The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 3

1 : 6 & ¥ % German ‘\ \ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK , THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928 RUHR BOSSES IN NEW ATTACK ON METAL WORKERS Socialists Aiding in Tricking Men Back (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 14.—The employ- ers in the heavy industry of .the Ruhr are encouraged by the Duis- burg verdict of the Labor Court suppfrting their lockout of the metal workers and are joyful at the readiness to compromise shown by the reformist trade union leaders. The employers now plan a new at- tack on the workers, Negotiations were held today, conducted by the social democratic government president of Duessel- dorf. The bourgeois press is of the , Pinion that the employers will pro- pose to resume work under the old terms: while negotiations continue. This would mean to wear away the spirit of resistance of the workers and end in their complete defeat. An American Trick. The plan of the bosses is to get the men back to work, and continte negotiations until the end of Janu- ary, the terms of the old and new agreements then to be applied to the time between now and January. The intention of the ‘employers to force the workers to a complete surrender is obvious. The trade union leaders fall in line with the employers and are ready to per- suade the men to return to the old terms. In the Reichstag the debate on the Ruhr lockout continues. Brandes, the president of the German Metal Workers’ Union, involved in the struggle, railed at the Communist Party and against the committees eracy, He advocated government mediation. The German nationalists, Lin- Geiner and Wildau, were delighted at the united front on the arbitra- tion question from the social demo- erats to the German nationalists. Moldehauer, in behalf of the peo- ple’s party, welcomed the Duisburg verdict as “a suitable basis for nego- tiations.” Colosser, of the economic party, praised the Bri trade union lead- ers for maintaining “economic peace,” especially MacDonald, who agrees to wage reductions to “pre- serve peace.” The democrats and others demanded reforms of the ar- kitration system. Argentina Is Finally Forced to ‘Welcome’ Hoover War Mission WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UP).— President Irigoyen of Argentina has informed the American embassy in Buenos Aires that President-elect Hoover would be “most welcome” in Argentina on his South American elected by the Ruhr workers in de- | fiance of the trade union bureau- | trip, the state department announced today. ‘There has been previously several days of suspense concerning the delay in forwarding of Argen- tina’s invitation to Mr. Hoover. President Irigoyen’s invitation was extended verbally through the | minister of foreign affairs to John Campbell White, American charge de affaires. A more formal invita- tion is expected to be sent through the Argentine embassy here within e day or two, Social Democratic L Puppet Pp & sie ENS GOMEZ VENEZUELA PRESIDENT MACHADO CUBA ete The puppet presidents of va borate preparations for kissing when he visits their countries on | South America; Hoover and his on which he will make his trip. residents to Greet Their Chief fER\0 DF | * oe some of these sycophant presidents, including the bloody dictators, Gomez and Machado; a map of eePMonrevioio y BREEDS ioe rious Latin and South American re: the ground \before their his forthcoming junket to publics are already making ela- new imperialist chief, Herbert Hoover, the colonies of Wall Street. Above are son Allan who will accompany him; and the dreadnaught Maryland WOMEN ACTIVE IN CHINA UNIONS \Beat Forelady Who Mistreats Them SHANGHAI, Noy. 14.—Sturdy Chinese working women, imbued with the growing development of la- bor ideas, writes the North China) | Daily News, continue to surpass the |mere men among the Chinese labor- ing population in forceful applica- tion of ideas into practice. Early yesterday morning, a large number of women employes of the Nikka Cotton Mill, a Japanese con- cern at Poetung, stirred up by |claims of harsh treatment, waited) “outside the mill for one of the fore-| |women and seriously assaulted her.) |The woman was badly beaten and | was eventually rescued by the Chi- | nese police. Nearly 4,000 women workers from |nine silk filatures in West Nonkew | district did not report for work yes- terday as a culmination of the recent | strike which tied up many filatures. ‘The socialist party endorses the robber League of Nations, the fake Kellogg peace pact and creates the illusion that war can be abolished under capitalism, Down with these traitors to the working class? SPANISH DICTATOR-_IS _| PLANNING FOR WAR r By P. NOEL, Barcelona. FTER the festivities arranged by by the, government to celebrate the fifth’ anniversary of the coup d'etat, P).mo de Rivera felt it in- cumbent upon him to issue a mani- festo to the Spaniards. It had be- come exident that such a proclama- tion was necessary in order to coun- teract the pessimism, which had seized upon the reactionary elements after the failure of the demonstra- tions in honor of the dictatorship. It is hardly to be assumed that this appeal will suffice to remove the impression left by the thousands of arrests made in connection with the so-called plot of September 12, for these arrests have brought.the “pop- ularity” and “stability” of the gov- ernment under a very searching light. As a matter of fact it is appar- ently a question of a banal mani- festo intended to raise the spirits of the supporters of the “patriotic union” by means of high-sounding phrases about the “grandiose” sup- port, which public opinion has ren- dered to the “patriotic union”, But ho wthings are in reality in regard to the “popular enthusiasm” for the dictatorship and the dictator him- self has been all too clearly shown, and as the real facts are so un- pleasant, Primo de Rivera was ob- liged to find fault with the majors. who paid out of public means the return journey of all those who went there to cheer for the regime. Primo de Rivera declared that up to the 1st of January udmittance into the “patriotic union” is _ possible, although only a few months ago he had announced ceremoniously that _ after September 13th he would ac- ‘cpt no more supporters in his party But it is not these admissions |which represent the decisive charac- |teristie of this proclamation pub- llished by the dictator. It is also ‘not only the assurance. given on other occasions, that the “patriotic union” will, within measurable time, take the power out of the hands of the dicctator, nor is it even the weight attaching to the corpora- tive organization, those famous com- mittees, which are intended to sup- port the dictatorship and which are zealously propagated by the soccial- ists. The essential point in this manifesto is that it is admitted: Spain is preparing for war! Naturally, this. admission is not and could not be made openly. But it is contained in it indirectly and ‘in a veiled form. This is all the |more important, as it is the first time in which there has been men- tion in an official document of the dictator of Spain’s preparation for the imperialist war, and this men- tion is quite clear, although it is masked. As was to be expected, this thesis is promulgated in the form which has now become classic in the eyes of the international bourgeoisie: it is not the imperialist war for which preparations are being made; no, only “defense against possible at- tack.” Spain is to devote If dur- ing the coming period to the task of “reorganizing and co-ordinating fleet, army and air force in order to achieve maximum effect with a mini-’ mum exertion of force... We must have the assurance that all moral, material and technical elements suf- fice to effect the arming of the ter- ritory of the fatherland in the very shortest time against eventual at- Wall St. Agent in | Equador Arouses Ire Because of Insults QUITO, Equador, Nov. 14.—A scandal has arisen here concerning the actions of Harry Tompkins, a North American hired by the Equa- dorian government at the “recom- mendation” of the’ American state department, to superintend the banks of the republic. Tompkins, in his report to the na- tional assembly, used the most in- sulting language against the high| officials of Equador, it is charged, and ended by blaming the govern- | tock exchange, who spoke on “The| ment for the ineffectiveness of his | Factor of Credit in American Busi-| work, , |ness” before the New York Credit | The Minister of the Interior has | Men's Association Tuesday evening. sent a complaint to the Supreme| “One surprising change in the Court asking that the agreement |PTesent methods of «employing with Tompkins be canceled because |°redit”, Simmons said, “has been the | almost complete disappearance of of his failure to carry out the tasks y 2 3 and his incompetence to manage the | °ld-fashioned prime commercial BASIC CREDIT CHANGES SEEN Super-Profits Lead to! New Stock Issues A revolution is taking place in the method of financing the expansion |of business enterprise in the United States, according to E. H. H. Sim-| mons, president of the New York job. paper and at the same time the con- tinual increase in loans made upon security collateral, not merely in Boston to Hold Big) wali Street, but’ throughout the Anti-Fascist Meeting "i | Sunday at Scenic Hall) ;,— aera In non-technical language the} (Special to the Daily Worker) change referred to méans that cor- ‘BOSTON, Noy. 14.—An interna- | porations instead of as in the past | tional mass meeting, to protest borrowing money for expansion and for other purposes from their banks against the fascist terror and the | latest outrages of the Mussolini on credit, are now almost uniformly | ; issuing new stock, which is offered regime in Italy and in America, has |to the public and to bankers. | been called by the Italian fraction| That there is now always an of the Workers (Communist) Party for Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. at abundance of money to buy up these a 1 stock and bond flotations is to be ex- ‘the Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkley St. plained by the fact that a huge un- “Every day the reign of terror employable surplus is now being de- rived by American capitalism. Tis in Italy grows worse,” the call reads | steadily rising surplus fights for re- Pointing out that the fascist activi-|investment and is always ready to ties in the United States are becom- |buy itself back into profitable in-| ing more vicious, the call urges the | dustry. united efforts of the working class ‘ to defend its militants against the Mussolini terrorists. Speakers at the meeting will. be: In Italian, Vanni Montana, Gildo Mazzarella and Guido Serio. In English, Harry J. Cantor. Stephen Puleo will preside. A large attendance is expected. Chain Will Break. That this process cannot go on in- definitely is self evident. Huge sur- plus profits of industry, reinvested in the same or in other industries in the form of enormous new stock is- \sues which in turn call for huge super-profits frém the same indus- tries—obviously the chain will have to be broken somewhere. No one can tell yet how soon or in what form the crash will come, but that it is being prepared, there can |be no doubt. MAN KILLED BY TRAIN. CHESTER, Pa., Nov. 14 (UP).— William J..Oglesby, 75, retired mu- sician, was killed today when struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train while walking on a trestle bridge near here, We demand the immediate aboli- | tlon of all vagrancy Inws: protec- tion of unemployed workers from arrest on charges of vagrancy. These war-like promises were shortly confirmed by sensational! facts. On the one hand, in accord- ance with the organization plan, which was recently adopted for the navy, two new cruisers. will. shortly bp put upon the stocks; on the other hand, the ministerial. council lately resolved to buy abroad a quantity of cannon, machine guns and other implements of war, which cannot be manufactured in the Spanish natio- nal factories. These insane armament designs of the dictator evidently correspond with the requirements of imperial- ist world policy.. The part played by Spain among the big bourgeois nations is not a prominent one, but as the country boasts of having 22 Up to the present, in the matter of international policy Spain has fol- imperialism. Great Britain exploits Spain in con nection with its mediterranean pi icy. ‘But the object of all the m tary preparation at present in pro gress is chiefly the Soviet Union. Under the leadership of Great Britain, Spain has apparently joined the concern of the imperial- ist powers, which are actively pre- paring for war against the work- ers’ republic. This is the real sense of the mani- festo recently issued by Primo de Rivera to “his” Spaniards and also the sense of the last sentence, in lowed the line prescribed by British | In the first place. | READY FOR FIGHT ‘Driver Exposes Tricks | of the “Yellow” Continued from Page One 5% or maybe five days a week be- fore this so-called raise. From now on we work six days or more per week. We are speeded up 20 per cent and we get 2% per cent raise, while the company gets double the “increase” which the speed-up will bring us. No one would think that he was lucky if he was “permitted” to work extra hours at 2% per cent increase. Time and one-haif and double time rules in unions for overtime. But we want not more, but less hours of slavery. More Jokers. Also, the commission for drivers employed under 2 years will be 374% per cent if these rules are not vio- lated. But it will be only 32 per cent in case of violation. tion? Our Bosses! Before Nov. 4 these’ rules were on the books, but not enforced— especially the one about the correct day off. But the penalty then was only a reduction of 3 per cent (from 85 per cent down to 32 per cent). What have we really got to look forward to? Men employed four vears or more and who aceept “Gold Stars” to wear on their cabs and uniforms, the significance of which is supposed to be seniority, but is really that of sympathy for the company, receive only 41 per cent under the new scale. Thus a man may be “raised” 3% per cent in {four years. To make the old-timers | behave, the 5 per cent fine for fail- jure to comply with the new rules applies also to them. | And to round off the analysis of jthis “gift from the gods”-—the fine imay be made for working less than ten hours per day! We have al- | ways been expected to work that | many hours, but the new rule gives |an opportunity to the company to threaten us with the fine for check- ing in early or otherwise not put- ting in ten hours. Fight For a Union. Fellow drivers, we need a union badly, This writer, working with you for the same slave-driving boss, will continue writing stories for the Daily Worker about the Yellow. A great deal more remains to be ex- posed—the hours, the actual average | earnings, the time lost in the shop, the dirty,, rotten trick of taking money out of our pay for “dead mileage,” the benefit association and whom it benefits. Many chapters remain to be written about this “healthy, outdoor work at which men average $55 per week,” quot- ing from the company employment ads. *@e Write to the Daily Worket, fel- Jow drivers. This paper is your best friend.—it will give your name ful! million inhabitants, it is an import. ant réservoir of cannon fodder and it assumes strategic significance and, moreover,, it must not be over which the dictator calls upon every | hody to hold himself in readiness | to respond promptly to the eventual summons “of the fatherland and the. tacck,” looked as a purveyor of foodstuffs. | King.” i protection, and will publish your Ict- lie to “ear in sive the nege y ter so that we the eommeny tins,” lard this copy ont en i eaders Are Awaiting Defeat of Anti Cruis er Measure Who will decide what is viola- | Partial returns from western) Pennsylvania show New Kensington, | Foster and Gitlow 4; socialists 35; Arnold, Foster and Gitlow 26, Thomas 30; Parnassus, Foster 8; | Thomas 13. In Kinloch the Red} candidate for U. S. Senator, W. J. | | White, sectired nine votes as against | lone for the socialist candidate. In Springdale, Foster and Gitlow re- ceived three votes, Thomas. five, Another Socialist Defeat. Incomplete reports from Ramsey County, Minn., containing the city | |of St.“Paul, show that Foster and Gitlow received 307. Vincent R. | Dunne, for U. S, Senator, received | 520 votes and .. O. Bentall for gov- jernor received 460, Thomas F.| | Foley, Red candidate for congress, secured 600 votes. In this county | Thomas received 450 votes, which is | said to be less than one-fifth that | secured by the socialists in previous | elections in St, Paul. Reports from Rice County, Minn., show that Foster and Gitlow re- ceived 87 votes. The Red candidate | for U. S. Senator received 203 votes | | and the candidate for governor re-| | ceived®57. Foley, running for con-| | gress, received 1,399 votes. In this | |county the Communist election watchers charge that large steals were made of the votes of Foster and Gitlow and of those of the other candidates, as shown in the dis- crepancy between the votes cast for | Foley and those cast for the presi-| dential candidates, Reports from St. Louis County, Minn., which contains the city of Duluth, show that the Communist ticket secured 1,554 votes for presi- |dent; for governor, 1,546 votes; for U. S. senate 1,153; for U. S. con- gress 1,826, Reports from Hen- nepin County, Minn., show that Fos- ter and Gitlo. received 434 votes, |Dunne for U. S. Senator received 1,121, Bentall for governor received 450. Hedland running on the Farm- jer-Labor Party ticket for congress, whom the Workers Party endorsed, | received 14,000 votes. Thomas re- ceived 1,404 votes in this county. Strong Vote In Pennsylvania. Returns from Lackawanna | County, Pa., show Foster on the | Labor Party ticket, 42, on the Work- ers Party, eight, total for Foster | 50; Thomas 23. In Scranton, Party workers charge hundreds of votes | were stolen from the Red ticket. No complete reports are yet avail- able for this city. In Oliphant, eight votes were cast for Foster and Git- low. Here too, it is estimated that about one-half the Red votes were stolen, In Clairtown, a very small town, returns show socialists 13, Commu- nists 17. . Selina, 0., reports three votes for the Red ticket with no returns re- ported for the socialist party. alse Report of Jobs Lures Many Workers MINNEAPOLIS, (By Mail). — Thousands of workers have been lured to Minneapolis by false re- ports of a building boom. As a} result, the -already serious unem: | rloyment situation has been made.) |more acute, the scheme by calling it a “proposi-| tion to rehabilitate the coal. mining | industry in New South Wales.” The government offers to rebate 50 cents | per ton in royalties to the coal bosses, and also make rebates haulage and other charges. on The |federal government is also making |of the measure to ab attractive offers to the coal opera- tors, The only sacrifice to be in- curred by the bosses to “rehabilitate the industry” is a small decrease in the price per ton. ; | Fails to Kill Toral, Obregon Kin Ends Life | | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14.—Foiled | in an attempt to kill Jose de Leon Toral in revenge for the assassina- | tion of his uncle, Captain Jesus Ob- ; regon returned tonight to his home | and committed suicide. by guaranteeing the original dis- bursements. Hope For Defeat of Bill. It is the opinion of official cir- cles that the social democrats are placing their reliance on the defeat andon the con- struction program, which the form- er were compelled to introduce due to mass pressure. The leaders of the catholic cen- trist party have supported the con- struction program and will instruct their followers either to vote as @ body against the measure or to ab- stain from voting. In either case, the social democrats will be satis- fied and General Groener will have his way. FISHING SCHOONER MISSING. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Nov. \14 (UP).—Fear was felt last right soe is e TE Se eee Stew Saal 3 WORKERS CLASH Coolidge Beats Imperialist Tom-Tom PLAY A WAITING WITH FASCISTS | GAME: MONEY IS ae | 1 | | | 5 : THRUQUT AUSTRIA, PAID FOR SHIPS | Jnrest Grows on 10th Centrists Expected to | Anniversary Day Swing Vote ‘ VIENNA, Nov. 14.—Ning were Cae Tren : stabbed and 35 workers were ar- | BERLIN, Nov, -14—iegn a rested in Innsbruck yesterday when | the ‘completion of the arse fascisti and police attacked a dem-| democratic government's nawad onstration of workers protesting | building program flamed out again Jagainst the celebration of the 10th today “with, he" airecurce aa anniversary of the formation of the | General Grocnes ee ae republic. | fense, that he had already exceeded Reports of political strife, work- | his department's budget by at least aaa ers’ demonstrations and clashes be- | $5,700,000 by ‘orders pinced Sam \ tween the fascisti and the workers | structing a new battleship. The ala @ |continue to filter into Vienna from | lotment. for the. defense: dea all parts of Austria. if Se hse arial Aigo = fieapite: tha aitamat on the part | stated that he had already placed of the government to have the | orders for $8,000,000 with variams bration pass off without incidents | German armament concerns, 2am inconvenient to it, these reports dis- | which a first installment of $1,000 pel all illusions as to “peace” after 000 had already been paid. Be the provocation of the armed fas- Announcement of the excess eX- cist parade last month. penditure was made in a cabinet There is much criticism of the} meeting presided over by Chancellor Seipel regime and the government | Mueller, social democratic head of is now charged with having openly | the government, yesterday. taken sides with the fascist organ- ee E Hindenburg Backs Jingo Program ization, the Home Defense Corps, as meen aman nn POR ff ann ee = , The situation, bien i con a result of the conferences held he- | eo eee ee 2) $ ; ably involved in the political strug- \éwaen|,the. government. .and.. the! Pera oe ibe a eae sigan au a hdehdiag h calling for gles of the various parties over the ; i eas , , . This, 4 f day by President Hinden- crs Reena one Kellogg “peace” pact, is part of the official emoke-sereen to dupe ay cnipuccement that. Cia | Seipel Seeks Presidency. - RCEAGE ERO he NEGLI per idesb: SlauyAter. proved the naval construction pro- | . ‘ % gram undertaken by Minister VIENNA, Nov. 14.—Dr. Michael | | Groener, his former comrade, and |Hainisch, who on December 9 will RED VOTES HOLD | WSTRALIA COAL would demand that Chancellor Muel- __ |finish his second four-year term as | ‘ ler withHold his vote: ih. event) aa |President of Austria, announced to- motion to discontinue the building day his “willingness to serve as 5 program comes up in the Reichstag Chancellor Seipel’s figure-head for | CE CU | during the latter part of the week. another. four years. | “Socialists” Want Bigger Navy. In ey one fact that Seipel is pase pea ee | It is generally accepted in the now introducing a measure in par- of : . | wi ions which are takin liament to amend the constitution in| SOCialists Loss in Ohio|Government in Scheme |Mi2. P the Reichstag lobbies today |such a way as to provide for direct ; : | the social democrats. are. plas [etestion for the prebident and more Is Biggest Yet to Aid Bosses ae very clever game and that the power to him, many believe that a‘ Sore * a at ‘ which at first glance Seipel would rather have the presi- Gomis ret ere Pans ane sen waus ee te Slay pag pele to them, e in dency should his bill pass the legis- | Party has, scarcely had an oppor-|1i04'a proposal whereby a ware eut|Teality, steering in exactly the di- lature, tunity to function and where re- equal to O aeyite akan, lil ke Gea lrection they desire. se eR SLOUIN cently an open attack was made on |1, the coal miners. ‘The proposal is| This opinion is predicated on the y Communist meetings, leading to ar- | being stoutly resisted b: the ti cers,|understanding that the leaders of CHICAGO CABMEN rests and persecutions, the Red | ho state that their wages are down the social democratic party have ticket polled 69 votes by the ad-|5"Sedrock, and that a further cut {consistently shown the most friend- |mission of the boss election watcha) 1) asnlttin -eelecation lly attitude towards the naval con- ers. This is considered remarkable| “ t6 provincial government cloaks|struction campaign and that they |under the conditions, have demonstrated their friendliness ~ Obregon, when visiting the cell | for nearly a score of coastwise fish- of the convicted slayer, drew a gun, |ing schooners which left here Sun- but was prevented from firing by | day and have not been reported since prison attendants. Obregon is said|a fierce northwest storm swept the to be unbalanced in mind, He had | eastern seaboard Monday. made attempts previously to kill an Three of the vessels reported at officer and was called mentally ir- {Restoration Harbor but no word has responsible by the court which ar- | been received from the rest of the raigned him. fleet. REMEMBER THE MURDER OF SACCO & VANZETTI! SAVE SHIFRIN SEND YOUR DONATION AT ONCE TO SHIFRIN DEFENSE COM- MITTEE. ROOM 603, 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. 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