The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1928, Page 3

Fifty Thousaid Austrian Workers Com POLICE DO NOT DARE TO HALT BIG PROCESSION Pledge Continuance of Struggle at Graves VIENNA, July 16.—In spite of @he decree of the Vienna police au-| thorities prohibiting all demonstra- tions during the present month, fifty thousand Austrian workers yester- day participated in the commemora- | tion services for the. workers whe fell during the July revolt of last| year. | Forming a long procession, thou-} sands of workers marched from the) capital to the cemetary where the| class war dead are buried and placed wreathes upon the graves of the victims. In spite of the police called out by | the government to intimidate the| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928 memorate Off for Official Start of Bunk Campaign | Herbert Hoover, candidate of the Teapot Dome party, has left for official notification ceremonies in California, Photo, taken on rear platform of the train, shows, left to right, Representative John Q. Tilson, a Hoover yes-man; Herbert himself; Mrs. Tilson arcl Mrs. Hoover. TELEPHONE TRUST _ TRIPLES RAKEOFF By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). The $185,000,000 additional stock offered to shareholders in the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. calls attention to the extraordinary growth of this corporation’s annual contribution to the investing class. Within the last decade the annual®@— ae cash dividends disbursed by the A. | Considerably the above average TWO COMMUNIST Crores View Pe PAPERS STOPPED IN C OLUMBIA See Dictatorship Loom- ing BOGOTA, Columbia. July 16. — Whether the law “against Commun- ism” submitted by the Colombian government is accepted by the two chambers of parliament or not, the |, Colombian government will pursue The so-called “Good Will” its relentless suppression of any la- of American imperialism, was ¢ |bor movement, according to its own, the flyer. Photo on left shows declaration. There is considerable opposition |in both chambers against the “law against Communism,” which would not only attempt to suppress any jlabor movement, organizations | strikes or labor press, but would leven put in danger any bourgeois liberal publication and facilitate the establishment of an uncontrolled . = |conservative dictatorship, which is TWO Trials In Rome | now in the making. For these rea- MORE WORKERS rage Three f. Carranza. flight of Capt. B ) Carrun cut short tragically when his plane Mexican dignitaries before the bier right shows crowd waiting to view the body. FASCISTS FRAME PALESTINE PRISONERS — Death of Martyrs of July Revolt shed in New Jersey, killing of the dead aviator. Photo on CALL HUNGER STRIKE BEIROUT, Palestine, (By Mail). —When the political prisoners in the Jerusalem jail were just about to set out on their allotted walk, marchers, scores of labor and fra-|/T. & T. have just about tripled, re-| W@&¢ earner or salaried worker. And} sons the liberal deputies of the they were ordered to return to their to the English representative Palestine, who telegraphed it England, where it led to some dis- cussion in the House of Commons. The labor member of parliament in ternal organizations took part in the|flecting profits multiplied 3 times huge anniversary commemoration. |°Ver Since 1918. : ; | The cash dividends to the owners | The police did not venture to| of this great communications trust break up the procession and there) amounted in 1927 to $97,379,934, was no disorder of any kind on the/ This year they will run to more than part of the participants. $100,000,000 while within a year they will ed $166,000,000. Ti Hundreds of onlookers along the} Ren og ite aa ears ago the annual divid route taken by the marchers greeted |Smounted to $35,009,600, | the procession as it wound thru the R city. ees Stock Dividend. Aes Speeches were made at the ceme-| The telephone trust's regular tary pledging the Austrian workers | method of expanding its capital is to continue the struggle in which | to offer stockholders the right to the victims of the Jyly revolt in| Subscribe to a certain number of Vienna had died courageously. After Shares at par. As the shares always Every Week there is some heavy concentration | chamber and even a few conserva- Kenworthy, asked the secretary of the addresses the demonstrators | sang the International. Little Done for Child | Workers by Legislation “Bad” child labor states improved | little or not at all in their legisla- | tion in 1928 while some of the bet-| ter states handed out meager crumbs of assistance, says the Na-| tional Child Labor Committee. | Neither Louisiana nor’ Mississippi legislators cared to improve their | deficient laws. | South Carolina, with the weakest | law in the country, reduced from 12 have a market value considerably over par such an offering really in- cludes what amounts to a stock divi- dend. ; This year’s offering gave the right to subscribe to 1 new share for each 6 shares held. The present market value of a share of American T. & T. stock is about $178 which makes the right to subscribe worth some- thing more than $12 a share. Alto- gether the transaction may be rec-| koned as a gift of more than $125,-) 000.000 to the stockholders. The growth of telephone profits | and dividends since 1918 is shown in the table: Super Profits. to 10 years the age limit. for chil- | “pret.” griigcr, Dividends dren of poor parents to be hired out | 1918 $43,901 302 $35,229,699 on farms and other non-factory jobs.| ji —"44'395/79195'386,394 Compulsory attendance period was) i999 51391916 98'376'793 strengthened, but the governor ve-| 904 54,002,704 42.674.403 toed appropriations to enforce the 1922 66,170,428 52,971,252 law. 1923 81,692,181 63,274,388 ’ 1924 91,046,321 70,918,227 Three Negroes Injured | 1925 107,405,046 81,044,426 . | 1926 116,990,400 86,496,345 When Car Strikes Pole’ 1927 128,614,910 97,379,984 Much publicity is being given the BALTIMORE, Md. July 1b—| elaborate machinery to make sure Three men were injured here today| that every one of the 430,000 stock- when the car in which they were| holders hears of the opportunity to riding struck a telephone pole. The) subscribe to new shares of stock. three, who gave their names as) The object of all this noise is to con-| James Hubbard, Wilbur Burley, and | vince the public that the ownership | Furnace Brance, were removed to of the telephone trust is widely dis- Johns Hopkins Hospital, where they| tributed among small investors. - remained suffering from fractures | The stockholders average about 26 of the arms, legs, and ribs, andj shares apiece. This average at par probable internal injuries. All three means an investment of $2690 in a are Negroes. single block of stock, which puts it FASCIST JUSTICE ROLL Record of Sentences for Late April | Italian newspapers have been re- |Grano then caused the conference | ceived here that disclose the follow- | asserted, of ownership in the stockholder list Concentrated Holdings. The Sun Life Assurance Co. has a block of 76,711 shares. It is only 1 of 20 holding from 9000 shares up. The most interesting figure in the stockholder list is George F. Baker chairman of J. P. Morgan’s First National Bank of N. Y. Baker holds personally 53,322 shares. Holdings of $1,391 shares by D: T. Waters and 21,000 shares by F. H. Pierson, both of Baker’s bank, are generally assumed part of his in- tere: This would give Baker 105,- 923 shares with a par value of more than $10,000,000 and rights in the new stock issue worth at least’$1,- 200,000. Morgan henchmen like Baker are skimming the cream in the remarkable expansion of the telephone industry. STIMSON URGES U. S, CAPITAL Filipino Freedom Not Mentioned in Speech WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16— American capital must be invited to the Philippine Islands if the eco- nomic development of the island and the future prosperity of the Fili- pinos are to be assured, Governor- |General Stimson, declared today in his annual address before the Man- ila legislature. The address was | made public here. The necessity of encouraging the introduction of American capital, he “probably is the funda- mental problem of the Philippine Is- lands today, underlying nearly all other problems.” The governor-general said noth- ing about independence in the course of his address. SEE NEW PLOT AGAINST U.S.S.R. BUCHAREST, July 16.—Intima- | tions that a secret military confer- ence is being planned under the direction of an officer of the French | tive senators oppose this bill. | GENEVA, Ju A new trial | : : ..jof 21 anti-fascists began last week |__ Though its ultimate acceptance is| in Rome before the Special Tribunal | possible, several liberal and conser- They are charged, as usual, with |vative deputies and senators have) «potti eersieaw MEE. shale attempted to remove the worst and] owe most “elastic” sections and to delay| ‘The chief defendant is Luigi Sear- | its acceptance by obstruction, migan, who is charged with re In answer to the speeches of a|panizing the Communist Party |deputy who asserted that this law Ttaly, To be tried with him ar |would make any public activity im-| ardiccio Donegani, Christino Ros- possible, the minister of finance, as| sini, Alcide Bertelli, Umberto Tan- | spokesman of the government said: petti, Pietro Tosani, Carlo Tofarelli | “The government will defend society g to of | t ciety Italo. Nicoletti, Marcelle Verdina when that law is passed, but it is! Tyigi Bardglloni, Luigi Vivaldini also prepared to defend it, even if|Tyigi Gatta, Dante Mozzo, Alle- the law is not passed.” cells, because the time had not quite come for their airing. When the prisoners resisted slightly, they were brutally taken in hand by the police and beaten. Prisoner Kaniewski’s nose was broken. They were all forcibly dragged to their cells. The feeling of the prisoners was aroused at this injustice and they declared a hunger and thirst strike. Tortured. When the wardens discovered the determination of the prisoners three of the hunger strikers, Kaniew- ski, Seidmann and Langmann, were dragged into a cell, strongly bound sandro Valzelli, Giuseppe Mazzanini and each one was, given twelve In the meantime the official organ| Tomasco Imperadori, Antonio Gheno | strokes of a hide whip on their |munist Party, “La Humanidad,” of| |Cali, and other labor paper, partly|have been handed down regul | edited by Communists, the “Vox| twice a week against groups of anti- beat them himself. frightful pain of the beaten prisoners and the | punishments are to be expected. GOP NEGRO SOLD PUBLIC OFFICES | Populi,” of Medellin, have been sup-| fascists and Communists pressed. $180,000 Asked for Injuries to Worker CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 16.— | Three suits asking damages aggre- gating $180,000, were filed by work-| ers in federal court here today : |against the Pennsylvania Railroad.| Indictment of the Colombian section of the Com-| Cesare Bagni and Primo Ghidinelli Judging from the verdicts that der saw that the strokes were too Returned naked bodies. When the comman- ly| “weak” he grabbed the whip and The cries of calls of protest from the other pris- oners filled the jail for hours. The three strikers were then taken into separate dark cells and put in chains, Following this the numerous other political prisoners decided to go on a hunger strike. They de- cided to begin the strike on June 6, since they were assurred that the workers would take up the struggle) for the rights of class war prisoners. Defends Terrorists. state for the colonies, Mr. Amery. | whether he knew of this incident and whether it were possible for the House to make a decision on it. The secretary defended the terrorists of the Jerusalem jail and added: “Beating is a customary punishment for misdemeanors in prison and Hi Honor the English Minister has de clared that this punishment was just.” On the question whether it was a crime to be a member of the Com- munist Party in Palestine, Mr. Amery declared that he was not in the position to answer this question The Red Aid of Palestine has decided not to allow this crime against the political prisoners to go unanswered. All over the country protest meetings are being held and the workers demand special rights for political prisoners. ARRESTED FOR MURDER YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 16 | (UP).—The Rev. Alphonse Steel, 41, was arrested here today on advice | | of Fort Valley, Ga., authorities, who | said he is wanted there on a charge {of murder. | HELENA, Mont., July 16 (UP). |—Damage estimated at more than |_ The plaintiffs, all from Altoona, |» Pa., seek damages as follows: | Carl Rider, $30,000 for a crushed foot, injury sustained in Altoona yards. Mrs. Sarah Isett, $75,000 for the death of her husband Roy, who was killed June 14. Mrs. Essie May Breese, $75,000 |for the death of her husband John | fireman on the “Pittsburgher” killed | May 20. 159 New York Workers Lost Lives In June One hundred and fifty-nine workers lost their lives while in pursuit of | their regular occupations in the| state during June, James A. Hamil | ton, industrial commissioner, re- ported today. The ages of the work- | ranged between 16 and 85.| Among those killed were 5 women, | all more than 21, seven men less) than 21 and six men more than 70. | | Of the 159 deaths, the New York| district reported almost two-thirds Albany 22, Buffalo 15, Syracuse 10 and Rochester 10. ' | ers ALBANY, N. Y., July 16 (UP).—| Against Howard BILOXI, Miss., July 16—An in- dictment charging sale of public of- |fices in Mississippi has been re- turned against Perry W. Howard, | national Negro republican commit- | teeman, by the federal grand jury | here, it became known today. The indictments were returned} Saturday but were not made public | until today. Howard now in Washington. is Speaks to Negroes, Pastor May Lose Job OLD CHURCH, Va., July 16.— The Reverand W. L. Lipscomb, | preacher at a white church here, may lose his job because he accepted an invitation to preach at a nearby church attended by Negroes. In the last 15 years, four preach- ers havebeen expelled from the same church for addressing Negro con-| gregations. The report of this incident, witk | $1,500,000 was caused by fire in the many serious omissions, was given’ business district here today. The Organization of a World Party By OSIP PIATNITSKY 15 Cents What are the various sections of the Communist Interna- tional doing? Germany, France, U. S., England, Italy? What are their achievements, shortcomings and future tasks? B. Vasiliev, reviewing this pamphlet in the May 1 issue of the Communist International, says: “Every active member of every Communist Party in cap- italist countries must have a copy of Comrade Piatnitsky’s little book among the number of absolutely necessary handbooks on everyday Party work.” Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NOW YORK CITY. hall to be surrounded and arrested | general staff and for the purpose| ing sentences against workers in Italy for the latter part of April: April 23, 1928—Accused: workers Marcello Gorneiro and Gino Quintavalle. The former was charged | with having had in his room four | everyone in it. The conference in question was a normal district con- Party, which at the time was per- feetly legal, it being prohibited only on November 9, 1926. No matter. leaflets and a number of the “Bat-) Sentences: Eduardo Voccolo, 12 eae Sees (aade pee ahs Pa BEN oeea a, le | gan). e secon accuse was e » ears and 3) charged with having often met Gor- | months’ hard labor; Consiglio Car. | niero in a public house. Sentences: | mignani, 6 years and 8 months’ | tavalle, 1 year’s hard labor. 3 s 3 At. April 23, 1928—Accused: The so-| tilio Viola, 6 years and 3 months’ | cial democratic Wee Pre Mario Mol- Pees as dae eae | teni, Angelo Rainoldi and Pietro | 7 Wied g - Pt ae The soeused Wore chistied Soeer ewan 8, Shari hard ta. | aving receive omraunist ; R cau years and 6 months’ hard labor; | ANG " r i Rainoldi and Zanoni, 2 years’ hard | !@bor: Posco Marinelli, 4 years and PEEVES PSs Uainad ee con Hanh a years" ‘bard debott One ao ta oe sen Crocicchia, 3 years and 4 months’ SOE at) ecused:' The | hard labor; W. Voccoli, 3 years’ workers Angelo Scucchia and Libero | hard labor; Francesco Manzi, 2 Stagnetti. Stagnetti was accused years’ hard labor; Maria Schirano, 2 of having, received leaflets of the years’ hard labor; total, 87 years’ trades unions from Scucchia with- pard labor. (“Corriera delia Sera,” out having denounced the latter to_ April 29, 1928.) the police. Sentences: Scucchia, 6. — years and 2 months’ hard labor; Stanetti, 1 year and 3 months’ hard labor. (“Corriere della Sera,” April | E 26, 1928.) | hy very April 25, 1928—Accused: The | = Transport worker Antonio Dall’- Aglio of having “with persons un- known considered the advisability of actions calculated to let loose civil war and insurrection against the state power.” Sentence: 7 years and 6 months’ hard labor. (“Corriere della Sera,” April 26,) April 28, 1928—Accused: 16 Com- munist workers from Apulia. Ac- cording to the evidence of the police inspector, Vincenzo Grano, the po- lice had learned that for some time tory sessions had been held for the organization of a conference on June 20, 1926, at which confer- | ence a revolutionary action on a | What the WORKERS should |French Government Be a Communist By JOHN PEPPER stands for and why. every miner Five Cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 East 125TH Street, New York Cry. |of planning an offehsive against the | Soviet Union have been made with The | ference of the Italian Communist | the arrival here of the French gen-| |eral Rond. Marshall Pilsudski is also expected »within the next few days together with other representatives of the French Fascists Ban Workers Newspaper PARIS, July 16—Two working | class newspapers, one Spanish and the other Polish, have heen banned by the French Government. The newspapers are printed in Paris for the Spanish and Polish workers who livé there. the fascist dictators Primos Riveras and Pilsudski. 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