The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928 Page Three Dock Strike 1 mn in Argentina Spreads; Two Port Cities Completely Tied Up GALL OUT TROOPS AS PERU HARBOR, Re R. MEN STRIKE Sailors Fight Marine Intervention in Nicaragua SANTA FE JOINS (WAR IN SHANTUNG IS _WORKER-PEASANT! ROSARIO STRIKE; D/RECTED BY BANKERS apiy TAKES ClTY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press), N CANTON DRIVE | similarity, ‘Between the two woke The commercial interests of a financial oligarchy are behind the invasion Workers De-/: jy apan Rushes Troops to Force to Seab jof ate by Japanese troops just as the commercial adie of a miniiar > Oo a < Buenos but the similarity extends far beyond mand Sympathy Strike | wise te sepancse government welll) | Tientsin Under Guns BUENOS AYRES, May 17, — The|.1%°. temendous, nape tina Re iGontimlel from Page Cis) Photo shows nationalist troops under General Sandino fighting | CALLAO, Peru, May 17—~Troops ftrike of the dock workers, which | °Cmomc Power an ap! The Kuomintang troops are reported] American marines in northern Nicaragua. The Sandino forces are carry- |have bee led out and are patroll- spread from Rosario where it has veen in progress for several weeks, s tieing up all marine transport in he harbor of Santa Fe, reports from that city state. Santa Fe is a large yort to the north of Rosario. The nen are reported to have walked out (00% in sympathy with the dock vorkers in Rosario. The unions in Buenos Ayres are at »résent demanding a general strike to ‘upport the Rosario stevedores. In vent the strike vote is taken tonight, t is expected that virtually the entire thipping of the Argentine will be tied tp within twenty-four hours. ees ROSARIO, Argentina, May 17. — teartened by the news that the dock vorkers in Santa Fe have joined them n a sympathetic strike, the picket ines here were firm yesterday in spite of police interference. The authorities are frankly alarmed vy the proportions the walkout is as- suming and the police have been giv- ma free hand in an attempt to ter- torize the strikers, While no new Sillings were reported, the funerals of he recent victims of police outrages igainst the dock pickets have been the recasion for intense feeling among the Rosario workers, The government and the owners ‘ontinue to ship in strikebreakers tho he complete nature of the strike has wrevented any effectual loading or inloading of the vessels tied up in the port. KANSAS PO! POLICE ATTAGK UNIONIST Attempt Made to Frame Kansas ; Organizer KANSAS CIty, May 17° (FP).— Natlonal officers of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters are aroused by the attack on Ashley L. Totten, Kansas City representative of the wmion, whose office was rifled by thugs believed to have been inspired oy the Pullman Co. Six men, masquerading as_ police officers, descended on Totten’s office. threw files on the floor and ruined valuable organization records in a hunt for opiates. Some of the thugs tried to plant dope in the office and then hustled Totten down the street while others remained to examine Brotherhood documents at leisure The thugs scattered after the office had been looted. Tottew rushed te the police station, where officials de- nied any connection with the outrage Totten is an assistant general or- ganizer of the Brotherhood, stationed in the impertant Kansas City district for the past two and a half years. At national headquarters in New York, the attack was interpreted as another chapter in the Pullman Co.’s unscrupulous war to discredit the Brotherhoed. DERIBE SPY IN ALSACE TRIAL PARIS, May 17,—A complete un- masking of the French government’s methods in their endeavor to trap the Alsatian autonomists on trial at Colmar was revealed in a neat turn- ing of the tables on the prosecution yesterday. Riehl, chief of the agents which the government has brought forward against the autonomists, has. been compelled to admit not only that he characterized Premier Poincare as “the gravedigger of Franee” but that he wrote frequently in the most in- sulting way of France and leading Frenchmen. “T was living arnong wolves,” Richi said when derided by the defense lawyer for “insulting his country,” while the court rocked with laughter. The government is being forced to eliminate some of its army of wit- nesses in order to speed up the trial. Hxpect ‘Verdict i in Bishop Trial Today | KANSAS CITY, Mo., May..17.-- The fate of Bishop Anton Bast, on trial here beh’nd closed doors for mis use of mission funds of the Methodis' Episcopal Church in Denmark, is ex- pected hourly. NO REST FOR CLERKS. The New York Stock Exchany be closed on coleman May 1g hands of 2 families of financiers im- presses even the correspondents of conservative American dailies. Ap- parently they feel free to visualize a capitalist dictatorship in a remote! nation though they are professionally blind to a similar development at home. Strong Oligarchy. Since the first of the year this Japanese financial oligarchy has been the subject of extended comment by the Tokio correspondents of the Chi- cago Daily News and of the Wall Street Journal. Under the caption: Two Groups Rule All Life in Japan— Big Bankers Gain Money Faster Than They Can Count it, the News corre- spondent says: “The gathering of a nation’s wealth into the hands of a very few is going on more rapidly than anywhere else on earth, so far as this correspondent knows; and these few are resolving themselves into 2 groups. These groups are family units primarily; secondly they are great financial and industrial forces. “These 2 colossi of finance are the Mitsui and Mitsubishi family groups. The power of their money reaches into all phases of Japanese life. They dominate.” Gobble Victims. Following the 1927 Japanese finan- cial panie which reduced many banks and industrial combines to bank- ruptey, these 2 powerful familiés pro- ceeded to gobble up the victims, Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, with 3 other banks they control 51.7 per cent of the bank deposits of Japan. Together with the govern- ment, they and their subsidiaries con- trol more than 50 per cent of the empire’s foreign trade. ys the journal, “On the surface,” £ fa‘lures, poor “there may be ba industrial companies and apparent instability. Underneath, accounting for the bulk of Japan’s business, stand these big banks and the com- panies connected with the great family companies. These apparently are quite as solid as the empire it- self.” That these financial oligarchs are in a way to beconie the actual govern- ment of the empire is recognized by the Daily News correspondent. He says: Control Cabinet. “So overwhelming isthe might of the Mitsui and Mitsubishi that foreign business men here are begin- ning to regard it as a sort of second government, which may perhaps in time become greater than that other government that clutters itself up with the tiresome impedimenta of centuries dead and gone. The finan- cial hegemony of the Mitsui and Mit- subishi has no armies except armies of workers, and no great outward display. but it has power. They con- trol cabinets now and then and by so doine co>trol the government it- self. Eventually perhaps the govern- ment of Japan will be an oligarchy with the Mitsuis and Mitsubishis as the ¢ oligarchs, and we shall have here a new kind of government by financial shoguns, not so. very dif- ferent in principle from the old sho- gunate that was destroyed by the emperor about 1870.” Substitute for Mitsui and Mitsu- bishi the Morgan-Kuhn-Loeb-Rocke- eller oligarchy in this country and for shoguns read feudal lords, and the analysis applies with equal exactness to the United States. Capitalisr round the world is progressing to- ward financial feudalism. Need Markets. The important fact about Japanesé invasion of China is thet these Mitsuis and Mitsubishis with their banks, factories, shipping lines. mines, ete. are in desperate need of the raw materials of Shantung and of the broad Chinese market. Japanese financial concentration and Japancse militarism go hand in hand. 2 WORKERS, THREE CHILDREN DROWN Barge Heavily Loaded With Stones, Sinks BALTIMORE, May 17.—Two work- ers and their three children were |drowned early today when the barge Calvert, being towed by a tug sank ay Annapolis, Mr. and Mrs, Everett Insley and ‘heir three children were asleey ‘board the barge when a portion o the botton fell out and the craft dis appeared. They | had no chance t escape. The barge, loaded with stone, w. ‘being taken he Capes oa: Med he | in Chesapeake Bay, five miles off} i Dr. C. Wa, former minister of foreign affairs in the Nanking re- gime, will arrive in New York from Cherbourg this week. He will consult the masters of the Kuomintang regime when he visits W ashington. UNCOVER HUGE BOSTON GRAFT 15 City Officers Accused In Sensational Charges BOSTON, May 17.—Sensational ex- posures of graft were made here to- day, in charges against at least 15 officers of this city made within prison wall where John F. Mullen, member of the rum and vice graft ring, is incarcerated. Mullen, who brings these charzes of official-swindling against the city officers, is one of the five against whom ‘indictments were returned late yesterday afternoon on charges which included conspiracy to steal goods from John Sullivan, manager of the Ritz Hotel, obstructing justice, cor- ruptly soliciting a police officer to accept a bribe, and conspiracy to ob-| struct justice. Now that his fellow-grafters in the city administration have been allowed to go scot-free, Mullen is bringing charges that, it is expected, will un- cover official swindling in Boston, equal to the sewer graft in New York City. ILLINOIS SCHOOLS HIT BY STRIKES 600 Children Take Hand in Administration CHICAGO, May 17.—Six hundy children were on strike in two Illinois schools today 2 authorities dis- missed school officials. Three hun- dred students of the Hall Township High School near Peru went on strike in protest against the dismissal of their superintendent, J. W. Sullivan! The other 300 students are striking at} Carbondale following the board of education’s failure to reelect their, principal and music instructor. | The students of the Peru school have arranged to start picketing to- day if their demand for the reinstate- bo {ment of Sullivan is not met. To Grect th i National Nomina of the Vorkers (Communist) Party of Ameriéa : Speakers: er | William Z. Foster Friday Ben Gitlow | | B.H. Lauderdale, Tex. { Evening ${ Ben Gold : | Sem. Chas. 2. Taylor, May James P, Cannon Mont. Seott Nearing, N. J. Lovett F. Whiteman, Ale. Staniey Clark, Okla. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. | against Japan, protest meetings and | declared today that the Kuomintang | government would halt all “propa- ‘ganda and hostilities against Japan” | and that Kuomintang troops had been | withdrawn from the areas in Shan- |tung specified by the Japanese. ‘The Holmes Sard’ne Company, adja- t 8 eee em Mass Demonstration | to the Yor President of the United States 29 JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman MECCA TEMPLE 183 West 55th St., New York. to have taken the towns of Paotingfu and Chochow. * SHANGHAI, May 17.—In spite of the efforts of the police and soldiers to break up: any demonstrations ee boycotts are still in progress. C. T. Wang, of the diplomatic com- mittee of the Nationalist Government, Reports from Canton state that fighting has taken place between the troops of Li Chaiwum and Che, Ming chu, Kwangsi war lords in con-| trol of the city over the question of} pay. The town of Shi-lung near| Canton has been taken by worker- | peasant troops, according to reports received here. TIE-UP LOOMING IN MEXICO CITY Bakers Strike May Lead To General Walkout MEXICO CITY, May 17—A general strike looms in Mexico City as the result of the walkout of bakers. Trade unions have pledged their support to the bakers who have closed down almost every large bakery in the city. . The differences between General Obregen and Luis Morones, ‘head of Crom, the national labor federation, have been considerably widened. | police and state troopers before the | Westmoreland KLAN FLOGGER IS NOW PROSECUTOR Charge Still, Pending Against Appointee BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 17. — Capt. Ira B. Thompson, exalted cy- clops of the ku klux klan for the Luverne realm, who was among those indicted by the Crenshaw County} grand jury in its investigation of | jfloggings, has been appointed prose- | |euting attorney of Crenshaw county by Gov. Bibb Graves, Capt. Thompson, who was never placed on trial on the indictment, is now the prosecuting attorney in the county where the charge is still pend- ing against him. Fire Menaces Workers in Canning Factory EASTPORT, Maine, May 17.— Three hundred employes, most of | these women, .had narrow escapes yes- | terday when fire of unknown origin totally destroyed sardine factory No. |3 of the Seacoast Canning Company. The loss was estimated at $100,000. cent to the dest slightly damaged by e Delegates { ting Convention Speakers: | Wm. F. Patton, Iowa Anita C. Whitney, Calif. Tom Rushton, Mich. Scott Wilkins, Ohio | William W. Weinstone ‘frighten us away, they got another | guess coming. ing on a@ heroic struggle against Wa TERROR INTENSIFIED AS MINERS ORGANIZE. (Special to Th PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 1 Alt no food, and children are frowned upon clothing barely s their little strike area i fication of mi forts of the coal diggs selves into a solid | is being onee by bi to end mass "pick morale and force tt on the part of the pc But to no; avail. | The troopers are on guard every} morning, pre ES i Rupnie. daughter of the ser at White] ride all around} u even come out of your house, they club you. They think it all belongs to them. That fat cop who beat Tony up rode on our porch with his horse. He s swinging hi club some, I’ll tell you!” “And that isn’t a'l,” she continued,| indignantly. “They i the women, too. A lot of the women here they won’t stand it any longer. The, have them arrested.” But the strikers and their wives of White Valley have learned on what side the courts in- variably side. | Club Women Picketers. “We don’t want women and kids} on the p‘cket line!” is the decision of| the heavily armed rulers of WeSt- moreland county who come to guard the mines and fight the pickets ar- rayed in solid cork “riot” helmets. Mrs. Mary Capretti and seven other militant wives of strikers were at-| tacked by a group of coal and iron; Valley says. the hill and if | Coal Co. mine at Yukon. “First one of them came. Mrs. Capretti tried to grab the club from him, and while they were fighting. the other yellow dogs jumped on us, and Ill tell you, they walloped us as hard as the men!’ the pickets later related. “But if they think they car We’re gonna win this strike!” Many Pickets Beaten. In Vandergrift, ten more pickets were severely beaten when hundreds} picketed the Mill mine of Pine | Run Coal Company. Clyde perintendent of the brought four ate troopers in his au- tomobile, engi d the job. In the face of this intense terroriza- tion, the coal diggers are forging) ahead. The Westmoreland Count; Strike Committee, of which every| striking miner,in that county is a member, held its second conference Sunday afternoon, May Provisions for a thorough ional cam- paign in every sub-division were out- lined. For the first time, the women’s auxiliaries are coming into their own The executive committee of 16 was enlerged to 17 so that one represen- tative of the women’s groups may participate in their bringing their men into the ranks of organized labor Strikers’ Children Organize. The children weren’t forge motion was unanimously p; orgenize the children cf W land county into junior st 2 “Their stomachs are jus as ours, and they must uni GREATEST Grand For Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia SAT. EVE, MAY 19 Herold Kravitt Great Opera Basso Speakers: M. J. | Stand by them! 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