The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 }, 1928 ee Three ACCUSED ADMIT GUILT; PAID BY FOREIGN POWERS ‘bs Conspirators to Be Tr ied Soon (Special Cable to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, May 8. t the fifty- three persons recently arrested in connection with the tionary conspiracy in the Donetz coal basin were subsidized by foreign powers was revealed today with the publication of a summary of the in-| quiry before a special commission of | the supreme court. AH of the fifty-| three pleaded guilty and will come} up for trial soon, The inquiry that the; counter-revolution had been busy} for eight years hampering the devel | opment of indus in the Donetz | Mine owners, mine engineers and number of techn’cians. three of whor were German citizens, were. among | those involved. The accused admitted that they hac} received regular salaries from White Cuardists who had formerly owned the mines as well as from official rep- resentatives of a number of foreigr powers. cae tae The conspiracy to disrupt industry in the Donetz basin resulted in th« arrest of a number of counter-revol” tionary , technicians who were ir charge of the plot. Referring to th- conspiracy. Joseph Stalin, secretary of the AN-Union Communist Party ared that the imnerislist powers ‘e substituting economic for tary intervention. counter-revolu- mili-;a quantity st Powers Subsidized Donetz Coal Conspiracy, Inquiry Reveals pill” stunt flight soon. EGYPT SEIZES 21 AS COMMUNISTS Threatens Deportation in New Terror CAIRO, May 8.—The Egyptian au- | thorities have arrested 21 men here jalleged to be members of the Egyptian | Communist Party, in raids which were prosecuted thruout the city. The .arrests follow the widespread popular discontent with the attitude taken by the present Egyptian gov- ernment in surrendering .without a struggle to the demands of the Brit- sh government that the Assemblies Bill be halted. The vate of the 21 arrested men is uncertain but it is generally beli¢ved that they will be deported from Egypt. Other arrests are expected hourly. The authorities claim to have Seized of Communist literature and a press during the raids. ELABORATE NEW LAND LAW 1N SOVIET UNION MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By mal The government of the Soviet Union has elaborated a in on land utilization and organization whose contents are ips x ~-~as follows: TORTURE CHARGES AGAINST POLICE Miami Officials Middle Age Methods MIAMI, May 8 —-After three months of investigation, the Dade eounty grand jury yesterday charged the Miami police department with “underworld alliances, summary ex- ecutions, revival of the tortures of the middle ages and despotism of such’ a nature as to destroy the free- dom of our citizens.” The denunciation of pclice depart- ment policies was contained in the final report of the grand jury which some time ago indicted chief of police H. Leslie Quigg and several members of his force for murder and _ beatings. Quigg and three of his men were acauitted recently of killing a Negro prisoner. Specific instance of torture, ‘indig- nity and tyranny were described in the renort. Recital of these instances came from more than 90 per eent of 200 witresses who appeared before the inquiry. Common practice in police onestion ef witnesses included forcing them to sit on an electrically wired chair, with an officer standing resdy to knock back into position any one who sien to escape the torture, the Used | Fla.; “The as it had been informed hat one Neero prisoner had the soles of his bave feet beaten with a copner- bound ruler for an hour and a half. Britten Misuses Frank To Attack Disarmament WASHINGTON, (FP) May 8. Pov. Fred Britten of Chicago, Repub- lican gang politician and acting chair- man of the House naval affairs com- mittee, has lifted from the record of hearings before his committee on the naval construction program a state: | ment only 8 pages in length, attack- ing the National Council for Preven- tion of War. This has been printed separately. with the heading “Pas- tors, Polities and Pacifists.” These eight pages are being circulated un- der Britten’s frank, although they contain several paragraphs of allered quotation from a report by the Dis- trict of Columbia hoard of education | which were never in that report. ‘The D. C. hoard refused to permit “Fred ’ erick Libby, seeretary of the’ Council, to speak in \the public schools. Johns and Britten now cor- hine to circulate a false report as t: the action taken, and to take it fron its place in the record of hearings. Canadian Jingoism OTTAWA, Ont., May 8.—An ap- peal to prevent people from other countries from settling in Canada was made by Albert Chamberlian, presi- dent of the British Welcome and Welfare League, in appearing before | ® house committee considering ia facAtion problems, At the basis of the land system in the USSR isplaid the nationalization of the land, that is the abolition for- aver of private property and the es- tablishment of only the state property on the land. ithe productive forces of rural. econ- omy, while ensuring ever growing in- construction. vight to receive land for using it and working on it is reserved to agricul- sural collectives and alsq to the pop- ulation having little or no land. The law does not allow lands to be given to former landowners who have been expelled from their economies ‘n those provinces or districts where they had formerly owned land, The law provides for measures en- forms of land a DEFENSE BODY T0 Call Wilkes-Barre Meet Against Polish WILKES-BARRE, May 8.--—:Tiwe Russian branches of the International Uabor Defense of the anthracite, onc in Wilkes-Barre and the oiher in Ply- mouth, are calling a conference of a! ‘raternal and sympathetic organiza ions to protest against the terror‘ -o'and and Pilsvdski, and agains’ -urders of the Beloruss'an Gromoda for May 20, 2 p. m. at the Rusenkc tell, 805 N. Pennsylvania Wilkes-Barre, After the conference, at 4 p. m., in he same hall, there will be a mass meeting, where there will be speakers in Russian, Ukrainian and English. All organizations are asked to re- |spond to the call and to send two delegates to protest against the mur- der of these workers by the fascist) vovernment of Poland. The committee responsible fer the conference is secretary, A. Rosskey:| mated, namely, of perpretrating sell hairman, A. Kozakoff; treasurer, EY jout after sell out as long as they ean Sharek, Ruling Hits Hits Teachers: | TRENTON, N. Si May iptes .of state normal Seach* at least two Ter vo years. hy state hoard jysterday. The board granted several indi- | vidual increases in salary at this;Ployers as a whole refused to renew meeting. SELECT INCINERATOR SITE. .A three-year dispute over the se- ection of a site for a garbage incin- erator in the eastern part of the Bronx was terminated when the Board of Estimate chose the site at Watson Ave and Bronx Ave. The French Government (which is seek PROTEST FASCISM. Ave.,', The main task to be pursued in the|Ibanez has now lost the support of | land distribution and organization of|the last political party after having land utilization is the development of | broken with the conservatives, lib-| tensification in it of the socialistic|in his ministry, Dr. Salas, was exiled The law regulates the rights of the}a “Communist conspiracy” against | toilers on the land, the preferential] the Chilean B goverament. souraging collective and other similar Shirt Yeien 5 Heads Try | 3,--Grad- | hools must | significant in view of the rears in’ New. lit is one of the most imporant mem- ey before they may teach any. bers of the United Shirt Manufac- ere else, If they do not they must | turers’ Association, ‘imburse the state $200 a year for, bership, This ruling was made by/tinually lowered, believe that many of education here | other members of the association will ing easier Famine Threatens as Locusts Devour Crop GUATEMALA CITY, May 8&— Famine threatens the people of Guatemala as the result of the damage done to the corn crop by the plague of locusts, it is stated by the Guatemala Prarmers’ Association. Measures are being taken to improve large:.quantities of cereals to meet the-shortage. | Many of the Guatemalatan farmers have been ruined since in some tions of the country where the lo- custs swarmed, entire plantings were devoured a them. CHILEAN PREMIER LEAVES GABINE? The Chilean Premier, Enrique Bal- maceda, who was appointed by the lictator Ibanez to give a democratic! and historie prestige to his govern- ment, has resigned with the declar: ion that he cannot support the poli-| cies of Ibanez. Balmaceda is the son of the former president of Chile, J. M. Balmaceda, who was ‘the founder the “Liberal Democratic Party” also called the “Balmacedista Pa’ y”| which held power in Chile longer than } any other single party. Balmaceda’s support was of con-| siderable importance as the ner represented a centralist democratic party favoring greater power fc va president. Thus Ibanez was able refer to the “theories of the snd Bulmaceda” and invoke the support of the masses for his dictatorsaip. | and the ‘‘Wage whose representative ovals, radicals Zarners Party,” to Paris and later accused of plotting | | AWALGAMATED IN FAKE AGREEMENT New Betrayal \ Atter.a strike of many weeks con- lucted--by the Shirt Makers’ Union,} affiliated with the. Amalgamated lothing Workers of America, rgainst the Alperjn Strauss Com- any, who ordered a reduction in wages, and established an out-of-town .on-unjon shop. the manager of the “hirtmakers’ Joint Board, George Gooze, announced that he had reached a settlement with the firm. Gooze emphatically announces that he agreement as signed, requires the fivm to disband its non-union out-of- town factory, and return the am ‘ut from the wages of the workers, but, the statement made by Samuel Manaccus,. head of the firm is just s emphatic--in its denial of the claims of Manager Gooze. i i Claims Denied. Manaccus declares that the 125 em- ployees affected have returned to work with a 15 per cent reduction in week-work. pay and a cut in prices! for those who work on the piece work system. The boss also denies that the | out-of-tuwn non-union shop entered | the negotiations in- any way. The officialdom of the shirtmaters’ junion, are thus following closely the |policies pursued by the national HMill- man administration of the Amaiga-} Show a signed agreement as a result ‘of their efforts. Tmpertant Firm. \ ‘The settlement with this act Qhat The union mem- whose conditions are con- now sign terms, contracts on the same The association of the em- the collective agreement which ex- pired Feb. 15. Instead of mobilizing the workers for a sharp struggle against the employers the adminis tration took no aggressive measures to safeguard the union standards The open shop managed by the newly signed firm is in Hazelton Pa., anc the “union” shop is in Brooklyn. . war debt terms from Photo shows Detroyat, French aviator, who is planning flight to New York from shown after completing a flight from Algtera to Le Bourget Field, Paris. Uncle Shylock) will try another POINCARE SPEECH AROUSES ALSACE ‘Support Grows for Au- tonomists STRASSBOURG, France, May 8.— | Widespread discontent. with French imperialism has been heightened by the speech of President Poincare at Metz in the course of which he de- clared that France will never consent to a neutral and autonomous state in Alsace. In view of the trial of the fourteen autonomists it is believed that Poin- care’s address will cause increased support for the autonomist movement thruout Alsace and Lorraine. The refusal of magistrate Mazoyer to give thé autonomists another week in which to argue their side of the ease is generally interpreted as show- ing the methods which the French authorities are intending to use in suppressing the autonomist move- ment, The attempt of the French prosecu- \tion to drag in the story of “German gold’? behind the autonomist move- |ment continues in spite of being gen- erally discredited. Dr. Ricklin, the chief defendant has repeatedly denied | that he had any communication with ‘the German government or any of its agents. “JOBLESS GROW AS PROFITS RISE Double the number of wage cuts and fewer advances is Labor Bureau’s report on pay shifts during the first four months of 1928. Against 33 cuts |in 1927, there were 62 this year, half of them in woe begone textiles. Cotton mill workers have suffered wage jreductions of 9 per cent since last year, During April, 58 wage increases, mostly in printing, building and ‘trans- portation trades were reported, Mena 12 decreases, Jobs are 6 per cent scarcer than last year, despite greater industrial activity as spring \advances. Referring to huge undistributed profits swamping the stock market, in the face of continued unemploy- iment, Labor Bureau remarks: “In these cireumstances, wise pol- i¢y would seem to dictate either low- \ering the prices of the arcticles that are made at such great profit so that the demand for them might be larg- er, or raising the wages of those en- gaged in making them, with the same end in view, or both. Certainly an in- dustrial order which long continued to throw off unused profits at the top and unused workers at the bottom would have few impartial defenders.” VICE ‘ONSU LA SUICIDE SHANGHAI, May 8.— United States vice consul Walter B. Wilson, who had been missing for several days. committed suicide by drown- ing himself in the Whangpoo River it was revealed today with the find- ing of ae body. {posits they contain. DENY ARGENTINE PARTY IN FUSION WITHREFORMISTS Few Renegades Allied With Socialists The various stories of the “fusion” of the Argentine socialist and the Communist Parties which have ap- peared in the capitalist press are com- pletely without foundation, it was authoritatively learned yesterday. It appears that the so-called “Com- munist Party of the Argentine Re- gion,” under the leadership of the city councillor, Penelon, who was re- cently expelled from the Argentine Communist Party, made overtures to unite with the old socialist party in return for certain concessions. The socialist party which lost heavily in membership thru the secession of the rightists who formed a new “Inde- pendent Socialist Party,” may wel- come some persons who were ejected from the Communist Party. But this fusion has not yet been completed. The situation of labor parties is consequently as follows: The extreme right wing Independ- ent Socialist remains under the lead- ership of de Tomaso; the old mildly left Socialist Party under the leader- ship of the brothers Dickeman and Repetto with the secessionist follow- ers of Penelon, who formerly consti- tuted the right wing of the Commun- ist Party; and the Communist Party under the leadership of Rodolfo Ghioldi, The Communist Labor Party, which published the Chipsa (Iskra) and which split off from the Party in 1925 in connection with the assas- sination of Enrique Muller, the leader of the Argentine Young Communist League has very little importance. Jfficials in the “Union Business” Ask for Writ To Halt Boss Offensive Another set of. officials in “anion business,” this time the ministration of the Case, Bag Portfolio Makers Union are ap ing to the capitalist judges to them in keeping the union | ganized.” the ‘or- treasurer of the workers organiz. filed suit in the Supreme Court recently against the Reliable Suit Case Company, for $20.- 900 damages, for conspiracy to break the agreement which is to remain valid till September 1, next. The union also applied to the same judge fer an injunction restraining the firm from “continuing their con- spi: s to break the agreement.” instead of organizing the workers to fight the compar attack on union standards, by strikes and other militant trade union tactics, the of- ficialdom regards the union as its own particular business venture, and a profitable one at that, the union members declare, expressing their de- Charles Nugent, conducting a trade union organiza- tion. Will Develop New Canada Gold Fields TORONTO, Ont., May 8.—Seventy- Jone thousand acres of land near Quebec are to be carefully sifted in an attempt to extract the gold de- The fields have been known to have gold for many decades. A company mainly con- trolled by American financial in- terests has been formed to exploit the 71,000 acres of land by the latest smeltering developments which make its extraction highly profitable. Mass Demonstration To Greet the Delegates to the NATIONAL NOMINATING CONVENTION For President of the United States of the Workers Speakers: William Z. Foster B, H, Lauderdale, Tex. Sen. Chas. E. Taylor, Mont. Scott Nearing, N. J. Lovett F. Whiteman, Ala. Pat Toohey, Pa. Stanley Clark, Okla. Friday Evening May (Communist) Party of America Speakers: Ben Gitlow Ben Gold James P. Cannon Wm. F. Patton, lowa Anita C. Whitney, Calif. Tom Rushton, Mich, Scott Wilkins, Ohio William W. Weinstone MECCA. TEMPLE 183 West 55th St, New ADMISSION 50 CENTS,” York. For Services Rendered \SEIPEL T0 GIVE | BELAKUNPAPERS | TO IMPERIALISTS |Admits He May Grant Extradition Demand {Special Cable to The Daily Worker) Vv. vA, May 8—Bela Kun’s extradition by the Hungarian goy- ernment is still possib! an inter- view with Chancellor Seipel of Aus- _|the front and adjourns the session termination to fight such methods of J tria revealed yesterday. Seipel may turn over documents alleged to have been found in the possession of Bela Major Leroy Hodges, economist, and | friend of the bloody terrorist regime | Kun to “interested governments,” in Italy, will be honored by the Italian| he stated. gov ernment for services rendered i BERLIN, May 8—Huge protest fascism. |meetings are being held thruout Europe to demand the release of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, according to reports received by the International Red Aid. Numerous cableg sent to Chancellor Bela Kun’s as PAPCUN DEFIES STATE TROOPERS Progressive "Forces to| Continue Meetings | SCRANTON, Pa., (FP), “Who’s running this union,” angry coal diggers. ms have been ipel demanding Kill Two Macedonians ATHENS, May 8.—Two Macedon- ians alleged to have participated in ‘a plot to blow up the Serbian con- sulate and other buildings were exe- cuted he Z It is charged oe that the men hoped to cause trouble |between Greece and Jugo-Slavia in \this way. he men were members of a Mac ian separatist organiza- tion, the a Six Are Drowned UNIONTOWN Pa May 8 —Six persons, five of them | Negroes, were |; drowned when a small boat over- ‘turned in the Monongahela river be- tween M own and Greensboro. Night Bladder Weakness or Pains Relieved Safely with Santel Midy Sold by AH Druggists May 8. — asked “We're running it right now,” back state troopers, as they ordered union members from their own hall after breaking up a meeting of 1,200 members of Local 1487 at Pittston. 1,000 members of Local 1495 at Hughestown were voting on officers. State troopers didn’t like the way the | vote was going. They assumed charge | of the meeting and ordered all miners | from the hall. At other union meetings, state po- | lice frisk all miners entering the hall, | then post themselves in strategic po- | sitions. When speakers say things} distasteful to the officers, they are warned and later ejected, if necessary. | If the meeting is not run to the troop- | ers’ satisfaction, the chief steps to | without explanation. the trooper Guns reinforce determination: Save-the-Union Committee meet- ings are also under the police ban. 100 miners gathered to discuss union problems at Dickson City, near Seran- ton, were ordered to disperse from the hall they had rented. No charges were presented. The miners were simply | warned to get out, and not to meet again. ROOMS f : IN THE COUNTRY. | modern rooms to rent in vuntry at the foothills of the ‘s. All {mprovements, run- Large, the Berkshi ning wate te Suites 3-4 rooms with or without ¢! swimming, hiking, ete. York. Would Comrades, Write to Sophie N. ¥. Wonderful hours from New to thracite Save-the-Union committee, has defied state and local police, de- claring the committee will hold meet- ings at will. 91 he from > ; George Papcun, secretary of the an- I er t Quiet atmosphere. |} Harrison, Brainard, FRRAARLLLY PUYOL EP PERP PERE LRE RARER, The MAY ISSUE of THE COMMUNIST Contains MAY DAY, 1928—ByAlexander Bittelman. MAY DAY—By Rosa Luxemburg. THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT—By Jay Lovestone. TWO MINE STRIKE STRATEGIES—By Wm. Z. Foster. PACIFISM AND WAR—Bertram D, Wolfe. CERTAIN BASIC QUESTIONS OF OUR PERSPECTIVE—By John Pepper. ENGELS ON THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT—By A. Landy Also important book reviews by Jack Hardy, George Halonen, ete. Order Fri WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Seraererrrrrrreenrerrr errr: RUNPRURRPRPRELELLPYRY YE PRPPERISPMPERYREY FOV PRURRRERRERR | eX ) ALL OUR PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTIZERS Do not forget at all times to mention that you are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. 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