The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1928, Page 3

TYE ‘the larger islands Soviet Union Demands Dissolution of White Guardist Groups in Poland THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, ‘MAY 7, 1928 Page & a +3 STH GONGRESS OF! INT'L TRANSPORT WORKERS IS RELD Delegations | ‘From 57| Countries Attend MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Fifth {nternational Conference of Revolu- tionary Transport Workers, which was held directly after the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions closed on April 8th. This conference differs from the previous conferences cf revolutionary transport workers not only by a larger number of countries repre- sented, but also by a much larger numher of delegates. Altogether 37 zountries of all the continents and were represented. Many Delegates. At this conference were present represa@ntatives of independent revoiu- tionary transport worxers’ unions at- filiated to the ‘transport Workers’ In- ternational Cominitvee of Propaganda and Action, delegates representing revolutionary minorities in reformise anions and representatives of revoiu- tuonary unions, which up till now were not atfiliated to the Transpori Workers’ 1. P. C. or to other trans- port workers’ international bodies. Of the total number of delegates present 70 had iuil voice and vote and 47 consultative vote. These figures show tiat at this conference the number of delegates present ana countries presented was not less, but even more than at the congresses of the International Federation of Transport Workers. The same is true of the number of organized workers represented; more than two millior transport workers organized in. revo: lutionary transport workers’ unions and in militant oppositions in the re- formist unions were represented. Delegates representing nationa. seamen’s clubs also took part in the work cf the conference. Discuss Tactics. The following vital questions of importance to the broad masses ol transport workers in all countries were discussed at this conference (1) Report of the I. P. C. (2) Tasks of the revolutionary transport work- ers. (3) Tactics of unity of the transport workers. (4) Kationaliza- tion and unemployment in the trans- port industry. (5) The work and tasks of the international seamens clubs. (6) Questions of organiza- tion, propaganda and publication. (7) Danger of war. (8) Election of I. P. C. In the course .of the discussion ali delegates showed great activity. Zo deiegates rep ning 18 countries spoke on the first item on the ‘agenda. In their speeches they cited the achievements of the tmilitant trad. uaion moveme) of transport workers in most countries. Many spoke of a Left movement among transport workers in all part of the world, of a definite tendency on the part of many organizations, previously not af- filiated to the 1. 2. C., to join the militant trade movement; also the growth of revolutionary minorities in- side the reformist unions. At the sane time the speakers], noted many shortcomings and defects in the work of the I. P. C. and the activities of the revolutionary unions and oppositions. Almost all speakers cited the fact that the I. P. C. and the national organizations of revo Jutionary transport workers have done little to transform into organi- zational forms the influence the I. P. C. has in several countries and in many reformist unions of trans- port workers, Influence Grows, Delegates noted that although in 1926 much has been done by the J. P. C. and the revolutionary transport ~workers’ organizations in several to strengthen organiza- countries tionally the influence received as a result of propaganda for the class struggle and organization of the transport workers, a great deal more still ramains to be done in that direc- tion. In the resolution adopted on the report of the I. P. C. “the conference places on record the considerable growth of influence of the I. P. C. in the period between the fourth and fifth conferences. From 15 countries with which the I. P. C. had organiza- tional contact at the time of the Fourth Conference the number has] ° now grown to 43.” Further the’ reso lution states: “In order to overcome all shortcomings and weak points in our work, expressed mainly in in- rufficient organizational strengthen- ing of the ideological influence the 1. P. C, has in the broad masses cf militant transport workers, this con- ference directs the I. P.C. to take all necessary steps to stronethen organi- rationally its ideologiral influence.” Fight German Reaction in Election Struggle 4 Trading Corporation, who sailed Satu stay int the Soviet | U ion, denied that DUTCH SOCIALISTS Ai) IMPERIALISM Will ExpelMembersWho Fight Against Empire AMSTERDAM, (By Mail).—Any membe® of the Social Democratic La- sor Party of Netherlands who joins organizations for the struggle against Jutch imperialism or who is affilia- ed with the International Red Aid aces expulsion from the party, ac- cording to a decision of the party sonvention held recently. Dutch socialists belonging to the ‘eague against Colonial Opression, he Unity Group, which consists of rade union militants or the Red Aid ill have to give up membership in hese organizations or in the Social emocratie Party. QUMANIA PEASANT PARTY PROTESTS Maniu Arranges Feeble Agenda for Meet ALBA JULIA, May 6.—In spite of concentration of troops in this y, the mass meeting arranged by he National Peasant Party will be reld here today. Altho the meeting is expected to jemand the resignation of the Bra- janu regime, the meeting is expected ‘So be extremely mild in character. The agenda which has been arranged xy Maniu, leader of the Party, is ex- ‘remely mild and calls for no “overt xct” against the government. Other Peasant Party meetings will he he ld, at Jassy, Craiova and Barils today. ENPLOYE STOCK PLAN AITS SNAS Office Workers Like Bull Market Bosses who try to buy employe loyalty through stock selling scheme are embarrassed by Wall St.’s bul market. Thankless workers hav been taking advantage of the wpwar sweep in stock prices to sell thei shares, which were supposed to ti them to their company. , Some companies, the National In- dustrial Conference Board points out, issue non-negotiable stock to em- loyes, possessing no market value at all. Others try bonus schemes to pre- getting the. gambling habit on ‘the stock exchange by employers. The board estimates that “800, 000 employes—perhaps most of them in ‘office and executive positions—are Suying $1,000,000,000 through com- pany stock purchasing schemes. Only salaried workers are stuckholders. To and From Canada BUFFALO, May 6.—Inmigration (To Be ey Prorose’ One Neste for Raltimore Schoo! Board | BALTIMORE, May 4.--One Negro Dr, B. M. Rhetta, a physician, has Baltimore school board the educa- tional interests of ‘the ‘125,000 Ne- of the city. been proposed to represent on the} bars against unnaturaiized residents lof Canada were practically demolish- ‘ed when Judge John R. Hazel in fed- ‘eral court sustained writs of habeas corpus by which eight Rumaniay ,workers who had not become citizens ‘of Canada may legally commute to their jobs in this country on condition that they present visaed passport o1 equivalent documents to immigratior officials. Photo shows President Hindenburg reviewing army brigade. coming elections to the Reichstag the Communist Party is expected to make considerable gains in its struggle against the reactionaries like _ Hindenbyrg 08. as well as against the Social- Democratic allies of reaction. _ vent their better paid workers. from! imitating their 3 per cent of all wage earners and Workers May Commute In the DENY NEW U.S. S. R. OIL DEAL WITH STANDARD Saul G. Bron, chairman of the board of directors of the Amtorg day on the “Leviathan” for a short the Soviet Union was negotiating a ——~*new oil agreement with the Vacuum oil Company. The purpose of Bron’s visit to his native country after a stay of exactly one year-in-the United. States is to discuss the vital problems of Soviet- American trade relations with Miko- yan, the Soviet commissar for trade and with the heads of various Soviet industrial and trading organizations During Bron’s absence M. Gureviich will act in the capacity of chairman of the Amtorg. Trade Relations Grow. “In spite of certain untoward inci- dents the business relations betweer the Soviet Union and the United States have developed during the pas‘ year to an unprecedented extent,’ statéd Bron. “Soviet-American trade in the twelve months ended March 31, 1928 reached a total of close to $140,000,- 000, of which business amounting to $80,000,000 was done during the sec ond half of the year. It is quite sig- nificant that Soviet purchases in this country in the twelve months totaled $115,000,000 while sales here amount- ed to only $25,000,000. The accurau- lation of an adverse trade balance of $90,000,000 in one year well explains the desire of Soviet trade organs tc follow the most direct financial pro- cedure in adjusting this balance. “During the past week reports emanating from London and Paris have appeared in the press to the ef- fect that negotiations are being con- ducted by the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Vacuum Oil Com- pany with the Naphtha Syndicate of the U. S. S. R. for a monopoly of Russian oil products. The facts are these: Deny Deal. “The Amtorg Trading Corporation as the sole representative of th Naptha Syndicate in the United States, is authorized to negotiate al) deals involving Soviet oil prodiicts with American companies. Nei!) the Amtorg Trading Corporation nor the Naptha Syndicate of Moscow have carried on any negotiations for ¢ monopoly of Soviet oil products with the Standard Oil Company of New York, the Vacuum Oil Company or any other concern or group. “At present over 80 per cent of all Soviet oil exports are being sold tc British, French, Italian, German and other national companies. About 20 per cent of the exports are being sol¢ to American companies. The Napthe Syndicate will not depart from its rolic of avoiding monopoly con- tracts.” CARPET COMPANY LWSKS INJUNCTION Strikers’ ‘Picketing Ts Successful PHILADELPHIA, May 6 (PP) —Wilton Carpet Co. has applied for an injunction against 150 weavers ‘who have been on strike since Feb- ;Tuary 21, J. R. White, who organized the ‘weavers for the United Textile Work- ers, reports that the men are holding ;out and have been picketing the com- pany’s plant successfully. A 10 per cent. pay cut on Jan. 19 was the second slash since 1921, The Wilton manager called the un- jion leaders into his private offices on | Feb, 21 and told them to: tear up their ‘union books in his presence or leave the shop forever. The strike followed. WASHINGTON, “(UrP)., Over 100,- 000 men in government arsenals and navy yards, now working 48 hours a week, will get a 44-hour week if the bill which the metal trades .tnions have got through the senate passes ths house, DEMAND RELEASE OF BELA KUN AT MASS MEETINGS Protest to Be Held in Detroit Wednesday (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, May 6.—Mass meetings to protest against the possible extra- dition of Bela Kun, Hungarian Com- munist leader by Hungary have been held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and other industrial centers. The meet- ings despatched cables to Chancellor Seipel of Austria demanding the im- mediate release of Kun and two other Hungarian Communist leaders ar- rested within the last few days. «, Similar demonstrations are being held in France, Austria, Czechoslo- vakia and other countries, according to reports received here by the In- ternational Red Aid. The I. R. A. has issued an appeal urging an interna- tional protest. * DETROIT, May 6.—A mass meet- ing to demand the release of Bela Kun will be held at Gegus Hall, 8005 W. Jefferson St. on Wednesday eve- ning. Harry Wicks, acting district organizer and Joseph Feher, will be among the speakers, BELIEVE FASCISTS KILLED AZZARIO Losovsky Urges Demand For Investigation MOSCOW, (By Mail).—That’ Az- zario, militant Italian worker who was extradited from Panama by the fascist authorities, may have been murdered by agents of Mussolini is suggested in an ar- ticle by Losovsky,. secretary of the Red International of, Labor Unions, in the April 28rd issue of “Trud.” Azzario was ar- rested in Panama oe Strengthen Japanese Imperialist Air Force Three officers high in the branches of the Japanese air force have been conferring with engineers of the United States army air Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for ideas on the perf Left to right above, are, Lieut. flyer; Capt. E. E. Aldrin, of the army air corps; Japanese air force, third ranking officer Captain J. Okada, aeronautical en C.-& 0. WORKERS (COUZENS EXCUSED: DENIED INCREASE FROM TAX PAYING Rail Arbitrators Dodee Wil Rise Get Refitd on Issue RICHMOND, (FP). the federated their claim for sity of Virginia. strike of 1922. modified—was “just.” last year and was 1 extradited to Ttaly. RILU Head of Azzario: is: une imown, states. It is. not unlikely he ‘sug- gests that Azzario was murdered. Lozovsky appeals to the workers $f all countries to take up the matter, and establish the fate of Azzario. Unemployment Grows Fast in Australia MELBOURNE, (FP).—Heavy re- trenchment is taking place in the state-owned railways throughout Aus- tralia. Trains have been’ taken off and construction postponed. Ten thousand railway workers have been laid off. The main reason for the unprece- dented retrenchment is bad crops and a slack in manufacturing. Motor transit is also competing. Unemployment in New Zealand Breaks Record WELLINGTON, (FP).—More mer are unemployed in New Zealand thar at any time in history.. The only been to reduce the wages of the men on relief works to $2.16 a day for single men and to $2.88 a day for married men. GET WAGE INCREASE. VANCOUVER, B. C., (FP) May 6. —Carpenters have just received a wage boost of 50 cénts, making $8 thing the government has done has] - shop crafts Chesapeake & Ohio railway who submitted to arbitration under the terms of the Watson-Parker law a wage adjustment have just awakened to the fact that the “neutral” arbitrators dodged a de-| cision on the issue, These arbitrators oy the This Zembers of on the system were Chief Justice Clay, of the Ken-lin taxes to the government. Had th tucky supreme court and Professor | decision been save Thomas Walker Page, of the Univer The union shopmen asked that their| wage scale be restored to the same wage scale of other classes of rail} employes as it held prior to the shop What Clay, Page and the two arbi-| trators representing the company de-| |cided was that the shopmen had not proven that this earlier wage scale— established during the war and later ruling made on April 14, was announced on | ‘April 17. It astonished the shop work- The further fate |ers, who had presented a great deal of evidence as to the fairness of the Losoysky | proposed wage increase, but had not understood that they were held re- sponsible for proving that the wages fixed during the period of govern ment operation were fair. A. O. Wharton, president of the T ternational Association of Machir and A. F. Knight, assi: president of the Railv meekly submitted to the des sion and handed out a minority statement de- claring it “a most unhappy conclusion that this arbitration should be decided not upon the merits of the employes’ contentions, but upon a technical rul- ing that a prima facie showing of injustice, unanswered, does not war- rant the board in doing this confused answer, President Wharton and justice.” Internationa’ the offici: In a dom of the Machinists’ Union, plainly | icy. gram for doing away through arbitration, otherwise. betrayed by ‘arkeestion ern rooms the Suites without kitchen. onderful swimming, yer day. The five-day week proposal which caused a strike a year ago was dropped this year. ROOMS IN THE COUNTRY 1 improver Harrison, Brainard, N. Y. indicate their class-collaboration pol- | The bureaucrats have no inten- tion of fighting the issue, but on th: | contfary support Matthew Woll’s pro. | with strikes | compulsory or The Watson-Parker again demonstrates how workers are law agreements. to rent in foothills of the ments, run- 3-4 rooms with or hiking, ete. hours from New York, fould prefer to hea from Comrades Quiet atmosphere. Write to § U.S. Navy and Arséhaf Workers for 44- -Hr.Week SrnneRREYoREY eed eecresestas ; The MAY THE PRESENT SITUATION IN Jay Lovestone. John Pepper. nOnaiee, paacAir odd soleilicnaaieaincicn Dns aeenaineD ELC ISSUE of ‘ittelman. MAY DAY—By Rosa Luxemburg. * THE LABOR MOVEM TWO MINE STRIKE STRATEGIES-—By Wm. Z. Foster. PACIFISM AND WAR—Bertram D. Wolfe. CERTAIN BASIC QUESTIONS OF OUR PERSPECTIVE—By From: THE COMMUNIST Contains MAY DAY, 1928—-By Alexander Bi ENT—By ENGELS ON THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT—By A. Landy Also important baok reviews his Jack Hardy, George Halonen, ete. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street, New York City. PROTEST AGAINST ATTEMPT TO KILL LEGATION WORKER \Pilsudski Regime Aids Monarchist Groups 4, May 6—Fol- Russian mon- Lizareff, a Union legation sians in Poland. notes that fol- y of Peter Voikoff, ssador to Poland Union had de- solution of of Russian it was pointed ned in Poland m of the gov- 2d groups in Po- border and fu S. 8S. BR vice at tion of the Japanese oshino, Japanese navy Commander K. Magoshi, naval air ice, inset, neer of the and, arm ernment, land whic ling led the mobile Rus ts of Warsaw in an lay ni when a ynarchist George | A Q echow ‘ed revolver at | Ford Stock Sale Altho Wojciechowski is a Po- Sates y 6.The Fed-| lish citizen, he heads one of the most Bice PORTERS tee: 25 rous x s of Russi s' eral Bur ‘ax Appeals appar Pais Aled SH Russian mon: ently recog: a friend recent} pee 3 when the of Sen. James Cou ens | a attempt t ate Lizareff of Michigan vs. International |fUowed the | d ts evento Barean. led against the life the Soviet am- The boat tas fant riled that Cou bassador to Poland. A young mon- lend i i pe fi scociates |archist girl who entered the embassy | and A group of eight associates.| -averal weeks ago with the intention former mini stockholders in the jot munertng t the U. 8S. S. R. envoy | Ford Motor Company, will be excused | ,, afte a short stru ele. from the payment of over $30,000,000 ~ ae e, Couzens would | have been compelled to pay about| | $10,000,000 of this sum. | What is more, Couzens and _ his | group will probably receive about 000,000 as a “refund” as a re: this decision. The case hinged on the profit on the sa in 1919 at huge profits. The govern- | ment collected surtaxes based on an! appraisal made by Daniel C. Roper | revenue commissioner, of the value! of the stock as of March 1, 1913, when| the first income tax law became ef-/ fective. | Covlidan Program by Jay Lovestone © peale made le of stocks to Henry Ford "mean behind | sh? in the telligent ONLY FIVE CENTS. 1928 Elections and the Workers by Jay Lovestone In March 1925, an additional as-| sessment of $10,000,000 was made| against Couzens, the claim being| based on the fact that the appraisal | should not have been made on the 1913 basis. High-priced lawyers hired} by Couzens alleged that the case was ‘ecopened at the instigation’ of Secre- of Treasury Mellon because Cott- had made an attack against the sctivities of the Internal Revenue! | Bureau. f the roles of the next | | | | j . class-conseious | eitar v apport the | | nunist) Party EXPLOSION KILLS Fi MADISON, Va. M workers were killed here when an ex- plosion sent thousands of tons of | smoldering coal dust and slate down upon a saw mill on Pond Creek. 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