The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 6

Page Six Daily Central Organ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 ROBERT WM. F. MINOR DUNNE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8 a year $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos. By Mail (outside of New York): $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. Address and mail out checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union S » New York, N. Y. VOTE COMMUNIST! WILLIAM Z. FOSTER | Q) YX | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY | esident For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Wm. For the Workers! Foster For Ben Gitlow the Party of the Class Struggle! Se Against the Capitalists! Resist the Capitalist Terror The final stage of the 1928 election cam- the unleashing of the ist terror against the week paign is marked by most ruthless capit working class. marked by so n Q tion campaign of the W« past kers Party that the mere recital of them reads going on the ballot in many states where the impoverished farmers are showing increas- ing signs of revolt. on every side, the Workers (Communist) Party has given an excellent account of it- self in this campaign. But, results thus far have not been accomplished without an enor- mous expenditure of money and energy. The has been nst the elec- (Communist) In face of the terror organized against us ‘| like the narrative of a year’s ordinary de- | situation has developed to such proportions velopment. and the demands are so great that, in order As the campaign draws to a close a ver- | for the campaign to continue, it is absolutely itable avalanche of money is turned into the | imperative that funds be instantly rushed to campaign funds of the old parties and their supporting or: s: the capitalist press, the radio, the pulpit, the moving picture in- dustries very conceivable means of pub- licity is utilized to the limit for the purpose of spreading the poison virus of capitalist illu- sions. Besides the funds spent directly through open channels there are countless subterranean forces mobilized against the campaign of the Party of the class struggle —the Party of the Hammer and Sickle—the our national campaign headquarters. » Money is urgently needed NOW; at this ; moment; in order that the campaign of the | class struggle may be waged to the end. Our readers know us for what we have done in the class struggles of the American working class the past few years. We have borne the brunt of every fight whether*it be in the mines, the needle industry, textiles, traction, or elsewhere. The one thing that is of paramount im- Party of working class revolution. The American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, the catholic hooligans of the Knights of Col- ters, the gunmen, the thugs of every variety are mobilized against the umbus, the ga: Party of the working class. is the period in which the whole riff-raff of y, the very scum of the earth, nt to defend the interests of the upper strata of capitalist society. capitalist soc is openly bou; It is not at all strange that Tbeen attacked in the South. mo un the Negro mas ar tion of Amer my , the most society. n prising that our meetings pressed and our candidates Wi Satfirst time invaded that territory with a direct appeal to the racial and class interests of Nor hould be sup- arrested in Wil- portance to the working class in this cam- paign is the fact that for the first time the Workers (Communist) Party is a vital fac- tor in the political life of the country. It would be the most shameful conclusion of all our efforts if we were unable to meet the in- creasing demands for unrelenting resistance to the capitalist terror only because of a shortage of funds. It is true we can never expect to compete with the capitalist parties in raising funds. We do not need to. Where they need millions upon millions to bribe and corrupt the electorate, to pollute the air with the sophistry of the Hoovers, the Smiths, the Thomases, we need only suffi- cient to enable us to carry on our campaign among the oppressed and exploited masses. Election time our Party has e have for the exploited sec- is it sur- ¥ mington, Delawhre, the dynasty of the Du- Let every reader of the Daily Worker im- : Pont powder and chemical trust, on this mediately rush funds to our national cam- 3 identical Negro issue. Wretchedly paid, hor- | P#ign headquarters so that the last three e¢ ribly exploited Negro labor is depended upon | weeks may be marked by an ever increasing i to keep the wheels of the munitions plants defiance to the forces of reaction and terror. turning. The Party that strikes at the | Let every individual contribute as much as powder and chemical trust strikes at the very | possible and also induce labor, fraternal, co- heart of imperialist war preparations. Nor operatives and other working class organiza- is it at all extraordinary that the railroad in- terests, the grain trust and house trust should unite to prevent our Party tions to make quick contributions. This is an emergency situation that re- quires emergency action. the packing- Arizona Maintains Its Ol d Traditions * The The plot of the Arizona open-shop hoodlums in the American Legion, Ku Klux Klan, the city police and newspapers to stop the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party is in keeping with the tradition of that state. Arizona’s principal in- dustry is copper mining. These mines are among the greatest in the world, the largest of which is the United Verde. In the town of Bisbee, Arizona, occurred one of the most flagrant acts of terrorism in the whole his. tory of American labor struggle In reviewing this case the Ame Labor Year Book for 1917-18 s in part: On July 12, 1917, 1,200 men con- nected with the strike of the copper mines in the Globe-Miami district in n Arizona, were rounded up by a “Vigilance Committee” organized by 4 the business men of Bi » and de- ported from the town into the des- ert. At the same time a_ concerted movement against the I. W. W. de- veloped throughout the southwest. Fanned War Hysteria. Eastern newspapers, notably the New York Times and the Herald Tribune made it appear that the 1,200 deported strikers were all I. W. W. adherents and that they were all engaged in a conspiracy to de- feat the war aims of the United States. For this reason they con- demned these men without a hear- ing extolling the “patriotic action” of the “law and order” committee. Barred A. F. of L. “A careful investigation of the situation carried on by a committee of the Arizona A. F. of L., consisting of*six men, disclosed the fact that MOSt v. vue ueporteu men were not members of the I. W. W., but of the Arizona State Federation of Labor. Vitiseeee Was forcibly kept out of Bisbee by the vigilantes and prevented from making an investi- ation. State Attorney General Wily . Jones made an attempt to en-| i was told by the Vigilantes that the| solidatity, deportations would not cease. 3.—Governor Campbell asked for Anti-Union League. federal troops—but an army officer On July 28, at a secret meeting, | after looking over the situation, said the delegates of the Business Men’s that all was peaceful and no federal Protective Ass'n. met at Bisbee and) troops were necessary. organized the so-called State Loyalty, 4.—Early July 12, the sheriff and League. The object of the league @ large armed force of about+2,000 was the crushing of all labor unions | en, rounded up 1,186 men, put them in Arizona. Ail working men and in cars and carried them to Col- working women were to be enrolled) umbus, New Mexico. But the au- in the organization under penalty |thorities at Columbus refused to let of discharge and expulsion from the|them dump the men there and the state. This aim of the league was | train carried them“to the desert to be covered by “patriotism.” +town of Hermandad, New Mexico. When the State Federation of La- The deported were without ade- bor of Arizona saw that the state quate supply of food and water and government was too weak to en- force shelter for two days. Here the men its own laws, it sent a com- Were abandoned. On July 14 the war to Washington and had the| department escorted these men to - of L. lay the matter before Columbus, New Mexico, where they dent Wtlsun. Wilson appointed Were maintained by the government pecial commission to investigate. until the middle of September. Wilson—War-Monger. According to the army census the President Wilson told the commis-| composition of the deported were as sion. . .“I am very much interested | follows: 199 native born Americans; in the labor situation in the moun-| 486 citizens; 472 registered under tain region. . .I have listened with draft; 433 married; 141 British; 82 the closest attention to the charges Serbians; 179 Slavs. of misconduct and injustice that have | been made against each other by employers and employes. . .I am| not so much concerned, however, with the manner in which they have| treated each other in tne past, as I am desirous of seeing some work- ing arrangement for the future, par- ticularly during the period of the war.” The members of the investi- gating commission were the follow- ing: William B. Wilson, secretary of labor; Col. J. L. Spangler, of} Penn.; Verner Z. Reed, Colorado; | John H. Walker, Ill.; E. P. Marsh,| Washington; Felix Frankfurter, N.| Committee Report. | This commission made the follow- ing report to President Wilson on Nov. 6, 1917: 1—A strike was called in Warren district on June 26, 1917. The griev-| ances of the men did not justify the | strike. 2.—Many workers did not believe 6.—The sheriff carried out the de- portation. This was decided on July 11 by managers and other officials of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. (Phelps Dodge Corpora- tion) and the Calumet and Arizona Mining Co. 7.—Those carrying out the depor- tation prevented any news of it reaching the outside world. 8,—The deportation was wholly il- legal. And after all this the commission makes the following recommenda- tions: 1. All illegal practices must cease. 2, Asks the president to pass law making such deportation in the future a criminal offense under the federal law. And that’s all—not a single recommendation to redress the crimes committed against these 1,200 workers. No Action Taken, That the report of the committee was merely a brazen white-wash of the whole affair was known to every force state law in Bisbee, but fie pane strike but left the job out of| militant trade unionist of that day. SS hae MAKING IT WORTH HIS WHILE By Fred Ellis \U. S., Britain StruggleIn Latin America (Continued.) | At the last Pan-American Con- |gress at Havana, a project for a | Pan-American railway, and a high- | way which would connect New York |with Buenos Aires, was adopted. |Each Latin American country will j have to build its part of the line, financed of course, by the United | States. Almost the whole stretch be- | tween New York and the Panama | Canal can at present be travelled by | railway except a short distance in | Southern Mexico and Guatemala. The building of this railroad con- nection through Colombia, Peru and Bolivia is contemplated. This will |be connected with the Argentine |system. It is interesting that of all |countries Argentina, alone, which is | still to some extent under British in- (fluence, was quite hostile to this | plan, though it would have the least | expense in this project, as it has a considerable railroad system to ‘all \its frontiers with Paraguay, Bolivia jand Brazil. Americans Build Roads. Though this plan, the materializa- tion of which is not expected within less than ten years, may be delayed |considerably more, American en- gineers supervise everywhere the building of good automobile roads. American trucks and passenger (omnibus connections are already |functioning in some parts -and are quicker and cheaper than railways. They are already competing with |local railway. systems. An important move against the | British~ med communication sys- jtem in lombia, between the coast Prison Memories of Communist By KASIA. Oe October evening I was area | |“ ed after a search had been made in my room. Despite the fact that |nothing “suspicious” was found, I | was arrested. When I threw in my lot with the Party I knew very well that one day the time would come when I would have to say farewell |to my freedom. When I was ar- rested I did not lose courage but remained cheerful. Only when I met the other comrades in the police |station and saw all who had been | arrested, did my heart begin to sink. |The idea that our ranks had been broken up depressed me. We were locked in a cellar usu- ally reserved for drunks and in- \capables. There I met seven of our | young comrades. They were all lean- ‘ing against the wall, for there was {nowhere to sit down. The “Examination.” Finally the examination com- |menced. For three days in succes- sion we were dragged into the build- ing of the “Defensive” (Polish sec- |ret police) for examination. On the |fourth day we were taken to prison ‘under a strong escort. From there | we were then taken to Petrokoff. Solitary Confinement. We arrived in Petrokoff in the |evening. At the prison doors we) |were received by large numbers of| |warders. After a very detailed | | search we were placed in solitary) jcells. These cells are small, three metres long and two metres wide. |The window is high up in the cell | with a heavy iron grating in front |of it. All that was in the cell was a |bed and a table fixed to the wall. | In the Cell. | | The prison bell sounded and soon} |after we could hear the sound of} | keys and the heavy steps of the| ee The lock creaked and the iron-bound door opened. A warder| vhanded me a basin. | In the basin was a black and |stinking mass of something or the | other. Supper! I had not eaten for _a long time and was thoroughly ‘hungry, but I could not touch the ;mess in the basin. I would have liked to have slept, but the bed |frame was still locked against the | wall. Prison life is severe, but those | who fight*for their class, must learn! | to suffer. | The Warder’s Tramp. | Later the prison bell sounded again. The signal to go to bed. The beds were unlocked and let down |from the wall. The prison sunk into | Silence. I lay down on the bed and | tried to sleep. The mattress was hard and I could not close my eyes.| Through the window of the cell the) light from the lamp in the prison |yard fell through. The lamp burns {the whole night. The tramp of the patrolling warders sounded from the | prison yard. I longed for the morn- ing in the hope that I would be able somehow to get into touch with the The federal government has never passed a law against such deporta- tions. The 1,200 workers who suf- fered indescribable hardships and many families who were deprived of their husbands through’ death from hardship and exposure result- ing from the atrocity were in no way taken care of. Today the terror against labor still rages in Arizona, Texas, and other states of that re- gion, as is to be seen from the con- spiracies against the campaign tour of Ben Gitlow, vice-presidential can- didate on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket. The workers of the southwest and of other parts of the country who are victims of this organized fright- fulness must realize that only a re- volutionary party of labor, only the Workers (Communist) Party can fight effectively against this sort of ' 1 The “Examination”; Solitary Confinement; | Worms in Soup; the Internationale other comrades. The 7th of Novem-|morning when the warders entered ber was approaching and it was nec-| the cell they were to find all the essary to discuss how we could cele-| prisoners dressed and wearing a red brate the day. ribbon which- was only to be taken Finally I slept. I was awakened Off upon going to bed. During the by the loud voice of the warder:|@xercise remain silent~ until the “Get up!” The warder brought me Clock strikes twelve, then simultan- a piece of bread as black as coal and|cously strike up the “Internation- a cup of bitter coffee. I ate all the ale.” bread and drank the coffee in gulps, November 7. but I remained hungry. I communicated with the other Suddenly I heard women’s voices Comrades by rapping gn the wall in the prison yard. Soon afterwards With a wooden spoon until I broke, I was taken to exercise. The yard 8¢ spoon and made holes in the was small and dirty and surrounded Wall. For this I was punished by with a high wall. The air was bad, being deprived of the right to exer- but. better than the close air of the ‘¢ in the yard for 14 days. | cell. J had been exercising a few , On the eve of the 7th of Novem- minutés only when one of the com- ber we were terribly busy prepar-| mon criminals who do the work of if for the morrow. Everything in, the prison passed close to me and the cells were cleaned and polished. threw a little pellet of bread at my) The cells shone with cleanliness. feet. -I’let fall my handkerchief and| The ted ribbons were also to hand. picked it up again together with| At six o’clock the next morning, the bread. Impatiently I awaited the 7th of November we were all up the end of my exercise. It was news @%4 dressed with the red ribbons from my comrades in the same| @ffixed to our jackets. No control prison was carried out, the warders con- % |tented themselves with looking) Upon my return to the cell I through, the spyhole. With anxiety found a slip of paper inside the we awaited the hour for exercise. bread pellet. The slip contained the The time came and passed and we| program for the 7th of November! were not called out. We protested. | celebration. All the cells were to’ be The warders then proposed that we | made as clean as possible. In the| should remove the ribbons. Never! | HENRI BARBUSSE ON FASCIST ESPIONAGE | (Red Aid Press Service) have always taken the part of the BERLIN (By Mail.)—The com-} Italians persecuted by fascism, deem} mittee for the defense of the victims|it to be our sacred duty to react to of Fascism, headquarters in Paris, an| the utmost of our powers.on the organization of which many intel-| atrocities committed by the brutal lectuals of worldwide fame are mem- ™onster of fascism. bers, and which works under the| “The inquiry into the Milan as- presidency of Henri Barbusse, has’ sassination brought us to the con- sent the following letter to the cen- clusion*that the participants were tral committee of the Anti-Fascist themselves fascists, and that the Alliance in.Switzerland: Canton of Tessin is one of the most “We are fully convinced that the important fulerums for the whole alarm which you called a few days of the work of fascist provocatory ago: ‘Banish Mussolini’s agents organization. Our investigation of from Switzerland’, will meet with|the blackest depths of the police the support of wide strata of the|centre of Pavia, headed by Com- Swiss population, We long since ex-|mendatore Nudi, one of the leading pressed our surprise that the fascist personages of the ministry of in- spies and provocateurs are given |terior affairs at Rome, and respon-| freedom and immunity for their ac-| sible author of all the atrocities com-! tivities on Swiss soil. We have|initted in the course of the second long known that plots and intrigues|half of 1927 and the first half of are being carried on by these ele-| 1928, placed sufficient proof in our ments on Swiss territory, and have| hands to show that Lugano is a ehh and the capital Bogota, is nearing its completion. Up to this time the | travel from the sea-coast to Bogota was made possible only by the British-owned railways and Naviga- tion Company, which owns the rail- way line from the port and railway |terminal of Cartagena, to the river transfer point in Calamar on the Magdalena River. From there Brit- ish river boats transport passengers, mail and goods up the river to Gir- ardot, whence another rail line leads “Just as a like, they answered, but with those ribbons there will be no exercise.” We did not give way but awaited the stroke of 12. When the last stroke had died down the whole prison resounded with the bat- tle hymn of the proletariat. There were over a hundred.prisoners in the building. After we had sung the “Internationale” we followed it up with other revolutionary songs Mounted and foot police surrounded to’ Bogota. This river and rail trans- port usually takes about two weeks and even more in the dry season, when the river is dried out, and the passengers and boats have to wait |for rain and the rising of the river. | The only other way of travel to the prison. We were punished for} Bogota was by airplane which is our demonstration by losing the| extremely expensive and not with- right to have visits, newspapers,|out danger. Now, due to American books and packets. Worms in Soup. Apart from this special order, our situation in general was’ worsened. The soup/ for instance, was always full of half drowned and swollen worms. We tried to eat the food without looking at it, closing our eyes and thinking about something else. The result was terrible vomit- ing. If it had not been for the as- sistance given to us by the Interna- tional Red Aid we would probably have starved from. inability to eat the “food” offered to us. Those comrades who have been in prison in Poland will certainly never forget with what anxiety and hope they waited for the day which brought the packets of the IRA. From early morning we waited in fear and trembling until the packets were finally in our hands. In winter the cells of our prison were heated once every four days. On account of the damp the walls of the cells were green with mildew. We protested op a number of oc- casions to the director of prisons but} |received the laconic answer that we) were in a hard labor prison and that| |could not be a paradise. Nothing) remained for us but to declare war.| The Internationale. | came to the following de- \cisions: At the first opportunity to We \throw everything in the cell out on! stations to the corridor and to sing the “In- ternationale” three times a day, in the morning, at midday and in the evening for three days in succes- |sion, This we did and on the anni- five days. The hunger strike ended with a victory for us and the prison /administration gave way. Up to the month of March the conditions were tolerable, but then the prison direc- tor, Minnitzki, laid his hands on the) political rights which we had so hardly won. Minnitzki had a harder job with us than he ‘had reckoned on. He used various methods to force us back into our former position, some of these methods were extremely cruel and brutal, but to all his de- mands we answered that we would sooner die in prison as so many had done before us than give up the capital, a direct railway connection between the Pacific coast and Bo- gota is in operation, for 390 out of 441 miles between the port of Buenaventura on the Pacific Coast and Bogota. The intervening gap | of 50 miles is covered by automobile |for 35 miles on a completed road, and onty 15 miles of road which is |in course of construction, must be made on horseback. This whole trip, safer than by airplane, and much quicker and safer than by | boat, is also the cheapest of all the | available methods. | U, S. Railway Control. When the road will be completed, | the British will have a very diffi- jeult time maintaining its present | position. % The International Railways of | Central America, an American com- pany, owns and operates the rail- |ways of Guatemala, Salvador, and | stretches in other Central American \countries. The railways of Nicara- | gua are also controlled by American | interests. In the field of electric light and power supply the American and Foreign Power Corporation, con- trolled by the General Electric Co., which in turn is controlled by the not been confined to the persecution of Italian political fugitives, but are injurious to Switzerland itself. To the impartial observer it appears as if the Helvetian republic has sunk to a level of servility towards Mus- solini only equalled by that of Al- bania, where a favorite of the fascist system has just been raised to the dignity of king. How is it possible that the black shirts, in spite of the information repeatedly lodged against them, have been able to spread to such an extent in the most important centres? How is it that the fascists have been able to per- mit themselves such impudent. be- havior as that most crassly evi- denced in the abduction of Cesare Rossi? “We, who have brought to the light of day, with unwearying tenac- ity, every delinquency and deed of violence committed by _ Italian fascism; we who have overcome tthe apathy which makes so many lruman thing. y 4 beings indifferent to events, and who |stronghold .of the fascist criminals cooperating in fascist provocation. One of Commendatore Nudi’s im- mediate collaborators has, been Com- mendatore Pacenza, who occupied the post of ‘vice consul’ and secretary in the Italian consulate at Lugano. After having officially laid down this post at Lugano to take up work in the service of the secret police in Italy again, this Pacenza visited | Lugano from: time to time, in order to instruct his ‘subordinates, and sometimes travelled to Paris. It was Commendatore Pacenza who tried personally’to force confessions, and to buy, depositions to the effect that Italian fugitives in Switzerland had taken part in the Milan assas- sination. It was Pacenza who caused the Swiss citizen Hofmeier to be gr- rested and beaten in Como, and at- tempted to press from him a con- fession.on a fantastic plot supposed to have been formed against the security of the Fascist state. (To Be Continued.) fa’ rights we had won or permit him to break our courage. We suffered much and were very much weakened physically, but the more our physi- cal strength ebbed, the brighter burned the flame of our revolution- ary spirit, and the stronger and more passionate grew our hatred. The political prisoners decided to celebrate the 7th of November, 1927 with particular thoroughness. The prison administration also prepared itself for the day. On the 7th of November, Minnitzki caused the ezarist warders to be assembled in the prison yard and distributed in- toxicants to them. When the “In- ternationale” sounded from the prison cells the drunken band a warders burst into the cells an beat up the helpless comrades ter- ribly. The comrades were beaten half-dead, cold water was poured over them and then they were put in the punishment cells. Everything was removed from the punishment cells so that the injured comrades had nothing to lie down upon other look back. \Electric Bond and Share Co., is re- \placing British electrical companies. |These companies have built power in Guayaquil, Ecuador, here they supply light and power They |and operate the tramways. operate electric power and light sta- tions in many smaller towns of South America, though the electric | versary of Lenin’s death we declared) power supply in the principal cities {" _a general hunger strike which lasted) of South America is still controlled |by the British. But the American |and Foreign Power Co. is increas- ‘ing its holdings and expanding all over South America rapidly while the British plants rémain more or less stationary. While formerly |American tradte and influence ‘flourished only in the coast towns |and capitals of Latin America, the /growth of public utility control has ‘extended this influence into the in- ‘terior. Just as in mining, oil fields, |telephenes and cable systems the | Americans have successfully in- vaded the domains of electric energy and railways. poe ie: ERbsacen ws Genes nitateme res onscreen than the stone floor. When the com- rades commenced .a_ three , day hunger strike as a protest, a number of them were again beaten. Finally they were all taken to the lazarette. The beatings had been so brutal that many of the comrades were ill for a long time and some of them were even in danger of death. The women political. prisoners were also not treated with kid gloves. For four days we had no strawsack, no cover- ing and no clothing of our own. Our life developed in this period between the lazarette and the cells, As soon another was sent in from the cells. It is difficult to write about things which are still so fresh in the memory. It is sad to think of:all our comrades, fighters for a bet- ter future for humanity, who are suffering in the prisons. The strug- gle is difficult, but those who have once entered upon the path of the irreconcilable struggle may 1 as one comrade left the lazarette ~