The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1928, Page 3

aii a SUN OEE I an ai np _THE DANY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928 Page Three Balkan Situation Grows More Tense as Fascists Send Note to Yugoslavia { SCORE FASCIST IMPERIALISM IN BALKAN STATES 7 ey Injured in New Demonstrations BELGRAD 30.—Several per- sons were suffering from wounds to- day as the result of fresh anti-Italian | demons ‘#afions here and elsewhere | through *® Jugoslavia last right. The | Jugoslay siess publishes attacks against Italian encroachments in the Balkans. Students gathered in front of the Diplomats’ Restaurant and burned an Italian flag and a picture of Premier Mussolini, of Italy, They were dis- persed by the police. The opposition leader in the Jugo- slavian parliament declared in a speech that “Jugoslavia does not fear e declaration of war by Italy.” i * * * BELGRADE, May 30. A new note, protesting against the govern- ment’s failure to take “effective counter measures to check the anti- Italian demonstrations,” was handed | to the Jugoslavian government today by the Italian minister. King Alexander hastily returned from a vacation and summoned a cabinet council to discuss the Italian note, Italy is demanding punishment of “guilty officials’ and reserves the! right to take further action. | Disturbances Continue. | VIENNA, May : Belgrade state th tween Italian nz and Jugo-Slav students are contint ng in spite of, the efforts of the authori to end | them. A number of students are said | to have been wounded during the | trouble. | ARREST MANY IN THE ARGENTINE BUENOS AYRES, May 30. — A reign of police te : has been loosed upon the workers in this city and cinity under the pretense of an offi- cial investigation of the recent bomb explosion at the Italian consulate. A number of arrests of persons accused \ of anti-fascism have already been } made and the prisoners are being held strictly incommunicado by the au- thorities, Many more arrests are expected within the next twenty-four hours. While the. names of the arrested men have been kept secret by the po- Reports from | urbances be- | | congress, Canton Wa — ioeds ae vain fort to Stem Worker-Peasant iba YOUNG LENINIST LEAGUE CONGRESS Membership C lose to Two Million MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Eighth Congress of the Leninist Young Com- munist League of the Soviet Union is now in session in Moscow. According to the organizational re- port delivered at the opening of the the League had 1,936,977 members and 106,288 candidates on January 1, 1928. Twenty per cent of members and candidates are girls. On January ist, the league had 67,698 factory and village groups. THREE DROWN IN COLORADO FLOOD |City Water “Reservoir Endangered GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., May 30.—The Little River, tributary of the Arkansas, today took a toll of three livés near Salida. Two uniden- tified Mexican quarrymen were drowned when the bridge on which they were standing was washed away. Alice Virginia Harper, three years} old, was drowned when the flood- weakened bank of the stream on vhich she was standing caved into the_water, ‘The city water reservoir at Salida was threatened by the flood. The Colorado River is at flood stage near here, lice it is understood that one of them is a fugitive from Italy who only re- cently arrived on the Giulio Cesare. SHAN By H. T. Don, Don, Don, the dr TUNG TSIAD NG. um is calling; Lun, Lun, Lun, the artillery is roaring Japan is in Shantung, Shantung, In Shanghai far away We can still work for a living. Hashi, yi, hashi yi, buzzing be, buzzing bee God has damned me Hard work comes to My mouth is thirsty me, My stomach never so empty Why don’t you teach Papa, mama. me to live without bread The whip isecracking; The click is my ear A look at the foreman’s face And my heart alway: Think ye, He can stop my tear That ring with pain. s blackens - 's and my ears Brother, sister, I have a message for you. Are ye a worker, are ye a farmer? We are alike then. Brother, sister, We have no wrong w! We toil yet have no hen we are born bread, We spin yet we have no shirt We do building yet we have no shed Awake ye, brother, Come hand in hand To their defeat. Brother, sister, there is a message for you Japan occupies Shantung But the toilers of Japan they are with us Not Tanaka the oppr essor Not Tanaka the murderer But the toilers of Japan will join us We together will crush Tanaka Brother, sister, You are a farmer, y Hark to the cock. ou are a worker? A new day,is coming. Out of ruthless mass-murder March to Manchuria South of Canton Away with the exploiters Then the sky with blood is red force. hon nicking We all will have our bread. (1) Don, don, don is the Chi the bass drum, which was the signal for the advance of a military (2) Lun, lun, lun, is the expression for the boom of heavy 1 ery. (a) “Hashi, hashif yi corresponds to. “heave, ho.” It is used: Fi Magee ne ss 4h sty Hale May 25, 1928. N.Y. C. inese expression for the beat of USSR R Relief Expedition | MOSCOW, May 30. — A Soviet Union relief organization to search for Gen. Umberto Nobile and his 17 companions has been organized by Assistant Commissar for War Uns- licht. A search party is being, sent from Archangel. A USSR seaplane will fly over the Siberian coast look- | ing for the missing expedition. TIRED LAWMAKERS, LEAVE THEIR TOIL Sham Election Battles} to Start WASHINGTON, May 30.—Having done their bit faithfully for big busi- ness, senators and congressmen to- |day began their exodus from Wash- ington, following the adjournment of congress yesterday. Most of them |feel proud of the record of the 70th] | Congress, which is one of the most re- actionary in recent years, and are |preparing to continue doing their |masters’ work in the nomination and election campaigns of the two chief capitalist parties. The mock mud-slinging battles of the two parties are now expected to start on a large scale. The demo- crats will probably make liberal use of the revelations that the republican party received $260,000 of the Con- | VIENNA, (By Mail).—Troops have Pho troops fe ica war lord Li Chat-sum who is making a vain attempt to halt the drive of the worker-peas- ant troops who are advancing south from Swatow and west from Kwang- si province. Li has executed thousands of workers in the last few months, SEND TROOPS 10 BREAK UP STRIKE Austrian Soldiers Sent, Against Miners | been sent to suppress @ strike by the | coal miners in the Obersteiermark | and Karnten districts, according to re- ports received here. Even the Christian Social Miners | Union has adopted a resolution ex- pressing solidarity with the strikers. NEGRO HELD 13 YEARS ON LIE Barely Escaped Being Lynched Once | COLUMBIA, S. C., May 30.—Once having narrowly escaped lynching. then jailed for thirteen years on con- viction of assault on a white womah who now admits his innocence, Ben} Bess, Negro, was today freed. Only July 6, 1914, the husband of the complainant, whose identity has never been revealed, swore out a war- rant charging Bess with criminal as-! sault. A mob formed, and a deputy | sheriff held it at pistol point while/ another spirited him away. He was tinental Trading Co.’s_ oil-smeared liberty bonds thru the hands of Harry F. Sinclair, The rephblicans are also rea to do their part in “showing ” the democratic party, all leading | te: the great arena in November, when | the two stuffed dummies will engage in a sham battle to determine just | the country during the next four | years. | what section of big business will loot | found guilty and sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment. He — ‘averred his innocence. | Yesterday, the woman who acaes his imprisonment signed an affidavit: | “Since I have not much longer to ilive, T hereby declare that my testi-} mony on the trial of Ben Bess to .”” She gave no reason for her falsity. i i THE “De |L. E. C., Toledo, 0... lv. A. Carus, Los Angele: Bunin & Bunin & Co., N. Y. L,.Leighton, Turlock, Cal... | J. Vilarino, Inglewood, Cal. | W. Biemler, Sandusk;, O Bozian, Racine, Wis Gottoway, Racine, V Kiselis, Racine, Wis. Ninel, Detroit, Mich... Snyder, New York City Graber, Fort Pierce, Fla. . &S. Ware, Long Beach, Cal Hirsch, Cincinnati, O . Methodio, N. Y. C. . Pederson, Portland, ‘Ore . P. Nucleus, Houston, Texas. . . B. Welzenbach, Wolf P’t ++ Mon. ee Tay’ ings Oakland, Cal... 5.00 fenders af” DAILY WORKER H. Benditz, Cleveland, O........ 1.0093. Bartolic, Pitts, Pa..)....,.... 50 C. L. Vickeir, Cleveland, O...... .50, A. Fundurulic, Pitts., Pa . 50 | R. Leonard, Cleveland, O -1.00} G. Majnen, Pitts., Pa.. 50 A. Kaulto, Hanna, Wyo. 123) . Kasricric, Pitts. Pa. 25 | J. E. Kistei, Hanna, Wyo -50| M. Brozenic, Pitts., ra. L. Leivo, Hanna, Wyo.... ... .251 J, Delash, Pitts., Pa.. i |N. Huhtala, Hanna, Wyo........1.00/ V. Primeres, Pitts, Pa. 1.00 A. Lappala, Hanna, Wyo -50|M. Kertiv, Pitts., Pa. 1.00 | 0. Kandolin, Hanna, Wyo. . 50} J. Barkavich, Pitts., P: 25 A. Abraham, Oak Forest, Ill. -2.00| S. Jomas, Pitts., Pa. . 1.00 F. Okerstrom, Portland, Ore... ..1.00 Dverabich, Pitts., Pa. -50 Lithuanian Work. Wom. Assn., . Vivoerel, Pitts., Pa. - 50 - 10.00 Neral, Pitts., Pa.. 50 Blyn Hosp. Work., Bklyn, N. Y...2.00/‘M. Kovocit, Pitts., Pa 50 Boro Park Jewish Work. Center, . Syroljarick, Pitts. Pa. 50 Now: Yorke CH 2 chs ical ves 26.20] P. Radist, Pitts., Pa.. 50 Roxbury Lettish Club, Inc., Rox- . Migolict, Pitts., Pa bury, Mass . 25.00] J. B., Pitts., Pa... |E. Ninel, Detroit, Mich. -5.00} M. Blaskoyich, Pitts. | A Worker, Kansas. 1.00 Vrdijuka, Pitts., Pa. '. Plecko, Pitts., Pa Urban, Pit . Akmas, Pit Karabatic, Pitt |Confiscate Estates of| | be willing to speak before an inde- Red Aid spoke. | the | depot was razed to the ground. |for the murder of many Communists | Florence and for the destruction of | largest ever held in the strike. ARE B 0 R T PEASANT: - New oes Attack |{ REVOLT BREAKING IN SOUTH ITALY Large Landowners | (Continued from Page One) pendent court as the examining mag- istrate was a tool of Gianapolis. * * * MOSCOW, May 80.—The Interna- tional Red Aid organized a meeting| here to protest against the trial of} the Communist Party of Italy. Rep- resentatives of the Communist In- ternational, the Red International of Labor Unions and the International Mysterious fires have occurred in various parts of Italy. In Ferrara fascist trade union house was burned, while in Naples the Tramway’ In Porto Risa the aerdrome containing five planes burned down. * * « BUENOS AYRES, May 30.—The Italian consul here, Cappani, who charged that anti-fascists were re- sponsible for the bombing of the con-| sulate, was a former membér of the] fascist militia who was responsible | 1925 in and socialists in December the Free Masons’ Lodge in Toscana. Cappani persecuted anti and confiscated their papers. The Argentine press has published numerous protests against the actions of the fascist consul. | POLICE CHARGE TEXTILE PICKETS Two Leaders Refuse to| Quit; Arrested (Continued from page one) ers, furnished bonds for their later appearance in court. To Continue Picketing. In a statement issued later, Mur- doch declared, “In spite of the increas- | ing police terror, picketing will be continued in full force.” | A mass meeting held by the Tex- tile Mills Committee after the release of the arrested leaders was one of the All strike meetings held in the past few days have more than doubled in size, over two thousand coming to hear speakers arranged by the T. M. C. and other sympathetic organizations, With the seventh week of one of!. |the most unanimous big strikes ever affected in American labor history rapidly drawing to a close, the ranks remain as solid as on the first day of the walkout that completely suspend- ed operations in 58 factories. Stocks Tumble. Despite the rapid tumbling of the value of stocks in the textile corpora- tions the greatest majority of them still realize that an attempt to open would be mere folly, the only scabs{ they could hope to get being a few) straw bosses and superintendents. Al few of them, however, tried to run one or two sample goods looms with the aid of their petty foremen. The daily picket demonstrations halted most of this, however. The officialdom of the American} Federation of Textile Operatives, now part of the United Textile Workers, which claims only a few thousand skilled workers in their membership, still refuses to participate in the picketing. . Zupanovic, Pitts., Cenbelich, Pitts., . Jurich, Pitt: Bacasa, Pit Turae, Pitts . Thomas, Pitts., Pa. . Bajie, Pitts. Pas.... . Kostanski, Chicago, Ill. Szymanski, S. Chicago, Il. Kaspszak, S. Chicago, Ill. . J. Kaspszak, S. Chicago, I) . Filetich, Pitts., Pa Carter, Boston, Mass. Max, Boston, Mass... . Fuier, Boston, Mass. bid E. Alfein, Boston, Mass...... « Pa .00 | -2,00 | 1.00 | 00 | SS RPRS FREES > AARM HASEENO RD RNP PE ANEED: a of the gress of the Party of the A 500-page volume containi: discussions. 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While the government refuses to jadmit that the alleged conspiracy is lof any importance, it is known that considerable apprehension exists in official circles as to what action the masses of peons may take in evemt jof a crisis. | It has been officially stated, how- | ever, that the government will rely on the army if necessary. The government, whose were recently investigated by American commission headed by Pro- fessor Kemmerer, has won the suspi- cion of the majority of the peons by its open favoritism of the banker: and commercial classes, finances DIES IN AUTO MISHAP. DETROIT, May 30.—Daniel Trom-| bley, 38, was charged with negligent] homicide today following the death| of Mrs. Harriette Marie Read, 33, ot Chicago, who was injured when Trombley crashed his car into w semaphore. of Detroit, a passenger with Read in Trombley’s car is ina serious | condition. || SUVANTO an || Mrs. Mae Van Zandt, 35, | Mrs. | [ARGENTINE PORT STRIKERS STILL TYING UP SHIPS Police Attempt to Smash Walkout May 30, — The strike of the harbor workers at Bahia Blanea was in full swing yesterday with the police attempting to terrorize the striker ive action, ae- ~ authorities a ther coercive r growing, in spite of the local police to jsmash them in much the same way }as at Rosario, the strike leaders re- The lines are holding firm. may general sympathetic walk-out, it intimated. The rail- |road men are to be especially fa- vorable to such action. 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