The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 3

- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 bn Three 300,000 Locked: Out German Iron and Steel Workers Prepare for Wage Raise Fight ‘SOCIALIST BOV'T MAY AID BOSSES. IN BIG STRUGGLE Huge Textile Lockout | Also Looms ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 1.—Iron and steel workers throughout the Rhineland and Wastphalia, esti- mated to number 300,000, were locked cut today by the industrial- ists in an attempt to induce the government to force the workers to continue on the present wage scale. During the last few months ne- gotiations had been going on be- tween the industrialists, the labor officials and the government, but these negotiations were brought to a deadlock by the refusal of the employers to accept the government. decision. Workers Demand Increase. The workers, who had been re- ceiving 78 pfennigs an hour, de- | manded 90 and the minister of la-| bor compromised at 85 pfennigs. | ie labor officials accepted this de- | nm, in face of the protest of the yank and file of the unions, who | held that their demands must be | met if they were to get a living wage. The industrialists, however, even refused to accept the increase rec- ommended by the government, and | declared a lockout for today, thus hoping to force the government to change its decision. | Since a prolonged lockout would | seriously affect the whole country|, | it is believed that the social-demo- cratic government will intervene in favor of the industrialists, saving the budget at the expense of the workers. Should such a course of action be adopted, a prolonged strike is probable, since the workers are girding themselves for action and insist that they will not continue | j at the present wage scale. | The Dawes plan has been such a deadweight upon the workers that prevailing low wages may also re- sult in the lockout of 300,000 tex- tile workers on Nov. 30, at which time, the mill owners declare, they will cancel all wage contracts, in an attempt to force the workers to continue at the present wage scale. CUBAN WATCHDOG 'RE-ELECTS’ SELF Machado Insures Sugar | Mexican Clerical Faces Jury: Jose Toral, the assassin of pre stigated by clerical reaction, is indicated by the arrow. above in a preliminary hearing b | esident-elect Obregon, who was in- He is shown efore the Mewican supreme court. | Today he and Mother Superior are being tried in the court-house at San Angel, the birthplace of Obregon. IMPERIALIST ISSUES. IN ELECTION DkI VE Continued from Page One gram on the imperialist issue and| the danger of war facing the coun- try today: bic ctherwise, by the United States and against all intervention, military or oterwise, by the United States and | cther imperialist nations. “2. We demand the complete and | unconditional independence of the | Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the return of the Panama Zone and the | | abolition of all special privileges in | Cuba, Haiti, China and the Domin- ican Republic. We support «the |movement for complete national in- | |dependence in all the colonies and protectorates of the United States. Return of Land. “3. The land taken from the people of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines by American cap- ital should be returned to cultivators of the land. All concessions should be cancelled. “4, All armed forces and agents of Wall Street, in the guise of “technical advisers,” should be | withdrawn immediately from such countries as Nicaragua, Haiti and | China. There should be no Ameri- can supervisions of elections in| | Nicaragua, or elsewhere. é “5, We urge the masses of the United States to support the masses . We stand against imperial- | ist oppression of all colonial peo-| | of Latin America (including the | |forces of General Sandino in Nicara- |wua) who struggle against local | Protectorate ” HAVANA. Cuba, Nov. 1—One of dictatorships acting under the} the most farcical “elections” on thumb of Wall Street. record took nlace here today when| “6. The masses of America President Machado was “elected” to} succeed himself as president of Cuba. Machado assured the continuation of his dictatorship for another 6 years by the simple expedient of rul- ing all other candidates off the bal- lot and then calling upon the people| to “vote.” | Yesterday Machado very wisely | withdrew to his farm on the out-' skirts of the city and protected him-|jalism. We support the workers | should fight against intervention in Latin America and the Far East. Thev should force the withdrawal of all United States troops and_war- | ships from foreign territory. We fight all attempts to attack the| Soviet Union and to crush the Chi- nese Revolution. We demand the repudiation of the Monroe Doctrine, an instrument of American imper- self by a squad of the guard. He and peasants of Latin America will return to the presidential palace | against -imperialism. We oppose today after the elections are over. | the Pan-American Union and all It is recalled that the Cuban gov-|‘Pan-American’ schemes of Wall ernment took its lessons in demo-| Street and Washington. We fight | cratic procedure from the United | against race discrimination or dis- States. ‘crimination against foreign-born During the day many telegrams | workers in the United States. We were received from various com-| call on the masses to fight military | mercial organizations and boards of | ltraining and such organizations as commerce pledging support to the/the Citizens Military Training “Candidato unico,” (“the only can-|Camps, as a part of the: prepara- didate”). |tions for an imperialist war. We American capitalists in Cuba, who | support the American labor move- virtually run the island, have de-| ment in its struggle against imper- clared themselves to be in complete ‘ialism. accord and highly satisfied with the | “elections.” | Lynn Official Prudery | Bars Motion Picture |s LYNN, Mass., “Nov. 1. ahs “Dancing Daughters,” a motion pie- | ture, was hanned from Lynn screens | by order of Mayor Ralph S. Bauer | today. Although he had not seen the | movie, the mayor said, he had re- | ceived scores of letters protesting | against the showing of the film. The nicture, he believed, was unfit) to be shown in this city. | “7. The United States Section of,| \the All-American Anti-Imperialist | ague declares its solidarity: with | the oppressed colonials who ficht | jagainst the domination of Wall) Street, We call upon the people of this country to fight against Amer- | ican imperialism and to give aid to all colonials and weaker countries who struggle against imperialist rule.” NEW MAIL SERVICE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (U.P).—Air mail service from Chicago to Evans- ville, Ind., will be established No- vember 19, acting postmaster gen- eral Glover, announced today. CHIT DREN FIGHT VODKA. Thousands D Demonstrate i in Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) VOLOGDA, U.S.S.R., Nov. 1— Children have joined the Communist Party and the Soviet Government in the union-wide campaign against al- cohol and have taken it upon their shoulders to urge workers to wage |. a fight against “vodka.” A few days ago several thousand school children of Vologda, bearing banners with slogans against “vod- ka,” paraded to the local railway shops and demanded that their, parent workers stop drinking, in the name of efficiency, rationalization and the construction of the Commu- nist fatherland. | The demonstration met with great | Success, The children staged meet- ings on the spot before the very gates of the mills as the workers were leaving, with the result that many brawny workers promised the children that they would give up drinking entirely. After the meetings workers to- gether with the children marched through the central streets~of the city waving the anti-vodka banners on high. | Workers Respond. The results were immediate. The | same day, although it was pay day, there was not a single case of drunkenness reported. About 200 of | the workers enrolled in the special MILL WORKERS TO FACE TRIAL, | Continued fom. Page One |a million unorganized workers in the United States, and in a textile dis-| trict where there had been no strike| | for better conditions since 1912. In spite of this, 28,000 workers | | went on strike, and during its course| | succeeded in organizing a militant [anion the New Bedford Textile} | Workers’ Union, which affiliated to} | the recently formed National Textile | @ | Workers’ Union. With the exception | of about 50, all those who face trial arc active members of the New Bed- |ford and Fall River Textile Work-| ers’ Union. The workers were subjected not} only to wholesale arrest, but to po-| lice brutality, attempts to break up| mass picket lines and beating up of | |workers. The National Guard was| drafted into service and its bayonets were bared against the striking pickets. One of the worst phases of | |court persecution, carried out in co- | |operation with the mill owners, was! the ruling of a judge that those! | strikers re-arrested must forfeit a $1,000 bond which each was forced to put up in addition to bail. The district court, in doling out} | these sentences to the textile work- lers has shown its readiness to obey |the will of the mill owners. Once again, as in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, | Massachusetts is to become a battle-| |ground where the workers must |fight against the combined forces of |the employers and the courts. The} |I. L. D. appeals to all workers to} |rally to aid the defense of the New) | Bedford and Fall River textile work- | jers. But the time is very short. The) |cases are expected to be called im- mediately. Do not allow the textile | mill owners to carry out their plar |of terrorization. Fight against this fresh attack on the workers of | Massachusetts. Funds must be sent |in at once to the National Office of \the I. L. D., 80 E. 11th St., Room} | 402, New York City, to meet the} | heavy expenses of the trials. | Send individual contributions im- |rrediately and raise funds at all I. L. D. meetings for the New Bedford | strikers. Money is needed now if these 662 workers are to be kept |ama and the canal, | pages of the ordinary papers, Fight for Oil in. ‘Latin America By OUTPOST | Lr. the left hand top corner of | South America, facing on to the | Caribbean Sea, quite close to Pan- are the two states of Colombia and Venezuela. Very little about them gets into the news columes of the newspapers. You will scarcely ever hear them | mentioned in political talk. I would | lay a heavy bet that quite a number | ‘of senators couldn’t spot either of them on the map ifrst shot. But if you get hold of the oil papers, or if you look at the city or if| you go where men talk of oil and oil shares, you will hear both of them talked of quite a lot. A Rich Land. , For both of them are rich in oil or in lands which are believed to be oilsbearing. Venezuela in particu- | lar. Her oil lands are estimated at | 27,000 square miles. Her output is {going up by leaps and bounds. Ten |years ago it was only a efw hun- dred thousand barrels a year. Five | years ago it was four million. Now | it is over fifty million. Vengzuela | will soon rank third (after the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.) among the | oil-producing countries of the world. Colombia, as an oil-producer, lags | far behind Venezuela, with an out- put of only some 15,000,000 barrels. | | But that 15,000,000 barrels compares | with 5,000,000 only a couple of years | ago; with 500,000 a couple of years before. Development in Colombia is )| going forward with a rush, since “Standard”—which acquired big con- cessions there a dozen years ago— | began seriously to ede them. * First Class Fight. eet mperialists |MPERIALIST RUBBER WAR INFULL SWING British Will, Renew Struggle With U.S. ‘LATVIA TERROR TRIAL AUS Process of 19 of 19 Soon Jail Communists ; (By Red Aid Press Seine) a teh BERLIN, (By Mail).—According to the reports of the Riga press, the Lettish political police have arrested an “Emissary of Moscow.” The man had a pass under the na Straupman. In connection w arrest a number of searches have tires of the accused, the fourth man will be executed. ye Trial of 19 Communists. A trial is about to take place of 19 Communists, working men and $|women, who are accused of having formed a Jewish Communist organi- IRALIA DOCK WORKERS BATTLE UNION BREAKERS Enraged at Sellout of Officials LONDON, Nov. 1—Forced by| taken place in Riga. zation in Riga. The only proof in| ETROURNE, Australia, Nov. 1. |the growing monopoly of American Rea ee the hands of the authorities is that) _tnion dock workers, enraged at tacts of dhe rubbee supply.of the Process Against Socialists. {during a search of a house alleged jhe treachery of the waion officials world to release rubber from Ceylon and India, the British government repealed the Stevenson rubber re~ | striction plan today. Attempting to raise the price of The process against the leaders of the Independent Socialist Party and of the left wing trade unions on account of revolutionary press ac- tivity, has commenced in Riga. to be the “headquarters” of the or- ganization, a large Soviet star, books by Marx and Lenin and a number of clippings from Communist newspa- pers were found. in completely se strike, cause them g out the recent and now doubly enraged be- those who had scabbed an during the strike are being retained by the companies in place ll + Se The following are amongst the : t aeeee it hed Uhler eet ana thes| Hard Labor and Execution. accused: Friedland, Tervina, Bish-|°f Union labor, completely routed force the American manufacturers’ I¢ is reported from Riga that the| ovskaya, Evelson, Kostiukov, Kat-|®™°UP e ii to accept the price level, the Steven. Supreme court martial has ratified shanov, Yankovski, Manushurov, a a ln ot the conflict seven | con plan restricted planting ana the sentences of death passed upon| Yakovlev, Subov, Samoilov and oth-|Cf the scabs were thrown into a pitt the four accused in the great espion-|ers. The examination is at an end /®! the railroad station, while oné limited exports to keep the price up. The plan was effective all through the British empire. Rubber War Coming. The British capitalists, however, were outwitted by the American manufacturers and the result was \the virtual control of the market by American _ interests. The Dutch growers increased their output for the American market and the Amer- ican interests turned to reclaiming jold rubber. The death blow was a few weks ago. ‘Ine -atvia has reprieved age process president of Soviet Scientists Find New Seed Preservative STAVROPOL ON THE CAU- CASUS, Nov. 1—After four years of incessant experimental work the local agronomist, Morozov, has in- vented a new method of preserving and the process is expected to begin in the next few days. e 4,885,276 in New York State Can Vote Nov. 6 ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 1 (UP).— There are 4,885,276 registered per- sons in New York state qualified to go to the polls next Tuesday, ac- cording to official figures made pub- of them was hurled into the sea: Fights occurred all along the docks during the day and police were called in large numbers by the ship coms panies to protect the scabs. So complete was the sell-out of the union officials that the employ- ers are now taking the opportunity to break the union, with the co- operation of the government. Prepare for War With és <a seeds through reaction of the sul- lic by Secretary of State Robert Pen ea began) phate of copper without water, to- Moses. Huge Plane Company cession and Ford started the rubber | Sether with copper carbonic acid and) This figure establishes a high and friend growing project in Brazil, Thomas Edison helped his with some new inventions. The result was a dangerous threat to Britain’s position on the world market and the act was repealed. According to well informed opinion a vigorous rubber war is now likely to follow, with Britain attempting to regain its lost position. Paris green. It is proved that having been reacted with this method the seeds retain their sprouting capacity and do not require any measures to be taken in order to preserve them from new decay. They are capable of yielding a crop ten per cent high- er than before the reaction. |ARREST DISTRICT ATTORNEY. record and represents an increase of 997,772 voters over the number who registered in the last presiden- tial election. IMPERIALIST MOVE. CAPETOWN, South Africa, Nov. 1 (UP).—The government indicated today that the British proposal to link the dominions by wireless tele- CHICAGO, Nov. ization of the 1 (U.P).—Organ- freight service was announced here. today. The announcement said the Uni+ versal Corporation has acquired con- trol of Fokker Corporation of Amer- ica, which will supply planes for the new system. “H WAR STEPS. Universal Aviation ,; Corporation for passenger, mail andj» as Fig : phone was being considered sympa- FRE} Pate da ica ven NEW FLIGHT TO ROME. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (,P).—|thetically. It was said, however, that) PARIS, Nov. 1 (U.P).—Lieuts. Boul- ezuela and in Colombia the big Eng-|. ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. I., Nov.| Asa Keyes, district attorney of Los ie eee that service might! maire and Marie, flying from Franee lish companies and the big Ameri-|1 (UP)—The airplane ' Columbia| Angeles County, surrendered at the] De opened within a year was regard-|t) Madagascar through Equatorial |can companies are rivals, there are | Probably will start on a flight to) sheriff's office today on a warrant ed as over-optimistic. Africa, landed late yesterday at Ben- ail the sloments of & flest class Rome tomorrow, Pierre Bonelli, for his arrest on grand jury charges : oe gui. News of their progress is com- .. > fight, involving not only the com- jnavigator for the projected tour, of “wilful and corrupt misconduct in ton torte Gate mints Tecommt- |ing in slowly from the isolated re+!: @ ‘s said today. | office.” States government! lgions they are traversing. f |panies but the governments. So afr it has all been very quiet and discreet and diplomatic. Every | |now and then a growl makes itself | heard. The Americans will com- | plain openly of British intrigues. Or an English oil. magnate will indig- nantly declare that the Americans | are “taking up an attitude based on the principles of the Monroe doc- trine—namely ‘America orf the Americans, and the whole world for | hemi But these outbursts of indiscreet ill-temper are rare. For the most | part the war goes on unseen by the general public. Quiet men with big check books, men who are on the closest terms with their countries’ diplomatic representatives, visit Bo- gota and Caracas and talk persu- asively to men in high positions. Local politicians show sudden and | enthusiastic interest. Strings are | pulled and counter-pulled. Pressure | encounters pressure. Check book QUR PARTY IS THE ONLY PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS. | meets check book. Concessions are | | granted and cancelled—or curious | ‘obstacles prevent their working. A “Revolutionary.” Take, for example, the great [Barca concession in Colombia. Barco | was a general who put down a “rev- olution” twenty years ago. He got} 2, million odd acres of jungle as re- ward for services rendered. Said jungle proved to be oil land. Barco sold out to a syndicate in which Shell was heavily interested. But the Colombian courts soon decided that the syndicate’s title was in- valid. The Venezuelan government | (the concession is on the frontier) refused to allow a pipe-line through its territory. The concession was pretty well valueless. Then Harry, Doherty, who was also interested, arranged out of the Massachusetts prisons Do not allow the mill owners to send | fithe’ spudieatesco’ the: Gait vnter- “Gulf,” let me explain, is an- | strikers to jail for a total of 112) years. Your support is urgently} necessary if this conspiracy to jail | strikers is to be smashed, and if the |thousands of New | workers who are fighting for |conditions are to be insured against |further attacks of the employers | Send money today. Oust Election ‘Board | in Cleveland Frauds CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Mail).— With the November election in the loffing, the Cuyahoga County board of elections was fired by Secretary |of State Brown for nonfeasauce in | office. The sacred guardians of the | | ballot were shown to have “over- | looked” 2800 errors in the republi- can, and 500 errors in the .demo- cratic vote in the Ohio primary Au- gust 14, A. J. Hirstius, political lieutenant of Maurice Maschke, republican boss, and clerk of the board, domi-) nated its actions with utter disre- gard of legal requirements, it was asserted. Since under the state law the sec- retary of state must appoint as suc-| recommended by the bosses of the two major parties a square deal for) the voter is highly improbable. TREMOR IN COLOMBIA. BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 1 (U.P). —An earthquake was felt in Buca- ramanga, Tunja, and other provin- cial cities, dispatches said today. In Tunja the walls of the cathedral were cracked and many buildings | society, engaged in waging the battle ‘against alcohol. damaged. One building collapsed. No damage occurred in Bogota, y England textile | better | cessors to the ousted officials en for the sale of the majority holding ests. | other name for the oil-interests of | the Mellon family. Mr. Mellon, you will remember, is secretary of the United States Treasury. Thfe Mellons got control; and | within a efw months the magic hap- pened. The Venezuelan government was delighted to allow a pipe-line to be made. The Colombian govern- | ment gave assurances that at the | first opportunity the supreme court | would reverse its decision. Then the British got busy and | the Colombia government repealed | the Barco concession. But Mellon’s Kellogg intervened and we are wait- | South American Magic. That is how magic works in South America. But it works both ways. And that is where the prospect of | trouble lies. American diplomacy | jand British diplomacy are waging ja quiet war in that unnoticed but aepeouely wealthy corner of the | world. And at any moment the war may become anything but quiet. Already there are signs that the American | oil lords may seek to enlist “public opinion” on their side. The cry may go up that the Brit- |ish are trying to get not only an economic \but a political grip on [Colombia and Venezuela. The Mon- roe doctrine may be noisily invoked. There may be clamor that “the se- curity of the canal is threatened.” There are, in short, many possi- | bilities of big trouble down there. And next’ year the term of office | of Juan Vicente Gomez, president and distator of Venezuela, expires. Down with cnpitalint rulet Four More Days Left Give and Give at Once - Today - Your Best - Your Most For the Communist Election Campaign oper Against Capitalist Terror ERS TO GIVE UNTIL IT HURTS THE CAPITALIST REACTION. 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