The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 6

i:iat a) OCTOBER), ‘1928 : — WHILE |U.S., Britain ‘Struggle In Latin America (Continued.) At the last Pan-American Con- gress at Havana, a project for a Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK MAKING IT WORTH HIS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $8 ayear $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos. | | Pan-American railway, and a High a : . sp > | way which would connect New Yor! By/ Mail (outude of: New: York): |with Buenos Aires, was adopted. ROBERT MINOR $6.3 Yee ir peent six me: peal thes imos, |Each Latin American country will Hakas Address and mail out checks to The Daily Worker, [have to build its part of the line, WM. F. DUNNI A 26-28 Union Square, New ‘York, N. Y. 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 COMMUNIST! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW A) % | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY VOTE * WILLIAM Z. FOSTER hime < no Wm. Z. Foster For the Workers! For the Party of the Class Struggle! cd Ben Gitlow Against the Capitalists! Resist the Capitalist Terror The final stage of the 1928 election cam- paign is marked by the unleashing of the most ruthless capitalist terror against the working class. The past week has been marked by so many attacks against the elec- tion campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party that the mere recital of them reads like the narrative of a year’s ordinary de- velopment. j As the campaign draws to a close a ver- _ itable avalanche of money is turned into the campaign funds of the old parties and their supporting organs: the capitalist press, the radio, the pulpit, the moving picture in- dustries. Every 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 Party of working class revolution. The American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, the catholic hooligans of the Knights of Col- umbus, the gangsters, the gunmen, the thugs of every variety are mobilized against the Party of the working class. Election time is the period in which the whole riff-raff of | capitalist society, the very scum of the earth, is openly bought to defend the interests of the upper strata of capitalist society. It is not at all strange that our Party has been attacked in the South. We have for the first time invaded that territory with a direct appeal to the racial and class interests of the Negro masses, the most exploited sec- tion of American society. Nor is it sur- prising that our meetings should be sup- pressed and our candidates arrested in Wil- mington, Delaware, the dynasty of the Du- Pont powder and chemieal trust, on this identical Negro issue. Wretchedly paid, hor- ribly exploited Negro labor is depended upon to keep the wheels of the munitions plants turning. The Party that strikes at the powder and chemical trust strikes at the very heart of imperialist war preparations. Nor going on the ballot in many states where the impoverished farmers are showing increas- ing signs of revolt. In face of the terror organized against us 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 situation has developed to such proportions and the demands are so great that, in order for the campaign to continue, it is absolutely imperative that funds be instantly rushed to 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- 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. Let every reader of the Daily Worker im- mediately rush funds to our national cam- paign headquarters so that the last three weeks may be marked by an ever increasing defiance to the forces of reaction and terror. Let every individual contribute as much as possible and also induce labor, fraternal, co- operatives and other working class organiza- tions to make quick contributions. Prison By KASIA, Kee October evening I was arrest- |“ ed after a search had beem 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- ling 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- ling of the “Defensive” (Polish sec- |ret police) for examination. On the fourth day we were taken to prison junder a strong escort. From there we were then taken to Petrokoff. Solitary Confinement. | We arrived in Petrokoff in the jevening. At the prison doors we were received by large numbers of warders. After a very detailed) The “Examination”; other comrades. The 7th of Novem- ber was approaching and it was nec- essary to discuss how we could cele- brate the day. | Finally I slept. I was awakened} by the loud voice of the warder: “Get up!” The warder brought me| a piece of bread as black as coal and a cup of bitter coffee. I ate all the bread and drank the coffee in gulps,| but I remained hungry. | Suddenly I heard women’s voices in the prison yard. Soon afterwards I was taken to exercise. The yard was small and dirty and surrounded with a high wall.. The air was bad,| but better than the close air of the) cell, I had been exercising a few! minutes only when one of the com- mon criminals who do the work of the prison passed close to me and) threw a little pellet of bread at my) feet. I let fall my handkerchief and| picked it up again together with the bread. Impatiently I awaited] the end of my exercise. It was news| from my comrades in the same prison. Memories of Communist “Just as ..a like, they answered, Solitary Worms in Soup; the Internationale | but with those ribbons there will be 4 « |no exercise.” We did not give way Confinement; |but awaited the stroke of 12. When the last stroke had died ,down the whole prison resounded with the bat- | Ly 7 |tle hymn of the proletariat. There pe fen Ais asa entered oe over spared peenert in oe OPE Neen ee ee | building. ter we had sung the the cell they were to find all the | “Internationale” we followed it up prisoners dressed and wearing a red with other revolutionary songs. ribbon which was only to be taken| Mounted and foot police surrounded our demonstration losing the clock strikes twelve, then simultan-| ight to have visits’ newspapers, eously strike up the “Internation-| hooks and packets, ale.” 7, +, November’. Worms in Soup. 7 | Apart from this special order, our T communicated with the other! situation in general was worsened. comrades by rapping on the wall with @ wooden spoon until I broke| jne Sq¥m for instance, was always the spoon and made holes in the walls ign tie Ki wae quniahed: By |e We tried to eat the food being deprived of the right to exer-| cise in the yard for 14 days. On the eve of the 7th of Novem- ber we were terribly busy prepar- ing for the morrow. Everything in the cells were cleaned and polished.| The cells shone with cleanliness. | The red ribbons were also to hand. | At six o’clock the next morning, the 7th of November we were all up and dressed with the red ribbons) affixed to our jackets. No control) was carried out, the warders con-) tented themselves with looking) is it at all extraordinary that the railroad in- search we were placed in solitary 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. 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 whd 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 trerhbling until the packets were finally in our hands. 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 jomnibus 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-owned communication sys- tem in Colombia, between the coast 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 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 Bogota was by airplane which is extremely expensive and not with- out danger. Now, due to American 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 only 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- cult time maintaining its present position. The International Railways of Central America, an American com- pany, owns and operates the rail- " Fi int hi at ii | .. terests, the grain trust and the packing- These cells are small, three In winter the cells of our prison/ways of Guatemala, Salvador, and This is an emergency situation that re- | cells. house trust should unite to prevent our Party ! quires emerge: mcy action. * dustry Arizona Maintains Its Old Traditions 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- 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 struggles. In reviewing this case the American was told by the Vigilantes that the| solidarity. 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. All 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-| | 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! warders. The lock creaked and the iron-bound door opened. A warder handed 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 jliked 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. 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. were heated once every four days. On account of the damp the walls celebration. All the cells were to be made as clean as possible. In the) The warders then proposed that we should remove the ribbons. Never! HENRI BARBUSSE ON FASCIST (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN (By Mail.)—The com-| mittee for the defense of the victims | of Fascism, headquarters in Paris, an organization of which many intel- lectuals of worldwide fame are mem- bers, and which works under the presidency of Henri Barbusse, has} sent the following letter to the cen-| tral committee of the Anti-Fascist Alliance in Switzerland: “We are fully convinced that the Later the prison bell sounded alarm which you called a few days have always taken the part of the Italians persecuted by fascism, deem it to be our sacred duty to react to the utmost of our powers on the atrocities committed by the brutal monster of fascism. “The inquiry into the Milan as- sassination brought us to the con- clusion that the participants were themselves fascists, and that the Canton of Tessin is one of the most important fulerums for the whole of the work of fascist provocatory ESPIONAGE jof the cells were green with mildew. received the laconic answer that we were in a hard labor prison and that could not be a paradise. remained for us but to declare war. | The Internationaie. | We came to the following de- cisions: At the first opportunity to throw everything in the cell out on 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- versary of Lenin’s death we declared a general hunger strike which lasted 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- We protested on a number of oc-| casions to the director of prisons but! Nothing| 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 Electric Bond and Share Co., is re- placing British electrical companies. These companies have built power stations in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where they supply light and power and operate the tramways. . They operate electric power and light sta- tions in many smaller towns of South America, though the electric power supply in the principal cities 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 remain more or Labor Year Book for 1917-18 says bor of Arizona saw that the state| quate supply of food and water and ‘, . to bed. The|ago: ‘Banish Miussolini’s agents ication. ‘ tial er tor, Minnitzki, laid his hands on the Jess stationary. While formerly ‘in part: government was too weak to a areca wie ay the ie pee eee eae a ae down nin Switzerland’, will meet yeh ihe Sada one Hon poe eh switch we had 80 | American eres Rey peas On July 12, 1917, 1,200 men con- force its own laws, it sent a com-| Were abandoned. On July 14 the war| tom the wall. The prison sunk into|the support of wide strata of the|centre of Pavia, headed by: Come} Sapeeay: en |flourished only in the coast towns % . nected with the strike of the copper to Washington and had the/ department cena: these men 10] sitence, I lay down on the bed and| Swiss population, We long since ex-|mendatore Nudi, one of the leading | ete Mee 2 ede nd ae and capitals of Latin America, the % " mines in the Globe-Miami district in) / ; io a ‘bo ar matter pe CO Ne ee peas ney, tried to sleep. The mattress was) pressed our surprise that the fascist| personages of the ministry of in- La tlie a ede te pia a Eee oe Oe a Pavitt ie #) Arizona, were rounded up. by aj Preside ange lanta nth Soe ra untilsthe “imidaletet! Septoniber hard and I could not close my eyes.|spies and provocateurs are given terior affairs at Rome, and respon-|back into our former position, some| carne Tact ae in iatnttio, off ttelda 4 Vigilance Committee : organized by a specia | commission ‘0 investigate. ‘A 7 s Bee |'Through the window of the cell the| freedom and immunity for their ac-| sible author of all the atrocities com-\ cr’ tp fisia seen 5 at erior. Ss a A th the business men of Bisbee and de- Wilson—War-Monger. ecording to the army census the |; ht from the lamp in the prison| tiyiti 4 é 4 . 0: ese methods were extremely) telephenes and cable systems the ted from the town into the des- President Wilson told the commis-| Composition of the deported were as| 80’ 27 4 tivities on Swiss soil. We have|mitted in the course of the second|cruel and brutal, but to all his de-| Americans have successfully in- Bik. 4 sion “I am very much interested | follows: 199 native born Americans; |¥74 fell through, The lamp burns jong known that plots and intrigues|half of 1927 and the first half of| mands we answered that we would] yaded the domains of electric energy a the same time a concerted| in the labor situation in the moun-| 486 citizens; 472 registered under| ‘he whole night. The ie = 4 are being carried on by these ele-| 1928, placed sufficient proof in our| sooner die in prison as so many had| and railways. m movement against the I. W. W. de- tain region. . .I have listened with draft; 438 married; 141 British; 2) Parrolling wardirs sousded trom te] ments on Swiss territory, and have/hands to show that Lugano is aldone before us than give up the % veloped throughout the southwest. the closest attention to the charges Serbians; 179 Slavs. Fs th he tive thab biwauldcbe able not been confined to the persecution | stronghold of the fascist criminals| rights we had won or permit him to ae 5 ss 4 ‘i of misconduct and injustice that have| 6.—The sheriff carried out the de-|? ez how 40 got tote dasiek ith tlie of Italian political fugitives, but are| cooperating in fascist provocation.|break our courage. We suffered, than the stone floor. When the com- Fanned War eden the bee? made against each other by|Portation. This was dgeided on July| S°Menow to & injurious to Switzerland itself. To|One of Commendatore Nudi’s im-| much and were very much weakened|rades commenced a three day Eastern newspapers, notably e 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- employers and employes. . .I am/11 by managers and other officials not, so much concerned, however,|0f the Copper Queen Consolidated with the manner in which they have Mining Co. (Phelps Dodge Corpora- treated each other in tne past, as I| tion) and the Calumet and Arizona The federal government has never passed a law against such deporta- am desirous of seeing some work-| ing arrangement for the future, par-} ticularly during the period of the! war.” The members of the investi-| yating commission were the follow-)| Mining Co. 7.—Those carrying out the depor- tation prevented any news of it reaching the outside world. 8.—The deportation was wholly il- 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- 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 mediate collaborators has been Com- mendatore Pacenza, who occupied the post gf ‘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 physically, but the more our physi- eal 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 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 * ‘ i z . i; e iy ‘i dministration also prepared) treated with kid gloves. For four ' fs Gnatitatta antion”? com ing from the atrocity were in no| information repeatedly —_lodged| Lugano from time to time, in order | PTS” ® of the of labor; Col. J. L. Spangler, of} nd after al is the comm! against labor still rages in Arizona,| spread to such an extent in the most| sometimes travelled to Paris. It was | November innitzki cause: e| ing and no clothing of our own. Our 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 MOS’ va vue Ueportcu men were not} members of the I. W. W., but of the Arizona State Federation of Labor. Thy was forcibly kept out of Bisbee by the vigilantes and prevented from making an investi- gation. State Attorney General Wily B. Jones made an attempt to en- 2” law in Bisbee, but he estan voce . Penn.; Verner Z. Reed, Colorado; | John H. Walker, Ill.; E. P. Marsh, Washington; Felix Frankfurter, N. ¥. Committee Report. This commission made the follow- jing 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, —-Many workers did not believe |in jhe strike but left the job out of a 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 militant trade unionist of that day. 4 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 . thing. , 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 the apathy which makes so many human beings indifferent to events, and who 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 ar- 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 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 of warders burst into the cells and 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 security of the Fascist state, (To Be Continued.) cells so that the injured comrades had nothing to lie down upon other life developed in this period between the lazarette and the cells, As soon as one comrade left the lazarette 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 al! 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 frehaiatsiy struggle may never loo]