The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 2

DAILY WORK Weappy. SEE NEW WORLD WAR ' : oad IN BOLIVIAN OIL FIGHT FAULTY BOILER» "7S Continued from Page One and the United States leading the ght for the proposal, and Argen- tina and Paraguay leading the fight against it. Two things must be noted here. That Peru is equally a colony of Investment Company. Bolivia of $26,000,000 and the complete control of | guarantee the loan and its ice Tao Ble > ieee Police Tag Blame on interest” Bolivia signed to the bank- | Wall Street with, Bolivia; and that Dead Man ers every posible source of revenue | Paraguay is a sort of appendi to —— nd control of it tional Bank, | Argentina. One worker was and an-jand set up as real boss of the coun-} Two other facts of first import other probably fa’ try a commission composed cf two ance are, that British imperialism a storage t 1 Yankee agents of the bankers and | has large oil holdings in Argentina. srection « yesterday in the cne Bolivian, with one of these two | and that British oil interests of the yard at 379 Borden Ave., Long Is- Wall Street agents the head of the| Royal Dutch Shell are at war in land City, of the Cole Duncan Oil | commission and inserted on the di- all parts of the world against Stand- Works, a fuel oil refinery f the National Bank, as the | ard Oil for control of oil resources. salah ker who lost rity of that body inprac-} Alongside of these facts, a look | at the map will how that the sup- pees Since 1922, there has been two! porters of Bol proposal took ko essure at | MT loans bi Bolivia hy United | for granted that Paraguay would be Bicosk imireng, | entra: eee Ter $23,-/a hostile and not a “neutral” na- * 000,000 and another one only a few tion, and consciously designed a le- gal justification for Peru to ex- pedite arms transport across its ter- ritory to the “land-locked” nation, Bolivia. when it exploded. Eagan was hurled 100 feet across Borden Ave. by the f of the blast, against a wooden months ago. Standard Oil "Busy. Since 1922, then, it is clear that Wall Street has been the boss 0 Bolivia, This, it appears obvious, has something to do with the fact that Standard Oil has acquired no Instantly Killed He was killed instantly. The ham- mer with wh had been soun ing the boiler driven hard “Moral” War. So far so good for Yankee imper- sm, But in order to assure that et and Killed by Explosion in Long MEETING INN. Y, GREETS PORTER IN ARMY PRISON Teleg aph Is Sent to Jailed Strike Leader At the reception Wednesday night to the class war prisoners just re- leased from jail for demonstrating in Washington for the release of John Porter, framed up ‘eader of the New Bedford textile striker® the folowing telegram was unani- zsly adopted and sent to Porte: “John Porter, United States Dis- ciplinary Barracks, Leavenworth, Kas. Mass meeting in Manhattan Lyceum demands your immediate, unconditionai release, and your re- turn to your place as a leader in the | labor movement. We protest against {brutal treatment and efforts of prison authorities to break your spirit. You are inspiration to work- ing masses in their struggles. (Signed) Porter Protest Meeting, Auspices International Labor Di eW YORK, FRIDAY, DEC: TIMBER 14, 1928 | | The eaplosion of an ammonia tank at the foot of Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, iniured these seven workers, Three of them may poss those who always pay with@imb and life are the workers. and take things into your own hands! ble remain blind. Accidents occur most frequently in industry and Workers, organize! Join revolutionary unions Refinery MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS TALK AT BIG MILL MEET Rally Will Be Held on Sunday Alfred Wagenknecht, national sec- |retary of the International Labor |Defense; Norman Tallentire, assist- lant national secretary, and Rose Baron, secretary of the New York | District of the I. L, D., will be among the speakers*at a conference of | working class organizations in Ir- ving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., Sunday, at 2 p. m., at which plans will be. made for the defense and support of the 662 textile strikers Who are being tried in New Bed- ford. The trial of the 662 strikers is the !largest mass trial in the history of graft for the corrupt officialdom of | CLOAK MEET HITS "2 | | “As to the second part of the | ‘manifesto,’ that which proposes | |the American labor movement. In addition, of the outstanding lead- Ballam to Lecture on ers of the New Bedford strike have A. F. of L. Meet at jie indicted on Sune Rey Sage against the fence and imbedded in less than 7,500,000 acres of oil lands the wood. The injured worker i Janea, 43 years old, of in Bolivia, lying just north of the s Jame Benel- disputed Gran Chaco region. 119 69th St.,; In the last year or so, test bor- Brooklyn. He w wor! i in the Gran Chaco region have welder nearby and was hurled sev- losed large oil deposits there eral foet to the ground by the force |jalso. This, obviously, has some- of tho explosion, and received nasty |thing to do with the sudden sharp- lacerations on his head, coupled! ening of the dispute over the Gran with probably serious internal in-| Chaco, which has been sleeping for |the war would be properly “moral” | fense, All-America. Anti-Imperiali land “just,” a nice covering of League, Young Workers (Commu- \“peace” is given. While advertis- nist) League. Karl Reeve, Chair- jing the present Washington “con- | ™&n-" ciliation and arbitration” conference | A unanimous resolution was also jas a “great step toward peace,” the | passed by the meeting supporting Havana conference by special reso- | the campaign of the I. L. D. for the| |lution made another one of those fa- | release of Porter. A collection was | |mous “reservations” we hear about, | taken up for the Christmas fund for | Continued from Page One and limited this wonderful “concilia- | class war prisoners, whereby they! he knows that “PEACE” FAKERY Schlesinger Hypocrisy Stripped Bare vith piece work in juries. Tanks Corroded. Other workers employed by the Cole Duncan Oil Works told after tne explesion of how all the tanks were allowed to be handled even after they had become corroded and unsafe for use, and said that work- ers took their own lives into their bands when they ventured, at the orders of the bosses, to turn on in- sure. From all indica- however, this matter will not be brought out in the in- vestigation of the explusion, since Detective Thomas Devery, of the Hunts Point Police Precinct, who ta- gether with the police “rescue” squad was summoned by one of the I s following the blast, imme- iately tagged the blame on the dead worker. Devery insisted that he had “concluded that Eagan had ap- plied too great a pressure to the boiler” and that he was solely re- sponsible for his own deat All hints by the workers that the boiler had been defective were not taken into account. Factories and buildings in the vi-| cinity were shaken by the blast, but no windows were broken. Other workers who did not see the ex- Jast winter, the dispute deepens and | plosicn said that it felt-as if the pay ground were shifting As they ; poured out of their plants, one : turned in a fire alarm, and others Py rushed to the aid of Eagan, who g was dead before they arrived. bs Rpg see i Shoe Workers to Meet F to Build Strong Union ! in’ Brooklyn Dec. 18 The shoe workers of New York will hold a mass meeting to mobil- ize the workers in the industry for f the building of a powerful union. | | This meeting will be held by the Independent Shoe Workers Union on Dec. 18 at Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn, and will be ad- dressed by Albert Weisbord, secre- tary of the National Textile Work- | ers Union, J. Magliacano, organizer of the shoe workers union, H. Levine, its busin agent, I. Zim- Merman, and other: A statement from the Independent Shoe Workers Union warns the shoe workers of the city of the bosses’ preparations, with the busy spring season anproaching, for wage-cuts, and other attacks upon working conditions. It shows that \. only unity of the workers in the in- dustry into one powerful union will y \ratie them to withstand such at- tacks, Lecture by Freeman at Workers School \ _ Tonight, Postponed > © Jseph Freeman will not speak at Si. the Workers School tonight on “So- cial Aspects of American Litera- ture,” as scheduled, because of ill- ness, D. Benjami ii t direc- tor of the Wo school, an f nounced late last night. Section 8 Unit Backs Central Committee In the report in the Daily Worker of Dec. 3 the following error oc- curred: The returns for Interna- ional Branch 2, Section 8, Browns- “ville, as given in the paper, read: i “for section resolution supporting C. E. C. and D. E. C. statement—17, for a minority resolution—5.” This should have read: “For the state- Y ‘ment of the C, E. C—17, opposed "22% No minority resolution was introduced. Funeral of Deceased Carpenter Tomorrow ‘The funeral of John Horvath, de- ‘ member of Local 2090 of the “United Brotherhood of Carpenters | and Joiners of America, will be held Saturday, at 2 p. m. from the Engel % faneral Home, 316 E. &rd St decades; so long, indeed, that the territory was taken for granted as belonging to Paraguay. The maps show this. War Preparations. For a year or more clashes have been frequent between Bolivians and Paraguayans in the Gran Chaco region. It is a big chunk of terri- tory, and each country kept ad- vancing its line of small forts, until these forts were all mixed up, with each nation’s forts and troops pene- trating through and beyond those of the other. | The situation, as diplomats say, became “tense,” and the more “con- ciliation” commissions and “arbitra- tion” conferences, the “tenser” it became. At this moment, besides this fake “conciliation” conference here in Washington, there is a “per- manent arbitration committee” at Montevideo, Uruguay, set up under what is known as the Gondra “ac- cord.” And in addition Argentina is “mediating.” And still more, | Chile offers to “mediate.” In spite of all this, or rather be- cause of all this, plus the Pan- American Conference at Havana |war is afoot. Washington Conference on Job. | The Pan-American Conference at | Havana, to which the present Wash- | ington conference on “conciliation |and arbitration” is a sort of an ap-| pendage, took definite steps under | | guidance and control of the United |States for this very Bolivian-Para- guayan war. | For one thing, Bolivia proposed |that, in case of war, neutral coun- tries having seaports, must be com- |pelled to permit transport of arms through its territory to “land- locked” nations. Now while Bolivia was not named as such, in the text of the proposal, yet Bolivia itself is the one and only land-locked na- tion having no seaport in all the American hemisphere. ' U. S. vs. Britain. | | This proposal was approved by the conference, with Bolivia, Peru ‘Bedacht to Speak at 'Harlem Forum on S. P. | | ‘2x Bedacht, national agitation and propaganda director of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak tonight at the Harlem Work- ers Forum, 143 E. 103rd St., on “The Socialist Party Today.” Questions | and discussion will follow the lec- | ture. | He will take up the development of thé socialist movement in the ited States, the decay of the so- cialist party since the struggle of the bureaucratic leadership against the proletarian elements just before the war, aud its present degeneration into a completely petty-bourgeois organization. CS Greek Fraction to Hold ImportantMeetTonight | The Greekfraction of the Work- ers (Communist) Party will meet, tonight at 8:30 o’clock at 101 W. 27th St. for a discussion on “Trot- § sm and the Right Danger.” | Speakers from the District Execu- | tive Committee will lead the discus- sion. All Greek members of the Workers (Communist) Party are in- | structed to attend this meeting with- out fail and to participate in the | discussion. | |Referees Wanted for Labor Soccer Games| Referees are wanted by the Labor | Sports Union to officiate in soccer games in the three workers’ soccer | leagues affiliated to the L. S\ U. All those who have had any ex- perience in refereeing games and would ‘like to volunteer for such | work are asked to send their names }and addresses to Emil Austin, 951), jAve. St. John, New York City, |tion and arbitration” to “juridical | and their families will be given spe-|the saddle no raises are possible, matters” only, bia matters which nations |bring before such a comm: |“conciliation and arbitration,” any | jquestions of “sovereignity, pendence or national honor.” Which means that such peace |guarantees as are furnished by the | Pan-American. Union, with all its conferences, are full of holes so big that any nation can drive its war chariots through them at all sec- tions. Proof of Conspiracy. Proof? Here follow the words of the Bolivian government, owned boots and breeches by Wall Strect, sent yesterday and received by the | Bolivian minister at Washington: “Bolivia denounces the inexplie- able and insolent outrage perpe- trated by Paraguayan troops against the sovereignity and independence and the national dignity of Bolivia.” Therefore, Bolivia, which means Standard Oil, whose spokesman here in the Washington conference is |Charles Evans Hughes, is moving to war with Paraguay, which means British imperialism. | cial gifts for Christmas. “It was especially excluded from |ing urged all workers’ organizations must |to support fully this splendid work ‘on for | of class solidarity. | The meet- inde- Jersey City Course in English Will Start on Sunday A three months course in English given by the Jersey City Branch of the Workers School is having its first lesson on Sunday morning, De- cember 16 at the Ukrainian Home 160 Mercer Street. S. Leroy, an in- structor at the Workers School in New York City, will ‘be the instruc- tor. The fee for the entire course will be an unusually small one. The course will be held every Sunday from 10 a. m. to 12 o’clock noon. The last half hour of it will be de- voted to the A. B. C. of Communism. The Workers (Comm) demands unemployment insurance, the amount of compensation te be full wages for the entire period of unemployment, the administration of this Insurance to be in the hands of the workers, the cost to be borne by the state and the employ- ers. Score Fake Aims. “As far the ‘demand’ of | Schlesinger that the 10 per cent dis- |charge clause’ be taken out of the agreement, it is well known that Schlesinger has for a long time pre- vious boasted of his intentions to force the elimination of this clause lfrom the agreement. This time, however, he no longer talks of elim- jination but of a “change” of this clause, thus exposing his hypocrisy again. “Schlesinger aiso has in his ‘pro- gram’ a demand that the jobbers deal on! ufacturers that have a union ‘certifi- cate” Hasn't the requirement that jobbers deal with union contractors only been in the agreement till now? Is there any difference between a certificate and agreement? Why couldn't the Schlesinger gang en- force the agreement and yet at the same time hope to enforce a certifi- ‘cate? | “There is only one reply to. this. It is a scheme to peddle certificates to open-shop manufacturer and contractors and to the jobbers for whom they work, thus establishing la new wonderful bottomless well of with contractors and man- | ‘peace’ in a new fake maneuver. The proposal to take in all for nine months dues payments was received with ridicule by the workers. Schles- inger wants them to obey the Sig- man constitution, “Elections run by Ninfo, Dubin- sky and other fakers are known for the fake elections they will carry.” Among the other parts of the) fake “peace” plan, reported in yes- terday’s “Daily Worker,” there is to be found a proposal to have com- mittees of his own henchmen run- ning elections to which “all” will be eligible. That is, “all” those quali-| fying according to Schlesingers con- stitution, which very efficiently dis- bars all critics of the Schlesinger policy from union office. A resolution hailing the heroism of the Colombia fruit strikers and pledging solidarity was also carried ‘at the meeting. | Talk on Offensive ’ “The Offensive Against Labor” will be the subject of a talk by Rebecca Grecht at the Bronx Work- ers Forum this Sunday night at © p. m. at 1330 Wilkins Ave. Grecht was arrested several time: ‘in the Pittsburgh strike fields or | charges of sedition, and spent ¢ number of days in jail before hear ings were held. She will speak on |the attacks upon labor, particularly |in the Pennsylvania mining regions, in the New England textile sections, hete. on Labor at Forum |‘° the chair. | Bronx Forum Sunday |spiracy and are being threatened with long jail terms. These obvious John J. Ballam, industrial organ- | attempts of the mill barons’ courts lizer of the New York District of the |to outlaw militant unionism and to | Workers (Communist) Party, and a erush the National Textile Workers |member of the Central Executive | Union have aroused intense resent- | Committee, will speak on “An An-|ment among large sections of the alysis of the Last Convention of the | American working class, American Federation of Labor,” at) The conference Sunday will launch the Lower Bronx Open Forum, 715 | a united front movement in the New On 188th St. this Sunday evening | York district under the leadership at 8:30 o'clock. jof the I, L. D., which is defending All workers of the Bronx are in- | the strikers, that will rally all class- vited to attend the forum, Admis-|conscious workers behind the fight sion will be free, and questions and |to save the New Bedford textile discussion will follow Bellam's an-| militants, All workers’ organiza- alysis. |tions are asked to send two dele- gates to the conference. MORAN TO DIE IN CHAIR CSSINING, N, Y., Dee, 18 (UP). —Thomas “Red” Moran, scheduled (By United Press) to die in the electric chair at Sing Terms for acquisition by the Hup Sing prison at 1 a, m. tomorrow for Motor Car Corporation of Chandler- the murder of two Brooklyn police- | Cleveland Motors Corporation were men, was taken today to the pre- announced today. Holders of ANOTHER AUTO MERGER j execution cell, where he was dressed | Chandler stock are to receive one in the specia: uniform he will wear | share of Hup common for each two ‘shares of Chandler preferred. st SOVIET COSTUME COLORLIGHT BALL 104 NATIONALITIES comprising the Soviet Union will parade in native attire Daily 225 Worker — and FREIHEIT AUSPICES: ADMISSION: $1.00 IN ADVANCE DOWN TOWN Daily Worker Office, 26-28 Union Square. N. 0. C., 16 W. 2ist St. Lidsky’s Book Store, Broadway. Rational Vegetarian 199 Second Avenue, HARLEM Health Food, 1600 Madison Avenue. Unity House, 1800 Seventh Avenue. 202 East Restaurant, Tickets Now on Sale at: BRONX Rappoport & Cutler’s Book Store, 1310 Southern Boulevard. Restaurant of U. W. C. BROWNSVILLE Goldstein's Book Store, 365 Sutter Avenue, BORO PARK Max Snow Drug Store, Thirteenth Avenue and 43d Street. Sat. Eve. DECEMBER 15) Madison Square GARDEN $1 Malerman’s Book Store, 8603 20th Avenue. Demonstrate Your Solidarity! 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