The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 3

Railway and Textile Strikes Spreading in India; 150,000 Ou THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU DAY, MAY 15, 1928 Page Three RED LABOR INT'L. URGES FIGHT TO RESCUE BELA KUN Protest Meetings Held| Thruout U. S.S. R. (Speetal Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 14.--The Executive Bureau: of the Red International of Labor Unions has issued a new appeal urging revolutionary workers thruout the world to) intensify their efforts to win freedom for Bela Kun, Hun- garian Communist leader, who was jailed in Vienna. The protest movement against the extradition of Bela Kun is spreading thruout the Soviet Union. Lunch hour meetings have been held in all Len- ingrad factories and resolutions have been adopted demanding the release} of Bela Kun. Protest mass meetings and demon- strations have been held in the Don Basin. La Se PRAGUE, May 14.—Thousands of workers participated in a mass meet- ing under the auspices of the Inter- national Red Aid Saturday to pro-| test. against the extradition of Bela Kun. The meeting. sent telegrams of protest to the Austrian and Hun- garian governments. A number. of workers were arrested by the police. ee VIENNA, May. 14.—Mass meetings} are being held here to protest against, the extradition of Bela Kun. | Even Fascist Spain Photo shows Ignacio Jiminez and Francisco.Inglesias, Spanish aviators, who are planning a propaganda flight from Seville, Spain, to Havana, Cuba, ‘Dunn Rudely Awakens the Dozing ‘Profs PHILADELPHIA,.(FP) May 14.— Professors accustomed to neat’ meta physical twists and meticulous hair splitting, quit dozing: at the annual meeting of the American Academy of MILL STRIKE NOW | Political and Social Science and lookec. | up suddenly. when Robert W. Dunn, | author of American “PoreigitInvest- | ments, wove the warp of. foreign in- fabrie he called imperialism. . | vestments and the woof. of state de- | partment. foreign policy into a tough ' { Police Threat Answered | by More Picketing (Continued fram Pear Grey triel this afternoon in a local court eharged with disorderly conduct, both of these militant women participated in the pieketing demonstrations this mornir@ They were. received with great enthusiasm by the other strik- ers. These two'workers were the first to he arrested since the struggle is on. j Relief, Work Continues. The resourcefulness of the strikers drafted’ to organize relief collection and! distribution has by far exceeded the hopes of relief work leaders, is the gist of a statement issued by the Workers International Relief, which is handling this vital form of strike activity for the Textile Mill Commit- tees. This was proven yesterday when! the strikers organized themselves to/ go out on fishing expeditions, and brought in over 8,000 pounds of: fish for the relief distributing station. Many Fishermen Here. New Bedford has long been known as a fishing town, in addition to its; being the main center for fine cotton | goods, the majority of workers here are Portuguese and the large fishing | fleets here are almost entirely manned | by Portuguese fishermen. The fishermen are either members of the strikers’ families or in many cases the strikers themselves. In addition to the other activities of: relief work volunteers, such as col-| lecting foodstuffs from farmers in the surrounding countryside, the Workers International Relief is mobilizing aid from New England cooperatiyes and trade unions and is carrying on a gen+ eral campaign for funds thruout the country. The so-called relief commit~ tee of city politicians, organized by, the Textile Council officialdom, has practically cased functioning, frankly declaring that it has no funds. Share Prices Drop: The continuing slump in the stock | market shares: of all the companies; whose mills have been shut down, and | the steadyrise of value quoted for the few mills operating because they ‘did | not join in the general wage slash, gives rise to the belief among compe- tent observers that the mill oWners will soon launch a strike breaking of- fensive. It is generally conceded tho, that| the growing power and influence of | the ‘textile Mill Committees among} the strikeys will be sutticient. not omy |{"*t a thorough investigation: would | to stop this offensive but to break it. | ‘the T. M. C. is being more and more | publicly acknowledged as the sole! wearers of the struggle. Manufacturer Forges | “Union Made” Lapel’ met ie | WASHINGTON, May 14.--A iman- | ufacturor who labeled his goods as “union made,” when they were non- union, has been ordered by the Fed- eral Trade Commission to stop. The ! name of the manufacturer was pro- tected and was not made public by the trade commission. i | 7 Engineer Praises USSR BOSTON, May 14. (FP),—Bduca- vional and industrial progress in the Soviet Union were praised before the Kiwanis Club by Peter P. Alexander, General Electric research engineer re- iJ. A. Higgins in Move) \Grand Jury by Lougheed at his previ- | ‘session Tougheed is expected to go| will take place in that borough if Tammany Holls allows the investiga-! ‘on to continue, } America’s’ penetration along the road of colonial empire is “not due to an accident,” he told proféssors busy polishing eye glasses, “or to certain ‘mistaken policies’ on the part | of our rulers: It is-the natural fruit of the growth and dominance of finance capital in the United States.” The road to empire is not a peace- ful road, he warned. Instead it leads to rivalries with similar forces in other developed countries. The grow- ing revolt of peoples forced to suffer under imperialism, coupled with the | aggressive protest of labor and pro- gressive forces in this country, Dunn held to be the strongest opposition to imperialism. CLEANING GRAFT. HEARING OPPOSED to Aid Tammanyites A further move to squash the ex-| posure of wholesale graft in the} Street Cleaning Department isseen in the statement by Commissioner of Accounts James A. Higgins, appointed to investigate the charges, that he is opposed to: holding public hearings. This coincides with the expected ap- pearance this morning before the Bronx Grand Jury of William J. Loueheed, garage foreman who re- cently created a sensation by confes+ sing his part in the graft activities, which, it has been learned; ve covered the entire city for more than: two decades. Evidence given to the ous anpearance consisted largely of payroll. padding and other irregular- | ities in the department. At today’s | into further details of the’ activities! of the graft ring. Preparing an Alibi. As a result of disclosures over the week-end that the graft in Brooklyn alone reaches more than $2,000,000 annually, Michael Laura, deputy street cleaning commissioner of | Brooklyn has issued: a statement in anticipation of the disclosures that +i Tammany lesders frankly admit “show un thingr pretty bad” and nor- hans hit other departments. also admitted that they have known of the eraft for a long time, but took ~» ection to stop it. In Main Office. Tt was further learned yesterday that the graft ring has been working in the main office of the department, several of the leading aszistants of "Alfred A. Taylor, commissioner of | street cleaning being involved: Altho, ‘it is known who they are, no move to either arrest or question them has been made. Several veteran employees of the department have pointed out that if it had not been for Lougheed’s’ @x- posure of graft, it would have con- tinued indefinitely without any move being made to clear up the situation. They stated that in the past, when any suspicion of graft was uncovered, GENERAL STRIKE LOOMS IN LARGE. ~ ARGENTINE PORT ‘Government Is Rushing Strikebreakers | BUENOS AYRES, May 14.—Scores jof strikebreakers are being rushed | \from here to Rosarioi in an effort to | {break. the general strike with which | |labor in that city is planning. to meet | the brutal attacks the authorities | have made against the striking steve- dores, A general strike is already under | way and is gaining with great rapid- | ity, despatches from Rosarioi state. The indignation of the government | {is extreme and it is generally felt in | official circles that the situation in the big port, which is the secend larg- est in Argentina is an opportunity for & showdown between capital and labor. The Rosarioi workers are excellent- ly. organized, however, and it is be- lieved that they can maintain a long struggle with the authorities. Oe Strike Unbroken. | ROSARIOI, Argentina, May 14.— The strike of the stevedores which is tieing up this port and preventing the loading and unloading of a score of vessels remains unbroken in spite of the attempts of the authorities to smash the picket lines: and workers’ demonstrations, Strike leaders declare that the spir- | it of the men was never firmer. FRAME MILITANTS |the prestige of Mussolini They | IN FASCIST ITALY ‘Hundreds Jailed Since Milan Bombing | PARIS, May 14 (By mail).—Since | | the explosion in Milan, Italy, all evi- ;dence pointing to the fact that the , deed was the work of the fascists ithemselves, hundreds of workers, anti-fascists and particularly Com- |munists are being arrested. The im- iprisonment of the young student | :Romolo Tranquili near Como, whose | ‘only crime is the fact that he is the jbrother of a well-known Communist, | jwas followed by the pronouncement | of a phantastic charge against him by the Military prosecutor. Those acquainted with him are also included in the indictment. Papers Suppressed. The General Military Prosecutor has also issued an order to the press prohibiting publication of news on the event not officially sanctioned: Of-| ficially, however, no news has been issued. The “Corriere: della Sera’ which had received information from | a witness which proved the innocence | of Tranquilli, was prohibited on ac- | count of this publication. ‘“Secolo,” which appears in Milan, published a news item with the information that Tranquilli was far away from Milan on the day of the explosion. The paper was not allowed to publish any- thing further on the matter. The} same fate was suffered by the “Stampa” in» Turin which had pub- lished news from Tortona and Venice which was in favor of Tranquilli. Obvious Frame-up. | Mussolini: ordered that the persons aliegedly responsible for the explo- sion, should be immediately sentenced to death. Up to the present time the | police have produced no evidence. But and his} hangmen is at stake; guilty persons | must be found. The latest dispatches | announce the Special Tribunal will | deal with the matter and that the trial will take place with the exclu- sion of the public. It is known that people tried by the Special Tribunal | are not permitted to choose a lawyer | for their defense. They are not able | to secure witnesses as persons men- | tioned are’ immediately arrested as accomplices, | General * The International Labor Defense is | now arranging protest demonstrations thruout the country against the in-/ creasing tyranny of fascism, whose representatives are now in the United | French Imperialists Fear Revolt of Indo-Chinese Troops: be 1 | The French imperialists fear that Indo-Chinese troops: who have been despatched to China may revolt. Jacques Doriot, French Communist leader, who visited Indo-China several months ago was jailed for address- ing meetings of native workers and peasants. Photo shows detachment of Indo-Chinese stationed at ¥ DONETZ PLOTTERS Case Will Open on May 18th; to Last Month (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 14.—At the quest of the defense in the Donetz Basin sabotage conspiracy, the trial has been postponed from the 15th to the 18th of May. The trial is expected to last about a month. re- connection with the conspiracy the object of which was.to hamper the economic development of the Don re- gion. A number of technicians and en- gineers are implicated. Preliminary investigation. of the conspiracy revealed that the accused | had received funds from foreign firms and from monarchists who had owned the miners under the Czarist regime. A number of the accused admitted re- ceiving subsidies from foreign agen- cies for carrying on counter-revolu- tionary work. ARGENTINE PARTY MAKES BIG GAIN Elects Its Candidates in Local Poll BUENOS AYRES, (By mail). — The Communist Party won a sweep- ing victory in, the elections in the town of Canada Verde in the province of Cordoba, according to La Internacion- al, the official organ of the Commun- ist Party of Argentina. The workers and peasants bloc, or- ganized under the direction of the Communist Party, elected its full tick- et, including the mayor, the treasurer, four councilmen and their alternates, and a judge. La Internacional reports that the “Hoter Stern,” the official organ of the Jewish section of the Argentine Com- munist. Party was suppressed at the request of the Polish embassy. Killed While at Work ALBANY, N. Y., May 14 (FP).- Five women and three children were among the 145 industrial worker: who died in April in New York stats from accidents suffered while at work 97 children. One worker is survived by a widow and eight children whose ages range from 3 to 15. Another widow has seven children, aged 2 to 13, Two other workers left widows with six children each. For Strikers Relief PROVIDENCE, May 14,--The col lection for the striking textile worl ers of New Bedford toda) netted States. |Police Terrorize Bakers in Detroit retail shops here since April 20» have, experienced a taste of capitalist jus- tice in the shape of police kerb eipt| Pickets at the Miller shops have been| repeatedly assaulted and jailed. Alex Zysk, 19-year-old worker, who wes| arrested while carrying a sign on} picket duty was ordered by police} to put his sign on in the cell and re- main standing stifly, wh'le police cursed at him and threatened him. HODCARRIERS’ UNION GROWS. EDMONTON, Alta., May 14 (FP). the men accused have “‘sat tight” and in thas way have kept the graft pro- i fi i ceedings from becoming. generally —Forty-four applications for mem- bership were recsived at the last meet-|' ing of Hodearriers’ Local 92 of Ed- idirect fi eo ee | lo ie ? * e + months in China ‘with the gation. ie + + ey o - le le ie pe ¢| 'o >) le DELAY TRIAL QFSEJPEL REGIME BARS \/RED FRONT FIGHTERS (Special to The I VIENNA (By mail).—The Seipel ring the Red Front Fighters League The leaders of the Red Fighters have appealed to the courts against the government decision and the Communist Party of Austria has issued an appeal urging the defense of the League. The prohibition of the Red Front Fighte the appeal points out, would mean a jous ad- vance for the Austr fascists and a setback for the Austrian working Fifty-three persons were arrested in| class. In spite of the government order, the Red Front Fighters participated in the May Day demonstrations. Hat Union Leader Youths who make a habit of going bare-headed are hurting the hat busi- ness, declared I n right wing secretary of the United Hatters’ Locals, at a recent two-day union label conference here. “We do wish they would some hats,’ Finke. said, ho apparently shares the hat bosses’ business wor- ries. Other speakers at the confer- the request of the Vienna police praesidium. Front® — Worries for Bosses) Finkelstein | DAILY WORKER.) government has issued an order bar- | of Austria. The order was issued at | \Says Poverty Forces _ | Women to Factories B May 14.—‘Mar- ried women enter industry thru stark! necessity,” declared Mary Anderson ' | director of the United States Women’s | Bureau, in a speech here. | | “Very few women would chose to] earry two jobs for the pleasure of | doing so, to spend 8 to 12 hours a day | over a machine or work bench and |then go home to another stretch of {household labor. Too many people) ‘blame the married woman who goes | out of the home. in this fashion, fail-j ing to realize that it is stark neces-| sity that is making her do it.” i TWO AVIATORS KILLED. | DETROIT, May 14.—Two pilots. of | the Ford Motor Co, were killed yester- day whén a_ tri-motored transport | »| plane crashed and caught fire soon|12 Berkeley St. pester taking off from the Ford air- | ort. ve | work | port. t in Bombay USSR, WORKERS SEND FUNDS TO RR, STRIKERS Bombay Meet Pledges War On Capitalism Me 14.-Workers of » Peninsular Railway strike of the week, it was when @ ilway work- resolution ipport to ‘ workers of in their war against cap- ted by the strikers. ad 0 ailway and the situation here is cal by the British of- 150,000 textile on ike against d have succeeded in n all but four of the tex- BOMBAY, the Gre A ers the tile mills. Plans picketing were intensification of je today when it the employers d the demands of the trade the for R. y strikers have received 7,000 roubl m the railway work~ ers of the Soviet Union. The work- ers in the Howrah shop of the East India Railway have appealed to the of other countries for sup- Six of the strikers were killed several wee ago when British troops opened fire on a strike demon- stration. Protest Strike May Be Called in Bogota BOGOTA, Colombia, May 14. —Mil- itant trade unions have joined a call for a general strike in Bogota to pro- test against the arrests of numerous workers in connection with recent strikes. No date has yet been set for the strike. ‘ Boston Spring Ball BOSTON, May 14. — The Young Work: (Communist) League of Boston will hold the last Spring Youth Ball of the season next Fri- day evening at the Scenic Ball Room, Proceeds will go for the benefit of the textile strike relief campaign, , ence were the reactionary A. F. of! 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