The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1928, Page 3

| Italian and Fre » the tremendous French air fleet. mmm vaiLyY WURKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1928 ES. Page Thres FASCISTS REPLY SHARP ON ANGLO- FRENCH TREATY Both Powers Increase Armies and Navies ROME, Oct. 8.---Italy’s reply to the Anglo-French naval pact put this country on record as favoring limitation of ‘total naval tonnage, | rather than reduction by classes, and declared that it would agree to re- ductions providing that its ratio was not exceeded by any other conti- nenta! power, meaning France, it was dise’osed today in an interview with a United Press correspondent. | The Italian reply proposed’ that each country be left free, within the total fixed tonnage limitation, | to build the particular classes of shins most suited to its defense. Italy thus upholds the American position as against the stand of the | British and French. The British | and French proposed to limit the | larger classes of cruisers, essential | to the United States with its lack | of naval bases. and leave no limit | on small cruisers and submurines. The latter sre eminently isuited to | Britain, with her far-flung naval | bases. and to France, whose coast line is easy to defend with subma- tines. Italy insisted in the note on the interdependence of land, sea end air armaments limitation, and on the extension of aerial limitation to all countries, which is aimed directly at That feature of the note was rimed at efforts to limit separately the three classes of armaments, rather than to take into account at one time all the land, sea and air resources of nations. * o* Sees Anglo-U. S. War. ROME, Oct. 8 (UP).-The Anglo- Trench naval compromise is the f'-r+ symptom of a possible armed comflict hetween the United States ond Frglend, Commander Roberto | Comolli said today in an article in the newspaper Lavora Italia. Comolli 1 often is rerarded as expressing the | views of official naval circles. He predicted that America might devote her immense resources to the creation of the largest navy in the world. Conflict between the two powers recessarilv would involve corntries lying within the sphere of action of one or the other. he added, or almost the entire world. Italy Involved. He vointed out that Italy, because of her nosition in the Mediterranean, would be of importance in the life of England and therefore Italy’s co- operation with England would be of considerable weight in any conflict. Such co-operation, he continurd. should be based on an efficient and large navy, which Italy lacks at present. Comoili said tnis lack could partly be offset by using the 75,000 tons allotted under the Washington treaty to construct fast cruisers snperior in all ways to the standard eruisers. He concluded with the statement that such a force would represent an appreciable¥ aid or menace to eventual allies or foes. » * ‘ | s French Preparations. PARIS, Oct. 8.—One hundred and thirty-nine million dollars will be added to the French budget during the next year for naval construction, for army increase and for the east- ern line of fortifications, which will stretch from the North to the Medi- terranean Seas. . The armament program, fully fol- lowing the reported agreement in the Franco-British naval pact, pro- vides for the construction of more light and swift battleships, and for the maintenance of a steadily in- creasing army enrolled by govern- ment conscription. Of this sum, one million dollars will be used for the maintenance of the navy and for the construction of one cruiser, six destroyers and seven cruising and four coast defense sub- marines. The remainder of the ap- propriation, which makes up about 20 per cent of the total budget, will he devoted to the maintenance of a large standing army engaged for seven years and a large number of nch German Mi itarists Concentrate On Aircraft for Future War Imperialists Continue Naval Photo above is of the huge new German transatlantic use. The German militarists are concentrating on airer zeppelin, the Gray Zeppelin, recently completed for aft for use in future war. FASCIST MARCH ON VIENNA SEEN Neustadt Was Only Practise Continued from Page One war; second that the whole matter \Youth Organizer Will Tour the Illinois Coal Fields for Red Drive CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 8.—Minnie Lurye, organizer for the Young | Workers (Communist) League in |the present Communist election campaign, will tour the coal fields of Illinois together with William F. Kruse, Communist candidate for governor of Illinois. The purpose of the tour will be to present to the TWO ARGENTINE CITIES STRIKE Rosario Street Car Service Tied-Up ROSARIO, Argentina, Oct. 8.— All efforts to break the street car has demonstrated that the social-|working class of the territory com-| workers strike having failed, com- democrat leaders wowd keep the peace at all costs. The press points to the presence of Vandervelde, for- mer “socialist” minister of Belgium, as a token of, the pacifist tradition of the social-democrats. All papers are almost unanimous in pointing out, either jubilantly or critically, the danger of a fascist march on Vienna, similar to the fas- cist march on Rome, and stress the threats of the fascist leaders that they will hold similar demonstra- tions in the future and that Vienne- Neustadt was only preparatory | practice. There are also comments current relative to the tendency of the work- ers, who are judged in many quar- ters to be too militant for the social- democratic leadership, those in the Shutzband, and Commu- nism is at the same time being held up as a “danger.” Walls of Armament. The veritible wall of armaments| which were erected by the govern- ment and which did not turn back |groups of Communists, is taken, to | demonstrate the intention of the re- |gime to prevent’ any seizure of the government by the workers. If machine guns, howitzers and barbed-wire entanglements were demonstration which: was already compromised and betrayed by social- democrats, what would the regime need to prevent a mass demonstra- tion once the workers were really aroused and under Communist leadership, many people are asking themselves here. Note of War. At any rate a note of war has been instilled into the Viennese air, jany many of the foreign corre- spondents, called upon suddenly to |be ready to report a war situation, |are rather surprised at the prox- |imity of civil strife. The presence of batteries and red cross brigades jof war. The organizations which partici- | pated will certainly not give up | mobilization and preparation for an ‘eventual march on Vienna, and the |workers, shouting “down with fas- |cism” are certainly not a very pleas- ant experience for the Home De- fense leaders and Chancellor Seipel. standing army, a large reserve force. Part will also be spent on the construction of the new line of fortifications running vertically across Europe. Out of a budget of 45,000,000,000 francs only 4,500,000,000 frances will be left for education and civil ser- vice, the rest being spent to pay for the last war and to prepare for the next. * LONDON, Oct. 8 (UP).—The autumn naval maneuvers in the North Sea start Monday with 48 |ships participating, under command of Admiral Sir Hubert Brand on the [flagship Nelson. x * especially | | prising district 8, the election pro- |gram of the Workers (Communist) |Party, and the youth demands of | League in the election campaign. | Lurye will bring before the young workers specific issues of vital im- portance to them on the economic and political fields and will stress |the following issues: Abolition of child labor; equal pay for equal work, no economic or and the war danger; the organiza- tion of the young workers for a higher standard of living. FOSTER SHOWS DANGER OF WAR Urges Unity of Negro, | | White Workers | Continued from’ Page One | existence. “In a recent article in the “Anal- | jist”, Benjamin Baker, economist for within a decade all agricultural Pe) ducts that can be consumed in the} | U. S. or sold in our foreign markets | will be produced on much less than} the present acreage by less than half; ‘of the present farm population. He not absorb the farmers thus forced to the cities. There promises to be within a decade such development of | | productive capacity as will outrun the absorbing power of all markets. This is the familiar Marxian doctrine that under capitalism the buying) power of labor cannot keep pace with only by war, never by treaties. It is | the production of goods and over-| crisis. “The contradictions of capita¥sm will produce such crises and finally ‘war, for compelled to expand always, | to seek new markets, the capitalist nations come into conflict, as the | United States and Great Britain are now conflicting in many parts of the| world. In the present imperialist period of history the free competi-| tion and fairly smooth development | officers. The large staff is neces-| of capitalism has given way to| Class-collaboration sary in view of the conscription law | monopoly, trustification, centraliza-| been forced upon the rank and file, || which provides, in addtion to the ‘tion of capital and production, These |Company unions have been organized. | ith the| But the great mass of unskilled||| There has been a merger of Workers, the oppressed groups, such||/ industrial capital with finance-cap-| #8 the Negroes and the foreign-born| trusts are closely linked up | banks. ital. There has also been a merger) with the government, so that now] | the government is the executive com-/ | mittee of finance capital. The lack) jof further colonial markets to con- | | quer, colonial peoples to exploit, and | greater sources of raw materials, has |accentuated the unevenness of cap- litalist development. The competition} | between rival capitalist powers for| |markets and raw materials is intensi-| fied. This conflict at present in| China between U. S., Great Britain | ‘and Japan for instance, can be ended TWO COMMUNIST CAMPAIGNERS THE VOTE COMMUNIST STAMP Printed over a background formed by the Hammer and Sickle with ‘oster and Gitlow tasteful! 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The street car company has de clared that it is unable to resume iservice, due to the effectiveness of the strike and the activities of the picketing strikers. The strike received fresh impetus |political discrimination; the youth) when the workers learned that the | \ general strike movement had spread to Santa Fe, the next port up the | Farana River, where a general strike | affecting all unions is cal'ed for October 15. It is recalled that similar orders had been given by the Rosario |municipal government before and that in every case the company has failed to resume the street car ser- | vice. The added threat of fines in addi- | tion to the financial losses sustained | by the firm is expected to lead to every kind of strikebreaking activ- ity, regardless of law and order, in an attempt to break the union in one of the most militant labor cen- ters in Argentina. necessary to prevent a counter-| the New York Times, states that) Professional Jingoes Meet in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. (U.P) —While the navy dirigible Los An- jgeles and scores of army airplanes heen begun by the state. goes on to show that industry can.| citeled overhead, General J. Pershs/ plete whitewash of the prison au- | ing and 50,000 men who were fight- | thorities is forecast in the report of ing under his command in France ten yéars ago gathered in Munici- pal Auditorium today for the open- ing of the Tenth National American Legion Convention. a dangerous pacifist illusion to be- | recalled to many of them memories | Production results, followed by a/lieve in outlawing war by negoti- ations between rival imperialists. It it not possible to solve these imperi- alist conflicts by arbitration. “American imperialists have ac- cumulated enormous wealth in the period now ending, and out of this they have bribed the aristocracy of labor with high wages, the mislead-) ers in the 4. F. of L. have been cor- rupted, and the weakening of the trade union movement has followed. schemes have and the exploited colonial peoples, are being radicalized. They will ul- timately be the revolutionary mass that under Communist leadership will sweep away the whole iniquit- ous imperialist system and build a workers’ and farmers’ government, and the socialist economy.” “BRINGS CRISIS “IN OWL DISPUTE | Press Talks War in Both Counties BUENOS AIR Oct. 8.—The {boundary dispute between Bolivia jand Paraguay over land which con- | tains oil was made still more critical jtoday by the uncompromising and jeven threatening tenor of the reply lof the Paraguay government to the Bolivian note which complained of the arrest of Bolivi army officers on the disputed territory. The Paraguayan note claims that |the arrest of the officers on land which it claims to be hers was jus- tified and refuses to penalize the of- ficers who arrested them. From the time the first Bolivian note was received the press of both countries has been very sharp, call- ing upon their governments to take drastic action in settling the dispute. There.has been a great deal of talk |about “patriotism” and “national |honor” and accompanying war talk. | The answer of the Bolivian gov- ernment to ‘the last note is now be- |ing anxiously awaited by residents in |both countries, and the added com- | plication of a reported secret agree- |ment between one of these govern- merts and another South American republic, is expected to lead to a crisis in the near future. 117 Prisoners Burned to Death in Big Fire | in Ohio State Prison Continued from Page Gne | panic broke out among the 288 pris- loners who were trapped like beasts |in a cage, unable to escape. They \fought in a desperate effort to get, }to the only two exits, but finding} |these closed, they began breaking | windows and jumping to the ground. |Some of the prisoners are believed to have been trampled to death. One rushed back into the burning build- ing to save a fellow-inmate and was killed when the floor collapsed. | While prison guards were hunting | for the bodies of additional victims, efforts were being made to shift | responsibility for the fire from the prison authorities to the prisoners themselves who were accused of | starting the blaze in order to escape. | But the fact that the wiring of the building had for some time been known to be defective and in addi- tion, the flue was faulty has |knocked the bottom out of this | “theory,” concocted by prison offi- \cials. A so-called “investigation” has A com- John E. Harper, one of the investi- gating officials, who has already de- jclared that the fire was of “un- determined origin.” and . Al my PARAGUAY NOTE Armaments Competition How isa Acagl Agency Sharks ; Jobless Bulletins, outside agencies run by sharks who prey on the obless, are shown above. These never tell the worker the truth about the job, but exaggerate in order to trap t yorker into depositing a large fee with the agency sha The agency then cheats the subterfuges. worker of the deposit fee, refusing to return it by nany SILK WORKERS IN LAFOLLETTE IN GENERAL STRIKE Paterson Meet Plans Walk-Out Today Continued frem Page One that the 8-hour day and the 44-hour week be reintroduced. To this de- mand the employers replied with a tongue-in-cheek acceptance a few days ago as a last minute attempt to head off strike action and to |force a wedge into the solid sym- pathetic front shown by the unor- ganized workers for the fighting program of the unionized workers. Unorganized To Strike. That the unorganized will go out at the strike call is admitted by ven the trade journals catering to the manufacturing interests. The progressive membership of the As- sociated Silk Workers’ Union placed as the most important point on the order of the day the organization of the workers in the crafts not or- ganized by the union’s officers. In pursuance of this policy they have succeeded in gaining their support for the strike. Although the bosses’ association encompasses only 80 firms, employ- ing from 2,000 to 3,000 of Pater- son’s 10,000 silk workers, the strike will be a general one to include the remaining independent employers. That is because they have all been progressively depressing working standards, lengthening hours and cutting wages and piece rates. The members of the Associated have decided to work out and put forward demands for an increase in the piece rates of the unorganized workers, and will make them public soon. Last night’s meeting showed the greatest enthusiasm for making this a fight to the finish. 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Under the terms of the deal, previously made public, the progressives agree to vote for Tammany Al Smith in return for which the democrats will vote for all the local candidates for the fake progressives. The progres- sives have traded, parleyed and sold out every principle for which they originally pretended to stand. eae: Complete Betrayal. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 8 (UP) —M. K. Reilly announced ip a letter received at democratic hea \quarters here today that he would Withdraw his candidacy for the United States senate on the democratic ti¢ket. The letter stated Reilly believed Senator Robert M. LaFollette, running for re-election on the republican ticket “is as much in favor of the legisla: tive program of Governor Alfred E. Smith as I am.” knowledge that many independent manufacturers were already seeking a chance to settle, so as not to be included in the strike call. INDIA RESTLESS BEFORE ARRIVAL OF SIMON GROUP Gov't Will Prohibit Mass Meetings BOMBAY, India, Oct. 8.—Great inrest is renorted to prevail thru- ut I the of Simon Commission government is be- as arrival tlre ees | ee Tr od / e a > awaited with intense feeling. The explosion of a bomb on an ex- press train Manmad has been used by the ernment as a pre- text to declare its intention of pre- ® venting all mass demonstrations © h rule. xplosion occurred on @ ch was supposed to have Sankaran Nair; mon commission protesting E The b carrying Si beer appointed on t on Indian reforms on his way to Bom to meet the group coming from gland and headed by Sir John Simon. The commission is due at Bombay shortly. The uprisings and mass demon- strations which occurred on the ar- rival of the first commission are being recalled here, and the general feeling indicates that the same state of affairs prevail when Simon reaches Bombay. Although the up- r house of Indian parliament has declared that it will cooperate with the commission, the House of Commons, the elected body, has de- clared that it will not cooperate in A. F. L. Mill Sell-Out Proves a_ Fiasco Continued from Page One the future of the struggle now that the labor fakers like Batty and his gang have been completely wiped off the scene. The huge turnouts of tens of thou- sands to picket the mills in the afternoon, after the scabs came out, was as great in size as the morning’s demonstrations. Scores of workers who went in to work in the morning at the Hathaway Mills, came out in the evening to rejoin the strike. They told of how they | had returned to work only to find the 10 per cent wage cut notices still on the walls, and were also gotten together by the mill bosses and told that they would be com- pelled to work under a new system) of speed-up, which slashes wages| still further. 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