The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 3

*rvion officials to act. General Strike in Rosario, Port Strike in Buenos Ayres to Protest Terror ‘ ALL UNIONS ARE CALLED OUT; MORE WORKERS KILLED Buenos Ayres Harbor Workers Walk Out ROSARIO, Argentina, May 22.— The Federation of Labor of Rosario yesterday declared a general strike of all workers in the city in support of the striking stevedores who have been out more than a week. The ac- tion of the central labor body came when the chauffeurs’ union joined the striking crane, derrick and railroad men and dyers, who walked out in|— SWEDISH STRIKE TO HIT COLLABORATION sympathy with the harbor workers. Police renewed their. bloody charges upon picket lines and demonstrations of the strikers yesterday, killing one ncket and seriously injuring a num- ber of others. The total number of the injured is not known. The resentment among the workers thruout the city is reaching fever pitch as a result of the repeated murder of strikers by the Rosario police. Picket lines are holding aver, end the spirit of the men is enthusiastic. No vessels loaded or unloaded here yesterday. * * * Buenos Workers Vote Strike, BUENOS AIRES, May, 22.—Fol- lowing the report of the death of an- other picket as the result of charges hv the armed police at Rosario the harbor workers of Buenos Ayres have voted a 24 hour general strike in sympathy with the strikine steve- doves of Rosario and Santa Fe. The general strike will continue for, in spite of the official terror. ” twenty-four hours. The vote to strike came after the overwhelming matority of the Puenos “vres dock workers had comnelled the The determina- tien of the workers in the canital tc rally to the simport of their striking | stevedores of the more northern ports evidenced by the eeclamations | h hinh the strike ballot was re- esived here, TO CELEBRA PARTY GAINS AT MEET (Continued from Page Qne) a celebration of the great victory of the German Communist Party at the recent Reichstag elections. It is ex- pected that the Communist victory in Germany will unquestionably have a favorable effect upon the election campaign in the United States, where the experiences of the workers in the mining, textile and needle trades have shown the Workers (Communist) |Plete without the emphasis upon the Party to be the only leader of the}necessity of overthrowing capitalism werkine clases in its struggle agsinst|and establishing the workers’ govern- the ennitalists, ment. * * * | Socialist Party Degeneration. ’ aR | Referring to the socialist N. Y. Opens Drive. |Weinstone pointed out the transfor- Y ‘i A its align epm-|mation of the socialist party, the pajom ont a meoting ef ovor onnlelimination of the class struggle functionaries recently. The meeting} elected 41 delegates and 9 alternates to attend the National Nominating Convention. Williom W. tion campaien. He pointed out the preat significance of the camnaign into a party.of voters, the endorse-|tionaries meeting, to be adopted and this vear because (1) It was a. presi- dential campaign. (2) Because New York State was putting forward Al Policy of the Workers Party is one |thée meeting. _ Smith as candidate for president. (3) Reeause of the denression. unemnlov- ment, speed-un and worsening of the | conditions of the workers, Report hv Weirstone. In his report for the District Fxecu- tive Committee. Weinstone pointed out the necessity for having an elec-| tion eampaien with the same inten- sitv with which the Workers Party is conducting its general struggles among the workers, Weinstore outlined the nrogrem of tha camraien alone the limes ef: (1) The class struege eeninst class col- Ishoretion. (2) The fight sminst the offensive of the hossas and the necessity of organizing the unorean- ized. (8) Imnerialist war and war danger. and the slogans: “Hands Off Ching. Latin America”: Complete ™- denendence for the American Colo- nies’: ‘Nefense of the Soviet Tinton,” pnd “Not 9» Cent, Not a Man for Im- perolist War.” The vremploved program will he} made a big feature of the election | eampaien and the Party myst ponn- larise the program outlined bv the- Tinemplovment Council of New York for unemployment insurance. for. im- mediate grant of eight weeks’ nay) to every worker out of work for two} movths or more, and for an extensive public works program which would provide work to the unemoploved sat trade union wares as well as for the program of the struggle azainst sneed-ups. longer hours, low wages, and for the conditions making’ for un- employment. The miners’ strucgle, the needle trades struegle, the strug- ele of the textile workers are nart of the election nroevam and particularly the role which the Ameriean govern- ment bas been nlaving in these strikes throneh injunctions, police terror. use of gunmen, The program further- more would include social legislation, ‘ REN ri ", how-|measures to secure “class collabora- the strike leaders declare that | Rivera 1 Regime Plans Propaganda Flight Eat Photo shows plane in which Captain Jiminez and Captain Iglesias, Spanish aviators, plan to make their propa- ganda flight, from Spain to Cuba, STOCKHOLM, May 2 in Sweden today. lishment of labor tribunals and other’ tion.” Altho the strike will be of short} | duration, it is expected to tie up vir-| tually every important industry in the | country. | Workers employed in the General | Motors plant here went on strike sev- eral weeks ago, when the management attempted to hin c ‘union labor. MEXICAN O1L LAW ae | MEXICO CITY, May 22.—Luis..N. Morones, min'ster of industry, -com- merce and labor, has announced that the Sinclair Oil Company has - filed applications for 26 concessions con- firming subsoil rights. This means that the company has accepted the new oil regulations and will operate under their bce edit in bi Mexican | field. TE GERMAN demands for women, youth and Ne- gro. The Labor Party would, in this campaign, feature as a propaganda slogan and the election campaign |” would have to propagate the neces- sity of the workers establishing a| Labor Party as a first step towards freeing themselves from the depen- dence upon the capitalist parties, The election campaign is not com- | pledge from the application cards, the |nomination of Norman Thomas, the pacifist, for president, the complete | ‘surrender of Maurer to the burvau-| Weinstone, organizer rats in the Pennsylvania State Wed-| | Hay of District 2, renorted on the elec. |eration of Labor, the change in the } Executive Committee to draw up a ‘organization of the socialist par ment of the League of Nations by the | socialist party, and declared that: the | of open party, An inmediate task in the election | ign, Weinstone pointed out, was | h ourselves as a legal party in New York State by getting 25,000 votes, and to concentrate upon the immediate collection of signatures in a systematic manner in which every | Party member must be engaged. | Miller Reports, | The report of Weinstone, was. fol+ lowed by a report by Bert (fanization secretary of { t who emphasized the necusily every unit, every subs section organizing its clection ma- ‘chinery immediately. He told of the possibilities of a successful election campaign, more successful than those that have been going on in the past, ‘and that real successes could be achieved if the Party organization ‘would concentrate upon the election ‘campaign as an important seivaiane of the entire Party. Julius Codkind told of the work | that is being done by the Party in| war against the socialist | | | } for ion and every ‘other districts and of the energy with | which Party members have thrown , themselves into the work of sending ‘large delegations from other districts. | Alexander Trachtenberg pointed out the ease with which it is possible to build up election machinery if the comrades would devote themselves with the same energy that they do in the general other activities of the Party. Others that spoke were; Kal- fides, who emphasized the necessity for getting enough votes to establish ourselves as a legal Party; and Mil- son, who also emphasized local issues, Honor Haywood. The functionaries meeting elected a sub-committee to propose a list of delegates to the National Nominating Convention and the committee brought in a unanimous report for the $A nal nalon@idd 3H wide strike to protest against the government’s proposals regarding the national wage agreements will be held The strike is primarily called in protest against the eatab- |may -spread deadly gas waves over TICKLES SINCLAIR” |in addition to the 11 who were killed |tank.. The death list may eventually 250 SUFFER FROM GAS IN HAMBURG HAMBURG, Germany, May’ 22.— Comparative tranquility had settled down over Hamburg today after the involuntary poison gas attack which gave a taste of possible future war- fare when fleets of military planes enemy cities. There are 250 persons. in hospitals by the explosion of a phosgene gas reach nearly a score as some of the victims are in a perilous condition. The gas scourge, which drove thou- sands from their homes, spread from the Stolzenberg Chemical Works on the outskirts of thé suburb of Vedel until dissipated by ammonia sprays and a rain storm. If it had taken place in the city proper it might have caused hundreds of deaths. The scene was a replica of war- ime with soldiers, firemen and police, faces grotesque in gas masks, waging warfare against the deathly fumes all over the city, while the Population fled in mad panic. Cattle dropped in the fields, trees and shrub- bery withered before the yellow death wave, | following dalugiees that were adaptéa unanimously by the conference. These delegates are: Biedenkapp, Bentall, Bimba, Cos- grove, Costrell, Citver, Caspe, De Leon, Emerson, Freeman, Fox, Gom- | ez, Gold, Grecht, Hofbauer, Helfand, Hendin, Huiswood, Koretz, Lipzin, Litwin, Miller, Martin, Milliken, Moore, Markoff, Moreau, Nessin, Nemser, Olgin, Powers, Paivio, Pad- more, Poyntz, Ragozin, ' Robbins, Stokes, Sultan, Shapiro, Sherman, Severino, Trachtenberg, Weinstone, | Wortis, Weiss, Williams, J. Welch, G. Welch, Weissberg, Zimmerman and Ziebel. The functionaries meeting stood in! honor of the memory of William D.! vood and requested the District ;vesolution in the name of the func- printed in our press, Bert Miller presided as chairman of THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK WBE ESD ’| league officials and forced the peas- | oepbsn are attr’buted to his desir: | MAY 25, 1928 23, 1928 Page Three PEASANT PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN LAND AGGRESSION ; Peasant League Lead- ers-Are Arrested (jj MEXICO CITY, May 22.-A com- mission of eighteen peasants of the National Peasants’ Léague from the northwest state of Durango have ar- rived in Mexico City to protest to the|f government against aggressions of the | state authorities and the federal mili-| tary commandant—Governor Najera and General Francisco Urbalejo. Among the accusations presented to the department of agriculture and the president are the following: Arrest Peasants. In both Santa Rosa and Rio San-| tiago, the agrarian commission di tributed to the peasants lands expro-| 6 priated from the haciendas of the) — ,oNDON, May Possibi landowner Jesus Perez Galvan. The) textile industries of at Br military commandant thereupon eject-| In the case of cotton, Britain ed the peasants, taking a number ofl Spinners and Manufacture Dek them prisoners. These were later re-! tion yoted against taking any immedi- leased, but rearrested by the armeC) ate action. The results of the ballot- guards of the proprietor. The presi-|ing on the question of enforcing the The fireman was killed and three persons injured when a Pennsyl- vania Railroad flyer struck a derailed freight car near Pittsburgh. Photo shows wrecking crew at work. TEXTILE LOCKOUT ity of a stoppage of the cotton and woolen n was seen today in Great Britairt. chief export industry, the Master Cotton Japanese Scientist Dead |* | dent of the league, J. Refugio Salcedo. | j 91 per cent wage cut v as fol- LONDON, May 22.—Dr. Hideyo | stil remains in the hafids of these | jo American section, 66.68% for! Noguchi, world-famous Japanese armed guards. jeut, 24.10% against wage cut; 9.32 In Corralejo the proprietor Miguel | gia’ not reply; Egyptian section physician and discoverer of the So uth | Zubiria, with the assistance of federal} 22.29% for wage cut; 64.5% against| American yellow fever germ who died troops, seized the peasants’ ¢rops, and| it; the rest not reply: | took varlous peasants prisoners. The| Both cotton and wool textile indus-| # proprietor had already received hi*|tries are involved in an ultimatum by share of the crops according to a)the operative dyers’ trade union Fr actetieds previously drawn contract. | threatening a strike on June 2nd un-} Ordered Off Land. leas they ate given a wage advance. He died of the disease he had spent | In El Refugio the state and local| Negotiations between the Master his life battling against—the yellow authorities ejected peasants from the | Spinners and manufacturers on one! plague. legally distributed common lands and| hand and workers on the other have ho was conducting experiments to ob-| from their houses. |been in progress for some time, but t i thods of fighting thel The organized peasants of Yerbanis|no compromise could be reached re- ain new methods of fighting the been attempting to secure land| garding a Pees ee working week. scourge. He became inoculated from his own experiments. Accra, West Africa, was univer- ribution for several years, but not LOOMS IN BRITAIN sally lauded today as a martyr to| His death took place while | « ISANDINO TROOPS | AMBUSH MARINES IN NICARAGUA } Army of Independence Controls Districts MANAGUA, May .—An unknown number of Nicaraguans were injured d two members of the United es marine corps killed when a des tachment of the marines was amg bushed by patrols from the Nicar laguan army of independence neat ;Paso Real. | American military authorities at |Managua is virtually in control of nterior sections of the country he marines are carrying on @ warfare against the Nic- desultor araguans. Lightly equipped, ably led and with pert native knowledge of the coun- |try and its difficult trails and passes, the troops of General Augusto San- dino are engaging the American in- vaders on two fronts. On the east |coast, where the army of independence eres after a brilliant dash from r former base in Nueva Segovia, it is keeping at bay a vastly superior force of marines, rushed there from be west coast at the plea of American In the distriet around the troops of General San- n control of the important | neuvering with extreme diffi- culty in the rainy season, constantly with fev: nd hunger, owing to the virtual impo: ility of transport- ing supplies in many sections, the American marines are no longer on the offensive. The ary of independence is re- |ceiving daily reinforcements and sup- | plies from the peons who cooperate in J complete npathy with the campaign which Ge' ndino is directing. os only have they been unsuccessful, but | recently they have been ordered off} PERSECUTION rented lands where they have con-| structed houses. The reason given for distributing’ no lands was that the governor had received orders trom f) President Calles to cease distribution | of the available lands because they had been purchased by him. Unfair Contracts. In El Tobos the proprietor, with the aid of federal troops, drove off the BOGOTA, Colombia, May 22.—Con- | ; tinued plans for a general persecu- tion of workers thruout the country | are implied in the report of the min- |ister of the interior to the congress, | ; face contracts 1 10! it is believed here. | submit to ejection. He closed thé} Rumors of revolutionary activity | {hacienda school, which he is obliged] among the workers ahd peons have| by-law, to alneain, Bn Hieusserred | been zealously spread with the appar-| the furniture to the local military bar-! ent purpose of preparing the ground racks. Similar abuses have occurred] ¢,, a general persecution. in Ricardo Flores Magon. .. |. ‘It is expected that the ministry will In Ignacio Allende land was dis-| demand more power for coping with tributed, not to poor peasants but to a situation which it is characterizing merchants and small ranchers, who, as “menacing.” let it out on shares. In general the delegation complai | that both the governor and the mi | tary authorities have hindered all fur- ther land distribution in, the ;state and’ have menaced the local agtayian commission of the federal govern- ment which has wished to proceed. Greek Cabinet Crisis LONDON, May 22—The Greek’ coalition cabinet, which was formec | by Premier Alexander Zaimis on Feb | 28, resigned today, said a dispat from Athens this evening. It is und r | stood that former Premier Eleutheri Venizelos is planning to assume lead ership of the liberal party. Venizelos ants to sign unfair LABOR Frank T. Johns Dies BEND, Ore., May —Frank T Johns, of Portland, Oregon, socialist- labor cand‘date for ‘president in 192 was drowned here yesterday in a vain} attempt to save a 12 year old boy | from drowning. Johns was 39 years old. Tin MICHAEL GOLD JOSEPH FREEMAN ip JAMES RORTY ROBERT WOLF ADOLF WOLFF TICKETS On sale at local office of Dai Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Santal Midy. Effective-Harmless to become president of Greece. Th: present crisis may result in Venizelos forming a new cabinet. National Workers (C WELCOME DEMONSTRATION GREET THE DELEGATES & For P: your money in a Co- Nominating Convention Ones “tent of the United States of the ommunist) Party of America SEN. CHAS. E. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER B, H. LAUDERDALE, Texas SCOTT NEARING, New Jersey L. FORT-WHITEMAN, Alabama WM. W. WEINSTONE STANLEY CLARK, Oklahoma JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman. SPEAKERS | BEN GITLOW BEN GOLD JAMES P. CANNON WM. F. PATTON, Iowa ANITA C. WHITNEY, Calif. 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