The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1928, Page 3

TEXTILE PICKETS ‘me DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1928 Expect Terrorism of Workers May Follow Enactment of Portuguese Repressive Measure REVOLT SERVES — AS PRETEXT FOR STRINGENT LAW Prisoners from Revolt | To Be .First Victims LISBON, Portugal, July 25.—A punitive measure which when enact- | ad will enable the present adminis- | tration to begin -a systematic ter- | © roy against the Portuguese working | class was passed by the council of ministers yesterday. . Using as a pretext the recent ,armed uprising of the Seventeenth | Regiment and other sections of the | army cooperating with armed civil-| ians, the council of ministers has | succeeded in passing a law which will give them dictatorial powers in crushing any further disturbances in the country. | While the 240 soldier and civilian prisoners from the late revolt are to be the first to feel the stringency of the new measure, the growing) discontent among the Portuguese workers is believed to have been a dominating factor in securing the | passage of the measure, Leaders ‘among the Portuguese workers’ are pointing to the effec- tiveness with which the new mea- sure may be used in crushing strikes | and demonstrations and’ point out the series of arrests which have/| The Pawn and His Master Pose Together rd a Alfred E. Smith, democratic presidential nominee, and John J. Raskob, democratic campaign gesture of resigning his position tion, are shown together in the picture. manager, who has just made a with the General Motors Corpora- The thoice of Raskob to manage the democratic campaign definitely revealed the Wall Street address of the democratic party and the empty gesture of resigna- tion only emphasizes the connection. NG, CONVICTS HUNDREDS SENT TO MINES Confesses “Surrender News” Was Rumor Continued from, Page One prison authorities. Tenant Farmers Starve. already, taken place as indication of what interpretation the govern- ment: will place upon the act. POLICE ASSAULT Free “labor has been scarce for Carolina’s two coal mines. Pay has ‘been half or a third of the Jack- sonville scale, and conditions are | uninviting. Accidents have been too disastrous. So tenant 2 farmers, | starved off the surrounding coun- tryside, go to the cities instead of ‘to the mines, swelling the surplus | of unemployed in the state. — In the late summer of 1925 a terrible ex- Ruling Outlaws Mill plosion killed 53 workers in the very * vag ‘pit where the convict-miners have Gate Picketing | heen sent. The 38. widows and 79 Continued from Page One | orphans left without support had no workmen’s compensation law to aid since the big strike started April| them, for North Carolina still lacks 16. this legislation. Armed with warrants, a large po-| Prisoners are paid nothing for lice squadron, under the hated Sar-| 444i, labor, unless they. make enough gent McCarthy, marched to the pic-| wver their task at the mine to earn ket line at the Sharp Mill yesterdey 11 bonus offered. The state and immediately began to arrest the| the ae for their work on a ton- Textile Workers’ Unjon picket lead-| 8 P&° % George ‘Ross Pou, ers, Augusto Pinto, Casmiero Lam-| ®a&® basis, ee adent North Caro- ieras and Maria Botefho, for parad-| Prison superintendent. "ott vt ing without a'permit Monday. _|lina prisbn labor Is tinretate use.” | devoted pri ; * 1 Whan- tha thanannds: af sworkees.| Most of the 1806 prisoners, (only 7 including large numbers of women | a7 vegan wcienigt Nihaivion: rt and children, began to shout their| in 16 road camp 1 jecti «3.|the conerete culvert shop, small objections to the arrests, the police | the i tanbtrenl uae thug McCarthy led his men in a| print shop, garment, mots brutal head-on charge at the line| chair-caning shops, and laundry. of men, women and children, split-| Surplus products of the garment ting the heads of many workers| and mattress shop, run by white with clubs and blackjacks, and ar-| women and a few prisoners, are VISIT SOVIET UNION ‘Many : Tourist Groups in U.S. A. | Continued from Page One | accommodate the tourists with first | class travel and hotel facilities, food and entertainment. | Next year the Soviet Travel ureau expects to add stopovers in rimean, Caucasian and other re- sorts to the regular tours. Before | the war Russian resorts, some of which are open all the year round were attracting considerable num- |bers of visitors from various Euro.) pean countries and the United States. The rates at the best resort hotels and sanitariums range from $150 to $200 a month. Tourists visiting the Soviet Union are permitted to take with them duty-free a liberal supply of cloth- ing and other necessaries. The companies in the United States having arrangements with the: Sovtorgflot to send American tourists to the Soviet Union are the Cunard: Steamship Co., the French Lines, the Amalagamated Bank World Tourists, American-European Travel Bureau | These and other organizations to be |added shortlsi are expected to send next year to the Soviet Union about | 5,000 tourists. RED FIGHTERS REACH U.S,S.R, INDIA WORKERS Solidarity Messages Sent From Bombay MADRAS, Indial, July —Strike of the railway workers in this city and vicinity is continuing in spite of the government’s effort to force the men to return to work. Attempts of the British author- ities to break the strike by force have so far failed and leaders of the railway strikers state that such ef- forts will continue to fail. |. Strikebreakers which the govern: | ment attempted to import into the district have met the same failure Trains bearing the men have been held up and the strikebreakers hauled off the cars in spite of the efforts of the guards to protect them Not only the railway workers, but working class population y, which is also one of the largest ian ‘textile centers, has been aroused by the present strug- gle. Sympathy with the striking work- ers is widespread and their fight has found an echo thruout the pen- insula, expressions of sympathyt and solidarity having been received from Bombay and Sholapur, centers of a - MADRAS RAILWAY FRENCH POLICE — WALK-OUT STIRE ARREST 4 MORE FOR ALFONSO [Workers Seized At | Spain’s Reduest cellaboration with the Spanish au- ities in running dowh alleged |participants in a plot against the |life of King Alfonso, Paris police |yesterday arrested four more work- | ers at Narborine, according to re- ports from that city. | The victims, three woman, were se’ }lieved to he a systematic and pcr- sistent police campaign, involving the workers of the The police |from their v’ men and a two countries. im to have extorted an for the in vidu- jsearch has begu als implicated. | House to house search was being carried on yesterday ia the Paris | by the police, working-class dist but had remained fruitless up to a late hour yesterday. Meanwhile reports from Spain, reaching this city by way of Bor- deaux, state that the Spanish police are carrying ‘on extended raids throughout the country, although the severe censorship makes infor- —Continuing their | 1 in what is be-j extended | Training for Future Imperialist Wars The navy dirigible Los Angeles and the two smaller airships, in the picture, were ghitographed during a recent trip over ? York and Connecticut. The air vessels train constantly in all parts of the country for the imperialist war which the American militarists are busily preparing for. shown ai: PANAMA PUPPETS NICARAGUA VOTE AWAIT RELEASE CALLED ASSURED U. S. Intervention Is|U. S. Choice to Win as A |! | IMPERIALISTS | | ‘ | IN DUTCH ISLE Clash in Sumatra | Jungle Battie | pines | SINGAPORE, July 26—Revival | of the struggle of the Sumatran na- tives against their Dutch overmas- ters was indicated here today fol- lowing the announcement from Ku- | taradja, Sumatra, that a troop of insurgents had met and fought a Dutch brigade. Four Sumatrans and three Duteh | soldiers are reported to have been killed or wounded in the battle, in- cluding the commander of the Dutch brigade. Report of the engagement fol- lows rumors of growing discontent among the natives not only of Sum- atra, but of Java, Celebes and other Dutch Polynesian possessh Following the defeat of Ups rising last year, the Dutch author- ities enacted a series of oppressive measures regulating the lives and labor of the natives, many of whom have taken to the jungle to elude the brutality of the officials. Open Road and) textile struggle which has involved thousands of Indian workers and kept scores of mills idle for months +e SHANGHAI, China, July 25.— Conditions on the American freight | steamship Olympia, due here tonight from Tacoma, Wash., were so bad that the crew would not endure them | any longer. A radio from the cap-| tain states that the crew cannot. be ruled by the customary iron hand of ship masters. , The captain requests that a squad of police be present when the shir arrives ‘here to place the workers under arrest. The American Vice- Consul and the United States Mar- shal will be present to receive the captain’s “story.” | Custom. Lawyer Says | a4 | PANAMA CITY, July 25.—Five! ! leaders of the Porras coalition party jarrested here when they called for United States intervention in the coming elections, a demand believed to be instigated by the United States, are still in prison awaiting |release on habeas corpus proceed- ings. The lawyers for the prisoners cite the fact that the United States in- tervened in the elections of 1908 1912 and 1916 and point out that it is a customary procedure and should not lead to arrest for those who ask | or it. The defendants also point out that four years ago ministers of the present cabinet went to Washing- ton and were accorded military in- tervention which resulted in the present president, Chiari. liable. LEWIS MACHINE SPEEDS SELLOUT Moves for Wage Slash | Tn Illinois | CHICAGO, IIL, July 24—A move to establish the expected lower wage scale and possibly even a sort of company union among the Illinois coal miners was seen here in the an- nouncement that coal operators are planning on a joint conference with the Lewis-Fishwick machine to dis- cuss wage levels and other condi- tions in the industry. The decision was reached at a | mation from Spain extremely ee | ti f Correspondence MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 25 ane —The Conservative Party failed to- . day to propose its candidate for The Communist president following a similar failure International during the two day conference ended yesterday. didate, has withdrawn due to the re- leader, to support his candidacy. RATES: Due to the fact that the Conserva- Wan Meas $6.00 tives announced their intentions of Six Months |... cee refraining from voting in the com- Single Copies <0 2 ae a candidate, the field is practically left open to the “liberal” candidate Moncada. been approved by the United States he is considered to be the United States choice, and the elections are Others Withdraw International Press First Hand Reports and Editorials on the Sixth World Congress of the Communist Internatonal Carlos Cuadra Pasos, for some ime considered as the possible can- usal of Chamorro, the Conservative ng elections if they could not choose Q &> Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street New York City Since the Moncada candidacy has looked upon as a farce. g morning session of the operators, after which W. D. Jenkins, presi- dent of the operators’ association, Wireless to The DAILY WORKER. telephoned to Harry Fishwick, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 25.—/ ousted Lewis Henchman, asking him | A message of greetings following | to fix a conference date. his release from a German jail has| The joint meeting was made pos- | been sent Max Hoeltz, German sible after Fishwick, following an Communist leader and class war eight-day meeting at Indianapolis,| BERLIN, July 25.—It has be- prisoner, -by the workers of Vyatka asked Jenkins to consider the propo-| come a matter of public knowledge GERMANY BUILDS Season 1928 Season 1928 Camp Kinderland Hopewell Junction, N.Y. Under Auspices of N. Y Phone: Hopewell Junction 174 Non-Partisan Workers Children’s Schools resting eight strikers, sold outside by a private agency.. LENINGRAD, U. §. Ss. Ry July Manuel Pitta, chairman of the|The laundry does work for the New Bedford Workers International | executive management and for the Relief station, had a vein in his head | Confederate Veterans’ Home. Net torn open which soaked his clothing! operating profit shown by the prison with blood before the flow was) for all work of the convicts was atonpse: , | $67,898 in 1927. Deeply embittered by the delib-| LVS ESRC AOnare erate arrests of their strike leaders | ree breaks” this being Pinto’s eighth jailing, the) Several ‘mutinous outbreaks workers defended themselves against have occurred during the year at the police onslaught. Sven police-| Caledonia prison farm. Young men, including McCarthy, were in-| white convicts led the demands for jured in the battle. | shorter hours, ‘less work and more Member of the United Textile| recreation. (Prisoners are worked Workers’ Union on picket duty at|10 hours or more.) The prison pa- the same time near the Sharp Mill| per sarcastically captions its re- tried to go to the aid of the T. M., printed story, blaming the inmates C. workers, but were prevented from| —“Maybe They Want Valets And doing so by their leaders, Riviere | Evening Clothes.” So-called incor- | 25.—The steamer Prussia arrived | here yesterday bringing a number jof Red Front Fighters, who have been invited to the Soviet Union by the District Labor Councih ¢ | The Red Front Fighters will |travel in the Northern Caucasus | where theyt will recuperate after of confinement in Germany. CANADIAN FIRE RAGES. WINNIPEG, July 25.—The forest fires in Northern Manitoba are still | raging and the dense smoke has been | blown more than 400 miles from the fires, | their strugglés and varying periods | Sadie Reisch and Manning. Many | rigibles and rebellious prisoners are members of the U. T. W. were bitter | sent to Stokedale quarry. : in their criticism of. their official- Whipping wa& announced as aia dom. | = a A carded for state prisoners several | Hon Aine ioe ere ago. The law permits prison} After the eight strikers had been trustees:to: use the ‘lash’ 24 hours fafeds thousands ing cn Sualniere’| after notification of disobedience, if lot.. Tremendous applause greeted | the whipping i. done in the bin ; ence of the prison doctor or chap- the demands of Albrt eWisbord and), . Stat 2 aiesdangeon: is Portuguese speakers for far greater | lain. ss uf tc. a f iF 4 a sia turnouts on the picket lines next | 2/80 said to be abandoned. y morning. |convict camps have not generally | Denied Medical Aid | followed suit. In several such ‘how aes siento fated py oeRee scandalous abuses—even kill- ntone Ries, ‘ the police attack, asked Bas waters of convicts—-have brought coun- “while he was confined without medi-| ty gang captains to court, ,usually cal aid in the police cell. Reply of) without conviction after trial. Capt. | the police official in charge to the! 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