The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 2

} J, MELA, CUBAN COMMUNIST, IS ASSASSINATED Street Oppression Continued from Page One Street and its agents against the Latin American workers in the mur- of the Cuban revolutionist, Julio the International Labor De- ssued the following statement national si tary, Karl all been profoundly shocked the news ‘of the murder of the internationally known Cuban revolutionist, Julio Mella. C de Mclla was mitirtéred last night in Mexico City by agents of President Tachado of Cuba, who is the pup- pet of Americtin imperialism. This ge of the White Yong raged in ledge and en- American im- couragement of “the perialist government: “Julio Mella’ was‘the’ founder and secretary of the Communist | y of Cuba. He t the time is death, a leading figure in the Caribbean seéfétiriat of the Inter- BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 7 Sea ooner Matthew S. was saved only eces. its crew Greer, men Almost Met De a th Here 5 oh Coa after a human chain of coast-guards which had gore on rocks off Woods Hole, Mass. waa shattered to and fishermen had been formed, HALL ANTEWAR oa national RedyzAids and was secre- tary of the political:refugees’ group : «) in Mexico. \Sandino Supporters Ridiculous ‘Charge. | Hit Murder of Mella “On Dec. 5, 1925,: Mella was ar-| iia rested at Havanay Cuba, on aframed| Continued from Page One up charge of setting off some small | 1a aeinet) the oe in front a All of |ttnited States marines and the Wall e newspapers of Havana at the|¢irect governments esta i time had to Gdiitnthat the charges|lsraranna. Se co were ridiculous.’ “Eleven other la-|° i341 propavations’ have °b bor leaders ‘were-ivarrested with| "IN Dreparations | nave mn aii fac. «sail twain eatirned made for the First Labor Conference “Mella imniediately began a hun- |‘ the | Wee veneer aes ger strike, which: called forth a|St¥-Wide representation of dele- world protest against the White |"#teS 1S expected to attend pogtes Mascon institited: atthe iustigation |e, COUey,, St ator) Temple, cf the AmerieatieapeRelist govern: {2 -St-and.Second Ave, at one jo'cl Intense interest n cen- ment, which controls the sugar in- custry of Cuba.’ A ‘wave of protest savept throughout Cuba, Melia was ters. in the proceedings in view ‘of the latest news that Julig. Antonio Fee ee erottrike: for nineteca | Mella, secretary of the Political Ceres Antica Anth Tenan |Refugees Astociation of Cubs, was lays. qhe All-America Anti-tmper- | murdered in Mexico by the agents (Communist) Party at the time|"f President Machado, the. blood- thirsty lackey of American imper- yointed out that the°full responsi- hility for the outrages against the | Cuban labor leaders rested upon the | islism in Cuba. Julio A. Mella, a staunch fighter United States government, whose hireling Machado was known to be. Campaign to Free Him. | “In the United States, the U. S./ section of the All-America Anti- against American imperialism and its puppet government of Cuba, was taken away from us by the White ‘Terror and persecution he so con- uously and bravely fought. He Finstein Presents New Theories on Relativity and Electromagnetism BERLIN, Jan. 11 (UP).—-Prof. Albert instein, whose . relativity theory startled the scientific world azo, has emerged from his workshop again-—with a five-page document which is expected to f science. It an amplification of his dis- cov s and a refutation of his ad- versaries’ attempts to contest his relativity theory from a philoso- rhical standpoirit. “A few days ago I presented to the Prussian Academy of § my latest work,” Professor Einstein told the United Press correspondent | t his home here this afternoon. The si ct of the work is a new und more perfect formulation of the general theory of relativity. “The purpose of this work is to unite the common viewpoint on the laws of gravity and electromagnet- ism.” It is interpreted, however, as his reply to contestants of his theory of relativity and will be based en- tirely on mathematics and physics, completely ignoring philosophy. His | iends ‘explain that» Einstein con- } ders the formulation ofa common ewpoint on gravitational forces another sensation in the field | every |woman, than the story of the man that was thrown as a lad into the great maw of capitalist explotation WHITNEY HAILS HAYWOOD BOOK California Leader Says, | All Should Read It Continued from Page One | |country that the California governor | was forced to pardon Comrade Whit- | ney. Here is what Anita Whitney says | of the value of Haywood’s memoirs: | | i Rn | By Anita Whitney. | Who does not want to read Bill Haywood’s Book? | | It is the life struggle of the bravest and keenest of fighters in the American labor movement. No book can have more value to militant working man or end who fought every step of his way against a ruthless dominant class to the leadership of the then} most militant labor group in Amcri- | ca, and then onward to the Com-| munist movement. I congratulate the Daily Worker ‘on giving its readers the opportunity | Haywood. of knowing “Bill” ee wee | PREPARE WOMEN | PACIFISTS. FOR IMPERIAL WAR National Conference of Bourgeois Women Continued from Page One trict and state conferences of women’s organizations for its reso- lution in sunport of the Kellogg pact. Pacifist Cloak. the German workers. The American imperialists as they | A Flock of Birds of Prey Photo shows S. Parker Gilbert, German, reparations, conferring with Mellon and Kellogg. under the Dawes vlan these Shylocks have bitten into the flesh of For that pound of flesh they got millions of dollars for Wall Street, Now they are planning another bite. t CALL 1ST DRESS STRIKE MEETING HERE TUESDAY Union Holds Boston Meet; Scabs Deserted “Continued from Page One or in open shops, in order to pre- sent all plans to mobilize the great mass of workers for the coming struggle. American general agent for Working “We call on you to come to this meeting and to see to it that every drive forward toward world domina- tion and a new world war are pre- naring feverishly for the future con- flict. Huve armaments. aviation ex- nansion, the billion dollar nevy are ik RELIGION MAKES | heine renidly prepared. The in- | tensifieation of economié rivalry | . with Great Britain and other iad talist powers and the growing an- {tavonism to the Soviet Union are | driving American imperialism head-| 7 j -Vear pistol at poor ane ie rae per ING for 14-Year Old Boy in Mellon Realm with the material war prevarations ical YORK, Pa. Jan. 11.—The arti- igo the equally important ideol a) preparations ‘such as the mobiliza-.| tion of “public opinion” in support| fieial darkness cast over Pennsyl- of the war and the use of the radio,/yania by Andy Mellon’s coal and the press, schools, churches. movies. | .+e¢] state government caused the vte, Pacifism will be the chief joss of a foucteen-year-old boy to- | jcamouflage and the most important | day, The boy is John Curry. con- instrument of American imperialism | yicted here at 12:30 p. ms of the in the coming war, as it was in the 'sirst degree murder of Nelson Reh- last war. Instead of the Fourteen Points, the Kellogg Peace Pact; in-| stead of the “war to make the world safe for democracy” the “war to make the world safe against bar- barous Bolshevism.” The whole machinery of war | propaganda is being prepared, the sugar coating to the pill of mili- \tarism, the sentimental pacifist justi- cation of the Kellogg-Hoover im- | fi perialist drive under the cloak. of the Kellogg Peace Pact. The bovr- geois women’s organizations will be one of the most important supports | |reyer, a farmer killed by Curry and associates who thought Reh- jmeyer. had bewitched them. The \jury ruled he was to be sentenced to life imprisonment. | | His associate, young Hess, was | |;aced on trial immediately. An- \other associate, Blymyer, has al- ready been convicted. The penalty for believing the orthodox religious superstitions too well, and making the superstitions a front page scandal in the news- | yapers, is not quite death, but it is | not much different. It means that lof the government not only when the war comes but in the preliminary pacifist offensive which will act as a smoke-sereen to cover the main at- tack. The bourgeois parties, the so- | cialist parties, the social workers, the women’s clubs, the women poli- | all ‘of John Curry’s life, if he lives | to be one hundred, will have had in | far as the’ law ‘can dictate, | j fourteen boyish years outside of prison walls and no more. Betrayed by Attorney. ticians are working day and night to drape the cloak of pacifism around the ugly nakedness of American imperialism. The work- | Curry’s attorney, appointed by |the conrt, refused to appeal the | lease. The jury had been out only | iwo hours. The judge barred all ing class must be. awake to this hut three reporters from the trial. situation and mobilize all its forces irvery effort was made to keep the to combat this campaign and UD | witchcraft angle out of it. Penn- jmask the hideous reahtyy of cnt, (Sivania’s institutions were on trial, italist imperialism and its hypocriti-| oq knew it. They were anxious to the author of the well-known amphlet “La Lucha Revolucionaria Imperialismo” (the Revo- Imperialist League conducted a joint | * campaign with the International |} Labor Defense for the release of |Contra El | Mella and his fellow prisoners. Pro- lutionary Struggle Against Tmper- | test meetings were held throughout sm). He tirelessly -and urceas- the United States. The campaign |inely carried on his anti-imperialist to free Mella reached such propor- |#ctivities. Just at the time cf the aud Yelectre magne ae almost) Thousands of American workers, nore important than his theory of although many of them are foreign- | i born, who knew “Big Bill” Haywood lin the days when he led them in) OK AHOM A GOV ‘battle against the bosses of this} & s t leountry, are inyited to send in Tet- | ters telling of their experiences with | cal lying defenders. Influenza Epidemic May Be World-Wide lay the blame on Curry, Blymyer | jand Hess. Mrs. McLean, Curry’s mother, |stood alone in the corridor outside | jthe courtroom door. No husband. | | child, relative or friend went to her. After the crowd ten. minutes tions thxt Machado was forced to release Mella on Dec. 23. The eleven | cthers arrested with Mella were left behind the prison bars. | “Mella continued his activity on| behalf of the workers and peasants | of Cuba and all Latin America, and was finally driven from Cuba by Machado and other agents of Amer- ican imperialism. Mella, after his veritable exile, visited the Soviet Union and then returned to Mexico te earry on his work on behalf of | the Communist movement and the anti-imperialist movement of Latin America. Letter to I. L. D. “In Meila’s last letter, dated Dec. | 15, 1928, he says: ‘I am sorry not to be able to help the International Labor Defense more, but, as _ex- plained, communications with Cuba are extremely difficult. Imagine that it takes a simple letter 15 days te reach Cuba from Mexico. This is an instance. of the tactics of im- perialism, While it has perfected means of communication with the United States, it places all pessible obstacles in the way of communica- tions between the Latin Americap countries.’ “Julio A. Mella was an outstand- ing leader of the revolutionary movement of;Latin America. He has been cut down by the imperial- ist assassins at scarcely more than 30 years of age. The government of the United ‘States, which controls the Machado -government of Cuba, is directly responsible for this hor- rible assassination. With his last Lreath, Julio, Mella spoke and worked on behalf of the toilers of ‘atin America, on behalf of the Communist ovement of Latin America, on ,/behalf of the work against the ‘White Terror of the American imperialist government in Latin America. Those of us who were privileged to know Comrade Mella realize ‘what a loss to the rev- murder, Mella was éngaged in“ex- posing the Machado regime ‘of ter- rorism against the revolutionists who are waging a struggle against Machado's terror, as well as against American imperialism. The U. S. Seetion of the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist. League a rounces this criminal act of the as- sin, Machado, and holds him di- Jrectly responsible for this terroris- \tic act, as well as the Wall Street, | Washington government, which ex- lercises control over Cuba. The U, S. Section of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League jcalls upon the workers and all sin- cere anti-imperialists to clase their ks and inte against American imper' our Latin § |rmst + join brother of the fight against rerialist oppression, t servants, butchers and executioners, of all who oppose, and fight imperialist aggression and terrorism. Down with American ism. Down with the assassif. Ma- chado. Down with Wall Street’s puppet murderers. American who are at the forefront im- ;Rebert Dunn Lectures jat Bronx Onen Forum ‘Tomorrow Night at 8 | Robert W. Dunn will lecture on \“The Full Garage” at the Bronx | Open Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave., to- | morrow evening at 8 o'clock. | Dunn, who recently made a spe- | cial study of the automobile indus- |try and written a book concerning (it, will destroy the myth of “good }eonditions” in that industry. He | will show that the garage is just about as full as the dinner pail of | pre-war times. Robert Dunn is executive secre- imperial- | FACES CHARGES Legislature Stopped Once by Militia OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan, 11.— Governor Henry T. Johnstone faces ' impeachment today for graft in the highway building and improper ap- pointments, as well as other accusa- | tions, covered with a blanket charge jof “incompetency.” | The Oklahoma legislature, which tried once before to impeach John. stone only to be driven from the state house by militia called out for that purpose by the governor, is now | again prepared to vote for impeach- | ment. The matter comes up today. | | Interested parties have succeeded | in postponing investigation of | | bribery of state senators to stop the impeachment. | An “Occultist.” | Johnstone last year was accused lof misuse of state money, of putting jn responsible positions persons con- | victed of crimes, and of turning over \to a secret fake religious outfit of “Rosicrucians” the right to decide ‘whether bills should be signed or ‘not. The religious sect was headed by a certain Mrs, O, Hammond, his | private secretary. | ‘The appearance of Hammonds be- | |fore the investigating committee was predicted. She has been charged | with being the “female Mussolini of | Oklahoma.” Enemy Heads Probe. A resolution demanding a thoro linvestigation of the state depart- lments and state officers, will be in- | troduced. Rep. John Head, bitter opponent of Governor Johnston and one of the leaders in the unsuccessful attempt him. Do not hesitate to write for | lack of literary style. Just tell of the Haywood you knew in your own | way, in your own language, If not in English we will translate. If in} bad English we wil 1 correct it. But tell of Haywood the fighter. Seared to Give Mother | Low Wages, Boy Steals, READING, Eng., (By Mail).— “I stole to help mother,” declared | Robert Bullock before the Reading | Police Court, when he was charged | with stealing $7.50 from the drawer | f a servant at the Nautical College, | Pankbourne. | He added that when he gave the money to his mother he gave her the} impression that the money came out | of his wages. The court placed him | on probation. Dance to Open Harlem | Youth Center Tonight | grand dance at 2 E. 110th St, |brate this important occasion. The Harlem Youth Center will be |ing France, former President Miller- officially opened tonight with a|and, Minister of War Painleve, Min- All |ister Leygues and General Lasson workers and young workers of Har-|were among those attending. The lem are invited to attend and cele- |Duke of Genoa represented Italy at WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UP).—| ; The present influenza epidemic will jrarted and with a newspaper woman Le world-wide in. scope if it con-|from New York as her sole com- tinues to spread similar to previous |Panion she walked unsteadily from epidemics, a committee appointed to | the building. study progress of the disease re- ported today to health officials and scientists from 20 states gathered here. The committee estimated duration of the disease at from five to ten; d weeks in one community; said it ap- | Ported her boilers had exploded. parently had reached its peak in the | The vessel failed to give name, midwest, but continued to spread in |}osition or nationality and yas si- SHIP BLOWN UP BREST, France, Jan. 11 (UP).— | | Coastal wireless stations reported | picking up an S. 0. S. today from ‘an unidentified steamship which re- | ‘Young Visits Coolidge s. the east and New England states. jlent after the brief distress message jhad been sent. worker in. your shop comes along with you.” Two meetings were held in Bos- ton among the needle workers yes- terday, As reported, one was called by the Schlesinger right wing gang and the other by the new Industrial | Needle Trades Workers’ Union, Steiner Hall, the scene of the hlesinger meeting, and having a seating capacity of over 300, was half empty despite the fact that the right wing call to the meeting in- Ratntona olnearela wavarnment to, | “ded also’ members of the Amal- night withstood the first attack of| S*mated Clothing Workers’ Union. radical socialist leaders when a mo-| While the left wing meeting, held tion of misconfidence in the cabinet|in Paine Memorial Hall which has was defeated in the chamber of|® capacity of 800, was jammed till deputies by a vote of 317 against| every Piece of available space was GILBERT SAVES POINCARE'S 108 to Plan Extortion PARIS, Jan. 11 (U.P).—Premier} 253. taken. Thunderous ovations greeted ‘, ok | the speakers, President Hyman and PARIS, Jan, 11.—Premier Ray-| Secretary Gold of the new union. mond Poincare told the chamber of deputies today that he had been per- suaded by S. Parker Gilbert, agent general of reparations, to remain in power when the last cabinet crisis. arose. Parker Gilbert “demonstrated rea- sons” why the impending conference of experts to settle the reparations) problem should not be delayed by continual cabinet crises in France, Poincare said, and he agreed. | Amalgamation was carried thru | with an enthusiasm that even sur- passed the demonstrations held at the last convention of the scab union. The meeting pledged by unant- mously voted resolutions to give | moral and heavy financial aid to the |strike of the dressmakers in New York, which is to be the first test jot strength of the new union. ee * PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11. — The French chamber expressed! pronarations for the meeting where some astonishment at this calm| revelation of the degree ito’ which| {0 and cloak and dress unions are the House of Morgan ‘anti Wall 0 merge, are almost completed, the Street, to whom 8S. Parker Gilbert leaders here announce. The meet- is completely subservient, could dic-| ™& 3S to be held next Wednesday tate internal French government| ver 08’, ™ the Bealanc: Hall, Say policies, but took no action, The] “th and Pine Sts. fact that Poincare does what men with money. tell him to do was known already, but no one expected Workers here were enthused by jthe news recently announced—that | President Hyman and Secretary |Gold were to: come to address the him to say so. i La | mass meeting, That a big turnout * i | is expected is an understatement of Young In Washington. | the true sentiment existant. The WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Owen| meeting, unionists here predict, will D. Young, copsidered the “unoffi-|be the biggest gathering of needle * cial” Coolidge (and Morgan) repre- sentative of the U. S. on the com- mittee of experts which will meet in April to modify the Dawes plan, spent a long conference hour with President Coolidge, today, going over the question of Dawes repara- tions. He’ then went into confer- ence with Secretary of State Kel- logg, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, and S. Parker Gilbert. bert had an appointment with the president, but it was postponed on account of a cabinet meeting. Veto Lean Plan. The most important recent de- velopment in this country in regard to German reparations is the deci- sion of American bankers that the English-French proposal to float an $8,000,000,000 German loan in U, S. in order to pay future reparations Gil-| | workers yet held in Philadelphia. payments to the allies, is not per- | missible. | The American bankers point out | that this means that Wall Street ‘raises money which eventually jcomes back as payments on the French-English debts to U. S. They | want to profit directly from any loans to Germany, and to receive in addition any debt payments that can be squeezed out of France and England. This means that German reparations payments may have to |remain as they are, to enable France |and England to pay. | France and England propose, | aside from the German loan in U. S., ja reduction of German payments in proportion to a reduction of French- English debts to U. S. Governments ofFrance, |~ Italy at Nicholas’ Bier PARIS, Jan. 11.—High French of- | ficials attended ceremonies at the Russian Church today for the late | Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. | The ceremonies were held simul- taneously with those at Cannes, where the burial took place. ! Marshal Foch, Marshal Joffre, Marshal Petain, officially represent- Cannes and Petain went. there also. | Every Worker— | SHOULD Every Party Member and Sympathizer Lenin Memorial WEAR A olutionary ovement of Latin! tary of the Labor Research Asso- America is his! murder. | ciation and has been active in var- “The workers of this country |ious phases of labor investigation must join wich the workers of Latin | for many years. He has written America in @ storm of protest @uthoritative monographs on many against the vile regime of assassina- | of his research findings. tion which has been set up in Cuba | by American imperialism. We must |Rockford, Til, Will close our ranks. We must establis! ig closer connections with the Commu- Celebrate Lenin Day ROCKFORD, Ul, Jan. 11,—The nist Parties and the revolutionary workers of Latin America to make | good this loss to our movement. We | fifth birthday of ihe Daily Worker imust demonstrate to these imperial- | and Lenin Memorial Day will be jst butehers that Julio Mella has |jointly celebrated by local units of not lived and died in vain. Down |the Workers (Communist) Party at with White Terror in Latin Amer-|a meeting at C. I. A. C., 320 Kent ica! Long live the revolutionary St., at which William Kruse will be work against American imperialism |the principal speaker. of Julio A. Mella!” Kruse will be supported by other |representatives and a musical pro- |gram has been arranged. “The function of the sovicts, the significance of the dictntor- ship. in the organized use of force against counter - revolution, the wefexuarding of the achievements in the interests nd based on th TWO NEGROES DROWN BALTIMORE, Jan. 11 (UP).— |Two Negroes were droyyned vin a ire today, trying to escape through the flooding cellar of a burning building, nuthority in the government. nation governs the entire ch by Lenin. Lenin mem- to impeach the governor two years | ago, was slated to be selected as | \chairman of the committee. After adoption of the resolution jand appointment of the investiga-- ting committee, the House is ex- pected to adjourn until Monday. Sold through all Workers Organi: You May Be Too * e |Late If you wait . . To buy your tickets Poaay tite 3 At the door for the * * ° Duncan Dancers ¥ * * ° | Buy them at the | ae | Office of the | Cea epee Daily Worker eo « NOW! Button » These buttons carry a good picture of Lenin and the slogans: “FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR” “DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION” All Party Units! . Order Your Buttons NOW! WORKERS (Communist) PARTY National Office: 43 East 125th Street, New York City (Communist Party District zations LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING yl tes eee