The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW ‘YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928. ewe 3 Page Three Colombian MEMBERS WILL RESIGN IF ANTI. DILLAW PASSED Attempt to Regain’ Barco Oil Fields BOGCTA, Colombia, Aug. 6.—In what is seen to be a renewed at-| tempt on the part of the American Gulf Company to regain its Barco oil concession of 5,000,000 acres, three: cabinet members threatened to resign when President Abadiay Mendez confirmed the cancellation of the concession. The concession was cancelled by the previous administration on the ground that it had not been de- veloped according to contract. When the present administration con- firmed the decree Minister of War Rengifo, Foreign Minister Uribe and Minister of the Interior Arrazola threatened to resign. The Colombian administration had recently declared all oil legislation void and passed a new oil law which is designated to make United States oil investment easier and which gave special concessions to the! Standard Oil Company of New Jer. | sey. The new oil law created a) national company, under the control | of the Standard and Andean Oil Company (a British controlled com- * pany). | Mussolini Denounces the North Pole in Private “Take it out of mu sight; I never want to see any more poles,” in these words, Benito Mussolini, fascist premier of Italy, denounces the North Pole in the privacy of his own study.~ Since the facts came out about the Italia expedition, the blackshirt leader has had an aversion to the top of the , globe, vee I M4 DWISION GROWS ~ IN NEW KILLING Croatians Oppose Net- tuno Pact ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, Aug. 6.— The national division between Serbs and Croatians was sharpened today when the editor of the Belgrade newspaper Jedinstvo was shet and killed by a Croatian railway worker as revenge for the shooting of Paul and Stefan Raditch in the Belgrade parliament on June 20. The Jedinstvo is held responsible by leaders of the Croatian Peasant Party for spreading hatred against the Croatians and directly inspiring the assassination: of Paul Raditch. A few days before the shooting in the Belgrade parliament the Jed- instvo arged that “Raditch and Pri- hitchevitch should be murdered for Jugoslavia’s good.” After the shooting the paper wrote, “Yet more Croatian blood must flow.” In spite of the protests of the Croatian | party leaders the Belgrade govern- ment did nothing to suppress the | paper. In the meantime the two separate retary Kellogg who lives in Si Paul. The Foshay concern has re- fer weivcuccat os © EXPOSE BRITISH U, S, PUPPETS American Capitalist Grabs Power, Light System in Nicaragua cently bought up.numerous small electric light and other utility prop- jerties in Portland, Ore., and other | western cities, and has issued large | amounts of stock which it is selling WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (FP).— | to the public. The Managua deal is Public utilities in Managua, capital | said to represent an outlay of $800,- of Nicaragua, have been taken over | 000, and to include the electric light, by the W. B. Foshay Company, of | water and ice systems. (Daily Worker Talks No. 4). Bea Bolshevik ! | RAIL BETRAYAL Tom Mann Writes to Daily Worker | Continued from Page One The chairman undoubtedly |men would have struck him and that he would have gone to public | meetings with the evidence of phys- struggle as there was took the form |of pulling and pushing, and so on, | but it was physical force all right, | who declared are opponents our ecouomic freedoin by means of force. .Reformist Tactics. The disturbance arose over the fact that several Minority men had | been elected as delegates to the con- ference from Scotland, but the old official crowd in Scotland refused to grant credemtials to the men so Gov't Controls PANAMA CITY, Aug. 6.—With \hers of the Minority Movement. |the election*of Florencio Arosemena assured by *the with- hoping that one of the Minority | drawal of the Porras opposition can- didate, an unofficial check of the polls indicate that the government ical combat on his features, which | party has acquired the overwhelm- would have been a good asset had ing majority of the 45 seats in the it so happened, but it did not. Such | national assembly and irythe munici- was | previously WIN IN PANAMA === Wins ‘Victory’ pal councils of all the districts. A complete victory in the general ‘deliberately resorted to by those | elections was assured the govern- of ment forces when the Porras party physical force and say they will not | withdrew its candidate, Dr. Jorges be identified with we revolutionar- | Boyd, who is at present in Wash- jes as long as we favor realizing |ington, and declared last Thursday that their party would not vote, During the voting the entire po-| Second lice force and militia were on duty’ just opened here, was marked by a| throughout Panama in order to pre-| vicouis attack on the Communist vent opposition to the government-| Party by former Premier Vander- | | controlled elections. | parliaments continue to hold their sessions, one in Belgrade, which claims to be the Jugoslav legisiative body, Ahe other in Zagreb, which is composed of the Croatian-Demo- cratic autonomists. BELGRADE, Aug. 6.—A-» com- |mission of the abbreviated parlia- Polls; | ment which is meeting here, minus the representatives of the Croatian Peasant Party and the Democratic party which total about 100 depu- ties, has ratified the Nettuno con- ventions, which gives the Italian Adriatic. has declared that whatever interna- viod and represent only the will of |the Serb hegemony. | Reformists ‘Attacks Communists, Supports Kellogg Pact BRUSSELS, Aug. 6.—The first session of the third congress of the International, which has |velde of Belgium who called the panies’ proposals are: “The immediate » withdrawal |Communist “traitors to the work- ing class.” of Cabinet May Resign in American-British Struggle Over the -SERB-CROATIAN One States has been the growing numb. training of pilots and amateurs »v shows the debris of a Waco bipla ford flying field, N. J. killed in the disaster. control, The wreck of the results of the increas Staro M. Steiger, German military ace, wa Air Militarism Comes to Grief in Crash ‘he ng air militarism in the Uni er of accidents due to insufficient who attempt to fly. The picture which crushed near the Cran- ne was caused when a student lost GAL TAKES PEEP AT IRON MINES ‘Slated for Steel Boss, Is Rumor Continued from Page One fice of the Oliver in the Lyceum Bldg. is the center of the spider web of steel trust esponage which radi- ates to all points in the iron range }and the head of the lakes. Any worker who failed to take his hat off to Cal would be spotted and re- ported ‘to the Lyceum Bldg. Any worker or friend of a worker dona- ting a quarter or half dollar to the Communist campaign funds would er of the thousands in the steel trust or to raise relief funds for the | the Oliver company. | Cal, a Steel Stockholder. | It is this sort of corporation that his service to the Morgans in Washington. He is also a stock- holder in the U. S. Corp., just as Chief Justice Taft of the U. S. Su- preme Court draws $10,000 a year from steel trust securities given him by Andy Carnegie. Open or con- cealed, Steel has its minions every- where, Mexico’s Revenues | Exceed Estimates Hand in hand with this denounce- | OREGON T0 NAME CANDIDATES Plan Nominating Meet for August 12 With the arrival of Sorenson in Oregon, the work of placing the names of the Workers (Communist) Party candidates on the ballot is being pushed, and all signs indicate that the great timber state of the northwest will soon be among the states where the exploited workers and farmers will beable to vote for William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low on election day. Candidates of the Workers (Com- government special rights on the|be similarly blacklisted. Any work-|munist) Party in the state will be nominated at an electors assembly | The parliament at Zagreb, com-| employ who helped arrange a meet-| meeting to be held.on August 12 at posed of the Croatian opposition, | ing to get Tom Mooney out of jail) 2p. m. in the Public Library meet- tional agreements entered into by’ striking miners or textile workers|im& Toom, at 10th St. and Yamill |the Belgrade session are null and | would be marked for persecution by |Ave., Portland, according to a tele- |gram received at the headquarters of the National Election Campaign | Committee, 43 East 125th St., New Congress | Coolidge is to be promoted to after | york City, Sorenson has issued an appeal to | sympathizers as well as all members |of the Workers (Communist) Party to be present at this meeting. | The members’ of the Workers | (Communist) Party in Oregon are conducting a vigorous. election. cam- paign by mail and through speakers. | Owing to the bad economic. situa- | tion in which the workers are placed in the state, the workers are dis- contented with the rule of the old parties, and are readier than ever to listen to the speakers of the Work- NEW ARGENTINE LAW WILL BAN WORKERS PRESS Grants’ Immunity Gov. Editors Only BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 6.—A move for new legislation against the to working class press was instituted in the chamber of deputies here to- day when a press bill was introduced which granted immunity from ar- rest for all editors who swore alle- giance to Argentina. The bi arrest will grant immunity from to all those editors who will indicate their support of the pres- by an oath of All editors who refuse this oath will be liable to ent administration allegiance. to taki arrest, If the bill passes the chambers, it is generally believed that it will be used as a legal excuse to suppress all trade union, working class and revolutionary publicat’ons. LEAGUE SCHOOL TO CELEBRATE CLOQUET, Minn. Aug. 6— The Young Workers (Communist) League Educational Courses here will hold its commencement program on Saturday evening, Aug. 11. The program will consist of a speech by a student, musical num- bers and various other numbers, all being course talent. In addition, there will be a speech made by one of: the instructors. After the pro- gram, there will be dancing with good music. These courses are being held in various parts of the country to edu- cate the youth in the class move- ment of today. Training leaders of the youth from our own ranks is a important task of | these courses. All workers of Cloquet and sur- rounding territory should come to the course commencement. Let’s come and give encouragement and inspiration to the youth going out into the class struggle. ALBANY, N. Y.—About 100 per cent of the 98,984 industrial ac- cidents fer which compensation was awarded the past year in this state the whole of the war bonus, the ment of the Co i I the | mmunists for keep- cancellation of payment for night | ing class lines distinct the ekicreck work, Sunday duty and overtime; listened to excited praise of the elected, but did issue credentials to others who had not been elected as involved injuries to boys and girls MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6 (UP).— | ers (Communist) Party, and to read | inder 21 years. Mexico's revenues for the first six Communist literature, Sorenson re- i WHAT PRICE CHAMPIONS! Fifty millions of workers would recognize the photograph at the left. Possibly two hundred thousand would know the other person. In this striking incident is revealed the backward- ness, the weakness—yes, the disgrace of the working class. é * * * * * Gene Tunney, champion of the prize ring, million- aire, ignoramus, in spite of his touted interest in the arts, fighter for his own petty ends—retires to spend his quickly “earned” fortune—how? Ben Gold, leader of the heroic fur workers, much- jailed, slugged, poor, so that at times he cannot pay his room rent—will never retire from the fight which, in the immediate sense, is not his own battle at all, but that of others. And only yesterday the combined forces of reaction and betrayal—the labor fakers, the boss battalions, the police squads, were forced to acknowledge defeat in a struggle of two years’. standing. The battles of Gene Tunney have no significance for the positive developments in society except to retard them. ° The fight which Ben Gold is leading is the very fabric of those developments. * * * * * Ben Gold by himself has little or no' significance, he * weighs just a bit more than half as much as Tunney; he is only two-thirds as tall; he has no more than one- third the strength of the champion of the padded ring. But Ben Gold’s work will stand long after Tunney’s very name will have been forgotten. . IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO BE A CHAMPION. YOU MUST BE A CHAMPION: OF THE WORK- ING CLASS! Today that means more and more definitely: Be a Bolshevik! . It means to build the organization of the Bolsheviks. It means to support the official organ of the Bolsheviks. y It means to become a writer-fighter for The DAILY’ WORKER. - BE A BOLSHEVIK! (Tomorrow: Hysterical Hokum). |, 9, , ’ delegates by the workers’ votes, so when the properly elected men turned up at the conference they were refused admission to the con- |ference floor as they were without | credentials, so they made their way |into the gallery and commenced to l|address the conference from that position. A sequel to this and con- tinuation of it took place yesterday jin Glasgow, when the Scottish miners’ executive met and the Min- ority delegates attended ard en- deavored to participate as delegates | (which they were by election), and |as a consequence the chairman, Bob | Smillie, sent for the police to come and put the Minority Movement men out of the hall. This was done.. Of course the matter will be fought out, and whatever happens in re- gard to this particular case the rev- olutionaries will triumph, not with the miners only, but in the other industries also. 300,000 Miners Jobless. It is well known that there are three hundred thousand fewer men working at the mines than was the case a few years ago. Then there | were 1,250,000 working in and} about the mines. Now only 970,000. The output of coal is practically the same as when the larger number were at the mines. The explanation a guaranteed week, which would embrace all time, whether overtime, Sunday duty or night work.” Today these proposals are receiv- ing attention at the hands of the union officials. Such outrageous conditions would never have been suggested but for the absence of all militancy on the part of union ance to the companies ta help them to stabilize their position. Before this can reach you I expect some vigorous action to be taken by the militants, which you will learn of by cable. Sends Creeti I enclose you our invitation cir- ference of the Movement at the end of August. By the subjects enumerated you will gather the character of the confer- ence. I very much wish you were coming to be present at the confer- ence sessions. ers. Fraternally yours, TOM MANN, is that machines have taken the} coal cutters and coal conveyors. | The government themselves admit that there are fully 200,000 surplus miners under existing conditions. All they can suggest is migration | or emigration. The real remedy is, therefore the six-hour day instead of | the eight. Attack on Wages. The difference between the atti- tude of reformist trade unionists and of Minority Movement men is seen clearly in the case of the rail- ways. It is our constant attitude to fight continuously for the raising of the standard of life, and there- fore never to consent to a lowering of the standard of life of the work- ers to make it easier for the bosses. Meetings have been held recently between the officials of the Rail. ‘waymen’s Unions and the compan. jes. The rank and file have not been consulted on details, but J. H. Thomas, the political secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, asked the men to trust their offi- cials in any. negotiations. Now the companies have told the officials they must tell the men they must all submit to serious reductions, Ever since the war the mer have received a war bonus to meet the Jincreased cost of living. The som- place of men, especially mechanical | _ of course, in reduced working hours; | \f Going anywhere Any time Over any Line Tickets over all lines, including Tourist, sold at established rates. Ren-entry Permits, Visaes, good reservations. SERVICES FREE Information about travel to all parts of Europe. Illus- trated folder on request. — COME WRITE OR CALL —— A. WESSON & CO. 309 East 14h. N. Y. 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