The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1928, Page 1

' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party = FINAL CITY EDITION ational Dally Worker Sq. New York, N.Y. Vol. V., No. 291 ‘i sie New f a ke, i 6.00 per year. MAKE RULING T0 Red Artist im PARAGUAY AND SUPPORT STRIKE OF COLOMBIAN ELLOGe TELLS Greek Defense COLOMBIA FRUIT PREVENT CHANGE /20¢ Water; He OF N AVAL ween ee" at God laugh at god in “socialist” Germany. BOLIVIA TROOPS BANANA PLANTATION WORKERS REED PACTS 00 was oe om wy IN OPEN BATTLE) OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY NOT AIDLATINS ppealing for Fifty Exiles STRIKERS CLASH A protest from the Labor Defense of Greece against the barbarous who: of 50 workers, only +, | And if the person doing the laugh- Fi Feet § 5 7 . 5 F . e ; LOO - Wi Aate awe 12s ac England Must Submit |;,. happens to be a revolutionist, |) Killed or Wounded Don’t Let the U. S. Government Do to Colombia Committee Is Assured crime was es they man act poe 23 Workers Killed as * . A . . : the great tobacco strike around 7 q Written Plan Say i becomes a major crime. in Fight to Stop What It Did to Nicaragua Monroe Doctrine |sacas ccuur ii'seax committe 2 Pg te pF ies " This is what George Grosz, fa- Distas | es eT ee the International Labor Defens o Break Walkout U.S. War Lords Didi Gomimuniats cartosnist, cis Fort Building | (Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Is Maintained with a request to make it public. Bats learning. Grosz is to fi trial | (Communist) Party of America) i ‘ ; eq, The letter points out that the new) ry @ Wrarchin: Peevish Over Exposure |e ee eee ‘le,, New War Looms Large Anti-Strike Mine Bill government in Greece freely par- U.S. Warship in Harbor — hi at ake mere ee ean — While Hoover is touring Latin America to pave the way for more pee dons the grafters of the old regime, Kell Ou Yank a | broug! i, apne, OF ganized. souls | = conquests of American imperialism, American capital is preparing Q_/, 047" . but continues ‘the persecution of K elloga Orders Yankee Denounce Br iton Who |savers, as a result of a number of| LNOUSANdS of Soldiers! fore et ers viood the strike of 12,000 virtual slaves on the Seante Sub-Committee claie Soran rere ame Greek | a ae eee Opposes Cruisers recent cartoons which offended these) MasSed Near Bor | banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in Magdalena, Has Lewis’ Scheme Defense letter is as follows: nterests Protectec — 1 } Col nies “The Central Committee f z vorthies, —— ‘colombia. ae : entral Commit of WASHINGTON, Dec, 7—The | “°" BUENOS ; i Ini i ae jean corporati i 7ASHINGTON, 1-8 Labor Defense of Greece stron BULL , st : : NOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. The United Fruit Company, a big American corporation and WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Secre- : g Pann ace bean ead A sansa of god are re-/7 “War loomed lerge today’ with| other powerful American oil and banking “interests” in Colombia are tary of State Kelloge today ap. | feels the necessity, of protes BOGOTA, Colombia, Dee. 7— Dee cr enc ere tier euspas, | Celane aie ac ive support of var-'the announcement from Asuncion| dissatisfied with the slowness of the Colombian Government to crush peared before the Senate Fo: against the prolc ‘th - Reformists today made new at- hea socor dng to schedule. jous other reactionary agencies in| that twenty-five Bolivian soldiers| the strike. Wall Street has already appealed to the State Depart- Relations Committee to advocate ence of exile ) laborers and’ {empts to control and smash the i ‘als ate and naval eat of- | their effort to secure a verdict|have been killed and wounded and} ment in Washington and to Commander Collins, in Charge of the Wo S> | hin geries of treaties with 59. Bov- nbigtcs whose on pane bbe strike of fruit workers here. aciols in interviews today told the | inst tue artist: Th jfive Paraguayans wounded in. open| Navy in the Panama Canal Zone to prepare to send warships and — anments, called the “Kellogg Anti- that they took active part in the They petitioned the cabinet to- press that no requests for a naval | 2S@inst the artist. The League for |” Lis ‘ ‘1 * : lish tobacco strike and in the organiz-, 4 kai i mfe ithotiveati Britain: wi ' Protection of the Rights of Au | fighting on the international fron-| and marines to kill strikers, destroy their homes and establish more = way Pact,” but which really estab- | * eee ; ike ‘and. in ganiz-) day to send delegates, including ciEiunion ica Pr eclae Pe tess {|tier. Asuncion is the capital of| fitmly-the rule of U.S. imperialism in Colombia. lish a new league of nations in|'"& Of the peasants. reformists, to help “mediate” the contemplated. It is evidently .in-| thors and Artists has protested and Paraquay. | This is American imperialism at work. This is the practical hich the United States government No Pardon For Workers. aces pe ip the reward from of course been ignpred. Militant| Three hundred men are said to| meaning of Hoover's expansion policy in Latin America. Has adeslbgical Veontrol’ and mone’: one izelous government, e minister of war replied: tepresentative Britten's personal in-| working class organizations are|have wattiemeted in the tony aged wie ae ge tea financial pawer, and which lead di.| Which only a little while ago “It is too Jate for negotiations. vitation to England to confer, which Anas Sadar ie Sora iee tal The Colombia Workers Are Fighting For the Right To Live. inancial power, 2 ich lead Sy Me ile rant Stage 2 gi ai : 2) ; re ; : i orm ns Seale doned Pangalos and all his follow-| The rebels will be suppressed wi tly deliberately in-| backing Grosz’ fight. which broke ont in the Chaco terri- f the United Fruit Company on its vectly to war with the Soviet Union : P REP REEL coe uw ene un me | as tory following the discovery that Ne ee ee ee eee re ccaeer Ge ive. . (and with Rugland ers, who, besides their political) within a few days.” He added tended to be rejected, because of the | : i. ty that) anana plantations in Colombia are fighting for the right to live. h England. violation of all diplomatic usage. It| is possible now for cabinet officials to answer when criticized. “Look | ‘we did appeal for a conference, and} England wouldn’t agree.” | Any British invitation to renew discussion of the cruiser problem’ ‘would have to be accompanied or) quickly followed by written infor-| mation indicating the general out- line of prospective British proposals if it were to obtain’ consideration from this government, officials said. The question was raised after in-| timations at the state department | that an opportunity might develop) within the next year for further naval conversations between Britain and the United States. Officials would not commit themselves regard- ing the likelihood of the opportunity | actually developing into a confer-) ence. Intense resentment was regis-| tered by officials of the state and navy department over the speech of Sir William Robertson yesterday to| the effect that the United States had | become an imperialist nation an ‘was following directly in the path and methods of Imperial Germany before.1914, building a great navy to. attack England. — The official defense is that the fifteen new cruisers, Congress will provide in this session together with half a dozen now building will not really make the navy larger. They | claim that older cruisers will be ob-| solete by the time these are built. They offer no guarantees that these “obsolete” cruisers will actually be scrapped, instead of being used any- ‘way in the next war. It will not be until 1931 that the next regular Washington conference HARLEM FACTORY WAS “HELL HOLE” Workers Slaved Over 11 Hours a Day With the debris completely cleared | i away from the site which until p | reened condemning this system, the | ‘Thursday had been occupied by three STOCK GAMBLERS officialdom have legalized it. | plants, the Kill All Disinfecting Protests against this as well as| Company, the Acme Furring Com- pany and a junk shop, all of which were destroyed by an explosion in the first of the three buildings, the total of casualties was definitely known as three dead and ten injured. The conditions in the wrecked plants were investigated yesterday, together with the work attendant upon the rescue, with the result that it‘! wes ascertained that the place had been a “hell hole” for t' —work- ers, and that the rzscue work had been grossly mismanaged. Police Hinder Rescue Work. ‘olivians were building a fort on Be |soil claimed by the Paraguayan | | government. | The dispatches state that the |Paraguayan commander first re- DRIVE P D |quested the Bolivians to withdraw, and that they then refused and be- | gan firing. . The Paraguayans returned the | Foreign Press Readers |fire and took a number of prison- Get 45,000 Letters ers in the ensuing rout. It must be borne in mind that the dispatch emanated from a Para-| Forty-five thousand readers of | guayan source. | the foreign language Communist | press have received special letters from the business office cf the Daily Worker, in connection with the fifth anniversary drive of the Daily. The letters tell briefly what the Daily has done for the The serious boundary dispute be- | | tween the two countries was sup- | |posedly settled through the media- tion of Argentina with the signing of a protocol between Bolivia and Continued on Page Three movement during the past five | years, what its situation is ‘oeas, GITLOW PEAKS {and wind up with a request for greetings for the fifth birthday edi- tion. a The comrades and sympathizers in the foreign language clubs are ppealed to to help the Daily in its Present crisis. On more than one occasion the paper has been almost unable to’ come out, due to inability te-ameet s for~paper, print- ing, ete. Due to special emergency aid and to the sacrifices of the com- vades connected with the paper, it has been able to keep going. It is expected that there will be a mass response to this appeal, for the foreign-language readers have now reached the stage where they realize the necessity of reading an English paper, besides their own language organ. One of the specific ways in which they are asked to help is by sending in greetings for the fifth anniver- sary edition, which. will be pub- lished on Jan. 5, in 500,000 copies, and to get their friends and shop- mates to do the same, at $1 a name, or as much more as they are able to pay. All names sent in -as greetings wiil not only be printed in the spe- cial anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, but will also be sent to the International Workers Press Exhi- bition at Moscow. NEATLY TRIMMED Tight ‘Credit Terrors Hit “Hoover Boom” “AT FORUM TODAY ‘Talks on Amalgamated Union Misleaders Workers in the men’s clothing manufacturing industry are called |upon to come .to’ an open forum | where Ben Gitlow, Communist Party | | leader will speak on “The Present | |Policy of the Amalgamated Mis- | leaders.” The forum is called by} | the General League of the A. C. W.,| \the left wing organization, and will |be held at the Workers Center, 28) | Union Square today, beginning at |12 noon. The workers in the industry are jat present being viciously exploited | | by the bosses, who have been granted | permission to make wage cuts and install speed-up systems by the re- actioriary officialdom of the union. Despite the bitgprest opposition, expressed by the membership of the union against the sweatshop system of piece-work, the Hillman adminis- tration went about systematically ramming this measure down the throats of the workers. Although innumerable meetings of the work-| ers, from a small local meeting to national conventions, have gone on jother dictatorial and _ traitorous; |Measures were met with the most vicious suppression by small armies of thugs in the pay of the union chiefs. Gitlow, himself a member of the Amalgamated, though expelled by the officialdom, will lead the dis- cussion, where all those attending will have the opportunity to take the floor in discussion. Like the kine of Engand, the New York stock exchange temverature is fitfully feverish, but for the last two | days the “Hoover. boom” has been| House of Lords Stews. headed Yownward for the eventual | . | dull and sickening thud that will re- Over 500 Year Claim; After the explosion occurred, shortly after noon, and several bod- tes had been recovered from the} smouldering ruins of the three buildings, the shrieks and groans | of the buried workers could be heard by the rescue workers. Many of | these workers, recruited from the neighborhood, wanted to rush to the aid of the workers inside, but were kept from doing so by the” police, | who explained, a little too carefully, neighbors said, that the fumes would frustrate any such attempts. Trucks and ambulances and fire engines were rushed to the spot im- mediately after the explosion, was | reported, but so bungling were the rescuers that late last night\no trace of the three workers thought to be buried under the debris had been found. A Freiheit Sport Club © Package Party Today ‘A package party and dance will he held by the Freiheit Sport Club at the clubrooms, 280 E. Fifth St., at 8:30 tonight. Packages will be auctioned, the jact especially hard against the Royal Robber Rallies |the simple-minded petty bourgeoisie, who | ventured a flyer in Hoover's ad-| ,QNDON, Dec. 7.—Something al ministration, only to be hooked for pit slower to come to an end than| all spare cash and some it could the king of British imperialism, was berrow before their idol gets to| rovoaled here today when a 500-year | Washington. old claim to a peerage came before | “Stocks don’t go up; thev are put the “privileges” committee of the} up,” is an old saying. Rings of| House of Lords. The king is sup- ‘boosters” form around every new poged to have rallied, but nobody issue, All of them together began knows except the doctors. right after election, to boom their | One parasite, going by the moni- favorite with the suckers. All the ker of “Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, is small storekeepers, and little manu- claiming the barony of Gordon in| facturers, the college professors and the Scottish peerage, but another second class coupon -clippers, were | noble exploiter, the Marquis of fished into the market on sky-rocket | Huntley, alias Baron Gordon, con-/ prices. The ’Chanee went wild and tests the claim. As remarked, the suckers wilder. Everybody | row is 500 years old, but recently a| bought, whether they had. enough papal bull was found in the vatican | money to cover the purchase or not. at Rome, which proves that the That’s where the joke comes iy. |Marquis of Huntley, alias Gordon, Not having the money, their|is an offspring of a bastard, so Sir brokers were ordered to borrow to Bruce is using this bull in attacking buy. Brokers’ loans at the banks the legitimacy of Huntley’s succes- piled up dangerously. They rose | sion, $104,000;000, this week to a record | As much mystery as ever prevails [high total of $5,894,500,000. Now it about the king, however. Mean- is known that stocks can only g0/ while, the paners tell all the mon- two ways, up or down. But the archist worshippers how ‘“impor- Continued on Page Five tant” it is that the Prince of Wales did not smile today, and how he is to go partly to the Fref- heit and partly to the Club, We demand the tmmedtate recoxn!, hurrying home to “work hard” at vent Soviet unig” by she Unite’! oo pressing 465,000,000 subjects. ~ They are demanding that the United Fruit Company abide by the law of Colombia which provides for the employers insuring their workers against injury and accident. The Colombian plantation slaves of Wall Street, who are working for starvation wages in a regime worse tl slavery, are demanding that their wives and children be pro- vided for at least to some extent when their husbands and fathers are killed or crippled in the making of profits for Wall Street. , Phe existing insurance law is very inadequate for the protection of the workers, but the U. S. exploiters of the Colombian workers will not abide even by this law. No laws are written for Wall Street in its search for profits and power. The present struggle is the culminating point of a long series of persecutions and attacks upon the workers and peasants, the labor organizations and the Communist movement of Colombia. For a period of time the Colombian bourgeoisie, hand in hand with U. S. imperialism, have been waging war against the standards of living and the organizations of the toiling masses of Colombia. Frightened by the increased discontent of the workers and pea- sants with the oppressive rule of U. S. imperialism in Colombia and its agents, the native bourgeoisie, the Colombian government has initiated a series of legislative measures, known as the “Social De- fense Laws,” in order to crush the rising movement of the workers and peasants. The Colombian government, upon the bidding of Wali Street, has outlawed the existing unions, is preventing the organiza- tion of new unions, has outlawed strikes, has outlawed the Communist Party which is mobilizing and leading the masses in struggle against their native and foreign exploiters. These so-called “Social Defense Laws” are making it a crime, punishable with from 3 to 20 years imprisonment to express discontent with the rule of foreign im- perialism. Under cover of struggle against so-called anti-patriotic propaganda, anti-religious propaganda, etc., the Colombian govern- ment uses these so-called “Social Defense Laws” to further enslave the workers and peasants of Colombia for the greater profit and power of the U. S. imperialism and their agents, the Colombian bourgeoisie. iH Some Socialist leaders, not the revolutionary Socialist but the Opportunist, in reality middle class liberals, have collaborated with the Conservatives and Liberals in Colombia to put across these atrocious laws against the workers and peasants. The working class of the United States knows from its own ex- perience the brutality of the American ruling class. The workers of the United States are themselves suffering under the effects of the so-called rationalization drive of American capitalism. The American workers must therefore come to the assistance and support of their brothers in Colombia. q@he Colombian Government Wants To Win Wall Street Favors. The Colombian bourgeois government wants to win the favors of Wall Street. Although the Colombian Government # first made a pretense of desiring to enforce its own insurance law, névertheless it immediately ¢apitulated to Wall Street. The Colombian Government has authorized the declaration of martial law in the province of Magdalena and has despatched troops to do the bidding of Wall Street and to crush the strike. The Colombian workers are fighting for the enforcement of the Colombian’ insurance law—the law of the land. The Colombian Government, controlled by the Colombian capitalists, is uniting with Wall Street to destroy the insurance law and to crush the strikers by military force. The Colombian workers, in fighting for their existence against the terrific oppression of the U. S. imperialists, are fighting at the same time for the national independence and freedom of Colombia. The Colombian bourgeoisie hesitates, wavers and then gives in to U. S. imperialism, joins with it to destroy the national independence and freedom of Colombia. This has happened in Nicaragua, is happen- ing in Mexico and other countries of Latin America. It is the workers and oppressed masses generally under the leadership of the Com- munist Party, that are fighting the domination of U. S. imperialism in Latin America. Hands Off Colombia, Powerful Wall Street “interests” are already entrenched in Colombia. The United Fruit Company not only controls tremendous banana plantations, but it also holds miles of railroads in Colombia, telegraphic lines, sewer and water works and electric plants. The Gulf Oil Corporation and the Carib Oil Syndicates, U. S. corporations, control 1,300,000 acres of oil land. The Standard Oil Company, a Rockefeller concern, has large interests in Colombia. Several large U. §. banking institutions, such as the Equitable Trust Company, Leman Brothers, etc., have already spread their tentacles into Col- ombia through investments totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars. All these powerful capitalist concerns are squeezing life-blood out of the workers and peasants of Colombia. In order to protect their privileges and extend them still further, it is now being planned to invade and take full possession of Colombia for American imperialism. . The American naval forces in the Canal Zone have already been appealed to by Wall Street and are being kept in readiness to send warships to Colombia, to land marines and do to Colombia what American imperialism did to Nicaragua. The American toiling masses, the workers, the working farmers and the oppressed Negro masses must raise their voice of protest against these outrages of American imperialism. We call upon the toiling masses, oppressed by capitalism and the imperialists in the United States, to join in the struggle against Wall Street and its executive committee, the United States government. The exploited ses in the United States must come to the assistance of their Colombian brothers and render all moral and financial support to the strikers on the Magdalena banana planta- tions. Collect and send strike relief to the Colombian strikers, Help win the strike against the United Fruit Company. Protest against the sending of United States warships and marines to Colombia. Hands off Colombia. Don’t let U..S. imperialism do to Colombia what they did to. Nicaragua. ° Fight against the- big naty proposals now before the Senate. Condemn the demand of President Coolidge for 15 more cruisers submitted by him to the Congress in his message. Fight against the war preparations, Hoover's imperialist trip to Latin America. Fight against the war danger. Demand the unconditional independence of all colonies, semi- colonies and protectorates of the United States. * CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA, Though all but one of the mem- bers were present, only ator James Reed of Missouri questioned Kellogg. The line of Reed’s inqui- sition showed that he was chiefly concerned with the preseryation of the Monroe Doctrine and the avoid-" ance of treaties that would bring the U. S. government into a world ce erin political exiles of the working and peasant cla On the contrary, he is having fresh arrests carried Continued on Page Three ANNOUNCE SILK cour’ Kellogg insisted that his treaties provided fe th two logg will be resumed Tuesday. Cal Supports Treaties. . bs. President Coolidge’s “White House spokesman” was resurrected today, under the alias of “an important official,” and in an interview with the press called for a deluge of let- Continued on Page Three Foster, Weinstone and Weisbord to Speak PATERSON, N. , Dec. erson silk workers will this day evening hear William Z. 7.—Pat- Tu ter, William W. Weinstone and Al- bert Weisbord, noted Communist leaders, at a mass meeting on “How to Conduct a Strike, How to Organ- ize the Unorganized, and What Are the Policies of the National Textile Wor ’ Union.” The meeting, which is expected to attract one of the largest crowds ever turning out TUEL URGES AD _ TOFRUIT STRIKE Sends Solidarity Cable to Colombia Workers The following cable, congratu jing the thousands of plantaticy workers of Colombia who are ing against the United Fruit © will be held in t coum, Main St., one thousand. Because of a vile and slanderous attack on the left wing, conducted the last few da by the Asso- ciated Silk Workers by distribution pany, an agent of American imperi- | of leaflets and ending up with a call alism, was sent yesterday by Wil-|t @ mass meeting on Tuesday liam Z. Foster, executive secretary | night, the left wing local decided to of the Trade Union Educational | Call their meeting the same night Entre Nous Ly- which seats over League. to donee pont the nee Fs i ‘oie are behind the left wing and not the Congratulate you on heroic ‘sctionaries in contrat af the aA struggle against United Fruit Co.| .atoq (agents of American imperialism).! 4 <cociated mIRnRMET Caieetatat Your fight is our fight. Appealing | with the strikebreaking leadership to American workers to rally to|of their “union,” recently ‘estab- your support. For international la-| lished a local of the National Tex- bor solidarity against capitalism!) tile Workers’ Union, which grows in |For united struggle against Amer-| strength daily as the Associated | ican imperialism.” KIRGIZ TO DANCE IN GARDEN DEC. 1 Noisindic,. Polygamous; Women Do All Work Those wearing a Kazak or Kirgiz costume at the big Soviet colorlight ball at the Garden on Saturday, Dec. | 15, may be curious as to whom they represent. To enable them to re- loses influence among the workers. I, L. D. Mass Meeting Will Protest Against Porter Imprisonment A protest meeting against the im- prisonment of John Porter, New Bedford strike leader now in Fort Leavenworth, and a reception for the twenty-two Washington prisoners Just released after a month in jail for demanding the release of Por- ter, will be held here Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 8 p. m. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the New York district of the Inter- to 2 labor gathering in this. city, pulse with proud eloquence any mis- chievous inquirers, who may try to “kid” them on the matter, the fol-| lowing brief account of their com- patriots is published herewith. The Kirgiz make up a little over half the population of Kazakstan, an autonomous Soviet republic ad- | joining the Caspian Sea on the east. One-third are Russians and Ukrain- }ians. Three to four per cent are Continued on' Page Two Mexican Police Attack Crowd Before Chamber MEXICO CITY, Dee. Mounted police were called to night to break up a crowd of sev- eral hundred persons shovting for admittance to a late session of congress, Police rode into the crowd and firemen turned streams of water on the rioters. Proceedings within the cham- ber, where deputies had gathered to reply to counter-attacks of Crom leaders, were disrupted mo- mentarily. (Further details on page three. OVERCOME BY FUMES DARIEN, Conn., Dec. 7 (AP).— Twelye passengers in a Boston-New York'bus were cvercome in varying | ‘degrees today by fumes from a heater, One man collapsed as he left the bus and fractured his skull. | national Labor Defense, at Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. The speakers will be Ben Gitlow, member of the Political Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, Clarence Miller, Philadelphia district organizer of the Young Workers League, Otto Huiswood, head of the Negro department of the Workers Party, Paul Croue All - America League, and others. Role of Socialists Today to Be Exposed by Bedacht at Forum Max Bedacht, national agitprop director of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, will speak on “The So- cialist Party Today,” at the regular Sunday night forum conducted by the Workers School, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq., New York City, tomorrow at 8 o'clock, He will take up the more recent betrayals of the yellow socialists, particularly those in the last pre: dential elections, when depths were reached for which even thetr past record could show no equivalent. Their complete identification with the petty bourgeois political forces in the country will be exposed. Bedacht will point out. the need for a sharper struggle against the socialists in the trade unfons. Organize the anorganized! Or ganize new unions In the anorgan- ined industries; that the government had learned that Colombian Communists were active in the strike. His state- ment is an ayowal that the Abadia regime intends to use every means to break the strike. Against the government’s pel- | icy of drowning in blood, the Com- munists are leading the fruit strikers. ee. 8 BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 7.—Two thousand strikers clashed in the Sevilla banana plantations of the Yankee United Fruit Company last night with 200 soldiers, who had ceeded in reaching the town of villa, under orders from the Colom- bia government to enforce martial law in department of Magdalena, and break the strike of over 30,000 plantation workers, the ministry of war announced today. Soldiers opened fire on the strik- ers, killing 15 workers and wound- ing many. The casual! suffered by the federal troops were not an- nounced by the wat minister. The government continued vigorous ef- forts today to enforce martial law in the department of Magdalena, where eight strikers were killed by. federal soldiers yesterda; afternoon. One United States warship and a merchantman of the United Fruit Company are reported to be an- chored in the harbor of ta Marta, ready to land sailors and comp: police to combat the strik- ers if the Colombian troops are not. successful in forcing the workers to accent the dict Wall Street fruit compa At the same time the Colombian minister of war declares that United States intervention will be unneces- ary for he thinks that the federal troops, under general Carlos Varga: will be able to “protect American lives and property.” In the mean- Continued on Page Five WAYS ADDED TO STRIKE DEFENSE Frame Cabral, Striker, in New Bedford Case Announcement that Arthur Gat- field H prominent attorney, will probably be retained to help defend the hundreds of New Bedford tex- tile strikers who face ing dared to cut into th the Massachusetts’ mill barons, was made yesterday from the national offices of the International Labor Defense. A letter from Hays was made public with the announcement. It states: “If it is in any way pos- sible, I shall join you in th New Bedford cas I am, h r, tied up this month. I cannot get away before the 15th and I am to go to Pittsburgh on the 17th to try some If the cases Three civil liberty case: Continued on Pa Sandino Forces Fight U.S. Marines at Ocotal MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 7.~ United States marines clashed with | Sandino’s forces near the Honduran border, messages received here to+ night said. Sergeant Charles Wil- liams of the marines was killed. The marine patrol, acting on ad- vice that Sandino forces were on the move, met a force between Oc- otal and Telepaneca and a fight en- | &ed. Insane Man Owns Part of Harvester Trust | CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—A suit iust jfiled to appoint a guardian for | Stanley F, McCormick, worth $10.- 000,000 but insane for years, proves jthat you don’t have to have brains to exploit labor. All you need is a |cood family. Stanley's family owns ‘the harvester trust. WITH MILITARY i