The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 3

i | — was completely unknown the work- |two is unknown THE DAIL} Y WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESD AY, OCTOBER 2, 2, 1928 | Druse Tribesmen, ee Around Damascus, Take Field Against French in n Syria! REBEL CALVARY ELUDES HEAVY MILITARY GUARD French Forbid Natives | to Leave Villages VERUSALEM, Oct. 1—The | Druses, who had put up a deter- mined struggle against the French | in Syria in 1925 and 1926, and who were never subdued by the French military, have again taken the field under the leadership of the Kaatat brothers, chiefs of tho last revolt. The mounted Druse forces have | succeeded in avciding the heavy Photo at The new citizens are told that they of an imperialist, w Tell New American Citizens To Be Loy al Slaves to Bosses $ Photo at left shows a hatch of workers in Bro oklyn Federal Court undergoing the usual patriotic bunk talk before they receive their naturalization pape forced to listen to the same patriotic spiel. slaves to their bosses, are warned never to protest against their conditions of wage slavery and to sendd give their lives to Wall Street in case right shows woman workers must be willing an. cordon of French troops and tanks, and have appeared on the Ghuta| Plain, near Damascus, the capital of Syria. French troops have been in pur- suit of the Druse forces for five days, but have never succeeded in even catching sight of them long enough to engage them in battle. The characteristic elusiveness of the Druse horsemen favors the quick | and unnoticed mobilization of their forces, which, it is believed, may be now going on. In the meantime the French com- manders have ordered that all na- | tives remain in their villages, out of fear that they may join the rebel forces. TAMMANY CREW IN CONVENTION Al Smith Pulls Strings at Rochester Continued from Page One i rose to the head of that nest of con- centrated political pollution. The Tammany gang is out in full | force and staging a real penne | (Red Aid Press Service). SHANGHAI, (By Mail).—The white terror in China is particular- ly brutal in the south because here the revolutionary influence is most |deep and persistent. The foreign imperialists support the white ter- ror by handing over all revolution-| aries found in the foreign conces- sions to the Kuomintang hangmen. | The remark of the Hupe general | | Hu Tsung- to, “Rather kill 30,000 in- |nocent people than let one Commu- nist escape alive,” is typical of the attitude of the Kuomintang murder- ers. The arrested “Communi: most of whom are not Communists at all, are subjected to the most fiendish tortures. In order to se- cure fresh arrests all criminals, no are granted a free pardon if they betray two Communist secrets or denounce two Communists. Horrible Tortures. The result of this peculiar prom- ise can be imagined, The treatment jaceorded to women and girls sus- | pected of being Communists is pare matter what their crime or crimes, | GRUESOME DETAILS OF NANKING TERROR BRITISH MEET ON ee atrocious. In the majority of cases they are first raped and then their breasts are cut off. Many have been killed by shots fired into |the sexual organ. After death they are left naked on the streets with anti-Communist leaflets pasted over |the sexual organs. _ | The atrocities of the troops sent to crush the peasants beggar de- | scription—plundering, rape, atroci- ties, arson, murder, torture, destruc- tion of crops, ete., etc. There are jover 15,000 political prisoners under arrest and the conditions in the pris- |ons are terrible. The cells are over- ‘crowded so that often the prisoners cannot lie down. There are no toilets and the floors of the cells are used to relieve the needs of nature. The food is not worthy of the name. Visits are only possible by bribery. Important Communist leaders are |shot secretly in the prisons to avoid jexciting public indignation. The total number of murdered in 1927 j was 337,568, though even these ter- | rible figures are by no means com- Iplete. show. However, the same bunch has | performed so often that their tech- nique is a bit "mechanical. In deal- ing with state problems the out- standing feature of Osborne’s talk was approval of the infamous Baumes’ laws whereby: th evictims of capitalist justice are railroadec to the penitentiary for life if they violate capitalist laws, even in the | smallest degree, four times. Behind the Scenes. While the short session was go- ing on, Governor Smith was holding | a conference wit ha number of party leaders in the Hotel Seneca for the |the backbone of Germany's textile | purpose of drawing up a slate. that | industry. they could tell the gang of marion- | Other Strikes Likely. ettes:to;vote for. |, Workers in key industries, chiefly in iron and refining, have been es- STRIKE TIES UP GERMAN PORTS Textile Workers May Soon Go Out Continued iat Page One | pecially hard hit by the slack and Case of Tony Minerich, the accompanying increase in the | cost of living, and are reported to be ready to demand an increase in wages. The steel workers’ unions have al- Mine Leader, Up Soon Continued from Page One handed down by Judge. Benson W. Hough. The I. L. D. immediately assumed | charge of the case, retaining Attor- ney Joseph W. Sharts, of Dayton, to represent the interests of the de- fendant. The importance of the case lies er wages before the owners and the outcome is now being awaited. Heads of the steel trust here have announced that they will not in- | crease their prices as they had de- manded, if the unions of the steel His the #ace that iia ane 60 the few | | workers willsdrop their demands for on record where the defendant is on | increased WARES: This is believed trial for urging mass violation of 2 be si pis gare on the part es an anti-labor injunction, a policy| the steel trust to bring pressure to which has. been advocated —but | Dear upon those interests directly rarely carried out in actuality-—by |concerned in the purchase of steel,| many of the leading figures in the | Notably the shipyard owners and the American labor movement. A vic-/S0vernment plants, thus forcing | tory in this case would undoubtedly |them to cooperate in breaking the deal a serious blow to the ‘entire Strike should it occur. institution of bench injunctions and| General business conditions thru- serve to strengthen the militancy |out Germany appear to be slacken- of the opposition of labor to its use. | ing with a slight but steady increase ers since August 1. The unemploy-_ jment situation at present is more unfavorable than last -year. The |chief slackness is in the refining | industry. The key industries, and ‘especially the iron industry, are showing profits from exports which jare more than offsetting the de- Worker-Photographs Wanted by “Daily” Continued from. Page One necessary information with each pic- ture—what the picture is about, where taken, etc., as well as the name and address of the photog- crease in home orders. rapher. Strikes thruout the basic indus- Workers who want. to put their | tries are forecast. cities or their organizations “on the | map” have an opportunity to do so by putting their cameras to work for the Daily Worker. Candidates for any office on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket are ur- géntly requested to mail their British press, arrived photos to the “Daily.” Send all pic- | aboard the liner Minnewaska for a tures to Photo Editor, Daily Worker, |two months’ visit as the guests of 26-28 Union Square, New York |ihe Carnegie endowment for. inter- see national peace, BRASS CHECKERS HERE (By United Press) A group of British journalists, |representing every aspect of the A PRISONER “SUICIDE”. 18- Year-Old Worker Jumps t to Death (Red Aid Press Senhiale VIENNA (By Mail)—A young | man who was being led to a fresh | “examination” in the building of the Budapest Police Presidium tore him- | relf away from his guards and flung | S°™* ¢ a * ing a member of the Young Com- eee .a & window onto. the Bisertred nacre Sebes had been | held incommunicado for a long time. The Budapest police announced His only offense was having been shat he was the 28-year-old elec-|caught reading the “ABC of Com- srician Ladislaus Simon and that |munism.” He had never been out- thortly before he had made a de-|side of Hungary in his life. Two evs made inquiries to find out who \the man might be. It turns out that the victim of |the police was the 18-year-old Ladi- |slaus Sebes who had been arrested time before charged with be- | ready placed their demand for high- | in the number of unemployed work- | yesterday | WITNESS SHOWS WALKER’S GUILT |Confirms Mayor’s Deal | With | Phillips Continued Beam Page One plain how he cculd have remained | junaware of its activities and the | reasons for the support given him |by Phillips, the boss-grafter of | Queens. | In Curran’s testimony previously | given at the trial he showed that as confidential secretary of Phillips he was ordered by his employer to ex- pend $75,000 secretly in behalf of Walker’s primary campaign against | Hylan. At the time Connolly, nom-| inally, at least, supported Hylan. Phillips, by likewise supporting Con- nolly, in his deal with Tammany Hall is said to have “played both | ends against the middle,” insuring his power by supporting both| groups. Huge Graft. Other witnesses at the trial of Connolly disclosed the fact that |through the whole time that Phil- | lips and Connolly conspired to main- | tain the monopoly on Queens sewer contracts, Phillips charged a price for his product which other con- tractors were forced to buy of at least $3 per linear foot higher than, the current market price in the ‘east. This netted the grafting gang some hundreds of thousands a year, computations show. show. GROAT-DALMATIA : UNION IS STARTED |To Boycott _ Belgrade | Regime | ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, Oct. 1.— The joint political congress of Dal- matian and Croatian representatives | meeting here has decided to create ja close union between the two pro- | vinces, boycott Serbia and the Bel- | grade regime, and work independ- | ‘ently of the Yugoslav government | n all domestic affairs. | This decision declares virtual at-| tonomy for Croatia and Dalmatia | |and is expected to lead to extreme | ; measures by the Belgrade regime. | The congress further discussed , means of resistance against any | methods the Serbs may take. They | also provided for independent civil | | government machinery and the con- | solidation of their government. | Allenby, Imperialist, to Attend Jingo Meet) (By United Press) Lord Allenby, leader of “The Last | Crusade,” who captured Jerusalem! from the Turks, will arive in New| tailed confession that he was a regu- other young workers were arrested ‘ar courier between Moscow ard |with Sehes, Desider Nemes and Tg- | Budapest, As the name of Simon natz Solimossy. The fate of these | ‘ York today aboard the Majestic to! be the guest of the American Legion! at its convention in San Antonio,| |r ‘exas, this month. | | which ANTI-COMMUNIST Labor Party to Try Liberal Coalition BIRMINGHAM, England. Oct. 1. —At the opening session of the la- hor party congress here, George Lansbury in his presidential address declared that while the party’s aim was “socialism” it would have noth- ing to do whatsoever with Commun- ism, and would in fact fight it both at home and abroad. At the rally which preceded the onening of the congress Ramsay MacDonald, following the middle- stand policy of the labor party, refus to meet all issues squarely, favored the League of Na-| tions activities and held up the Lo- earno pact as an example of peace- ful diplomacy, while criticizing the foreign policy of the conservatives. Tomorrow MacDonald will present the elertion program to the con- gress, It is estimated that they will fight the conservatives chiefly on the question of the protective tariff, making the foreign policy of the Raldwin regime, chiefly the Franco- British naval pact. a secondary is- sue. The reformists also promise to publish the archives of the for- cign office as soon as they get into office. An attempt will be made to win the elections by a MacDonald-lib- eral coalition British Cabinet Is Not | Unanimous on Kellogg ers, is expected to seriously injure | mayor, and Jimmie will have to ex- ‘Naval Note Rumored LONDON, Oct. 1.—The situation introduced by the United States note on the British-French naval pact was understood to have been discussed by the cabinet today. The discussion was by no means unanimous, it is thought, and some | circles predict a cabinet cri since Prime Minister Baldwin left for Balmoral, immediately after | meeting, to confer with the king. Sie Nothing on U. S. “Diplomacy.” NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (U.P).—Re- turning from abroad in the midst of heated discussion over the Anglo- French naval agreement, Repr sentative Fred A. Britten of Illino member of the House Naval Affai Committee, issued a caustic criti- cism of European diplomacy today. “The Europeans are always talk- ing peace and constantly preparing for war,” Britten said. “European diplomacy is still based fundamen- tally upon deceit.” “There are more men under arms {n Europe today than in 1914, before the war,” Britten said. LONGEST AJR MAIL ROUTE MONTREAL, Oct. 1 (UP).—Mon- treal today became the terminus of the longest aerial mail route in North America. At 11:15 a. m—on schedule to the minute—a Fairchild monoplane, guided by W. E. Reider, slipped from the sky to the landing field at St. Hubert after a flight |from Albany, the | REPORT MARTIAL RULE IN ALBANIA Zogu, Mussolini Tool, Executes Eleven LONDON, Oct. 1 WP). An ex- change telegraph dispatch from Durazzo, Albania, so far uncon- firmed from other sources, quoted “Politikas” today as saying that martial law had been proclaimed in | Albania. Eleven conspirators were tried summarily and executed after dis- covery of an anti-Zogu plot, the dispatch said. ier aaa Mussolini Tool. the will of Mussolini, Zogu, former president of Albania under the protection of the Italian fascists, was declared king last month, order to perpetuate the Italian rule across the Adriatic. in Mussolini has openly admitted his purpose of creating an Italian lake out of the Adriatic Sea, and |for this purpose he aims to get con- trol of the seaports facing Italy. His policy has been one of penetration into the Balkans, where his chief opponents have been the French and British. The creation of a fascist controlled Albanian kingdom i: direct threat to Jugoslavia, which also desires convenient ports on the Adriatic, those which it has being mountain bound. The Zogu rule in Albania has been one of the eruelest that country has seen. All opponents are immediately thrown in jail, and the most danger- ous are killed. Stories of inhuman strangulation and tortures are com- mon. His cruelty has been so great that thousands of Albanians have jsworn to kill him at. the first op- portunity, Firemen Risk Lives in Big Albany Fire ALBANY, ¥,, » Oct. TOP), While flames aed about them es men early today removed cans con- taining 75 gallons of gasoline from the burning interior of a furniture warehouse and garage. was called to the scene. |was brought under control after an Aug. Loss was esti- anniversary of Sacco and vaueees hour and a half. mated at $40,000. Almost | Union; every available fireman in the city | Cruz, Cal.; The fire mass meetings Porto Rican Workers Still Hurricape Starve After Weeks after hurricane struck Porto Rico, killing thousands of workers and making many more thousands’ homeless, starvation and disease still threaten to take a huge toll. Photo of devastated section of San Juan shown above. MOONEY-BILLINGS RUMANIA POLICE CAMPAIGN GROWS JAIL COMMUNISTS Many Organizations Confiscate Printing Join Drive Plant Continued from Page Cne BUDAPEST, Oct. 1 (U.P).—A num- Labor Union with 75,000 members; |ber of persons have been arrested Belleville, Ill., Central Labor Union,|in connection with the discovery with’ 6,000 taembers: and confiscation of a Communist printing establishment, it was an- nounced today. Other Organizations. East St. Louis, Ill., Central Labor Union, with 3,000 members; Gran-| The plant had been printing Com- ite City, Ill, central labor body; munist propaganda pamphlets, the \Tri-City Central Labor Body with |0™8!n of which had long baffled 2,000 members; Detroit Federation i"Vestigators. of Labor; St. Louis Building Trades “FRAT” INITIATION FATAL. Council, with 16,000 members; In- ternational Molders’ Union Confer-| AUSTIN, Texas, Oct, 1 (UR ence Board; Molders’ Union 164 of Nolte McElroy, 19, of Houston, a San Francisco, the local of which Tom Mooney is a member. Window Cleaners’ Union of Seat- tle; Progressive Miners’ Conference of Bicknell, Ind.; Workers (Commu- nist) Party; International Labor De- fense; American Civil Liberties mass meetings in Santa Martins Ferry, Ohio; 200 during the week of commemorating the student in the University of Texas, was killed by an electric shock last night during a fraterni COMRADES! , 1928, under the auspices of the I. L. Spread NE of the best methods work is to see that the DAILY WORKER is placed in the hands of as many workers as possible. During the period of the will sell the DAILY WORKER at $6.00 per thou- No meeting or campaign rally should be without a bundle of DAILY WORKERS. Order Now! <—« sand. { Please send me. NAME ADDRES: ‘To arrive not later than ...... 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