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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929 Report Fourteen Thousand Indian Textile Workers Again Out DEFY ATTEMPTS OF BRITISH TO CRUSH WALKOUT R.ILL.U. Urges Aid to} Mass Struggles BOMBAY, India, March 19.— Fourteen thousand textile mill work- ers are on strike here again in spite of the brutal efforts of the Indo- British government to crush the re- cent walkout of textile workers and workers in other industries through open fighting and concentration of artillery, tanks and planes in this | city. The workers, who momentarily ceased resistance in the face of the tremendous forces which the British mobilized, have again rallied and are continuing the struggle. Urge Government to Act. The Anglo-British press is meet- ing the new walkout with the same alarmist accounts as before, urging the government to take action to end the disputes between the work- ers and the mill owners, i. e., to crush the workers absolutely. The Bombay workers have been repeatedly on strike during the past two years. For five months they tied up the textile industry, which is India’s major industry, by a strike of 200,000 in answer to wage cuts which reduced their already starvation wages below the point at which it is possible for even the en- slaved Indian workers to exist. Walk Out Again. This strike has already been “set- tled” to the satisfaction of the mill owners when the workers were again forced to walk out. The gov- ernment then intervened, shipping in Pathan strikebreakers and fo- menting religious war between them and the Hindu mill strikers. There followed the declaration of martial law and investment of the city with an army, and a concentration of ar- tillery larger than was to be found anywhere else in the east. After a week’s fighting in the streets, during which at least 150 workers were killed, many of them by the machine gun fire from the British barricades, the workers were forced to withdraw from the strug- gle, though they did not formally give it up. * * MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Exe- cutive Bureau of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions (Profintern), publishes an appeal to the workers of all countries pointing. out that} the mass strike movement in India is being met with increased reprisals on the part of the Anglo-Indian gov- ernment. The appeal calls upon the workers to support the struggle of the Indian workers against capitalist and im- perialist exploitation. Imperialism is at the same time the most prostitute and the ultimate form of the state power h nas- cent middle-class society had com- menced to elaborate as a means of ion from fendal- grown bourgeois transformed into iavement of labor its own emancij ism, and which society bad final 2 means for the by capital—Marx, Federal. Troops work effectively. A scene of Mexican warfare. route for the Torreon front where the hilly district makes it impracticable for motor transport to In @ decisive battle in this region the federal forces won. Mobilizing to Figh | | d A federal ammunition train passing through Aguascalientes By P. FRIEDLANDER (Berlin) Two Conferences of the Second International have been held in Lon- don: On Feb. 8 and 9 there was a “Four Countries’ Conference,” and on Feb, 11 and 12 a session of the Executive of the Second Interna- tional. Government Socialists. The Four Countries Conference was a gathering of government so- cialists. MacDonald took the chair. The Conference was participated in by leaders of the English, French, German and Belgian socialist par- ties. It resembled in character one of the customary ministerial con- ferences of these countries. A veil of secret diplomacy was spread over it. No report was is- sued on the debates, but merely an empty communique. According to this, “the problems of reparations and of the inter-allied debts, as also the question of the evacuation of the Rhine country” have been “ex- amined,” and the result of this ex- emination is stated (precisely in the manner of the ministerial com- munique) to be that the social dem- oeratic statesmen “have unanimously agreed on the attitude to be adopted in the present circumstances.” At the same time attention is drawn to the “general principles” laid down at former Four Countries Conferences, and also at the last, which was held in Luxemburg. This last reference is clear enough. For, as subsequently became known, at the Four Countries’ Conference held at Luxemburg the socialists, includ- ing the Germans, agreed on a de- cision in which the question of the evacuation of the Rhine country was bound up with financial payments in return on the part~of Germany. They have therefore proved them- selves to be the auxiliary troops of the imperialists. Support of Own Imperialists. The practical policy pursued by the soclalist leaders in the different countries, where they have stuck to Two Recent Meetings of the Yellow International GIL WILL SHOOT ‘REBEL’ LEADERS Army Left in Desert as ; Leader Runs to Safety _ (Continued from Page One) jin the arid north Mexican plateau. Despatches from General Calles to the federal government state that bombing plancs late yesterday sight- ed a cavalry troop moving towards th: federals about 40 miles north of | Torreon, It is believed that they |intend to surrender. A troop train is also reported to |have been abandoned at Ceballos in | Durango. $0 Woe MEXICO CITY, March 19.—Des- (patches to the newspaper Excelsior from Guadalajara state that federal soldiers captured the town of Zapot- |lanejo after a three hour battle yes | their bourgeoisie, through thick and |thin, has only served to emphasize this. The actual meaning of the London Conference is, therefore, solely that the social imperialists mutually leave one another a free hand to support the imperialist pol- icy of their bourgeoisie, and thereby secure first of all the welding to- |gether of the war bloc against the i Soviet Union. The Four Countries’ Conference was followed by the session of the Executive of the Second Interna- |tional. Its object was to furnish suitable accompanying music to the |policy of the imperialist powers in the present period. A recent fresh appeal to the League of Nations aided them in this purpose. To the ex-prime minister, MacDonald, even this slight attempt at cloaking the imperialist policy of the Second In- | ‘i é ternational, customary as it is on ees Forty-two were wounded, the occasion of Executive meetings, | oe ma excnte. jappeared superfluous. Hence he| REVOLUTION ARY HEAD- demonstratively absented himself, QUARTERS, ESCALON, MEXICO, although it took place in London. |MARCH 19.—(U.P.)—Bulletins re. Fake Disarmament. ceived by General Escobar today The question of disarmament was |said rebel troops had defeated fed- |dealt with by the Dutch representa- |¢tal forzes in battles in the states of |tive Albarda (in order to save the |Navarit and Sinaola. allies of the imperialist great pow-|_ Revolutionists under General jers from embarrassment the report |Iturbe won engagements at Rosario is delivered by a Dutchman!) and a |8nd Atotonilco, the bulletins said. |—telegram to the Secretariat of the | Rosario is an important town a League of Nations resolved upon, in short distance south of Mazatalan. which the expectation is expressed “that the Preparatory Disarma- ment Commission of the League of Nations will speedily bring its labors to a successful conclusion.” In view of the obvious collapse of the efforts of the Disarmament Commission and the postponement of its meeting, as stigmatized in the eyes of the whole world by Comrade | Litvinov in a letter to the president of the Disarmament Commission, Loudon, at the time of the Lugano Conference, this expectation on the part of the heroes of the Second In- ternational bears the stamp of ab- surdity on the face of it, and is characteristic of the mendacity of | their policy in the struggle against | imperialism. In order to do something further, 2 “program of action” was also de- jcided upon. This included, among other things, an appeai to the so- cialist parties, likewise to send the above telegram to the Disarmament Commission, Further, the “drawing up of a joint plan of action in favor of disarmament, in touch with the Trade Union International.” These cloaking over “plans” and “actions” of the Second International are only too familiar to us. (To Be Continued.) AZURE CITIES A Story o/ LIFE in the USSR International Publishers. Nec, fe FORD FIGHT FOR | EUROPE MARKETS Ford Makes Big Stock Offer in France PARIS, France, March 19.—Strug- | gle between Ford and the General} Motor Morgan interests, as evi-| denced by the form-! ation of the new! Ford Company of France and the merge of the Mor- gan interests with the Opel Works of Germany, is threat- ening to over- shadow here the excitement caused by the flotation of a $1,568,000 com- the Henry Ford mon stock in |Not only the French but American | bourgeois buyers are flocking to in- vest, tho it is almost certain that stock will be sold to Frenchmen ex- clusively. It is clear that the two rival American interests are about to en- gage in a life and death battle for the European market on the Euro- pean field. In France Ford is rep- uted to have the edge on his oppon- ent thru the intensive organization of dealers and service stations thru-| out the country. To Build Huge Plant. In Germany, according to a Ford representative, his company does not intend to buy any German fac- tory, but contemplates pushing the struggle soon thru the erection of | a giant factory of its own, The Jalarmed over the General Motors-|F'ail to Defeat Sandino Opel deal, which it describes as a! “vital danger” to German auto- motive industry, A cartel to include such manufac- turers as the Daimler-Benz, Adler, Bavarian Motorworks, Brennabor, jand Buessing is forecast. Maybach|there is a surplus of $200,000 be- Horch, however, makers of high- grade cars, assert they will remain outside. The cartel will reduce th number of models made in each fac: tory and rationalize by introducing new machines and laying off men wherever possible. Want to Lower Labor Standards. Tho the automobile manufacturer: are already pleading that they can- not meet American competition with the existing labor laws, the social democratic Vorwaerts “sees no men- ace to German labor” in the Opel- General Motors merger. Ford’s immediate step in Germany will be the offering of his European stock on the German market, also, Worked 4 Years Ago} on Watch Dials, Woman Dies of Radium Paint (Continued from Page Onc) which first attracted attention to the danger lurking in radium paint. The inventor of the process has also jdied of the effects on him of his experiments. Cardow is going to sue the| Waterbury Watch Co. for damages, | but has been informed by the com- pany that the law is so drawn that he cannot collect. The five New Jersey victims tried to collect dam- ages, but their case was thrown by} the skillful lawyers of the employ-| Ford concern. | kers in East River Tube Imperilled The lives of workers, working under great pressure on the new subway tube under the East River, were endangered when drills struck fissure in rock 60 fect under water. The leak was hurriedly plugged with cement by the workers, thus saving their lives. Photo shows bubbling water on: surface of river caused by leak, French Generals Censured; Caused Death of 300 Poilus —— + SOVIET WORKERS GET FOOD CARDS Bread Consumption Is: Twice That of Berlin (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) PARIS, France, March 19,—A other of those investigations of t nilitary, which could not be delayed any longer because the stench of the details was increasing with every hour and there would be less scandal now than later, has just been “completed” here. As a result, Ge! | e erals Goubeau and Departouneaux and Colonel Marminia have been cen- sured or telieved of their posts. It is timated that the activities of the three military men resulted MOSCOW, USSR, March 18.—Dis-|in the death of at least 300 French tribution of breadeards to the work- | <ojdiers in the army of occupation ers has been concluded, it was of- in the Rhineland of Germany. ficially announced here today. } Goubeau was found guilty of c Pravda today published figures | dering a review at 4 below zer showing that twice as much bread|/Marminia of the same offense. De- is being consumed in Moscow as 1M partouneaux was found guilty of or- Berlin and more meat in Moscow /ganizing masked balls while the hos- than in eee a fete |pitals were full of dying soldier The standard of living of work-| Obviously the imes of 0 Jers in the Soviet Union is constantly |three were far eraner chan whi” improving. the dead soldiers would attest oe SS jthey could accuse their murderers, Marines Completely but the French courts are anxio |to whitewash the ferocious admin |tration of the army which official ° - ie France winks at. The actual details \Force Fighting inNorth (rie cvmisl which imate neces so open an investigation and MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 19. yin) remain in the files of the French —Despite confident statements from |, department. |official Nicaraguan sources that| 4 portion of the European liberal Ipress is rejoicing over the exposure jof the officers’ guilt. But the French workers will not be deceived by s talk. It is the opinion of the liberal: that officers of the stamp of these ‘three clog up the smooth working of the imperialist armies, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is the fiercest and most merciless ‘ar of the new class against its more powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie, | German capitalist press is | | yond budget needs and that fighting jhas been ended in the northern rovinces, fighting continues in Nueva Segovia and along the Hon- juran boundary to the east. Complete failure of the United States marines to defeat the intrepid Sandino forces is evidenced by the continued presence of the invaders | |in the northern districts. There are also persistent reports on Strike in if ich | today approved a rate of operations in the region around Jinotega and along the Coco River where-. the Americans, after a year and half of marching and counter- }marching, have not succeeded in | driving back the army of independ- | ence, Shipping Board Okeys Rate Agreement for U. S. Lines to Britain WASHINGTON, March 19— (U.P.)—The U. S. Shipping Board agreement between 21 shipping lines operating | between North Atlantic ports of the United States and the United King- dom. | Parties to the agreement, it was | said, promised that none of them would “discriminate against or make | discounts, payments, rebates or re- | turns of any description directly or | indirectly to any shipper, contractor, | broker, consignee or other receiver | whose power of resistance increases tenfold after its overthrow, even though overthrown in only one coun- | try—V. L Lenin (“Left” Commu- nism). 8 Bombay SANDINO FORCES RENEW THE FIGHT AGAINST MARINES Give Lie to Moncada’s “Peace” Tales MANAGUA, aragua, March Renewed activities of the army independence in northern and Fianna central Ni- ‘aragua con- inue to be- lie the re- norts of all’s well which the Moncada government pel lly £ * al Sandino The United States marine corps is more realis- tic about the situation and an- nounces that battles between forces operating with General Sandino have taken place at several places in the neighborhood of Li . One fight took p! between Ni- ragua indepe' nee forces and a rol of United States marines on hursday at about 20 miles north- west of Limay, near the Honduran frontier. The marines killed one Nicara- | and allege the capture of d ammunition. aguan national guar the United States marine officers, again en- gaged Nicaraguan independence troops near Limay on Friday. They aim four Nicaraguans killed and the capture of three, together with capture of arms and ammunition. Limay is in the northern district cf Neuva Segovia, the scene of the long, costly and futile operations in al Sandino and his troops have r tedly led the over- whelmingly larg marine forces back and forth through the’ jungles and mountain territory on fruitless campaigns that never ult in more than the capture of a few stragglers small caches of ammunition as in the above battles, which Ge E | HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 18 SEN’ DRY AGENT (UP).—Reginald E, Walters, for- mer federal prohibition agent, was sentenced today to life imprison- ment for the murder of Hunter R. Stotler, his immediate superior in the dry forces in this district. Christian Socialism is but the holy lwater with which the priest conse- crates the hearthurnings of the aris- tocrat—Karl Marx (Communist Man- Ma AUSPICES OF SECT IMPERIAL 160-4 WEST 129TH STREET —DISTRICT 2— Gala Frolic and Dance Friday Evening rch 22nd AT UDITORIUM £ ION 4, COMMUNIST PARTY FROM “AZURE CITIES” By ALEXEY TOLSTOY of cargo.” | George’s Irish Gov't | |ers into such a knot of legal delays | |that there was every prospect that} Copyright, 1929 Proceeds for Daily Worker, Vida Obrera Vassili Alexeievich Buzheninoy, a young Red Army soldier, is found on a Ionely steppe, seri- ously wounded and delirious, by a Red Army transport in the autumn of 1919. He is sent to Moscow, recovers and in the summer re- turns to the front. He fights through the ciyil wars and then re-enters the School of Architec- ture in Moscow, where he had previously been a student. He works feverishly, brooding about the wonderful cities he will build on the ruins of the past, until he finaly suffers a nervous break- down, Buzheninov decides to go home to recuperate. Two days before his departure, he attends a party and in a moment of unu- sual excitement relates a fantas- tic tale about the year 2024, de- scribing the wonders of the new Moscow, the city that had been built according to his plans. Riding on the train to his home Buzheninoy re-reads a letter he received a few days before from Nadezhda Ivanoyna, his mother’s ward. The letter consists of or- dinary family news, but it had ex- cited him greatly, It has been several years since Buzheninov left home, and he muses over Nadya (Nadezhda), who is now 22 years old. 5 * * (Continued from Yesterday.) The. County Seat. 1 barcalat is no necessity for us to tell in detail about the unpaved alleys, the rotten fences and the gates with benches for eating sun- flower seeds, of the houses patched with boards, on whose window-sills grow geraniums as a sign that “do what you will, citizens, but there is nothing in the constitution against feraniums.” . . . » Everybody knows what a county seat on the bank of a -river is: a “market place soggy with manure, hay scales, booths, the sign of a co- operative over a brick store, a priest seen beeemaeatersnen in deep galoshes, lifting the hem of his cassock, making his way into a side alley; a militiaman, or as the angry women in the mar‘et express themselves, a “bullfinch,” standing around and looking about uncompre- hendingly; the old orchard of the late chairman of the nobility, now the town park, with nests in the poplars and a cloud of rooks whose spring cries excite certain girls, and, |well,—the firehouse tower. .. . And above the silence, above the poverty, the whistle of a train in the far distance. Walking from the station, Vassili Alexeievich, the devil knows why, thought for a moment: “There’s a dull life for you!” But his uplifted mood still continued. * * * » gee wooden house of his mother, with the four windows facing the street, had grown into the ground in these years, it leaned sideways, jthe paint had cracked. But behind the bubbled glass stood pots wit igeraniums and cactus plants. Vass' /lexeievich opened the ‘gate,—the ‘courtyard was clean. Spotted hens '‘l-y in the heat, a bare-legged rooster, who seemed to be very stupid, looked iat the sun, Near the little barn an old woman in a soldier’s coat was hanging out kitchen towels. She bowed to Buzheninov silently, He ran lup the rotting steps to the dog, into the dark vestibule smelling of damp- ness and cabbage, found the familiar ‘door,—the burlap hung on it in rags, --opened it,’and in the opening of |the door leading from the tiny vesti- bule with the little mat on its floor o the low dining-room where a can- ary cackled in a bourgeois strain, saw Nadya. She wore an open sheepskin jacket, \a short skirt and a white kerchief. “What is it you wish, citizen?” |kerchief began to tremble. Her |the window to the battered chest-of- | |brows came apart. Throwing her |drawers, where Nadya kept her mir-| ‘hands up, she approached Buzheni- ror, her powder box and a jar with| 'nov, and at once something that was |the cold-cream “Metamorphosis,” | either amazement or pity fitted lthere were about five steps. That | across her pretty face. \was funny. It had seemed there was | “Vassya, can it be you?” she asked More space at home, Under the win-| quietly. He kissed her cool cheek.|dows—bottles into which rain water He leaned his portfolio and his box flowed along woolen strings. Yes,’ against the wall, unwound his scarf, the technic was old here. One woul) unfastened the hooks of his coat—|have to spend much energy that the| his fingers trembled. y might rise above this) azure cit; “ i o” squalor. cunthee is Teche right now.” | His mother snored lightly behind “You are getting ready to go the wall. Then the old woman in the somewhere?” coat came in, bowed, said quietly: “To work. We must give you tea, |Welcome, handsome little fathe; iVH tell Matryona. |She covered the table, carried i Her blue eyes gleamed. She ran ti¢ familiar, dented, but terribly at jout. Buzheninov heard her voice jn|tive samovar. Vassili Alexeievich itie courtyard, then she crossed the! rank tea and smoked cigarettes. | street diagonally, choosing the drier This entire little backwater world |places to step on, turned, wrinkling WS Wrapped in the magic song of| {her nose at the sun, and her skirt the canary. Through the clouds of ‘whisked around a corner, ‘samovar steam she sang to Buzhe- or ig hy ‘ninov of an untold future. YASSILI ALEXEIEVICH gathered | ASSILI ALEXEIEVICH was ter-| breath and sat down near the window under the bird-cage, where} the canary swished in the birdseed, |W ribly young. And how else: when | singing the same song over and over he was seventeen he had crawled |again—having nothing else to do— jxto an armored car which rushed The Soles Touch Earth. | they would die before any decision! was rendered. They settled out of | court for a mere pittance. Won’t Obey His Council DUBLIN, March 19.—The Irish | CAPGNE DEMANDS IMMUNITY | Free. State has announced that when CHICAGO, March 18 (UP),—|the next imperialist conference is “Scarface Al” Capone, en route jheld, it will demand a voice in the | from Miami to testify before a fed-|naming of a council of regents to} eral grand jury regarding bootleg-|act for King George. An official | ging activities in Chicago, will in-|protest by the Free State has been | sist upon immunity, it was made|made against the present council. | known here today. If denied im- | The Free State officials have re-| munity, Capone, known as the “beer |fused to deal with the present coun- | lord” of Chicago, will refuse to give |cil of state, and accepts documents any information to the investigators, from the British government only it was said. if signed by King George. 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He didn’t have a penny-| terpret it in any way you . wish. bey perl nea sage tie flow Buzheninov gazed at the wasteland, | f ti ui Bi 1 a! $i hed he. fences, the houses; he smoked, pas oe eee d nd vit Th Ago and sighed like a man sentenced to seer ty tated Vek di ig a wait for an express train at an out- Ps Bye bei hi ig Siall of-the-way junction. {Ho ‘Jobked |*alted tranquilly, there was the sme! around the room—there under that % manure, A century-old, ragged hanging lamp: he once learned to read (TOW, came from the motionless sky, and write. 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