The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1928, Page 3

ren SEMBER 10, 192: Death ‘Sentence : Threatens 9 WORKERS CLASH Siry : MASS PROTESTS ° Jail -Hundreds During! Crowning of Emperor TOKIO, Japan, (By Mail).— Threatened with the death penalty, Japanese Communists were brought to trial in Osaka on Noy. 21, with all proceedings kept secret and no reporters allowed into the courtroom. Just as this, n the Communists members of the mmunist Party} and its sympathi protesting the} extreme brutality of the Tanaka re- gime against revolutionary workers, | came to blows with police who at-| tempted to break the demonstra- tion near the court house. From) fear of similar demonstrations of protest on the part of the workers] in Osake, the la industrial cen-! ter in Japan, tne judge decided to carry on the trial secretly. The Communist Party banned in Japan. Aftet the large vote given the workers’ candidates at the elections in February, the legal left proletarian organization, Rodo No-! minto (Workers and Peasants Par-| ty); Hyogikai (the revolutionary process against s to take place, | discussions. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DE 5 Japanese Com 8 munists munist) Party on the right danger and its crassest manifestation, ism, is arousing the mem- ship. The present econom‘c and political situation is being consid- ered thoroughly. The Party is made | conscious of the war danger, of the physical and ideological prepara- tions for war by American imper- ialism, and of the dujies of the Party to meet this danger and to mobilize the workers against it, and also of the danger threatening the Party from pessimistic elements who attempt to run away from dif- ficulties to substitute reformism and | opportunism for revolutionary poli- | cies. | Resolutions are being adopted all over the country as a result of these | The comrades every- where are taking a definite stand in support of the C. E. C. in its action against Cannon, who, to- gether with his friends, is trying) to create a rallying point for all op- | portunists and reformists in the | American movement and is trying | to give them a program. * Trot Comrede Watkins Repudiates Trot- sm. To the District Eecutive Commit- | le Against Right Danger and Trotsk is the Comintern and are lined up with the International Op- | position “movement for the forma-|but the unifying force of all tion of a new party. “Circular letters have been sent to Party members without the knowledge of the Party. “To me this is positive proof that the aim of Cannon and all who sup- port him is the definite organiza- tion of an opposition outside and in- side the Communist International, against the Soviet Union and the American Party. “I therefore unconditionally repu- diate Cannon, ‘Abern and Shacht- man and the local Comrades Dunne, Skoglund, Coover and Votav’ and any others who actively or passively support Trotsky:sm to destroy our | Party. “I stand solidly behind our Lenin- ist Comintern and for the defense of the Soviet Union. “I stand for the building of our Communist Party, for the extermin- ation of any opposition, and for the decisions and discipline of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the American Party. “ (Signed) WM. WATKINS.” ee te From a functionaries’ meeting of the capital of the American auto in- tee, District 9: “Comrades :— | dustry, Detroit, comes the following firm and uncompromising declara- mm! COMMUNISTS. Sonics." 2 5 FRENCH COURTS | i the | opportunistic right wing elem and is therefore counter-re on- ary. We, the functionaries in the —_— city of Detroit call upon the Central! Doyjot, Peri, Cornavin Exc-stive Committee of our Party cee ny to take drastic action and to Get Jail Terms |all such c :s from the Party.” - The mine nucleus of McDonald, (Red Aid Press Service) |Pa., sent the following communica-| | PARIS, (By Mail).—Terror sen- tences against French Communists | tion to the Central Committee: have again been handed down dur- ing the last few days. Again there is the familiar cry of “inciting the military to revolt.” Jaeques Doriot was hailed before the capitalist court for his activity in China and his articles in the youth newspaper “Avant-Garde” (Advance Guard), in which he had| a “This is to inform you that Mc- Donald Pa. mine nucleus at its meet- ing held Nov. 22 approved the ac- tion of the CEC in expelling the |membe:s of the Cz.non-Trotsky jgrcup and pledged its full-h-arted | support *> the CEC in its fight against the Right danger and the | Trotskyist csxcer in the Party.” | called upon the French sailors and, The Party unit in Verona, Pa.,| soldiers to fraternize with the op- decided t> support the CEC and de-| pressed Chinese people. He was clared: |sentenced to 2 years in prison and “The Verona, Pa, St. Nuclens,| 00 francs fine. a | having read the statement of the|, Besides this sentence, which now| GEC on the expulsion of Connon, | Hangs over Dorit, Doriot has a sen-| Abern and Schachtman, and having tence, from the trial of Nov. 28.) ) and having! 997,’ of one year in prison and read the statement of the expelled | members and all the slanders pub- | lished by them in anti-Communist sheet called the ‘Militant,’ hereby | goes on record fully endorsing the jaction of the Central Executive Com- 1,000 francs fine. | Gabriel Peri, one of the editors of | “Humanite,” central organ of the French Communist Party, because | of his articles against the threaten- in Secre African Chief, Imperialist Flu n | key, Here | Chief Amoale of the African Gold Coast can afford to travel around the world in luxury, while the natives on the Gold Coast starve in slavery under British Heplitation. Vor the chief is sub- sidized by the British government to the tune of several hundred thousands a year for selling the natives to the slavery of the imperi- alists. He is at present in New Yo where above photo was taken. Experts on Air War 11 Servants Accompany Say Coming Conflict John D. to Florida as Will Wipe Out Cities Jingoes Welcome Plute LONDON, Dec. 8 (U.P). The| DAYTONA BEACH, Fila., Dec. 8. League of Nations Union heard two ; |-John D. Rockefeller was settled | versions of “The Next War” today, | comfortably in his winter home here both startling predictions of what | today, planning to enjoy another might happen. season of golf and moti g. Lord Halsbury, in a speech to-| ‘The old plutocrat arrived last night, said that the “Next War” night with a party of 14, includin; would commence where the last one I a t Trial Held at Os coe ak INT'L RED AD FORGES AHEAD INTO TTH YEAR ‘Red First Aid Corps of World Revolution’ (Red Aid Press BERLIN, (By Mail).—November 30 was the sixth anniversary of the Red Service) founding of the International Aid. During the six years of its work the International Red Aid bore worthily its name of “The Red First Aid Corps of the World Revolution,” by giving material and moral aid to the victims of capitalist reac- tion. During these years the Inter- national Red Aid developed into a mass organization of many millions, which drew its members into the spi of international proletarian solidarity. Its name rings thru the whole world as a warning to the ruling class, the bourgeoisie and its allies. The International Red Aid has proved that it is able to mobilize the broadest ranks of the working class for the active fight against the white terror, class justice and international fascism. “At the last mecting of the D. E. tion: C. I was associated with Comrades| “We, the Functionaries in the city trade union league) and its branch the youth league, were dissalved b; the government. In June the de decreed against “political conspira- tors.” In that way the reactionary| *"", i Japanese government hoped to stifle! In reply to questions, put to me ell revolutionary propaganda at its)>Y Comrade Devine as to whether roots: jor not I was a Trotskyite, I said The revolutionary workers now|! did not know.’ All IT know was appearing in Osaka before the Jap-| that I was for the Communist Party anese capitalist court, were arrested| 2nd the Comintern, 7 Dunne, Skoglund, Coover and Vo- |taw in taking a stand against what ath sentence was|1 then considered to be an effort to | silence constructive criticism inside | the ranks of our Party. “Since then I have learned that { without any ground during the fes-| j the new emperor in Tokio. The po- { | lice spread the rumor that the ac. eused workers had planned an “at- tempt at the life of the emperor,’”| The charge accuses them of “eon-| spiracy againgt the life of the ruler and the safety of the state.” For decree serves the Vv 1 proletarian solidar- ity demands the working class of| the whole world to rush to the aid ef the Japanese class brothers with all haste. An international stor.a cf protest must immediately get un- cer way to baffle the shameless pur- pose of the Japanese terrofists to| send 95 revolutionary wérkers to! death! BOLIVIA MOVES | TO DECLARE WAR Breaks WithParaguay; Jingoes Active Continued from Page One lating to the neighboring nation of Paraguay is being cultivated in the cavital of Bolivia today as the re- sult of a frontier clash between Bolivian and Paraguayan soldiers | Thursday. The congress met in secret session | to consider the attitude which will | be taken in the presentgrrisis, and an official communique was issued in an attempt to throw the entire blame for the military skirmish on | the Paraguayan government. | The Paraguayan Charge D’Af- fairs has been sent back to Asuncion | on a fast train, and the Bolivian | minister has been recalling citizens | Saturday night and today. All the} exaggerated emotions of propa- | gandized populace added to,the in-| creasing flame of bitterness. ) “This soil is already free,” “Bet- fer to die than live as slaves,” are) jogans used to rallynationalist sen- j timent for war, ignoring the fact | that the workers of Bolivia are al- ready wage slaves at miserable wages, and the whole country bossed | by U. S. imperialist “advisers” and bankers, and that no war will come | unless Wall Street orders war. | The government has postponed | “the municipal elections scheduled _ for Monday and the entire country waits in susvense for the next de- | 1 | tivities surrounding the crowning of Cannon and those associated with | him are ,definitely organizing | of Detre‘t, largely made up of work- \ers in the auto industry, at a regular | meeting representing all the street ‘nuclei and shop nuclei, such as: |Ford, General Motors, Packard, | Dodge, ete., whole-heartedly and | without reservation support the ve- cision of the CEC in expelling Can- jnon, Abern, Schachtman and others | who are trying to build up a Trotsky fraction within the Party and there- Comintern and the CEC in the strug- gle against the war darz-er, by undermining the prestige of the) mittee in taking quick acticn against the disr pters, | “The appeal of Cannon «1d his | group in the Leninism is nothing | but an insult to Leninism and to | the memory of Lenin who always carried on a bitter struggle agains' Trotsky and against ‘the pompou phrases with which Trotsky always defends. opportunism.’ “We pledge our full-hearted sup- | port to the CEC and to the Com- munist International in their strug- | gle against Trotskyism and against | | the Right wing generally.” | TUEL URGES AID TOFRUIT STRIKE, Sends Solidarity Cable to Colombia Workers Continued from Page One effect that he had not yet received instructions from Washington be- cause Washington was convinced ‘that the Colombian government would protect the interests of Amer- iean citizens against the strikers.’ (By “American citizens” is meant the banuna trust.) To make sure of all support in case of an emer- gency, the fruit company officials in Santa Marta have established communications (in spite of the cen- scrship!) with Commander Collins of the U. S. Navy, who is in the Canal Zone. Against Imperialism. “American workers, who have} often been confronted by the militia in strikes in this country, and who | the methods of imperialism in | ing 1o maintain colonial ‘cheap- labor’ conditions in Latin America, | “Good Will” Messages All the Rage; Consul in Brazil Gets Three RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9.— Some playful Latin American wish- ig to return the “good will” offer- ing of 16-inch guns pointed at Latin America by the newly-clected presi- jent of Yankee imperialism, calle: at the residence of Charles R. Nas- mith, U. S. consul at Port Alegre, Brazil, and left a package with a servant which he said was a “pres- ent” for the consul. When Nasmith came in he opened the package and found that his caller had presented him with three “good will” bombs. The police are looking for the individual. AWAIT RALLY OF SILK WORKERS Foster, Weinstone and Weisbord to Speak |}ing war and his appeal to all sol- | diers and sailors not to allow them- | selves to be used for imperialist wars and for a war against the Chinese workers and peasants, was, sentenced to one year in prison. Gaston Cornavin, publisher of | “Emancipator,” because of an arti- cle against the imperialist war be- |ing prepared against the Soviet Union, was sentenced to 6 months in prison. Cornavin was arrested because of this article and treated as a criminal prisoner. members of his household retinue | and three guests. | left off with the result that new His plans for to- poison gases might wipe out the | day called for nine holes of golf on population of London in 12 hours. |the Ormond Beach course. “Every human in that area might| Rockefeller was greeted by a be killed. Our only possible safe-|targe crowd when he alighted from guard rests in letting the enemy |his private car, Boy scouts lighted | know that any attempts to obliter-/ihe way to waiting automobiles | ate London will be met with similar| with torches. He walked with a attacks on the enemy capitals.” | firm step, leaning lightly on the Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves) arm of an attendant. earlier in the day said Europe’s air| Asked if he had a pleasant trip, situation was a great menace tojhe replied: “Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.” peace, Disabled Schooner, 12 Workers Aboard, Saved After 21 Days Adrift WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.P).— The coast guard destroyer Fanning advised headquarters today she is towing to Vineyard Haven, Mass., the disabled four-masted schooner B. S. Taylor with a crew of 12 on board. Andre Marty, whose trial on his} “The open letter to Marshall Foch took dropped in four years in the last total weight of bombs} place a short time ago, had in this war could now be dropped in 24 “DYNAMITE” MURDER. ROCKFORD, Ill., Dec. 9 (U.R).— Paul Reed was found guilty today of The report said the schooner had been adrift 21 days and had lot all FIGHTS TROOPS Planes Report Strikers Control Plantations Continued from Page One | has left the port of Santa Marta for | Kineston, Jamaica. It was held up| by the strike. but the strikers at| : at has Santa Marta have been crushed by \the Argentine bourgecisie will have soldiery, according to information | Some tough questions for Hoover to from the United States vice-consul | 2"8wer when he stops for ‘inner,’ at that port, who demanded that the 2PPears from the tone and content Colombian army commander take such action. General Cortes Vargas, chief of the civil guard, at Santa Marta, is carrying out searches of all working | class districts and disarming the working class population, are issued to prevent any sale of | arms to the working class elements. Local scabs and fascist elements are being armed. Many of the known militant trade union leaders are be-| ing arrested. Rumors are current) * 28 © its sails in a gale. Food supplies j will not be surprised to find the} \of. all ‘plantation workers on their splen- | Continued from Page One whole power of American imperial-| Severance of relations with the As- ism pitted against the Colombian | S°ciated Silk Workers and its ad- To those workers who do| hesion and offers of aid to the Pat- know what is back of|¢tson local of the N. T. W. The Hoover's ‘good will’ trip in South | Statement declares over the signa- America, to those who do not yet| tures of S. Laib and E. Russak, its know what American interests he is | President and secretary rig helping to safeguard and to estab-| “The Women’s Council has for 7 lish, the statement of the U. S. min. | weeks been furnishing the pickets ister to Colombia will serve as an} With coffee and rolls under the aus- eye-opener. Wall Street and Wash- | Pices of the Associated Silk Work- ington are seeking to reduce Co-|ers: The Women's Council is a lombia to the status of Nicaragua. | working class organization with tHe American imperialism is the enemy | Purpose of helping workers in strug- the oppressed. American | gic, and tried to do its share in the workers must fight against it with | Present strike. the same vigor as our fellow-work-! During the 7 weeks that we have ers throughout Latin America are | been cooperating with the Associ- fighting it. ve Oe wonere, ve cat ne “ ‘. sere watching the struggle within e ie cubgen mete: Sn eared organization with great interest. We realize that when the policies and tactics of the officials of the Asso- ciated drove the left wing leaders out of strike activity, there was nothing left to do for the broad silk workers, who overwhelmingly fol- low the left wing leaders, but to vote to enter the National Textile strikers. not t did struggle. Far from being cowed by the forces sent against them, they have armed themselves for de- fence and have aetualiy captured and disarmed some of the soldiers attacking them. ‘The port of Santa Marta has been paralyzed, accord- = some have been shot. SANTA MARTA, Colombia, Dec. \8 (delayed)—A United Fruit Com- pany boat has left here with a cargo | of 20,000 bunches of bananas, loaded |by scabs and shipped by railroad | seabs from scab plantation workers, all this scabbing having been pre- {pared by the company which had an- | ticipated the strike when it defiantly \refused to grant the workers the in- |surance benefits to which they are {entitled under the Colombian law. * 8 Lick Yankee Boots. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The government of Colombia has cabled the State Department here, promis- jing that all imperialist investments and all imperialists in person will be protected from the striking plan- | tation workers by soldiery*being sent against the workers by the Col- ombian Minister of War. The message of the boot-licking |Colombian servants of imperialism | was given by the Foreign Relations |Minister at Bogota to the U. S. | minister to Colombia, Jefferson Caf- fery. Fear Exposure of Hoover. velopment which may hurl the de-|ing to reports in the New York Workers’ Union, whose policies and}. The situation was admitted to be liberately provoked crowds toward a military conflict. Special editions of newspapers _.continue to howl for war, using the Bolivian version of the Fort Van- guardia incident. El Diario said | “The attack on Fort Vanguardia is) _} the result of criminal premeditation | _on the part of the Paraguayan gen-| eral army staff.” “Soon the truth will shine forth before all the nations that Paraguay = as wanted to give us a coup-de-| jain like that’ it gave us when it) ~eized Port Pacheco, but the times, have changed, after all, and with | Fort Vanguardia regained, Bolivia | will know how to defend herself,” the newspaper siid. | Hunter Kills Giant €od Fish With Gun NOANK, Conn., Dee. 9 (UP).— bserving a disturbance among ome decoy ducks he had set out, laniel Robertson biazed away with oth barrels of his shotgun. To his surprise, he discovered he ad bagged—not a duck—but a 30- ound codfish which had become en- ‘men throughout the ‘territory are \idarity can do. Times. Steamers wait at the docks ‘empty and millions of stems of | bananas lie rotting on the wharves. | Considerable numbers of railroad striking in sympathy with the plan- ; tation workers, further tying up ivansport. The workers ave giving a heroic example of what labor sol- | | “ rt of Our Struggle.” | “American workers, the United Fruit Company strike in Colombia is one which we cannot ignore! It touches our own immediate inter- ests, it is part of our own labor struggle! “The Trade Union Educational League calls upon American work- ers to render ull possible aid, in- cluding financial support, to the Colombian plantation strikers. The League appeals particularly to spa- men working on United Fruit Com- pany ships not to scab on the strik- ers, The League calls on all work- ers to militantly fight against American imperialist intervention. “Rally to the support of our fel- low-workers in Colombia! . “Defeat the slave-herding plans ngled among the wooden ducks. jof the United Fruit Company, which tactics are identical with those of the left wing, and which can build up a really powerful organization for the textile workers of Paterson. “Therefore, as a militant and class-conscious organization, we can no longer work in cooperation with the Associated Silk Workers, which |has ruined the strike and betrayed the workers. We have been com- pelled to refuse further to conduct the coffee stand at Turn Hall under the auspices of the Associated, and we intend putting in all our efforts to support the National Textile Workers’ Union in its fight for the strikers, and in its campaign to es- tablish a powerful union in Pater- son which will really protect the interests of the workers.” . ce menace American as well as Latin- American workers! “Fight against American ‘mper- inlism, which is leading toward in- evitable world war! “Build the international solidar- ity of labor in the struggle against imperialism!’ ” “TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE.” | process refused to accept the deci- hours,” he said. “This represents a| the “dynamite murder” of Vernon|... | sion of the court, because the judge 1,500-fold increase in effectiveness.” Psare and the jury fixed punish- habeas paler one ee beh Dada No| Groves ob: rved that an airplane! ment at life imprisonment. Tha’ acngice ae REE | sentence has as yet been passed in| guided by wireless could bomb a ihe schione wee Pie a this trial and the sentencing has city and he stressed the same de-| Out with the trade union bu- ee BeNe VEn, ee been delayed for a month, but his | fense proposed by Lord Halsbury: reaucrats, misleaders of labor. e. F denunciation of the court brought! “There jis no adequate defense —~~— |him a 500 frane fine from French| against air attacks except counter- | class justice, | attacks,” | Argentine Press Jabs | LIFETIME IN A SOD HOUSE. | . QUINTER, Kansas, Dec. 9. |Back at U.S. Agrarian tyenty years ago Mrs. Mary Sprin | 4 7 ger and her husband settled here | Tariff Boosting Plan & built a sod house. Today the BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 9—2That| husband is dead, but the aged ; z | woman still lives in the same sod house, raising chickens for a living | on her much smaller farm. No pros- | perity for these farmers, | | of an editorial in “La Nacion,” one of the most important dailies of South America. it refers to the report of the U. S. secretary of agriculture, Jardine, | which advocates a higher tariff on |agric ltu-.1 products to help the Orders vic farmers of the United States, a policy that strikes hard at Argen-| tine exports. The paper defiantly 1emarks, concerning this, as follows: “In Argentina there need be no} alarm at this prospect of higher | tariff in the United States. On the} Put Your Name on T his List of contrary, a sentiment of wonder i | noted + the policy which the United States proposes to follow, because ETINGS q@ | this policy disregards the fact that @ |this country is an important buyer | lof N.-th American goods. to the In concluding the editorial regard- jis the U.S. teritt proposals, tk | . | paper states: | “In solving the question, the U. S. nil or. Y government should not omit exam- B | ining the political aspect of the sub- | fect.’ That is to say, its repercussion on its =~ | among us. This phase merits con- | sider.d attention.” | a a FIFTH BIRTHDAY BOSSES CHOSE “STUDENTS.” 9) veal CO" | Agen Ea Dec. 9} 9), miller oie ass THESE NAMES ARE TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE (UP).—Dr. Frank Aydelotte, presi- ty Polew "oP 4 We |dent of Swarthmore College and Fort erRIST® og, AVES Birthday Edition of the | American secretary to the Rhodes | orto ingron xo | trustees today announced the 32 | 1699 . foun St ei | men selected to attend Oxford Uni- | —_— | < Baily Mi Worker ‘ | versity, England, under Rhodes | bait | scholarships. 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