The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 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 matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yq. under the set of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY , EDITION | Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Unit Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Sq., New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929 'OMBED GENERAL STRIKE | LOOMS 'N INDIA FOLLOWING RAID 20,000 Bombay Strikers | Rouse Workers in Many Sections British Troops Used Many Communists Are | Among 120 Jailed | (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) LONDON, England, March 21 Troops of the Anglo-Indian gove: ment today began to occupy the Bombay mills which were yesterday compelled to shut dowri when 20,000 | workers walked out in protest against the Red raids in many In- dian cities. Thirty Communists were among | the hundred odd labor leaders seized | hy the government during its raids. | In Bombay, Poona, Calcutta and} cities-in the United Provinces all | those arrested are to be charged | 50 Miners Entombed Here; “Little Hope” a Camp Coal Company as a result Fifty miners are now trapped in the Kinlock mine of the Valley | of an explosion which wrecked the tipple. The National Miners Union, which has its Local No. 110 ct this mine, has issued a statement charging the coal barons with murder, chinery ignited gas. There was n The explosion was caused by the speed-up in this mine, known as the hell-hole of .the coal industry. Sparks from the ma- 0 ventilation, no safety devices. An LOOMS NEAR U.S, MINE HOLDINGS nt That the British- Owned R.R. Helps Insurgents Scopert Struggle Near Federals Rush Troop Reinforcements JUAREZ, Mexico, March 21 (UP). —General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, plump commander-in-chief of the a | Mexican Revolutionary Armies, an-| nounced today that he planned short- ly to make an {against the federal army of Plu- |tarco Elias Calles, now advancing | northward. General Escobar arrived here early | today on a special train from Jim- | inez, where he left his main army | after evacuating Torreon. He denied that he had fled the city. | “I am not fleeing from Calles and intensive driye| IN PENNSYLVANIA _| MEXICAN BATTLE Co WORKER PEASANT | | | ARMED UPRISING FIGHTS BATTLE |New Soviets NearThose | Never Conquered in Kwangtung ‘Chiang Wars on Hunan Fierce Battles During | | Fake Congress Meet PEKING, China, March 21—Re- | ports received at the American lega- tion today state a general uprising | of workers and peasants under Com- | munist leadership has taken place in the southern part of Kiangsi pro- | vince. | One hundred persons were killed lin the preliminary fighting the re- | MINE New Tammany Chief? Martin McCue, clerk of the Sur- rogates Court and Tammany lead- er, scems to stand a very good chance of being elected head of the big graft machine. The voting is dri SHOP SIGNS UP. “HELL nOLE” mmunists Lead Kiangsi Revolution FIND 21 DEAD; SIX LOST IN VALLEY CAMP BLAST; 200 MAKE WAY TO SAFETY National Miners’ Union Local Charges Murder; Men Forced to Work in Dangerous Gas Valley Camp Coal Co. Owned by Labor-Hating Paisley Family, Allied With Rockefeller BULLETIN PARNASSUS, Pa., March 21.—The bodies of 21 miners killed in the preventible gas explosion in the Valley Camp Coal Company Kinloch mine have been brought to the surface. They were so badly burned that they could hardly be hoisted. They were found at the foot of the first main slope. Between six and twelve other miners are still in the work- ings and no hope is held out for their recovery alive. a yee: 4 . ‘ ee king,” | 4 iy es ; : IT never v im,” a ve es with aging was cs eee explosion occurred in the same mine last month, killing eight miners. [anries eave ba Fhe kane [ee Benne serene a. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 21.—Fifty men were late to- for ich the ma: Above, view of mine. ters at the Rio Bravo Hotel. The southern part of Kiangsi | day still entombed in the Kinloch mine near Par of the death. The prisoners include Dange and Jhabwala, Bombay trade union lead- ers, and Thegadi, former president cf the Trade Union Congress, and others. | Dharamvir Singh, Communist dep- uty from the United Provinces, was seized in Lucknow, and Spratt of the British Communist Party was | also arrested. | In Calcutta, leaders of the Jute Unions Flood Hits Negro Hardest; Red Cross “The Negroes are the worst suf- ferers in the Mississippi flood, de- clared Cyril Briggs, Editor of the Negro Champion, in an_ intervie Refuses f THREATEN HEADS Relief, The rebel leader expressed his complete disbelief in dispatches re- porting the execution of General Jesus Aguirre, commander of the Vera Cruz rebels. “General Aguirre at this moment lis with a strong column of loyal revolutionist troops marching from | Tierra Blanca, second largest city lin Mexico,” he said. “Reports of his execution are absurd.” General Escobar added that it was province borders on Kwantung | where village Soviets of fishermen | and salt workers have held out | against the reaction for almost. a | year. . \at Ping-hsien, the Nanking govern-| |ment is at present concentrating | |troops for an offensive against the | Hankow generals. | The province is largely controlled | by Chiang Kai-shek, president of In the extreme west of Kiangsi|importance, was yesterday registered A Big Victory; to Hold | Shop Delegate Meet A signal victory, of far-r ching by the Independent Shoe Workers Union, now at the height of a drive that bids fair to organize a large pat of this non-union industry be- fore the present season is ended. Yesterday the first firm on Long Valley Camp Coal Co., owned by the slave-driving, labor. hating, James Paisley family of Cleveland. The National Miners’ Union charges this accident is murder. © A terrific explosion of gas, BUSINESS MEN against which no adequate pre- ty OF BRITAIN IN cautions were taken by the | were to leave the workings and the management shattered the mine at 7:20 this morning, a few minutes before the night men 4 i ss on Super en Duran {yesterday with the Daily Worker. | 0 R AY N |his opinion the United States would|the Nanking government. \Island, the Phillipson Lockwood Shoe day men were to take their places. Chandi Joshi, secretary of the | “They live in the swampy. parts of \change its official attitude toward Arrest 100. |Company, was compelled to give in The shaft entrance and: tipple Wrskers and Peasants Party ofthe | the towns, on the é | the revolution if it knew the “facts”! poring China, March 21.—The|*? the union representative, and were completely smashed, and the ualeed Diovitiees: daa custody. lowest land. Their : Bic ih.s Se awa ., |of the movement. “When President |x, cine government in panic today |i@ned the agreement granting full full crew of about 250 men en- The prisoners are to be taken to| houses are all Pleading; Bullying Fail] Hoover is informed that the airplanes ested ete tha: ce hundred (Union recognition, wage inereanes Delegati Sboks Trad tombed. Approximate!;- 200 found Meerut, 800 miles away from the sotien timber 26 Budge Sirians aol ie ‘ie: Mexican gorgrnniant bY | persons acciaed eteskavicing for| and all See. elas stipulated in| gation rade etd Oe another as aS sea | shacks,” | the Unite ates have been used by | = _\the union contract. ing the day, bringing word that they pearest. labor centi rai te re |the ove: throw of the present Bove hs victors was a-vitel one England Must Have The British raids are intended to leak the militant Iaber movement here and to supply atmosphere for live in what are known as ‘nigger ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., March | 21.—Now that the owners of the >General Calles-in® bontbing defense- ‘less citizens and cities instead of pursuing military tactics by concen- | ernment. 1 | * * * | Surrender To R. R. Workers. lis evident from the fact that the largest shoe firms in and sround | saw bodies of miners killed outright jby bei led LONDON, England, March 21.—} eget das gota headlong into jagged rocks by the blast. ci ; towns,’ separate |vayon trust here have their private trating on our.forces, he will see the - . New York City are centered on Long | The first step in an attempt on the Little H the coming British elections. “ | is Hae Eo r oh ‘t : SHANGHAI, China, March 21.— en ot mee ittle Hope. ee af Spee ere ee ave bat ae cH OS Sar eD ae ue appa light, General | 5, the- eve of major. military ca rvca ani biye a been mone | Bat of Great Britain to resume P| here ta dike hone Of mpacuinls BOMBAY, India, March 21.—| cities, at nig ‘al ig 3 © | Escobar said. |gagements with the forces of the|'H® most Jmplacadie enemies 0% | lations with the Soviet Union will) any more. The shaft head is roped General strike appeared to loom they are not per- of the 5,500 workers, the bosses are} Denying federal charges that the| : . unionism. The victory here is ex-| Ss d : ener ah 5 S axe Me i ani nee a Hankow generals, the Nanking gov- nasa : be made within the next few days off and guarded by armed men, over India today, following the ac-| mitted to show beginning to exert terrific pressure | insurgents looted the banks of the t Sac watanlag tarced to lected to give great momentum to 3 ‘ Shi GO HOE. ierhik | bia oEiepeee tion of twenty thousand workers at | themselves in the | to get sections of the strikers to go state of Chihuahua to further their|@'nment WBS ¥ y the organization of the other Long | When a delegation representing all sary ri ata He ill at Dadar, north of | white section of back to work. So far their efforts | interests, General Escobar declared | Surrender to the fentands ue ane raland| plants. types of British industries sails for Thang. UD OF 70g sen) Oe ane ree ehettee ‘struck against | the towns. But | have met with utter failure. | emphatically that all of the rebel | Workers on the Peking-Mukden rail- Approximately 200 workers are|the U. 8. S. R. ceomed ey ss approaching the overnment’s sudden raid on} the white men | Yesterday a public statement was | funds were obtained legally. “The |" employed in this plant and wage| ‘The delegation will contain be- fate PeOE ir Communist and other workingclass freely go to the Negre sections at issued by Dr. Arthur Motwurf, presi- dent of the Glazstoff Corporation, | officials of the federal treasury and local directors of banks were called | The government hastily dismissed Sun Hugn-Shih, the director of the increases of from $2 to $8 a week |were awarded as a result of the few tween 50 and 60 delegates from over country roads to the scene of the accident—velatives and friends headquarters thruout the country. u ¢ if Pe aestaey | 3 British enterprises and while i of workers in the mine. Rese’ tates feeling is reported to have | night. All offi- Briggs threatening victimization of the lead- into conference and given assurance |T0ad, who had eoate ae nil cts | Gays -05 Bara Ke Soviet dian srl makes iia of an ee ae Ratna OM flared up among the masses in| cers and police are white; they car-| ers of the spontaneous walkout. | that every penny would be returned | but it is believed the men will strike] Besides this strike, another was | trade conditions and hold interviews | surrounding mines. points as widely separated as Bom-|ry guns for the purpose of intimi. “Mysterious” ‘Leaflets. upon the success of the revolution, et bad cation eek daceh “of it | "ou by the shoe workerss, Late | .iin leading members of the Soviet| Houses for two miles about the bay and Calcutta when news of the dating the Negroes and expressing white domination.” Today further efforts in this di- rection were made when the strikers | he said. * * * General Escobar, who has reached | unfit for use. Troops of the Hankow general, Wednesday night a settlement was | reached with the Faleos Shoe Com- Here, too, wage government. U. 8. S. R. Confers. mine were rocked by the explosion. | Witnesses said a column of flames bay workers was broadcast, with F lave. came to the plant to get the wages| : i ed rachis wiceaeione’d ont with oe shot 200 fect in the air from the the result that the government is 3 oe ane ‘i bine them for the wot done before | Juarez on his northward flight while xg cey eet = be rate wi increases were obtained. The Soviet government has indi- mine shaft. It was feared that ng its precautions to crush |- During floods in the past, Briggs| they went out on strike. Again the | Ris foot-weary troops are straggling |the Nanking voites 8) Mule") The sirike against the Arthur | cated its willingness to cooperate in| many of the miners had been siens of disturbance with | declared, Negroes have been drafted 1 fail i | north from Escalon, is expected to |Yesterday, fell back but was Te-| render Co., where about 200 work-| every way with the British delega-|trapped and burned to deat signs sv oka, levies witout |employers failed to make any per- the border into the United | enforced immediately by Hankow |... are fighting for organizati awe “ ga- trapped and burned to death. force. | ORE OH Javaes WiLHOUP WAY Bey eaptible’ converts torberikebrealing, |CiCee°oo forecaster ecg lt sid teokeein rapidly advan: |Cu eee ee a! tion and has requested information| The force of the blast is believed Altho more than 120 Indian left-| and with Whites guards super yeete TG HOSEEE linve even “Patorted’to het ee Bat snee Oe aaa the Noukive pci being pronecned a a r i ‘las to the industries which would|to have wrecked much of the tem- ; abor leaders, together with a| With guns in their hands, Negroes | a an Enter ae a funds from t! ank ¥ on an ei ; 3 Y*\ vigor, This firm broke off negotia- | ,,, % Shui seats Peeler tss s wing Inbor Teaders, together Wi a ee eae eee eit own fan | the Widespread distribution of “mys-| ihe See iticgs Hankow is erecting barbed wire en-|1,°°"" with the union, saying the |Drovaely be represented. Soviet of-| porary and permanent bracing right jane Cetlelaleiane nation ilies to their fate. This happened | ‘@F!0us” Jead cbs, reine the worleors | pes tac sae |tanglements along its entire front \o.;ers demanded too pated That (aces responsible for similar in- in the mine and cave-ins m ts seized by the government in | ilies fate. i in fi ienita| pasa petal rkers dema: n Just | dustries in the U.S. S. R., will b iculties of res ee re in aa ttol the streets (2&0, When Hoover was head of the|“%” sation by che ucchen, aay |—Brig. Gen, George Van Horn! | Meanwhile traffic on the Peking’ colapsed. this firm, too, will “think |tish ; rane roe police continued to p © Sureet* | Red “Cross “relief” campaign. © The | derision by the workers, was 47, Jey, commandant of Fort Bliss, | Hankow railroad has been halted at it ree) wackera’ ere. mute: Other : A fan house 200 yards from the of Bombay toda; Bombay workers were compelled to go to work this morning under the noses of the machine guns of the Anglo-Indian government thru matter was brought to Hoover’s at- (Continued on Page Three) | signed, “Well-Wishers of Elizabeth- ton and Carter County.” It is not definitely established whether the bosses directly printed this circular Tex., conferred with General Esco- |bar this afternoon for almost two hours in the drawing room of the | rebel chief’s private car, After the |Yen-cheng, presumably by the |troops of General Feng Yu-sien, {who is thus apparently cooperating with Hankow, tho not formally. | st#tkes still on are against the Ka- dos Shoe Co, and the Albee Shoe Co., a union shop that violated the pact and was tied up by an imme- Well-informed British circles be-|™ain tipple was blown to bits and lieve that the delegation’s report will | its framework burned by the flames lead to substantial participation in which belched from the mine shaft, Soviet foreign trade. | burning two men who were at work or whether the “well-wishers” are lee + i ition he will |S a see * on the tipple when the explosion a city converted into an armed camp |Expect RecordCrowd OF jocal business interests, acting under rely epobeguin eer Bota fe a | Fanabiy AGeit seealta eb the imme- siete ele westen aay: we decision <0 bes ty Sear came, over night. The assigning of the) White, Negro Workers | (Continued on Page Two) denied that peace negotiations had} Hiate fighting between Nankingsand The union made an announcement e Soviet Union was reached on |""501. miners several miles from troops, begun at 3 p. m., yesterday, was only completed in the early morning hours. An ominous silence reigned in Bombay today while the police and} military patrols watched warily for | the expected outbreak. { Especially heavy patrols “have been placed along the Dadar road with sandbag defenses and machine | gun nests. | * | eee BOMBAY, March 21.—Reports from Calcutta state that the drive | of the Anglo-Indian government | against the Communists was, parti- | cularly severe in that city, Prepared with the greatest sec-| recy, no one suspected the govern- at Unity Dance Tonite All signs indicate a record gath- ering of Negro, white, Latin Amer- ican, Japanese and Chinese workers tonight at the inter-racial dance given by Section Four at Imperial Auditorium, 160-4 West 129th St. Various ticket stations report a big demand for tickets as a result of widespread distribution of advertis- ing leaflets at the doors of Harlem factories. These inter-racial dances are prov- ing one of the most effective means of bringing together workers of various races and serve to break French Divorces Difficult. PARIS, March 21.—Personal un- ‘happiness means nothing to the been discussed. General Escobar said positively there will be no over- | tures from his side for a truce, | Oni: | MEXICO CITY, March 21.—With |French authorities, who are intro- | the successful forces of the Portes ducing new methods to prevent legal | Gj) government consolidating their |Separation in the case of unsuccess- | position at Torreon and pursuing the jful marriages. These methods in- | Catholic and landholder reactionary jclude the use of technicalities to forces under General Escobar north |throw divorce’ proceedings out of | towards Escalon, American interests jcourt, are becoming alarmed over the pros- pects of a pitched battle near Chi- huahua City. American interests are heavily in- 1 and the Spanish Workers Club. The committee in charge has spared no pains to make tonight’s affair one of the most enjoyable of this season’s working class affairs. Musie will be furnished by the | vested in Chihuahua and vicinity. | Among the largest are the American Smelting and Refining plant and the vast ranches owned by William Ran- | Hankow while his emissary in Han- kow, Ho Chi-kung, discusses agree- ments with the Hankow generals. Yen-cheng is almost in the center (Continued on Page Two) ‘Wheeler. on Inspection ‘Tour of Nicaragua; to Be Guided by Traitors MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March }21.—Arriving here yesterday by air- | plane like other distinguished North American imperialists, Senator | Wheeler of Mon- : | tana, immediately visited Minister yesterday that a shop defegates con- ference will be held this coming Monday evening at 8 o'clock, in the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- ving Place. Full reports of the re- markable successes made by the} | union will be made and plans for in- | \tensification and a spreading out of | the drive will be proposed and con- sidered for adoption. The working class cannot simply | lay hold of the ready-made state! | machinery, and wield it for its own purpoxe....Thix new Commune (Paris February 5 at a meeting of manu- facturers interested in the Soviet market. Industries with a capital of $500,000,000 were represented. Widespread interest in the pro- the Kinloch mine, in another work- ings connected with the scene of disaster by a single entry, were shocked by the explosion and rushed to the surface. posed trip was manifested in Eng-| land and numerous requests were re- | ,. ae ae Rare oar ceived to be allowed to participate. I Sonat ate me panna ae So great was the interest that in’ accident, to direct the care of the Several cases certain Industries had} Jontii , >, ree to be asked to nominate one or two} (Conteniens on» open tae Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, Na- is desired to keep the delegation be- low 60 so that it will not be un- |Commune) breaks the modern state | power.—Marx,. wieldy. MINERS SEE NEW FAKE FOR U, 8. ENVOY / ‘ By |down the prejudice with which the|famous John C, Smith’s Negro Or-|dolph Hearst, the North American i ( Gontusyed on Page. Five) ee pi ing ope seeks to divide |chestra, and there will also be a/ newspaper capitalist. isaeaanitt act / Workers Will Protest Milder <Cansot Ta Bouton. and weaken the working class. Tick- presentation of “Marching Guns,” aj Significance was today attached to | q, yhose tenure ° ( . | rh BOSTON, March si rere fs be secured at the Workers| Workers’ Laboratory Theatre pro- reports that the American-owned rigors depends | Bosses Trying to Start Company Union Murderer’s Arrival of nation-wide criticism of the Mas-| °c Store, the Champion office! duction. Hericon Northern Audiroeds FanDing | on services done | WASHINGTON, March 21.—It te sachuselts eensorship of all hooks Treat decent? ee, saeen | the United States PORTAGE, Pa., March 21.-- A) The attempt to organize this as- rumored here that one of the mur- not. acceptable to the most. reaction- | SAVE INDIANS IN R cece Puiens; Withs cn! Matings Under the “im- cireular letter sent out by the Na-jsociation is fostered by the coal derers of Sacco and Vanzetti, Alvin ary patriotic societies and puritani- | I J lRotehwWeatl ‘Rulleonl tal sumeen. cael partial” guide of tional Miners Union officials of the | operators and the big politicians and|T, Tuller, formers governo” of cal chic eae a milder system one, y Casas Grandes and Chihuahua City these gentlemen, Central District of Pennsylvania | will become nothing but a company | Massachusetts, will be~Selécted by is promise § | RTP RTE EE 5 i r fi veported undamaged ‘altho, this is|| or their subordi- warns miners not to be fooled by a union. However, Stiles and the coal Chief Imperialist Hoover to be U. | According to the new law, a book | A yyevican Tribe in Siberia Just Found \on the divect line of retreat. ‘This ates, Wheeler is aH sang of “little fakers” who are try- | companies are not in the open doing |S. ambassador to. France. Tt is | cannot be naaaeeye obscene’ or 4 ne) 1s. Bultidh-owned; ‘atokt of ‘the | expected to make Senator Wheeler jing to mislead them. It gives the \this job of organizing. They have known that Fuller plans to be in ‘objectional” on the basis of para- : } FHI capital having been found in Canada. ja tour of the |records of some of the new heirs of |such men as Ed Romese and Peter | Washington Saturday, the date of graphs, but the entire book must be} MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March 21, )vinced of their American origin. Pa mi 4 *\northern area where General San- | John L. Lewis. The letter, which is | Mallon who dropped out of the save- | the arrival of the new secretary of considered. This is consider ade- quate for suppression of revolution- ary literature. GENERAL FOR SCHOOL HEAD. RICHMOND, Va. March 21.— Major General John A. Lejeune, former commander of the Marine Corps, has accepted the superin- tendency of the Virginia Military Institute, according to announce- ment today. --The Soviet government is taking all possible measures to save from extinction a nomadic tribe of “Amer- ican Indians” in Siberia, which has already dwindled to 403 persons, The tribe, kncwn as Karages, was discovered some years ago in the Turun district of Siberia. In ap- pearance, language and customs they resemble so closely the Indians of ‘North America that leading Soviet anthropologists are con- A recent investigator of the Soviet Academy of Sciences re- ported that the tribe has such a high death rate that it has only a few more generations of life. The government has therefore set aside a large tract, where no other tribes will be permitted to hunt and has granted them autonomous rights, such as are granted to the numer- ous nationalities in Sovict territory which nuniber over 100, ue Mazatlan Besieged. MEXICO CITY, March 21 (UP). —With one of the chief leaders of the rebellion executed by a firing squad, the government made pre- parations today to strengthen the federal position at Mabatlan, where a battle was reported imminent. General Jesus M. Aguirre, who conducted the revolt in Vera Cruz (Continued on Page Five) dino is still holding the marines at bay. Wheeler's carefully studied role as a defender of weak nations has been rapidly dissipated in the eyes of Latin Americans by his consist- lent support of the imperialists in vevery pinch. His visit here is showing his posi- jtion clearly to all Nicaraguans who are struggling against the ican invasi i 4 > signed by \Thomas Rodgers, secre- tary-treasurer of District 2, N. M. U., is in part as iollows: This letter asks you not to be | fooled into joining the “Union Min- ‘ers Association” which is being | pushed under your noses by T. D. |Stiles, known to most of you as a ‘faker and who at the present time jis holding a political job as quarry inspector for the state of Pennsyl- VATS i dm a a ibe épAlia | OU nano aircon |the-union movement because there were no big salaries being paid. the fake chamber of commerce sep- jarate hard coal miners union that |was officered by McGarry and Co., | but which also broke up when it was called upon to fight for the miners, while Mallon was willing to accept money to betray the Central Penn- | (Continued on Page Five) Romese was also linked up with | jth. kitler. state, Henry L. Stimson. Fuller has been in Palm Beach. The workers of Paris, militant and vigorous in their dislike for the frame-up and electrocution of their two comredes in Boston ave a factor in the decision, it is admitted hore, and if Fuller decides that he couldn’t stand the strain of the demonstra- tion that will greet him, Hoover is said to have other posts in view for y