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43 affected parts of the Ai yh a \ i (| | WOUND MANY IN OPEN ATTACK ON INDIA MARCHERS Effect Electric Over Country DELHI, India, Nov. 30.—Several persons were wounded, including dian National Congress, when a street demonstration which they were conducting against the Simon Commission was fired upon by po- lice at Lucknow yesterday. The demonstration, to which the police had not given a license, .was under the leadership of a number Lal Nehru, head of the Indian Na- the activities of the Simon Com- Jawahar Lal, secretary of the In- | of Swarajist leaders, notably Moti | Continued from Page One | examining the membership book of every member of the unit and | checking the book with the record of the nucleus secretary. 5. From section conventions to city conventions where held, there shall be elected one dele- gate for every ten members or ma- | jor fraction thereof in good stand- ing during the period of August, “sptember, October, 1928. The representation shall be determined on the basis of the average dues stamps bought during this period f:om the district. 6. From city conventions, sub- district conventions and section con- |ventions to district conventions, | there shall be elected one delegate for every 25 members or major frac- tion thereof in good standing dur- tionalist Congress. |ing the period of August, Septem- The tremendous excitement which | Pe!» October, 1928. 7. Shop and street nuclei shall mission have caused in India are re- | Send delegates to section, city or flected in the nation-wide hartal, or passive boycott, in which thousands of workers, peasants, students and professional and small business men are now participating. The firing upon the Swarajists in Lucknow, although they are known to the masses to have at heart do- minion status and Indian autonomy within the British Empire, rather than any amelioration of the condi. tion of the workers and peasants, has had a tremendous repercussion throughout the country. Reports from Madras and Cal- cutta state that news of the shoot- ing was received with great excite- | ment in those cities. At Bombay, | where a new textile strike involving thousands is again in progress, the | district conventions where these are held in the respective territories. Isolated shop or street nuclei, or such shop and street nuclei in those cases where only district conven- tions are held, may send delegates Airect to the district convention on the basis of one delegate for every: 25 members or major fraction thereof in good standing for the period of August, September, Oc- tober, 1928. 8. Where there exis:s a number of cities close together without a city central committee, there shall be held a sub-district convention, except where nuclei elect delegates direct to the district convention. 9. Whether there shall be held elections direct from the uhits to news was received in profound silence by the strikers. The resent- ment which is brewing within the | city has | aroused the authorities to take new | precautionary measures against any | the district or from’ sections to the district, or from city and sub-dis- trict to the district convention, will depend upon the situation in every district and shall be decided upon by the District Executive Commit- disturbances. | tee. BROAD SILK DEP'T IN RALLY TODAY lim. Qualifications for Voting in the | Elections. 1, Only those who are in good standing, that is, those who have | paid their dues up to and including September, 1928, and paid their con- vention assessment stamps and who otherwise are considered in good epieky ar letending’“in vaccordanes «with the Defeat Officials Plan | party constitution, shall have the to Disrupt Continued from Page One violence in disturbing the meeting. Strong committees of workers have already been assigned the special task of seeing that the meeting goes thru in a smooth and organized | manner. Injunction Against Meet? Rumors, not yet possible of veri- fication, say that the “radical” Hoelscher and Co. are taking steps | to obtain an injunction from a capi-| have the right to vote. right to vote in the elections. 2, All those who were more than six months in arrears on or after December 5th, 1928, that is, who had not yet paid dues for April, 1928, by the date of December 5th, 1928, shall-not be entitled to vote even if they pay all their back dues and putchase the convention as- sessment stamp subsequent to this date. 3. All members who joined the Party after November ist shall not This shall talist judge to halt the meeting | hold good also for Young Workers called by the Strike Committee. The | (Communist) League members who Strike Committee is tracing this in-| have been admitted into the Party formation and is also in the midst | of preparations to meet this eventu- ality, if it comes. The real Strike Committee, which refused to consider itself “dissolved” despite the terror of the officialdom, has undertaken the responsibility of calling the broadsilk workers to- gether in a membership meeting of their own, which the officials have refused to do. And there the work- ers will act on the problems of win- ning the strike, enforcing «union conditions in the “settled” shops and defining clearly their attitude toward the National Textile Work- ers’ Union. W. I. R. Representative at Meet. Announcement was made by the Strike Committee that the Workers’ International Relief has promised to send a representative to the meet- ing where offers of aid in gathering relief will be made. The National Textile Workers’ Union will also have a representative at the meet- ing besides fraternal delegates from their locals in other textile centers. The strike mass meeting this morning again demonstrated the truth of the charge against the of- ficials that they are acting as full- fledged A. F. of L. labor fakers. First, in the cynical audacity shown by the officials when they slandered the worker who was recently taken to a hospital because he had col- lapsed from hunger. When they found it impossible to answer the accusations of the membership that the non-striking departments of the union had large treasuries which the comfortably paid officials re- fused to tap for the relief of starv- ing members, the officials dared to call the starvation victim, who is known by the members as a de- voted unionist, a “gambler.” The protests of the assembled workers at this vile lie proved high- ly uncomfortable to the union chiefs. who promptly resorted to the usual A. F. of L. tactic of adjourning the meeting while a striker was speak- ing. NEW USSR COAL FIELD. SEMIPALATINSK, U. S. S. R., (By Mail).—New rich coal bearing fields have been discovered in Zais- sansk region, Semipalatinsk pro- vince, of the same quality as the coal in the Don and Kuznetsk basins, THE HIGHER CRITICISM. (United Press) American legs are the most beau-_ tiful in the world, while British ones are too large, Rebecca West, after November Ist. 4. All members transferred from one unit to another after November 1st, shall vote in their old unit, un- less they have been transferred | from one district to another, in | which case their right to vote shall be determined by the National Con- vention Arrangements Committee. The date of transfer shall be the day when the member has applied for transfer, and not the date when he has been actually transferred. IV. General. 1. In accordance with Article 2, Section 1 of the Party constitution: “No election of delegates to any conference or convention shall be valid unless 55 per cent of the good standing membership in the Party unit participated in the Party elec- tions. 2. Every District Executive Com- mittee shall select a District Con- vention Arrangements Committee that shall handle all arrangements for the convention. Minorities shall also receive adequate representation on the Convention Arrangements Committees, 8; Appeals from decisions cf the District Convention Arrangements © mmittee may be made to the Dis- trict Executive Committee and to the Central Exceutive Committee. 4, There shall be no voting by mail but only in persor. 5. The nucleus secretary shall write in the word “voted” in ink over the assessment stamp of every member, after the voting has taken place in the unit. 6. District organizers shall make available for the District Conven- tion Arrangements Committees all lists of membership, dues payments, ete. 7. No delegates from any unit shall be seated at the section or any other conventions without having paid for every assessment stamp sold in the unit. None of the dele- gates allotted to a district shall be seated at the National Convention without the assessment stamp ac- count being settled in full ($1 for every assessment stamp sold) by the district two weeks before the National Convention, V. Rules Regarding Party Discus- sion, 1, The Party discussion shall open with the publication of the main convention documents on December it and last until the day of the convention, February 1st. English novelist, argued in an ar- ticle in the American Sketch. 2. The CEC Convention Arrange- such « are} Lucknow Police Fire Into Anti- WORKERS PARTY CON. Ce SENS | Ge ih BALKAN CRISIS; the Editorial Committee supervi the ¢i:~:ss!on in the Party press, 8. All resolutions, theses, etc., shall be printed in the entire Party press. all units. This shall be during the | week beginning December 10th. 6. Following these unit meetings, |membership meetings shall be or- |ganized in the principal cities. These meetings shall be held on the | 14th, 15th and 16th of December, as follows: Friday, December 14th: New York, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, | Buffalo. Saturday, December 15th: Phila- |delphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, New | Haven. ; Sunday, December 16th: Cleve- land, Kansas, Meetings in Seattle and Cali- fornia may be held at a later date if necessary. 7. Meetings in. other cities not mentioned above may be organized under the direction of the District Committees. Only good standing ship meetings. 8. The district organizers shall act as chairmen at the meetings held under the auspices of the CEC in the principal cities. 9. Rules of procedure at the membership meetings shall be follows: (a) Speaker for the CEC—one hour for presentation. (b) Speaker for the minority— one hour. (c) Reading of resolutions. (d) Collection to defray expenses of the meeting. (e) Discussion. (f) Rebuttal by the minority—15 minutes. (g) Closing by the representati-e of the CEC—15 minutes. (h) Voting on the resolutions. 10. Participating and voting in the membership meetings in the | principal cities mentioned shall be | limited to members in good standing | | of the respective city organizations. | 11. The District Cogvention Ar- rangements Committee shall have full charge in the arrangements, or- | ganization and directio. of the | membership meetings organized by the CEC. 12. Following the membership meetings the discussion shall con- tinue in the units. | 13. Elections in the units shall| |be held during the last discussion | | meeting, beginning the week of Jan-| | uary 7th, 1928, | | 14. Section, sub-district conven- |tions shall be held not before the| |12th day of January and not later | than the 18th of January. | | 15. Dates for the district conven-| tions shall be as follows: | January 19th and 20th: Buffalo, | Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Min- neapolis, New Haven Agricultural} District, Seattle. | January 26th and 27th: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, | San Francisco, Kansas. 16. The spokesman of the minor- | ity shall receive equal time in the) | discussion in the membership meet- ings and in all other Party sub- divisions. The spokesmen of the Central Executive Committees in all Party subdivisions shall open and close the discussion. VI. Young Workers League Repre- sentation. 1. The NEC of the YWL shall) select five delegates to the National) Party Convention. 2. The DEC’s of the YWL shall select three delegates to the district | conventions, | 3. The districts where YWL sec-| tions exist parallel to the sections of the Party, the YWL sections shall | send three delegates to the Party | section convention, where such are| held. | 4. All YWL delegates to Party| pein ella RES ae en ten rea 4, The daily press shall devote one-half page to the discussion Try to® Involve Czech Oren oer ony | Communists 5. Within a week after the publi-| IEE | cation of the main convention docu- PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov. | ments, discussion shall be held in/30.—When Alcibiade Bebe, the jrelations between Yugoslavia, |bania, Czechoslovakia and Italy, it} TRIAL SLAYING murderer of Zena Bey, the Albanian |minister to Czechoslovakia, appeared on the witness stand at his trial here |today, he was killed by another Al- banian who fired eight shots at him from the’ audience. |_ Bebe was killed when he announced | |from the witness stand that he had THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928 Simon Demonstration in Workers and Troops Fought Police at Their Coronation been sent from Belgrade, Yugo-| slavia, by a secret Albanian organi-| |zation hostile to Achmed Zogu. newly appointed king of Albania, with the | |mission to kill Zena Bey. After the | killing of Bebe, the assassin volun- | |tarily surrendered himself to the | police. | The situation will lead to strained Al-| lis believed, and seems to have more} jin it than appears on the surface.| Although Bebe’s assassin announces | that he was prompted purely by the |motives of a blood feud, since he was | members can vote at all member-|a servant of the brother of the as-|stitutional basis of Rumania is to | \sassinated minister, it is probable | \that he was sent by authorities in| | Yugoslavia to keep Bebe from tell- | |ing too much on the witness stand. The opinions expressed that Bebe’s | |assassin was sent by an undergrcund | jorganization which sent him to kill 88 \the Albanian minister, is believed to| hand, according to a manifesto is- |be a part of the press campaign now being carried on in Czechoslovakia to discredit the Communist Party jand ban it before the approaching , elections. OPEN LINE USSR. TULSA, U. S.S. R.; (By Mail).— Through traffic has been opened on) the newly constructed line, Venevo-| Uzlovaia, connecting the Syzran-) Viazemsk and Riazan-Uralsk rail-| ways. The new line facilitates trans- | portation of coal from the Don} Basin to the Central-Industrial re-| gion and creates a third straight main line to the south parallel to} workers and soldiers were injured and hundreds thrown into prison. The stringent Japanese censor was unable to prevent news of the killing of workers and soldiers at the coronation of the emperor Hirohito and his empress from leaking out of the country. Many of the MANIU DEGREES ‘tet ote, Zeros WESTERNIZATION ov ucrsnss orn the Polish po- He Means Efficient Protesting agains groms against Ukrainians in Lem- dents attacked a parade to honor ene the fight for Polish Ukrainian inde- | Oppression | pendence, 200 American-Ukrainians BUCHAREST, Nov. 20.--The eon. | Pataded before the Polish consulate at 953 Third Ave., for three hours yesterday. A statement issued by a commit- tee representing the group declared: | “Encouraged by the conduct of the police, Polish students started out- breaks of violence against the Ukrainians lasting four days and resulting in hundreds of Ukrainians | being wounded, some of ‘them fa- tally.” hecome “westernized,” the large- | scale landowners are to be relieved of export taxes, the oppressed na- tional minorities are to be treated in the “spirit of the times,” and for- eign capital is to be given an open sued yesterday by the new Julius Maniu regime. The manifesto states that the new | jromises them that the laws shall ronstitutional basis is intended to |r altered to accommodate their ex- bring “prosperity” to Rumania, eee just as in the western states— P!0itation. ae where “prosperity” means profits] _ ; : J for capitalists and oppression of | BUCHAREST, Nov. 30.—The petroleum industry trust, formed a the workers and peasants. Agri- esp tas st culture is decreed as the economic | ¥e@t ago by domestic oil interests |to oppose foreign oil concerns, has foundation of Rumania, and accord- . 2 ay ee ingly the Maniu regime intends to | been dissolved. This opens the way help the agricultural oppressors, | £0F unlimited foreign exploitation. the landlords, by granting them| The dissolution resulted from re- lower taxes, more credits and joans, |CeMt, new combinations, in which at the expense of the peasants. |foreign oil interests are said to be “The minorities question will be |i™Pticated. berg, in which police and Polish stu- | CHARGE 50 DRY SPIES GRAFTED ‘Racketeering’ Safe in Big Cities DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30. — A huge rum smuggling plot, involving possibly 50 ited States custom: border patrol inspectors, has been uncovered in the “Detroit area.” Nine inspectors were arrested. Th were charged with conspiracy to as- sist in the smuggling of liquor into the United States, and with accept- ing bribes. * * * CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Reproof for the openness with which Chicago underworld gangs conduct th vice, gambling and liquor interes was contained today in the report of the special November grand jury investigating corruption in the Chi- cago police department. Indictments were returned against two police- men, an alderman, and eight other ward politicians of the republican and democratic parties. For four years, the grand jurors reported, Chicago has harbored a "| United State: Fig Page Three the Streets of the City IMEXICAN DECREE IVES AWAY BIC SUBSOIL GRANTS Calles A sures US Oil Investors on the fr’ sident Por’ investors in the United Sta soon owe a debt of gratitude to present M. administration the large as the 1 debt now owing to the United come reports of ad igned by former Presi id Dr. Jose M. Puigy petroleum in- e specific assur. dent Calles nded to stand son which oil con- granted to invest- ; s away the eserves on a ardize the will be susceptible t at the end of Minor safeguar right of the governr the books of any conc right of the gov: the concessi and such period such as the are ma y the gov- These, er, are in- ant compared to the com of the decree giving away soil rights of the Mexican n investors At the same time, it has been-in- timated that Luis Montes de Oca, nee minister under President , will be retained in the same post under the new administration. De Oca wiil shortly visit the where he is to dis- ibilities of a new Mex- ican loan with the bankers. The question of passing the Mexican na- tional railway system into the hands of private interests will also be dis- cussed at this conference. vice, gambling and liquor syndicate whose operations have been conduct- ed “above the law.” and Moscow- regulated by a just law in keeping | with the constitution and the spirit |of the times,” says Maniu, but this |“spirit” is more likely to be the conventions must be members of the spirit of western Europe with its Party. suppression than the spirit of the VII. General Elections. | Soviet Union with its self-determin- \ ation. ds. The ants \-lee¥ion mpekings Sa As a parting shot the manifesto the various section, sub-district, cxtaiids “a? wclaomtig hand otae: oe a oie oon reeevection o¢| Cin capitalists, understood to have sim 3 4 delegates to the respective conven- their offices on Wall Street, and tions, choose new unit executives, section’ executives, sub-district exec- utives and district executives. 2. The Central Executive Com mittee calls upon the entire Party membership to be guided in their election of these delegates and executives by the policy of the CEC to draw into the Party leadership and into all leading committees the best proletarian elements from the fac- tories and mines, particularly from | the basic representative industries in the respective districts, 8. A special effort must be made to draw into all leading committees of the Party as many Negro com- rades as possible, especially prole- tarian Negroes. Fraternally yours, | Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party | of America. the Moscow-Kursk Kazan railways. Evacuation Get the genuine Santal Midy Effective- Harmless Sold by All Druggists| BOOK SHOP NEWS JUST OFF THE PRESS! 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