The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 3

WILL REACCEPT THOSE SPURNING. MASLOV, FISCHER Application Is Called * ’ “‘Demagogic Effort” (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 7.—The Presidium xf the Executive Committee of the Sommunist International has publish- id its decision in connection with the | application of the so-called Lenin League for membership in the Com- nunist International. “The request of the Lenin League for membership in the Communist In- ‘ernational is nothing but a dema- yogic effort on the part of the or- ganization to retain its followers for ts counter-revolutionary activities. “The request contains the blackmail threat of setting up opposition ecandi- lates in the German elections, which sven evoked a protest from the well- tnown Trotskyist Radek. “For the benefit of workers who were misled by the deceitful propa yanda of the Maslov, Fischer and Urbahns group, the Presidium has lecided to reaccept all members of the Lenin League after six months probation who immediately condemn Maslov, Fischer and Urbahns as coun- ‘er-revolutionaries, immediately leave the Lenin League and agree publicly wo accept the decisions of the Com- nunist International,” I3 STRIKES NOW ON IN CHICAGO Sigarmakers Fighting Seab Products | CHICAGO, May 7 (FP‘.—Thirteer Chicago labor organ‘zations have sizeable scraps on their hands against mployers. Some are new and some are over a year old. The newest is the defensive campaign of Local 14 of the cigarmakers against a flood of 2,000,000 non-union 5-cent cigars pouring this month through. the. job; oers from the Philadelphia factories of the tobacco trust. | Local 35 of the granite cutters has | to fight the police as well as the em- oloyers in picketing open-shop monu- ment and tombstone yards. Garden- ars and florists No. 17117, are ener- getically pushing their Buy -No-Flow- ers campaign, having defeated an in junction effort and having their eye on Mothers’ Day, the oceasion skill fully organized by the boss florists to eapitalize filial piety. Local 84, the window washers unit of the Building Service International has settled with a number of down. town building managers at $160 @ month, the figure in the strike de- mand of last January, but the ma- jority of managers are still holding out against them. Tha internationa held its biennial convention in Chi- cago last week, electing Oscar F. Nel- son president and Paul B. Davis sec- yretary-treasurer, Local 5 of the photoengravers con- tinues to picket the Wallsce-Miller Engraving Co., which went scab e& month ago in what looks like an ex- periment backed by larger engraving houses. The fight may be as long drawn out as that of five craft unions that have been bucking the White (Regan) Printing House the past 1° months. White deserted the unior column after 80 years of friendly re lations. The meta! polishers also havc @ year-old fight against the Chicag Flexible Shaft Co., likewise former!y union. The list of 13 scraps is com pleted by the capmakers, engaged -since early winter in battling thei eontract-breaking employers. GAROLISTS START BUCHAREST HIKE THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928 Communist International Turns Down the Application of German Leftists Hold Roman Th ADMIT SANDINO BAFFLES MARINES Marine Investment Will Precede Poll MANAGUA, May 7.— Admission that the tactics of the army of inde- pendence under General Augusto Sandino have completely baffled the American authorities was made by Brigadier General Logan Feland, commanding the United States forces in Nicaragua yesterday. “We have had no trustworthy in- formation about the movements: ‘of Sandino for months,” the general ad- mitted, All Nicaragua is in unrest as the swift maneuvering of the army of in- dependence alarms first the central and western sections of ‘coffee’ and fruit plantation owners and now the American investors on the east coast. In spite of the almost total invest- ment of the country by Ameri¢an forces, the plantation owners are un- easy, expecting an uprising of the enslaved peons whenever the report of the arrival of trdops from the army of independence is spread thru a dis- trict. - Three thousand nine hundred. ma- vines are investing all the larger towns, More than half of this, num- ber is reported to be in the northern halfer where their presence has been rendred almost useless by the advance ‘Holiday For the Roman Report U.S.S.R. Protest Note to Pilsudski Govt. Deen, May 7.— The Soviet Union has delivered a formal note to the Polish Government pro- testing against the “passive atti- tude” which it has taken regard- ing. Russian monarchist groups operating in Poland according to reports received here. The note was sent in connection with the at- tempt to assassinate a member of the U. S. S. R. legation staff. N attempt was recently made in Warsaw to murder the Sovie Union Minister Bugumoloff. WORLD FIGHT FOR GOAL MARKETS Miners to Suffer in Canada Market Fight By LELAND OLDS, (Fed. Press). Coal diggers in the United States may get a sharp reminder in the loss of the Canadian market that they are competing with unemployed miners the world over. Two inde- pendent plans are on foot to substi- tute British empire coal for the coal Canada has imported from the United of General Sandino to a stronger base in the eastern coast region, A number of airplanes at Ocotal in the north are endeavoring to keep the region subdued‘ by terror. - Fifteen planes and 150 men are stationed at the flying field at Managua. Tn close co-operation with these forces, the American election board is preparing to “supervise” the com- ing presidential poil. CANADA JOBLESS FIGHT FOR RELIEF Winnipeg City Council Fails to Act WINNIPEG, Canada, May 7.—At the special meeting of the Winnineg city council held today, a delegation representing the unemploved, sup- ported hy S, Sykes, One Big Union and John Queen, M. L. A., repeated demands for immediate relief. A mo- tion was made by Alderman Kolisnyk, seconded by Alderman Durward (both labor aldermen), giving the Relief Committee permission to spend an additional $30,000 and more if. neces- sary, to relieve this immediate situa- ‘on. An amendment to the effect hat the matter be held in abeyance antil registration of the unemployed was completed, and the question then ‘so be discussed at a further meeting ofthe council, was made by Alder. nan Pulford and Leach, represent: s of big business interests in this r 2ity. The committee representing the un- »mployed' objected to the amendment. They claimed that the city had all ‘he registration it required for prac- tieal. purposes; and that 3,000: men outside in the Market Square should BERLIN, May 7.--Thousands of |be ample proof of a very serious sit- members of the Rumanian Peasant,|uation which demanded immediate at- Party, who took part in the Alba | tention. Julia Convention, which demanded the resignation of the present Roumanian cabinet, are marching upon Bucharest to make a demonstration, according to advices received here this after- noon from German correspondents who crossed the Transylvanian frontier from Alba Julia to avoid the Roumanian censorship. The peasant party is committed to Prince Carol. Telephone and telegraph communi- eation with Alba Julia has been cut since late Sunday. ‘i Heavy forces of armed troops ar reported patrolling the Bucharest streets, The distance from Alba Julia to Bucharest is 245 miles and the pea- sants will begin to reach the capital They demand that registra- tion should be carried on by the Do- minion authorities, and that the meth- od now being used was simply an at- tempt to hide the facts. As usual, when matters affecting labor come before the city council, the vote went 9-7 in favor of the amend- ment and against the unemployed. LAY OFF STATE EMPLOYES. NEW ORLEANS, (FP), May 7.— Since March 1, 500 employes of the Louisiana maintenance department, in the construction of highways and repair work, have been laid off owing to no funds. The last batch of 75 men discharged claimed that towards the end of the month they were notified that they could only work eight hours their product Learn standards,..Shipowners and States. One plan aims to turn the market over to Canadian producers, the other to find in Canada a market for the surplus of Scotland and South Wales. Canada has been importing annually between 14,000,000 and 18,000,000-tons f coal, most of it from the United States. Ontario alone has been buy- ‘ng about 3,000,000 tons of Pennsyl- vania anthracite and 10,000,000 tons of bituminous, providing jobs for about 20,000 American miners. These jobs will go if interests in Ca’ and England succeed in their plans. The plan of the Canadian govern- ment is to reduce freight rates until Nova Scotia coal has the edge on zoal from the United States in the Quebec market and Alberta coal in he Ontario market. For the 3 months April 15 to July 15 each year it has authorized the Canadian National and the Cenadian Pacific railways to re- Juce the rate on Alberta coal to On- tario from $12.70 to $6.75 a ton. This will afford traffie during the dull period in freight business. The gov- ernment will reimburse the roads for ‘osses sustained under the new rate. The freight reduction will enable Alberta producers to sell coal any- where in Ontario at prices $2 to ton under Pennsylvania anthracite. The best Alberta coal n anthracite. The British attack on the Canadian market is a cooperative effort by coal owners of Scotland and South Wales. They plan io screen, wash and grade in .aecordance with dock authorities are: cooperating to- ‘ard low transportation costs. The ‘all-water route from British mines to Canadian cities via the St. Law- rence ‘will vendor the cost of carrying coal about half that from mines in the United States. ‘Expect Cal’s Veto of McNary Haugen Bill WASHINGTON, D. ¢., May 7.—A4 meeting will be held at the White House tomorrow to discuss for the last time the McNary-Haugen and flood control bills, in an attempt to ewvov President Coolidge from vetoing ithem. fia last minute attempt to win the president’s approval was made today when farm representatives presented their argument to him at the White House. But Coolidge’s attitude still points to his ultimate veto. In the event of the bill’s failure to be passed over the president’s veto, a new bill will be ‘ntroduced in con- gress calling for $150,000,000 for flood control construction, with prospects before the end of the week, unless] day instead of 10 at $2.80 a day, 'of its adoption and acceptance by the they are stopped. or 85 cents an hour. president, 4 y “Butterfly” | ie When fascist meets fascist Tammany ception. The above picture Prince Ludovico mayor of looking as he marches up to greet the New Mayor Walker, whom he is said to resemble. Potenzi- ani is believedto' be in the United States to strength: . en the North Amer- ~ tcan fascists + their blackshirt al- ) legiance. Grover Whalen slicked up i me Soin full regalia is on | the left. COAST CITY BANS FOREIGN WORKERS California Will Refuse Them Jobs SAN BERNARDINO, May 7.—The first blow against foreign-born work- has been struck in California stronghold of the most reactionary building trades union officialdom in the country. This city has recently passed an or- dinance making it unlawful for any 0 of the city government, “any contractor, sub-contractor, agent foreman, or any of their representa- tives, having a contract with the city of San Bernardino, the performance of which would require the services of one or more laborers, to cause, per- mit, or suffer to work in performing said contract, any person who is not a citizen of the United States of America. “Any violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor and ers punishable by a fine of not less than| $25, or more than $50, for the first offense and not less than $100 or more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than 60 days for each subsequent offense or by both suck fine and imprisonment.” TO INVESTIGATE POWER DEALINGS PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 7 (FP)., —Newport’s union electrical workers have aroused Rhode Island labor to power trust exactions. . Through a series of resolutions electricians have started a demand which may cause the governor to name.a commission to investigate high charges by private light and power companies. The Newport Electric Corporation’s charge of 121% cents a kilowatt hour for juice precipitated labor’s demand for investigation and survey. — Pri- vately owned plant charges average 532 cents, Newport electricians have computed, while public plants aver- age 24% cents, Southern Massachusetts cities also suffer from high electric rates. Two super-power corporations, the New England Power and the Eastern Util- ities Assn. are angling for the Fall River and New Bedford companies. High rates have inflated stock values of these companies and present own- ers hope to clean up millions when they sell out to the combine. AWARD $6, TO GIRL. LONDON, May 7—John Barker, four, been awarded $6,250 for »mages to her leg by the car of Claud Geoffry, a wine merchant. 2} has MILLS HAVE 54-HR WEEK WOONSOOKET, R. I., (FP) May 7.—All four Lonsdale Co. textile mills are now on the 54-hour schedule. holds a public re- | shows | Spaila Potenztani, | Rome, | handsome | iStrikes and Boycotts York butterfly,| |.to a protest strike they fear the possi- ‘in| ca NEW SEIZURE OF SHANTUNG CITIES Spread in South | (Continued from Paye One) bility of a mass demonstration against the Nanking government. ae sila 9 New Clash in Tsinan. LONDON, May 7. Sporadic | fighting occurred in Tsiman today be- | tween Japanese troops and Kuomin- | tang troops, according to an Exchange | Telegraph Company dispatch from | Hong Kong. The Japanese clashed with the Chi- nese while making a house to house arance of the looters, the dispatch | stated. Anti-Japanese demonstrations oc- curred today at Nanking, tlre dispatch added, As a result Japanese students | are evacuating the city and fleeing by | way of the Yangtze River. | Dispatches from Tokio published in the Daily Express today stated that jas a result of the Tsinan clash and |the state of affairs in the Shantung | province, a special meeting of the Jap- | anese cabinet and war office was held |at which it was decided to dispatch | 5,000 additional troops to China. Preparations for their departure are already under way. When these additional troops arrive, the number of Japanese troops in China will total 10,000, Role of U. S. WASHINGTON, May 7. — War by the Kuomintang forces with the Jap- anese troops in Shantung may finally involve the forces of the United States jin that region. : At Tientsin are 3,000 American marines, with 741 soldiers, while at Peking there is an American legation | guard of about 500 men. Destroyers and submarines are on hand at the jports, and more are being sent from the south China coast. One important factor in the situa- tion is that Chiang Kai Shek, com- mander-in-chief of the Kuomintang troops has repudiated the worker and |peasant program with which the | movement began, and has massacred ‘alt radicals on whom he could lay hands. His support is uncertain in the South. Republicans Select Negro to Catch Votes CHICAGO, May 17—Oscar De- Priest, former alderman of the sec- ond ward and the first Negro alder- man in Chicago, was elected as the republican nominee for congressman of the first district in Chicago in place of the late Marten B. Madden DePriest, a real estate dealer, does not represent the Negro workers but was put up to catch votes. DePriest’s name will go on the bal- lot for November general elections He was picked at a meeting in the Hotel Sherman of five republican commit- teemen of the first district, Dan Jackson, second ward committeeman presiding. | TWO ME ! MONTREAL, Quebec, May Two men were drowned and a third had a narrow escape from a similar fate when the boat in which they were fishing in the St. Lawrence River here i ; ROOMS IN THE COUNTRY , modern rooms to rent in the foothills of the All improvements, run- {ning water, etc. Suites of $ without kitche ow 1 swimming, hiking, ete. rom New York, Would from Comrades. 3-4 rooms with or bs Bn A okie Captain Burr W. Layson, Jr,, will leave for China in the near future to take charge of the air force of the} Kuomintang reactiona BRITISH TEXTILE | STRIKES LOOMING Dye Workers Threaten | Walkout in June LONDON, ane 7.—More than} 8,500 British dye-workers will strike in mid-June unless they are granted | a ‘wage increase, according to a de- cision reached yesterday. in the textile dustry became more critical when the Master Cotton Spinners Associa- The situation in- tion decided to recommend a twenty- five per cent wage cut. Before taking definite. action, however, mill owners in various textile districts will con- fer. the proposed wage cut. Workers are expected to fight Unemployment in the coal fields to be widespread. The miners of South Wales have been particularly hard hit. The shipping in- dustry is also hard hit and thousands of dock workers remain unemployed. continues Auto Deaths Increase WASHINGTON, May 7.—Motor ear accidents wi ible for 525 deaths in 77 large cities during the four weeks ending April 21, ac- cording to figures made public here today by the commerce department This shows an inerease of 35 deaths Leningrad. FIGHT FOR BELA KUN'S FREEDOM GAINS STRENGTH a : | Swiss Communist Party Issues Appeal (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) ENINGRAD, 7.—A strong it to prote ainst the ar- la Kun and to fight against gf his extradition has n launched in the factories of Mass meetings have been held to demand his immediate rel * r BERLIN, May 7. munist Party e Swiss Com- ued an appeal o attend mass gainst the ex- tradition of I e from Vienna to a widely cir- little entente has Reports rec state urged the intern Bela Kun government to Meet end in Fair w port, Yr mand the Conn., New Bruns- N. J., Bridge- adelphia to de- nton, release of Bela Kun. 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