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~ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929 remmero . Page Three Spanish University St pens Oe STRICT CENSORS FAIL TO CHECK NEW AGITATION Ridicule for Plan to Sue Foreign Press HENDAYE, Spanish Frontier, March 20.—Reports eluding the Spanish censor continue to arrive here, describing the growth of the ict between students in the uni- ties and the dictatorship of mo de Rivera. Wholesale arrests of students have totally failed as a means of ending student unrest, the reports state. It is the opinion of travelers re- turning from the interior of Spain that the rigorous measures which the government is planning agains the students will serve no other pur- yose than further to unite them. They report a growing unity be- tween students in the University of Madrid and in the provincial univer- Jeer At Arrest Policy. The prisons where the govern- ment has confined numbers of stu- cents recently arrested are called university cities,” in derision of the community student university which the government is contemplating opening in 1930. Reports further state that the parents of students are solidly be- hind them in their struggle with the fovernment and that their families have joined them in their protests. The announced plan of the de Ri- government to bring suit inst all foreign newspapers iD nthe news unfavorable to the dictatorship is being widely widi- culed in Spain. Though theye is considerable un- cerground circulation of informa. tion concerning the repressive ac- ties of the government, the ness of the Spanish censorship keeps large sections of the peasant population: in ignorance of the exerts in the cities. Wew $100,000,000 Bank MergerVoted byBoards | Merging of the Hanover National \Bank and the Central Union Trust ‘Company of New York into a single }company having a capital, surplus ‘and undivided profits of approxim- ‘ately $100,000,000 was voted today | majority of the Council could de-jiichael J. Cruise, of the Twelfth; S!0” |by directors and trustees of the two \institutions for recommendation to |stockholders for final approval. | It is expected that the merger will ‘be completed rapidly and the head- ‘quarters of the new company quick- ly established at 70 Broadway, a building which is being remodeled r occupation by the Central Union ‘Trust on May 1. CRAND JURY FOR DRY CASES ALBANY, N. Y., March 20 (UP). —The first northern New York grand jury to handle liquor law vio- lation cases exclusively is scheduled to meet here in May and remain in sion probabiy throughout the month, it was learned from federal authorities here today. There are.250 cases of prohibi- tion violations a month. Under the new Jones law, which makes viola- tion of the Volstead act a felony, of- fenders must be indicted before be- sentenced or before pleading. udents Answer De Rivera Terror by Soliditying Chiang Kai-shek, who heads around Chefoo. and Nanking forces. Chinese War-lords Battle the bloody Kuomintang regime of | China, now finds that his much boasted unity is an empty phrase. As the closely censored Kuomintang congress goes on in Peking, various factions of the Nanking government are at war. Chang Tsung-Chang, backed by the Japanese, who heads the revolt War is also on ar At right, ‘ound Hankow between the Hankow SAY HOOVER TO APPROVE COURT Latins Suspect U. S. Intrigues (Continued from Page One) |Senate contend that the U .S. can |not be put in the position of actual- ily starting a war under such ad- |verse psychological circumstances |as would be caused by the universal execration by small nations for |breaking up the arbitration court. Proponents of the entry of U 5S. into the court cry down this objec- tion with the argument that the small nations will have already taken sides before matters reach the point of breaking up the court. | The apparent main contention of ‘Senate opponents to American .ad- |herence to the World Court protocol is that the formula emasculates | reservation No. 5. This reservation which relates to advisory opinions of the World Court, was a stumbling | block to the acceptance of the Sen- jate’s reservations by the nations jsignatory of the Court protocol ‘when their representatives met in | Geneva in September, 1926. Could Overrule U. S.? | But they said today that while the formula, as adopted, still seems to vest virtual veto power in the United States, it leaves the way }open for» the League Council to ‘change the Court rules so that a |termine that an advisory opinion should be rendered by the Court. The text of the Root-Hurst “pro- |tocol”. was received at the State |Department today by cable from the American Consul at Geneva and formed the subject of extended con- |ferences® between Secretary Kel- |logg, Hugh S. Gibson, Ambassador |to Belgium; Theodore Marriner, |chief of the department’s Western | European Division, and other de- | partment officials. Me ane GENEVA, March 20.—The Com- mission of Jurists of the League of Nations adjourned today with ful- some praise for Elihu Root, Amer- ‘ican delegate bringing the “Root 'Plan” for changes in the league stat- utes which were supposed to bring |the United States into the world jcourt. President Dionisio Anzilotti lof the Hague court said Root was \“the spiritual father who has saved ‘the situation in 1929 as he did in 1920.” NEW ANTI-SMITH “MOVE BY WALKER Refuse to Repudiate Their Union Mayor Walker moved to assemble jhis anti-Smith forces yesterday, jwhen he summoned another meet- |ing of all Tammany Hall district |leaders who are indebted to him for profitable political jobs in the New |York City bureaucracy. They met and discussed a candidate to put up jagainst former Governor Smith’s |“new Tammany” people, Smith’s |‘“new Tammany” simply meats an- jother faction, whose tactics are as jold as those of Murphy and Boss ‘Tweed, but, just because of this, he jwields considerable power. It i said that Olvany quit the leadership jof Tammany Hall two days ago. with Smith in Albany. Just Wants a Friend. Walker is reported to have told his visitors that he didn’t want to name the new chief, but he didn’t want a man who would not be friendly to Walker. The district leaders visiting the mayor included Charles McManus, of the Fifth District, vice-chairman of the Board of Aldermen; Dock Commissioner Michael Cosgrove, of the Sixteenth District; City Clerk Assemblyman Peter J. Hamill, of the First; Charles A. Kohler, cf the Tenth, director of the budget; Charles H. Neal, of the Twentieth, deputy commissioner of markets, and Martin J. Healy, of the Nine- teenth, deputy commissioner of plant and structures. Cosgrove, Kohler, Healy and Neal hold their appointments from the mayor. Other district leaders put in good jobs by the mayor are Water Commissioner John J. Dietz jof the Eighteenth, John Mara of the Twenty-third, Deputy Commis- sioner of Plant and Structures Pe- ter J, Dooling of the Fifth, Com- missioner of the Department of |Purchase, H. Warren Hubbard of the Eighteenth, member of the |Board of Assessors; Solomon Gold- jenkranz of the Highth, deputy dock |commissioner, and William L. Ka- vanagh of the Third, deputy water commissioner. Other district lead- ers like Mr. Hamill and Daniel E. First and Mr. McManus are he- (primarily because of a bitter quarre! | KEEP STRIKING T0 FIGHT BLACKLIST ‘Bosses Tried to Fire Their Leaders PARIS (By Mail)—When the directors of the Gnome et Rhone airplane motor company agreed to grant the 3,000 striking workers an |hourly increase in wages of 2 cents en hour the workers decided to re- turn to work as unitedly as they had struck. But when the strikers marched jinto the plant with their strike }eommittee at their head and di: covered that the directors intended |to employ only those workers who had not been so active in the strike, the workers walked out on strike again, this time for the right to or- |genize and against victimization, | The |have been on strike for a number of weeks demanding an increase of |8 cehts per hour in wages and no |overtime. They were soon joined |by workers of another metal plant, lerganizing their own strike commit- | tees. ‘Original Excuse Found 'to Avoid Investigation A new excuse for avoiding an in- vestigation into bribery which in- volved a lawyer, still unnamed, col- ‘ment as justice of the supreme court was found today, and the case is indefinitely buried. | Wm. A. Cokely, treasurer of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, sol- emnly told the grand jury that the man who told him of the report died last week under unusual circum- stances. The man was not named. The grand jury therefore handed up a presentment to Supreme Court Justice Richard H. Mitchell, saying js could go no further with the in- ivestigation. ‘State Senate Passes |Short Indictment Act for BaumesCommission ALBANY, N. Y., March 20 (UP). ~The senate today passed the pro- posal of the Baumes Crime Commis- ‘sion for the so-called short indict- ment. The bill provides that a bill jof particulars may be given to a de- jfendant’s counsel and that an amend- jment to both the indictment and the {bill may be made without resubmis- jsion to the grand jury. At the same time the assembly passed the Esmond bill extending |the period in which criminal actions \may be started and exempting pe- lriods in which the defendant lived under an assumed name, or outside the boundaries of the state, from the |statute of limitations. lieved to be in the faction of the mayor. There is some indication _ that \Surrogate Foley, who refused the {crown yesterday, may accept it to- day or tomorrow. It is not 40 his interest to avoid a little useful pub- licity, as “the man all factions jagree on,” or “the only: one who could command the respect of all | leaders.” International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 AZURE CITIES story o/ ire inthe usr FROM “AZURE CITIES” By ALEXEY TOLSTOY After fighting in the Red Army thru the Revolution and the Civil Wars, Vassili Alexeievich Buzhen- iney returns to Moscow and re- \ enters the School of Architecture, jwhere 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 finally suf- fers a nervous breakdown. He receives a letter from Nadezhda ivanovna, his mother’s ward, which excites him greatly, and he de- cides to go home to recuperate. He returns to the decaying little | town where he had grown up and the dilapidated house where he had lived. Buzheninoy finds \Nadya (Nadezhda) has grown nto a beautiful girl of 22. She the sole support of the house- old. He drifts into the sleepy life f the town, doing nothing, brood- , ing: Buzheninoy tries to tell ‘Nadya about his dream of rebuild- ing Moscow, but she is not very syripatketic. * ‘ (Continued From Yesterday) ‘ADYA,” asked Buzheninov from the darkness of the couch, “tell ¢ openly, it is very important.... ytnderstand,—you love somebody?” Nadya raised her brows. The larning needle stopped. Nadya ighed, and the thread moved again. “This is what I will telj you, § What is love? To live. « » Oh-ho-ho! . . . You think girl marries because’ she is in look; if he can better your condition with something, you take him. . . . There was a man from Minsk that wanted me. And I wanted to go to Minsk all at once,—it’s a capital city, after all. They say there are stores,—three-story houses on the main: street. . , . I almost con- sented. Well, it came out later that he was only a tramp, and not from any Minsk at all.” “No, Nadya, no, you are odd and strange. I know you better. . . . You can’t speak this way. This is only something you heard. . . . In reality life is beautiful, enticing. You must build, struggle, love... .” Buzheninoy spoke until a late hour, while there. was still kerosene in the lamp. Nadya listened, bit off the threads, and lowered her head, smil- ing. The beauty of the young girl intoxicated Vassili Alexeievich like the air of springtime. He fell asleep without undressing, on the couch,— fell like a stone into sweet darkness. And in the morning—he looked out of the window—there sat the crow again. The selfsame fence. Grey skies. A rusty pail lying in the roadway. Nothing had changed dur- ing the night. And of yestereve’s words remained only vexation and perplexity, * * 1 Ne little things in life which were not worth attention in themselves began to take on sickly proportions in the consciousness of Vassili Alex- eievich. This is why we ask you to run through these lines. They will to run the rounds. The office man- ager, Utyovkin, it was said, even grew pale when he heard of Buzhen- inov’s arrival, and said with heavy insinuation: “Ah, so. . . . Well, now I un- cerstand everything.” When the round-shouldered figure of Vassili Alexeievich appeared dur- ing the day on Karl Marx Street, which led to the market place, the passers-by looked with tremendous curiosity at the “academist.” Even the militiaman smiled kindly at him. Only the storekeeper Pikus, stand- ing near the door of his shop, tipped his hat and invited him in, querying in a counter-revolutionary whisper: “Tell me, what’s going on in Mos- cow? How about the Nep? They say there is no hope. This is a ter- rible time. We are rolling into an abyss. I have reached such a nery- ous state that I howl in my sleep. I am very glad to make your ac- quaintance. And Nadezhda Ivan- ovna really waited too long.” Pikus only hinted at what was openly said in town. The provinces do not like anything that cannot be understood and that causes restless- ness to the imagination. Actually, why the devil should Buzheninov have come to this backwater. The matter was clear—he came to marry. But here there appeared all sorts of hidden half-truths, Buzheninov came to a place that was not en- tirely free—at least that is how they ironised. o 6 «@ ove? That is so only in the movies. thas love to do with it? “You ect a man by accident, and take a explain a great deal. The town became interested in Buzheninov. Various rumors began HS acquaintance was made in Pikus’ store by Sashok, a ruddy young man in a long coat and a plush cap, the son of a wholesale wheat dealer, Zhigalev. He began to ask questions about the capital, the lectures and cabarets, the women on the Kuznetsky Most, and led Vassili Alexeievich into the beer parlour “Renaissance” on a_ second floor, overlooking the square. Treating him to cigarettes, Sashok wrinkled the eyelids of his brown eyes with laughter,—he was fleshy, sanguine, his eyebrows grew to- gether, “By the way, Nadezhda Ivanovna is a regular girl. Only she holds her head too high. In our time we shouldn’t think too much of our- selves. Yes, .Vassili Alexeievich. New birds, new songs, as they say. Of course, with her face—in Mos- cow, on the stage, a stenographer in a large trust,—it is possible tu make acareer, But here , . .” Moving his brows, Sashok “hrew a wet pea into his mouth, gripped it between his strong teeth, and laughed. « . « “Yes, here it is not practical from any point of view. The best is to marry—the husband has eight gold pieces a nionth, she herself, three andahalf , . . Colourless . . . Or she might go into the Komsomol. Well . ‘t ery Through his thick eyelashes the pupils of his eyes glittered slyly at Buzheninov. “That I can understand. Other- wise it is neither here nor there. By the way, I’m getting ready to (Continued on Page Five) workers of Gnome et Rhone | of $50,000 Bribe Charge! Iecting $50,000 to buy his appoint- |, ~ FRENCH STRIKERS SANDINO ARMY AGAIN ROUTS | YANKEE FORGE NicarazuansOperating Over Large Region MANAGUA, ‘agua,* Marc 20.—-One United States marine wa killed’ and another injured on the 17th of this month when a marine patrol encountered a detachment of the Nicaraguan army of indepen- dence in the Jinotega district, the marine command announced today. | ‘The man killed was Private Savu- ich of Jersey City, N. J., and the injured man was Private James V. Faul of Baltimore, Md. | Faul was shot in the upper arm jand his condition is said to be seri- ous. No Nicaraguan losses are re- ported. | The engagement took place near Pavona in the Jinotega section, The action has especial significance in ence again giving the lie to stories {circulated by the Moncada govern- jment, «and countenanced by the United States marine command (which, however, does not withdraw its marines), that the army of Gen- eral Sandino has been wiped out. Jinotega is south of the district jof Neuva Segovia, in Matagalna province, and indicates the wide- spread area over which the forces of Sandino are waging their strug- gle to drive out the marines, A large landholder in Matagalpa rrovince has requested that the Ni- "aguan government send two more jpatrols to protect his plantation against the Nicaraguan forces. The Nicaraguan plantation own- fers have lived in panie ever since |Sandino took the field and became yantation slaves, peons and ex- ploited worke: * © *@ Congress Closed. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 20.—A presidential decree yester- |day formally closed the 1929 ses- sion of the Nicaraguan congress. The next session opens in Decem- |ber. Dr. Roman, liberal senator \from Diriamba, was chosen by the |congress to act as president in event jof death of the president or vice- | president. ee { Moncada’s Son Suicide. | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 20.—No further explanation of the uicide in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, of |Medardo Moncada, son of the presi- |dent of Nicaragua, has been re- |ceived. He had been employed in |the ministry of war, where he was |recently replaced, Some political |significance is connected with his discharge and death. Krassin Heroes Deliver Lectures onSwitzerland ‘on Arctic Rescue Trips BASLE, Switzerland (By Mail).— |Frofessor Samoilovitch, scientific ‘leader of the “Krassin,” and the |pilot, Chudnovsky, who sighted the Malmgrem group on the Arctic ice, have delivered a number of lectures in various Swiss towns concerning |the expedition of the Soviet ice- \breakers. They stopped in Switzer- land on their way back from Italy, |where they took part in the inquiry into the Italia wreck. The lectures were very well at- tended. After the lectures, meetings lof the two Russians with scientists, |artists, authors and other intellec- \tuals interested in the Soviet Union | took place. connec- but alxo upon the force of tions, habit, on the force of small industry, of which, unfortunately, there is |plenty left and which daily, hourly, \gives birth to capitalism and bour- geolsic, xpontaneot seale—V. I. Leni nism). ‘Lett? i} | | ADMISSION . CRESENTATION OF here | a rallying point for the wretched | ind on a large | Commu- Friday Evening March 22nd IMPERIAL AUDITORIUM 160-4 WEST 129TH STREET AUSPICES OF SECTION 4, COMMUNIST PARTY —DISTRICT 2— Proceeds for Daily Worker, Vida Obrera and Negro Champion SPECIAL ATTRACTION: “MARCHING GUNS” BY WORKERS LABORATORY THEATRE CAST Poa reaction retreating from Torreon. Federal Machine Gun Squad rs Federal machine-gunners in a box car at Canitas, Zacatecas, waiting for orders to proceed against the clerical-feudal forces of Two Recent M Sy P. FRIEDLANDER (Berlin) (Continued) | Up to the present they have not prevented the Paul Boncours of all} countries from acting as pacemaR- | ers of armament and war prepara- tions, and as promoters by every available means of the preparations | for an intervention against the Soviet Union. It is further characteristic that the resolution on the disarma- |ment question does not contain the Slightest reference to the proposals made by the Soviet Union at Geneva, |although even numerous bourgeois | pacifist organizations have admitted these to be the only really serious disarmament proposals which have been made. Demagegy Re National Minorities. A similar demagogic but never- [theless extremely transparent man- jeuver was performed in the question lof the rights of the “national min- Jorities.” Here again the speaker chosen was not a representative of the socialist parties of, big imperial- | ist countries in which the national | ninorities are held in subjugation, \“Isvestia” Reviews Ten \Years of Struggle of Progressive Afghans MOSCOW (By Mail).—In connec- | |tion with the tenth anniversary of |the independence of Afghanistan, the “Isvestia” comments in a lead- ing article: “Upon the recognition of Afghan |independence by the Soviet Union land in the face of the development jof the national-revolutionary move- |ment in India itself, Great Britain was compelled to accept the proc- | lamation of the independence of |Afghanistan. The efforts of the |government of¢Amanullah during ‘the course of the last decade to transform Afghanistan from the | lulwark of Islamitie conservatism | ‘into a modern united state, caused | ithe Anglo-Indian goverqment to | take up an aggressive attitude on | the Afghan frontier. “Thanks alone to foreign assist- | ance were the reactionary forces in | Afghanistan able to turn their op- |position into a widespread move- ment against the reforms of Ama- ‘nullah, The immediate result of |this movement js the occupation of the Asmar district which belongs to | Afghanistan and the planned an- nexation of the eastern districts along the Indian frontier. “The aim of British diplomacy is jto split up Afghanistan and to turn it into a loosely knited country of hostile provinces, a country which could not stand up in the face of imperialism. The situation in Af- ghanistan remains difficult, but there is no doubt*that the progres- | sive forces which have developed in | Afghanistan in the last ten years | have not said their last word in the | conflict.” We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the work- ing class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to | win the battle of democracy—Karl | Marx (Communist Manifesto) ifestod. Gala Frolic and Dance AT eeeeee 19 CENTS eetinys of the Yellow International but the representative of Austria, Otto Bauer. The resolution which was passed of course carefully avoided any de- mand for full rights pf self-deter. riination for the national minorities. All that it demands is “protection under international law” for the na- tional minorities, including thereby “democratic autonomy for national minorities settling in definite gions.” This is a very elastic con- ception. The oppression of the na- tional minorities is not compared by | this, but masked. It is only a few days ago that the French socialists declared in the chamber that the population of Alsace-Lorraine is al- ready enjoying democratic adminis tration, and were as indignant as the hourgeois parties at the demand for autonomy for Alsace. Therefore the resolution passed by the Executive of the Interna- tional is equally cpreful to avoid any reference to Alsace;Lorraine, or to the national minorities held in thrall ty Great Britain, and contents itself by referring to Italy. Looks to League of Nations. For the rest, it looks once more to the League of Nations for salvation. and desires this to form a special permanent organ for the “investi- gation of the grievances of the na. tional minorities.” How _ illusory and insincere this demand is has been demonstrated once more at the last meeting of the League of Na- a Stresemann was ‘obliged to admit | the bankruptcy of the League of Na- tions-in the question of the national tions at Lugano, where even minorities. Finally, the meeting of the Ex-| Their Ranks re- STEEL WORKERS STRIKE IN INDIA AFTER RED RAIDS |Fight Rulers Concerted Drive on Communists (Continued from Page One) \the strikers in the Tata Steel | Works being as indicative of |labor feeling thruout the country, Though no reason was given fap |the government's action, it is be |lieved to be connected with the paswe |age of the called Public Safety Bill, now under discussion in the Indian legislature. Aim Bill at Communists. TLHI, India, March 20.—De- bates continue in the Indian puppet parliament on the Pi ic Safety Bill, one of elem in the Anglo-British offensive against the Ind worker The Lill gives the government the power to deport without trial any jnon-Indian British subjects whose activities might “conduce toward subverting the organized govern- ment in British India.” Aim at Left Wing Leaders. The measure was aimed directly at the left wing labor lead Brad- ley and Sprajt, who, in marked con- jtrast to other official labor leaders |who have visited India in the past, have taken an active part in helping |the struggle of the Indian workers. Government spokesmen have jopenly and repeatedly admitted that |the bill is the beginning of an at- tack against the entire Communist movement, The government had the further Furpose of trying out the attitude jof the Indian nationalists and of frightening them away from any re- lations with the Communists. In this they succeeded. All the Indian nationalist leaders in the chamber eagerly disclaimed |any sympathy. They asserted that Communism must be attacked at the root and opposed the bill on the \grounds that it failed to do this. Wil! Try to Stop Reiief. At a previous hearing in Septem- |ber, 1928, the bill was defeated by only one vote. The re-introduced ‘ill gives the government the fur- ther power to confiscate any money |from abroad which may be regarded s serving “subversive interests.” The clause will be invoked to pre- |vent such organizations as the Workers Welfare League of India from sending funds to workers on | strike. This time the government has ecutive of the Second International |made certain of its majority. hav- did not fail, in a document in sup-| port of the political prisoners, to agitate once again against the Soviet | Union, and to grind out anew the old tirades about the political pris. oners banished to Siberia and Cen- tral Asia. Whilst thousands and thousands of proletarian prisoners are perish- ing in the penal institutions of the bourgeoisie (these of course being “only” Communists), the Second In- ternational directs its cross fire against the Workers’ and Peasants’ self-defense | State, against struggling in counter-revolution from within and the attacks of the im- ing won over a sufficient number of the Indian nationalist leaders repre- senting Indian capitalist interests. | perialists m without. “To the bourgeoisie, in the present period of its increased war prepara- tions, this attitude on the part of the socialist leaders is extremely welcome. These latest meetings of \tke Second International have fur- {nished further proof that the bour- geoisie will not be disappointed in the hopes which it sets on the so- jeial imperialists. (The End.) READ New Serials in DAILY WORKER ——— VUVVVVVVVVVVVVVVTVVVGT . “BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK” (EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO REPUB- —A THE SOVIET UNION. IN and friend. 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