The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 3

q a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU: DAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928 Page Three Bombay Mill Strikers Defeat Police in Clash; Heavy Reinforcements Raid Homes EXPECTBIRVOTE GRAIN PROCUREMENTS, " *sh-i COM PEPORT TRIBES y U.S.S.R. EXPORT GROWS . STATE OF SIEGE PEIGNS THRUOUT ACTORY SUBURB Five Workers Killed; Many Jailed BOMBAY, Dec, 12.—Mill strikers clashed with the police in Parel, in- dustrial suburb of Bombay, today when police and thugs attempted to break up their picket lines and dem- onstrations. Five workers and three policemen were killed, many seri- ously wounded and mass arrests of strikers were made. After the clash, in which the po- lice were defeated, reinforcements of heavily-armed police corps were sent into the area, made raids into che homes of the workers and made wholesale arrests, | "he police, however, met with in- br asing resistance, The workers, om strike against the unbearable zonditions in the mills, put up a vig- orous fight rather than be arrested and tortured in the jails. Fighting continued throughout the day, and the workers only retreated after aumerous police reinforcements, armored cars and motorcycles were sent into the region. At present all shops are closed and the suburb represents a battle- field, with police patrolling all the streets in large groups for fear of future attacks. The brave struggle of the strik- ers has aroused a wave of solidarity and militancy among the workers who have already been aroused by che presence of the Simon Commis- sion, which is supposed to make in- vestigation into the ability of India ‘0 govern itself. Police and troops p close guard in all industrial ;e8 to prevent the recurrence of ss demonstrations of protest Y .gainst British imperialism. COLOMBIA FRUIT © STRIKERS FIGHT Report Battle With Federal Troops Continued from Page One shaw, Colombian agent for United Fruit, is bitterly condemned, with | iis native aides who have called for | strikebreakers from all districts of | Solombia. The 1924 agreement, signed by Diogenes A. Reyes, then minister of \ndustry; Claude D. Boswell, of sited Fruit, and Jose M. N. Roca, ¢ vernor of Magdalena province, vikde these provisions: United Fruit, in return for the | ‘ight to exploit the province’s ba- iana resources, was to provide ir- | ‘igation for small farmers tilling heir own soil as well as for those | vorking directly for the company. | t was to advance credit to enable che farmers to finance themselves while preparing the banana crop; a vigger hospital in Santa Marta and | 1 new hospital in another center, to- | rether with adequate medical aid, | vere to be provided; workers were | o be paid individually and not hrough padrones; better living quarters were to be built by tearing lown old slums and erecting sani- ary dwelling houses, United Fruit Domination. United Fruit evaded most of these | ‘esponsibilities, the Magdalena Norkers Union charges. It applied | wressure on independent formers to ‘orce them to sell their land to the ompany It leased land to Ameri- ans who in turn sub-leased it to atives. It established company | pres, to the dismay of the native uall merchants, who are backing 12 strikers. Back of the United Fruit policy s the desire not only to depress vages and banana prices, but to lispossess the native cultivators. Nages for day laborers and pay- nent for crops are made partly in ash and partly in scrip drawn on he company stores. So aroused are the Colombian armers and workers that their trike has taken on the aspects of 1 revolt against United Fruit dom- nation. Thousands of soldiers have | veen poured into the province, | slashes have been frequent and a_ score of strikers have been killed, | recording to censored cables. The Jnited Fruit Company is relying on | he Colombian government to break he strike. U. S. Domination. The government itself is appa- tently a creature of United Fruit _ id the big American oil com- | nies. Much of the cash revenue ». the government comes from taxes und excise levied on these com- vanies, which demand in return sup- sort against Colombian workers ind farmers. The United States government it- self recently paid over $25,000 000 to the Colombian government for; ‘aims arising out of President Roosevelt’s forcible seizure of the sich province of Pansma in 1904, orior to the building of the Panama Zanal. Since then the Colombian - yovernment has been quite respon- sive to state department sugges- dons, as well as to direct pressure ypplied by the fruit and oil com- nies, Among them is the oil com- dominated by the Mellons. Workers Govern At left, Rykov, President of sars of the Soviet Union, who addressed the Congress of the Soviet Trade Unions at its opening session Tuesday in the Big Theatre, Moscow. At right, Kalinin, president of the Soviet Union. He is loved by peasants all over the peasant himself and knows the needs of the village. in Soviet Union | | i} | | | BEB ia the Council of Peoples? Commis- U. S.“S. R. for he has been a Latin America Serfdom Must Be Ended By HARRISON GEORGE. The despicable attack of the American Federation of Labor on immigrant Mexican workers should sharply remind all who fight under the banner of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, that the Spanish- speaking population of the United States is between three and four millions, almost all workers and in the most exploited categories. Los Angeles, for example, is supposed to have more Mexicans among its population than any Mexican city outside the federal capital. In California, Mexicans do the hardest work in the melon fields, hop ranches, cotton fields, etc., un- der blistering sun, long hours, and vile conditions. In the southwest generally they are agrarian and mine workers. In all sections they work as maintenance-of-way-men on the railroads, in general construc- tion. In Heavy Industry. The packing houses and_ steel mills, rubber and chémical plants are filled with Mexican and other Spanish speaking workers, some from the Antilles where native ty- ranny and Yankee imperialism have made a hell of their beautiful home- lands. In the sugar beet fields of Cichi- gan, Colorado, etc. whole families slave from early dawn to dark, the little ones bending their backs hour after hour over the task of weeding and thinning the beets. Living in Serfdom. No medieval serfs ever suffered more than these immigrant work- ers, lured to this country to improve their lot, only to find everything against them, even the labor unions (save the mark!) boycotting and despising them. The whole situation is a challenge to those who say they oppose Amer- ican imperialism, which oppresses their native lands and exploits them in this country. T. U. E. L, Must Lead. It is the duty first of all of the Trade Union Educational League, in its role as leader of the work, to organize the unorganized, to give |the most serious attention to these Spanish-speaking workers, | who |ecome next to the Negro population in importance as a single oppressed racial group. But the Communists can and must assist the T. U. E. L, in this strug- gle and rally to its own banner the most advanced, class-conscious work- ers among this mass as members of the party of revolution. Up to a very recent date, there was no Communist press in the Spanish tongue published in the United States. The Mexican Com- munist paper, “El Machete,” was read by hundreds whenever a copy penetrated into darkest Yankeeland. By it was far away and had too little contact with the work at which these workers are employed. Sd the Spanish-speaking workers were left almost entirely at the mercy of the capitalist press printed in Spanish in this country, Review of Spanish Press. There are many such papers, in| Texas and California éspecially. In| Chicago a semi-weekly paper called “Mexico” is published. But it is poisoned with clerical reaction, al- though it occasionally hits a good blow, seemingly by accident, as in a recent attack on Gomez, the Vene- zuelan tyrant. But it is devoted to the Catholic church and to its ad- vertisers and ignores the class struggle. In Tampa, Florida, “La Traduc- cion” is a strange mixture of rev- olution and reaction. In the recent election it calmly printed its en- dorSement for the democratic party alongside the anti-imperialist pro- gram of the Communist Party run as a front-page feature. It runs editorials of the Daily Worker with the same prominence day after day, but may also have a translation from capitalist press reports attack- ing the Soviet Union on another page! La Prensa—Capitalist. In New York, the regular capital- ist press is represented by “La Prensa,” giving special attention to all Spanish and Spanish-American news. It takes a pacifist “hope for the best” attitude toward the rapine- and-slaughter phase of American imperialism and says not a word [condemning imperialism in its blood- Workers’ less forms, except when quoting others more courageous. Its editorial solution for the im- perialist corruption in Porto Rico, for example, is for the two quarrel- ing lackeys of Wall Street, Iglesias }and Barcelo, to kiss and make up |and trust in “representative gov- ernment,” which has been fully proven to represent nobody in Porto |Rico but the Yankee sugar trust} |and land grabbers. Ignorant or Treacherous. Either it is so ignorant of political language that it does not know that) Hoover’s urging of better airplane) routes to Latin America is an im-| perialist move for conquest, or it) deliberately betrays the race for whom it assumes to speak when it also endorses the airplane confer- ence at Washington. While it furnishes an excuse by remarking that the development of the airplane makes it possible for a small nation to resist an invader, | yet it ought to know that the Wash- | ington conference is aimed precisely ‘at disarming and controlling these} small nations by supervising their) airplane development. Protects Tyrants and Traitors. In addition, and quite shamelessly, it denounces its readers whom it in- | vites to contribute letters to its) columns, for sending in anonymous} |letters. But it is obvious why an \immigrant worker, fearing deporta-| | tion to his homeland now ruled by | fascist assassins, wishes to conceal | his identity, yet express his feelings | | about these assassins in the paper| | speaking his own language, Spanish American immigrants | | should get along without the “news” | rather than absorb the viewpoint of | the capitalist “La Prensa” on the | problems of their race. | Of course there exists an I.W.W.} |paper also, published weekly, but) | like the entire I.W.W., it is pitifully | confused, In its issue for November| apparently that its propaganda for) fight against the former. | It is of the utmost importance | that all Communists and sympath- |izers understand the problem before them of reaching and organizing these millions of Spanish speaking workers in the fields and factories | \of this country. Communists and militant trade unionists have a plain duty to bring the Latin workers | with whom they come in contact, junder the influence of the Trade | Union Educational League and the Workers (Communist) Party. Welcome the Communist Paper! We have shown how the various Spanish language papers mentioned | above cannot and will not fill the need, a basic need for any organiza- tion, of a workers’ press. But there now exists a real Communist paper published in Spanish by the Work- ers (Communist) Party. It should |be a pleasure to every militant worker to circulate this. paper, “Vida Obrera” (Woxkers’ Life), among all Spanish speaking workers accessible to him in mine and field and mill. The “Vida Obrera,” issued month- ly, is young, it has issued only three monthly numbers, but it has a fu- ture ahead of it.' It is edited by Lecn S. Ruiz, at 43 East 125th St., New York City, and costs only fifty cents a year. It is of supreme im- portance in building the unbreakable alliance between the workers of this country and of Latin America that will finally give the death blow to penhte imperialism, their common ‘oe. ‘Man Named Maloney of | Atlantic City Says He ‘Knows Rothstein Killer Yesterday one Leo Maloney, living luxuriously at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlantic €ity, got rather drunk and announced to various people that he knew all about who killed Rothstein, the gambler murdered a month ago at another hotel for rich men in New York City, and evi- dently a member of a billion dollar drug ring which has been operating under protection of the Tammany police. |crats, the German and Hungarian} SONGS AND DOL | against the coalition of Maniu and} lat Conference Friday, IN ELECTIONS | RUMANIA TODAY Communist Party Wins Right to Campaign BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 12. —Having won the right to place their ticket on the field by numer- ous mass demonstrations and pro- tests directed at the Maniu govern- ment, the Communist Party of Ru- mania is for the first time openly participating in the general elec- tions today and expects to draw a} large percentage of the workers’) votes. Maniu is assured a majority in parliament by his pre-election) agreements with the social-demo- minority parties. Despite the fact that the Maniu regime still keeps the class war prisoners of the Bra- tianu government in the jails and is still pressing the trial against the Unitary Trade Unions in Buchar-) est, the social-democrats have agreed to support Maniu in return for seats in parliament. Forecasts of the elections predict | that the government coalition will win by about a two-thirds major- ity and that there will be a number of Communists in the chamber. The! Communist Party comes out openly the “socialists” and demands in one| of its election planks immediate and complete amnesty to political pris- oners and the suspension of the charges against the Unitary Trade Unions. | 100,000 SLAVES — OF RAYON TRUST 60 Percent of. These Are Women (By Federated Press) The Associated Rayon Corpora- ion, incorporated in Maryland with assets of $60,000,000, will hold shares in the leading rayon com- panies of the world. Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken and Bemberg companies of Germany, Glanzstoff of Austria, the Snia Viscosa of Italy, he Asahi of Japan, the Enka of the Netherlands, American Glanzstoff Corporation and American Bemberg and American Enka Corporation. These companies are connected | with the international rayon cartel, dominated by Courtauld’s of Great Purchases of grain, exclusive of oilseeds, from peasants by Soviet of- ficial procuring agencies for the month of November amounted to 986,436 metric tons, according to cable reports received by the Am- terg Trading Corporation yesterday. |Grain procurements in November) cent; exports of eggs, valued at 40,- were 44.5 per cent smaller than in | the preceding month but were 370,-|cent; poultry exports gained 50.3 976 metric tons or 37.6 per cent in advance of those for November, | 1927. Total procurements for the first five months of the Soviet agricul- an increase of 18.8 per cent over the corresponding period of the preced- ing year. Soviet exports of grain and oil- seeds across European frontiers for | the Soviet fiscal year 1927-28, end- | ing September 30, 1928, were 515,- | 120 metric tons, amounting to only {214 per cent of the grain exports for the preceding year. | | On the other hand, exports of| | meat products for 1927-28, valued at| | 16,072,000 rubles, gained 115.5 per 462,000 rubles, increased 39.7 per |per cent; butter 14.3 per cent and | fish products 63.4 per cent. | Of the non-agricultural products! |oil exports increased 31.8 per cent jin tonnage and 18.6 per cent in |tural year beginning July 1, 1928,| value, furs 68.3 per ceat in valu | amounted to 4,800,837 metric tons, jand timber products 17 per cent in | value. Total Soviet exports across jall frontiers for the fiscal year | 1927-28 amounted to 778,300,000 rubles, an increase of 7,800,000 ru- ‘bles over the preceding year. LARS |dom of CROM has showed Latin American Regimes Honor Spain Partly as a reaction against the |000,000 pesetas (about $19,000,000), overbearing attitude and the ingore a few days ago the Argentina | ialist encroachment of the “Anglo- | ¢@vernment opened a credit of 50,2 | Saxon” United States, sentimental |000,000 gold pesos (about $45,000,- | declamations about the common|000) to Spanish industrialists for | Latin origin, race and history with | the importation of Argentine prod- the “mother country,” Spain, have | ucts, hides and cereals. In return become in the last few years more |the Spanish government has amend- and more frequent in most of the|ed the Jaw which stipulated that Latin-American countries, although, | only 30 per cent of all grain ground | only a few decades ago, Spain was jin Spanish mills could be of foreign Emilio Portes Gil, newly inaug- urated president of Mexico, is en- gaged in a struggle with the of ficial- dom of the Mexican Federation of Labor (CROM). While the official- itself corrupt and traitorous in its leader- ship of the workers, Gil is known to be docile to the wishes of Wall St., and its agent, Dwight W. Mor- row, in Mexico. Over 40,000 New Cases of Influenza Recorded; Epidemic Coming East WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U.P).— A total of 40,860 new cases of in- fluenza in the week ending Dec. 8 have been reported to the U. S. Public Health Servi Figures on new ca: some additional states today the enemy, the oppressor from whom the American republics had freed themselves by long and bloody rev- olutions. In all the national songs of the friendly references to Spain have —or was—the tyrant and oppressor. In the last few years these un- \friendly references to Sain have been removed from the songs of a few countries. Spain has become again the beloved “mother coun- try.” These sentimentalities were ac- | companied by more material proposi- tions and in fact during the last few years several large loans were negotiated between Argentina, Para- guay and Spain. In 1927 Spain granted Argentina a loan of 100,- | were as follo | Indiana, 87; [origin and has increased the figure lgenting grein, AVOr of the Ar-|1 2, 364; Virginia, 350; South Caro- In Cuba, the dictator, Machado, | ina, 5145; Georgia, 990; Colorado, |kas decided to erect a statue to the | 1»986- “Unknown Soldier” of Spain who| Health officials said the figures fought twenty-five years ago in| Probably represented but a fifth of Cuba against its independence and | the total cases that developed d for the continuation of Spanish rule.| ing the week. The reports indi- Machado announced that he is will, | cated, it was said, that the disease ¢ to contribute half of the ex.|i8 spreading rapidly eastward and |penses of this monument out of fig | S00" may be centered on the east- jown pocket. ° This generosity of | €™ Seaboard. Machado may be’ explained by the announcement from Spain that, in | appreciation of the “chivalry of the Cuban people” which erects a monu- Organize the unorganized!’ Or- | ganize new anions in the unorgan- | | ted industries er IN REVOLT IN FRENCH ALGERIA Moroceans Capture a Troop Patrol COLOMB-B: IAR, Algeria, Dec. 2.—Five French scldiers were illed when a party of French offi- rs in armored cars were recon- noitering near the Algerian-Moroc- ‘on border and clashed with a Mo- ccan tribe in revolt against the Trench. The arrival of Pierre Borde: ‘rench governor-general of Algeria Fort Taghit, between Colomb- har and Beni-Abbes, to take per- 1 charge of the offensive against the rebelling tribes, leads to the be- lief that more native tribes have ned movement against the French and that natives on both sides of the border have united in the campaign against French rule. Additional troops have been sent to the region, but they are unable, according to reports, to capture the fleet tribesmen. planes have been dispatched and armored cars nd tanks are being held ready, it reported here. Well-armed tribes are reported to have been sighted somewhere in the vicinity of Igli, near the Moroccan rder. Troops have been sent ast them, but no report of the results has as yet been received. COURT HITS COMPENSATION ACT. MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail). -The Wisconsin state compensation act does not give the state industrial commission power to award com- pensation to the widow of a work- er killed while working as a steve- dore on a vessel docked in Lake Superior, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided. These accidents come under maritime law, it was ruled. JOBLESS, TRIES TO DIE. BUTTE, Mont. (By Mail).— Imer Mattson, 22 year old job- less miner, attempted suicide here, ment to the former enemy and op- |pressor, a statue will be erected in |Spain for Machado. HOLD BIG SILK RALLY IN JERSEY \Foster and Weisbord Urge Strong Union Britain. This cartel was recently | described in a special report on car- | tels put out by Julius Klein of the bureau of foreign and domestic trade. It is more nearly an interna- tional trust than any other Euro- pean cartel. The rayon trust presents the cu- | rious picture, Julius declares, of Eu- | ingenuity in choosing southern paid workers for longer hours than | in the north, The Glanzstoff and Bemberg com- ploy already about 100,000 workers | in theix Tennessee plants. New rayon plants under construction in Virginia and Tennessee will employ as many more workers within the next three years. About 60 per cent of rapon workers are women. New Haven to OrSanize | ‘Anti-Imperialist Work | NEW HAVEN, Dee. 12—A New Haven branch of the All-America | Anti-Imperialist League will be or. ganized at a conference which will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock, | Continued from Page One troduced by Organizer Chernenko, chairman, both before and after they had spoken. Workers rose to their | feet and cheered as the national | leader of their union and Foster | were introduced. Bill Siroka spoke! for the youth in the industry. Foster on New Unionism. Foster spoke on the new unionism | 24, for example, it has a two-column |sopean capitalists capturing Amer-| ¢,.¢ developing among the American jitorial against anarchism on one/jcan production and the American |v orking Class, “He eneea the devel: |side of the front page yet in an-| market. He says they showed con-| Go ment of the A. F. of L. from the | other two column article on the/siderable ingenuity and enterprise | ¢j..6 jt was a militant organization jother side it essentially advocates in doing so. He might have added} gown thru the days of its craft | anarcho-syndicalism, not realizing |that they also showed considerable | ynionism till the time the “back of eraft unionism was broken, between jthe latter makes it imperative to states where they could get low- th period of 1919 and 1922.” He told of the policy of the fight- ing unionists, who demanded the or- ganization of incustrial unions to be | panies, connected with the rayon | able to cope with the big trusts, how jfrothed vituperation against the lett \trust and operating in America,em- | instead of being heeded, they were expelled by the labor fakers. and how these fakers have already reached the stage where they are the open agents of the bosses in the ranks of the workers. After branding the reactionary union chiefs as manufacturers of company unions, Foster showed the rapid development of new militant unions in three important industries. These are the mining, textile and needle trades. He concluded by call- ing upon the workers to adhere to the heroic traditions of the fighting | textile workers and build their vnion struggle. Weisbord on Local Situation. Weisbord discussed chiefly the | around these traditons of | at the Trades Council Hall, 215) Meadow St. The call for the con- | ference was sent out by R. S. Kling, | lof the Machinists’ Union of New Haven, the provisional secretary of| |the New Haven branch of the, jcal situation, linking it up with the | general struggle of the textile work- | ers thruout the country for a strong erganization that will win better working standards for the textile cperatives. | He took up the vicious charges | made by Louis Stein, a right winger, that the Passaie strike had harmed the Paterson werkers. Weisbord did | not dwell long on the treacherous | flarders on the heroic Passaic fight- | jers, but instead showed that every | struggle of textile workers, no mat- |ter in what out of the way part of j the country, has an immediate and direct influence on all textile work- Weisbord described the heroic role played by the workers in Passaic | and New Bedford, who had to fight the bosses and the A. F. of L. fakers. Urges Workers to Build Union. After telling the workers that to tuild a powerful labor organization years of struggle are necessary, the speaker called on the workers to build their unicn. At the right wing meeting rene- | gades from the militant labor move- | ment, such as Lore and Salutsky, | who were expelled from the Com- |munist Party several years ago, to |wing. They were accompanied by speukers from the socialist party jand the socialist labor party. So much hot brimstone came from jthe lips of the traitors that the workers were unable to ndure the | salty atmosphere and after half of the hall had heen slowly emptied. | the remainder got up in a body and |forced an adjournment while the “trump-card” of the Associated Touis Stein, was preparing to speal: on FIFTH BI THESE NAMES ARE TO | The program at the 5th Anni- versury Celebration of the Daily Worker at Manhattan Opera House consists of the Isadora Duncan | | Dancers of Moxcow WU. 8. 8. R. In | a special program of Revolution~ | Symphony Orchestra. | Tickets 81. $1.50, $2, | on sale at Dally Work- | JANUAR ary Dances, Speakers. WORKERS LIBRARY PAMPHLETS |b Worker office. League. Paul Crouch, national secretary of | the United States section of the) League, will speak at the confer- | ence, outlining the feverish arma- ments race of the imperialist pow- ers, their war preparations, and the program of the League for organiz- ing the struggle against imperial- ism and the threatening war danger. The call sent out for the confer- ence brands the Latin American trip of Hoover as an imperialist mis- sion, designed to further enslave the workers and peasants of these countries, as well as to strengthen the strategic war position of United States imperialism on the Pacific. All working class organizations are asked by those calling the con- ference to send delegates and to help build a powerful branch of the Anti-Imperialist League in this} city. 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