The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1928, Page 2

Police Again Beat Up Hindu Seamen on Board Standard Tanker Comeric This Is Second Assault Within Few Weeks For the pecan t e within the past few weeks the Hindu firemen and seamen of the Standard oil tanker Comeric have police clubs are al rt their American masters. The tanker, 1 Long Island City ing dungeon, whe underpaid and ove: the Standard Oil Co. prisoners. The beating of the Calvin Coolidge atten the first Sunday after his arrival at Coolidge, who has a personal staff to @ sermon on “The Frugal Life.’ came again as the re le sire to have a day off o re. The men have sailed around ous parts | of the world, stopping 14 ports, | and have never been gi single | day off. Finding the men in a tem-| per that would brook no her re-| fusal of their dema Livingston, the ma gent out a call for police. their clubs viciously, the p of “law and order” soon firemen and seamen into subr Two of the crew, Ebhramanollo fireman, and Munar: mate, were arrested. Both.were suf- fering from fractures and numerous | bruises. | “ESSEX” LEAVING. | INN, Y. CAMPAIGN: Signatures - Needed for| Election Drive eka vers | the | beat a (Continued from Page One) Albany, Albany County, Troy, Rensel- lear County, Saratoga, Saratoga County, Schenectady, Schenectady County, Catskill, Green County, Kings- ton, Ulster County, Monticello, Suylli van County, Newburgh, Orange County, Haverstraw, Rockland and Rockland County. Commenting on the tour of Burke ond Perlman, Rebecca Grecht, state eampaign manager of the Workers (Communist) Party, said: ‘The first and most important ing that must be done in order for the Party to participate in the elec- tions next fall is tha it be placed on the ballot. To do this, the Party must get 100 signatures of voters in every eounty of the state. The two com- tades leaving on tour have lists of all readers of The DAILY WORKER in these counties, and will call on these readers for assistance in get- ting petitions signed. “They will also hold street meet- ings in every sizeable town. They will sell literature and get subscrip- tions for the ‘Daily.’ All readers are urged to make preliminary arrange- ments in order to make these meet- ings a success.” Daily Worker-Freiheit Picnic in Los Angeles| LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 20. — All the workers of Los Angeles have | been asked to prepare for the press Pienic to be held here soon for the | benefit of the DAILY WORKER and | } the Freiheit. Preparations on the | part of the arrangement committec | are in full swing. tertainments have been make the picnic a succe Every worker in Los Angeles is expected to attend, according to a recent state- ment. arranged to | 2 | sla ght dan, boatswain’s | e : eB Novelties and en- | TEXTILE PICKETS, | Many Textile Strikers | Are Slugged and Jailed | H (Continued from. Page One) | to slug Dawson so that he began to bleed from the mouth. In the on- that followed Antone Cevi- a striker, had his head split open. | This attack is indicative of the cam-| paign of the police terror prepara- tory to an attempt on the part of the | to reopen the mill gates. It indicates that the mill barons by this ste will only succeed in| demonstrating that not enough strike- breakers could be obtained to resume production in one of the 8 plants | shut down. John Walersyzak, a vice president of the New Bedford unit of the tex- tile'mills committee was arrested yes- terday afternoon while leading the line at the Hath away Mills, for “dis- turbing the ~peace.” In addition to the $40 fines imposed | the day previous on Jackson W.| Wales, 2 Harvard student active on the picket li a new sentence of two months in jail was imposed on him on another count of the same charge: He appealed to the superior court. | His bail was increased to total $1,- | 100. Four other strikers had their | eases continued. The International | Labor Defense is providing funds and , attorneys for the strikers, French Experts Plan New Gas War Defense PARIS, June 20. — In preparation for the next war the French academy of medicine is making a detailed study of defenses against gas and other chemical attacks. Ten experts were appointed for this work to submit practical proposals for war emerg- ency. That the civilian population will face a helpless and devastating death from a chemical attack in the next war was reported by the international red cross vommission which met in Brussels in January. The means of urban defense for a new war are totally inadequate it is reported. Rebel Poetry Night at Labor Temple Tuesday The Labor Temple Poetry Forum, organized and directed by Anton Ro- matka, has arranged a Rebel Poetry to be held on Juno 26, at . m. at the Labor Temple, 14th d 2nd Ave. poets who have contributed | tot radical press have been invited to read from among their own work. Among these are Henry Reich, Jr., David Gordon, Adclph Wolff, Her- man Spector and many others. | Coolidge Hears Sermon 4 on 1 the “Frugal Life” ATTACK SAILORS' FOR WANTING DAY OFF SHORE LEAVE ed the congregational church at Brule, Wis., the “modest” summer White House. of nearly 100 at the million dollar estate of the late but not lame nied Henry Clay Pierce, oil pirate, listened On the left of the famous statesman r. John Taylor, pastor of the church, and on the right is Dr. R. E. = PULA ASSAULT Seamen from Germany Here | Fight Tyranny OBOKEN, N. J., June 20.—Ten years of German “republican” or social-democratic rule in Germany have left seamen’s conditions the same as under the kaiser. So charge | hundreds of seamen from a score of German ships lying in harbor in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hoboken. Under a call of a committee from the steamer “Tirpitz,” they met in a Hoboken hall and laid plans for a fight against the medieval di: pline and conditions which exist at the present time. Incidentally, they are still governed by laws which began, ““We, Wilhelm, by grace of God, ete.” They will demand a new seamen’s law. Only 8,300 of the 50,000 German seamen are organized although 11,- 000 officers are fully protected by their own associations, SCHOOL IS AIDING FASCIST TERROR : The opening of the first Italian fas- |cist school in Baltimore is character- jized as a further intrenchment of fas- | cism in this country and an extension | of the international system by which Italian fascism terrorizes militant workers, in a statement issued last night by the New York section of the International Labor Defense, 1799 Broadway. The statement, signed by Rose Baron, secretary of the section, declares: “Sponsored by the Italian consul, a fascist military. training school for young boys has been started in Bal- timore. This marks an important ad- vance of fascism in this country, the establishment of a training ground where during the next few years hun- dreds of boys, in their most impres- sionable years, will be filled with the murderous doctrines of Mussolini and converted into loyal terrorists. Future Blackshirts, “This school will really be an ex- tension of Mussolini’s international terrorist system, American born chil- dren will be trained into special agents for intimidating and framing up anti-fascist workers in this coun- | try. U. S.-Italy Solidarity. “The announcement of the estab- jlishment of this first fascist school |follows shortly after the sentencing of 187 members of the Italian Communis |Party to long y |the hell holes of Mussoli | cat the complete solidarity that i between the government of {the United States and the government of Ite ly.” it indi. NO “BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IN ENGLAND Economic Stagnation Gets W Worse While Population Increases By SCOTT NEARING (Fed. Press). USINESS as usual” was to be re-| ‘ established in Great Britain with- | in 6 months of the end of the war. This remains an unfulfilled wish of the British business class. Not since 1880 has there been business as usual | in Great Britain. Especially since 1920 the British ruling class has found | itself face to face with an economic | stagnation which grows more pro- nounced with the passing years. Figures are now available for Brit- ish production the first 3 months of 1928. During these three months in 1918 British mines produced 72,000,000 tons of coal. For the same months of 1927 coal production was 68,000,000, for 1928 65,000,000. Pigiron produc- tion first 3 months of 1913 was 2,565,000 tons, first 3 months of 1927 1,677,000 tons, first 8 months of 1928 1,704,000 tons. Exports of c&ton yarn (in millions of pounds) were first 8 months of 1913 53, 1927 49, 1928 45. Cotton goods (millions of yards) were first 3 months of 1913 1,826, 1927 1,015, 1928 1,051. ' Food Exports Rise. Coal, iron and cotton are three ee staples of British riot In *| 1913. none has business been reestablished on the prewar basis. Meanwhile food exports rise. Great | Britain imported 22,000,000 hundred- | | weight of wheat the first 3 months of 1913, 26,000,000 in 1927 and 26,- | 000,000 in 1928, The British bill for | | imported meat was 12,000,000 pounds the first 3 months of 1918, 24,000,000 pounds sterling the first 8 months of 1928 (1 pound, $4.86). Imports of iron, steel, tin and cop- per are greater in the first 3 months of 1928 than in the first 3 months of The imports of petroleum the first 3 months of 1918 were 114,000,- 000 gallons. In the first 3 months of 1828, 466,000,000 gallons, Britain is losing her world markets. The story is told in her shrinking ex- ports and in her failure to recover her trade during the economic war after the war. Population Increases. As British agricultural production shrinks, British population is increas- ing. “Year by year more food must be imported. British resources are failing. Minerals, fuels and industrial What is the answer of British cap- italism to this disturbing economic situation? The files of 504 compa- nies which published their accounts in the first quarter of 1928 show a 15 percent jump in net profits. The net profits were 61,800,000 pounds in 1928, 53,600,000 in 1927. In miscel- laneous industries the ordinary divi- dend rate for 1928 was 14.2 percent against 13.5 percent for 1927, For textiles the dividend rate remained stationary at 13 percent; in shops and stores it rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, in iron, coal and steel it rose from 2.6 percent to 4.1 percent. Miners, railway workers, textile workers have suffered wage cuts, in- creased working hours, increased in- tensity of labor and a rising ratio of exploitation. The excuse has been the failure of British markets. Mean- while the British capitalist class ex- acts an increasing return on its in- vestment, Great Britain is the mother of cap- italism, 40 years ago the British cap- raw materials must be imported in larger quantities even in the face of diminishing exports fi finished com- modities, perity. Since then they have been driving down living standards while they forced up returns on capa \ italists passed the zenith of their pros- |) STEFL M AGN ATES! Graft in Roadbuilding Results i in Accident FORM RUGE U.S, EXPORT COMBINE Centralization of - the Industry. Complete Alliance between the U: S. Steel Corporationand’the Bethlehem: Steel Corporation: was effected yesterday thru the proposed organization of the Steel Export Association of America, a body formed to gain control of America’s $160,000,000 annual steel trade abroad, and to offset foreign | competition. after turning complete somersault. hospital. Faulty construction is a r Rough spots on the Albany Post Road near Peekskill, N. Y., has caused six accidents in the last few weeks. more fr ‘equent the necessity for road-building contracts with its gravy. Above, its latest victim, Five occupants were sent to es ‘outine matter inasmuch as it makes | Application-was made yesterday |to the Federal Trade Commission un- |der the Export Trade Act for author- \ity to form the new association, which | will monopolize and control an out- let for from 75 to 80 percent of the rolled steel and other products ship- |ped out of this country annually. Further centralization in ‘the con- trol of the steel exports in the United | States was indicated yesterday when jit was learned that if the new asso- | ciation should be approved by the | Federal Trade Commission, the inde- | pendent producers of \the United States, which control 20 to 25 percent of America’s steel exports, would| Not only will huge fortunes be |form a similar association. spent on noise while unemployed | pee acs nbad: sleep on benches or join the army to FAMILY EVICTED Die July Fourth jor“Patriotism’ }By PAUL CROUCH. y 'HILE soldiers in the army get only $21 per month and must buy their own tailor made uniforms,, the | government is planning to burn up $8,000,000 in fireworks July 4th, in | efforts to arouse the “patriotic” spirit. and prepare for new imperialist struggles. is planning to offer hundreds of lives on the alter of Mars. : Because of the intensive preparations, it is probable that the deaths will far exceed last Hundreds Will! 9 \|record for derby dancing will have jbeen set. jremained as |New Kensington, \ avoid starvation, but the government |? ‘DANCING WAY TO PUBLICITY. ° If one “or more of the 16 couples who were still wearily shuffling away in the dance marathon here at noon today. can:last it out until after 8 o'clock tomorrow night a new world’s | Only about one of every}; eight couples who started in the grind the 230th hour was passed at noon today. The present record, 262 hours, was set recently at NEW INJUNCTION PROHIBITS TALK IN MINE FIELD \Miners Ordered Not to Address Scabs PITTSBURGH, . June 20. — Coal justice unlimbered itself of another injunction yesterday which breaks the record of restrictions thus far ‘made against coal diggers by pre- venting them from speaking to scabs. The new injunction has been grant- ed to the McClane Mining Company in a preliminary order issued by Judge Gray of Common Pleas court and applies especially to the Treves- kyb mine but will be extended, at- |torneys for the company declare, to a number of other mining concerns in whose behalf the McClane Company carried on the action. The injunction does not restrict picketing as such, but prevents the | particular acts which constitute pick- eting, such as meeting together be- fore the mine, speaking to scabs, dis- playing signs, and other such acts. What i Saw in China by TOM MANN For the past three years the Chinese masses have been struggling for freedom from the clutches of Imperialism. Everyone nowadays is either talking or writing China. Tom Mann, “grand old man’? of the British labor move- July 1st when 200 lives were lost and 5,000 injured in nationalistic celebra- tions. During the celebration of another “patriotic” occasion, “Independence Day,” last year, 195 were killed and 8,179 injured. Among those mur- dered in honor of American imperial- ism were sixteen yoting children, BY COURT ORDER Mrs, Louis Mishkin, whose husband was shot and killed on May 28 by a policeman who “thought. he was a bandit,” has been evicted by court | order, together with her four child- ren who were left destitute thru the eriminal negligence of the police, from her apartment at 1140 Eastern Park- way, Brooklyn. 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