The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1928, Page 3

a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1928 Report Indian Workers and Students Hurl’ Stones COMMISSIONERS | AROUSE FURY OF INDIAN MASSES Demonstrators Defy} the Police BOMBAY, India, Dec. 3.—Squad- rons of police today failed to hold in check a demonstration of the workers and students against the Rritish Simon Commissioners, ac- cording to a report from Cawnpore today. The dispatch states that resent- ment against the British Commis- sion, which has been secthing throughout the country for weeks, reached a head today when students cuit work and hurled stones into the ears in which were riding members of the Simon Commission. The streets were lined with silent | crowds observing the hartal, or gen- | eral passive boycott, when the com-| missioners, apparently against the advice of the authorities, ventured to enrage the already infuriated masses by showing themselves in their automobiles in the streets, The cars drove through the silent crowds backed by rows of closed shops until the pent up anger burst forth in a demonstration against | tke commissioners. | Police immediately rode to the rescue of the British commission- ers, riding down the demonstrators in an effort to disperse them, oi ee Bombay Workers Aroused. BOMBAY, India, Dec. 3.—Tre- mendous excitement was caused here today following the announcement of disturbances in Cawnpore, in which students and workers are alleged to have stoned the Simon commission- ers in a spontaneous demonstration against their “investigation.” Hundreds of textile workers, who | are again on strike after the mill| owners refused to abide by their two weeks’ ‘old agreement, were profoundly stirred by. the news. The government is reported to be mobilizing forces to meet any emer- gency which may arise, and the workers are preparing for new re- prisals on the part of the auythori- ties. es Sie: Crowds Infuriated. CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 3 (UP).| —The greatest hostile demonstra- | tion. yet encountered by the Sir John Simon Commission occurred at Cawnpore today when stones were thrown in the commissioners’ cars by rioters. The crowds, made up of support- ers of a boycott.against the com- mission, yelled angrily and hurled sticks and stones at the cars. Most of the Indian shops were closed and students quit work to join the dem- onstration. The agents of the pope earn their hire in devious ways. we see Cardinal Hayes, one of the American ambassadors of the holy roman empire, officiating . t dedication exercises at St. Stephen's Hungarian Church, an institution whose chief function is to keep the minds of Hungarian workers For Glory of God and Capitalism Above so sodden that they will continue to identify god with capitalism and allow themselves to be sat on by the parasite ruling class. SOVIET RELIEF FOR STRICKEN PEASANTS (Special eto the Daily Worker) KHARKOV, Ukrainia, U. S. S.R. (By Mail).—Schlichter, chairman of the Government Commission, has made his report before the council STATE TROOPERS QUIZ MINERICH Bailed Out Thru Labor Defense; Trial Soon of Peoples’ Commissars. of the Ukraine Soviet Republic regdrding results of the investigation made by the commission in the steppe re- | WILL GET MEXICO RAILWAY LINES Think Morrow, de Oca Favor Transfer MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Dec. 3.— | Belief that plans for the delivery of | |the Mexican National Railways into | private hands are already advanced | |far is strengthened today with the | ennouncement that Ambassador |Dwight W. Morrow, former partner jin the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co., | will attend a conference on Pan-| American affairs during his visit to | |the United States. The significance of this move, in connection with the simultaneous conference between Luis Montes de Oca, Mexican finance minister, and the international committee of bank- ers on Mexico, is considered out- | standing. It has been pointed out by ob- servers here that Ambassador Mo: row will be within easy hailing dis- tance of the financial conference, |which will probably be held in New | York, and it has long been assumed that he will make his report to the | bankers, many of whom are former |business associates of his, before |the formal opening of the commit- |tee’s work, The delivery of the railways is |understocd to be a pet ambition of |the ambassador’s, in conjunction |with the bankers, whose interests in this work are twofold, their inten- FEAR BANKERS BORDEAUX PORT | WORKERS TIE-UP ALL SHIPPING Many Boats’ Cargoes Undischarged BORDEAUX, France, Dec. 3.—At least 42 vessels are still idle at their anchorages in the Garonne as a re- sult of the strike of dockers which is continuing to tie up this port. New ships arrive from time to! time only to find it impossible to discharge cargoes. One ship ar- rived last night and the harbor- master, whose business it is to or- e of her cargo, stated that “fewer men came to} work today than yesterday; I don’t see how the boat is to unload.” The spirit of the strikers is de- termined and, despite the provoca- tive tactics of the police, who are patrolling the harbor side in order to prevent the strikers from picket- ing the vessels at anchor and keep off strikebreakers, the men are cer- tain that they will succeed. The suc- cess of the dockers in inducing strikebreakers not to discharge car- | goes on the anchored ships has) raade them more enthusiastic. Reports are current that the| bosses are going to make a show] of discussing the situation with the men, The harbor workers, how- ever, are sceptical of the confer- ence, which is scheduled to take place in Paris. at the Simon Delegates’ Cars Boy ‘Accidentally Shot by Chum Page Three CHINA PEASANTS \Crop Failures, Heavy | Taxation j PEKING, China, Dec. reaching here from a —Reports n Chinese. Il of crop failures in the which have great suffering to thousands of Chinese provinces te nterio: caused unknown, indications While playing with a gun, John Kuzynsky, nine years 2 number of interior pro- greatly due to old, acci- dentally shot his chum, Walter Janoski, ten, of 110 K eap St. the rice crop fail- Brooklyn, Photo shows the boy convalescing from the wound, with | ure has caused distress in many sec- his mother beside him. tions. Nae “ Reports said the number of deaths i: 7. matt . d been large and that there was Coca Cola King Kicks Several Are Injured bagpie evishing teal to Police of Havana at Girl’s Pin Pricks HAVANA, Dec. 3.—Again, as many times before, the Cuban “sub- jects” of Yankee imperialism have witnessed an illuminating example of “Nordic superiority in the shape of a little row between C. P. Whule- kaed, “Coca-Cola King,” and a young lady known as his “com. panion,” passing under the name of | Frances Portes, also a citizen of the |very much United States. Whulckaed, hurt physically and emotionzlly, complained to the police ation. in Coast Train Wreck N FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 (UP). < cars and the engine cf the Shasta Limited, crack train of the a single reported rvation, stricken ry taxes the Kuomintang war lords province, reports said. levied by ~ STARVATION FOR™ THOUSANDS OF gions of Ukrainia in order to ascer- tain all the territory suffering from bad crops. Having heard the report the coun- cil came to the conclusion that al- together 76 regions with 742,000 peasant households are siricken with calamity in the following dis- tricts: Odessa, Nikolaiev, Kherson, Melitopel, Dniepropetrowsk, Krivoi Rog, Zinovievsk, Pervomaisk, Zapo- rojie, Kremenchug and the Autono- mous Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Amongst the hardest hit are the following districts: Odessa, Nikolaiev, Kherson and the Molda- vian Republic. There was an especially bad crop in the Odessa district, where both the winter and spring crops per- ished in 15 regions. On the con- trary the Zaporojie district suffered less, with only one region with a bad crop. The Council of Peoples’ Commis- sars has approved a plan of assist- ance to the suffering population, having assigned 24 million rifbles for this purpose. Over five million out of this sum have been assigned specially to feed children. It would be possible with this money to fee 224,000 children during ten months. About four million rubles have been assigned for organization of public tion being both to strike a blow at the national control of a public util- ity and to capture this rich prize for exploitation of their own and as a security. It is hazarded that determination of the financiers on this point may Continued from Page One | “That’s Minerich, he was the instiga-| tor of the murder of Downey” (one) of the state police killed while mak-) ing a brutal attack on a Sacco-| Vanzetti meeting at Cheswick, | where Minerich was speaking at the} |time, the day before the murder of|go so far as to make a further loan Sacco and Vanzetti). {contingent upon the readiness of the Then a whole group of state| government to part with its railroad troopers began to question Minerich, | system. some knew him and others had to! Dwight Morrow is known to ap- ask who he was. prove of de Oca and the two finan- The frame-up nature of the/ciers work hand in glove together. charge against Minerich of planting dynamite at Ebenezer Baptist Church, on which he is ostensibly here that his “companion” con- stantly mistreated him, by sticking pins in his carcass at spots better left to the imagination. The young lady, haled into police | court to confront the charge, de- clared that tte Coca-Cola King had the bad taste to be always falling RUHR WORKERS BETRAYED ANEW + 1s ons asleep, whether in bed or elsewhere, Socialist Arbitrates as ina that this caused her to become Men Slave On |the object of ridicule so muck that |she resorted to pin pricks to keep BERLIN, Dec. 3.—Both the in-| her “daddy dear” awake. The mil- custrialists and the reformist union |lionaire owner of soft drinks for leaders have agreed to accent the de-| Soft people was relieved in his cision of Dr. Severing, minister of | ounded parts by a swab of iodine the interior and social-democrat, in| and the lodging of his erstwhile |work in the coming spring. About ‘one million rubles will be given to |assist peasants who are not able to DAILY WORKER IS BANNED IN JAIL Letter Tells of Prison Censorship Continued from Page One to the letter, are the Daily Worker and the New Masses. Stop “Daily.” “Received your letter,” he writes to his friend, “but was not allowed | to have the New Masses. I was called to the front and told that I was not to receive it as it was too revolutionary and to write and have, the subscription cancelled. Sorry, | as I would have liked to read the article you spoke of. They also stopped the D. W. (Daily Worker). | So all I can do now is read the maga- | zines and papers sanctioned, and| gather what I can from reading be- | tween the lines.” Among the magazines and papers which the prisoners are permitted to receive are the old hundred-per-cent | “National Republic,” the most out-| spoken jingoist magazine in /the| United States; Collier’s, the Satur- | day Evening Post and their like, and | the die-hard papers published in the | vicinity of the prison. | Comments on Elections. Concerning the election campaign speeches made by the old party can- | didates, and which the prison heads) in their munificence allowed the! prisoners to hear over the radio, the | prisoner writes: “I listened in on some of the campaign speeches, which are full of generalities, banalities and plati- tudes. Listened in on Hoover's speech from the (Madison Square) Garden. I mean his reading of the statistical essay which was concocted by divers persons for him to dish out to a gullible audience. I fear (he wrote before the elections were over) that the country is in for some more Coolidgeism in the person of Hoover.” WORKERS FIND FOSSILS NEW HAVEN, Dec. 3.—Foot- prints of dinosaurs and other extinct beasts, found by workmen in a tun- nel they were digging, are being re- moved for the Peai%dy Museum. The tunnel was for city water sup- ply and ‘the footprints were dis- covered on the roof 1 I take part in public works. Over 13 million rubles have been assigned for support of poor peasants by supplying forage for their cattle and also for giving them loans. HOME CITY HAILS PORTER HEROISM New Bedford HoldsRed Election Rallies Continued from Page One ticket, and one of the organizers of the National Textile Workers Union, announced the following telegram had been sent to John Porter, New Bedford textile striker, who is now a prisoner in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: “Many of your former fellow work- ers here in New Bedford want to join me in protesting against the in- human and brutal treatment you are receiving in Leavenworth. Keep up your courage. Workers of New Bed- ford and throughout the country are with you. We send you warm fraternal greetings.” (Signed) Fred E. Beal.” Beal, when shown the story carried by the New Bedford pavers of the War Department’s denial of Porter’s being beaten while in prison, stated: “From past personal experi- ences I am convinced of the truth of Attorney Caroline Lowe’s statement in regard to Porter's being beaten by uniformed thugs and stoolpigeons at the army barracks at Leavenworth. It is the usual thing for militant workers after being railroaded to jail, to be brutally beaten by guards in the pay of the government. “In Boston during the Sacco-Van- zetti protest demonstrations, many workers, including myself, were beaten in the City Square police station in Charlestown. During the Passaic textile strike workers were brutally treated in the Passaic and Hackensack jails. “And to bring it nearer frome, last summer many of the arrested strik- ers were beaten up in the New Bed- ford jails. Despite this brutal treat- ment, which we may continue to ex- pect to receive at the hands of the capitalist class, we must carry on and build up strong and militant unions and build a strong Commu- nist Party, which is the only real leader of the working class.” ieee held, was indicated by the almost complete lack of interest of the state police in this aspect of the case. Instead, he was questioned as to his political opinions, what he would do in case of a strike in France, and what his activities in the last coal strike had been. _Rooms Raided. After a raid on his rooms, the questions became more specifically on the nature of letters and pam- phlets dealing with the labor move- |ment which were in Minerich’s ‘oom. The police were particularly neensed over the fact that Minerich ‘had 100 copies of Frank Palmer's book, an exposure of stool pigeon | activity, called “Spies in Steel.” The police confiscated pamphlets jon the English minority movement |purchased from the Trade Union | Educational League, some on com- | pany unionism written by Robert W. |Dunn, and Henri Barbusse’s book, “Under Fire.” Minerich Shadowed. Some of the questions indicated an attempt to connect Minerich with other cases, such as the harmless explosion at the Butler Collieries three weeks ago, and the killing of | Downey. One state policeman said |that he had been following Minerich for six months, However, when Minerich came be- |fore the alderman, he found himself | So far charged on only the one case, arson, and the evidence being only that police said a woman had found |dynamite the morning of the meet- | ing, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Minerich came to the notice of the | police and coal operators of Pitts- | ton afresh a few weeks ago, when jas National Executive Board mem- ber of the National Miners’ Union, jhe stepped into the strike of 5,000 Pittston miners who were being misled by Frank McGarry, the head lof an independent miners’ union which McGarry abandoned in the height of the struggle and whose members McGarry advised to go |back to work on the operators’ terms. |McGarry has since declared to the ;men that they should join the Uni- |ted Mine Workers of America, the jorganization of John L. Lewis, and his corrupt machine. “Singing Jailbirds” Will Open Tonight “Singing Jailbirds,” a play by Up- ton Sinclair, opens tonight at the New Playwrights Theatre, Province- town Playhouse. It is the first pro- duction of the season of the New Playwrights group. The play will run for several weeks and will then be followed by other productions of an experimental nature, among them John Dos Pas- sos’ “Airways, Inc.” TVISH DISAPPEAR OFF CRIMEA SEBASTOPOL, U, S. S. R. (By Mail).—The entire disappearance of fish from off the shores of Crimea is puzzling scientists. Immense quantities of dead fish are found. The local Soviets are investigating to see what can be done to check the trouble. at Ore organ- Orgnrize the anorgnnl ganize new unions in ti ised industries) SPANISH PRESS RAPS CENSORS. Fascist Head Extends) But Cold Comfort MADRID, Dec. 3.—The whole} Spanish daily press has made a pro- test to the fascist dictator, Primo de Rivera, against certain phases of the censorship which are especially troublesome. They object that the censors, to! whom they are supposed to submit} everything before publication, stop} work at six in the evening on the) |morning press material, and five in) ‘the morning on evening paper copy,| and this stops their news. Secondly, \for withholding the names and sour- ees of information as a right of! professional confidence, that they be |not penalized for republishing ar-| \ticles printed in other papers al- ready passed by the censor, and |that that be not compelled to pub- lish the interminable self-advertis- ing “news” releases issued by the government. | Would Know Secrets. The fascist head bluntly denied | all but the matter of hours. As to the papers’ claim to proféssional secrecy, de Rivera said that the newspapers have no more right than other citizens, and they haven’t any. He vited that the law provides that ‘no penalty lies against those who republish matter already passed by censors, ignoring that such penal- ties are none the less practiced, as some censors pass articles and after- ward find some fact damaging to the government concealed therein. The press uses this sort of slips to expose the government, but is pen- alized regardless of the law’s “pro- tection.” On the forced publication of all official “news,” de Rivera toid the journalists this was necessary “to tranquilize the public.” And that wes that. Contributions B. M. Camp Kinderland; the Ruhr lockout dispute. The re- formist labor officials have agreed | to resume work on the old wage and} working hours agreement until the! decision is made. | While the social-democrat Sever-| ing is making his “investigation,” | which will last until after Christ-| mas, the Supreme Court will be| asked to pass-on the last decision | given by the Government Arbitration | {Court and declared legal by Wissel, | minister of labor, and which the in- dustrialists refused to accept, lock- ing out the workers. The agreement of the union lead- ers to, resume work, giving up all the demands of the workers for higher wages and shorter hours, and binding themselves to accept the de- cision of a government arbitrator who is expected to sacrifice the little playmate in the hands of the correctional court. “DAILY” AGENTS MEET IN PHILA, Business Manager to Speak Thursday PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3.— A meeting of all Daily Worker agents of this city has been called for this Thursday evening at 8 o’clock to be held at 1214 Spring Garden St. for the purpose of discussing and mak- ing plans for future Daily Worker workers’ demands and needs for the “welfare of the government,” is un-| activity. All Daily Worker agents, organi- they ask that papers be not penalized’ derstood to be a decisive step in the! zers, and all members of the unit complete betrayal of the workers’! naily Worker Committees must at- demands. The unofficial workers’ tend this meeting, which will be one fighting committees have refused to|o¢ the most important held here, it bind themselves to the “findings” of is announced. Preparations for the Severing and point out the traitor-| naily-Worker Freiheit Ball and for ous tactics of the reformist officials. the Daily Worker anniversary will ie Bes be discussed. BERLIN, Dec. 3.—The number of} A Ravitch, business manager of unemployed workers in Germany |the Daily Worker, will be present to during the first half of November | address the meeting. | increased from 764,000 to 904,000, | | not counting the 250,000 workers > | locked out in the Ruhr. This is al-|is unemployed. The total num’ --| most twice as many as in the same lot registered unemployed, counting | period last year when unemploy-|the Ruhr metal workers, is, there- ment reached 518,000. |fore, 1,154,000, which does not take The shoe workers’ unions “show jinto account the number of unregis-| that 63 per cent of their membership | tered unemployed. For three months ending December 31 Beginning January 1, 1929 DEPOSITS WILL DRAW INTEREST from DAY OF DEPOSIT to DAY OF WITHDRAWAL CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK Bowery and Canal Street, New York I Open Evenings Until 8 o’clock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Hopewell Jet., N. Y....... 5.00 A. Blaziewsky, Garfield, N.J. 20.00 K. Wynne, Chicago, Ill..... 1.00 Lithuanian W. W. A. A,, Brooklyn, N. Y. wee 10.00 A. Raisanen, Grand Rapids, Michigan ........ 50 H. Stone, Grand Rapids.... 50 Oscar Salmi, Grand Rapids. . 50 John Niemi, Grand Rapids.. 50 E. Kellman, Detroit, Mith.. 50 L. Merila, Grand Rapids.... 50 E. Jarvis, Grand Rapids... 50 M. 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Such remarks as “the hour {of vengeance will sound” common ne |i the sensored Italian press are re- f eviction by landlords against Printed sarcastically. ports of the accident said, We demand the abolition of ¢ right o: WORKERS! THE DAILY WORKER is going to be five years old on Jan. 5, 1929. Hail the fifth anniver- sary of the Daily Worker. Send in a Greeting. $1.00 per name. SUBSCRIBE to the mt aily Worker and KEEP IN TOUCH With What Is Going On In the LABOR MOVEMENT Buy Through Daily Worker Patronize Our Advertisers DO YOU WANT to buy Clothes, Furniture, Radios or other articles—then patronize our ad- vertisers. If we don’t advertise the particular article, then consult our advertising department. FILL OUT THIS BLANK I Want to Buy I Bought From...... Address Your Name .. Address ADVERTISING IS ONE OF THE BEST MEANS OF SUSTAINING OUR PRESS! Marit Tus Coupon to Baily 2s Worker 26 Union Square. New York Cirv. Se erence ea ae or 2 |