The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1928, Page 3

Poy FOREIGN NEWS AND FEATURES - THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1928 Z li BULG AR CRISIS IS sygic in shed Wall Sirbehs Jat is SEEN IN SPREAD OF AUTONOMISTS Army Is Involved in Macedon Movement SOFIA, Oct. 16.—The Bulgarian government is faced witha very critical situation, due to the spread- ing of the Macedonian autonomist movement, which is reported to have invaded the army and involves many military officers and even the min- | ister of war. | In spite of the joint note of the} British and French governments to | Sofia, demanding that the autono- | mist movement be checked, the gov- | ernment. has been able to do noth- | ing, owing to the wide influence of | the autonomist wing of the Mace-| donian party. | So far as can be determined, Ivan | Michaeloff, leader of the autonomist faction, is master of the situation | within the Macedonian party and is | declared to have the support of Bul- Photo shows the huge German militarist aircra‘t over Preparaptio: Wall Street, the center of preparations for ms for Serie 1ATIN' AMERICAN GOV'TS SUPPORT U:S, IMPERIALISM Salvador Joins Anti- Communist Wave SAN SALVADOR, Salvador. Oct. 16.—The wave of anti-Communist legislation sweeping through the | Latin-American countries has been given new impetus by the dorian government, which to |pended a recently adopted law re garding the action to be taken against those found conducting “sub- versi acts against the govern- ment,” in order to have a new law passed to impose more severe pen- alties. When the executive department suspended the law it was made clear that the government is planning to have the law amended at the noxt session of congress in such a way |as to broaden the meaning of “sub- versive acts.” the next iniperialist war. garian army officers, while the whole army seems to be involved. ary section of the party, followers | 650,000 WORKERS of the late General Alex Proto- | @meroff, are losing their influence | steadily. Due to the power of | Michaeloff in government circles, | many of the federalists are being | ean arrested in Sofia, though it is al-|No Employment for leged that this precaution has been | taken chiefly to prevent their being | [Them Elsewhere attacked by the autonomists and to | keep them safe. | BUDAPEST, Oct. 1.—The whole- The cabinet is again threatened |sale expulsion of all Transylvanian with a split, due to current charges and Hungarian workers from Ru- that the minister of war and other | mania, which affects 650,000 work- government officials are engaged on|ers and their families, was ordered one side or the other. |by the Rumanian authorities today. we | This action was considered in ‘SOCIALISTS’ BAN many quarters to be tantamount to WORKERS MEET & general lockout in the sugar and Reformists of Austria leather industry, where most of these workers are employed, and a Again Betray VIENNA, Oct. 14.—Another step drastic attempt on the part of the in the long series by which the so- | government to meet a severe econ- cial-democrats have played the game {omic crisis. of the fascists was taken here today The lot of these thousands of workers will be very severe, since when the “socialist” mayor of this | there is no provision for their em- city, sitting in a so-called “inner” | ployment elsewhere, and it is prob- lematic whether the Hungarian gov- ernment will allow them to cross * * | Se er cite econ t disarmament conference with the| a 3 representatives of the reactionary }[. L. D. Will Fight Home Defense League proposed to} [English Rubber Trust Takes Over Canada Interests in Merger TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 15 (UP).— A $200,000,000 rubber merger by the Dunlop Rubber Company of | England was announced by Sir John George Beharrell, managing direc- |tor of the firm, after his arrival |from Buffalo, N. Y., last night. | By the deal, Sir John said, the |English firm would buy back its |Canadian branch, sold 29 years ago to three Canadian financ Com- mon stock of the Canadian company was purchased, and the whole stock of the Japanese Dunlop Company, jhe said. | John Western, vice-president and general manager of Dunlop Tire jand Rubber Goods Company of Can- ada, confirmed the merger, explain- ing that the English Dunlop Com- |pany had acquired control |Canadian company. With the Ja- |Panese concern they now have a |globe-circling tie-up, he said. ‘Our Jimmie “Fights” Great Fare Steal; But |Heart Is Elsewhere | To remain jab Washington and pretend to fight the increased fare |moves of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company or to return to of the | the border. The known cruelty of the Rumanian government does not declare illegal all meetings and dem-| onstrations of the working class of promise very much leniency during the future. s! the period of expulsion. The rejection of the move by the, socialist representatives is seen as! a maneuver to put over the program after an acceptance has been forced on the trade unions, so that the so-| cialists can claim that the move is) “voluntary.” | Serious and widespread opposition and counter demonstrations by the workers of Austria led by the Com- munists is expected to the move. ae ae “Socialists” In Action. VIENNA, Oct. 14 (U.P).—First sit- tings of the Austrian Internal Dis- armament Committee, dealing with armed groups legalized in Austria, | were disrupted today in its initial | attempts to reach a compromise among political organizations. May- | or Seitz of Vienna proposed that all) parades and demonstrations be for-| bidden by law. This was rejected | and the socialists asked Chancellor | Siepel to suspend the conference and permit the leaders to communi- | cate developments to their parties and the trade unions. DRESSMAKERS’ ~ UNION GAINING Philadelphia Militants Are Solid (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— The newly organized Waist and Dressmakers’ Union of Philadelphia is making rapid strides and going forward fast to put an end to the intolerable open-shop conditions in this city. . Fourteen shops have now been on strike for several weeks, but the militancy and ardor of the pickets, who do their work thoroughly, re- mains unabated. The new uhion of the waist and dressmakers has started in earnest to realize the great purpose and aim for which it was formed. Decent working conditions and wage stand- ards must and will be re-established in these industries ruined by the Forward-Sigman clique of labor mis- leaders and union leaders. —C. R, 167 Mine Fatalities According to the reports received by the United States Bureau of Mines from the state mine inspec- tors, 167 men were killed in mine accidents during the month of Au- gust. Thirty-three of these acci- dents occurred in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania; the remain- ing 184 occurred in the bituminous mines of various states. Sentence Against Rebecca Grecht |New York and bask in the holiday |sunlight of the welcome being ar- [ranged for the Zeppelin flyers— |that is the question baffling the il- The New York section of the In-|lustrious prince of Tammany Hall} 1 Similar iaws are now being sim- ultaneously discussed in the legis- lative bodies of Honduras, Guate- mala and Colombia and a spokes- man for the government in Hon- duras pointed out a few days ago that the laws are in part directed against all movements in syn:pathy | with Generai Sandino’s in Nicaragua. JAIL WORKER AT POLISH RED MEET | hie ‘Mass Arrests Are Re- cause vorted The armed American intervention = jin Nicaragua has aroused a storm| (Red Aid Press Service) |of protest throughout the Latin- | y : American countries and has been WARSAW (By Mail)—The court | “™ f byausins | martial at Lodz sentenced the wore | enter aan, isos iid the | man, Anton Szkudla to four years’) measure charge, and they do not hard labor for attending a meeting |scem to be far from the truth, that | culled by the Communist deputy, /Desides being directed Se DEL NDE : Regt ! ers’ movements the legislation - is Bittner, This same court sentenced |¢io.a1y hound with the erprecching the workman, Chaim Mitz, to twolclections in Nicaragua. It is. also| years’ hard labor on the charge of|said that the United States’ repre- having distributed Communist lit-| sentatives here have taken an active ta Red flag. | Part in pushing the law. | \erature and hanging ou Another sentence of this court was | |uwo and three years’ hard labor for | participation in the May celebra- tions. CHINESE BOSSES’ TONG WAR| NEW YORK; Oct. 15 (UP)— War between the Hip Sing and On Leong Tongs, believed to have started here, has spread to three| other cities today and more out-| breaks were feared. Two are dead in Philadelphia and one dead here. Mass Arrests. It is reported from Warsaw that |several hundreds of White Russians have been sted in Novogrodek. |The reason given by the Polish fas- \cist police for these arrests is the same as that of the Hromada trial: “Espionage in the service of a for- eign power.” | Newspaper Confiscated. | On Sunday the social democratic Needle Worker! Get a collection list at the headquarters of the Ne. @e Tradex Campaign Committe Union Square, Room 202, and o funds for the election the Workers (Commun' Page Three --BY CABLE AND MAIL FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Blazing Air Lane for Imperialism ARROWS CATE Zeppelin United and west C. HATTERAS ATLANTIC \ OCEAN AUTO SPEED-UP IS INHUMANE No Time to Wet Sand Paper (By a Workee Gerrestondant) DETROIT, Mich.y (By Mail).— At the Briggs Meldrum Plant where I have been working some time now, they are beginning to get my goat. It’s been speed up all along and we boys have been hitting the ball so much that I would have thought that we'd gone the limit easy, but the way we've been going in the last few weeks is too much for me. I am a wet sander and since we were working at full speed they have been working us so fast that even the best of us would cut through the paint real often. But what do they care! They shoot the job through the paint booth again and shoot a couple of bulls-eyes at them and the repair men sand them over again. They have come to the point where it pays them to do bum work and then have it done over again, rather than let us do a good job in the first place. And to hell with the guy who buys the car. But the best I’ve ever seen, is when we had a special rush job and they were rushing us so hard, they didn’t even have time to let us get a pail of water to wet the sand- paper. And when I complained the boss says: “O what do you want spit on it!” —WOV-COV. point which giant Graf \ INDI- at entered States, heading north toward Washington, BERMUDAS + ST ORDHSES 9 BELGIANS GET COLOMBIA GRANT En slave Putumayo Rubber Workers BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 14 concession of hundreds of thousand: of acres of land in the Putun River rubber district has been granted to Belgian capitalists The Colombian government is tak- ing steps to crush the protest of the masses against its role as the in- strument of foreign imperia ex- ploitation, and the most extreme measures are being prepared against the Communists. The native work- ers are being enslaved to the for- eign capitalists. As a result of the foreign ex- ploitation, high prices have caused the internal value of the peso to decrease from $1 in 1 to sixty- five cents at the present time. The standard of living of the workers is being rapidly reduced. FASCIST-SOCIALIST FILM. Motion pictures of the fascist-so- cialist demonstrations which oc- curred at Wiener Neustadt, Austria on October 7th, arrived on the Graf Zeppelin, consigned to Pathé Ne and were being shown on Broadway today. Needle worker! Has your shop con- tributed to the election fund of the Workers (Communist) Party? Col- lect funds! Get a collection list at the headquarters of the Needle ‘Tradex Campaign Committee, 28 | Union Square, Room U.S, MAGNATES. CONTROL POWER IN CHILE, MEXICO Own Lion’s Share of Traction American reign Power which now controls elec- companies op- Colombia, and the Invest- Cuba, Panama rehasing from Electri¢ power and ment Company light, traction plants in Chile and Mexico. The American and Foreign Power of the Elec- also Company, a Bond and important investments in elec- Argentina, sh Co- y, France, Spain, Germany and Japan. Chilean which will rom the British into the hands Americans are the electric and light and the tramway plants power systems of Valpa 0, the principal port of Chile. In Mexico the Amer- licans will n control the electric light and power, and in Vera Cruz, the x pal port; in Tampico, the principal oil center, and in Cordoba, and the electric railway systems in Vera Cruz and Puebla. FORD COMPETES WITH BRITISH DUBLIN, Oct. plant in Cork, Ireland, Henry Ford will supply all the tractors intended for sale in Europe, and will have an operating base within the ranks of 15.—From his the competing British manufac- turers, it is reported. When the British government a few months ago announced that all cars manufactured outside of Eng- land would be heavily taxed, Ford moved his automobile construction machinery to Manchester, England, thus retaliating the move of thé British automobile manufacturers. But he will not allow his Cork plant to lie idle, and is now awaiting machinery for the construction of tractors from Detroit. |“VolskwiJle” was confiscated by the | police on account of an article: “The \abolition, of the German | minority | school.” | sentence, which is really a declara- tion of guilt, after being attacked ternational Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, has decided to appeal the ease of Rebecea Grecht, New York state election campaign manager of | the Workers (Communist) Party, who was arresfed on Aug. 9 when members of the John J. Dwyer Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars attacked an election campaign meet- ing of the Workers Party in Astoria. The charge against her was “disor- derly conduct” and “inciting riot,” and at the time she was released on $500 bail furnished by the I. L. D. |On Aug. 24 she appeared in First | Magistrates Court, Brooklyn, and was given a suspended sentence. In a statement on the case issued last night, the New York section of) the I. L. D. declares thru its secre- tary, Rose Baron: “Despite the fact} that Rebecca Grecht, who was ar-) rested at the Workers Party meet-|'* by the jingo hoodlums of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars aided by the police. To accept such sentences without a fight sets a precedent for which workers will have to pay) dearly in the future. | | “The I. L. D, will fight this cae with all the resources at its com- mand, but it cannot fight it with- |out funds. Appeals are very expen- | sive and workers will be defending | themselves by sending contributions | to the I. L. D. that will enable us to |force the capitalist courts to dis- miss the case against Rebecca |Grecht. Workers will also be help| | ing this cause by supporting in every | possible way the annual Proletarian Autumn Revel of the I. L. D., to |be held in Webster Hall, 119 E. llth St., Saturday evening, Oct. | 27.” Japan Workers to Aid Chinese Trade Unions To aid the struggle of the Chi- |nese workers against their native bourgeoisie and foreign imperial- ism, especially against Japanese im- perialism which is also the enemy of ; the Japanese workers, the Japanese Workers’ Association, New York branch, ‘will hold a dance and en- tertainment this Friday evening at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The Japanese branch of the Te| ternational Labor Defense is coop- erating in this affair, and half the proceeds will go to aid the political ‘prisoners of Japan, victims of the White Terrorist regime of the reac- tionary Tanaka government which is striving to crush the Chinese and the Greenwich Village night) lclubs, otherwise Jimmie Walker, _mayor of New York. To remain in Washington and continue with the gesture of com-|The Texas Company today was de- batting the 7-cent fare arguments) nied U. S. Supreme Court review of |being presented by counsel for the its patent infringment suit against |I. R. T. is undoubtedly to win votes|the Gulf Refining Company over an |and perhaps even to save~the face|ammonium chloride process of re- |of Tammany Hall already suffering| fining gasoline from crude oil. |from a popular black eye because) The Texas Company contended | |of its obvious sell-out in the fare|the process was invented by Dr.| lissue. But to return to New York) George William Gray, and that the |is to become the star (vaudeville) | present Gulf employe who perfected | |performer at the great show being) the process, Almer M. McAfee, did | | staged here today. So Jimmie paces|so when employed by the Texas |the floor at Washington and ponders. | Company for this particular job. Votes or fooflights—that is the The suit charged collusion between question! | McAfee and Gulf officials. Today will tell the tale. | 2 In the meantime the increased |fare litigation, a trial in which de- Fight Over Oil Patents WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UP).— ing in Astoria on Aug. 9, was given | cision has been granted in advance a suspended sentence, the I. L. D.| has decided to make a test case of| this and fight it in the higher! courts. We must now allow a mili- tant worker to be given a suspended | (not for the public, of course) and in which the courst serves merely as a legal cloak over the fare steal— this friendly argument goes official- ly to the members of the supreme court Wednesday. | Don’t expect a decision before election. 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