The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1929, Page 3

Page Three = ——— ‘REBELS’ RETREA {00 MILES FROM TORREON FORTS Fierce Rear Guard War as Federals Pursue (Continued ent Rage One) (U.P.)—General J. G. Escobar orreon and set up DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1929 a = GOMEZ SENDS “Free State” Env 200 STUDENTS TO ISLAND JAIL Transferred in Effort to Crush Revolts | CURACAO, Dutch West Indies, March 18.—Cautious reports from Venezuela yesterday stated that at The Crown Prince Arch Jingo Retires to Home Town 3.500 MORE IN THE RAYON WALKOUT INTENNESSEE ‘Workers of Bemberg) | Corp. Join Strike (Continued from Page One) jecounteract any efforts on the part (LENKO MTS MAN POLICE. 1 USSR PRESS s Foreign Interests | aind Forgery Ring | SCOW, USSR, March 18, —| : Senator James Reed, of Missouri, arriving at Kansas City after ties of a gang of forgers, con- | singing his swan song at Washington. He admits he is too old to : chiefly of Russian czarist | of the mill owners to import strike-| properly carry on the war makers’ game any longer, but he talked |least 200 students and‘ others in- field } for his troops at . banded together in a so- jbreakers, All roads leading to and| very plainly in his last speech, on the 15 cruiser bill, openly prophesy- | volved in revolutionary attempts Escalon. ae " a allsoed Jue “forgers’ international,” were | from the factory site were patrolled| ing war in the near future with England or Japan, or both. against the dictatorship of Gomez tion about 100 mi! be ie s see : 5 : | \hy* hundreds: of: strikers: | Picketin: — |have been transferred from road- reon. The evacuation took place 2x exposed in an article by y 3 during the night and new head- building in the interior of the coun- try to an island prison in the bay of Puerto Cabello. jwill also be begun at the Bemberg plants. alon were established nko, Soviet prosecutor, in Fri- Tzvestia, Polish Police Don’t Club: inside the state of : activities of the forgers were| | Eaepave) Wear tor militia. Th D The prisoners, many of them bays} yyichacl_McWhite, minister to | paints i ly brought into prominence by Capitalist newspapers here and ey oot, eputy VAS ot from 14 to 16, had Saraeantiy| ers Pe the Ae ieee bond Bedi the oo liscovery that documents at-| Fowler McCormick, who will in- |C™Ployers’ trade journals are be- piesa ES jbeen forced to do heavy manual} |e. ‘ay FSHeEY water’ cau) He obtained ling to prove United States! pomt the Nek omniioes Harvester |@imning to harp on the fact that E |work on the roads in the intense| Irish Free State, which isn’t any Military: meni said: Macnbar was kits. Boral and: Nomis! were in the sheriff's deputies are “too By JERRY SOCHACKI |the murder of a worker arrested on heat, and were unshaved and in| more free than it was under a re eee the Fed al amie las Company millions and the right |friendly” with the strikers. Even (Former Communist Deputy in the |the charge of Communism by the rags, Cromwell, but is ruled by native trying to lure the Federal arthy as jay of the Soviet government, | : | to exploit unorganized workers and farmers. He is going thru the usual stunt of “learning the business from the bottom,” means that for a year or so he will stand around in the factory and study the technique of driving forgeries. | Borah forgery is reputed to} je work of Orloff, an emigre, jst whom the German govern- has consistently refused to act. p forgery mills are located in h, Riga, Helsingfors, Reval and cities near the U.S.S.R., and which |Sheriff Moreland, who clamorously |assured adequate “protection” to the | bosses, is now the subject of alleged |rumors purporting him to be friendly |with the strikers, | This is obviously an attempt to | |prepare the way for calling in the militia, These “rumors,” which the |boss press anxiously report, began | for. their purpose the fabrica- of alarmist stories against the jt Union as well as political jries and ezarist propaganda. | are also linked with various jist attempts against Soviet jals. jylenko in his article states orically that the forgers are e direct employ of agents of pf the German police. ir Miners Die in iglish Train Wreck, lompany Is to Blame JRHAM, England (By Mail).— miners, employed at Pit House ery at Brandon, near Durham, kilied by the overturning of a of coal in which they were fling. All four were married jeft children, The brakes of jrain were said to have been in [Lundborg, Pier Today kh, French and Polish interests | Paid honor to fascist murderers, |Much loss was suffered by farmers} waits before the Bemberg walkout, and the demand for militia is expected | Walker, Whalen, Will to become extremely noisy now. | Greet Swedish Fascist, | 3B anks Fail; Loss a | Farmers and Workers Jimmie Walker and Police Com- missioner Whalen who before have) WACHULA, Fla. (By Mail).— will receive Captain Einar Lund- when three banks in this town failed | borg, who took Nobile off the Arctic|;, 4 week, The capitalist press pub- Iesrepnae He arrives here todsy.£0% | ved ‘not a line about wie tallares, | Cne bank belonged to the governor! ja lecture tour thru the United Ribee Unter the) Sbapices Crate | riosidas: Aumnne theiautars Ware lmany workers lured here by fake! jSons anz Daughters of Sweden, a |fascist organization. b | Lundborg will arrive on the Swed- |)?" jish-American liner, Drottiningholm, | |docking at the foot of West Fifty-|the auspices of the Swedish fascisti. |seventh Street at 10 a.m. He will| Lundborg is an avowed fascist, |be received there by a committee having offered his services to fight ‘headed by Whalen. On Wednesday |the Finnish and Esthonian revolu- jhe will be received at noon by Walk-|tionary workers. As a volunteer in er at City Hall, where he will de-|the Esthonian army he organized part for Washington to meet Hoover |the tank corps. After he had taken on Thursday. He will return to New |off Nobile, leaving the rest of the condition, and attempts to ap- hem by the miners failed. York on March 25 and will speak|men on the ice, he received a warm Polish Parliament) Endlessly long is the chain of| frightful crimes of fascism against the Polish workers, peasants and enslaved national minorities; thou- sands of political prisoners thrown into gloomy bourgeois prisons, tematic breaking up of workers meetings by the police, breaking strikes hy force of arms, torturing political prisoners, murdering pea: sants who dare to struggle agains! exploitation by the landlords, crus ing the liberation movements of the enslaved national minorities, the or- ganizing of attacks by armed fas- cist-P P. §S, (Polish . Socialist Party) thugs attacking active work- ers, workers’ meetings and demon- strations and raiding entire prole- tarian districts of Warsaw. Up to date fascism attempted to cover its crimes with the false cloak of righteousness and liberalism. Now the bloody Pilsudski has found that he can already permit himself a little sincerity; that he can at least partly uncover his face of a fascist thug and murderer of work- ers ard peasants that he is, ing a debate on the budget of the ministry of the interior, the Commu- nist deputy, Henry Bittner, took the floor. As an illustration of what fascism brings the working class, that evening at Carnegie Hall under !reception by the Italian fascisti. Comrade Bittner cited the case of Red Army transport, crawl- over a steppe in the autumn of 9, comes across a man propped against a post, the sole sur- pr of a recent bloody battle. He rs a red star on his sleeve. man, wounded and sick with itted typhus and talking deliri- lly, is taken with the transport ultimately sent to Moscow, ijre his documents show him to Pett Alexeievich Buzheninov, iVears old. ,Buzheninov recovers in the summer is sent to the t again. He fights thru the ll wars and his experiences make pwerful impression on him. Buz- inov, who had before the Revo- on been a student at the School Architecture, re-enters the ool after the civil wars and re- ins in Moscow until the spring || 1924. He works feverishly, 's poorly and spends hours day- aming about the wonderful es he will build on the ruins of || past. In April Buzheninov suf- \|s a nervous breakdown and goes iHlive with his friend Semjonov. International Publishers, Copyright, 1929 scending to the blooming gardens of }know great happiness, and the earth |the Moscow River, at short distances |became a desirable place to live on. f:om each other, stood tw-Ive-storied,|So I thought, looking from the ter- recessed houses of bluish cement and |race on the city I had built. In the jglass. They were surrounded by|air arose a thin sound, like the path-crossed gardens that looked like |sound of a broken string. It was a AZURE CITWES A Story of LIFE in the USSR FROM “AZURE CITIES” By ALEXEY TOLSTOY of Architecture. We were very glad; chiefly because you are alive. For three years we did not hear from you. I am already twenty-two years old and work in the Lumber Trust. They returned our house last year, At the session of the Polish Sejm | (parliament February 4, 1929, dut- | police in the courtyard of the “de-| “Will Continue Shooting.” | At this moment the minister of | the interior, Skladkowski, arose and, interrupting the speaker, | stated: | “The police does not club, but |shoots, and will continue shooting | |whenever the Communists come out | against the state.” Deputy Bittner: “I thank you, sir, | |for your sincerity in regard to the | | workers.” Minister Skladkowski: “No twist- | ing of statements, Mr. Deputy, I did | not speak of the workers. I spoke |of the scoundrelly Communists.” Deputy Bittner: “The words of |the minister of the interior prove jthat he is a good tool of the fas- jcist dictatorship, For the fight {against the working class fascism jhas bayonets and rifles.” | Vice marshal of the Sejm, Czet- wertynski, chairman at the time, then interrupted the speaker: “The minister of the interior has above all his duty.” So, for the first time, the fascist | government cynically admitted pub- licly in the Sejm that it is carrying | out a system of murdering revolu- tionary workers and peasants, and that this system shall be continued. The vice-marshal’ officiating at the | time, representing the entire pre- | sidium of the Sejm, at the head of which is the leader of the Polish socialist party, Daszynski, at once expressed his solidarity with this stand, up to this time unheard of |even in fascist Poland. | What does this open stand of the |fascist minister of the interior mean? It is an open legalization |by the government of any and all | murders and violence against the working masses; it constitutes an encouragement and an order to in- j crease the terror, to extend the ap- | Flication, of the ‘bloody acts of the’ | police, “The police shoots and will con- fensive police” in Sosnowiec (Da- | will j}-rowski Basin). and allowed no intercourse of any kind with the outside world. lows outbreaks in the tropical labor camp where they had been confined. It failed \flowery carpets. Famous artists April to October the carpets of the signal. The entire city was flooded on rows of round electric lanterns but we were forced to repair it. Now| tinue shooting”—these words ut- we have a cow, chickens, and even tered in the Sejm in the name of turkeys. You must send us seeds for | the fascist dictator signify the be-| In their island prison the prisoners be kept in complete seclusion The transfer of the students fol- is believed that the government to interrupt their activities even in the interior and so determin- ed to put them in absolute seclu-| sion. | The transf2r also precedes the an-| niversary of one of the attempts in} which a number of the students | were involved, and it is probable} that the government feared another | outbreak might have been scheduled | for that time. The Gomez government crushes | with an iron hand the revolts which | periodically break out against its| brutal dictatorship. R. R. Bonus Plan to Blind Workers | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (By Mail). | —A new bonus plan for trainmen has been introduced on the India- |napolis and Southern Railway. The bonus system is an attempt to blind the rail workers, who have been dis- satisfied with present low wages. taken if he thinks that he will be | able to crush the revolutionary struggle of the workers and pea- sants by terror. The decades ‘of | struggle against tzarism and the Polish bourgeois regime have steeled the proletariat of Poland. Jails and the bloody acts of the fascist mur- | derers are not new to it. The work- ers of Poland well remember the | memorable words of the tzarist min- | ister, Trepov: “Shoot! And do not spare bullets!” Today the place of |and attempting to outstrip Trepov. | Under the blows of the organized |proletarian ranks the throne of the | Romanoffs fell in ruins; bourgeois power was overthrown. Neither will increased terror be able to save Pol- ish fascism. The workers and pea- land Arrest Organizers ); land distributed the white tzar is taken by Pilsudski, | while Mr. Skladkowski is imitating | worked over this landscape. Bron by the light of electric lamps, rows | gardens changed their coloration disappearing towards the Moscow jand their outlines. River, lanterns on the terraces, sud The terraces of the houses, reces- floods of light from the flat roofs | sed and with mirrorlike windows, | were covered with plants and flow- of light, the glass roof of a club, ers. There were no chimneys, no|rose on the Square of the Revolu- | wires above the roofs, no tramear tion. Low and noiselessly, like some | posts, no kiosks, no vehicles on the night bird, an aeroplane dived dow: broad streets flanked with rich green past the terrace, and a woman’s | |lawns. The entire rervous system |voice cried from it. . . lof the city had been buried under-| 8 oe jground. The used air of the houses; pBuzheninoy did not end the story, |was carried by ventilators into sub-!and shamefacedly, almost pitifully terranean cleansing chambers. Be-|smiting, looked at his friends. In his wneath the ground electric trains rush- hand trembled a glass of beer. . ed with crazy speed, carrying the s population of the city at stated hours| “Well?. . .Was it not for this |to faraway factories, business con-|that we went out to die in Eighteen, cerns, schools, universities.. .In the comrades?” he uttered in a dull) city there were only theatres, cir-|voice. “I remember I dreamt of that | “\to get into my graces. the garden without fail. Mother feels badly, she is deaf and does not see anything. It is very hard to get into the lilac sky. A glimmering egg along with her. She is always an-|8°vermment began an offensive gry, nothing suits her. Lately she caught cold, and now she is in bed. You ought to come, or I am afraid |that you will never see her. This £hrovetide, Utyovkin, our office man- jager, proposed to me, but I refused, | horrible Upper Silesian because he is unreliable. I dream of |gojng on the stage, but while mother | lives it is impossible. Although |Utyovkin repeats that I have talent, | “Brygidki.” This is not enough for still I think that he is only trying Oh, how 1 want life. Spring is in full bloom here. Your loving Nadya. . .” Ces cael. It was a strange letter. Like | ginning of a new, horrible wave of | | fascist terror. | Several months ago the fascist | against the rights up to then ac- |vorded the political prisoners. This caused desperate hunger strikes. which togk place in the infamous Warsaw “Pawiak” (a prison), in the | “Myslow- ice” (prison), and a prison still more known for the bestiality of the |prison administration, Lemberg | the fascist government. The fascist | government wants to crush with bul- lets and bayonets the growing dis- satisfaction of the masses, their in- | | creased activity, which found ex- \pression in the great Lodz strike, sants of Poland will answer fascist , terror by strengthening the revolu- tionary struggle under the banner } of the Communist Party of Poland. | firmly believing that the hour will strike for a reckoning with the fas- | cist.dictatorship, with its ringleader, | Pilsudski, and with his entire band | of hangmen and tormentors of the | working masses. | r north as he could, thus getting s away from their sup- and British capitalism. a Le Federals Bomb Defenseless. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18. —An unknown number of deaths erday resulted from the raid of Frisco Police Break Up Communist Meetings | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (By|ment over Durango. It is reported Mail).—The police have broken up |that the raid over the city had no street meetings held by the Com-|further mili purpose than to munist Party here a number of frighten the insurgents. times, arresting the speakers and i aera those who organized the meeting Federals Gain in West. literature. The| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18. workers arrested are Fred Walker, |—Collapse of the drive of the Cath- Morey Martin, Mike Daniels, Frank |olic reactionaries on the seaport of Sterliccio, and Anadio Milloa. Mazatlan was reported from the The charges against them were|west today. The insurgents are re- vagrancy and distributing radical ported to be evacuating Ciliacan and literature. Those ributing liter-| Sinaloa. ature were advertising a protest) Mazatlan is one of the two Mex- meeting against the murder of Mel-| ican west coast ports and a railroad la, Cuban Communist leader. They terminus. were bailed out by the International Labor Defense, desp'te police terrorism, and will The Party organization states that! obilize the workers for big demon- it will go on with its meetings strations. The following is a list of new books and pamphlets that have come off the press in the past two weeks:— Communism and the International Situation—15c Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies—15c The Program of the Communist International— (in pamphlet form) 15c The Proletarian Revolution by V..I. Lenin—50c Reminiscences of Lenin by Klara Zetkin—35c (Prices To Be Announced) Wage Labor and Capital by Marx (New English Improved Edition) Revolutionary Lessons by Lenin Heading for War Women in the Soviet Union Ten Years of the Comintern (Postage Prepaid On All Orders, 5 Cents) SEND IN YOUR ORDER TO WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 35 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY READ || receives a letter which excites in the agrarian strikes in Western h very much and he finally de- 's to go home. Two days before ing he attends a party. There, ile» his friends gather around , he tells the following fantas- tory. Continued from Yesterday) A Hundred Years After. April the fourteenth, 2024, I las one hundred and twenty-six 's old. . «Don’t grin, comrades, serious now. . .I was neither jor young: grey, which was con- sed rather handsome,—my hair ory in color; an angular, fresh a strong body, confident in its ments; a light dress, without ‘hes, made of wool and _ silk; Ing sandals from the skin of ar- jal organisms, the ones they d “shoe culture,” which were de- ped in laboratories in central Ch. ee had worked all morning in the ),*then I had received friends, how, in the twilight, I had come on the terrace of the many- ied house, Ieaned on the balus- », and looked at Moscow. if a century earlier, when I already dying of old age, the inment had. incl: ‘:d me in the of youth.” One cout get on list only on account of some ordinary service performed for people. I underwent a complete hsformation according to the new- ‘system; I was frozen in a cham- jlled with nitrogen and exposed le action of strong magnetic cur- which changed the very mole- structure of my body. Then my irnal secretions were freshened by grafting of-‘monkey glands. ind truly my. deserts were consid- le. From the terrace where 1 , there opened in the bluish ight th-* part of the city ~“ich once criss-crossed by the dirty 's of the Tvarskaya. Now, de- 7 cuses, halls for winter sports, stores |city when I had the typhus. . .I/cuince, and yet it seemed tasty, the and clubs—tremendous buildings un- der glass domes. ty-first century, built according to my plans. Spring-time humidity twisted in the vistas of the open jstreets, among the recessed houses jrising to the stars, and their out- jlines became bluer and bluer, lighter and lighter. Here and there a nar- row ray of light fell from the sky music of the radio—an orchestra nayed taps on an island in the Pa- cific, *. * * Only one century divided us from ithe first shots of the Civil War. On jearth it was the one hundred and \seventh year of the new calendar. The chemical factories had trans- formed the wiid and austere spaces. | Where once lay the tundras and the ‘impassable ‘swamps, _ wheatfields whispered for thousands of miles. |The deposits of heavy metal in the North—of uranium and thorium— had at last been subjected to atomic destruction and had freed gigantic stores of radioactive energy. From ithe north to the South Pole along the thirteith meridian had been laid an electromagnetic spiral. It had cost one-quarter of the price of the 1-e entire world. There were no more \frontiers between nations. Caravans of freight ships floated through the heavens. Labor became easy. The of struggle for a piece of bread— this sad prose of history was studied by pupils of the first grade in the schools. We had freed ourselves of the load which we had carried on our crooked backs. We straightened up. The man of the past cannot under- \stand these new sensations of frec- dom, of strength and youth. me Such was the Moscow of the twen- - and an aeroplane landed on a roof.! The twilight was informed with the | World War. The electric energy of \this polar spiral fed the stations of endless circles of the past centuries hl, RE sat near a post in some steppe. . . Rain. . .Corpses on the ground. . -And beyond the rain from jamong the west grasses glimmered | ‘cupolas, wonderful arches,—recessed | houses rose in the air. . .Even now—| let me close my eyes, and I see. . .| Ah! And we lose time, drink beer | ”» Without tasting of his glass, he | Jay down on a bed, and closed his/ eyes. His earthen face moved con- vulsively. A debate arose. They told Buzheninov: “You're in a fever, Vassya. . . |With such a fever you'll never ac- | ‘complish anything. . .To buid a new \life is not to write poetry. Here the| iron laws of economies are at work. | Here you have to re-educate a whole igeneration. And as for Utopian So- ‘cialism, why, they’ll crush you under |the wheels before you Have time to open your mouth. ...Hold your course to the World Revcution, and mean- while let all your days be Mondays. \It’s harder to make something of these Mondays than to build your city. . 2” To all these words of reason, Bu- zheninov, without opening his eyes, answered through his teeth: “I know. . .I know. . .” His friends stayed late, and de-| parted with the dawn. On the morn- ing of the sixteenth, Buzheninov left for home. His entire baggage con- sisted of a portfolio with sketches and a box with drawing materials. Nadezhda Ivanoyna, The letter which had excited Bu- zheninov was from his mother’s jward, Nadiusha, Nadezhda Ivanovna. \Sitting near a window in the train, \he read it again, mouth watered. Buzheninov looked out of the window, beyond the rising and falling wires, and saw flat lakes of spring water. The morning was foggy, the sun hung, an orange ball, above the floods. Brooks ran from lake to lake, pressing down last year’s grass. In the distance trees and haystacks grew from the waters. On the islets wandered cattle, the wings of a mill turned, tattered by the winds, Muzheninov walked out on the platform of the car, and blinking with deep delight, breathed in the smell of spring earth and spring waters. They were passing stations where the rooks cried, circling above their nests in the tall, still naked poplars. The rooks cried so anxiously that his heart began to hurt. He blinked again, smiling. It seemed terribly funny that Nadya was twenty-two years old. She had been @ youngster—a nice face, blue eyes, silken chestnut hair in a braid with a bow. When she talked she would come near to you, trustfully, her thin arms hanging,—she looked straight into your eyes. The train, slowing down, passed a railroad bridge. Deep underneath, through the swollen, muddy river an ancient vessel was moving on oars, full of cattle, wagons and peasant |women. Apparently the vessel had |been inherited by the muzhiks from the Vikings, and had been in use for nearly two thousand years, carrying the population along the current into the villages, Buzheninov looked through the ‘window at the Viking ship, at the lakes, at the rooks’ nests, at thé small herds of sheep, at the muddy, black roads, and the world seemed beautiful to him, A man of extreme sensitiveness, | “Dear Vassya: We found out not, \ he saw in the surroundings only what he wanted passionately to see. t long ago that you are alive and that It was almost actual hallucination. Yes, 1 assure you, to live was to|you ave even studying in the School | (To Be Continued) Ukraine, in the strike wave in the lentire country. Polish fascism is at- | tempting to find an escape from the | lgrowing economic difficulties by | means of increased exploitation and the most savage terror. At the same time the terror is a means in preparing war. It is intended to \break the resistance of the masses against the criminal war prepara- jtions of Polish fascism for an at- tack on the U, S. S. R. Polish fas- cism is declaiming about peace, but atthe same time is feverishly or- ganizing for war. The order to shoot down workers—Communists— given by thefascist government to the police is another step towards war. Pogroms. The terror against the. workers and peasants is most closely linked with the increased repressions and violence against the enslaved and oppressed natiqnal minorities, in the first line against the working masses of the territories occupied by Polish imperialism in Western Ukraine and Western White Russia. Unforgot- ten is the pogrom of Ukrainians in Lemberg on Nov. 1, 1928, when the |police end bands of Polish fascist youth wounded scores of Ukrainians und demolished several Ukrainian culturai_and economic institutions. After this terrible pogrom the gov- ‘ernment publicly expressed its soli- | darity with the barbarous actions of the fascist mob. This same minister of the interior, Mr. Skladkowski, threw into the faces of the Ukrain- ian masses these cynical words: “The police was at fault, because it was too forbearing.” Today, Mr. Skladkowski, turning to the revolutionary camp of entire Poland, states: Revolt Will Continue. “The police shoots, and will con- tinue shooting.” These words will be remembered |by the working masses of Poland. ‘Wowever, Mr, Skladkowski is mis- Ww SERIAL VVVVTVVYV ° vvyvvrvvvwv wr wee START READING THESE MEMOIRS TODAY! IN THE Beiter Sere Work 26 UNION SQUARE, ON SALE AT ALL NEWSSTANDS IN NEW YORK A % “BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK” (EXCLUSI LISH BY WITH TH RIGHTS TO REPUB- BCIAL ARRANGEMENT NTERN. PUBLISHERS) vvvvvvvvvvw THt absorbing story of the class struggle by one ae who has a distinct place in the American Labor Movement. 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