The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1928, Page 1

‘ dred miles from Peking. * * * RECOGNITION OF ‘ makes regarding the Monroe Doc- Sepp Te nc ESE NaS cA GAEL AR THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WE EK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Daily FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Voi. V., No. 180. Cublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RA’ yen’ ___ Price 3 Cents TROOPS BAYONET NEW BEDFORD STRIKERS, JAIL 300 Outside New York, by maf Chinese Worker-Peasant T voops Take Southern Cities; Revolt Looms in Canton WAR LORDS KILL SEVENTEEN; JAIL 149 IN NEW RAID Troops Revolt Against’ Militarists SHANGHAI, July 30.—With Lin- Kiang captured, an army of ten thousand workers, peasants and troop; in revolt against the Kuo- mintang war lords are marching on Chang-sha. The army was reported to be thirty miles from that city last night, Reports of the wildest alarm in| Peking and Nanking have reached | here from those cities together with | the information that four Kuomin- tang army corps have been dis- patched to Lutai and Lanchow. which they will occupy in event that the worker-peasant troops have not captured them before the arrival of the forces from the north. These cities are not more than one hun- CANTON, July 30.—Thousands of troops in Kwantung province re- ported to be on the verge of revolt | have thrown the Canton authorities into a panic and resulted in the re- newal of executions on a scale that approximates the persecutions of 1927 and the early months of this year. Seventeen workers were executed yesterday, charged with participat- ing in Communist activities, and 149, including nine girls, are in prison, Belief that an uprising of the workers and peasants throughout the province is inevitable is increas. ing the vigilance and the terrorism of the authotities” and raiding’ par- ties are making house to house searches throughout the city. NANKING. NEAR Other Imperialist Pow- | ers Object | WASHINGTON, July 30.—Dis- | regarding the attacks on its new! Chinese program which have -been| appearing in the Japanese, British | and French press, the’ United States | will carry that program to its logical | conclusion, it was declared in gov-| ernment circles today. | The next step in this program] probably will be an announcement | that the Uniter States recognize the | Nanking regime as the ‘de jure government in China, The announcement is expected te! be made within a few weeks, per-| haps before Secretary of State Kel- logg sails for France to sign the anti-war treaty. In as much as diplomatic relations have already been established by) means of the new tariff treaty ac-| tual recognition will be a mere for- mality. | | EXPOSE: KELLOGG SCHEME AS FAKE Britain and U. S. in Colonial Scramble | | LONDON, July 30.—The antag- onism between Great Britain and | the United States were again brought to the fore today when For- eign Minister Chamberlain, in a speech before the House of Com- mons said that Great Britain is making the same reservations re- garding her right to act in “cer- tain circumstances” under the Kel- logg Plan the United States trine, This means that Great Britain will refuse to resort to international arbitration when matters concern- ing her possession of colonies comes up, but will immediately use what- ever military measures that it sees fit to use, just as the United States does and will. AMSTERDAM STADIUM, July 20 (UP).—Three representatives of the British Empire—a dark-haired, slender Canadian, a broad shouldered Irishman and_a smiling, blond Eng- lish peer—swept the Olympic field , bare of victories today. 60 Hurt as Davy persons were wiuren, seve panic among the passengers. Steel Car Rams Wooden ‘L’ Many were saved from electrocution only by the timely cutting off of the third rail. # Ee Coaches BIG CLOAK MASS MEET AUG. 8 10 REBUILD UNION Will Mobilize Active) Workers Thursday | A huge organization campaign) and a drive to rebuild the. once powerful Cloak and Dressmakers | Union. will be launched with the| holding of a giant mass meeting of | all cloak and dressmakers in Bronx| Stadium 177th St., near Starlight Park, Wednesday, Aug. 8. The mass meeting, called by the) National Organization Committee in! compliance with the decision of the last monthly conference of shop chairman, representing more than 800 cloak and dress shops of Greater | New York, will take the first step towards rebuilding the union which | has virtually been destroyed as a| result of the campaign instituted | against the rank and file by the Sig-| man-Schelsinger clique’ working in| ‘collaboration with the Jewish Daily Forward. Organization Drive. One of the chief tasks to be under- \taken by this mass meeting will be Tat 0 Untueally teat they are not expected to live, when a steel “L” car rammed a wooden coach on the Eighth Avenue Elevated structure at Columbus Ave. and 69th St. Great green flames shot out at the time of the colli$ion causing a FAILTOBREAK REACTION SEEKS HAVRE STRIKE French Sailors Used as| Strikebreakers | PARIS, July 30.—The French | government came to the aid of the steamship companies yesterday | with a decree from the ministry of marine ordering the dock strikers at Havre not to interfere with the sailing of vessels for the United States. When the strikers on the French Line steamship Rochambeau refused to set sail thirty-five sailers from the French navy were ordered to re- place the striking oilers and stok- ers and the ship left for the United States. Taking advantage of the govern- ment’s strikebreaking attitude, scabs ere being rushed from Erest and other ports to replace the dockers on strike, Leaders among the striking har- bor workers, however, assert that the arrival of the strikebreakers will not result in any real change in the | situation at Havre. They are con-| fident that the men will persist on strike until their demands have been granted by the owners. GERMANY GREETS. NOBILE OLDLY ‘HowAboutMalmeren?? Shouted | NUREMBURG, Germany, July) 30 (UP). — A large crowd booed and hissed General Nobile and bis companions today as they passed through here’ enroute from Copen- | hagen to Milan. BERLIN, July 30.—General Um- berto Nobile and the handful of men representing all whom the Sov- iet ice-breakey Krassin rescued from the ill-fated dirigible Italia were dashing across Europe tonight | on their way home. | Curious crowds which gathered at the station when the train pulled out of Halle for Munich, shouted | above the noise of the departing | train. “What about Malmgren?” The special correspondent of the | newspaper Achtuhr Abendblatt re- ported today that he had succeeded | in boarding the train at Warne- muende where he interviewed No- bile. Replying to a question of why he allowed himself to be saved from the ice first, Nobile said his com- panions, “for weighty reasons,” had insisted on this course. Daily Worker Agents, Section 3 Meet Today An important meeting of DAILY WORKER agents of section 3 will be held tonight at 6.30 ny. m., at 101 W. 27th St. All agents must | solve the catholics who are known attend, ‘ an organization campaign to be con-| ducted thruout the trade. During ‘the | past year and a half union condi- | tions have -practically disappeared wages have been ruthlessly cut hours lengthened and the open-shop established on a large scale. The August 8 mass meeting is} looked upon as an epoch-making event for all honest cloak and dress- makers as it will officially launch a ‘movement of national proportio “~~ rwhieh is expected to wrest the \from the clutches of the bureau- MEXICO CITY, July 30.—Man- crats at present in control and re- ipulating forces so as to make it/ store it to the rank and file. appear that labor leaders are re- Three Preliminary Meets. sponsible for the assassination of AS preliminary steps towards | Obregon, Police Chief Antonil Rios — Comtinwed on Page Five | Zertuche, in charge of the investi- | gation, today placed the smreeres ADMITS JOKER IN | TRACTION PLAN Jose de Leon Toral, before a group of newspaper correspondents to Profit Will Be ‘Private’ Says Untermeyer confess his guilt. Toral not only involved indirectly Manuel Trejo, a member of the Mexican Federation of Labor, who Toral said furnished the gun which fired the deadly bullets, but the young slayer likewise sought to ab- to be responsible for the crime. He|, ““mistion that the much-talked of added, however, that he desired to | ‘'@Msit unification plan would in fact: | absolve all persons: connected with Permit operation of the new billion labor organizations. dollar subway by private companies * was made yesterday by Samuel Un- eae SLs Oe 30-—The ex-| termeyer, counsel for the Transit ordinary session 0 congress Font, which was called some time before | scien a Tat eae the assassination of Obregon and! ctotement issued be Maree vin an which is due to assemble today will Waiyer now in ey ee not discuss the presidential situa-| the fate virtually Seen al ati tion, it was intimated. : The congress was originally ealled Li ne a plan which does to receive \the results of legislative valuabl tor the operation of the voting on the so-called constitu- -'¢ ne le lines by his personal tional reforms sugested by General ; i s, the traction officials, Obregori. These changes, which ap- | th Hs eee Untermeyer admitted | pear to have been intended as aj “2at his plan, which has been an- POY IN MEXICO Report on Slayer Due. Socn_ . * |means of increasing the power of |Nounced as one providing for a quasi-_ |the executive, include. decreases in| Public corporation, in fact can be (the number of deputies in congress | Converted, so that private companies and the appointment of federal|™ay profit from the subways built judges by the president. by the city. ) |FRANCE RETAINS DAVIS Vital Party Meeting (CUP; TILDEN BEATEN RCLAND GARROS STADIUM, Called for Tomorrow | pairs July “aon Pounce ee fully defended the Da-ric Cup ugainst the United States today when Henri Cochet, fiery little Frenchman, de- |feated ‘William 'T. Tilden in’ the opening singles match, 9—7, 8—6, 6—4 John J. Ballam, acting district organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, yesterday an- nounced that an important mem- bership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party has been called for tomorrow evening at the Manhettan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. All members have been asked to postpone all other engagements, and to attend the meeting. Rene Lacoste confirmed the French |victorv by defeating John Hennes- |vey, United States, 4—6, 6--1, 7—5, The victories give France four matches out of five. Arresti The extremes of youth and age fighting side by side in the months long strike of the 0,000 New Bedford textile strikers, is graphically shown in the picture, where police, are photographed in the act of hurrying a boy and a man to th * police violence has marked the last few days of the strike. dred and fifty extra police were called in from neighboring cities to aid in suppressing the parade scheduled for last Saturday. : | ng Pickets at New Bedford Mills ~ | “Solidarity” Heard for COMMUNMHSTS OF ALL COUNTRIES TELL OF POLICIES 'Lovestone Speaks for Party Committee (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 30.— Increasing One hun- e police headquarters. HUGE INCREASE IN BRITISH UNEMPLOYE PASSAIC TO HEAR ALBERT WEISBORD To Speak on Relief for New Bedford PASSAIC, N. J., July 30.—Al- bert Weisbord will open the New Jersey’ state drive of the Workers’ International Relief for funds for the striking New Bedford textile workers at a meeting to be held here Thursday evening, Aug. 4, at the Ukranian Hall, President St. “The meeting will be the rallying point for a state-wide campaign in every textile center of New Jersey, to bring mass support to the New Bedford strikers,” Local New York, | W.1.R., which is calling the meet- i a nced in a statement to. night. “Relief and defense for the New Bedford textile workers is impera- tive. The terrorist tactics and power of the mill owners must meet defeat at the hands of the nill workers of New Bedford who are fighting not merely in their own in- terests but for the organization of the tens of thousands of exploited textile workers in every center in the U. S.” Passaic and Paterson are the first cities lined up to put across the drive for telief. The mass meeting here Thursday will be fol- lowed by a house-to-house collec- tion Saturday, and an appeal for funds at the nienic on Sunday. USSR LAUNCHES INTERNAL LOAN MOSCOW, July 30.—The largest single piece of financing in tHe his- tory of the Soviet government was launched today with the announce- ment by Finance Ministery Brukhan- off of an internal lottery loan of 500,000,000 roubles ($250,000,000). This loan, which the government is confident will be raised within a comparatively short time, is expect- ed to stabilize the credit situation in the Soviet Union . rested following an order issued by ¢, | Continuing his speech at the twelfth session of the World Congress of the | Communist International, Evert, of Germany declared that reformist il- lusions among the workers repre- sent a source of right wing danger for the Communist Party. The LONDON, July 30.—While the Policy of the Communist Party has Baldwin government makes fake | been in general correct, he said. Dif- gestures in the direction of allevia- | ferences of opinion had existed, how- ting the grave unemployment crisis, ©V¢T, 8S for example in regards to unemployment continues to mount in the return of Brandler and Thal- a staggering way. heimer but, since the ninth plenum The official figures for the week of the Executive Committee of the | fended July 16, declared to” be “far Communise tional: all ditfer- | | below the actual figures, show a/ ences had been abolished. However, | total unemployment of 1,247,400, organizational action is being taken which is an increase of 4,967 over against the comrades who stand upon | the previous week and about 200,000 the basis of the Essen Party Con- greater than a year ago. gress decision. The coal industry has been partic- Fractional struggles between ularly hard hit and the number of | groups who have no great differences miners employed declined further of opinion make the consolidation of during the week ended July 16, with | the party difficult. The struggle 907,000 miners working, as com-| must be carried on against right pared with 914,300 the previous | wing deviations, but organizational week. A large proportion of these | measures must be the last resort. miners are employed only part time.| The Communist Party is faced WORKER BLAMED FOR “L" WRECK ERP, Forces Arrest |. RIVER MEETING growing aggressiveness of the bour- geoisie against the workers and the Soviet Union. Unity is absolutely necessary. (Applause). Comrades Strachov and Rust Briag tin then spoke. Following the address of Mechor, of Czecho-Slovakia, Losovsky, presi- Continued on Page Two Following the usual precedent set by officials of public service cor- porations who seek to divert atten- tion from their own responsibility for accidents by fastening blame on their employes, the Tnterborough Rapid Transit Company yesterday : : theough ; tts lepal’’ departhient ) te- Police Cooped in Room cured the arrest of Stanley W. Zil-/ Fail at Disturbance lig, the motorman of one of the elevated trains involved in Sunday FALL RIVER, Mass., July 30.— night’s wreck. Zillig was today ar- The ninth round between the T. M. and the Fall River police was Acting District Attorney Ferdinand fought tonight when new ground Pecora. on the northside was opened up and Latest figures put the total of | speakers addressed the textile work- |those injured in the smash-uvs of ers, the wooden-car trains at 67. Seven’ A house which sits in the rear of of those most seriously injured are|an immense yard, with two yards still in the hospital. on each side has been hired by the Notwithstanding that T. M. C. The speakers spoke from the fact wooden cars have repeatedly been the dow on the second floor. condemned and have led to numer- Fully 2,000 workers assembled. ons wrecks followed by injuries and a, usual the chief of police the loss of life, the use of these (F wooden cars is persisted in by both “ moe : i of “bulls” in uniform and plain- the Interborouch and the B.-M. T. clothes were present. During Jack Bail for Zwillig was set for $10,- Rubenstein’s speech, Feeney “got 000 by Pecora, Events preceding |«teqand with all his thugs made the accident are not yet known, it arash on. the ‘house. Rubensteth is believed that a south-bound ele-| controlled the crowd and continued vated train about ten o'clock Sun- nis talk. The full program of speak- | day developed trouble which finally ers was carried out. cin lit ddaah a During this time the police chief ‘eeney) and a large consignment GITLOW SCORES HOOVER AS CO Exposes True Role of Imperialist Lackey in Subjugation of Liberian Workers That Herbert Hoover was given)mission of the League of Nations | the presidential nomination on the | which charges Hoover with being the presidential nomination on the G. 0. instrument of the powerful Fire- Out of the many aspirants for the LONIALOPPRESSOR and his cops were hived up in one of the bedrooms which had no furni- ture in it, where they could not cause annoyance amongst the audi- ence. At the end of the meeting they crawled out sheepishly thru the crowd where the organizers were writing up members in the 2 T. M. C. ‘ions, showing that Hoover was the Other akers\ ware dint Reid, Republican Party ticket because of| instrument of the Firestone rubber | P. ticket, Wall Street decided that stone rubber interests in saddling a ‘h#irman, Sam Weisman, Bill Sro- his services to American Imperial-| interests in forcing a loan on the|this efficiency engineer who has $5,000,000 loan on the Negro re-|k® in English and C. Sameros, in ism in the past and his willingness to continue rendering such services in the future, is the gist of a state- ment issued by Benjamin Gitlow. former assemblyman, and now vice-| Herbert Hoover as the standard presidential candidate on the Work- bearer of the Republican Party in’ ers (Communist) Party ticket, when this period of American Imperial- to his attention, Tool of Money Barons. the report made to the mandate com-,ism and expansicn, is no accident.,commission of ~e League of Na-| to further the world expansion policy Gitlow said: “The selection of| of the financial barons of the United president’ will be the efficiency ex- States, as President. Forced Liberian Loan. “The report made to the mandate black republic of Liberia, was called’ served imperialism so efficiently in public of Liberia, while the G. O, Pp, Portuguese. \the past, is the man best qualified! presidential candidate was secretary 9 DRDWN IN NORWAY OLSO, Norway, July 30 (UP).— pert of American capitalism in the Nine persons, including a man and White House and not the servant of his wife, were drowned in the Sog- “all the neonle” as in sllecod to bo nefjord when a motorboat was over- Continued on Page Three ;turned hy the wash from a steamer. , \ of commerce, proves that Hoover as with great tasks as a -esult of the _ THOUSANDS CLOSE IN ON PRISON AS THEY DEMAND FREEDOM FOR PICKETS Call Out Massachusetts Guards to Hold Massed Men, Women at Bay Blocks Around as the g It in Cells ial to the Daily Worker) eee Mass., ye roused by reports arrested in this police raid are cS afternoon’s being beaten in their cells, thousands of textile workers sing in on the New Bedford jail, demanding the release of their comrades, The Massachusetts: na- tional guard has been called out and a number of strikers are reported to have been bayonetted by the state troops. t The troops are patrolling the city diverting traffic, scrutinizing every automo- bile and holding and ques- tioning pedestrians. No one is permitted on the streets six blocks from the prison as the masses of textile strikers close in. A food truth, which is to carry-eupplicé tothe strikers” who will otherwise go hungry all night, has been held up by the national guards. Reports state that guardsmen and strikers man- ning the relief truck are fraternizing, but officers are alert to prevent successful fraternization. (Special to the Daily Worker) YEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 30. —“Let all the world know that we defy the police to destroy our jines,” With these words flung into the teeth of the New Bedford police, three hundred men and women pick- ets were hustled into poiice wagons and rushed to headquarters here for picketing the Whitman Mill yester- day. As the crowded wagons swung through the city the strikers jammed inside sang strike songs of defiance. While the huge line which Fred E. Beale, strike leader, had “Bre- diererthen speaking in the morn- ing at the North End, gathered around the Whitman Mill yesterday, automobile police rushed up and dis- persed the spectators. This was only the advance guard. By five o'clock they were followed y two huge moving vans full of police, who leaped from their con- veyances and, dispensing with the reading of the riot act, charged the picket lines. Men, women and chil- dren on the line stood absolutely firm. Strikers Slugged. Slugging with blackjacks, the po- lice assaulted men and women with- out discrimination, while over the tumult voices shouted, ome on, comrad nake another line.” Then they began to sing “Solidari and a-long cheer arose. Boos and hi followed the po- , cheers went up for the strik- as the wagons crammed with pickets rolled off to the station house. Inside the prisoners contin- aed singing “Solidarity.” Lead by seventeen-year-old Mary Costa, a doffer, whose mother had ic @ = *already been arrested, a second line formed immediately and proceeded with the picketing. Jails Filled. Other police wagons appeared shortly and the whole second line was loaded into them. Waving with her hand to beat time for the ar- rested pickets, a woman striker led the singing of “Ramboya” in the wagon. Mary Costa wept bitter! because che eee at arrested, ae to the overcrowding of the police wagon. Among the prisoners are Rubin- stein and Pelezar. Many Polish workers were arrested, together with Augusto Pinto,. arrested now for the @Teventh time, f overflowing The jail is” Titled” to and the singing of the jailed men and women in their cells can be_ heard for blocks around. Pe All the arrested pickets have re- fused bail. ‘