The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1923. cage Three Rosario General Strike Forces Reinstatement of Communist and Syndicalist Workers PORT TIED UP AS STEVEDORES CONTINUE FICHT Ousted Men Supported By Workers’ Unity ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. 13.— | The tramwey workers of Rosario, the second largest city of Argentina, returned to work after several | weeks of a most bitter: solidarity strike for the workers who were dis- missed by’ the Belgian-owned com- pany for “political reasons,” that is for belonging to syndicalist and Communist labor organizations. All| the dismissed workers were rein-| stated when the city authorities an- nounced that the concession of the company will be cancelled immedi- ately if it did not resume the serv- ice. General Strike. When the tramway workers ‘ struck, several trade unions, the taxicab drivers, slaughterhouse workers, shoemakers, telephone op- erators, saw mill workers, and sugar refinery workers joined the strike out of solidarity for the dismissed | men. The governor of the province proposed to the company immedi- ately after the beginning of the strike to reinstate the men and thus remove the reason of the strike, but the company refused. All street car communication stopped and the city was without transport facilities for several weeks. In the meantime other classes of workers, who joined the strike out of solidarity, puf up their own demands, particularly the | telephone operators, who are still striking. The employers offered an in- crease wages, but insisted on the | exclusion of the active militant workers, which the strikers, how- ever, refused. Port Tied Up. The strike became general when the stevedores and port workers} joined the strike and thus struck for the second time within a few months, tying up the second largest maritime port of Argentina. ¢ Though Rosario is in the interior of Argentina, it is an important maritime port, because seagoing vessels can go so far up on the Rio de la Plata. The port workers struck again} because the shipping companies did not keep their agreements, reached after the last general strike of the port workers of Rosario, which took place there a few months ago. The port workers’ strike tied up 300,000 tons of grain, which are waiting on the warves for loading. |MOONEY DRIVE IN _ BRITAIN GROWING | Reformists Forced to Join Movement LONDON (By Mail).—Growing sentiment on the part of the work- ers of this country for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bil- lings, victims of one of the most infamous of American frame-ups, is compelling even the reformists to join the swelling ranks of labor throughout the world that are de- manding unconditional freedom for the two class-war victims. The London Daily Herald, official organ of the British labor party, in an editorial of recent date, de- clares, in part: No Doubt of Innocence. “Of the innocence of Mooney and Billings there is not- a shred of doubt. . . . One of the vilest plots ever devised and carried out by cor- rupt officials in the pay of vindie- tive and unscrupulous empioyers of Jabor has been completely exposed. “The refusal of a new trial is due—as it was due in the Sacco and Sea of Workers Greets Class A veritable ocean of cheering workers, massed from the factories and shops of Berlin and other German cities, greeted the class war prisoners whose release the German working class forced upon the capitalists after a long struggle. The picture shows the crowd in front of the Schlesienbahnhof. PIONEERS HAVE “ARMS’ Twenty Berlin Cops Search Youngsters came, An auto filled with eleven and twelve year old children and youthful workers stood there. ? BERLIN, (By Mail). — Bulow- platz. A full patrol of policemen arrive and halt before the Karl | speaker. Liebknecht House. “Donnerwetter! wrong here!”” Criminal bands, auto-thieves, as- | sassins? “Attention! Dismount!” rang the order of the officer. Ha, now everyone knew why they Something is They only wanted to ride to their camp to do some building. “Is that the only object? Can we believe that?” About twenty cops surrounded the children, and searched the auto for weapons! On the command of Zorgiebel, of the social democrats. OPEN AIR RALLY ‘Well Attended | (Special to the Daily Worker) POUGHKEEPSIE, Aug. 13.—) Nearly two hundred workers lis: tent sympathetically at an open air meeting election campaign con-| ducted by the Workers (Communist) | Party Saturday night at which A.| Markoff, candidate for the assembly from the 18th District, was the} principal speaker. A comic feature! to the evening was provided by| Robert J. O’Brien, exposed stool-| pigeon, red baiter, Rotary Club “statesman” of the National Security League who was given the platform for ten minutes to expound the| Babbitt brand of Americanism. Early in the meeting O’Brien had appeared on the scene disguised as an old man with smoked glasses and long hair. Disguise is said to be one of O’Brien’s chief vaudeville de- vices. A little later he discarded the make-up and challenged the} For ten minutes he was permitted much to the amusement of the workers to warn those pres- ent against the dangers of a violent) overthrow of the bosses power. Exposes Boss Tool. Markoff in replying showed that| the American workers should re-| member their revolutionary history with pride. The American nation was born in revolution, he showed,| |and other such events this time in | the interest of the workers ‘will fol- \low in the future. Markoff also| showed the relations of O’Brien with the DeLaval Manufacturing Com- pany for “special work’ in protect- |ing the firm against agitators. About 100 Daily Workers were distributed at the meeting. One hundred fifty Ruthenberg pamphlets were sold. FIND MISSOURI Report “Grotesque” Irregularities ASBURY PARK, N. J., Aug. 18 (UP).—An_ investigation of the Vanzetti case—to fear of the ex- posure it would bring. Sacco and Vanzetti died, Mooney and Billings spend long years in prison, to shield the true criminals—the authors of the’frame-up and their employers.” Mooney-Billings Meetings. The labor movement of England, as well as of the other countries throughout the world, is organizing its forces to demand freedom for Mooney and Billings. The Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is or- ganizing the movement for Mooney end Billings in the United States, states that during the week of the Sacco-Vanzetti memorials in Au- cust, Mooney-Billings meetings will be held simultaneously in other countries. Warren Billings recently ad- dressed, through the I. U. D., a let- ter to the International Class War Prisoners Aid of England, calling upen the workers in England to protest on behalf of himself and his co-prisoner, Tom Mooney. LIQUOR TRADE CHIEF RELEASED. ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 13 (UP). _Wm. Dwyer, former New York “pum syndicate” chief, was released om parole from the federal peniten- tlary shortly after 1 p. m. today. He had served a year and six months of a two year term for vio- laws, lation of the federal prohibition | Missouri primary of last Tuesday {shows “grotesque irregularities,” | Nathan Frank, defeated for the re- publican senatorial nomination in | that state, told the United Press to- | day. Frank said he had just received! | | campaign manager, who he requested |to go to Kansas City and start an |inquiry into charges of fraud made | in a telegram to Frank by David |M. Proctor, who was defeated with | Frank. | “The investigation is not com- pleted by an examination of returns ‘in the first wards (plural) show grotesque irregularities,” Frank said after he had received a tele- gram from Burton in Kansas City. Peru Puppet Again’ Helps Wall Street LIMA, Peru, Aug. 13.—Opening the factories of the state tobacco monopoly, largely financed by foreign capital, President Leguia of Perv declared that they should all be thankful to foreign capitalists for “without foreign capital Peru’s prosperity would be impossible.” ~ The Peruvian government has just granted a huge concession rich in oil, tobacco and timber to United States capitalists, which will also WORKERS PARTY INPOUGHKEEPSIE MAKES APPEAL Communist Meeting Is; Members Asked to Get executioners of the prison hole of| Prepare for Bloody Air Signatures Nar Posner UGOSLAV WHITE SYRIA ASEEMBLY "= C= TERROR GROWING SUSPENDED BY AS CRISIS COMES FRENCH RULER Workers and Peasants Persecuted Nationalist Movement Gains Impetus BELGRADE, (By Mail). — The| PARIS, Aug. 13—As the move- | conspiracy against the leader of the|ment in Syria for independence) | Belgrade political police, Zika La-| grows and the legislative body be- zic, has led the Jugoslav murderers | comes less willing to follow the ad- into a new, frightful terrorization.| vice of the French comm ‘ioner, | |The Zagreb police alone have|the constituent assembly has been |thrown no less than thirty Bul-| suspended for a period of three| | garian and Macedonian students | months by Henry Ponsot, high com- jinto prison. The prisoners find| missioner and governor of the coun- |themselves in great danger. try under a League of Nations man- | Six of the arrested are suspected | date. of taking part in the conspiracy and| The Syrian assembly proposed to have been transported to Belgrade. | frame its constitution in such a way Their investigation has just begun.| that would declare virtual inde- | The other prisoners have not been | pendence for the country, which the | released until now, although the po-| League of Nations and the French lice could not bring any proof at all! government refuses to grant. against them. Under the arrangement with the The police have not stopped at| League of Nations, the French gov- |these arrests. As the example of|ernment, after the suppression of |the Skruptschina murder (shooting|the 1925 rebellion allowed the of Paul and Stefan Raditch in the| Syrians to elect an assembly, in an/ | Belgrade parliament) shows, the| attempt to appease the liberal sec- | Jugoslav police, at this critical po-| tion of the nationalists. Since 1926 litical moment, are attempting to|the radicals in the assembly have |draw the attention away from the|been pressing for national inde- (affair by mass arrests and persecu-| pendence and when the movement tions of revolutionary workers and | became too strong the assembly was especially the functionaries of the suspended. labor movement. ° The press is forbidden to publish | anything about these investigations BRIT|GH PL ANES and persecutions. | BETOKEN ‘PEACE’ | Zika Lazic was one of the most} reactionary leaders of the white ter- | or. He was the leader of the “Black Hand,” which issued orders to the| |“Glavnjaca” in Belgrade. He made} |all Jugoslavia suffer with unbe-| lievable brutality the suppression | Battle Continued from Page One of the labor movement, of the revo-| but lagging in others. There is no lutionary peasantry and the na- LONDON, Aug. 13.—In order to perfect its defense and offensive be used as a refuge for counter- sevolutionary Russian i derabad. excuse for not collecting the neces- sary number of signatures to insure a place for the national and state tickets on the official ballot in states where the Party membership is considerable and the opportunity favorable. “The Central Executive Commit- tee calls on every Party member to devote some of his or her time to this task. No matter how busy you are with other work, you must find some time to do this important Communist activity now. Members who fail to participate in this work cannot be considered to be perform- ing their duty to the revolutionary movement. We are now in the midst of the election campaign. This is the time to get signatures, when the workers are interested in elec- tion matters. This is the time to get them because if we don’t file now, later it will be too late. “The Central Executive Commit- tee of the Workers (Communist) |Party calls on the entire member-| ship to mobilize for this important Communist duty. “Central Executive Committee. “Workers (Communist) Party of America.” FLOOD SWEEPS INDUS VALLEY Natives Flee Rushing Iey Torrent KARACHI, British India, Aug. 13 (UP).—Millions of tons of icy | water poured with terrific force | PRIMARY FRAUD. down the Indus Valley today, sweeping everything before them. The torrent was released when a glacier damming a tributary of the Indus River about 140 miles beyond | Lehin, Kashmir, gave way to 9 p. m. Sunday. Natives Flee. Natives in the path of the de- vastating flood, forwarned, fled to the hills. No telegraph facilities ex- | ist in the valley, but one of the most ancient formes of human com- munication, signal fires, were light- ed on the hilltops and word was passed to the imperilled villages. Canon word sped with incredible rapidity 3 a report from -P. E. Burton, his| through Kashmir, one bonfire pick- ing up where another left off. Pent Up for Weeks. Water had been pent up for weeks in what once was the bed of the River Shayok, forming a vast lake 17,000 feet above sea level in the Karakorum Mountain range, in the great plateau of Central Asia. | When the glacial barrier broke, the water poured down from that rush. It was feared the entire In- dus Valley would be inundated. The bursting glacier was 1,200 feet thick and more than 1,000 wide, It held in check a lake nine miles long and 300 feet deep. Districts May Be Wiped Out. It was feared the Nubra and Shaddu districts would be wiped out within the next few days. All during the night and today, | streams of natives struggled up- ward from the valley to places of safety. Troops were sent from Nowshera to the upper Indus Valley | to-assist in the evacuation. Indus River steamers were ordered to pro- ceed downstream to Sukker and Hy- were fired also and the} great height, irresistible in its on-_ | machinery the British war depart- ment will stage a mock air battle tional minorities. He was known as specialist for) over London which will last for a in Macedonia. | the Serbian terror ; 5 His crimes in Monastir, Ueskub and | me Bs Be abt eane spain Istip only exceed the terror of the|¥'. P@ti1Pa'® |followers of Protogeroff in the| The planes will fly from one Bulgarian part of Macedonia. He| point, designated as an “Eastern has instigated numerous murders of | power” and they will be met by a national revolutionary Macedonians | Victorious defense force. They will and revolutionary workers and | be directed by a perfected tele- peasants and passed over the ter-|#raphic system that will seriously roristic acts of the fascist organiza- | test the efficiency of the British air, tion against the Macedonian revolu- | force. The maneuvers will be close- |tionary movement. Lazic has also|ly watched by army officers who | cooperated in preparations for the Will watch for any defects that will | murders of the Croatian represen. | handicap the British army in an tatives in the Skruptschina, and the| actual air battle with the deadly number of his victims is so great | Poison gas fleet of the “Eastern that it is almost impossible to per-.| POWeT-” ceive from what quarter his assas- brie sination was planned. | LONDON, Aug. 13.—The British | | press is demanding that the govern- | jment disclose the details of the RADITCH | Franco-British naval pact in order | | to appease those who think that it | involves a military alliance between War I German class war prisoner recent amnesty act, wrung from the capitalists by the German work- ers, were hailed in triumph thru their shoulders of their comrades, mu released isoners in Trismoh BRITISH REPEL “MOBS” IN INDIA WITH TEAR GAS Most Human Method, They Decide BOMBAY, India, Aug. 13—The British judge in Simla, Mr. Mar- tins, who has been carrying on an — a, under the terms of the investigation into. the bloody con- |flict that took place a short time ago in the vicinity of Delhi, has the streets of Berlin, perched on embers of the Red Front Fighters. WORKERS TERRORIZED — IN CZECHOSLOVAKI PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (By Mail).— Whoever nts to form a picture of the white terror in the, “democratic” Czechoslovakia _ let him read the following extract from the speech of Senator Herz before the senate plenum on July 12. “In Zeliczovee we planned demon- trations fer July & and they were forbidden. Workers and peasants from the surrounding districts ap- peared in spite of the orde police and kept themseives der. Nevertheless, the police sur- | rounded the people and made a num- ber of arrests. The prisoners were taken to Okresny, where they were subjected to torturous investiga- tions. They were held in jail from eight o’clock in the morning until seven o’clock the next day. Then they were fined with from 30 to 500 crowns apiece and freed. The workingwoman, Esti Evan, was arrested and fined 20¢ crowns because she laughed. The worker, Gobolas, was beaten on the bottom of his feet and besides that sen- tenced te pay a fine of 150 crowns. Josef Liptass, an old religious farmer, wanted to go to church, and was arrested and in this way had to pursue the Christian next life. Gustav Lichner was tortured and suffered, according to the report of the physician, bloody wounds. He bled from the mouth, had wounds on the left foot and upper arm. As a reward he was iined 506 crowns. “We also protest against the il- legal raids. Books and journals have ben confiscated in whole edi- | tions, of which no account is given by the head of the police. Editions ef ‘Lenin and Leninism,’ ‘Fight ——— The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHME” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTION‘ ‘ake ferries at 234 §t., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad to Berkeley Heights, N. J. BEKKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1. | BRING PEASANTS | France and England. | Steamer Is Grounded. ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Aug. 13-|"" Passengers Aboard |The determination of the Croatian peasants for complete autonomy! 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Aug. 13 (UP).— from the suppressive rule of the, The Munsor liner, Munamar, with Belgrade government was evidenced | 75 Passengers on board lay aground today when 150,000 peasants par-|0ff Great Abaco Island today, ticipated in the funeral of their Tropical Radio was advised. leader Stefan Raditch, who died as} The Bahama government tug, a result of wounds received in the| Lady Cordeauz, was reported stand- | Belgrade parliament. ing by and will attempt to refloat| Representatives of the Belgrade|the 3,400 ton vessel at high tide the funeral, in spite of their request |it was said, and the steamer ap- that they be allowed to attend.| peared in little danger. | Peasant delegations placed wreaths} A salvage steamer has been or- mist leader, and the martyr’s crown|of the Munson steamship Munamar, | of thorns predominated—an ex-) Merritt, Chapman and Scott, mar- | |pression of the sentiment for the| ine engineers, informed the United| | Press today. | government were not admitted to|tonight. 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