Cabot of the Harvard Business School appeared as a witness for the Malden Electric Co. to plead on the side of the in- terests against the public utilities commission’s bill. He spoke as an advocate of the unconscionable repro- duction theory in the regulation of rates. Cabot, professor of public utilities at Harvard, has been in the electric industry as an investor and official for years. Harvard’s Subsidy. The Harvard Business School was thought to have been amply provided with funds when George F’. Baker, the New York financier, gave it $5,- 000,000. But it became known re- cently that the National Electric Light Ass’n. contributed some $60,- 000 to the department devoted to in- struction in the ethics (!) and econ- omics of the electric light and power industry. Daniel Starch, a New York adver- tising pundit, is another professor at Harvard’s select business school. He is a trustee of the New England Gas & Electric Ass’n, a device by which the Associated Gas'& Electric sys- tem of New York evades the Massa- chusetts law forbidding outside hold- ing companies from gobbling up local operating companies. The Republican Angle. The power behind the throne in power politics is J. Otis Wardwell, of Haverill, known to his cronies as Jake. He rarely comes to the state house nowadays, but sends his run- ners. His-son, Sheldon E. Wardwell is counsel for the Massachusetts Electric & Gas Ass’n. Jake is going as a delegate to the republican na- tional convention. With Jake in Kansas City pulling wires, Massa- chusetts will be safe for the power in- for conducting the open shop strug- gle were taken up. Those in attend- ance included James A. Emery of 7 ° | Washington, general counsel of the | Report 100 Killed By National Industrial Council and the! National Association of Manufac- turers. Allen has »invited all local mer- chants, manufacturers and profee- sional men to join the union-smashing campaign. terests. [Fascist Italy Launches Program for Huge Navy | ROME, April 20.—When the huge naval program which the Italian Government is planning is completed, Italy will have a naval force not far behind that of France. 10 HURT IN AIR CRASH MADRID, April 20.—Ten persons are in the hospital at Zaragona today suffering from injuries received when a passenger carrying airplane of the Madrid-Barcelona Line: crashed into a In 1931, if the program is carried thru, Italy will have four 10,000 ton cruisers, four light cruisers of 5,000 tons and 12 light cruisers of 2,000 tons. Her navy will also include 20 destroyers and 25 submarines from 800 to 1,400 tons. BOMBAY POLICE Textile Strike Shuts Down Mills BOMBAY, April 20—A number of {workers were injured today in a {clash with Bombay police who at- | tempted to break up a picket demon- | stration in front of a textile mill. Four thousand strikers participated in the demonstration. Virtually every textile mfll in the city has been out in connection with the textile strike. | * © @ CALCUTTA, April 20.—Mass meet- ings have been held here to protest. against the killing of five railway strikers’ by police who fired into a demonstration at a railway depot near Calcutta. More than. forty workers were wounded. | The 20,000 railway strikers are de- manding union recognition and a wage increase. SCORES KELLOGG “PEACE” TREATY RIO DE JANTIERO, April 20. — The Kellog reciprocal pacts are criti- cized as mere gestures in an editorial which appeared in the “Jornal do Brasil” yesterday. “There is nothing new in the plan,” the editorial states. “It is merely a proposal for pacts embodying condi tional reciprocal obligations. But the plan is causing a flutter in European diplomatic quarters, which think, ap- parently that this time there is some sincerity on the part of the United States. “Without sending any notes at all, the United States by adopting a pol-| iey of rigorous reduction of arma- ments could do more to foster peace than it can do with all this diplo- matic agitation.” } STREET CAR MEN WIN. PITTSBURGH, April 20 (FP).— Two thousand eight hundred car men through their union have won 1%- cents an hour wage advance.. Starting IMPRISON DORIOT AS ELECTION APPROACHES PARIS, April 20.—After a vain search that lasted for several months, | the French Secret Service has succeeded in arresting Jacques Doriot, one of the leaders of the French Communist Party. Doriot, who is a member of the pease. Sh Chamber of Deputies, did not appear| in the chamber when it voted to vio- late the diplomatic immunity sup- posedly guaranteed its members and| virtually authorized the arrest of| | Doriot, Cachin, Marty and Vaillant-| Couturier, who had been sentenced to jail for opposing the French war in the Riff. Doriot’s arrest, which took place| at an election campaign meeting at| | Lille, is expected to aid rather than| hinder the Communist Party’s cam-| paign. The imprisonment of the four Communist deputies has aroused a | storm of protest in large industrial | centers. After the arrest of Doriot by the | Secret service agents, several hun- | dred workers marched to the sub | prefecture to demand his immediate | release, but were dispersed by the NMENT! police, who swung batons freely. RUSH AMERICAN WAR VESSELS T0 NORTHERN CHINA Fighting Between War Lords an Excuse - With severe mder Gener~} the northern} ince, American | are being cording to re- dwin F, Stan-| sul, has advised all; s to leave Tsinan, re of Yenchowfu, 761 miles to the south, by Feng’s troops, Three of Japanese Inq; fantry are being rushed from Tientsin compa’ |to Tsinan, the reports state. er a TOKYO, April 20. — The Govern-/ ment faces a critical situation in the Diet as the result of the despatch of warships and troops to China and the wholesale arrest of members of the! left parties. The Government, is is understood, will make every effort to oust the two members of the radical Ronoto# party, recently declared illegal, from} the Diet. | . . . SHANGHAI, Apr. 20. — Chang Tso Lin’s northern army has been decisively defeated with heavy losses by the southerners in battle, along the Peking-Hankow railway in! Chihli province, according to word re« ceived here today. 4 The Communist Party is expected! to gain heavily in the national elec-j tion which will begin this Sunday. The Party expects to return about) thirty-five of its members to the chamber in spite of the revised dleo~ tion laws which were directed against it. The Party is planning huge de= monstrations in connection with the election and May Day. Chemical Industry in Soviet Union Growing MOSCOW, (By Mail) —The volume of production of the chemical industry of U. S. S. R. rose from 121 million roubles in 1923 to 660 million roubles last year. The production of chemi- eals proper increased during this period six times. Especially marked has been, during the last two years, the growth pro- duction of the coke and benzol, rub- ber, pharmaceutical, match and fats industries. The production of super- phosphates has increased six times and a half comparing with the pre- war level. Wednesday ee Orme Thursday .... Nov. Saturday }.... Nov. 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