The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1929, Page 6

1929 Published by National Daily » Inc., Daily, Except S$ Square, New York, N. Stuyvesant 1696-7-8. Cable Ad ROBERT MINOR WM. F. DUNNE.. Royal Dictatorship In Jugo-Slavia | The government of Jugo-sl proclaimed a tary dicta Alexander has decreed himsel tator with ung governing bod; make and break any former books, to seize, jail, execute o whose political opinions do not the dictator of the Serbs, Slovenes. With him in phet and past-master in the ing by every fer: neighbor, the Hungarian di the peasants’ and the worker: in Jugo-Slavia. The blood of scores of Serb, Croat and Slovene peasants and wor murdered and tortured in J cries aloud on the international for vengeance. day supplicating all workers t for aid and liberation. And to these hundreds of sufferers of the class, obscure and heroic, Jugo-Slav working hundreds more will soon be added. new regime entered immediately upon its career of ruthless oppression, onet as the means of enforce: prison as the secure oblivion for anyone who may dare to raise his voice against this fascist tyranny in the Balkans. Almost the first act of the dictatorship was to tighten-the already brutal capitalist stringency of the press, free speech and as- sembly laws with still more ferocious pro- Suppression for a line of dissent visions. ventured in a newspaper, jail criticism dropped by a peasant in the hear- ing of an informer. Jail in a country where jail meant death to a school suspected of belonging to the Communist Youth. For the Communist Party of Jugo-Slavia, —continued illegality and tir tion carried on with a new dictatorial rigor. Imperialism plots its war schemes against Worker Publishing in the country he dictatorship, Alexander has associated General Peter Z y known to The mute voices of hundreds still suffering in the Jugo-Slav infernos, whose plight will be a thousand-fold more terrible under the new dictatorship, is every unday, at 26-28 By N Y. Telephone, eae yest dress “Daitvork” By WV $6 a year Editor Address and m sistant Editor 26-28 sU BSCRIPTION RATES: fail (in New York only): $4.50 six mos. $2.50 three mos. fail (outside of New York): $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos. 1 all checks to The Daily Worker, n Square, New York, N. Y. t avia has been torship; f milit new fascist di he Baltic to alified powers to dissolve any , to make, un- “law” on the r exile anyone coincide with Croats, and vasion of the t tatorship seer hould the B open war, versity” a <ovich, pro- of suppress his next door tor, Horthy, organizations imperialism, Jugo-Slavia, a which is cast Croatia and have miscalcul: kers brutally ugo-Slav jails working class fascist militar; he world over | erred. ganization an For the with the bay- ment and the And the day new their mountai the second line draw Europe for th and the invasi publics, will av: Meanwhile, for a word of boy who was he first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic with still more gusto today as it sees this f tyrannies, stretching now from Poland on to which it has entrusted the oppression of the Central European workers and the in- While the war orders for arms are being rushed to Rumania, for ultimate use against he Soviet Ukraine, the new Jugo-Slav dic- turn into another “Bolshevik uni- and the workers and poor peasants of Rumania rise and sweep their Manius and Bratianus into the Blac But the world imperialists, especially French fond belief that by ruthless oppression, by voleano of proletarian Revolution, by putting a lid with a fascist label over the crater, have The force of working class energy, born in suffering and oppression, gathers strength through patient and ceaseless or- Jugo-Slay workers and peasants are faced with this necessity of tireless, ceaseless, courageous pr new dictatorship as never before. tory, the wor country in the world must be ‘alert to meet ctatorship added to the cordon the extreme southern Balkans, Soviet Union. ns like an assuring second line abian frontier, in event of Sea. which has vital interests in nd Italian fascist imperialism, ing a greedy eye on restive along the Albanian frontier, ated. Their statesmen, in the y tyranny, they can stifle the d preparation within. The eparation in the face of the when the lid does blow off the voleano, when these Serb and Croat and Slovene workers and peasants stream down msides to the destruction of their fascist tyranny, neither the first nor , neatly contrived on paper and through eastern and southeastern e suppression of ‘the workers on of the Union of Soviet Re- ail them at all. while preparing for their vic- ‘kers and peasants, of every the imperialist offensive which the powers eless persecu- with the shatt are daily elaborating against the Soviet Union, ering offensive of the interna- tional working class, to turn the imperialist war into civil war. The Indo-China Slave By MARCEL JOUBERT. their arrival. Treated like slaves, (Translated from L’Humanite by |Scparted from their wives and chil- by Valentine V. Konin.) dren, forced to labor 14 and 15 “This is not a title of a book of| adventures. . . . This is the ac- count of the crimes committed by the French engineers in the islands} of the Pacific, where the imported) Indo-Chinese workers suffer and perish like slaves.” This, alas, is not a title of a book of adventures. This is a t chapter of the colonization, recently proclaimed by the socialists as a necessity of civilization. In the light of a few harshly exact facts, this is only a glimpse into the in- conceivable existence granted to the laborers of Indo-China. This is a bunch of facts challenging in itself all those who pretend that slavery is abolished; all those who applaud the colonial policy of France; all those who deny to the people of the colonies the right to free them- selves from the yoke of the im- . perialist pirates. Importation of Workers Increases. According to an agreement be- tween the governor of Indo-China and the High Commissioner of France, the colonists are authorized to obtain in Indo-China all the labor _ necessary for their plantations. As a result, the number of Indo-Chin- ese laborers “imported” to Nou- velles Hebrides was 509 in 1923, 2,139 in 1925, and 4,607 in 1927.| This year the High ‘Commissioner | of the Pacific has asked for 8,000) new recruits for Nouvelle Cale- This importation of labor is done actual recruiting offices legal- ized in their atrocious traffic of human flesh. These offices profit by the misery of the Indo-Chinese - population by exporting all those “who starve on the soil from which| hey were driven by the coloniza- The “Tribune Indochinoise” the workings of this re- “Their dazzling promises allure famished men and women; they h before their eyes the prom-| of El Dorado; and upon the in the forests these unfor- te beings find themselves con- d to hard labor.” Use Force. metimes the recruiters employ) tactics. They unroll their by force. A certain Indo-| magazine points to a case) 1 a few minors, among them year-old girl, were kidnaped their families and forwarded plantations and mines under 0 on of militia, The un- laborers, seduced by he or enlisted by force, k | of what awaits them upon, f i hours a day, undernourished, un- sanitary, under the incessant watch of actual torturers—and for a sal- ary which is only mocking if it exists at all! Here are a few facts drawn from the tragic balance sheet of the le- galized*slavery of the Pacific: At the beginning of this year, a; Patte Villa, on the concession of Comptoirs Francais des Nou- velles Hebrides, an Indo-Chinese laborer, who had stolen a bottle of Peruvian bark belonging to a French} overseer, was bound by the latter and beaten until he expired. At the Societe des Hauts-Fourneauz de Noumea, following the protest of a few laborers against the horrors they were forced to undergo, the guard fired at the group and killed a few of them. In the report pre- sented to the governor of Indo- China, the High Commissioner of the Pacific admitted the intolerable | treatment inflicted on the imported Dealers juse of their guns. And the list of| famous persons as an wn-noticed | grievances and assassinations im- posed upon the Indo-Chinese who had been torn away by force from their families and their country is very long indeed! Chinese workers work for the et est salaries, their owners succeed! in realizing scandalous fortunes. | The Comptoirs Francais des Nou- velles Hebrides, where a few above-mentioned cases took _ place,| has seen its income rise from 470,- 661 frances in 1921, to 1,652,607 frances in 1924. At the same time their dividends on shares grew from 40 francs in 1921 to 60 in 1923 and 100 in 1924, ; The Compagnie Francaise Im- mobiliere des Nouvelles Hebrides} reached a million-frane income in 1926. And in the same way rise| the fortunes of all other companies} exploiting shamelessly the Indo- Chinese slaves put at their mercy by the French imperialists. Socialists Uphold Imperialism. The socialists can speak of the Interna- Inc. All 1929, by Copyright, tional Publishers Co., rights reserved. Republication for- | bidden except by permission. * * By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD SYNOPSIS In previous parts, Haywood told of his birth among the Mormons at Salt Lake City, in 1869, of that church’s “Destroying Angels,” its TODAY: By Stage Through the Nevada Desert; the Mine in Eagle Canyon; the Bunk-House; Miners’ Books; Bill’s Pal |furnishing some water to the flats jbelow. This was my first view of the Santa Rosa range. | When we reached Rebel Creek it sweetheart, how he was bound out 4 eq, polygamous practice, of his first) was jate at night. I had been think- school at Ophir, Utah, his first ing about unrolling my blankets for sale H I climbed down from the as a boy slave, his first strike, of stage, cold and shivering, and found learned dark secrets and met |* Sean eee oe ee re A spring wagon was provided, messenger boy and bellboy. At 15,| into which I threw my roll of blan- he was sent to Nevada to work with |kets and my valise, and we drove laborers. He admitted that a little Doble civilizing character of work girl died from being violated. He C@tied on by imperialist France; admitted that one colonist in order they can deny to the people of the to calm down the dissatisfaction! among his abused workers injected \into some of them a subcutaneous) dose of turpentine. colonies the right to free them- selves from the bloody guardianship of the slave dealers. Leon Jouhaux can declare the necessity of con- tinuing the forcefil enrollment of “Amusements!” A sailor who has returned from a voyage describes the atrocious} amusements of the slave dealers, which he had witnessed in a port.| the end of a long cord and dragged | tract the sharks and make them) follow their living prey. Another laborer, while having a discussion | with a guard, was suddenly hurled into the sea. The guard persisted in throwing stones at him to pre-| vent him from grasping the land meal. For wanting to take snap- His negatives were destroyed and he himself discharged. L’Echo Annamite relates that on| the island of Moketoa on the con-| cession of Societe des Phosphates | |du Pacifique, “the married coolies | wishing to protect their wives from | procedure of the law!” The wound- ed were put an end to, and those trying to escape were charged with rebellion. Police Use Guns. At the alt_ady mentioned Societe des Hauts Fourncaus, the workers rebelled at their, treatment. The police were called and made full the indigent Indo-Chinese workers. They will demonstrate once more their solidarity in preparing for the imperialist despotism. However, they will not prevent |The slave dealers tied a laborer to the colonization from being an un- bearable yoke for the natives; nor |him through water in order to at-|will they prevent them from real- izing their sad plight and organiz- ing towards their liberation. But their liberation will be possible only through the complete over- throw of the imperialists and so- cialists, who, in spite of their at- tempts to defend colonization, shall juntil after the sharks had had their not prevent the workingclass from carrying out triumphantly the |shots of these horrible scenes the|movement for the liberation of the ‘sailor was imprisoned for 15 days. |colonial peoples, SUES FOR SEIZED GAS. BERLIN, (By Mail).—Dr. Stol- zenberg, the owner of 3,000 flasks of poison phosgene gas which, fol- Jowing the Hamburg disaster were taken out and sunk, has instituted |the lewdness of the guards were | proceedings against the Free State shot to death without any other/of Hamburg to recover damages. WASHINGTON, (By Mail).— The quantitative output of Ameri- ca workers has increased 108 per cent since the beginning of the ccn- tury, a Department of Commerce re- port states, The speedup system has forced the workers to produce over double x amount his stepfather in a mine. Now go on reading. * * PART V. Miners, Cowboys and Indians. ee was my first long journey. We passed through Ogden, going around Great Selt Lake, as the Luzon cut-off had not then been built. I was on the lookout for Corinne and Promontory, as I knew father and uncle. Promontory was the station where the golden spike was driven when the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads met from the east and the west. The iron horse, as the Indians called the railroad, had overtaken the covered wagons and ox teams, For many miles after we left the lake, the lowland was covered with a crust of salt. Then we came to the sage-brush flats of Nevada, which seemed endless. As far as the eye could reach there was noth- ing but the long stretches of the gray-green shrub. The stations were few and the towns were small. We passed Elko, Battle Mountain and then the Humboldt River came into view on the right. On the morning of the second day I ar- rived at Winnemucca, went to the hotel, and immediately after dinner took the four-horse stage for Rebel Creek. The stage line extended in those days to Fort McDermitt, an army post. The stare was Ie-7ed with freight; I was the only pas- senger. Inside was a big puiialo coat and a buffalo robe; I thought there would be no chance to get cold. From Winnemucca past the toll-house was a road through sand hills, which was built of sage-brush laid thé width of the wagon track. When tramped down it was for a short time serviceable, but the sands |were ever shifting, so that new roads were continually in the pro- cess of being built. We arrived at Kane Springs for supper. It was already dark and getting very cold. When we went to the station, the driver got a drink of whisky. I felt warmer after a cup of hot coffee. After the horses had been changed for a new team, the driver said: “We are ready; let’s go!” I piled into the coach. The buffalo robe and the coat were gone; they belonged to the driver. It was a cold, clear night, In front and a little to the right we see the majestic outline of ite Peak, in the shelter. of |to Eagle Canyon, two miles up |which the Ohio mine was located. | There was not a tree in sight; noth- ling but the scrubby willows that grew along the little stream that | flowed down the canyon. There was but one house. It was built of tum- ber and was about twenty-eight feet long, fourteen feet wide, divided in \two by a partition. In the front room bunks were ranged; double length and three high. In this room furniture of any kind other than a desk and the stuff belonging to the men, consisting almost entirely of blankets and clothing, and a few suitcases and bags thrown under the lower bunks. The second room had a big cook- stove in the corner, a kitchen table and a cupboard along one wall. Along the other wall, where there was a window, was a long table cov- ered with brown flower-patterned oil-cloth, with benches running the full length on either ‘side.’ Over- head on the beams were piled the groceries and other supplies and the bunk of the Chinese cook, which was reached by a ladder. Charley Sing was a good cook, and kept his part of the house scrupulously clean. The other room was also clean, as far as being free from vermin was con- cerned, but the lumber was without paint and had never seen a plane. There was a little porch in front, a bench over which hung a looking- glass, washpans, a_ water-bucket alongside the bench, and towels that these places had at one time | there were no chairs, no tables, no| |been the stamping ground of my hung against the side of the house. The well was near the creek, in the |bottom of the gully. Below the |house stood an old stone cabin, half | dug-out, with logs, brush, and dirt! for a roof. One corner of this was fixed up for use as an assay office. | The rest was used for storing cases | of canned foods, vegetables, and! other supplies. My stepfather came down from} |the mine a few minutes ahead of the other men who were working there. He was glad to see me. After meeting the men and having dinner, I unrolled my blankets and spread | them on some hay in the bunk over the desk. I put on my overalls and | jumper and digging boots that same afternoon and went to work in the mine. My first job was wheeling rock from a shaft that was being sunk at the end of an open cut. I soon found that a wheelbarrow loaded with rock was more than I could handle, so I made the loads lighter and took more trips. I was glad enough when quitting time came, When we got down to the house it was already dark. The usual mining camp meal was ready, and every one pitched in with a hearty appetite. It was but a few minutes afterward, when the dishes were cleared away, that the men gathered around the table again, reading, playing cards or chess as best they \ecould by flickering candle-light. Others were stretched out in their bunks, or sitting on the edges of them, and so the winter evenings were passed. There was no place to go, The closest town was Winne- mucca, sixty miles away. There was one saloon at Willow Creek, the post office, four miles away, but this was seldom patronized, though occasionally some of the men who went to the station brought back a couple of bottles of whisky. Though miners situated as we were could not keep in close touch with current events, we were all (To the Isadora you come with feet of fire into a black noose for the and go and say to all who On our backs we carry the Out of the Red Land By A. B, MAGIL. Out of the red land, dancers, out of sun- ripened fields and the greathearted toil of millions in cities building, breaking the soil for new growth, for new victories to be won, limbed ritual of life—light for the blind. Where are the famine years? Take them and bind them, weave them fast with strands of your living hair and with our feet we plant such terrible seed as shall burst the earth and shrivel in the, fla of Revolution all your years of shame}-- ~ Duncan Dancers.) and the large bare- world’s black hate, suffer and bleed: sun of the workers’ state, By Fred Ellis ie _ | going ahead on similar lines. ‘How Fitzgerald ‘Robbed Union of R.R. Clerks By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. | Mr. E. H. Fitzgerald is grand | president of the Brotherhood of Rail- | way Clerks, He is one of the traitors who betrayed the great 1922 strike. During 1924, without any authoriza- tion whatever from his union, Fitz- gerald organized the “Railroad Brotherhoods’ Investment Corpora- tion,” which proposed to be a $10,- 000,000 company to promote the in- ivestment of workers’ savings. He ap- plied the whole apparatus of the union towards making this private enterprise a success by inducing the membership to put their money into it. Without authority he used the insignia and stationery of the union. He claimed that his company had the *|backing of the union and its labor bank. Later, when hard-pushed for an explanation as to why he had started such an institution in the name of the union, he said that at the previous convention the delegates had applauded a speech by one Mc- Caleb on the success of the B. of L. E. financial venture and he deem- ed that sufficient justification for To secure some prestige for his com- pany he dug up an unknown W. A. Stone and put him on the Board of Directors, a cheap trick to delude workers into believing that W. S. Stone of the B. of L. E. was backing the proposition. Associated with Fitzgerald in this financial adve ture, which soon blew up, many well-known labor reactionari including‘James Wilson of the Pa ternmakers, Jere Sullivan of the H tel and Restaurant Workers, A. O. Wharton of the Railway Employes’ Department, T. Cashen of the Switchmen, A. Huebner of the Brew- ery Workers, etc. The General Executive Board of | the Railway Clerks took exception to \these high-handed proceedings of \Fitzgerald’s and mildly censured him, |and the union’s labor bank, in order to save itself from the inevitable crash, forced him to resign as presi- dent of the bank. Fitzgerald then declared war against both. He ar- bitrarily removed the G. E. B. from office and drove them from the build- jing with the aid of the police. He \tried to wreck the labor bank by | spreading false rumors about it and by seeking to induce Daniel Williard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, (who is a heavy stock- holder in the bank!) to withdraw his support from it. Finally, the whole controversy, after dragging its way through the capitalist courts, reached the union convention in Kansas City in 1925. No one who understands our labor movement will be surprised to learn that the con- vention exonerated Fitzgerald and reelected him president of the union. The railroad companies took care of their man. The Barker Case. During the war period one of the railroad organizations which expand- ed enormously was the Maintenance of Way Workers. It jumped from a few thousand members to almost 300,000. Vast sums of money poured BILL HAYWOOD great readers. I remember the’sec-jinto the union treasury. A. E. ond Christmas I was there, one of | my relatives sent me a book on baseball. This would have been in- teresting enough some years before but I was now in a place where one side of a baseball team could not be scratched up in a long day’s ride. I did not have many books of m: own, but the miners all had some. One had a volume of Darwin; others had Voltaire, Shakespeare, Byron, Burns and Milton. These poets were great favorites of my step- father. We all exchanged books, and quite a valuable library could have been collected among these few men. Some received magazines, and there were four or five daily papers that.came to the camp. That they were a week old made little difference to us. Lhad a friend about whom I:have not yet spoken. This was Tim. He was much more than the ordinary dog one usually meets. A shepherd Barker, grand president, spent this, as*reports on his case said, “like a drunken sailor.” He stole money right and left from the union. In |this respect the report to the 1922 |convention said: “That the checks procured as aforesaid, and which were turned over to said Barker, and by him |eashed and converted to his own use were as follows viz: $7,000, ¢ 000, 3-14, $12,000, 4-1, $8,000, $9,000, 5-26, $15,000, 5-6, $5,000, 7-17, | $10,000, 7-31, $15,000, 8-21, $10,000, |9-10,- $10,000, 9-16, $10,000, 10-14, | $25,000, 10-27. All the above being in the year 1919, and $10,000, Janu- lary 12th, and $10,000, January 29th, both in 1920, amounting in the ag- gregate to $172,000; that in addition he caused to be issued to one P. M. Draper a check for the sum of $50,- 009. . .appropriated to uses not au- thorized by this Brotherhood. ’. . the total sums so taken from the funds and misappropriated by said type, as large as a good-sized collie, his coat. was black with brown points anda white patch at his Barker being in the aggregate the sum of $220,000.” throat.’ He :was quick and strong and’had limpid ‘brown eyes. He did not speak my language, but I could understand his tail-wagging, his joyful bark, fierce growl, pathetic whine, and low, peculiar croon. There was something about Tim that always made me think of him as a real person. It was as though the personality of some lovable hu- man had found a place in his being. Instinct was not the only attribute that actuated Tim, although perhaps for scientific reasons I should not venture to assert that Tim could think. Anyway, you know him now well enough to understand the kind of companion such a dog could be to a boy at a mine sixty miles from a railroad, with the nearest neigh- bor four miles away. The one boy in that section of the country I saw only occasionally, but Tim was with me all the time. He and I had heaps of fun. I helped him out in many a desperate fight we had with lynx, wild-cat and badger. John Kane was the assayer and ore-sorter at the mine, He took a great liking to me and taught me assaying. He was a big, heavy-set, good-natured Irishman with a heavy black mustache. and pleasant eyes, When I went, to ‘k with him I helped him prepare samples that were to be assayed. No work I ever did in my life was as fascinat- ing as assaying. These first small ventures into the realm of chemis- try led me to feel that I would like to become a mining engineer. I made up mx mind to learn this pro- ish Police Jail 100 High School Ukrainian Students (Red Aid Press Service) WARSAW (By Mail).—A few days ago it was reported from Lem- berg that 50 Ukrainian students were arrested there. Latest reports from Lemberg say that already more than 100 Ukrainian students of the higher schools have been jailed. The police gave as reason for the arrests the raids on the Polish re- actionary papers, the “Slowo: Pol- skie” and “Kuryer Chodzienny.” fession and wrote to the Houghton School of Mines and the Columbia School of Mines to learn their re- quirements for entrance. I secured some books on assaying and sur- veying and devoted much time to study. But I never entered either of these colleges. I found myself with other responsibilities and my further education was secured in the school of experience, * * In the next installment Haywood writes of hunting in Nevada, his first attack of “buck ague"; a Basque sheep-herder; the tragedy of One Arm Jim, the Piute; the story of Jim Sackett; “boots and saddles” ; a white man boasts of murdeping Indians; how two papooses escuped.