The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1928, Page 3

t f Workers School Opens DAILY we ORKER, NEW TORE: MOND‘ AY, NOV. EMBER 26, 1928 Votes. Bought Like Sugar by Capitalists in Porto Rican Elections, Observers State REACTIONARIES CHARGE GRAFT | TO EACH OTHER Lindbergh Independ- ence Gesture Recalled SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Nov. 25. —Charges of open corruption at the polling here on Nov. 6, including wholesale buying of votes, are be- ing made by all the leading partici- pants in the election against one an- other. Altho no final and official count has been made, it seems evi- dent that Dr. Antonio Barcelo, presi-| dent of the senate, and Jose Tous | Soto, speaker of the house, have! sustained heavy losses and may even | lose their places in the Porto Rican | legislature. Asked Independence. | The two politicians are the au- thors of the gesture demanding in- dependence for the island which was made to Col. Charles Lindbergh when he visited Porto Rico on his “good will” flight. American and sympathetic Porto Rican politicians | and businessmen expressed resent- | ment against the message at that time and recalled it in the present fight. According to the latest count, Barcelo appears to be some 20,000 votes behind Senator Iglesias, who is best known as one of the most consistent foes of labor within the ranks of the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor. Iglesias is denying that the suc- cess of his party reveals any un- rest among the Porto Rican work- | ers, and states that it is merely the “revolt” of the island population against Barcelo’s long political con- trol. Charges of vote buying are sus- tained by observers who report that the purchase of votes was flagrant. “T have never seen such disgraceful and open buying of votes as in| Ponce,” one observer at the polls states. “Votes were bought like sugar,” said another. asl At Mayaguez, one leader is re- ported to have stated openly in a cafe that his opponents had been 300 votes ahead at noon but that enough votes were bought between then and the time the polls closed to ensure the election. The observer| mentioned specific-sums of money spént to purchase votes. | While charges of vote buying are levelled by Senor Barcelo they. are also made by his political opponents. Both the party of Barcelo and that of Iglesias were united in op- posing the Communists and the Porto Rican workers in the election. 4 Killed, 3 Injured | When Tri-Motor Ford | Airplane Is Wrecked | SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 25 (UP). ~ Four men were killed today in the @ash of a Ford tri-motored plane near here. Pilot William Williams and K. J. Dunlap were killed instantly. Ar- thur Emerson and co-pilot, Louis N. Burger, died later, William Mit- chell, a mechanic, may die from his injuries. Seven men were in the plane. The others were injured seriously but prcbably not fatally. The plane was flying from Colfax, Wash., to Spokane, when it fell. in Detroit on Dec. 4 DETROIT, Név. 25.—The Detroit Workers School will be opened by the Workers (Communist) Party on De- cember 4 at the Party headquarters, 1967 Grand River Ave. Reports from the Detroit committee. in charge indicate that the attendance will be large. Among the courses is one in Party Organization, which is com- pulsory for Party functionaries. Workers’ Correspondence, Trade Unionism, Fundamentals of Com- munism, and a number of English classes ‘and a course for new mem- bers are others to be given. LONDON, Nov. 25.—King George the Fifth, according to today’s re-} port from his physicians, is not im- proving from the illness afflicting him since last week. The bulletins issued said that he passed “a dis- turbed day due to an increase im his fever.” -It is added that he main- tains his strength. He is 63 years of age. International Press Correspondence The most reliable and complete reorts of current events in the {nternational labor movement. Report ings of World Congress the Communist In national, now in sion. Subscription Rates: One Yr. $6.00; 6 Mos., $3.50 Workers Library Publishers 39 East 125th Street New York City of proceed- the Sixth of jtion of the dissolution of the strike | tried to call competing meetings at |Where Lives of Workers, Farmers Were Endangered by Photo shows view of the disastrous flood at Ottawa, Kans The entire city and surrounding farm sections were inundated, River Flood | as, when Des Cygnes River overflowed. ‘Bismarck’s Law Against | Socialists APPEAL RALLIES — SILK WORKERS. to Membership Meet Continued from Page One | held since Thursday. Each one of these meetings expressed, in un- mistakable terms, their condemna-| committee, whom they gave votes | of confidence. . Lithuanian and Polish workers, | over 200 strong, met in the Lithuan- ian Hall Thursday night, and, after discussing thoroughly the strike sit- uation, voted unanimously a resolu- tion of condemnation of the right | wing Joint Board for dissolving the | strike committee, which demanded | that the strike committee be placed | in immediate control of all strike machinery, They also voted that the resolution be brought before the | 2 membership meeting Monday. Two hundred Jewish workers, at a meeting the same night in the hall at 3 Governor St. took similar ac- tion. ss Over fifty Armenian workers at their meeting in 54 Washington St. pledged wholehearted support to the strike committee. An equal number of Italian workers, meeting Friday in Carpenters’ Hall passed a resolu- tion duplicating the one carried at the Lithuanian-Polish meeting. And what is most significant, a mass meeting of Syrian workers, called | by the strike committee ‘for Satur- day afternoon, was a success. Lead- ers of Syrian workers have hitherto boasted that their nationality is solidly behind whoever their lead- ers support. Right Wing Meets Fail. Alarmed at the calling of lan- guage meetings the officialdom the same time the left wing did. And in all but the Syrian meeting the right wing counter meetings proved miserable failures. The rea- son for their tolerable showing of a Syrian meeting was because the Sons of Italy Hall, after contract- ing for a left wing meeting, turned over the hall to the right wing. Despite being compelled to hire an- other hall and notify the workers in an hour’s time, the meeting was highly successful numerically. At the general membership meet- ing the right wing will try to con- fine the discussion by the members to the question “Did the Joint Board have legal right to its action.” The left wing calls on the members to insist on a full discussion of the ac- tion of the Joint Board only from the point of view of how its action affects the! running of the strike. In the meantime the National | Textile Workers Union, upon the | successful holding of a large mass meeting of unorganized silk workers here Friday night, is putting into motion its plans for a general or- ganization drive in the silk indus- try here. The enthusiasm shown for the new national textile workers’ or- ganization by the Friday assem- ‘governments bodies comprising members of his) 50 Years Ago (Gonttcied) Growing organizationally and ma-| |turing in ideology, the movement soon broke the chains of the Social-| ist Law, which, intended for its ie had in reality become a source of strength. Twelve years after its promulgation, the law was aban-| the chancellor of blood and iron. After the repeal of the law and| |the re-establishment of the liberty of speech in Germany, the Party) ought to have realized that which Engels had repeatedly during the, validity of the Law impressed upon | in, and upon its left wing in partic- ular, as its most urgent task in a legal future, that is to say, the breach with the petty-l bourgeois’ |right wing. This task remained un- fulfilled. The first danger that threatened the development of the Party was the ideological influence of the petty-bourgeois “Philistines,” as Engels called them; a further danger lay in the creation of a labor aristocracy in the wake of the rise of German imperialism, the refor- mistic corruption of certain sections of the working class by participation | in the surplus profits derived from monopolies and colonies by the im- perialist bourgeoisie. The bourgeois development of the German Social Democratic Party henceforth pro- ceeded undeterred. The 4th of August, 1914, crowned) this entire process. The former left | wing, the adherent of Bebel and Kautsky (Bernstein having landed jwith a flying leap at the extreme| right), developed into those compro-| mising and vacillating politicians | of centrism who were destined to accelerate the deterioration of the yet strong or mature enough to} effect a breach by itself, but it laid the foundation for the renewal of| the revolutionary class-Party of German workers, for the renewal | and continuation of the glorious tra-! ditions of the proletarian past, en- tiched by the experience of the Rus-| sian revolution and the principles | of Leninism, the foundation, in line, | of the Spartakusbund and of the Communist Party of Germany. On with Struggle. Fifty years after the socialist law ere killed and more than 900 in- | it is only the Communist Interna-, tional and its sections that still defend the inheritance of that heroic period of the German working class and continue it on a higher level of historical development. The leaders | Such as ure the rule in this country, | of that party which claims identity | with the proletfrian class-party of | the German workers under the so- cialist law, the leaders of the Social) Democratic Party of Germany, in| reality represent the inheritance of that very Bismarck who issued the emergency law in question fifty years ago. Forty-five years after Bismarck’s promulgation of the so- | cialist law, and curiously enough, again on the 21st of October, Fried- rich Ebert, the social democratic president of the German republic, ordered the German army to march into Saxony and Thuringia for the purpose of dispelling at the point of the bayonet the parliaments and of those provinces, own party. Forty-five years after Llage, shows that the time is ripe for such a move, Albert Weisbord, leader of the union, declared. | 5 Years KEEP THIS Bismarck’s emergency law against | what was then the revolutionary Social Democratic Party, the social of the Daily Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan phere House Saturday, Seiten: 5th DAY OPEN! PLEDGE ANTI- FASCIST BLOC ‘Protest the Murder of Della Maggiore (Red Aid Press Service) PARIS.—In an enthusiastic mass Strike Comins Calls | dened. With it fell its originator,| meeting of the French Red Aid in Paris, thousands of French workers protested against the murder of the Communist, Della Maggiore, by the fascist special tribunal in Italy, |and unarfimously adopted the fol- |lowing resolution: “The Parisian workers state that this new crime, which has been “le- galized by Mussolini,” is directed jagainst the anti-fascist workers of | Italy. The Parisian workers de- cide to fight with all their power against fascism and to put an end to the persecutions with which the union is strangling the working class and its organizations. The |Parisian workers are determined to jresist the reaction which is engaged | lin preparing a new war and a new offensive against the first prole- tarian government, the Soviet |Union. They declare themselves solidly with the answer of Andre Martys to Marshall Foch, for which he had to appear again before a class court on Nov. 9 and they | promise to form in the ranks of the International Red Aid a united front of battle against capitalist op- | pression. “Long live international working class solidarity! “Down with murdering fascism! |. “Down with the oppression, which | if preparing a new war! , “Long live the International Red |Party. The new left wing of Rosa | Aid!” F janese immigrants will arrive in/ pian is said to be a scheme of the Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Franz | similar resolution was also/ Brazil in the next ten years. Austrian government to rid itself Mehring and Clara Zetkin was not | adopted at a protest meeting, which | ae of the unemployed workers, by the revolutionary workers’ organ- lizations of Marseilles had called to|_ protest the crimes of Italian fas- | cism. Many Workers Killed - ‘by Dust Explosions | The lives of hundreds of factory | workers are endangered, each year | BY dust explosions, statistics sho Last year more than 500 workers | |jured by such explosions. The two requisites for dust ex- | plosions are a cloud of combustible | dust in the air and a source of ign? | tion. Stuffy, unsanitary factories, and the absence of protective mea- | sures are responsible for most dust | explosions. democrat Ebert issued a prohibition | lof the C. P. G., the present revolu-| tionary party of the German pro-| letariat. | These historical events are clear) lecd forcible enough to find access | |to the understanding of the prole- | tarians of all lands and to show them | where they can now find tlie heirs of Bismarck and where the heirs of the | revolutionary class fighters against | the socialist law! IMMIGRANTS TO SLAVE OVERSEAS (French) government of national) LURE EUROPEAN "x2 South American Labor Camps Hell Holes RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov A colonization company, with a huge capital, has been recently | founded in Sao Paulo for the pur- pose of establishing services for the |introduction of immigrants in all the states of Brazil, and particu. |larly to furnish labor, at low wages and vile conditions, to the industrial 25. While” millions of pounds of the spent to support the British royal fa mounts by the thousands daily. (shown above with the queen.) sands of workers and their families in the face. British workers, and the million of oppressed worker. thruout the British empire shed no tears at the illness of the British trea mily in idien ury are annually , unemployment Starvation stares hundreds of thou- Needless to say, the and peasants king T PAVED HIGHWAY and transportation firms of this ; country. The workers, ignorant of Arbitration Board Is The longest paved highway in the conditions here, will be recruited in| Named to Sidetrack men is the ope Coast I oie the various industrial ‘centers f . > whic runs for 1,476 miles from Burope, where cnanleyaenes of| Rail Clerks’ Demands | Vancouver, British Columbia, to the vere. They will be used to scab on] wacumaman ws. op sea Ut strikers in Brazil. The immigrants, WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—Hear- | Coast. will be practically forced to scab,|ings in the wage dispute between g Ae ae at wages far below the poor wages |the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (Bad Aid Prose: Service) of the Brazilian workers, as they!and the Kansas City Terminal are|_, BERLIN, Nov. 25.—According to will be transported into the distant, haduled be h bef statistics collected by the Central interior sections of the country and |Sheduled to begin here before an| Committee of the Red Aid of Pales- will find themselves penniless, and |@tbitration board about Dec. 4. The tine, the tine authorities, dur- thus unable to escape from the la-| hoard was chosen by the United |ing the first half of the year 1¢ bor camps. In order to sow dissen- States Board of Mediation. have instituted 41 processes against sion among the workers, the senti-| As in other recent wage disputes ment of Brazilian native workers |ip the railroad brotherhoods, the re- will be keyed up against the help-|actionary officialdom of the clerks’ less immigrants, as is already evi-|union ‘is openly playing the game dent from statements of labor mis-|¢f the bosses. The arbitration leaders, attacking the immigrants.|board, whose function will be to Washington Luis, president of | shut the lid down tight on the ris- Brazil, has conceded to the Society |ing resentment of the men, will con-| of Colonization, Ltd., authorization | sist of J, to operate in Brazil, with main of-| dent of the union; fices in Warsaw, Poland, and other superintendent of the Kansas City | ro revolutionary made 131 arres workers in the Palestine j ing this During the last few months the ter- and have Thee number of revolutionary ails dur- period has reached 2,088. r has not abated in any way. The Commanist Party is the par- H. Sylvester, vice-presi-| ty of the Mberation of the Nero R. J. Watson, | race from all white oppression. wars. savy Burden on Bent British Workers’ Backs Karolyi, Anti- Horthy - Refused Visa Again by U. S. Government Offering proof that he was? neither a Communist nor an amar~ chist and stating that he did not *be- long to any prohibited group, Count? Michael Karolyi, first president oft Hungary and now an opponent of the Horthy regime, applied for a visa to enter the United States ‘and was refused again, it was disclosed/ by the Civil Liberties Union. Kerolyi applied at the American consulate in Paris, stating that the cbject for the visit was a lecture tour, and that he would freely éx- press his opposition to the Horthy regime. When he was refused’ a vira in 1924 it was believed that the Hungarian embassy had something to do with it. 2 Italian Workers Abroad, Wanted by Mussolini, Released (Red Aid Press Service) (By Mail).—Under the sure of mass protest the Italian worker, Alfredo Angeletti, whose ex- tradition is demanded by fascist of- ficials on the grounds that he had taken part in the Milan attempt against the king, has’ been freed from the threat of deportation. The French authorities had insti- tuted a process against him which turned up absolutely no material against hi At the same time the Italian worker, Battini, who was ar- rested by the police in Belgium on the accusation of a spy that he had also taken part in the Milan at- tempt, was also freed. branch labor exchanges scattered | ‘Terminal, and F. H. Kriessmann, a| throughout European cities. “neutral” member. | Polish Workers , BADBOAS Panemm Canal Zone,| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (By | oy, 25.—With the arrival of | Mail).—A dispatch from Warsaw | w" Schlecht, recently appointed | announces that the first contingent | resident. engineer of the Alajuela of Polish emigrants has sailed for| yam project by the United States South America, Six hundred of the | secretary of war, work will begin group, which includes 150 of the! on an additional set of locks for Jewish race, are on their way to| the Panama Canal. ae | Schlecht, who was a member of Sis Maes |the commission which investigated SAO PAULO, Brasil (By Mail), |tRe Proposed Nicaragua canal, will " ident. ‘ have chi f the di fa new —The president of Brazil and the | $10,000, moecaas ard ee on Japanese envoy have concluded new | ¢ esis ie cane ale eva arrangements whereby the current |da ae re ve eh 0 raster jof Japanese workers’ immigration |CO™. pr Ty ato Pree Steer |to the rice fields will be materially | Possible, P jincreased. Tales of unspeakable | [8° war traffic. slavery of the Japanese workers, = for practically no wages, and for|has received notice of the embark- long hours, have come out of the | ing of the Austrian minister of la- rice fields in the interior of Brazil. | tor for Paraguay, where he will ar- The director of immigration has /yange for the colonization of thou- pointed out that over 500,000 Jap-|onds of Austrian workers. The ASUNCION, Paraguay (By Mail) ~The Paraguayan foreign office sending them here, where they will find only slave conditions. 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