The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 1

nae f : “of Nicaragua to cede SCOTT NEARING TO SPEAK ON “AMERICAN IMPERIALISM AND WAR DANGER’ AT IRVING FLAZA TONIGHT. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Pout Office at New York. N.Y. under the act of March 3, 18° Vol. WV No. 277 hed datly except Sunday by The National Dally Worker ing Association, inc. 24-25 Union 8a., New York, N. ¥. _Outaide New New York by mall o> m FINAL CITY EDITION “Price 3 Cents REPORT TROOPS MUTINY IN JAPANESE STREET FIGHTS Hoover and U.S. Officers to Confer in Nicaragua EXCLUDES ALL. LATIN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MEN Will Meet Protesting Central Americans on Tour | Speeds to Nicaragua See Significance in the Trip to Canal Site BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, Nov. 21.—Under the caption “First Mistake of Hoover,” El Diario to- day brands Herbert Hoover's de- cision to exclude all Latin-Ameri- can newspaper men from his en- tourage as a serious error. The newspaper further refers to} /-Bury Seven Seamen—Victims ‘of ‘Lamport & E Holt Murder” | Photo shows part of the funeral procession of seven members of the “Vestris” crew who were among those sent to their deaths by the Lamport and Holt Company and the U. S. Shipping Board inspectors. NEW MINE UNION oe DANGERS GREA TER all the sero a up| STOPS WAGE CUT Hoover’s declaration in favor of loans to Latin-American countries, | declaring that such loans are a kind of veiled “tutelage.” “This doctrine,” the Diario states. | “implies a concealed tutelage an the inference that these countries | should attend to the development of | the producticn of those raw mater- | ials that are needed in the United of the National Miners’ Union, | Vestris alternates with the need for) now in Kentucky, declare that a real union as topics of conversa-| several thousand coal miners tion. Members of the Vestris crew under the leadership of the ®"¢ found enjoying the shelter of States.” * To Confer With McCoy. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 21. | --With the battleship Maryland speeding towards Corinto | the United States military authorities here are preparing to go thoroughly | into the situation in Nicaragua with President-elect Hoover, It is ex- pected that General: Frank R. Mc- Coy, commanding the United States forces in Nicaragua, will travel to} Corinto to meet the president-elect. Specia! significance is attached to Hoover’s intention of making his first stop in the Gulf of Fonseca, the Pacific terminus of the pro- jected Nicaragua Canal. | The gulf is in the conflicting point of ciaims of Nicaragua, Sal- vador and Honduras and has caused « protracted dispute over the right | it to the} United States as the canal terminus. | Representatives of the Honduran | gevernment will meet Hoover at} Amapala on the Honduran side of | the gulf. while the representatives of Salvador will meet the president- elect at La Union, on the opposite shore. Meets Protesting Officials. It is understood that, next to the negotiations which the president- elect is planning to make with Nicareguan officials and financiers, his conversations with the Hondu- ran and Salvadoran representatives are the most important task he has set himself in Latin America. Liberal satisfaction to the pro- testing governments to withdraw their opposition to the building of a Nicaraguan canal is expected to be cffered by Hoover during the Fonseca conferences. The itinerary of the Hoover tour, complete up to the arrival at. Val- paraiso, Chile, has been issued from the Maryland. It is as follows: “Arrive Amapala early Nov. 25, to visit Amapala end La Union; ar- rive: Corinto early Nov. 26; thence to Punia Arenas, Guayaquil, Callao vend Valparaiso. Panama will not be visited, If necessary to fuel, can do so at Panama on return voy- age. Further details willbe re- ported when determined.” “Following additional information released: Arrive Punta Arenas, Nov. 27; Guayaquil, Nov. 30; Callao, Dec. 8, and Vaiparaiso, Dec. 7.” Gitlow Will Speak on ImperialistWarDanger at Irving Plaza Sunday Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, and recent vice presidential candidate of the Party, will speak on the dan- ge: of another imperialist world war this Sunday afternoon at Irv- ing Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. With the outbreak of a world war becoming more imminent every day, with a feverish increase in build- ing of naval armaments and of armies, this exposure of the aims of the war-mongers and munitions manufacturers by Gitlow is consid- ered particularly timely. fe sonekere will be V. Mon- + 8 \ matic” KenlesilerObe Coal Diggers} Hail Victory (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21.— Telegrams received here today |r gather to exchange experiences |from John W. Watt, president at the International Seamen’s Club, new union have compelled the coal operators to withdraw a wage cut that had been pro- claimed in the Kentucky fields. A telegram from Watt says that the highest enthusiasm | prevails among the miners and| that the mine workers of the Kentucky fields are being or-| ganized into local unions affil- iated to the new National Min- ers’ Union. NEARING TO TALK ON WAR TONIGHT |Hundreds Expected at Irving Plaza Scott Nearing, well-known Com- | jmunist author and lecturer and standard-bearer of the Workers (Communist) Party in the state of New Jersey in the last election cam- paign, will speak on “American Im- perialism and the War Danger” at the Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., tonight at 8 o’clock. Nearing will analyze Coolidge’s Armistice Day speech, in which he brazenly issued a call for a bigger army and navy and announced the aims of American imperialism to the entire world. He will explain the purpose and significance of Presi- dent-elect Hoover’s trip to South and Latin America aboard the bat- tleship Maryland, and the imperial- ist motive behind this trip into the “conquered provinces.” All workers are urged to attend the meeting tonight and hear the explanation for the new burst of | American imperialism following the election of Hoover. Nearing’s talk will be followed by questions and discussion from the floor. U.S. War Labor Board to Hold Reunion Here; Sessions to Be Secret To keep alive both the spirit and the form of the World War agency which President Wilson called his “right arm and his right eye,” in the last war and which will un- doubtedly be used in the coming slaughter, members of the United States War Industries Board will hold their biennial reunion in this city tomorrow. There will be a morning session followed by a luncheon in the Ritz Carlton. Bernard M. Baruch, well known banker, who was chairman of the Board, will preside. The whole proceedings of the reunion, it was announced, will be “private.” The announcement did not say “secret,” but it is quite certain that many things will be discussed at the meet- ings which it would not be “diplo- | part of the Department of Com- U.S. CONTINUES - ‘Officials, Bought by| |Company, Blame Crew) | : | IgnoreWorkersVersion ECAUSE OF f’ NO UNION (This article is the third of a| series on the Vestris sinking, the seamen and their struggles. ised | stories will run all this week. Lo for them.—Editor’s Note.) * * * PLAGE GUILT ON - LAMPORT & HOLT Harlem Meeting Backs Negro Seamen By HARRISON GEORGE Along the waterfront, where sail- 28 South St. the sinking of the Harlem, was packed last night with an enthusiastic audience of some | the club, the one real workers’ cen- ter on the docks. |by the Negro Labor Congress to Seamen laughed Jong and. loud at Protest against the frame-up against the flitry eaused’in the supposed | the Negro crew of the sunken Ves- “investigation” when a letter was! 'S- read by U. S. Attorney Tuttle, ap-| Otto Huiswood, who opened the | parently from some worker who meeting as chairman, declared that couldn’t spell very well but who had the Negro crew of the Vestris, many the low-down on the inspectors, He|°f Whom were present at the meet-| declared the inspectors were drunk. ss plate being ee Bestar Hoover’s “Efficiency” Inspectors a ue a ee oe ee It must be remembered that the Se ae ee ei any in the loss of 111 lives, Steamboat Inspection Service is a Le On vaio Two fae merce, and that a fellow who is | touted as the most.“efficient” of all \efficiency experts, Herbert Hoover, jis and has been head cf that de-) |partment since Harding and the Ohio, | gang went into power. Joe Bauxill, Negro fireman from the Vestris, addressed the audience. He told how he had worked on the Vestris as fireman since 1926, When the ship went down he had | had nothing to eat for two days, | |more boats like her.” | | went on deck to see what was the | | the boat fo rthree or four days. Do “Drunk?” say the sailors, “Of| because of the disorganization | course they were drunk. That is one of the requirements, so to speak, of ja government inspector. A man eau have to be drunk to pass such old tubs as the Vestris and a lot was tied in the stokehold the day the ship sank. He waited for orders, but no or- ders came. The officers were not carrying out their duties. When he “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry” “You see, the inspectors stay On| iow again and threatened to beat you think they pay for their meals? Not on your life! They get the best grub there is, at.company expense. Do you think that the captain and first mate and the rest don’t make! them feel at home and among friends | —a few bottles of the real stuff is not to be sneezed at, you know?| Of course they are all keyed up,| and would pass any old ship that) would’ stay above water long enough} for them to sign the inspection papers! ‘Rigidly examined!’ Oh, my eyel” The motto of the inspectors is “Kat, drink and be merry, tomorrow somebody else dies!” Abolish Coffin Ships! Then the seamen tell why organiz- ation, not by some scabby outfit like the I. S. U. (International Seamen’s Continued on Page Two habit they have. Only five minutes before the ship | went down did the Negroes from Continued on Page Two Norway, USSR Miners | in Joint Conference (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, USSR. Nov. 21.— Upon the receipt of a proposal from thé Norwegian Miners’ Union to call a joint conference to arrange for a friendship a, ment, the Miners’ Union of the Soviet Union agreed to hold the conference at Oslo, in January. chargeable to the officers, Yet he | matter, the officers ordered him be- | him and the other firemen up—a| St. Luke’s Hall, on 130th St. in by the officials in charge of the) 1,300 people at the meeting called | | | | U.S. Capital Safe BIG FRAME-UP OF VESTRIS CREW for Disaster A. B. Leguia, president of Peru, has succeeded in inducing the politicians of the three major parties to promise support in the next elections. Hoover will be there shortly to take care of the rest. ‘Complete ~ Whitewash of Co., U. S. Seen With deadly precision, and disre- - MONEY BILLINGS ISSUE AT A. FL |Expect Convention to |egainst the Lamport and Holt Co. and the U. S. and British anna | authorities, the government “i —— | tigation” yesterday continued ra |tempts to shift the responsibili for the Vestris disaster from it own official shoulders onto the shoul-! {ders of the heroic members of the crew. This was again evidenced in the, T)odge Resolution | spirit under which the investigations | be alae on ‘haps As in| (Special to the Daily Worker) ie other days of the questioning.| 7 Ig | members of the crew were bullied,|,, NEW ORLEANS eerie the A. F. of L. officialdom in con- j intimidated, given severe grillings| tion here will ether sidetrack or carefully modify a Mooney and Billings resolution presented to the |convention became clear today when investigation, whéreas the wealthy | | passengers and officers of the ship |were allowed to make their nee | |uninterrupted, and were given im- | | mediate credence by the board. Fail to Hide All Faéts From the great amount of testi- olutions committee. | Albert M. Anderson, of the Pav-| jing Cutters’ Union, brought in the | resolution, which was couched in |mony, however, further facts were|the mildest language possible, and elicited indicting the management | “requests” Governor Young of Cali- and inspection of the ship. New|fornia to release Mooney “and all |eharges of faulty equipment, and| other workers un. mismanagement were hurled against |cns of California.” the shipowners. One witness said| Mild as the demand is, however, |that the equipment of the lifeboats| observers believe that the reaction- Continued on Page Five lary A. F. of L. officials who played \their part twelve years ago in oil- the d2mand was referred to the res- | stly held in pris- | PICK DELEGATES ing the wheels of the frame-up will | |do nothing effective to secure the | release of class war prisoners. * * * Reaction Rules. |to the left wing Cloak and Dress- 10 CONVENTION mk elaine: er, 2 iets at the convention of the lavieriewd Federation of Labor in session here indicate that resolu-| tions for the stricter enforcement of | Cloak Union Holds Nomination Rallies | immigration, demands for the ex- ‘clusion of Mexican and Philippine This week the first of a series of |workers and other resolutions for meetings of local unions St AiEred |e application of quota provisions lof the law to Latin-American coun. makers’ Union is to be held here for| tries will be passed. the purpose of nominating their dele-) Jiarry W. Fox, of the Wyoming gates to the coming national conven-| state Federation of Labor, pre- tion, scheduled to begin Dec. 29. The | conted the model reactionary resolu- election of delegates will about be tion on this subject with a demand |concluded when the last meeting that the executive council “support jtakes place next Friday evening. | -ny and all measures that will fur- Members of the left wing cutters ther restrict immigration by ex- branch of the Joint Board will hold tending the quota laws to other their meeting this Thursday evening countries.” at 7 o’clock in the Join Board head- quarters, 16 West 21st St. Next to meet after the Thursday meeting of the cutters will be the) Pressers Local 35 and Operators! Local 2. They are to hold their lo-| BOSTON, (By Mail).—Members cal meetings Monday evening in| of the musicians’ union have gone Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St.,/ on strike in 16 movie houses oper- immediately after work. In two) ated by the Netoco Theatres Corp. other halls the same night Finishers! Musicians were discharged in four ‘Boston Movie House Musicians on Strike Local 9 and Local 3 will also meet theatrd’ which installed sound de- Continued on Page Five vices. (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Nov. 21.—After a day of thoroughgoing debate in which all of its members participated, the Tri-District Finnish Language Fraction Conference (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit) brought in a reso- lution vigorously supporting the Central Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and demanding the most energetic measures against all opportunists, against all enemies of the Party, whether already outside or within its ranks. The resolution committee of the conference consisted of delegates from coal pits, steel mills, machine shops and building trades. TO FIGHT TROTSKYISM. The problem of drawing the Finnish comrades and workers more organically into the Party’s activities and life, into the class struggle, were examined thoroly. Special attention was given to the steps to be taken to.improve the social composition and ideological strength of the Finnish membership of the Workers (Communist) Party. Great emphasis was laid on fighting the right danger in the Workers Party and the menace of Trotskyism, which the conference recognized as one of the erassest expressions of the right danger. ra This conference, which, along with the conferences on the iron Tange and copper country, consists of the proletarian backbone of the Finnish membership in the Workers Party, expressed its unreserved sup- port of the Central Committee in its fight against the right ee in - ss i i 4 ‘ FINNISH PROLETARIANS AGAINST TROTSKYISM Demand nd Expulsion of Sulkanen, kanen, Askeli Support Cei Central Executive Committee The conference, after spirited debate, ‘Of a highly instructive char- acter unanimously adopted a resolution as follows: The Tri-State Conference of the Finnish Fraction, held in Cleve- land, November 17, 1928, representing the most industrial section of the country, emphatically approves the action of the Central Executive Committee in disciplining members of the Finnish Fraction. We demand that the Central Executive Committee expel Sul- kanen, Ohryn, Askeli and others who, by their own testimony and action, have attacked the Party and the Comintern and are lining up with the enemies of the Party. We demand that the Central Executive Committee clean our ranks of all Trotskyist, anti-Party elements so that we may meet the coming struggle and the danger of war, and become a Bolshevik Party, capable of leading and mobilizing the workers for the class struggles. All in all, the comrades who were delegates at this conference, and who recall previous gatherings of this character, are at one in their | -De- | 29 WORKERS KILLED AS POLICE OPEN FIRE ON MASS DEMONSTRATIONS IN CITIES Stringent Censor Stops Wows of All But 200 Arrests in Tokio, Osaka, Kioto Clashes Soldiers and Police in Two-Day Battle as New Emperor Mounts Throne | LONDON, Nov. tween Japanese workers 2t —Reports of open street fighting be- and the police, accompanied by a re- volt of sections of the imperial troops during the enthrone- ment ceremonies on Nov. SILK WORKERS WIN VICTORY Force Officials to Call Member Meet (Snecial ta the Dailu W PATERSON, N. J. N decisive victory was req the member: of the Associated Silk Workers’ Union. when thev compelled their officialdom to cani- tulate to their demand for a mem- bershin meeting, which will be held this Saturday afternoon in a hall as yet to be announced. Condemn Right Wine. Declaring as their indisyutable contention that the overwhelming maiority of the membership stands \behind theew% their condemnation of the right wing Joint Board for the strikebreakine act of dissolving the militant Strike Committee, left wing leaders of that Strike .Com- mittee yesterday announced that since one of their demands had been for a chance to let the mem- bershiv act on the auestion at issue, |they decided to call off the mem- bership meeting originally called by |them for Thursday. This statement was made by the left wing leaders at the strikers’ meeting, right after the offici announced the calling of a mass meeting. When Organizer Yanerelli made the announcement, scores of work- ers thruout the hall shouted ela- tion at thus forcing the officials to concede the membership their right /to determine for themselves wheth- ex the act of dissolving a e committee in midst of a bitter struggle against the employers was an act of smashing the strike or not. No amount of questioning from the floor as to why the Joint Board had suddenly changed its former stand—that of not calling a mem- bership meeting—could make the officials on the platform answer. Victory For Membership. At the meeting this morning, Ger- trude Mueller, secretary of the Strike Committee, asked for the Continued on Page Three CALL FORUM FOR FUR RANK & FILE DiscussAmalgamation, New Agreements The popularity which the open forums have been accorded by the fur workers, since they began about two weeks ago, has caused the Joint Board to come to a decision to call them with greater and greater fre- quency. An open forum will be held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the |Joint Beard headquarters, 22 East |22nd St., it is announced. The most important problems be- fore the workers in the fur indus- try at the present time will come up |for discussion. These include the question of the coming amalgama- tion between the Furriers Union jand the Cloak and Dressmakers | | Union, the question of forcing all | jthe fur manufacturers in the indus- i and 12, today leaked thru the tringent government censor- ship. The story reached the Manchester Guardian, a Bri- tish liberal organ, via the of- ficial Chinese Kuomin News Agency. Twenty- nine we shot down under the ident fire of the troops in the streets of Twkio is the imum s which can be accepted. § a wi unknown killings in the hu dustrial city of Osaka, the largest in the em- pire, and the neighboring city of "| Kioto, the total is unquestionably much larger. The meager dispatches thru the Chinese source intimate that follow- ing the order to fire upon the work- ers part of the troops revolted and turned their guns on the police. The total of wounded workers and soldiers wounded during the two days fighting is placed at 69 by the |Kuomin dispatch. At least two hundredgi@* were “arrested.” No report of vourt martials has been permitted to elude the censor. The Kuomin agency in delivering its dispatch declares that the facts are en reliable and adds that the strict censorship prevented for- eign correspondents from cabling news of the outbreaks. At the same time, no news relating to the revolt of the troops or the shooting of the workers is permitted to appear in the Japanese press. The outbreaks said to have been led by members of the Japan- ese Communist Party. 60 Wounded In Tokio, LONDON, No (UP).—The Manchester Guardia Shanghai correspondent said today that the Chinese official Kuomin News Agency at Tokio reported that Continued on Page Three WILL FIGHT SCAB ‘IL NUOVO MONDO" Printers’ Local 261 to Rally Unionists Local Members of 261, Typo- ~ronhical Union. yesterday voted full support to their officers and executive hoard in the fight against the scab “I] Nuovo Mondo.” socialist daily newsnaner. which has locked out its union printers and has im- ported strikebreakers preparatory to instituting the open shop. At a special membership meeting held at union headquarters, 28 Prince St.. a unanimous vote of condemnation was passed following a report to the rank and file by 0. Schettini, president, and A. Renzi, |secretary of the union. A decision to carry the fight to a successful finish was ordered. In a signed statement issued to the Daily Worker yesterday the members of the Executive Council of Local 261, stigmatized the strike- breaking conduct of the socialist “Il Nuovo Mondo,” and called upon their “fellow unionists” to fight against the open shop drive of this paper. The statement follows: Declares Lockout. The “Il Nuovo Mondo,” hith- erto considered a working class, socialist and anti-fascist news- paper, has locked out its compos- ing room employees because they |try to sign agreements with the !aft| refused to work at a wage scale | |wing Joint Board when the so-called | below that which was stipulated |agreement now in existence expires| in the contract between the pa- at the end of January, and a thor- ough consideration of the conven- | tion problem itself, | When the first forum was called some two weeks ago, these forums | per and the Italian Typographical Union 261. ‘ Il Nuovo Mondo is overeat the open shop. e Il Nuovo Mondo has imported. conclusion that this was the most constructive gathering of Finnish Com- being attended only by the unem-| scabs from out of town and is’ munists yet held in this territory. Many results are expected from the | ployed, only about 100 attended. At| making them work 9 and 10 how work. | deliberations of the gathering for the ideological. and organizational | strengthening of the Party and for the extension of its political influ-| ence over the ranks of Finnish workers and exploited farmers in| the country. wane the last forum more than 300 ers crammed the hall, necessitating the turning away of many tried to get in. t Continued on Page Two The Workers (Communtaty fights for the enactment of | hour, S-day week,