The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1928, Page 3

Resiseeone eee ms tom my ee FOREIGN NEWS --- BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS French Imperialism Will Hop Off Again From Brest to New York | ee FASCISTS CAUSE DISORDERS. IN DALMATIA TOWNS Treaty’s Unpopularity Is Widespread PARIS, May 28.--Outbreaks against the Italian populations of a number of Dalmatian villagés and cities have broken out with unusual violence, re- ports from Trieste state. The Italian consulate in Spalato is reported to have been stormed and the Italian flag torn down from: the steamship offices at Pola. Crowds of Italians are said to have provoked the Slovene population in several smaller towns. Spalato is a Dalmatian port with a considerable Italian settlement. Pola, at the tip of the Trieste peninsula, is a former Austrian naval base, The outbreaks are said to have taken place as a result of the wide- spread unpopularity of the Nettuno Treaty by which the Jugo-Slavian government. guarantees special priv- ileges to Italians living in Dalmatian villages, The government is expected to ratify the treaty within the next few weeks. Ratification is expected to be the issue in the Jugo-Slav parliament soon when the opposition will maintain that the treaty places the Italian business men in a privileged position thruout Dalmatia. The government asserts that the floating of a loan is impossible while the tension with Italy continues. BRITISH MINERS ARE UNEMPLOYED } Mines in South Wales ™2, visualizing Fire Many LONDON, May 28.—Unemployment | seriously injured a third here early! PROTEST AGAINST CHINESE TERROR 231,000 Murdered by Kuomintang Leaders MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The League of Chinese Workers has directed an appeal to the workers of the world | calling upon them to protest against | the white terror in China. The-anpeal declares that the number of victims of the white terror already exceeds 231,000. “The leaders of the Kuomintang are the hangmen of the Chinese peo- ple and stand in the services of the imperialists. The appeal demands /199 reactionaries and federal troops|the control of Duncan Elliott Alves, moral and material assistance from | ware killed in violent fighting near [2 former member of the British par- the international proletariat for the fighting Chinese workers.” Cop Runs Amuck, Kills Taxi Driver, Wounds 2 An excited Tammany Hall patrol-| reactionaries almost three times as citation | from/heavy. In addition to the slain. many joccupies in the Canal Zone... . in the} were wounded on both sides. a above and his photograph Graphie, shot and killed an innocent taxicab driver, shot and wounded -altried to seize the city. second and with his club struck and | | | | | | | is rapidly increasing thruout the Brit-| yesterday after a holdup in: the Act-| ish, Welsh and Scotch coal fields, ac-| ors’ Inn, 31 East 7th St. The drivers) cording to statistics made public this | were bystanders, week. There are now 934,000 workers em-| officer is were employed last week. time two years ago. Attempt to Resume Business Is Met by Workers’ Offensive (Continued from Last Issue.) | fled when the officer arrived. The} from the interior of the country state Patrolman Victor Hertz.) that numerous arrests followed the ployed in the mines, 700 fewer than; The dead driver was Louis Nishkin,| attempt of the government officials Brooklyn. to carry out the order banning all! number of employed last year was| Isidor Temes, 3808 Church St., Brook-| May Day demonstrations. 1,028,000, and 1,106,200 at the same’! lyn, the second driver, is in Bellevue, ists and militants were forbidden to! Hospital, probably fatally wounded.! make any speeches on May Day. SIGMAN, BANKRUPT, OFFERS BARGAINS The ‘total| 1140, Eastern The. bandits had Parkway, eyes and has completely dispelled | secured The dramatic gesture in issuing the, their false hopes. These workers are | forge ahead to new victories. manifesto to take in the expelled pro-| 2°W looking in another direction for | viding they pay up their dues on| the solution of the problems facing resenting the rank which they had laid so much hope,| the union. has passed without even as much as a ripple. The cliques stand fully ex- To Drive Out Fakers. While the pogrom chiefs were con- posed before the workers, who. know , SPiting under closed dors to defraud that this manifesto which takes for!@2d further enslave the workers, the granted that Sigman and the “For-| unseated delegates representing the ward” are the bosses and sole rulers !ocals and Joint Boards of New, York, ever the cloakmakers who must bow | Chicago, Los Angeles and other cen- in submission to their orders, is but a/ ters, as well as the delegations sent new fake maneuver to press money from the workers to continue the pog- by the various groups in the union, which have been striving to bring rom anc perpetuate the cliques in} bout unity for the purpose of rebuild- power. The warning of President Green, under whose leadership the Miners’ Union has been forced into a life and death struggle and the entire trade union movement reduced to 2 mere shell, to the effect that if the workers exercise their right to rule over their own destiny and choose leaders in whom they ean place their confidence, | their charter would be revoked, dem- onstrates that the reactionary bureau- cracy feels that it has lost its.hold over the workers and can only main- tain itself in power by force and vio- Jenee. The final deal for the division of spoils, patched up by Hiilquit, which makes room for Schlesinger and one other vice-president, may for a time | ty appease the Schlesinger opposition ond give Dubinsky, the champion of democracy, who has concluded this if | deal even behind the backs of his own| delegates, the courage to face the members of his local, the sum total of his accomplishments being the 3- day tax on the membership and the addition of two more vice-presidents. We can expect that in the very near future screaming headlines will appear in the “Forward” deseribing the enthusiasm with which the members of Local 10 accepted the report of Dubinsky. However, this deal will nndeubtedly be short lived as is al- ready indicated by the prediction of Leary of the “World,” who is a good authority on matters of internal dis- pute within the ranks of the clique: It is no idly prophesy to state that they will be at each others throat again At the first contact with the work- ers, on their return from the fake con- vention the cliques will find that the day of their domination has gone by; that if there were any workers who up till now had harbored any illusions to the possibility of building a lion with Sigman and Schlesinger, vention ing our shattered organization, sat in conference earnestly deliberating on the problems confronting the workers |Marzanillo, on the wé@st coast, when | liament. : the counter-revolutionists ‘made an| The American newspaper says: unsuccessful effort to capture the|This British territory constitutes | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESD. AY, MAY 29, 1928 The picture shows | the flying boat, La | Frigate, in which | Lieutenant Paris, | of the French navy | will attempt to fly the Atlantic from: | Brest to New York. This will be the | 1 first French at- | tempt since Coli | and Nung r dis- " appeared.~ The. French gavernment: | is not contént ‘to nae the most pow- erful submarine | fleet in’ the seas | but is paying spe- | cial attention to flying as well. | IMPERIALISTS FIGHT | TO CONTROL PANAMA American interests in Panama accuse the British of military espionage | and of efforts to secure control of large territories adjacent to Panama Canal. | According to an American newspaper of Panama City, “The Panama | Fa x aT *American,” a British mining syn- | dicate, has been carrying on extensive MEXICO FEDERALS ssicrstions in the interior of Pana- & |ma, in preparation for military oper- ations against the Canal. tions, Ltd., holds concessions of 4,500 | i ears on extensive surveys and ex- Fight on Coast DEFEAT BANDITS According to this newspaper, the -—- square miles in Panama, has spent | |plorations, without producing any MEXICO CITY, May 28,—At least Panama Corporations, Ltd., is under British company, Panama Corpora- Rout Reactionaries in millions of dollars in the past four jore or other tangible results. The | War Lord’s Diplomat LARGER PROFITS, | MORE WORK, BUT. SMALLER WAGES New Figures Show How! Speed-Up Operates | By LELAND OLDS. WASHINGTON, May 28.—More production with fewer workers and} reduced payrolls is the record of manufacture during the first quarter of 1928, according to federal reserve board figures. The board shows that the displacement of labor which. has} been strikingly characteristic of the| years since the war is still in pro- er Automatic machinery and) speedups have not yet taken their | full toll of American productive} workers | Facto: Suome Tscheng, shown in the pic- Shek to represent the Nanking gov- ernment in France. She will try to establish friendly relations with the French imperialists. 4 Communists Face Death to Flee Hell Hole production for the first | quar of the year exceeded the same | period of 1 by 1.2 per cent, but working forces were reduced on the average 4.7 per cent. This means/ that the average factory worker pro- | Treating production and employ-) an open rowboat by four Communists ment in the first quarter of 1927 as| who preferrd to risk death than to re- 100 per cent, the figures for 1928 in| main in that hell to which the Span- the industries for which they are|j.n dictator Ibanez, has sent about available are: ce |300 Communists and other militant In iron and steel, food products, | workers, lumber products and the cement br The four used for thelc.cscape a ene aa pet} tered on the rocks of the islands when cent or more over the 1st quarter of daricen Soa aan 1927. Leather production per worker a party of gendarmes rowing fawary the island from a transport ship were more than. one seventh of the total area of the Republic of Panama. The | Alves British Panama Corporation city, according to advices received here today. The federal dead were estimated at from 25 to 30 and the losses of the ma’s territory as the United States If the purpose of these alleged mining joperations was to acquire a military knowledge of the Isthmus of Panama jand) the canal defenses, the damage There. were 800 in the band that Arrest Serb Workers BELGRADE, (By Mail).—Reports! Parliament to reject the recently pro- posed treaty, enlarging American con- | trol of Panama, and with having se- American interests. It asserts that the British company proposes to con- struct a road for motor-truck trans- portation across the Isthmus in com petition with the Canal, CLEVELAND PLANS HAYWOOD MEET Commun- } |understood that responsibility for the | suppression did not originate in Buda- | pest. | The report is of the investigating jeommittee te go before the League The supy d re- port was to have come up for consid- in past struggles and to} The conference of delegates rep: | and file of our} union elected a National Organization | On Public Square. | {Committee under whose guidance and) CLEVELAND, May 28.—Memorial | leadership the workers of our industry Day in Cleveland will be used by the: will take up the struggle not only |workers to commemorate the memory | against the bureaucrats, but against of William D. Haywood. A mass ‘the bosses who are tcday| the main meetin ‘as iat aes "i ; F support of the ciiques. With the spirit purpose has pee ar anaed, Zor, this jment. The arms had been sent from Scores of objections, raised by Brown, jer’s neck until blood spurted from his in our industry teday. One after an- | other these workers from shops arose on the floor of the conference to re- late their tale of woe and oppression} both from the enployers and their, enforce these gains agents, the union bureaucrats. } These delegates sounded forth the ganization, to which they had de- voted the best years of their lives. There was unanimity of opinion on all the measures adopted toward raising call for unity of action to rebuild the | , to all workers to unite and organize | The office of vice-president has been the union from its present chaotic! condition. The delegates present were aetuated by ene central thought, one aim—to unite the workers and begin the work of reconstruction. Toward is one goal all hearts beat in unison. Honest Elements United. The cenference considered the eco- nomie conditions in the industry as well as the question of internal admin- istration. It was decided that.as a first prerequisite for the rebuilding of | our union it was necessary zor all constructive elements to unite into one mighty front. It was necessary to bring ebout fundamental changes that would widen the foundation of the organization and draw into active participation the largest number of workers from our industry. Accordingly, the conference decided to initiate a national movement for the crganization of the shop chair- man councils as permanent institu tions to serve as the direct contact between the central body and the workers in the shops. It was decided to organize rank and file organiza- tion committees whose duty will be to take up the task of organizing the thousands of workers who have been forced into the open shops as a re- sult of the pogrom, The conference clearly analyzed the causes of the present breakdown of conditions and decided that only thru a unified na- tional organization campaign can the workers hope to re-establish the gains } 3 of courage and determination cnar- Square here beginning at 2:30 p. m. } acteristics of the fighting workers of! Outstanding leaders of the Work- | eur trade, the conference decided to!ers (Communist) Party of this city, make immediate preparations to put will address the meeting. Among these plans for the reconstruction of these will be I. Amter, district organ- | our union into effect. The conference izer of the Party, Sadie Van Veen, | decided that the 40-hour week, the in- Elmer Boich, John Foley, and leaders | crease in wages, the unemployment of the Young Workers (Communist) | insurance fund and other gains of the League, | workers must be restored to them and that only the workers themselves thru their own organized power can The conference expressed solidarity with the heroic | all other work who are struggling CARACAS, Venezuela, May 28.— to organize and save their unions from the onslaughts of the bosses and the reactionary cliques. It issued a call themselves not only on the economic | abolished in the new constitution pro- field, hut on the political field as well. | mulgated by President Gomez. The conference took cognizance of the! The office was held until recently fact that if the needle trade workers | bp Gomez’ son, upon whom, it is al-| are to fight effectively for the im-/leged, pressure was brought to secure provement of their conditions this' his resignation. The younger Gomez cannot be done unless all the branch-| is now on a trip to Europe accom- ¢s are united into one powerful, | panied by his family. amalgamated union of needle trade | workers, Senate to Continue Its Session Indefinitely Peary | WASHINGTON, May 28. — The senate today defeated a motion to ad- journ Congress tomorrow at five p.m. The vote was 40 to 40 and vice-presi- | dent Dawes broke the tie by voting against the resolution. | The action was a finger in the pie) _ To Fight On. The word and sentiments uttered by the delegates at this conference found an echo in the hearts of the thou- sands of workers of our industry who are today slaving in the sweat-shops | throughout the entire country. It was! a challenge to all the forces of dark- ness, that regardless of the obstacles in the way, regardless of the suffer- ing, the misery and persecutions, the | for supporters of Boulder Dam Legis-| workers of our industry, who in the }lation who, under the leadership of) past had distinguished themselves by | Senator Johnson of California, have. their militancy both against the em-/|demanded that the senate remain in| ployers ani their agents, are deter-| session until a vote is granted on the mined to take their destiny in their | Swing-Johnson bill. own hands. With the same spirit with So Sb ISSR: Wie which they fought and won the strike 30 Persons Saved When of 1910, that signalled the birth of our orgenization, they will go forth Fire Destroys House to the great task of rebuilding our! , ‘ LYNN, Mass., May 28. — More leontrols eight times as much of Pana- | has already been done.” | The same paper accuses the British | jof having influenced the Panaman | cured the passage of laws hostile to | ‘Communists to Speak peoanay in June. f , MESENGER DY j { DICTATOR STOPS \threatens to devour the better part of | {the crops thruout the country. Heavy | Gants paired the boat and ventured out into the open sea without sufficient pro- visions and with no knowledge of navigation. Nothing has been heard of them since. CHARGE FASCISTS QUASHED FACTS VARE, MELLON IN ELECTION FRAUD Arms Shipment Finding Suppressed PARIS, May 28. — Reports that/1WO Machines in Vote jItalian initiative caused the pigeon- Stealing Role jholing of the findings of a committee seo sent to investigate the shipment of WASHINGTON, May 28. — The arms from Italy to the Hungarian} Vare machine in Philadelphia and the government, are being widely circulat-| Mellon machine in Pittsburgh were led on the Continent. While no offi-| Silty of “cheating and vote stealing” a ., -,|at every election in Penr jcial statement can be adduced it is| ince 1922, former Governor by the senate elections committee on | the contest of William B. Wilson, (D) to unseat Senator-elect William S. Vare (R) of Pennsylvania. Pinchot said his charges of fraud were based on what he was told by when a shipment of arms, labeled | Sylvan His testimony frequer agricultural instruments, was discov- | provoked arguments between R d ered on the Austro-Hungarian fron- |B. Mahaney, counsel for Wilson, and tier, 400 miles off the route of ship- | Francis Shunk Brown, Vare attorney. Verona, Italy, and were, alleged to | were sustained by the committee. | ture, has been selected by Chiang Kai} _|of Bela Kun. A gi Pinchot testified today at a hearing| Page Three PROTEST THRUOUT SOVIET UNION TO RESCUE BELA KUN Mass Meetings to Fight Against Extradition MOSCOW, (By Mail).—In all the factories of Leningrad ditmertime meetings were held to protest against the danger of extradition hanging |over Bela Kun. The resolutions which | were adopted demanded energetically tthe release of comrade Bela Kun. — In Kiev and other places in the }Donetz Basin mass meetings of the workers have taken place against the arrest and the possible extradition’ meeting of the Hungarian workers living in Moseow was held and protested against the st of Bela Kun. The meeting ap- sd to the world proletariat to use es to secure the release of Hungarian revolu- | | | it jall its for the leader of the tion. | The meeting sent a telegram of duced 6 per cent more in the first 3 pees protest to the Austrian government. months of 1928 than in the same| ‘The distance cf 800 miles of the, The Executive Bureau of the Bea months of 1 As wages remained stormy stretch of the Pacific Ocean| ternational of Labor Unions has A practically tionary the factory | "Or? # Pina ° |dressed an appeal to the workers of — owners get about 6 per cent more between the Masafuera Islands and all countries calling upon them to production for each $1 of wages. |the Chilean mainland was braved in organize a protest action of solidarity against the danger of extradition | hanging over comrade Bela Kun, . Try 12 As Communists BELGRADE, May 28.—The trial of twelve young workers, charged with belonging to the illegal Communist Youth movement, has begun here, |The twelve workers have been jailed |for several months since their arrest jand their relatives have been forbid- | den to bring them food. ‘Austrian Trade Union 'Membership on Increase 28 VIENNA, May (FP).—Trade | union membership again on the in- | crease in Austria, after years of post- war depression, during which the total membership reported to the national trade union center has alarmingly fallen off. In 1920 the full-paying membership was reported at 777,000; jin 1921 it only 641,000; in 1922 it rose to 850,000, and in 1926 it had fallen again to 595,000. Last year it | was 603,000, and now it is probably | near 640,000, | Lpuictiespieiichecsices } : ‘Arrest 4 Communists | a | KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, May | 28.—Four more Communists have been larrested at Dorpat following a reign | of official terror there. Two of those larrested are university students, |The arrested workers are accused of carrying on propaganda among the land workers. eration in March. election officials, what he read in| oe 4 { Considerable stir was created in| D¢wSpape: d “my general knowl-| TORTU RE § ERB LEADER | Genteed Europe several months ago' edge of election conditions in Penn-| BE AD lay erbian pow ‘lice have arrested the militant leader | Kegedis as he was returning from a Facdnk in the town of Jire. The po- lice twisted a rope around the prison- \nose and ears. What I have been captured from the Austri- 3 ans during the war. They were des- tined for the Horthy regime in Hun- “ gary, it is charged, Fear Salvador Famine | SAN SALVADOR, May 28.—Stren- | uous measures are being taken here | to combat the plague of locusts which | damage was already been done by the insects on many plantations and a famine is feared if the pest is. not | curbed within a few weeks. | months in China with the gation. 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