The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1928, Page 3

)8 White Guards Plan War| ~ ARREST CZECH 4 DAY, MAY 14, 1928 French Imperialists Helped Counter-Revolutionary Plot in Donetz Basin FORMER CZARIST OWNERS GET AID OF POLE FIRMS Measures (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 13.--The investi- gation of the counter revolutionary sabotage plot in the Donetz Basin reveals that the counter-revolution- ists were supported by the Paris as- sociation of former mine owners, the French-Polish association of former owners of Russian under- takings and the German Allege- meine Electrische Gesellschaft, Eickhof and Siemenshuykert. One of those accused of partici- pating in the plot, Bratanovsky, de- clares that French firms gave large sums of money which were sent thru legal French and Polish insti- tutions in Moscow. Another of the accused, Matov, declared that he had visited Berlin in 1926 and conferred with persons important in German and industrial undertakings. -The Polish organizations gave the sabotagers instructions concern- ing tactics in event of war. LABOR EDITORS: PRAGUE, May 13.—Renewed ¢en- sorship of the labor press in Czecho- Slovakia has resulted in the arrests and fines for three of the editors. The papers are appearing with large white blank spaces where the censor has| removed whole paragraphs. | | Among the editors arrested is Sa-| far, editor of the Communist paper, | Rude Pravo, who teceived four months at hard labor for an article against the war danger. The editor of the Ostrau Com- munist paper, Maur, received three months at hard labor while Josef Sladecek, a worker, received two months for publishing a leading ar- ticle. The Ukrainian daily, Karpatske, has been suppressed. R. R. Workers Get Day Off; Wages Reduced SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 13.—A un- animous decision of the arbiters in the dispute between the New York Central R. R. and the railway tele- gvaphers under which 3,000 tele- graphers who have been working 365 days a year will be given one ‘day’ off each week, was recently made public by Chancellor Charles Flint, of Syracuse University. The decision which becomes effective May 16, is} not the great improvement company ‘officials are trying to make it ap- pear, however. The pay of the tele- | graphers will be reduced as soon as the decision goes into effect. Tele- graph workers thus must pay for their one day off in seven. South African 1 Negioés Get 3-Year Jail Terms’) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May; 13.—John Gomas, Stanley Silvana and Bransby Ndobe, South African labo: | leaders, have heen sentenced to three months in jail each, The men are charged with participating in a pro- test demonstration against the mur- der of one Negro and the wounding of another by the police, All three arrested men are promin- ent in the South African labor move- | ° ment. Bavarian Communist Wastes Away in Jail MUNICH, Méy 18. — Richare Daniel. ore of the Communists ‘sen- fenced ta two and one half years in jail at the trial of the Communist: in Tubingen, is now in a sonitarium for nervous patients. according to ¢ renort rereived here from his wife, Since his exner'ences in the Ba- varian jails, Denicls has wasted away yntil he is nothing but skin and a few heres, his wite states, He is to be sent back to jail in a short time. OSSINING. N. Y.. May 18—-Karl Fdwards, Alias Lord Reaverbrook. as | he is better known, js today an of- ficial censor at Sine Sine prison. Ha has been taken off rouch yard work and eiven a new inh of readine the eutroine mail written by prisoners, Lord Reaverbrook fs serving a 10. yaar sentence for robbing women who fell in love with him. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? Where Japanese Imperialists Murdered Thousands | Views taken in and near Tsinan, China, a few weeks before Japanese imperialist troops bombarded the city and killed several thousand civilians. Top photo shows Chiang Kai-shek’s troops; center, left, shows an artillery detachment of White Russians in the employ of Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord; right, Jap- anese imperialist troops landing at Tsingtao, a seaport about 175 milvs from Tsinan; below, left, a Kuomin- tang machine gun nest; and right, one of the archways of a bridge leading into Tsinan. The bridge was de- stroyed by the Japanese bombardment. Urge Fight Against Terror in Finland ret agents or spies. The documents BEGIN TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS IN FASCIST COURT Blackshirts Mobilize Spy “Witnesses” GENEVA, May 13,—The trial of the Communist deputies in the Italian chamber and a number of function- aries of the Italian Communist Party is now in session before the extra- ordinary court, according to a des- patch from Rome, Altho there are 54 called before the special court, only a fraction of that number will appear as some have escaped and some have been excepted in order to be tried on other charges. Among the defendants are Gram- sci, Terracini, Bibolotti, Maffi and Soccimaro, all well-known for their} labor activities among the Italian} workers. It is expected that the fascist au- thorities will be unusually hard with Gramsci and Terracini. They are ac- cused of “plotting against the state, organization of armed bands, at-, tempts on the life of Mussolini, anti- | militarist propaganda, and violation | of the law on secret organization. | The government has marshalled an| army of witnesses, most of them sec- alone are described as “mountain- high.” WORKER JAILED AS AGITATOR | VIENNA, May 13.—Charged with | a mission from the Austrian Com-| munist Party to enter Hungary and carry on. a widespread agitation among the Hungarian workers, Johan} Nass has been seized by the offiicals | of the Horthy fascist government and thrown into the Budapest jails. | POLICE BRUTAL Birds of a Feather | | | | Prof. Hofrat-Wettstein is expect- ed to sueceed Dr. Ignace Seipel as chancellor of Austria. The Seipel regime has jailed Bela Kun, Hung- arian Communist leader. TO LABOR HEAD Free Man Forced to Do} Prison Job | \ BEIROUT, May 13.—Reports from | Tikvah state that the secretary of | the Labor Council, Idelson, has been| brutally handled by the police. Idelson was arrested in December as the result of his activity in a} strike. At his trial recently the judge} unable to ma‘e out a'case against the| man ordered that he be liberated. As it was late, however, he declared that |garian wor ARREST MANY AS” COMMUNISTS IN BUDAPEST RAIDS Workers Facing Life Imprisonment BUDAPEST, May —Revival of police terr against the Hun- n in the arrest workers, Among 2d are Martin Leip- Stefan Kiss, Hugo of five I the worke: ik, Ludv Kiss and E. The arrest of the five workers, who are hharged with carrying on Com-~- munist propaganda, has been followed by wholesale searches and persecu- tion of the Budapest workers. Is India Different? S. SAKLATVALA HE correspondence Idelson would be unable to find lodg- ing for the night and “the police would be forced to grant him another night’s hospitality.” When he rose in the morning the | warden ordered Idelson to carry out} and empty a bucket of filth. A cor-| poral and. two police who were present brutally beat Idelson on the chest and tore out handfuls of his hair, At the end of this attack, Idelson! between Saklatvala and Gandhi on the Indian labor move- ment and modern con- ditions in India. With an introduction by Palme Dutte. 10 cents Militants in the Finnish Parliament have issued the following appeal fo all revolutionary workers: Comrades! The period of the last ten years has been marked by very bitter ex- periences for the revolutionary Biot letariat of Finland. Ten years ago the bourgeoisie gained through the murder of thousands of workers an unrestricted power. 30,000 Workers Die in Prison. The bestiality of the bourgeoisie and white-terror is characterized by the fact, that right after the civil war was at an end, 3 per cent of the whole population of Finland were in- terned-into prison camps wherein over 15,000 workers w starved to death. These camps were in fact living graves. Even without any formal judicial procedure about 15,009. work- ers were executed by machine-guns. | By bunches they were done. a with. Though ten years has already passed since these days of horror there are still thousands of orphans, whose fathers and mothers either fell in battles for the freedom of the pro- letariat or perished for the cause. error did not cease with ibed brutalities. arose from its grave. With remark- able energy it reorganized its ran‘:s, despite the vain efforts of social- traitors to sidetrack it from the road of Marxian class struggle. This road has been one of suffering under per- petual persecutions. Hundreds of the best fighters of proletariat have been forced ‘to go through the torture- chambers of state police, the and the prison hells of inland. rkers standing on the bas struggle have been depriv ig f assemb! and associ: tion. In 1920 the conference to found the Socialist Labor F of Tinland was broken up and its sentenged to penitentiaries. In 1922 the executive committee of the party | and editors of party organs as well | as the participants in the meeting of } the party-council were arrested and on a charge of high-treason sentenced | for long terms. Their only guilt was that they published, a manifesto against the war-preparations of the bourgeoisie and appeal to the prole- tariat to fight for the preservation of peace. : Suppress Workers’ Parties In 1923 the Youth Federation of Finland, a left-| wing organization, was suppressed. A court of justice declared this glori-) ous fighting body dispersed. In August of the same year the bour-| geoisie struck a severe blow at. the) Socialist Labor Party of Finland. Al) the leading persons of the party, the! editors of party organs and the par- Vamentary fraction of the party (27 deputies) were arrested, and all the local branches of the party were sup- pressed. The labor halls and buildings were closed and all the printing- plants, where the party organs were| | printed, were confiscated. During the years 1925 the same kind of measures were taken against the Finnish Social ist Federation of Youth -and again many of the comrades among th’ The proletariat of Finland literally | , Social-Democratie}! put into penitentiaries. Just as fiercely, in behalf of a foreign power.” With the bourgeoisie has dealt its blows against our economic fighting or- ganizations, the trade unions. The labor press has much suffered from prisonments of their editors, instrument of persecution the state police, okhrana, has carried on its| work as an independent state within | a state. Mass Arrests. Again has the white-terror directed | of Finland. During the last days} mass arrests of Communist w and house searches have been car already arrested 46 comrades there | ers and Small Peasants, the secretar of all our trade unions), many editors | struggle for freedom. This last offensive of reaction did not come unexpected for the prole- |. tariat of Finland. The blood-t incitement and. threatenings o bourgeoisie, the provocations of the| ial-d thy co-operation with the bour-| geoisie against the worke: n- | ation of the white-terror. The tion and leading elements of so-| cial-demoeracy have a common slo-| gan: Down with Communism! | To reach this goal the reaction is| using and courts ef judze-/ ment. ‘al-democratic leaders | are striving to the forefront by bing the properties of labor orgar. nion upporting the aec- tivities of the okhrana. While the! reaction makes a straight offencive, the social-traitors stab the proletariat | in the back. As a camouflage they. make use of a cha for “espionage -ment and b As an/in so doing is to alienate the Finnish workers from political and economic a severe blow against the proletariat} letariat have misjudged. _ the white-guardist bourgeoisie failed rs | 0 achieve by its brutality in 1918, | ad | Will be met with failure even now, out all over the country. Among the! When they resort to persecutions. The | t Minnish proletariat have _ suffered convineed of the fact that in this un- are even two members of the Parlia- | heavy, blows, but never for a moment | jual fight they will have the sym- mentary Fraction of Socialist Work- jhas it lost its confidence in the vic-| of the General Confederation of Trade | 4°™. ; ‘ Unions of Finland. (the central body | have not succeeded in their attempts rsty | and the| have provoked general anger against class-conscious | Of arrested comrad this they are trying to brand the pro- | Fakers Prey on Jobless jand finally was compelled to follow | letarian class struggle in Finland, although they very well know that| Workers Through Ads} Atter his release Idelson wrote to such charges are heinous provova- | 5 very frequent suppressions and im-jtions and dirty lies. Their purpose fighting organizations and tie them under the yoke of social-traitors. Revolutionary Hopes High. But even now the enemies of pro- | All that jwas again ordered to empty the pail | the last prisoner who had emptied one./} WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- ASHERS, 39 East 128 New Yor the authorities demanding justice. In reply he received a letter from the | officials justifying the prison au- | thorities. Fakers of all sorts are finding the unemployment situation an excellent opportunity to feather their nests. Advertisements are inserted in the daily newspapers, offering pleasant employment at high wages. When the unemployed worker answers the | ad, he is usually asked to send one or) two dollars for further instructions. | |The instructions usually are valueless | and the defrauded worker gets nothing, From 5 to 9 years From 5 to 9 years CHILDRENS COLONY For Workers’ Children | torious end of its struggle for free- The social-demiocratie leaders | to undermine the revolutionary will of labor organs and many ardent |! Working-class and even now they | standard-bearers of the proletarian! Will see that the proletariat will turn its “back to them. The last mass-arrests of workers and the alliance of the bourgeoisie the social-democratie “leaders, them and all over the country the moeratic leaders, and their | proletariat is preparing to fight for 4 its civil rights and for the freedom The Finni working people GREE BEATRICE and SAM May your united life be a long-and happy journey. find encouragement and inspiration in each other to carry on the good work you. have for his money. } | 1 | In UNITY CAMP, WINGDALE, N. Y. The program will include singing, dancing, painting, pasting, play- ing and hiking. A sufficient number of counselors are employed to take care of the children. As soon as a sufficient number of children will be registered the registration will be closed and no more chil- |pathy and support of the Interna- tional proletariat. We know that the \class-conscious workers in all coun- \tries will lend a helping hand and with linternational solidarity side with the | persecuted proletariat of Finland. Comrades! We are unceasingly fighting on a} jrevolutionary front. Trusting to the sympathy and support of the prole- tariat of whole world we are going against an unscrupulous enemy for he frecdom of the proletariat. —Parliamentary Fraction of Socialist Workers and Small Peasants in Finland. dren will be accepted. Register Your Child Immediately. UNITY COOPERATIVE HIOUSE 1800 7th Ave., corner 110th St., N. Y. ioe Oppesite Central Park. The most beautiful 9-story house in Harlem with TINGS iT} all moderti equipments. Every room furnished con- to | veniently. Elevator service day and night. | For information concerning these instit | Co-operative, 1800—7th Ave., Cor. 110th May you chosen for your life task. NNIE and NORMAN. 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