The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, INDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 U.S. Invaders of Central A MARINES MURDER CAPTIVE SOLDIER IN NICARAGUA Jiron, Sandino General, Shot After Capture TEGUCIGALPA 10.—The United es Marines have deliberately murdered a cap- tive Sandino general, Manuel Maria Jiron, a G lan who had com- manded Sandino’s army Honduras, Mar. of Nic nce up to about a month m he was captured. He was captured by Marine and ailed e- ports 1 marines not be concerning plans could him. It a fastly refu: Angered the U. but to execute him. and turned this di ob over to the sm nercen- force of so-called Nicaraguan “volunteers” so as to give the mur. der the color of being a_ strictly Nicaraguan affair. Jiron was forced to go along, with a little band of these assas- sins headed by one Juan Escamillo, supposedly to hunt Sandino’s camp. Official accounts from Managua state that his command was being led into a region infested with out- laws (the “outlaws” being Sandino troops), which would not be sur- prising in view of the statement that the “party” was purposely | going into the region where Sandino had his headquarters. Upon this thin excuse, Jiron was murdered in cold blood, the deed | S. Marines decided not to |t treat Jiron as a prisoner of war, | re Off to Slaughter Natives for Wall Street hows a detachment of regular army troops who sailed oklyn army ba on the transport St. Mihiel, Wall Street is strengthening peasants’ determination to over- Red Army trom First Year to Present Dav in Figures the; -called counts say MOSCOW (By Mail).—On the oc- on of the eleventh anniversary “ordered Jiron’s execution on. the |0f the Red Army the Political Ad- spot.” ministration of the Red Army pub- The official account from Man- agua, caragua, hypocritically ing jts development composi- states: “American marines appar- 4:5), ently had no part in the execution “" ” of Jiron, the entire affair being in| The army today numbers one- the hands of Nicaraguans.” third of the tsarist y. In 1914 This is flatly contradicted by the fact that U. S. Marine headquarters has reneatedly issued statements de- claring that the marines, and not the “volunteers” or even the so- called “national guard’ are in charge of all military operations and emphatically asserting that all of both the “national guards” and the “volunteers” are stri sub- ordinate to American officers and act only under their orders. the Russian standing army consisted of 1,423,000 officers and men. In 1918 the Red Army numbered 106,- 060 and with the growing danger to the Soviet Union increased in 1919 000, in 1920 to 3,538,000 and to 4,110,000 when the coun- lutionary armies were de- feated. The Red Army membership then decreased to 1,590,000 in 1 How King Alexander Climbed Bloody Steps to Serbian Throne By GABRIEL PERI. (Translated from L’Humanité by Valentine V. Konin) From May to June 1903, the Kara- georgevitch dynasty was climb- ing the bloody steps of the royal| throne of Serbia. King Alexander, | his wife, and the Queen Draga of! the Obrenovitch family, accused of practising the policy of Austo-Hun- garian oppressors, had been stran- gled in their beds. Two men had perpetrated the crime which upset all Europe even! at the hour when the old Ottoman Empire was approaching the last phase of its decline. One of these men, Dragoutine Dmietrievitch call- ed himself Apis; the other one car- ried the name of Peter Jivkovitch. The latter is now the president of the Yugoslavian council—a true mas- ter of the Belgrade dictatorship; the former was assassinated by his old accomplices in tragic circumstances which are well to recall. “Black Hand.” A few years after the nocturnal drama which gave the Karageorge- vitches the opportunity to wear the royal crown, Jivkovitch and Apis re- united with their followers. They constituted the famous organization known as the “Black Hand,” whose members swore by their swords and pledged themselves to a lifelong struggle for the great Serbia, that is the Union of all Serbs, Croats, | Macedonians and Albanians under {thinking of making secret negotia- to 703,600 in 1923 and beginning ith 1924 the Red Army was sta- d at 562000. rposition of the nd under the s as follows: In| E n Army was com- sed of 14.1 per cent workers, 69.3 r cent peasants and 16.5 per cent At the present time work- | itute 18.1 per cent of the Red Ar peasants 71.3 per cent ond others 10.6 per cent. tions with Vienna; they wanted to appease the anger of the relatives of the assassinated archduke; they expected to profit by the occ ” to satiate their vengeance on their for- ers con: merican State Use Firing Squad to Kill Native Leader NEEDLE UNION IS HUISWOOD IN TO HEAR REPORT ON BIG STRIKE TOCONVENTION . Meeting Today (Continued from Page One) quarters at 131 W. 28th St, dai for morning picket duty at the struck shops, informed the workers | that the general strike phase had} been ended by the strike commitee, | and that the anti-sweat-shop drive | would be continued thruout the sea- son. This morning was the first on which picket volunteers were as- signed to duty at the individual | shops. A general membership meeting, | of the Trade Union Educational League groups in all locals in the} New York Joint Board is to be held tonight at 7:30 p. m. in Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. The meet- ing will take to discussion the si uation now before their organization and the tasks of the organized left) wing workers in the industry. * oe Reports from the new local of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union in Boston, attest to the rapid growth of that organization since its establishment. Announcement was yesterday made of a celebration of the opening of the new and large headquarters of the union, to take! place on March 23, The new union offices will be thrown open for inspection by the workers in the morning and will re- main open all day. In the evening a huge banquet will be held in the Wellington Hill Auditorium. All labor organizations are requested to send representatives. i Several national leaders of the union will be at this banquet to ad- dress the gathering. Conditions at Childs Bad, Says the Spanish Paper ‘La Vida Obrera’ Great number of the Latin Ameri- ean workers in New York City are employed in restaurants and cafe- terias at the most miserable salar- ies. In the Spanish language paper of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., “La Vida Obrera” (Workers’ | land. midable enemy, Apis. At one time they were thinking of assassinating him, but the plot died out, Then the Salonica frame- up_took place. Its history is tald in a&iremarkable book by the former wilmister Bognitchevitch. Apis was accused of high treason, tried in a room with closed doors, condemned to death and executed. The “Black Hand” came to an end. With the same statutes, the same methods, the same ceremonies another organi- zation was born, created by Jivko- vitch and called “White Hand.” It is this “White Hand” that has been making laws in Yugoslavia for the past ten years. Thanks to it, the Serbian regime has endeavored to consclidate by force its hegemon- ious politics within the state and to assure itself of the support of the great imperialists outside of the state. Auction Its W-alth. To carry out its policy the Serb- ian bourgeoisie has not hesitated to place its national wealth at auction. Today 80 per cent of its mines are in the hands of foreign capital. I military equipment has been rei \foreed to the extent that its ex-| |penses consume 20 per cent of the Life), is told the story of the Latin workers in Childs restaurants. The “Vida Obrera” shows how wages have been cut 50 per. cent at “Childs” since four years ago, and the hours increased until now the work-day is regularly 11 hours. “La Vida Obrera” is the voice of the Com- munist Party calling these yaaa gle es to organize in the Amalgamated | ihe we Communists in the Red Food Workers Union, which is a mil-| Army w as 88.0005. 39 1919, 212,681; itant union not dominated by the yel-| in 1920, 278,040; in 1921, 192,427; in iow traitors of the A. F. of L. 90,583 and the the present | “New York workers who are not Spanish speaking have a chance to) The national composition of the help “La Vida Obrera”, in a yay Red Army is as follows: Russians, most pleasant to themselves, by at-/ 64.8 per cent; Ukrainians, 17.4 per /tending the “Sandino Ball” to be cent; White-Russian, 4.2 per cent; given by the Spanish group of the Jews, 2.1 per cent; Tartars, 2 per Communist Party Saturday evening cent. The other nationalities in the | March 16. There will be unique en- Red Army constitute less than 2 per |tertainment of Spanish songs ané@ cent each. dances, many of the singers being ntensive educational work is car- | Spanish women, who will sing the oe pa sites Army. vo ‘iter. Shop, 26 Union Square; at the Span- ate is not allowed to leave its ranks. |ino March’ i ing its existence about 545,000) Tickets for this delightful affair ruits were taught to read and are on sale at the Workers Book write. At the present time the Red |shop, 26 Union Square; at the Span- | Army has 1,523 libraries, containing |ish Workers’ Center, 55 West 113 9,000,000 books, It also has 730 clubs, | Street; at the Unity Cooperative, | rainst 383 in 1918. There are 640 |1800 Seventh Avenue, and at the, nema sets in the army, compared |Negro Champion, 165 West 133 with 208 in 1925. Most of the edu- | street. The number of Communists in the Red Army varies, according to ob- jestive conditions. , In 1920, the most critical year in the existence of the Soviet Union,. the number. of Com- munists in the Red Army was at its ‘maximum and was equal to 34 per cent of the total membership of the Communist Party. In 1918 the NEGRO REPORT . (Issue Call for Mass/Daily Publishes Second Section of Statement (Continued from Page One) a large scale, creating a real vroletarian element, gives us a hotter basis for actual organiza- tional activities. With the indus- trializaton of the South, large numbers of Negroes have left the plantations for urban centers and are engaged in the various indus- tries. While we must pay imme- diate attention to organizing the | Negroes in the industrial centers of the South, we must bear in mind that the overwhelming ma- jority of Negroes are still on the We must realize that the bulk of them are tenant farmers, share croppers, farm laborers and peons, We have entirely neglected to do any work among the Negro | farmers, and yet here is a very important field for activity that must be tackled at once. The ruthless exploitation and persecu- tion of the Negro masses in the South, the lynching, segregation and disfranchisement which they suffer, make possible the forma- tion of an agrarian movement which might take on the charac- teristics of a race movement. In such developments it will be our } task to see to it that the new proletarian elements in the urban centers and the semi-proletarians on the land are the driving force in these movements in order to give them a working class leader- ship. We have the following tasks facing our Party in its Negro work: 1. The Party must immediate- ly launch a general organization drive for Negro membership. 2. We must immediately begin the training of cadres of Negro Communists. 8. A strong ideological cam- paign must be carried on thruout the Party against white chauvin- ism, 4. A campaign to organize the unorganized Negro workers in trade unions and a campaign to break down the color bar in the old unions must be launched. 5. Organization work in the South must be started immediate- ly; a conerete program to organ- ize the Negro farmers must be worked out. 6. The American Negro Labor Congress must be activized; preparations must be made to call another convention of the ANLC as soon as possible. 7. After careful preparation a race congress should be called. 8. The entire Party must be | mobilized behind the Negro Cham- pion. 9. Increased activities must be started among the Negroes, women, youth and children. 10. The Negro problem must be a part.of all Party campaigns and of its auxiliary organizations. 11. The Negro masses must be mobilized against the war dan- ger and against imperialist at- tacks upon the Soviet Union. The | Negro press, among other means, must be» utilized to the fullest possible extent for this purpose. Aspire Lead paisa of Workers fr FASCISTS SWING IMPERIAL FIST AT ROME MEET i} Tell Labor's “Joys” Un- der Bloody Regime (Continued from Page One) “Our harbors were stagnant on ac- count of strikes, but the regime has equipped them and restored them to perfect efficiency and discipline.” On Italian fascist imper war preparations, he coldnies are a projection of the pow- ler of the country. Somaliland and Farther Guibaland have been paci fied. Tripoli and Bengasi now pre- jsent the spirit of the Italian people.” | In the part of his speech referring to the alliance between the Catholic Church and the fascist state Musso- lini openly declared his intention of Y., taking annual training school for \ Photo shows group in army building, N. examinations for admission to West Point, butchers of the work using the church organization, both Hoover Will Appoint Slave- at home and abroad, to win allies Minded to “Black Cabinet?’ rcs: ana precise. agree- {ments (pact with the Vatican) jereate between Italy and the Holy |or the sale of Liberia to American | See a situation of loyalty,” he said. imperialism, |“We on our part have loyally recog- \nized the sovereignty of the Holy |See from the conviction that the But the entry of the Communist | supreme chief of a universal reli- publican “leaders” who are expect- |Party into the South and its indus- | gion cannot be the subject of any ing to be rewarded for: services ren- | ttialization are factors which must | state without threatening the decline dered the party in the last cam- | ¢ventually ring down the curtain on|of catholicism, which means uni- paign, The height of the ambition |the period ci domination of the op- | versalism.” Oe : of these hirelings of the republican |PoTtunistic leadership of the black! Just to give a parting contribu- party is to secure a place in what |™asses. The play of class forces | tion we must not omit this insertion is known as the “Black Cabinet,”| Upon the Negro masses will op-j|of Mussolini: It is composed of assistants to cab- ‘tate to bring about a change in| “I do not want to commit the sin jinet officers, the ministership of |their ideology. lof vain glory by saying that all of Haiti and the register of the treas-| From the followers of the spine- | the activities which I have very con- uty, though this last post had not /less and visionless “House of Du |cisely summarized have been created been held by a Negro since the ad- | Bois,” leader of the National Asso- |PY my spirit. ministration of William Howard (ciation for the Advancement of Col- | a . Taft. ored People; from amongst the fol- Glaim Trade Relations lowers of Moton, the apologetic tool | of Hoover, will be created a genu.| between USSR, Egypt inely militant Negro proletarian and | |peasant movement. The wornout| MOSCOW, St ae Seating a S ij and fatuous dogmas, the platitudes 27-28 the general turnover of trade pane Suk ie aA ee lac formulations purged now of all| between the USSR and Egypt West Virginia, whe had Haan aeihe revolutionary content, which never | amounted to 42 million rubbles, in- Leck and call of the republican party represented more than an attractive ‘cluding imports from Egypt of 32.5 for many years and who has always allurement for the masses, will be | million rubbles and exports to Egypt managed to hold the wank “end fils discarded. of 9.5 million rubles. The imports Negroes of West Virginia true to fcom. Egypt consisted moatly ‘of cot the “grand old party.” The group ton. The first place in the export was was led by Robert R. Mot ee occupied by oil which was exported vas led by Robert R. Moton, prin in 1927-28 to the amount of 6.6 mil- jcipal of Tuskegee Institute, the Ned: subblen: ieee een y the ae eee Before the rupture of diplomatic ashington. Many members of this |relations between England and the group held prominent places in the By WILLIAM WILSON The selection of his cabinet offi- cers by President Hoover is an event which is arousing consider- eble anxiety among the Negro re- Communists in South. Some Mivleaders. | The most prominent Negroes men- \tioned for these positions are Rob- jert R. Church of Tennessee, who is Divorced from all feeling of kin- ship with the vacilating phrase— mongering intellectuals who are now the court criers for the growing Ne- gro bourgeoisie, and from all ad- herence to the yellow trade union erganizers of the type of the lead- | “Colored Division” of the party dur- ing the campaign. Anxious to appease the more rad- | ieal (racially) of these job-hungry \ politicians, and to make such a ges- jture as will fool the least conscious jamong the masses of Negroes, Hoover will undoubtedly appoint ‘some of these flunkies to a “window show” job. It is quite likely that |Moton, who was an “assistant” to |Hoover during the recent, Missis- |sippi flood disaster and who made | no protest against the brutal treat- |ment accorded Negroes (they were foreed to work upon the “levees | without pay and viciously discrim- inated against by relief” committees of the Red Cross), will be well placed. All who receive recognition will have proved the milk and water quality of their tempers and the pappy nature of their demands. They will be expected to continue to |sing the praises of the party of jLincoln and foilow instructions to ithe letter. There will be no protests against the continued rape of Haiti ers ofthe “Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters”; painstakingly work- ing out a revolutionary cause, a Ne- gro revolutionary proletariat allied with and supported by the Negro peasantry, will repudiate the old opportunist leadership and the mem- bers of the “Black Cabinet” and will link itself with indissoluble ties to the American proletarian revolution- _ the more so, since the radical poli- submit to the wishes of the foteign the rule of the King of Belgrade.| state budget. The big property own-| “'™! : ¥ £ But the terrorist officigls of the ers have kept their wealth, and their cational work is a af | “Black Hand” found forffidable ri-tprerogatives’ intact, while the peas- cial circles, of gts es ere now fe | vals in the Serbian political machine. ‘ants were condemned to famine and | 7°28. | The radical members of parliament! misery. | under the leadership of Patchitch) In order to obtain from the purse and the prevaricating functionaries of London and Paris the loans which in the provinces did not tolercte the they had asked, the Yugoslavian influence of the military caste. All rulers, driven. to bankruptcy, had to | \ i power it is ready for all plots, but | |first of all for the major plot, which | \the western chancellors have been | meditating upon, preparing and or.’ ganizing—the anti-Soviet aggression Ihis shows with what vigilant atten- |tion the workers of all countries should follow Yugoslavian events, The new danger has announced ticians ‘were enjoying the almighty office arid Quai d'Orsay. protection of the Russian imperialist’ They had ~to. consent to turning court and its minister in Belgrade. Yugoslavia into one of the most im- The tension almost degenerated at portant centers for the preparations one time into a civil war. However, of the anti-Soviet war. |ateelf! We know of only one method the patriots and the officials of the) We don’t know how to say with of plotting against it. That is the “Black Hand” in collaboration with more emphasis that the clique which revolutionary struggle of all work- the Russian military attache, Arta-|trjumphed on the eve of December | ers, and especially the workers and manoff, agreed to cerry out on June 5th, with the support of English | peasants of Serbia, Croatia, Mon- 28th, 1914, the crime of Sarajevo and French imperialists is the same |tenegro and Macedonia against im- out of which the war began. ‘one that started-off the explosion perialism, against the agents of + Murder of Archduke. jof 1914,» “White Hand,” against the traitor Then came the memorable day of | Anti-Sovict Plot. |politicians and the bourgeoisie and attack upon Mackenzen. The panic-| To realize its ambition it has for the Federation of the Balkan! ‘ter; Fin. Sec., J. Fankovitch, 1001 | |Townsend St., Chester; Chester Unit 4, Dist. 3, | Elects New Officers CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail).— | New officers were elected at the last meeting of Chester Unit 4 of , District 3, Philadelphia. Com-| munications should be cent to: } Secretary -organizer, Frank J.) Robinson, 2025 W. 7th St. Ches- Industrial | Organizer, J. Kogak, 36 Miller St.,/ Crumm Lynne, Pa.; Negro Organ- izer, B, Gittleman, 2506 W. 2nd St., Chester; Agit-Prop, J. Goldberg, 2081 W. 9th St. Chester; Anti- Imperialist League, 905 W. 5th St., Chester; Literature Agent, A. Mar- ovoff, 213 Jeffrey St., Cheste-; Women’s Organizer, 2025 .W. 7th stricken Serbian politicians were avoided no crimes. To preserve its 'Peasants and Workers! SURPRISES! NEW IDEAS! SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH, AT 8 P. M. at THE WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE - PROCEEDS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER!! UNDER THE AUSPICES OF SECTION 1, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY AND DOWNTOW: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE FUN! FROLIC! 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