The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 1

| Fol. V. N 298 f | 't | | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS for a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party Baily 22 Entered a wecond-class matter aes «the Post Office at New York. N.Y. under the act of March 3. 1879. ae ); AVorke inday by The National Dally Worker ie. 26-28 Uniew Sa. New Yovk. N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION yea per NEW y YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928 $5.00 per year _ Price 3 Cents STANDARD OIL OPENS BOLIVIAN WAR ON PARAGUAY YORK WORKERS PICKET UNITED FRUIT CO. SHIP DEMONSTRATE AT BOAT LOADED AT POINT OF GUNS Score U. 8. Imperialism | at Dock Workers’ | Meeting | Distribute the “Daily” | 43 Demonstrators in) Philadelphia Jailed “Down with Bloody Amer- ican Imperialism in Latin) America!” “Stand by the Col-| ombia Fruit Workers’ Strike!” | “Strike Against United Fruit Company Brutality!” These and other slogans)” served as rallying cries of a picket demonstration held Sat- urday at Pier 16, North River. where the Santa Marta, United Fruit Company ship, had) docked the day before. This is the | ship which railroad workers in| Santa Marta, Colombia, showing their solidarity with the 40,000) striking banana plantation workers, had refused to load. A detachment | of 800 troops fired on them, kill-| ing 14 in cold blood and wounding} many others and forcing the rest to load the ship at the point of guns. 400 Participate. About 400 dock workers took part in the picket demonstration| which lasted several hours. The} Worker: Picket United Fruit os Dock A part of the demonstration of 400 New York fore the United Fruit Company pier 16, where the Santa Marta, com- pany ship, docked. The Santa Marta brought bananas which were loaded only after 800 Colombian troops, sent by the fruit company, fired into a mass of strikers, killing 14. ¢ workers be- The workers were then forced to load the wharf train at the point of guns and bayonets. The demonstration was. a ringing cry of solidarity with the 40,000 strikers in Colombia who are now fighting against the combined forces of Yankee Aen and its Colombian puppets. PLAN RADIO MONOPOLY or AMERICAN EMPIRE WASHINGTON, I Dee, 16.—The U. S, Radio Commission, while doing its best to establish a complete mon- copoly of this most important and growing means of communication and transmission of power, reports to congress tomorrow that it is hin- dered by the desire of capitalist ele- | ments in Canada, Cuba, Mexico and other countries, which desire to do exactly the same thing and want ‘SILK UNION MEET IS BIG SUCCESS (500 Attend Concert; 65, at Fakers’ Meet (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, Dec, 16.—Five KILL A WORKER PARAGUAY HITS U/nmasks Imperialist HUNTING TABLE IN THE AUTOMAT Manager, Strong Arm Gang, Throw Him Out | and Break Skull | Victim Seemed Weary, Called a Drunk A worker was killed last night by the assistant manager and strong- }arm squad of the Automat restau- |vant @t 47th and Broadway, to the horror of dozens of other workers who were eating there at the time. The restaurant was crowded when a man, apparently a laborer just trom his job and moving wearil came in and walked about, looking for a table, The manager appa- rently took a dislike to his appear- ance, pounced upon him, accused | | him of being drunk and ordered | The man was reluctant to | , him out. go, but made no resistance. How- |ever, since he did not move rapidly ‘enough, the manager called his “bouncers” to help and the man was put out. He came back and was flung on the floor between the re- | volving doors at the entrance. His | \skull was broken on the imitation | | marble pavement and when the am- | bulance arrived he was pronounced dead. The manager tried to drag} the body out on the sidewalk, but | |the crowd stopped him, so he took demonstration-was~arranged “by” the enous? wavelengths left-for them ruridved Paterson silk workers” at-|it-into-the offiee.-«~ Marine Workers’ Progressive League | and the New York Branch of the! All-America Anti-Imperialist League. | The police were at first uncertain | what to do. After consulting with| | selves to build up their own trusts. | The layman, the commission | points out, thinks of radio only as a means of entertainment. This | phase of radio development, it is | tended the meeting and concert held | | for the benefit of the new locals of {the National Textile Workers’ Union, while the reactionary Asso-| any arrests, or to hear the stories | jciated Silk Workers, which still] of witnesses, though many workers Police Won't Investigate. The police entered when they | | heard the noise, but refused to make ! officials of the United Fruit Com-| contended, is superficial when com- | claims that the broad silk workers | there insisted on the guilty persons pany, they decided not to incur un-| pared with. the possibilities of ra- pleasant publicity by attacks on the | dio’s development along commercial | pickets. They interfered with the| demonstration as much asithey| could without actually using vio- lence or making arrests. News-| paper photographers were also) molested. Distribute “Daily.” | Copicg of the Daily Worker, giv- ing details of the massacre of the| Colombia strikers, were distributed | during the demonstration and were | read eagerly by the dock workers. Following the picketing a meeting | was held outside the offices of the United Fruit Company, Among those who spoke were George Bini | national secretary of the Marine Workers’ Progressive League; Har- riet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch of the Tne | ica Anti-Imperialist League; | Zimmerman, and Harold iltiama| a Negro worker. All the speakers | pointed out the murderous role of channels available, but are positive | American simperialism in Latin) America and called on the workers| to stand solid behind the struggle| of the Colombia plantation strikers. | It is announced’ that picketing of | United Fruit Company ships will} continue and workers are urged to} volunteer for picket duty. ke PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.—Po- | lice yesterday arrested 43 workers who were participating in a demon- stration of solidarity with the 40,000 | Colombian fruit strikers. The dem | onstration was held at Pier 9, which | is occupied by the United Fruit Co., against whom the Colombian banana workers are striking. Over 150 workers took part in the| demonstration, which was _ held) under the auspices of the Workers | (Communist) Party, the All-Amer-) ica Anti-Imperialis» League, and) the Young Workers League. The arrested workers _ were brought before. Magistrate Fahn-) stock, who refused to aMow them time to get in touch with their at-/ torney.’ Each demonstrator was} charged with “inciting to riot.” When the workers refused to swear on the bible, an additional charge of “contempt of court” was made by Fahnstock. Fahnstock, who is notorious as a labor-baiter, sen- tenced 40 of the workers to 30 days in the workhouse. Three of the demonstrators were released on $600 bail. jand ground stations, and scientific lines. “Among the services being con- following: Communication between airplanes | between ships and coastal station: police departments, marine-calling frequencies, experimental | geophysical service, railway com-| munication, scientific expeditions | |and yachts, portable stations, power | company emergency communica- tions, television, experimental and | development work, picture trans- mission, amateurs and others.” 300 Channels. Actually, the commissior reports, there are thousands of applications | | pending for these prized short wave channels, radio experts at this time do not know the exact number of that not more than some 300 will be available to the United States. There are more channels than this number in the spectrum,’ the report said, but Canada, Mexico and Cuba each must get a share. The short wave channels in the point to point | band exist over the entire continent. Would Get Monopoly. Consequently, if interference of the character that threw broadcast- ing into chaos two years ago is to Continued on Page Four vork, eet |ers’ locals being built here by the! | tinued, tid ue report states, “are the; | did not adhere to the left wing | union, could only mobilize 65 peo-/ lice refused, some asked in vain to | | ple at their meeting. This despite) the fact that their meeting was one| at which the regular nominations for officers was to have been held. | The left wing meeting, held under| League, was for the purpose of raising funds for the new silk work- militant N. T. W. U. It was held in Carpenters’ Hall Friday night. While the big meeting overflowed | with enthusiasm, the Associated meeting was one of the most dis- | pirited ever witnessed here. Despite the contention that there Continued on Page Five Harlem Tenants in Mass Meet Tonight | Tonight at 8 o’clock hundreds of | |Harlem workers will rally at a |monster tenants’ mass meeting, to | |be held at the New York Public | library, auditorium at 103 W. 135th St. under the auspices of the Har- lem Tenants’ League. Among the speakers at the meet- ing will be Arthur C. Holden, Mrs. Florence Ricks, Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Richard B. Moore, Admission will be free. All exploited workers and tenants of Harlem are urged to atfend. DUNCAN DANCERS HERE To Perform at Anniversary of “Daily” “The Duncan Theatre of Moscow is one of the most valuable and in- teresting institutions of Soviet Rus- sia,” declared A. Lunacharsky, Com- | missar of Education, after seeing a | performance of the pupils of the Isadora Duncan School. “The Isadora Duncan School was established by the late Isadora Dun- can during the early years after the revolution at the invitation of the Soviet Government. Duncan, con- sidered the greatest dancer of mod- ern times, had come to the Soviet Union and been carried away by the spirit of the revolution and the new adopted daughter and favorite pupil of Isadora, who has carried on the traditions of her great foster- mother. Irma Duncan and 25 prize grad- uates of her famous institution re- cently arrived in this country by special permission of the Commis- sariat of Education, in order to ap- pear at the fifth anniversary cele- bration of the Daily Worker at Manhattan Opera House, Eighth Ave. and 34th St., ‘on Saturday eve- ning, Jan. 5. For the first time outside the Soviet Union the Duncan dancers will appear before a proletarian au-! being arrested, and, when’ the po- be arrested themselves, in order to | |be able to testify in the case. Of- |ficer No, 10,482, who was present, jangrily declared that he would take no complaints, and with other police communication | the auspices of the Paterson local! chased away all witnesses and s, {of the Trade Union Educational | cteared the room. |. The | Morgue. body was taken ito the GALL RALLY OF Meeting Part of Huge | Organization Drive The Independent Shoe Workers .Union of Greater New York an- | nounces a mass meeting of all work ers in the shoe industry for to-| morrow night at 8 o’clock in Lor- \raine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn. | Some of the best speakers in the | New York left wing labor movement are scheduled to address the shoe wotkers and to urge them to or- ganize their almost wholly unorgan- ized trade. Continued on Page Two Fur Locals Will Meet; Nominate Convention Delegates; Plan Strike The New York Joint Board of the Yurriers Union announces member- ship meetings of Local 15 (finish- ers) and Local 10 (mailers) will be i ef the Furriers Union, 22 FE. |St., New York, and membership | meetings of Local 5 (operators) and Local 1 (cutters) willbe held Tues- day hight at the same hour and | Place. The purpose of these meet- ings wil! be to nominate delegates to. the coming furriers’ convention, \te be held in New York Dec. 29, 30 | and Jan, 1. The meetings will discuss :the | | agenda of the coming convention, on | which will surely be the business of jamalgamation of the furriers and garment workers unions, the shop Pelice Refuse Arrest "SHOE WORKERS. Charles S. Zimmerman | lield tonight at 6 p. m. at the office | 22nd | life that was being built there. It dience, and they are preparing a|¢clegate system, proposals for the The International Labor Defense, representing "the workers, will ap- péal the cases tomorrow morning. MORE WOMEN PHARMACISTS WASHINGTON (By Mail).—The | number of women pharmacy work- | ers has almost doubled in the past year. Sixteen years has become the Maimum age in many states, was in the first workers’ and peas- ants’ republic that she found at last the atmosphere in which she could realize her ideas of the dance and create a school where her theories would be imparted to the new gen- eration of Russian children, . During the past few years the Isadora Duncan School has . been under the direction of Irma Duncan, program appropriate for the cele- bration of the fifth birthday of the only working class daily in the English language. Other interest- ing numbers are being arranged that will make this a memorable celebration. sale at the office of the Daily Work- er, 26-28 Union Square. All seats are reserved. organization work and the plans for f general strike to win union condi- tions ang wages. The National Executive Commit- tee of the furriers, which is arrang- it has received telegrams from Lo- cal 90 at Winnipeg and Local 40 at Toronto, saying they are sending delegates to the convention. |ing the convention, announces that | Tickets are now on) AT U. S, BANKS ARMING BOLIVIA ‘Kellogg Warns British | Imperialism Not to Mix in His War Step to New World War iCuba in Servile Trick to Block British (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.— \Slightly disturbing the tricky man- |euvers of Hughes and Kellogg, who carefully are concealing the part |played by Wall Street bankers and | Standard Oil in secretly pushing Bolivia into war on Paraguay while hypocritically talking peace, Juan |Vicente Rameriz, Paraguayan | charge d’affaires here, disclosed a small part of the Yankee intrigue, by a press statement charging that Bolivia has been buying arms to attack Paraguay from money fur- nished by Wall Street bankers. Charges U. S, Bank Backing. “Bolivia,” says the statement in |part, “has been employing a large jpart of her loan floated in the | United States, in the purchase of |armaments .in Europe, preparing |herself thus against Paraguay. Now | there’ only remains to be seen if | Bolivia is in the right and if in these days argument still lies in might.” Certain that American imperial- ism can. push. Bolivia-further.inte- war, or order it stopped, just as | States, Secretary Kellogg continues | |the hypocritical fiction of American | “peace” efforts and the myth of B livian “independence” statements that the United States “is concerned” over the hostilities, but “feels there are limits to efforts to prevent further fighting.” In plain words, the Bolivian govern- ment, which is in Kellogg’s vest pocket, is instructed to go on with the war. Another hypocritical angle of the U. S. government is its hiding the Continued on Page Two BUFFALO FLAYS U). S, TROTSKYISM ‘Support Expulsions by Central Committee | meeting the District Committee of | District Four, with headquarters in | Buffalo, pledged its support to the Central Executive Committee of the | Workers (Communist) Party in the , struggle against the Right danger and Trotskyism. The following reso- lution was adopted: “The Executive Committee of Dis- | trict 4 fully supports the steps taken |by the C. E. C. in its struggle | Right danger, and declares that it fully realizes the necessity of pury- ing the Party of all elements who are attempting to lead our Party away from the Leninist line, into the morass of Right Wingism or Trotskyism. “The D. E. C. further declares that the danger confronting the Continued on Page Five Bishop, Green, Oppose Recognition of U.S.S.R. Matthew Woll, vice-president of acting president of the National Civie Federation, an employ strikebreaking organization which ‘has been boycotted in the past by many international unions, has made public a letter written by himself to President Coolidge. “The insistent clamor of certain groups for the recognition of Soviet Russia,” wrote Woll, has led the Na- |tional Civie Federation to sound | public opinion in all parts of the |country on this issue.” then asked Elihu Root, John W, Davis, Cardinal Dougherty, Bishop William T. Manning, William Green they were opposed to recognition, { by unofficial | According to his own account he ~ suits the convenience of the United Poy BUFFALO, Dec. 16.—At its last | against Trotskyism and against the; Woll Finds Cardinals. the A. F. of L., in his capacity as | SEIZES FORT AS Tricks at Washington PARAGUAY CALLS Be HARRISON GEORGE. ial to the Daily Wor! easier a victim for the war-m of American imperiali sm—who al- Ww. HINGTON, D. Dec. 16.—| ways advance behind a series of If you watch the capitalist nev “peace” conferences. papers, and carefully, for what is! These war-makers, whom _ the going on regarding the Bolivia-|Daily Worker has compelled to Paraguay war, the more you read| grant the writer equal rights with the more you will be deceived. the capitalist press correspondents, You will get.the notion that the including the use of the Pan- Pan-American Conference on Con- ciliation and Arbitration here is doing all it can to prevent war be- tween two Latin American nations, all of whom are inferred to be in need of guardians in the form of Charles E. Hughes and Secretary | Kellogg, that Bolivia and Paraguay are unaccountably rushing into war for no logical reason, and that it is up to the United States to show a “strong guiding hand” and “straighten out Latin America.” Receipe For Confusion. You will get dizzy with “peace” ces, “conciliation” meetings, itration” commissions. A whole series of treaties may be given you to dige You will get steno- graphic speeches of the delegates to the conference (when Hughes wants to), statements of ministers of le- gations, declarations ky Secretary Kellogg, and announcements by the conference itself—and yet if you do not read these things with a mind sharpened with Ma Leninist analysis, ae more you read the more confu ou will be and the AVIATION MERGER NOW NEW TRUST. Morgan Control A gigantic $150,000,000 merger of aircraft manufacture and opera- tion companies has just been put, thru under the auspices of the Na- tional City Company of New York| and the Pacific National Bank of Seattle, with officials of these com- panies, the General Motors Cor- poration, the Ford Motor Co., and the Standard Oil Co., controlling its board of directors. The properties of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft “Corporation of | Hartford, manufacturers of the} Wasp and Hornet air-cooled air- plane motors, and the Chance Vought Corporation, manufacturers of the Corsair observation planes, will be merged with the Boeing Air- plane and Transport Corporation of Seattle. The name of the new corporation will be the United Aircraft & Transport. It will own all the stock of the Pratt & Whitney Air- craft Company, the Boeing Airplane Company, ‘Boeing Air Transport, Inc., the Chance Vought Corpora- tion and more than 70 per cent of the stock of Pacific Air Transport, which companies embrace all three lines in the aviation industry—en- gine production, airplane construc- tion and transportation. For the present the companies will continue to operate under their own management and with the present officials in charge. Expect Whalen to 0.K.) Own Police Job Today Grover A. Whalen today is ex- pected to announce officially that he has accepted the post of Police Commissioner, left vacant forced resignation of ‘Commi Warren, A conference between heads of the Wanamaker store, of which Whalen is millionaire manager, and Mayor Walker, will be held today to plan the details of Whalen’s new job. y | class American Union's typewriters and paper here in the building of the Pan-American Union, have a sys- tem of protective coloring which would make a chameleon turn green with env: What’s So—And What Isn’t. Let us take an example. “Bolivis withdraws from the conference! and then the next day, “Bolivia re- turns to the conference! Now what does that mean in reality? The capitalist press tells you that it means that Bolivia, after taking an “independent” attitude in the conference run by Hughes, and against the desire of the United States breaking with the confer- ence, is placated by Secretary Kel- logg, who is pictured as “urging peace anda return to the confer- ence”—it comes back to Uncle Sam as .the recognized boss of both Americas under the Monroe Doc- trine. But here are some other things the capitalist press don’t tell Bolivia, which is absolutely and Continued on Page Two HOOVER GHEERS IROGOYEN ARMY : Dictatorship Plan arrived from (UP).—Herbert Hoover tonight on a cruiser Buenos Aires. to render military ‘honors. a BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16— Hoover spent most of his time while in Buenos Aires hiding away |in the American embassy, where |ministers of state, Jose Canilo, the mayor of the city, and the officers of the U. S. battleship Utah, visited him. | here Guarded by Aside from one official banquet, jan hour at the opera, which he at- | tended under heavy guard, his only | other official act was the review of special detachments troops, the armed fire companies, and the police of Buenos Aires, also drawn up in military formation. Hoover cheered the heart of Presi dent Irogoyen by praising these or- gans of repression, on whom Iro- goyen more and more relies for his support. President to Be Dictator? Troops. President Irogoyen heads a com- posite “Radical” party, which took power from the great landowners who had previously selected their cabinets by family intrigue in the | Jockey Club. He was elected by small landowners, small business men, intellectuals, professional classes, and many workers, running | Since taking office he has appointed a cabinet representing all of these classes, and furiously divided against itself. With the heightening of the struggle, labor is turning from him, and the old land- Continued on Page Three away rty ix the par- eration of the Negro all white oppression, GRIM FIND » Discover Skeletons MOSCOW, Dee. whitened skeletons, the separated skulls grinning out against a back- 16 (UP).—Two IN SIBERIA of Li Lost E Explorers on Gee way home with important data, The Tessem men’ involved were named and Knudsen. . Measures, d, Rockefeller and ‘Approves os President’ S|been limited to for - NATION TO ARMS Aided by. “Wall Street Banks, Bolivia Has Taken Offensive May Bring World War League of Nations in Clash With U. S. BUENOS # Pursuing the war plans of the Standard Oil Company to foree an outlet for its known but un- developed holdings in Bolivia eastward to the sea, Bolivian troops were announced here yesterday as having attacked the small Paraguayan outpost at Fort Boqueron and captured it after hard fighting. Alarmed and excited by this fresh offensive of Yankee imperial- ism acting through its puppet gov- ernment in Bolivia, Paraguay, which has hitherto taken little or no war rather foolishly denend- ing, apparently, on the fake “con- ciliation” erence at Washing- ton, is mob ng to resist the im- perialist offen: Ten thousand volunteers answered the call within a few hours. Mobilization is limited to men between 18 and 23. Na- ticnal® unity’ against the invader is being planned. ‘Appeal to “Haw. So far, Paraguayan action has 1 and jurid- \ical arguments upholding her right co. to the disputed region on legalistic | reasons, MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 16 | r om | of imverialis® aggre Troops lined the pier | of Argentine | eighty per cent of the votes of the) jon a mixed but “Liberal” platform. | ignoring the possibility of much greater support to be obtained if an apfeal were issued on the basis ion and open- ly calling on Latin-American peo= ples as a whole to unite in an armed struggle against Yankee imperial- if need be the m, overthrowing puppet governments set up by Yankee int e, and lacking in that respect genuine support from theit peoples. Without this, Paraguay’s cause will be seriously crippled and constrained to its military phase only, but with such an appeal, in- Continued on Page Five 'Weinstone Talks at Y. School Forum on Program of CL. A W. W York district of the Workers (Com-= large audience heard William stone, organizer of the New munist) Party, speak on “The Pro- gram of the Communist Internation- jal” last night at the Workers School | Forum, 26-28 Union Square. Among the questions Weinstone took up was that of the present per- iod of world economy as one =pf world proletarian revolution. He analyzed the multiform character of the revolutionary process. He showed that just as capitalism was |ushered in over a period of over 250 years, and as the various coun- tries were now at different stagés of development, so the proletarian revolution would proceed at an un- even pace. “But the existence of the R. Party U.S. and of the world Communist would hasten the period of the proletarian revolution, enabling many backward countries to leap over some of the phases of this tor- tuous process. “Today the s. elements necessary ;for a successful world proletarian |dictatorship are Both were | f° at hand. The at- tempts at revolutionary seizure of power in Central and Eastern Eur- ope, the revolution in China, the re- sistance of India and Latin Amer ica—even though temporarily de- feated—showed the worldwide char- acter and speeding up of the revolu- tionary process.” With the complete exposure of the treasonable role of the socialists, | and ideologigal preparation of the | workers, the revolution will develop more rapidly, Weinstone con- ground of virgin snow, are believed | members of the crew of Amundsen’s | ‘uded. to have solved the ten-year mystery Polar ship, the Maud. They left the surrounding the exact fate of two expedition at the Chelluskin Penin- members of the 1918-1919 Polar ex-| sula with letters, maps and scien- pedition of Rould Amundsen, | tifie data, all of incalculable value, The skeletons were found recently which Amundsen thought it desir- in northernmcst Siberia, it was dis- able should reach civilization at once. closed today. Information which is Tessen and Knudsen were trying to} to be published this week-end ly the make Port Dickson. They never ar- newspaper I7vestia purports to show rived, and nothing had been learned | Section 2 “Daily” Agents Meet Today An important meeting of Daily Worker agents of Section 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tomorrow at 101 W. 27th St. and some others and they all said that the skeletons ave those of two of them until the discovery of the| All unit and sub-section asta hes members of the expedition, who were | skeletons, 4 attend, phy peeere oT Trine wa Tm fe x. or fee Dp v er au ed oe ST we BH, Tran wee _esPpsun a |