The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1929, Page 3

ny DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNES ustralian Coal ———— che SARL, eat a Fascisti Resurrect Pope’s Car from Museum WILL FIRE MORE LATER; HARDER WORK IN MINES ‘Assistance to Labor- Hating Government (Special the Daily Worker) SYDNEW. Australia, (By Mail). —Ten thousand coal: miners have been given two weeks notice that they~ will be locked ‘out to ‘reduce the costs of. production.” The no- tices were issued February 16. This isthe first act in a general cam- paign of “rationalization” by the employers in the Australian coal industry. The owners’ representative in a statement says “it is necessary” to reduce. forces and speed the men remaining at work to cut productio costs “5 shillings (about $1.20) per| ton to ensure New South Wales re- taining Victorian and Squth Aus- tralian contracts. Others To Be Fired. So far coal operators who are not associated with the Northern Col- leries haye not given’ notice to their men, although it: is believed that they will follow suit. It was pre- viously; announced that at the ter- mination of the notices miners could yeturn to work at reduced wages. Australian miners are ‘militant, and are preparing for a prolonged strug- gle. : , The giving of: notices by the em- ployers is also considered as an at- tenipt. to. bolster» the. government’s anti-labor ‘campaign, which: forbids lockouts ‘and strikes under the. arbi- tration laws. The miners are all the more determined to fight as it is Known that Bruce, the premier, sidés with the. coal owners. By P. ROMANOV : NOTE.—Panteleimon Romanov is one of the best-known of the literary “fellow-travellers” of the Soviet Union. “Fellow-travellers” is'a'term' that has been adopted to designate those writers who are of non-proletarian origin, are not members of the Communist Party, hut who accept the Revolution and the ' proletarian dictatorship and draw their material from Soviet life. _ Romanov was born in 1884 of a lower middle class. family. Like many of his colleagues he pre- serves many traces. of the out- look of a: bourgeois intellectual. It must- be remembered | that com- paratively few of the new Soviet writers are Communists. A large proportion, including some of the best, are “fellow-travellers” with many ideological shortcomings de- spite their support of the Soviet inion, ~ ! “Black: Fritters”. gives a vivid picture of the effect of the chang- ing moral codes in the Soviet Union. ‘ * * WHEN the train was only thirty - miles away from Moscow, Kater- jna could: sit still no longer, It seemed: to her that-she would never yeach the place. Her heart beat faster and faster with every mile. Yesterday she had found out that Andrei, who had worked. for the last five years-in a Moscow factory, had “begun to live with another woman. He. himself had written nothing to her'and their relationship had not changed in the ‘least; “he still sent her money for the holidays, and now and then a letter. It was said that he was some sort of chairman now and lived well. e ‘Ma: ét meant nothing to him to reyes the ‘hundred ;rubles: he was: sénding; he, lived on the other four. or five hundred with the other woman. The sum. of one hundred rubles, which had seemed so large to her before, suddenly became in- sultingly small. : “What should’ she do when she arrived in Moscow? Break into his place, unmask him on the spot, make a scandal? ; j , Let people see that he was a scoun- drel and a cad. . .She would break the ow panes—and with her bare hands, #0 that there might be blood... .And she would tear the other woman’s hair out. ey . wa Lord, Lord,—what.. has. he deel And al on mai ish hes bit red ribbon. ... i 80 long ago, it seemed, that they had lived happily together, had gone for evening air. She would stand on the wagon, and he, with. his shirt collar unbuttoned, with dry, sunbak- edvhair, with small drops of sweat concanssneme: ~~ ! Not since 1870 has this gilded railway car been used. It belongs to the Vatican and 59 years ago put into a museum. Mussolini has was seized by Italian soldiers and now made an alliance between the catholic church and fascism and has refitted this monstrosity for the Pope. They will put him on it and send him to spread the fascist gospel over Italy. Irish Free State Goy’t|Ruthenberg Memorial, 'te war against the Soviet Union and Anti War Meeting in informed the congress, the Polish | ~ government refused passes to the Pittsburgh on Sunday |*t2 d€lezates. Arrests 80 “Suspects”; Employs Third Degree DUBLIN, March 12.—“Discovery | o2.a plot to tesrorize jurrors” in the flimsy exeuse offered by the Irish Free State government under which nearly 80 workers suspected of Re- publican sympathies were arrested during the past week. Lacking evi- dence which could be used against the arrested, Free State Civic Guards and secret service agents resorted freely to third cegree meth- ods in an effort to force “confes- sions.” While many of the 80 were sub-)| sequently released, 25 were immedi- ately rearrested and subjected to further “grilling” from ex-gunmen uniform of the “emancipated” Irish Free State. |mass meeting will be held here next |Sunday evening at 8 o’clock at the |Labor Lyceum on Miller St. Speakers will include Pat Devine, organizer of District 9 (Minnesota), |Communist Party, and Mother Ella |Reeve Bloor, labor veteran, who last imperialist war. |been arranged. | REDUCE CLEANERS’ WAGES. |to 9 shillings a week, From lively, would walk barefoot across the yard to the barn to sleep in the fresh hay. Storm would break from a@ sudden summer cloud, lightning PITTSBURGH, March 12; — A|the fascist oppression of the na- | An excellent musical program has ANTLFASCISTI ‘ORGANIZATION IS. “NOW WORLD WIDE Berlin Congress Plans | | International Fight | (Continued from Page One) “hunger marchers,” in London prom- | ised the beginning of a British anti- | fascist struggle which was part and | varcel of the general struggle | against capitalism, he said. | The afternoon session was ad- |dressed by Miglioli, who spoke on fascist terror and described it as it cperates in Italy. He attacked espe- | cially the pro-fascist attitude of the Catholic Church in Italy. Polish Rulers Pro-Fascist. Bittner of Poland declared the |fascist terror was paving the way Archbishop Fan Noli described |Ruthenberg Memorial and anti-war | tional minorities in the Balkans, and declared Italy was oppressing Al- Lania, making it a military base for imperialist solution, said Noli, was workers’ pal bertente) republics in the Bal- pine pa eee PEKING WNDER MARTIAL LAW Labor Rising; Armies Start Fighting Soon Ledebour of Germany, Stoyanov fought with Ruthenberg against the|of Bulgaria and Jean of Lithuania | also spoke. Chairman Heckert then read a telegram from the Central Council Folli, a member of the Young! Communist League of Italy, and Dr. Fetrescanu of Rumania also spoke. Professor Gennari spoke on the 6 “ } 9 | situation of workers, peasants and 6 F : ‘ ; intellectuals under fascism, He de- | Bes . scribed the economic situation of the | Italian working masses, and said | “AZURE CITIES” |miscrabie situation of the workers | | At the moment when she was one must remember the building of | the pyramids under Pharaoh. Wages | are still dropping and the present | {most bewildered, when she was in| j¢yel is one-tenth of the average of | \the last throes of despair and fear,| British |she turned into a little alley, and] aye suppressed, but are working il- wages. The trade unions | would flare through the cracks in the saw a familiar crown of dry hair|jegally. There was applause for | gates, and the fresh air would smell even more of hay and the fustian of her sarafan. And now it was all gone. She felt she was capable of any- thing. se * But when she walked out of the lrailroad station with a large crowd of people, she was overwhelmed, lost | in the great city. What she had wanted to do was to sweep down on jhim like a tempest, tell him every- thing, but instead she had to ask how to reach the street where he lived. She was shown the tram, but when she bought her ticket she for- got to ask where she had to get off, and she sat in the tram until it reached a suburb of the city. She had to ride back and then walk and ask for the number of the house, for she could not read. She would be told—and she would go, afraid to ask again, and when she did ask she would find that she had passed by the house and would have to retrace her steps. She walked more and more quick- ly, thinking that while she was walk- ing they would leave the house, When she found the place, a house with enormous doors and windows, all the apartments were locked, and she had to knock and ring. And which bell was she to ring, how was she to guess which door was his? “Auntie, what are you doing here?” a man in an apron, holding a chisel in his hand, asked her. Katerina told him. “He isn’t here. He doesn’t live here.” “What do you mean he doesn’t live here? Good Lord, what am I to do now?” She ‘had only one rvble with her, tied in a corner of her kerchief. This ‘was not enough for her fare home. _ ** * An old woman with a pail ap- peared from a door under the stair- way, and on finding out what was wanted, said that Andrei Nikanorich had: move to the suburbs. Katerina had to take a train to get there, Katerina was so happy that she had found a clue, that she almost ran out of the doorway. Because she was happy she had forgotten to ask ‘exactly where he was, and so, ‘when she came to the suburb, she knew the street, but not the number of the house, Evening was approaching, and clouds. She ran from one end of the street to the other, asking and asking,’ but she could find out nothing. In her hands she had a kerchief with black fritters. She did not remember why she had taken them, She had come to make a scandal, but she had taken a present along, according to custom,—black tye fritters. She had only eleven kopeks left now. The place was strange, night approached, a wind began to blow. Her face sweaty and bewildered, she ran along the grassy suburban street flanked by pine trees, and waved her hands in desperation, as she held on to the kerchief with the black |beyond the railing of a fence. | It was he, Andrei. His tunic un- buttoned, he was squatting near a flower bed and digging the ground. Katerina could only cry: “Andriushechka, my dear!” | powerless to hold back her tears, |come here? Did you fall from ment and joy. ;Wanted to. She said: zo.” And she wept again. “Why are you crying?” | Conscience-stricken, she wiped her|ers, said Markoff, are commencing eyes with the back of her hand, and|to organize anti-fascist committees, | smiled guiltily. Then she suddenly|numerous meetings and two confer- | remembered why she had come. But} ences having been held as an intro- jafter what had just occurred when} duction of widespread anti-fascist she rushed to him as to her salva-j campaigns. tion and refuge and had wept with joy on his breast, it was impossible |joyful tears to wild outcries, her heart was filled with joy which she had never known, not even when they went haying together and slept in the barn. Pegi aes | He had not at all shown what she had expected from him, from a man to whom had come his deserted wife, a woman from the village, in a fustian sarafan, while he was a suburb, She could not catch the slightest shade of dislike or perturbation in his face or voice. He was placid, the same slightly patronizing caress said: “Why are you crying? Come, var.” fence among tree stumps. coat: T will write you a note.” His manner of speaking to the representatives in all countries. man, the way in which the man said never be otherwise. (To Be Concluded Tomorrow) . 8 * (Copyright by International Pub- lishera, New York.) She ran through the garden gate, jand when Andrej rose in surprise|demonstrators and many were from the ground, she embraced him | arrested. | jand pressed her head to his chest, Katerina could not answer as she| tent is supporting the fascist states | “E was very frightened. I thought posi loan. However, in the |I would never find you. I looked for A " eb you all day. And I had nowhere to |#Mti-fascist movement of millions of to start a scandal and pass from |jadyafev, ex-deputy of the Bulgarian And then, when she had seen his Gorkin, of Spain; Volkow, of Hol- familiar crown of hair in the gar-|jand, and Hornik, of Germany, also den like a sudden, wonderful image, | spoke, dressed in city clothes and lived in chairman of the republican party of was in his voice, especially when he surviving Communards, greeting the cl will tell them to put up the samo- He preceded her on the path that led to the new cottage painted a|ternational methods for fighting fresh yellow, which stood near the| fascism, The congress unanimously But on the way he stopped, and|commissions as a basis, referring cried to a passerby in a civilian|the same to an editorial commission. “Ivan Kuzmich, you must send) t o to the city for the goods tomorrow.|to found a permanent international “, Soht?? | +,,|exhorting the delegates to return tho! ee a See oi ene and carry on anti-fascist struggle practical and kind Andrei, and yet| With tenfold strength and declared at the same time another Andrei, ping pote dak ALLS i on whom people depended, who ar-}." ranged and gave orders in. this ere_was_tremendous..applause. strange, unknown place just as he OT RRA f the international. had done at home. And he did it ; so simply and quietly, as if it could Bandiera Rossa. Barbusse and the this statement. Police Attack Demonstration. On Sunday morning the commis- | sions sat, while most of the dele- | gates visited the anti-fascist mass cemonstration at the Busch Circus. The police brutually attacked the | The American delegation arrived | ‘in the afternoon and at this session | “Look who's here! How did you|\Markoff of the United States of | meriea greeted the congress from \heaven?” Andrei asked in amaze-|ihe American. anti-facist committee. | He said the United States govern- | with loans, for instance, the latest | Tnited States there exists a strong foreign-born workers from the Eu- ropean fascist states who represent | a fruitful ground for anti-fascist | propaganda. The American work- Herman, a social democrat of | Austria; Romagnoli, of Italy; Ka- parliament; Voitinski, of Poland; Left Italy Illegally. The Italian speakers Romagnoli and Nicoletti made . passionate speeches which were greeted with tremendous applause. The whole Italian delegation left Italy illegally, and thrice suffered arrest on the way, Mario Bergamo, ex-deputy and Italy wrote a letter declaring the antifascist congress honored Europe and regretting that he was unable} to attend owing to sickness. Inard wrote on behalf of the other congress, Professor Nejedeli of Czecho Slovakia declared the honest intel- lectuals must join the workers and peasants against fascism. The commissions reported on in- adopted resolutions proposed by the Permanent Organization. The congress decided unanimously anti-fascist bureau in Berlin, with Barbusse made the closing speech, cally sang Italians received protracted ovations. At the last minute Max Hoelz appeared. He had been arrested during the morning demonstration. extension. The only | This photograph is taken in the park called the right, front row, seated: Walter F. Brown, postmast Good, secretary of war, another political boss; Frank B. Kellogg make way for Stimson, a more expert war maker; Hoover himself, swollen with actual slave labor in his Burma and Chinese minifts to corporations he ou third richest man in the world, getting richer by ges; Andrew W. Mellon, : William D, Mitchell, attorney general, a democrat, appointed as a concession to General Motors. Back row, left to right, standing: James J. Davis of labor; Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce ; Arthur M. Hyde. Curtis, vice pr secretary of the interior, president of Stanford Univ: cis Adams, secretary of the navy, millionaire yacht rac banks and power tr from the South; Char chusetts Adams. and Factory Training MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Accord- ing to a draft of the Central Coun- of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union, |cil of Soviet Labor Unions, the greeting the congress and explain-| workers trades schools are to be LONDON, (By Mail).—Wages of|ing their inability to send delegates, | cleaning women employed in the| owing to the refusal of German and others who wear the military | London County Council Schools were | vises. reduced by amounts ranging from 2 reorganized upon the following basis: The factory schools will train | qualified and highly qualified work- ers for trades which require a long of the theoretical and practical training For trades which do not need a long training, special factory depart- factories trade-technical courses will DAY, MARCH 13, 1929 secretary of ag ident, reactionary be organized in order to iner workers. The courses of the Central Labor Institute will take and train work- ers at the special instructions of the higher economic authorities. This institution will also occupy itself trial nature. Trade training is to | committee, 2 | adheres Operators Lock Out 10,000 Men In Drive to Cut Costs of | The Most Openly Reactionary Cabinet Ever Named &: a Pei and his Canton | pletely new reciprocity treaty. friends have a British orientation, + % and Chiang may be with U. S. Kuomintang congress seems to be is an auxiliary thoroly packed by Chiang, out of) banking interests, and k its 859 official delegates, 267 are | leaders with pedagogical work of an indus-| virtually appointed by the central'American owned plantations. about half of them;new tariff makes Cuba s be removed from the purview of the| frankly and openly so appointed. |like one of the American states. People’s Commissariat for Educa-/No real delegates are allowed from —— tion and placed under the Supreme | the territori Economie Council, The labor unions | inimical to Chiang. are to have a decisive voice in the | organization of trade-training. | U. S. Supreme Court on Seven-Cent Fare WASHINGTON, March 11 (UP). —The U. S. Supreme Court did not hand down decisions on the New York subway fare case or the O’Fal- fits are allowed under the Inter- state Commerce Act at a percentage | of the valuation. The New York seven cent fare case has been before the Supreme Court for some time. Tammany city officials put up only a perfunctory \fight against it, apparently intend- ing all the time to let the subways | get the seven cent fare. They want the republican appointed Supreme Court take the blame, however, and the court holds back, for political reasons, Railroads won in Supreme Court today a test case involving $49,000- | 000 awarded them by the Interstate | Commerce Commission for carrying the mails, Mother Says She Killed Priest Because of His| Attack on Daughter | CANTON, Ohio, March 12.— Pleading not guilty to a charge of murder for shooting to death a priest named Joseph Riccardi, pastor of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church here, Mrs. Mary Guerriri declared that she did it because the priest had mistreated her small daughter. The mother said that, as the in- fluence of the priests in Canton was so great she could not get retribu- tion for the attack on her daughter thru legal means, she had resorted to the revolver, and fired several shots into the priest as he stood in the door of his church, scowling at her. The police, mostly Catholics, are trying to discredit Mrs. Guerriri’s story, and put forward a fanciful theory that she was angered by the fact that the church was recently moved, Murder Nanking Gen. PEKING, China, March 12.—Gen- eral Chu Tung-feng, once a minister of war in the Peking government, was assassinated at Tientsin by a group of five men who entered his house, bound him, terrorized his family and searched until they found documents supposed to con- |may start any minute. Today is Sun Yat-sen’s birthday, steamship Alesia. and demonstrations of the workers | against all the military leaders and |by the Alesia in the Azores, where for the slogans of the Communist |they had been landed by the steam- Party of China may take place. | ship City of Winnipeg. The latter Sun was friendly to the Soviet | vessel had taken the Belgians’ ship, lon railroad case at its meeting to-| Union, but the party he founded, the |The Carlier, in tow after it had day. | Kuomintang, has fallen into ex-|snapped its propeller shaft during The O’Fallon case involves the| tremely reactionary hands, and all} gale 400 miles from the Azores. setting of a precedent as to whether |factions among its leaders oppress railroads shall be evaluated at their|the workers and peasants, and ruth- original cost or the cost to reproduce | lessly murder the labor them now. ‘This is important as pro-| and Communists. South Grounds of the White House.” general, a professional politician; James W. etary of state, but soon to the products o of “surplus taze etary of the treasury, retary of labor, a millionaire and employer director of the Calumet & Heckla Copper Co. riculture, banker, land owner, politician nator for many years; Ray L. Wilbur, y, rich youth's playground; Charles Fran- , importer, banker, of the snobbish Massa- (Machado, U. S. of Cuba, Proposes Heavy tariff concess American farm and al i Ambassador » this Orestes Ferrara transmitted by = 2 y Kellogg, without any recom- eral Escobar, leading the rebels, ‘ |The largect army near here is that|mendation, to the house ways and|Will have some 20,000 troops before ments will be established. In the|of General Pei Chung-hsi, who has|means committee today. 60,000 men outside the walls. Pei} to the Hankow, Cuba outlined alternative pro, ized | sr d 0 th Canton | als for new Cuban-American tar’ the qualifications of the qualified] clique, which is opposed to Chiang| relations, one providing for a com-| | Kai-shek. Pi The| The Machado g who conduct controlled by generals 22 Belgian Sailors in The Belgians had been picked up —— Production INTERVENTION IS OFFERED TO Gil -BY U, S, OFFICER Decisive Battle Soon | Expected at Torreon (Continued from Page One) right to declare blockades and ob- tain material support in the United States. Kelloge’s statement was made in reference to reports that a rebe lagent sought recognition. The American government is co- ating to get various military supplies for the Mexican govern- ment from private manufacturers. To this end airplanes, airplane bombs and machine guns are now being made or shipped under care | of the U. S. government to the ports on the northeast and eastern parts of Mexico. cp Torrean Decisive. XICO CITY, March 12.—Gen- ‘alles, commanding the federals in the northern campaign has moved jhis headquarters to the city of Rio |Grande, otherwise known as Villa Ortega, in the state of Zacatecas. ing rebel sare being repaired near The rail lines torn up by retreat- Canitas, and troops concentrated by Mutual Tariff Cuts Calles to move north to Torreon, where a battle of major proportions, WASHINGTON, March 12 (Up), | tactically decisive in a military ions by Cuba to | Sense, will soon be fought. Another manufactured | column will move westward over the products in exchange for an increased | line to Durango. United States preferential for Cuban | coy sugar under the projected new Amer- PEKING, March 12—On the eve ican tariff law were proposed in Kuomintang congress in! communication Nanking, which opens Friday ; is virtually in a state of siege. | reta: Federal aviators report that there are 8,000 rebels in Torreon, and dis- patches from the U. S, border quote rebel officers as saying that Gen- the battle opens for Torreon. All Over at Vera Cruz. In the Vera Cruz region, however, | General Simon Aguirre has sur- |renderd, and Jesus M, Aguirre, who overnment of Cuba began the rebellion, is a fugitive American | in the south. s labor} Jesus M, Aguirre telegraphed on/ President Gil asking to be allowed The} |to leave the country, but was told j that all captured officers must be |tried by court martial. The northward drive of the has disrupted the rebel plan to take Other armies in or near Peking) U.S. After Sea Rescue |stmy under Calles has dis- are those of Yen Hsi-shan, nomin- | \ally the commander of this area, | rupted the rebel plan to take PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 12] Mazatlan on the west coast of Sina- and Fang Chen-wu, supposed to be | (UP)—Twenty-two Belgians, whose |loa, Rebel troops sent to take Ma- 7 for Chiang. Fang has 40,000 men, lives were in peril for nearly a week | zatlan have had to be returned to Still Evades Ruling jand fighting between Fang and Pei/on a crippled ship at sea, arrived here yesterday on the Fabre line \help those of Escobar at Torreon. | They claim, however, that 5,000 men are preparing to advance on Mazat- lan at once, HAITIANS SLAVE IN CUBA. HAVANA, (By Mail).——As a re- jsult of the Haitian puppet govern- ment’s lifting the ban on the send- ing of Haitian workers to Cuban |plantations, over 20,000 Haitian Christian Socialism is but the holy | Workers are expected to be imported unionists water with which the priest conse- |erates the heartburnings of the aris- 7 | tocrat—Karl Marx (Communist Man- Wages and long hours prevail. |to the plantations this year. Slave nect him with the present Shantung The congress closed amidst scenes of indescribable enthusiasm, revolt of Ch ang Tsung-chang. They shot him to death and escaped. 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