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) THE } } DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, U. S. Oil Imperialists Plan to Exploit Huge Petroleum Concession in @ PREPARE FEUDAL COLONY IN WILD JUNGLE COUNTRY Leguia, American Tool, Approves Grant | | (By United Press) RIGA OFFICIALS Militant Unions Rouse | 1928. OUTLAW LABOR ORGANIZATIONS Opposition KOENIGSBERG (By Mail) —The | Streets of Canton Strewn With Bodie Ss of Murdered Wor kers gente? astern = | Per MANY JAILED IN PLOT’ AGAINST ECUADOR REGIME See Government Scheme in Arrests i a ) \ | GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 20. The Grace Line steamer Santa | civil department of the Riga court —An alleged Bieta ile ent the / Mens brought back te the United | |has banned many more workers’ seting of congress, which is Staes yesterday Be - bana i a hahah a Fe ee a tee just com:| Henry Ford, at right, has beon buay making the final arrange. | organizations, among them being take place, by the decras pleted obtaining for Avecican cams| ments for the departure of the Lake Ormoc, the base and hospital |the Central Bureau of the Riga path ia tasoactc Ns 2S Htelits the latest great wejor oil-| MP which is to accompany iia, hee yt, ocleaoose ea Giiduk health organisations ewovke a ee athe in field of South America—a conces.| slaves to the automobile kings vast rubber concession on the Amazon. Tienenta eirel ; ss - oe ho aa 8: pence IH i sated te 0 5 hah Lowi feveridden GOCEL Gallant ‘seth th men’s circles, union of the trans- ee . sc unnig 2 been arrested. ee eee ae fad eagle stig bib zp iy eee ohn SEH EHRh norkece hain ARE ne gtd \ shone Chinese workera and peasants are being slaughtered by the Kuomintang war The plot is said to involve hp : do front inmtarae ail depeatts| keep their rubber slaves alive. With Ford is his son Edsel, at left, | chemical industry workers, union of | ——__ hg tale ee rca esasmioea DANG URUSIEE fa) aye eel puemie aoorae he wan leraa: prt Monti taal eae i | the iad contatas lares mad valuable | and Captain Prince of the Lake Ormoc. the metal workers, union of carpen- TOT es that the “discovery’ is a part * mineral deposits, containing gold, |ters, lead workers’ union, building TROOPS MENACE W OR ERS PAR P Ss © Blan to prevent (eae lived and worked in Peru, makin | activity.” The lawless activity con-| . Ae ae a4 Ayora, brother of the presi- d faders : ie bed y | Continued from Page O i >edro Concha, Colonel Be home in eae capital, for | . sists in the influx of Communists | — eerat cee baer SPAIN DICTATOR dent; Colonel Pedro Concha, Colonel | wo years, obtaine e concession | ; ‘ wet c on the ballot in a minimum of 3: , eee pez, Colonel Barve Foon Mele, Bereduni andl. I0: These) | 7 cat p ee |into these unions. These unions | Bandits and Army AYe | states this year. In addition to f Vinelli, Dr. Roberto Posso, Dr. En- Pittsburgh capitalists. Davis wii| Nation-Wide Meets are| Lithuania Sees Danger | ‘hat have defended the rights of the) Active that, the prospects in Oklahoma, dique. Amado Baa ee ee have charge of the colonization of Planned Tomorrow in Move | workers form a danger for the Let-| of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- Seats cons oe others e@ the concession. | tish government.+ A crime of the} ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 2 ida, Virginia, and Maine are also hy 4 ae See es . ‘ ; =NS, , Aug. 20.—As | 10% . See se 5 ae The two men returned today to. 5 ; rein: |unions, according to reports in a|the elections, scheduled for today, | 800d, and the Party has an even . eine tae elmmaed (ede |< Continiied. tym’ Poua. One anOvno, Lithuania, Avg. 20—| Riga: paper, consists in that these are about. to’ take place Venizeleg, chance of placing its candidates inj a , Y | ett Danie tees fo Pitta: [Will be held in the United States) While the note received here from | organizations had organized strikes.|the virtual dictator of Greece, has | nomination in these states. Success Charged Plot Against mE® t 1 ace conieny id: wish conc dave 2 Senumera orate the martyrdom of | | Se Nitta eee sea Uyat is the only charge that|stationed police and military units | in these states would mean that the King 1 will sail for Europe to superintend Pe Gace ae of Mas- |v ithusnian Hania alah He i ne | eo 4. be brought against the unions| throughout the city, in expectation | Party would be on the ballot in a 1S r ® the, wruticrod eettingeite colonleteien| Sere ee utr Ge na ODe Stl care cectived ere trial, Daneig) ine |Seoe te eroune tor the mass ban: )of resistance ty lis: regime: total of 41 states. However, it is) paps, (By Mail).—In order to (JL t started. Fifty thousand immigrants | b BA EY OF PNG tue ean gVeNteT Ye ‘ anzig in-| ning of legal organizations that or- Pas y anticipated that the difficulties be-| 3. enhatance to the news of a plo = ‘ 5 e Have altady dipultied that dost |that was created during the cam- dicates that an agreement concluded | cacinaaniite i all Although the royalists, who are |: eed Sectig chaycot fat 6 ubstance to the news of a fF 3 ee eeaey ered intone and | Paign for life and freedom for Sacco between the Danzig shipyard and the| S!N@G Mn Cs SUC alu Commu-| demanding the return of the king,|i%& Placed in the way of the Party) against the king, Primo de Rivera y 2 ae poets ee ne opmen and’ ond “Vanzettl, will participate in the Polish regime allows Polish war- nists into the union. The govern-| have plastered the city with his por- in various localities by state offi-|}as made 1,752 arrests in the France, Aug. 20.- —That Ane ue ed. & common | memorial meetings. It is necessary Ships the right to moor in the har- ment writes, as it has learned from trait, and are expected to win about cials will tend to cut down the num- ous towns of Spain, and in Sara- n the woolen textile indus- % ae ee and at least three | iat we perpetuate the movement bor. Poland and other fascist countries,| 0 seats out of the 250 in the legis- ber, and unless the Party in all sec-| posse alone 300 arrests. The prisons’ are launching a widespread 5 they eae te fia the, Sarg es lin order to. continue. the fight) The dsthuanian papers point out| that these organizations oppose the |lative chambers, the dictatorship is | tions intensifies its efforts, the| were overcrowded. strike movement to resist the offen- they expect to follow is required PY ayainst, capitalist class fustice by the danger of such a move, both for| State and wish to introduce a Soviet| alarmed at the discontent of the Prospect of only 30 states is all 5 : cive of the eniployers is supported ' e examiners for the colony. ohtaining the release of the dozens Lithuania and the Danzig’ corridor, govemment, from which it ean be| workers both in Athens and in tho that the National Election Cam-| | How empty the mews of a plot by the report that a. penstal Bena) Bin y ons) neers, ie Bs by Chit of political prisoners who are still|#nd term it a veiled threat of mili-| Concluded that at their last con-|Piracus, its port, who were so ruth- | paign Committee will undertake to| VS 38 evident from the fact that has been ordered in Rouzaix, a big Se ieee ganta Maria a week | it Aterican penitentiaries. \tary aggression. gress these organizations decided to|lessly suppressed during their last | tuarantee. the greatest part of the arrested French mill center. Mill workers in + return on the Santa Maria a week | Free M nd Billings While the Polish note was con-| Stand upon the basis of the class| strike. | Only 14 in 1924 were released. But the prisoners Germany are also entering struggles rom Thursday to start the develop- | and | Bis citegerers Recdthe: oeheleh okectea | Merdesle: fens | __| were. kept behind the bars for 13 to improve their miserable working ment of a port at Yura Mararus on|, “One of the main points that will|)..> distrust the sudden change in| | Venizelos has declared that he| In 1924, the complete Communist | days, without allowing their rela- standards, reports show. : f We “a et: will have 160 seats out of the 250 vote totalled 33,361 in the fourteen | tives to see them, which resulted in Simultaneously another dispatch the Amazon River and the 600-mile be stressed at this year’s meetings | | | ee earatich The eapitaliats. clan (Will. be the campslen now being or-| Tone Of Watsey. and explain it aa |ns a result of the elections, which |states in which the Party was on demonstrations before the prisons, to the effect that the textile opera- ~ te build, Hospitals, packing plants, &anized for Tom Mooney and War-| iy pie asite See ings bat (t [he has been preparing for since he the ballot. These votes were dis- | ——__ «tives in Rhenish and Westphalian saw mills, furniture factories and a| ten K. Billings.” ih satlep still tevicg. Gis aria ica |dissolved he chamber of deputies in| tributed as follows: New Jersex,| great banquet, at splendid ‘plants have served notice on the ! complete industrial unit is to be| Meetings being held this year, ac-/in view. The note agreed to hol re early July. 1,560; Illinois, 2,622; Iowa, enthusiasm was demonstrated by mill owners that they will not work | ready for the colonists in April, |cording to the reports now avail- the conference, at which the Vilna C ANV AS BOSTON Large troups of bandits, who, it | Montana, 357; Massachusetts all, and at which the various speak- under the present terms after the when they begin to arrive. |able, include the following: and border dispute will be taken has been charged by liberal oppo- | Rhode Island, 289; New York, 8,244; | ers promised to go back to their lo- end of September. In developing the concession a| New York City, at Union Souare.|up, at Koenigsberg on August 22 nents, are in the direct pay of Ven-| Pennsylvania, 2. Indian, 987; calities with determination to put Toca new method is to be used, building | August 22, 5 p. m.. with Robert before the League of Nations meets. Recaia izelos, have become exceedingly ac-| Wisconsin, 3,773; Minnesota, 4,427; the message of Communism and _ MUNSTER, Germany, Aug. 20— from the interior outward, rather | Minor, Jack Stachel, Martin Abern, RENT Raise Relief Funds as|tive, and have already succeeded in| Colorado, 562; Washington, 761;) revolution before the working Tan effort to discourage a fast de- | \ than from the seacoast inward. The|Moissaye Olgin, Max Shachtman, engineers will enter from the At-| Paul Jones, and numerous others. Boston, Paine Memorial Hall, 9 antic Coast, going up the Amazon, HUNDREDS GREET Struggle Continues NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 20. kidnapping some of the dictator’s ;most dangerous opponents. and build the railroad from the | Appleton St., August 22, with Ben- Amazon port to Loreta, the present | jamin Gitlow, Communist candidate railhead, which is 700 miles from | for vice-president as the principal | the Pacific Coast. It will take five years to build the road. The expenditure of $350,000,000 is contemplated in the development eventually, although the initial out- lay will be approximately $60,000,- G00. Colonists are to be taken to Peru from Northern Europe, Germany, Switzerland. Holland, and some from England. The speed with which the colonists are moved will depend largely, Lee declares, on the quan- tity of land that can be cleared by April 1 and the number of houses that can be made ready for use. Protest Meet Against Murder of Madieros Is Held at W. I. R. Cam STRIKE LEADER Murdoch, Mill Leader, Shachtman, editor of the Labor De-| ‘fender, Herbert Benjamin, Workers | = | |Party organizer, and an_ Italian Released From Jail | | speaker. | | | Chicago. Temple Hall. August 22,| i . ; |with Ralph Chaplin, Max Bedacht,| Plans are in formation to meet this) | Mordecai Shulman, Guido Serio of latest attack, which was expected’ |the Anti-Fascist Alliance, and Jo-| for some time. | serh Giganti. . : + * * San Francisco, August 22, Mu-| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 21. sicians’ Union Hall. with Emanuel A statement by Eli Keller, organ- | Levin. William Schneiderman, Ed-|{zer, explains the organizational | | gar Owens, and Charlotte Anita forms the new picketing tactic of) Whitney as chairman. the New Bedford Textile Workers | | Los Angeles. Music Arts Hall. Union will take. This new form of | August 22, with Frank Spector and strike organization was decided upon | other well-known labor speakers. in answer to a boss maneuyer of Pittsburgh, Cameraphone The-| shutting down 5 mills to frighten) | speakers. | Philadelphia. Labor Institute, 8th. |and Locust, August 24, ‘with Max) Continued from Page One | ~-Further indications that the strike of the 30,000 textile workers will be a long, drawn out affair, is the closing this week of the gates of five mills that were unable to obtain, scabs. Both the workers and the mill owners are getting ready for a fight to the end. BRITISH-FRENCH PACT HITS USSR The Workers International Reliet,| Continued from Page One in charge of the feeding of the) °™S feel in opposing a united front striking workers and their families, Of the Soviet Union, in their prepa- is continuing its activities of raising tations for war on that country. | funds for the relief work. Yester-| Nearly identical agreements with day two strikers left for Boston) the Nanking government, joint ac- where they will visit trade unions| tion in warning the Bulgarian gov- and labor fraternal organizations in| ernment to refrain from abetting ings they will make house to house) lutionaries, joint action in threaten- collections. They expect to stay in| ing Premier’ Waldemaras of Lith- Boston about: two weeks. uania, the growing understanding The Workers International Relief | between the government of Great is also planning to open shortly two Britain and those of Poland and special childrens kitchens, where Rumania, allies of the French, are milk and rolls will be given to the) among the symptoms cited by ex- North Dakota, 370. This year, with more than twice the number of states expected to be on the ballot than were on four years ago, the total vote for the Communist ticket expected to exceed by far the $3,361 that the Workers (Commu-; nist) Party poiled in 1924, | Names Texas Candidates. | The following candidates unanimously nominated at the Houston, Texas, convention: J. | Stedham, of Annona, for governor; J. L. Swann, of Wheeler, for Lieutenant Governor; John Rust, of Weatherford, for United States sen- ator; and twenty presidential elec- were rs. There were strong delegations jan appeal for funds. In the morn-|the action of the Macedonian revo- 1 ,o<ont from San Antonio, Hous- ton, Weatherford, and Breckenridge, in addition to numerous other points in the state. Campaign literature sold better than ever before in the state. Funds Needed Soon. B. H. Lauderdale, as convention masses in their sections of the state. Plans are being made for a great campaign meeting in Houston, where the democratic party held its national convention. This meeting will be held in the City Auditorium of Houston, which seats 4,000 peo- ple. The main speaker will be Ben- jamin Gitlow, vice presidential can- didate of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. * veloping mass strike sentiment, the mill owners in the Duren district have given notice that they will ter- minate operations August 29 LOWELL, Mass., Aug. 20 (FP).— Walter Novak, cotton mill worker, ed of injuries when his left arm was torn from his body by cogs in a feed box of a cotton-picking ma- chine. He is survived by a widow and three children. IF An epic of two alien workers in America. that story with an emotional sweep worthy of the subject. FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL EDITION The LIFE AND DEATH of SACCO AND VANZETTI By EUGENE LYONS The author tells It is | S. (By a Pioneer Correspondent). |secretary of the Workers Party. mation of Block Committees. The Se as di detteceienta caper ‘tne of the pact. ee WINGDALE. N. Y. (My Mail).— | Magliacano in Italian and other B}ock Committees will function| supplement the two regular relief Hota BA the eomibilty ee ie English channe! y again, accurate and complete and will remain as a monument to the seven-year struggle which involved all humanity. _chairman, reported considerable support for the Communist program throughout the, state, but in view of the great distances between ci- | speakers. Recently the Young Pioneer frac- tion of the Workers International Relief Camp held a protest demons | stration in front of the Unity Camp dining room. The protest was against the: brutal murder of six- Cleveland, Public Square, August 22, with Carl Hacker, secretary of L. D., I. Amter of the Workers |Party and numerous others. | Detroit, Woodward and Alfred through every member of our strike kitchens that are now taxed to committee which numbers at the present time at more than 100. | | “The” strike committee members as well as feed the strikers them-| 7) tion of British capital. shi will be responsible for the registra-| selves, takes a great deal of money. C°m™ation 0 ritish capital ships | capacity. To establish the children kitchens. in 1914, be transformed into a | British pool and the Mediterranean *| into a French lake, with the con- in one end and of French submar- tion “of all workers on their block All workers should do their share. ties in a state which is equal in {area to the whole of Europe out- side of the European territory of \the Soviet Union, large sums’ of | money are required to cover the en- SPECIAL $1. Sts. August 22, a »demonstration | | with William Reynolds, Alfred E. year-old Johnnie Madieros by the There were that the workers in those blocks are) police of Fall River. about 250 people at the demonstra- tion. Harry Eiseman, the chair- man, opened the meeting with the Pioneer pledge and the singing of the International. | Goetz, John Schmees and others. | Haverhill. Mass., Liberty Club |Hall, 244 Liberty St... August 22, |with H. Sidney Bloomfield. | Omaha. Jefferson Park, August | 22. with James Lacey and others. members of the union and partici- ‘pate in the work of winning the) | strike. “The Block Committee will also ent at the Workers International Re-| only | van’s| ing is hold special meetings where every) and neighboring streets and see to it Send a donation at once to the | Relief, 4g | the governments of Germany and Workers International William St., New Bedford, Mass. aA eae Unable to have a delegation pres: lief pienic held Sunday at Syl Win. li ti 's in th 1 ai *, ‘ |ines and destroyers in the other, 4. state with speakers and liter- ature. |Italy are’ eagerly awaiting devel- | opments. Against such an alliance the ly single power capable of cop- the United States and it is -| believed that the agreement is The convention closed with a Take the EDITION 00 WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 East 125th Street, New York City. striker will have an opportunity to Grove, the Mothers League of e ah nard, Youn joneer, ten| 93. wi yh express themselves and make sug-/ throp sent the W. I. R. a check for aimed particu larly on the part of pera eee SCNT oh (ee ae ce ean, | gestions for future activity for the $20, \Great Britain at her most power-| years. He spoke about the death of; Milwaukee. Harmony Hall, ist) ; 4 ; i 5 i i + i$ strengthening of the union, The) ful competitor in the world mar-| Johnnie Madieros and about the Ave., and Mineral Street, August dock ‘committees will also take up MORE PRISON LABOR SHIRTS kets. France, too, it is pointed “ha first sneaker was Bernie! Newark. Military Park, August) DAILY WORKER With You on Your ike in Massachusetts. The next|25, with Engli i bel pees wae Joo. Goldfield, Ebi bane English and Italian an grieviences of the workers and) pRoVIDENCE, R. I, Aug. 20) out, is eager to form a diplomatic fpoke on the police brutalities in| Poughkeensic. Pall Kill Hall, | ct on them. | (FP).—Seven thousand seven hun-/and financial front against the ° a|dred shirts were turned out last | United States, and besides has spe-| Vacation husetts. He is t ld | Main and Washington, August 22, j; ; i ; Peabod; ni ssa Massachusetts. He is ten years old | bd is ington; Providence; Peabody and) nth by Rhode Island prison labor | cial interests to protect in North | , also. Gus Mikades, a Pioneer from with Walt Carmon, business man-' Chealsea, Mass. dee e McKeesport, Pa., then spoke about ager of the Labor Defender and. Meetings have already been held for the Robert Zehman Co. of New| Africa. Both powers have parallel /$ Keep in touch with the strug- the conditions of the steel and coal Nicola Napoli, editor of Il Lavora-|jn Oakland, Fraternity Hall, with | York, an increase of 500 dozen over interests in the Far and Near East. | gles of the workers while workers in Pennsylvania. Gus’s tore. | Edgar Owens and A. C. Tobey; and|June. The state received about 20 | oe | you are away on your vaca- father is running for senator in Among the other meetings that, jn Perth Amboy, with Peter Shapiro | cents a shirt for giving labor aM You're in the fight when you tion. This summer the Elec- “ Pennsylvania on the Communist | have been arranged are the follow-| and Hungarian speaker. | rent. write for The DAILY WORKER. |} tion Campaign will be in full =) eR re a wae ei 5 ns swing. The DAILY WORK- ticket. Gus received much applause: The next speaker was Raymond Spector, from the Young Workers (Communist) League, who spoke on the youth conditions in the textile ee ee ee bane Gant with carl Rrannin, Charlotte | Daily cable news service from : i y Todas, John Kennedy and Oliver) a the World Congress of the By FELIX FRANKFU conditions of the strikers and Carlson; Portland: Tacoma; Astoria; | Designed By Fred Ellis Communist International Le one hn $1. concluded in asking for a collection. Quite a few dollars were collected -this way. The last speaker was Ruth Youkelson, She spoke on the importance of the Young Pioneers and concluded the meeting by ask- ing the comrades to give the Pledge | Bloomberg and Finnish sneakers; Yi i Rida and the Internationale. Waukegan, at Workers Hall; Gary; eee egmebattiepante sce VOTE COMMUNIST stands out. Enclosed find $..-.seeesere By MAX SHACHTMAN Some of the posters at the meet- South Bend, at Workers Hall, 1216 PRICE: Can be sold anywhere for a dime. for ..... months subscription 25 cents ing read as follows: + | Oobtaxy Sh Lonts: iepass Clty, with Book of eighty stamps, $1.00. Can be resold , PRICE: weeks “Avenge Johnny Madeiros—mur-| William Browder and E. B. East- at ive per page of eight stamps, fe'in lots up to 100. to The DAILY WORKER. 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