The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Vol. V.,.No. 303 Published daily except Sunda; Publishing Association, In: NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928 _ KUOMINTANG IN FEAR AS LABOR | GETS STRONGER The Militarist Officials | Concentrate Armies; British Navy Aids Men Who Make Latin-America S afe for sm e British Salute Chiang Communists Known as Revolt Leaders PEKING, Dec, 21.—‘Red. Raids” and a hurried shifting of troops by the reactionary Kuomintang govern- ment of China indicates great ner- vousness and fear by the ruling | cliques of militarists that a general | Communist-led revolution of the workers and peasants will take place before spring. Announcements from the govern- tent offices of “seizure of plans showing a widespread scheme of up- risings” are considered merely an attempt of the officialdom to con- vince foreign governments and the Chinese masses themselves that the Revolution is forestalled, but that the whoie country is seething with the spirit of revolt and that the | Communist Party has become so} strong that it is generally recog-} nized as the leader is undoubted. British Convoy Troops. British warships are convoying the Kuomintang troopships and pro- tecting them on their voyages up the rivers to the interior. Here large sections of the country are under Soviet rule, with the reactionary | militarist garrisons beleaguered in the larger cities. British commercial the Yangtze is stopped. Three British gunboats are. being } sent to Chungkiang. | * # Salute Brutal Ruler. SHANGHAI, Dec, 21—The reac- tionary Kuomintang government took advantage of the formal recog- nition today by Great Britain of the signing of its treaty recognizing the Chisng Kai-shek adniinistration to assure the British diplomats that “foreign property will be protected.” The British government is the first to salute the bloody regime now in control in China, the cruiser Suffolk firing 21 guns as the Brit- ish minister, Sir Miles Lampson, presented his credentials to Chiang Kai-shek during expensiv® and com- plicated ceremonies. All first-class capitalist powers except Japan and France have now signed such treaties, recognizing the tariff autonomy of China, under the “most favored nation clause,” which means that they do not recognize it at all until all have signed. Japan| still refuses to sign, though France | is negotiating. ORGANIZE COAL DISTRICT MILLS Trate Textile Boss Gets Set-Back NANTICOKE, Pa., (By Mail).— That the National Textile Workers | Union is a fighting organization with fighting leadership was proven to the workers and bosses of the Greenbaum factory in this town. Sonia Kaross, union punched the boss in the face when ke struck her, as she was passing out leaflets at the factory entrance. Sonia Kaross, organizer of Wis- trict 8 of the National Textile Work- ers Union was in charge of a group ef young workers who were passing out leaflets to the workers of the Greenbaum factory when the owner came out and started shouting, “What are you doing here? Get away from my factory, these girls are getting enough pay, they are) satisfied.” He then made a rush for ,the organizer and struck ‘her. The organizer in defending herself struck the boss three times in: the face, A young miner, and supporter of the National Miners Union. John Continued on Page Three _— — —* Membership Meet of Party Next Thursday 1 A membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, District 2, to take up the Con- vention discussion, will be held Thursday evening, Dec. 27, at the New Star Casino, 105 E. 107th St., between Lexington and Park Aves. The speakers will be Jay Love- stone, for the Central Executive Committee, and Alexander Bit- telman, for the Minority of the |Central Executive Committee. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. shipping up | |Forum Tomorrow Eve |dustrial Department of the Workers organizer, | 8 Photo shows the special con sure that the Standard Oil steal of the Chaco oi thievery for Wall Street under the pretense of “reconci guay.” Photo shows Charles Evay 4 aA mittee of the Pan-American arbitration conference, as it met to muke, ds from Paraguay went thru. They cloaked their ~ ng the differences between Bolivia and Para- ns Hughes, Wall Street's chief agent in the Chaco grab, second from right, seated between Dr. Victor Mauriue, of Perv, and Orestes Ferrarra of Cuba, right, Latin-Americey + lackeys of Wall Street. second from lef Another SOVIET EXPOSES AFGHAN DETAILS Shows British Part in Uprising (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (W.P).—Soviet| dispatches give the first vivid de-| seription received direct from Kabul of the fighting in Afghanistan, where Shinwaris and Kugistan| tribes have revolted against the king’s attempts to introduce re- forms in customs and dress, The Kugistan rebels approached Kabul under the guise of mobilized soldiers on December 14, and sud-| denly* attacked: the defensive” out-! posts. They captured posts in the! northwest suburbs of the city and) the military hospital on Bagibala, Hill, as well as several fortifica-| tions and ammunition depots, the advices said, The next day the rebels entered the city as far as the Italian mis- sion and held their position under fire from the Aerodrome, Dily- agusha Palace and the section where the Persian and Turkish missions are located. At nightfall, the gov-| ernment troops drove the insurgents back to their first positions, That night, Saturday, the rebels teceived reinforcements and totalled 6,000 men Sunday morning, when the attack was started again. Hard} fighting followed in the suburbs, but the capital did not fall. | Government reinforcements from | southern tribes arrived on Monday) and a counter-attack, which drove, the rebels back toward Pagman and| (Continued on Page Five) i Foster Will Speak at) Workers School Open Wm. Z. Foster, head of the In-| (Communist) Party and national | head: of the Trade Union. Educa-| tional League, will speak tomorrow p. m., at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Square, 5th} floor, on the subject: “Where is the | American Labor Movement Going?” Foster has written many works,on various aspects of the labor move- ment..as “Misleaders of Labor,” “Organization of the Unorganized,” “Strike Strategy” and “Bankruptcy , ot the American Labor Movement.” | In his talk “Where is the American Labor Movement Going,” Foster will | dea] with some of the most important | problems facing the American La- bor Movement today. | The whole question of the danger, of war and what it means to the) America working class today, how | the struggle against war must be | carried on and the methods of © ork | will also be treated. A capacity crowd is expected and all are urged | to come before 8 p. m. Forced to Dissolve Tokio Assembiy for _ Fraud, Corruption | LONDON, Dec. 21.—Thirty-one | members of the city assembly of Tokyo have been imprisoned on charges of corruption, the Tokyo correspondent of the Exchange Tele- | graph said today. | The assembly was dissolved as a| result of the scanda’ TRAIN KILLS 400 SHEEP. MAYENGE, Germany, Dec. 21) Admission will be by membership ! card only. « (UP).—A railroad locomotive crash- | ed into a flock of sheep near Wib- belc-ch today, killing 400 }-- 1. Wall Street lackey, Manuel Gurgel De Maral of Brazil, is seated Tom Mann, Labor Veteran, TABULATE FUR Sends Greetings to “Daily” ~ WORKERS’ POLL “Best of revolutionary greet- ings to the Daily Worker staff and readers on its fifth annive. Convention Delegates sary from your comrade, * Picked Yesterday “TOM MANN.” ; Monee : With elections to the national Stag oe convention completed, the left wing furriers union here is already work- ing on the organizational plans for the convention, which is to open Dec. 29 in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Piace. The elections were held for two days, Thursday and yesterday, and after the polling booths re closed, about 8 p. m., the election commit- tees of the four locals immediately began the vote count. Thus the grand old man of the British labor movement, who as one of the founders and leaders cf the british Minority Movement is in the forefront of those fighting the labor betrayers, sends his birthday greetings across 3,000 miles of sea to the Daily Worker and its read- ers. * Faith in Workers. Though past 7, Tom Mann is a! youngster in fighting spirit. He has Plan Amalgamation Session. never lost faith in the workers and| The left wing of the cloak and he knows that the workers of Amer- dressmakers union will also begin a ica ave also going to send their convention in the same place and at Lirthday greetings to the only work- | the same time. Both needle irgglek ing* <class daily “in “the English ‘workers unions ‘will’ then go’ into language. | joint session for an amalgatnation The class-conscious American Which will result in the establish- workers are being asked to send| ment of a new national amalga- greetings to their paper not merely mated needle trades workers’ organ- for sentimental reasons. For many | ization. months now the Daily Worker has| Fighting for two years against concealec its critical financial situa-|{he employers in the industry and tion from its readers because of the against the A. F. of L. officialdom | Continued on Page Two many struggles that the ee have been engaged in and that have demanded great sacrifices. But now, ith the approach of its fifth anni- BEAT CARPENTER Progressives Win by you wili find a greeting list. Cut | Big Majority it out, get greetings from your life to the “Daily.” Tom Maun has |™an of the corrupt Hutchinson shown the way. Follow his ex-| machine, flopped with a bang, re- versary—a great event for every shopmates and friends and mail the Results of the election for busi- ample! cording only 60 votes while John class-conscious worker—the “Daily” list to the Daily yes as scon as ness agent of the Carpenters Local 5 SRR toate 8 Seidel, piled up 665 votes. MILITARY ORGY turns to those for whom it fights, the workers, and asks them to keep it alive and by sending greetings with donations at once. Send Greetings! On another page of this paper! possible, so that the #hames can be 2090, made public Thursday, showed included in the special anniversary |that, John Seidel, the candidate who edition, Jan, 5. in addition see to it received the support of the union’s that the organization to which you | Progressive members was elected by belong sends their grectings. an overwhelming majority. Every" birthday grecting means, A. Berrenzi, reactionary hench- The workers of this local were de- itermined, their sentiment before the elections showed, to show their strength to the clique at the helm of DIPLOMATIC ROW — BETWEEN CHILE AND BOLIVIA ON © Chile Forms a League of Nations Society in South America Rebukes Bolivian Acts Rejoinder Hints Pact With Paraguay SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec The that the Chilean government ent the League of Nations no- tice that in Chile an association in favor of the League of Nations is being organized, associations wil! be encouraged in other Latin American nations, coin- cides with the public outcropBings of diplomatic differences between Chile and Bolivia on statements by each of how and why Bolivia yielded, temporarily at least,-to ar- bitration in the dispute with Para- guay. It is known that the day before Bolivia conceded arbitration, a se- cret but intense activity was going on at Santiago. The Chilean Chan- cellor, Rios Gallardo, was with the Bolivian and Paraguayan ministers and then with the Argen- tine minister. The Bolivian minis- ter then went to secret conference with the Chilean president, and in the evening the U. S. minister, Cul- bertson, conferred with the chancel- lor. No one knew what was going on but it was clear that the Chaco of dispute was the these conversations, subject Chile Reproves Boliy Then, the day after the Bolivian action accepting arbitration, the Chilean chancellor issued a ment in which a diplomatic criticism Continued on Page Two GUNS SALUTE AND WARN U.S. AGENT Rio Is Crowded With Mass of Soldiery RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 21.— President-elect Hoover got one of those military salutes today from the Brazilian government, a demon- stration of martial forces intended to “honor” the visitor by showing that it could have killed him if it had been desirable. The U. S. Utah sailed into harbor | shortly after noon today, having wirelessed ahead that the ship, one of the most powerful fighting machines afloat, would be open to in- spection to officers of the Brazil- ian navy on the first day of its stay, and to the general publie the next two days. * The foreign colony, including the North Americans, ashore, smiled jeynically when this news arrived. Uncle Sam, trying to convince the Brazilian government that it should | line up with U. S. imperialism and permit Wall Street exploitation of ithe Brazilians, rather than line up |with England and the Brotherhood. FOR MARCH ATH | The reactionary officialdom of the, |Carpenters Local 2020 had recently jexpelled the chairman of the Joeal, |Thomas Schneider, because he Hoover Inaugural Will ‘fought the gang in power and their ship. This as well as the events in Be Imperialist Fete Sa \their own local also had great bear- WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Mem- ing on the elections in Local 2090. bers of the inaugural committee; When election day came, it was have announced that the Hoover in-|immediately recognized that the auguration will be a gorgeous Ro-| progressive workers were con- man triumph of American imperial-|sciously determined to prevent any ‘not too fat to ride horseback will) ism, withsa float from cry state, troops of every variet;, and, tramp- ing at the chariot wheels of the conquering Wall Street hosts, cap- tives in the form of American In- dians in their native ccc‘umes. At the next inauguration it may be possible to have some starving Mex- | ican peons and’ Bolivians, but for) the present the ~~ ~"=:s will do. bs The governors of the statcs, those accompany their military staffs, ahead of the floats of their states. Those who are more successful as politicians, and can’t find horses willing to s:>port them, will be provided with automobiles. Pr FRE ae Under present plans the r-ilitary part °* the parade will consist of Continued on Page Three ir, IMPERIALIST DIES. BIRDIGHERA, Italy, Dec. 21.— Field Marshall Count Luigi Cadorna, imperialist general, who commanded attempts on the part of the re- actionaries to tamper with the elec- tion machinery. , CARDIFF, Wales, (By Mail).— The miners at the Llanbradach Col- lieries will receive a wage cut in a \policies of betrayal of the member- | allow London financiers to do the exploiting, wa: saying, as a preliminary gesture: | “Feel my muscle!” | Accept Challenge. And, like good merchants, with | something to sell, the Brazilian | yulers immediately gave orders. to! demonstrate that they had some- thing to show too—something worth | buying. Sounds Like War. The concussions of the Brazilian | saluting guns were deafening. Every | battleship and fort in the harbor fired heavy batteries in salute. Seven Brazilian planes flew over the Utah and +he Brazilian cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande Do Sul fol- and that similar closeted* To Bring Wall Street Salesman Back uF Warship Utah, above, will bring back Herbert Hoover after | trip to Latin-America as drummer of Wall Street ends soon. Statement on the Fifth Birthday of the ‘Daily’ TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS: TO ALL REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS: The Fifth Anniversary of the Daily Worker takes place in the face fravaguay ‘an war n of growing imperialist war ‘danger. American imperialism in Latin America is fomenting war between Bolivia and Paraguay in order to dominate the disputed area for the Wall Street puppets in Latin Amer- ica. It is part of the world imperialist struggle for oil and is part of the preparations for the next world war. American imperialism in Latin America is suppressing Nicaragua. It keeps the people of Haiti under an iron heel and is putting Latin America under Yankee despotism through the conference now going on in Washington and by Hoover's trip to Latin America. At the same time American imperialism is paving the way for a struggle against British imperialism on all fronts. Hand in hand with thes ever greater masses of wor war preparations goes the oppression of s. Wholesale murder and terror are being used against the workers in Colombia who are striking against the slavery of the fruit baron: American imperialism is launching a sharper attack against the trade unions of this country, particularly against the revolutionary trade unions. Frame-ups, brutalities, mur- ders are the weapons that the war-mongers are using against the working class in the United States. American imperialism welcomes czarist agents here in order to better prepare the attack against the Soviet Union, The American working class must reply to these conspiracies that are being hatched in Washington and to the repr jon that is being conducted daily against the workers in Latin America, in the United States, in all corners of the earth by Yankee imperialism. Now more than ever bef« must the revolutionary workers in the United States, the class conscious workers in New York, give support to the masses of Latin America; relentlessly expose the plots of the American government against the oppressed peoples of Latin America. Stronger than ever before the Party and the revolutionary working class of America must fight-against the.efforts to invade the Soviet Union and destroy the first workers’ republic. On all fronts we must assist the workers that are fighting against American imperialism. In Colombia, in Haiti, in Nicaragua, in Mexico, in China. Our Daily Worker, the central Communist organ in the United States, is the organ of struggle against the imperialists. In the five years of its existence it has demonstrated that it can conduct relentless war against the enemies of the working class. The Daily Worker is the organ of the oppressed miners, the tex- tile workers, the workers of all sections of the working class. It is the champion of the oppressed Negro masses, working women and young workers. It is the voice of the oppressed masses in the shops, mills and mines of the country. It is the herald of the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. The Daily Worker is the foe of the capitalist parties, of the big trusts, big financiers and against the government of the trusts and financiers that rule over America today. It is the bitter enemy of the agents of the ruling class in the ranks of the workers, the socialists, the labor bureaucrats, the Wolls, the Greens, the Schlesingers and the Sigmans, the Hillmans and the Beckermans, the Hoelschers and the MacGradys, ete. The Fifth anniversary of the Daily Worker is part of the cam- paign against the imperialist war and part of the efforts to build a stronger revolutionary working class Party in this country—the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. The New York District therefore calls upon all Party members, all revolutionary workers, all workers interested in the struggle for the emancipation from capitalism, to make the Fifth Anniversary a huge demonstration against the enemies of the working class, a demon- stration of aid to the victims of American imperialism, a demonstra- tion for the withdrawal of the troops from Nicaragua, Haiti, Central and South America, a powerful protest against the war moves of the American government. Support to the Daily Worker! Rally to the Fifth Anniversary of our central organ, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, DISTRICT 2, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF MERICA, SANDINO'S FOE ANGLO-CHINESE NEARS WALL ST. TREATY SIGNED McCoy, Sellers Talk on Means Recognition of Nitaraguan “Job” Nanking Terror BALBOA, Canal Zone, Dec. 21.— NANKING, China, Dec. 20.—Offi- lowed, flanking the Utah’s quarters, | ¢onoral Frank McCoy, having fi as the Utah approached anchorage ished his: Wall Street job-in Nica- 1 Sareea eds 1agua by running Moncada into of- Quick Talk with Morgan. | fice with the help of 7,000 U. S. Dr. Washington Luis Pereira De," arines and soltiers, arrived here Souza, President of Brazil and high | today on his way to Washington government officials greeted Mr. While here he will he the guest the Italian army early in the world war, died here today. \ few days, it is reported. ‘ (Continued on Page Five) of Admiral Sellers, eoumanding the MEMBERSHIP MEETING FOR PARTY DISCUSSION The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has arranged the following membership meetings in connection wih the Party Discussion. These meetings have originally been sched- uled earlier but due to the Party Plenum the final dates are the fol- lowing: Thursday, December, 27th—New York City; Superior, Wisc.; Seattle, Wash; Chicago, Ill,; Friday, December 28th—Boston, Phila- delphia, Buffalo, St. Paul. Saturday, December 29—Pittsburgh, De- troit, New Haven, San Francisco. Sunday, December 30th—Cleve- * land, Kansas City, Los Angeles. The Central Executive Committee desires that the widest sec- tions of the Party shall participate in these General Membership meetings and calls upon every Party member to attend, The place of the meeting in cach city will be announced in the next few days. special service squadron, who landed 4 auditional sailors in Nicaragua when |General Sandino’s army and influ- | ence became too strong for the safe- | ty of the projected United States | eanal. He will remain 1 Seilers until Sunday and report to him on _ how he fulfilled the promises given | to Moncada by Sellevs in return (tor betraying the Nicaragyans. | »t on the Nicaraguan situation | chiefs in Wash ngton, ZERO COLD IN PENNSYLVANIA. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 21 (U.P). —Temperatures of 2 to 10 degrees above zero were reported in many towns in Cambria and Somerset Counties today, the first day of win- ter, Roth refused to make any com-| they had first reported to their | cials of the Nanking regime declare that the signing of the Anglo-Chi- nese tariff treaty yesterday morning is equivalent to de jure recognition of the Nanking government. It is stated that Sir Miles Lamp- son, British minister, will present his credentials to Chiang Kai-shek, \thus completing full recognition of the Nanking regime of reaction. | Although final ratification of the \treaty will be made in London it is ‘understood that Britain waives |special customs duties on the Indian jand Burmese border in exchange for | ¢ a most favored nation clause, and \that the agreement provides for the abrogation of all former tariff treaties. Similar treaties were signed with Portugal and Holland last night and the conclusion of treaties with France and Sweden is pending. The signing of the treaty with France is anticipated. @ BRITISH FILM MERGER. LONDON, Dec. 21.—The Asso- ciated British Cinemas, Ltd, has acquired control of 15 other cinema _ companies in a big merger. FINAL CITY EDITION > LABOR AND T NEXT WORLD WA Foster Denounces AF Policy at Protest Mass Meeting “Make It a Civil War!” Struggle , kers of America will have Jers of labor open militarists and Washington if Nes as the more reet they want to check the next w said William Z. Fost of the See- vetariat of the Wo: (Commu- nist) Party of America, last night et the great mass meeting against he next world war and against the United Bolivian- going on iw meeting was al Opera House, States inspired South America. The held in Grand Cent with Bert Miller as chairman. Other speak. were Robert Mino: ditor. of the Daily Worke tire, of the Internati fense. A resolution was adopted, con- demning the intrigues of U. S. im- perialism in Bolivia, Paraguay, Col- ombia, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries, denouncing the militarist fake “peace” pacts, and calling upon the workers to demand the release of those arrested for their organized demonstrations. in opposition to the war danger. “The last A of L. convention pted the whole imperialistic pro- am of the American government,” continued, “and only de- manded that eight out of the -fif- teen cruisers to be built in the pres- ent naval wace with England should carry the union label. Faster, Faster, Towards War! “Todey the imperialist powers are preparing for war faster than ever before. The 1914-18 war will be re- membered as a small matter ¢om- pared with the next world war. The 8 s are, first, the combined im- perialist attack on the U. S. S. Ry which is the greatest menace to world imperialism; and the great economic antagonism between U. S. and Great Britain. illusion. test assets in the Cultivate “One of the grea’ hands of the war mongers is the disbelief in the minds of the people in the possibility of another world ar. The mili fully cultivating this ill Two Continued on Pag Force Train Workers to Slave Long Hours During Xmas Season The approach of the Christmas season was yesterday heralded by 1 doubling of the speed-up of the raiggoad workers thruout the coun- Heliday travel, according ta the officials of the New York Cen- is now at its peak, and the ilroad announced that the Twen- Century Limited will leave nd Central station in four and five sections, and that 28 extra sec- tions will be added to short haul trains. The New York, :‘ow Haven and Hartford has told its workers that they must prepare to handle 75,000 extra passengers over the Christ- mas week-end. Believe Four Workers the Rockefeller Church . Trapped in Fire at Four workers, employed at con- struction work, were believed to be trapped last night in a fire which threatened to destroy the $4,000,000 Gothic Church, built largely by money contributed by John D. Rock- efeller, on Riverside Drive and 122nd St. Over fifty workers fled from the church as soon as the fire was dis+ covered shortly after 7 p. m., and it was they who told that the es- cape of four of their comrades had been cut short by the flames. A heavy wind sweeping along the Hudson whipped the fire until the entire structure was enveloped in flames, and threatened to spread to the adojining apartment house. All traffie was stopped. “Important Meet of | ‘Daily’ Agents Today An important meeting of all | Daily Worker agents of New | York will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m, at the Workers Cen- |ter, 26-28 Union Square. . unit, sub-section and & Daily Worker agents must without fail. Units not having any age ‘must be represented by the unit | | organiza iy asta aiicaaaomaicaeaacaere el