The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1928 Page ‘Imree “BY CABLE FOREIGN NEWS AND FEATURES -- M SPEC —— NEW ALLIANCE OF SEIPEL, HORTHY, FASCISTS SHOWN Extradite Fugitive to) Bulgaria Austrian fascism is shown in its true colors in a dark affair which threatens to end in the murder of a political fugitive. Seipel is com- bining secretly with the notorious mass murderers, Horthy and Liapt- scheff, to accomplish this. The facts are as follows: On Oct. 3 the provisional court of Vienna resolved on the extradi- tion of the Bulgarian political fugi- tive, Nikola Koffardschieff, to the Hungarian hangmen. Koffards- chieff is accused of being identical with a certain Ivan Kostoff, who is supposed to have committed a mur- der in Hungary in 1921. This confusion of identities has been brought about by Koefards- chieff’s attempting to cross Austria to Germany on a false passport. He was caught by the police and charged with this offense, for which he was sentenced to one month im- prisonment. Not wishing to give his own name, he took the first Bul- garian name occurring to him, “Ivan Kostoff.” The police then applied to all the neighboring coun- tries, including Hungary and Bul- garia, inquiring if they were look- ing for an Ivan Kostoff, and sending a photograph. Hungary replied that an Ivan Kostoff was wanted for murder. The Hungarian gov- ernment was then given till Sept. 10 to supply proof. Although the Horthy police failed to do this, the Seipel police continued to keep their victim in prison. To put an end to the matter, Nikola Koffardschieff now gave his real name, although he knew that he was suspected in Bulgaria of connection with the last Communists arrested, that his pho- tograph had been published as an alleged member of the Central Com- mittee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and that the police were seeking him everywhere. His in- tention was to clear himself of the charge of being a murderer. It did not occur to him that he was. in danger of extradition, since as a po- litical offender he enjoys the right of asylum. Workers Save Him. The Bulgarian embassy in Vienna and the Bulgarian police, though confronted with proofs of Koffards- chieff’s identity, and able to trace the fact that he was a student in the Sofia College in 1921, have sabotaged their most elementary du- ties. In consequence, Koffards- chieff is to be delivered over into the hands of the Horthy police. The bloody game being played with the life of a defenseless refugee is plain. The Viennese police do not care whether the Horthy executioners hang him as a murderer or the Liaptscheff bloodhounds as a con- spirator. In any case his fate is sealed. The decision of the court of Vi- enna for the extradition of Kof- fardschieff is still subject to two higher authorities, which will de- cide within a few days. The Seipel government hopes that the fascist demonstration on Sunday has dis- tracted the attention of the Aus- trian and foreign proletariats from this repetition of the Sacco and Vanzetti murder. This must not be permitted! The Rulgarian revolutionist Koffards- chieff must be saved! We, the Bul- garian refugees abroad, call upon the German workers, and all pro- tressive thinkers, to take every pos- sible step to prevent this crime at the last minute. Send in mass pro- tests, resolutions to the govern- nents, delegations to the embassies of-the three hangman states! ‘Labor Fakers ° Get Rewarded, 4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Having qualified for the position by carry- Ing out repeated attacks against the militant workers in their or- ganizations, John Coefield and Ar- thur 0. Wharton were yesterday’ chosen as vice-presidents of the American Federation of Labor. Coe- field, who is president of the United Association of Plumbers and Steam- fitters, most recently showed his “fitness” for the job by carrying cut a vicious attack against Dele- gate Moser of Philadelphia at. the recent convention of the Interna- tional. Wharton, president of ‘the Ma- chinists Union, a confirmed class- collaborationist, has carried on a campaign against militant workers for the past two years or more in spite of his original pose as a pro- gressive. xe ® “Fat Bov.” New Treasurer. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UP).— John Coefield, president of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, and Arthur O. Wharton, president @f the International Association of Machinists, were elected vice-presi- dents of the American Federation of Labor today, the executive coun- ofl announced. Martin F. Ryan. president of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen and a vice-presi- dent of the Federation, was elected treasurer, succeeding Dantel J. Latest In Undersea Death Launched for Use In Coming War : ont for slaughter in sea warfare is the above submarine defender, equipped with trap door to permit diver to leave and return while vessel is submerged. SILK STRIKERS ei, 2h.="...ANTLUSSR WAR FOR MILITANCY vmnsnmeoe PACT REVEALED | fons from “Citta di Milano,” were | | unsuccessful, sys Sympathy for Left! Afterwards when Viglieri and his| British, French Blocs Wing Policies Grows fogmpanions were saved dt was as-| in East and West AND MAIL F FORCE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO DROP CRUISER Masses Compel’ Reich; Cabinet’s Retreat BERLIN, Oct. 28. 8.—Indications | jare that the social-democratic cab- | jinet has been forced by mass dem- | onstrations and sentiment through- | out the country to suspend opera- | tions in its naval paign. | The demonstrations, which have | been carried on under the leadership | of the ‘Communist Party of Ger-| |many, have resulted in tremendous nation-wide outbursts against the “socialist” government’s armament | projects. Action to halt the cruiser building program will be begun by the so- cialists as soon as they meet in No- | vember, the press bureau of the so- | cial-democratic part}: announced re- | |cently. | While the about-face of the social- |democrats on the armament issue is |vegarded with considerable sus- picion in several quarters, especially among the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany, it is believed that no effective action in support of their original naval program can | be taken by the socialists, in any | case, owing to mass pressure against | certained that their radio station | |was usually working at mid-day on | < Continued from Page One kthewave ak Hele lode, witle, that Continued from Page One Ener Here oe el sare Nee the) “Krassin” had instructions from | war base, and British diplomats in left wing strike tactics, |, citia, di Milano” saying that it is /Reypt have been able to virtually 5 ” | eter ot Sole en connection with | control the native legislature and A mass meeting of strikers was/Viglieri at 8 o'clock in the morning | held here this morning, and showed on the wave 83 meters long. Premier Fuad, as is evidenced by again the uncompromising spirit of | ‘the suspension of the Egyptian leg- fight which permeates the workers islature a few months ago and the bine suppression of popular demonstra- tions against British rule. Fear Eastern Uprisings. That the British and French have Workers Militant. | GITLOW TOURS Two workers, whose names were! NEW ENGLAND. {gradually been able to win the re- ee ,formist Turkish president, Kemal not learned, were arrested yesterday afternoon as they were picketing one | 7 iy) Pasha, to their side, is generally To Close Campaign in jevident to those who have watched Whirlwind Finish picketing when police ordered them} to disperse. They are to come up| for trial Monday. | of the struck silk plants. They in- th i tility of the Turkish Last night, an audience of nearly | e growing hostility of the Turkis! sisted on their rights to continue} |government towards the Soviet jit. | Chancellor Mueller last week again |made the excuse, which has proved juseful to him since the original |campaign against the naval build- \ing plan started, and stated that his party was obliged to report the ;German treasury in condition to finance the cruiser building. Political disagreements between |the nationalists and the people’s | party make it probable that the so- cialists’ retreat from armament op- erations will be passed if it is of- fered tg the Reichstag in the form | of a measure. ‘Import Tariff Feud building cam- | ~ Hold- Up Man Confesses | charge. ROM SPEC: Jingo Air Lane Thru West Indies Photo shows proposed route of air service thru West Indies, to open January 10. will be scheduled y, ries of air built thru the West 'y be converted se in case if imperial- Crime Laid to Vanzetti Continued from Page One | Charlestown state prison to appease | the bloodlust of hysterical, anti-| radical elements of Massachusetts. | With death sentences the sure re- sult of such a confession, the South Braintree criminals may never re- veal their secret. Outstanding facts in the Silva and Mede affidavits are: Gang Planned Holdup. Frank Silva, member of the Bos- ton Italian underworld, worked for a short time in 1917 at the L. Q. White Shoe Co. in Bridgewater, Mass. Several months later, at Jimmy Mede’s underworld hangout, Silva, Joseph Sanmarco and Mede planned the holdup for a haul of $20,000 to $30,000. They looked over the ground several times, but war intervened before they could act. In 1919 Silva and Sanmarco again met, and talked over the L. Q.| White job at Mede’s. Two others, | Michael (Doggy) Bruno and Guinea Oates, were admitted as confed- erates. On Dec. 24 they attempted the holdup, bungled the job badly} and were fortunate to escape with their lives. The four men scattered. By 1920 Silva had been sent to Atlanta federal penitentiary on an- other job, Sanmarco had also been sent there for life on a murder Doggy is believed to be) serving time in a New York prison, | while~Oates has disappeared. 200 unorganized dye workers at- Continued from Page One Silva, who knew most of the| er of Sacco and Vanzetti, was to clearing up the whole frameup prob- ably no one but himself knew. Un- derworld pressure, reinforced by threats from Judge Thayer's em- ploye, alone defeated him. The Bridgewater trial of Van- zetti was, as the Outlook asserts, the first half of the Braintree trial. | 1t was largely because the state was able to point to Vanzetti’s conviction of attempted payroll robbery at Bridgewater, that he was also held guilty of a similar crime at South Braintree. Another Proof. Callahan, in an analysis of the two crimes, asserts the Bridgewater attempt was an amateur affair which could have been done by a fish peddler and a shoemaker, but wasn’t. The South Braintree mur- der holdup, in which the criminals Killed the paymaster and his guard| and escaped with a large sum, was| the professional job of experts which neither of the labor men could pos- sibly have accomplished. Callahan points to another fatal flaw in the case against Sacco and Vanzetti. Although the state con- tended that two or three other men participated in the crime, they were never produced. But it is an invari- able feature of gang arrests, that when one or two are caught the| others are always apprehended | Sooner or later. Only two men were’ IAL CORRESPONDENTS GIANT BRITISH AIR TRUST WILL COMBINE LINES Part of Empire War Scheme LONDON, Oct. 28.—In reply to the energetic development of avia- tion in the United States and the control of the ted States lines in South America assured by the goy- ernment, the British air ministry” t 1 ed a plan to combine all of Britain’s air lines into one» cen- trally controlled trust, in line with the empire trust scheme proposed by d Melchett as a pteparation for form of commercial and tion will be under this Bri- tish company, which will have the support of the government, with the probable added proviso that in case of war it would be taken over by the air ministry. Captain F. E. Guest, member of parliament and former air minister, will be the head of the new com- pany and the government will sub- sidize the undertaking. All private aviation clubs are to be included, and henceforth it will be illegal to main- tain a private air line or airdromes. Hand in hand with this scheme the company will undertake the training of aviators, establishing training clubs, and will lay down more than 100 airdromes thruout the country. LEGALLY LYNCH NEGRO “NATCHEZ, Miss. (By Mail).— John Burke was legally lynched here recently by the state depart- ment. Burke, who was convicted on an alleged assault on an aged white woman, a framed-up charge, near Pine Ridge, was indicted, tried and convicted within three hours, at a special term of the circuit court. Following his arrest, two at- tempts were made by mobs to storm the Adams County jail, but without success. arrested for the South Braintree holdup, and no effort was ever made by Massachusetts police to get =the others. tended a meeting at Oakley Hall, and officially launched a local of dye workers. A unanimous vote was |mendous opportunity for real mass jing into an alliance with Afghanis- |tan. The Persian and Egyptian gov- |Union, while simultaneously enter-| With France Revived | Italian criminals of Boston, says he PARIS, Oct. 28.—French business never heard of Vanzetti’s name. Sil-| ya's connection with the Bridge-| passed to call out on strike all work- ers in dye plants of this section. The meeting was held under the aus- pices of the new National Textile Workers Union and the local estab-| lished is affiliated with the na- tional body. Leaders of the Associated Silk Comrade Gitlow will open his New England tour with a large mass/|trol over them, would automatically | . |meeting in Boston, Mass., on Wed- enter an eastern bloc as soon as it| ment, recently made public, refusing | |nesday, October 81, at 7:30 p. m., |at Franklin Union Hall, corner of | | Berkeley and Appleton Sts. In the} afternoon at 1 o’clock, of the same | date, Comrade Gitlow. will speak -be- ernments, so complete is British con- were formed, Designed to act as a vice, the anti-Soviet bloc along the Western frontier, has also been expanded to include Czechoslovakia, which. until recently had been reticent. That a men are greatly perturbed over the note from the Washington govern-| to grant certain concessions to the French in relation to tariff duties.| The note came after a group of| American treasury agents had made} a study of the cost of production of| many of the chief articles exported| water crime was known to Fred Moore, Sacco-Vanzetti attorney, who went to Atlanta to get Silva to clear Vanzetti. This he promised to do when paroled. Moore also questioned Mede. Judge Thayer Implicated. Joseph Ross, chauffeur for Judge Workers Union, who are in control ae ont Libera Sey of Harvard of the silk strike here, have refused On Thered Nort t a he the advice of the new union, that! Gitiow will at ale aa New Heddon see rind af seni) eet ee ese ex" where all Weta have been ploited workers. | ‘3 The naw union then tool ptr Ger aoe Were ee | pendent steps to call out such a} we , + By | strike which, it is planned will unite | Speak in Motresiet, at tee Balnant | striking silk workers. | Hall, 52 Belmont St., and on Sun-| day, Nov. 5, Comrade Gitlow will Held “Speake _, |speak at Providence, R. I. Indica- At this meeting James P. Reid,|tions from all these cities point to president of the N. T. W. U. was the very enthusiastic and successful chief speaker. Bill Siroka and Gus meetings. Deak, leading functionaries of the ‘es Polish-Rumanian anti-Soviet _ alli- ance had already been formed is not news, but the account published by the Ost-Express from authoritative | sources, sketches the plan in full de. tail. Polish-Rumanian Pact. The plan reveals a complicated system of military contracts directed against the Soviet Union. The mil- itary alliance was completed after |the Polish general, Sosnokovski, had conferred with the Rumanian gov- ernment in Bucharest and the new union were the other speakers. | Campaign in the Anthracite. | French general, Le Rond, had con- _The membership meeting at which | SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 28.—Her- | ferred iwith the governments of discussion over strike tactics will | bert Benjamin, organizer of the | Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czecho- take place will be within a week’s philadelphia district of the Work- | Slovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia and time, it was understood. /ers (Communist) Party, will make | Bulgaria. The statement voted for by the 22 clection campaign addresses in the| As a result of these conferences, members of the strike committee following cities in the anthracite |@ general plan for the cooperation ee BER to the United States. Webster Thayer and a Vahey, The situation may lead to political| brother of the attorney who be- consequences, since Franco-American trayed Vanzetti in the Bridgewater |relations are none too good due. to| trial, threatened Mede in prison competition both at home and | helped Vanzetti, Mede states in his abroad. | affidavit. Later Mede promised IL aR *| Moore to help in the Vanzetti case. DIES FROM EXPOSED LIVE | Sanmarco, also in prison then, was | WIRE. | interviewed by Moore. Douglas Gillis, 26, a lineman) pow near } ‘Ili ee | working for the Bronx Gas and Elec- | zee, Moores beat defend |tric Company, was killed at 174th} |St. and Rosedale Ave., when his FORCE SOCIALIST POLL. |hand touched a live wire carrying) PARIS, Oct. 28.—At a by-election |2,200 volts at the top of a thirty-/held m Issoudun, in central France, | |foot pole. Fellow workers worked | due to the new electoral law whic |two hours in vain to resuscitate him. |is designed to prevent the election | |He had intended to visit his mother | of Communists, the socialist M. He-| in Boston soon, |lies, was elected after forcing a ma-| jority in the second ballot. In the} |the naval pact with Britain, and/ that he would get no pardon if he| Order Now A Bundle of Daily Workers for Distribution Special 11th Anniversary Russian Revolution, Election Campaign and War Danger Edition—October 27th, Navy Day. —300,000 COPIES— PRICES OF BUNDLES, $6 A THOUSAND tains the following significant cri cisms and proposals among many others: Officials’ Policy Weak. Fellow Workers: We, the undersigned members of the Strike Committee, wish to call to the attention of the entire Strike Committee the situation in the strike. We firmly’ believe that the policy pursued by our officials, Hoelscher and others, is hurting the establish- ment of a strong organization of the helping to really carry out the de- |mands of the strike. This is due to ‘their resistance to spreading the \strike, to the lack of real fighting militancy, to the poor preparations, and to a lack of confidence in the desire of the workers to really fight and win their demands. It is also due to a tendency to conduct the strike along the lines of a concilia- tory attitude toward the.bosses and the police. 1. No serious attempt was made to make a general strike. 8. The policy of quick settlements at the very beginning of the strike also worked against the develop- ment of the strike by creating a “back to the job” psychology. 5. The failure to take action to organize the dye workers, followed later by the rejection of the offer of the National Textile Workers Union for joint action in the organi- zation of the dye workers, worked against the development of the strike and the strengthening of the union organization. 5, To take every step to see that | shop committees are functioning in | protecting the workers in the shop and maintaining union control there. 18, That the workers be educa- ted to the need for the building up of a strong national union of all tex- tile workers. Down with eap' Vote Commun! Rally around the platform of the class struggle! A. vote for the republicans, democrats, or the socialists in a vete against the Soviet Unies, —_———— | TO KILL MORE EFFICIENTLY. | first ballot the socialists polled 2,-| field: Oct. 31, Shenendoah; Nov. 1, of the Polish and Rumanian armies |Luzerne; Nov. 2, Nanticoke; Noy, | 0" the Soviet front was agreed to, | |8, Pittston; Nov. 4 (2 p. m.), Ash- |with the further proviso that a new) jley, Wilkes-Barre (7 p. m.), Ply- PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28.—A local 764 votes, the republicans 3,495 and inventor has interested the war de-|the Communists 2,003. partment in a device to attach to machine guns which will spray bul-| FRENCH AIRFIELDS. Associated in Paterson and is not) | Ukrainian state under Polish pro-| . . ‘ tection, be created, should the at- mouth, Pa.; Nov. 5, Minersville, Pa. | tack be: uccanneat y France To Attack From the North. | Emil Gardos, sub-district organ-| \izer of the Party in the anthracite, | | will speak at the following election | campaign meetings: Nov. 1, Mc- {Adoo; Nov. 2, Kupmont; Nov. 3, Shamokin; Nov. 4, Mahaney City; Nov. 5, Shenandoah. | epee | To Speak in Worcester. WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 28.— Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candi- date for vice president, will speak here Friday night at 8 o'clock at Belmont Hal!, 02 Belmont St. The Workers (Communist) Party’ has been carrying on an intensive election campaign in Worcester and hundreds of wrikers are expected to hear the Red nominee. | H SOME FALL FOR THIS. | In a recent speech Secretary of | Labor Davis said: “This country had |the good luck to be settled by the hardest workers in the world. Their | big production made us rich. If we |slacken production we will soon be poor. The white man who does not want to work is sick. He needs a |dose of medicine, not a dose of the \millenium, When labor loafs, it in- | jures labor first and capital last, for labor grows poor today and capital gets poor tomorrow. But to- morrow never comes. The capitalist can turn laborer and rai§e himself a mess of pork and beans. The la- |borer who does not turn capitalist land have a house and garden for his old age is lacking in foresight.” LENINGRAD, Oct. 25—The Volk- hov Hydraulic Station during the ‘last operative year, 1927-28, gave over 804 million, kilowatt hours of electric energy as against 136,209,- 000 kilowatt hours in the preceding year. Thus the station helps to econo- mize about 20,000 wagons of the Donetz coal. Owing to Volkhovstroy the Leningrad industry was fully with electric energy. A port on the Black Sea, would re- vert to Rumania and it was de- cided to draw Hungary into the anti-Soviet bloc. France, who, it was reported, was in back of these conferences be- |cause of its military role in Poland, declared its willingness to support Poland and Rumania, not merely by supplying them with war material and detachment of officials from the French general staff, but also to send troops, which would be sent via the Baltic, to attack the Soviet Union from the north. Fear Czecho-Slav Workers. After another series of confer- | giv 5a, NIGER iS jences Czechoslovakia was finally drawn into the schemes. At first Dr. E. Benes, Czechoslovakian minister of foreign affairs, refused to enter the alliance, declaring that pro-Soviet sympathies were too strong in his country and that the strong radical and Communist ten- dencies within Czechoslav labor made such a step entirely out of the question. i But after Benes had visited Paris and London and he had been of- fered the revision of the Trianon treaty in his favor, he agreed that the Czechoslav Skoda Works would manufacture munitions for Rumania. Shortly afterwards an agreement to this effect was concluded between the Rumanian government and the ammunition plant, While such alliances, directed against the Soviet Union, were known to exist, the latest reports fully confirm in detail the series of military alliances, inspired by the British and French statesmen, evi- dently working under the provisions of the Franco-British pact and ex- tending like an armored arm from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, around to the southern extremities of the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment. In this plan, Odessa, the Soviet) lets instead of concentrating the| : 5 fire. By covering an area, it will| PARIS, Oct. 28. — Eighty-seven rieoee tamer ie seagate Bienes: pees | ber grows steadily from day to day, h eam bite er |as a part of the war preparations vee ARS RCE Nats |program of the government. 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