The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 3

DAILY Wi ORKE R, N EW Xx ‘OR tK, FRID. AY, DE BCEMBE R 21, 1528 Gil Working Hand in 1 Hand with Morgan Man, Plans Capitulation to Bankers’ WILL MORTGAGE MEXICO TO PAY WALL ST, DEBTS Reason for ‘Good-Will’| Clearly Seen | 6 MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20.—With the retention of Luis Montes de Oca | in the Portes Gil cabinet, and from recent statements of the president, | it is now clear that the next two| years will see the Mexican govern- | ment and Dwight Morrow, United States ambassador and former part-|' ner in J. P. Morgan and Company, | working hand in hand to mortgage | Mexico to repay the loans of Wall Street bankers, mileage. reimental und pleacure flights. neat imperialist war breaks, this fi —for different purposes. Holds World’s Mileage Record The Boeing flying boat, which holds the world’ It was built in Secttle in 1919 and was first used for ex- It was then transferred to ail mail service between Seattle and Victoria, B. C., and has been in continuous service for nine years—flying more than 415,000 miles. »_|BELORADE GOV'T FACES CRISIS ON | CROAT AUTONOMY | |Cabinet Is Ready to Resign BERLIN, Dec. 20,—The Yugoslav cabinet’ has threatened to resign due to the the pres eration Croatian possibi ity of continuing nt regime under non-co-op- and from the and Dalmatian HBL, 's record for air attacks mists, according to advices received here today. Premier Koroshetz conferred twice today with King Alexander of Yu- gosla’ intimating that a change the government or in bel When the lying boat may break new records Leading editorials in the Mexican} press point out that, by the time| Hoover takes office as president of the United States, financial ques- | tions will be settled. “Excelsior,” | aping the spirit of the Gil regime, | after declaring that Oca and Mor-| row are well adapted to cooperate | on the question, concludes: “Under | such conditions Mexicans may well} look forward to a new and happy era of financizl relations with her big northern sister.” It is very plain heré, and the gov- PICK DELEGATES ernment newspapers take no pains FOR CONFERENCE have already come to an agreement! Paterson Silk Workers to use the taxes on petroleum and Pp repare for Parley to mortgage the railroads among (Continued from Page One other public utilities to pay the debts to the Yankee bankers. Re- cont ;\atements of Portes Gil indi-| tains, 1, election of chairman and cate tat he is in full accordance! secretary of conference; 2, report of with tne plan, local organizer; 8, shop reports’ of In this way the American oil in- vestors in Mexico have their taxes| ‘legates to the conference; 4, pro- returned to them with interest, in| Posed campaign for big shops, dyers eddition to having their fingers in| end other unorganized workers bya | the Mexican government by the| representative pf the N. T. W. mortgaging of the railroads an Segslations?= 6 revenues. ; steps for the city convention. Oca, discussing the situation, as- : <. signs the “success” of negotiations, The letter of instructions to the with the Yankee bankers to the ac-}1embership, sent out by the union, tion of Gil in relinquishing his ex-| declares: | traordinary powers in the matter of) ,, finance and leaying it in the hands| ‘'ellow-worker: of those “best able to take care of | “In order to take immediate or- | it,” meaning, of course, Oca work-| | ganizational steps to build a pow- | ing in cooperation with Morrow, the | erful National Textile Workers,| agent of United States financial in-| Union in Paterson, an’ organization | terests, conference is being called for Sun- | With the cooperation between the| day, Dec. 23, at 10 a. m. at the Wall Street bankers and the Mex-| Oakley Hall, ‘211 Market St. | igan government kept clearly in| * “Delegates from the shops are to | mind, it is not hard to understand | be chosen on the following basis— | the official pronouncements on both! one for every ten workers | or frac- | sides of the border regarding the! tion thereof from each shop; that development of “good-will” and “un-| is, if there are ten workers or less derstanding” between the two gov-'in a shop, the shop gets one dele- ernments. |gate. Shops with from eleven to ae heat organizational | twenty workers get two delegates, Kellogg Will Send Men “: | “Organize shop meetings during toCommitteeManaging | this week to elect your delegates. |In some shops ‘it will be impossible, Looting of Germany | for various reasons, to hold these BERLIN, Dec. 20.—It was re- | meetings, in which case see to it ported today that Sir Esme Howard, that either yourself or some other British ambassador in Washington, | member of the N. T. W. U. in the will invite the United States to.| Shops come as the delegate. Of | morrow to appoint two members to CUTSe, if your shop is entitled to the reparations expert committee. japon than one delegate see to it Sir Esme will present the invitation | that the required number of dele- | on behalf of the five reparations | gates attend. powers and Germany. “Fellow-worker, you will realize It was understood that Secretary |the importance of this organiza- of State Frank B. Kellogg will | tional conference when you remem- forthwith announce the United | ber that all the organizational work States acceptance. l|is being carried on by a temporary The experts committee will meet committee and by volunteer work- early in 1929 to undertake a revision | ers. This conference will take the of the Dawes reparations plan. Ger-| first steps toward the organization many is not able to pay and the of the city convention, where local allies are quarreling over distribu-| officials will be regularly elected tion of the loot. and begin functioning as the chosen STE SST ETA | representatives of the Conference Told One, RadiumPaint Exposure ship.” posure might produce serious re- | . | sults, In the luminous dial factory | May Disable Employe | | where these workers were employed, ra the bosses instructed them to wet) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—In-| their radium brushes on their lips, juries to workers who \are dealing \thus insuring that they would re- with radium-active substances were | ceive many exposures and be su.¢ discussed today at a conference of | to die of radium necrosis. | health workers and physicians. By legal technicalities the com- Dr. H. S. Martin, who performed pany cheated a score of workers autopsies of New Jersey factory | now awaitng certain death out of all | workers who died recently after us-| but $5,C00 apiece of their compen- ing radium paint said a single ex- sation. VOICES OF REVOLT SER TG CTS r A SERIES of attractively printed books containing the outstanding utterances of pioneer revolutionary leaders, with” critical introductions. Volumes Already Published: I. Maximilien Robespierre; II. Jean Paul Marat; III. Ferdinand Lassalle; IV. Karl Liebknecht; V. George Jacques Danton; VI. August Bebel; VII. Wilhelm Liebknecht; VUI. ‘V. I. Lenin; IX. Eugene V. Debs; X. C. E. Ruthenberg. Bound in Boards, 50c each. Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 35 Easr 1251 Street. New York Crry. Us 3: HONORS MURDERER ‘: The Dope on Balbe, Fascist Ga Gangster | Beard. |zoni a priest who had received a ldered against the Italian workers. |the Italian workers in America, member- | 500,000 to take place. S$ ferences usually take place as a pre- liminary to the resignation of a cabinet and the formation of a new regime. ; Ever since the murder of Paul and Stefan Raditch in the Belgrade par- “His exeellency,” Ttalo Balbo, |liament by henchmen of the Bel- under-secretary of aviation in Mus-|£tade hegemony, the Croatian Pea- | |sant Party, in ‘coalition with the| solini’s cabinet, is ineWashington to | socratie party has refused te send attend the Aeronautical Congress.|thetr deputies to the parliament. Balbo, the International Labor De-| Since then the leaders of these re- fense is informed, not only approved | spective parties have counciled a of murders of anti-fascists in Italy, | Passive Se iene noe meal! the | but actually participated in at least a hae a reat thet ager one such murder himself. Balbo is| taneous demonstrations . have oc- described as a most genuine repre-| curred throughout Croatia and Dal- sentative of Mussolini ever to ap-|matia. pear in this country. | The granting of special rights to He entered the high councils of |Italian manufacturers in Dalmatia the fascists after a sojourn in the . underworld, where he is reported to| test demonstration from the work- have carried on a traffic in women, |¢Ts and the demand that the prov- \He is known to the underworld in/inces be given autonomy. \Italy as “Pizzo di ferro” or Iron| At present the autonomists have Balbo was one of the parti- cipants in the murder of Don Min- ody in Zagreb, the Croation cap- ital, and have refused to recognize gold metal for his services during the World War. Balbo participated in this murder in 1924, and the! newspaper, “Voca Republicana” ex- posed his murderous act and gave proof. Balbo attempted to refute |these proofs in a fascist court, but was unable to do so, Balbo participated in the burning of the Chambers of Labor and of a number of cooperatives. A partic- jularly ghastly act of Balbo’s is re- |membered by the workers of Italy,| at the time of the Bologna plot against Mussolini in 1926. A young fascist had tried to kill Mussolini. The boy was immediately lynched by a mob of black shirts. Balbo who was present at the scene in full fas- cist regalia stepped down from his} ets : ‘ rs iy Great difficulty is being en- Ree ee LAC aaecen an commtered by all expeditions trying to cross the country to bring aid to is described by the Italian workers | 11, victitas of the diseaba” “Theiine ace pardoned curnina i Mussonat | tense cold and heavy snowstorms are took him into his cabinet for the) stovine all relief workers. murderous -services which he ren-|"“G0. nin the Unalea, has re- | ported that it is attempting to reach the stricken areas with medical aid and supplies in time to stem the further spread of the disease. ment. The terror against revolutionary workers and peasants in Yugoslavia is going on with increased fury. Alaskan Communities Severely Stricken by Epidemic of Influenza NOME, Alaska, Dec. 20.—Remote Alaskan communities have been sev- erely hit by an influenza epidemic, according to reports received here for the past few days. In the vil- lage of Hoodah, ‘n southeastern Al- laska alone there are 424 influenza cases in a population of 450. His complicity in the priest murder was fully described in the Italian press at the time. When Balbo arrived in America he was officially welcomed by a commit- | tee from the mayor. The f d | CENSOR MOVIES IN CHINA. pacers oi ,.CANTON, China, (By Mail).— a” The Canton Commissioner of Edu- Lapa fied Ladd aie preparing | cation has had a board of censorship meetings to expose this murderous | | appointed to censor movies in “the | agent of Mussolini. interests of public morals.” The Workers (Communist) Party demand« unemployment insurance, the amount of compensation te be full wagen for the entire period of unemployment, the administration 10 DIE IN POLISH STORM. WARSAW, Dec, 20 (UP).—Ten | persons were reported dead in a of thin insurance to be in the hands | cold wave sweeping north and east of the workers, the cost to be | fi icati bocue by the stale wudithe cupley= ee Railroad communications ers. ‘i were interrupted. Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 FIFTH BIRTHDAY RDER ‘A BUNDLE NOW for distribution on the anniversary of the only revolutionary fight- ing English Daily in the world. We must make this Anniversary the occasion. for bringing« the DaILy Worker to thousands of workers that we have never reached before. x « This edition will have additional features, special photos and will be larger many times the present size. Price, $10 per thousand. Order a few days in advance. Baily Worker 26 UNION.SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. Please send me......+ copies of The DAILY WORKER at the rate of $6.00 per thousand, NAME .. ADDRESS. To arrive not later than .....++ 1 am attaching a remittance to cover same. STATE... autono- | jalong the Adriatic has led to pro-| set up a separate semi-government | laws passed by the Belgrade parlia- | es New emer for Gamblers’ Gambols New Produce E. terday with a rush of spe can make profits on. Worke of paper. Prices soar | workers have to pay out York of their » will a workers’ lives are sale Saray: for GARY NEGROES IN ANTI-WAR MEET Hall, Trumbull Speak, | at Spirited Rally GARY, Ind. (By Mail).— pected response was shown by gro workers at an anti-imperi: | mass meeting held here last Mon- The meeting was held at the Gary Workers Hall under the joint auspices of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League and the Ameri- can Negro Labor Congress. After the speeches, when the floor was thrown open for discussion, sev- eral Negro workers took the floor and expressed their opinions. In every case they were enthusiastic about the work being done by the organizations represented. They want to hear other speakers in the future, and several of them gave their names and addi es to the chairman of the meeting and ex- Jnex- hange, ilators grabbing right and as speculators make which opened yes- left what they ed around here on scraps more profits and the wages. This mark five hours every day except 2 Broadway, is pas low work I to attend the Wa Hall, The field organizer of the American Ne- speakers were Otto gro Labor Congress, who has just returned from a three-year stay in the Soviet Union, and Walter M. Trumbull, ex-soldier-prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to 26 years at hard labor by the arm zars in Hawaii. Hall gave an ex- planation of the tour now being made by Hoover and showed that there is a real danger of war. Trumpull pointed out the ever- growing menace of imperialism and its effect upon the countries that it controls. Both speakers empha- sized that only the united action of the workers could stop the attacks of American capita! against the U. S. worke and the peoples of Latin America. RICE PRICE RIS SHANGHAT, (By Mail) —The| price of rice has risen to a n high level in Kwangtung province, A further steady rise in price is ex- | pected, Out with the trade unfon bu- reaucrats, misleaders of labor. oppressed ‘100 WORKERS IN LATVIA JAILS ON HUNGER STRIKE : All Danan: Complete Amnesty ring the co me a Vanze and norial de: protest bor unions trade union numerous rests we n_ connectic revoluti tinued sin Many of the net even been granted have been thrown into j their trial, which Gay to day. Latvian worker: in an energetic release of pol! banning ¢ unions and have con hen. 100 prisonc a trig engaged r the are now mpaign ‘cal prisoners. New Submarine Re sue Tests Come One Year After Death of Forty - NEW LONDON, Conn., Dee. 2! The new submarine S-4, sunk a year ago today loss of 40 lives, due to the er negligence of the navy, was ra W.LR. to a Xmas Packa » Jobless sein ct 8 a Illinois Christmas ps will be a ray efforts of the ional» Relief, Byary ly will receive: a are many such fam- Illinois, Wheve the been blacklisted an? m the unién due to thei the strike, anc t ly breadwinners n s for sixteen er to them ean only 1 the cooperation and sup= c r workers who con® the Christmas: campaign nducted by the W. 1. R. The mon- pure food and s of life and send- y workers, and vic- s struggle. to the work of the 1 be made to W. I. Ry Chicago. Every power to the and food and e workers, parapet ‘by new safety de- age ip Faleon, 1 here today with three the trick yes- Igland. It was only urpose of the experiment t the rapidity with which ifting devices could hook of the pontoons into the hooks of the submarine. go to Key West, Fla, other safety devices, is the private’ diving invented by these ine, Defender, n Lake, inventor of the modern submersible, THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 Deponlix mude. on or Before the Srd day of the month will draw interest from the Ist day of the month. Cast Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of 4'2% Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Banking by We Sell all Soctety Accounts Accepted |. A. Travelers Certified Checks 5th Anniversary Celebration Daily MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE |, 34th Street West of 8th Avenue on JANUARY 5, 1929 ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS From Moscow, Soviet Russia, in program of Revolutionary Dances—Symphony Orchestra —_—_—— Speakers: JAY LOVESTONE, WM. Z. FOSTER, BOB MINOR and others a EE Admission: 26 Union Square, New York. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. 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