The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 3

pe ~~ pe, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1928 cage Three r . e ee ° . a Austrian Social Democratic Congress Agrees to Raise Workers’ Rent Three Fold DECIDE WORKERS | Where Hundreds Perished In Tropical Hurricane MUSSOLINI LAW 'Dictator of Peru to REPORT SP ANISH “Socialist” Bloc in ; 5 Assure Re-election Argentina Sides With MUST NOT HEED c MORE STRINGENT by Big Suppression REVOL GROWING Foreign Oil Interests | ' 3) LIMA, Peru, Sept. 18.—The bill ) j| BUENOS AYR Argentina, | providing imprisonment and confis- Sept. 18—The “socialist”, radical | Cc tt §§ cation of property of those guilty and conservative coalition, siding | of activities against the state either with the foreign oil interests against ‘ g z |at home or abroad, which has al- the domestic oil firms, will attempt ——— | — |ready passed the chamber of depu- a to oppose the nationalization bill by Would Allow Seipel to| iN ew. Oppression: for | om os weremay te he considered (De; Rivera Shot. at Seats eed oe é aos y - es thus causing Protect’ Unionists | Workers Planned President Leguia of Peru has in-- Barcelona, Rumored the absence of ¢ quorum. eee troduced this bill as an extraordi- eos Progiaent elect Irigoyen’s party (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) | ROME, Sept. 18.—The dictates nary measure against his opponents HENDAYE rench-British Fron-|wiff press the bill and try to rail- VIENNA, September 18, — The| presented to the Grand Council of and to pave the way for his re- tier, Sept. 18 (UP).—Reports of im-|r-ad it through the congress. The congress of the social democratic| * To 300 ae ae the national fascist party by Mus- |election in the approaching elections. |j.cnding revolutionary trouble in |oil nationalization bill provides for party of Austria closed today capitu- | | solini include two law , one making | The dictatorial nature of the pre- Spain »e: ted today, despite the|the expropriation of all oil conces-. lating entirely in the question of the | URS Lat CLAS CHL the grand council an integral part sent regime is further illustrated by| government prompt ction last|sions to private and foreign firms. tenant’s protection measures and ar- 4S, | of the government machinery, the the suppression of the independent week in arresting persons suspected |The Standard Oil Company of New yinceed’ vio decision ticrepantito'| “tyoc EAN | other jaying down a new eee labor movement. cr plotting an uprising | Jersey has the largest American in- the fascist provocative demonstra- | aS fox Inder. Both laws bs pelignnter Leguia and his followers have al- Nothing was known definitely, al- | Vestment in Argentina. tion planned for October 7 | of Wee ro assure. the clections’ far the |ready ‘begun, the. publcation. cf, 1 4- cavthe garrisons in Madrid'and SOMEGAT The congress unanimous!; assed | LAS jchamber of deputies that are to/new newspaper, “El, Civilista,” near i] fare e ordered to be in | lati apie ti Soca a Fe oN take place March 24, 1929. which is devoted to the campaign | °th¢r Sagas ieee Ge Ie, ss ted, Re ag ea pi ee a Ta Ai as The new law of Mussolini charges |for the president and to the attack |7e@diness while police investigated. |, pn Bee oe Vio w st was poe a oe |the grand council with the duty of | of his A Wonaita, The government was uneasy about g oxen ‘ C3 each district, a complete list of larly artillery officers, whose move- | called for a three-fold raise in rent | lice : = Sa which will be drawn up by the fas- |ments were watched closely. Troops HEARS FOSTER a which would inte for ee cone San Juan, Porto Rico, which was struck by the worst storm in history. The hurricane after cist party. were kept in barracks. Army offi- | pasts [Ber ge Be a LAURPRE ADOT. B= sweeping thru the West Indies struck the East Coast of Florida with terrific force. Map (inset) What the “charter” for labor will cers were ordered to wear their uni-| 3 cial democratic parliament fraction shows path of the hurricane. provide has not been revealed, but forms and side-arms constantly. 1,200 Workers Attend was granted full freedom in action A gh # it cannot be more stringent than TOMORROW EVE Some false rumors were cireu-| (7) ist Meeti respecting this matter. é ‘c ” the one already in effect, which de- if 5 ita REAL GINEE. coutitiien Dis thal Ammunist Meeting The social democrats, it is gener- 5p MO ] ‘HER BLOOR SEES clares all strikes illegal, forb-ds the a Tdi EIR oPoad on ceived eaters fois ae ¥ ally thought there, are ready to sac- | dprmation of other than. fascist : a wile i, dane ehatablaieg: aa Soe Continued from Page One + rifice tenants’ protection and aban- | unions, and provides for wage cuts Will Tell Story of the evs at n $ of the Workers (Cmmunist) Party don re-elections if the government | INERS ite cannot be protested against. C venti pate. |the splendid snirit of the workers promises housebuilding. STANDING FIRM. pedo ais tae en Mussolini also announced that the onvention In the village of Camas. between | who attended the meeting is a sure Passive Tactics. | i a new fascist chamber will convene on ‘ cM Seville and Huelva, civil guards |indication of a large Communist There was no decision on the| fos Copaed tama: Faves ONe : April 21, the anniversary of the Continued from Page Gne _ tound 180 dynamite cartridges in a|vote in the elections. : Sky taabies to fe follewld wicard- i SSE = |became one of the leaders of the founding of Rome, which he will the National Miners’ Union. will wrecked automobile and arrested Hold Tacoma Meet. ahh Reed aaa revolt, began a graphic picture. of | use as an occasion for grand fes- Speak and tell of the plans made atthe occupants, Benito Gonzales and| At the Tacoma meeting, held ing the home defense corps demon- o1ce al 0 op ‘ A i e at, tration for October 7, regarding! Activiti Dreperabinnert eu. the: cone HO Ee : tivities and to turn the eyes of the the convention to organize the mass Jose Lopez Vaquez, a 17-year-old | Eagles Hall, about 100 workers were” ai rte see etober i ae a ctivities ending with the vicious attack on) IN NEW EDF very much exploited population to | of unorganized miners. boy. Gonzales, a miner, admitted] present. The spirit, as in Seattle, Meee has sacar sei eal ae | |the meeting by the army of Lewis | the past. Pledging the support and solidar-| the cartridges were stolen from a|was very enthusiastic. ' abet tins tered & call tell york: | ‘Continued from, Page Ons thugs, in co-operation with the, ere Sone: __ ity of the New York workers, will mine at Cerro Andevalo, police said.| Foster will soon begin speaking ers to mobilize = counter-demon-| nd his authority in his attempt to|Pittsburgh police. Foaeee eer ROME, Sept. 18.—The population be several leaders of workers’ strug-/He buried them in a field, it was|to the workers in the mining and stration. But Renner, Julius Deutsch | ¢ ire information about the ac-| “Previous to the convention,”|Paige Mill Attempt to |of Italy pays higher taxes than the/ gles in other trades. Ben Gold,| added, and dug them up with the |lumber districts in the state 3 and Otto Bauer asserted that the +42. of our organization. If Mr.|Mother Bloor declared, “some of the | i population in any other country was|leader of the.fight to build a new| intention of carrying them to an| ates i home defense people want a collision Craighead has any information or|miners may still have clung to the Open Is Resisted revealed by figures recently pub-|furriers’ union, Hyman Koretz, one| anarchist band in Seville. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 18,— with the working class and there-| idence to the effect that the Na-|hope of being able to accomplish | a lished. of the leaders of the movement AS ERS William Z. Foster, Communist can fore the best Sroletarian tactics were tional Miners’ Relief Committee is |S0mething by working within the old Continued from Page One Thirty-eight per cent of all earn-| which is building a new cloakmak-; Riihor: Dictalér Shot didate for president, spoke to # % to leave the fascist provocation | | 4 acting within. legal require-| United Mine Workers’ organization. from creating the first fissure in ings are turned over to the govern- |ers’ union;. Gladys Schechter, organ- ree |group of Roslyn miners at ¢he (alone. They declared that it was| ot. then he could easily secure | If this notion still “existed previous | the ranks of the 28,000 strikers, solid; ment in the form of taxes, direct izer of the Military Workers’ Union;, LONDON, Sept. 18—According | Realto Hall yesterday. But rec 1 the government’s duty to protect avi Anaisement against the commit. |to the vicious attack on the miners for over 23 weeks. and indirect. The English pay 27.3/ Harold Williams, secretary of the|to a report received here from Ma-| a -tionaries in the union arriving the republic from fascism and there-| toe, jlast week, it has been completely | Targers mass lines this morning Per cent of their total earnings, the| Negro Committee for Miners’ Re- drid, Premier de Rivera was shot |with a group of. their own, 20. die fore that Seipel, and not the work- bese NuwaUalnn, [oe F and afternoon was the answer the French 29.2 per cent. All occasions lief; and representatives of the | during his stay at Barcelona, where |turbed the meeting, that it was ers, must do this. ae aes : thi «| “The attack upon us had just the | wij! Committees’ adherants save|are utilized to extract taxes from) Youth Conference for Miners’ Re- * Strong anti-government movement |. oveq to the Druids Hall. The present party committee was Mr. Craaeer has_no' zee C reverse effect that the Lewis thugs | yesterday to the police terror of ar-|the pomlation, such as purchases in| lief and the Children’s Relief Scout |i reported to be in progress. | Here Foster was again given a Cpe eaew ecclereds ns She Cenlaine Maes cere |e fhe Police intended. ether ty (Tests and persecutions of pickets, any “fare, restaurant bills include |Groups will speak. Martin Abern, De Rivera had gone on a short |big ovation. A generous collection A . v ers have en drawn together by q % cola [P < , as well is . 5 iat Spon cs eh At the previous session of the so- of the United Mine Workers of|the event. You can't Beat ieee | Pinto Gets Ovation. fovemrient ria as wel thy at assistant national secretary of me visit a Barcolone and was to have was taken up among the workers - cial democrats congress Skaret gave . : fy Pace "4 posters, signs and every article of International Labor Defense, will | returned shortly. present. bh * hich America, with which organization | Giggers through terror. You can’t}. Auguste Gonsales Pinto, return- ‘rove gal also have an important message for | - the party committee report which we qiffer greatly in regard to labor | heat them at all!” Mother Bloor de-| ing today from Maine, where-he was cia ae a) is wowkets Gt New: Vouk dealt chiefly with organization ques-| policies, The United Mine Work-|clared with that characteristic sent by the union to recuverate , Esl GAMES HIE Tor the nieet= tions. |er§ of America desires to disrupt | clenching of the fist and compres-|from the effects of a beating in, fA ing were completed last night by The workers were consoled for the our activities because we sympa-!sian of her firm lips which have be- | iail, administered by the police on, the Executive Committee of the capitulations and defeats by the in-|thize with the progressive miners|come known wherever the struggle |his 14th arrest, went to the Paige = Shops caliente: Coilevence for creased membership of the social who are opposed to the officials of of the workers is most bitter. | Picket line immediately after report- T 5 Miners’ Relief. The meeting is be- democratic party. Otto Bauer spoke the United Mine Workers of Ameri-| Optimistic as to Future. jing to the union headquarters. NOR k a5 A ANY DIE ig held under the auspices of the cceptance Speeches on the tenant’s protection laws, de-|ca. These progressive miners are} Mother Bloor was unusually en-| A tremendously enthusiastic ova-| § [Rak oot Shop’ Delégates’ Conference and of manding re-elections. Bauer de-| now building a new union and Mr.|thusiastie over the accomplishments | tion was accorded him by the strik- the National Minérs’ Relief Commit- . clared that the social democrats pre- Lewis, the President of the United of the convention. “It marks the |ets picketing there. ; : Rese ; Just Published ae PRCT " ; | j y tee, 799 Broadway. pared the negotiations but the main-| Mine Workers of America hopes|teginning of a new era for my| More than 1,000 strikers gather Typhoid Evidemie in pad tainance of the tenants’ protection | that by this action of the Post Of-| brothers, the heroic coal diggers,” | around the gates of the mill now.| D, Tin, | : ’ . ta Measures was less important spe fies Department it will become im-| she said. “Of course, we have aj after it was learned that the mill Porto Pico Town Children Ss Day Will Be oes anys: es Demphict a new houses. possible for us to give further relief bitter struggle ahead of us, but we |owners had succeeded in obtaining A Fs init e acceptance speeches 0: | to the progressive miners and there-|are on the march and you can’t stop 65 scabs. The bosses immediately th Ga pe tee Sais foe Ss Feature at the Bazaar William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- i | by they will again be whipped into | the march of the miners onward.” | answered this with a heavy increase aa ib eatimiated dt about: 1,000: Cintiniad from Page Ons low, Workers Party candidates for Pres- i | support of the Lewis, Murray, Fa-| Asked to comment on the news in the police guard, who, it seems > leedaenihmanitian are ati) proceeding at top apesa . Another ident and Vice-President of the United 1 Ak BP Many Florida com! F 4 Pp sp | gan machine. \that over two thousand Mlinois min- had received special instructions to off he death toll in the section of the Workers (Cot States of America. P| |" Praised By Coal Diggers. 5 had walked out on strike against |be provocative and brutal. Police Cut Off and the death toll in the section, of the Workers (Commu: : Ae aA |the Lewis-Fishwick wage cut, she|caution has yet prevented storm areas may exceer i iis y s “The activities of the National! "4 i n age aie yet prevented a more) 1, porto Ri ti am- those that intend to have booths of ‘ ‘. fee ‘ A replied quickly: “That is just what i ji n Porto Rico natives are ro bs : : Included also is the nominating speech MILL UNION MEET 3.2 Relief Committee have been | ite ectad and have been predicting. | vicket Mega nan that in which @/ ing the country begging for food their own is the Long Island Sec- ree 250 Delegates Coming to Convention Continued from Page One | son, Hillisburg, Rutherford, West | ancial report issued up to June Ist) New York, Union City, Trenton and} Weehauken. The Passaic workers, | who after their splendid fight in) 1926 found themselves betrayed by! the UTW which took them over, are} now completely with the new union; and have already withdrawn from} the UTW and elected their delega-| tion of 25 workers to attend the, convention of the National Textile! Mill Committees. In Paterson also. | open and above board for the 13 months of its existence, and in full view of all those interested in the miners cause. No charge or com- plaint of any kind has ever been |made by any contributor to the) funds of this committee. The fin- shows that 82 per cent of the funds collected were spent for relief. The tens of thousands of miners and their families that have been given relief by us, as well as the several hundred contributing committees all speak in high praise of our accom- plishments. Work Will Go On. “We do not intend to allow our- The miners will fight the wage cuts |and wil! defeat both the operators and Lewis.” | Mother Bloor lead a delegation of 25 They traveled in old broken down Ford cars and slept out of doors. The journey lasted nearly three days. Three of their cars broke |down and at times it appeared as if the delegation would never ar- rive. “But a miner is never licked till |the last moment,” she said, “and \then he wins!” She also attended the funeral of George Moran, Bentleyville mili- |tant, who was shot down by Louis where only last week the members, selves to be intimidated by Post Of- Carboni, a Lewis thug, because Mo- of the Associated Silk Workers | fice Inspector Craighead acting up-|ran had joined with the rank and voted down a motion to affiliate on the complaint of John L. Lewis. | with the UTW on liberal terms, the| John L. Lewis may be able to put! textile workers are overwhelmingly in favor of the new union. | Connecticut will send {delegates | from New London; Shelton, Man-| chester, Ansonia and Bridgeport.| Rhode Island will be represented by delegates from Providence, Paw- tucket, Pawtuxet Valley, Woon- socket, Nantic, Artic, Central Falls) and Valley Falls. From New York state there will be delegates from} Utica, Buffalo, New York City and Astoria, L. I. Delegates will also) come from Nashua, Manchester and | Concord, N. H., from Baltimore, Md., and probably also from some of the southern states. Noted Soviet Scientist Speaks at N. Y. Meet | (By United Press) Two hundred archaeologists and | anthropologists, representing 25 for- eign countries, met yesterday in a general discussion of the depopu-| lating of the two Americas and the | probablé source of that population. | | | the post office department to his | juse, but we do not intend to allow, John L. Lewis to disrupt our work | by use of the post office department. | We shall not allow post office in-| spector Craighead to step into our office for the purpose of securing information for John L. Lewis.” ENGLISH TORY SPLIT LOOMING LONDON, Sept, 18.—As the con-| servative party conference at Yar-| mouth scheduled for September 27 draws near, there is much talk of a split inthe ranks of the conserva- tive party due to the protective tar- iff issue and the general economic depression in England, and the pos- sibility of a laborite-liberal coalition winning power. ‘ Premier Baldwin, who is return- Chief among today’s disclosures |ing to London this week, will at- was that of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of |tempt to induce Lord Birkenhead, the U. S. National Museum, who | who has threatened resignation, to file forces. “Standing over the grave of the heroic coal digger who had given his life for all of us, in the presence of hundreds of coal diggers, some of whom had welked many miles to attend the funeral, I could see and feel the meaning and power of the great miners’ struggle, a movement which nothing can hold back.” Mother Bloor paid particular tri- bute to the courage and spirit of Moran’s widow, who many times re- peated the words over her slain husband’s grave. “Brave soldier,” “brave soldier.” It is such courage and sacrifice as this which will win for the coal diggers and for the Bloor said. Before leaving the Daily Worker office she laid special emphasis on the need of supporting the National Miners Relief Committee, without whose help the work of relief could not be carried out. Kidnapers Hold Boy CHICAGO, Sept. 18 (UP).—Two more letters were received today by A. Frank Ranieri, whose ten-year- old son, Billy, has been in the hands | | American working cy Mother | Indiana miners to the convention. | | picket. leader was yesterday thrown | from his bicycle. The resentful atti- | tude of the crowd of strikers halted | any intentions of the police then to |harm the striker. It is generally expected, among the striking work- |ers, that the Paige Mill will be the center of the Baihering storm. the Everglades today before the 1,000 in March. flood waters of Lake Okeechobee, Following the morning picketing which have inundated the lowlands of the Paige mill, the over 1,000 of Central Florida. strikers rallied in marching forma-| Belleglade, Pahokee and Canal- | tion and began a march to the Po- point, communities near the lake, |tomska Street strike hall. As soon were reported to be almost entirely as the line began to move about 50 covered with water. Residents of |police rushed it in an attempt to those towns are making their way break it up. Despite the repetition toward West Palm Beach. of the police attempt to break up School Collapses. the line at a further point along the) At Boynton a school was report- line of march, at Acushnet and ed to have collapsed, injuring twen- Blackmer Sts., the workers succeed- | ty-five. ed in holding their lines intact till they got down to the hall. This they. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 18 did by forming and reforming on (U.P).—Suffering was intense on this the sidewalk opposite to the one on hurricane-swept island today. which the police dispersals took, The economic disaster that has place. | robbed the island of her wealth and Tt was clearly seen, however, that half of her homes was temporarily the mill barons are not yet ready|in the background while the people | to give the signal for mass arrests,|begged for food and shelter. because of a desire to show that marae | things were quiet at the mill gates., LONDON, Sept. 18 (U.)—The | Ranks Stiffen. | Colonial Office has received reports | Pinto, the oft-arrested strike lead- | from Monseart of the leeward group | er, is again making his regular ap-|of West Indies that twenty-five per- pearance on picket lines on his bi-| and shelter.. An epidemic of ty- phoid has broken out in Aguadilla, spreading terror among the entire population. Mee oa: MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 18 (U.P).—Five hundred persons are fleeing out of ae aa \sons are dead and fifty injured as cycle, Sergeant Velho, one of the|a result of the tropical hurricane. most vicious labor haters here, left Pe instructions to his subordinates at) the Paige Mill to “break their heads 1,300,000 Jobless ee if there’s any more trouble here.” in Great Britain A visible stiffening of the strike | ranks is observable as the workers) LONDON, Sept. 18 (UP).—Great | show signs of rallying again in Britain had 1,300,000 unemployed on large masses, despite police restric- | Sept. 10, it was announced officially tions of ten to a picket line. i tonight. | delivered by Bob Minor, Editor of the Daily Worker, and the closing address by Jay Levestone, Executive Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, summarizing the achievements of the National Nomin- ating Convention. tion. The members of this section are already busy collecting articles for a booth where unique Czecho- slovak art novelties will be sold. The members are also losing no time selling tickets and collecting names for the Red Honor Roll. Sub-section 3-E is also determined to have a booth of its own. Furni- ture is the specialty selected by the members of this sub-section. Other organizations are also busy working for the bazaar and work- ers everywhere are showing signs of that proletarian energy which promises to make the Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar the greatest event cf its kind ever held in this coun- try. Each pamphlet carries a plate with the latest photographs of Foster and Gitlow splendidly done. PRICE 5 CENTS In lots of 100 or more 30 per cent off. National Election Campaign Committee 43 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 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Bogoras drew a marked similarity in the religious | practices of the two peoples, | Who wins when you read your peeses’ paper? |visit to Barcelona, |remain in the cabinet and will do all in his power to avert a split threat- ened by Joynson-Hicks and his fol- lowers, There are many rumors of a| Me! change in the cabinet even before the party conference, which, it is believed, will replace the anti-pro- tectionists with those favoring the strong protective policy of Baldwin. MADRID, Sept. 18 (UP)—The foreign office officially denied to- day a rumor that Premier Primo de Rivera had been shot while on a ot kidnapers for several days. Both the boy unless demands of the kid- napers for $15,000 are met. Police anwhile captured three new sus- pects who picked up a decoy pack- age containing the money for the boy’s return. Their names were not revealed. 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