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| British | Government | of India Introduces Law to Deport Labor, Peasant Organizers OFFICIALS ARE /HALARMED OVER | MASS MOVEMENT Fear Growing Strike Wave and Peasants BOMBAY, Sept. 7.—Fear of the India and intention to take drastic measures against it characterize legislation now under consideration by the government of India. The proposed laws will enable the gov- ernment to deport British and all organizers which it may see fit to eall foreign. * The measure is atmed specifically et Communists and comment attend- i ing its consideration openly de- | nounces the alleged formation of a SOIREE A yowerful Communist Party in the Indian peninsula. It is understood in official circles that in event of the rejection by the legislature, the viceroy will certify the bill. Incveasing militancy of the pea- sants, together with the wave of strikes which are tying up thé coun- try, are believed to be the imme: ete causes of the present legisla- tion, ERE RRR eS British troops, summoned to re- press successive strikes, are not suf- ficient to hold the Indian masses in check, is the opinion of British au- thorities, and they believe the time has come when it will be necessary to crush the strikes and peasant dis- turbances as they arise.” The new measure is designed to effect this | Turpose. Failure. of the British troops to do more than curb fhe peasant movement in the Bardoli district is elso reported to have caused a sit- vation verging on panic in certain official circles and emphasis on the deportation measure at this time is in some part attributable to the gov- | ernment’s failure in northern Bom- bay presidenc: TC WORK WAY HOME WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UP).— Eighteen American students, said to be “stranded” in Germany, have been given permission by the U. S. | Shipping Board to work their pas- sage home on the liner George Washington, which leaves Bremen today. growing revolutionary movement in * “Question Assassin of Chere Jose de Leon Toral, murderer of president-elect Obregon of Mewico, is shown during the investigation A number of catholic implicated in the assassination of Obregon. THE DAILY wi ORKER, NEW YORK, SATURD AY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928 MUELLER TRIES TO JUSTIFY WAR CRUISER PLANS Sees “Peace All Over” _as Nations Brew War | GENEVA, ene 7.—In a disarma- | ment plea which is viewed as an ef- fort to explain the huge appropria- tions for cruisers recently sanctioned by the “socialist” German cabinet, Chancellor Hermann Mueller today Pettis told the Assembly of the League of by state officials. ; Pied .|Nations that Germany could not nuns and priests, are believed to be continue disarmed indefinitely while the other nations were building SUPPORT BAZAAR, COMMUNIST GALL Continued from Page One cracy and of the growing war dan- ger and the menace against the Soviet Union, the maintenance of our Party’s central organ, the Daily Worker and our Party’s largest mass paper, the Freiheit, becomes most vital to our Party’s prestige and in- fluence. “The bazaar has been arranged to supply much needed funds for our two Party organs. The:Central Ex- ecutive Committee has therefore de- cided te set aside the week of Sept. 10 to 17 as the National Bazaar Week. We ask all units of the Par- ty throughout the country as well as all sympathetic organizations, to lend every effort to make the bazaar a success “The bazaar committee reports that thi v are in need of articles for sale, of names for the Red Honor Roll, for the Souvenir Program and advertisements. In view of the fact that this bazaar is of national char- acter, it becomes of the utmost sig- nificance as a demonstration of our ability to mobilize the entire forces of the Party in one supreme effort for a big enterprize of this kind. We are confident that the entire Party will respond to this call en- |thusiastically and that it will do | everything in its power to make the bazaar not only a success for our two Party organs, but also a real achievement for our Party. powerful war machines. Chancellor Mueller’s statement is regarded as an attempt to silence the storm of workingclass protest, led by the Communist Party, that broke loose in Germany when the social democratig cabinet approved the cruiser appropriations. STRIKERS PICKET SELL-OUT PARLEY Continued from Page One Speaking to representatives of barons hope, the T. M. C. leaders|countries that are feverishly en- state, that this move will break the} gaged in building bigger and bigger back of the strike. armies and navies and with wars An _ official statement issued by|of oppression being carried on in the T. M. C. yesterday denounces| various colonial countries, the “so- the Frieder Plan sell-out and de-|cialist” chancellor declared that clares: “Batty’s treacherous accept-| never in the history of the world ance of the Frieder Plan, which is| have conditions been so favorable merely a high-sounding name for a|for peace. Loud applause greeted slave-driving speed-up system and| this’ statement, increasing when he which was formulated by a mill] told the Assembly that the German owner, is a trick to nullify the gains | government would continue the im- eal ge the 28,000 strikers in 21) perialist policy of Gustay Strese- bie: Reser eee ere and suffering. mann, secretary of foreign affairs. at the whole thing is a planned F sell-out is further proven by the fact! ,, Mueller, ‘voiced approval of the : Kellogg “peace” pact and of the that the T. M. C., the real stri fe zeal Strike) acre Anglo French navel. agred- leaders, were not invited to the con- y oorpan ite | ment, which is believed to be direc- The T. M. C. statement then ap- |ted against the United States. pealed to all the members of the| Textile Council to join the Textile|ed by their local and national lead- Workers Union in the sharpest ‘at-| ers. tack against the sell-out of the| The United Textile Workers Tex- strike, yet planned. tile Council will also hold a parade * 8 « at the same time. Interest runs NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 7. high, since the two parades will be —Today the thousands of textile| Public tests of strength. The Tex- strikers will march in the parade| tile Mills Committees eagerly awaits which was postponed from Labor| ‘the opportunity to prove the weak- Day due to the rain. ness of the A. F. of L. union’s fol- Two huge columns of marchers !owing- will come up from either end of the) The T. M. C. union also announces city, the North and South Ends. the parade as a demonstration When: both lines reach Linden St.| against the open attempts of the they will merge to march to the! Batty leadership to betray the strike grounds arranged for a big mass|by agreeing to concede the bosses a _ meeting where they will be address-' speed-up system. ; | fusing to Page Three PARTY ON BALLOT IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE ay Al Smith or any prominent member of the democratic party. Continued from Page Fons tian The Negro workers comprise: the majority of the population in most of the states below the Mason and Dixon line, but though “freed” by For the first time in history the Negro masses of the south will have an opportunity to hear the message the Civil War and given the fran- of racial equality,-of freedom for chise, they are not permitted to vote the Negro as well as the white by the democratic party, which hith- worker, freedom from the slavery erto has the south. held undisputed sway in of capitalism, a freedom they all must fight for shoulder to shoulder. Negroes Sympathetic. The Negroes will be told by Com- munist speakers that the white Communist organizers report | workers and black workers have the that there strong sentiment for same enemy to fight, the ruling the Workers (Communist) Party class of this country. They will among the Negroes, who are begin- ning to realize that the republican party has been cashing in on the Civil War in order to hold the votes of the Negroes who have settled in the north. The action of the Na- tional Women’s Campaign Commit- tee of the republican party in re- associate with: a Negro committeewoman at a political feast in Washington, the segregation of Negroes in government offices in the national capitol, and the con- learn that the Workers (Communist) Party alone, a section of that great world revolutionary organization, the Communist International, has the program and the policy around which workers of all colors can rally in the common struggle for a so- ciety where the producers of wealth will no longer be mendicants beg- ging for a share of what they cre- ate, but masters of their own polit- ical and industrial lives. sistent refusal of the republican ad-| Foster and Gitlow, the national ministration to take the necessary Standard-bearers of the Workers steps to stop the lynching of Ne-|(Communigg) Party, are scheduled procs, has opened the eyes of hun- to speak In Kentucky, Alabama, New Orleans, Atlanta and Virginia early in October during their nation- wide tours in behalf of the Com- munist Election Campaign. dreds of thousands of Negro work- ers to the sham claims of the re- publican bosses that the G. O. P. is the protector cf the Negroes. The attempt of some Negro poli- ticians to line up the exploited and persecuted members of their race be- hind the banner of Al Smith in the north is not making much head- way. Negro workers in the north s well as in the south are not so weak in memory that they have for- gotten the lynching of a Negro at the gates of Houston on the eve of the democratic convention there, and hardly a week passes without the lynching of a Negro in some south- ern state, without even a protest Night Bladder eakness or Kidney Pains of the Aged Relieved promptly with genuine Santal Midy Effective-Harmless IL LAVORATORE RED PICNIC SUNDAY, SEPT.. 9TH Zeman’s Park, Union City, N. J. GAMES MUSIC REFRESHMENTS SPEAKERS:—IN ITALIAN: COMRADE OSVALDO EUSEPI IN ENGLISH: COMRADE A. MARKOFF —Take 23rd St. Ferry to Lackawanna Station, Hoboken, then Summiét car and get off at 38th St., Union Ct or 42nd St. Ferry to West Shore, take Union City car, get off at 38th nion City DIRECTIONS ~~ Picket Steel Mills Rica ps ‘nn CHARGE BRUTAL "*s. Sie WHEAT HARVEST : joined the strikers on ) t purpose they had British iaemuloyed in Canada Jailed, Killed velunt been 1 bre ought to court on. , who day is in a seri- authorities hav- » medical care for abbing. . meeting, the *, papers for the first time sries on the strike, reveal- to which the steel Ale A ndition, the ing gi WINN of a amounting to of virtual 1 system the exponents of tr n controls she cae i jobless British wor i aon employment in Cenad ©S* tion here while police and soldiers fields a rude jolt today. The alleged! 1304 guard over them. murder of harvesters and the Su pee ce colleagues’ prisonment of others in an under-| o7ges, David Kirkwood, also @ ground cage have been charge Aces Thomas Johnson, m. p. from Ster- ( ling, Scotland. He is.a member of the United Kingdom deleg: the Empire: Parliamentar tion and is now traveling in Ca nent traveling in hat he had record re the transported orced to act as strike- further, one had mber ada, di of men he breakers 2 been found instances een d Not only has one of the harvest Hv he men are Te- ers deported from FE for the | turning fr the harvest fields with purpose of working the Canadian|ctories of slave driving that are al- fields been mysteriously slain en) most redible. The government route, but a number of others have has refused to assume responsibility on various occasions been employed for placing the workers declaring by the officials as strikebreakers. that susiness of the salle Johnson further stated that. he had road ce: seen harvesters imprisoned in an Canac als show a dispo- ion to husk matter up. underground cage at a railroad COMPLETE TOUR LONDON OLEN HAGEN e Ls INGFors LEN Ee RAD, MOSCOW SAW BERLIN PARIS SOVIET RUSSIA (Last Tour This Year) Sails: SS. MAURETANIA October 17 WORLD TOURISTS Incorporated. 69 FIFTH AVE. New York Algonquin 6900 35 DAYS of Interesting Travel Free Russian Visas | the Fall River police. Textile Organizer, P. HAGELIAS being assaulted on the Picket Line by His left arm was almost twisted from its socket | New Bedford strikers declaring the Solidarity of All Workers They paraded South Side New Bedford Workers International Relief Station where daily and were arrested five handred striker families receive food N THE STATE THAT ELECTROCUTED SACCO and VANZETTI Fight Against Black Reaction! are out on strike since April 16th of this year, . against wage reductions and the speed-up sys- , tem. The strike has spread to Fall River where several thousand more textile workers have entered the strike. Under the leadership of the militant Textile Mill Committees the strikers are carrying.on an heroic struggle. Police clubs, bayonets in the hands of the militia, wholesale arrests of pickets, RELIEF and In New Bedford, Mass., 30,000 textile workers | must be provided for every striker in need. No striker must be left to suffer in capitalist jails. Bread, soup and milk must be provided to keep starvation out of the ranks of the militant strikers. AFTER 21 WEEKS OF STRUGGLE THE STRIKERS FOR THE FIRST TIME AP- iia fines and long prison sentences have not been able to break down the fighting spirit of the striking textile men and women. Thousands of strikers and their children go hungry waiting for help from their fellow work- ers and friends. More than seven hundred strik- ers have been cast into jail and put under heavy bail. In Fall River, in addition thereto, they are also placed under heavy peace bonds, which is a new invention of the boss owned courts. DEFENSE PEAL ON A NATIONAL BASIS TO LABOR AND THE FRIENDS OF LABOR. THEY ASK THAT EVERYBODY AID IN NEW BEDFORD ; STRIKERS OF —THE NEED IS GREAT. THE STRUGGLE IS BITTER, ‘ —DETERMINEDLY THE STRIKERS FIGHT AGAINST OPPRESSION. : FEEDING AND DEFENDING THE and FALL. RIVER for NEW BEDFORD and FALL RIVER __ Bedford, Mass., or to 1 Union SEND YOUR DONATION ae once to the Strike Relief Hhadinuanteie of the Workers International Relief STRIKERS, 49 Williams Street, New Square, New York City. » Two hundred and forty-seven men and women strikers arrested for picketing in New Bedford carried away by the police in hired'moving vans . BIEDENKAPP, National Secretary of the Workers International Relief addressing a strike relief mass meeting at New Bedford North Side New Hedford Workers International Rellef Station where dally a four hundred and fifty striker families receive food a

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