The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1928, Page 3

2 é ee EE DAILY WORKER: NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY. 28, | MAY 28, 1928 Donetz hag pce Plead Guilty When Cross - Examined in Sabotage Case ADMIT PLOTTING FOR OVERTHROW OF SOVIET UNION Petrov Received 3,000 Rubles As Graft MOSCOW, May 27.—At the Donetz trial, where engineers Petrov and Tehernoknishnikov were cross-exam- ined, Petrot pleaded guilty and ad- mitted that the sabotagers had aimed either af the overthrow of the Soviet government or to force the handing over of mines to foreign concession- aries, Petrov also admits having received 8.000 rubles. Tchernoknishnikov, al- though chairman of a branch of the Engineers’ Union, secretly worked against the Soviet government, dam- aging machines and turbines. CABLE GREETINGS TO INTERNATIONAL Nominating Convention Hails Victories (Continued trom Page One) ada, Haiti, the Philippines, Cuba, and the other colonies of American im- perialism — have gathered in the monster National Convention to con- stitute a powerful fighting fist of all exploited and oppfessed against United States impérialism Wort Confidence. “The National Convention pledges itself to be worthy of the confidence of the Communist International, and solemnly promises to enter into the election struggle—which will be a struggle against all capitalist parties and against the corrupt bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor and the renegade Socialist Party— with the true platform of the class struggle, as a champion of the work- ing class, working farmers, and op- pressed Negro race and as an organi- zer of the struggle against United States imperialism. “The National Nominating Con- vention sends through the Communist International its fraternal greetings to the German, French and Polish Communist workers, whose recent election victories are a source of in- spiration for our own struggle against the most powerful imperialism in the world. “We express our admiration to- wards the working class of Soviet Russia, which, under the leadership of the Communist Party, is building up the magnificent edifice of social- ism, is establishing the 7-hour day, is making the first steps to organize collective agriculture, showed itself ais the sole promoter of world peace in Geneva, and is defending the only Workers’ Republic against the whole world of capitalism. - “Long live the solidarity of the in- ternational working class! “Long live th» Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! “Long live the Communist Interna- tional! “Hail the American proletariar revolution!” RED AID ISSUES WORLD APPEAL’ frame-Up of Hromada, Kun Protested MOSCOW, May 27.—The Executive Committee of the International Red Aid has issued an appeal to the work- ers in all countries to protest against the brutal sentences given out at the Hromada trial, against the imminent extradition of Bela Kun and the pre- arranged murder of thirty-six Italian Communist Party leaders by the special tribunal in Rome. 100,000 Visit Machine Exhibition in Moscow Yn an effort to interest the workers ‘and peasants in manufacturing ma- chinery. and in order to familiarize them w'th domestie and foreign-made ‘machinery and anpliances. the Soviet Tnion established an exhibit in Mos- cow. For the three. months the ex- hibition is in existence over 100,000 have visited the display. Foriegn ma- chinery from nearly every industrial country is’ represented. The bulk however, comes from Germary, Aus- tria, France, England, America, Swe- den and Denmark. ‘Suppress Esthonian Youth Organization KOENIGSBERG, | East Prussia. May 27.—The All-Esthonian Youth League of Reval, Dorpat and Ner- wage has been abolished by special order of the minister of the interior sand tht: treasuries confiscated. _— Street Envoy Alexander P. Moore is an old hand at helping to fasten the claws of Wall Street on foreign nations. Moore, a millionaire publisher and former ambassador to Spain, has been selected as the new Wall Street envoy to Peru, one of the Wall Street colonies. He is shown above with Juan Leguia, son of the pup- pet president of Peru. Life Imprisonment For| | Japanese Communists | | TOKIO, May 27.—The Japanese goyernment has introduced a measure into parliament calling for life im- prisonment of anyone demanding a change in the government. The reso- lution follows the establishment of |special police divisions in certain Japanese cities in order to suppress the Communists and militant workers. PROTEST ATTACK AGAINST CHINA Mass Meeting Planned In California LOS ANGELES, May 27.—Six mass meetings of anti-imperialist protest will be held on the Pacifie Coast the coming week. San Francisco, Oak- land, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Berkeley will hold the gatherings, be- ginning Monday. The purpose is to arouse Chnese an|l Japanese senti- ment in America against Japanese in tervention in China and to deman.’ the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. Military and naval forces in Chi- nese territc ry. The meetings, which will be : under the euspices of the All-Ame:‘ca Anti-Imperialist League, are being ar- ranged by the Sun Yat Sen Society, the Chinese Students Alliance, ‘and other organizations affiliated to the United States section of the league. International Meetings. Most participants and speakers will be Chinese, but on each occasion there will be one Japanese and one Ameri- can speaker. American speakers will harass U. S. imperialism, demanding immediate withdrawal of the 3000 marines and 741 regulars now con- centrated in the Tientsin area, while Japanese orators will belabor Tokio’s covetous aggressiveness. In announcing the meetings, Y. Y. Hsu, Columbia University student and former editor of Kuo Yat Pao, Kuo- mintang daily, published in San Fran- cisco, said that a determined effort would be made to crystallize anti-in- tervention sentiment in America, and to get them to join with the Chinese n demanding the recall of the Japan- »se armies. Hundreds Arrested. “The Japanese nation is not by, any means united in this imperialist policy,” said Hsu. “The government has not got confidence or support of {the Japanese workers. In order to {avoid open protest at home against ‘its Chinese policy it has been obliged lto have recourse to the severest | policies. Japanese trade unions and | political parties have been suppressed. | Offices have been raided, newspapers | closed down, and several hundred per- sons have been arrested.” (Soviet Union Completes New Telephone Lines A new telephone ita: Leningrad- Archangel through Vologda, has been tested and found quite satisfactory. Telephone communication will be | opened shortly. | The Leningrad plant, Krasnaya | Zarya, has completed the construc-} | tion of an automatic telephone station. the first in the U.S. S. R., for Rostov. The plant has under construction sev- eral other automatic stations for the various cities of the U. S. S. R., ac- cording to the American Russian ‘AUSTRIAN. METAL UNION OFFICIALS GIVE UP DEMANDS Dismissed Workers Not Re-Instated VIENNA, May 27.—The Austrian Metal Workers’ Union today gave up all thetr strike demands. As a result. the Alpinemontan Company retains its right to employ workers without any previous mediation on the part of the union. It may therefore con- tinue to employ fascists. The radical workers who were dis- missed at the beginning of the strike have not been reinstated. The bour- geois press, as a result of this aban- doning of the strike, declares that the “traditional radicalism of the Austrian unions has become a myth.” TEACHERS STRIKE AGAINST NANKING Demand Wages; Issue General Appeal NANKING, (By Mail)—The public school teachers of Nanking have gone on strike against the Nanking gov- ernment. They have issued an appeal | Which severely criticizes the policies lot the Nanking regime. After stating that the teachers have! received no salaries, the appeal says: “Citizens! Nanking is owned by the citizens and not just by the gov- ernment. You pay the taxes, there- fore you must get your rights. You must struggle to get it. We are in public service, so you must protect us.’ SNAPSHOTS FROM THE CONVENTION Excerpts from Speeches at the Meeting (Continued from page one) tion. His status is that of a worker and he has much. to contirbute to the revolutionary’ movement.” * * JAY LOVESTONE, general secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party-4“Our objective is to defeat American capitalism in the | next war that it tries to enter. In the next war we will not be con- scientious objectors. We will be con- scientious fighters. We will torn the next imperialist war into civil war for the overthrow of capi- talism.” { al ERBERT. ZA rier of the Young Workers (Communist) League-f‘The youth is gaining a ) foothold in the armies of American imperialism. The fact that a num- ber of marines joined the revolu- tionary forces of General Sandino in Nicaragua testifies to the ef- fectiveness of the anti-imperialist propaganda which the Young Work- | ers League has carried on.” * * * JAMES P. CANNON, secretary of the International Labor Defense —*“The election for us is not a con- test in the sense of the mock strug- gle of the republicans and demo- crats. It is not a race for office. That is merely incidental. It is part of the class struggle.” * * x SCOTT NEARING, candidate for governor of New Jersey—“We are holding a campaign at a time of great historic moment. We are living thru a decade of world- shaking revolutions and wars. We are living in an age of imperialism and witnessing the final stages of | capitalism.” Hee ae ROSE WORTIS, secretary, Joint Board, Cloak and Dress Makers— “Never in the history of our Party was there such an opportunity for political action. In the last two years New York has witnessed both the struggles of the fur workers and the cloak makers against the bosses and their allies, the labor bureaucrats and the socialist party. Chamber of Commerce. A new telephone line, Leningrad-| Riga through Reval, has been opened | Moscow will be included in this line. | stacis NeiN | \Threaten Red Front Fighters in Austria VIENNA, May 27.—The Austrian authorities have announced that the | Communist organization of Red Front Fighters will be abolished here. The suppression of the Red Front Fight- ers is causing great resentment among the Viennese workers. ROSIN PLANT FOR KIEV. A large rosin-turpentine plant with a yearly ouput of 900 long tons will be commenced in Kiev this, year. . The workers have learned political Hessons from these struggles.” * * ‘ H. M. WICKS, acting organizer, | Detroit.—“There are dozens of sit- | uations today that are imperialist powder magazines, Altho the Unit- ed States speaks in favor of Japan at present, it is playing a cautious game and Jaying the base for a struggle against Japan. The econ- flict between American and British imperialism is raging in every part of the world.” * a * I. AMTER, organizer, Cleveland district—“We must get into the election campaign ~not only for propaganda and the mobilization of the masses. We must also strive to get votes. Party candidates | if | | | | i | | ! | center, in ront of their plane. SURVEYS EXPOSE COMPANY UNION |Silk Hose Company Is! Union Hater In an effort to avoid unionization of its employes, the Real Silk Com- pany, one of the most vicious anti- labor silk hosiery firms, instituted a system of company unionism com- bined with yellow dog contracts. A {recent investigation made, laid bare |the vicious exploitation of the young | workers in the plant, most of whom | are girls. Two research bodies have just com- pleted a study of Real Silk’s policy | of yellow dog contracts, anti-labor | injunctions, company unionism and exploitation of women workers. The study also included a survey of the | Hosiery Workers’ Union. Their con- | clusion upholds contentions of the union, which has been forced to fight for its life in Indianapolis against in- dividual contracts employes. are ;forced to sign, binding them not to join the Federation. 50-hour week in force at Real Silk. Because the firm sells directly to the consumer through 10,000 salesmen who ring doorbells from coast to coast, the work highly seasonal. Christmas and Waster rushes mean night. Real Silk, the investigators discov- ered, has a thinly disguised company union known as Employes’ Mutual Benefit Assn., nalistic insurance benefit schemes. is all right for “ what the boss goes so far complaints, wages and hours are con- cerned. The company union’s duties and rights are conveniently vague. Wage rates are submitted to E. M. B. A. after workers have. been. in- formed that they are “free to quit.” mall things,” bu’ wage reduttion. take care of workers’ complaints, so the assistant to the manager subs for him. The manager is the court of final appeal. elected to congress or state assem- blies will do much to expose the na- ture of the capitalist system.” WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, or- ganizer, district two—‘Our imme- diate demands are not the immedi- ate demands of the socialist party. We do not put them forward as a substitute for revolution. They are not stepping stones to Socialism. We put forward our immediate de- mands as a means of mobilizing and organizing the workers of the Unit- ed States for the struggle against reat The Mining Cri t] The Economics of Amexican {i ’ Probers found the 9-hour day and | girls must work as high as 62% hours | ja week. 800 workers are employed at specializing in pater | Employes told them that E. M. B.-A. | Of course E. M. B..A. ratifies the The president of E. M. B. A,, a| workery is too busy at his machine. to | Contents: A Programme of Action for America—by John Pepper. The Labor Movement in America—by Frederick Engels. is Deepens—by Wm. Z. Foster. The Youth Movement and Six Years of the Young Work- ers League—by Herbert Zam. De Leonism and Communism—by Karl Reeve. BOOK REVIEWS. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 B. 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. i oti Fat contracts with the capitalist newspapers and publishing firms, were not known to the old time ar Commander Richard Byrd (extreme left) with the aid of a corps of publicity agents, is to the South Pole with Capt. George Wilkins (extreme right). ctic polar explorers who gave Wilkins {New England Politician Tells Mill Slaves to Grow Food in Back Yards | Wage-cutting textile bosses note the high cost of living-low wage prob- lem discovered by Charles H. Adams jof the Massachusetts commission_on |the necessaries of life. Adams, well paid politician, advises and textile workers to grow their own food in their back yards. Unionists {wondered why Adams stopped short \there. Why not hand looms for work- jers to make their own clothing at |home, and a general return to feud- alism? BUREAUCRATS APE BOSSCOVERNMENT ‘Fake Labor Meet Starts | May 30 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— The American Federation of Labor will not be represented in any capac- | ity at the 11th International Labor Conference, according to an announce- ment by William Green, president. The conference, which a creatior of the League of Nations begins to | meet May 30 in Geneva, This statement was officially is- sued, it is believed, because a few A. F. of L. chiefs nt to go there as individuals. This is therefore counter to the official A. F. of L, attitude, |which always conforms with the pol- | icy of the American ruling clas: However, since the representatives erican plutocracy send “un. ” to the League o: so the A. F. of L. John H. Walker, pres- ident of the Illinois Federation of La- bor Eeeeuy left to fill that capacity. Seviet Union Builds 17 New Creameries A newly |ereamery has in the Vologda province. It is 6,230,000 pounds of mi equipped mechanized commenced operations jaddit: seven new creamer are be- ing constructed in the province with Ja capacity of from 33,000,000 to 35,- 1900,000 pounds of milk yearly | In the Novosibirsk district the con- struction of seventeen new creameries jhas commenced. A number of them jwill be equipped with modern machin- an Russian Chamber 2 reports SHOR MACH RY PLANT |NEW ! A shoe machinery plant is being squipped at Saratov and will com. |mence operations in June, according |to the American Russian Chamber of mmerce, "| Agriculture—Richman. their lives in scientific |with approval the clever solution for! Haverill shoe j ‘Maieiein emis the “Great” ds oles Race to the South Pole and boosting war preparations polar exploration. reparing for a race ielson are shown in and his pilot E REFUGEES WILL FIGHT FOR KUN Big Meeting is Held in Leningrad LENINGRAD, (By Mail),—Repre-| tended a meeting in Polish Club here tradition of Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, who was arrested i Vienna. Chinese, Hungarian, Ru-| manian, Korean and other political re- | fugees attended the meeting. A sharply worded resolution pro- | testing against the arrest of Bela Kun) and demanding his release was adopt- ed. The resolution said in part: | tional proletariat opposes the demand {of the Hungarian murderers for the| extradition of Bela Kun and demands | his immediate release.” Numerous factory meetings have | been held in Leningrad to demand the |release of Bela Kun. PLAN NEW FACTORIES. sentatives from twelve countries at-| | COPENHAG May 5th to protest against the ex-! a MONEY SENT TO INDIA STRIKERS NEVER RECEIVED Gift From n Russian | Oddly Lost | BOMBAY, May 27.—Leaders of |the 50,000 textile strikers here are |demanding to know what has become |of the $5,000 check sent to the Indian \strikers by the Russian Textile Workers’ Union. The money was | sent in April and has never beeen re- |ceived by the textile workers, In spite of the order of the British police prohibiting all picketing the | thousands of ‘strikers have organized a picket corps of over 1,000. The picketing is in the hands of a strike |committee composed of Indians them- selves, | Not only do the textile strikers have to face the terrorism of the |the British police, but they are also | called on to meet the treacherous con- duct of their alleged “friends,” lawyers, politicians and professional are anxious to use the textile strike for their own sonal ends. The leaders of the strikers have ap- jproached the Indian railroad union lleaders with a view to concerted ac- tion between the two great branches |of Indian industr Sympathy for the textile strikers is spreadmg among | the railroad men, especially since the |recent massacre of railroad shop workers by British troops at Howrah, and the government is considerably alarmed. Thousands of scavengers who have been on an independent strike at Howrah have further intensified the strike peeling: in this section. ‘Fascist Airship Lost; ‘Plan Rescue Expedition May 27. — Oslo, Norway, repo that the airship Italia’s expedition base ship, Citta di Milano, and also the Vadsoe radio station heard faint S. O. S. signals from the airship saying that it was in great danger, but gave no position. Other messages received said that the Italia was drifting along with the wind to save gasoline. All things, at present, indicate that there will be another rescue hulla- “The Hungarian and the interna-|balloo, from which several new fascist | heroes will emerge. Vienna Police Attack Communist; Injure 4 | BERLIN, May 27.—Police yester- | day attacked a group of marching Communists here, fired into the group The American Russian Chamber of/ 2nd riddled the neighboring houses ommerce reports that it is planned | © construct twenty-six new plants in | the northern Caucasus during | next five years. |new factories includes a plant, a bottle plant at the mineral| springs, a textile plant in Kabarda with bullets. Two children, one wom- |an, and one man were seriously in- the! jured. The list of proposed! cellulose | FIND PREHISTORIC SKELETONS. SANTANDER, Spain, May 27— Workmen while excavating here found margarin and soap factories and a}an enormous cave filled with skele- macaroni factory. About $160,000, 000 | tons of prehistoric men. 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