The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 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 eo val gVol. V., No. 296 ‘6 daily except 5 ay by The Nati Publishing Association, Imc., 26-28 Union Sa. New York, N. ¥.” onal Daily Worker _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928 SUBSCRIPT) o FINAL CITY , EDITION ARMED CAMP IN BUENOS AIRES AS \HOOVER ARRIVES j Mass Arrests, Raids 4 Continue; Aimed at Workers’ Protest SandinoDemonstration Forces Patrol Streets as Envoy Parades BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dee. 3.—The sycophantic reception pre- pared for Herbert Hoover when he arrived here from Santiago at 7 p. m. today was marred by a hostile demonstration, despite the great precautions taken by the police to prevent this, Workers, with a ban- ner reading “Viva Sandino,” burst through the police lines near the railroad station, despite the pres- ence of a guard of 1,200 cavalrymen and 1,500 police. A large crowd gathered at the station to see the next puppet of Wall Street was not permitted on the platform for fear of trouble. The heavy police guard was present because of the rumors spread of at= tempts to assassinate the American imperialist—a plot framed up by the government in order to mer- cilessly suppress any demonstration on the part of the workers or na- J "vie When Hoover arrived he was greeted by the claque prepared for the occasion and by many American and Argentine flags. The workers who burst through the lines to demonstrate in solidar- | ity for Sandino were » Long Photo shows a celebration of their Soviet on Dec. 12, 1927. Notice the Red Flag guns ready to defend and fight fo: revolution and of the imperialists lutionary workers in cold blood, the Red Army o viets in Honan province and milit at: a “ Chinese workers in the streets wr the revolution. Although the combin ousted the Soviet for the time being tant workers all over China are com Live the Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviets of Canton of Canton after they had established 8 pf the Canton Soviet and the workers with their ed forces of the Chinese counter- and murdered thousands of revo- if the Chinese workers and peasants is setting up So- batting the Kuomintang. SILK UNION HITS STRIKE TRAITORS Statement Calls for Organization PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 18—An | | 1 | | | { | | co) “DAILY” STAFF WILL PRANCE AT RED BALL The entire staff of the Daily| | Worker will appear in costume at | jthe great Daily Worker-Freiheit | |Soviet Ball tomororw night. | Led | by H. M. Wicks, the boys who punch | hurriedly | important official statement, which | the typewriter all day long and give | seized by the police, and anyone else | lays bare the duplicity of the of-|the workers of this country the only | in the neighborhood who might have | ficials of the Associated Silk Work-|real labor news in the English aroused suspicion was also seized. ers’ Union, who are part of the | language’ will prance into Madison After Hoover has accepted the | Seneral boss offensive toeprevent the Square Gargen garbed in a fashion suave diplomacy of the Argentine diplomats he will leave Sunday morning on an Argentine battleship for Monte¥ideo, the Paraguay chp- ital, where after making personal maneuvers regarding the Chaco oil fields dispute he will leave Monday on the U. S. S. warship Utah for the United_States, with a. possible passing visit to his puppet in Ha- vana. (DETROIT OPENS “DAILY” DRIVE “Double Circulation” Is Slogan DETROIT, Dec, 13.—‘Double the Cireulation of the Daily Worker in Detroit Between Now and the Fifth Anniversary!” This is the slogan that is being broadcast throughvut this automo- bile city. But slogans by them- selves don’t bring results, ready the District Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, under the direction of Dis-| trict Organizer Schmiess, has swung into action, determined to outdo all other cities in making the fifth an- niversary celebration of the Daily Worker a real achievement for the Detroit working. class. Red Tea Parties. Red Tea Parties are the order of ithe day in Detroit. Not pink teas, but full-blooded, red affairs are be- ing organized by the units of the Workers Party, where sympathizers are invited to discuss plans for spreading the influence of the only English-language daily that repre- sents the interests of the toilers of this country. The slogan: “Double the Circulation of the Daily Worker And al-| Paterson silk workers from organ- izing into an effective union, was | issued yesterday by the Paterson lo- |cals of the National Textile Work- | ers’ Union. | The statement, which calls on the silk workers here to unite in build-| ing a powerful organization which will fight for instead of betray their ‘Mintebests;"declares: ~~ ; Fellow-Workers: The National Textile Workers’ | Union has already become firmly established in Paterson. The strike forced on the officials of the Asso- | ciated was broken by these officials so that these officials now stand ex- |posed as the open enemy of the workers., Already the mass of ac- | tive silk workers joined the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, and see that only through a fighting, militant organization can they win | better conditions. | When the bosses saw that the of- | ficials of the Associated and of the | U. T. W., could no longer fool the workers and that the workers were building up a new union, the em- ‘ ployers in Paterson at, once planned |a huge campaign against us. At first the Chamber of Commerce de- | nounced the National Union. Then the newspapers with a steady stream of articles tried to poison the minds of the workers against the National Union. When this did not succeed, the employers financed that fascist Continued on Fage Five BELA KUN TELLS the Same PARIS, (By Mail).—A few days | ago the French newspaper “Temps” | astonished its readers with a new OF HIS ‘ARREST |Wishes Future Jailings | Pee Miticcaor 2 ate ts | sensation: a dispatch from London $ reported “the arrest of Bela Kun call to ‘action and already workers | in Rumania.” -Bela Kun was said are rallying to this task. |to have been arrested in Konstanza Detroit is also taking action ON with a roll of manuscripts’ and the appeal sent out by the Daily | with a large amount of banknotes. Worker for greetings to its fifth) Regarding this Bela Kun declares anniversary edition. Sunday and! the following: ‘Tuesday “have been designated as | Greeting Days and the entire mem- Continued on Page Three Worker Fatally Hurt §. in Truck Crash; Dies HAMMONTON, N. J., Dec. 13 ‘(UP).—Lawrence Cox, 24, of Mill- ville, truck driver for the New Jer- fey State Pepartment of Institu- tions and Agencies, was fatally in- jured today when his truck collided with an ice cream truck driven by Alfred Dichl, of Philadelphia. The accident occurred on the Port Norris Road near Leesburg. Cox died in the’ Millville Hospital of’skull fracture. Diehl is being held pend- ing investigation. iy The onl ployment “These blockheads enjoy them- selves’ broadcasting lies. It would be laughable to reply to this discov- ery from abroad. I should remark, | however, that this seems to come from Rumania where of court. Since I was born in Siebenburgen (I worked there be- fore the war) it seemed most likely that I should be arrested in Ru- mania, ‘ “The report about my arrest is above all symptomatic of the new regime, since the lying reports of the Rumanian reaction serve exact- ly for the purpose of sharpening its unparalleled white terror. “{ wish,” remarked Bela Kun in conclusion, “that I.am always ar- rested only as in this case which the Temps reports.” lying rumor) I was sentenced a short. time ago) to five years prison for contempt) |that is sure to create a sensation. | | No further details can be given | ake eae : jat this moment, as the members of the staff have been sworn to se- erecy, It is rumored, however, that at a special meeting the decision to appear in costume was greeted with | loud cheers by the proletarian jour- nalists, because they will new be able to hock their regular clothes and get in a couple of square meals over the week-end. The Freiheit staff is going to ap- Continued on Page Five \Lewis Goes Thru Form of Electing Himself) ‘President of U.M.W.A. INDIANAPOBIS, Dect 13.—Johi |L, Lewis has re-elected himself in- |ternational president of the’ United |Mine Workers of America. Lewis jis the man who seized control of the |miners’ organization when it had \half a million members, was strong and growing, and by selling it out to the employers, sabotaging its |struggles, expelling and wrecking |whole districts, and preventing or- jganization of the unorganized, re- |duced it to its present form of only |a@ company union. 2 The miners once belonging to the U. M. W. A. now join in larger and |larger numbers its militant rival, the National Miners Union, which is a real coal miners union and not a /company union. . In former years Lewis and his |machine elected themselves to power by simply miscounting the votes. |This year it was not necessary, since, with the real center of the jvank and file miners in the N. M.| |U., anybody who ran against Lewis |would have simply been expelled | |from the U. M. W. A> H | Lewis’ election of himself and his | whole slate consisted simply in re- |ceiving reports of votes from his \district headquarters, votes in most {cases of locals no longer in the U. |M. W. A., and proclaiming the re- Its. Lewis’ statement calls it a “unanimous” vote. He has abolished the convention next year. We demand the mm recogni. | | tion of Soviet Unton by: the United States covernment! Expense of Dry Spy Army Is $250,000,000; Other Costs Besides WASHINGTON, Dec.” 19 The! happy hunting ground of politically | deserving republicans, the prohibi- tion service, replete with graft and frame-up and even with occasional murder of some longshoreman or sailor suspected of carrying liquor in his pocket, has cost for mainten- ance since 1920 about a quarter bil- lio dollars—in legitimate expenses, not counting money on the side. This sum includes amount appro- priated for the prol.tbition unit, the Coast Guard and the Department of Justice during that period, including the current fiscal year. It makes no allowance for en- forcement werk done by the Bureau of Customs, border patrols, Secret Service or other agencies of the government, the amount of which it is difficult to estimate. 16 Women Natives in South Africa Drown JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec. 13 (UP).—Fourteen native girls being prepared for marriage were drowned with the two elderly women who had them in charge when they were trapped in a cave ty a cloud- Lurst, advices from the Basutoland region said today. The girls, all 15 years old, the age at which the native women are \eligible to take a husband, were herded by the two women into a cave when a storm came up. The jeave was in the bank of « small | river, which rose urder a cloudburst. | Building. LATIN WORKERS PLEDGE UNITY IN “COMMON BATTLE \Marine Workers Get | Solidarity Cablé From | Montevideo \Man} Strikers Killed Uruguay Militants Aid Fruit Strikers BULLETIN. BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 13 (UP).—The newspaper El Espec- tador published a dispatch from Barranquilla tonight asserting that “an exact” death list in the banana strike riots in Magdalena department revealed 100 strikers had been killed. t The dispatch said 228 persons had been wounded, many of them seriously, * eb S A cable of solidarity with the “Col- |ombian strikers has just been re- |ceived from the Committee for the Continued on Page Five SOVIET PRESS: HITS WAR PLOT Litvinov Speech Chief Topic (Wireless to the Daity Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.. Dec. 13.— ‘The speech of Maxim Litvinov, Peo- |ples Comissar for Foreign Relations of the Soviet Union, to the Central Executive Council concerning the peace policy of the Soviet govern- ment, and Litvinov’s letter to Lou- |don, chairman of the disarmament jcommission of the League of Na- tions, demanding that a meeting be jealled in the near future to con- \sider_ the Soviet’s proposals for |complete disarmament, were the |chief topics of interest in the Soviet | press today. Isvestia, official érgan of the Soviet government, declares that | Litvinov’s speech and letter sum up |the Soviet’s efforts for peace. “The |Seviet Union is resisting all at- | tempts to interfere with internal af- | fairs and is fighting for recognition | of the existence of two paralle! econ- jomic and political systems, capital- jism and socialism. The Soviet | Union also strives to extend econ- ic relations with other powers. nless the disarmament commis- ions meet immediateiy for concrete rk the commission ‘is illusory,” concludes Isvestia. “Ecoromitcheskaya Shisn” (Econ- omic Life) declares that the policy {of the capitalist states towards the Soviet Union is guided by warlike, not peaceful, intentions. “The Soviet government is therefore com- pelled to pay chief attention to this question of the war danger. Pow- erful weapons for the Soviet Union were the exposure of intrigues and plots of the capitalist states and the watchfuiness of the working masses on behalf of the Soviet Union,” it concludes. FIND GIRL’S BODY. The body of the girl whose tes- timony led to the conviction of Sig- mund “Whitey” Weiss, as a fourth | offender, was found in a’ deserted spot near Wildwood, N. J., New York police were notified yesterday. | Weiss was shot to death recently when he attempted to shoot his way to freedom while being led into a | court room in the General Sesgions New World Conflict Seen BOLIA MASSES In Bolivian ( Oil Struggle TROOPS TO FIGHT By HARRISON GEORG (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 13. —Behind the supposed “insignifi- cant” dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the frontier in the Gran Chaco region, far off in the interior of South America, lies all the combustible materials and more, than sent ten million men to their death following the shots firec at Sarajevo over 14 years ago. In fact it can be stated in-cold-typed facts, that the United States has begun armed conflicts with England. Oil Basis for War. What are the facts? What are these material bases of war that is already begun and for which Latin American workers and peasants are being mobilized for mutual slaught- What are the forces which we behold expanding this conflict until you, the reader of these lines, will also be swept into imperialist war to kill and be killed? er? What is the war for? Oil! And we will prove it. Who is the aggressor? United States imperialists! Who acts for the United States imperialists? Charles Evan Hughes, attorney for Standard Oil and U. S. member of the Pan-American Conference on Conciliation and Ar- bitration. i} Anglo-American Rivalry. What is its enemy? British oil interests and British imperialism. Look at a map of South America. You find Paraguay a little southeast | of the center. In the northern part of Paraguay you will see two rivers, one coming from the northeast and one from the northwest, and joining |near asuncion, the capital of Para- |guay. The triangle between those two rivers, the Paraguay River and the Pileomayo River, is what the capitalist newspapers tell you is the “desolate” Gran Chaco region, in- habited by “bow-and-arrow” In- dians. But it happens that the Gran Chaco is not desolate in one way, although it is inhabited by Indians. |There are things more dangerous to | world peace than Indians with bows Map of Bolivia and Paraguay show- ing disputed oil territory. and arrow The Gran Chaco region contains oil! And wherever there is oil there are imperialists to be found. U. 8. Back of Bolivia. “But,” someone will say, “it is Bolivia that is making war for the Gran Chaco.” A tale for children! We shall show in these articles that Bolivia could not fire a shot nor even buy a revolver, without the special permission of Wall Street banks. Nor would Wall Street banks give such permission unle they themselves had the perni |of the United States government. We shall show that the United States government has carefully and deliberately prepared this war and set its forces into motion, That this very “conciliation and arbitration” conference of the Pan-American Union is a war move conceaied be- hind chatter of “peace and “good | will” Wall St. Takes Title. On May 31, 1922, the republic of Bolivia became officially a colony of Wall Street banker That day signed a contract with the E: Trust Company, Spencer Trask and Company, and the Stifel and Nico- Continued on Page Two { BIG CLOAK RALLY HITS SCHLESINGER’S FAKERY BIRTHDAY GIFTS SENT TO ‘DAILY’ |Workers Enclose Cash With Greetings “Long live the Daily Worker,” writes S. Skulsky, a worker in Utica, N. Y., enclosing $1 for the fifth anniversary of the paper. “Am enclosing $1 for the Daily Worker's fifth anniversary,” writes janother worker, L. Leinon, from | Santa Cruz, Cal., “because the Daily | Worker is a powerful instrument for the emancipation of the work- | ing class. The Daily Worker fights | the battles of the workers.” | These two letters are typical of many that are being received every day by the Daily Worker in re- Continued on Page Four BOMBINGS HIT 100 MARK. | CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (UP).—Bomb- ings reached the 100 mark for 1928 in Chieago today when a black powder explosive was set off in the Dells Winter Club on Drekel Bou.e- | vard, former home of the rich. SIMONS, OPPOSITION LEADER, DROPS William Simons, former district | organizer of District 15 (New Ha- ven), at present a prominent -mem- ber of the Chicago District Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party, u national leader of the left wing in the metal trades and dele- gate to the Fourth Congress of the )Red International of Labor Unions, has withdrawn all reservations con- cerning the decisions of the Commu- | uist International and has pledged | his unreserved support to the strug- gle against Trotsky:sm as part’ of | the struggle against the Right dan- ger. . | The statement of Comrade Sim- jons gives a thorough" estimation of | | the s:tuation in the Party. It proves | | that acceptance of the leadership of | the C. E. C. in the fight against the | | Right danger and Trotskyism does | not iri the least necessitate abandon- | men of a constructive, critical atti- tude toward the Party activities and | the C. E, C. leadership, The statement reads: The Political Committee has | asked me my opinion on Trotsky- ism, since I was a former member Also Drops Reservations; Accepts Comintern Decisions on American Question Pledges to Support CEC in Struggle Against Right Danger and Trotskyism ef the Cannon group within the Party. My views are as follows: I consider Trotskyism as an ideology and movement alien and antagonistic to the Communist movement. I am in full agree- ment with the characterization by the Fifteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, thar Trotskyism is a so- cial-democratie deviation, with a Menshevist platform, fighting the Comintern, allied with the worst renegades and disrupters, and that the Comintern should be purged of all anti-Communist ele- ments rallying to the Trotskyist opposition. The Trotskyist oppo- sition becomes the rallying point ; for opponents of the Communist movement, social-democratic and counter-revolutionary. The source of Trotsky’s views | on “permanent revolution” and “super-industrialization” is his Menshevik inheritance, branding the peasantry as the enemy of the proletariat. This view carried with it the utter impossibility of building socialism in one country, denying the partial stabilization in Europe in the period following 1923, exaggerating the radicaliza- tion process among the European workers at that time, demanding the breaking off of the Anglo- Russian Unity Committee and pre- mature establishment of Soviets OPPOSITION | in China. He uses left phrases, arising out of his pessimism as to the possibility of building Social- ism in Soviet Russia, and out.of his Menshevik theory on the pea- santry, Trotsky periodically threw the Party into the throes of political discussion over questions on which he was e fundamentally wrong, | such as Brest Litovsk, militariza- tion of labor, more freedom for the “spetz,” the right of per- | Ppetual discussion, super-indus- etc. He took the gestion, stand of permanent opposition, the right to fight by any and all means against the Party, inside if possible, outside the Party, if need be. This proved that Trot- sky and his Opposition folloyers | had a complete set of ideas Which they wished to substitute for the program of the C. P. S. U. Trotsky then formed an inter- national Opposition with the rene- gades and discredited elements. This organized attack against the Continued on Page Three The shop chairmen and active members’ conference, held by the left wing cloak and dressmakers’ union yesterday in Cooper Union, became a giant forum from which the so-called peace proposal and in- dustrial program made public by Benjamin Schlesinger Wednesday, was stripped of all its pretenses and shown up to be the hypocritical fake all his previous “manifestos” have been. The several thousands asse heard the leaders of the } Organization Committee the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union take up every item in the fake proposal individually and peel every crooked phrase from it, leaving the skeleton of deception exposed to the ridicule of the workers. | Razz “Manifesto.” And the workers ridiculed the “manifesto.” The meeting, which was called for the purpose of sig- nifying the end of two years of | struggle for unionism in the indus- try, was one of the most enthus- iastic ever held, and definite dem- onstration was given that they will go forward to continue the struggle against the bosses and the union wreckers until a mighty needle trades workers’ international union is established and union conditions | regained. Accompanied by all the cymbal crashing the columns of the forgery- manufacturing Jewish Forward can hold, the proposal of Benj. Schles- inger, pogrom leader, was launched on the Jewish labor movement, only to burst with the same feeble pop as tLe other loudly heralded “mani- festos.” Hit Schlesinger Proposal. In taking up Schlesinger’s pro- posal, both his plan for “peace” as well as the fake program for the of FOR WALL ST. OIL Bolivia Note Demands Full “Satisfaction” From Paraguay Kellogg Pulls Strings Washington Committee Meetings Secret WASHINGTO ficial communications delivered to the state department and to the Pan-American conference shortly be- fore 11 a. m. the Paraguayan dele- gation presented facts to prove that the Bolivian government was mass- and munitions on the ia border, making imminent. , Dec. 13.—In of- war more Secretary of State Kellogg, chair- man and general manager of the conference, attempted to draw at- tention away from the conflict by declaring that the Paraguayan- Bolivian situation wag less acute. He further announced that the Ar- gentine government had consented to approve any actien taken by the conference in relation to the dis- pute, thus practically signifying its approval of the United States in- tention to have its Bolivian puppets jurisdiction over the oil-bearing ory of Chaco. The A B C count ies, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, are reported to have started meek negotiations to avert war between Bo! and Para- guay but the Bolivian minister de- nied this and it is generally believed that these countries will leave the entire matter to the United States. A meeting of the special tion Committee was c¢ Five FAIL IN FRAME UP OF MILL LEADER Continued on Page Drop Fi ederal Charges ~— Against Dawson (Special to the Daily Worker) Y BEDFORD, h Dec. 12. —Ellen Dawson, who held in jail here by the federal authorities while they attempted to frame her up on a federal charge, will be freed on bail, it was ani ounced today by {International L: Defense Dig- triet Organi: ‘ Dawson, lent of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, now facing several trials for her activi- ties in the big strike here, will be released on bail set for the other charges against her, because the federal frame-up admitted they could not fabricate sufficient evidence. This admission was made when they announced that federal charges had been dropped. The charge she is to be bailed out on “conspiracy to break city laws,” which she and 24 other lead- ers of the union are being held on bail bonds for. The International Labor Defense is taking care of all cases here, the conspiracy charge against the 25 as well are the trials of the 662 New Redford strikers, who face trial for picketing. Worker Killed, Other Badly Injured When Trolley Cars Crash LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 13 (UP). —Two trolley cars collided head on in a dense fog near here this morn- ing and were destroyed. One motorman was killed, another injured so seriously he may die, and more than a score of passengers were cut and bruised. None of the passengers was in a serious condi- tion, howeve! Youth Needle Trades industry, were taken apart piece- meal by the speakers, some of whom were Louis Hyman, Joseph Bora- chovich, Charles S. Zimmerman. The following is a summary of their characterization of the fake pro- | posal: Conference Tomorrow The ,continuation of last Satur- needle trades youth confer- ence will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. at the Workers Center, 26 | “By not 2 ~*~ word did the| Union Sq., sixth floor. | union + 12° that they had! Charles Zimmerman, representing changed t, since the po-| the Cloakmakers’ National Organi- grom began” | zation Committee, will report on the | “The so-called demands that, general situation in the needle Schlesinger will present to the trades. Election of delegates to the bosses are‘not worth the pgper they convention will take place. |are written om That the/five dol-| \lar wage increase “dgmand” is |camouflage is proven~by the fact | STOOL-PIGEON MACHINE WESTMINSTER, England (By that Schlesinger is consciously aid-|Mail).—A machine that kedfs a” ing the employers to install the | record of the amount of work done piece work system. Schlesinger by an employee in the absence of the [Satks of a five dollar raise because boss is exhibited in an inventions ex: Continued on Page Two hibit here. TOMORROW N \ 4 IGHT AT THE GARDEN! FIRST DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT SOVIET BALL! - : ! — \ “4 BE THERE!