The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928. rage Three French Harbor Workers Demonstrate Wit GREW OF LINER , PARIS STRIKES; /— WALK-OFF SHIP Authorities Use Clubs | At Demonstration LE HAVRE, France, Aug. 2.—| Heavy. detachments of armed police Were pacing the Havre docks and quays yesterday following an at-| tack upon a demonstration of har- | bor and marine strikers carrying the Red Flag, in which the authori- tes fractured the skulls of a num- ber of the workers. The struggle with the police was | vart of the demonstration resulting from the attempt of the ship own- ers and the municipal authorities to man the trans-Atlantic liner Paris with navy men hastily drafted as | strikebreakers. The crew of the Paris began to wo out on strike early in the day and before the sailing time prac- tically the whole complement had struck and joined the harbor strik- ers on the docks. Attempts of the authorities to enforce the decree of the ministry of the interior, issued several days £g0, ordering strikers not to inter- fere with sailings for the United States, resulted in the struggle on| expounding to a fascist audience. ‘The Fascist Captain Leaves “The captain is the last to leave his shiv,” has been a good old saying long enough, says the Acht Uhr Abendblatt, of Berlin, but Mussolini has changed all that. “The fascist captain leaves his ship first,” is the new slogan which the blackshirt leader is here shown the quays and afterwards, as a Poa demonstration and police raid, in the WARN A 6 A | N ST city. The Paris finally sailed with a Must -Fight Against Imperialists sketchy crew of French navy men hurriedly pulled together from con- tingents which had been rushed from Continued from Page One the social democrats must be inten- Brest ‘several days ago when the sified, particularly against the lat- strike first broke out at Le Havre. No immediate settlement of the ter, because they are the most dan- gerous. walk-out is held possible by lead- The Communist Parties must re- ers of tne strikers while the gov- ernment and the ship and dock own- member Lenin’s words that the “boy- cott of war” is only a stupid phrase. ers persist in their present attitude. The Communist Parties, however, dt are not opposed to mass actions, like the refusal to accept military serv- Trade Unions, Farm- ice and boycott when used as sub- ers Active in Drive ordinate measures in the struggle to transform the imperialist war Continued from Page One into a civil war. Such actions, how- ¢fl; Carl Brannin, of the Federal ever, must be strictly distinguished Labor Union and the International | from pacifist humanitarian phrases. Labor Defense; Rev. M. H. Mar- |The parties. must strive to. prevent vin; John C. Kennedy, director of |the mother count: ym sending the Seattle Lahor College; W. D. | troops int foe colowfes. The par- Lane, Farmers’ Grange Associa- ties have not done enough revolu- tion; James A. Duncan, Seattle tionary propaganda among the Auto Mechanics Union, and many troops. others. Furthermore the Communist Par- To this state-wide prominent speakers from outside recent important events as for ex- the State of Washington are being ample the occupation of Shantung, invited. Invitations have been ex-/| the entrance of the Soviet Embassy tended to Frank P. Walsh and to and the Arcos raids and the murder Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. The In| ot Voikov. ternational: Labor Defense is orgarf- | izing a state-wide tour on. behalf! War Industries, of the Centralia defendants. Among) The struggle against war, how- the speakers will be Carl Brannin|¢veT, is now the most important of the I. L. D., John C. Kennedy of | task before all the parties. Factory the Seattle Labor College and oth-| SToups must,be f , particularly ers. Meetings are already sched-|in war i tries and at the docks. uled for Brannin in Bellingham, When war comes the parties must Anarcortes, Auburn and Everett. | Strive to prevent the reformists from Resolutions demanding the release, Placing the trade union apparatus of the Centralia prisoners are be-| at the disposal of the capitalists. ing adopted in unions, fraternal or-| The illegal apparatus must be built ganizations, farmers’ granges’ and up and more attention paid to na- elsewhere throughout the state. | tional minorities. When the imper- A statement issued yesterday by ialists declare war, the Communist the I. L. D. says: | Parties must find weapons to over- “Tt becomes. increasingly clear throw the centuryyol 'y and. es- that 1¢ the Centralia victims are to | 8 one » (Ap. be restored to the ranks of the la- 9 bor movement, an organized move- | At the proposal of delegates from ment of protest of working men and | North and South America, the Con- women only can effect this. The gress then despatched a telegram lumber barons and their govern-| of greetings to the workers and * mental lackeys want tg see all fight- | peasants of Nicaragua and the gal- ers for labor in prison. The work-| lant army of independence under ing class must fight to free them.” | Gen. Sandino. (Daily Worker Talks, No. 1). 1Gora SCHEME To FOOL MV Boss_ri1 Wolk ” rich. fish,” they say. ‘He still him. Equal opportunity!’ join a union if you paid him slave!” States. +. ca * * * * * conference | ties have not reacted sufficiently to | SPIES RULE AT DE LAVAL FIRM But Workers Hav | Them All Spotted @ontinued from Page One when they were discussing factory problems, and the labor situation as a whole. Recently a man by the name of | O’Brien delivered several corner speeches in this city. We all read in the papers that he was going to talk on the menace of Communism, or something to that effect. I went |down to hear him, together with | several other workers from the De | Laval plant. As we reached the |spot of the meeting, I noticed that \a big car was parked about fifteen |feet away from the place where| | O’Brien was holding his talk. I time, and walked up into the crowd | that was gathered around the soap- box. Factory Hired O’Brien. | After a short while, a man caine out of the car and walked up to O’Brien while he was taking a rest. It was our factory superintendent. |He spoke to him for about ten minutes, and then walked away. I am sure now, just as every other company. I am sure’ also that among the workers who listened to O’Brien was a crowd of company stool-pigeons, taking in every worker in the plant who attetided the meeting, and listening to every remark concerning O’Brien’s at- tack on the Workers Party. Since I made some rather strong remarks about O’Brien’s speech being the bunk, I am thoroughly prepared to be fired now any day. Waking Up. I want you to know something ebout the general feeling’ in the fac- tory. Until a short. time ago, the workers knew nothing at all about what was going on in other factor- ies and in other industries all over the United States. We knew noth- ing about the Workers Party which fights for better conditions for us workers. We knew nothing about The DAILY WORKER that ex- Soap Bubbles Sure, he has a scheme that will beat the boss! “I will work like hell and save my money. Then I will be- come a boss myself.” His head is full of these notions. “Tt’s a free country, everybody’s got a chance to be A few more soap bubbles—illusions ! The bosses laugh among themselves: “The poor swallows the bait we feed Democracy! He wouldn’t . Never went out on strike in his life. Thinks the Bolsheviks are the devil. A fine There are 20 millions of these slaves in the United the Ship First _ didn’t think -anything of it) at the worker in the DeLaval plant is sure, | |that O’Brien was in the pay of the| HOW. CAN WE WAKE UP THESE STIRRING MILLIONS? If every reader of The DAILY WORKER passed on his copy of the paper to another worker—if The DAILY WORKER had a correspondent in every factory, mill, mine and shop—if every member of the Workers (Communist) Party under- stood that our paper can be built only through the earnest, disciplined co-operation of every Comrade— HOW LONG WOULD IT BE BEFORE THE BUBBLES WOULD BURST? . (Tomorrow: Phony Pony). AUTONOMISTS. IN OWN PARLIAMENT IN YUGOSLAVIA Is | Belgrade Session Declared Dull BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Aug. 2. —Declaring that the abbreviated | parliament which met in Belgrade |for 15 minutes no longer repre- | sented Jugoslavia, the parliament of the . Croat-Democratic coalition, meeting in Gagreb, called upon all the non-Serbian nationalities to fight against the Belgrade hegemony. Prebitchevitch, the democratic leader, delivered the key speech, in | which he denounced the Belgrade | parliament as being responsible for the shooting on June 20, and de- |mounced it as a Serb hegemony | which could no longer be tolerated. Resolutions were passed which | pointed out that when the Yugoslav |kingdom was created out of the | Croats, Serbs and Slovenes each na- tionality was to have an equal | status, but that the Belgrade regime |had betrayed the nationalities. The resolutions then went on to declare |that the Parliament which met in Belgrade had no power to act, es- pecially in matters of finance and international affairs, for ‘the only deputies present were those belong- ing to the Serb party. The Serb | Agrarian Croat Peasant, Democratic, {German and part.of the Moslem parties were not represented at Bel- |. be in the trade unions, being secretary of 200,000 | grade. The final resolution called for a coalition of all the nationalities, against the Belgrade regime and offered reformist measures for a \Unrest Against Gomez ‘Regime in Venezuela ‘Grows; Report “Plot” BARRANQUILLA, Colombia, Aug. 2.—The Colombian newspaper |La Prensa, reports that several wo- }men had been arrested in connec- |tion with a revolutionary “plot” | against the dictator of Venezuela, | Gomez. ‘he newspaper also reports that the “plot” had become so serious that Gomez has.prepared a ship to make a quick departure for Europe if necessary. Meanwhile the strict censorship existing thruout Venezuela, and.the | | strong measures of the dictatorship | do not permit any further news of | the revolt to leave the country. eo Rae STN | PAINTER SUES COUNTY | MILWAUKEE, Wis. Aug. 2.— | Allen Weiler, a painter of this city, | is suing Milwapkee County for | $6,032, which,“he contends, is due| him for work he was forced to do as a .painter while confined under his protest as insane for 16 years. plains our fight in‘terms of the \class struggle, showing that our struggle is the struggle of all the | workers in the world. Now we know. “Daily” Showing Way. | Most of the workers here are still |backwark, but such articles as | those which appear in The DAILY | WORKER, and such phoney speeches |as the onés made by the company- |paid faker O’Brien are gradually opening their eyes. Soon I hope we will be able to organize a strong | union here, and really fight for our rights. I am going to send other stories! about conditions and events here to| The DAILY WORKER from now on. It is thg only paper in America that prints what we workers write about our own lives. —DE LAVAL WORKER. The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHME” . 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Continued from Page One To expelled from the S. P. with the Left Wing in 1909 ary party bureaucracy in the State of Washington. W. and took an active part organization’s activities. y the reaction- He joined the I. W. that He ited Europe in 1910, spending thirteen months there, studying the labor movement. Foster’s Record. During the war Foster was active the committee that organized packing-house workers in 1917. After this, in 1918, he was secretary of the committee that or- efor : |ganized a quarter of a million steel @ | new constitution and new elections. | workers and conducted the great steel strike of 400,000 workers. Foster made a trip to Rus in 1921, attending the congresses of the Communist International and the Red Internationa! of Labor Unions. Upon his returf to the United States he declared himself a Communist, and has since been active in the Communist movement. Foster is most " polific writer ,in the American revolution- ary movement, having produced more than a:dozen books and pam- phlets, his est—“Misleaders of Labor”—being considered one of his most valuable contributions to the literature of the Communist move- ment. Gitlow Active for Years. Gitlow, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, has been actively engaged in trade union work since 1913, first in the Retail Clerks’ Union and later on in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Gitlow ‘joined the socialist party in 1910. In 1917 he was elected to the New York State Assembly on an anti-war platform and in opposition to conscription. He was one of the organizers of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party in 1918 and opposed ér, and three companions who started a trans-Atlantic hop with Newfoundland as their place of destination were reported to be down in the ocean with liners rushing to their rescue yesterday. A diagram of the Dornier-Napier flying boat used in the ng tod Yen Hsi-shan, gov- m the conference the wrong tactics of the Russian Federation Group, and was one of the leaders who organized the Com- munist Labor Party. John Reod, who died in Russia afterwards and is now buried near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, was associated with Git- low as editor of the Voice of Labor, a Left Wing organ. In 1918-1919 Gitlow .became con- nected with the Revolutionary Age, edited by John Reed. Gitlow was the first revolutionist in the United States to be placed on trial for being a.Communist. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, three of which he served before the mass prot of the workers forced the govern- ment of New York State to release him. He is now under indictment for alleged violation of the criminal syndicalism law of the State of Michigan, said violation consisting of attending a Communist conven- tion in the town of Bridgeman, Ber- rion County, in 1922, To Cover Many Cities. Gitlow has been active in the poli- tical and industrial work of the Party since it was organized. In May, 1923, he took over the editor- ship of the Jewish Daily Freiheit. The Foster-Gitlow tour will cover every important city and agricul- tural center from Boston, Mas- sachusetts to Portland, Oregon. On the southeastern swing San| Angeles, | Omaha, | Francisco, Oakland, Los Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, In- dianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Birmingham, New Orleans, and At- lanta will be covered. Then they will travel north, speaking in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D. C., Phila-| delphia and Pittsbugh, Pa., and the principal Ohio cities, both tours end- ing about the same time on the eve of the balloting the first week in November. In addition to the Party’s nation- al standard-bearers many other speakers of prominence will be toured. Scott Nearing, one of the} most popular platform speakers in. United States, who was ex-| the pelled from universities for his radical views, author of several books on economics, is scheduled for a national tour in the Com- munist election campaign. Saw a Waa OID aaa aa aw a This simple diary critic. life—richer and to a dusty brain. Price, THE DIARY OF A- COMMUNIST SCHOOLBOY N. OGNYOV, What does a boy of twelve think about in the land where workers rule? Russia has puzzled many a wise bourgeois New standards, new ideas, a new things seem at first unlikely and fantastic But the “Diary” speaks for itself. Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street ‘ | New York City == of a schoolboy in Soviet more creative. Such $2.50 ance with Feng g Kai-shek lation here Peking, sup- r ng by rail, a plea of sickness n later at Tai LABOR TO HONOR SACCO-VANZETT! Chicago ‘Workers Meet Aug, 22 CHICAGO, Aug. 2—The tragic memory of August 22nd is dawning on the consciousness of Chicago workers as the first anniversary of the misdeed approaches. 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