The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 3

~ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928 Page Three French and Spanish Authorities Cooperate in Campaign Against Militant Labor Where Vienna Workers Waged Heroic NINE ARRESTS IN FRANCE MAY BEGIN DRIVE More, to Go to Jail in Few Hours | PARIS, July 28,—Collaboration between the French and the Spanish euthorities in a campaign against labor which is ‘to embrace two coun- tries was revealed yesterday with) the arrest of nine workers for par-| ticipation in an alleged plot against the life of King Alfonso. The men were arrested in south France and more arrests are threatened at once. | The seizure of the workers was rane ae ene inate tion tna Ber| ame city. Special article on Page 6 of today’s issue of the Daily deaux reveal. | of “Labor Defender.”) Crowds watching the barricade fighting during the July revolt which was celebrated recently, are shown in the picture. can be seen swelling in the distance. Almost on the anniversary Barricade Battle in Vienna, the anniversary of Smoke from the burning Hall of Justice of this heroic struggle of the Vienna working class, Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader, was sentenced to prison in the Worker. (Photo by courtesy According to the outline of the | ~ “conspiracy” given the French by) the Spanish police, Alfonso was to. ih tor natce tee: Communists Lead Against War Danger crossing the French frontier to open the new tunnel under the Pyrenees. That the development of revolu-} tionary disturbances within Spain have alarmed the Spanish authori- (Continued.) Lettish comrades admit asa short-|selves in many cases, would not mean ties was disclosed with the announce. |CO™ing of the Party that they di¢/a strengthening of militarism. These ment that plans had been made to|ROt react in any way to the first|/ misgivings are not well-founded have troops virtually equivalent to|Regotiations of Latvia with Great| however. It is correct that the new an army accompany Alfonso on hie| Britain, or to the signing of a pre-| military reforms in their totality trip north. It was not known here|Vious treaty for a customs union|lead to a strengthening of militar- at that time, however, that the| With Esthonia,and did not recognize| ism, but the reduction of the service French authorities were actively co-| in time that this customs union with period in itself is always a point operating with the Spanish in crush-| Esthonia, which is under the unlimi- weakening the military system of by the capitalist governments them-) in workers’ quarters, in factories and villages. They’ have no reason to |make an exception with respect to | the barracks and warships where |workers and peasants in uniform |live under extremely difficult condi- |tions, subjected to the tyranny and | all sorts of chicanery of the officers |It would be strange and unpardon- |able for a Party of the revolution- the respective capaitalist country | ary class struggle to desert workers DENOUNCE FUAD MOVE TO FORM DICTATORSHIP Wafd Issu es Bitter Manifesto CAIRO, Egypt, July 23,—Nation- wide indignation at the action of King Fuad in dissolving the Egyptian parliament for the period of three years found expression today in 2 manifesto issued by the Wafd party and denouncing the king’s action. | Declaring that the dissolution of | parliament is a deliberate move to | placate British resentment, and in- timating that it is for the purpose of | maintaining his position of power by King Fuad, the manifesto denounces the “attempt to defy the own constitution and satisfy the ambi- tions of foreigners.” The dissolution of parliament which would leave Egypt virtually the prey of a dictator for an indefin ite time, since no circles here even profess to believe that Fuad intends to surrender his powr at the end of three years, has caused extreme agi- tation far beyond the nationalist Wafd groups. Labor leaders thruout Egypt are alive to the peril to Egyptian work- LISBON REVOLT IS SPREADING THRU | NEW DISTRICTS Fighting Continues Spite of Setback Pay Last Respects to Murdered President Athen a in “ LISBON, Portugal, 3— Government troops continued thn the night attack and whenever possible to disarm armed bodies o' July to Portuguese workers who had joiner the revolt of seventh regiment anc other forces at the Castello Sa Jerge here. The utmost brutality is reporter to have been used by the govern tachments in subduing the The number of slain anc injured cannot as yet be estimater but it is confidently believed that i runs into the hundreds. aro Obregon, fanatic, Photo shows the funeral procession of Gen. Al Mexican president-elect, who was murdered by a rel passing down Juarez Ave., in Mexico City. Obregon July 1 and was to have assumed office in Septem elected SIGNIFICANT DECLINES IN 1928 EMPLOYMENT ll attempts of the authorities tc minimize the extent and seriousnes: of the disturbance have been frus trated by e persistence with whicl g between the governmen the untrained and badl; ans aiding the revolting in the Castello, has per By LELAND OLDS. with June, 1927, public utilities ‘a ; slight increase and coal mining a carat Eee big. increase since the strike of a Thruout the country disturbance: | For the first time since 1928 Illin- | | ois factory employment increased in June, according to the state depart- year ago. But there 1 only a third as many miners employed as in 1922. Building construction among the peasantry and the sol diers have led to the belief that’ the immediate setback to the revolt ir ment of labor. A 2.4 per cent in-| or, -4eq about'8 per cent more jobs Lisbon might not mean the end o: ing the outbreaks in Spain. Labor} ted influence of Great Britain, rep- leaders here now express themselves |Tesented a step towards the forma- as satisfied that the present arrests | tion of an anti-Soviet bloc of Baltic reveal a concerted movement of both countries. governments to jail militant work- ers, particularly in southern France! designate all the above-mentioned and in the northern districts of mistakes, which were admitted and Spain. later corrected by the Parties, as me mpage Fe | the results of a frivolous attitude to- Sentence of It would be an exaggeration to| It is a fact that the military special- ists everywhere re - ‘ the reduction of the term of military service. Only when there is involved such a hired army as the German Reichs- wehr, where the service period under the term of the Versailles Treaty lasts a total of 12 years, the reduc- tion, e. g., to six years would double the possible numbers _ in thoroughly trained, politically reli- the) }ers and peasants which the con- |tinuance of British domination and Fuad’s subservience entails. The length of the Nile there is a stir of apprehension and anger in the Egyptian villages which is only somewhat less than that which shook them a number of years ago and |made the British authorities see their power slipping. The feeling against the dissolution |living under such conditions, with- out enlightenment, leadership and support. Therefore this work is to | be carried on everywhere, also where it is “prohibited” by the enemies of the workers and soldiers. Even some left Social-Democrats, as e. g., Paul | Levi, speak about the necessity for “education of the members of the army” although in this respect they |do nothing in practice. | | crease over the number of factory | workers employed in May casts an amusing light on Coolidge prosper- ity. Industry may be breathing a | sigh of relief at the assurance that Cal is slated for the discard. The June increase in employment is not sufficient to bring the level | up to a year ago. The number of factory employes in the state still | falls 2.7 per cent short of June, the outbreak. Outbreaks are report. ed from Barreiro, Entroncament and Setubal. than a year ago. The June report of the Illinois de- partment of mines reflects accur- ately the situation in the coal indus- try. The report shows 114 mines operating out of about 400 in the state. These 114 mines worked an average of 14.1 days during the month, or about half time. A total of 34,232 miners were employed out wards the war danger. The above- Don Plotters mentioned eXamples, however, are MOSCOW, USSR., (By Mail).— able military cadres and would thereby mean the indirect strength- ening of the military system. But also in this case, the point of the actual is the danger of allowing out- spoken measures in preparation for war to pass unnoticed, and how nec- essary it is to be at all times on For the above-mentioned reasons they work among the soldiers and sailors is a permanent task of the Parties. This work attains special importance from the viewpoint of | of parliament is especially strong in| 997 and 17.4 per cent under June, | the cities, however, where the work-| 1993. The span of Coolidge pros- ers are denouncing Fuad’s action| perity has seen a sixth of the fac- | while they eagerly watch whatever| tory workers in Illinois lose their jcounter-action the Wafd may de-| jobs, of an estimated total of 75,000 in the state. At one time there were more than 100,008 coal miners in Tllinois. The situation in the mines is an good illustrations of how big and From early morning a crowd of some| guard, to follow up at all times the hundreds had collected round the|concrete forms and phenomena of doors of the “Dom” Soyouzov wait-, the war danger in order to avoid ing to receive passes to enter. By/ fatal. omissions. nightfall it had swelled to many) However, one may observe also thousands and the long line stretched|this phenomenon; that after the many hundreds of yards away into| VIII Plenum an intensive anti-war the darkness of the side pereulok work was begun in many sections (alley). A company of foot and/ but that it subsided later as if there mounted militia kept order continu-| had come a realization that in the ally having to clear the thorough- beginning the war danger had been reduction of the service period, taken by itself, in no way signifies the strengthening of the military sys- | tem, because in 12 years the soldier can be trained much more thorough- ly and more manifoldly in military |crafts, and ean be much more com- pletely alienated from the working masses, than in six years. | The reduction of the service period in countries with universal military velop. JAPAN PLANNINS NEW CHINA GRAB combatting war and militarism. However, the work is relatively, weak in certain countries which arc | important from the point of tiew of the war danger and war prepara- tions. In certain countries this work | still bears an episodical character | and at best is confined to the re- | cruits before their entrance into the | barracks, without the development The improvement over May is generally distributed over the major industries. But all the major indus- tries except that including machin- ery, metals and conveyances report fewer employes than in June, 1927. |The figures reveal declines _com- | pared with a year ago in a majority of industries manufacturing consum- | er goods usually sold on the instal- improvement over May when 105 mines operated an average of 13.9 days and employed 29,779. UNE MPL OYME NT os International | Press Correspondencd fare that at every few minutes swarmed with new contingents of. workers eager to see the last episode of one of the greatest dramas ever enacted within the halls of this for- mer club of tzarist nobility. Doors Open. greatly exaggerated. service is in itself not to be looked of a systematic work and the estab- lishment of organizational points of LONDON, July 23 (UP).—Japan \has decided to offer to negotiate a ment plan. RISES IN ENGLAND The most reliable and Superficial and expressly oppor- upon as a means of strengthening tunist is a conception which looks| militarism, but as a concession which upon anti-war and anti-militarist the capitalist governments will enter | work as the task only of a special | upon because the disadvantage of the |department and not of the entire} reduction of the service period is Party and its leading organs. This|made up by other great advantages jconception is hardly to be found in|in the new military reforms, such jnew treaty with the Nanking gov- ernment, but to decline to permit China to cancel the present treaty as the Kuomintang desires, an Ex- change Telegraph Tokio dispatch said today. support inside the army. In ‘other countries again the work does not) bear the character of mass work but it is confined to a small circle of people inside the army: and is not _based upon a broad anti-militarist ae | women’s clothing 9.7 per cent, wom- en’s underwear 3.7 per cent, wom- and is even greater than February Iron and Steel Increase. i complete reorte nak Outstanding increases in employ- current events in. the ji International labor ment compared mt June, ae LONDON, July 23.—Official fig- movement ii .6 per cent, au- 236 big prema se per cent, | UTes on British unemployment show Report, of | proceed 2 . % nes of the Six agricultural’ implements 18 per cent, | an increase during the last month World Congress of the Communist Inter- national, now in ses- sion At 9 o'clock in the evening the| the official Party documents, but it/as the militarization of the schools doors of the Halls of Columns were is prevalent here and there. It is and social organizations and above thrown open and in the space of expressed, for example, in such all, in the creation of a powerful half-an-hour it was crowded from statements as hold that one cannot! cadre of politically reliable and ex- top to bottom. Every inch of sitting| enter upon the most elementary | pertly high-skilled professional sol- and standing space was occupied and questions of Communist anti-war |diers, support and governmentaliza- 2 good part of the corridor running tactics because one is “not an ex-| tion of the fascist organizations, ete round the hall. The number of cor- | pert,” ac laste lapped ena respondents’ seats seemed to have Must Have “Toilers’ Militia.” demand for the reduction of the ser- pa Mae leaf dhe eke dee ee slogan for “Toilers’ Militia”| vice period we must resolutely com- ing the trial) of the diplomatic corps|_, h&S come into application since) bat all these reactionary measures was full. the VIII Plenum practically not at) Which actually lead to a strengthen- 5 all. Even in the theoretical organs ing of militarism. At 10 o’clock the state prosecutors, this question has been given little League Corrected “Boycott” Slogan take their places on the tribune to notice. One of the few cases in which T= slogan for the boycott of the be followed a little later by the’ this slogan was discussed was the| 1 American Citizens’ Military Train- counsels of the defense. |answer of the Pol-Bureau of the ing Camps was corrected as a mis- After 15 minutes the accused are| Communist Party of Germany to the | take by the Central Committee of brought in under escort, they are|“Program of Action” of Comrade! the Young Communist League itself immediately surrounded by their) Brandler. Here also the question counsels with whom they enter into| was only touched on in passing with-| meant refraining from the disinte-| because such a boycott would have) activity among the toiling youth. Party Must Do Anti-Work. There is still observable here and there a lack of understanding or ar insufficiency of interest among Party members themselves with re- spect to this work. Such expressions applied to anti-militarist work ar “criminal politics,” “military espion- age,” “plotters,” etc., argue that 2 thorough enlightenment on the meaning and character of this work \is necessary even among the lead- ing cadres of many parties. SHANGHAI, July 23—That Japan is preparing to strike in China in |the near future was intimated by | statements in the Japanese press in which Premier Tanaka is quoted as saying that Japan is preparing to take measures against the Nanking government should that government jeopardize Japanese treaty rights. Taking measures is generally ac- cepted as meaning following up the Tsinan advance with seizures of new territory north and west of the pres- ent encroachments, DEPRESSION HITS FASCIST ROUMANIA earnest conversation. Excitement. The air is becoming increasingly | warm and is filled with a continuous hum like the flight of an army of bees, but gradually, however, it dies away and at midnight sharp enters the court. : “The special sitting of the high court is declared open,” says its president, Vishinsky, who after a brief pause proceeds to read out the sentence. The sentence is divided into two parts: the first gives a short his- torical’ review of the beginnings of the counter-revolutionary organiz tions and its general characteristics This, fully upholds the main theses of the-state prosecutor, as follows: The court recognizes as fully proved that fact that the anti-Soviet coun- ter-revolutionary inclinations of a section of the technical (engineers, technicians) intelligentzia, during the first years of the existence of the Soviet State, brought them into contact with the ex-owners, from whom they received instructions and money and to whom they supplied valuable and secret information con- cerning the situation in the Donetz coal area. Continuing further, the sentence E severe economic depression in ; Rumania which has become prac- alism, tically chronic in character, and is The War Theses of the VIII Plen-| being shouldered entirely by the um put, as a concrete task for the| proletariat and the peasantry, is combatting of war, the “concentra-| causing wide-spread dissatisfaction | out going into the connection of this | gration of this organjzation and, slogan with the partial demands and thereby: a strengthening of imperi- 1 with the practical problems of the disintegration of the bourgeois army |and the arming of the proletariat. |And it is precisely on this point} | that a clarification of this slogan ir| | urgently necessary. The circum- | stances that so little use has been | made of the slogan for the “Toilers’ | Militia” is in our opinion to be ac- ist Parties upon activity in the trade| amply shown by several strikes and |unions, especially among the metal| demonstrations held in many indus- workers, miners, Eee workers | trial districts of Rumania. With | counted i jand the workers in chemical indus-| the aid of the Siguaranza and mili- | this Beara ancne "has boon | tien.” |tary authorities, the bourgeois gov- | insufficiently clarified. | Must Concretize Work. lernment is doing its utmost to | Not From Bourgeois Parliaments. |The more concretely one ap-|crush the labor movement by in- | According to unconfirmed reports’ | Proaches the practical forms of com- creasing its terrorist measures. One | one of the Communist Parties is said batting war, the more clearly is of these measures which is mili- |to have introduced in parliament »|Shown the importance of this de- tating especially against working. ‘proposal demanding the Workers’ Mand. But the practical work in| ing-class interests and capable of |and Peasants’ Army. If the demand combatting war makes necessary an| severely jeopardising the whole la- for a Workers’ and Peasants’ army even furthergoing concretization in bor movement, is the government's is in its actual content to be con-| the same direction. What is involved intention to close the unitary trade sidered identical with the “Toilers’) here is to transfer our attention to unions. Should it be borne in mind |Militia,” then it is surely a misun- certain factories and definite geog- that these unions are the only legal derstanding to demand such a thing Taphical points. labor organizations upholding the ‘from the bourgeois parliament. | Many examples in the experiences Class struggle, then the absolute ne- | The slogan of a People’s Militia in anti-militarist work show how|cessity, not only of preserving them, |has come into practical application | important it is to have organs of but of strengthening and developing |in a few cases. In the cases known |the Party at certain geographical them, becomes very plain. ‘to us, this application is unquestion-| points. This anti-militarist work is) The Executive Bureau of the Red ably correct with regard té the ac- relatively much weaker in the International of Labor Unions, hav- ‘tual content of this slogan. But in French navy than in the army, which ing studied the position of the trade | practice it is not unimportant, to dif-|is quite correctly ascribed to the Uion movement in Rumania and all ferentiate between the actual politi- fact that the French Party is very, its defects, adopted a resolution, cal content of the slogan and its ex-| weak in the respective harbor towns | Which in fact points out the basic | tasks confronting the trade unjon 5. Organization of unemployed committees and organization of ag- ricultural workers in separate trade unions, Urges Workers to Protest. The creation and training of a tion of the attention of the Commun-/ and resentment. This has been|broad contingent of active trade-| per cent, household furnishings 10.3 | | union workers for the locals, | To carry out a campaign to re- cruit new members for the unions. The organization of educational activities among trade unionists, to | struggle against governmens --1 _ tural organizations and attempts to establish them among the workers. | To set up youth sections, trade union | Papers to be published; to set up firm connections with the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions; to propagate and put into execution the decisions of the Fourth Congress and former Congresses. 1927, shortly after the termination en’s hats 20.8 per cent and dairy oF the coal strike. products 6.5 per cent. There was a slight increase in workers making machinery. Practically all other in- dustries reported fewer workers than a year ago. Some of the declines, compared with June, 1927, are hard to explain except on the basis of improved ma- |chinery. Although building struction is running ahead of last year practically all manufacturers of. building materials report consid- erable reductions -in working forces as follows: stone products a decline of 88 per cent, lime, cement and plaster 25 per cent, brick, tile and plaster 7.1 per cent, sheet metal Subscription Rates: One Yr. $6.00; 6 Mos., $3.50 The percentage of unemployed among the 11,800,000 registered workers on June 25 was 10.8 as against 9.9 a month earlier and 8.£ a year ago. Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street New York City Since the month of June there con- prone: = has been a further increase in un-| =| The Vege-Tarry Inn employment, the number on July ° being 1,242,000. which was 24,922] “GRINE KRETCHME” | more than the week before. BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 23 St., Christopher St., Barclay St. Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lac! wanna Railroad to Berkeley Heights, N. J. BEKKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7468 R 1. Nearly more than half of the in- creased unemployment occurred in| the mining industry. The number of it, saw and). She te pas agree! anc'|miners employed at present is the, Significant declines, compared |!owest at any time since the coal 73a with a year ago, among industries strike. | producing consumer goods were) cooking and heating apparatus 5.1| | per cent, electrical apparatus 2.4 | per cent, watches and jewelry 3.4 | per cent, furniture 14.1 per cent, | pianos and musical instruments 30.5 | per cent, furs and fur goods 26.8) | per cent, cotton and woolen goods | 10.5 per éent, knit goods and hos-| iery 19.8 per cent, mens clothing 7} |per cent, mens shirts and furnish- ings 9.2 per cent, men’s hats, caps 9.5 per cent. Except for dairy pro- lucts all the industries grouped un- der food beverages and tobacco/ show employment considerably re-| duced from a year ago, and even) the manufacturers of drugs have} cut their forces 4 per cent. Mine Jobs Decrease. | Trade, including —_ department | stores, wholesale and majl order es- tablishments, shows a decline of 3.1 per cent in employment compared DAI LY WORKER Order a Bundle! describes the activities of the Khar- pression. It is not clear without American League Difficulty. kov and Moscow sections of the or-| special investigation as to whether, JN “a report on the anti-militarist| ganization, the sabotage and de- the slogan of People’s Militia in this | # work of the American Y. C. L., it structive work that was carried out | mode of expression is sufficiently | is stated that the campaign against Finally, it characterizes in stern | concrete everywhere as a practical) the sending of troops to China was terms the contact of the organiza- slogan, viz., whether the use of the unsuccessful on the western coast tion with foreign groups outlining | expression “People’s Militia” can be of America, because the league had the channels through which the vari-| recognized by the masses as their| no members in San Diego, the naval | ous sums of money were sent in. own demand or whether it should base. | Vishinsky then proceeded to the not be replaced by another slogan It is time that the leading organs) second part of the sentence. (actually meaning the same thing. of the Parties concerned themselver| In accordance with Article 58-2 | but adapted to the specific local con- | not only with the numerical organizations of Rumania. 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