The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1928, Page 3

' . THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK DAY, MAY 21, 1928 More Unions Walk Out in Argentine Tie-Up f.R., CRANE MEN AND DYERS JOIN | ROSARIO STRIKE Government May Order Out Troops BUENOS AYRES, May 20.—What is regarded here as the beginning of a widespread general strike which may end by tying up the whole Ar- rentine took place jesterday when large sections of the railroad work- ers, workers.on cranes, winches, der- ricks and in the dyestuffs factories walked out in sympathy with th: striking longshoremen in both Ro E and Santa Fe, according to re- ports from those cities. The action of the railroad workers crane workers and dyers followed the persistent police attacks upon picket lines and demonstrations of the stril ers in the neighborhood of the docks which have resulted in the death an wound'ng of at least a score of work- ers since the strike began. While the action on the p: railroad workers is only partial it i believed that all the men will be out within twenty-four hours in view o* the repressive measures which th government is reported to he contem plating in order to smash the solidar- ity of the unions. The minister of public works has requested the gover- nor of Santa Ke to intervene in the strike districts, Whether or not this will mean the immediate calling in of troops eannot yet be learned, but the strikers are interpreting it in this light. Merchants thruout the pavalyze¢ sections are growing frantic with scores of vessels lying idle in both ports, unable to load or discharge cargoes. Bankers in Santa Fe have dolivered a virtual ultimatum to the shipping firms, threatening to come out in support of the s rs if the strike is not settled within a few days. Aside from the action of the bank- ers the strike seems no nearer solu- tion with the ranks of the strikers perfectly firm. of the INDIA VIOLENCE See Politics In Ghandi ; Move BOMBAY, May 20.—Growing un- rest among the workers in the Indian railway shops is reported from all sections of the country as the govern- ment takes measures to violently re- press any outbreaks that may occur. The growth of mass resistance among the Indian workers is not limited to the railroad and textile strikers, reports state. But from Madras to Simula, among industrial workers and small peasants the feel- ing of unrest is on the rise. Authorities, alarmed by. the heightening of the mass resistance following the long continuance of the Bombay textile strike, are making de- tailed preparations for handling the situation. The recent shooting during which strikers at the railroad shops at Howrah were killed, is understood | to foreshadow the method which the government intends to use in smash- ing any general strike movement. * * BOMBAY, May 20.—Considerable discontent is reported from Delhi over the announcement that Mahatma Ghandi intends a return to active political life. attempt to heal the breaches between the Hindu and Mohametan leaders which have been rending the All-India conference at Delhi, it is said. In other quarters, Ghandi’s move -is viewed as a shrewd effort to utilize the growing mass unrest in India for personal political purposes. Machinist, Injured — by Truck, Sues for $50,000 WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. May 20.— Trial in the $50,000 damage suit brought by William Mangold, 30, of 7 Lake Avenue, Tuckahoe, against , Mike Harvey, ice dealer of 24 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry, was started yes- terday before Supreme Court Justice George Taylor, Jr., and a jury. Mangold, who is a_ machinist, claimed that early on the morning of September 29, 1923, he was riding to work on his motorcycle when he was run into by a truck owned by Harvey and operated by Migola Denzo of Dobbs Ferry, and as a result his left leg was badly injured. He declared that after he had spent several weeks in St. John’s Hospital in Yonkers, his left leg was one and a half inches shorter than the right. * EXPLORER SHOOTS SELF. PEKING, May 20.—The American explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews, was accidentally wounded while attempt- ee te draw a pistol to shoot an ante- lope, it is reported here. ee a i MILLINERS : Warlord’s “Troops Watch Bandaging of 9 IN FINISH _ FIGHT, LETTER STATES Officially registering their intention to devote every resource at thei Wounded Soldier _ The picture | T: | of the warlord, | Chang Tso-lin, su | perintending the 'f c R hi A N D RI V E | bandaging of a | soldier wounded in $ Taare | the fighting with \Social Democrats and) Capitalists in Deal | BERLIN, May 20.—A huge mass| | meeting at which were tens of thou-| |sands of workers, was held at the ort Palast under the auspices of the German Communist Party. Lead- | rs of the German working class ad- | |dressed the immense audience point-| ing out to. them the problems facing e German workers at this time and the yt which the workers must play n the present electoral campaign in the troops of the | warlord Chiang Kai-shek. AMERICANS TAKE BRAZIL HOLDINGS disposal to fight the decision of the right wing officialdom of the Interna- i tional Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, to destroy their organ- Hand "Workers! Local 43, sent ane @ven that Local 24 and the enti ee “i pags: ei _ {millinery union disband and trans! eee thelr general ex6” Ito the United Hatters of North Amer- dyeased ¥6 tte G1. B;, is ‘at the same |i°2:, Our International bitterly fought time an ‘appeal to the’ International against such unwarranted action, even | Union membership. The letter is be-|t0 the extent oe being Sppelled from ing published in two installments, the ty merican, Federation ‘of Labor. Hrct ar ahion: tilloskas |. “Is the fate of 4,000 workers So un- ; {important, so unworthy of any serious jconsideration that the G. E. B. may seek with one stroke of the pen to wipe out the organization which ‘fights for their interests? By what authority, and on the basis of what principle of organized labor are the 4,000 members of Local 43 robbed of their franchise and deprived of a voice in determining the fate of their] organization ?- Our membership is de- |termtined to fight against the erbi- |trary action of the G. E. B., and to im; | of Co “Greetings: “The decisions embodied in your letter of April 30th was submitted to our general membership meeting held on May 3rd. By unanimous instruc- tion of this meeting, we are herewith filing an appeal to the next conven- tion against the decision of the Gen- eral Executive Board. G. E. B. Betrayal. twi nounced here. only operate the power system of the state, but also the tramways. The Electrie Bond and Share Co. buys two Brazilian companies, the Compan- } hia Energia. Electrica and the Com- panhia arris. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20.--The| portant public utilities of the state Rio Grande do Sol have been pur- Y | chased by the Electric Bond and share . of New York, it has been an- The company will not out the holdings cf The price paid for the o Brazilian concerns is not known, but it is understood that the American interests contemplate investing more than $24,000,000 in reconstructing the tram system now in operation. The purchase of the power inter- ests is arousing considerable discus- sion, owing to recent disclosures of the discovery of oil on Henry Ford’s jeratic par “Tt is the firm opinion of our mem- bers that the action of the Genera’! Executive’ Board in ordering Local 43} to disband is without any authority, illegal, contrary to the decisions. of | rubber plantations in Para and the report that the Santos docks are to| be sold to a group of American financiers. maintain their rights as members of their International. “The General Executive Board must be mindful of the fact that prior the convention, and detrimental to the; t? the militant struggles initiated by! interests of our members. Our sub-! the progressive administration of ‘our mission to ‘this decision would con-|!ocal, and carried out with the active stitute a betrayal of the interests of |Support of the membership, the mil-| our members as well as to the inter-|linery hand workers had been work- ests of the members of the Interna-| ing under very low standards. Thanks| tional as a whole. |to the untiring work and self-sacrific- “There isn’t a single case in the his-/ img activities of the militant and pro- tory of our organization when such! &ressive work thousands of mil- drastic action against a local was’ linery hand workers have been organ- taken without a convention decision [1284 and their standards of work and without consulting the members |"#ised. It must be remarked that of the local whose very existence the | these achievements were gained de-} decision sees to wipe out. Let us| SPite the opposition and hostility of L ABOR MISLEADER TO RETIRE SOON Havelock Wilson LONDON, May 20.—J. Havelock British Fakers to Fete} The Vorwaerts, however, on the Ghandi will make an} quote an example which is a matter; certain elements in our Internat'onal ,Whoare opposed to the organization |leader, who for 50 years has been) of the women workers in our industry lezar of. the National Union of Sea- From 400 to 4,000. imen, has decided to retire and live| “The General Executive Board in|on his accumulated graft. In honor of| jits report to the last convention took |this great ‘event Wilson’s friends pride in the achievements of Local 43 |among the English labor bureaucrats | of record. In the case of Locals 23 and 30, the actual amalgamation -of{ these locals was brought about only | after a decision of the 1923 conven- tion and a further mandate of. thc 1925 eonvention. In view of. this. pre- of record, it is impossible to. assign any reason having anything to av with the welfare of our workers for this unauthorized attempt of the G E. B. to force Local 43 to transfer its members to Local 24, and to accom- plish it at breakneck speed. i Action Tegal. “Moreover, this action is clearly unconstitutional and contrary to the decisions of the last convention... The constitution does not authorize the G. E. BR. to disband a local union un- less it be on charges specified in the constitution, and only after a trial. No charges of any kind were made against our loca], nor was it given any trial. The G. E. B. thus exceeded its authority, and its decision cannot. therefore, be binding. “What is more, our last convention unanimously adopted a resolution in- cting the G. E. B. to establish, a! Toint Board of Locals 24, 42 and 43 The convention is the highest body of cur International. The G. FE, B. there- fore has no right to override the de- e’sion of the last convention; to order. under cover of so called Amalgama- tion, the disbanding of a local. a | insist that the decision of the G. E. B is unconstitutional, and is contrary to the decisions of our last convention and is therefore, null and vo'd. “Tt is known to the G, E. B. as well, as to the entire membership that we are the strongest advocates of Amal- gamation, and that we have given ample proof of this in many declara- tions, and particularly in the proposal of our delegation to the convention of 1925. (Resolution No. 36.) That pro- posal called for the complete amalaa- mation of Locals 24, 42 and 43. This proposal, if carried out, wou'd have brought about what is known to every union man and woman as amalgama-. tion, and the decision for a Joint) Board, if carried out, as instructed by the last convention would have paved the way for a real unity and amalgamation. Fake Amalgamation. “But the G. FE. B. has never made a serious effort to carry out the con- vention decision. Instead of doing that, the G. E. B. has proceeded to dismember, disband and disrupt Local 43 which was built up by the untiring work and self-sacrifice of our mem- bers, under the leadership of pro- eressive and militant workers. Camou- flaging the disbanding of Local 43 as “amalgamation,” the G. BE. B. decided that “atl present members of Local 43 be, and are herewith automatically transferred to and become members of Local 24.” Merely transferring members arbitrarily from one local to another is not amalgamation, but disruption. We wish-to reeall to you that similar action was taken by the | American Federation — of ,. Labor, against our International Union. in 1916, when an arbitrary order. was eedent and others which are matters! Wilson, notorious English labor mis- told by the G, E. B. that from a mem- creased to 3,000 in February of 1927 In the seven weeks, from March 1, }1927 t, April 21, 1927, when the re- port w.*: written, there was a further increase of nearly 1,000 members, so that their membership now is close to 4,000. The negligible number of bership of 400 of two years ago, it in- | itime in September. jof British trade union leaders, has 2 long record of labor betrayal. Under his rule the National Union of Sea- men has been converted into a virtual company union. Strikebreaking, ruth- less expulsion of progressives, class- under the militant and progressive capitalists and politicians are arrang-! the 4 leadership. Thus the convention was ing a testimonial to him for some| Charges to we chamber of deputies | are a signal. Wilson, one of the most reactionary) jat the end of 1925, they have now collaboration and shameless betrayal organized shops in the downtown sec-| have featured Wilson’s program, tion at the end of 1925 has been in- creased to 120 organized shops in that section, in which 900 members ar’ employed. From the number of 20 organized shops in the uptown section TRAIN KILLS EIGHT. ERIE, Pa., May 14.—Eight persons were killed yesterday when a Penn- sylvania Railroad train crashed into two automobiles yesterday near the Espyville grade crossing. 115 union shops in which 3,000 mem- bers are employed.” the Reich. That th pitalist and social demo- are forming a united front against the Communists in the present election struggle, is evident from indications here. While some gains are reported for the social democrats among the ranks of the disappointed small shop- keeping and professional classes, the Communists are conceded wide gains among the radical working class. The growing strength of the Com- munists among the workers was evi- denced by the magnificent demonstra- tion in Munich, the stronghold of Bavarian fascism. The recent attempt of Keudell to destroy the Red Front Fighters has resulted in the Communist organiza- tion being everywhere received with enthusiasm among the workers. The social democrats have made a special effort to smash many meetings in an effort to counteract the growing en- thusiasm of the masses for the Red Front Fighters. The present methods are exempli- |fied by the way the social democratic press treated recent attacks of the fascists in Hamburg, during which one fascist was killed by fire from his own men. This is frankly ad- j mitted even by .the capitalist press here. | morning following the attack, ran a | headline, “Communist Murder.” Fear Persecution of Colombian Workers)! BOGOTA, Colombia, May 20. —| Workers here fear a new wave of per- seeution, believing that Minister of Interior Arrazola’s Red plot Declaring that Colombia is menaced by a widespread revolt among the workers, Arrazola asserted in the chamber that it is necessary for the government to ut! all its powers to cope with the situation. FEWER CHILDREN IN FRANCE. The recently published statistics in regard to elementary education in France indicate a large numerical de- | cline in the generation born during! the war. In 1918 there were 5,500,000 | children in the elementary schools of | France, but today there are only 3,- Page Three Taking It Easy om Princess Lich- The Mechtilde nowsky, wife of the former German ambassador to Great Britain, is shown in the picture, in a quiet pose at her Berlin home. COURTS DECIDE AGAINST DAVIS TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May 20.—Charges brought against Roy W. Davis, United States minister to Costa Rica and American mediator of the Honduran-Guatamalan boundary dispute, have been sustained by the courts. Davis brought suit against the Hon- duran newspaper, El Cronista, for-ar- ticles appearing against him recently. | The editor was completely absolved} of any libel by the court. The situation between Honduras and Guatemala remains strained. * om United Fruit “Innocence.” BOSTON, May 20.—Denying that a new crisis had arisen in: the Hon- COME IN IRVING PL. on East 15th Street, corner Monday, May Jp; Government May Call Troops COMMUNISTS GAIN COMMUNISTS OF HUNGARY APPEAL FOR AID TO KUN Urge International Workers’ Support The Hungarian terday issued an appea ional proletariat jurging th strengthening of the cam e liberation of B Kon, of the Hungarian Repu Kun was arrested cent series of police raids Hungarian Party demonstration of rs for the immediate imprisoned leader. in high in Vienna of Bela Kun and 1 the government violent action. the Austrian government is cision of the British Tory cabinet_be- fore making a di 1 of the case. 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