The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FicnTs TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ NMENT FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928 MENICAN POWER, Brac To Fe HANGS FIRE IN Fordized. By | MOVING EVENTS anos on DETROIT, July 27.—The Henry Reactionary Leaders Published datly except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union 8q., New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. HOOVER FORCED SLAVE LABOR | DEAL ON LIBERIAN REPUBLIC Ousted by Clericals LEADERS ATTACK F R ACTIONALISM AT WORLD. MEET Urge Its Liquidation in | mee Ford expedition has left to take possession of the tract of valuable! “Get Workers Party (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July 27.— The ninth session of the Communist World Congress of the Communist International opened here on the y-fifth of July. Much of the fon was taken up with a dis- ion of the problems facing the merican Party. Cannon Speaks. of the United States stated that the right wing in the United States constituted a grave Cannon, He also declared that a jority of the Central Committee f the American Party fail to realize that the progressive radicalization of the wi ers and their opportunist | Luis N. Morones, until recently Play for Calles MEXICO CITY, July 27—The | confederation of Obregon parties of |the Republic, the “C. 0. P. R.,” so- | called, largely under the direction of | Soto y Gama and Manrique, the two agrarian leaders who head the | reactionary agrarian forces in Mex- ico, today adopted a program which they declared is “more radical” than that on which the recent Obregon campaign was based, but which | shows, its true purpose in an attack on the workers’ and peasants’ or- | ganizations that form the core of the revolutionary movement. Issued with the purpose of divid- | ing the forces cf the peasants, the Amazon, purchased from the ¢ soa RIV MILL —. MEN ASK RAISES acres of jungle land, will give an i annual yield of rubber sufficient to make tires for 2,000,000 of Ford's automobiles, and will give Ford an bor for many years to come. 4 pata In spite of the opposition raised | LMC in Call Demands by members of the Brazilian con-- More Pay, Less Hours gress, who claimed that the govern- | 2.— low price and should have held out | Cancellation of last January's wage for more, the ships bearing the ex- | cut, together with an increase of 20 pedition are equipped to meet all| per cent. above the old wage scale. emergencies tor a period of two) is among the demands announced by The tract, comprising 5,000,000 INNEWDEMANDS opportunity to exploit Brazilian la- ment has sold out at a ridiculously; FALL RIVER, Mass., July years. | the Textile Mill Committees from its SHOWNAS TOOL OF FIRESTONE IN AFRICA VENTURE Forced Big Loan; Set’ Up 25¢e Day Wage A, July 27.—Indict- 1e bert Hoover, presi- dential nominee on the repub- lican ticket, on charges of |having conspired with the big line prevents utilization of their) Labor Secretary in the Calles |Progtam includes a number of so- “ my. tract covers an area greater headquarters in this city. imperialis tone rubber in- fighting possibilities. The same op-| cabinet, whose resignation wae |Ci#! reformist provisions on the 12. that of the state of New Jer-| The demands though not as yet terests to strangle the Negro ye | questions of land distribution, rural 8 | i portunism presented the application of the decision of the Red Interna- tional of Trade Unions regarding the organization of the unorganized | The majority of the Cen-| workers. tral Committee committed serious erfors in all fields, he said. The majority deny the right wing dan- ger and seek to mask their own op- portunism by misrepresenting the standpoint of the minority. He con- cluded by declaring that the Comin. |of milf workers here, a = —— tern must correct, these right wing rian reactionists apply to labor or- PICNIC TODAY lems posthperol peng iroed| | ANKING ROWS i ALF MILLION IN pian Bepublic, under ie, aiaaae {rrors because the majority was ganizations antagonistic to them. | | five-day week, equal pay for equal & 3 aetaes ee wk a ad . ie me | i H ated” vy future A: n_ presi- D BN oe ‘of the United States, | | seems caret eer |work, no discrimination agains’ dents. Hoovers strong drive tan am | Bittleman, of the Unite ates, | | attention from the real meaning of Unusual Program St bain matabers and pacoienition- cd pene : eee ee | caid that the majority of the Amer- lits attack by declaring that “only ‘ 2 ee ler republican pre : ican Party has the wrong idea about those elements menacing genuine Ulmer Park Affair | Mie tay ea ay Big ao Ly is thus disclosed a preliminary the growth of American. imperial- | revolutionary labor and no other men - | s move to benefit directly from an ism. He said that both the diminu- tion of production and the market- ing difficulties being encountered by American capitalism both at home and abroad increase the danger of war. He made a demand that the Communist International correct the American Party’s policy. Weinstone’s Speech. Weinstone, of the United States, declared that the Cannon-Bittelman forced by the clerical reaction now in full swing in Mezico City. Latest dispatches reported him_in hiding from the clericals. Mor- ones, a typical “Gompers of Mex- | ico,” more noted for the wealth | he has made out of the labor | movement than for his courage, is only a pawn in the game. IMPORT POLICE _ (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 27 (UP).—Calls for outside police aid education, building of roads, labor legislation, etc. The true import of the demands made are, however, indicated in the emphasis it lays on what it calls |“the necessity of purification of the | revolutionary movement through re- |lentless elimination of those ele- | ments creating the situation which | has resulted in the assassination of Obregon.” This description the agra- directing the labor party” are being fought. At the same time “El Dia,” the sey and after the engineers are! | formally presented to the mill own- |through developing it is expected | ers, have been printed in circulars to be a thoroughly Fordized and ef- | that have flooded the city for the ficiently sped-up rubber producing | Past few days. center. The situation here grows tenser chinery preparatory to the general strike call. This despite the police terror, headed by Chief Tansey who is alyo head of the reactionary unior Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, will today | tionalities, British, French, Portu- be the scene of one of the greatest | Euase and eo rhage “a eo | working class picnics of the year—| daily mass meetings held by the Thou- T.M.C. Union speakers in all the each day as the T.M.C. builds ma-| Photo shows New Bedford, textile pickets being arrested by local police immediately following the issuance of an edict by Judge Mil- liken that “picketing is a nuisance.” Takes Treaty Without Misleader Welcomes Low Wages as Victory went from this city today in antici- | official Obregon paper, launches a |the annual Freiheit picnic. pation of trouble tomorrow when the | bitter attack against the National sands of militant workers textile workers’ union plans to stage | Peasants League, the militant or- |New York and vicinity will be pres- | parade despite mayor Charles Ash- nization of the poor peasants, and |jent at this nicnic which will also |ley’s refusal to grant a parade per- jattacks also Adelberto Tejeda, lib- be in the nature of a demonstration Fait: : \eral governor of Vera Cruz. for the newspaper that has been It was learned that police from) alles is still playing a waiting in the forefront of so many work- from | enumerated languages address the enthusiastic gatherings. AGW HEADS OUST Equality PEKING, China, July 27 (UP).— American Minister MacMurray and T. V. Soong, of the Nationalist gov- ernment, signed today the new Chi- nese-American trade treaty of July LONDON, July More than half a million textile workers were hit by a lockout effective August 11, announced today by the Master Spinners’ Federation. | Republie of Liberia were made today in an official report to the Mandate Commission of the League of Nations Hoover Deep in Rubber Plot. The indictment reveals that Hoo- ver who about two years ago carried on a bitter k against the Brit- ish imperial rubber monopoly, was the instrument of forcing the Lib- imperialist adventure with which he is connected and whose administra- tors he would appoint*if he is elected next November. Forced Labor 25 Cents a Day. The program mapped out for the Liberian republic by Hoover, the re- port charges, will result in the ac- tual confiscation of the lands of the natives so that they will be held in - " issue i battles. ayaa | “for, bor.” 2 a one Fall River, Brockton, Cambridge, | #me and refuses to issue the formal | ing class 25, i ich’ Chi s grant bf Je) efancive | “forced labor,” under the whip of opposition was artificial and char- | ang police squads from other Ea |acceptance of the Morones resigna-| The Freiheit Sport Club will oc- | ree in which lies gr shat iy On every hand, the DEtene ye lhe deletinan capitalists. An ageale acterless, He said that the minority | yassachusetts cities, would augment tion. He appears to be letting the cupy a leading place on a program | dom to assess tariffs on American | qoainst the workers is going for- 2 ‘was equally responsible for all party errors, as. for example,.the open let= ter to the social democratic leaders. {In May, he said, the minority ap-| ‘proved the letter of the Executive | Committee of the Communist Inter- bantam) demanding political con- jsolidation and the decision of the {|fay Plenum of the Central Commit- \ f: were unanimously adopted. He ‘bid that the minority has only al- ered its standpoint here. The Whole party, he said, has made mis- takes but the Central Committee has corrected the mistakes. Measures have already been taken to improve the work amongst the forces develop. The general situa-|of unusual interest. tion, is. still complicated. If Galles. Should remain as president two | years longer undoubtedly the pea-| Hebrew American League, the Har- sants’ and workers’ movements will|lem Progressive Soccer Club and be weakened through internecine at- New Bedford’s regular force of about 175 tomorrow. Poe aay NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 27. —Mayor Ashley, arm of mill barons Three soccer teams representing this club will. play against three other teams: the Organization Drive Had” Assailed “Fake! | goods. Japanese newspapers here attack the United Statés, saying thé treaty represents a deliberate attempt to |embarras Japan. * * ward, with efforts to force *consid- 4 erable reduction in wapes. 7 | Railroad workers were sold out by |the union officials in a “settlement” today which will mean considerable in City Hall, has again refused to grant a parade permit to the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union, subsidiery of the Textile Mills Com- mittees, on the, grounds that exist- ing conditions art too “tense.” tacks. obliged to base his strength on the | reactionary elements which will not |permit Calles to remain but will impose a provisional president on December 1. Probably either a Calles will in that case be | \the Co-operative Sport Club. In addition, there will be many other interesting features that exposing the so-called organization promise to make this picnic a mem- | drive of the officialdom of the lorable affair. Tickets are selling | Amalgamated Clothing ; |fast and can be bought at 35 cents | Union here as a fake, Nicholas Flai- PHILADELPHIA, July 27.—For Workers. |each at the office of the Freiheit, ani, appointed as drive organizer * wage reductions. WASHINGTON, July Al-| The settlement, reducing the though negotiations for the signing| wages of the railroad workers, was of the tariff pact with the Nanking|hailed as “a triumph for British government had been in progress|common sense,” by J. H. Thomas, since last March, the State Depart-|«Labor” Party leader in parliament ment expressed “surprise” that it|end formerly president of the Na- Leaders of the textile strikers’ or- ganization, in a statement issued last | night, denounced Mayor Ashley and Chief of Police McLeod as having deliberately created this “tenseness” |Sonora militarist, or Saenz, the former foreign minister, will be their choice, in which case elections are | to be called in less than two years. Such new alignment would proba- by the right wing before they be- |gan the campaign, was removed | from his. position. Flaiani, in an open letter to Presi- dent Millman, had scathingly de- |30 Union Square. CLERKS PLAN TO had actually been signed. In view of the fact that Kellogg had expressed his . willingness to have other gavernments participate tional Union of Railwaymen. NORWAY GREETS ment was forced upon the Negro Re- public by which labor will be eom- »pelled to, ser'sethe. Firestone cor: — poration at wages ef 25 cents per # day. The report which is the result of an investigation made by Raymond Buell, formerly a professor of his- tory at Harvard University, traces the details of Hoover's connection with the Firestone Rubber interests and reveals the “inside” story of the support given by the Secretary of Commerce to the company. The re- port shows that the acceptance. of the loan forced*upon the Liberian government by the Firestone in- Pri i in the negotiations, while MacMur- <A sai 7 Negroes. | ‘The central Committee by a whole week of terror against |bly result in a severe struggle with nounced him and his staff of drive ray had conferred secretly with the veronta wae pus ove oo a i abhor Parent basta of the Trade | picket lines in order to have an ex- | Proletarian forces. leaders as desirous of organizing a Continued on Page Five ver exerted the pressure of his offies 18 | Unions and hence the slogan is only propagandist. The organization of a Labor Party is only possible Continued on Page Tyhree SECRECY HIDES RELEASE OF KUN To Be Exiled to USSR, Reported » VIENNA, July 27.—Complete sec- ey shrouds the release of Bela un, Hungarian Communist leader. vhose liberation from an Austrian prison is due today. Following his release, Bela Kun is to be exiled from Austria, accord- ing to the decision of the Austrian government. If he returns he is to be turned over to the Hungarian police, at whose hands a certain) death is to be expected. The Austrian government an- nounced that he will be taken to | Continued on Page Five BUS HEARING ON The present chief obstacle to the new unification of the workers and | neasants is Luis N. Morones, former | minister of labor and industry. His presence also strengthens Soto y Gama and Manrique, who are lead- | | ing the peasants toward the camp of |the employers for union conditions | PICKET STORES | company union instead of leading |the workers in a struggle against and recognition market. He was removed, it is now seen, for denouncing a leadership that in- in the open-shop ‘Union Calls Members| to Demonstration all its members to come to the of- BE HELD AUG. 27 ARCTIC RESCUERS Warm Welcome.to Sov- iet and Swedish Flyers and that of the state department against the little republic. GERMANY GIVES | reactionary Obregonism rather than it i, ist “ 7: . " f 5 | NEXT THURSDAY toward a new Astacio These |_ The Retail Grocery, Fruit and ae thin Pes ars te Bil NARVIK, Norway, July 27.— W ith | elements are gaining strength | Dairy Clerks’ Union has called UPON | rreeting of unorganized Italian the miserable failure of their “ex- ‘Smith Supporter to Be | Rewarded | The Equitable Bus. Company | which has been granted a franchise | by the Tammany Hall administra- tion to operate buses in Manhattan, | Brooklyn and Queens, will be given | its final hearing before: the New | York State Transit Commission | next Thursday in connection with its application for a certificate of convenience and necessity which is required before the franchise be- comes operative. No opposition on the part of the _commission is expected. The chair- man of the body, John F. Gilchrist and another member, Leon G. God- Hey, are both immediate followers of through their attacks against the | unpopular Morones. The situation | is very complex and various tenden- | cies not yet crystalized are in evi- | dence. * * MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Two | thousand textile workers at Rio, Blanco have been locked out. The} payroll Of these workers is seven | hundred thousand Pesos per month. 4 MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Lead- ers of the reactionary agrarian par- ties, and specifically Soto y Gama, who several days ago were predict-_ ing armed revolt unless Calles con- |sented to the complete elimination \of “labor” leaders from the govern- ment, are today, outwardly at least, seeking to find a “legal means to | avoid” the threatened armed action. |the Bathgate Avenue stores, in the| ‘ workers. Allessandroni is a hench- a4 hides poli elder ac Aven! man and tool of the labor-hating picketing demonstration in front of Vt machine. Bronx, where a strike is now in Hillman was trying to prove to the progress. the workers Bronx, where the demonstration be-| 4 fore the stores will take place. Hillman had publicly stated this as In the event of workers being |his position. The Amalgamated unable to arrive at the office of the | chiefs, in coming here several weeks will proceed to the more profitable for them to have union rather than non-union shops. union at 9 a. m., the union asks that ago, had also issued an edict nulli- | they proceed directly to Bathgate fying all the powers of the Phila-, Ave. open-shop stores from their |delphia local and Joint Board, be- homes. There they will be met by cause they showed a desire to lead | the remaining members coming from a real «truggle for unionization. PORTER REMAINS FINE PROGRAM AT Flaiani had also pointed out that | From the union office employers here that it would be) Talk of USSR Partici- pation in Berlin PARIS, July (UP). — The | French government sent out invita- tions today to fourteen nations to participate in the ceremony of sign- ing Secretary Kellogg’s pact to out- law war. The ceremony is to take place at the Quasi D’Orsay, August 27th. * Views on Invitation of USSR. BERLIN, July 27 (UP).—Adher- ence of Russia to the Kellogg peace plan continues a topic over which there are lively exchanges of opin- ion among diplomats here. Germany, apparently acting on her own initiative, informally sound- ed out the United States and Soviet ~ * ploration expediticn” now known to all the world, General Nobile and the other survivors of the Italia dis- aster are being carried to Italy in a closed and guarded railway coach. The Swedish party which aided the Soviet fliers and the icebreaker Krassin in their rescue remained in Norway. The Sovet and Swedish rescuers were continually cheered as the train carrying the fascist group left the station, in marked contrast to the jeers and hisses which greeted the Nobile party upon its arrival. : Although a bit of the inimical comment has partly died down since the departure of the Italian group, the ill-feeling which the Norse peo- ple feel against the hastily-prepared Nobile publicity stunt that caused the death of Malmgren and the loss Men Who Tore French Flag Extradited BERLIN, July 27 (UP).—The powerul united Fatherlandish as- sociations have issued a pronounce- ment that August 11, anniversary of the adoption of the German con- stitution, should be a day of na- tional mourning instead of celebra- tion. The pronouncement reflects the indignation of the nationalists re- garding the extradition demanded by French authorities in the Rhine- land of three Germans who were sentenced by a French court to prison terms for alleged defamation of the French colors. the border in complete secrecy, and} 41’ sath, Charles C. ‘Lockwood, | Position of Sadhe: SOLIDARITY FAIR seo ge Sah rosa oes of Captein:Rosld Amundsen and his| (May ‘Affect “Peacc™ Sigua that he will be closely guarded. The the third member of the commission | ‘The change in their attitude was MILITANT REBEL 4 Fecred the incuiry te their’ covers, comrades, was still evident in most! yt was charged the men tore the peat oy ahhoeae Ravine: ee though a republican, is no less amen- | preceded yesterday by the announce- Aa ll | ‘hana. wih of the cities of the country. tricolor after which they escaped tempts to approach him or if an | able to the wishes of the traction | ment of Aaron Saenz, governor of Pal at The Berliner Tageblatt’s Wash- sisAin abe oa doesn into unoccupied German territory. is attempted: and bus ring operating through the | Nuevo Leon, that he would support i f! To Demonstrate for ington correspondent cabled hit, WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP), The German government decided to escape is attemp Saves’ He Will Continue | From the frontier it is arrangec that German police will escort him to a port where he is to be placed on a ship for the Soviet Union, ac- cording to the announcement of the Austrian government. mmigrants Find No Work in Dominions SYDNEY, Australia, July 27.— The opposition of Premier Bruce of Australia to the plan of the British Transference Board to relieve un- employment by immigration, indi- cates that the unemployment crisis of the British Empire is not con- fined to England. Premier Bruce today said that, the economic situation in Australia was too serious to allow the absorp- tion of more workers. He further objected to the “trans~ fer from Britain to Australia of an unemployment problem which Britain was unable to solve.” Tammany Hall administration, The leading figure in the Equit- able Bus Company is William H. President Calles. Saenz, who is one of the powerful leaders in the coun- try, was the campaign manager for | Woodin, the millionaire president of | the assassinated Obregon and is re- | the American Locomotive Company |lated to Callies. Originally Saenz Miners Aug. 5 The Miners’ Solidarity Fair at | Pleasant Bay Park Aug. 5 will be Fight for Workers | In a letter to Paul Crouch, writ- ten from a prison cell at the Fort newspaper that questions in the best informed quarters in Washington | President Clarence Cook Little, of |the University of Michigan, has led to the conclusion that the United been appointed a lieutenant colone! States would not object to Russia’s| in the specialist reserve corps of the participation in the pact. army. who several days ago announced his support of Al Smith for the presi- ‘had himself indicated his desire to | oppose Calles by announcing his | Adams Guard House, John Porter, sentenced to two and a half years \by court-martial following his ac- tivities in the textile strike at New Bedford, again expresses his mili- tant attitude, in spite of the pres- sure of the officers to force him to (turn traitor to the working class. | Porter has been given to understand that he would be released within a month if he would turn against the workers and publicly repudiate his | position, Porter’s letter to Crouch follows: dency. Continued on Page Five FIRESTONE PROSPERITY For Which Coolidge Commends Liberia WASHINGTON, July 27.—Presi- dent King of Liberia received a message of congratulations today « historic friendship and understand- ing,” said President Coolidge. It is génerally thought in official from President Coolidge upon the anniversary of the founding of Li- beria. “I send to your eiicellency cordial greetings on this auspicious anni- versary and best wishes for the con- tinued prosperity of your country. to which we are bound by ties of circles both in the United States and Liberia that the Firestone Rub- | ber Company, which has virtual control of the republic, will achieve | “continued prosperity” in Liberia and that the “historic friendship and understanding” between the involved parties will continue. s ¢ “Guard House, ja demonstration by the entire left wing movement of solidarity with the heroic miners. The affair is being held under the auspices of the National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, 799 Broadway. Among the unusual features at this fair will be the first showing moving pictures will be taken of the Solidarity Parade at the fair.in which workers’ clubs will partici- pate with banners and slogans. Many other interesting numbers | freshments will be served. of a mine strike film. In addition, | WORM GATHERERS UNION 58 Boys Strike; Win 20 Percei:t Raise TORONTO, Can.,-July 27.—Local The worm-workers, undismayed by | workers in one of the most ancient | the company’s stand, did not appeal |of industries, worm-gathering, have to the department of labor or to formed a union and staged the most the mayor; they sat tight, refusing | successful strike in recent labor in-|to get any more worms for the bait | dustry. | company. | will be included in the program. Re- | When 58 boys formed probably The company’s best efforts to se- “Fort Adams, R. L., |the first’ worm-gatherers’ union in cure supplies failed, and anglers history and turned on a local bait |continually demanded fresh bait “Dear Comrade: you, but I had very many letters to answer, and 1 haven’s mush Continued on Page Five “July 25, 1928. | trary to early reports, Polish mili- | tary maneuvers will not be held in | the Vilna district, ” WARSAW, July 27 (UP).—Semi-| company with a demand for a 20 from them. “Pardon my delay in writing to | officially it was announced that, con-| yer cent increase in rates per 100 days afterward, the company was | worms, the company refused to con- sider it, thinking the grievance ‘would blow over after a few days. As a result, several |forced to make a complete surren- jder to the strikers, granting their | demands in full, comply with the extradition request. Compliance of the government with the demand and the conse- quences it entailed may cause For- eign Minister Stresemann to refrain from traveling to Paris to sign the Kellogg peace pact August 27, it was believed here tonight. “Peasant Party” Holds Session in Rumania VIENNA, July 27.—While Ru. manian parliament composed mostly of “liberals” who are allegea to have obtained a majority in the last \election by fraud, was in session, | members of the peasant party and their representatives to parliament held: a separate parliamentary ses- sion. The peasant party, composed mostly of rich peasants, profes- |sionals and large land owners, we summoned to the special session by (their leader, Julius Maniu,