The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1928, Page 3

sien THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Page Three Morga MAY TURN OVER RAILROADS T0 PRIVATE HANDS De Oca to Confer With Bankers in U. 8. MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Nov. 27. —The possibility of acceptance of the recommendations of the Canad- ian financier, Sir Henry Thornton, putting the Mexican railway system completely into private hands, was discussed here today in connection with the journey to the United States of Luis Montes de Oca, finance minister. Immediate re- sentment was expressed by the railroad workers and by the Mexican Communist Party against the priv- ate ownership plan of _the experts. They point out that it is obvious that, under this plan, wholesale dis- charges of railroad workers, wage cutting on a national scale and speed-up for the impoverished rem- nant of the employes, will result. Morgan Partner Returns De Oca will meet with the inter- national bankers committee on Mex- ico, probably in New York City, and it is believed that the return to the United States of Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico, is connected with de Oca’s trip. Mor- row is a former partner of J. P. Morgan and Co. Payment by Mexico of $12,500,000 as first installment on the national debt is contemplated in the plan the bankers will consider. According to the terms of a tenta- tive new program, the Mexican people will be saddled with pay- ments on the debt gradually in- creasing year by year in proportion to the bankers’ estimate of the ability of the country to pay. Lead- ers of the Mexican Communist Party point out that this means a type of slavery gradually intensified and accompanied by widespread suffer- ing of the masses of Mexican peas- ants and workers, Gil Takes Office There is discussion as to whether the Mexican president must pass vpon any debt compact involving the Thornton plan for private own- ership of the erailroads. Recent: re- ports state that president Calles, on leaving office, is to become chair- man of the board of railroads, He will turn over his office to Emilio Portes Gil, the president-elect, this Friday. TWO ARE JAILED IN LISBON “PLOT” U. S., British Rubber Interests Maneuver LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 27.— PortugueSe government authorities last night arrested former Premier Antonio Maria da Silva and a " former army officer, charging them with participating in and instigat- ing a plot against the present Por- tuguese government. Constderable unrest is also re- ported from various sections of the country, although the discontent is believed to have no immediate con- nection with last night’s arrests. Considerabe question is thrown upon the nature of the aleged plot, which is considered another move in the political fight between the British and Anierican rubber inter- ests who maneuver the Portuguese political scene, Although the government was re- organized only on Nov. 11, after a periodic crisis, it is known that con- siderable friction exists between the riinister of war, General Maraos Sarmento, and the commanding of. ficers of the army. Representatives of the army have gone so far as to call upon President Carmona with the request that he dismiss the min- ister of war. Nanking Officials, | Militarists Caught in Opium Traffic SHANGHAI, Nov. 27.—A_ huge shipment of opium, intended for the foreign settlement here, and seized cite by accident, has revealed that garrison detective squads, police, city officials, foreigners and promi- nent military officers are engaged in the drug business despite the at- tempt of the Nanking regime to whitewash all parties concerned by an official investigation. The opium shipment was seized Wednesday when police and gar‘ son detectives, boarding a ship from opposite sides and evidently bribed to see the cargo thru safe, clashed. The police were arrested by the de- * tectives, which led to an embarrass- ing situation for the authorities. Most of the cargo, thru to the foreign settlement, and the authorities immediately clapped a censorship on the affair today when it leaked out. Although proceedings of the in- vestigation now going on are kept secret, it is known that both detec- tives and policemen have been caught carrying opium into the for- "eign settlement, where most of the stock yams to be consumed, however, got| ithe enemy of the Proletarian Revo-| 116 hills. keels: the hegudary. couple will continue to live on th Servant Earns His Hire: Cool idge to Fete P. Another of those simple American girls has risen from the ranks. ing with the handicap of being heiress to several million bucks, has managed to capture a genuine speci- men of the vanishing genus royalty. Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg, nephew of King Oscar V of Sweden, has arrived to wed the damsel on Dec. 1. Before returning to Sweden, President Coolidge will hasten to make his obeisance to the cold cash by entertaining the wedding party. Photo shows the count and his bride with her millionaire parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kdward Manville. toil of the workers. arasite ‘Wedding Party eae Estelle Romaine Manville, start- After their marriage, the NEW PLANT Y.W.L. CONDENMS RIGHT WING LINE Support C. E. C. Fight) Against Trotskyism | Continued from Page One | gress of the Comintefn that the| right danger is the main danger, | and that the sharpest struggle must | be conducted against it. In the) American Party at the present time, | the right danger is represented sharply by the Trotskyists. Must Unite Against Trotskyism. 4. The National Executive Com- mittee declares that it is necessary to unite the Party and the League in the struggle against Trotskyism. We must rally the membership of the Party and the League to the defense of the Comintern against the attacks of Trotskyism. The best way. of fighting Trotskyism is to defend the entire line of the Com- intern, to support all the decisions of the Comintern and to fight 5. Unity in the Party must be! achieved on the basis of the Com-| intern decision and tke struggle} the struggle against Trotskyism. | At the same time, any attempts to label the Central Executive Com- | mittee as the right wing, even as/| the most dangerous right wing in| the Party, against whom it is nec- | essary to struggle, is contrary to) the Comintern decision, and would | only render aid to the Trotskyites. | League Unity Against Enemies. | .6. The National Executive Com- | mittee calls upon the entire League | to unite in the struggle against the | enemies of the Comintern, On the | basis of the decisions of the Com-| intern and the Communist Youth| International, the League will go} forward to unified action to rally the masses of the toiling youth against capitalism. The National Executive Committee will do its ut-| most to rally the League and the) young workers around the slogans “Defend the Comintern against Trot- skyism,” “Down With Trotskyism, | lution and. the Soviet Union”; | “Carry out all decisions of the Com- intern”; “Struggle against the Right Wing.” FRANCE, WALL ST. CLASH ON TAXES U. S. Sends Official | Investigators PARIS, Nov. 27.—Relations be- tween the French and United States governments, already at a tension point due to the Anglo-French naval pact, may be stretched still further in the near future due to the sharpening of competition be- tween American firms and native concerns in France. Business interests of both coun- tries have clashed on a projected, 18 per cent tax on foreign firms, which has already been upheld by two lower French courts and is now before the supreme court. Pressure has already been brought to bear upen the American government, and investigators have been sent to France to attempt to void the new) tax. As soon as their report is re-, ed, the United States will prob- ably send an official note to France, The new tax will run into the mil- lions, being levied after a 15 per cent tax on profits and an 18 per cent tax on dividends had already been collected, and is directed chief- ly against branches of American firms working in France. To date many communications have been re- ceived at Washington from the firms concerned, advising that pres- sure should be brought to bear upon the French government before the supreme court decision is made public. Workers, fight all ciaxs-collabo. rntion xchemes of the horses and erney. Fight back ist the offensives on ty aga m of the bossce, TO MEET U.S.S.R. PAPER NEEDS MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. Tn line with the industrial plant of the Soviet Union, a new paper fac- tory will, by 1929, produce all the paper needed for publications in the Soviet Union, The Siass ceilulose-paper com- kine, near the mouth of the Si: River joining Lake Ladoga, 11 kilo- meters from the Lungachi station of the Murmansk Railway, has re- cently started to work. The cost of the construction and equipment of the cellulose factory |amounted to 19,400,000 rubles. Nine hundred workmen are en- gaged here and about 8,000 wood- fectory. During the current. 1928-29 op- erative year the factory will pro- duce up to 40,600 tons of unwhitened cellulose for a sum of 5.5 million rubles end besides 4,500 tons of a brown paper and cellulose resi- dues. During the next operative year in 1930-31 70,000 tons. Towards the end of the present year the import of this kind of cellu- lose will be stopped, as the whole against all deviations from that line. | demand will be covered by the pro-| duction of the Siass Combine. A five-year plan of the combine includes construction of a new paper against the danger of Trotskyism.| factory producing 25,000 tons of|Committee and_ its Any struggle against the Comintern faper suitable for the press as well! make the discussion center around |™Unist Party, decision would hinder this unity and |as new workshops for production of |the real problem at issue, a wood pulp. First shipments of cellulose have already begun to come to Leningrad waper factories. All Leningrad newspapers started to print on a paper prepared from the Siass cellu- lose. TROOPS BATTLE FOR SOFIA ROAD Firing Heard Beyond Jugo-Slav Frontier VIENNA, Nov. 27.—A Belgrade dispatch this morning states that open fighting is believed to have broken out in Bulgaria. Frontier guards near Strumnitza report hearing prolonged firing in The firing was reported as continuing throughout the day. The report has led to the assump- tion"that the Macedonian forces un- der Ivan Michailoff have begun their advance against Sofia and met outposts along the road to the cap- ital. - It is not believed probable that the Sofia government, which is divided on the Macedonian issue, \has sent an army against the Mace- donian troops. The sympathy with the Macedonian forces which per- meates the government officials in Sofia and the heads of the army is known to be shared by the rank and file troops and it is extremely im- probable that the government will dispatch any considerable portion of the shaky troops against the Mace- donian stronghold at Petrich. The government is known, how- ever, to have outposts along the |Sofia road and it is believed that such a patrol may have encountered the Macedonians and have been forced to fight to cover their re- treat. Ring City With Poison to Prevent Entrance of Bubonic Plague Rats JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 27 (UR).—Health authorities have ringed the city with poison to prevent the entry of an army of rats infested with the bubonic plague which has been marching across the countryside towards the city. Poison gasses and arsenic were pumped into holes in a wide circle around the city. FROM STOOL PIGEON DULUTH, Minn.—Chauncey Pat- terson, who was exposed as a spy of the Steel Trust, was elected in the recent election as a legislator on the republican ticket. Patterson was a stool pigeon among the electrical workers of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. | FIGHT BETRAYAL OF SILK STRIKE Broadsilk Dep’t Backs Left Wing Continued from Page One a struggle they do not participate in. Not that the ribbon. and jacquard workers have no concern in the |struggles of a different craft of |their own union, leaders of the left |wing strike committee declared after the meeting. They were mis- led by the reactionary officialdom into voting support to a strikebreak- ing act of their own Joint Board, jentters work fot the needs of the |/eft wing leaders say. In support- |ing the anti-strike policies of their | Joint Board the skilled workers are |helping to lose the broadsilk work- jers’ strike, which unquestionably | will result in a boss attack against |their own working standards, Will Realize Truth. The ribbon and jacquard workers | will soon realize, as the broad ‘the factory will produce up toe60,- | Workers have done, that the offi-|lead poi 000 tons of unwhitened cellulose and | Gals policy of fake agreements will | work as a painter. lestroy the union and that the left | wing policies will build it up. Then they too will throw their support to the left wing, itant unionists ex- plain. In calling the meeting, the , Joint Board heads decided to switch the discussion to purely legal grounds and refused to permit the Strike adherents to namely that of whether the dissolution of |the left wing Strike Committee helped break the strike or not. Police Present. With the aisles in the Eastside High School auditorium filled with handpicked ushers and with available supply of police always around, the meeting began under high tension. Hoelscher, secretary, announced that the Joint Board had | already decided on an agenda, which | confined the discussion to the ques- gal right to dissolve the Strike Committee?” When Gertrude Mueller, for the Strike Committee, demanded that the Joint Board and the Strike Com- mittee be allowed equal time for a report and that the membership dis- cuss the proposals that both would make toward winning the strike, and that past strike policies be eval- uated by the workers, the right wing chairman rushed thru the mo- tion endorsing his agenda, All they would permit was 15 minutes of discussion on the motion endorsing the strikebreaking dis- solution order of the Joint Board, by a left” wing representative. The alleged discussion from the floor was interrupted continually by the right wing. Scores Joint Board. Gertrude Mueller, who was chosen by the broad silk workers to speak for them openly announced that she refused to be confined to a discus- sion of legalities and would discuss the strike situation and the effect of the dissolution order on its chances of being won. After doing this she read a resolution condemn- ing the Joint Board for this action and advocating an immediate halt to the fake agreements made by the officialdom in “settling” strikes, which the bosses never obeyed, in- stead cutting wages and ignoring union conditions immediately after concluding these “agreements.” With the demand that militant policies be adopted to win the strike, Gertrude Mueller called upon the union to affiliate with a fight- yng national textile workers’ union !._ order that union conditions be safeguarded and unionization of the trade be begun. Before this she had pointed to the remarkable growth and accomplishments of the left wing National Textile Workers’ Union. After concluding, she read a resolution embodying the general line of her remarks, and which asked that a committee be elected to negotiate for affiliation to that organization. Despite the fact that this resolu- tion received the endorsement of several meetings during the week, among which were meetings of loom-fixers, Lithuanian, Italian and Polish workers, the right wing re- fused to allow it to come to a vote, railroading thru, instead, their own measure. TOKIO, Nov. 27 (U.R).—The em- peror and empress returned to Tokio today from the coronation ceremonies at Kyoto. The capital was elaborately decorated. an| tion, “Did the Joint Board have le-| n and Company to Saddle Mexican Masses with Yearly [Servant COMMUNIST IN will Come in Handy in Next Imper FRENCH CHAMBER HITS WAR BILL |Aimed at Soviet Union, | Is Charge | PARIS, Nov. Pointing out jthat the French war budget is a |direct war menace, that it provides fox inercased armaments which al- | most double those of 1913, that it is} primarily directed against the So-| viet Union and includes the support | of the anti-Soviet bloc of border | states, the Communist deputy, De | Scblin, demanded in the chamber to- |dey that the war budget be abol- hed. The Communist motion in the chamber today followed the report that the finance committee and the | ministry of war had agreed to push through the war budget as it was. That Poincare was determined that his war measure be passed was fur- ther indicated when the finance minister, Henri Cheron, moved in the chamber yesterday that the dis- ¢ ion be stopped by Dec. 5. | The budget includes appropria- | tions for strengthening France’s fortifications and building a line of | new ones, for. more airplanes and | naval armaments and for the main- tenance of a large reserve army. MOURN DEATH OF JERSEY MILITANT S. Winograd Poisoned! While at Work Continued Hebi s Pode One | Winograd’s death was attributed to ning contracted while at | Workers Party Statement The following is a statement on| Winograd’s death by the District} | Executive Committee of the Work-} fers (Communist) Party: | “With the death of Comrade | Winograd, member of the Executive | Committee of the Newark Unit of District 2 of the Workers Com- the Party has lost a loyal devoted member. | “Comrade Winograd was an ac-| tive trade unjpnist and at the time) of his death Was president of Local) 777 of the Painters Union of New- |ark. He was also manager of the |Workers Center of Newark and an |officer in many working class or- ganizations. “During his membership in the Party, since the foundation of the Workers Party, Comrade Winograd always responded to the needs of the Party and of the working class. Old Revolutionary “During his life, he was an active | revolutionary whose services date | back to the time when he fought for the Revolution in old czarist Russia. Comrade Winograd was a bolshevik who understood the need for a dis ciplined, centralised party and for the need of the Party members working in the closest unison for building up a strong mass revolu- tionary Party in America. “The Party as a whole and the Newark unit in particular has lost a comrade hard to replace. The New- ark unit must redouble its efforts, must increase the membership, must | strengthen the unit and extend still) wider its influence in the mass or-) ganizations of Newark to fill the gap left by the death of Comrade | Winograd. \“District Executive Committee, | New York and New Jersey District “WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, District Organizer.” UNIONS TO JOIN IN CENTRALIA MEET Organize to Release Victims of Trust Continued from Page One nrecede the actual deliberations of the conference. The following are some of the unions and Central Labor bodies |that have sent in credentials: Ta- ‘coma, Central Labor Counci!: Seattle \Central Tabor Council. Buildine |Trades Council, Strnetural Tror Workers. Order of Railway Condue. | |tors. Painters Local 200. Tron. Stee’) and Tin Worters. Electrica! Work Local 77. Laundry Workers | Tinion. Stepm Enrineers. Meat Cut- | ters, (Aberdeen) TInited Mine Work- ers locals of Roslvn and Tono. Teachers Union. Meat Cutters. Roilermakers, Machinists. (Senttle) Seattle Lahor Colleve, Federal La- bor Union (Seattle), The call for the conference points out that the men now in prison were arrested for defending their lives end their union hall arainst an il- oral attack by the American Legion. jectine under the direct, leadershin of the lumber barons in the Centralia | |district, who wanted to smash the) nnion, Four of the lerionaires were “Milled hw the dofendarte and one of) ‘the latter Waslor [Ivnehad after haswthta tawtenas jer a mob on the night of his arrest, | ers Teravant, wad |I came up with one id Photo above shows a silhouetted against the sky above craft developments, whatever their other purposes, mind the most important purpose next imperialist war. Kuomin new gondola-like Increasing ialist War oy lighter. Friedrichashafer Germany. Air- always keep in of all: greater tang Bru talities Towards Chinese Workers BY BORIS POCHVALINSKY (Courtesy “Labor Defender”) As the consular representative of the Soviet Union in Canton it is clear that I could only be a detached observer of the atrocities which e committed against the working class. In consequence not all the facts episodes of this wave of atrocities are known to me. But that which I have seen with my own eyes is alone sufficient to form a reliable picture of the terror. Our consulate was not in the town proper, but in one of its suburbs, Tung-Shang. My duties required that I should drive into the town almost daily, and on these journeys I almost invariably met columns of soldiers escorting groups of workers to execution. These tragic proces- sions became such a feature of life in Canton that towards the end they attracted almost no attention from the passers-by. All these little pro- cessions made their way to the We Square on the out: of the town, not far from Tung-Shang. On one occasion when I was returning in my car from a journey into the town such procession which was just entering the West Square. I caused my chauffeur to halt and then left the car and joined the little group of passers-by who gathered to watch the proceedings. What I saw then I can see now just as clearly. To judge by the clothing of the victims they were three work- ers and two intellectuals probably students. With hands bound behind their backs and with their eyes on the ground they strode slowly tow- ards the place of execution. From time to time the accompanying sol- diers drove the butts of their rifles into the backs of the prisoners caus- ing them to stumble forward. The) prisoners were led to the edge of the square where the ground was| slightly raised and forced down on| to their knees. Five soldiers placed | themselves behind the kneeling men) and without waiting for further in- structions, and seemingly without any order they fired point blank into the unfortunate men before them. | Two bodies fell without a sound and| lay still. Two others fell and writhed on the ground. The fifth ictim screamed and attempted to Expedition Will Leave | for South Pole Friday WELLINGTON, N. Z., Nov. 27 (UP)—The Bark City of New York, carrying Commander. Richard ©. Byrd and 50 members of his South Pole expedition, will leave Dunedin on Friday and proceed direct to the Bay of Whales, if reports from| whalers show favorable ice condi-| tions in the Ross Sea. | The Elinor Bolling, supply ship, will make two trips southward with supplies and will remain in Dune-| din during the winter, She will] carry fresh provisions to the icc| party next summer. | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 27) (U.P).—The Cincinnati, Atlanta line| of the Louisville and Nashville! Railroad may be blocked for 72 hours as the result of a freight train wreck at Jones, Ky., today. A bridge over Clear Fork River| was wrecked and 23 cars were de-| molished. No one was hurt. | L, and N.° trains were being |routed over the Southern through Knoxville, with a delay of about two hours, Effective-Harmless WORKERS BOOK SHOP NEWS JUST OFF THE PRESS! The Collected Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti Illustrated with photographs and facsimile Human Extraordinary Document including letters to their friends, comrades and persecutors as well as a story of the case and speeches made in court. 414 pages—$2.50 a copy WORKERS BOOK SHOP 26 UNION SQ. NEW YORK Crry tise. Three furthér shots and th two writhing bodies were still fifth rolled over on to his back arms and head made ve movements. An official fired a shot at him from a Mauser pistol at point blank ra St here was life in unfor man and his eyes rolled piteously. The officer wasted no more ammunition, but collected his men and left the square. Five corpses remained still on the ground. Or rather four corpses and a silent body, the eyelids of which alone moved. I looked at the little tl the crowd which had gathered. Many of them stood with sunken heads and with despairing eyes. Some spoke excitedly and gesticulated animated- ly. A group of inhuman beas laughed aloud at the death throes of the fifth victim. I could stand it no longer and stumbled to my au. tomobile ; I asked my Chinese chauffeur) A what would be done with th lies | ( and he were wered that the re probably there amongst crowd waiting for an opportur to take the bodies aw: ay and bur them. Since that day I attempted to avoid entering this square, though I continued to meet with s : n uch little Processions of comrades on their way to death. Sometimes there were five or six, sometimes even ten victims, seldom more, but never less than three. € The Canton newspapers did not even trouble to report these tinual executions, Only whe: ticularly large group of victi slaughtered did the Britis in Canton praise the con- n a par- ms were h papers determined neral with the reds, methods used by the worthy som ce *, y 5 Li-Ti-Sing in dealing ie wear and (Formerly OPTOME ne Payments THUGS, POLICE PREY ON THE TAXI CAB CHAUFFEURS Drivers Defenseless; Must Accept Fares By a Worker Correspondent) Holdups on taxi drivers have reached such an alarming rate in the past few weeks that they con- stitute a real menace for the work- behind the wheel. @onditions have ached the point where the wives of the taxi drivers beg their hus- bands to “pull in” after midnight for fear that they may be the next” ’ s of taxi bandits g on the drivers, Reports from the vers themselves show that the drivers are subject to continued harrassing by these taxi bandits, who hire the driver’s 0, order him to outsk of the city him the “works.” to driv and give No means has bi by the en found where- will be able to cope ation. He is required by carry any passenger who wishes to hire the hack. “Refusing a call” means a summons down to the hack license bureau, a trial be- fore the Tammany police commis- siover a he revocation of the hack license ven if the driver knows that h ut to be hired by a couple of stick-up artists he still mnst take them. all hoidups are reported to the police. Drivers complain that re- porting a holdup to the cops means to is a loss of tame. Alter rey s:ting at the “house” the driver is asked a lot of questions and told to go home ¢ “bulls” may ask the J e them aroun he dis- the holdup took place. id for hour 1 three) the driver he is out of lu an oa cars, no tes than five drivers en “bumped off” and hundreds of drivers held up and robbed of their earnings. Another practice of taxi bandits is to steal the cabs of the drive while they are in a restaurant having a bite to eat. After stealing the cab, it is stupped of all valuable parts and abandoned. All in all, the majorf€y of the cats are found, but the cops have few arrests to their credit. The latest taxi bandit to be caught, Rovert Preston, Hotel Hermitage, had in his pocket a note among whick other things said, “Before dawr. I'll be far away. Thanks to the cap drivers and the New York OPEN DAILY Joldin hi I co.) ISTS — OPTICIANS 5 Years Dail of the y Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House Saturday, January 5th KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! LENIN ON ORGANIZATION: A New and Limited Edition All of Lenin’s writings o zation from | An indispensable h n the subject of organi- 901 to 1922. andbook for every Communist Bound in a beautiful paper cover 75 CENTS WORKERS LIBRA 43 EAST 125TH STREET. RY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CITY. that are~ —