The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 3

ee lle WORKER; NEW: YORK, 5 THURSDAY, MAY 24, BEAN: 24, 1928 Engineer, Accused i in Donetz Sabotage Conspiracy, Admits Flooding Mines ADMITS GETTING BRIBE FOR PLOT TO WRECK MINES: Where new Worker- Peasant Revolt Looms 60,000 BRITISH DYE WORKERS TO STRIKE FOR PAY Tammany ‘Again Greets Its Fascist Friends GENERAL STRIKE LOOMS IN BUENOS orker: |12-Year- ; Killed Received 10, 000 Roubles Cotton Workers May Be 12 tees O16, Fe e t From Czarists Locked Out Thursday | y Rosa ( i MANCHESTER, England, May 23. | eae : ve th : ig five Lie ee He —More than 80,000 dye workers will Reariah Ke sa eo tie : o * his cooaibtaee he ee go on strike June 16th, it was an- entire city looms ae ; ; pia Sh ar estan ine Le rr. nounced’ today when all efforts to With the 24-hour ae oi por fens pidiae achicha negotiate the wage dispute between ee : i | workers over, the more vs itan << “The fi ineers i the unions and the employers col- ‘ os spies a tions of the labor movement are agi- | ee SR Cas sigieisione lapsed. Al Smith, like his Tammany side-kick Jimmy Walker, has ushered | tating for a general strike in sym-~ } ne ee oar The walk-out is expected to result} out his plug hat and his smiles for the German fascist flyers. Photo | pathy with the striking dock workers guilt while Gorletzki issued a denial. Beresovsky also admitted working for the restoration of the Czarist regime. The president and the judges put a number of questions to Beresovsky, whose answers compromised a num- ber of others of the accused. The ex- amination of Beresovsky was con- | Pe in almost a complete shut-down in the dye industry and in allied trades. * * * | MANCHESTER, England, May 23. | —More than 16,000 workers in Nelson} will be locked out on Thursday unless the strike’ at the Schoenfield mill is from left to right shows Mayor von Heunefeld, Major Fitzmaurice, Koehl. ‘USSR MADE HUGE TO VISIT JEWISH John B. Thatcher, of Albany, Baron of Rosario. Tammany Al Smith, and Capt. * ROSARIO, May A twelve ear old boy was killed here yester- day when police opened fire on dem~- onstrating strike workers. A number of persons were injured in a clash between strikers and strike- * 23, cluded late yesterday. View of Canton, where war lords fear a new worker-peasant revolt. settled before Thursday, according be bredkers who are attempting: S00 ) In answer to the defending at- | General Li Chai-sum who now controls the city h sued an order |\an ultimatum issued by the -Manufae- eee ie ee pe ¢ torney’s questions, Beresovsky main-| outlawing all demonstrations. With the recent succe: of worker- | turers’ Association. The strike in the heavy F tained his statements which compri-| mised the other accused who have | not yet confessed their parts in the in Canton, Li Chai-s sum fears the out peasant froops in the vicinity of Swatow and with the g growth of unrest break of a a revolt. of the Schoenfield mill was called because unauthorized dismissal of a worker and against the spéed-up sys-{ tem. $350,000,000 00 Received by Printers who went on strike yester-“ oy in sympathy with the port work= S$ suce sd in closing down every newspaper Many work- Kuntz Leaves for'!e Dr. A ‘A in the city. counter-revolutionary conspiracy. | i 5 o pene a ne a A number of Donetz miners test TOLL OF ISON The dispute is likely to spread to United States Amour Region os ae Been arrested in connection fied that Beresovsky was an enemy | bouike industries. of the working class who, during the! war, treated war prisoners who | worked in the mines’ in a barbarous | manner. * (Special Cable to the D: Worker). | MOSCOW, May 23. — Yestv.rd afternoon session in the Donetz trial| was devoted to the examination of Kalganov, who served as Beresovs yy’s | assistant. | Kalganoy confessed and named his subordinates. 7 GAS INCREASING Relieve Phosgene Was Destined for U. S. BERLIN. May 22.--All Germany een shaken by the comment g the poison gas explosion in Hamburg which Killed 11 Dp 2: | MURDER OF SOZZI Anti- Fascist - Alliarree| MEXICO CITY, (By Mail).—The Mexican Section of the International Anti-Fascist Alliance organized a united front mass meeting in this city Altho the Master Cotton and Spin- ners’ Association decided against put- ting the proposed 12% per cent wage cut into effect because of the likeli-} ‘hood of strike action, a number of | mills are expected to slash wages and {introduce a longer working week, Held Mevting try went on record as favoring the wage cut. If wages are cut a strike is almost certain. More than sixty per cent of the mills} ‘ }in the American section of the indus- Shipments of gold from the U. S R. to a total value of $350,000,000 were received by the United State during ‘the years 1920- ‘di: |to the report of the States Senate Commission of Gold and Silver Inquiry, quoted in a pamphlet “Rus- sian Gold” released yesterday by the Amtorg Trading Corporation of New York. The conclusions in the senate re-| port of 1925 are corroborated by cus- toms statistics of Sweden, France and |state in that region, Professor Chas. Kuntz, well-known he port z educator and member of the National police guard. No one is permitted to Executive of the “Icor,” left on. the| approach the docks without a special nia last night going’ to- Soviet permit. s the first representative of American organization in Biro Bidjan, the country on the Amour| River in the Russian Far East which SEAMEN FIGHT T0 has been alloted by the Soviet govern- zone here is under heavy ment for Jewish Colonization with the view to create an autonomous Jewish Professor Chas. Kuntz will repre-| He declared that he had actively right and put 250 cthers last night in protest for the murder | ceiyeb ai 2 |Switzerland, the countries through! sent the “Icor,” a Jew sh organiz participated in the conspiracy him: aes May of th of sal Saat by Mussolini’s black- | | which Russian gold found its wayj tion, with offices at 799 Broadway; Hold Mass Meeting in and that he had deliberately worked sare in such serious condi guards. The large hall of the Com-| |here, and dispatches in the pr of| New York, which for the past three! Sebastopol unprofitable seams of the coal mines. 3 believed they cannot recover. munist Party was filled to overflow- 192 regarding Russian gold ship-| years has been active in raising funds ; Bees He also admitted that he had regu-| The “Rote Fahne,” official organ | ing. jments. The brochure of 72 pages also) to assist the Jewish colonization work | MOSCOW, May 23.—Mass meetings larly conveyed information to the for-|4¢ the Garman Communist Party, de-! Comrade Enea § nenti_ presided | contains data regarding Ru an gold| jan Soviet Russia. At Beeson’ the | of seamen held in Sabastopol in con- mer owners of the mines, for which! clayes that the gee lyneimtibed torlui the nasties Poe in eae ALL CONSCRIPTED production, the present Soviet gold| ‘Icor” undertook to cooperate with he had received considerable sums. junction with a huge mass meeting the Jewish colonization in Biro Bid- “, . * . ae Ht A % Soviet foreign trade. | fis aca r the “com’ne imperialist war. Monzon spoke in the name of the reserve and Sovie' j ie = i Sats | of workers of the city passed a reso- , Questioned by Krelenko, prosecut-| The Berliner Achtul Abendblatt | Mexican Section of the International A statement by A. L. Scheinman. pee y Ya teat or a introduc: | tution demanding the immediate re- ing attorney, concerning his motives.| called it “a general rehearsal for Labor Defense, dealing in detail with chairman of the Soviet State Bank, | ™ 0: anerican machinery anid! s.. 42 of Bala Kun, Kalganov stated that he acted not | aero-chemical warfare of the future.” the atrocious persecutions of the mili- Would Militarize Key} printed in the pamphlet, indicates equipment as well as American tech- Further protest meetings were held for money but as a matter of|'The newspaper added: tant workers in Italy under the dic- Industries | that the $5,000,000 in Soviet gold re- se eases sieo" conicotianen sl? in Vladivostok, - Petrosavodsk and a tion. Of ae ee Sa:d, he had “The terrible lesson the German iatorship of Benito Mussolini. | cently shipped to this country was dosh ie paduaitad Alavieals Gracey eas | other towns. begun to doubt w her the Soviets people will realize from this is what] Other speakers were Professor Ra- WASHINGTON, rte 23. (FP).— sent to serve in adjusting the Soviet rere valncaan THLoae De Chicieatyre cosa} _— could be overthrown. Workeis in the}a horrible fate awaits civilians wher fael_ Ramos Pedrueza for the Teach- ie apr hay Os ~—|\Union’s unfavorable trade balance 2 CUBAN SUGAR S' gallery rocked with laughter wher lialganov made this remark. LABOR DEFENSE RALLIES MINERS. Anti-Fascist | Meéting i in Anthracite WILKES-BARRE, Pa., An enthusiastic gathering of work- ers’ organizations from the mining centers of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Nantikoke and Plymouth was held here at Rusenko Hall, to organize 4 : showed a determination to militarize| t t i Pf i ‘ j aki | 6X o the United States and . Niae\ aa Committee Meets 0) at ight against the fascist Pilsudski \ Ge eras Pace hase eee Will ‘Persuade’ Porters | all the chief industries and to make| | LO NI G H gb i error of Poland and for the rel bs i Pl Acti 3 of Bela Kun, See thats he gas was to be shipped in ite iS their ordinary ‘bosses their superior) an ction at8 P.M, at the ela \* 1 bs . 7 7% . ” The brutalitics inflieted upon the | mat-ze state for use by the Unitst} A. R, MacDonald, specialist in labor| Mitary santa at ie court | : RE, Pal, May oppressed minorities within” the | States army. espionage and strikebreaking, has| "urna, P ower, When the day of) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., i oe LABOR TEMPLE boundaries of Polish fascism was de-| SSSR ETE LE aR been hired by Pullman to “stop” the £ a Mee ea he a ‘Bonita: Moleski-{ scribed by B. K. Gebert, militant | Brctherhood of Sleepiny Car Porters jwvas Neageanrs tt Miers | 14th St. and 2nd Ave. miner and editor of the Polish labor | paper “Rabotcha Tribuna.” Dmitry- shyn, a Ukrainian speaker, follow -d This conference was held under the auspices of International Labor De- May 23. —} the terrers of future gas warfare | breaks upon them unexpectedly.” | An official investigation is: already | onde way at Hamburg. Officials of | the Reichswehr have been summoned | fo testify whether the German army (high command knew anything about the existence of the poison gas. | Experts testified that, had tie wind | been blowing towards Hamburg ia- | stead of away from it, thousands might have been killed as the phos- gene would have been carried into the | heart of the city. | The unseen death menace hung over the suburbs until! dispelled by a rain- storm, | Hugo Stolzenberg, owner of the chemical plant where the gas was stored, insisted that the deadly fluid {war ; most of which would be HOOVER SPENTLOT ‘OF COIN IN INDIANA ers’ International; Jorge Fernandez for the Young Communist Federation of Mexico, Tina Modotti for the Anti- Fascist Alliance and Juan Jose Mar- tinez for the Central Committee of the Mexican Communist Party, each of which touched on different phases of the international struggle against fascism and the conditions reigning Edwin E. Spafford, commander of the American Legion, testifying May 21 before the house committee on mili- tary affairs, demanded the enactment | of the Roy] Johnson bill providing | universal conseription “without ex- emption on account of industrial oc- cupation,” whenever war may be de-| clared. He made the usual claim, ex-| ploded by trade union representatives in Italy at the Abs Done time. PULLMANS HIRE CELEBRATED SPY MacDonald, Expert, which is on the eve of clos‘ng a st vote showing 100 to 1 sentiment among porters for a walkout, if nec- essary, to obtain union recognition. MacDonald, self described “indus- in previous hearings, that the bill | would conscript capital equally with | labor. 1 When questioned as to how the rail- | roads, mines and other essential in- | dustries would operate if all the men were drafted, Spafford replied that| the army could release enough men} fon furlough, if necessary, to keep, them going. This reply is in conflict | with earlier explanations, which | DAVIS SORRY FOR RR. UNEMPLOYED ling to Scheinman, with the United States, which reached a total of $90,000,000 in the twelve months ending March 31, 1928. The recent gold shipment, accord- came from the newly created gold reserve which the | Soviet authorities began to accumu- late in 1923 after the remainder of the gold stock of the Imperial gov- ernment had been exported to pay for Soviet a 3e tas abroad. BONITA DEFENSE CONTINUES WORK ;Mendola Defense conference held re- \cently at Luzerne, met at the defense | committee’s office, rane 306, ‘Com- {merce Building, at 2 P. The following Anas were chosen: agriculture to go to Biro Bidjan as technical advisers. HAVANA, May The strike of The first shipment of a motor|dorwers on the Sugar States( large transportation unit consisting of 6/Sugar plantations near the town of trueks and 3 passenger cars sent ip evetes has ended. the “Icor” to Biro Bidjan, is already | on the way to the Russian Far Eas ern port of Vladivostock. An ad tional shipment of 5 tractors and | plows will leave shortly. , Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? 2nd ANNUAL “INTERNATIONAL RED POETS’ NIGHT Revolutionary Poets writing in various languages, DAVID GORDON will read his prison poems | Cowboy songs by MARGARET LARKIN Polish terror which has the support of the enemies of Labor in this coun- try. An executive committee of five was | elected and plans for a larger confer- ence as well as mass meetings to be held in the mining régions were work- ed out. Twelve Boston Citizens Caught with Much Booze GLOUCESTER, Mass, 2 “surprise” attack, Deputy Colleétor of Customs Thomas F. Finnegan and the customs special squad capture 12 Boston men and a big cargo of smuggled liquor on the beach a’ Lanesville, ‘ The 600 cases of I'quor seized was valued at nearly $59,000 customs men} said. Two motor trucks and two pensive type motor cars were als. seized. Fascist - Mitehip. Back;. Sighted No New Land. KINGS Bay, Spitzbergen, May 23. | — After 68 hours of flight over the, Arctic regions, the dirigible Italia,, commanded by General Umberto No» bile, returned to its base here today without having sighted’ any new land The airship did not fly over Lenin Land as was originally planned. The Italia will start for the North Pole within tho next few days, May 23..—In } | Foellinger, manager of the Indiana campaign, testifying before the sen- | jate committee. The Hoover slush |fund thruout the country totals near- ily. $250,000, the largest amount ad- |mitted by any of the candidates. Another witness before the senate |committee today was Carmi Thomp- 'son, manager of the late Senator Wil- \lis’ campaign against Hoover, who ‘testified that $41,216 was expended in |behalf of Willis. Fire in Condemned | House Kills 2 Children | ‘RGO, T., May 23.--Trapped in their rooms, two children were burned to death when fire destroyed three frame dwellings here. The dead are Cleo Brown, 2 years old, and Henry. | Griffith, years old, both Negroes. The bitldines in which the two ehil- |dren died had been declared unsafe! ‘0, but nothing had been done his. British Coal Baron Dies, LONDON, fay 23. (Henry 8. Berry), to remedy Lord Buekland a multi-millionaire | merger of coal minine comranies, war) accidentally killed today. He was rid- ing a horse which collided with a tele- graph pole. Lord Buckland made h's vast fortune in the coal mining indus- try. He was director in more than company union to stem its workers’ | desire to join a real trade vvion. When the imitation union failed to) supplant the Brotherhood, Pullman! began firing union leaders and dis- | ciplining members. » That, too, failed to dent the young Brotherhood. Later Pullman resorted to corrup- | tion of Negro editors, cowed Negro|taking care of displaced workers in gond a letter of thanks to the Inter- | pastors into spreading anti-union pro-| paganda and even browbeat séutherr | colleges to keep union organizers from addressing students. | But Pullman leans on a wenk reer |institution be changed to the Frank-| now pay. if. it expects A, R. MacDonald to! lin Nat. Bank because business men |break up the porters’ union through) “dislike to use the namg MacDonald is none too! ¥7ion on their checks.” The bank is of 8. espionage. clever himself, He is remembered in labor circles chiefly for his effort te |) prove that Louis Budenz is a Com | munist, MacDonald maintains close tions with the National Civ'e tion. reactionary employer-w ficial organization which fights the child labor amendment and old-age {pension laws. Man Killed By Train HAMILTON, The lifeless Ontario, body of a May 2%. man found) »| and chief figure in'a proposed colossal beside the Canadian National Railway | ‘tracks, east of Burlington, has been; identified as that’ of Murray MeVeen | of this city. He was on his way home from De. | troit where he had been working, a» is believed to have fallen from on 50 companies. train into the path of another, lof R machinery and speeding up. in. the |past 10 years while traffic and ton- nage have increased about 20%, said * retary of labor Davis to the tri- | al convention cf the Brotherhood | way Clerks in Columbus. While lbemoaning the unemployment and distress Davis had no program for e railroading and other industries, Pres, Castellini of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks Nat. Bank of Cin-! jcinnati proposed that the name of the) of a labor | fense, whose répresentative, Sidney trial engineer,” refused to deny that) ee Gat eagr aan pte Bloomficld exposed the Pilsudski gov- his services had been engaged by Pull- |vive- chairman; Frank Vratarich, sec- al MICHAEL GOLD HENRY REICH, JR. ernment and showed how the Amer- Willis Slush F Fund Going man. “For certain business reasons,” lrete a Gentes Pascun,) a aecwen| JOSEPH FREEMAN A. B. MAGIL ican government and the Wall street | he responded, “I would rather not say OG; No He Ha: Has No Plan! ltary; Chactes tients: tvébduvet® andl GENEVIEVE TAGGARD ABRAHAM RAISIN bankers are supporting Polish fase-| Strong at Death anything r'ght now about that par- ‘ IN. Borieh, Charles Licata and Frank | JAMES RORTY H. LEIVICK ism, a recent manifestation of which | — ticular matter.” for | Relief lvvatawis: touataaee (Hones aac cna ROBERT WOLF LAJOS EGRI was a loan of $70,000,000 to Pilsudski | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 23.—| Puliwan, fighting desperately Levinic: Bonita’ were: waded teehee. t ADOLF WOLFF ARON KURTZ by the Wall Strect bankers and called) A total of $53,700 was contributed to st the porters’ union and its) COLUMBUS, 0., May 23 (CRP): Tea tive conti cee’ bY RbclATNALIG: : upon the workers of all nationalities | Herbert Hoover's unsuccessful cam- strike vote, has fallen ‘back now on, Approximately a quatter million ra I The exechitee cdmmistes Wil con- | M. J. OLGIN, Chairman aA to make common cause against the |Paign in Indiana, declared Oscar E. | labor espionage. t it organized a/Way workers have been displaced by tinue the work’ of the doikereiva and ! will renew the agitation for the re-| lense of Bonita. More affiliations will be made to the committee and an advisory committee of prominent in- | dividuals in the labor movement will be organized to assist the executive committee. A unanimous decision was made to ‘national Labor Defense for its splen- did work in behalf of Bonita, Moleeld | } and Mendol. dividends on it; stock. The conyéntion turned down a pro- | 4 years instead | posal to meet every Ww ier By JOHN What the WORKER 2 WORKERS LIBRA Be a Communist stands for and w should join it. Five Cents 89 East 125TH Streer, New York Crry. 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