The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 3

j | | | | | | | | | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1925 rage Three Clamp Down Censorship as Portuguese Gov't Reports Discovery of POLICE ARREST 15 IN RAIDS IN ~ ALEMTEJO CITY Allege Ammunition, Rifles Found LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 12 (UP). (Delayed by censor.)—Newspapers published teday an announcement by the dictator of political police that @ revolutionary plot had been dis- covered and frustrated in Beja, pro- vince of Alemtejo. | Police seized 36 bombs, 22 pounds of dynamite and other explosive ma- terial and arrested 11 men. a ae) OPORTO, Portugal, Sept. 1 Announcement that more than fif- teen arrests have been made in Beja have been received here. While fragmentary in the ex- j treme, dispatches from the south state that a quantity of ammunition and rifles was located by the police at the same time, The exact nature of the attempt against the present government is unknown but it is believed that there are grounds for considering the present situation critical. | No arrests have been made as yet in this city. Beja is the principal city and cap- ital of the province of Alemtejo. It is approximately 200 miles from Lisbon. The province is mountain- ous. MANY BOOTHS AT. “DAILY” BAZAAR ( cnienizations Prepare for Big Event Continued from Page One League is going to have a booth of its own where men’s and children’s clothing will be sold at low prices. Local 22, International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ League, will have a booth of all sorts of dresses. The millinery workers. are now busy preparing 30 dozen Parisian hats for their booth, while the United Council of Workingclass Women will have several booths of its own. One of the most interesting booths will be the jewelry booth. | Here a complete jewelry shop will} be established, including a~ repair | department where workers will be | able to have their watches repaired | while they wait. Artistic revolu-| ationary emblems will also be sold at this booth. The jewelry work- ers have set themselves the goal of making at least $5,000 for the Daily | Worker and the Freiheit. MILL STRIKERS — - PICK DELEGATES Will Attend Meet for New Union | Continued from Page One | mill owners even the city’s public schools are, was sharply demon- strated this week when members of the Young Pioneers League and members of the Strikers. Childrens’ Club, were the subject of a vicious campaign of persecution for their activities in behalf of the strike. Punishment for their affiliations) ranges fro mpetty annoyances of the suspected children, all the way ito open floggings. Anna Ellenterio, 11 years old, a pupil in the In- graham School was first scolded for her membership in the Pioneers and then beaten till she fainted. The of- ficial crime she was alleged to have committed was that of not knowing the location of Mississippi. Eliza Moura, Roosevelt Junior High School was punished for having the Pion- eers insignia on her blouse. Domingue Costello, ten, the,.son of a shoemaker who soles the shoes of strikers free, was held after school yesterday and beaten for wearing a Pioneer tie. Gangs of young roughs are being sent to start fights with the children picketing the homes of scabs. Manuel Ber- nado, 12 had his eyes blacked, and | Louis Garcia, 12, was bruised, | In spite of all this persecution, | however, the childrens’ méyement | grows by leaps and bounds, in ac-| tivity as well as numbers. Strikers’ | ‘hildren, volunteered to join the ‘ioneers in a widespread distribution f the Young Comrade, official or- | gan of the Young Pioneers of America. | Great enthusiasm was shown by! the strikers from the Whitman Mill when they attended the meeting of their mill committee. Fred E. Beal was chairman and reported .on the | | planned new union to be launched in | | New York on Sept. 22. Keller and} Dawson, returned from the U. T. W.) convention were occorded a spirited / ovation. Thursday evening, the | strikers from the Nashewena Mill| are to meet. Friday the Soule Mill! workers meet with the Acushnet and | aes ‘ sage | founding Potomska following soon thereafter. | ized, 4 ise gr eae When French Imperialist Plans Went Wrong The wreckage of the plane. in. which .the French minister of 20mn , Maurice Bo- | canowski, together with | three companions and the pilot were killed when flames enveloped their plane jat Toul, France. Bokanowski, | one of the most zealous | of the French imperial- ists was recently in the United States where he reviewed the troops at West Point and took a keen interest the preparations which the Americans are making for imperialist war. in EUROPEAN LABOR GREETS MINERS Cables Received From Militant Unions Continued from Page One gle of the fighting American mine workers against their reactionary officials and bureaucrats gives us also a lead.” French Miners Send Greetings. From the Unitary Union of Northern Miners and Allied Trades of France comes the following mes+ of solidarity and ; good-will over the signature of M. Morival, its secretary-general: “Dear Comrades: “The Regional Unitary Trade Union of the militant miners of the North of France salutes with joy the calling of the convention at Pittsburgh on the 9th of Septem-) ber, by the left wing of the Ameri- can miners, “It expresses the hope that the miners on that date will succeed in a real class-conscious union, one which will enable them to free themselves from the yoke of the traitor chiefs of the old union. “The Regional Trade Union, which is following with the closest interest the evolution of the miners move- ment in the United States, toward real fighting: policies, also hopes that the Pittsburgh Conference will send us the full proceedings of the Convention. “Long live the American Miners Union, freed from Lewis and his clique! “Long life the world wide united front of the miners! “For the Regional Trade Union of the Miners of the North France, “The Secretary General, —‘M. Morival.” * : eer | Belgium Workers Speak For the Federation of the Knights of Labor of Seraing, Belgium, Jules Blavier, secretary, writes: “Seraing, Aug. 7th ’28. “Dear Comrades: “On the occasion of the Conven- tion called at Pittsburgh by you left wing American workers, “We send fraternal greetings to all the qiners and also to the New American Miners Union. “We hope that this convention will enable the miners to free them- selves definitely from the worst bureaucrats in the world. “Liberated from this check and strong in their new hope the miners will go forward in the struggle, and devote their lives to throwing off the chains of capitalism. “For the Federation of the Knights of Labor of Belgium. “The Secretary, —“Jules Blavier.” * . Austrian Miners’ Greetings. Through Franz Koritschoney, the left wing miners of the Austrian Federation of Mine and Millworkers, whose headquarters are in Vienna, write: “We militant mineworkers of Austria, who are struggling against the reactionary bureaucrats greet with enthusiasm the great step of our American colleagues. “More and more have the conser- vatives of our country given up their pretence of following the ‘left’ pro- gressive tradition and adopted the class collaboration program of the A. F. of L. The struggle of the fighting American mine workers against their reactionary officials and bureaucrats give us also a lead. Long live the militant miners’ union! Long live the six hour day! Long live the solidarity of the work- ers of the world! “With fraternal greetings, —“Franz Koritschoney, Mem- ber of Executive Committee.” Aluminum Workers Are Paid Low Wage WASHINGTON. — Female work- ers in the manufacture of aluminum utensils are paid as low as $14.69 a| week, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. A study of 82 plants in seven states show that weekly earnings for malé and female workers aver- age $25.68. Full-time weekly hours average 52%, but the time actually worked average 50 hours. The com- paratively few molders are the high- est paid employer their full-time weekly varnings average $41.37 None of these workers are organ- Crisis May Force Tory 'CabinetReorganization Chamberlain ‘Too Sick’ LONDON, Sept. 12 (UP).—A re- organization of the cabinet, includ- ing the resignation of seven min- isters for reasons of health, will take place before the 1929 elections, the Daily Telegraph reported today. | The newspaper said it understood the following would retire: Sir Aus- tin Chamberlain, the Earl of Bal- four, Sir William Johnson-Hicks, W. C. Bridgeman, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lis- ter and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland. FRENCH WORKERS PRESS ON BRIAND Charges War Prepara- tion Against USSR PARIS, Sept. 12—Briand’s speech at Geneva in which he stressed the need for military de- fense against a war which he charged was being prepared by the Soviet Union, resulted in many com- ments here, the most important of which was the denunciation of the militarist policy of the French gov- {ernment by the Communist press. The criticism pointed out that French military and naval costs were rising, that new preparations were being made, Negpecially in the new line of fortifications strgpching |across Europe, the construction of |airplane bases, and the perfection ,of chemical means of warfare. | When Briand charges the Soviet | Union with “fostering a class war” of and claimed that military strength | , Was necessary not so much for na- tional defense but for protection against the “menace,” the Commu- nist press charges that was only an excuse for further preparations for an offensive war against the Soviet Union, and for the perfection of a strike-breaking and. counter-revolu- [tionary organization of military and naval strength. By trying to discredit the Soviet Union by his references to “theatri- ,cal gestures” Briand is only trying ito draw the. attention of the French masses from the significance of its class struggle and the sincere and whole-hearted desire of the Soviet | Union for peace, the press said. | On the other hand, semi-offigial government papers like the Temps, commended Briand on his stand at Geneva, especially against the Ger- man demand for evacuation. JAPANESE TORIES ) PLAN OFFENSIVE | TOKIO, Sept. 12.—Many charges | of bribery and other underhand methods punctuate the comment here on the complete dissolvency of | the opposition party, Minseito, which leaves Baron Tanaka in pow- | er and his policy towards Manchuria and the Nanking regime intact. | \The first move in this series of | government maneuvers took place on August 1 when Takejiro Toko- nami seceded from the opposition | group ‘and threatened to form a} third party, which weakened the op- position (Minseito). Well informed observers charge that this move was ‘inspired by the government group | and that the further disintegration |of the Minseito was brought about | by cash bribes. | This clever maneuvering has re- | sulted in the maintenance of the |policy of military aggy8ion in Manchuria and enmity to the Soy- liet Union. The Minseito, in event vit had attained power, would per. | OILINTERESTS — END INDIA WAR Price-cutting €ut Too) Many Profits LONDON, Sept. 12.—After the price war between Dutch Shell and the Standard Oil in India, in which it was found that the Royal Dutch Shell undercharged considerable in order to win the eastern market from the United States, both com- panies are now charging exorbitant | prices, according to the report of an Indian board of inquiry. At the beginning of the price war the Dutch Sheil alleged that the Standard had bought oil from the Soviet Oil Syndicate which right- fully belonged to it, on the basis of -pre-revolutionary claims. It is generally believed that the two oil companies, after their re- cent conference in England, had, among other things, decided to give up the price-war because of its dam- aging results. According to the board of inquiry, the excess charged by the oil companies would amount to about $20,000,000 above the or- dinary economic prices. DRIVE TO HELP MILL CHILDREN Open W. I. R. Station | in New Bedford A relief station to feed the chil- |dren of the textile strikers is soon | | to be opened in New Bedford by the | | Workers International Relief. The Mothers’ League of New England |is launching a special campaign for lits support. The Hebrew Bakers’ | present trial (44 ROUMANIAN PEASANTS. AND WORKERS TRIED Government Witnesses are Police Spies BUCHAREST, Rumania, Sept»12. |The Rumanian government yester- |day began the trial of 144 workers and peasants on charges of spread- ing Communist propaganda, accord- ing to reports from Klausenburg. Against these defendants the gov- ernment has marshalled more than four hundred witnesses, many of whom, according to statements of the workers, are police spies and government agents, The evidence in the case is com- prised in several volumes of closely printed matter. In spite of the strictness with which the Rumanian censorship has endeavored to keep the less savory details of the arrests from leaving the country, stories of unbelievable cruelty and tortures in the Rumani- an jails have frequently found their way across the frontier and into the stories of correspondents. Many of the defendants in the have been held in prisons for months following their arrest on charges which, at times, are no more serious than the pos- session of a book declared illegal by the authorities or an accidental world. In many cases the arrests can be laid to local jealousies and informing for revenge. SPANISH POLICE ARREST 60 MORE Papers Carry No News of Raids MADRID, Sept. 12 (UP).—Ex- traordinary precautions have been taken by police and military au- thorities to suppress any disorder at tomorrow’s ceremonies celebrating the fifth anniversary of Premier |Primo De Rivera’s regime as dic- tator. Any disturbance will be put down quickly. Officials, however, were confident that a plot to overthrow the De Rivera rule had been broken thoroughly by more than 360 arrests here and in the provinces. This morning’s papers, due to censorship, did not carry a line about the miscarried plot, which was discovered Tuesday. All that was printed was the announcement that Local 45 has taxed its members with | De Rivera was conferring today with fifty cents per capita, making a|the ministers of interior and justice sum of about $125 which is to goj|and the chief of police about prep- | toward the initial expense of the arations for tomorrow’s ceremony, children’s station. © Two food sta-| which will draw 50,000 visitors to |tions, at the north and south end | Madrid. | of New Bedford, are maintained by| Sixty additional arrests at Valen- the Workers International Relief. cia were reported today by Captain |It algo conducts soup kitchens in| General Castro Girona, but on 6r- | Fall River. ders from Madrid they were made Increased relief activity is report-|by civil polic instead of the mili- ed in Boston and vicinity. Jean-|tary. General Girona, as military |nette D, Pearl, field organizer for Chief, added that no indication was the W. I. R., is visiting and address- |S¢e of disturbances in Valencia. ing organizations, enlisting sym- jpathy and support of workers and friends. At a special meeting of the Carpenters’ Local 157 a dollar tax per member was levied. The | president, A. Roosar, advanced a | GERMAN MINERS | check of 200 on account, and prom- THREATEN STRIKE check of $200 on account, and prom- | soon. Generous donations have been | made by the New York and Inde- pendent Workmen’s Circle of Bos- | |ton, W. S. & D. B. F., American | Small Pay | Austrian Benefit Society, with “ : | |promise of help from several other! SENFTENBERG, Germany (FP).| organizations. |—Soft coal miners of this district The board of directors of the are preparing to strike in October |Community Church, after listening for the eight-hour day. Now they |to report of the New Bedford situa-| re working 9% hours. tion, assured Miss Pearl of their| The strike, it is expected, will be sympathy with the need for relief |Short but exciting. Last year the | and offered to start a relief drive| Coal diggers struck for a wage in- in support of the W. I. R. rellef | freate. Officials with polished kitchens. boots, riding breeches and canes soiled manicured hands to help| \strikebreakers. Despite elaborate | Imperialists Discuss police protection for the blacklegs, | i j | the organized miners won—although | Occupation of Rhine |10 pfennigs was the extent of their at Session in Geneva | victory. That is about 2% cents American. GENEVA, Sept. 12.—Five repre-| Average wages are now about 30 | sentatives of big powers met here| marks a week, or $7.50. That fig- | today to discuss the question of the|ure also represents just about the evacuation of German land occupied! purchasing power of 30 marks. | | by allied troops and to formuiate @/Competition of badly paid Polish! ane ir to Pressnt Jo tis |miners depresses German standards. | nites ates. government ‘at German miners live barely on the would combine the question of the Se talatenicd level, denied shee or- nathan iN the Rhine with that dinary articles of diet deemed es-| Seat asand ‘aft Roravioas Waal sential in America. Among these ’ :. are butter, eggs and milk, Cheap ‘declared that evacuation would not meats, sausages, vegetables and \Soft Coal Diggers Get | Torn from German A group of class war prison German amnesty act. burg jail following their release under the provisions of the The freed prisoners were received enthusi- Prisons by Workers ers leaving the infamous Sonnen- astically all over Germany by the German working class elated at its success in delivering its capitalists. A number of the Union to recuperate f fighters from the hands of the prisoners will go to the Soviet m the sufferings they underwent in jail. VOLUNTEER ARMY AIDS IN RED ELEC Continued from Page One said, “Mitchell Palmer, attorney general, got out his infamous in- junction against the miners and un- der the Harding regime the notor- ious Harry Daugherty got the Wilk- erson injunction out against the striking railroad workers. The re- actionary leaders of the American Federation of Labor have conven- iently forgotten the strikebreaking roles played by both parties, and are now scrambling for position on the bandwagons of the democratic and republican parties. “But the workers who went thru these strikes, who were clubbed, | jailed and blacklisted, who lost their working conditions and suffered re- ductions in wages as a result of those injunctions, have not forgot- ten. The lessons of those strug- gles have been engraved on their memories and they are willing to listen to the program of the’, Vork- ers (Communist) Party which ‘alls on them to organize industrials and politically, and points out that only thru militant struggle can they hold whatever gains they have made in the past, win further concessions from the bosses in the future and prepare for the final overthrow of the capitalist system, and the es- tablishment of a Workers and Farmers’ Government, ,which will build a new society and free labor from the chains of the present slav- ery, the constant fear of unemploy- ment, the horrors of war, and other evils of capitalism.” | Trachtenberg announced that all these comrades who have machines, |whether they be flivvers or second | hand Packards, will be asked to loan them to the Party during this or- ganization drive. Every vehicle ca- pable of eating up space will be | pressed into service. Comrades who cannot secure other means of loco- motion will hike from town to town. The National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party will provide all the necessary campaign material, leaflets, membership cards, collec- tion blanks, sub blanks for the Daily Worker and other Communist or- gans, Members who are ready to offer their services are urged to get in touch immediately with the National Office of the Workers (Communist) Party at 43 East 125th Street, give their names and addresses, their Party connections and all other nec- essary information, tell where they would prefer to be sent and how much time they can give to this work. Comrade Trachtenberg made it clear that the National Election Campaign is not merely a campaign | to roll up a large vote for the Com-| munist ticket, but that it is primar- ily a*campaign to build the Party, to establish it on a national basis and thereby multiply its influence among the masses. It is not only a TION DRIVE campaign of functionari case with the socialist party tion campaign. The revival of the pioneer spirit among the members of the only revolutionary working class political party in the United States is a guarantee that the Workers (Communist) Party is des- tined to fulfill its historical role in America, which is to organize and lead the masses for the conquest of the land and machinery which they now use for the profit of the ruling classes in return for a bare exis- tence, and to place political power exclusively in the hands the workers and farmers. the jec- of While the socialist party is mob- ilizing ministers of religion, profes- sional journalists, bourgeois college | t professors and shy Workers (Communist) Party i: mobilizing the working masses. In this work, the class conscious wom- en in industry will be called on to volunteer, the members of the Young Workers (Communist) League will be asked to place their energy and enthusiasm at the dis- posal of the Central Executive Com- mittee, Negro radicals will be sent into the south to bring the message of Communism to the persecuted and exploited black workers in the factories and on the farms and Com- munist agitators will go into the farming regions to organize Party branches, “In this campaign,” Comrade Trachtenberg concluded, “every member of the Party must become a Party builder. Those who can leave home and work for awhile are expected to volunteer immediately ster lawyers, the for this interesting and_ politically important task.” CREW, PASSENGERS SAVED. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 12 (UP),— The lives of seventy passengers were endangered when fire broke out yesterday in the hold of the Ward liner Monterey off the Port of Progresso, a wireless to the newspaper Excelsior said today. \ Revolution Plot REFORMISTS ASK “OPEN DOOR” FOR ARGENTINE OIL Block Nationalization Project BUENOS AYRES, Argentina, Sept. 12.—The proposal to national- ize all oil lands met with a setback when a coalition of the minority parties. uding the conservatives, “socialis and anti-personal rad- ruct any discus- the chamber. icals decided to o! ation of all oil held by priv plan for the exproprin:, icluding those ign interests. bill ca and for and would effect British and Amer- ican companies \4io have the 2 concessions in the Argeri! oil nority bloc ¢ obstruct * ion on the proposed legis-"* absenting itself from the lation chamber, t preventing a quorum which is ne for any discus-—~ sion of new laws. The Argentine produces about ly 372,000 tons of crude oil, of which. only 800,000 come from the national reserves, the remainder being sup- plied by the foreign investors. Itt order to fulfill the fuel need Argerienz tine must import about 850,000 tonsz* Between the oil interests in the itself and the companies ort to Argentina, a virtual y the foreign interests. The vcialist” and conservative bloc stand for an open-door policy for foreign oil WHAT | SAW IN CHINA | By TOM MANN | 10 cents HE the “grand old man” of British Labor move- ment tells of his experi- ences in revolutionary China after a six months’ stay with the Interna- tional Workers’ Delega- tion. Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street New York City By HERMINIA OF CLASS Special Reduction Fairy Tales tor Workers’ Children Paper, 50c WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 EAST 125TH STREET : NEW YORK CITY ZUR MUHLEN STORIES THAT TEACH CHILDREN THE LESSONS STRUGGLE Cloth, $1.00 Did You Receive Our Letter? Did You Answer ? If not yet, tax yourself with one day’s wage and do your share to complete the fund | | | ‘A Day’s Wage tor the $100,000 |\COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND! | Negotiations continue. (haps have adopted a less “militant- | ly aggressive” policy but one es-| sentially based on the protection of \the Japanese “interests” in Man- churia. take place without some form of Te-1 i00k “bread constitute the digger's supported by the British, has de- manded as a form of remuneration | that the railroad and industrial se- |eurties of Germany be. marketed abroad, that the allies control the MOLDERS RAISE WAGES. | German frontier and that there be SEATTLE.—Molders raised their no talk of a German-Austrian po- minimum wage to $7.50 a day after | Jitical union. By a united platform a short strike. The former mini-| the European powers expect to have | mum was $6.40 but several employ-| the United States government. re- (ers paid more than thi8 rate. The| duce or cancel the war debts in re- average increase is 60 cents a day. | turn for the German securities. | With characteristic seclusion noth- OPERATORS REFUSE CUT. ing was said of the results of the ST. LOUIS.—Motion picture op- | first conference, but a long series erators have rejected a 10 per cent of negotiations are thought neces- cut proposed by St. Louis owners. sary before the powers concerned diet. American coal operators haven’t much to learn over here. Miners | |live in company houses in a com- pany town. The company owns the | |store, hotel, bakery, church and | other buildings. | OFFSPRING SHAMES PAPA. | COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept, 12 (UP). | A. O. Guy, son of Rev, J. W. Guy, superintendent of the South Carolina anti-saloon league, was fined $200 and sentenced to four months in jail today when he pleaded guilty to a charge of violation of the prohibi- | will agree to a common platform. | tion law. ANSWER BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN ' THIS NOTICE | j 43 EAST 125TH STREET Are you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot send even a single dollar or a two-dollar bill for the Communist Campaign? We Need 5’s, 10’s, 25’s and 100’s but the singles and twos are just as welcome. Send all Funds to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treasurer | National Election Campaign Committee | gust attach your con- tribution to the blank that we sent you and | mail it in NOW! | cy ig NEW YORK CITY