The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1929, Page 2

te: CHAUVINISTS ALSO APPLAUD KELLOGG PACT Communists — Call for | Fight on War Danger WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The | imperialist drive of the American government will again be aided women’s organizations with convening on January 29th in Wash- ington of the Women’s Patriotic Conference on National Defense, | This conference, representing thirty- | three national women’s organiza-| tions, all of them extreme nationalist | and chauvinist in character, of the | 300 per cent American variety, an- nounces that “a major part of its | time will be devoted to discussion cf | methods of organizing women’s groups all over the country to sup- port measures of national defense.” | They mean “support the American | ist war.” Legion In Charge. conference is under ihe | ship of the American Legion, | and the chairman of the conference is Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, who announces that 500 | es of American women’s or- | | the | | ganizations will be present at the | conference which “will place special | emphasis upon passage of the} cruiser bill, through visits to their | represcntatives in congress if that! measure is not disposed of by the | senate prior to the convening of the j conference.” Already all thirty- | three national organizations com- posing the conference have adopted | resolutions supporting the cruiser | bill and are determined to make a/ fight for it. Of Course, For “Pacts.” The reactionary bourgeois women patriots are also ardent supporters of the Kellogg Peace Pact. The.conference will open Tues- January 29. The roll of the; men’s organizations participating a summing up of imperialist, militarist reaction and national chauvinism : American Legion Auxiliary, American War Mothers, American | DAILY WORKER, Women F ascistt. S upport Imperialist W YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1929 White Terror War Program; Backing Bi llion Dollar Navy LEWIS GANG AID. NO-STRIKE LAW UMWA Lawyer Asks Watson Bill Pass WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Pro- ponents of the Waison bill providing \for federal regulation of the bitumin- with distillery interest ous coal industry started laying their ease before: the senate interstate commerce committee today. Henry Warrum, attorney for the in the proposed legislation but said | Women’s Legion Auxiliary Sons of |«jt would be a long step in the right the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Auxiliary Disabled Veterans } of the World War, Colonial Daugh- | ters of the Seventeenth Century, ! Daughters of the American Colo- nists, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Daugh- | ters of the Revolution, Government | Club of New York, Government Club of Chicago, Ladies ‘of the Grand Army of the Republic, ~ Ladies of | Union Veterans Legion, Ladies’ Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars | of United States, National Society | of Colonial Daughters of America, | National Society Daughters of; Founders and Patriots, National So- | ciety United Daughters of 1812, Na-| tional Auxiliary United Spanish/ Wan Veterans, National Society Dames of the Loyal Legion, Na- tional Society of New England Wonten, National Allied Veteran and | Patriotic Organizations, National direction.” ne bill makes strikes practically icult and allows owners to legally | form trusts and monopolies with which to crush labor. : SEARCH ANCIENT RUSSIAN TRIBE Political Retusces of 400 Years Ago (Continued from Page One) from the Yakutia district and claimed to have penetrated the ice- | bound fastness of the vanished col- | ony. He told of a people speaking di $274,000,000 More for ‘Dry’ Spies and Bunk WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The senate late today adopted the Harris amendment to the first deficien appropriation bill giving an add tional $24,000,000 to the treasury de- partment for prohibition. The amendment was adopted over the protest of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, supposed to enforce prohibition but actually connected Immediately after this vote the Senate adopted the Glass amend- raent without a record vote, appro- priating another $250,000 to be used | | United “Mine Workers of America, by President-elect Hoover when he {the Lewis company union, who help-|takes ofice for an investigation of ed draft the bill admitted weaknesses | prohibition enforcement. More For War. 0, A 306 progran: for con- struction of army air corps build- ings dvring 1£21, a part of the army housing program, was intro- duced today by Represextative James, Republican, Michigan. SHOE WORKERS MEET TOMORROW Will Make Plans for Strike Activity The Joint Council of the Inde-| pendent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New York has arranged a mass meeting for tomorrow evening in Brooklyn, at a hall to be an- HOOVER TRAVELS ~INROYAL STYLE Pilot Train and Spiked Switches Show Fear MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 22.—Safeguards equalling, if not surpassing, those about royalty were thrown about President-elect Hoover on this trip from Washington to Miami, Florida. DISCRIMINATION TO NEGROES IN. MISSOURI RIFE NegyoChildren Refused School Facilities | (Crusader News Service) | ST. LOUIS, Jan. “Missouri is guilty of great discrimination and | segregation of Negroes in the edu-| cational system of that state,” de-| clared N. B. Young, inspector in the | Negro schools of Missouri, “although | Negro children have as great a claim | upon Missouri as have the white/| chi mn,” During a recent survey of Negro, education in the state of Missouri he | encountered situations in one school district that are typical of all other | districts in the state. In response to} a call from this district, he visited William Greenwood veads his What with Bolsheviks and such, he for another flood. So he has built He Takes His Superstition Literally. world grows wicked, god sends a flood to wipe out all but one fa mily. Olympia, Wash., for the high waters. community don't approve of him. They know that religion is to keep workers working and docile no matter how low the wages go. BRITISH GATHER "ARMY AGAINST DESERT ARABS ‘Iraq Cabinet Resigns; Demand Withdrawal LONDON, Jan. 22—The killing of the American missionary Henry A. Bilkert, on the Iraq border by a \division of the Wahabi tribes known as the Ikn Wan, has offered Britain the much desired opportunity to make use of the tanks, airplanes and military forces massed on the frontier to attempt to force Ibn Saud, independent king of Arabia, {to come to terms. All available armored cars have {already been sent to the desert sta- tion of the British Royal Air Force jat Shaibah, near the Arabian frontier, persumably to hunt for the bible and thinks that when the considers the world must be ready the ark, above, and stands by, at The religious leader of the it and found that there had been no publie school for Negro children there for a great many years, altho there had been more than enough Negro children there, under the law. Yet, regardless of the law, a school | was denied them because the white | residents of the district refused to| TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. recognize the erection of the build-,22.—The poet and author, Froylan ing. Turcios, representative here of Gen- Whites Refuse Negio. School. eral Sandino, has published the fol- Sandino Agent | The conference with the white mor that Sandino has proposed to} | members of the board brot out the ) resident Moncada of Nicaragua that | “liberal” opinion that it would be a/that country be divided, with Mon-| |simpler solution of the situation for cada in one jurisdiction and Sandino | the Negro families to move to a dis-|in another: | \trict where school facilities are al-| ,, i i | ready provided for Negroes than for! T do not believe that Sandino | the white people in the district to Proposed to divide the territory of | impose additional taxes upon them- Nicaragua, ‘As soon as I have proof | selves, especially since the Negroes |°% the falsity of that report, I will | lave not fealioldaca, advise the press. Sandino never was | so strong as at present. His army) “Law.” is today more numerous and more} It therefore happens that in that|warlike, He will give terrible and district, as in many others, the Negro bloody lessons to the Nicaraguan children are denied free school op-|troops, who, betraying their land and | portunities, although this is in viola-|their liberty, unite with the Yankee | tion of the law. In this and other buccaneers to insult and enslave the | |instances the whites are willing to land that gave them birth.” | He Would Divide Nicaragua 1 | | | lowing statement regarding the mu-| tribesmen involved in the attack up- jon the missionary, but more speci- |fically to help the insurgent section of the Wahabis against Ibn Saud. The latter recently succeeded in put- ting down a similar revolt with the |coordination of his chieftains. Brit- jish planes are already scouring | Arabian territory. | Iraq, over which Britain has a mandate, is pushing ahead for in- Denies That dependence, and a crisis was created FORCES BUILT lyesterday when the cabinet re- |signed, refusing to accept the | British demand that a British force should remain in Iraq for a further junspecified time, that Iraq should |pay the cost for the maintenance of \the British forces and’ that appoint- iments to the higher command should ;be subject to British approval. At the same time demonstrations against British rule have taken place. Up to this date the British forees ‘have served two functions: one, maintaining British dominance over _Ivaq; and, two, supporting tribes in Arabia in a revolt against the king |Ibn Saud, who has thus far resisted every attempt of British imperialism At.Needle Union Active Member Meeting (Continued from Page One) as well as unorganized workers with the message of the union and with the strike call when it is issued. * * * Election -preparations are com- pleted and evidence is given that the turnout will be a large one. Officers for the United Joint Board and executives and function- aries of the individual locals will lose the funds forfeitable by non- | compliance with the law. They re- |gard such a loss as a real gain, since they derive great satisfaction from the fact that they prevent the Negro from securing an educ: A pilot train ran twenty minutes lahead of the Atlantic Coast Line special «n which Mr. Hoover rode, and a follow-up train thirty minutes behind. No trains were permitted Tace hatred, discrimination and se- between. Ro ols a group of Negro chil- No freight” train <was allowed to dren is literally growing up in ignor- seb 4 ance in Missouri, and there are hun- division while the dreds and thousands in the same special train was crossing it. Even situation. north-bound passenger trains were, To make the racial discrimination required to stop at the approach of Be ane hee more bind dinton it is re- . s ang | Portes at in an adjoining district, ami the follow-up train hes passed, nec Mas een mainlaned each 5 *iyear for a singl i All kinds of special crews and equip- 1a. aie Avadent,: 8 “white ment are provided. Tiare: Hides Behind Women. i . Every switch was spiked down so 3 Minute Earthquake thoroughly that two men working} Shakes Italian City with crew-bars would be unable to) dislocate it. Special wrecking appa-| i |ratus would be necessary to pry such, , PERUGIA, Italy, Jan, 22 (UP). a switch loose. \A_ strong earthquake lasting three Hoover arrived at Miami at 9 p. | ninutes Shook Citta Di Castello to- m. today, and held a parade thru the |¢@Y, frightening the inhabitants. city with bombs being set off in the| The people remained indoors, how- side streets, to make a noise like the|€¥er, because of the intense cold. presidential salute, and the W. C.|The thermometer was at 14 below T. U. accompanying him. | zero. move on any ation. Due to! Turcios, in addition, publishes a/all be elected at these elections. letter he has written to Sandino,| The union is issuing calls tothe urging Sandino that the only condi-| workers to come to demonstrate jtion Sandino should demand before | their enthusiasm for the union and he lays down his arms and ends his for the strike, by rallying in masses campaign, is that all armed Yankees | to the elections. The polling places leave Nicaragua. Turcios, himself, | will be the following: Furriers at evidently desiring only a thin form|22 KE. 22nd St. ladies’ garment of bourgeois national independence, | workers at 16 W, 21st St. and in |says he would be satisfied with Mon- | Bryant Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth jcada as president if only there were! Aye, Voting hours are between 9 ‘no Yankee marines around, appar-/ a, m, and 7 p. m. ently somewhat blind to the fact! * * jthat it was by the grace of the! Workers all over the needle trades jmarines Moncada. was placed in| industry are now busily engaged in power, |electing shop representatives to the That with Moncada in the presi-| first united regular shop delegates’ dency, broadcasting sycophantic eul-| Conference. This conference will be ogies to the Yankee marines who|held on the same day as will the put him there and who have been| élections, Thursday evening, imme- massacring Nicaraguans, erecting| diately after work, in Manhattan Lyceum. The imminent general strike in * |monuments to the Yankee marine} \commanders and ready at any in-| to subjugate the country. Despite a treaty signed between Iraq and Britain in London in 1927 ‘recognizing Iraq as an “independent ‘sovereign state,” British troops and armaments dominate the country. The chief reason of course is that the Anglo-Persian oil company, British controlled, owns the Mosul oil fields in Iraq, and the oil supply ‘must be guaranteed for British im ' perialism. The Ikn Wan scouts, who are al- \leged to have killed the American, jare known to be those involved in | the Yevolt against Ibn Saud. | RES CEES Sess |the dress trades and the election of |the council’s delegation to the Joint | Board, will be the business to be |taken up. The shop delegates coun- ‘cil is assigned one-third of ‘the en- |tire Joint Board delegation. stant to summon these marines back lagain, Nicaraguan independence) jew be totally lost if Sandino, | trusting to the semblance of inde- | |pendence, would be tricked into sur-| jrendering his arms, seemed to be a| jviewpoint that Turcios, the bourgeois Newest Selected "(ae old Russian, totally unaware of any- ‘ é ; | paar St i RE ete oe ee i thing that has taken place in the |7°Unced in the Daily Worker to-' discrimination and reductions rang- world since the 16th century and|™orrow. The purpose of this meet-|ing from 5 to 35 per cent. scarcely aware of the existence of |ing will be to intensify the cam-| When the demands were reported, other humans. |paign which the union is at present the officials of the union attempted ‘About 200. carrying on among the shoe work-/to negotiate with the concern and Then recently a Yakut named ¢?S to resist wage reductions which!a settlement was almost in sight, Arosin came from the Siberian ice |#"¢ being made in the entire trade.|but the firm changed its mind at Society Patriotic Builders of Ameri- ca, Inc.; National Patriotic Council, New York Colony of New. England’ Women, Order of the First Families of Vitginia, Society of Sponsors of Unitef States Navy, Women's Re- lief , Women of the Army and ee cok lintellectual, does not share. | eg | ne shock was the strongest of} Even with the over-advertised | 6) Uu Mm iy a R d the intermittent tremors which have \“withdrawal” of marines now sup- | ecor 8 been felt here since early in Decem- |posed to be going on, there are 370 ber. new marines coming into Nicaragua | Minor tremors also were felt | to take the place of those leaving, | in Tolentino and Castelplanio, There On January 25th we will have a very big surprise in records, ‘ , oe | to you. MUSIC LOVERS come to our store, and listen to were no casualties or damage re-'and it is admitted that at least 3,500 | them on one of our phonographs. ported from any of the three towns. marines are remaining. | Navy, Legion of Valor, biel Iderness with a story of a Rus-| (One of the main single purposes|the last moment and broke off all| HMA | Also try some of the following Records: Oveiteds Service League, Women’s| i: 0° Pe voor the mouth of the (of the meeting will be to continue| negotiations. A strike was declared ae iN a OPEN DAIL 40" és Nay iiaperviee, Women’s. Constitu- Tritigtn ‘River, where i br into |the organizational work connected|by the Joint Council at its Monday pn Dy i 5 iN | fick > ¥ 20070 ~—- Bolshevik Galop .... Orchestra tional) League of Virginia. the north Polar Sea. He said the |With the strike the union has de-|night session and the crew began i cil Yi m9 4, 9 Dd. m, |] 20074 New Russian Hymn . Singing eWorking Women Oppose. _| tribe lived a clean, moral and re? ‘lated against the Feifer Brothers | picketing the shop yesterday after-| a an dsl SUL | |i] 20046 La Marsallaies ..... . Singing _ Whether under the cloak of paci-|tigious life and his report ‘agreed | Slipper Company. _|noon, : aim Pi 20085 Workers Funeral March . vs... Singing fist ijeralism or open reaction the | ith zinzonoff's story. This company, located at 342 w.| Tie strike at the Vincent Hor-| 4 Our glasses are fitted by expert 12082 = Russian Waltz .. (Accordion Solo) Magnante wom; of the bourgeoisie ave ready | srosin said the colony contained jidth St., was under union control | witz now enters its second week and Vi ee | mechanics to insure comfortable The Two Guitars (Ace. Solo-Guit) Magnante to put over the next war as they about 200 persons, and scientists as- fT, three years, until recently, it} the spirit among the strikers is very} | {| TF wear and neat appearance. 12076 Tosca (Waltz) .. -..-Russian Novelty Orchestra did the,last. The working women’s serted that it was probable the or- | decided to establish an open shop.| good. The workers at the Vincent y] i P Broken Life (Waltz) -Russian Novelty Orchestra ongapyizations are preparing @ liginal settlers had diminished to{!" spite of the fact that the firm | Horwitz are striking against a wage | A (rk : 12079 ‘In the Trenches of Manchuria ++ Waltz counter-offensive to resist this re-lit ot number Heckithe “af cng ‘eaves had an agreement with the union) reduction which the bosses demand, | ih i hs Ine: Wik lec oy or waltz actionary move to the limit. ON ration from the world. Apparently, which does not expire before Sept.| cuts ranging from 10 to 50 per cent.) ~ B ernie Pelee: Willen Opileat 65) 12059 Cuckoo Waltz Columbia Quintette Wor} ‘ing women’s organizations the colony is nearing extinction and 1, it submitted demands to the crew| The strikers are holding daily meet- | > OPTOMETRISTS — OPTICIANS 12051 Danube Waves nternational Dance Orch. all qyer the country are also mobil- 6x Bhat eancit the Chirikhin expedi- | Which were: no union shop, securi-| ings and are determined to carry on) « 1690 LEXINGTON AVENUF., Corner 106th St. On the Shore Initoitiational Danee-Omk, izing, under the leadership of sc) tion! rushéd its preparations Spedi- "ties of $200 from each employee, their struggle, N ‘ 12083 Baviena (Waltz) Mabel ‘Wayne Ametica to fight imperialism and| OM Political Refugees. | The Seashore . w+ -Waltz the war danger and first of all to| The journey to Indigir is difficult 12062 = Espanola (Waltz) . ‘columbia Dance’ Orch, wage a determined struggle against |9"d the rest of the 1,000-mile trip . 12063 International Waltz . ..++.Umbracio Trio the bourgeois women’s movement, |#!ong the river will present great f 12066 Beautiful Roses—Mazzurka.. .. «Romani Violin Solo ba Sdn pe nk, i ne DISTRIBUTE a Bundle of || 32 of the Soviet Union which is hated} The fact that great numbers of by all imperialisms. LABOR SPORTS The results of the games in the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League | Sunday were: | Division A--Rob Roy 5, N. Y. Magles 0; Argentine Workers 2, lungarian Workers 0. Division B—Freiheit 0, Harlem P jive 0; Red Star 1, Estho- nian Workers 0. | Division C—Scandinavian Work- | prs 6, Co-operative 0. The results of the games in the yn Workers’ Soccer League Freiheit 5, Mohawk 0; Atlan- Scandinavian 0. In an exhibi- game between Red Star and fagabond the score was tied at ae Se 5 ‘OVERIT TEAM BEATS DLONIALS IN BASKETBALL In a fast game between the two s in the Eastern District La- ts Union basketball league unday afternoon the Brooklyn Toverit team nosed out the 1 Colonials by 34-82. The 40th St. \What to Do With $4? iGive It to the “Daily” Russians fled to the inaccessible portions of Siberia in the 16th cen- tury to escape political persecution has strengthened the theory of scien- tists supporting the expedition and they believe it is probable that the “lost colony” is one such group of refugees. 3 Workers Ponder and A personal wager made last week resulted yesterday in the contribu- | tion of four dollars to the Daily Worker. Morris Berkowitz and Sam Sherman, two workers, wagered two dollars on something or other (the subject of the wager was not di- vulged to the Daily Worker re- porter) and ¥. Frank was chosen as referee and bet-holder. Sam Sher- man won, Meeting on the question of what to do with the money, the unani- mous decision was that the two dol- Jars wagered, plus one dollar each from the winner and referee should | be contributed to the Daily Worker. 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