The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 3

LY WORK, DAT NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929 “RT Sr nc eas Page Three SUSPEND ALLEN, BRITISH MINER, FROM OFFICES Misleaders After Sec’y | of Lanarkshire Union (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LONDON, March 14,—Following the suspension of Allen, left wing miner, from the secretaryship of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Union by the reactionaries in the leadership of the Miners’ Federation, he has been suspended from membership in the Executive of the Scottish Min- ers’ Union (a federal organization embracing county unions). The reason given is “antagonism to the interests and unity of the miners.” USSR Purchases Large Amount of Equipment from General Electric The Soviet Government has placed orders with the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y., for $600,000 of radio equipment since last July, it was revealed yester- day. The latest order includes the world’s largest high-voltage rec- tifier, operating on the mercury vapor principle and capable of 750 kilowatts power output and 15,000 voltage. The rectifier, now under construction, will be completed the last of this month. and will be shipped to the U. S. S. R. early in April. Other equipment in the latest order includes a 20-kilowatt short- wave telephone broadcasting trans- mitter, a 300-kilowatt rectifier, one of 500 kilowatts and another of 200 kilowatts, WASHINGTON. — Approximately 2,500,000 individuals and 135.000 corporations pay annual income taxes of $2,200,000,000, according to the bureau of internal revenue of the treasury department. Of the non- taxable returns, there are 1,700,000 individuals and 360,000 corporations. There are 15 states which have in- come tax laws now in effect. Birds of a feather flock them. Telegraph Company, Three Imperialists Home to Heip Direct The together. ir Government p Here are three solemn-looking millionaires, just returned from Europe, where they combined business and pleasure while workers grinded out profits for Left to right: E..H. H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange; W. H. Bald- win, head of the Otis Elevator Company, and Ner-comb Carlton, president of the Western Union SOVIET AVIATION ~ SOCIETY BROWS 2,500,000 Increase in Members Since 1925 | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW ciety for the Promotion of Aviation and Chemistry in the U. S. S. R,, popularly known as Osoaviachim, numbers at the present time 4,000,- 000 members, compared with 2,500,- 000 members in 1925. This is the answer of the work- ers and. peasants of the Soviet Union to the imperialist prepara- |tions for war. The purpose of the society is to interest workers and peasants in aviation and chemistry for military as well as industrial purposes, and to build at the same time a popular basis for the con- struction of industry along socialist lines and for defense in case of war. At the end of 1928 the society had 320 chemical laboratories of its |own, in addition to 18,000 circles |studying military strategy, Many units of this society have donated funds toward the construction of airplanes. It will be remembered that immediately after the British government had broken off rela- tions with the Soviet Union and the war danger was intensified, a cam- paign was started by Osoaviachim, called “Our Answer to Chamber- lain,” during which its sections of airplanes. (By Mail).—The So- |New Secretary of Navy Headed Exploitation of ‘Cotton Goods Workers LOWELL, Mass. March 14 (LRA).—Profits of the Merrimack | Manufacturing Company for the year ending Déc, 31, 1928, totalled $1,553,246, maining after depreciation, taxes and all other charges have been de- | ducted. After pay preferred stock, there still remained j over a million dollars to pay holders of common stock $44.55 per share. Profits of this cotton goods com- | pany in 1927 were also over $1,000,- | 000. | Charles Francis Adams, the new |secretary of the navy in Hoover's ‘cabinet, was a director of Merri-| mack Manufacturing Company. He is known as a yachtsman and prob- ably bought his private yacht out of.some of the money wrung from| | Merrimack workers. | ng dividends on | WARSAW, Poland, March 14.—- |The Sejm (parliament) ratified! the Litvinoff protocol today, making the anti-war treaty effective imme- | diately among Baltic nations.’ | The treaty was signed by all the) | Baltic states, and is to be carried out whether the Kellogg pact ever j becomes operative or not. At the |time of the signing, Pravda of Mos- |eow pointed out that the mere |formal agreement of Poland did not |mean that she would not break the| |treaty if pressure was placed by Western imperialist nations, but that contributed toward the construction |the treaty was part of the Soviet manity is. Union peace offensive. | BLACK FRITTERS By P.. ROMANOV Katerina, a peasant woman, goes to Moscow to see her hus- band, Andrei, who has*been there for five years working in a fac- tory. She has just learned that he is living with another woman and she is determined to do some- thing desperate. Yet despite her anger she has taken along with her the traditional kerchief of black fritters as a present. After much difficulty Katerina finally finds Andrei who receives her kindly, while she is so overjoyed that she forgets to be angry. | Andrei is evidently holding a responsible position. He leads Katerina to his cottage, where she’ wonders at the evidences of his new life. She finds it hard to tell him of what is closest to her heart | and talks about commonplaces. He tells her about the girl he is living with—Katya—who comes in while they are talking. Katya is a thin, pale working girl. Katerina gives them the present of black fritters and Katya is overjoyed. Now go on reading. x * * (Conclusion) Later the three of them drank tea, together. “Ivanov was kicked out anyway,” | Katya said, turning to Andrei. “There was a general meeting, a lot of noise. . .” “You don’t say? It was time long ago,” Andrei answered, livening up. He wanted to say something else, but Katya cut him short, and turned to Katerina. | “You have calluses on your palms. I have them on my fingers. I bang all day long on the typewriter.” » Katerina also wanted to say some- thing that would interest and enliven Andrei as much as Katya’s words about Ivanov had done. She wanted to tell him about her railroad jour- ney and what she had seen, but she did not know how to begin. All that she could say when she looked at Katya, was: “Our Lyska calved—our cow. I sat up with her all that night., The calf is just like her.” “T love calves,” said Katya, There was a silence. “T’ve got warts on my hands,” said Katya suddenly. Katerina was glad that warts had been mentioned, for she knew of a remedy for them,—some acid. She began at once to tell how they were to be removed, and tried to keep on talking, for fear that she would soon end and have nothing else to speak about. * * After supper, which tormented Katerina because she could not man- age her knife and fork, dropping now one, now the other, Katya removed the dishes, and Katerina began guessing where they would put her to sleep. They would ‘take her to the neighbor’s, she thought, and would stay here by themselves. This thought raised a dark wave of jealousy and resentment from the bottom of her soul. But Katya brought a folding bed from some- where and began to put it up in the I! Katerina, approaching the table |and looking at the papers lying on it, said: | “Lord, I can understand nothing. |How do you make head or tail of 152” Before bedtime, Katya sent An- |drei out of the room. He put on his cap and went out. “Now you can lie down,” said Kat- |ya with *h> same confused smile, |turning to Katerina, and pointed at her own bed in which she had just changed the linen. Katerina, feeling that she was ex- jpected to say something polite, ut- tered: “Why should you bother yourself? I can lie down on the floor.” “No, no, why?” | Katernia took off her boots, glad that she had not come in her best |shoes. Then she pulled the. sarafan off over her head, and ashamed of |her coarse village shirt, covered her- self hurriedly. Katya got some acid from a closet, and sitting next to Katerina, applied it amateurishly to her warts with a feather. Katerina showed her how to do it and helped her. * Then Katya undressed. looked with involuntary, painful curiosity at the bony legs and the thin abdomen. Her eyes grew dark again. “What tempted him?” She, Kater- ina, could carry a full barrel of swill to the pigs with her own hands. This girl couldn’t even lift a pail of milk. “Well, are you settled yet?” they * * Katerina \heard Andrei’s voice outside the door. “Come in, come in,” cried Katya. Andrei came in, hung his cap on a nail, and looking around the room, sat down on the folding bed. He asked: “Shall I put out the light?” “Put it out.” The room was dark. They could hear the bed creak under him when he lay down. Katerina, blinking now and then, looked into the darkness to the side where Andrei’s bed stood, and heavy thoughts crept into her mind about him, about Katya, about Lyska. . . Katerina was to go home in the morning. Andrei took her to the station. Katya overtook them when they were already out of the house, and gave a package to Katerina, saying: “A present—for the children.” “Why should you bother?” “But you must,” insisted Katya. Then she added: “Maybe you will stay a little longer?” “T must go home,” answered Kat- erina. She wondered if it were pos- sible that she should leave without speaking to Andrei. But what could she say to him, when Lyska always turned up on her tongue for some reason‘or other? She was also both- ered by the fact that she had only eleven kopeks. Would he give her money himself, or would she have to ask for it? * e Andrei, who was walking in si- ue, suddenly turned to Katya, and said: “Ivan Kuzmich is going to the strange, | Jeity. Go and write a note to the co- | | operative.” | Katya understood th: he wished | |to be alone with his wife, offered her | |thin hand to Katerina, and wishing ther a pleasant journey, walked off. | She waved her handkerchief to them | |from the distance. | Katerina walked at her husband’s | side on the soft, mossy path between | the tall, scattered pine trees, and| avoiding the stumps on her way, waited—perhaps he would begin to) speak himself about the most im- portant thing between them. They | had lived together twelve years. Was it possible they would find |nothing to say to each other at such| a moment in their lives? | Andrei, on reaching the eross- | |roads from which he would have to |turn back, voiced nothing of what| she had expected, but stopped, and said: -If you need anything, write, and at harvest time I will come to help. you.” He gave her two gold pieces, worn at the edges, and kissed her, | Katerina hugged his neck awk- wardly with her left arm, holding the gold pieces in her right hand, | jand kissed him. | “Good-bye. Come and see Lyska.” | “Good-bye. I shall come.” i te She walked away. But after she, took several steps she looked around. Andrei still stood in the same place, and she could see that} he had left something unsaid, that) \he was sorry to let her go without| telling her something more. She stopped, her heart sinking, | and leaned forward. | Andrei stood for a few moments, as if looking for words, then, wav- ing his hand, cried: “Take care of Lyska!” “T will take care of her,” Katerina answered, sighing. | Andrei turned in his tracks, and |made off. “They fixed the old woman. They) met her with kindly words and sealed her mouth so that she couldn’t even move her tongue. In the village peo-| ple will ask: ‘Well, did you fix that | good-for-nothing husband of yours? |Did you tear the harlot’s hair out? ‘Did you smash the windows?’ But |she—not only had she not broken ithe window panes—she had made a present of the black fritters to the) jother woman, And they had given | jher two gold pieces and a package /for the children. Never fear, the girl | iis laughing now over her black frit- ters—even white ones are not good) enough for her with her four or five hundred rubles.” Katerina even stopped, as if ready to return, But she remembered the thin, weak hands of Katya and her confused, caressing smile.. Waving | her hand in final farewell, Katerina‘ crossed herself, and went her way. x * * Because of the special edition of the Daily Worker tomorrow the second of the stories by the new Soviet writers will be pub- | lished Monday. | aS ea Copyright, 1929, by International 4, Publishers, This is the balance re-| | higher pay. They RAYON WALKOUT SHOWS SLAVERY GlanzstoffWorkersAre Brutally Exploited (Continued from Page One) great companies dominate the val- ley Glanzstoff is now building a new plant to cost $37,500,000. Appeals for Troops. Forced to close down by the walk- out of the strikers, Arthur Moth- wurf, president of Glanzstoff, ap- pealeg to the governor of the state to hold troops in readiness to use against the workers. The local sheriff’s troops were many of them relatives of strikers and so far have refused to fire upon the unarmed men and women. More than half the workers, about 60 per cent, are women. With pay averaging only 20 cents an hour, the women were desperate and shouted aloud: “We want more pay! We can’t live and raise families on what we get now.” : Conditions are the same in both these great rayon plants as in 1927, when several hundred workers walked out of the Bemberg concern in a spontaneous strike. One of the workers describes conditions as fol- lows: : 66-72 Hours a Week. “The bossts do not know what hu- They work the men 66 to 72 hours a week at wages of 28 to 32 cents an hour. The girls and women work 10 hours a day and 56 hours a week. They begin at $8.96 for 56 hours. The average scale for women is 20 cents an hour after From “AZURE CITIES" |" for me and, are as high as in the big cit- ‘s. Board and room cost from $7 te $10 a week. “Thé work is unlealthy “for the women and many of them get tuber- eulosis. But there is a vast reser- voir of workers in the hills of Ten- ressee, West Virginia and Kentucky to draw on—innocent, ignorant ‘hill-billies’ who are being turned into industrial slaves. “The workers in this plant have struck before. Last spring they ere on strike, but after three days went back defeated. This time they are’ demanding 8 hours’ work and are trying to form a local union and hope this time that they will win.” Work Endangers Health. Rayon workers are special health hazards. phere of spinning rooms is described as etherized, Many workers have been partially blinded by the acids subject to The atmos- used, and countless others have suffered from chest and lung troubles. “But firms think more about acid than they do about the health of employes!” say the work- er This third spontaneous strike of rayon workers within a short space |of time indicates the readiness of the men and women for organiza- tion. Maddened by the low pay, speed-up, and especially by the company’s supervision over every detail of their daily lives, the work- ers demand decent conditions and freedom. to live. Reserve Decision in the Trial of Motion + Picture Distributors Trial of the suit against leading motion picture distributors and 32 film boards of trade, located in prin- cipal cities in the country, charging them with violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, was concluded yes- | terday before Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher. The judge reserved de- cision. The trial started Monday. No testimony was taken. The only witnesses called were those neces- sary to identify printed matter used as evidence. Had Own Courts It was claimed that the defendants violated the anti-trust law by re- quiring that every person acquiring a motion picture theatre must as- sume the contractural obligations of the previous owner for exhibition of pictures with the defending com-| panies; also that the defendants forced the exhibitors to submit ‘to boards of arbitration maintained by the film boards of trade, The defendant companies are: First National Pictures, Inc.; Para- PREPARE TO SEND Give ; MILITIA AGAINST) C72¢# Not im | By ADA MERRIAM ‘RAYON STRIKERS DENVER, Colorado.—It seems to | | me Haywood has passed over the 'U.T.W. Agents Arrive, Begin Betrayal sition in Cripple Creek, for a wid- ower with three children. | My employer, whose name I have |forgotten, hated the Union, the colored people and John Brown of |Harper’s Ferry fame. He had been a Union miner, but as soon as the Citizen’s Alliance was formed, he signed up with them and went back to work to scab on the strikers. (Continued from Page One) is situated near the strike-bound plant. Both are in Happy Valley, |and the Bemberg factory is also a section of a foreign owned interna- tional rayon trust, just as the Glanzstoff plant is. U. T. W. Hated. | The U. T. W. is hated by many workers here, who know its history of outright betrayal of strikes in the South, and are expected to take| which was not true of any mine in matters into their own hands, |the distriet—there were scabs— On the other hand the officials} former Union miners—like my em- of the rayon manufacturing com-| ployer, who worked a month or less! panies are making all preparations|in one mine and quit to engage to for a bitter fight against the just) work in some other mine, and he demands of the workers. The militia | couldn’t have done this if the mines will undoubtedly be sent in here,| had been’ working full force since the bosses claim that the sher-| The twenty empty houses, I iff’s deputies refuse to take drastic) counted from my employer’s kitchen | measures against the strikers, being |door was not one-fifth of the empty closely connected to them thru fam-| houses in Cripple Creek. Some had ily ties. | gone and left their furnitur locked | The militia was requested yester-|in their homes—only to have them day on the ground that several hun-| broken into and their furniture] dreds of the women strikers (60|thrown out in the snow—which came per cent of those making rayon are| that year in August. oer women) rushed past the plant |‘ Three _and _four-roomed miners’ | guards and called out on strike 1,000/ homes, including their furniture, more. were marked for sale from one Trucs ‘oe Workers ta the Bem, | hundred dollars to two hundred and berg ‘plants came to the meetings |*'tY CoUats: that the Glanzstoff strikers held Robbed Before Deportation The miners were shipped out of here yesterday. the Cripple Creek district in car- READY 10 SPLIT Capitalistic Press Lied From the backdoor of his rented home I counted twenty empty houses, and yet the Cripple Creek paper came out every week with the story of increased prosperity—| “The mines were working full fo: e” were robbed of every penny found in their pockets, watches, jewelry and coat and vest. They were not shipped to some other part of Colo- rado, but out of the state. Yet in spite of the car loads of The Chinese Militarists miners shipped out of, the state,| 5 ° there were a great many who re- Move Their Armies mained. In October a Union store was opened up for the benefit of the (Continued from Page One) | striking miners. It remained about dictatorial, militarist independent) two weeks—I don’t remember the government in the provinces at the| exact length of time, and then the mouth of the Yang-tze river. | PHILADELPHIA, March 14.— Li Chung-jen, supposed to be in} mye grand jury investigating the charge at Hankow, is hiding ae the nolic? graft here recommended to- foreign settlement in Shanghai, and’ day the dismissal of one police cap- refuses to go to the congress. His tain, one former captain, and 83 pa- generals, who recently made anti- trolmen and detectives because they governmental gestures in Hankow, | evidently could not explain how they capturing a city or two and chang-) came to make huge sums of money ing the officials, haye been dis-| while. living. on not very large charged by Chiang, on paper, but) \ages: oe 2 still hold power there. | The jury was investigating Feng Moves Army. charges of bribery and corruption Feng Yu-hsiang is marching) connected with bootlegging and mur. troops southward from western|‘der. The two captains are John J. Shantung province, where they| Kerns and James C. McPoyle. went, ostensibly to fight the revolt) ) | Gives ‘Details of Cripple : awful tragedy of the Cripple Creek) Store. The rest was stolen by the and Victor strike. I arrived in| S¢abs and their famili That same August, took a housekeeper’s po-| Might the miners’ lawyer and the | and I came back to Denver. MORE JUDGES IN. Haywood Book wont Count 10 |HELP PLEASES. and managed to leave town in the night with two truck loads from the ; 5 judge were taken tothe town limits| Fight on Changed Root and told to keep going. They came Plan Tooms in Senate back the next day. rs i The methodist minister had taken in three miners who*had been: in- dicted and were out on bail, to sa them the expense of coming. back for trial. He was given a week to leave Cripple Creek. GENEVA, March 14.—The com mittee of jurists of the League ol Nations is proposing an amendment to the League statutes to increase the number of judges in the worlc court from 11 to 15, and to provide White Terror” for permanent sessions, with long On election day in Cripple Creek; vacations for the judges, instead of one of the mine owners’ guards| one meeting each year as at pres- killed four men, before one of the) ent. four had a chance to draw his gun. The verdict was self-defense. I lost my job after election be- cause the governor elected was be- lieved to be favorable to the miners —he was elected to put an end to the deporting of mine My employer said if the Democrat Governor was elected he would have to leave Cripple Creek—his life would be in danger—well he was Anticipation of the entrance of the U. S. into the world court, what there is left of it in power and pres- tige if the Root plan is accepted. has led the jurists to commission Root to revise the rest of the league s to conform with the Root He is hard at work on this sta plan. now. Disquieting news from Washing: ton has been some of the members here, to the effect that important senators do not believe that the modified Root ry con forr with the original Senate reservations, and that there will be a serious struggle agai enteri the ¢ t+ when Cong! is pre sented with the proposition. received by Robbery and Murder On the train was a rainer’s wife on her way to Arizona to join her husband. From her I learned that not one of the four men shot on ele tion day were allowed a funera only men enough to carry the coffin to the hearse and from the hearse to the grave was allowed. At the time her husband was de- ported, she said he and a friend w British Ship Carries Munitions Said to Be were out doing some prospecting for themselves, when the militia picked] Destined to Honduras them up, went through their pockets | Seca and robbed them of all their money.| }rAVANA, March 14.—The Bri- Her husband had a gold watch, and ¢ich steamer “San Blas” left they stole’that and his coat and jere with a c go of vest. During my stay in Cripple Creek it seemed to me the people you met talked in hushed tones. I tried to destined, so it is declared, to be se to Port Castilla for the government of Honduras. 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Against all of these preparations for war, and militarist factional fighting, the workers and peasants of China continue their uprising} and organization for a real revolu- tion. Communist posters are put up on walls of all large cities, and the} labor unions are réorganizing in secret. DET EEE O4 Testa EE BERLIN, March 14 (UP).—The impending purchase by General Mo- tors of a 76 per cent interest in the] Opel automobile works, at a re-| ported price of approximately $31,-| 250,000, not only will be the great-| est American investment in Germany } since the war but presages a motor war in Europe, business observers said today. The conservative press already has started a campaign against the impending deal, calling it a “menace to German industrial independence,” and some of the German motor car manufacturers are opposed to it. 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