The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 3

22. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 1929 2,vU0 Peasant NUMBER OF LIVES. LOST NOT KNOWN, MISERY EXTREME Homeless Dogs Attack Fugitives BRATISLAVA, Czecho-Slovakia, March 2 At least 2,000 peasant | f lies living in the Danube Valley | nvea here have lost their homes, | their cattle and all other posses- sions, as the raging waters of the Danube continued to flood the en- tire region today. Thousands were forced to flee at’ night, wading aften knee-deep in, the icy water with ali the goods | they could carry on their backs or heads, Many of the men and women v carrying their children, unable to walk, Church bells were rung throughout the night to warn all stragglers of the advancing flood of waters. | Lighting System Fails. | In the midst of the general con- fusion, which in many sections verged on a panic, as the refugees fled on rickety pontoon bridges, the electric lighting system broke down. Packs of homeless dogs, driven out by the swelling torrent, at- tacked the fugitives, adding to the horror of the night. The number of lives ‘ost has not Leen computed. The flood, which is the largest since 1872, began when thawing mountain streams poured their tor- rents into the Danube headstreams. It is still increasing. Lifted by the mass of millions of tons of thawing ice, the vast volume of water over- whelmed the countryside. Ice Barriers 40 Feet High. In many places the ice barriers are 40 feet high. The ice at first completely isolated this town follow- ing the failure of army engineers to smash the ice masses by a bombard- ment of howitzers, mortars and other heavy guns, Later, holes were drilled in the floes and the explo- sions finally freed the city. The misery of the homeless pea- | santry is extreme. Subsidence of the flood will hold little relief for | them, since they have lost all their | goods and live stock. General Summerall to. Remain Head of Wall) Street Military Forces WASHINGTON, March 21.—Sec- retary of War Good today requested | General Charles P. Summerall to remain as Chief of Staff until No- vember 21, 1930. Summerall had professed a wish to leave his posi- tion and submitted his “resignation.” The administration availed itself of its appreciation of Summerall’s} valuable services to Wall Street by| requesting that he remain at his} post. General Summerall formerly was | commander of the Hawaiian Depart-| ment, and there he won the hatred of the Hawaiian workers and peas- ants and of the servicemen by his| brutal and tyrannical methods. In addition to his military services to imperialism, Families in Danube Valley Homeless, Starvi Terror Goes On While Factions Fight Thu the boasted unity of the Kuomintang government of China is splitting apart with open fighting between the Hankow and Nan- king worlords, the persecution of workers and peasants by all factions goes on constantly. Above, shooting a worker in the open street. U. S. marines conspicuous onlookers. FLOOD HITS NEGRO MOST (Continued from Page One) |tee, the Red Cross tried to cover up tention, and a committee, headed by |its tracks by extending some help a servile Negro politician, Robert |to those whom they had previously Motun, was instructed to “inves driven away. The Negroes, however, gate.” The committee was forced | were forced to work building homes to admit the charges, Its report was |for the whites for little or nothing therefore pigeon holed and never except food as the only way they published. jcould get anything from the Red The Red Cross deliberately lends | Cross. itself to the Southern system of race| “To the terror of the flood is added discrimination and exploitation. In the discrimination in rescue work and the former Mississippi flood and during the Florida campaign, it functioned for the interests of the wealthy planters, giving funds to them instead of the real sufferers. In many cases, Negroes were turned “and this is symbolic of Negro suf. to the have to face in fighting exploitation, |they have to meet the additional out of relief stations. ;problems arising from race discrim- Following the exposures of Red|ination and race hatred as propa- Cross discrimination in Florida by | gated by the rich white planters and the Negro Workers Relief Commit-!business men.” CADILLAC BUILDING PROGRAM |LINDBERGE MARRIES IN JU 4 MEXICO CITY, March 21.—Col. DU Ee UP.| oie A Lindbergh will be mar. —Six separate projects are included |yieq in June to Anne Morrow, daugh- in a $5,000,000 building and equip-|ter of the ambassador of United ment program planned for the Cad- | States imperialism here, according illac Motor Company in the next)? an announcement here. two years, Lawrence P. Fisher, | The power of the bourgeoisie rests president of the company, announced |not alone upon international capital, upon its strong international connec- here today. |tions, but also upon the force of i | habit, on the force of small industry, The proposed program, Fisher | of whlch, unfortunately, there is Peal Br |plenty left and which daily, hourly, said, results from the success of the| Rives birth to capitalism and house company in 1928, when all previous | geoisie, spontaneously and on a large sales records were broken. | scale—V. I, Lenin (Left? Commu distribution, of relief,” said Briggs, | fering in the South, for in addition| problems the white workers | COMMUNISTS IN 250 ENTOMBED “REICHSTAG VOTE IN MINE BLAST Hit Socialist Program | Bosses Ran ‘Hell Hole’; | of Armaments i Men Belong to NMU BERLIN, Germany, March 21- |The Communist vote of misconfi- dence against Rudolf Hilferding, | social-democratic minister of fi- |nance, was today rejected by a standing vote of the Reichstag. The vote is part of the general ; German Communist Party has re- ; peatedly made against the social- | democratic government and its arm- jament policie: | The last vote of’ misconfidence |proposed by the Communists was taken in connection with the cruiser building program carried out by |the social democrats in the face of | nationwide protest. On the cruiser program the social- democrats have been able to rally the support of the other reactionary |sections of the Reichstag. | Owing to differences with the so- | cial-democrats, a small number of the nationalists voted with the Com- munists today for misconfidence. The majority of nationalists, how- ever, preferred to absent themselves from the Reichstag during the vote |taking. Their vote is regarded as merely a matter of record. | The Reichstag today ratified the | Geneva protocol outlawing gas war- |fare against the votes of national- jists and fascists. CABINET CRISIS _ FACES DENMARK (Continued from Page One) bereaved wives, mothers and dren. Many of the miners were mem- bers of the N. M. U., which was conducting a vigorous campaign of organization in this vicinity and meanwhile waging a war against st such conditions as caused the present slaughter. “The cause of the accident was speed-up,” said Pat Toohey, secre- tary of the N. M. U., in an inter- view with a representative of the Daily Work “There was no ven- tilation, ther vices, it was one of the hell holes of the coal industry. Gas accumu- lating was ignited by the machin- ery.” Local 110 of the N. M. U. has is- sued’ a statement charging the coal company with the murder of these miners, telling how the employers violated every existing law, forced the miners to work in dangerous gas and used the speed-up until they could no longer take care of themselves. Minerich Tells Conditions. Anthony Minerich, national exec- utive board member of the N. M. U., gave the Daily Worker an inter- view while waiting word to go to Ohio and surrender himself for, a 45 day jail sentence for violation | of a federal injunction against pick- eting during the last strike. “This mine had another accident ‘during the strike,” said Minerich, {“in which 12 were killed. The com- pany had it surrounded by a fence, | machine guns and _ searchlights \General Election May planted, and state troopers, coal | and iron police and mine guards on Be Called hand. It is efficient at killing min- ers fighting against conditions such COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March | as have probably killed 50 of them 21 (UP)—The Folketing, Denmark’s | today, aay not Maes efficient ieee lower legislative body, today re-|ing a safe mine. It got a medal o |jected the government’s finance bill,|100 per cent efficiency from the |thereby precipitating a cabinet| federal bureau of mines recently, lerisis. The crisis came most unex- though, for ‘excellent’ safeguards’. |pectedly. | “The miners in this mine were |" Bretites Madsen Mygdal said the | militant,” Minerich continued. “Dur- government could resign or ask the |ing the 1926 United Mine Workers ng to decree a new genera! elec- | of America elections they voted for | tion. he a on eT cee ara hee Fifty-two social-democrats voted | lots for Lewis, all fastened together jagainst the finance bill, while the|in a bundle, were found in the box, right wing of the liberal party gen- | during the counting, they broke up erally favored it. The rejection fol- | the election, and refused to let them lowed submission of seyeral amend-|be counted.” ments, many of which were re- Labor Hating Bosses. dectea: . | ‘The Paisley family owns 50,000 It was understood that Premier | acres of coal land, much of it in Mygdal planned to submit his resig-/ non-union West Virginia and Ken- nation to the king, although his/tucky, some of it in Pennsylvania final decision will not be known until) nq Ohio. It used police to lock ete ., out its Ohio union miners in 1926, The government announced it| Tt has a sales company in Wiscon- would have a communication for the | <i) the Wisconsin and Great Lakes |Folketing tomorrow, but it was not | Coal and Dock Co., which has a long |indieated whether it would be a de-) term contract with Rockfeller’s Con- jon to resign or call a general] <jidated Coal Co. It forced most jelection, which otherwise would not| (+ it; miners to work open shop be held until 1930, | before 1927, * 8 The proletarian movement is the | PITTSBURGH, March 21.—Not nelf-consefous, independent movement , v -of the immense majority.—Karl Marx |Company precautions, but the min- (Communist Manifesto). ers’ coolness and courage saved FROM “AZURE CITIES” After fighting in the Red Army thru the Revolution and Civil Wars, Vassili Alexeievich Buzhe- ninov returns to Moscow and re- enters the school of architecture, where he had previously been a student. He works feverishly, broodying about the wonderful cities he will build on the ruins of the past, until he finally suf- fers a nervous breakdown. He decides to go back to his decay- ing little home town to recuper. ate. His old mother and a servant are supported by Nadezhda (Na- dya) Ivanoyna, his mother’s ward. a beautiful, 22-year old girl. Buz- heninov drifts into the sleepy life of the town, in the grip of a great inertia. He falls in love with Na- dya, but finds her not very sym- pathetic to his plans «bout re- building Moscow. The town be- gins to talk about them. Buzhen- inov make sthe acquaintance of Sashok Zhigalev, a vulgar young dandy, who takes him to a beer parlor where he makes insinuat- ing remarks to him and tells him to be careful of Utyovkin, the office manager in the place where Nadya works, who is very jealous of him. Sashok points out Uty- ovkin who is flirting with the bar maid. Buzheninov goes out. % * * (Continued from Yesterday.) N old Jew, shaking his head, sil- ently dragged a gosling’s neck from under the armpit of a muzhik with terrible eyes. The gosling was pitiable, with a broken bill. The Jew grievingly examined his webs and wings, blew in his bill, and offered his price. The muzhik wanted more. “This is a goose. Feed him, and he’ll be all fat.” And dragged the gosling by the neck towards himself. *) “He can’t even eat, his nose is broken off, What do I need a goose AZURE CITIES Astory o LIFE in the USSR |those who escaped from the Kinloch Mine. | Approximately 200 of the miners escaped through an unused entrance |of the Valley Camp Coal Co., No. 1 International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 like that for?” the Jew answered, and dragged the gosling back to- Rotten talk .. . They have all found their places, they all fit in... By ALEXEY TOLSTOY |Mine, which connects with the Kin- |loch Mine. An abandoned entrance to the Kinloch Mine was credited by 100 miners who emerged safely from the blast-wrecked chambers of the mine |vith having saved their lives. It T was | was through this opening that the |future. Besides, there were reasons {of a general character. MISCONFIDENGE 00 MAY BE DEAD. chil- | were no safety de-| wards himself. “Your nose is broken off,” the |muzhik shouted in a deep-seated voice. “You look how he eats,” and ‘he shoved bread at the gosling; the gosling choked. | Near a wagon with clay pots two | women began to yell and quarrel. The militiaman with the stony face walked towards them unhurriedly, and the women grew silent, glaring at the redcap like two rats. “What’s the trouble, citizens? Come to the station.” A venerable old man in eyeglasses, a dealer in green-faced lions, made of papier-maché, and painted whist- les, read a book without paying any attention to the noise and movement about him. Before his stall stood a ‘drunkard, with dirty felt boots thrown across his shoulders, boots | which he had apparently brought for | sale, and repeated threateningly: ted. We'll tell about this to the proper party.” ee es | YASsILt ALEXEIEVICH rounded the market place by way of the sidewalk, passed the park where the rooks cried tirelessly above their nests from dawn to night and where a flock of boys played ball on a greening field, and walked out to the cliff above the river. \ Here he sat down on a bench and looked at the current, at the thin lines of the woods in the distance. Birds flew from there into the dark- ening sky. A mist rose above the wide valley, above the lakes, above the half drowned villages. Sticking his hands between knees, pressing his lips together Vassili Alexeievich thought: “Centuries of sadness, poverty, eveyness. The beer parlor with the little ‘lady’, Utyovkin, Sashka , . . | “Objects of luxury are not permit- | Utyovkin and the fox trot . .. They live. They live... Why? ...Can |it be that a new, a great, a beauti- |ful race will ever grow here? .. .” |. Just then, another man sat down | beside Vassili Alexeievich. He took off his eyeglasses, wiped them, blew his nose. “You and I have known each other, Comrade Buzheninov,” he said in a friendly marner. ~ * * The Testimony of Comrade Khotyaintsev. JURING the conduct of the inves- tigation Comrade Khotyaintsev told of his meeting with Buzheninov on the cliff at twilight. (Khotyaint- | Sev had passed through the town on official business.) His testimony was as follows: Investigator: When did you know Buzheninov? Khotyaintsev: In the year twen- ty-one. I was the political director jof the division. Investigator: Did you notice any peculiarities in him, any fits of janger—in a word, anything out of | the ordinary? Khotyaintsev: No. His conduct was always good. At one time he worked in the regimental club. The comrades always had a vrarm word for him. Investigator: At the time of your nothing extraordinary? Khotyaintsev: It seemed to me that he was gloomy and excited. We argued. | Investigator: Was his mood of a | personal character, or was the reason for his excitement more general, for stance, social dissatisfaction? | He was depressed by his illness and the impo: ity of continuing his meeting on the cliff you also noticed | studies and his work in the near| astounded when I heard a sharp and| \irreconcilable opinion from him jabout the surroundings into which | jhe had fallen. He began the con-| versation something like this: ‘Do you rember, Comrade Khoty-)| aintsev, the work in the clubs, the| talks, the performances, the con-)| | certs? What fine fellows they| | were! How they all burned! That} | gotten.” | * * * E began to reminisce about our! comrades, about the war. We were enthusiastic. He turned away, and it seemed to me, wiped his eyes | with his sleeve. | “I have fallen from my horse into the mud of the roadway, the |regiment has gone, and I sit in the |mud. This is how it seems to me,” he said with great bitterness. “In one day to-day I’ve glutted enough rot for a year, so that I don’t want |to live. Townspeople. Grey fife. |All they do is eat polly-seeds behind |their gates. Yes, yes, Comrade |Khotyaintsev, the hoofs of our horses beat no longer. The happy {years have fled. Happy are they who rot in the ground.” | I vemember that I laughed at him |then. “Perhaps,” I said, “Comrade |Buzheninov, you have started to \write poetry? You sound very, heart-broken.” | Then he said with even greater | | strength: | “An explosion is necessary—all |destroying. . . . A fiery broom to/ |sweep all the dirt away. Then I) | was against the capitalists and the | landowners, and now I am against! | Utyovkin. . . . I'll tell you,” he! \day.” And he began to imitate an acquaintance of- his. | (To Be Continued.) |was a happy time, never to be for-| trapped men, after stumbling along several miles beneath the earth, reached safety. Relatives Throng Entrance. Thronging about the entrance were relatives of the miners, eager to catch sight of a father, son or brother. Here and there a sob could be heard, punctuated by cries of happiness, as waiting ones discov- ered those of their kin who they had feared were lost in the mine. P. D. Brady, motorman, among those who got out. “We were working at a point about two miles from the explosion and the force of the air, the back- wash of the blast. nearly blew us off our feet,” he said. Another Survivor's Tale. Sylvester Carger, another of the isurvivors, told of his escape. | “We had gone abcut two miles linto the mine,” Carger said, “and |we started working. Suddenly there |came a sound of a rumble like thun- der that we could just about hear in \the distance and everything grew cark. Our pit lamps gave us our only light. “Chalk dust was dropped and it \filtered to the floor, showing there |was little air, We knew something had happened; we remembered the other trouble (in February, 1928), and we started for the entrance. “The Kinloch entrance, through which we had entered, was too far away, so we made our way out through the Valley Camp. We half ran through the shafts, wondering what that noise was we heard; but there was no panic. And soon we was Albert: Taylor, 18, who was taken Khotyaintsev: I think it was both. | Said, “how Utyovkin ate liver to- from the main shaft of the mine about noon, with serious burns, died a few hours Inter in the New Ken- ' sington, Pa,, Hospital. 4 came to the entrance and fresh air.” | S FE loods Keep Ng a U. S. Pacific-Caribbean Naval Area AY 2g ¥. U.S, project for a canal thru Nicaragua is causing a stir among the Panamans where the treaty with Washington failed to pass the legislature recently. The Panamans ay that traffic thru the Panama Canal is far from maximum and cannot understand why the United States must have another inter-ocear canal farther north. They do not see, or pretend not to see, that this is a military and naval move on the part of the Ss for quick battleship movement between the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming struggle with Great Britain. 3,000 Students Protest Dismissal of Teachers for Sex Questionnaire COLUMBIA, Mo., March 21—The | action of the board of directors in dismissing three faculty members |of the University of Missouri for distributing sex literature among the students has brought the protest of 3,000 students attending the uni- The “improper” sex titera- ture was nothing but a questionnaire drawn up by members of the psy- chology department. At a meeting last night the stu- dents drew up a resolution demand- ing that the board of curators re- consider the action of the board of |directors, and asking that the ousted vrofessors be retained. Professor Max Meyer, internationally known psychologist. is one of those fired. The professors prevented the stu- dents from holding a protest dem- onstration. The fundamentalist fac- ulty are keeping mum. The board’s action was due to the threat of the fundamentalist state legislature to slash the university jappropriations due to the circulation jof the questionnaire. HONEYMOON IN JAIL | PORTLAND, March 21.—Charles uettel apparently is not unhappy in |prison here, for he is beginning his |honeymoon. After having been sent {to prison for passing had checks, his sweetheart, Loretta Ann Mor- |gan, insisted on marrying him in |prison. “I intended to marry him |before he got into trouble and IT |haven’t lost faith in him,” she said. Prince of Wales May Be Regent—That Is, If Queen’ll Let Him LONDON, England, March A bill to make the Prince of W is ales regent unless there immediate improvement in the health of King George is contem- plated here. Dis- cussions have long been going on be- hind the scenes and every effort has been made to groom the prince . and prepare the Prince of Wales British public for the change. The visit of the prince to the min- ing regions is thus shown in still another light besides the interest of the British mine owners and the government to stifle the resentment jof the starving miners with appear- {ances of royal solicitude for their misery. The question of the dissolution of parliament, with which the regency council is not empowered to deal, is hastening the choice of the prince jas regent, though if the king im- |proves quickly in the next few deys, he may be able to act on the issue. The general election in May will bring the matter to a head. | It is suggested, however, that {Queen Mary desires to be regent. |This may cause embarrassments. The other classes decay and finally |disappear in the face of modern in- dustry; the proletariat is its special and ersential product-—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). ‘BRITISH LABOR GOV'T STARTED CRUISER RAGE Lloyd George Tells of | MacDonald Role LONDON, England, March 2 Flaying the attitude of the Br h Labor Party and its leader, Ramsay M Jonald, David Lloyd George. Liberal leader, |: night declared in a campaign spe of Macl Lincolnshire. “The lay cruisers b; ated asserted. ing down of unnecessary the Labor premier pre- the race,” Lloyd George cipi George statement vas the only t an extra- ordinary statement!” he then auoted a that the Labor F While George is him: the mdst active of British imperial- ists, the British leader during the death struggle of British and Ger- man imperialism in the great war, his unmasking of the rea Labor Party leaders is inter Under pacifist phrases, Ramsay MacDonald and other officials of the Labor Party have consistently pursued at 4 advocated the most. re- actionary imperialist policies as re- gards naval construction and Brit- ish policy towards colonial peoples. The cruisers referzed to by Lloyd George were five laid down in 1924 |during the incubency of the British |Labor Party. The cruisers, declared “absolutely unnecessary” by the uiberal candidate, were well armed and went far towards creating that confidence in the Labor Party lead- ers which the British imperialists now feel for them. Huiswood to Speak at | Phila. Forum Sunday | PHILADELPHIA, March 21. — “The Negro in the Class Struggle” will be the subject of a talk by Otto Huiswood, head of the Negro Department of the Communist Par- ty of the U. S. A., at the Workers School forum at its meeting place, Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch St., Sunday night. the laborer by the manufacturer, so far at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, then he is set upon by the other portious of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shop- | Keeper, the pawnbroker, ete—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). | No sooner is the exploitation of i) " peneerennenreaenernennreeen neeeremmnenmannemenenee:-cmemeees . 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