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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 Moroccan Tribesmen Start New Offensive Against French PLANES BOMBARD HATIVES’ CAMPS; REINFORCE ARMY Tribes, Fully Armed Advance PARIS, Sept. 9. —The Moroccan tribes are preparing for a united of- | fensive against the French forces and are advancing along the Al- giers-Moroccan border, a repert re- ceived here from Algiers states. Uarge armed bands of tribesmen advancing in a coordinated march are reported to the French army headquarters by army fliers who are observing the region. The ad- vance has become so threatening that French headquarters are re- ported té have sent a squadron of army planes to bombard the tribes- yen encamped in the region of Tizi- E pepaouns United States Prohibition Bureaucracy es Hundreds of petty officials with a generous sprinkling of yangsters, make up the bureau- cracy of so-called prohibition enforcement graft from every source. grajt. Above, dumping $75,000 EXTRADITE WORKER wétth of Uquor from a rum runner. The service is permeated. with AUSTRIAN “SOCIALISTS” REACTION RULES |and HUGE TRUST T0 FIGHT BRITISH WORKERS LOOMS Melchett Suggests Combine Scheme LOND! Sept. 24—As the world conference of leading mining and electrical power industrialists is about to meet here Lord Melchett his committee “has suggested that all fuel producing companies “co-operate” in the installation of the most modern methods. The plan suggests a nationwide trust | that will put still more of the Brit- ish workers ot of work. According to Lord Melchett, the {cnly way for England to solve her cconomic problem and the general demoralization of the mining indas- try is to combine all the powers of the leading industrialists, combine NN, Arm ies Along A Page Three How to Vote for Foster and Gitlow lower Bo rder TWO DICTATORS SIGN PACT FOR BALKAN POLICY ‘Mussolini Wins Greek \_ y Ruler; Venizelos BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, 24.—According dispatches ceived here from Rome, Venizelos, dictator of Greece, has signed hig firsf agreement on his tour of Eu. Sept* to re- ropean countries, having signed a pact of and “friendship” with dictator Mussolini of Italy. “non-aggression” Following the recognition of the fascists’ crowned kingdom of Al- ban by the Greek dictatorship, it was evident that Venizelos had been brought into line and would sooner or later sign a pact that would, if Skirmishes between the French S| i} mines and plants and draw up a not co-operate with, at least permit troops and the advancing tribes | NSO eos is ESAS |strong entrenchment of trusts. His — the Italian dictatorship full freedom | have already occurred at Arbala,|~N the last few months the situa- | idea is to combine coal mines, coke- Above is a graphic demonstration of how to use the automatic in its exploitation of the countries where four tribesmen were reported I tion of the political refugees has| A ERS RALLY —- Jovens, blast furnaces, steel fur-| voting machines. Great care should be taken not to waste the bordering on the Mediterranean and to have been killed. The number Ba i iti eras - naces, rolling mills and power sta-| ballot by going thru wrong operations. Note the demonstrator, | Adriatic seas. Such a move would of: French easualties ‘were not made |Cccome, very grave. Formerly politi-| ; Officialdam: Crush esiics into a uorcugt-gotme cation’! abova, first she mulle the lover that cloves the curtain. In the second |be considered by the French gov- known. Gagah Lane RIAGEE Ton hang ot All Militaney alization of all these industries. picture she places the pointners on the names of Foster and Gitlow | ernment as an encroachment on the French military headquarters tated the Austrian laws by entering oe : This plen is only a part of the| and other candidates of the Workers Party, and then pulls the lever |¥rench interests in the Balkans and state that all settlements along the the country without proper papers, | Continued from Page One scheme suggested by the gas and| that registers her ballot. its colonies in Africa. line of march have been fortified, and were sure of receiving permis- electric companies, chemical manu- | would result with the concommitant ; mi i aud ; : 7 a9 The treaty just signed shows full the. eaintepeeniehie. aun boing: ela re of receiving | 228 gations from Honolulu and Hawaii facturers and oil men. If it goes| “SOCIA FISTS FIGH yi ready and that tanks and airplanes | ‘aerinton “torinioe as han nine Fake Progressives are jattended the convention which be- into effect it would mean, accord, 7 evidences: 6h ae 6 eae are ready for service. Bat Gee eacaIn Toe caine Scored [gan on September 17 and closed ing to the opinion of workers’ lead- ier a gerauetdt rates ge tbe ‘ thom SRUESger alte the aslitical ; Leading the opposition to the| tosses’ organizations ever created poasingnidey ented tae) or DEFENSE MEET f Sale Te eke shaddoctaad. “inca hamtaed machine was Delegate Moser of Lo- s even promises to pave the way for fugitive appeals then he is held} under arrest until the settlement of the matter, which sometimes lasts} as dead as the proverbial dodo and Mr. Townley, who was once hailed cal 123 of Philadelphia on whom the attack of the officialdom was cen- co-operation of the ever-willing |British government and its courts. For the past three years attend-, action the confe ence became an in- united front of the Italian and reek governments .in the Balkans oh ma os P See i ance at the annual conference of|strument of the imperialist nations and Mediterranean, and is being in- for months, although an appeal has) 8 the ba ail we ae te an Saat Panini say sha convention The Melchett plan makes no pro-/ British Labor Women has steadily.|to fool the workers into believing|terpreted by many observers as a ‘effect of postponing a sentence,|iMg around wi Bere need CO? URS fe ise was pres-jvisions for the mass of workers! declined. This year, at the gather-|that the imperialists are anxious to|definite move against the French | Everyone who has lodged an appeal|carth smelling for hidden oil veins|ent a+large opposition which. how- who would be left idle if this plan ing at Portsmouth there were only | bring x and can bring it to the interests, now combined with the —- has the right to stay in Vienna, “ |in the wide-open spaces of the Da-|ever, was not organized and nonelever went into effect. The army | G56 delegates instead of 861 as in| world. The conference lost a splen.|British, and against the ambitions i | But it is not only the general at-'Kotas. The farmers had a costly |of whose members would fight con-|of unemployed has already assumed | 195; did opportunity of showing up the of the Belgrade regime of Yugo- lan Relief tor “New | sett i uv only the gener emi.jlesson in non-partisan politics. stently for its policies, |threatening proportions and some | !92°- : L e : ' Bedford Strikers |grants which needs attention. The! Fake Progressives. Slap at Matt Woll. |conservatives. have expressed the It.convened in a body called the Standing Joint Committee of Indus- imperialists wo, in rejecting the Soviet peace proposals, really reject slavia. : ot ; | The strength of th tion | opini {f this. army, is 4 Bou : ae : ; jane Se eee eee ee attics aataces alta: eee, Paeee tee: Door fatters| toe . the convention . by Matthew the British government would be ig|tter groups, such as, Women’s €c-| But im spite of the effort madelaeentiets wks signed the new act plans for defense and relief for the asylum for political refugees alto-\turned to the farmer-labor party, k tions of the Labor Party) socialist e New Bedford strikers were formu-| gether by extraditing*them to their} lated here today at a conference of | the New England District of the In-} ternational Labor Defense, which | was attended by 104 delegates from} 66 organizations and representing 18,000 members. Resolutions demanding the re-| lease of Mooney and Billings and| plans for a ynembership drive’ and | extending the circulation of the La-| bor Defender were also adopted. The new district executive com- mittee of forty membérs was elected | governments. After the extradition of Bela Kun had been prevented by a storm of protest from all over the world, it was the Austrian represen- tatives at the conference for inter- national law in Warsaw who de- manded with reference to this case but owing to the backsliding of the |fake labor progressives who orig- |inally supported the movement, and |the return of the alleged progres- sive farm leaders to the republican and democratic parties, there is now little left of that movement. Woll for an insurance scheme to be fostered by his Labor Life Insur- ance Company, was overwhelmingly defeated. Woll pleaded and accord- ing to his own words “had prayed again and again” that the delegates accept the proposition. In his plea he was joined by the reactionary that such political refugees should| The farmers of North Dakota as|Burke and Coefield, but the dele- be repatriated who were sought for| well as of the surrounding states are| gates voted as a body to reject the by their own governments for ac- tions threatening human life. This | motion was, as is known, adopted by |the commission and wil determine the new extradition practice unless now turning to the Workers (Com-| | munist) Party for political leader- |ship. The republican party has per- | insurance scheme. Delegate Moser brought in a reso- lution against injunctions urging immediate danger. ; LONDON, Sept. 24 (UP).—Rep- vesentatives of 47 countries gath- ered today for a discussion of in- jternational fuel problems. The | | meeting is under the auspices of \the world power conference. Lord | Reading presided at the opening | ‘meeting at the Imperial Institute. | /0. C. Merrill represented the United | States. * and cooperative societie and trade unions entitled to representation. But they do not get it if they are Left Wingers. No members of the Communist Party or sympathizers of the Party are allowed as dele- gates. The conference this year was kept well under the control of the official reactionary Labor Party | group. | Results Expected. The result so far as action is con- to keep out any delegates who would oppose the reactionary officials, there wa sa very evident dissatis. on unemployment which is forcing young girl workers to lives of pros- titution. COMRADES! \sistently refused to give them any mass violation as the only effective |relief, Coolidge vetoing even the by the conference. Robert Zelms| the working class resist this new |means of combatting the evil. This Foster Visits \eerned can be readily imagined, And since the right wing control has Daily Worker-Fretheit cil = \ |Watery McNary-Haugen bill and|was attacked as a “Communistic | Hoover pledging himself to carry | proposal” and Moser was accused) jout the Coolidge policies. Al Smith, | of being a Communist, the evidence | Continued from Page One |the democratic candidate, the other offered being the fact that he was|were also made out. | Wall Street candidate, is trying to|!a member of the rank and file trade) At a workers’ press picnic yester- | hla cae whiek a ihe plea | mace ae Sae win the farmers’ vote with vague| union delegation which a number of day Foster exposed the fakers of | mouth this betel ee use z ‘ | 1e Case of ul, |promises that he will do something unioAs several months ago sent the republican, democratic and so-|f Unity in view of the approaching | In January 1928, Bartol Burcul,|for them after election. across to make an investigation of |cialist parties in a speech lasting| &¢neral election to put over all the |a shoemaker who had fled from} ~The socialist party is only a little |conditions in the Soviet Union. an hour and a half. He outlined the |"eformist policies of the Labor | Yugoslavia was arrested on the way Cnaal i Workers F ‘d de.| Party, at the same time breaking i s |to the left of the democratic party | onsistent Reaction. orkere Party... Program. and de-| ity of the working w |from Hainborg to Vienna. As Bur-|on the farming.problem. It favors) A Tesolution for the relief of un-/clared that this was the only pro-| the real unity of the working women a/cul had no identity papers with him| : Forced to|gram that a class-conscious worker | PY expelling the Left Wingers. AGAINST U,S.S,R th® MeN: 7 ‘ |employed fared equally. | ; i | ‘cNary-Haugen bill which Al|¢™Ploy a fe. ; bares [the Austrian authorities made en-|q". SLariaipele leila’ caiae Geubien eed dcahe: b:| could wipnock: The conference supported the La seed Fautcias st the ¥ageela jaw authori. Smith also supports in principle. It| a fe PP | i feni “ ibor Party’s “belief” in the ultimate ‘ ;a x ‘ a +_|favors the cooperation of the fed-|4ay week, the machine made a nom-, The picnic was preceded by an). et ates Voroshiloff Scores the | ties rene iey a ecantielite eral government with farm organ. ial acceptance of another resolution automobile parade to the picnic |RAtionalization and scientific reor- | identity. : haar Ble H sa) fi i ganization of the coal industry, but | izations to eliminate the uncertain |>Y delegate Moser, advocating this) grounds, the Communist candidate | 8? fs 5 nia BEA GTA 1 ay Yeaneterian gorminions in tmeaat of he ies ns nee being frequently applauded on the| did nothing about immediate relief ; lodged a request for the extraditior | the number of middlemen who levy|, A long report to the convention | way. MR Sheen ca MPR 6 ioe Continued from Page Cne | of Burcul on the ground that he had tribute on the farmers’ products Tt | bY Secretary-Treasurer Thomas F.| A worker who said he had been a/&*eater interest in the welfare of the drouth, hail, : | | | 5 : i : cause of the open and secretive pro-| proofs of this, the government was|“'s ail, storm and flood, | who expressed their views outside; Communist campaign. A collection! The Standing Joint Committee | : Whatever efforts the Soviet Gov- | FOSTER VISITS Every new reader of The |posals, but refused to listen to one | 7 The National Platform of the ae | mediately defeated by the interven-| were charged with the same crime Bolivian Government the workers. | world peace, disarmament. By this \placing the blame of his conditio ernment that war had not broken| participated in a murder. Although! favors Grace |Burke for the Executive Board was| member of the socialist party for |™ine owners than in the miners. vocative actions of the Polish gov- ‘not able to produce them. |, There is no more jhope for the | tha convention, as “a masterpiece of | of $150 was made at the picnic. proposed a committee for the popu- In the meantime the trial of Bur-| gram than in the programs of the| a eRe ernment made to conclude a com-| Yugoslavia. Burcul was tried in his| DAILY WORKER is a potential |delegate’s call for support of the Workers (Communist) Party after tion of those capitalist powers. |as Burcul were sentenced for par- Reports Revolt Was l= >) on the ‘shoulders of trust, monopoly, | Mooney in Cel] | been growing stronger during the part few years, it explains the fall- |ing off in attendance. The average | working woman is disgusted with a| | conference such as the one at Po: was reelected district organizer, Jes- | move with all possible energy. sica Henderson, elected district ‘ . chairman and Rudquist, vice-chair-| The latest happenings in ..ustria |demand close attention tri work- man. a te ers in all countries. Bazaar Is Coming Aré You | ; —doing your bit for your press —collecting articles —gathering names for the Red Honor ‘Roll —selling tickets The Time Is Short! — Only Two More Weeks Left! — ACT NOW! Daily Worker - Freiheit Bazaar’ Committee, 30 Union Square, New York, N. Y. out between the two countries, be-'the Austrian authorities demanded | tone BeAinBE t taled by progressive delegates, / 28 years pledged his support to the; Fight U. S. S. R. ernment. [zarmers, in the socialist Danty PP9- | class collaboration sell-out.” larization of the Kellogg peace pro- |eul’s fellow dccused took place in|republican and democratic parties. | mercial treaty with Poland was im-| absence, and all the accused who! soldier in the coming battles of | Soviet Government's proposals for | |analyzing the plight of the farmer, The signing of the Kellogg pact, | ticipating in a strike and for doing! other factors of big business and this reason that the Kellogg payt| prisonment and some of them were mgst form an alliance with the was joined, although, due to the acquitted. | 5 : reservations of the powers, the pact | Courts Severe. ane Secce fgte of ne remained nothing but a piece of pa-| The general severity of the Yugo- Mrs nS. Marre ed MM hs | A by ;_/ bill” is given as proof that they can ‘per. |slavian courts against workers is/ é ‘ ‘ SABI Semart | well-known. If these men were sen-| oxPee ries ope rae from |last week had been suppressed. * |tenced to a few months’ imprison-|-\© Poltical parties of Wall Street.| 1+ is known here that some ar- Senate Will Select | ment only, then it is clear that there| The Workers (Communist) Party | ae Successor of Calles ° for President Today remarked Voroshiloff, should show |bodily harm to strikebreakers. The catis on the farmers to’ houe oe Suppressed; Jail Many A. SHIEK the masses that the Soviet Union| accused received sentences ranging | +14;, alliance with the bank w aS ms | was eager for peace, and it was for|from three to eight months’ im-| sd dasa LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept. 24.—The | on | THE COMINTERN AND THE RACE PROBLEM In The AUGUST Communist International government reported that Bolivia| |was tranquil today, and that the revolutionary conspiracy that the | police had said they had discovered | The DAILY WORKER Secure your copy from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th Street. New York City. | |ean be no question whatever of mur-| "ly correctly diagnoges the farm-| "ests have been made and that the |der.’ Dr. Valentine Rosenfigld the |¢Ts’ ills and prescribes the right|®°Vernment has taken’ police and |lawyer of Burcul pointed this out|Temedy. The Workers Party pro-| military precautions, |to the Austrian authorities and de- 8Tam on the farm question follows: | INE of the best methods of carrying on election work is to sec that the DAILY WORKER is | placed in the hands of as many workers as possible. IS: MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24 (U.P).—_ The electoral commission of the sen- | clared that Burcul was sought for! by the Yugoslavian authorities for) .@ 4 1. A . five-year moratorium on | ee) During the period of the Election Campaign we will sell the DAILY WORKER at $6.00 per thou- for/farm mortgage debts, including | ‘ ; ate and chamber of deputies held a the reason that he was an active/debts on chattels, withot a he of DAILY WORKERS. private session today. Adjournment | trade unionist, and as such had taken) 2 protection of the working without a bundle of DAILY WORKERS. was taken until late in the after-_ noon, when the commission will cer- | tify formally the death of President- | elect Alvaro Obregon. A joint session of congress then will be called, probably for tomor- row, to select a provisional presi- dent. Emilio Portes Gil, secretary | of the interior, probably will be chosen, * Reactionaries Active. MEXICO’ CITY, Sept. 24.—A { north-bound train for Laredo nar- rowly escaped being wrecked by counter-revolutionaries, a dispatch to the newspaper Universal from Aguas Calientes said today. The train had just passed when the reactionaries forced track work- ers to remove the rails between En- carnacion and Tigre. The band cut ee i i Coming the telegraph wires and burned a) inform his lawyer of the pending) _° Complete freedom to organize | i rp and strike for the agricultural| | lecti bagel ihr oneal i ceenie took place al- workers, Federal law to guarantee £ ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, is | Elections U. 8S. BRUTAL TO MEXICANS. MEXICO CITY, Sept, 24, (U.P.)— The Mexican Embassy at Washing-| ton has been instructed to protest to, the State Department against re- ed ill-treatment of Mexicans by inited States immigration officials ur | ceasingly to secure his release. For a leading part in the workers’ strikes. Ks The Austrian authorities kept) Bureul in prison for ®ix months al- though he had committed nothing for which he could be punished in Austria with more than three days’ imprisonment. His lawyer and the Red, Aid organization worked un- a time the Burcul case was develop- ing favorably, for a parcel of under- clothing sent to him by the Red Aid was accepted with objection by the prison authorities. But when on the 28th of July the lawyer of Burcul enquitd for him he was informed by the authorities that Burcul had been sent off on that same day to Yugoslavia in the custody of detectives. Burcul was therefore extradited without the au- thorities even taking the trouble to though the result of his trial in Yugoslavia showed absolutely clea ly that he was not wanted by the Yugoslavian authorities for mur- der, but for participating in strikes. Burcul, was therefore obviously a pé- litical fugitive, and as such had the right to asylum in Austria, jmanded for industrial workers, farmer against monopoly prices. | Essential lowering of the prices of all trust products which the farm- | er “uses. | 8, Protection of the farmer} against special exploitation by dis-' tributing agencies of production, by | railroads, meat packers, milk trusts, | and grain elevator combines. | 4. Federal law for the creation of a special farm relief fund of $1,- 000,000,000 to relieve the conditions of the tenant and mortgaged farm- ers, the fund to be administered by organization of: working farmers. 5. Federal law against forced farm foreclosures. r Abolition of all federal and lo- cal taxes on working and tenant farmers. 7. The land to belong to its users. seven-hour maximum working day ind a 48-hour weekly rest for all agricultural workers. Yearly vaca- tion with pay {gr all farm laborers. 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