The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Worker “oo ander the act of March 3. 187 Entered an aecond-clanu matte: at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥ Publichea Publiab: (You. V., N 294 RATES: Ip New Price 3 Cents _New York, N. |{ WATCH INTRIGUE I i} ' ! } : 1 1 j j ‘ i 1 5) t { | Cy p Papers present, that they could not New_York. 67 ARGENTINE RED RAIDS ON EVE OF HOOVER IMPERIAL VISIT Daily Worker C Correspondent Is B Barred at Pan-American Meet in Washington WALL ST. PUPPETS IN FEAR WORKERS’ PAPER | NOT ALLOWED TO Conference PressAgent Denies Secrecy But Forgets Facts One Session Is Public Bolivia Leaves the Con- ference (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11— Secretary of State Kellogg, now chairman of the Pan- American Conference for Con- ciliation and Arbitration, and Charles Evans Hughes, another representative of American imper- ialism at this meeting of 18 Latin-| American states with the United | States, have ordered a veil of se-| erecy cast over all proceedings.! The representative of the Daily| Worker and correspondents of Latin- American papers were barred in the important morning sessions ‘and only admitted in the afternoor. Immediately after Hughes walked into the meeting today, which is un- | der the direction of American big business taking measures to see that |, the present war between Bolivia and Paraguay turns out to the greatest profit of U. S. oil and mining companies in Bolivia, the door was slammed in the face of all newspaper representatives except those strictly subservient to the dic- tates and following the policies of American imperialism, A certain McDermott, a press un-| derling of the Pan-American union, informed Harrison George, the properly credentialed representative of the Daily Worker, and the re-| — porters of the Latin-American news- | have cards. Harrison George was in- formed that his name would be taken | and his paper, The Daily Worker, would be “looked up.” Wire of Protest. The following telegram has been sent by Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, to McDermitt: “Harrison George is our press representative at Pan-American Conference for Conciliation and Ar- bitration. I demand to know why he is excluded from conference at | which other press representatives | admitted. Exclusion of Latin-Ameri- | can press and Daily Worker is an | outrage against which we emphatic- | ally protest and is further proof of | the character of the conference as an imperialistic intrigue. Please wire, at my expense whether you | will persist in exclusion,” ROBERT MINOR, Editor of the Daily Worke: To this answer, McDermott wired back: “Editor Daily Worker: Statement that Latin-American press and Daily Worker excluded from conference | 9 poet on Pope: Five COMPANY UNION: ° MOVED TO TEARS Aids the Stockholders: Nevertheless | MANCHESTER, N N. H., Dec. 11.—| With a generous spirit ‘and a dem- onstration of true “American “dem- ceracy,” the corporation officials of the Amoskeag Textile Manufactur- ing Company permitted the “repre- sentatives” of their 11,000 workers, ; in a company union conference as- ! sembled, to annul the workers’ de- mand for a wage raise of five and | a half per cent. j Extremely considerate —_straw- | bosses and foremen, appointed by , higher-ups to serve as “congress- men” of the 11,000 in Amoskeag’s | “Workers Congress,” listened: atten. | tively to the report of Agent Straw (happily named!), wipe a tear of compassion for the poor stockhold- ers away with one hand and stuck ' the other high into the air in a! wnanimous vote to “postpone” ask- | ing for a wage increase. Not that the “congressmen” had heen acting like rowdies in having the | “Workers Congress” ask for an of- Continued on Page Three CLOAK PARLEY | 1 | 2 Whee Wall Street Oil Interests Are | Inciting to War Oe i —— or iS <4 r | DISPUTED a nl TERRITORY 3 O ! / eUNCION fa gf ( otal at 2) ) oma 4 Scenes from Bolivia and Paraguay, where the workers and peasants are being urged to fight for in« creased profits for the Carib Oil Syndicate. Above, left, President Hernando Siles of Bolivia, the tool of the oil men, who is trying to add the Paraguan territory containing the oil to Bolviia where the Yan- kee imperialists are assured of their interests; guay; and below, the pariiament building in the Paraguayan cdpital; right, top, the presidential palace at Ascuncion, Para- below, left, a view of Lad Paz, capital of Bolivia where the puppets of Wall St. manipulate the government; pis right, map of the two countries, Saas the erelOry of Chaco where the oil was discovered about 2 2 years ago. TOMORROW EVE To Answer r Schlesinger Fake Maneuvers The second full year of struggle against the employers and their so- cialist agents who together de- stroyed the cloak and dressmakers’ | | union, will be commemorated by al conference of the shop chairmen and | active members of that organiza- | tion, which will be held tomorrow | evening, immediately after work, in Cooper Union. The purpose of the conference is to mobilize the membership of the left wing union for the fingl efforts | before the convention which Will es- | tablish the new left wing cloak and dressmakers’ international. It also | has the purpose of serving as a! forum for exposing as a fake the “program” published by B. Schles- inger, scab union head, in the bosses’ press. In leaflets distributed -broadcast throughout the cloak and dress markets, the Joint Board of the N. 0. C. declares: “The agent of “The Forward,” Schlesinger, has nevertheless not ‘completely given up his hopes to! fool the workers thru underhand | methods. He talks about strength- | ening the union, while in reality he seeks to strengthen his own com- pany union. His emissaries in the market talk of uniting the union, | hoping thru this slogan to confuse | the workers and thus interfere with} Continued on Page Two Laborde’s Speech in the “Daily” Tomorrow Tomorrow the | “Daily Worker will carry the full speech of Her- nan Laborde, Communist deputy, delivered in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies when Hoover started on his imperialist cruise of Latin America, In his speech Laborde cxposed the trip as proof that the struggle between British and Yankee imperialists in Latin America is growing and that the purpose of the cruising warship was to consolidate Wall Street’s interests. His speech struck the | note of the Latin-American work- | ets’ and peasants’ struggle against imperialism and had its reverbera- tiens all over the world. _Readers of the Daily Worker, nut ‘l te roa? this rretcht | THOUSANDS TC BE AT THE DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT BALL IN MADISON SQ. GARDEN SATURDAY USSR SYSTEM AT Labor to “Make Merry. ‘THe STRUGGLE AGAINST TROTSKYISM | The Opposition, in a cable tothe the Communist Inter- | national, objected to the formulation of the last Comin- tern cable, reading in part: “We urge the Political Com- mittee to allow the Opposition to express its dissociation with Trotskyism.” The Opposition cabled that it has “no association with Trotskyism” and declared that in this respect the last Comintern cable was subject to misinterpretation. In the following cable the Communist. International clears up this point: 3 “In reply to Foster’s cable the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International never asso- ciated the minority with Trotskyism. The purpose of the cable of November 30 was to urge the publica- tion of the minority statement, in order to give the widest publicity to all opposition to Cannon’s Trot- skyist group.” To the knowledge of the Central Executive Commit- | tee there was no other interpretation placed on the first \ cable than that placed by the Comintern. The C. E. C.,, | itself, in its various statements, repeatedly and emphati- | cally declared against dubbing the Opposition Trotskyists. | Central Executive Committee. Workers (Communist) Party of America. DEMAND PORTER BIG ‘DAILY’ BALL at ‘Garden’ Saturday The entire Soviet system of government will be transported to Madison Square Garden Saturday night. You don’t believe it? Well, come to the hig, Daily Worker- Freiheit ball and see for yourself! It’s all the doing of a group of members of the Russian fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party, who have decided to show the thousands of workers who will be present Saturday night how the Soviet government works. ‘They will appear in appropriate costumes, representing the vari- ous national groups within the \ Soviet Union. Only three more days are left. From present indications every- body is going to be at this big Jailed Militants yee John Porter!” will be the “op, night (Wednesday) at a reception at 8 o’clock at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 |E 4th St., for the 22 workers who | have just been released after 30-day ; sentences in a Washington jail for | demonstrating against the im- perialist war and for the release of Porter. Several of the workers arrested in| |the demonstration will tell the story | of the arrest, the farce trial and the vile treatment they received in jail. The reception will mobilize the workers of this city behind the move- ment to force the release of John Continued on Page Two paper, “Iskra” (The proletarian costume ball. Have you | Sp ax the starting point for the formation of an organized a friend whom you haven't seen since he borrowed that five-spot Continued on Page Two revolutionnry party in Russia, The ily Worker will be the rallying t for n mass Party United Staten, RELEASE TONIGHT. Workers Will Greet | demand of New York workers to-| in the } The Pan- American War Conspiracy The selection of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg as chair- man by representatives of the corrupt, puppet and paraly zed govern- ments calling themselves the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation dramatizes the real character of that assemblage which opened in Washington on Monday. At the Havana conference last winter the present conference was authorized. Its objective is to create machinery that will enable the United States imperialist government to intervene in disputes hetween the Latin American na- y arbitration upowthem, This conference nd his predecessor as secretary of state, e two imperialist spokesmen in the gov- ge are adepts in the game of duplicity, the peoples of tions and impose compul. is dominated by Kellogg Charles Evans Hughes. Th ernment of Harding and Cooli bribery, forgery and terror being carried out against Latin Amer The conference now going on at Washington has a two-fold pur- pose. (1) To drive its imperialist rival, England, out of Latin Amer- | iea, and is symptomatic of the growing antagonism between these two powers. (2) To secure mastery over Latin America and consolidate its power. This present conference is of such a shady nature that were the facts known to the peoples of Latin America they would rise in un- restrained fury against the representatives of their governments who | are trying to prepare the way for Yankee tyrants to reduce them to chains and silence beneath the e of imperialism. Such monstrous infamy is being prepared at Washington that, in order to protect its Latin American puppets, American imperialism has excluded from the conference sessions the representatives of the ly Worker and all the writers of the Latin American press. Only those kept journalists who submit to the censorship of Kellogg are permitted to attend the conference. If the full sessions are of such a nature that the light of publicity is extinguished, what must be the char- acter of the intrigue that takes place in committees? While the Latin American marionettes are aiding Kellogg and Hughes at Washington the bloody hand of American imperialism is reaching down into Bolivia and inciting a war against Paraguay over territory that is alleged to have been in dispute for a hundred years or more. The cause of the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries is not to be sought in the fact that the governments have suddenly gone on a war rampage, but in the fact that a year and a half ago the Carib oil syndicate, a concern that has been working hand in hand with the Gulf Oil concern of Andrew W. Mellon in Colombia 2nd Venezuela, discoyered rich cil lands in the disputed ter- ritory. American imperialism deliberately fomented the Bolivian attack on Paraguay in order to annex that territory to Bolivia, whose gov- ernment is one of the Wall Street puppets in Latin Americ It is a piece of international banditry that ranks with Roosevelt’s Panama steal and Bryan’s Haitian swindle under Woodrow Wilson. It is a part of the world imperialist streggie for oil, It is part of the prepa- rations for the next world war. The same rapacious imperialism, through its lackeys in Colom! is carrying on a campaign of wholesale murder and terror against the workers of Colombia who are striking against the slave-driving United Fruit Company. Forty thousand workers are striking against the refusal of the American concern to comply with protective legis- lation placed upon the statute books by the government in response to pressure from the ma: But when American imperialism speaks the Colombian government, like a jackal, turns upon its own people. Meanwhile Hoover continues his imperialist tour of Latin Amer- ica, receiving the homage of imperialist flunkeys while preparing new and more frightful forms of slavery for the Latin Americans and forwayding the war conspiracies. This tri accompanied by an enormous increase all along the line in the aggressi veness of American imperialism. In its struggle for world imperialist hege- mony the fortifications of the Panama Canal are being increased, while the fake elections in Nicaragua have paved the way for per- manent occupation of that country by American armed forces and for the building of a new canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific as a part of the program of the imperialist war-mongers. The people of the republic of Haiti live in terror under the iron heel of the Yankee invader, while the agent of that vassal govern- ment fawns before Kellogg at Washington and endeavors to aid his master reduce all Latin America to the plight of his own country. But the rocd to complete imperialist subjugation of Latin Amer- ica is not paved with roses. The masses of workers and peasants in all those Southern republics loathe and despise their oppressors. They look upon Hoover with execration. Regiments of armed mer- cenaries have to defend this representative of Yankee butchery from the open hostility of the pepulation of the countries he visits. At the identical moment that lying news writers accompanying, Hoover paint pictures of the undying affection of the Latin Amer- icans for their oppressors Sandino launches a new defensive attack | against the marines, It is this heroic leader of the revolutionary forces in Nicaragua who has become the symbol of the aspirations of the Latin American masses, The reply to the conspiracies being hatched in the Washington conference should be a thousand Sandinos throughout all Latin Amer- ica leading uprisings against Yankee despotism and all its agents. The masses themselves should refuse to engage in any war initiated by American imperialiin. To do so is to aid the despot place the chains of slavery upon them. There is only one fight worth the shedding of a single drop of blood of a Latin American worker or peasant and that is the fight against the imperialist rapacity of the United States. In that fight the masses of Latin Ame; must have the support of the workers and farmers of the United States. Here in the United States we must relentlessly fight against the | war danger. We must and will expose the dastardly plots being formulated at the Washington conference. Demand the withdrawal of troops from Nicar Help the Latin Americans throw off the finperiulist yoke! Come to the aid of the strikers in Colombia with every. means at hand! Id up the Anti-Imperialist League and mobilize the masses against imperialism! Organize yigantic protest mass meeti the sinister war preparations now under'way! Organize the potential war industries and the transport workers in the drive against the war danger! ‘Tell the workers in the armed forces of the nation to refuse to slaughter other workers in the interest of the investments of the Wall Street bankers! Bi everywhere to expose i# jticket for this ‘Save Money by Buying | ‘Tickets for Ball Now! | Twenty-five cents on each ticket | any left. or $1 on four can be saved by buy- ling tickets for the great Daily | Worker-Freiheit Soviet Ball in Mad- lison Square Garden Saturday night ‘mn advance. If you buy at once jfrom the business office of the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union as $1. If you wait until OLD LACKEY DIES. a Kay last night. banner proletarian |social event of the year costs only Saturday |, |night, it will cost $1.25—if there are Municipal Court Justice John R. OF MASS DEMONSTRATIONS; JAILINGS IN BUENOS AIRES Discover “Plot? to Kill Bavoy “of Yankee Im- perialis sm in Latin America Chilean Regime Bows Meek y in Farewell as Hoover Urges More Loans BUL LETIN BUENOS AIRES, Dec. workers were arrested here today’ to prevent the staging of ma FURRIERS IN BIG MEETING TONIGHT Cloak Union Pledges | Support in Fight | Hailing the general strike ulti- matum of the left wing Joint Boai iers Union, issued on their r ceipt of the news that the Fur m- | ming Association was to end the agreement with the left wing and ign a fake one with the scab union, the National Organization Cemmit- tee of the Cloak and Dress: Union sent a letter to Ben Gold, Joint Board manag set | The m meeting in a, ~| Union to led. by the riers union is a , will see the | t support the n pledged in its let Lou's Hyman and 3. Zimmer leaders of C., will deliver their union’s | Continued on Pege Two SHASH MINERISH - BOMB FRAME UP Hold Him on 45-Day Contempt Sentence (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSTON, Pa., Dec. 11. — The frame-up against Anthpny Minerich, national executive board member of the National Miners’ Union. in which he was accused of ting dynamite to blow up Ebene Babtist Church here, has been smashed thru the ac- tivity of the International Labor De- fense, defending Minerich. Minerich w clusion of a fre arrested at the con- speech mass meet- ikers against the Penn- 1 Co., about two weeks communicado for sev- in the barra of Co. B., ming, Pa., bout his on strike, and the state being activities the po Union. the Pitt: 2s of , on being released habeas corpus pro- clared that the case was me-up to injur ed on Page of ‘a pure f Conti: ‘e the union, Five ioe LAUDS WOMEN'S MEET According toa) ata 1 statement just is- sued by Ray Ragozin, secr of jthe N York Working Women’s | Federation, 799 Broadway, “the con- |ference on organization of working women which will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the Temple, 14th and Second Ave., jis of the greatest importance to rking women in New York. It is faign to organize unorganized work- “The great need for such a confer- | Continued on Page Two he National Miners’ | Labor | the first step in a far-reaching cam- | ing women, and to make the organ-| special meeting for the silk work- tions that already exist instru-|ers of this city for the purpose of ents for the improvement of the | launching an organization drive, the Farrar, 60 years old, who has held | wretched conditions of women work- | meeting takes on the character of his office for 19 years, died from a ers. heart attack in his home in Brook-| 11.—Numerous revolutionary a precautionary measure protest demonstrations on the ident- elect pabevey on his imperialist cruise of Latin America. The official reason given for the est was to prevent the recurrence of last year’s demonstrations against Yankee imper m in connection with the execution of Sacco and-Vanzetti. The newspaper, Critica, said that ie arrests were made in connection ith an alleged plot against Hoo- ver’s life, but this story was believed to be a maneuver on the part of the government to justify the arrests of workers. Pama sae SANTIAGO, Chile, Dee. 11.— Herbert Hoover left the Chilean capital for Buenos Aires at 9:30 p. m. after a two day visit here during which president Ibanez and his staff bowed meekly before the envoy of Yankee imperialism. The Chilean ‘institute of En- gineers, not to be outdone by the governmental watchers of the United States copper and nitrate interests in tl country, made Hoover an honorary member of their organiza- tion. Hoover answered by some rant on the influence of engineering in public life. At where an official luncheon at noon, the best trimmed puppets were collected, Hoover replied to Ibanez’s address of welcome, stress- ing above all the need for the Latin American countries to borrow capi- tal for public undertakings. Com- ing from Hoover the advice meant that Yankee bankers were only too willing to lend money to the Latin American government, of course, with the accompanying mortgaging of the country to the United States. Making a strong plea for the bankers, Hoover stated: “Importa- tion of canital for development of public works, transportation and communications, »ower and natural resources, is a blessing both to the lenders and borrower. It creates Ith from which loans and in- vestments can be repaid.” The spokesman for, Wall Street tried to make it appear that such loans were really a restriction and applied only to scme minor activity of the Latin American governments, A clése examination of all the items for which it “would be profitable” to borrow from the United States, as ated by Hoover, include almost major undertaking. anez answered by a cordial and polite compliment for this “tourist of good-will.” His words melted with the heat of his oratory into “hot air.” SILK WORKERS’ RALLY TONIGHT Foster Weisbord Talk on Unionism |. PATERSON, N. J., Dee. 11.—Fins ishing touches to preparations for the mass meeting in the big Entre Nous Lyceum, Oliver St. near Main, tomorrow, Wednesday, night were made today by tie National Textile Workers’ Union, Paterson local,’ junder whose auspices Wiliam J. Foster, leader of the great 1919 steel strike, is to speak. Albert Weisbord, national secretary-treas- urer of the N. T. W. U., will also address the meeting. In addition to being called as a being a forum where the reaction- ary role of the Associated Silk | Continued on Page bod