The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1928 Page Three SOUTH AMERICAN OIL FINDS LEAD TO LAND FIGHT Bolivia-Paraguay in Critical Stage BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 7. — The} United States may be called upon by the Paraguay government to | arbitrate the boundary dispute be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay, which | has already resulted in the arrest of Bolivian army officers found on the, disputed territory, and the resigna- tion of the Bolivian minister to Para- guay. The land under dispute con- | tains recently discovered oil deposits. Although Paraguay would submit! The family of Cotzofanest: Nicholas, to have run away with Madam mother and brother. EATURES - i Marie, is involved in another Balla who accompanied his mother on her loan juncket to the United States, e Dumitreseu Tahon, --BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPE Involved In Latest Rumanian s&candal m. scandal. This time it is Prince who is alleged He is shown above at the left of his celebrated the case to the United States, ex-| pecting a decision favorable to itself, | Bolivia would rather have the case/ brought before the world court at! the Hague. The dispute is centered about the “constitutional” point of the interpretation of a treaty com- pleted in 1807, before oil was ever) GENEVA, (By Mail).—A more thought of. But now feeling in fin-|careful examination of the steno- ancial circles runs high on both sides|gram of the speech of Briand of the frontier, and the army guards|strengthens the conviction that this patrolling the disputed strip are in|speech is to be regarded as a sort! constant danger of being fired upon.|of counter-revolutionary manifesto. The reluctance of Bolivia to sub-| The surprise of all journalists is ex- mit the dispute to the United States | tremely great, practicularly the Ger- is traced to the unsatisfactery out-|man journalists who seemed to have come of the Tacna-Arica boundary | been the victims of naive illusions. dispute in which it had a great in-) Yesterday and today Briand has terest. Although both countries have pledged themselves to avoid|press in which he sought to deny war by treaty, it is reported that that any change had been made in one of the two countries has a secret | his policy. However, the press which war treaty with another South is inspired by him declares that the American republic. |speech was made with great delib- : The situation is considered critic-|eration and that every word and a] due to the failure of negotiations|phrase had been previously consid- between the two countries and a/ered and had the complete approval strong reluctance on either side to|of the French delegation and gov- concede land which holds oil deposits.|¢rnment. The speech is particularly Several treaties and proposed com-|catastrophic for the policy of the! promises have been drawn up but Second International And this fact neither government has ratified|is made even more grotesque by the them. The press is unusually aroused |enthusiasm expressed by Paul Bon- over the matter, and abounds in| cour for Briand’s speech. patriotic appeals and menacing |of the speech was naturally, above statements. jall to strengthen the French posi- tion with regard to the negotiations tor the evacuation of the Rhine- YANKS WIN THIRD GAME IN ST, LOU Gehrig, With 2 Homers, Is Star of Slugfest ontinved from Page One the decrepit Zachary, failed to bunch every cause to fear war. symptom for the sharpening of the international political situation. Briand himself admitted in his 3 mutual hatred were again gather- League of Nations there would be For this them and therefore scored only three reason all ambiguousness is all the | that theoretically, the bosses were | runz. ; more dangerous. Addressing himself L-u Gehrig was the heavy hitter |directly to Hermann Mueller, of the day, driving out a homer on | Briand declared: “We are not an in- each of his first two trips to the ternational of parties here, but an plate, and helping the champions to| international of nations, of states- overcome an early lead piled up by men who represent their countries. the St. Louis team, which was out/It is therefore necessary to consider to do or die today. The crowd be-/all the difficulties.” The following gan to drift away in the late after-/words are nothing more nor less nosn, convinced that the Yankees than a direct warning to Germany will win the World’s Championship against a possible Eastern orienta- again, probably in four straight/tion: “When one has chosen on® games. | path, ust ni Thirty-nine thousand, six hundred Per? My, et eee se and two foolish fans paid $168,725) sim must not force the develop- Giese athe teams perform, of which! nent of the Leagues and risk ‘8 $16,872.50 goes to the commission~| cot actrophie fall.” ers, $60,741 to the clubs and $91,150 £ tg the players. Briand’s anger was caused in ae particular by Mueller’s remark con- Score by innings: ~ cerning the difference between Bens York DN Rearing tog Words and deeds, and concerning the ene te —* fact that international policy was It looks very much as though it’s|double faced. A theatrical mani- all over but the shouting, and that/festation, he declared, could easily will have to be done by the New cause the beautiful dreams to crash York fans. Waite Hoyt probably|into the abyss of catastrophe. will face the Cards in today’s game,| Briand denied the suggestion that and Bill Sherdel, although his de-| since the existence of the League of feat in the opener was a heart-|Nations armaments had increased, breaker, is not likely to be any more/ and continued: “There is perhaps effective at Sportsman's Park when) one country in Europ® which is not he appears on the mound in the}, member of the League of Na- fourth game. The odds tonight fa-|tions, about which one can say that wor, she Sanks to: win thetr second) 51) aa concerns the number of meh successive series in four straight! games, Just a lot more jack for the and the amount of material, arma- ments have incceas¢d, and this coun- Syners, and'e lot more hokum for! is proud of this fact. This coun. try is prepared to make the greatest ptheatrical gestures for disarmament ‘and demands disarmament complete ind absolute. This country has set its signature to the Paris pact. It TYPHOID EPIDEMIC. OLEAN, N. Y., Oct. 7.—The epi- demic of typhoid fever, believed to jmade personal declarations to the! The aim’ BRIAND MANIFESTO FOR WAR:ON U.S.S.R. jbe drawn from Briand’s referenc® |to the Reichswehr and to the econ- jomic development of Germany, is that disarmament will never be pos- sible. It would be dangerous, re- marked Briand, to awaken illusions in the masses of the peoples, “other- wise we would create anarchy, for we are not only serving the cause of peace here, but also of social | peace.” PATERSON STRIKE MEETING TONIGHT All Silk Workers Will Meet at Turn Hall Continued from Page One their strike call will be answered by nearly all the workers jin the silk mills. | Besides the price lists of wages, an 8-hour day and 44-hour week and recognition of the union is de- , that to walkout to the call of the union. In an unsuccessful attempt to weaken the tremendous sentiment | agree to the 8-hour day and 44-hour the question of union recognition. This the workers ridiculed, saying long supposed to obey the shorter work day rule, but that, because no union existed to enforce this de- mand, hours were lengthened by each boss individually, necessitating the present strike action. A leaflet issued yesterday by the strike committee of 50 called upon all workers in the silk mills to ; maintain perfect solidarity in the |coming strike. “The strike must be 100 per «ent successful!” the leaf- | let reads. | “We must have 100 per cent shop organization of the workers. dividual shop settlements will be sanctioned before the strike. Join the union. Organize to fight! Hold |shop meetings. Attend the mass meeting!” KRUSE TO TOUR SOUTH ILLINOIS ‘Plans to Speak in Small Mine Towns CHICAGO, Ill., (By Mail).—Wil- \liam F. Kruse, Workers (Commu- |nist) Party candidate for governor |of Illinois, has started a three, weeks’ tour of the southern mining areas. Beginning in Springfield, he will cover Gillespie, Benld, and Wil-| sonville. The latter is famed as an No in-| USSR INDUSTRY GAINS STEADILY | August Sees Increase in All Fields According to cable reports re- ceived by the Amtorg Trading Cor- poration, the foreign trade turn- over of the Soviet Union in August] overtopped the turnover in July, the previous peak month of this year, jby 5 per cent. The turnover of 157,500,000 rubles (across European frontiers only) was 39 per cent in excess of the figure for August 1927. Imports for the month totaled 95,400,000 rubles, 9 per cent more than in July and 49 per cent over the imports for August a year ago.| Exports in August amounted to 62,- | 100,000 rubles, slightly under the July figure but 26 per cent greater ‘than exports for August 1927. Oil production totaled 1,021,000 metric tons, 19 per cent more than last year. Coal at 2,659,000 tons, pig iron 267,800 tons, and steel 337,400 tons registered gains over August 11927 of 9.5 per cent, 10.5 per cent and 11 per cent respectively. The output of cotton cloth amounted to |land, apart from this however, the manded of the employers associa-| 29,700,000 meters, representing a speech is an extremely important tien, More than 10,000 are expected | £4in of 27 per cent over the preced- 25 ing month and 25 gust last year. per cent over Au- Grain procurements totaled 507,- speech that the League of Nations for the strike, the Broad Silk Manu- 800 tons, more than five times the |was in a critical position and that |facturers’ Association yesterday is-|Procurements for July but consider- the clouds of dissatisfaction and sued a statement saying that they @bly under last year’s figure. How- ever, in the last ten dajs of the ing, so that if there existed no! week demand, but said nothing on ™onth more than half of the total purchases were effected and it was expected that during September the total for the current campaign would .be brought up to last year’s. |Toohey Indictment | to Come Up Soon in Pennsylvania Court (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7.—Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer of the National Miners Union, may soon have to appear in court to face the indictment brought against him and |John Brophy for having held a mine meeting at Renton last March, it was learned here today. | Toohey is charged with “riot, rout and unlawful assembly,” and |with having made “great noise, tumults and disturbances,” and hav- ing brought “great terror” against the “peace and dignity of the Gom- monwealth of Pennsylvania.” “The indictment followed an at- tack made upon a mine meeting at which Toohey was the chief speaker. Toohey was beaten up by a trooper and later arrested. Japan Glad to Have Free Hand on Navy ROME, Oct. 7.—A note ‘describ- ing the Italian Government’s views on the Franco-British naval pact has been dispatched to London and to Paris. The note was not made public. cept ame TOKIO, Japan, Oct. 7.—‘It is the outlook for have been started b yimpure water taken from wells in the southern sec- tion of the city, is still spreading here. Cases today neared 100. The actual cases reported totalled 96 with 26 more suspected. The epidmic has already taken one life. WHAT | SAW IN CHINA By TOM MANN 10 cents H bynes “grand old man” of the British Labor move- ment tells of his experi- ences in revolutionary China after a six months’ stay with the Interna- tional Workers’ Delega- tion. i Workers Library Publishers 38 East 125th Street New York City has renounced war. What sort of war? The wars of the past which \have besmirched almost every page of human history with blood? Or |that form of war which leads one “all Scotch” town said to be im- regrettable that | pervious to any form of radical] | naval reduction is not hopeful,” said | ideas. However, when the Fishwick-| Admiral Okado, minister of marine, Lewis machine tried to put over the in connection with a discussion to- “slave-pact” here they met with|day on the Franco-British naval | overwhelming defeat, and now Com- munism does not look nearly so bad |to these miners as it ‘has been nation pursuing its national aspira- tions to attack another nation? That |war is damned. But there is an- ‘©, "es other sort of war which is not| Palnted. Fats | damned in the same way and which |, Staunton and Livingston, where this people apparently considers i order to hold his meetings years | |holy, for this belief leads it to mis-|®&°, Kruse had to contend with po- | use its power everywhere. Is this|lice and mob violence during the form of war better than the other? | Wave of war hysteria of February The results of such a war would not #74 May, 1918, ore also on the list be less bloody or terrible for those for meetings. Many former sup-| nations which resisted or attempted | Porters of the socialist party in this | to resist. If the delegates assembled | district, where in 1920 the socialists | here fail to realize this fact, then|Polled 25 per cent of the vote in they would not’ be doing their duty, /S0me wards, now openly call them- | I do not say this in order to set up | selves Communists, Other mining) hindrances, but in order to show Centers to be visited by the Com-) that we are justified in harboring |munist candidates include Auburn, certain fears.” | Taylorville, Nokomis, Zeigler, Roy- This attempt of Briand to repre-|alton, Valier, Christopher, West) sent the Sovunion as a hindrance| Frankfort, Johnson City, Carrier to disarmament and to warn the na-| Mills, Eldorado, Herrin. { tions of the danger of civil war is| The tour will be made by auto-| at the same tim® a positive attempt |mobile and mk&ny smaller mine) to use the League of Nations as a|towns will also have meetings at) united front of the imperialist! odd hours, Minnie Lurye, organizer | powers against the Sovunion. Ger-| for the Young Workers League, will) many’s criticism of the lack of pro-|also speak at all meetings. The gress made by the disarmament of | sub-district organizer, Bill Mathe- the Great Powers, stresses clearly | son, will travel ahead of the speak-| the old position of Victor and Van-|\ers to make arrangements for the quished. The conclusion which must | meetings. } pact. HONDURAN UNION FAKERS DECLARE FOR NO REVOLT Workers Restless as Electicns Come TEGUCIGALPA, Hichadtas, Oct. 7.—In an attempt to smother the un- rest in Honduras as the elections approach, and at the same time to curb the rising resentment at the intervention of the United States in Honduras as well as in the neigh- boring country of Nicaragua, union officials have addressed an appeal to workers asking them not to re- volt. Sea fleet of the Soviet Union. Th ruin of the country.” This plaint of the officials is re- ported to have been received unfav- orably by the rank and file of the| unions. Hondurans are resentful at| 5 the grip of the United States gov-| WORKERS RELIEF ernment on the country, and when marines invaded Honduras to cap- ture some of Sandino’s followers they were greeted with a wave of protest. The elections, which will take place October 28, are for three gov- ernment candidates, Gen. Vicente Tosta, provisional president from| ce launching a Detroit unit of. the April, 1924, to February, 1925; Gen.| «Workers International Relief” was Tiburcio Garias, former president of| held here on Oct. 3. Twenty. dele. congress; and Dr, Jose Maria Oshca gates, mostly from .organizations Velasquez, former vice president. | that did excellent work in collecting funds for the recent miners’ relief agitation, attended. There have been several success- ful relief conferences in Detroit in times past, but they always lapsed after the immediate occasion for their formation subsided. This time the intention to create a more per- manent body that will be ready at any time to meet any need for re- lief in working class struggle, any- where in the United States or in other countries, ex:sts. Body Will Be Ready on All Occasions DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).—A city-wide conference for the purpose MILL STRIKERS FIGHT SELL-OUT Will Throw Pickets Around Mills Continued from Page One William F. Kruse addressed the ings called by the Textile Workers’ conference on the latest develop- Union at both ends of the city. ments of the New Bedford strike, Tear Up U. T. W. Cards pointing out that all bourgeois re- At both meetings, scores of old|lief agencies had now dropped their members of the Textile Council, rose |C2mouflage and were uniting with and proclaimed their renunciation of |the mill owners and police to force their organization, tore up their | tHe workers back into the miils un- membership cards demonstratively | der 2 wage-cut. The municipal and and pledged allegiance to the Tex-|Petty-business aid which the strj tile Workers’ Union. lors had enjoyed to some extent was James Conway, till now one of /beime stopped, so the working class : ow one Of | lief organizations would have to the Betty mbortant functionaries of carry the whole burden until the y union, a of thie. Ul. tcodeceron. Ele alae described MW. South: End strike: hall, led |aees ecm “70 also: desert in the adhesion of the British work- ers to the new and only real union in New Bedford. lecigse From these British workers the, After the report a discussion on masses of strikers were able to learn! ways and means of raising strike of the details of the crude betrayal |relief for the textile workers was engineered by Batty. Summarized held and arrangements were put un- they are as follows: After the first/der way to send out contributions | vote taken by the Textile Council |lists, appeals, and to run a motion ,showed a majority voting against | picture and a musical benefit show. the compromise of a five per cent) An executive committee was elected, | wage cut, the reactionary official-|and Tom Parry, who carried on most |dom decided to hold a council meet-|of the successful miners’ relief work ing where the question of calling for |in Detroit, was chosen as W. I. R. another vote was to be decided, on secretary. the grounds that the frist vote was | ae — “very close.” box five votes calling for acceptance The labor fakers came from the|of the shameful proposal. council meeting with a*unanimous Textile workers who have been decision recommending to the mem-| members for years in the council, bership that the five per cent wage but have not been able to pay dues cut be accented. The stage was/| because of a six month strike, were then prepared by the Batty gang for barred from the right to vote. a “vote.” Bristol Arena was hired Many thousands of members of for Saturday. Batty and his hench- the T. W. U. who held a meeting at men got to the platform of the meet-|a previous hour in the Bristol ing and tried to announce to the as-| Arena, were outside the hall and sembled members the “recommenda- |were joined by the British workers tion for acceptance.” Every leader "barred from voting. These thou- of the Textile Council was howled | sands, as well as a majority of the down by the embittered workers, | workers inside the hall, kept up a their former followers. continuous barrage of jeers and Fake Vote. hoots while the sell-out vote was be- Only after long periods of demon-|ing faked. At the meetings of the tional Relief in France, and elsewhere from personal ex- strative jeering was Batty permitted | Textile Council locals, members five minutes to tell his story. Theh|shouted “run the fakers out of came the voting. The crudeness of town.” * the whole sell out plan was then) The Textile Workers’ Union, the, seen. Henchmen of Batty and the New Bedford unit of the new Na- officialdom, those who had professed tional Textile Workers’ Union of themselves ready to go back to scab, America, recently established at a were handed four and five ballots convention in New York, now re- each. The ballots were made up of | mains as the only union leading the a printed slip of paper with yes and huge general strike here, and de- | no printed on either side of a per- clares its determination to continue foration. Batty’s agents tore away to lead the struggle till the workers the side needed and deposited in the have won their demands. 43 NATIONAL PLATFORM WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY THE PLATFORM of the CLASS STRUGGLE 64 Pages of Smashing Facts—Price 10 cents NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Workers (Communist) Party of America Make checks and money orders payable to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treas, of the East 125th Street, New York City : Ready for a Fight or a Frolic The good-natured crew pictured above are sailors led the work of the Workers Interna-| Germany | in the Black ey are shown on a holiday cruise The manifesto follows: “Work- off the Crimea. These men are typical of the workers and peas- }men: Do not sevolt under any cjr- ants who man the battle fleet to defend the first workers’ and peas- cumstances for we laborers gain| “ts’ republic against the war with which the imperialist powers nothing by it and only cause the, re threatening the Soviet Union. Canadian ‘Political ie Chief Sees Failure of Kellogg “Peace” PARIS, Oc The Kellogg pact to “out law” war is ineffective be- cause it makes no adequate provi- sions for doing so, and both the United States and Britain will con- tinue in their armament race be- cause of lack of agreement on dis- armament, declared Senator Racul Dandurand, government leader in the Canadian senate, in an interview here today. Dadurand declared that the both powers should not continue naval competition when they have signed a peace pact. He further pointed out that the treaty provided no means for clearing difficulties that may easily lead to war between the two powers. Millions to Be Spent for Two Dirigibles WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Con- tracts for the construction of two huge dirigibles authorized by con- gress were signed by Secretary Wil- bur today, with P. W. Litchfield, president ef the Goodyear Zeppelin Company of Akron. These two new instruments warfare will cost $7,825,000. GENERAL STRIKE CALLED IN SANTE FE, ARGENTINA Denounce Refusal to Recognize USSR BUENOS AIRES, Oct, 7.—Santa Fe labor unions yesterday called a strike for October 15, 'a¢- cording to a dispatch from that tity, It is reported that all unions will walk-out, including the utility work- general ers, thus creating a situation sim- ilar to that which recently existed in Rosario, when a general strike succeeded in tying up the port and cutting all transportation and com- munications. Sante Fe is the second port on the Parana river, which accommodates ocean-going vessels from the At- lantic. Rosario, the second largest port Argentina, is located just below Sante Fe. Buenos Aires, one of the largest ports in South Amer- ica, is located below the juncture of the Parana and the La Plata, on the outlet to the sea. All these ports handle chiefly the grain crop of the Argentine. * BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 7. — The refusal of the Argentine government to recognize the Soviet Union be- Rae cause of alleged “propaganda” activ- ” ities and supposed relations to the Third International, has awakened a wave of jubilation in the conserva- tive press, and a storm of protest from workers’ organizations, » The conservative press this morn- ing complimented foreign minister Angel Gallardo for his refusal to have Soviet diplomats in Argentina, contending that this would encour- age radical workers, and give im- petus to the general strike move- $ ment that has swept Argentina for | the last year. 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