The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 3

REHOME HER ERR ET a THE DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, WEDNESD AY, NOVEMBER 14 Page Three Europe Arms for Clash with the United States in Reply to Coolidge’s War r Speech . BRITAIN QUITS TALKING ABOUT LIMIT ON NAVY Coolidge “War Threat Arouses France LONDON, Nov. 13.—While the British press is furtively hostile to Coolidge’s blunt announcement that America is going to prepare for ‘war, Premier Baldwin clearly takes up the challenge of Coolidge for a race to prepare for war in the House of Commons, where he an- nounced today that the negotiations for armament limitations “must begin all over again” and that the Anglo-French naval agreement had been scrapped. This clearly indicates that in an- swer to America’s declaration that it is going to prepare for war, Bri- tish imperialism will cease all pre- tensions of limiting armaments and # intensify its naval preparations to meet the United States in battle at the earliest moment. * * * France Will Also Prepare. PARIS, Noy. 13.—The political leaders of France feel great resent- ment at Coolidge’s speech on Sun- day in which he called for war preparations by America and as- serted that American imperialism must launch into the building of more battleships as an immediate step of getting ready to make war upon certain European powers whose imperialist interests conflict with those of America. The opinion of French imperial- ists is reflected in the press, which esteems Coolidge’s speech as the most significant utterance for many years coming from America. Did Not Pledge No War. Kellogg’s speech, which was made at the same time, is regarded as also a preparation for war, in that Kellogg claimed by way of defense of his so-called peace pact, that the reservations of other powers did not affect the pact insofar as the pow- ers had given a general promise not to make war. The French press quite emphati- eally remind the world that both) France and Britain make very spe-| cific and vital reservations and have no ‘intention of refraining from war if their imperialist interests are affected. The French press adds that Cool- | idge, speaking for imperialist America, also makes reservations and America is also ready to make war if its interests are affected. More, that American imperialism wants to disarm the other imper-| ialist powers while it arms itself to make war upon, them. “America Versus England.” The “Temps” in part, declares: “We note that Coolidge does not intend the security of his country to} be sacrificed to disarmament. it is just as reasonable for other countries as for the United States.” The “Soir” observes: “The truth | of the matter is that America tried to disarm England and England / tried to disarm America. Both have | failed. The clear meaning of Cool-) idge’s speech is that he is going to ask congress to carry out his naval program.” All the French press attack Cool- idge for his claim that America gained nothing from the war, while Europe got colonies and territory. | “Blood and gold cannot be weighed in the same balance,” says the “Temps.” But | Slayers of Obregon } The above scenes were snapped in Mexico City at the close of the trial of Leon Toral, clerical agent | who was sentenced to death for slaying President-elect Obregon, and the nun, Maria Acevedo, who was |. condemned to 20 years imprisonment as his accomulice. | nun leaving the court for jail after the verdict. his final plea, Below, left, Ezequiel Padilla, who had charge of the prosecution, summing up; Obregon followers stopying traffic in the streets during the reading of the. verdict. Photo on the upper left shows Toral and the On the right, Demetrio Sodi, defense counsel, is making right, 136 OF VESTRIS STILL MISSING |Many Workers in Crew Unaccounted, For Continued from Page One sighted “a number of dead” and |that it was “not thought possible lany could be living” beyond those already saved. Over 200 Rescued. Those who had survived a night \of horror in open lifeboats, life- belts and on rafts and bits of wreck- | age included the following: | Twenty-three aboard the S. S. | Berlin. | Fifty-three Myriam. A number estimated at from 123 to 128 aboard the’S..S. American aboard the S. S. |sel. Early messages giving the num- | ber saved conflicted with the total lof passengers and crew listed by |capta‘ns of the rescue vessels in re- |ports to shore. | The S. S. Berlin, which earlier |had reported saving 21, listed five | passengers, 16 members of the crew |ond an unidentified stewardess and ene person, sound asleep, unable to identify himself. This made a to- | tal of 23, The American Shinner, after say- Shipper, and 8 aboard znother ves- | ing it had rescued 83 passengers | ard 90 of the crew, later listed 38 |Passengers. It gave no crew list, leaving doubt whether this differ- | ence of five passengers should be added to the total of 123 saved, or subtracted from the crew total of 90. Persons still unaccounted for at 2:50 p. m. included “Major Yashio Inouye, Japanese consul to Buenos | Aires, whose wife was believed to have been picked up by the Wyom- ing; and Michael J. O’Loughlin, the jradio operator who flashed - the | ‘to the Vestris’ rescue. Search Continues. near where the Vestris went down. At least three coast guard cutters | planned to remain at the scene. The lu. S. navy’s dirigible, Los Angeles, expected to leave its hangar, at | Lakehurst, N. J., around nighffall | and cruise over the spot in an ef- | fort to sight rafts or debris to which | |men, women or children might. be | clinging. It was believed the Los Angeles | would drop flares as it went, en-| abling the coast guard vessels to pick out survivors by silhouettte and dash to the rescue, \started sinking yesterday afternoon. It has been a drama of men, women and children bobbing in the icy| slow. “S.0.8.” which brought the ships | WORKERS JER 15 Jailed “When They Boo | Parade VIENNA, Noped 1,.— Fifteen | workers were arrested today from | among the crowd that jeered and} booed as republican soldiers marched tenth anniversary of the formation of the republic. The only sign of rejoicing came jfrom the government when they or- |dered the march of the militia, and the jeering was general along the jline of march, | Another group of workers were {attacked by the police when the jworkers held a demonstration against the government at police} | headquarters. ANNUL MARRIAGE BERLIN, Nov. 13 (UP).—The re- |cess Schamburg-Lippe, was | nulled by the courts today. jannulment was granted on an- The the | husband before the marriage. _ AUSTRIA GOV'T |thru the streets in celebration of the | Meantime the search continued | NEW DEAL WITH RUHR EMPLOYERS Communists Urge Mass | Activity BERLIN, cial-demoe: y put out by the decision of the labor court at Duisburg which defied the govern- ment, the debate is now continuing on the question of relief doles to the locked-out workers. While the “socialists” argue for government relief, they are still de- cided to push the matter in the courts, in face of the complete win- | ning over the legal machinery by | the employers. A vote will be taken on the dole to the locked out work- | ers tomorrow. (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The lockout | in the Ruhr-has taken a turn most | embarrassing to the socialists. The | Duisburg Labor Court has rendered a verdict on she question of the }employers’ position in refusing to | {accept the award of the arbitration court. | The award was declared binding | by the arbitration court on October | 26, but the Labor Court decides now | that it is not binding on the em- ployers, thus fully legalizing the em- | ployers’ position. The Bubble Bursts. The social democrats had assured | the workers that the law was on| their side and set all hopes on the | Labor Court verdict. “The socialist organ “Vorwaerts” | jignores the verdict in its evening | edition today, feeling too embar- |rassed to say anything at all on the subject. The democratic papers console the workers by saying that | they can appeal to still higher} courts! Ready to Betray. The socialist trade union leaders are now hastening to conclude com- |promises with the employers. They jare preparing to abandon the eight- | |hour day especially, in order to lure the workers to accept this abandon- ment in ‘return for a compromise lon wages. It is probable that the employers will try to open the works junder the old conditions. | The central committee of the revo- | lutionary trade union opposition has | issued a call to the workers to pre- vent this scheme being put,over on| them by picket lines and mass meet- |ings of the workers. Fight In Reichstag. Today in the Reichstag debate on | the lockout, the Communist fraction | |by interpellation exposed the anti-| labor socialist government. tactics land demanded the eight-hour day. | |The fraction also demanded the abo- | |lition of arbitration and a grant of | | unemployment relief to the locked out workers, Wissel, the social democrat ‘labor’ | minister, in speaking, avoided the | workers’ problems. He stated that |\the employers were “obliging” and |there would probably be a “peace- ful” settlement. He made no critic- | jism against the lockout and said |that the Communist demand for un- employment relief to the locked out Such activity would be a final |cent marriage of Benevenuto Haupt-| workers was “nonsense.” Arbitra- climax to a horrible drama that be- | mann, son of the famous German |tion, he declared, was an excellent gan when the water-logged Vestris | | poet, Gerhart Hauptmann, to Prin-|thing desired by the employers and the trade unions, | | Florian, of the Communist Party, | replied exposing Wissel’s pro-em-| waters of a choppy sea waiting for | grounds that facts regarding the | ployer attitude and showing how the | succor which seemed tremendously | princess had been unknown to the government was helping the em- | ployers. English Trade~Union Congress in Swansea, 1928 By HARRY POLLITT. (From Labor Unity.) rs (Continued) The congress has endorsed Mond- ism, the test for those inside the gen- eral council will come immediately and I am confident that the only one to stick to his guns will be Cook the others will simply not risk plac- mselves under the ban that ral council will impose under ‘olution. A Split Policy. The sum total of its effect will be} to do the very thing it claims to avoid.. It will cause disruption, splits | exclusion, and the destruction of) democratic rights inside the unions. It will lead to increased non-union- ism, because those at present out- side the unions will refuse to join) when they see the real role of the/ general council. The resolution, it sHould be noted, | was adopted before the endorsement of Mondism. This was no accident: it was the deliberate design of those who are fostering Mondism, because the revolutionaries must be attacked if the leaders are to deliver the goods to Mond and his allies. Tt was strongly opposed by the minority, who exposed the real dis- rupters and splitters, those who stand for Mondism and the surren- der of the trade union fight; those who refuse to give up their jobs after the workers have sacked them in four successive ballot votes as in the case of the Scottish miners of- ficials; those who perpetuate craft and sectional unionism in face of a centralized capitalist enemy; but it had no effect on the voting—the re- sult had been decided by the bloc long before the delegates came to Swansea, and the full responsibility for all the subsequent effects of this of a leadership that has surrendered | the teade union struggle against] capitalism. At the British Trade Union Con- gress held at Swansea there were fraternal delegates present from the American Federation of Labor, the Mexican Trade Union Movement, | the Indian Trades Union Congress, the’ International Federation of Trade Unions, the Canadian Trades Union |Congress, and Arthur Henderson rep- resenting the Labor Party. With the exception of the Mexican and indian delegates the whole of the fraternal delegations sang the | same sweet song, the plea for jon the basis of attacking the rev, lu- |ticnaries. The Mexican delegate! made it perfectly plain that the | Mexican jas a result of tremendous sacriii« by the trade unionists: of that coun-| | Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, The | | petition, the present wage strug- try, and that it would be def :nded |by the Confederation Regional Ob- rera Mexicana, “but under no cir- cumstances would outtide iuterfer- ence be tolerated.” This latter sen- interference, and were obviously in- spired. The Indian delegate regretted the unfortunate differences that existed between the political movement in india and the British Labor Party. and hoped that a delegation would be «ent from the Labor Party in the same way that the Trades. Uvior Congress had sent the Purcell dele-| gation last year. He also indicated how difficult it wes for a young trade tmion movement like the In- dian to decide which International it should join in view of the con- flict between the deadership of the tra*.. »wion: movements of the world pernicious resolution will fall upon| However, the merit of ull thes Revolution had been won tient was in keeping with all the! speeches which deprevated outside) interest the Canadian de to announce was that he nab brought |his wife and sister with him from | Canada, | Discuss Mondism. | After this came the big congress | diseussica on the genes! council’s report of its negotiations with Mond Mr. Citrre was put up to move the endorsement of the council’s pol’ :y and in the course of a loag sprech made the following s!atement which is indivative of the frame of mind of the evisting leade::h:p towards current problems. Citrine claimed that cne veneral council’s leadership tad been so successful that it hac |now converted the Mond group, the |press and the public opinion to the recognition of tke just claims of La- bor. An amendment was moved to Cit- rine’s resolution in the name of the | speakers in support of this purey constitutional amendment were Brownlie and Swales, and they did not criticize the principle of Mond- ism, but only challenged the author- ity of the general council to enter into negotiations. Hicks Bankrupt. It was on this anendment that Hicks came in and ma‘le his speech. It was impossible to tell what Hicks was aiming at and jt was so lame and labored in chsracter that.on2 of the delegates got up and demanded trat the eo yess should pro- tected from having any more of it irtheted upon th» Jeiegates, This was a fitting end to the at- tempted come-back of Hicks, who made no attempt to repudiate his Edinburgh speech, and did not take a clear line of opposition in prin- ciple to all that Mondism means. There was a striking contrast be- 4 the heads of those delegates who'al-|freternal speeches could be gvuged | tween this. speech and that of Cook, low themselves to be the pliant tools| by the fact that the chief item of) which immediately followed it. De. | ate had| spite statements such as. “absolving | the general council from any dishon- est motives,” etc., Cook’s speech was a clear line of opposition to all that Mondism means. His speech and that of the Com- munist, Tomkins, were the only two working class speeches made in op- position to the policy of class col- laboration. After this discussion came the de- |bate on international trade union unity. To understand this discus- sion it is necessary to point out that |the resolution represents a com- promise between three unions, all three having a resolution on the agenda dealing with some aspect of international trade union unity. The resolution finally submitted to the congress was as dollows: Resolution on Unity. “That congress, recognizing that the intensification of com- gles which have characterized the workers’ growing revolt, particu- larly in Europe and countries like Ind’a, the growth of national an- tagonisms, and the possibility of war, render more than ever neces- sary the need for international trads. union unity, believes that | the existence of two separate trade union internationals end a number of trade union centers un- affiliated to either is a source of weakness to the trade . union movement, ‘and prevents that movement from fully utilizing its power either to break the capital- ist offensive against wages or to prevent a new war. “This congress, therefore, calls upon the general council to sum- mon a world conference of unions affiliated to both internat’onals | ting re-elected to.the general coun- jcil, affiliated to either, in order to | discuss ways and means of unit- ing the trade union movement un- | der one national trade union cen- | ter within each country, and in- ternationally under the banner of ene international. To assist in this project the congress also re- quests the gencral council to work for the reconstruction of the Anglo-Russian Advisory Council.” Horner Scores Collaborationists. The speakers were allowed five ininuées each and no discussion was allowed unless it was in opposition to the resolution. It was because of this that Horner was forced to get in to criticize the resvlution after Thomas’s violent attack upon | Russia and to tell the delegates that | having the day previous voted in| | favor of class collaboration this res- | olution was something fore’gn to the mentality of the congress, and he was quite sure that the Russians would not touch them at any price Lecause they stood for class strug- gle, whilst the congress stood for } class collaboration. | The election of the new general council was then announced, and despite a terrific factional campaign against Cook, he succeeded in get- There are three changes from the previous council, but they are not changes that will effect the movement in a “left” direction, as all of them will go with the right wing. ¥ At the close of the congress the minority issued a declaration point- ing out that after ridiculously short del'beration, the heads of the Brit- ish trade unions who made up the eongress had rejected international | labor solidarity, had declared for | co-operation with the employers led along with the trade unions not |by those like Mond, “whose names |nat M SOCIALISTS SEEK) | port {port gave him 1,081 votes and the | | Communist,” Johnson said, “is a clear indication that my fellow- workers are becoming rebellious |800 votes less than Smith got for | Hoover, 2,019; | the minority movement is organ- Photo shows an unusual mud f Brings Ruin to Thousands of exoeanne | | | ormation around one of the upper vents of the boiling lava stream of Mt. Etna, whose eruptions have destroyed many villages in Sicily homeless. and made thousands of peasants ‘RED VOTE GAINS STRONG IN WEST Socialist Party Routed in Wisconsin Continued from Page One Red ticket would have won. The re- in Naples gives Foster and| Gitlow 41; Smith, 29; Hoover, 108, and Thomas, 1. * * Michigan Workers Voted Red. (Special to the Daily Worker) MUSKEGON, Mich. Nov. 13.— Walter Johnson, Communist candi- ate for member of the city com-| m ion, polled nearly 1,100 votes on Nov. 6, according to the “Mus- | Kegon Chronical,” the only daily |newspaper in the city. The first re- final report registered 1,097. | Muskegon is an auto and furni- |ture town of 50,000 population. | Johnson, who is a furniture worker, |was attacked by the capitalist press before the election as being openly a Communist and the city secretary of the local Workers (Communist) | Party. Workers Militant. “The large vote cast for me as a| against the wage-cuts, speed-up and unemployment from which they suf- fer, and that they recognize in the Workers Party the only foree which can lead them in the struggle against the brutal system of cap-| italist exploitation.” The republicans received 14,422 votes and the democrats 1,466 in the | | presidential race, This brings out \the striking fact that Johnson in his race for commissioner polled only president in Muskegon. ees More Red Gains. Returns from LakeCounty, "l- linois, show that here, too, the Red ticket polled a good vote. Lake County contains no large cities. Foster and Gitlow in this county received 76 votes; Smith, 618; Thomas, 48. ° Vincent R. Dunne, Communist candidate for U. S. senator, received 63 votes and J. ©. Bentall, Red candidate for stink in the nostrils of the workers they employ, because of their brutal methods of exploitation,” had fallen in line with the wage cutting policy shown in the defeat through their treachery of the general strike, the break with the Russian unions, and | the Trades Union Act. At Parting of tle Ways. The statement goes on to say: “Our modvement stands at the parting of the ways. We call upon the workers in the factories and unions to repudiate the Swan- sea decisions and to fight under the banner of the minority move- ment for united assistance, ¢o further wage safeguards for all workers now forced to work premium bonus and _piece-work systems whilst fighting for their complete abolition, for strong fac- tory committees, one union for each industry, extension of the powers of the trades councils, one united trade union international, the repvdiation of industrial peace and class collaboration, and above all for the repudiation of the ex+ isting leadership and the election of new leaders pledged to fight capitalis\: and its allies now in control of the trade union move- ment.” On the basis of the above policy ising rank and file conferences all | seven ant Ps t THY T0 PLACATE ‘GROAT PEASANTS Will General Electio Be Held BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 13 to appease, at t tempo. the Croatians and Dalmati ho are demanding virtual au- y, Father Anton Korosec prime minis of the Belgrade gov- ernment, announced that he would allow a general election. ver since the ass ination of Raditch, leader of the Croatian Peas ty, the Croatian and Dalma- n deputies have withdrawn from the legislature and held.a separate pa’ ent, refusing to nowledge the laws passed by the Belgrade body. The move i one to draw again into t, since their boycott has been too co The govern nent promise struct the eon as to allow th dom, PRESS MUM ON | STRIKE PARADE British Arm Merchant Sitk Workers to ‘Meee Vessels in China; See| Tonight Aggression in Move| ; Continued from Page One LONDON, Nov. 13—The British letters are being rushed out by the government has decided to place | volunteers for this work recruited armed parties aboard all British from the strike ranks. merchant vessels operating in the| Al! members of the Broad es . i Department of the Associated Yangtze River region of China to Workers’ Union are called to a mem- combat piracy, it was announced to-| bership meeting tonight in ‘‘urn jernment to consolidate their power jon the river by this moye. The Bri- tish have important investments jalong the Yangtze. District Attorney Up on Bribery Charge LOS ANGELES, N Nov. 13 (UP).— District Attorney Asa Keyes and co-defendants pleaded not guilty here today to bribery charges 5th as the date for their trial. |governor, received 78 votes, * 8 Socialist Debacle. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 13.—The de- feat of Victor Berger, socialist ‘can- didate for congress, and the-low poll date of that party for president, seen here as the strongest confir- mation that this party has been given its death blow nationally. Milwaukee, whith gave Debs | 40,000 votes. in 1920, gave Thomas about 12000 in the recent election, a loss of nearly three-fourths of the socialist defeat is to note that in the next state legislature it will have 5 past one. received by Norman Thomas, candi- | sog 18 | Associated Silk Workers contained in a grand jury indictment.|the Youth Section, Superior Judge Edmonds set Dec,| young people’s di representatives as against 10 in the) Hall at 8 o’clock. Not only will the day. Serious concern has been ex. /auestion of the coming parade be pressed in Chinese circles which eee | t#Ke2 up at this meeting, but it will pressed in Chinese circles which see | aisq consider some important de- |a new attemptrof the British gov- | velopments in the strike situation. Start Relief Drive. The Workers International Relief offices today announced that in line with the statement of Fred Bieden- kapp, national secretar, at the strikers’ mass sterday, their organization is already taking first steps to launch a national re- lief campaign to aid the suffering families of the silk strikers, Leading the picket line of over 100 at the Pelgram and Meyer Mill this morning were 25 members of recently-formed ion of the Asso- Their enthu- and the sing- ciated Silk Worke: siasm was infecticus, For ‘ing and cheering which they started these offices the socialists had no|soon spread all down the big line. | candidates. Militant Slogans. Youth Section picket captains are easily distinguished by broad white silk ribbons worn across their breasts. On each ribbon appear in large black letters the words: “Don’t b! Join the Youth Section of the Conspicuous in the picket ranks this morning were’ several “youth slogans” painted on placards carried by the youth: “Young Workers Need More Than a Living Wage,” said one, “We Demand a Growing Wage For Mind and Body.” An- HSL Gis an former | ther blazoned: “All Young Work- Election statistics show that the eee n fe eet See majoMty of former so-called social-|37 7 °C ore said another ists «voted a straight democratic awe Us ate 4n Go ee ticket. 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