The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1928, Page 2

“Keep ang Tes } : WILL CONTINUE MASS AGITATION, IS BODY'S PLEDGE Points Out Relation With Other Struggles Calling upon General Augusto C Sandino to continue the fight against vu. base the struggle exclusively upon the of peasants S. marine rule in Nicaragua, tc the workers oinvoke the aid of in other coun. inter: anc and t workers’ movemen' tries, the All a Anti-Imperial ist League addressed a reply to the| recent letter of the Nicaraguan rebel Jeader. The letter in full follows: New York, July 17, 1928. “Gen. Augusto C. Sandino, “El Chipoton, | “Nicaragua | “Dear Friend and Comrade: “We take this opportunity of in- forming you that we received your letter dated May 20. It is not neces- sary for us to say that your letter was received with great enthusiasm The best commentary we can make on your letter is that it has served to demonstrate that not only are you conscien in your fight against imperialism and for the in-| dependence of aragua, but as| well are you a_ class-conscious fighter. Struggle Against Wall St. “For many years the Nicaraguan| neorle have been struggling against Wall Street, and we have always} @losely followed your resistance. But never was the struggle so much ours| as that which you began the 4th of) May, 1927, because we understand that this is the real fight of the| Nicaraguan people against their in- vaders, and for that reason the masses of all Latin America see in your uprising a warning to the im- perialists and the begianing of a real upheaval against imperialist rava- ges. | “The struggle against imperialism | in the United States has particularly | developed the fact that the petty| bourgeois politicians, who masquer- ‘ade under the alias of ‘liberal,’ such as Borah and his kind, are objec- tively the enemies of the oppressed isingly the policy of aggression of} Wall Street. - Imperialists In Many ;a ‘We want to call t ton the fact that, as you probably | Tiave observed heretofore, the strug- gle against imperialism is not re- stricted to Nicaragua alone, though | at the present moment American im-| perialism is concentrating all its} whight to crush the valiant oppe tion of your forces. The sam marines who are making your coun- tty safe for Wall Street are helping| to drown in a sea of blood the revo- lution of the workers and peasants of China; these same marines are in| Haiti, Philippines, Panama, Santo Domingo and Porto Rico. “In the United States, where Wall Street has at its service the entire machinery of the state, including the postal authorities, the police and| the courts, they try to prevent us} from taking part in the struggles of the oppressed peoples and jail us. To Continue Agitation. “But now, more than ever before. we are going to continue to arouse as wide a mass of the American workers and farmers as possibte in behalf of the independence of Nic- aragua. We will continue to collect medical supplies for your army of liberation in otder to establish a bond of sympathy and fraternity be- tween the anti-imperialist fighters in the United States and those in Nicaragua. . “We greet you warmly, and through you, all the valiant fighters of your heroic army. “For the independence of Nicara- gua! “For victory in our fight against all imperialism! —“All-America Anti Imperialist League, (U. S. Section. “Leon S. Ruiz, Spanish Sec. “Harry Gannes, “Acting Sec.” Radio Stations Plead Cases At Commission ¥ WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) Protests against cancellation of licenses on 10 stations occupied the Federal Radio Com m hearings today, Hearings were given sta- tions WMBD. Peoria, Til.; WJAY, Cleveland; WMBS, Harrisburg, Pa.: WCLS, Joliet, Ills; WEDC, Chi- cago: WNBA, Forest Park, Ill; WKBV, Brookfield, Ind.; WCLB, Long Beach, Y.; WFAN, Phila- delphia, and WMBG, Richmond, Va. English Miners Jailed For Werk In the Army ' LONDON, July 18.—In Hamilton four young miners. John Ballantyne Graffen, George Teesdale, Patrick Allan and Robert Graham, were sentenced to one month in prison be- se they distributed leaflets ene the soldiers of the garrison tationed there. The leaflets called upon the diers to form a soldiers union would feel its solidarity with | other working class organiza- | is, and also set forth some of the | demangs of the soldiers for better onditins i | in face of evictions } Min Children Whose Fathers Held the Vienna Barricades ing July of last year are shown in the picture. now touring Germany. ricade fighters.” oners!”” MINERS IN NEW URGENT APPEAL Defense Week Begins July 22 Continued from Page One camps. Typhoid fever often results from lack of sewage systems. Food is becoming scarcer daily. The Pittsburgh office of the Na- tional Miners’ Relief Committee re- ceives visits daily, it is declared, from miner-delegates from camps | miles away, who come with har- rowing tales of need and virtual starvation, rs in the their eyes begg’ 2 food “for the kid Always these miners carry on— , hunger and dis- ease, they tightén their belts an- other notch and fight on against the union-smashing drive of the oper- ators. “We want to bake a little bread for our hungry children,” is the plea they make. “Just a little at as is the need for re- lief funds, just pressing is the immediate neces: for raising mon- ey for the defense of miners who are in jails on various framed-up charges—the sole reason being their activity on the picket lines. Here are just a few of the hun- dreds of victims of the frame-up isons of the operators. Tony h, strike leader, sentenced to impfisorfinent in Ohio by Siidge Ben- son W. Hough, author of the in- famous injunction Minerich urged the miners to defy. An appeal is now being made to a higher court. Case of Women. Mother Guynn, 63-year-old strike leader, and 50 other women of St. | Clairsville, Ohio, were tricked into jail. The fines and court costs of 59 pickets of Yukon, Pa. amount to more than five hundred dollars. The Zeigler, Ill., mine leaders, led by Henry Corbishley, must serve long ences, Other cases, far too numerous to list. The Ameri- can classic, the frame-vg, has been planted in the mine fields on a scale unsurpassed anywhere. For relief, for defense, hundreds of thousands of dollars are imme- diately necessary. During the Na- tional Miners’ Relief and Defense Week, all workers—as an act of self-protection—must help. Send all donations to National Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Perth Amboy Responds. A mass meeting in Perth Amboy, s Saturday night, July 21, will the drive for National Miners’ Relief and Defense Week, July 22 to 29. This meeting will be held at 308 Elm Street, Perth Amboy, at 8 o’clock. A Hungarian worker, a miner for years, who has been on strike for the past fifteen months, will picture the epoch mak- ing struggle. This will be followed E. S. Stanley, relief organizer ew y, on the progress of f work in that state. he workers of Perth Amboy and y a report by for rel Jerse of New Jersey as a whole have shown in the past that they realize the importance of the struggle of the striking miners by donating over $10,000 in the past few months to support this struggle. Unions to Stop Work If Refused Demands BOSTON, July 18—A strike for $1.37'4 an hot and for a five day week has been voted for 7 to 1 by eight thousand carpenters. Union bricklayers will go out also if their demand for $1.50 is not granted. Structural iron workers have quit for $1.50 an hour. Three hundred iron workers have already won their demand for a 25 per cent increase. 1,800 Workers Strike At Increase Betrayal MONTREAL, July 17. — 1,800 workers of the Dominion Rubber Company have gone out on strike again. This is the second strike they called in two months, Because the company took no ac- tion on the agreement made with the strikers in the last strike, that of flavoring a wage increase, t’ girls working for the company cation the present strike. The entire strike ig being led by girls. Up the Struggle,” ickloads of children whose fathers fought on the barricades during the revolt in Vienna dur- Under the auspices of the Red Aid, the children are The signs on the first truck read: “We are the children of the Vienna bar- Below is written: “Fight against bourgeois justice! SILK WORKERS PREPARE STRUGGLES FOR BITTER By HARVEY O'CONNOR (Federated Press). PATERSON, N. J., July 18— Silk workers of Paterson, their) minds bearing deep the imprints of heroic struggles bread union, watch carefully bosses’ cease- less efforts to destroy the 8-hour| day and break down wage standards. Now they are girding for another for and JHE DAIL .Y WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928 RAILROADS KEEP PROFIT HIGH BY SLASHING WAGES Machinery Replaces, Men In Shops By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press) Railroad profits of $376,505,819 in the first 5 months of 1928 show how the cold blooded managements have been trimming down payrolls (by speeding up their workers. These | profits represent a decline of less |than $10,000,000 from the first 5 months of 1927 although gross reve- nues have fallen more than $100,- |000,000. The money saved for divi- dends means loss of jobs to thous- |ands of railroad workers. Free the class war pris. Slash Expenses. Total railroad revenues for the 5| months amounted to $2,404,382,689 | compared with $2,507,487,897 the| previous year. Expense was cut from $1,922,290,226 in the first 5 while you sweat through hot sum-| Months of 1927 to $1,830,579,871 this | mer months with no vacation, except | Year. The ratio of expense to reve- jthe one you don’t want—when the| ues fell from 76.7% to 76.1%. | shop closes down. | The 5-month profit this year is at Small strikes characterize the in-|the annual rate of 5.22% on the Ri The entire world has reechoed the survivors of the fascist Nobile expedition by the Soviet ice- breaker Krassin. The Krassin is Soviet ice-breaker, the Maligin, has set out to hunt the lost Amund- | sen party. Above is a composograph showing members of the Kras- sin crew rescuing the Italia survivors. to Make Great Rescue Anti-Imperialist League Urges General Sandino in Letter PRESIDENT-ELECT SHOT ‘FOR CHRIST’ SAYS CHURCHMAN | Counter-Revolutionary | Agent, Belief | | Continued from Page One | result of Gen. Alvaro Obregon’s as- | sassination. | Apparently there is no provision |for procedure in the event of the |death of a president-elect, and in Mexico there is no vice-president. Obregon was elected president July 1 for a six-year term, the |term having been extended from four years a few months ago. He was to be proclaimed president by congress at its September session, and was to take office December 1 as successor to President Calles. Calles May Serve Conditionally Mexican law provides that in the event of the death of a presi- dent during the first two years of the story of the heroic rescue of now refueling, while the second WHITE TERROR IN BULGARIAN PRISONS his term, congress may name a pro- visional president and arrange for a new election. It was regarded as possible that this method might be used, Calles acting provisionally as chief executive. It is stipulated in the constitution jdustry. Sun Silk Co. workers walked |out when the boss tried to tack an | extra hour on the day. As a com- promise, workers were forced to take a 5 per cent wage cut. At the Hel- lawel Warping and Winding Co., the whole shop went out against a cut} battle, around the rallying cry of |from $20 to $18 with a 30 per cent enormous valuation established by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for the railroad industry. For the same périod last year the profit was equivalent to an annual returr of 5.46%. That this is a satisfac- tory rate of return from the in- vestor’s standpoint is shown in a By M. MICH. |were destroyed during the recent The widespread campaign in Bul-|earthquake in Bulgaria, the prison garia for a full and unconditional ?directors held the political prisoners amnesty for all political prisoners is|in the prison buildings throughout being answered on the one hand by/| the whole of the earthquake, despite a complete ignoring of the campaign |the protests of the prisoners them- the 8-hour day. | Little by little conditions won in| the memorable strike of 1913, which ranks in labor history with Lawr-| ence and Passaic, and in other strug- gles of 1916 and 1918, are slipping away.’ Here an unscrupulous boss squeezes in the 10-hour day, acro: the street a small mill gets by with a 10 per cent wage cut. | 691 Firms. Union silk workers admit they have been unable to keep a tight rein on the industry since post-war | deflation. Paterson has 16,000 workers, and yet 691 firms compete bitterly with each other in this one silk center. A few concerns are large, but hundreds employ only a handful of workers. A petty employer with but a loom or two will keep his entire family busy, day and night. In homes, little children toil far into the night, du- plicating notorious sweatshop condi- tions that once characterized New| York. : Over this myriad of smal] shops the union finds it difficult to | exert control. The bigger shops are better, particularly the ribbon mills where the Ribbon Weavers’ Union has strength. But dame fashion has dealt cruel blows to tibbons, and work is slack in that branch of the | indus! Worst of all is unemployment. As- sociated Silk Workers’ officials e: timate that 3,000 are jobless and an- other 1,500 on part time. Undismayed, the union is re- doubling efforts to organize work- ers. Special efforts are being made to get djrs and finishers into a union. In this branch small firms have made great inroads, tearing down labor conditions. Along with merger moves among many firms. the union hopes to get a strong local organized. Significant Strikes. Shop meetings are being held in union mills. mills are working quietly among their shopmates. Language group meetings are arousing foreign-born workers. Look, the union organizer says to these groups. Last year your boss put you on the 10-hour day. And now he is in Europe with his family, U.S.S.RFINDS ITALIAN GRAVES ROME, July 18 (UP).—The So- viet government has perfected ar- rangements by which relatives of Italian soldiers killed at the Rus- sian frent during the World War may obtain photographs of their graves, many of which have been traced. Most of the men killed were from districts which were under Austrian tule in wartime. The Italian am- bassador at Moscow has sent word that graves of 38 Italians from Trent have been located. : Airplanes Rushed to Locate Gold Prospect MONTREAL, Que., July 18—A few days ago Indian trappers came back from Chestorfield Inlet with word of rich gold prospects being found there. "Their word spread with the rapidity with which news of gold has spread since the earliest times, Then two well financed mining companies became interested and yesterday found them engaged in a two-sided gold rush, with airplanes instead of burros and icebreaking steamships instead of covered wag- ons as the means of transportation. On Monday another started from Winnipeg, “wo companies engaged in the race, ' AF speed-up in the machines. | Wall Street Journal analysis of the market prices of 25 dividend-paying railroad stocks. Investors are will- ing to pay for these stocks prices which yield an average of 5.02% on | their investment. These 25 dividend-paying railroads show profits in line with the best industrial corporations. The profits a |of 16 out of the 25 roads for the Try to Prevent Mass |12 months ended with May 1928 rep- “Red Day” Meetings resented returns of more than 10% a) jon the par value of their common - | stock. Several of them showed re- PRAGUE, (By Mail).—In order | turns of more than 15%. For own- to prevent mass demonstrations of |ers of Chesapeake & Ohio common workers on the “Red Days,” the 5th | stock the 12-month profit meant a and 6th of July, the Department | return of 21.8% of the Interior had sent secret or-| Slash Wages. ders to the police. A military rule | How ‘the railroads have cnt éx- was srt Up sil over the country. All| penses is illustrated in the cost of maintaining equipment on the St Party were to be arrested. On the |r ouis Southwestern or Cotton Belt 5th and 6th of July no automobiles | jag Between 1923 and 1927 the were allowed in the streets unless | Cotton Belt reduced the cost of they had special) permits from the | ¢yeight-car-miles. Dolipes (The same rmpplied to Doak Apuen “reflect ‘big, reduc! sengers on the trains. After every | ,. Pi ‘ station the number of passengers on | tions in total wages of railroad shop- a ane Sol Coeeanat Hic ability of the railroads as a whole ania Wis. sutaebencel to cut their shop forces more than s , ‘ 100,000 men in the 5-year period. Terror Increases. | The journal explains that the Cot- A few days before the Red’ Days | ton Belt reduced car repair costs by the police terror in Prague tight- | modernizing its shops, tools and ma- ened. There was a poliee raid on|chinery, retiring obsolete wooden the Secretariat of the Communist {equipment and ‘substituting steel Members in non-union | piloted by Stewart J.| Cheeseman of the Northern Aerial | wenlorations, Ltd., which is one of | Party and on the home of the secre- tary, Janek. Some bundles of the “Prukopnik Svobody,” the Czech or- |gan of the Communist Party of | Austria, were confiscated. All the homes of the Communist function- | aries were raided in the search for |July Day leaflets. None were found. The Communist Newspapers “Munkas” and “Pravda” which had issued special numbers for July Day were confiscated. Raid Party. In Budweis there was a raid on the Secretariat of the Communist.) Party which lasted for three hours, The police confiscated leaflets and | handbills for Red Day. A raid on the Communist news- paper “Nudy Vychod” was carried out with the hope that leaflets would be discovered. The police exerted themselves in vain. Gary Negroes. Fight Jim-Crow High School GARY, Ind., July 18—The an- nouncement that the city council, had approved the erection of the Roosevelt School, which is conceded | to be a colored school, has aroused the ire of Negroes in this city, and | they are girding themselves for bat- tle—and a finished fight. It is believed that if the separate | school is erected, the time will be| short before a Negro high school | will be established, and Jim-Crow schools will be the order of the day, Attorney Robert Bailey, counsel for the parents who opposed the orig- inal effort to establish Jim-Crow schools, states that he has no knowl- ege of this new effort, but that it will be vigorously fought by the Negro population in Gary, and that he will be on the firing line, Canc e r Conference Is Opened In London LONDON, July 18 (UP).—The | failure to do more to educate the public regarding cancer is “little short of scandal,” Dr. M. Donald- | sonu, well-known British physician, | declared in an address before the | initial conference of the world can- cer conference today. Twenty-five nations are repre- sented by the delegates to the con- ference. Sir John Bland Sutton, underframe equipment. From 1923 to 1927 it spent $268,000 for new| shop machinery and tools, scrapped 5,845 cars and substituted 3,200 modern cars. The railroads afford just another example of the dis- placement by modern machinery of men. Figures from other roads show managements cutting expenses, es. pecially’ maintenance costs, to re- tain a satisfactory profit for the owners of railroad stocks. This year compared with the first 5 months of 1927, the Pennsylvania reduced maintenance expenditures $10,642,- 168 and total expenditures $22,677,- 979; the New York Central cut maintenance expenditures $4,455,62? and total expenditures $7,855,919 the Baltimore & Ohio made similar cuts of $2,981,676 and $5,738,472. These cuts in expenses appear in dollars but they mean men off the payrolls and wage payments cut so that the investing class may have a generous return, whatever the state of the industry. German Exploiters In South Africa Growing CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 18.—German colonists are com- ing into South Africa in such great numbers that they have the ma- jority in all governing bodies and make up a considerable portion of the foreign population. The Bri- tish residents view this influx with alarm, fearing that their own con- trol will be seriously challenged. After the German troops were defeated in South Africa in 1895 by the British most of the Germans left the colony. Since the war, how- ever, they have been settling in greater and greater numbers. Worker Dies In Blast In Peru Hoodoo Mine PERU, Ill, July 18. — Anton Shimkus, one of the few men in- duced to work in the mine shaft here, died of injuries he received after a discharge of dynamite shot. The explosion caught Shimkus and buried him under several tons of coal. Shimkus was 45 years of age. Detroit Steamfitters Win 100% Closed Shop ¥ DETROIT, July 18, — Steam. and on the other hand by attempts to cause trouble between the prison- ers themselves by promising some of} them the pardon of the king and ig- noring others. This sort of pardon has been offered to the prisoners on a number of occasions, however, the, offers have always been rejected and} then new reprisals have invariably | followed. | The recent pardons at easter time | were also rejected by the politica) prisoners. These prisoners published an appeal in the working class press} in which they refused “holiday mag- | nanimity” and expressed the firm) determination to fight on for a full| and unconditional amnesty for all politice! prisoners and for the aboli- tion of the white terror. At easter 1928, 30 prisoners were “pardoned,” but not one of them accepted the freedom offered to them. The am- nesty was taken advantage of by the criminal prisoners alone who are then usually used by the authorities for services in the secret police or for the murder of revolutionaries. Placed in Solitary. In consequence of the fact that the political prisoners refused the pardon so magnanimously offered to them by the king and because they had celebrated the first of May in the prisons, 50 prisoners in the Cen- | tral Prison in Sofia were put for one month in solitary confinement E. Dilkov, M. Alexov, St. Atanassov. Ivan Papeov and W. Philippov were selves and the indignation of the workers all over the country. Doubt- that though a president may serve two full terms, they must not follow one another directly. * * * Censorship Clanrped On NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, July 18 (UP).—Censorship of press dis- patches over the Mexican telegraph terribly maltreated before being placed into solitary confinement. lines, imposed late yesterday at Mexico City, had not yet been ex- tended to this port of entry today. less the authorities hoped that the prisons would collapse and bury them all beneath the ruins. Removed to Other Prisons. As a result of the refusal of the} pardon, many political prisoners | were removed from one prison to the other in order to make it difficult for them to be visited by their rela- tives, or receive packets of food or} secure the washing of their clothes. | Further, om such transports the danger is great that the prisoners are set upon and murdered by the so-called “irresponsible” elements. “Labor” Secretary Distorts Figures | On Unemployment | WASHINGTON, July 18—In a transparently misleading announce- ment Secretary of Labor Davis to- day heralded “a distinctly favora-| ble” outlook for both employers and employees this summer and fall. | He called attention to the fact that employment in factories was | greater in June than in May for! the first time in five years, but the republican politician failed to ex- | plain that the slight increase is only of June over May while general em- | ployment levels are lower than any | Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. 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