The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 1

{ i MM ' | -— TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! DAILY WORKER SOVIET BALL AT “GARDEN,” 5 Hooray! And whoopie! And oo- Ja-la!_ The Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball is here! Only a few more hour and thousands of workers are going to meet in Madison Square Garden at the greatest, the best and the | American working class. The Daily Worker realizes that many workers will be in danger of losing their jobs today. Instinc- |tively their legs and arms will be going through the motions and the enraged bosses are likely to fire workers whole¥ale. But workers | must not allow themselves to be ter- | rorized. The first Soviet ball ever | places. The hell with the bosses! is | the slogan today. Tonight’s affair will really be worth any sacrifice. Costumes such as have never been seen before will decorate the floor. A fanfare of color, jazz and laughter will cause| the rafters of Madison Square Gar- the Russian fraction of the Work- ers (Communist) Party; the Can- ton Soviet, represented by a group of Chinese workers; Hoover's perialist trip; Tammany Hall; For- geries of the Forward; Schlesinger’s “Union” and many others. The entire staffs of the Daily (supply your own adjectives) cos-|held in this city is an event in the den to do a dance of their own.| Worker and the Freiheit will be| tume ball in the history of the |life of every worker, and, if neces-| Among the special costume tableaux | present in costume, as well 2s the /ning will be the presence of the en- sary, a general strike should be | will he the Soviet system of govern-|casts of the New Playwrights The- called to put the bosses in their! ment, represented by a group from! stre and the Freikeit Dramatic Stu- dio. A jury of proletarian judges will pass on the costumes. The members of this jury are William | W. Weinstone, Robert Minor, Melich | Epstein, H. M. Wicks, M. J. Olgin, Fred Ellis, William Gropper, Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Moishe Nadir and David Bergelson. One of the big features of the eve- | tire Central Executive Committee land all the district organizers of the|who will be p1 Workers Party. The 35 members of the C. E. C. and the 18 district or- ganizers, coming from various parts of the country, are now in N York attending the Plenum of the C.E.C. The Plenum will take a re- cess for several hours tonight and the entire group, comprising the leaders of the revolutionary move- ment in this country, will appear at the ball in costume. Among those sent will be Jay THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party intered N. ¥.. under the act of March 3. 1879. | Lovestone, executive of the Workers Party, and William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, mem- bers of the secretariat. And tke grand march at the ball will be led by A. Ravitch, manager of the Daily Worker, who is keep- ing the nature of his costume a s cret, but those who know Ravitch ingenuity will not be surprised at anything. We haven't secretary told half the 0TH ST. AND 8TH AVE, it, but you'll he ball to see for selling cakes, ing at once to the business office of the Daily Worker, 2 Square, and buying at $1 apiece. to come to the If. Tickets are proverbial hot- At ie door it will cost 25 cents more== |if you can get any. | All aboard for the Daily Worker- Freiheit Ball! Let’s go! FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 297 _ 28 Union &i ily Worker New York, N. ¥. N RATES: to New ¥ per year You can save money by go- | Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928, POLICE RI STALIN TALKS ON PROBLEMS FACING THE SOVIET UNION The Recontruction of) Agriculture, Rapid Growth of Industry Fight on Two Fronts Hits Rumors Spread by Opponents MOSCOW. Noy, 24 (Inprecor by Mail).—At the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union which is at present taking place in Moseow, Comrade Stai made a Speech in which he dealt in detail with the questions of the industrial- ization of the country, the recon- struction of agriculture and the in- rer Party situation “The specdy development of in- dustry,” declared Comrade Stalin, “is determined by the external and internal conditions of the Soviet Union. On the one hand the Soviet Union represents the most advanced power in the world, on the, other hand, however, it has at its disposaf only a very backward industrial technique. In order to abolish this contradiction, the advanced tech- nique of the highly industrialized capitalist countries must be caught up with and surpassed. The inde- pendence of the Soviet Union can also not be protected unless there is a sufficient industrial basis for its defense. The century old back- wardness of the Soviet Union can only be ended on the basis of the saccessful construction of socialism. Everyone sees that our industry is developing rapidly. Necessity of Industrialization. “The question of the speedy de- velopment of industry would not be so acute if the Soviet Union were not the only country of the dictator- ship of the proletariat, but one of many countries in which the prole- tarian dictatorship ruled. In such circumstances the capitalist environ- ment would represent no serious canger. The necessity of a speedy development of iadustry is also dic- tated by the,great backwardness of agriculture in the Soviet Union, as also by the fact that in agriculture the small-scale producers are dom- inant, so that socialist large-scale industry may be compared to an jisland in the sea. The reconstruc- tion of agriculture upon a new tech- nical basis presupposes a speedy de- velopment of industry. “The capital invested in industry this year will total 1,650 million roubles, or 330 millions more than last year. Trotsky’s Left Errors. “The contentions of Comrade Frumkin concern’ng the retrogres- sion of agricultuie contained a num- ber of serious right wing deviations. All sorts of bourgeois specialists chatter about retrogression, For a time Trotsky also talked like this. Continued on Page Three FORD IN PEACE CONFAB. WASHINGTON, Dee. 14 (UP).— Henry Ford arrived here today by, auto from Detroit to attend the In- ternational Civil Aeronautics con- ference now ‘in session. | Look Who’s Here Readers of the Daily Worker are iven two guesses as to the identity of the leader of the Workers (Com- munist) Party shown above. Our staff cartoonist caught him in @ moment of exaltation trying to coax @ couple of tickets to the big Daily Worker-Freiheit bell out of @ slot a commission is only a screen for fre’ Au. Br (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 14.—The social- |democratie police president of this | city, Zoergiebel, today prohibited | |the open-air meetings and demon-| | strations of the Red Front Fight- | Lers,,the, militant defense or-ranisa-| |tion of the left wing worscrs of |Germany, which is under the influ- lence of the German Communist} | Party. | | In this action he referred to the }imartial law period cf 192% 24 4s an) |example and he indicated that a ‘ed Front? | Fighters was to follow shortly. | | Zergiehel’s action is the social- democratic price for the formation jof a large government coalition: * * * | BERLIN, Dec. 14.—Police have |prohibited all open-air meets and \demonstrations in Berlin, hoping in |this way to prevent the mass demon- stration of workers protesting |against the “socialist”-sponsored im- perialist designs of the German government, and any other working class protests. 5 | The police give as their reason for \this obviously anti-labor action the |recent clashes between police and jworkers during mass demonstra- | tions. | The action has aroused a strong |wave of protest from revolutionary | organizations, not only -in Berlin, \but thruout Germany. | It is reported that a mass demon- | | stration will shortly be held to pro- | test this new attack upon the | | workers, KELLOGG TWIRLS "PAN TAEET ROUND ‘Free Hand in Bolivia- Paraguay Crisis | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.— The United States government was prac-| (tically given a free hand in decid- ‘ing the Bolivian-Paraguayan situa-| tion as it pleases when the com-_ mittee at the Pan-American confer- | ence today proposed that the Pan-| American Conference “extend its good offices in the crisis between | Bolivia and Paraguay” and the con- | ference accep! it, while the Para-| guayan delegate refrained from} voting. | The proposal was presented by| the puppet of Yankee imperialism, Victor Maurtua of Peru, and sec- onded by Kellogg’s lackey, Ambas- sador Ferrara of Cuba. Wall Street’s agents are assured a free hand in the conference and it is | more than likely that the decision | will grant Bolivia “satisfaction” or |in more concrete terms the oil- | bearing territory of Chaco, where the Carib Syndicate and the Stand- ard Oil of New Jersey have oil wells, When Kellogg, chairman of the conference, announced that the de- cision was unanimous, the Paraguay delegate Eligio Ayala rose and | Workers and Peasants Against Imperialists me ean stin Chamberlain, the “angel” of peace, who is maneuvering for ish imperialism and organizing DE DOWN ANT | nzied war preparations. At right, anti-Soviet war bloc. BERLIN “SOCIALIST” BANS WORKERS’ MEETS SCHLESINGER IN FAKE DRESS PACT a | | Tries to Head Off the Strike Sentiment | Whlie the left wing National Or-| ganization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union rallies its forces for a struggle in the dress in- dustry, thru preparations for a gen- eral strike in that almost wholly unorganized trade, the company union of the socialist misleaders, takes steps to head off the tremen- dous sentiment for such a strike. Benjamin Schlesinger, at bat for the bosses and against the cloak and dress workers since Sigman! was thrown on the garbage heap, | yesterday met with the Dress Man-! ufacturers’ Association and is try-| ing to conclude a fake agreement | for six months only as his “social- ist” press agents announce. Knowing that the dress industry, which has grown into almost a Continued on Page Two i | discussion Open Letter Demands Disarmament Meet Soon For Open Discussion, No Secreey (Wireless to the Daily Worker) LUGANO, Switzerland, Dec. 14.— The letter sent by Maxim Litvinov, Peoples Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, to Lou- don, chairman of the disarmament commission of the League of Na- tions, on Dee, 6, dealing with the Soviet proposals for complete dis- armament, was published here to- day. : The letter deals first with the pre- | vious attempts of the Soviet gov- ernment to speed up the treatment of the disarmament question. Lit- vinov complains that the opening of the next session of the disarmament commission was made dependent on the results of diplomatic negotia- tion between certain states, the same negotiations which caused the ad- journment of the last session. “At ihe last session the delega- tion of the Soviet Union demanded | epen discussion of the disarmament Cuestion and opposed shifting the into private diplomatic negotiations between _ individual states. The Soviet delegation ex- pressed the opinion that this pro- cedure would make impossibie the formation, of a generally satisfac- tory basis for disarmament. The states negotiating would attempt |to conclude agreements limiting armaments of other states not par- ticipating in the negotiations, with- cut limiting their own particular form of armament.” “Such procedure,” the letter con- tinues, “is unfavorable for general disarmament. Official documents show that negotiations between France and Britain have broken Continued on Page Five Sentence Is Evidence of War Preparation Against USSR French Communists in Fierce Campaign PARIS, Dec. 14—Andre Marty, |Or Else Give Up Lying Expose Lies of Foch, Maxim ‘Litvinov, People’s Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs | | for the Soviet Union, at left, has sent a letter to the League of Na- | tions disarmament commission demanding that the Soviet Proposal | for complete international disarmament be taken up immediately. | If this is not done there is further proof that the disarmament 1-HOOVER DEMO LITVINOV URGES MARTY, SEAMEN Hughes, Wall St. Man, “VIVA SANDINO® LEAGUE TAKE UP LEADER,IS GIVEN MakesWar on Paraguay HURLED AT WALL SOVIET PROPOSAL 4 YEARS IN JAIL By HARRISON GEORG (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14.— The Wall Street banker Bolivia, and without whose consent the Bolivian government could not buy a pop-gun, are, according to in- formation, the sources of which cannot be disclosed, loaning money to Bolivia for the purpose of pur- chasing arms and ammunition to make war on Paraguay. Arms are being bought from Eu- ropean countries, and a loan of $5,000,060, recently negotiated, guar- antees payment therefor. The bank- ers responsible are the Dillon-Read Communist depaty and leader of the Company, who have consolidated all revolt of the sailors in the French Black Sea Fleet in 1919, was sen- tenced by the Seine military tribunal today to 4 years in prison and fined 3.000 francs for his open letter to Marshall Foch. The sentence was given after the prosecution and the French general staff has been completely discredited by evidence brought by the defense, In his,onen letter to Foch, Marty had stated that the French intervention jagainst the Soviet Union in 1919 had failed because of the revolt of the Black Sea Fleet. and not, as Foch -stated- in“an interview” with the British paper “Referee,” be- cause of orders Foch had received not to “wipe out the Bolsheviki.” In the same letter, Marty had also stated that should the French and British imperialists attack the So- viet Union, as Foch had urSed in the same interv'ew to the British reporter, the soldiers and_ sailors would again revolt and prevent any attempt to overthrow the Soviet Union. The government immediately in- terpreted the letter as “inciting the soldiers to disobedience” and brought Marty to trial about a month ago. At that time both Painleve, French |minister of war, and Foch had de- nied that the interview with the British reporter had taken place. Bnt when Preston, the editor of the “Referee,” sent in a letter to the de- fense attorney stating that the in- terview had actually. taken place as reported in his paper, the French martial court postponed the trial | Continued on Page Five the 1922, Bolivian Joans, both that of which gave the bankers their present compiete control, and a later cne of $33,000,000. Reason— The reason for this war move, which proceeds regardless of to- day’s superficiai event when Bo- livia’s delegate to the Washington Conference returned after a break- away for 24 hours, is Standard Oil. We went up to the state depart- ment to see what Secretary Kellogg hed to say about all this, This pal- sicd old grandmother, but a grand- ma like. Red Riding: Hood's, with long, sharp imperialist teeth, has MINERS OPP Hf industrial Workers The rumor spread by the Trotsky Opposition of the American Party to the effect that they enjoy support among the miners, and especially among those elements who have only recently joined the P:rty, as a result of our activity i: the mining struggle, are conclusively shown to be false by the action o/ a large number of mine nuclei and ¢onfer- ences in the central mining field as well as in otker parts «{ the coun- try. A. joint membership meeting of all the nuclei in Franklin Coun- ty, held Saturday, December 8th, in West Frankfort, Tllinc -unani- mously passed the following resolu- tion: COLOMBIA STRIKERS KILLED IN COLD BLOOD — BY FEDERAL TROOES SENT BY FRU. | How workers on the railroads | of the United Fruit Company in | Magdalena province, who had | walked out on a solidarity strike | with the 40,000 banana plantation | workers, were compelled to load . the bananas at the point of gure was described by a sailor of the United Fruit liner Santa Marta which docked here yesterday at Pier 17, Fulton Street. | When the ship docked at the port of Santa Marta the railroad | workers at Cienaga struck when ' they were ordered to load bananas on the train bo: for the port. | FURRIERS LAUNCH SODUES CAMPAIGN Seab Circular Admits, Boss Kinship | Following the big Cooper Union| meeting held by the eft wing Fur- | | riers Union and the fighting re-| | sponse it awoke in the membership, |the Joint Board is preparing an in- tensive drive to popularize the five- dollar offer for good standing. The management committee of izational measures to be presented to the meeting of Joint Board déle- | gates thie Tuesday, for the mobiliza- | tion of the furriers to a finish fight | asked that Paraguay be excused Continued on Page Five \ for union conditions for the coming Continued on Rage Two jat the Workers Si On December 5 a di n of sol- diers left Santa Marta to attempt to force the strikers back to work but instead they joined the revo- lutionary forces in a body. The following day the United Fruit Company induced the gov- ernment authorities to send a force of 800 soldiers under the direction of United Fruit officials to Cienaga. They were met by a large group of workers who called upon them to follow the example of the other soldiers and join the strikers, When the head of the r-hitary expedition asked the strikers to Weinstone to Speak on Comintern Program at Workers School Forum William W. Weinstone, delegate to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International and mem- ber of its Program Commission, will lecture on the “Program of the Communist International” tomorrow night at the Workers School For- um, 26-28 Union Square, 5th floor. This lecture will contrast the posi- tion of the international Communist movement with that given last week ool Forum by “Socialist Par- Max Bedacht on the ty Today.” Weinstone was present at the nu- merous sessions of the Program Commission which discussed such the union is now working on organ-| important questions as the follow-| ing: the form of the program, its international character, the program of struggle for the world dictator- | ship of the proletariat, the question | of imperialism, socialism, the per- spective of a colonial revolution, and various controversial questions go back to work the answer came in one tremendous roar of “No!” The captain gave the workers the time of three bugle blasts to surrender. The bugle biew three times and three times the work- ers hurled defiance at the United Frvit Company and its Colombian soldiers, After the third blast the order was given to fire. Fourteen workers were killec in cold blood in the yolley tha’ followed and many more were wounded, The massacre would have been much bloodier if it were not for the fact that many of the soldiers fired into the air rather TELL OF GROWTH OF USSR UNIONS TomskiTraces Advance in Activities (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dee, 14.— |Tomski, president of the Soviet La- \bor Unions, made the report of the |Central Council at yesterday's ses- |sion of the Congress of the Labor | Unions of the Soviet Union now |being held in Moscow. | His report recorded on all around | improveinent in labor union work, the development of democracy, the \introduction.of the seven-hour day lin industry, the gradual introduc- \tion of old age benefit and the in- troduction of social insurance in the villages. Attend the Duily-Preiheit cons than shoot at the mass ef work- ers, Then under the point of loaded guns and drawn sabers the work- ers were forced t6’load the trains. 8 8 BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 14.— One hundred strikers have al- ready been killed and 238 have een wounded in the war the Col- “mbian government Ys waging for he United Fruit Company agains‘ he plantation workers of the de partment of Magdalena, according to conservative estimates reported by the Barranquilla correspondent of the newsrsper Ezpectador. Vienna Workers Find War Materials Sent by Italy to Horthy (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Dec. 14.—While un- loading crates here workers dis- covered machine-gun parts con- signed to Budapest, the Hungarian capital. It is obviously Italian war material sent to the fascist Hu-sarian regime in violation of all international agreements, simi- lar to the shipment of war ma- terials recently stopped at Stgott- hard and intended for the same Flace. The authorities are attempting to minimize the affair in every possible way. The loading papers bore the name of a Vienna engineering firm, which deaies having sent the shipmen: and deciaics tume ball at Madison Square Gare)! name was forged. = f k who own! an astounding memory, but chiefly astounds by what he forgets. It was a perfectly good memory when he told us a mass of unim- |portant detail about the history of the land in dispute. He knew all about the various treaties and ar- | bitration disputes clear back to the time of President Hayes. But when asked about bankers and oil, his memory and knowledge both col- lapsed. Belittles Latin Americans. It is important to note that in speaking about the various efforts made by Latin Americans to settle the d'spute among themselves, with- out the intervention of the United States, Kellogg distinctly depre- cated such efforts as of no conse- qwence, inferring that the Argentina attempt to mediate and the efforts ef the Gondra commission, now meeting at Montevideo, had better be abandoned, and everything left te the United States as the logical boss under the Monroe Doctrine and the rights of a “superior” race. In short, that the Latin Americans should settle things themselves was quite ridiculous. Kellogg can confidently assume that such efforts will be useless so long as United States: imperialism Continued on Page Two OSECANNON in Dist. 8 for CEC | Resolution Condemns Trotskyism. “This joint membership meeting of all mine nuclei in Franklin Coun- ty declares its firm adherence to the Leninist line of the CI and of the Central Committee of the Work- ers Party. We endorse the ener- getic action taken by our CEC and DEC in combatting the American manifestation of Trotskyism, a coun- ter revolutionary movement of the enemies of the working class. “We support in full the expulsion Continued on Page Three UNION PREPARES WAGE CUT FIGHT r T, COMP. AN . Beacon Mill, Workers | in Rally Ranks NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 14. —A gigantic mass meeting and demonstration has been arranged by the workers of the Beacon mills, a blanket factory, Purchase St. here, as the first step in the plans to counteract the wage cut just an- nounced throughout the factory by the overseers. The plans for the mass’ demonstration, which wili be held tomorrow in the headquarters of the Women’s League of the uni North Front and Beetle Sts., were made by the workers at large meeting in the sume hall Wednes- day, called by the National Textile Workers Union. The meeting wi"! be held at 7 ». m., a time which will jenable workers of both shifts to at- tend. The wage slashes in some cases amount to over 20 per cent. The Beacon mill, which withdrew its notice of g 10 per cent wage cut just before last summer’s strike, did not go out with the other mills, the workers taking the advice of Batty, secretary of the A. F. T. 0., who Continued on Page Five AFFECTIONATE DOCTOR. NEWARK, N. J., Dee. 14 (U.P).— A second former telephone oper- ator testified today at the hearing of Dr. Byron M. Harman, super- intendent of the Essex Mountain {Sanatorium at Verona, that Dr. Harman had annoyed her and had made improper advances to her while she was employed at the in- stitution, Lenin's Spark) wa! {for a ie wa United States, , held Sunday morring. December 2! NSTRATORS | STREET ENVOY 1,000 Workers Already Jailed as Raids Continue British Press Hostile Buenos Aires Paper Hits Imperialism BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 14.—With 1,000 revolutionary Argentine workers in jail, with mass arrests still going on, with every step of Hoover being watched by an army of police and detectives, the Argentine regime has not been unable to prevent demonstrations against Yankee imperialism personi- fied in its delegate to Latin Ameri- ca, president-elect Hoover. From his very arrival at the railroad station at the capital, the police and soldiers were unable to hinder workers on the outskirts of the crowd to shout “Viva Sandino.” | Although , detectives immediately nabbed anyone shouting this de- fiance at the imperialist envoy, Hoo- ver’s trip thru the city was punc- tuated by this defiant shout. When shouts for the leader of the Nicaraguan army of independence became too strong a patrol of mounted police rode into a group of demonstrators, bearing anti-imper- ialist banners, Many of the work- ers were injured and four of the leaders were jailed. During Hoover's stay in the city today heavy detachments guard all the streets in an attempt to prevent the recurrence of anti-imperialist demonstrations. Hoover inspected the port of Buenos Aires, examining Continued on Page Two SILK WORKERS IN BIG UNION DRIVE Speed Plans for City Convention (Special to the Daily Worker PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 14.—The work of building up a militant union of Paterson silk workers has begun in earnest. Leaders of the move- ment announce the intensified ac- tivities for the next few weeks, lead- ing up to the city convention planned to establish firmly the Paterson or- eanization of the National Textile Workers Union. Although a definite date for the City Convention has not as yet been made public, a preliminary organiza- tional conference was announced yesterday. This conference will be beginning at 10 ~’clock. The purpose of the conference i to prepare for tle city-wide conven= tion, where the mill locals of the new union will be permanently es- tablished. The conference will also have as its business the planning of an agenda for the convention. Highly satisfying results are be- ing reported by the Italian organi- zer, Juhn Pippan. Another meeting of Italian workers, (the first was held last Wednesday) has been ar- ranged for. held tomorrow, Sunday morning, ats 10 o'clock in the headquaxters of the United Pleasure Chub. May Sts. All Italian he may be employed in, is called to” the meeting. This meeting, too, will take up the question of organizing a drive for the unionization of the Italian workers. " | For the first time, a general meet- ing of night workers will be held. This meeting will be held Mon morning, at 10:30 o’clock in | headquarters, 151 Broadway. also to. begin organization © among this section of the si operatives. This meeting will bes ‘atler and ~ jorkers, no matter what crait of the industry’ \ \ l, £