The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1928, Page 3

150,00 Tex A THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928 tile Workers on Strike in KUOMINTANG WAR LORDS MAY TAKE CITY OF PEKING American Gunboats Are Rushed to Chefoo WASHINGTON, April 25.—With two Kuomintang armies moving northward in Shantung, Shansi and Chihli provinces virtually unresisted, the fall of Peking is imminent, ac- cording to official military advices reaching here today. Several hundred Americans scat- tered throughout northern Shantung| province -have been ordered to con-} centrate on the seaport of Chefoo. and state Zepartment experts are consid- ering the advisability of evacuating all Americans in the three war-torn provinces., Additional naval vessels have been asked by American Consul Webber at Chefoo, two British naval vessels are standing by. The Kuomintang armies are now on the outskirts of Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, with its popu- lation of some 40,000,000; and an im- portant junction on the Tientsin-Pu- kow Railway. Provincial defenders are in retreat toward Techow, 48 miles northward, where, at the juncture of the Grand Canal and the Pukow Rail- way, the northern defenders of Peking probably will make their last desper- ate effort to save the city for Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian war-lord and northern dictator. The Kuomintang strategy, accord- ing to military experts, calls for a consolidation of the two columns im- mediately to the south of Techow where the decisive battle for control of the ancient capital is expected within perhaps ten days. The van- guard of the southern armies are al- ready within 200 miles of the forbid- den city. meee oe | SHANGHAI, April 25.—Nationalist armies of Gen. Feng Yuh-siang and Gen. Chiang Kai-shek have captured Tsinanfu, according to claims made today by Kuomintang headquarters. WRANGEL, WHITE TERRORIST, DEAD 4 = i The Duke Recado de Estrada, Spanish nobleman, (left) has arrived on board the Manuel Arnus with Viscount Guell (right). They are here to seek a loan for the fascist regime of Primo de Rivera, it is believed. Wall St. Has “It”; Spanish Fascists A Bombay; Close Down All Mills in City Page Three rrive NEW AID FOR POOR PEASANTRY IN USSR ~—® FASCISTS JAIL MORE WORKERS Calls Mussolini Pig; Gets Five Years GENEVA, April 25.—Three com- positors—Umberto Ghini, Giovanni Grilli and Guiseppi Morellato—have been sentenced from terms of_im- prisonment ranging from seven to eight years by the Fascist Special Tribunal in connection with the dis- covery of a secret printing press in Milan. The press was used for printing the two Communist papers, the “Verita” and “L’Avvenire- del Com- munismo,” the fascists charge. Because he distributed copies of another illegal working class paper the “Unita,” Benedetto Vai, a worker was sentenced to five years’ imprison- ment. The same fascist tribunal then pro- ceeded to impose terms of imprison- ment ranging from 2% to 5 years on six other persons—Vincenzo Baldazzi, described as a républican; Domenico Ferrero, a shoemaker; Raffaele Sa- lando, a docker; Mario Colombo, a merchant; Pierino Bertoria and Maria Orsini. All these were variously charged with subscribing money to the Red Aid Fund, with conspiracy and with propagandist activities. It appears that the crime for which MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The poli- cies adopted by the Political Bureau of the All-Union Communist Party |to facilitate the collection of grain j; were completely approved at the plen- jary session of the Central Committee |and the Central Control Commission} jof the Party. | An increased supply of industrial] goods to rural districts, financial measures like the liberal extension of loans for the fostering of agriculture, self-taxation of the peasantry, an in- tensive campaign against the rich peasants and grain speculators were urged in the resolution. Coupled with these measures, rec-| ommendations were made for the elimination of bureaucratic and inef- ficient elements from Communist and Soviet organs. The resolutions point) out that the work of the Party in rural districts has improved and that the influence of the rich peasantry has been decreased. In the last nine months 10,733,000 tons of cereals have been purchased as compared with the 10,030,000 tons in the previous year. GOMEZ REQUESTS SON BE USTED Aging Dictator Makes New Gesture CARACAS, Venezuela, April 25.— RUSHMARINESIN | VAIN EFFORT TO CHECK SANDINO Believe Nationalist on Move to Coast’ MANAGUA, April 25-—-Two hun- dred marines aboard the U. S. S. Cleveland were rushed from the ‘west coast harbor of Corinto last night in a vain effort to check the brilliant tactical move of the army of inde- pendence under General Augusto San- dino in their dash for the east coast of Nicaragua. In spite of the haste with which the two hundred invaders were hur- ried aboard ship, it is frankly ad- mitted by/ the American officials that it will take from five to six days for the reenforcements to arrive on the east coast via the Panama canal. Pursuit of Sandino and his army across the Nicaraguan highlands and jungles is impossible, they confess, with the rainy season at hand. Even should the 200 marines in the east bound detachment make a record trip to Bluefields, the east coast base, it is certain that they can merely re- | enforce the 800 who are already there | in idleness. Campaigning in the} treacherous and unhealthy mosquito coast country, perilous for Americans at all times, is out-of the question for | several months. Following up his eastward move, General Sandino is consolidating his forces in the newly won territory and fortifying the most advantageous positions, including the La Luz mine. The only railroad tapping this dis- trict, a narrow gauge banana line, is unsuitable for the transport of suffi- cient marine detachments, and posi- tions of the army of independence are considered almost impregnable. It is being pointed out that should marines attack Sandino at the La Luz strong- hold, the American invaders will be in the position of destroying Ameri- can property. The east coast of Nicaragua has | always been a center of enthusiastic support for the Sandino army of in-! dependence and Sandino’s men are ex-| pected to hold out indefinitely in their | new base. State Industrial Board) Legalizes Child Labor | |ballot. In an effort to defeat Duclos NAT'L. PRIMARY Sc Sh, aS Brie eee been reported in the city. 200 Killed By Earthquake in Corinth ee Photo shows view of Athens with Mount Lycabettus in the back- ground. Athens was severely shaken by the quake, but no deaths have ¢ ‘TROOPS MURDER 7; | WOUND 14 IN NEW INDIA MASSACRE |Arrest 200 Who Dared Resist Officials BOMBAY, April More than 150,000 workers have joined the | huge textile strike in this city. | Practically every mill has been shut | down by the strike. The strike started several weeks | ago when forty thousand workers | went on strike for a wage increase | and against the speed-up. SOCIALIST-BOURGEOIS — BLOC IN FRENCH POLL| PARIS, April 25.—Altho the French Socialist Party will seek bourgeois| Who, they charge, support in an effort to return-its candidates in hotly contested districts in | the second ballct in the French national elections, no socialist candidate will withdraw in favor of a Communist@— candidate, according to a decision) Mor reached by the socialist party. Leon Blum, socialist party leader, 20th Paris distgict, in spite of the| majority vote cast for Jacques Dyc- los, Communist candidate on the fir: seeking the support of elements of! BALLOTING LIGHT Smith, Hoover Leading Democrats and G. O. P.| | WASHINGTON, Apr. 25. — Vot-! ing in the capitalist preferential pri-; maries yesterday was extremely light. | Smith partisans claimed a majority of | the delegates from Pennsylvania for | the democratic national convention. | The republican primaries chose the | entire administration slate headed by} Senator D. A. Reed. The republican} delegation is uninstructed. | Returns from the Massachusetts | preferential primaries showed Smith and Hoover leading in the democratic and republican primaries. Hoover has been" applauded by right wing} Punjab will maintain his candidacy in thal Reteiee: since in cases of withdrawal! mass © | the socialists will be tacitly thrown) Kotla in an ‘attempt to carry off to | against Communist candidates and in} jail the lead favor of candidates of the bourgeois |the socialist leader is reported to be| parties. " BOMBAY, April —Seven men |of the village of Kothala have been | wounded, while more than 200 are by British troops, and 14 , following an attempt of to forcibly seize peasants were trying to }evade the payment of taxes. The murders occurred during an armed | struggle in the Maler Kotla state in | killed | under |the B ane ae ——~| the Punjab. ctionary parties. : et ent efforts of the British The decision of the socialist party! authorities to extort taxes in the stat has led to growing stance when the govern- socialist candidates the strength of! ment’s troops marched into Maler rs among the Indians. The peasants of the Kotla provines re extremely poor. Every good Bolshevik and Sympa- thizer will be there! Every Militant Organization will be represented at the RED Banquet | Domenico Ferrero was sentenced to Further concession to the growing cee BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 25.— Baron Wrangel, notorious White Guardist leader, who with the sup-} port of the allied powers led an ex- pedition against the Soviet Union only to be routed by the workers and pea- sants of the Soviet Union, died here this morning. Wrangel has been a guest of vari- ous powers and the remnants of his White. Guard troops are “at present in Yugoslavia, % As leader of the counter-revolu- tionary invasion in south-western Russia, Wrangel terrorized the ‘dis- trict until he was thoroly beaten and aviven back to the Black Sea. five years’ imprisonment consisted of having received a letter from a friend in Australia who was so injudicious as to refer to Signor Mussolini as an “assassin” and a “pig.” MINISTER BRIAND ILL. PARIS, April 25.—Fear that For- eign Minister Briand is ‘seriously ill as a result of his excited part tion in the recent election campaign, is expressed here. The aging poli- tician has a severe cold and fever tho the exact nature of his disease has not been diagnosed. Jack Kearns suit against Jack De given the sport fans of America an o SPORTS IN. BRIEF mpsey for $534,359.97 has once again pportunity to peep behind the scenes | end view a little of the plotting and scheming that is constantly taking place. It also confirms the charges of tao who elaim that professional sports is nothing else but a huge machine to : make profit irre- spective of how it is done. How those who are on top in box- ing, in the present instance, Jack Mempsey and Tex Rickard, planned to allox Dempsey to chose his own ref- eree, in 1926 when Tunney was a challenger, is further proof of the corrupted state profes- sional boxing has reached. At that time, it has been disclosed in the trial, Rickard sent a telegram | to Dempsey, then at the Hotel Bar- bara, Los Angeles, informing him that if the fight with Tunney would be held in New York, “you would have n9 trouble in choosing your own judges.” Jack Dempsey Former Champ Poke, eee The trial further brot out the racial discrimination in boxing. Whil> Negro boxers are allowed to fight they are in the majority of cases com- pelled to be satisfied with the small change. In another telegram read at the trial that was sent by Rickard to Dempsey, Tex spoke against a match between Dempsey and Harry Wills. Negro heavyweight, who at that time was the leading contender for the title. “Any one who tries to pull any Dempsey-Wills fight will kill box. ing,” Rickard telegraphed to Demp- |. “{N sey. This is Jim-Crowism with vengeance, that prevents the best. Negro boxers from participating in| the most important matches. Cee Dene 7 si While the boxing commission ced that # wll enmimon Rickard to appear and explain his re- marks about picking a favorable ref- oree, it is at the most a gesture. Ap- pointed by the Tammany Hall state administration headed by Gov. Al Smith the commission has as its chie mission the bringjng in of the shekels by the local prontoters and especially Rickard who is close to the Tammany politicians. re CHURCH IS HANGING SCENE. RAMSEY, N. J., April 25.—Peter Peters, 60, father of 14, hung him self in the basement of the Romat Catholic Church here where he wa: employed as a janitor. discontent here and testimony of slipping control is believed to be evi- denced by President Gomez’ request that the office of vice-president held by his son, Jose Vieente Gomez, be abolished. The abolition demand is the subject of a special presidential message and requests an amendment to the Constitution, embodying it. Gomez expressly states that the object of his proposal is to halt “malevolent propaganda” intimating that he intends his son to succeed him in the presidency. ‘The aging dictator recently closed the National Venezuelan Military School on the charge that it is foster- ing elements hostile to his regime. Reply of Reformist Leaders of British Cotton Unions Ready | MANCHESTER, April 25 —-">- ply of the trade union leaders to the) wage cut proposals made by th coi ton employers has already been draft- ed, it was learned yesterday. Trade union leaders will confer on Monday preparatory to a conference with a committee of employers. Altho most of the trade unions leaders op- nose a strike, the majority of work- ars are believed to favor a walk-out. BETTER HOMES WANTED. Tho building of better homes in the vorking class sections of the city was urged at the Parents’ Exposition at rand Central Palace. The speakers neluded Dr. John Lovejoy Elliot and uawson Purdy. POEMS VOR WORKERS. CONSTITUTION OF THE Be PSS S Per SSeS LITTLE RED LIBRARY | Eleven Copies for ONE DOLLAR TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA. _ CLASS STRUGGLE. VS. CLASS COLLABORATION. PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM, WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. MARX AND ENGELS ON REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. THE DAMNED AGITATOR AND OTHER STORIES. - 1871—THE PARIS COMMUNE. 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