The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 3

|TEN YEARS AFTER: THESE SCENES WILL SEEM LI j | 1 i | | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDA Page Three = The imperialist nations, after have settled down to the normal § preparations for a new World War. Photos above are scenes from signing the Kellogg “peace” pact, business of feverish intrigues and the last great holocaust to make the world safe for Wall Street. The | picture on the left, taken at Jaulnay Oct. 27, 1928, shows a wounded soldier being looked after in a trench. Next is one of the terrible ail PE. atin to that, taken Oct. 19, 1918, show hole. \ CAPITALISM OF \ GERMANY GOLD. TO ARMISTICE Recall “14 Points” As Lesson for Next War BERLIN, Nov. 11.—German cap- italism, pining for its place in the sun as a partner with other nations in imperialist plundering of colonies, reacted coldly to Armistice Day as the anniversary of defeat and spolia- tion by the imperialist victors, The extreme right nationalists. however, recall through their paper, the Preussische Kreuz Zeitung, that the day should be kept in memory to “nrevent a repetition of the shameful event at some future time | when Germany will again be faced | by enemies wanting her life-blood.” The paper continues by saying that Germany's fate was fixed on January 8, 1918, “that day when President Wilson fixed the program of his fourteen points.” Some flurry is raised by Hinden- burg, who for the first time an- swered to a newspaper article, an ex-officer of the army having writ- ten that the kaiser betook himself to Holland “in flying haste and en- tirely motivated by ‘olicitude for his personal safety.” Hindenburg, still showing his monarchist feeling, replies that all the kaiser’s staff agreed to the flight “to avoid the continuat‘on of the war and the civil war.” . It is known that the socialists were urging that the kaiser retire, because they feared that the work- fers and soldiers would otherwise continue the civil war to the point where the socialists could not re- strain them from setting up a Soviet Republic, as the workers and sol- diers had just done in Russia. The socialists used the offices which fell to them at the collapse of the kaiser’s government to ob- struct the revolutionary upheaval of the masses and to turn it into futile channels of reconstruction of capi- talism. In so doing they resorted to massacre of the revolutionary workers by Noske’s forces and such infamous crimes as the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- berg. Soviet Recognition Urged by Educators; Kellogg View Refuted Praising the Soviet Union and its program, Professor John Dewey, | MINER SEEKS JUSTICE, \ARMISTICE DAY 19. ARRESTE GETS JAIL SENTENCE ww | gupon WAR CAPITOL PARADE (Special to The Daily Worker.) | AVELLA, Pa. (By Mail).—District Attorney Warren S. Burchinal, notorious lackey of the coal operators in Washington County, Penna, has again lived up to his record as “pers FRENCH GABINET STILL UNGERTAIN Poincare Shies from Angiers Program (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 11.—The president of the republic has charged Poincare with the formation of a new cabinet but Poincare refuses to constitute . new ministry on the basis of.the Angiers congress of the “radical” narty. However, a meeting of the dele- gates of the left group held today hearing. Here he pulls the wires has softened the Angiers program. The press envisages a rebirth of the National Union under the name of “republican concentration” with some concessions to the Angiers program being accepted by the Ma- rin group. The socialist group promises pn- conditional support to any govern- ment having a program reformed according to the Angiers “radical” congress. An administrative com- mission* being convoked *to decide ministerial participation, reported much progress was being .made in the direction of the socialist party. With Briand and Tardieu mentioned as prominent personalities there will be quite a new combination. At St. Denis, 2,000 workers dem- onstrated in the streets against the shops cheering for the Soviet Union. jorgcould be a strong bond between them if certain artificial barriers could be removed that prevent ful- ler, freer intercourse with each | other.” Stephen P. Duggan, director of the Institute of International Edu- cation, who presided at the meeting held at the Hotel Astor, said that plans are now under way to carry ‘cut an exchange of professors and ‘educators between the United States and the Soviet Union. Donald J. Cowling, president of ‘Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., told*the audience of about 800 that lin a private conversation with him, |Secretary of State Frank B. Kel- \logg, had said that America’s failure National Union, leaving their work- | Columbia University psychologist, |to recognize Russia was due to the at a dinner of the American Society | fact that there is no public senti- for Cultural Relations with Soviet | ment in favor of the move. No im- fRussia, urged the recognition of the | portance is attached to this obvious | fwarkers republic by the United | piece of camouflage since it is well | 'States. | known that an increasing large sec- “The Russians are more akin to |tion of the working class, which has the American people than to any other people,” he said. “There is | |everything to gain by recognition is fully in favor of it. From the central headquarters of the International Labor Defense, a letter has been issued ordering into immediate, intense activity, all th branches of that organization thru- out the country, in order to raise funds to help defend the 662 New Bedford textile strikers who are facing jail terms for their strike activity. The same letter has also been mt to all the fratdrnal labor and rade unions affiliated as a body with the International Labor De- nse. Large sums of money are needed by the defense body to see the strikers, many of whom are sup- porters of families, thru their court fight to freedom. Many of the strike leaders are openly being framed to long jail terms, accord- ing to the frank statements of the Massachusetts state officials. The letter sent out, carrying the appeal and instructions declares: “Ta all locals and branches of In- ternational Labor Defense. “Dear Comrades: “We have sent you under separate cover a number of contribution lists for our rush drive for funds for the New Bedford textile stri tes DRIVE TO DEFEND 662 MILL STRIKERS IS ON |just comes to hand. His warning | to us all, to you, is: | “Funds—quick! or 662 New Bed- \ford textile strikers will go to jail |for 112 years. | “Only if you help to solve this critical situation by collecting money everywhere for these cases, only by jumping into this job with both feet, will no blame rest on you if these workers are not adequately defended by us. Again we say: “1, Call a membership meeting of the I, L. D. “2. Tell the members all about the New Bedford cases. “3. Place a contribution list into the hands of every member of the LL. De “4, Insist that money be collected quick—and remit to the me of- fice quick, as well. “Every cent collected upon these lists must come forward to the na- tional office. “6. Elect committees to visit sympatheti¢ organizations for con- tributions. “Let’s hope that your I. L. D. branch will be shone those that answer this eme y call for ac- tion! _Let’s hop: LL. D, ecutor of labor par excellence.” ® On Thursday, November 8, a case | was presented before the grand jury | in which two state policemen were charged with larceny and the break- ing up of a peaceable miners’ meet- | ing. Burchinal refused to allow the | | witnesses to tell their story and had |the case thrown out of court. Dan |Lane, the miner who made the com- |plaint, has been sent to jail for the |eosts $75.85 which were levied j against him. | “Justice”—Capitalist Farce. | Washington County “justice” as |dished out by this infamous district jattorney is becoming a huge joke} |among those who have seen it in| ‘operation. Grand juries in his court | house have no more to say about | -eases brought before them than has \the kindergarten class in a remote | village school house. Here the vici- | ously prejudiced Burchinal sits | |whenever a worker’s case is set for | which not alone release the perse- |cutors of the workers but also drag into jail those who have been made | to suffer. In this particular case, the miners of Avella were holding a meeting to elect delegates to attend the. con- vention of the National Miners Union which was held on September \9. The meeting had just started |when Corporal Pierce and Trooper |McNernay of the Pennsylvania State Police, stationed at Avella, in- ‘vaded the hall and broke it up. The troopers confiscated the local union’s record books and stole the personal mail of Dan Lane, which consisted of copies of the Daily Worker and @ personal letter from his brother out west. Lane had not yet read the letter and he has never seen it since. Brings “Legal” Action. | Im order to recover the personal |and Iccal union property, Dan Lane |secured the assistance of the Civil | Liberties Union and brought action |against the troopers charging lar- |ceny and also invoked an old act of the Pennsylvania assembly against \the breaking up of meetings. For the defense of his rights he has been sent to jail pending payment of $75.85, This is similar to the case of Rudolph Depiazzi who was sent to |the same jail after a coal and iron |yellow dog had broken a club over his head and despite the fact that he presented the broken club before the grand jury that heard his case. It is the same court that freed the murderer, Louie Carboni, who ad- mitted that he had killed George Moran. In all of these cases Dis- trict Attorney Burchinal struck out |with the iron fist of the coal oper- aors against the miners. Witness Put Out. In the case_of Dan Lane, the |grand jury hearing was conducted |and the decisions were reached by this reactionary Burchinal and the witnesses were told to “get out” when they answered the question: unfavorably. The clerk of the court | with the bold effrontery of one who | knows who his masters are, warned the witnesses: “You will get no justice here, you are in the wrong court.” Because of this Lane must lan- | guish in jail until the National Min- lers’ Union is able to raise the funds |for his release. Lane’s wife who is |ill is now lying in one of the typi¢- elly miserable and cold barracks which is the “home” of those thous- ands of ccal diggers who live under the system of exploitation by the coal barons. Capitalist justice! UNEARTH SKELETON. | LONDON, Nov. 11 (UP).—Work- |men unearthed a skeleton beneath the pavement in front of Lewe Fub- lic Library which is believed to be a relic of the battle of Lewes in 1264, The skeleton was well pre- served. SOFT BERTH FOR BIRKENHEAD LONDON, Nov. 11 (UP)}.---Lord Birkenhead, former secretary of state for India, has been appointed director of the Consolidated Tnvest- ment Company, it was anncunce! to- day. | | ANOTHER CZARIST DEAD NICE, France, Nov. 11 (UP).— Prince Alexander Trepov, former premier of Russia, died t Jay. (Communist) Pa MANEUVER PLAN FOR JOHN PORTER Baldwin Speech Tries Mar to Cover War Plans | Release LONDON, Nov. 11—The Armis-| Continued from Page One tice Day celebrations were carried|any food until our demands are out as usual as a preparation for | granted. war, although the protests of the| «(signed) Paul Crouch, Clarence masses at the militarist display is|_. Th Willi I ever greater, so much that it is an-| Miller, Ben Thomas, William Law- nounced that this will be the last|rence, Thomas Dunn, Saul Langdon, year in which the anniversary will | William Duke, Bernard W. Morgan, be celebrated. |Harry Newman, Arthur S. Bernar- The leading pacifist and philistine | ginj, Karl Reeve, editor, Labor De- sentimentalist, George Bernard Shaw, having received an invitation i , from the British Legion to buy |Isodore Singer, Samuel Miron, Jo- tickets for a dance and an attached | seph Kers, Charles Metzdorf.” copy of the religious ceremony to} Herbert Benjamin, organizer of be held in remembrance of “Vic-| District 3, Workers (Communist) tory Day,” replies that if god} Party, today issued a statement de- hasn’t run out of lightning he) claring that the Party is proud of hopes they will be struck dead/ the courageous stand of the prison- “when .they go to church to con-/ers and will continue the fight for gratulate one another on four years| the release of John Porter. of murder and devastation.” “The Workers (Communist) Disregarding such futile pacifist Party is determined that the cam- chers Demand His | protests, however, the king ordered | paign for the release of John Porter the usual military demonstrations, | shall not only ce continued but in- and Premier Baldwin, speaking at | tends to eert all its forces to in- the’ Lord Mayor’s banquet plainly tensify this campaign, the statement indicated that Britain is preparing | says. for war. | “We are proud of the determined While talking much of peace, and| stand of the members of the Work- KE CHILD’S P phosphorus shells exploding during a night att D IN JUGOSLAV WORKERS _ SILK WORKERS fender; David Sandeer, Karl Jones, | Sr aes LAY marking the graves of victims of The photo next - being buried in a The second picture from the right shows crosses and helmets 8 a dead soldi WEEN NEW WAR BREAKS On the right? carat on June 28, 1918, after severe the great slaughter. is what was left of the city of Bacc bombardment. HUNTED BY TERROR (Red Aid Press Servi ;ment and chicanery in _ prison. ZAGREB, Jugoslavia (By Mail).—| Schneider is seriously ill, neverthe- ; ° less, the prison directors have re- ese compeian: of the Jazcsian, «cata patmit him tolwecetye food vian government against the revolu-|from outside. The food given in tionary mo is being continued the Yugoslavian prisons is of such with all energy. Indiscriminate ar-|, kind that a strong man could not rests are taking place all over the yemain healthy for long on it. For country. Many of the persons ar- Schneider it means the danger of rested however have already had to death. be released owing to complete lack of any evidence against them. In| Terrorism Against Peasantry. Liubliana only 8 persons could be| ‘The whole population of the Mus- retained. In Novi Sad, the secretary | selman village of Sandzak in south- of the independent labor party and ern Bosnia have been brutally at- two other members of the party tacked and beaten up by a punitive have been arrested and handed over column of gendarmes. The district to the courts. is known in general to be opposed | iy to the policy of the government. The Bad Treatment In Prison. captain of gendarmerie Spasoye Ra- The, two revolutionaries, Vouyo- | citch, a relative of the murderer of vitch Radomir and Schneider Zlat- Raditch, Punica Racitch, has partic- ko, who have been sentenced to five ularly distinguished himself in mal- |years hard labor each for their re- treating the helpless peasants. ;volutionary convictions and who Fifty-eight peasants, all of whom were terribly tortured by the secret have been beaten up by the gen- police before being brought to trial, |\darmes, have gone to the courts for are being subjected to bad treat- | redress. * * * * | wages and living standards to the, The following statement was is- | level of serfs and coolies.” |sued by Paul Crouch, secretary of the , All-America Anti-Imperialist League, upon his release from pris- | on on bail: The International Labor Defense has also issued a similar statement as has the All-America Anti-Imper- ialist League. Both statements de-| “The arrest of those participat- mand nation-wide agitation for the|ing in effort to present petition to| release of John Porter in spite of secretary of war demanding release the terrorist action of the United|of John Porter fully justifies the CHILDREN JOIN STRIKE ACTIVITY Go Picketing, Organize Fighting Group Continued from Page One them how winning the strike meant more schooling, warm winter clothes, zocd food to build up little bodies. After that they formed the “Relief Scouts,” a junior organization to aid in helping needy strikers. As the meeting adjourned a little group, led by a seven-year-old girl, crowded into the strike office on the floor below, putting questions, ask- ing directions. The adult workers there were busy; they had -little time for children. “Don’t know, kid,” came the inattentive answer; “better ask So-and-so.” The little leader bristled, even as her cohorts withdrew. “We ain’t ‘kids!’” she shot back. The little face was perfectly serious, “Fellow Workers!” “Oh, excuse me, miss,” said the now theroughly attentive grown-up. “Just what are you, then?” “Fellow-workers!” was the decided reply, as the children disappeared. Throughout the strike the spon- taneous spirit of the children has been a source of wonder to adult. welcoming Germany “as a great na- tion among equals,” Baldwin’s speech building of an against the United States. He pointed to the “improved relations between France and Britain and be- tween France and Germany” as a prophecy of peace, and endeavored to deny that it was deterimental to “any other world power, as alleged during the recent disputes over the carefully approached the) the fight for the release of John ers (Communist) Party and other participating organizations to make | partment. “The International Labor European bloc | Porter despite the brutal oppressive /fense has secured the release of Confirm | methods of the capitalist govern- | ment. | “The case of John Porter is an | example of the growing conscious- | ness of the workers who have been | induced to join the army that their | interests are identical with the in- |terests of those workers in the three of those arrested Crouch, Karl Jones, Reeve) so that they might meet speaking engagements in various tor of the Labor Defender. “All the |Anti-Imperialist League in this De-|campaign. The actions of the police | picket the polls. One little girl of our statement that the perialist war. “The All-America Anti-Imperial- cities, where protest meetings have ist League accepts the challenge of | captain. “What’s that little girl do- been arranged,” Says the statement the Washington police, and with the |ing here, anyway?” queried a wo- which is signed by Karl Reeve, edi- aid of many organizations affiliated | man passer-by, a little critically. with us will‘ mobilize for a real | powers Anglo-French naval accord.” | mines, mills and factories who are To clinch the preparations for compelled to struggle against the war, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air | efforts of the bosses to reduce their Minister, added to Baldwin’s re-| marks by stating that there was_ improved co-operation of European | pointing particularly to the prepara- in the establishment of| tions for an attack on the Soviet “long-distance air routes,” thus| Union. other arrested participants will re-| struggle against all the forces of fuse to be bailed and will refuse to imperialism. We are not frightened pay any fines that may be imposed, or intimidated by the terror, and Jas a means of further registering | more intensive efforts will be our their protest against the imprison-| answer to the savage persecution of ment of John Porter and against those who struggle against the the police persecution of the work-| growing danger of an imperialist ling class.” war.” States government and its war de-|participation of the All-America | strikers. On election day a number & \of children volunteered to help 12 found herself the center of at. (Paul |fight for Porter’s release is a blow | tention as bearing a large placard and Karl|at the preparations for a new im-|she patrolled the sidewalk in front jof a poiling place, accompanied by another child and an adult picket’ “She’s not old enough to work.” The child replied before the picket, , captain could explain. “I’m here. for my father’s sake,” she said, “He's on strike.” Organize the unorganized! Ore ganize new unions in the unorgan- .: + | ized industries! By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Thunder greetings from the rev- the song of world victory. Orenburg Cossacks, the Kazaks olutionary workers and peasants of |of Kysil Orda, the Red Capital of |Eleventh Anniversary Greeting to|ers. Nearly every building dis- Middle Asia to American labor on|Kazakstan; the Uzbeks, Tazhiks,|the Workers and Farmers of/|played its Red Flag, with the! the eleventh anniversary of the Bol-| Kirgiz and other nationalities at | America. Sickle and Hammer Emblem. Yet chevik Triumph, Nov. 7, 1917. Tashkent, Samarkand, Kalgan and | For the Red Heart of the great-|Bokhara in Uzbekistan; the Turco- | est continent on earth, beats hard |mans at Merv, most ancient town of | and fast in keen anticipation of the|Central Asia; at Tedzhen, Poltor- victory of the World Revolution, the | atzk, Kizil-Arvat and Krasnovodsk, heir of the triumph of proletarian|in Turkmenistan, with sprinklings llth Annivesary Greetings to U.S. Labor From Red Workers, Peasants of Middle Asia | These are the questions that I|music. Even the street cars car- |transmit for them as part of their |ried greetings on huge red stream- “8 |this throng included only delega- I reported on the work of the|tions of workers. “Because we are Sixth Comintern Congress to two/|so busy in shop, mill and factory thousand railroad workers at Oren-|that we did not want to declare a burg. The meeting took place im-|complete public holiday,” explained mediately after work in the open | the head of the trade unions. The power in the Soviet Union. From peasants’ huts and railroad shops, from fields of cotton and textile mills, from or- chards of fruit and printing shops, from Red Flag-flying ships and spouting oil wells, from co-operative stores and Red tea houses, from workers’ clubs and public schools, from clothing factories and univer- sities, from Red cavalry regiments and comsomols, from women’s clubs and pioneers, from throngs at rail- road stations, in the great public squares and in vast auditoriums, the greetings everywhere welled up in mighty volumes, “Greetings to the workers and Farmers of the United States of America!” * 8 6 Greetings, also, to the workers and peasants of Great Britain, Aus- tria, the French Colony of Algiers and British India, for all these lands were represented by comrades who had been delegates to the Sixth Congress of the Comintern, and then been joined in a delegation to visit the Middle Asia Republics of the Soviet Union. From Orenburg, cut by the Ural River that divides Europe from Asia, to Krasnavodsk, on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, we passed through the broad reaches of the great Asian Soviet Republics of Kazakstan, Uzbekistan and Turk- menistan, where every race and na- tionality breathes full freedom for the first time in history, where the crossed Hammer and Sickle is everywhere the symbol of liberation, the Red Flag the banner of greater struggles, and “ International” cf European Russians everywhere, field at the main entrance to the} capitalist press of the occident Our next stop was at Bokhara, which was regarded as the first city of Mohammedan Asia. A popular... saying is, “As Bokhara goes, so_,, |goes the Mohammedan world,” The. | history of Bokhara goes back cen-., turies before the Christian era. It was considered the ecclesiastical and |educational center of Islam. It has been attacked and subdued by all conquerors of ancient and modern ” all felt as close as a handclasp to the workers of New York, Pitts- burgh, Detroit, Chicago and Colo- | rado, to the oppressed American| “You see ‘us in our working farming masses. For them the | clothes today,” said one worker. world revolution has eliminated all |“Ten years ago we were in rags. distances. “The chains of czarist|/We had to quit work in the shops tyranny have been broken. The|and go out and fight the White black night of illiteracy is rapidly |Terror, We fought. We were vic- lifting. The stagnating influences |torious. Now we are back in the of ancient religions and hoary cus-|shops-building. Tell the capitalists |toms are quickly losing their para- lyzing power. The hideous masks, |their help, that we can get along kept there through thousands of | without theirloans and credits. We years, are being torn from the faces | will build our own socialist economy of womanhood, unveiled at last and | without them.” taking her place as a free citizen of| The brick workers in a neighbor- the Workers’ and Peasants’ Repub- |ing brickyard had come over for the lic. Land for the landless. Co-op-| meeting, and one of their leaders leration everywhere instead of war|spoke with equal enthusiasm and |and continuous enmity between | meaning. many tribes and nations. Huge) “Wake up the working women in unified irrigation systems being de- your country,” urged a woman veloped, more and more, to make |worker, gray-haired, but with the every countryside blossom and bear fire of a Clara Zetkin or Rosa Lux- lits fruit, Industrialization forging | embourg. jahead at high speed in the cities. The Comsomols pushed one of Public schools and universities going |their spokesmen to the platform to day and night. Printing presses|send greetings to the American toiling’ ceaselessly, All this stirs | Young Communists. So did the the spirit of World Revolution| Lenin Pioneers. Then as night came through Middle Asia into mighty |on the meeting adjourned with the flames of roaring enthusiasm, a | singing of “The International,” and challenge to the proletariat of Mos-|the workers marched to their homes cow, Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, Lon- | newly erected as part of the city’s don or New York to outdo them. | building program. They were still Two questions ever on their lips: | singing. “When will the Revolution take place in your country?” “What will the workers and farm- shops. Speeches over, the -meeting was thrown open for guestions and remarks. In Tashkent, metropolis of Middle Asia, there were innurherable thou- in your country that we do not need | speaks ofthe lazy, incompetent peo- ples of the Orient. In Middle Asia under the proletarian dictatorship. | we found everywhere energy, indus- \try, intelligence, that drives forward |to its task, quickly and surely. * * 8 | In Samarkand we spoke from the |Lenin Monument in the public |square of the Old (Native) Town where age vied with youth in enthu- siasm in the tremendous gathering. |A Russian who understood English |stood by and translated to any Uzbek who understood Russian. Thus the greeting from America was quickly translated to this Uzbek throng in their native tongue. They gave expression to their Oriental hospitality by clothing us all in long flowing colorful robes, the native costume, with a small silk embroid- eved cap, Samarkand is the cap- ital of the republic, and we were the guests of the president, for- merly an agricultural worker, who sits in power here as Kalinin does in Moscow for the whole Soviet Union. Samarkand has felt the crushing ander the Great, of Macedonia, first came this way in the fourth century. The Arabs and the Seldzhukids each had their turn. Then the Mongol terror, Chingiz Khan, conquered it in the thirteenth century. Later it became the capital city of Tamer- lane the Magnificent; then it was heel of many conquerors since Alex- |’ times. On the night of August 29, ** 1920, however, the Young Bokharan~ Party, with the aid of the Bolshe- viks, seized power, while the Amir, Sayid Mir Alim Khan, disappeared and secretly made his way out of the city disguised as a carter, leay- ing his 75 wives behind. He escaped to Afghanistan, where he sent a nlea to the British to come to his aid. But British imperialism was busy on other fronts. The British had sent their army f Sepoys, from India, through rasnovodsk into Turkmenistan. But this army was only able to oceupy parts of the Trans-Caspian Rail- road, and this for only a t'me. Mid- dle Asia adopted the Bolshevik banner as its own, and under this banner it conquered. Along its far- flung borders the enemy raised its head in Persia, Afghanistan, India and China. But here are also friends, allies, oppressed worker and peasant masses, in whose collective mind there remains and grows such Boctalist Soviet Republic, the greetings of the tera aa ; of the victory of the Bolshevik Middle Asia! Repub : sands at the railroad station to re- ceive us, ers of your country do if the im- perialist powers launch a new war against the Soviet Union?” © taken by the Uzbeks, after which it fell under the Bukharian er Two brass bands and a/until in 1868 it succumbed to the | national! |native orchestra vied in furnishing | Russian czars. Se a fact as this—that an agricul worker is president of the U; . . Out of this Middle Asi: er and farmer masses to American labor on the eleventh annive: 3 olution. Long live the Soviet Long live the Commi «