The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1928, Page 3

a ~ wos Fage Three THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928 Polish Miners’ Walk-Out Ties Up Coal Districts as Thousands Down Tools for a Day DOMBROWA AND CRACOW FIELDS ARE PARALYZED Men Demand Living Wages WARSAW, Poland, While tension grew between the Lithusnian and Polish governments, thousands of Polish coal miners yesterday walked out on a one-day general strike in protest against conditions existing in their industry. The strike, which comes out of rank and file agitation in the form of a decision of the Executive Com- mittee of the miners’ union, was an- nounced several days ago. By noon yesterday the walk-out was complete in the Cracow and Dombrowa districts, where the en- thusiasm of the men for the general walk-out was great. In Upper Silesia the walk-out was nearly com- | plete. | The miners have warned the oper- | ators that the present strike is only a foretaste of what will happen, | provided conditions in the coal min-| ing industry are not remedied at once, At present the men are earn- ing as low as 50 cents a day. Using the strike as a threat to frighten the government, the coal operators are attempting to bully the Polish government to give them ®@ subsidy in the form of cheaper) freight rates on export coal. The | railroad officials in the government | have not done this to date. | NEW EVIDENCE IN CENTRALIA CASES, Committee to Fight) Pleas upholding police control over 000 merger of the Consolidated Gas| porienists ercore |. of < formar Vrach | public meetings in private halls, ac-|Company of New York and the for Liberation | | Continued from Page One dax‘ to sit in the court-room in their July _ 26.— | Obregon, Victim of Standing with heads uncovered Clericals, Is Buried at the.bier of Alvar - Obregon, president-elect of Mexico, recently assassinated by Jose de Leon Toral, a tool of the clericals, many of his associates paid their last reapects to the dead. President Calles is indicated by arrow. Obregon was buried in the mountains in his native state of Sonora. By the wish of Obregon, no religious ceremony was permitted at his funeral. APPEAL AGAINST POLICE CONTROL In Philadelphia An appeal to the Superior Court at Philadelphia will be taken from the recent decision of Judge Ales- | sandroni of the Court of Common | | cording to an announcement made| Liberties Union. The’ decision, | CONTINUE FIGHT FOR GAS HEARING Fight for Free Speech Injunction Is Planned Against Commission Adhering to its ruling of a week ago, the big-business controlled up- state Public Service Commisison re- fused again yesterday to allow op- ponents of the proposed $1,000,000,- Brooklyn Edison Company to present their case in the interest of gas and jyesterday by the American Civil/ light consumers in New York City The official stand taken was that uniforms and’ intimidate witnesses) handed down July 16, involves 16| 9 person not owning stock in either and jurors; of the thirty or more arfidavits showing a raid on the hall before any shooting; of the scandal school for witnesses at. Montesano during the trial where each witness for the prosecution was schooled in preparation for his false testimony; of the lynching and mutilation of at least one who dared to oppose; and so on in an endless chain of treach- ery, tyranny and injustice ‘that would make Nero blush for shame.” He tells of the formation of a new committee for liberation in the Northwest; of a visit to the parole board with a group including the secretary of the Tacoma Central Labor Council, a vice-president of the Washington State Federation representing the Spokane Labor Council, and of Charlotte Todes, Seattle secretary of the Interna- men arrested for “disorderly con-| duct” on February 12 when the) Philadelphia Council of Unemployed | attempted to held a Lincoln’s Birth- | day meeting in a private hall, de- | spite police refusal to grant a per- mit. | The police, acting under orders | from Superintendent Mills, accord-| ing to the Union, blocked entrance to the hall where the meeting was | scheduled, and when some 500 men| went to another hall, lined up and barred the door to that also. When speakers within the second hall at- tempted to speak from the windows, the police entered the building and made arrests. Although Judge Alessandroni’s ruling releases 10 of the 16 defend-| tional Labor Defense, who als0| ante’ beeawe ot ate le defend heads the Centralia Liberation Com-| gence, it aims ay sitesi es mittee. q 2 posed on the other six by the magis- ‘ trate’s court, and holds that the po- ‘or-the freed of the|,. A P Centralia’ men, he concludes: Lets) ee have supervisory Power over do this one thing well; let’s bring to-| Meetings, and that no meeting may gether all the power at our com-|be held if they prohibit. it. maudete farce the: release“of our} Got Liberties Union contends that noble brothers who have stood the| the police have no legal right to cen-| brunt of the fight to organize the | S0r meetings in private halls. Re- | peated efforts to get a court ruling were unavailing until this case David Wallerstein, Phila- Appealing to all workers to join | The of the companies was entitled to any consideration in the matter. Grafters Head Commission. Chairman Prendergast, who in 1911 was the city comptroller of New York and who together with Mayor William J. Gainor and the entire cit,' board of estimate and |apportionment, were bought up by the traction trust, and George R. Van Namee, Tammany politician who led the Smith pre-convention activities, were the only members of the commission on the bench at yes- terday’s hearing. The Public Committee on Power may seek to enjoin the commission from proceeding to a decision on the ground that a proper hearing has not yet been held, it was announced. Huge Merger. It was recently revealed that the Koppits Gas and Coke Company of| Philadelphia, a Mellon concern, has bought deeply into the stocks of| both the Consolidated and the Edi-} son companies, and that the proposed merger will be merely a final step} in the formation of a huge, single- controlled light and gas trust ex- WORLD CONGRESS HEARS WORKERS PARTY PROBLEMS Balkan Situation Also Discussed i Continued from Page One supply most of the cannon fodder | during wars. Stabilization is very shaky in the Balkans, he said, and the bourgeoisie is not able to find a stable founda- tion. It is impossible to solve the dif- ferences between Italy and Jugo- | Slavia peacefully hence the danger of war. The social democrats in the | Balkans are assisting the terror | against the revolutionary workers, | this fast must therefore determine By every means at the command IlLtrained pilots and novices who Militarist Propaganda Keeps Air Victims Mounting partment is preaching air consciousness in order to prepare the ground for ited States war de- he coming imperialist war. flying itself have been the of its publicity and propaganda experts, are carried away by the exhilaration of Principal victims of the government's propaganda. The picture shows the end of one such tragedy where two occupants of what was once a plane. crushed to earth at J rsey City. | the Communist attitude to the social eo = | democrats. The Communist Parties | §) 5 | of the Balkans have overcome severe | crises. meine DISRUPT RELIEF Py r then declared that Dunne, of the United States, had spoken only for himself, whereas the rest |of the American delegation agreed : * | with Bukharin, American imperial-| Washington Meeting ism is not exhausted, he said. The j Ss growth of capitalism does not ex- Is Big Succe s WOODLAND, Wash., July 26.— clude the growth of internal con- | tradictions. On the contrary, the students of the Woodland Workers’ rapid_growth of the economic and | schoo] were refused a hall here yes- political power of American capital: torday in which to meet for the pur- ism has caused severe internal and pose of raising some funds to aid external conflicts. the starving miners. Undaunted by The increasing radicalization of the efforts on the part of local au- the American masses is present thorities to prevent any gathering, only in certain industries and does | the worker-students held an outdoor not embrace all the decisive sections | meeting, of the proletariat. On the contrary, The meeting was greeted with out- a tendency toward “becoming re-|jursts of enthusiasm on the part of spectable” is still presen in cerain | the workers gathered to listen to the sections. " speakers. It is probably the first The Central Committee of the open-air meeting at which so much Workers Party has corrected the op-| as $17 was collected. 4 The local business interests, which leaders, who are now accusing the|in the first ance had urged Central Committee of opportunism. | the authorities here to refuse a nall Youth Movement. |for the miners’ relief meeting were Blenkle, “of the German Young | angered by the success of the meet- Communist League, declared the or- i and threw stink bombs among ganizational situatton of the Young | the throng. The meeting, however, Communist Leagues unsatisfactory, Continued with the same high spirit though not stagnant. There has been Until its end, notwithstanding the a falling off in membership in the attempts to break it up on the part Communist Children’s Leagues, °f business interests. dren’s leagues are growing. The Communist Parties must support the Young Communist Leagues, he | declared: Hannington, of Great Britain, FORM A UNION then asserted that Bukharin’s analy- sis failed sufficiently to treat the unemployment problem, which is one of the greatest questions of the day. a The Communist International will recently, decided to organize into a make a mistake if it neglects the| union and affiliate themselves with unemployment question, as the un-|the Actors’ Equity Association an employed workers represent a great! A, F. of L. union. The meeting was CHICAGO, July 26—A _ mass eeting of chorus girls, held here tending from Philadelphia to Boston with its pivot point in New York. Arkansas to Vote On Anti-Evolution | sentatives factor against capitalism. called by Ann Lord and Loretta| Clevinger. | Pra Po Arrest | The latter stated that there 2,400 150 Workers Red Day PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (By Mail).—In Prague 150 workers were arrested because of the Red Day (July 5). Many of the arrested were put in chains because they shouted revolutionary slogans. At the intervention of the Repre- Hruska and = Landa- Stychov in the name of the Red Aid delphia attorney who has conducted the cases in the lower courts, will | represent the Union in the appeal. | The first state-wide anti-evolu- some of the prisoners were freed. chorus girls in Chicago and that they all are underpaid and must work | jany number of hours their em- ployers demand. The new union | will demand a minimum wage of | _—_ $35 per week for city girls and $45 per week for girls on the road. They will also demand a regulated work day. | RESTS WEARY BONES—Paris |(UP)—President Doumergue has left to spend his vacation at the of- |ficial summer capital at Rambouil- Rails have been made on the nu-| et, merous local werkers’ « rganizations and on the homes of Communist | | | tion referendum ever held will take SANDINO OFFICIAL r, 3 | place in Arkansas, Nov. 6. |Chemists Produce | Synthetic Rubber Mexicans Demonstrate EVANSTON, Il, July 25 (UP). | Solidarity eae synthetic lumber has been pro- duced by chemists as another item | Continued from Page One \in their farm relief program, it was | can minister in Tegucigalpa, has at | brought out at the institute of chem- * the country’s eastern harbor a pro- istry at Northwestern University fessional murderer, Ramon Mondra- here today. gon, from whom I had to flee in| ‘order not to become a new victim.” | “What about Sandino’s malaria?” the correspondent inquired. “That is a fairy tale to divert the Ameri- | can people’s attention from the fact | that an unprecedented outrage is be- ing committed in Nicaragua and to hide from them the numerous cas- ualties that have resulted from it. The rumor of Sandino’s ailment is similar to the prophecy of the chief officer of the marines relative to the . extermination of Sandino and his_ followers before the beginning of the rainy season. “Gen. Sandino and his men are in corking moral condition and I am | able now to state, quoting him, that the enemies’ casualties amount to | very near 1,800 men, and that the arms with which they are fighting for their liberty were and are being taken from the American head ma- rines. A battle was fought some time ago out of which not one ma- rine came out alive, although noth- ing of this was reported by Secre- tary of Navy Wilbur. The mere! nomination of Cancada to the presi- dency will not be the signal to end the fighting, as Sandino has set as on imperative condition the imme- diate evacuation of the Nicaraguan soil by the North American imper- ialist marines.” Machado carried with him the credentials given him by Gen. San- | dino authorizing him to represent the Nicaraguan government, { | At the last session of the Ar- kansas legislature, 1927, the Roten- berry Anti-Evolution bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote} of 51 to 46, but was defeated in the) senate by a vote of 16 to 14. Adopt-| ing a new strategy, which they threaten to employ in every state having the initiative and referen-| dum, the fundamentalists have filed a petition for a state referendum. The American Association for the functionaries. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your BE: MODERN IMPROVEMENTS ECTIONS: Take ferri St., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad to Berkeley Heights, N. J. BERKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1. The chemists are bringing before | Advancement of Atheism will take the farmers new methods as to how (the field against the fundamental- their supposed useless articles may ists. Its president, Charles Smith, be turned to profit. They have em- a native of Arkansas, will leave Phasized the use of corn stalks and | within six weeks for Little Rock to straw in development of new ma-| establish a campaign base there, and terial, and O. R. Sweeney of Iowa will return there early in October State College today added this new to aid in the fight against the anti- industry to the list. evolutionists. DAILY WORKER: ANNUAL PICNIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 10 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT PLEASANT BAY PARK ADMISSION 35 CENTS IN BULGARIA Working Class Editors in Prison BERLIN (By Mail).—In the Tem- pelhof court three workers were tried on June 27. Ten witnesses were called. The story of their crime is as follows: At the celebra- tion of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet Union the “Leunalied” was sung, and the police felt themselves to be insulted. One of the accused, Max Kube, was beaten down by a policeman’s club. Unconscious and SOFIA, July 26—The fascist regime has renewed its persecution of the workers’ and peasants’ or- covered with blood, Kube was drag-|°° ° ea ep ged into a auto, taken to the pe,|@@nizations. The first victims o lice station, treated there for eight | the offensive are the editors of the weeks, and until today is disabled. | working class press. Now he sits on the accused bench, together with Hertwig and Henschel, who attempted to protect him from further mistreatment by the police. ae a The charge is: resistance to the|°f the trade union paper “Edins: state power. Kube was also charged |twi.” The editors with hitting an officer from behind. | handled in prison that the editor of Witnesses swear that Kube|the Natschalo, who was thrown into neither sang nor did anything, but) a dark cell, went ona hunger strike. The following were put in prison: Two editors of the “Novini,” the editor of the “Natschalo,” the editor were so mis- ROSARIO STRIKE GROWS AS PEACE BID 1S REJECTED Power Plant Workers Back Carmen ROSARIO, Argentina, July 26— The water works workers, whose early participation in the big Rosario walk-out formed one of the links which made the strike virtually a general strike, even in its early stages, have refused an offer of the s to return to their jobs om own terms that grant them more thane” they originally demanded. Their re- fusal to return to work is am ex- pression of solidarity with the other trades now out in the city. The move on the part of the power plant officials to break the strike of the carmen, dockers and transpor- tation workers was met with .@ united resistance on the part of the workers. The solidarity of the electric plant — workers with the rest of the strikers has left the impression among hun- dreds of strikers that the general strike movement is gaining impetus. In the meantime the harbor traf- fic of Rosario, the second largest port in Argentina and one of the grain centers of the world, is com- pletely paralyzed. Shipping agents here adopted a resolution unani- mously declaring their intention of continuing the boycott of the port. All shipments of. grain have ceased and 300,000 tons of grain are lying on the wharves awaiting ex- port. HEADS STRIKEBREAKERS, CITY, L. 1, July 26 in Wheeler of Elmira resident of the New York State Association of Police Chiefs today. He had served as vice-president last year. (UP).— was elected without much ado was beaten by the police. The sluggers, however, told another story. And the court de- cided energetic use of the police had prevented a heavy slaughter. Kube was sentenced to 75 marks fine and 15 days in prison. 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