The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 1

JAPANESE t TI P, The Japanese LAUNCH HUGE MILITARIST DRIVE imperialists have taken advantage of the fighting betweemthe war lords Chiang Kai-shek and Ci nt revolt in the south seems to have weleomed the clash at Tsinan because it apparently places him in the position of fighting the imperialist powers. The workers and peasants of China, however, TO SEIZE hang Tso-lin to launch a drive to seize the province a PROVINCE OF SHANTUNG, CHINA are of Shantung. Chiang Kai-shek, who fears a worker-peasant not deluded. Photo on the left shows Chinese coolies compelled to drag heavy loads for Chiang’s armies. They are frequently shot down when they become too tired to drag the heavy carts. Photo on right shows detachments o. f Chiang’s troops. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 110. BEAT, LOCK UP CIVIL LIBERTIES OFFICERS ALSO Latter Receive Lesson Way of Struggle | : (Special to The DAILY. WORKER} PITTSBURGH, May 9.—Four Be | troopers charged into a picket lint at the Delmont mine of the Pittss bregh Coal Company at six o'clock this morning, riding over and club4| bing Anthony Minerich, Save-the- Union organizer in charge of the non-union fields, Minerich and other pickets were then arrested. Two representatives of the Pittsburgh branch, Civil Liberties Union were likewise locked up. Miners here are determined to close the mine which had resumed operation with a handful of work- ers last week and to test the legality of state police. in break- ing picket lines in Westmoreland county,. slugging. and, throwing. tear gas bombs without provocation as well as the indiscriminate clubbing of citizens who venture out of their homes. Two hundred striking miners. in- cluding two score women and children, braved the police in White Valley to- day. A wire complaining of the action of state police stationed at Greens- burg. barracks was sent last night by Fred Woltman, secretary of the jocal American Civil Liberties Union. ‘the wire stated: “We are advised that peaceful picketing will be conducted at White Valley. Our representatives will be present and if intimidation or club- bing of peaceful picketers lawfully assembled occurs, personal damage suits will be immediately instituted against offenders.” As soon as troopers reached the line officers demanded what the pickets had to do with the American Civil Liberties Union and ordered ‘them to disperse while police behind armed with vifles poisea their clubs ready for action. When Minerich, leading the miners, declared that picketing is legal and refused to leave the roadside where pickets were lined up in twos, the police rode into their ‘midst; one of them viciously clubbed Minerich who fell on the road, while (Continued on Page Two) BARRED DELEGATE SONFERENCE OPEN Work to Rebuild Cloak Union Started BOSTON, Mass., May 9. — With fifty additional left wing delegates added to the original hundred locked out by the several hundred police pro- vided for the Sigman controlled con- vention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the dele- gates, truly representative of the great masses of cloak and dress mak- ers in New York, Chicago and other centers, officially opened their con- ference in the Hotel Brewster, which means the beginning of a campaign to rebuild the union over the heads of the fakers in control of the Interna- tional. A statement was issued over the _ signature of Louis Hyman, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Cloakmakers Union, calling upon all those delegates in the International convention, who still had the interests {Police THE Publishing. Association, Ime., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. MINE POLICE CLUB MINERIC! who objected tovw-speceh~of Paul. at the centennial meetgi of the At the left, the picturg $ ers (Communist) Party, face by the police terrorists of the Society, who provokeée CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 9,—The International Peace Conference: was turned into bloodshed tonight at the Masonic Auditorium here when scores of police and plainclothesmen bru- tally treated workers demonstrating against Milukof, former czarist min- ister, speaking against the Soviet Union. The demonstrators received ap- plause from the workers. when. one after the other rose and” protested against Milukof’s speech agitating for war against the U. S. S. R. Burton, who presided at the meeting, provoked reactionary audience and police to vio- lence. Big posters advocated disarmament after the Soviet proposal for - peace and the stopping of preparation for war of American youth. Twenty wo- men and men were arrested. One worker was seriously injured, his blood covering the stairs. Others were beaten and mistreated. I. Amter, dis- trict organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party was badly beaten, blood running from his face. He was held for investigation. Among those ar- rested were Betty Gannet, secretary of the Young Workers (Communist) League, Sadie Van Veen, Lillie Borer, Nell Amter, Elmer Boich. © Milukof’s speech was continually interrupted, although the workers did not disturb the previous speakers. Those arrested sang the “Interna- tional” in the patrol wagon and in jail. There was an earlier demonstra- tion Monday night. When the.British ambassador spoke four were arrested then. A communication exposing the peace conference was sent to confer- ence committee by the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Many leaflets were distributed. ONE UNION, CRY. OF FUR WORKERS Refused Hearing By Right Wing Council Escorted by about 500 fur finishers, the committee of 15 recently elected at a meeting of the right wing fur fin- ishers’ local to demand the re-estab- lishment of ‘one union in the fur in- dustry, went to the meeting of the Joint Council to present the demands of the meeting they represented, and instead of being heard were ordered out of the council office by. Edward of the workers at heart, to attend the conference of the locked out delegates. Hyman officially called the confer- ence to order at 1 o’clock in the after- noon in the Hotel Brewster. It is not (Continued on Page Five) ~ McGrady, in charge of the work of destroying unionism in the fur trade. Picket Union Wreckers’ Offices. > The sight of the large congregation of workers who came to‘ back-up the (Continued on Page A) vs I. Amte bho wasestug: At the wight is Theodore Burton, president - i Shed Blood at Cleveland “Peace” Meeting Police, plain clothesmen and civic thugs slugged and beat workers ilakof attacking the Soviet Union teyican Peace Society in Cleveland. District Organizr of the Work- ed, till blood streamed down his Police to attack the workers. POLICE CLUB WORKERS AT PEACE" CONFERENCE COURT AIDS IN Te FARE STEAL Democrats, G. O. P. In On Steal Delay by the Federal Statutory Court yesterday in signing the order for a fare increase recently granted to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company is seen here as a confirma- tion of the belief that the federal court is lined up with the Tammany Hall city machine, the state repub- lican henchmen as well as the transit commission in the move to force a seven and finally a ten cent fare on the subway riders of the city. Plan Delay, The signing of the order would’ have enabled the city and _ transit lawyers to appeal to the United States supreme court for a reversal of the statutory court order. The time set for the appeal is May 14, and it is apparently the intention of the “con- tracting” parties to the scheme to postpone action long enough to pre- vent the argument before the supreme court. Federal Judge Manton, one of the three who signed the original order, intimated yesterday afternoon that the order would be held over. Even before the news of the intended de- laying of action on the part of the judges was indicated, Charles L. Craig, attorney for the city in the in- creased fare issue, and also attorney at the same time for some traction lines, had already announced that in any event there would be insufficient time for the city.to prepare its case to present to the supreme court. Increase Sure Next Week. The net result of these maneuvers is that the Interborough will be able to put over the increased fare next week if is so desires. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 9.—The investiga- tion of the Donetz sabotage con~ spiracy revealed that the counter- revolutionary organization in charge of the plot originated and received instructions from engineers and for- mer owners in Rostov Don at the be- ginning of 1920. ; i The sabotage organizations were formed in Vlasovskoya, Nyesvetay- Sautered as second-class matter at the Post Office NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY i0, 1928 , BREAK PICKET LINE DAILY WORKER. [| at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 pew year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Price 3 Cents Japan Rushes Troops for Shantung Grab EMPLOYERS FEAR STRIKE LED BY MILITANT UNION Police Can’t Evict Men From Strike Office NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 9.— Realizing that the great struggle of the 30,000 textile workers here is showing increasing signs of coming to a victorious conclusion, as the Tex- tile Mill Committees are rapidly gain- ing sole leadership of the strike, and enraged at the daily mass picketing demonstrations .conducted by that or~ ganization, the mil] owners yesterday made an attempt to halt the commit- tees’ further intrenchment in the strike ‘leadetship, by engineering a police eviction of strikers from union headquarters on the flimsy excuse of its being an unlicensed meeting hall The whole elaborate plan of the city authorities and the mill owners fell thru when the representatives of the Mill Committees succeeded in proving, to the license department that the building had always possessed a meeting hall permit and needed only a renewal, which was granted later in the day, to both the North’ andj South End Halls of the T. M. C. Raid Strike Headquarters. The raid referred to took place. at 6.80 o’clock Tuesday morning, just as (Continued on Page Two) PARTY SECTIONS TO HEAR FOSTER Reports On Mine Strike’ Tonight at6P.M | | | | cannon captured from troops of the tung. International has which says in part: “The campaign of the world bow eois press against Bela Kun is i tended to create an atmosphere fi his possible extradition and possibl for an attempt to murder him. “All of the sections of the Commu: nist International are requested to raise a demand for the immediate re- lease of Bela Kun in connection with the general campaign against fascism and the brutal international reaction in Europe and China.” The news of the danger of the ex- issued an_ app Dt A field lesson in strike strategy, drawn from the recent developments| in the colossal miners’ strike, will be given by William Z..Foster to mem-| bers of Sections 2 and of the} Workers (Communist- Party tonight! at a meetinrgto be held at 6 o'clock at Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave. Foster’s analysis tonight will be} the first time such a report is given to any section membership meeting of the Workers Party. One of the main points to be em- phasized by Foster is Lewis’s plea for the support of the coal operators as a “bulwark against the Reds” in the miners’ union. The meeting will start at 6 p. m. promptly, as scheduled. Members 3 tradition of Bela Kun has caused.the greatest indignation among the work- ers of the Soviet Union. Protest meetings are being held in the fac- tories of all of the large towns and cities to urge an international cam- paign against the extradition of Bela Kun and for his immediate release. Even if Bela Kun is not handed over to ‘the Horthy terrorists the danger of his assassination still remains acute. The Hungarian press is openly inciting the murder of Bela Kun. REPORT LEPROSY CURE. LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 9.—A com- plete cure of leprosy cases has been effected by the Bolivian physician Pedro Molina, according to reports' from the Pacary Brazil, where Molina has a sanitarium for lepers. The doc- should bring their Party membership books. tor is said to be using a vegetable ‘unguent for his cures. evskoya, Sherbinovskoya mining dis- tricts in the Donetz basin. Members of these organizations, former em- ployes and former mine workers be- came engineers and mechanics when the Soviet Union took over the con- trol of the mines. Aggravate Workers. In accordance with instructions is- sued by the former mine owners valuable mining land was unused, un- IMPERIALISTS LAUNCHED DONETZ PLOT Reveal Sabotage Conspiracy Was Subsidized by Foreign Firms profitable mines exploited, machinery abused and workers systematteally aggravated by artificial wage cuts and deliberate disregard of workers safety. The conspirators received a reward for their sabotage from abroad. The accused Babenko admitted receiving none thousand roubles; the engineer Kalganov admitted receiving one hun- (Continued on Page Three) * ' The picture shows troops of the warlord Chiang Kai-shek with a Nanking War Lord Clashes With Japanese Army warlord Chang Tso Lin, which they plan to use against the Japanese imperialists now advancing thru Shan- COMMUNISTS ASK FIGH (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER, MOSCOW, May 9.—Urging an international ca i CABLES PROTEST Release of Bela Kun Is Demanded The National Office of Interna- tional Labor Defense, with branches and affiliated organizations thruout America, today sent a cable of pro- test to the Austrian government against the proposed extradition of Bela Kun, the former chairman of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars of the Hungarian Soviet government. The cable also demanded his uncon- ditional release and the safe-guard- ing of his return to the Soviet Union, of which he is now a citizen, against the interference of the Horthy ban- dits. It was announced at the National office of International Labor iene today that a stron gagitation will be conducted to arouse labor and lib- eral opinion throughout America in behalf of the leader of the Hungarian working class. The cable sent to the Chancellor Seipel is-as follows: “Three hundred thousand members affiliated with our organization pro- test emphatically against the arrest of Bela Kun and violation of right of political asylum and demand his immediate unconditional _ release. Attempt to Oust Mill Committees Fails WAR LORDS FEAR WORKER-PEASANT GAINS IN SOUTH Kuomintang May Patch Peace With Chang TODAY’S DEVELOPMENTS. 1 —Jopan rushes two divisions of troops to Shantung. Q—Japanese imperialists work out plans for seizure of Shantung Province. 3-Chang Dso-lin. and Chiang Kai- shek, fearing worker-peasant. revolt, may patch up truce. Chang halts fight on Kuomin- tang. 4—Worker-peasant armies make gains in south. Sadia ae TOKIO, May 8.—-Orders have been issued for two additional divisions of troops to embark for China, it was learned tonight. Preparations for the embarkation have been un- der way since Friday. The war of- fice is also preparing to mobilize 50,000 men immediately in case of emergencies. ~* ope SHANGHAI, May 9.—Altho there has been no formal declaration of war, the Japanese government is conduct- ing a military campaign in the Tsinan egion with the annexation of Shant- ng Province as its ultimate object. The war challenge appears to have 2en taken up by the Kuomintang war rds who fear the spread of the work- peasant forces in the south, which, may culminate in a new revolutionary ve. Reports from Canton point to nereasing activity of worker-peas- ant troops in the Swatow and Canton stricts. The Kuomintang war lords hope that fhe rie against Japan y tend to unify Chinese popular sentiment a vicuginen the internal position of the Nanking regime, (Continued on Page Two) MAURER ABSENTS SELF FROM MEET Helps Reactionaries Put Over Program (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PHILADELPHIA, May 9.—Deliber- ately absenting himself from this morning’s session of the convention of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor in order that the Lewts- Cappellini machine might have a free hand to put over their reactionary program, James H. Maurer, retiring president of the federation and so- cialist candidate for vice-president, today approved indirectly this move. A. P. Bower, a socialist of Reading and a right hand man of Maurer, who presided at this morning’s session in |the absence of Maurer and assisted satan American workers condemn as a mur- iby the Lewis-Cappellini gang at the der conspiracy the proposals for his | .onvyention succeeded in w extradition and certain death at the |delegates P. Harvey of Local 2881 and hands of the bloodthirsty Horthy |y, Munsey of Local 2210, U. M. W. government. We will conduct agita- | Delegate Munsey, a militant Negro tion and demonstrations among'| miner, is the newly elected treasurer American masses till Bela Kun is|o¢ the Pennsylyania Labor Party. freed and his journey to the Soviet! Jt js significant that Maurer was Union is safeguarded against the |absent from this morning’s session in Horthy bandits. nticipation of the struggle that was “International Labor Defense. to develop over the brazen report of * “James P. Cannon, Secretary.” (Continued on Page Five) ’ cestspns eee aera 4