The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1928 Militant Dock Workers of A ARGENTINA LEAD BIG TRADE UNION Successful Strikes in Three Countries The “League of Maritime Work: ers” of Paraguay has sent its gen | eral secretary, Daniel Villalba (a member of the Communist Party) to Argentina and Uruguay to ar- range for the establishment of a confederation of all organizations of maritime workers of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, according | to reports received here. The Paraguayan ‘‘League of Maritime Workers” is the largest | | General John J. Pershing, who directed the A merican soldiers int oslaughter on behalf of Wall and most militant labor organization of Paraguay. The Argentine “Fed- eracion Obrera Maritime” is now un- der the leadership of Communists and syndicalists and recently led several successful strikes in Rosario and other Argentine ports. Recently there was also a successful general strike of the transport workers o: the Paraguayan town Vollarica, where the workers obtained an in- crease in wages. The Uruguayan maritime labor federation is affilia- ted to the “Union Sindical Urugua- ya” (USU) the largest Uruguayan labor federation, which is also un- der Communist and syndicalist con- trol. Although Paraguay is far from the ocean, it nevertheless has a strong organization of maritime workers on the Rio Parana which is navigable for ocean steamships. WOLL TO LEAD NEW RED HUNT Admits Communists Gaining Ground Continued frem Page One deadly Red had been thoroughly ex- plored. Of Woll regular playfellows in the National Civic Federation, chief of those present yesterday were Brigadier General Samuel Mc- Roberts, president of the Chatham and Phoenix National Bank and) Trust Company, and treasurer of the Civic Federation: present als” were Ralph B. Goddard of R. G. Dunn and Co. and Ellis Searles, edi- tor of the United Mine Workers Journal. Searle’s organization once prevented its members from taking part in the activities of the Civic Federation, but a gentleman who receives $25,000 a year may be al- lowed some excesses. What’s to Be Done? The Communists are again on the war path, Woll reported to the meeting. They are obtaining a foot- hold among the mine workers, Searles admitted sadly. “Yes, in- deed,” Woll retorted, ie labor movement in this country is in grave danger as a result of the ‘boring from within’ tactics of the Commu- nist Party.” from Moscow, Woll declared. To be sure only a few weeks ago the great. Red fighter warned the world that from Moscow had come a new edict instructing the Com- munists to form new unions. Very likely Woll believes both of his state- ments—and so do is fearful banker playfellows. The Poor, Power-Trust — Endowed Colleges. Upon the motion of Goddard, it was decided to include in the in- vestigation of Red activities an in- quiry into subversive movements in schools and colleges of the country. A commitcee will be appointed by Brig. General McRoberts to do the Red hunting. Although no one said that Matthew Woll would head the committee, no authority is required for the report ‘that the earnest young labor bucaneer will lead the great expedition. Woll is a brave, brave young man and will do most anything—for his masters. SEEK OIL PROMOTER’S BODY. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 20 (U,P).—In search for the body of F. J. Walter, oil promoter, deputy | sheriffs today began tearing out a_ canyon fill 74 miles north of here where he was believed to have been. aa when an auto plunged over a | iff. All this is directed f { nts Present Deco rations to Arch-Milit COMMUNISTS IN. “#22! Governme arist Per: Street during the imperialist world war, was presented with decorations from the puppet governments as Peru, Venezuela, Poland and Czechoslavakia, and others under imperialist sway. Pershing, the medals, and another arch-militarist, Secretary of War Davis, are shown above. BiG SPEED-UP IS BATTY’S OFFER Silk Mill Slaves Tell of Frieder Plan Continued from Page One to serve as a constant reminder of what the mill workers may expect \if the Batty-manufacturer combina- | tion ever succeed in putting over the plan. | Intolerable Speed-up. | Intolerable speed-up, solid shifts without any break for dinner, half the pay for double the work com- pared to cther New Bedford silk mis, rigid open-shop—these |the “high-lights of the “specializa- | tion plan” saddled on National Spun Silk Company workers some two years ago by Leonard P. Frieder, | vice-president and general manager |of the plant. | Any man known to be in the union jis refused a job; any man joining while working is fired. A case against Frieder is pending till the | November court session for firing jan employe of the company for | union affiliation. | * Open Shop. It is no accident that the plan ‘fatty advocates for adoption by the owners calls.for.an open .shop. the mills. Utterly discredited as |leadevs of the workers, Batty, Binns, | Riviere and Co. are offering them- | selves as runneys for the company |union they will turn the Textile Council into, if the strike sell-out goes through. * e o* Twelve Looms. In the other New Bedford silk |the utmost, six. In Frieder’s mill | they are foreed to run 12. | silk mills skilled silk weavers, paid |far above cotton weavers, get $40 |to $45 a week on fancy weaves. | Frieder’s plant, with 12 looms, ex- | pert weavers, putting, they say, the |last ounce of effort into their work, |are lucky if’they make $23 on the same work. Most make under $20. in the ruler room men work 12 hours for about $26. Pay in other rooms is proportionately low. | Work in the weave foom goes on) | straight through, day or night, with- jout any halt. To squeeze caulity in the finished cloth. Threads constantly snapping, more ends to be tied, high-pitch nervous | cessor to President Calles for the | bazaar wi |tension, added to the strain of run- ining the twelve looms. In other election in November 1929, appeared | words, the sort of “efficiency” ad- |vocated by the bosses and their senate, 42 members out of a total | issued an appeal to all bakers to! agents, the A. F. of L. labor fakers, that tear at the workers’ nerves and sap their energy. Full Speed. “The harder we work the less we get,” said a Lancashire weaver, bit- \terly assailing Frieder’s mill as th worst he had. worked in durin |twenty years in New Bedford silk |and cotton mills. | “The work’s so rotten, and we're | trying so hard all the time to catch | | up, but we can’t make anything. .. .” | “You're forced to go at full speed all the time to make up what they’ve | stolen from you—and then you| can’t.” 4 | “They don’t have to put up no- | tices about talking in our mill,” he | said, “we work so darn hard) we'd never find time to talk. . . There’s | a nice fellow next to me, We never } RED YOUTH FESTIVAL Young Communist Int'l Delegates There (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. S. Ri, Sept. 21. —Yesterday evening a grand cele- bration took place here in honor of the Young Communist Internation- al. All trade union buildings were gaily, decorated and there wags a general festival air throughout the city. Delegates to the fifth congress of the Young Communist Internation- al, Moscow functionaries of the Soviet Union Communist Youth and Kossarev, opening the mass meet- ing, spoke of the results of the Fifth Congress of the Young Com- munist International. The meeting unanimously approved the decisions of the congress. A flag was presented, on behalf of the Moscow. Communist Youth, ‘which was received by delegates of the foreign Communist Youth. The meeting demanded a_ speech by || Schueller amidst great applause. The new executive of the Young) Communist International held its any Komsomols (Young Commu- nists) participated in the ae: fi plenum yesterday. The pre- are | | mills weavers run four looms, at} In other | In| }say a word to each other all weck.” The automatic magazine attached to the loom, which, according tothe “efficiency” system, is meant to justify the increase in looms per weaver through the labor it saves, actually, the weavers say, accom- plishes hardly any saving. The magazine feeds the filling into the shuttle, instead of the weaver hav- ing to feed it by hand, but if the filling breaks, after the transfer of the bobbin, the loom stops, like an ordinary loom, and the weaver must find his pick and connect the thread with the thread that was broken. With the inferior grade of yarn pro- vided, breakages are so frequent that labor-saving is negligible. In the reeler room men work 12 hours, from 6 at night to 6 in the morning. Fight Batty Scheme. New Bedford mill-workers under- stand the meaning of speed-up and are ready to fight it even more bit- terly than the 10 pér cent cut. The | attempt of| the Batty-manufacturer | combination to make the Frieder Plan appear a concession on the | part of the mill owners to the strik- ers alréady has proven to be a mis- erable failure. On the picket lines, in the union halls. wherever strikers gather, speed-up is under discussion nowa- days, ard Batty’s skilled worker membership joins the mass of the |strikers, lead by the T. M. C., in| | declaring that they will reject speed- \up_whether the bosses call it “spe- cialization plan.” “efficiency sys- \tem.” “Frieder Plan,” or any other |faney name. | Batty’s pushing the “plan” spells | the final break in the United Tex- | tile Council ranks in New Bedford. Even the more conservative British elements say that when the manu- \facturers quit their shadow-boxing j demand for a 10 per cent cut, plus Frieder Plan, which they are carry- ing on to save Batty’s face with his membership, and to get them to ac. cept the speed-up asa lesser evil, and when Batty has to submit the plan to the U. T. W. locals for ac- lceptance. all honest strikers will fling the plan back into Batty’s face, and take their stand with the T. M. C. to fight it to a finish. Gil Mav Succeed Calles as President | MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21 (UP) — still | Emilio Portes Gil, secretary of the! mreo ter, profit out of his workers, | interior, probably will be named| |Friedér provides the lowest grade | provisional president of Mexico on} |yarn, while demanding the highest | the first ballot at a joint session of| | congress next Monday or Tuesday. | Uncertainty over choice of a suc- 14 months before the presidential |ended today. At a meeting of the | of 58, which constituted a quorum | agreed unanimously to support | Portes Gil. A committee was named ‘to advise President Calles accord- ingly. The swing toward Portes Gil gained force in the last few days fter conferences of congressional leaders with President Calles. BUFFALO TO HEAR MINOR SUNDAY Tour of Red Candidate Drawing to Close BUFFALO, N. Y. Sept. 21.— Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist Candidate for U. S. Senator and H. Gordon of the Young Workers (Communist) League, will speak Sunday at Schwa- bel’s Hall, as part of their tour of New York State to present to up | state workers and farmers the class struggle platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. The meeting fol- lowing will be held in Jamestown on | Monday at the Swedish Brotherhood Hall, Main and 3rd Sts. An open- air meeting close the tour. Many Cities Covered. The Communist campaigners have already spoken to large and en- thusiastic crowds of workers in Poughkeepsie, Troy, Albany, Schen- ectady, Utica, Syracuse and Roches- ter. At each of these meetings, Minor exposed both Hoover and Smith as the candidates of Big Business and showed the domination of state and local government by the power, traction, railroad and |manufacturing interests. Gordon is |devoting much of his Speeches’ to |young workers in industry, and: | points out the exploitation to which |they are subjected, calling attention | |to the militancy of young workers |on strike, as in the recent miners’ | strike and in the present textile | workers’ strike of New Bedford. | In every one of the cities where ihe spoke, Minor made a strong plea for the support of the platform and | candidates of the Workers (Commu- nist Party as the only working class | party in the country, the only party | of the class struggle. « SOVIET CANDIES AT BIG BAZAAR ‘USSR Tobaccos Also to Be Sold Continued from Page One | special smoking salon, where hun- dreds of workers attending the ll be able to enjoy a smoke jat their ease. ee | The Progressive Bakers’ Club has | donate a day’s work for the Daily | Workers-Freiheit Bazaar. Oct. 1 to \7 has been designated as the period during which the bakers are being }asked to work for the bazaar. All those willing to-volunteer for this {work should communicate with M. Pintchefsky, 2700 Bronx Park East. SIXTH LAST and LAST GROUP for 1928 CALL e TO WITNESS THE VISA GUARANTEED— ANY PART OF THE SOVIET UNION CAN BE VISITED. 69 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK SENT BY WORLD TOURISTS, INC. To SOVIET RUSSIA Leaving Wednesday, October 17 “S. S® MAURETANIA” CELEBRATION OF THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION $325.00 (Special Tour) $375.00 (Complete Tour) WORLD TOURISTS, INC. CITY. Tel.: ALGonquin 6900. in Binghampton will | COLOMBIA FOR GULF OIL FIRM Asks Barco Oil Fields Be Restored BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 21 (UP).—The state department has asked the Colombian government to reconsider its recent cancellation of the 5,000,000 acre Barco oil conces- |sion, in which the principal share had been held by the Gulf Oil Com- pany of Pennsylvania, the news- paper El Tiempo declared today. The concession was cancelled by the Colombian government on the ground that the holders had not de- veloped the property within the time fixed in the contract. The newspaper added that Amer- ican Minister Piles, who is en route to New York after resigning his post, had presented the American government’s proposal to the Colom- jan government on the eve of his leparture. The proposal for recon- sideration was based on the conten- tion that American interests were injured by the cancellation, it was said. In commenting editorially on the matter, El Tiempo urged that the government “refuse to permit dip- lomatic intervention on a subject which pertained to the judicial branch of the government.” SIMON VISIT 10 INDIA THURSDAY Expect Demonstrations Against Imperialism LONDON. Sept. bi a 21.—The |tonomy will return to India next Thursday, led by Sir John Simon. When this commission arrived in India last February they were |greeted with such a storm of op- |position from the populace, who boycotted the commission and Bri- | tish goods as two faces of the same oppression, that the Simon commis- sion was forced to leave India for fear of further and far-reaching dis- turbances. T| ‘\ British “officials” state that “now there is more hope for the commis- \sion being able to fulfill its pur- pose, since the senate has been in- duced to pass a resolution favoring cooperation with the British. The legislative assembly, _ popularly | elected, however, rejected coopera- | tion with the Simon commission in _any form. Large demonstrations are ex- pected when the commission arrives in India and another economic boy- cott may occur. Despondency over a continued ill- ness is believed to have caused the death of Mrs. Grace Pruden, 68, relative of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, who either fell or jumped nine stories from her apartment to- day. com- | | mission to “investigate” Indian au- | Photo shows Hoover, Wall Street's republican candidate, and the men who direct his campaign for Wall Street, right in the financial district H. E. KIDNAP DETROIT LABOR OFFICIAL Suspect Attack Made by Bosses DETROIT, Mich. Ruben, 40, secret Picture Operators’ napped from his office on the eighth floor of an office building by six last night possibly “taken for a ride,” it was learned today. to be behind the act. It is suspected that Ruben was kidnapped for ransom because in a recent controversy with motion pic- Sept. 21-—Max gunmen and Bosses’ agents are believed ture owners, he was quoted as say ing that his union had $200,000 cash 4, for use in case a strike was called. The owners were forced to giv five per cent increase to the oper-| ators in the negotiations. Attacks on labor leaders here have been numerous during the past three years, Several labor officials have been found dead in mysterious circum- a stances. The most recent event was a war between dry-cleaning estab- Mshments in which it was alleged a gang of gunmen were hired by |employers to fight the union and | their smaller - competitors, The cleaners’ war Yesulted in a recent | trial in which eight men were ac- | quitted of charges of extortion. One of the results of the trial was a | warrant sworn out for Frank Mar- |tel, president of the Detroit Feder- lation of Labor, charging him with extortion. Police are searehing for | Martel now. | SHANGHAI, Sept. 21 (UP).— | Twenty Chinese were killed, 30 in- |juredy and scores of houses and shops wrecked by the explosion of two carloads of explosives in Nank- ing on Thursday. The explosion, caused by the |dropping of a box of TNT, shook jthe entire city. The wrecking of |houses left several hundred home- /} less. \ | WORKMEN’S SICK & DEATH BENEFIT FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1884 | 60,000 MEMBERS IN 344 BRANCHES IN THE | | Assets on December 31, 1927, over.... |] Paid for Sick and Death Benefits, over. Benefits in case of Sickness or Accident $6, $9, or $15 per week for first 40 weeks, one-half thereof for an additional 40 weeks, or altogether $360 to $900. Sick Benefits for Women—$9 for first 40 weeks, weeks, or altogether $540. Death Benefits—in proportion to the age at initiation (Class A and B), $885 at the age of 16 to $405 at the age of 44. Parents can insure their children up WORKERS! For further information write to the Av . COMRADES! Protect Yourselves and Your Families! New York City, or to the Branch Financtal Secretary of your District. Daily Worker-Fretheit Bazaar Is Coming U.S. A. - $2,830,000 $13,440,000 $4.50 for another 40 to the age of 18 years against death. Main Office: 9 Seventh St., cor. Third Are Yo | Honor Roll —selling tickets —doing your bit for your press —collecting articles —gathering names for the Red | The Time Is Short! — 30 Union Square, Left! — ACT NOW! Daily Worker - Freiheit Bazaar Committee, Only Two More Weeks New York, N. Y. To left of Hoover, W. H. Machold, C. O. P. chief in New York. of the Motion ¢ Union, was kid- | ® Hill, republican leader, at right, CROATS BOYCOTT JUGOSLAV GOV'T s Continue Non- stance Policy Leader Res ZAGR ation: le government ugoslavia, Sept. 21.— boycott against the Bel- and all active members and pa avereed today by the executive commuiicee of the Croatian Peasant party. The decree provides for the con- tinuation of non-cooperation wit the Belgrade regime and declares that all its acts and legislation do not apply to the Croatians. The decree terms the Belgrade govern- ment a regime of violence and op- pression, and declares the intention of the Croatian deputies to continue the from Belgrade PAMPERED PUP “WORK.” NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 20.— John Coolidge, railroad clerk, and his secret service guard, Russell Wood, have left their costly quar- ters at the Yale Graduate Club for accommodations in the home of a Evacuation Get the genuine Santal Midy Effective- Harmless rgentina, Paraguay and Uruguay to F orm Un 10n shing {J S, THREATENS Wall cient eceateaal ies Street Managers NEW DOCUMENTS PROVE REACTION IN OBREGON CASE Enriquez Led Plot, Documents Show MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21.—Evi dence directly implicating Raimunde C. Enriquez, a leader of a reaction- ary group in the Obregonista party. in the assassination of president- elect Obregon, has been presented in the senate. Documents were presented by two senators that indicate that Enriquez had taken part in the preparations for the murder, and that Toral, the actual assassin, was completely con- ious of his role. Enriquez was campaign manager for General Francisco Serrano be- fore the general was executed for leading a counter-revolutionary at- tempt. In the same circular in which he informed his followers of the execution of Serrano, Enriquez pre- dicted that “though he be elected will never reach—and note it well— the presidency of the republic.” Another document was a letter sent to Toral informing him of his mission. A handwriting expert de- clared that the documents were au- thentic. NEW TELEVISION INVENTION. LONDON, Sept. 21 (UP).—John L. 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