The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1929, Page 1

_ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class watter at the Post Office at New York. 5 ¥. under the act of Mar: Worker ch 3, 1879. Vol. VI., No. 13 y Worker k. N.Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New jew Yo mail, $3.00 per year by mail. $6.00 per yenr. St in Yor! INDIA STEEL STR GIL ANNOUNCES WILL ASK U.S. RETURN ‘REBELS? Also Wants Millions of | Pesos They Took Out of Banks Federals Bomb Escalon ; Insurgents Continuing | Retreat Northward MEXICO CITY, March 20 (UP). General Jesus’ M. Aguirre, who conducted the rebellion in Vera Cruz and was forced to evacuate) after federe’ ces arrived. has been captured at Agua Catillo, Vera | Cruz, according to a telegram re-| ceived tonight from General Manuel | M: Acosta. | ie Say ei j MEXICO CITY, March 20 (UP).| —-General Jaime Carrillo, federal de- | | fender of the port of Mazatlan on the west coast, reported at 6:15 p. m. today that the rebels had been | sighted outside the city, preparing to attack. ® WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20. clerical and landholder troops in full retreat to the north and Torreon) safely in the hands of the Gil gov-/ ernment, the government announced | today that it would seek the extra-| dition of all insurgent leaders from | the United States as common crim-| inals, should they seek refuge there. | Securely sheltered in Chapultepec | Castle, Portes Gil confirmed yester- | day’s reports that his government) “New York is the greatest Swedish the man who threw the bomb was t2nks of the Sun Oil Company plant will seek the co-operation of the! United States government in recov-| ering by attachment. all funds which | he defeated insurgents may attempt to carry with them into the United | States. It is almost certain Portes Gil will get it. Refugees from Alabama Flood South killed hundreds of Negro have croppers and “poor whites,” Leaving APPROVE ROOT'S SS: COURT PROTOCOL their property and SenateOpponents Point huts destroyed. | to Changes That May Above some of the | Hurt War Chances homeless, refugees after losing their homes in the flood. The State of Latin America Suspects 40 Nations Must Ratify Alabama made prac- League of Nations Committee of Jurists yesterday, as a basis for en- try of the U. S. into the world court. Borah said the court should have no the much more num- erous Negro victims without assistance. Prosecution Witness Swears Mooney, Billings Framed Up —With the army of the reactionary LUNDBORG GETS COLD RECEPTION But Mayor,Whalen, Pat White Guard on Back and ItaloAmerican city in the world,” jnot true SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.— Estelle Smith, whose testimony sent Warren K. Billings and Thomas Mooney to prison for life, today again admitted the story she told on the witness stand during the pre- paredness parade bombing trial was false. She said in an affidavit today that her identification of Billings as and that she never was declared Mayor Walker, in his flow-j sure about the matter. given yesterday at ery ‘speech at the) official reception | the City Hall to torney Charles M. Fickert, who, n , k Captain Lund-|has been proved over and over again, P>ttunity for taking precautions and The statement, made voluntarily gives the lie to former District At- it — advisory functions and should act only on cases where the participants request it to arbitrate. |administration is favorable to the acceptance of the | Speed-up the Cause \Nations World MARCUS HOOK, Pa., March 20,/ Court under cer- ; 2 DIE IN OIL aoe | WASHINGTON, March 20.—It is REFINERY FIRE — Root-Hurst “pro- 8 tocol” by which —Two workers were burned to death, | in conditions. eight more were badly injured and| ,The first con. generally understood here that the 8 More Badly Injured; feu. $) onters ithe League of twenty burned less seriously today | ‘ition is that all when an oil distillery exploded and the Present ( started. a fierce fire among the. oil Members of the * ¥ League, about Elihu Root. |forty nations, |have to agree to a change in its statutes. It will require a great deal of diplomatic pressure to compel some of the Latin American states to agree, as they resent the pro- vision for allowing the U. S. to with- here. The cause of the fire is laid to the company’s. policy of “rationaliza-| tion,” forcing one worker to do the, hbor of two or more, and to the} resulting speed up, and lack of op-; tically no provision to Put America In to prevent floods, | aed sorcercets BULLETIN. | and is doing little to | WasHINGTON, March 20.—Sen- assist the victims. ator Borah today intimated that he What relief there is |would lead the senate opposition to goes to the white ratification of the “protocol” of inhabitants, leaving | Root and Hurst, accepted by the RED WAR STARTS AS MEETING SPLITS ‘Many Killed in Hunan | Battle; Call for New Government Feng Resigns Ministry Savs He’s Sick Because Chiang Gives Orders SHANGHAI, China, March 20.— Defying the futile orders of the rapidly disintegrating Kuomintang to withdraw from Hunan, General ,Yeh Chi (Hankow) _ yesterday routed the forces of Lu Ti-ping, de- |Wosed governor of Hunan. | Five hundred prisoners were cap- tured and nearly a thousand rifles, ‘together with several field pieces, fell into the hands of Yeh Chi. The engagement took place east of |Chang-teh, a small town on the |Yuan-kiang river in northern Hunan. | This is the most important battle to date in the opening hostilities be- tween Nanking and Hankow and the victory of the latter has given a new impetus to recruiting which, to- gether with impressment, has swell- ed the Hanko:7 forces by 5,000 men in a few days. The big Hanyang arsenal at Hankow is working at top speed and producing quantities of ammunition. As a prelude to its attack from the south, Nanking is massing its forces at Ping-hsien, the terminal of the railroad which beginning in this town in the extreme western moun- tains of Kiangsi, runs north thru {important city of Chang-sha, thru )Hankow and northern Hupeh and Honan provinces to Peking. It is expected that Nanking will order a general advance along this rail- Arrested as Briber ee pL! LISS ee eae Angelo Paino, big sewer man, who was made a knight by the pope. Two men have just been convicted of carrying $10,000 as a@ bribe from him to George U. Harvey, newly elected Queens Borough president. MILITIA PATROLS ROADS IN STRIKE Rayon Bosses Prepare) to Import Scabs ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March | 20.—With the swearing in of the two companies of state troops quar- | tered here for the use of the rayon | barons against the strikers, an-| |nouncement was made by the two | rayon companies involved, the Glanz- | stoff and the Bemberg Corporations, | that immediate efforts would be| made to resume production, | This means that in the next day or two strikebreakers recruited else- where will be convoyed into town, if the strikers, keep quiet. And that they will not weleome with hosan- nahs, scabs (should efforts prove successful in recruiting them) is} _known from the bitterness permeat- ing the ranks of the strikers. This despite attempts of the A. F. of L agents here to breed passivity, as FINAL CITY EDITION ‘Price 3 C a ents RAIDS GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL DRIVE ON COMMUNISTS 3 Left Wing Leaders in Jail; Labor Fights to Stop Arrests Unrest Is Nation-wide Puppet Parliament Has Anti-Communism Bill March 20,—Und« by the d United Provine rnment today raids upon Commu- workers’ DELHI nts judges of Beerut, the Anglo-Ind made wholesale issued nists and other organiz tions in Calcutta, Bombay, Poona, and other cities. When news of the arre 20,000 workers in the Ta wor the second largest industrial ente > in In- dia, walked out on Vv al martial law has again been clamped down upon Bom cent street fighting vy, where the re tween wor and the Briti |troops nd police cost over 160 lives of si Machine Gun Nests: Machine gun nests have again been posted at -all street intersec- tio sandbag barricades have been thrown up by the government, while troops and police are patrolling the streets. Three left wing trade union lead- ers, whose nam could not be learned, were arrested in Bombay, while arrests of others are reported from Calcutta, Lucknow, Poona and other towns in the concerted gov- ernment raid., The main brunt of the offensive seems toshave been directed against the Youth League where many ar- rests were made in all the cities in- volved, Latest reports tate that numer- draw and wreck the court if the lat- | road within a few days. 4 Seized Bank Money. borg, the Swedish | “framed” the pair, watching for leaks, _ ter attempts to try any case inyolv-| At the same time, the Nanking |can be seen by the Bemberg walk-/0US arrests were also mede in Alla- Large sums of money from banks jingo aviator who| A desire for “fair play” prompted Caught in Blast. ing the Monroe doctrine. forces have to cover Tzuli and|out against the advice of the agents. |habad. — 2 . n occupied cities are alleged to have |; rescued his fel-|Miss Smith in issuing today’s state-| James McAbee, Jr., the still op- Senate Divided Tayung, now threatened by the Confess Success of Strike. Quantities of literature were been seized by the reactionary in- low fascist, No-| ment, she said. ecator where the first explosion The mill bosses have dropped all Seized by the Anglo-Indian govern- surgents, $511,000 from Torreon and from Banco de Mexico branches in) ig various cities about $1,250,000. Reports from the northern sector tated today that the insurgent forces were in full retreat,north of Torreon and there is a further re- #) crew to the mer | On the other hand, the court ean victorious forces of Yeh Chi. * * # pretenses about still operating. Their | bile, and left the | cy Evidence Smashed Long Age. H of the Arctic un-} Evidence appeared nearly ten til they were/Years ago that Estelle Smith and saved by the Sov-| other witnesses used by the prosecu- Lundborg iet ice-breaker, tion were bribed in some instances Krassin. Similar bombastic speeches (Continued on Page Five) port that the insurgents are aban- |were made by Police Commissioner | doning Escalon to make a stand at|Whalen, the Swedish consul, and the | proken out, These elements are put- iminez. Jiminez is about 60 miles north of Escalon. More Bor-bing Raids. Further bombing raids were car: yied out over insurgent forces in Es- calon yesterday, and airplanes of the | federal forces today reported that they had observed the, insurgent re- | treat northward toward Chihuahua City, indicating that the next con- centration of their forces is planned | there. | General Calles commanding the | “ederal armies, arrived in Torreon ast night to superintend the pur- The insurgents, in their haste to eave the city, left behind them 11) ailroad cars loaded with provisions, <4 locomotives and 29 cars contain- ng railroad repair materials. BR ee ay | i MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., March 20.— , Commenting on the Mexican situ-' ation, the Pravda recently issued the following leading article: “In)} Mexico an insurrection of the rich | landowners and militarists has ting forward their own candidate for president against the candidate of the national revolutionary parties, Calles. :“North American imperialism at- taches little importance to the rev- olutionary phrases of Calles and Portes Gil, and is prepared to sup- port them as the leaders of a group which is capable of maintaining or- der in Mexico. This,, however, by no means prevents the Anjierican catholics and certain American cap- italist interests from rendering sec- ret support to the insurrectionaries. Recently Portes Gil has been mak- ing great efforts to convince Amer- ican imperialism of his reliability. For this reason he is working for industrial peace, and opposing the leaders of the Mexican Federation of Labor, ete, ! “The happenings in Mexico place the Communist Party of Mexico in a difficult situation and it must find the correct policy. The recent activ- ity of the Party gives ground for the hope that it will find the correct | policy.” R. R. GATEMAN KILLED. _ MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail). Struck and dragged by both north | and south bound trains, William Mc- Donald, a gateman for the North- Italian consul in New York. The name of Nobile was avoided as far as possible by the speakers, WEISBORD ARRESTED vho discussed only “traditions” of Sweden and Italy. “Colonel Lind- bergh, too, is of Swedish descent,” declared Walker. No applause whatever greeted the speech of the Italian fascist consul. BULLETIN. HAVERHILL, Mass., March 20. —Albert Weisbord, national sec- retary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, was arrested ume, was on the “catwalk,” a nar-'be scrapped any time two-thirds of tow footway over the top of the oil the signatories, aside from the U, still, where crude oil was being heat- s. desire to “withdraw their assent ied to take off the more volatile gaso-| {> the protocol.” jline _benzine, and kerosene before! Opposition is certain to develop turning the rest into asphalt, tar, in the senate, because of the change ete, in the Root plan by the English A leak by which highly inflam-| delegates, Hurst, apparently intend- mable vapors of gasolene came into|ed\ , deprive the U. S. of the privil- contact with heated surfaces and eged position demanded for it by air, is thought to have caused the|Senate reservation No. 5, which whole upper part of the still to ex-/specified that no question affecting plode, and a sheet of flame to shoot | the interests of U. S. should be con- jup, burning McAbee to a crisp. His|sidered by the court, though the U. charred body was found, hanging!S. . judges would sit on other coun- from the “catwalk” after the fire | trys’ cases. The Hurst amendments, burned itself out. |adopted by the League Council of | McAbee had a wife and five chil- | Jurists yesterday, make U. S. ob- dren. He was only 25 years old. His jection the signal for breaking up Yu Yu-jen Bolts Congress order for complete closure confessed | SHANGHAI, March 20.—General |this yesterday and now they frankly | |Y.. Yu-jen, member of the Kwangsi |State they will resume operatio }group and leader of a powerful fol-|48 soon as scabs can be brought i lowing, yesterday bolted the con- gress of the Kuomintang at Nan- ment raiders in many places. Over 120 warrants are said ‘o have been issued and the prisoners will be charged with “waging war against the King.” Nationwide unrest is forecast to a result of the raids, the action of king and took refuge in this city. |He is announcing that he will go to Canton to call a new Kuomintang lcongress wit delegates “properly elected.” With them he will establish (Continued on Page Three) GOV. JOHNSTON hit of the insurgents to the north, |# Captain Lundborg took refuge be- hind his ignorance of the English language, and had nothing to say sbout his share in the cowardly de- fertion of the Italia crew, or about is own record in the service of re- ion. He has fought in both the Finnish and Esthonian white guard, participating in the murder of thou- | finds of workers. The small crowd gave an unusually | ©ld reception to the fascists. Many lept their hats on when the Swedish national anthem was played, and nnany other hats remained on during the playing of the “Star Spangled anner.” Captain Lundborg, in official press \iiterviews, stated that he is in the United States for the purpose of studying American developments in aviation. He indicated that Sweden ‘wishes to take lessons from Amer- izan imperialism. RUSSELL TRIES RADIO WASHINGTON, March 20 (UP). —E. M. Russell, assistant to Secre- tary of Agriculture Hyde, has re- signed to become vice-president of the National Broadcasting - Com- pany, in charge of affairs here, it was announced today. upon entering the hall of the Shoe James Workers’ Union, where he was to speak at the invitation of Local 9 of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union. He was immediately spir- ited away to New Bedford. It was impossible to learn why the authorities had jailed him, be- cause he had just arrived here | |from New Bedford and had there | |addressed a public meeting. He is not yet free from charges aris- | Jing out of the huge New Bedford | textile strike, but the police there | knew of his presence when he was | [in town, Capmakers to Hold Open Forum Tonight The coming convention of their international union is occupying much of the attention of the cap- makers at present. So that they may have an opportunity to dis- cuss the union-wrecking policies of the right wing national official- dom, the left wing in the Cap- makers Union is calling an open foxum meeting tonight in Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., immediately after work. SMUT-HOUN Fired trom College for Sex Questionaire COLUMBIA, Mo., March 20 (U. P).—The executive board of curat- ors of the University of Missouri today dismissed two professors and the circulation of sex questionnaires among: students, ‘ Those dismissed are M. F. Meyer. professor of psychology; H. O. De- Graft, professor of sociology, and DS EXPEL 3 The questionnaires were similar to those on which statistical articles in all medical journals and the Jour- nal of Psychology are based. Missouri is a fundamentalist state ‘ene sturent after an inquiry into|with laws against evolution and a ruling class of white, protestant, one hundred percent Americans, fighting hard to keep subdued a ‘working and farming class of Ne- groes, white packing house workers western Road, was killed while at/O. H. Mower, student assistant in|and small hill farmers. The educa- ” psychology, tional standards are naturally low. father, McAbee, Sr., was among the other workers burned. The other man killed was Joseph |G. Bennett, a company fireman, 35 years of age. | Besides McAbee, Sr., James Urian, |19, Raymond Roden, 20, and Victor |Bird, 18, were badly burned. Names of the others could not be learned ‘last night. | The refinery workers here are un- organized, many young workers are employed, and wages and conditions are bad. | The fire destroyed 17 stills and caused a hundred thousand dollars \damage. | SHOE UNION IN Bosses Wilt as Entire Crews Join Walkout The Independent Shoe Work- ers Union yesterday resolved to strengthen existing strikes 100 per jcent. Another strike: against a Brooklyn firm was declared. Since this decision the union re- ported that several employers asked for conferences with a view to an early settlement. The new shop to be tied up by a strike is the Faleo Shoe Company in Brownsville, employing approxi- mately 40 workers. Negotiations were entered into with the Phillip- son Lockwood Shoe Co., employing over 150, in Long Island City, and the Kados Shoe Co., of Brooklyn, The strikes against the Arthur Bender Co., employing 200 and against-the Real Art Co., with a crew of about 175, were intensified when every worker in both plants joined their striking fellow worker: The Real Art Co. had been con- tcnplating injunction restraints, but have as yet not done se + 5 SHOP STRIKES | the court. Jocky For War Position. Opponents of the Court, in the (Continued on Page Three) 21 KILLED IN Crash in Montreal MONTREAL, Canada, March 20. ~-Latest reports of the train wreck en the Canadian National Railways at Dorcourt places the number of dead at 21, including Conductor Bar- Members of the crew among the in- jured were Engineer Gauverau, |Fireman Smith, Brakeman Travers and Baggageman McRoberts, The identified dead are. Conduct- or Borstead and Brakeman Fergu- son. The crash was between the Van- couver bound and the Toronto bound Nationals, two of the fastest pas- senger trains in the service. Three emergency trains, bearing jdoctors and nurses, ‘started from | Toronto, Sudbury and Parry Sound jas soon as word of the wreck had |been received. | The two trains which collided were the East and West bound “Na- tional,” the fast trains between To- ronto and Winnipeg. According to a statement this afternoon the west- bound train was to meet the east- bound train at Dorcourt. In rush, however, on this single | track road, the instructions were imisinterpreted and the eastbound {flyer did not stop at Dorcourt and engine and two cars of the west- bound train were tossed from the track, u- CANADA WRECK ‘Five Injured in Train) sted, Brakeman Ferguson, Brake- | man White and News Agent Filler. | ollided outside the city with the | st moving westbound train. One, a “legal government,” he states, | Chiang Kai-shek has sent two rep- resentatives here to reach a compro- mise with Yu Yu-jen. In the mean- (Continued on Page Two) || 2olicemen Attack 300 Unemployed, Tricked to Ask for Fake Job eee CHELSEA, Mass., March 20.— Police were called here today to suppress the resentment of 300 jobless men who answered a newspaper advertisement only to find that the “ad” had been in- serted by a practical joker. | The advertisement, which ap- peared in a Boston newspaper, stated 100 men were wanted for state road work at 50 cents an hour. The demonstration occurred after William J. McDonald, whose name was signed to the adver- || tisement, said he knew nothing about it. FOUND GUILTY Oklahoma Legislature) Rules He’s Corrupt OKLAHOMA CITY, March 20. Henry S. Johnston, seventh: gove nor of the state of Oklahoma, wi ousted from office by the state sen- ate today on impeachment charges of jincompetence and corruption. The vote was 35 to 9. charges were dropped. Ten charges of incompetency and jcorruption were made against John- stone, a vote on any one of which would have. meant his remeval. The chief counts were “general in- | competency,” based upon the alleged minance of his office by Mrs. Ham- monds, and his clemency, acts, and \“illegal issuance of’ deficiency cer- | tificates.” A charge of “excessive use” of power, founded on Johnston's break- jing up of an incipient special ses- | jsion against him in January, 1928 ‘by use of troops, was dropped. Other MARTY ON HIS ELECTION Victory; Fights tor Class War Politicals PARIS (By Mail).—Delegaied by the Communist fraction in the French Chambers, Jacques Doriot, Communist deputy, went to see if . who had recently been elected to the |Zoreti district ‘unsympathetic’ | to- chamber by the workers of Puteaux, | ward me, more than 1,700 socialist industrial suburb of Paris, and asked workers there voted for me. I have him what he thought of the elec-| also learned that the young work- tions. ers and the working women were The following is the account. that | very enthusiastic.” Doriot gives of Marty's conversa-| Asked by Doriot what he thought Lig : of the plan to start a campaign for ‘It was a considerable moral suc- |his liberation from prison, Marty our propagandists ‘gave an intense | impression of unity and force!’ An excellent homage to our young Com- |munist Party.” lof the Foch, ‘Chief Marshall of Imperialist Armies in World War, Dies PARIS, March 20.—Field Marshal srdinand Foch, supreme commander ied armies in the World war, died at his home here today. He was 77 years old. Heart trou- ble and complica- tions which de- veloped into uremia caused his death. ch, the master strategist of the allied armies dur- ‘och. ing the war be- tween the imperialists of the Central Powers and those among the Allies, was son of a civil official of Tarbes. He joined the army during the Franco-Prussian war and his rise was rapid. Under his single command were placed all the Allied armies in April, 1918. With the overwhelming as- sistance of the American imperial- ists, who had earlier thrown in their lot with the Allies to safeguard loans and debts, Foch was able to defeat the German militarists. The silence of his later career was inter- rupted irom time to time by a re- actionary utterance. WOULD “REGULATE” SCHOOL PROPAGANDA WASHINGTON, March. 20.— Propaganda in text books or school courses will be subjected to regula- tions, if the pians of a special com- mittee of the Nationa! Education Association, which meets here next week, carry. Following disclosures before the Federal Trade Commis- sion lest year, the ten educators on the committee were appointed to study the situation, J. W. Crabtree, secretary, states. Daily Worker Agents Meet Tuesday Night cess for our Party, all the more jdeclared that he did not have very |so since the workers showed them-| much confidence in the result, but | selves | fully class-conscious. -Un- | that did not matter since the workers |doubtedly, this result is due to the of Puteaux-Suresnes-Nanterre de- intense activity of our Party com-|manded more. “It is the liberation rades and sympathizers in the fac- | of all class-war prisoners, of those tories and shops. 143 comrades who had been sen- “T have already read even in the|tenced to 933 years of prison, that | bourgeois press that the activity of | they. demand.” ie hae An important meeting of Daily Worker agents will be held next Tuesday night at 0 in the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq. Irving Fralkin, new manager of the Daily Worker, will meet the agents and outline plans for im; portant campaigns.