The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 3

ameenea FOREIGN NEWS -- I-HOUR DAY FOR METAL WORKERS IN SOVIET UNION Shorter Day for More Textile Mills MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Cen- tral Committee of the Metal Workers Union and the metal trades ‘adminis- | tration have drawn up a list of metal works which will introduce the seven- hour day in the near future, Twenty-six factories in the Méstow district, in Leningrad and the:-Ukraine are on the list. The seven-hour day will be intro- duced in two more textile mills. The} Naro-Fominsk mill will employ 2,543 additional workers while the Visokovsk mill will employ 1,500 ad- ditional workers. The introduction of the seven-hour day and a three-shift system in the textile industry has not only short- ened the working day and provided more workers with employment, but has resulted in greater economies and more effective utilization> of ARGENT HITS U.S, POLICY. BUENOS AYRES, May 3 Attack on'the policy of American invasion, of weaker nationalities has been made editorially by the newspaper, La Prensa here. Coolidge, as well as Hughes, come in for their share of criticism. Asserting that there are a number of persons and organizations in the United States whose business it is to uphold the policies of the American state department and den} its. viola: tion of national rights, La Pretisa goes on, “The efforts of these latter may be noted chiefly in the Ameri- can Society of International Law with headquarters at Washington, where justification of the actions and poli- cies of the government is being sought. From Kellogg, .author of the Nicaraguan invasion, to Hughes, champion of Pan-Americanism, with its seat in Washington, they try ‘to pretend that American opinion is wrong when it judges certain state department decisions "héstile and dan- gerous. “However, all oratorical efforts of late have been unable to wipe out re- collection of President Coolidge’s words in inaugurating the legislative period of 1927, nor can these words be’ destroyed, for the president’s af- firmation that revolutions would be ended and the zone from Canada to the Canal guarded, has a force ot conviction which is absent from Hughes speeches,” the paper con- cludes. U, S, INVESTORS. FIGHT OIL LAW BOGOTA, Colombia, May’,3.—An|’ oil meastre, substantially similar to]. that which has infuriated .American, and other fore'gn investors in Mexico. is being debated in the extraordinary session of congress here. The proposed Colombian. oil . law like the Mexican, has resulted in. com- plaints, principally from the Ameri- can companies, who are desirous of ing the legislation defeated, A national prohibition law is also before the special session. Farrell, Steel King, Admits Mussolini. Is His Ido}; Visits Him NICARAGUA BOSS ON WAY TOU. S. New Sandino Offensive ~ Considered Grave MANAGUA, May 3:—Arrival at | Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone of General Frank R. McCoy, President Coolidge’s personal appointee to su- pervise the Nicaraguan “elections, erroute to the United States, is con- country. While McCoy denies that his return to the United States is of no particu- lar moment, it is understood that the “supervisor” intends to confer with President Coolidge on the new developments in Nicaragua. The sud- the! ‘very moment of the tropical rainy season renders the American marine forces almost powerless, is considered grave by the American au- thorities. That General McCoy intends to re- cruit as large a staff of aides as possible to assist him in “supervis- ing” the coming elections is also free- ly admitted. The “supervisor” is*at- tempting to recruit his new assist- ants from among those whom Gen- eral,Pershing had with him in the Tacna-Arica “plebiscite.” The »Nica- raguan elections will be virtually ma- rine-controlled. Asked whether or not it will be pos- sible to vote for Sofonias Salvatierra and Escolastico Lara, the candidates proposed by General Sandino, the American “supervisor” replied’ that the regulations have been so drawn that only a political party which polled 10 per cent of the total, vote in the last elections can put up can- didates.. He explained that a petition containing a like percentage of names would also be valid to nominate: can- didates. It is perfectly understood however, that the army of independ- ence is not in a position to collect such a list of names while it is car- ying on a life and death struggle -|- with the American invaders.’ LABOR DEFENSE... GAINS MEMBERS Ma y New. Branches Are Organized The growing interest and support branches formed in the last week by the International Labor Defense, it 4;was announced yesterday at the na- tional office of the organization, £0 E. 11th Street. Among the branches that have been formed are the Salt Lake City, Utah, branch, formed as a result of the counter-revolution with the aid of American capitalism. leading May Day parade in Soviet Hungary. sidered significant in the light of the : recent startling successes of the army}: of independence under General San-|% dino’ in the eastern section of the] den. offensive of Sandino’s :troops at| to the labor defense movement in this | country is shown by the list of new! THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 Saki Sioa } 3s ees Many Killed in Hail Storm in Transylvania BUCHAREST, May 3. — Violent hail storms in Transylvania have caused loss of life and heavy property damage, according to reports received here today. Six children playing in the streets at Klausenberg were kcill- ed by hail stones. Scores of persons were injured and hundreds are home- less. The hail cut telephone and tele- graph wires isolating some district: "AcKGBEL SLATED FOR DEPORTATION Communist Editor Wrote on Sacco-Vanzetti For writing” ‘two articles last 3 year denouncing. the murder of. Sacco and Vanzetti, A. Kobel, editor of Uus Ilm, Hsthonian Communist ~ we: ea scheduled for deportation from this countty by order of the’ U. S. depart ment of labor, it was learned y ‘terday. Kobel, orie of the leading Esthon- ian Communists in the United States heing an “anarchist” and favoring the overthrow of the United State: government. He was taken to Pilis Island on deportation proceedings and later released on $1,000 bail furn by the International Labor D: The defense organization, through it: counsel, Isaac Shorr, continued the fight, but the final decision of the department ‘of labor ma h'm: an “undesirable. citizen” and he is scheduled for deportation in the near future. Started by White Guards. White Guard Esthonians ~ arc thought to have instigated the action and the two articles, printed Aug. 23 1927, were used as a pretext in an effort to railroad Kobel to death at the hands of the Lithuanian terror poverntient. In‘ a statement issued yesterday, Rose Baron, secretary of the New York section of ‘the International La- bor Defense, declared: “The decision to deport A. Kobel, the editor of the organ of the militant Esthonian workers, is another chapter in the general attack on the revolutionary working’ class in connection with the murder of Saeco and Vanzetti. The ruling class is not content with hav- ing killed Sacco and Vanzetti. It wants to crush all those who fought for Saeco and. Vanzetti and those who tore the mask from the face of ‘hat ‘justice’ which the capitalist. class uses to delude and oppress the work- ers.” | A Candidate for S WASHINGTON, May 3° (FP).— Sam V. Stewart, war-time governor of Montana, has entered the demo- cratic senatorial primary race ‘1 that state against Sen. Burton K. Wheeler + lament was arrested Jan. 24, charged with} - | Enemy of Butte Miners| enate | BOLIVIA SHIPS ARMS; SEE WAR Failure ‘to Atbitrate Boundary Fight Looms BUESNOS AYRES, May. 3: \that the dispute between Bol: Paraguay over the Chaco boundary: not be successfully arbittatéed by nixed commission presided over by an Argentinian, has recéived frésh confirmation by the report that large cargoes of arms are being shipped to Bolivia from the Brazilian port of Santos. The discovery of the arms shipments is causing a flare-up of war | cali troops arrived. Mexican Federals Kill Thirty Reactionaries MEXICO CITY, May 3.—Thirt counter-revolutionists were killed cently in an engagement with Fede troops in the vicinity of Lona, accord- ing to reports received here today. | The counter-revolutionists had] burned a railway station near Lona and were about to loot the town when a detachment ‘of Federal cavalry SEEK ARREST OF TWO IN KENOSHA talk in Latin America. Paraguayan publicists, maintaining that the Paraguayans want ‘peace, that the economic situa- tion in Paraguay, which is a poor country, does not permit of its im- mediate armament. It is not believed, however, that the Bi ment will attempt hostili once. The republic of Paraguay has only scently begun to recover from: the devastating war it maintained against the allied forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay when a quarter of the male population of Paraguay was ex- terminated. The triple alliance ought +o partition the smaller na- tion. JAPANESE CLASH VTE KUOMINTANG |Fight Chiang’s Troops Near Tsinan TOKYO, -A pitched battle between Japanese and Kuomintang troopS has occurred at Tsinanfu, ac- cording to despatches received here. The. Japanese troops fired at a de- tachment of Kuomintang _ soldiers which took possession of the ~ town. according to the reports. Japanese troops are. moving to Tsinan from Tsingtao. | QUAKE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. LONDON, May 3.—A brief. but violent: earthquake shock was félt at Constantinople at midnight, said a/ Central News Dispatch from: that _| open- jers succeeded in co jdismissal of public health. Warrants Out for More Strikers KENOSHA, Wis. May 38.—Two}| more warrants have been sworn for| two militant strikers by the vicious| hop Allen-A He again whose lock-out have been carrying on a bitter strug-| gle for several months. | Apter! “carrying on the“ strugple| against the workers who seek recog- nition of their union, by all means placed at the bosses’ disposal by the Nash Motor Co., controlled city gov- ernment, the com now resort ing to wholesa frame-ups. They have taken out warra for the ar- rest of those who prove themselves | outstanding fighters on the picket jline, This, in spite of the fact that the armed thugs in the company’s hire ‘openly flourish thei rguns the faces of the pi s. The work- npelling the ar- rest of one of the gun-waving strike- breakers. The attorneys for the union made formal motion two days ago for the charges of disorderly conduct against 44 pickets. The co’ will decide in about a week, it stated. The strikers are still di garding. the pro on of pic by the injunction still in force them, and picket the mill gates Afghan King in USSR MOSCOW, May 3.—King Amanul- lah of Afghanistan who arrived in Moscow on a special trial today was greeted by Kalenin, Georges Chicher- in, commissar for foreign affairs, Gen- eral Voroshiloff, commissar of war) and N. A. Semashko, commissar for! day of. the irom *tht Last Quarterly Divid iy to $7,500.00, at” the’ rate of y) unt AVa% “ Ht Pe M. Photos of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader now in a Viennese jail, when he headed the Hungarian Soviet Republic which was overthrown by the | Photo on left shows Bela Kun addressing open air demonstration. Photo on right shows Bela Kun RELEASE OF BELA KUN IS DEMANDED iNew York Workers Send Cable to Seipel ble demanding the immediate of Bela k Hungarian Com- munist leader, w: ent to Chancellor Seipel by three hundred Hungarians who crowded the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East 85th St., Wednesday | evening to protest against Bela Kun’s arrest. Louis Kovess, editor of the Uj Blore, Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defender, and Wechsler, repre- senting the Hungarian section of the International Labor Defense were among the speakers, Workers at the meeting donated $59 for the despatch of the cable. 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The court declares that no substantiation of jcharges that the Communists had |started election riots or prevented |peaceful balloting could be adduced. | The proposal to dissolve the Red Front Fighters has been endorsed, however, by the reactionary govern- ments in the south German states of Wurtemberg and Bavaria, both strongholds of fascist reaction. * The attempt to destroy the popular militant defense organization ofthe German masses against the faseist outrages brought a storm of protest {from the workers in all parts of the country. 6 KILLED ON MAY DAY BUCHAREST, May 3.—Six chil- dren were killed outright and ten youths and adults seriously injured | when heavy hailstones fell on a May Day celebration, reports from Klau- senburg state. The community was in the fields when the storm broke. LITTLE RED LIBRARY Eleven Copies for ONE DOLLAR PRI} POE MAE FOR WORKERS. COANHARwNe CONSTITUTION OF THE TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA. CLASS STRUGGLE VS. CLASS COLLABORATION. CIPLES OF COMMUNISM. 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He sent troons to the} scene, and set up military courts} which sentenced many strikers te the | enitentiary and others to the county, | : 4 eomaairery lecture against the American frame- ‘ mown, Mow °.--James A, Farrell} up system delivered there by James yresident .of .the|P. Cannon; the branch in Alliance, United States -Steel | Ohio. and another in Ashtabula, Ohio, “ovoneration....whe|In addition, a charter has been granted vvived in Naples by the national office to the Vithu- {Ue UNRE RENNER TRARY RATA hoard the steam. "hin Conte: Crend- “needay, will visit, j Mussolini today. — «© consider Mus- asolini the greatest ‘an living today,’’ Sarrell declared The steel, magnate aid that he had yme to Italy to see ussolini and was| ‘vateful “for: th ‘audience which had sheen granted “him.” Farrell wilt also see the Bope: vig . arrell, fascist aide Slavery in South CLARKSDALE, Miss., May,3 (FP): —Eugene Brigham, a planter at; Pritchard,-Miss., is under-arrest by: the federal. authorities charged..with} anian Workinewomen’s — Alliance, Rranch 18, of South Boston, Mass, which will function as a unit of the Taternational Lahor Defense. ‘The Polish branch of Flint, Michigan, has also ‘tist been added to the roster of branches of the movement. ° * * * Greek Section Progresses.. The progress of the labor defense movement among the Greek workers in this: country is reportett: by “the Greek section of the International Labor Defense in a statement sent by its seeretary, Nick Boubous tot the national office. Sinee the reorganization of: the section vcight branches»have been formed from former svmpathizers andia,new branch with 15°membors -oreanized in Providence, Riki Fhous! shuds of leaflets have been printed; emvhasizine the activities ofthe white temox in the Balkan countries; . es- peonage, and is held under $2,080); bond. Brigham refuses to maker tatement. He.is charged with. -hold- tr in peonage Alice Akins, a Negrc int. pecially against the Greek workers. Aids Greek Section. In: addition, the Greek ‘Section: has sent material aid to the Workers Aid pet enon . Will hag a relative, made] of. Greece, which is Sinetaniny under |S jail. After months of imprisonment these union men were released on order of the state supreme court which held that the so-called military courts had heen ‘Heeal: Stewart is counsel for Standard Oil and for the Anti- ay Leapue, Fire Traps Child floor of the two-story frame tone: ment at 1915: Nostrand Ave., Bros lyn, yesterday» morning, caused a neo i nanie in the neighborhood when Louie rEspositowho lHves on the s flood and’ his tvife) rHised othe r that-their son, Louis, Ji, 6, was lock: edina bedroom, and “tapped by fhe flames,” bins Athens by the Greék Section through the Intemational “Red “Aid, in addition to a donation:,made™by .the Greek) --Lfeactton of the Workers (Communist) forwarded also through the Greek ion of the International Lubor j Fire whieh ntsetad on the seeond4 aren PP RKKEPLPRPRERAVRARAPTORRRRLUELS |Party of Wheeling, W.Va., which was}. The MAY Cont THE PRESENT SITUATION IN Jay Lovestone. PACIFISM AND WAR—Bertram CERTAIN, BASIC QUESTIONS John Pepper. 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