The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1928, Page 3

BIRKENHEAD IN BERLIN TO FORM ANTI-USSR BLOG Urges Military Attack on Soviet Union | BERLIN, April 24—Lord Birken- head’s visit to Germany, ostensibly for “health,” was made for the pur- pose of sounding Germany on the question of a military alliance against the Soviet Union, it was revealed to- day. Altho Lord Birkenhead announ- eed that he had not notified the Brit-! ish foreign office of his intention of “playing golf in Berlin,” it is gener-| ally supposed that he had conferred! with Sir Austen Chamberlain, for- eign secretary, and other members| of the*cabinet. According to the local press, Ar-| nold Rechberg, head of the German) potash trust and notorious for his campaigns against the Soviet Union. admitted that he and Von Kuhlmann at one time foreign minister under the kaiser, had conferred with Lord Birkenhead. Rechberg has openly admitted that he is exerting every effort to form an international capitalist offensive against the Soviet Union. “I do not wish to conceal the fact that I believe a united European cam-| paign against the Bolsheviki is im- perative. In the case of England, a military attack against the Soviet | Union is necessary on financial grounds alone.” France, Rechberg stated, would) certainly side with England in any offensive against the Soviet Union, while Germany will ultimately find herself in alliance with England “Germany’s trade with the Soviet | Union,” he said, “is only a matter of} millions; our investments in Franco- German industries alone reach Dil-| lions. Germany’s alliance with Great Britain and France in a campaign against the Bolsheviki is inevitable.” LEWIS THUGS BEAT MINERS Six Taken to Hospital, Many More Injured (Continued from Page One) failed to interfere and the thugs were permitted to carry on at will. None of them were arrested. Lewis Officials, Scab Herders. This morning’s attack under the direct leadership of an official of the Lewis-Fishwick machine has exposed these men as ordinary scab herders for the operators, the miners declare. Loda formerly posed as a “progres- sive.” Miners’ and their w ing the affair indics at in spite of the increased terro hing could stop their efforts to advance the cause of the union. The greatest sac- | tifices have already been made for the j union, they declared. This is the spirit in which the Save-the-Union| forces are carrying on to build again the fighting organization of the mine workers. in discuss- Business Still “Gains” MONTREAL, April 24, — Corpor- ations and big business generally are} still boasting about the “prosperity” | of 1927. Eyen the Canadian Pa Railway which feared that certain small wage increases conceded during the latter part of 1926, would spell ruin for the stockholders, managed to make a net profit of 12 per cent. | Other corporations reaped greater | gains. The Azitib Power and Pulp Company whose common. shares in January, 1927, sold for $87, sold for $154 in January this year. Steel of Canada shares of stock jumped from $118 to $187, a gain of 50 per cent. 5 SANDING U.S. TROOPS BY EAST COAST DASH | of THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDRY, APRIL 25, 1928 FOREIGN NEWS --. BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS American sugar barons are using the mosi modern eqisipr by Dr. W. E. Brandes, who will examine sugar plants on the island with a view to adapting them for cultivation in this country. Photo on left shows plane em- nent, ployed in the expedition; map (center) shows location of island; photo on right shows Richard Peck, who will pilot the plane. Reactionaries MEXICO CITY, April 2: hundred~ countér-revolutionists were killed and a unknown number wounded in an engagement with the second {regiment of the Presidential Guard in Jalisco, a report from the interior Rainy Season Halts’ states. Pursuit Plans | Another report announces the de- Two |feat of 300 reactionaries in Colima. MANAGUA, April 24—=Admission| N° St#tement of casualties was made that General Augusto Sandino, Ler Priest Léads Attack. of the Nicaraguan army of independ- SESE PR Rs BAe ance had completely outgeneraled f MEXICO CITY, April 24.—A hand- them was made by the officers of the ul: of Police | and volunteers yester- United States marine forces invading | 48Y stood off a new attack by insur- in Nicaragua with the announcement |&°"t conservatives at the brie oe that General Sandino is heading for Cueramaro, a report from the interior the Atlantic coast of his country and piaies. The insurgent guerrillas led that it will be next to impossible to by Aristeo Pedroza, 2 rebel priest, be- pursue-him owing to the approach of | £8? the attack at midday. They were thé rainy ‘seasoit: routed by the arrival ef a detachment of federal troops, who killed 40 of The announcement is believed to be] them. special significance since the stronghold of Sandino sentiment in Nicaragua has always been along the Atlantie coast. It was from this so- called Mosquito Coast that the ragged peons streamed north to join Sandino at the time he was defending El Chipote against the first major American offensive. U.S. SHOWS GAIN Totals $80,000,000 For Six Months American-Russian trade reached a \ total of $80,000,000 for the six months ending March 81, 1928, as compared with $59,000,000 in the preceding half year period and $34,000,000 in the corresponding six months last year, it was announced yesterday by the Amtorg Trading Corporation. The region thru which the army of independence is forced to make its route is rich in gold mines, many of them controlled or cwned by Ameri- can and other foreign interests and it is believed that, as at the La Luz mine, General Sandino will be able to replenish the resources of his army from these mines. | The latest tactical triumph of the Nicaraguan leader follows a long period during which the whereabouts of Sandino and his forces have mysti- USSR TRADE WITH fied the invaders from the United States. This volume of trade which is the Distvess calls from wealthy |‘@?eest transacted in any six months plantation owners in all parts of the rvetween the United States and Russia country, who feared that their peons |“°™Pares with a total of $48,000,000 might rise to join the ranks of the] °t the entire year 1913. The un- army of independence as soon as San. }-avorable balance in Soviet trade with dino and his men appeared in their] h¢ United States became more pro- vicinity have kept the Ameriean in-| Unced during the past half -year vaders on the jumy. nd reached $40,000,000, giving rise — 9 serious problems in adjusting the valance. “The earlier expéctations as to the results of the first half of the Soviet have been more than justified by the Reports that two or more foreign prisoners have been taken by San- dino in the capture of La Luz and other mines, have not yet been con- PERE fiscal’ year” 1927-1928, beginning| : : z October 1, 1927,” stated Mr. Saul G. Find Violations of Bron, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Amtorg. “Purchases Nashville Labor Laws NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 24.— jof goods for shipment to the Soviet Union for the past half-year: period |-— |amounted to $65,469,199, undoubtedly Workers of Nashville are demanding|a record figure for Soviet-American that the city supply additional in-| trade. Sales of Soviet products here spectors to supervise woman and child} by the Amtorg and by the Centro- labor. Present factory inspectors |Soyus and the Selskosojus, represent- have found that many children ing Soviet cooperatives in this coun- tween the ages of 14 and 16 are work-/try, amiounted for the six months to ing without certificates full days and | $8,148,829. Estimating the value of are not attending schools at all. manganese exports from Russia into —_—_—_——_ this country and of sales of Soviet GUATAMALA FIGHTS LOCUSTS Beale ee companies under - ‘ontracts 8 GUATAMALA CITY, April 24—| total of $80,000,000, fers en 8, 2 Fear is expressed here that the en- $ meri- ; |¢an trade is obtained.” tire Guatamalatan crops may be seri- ously injured if the plague of locusts, PERU WORKERE D : wHteh have appeared over the richest q a DROWN i istricts of the country, LIMA, Peru, April agricultural distric workmen and an engin cannot be stopped within the next cb days. The farmers and’ peons are digging trenches and building wire obstructions to halt the advance of the pests. pice oie re Oe HE'S NOT IN OFFICE NOW. America was urged to drop | “perverted patriotism” and conception | of the United States as “Ged’s own) country” by William C. Redfield, for: | merly secretary of commerce, speak-| ing at a meeting of the Economie Club at the Hotel Astor. { drowned in the collapse on the Chimpote-Recuay Yr the Chuguicara River, according to a despatch from the interior, None of the bodies were recovered, the des- patch sai ; by Jay Lovestone. THE ECONOMICS OF. AMERICA MAY DAY 1928—Alex. Bittelman. LRRPRARAPRRRNERT ALL M ITER LL OL AVERT TRUE RENE RARE RIMR, MAY COMMUNIST} This issue contains the following articles: THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT--- DE LEONISM AND COMMUNISM—Karl Reeve. TWO TACTICS IN THE COAL MINE STRUGGLE—Wn. Z. Foster. WHEN WAR COMES—by Bertram D, Wolfe. BOOK REVIEWS AND CARTOONS. Order Now From WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street, New York City. ee To wear Support of Support of World-wide N AGRICULTURE—A. G, Bosse. Bivery Party member—See t Every miiitant worker---See Button! Buttons sell at: Order from: road over | EVERY WORKER MUST WEAR A MAY DAY BUTTON! Every worker must show his solidarity on May Day by wearing the Miay Day Button Protest Against -American Imperialism! Struggle Against the War Danger! . Every Party unit---Spread the buttons! ~ Wy workers wear the May Day Button! Every progressive ond militant labor organization—See that all your members wear the May Day Button! |, National Office, Workers Party, MAY DAY BARRED. BY KUOMINTANG Fear Demonstrations. | Against War Lords | | . | SHANGHAI, April 24—The Kuo-| | mintang. government at Nanking has | issued an edict strictly forbidding the | celebration of May Day by workers in territory in its control. The au-| thorities fear that demonstrations | |} against the kuomintang may be held | jon May Day. | “Whereas the northern exnedition| has gained victories, but is still in al critical stage, it is the duty of the} government as well as of the people,” | the resolution says, “to consolidate their force to keep peace, to carry out | the spirit of the resolution as passed | by the government in order that our | brothers at the front may not be |troubled with any. unfortunate oc- currences at home. | “May Day is approaching. The | goss rnment knows well that day is a \labor day and should be celebrated NBg: the workers, tut regrets that thé {celebration should be postponed until | next year, when we shall have com- jpleted our campaign against the} north. Therefore it has been) de- cided that there should be no demon- strations of any kind except those which are sponsored by the proper authorities and held indoors. This resolution must be carried out strictly.” he Kwangtung provincial govern- ment has issued a decree forbidding demonstrations of any kind on May Day. ® SPRING BALL FOR MINERS SATURDAY Novel Program at New Harlem Casino | The International Miners’ Enter- tainment Troupe will present an orig- inal program at the International Spring Ball to be held next Saturday evening, April 28, at the New Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Ave. The troupe. which presented its program for the first time last week at the Wentral Opera House, will perform several novelty numbers. Moxie Krempassky will present a burlesque on internretive dancing, and Casey Renat, another of the talented Miners’ Trio, will render sevéral num- |bers on his accordion. In addition, there will be other novel features. Admission will be fifty cents. Tick- ets can be procured at the head- quarters of the Harlem Relief Com- mittee, 101 East 108rd St. or at the Penn-Ohio Miners’ Relief Commit- tee, 799 Broadway, Room 36. | WILL REDUCE TAXES OF RICH. WASHINGTON, April 24.—A $210,000,000 rich man’s tax reduction bill was presented to the finance committee today by administration senate leaders. a May Day Button means: oy the Soviet Union! the Striking Miners! Proletarian Solidarity! hat your friends and fellow: that you wear the May Day » 7 cents. .. § cents, “125th St., N. ¥. C. | jail today. jthe murder of Sacco and Vanzetti | tor James A. Reed (D) of QUTWITS Rowt Mexican CELEBRATIONOF (Communists in GOMEZ SHUTS UP Prison Mutiny sh Silesia, April iled for Com- ied in the local Thirty workers munist act ing the International and other cla: songs, they attracted several hundred workers who threatened to storm the jail to free them. Guards fired over the heads of the demon- strating workers in an effort to dis- perse them. IL. D, DENOUNCES BONITA DECISION Urges Worker's to Save Framed-Up Miners | The conviction of Sam Bonita, mil- tant young miner, on a charge of | manslaughter is denor d by the | New York Section of the International | Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, in a/ statement issued yesterday throagh Rose Baron, secretary of the sec- tion, “The conviction of Sam Bonita, militant Pennsylvania miner,” th statement says, “is one of the most} blatant examples of class justice A jury, composed largely of business | men, was practically ordered by the | judge to return a verdict of man- Slaughter, by which this progres-| sive young miner will be compelled to spend from 6 to 12 years behind the bars. Capitalist ‘Justice’. “This decision only serves to un- mask once more the leering face of capitalist justice. Bonita, president of Local 1703, was one of the leaders of the progressive movement of the miners’ union, that movement which is feared and hated so much by the coal barons and their allies, the cor- rupt Lewis machine. The evidence proved conclusively that he had shot in self-defense when he killed Agati, one of the petty lackeys of Lewis, who had grown rich on the blood and sweat of these whom he called ‘broth- ers, “Yet despite this, the jury was} kept locked for more than 40 hours, and when it returned a verdict of ‘involuntary manslaughter’, the judge, doing the bidding of the bosses and the union bureaucracy, ordered the verdict changed to ‘manslaughter.’ Save Bonita, Mendola, Moieski. “Put Bonita can still be saved. The mass protest of the workingclass must spring to life to reverse this vicious class decision and to see to it that he, as well as his comrades, Mendola and Moleski, are freed. “The wmternational Labor Defense calls on all class-conscious workers to support to the utmost the fight tc free these victims of the capitalist courts. REED TO ENTER PRIMARY. WASHINGTON, April will enter the West Virginia primary, | and present a complete slate of déle-! gates, it was officially announced today, SSSR SE Re Cesc Ne eT aaa area Page Three New Guinea PARTY MADE 25 LOR PER CENT GAIN | IN FRENCH POLL Autonomous Candidates Win in Alasace —Polling more votes, the French Com- gained approximately ’s elections over g to the offi- public taday. The ty polled 1,064,000 % mpared with 875,000 votes MILITARY SCHOOL vote was approxi- mately the same as 1919. AS UNREST CROWS STRASBOURG, France, April 24. —V of the autonomous candi- rapes dates in the national elections showed j at+ay|an even wider sentiment for the auto- Dictator |nomy of Alsace than had been @x= |pected. All of the tonomous candi- \dates are now in 1 on the charge tting against the security of Venezuela Fears Outbreaks CARACAS, April lthe state” slipping control, characteri A ccalibee Ge wild repressive measu s seen here| autonomous ca in the closing of the National Vene-| pected in the second gaye to Pe cast auelan Military School by president |Next, Sundty Is expe re mous candle Gomez on the grounds that it has be-| 4 to the Chamber of Deputies. come a center for unrest against his | — dictatorship. | student unrest since the recent street The National Military School where | outbreaks in the str n which the officers for the Venezuelan army are | students took a prominent part in re- trained has been a focal point for sisting the government oppression. PULLMAN HEAD FUR WORKERS WIN Ble BISCUIT BOSS RIGHT TO APPEAL Workers Tell of Bad Militants Were Framed Conditions in Plant In Mineola (Continued from Page One) Permission to appeal their sen- born. During the war hysteria of tences of from two and a half to five 1917 Governor Lowden, boss of the years has been granted the nine mem- republican party in his state, showed bers of the Joint Board of the Fur- his attitude toward the foreign-born’ riers’ Union, convicted in a frame-up workers. He appointed a State Coun- case in Mineola, L. I, Judge Lehman, cil of Defense, with politicians like of the Court of Appeals, yesterday the notorious Roger Sullivan and big- made public his decision, at the same business men like Samuel Insull, trac-|time raising the bail from $3,500 to Insull tion magnate, at the head. contributed thousands of dollars to $6,500. The Appellate Division, in its deei- | PARIS, April 24 both the republican and democratic sion endorsing the sentences, had ad- candidates from Illinois for the!mitted that the Mineola judge had senate. Insull’s candidate Smith was) committed many errors at the Long twice rejected by the senate for slush [sland trial. baecta cos a : “Now that the right to appeal hal * Lowden’s ‘Terror Reign. been won by the Mineola frame-up This council gi ial large measure victims, it does not mean that we ruled the soraieis kistedind the Listy of are at all certain of winning their ~ ene avast nog. a) ie Oe freedom,” the Furr Mineola De- terror against those who did not aP-'sense Committee declared in a states prove of the war. The foreign-born melt. yesterday. “Now workers suffered outrages, arrests | 145) fight to raise funds pane onan ¢ - . |the fight for their release. Lowden is also a leading figure in} 2 the Pullman Company, long known| The conference called by the Joint for its exploitation of its workers, | Defense and Relief Committee of all particularly Negro porters, who are | Sympathetic organizations, which is forced to depend mostly on tips. Low-|to be held pas / des Be - EY a den is an avowed enemy of union la-;fice of the Cloakmal cers’ oint Boa bor. This is the type of men who are|16 W. 2ist , shows indications of offered up to the exploited workers; being repre entative of wide masses and poor farmers as candidates for'of workers, according to the ereden- positions of power on election day.|tials already sent in, was the am The jobs to which they are elected |nouncement issued by the committee give them control over the police, |in charge. os ae wT at meet-~ state troopers and the army. ing in time to elect delegates, are re= The exploited workers of the Na- {quested to send their officers to the tional Biscuit Company are talking |conference. more and more about joining unions | —_—— and about joining their fellow workers | also in the formation of a Labor | Party. | | PRIAND ILL. —Although. bulle- ness of Foreign | nd are optimis- S expressed to- carry 0B BLADDER WEAKNESS cf Old Age ately concerning the ter A tic, some an: day over t , of the attend- lieved. by ing 7 i duce his fever. M. 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