The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 3

ne its TIT DAILY WORKER, NEW TOeMrT, wom Ay, A UGUST 29 199 , 192 S> German Social De COMMUNISTS IN MOVE TO FORGE “A REFERENDUM Plan to Gecure 4,000,- | 000 Necessary Signers | BERLIN, Aug. 19.—Decision of | the social democratic party to let the critical cruiser dispute drop with | 2n expression of regret following a conference of party leaders at which Nearly 200- participated,, the Com- munist Party has decided to take immediate steps to carry the ques- tion beforé the German working class. A provisory clause in the referendum law, however, making the referendum contingent upon the President’s consent in certain cases, | ™ay prevent the immediate consid- eration of the armament. expendi- ture by the workers, but the Com- | munist Party is taking measures to | secure the 4,000,000 signatures | necessary to force popular submis- | sion of the question. | In the midst of nation-wide re-| crimination and*ridicule, the leaders of the cocial democratic party have met and approved the decision of Chancellor Muelier and Carl Sever- ing, minister of the interior, in ap- proving the depletion of the Ger- Why Scores of Nicaraguan Famil The United States authorities in Nicaragua are now attempting to move a veiled occupation of their country*by American marine forces. some reasons why the Nicaraguans fled. Note especially in the low wrecked by bombing planes. Fled to Honduras scores of families, adherents of General Augusto Sandino, who fled to Honduras for safety after their villages had been destroyed by airplane bombing raids and marine terrorism. herd back to Nicaraguan peonage Hondurans see in the The picture shows graphically er left hand corner the village man treasury by 9,000,000 marks for the construction of the first cruiser Sacto "="! AUTOMOBILE-NEW GIANT The seal of social democratic | sanction was set upon the renewed | German armament policy with the | orders sent the Kiel shipyards Fri- day night to begin work on the Ford and General Motors Competition cruiser immediately, Chancellor By BEN LIFSCHITZ These figures will show what Mueller told the conference in sub-| This is the fourth in the series of Stiff competition there is between stance, Mueller repeated his former state- The articles thus Cerns. ments that the decision of the Reich- Modern Slavery.” far have covered the scope of the Chevrolet “ +++ $585.00 stag and the Federal Council to | industry, the giant mergers and the Ford .. Ee eae build the cruisers left merely the |driving forces to imperialist war. | Whippet 535.00 approval of the expenditure up to . 1. ne | Chrysler. 670,00 the social democrats and have ab- solved them from all guilt in fur- thering armament. This statement has been caught up by the workers and ts being flung back in the face of the social democrats together with the pacifist slogans which helped them win their recent elac- toral successes. Even the reactionary parties, while delighted at.the commitment of the social democrats to armament policy, are seizing this opportunity to discredit them politically. The provisory clause in the refer- endum law states that in questions of the budget or public funds, the The automobile industry has gone! Pontiac |thru fundamental changes since the famous Ford Model “T” appeared in | 1908 in Detroit. The main idea of those who de- 775.00 Note that the Chevrolet is ap- }proximately one hundred dollars higher than the Ford, and that the i Whippet is about fifty dollars lower veloped the first model was to pro-'than the Chevrolet. Chrysler is duce such a car as would be of right on the heels of the other three, greatest use and at the same time The difference in price is even accessible to the average business! slighter than the figures indicate. man and higher paid worker. The|The Chevrolet contains extras that purpose was to produce the car @8/ are not on the Ford cars. The Chrys- fast as possible, paying little atten- | ter is a better built car and is about |tion to durability but depending) the same price when the difference |upon substitution parts in place of! |those sections which wore out/tiac car will cut very heavy into quickly. |the sales of the Ford car. The The other automobile concerns) salesmen of the General Motors are articles on “Automobile—Symbol of |! 0rd and the other automobile con- president has a right to determine whether or not a popular vote shall be taken. Nothing reveals more clearly the satisfaction of the gov- ernment with social democratic ar- mament policy than the official in- timations that Von Hindenburg will never permit the referendum which the Communist Party of Germany has announced its intention of de- manding. Four million signatures are neces- sary to force submission of the armament question to the working class and the Communist Party is initiating a countrywide campaign to secure these. BUMPER CROP IN USSR OVER 1913 Government Is Buying Most Grain MOSCOW, Aug. 19——The Sep- tember harvest shows prospects of being the largest crop ever pro- duced in the Soviet Union, even ex- ceeding the pre-war figures. The 1928 crop will show an index figure | of 116 as compared with the pre- war average of 100, according to re. liable reports from the Urals, Si- beria and Kazakstan. The peasants are only too willing to sell their grain under the favor- able conditions provided by the Soviet Government. The govern- ment grain-buying organization, which is now a cdmbination of the former government and cooperative organizations, is proving its effi- ciency in the collection and trans- portation of thé grain. Provisions are being made tq transfer a good part of the Siber-| jan grain to the. Ukraine, which was hard hit in its winter crop by the unfavorable weather conditions. BRITISH PLAN NEW ARAB WAR CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 19.—Bri- tish preparations for an invasion whose purpose is reported to be the extinction or replacement of Ibn Saud, king of the Hedjaz, are con- tinuing with sporadic airplane bombing raids, according to dis- patches from Irak. The invasion is scheduled to take place in early October after the summer heat has decreased. Growing resentment among all sections of the Near East is report- ed to exist due to the British and French attitude towards the Arabs and Syrians. The dissolution of the Egyptian it has had’ a vio- ; Near pepiaring a more Se See ene | bed quite pa gunecariats slogan, ‘ot keep up very well ai | “Sixes are better than four.” with the Ford which in 1912,1913/ Besides these facts, there are re- cri SO ind eee of 8 The | Ports shat Ford has not reached the istry. amount expected. ti other concerns, therefore, limited | not yet gain Wks eee themselves to the production of/ day, This production should have j higher priced cars, producing more been reached last March, and the of ie auras, Liisi as o and number of employees is slightly in| 1g ie sitgone mot em ibe “ excess of a previous high mark of| |_ However, this condition could not| three years ago when the producticn| iat very long. The utente ie wa around eight and ten thousand! | dustry was growing very fast. Vast /cars a day. fortunes were gained. Capital in) yi, means that up to now the overwhelming amounts went into| rord Company has not reached the the automobile industry to share in) pony Gt wt tun itself, of - |the golden harvest. This lead to @ tion of about 10,000 cast a fav Heche Sa aaa of capital in the Will the Ford Company be able *, . paves s.},|t0 overcome the difficulties it has rae rece gin ation process which encountered in the production of the i ? It is difficult to say but other industries in the U. 9. were pW C2" y on at a faster pace in the autombbliol ts cots hei ou industry. Especially during the war 01 if a Z if did high speed manufacture devel-|, One thing is certain, such cut- ope. throat competition can result in| A number of automobile concerns only. one of two things: either the/ that passed through the rationaliz-|Climination of the weaker concerns |ation process during the war were 2d the survival of the strongest, or able to adapt their plants to the |the amalgamation of the auto cor- production of a lower priced car | Porations. At present merger after which, however, had many of the merger is taking place. improvements in the motor and|_ Recently the Locomobile and the other parts. Durant combined. The Pierce- With the appearance of the Gen-| AtTow and Studebaker companies jeral Motors in the field as a heavy |®Te becoming one concern, and the| \ producer in 1920 the competition | Dodge Brothers and the Chrysler) between Ford and General Motors | ave merged. “ | became very sharp. The General|, The tendency in the automobil® Motors which represented a mer-| industry is probably in the direction |ger of a number of gigantic con- |of a merger between the General (cerns, was in a favorable position Motors and Chrysler-Dodge against |to compete with the Ford Co. Hie Ford Company: | About 1920 the General Motors| _ Outside of the genuine comneti- |which had acquired a 60 per cent.,tion between General Motors, Ford | stock interest in the Fisher body in and others, special competitive 1919, decided to compete with Ford) Standards are set up within the! |for control of the market. Many|Same companies. One department changes were introduced in the is matched against the other. The plants of the Fisher Body. The con-|cost of one unit of production is veyor system was introduced in Compared with the cost of a similar factory after factory. New machin-| "nit in another machine. The cost ‘ery was installed and the whole °f Similar units are compared and organization rearranged for the the wages and standards of pro- |mass production of Fisher bodies. | duction are based on it. | Becouse of the advantage of hav-| ‘ | ing so many different models and| In the next article we will deal) superior motors it was easy for | with the special forms of exploita- |General Motors to produce a motor tion which biheammenn. term yy vari. |model better even than that of the/ OS forms of wage payments”—but | |new Ford model. e which in reality gives the real pic-| One of the other reasons is that ture of the modern slavery in the it was hard for the Ford Company #utomobile industry. t8 satisfy the demands for the dif-. tera artnet. ferent styles in ‘the automobile THE LEISURE CLASS industry. Building and adapting, PARIS, Aug. 19 (UP).—A quar- vall of its machineries to one model, ter of a million Ameri it was much harder, and it will be cationed harder in the future for Ford to, |adapt himself to the ever changing demands for new models. Ford Reaches His Zenith. The Ford Motor Company reached its zenith in 1926. The new model “A” cannot effectively compete with the Chevrolet, which even now is better than the new Ford Médel. But it is not only the Chevrolet cans who va-| in Europe this snmmer | scattered abroad American gold to) \the total of a quarter of a billion ‘dollars. The French national tour- | jist office estimates the American | | vacation bill to amount to around | $257,000,000. | PUUGLIST SHOT. | CHICAGO, Aug. 19 (UP).—At the point of death in Mercy Hospital that is competing with Ford. There! from a gunshot wound in the abdo- are also other cars, the Chrysler,|men, Frank Alloto of Milwaukee, Whippet and the Pontiac, a six known in puglistle circles as Frankie | \the government apparatus, but wil! | preparations of the U. S. for a war |Central-American governments | 1928. Page Inrex mocrats to Drop Cruiser Construction Question, HONDURAS FEARS |Nicaragua Threat May Mean Occupation TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Aug. 19.—What is considered here as a situation of increasing gravity has been precipitated by the issuance of a decree by President Diaz of Nica- ragua tending to abrogate the gen- eral treaty signed in Washington between Nicaragua. and the other in After reference to the paragraph binding the signatories to refrain from direct or indirect interference in the affairs of one another, the de- cree continues: “And inasmuch as the fulfillment of the above obligations necessitates the dictation of suitable measures, the Ministerial Council decrees the following articles: “First, that all propaganda by word or writing, made by Nica- raguans, Central Americans or aliens within the republic, tending to organize or foment revolutionary or subversive acts against any SITLOW SCORES ~ HOOVER SPEECH /Evades Unemployment | Continued from Page One ers was ignored. The workers | must have laughed up their sleeves |with contempt and disgust at the| ignorance and stupidity displayed |by Hoover on labor problems and | conditions. | “Big business sat back pleased. | Their Good Man Friday delivered \the goods. He praised the corpor- jate interests to the skies, and | pledged them an administration of, | by, and for big business. | “Hoover’s facts and figures are just mere totals. He fails to give recognized Central American gov- jernment shall be considered as a violation of the general treaty of | amity and peace of Feb. 7, 1923. “Secondly, that the government authorities can refuse to recognize the rights of Central Americans or foreigners whose activities violate the previous article. “Third, that the minister of the interior may dictate measures neces- sary to stop revolutionary or sub- vyersive activities from being devel- oped through mail, telegraph or telephone offices.” While no doubt the issuance of such a decree at this time is in- tended to increase the power of the American supervisors in controlling all elements during the elections in November, Hondurans see in it an overt preparation for suspension of relations between the two govern- ments, with possible occupation by American forces should the Ameri- can authorities find invasion an aid in driving back to Nicaragua the peons, sympathetic to General San- |an analysis of the enormous in- | ing how the various classes are par- ticipating in the enormous increase. |If he would have done so, his pic-| |ture would have been a damning condemnation of the whole social fabric of America. The facts dis- close that only a small percentage of the population is well off. The | vast majority live in poverty. The | low wages paid in the textile indus- try, the 4,000,000 unemployed, the bankrupt and poverty-stricken farm- |ers, the wage cuts in the textile, coal, automobile, shoe and other in- dustries are sufficient proofs that everything is not as rosy as Mr. Hoover paints them. “Says Mr. Hoover, ‘Unemploy- ment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing.’ | “This reminds me of the famous declaration when French workers asked for bread and were told to eat grass. The charity organiza- tions, municipal lodging houses dnd oth\r agencies dealing with the un- employment problem, have repeat- edly called attention to the distress and destitution that exists as a re-) sult of the present unemployment. Serious Crisis. “Four million unemployed is a} grave situation. Unemployment in- volves 20,000,000 people at least. It is no little matter that can be/ ignored. It proves that a serious) crisis has struck American indus-| try. The stabilization Hoover speaks about “and praises is not the panacea its advocates professed it to be, because it is resulting in a deep and profound unemployment crisis that is bring about a per- manently unemployed army of mil- lions. Hoover may close his eyes and refuse to see, but the workers who will be unemployed will feel the privations and nothing that Mr. Hoover will say about their not be- ing in distress, will affect them. They are already manifesting their discontent and will continue to do so with increasing volume. Silent Herbert. “Mr, Hoover has promised the| farmers that if he will be elected the republican administration will do something for the farmers, even to the extent of spending a few hundred million a year. A few hun- dred million a year, spent upon building up some new government departments, adding to the govern- ment apparatus, may help the rich exploiting farmers who will be in be an increased burden upon the! poor working farmers. “Mr. Hoover failed to answer the following questions: “1, Why do you favor the rape of Nicaragua? “2. Why do you favor a large army and navy for the purpose of imperialist aggression and war? “3, Why do you support the with Japan over the question of the Chinese markets? . Why do you favor American troops and battleships being sent to cylinder car which sells for $775.90| Barry, former lightweight boxer, and the Pontiac k which sclls China? in quality is considered. The Pon-| crease in wealth in America show-| “ino, who escaped to Honduras fol- lowing the campaign in Nueva | Segovia. Criticism of the government for Red Flags as Workers Greet Class War Prisoners | | With Red Flags flying, thousands of German workers gathered to greet the class war prisoners returning from Sonnenburg prison. The arrival of the prisoners was the occasion for a holiday among the German working class. MINERS RALLYING FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION Continyed from Page One |vania) confers Monday and Tues- |day of next week. The Anthracite tri-district conferences follow on the 22nd. Representatives from newly organized locals in West Virginia, meet Friday, the 24th, Kansas and Missouri conferences are slated for Labor Day, September 3rd. Dates for other conferences will be made | public. in the near future, Pat Too- |hey, secretary of the Arrangements Committee said today. ater we had predicted Isaac’s treacher forecasted the betrayal of a nur ne er of other members of the insurgent board, who are at present carrying on negotiations looking towards a sell-out to the officials. Against similar betrayals, a con- ference of progressive miners will mobilize to build a new union at the Italian Hall, 206 St., Luzerne, Pa., at 7 p. 7 m., 4 | Conference in Illinois. Leaders CROAT WORKERS | ARE FIRED FROM. | ITALIAN SHOPS Demonstrate Against Persecution ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, Aug. 19,—= Further demonstrations against the Nettuno pact with the Italian gaye ernment followed the discharge of Dalmatian workers from Italian fag tories in Spalato. benico and other Dalmatian cities, in spite of the ef= forts of the police and city authori= ties to prevent the show of hostility towards the fascists. Following nev that the !talian) |cement company in Spalato had is sued an order firing all Jugoslav workmen, and that other Italian firms were to take the same action, spontaneous demonstrations of work- men took place. The Nettuno pact, ratified dy the Belgrade regime in the absence of ne Croatian, Slovenian and Dalma- tian opposition, who declare it void, Italian eapitalists the right to workers from their home ts to Dalmatian factories, and thus displace all native workers. CHARTER BAKERS UNION OKMULGEE, Okla., Aug. 19 (FP) A local of the Bakery and Con- International ‘fectionery Workers |. Union is now functioning in Okmul- | SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 19. |—As an outcome of the strong sen- timent aroused by. the debeate be- tween Anthony, Minerich, a leader of the movement to build a new union, and John W. Hindmarsh, president of sub-district five of the United Mine Workers of America before more than 2,000 miners in Springfield last Sunday, a series of | sub-district conferences will be held in District 12 beginning Monday, August 20. ! The debate which has niflamed all Southern Tlinois, occurred quite ac- cidentally. Local Union 494 called |the mass meeting to protest the wage cut which is being imposed upon them by the policy commit- tee. After resolutions rejecting the wage cuts were passed, Minerich and John Watt were spied in the audience. A cry went up, trging them to speak. Minerich and then Watt analyzed | first the situation in the Illinois coal SPECIAL FIRST ANNIVERSARY The LIFE AND DEATH of SACCO AND VANZETTI By EUGENE LYONS An epic of two alien workers in America. that story with an emotional sweep worthy of the subject. accurate and complete and will remain as a monument to the seven-year struggle which involved all humanity. $1. | not taking a firmer stand originally | 1 : - | when the first demand was made by| fields and then in the whole coun- try, stressing that the formation of | | the Americans for permission to oc- | A zs a new union was the only solution ince election steals, “blue sky” lo- “ WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th Street, New York City. MEMORIAL EDITION The author tells It is ‘ EDITION 00 | cupy Honduran soil for the purpose | cals and packed conventions make it | of ceorcing the Nicaraguans, is con- | 5" |tinuing. Warnings, then uttered, 5 | i impossible to legally oust the cor- |that such a policy would only open| impossible 0 ot Hindmarsh Exposed. . | Honduras to the fate of the neigh- Hindmarsh was attacked for his boring nation are now held to be Brera seule, work in bringing about ‘the wage ‘cut, sand accused by local miners To fears as to the real sig- nificance of the Nicaraguan move in| 0+” ‘Iuter took the floor for his |relation to American military policy| ‘nick handle” methods of fgihting against General Sandino and his ad-| 420 progressives, When Hindmarsh finally took the | | herents, was added yesterday the floor, he was jeered and booed by rumor that‘the action of the Nica- raguan president may have an. im-| tho miners and several hundred chil- portance in opening the way for the| Gren who had gathered around the |platform crying “labor faker!” United States state department to force upon this government. the When Hindmarsh extended his hand | |to Minerich, the latter replied, Kellogg decision in the Guatemala- Honduran boundary dispute. This) «When I was a kid and went to my decision the Honduran government first miners’ convention, Hindmarsh has steadfastly refused to accept,| called me ‘hi boy’ and I was proud | claiming that the verdict is sure to! of ti then. But now I cannot shake be, rendered against it in the Cen-| his hand.” tral American arbitration court,| In the course of the debate which | where the all-powerful United Fruit | followde, Hindmarsh buried his face Company is backing Guatemala. in his hands. Local miners accused against the republican. administra. hy” Of handing a mactine gun out tion allowing two innocent workers, " ‘ ‘ Sacco and Vanzetti, to be executed? | ne Pee oka or i aon “6, ‘Why are the oil grafters free, |” PICS ADG’'S: BEN. and Mooney and Billings, innocent petibiiatelie Congintion. workers, in prison? | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. “8. What do you intend to do to —Together with their call to relieve. pusmiploy menb |National Miners’ Convention in 9. What steps will you take to! pittsburgh on Sept. 9, and the call stop regime of terror and suppres-| for the subsidiary conference of sion of freedom of speech, assem-| progressive miners in th etri-dis- bly and picketing, now going on in| trict on Aug. 23, the Tri-District New Bedford and Fall River? | National Convention Arrangements __ “10. What is your stand on lynch-| Committee has issued a statement ing of Negroes and their dis-/ denouncing George Isaacs, former franchisement? | vice-president of the so-called insur- “11. Why do you favor govern-| gent movement for his resignation ment by injunctions against labor? and betrayal of the miners. Isaacs “12. Why did you support the| resigned recently. crushing of the coal strike, which’ The committee points out that it ' is resulting in wage cuts of from ——oensoones = —~ $1.50 to $3.00 per day. “13. Why do you favor the gov- ernment’s interference in the right Steam Ahead! BIG BUSINESS ‘AN'T LOSE GIANT POWER IN IN 1 19. the MPLOYMENT IN FRANCE AT OF THE HOM WORKERS LIBRA Toward An Ever-Growing and Better COMMUNIST -. THE AUGUST ISSUE CONTAINS: THREE STRATEGIES IN THE NEW 39 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY 928 By B. Gitlow . By B, Miller BEDFORD STRIKE.... By A. Weisbora By Janet Cork ..By N. Kaplan i -By C. White | IMPERIALIST | By V. L. Lenin By J. Freeman BOOK REVIEWS RY PUBLISHERS ENT IN of the workers to organize? “14. Why do you favor the con- tinuation of child labor? “15. Why are you opposed to a| program of social legislation for workers such as unemployment in- surance, old-age pensions, accident and sickness insurance, etc,? “16. Why do you favor the use| of troops and militia to break! strikes? | “Many other questions could be) asked, but Mr. Hoover will remain as silent as a clam on all of them. Like Mr. Al Smith, he is tuning in! on big business, listening to what the bie cornorations, the bankers | and manufacturers want. Mr. Hoover's wave length is Wall Street. | What it ,wants, he will do, The workers and farmers will get noth-| ing from Hoover. Only the Work-/ ers (Communist) Party will serve | their interests.” of the THE PLATFORM of the CLASS STRUGGLE NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPA!GN Workers (Communist) Party of Ame You're in the fight when you “5. Why did you not protest ti aomme write for The DAILY WORKER. ic oe ache: loc avuen NATIONAL PLATFORM WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 64 Pages of Smashing Facts—Price 10 cents 43 East 125th Street, New York City Make checks and money orders payable to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treas. COMMITTEE rica ' ;