The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929” British Tories Try to Rally Voters by “Red” Scare, “Defense of Empire’ Platform 500 JAILED IN S SMOKE SCREEN -- AGAINST US. S.R, Organ of Communist Party Exposes Plot LONDON, England, April 1— Deliberate efforts of the Baldwin gevernment to save their failing cause in the com- ing elections by frightening vo t- ers with a Red scare and rally- ing them to the} conser vative party on a “de- fense of the em- pire platform,” | are being de-| nounced in the] Communist press of Great Britain, Commenting on Baldwin the tory conspir- | __. the Sunday Worker states: “The tory government, discredited on every front by its black record reaction and inaction, is about to at tempt a desperate coup to stave | off the in able disgust which will be exp 1 at the polls in May.” The British Communist press | urges the workers to be prepared to | meet this tory offensive, which is to begin “with a scare that would ify intervention in Afghanistan, ver the preparations for war against the Soviet Union, stampede | he electors in a frenzed atmosphere £ ‘Red plots, and sweep the tories | into office on a wave of} Jingois | “The plot well matured,” the | lay Worker warns, “and is al-| being put into execution.” Reports of Soviet activity on the | han frontier, which the British | vernment, through the capitalist news agencies, has been systemat- ically spreading for days, already | dicate that the tories have em-| ed on their conspiracy. The Moscow gag is a little out- worn as an election stunt and the tories are this time depending upon their widespread arrests of working class leaders in India to hoist them into office. The tories are already raising the alarm that the Indian empire is in peril from inner revolt, | and that there is malign, foreign | influence, “the hand of Moscow.” — | The British intelligence service is | also making visits to the headquar- | ters of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and is making every effort to connect. as many Briti Communists as possible with the agitation against British oppression in India, of MYSTERIOUS WAVE DROWNS MILFORD, Conn. April 1— (U.P.)—There was no explanation| today of the sudden swell in the Connecticut River which capsized a boat, drowning five men and a boy. The victims were William McDonald, Bert McDonald, John Clerkin, Sam} {at work—until it was too late for bid civ shah for Power, Terror Goes On | In Hunan, Huneh and Anhwei the forces of the Nanking wor. lords are fighting with the Wuhoon warlords for power to exploti the masses of China. Battles have already been fought, hundreds of soldiers forced by hunger and need or impressed into the armies have already bled along the Yangtse and in Shantung. But the inner strug- gles of the Chinese warlords mean no lessening of their hatred for the workers and peasants. The white terror in China goes right on while the warlords and their imperialist backers, principally Great Britain, the United States and Japan, tremble as the Red armies sweep from Kiangsi province into Fukien. Above, class war prisoners caged and tortured. TRY TO SWINDLE TO SEND HERRICK MINERS’ WIDOWS CORPSE TO U.S.A. Company Lies About France to Exploit Body | Kinloch Fatalities for Imperialism, Too (Continued from Page One) PARIS, April 1.—Pending the bosses, and tk> lying statement put approval of Herbert Hoover, plans away and hidden by the company|to send the dead body of Myron T. | out that only 232 miners were at| Herrick, American ambassador, who work when the blast occurred. fined here Sunday of heart trouble, This means that there remains un- to the United States aboard a accounted for at least 115 men. | French cruiser were announced to- The rescued miners tell a story | day. The transportation on the |of continuous speed-up before the | cruiser will be the fitting climax to} uve of oy se mands 5 an imperialist’s career. the company to properly ventilate 4 public funeral in France where the mine. Two days before the ex-) the hody will be used to drum up plosion, the fire boss reported to the | lenthusiasm for the coming war, as company officials that there was! as Marshal Foch’s, recently, will | entirely too much gas in the mine, that fresh air was not penetrating | Be, held peabe pencnucn yas al to some of the workings. He was} rae fired at once. Devoted Imperialist. Used Open Torches. The Valley Camp Company boast- ed a bureau of mines medal because it enforced such “safety measures” | as forbidding men to smoke. But} at the same time, it made repair | men use blow torches to weld rails. | | terests of American imperiali: member of the staff of V McKinley, then governor Hanna, Ohio gang boss, Herric! rails.) aenorship. etc., underground. The men joked). z about it, saying they were not cE peo ae HUIS Mea lowed to smoke, but the company ‘i ithe was allowed to build bonfires. Be CERT SREY ata Ss Many of the men were desperately | (ver the embassies of the Central ain’ “th guit, ht poverty, ‘big SUroTeR® imperialiatn, then. st, war! debts ascainulated dubing qhacloske with the allied imperialists. In this GUE. stil the low! wages képe them |r ar eros. position Be proceed” }ed to carry on constant, unneutral | pro-Allied propaganda. Herrick. a bitter foe of the Sov- iet Union, attacked it constgntly in speeches at every opportunity per- mitted. He was a constant retailer | of the usual talk about the ‘“na- | tionalization of women.” Boost from Lindbergh. Among the statements of fellow many of them. Now there is no work at all, and hundreds of men, women and chil- dren are starving. The Red -Cross|} gives inadequate assistance, and generally none at all to Negroes or members of the union. The Workers International Relief, Unian Square, is calling for money to assist these Delfranco, Oliver Balmer and Wal- lace Fallon. miners, and funds should be sent) to it. imperialists on, Herrick’s death, Follows Assassination |in consequence of the Jugo-Slav | |the members of the cabinet were | ever that will suggest. what the po- !chamber of deputies is to vote soon Herrick devoted a long life to in-|on the treaty | interests are threatened. | casting on both sides of the ocean, lis one from Colonel Charles Lind- which the capitalist press is broad-|his own. NEW JUGO-SLAV TERROR DRIVE: of Croat Leader VIENNA, Austria, April 1—Con- trol of police powers unsurpassed even in czarist Russia is revealed dictatorship’s action in the assassin- ation of Toni Schlegel, Croatian na- tionalist editor. Five hundred men) |and women were arrested in a few |hours after the assassination, and many of them are still incarcerated in the Jugo-Slav prisons with no more definite charge than govern- ment suspicion against them. Toni Schlegel, former Croation nationalist, who made peace with the new dictator, King Alexander, and General Zirkovich, the power behind , the throne, was murdered mysteriously a few days ago. News of his death reached Belgrade while at a dinner and the police were in- | stantly called to capture the assas- sins. They failed in this, but ate government’s dragnet secured number of victims whom it has eee | seeking to jail on any charge for some time. The dictatorship is now function- ing so smoothly that the Jugo-Slav newspapers print no item whatso- litical situation in the country may be. General Zirkovich, who was instru- mental in causing King Alexander to sign the decree making’ himself dictator, is now the virtual dictator | of Jugo-Slavia. Ruthless oppression of working class organizations is the order of the day and the dictatorial powers permit the government to arrest and jail without any redress on the part of the victims. * * * Greek-Serb Pact. ATHENS, Greece, April! 1.—The) |ber is still growing. cage snies The raised section of the “Kaiser,” pa Flow. in preparation for another imperial- jalism, backed by the social-democra builds 10,000-ton armored cruisers. was sunk during the war at S is to be used on new battleship ist war. The new German impe Old Battleships for New the German battleship which Materjal from this warship 27 KILLED IN BELGIAN MINE Fresh Explosion Occur, Rescue Workers Die BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 1— The number of dead in the Andre Dumont mine near Genck, Limburg, has reached 27 today and the num- Two. of the latest dead are members of the res- cue party, who were crushed to death by falling coal. One of the injured miners died last night. The accident occurred Saturday, with Jugo-Slavia, | The treaty is exactly similar to |the two countries will act together | “to safeguard their common inter- ests” if both are satisfied that such bergh, “He was always more than a friend to me,” Lindbergh says. Perhaps Lindbergh was thinking of | that turning point in his fortunes when he arrived in Paris and Her- rick kept him awake all night in! order to work on his tired nerves | and secure him as the tool of the} United States militarists he now is. | Lindbergh had at first refused, in- tending to fly around Europe on Note-—The father and mother of Alexander Neverov ‘ (1886-1923) were tillers of the soil. With an education slightly above elementary he worked as teacher in various vil- lage schools for over 11 years. In 1915 he was drafted into the army. Later he shouldered his rifle to fight Kolchak. In 1920-1921 he and his family found themelves in the famine area. This part of his ex- perience he utilized in one of the of pest-revolutionary | vriting,—in the novel “Tashkent—| the City of Bread.” Neverov’s first story saw light fn 1906, but he actually grew to his real stature since the revolution. lis eye w always fixed on the | illage, par larly on the poor peasant. With rare sympathy and humor Neveroy introduced to the reader various village types—the new woman, the peasant children, the red army men, etc. His stories always expressed a glowing faith in a brighter and happier life so characteristic of “The Smithy” group to which he belonged. He died of heart failure in 1923, ales ila TE knew many like that. She was tall, full-breasted, her eyebrows (lifted like two arches—black, And ‘hor husband—as big as a thimble. Goat, we used to call him. You; could hide him in a hat. And angry —good lord preserve us! He’d start a battle with Marya, and bang on the table like a blacksmith on an anvil. “T will kill you. I will rip! yyour soul out!” But Marya was a sly one. She’d begin to make much of him just for the fun of it, as if she were frightened. “Prokofi ,Mitrich! ch! what is it?” “f will cut your head off!” “l’ye just cooked some porridge. “ou want some?” She'd fil a plate for him to the y brim, and cover it with melted Prokofi Mit- a Marya the Bolshevik FROM “AZURE CITIES” jand purr in his ear like a cat... . A STORY of LIFE in the USSR International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 bore up under it somehow. He sid-| led up to her and said: “Come on home.” butter, and make butter stars. And she’d stand ,there bowing to him and feed him as if they were newly- weds, ee, And she, to spite him, perhaps, “Rat, Prokofi Mitrich. I wronged} got up in front of us, and began a} you.’ ‘ speech: He’d like it—the woman_ was good to him, so he’d turn up his omrades-and peasants nose, and feel important. “T don’t want it.” And Marya like a serving maid near him—now a glass of water, now a pipe of tobacco. And when he’d undress in the middle of the room—she’d put his best shoes in their place,—hide his socks behind the stove, And at night she'd rest him on her arm, stroke his hair, here the Goat lost his temper too. | At home he threw himself at her) with his fists. “J will rip your soul out.” And Marya teased him: “Who’s making all this noise here, Yrokofi Mitrich? It’s a bother, but nobody is afraid.” “J will cut your skirt short if you go to the meetings.” “You couldn’t do it.” The Goat got excited, started to look for something to hit her with, and Marya, threateningly: | “Just touch me. I will break all the pots on your goat’s head!” * ie ‘HIS was the beginning. The Goat) would show his power—Marya hers. The Goat would lic down on} the bed, Marya—on the oven, The Goat would pinch her—she’d only smile. “Now, now, T’rokofi Mitrich! It hurts, .. .” | “And suppose it does hurt... . It) won't kill you.” And he’d pinch her again—he was her husband, not a stranger to her. And as soon as he was satisfied, she'd begin with him. “Ah, you Goat, you Goat. Let me only swing twice—and that would be the end of you. ... You think T am made of wood? You think it does not hurt to take it from a mushroom like you?” * * Av the The) Goat would go to her, she—from him. “No, darling, things aren’t what | they used to be. Fast awhile.” “Come to me.” beginning Marya didn't say| “I will not.” came and freedom, when they be- gan to tell women that they were also opened her eyes. Just let, an ing. As if she had lost all shame. She came to the orator one time and started making eyes at him like a girl. “Come,” she said, “Comrade Orator, and drink tea in our house.” The goat was there, of course—on the spot—his face changed. His eyes grew dark, his nostrils expanded.) Well, we thought that he’d start at} her right at the meeting, But he. very much, and carried her! ,The Goat would jump about the domestic troubles mostly within \bed, and go to sleep under a cold| herself. But when the Bolsheviks | blanket, and when the affair reached | equal to the muzhiks now, Marya! orator come—she’d run to the meet-) that stage, people began to laugh.) She stopped giving birth to children. | She had borne two—and buried them. |The Goat was waiting for a third. but Marya struck, “I’m sick of this business.” “What business?” “This business, You never gave) birth.” * “What do you think I am, woman?” “Well, I’m not a cow to give you) | ealves every year. and ready—I may.” The Goat got up on his hind legs. By: ALEX. NEVEROV We just rolled with laughter. And |* “Comrade Orator, give her hell.” | § jeven that didn’t help. l|reading as if she were a teacher, ‘even laugh at her. | When I get good take your head. ae you dreaming of? “I will tear your head off, if you dare to say such things.’ But Marya insisted on her own. “I,” she says, “have become bar- ren.” “What's that?” “Tf you try to force me—I’ll leave you.” arene HE drove the Goat to desperation. | He used to joke on the street, go| siting, but now—nowhere. He’d climb up on the oven and lie! there like a widower. If he should) (beat her, she might go away. And that was not all. She’d drag him to court, and the Bolsheviks would certainly put him in the jug. That was their style—to let women have their way. He gave her her free- dom,—but he was ashamed of what people would say: that he had no character, that he was frightened. Ee went to a fortune-teller twice,— Marya began to drag newspapers and books home from the Union Club. She’d spread them on the table, and sit there Vv moving her lips. She did not read aloud. The Goat, of course, would keep still. Let her read as long as |she stayed home. Sometimes he'd) “You're holding your telegram) upside down, Some reader!” Marya wouldn’t pay any atten- tion—and books and papers, as everybody knows, make a different person of him who reads them. Marya reached that point too. She’d | stand at the window and look out. | “I am lonaly,” she'd say. “What do you want?” would ask her. aos Ros something—something ” The Goat | | he Goat would control himself, | control himself,—only he couldn’ | control himself any longer. -“YIl lace it into you, the Devil | Something! What on (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) 3 e : 73 when a crew of miners had just en- |} “ m. A| which Premier Venizelos, notorious | tered the pit, and the explosion took lliam/for his efforts in smashing the place at a depth of 700 meters. n of Ohio, | Greek general strike last year, has and like him a lieutenant of Mark | been active in forwarding. At intervals during the day there were fresh explosions, caused by gases igniting from flames which himself later succeeded to the gov-| one signed recently with the Italian! y-ere burning in some of the galler- His lieutenant-governor | fascist government. It provides that | jes, Scores of relatives of the dead land injured crowded around the mine mouth as the rescuers brought |) up body after body during the night. |) Working long hours for miserable wages and with little or defective ventilation, the Belgian miners have repeatedly had to fight the attempts of the mine owners to lower their wages and worsen their conditions }} still further. What Sentence? “Buzheninov, Vassili Alexeie- vich, appears before the People’s Court.” With these words Al stoy, noted Soviet writer, cludes his penetrating story, “Azure Cities,” the last instal- ment of which was printed in con- | Saturday's Daily Worker. Thousands of workers have fol- | lowed the gripping story in the columns of the Daily Worker. They have come to know Vassili Alexeievich Buzheninoy, young student of architecture, who after fighting through the horror of the civil wars, finds it impossible to adjust himself psychologically to the reconstruc- tion period and seeks escape in dreams about rebuilding Moseow —the Azure Jity—according to his plans. How these dreamings and his love for a beautiful young girl finally lead this sensitive young student to commit murder and to burn down a town have all been graphically told. The author ends the story at the point when Buzheninov is to face the People’s Court and receive his sentence, What should be the sents Workers are asked to write Daily Worker and diseugs this ease. Also give your general re- actions to the story. Write clearly and briefly and address all let- ters to Story Editor, Daily Work- er, 26 Union Square. PHILADELPHIA THEATRES || create electrical energy, as well as | the substitution of oil fueling for coal in ‘various industrial branches, having a disastrous effect on the mining industry internationally. This effect is especially obvious in districts where the technical outfit | of the mining industry is backward | or at least not up-to-date. . This seems to be the case in South Wales It is also the case | and in Scotland. in Western Pennsylvania, and espe- | i) "They only transform the organiza- ie in the Allegheny Valley, is one of the oldest fields of | 1 United | cially the industry in the States, Shpos During our stay in the district,| we heard rumors that important steel plants are moving to Ohio,| | Illinois and especially to Chicago. | | Certain mining company directors | ‘are also announcing frankly that) they intend to close down the less) efficiently working enterprises of | this district. The local press of} |ecourse is emphasizing that it is al “sound move to eliminate” uneffi-| cient plants. It is better to open |new mines in West Virginia than to | maintain enterprises the ex | tion of which “does not pay evidently all right for the bosses. | tion of their combines and trusts. | The Consolidation Coal Company cand the Pittsburgh Coal Company are not facing such great difficul- |ties in achieving this move, as the | hundreds, thousands of Pennsylvania miners who are losing their exist- | ence jn this new step of ‘“Ration-} alization of industry.” Conditions are desperate among) | the miners indeed. “If a miner does | Sigeta Job he works himself out of} i it in six months due to overproduc- tion in the indust: was the state- |ment of Pat Toohey, secretary of} the National Miners’ Union, | Pale Children. | Phe first picture through the} \railroad windows is one of desper-) late, pale and underfed children and unempleyed miners around bar- racks-like miners’ houses—crowding the road in the Allegheny Valley. 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