The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 2

Fuk Bolivia Places Armed Clash Blame to Fore mining th tic claims the di At the made to ¢ ference a tion’ by proposin here will mission at 1 tion of the report. on t to this adjudication. a maneuver is further the con- Thus whi > be “fair to Latin Americ cipation in all settlements, y is kept ¥ here in the Kel- logg and their assc trained lack dominated by from cow 2 made on on. Un- al state “brass check” press sa “The need for more definite and concrete methods of conciliation than are provided by the Gondra treaty is believed in some quarters to have been emphasized by the Situation between Bolivia and Para- War Meet Friday. New York workers are rallying to the call of the Work (Commu- nist). Party against the sharpening dangér of a new world war as illus- trated by the present hostilities be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay. A great mass meeting on Friday eve- ning, Dec. 21, at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., will voice the protest of New York labor at the aggressive role of American imperialism. which precipitated the present conflict, Admission to the meeting is free, and a, list of ‘prominent speakers in- clude, Jay Lovestone, general secre- tary bf the Workers (Communist) Parti William Z. Foster, late presi dentidl candidate of the Party; Otto Huiswood, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, and others. LQNDON, Dec. 19.—What a “disturbing note” in the “optimism” over the pros. ‘or “settlement” of the Boli- agua war situation, was ers is sounf@d by Lord Salisbury an re- ® spongg to a question by= Viscount Cecilgin the House of Lordstoday, aboug the extent of the British in- fo ‘ion on the dispute. Safsbury, while saying that both counffies had agreed to accept the “go0@ offices” of the Pan-American conference ashington, added: | #Thaw is the government's official information, but I have some rea- Sons Zo! doubt now whether both ac- ceptapees will hold good.” conflict ‘ing that there was no contra- | diction in the procedure of the | Wasifington conference and the com- “© \itments of the two contending na- ons=in the Leagie of Nations wovemant, Salisbury added the sig- nk #@ remark that, “Briand is wate things carefully. Nothing will omitted that ought to be _ done.” + a ees 7 Sharp Fencing. PARIS, Dec, 19.—One of the mos 1) ticklish: situations of the diplomatic | fenci going on between the > Unit States imperialism’ on one side and the British imperialist con- trolled League of Nations on the otherfover the Bolivian-Paraguayan PB JB being covered up by public ions of “peace,” “amity,” ik tion” and what not. But ath runs a tensity which cannog be doubted by analytical ob- £ reports of Briand’s activity | use the phrase in alluding to him, g “wh 8 only interest is to prevent (mh outbreak of war.” Then it is @ ‘Btated that it “scems likely” that @n amicable settlement “n be” reac! by “cooperation the League ‘on one hand and the Pan Ameriban Conference on the other. Talk—Hard Feeling false is this supposed “co- mn’ may be seen by further jof the ss statements, of secret iand and Sir Erie Drum- er which an approach was Briand toward the Amer- bassador at Paris, in which nd and the acting U. S. dor, Mr. Norman Armour, one another as urbane @ representatives of two Whose armies were already & Upon this phase the press | read as follows: his consultations (with d) were ftnished, Briand ‘message to the American asking Mr. Armour to 0 see him. It was a delicate for it was not as French minister, but as president Council of the League, that asking the acting American ador to assist him. as a “Courtesy.” , Armour Briand explained ; League had done and what it of the Pan-American DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928 ench Jingo Visits U. S. Colleagues | Capt. De Vaisseau Darlan, of the French navy, paying his re- spects to his fellow-jing S. West V nia in Los on the cruiser Edgar Qu in the ngeles. DINOSAUR IN MONGOLIA Throws Light on A U.S. navy by calling on the U. He is commanding French cade ncient Development BERLIN, Dee. 19 (UP).—A dis- covery 30 prehistoric monsters which Sven Hedlin, Swedish ex- plorer, said fills a gap of millions of years in human knowledge, was announced today in a telegram from Hedin !n Mongolia, The monsters were ‘dinosaurs of the Jurassic period. The telegram Our exped Chinese geolo- gist, Yuan, has yned from North of ien-Shan after echieving brilliant The most important dis- svery was the remzins of dinosaurs from the Jurassic period. “Between Sept. 11 and Oct. 22 he found 30 full-grown dinosaurs South of San-Tai, 140 kilometers from Urunchi, also three newborn dino- saurs 60 centimeters long, all nestled close to their mother. “The expedition also found a dino- saur egg. This is the first time dinosaurs have been discovered in Asia. The discovery is highly sig- nificant, as it affords knowledge of the geologic development of Asia over millions of years about which we hitherto were ignorant.” Hedin started westward from king in May, i927. “The expedi- tion was comprised of 60 men, mostly Swedish, German and Dutch. With 300 camels, they traversed the Gobi desert and established head- quarters at Urumchi, capital of Chi- uese Mongolia, SPREAD “PEACE” RUMOR AGAIN Sigmanites Try Again on Convention Eve (Continued from Page One categorically deny these false state- ments and brand them es conscious maneuvers of the right alliance. _While elections were going on yes- terday in all New York iocals Of the left wing Joint Board, several other interesting events took place. The association of jobbers made public a letter by their agent, Benj. tween the League and the two dis- putant countries, Mr. Armour con- ed to do so only after ascer- taining quite definitely that what Briand was asking was a courtesy.” However, that there were other telegrams and more behind this than “cooperation and courtesy,” is seen by additional comment that, “pres- sure of an effective kind has been applied from several sides,” and that one of the big “problems” was to deal with Argentina. The League spent 6,000 in telegrams in the last week. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 19.—That t work secretly behind the powers,” Argentina, Brazil and Chile, particularly Argentina, may: have outsmaneuvered momen-| tarily. the advance of American im- perialism’s war, through Bolivia’s offensive’ against Paraguay, upon Sritish imperialist interests\ in Latin America, may’ be seen in the action of Bolivia's acceptance of the Wash- ington conference’s offer of media- tion of thé dispute, with the sign‘fi- cant proviso that Washington is first to handle the recont armed. clash, while the right. to ‘the Chaeo terri- tory is. “entrusted to» arbitration w'thin the procedure established by the Aresntina sureestion of Decem- ber, 1997, and which was accepted by both eonntries,”” Bolivia's Hand Forced. Here in Buenos Aires special note s token of the fuct that while Para- rnay acsented the propozal to submit | the entire issue to med’stion under the leadershin of Argentina. Bolivia ad held alnof. Even now, the Bo- revéntative here has left 'y for Bolivia to consult with hi Boliv'a’s government on the whole | ility of accepting Argentine mediation. Thus it is here felt that the whole matter is still pending and it is not decided vet whether the final media- | tion shall take place at Washington, at Geneva by the League of Na-| ms, at. Montevideo by the Gondra Commission, or here by the Argen- tine government. Tt is ar, however, that Bolivia’s initial rebuffS to the League and lher present note’s refusal to recog- nize the Gondra Commission, coupled | with the resistance shown to Argzen- |tine mediation, shows that desnite | Rolivia’s consent in her note yester- \éay to Argentine mediation of the \basie territorial conflict, Bolivia wishes to take the whole question to friendly hands at Washington and that some pressure has compelled | her to accede formally, but not finally, to placing the central ques- ‘and not as secretary of tion of the right to Chaco in Argen- of the telegrams be-\.tine hands. wing-boss | |Schlesinger, in which great praise is heaped on that valuable ally of theirs. trade program issued by him re- cently. In that program, Schiesin- d that jobbers agree to only to the contractors chlesinger “union certifi- It is generally understood among the workers by now that the purpose for this scheme was to build a market for the right wing gang, where “union certificates” could be peddled at so much per. cate.” Admit Piece-Work. | Of real significance, however, was the open admission by the American ssociation, a...cofitractors’ ation, that piece-work worked in nearly the wh: This again bares the Schlesinger ogram as a fake, for in it he puts forth the “demand” that a $5 raise be asked of the bosses. Here are the facts that prove the hypocr'sy of the $5 wage raise “demand”: The contractors’ association asked Schle- singer that piece-work be legalized. Legalized or unlegalized, the fact that Schlesinger is introducing the | piece-work system in the trade, as his colleagues in the other needle trades have done or are trying to do, makes any demand of his for a pay raise, a miserable lie, workers feel. In addition te this, the Women’s Wear, with great conclusiveness, | {makes all doubt as to the hypocrisy of the trade program and peace bid vanish, when mary of interviews with bosses in the trade who openly admit that the Schlesinger “offer” was a maneuver. The letter discusses the fake | it publishes a sum-} TO FIGHT FAKERS IN THE UNION Militant Group Issues Appeal | Continued fram Page One ganization with whom the union had | an agreement (though even this agreement was never carried out), has been broken up, so that the | agreement now is no more than a scrap of paper. But that does not mean that the bosses have been weakened and that they will fight as individuals only. They have im- mediately organized borough coun- eils which are being organized into a National Bosses Association. Fel- low-workers, it is easy to see that they are preparing themselves to break the union and do away with union conditions. | “The clique that is dominating the Dyers and Cleaners Union is doing nothing to maintain the union stand- ard. Instead they help the bosses to break down union conditions. They allow the bosses to do away with time and a half for overtime. They allow the bosses to fill their shops with non-union help who re- ceive half the wages of union men. They allow the bosses to send away union men and hire in their place cheap nen-union labor. This they do because the bosses willingly lend them a hand in terrorizing and de- priving «fa living all union men who dared to protest against the graft and corruption of the gang, who have set themselves like para- |The meeting, which has been ar-|L. D. house-to-house collection. sites on the union and have sapped | ranged it of its energy, vitality and fight-| Union, will be addr ing power. “Fellow-workers, the p the end of March, anyway, and how does the gang intend to get a new 4 As >. The conflict between Belivia and Paraguay in which the United States oil interests are attempting to wrest by force the rich Gran Chaco oil region has in it the seeds of a new imperialist war of world: pro- portions, Above is Dwight F. Davis secretary of war, who heads the war preparations for the Wall Street | gvoernment. | | | OFFICE WORKERS ‘MEETING TONIGHT | Poyntz Will Speak at Labor Temple Tonight at 8 o’clock, hundreds of office workers are expected to at- tend a mass meeting at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. the Office Workers’ ssed by Juliet by | Stuart Poyntz, noted lecturer. Ques- tions and discussion will follow her speech. LABOR DEFENSE “TAGDAYS TO AID. = Pa ie ~ oa = = rea =] aeeo ‘Urge All Workers to) Help This Week-end | The fate of 662 workers may be decided within the next few nt These workers, all of them among | the most active participants in thé great New Bedford textile strike, are being threatened with long jail | terms in the largest mass,tfial in| the history of the Americaf labor | The International La- | bor Defense is defending: these mili- | tants and during the next few days) {a drive for funds in the form of | house-to-house collections will be conducted by the I. L. D, thruout the | country | The New York District of the In-| ternational Labor Defense will ho’ * \its house-to-house collections Satur- | i movement, day and Sunday. The collections are part of the general Christmas Fund campaign of the I. L. D. and will furnish funds not merely for the de- fense of the New Bedford strikers, | tut of the numerous other class-war | | cases that demand immediate at-| jtention. Every part of the city will) | be canvassed and workers and sym- |pathizers are being urged to voice| their solidarity with’ their fellov~| workers and their protest against fake Christmas charity of the capi- |talist class by contributing to the I. | Volunteers are wanted for the col-| lection work. They are asked to re-| port at any of the following sta-| tions: 60 St. Marks Pl.; Progressive | | Center, 101 W. 27th St.; Czecho- Slovak Workers Home, 347 E. 72nd/ Ina statement coincidental with|St.; Hungarian Workers Home, 350) describes the needs of agreement or to mainta'n control | the issuance of the call for the mass’ ¥. 81st St.; 143 E. 103rd St.; Unity over the shops? have to fight many bosses’ councils end many large individual employ- ers, Is there any union man who | still believes that the gang that has |worked hand in glove with the bosses to deprive militant union men of a Hving, that has allowed the hosses to have their own way |in the shops, the gang that has re- |duced union meetings to a farce, so jthat only the trusted henchmen at- tend them—is there a union man who #till believes that this gang is cenable of fighting the - bosses? | What then will happen? “Fellow-workers, the gang union sluggers, one of whom has al- eady been convi¢ted by even # cap- court, two of whom still are ied, is preparing to plunder i as long es it will be pos- leaye the members without a union or a wreck that is worse than no |4emands is to build a mass Office) tHe many thousands of workers who! union “union. As evidence of this we have the fact that this gang is not satis- |fied with the three dollars a month dues that the members pay, ‘highest dues, perhaps of any union, and the graft that they get from the bosses for letting them break down union conditions, but now they are forcing the members to pay a The union will! meeting, the fact was stressed that “these mass meetings are part o: Co-operative, 1800 Seventh Ave.; 1330 Wilkins Ave.; 1373 48rd St.,| Brooklyn; and 154 Watkins St., the general campaign conducted by | Brooklyn. | the Office Workers’ Union to or-| | ganize the hitherto neglected masses of office workers in New York | City.” | | } | | tonight has this for its’ purpose. Let | compulsory -‘donation’ of five dol- | jlars, promising to take care in their own way of those who refuse to | Pay. “What is likely to happen is thet the gang will get a paper agreement with those bosses and for this they {will give them a free hand to deal with their workers as they please. Fellow-workers, are you with conditions in the shops now? satisfied | “The increase in the members! of the union since its formation sev- eral months ago,” the statement continues, “is ample proof of the fact that a union for clerical work- ers is a deeply-felt want. More and more of the so-called white-collar slaves are beginning to realize that of | they are exploited wage slaves in| need of an organization to fight for their demands. “The Office Workers’ Union has!be held tonight at 6 p. m. rightjunions in this city. | put: forward a. program of concrete} after work at Bryant Hall, 42nd St.| exist are very weak. The carpenters | economic demands for all grades of | and Sixth Ave., will mobilize the|union is the strongest in town. From sible to -get anything, and then | fice workers in every clerical oc-| workers of New York in preparation | what I was told the scale of union cupation. The way to realize these’ for the struggles ahead in behalf of | carpenters is $7,00 per day. Workers’ Union. The mass meeting all office workers rally to this meeting!” Urge Working Women to Attend Mass Meet Against War Tomorrow In a statement issued to all work- ing women and mothers yesterday, the Central Executive Committee of the United Councils of Working Women calls upon the working women and members of all councils to participate en masse with the rest k City in of the workers of New York Ci the huge protest meeting against imperialist war, to be held tomorrow You can well imagine that an agree- | night at the Central Opera House, ment which depends only on the good will of the bosses will leave you. in a much worse condition than you are now in, 67th St. and Third Ave. hip | DELEGATES WILL ~ ORGANIZE RELIEF WIR Shop Conference Meets Tonight | The Shop Delegates’ Conference# \for Workers International Relief to | will be involved. Speakers at the conference will) include Louis Gibarti, international | representative of Workers Interna-! tional Relief, who will outline the| special tasks before the American) workers in building a powerful sec-| tion of W. I. R., prepared to re-| spond instantly to working class de-| mands. | RE 17-YEAR ~ BOYS INTO NAVY ‘Minimum Age Shown, | to Be Myth | (By a Worker Correspondent) (munity Chest is in full swing. At with all workers in the shops whom| CHICAGO, Ill, (By Mail).—It | Employers know that the Schlesin- ger “demands” did not require any answer from them, the interviews state. They all recognize it is an |attempt to gain more members. This jis, wise, say the bosses, At press time yesterday: the elec- ition committee of the Joint Board jwere still counting yotes, Locals 2, | 8, 9, 10, 22, 35 and 41 elect delegates ,to the convention which’ opens. in | Irving Plaza Hall on Dee. 29. REGISTER YOUR PROTEST AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR, VOTE. | COMMUNIST! =: | “Fellow-workers, there is only one | the gang refuses to organize. Get /has been discovered by the Young |way to help yourself out of this |in touch with the Progressive Group, | Workers (Communist) League that le Let. the rank and file take | Cleaners and Dyers, an organization | the minimum age of sailor recruits s | matters into their own hands. Pro- | which is.composed of workers in the |in the navy is not 18 years as many jtect your fellow-workers who pro-| industry and has the purpose of re-| are under the imvression. After an | | building the union into a militant investigation at the training station fighting organ for the workers. jand conversation with recruits and “The Progressive Group is pre-|officers, we find that the govern- paring to call an open forum meet, | ment allows young boys only 17 ing of all workers in the industry | years of age to join the navy. Many wheré the problems facing.the union | of the boys are not mature enough | vay money to the gang that will use | will be discussed 2nd a program of |to muster the heavy rifles, and yet lit for their own purposes. Build | action adopted. Get in touch with | they are placed on picket duty for shop committees and protect your jus and help us in this fight which long periods at a time. ‘conditions. Form a united front lis also your fight.” | —J. \test against the union-wrecking jinethods of the gang. Go to union |mectings and demand the reinstate- jment of all the expelled militant jmembers of the union. Demand an jaccount of éverything. Refuse to/| | Whe are thePoetr that will read a Red Poets’ Night” ETS EBT Here are a few: Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, Robert Wolf, James Rorty, Henry Reich, Jr, Langston Hughes, famous Negro Poet, A. B. Magil, Herman Spector, William Weinberg, Adolf Wolff, Martin Russak, Edwin Rolfe, Dav'd Gordon, Lola Ridge, ; Arturo Giovannitti, Moishe Nadir, H, Leivick, H. T. Ts‘ang, and many others. Which bent rev of various nationalities | will appear December 28 | and read from their own work. iS v4 i, 9 aa | TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE, N. Y. | Reaction’s Choice MINERS PLAN 10 CELEBRATE BIRTH OF DAILY WORKER Remember How Paper Fought for Them | (Continued from Page One |the National Miners Union and |branded the wreck of the United ! Mine Workers as nothing but a company union. And again the ; Daily Worker is in the van, helping j the National Miners Union organize jall the coal diggers into one power- jful, militant union. Wilhelm Miklas, the right hand} Miners, now’s your chance to do man of Chancellor Seipel and re-|something for the “Daily,” .your cently elected prime minister of the|“Daily.” The Daily Worker’ will Austrian reaction, was put into of-| soon be five years old, five years of fice as the president of Austria by| unremitting, militant struggle in be- the catholic socialists and the fas-| half of the workers. Flood the lusty cists. five-year-old with birthday greet- pas jings! 4h On another page of this paper you NOT FOR NEGROES sign on the dotted line, see that your jlocal sends its greetings to the Johnson City, Paradise of Gunmen | special anniversary edition of the | “Daily” on Jan, 5. The coal dig- |gers must keep up their record as the vanguard of the American work- jingelass. They must show the way lin celebrating”the birthday of the Daily Worker! Only Three Days Left Until “Night in Latin America” BallSaturday Only three more days remain dur- ing which workers will be able to buy tiekets for the dance to be held | this Saturday evening at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., for the benefit of the “Vido Obrera,” the only workers paper in the Spanish language in this country with which Latin-American workers can be reached, | Workers of New York are urged by the preparations committee not to forget this date, and to make it jtheir business to be there. Tickets, which are going quickly, may be got- ten at the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square and the Spanish Workers Center, 55 E. 113th St. (By a Worker Correspondent) KNOVILLE, Tenn., (By Mail).— In my previous letter I forgot to say something about the Community Chest. of Richmond, Va. At the present time, the fund for the Com- | nearly all important places ore can see posters appealing for funds for the Communist Chest. These posters | carry pictures, All pictures with the exception of one describe the needs of the poor white pcople of the cities. Only one whole paragraph the poor} Negroes. The paragraph speaks | about good race relations. I was told that the Negro institutions get a very small per cent. In plainer language they get a dog’s bone. This is in Dixie where the so-called party of democracy, the democratic party rules. $ When one goes further South from Richmond you can notice Jim Crow- ism and segregation in full force. Johnson City, Tenn., is known as the “Little Chicago” of the South. ; This is named so because in propor- | tion this city has more killings than Chicago, Ill. Whiskey is sold wide open. Prostitution prevails openly over the whole city. The bootlegger and the officers of the law go fifty- fifty. There are very few labor These that do| They, told me that they were farm- ers sons workiag in a cotton mill. They receive $8 per week for a 44 hour week. $5 a week they pay for board and meals. Then they asked me how much I made. I told them between $25 and |$30 per week. Upotl hearing this ; they said, “Man you are making good money.” All along the road you can see \signs of the industrialization of the South. Mills and factories. are be- ine built very rapidly. : Non- | I am heading for Chattanooga, lower |Tenn., known as the “Dynamo of wages. | Dixie.” At Knoxville, Tenn., I met two! scribe views of life in this city. lads who were going to Alabama. —J.A.R. carpenters receive WORKERS LIBRARY PAMPHLETS Order from Workers Library Publishers 35 East 125th Street, New York City Every worker should have all of these pamphlets in his library for reference: Leninism vs, Trotskyism—Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin American Negro Problems—John Pepper... 15¢ 10¢ America Prepares the Next War—Jay Lovestone 10¢ Platform of the Class Struggle. Bolshevism—Stalin . Building Up Socialism—N. Bukharin. 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