The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 1

TO BUILD NAVY _Thomas Rodgers Portage, Pa.” ; HAVE YOU ener ee ' THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Eabor Party Entered as second. aily nx matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of arc VERS hh 3 18) Vol. V., No. 306 Published dally except Sundny by The } Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Ys ational Dally Worker "NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 HOOVER HURRIES TO WASHINGTON Row Over Patronage in Congress Threatens | to Delay War Plan | To Push Kellogg Pact Refuses to Talk About) Farm Legislation | WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Pres-| ident-elect Hoover today wirelessed | from the Utah that he was not go- ing to step in Florida but would come directly to Washington. He wants to straighten out the patron- age squabble which threatens to in- terfere with the smooth passage of the two admiinstration war meas- ures, the Kellog pacts against Eng- land and against the U.S.S.R., and the bill for fifteen more cruisers. Change Patronage Plan The announcement has been made} in Hoover’s name that patronage! graft will hereafter be handled by the Republican national committee- men instead of by the congressmen. The decision threw congressmen in- to an uproar, and several powerful senators are openly threatening to tie up the important pro-war legis- lation in retaliation. Just what Hoo-| ver’s decision on arrival will be is) not known, | Several days ago the proponents of the McNary-Haugen bill radioed | Hoover, demanding that he state, whether he was in favor of it or} not, He has failed to answer, and, this adds to the tumult, as the plea} of leaving it up to Hoover has been) used in this congress to avoid ac-| tion on the fake farm relief bill, which congressmen from the ag-| ricultural sections are afraid to take responsibility for. MINERS’ LEADER SCORES SELLOUT Myerscough Says Mark Uses Scab Contract PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25.—Thomas | Myerscough, secretary treasurer of the Western Pennsylvania district of the National Miners Union today | stated that in his opinion the Lewis- | Mark-coal operator contract which | the United Mine Workers of Ameri-} ca is trying to force upon the 55,000/ miners of Central Pennsylvaina (U. M. W. A, District 2) qualifies Lewis’ District presideni, James Mark, for the status of professional beggar. “Mark failed to get even the oper- ators’ association to take his con- tract seriously,” said Myerscough.| “They know the U. M. W. A. hardly exists in this district any longer. All union miners are joining the} N. M. U. Mark can not deliver his| men into the slavery which this con- tract provides. } “But Mark is now running around to one operator after another, beg- ging them to accept the contract in- dividually.” | “The contract,” said Myerscough,| “which Mark is asking the Central | Penna. coal operators to sign, calls | for the usual big reductions, gives | them the privilege of doing as they | please while it lasts and as they! are doing now if they want to, just} so Mark and Gilbert get the old| check-off. “Frankly I can’t see why I should enumerate any more of the ‘features’ of the so-called contract, because I} am convinced that Mark sneaked | around some scab mine during the! night and took one of the wage cut) notices posted up by a seap operator | to inform his slaves how much they | would get from a certain date on,} and then copied same, signed his} name to it and then wrote a letter) to each individual operator asking that he be allowed in on the pick- ings to the extent of the check-off at least. “There are real reasons for this gesture at saving the face (or the carcass) of the U. M. W. A., on the part of Mark, and the chief reason is the fear of the new Na- tional Miners Union which is spread- ing in Central Penna. under the leadership of Charles Killenger and Wide Construction in Leningrad Is Planned LENINGRAD, (By Mail).—The Yocal Provincial Council of National Economy is intending to give in con- cessions a series of new enterprises {neluding construction of a factory of typewriters, a factory of dental en& surgical instruments, a factory of measuring instruments, produc- tion of aluminum from bauxits and other minerals, communal construc- ay | exhaustible F An Imperialist’s Home The palatial J. C. Penny home on Belle Isle, Miami, Fla., to be occupied by Hoover and his friends when he returns from his im- periatist tour to Latin America. friends will plan his reign of imperial tyranny and further sup- pression of Latin American workers and peasants, palace with the straw hut of the Latin-American peasant. Here Hoover and his Wall Strect Compare this Call Textile Workers to | Send Greetings to ‘Daily’ Pointing out the important role played by the Daily Worker in the struggles of the textile workers of this country, the National Textile Workers Union last night issued an appeal to all mill workers to back the campaign for greetings to the fifth anniversary edition of the “Daily.” The appeal, signed by Al- bert Weisbord, national secretary- treasurer, states: “No workers know better than the textile workers what the Daily Worker has meant in their strug- gles. We know the part the ‘Daily’ played in the New Bedford strike. It was not for nothing that the sev- eral hundred copies of the paper that were distributed free every day were so eagerly read by the strik- ers. The Daily Worker was an in- source of strerigth, spurring us on, exposing the Tex- tile Council fakers, keeping our fighting spirit alive all the time. Paterson Strike. “In the Paterson strike it is again the Daily Worker that has become the organ of all militant workers, the real voice of our struggle against the bosses and their allies of the Associated Silk Workers. “In New England the mill own- ers are now launching a drive to grind down still further the already miserable wages of the workers. The Daily Worker fights against this drive of the bosses, the Daily Worker exposes their dirty lackeys within the ranks of labor, the Daily Worker helps defend the 662 textile strikers whom -the mill owners’ courts are now attempting to join in a general campaign to crush the National Textile Workers Union. Hail “Daily” Anniversary. “Textile workers, your ‘Daily’ is preparing to celebrate its fifth anni- versary. The National Textile Workers Union hails this great oc- casion. It is the celebration of a paper that is as poor, as oppressed, as uncertain of its economic footing as the workers for whom it. fights. Are the texile workers going to be represented in this celebration? They most certainly are. “The National Textile Workers Union calls upon every textile worker to show his or her appre- ciation for our fighting proletarian ‘Daily’ by sending a birthday greet- ing and a donation, no matter how small, for the specia] anniversary edition, Jan. 5, And every textile worker should solicit his shopmates and friends for similar greetings and donations. The time is short; we must show the way to workers cf other industries by acting at once.” 2 ADMIT DUNCAN TROUPE To Appear at ‘Daily’ Birthday Fete Jan.5 Realizing how flimsy was the pre- text for detaining the four young dancers of the Isadora Duncan troupe who arrived here Sunday, the immigration authorities have decid- ed to allow the dancers to enter- They are scheduled to be released from Ellis Island today togéther with their chaperone, Mme. Eliza- beth Missovsky, Each of the dancers will be permitted to remain ‘six months upon the deposition of $500 bonds, The immigration authorities ori- ginally claimed that the four dancers were to young despite the fact that minors of other dancing and theatri- cal troupes have always been .ad- mitted. The action of fhe immigra- tion authorities is believed to have been due to the fact that the dancers are coming from the Isadora Dun- can School in Moscow and they have come to this country to appear at the fifth anniversary celebration of the Daily Worker, Jan. 5, The release of the four dancers means that all of the famous Isa- PARTY MEMBERS WILL MEET HERE Dist. 2 at Star Casino Tomorrow Eve The District Executive Commit-| tee, under instructions of the Cen-| tral Executive Committee, has de- cided to call a membership meeting for tomorrow evening, Dec. 27, as} part of the pre-convention discus- sion. This meeting will be held at the New Star Casino, 105 E. 107th) St., near Park Ave, (Take East Side | subway to 110th or 108rd St., or 3rd Ave. L to 106th St.) The Central Executive Committee has selected Jay Lovestone as its| representative. Alexander Bittelman| will speak for the Minority. | Admissiop.will be by membership) card only. Doors will be open at 6:30 p. m.| Members should be on time, so that the meeting can begin promptly at 8 p.m ~ Unemployed Confab | in Rochester Is Called | by Council for Jan. 2, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec, 25.— To meet and combat the ever grow- ing unemployment in this city the Unemployed Council of Rochester in- vites all working class organizations to send two delegates to the Unem-| ployed Conference to be held Wed- nesday, Jan. 2, 8 p. m., in the Bap- tist Temple, 14 Franklyn St., Room 2G, second floor. In a call addressed to all labor and | fraternal organizations the council states that the conditions of the un- employed workers’ are becoming | acute. Many of them are facing im- mediate want and hunger and the city courts have served eviction no- are unable to meet their rent. Stating that “unless the workers | of Rochester, both men and women, | now employed full or part time, or organized into trade unions, take immediate steps to organize the mass of unorganized unemployed workers and join with them in a campaign for relief for the unem- ployed workers, all the achievements and standards now held by the work- ers are threatened,” the council .de- mands that immediate steps ‘be taken for organization. scheduled at the “Daily” anniver-| sary at Manhattan Opera House, Eighth Ave. and 34th St. The troupe consists of Irma Duncan, adopted daughter and favorite pupil of Isa- dora, now director of the Duncan School at Moscow, and 25 prize pu- pils of the school. The coming of the Isadora Duncan dancers to this country has been hailed as an event of unusual signi- fieance by critics of the dance thru- out the country. They come here trained in the great classic tradi- tions of Isadora Duncan, and em- bodying as well the dynamic, revolu- tio spirit which Isadora sought for all her life and found at last in the Soviet Ynion. Their program on Jan. 5 will be appropriate to the celebration of a werkingclass insti- tution and will open with an inter- pretation of the International. All seats at Manhattan Opera House will be reserved: Tickets are now on sale at the office of the Daily Worker, * Union Square. =. JOBLESS READY; CLOAK.ORESS,FUR WWirose. § ~ SOON TO START WORKER GROUPS MERRY CHRISTMAS? PARAGUAY ARMY; LONDON MARCH WILL GOME HERE sro National Unemployed To Attend Convention | Workers Committees | ef New Needle Trades Plan Parade Come Strong LONDON, Dec. 25.—The arrange- ment for a national march of un- employed workers upon London un- der the auspices of the National Un- employed Workers’ Committee Move- ment, is progressing with great speed in spite of the persistent sabotage on the part of the Gen- eral Council of the Trade Union Congress and of the officials of the Labor Party. As the Christmas holidays begin, and+bunk about thanksgiving for the well-being of the king fill the news- papers, Wal. Hannington, who will lead the march, told a meeting of workers here of his experience among the South Wales miners, where he had been busy arranging march committees. “Never before have I found such terrible poverty existing as at pres- ent,” he said. “Thousands of men, women and children in the mining villages are sinking deeper and deeper into the morass of destitu- tion and actual starvation. “The unemployed are waiting for a fighting lead and are ready to respond. for the national march to London. I had splendid meetings and nine new branches of the National Unem- ployed Workers’ Committees Move- ment were formed. “Local marchers’ organization |committees will be formed and a District Marchers’ Organization Council will be set up to ensure the men, representing South Wales, who wilk be iaking the road, shall’ be properly equipped.” While the Baldwin reactionaries are busy sending letters to charity Continued on Page Seven CALL STRIKE IN BRAZIL BREWERY Visit SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 25.—On Christmas eve all the workers of | Brahma Brewery, one of the largest | ; in the world, walked out on strike. The strikers are demanding better working conditions and higher wages. The Brazilian government has de- clared that it is fortunate that the | Keen enthusiasm is shown | ‘Comes After Hoover, Union T.U.C. Sabotages Trip | Gigantic Rally Sunday South Wales Miners to Proletarian Banquet on | Sunday Night | Not only are delegates chosen by |cloak, dress and fur workers out of | town on their way into New York! City to attend the conventions of | both these unions at the end of the jweek, but word has been received hy the central office of Nationai Or- ation Committee ef ihe cloak dressni: and the Natioral vovntive ¢ mitee of the Fur-| |riers, that rank and file members fren: Bostoa end Philadelphia a:e| erranizing to tend the ¢s.vea-| tion in a body. Giant Rally. These workers are eager to come and see their respective conventions |take up the question of amalgama- | tion, which both bodies will have |to ratify formally before the big |mass meeting on Sunday. Arrange-| | ments for a giant rally in the Lin- |coln Arena, at 66th and Broadway on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock are already completed. The arena, | Seating 12,000, is expected to be crowded by cloak, dress and fur workers, The cloak and dressmaker’ union | wil! open their convention in the | New Star Casino, 107th St. and| | Park Ave., this Friday night, Dec. 28, while the furriers’ organization begins its sessions Saturday morn- ing, Dec. 29, in Irving Plaza Hall, |15th St. and Irving PI. |. A banquet, which will be attended | by the delegates from all over the U. S. and Canada, is to be held | of the mass meeting. The rank and | file are called upon to come to what | will undoubtedly be one of the most brilliant affairs in the history of needle trades unionism. |the amalgamation of both unions, they will go into united session at | New Star Casino on Monday, and it is believed that business before them will require a session on Tuesday. Resolutions on all the numerous | problems attendant on the establish- ment of such a national organization ill come up for discussion and de- | cision. | To Hold Mass Meet. The huge mass “meeting in Lin- coln Arena will hear official reports on the action of the delegates on he question of amalgamation. The | thousands of workers will\then set | down their own attitude on this vital | question. The conventions mark a turning strike dccurred after Hoover had | Point in the last two years’ history left the country. However, the of bitter struggle against over- workers chose an opportune time to whelming odds to fight for the ex- strike since the hot weather and| Christmas creates a greater beer) tices upon unemployed workers who | n Red Crosg Christmas Stunt Indicates 5,000 Marines in Nicaragua | WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Pre- istence of their unions. On the ruins of the unions smashed by the at- tucks of the bosses and the social- | ist traitors, the workers will at this convention begia building a power- ‘ful union which will regain their lost union conditions. 'RED POETS HOLD parations for giving a Red Cross) Nicaragua as a Christmas oe F ORTH ON FRIDAY package to each marine stationed in has brot to mind the fact that there are still 5,000 marines stationed about the country, holding it for ex- ploitation by the United Fruit C and other American firms. There is one marine for every hundred man, woman or child. \Big Dance Bacchanal After Readings partie Not only will revolutionary poetry The Red Cross package is intended be read at the third annual Inter- to save the lives and sanity of men, | national Red Poets’ Night Friday buried in the jungle, watching lonely |evening, but revolutionary songs river fords, etc., trying to interfere will also be on the program. The with activities of the Augustino Sandino. Mexico Moves to Fight Nicaraguan | songs, which will be one of the dora Duncan troupe will appear as| army of independence under Ggneral unique features of the evening, will be sung by Harrison George, of the Daily Worker staff. George will |show his versatility by singing in |no less than four languages, Eng- Stealing of Colorado lish, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. River by Boulder Dam In case of emergency ‘it is rumored that he will have a few more langu- ages up his sleeve. Sunday evening; soon after the clos, After the two conventions endorse | By HARRISON GEORGE Exploring the Christmas of the New York bourgeoisie in its near up-town haunts, we ventured up | Fifth Avenue into the mink-coat, s s and mal: stick region, which begins about 34th Street, Past the Union League Club, home of imbe- cile Republican millionaires at h Street, where doormen speak in whispers, and shaded lights shed a soft glow over octogenarian gour- mands, we spotted the first top hat at 40th Street, But we were out to see some “real christians,” and entered the Cathedral at 50th and Fifth Avenue, the center of Catholic worship, an enormous and ex- pensive monument to supersti- tion, covering an entire block. Plumb forgot to dip our mit in holy water, just inside. Great naye, held up by fluted columns, High stained glass windows. Gosh, What a Show! At the far end on a raised place, something like a Gilbert and Sulli- van opera was going on under the supervision of Cardinal Hayes, at- tired in a red dress and lace blouse. Six Chinese mandarins, to judge from their dress, were performing before the high altar, alternately bowing, kneeling, and filing about. All the while intoning sepulchral Latin, which nobody understod, but many listened to semi-hypnotically. Big Choir of Small Boys About 400-people, petty-bourgeois. Saw one lone worker, blue-shirted, tired looking, come to get his shot of dope. Piles of printed solicitations here and there, asking $700,000 as a “Golden Jubilee Offering” to buy a new altar rail, ete. Lots of little locked boxes around the alls: “Offering to the Altar,” Offering and Intentions to St Anthony.” On a side altar a fig- ure that looks exactly like “$.” One little box off in the corner: “Offerings forthe poor?’ Hell of # a chance the poor have here. Big American flag Lung opposite the high altar, Church and state. Pomp, humbuggery and robbery. Mink Coat District Out on the street again, “Christ in Bethlehem,” reads the sign. Beth- |lehem Steel, maybe. Exclusive shops, customers come by invitation only. Mink coat district. Too bad, | most big fish swir at Palm Beach. What's t Wyoming Apartment Hotel, venue. Got a front like the . Treasury, | Rear Admirals for doormen, Down to Pennsylvania Hotel. Lux- urious foyer. Regiments of bell hops, officered by captains. Want to eat? |Grill room in basement. Two dol- lars cover charge to start with. Dancing from 6:30 to 1:30. Private dining rooms on the mezzanine floor. | Tinkling silver, obsequious wait Down in the kitchen slaves working 16 hours a day feeding the bour- geoisie who work no hours a day. The atmosphere oozes wealth. Want theatre ‘tickets? Two agen- cies here. Beauty specialists. Reduce waddling dowagers’ _triple-deck chins, Buy bonds here from a j broker’s office connected with the stock exchange. Hey, bo! How many bonds did you buy out of last week’s wages? We float out into the real- ities of life on 32nd Street, Gimbel’s store: “Oriental rugs at unheard-of prices.” Right! Never heard of any worker paying $750 for a piece of carpet 9 feet by 6. At the Waldorf | The dining room of the Wal- dorf- Astoria at 34th and Fifth Avenue. Why are all the diners old? Symbolic figures of the beef trust, mouthing dishes that cost a shop-girl’s weekly pay each. Delicacies from the ends of the earth. Female mummies in black and pearl, fingering the silver. Never knew what a day in the shop is like, on your feet Continued on Page Two tside New York, by m ARY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER? orker me FINAL CITY EDITION iS: In New ¥ Price 3 Cents 4 A. B. MAGIL, By Christmas came limping along the lower v side of the city yester- day, miserable and ragged, wheez- ing and panting along Ninth and] Tenth ‘Ave. 16th, 17th, 13th Sts., into the homes of dock workers, into the dingy dwellings of Spanish- speaking slaves of the National Bis- cuit Company that stands at Ninth Ave. and 14th St. Walk up dark, trembling stair- cases and knock on the door and a frightened face will look out at you. Somewhere a cheap phonograph will be playing the big hit of three years jago. Children will be playing on the floor, their carefully washed holiday clothes already soiled, their new ten-cent toys already broken. The father will be lying or. the bed sunk in sleep. He is resting up for an entire year of exhaust- | ing toil. The mother will be washing the dishes after the Christmas meal. For weeks they had saved and stinted for this day. Now it was over, leaving the same old misery. “Merry Christmas!” Furnished-Room Life. Workers without families, living jin furnished rooms in decaying houses, celebrate Christmas by go- ing to the movies if they aren’t roke, by smoking, reading the pa- pers and sleeping. They eat their meals in cheap restaurants which are also celebrating Christmas by |jimmying up prices. A coffee pot cm Eighth Ave. announces a Christ- mas di:ner for 90 cents, The same dinner costs 60 ordinarily. Wali over to the east side and you find some more Christmas, Christaas has come to the Bow- ery with the usual floral decora- tions—breadlines. Ragged Bow- ery stiffs, chronic breadliners, mingle with workers out of jobs | and starving, waiting long hours outside of missions, Army headquarters and other hos- telries of god, waiting to get a few ounces of so-called food and a ton of religion boloney flavored with Christmas “cheer” fresh from the tap. Down-and-Outers. Merry Christmas! The merry Christmas of the down-and-outers, dumped on the garbage-heap of capitalism. The Bowery swarms with them, walking the streets, their lands in their pockets, walking no- where, just killing time. Evidently not such a merry Christmas. Outside of Zero’s Tub at 12 St. q Pl. stands a Christmas tree. Mr. Zero is another one of those charitable gentlemen who try to keep the workers’ minds 100 per- cent pure. Charity pays, the bosses find. Inside the hall the down-and- outers wait in line. A “charitable” lady dressed in white lets in a few at a time who are given a bowl of soup and a cup of coffee for a nickel. Lucky stiffs! They actually own a nickel. | Those who don’t, wait further down outside of Holy Name Mission at 319 Bowery. At 5:30 the line reaches around the corner nearly half way towards Second Ave. At 6 o’clock the men begin to file in to get their bowl of slop. An hour later they are lulled into insensibility with a free Christmas sermon. Jobless Youth in Line. Number three in line is a young man not more than 21 years old. He wears a fairly new-looking felt hat, a presentable suit and his general appearance is in striking contrast to the bedraggled stiffs in line. His eyes are dull, his skin ashen. What's he doing in the breadline? Well, it’s Merry Christ- mas in the land of Coolidge and Hoover “prosperity.” A block further down is another | line outside the Hadley Rescue M |sion at 298 Bowery. At 227 Bov | Continued on Page Two “VISIONS” FOR MINERS Misleaders Give Poems With Wage Cut SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. | The book itself is a collection of Miners’ children who will go on short | biographies glorifying the late Sam-| Salvation | tion, (wants to sell it MEXICO CITY, Dec. 25 (UP).—| The noes Se , a 5 poctry readi will be pre- A apa dagen An ateatd eke oe | ceded by a talk on proletarian litera- SAourshent 5 Be aveenily | ture by Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of safe- | 5 } guarding Mexican interests in the |The Hammer, who will be chairman question of Colorado water distribu- | of the evening. A list of the poets | includes Michael Gold, Joseph Fr |man, Martin Russek, Henry Reich, Jr., Robert Wolf, James Rorty, Lola Ridge, David Gordon, A. B. Magil, Estrada said the matter probably would be de... with by special in| ternational commission. LINCOLN’S DEATH CHAIR man Spector, Martin Feinstein, | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 25.—| Moishe Nadir, H. Leivick, Aron Secretary of War Davis is investi- | Kurtz, A. Pomerantz, D. Burlink gating to see whether the chair in Mean WiMeae ly oe eal te which Lincoln was shot, now in the | J. Sigzorich. Smithsonian Museum, can not be Get your tickets now and avoid returned to Mrs. Ford, wife of the! the rush at the door. You can get manager of Ford’s Theatre. She | them at the business offize of the (Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq FY .| booby prize this week in the shape | of the U. M. W. A. District 12, writ-| Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Her. | still forced by the check-off to re- | nois Miner. | ‘ations and be forced into industry | uel Gompers, and the misleaders of | before their time because of the}the miners. It contains articles by| Lewis-Fishwick-Nesbit leadership in| Ameringer, others by liberals like | this district of the United Mine|Van Loon and Untermeyer, poems, | Workers’ of America, were given a/and has a most inaccurate history |of a book called “Visions,” distribu-' ten for the Lewis secretary-treas- \ted as a Christmas present by the urer here, Walter Nesbit, by some |U. M. W. A, to families of miners one of the editorial staff of the Illi- tain their cards in this company) The National Miners’ Union, uniog’zed organization. | which is winning more and more of «Wisions” is edited by Freda Ho-| the miners’ of Illinois into its own gan, private secretary of Oscar | militant ranks, has no intention of Ameringer, who is a member of the distributing “Visions” to the min- cialist party, and editor of the of- | ers, but will deal with hard facts, icial organ of the Lewis machine | and a- hard fight to win back the} in this distri y paper call- union seale of wages and union con-| ed “The Mlinois Miner, ‘ditions in the mines BOLIVIA BOMBS Gifts; “Hurray tor Jesus !” USES AIRPLANES | Letter to “Mediation” | Committee Allows Reparations Talk |Text Not Made Public Answers Questionnaire Means to Prolong War BULLETIN. ASUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. 25. —Orders were issued by the gov- ernment today for demobilization of the forces called to the colors during the present crisis. The demobiliza- tion was made possible, it was ex- rlained, by the acceptance of the mediation offer of the Pan-American Conference at Washington. There is no order yet by the Bolivian govern- ment to demobilize, and foreign ex- perts here say that the Paraguayan _ government is taking a desperate | risk in its attempt to prove it is / | not the aggressor in this conflict. Sir BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 25 (UP). —The Asuncion correspondent of the newspaper La Presna reported the receipt today of an official dis- | patch which stated that Bolivian aic- planes flew over Paraguayan troops in recent clashes and dropped four bombs. | One of the bombs, according to « | the dispatch, exploded but caused no damage. The Bolivians, according to the . La Presna dispatch, als6 used ma- chine guns upon Paraguayan forts ; and troops, but no easualties re- sulted. The unexploded bombs were reported to have been delivered to President Jose Guggiaria of Para- guay yesterday. * * * Note Received. WASHINGTON, Dec, 25.—Bo- jlivia, after several days’ delay, has | answered the questionnaire of the mediation committee of the Pan- American Conference “for Concilia- tion and Arbitration” in a way that seems, from the guarded comments made upon it by the diplomats who have read it, to practically follow the line of the Bolivian note five days ago, and to agree to “arbitra- tion” by a committee of the U. S. controlled conference of the ques- tion of Parag ing an in- demnity for losses ined by Bo- livia during the Bolivian attack on Paraguayan forts recently, but to deny arbitration of the question of ownership of the Gran Chaco, Draft Protocol. An extraordinary session of the special mediation committee was called for 3 p. m. today tq consider the Bolivian and Paraguayan al sw After reading the Bolivian answer, Chairman Maurtua of Chile agreed with Diez de Medina, Bo- livian minister, that it was a favor- able document. After termination of the meeting of the full committee, the Bolivian Continued on Page Seven POWERS ENSLAVE CHINA WORKERS Coolie Traffie With the Colonies Exposed SHANGHAI, Dec. 25.—That vite tual enslavement of Chinese coolies by foreign capitalists and a slave trade with colonies are actually in existence today under the Nanking regime was revealed when two Chi- nese gunboats were ordered to stop a Spanish ship bearing Chinese workers for service on the Spanish island of Fernando Po. The Spanish ship is expected come down the Yang-tse River make for the colony of Spanish nea on the West African Coast. ship arrived at Tientsin some ago, where an effort was conscript coolies for worl | tropics, but the attempt was cessful. The ship then nt Tsing-tao, where because of Japanese occupation and the tion of the Kuomintang British firm managed to ¢ 3,000 Chinese workers, force or lying. They were at a barracks at The drafting permitted to col officials who Conditions in the enslaved taken, are so notoriou the colonies of other rica, although they p the Chinese traffic, will Negro workers to go t’ he Spanish are compe ese by force, v