The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1929, Page 2

DAFETERIA UNION BEING Ale NRIVE PANITATION Appeal to Workers to} the gamated Food Wor hundreds the cafete manufactur a located expect to receive from they wecile trades worker patrons in the kled. of to conduct staur union 1 W dle wor support of the net give out t the noon hour. In a short period the union is fore confident that it will be able to u the organization | 3 Cafeteria ch of the Amal-| ers Union, was | enthusiasm by | ing all the attention tion, which is an in- being centered on in this section, be- mpathetic assistance the members the campaign were sent off in two divisions and d out from union head- i armeé | ars ant markers tributed in each store and thousands of leaflets asking for the '¢,, were out when those workers came These Li om ttle Houses Death | Type of shacks in which tenant farmers live-in flooded region in South, Traps in Floods Small. houses, un- | substantial. Negro tenants crowded on the roof, and the houses washed over. Fire Millspaugh in Haiti to Cover Up The following is a communication ‘om the Central Executive of the Haitian Patriotic Union, the nation- alist liberation organization which is contending peacefully, and there- ineffectively, against United N- States armed occupation in support dertake struggles against individual |of its stupid and venal puppet, Presi- bosses. dent Borno, who could not remain The conditions the union is fight- in office 24 hours if U. S. marines ing for are contained in the leaflet |would v: Foremost is the readers of the Daily Worker for on of the 12- information as to what is going on distributed yesterd: the demand for abol ate Haiti. It is given to hour day, which all are compelled in Haiti under American rule from to slave under. The scale of wages the viewpoint of its and conditions demanded are as fol- Haitian Patriotic Union. lows: writers, the The Daily Worker does not share the beliet, “The eight-hour day for all work- ,Which is inferred in their letter, that ers at not 50 for chefs. $40 for first class cooks. $85 for order cooks, for salad men. 35 for counter men. 50 for head counter men. $25 for vegetable men. $22 for bus boys. than the following American imperialism would be any more beneficial to Haitian workers and peasants if it were only purified by ousting the thieves and grafters which the U, 8. state department has imposed upon Haiti as their sovereigns. The letter follows: * * * PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 21 (By Mail).—Haiti is now facing the $22 for dishwashers and miscel-| most outrageous graft scandal and laneous help, “This is the minimum scale. overtim locker the union.” ANTL-EASCI STS MEET IN OSLO Over 20,000 Workers Represented the most disgraceful situation ever No |known to have existed on the island. reduction in wages for those getting |Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, the only hon- more than this scale even though est U. S. official and financial ad- hours are reduced. Equal pay for vi: equal work. Time and one-half for |who was the successor to Dr. W. W.jknows the existence Wholesome food. Sanitary Cumberland, who is now financial | Free employment. through adviser in Nicaragua, was asked to rx and general receiver in Haiti, resign from his post in Haiti by the U. S. department of state, because as a financial adviser he refused to sign the disgracefully false report for 1928-29 of General John W. Kus- sell, high U. S. military commission= er in Haiti, made to the state de- |partment. Dr. Millspaugh was asked many times by President Borno of Haiti, to sign this report, and thousands of dollars were offered to him, until finally at a New Year’s reception at the president’s palace in Port- OSLO (By Mail).—On March 4 au-Prince, December 31, while every- an anti-fascist conference took place body was having a good time drink- in Oslo at which organizations with | Ng 20,000 members were |Borno, General J. W. Russell, and approximate champagne, President Louis yvepresented, including the land work- Dr. A. W. Freeman, gathered at an ers’ union, the workers’ sports as- emergency meeting in a separate sociation and man ate to the Inte clected congress. against the fascist citizens’ guard v de which all workers tions beionging to International should affiliate. w ‘Ss organization, A number of mass meetings against fascism were held in Trondh- jem, Bergen, and Skien. In Bergen trade unions. The confere decided to affili- rnational Anti-Fascist ih Berlin, and two dele- to attend this A resolution was adopted of the formation of a sport organiza- the Red Spor room. At that meeting they pre- sented Dr. Millspaugh the yearly re- port for the last time, and told him openly: “Millspaugh, you know how w stand. You know what has been go ing on. You know what the offici have been doing all over the country, in the military forces, in the agri- cultural department, in the financial department, banking, and so on. If you don’t sign this report to white- wash us before the state department, we will spend all the money we made in graft for the year 1928 to see_ the Trades and Labor Council has }aat you lose your job.” elected a delegate to the Interna- tional Anti-Fascist Congress. Trondhjem many important working including the social-democratic party, have af- filiated themselves to the anti-fas- class organizations, not cisc movement. In all, 15 delegates were elecied to attend the Berlin anti-fascist con- The great success of the anti-fascist movement here is due to the indignation caused amongst the gress. | The answer of Dr. Millspaugh to the meeting was: “Gentlemen, since I have been born I have not as yet ‘been engaged in any graft, and this one is too raw. When I came here in | 1927, as soon as I found in the books and elsewhere how things were go- ing on, I told you all that I would not participate in such very easy graft. Somehow, I let you put across the 1927-28 report, which was de- jnounced falze by the Haitian Na- masses by the recent provocations | tional-Radicals, and you found your- st movement in Norway. ;selves in a close corner when you! L | Fascists Kill Protessor, Burn His Home SHES OF MUSSOLINI p (Red Aid Press Service) But the fascists did not forget Gobetti even after his death. A few Amazing Graft jcouldn’t do anything but pass new laws against the press, and arrest those natives and put them in jail without any loyal or legal reasons.” Whereupon Borno, Russell and Freeman threatened Dr. Millspaugh and expressed a wich that Mr. Cum- berland were there. To which Dr. Millspaugh said: “Concerning Dr. Cumberland, my proud predece: » We all know that his millions were made in Haiti with the rest of you. Don’t forget that he signed the loan of $30,000,000 for Haiti from ‘he National City Bank, and he was the first one that took control of the Haitian custom houses, the only financial income source of this republic, “The Haitian people are still pro- | testing against the millions of dol-, s invested in your so-called bridges for quick transportation, which you have put across with the aid of Dr. Cumberland. No bribe offers will make me sign. I think it below my dignity and against my will. You have said that you will do} all you can to have me lose my job. | T do not believe that the department | jof state, with Secretary Kellogg, will | remove me because of my honesty | because I refuse to sign a graft bill, | when I know and every. Haitian of such graft. | “But, if I am removed, and when I | |veturn to the United States, if I do | not find some satisfactory consider- | ation, I will expose you so that you | will be.sorry, by a, detailed report on the financial and economic. situa- tion of. Haiti, ,This. report. i, will ubmit; ‘to. my. hosses and the ‘state cepartnient. I also intend to write a book entitled ‘Two Years’ Experi-- cnce with the United States Repre- sentatives in Haiti.’” Mr. Millspaugh took his silk hat and walked out. We, the Haitian Nationalist Pa- triotie Workers and Peasants, that are the only losers, were anticipat- ing the end of the entire case. We wish to inform the American people that we always have such scandals { in Haiti, which sometimes. result in open fights among the United States representatives and the mem- | bers of President Borno’s adminis. | tration. The grafters fight among themselvy each one wants more, ult is that the general and the r public finds out what is doing, In the case of Dr. Milispaugh, we notice that it is the most scandalous case since United States intervention in Haiti on July 27, 1925, In this | case the highest officials in Haiti, including the president, are involved, together with the state department in Washington. There is nothing to be said, except that Dr, A. C. Mills- paugh was recalled, thé General J. W. Russell’s motion was passed, that Dr. A. Freeman is still happy and that President J. L. Borno has noth- ing more to say. { Millspaugh was recalled and ap- pointed to be Economic Adviser to the state department in Washing- ton, D. C., which, of course, proves that the state department fixed the , y matter up so that no more be said | about it. But we remember the} words of [ussell, Freeman and Borno, when they said that they | would spend all the money they | made in 1927-28 to remove Mills- | raugh from his job as United States | financial adviser in Haiti, because he refused to sign the graft report. Russeli’s report on Haiti to the state department is full of lies, while incriminating accounts, which would ‘tell of millions of dollars spent use- |lessly by the U.S. officials and the |Haitian government, were left out ‘SHAW BACKED WORLD WAR (Continued from Page One) one or two occasions on which the British government found itself rather at a loss when they had to| appeal to an anti-English sentiment in Ireland and an. anti-French senti- ment in North Africa. “For instahee, appeals to Irish- men to remember Louvain were followed by the question—do you want this horror to come to your hearts and homes?—may have seemed quite irresistible, to say, but when such a question was pasted up on the ruins of Dublin after several days of intensive British bombard- ment by the late General Maxwell, it proved rather a failure as an inducement to Irishmen to help with the war loan. “I was able to give some’ hints | as to the proper methods with whi h to approach such cases, “I did not share the silly illusions and disgusting rancours of the screaming :patriots of that time and they naturally thought I was a de- featist.” Perish the idea. George Bernard was just where he was in the Boer war—with the imperialists, Furriers to Hold an Open Forum Meeting Wednesday Afternoon Due to the’ overcrowded open forums. held by the unemployed. fur- riers in the Joint. Board building nearly every day.last week, the Needle Workers Joint Board yester- day announced that the larger audi- torium at 16 W. 2ist St., the Needle Union’s national office, will be made available for this purpose. The first forum to be held here will be tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, The chief topic of discussion is the coming general strike in the fur- riers’ trade, which the union is planning in an attempt to regain the once decent union conditions, COTTON COMBINE GROWS LONDON (By Mail).—Requests by 83 companies for admission to the Lancashire cotton combine have been made. Thousands of workers have been made jobless by the ra- | tionalizution schemes of the com- bine, SWISS COUNCIL - GIVES SUPPORT TO FASCISTS \Labor to Demonstrate in Tessin Anyway | BASLE, (By Mail).—The anti- fascist demonstration which was ar- ranged to take place in Tessin at Easter, has been prohibited by the authorities of the Tessin Canton who had to act against the resist- ance of certain bourgeois elements | which are anti-fascist. The Swi Federal Council ratified the prob bition and published a detailed ¢3 planation of its causes. The reason given for the pro- hibition is that the anti-fascist meeting was provocative and might endanger the international relations | of Switzerland. The Federal. Council instructs the railways and other | transport undertakings to refuse | those people intending to take part in the meeting, the use of their roads. People intending to take | part in the meeting must be stopped }end persuaded to return. Should foreigners be amongst them, they | must be immediately arrested and expelled from the country. The! SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 18; various |(UP).—Absence of two members of police authorities of the Cantons are instructed to carry out | these measures, | upon Swiss territory. Such uniformed | persons would be refused permis- sion to enter the country. |authorities are mobilizing a small|charges to have him \ army of detectives in order to con-'the California state bar are insti- trol all the St. Gotthard trains in | order to arrest all Communists and| -His trial. reope: |other “suspicious elements” during |involving the ni the Easter days in order that none |trict attorney of Les Angeles, Asa | of them might travel farther than|Keyes, and a loudly advertised evan- Goeschenen, the station before the| St. Gotthard tunnel. If neces: troops are to be concentrated to watch the railway. | the anti-fascist meeting take place, strong ecntingents of fascists might | enter Switzerland from Italy and! provoke trouble against which the | Tessin police would be powerless. Thus, obviously, the threats of the | fascist press have caused the Swiss Federal Council to give way and violate the constitutional right of | , Swiss citizens in order to please | Mussolini, Call Mass Meeting of Knit Goods Workers for Thursday Night The city eommittee of the district erganization of the National Tex- | jtile Workers’ Union announces a jmass ieeting of all knit goods | workers for this Thursday evening }at 7:30 o’cloeck in Vienna Mansion. 105 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn. The meeting is the initial step in a big unionization drive contem- nlated by the Textile Workers In- dustrial Union. Tens of thousands of textile workers are employed in New York City with no organiza- {tion to protect their interests. Prominent speakers, not only from the national organization of jthe union, but in other labor work, j will address the meeting. | Ina circular distributed all work- ers are urged to attend, whether or- | ganized or unorganized. \nelf-conseious, independent movement of the immense majority—Karl Mars (Communiat Manifesto). PROGRAM —Now in pamphlet form! OF THE COMMUNIST { NTERNATIONAL WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street New York City DISTRIBUTE A BUNDLE OF Daily Worker (i Order « bundle of Daily Workers for dis- tribution in front of the large factories, | ‘The proletarian movement Is the | | The Federal Council also decided |ment hearing of Superior Judge | that members of the German Red Carlos H. Harv. Front Fighters League should not !charges of m |be permitted to wear their uniform (til late this afternoon. |gelist, the “Rev: jed for a |congregation to raise money for her} The authorities declare that should jransom from kidnappers. She ¢ame| }$120,000 bribe for doing so, but the EET) GERTED OGRE: 0 BED PES OGD 0 SEED OG SOCIALISTS AND HORTHY POLICE: BACK REACTION |Attempt to Destroy Young Communists VIENNA, (By Mail).—It has now become known that the workers ar- rested in Budapest recently are mostly youths and that the police were looking for the organizers of the young Communist movement. The police inquiries have not yet been concluded and new arrests are -seeing plano in which | possible. they were riding crashed into the side of a freight train near Newark, | The Hungarian’ police are striving N. J. Photo shows the splintered wreckage of the cabin on the | to discover whether any connections freight car. Jexist between the working class — movement in Budapest and revolu- be TRIAL OF JUDGE RALLY TONIGHT For this purpose detectives have been sent this week to Vienna and Berlin, The arrests undoubtedly rep- resent the result of co-operative California Legislature To Begin Big Union Opens McPherson Case Campaign izava,” the official organ of the Hun- (Continued from Page One) garian social-democracy, deals with eck. Some are getting $45, $50, | the official statement of the police work between the police forces of | Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. It is and more per weelt, declaring that the social-democracy |had co-operated with them. The | declared that the Berlin police pro- | vided the first information which led to the mass arrests. The Sunday number of the “Neps- the state senate today resulted’ in the postponement cf the impeach- | (2) Fifty-seven hours per week. | / Aiepie a ° ‘ 6 obartinne ‘Nepszava” tries to get out of it of Los Angeles on ty pied nig EA ina {by saying that it really does not ducting office un-| op cumer, know how such a report could ever . : : ; . |have been published. Its denial is Sa ees thes, (5) Secured job. No clerk may |. carefully -worded that the pos- Judge Hardy has been thrown out | he discharged after a 2 weeks’ trial | sibility is not-excluded that.the in- The |cf the American Bar Association. and | period. \formation was given “unofficially” sbarred in! (6) A 6-day week. {by the social-democracy to the : Open Shop. | police. |tuted. ; (1) A minimum wage of $15 per | s a ludicrous case week. The lucky ones ove getting | (4) A bossy attitude with no one imprisoned dis the maximum of $35 per Week. |to protect you, | (2) Seventy-seven to 100 hours’) (5) ‘You are subject to discharge |work per week. _— |4ny minute of the day. You are not (3) You work overtime all the | sure with your bread and butter. time and you get no pay for it. (6) A 6%4-day week. ” Aimee McPherson, MePh n woman disapp' time, leaving an exc Thi ed | back, eventually, telling a story of | Mexicans holding her prisoner in the desert, She was arrested he- cause witnesses said she had really spent the time with a male friend in a bungalow by the sea, | “The most remarkable film of the machine age ever produced” —says L'Humanite, the French Communist Daily fit Fost fu, PRESENTS “THE MARCH OF THE MACHINES” --a powerful and rhythmic close-up of modern “ - zation” produced by Eugene Deslaw, a Russian director —AND ON THE SAME PROGRAM— “LOOPING THE LOOP” the sensational su or to “Variety” with WERNER KRAUS of “Caligari” fame in an original and striking characterization .. . and CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “A DAY’S PLEASURE” film guild cinema 52 West 8th St., bet. 5th & 6th Aves., Continuous, Popular Prices Sat. and Sun, noon to midnite—Dally 2-12 p. m—SPRing 5095-5090 Com. Sat.: Aelita: The Revolt of the Robots—the Russian ‘R.U.R. Keyes Drops Case. After considerable scandal, Dis- | trict Attorney Asa Keyes dropped the case. He was accused of taking charge did not come to trial, as he ‘wee convicted and sentenced for tak- ing bribes in the Julian oil case first. Judge Hardy is on trial for threat- ening a grand juror during the Mc- , Pher telling him, “If you know wha yo: you'll lay off the Aime and with “un- | rofessional” in that while judge, he cxve legal advice to this| defendant. \ DETROIT, Mich-Shubert’s LAFAYETTE THEATRE Buy your Tickets at Daily Worker Office, 1967 Grand River Avenue; Workers Restaurant, 1343 Ferry E.; Cooperative Store, 14th & McGrow; I. L. D., 3000 Grand River; Russian Workers Cooperative Res- taurants, 2934 Yeamans; Hamtranck and 2718 Germer. ISADORA | DUNCAN DANCERS A Program of Revolutionary Dances E E i i | AGTEGUEESEISTORTERSOUET HiT Hie eee OEE 0) RED 0 GREED GREE 0 EEE OC TO ea Lo Ce TEED 0 <A U inom TOO ELLE BERLIN (By Mail).—One of the irreconcilable enemies of the fascist regime was the young professor of philosophy Piero Gobetti, who, although he was only 25 years old, was already numbered amongst the foremost Italian scholars, _ published a number of important ' philosophical and literary works. The seizure of power did not put stop to Gobetti’s opposition, and i: to cool his anti-fascist enthu: im, Mussolini sent a telegram to e prefect of Turin instructing him |make Gobetti’s life a misery. From lis time on the fascists did not Gobetti in peace. He was in- on the streets, spat upon and up several times, the grave which he received breeking 5 ith. Finally he fled to France | ere he died in 1926 in a nursing | in union meetings and all other places, where workers congregate. This is one of the best means of familiar- izing workers with our Party and our press. Send in your Workers Correspondence and , ORDER A BUNDLE TODAY! days ago Gobetti’s young widow left | A new United States financial ad | Turin for a fe * f | viser, says the Haitian, Raiclas, wi! con and with Gobetti father, The 00" be sent t+ Haiti in Millspaugh |local fascis:3 used the opportunity | Jb, with instructions to be qui | to break into the empty house and | Sbout all that happens and simp’ | devastate everything which came in-| ane ay ilpncane Sd ae & having] to their hands. They completed their t° leave a he ‘an ries | vandalism by setting fire to the bine a rae ‘A atid gor a | house which was burned out. Noth- |) W. Cumberland, who remains: ing was saved, the manuscripts of ¢ in Haiti from 1916 to 7927 and wh« number of unpublished works of the | has a similar job in Nicaragua, | ten yee sotieuty detona (heat the marines are killing the ed. A y natives to take their money and Not only that, but when the little ges family returned the father of Gobet: | f ti was arrested and mishandled bh: ie WA | \Avertiser wants connection the fascists and released only upo with up-state workers who sel! | giving his promise not to me’ low-priced land for developing | ADDRESS... UUUUVT EVEN STATE CTT DIRECT FROM MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. Company of 20 with IRMA DUNCAN —S—S—_—_—__———————————————————— Will Dance All Week | BEGINNING MARCH 17TH ., Popular Prices DAILY WORKER _ 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY Please send me..........>-..copies of The DAILY WORKER at the rate of $6.00 per thousand. = NAME. PVCs ATUTTTTUTTTET tit soe CITY, any fuss about the burning of { house, and above all not to acc: | new colony. “Must-be in‘farming + To arrive not later than,... NY district or thereabout. Describe | Tam attaching a remittance to cover same, the fascists of having been respo worthy torch to light up the dar! surroundines in first. letter, ~ T. and his nerves, h ible for it. The flames which ¢ Ir The terrible treatraent at the sumed the house of Gobetti made of the fascists had ruined his) Ke spots of fascisi civilization, FABER, 280 Bowery, N. Y. C.