The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 3

4 ) Page Threé ™ French Imperialists Are Worried Over Reports of American Control Over Liberia FEAR U.S. WILL DOMINATE VAST RUBBER SOURCE Loan Is Negotiated by Firestone Interests PARIS, Aug. 27.-Statements by French West African officials today disclosed their attitude towards the control given the United States gov- ernment in the internal affairs of Liberia by an alleged loan for $5,090,000. * The statement of opinion on the part of the French officials was precipitated -by reports that the state department at Washington has been accused before the League of Nations of attempting to gain con- trol of the Liberian government through a virtual subsidy. While pretending to ridicule the influence which the American gov- ernment is able through its finan- cial position to exert upon Libevian | policies, the French officials betray their nervousness over the control thus obtained by the American in- | terests. | While the French have huge rub- . ber reserves in their equatorial Af- rican possessions they are also in- terested in the potentialities of rub- ber cultivation in Liberia. They, morever, fear the independence of | foreign markets which the opening | of this new rubber source will mean | to the American rubber manufac- turers. The loan is understood to have been negotiated secretly by the) American Firestone rubber interests under liberal patronage of the lead- ing republican party. | POWERS SIGN KELLOGG PACT Seen as Move Against. Soviet Union | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1928 At Funeral of Boy One case which the I. R. T. subway crash at Times Square last Friday night brought to light is typical of the great American boss slogan, “work hard and yowll get trated, this time by N. Y. Traction Company greed. The parents of Irving Rabinowitz had a little along all their ishing his medical studies when the that his parents had never intende American tragedy of boss propaganda. at his funeral. s to “make something” of their son. He was fin- Victim of I. R. T. _ WANT OWN LABOR POUNCIL: JAILED BY JUGOSLAVS 50 Dalmatian Workers Arrested | ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, (By Mail). {—An attempt of the members of labor unigps in Split, Dalmatia to wrest the labor council in that city from the hands of a gfoup of corrupt officials has resulted in the arrest of more than fifty workers at the date of this writing with prospects for more arrests in the |near future. DOCTOR REVEALS TORTURING IN VENIZELOS JAILS Found Worker Suffer- ing From Wounds ‘War Schemes mean. Author and Signers of Pact to Cloak ) corenes Mail).—In behalf of cers’ Aid, Dr. Zoura- the proletarian prisoners in the Greek prisons. In spite of dif. t put forth by the po- ed in visiting a few such a visit he (By BERLIN Above, premier Briand of France; secretary of state Kellogg, and William Cosgrove of th r Free State, who signed the Kellogg peace pact in Pa cover of this pact the imperialisté are rushing faster than ev Union and one another. for their respect e governments yest er their plans for war ag doctor visited » 28 years old, in dersigned Although the council is known as a workers council, contrary to whi one may expect from the name, it has nothing to do with the interests of the workers. For many years this council was ruled by a board put together by the government party, which board used money ob- tained from workers for persontt ahead.” As usual it was frus- grocery store and had starved I. R. T. made something of him d. Fate? Not at all, but another Above, the boy's parents EXPOSE KANSAS DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNISTS Continued from Page One I duty, necessity, propriety, expedi- ency or justification of a means of | accomplishing, effecting or bringing | about’ industrial or political ends, change or revolution, and one Nel- son, S. Yocum, one Sam Kassin, and one E. B. Eastwood, being then and there voluntarily present in person, did unlawfully, wilfully, and feloni- ously assist and abet him, the said Hugo Oehler, in the commission of the aforesaid offense, with the in- tent to spread the same and did then and there unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, openly, publicly, volun- tarily, feloniously’ bring, have dis- played, circulate, distribute, ‘give and sell to various and numerous persons, certain written and printed leaflets, books and other printed matter, suggesting, affirmative by teaching and advising the necessary propriety, expediency and justffica-| police actions. For a long time} working class organizations de- manded that a new board be ap- pointed but to no effect. Not only |the unions, brutally persecuted by the police, but also the nationalist jorganizations and other organiza- Syndicalism law’ as a flagrant andition condemned in the sharpest vicious piece of anti-labor legisla-|terms the directors of the labor tion. . council. To Call Conference. | Due to the growing force of these Meetings are to be organized|Ptotests the government finally had throughout the state of Kansas so|t? order a re-organization of the that the ‘workers of that state will|C°UncH .).Hoover, working class be able to express their opposition @Md national organizations were not } to the frame-up and to the “C, §."|included in the list and only a list law. The International Labor De-|of the old corrupt elements was fense will also call a state-wide con-| drawn up. ference of all labor organizations ‘in| AS the reotganization meeting Kansas as soon as possible to mobi-| was being held a large number of lize’ all available forces to fight for angry workers crowded the meet- the release of the men the end|ing room, exposed the members of of the Criminal Syndic#lism law.|the old board and broke up the Special efforts are to be made to| meeting. Immediately police and build and strengthen the I. L. D. so|gendarmes entered the picture and as to better enable it to carry on|arrested. over fifty workers. The the work in this and other cases. }arrests are still going on. Needs Funds. SCABS ATTACK enterprises and even for reactionary Ohio Men Turn Down cept a bonus as part of the agrees t by the walkout of the men and the strikebreakers | three days a week, although the company is known to have big or- ders on hand, notably for material Among | cials that the s |the arrested there are many func-! their plant from Canton. is The legal aspects of the case are|tionaries and leaders of unions and | them being organized rapidly by the na-| other working class organizations. | measures and seven men were dis- tional office of the I. L. D. Nation-|They were brutally beaten in the| charged yesterday for having strike |tion of doing acts of physical vio- * Continued from Page One phere supercharged with. war, while the iron heel of international \Ience and the commission of unlaw- |ful acts as means of accomplishing, effecting: or bringing about. indus- militarism clanked thru the clock|trial or political ends, changes or hall of the Quai D’Orsay. The |revolution.” ' solemn play of signing was ushered | “Evidence.” in by the arrest of 43 Communists.| The “evidence” to prove this, The building in which it was en- acted was surrounded with police. Sergeants de Ville infested ‘every embrasure and entrance for blocks around and at their head was Chi- appe, the Paris police chief, fo- torious for his brutal suppression of workers following the demonstra- tions for Sacco and Vanzetti. No representative of the Soviet government was at this “peace” conference. The representatives of the governments there assembled were consciously performing the first maneuver in the circuitous pre- parations for war against the Sov- iet Union. “Peace is proclaimed,’’ Premier Briand, the French foreign minis- ter, told the 14 delegates gathered in the Salon Des Ambassadeurs at the Quai D’Orsay, “but it still re- mains necessary to organize it. That is work for tomorrow.” When he had finished, Briand turned to Stresemann, the German foreign minister, and bowed. The German official, in an impressive silence, proceeded to the central table almost falteringly, took up the huge gold pen and signed his name to both copies of the treaty. One copy, in French, will be pre- served in the archives here and the other, in English, at Washington, After the delegates adjourned to! the gardens for tea, the crowd poured into the room, touch the treaty. Guards pushed them back and surrounded the treaty while photographers took close-ups of it. The arrest of the Communists followed their denunciation of the Kellogg “peace” pact as an’effort to cloak the military preparations of the signatories against the Soviet Union under cover of the so-called multilateral peace treaty. TO JAIL OBREGON PLOTTERS INU.S, IssuesWarrantA gainst Accomplices Acting on advices from Manuel C. Tellez. Mexican ambassador to the United States at Washington, U. S. Commissioner Francis A, O'Neill today issued warrants for the arrest of six Mexicans in New York al- legedly implicated in the assassina- tion of General Alvero Obregon. Among the warrants issued was one for the arrest of Manuel Trejo Morales, 21, who has been men-| tioned prominently in dispatches’ from Mexico City as implicated in) the murder of Obregon. The others, Joaquin Navarro Becerra, 34, Os-) waldo Raboles Ochoa, 24, Jose A. Jiminey, 35, Enrique M. Zepeda, 35,| Aniceto Ortega are specifically | charged with the murder of Obre- | and also’ implicated in recent trying to) | seized by the police at the two meet- |ings they broke up, consists of 20 copies of the national election pro- tgram of the Workers (Communist- | Party, application cards for member- | ship in the Party, a book on Sacco! jand Vanzetti by Max Shachtman,| copies of the Labor Defender, the| jofficial organ of the International | Labor Defense, a number of leaflets issued by the nucleus of the Work- ‘ers Party in the Armour plant and | similar material. I. L. D. Statement. | The statement of the national of- fice of International Labor Defense, on the case issued by Martin Ahern, | j assistant national secretary, says, in| | Part, as follows: | | “The reactionary authorities of Kansas, alarmed at the growth of |the radical labor movement in the | state. and urged on by the Packing| | Trust which is also dissatisfied with | | the activities of the Workers (Com-| munist) Party whose members have | been agitating for a union in the| |plants of Kansas City, have taken the first steps towards driving a| | working class party out Of existence , | in the state and railroading its most! active members to long years of im- prisonment in the state peniten-| tiaries. “The arrest of the dozen workers} in Kansas City, and the breaking up) |of meetings in front of Armour’s, |and the International Labor Defense jis indicative of the de’ ‘ination with which the authorities hre going about with their dirty anti-labor |work. The attack, directed primar- lily against the Workers Party, is an |attack against a legal political or- ganization, whose candidates for the | presidency and vice-presidency, Wi meetings in Kansas City tn Arma \Ham Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- | low respectively, are officially on the ballot in the state of Kansas. The holding of political meetings are | supposed to be guaranteed by the U. S. constitution, Attack on Communists. “The Kansas Criminal Syndical- j ism Law is one of the many adopted | throughout the country in a vicious. attempt to crush the labor and revo- lutionary movement. In Kansas it, \has already been used on numerous occasions to imprison some of the other reason than their membership | in a labor organization and their | devotion to the cause of the working | | class, | “The charges against the workers! down to the ‘crime’ of belonging to | tHe Workers (Communist) Party and advocating its program, the pro-| gram of a legally recognized politi-. cal organization.” | The International Labor Defense | then calls upon all workers to rally | to the support of the defense imme-| diately so that the authorities may be prevented from sending innocent, |member of the Missouri State Legis- best militants in the state for no, arrested in Kansas City simmers | ally-known attorneys will be secured | police prisons and then handed over leaflets in their possession or for to represent the defense in the case|to the courts. as part of the campaign to use every} Naturally, at a new meeting the means to smash the attempts of the new board of directors was elected Kansas authorities to make- the,in accordance with the wish of the Workers Party illegal in that state.| government. The board consists of It is understood that efforts are| thirteen members, of which only now being made to retain the serv- two are workers and the rest of-| ices of such well-known attorneys as ficials—among them a bank direc- Jerome Walsh, of Missouri, the son tor and a lawyer. of Frank P. Walsh and himself a lature, and Congressman Coombs: | eee i Four Boys Drown | who represents the state of Mis- * . . . | souri in the paniotal hese of niet im Missouri River sentatives. Attorney Meeks of Kan-| gr. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 27 (UP).! sas City has already been engaged.|The Missouri River took a toll of | In order to help meet the tre-|four lives Sunday when a small mendous costs that fighting the case|launch carrying eight persons cap- will involve, the I. L. D. today also| sized. appealed to workers and progres-, According to witnesses the launch sive-minded people throughout the | capsized when the four boys crowded | country to send funds immediately |to one side. All of the bodies were | to aid in defraying the expenses. recovered. For a campaign against wage-cuts, longer hours, rationalization, atid all exploitation of the workers. ‘Send your contribution to the |) National Election Campaign Committee, 43 ]) ’ East 125th Street, New York City. Alexander | Trachtenburg, treasurer. ‘USSR to Turn Czarist Prison Hell-Hole Into Revolutionary Museum LENINGRAD, 27.—The Old Shlusselburg Fort on the banks of the Neva, where many noted revolutionists were ir prisoned by the czarist govern will be opened as a Reve to the following: swelling of the right a blunt instrument; r he gluteal parts and Wounds on the ankles of used by a sharp instru- welling on the soles of btedly caused by a charges at cough- T.M.¢. DEMANDS PARADE PERMIT °° STEEL STRIKERS 3. R., » doctor, on the ground ent appeals ta, h he pointed to A. F. of L. “Union” Bosses’ Terms jonary Genital: trom. Bug tOne Museum by the Soviet Government iG ohtuad Prune LagerO; and provelae sioner Faukner of the labor depart- | 00 August 29. a permit fo: parade of textile prefect of po- ment made to the strike committee,. The cells will be left as they are, strikers on Labor Day. Two parade » prefect threat- declaring that if the men would ac-| many of them bearing the inscrip- hitherto nged by the T. M. C. ened with deportation. nion were broken up by the of former revolution: fications which ar: the T. M. C. Union fourteen, the si songs, the display igns, parade halts, and sy are all forbidden by the directly ¢ Chiidr nging 0} iz of bac ment the government would back it Visitors will be able to see force. up. the damp and dark cells under the| The reactio: officialdom of [D iI A The strike committee: solidly re- level of the Neva, with their single|the A. F. of I tile Council an- | | fused to deal with the commissioner | iron cots, wet and sparse floors. nounced its acceptance of the permit on any other than a flat rate, no At the execution place tablets|to parade on Labor Day tendered fn bonus basis. with the names of the prisoners|them by the mill ov r. ELECTION MEET The piant has been badly crippled | executed will be placed, The permit) granted carx : are working only Continued from Page One times, when, according to the so- d democracy, every party has te — — oe = an = eo | —_= =! rm = the right express itself before for airplane motors. The parade sie rs the people. stopped by the po- See Massillon Strike. Roast aaa aan A tikers | ices Who roving themselves to Ae , 5 garded by the workers and strikers |}, too]e The spirit among the pickets is of the cit Aualoey ocr Sot ve tools c coal operators, be- excellent and the line is at the mill Sa Geeta the A of L. Union and cause they will not allow a working- daily. Continued from Page Gne the militant organization, «| c108% Patty to. step forward: toes . ita organization. s ; Fear of the Massillon. Steel offi- | than a company union. Both Weis- pose the corruptness of this system read to leading rike will and to mobilize the workers to fight bord who is passing thru here on an : against it. . Snecia ‘io th aily orker extensive tour and the other speak-| (Special to the Daily Worker) Chief Taylor stopped to take savage repressive|org declared that the Textile Mill| PALL RIVER, Mass. At this point ; Committees are entring town to be-| Following a huge ma o: the speaker and, using the half a gin building a teal union. Loeals | Ve? 4000 textile workers here, held dozen. plain clothes men, chased out ae ey ee ad batty dnviied to tc honor the mem 'y of the work-|all the delegates from the hall, |distributing them. An army of |<): in the drive ing class martyrs, Sacco and Van-| which is used hy the Party as its stools and detectives has permeated | : ; tti, the police, quiter for a few office and meeting place the plant and every move of the | Announcement was made of a , again began to intensify their In a statement issued to the press, workers is tne subject of a report |mass meeting to be held Friday | persecution of the Textile Mill Com- | the Sub-district Committee makes it evening for the purpose of estab-|mittees and their members. |lishing on a city wide basis the lo- cal section of the T. M. C. Pitko- witz said that committees were al- ready being formed in the various clear that they are going to fight An additional registration office, | back to test out the Mussolini-like rented yesterday to facilitate the action of the police chief. The con- signing up of the flood of new mem- ference will be held again this Fri- bers coming into the Textile Mill | day evening, August 81, on the same designed as an object lesson to the | mills. Of the 25,000 sill operatives | Committees, was padlocked by po- place, and the September 1 pienie cther workers, has served merely to | in Paterson only about 3,500 are or- lice yesterday. They also placed a with Benjamin Gitlow in Sans Souci arouse the strikers’ strike senti-|ganied into the Associated and the|special guard at the doors to keep; Park is expected to be a huge suc- ment in the mill. UT. Ws them closed. cess. sow RAZAAR anu DAILY WORKER FREIHEIT | to the corporation officials from one or another of these agents. Espionage and the trial of the three Canton strike leaders arrested at Massillon, which the corporation To Witness the Celebration of the 11th Anni- | versary of the NOVEMBER REVOLUTION LAST TOUR THIS YEAR | ‘group sails | OCT. 17 on the express ship “Mauretania.” RUSSIA » SOVIET COST OF THE | ENTIRE TOUR $375, Free Soviet Visas We assist you to extend your stay 80 as to visit your relatives and friends in any $25 First Payment, ¢ part of the Soviet balance payable in Union. ‘ei installments, muon work@s to serve long terms of im- prisonment. i All unions, and other labor organ-, izations are urged to adopt resolu- tions dtrueaistaly calling for the re- World Tourists, ihe. | 69 Fifth Ave. New York Tel. Algonquin 6900 Madison Square Garden . Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, r 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. October: Conference of Labor and Fraternal Organizations Tuesday, August 28 at 8 P. M., at Manhattan Lyceum 66 E, 4th St. Elect Your Delegates Now tian rin aaa iaih ke sbatindasin hase