The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 3

Page inree THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928 TROOPS RUSHED FOR SCAB LABOR TO CITY MARKET Entire Meat Supply Is | Threatened PARIS, Noy. 19.—A sudden strike for higher pay by drovers at La Villette cattle market caused au- thorities to rush soldier scabs from the local military garrison to the market, At the same time slaugh- ter-house workers may walk out on a solitary strike. The. strike occurred ously when the workers’ wage de- mands were turned down. Slaugh- ter-house owners and city authori- ties were so alarmed at the pros- pect of the meat supply being en- tirely cut off that troops were im- mediately sent to the market to at- tempt to break the strike and scab. Conditions are so poor in the slaughter houses that it is believed the workers will strike immedi- ately, not only in sympathy with the drovers’ but also for better working conditions for themselves. Should both strikes be complete, victory for the workers may ensue, despite whatever attempts the gov- ernment and owners may make to break the strike with troops, since the city would be entirely without meat. Uphold Japanese Right to Incorporate WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP).—/|Hoelscher for this brazen lie and/as a daily bulletin instead of as a| Japanese have the right to form commercial corporations in Califor- - nia, the United States supreme court decided today“in a suit involving the attempt of Japanese physicians and surgeons to incorporate the “Japan- ese Hospital of Los Angeles.” | spontane- Fill Negro Survivors of “Vestris” With Religious Dope The Negro surviv ors of the “Vestris”, who have been kept prisoners at the Sea- men’s Church Insti- tute, are being doped with the usual religi- ous hokum in order to make them sub- missive to all sorts of abuse. Photo shows Negro surviv- ors of the crew ata “memorial service” for their fellow- workers who went down with the rotten Lamport & Holt liner. Such “memor- ial services” have it as their purpose, of | courde, to interpret the “Vestris” disas- ter as ‘an act of god, and thus to absolve the slave - herding, profit-greedy com- pany from all blame. SILK STRIKERS TO MEET THURSDAY Membership Will Have Say on Ousters Continued on Page Two gles. “Leaders of the Passaic strike ordered workers into automobiles jand forced them to throw bombs,” Hoelscher blandly declared. Workers, however, condemned | pointed out to him that when’ it comes to fighting the bosses, Hoel- | scher isn’t there, but that he demon- | strates remarkable courage in fight- jing the left ‘wingers inside the union. The membership meeting {Thursday promises to be one of the| Lena Chernenko, left wing organ- best attended ever held by the union, |izer. Hitherto officials have denied |whether the officialdom try to halt! that these strong arm®men are a jit or not. The workers are deter-| special gang installed to do dirty mined to have their say on the most| work, but this threat dispells that |important event to occur in their or- claim. A group of them told Lena |ganization since the strike call was!Chernenko that if the left wing Jissued. Indignation runs high over) leaders had been men, they would REICHSTAG TALK _-AVOIDS ISSUES Hits Arms Despite Own Cruiser Bill BERLIN, Nov. 19.~No distinct proposat marked foreign minister Stresemann’s talk to the Reichstag cussion on foreign relations. In fact, he séemed to take great care to avoid main issues, He told the Reichstag that “au- | thoritative British opinion” sup-| ported his\view that reparations |were to be separated from the| problem of evacuation of the Rhine- | |land, and that the former problem| | must be decided from the’ “capacity of Germany to pay.” As to what af- fect any payments made by the Ger- |man government upon the workers jin industry, as is evident in the | {much to say, except that, vaguely | speaking, it should not “endanger |the living standard of the German | people.” | Stresemann insisted that | Anglo-French naval pact was dead, today, when he introduced the dis-| the! Out of Th eee: —_ i The odd-looking carriage automobile of the nigeties. Fe contraption would furnish th millions of dollars in profits thousands of workers. is Arose Mammoth Industry above Py, ees is a sport model of the infani le at that time dreamed that this for a huge industry, involving and the exploitation of hundreds of POLICE ATTACK Paris Drovers Strike tor Higher Wages; Slaughter House Men Ready to Walk Out ‘STRESEMANN IN DEMONSTRATORS IN MANCHURIA Workers Fight Rule of Japan ING, Nov. 19.—Numerous occurred between po- demonstrators in Harbin, har, Menehu ria, in which over a hundred hav jnvcd, eeeording te ‘ficial reports from thes ities, One message states that the ob. ject of the demonstrations was to protest the influx of Japanese cap ital and the accompanying increase por — jof Japanese influence in Man should make its report, He also de-| High} ose Jared that “final settlement of gf crake emp d ipl tan hints Geen eparations must rest upon founda-; (,rounds; Crew Saved: .*,” . zeae Dts tions which are wholly divorced) 4 P vane a cised over all dispatches leaving |from political considerations. They \cisive economic issues involved for all powers.” * * Count Westarp, chairman of the right wing group in the Reichstag, in a speech in the house declared, |the audacity of the officialdom in long ago have been cleaned out “by| ‘eSpite all evidence to the contrary, taking a step that the membership | considers as tantamount to smashing | the strike, without even permitting ee workers to have their say. | Meanwhile the Strike Committee not only continues its leadership on our gang.” | Another meeting of the strike Feommittee will be held tonight to | consider further preparations for the Thursday membership meeting. : |that England went into the world jand even he had to admit that a war in 1914 without the existence j tacit understanding existed between! of a formal alliance with France the British and French governments| and that “with or without an alli when he deplored the British con- |support the American opposition to |the picket lines, which are composed “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” almost wholly of left wing adher-| | Despite Germany’s own depar- ture into a new imperialism, as evi- any attempt to link the inter-allied ents, but is going right ahead with jthe issugnce of the “Silk Striker” |weekly. Due to its being made into a daily the bulletin is being issued | in mimeographed form, A squad of strong arm henchmen of the officials, who are still con- | tinuing to threaten the left wing Barred in Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., (By Mail). —The state censors have refused te permit the showing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Universal Film Company slave drama, in this state. B, Lowe, Negro actor, plays the lead this! leaders, gave- themselves away to!in the production. James | | |debts and reparations question. He denced by the Passage of the ar-|charged that the German foreign |mored cruiser "bill, Stresemann| policy was a failure and bitterly | maintained that “all separate agree-| attacked England, which, he declared, ments must be subordinated to the! could no longer be considered an goal of disarmament.” |impartial guarantor of the Locarno He further insisted that no fur-| pact after entering the Anglo- ther debate in the Reichstag on|French naval and military agree- reparations should take place until| ment. the committee of experts, to be ap- pointed by the interested powers, The Icebreaker By ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV (This vivid description of the Aretic rescue expedition of the So- viet icebreaker “Malygin,” which together with the “Krassin” sought for the Italia crew, was published recently in the Moscow “Pravda.” Yakovlev is one of the members of | the expedition.) Ks oe te The “Malygin” traversed the first few kilometers of ice almost with- | out slackening speed. The _ ice masses were small. Bobbing on the waves, they clashed, wore away at the edges and crumbled. This was not ice but rather an ice porridge. With every passing hour, however, heavier ice was encountered, rising in the path of the ship in the form of large, round floes. On these black clouds of seals were every- where to be seen. The blocks struck and scraped against the sides of the vessel. Ice, ice, ice wherever the eye turned. And the ship rap- idly drove ahead, flinging the floes to the right and left. The sunshine was dazzling, the gulls wheeled cverhead in great numbers, a large flock of them trailing along behind us, As the steamer’s serew cast a mass om small fry upon the ice, the gulls pounced upon the booty, gab- bling and squabbling. Then the jaeger, or “pirate bird,” as the sail- ors call the black bird of prey which seizes the fish from gulls, would dart down upon the gulls like an ar- row, striking them on the head or back, and as they released their prey in fright it wouid snap up the fish on the fly and soar off. We were all on the upper deck. To us all of these sights were new. All of the crew that were not busy ked gathered on the poop. Sua- denly a amember of the expedition cried out, “Look! A man’s foot- prints!” In fact human tracks could be discerned on the floes. A big man must have passed from floe to floe in heavy boots. Hydrographer Lavrov, who had | navigated many years in polar ice | and had seen such tracks countless | times, said, “It was not a man that passed there, but a white bear.” - Aha! So that’s the way he walks. But where is he? The tracks are quite. fresh. The bear must be somewhere nearby. » From the ship’s bridge comes the ery, “Look, there goes the bear ahead.” ? Not far off at all the cg was proceeding leisurely in the same direction as we. He was a huge old beast, like a big cow on short legs. He went clumsily, lazily, glancing back at the ship. A flock of gulls circled over him. His fur had yel- lowed somewhat, so that against the glistening kground of snow and ice he was completely visible down to the last detail. The “Malygin” began to catch up with him. The bear looked back more often, frightened. What sort, of uncouth monster with long black tail was chasing him? Finally we were abreast of him. Our bold hunters made ready to shoot. But the bear turned aside and trotted off, leap- ing comically from floe to floe. “An hour, another hour and still }of another passed, The floes. eens |the blows of the icebreaker, which continually made slower progress, |although the engines ran at full |speed as before. There was a she- bear with two cubs on the ice. Up- |on seeing us she hurriedly made off. |The cubs rosé up on their hind legs, |looked at us and did not follow their mother; she anxiously came back to |them and pushed them along, shak- ing her head in dissatisfaction. All around there was a great glare, so dazzling that it hurt the eyes. Everybody wore blue gog- gles for protection, but despite this |the light was still blinding. Ice fields began to be encoun- tered. Piercing through them was extremely difficult. The “Maly- gin” labored and sought out the weaker. places in the ice, but such spots became less and less fre- quent. As our leaders, Professor | Wiese and Hydrographer Lavrov |had anticipated, winter was. still in fall blast here, The snow and ice showed’ no signs of thawing and everything was tightly ‘locked in polar frost. The ice had reached a full meter in thickness. Now and then the vessel sticks in the ice, backs water and plunges against the floes with a running start. The entire ship quivers from’ stem to | stern. Our immediate objective was Hope Island. It was somewhere around there, not far‘away. Would we reach it? The whole horizon was clear, level. No sign of land. Before midnight we ran into ice four and a half feet thick. The ship, powerless to break through the wall of ice, stopped scores of times, backed water and rammed in from a running start. No! It was im- possible to smash through, It was necessary to wait. Perhaps a fa- yorable wind would blow up and dis- perse the ice, so that'we might push cn further. The engines we halted and all at once a profound silence reigned. By means of sextant and calcula- tion of bearings we promptly deter- mined our position and found that we were at that moment thirty railes from Hope Island. Wild ducks appeared in large | numbers, indicating that there must be land somewhere in the vicinity. Our hunters went out on the ice lafter seals. They were out a long. \time, but they did not succeed in shooting any, as the seals were wary and would not let the men come within firing distance. At three o’clock in the night an- other attempt was made to break through the ice. Again with short blows the ice wall was being split to the accompaniment of booming, seraping and grinding din. After hours of work the icebreaker had niattered through only seven miles. And with what labor! Hope Island. Toward morning the situation re- vealed that ice fields from ten to twelve miles wide and one-and. half meters thick barred our way to the islend. During this night (June 19) fog had been drifting around on the horizon. At eight o'clock in the morning the wind tered it and we beheld Hope Island in the distance to the right us, It was all aglitter in the bright sunshine and its four ridges visible. Never had ‘Malygin” petual snow. Its black cliffs dropped down to the sea like gigan- tic walls. It beckoned—this unex- plored island—it lured, as the un- known always does, so intense was the desire to be on it. But our route lay ahead, ahead—past the island and to the north. There somewhere was King Charles Land, and beyond it, at a distance of one hundred and eighty kilometers, Foyn Island, near which the crew of the “Italia” were encamped. We steadily receiver radio advices of what was going on out there in proximity of Foyn Island. The “Citta, di Milano” (Nobile’s relief ship) regularly communicated all the news to us, Would that we In) , waving their hats for a long while |after the departing airplane. For | the first time in the endless roll of |eenturies a steel bird was flying cver these icy waters. ... The plane had taken. off at 12:30 a. m., June 22. The stin was shin- ing high over the horizon, For ten days and nights it had not set. This night, besides the usual ship’s watch, the members of the | expedition organized a guard to act in the event of an unexpected re- jturn of the airplane. Continuous |vadio communication was main- | tained with the plane. An hour and a half had elapsed when a dense fog |suddenly descended and shrouded everything. . From the airplane the Arctic |To Allow Foreign | Investmentsin Australia Oil SYDNEY, (By Mail).—An amend- | ment to the Australia Petroleum Act ti to be submitted to the Queensland i . €\state parliament would permit for- base on King Charles Land. leign investors, and not merely Brit- Late in the evening preparations jish and Australian investors in the were begun for the flight to King | Queensland oil fields. The amend- Charles _ Land, The flyers were | ment will probably be passed. Babushkin, the pilot; Groshev, the Bar a: aS ap Taare picture operator, in the capacity of Mitten Worker, Father radio operator. Seven reserve cans to be left af the base. |_ PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 19.— Before taking off Babushkin said, | James J. Kane, conductor on the n |sary to establish an intermedia’ mechanic, and Valentei, the moving of gasoline were placed in the cabin of 10, Commits Suicide be back around six in the mornin; , ig.” | city, and father of ten children, com- It was an amazing midnight with | mitted suicide here yesterday by If everything goes well, we shall |torious Mitten trolley system of this | Ruhr metal lockout, he did not have | ™ust take due cognizance of the de- (UP) WELI iT, -Fourteen Mass, mem| Nov. of 19 the crew of the fisherman Virginia were bi rought ashore by coast guards of nehuria, but it is ascertained that local gendarmerie fired into the crowds and tore down banners and slogans. : Cahoons Hollow station, several) ON report states that the dem- hours after the schooner grounded, onstration in Harbin was directed The vessel was not seriously dam-|924inst the Japanese financing of aed ; the Chinese railroads in the prov- : ince of Kirin, In Harbin alone eae there were 15 casualties. __ FIND DEAD BODY | Another dispatch states that the NORRISTOWN, Pa, Noy. 19 demonstrations were inspired by ad- (UP).—The body of a pretty girl, |herents of the Nanking regime, who ance” England would support/a pistol bullet through her “i ‘i i fi di ; D gh her head, | desired to see Manchuria flying the Gununas ee Gane ee nee in the future. was found by a farm hand in a corn- | Koumintang flag and free of Japa- military reserve. | Westarp urged that Germany ficid near here today. |nese influence. bbb bb EEE EEE bE EEE EEE ELE EEE EEE EEE EE bE x : : E3 : AND IRVING PLAZA, 1 ROLE OF AMERICAN ~ IMPERIALISM THURSDAY EVE., NOVEMBER 22 at a eee scott Nearing will lecture on DOLLAR DIPLOMACY THE q 5th St. & Irving Pl. were speedily there! Once more }came a radio megszge that the avi- we seek a passage (water leads), | ators had also run into a fog and we lunge against the frozen bar-| were turning back. We grew’ anx- riers, but the strong east winds knit icus. How would they find the ship | the floes closer together. |and how would they make a land- Two days of fruitless efforts | ing? A tormenting hour passed. | passed and it became evident that | High up in the fog a motor began it was impossible for us to break} to hum. The sound came rearer through far into the north. We" and néarer, but the plane itself was | were wasting in vain our time and | not visible. Rockets were sent up| our supplies of coal and fresh} from the steamer and thick smoke water. Our “triumvirate,” Profes-| spouted from the stack. The air- sor Wiese, Hydrographer Lavrov | plane flew past, then turned, circled | and Aviator Babushkin, as well as | above us and landed safely, Strelkov, the representative of the} Babushkin related that the fog Communist Party—decided to halt | had prevented them from reaching the ship and commence airplane ac-| King Charles Land. They were tivities from this point. |only thirty miles away when it be- On this day 400 kilometers inter- | came necessary to turn back. The vened between us and Nobile. Our | aviators almost got lost. Only the model 13 Junkers plane could not | rockets and black smoke from the & blinding sun standing high up in |the sky. The ice and snow glis- tened. Even the lilac shadows were less marked than usual. At 12'30 the plane was ready to start. Nearly the entire expedition and part of the crew were on the ice. They bade farewell. “Bon! voyage” flags were unfurled at the mast. The airplane taxied along the ice for a short distance on its skis, rose and set off straight to the north. Within four minvtes it was lost to sight in the dazzling sunshine. We ali returned to the vessel. For the first half hour uninterrupted radio communication was main- tained with the plane, Then some- thing failed in the apparatus and contact was broken. This dis- turbed everybody. Might it be a catastrophe? The usual noisy dis- shooting Ja revolver. himself in the temple with wg The reason was not midnight | given, but there is a suspicion that Th TROTSKY OPPOSITION cast by the hummocks |he was killed by the kindness of |open-shop Mitten manag t. jease with which a worker with ter |children can get along on the wages a. conductor receives probably prompted him to this desperate act. ice. It was therefore decided to establish an intermediary base (a stock of gasoline and provisions) on the rescue work only in this marner. During these days we received the follewing radio message: “Ital- ian aviator, Madelena, located No- bile, dropped provisions. Return to ‘Citta di Milano’ greeted enthusias- tically. Nobile’s tent amid myriad M068... oo This communication aroused long discussions amongst us. Could it be that we were already late? Hurry, faster! At nine o’clock on the morning of June 21, we began preparations to lower the plane to the ice. We all worked frantically, both the crew and the members cf the expedition. We set two huge beams with heavy iron reinforcements at the ends from the vessel down to the ice. Across these beams we laid boards and along this scaffolding we low- ered the wings and tail of the plane down to the ic? and then by means of ropes we eased down the body itself, We worked until five o’clock in the evening, whereupon a trial flight was mede. The airplane quickly rose high over the ice, dis- appeared from sight and stayed up forty-five minutes. Upon their re- turn the pilot, Babushkin, and his mechanic, Groshev, related that in addition to Hope ind they had n Spitsbergen in the distance. It was decided to make a second flight direct to King Charlés Land. | Four men went on the plane—Ba- bushkin, Groshev, Lavrov, the hydrographer, and Fominykh, the radio operator, The flyers were given ean impressive «send-off. A “bon voyage” flag was raised to the masthead. Most. of the vessel’s eret directly over such a dis-| mi King Charles Land and to carry on| stack of the “Malygin” indicated the landing place. The flyers had ob- served many crevasses and thin spots in the ice. It seemed that it would be possible to push further north. We loaded the airplane on board | again, took down the scaffolding, and proceeded. We went ahead for three hours and then once more broke into such ice that the ship could move neither forward nor backward. . On this day we were informed by radio that “Amundsen flew from ‘Tromso Monday and there is no word from him yet (Thursday).” This message -had a most depres- sing effect upon us. In the long hours of enforced idleness we spoke of Amundsen, of ‘his polar expedi- tions, and we read his famous bock, “To 88 Degrees North Latitude.” Heroic Flights. During the evening of June 23. an extensive, exploration flight was carried out. It was at last indis- pensable to ascertain Whether or not it was feasible to break through the ice to the north. Chertkov himseif, the captain of the “Malygin,” flew as observer. The flight lasted about an hour. It was ascertained that it was im- possible to cut through the ice northward, There were water leads, in fact many of them, but they | were far behind the ice fields, Per- haps several weeks would be re- quired to break through to them. And time would neither wait nor permit. People stranded on icefloes may perish at any moment. The floes are driven about and break up. The sumemr thaw was just about to begin. At conference of the “trium- virate” it was decided to leave tie “Malygin” on a permanent station and begin a ee by ,aixplane. “| i cussions in the general cabin began to die down. There was little sleep- ing that night as everyone awaited six o’clock, the hour at which Ba- | bushkin had promised to be back. But at three o’clock a dense fog | descended. Fog! Oh, what a ter- | rible thing it is—this thick fog in the north. With white, bleaming density it filled everything—it was as though we were plunged in a sea of milk. In such a fog the air- plane could not fly back. The disheartening morning came and then the day dragged on. The} fog was dissipated. But the plane did not come, And anxiety—drop by drop--seeped into every heart. Restless figures spent a fitful day cn the captain’s bridge, scouring the horizon with their binoculars. Is she not flying in? No, no. 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