The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 3

| — THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928 Pee Three Industrial Production in Soviet Union Has Made a Big Increase, "AVERAGE WAGES RISE AS STATE ECONOMY GROWS More Prosperity muss Last Year | MOSCOW, Sept. 17.—Increase in| the average monthly wage of work-| * ers together with an increase in the| state industries marked the devel-| opment of the industries in the! Soviet Union according to the lat-| est figures of the State Planning Commission. The wholesale production of the Soviet big industries amounted in| July to 718,900,000 rubles as against 573,700,000 rubles in July of last) year and for the ten months of the} current year (October to July) it amounted to 8,015,000,000 rubles. Following the provisions of the| State Planning Commission that every increase in the production of the industries would be followed by an increase in the salaries of the} workers, the average monthly| wages of the workers increased | from 64.32 rubles in July of last year, to 70.17 rubles in July of the current year. The production of ftels and min- erals also saw a commendable in- crease for the month of July as compared with July of last year. Coal, oil, cast-iron, iron-ore, cotton| yarn were produced in greater quan- | tities for the month than for the same month last year. As a measure of the increasing prosperity of the workers and pea. sants figures on the money in cir culation can be taken. The general sum of circulating money on August 1 of this year amounted to 1,718,- 000,000 rubles as against 1,443,000,- 000 rubles on August 1 of the last year. Jugoslay Oppressors Recognize Mussolini’s Albanian Czar, Zogu BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 17. Ignoring the protest of Croatian and Dalmatian peasants, workers and students, and in spite of the anti- fascist-demonstrations that have been taking place throughout the land the abbreviated government at Belgrade has decided to recognize the new Al- banian monarchy created by Mus- solini. The government announced that | “Jugoslavia found no politigal or juridicial objection and has no de- sire to meddle in Albania’s internal affairs.” (Sa coer eee VIENNA, Sept. 17 (UP). Austria officially recognized King Zogu as ruler of Albania today. ‘Wall St reet’s Candidates In Propaganda Stunt Photo shows Herbert Hoover and his runnin g mate Senator Curt: the republican ticket, getting t is Hubert Work, WORKERS GREE MINOR ON TOUR Red Candidate Speaks Thruout N. Y. State Continued from Page One believe that prohibitior makes for greater efficiency cf workers and employers who think that bootleg liquor is destructive of labor effi- ciency. Both groups are only interested ‘n the question as it effects the la- bor power of the worker, he stated, and prohibition is a piece of class legislation to which the Communists are bitterly opposed—“whether Smith or Hoover is elected makes yo difference, the prohibition ques- on will not be solved. It is only utilized to work up a semblance of competition between candidates, to ‘tir up public interest in a cam- vaign in which there is no actual difference on any real issue. as both varties are dominated by the same masters.” Minor characterized as trivia! and hypocritical the campaigns being conducted by the two old parties, ind denounced the endorsement by | the American Federation of Labor of their candidates as a “betrayal of the workers.” The socialist »arty, of which Minor was once a) ‘ember, he described as an ally of the bureaucracy of the trade union movement, for “creating the illusion that the corrupt capitalist system can be reformed and the socialist commonwealth realized by peaceful | means.” LETTER CARRIERS MEET ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 17.—Ap- proximately 700 delegates represent- ing units of the New York State. |Letter Carriers’ Association gathered today for their annual convention. The principal business will be discussion of plans to have congress increase the pension of postal employees. GROWING INFLUENCE OF DAILY WORKER By LOUIS SISSEL} It is great encouragement to a eomrade in the field to see the growth in influence of the Daily Worker. This is especially notice- able in the steel and mine regions in the western part_of Pennsylvania | and eastern Ohio. can firmly say | that the present campaign of the Daily Worker will go over the top.| One has but to come into these re-| gions and realize the bluff of Cool- idge prosperity. Workers in the steel regions earn | the miserable sum of 27 to 40 cents per hour. The, speed-up system and the spy-system is organized to the highest extent where. the bloody rule of the steel trusts prevail. P: 0. with Bosses. | The Post Office is directly con-|large Eastman Kodak factory ‘and! nected with the company and any|other huge industrial enterprises, | iesser |new subscriptions that were ob-| | tained there. In Buffalo, New York, for in- stance, besides the 20 new subscrip- tions that were obtained, a commit- | tee was organized to secure enough articles to form a Buffalo booth at, the Freiheit and Daily Worker Bazaar in New York. In Rochester, New York a con- ference will be called soon to take! up ways and means to build the) |Daily Worker. At this conference many organizations will be repre- sented, . _ Distribute “Daily” The Daily Worker is “distributed|| there at the special noon-day meet-, \ings that are held in front of the big Northeastern Electric Co., , the heir “official” pho tographs taken. | | Wall Street candidates, on With the Wall Street candidates chairman of oe aan nat ional Bona committee. ‘Clerical Jailed; Four Killed in Train Wreck by Mexican Reaction | MEXICO cITY, Sept. 17.— Charged with having conspired to overthrow the government and with violating the religious laws, a cath- |olic priest, Mateo Chavez, and oth- *lers were arrested by military au- thorities of Guadelajara. At the same time four trainmen| were killed and several passengers injured when a band of counter- revolutionaries tore up the rails on the Mexico City-Guadalajara line and wrecked an express. Those killed were the engineer, two fire- men and an express messenger. The | railway workers have declared that they will refuse to run the trains| unless adequate protection against the counter-revolutionaries is given. MILL STRIKERS FARMERS SUFFER AS STORM GROWS Porto Rica a Devastated, | Florida Struck Continued from Page Cne |ing hard to restore communications so aid can be given to the stricken. | Guliiermo Esteves, evmmissioner of the interior, returned from a dif- | ficult trip through part cf the island today and estimated the total | damage at more than $100,000,000. | There is no way of est’mating the number of dead and injured, without resorting, to guesswork. From authentic reports that reached here, however, it was apparent that | {at least 200 were dead. Reports received by the United Press from half a dozen points showed a tabu- lation of 182, and the list undoubt- ‘edly will grow when other points BOOST NEW UNION Batty Begs for Chance | to Sell Out Men Continued from Page One this meeting. All laid great stress to the importance of resuming mass picketing as an answer to the Batty sell out plan. They then are heard from. ie 2-4) ve Hurricane Spreads. The weather bureau «issued a statement today saying that the hurricane which swept out of the/ Indies onto the Florida Coast yes- \terday still was moving northwest- | ward and now centered over the sec- tion east of Tampa. The bureau also extended its | warning to include the section south ‘of Jacksonville to below Titusville _jalso a citizen of Prague, talked of convention arrangements.|and on the west coast north of Ce~ | Meetings Of individual mill commit-|dar Keys to Apalachicola. This | tees were still being held for the|arning also included the coast sec- jelectiori of representatives to the|tion north of Jacksonville to Savan- convention, the speakers also stated. | |nah, Ga. Local papers announce that they | jexnect J. Sullivan, president of the | ke * Florida Disaster. retirement | mill owners’ association to issue a} statement on the secret meeting of that organization, held recently. It is expected that the mill bosses will come out with an announcement that | they are ready to negotiate for a settlement with Batty. This means | that the sellout, whereby the bosses will be granted a speed-up system that means less earnings for the mill | | workers, is imminent momentarily. | | “No settlement is valid without | \our union. |tlement’ will be rejected by the overwhelming masses of strikers and even by a majority of Batty’s _own membership,” was the defiant message carried in a statement to press by the Textile Workers ion of the Textile Mill Commit- tees. The statement also declared: “We shall keep fighting for a vic- tory, and we are certain that the majority of Batty’s union wil! join the other thousands of workers in ha struggle against a betrayal of | their struggle. | . * More than a hundred strikers suc- cessfully carried through picketing | demonstrations before the gates of |the Paige Mills: despite attempts of | |the police to break them up. Three | times the lines of strikers were com- | nelled to reform in picketing for- ‘mation. Strenuous attempts are | being made by the owners of this plant to reopen their plant. With the aid of straw bosses and superintendents, borrowed worker receiving the Daily Worker | the workers are eager to get it. The from other mills, the Paige factory stands a chance to lose his job. The intended Batty ‘set- | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 17 | (UP).—The hurricane raking Flor- ida beat upon the well-populated in- terior of the peninsula this after- noon as it swung northwestward. The west coast north of Tampa and the western fringe of the state from Tallahasee on was believed to fecl the full force of the great | storm. | 4: he: 500 in West Indies Killed. PARIS, Sept. 17 (UP).—Five hundred persons were killed by a tropical hurricane on the Island of | Guadeloupe, French® colony in the West Indies, the minister of colonies announced today. The announcement said 235 bod- ies had been recovered. The prin- cipal town, Point a Pitre, was almost entirely destroyed, it was said. American Oil Barons Get Fat Concession in Dutch East Indies WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UP). —Settlement of an eight-year oil dispute between the Netherlands and |the United States government whereby American citizens will be enabled to participate in the develop- ment -of Petroleum lands in the Dutch East Indies on a reciprocal basis, was announced at the State Department today: A similar dispute with Great Britain remains unsettled. CZECHS THANK USSR, ‘KRASSIN’ _ FOR POLAR WORK Commission nn Publishes’ Rescue Records (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 17.—Deep thanks and gratitude to the Soviet rescue expeditiof, to the pilots, captain land the whole crew of the ice- |breaker Krassin for “their noble and self-sacrificing activity when they carried on searching and rescued participants of the polar expedition headed by Nobile, among whom was Professor Behounek,” was expressed in a note handed by Mr. Girsa, Pleniponten- tiary Representative of the ee slovakian Republic in the U. R. to the People’s Coaebaeee oa Foreign Affairs. Me of Sea “Krassin” Journals Received. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 17.—The ship’s | Journals of the ice-breaker “Kras- |sin,” diaries of members of the ex- | pedition, a great number of photo- |graphic negatives and moving-pic- | ture films, as well as articles by the expedition leaders, were received by the Soviet Rescue Commission from the “Krassin” at Norway. The Committee will soon publish all this material, which it considers of great international importance. |The exclusive rights to distribute |photo-pictures of the “Krassin” are |given to the Literary-Il¥ustration Bureau, “Presse-Cliche.” The film which was taken on the Krassin and from Chukhnovsky’s airplane is he- ing issued by the “Sovkino” and| will be ready in about one month. * * * Others Give Up Search. PARIS, Sept. 17.—Due to bad weather the French ships in the Arctic are given up the search for the Amundsen group, and returning to their home ports. The French cruisers Strasburg and the Durance are returning and the American ship the Hobby is also heading for home. The Citta di Milano, Italian ship, is on its way to Norway, having given up the search. The Soviet ice- breaker, the Krassin, will continue to look for the tthe. maisning. 20 men. NEW CONFERENCE ON RAIL WAGES Misleaders V Work for! | Sellout Continued from Page One ployes. have voted almost unani- mously to strike in event of failure of the parley. It was pointed out that a provi- sion of the Watson-Parker railway act gives the president power to ap- effort to avert a strike, it auto- matically would delay the walkout of the commission to the executive, chief ora Observers See Planned Betrayal. CHICAGO, Sept. 17—The ex-| pected maneuver on the part of the | officials of the union conductors | and trainmen to block the demands | of the men for wage increases has | been made. These officials are again sitting in more or less secret mediation with representatives of the employ- | ers notwithstanding the overwhelm- | ing vote of the men for strike ac- tion and in spite of their own re-! peated statements that there would be no more of the interminable’ conferences by which the railroads | have succeeded in postponing action | An Old Bosses’ Game, Contests Mean Speed-Up One of the oldest tricks of bosses in order to make the speed-up of the workers faster is to run contests. is the typewriting contest. Photo of these contests in Sacramento, typewriting speed contest is under way. An old variant of this dodge shows some of the entrees in one Cal., where the international Incidentally, the type- writer manufacturers get some of the publicity. NEARING TOURIN STATES OF SOUTH ‘Demands End of Race Exploitation JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 17. —Scott Neating, who is touring the south in the interests of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, spoke here Thursday evening, presenting the Communist viewpoint on national is- sues and outlining the revolutionary platform ot his Party. Nearing, a well-known economist whe was ex;elled from the Un sity of Pennsylvania for his radical views. mzde an appea! for the sup port of Negroes and cther oppressed groups. He said that the Negroes who fled from the south have been s “ruthIssly exploited in the indus- trial cities of the north.” The de- mands of the Communists, he |pointed out, include abolition of all race discrimination, segregation, dis- |enfranchisement, discrimination and also the enactment of a federal law against lynching, and equal oppor tunities for Negroes with equa! pay. Nearing predicted “an inevitable war between the United States and Great Britain, as the outcome of their rivalry for domination of! world markets, so essential to the ‘prosperity’ of modern imperialist nations. While the United States |and Great Britain are now co-oper- ating in the loot of China, together Negro Debators Show Communism Is Solution ef Oppressed Workers Before a large audience, a debate on the subject “Resolved that Com- munism Is the Only Solution for the Oppressed and Exploited Ne- groes,” was held last Sunday even- ing at the St. Marks Church. C. Phillips, for the affirmative, pointed out that Communism is an international movement based upon the oppressed masses both at home and in the colonies. He said that the Communist Party was a true revolutionary party, and the only! party which could free the Negroes,¢ together with the workers of the | world, from oppression. He also pointed to the fact that three Ne- groes were on the Communist Party ticket and that for the first time in the history of American labor, a| Negro had been elected vice-presi- dent of a union,—referring to the election of William Boyce as vice- president of the newly organized National Miners’ Union. SPANISH BALLOON. MADRID, Sept. 17 (UP).—The balloon Hispania, which left Guada- lajara on Saturday on an attempt to break the world altitude record, was found wrecked at Caraca, Pro- vince of Murica, today. Commander Molla and his crew were dead. Report Reveals 180 POLITICAL PRISONERS FACE DEATH IN JAPAN |Anti-Monarchist Acts Charged by Govern’t (Red Aid Press Service) TOKIO, law passed in Japan providing the death penalty for anti-state and anti-monarchist propaganda has a special importance, since in the near future a large number of processes against persons who have carried on anti-government and anti-monar- chist propaganda will take place. In April of this year it is known that mass arrests have taken place in Japan, 385 arrests being reported in the ne apers. Of these 180 were held in jail. The, arrested are charged with anti-state and anti- monarchist propaganda. With the new law passed provid- ing death for such activity these prisoners face certain death. Party Accounts Week Here Sept. 24 to 30 Party Accounting Week will” be held during September 24-20, ‘ac- cording to the district office of the Workers ¢(Communist) Perty. John J. Ballam, acting district or- ganizer of district 2, last night is- sued instructions that all Party members are to attend their ‘unit meetings without fail iduring that week, in order that a“theck-up may be made on attendance, dues pay- ments, assessment stamps and gen- eral activity. Those failing to attend, the state- ment said, will be considered de- linquent in their Party duties. All reports for Party Accounting Week will be turned over to the district office for further action. with Japan, this situation has in it | \the germs of future conflict on the | Pacific.” Nearing, who is candidate for) governor of New Jersey, will make a tour of all the principal cities of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennes- see, Kentucky, point a fact-finding commission. If | this provision is invoked in a last) for thirty days, pending the report| tion campaign. WILSONIAN SHADES. GENEVA, Sept. 17 (UP).—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended the ses- sion of the third commission of the League of Nations today, dealing with disarmament. THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE Special Enlarged Numbers ON THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE C. I. 10 CENTS SECURE YOUR COPY FROM Workers Library Publishers 35 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY West Virginia, Ohio jand Pennsylvania during the elec- Order a Campaign Work. Bundle! Let The DAILY WORKER help you in your Election Order a bundle to distribute and sell at your open air meetings, in front of factories and at union meetings. Ba ar LE lapel RRR MR RCT AUREL | Special price on Daily Worker bundles during election campaign, $8.00 per thousand (regular Name price $10.00 per thousand). .-Daily Workers Japan (By Mail).—The’ In| best elements of the working class Planned to resume operation of the |for over two years. spite of all these difficulties workers | are interest€d in the Daily Worker. looms. The bitterly stubborn pick- ; | Ray Ragozin to Speak Only further mass pressure on| responded: to the Daily Worker! cheerfully, have subscribed to the Daily Worker, in many cases secretly, for they recognize the Daily. Worker as the mouthpiece of the oppressed workers. I have witnessed miners receiving a bundle of Daily Workers in one of the barracks, they were so eager | to look at it as starving children are I met class conscious Negro work-|¢ting of the strikers here, despite ers who were more than-glad to re-|the many arrests, has to date pre- ceive a copy of the Daily Worker, | vented the turning of a wheel in this and are handing them over to fel-|!a7ge plant. low workers, | Casmiero Lamieras, Negro Workers Active. tested ‘picket leader, the oft-ar- was thrown A Negro comrade in East Liver- pool, Ohio is a Daily Worker agent | and doing very good work. In| | Warn, Ohio, where a Negro comrade when they receive food. I have met jis a Daily Worker agent in spite of many workers on the road who never| the oppression and terrorism that heard of the Daily Workers before | he is confronted with from the mill but when they looked at it they liked | barons, he does splendid work for In many cities where we had no} '@omrades in every part of the coun- connections before, contacts were | try; that there is a great field for! established through the Daily Work-| the growth of the Daily Worker, so er. Many readers of the Daily'that it becomes the actual mouth- Worker did their share in getting the | |piece, the collective organizer and 20,000 signatures that were re-_ ‘educator of the workers i in this coun- quifed in the State of Ohio. Organi-| | | try, and able to counter-attack the zations for the Daily Worker were| poisonous dope of the capitalist from his bicycle as he came riding up to the Paige plant picket line. |He resumed his activities, however, despite these attempts to maim him. aa pe Over two thousand mill workers in tins ciuy Ov ‘ Textile Operatives, and came to at- tend a mass outdoor rally called by the Textile Mill Committees, where the question of the new union con- vention was to be taken up. The rally was held during an outing of the T. M. C. to the Swansea Woods. Enthusiastic applause was the established such as Daily Worker Builders Clubs and Committees. This was the case in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Youngstown, militant trade unions, for the cam- ers. shortly resign their posts, it was | tion. Ohio. paign against war and for the re-| This uni ill be unlik t of |learned today, and Dr. Enrique) In Toledo, Ohio, the comrades | building of a workingclass revolu- Gaingo's. Notethe vu. T. W. sa a Larreta and Dr. Carlos Noel will| 43 East 125th Street NEW YORK CITY have succeeded in raising a fund of $100 to enable 50 comrades to get a three months subscription to the Daily. rarer: and then these 50 e ) vegular sub- press. At the same time it will pave the way towards our cam- paigns for the organizations of tionary movement in this country, eee ee! (Comrade Sisselman recently returned from a tour for the Worker. that lasted 14 greeting given to the announcement of the speakers that the convention in New York will launch a real na- tional organization of textile work- Tansey of the A. F. T. O. This union will fight for the workers and will not work for the bosses’ inter- est, was the remarks of the speak- ers, received with! tremendous ap- plause. 4 at School Meets Here Ray Ragozin, Pauline Rogers and others will speak on school condi- tions in the institution at two open- air meetings called by the Parents | Association. of Public School 89 for Thursday evening, Sept. 23. ‘ves, Aves. | 2 COPS IN RUM RING. first atrested in the present liquor investigation, were seized late this | afternoon and held on charges | growing out of the probe of an al- leged $10,000,000 bootleg and mur- | der ring by the grand jury. DISAGREE WITH BRITISH. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 17.— Two Argentine ambassadors, Dr. Dr. S. Mansilla, to Spain, will! take their places. Every new reader of The DAILY WORKER is a potential soldier in the coming battles of the workers, The ||| meetings will be held at 8 p. m. at) ‘he corners of Allerton and Cruger | and Allenton and Olinville ‘ Jose Uriburu, to Great Britain, and_ the part of the workers can prevent a certain betrayal, which observers declare the union officials and the | railroad magnates are even now working out. 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