The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929 7 Page Thres ‘Workers on Bengal State Railways Walk Out as India Strike. TEN COMMUNISTS a LAND LABORERS QUIT TOO DESPITE © | OFFICIAL TERROR 500 Join Youth League in Allahabad DELHI, India, April 10.—Reports ve been received here that the movement in Bombay is preading in spite of police perse- cution of the workers’ leaders, the jailing of the most active and the d raids on trade union head- Groups of railway workers on the “\Dengal State Railways are the | latest to join the strike of the 20,-| C09 textile workers at the Tata plant, who walked out at the outset of the B terror and who are still out. railway workers are aroused over the arrest of Joglekar, the head of the powerful railwaymen’s union, who was seized in Calcutta n the Anglo-Indian raids and 1 in prison. In the Shabad district the land workers have also gone on strike, the British government is alarmed at the prospect of the strike spreading among the Indian peasant masses. * 590 Join Youth League. DELHI, India, April 10.—At a great meeting of the Youth League in Allahabad 500 new members were enrolled in that city alone.) The response of the working class | and peasant youth follows the whole- sale arrests of workers and peasant leaders which the Anglo-Indian gov- ernment is carrying on. Unde: the chairmanship of Java- har Lal Nehru, the Youth League authorized its executive committee to take all necessary steps to de- fend Puran Chandra Joshi, secre- tary of the Workers and- Peasants Party of the United Provinces. Joshi was arrested in Allahabad and ing the recent Red raids. meeting also adopted unani- a resolution protesting | against the campaign of govern- | mental terror aimed at crushing the | workers’ and peasants’ movement in | *“ * # for India Workers. | BERLIN, Germany, April 10.—In| reply to the mass terror which the | ‘o-Indian government is carty- | ing on against the Indian workers | and peasants, the International. Sec- | retariat cf the League Against Im-_ m has issued an. appeal to Anti-Imperialist League and union ups throughout the d to join in one great anti-im- front to aid the Indian; and peasants. feetings and demonstrations | be organized in the great cit- ’ the appeal states. “Collections t be taken up in behalf of the | s of the imperialist terror in India. The terrorism of the Brit- ish imperialists must be exposed in S campaign.” Tel ms and resolutions of sym- pathy should be sent through the | League Against Imperialism or di-| rect to Javahar Lal Nehru, Anand | Bhawand, Allahabad, India. | Five Years at Hard Labor Given Polish Communist Deputy WARSAW, Poland, April 10.— Viadislaw Baczynski, Communist | member of the Polish Sejm (Diet), | was sentenced here yesterday to five | years at hard labor. The Pilsudski | government charged him with | The sentencing of Baczynski fol- lows the recent imprisonment of today. them. Poverty in Harlem Tenements nents on Seventh Avenue, described 1 the lack of stairways between scapes. ~Photo * The rear of the row of tence Notice the iron balconies a They are supposed to be f y Nippon Camera Club, Negyo Workers Have I. R.T. (Continued from Page One) Negro to have the “privilege” of living in these “clevator” apart- ments. Tenants Intimidated. HE landlords have carried on an organized campaign of intimida- tion against Harlem tenants, and nowhere was this so evident as in si speak. ome of the tenements on Highth Avenue. At 2666 Eighth Avenue none of the tenants, except. one, would They were afraid that we were landlord’s agents sent to fecl around and sce if the ground was ripe for another rent raise. The tenants we did get to speak, a laborér on a subway construc- tion gang,—his name must not be mentioned—had just moved in and had accepted a rent raise over the old tenants from the very begin- ning. We got to Tom Z. only after stumbling thru a dark and dirty ARE WOUNDED BY AUMANIAN POLICE Tried to Rescue Leader Jailed in Raid VIENNA, Austria, April 10.—A truggle between massed police and everal hundred Communist work- and peasants took place at crs Fetroshani, Rumania, last night, ac- | cording to dispatches from Bu charest. Ten Communists ave re- ported to have been wounded by the rolice in the struggle. The fight began with an attempt of the Communists to rescue one of jailed in a recent raid. Search Homes for Literature. Mass arrests are being made by Maniu government, which alarmed at the growing strength of the workers’ and peasants’ move- ment. Wholesale searches, carried on in private houses, have resulted \in the discovery by the authorities {of Communist literature, The pos- sors cf such literature are being arrested with no other charge against them than having “illegal” | literature in their houses. | The Rumanian workers and pea- sants are thoroughly aroused by the recent police attack at Temesvar on | the funeral of a Communist leader. | The police attacked the funeral dem- cnstration, beating the workers who resisted. One policeman was killed. Unconfirmed reports of discon- tent in Bessarabia have also been received here. BELGIUM BACKED CONGO SERFDOM ‘More Details in Tale of | Negro Starvation CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 10.-—Further details, includ- ing inter-tribal serfdom, encouraged the is entrance hall, falling over our feet in the dark corridors and knocking |} the Belgian Congolese govern- at r another that she was not the lady who lived there, and so on. many doors. In answer to our inquiries one woman said she was not at home, They were evidently afraid. the tenant pays $35, another pays $37, still another pays $40. new At Mercy of Landlords. As a rule old tenants live in fear of a rent raise. The policy of landlords is not to have a uniform rental in any one house. One When a tenant comes he must pay the highest of them all. In this way rents are constantly kept on the upgrade, and the tenants are obsolute- ly at the mercy of the landlords. in their apartment of four small, unaired rooms, stuck away at the | end Finally we succeeded in reaching Tom, his wife and three children of a dark corridor. For these small four rooms, with the added entertainment of the elevator wheels and the buzzing of the flies, Tom pays $45 a month. air. Svom what we have told you before. walls and floors, old and defective plu He moved in last June and since then has been raised $5. How Does He Provide? You can picture the interior of this tenement and the apartment [he same rotten conditions of ing, very little ventilation and The only difference is that you must speak a little louder when a train rumbles by. Tom works on subway construction. His employment is irregular. When he works he makes 80 cents an hour, but is usually employed only part time. and He averages about $28 per week. ‘ Out of this sum he must provide for his wife and three children pay the enormous rental of $45. Dumbwaiter Slop-Cans. ment, have been added to the tale of death by famixe and combined | British and Belgian rifles and ma- \chine guns, which rakes up the fu- tile struggle of thousands of Ne- |groes in Belgian Ruanda against consuming starvation. | Previous reports told of desperate revolt of thousands of nati\es under the brother of the native king of |Ruanda and a rriestess of the Nga | Bingri iribe, a revolt of Negrocs in \the swamps, fighting machine guns | with spears. There was also a censored account ing their track strewn with dying jungle in search of food in Beitish territory, hundreds of their bodies piled by the track they took through the swamps, the bodies of the fallen, though still living, torn by hyenas, leopards and licns. It is now re- | ported that numbers of wild beasts [have gathered along the line of |march as though it were a fecding | ground, | The Belgian Congolese govern- |ment’s attempt to shift blame for conditions which can no longer be ignored has revealed the fact that it had cncouraged the serfdom of the Bahuti natives to the warlike Batusi tribe. The government claims T 2658 Eighth Avenue. on the fourth floor, overlooking the wide ex-|that is could not compel the latter panse of elevator tracks, we found Mr. Q. flat and the condition of the house is about the same. He also pays $45 for his He has two children and works as a street-paver for the city. His he has nothing to bring home. When he works he makes 97c per hour. The work is very irregular. stomach depends on the weather. When it rains for a whole week During the last 10 months he has averaged about between $25 and $30 a week. Here, too, the garbage is thrown down the dumbwaiter by the to feed the Bahutis. The Bahutis are enslaved to the | Batusis under a semi-feudal sys- item, which the Congolese govern- iment has done nothing to disturb, | but has utilized in securing slaves jfor its own purposes in gathering | rubber. | Fifty thousand of the starving r leaders whom the police had, Largest German Motor Ship Arrives The Hamburg-American lincr ship afloat, which is now in Ni voyage from Germany. The shi fashionable parasites. otor St. L Yor is, the largest German 7 after making her maiden the usual number of Italian Fascist (The following article is taken from the “Chicago Daily News” and was written by the Italian correspondent of that newspaper | in Rome. Unfortunately the ar- ticle had to be re-translated from | the Italian. The article is com- pletely authentic except for the | style, which kas undoubtedly been lest in the double translation, Tr.) s 8 ® In 1922, before the commencement of the fa: me, there were 592 {newspaper kiosks in Rome which {sold an approximate total of 400,000 copies of the newspapers appcaring jin Rome. Since 1922 the population jof Rome has increased considerably jend numbers at the present time ap- proximately 800,000. Today, how- ever, the number of newspaper kiosks has diminished to 420 and |their caily sale approximates no more than 140,000 newspapers. Great Decrease. The Jargest Italian morning news- ‘paper, the “Messaggero.” has a c' culation no larger than 50,000 today, 35,000 in Rome and 15,000 in the provinces. The total daily circula- tion of the “Giornale d’Italia,” which appears from mid-day to mid night in six editions, is approxi- mately 90,000, that is to say, about cne-third of its former circulation. Another newspaper, the “Tri- buna,” which for 40 years has been the semi-official of one government after another, prints a total daily edition of 10,000. The “Lavoro d'Italia” (re-named a few weeks ago “Lavoro Fascista”), the official organ of the fascist trade unions, has a circulation of about 40,000 a day, but only because every branch of the fascist trade unions is com- pelled to take a certain number. In Rome itself less than 500 copies are sold, The “Corriere d'Italia,” the offi- “Center,” prints a total daily edi- tion of 5,000 copies. The “Popola di Roma,” the second largest mor ing newspaper, has a total daily ed tion of 10,000 copies. fascist daily newspapers appearing in Rome, the “Tevere,’ the “Im- pero,” the “Brillante” and the “Pic- colo,” have a total circulation not exceeding 5,000 copies. The Milan “Corriere della Sera” has still the largest circulation of all Italian newspapers, but even its circulation has considerably de- creased, + * © Subsidized. (The above figures, given by the Circulation at a Rapid Rate cial organ of the fascist Catholic | The other | Papers Lose MILL STRIKE TO INCLUDE 20,000 Weisbord, Reeve Speak at Meets | from Page One) ” and the next to evict (Continued fro: to us if you are sick says they are § them, “to end the su ption cam- paign of a small New York nev paper, the Daily Worker.” This jleaflet, on a big sheet of yellow |paper, states: “United States of America, State of North Carolina, | County of Gaston. To those of our employees who participated in the late happy holiday, greetings: Those | of you we consider reliable may re- | turn to work by Wednesday noon, | April 10, or indicate your desire to }do so. To all others using our houses we must respectfully request that you arrange at once to let us |have the same at the earliest pos- | ble moment.” This sarcastic and jeering epistle to his “slaves” is signed by John A. Baugh, Jr., resi- | dent agent of the Manville Jenckes Co. Every effort is made to convince the strikers they will get no relief. But the strikers believe neither | these statements nor the slanders on Beal and Pershing, organizers for the union. Defense Funds Needed. The need for defense and relief funds cannot be _ overstressed. ‘Twelve cases are coming up before | the North Carolina courts tomor- | row and their defense has been | taken over by the International La- | bor Defense. Demands for bail and defense pour in steadily. Karl Halloway, active picket, was arrested last night, charged with | assault. Bail was placed at $50. | He will be out toda: Meyer Jimison, lawyer at Char- lotte, has been secured for the case tomorrow. Arrested for Laughing. Carey Johnson was arrested today by national guardsmen for laugh- ing, She was detained in the guard- house and finally released. The United Textile Workers Union, jthe A. F. of L. outfit, is now def- jinitely in the field with its strike- breaking committee, and propa- |ganda against the strike has been greatly intensified. ore Movement Sdread —— Io The Daily Worker, a Leader of the Mil! ; | Strikers, e a my >arons Feared by Textil A Daily Worker badly s strike against their s! great a surprise to the mill owners th to resort to the circulation of the strike leaders, attempting to inti by hints at a reign of terror to come, work by Wednesday noon, April 10. request that you arrange at once t at the earliest possible moment.” small newspaper in New York City, tt of the southern mill workers, and struggles, has thus riled the mill boss eagerness with which the s they have resorted to this lic, the Daily’s subscription drive. struggles of the textile worke: will always be, in the vangua workers in every industry. the workers in every shop. double the number of readers of scribe now, and get your shopm: a leader of the struggles of the the South for a living wage and red the C., where thousands of textile we very. ile workers of s, the proved so were forced 2ndering strikers, The splendid solidarity of the s But all to no result. One of these vicious bombasts in particular showed how the Da £ ome known as a champion of the struggl li workers, even recognized as such by the ; in parts * ‘Those of you we consider ble may return to The strikers just laughed at this. “To all others using our houses, w< The strikers’ determined de this threat to evict them from their hor Now read this: drive to a Worker.” “And so we put an end to a sub The Daily Worker, giving full publicity to the strike ag them on in their Stung by the rs have received the Daily, bout having put an end to if Workers, the Daily Work the vanguard of the It has always been, and of the struggles of the reach all of the drive to Worker. Sub- Daily. Spread the Daily Worker, so that it x Do your part i SEND GREETINGS TO THE SPECIAL MAY eS i isa deid q ts bi the dumbwaiter has needed repairs for years. This | y a paige lan tiles ad Sate: pera as eeailvatguad the house at all times, especially in the sum- | Bahutis are reported to have passed Rome correspondent of the “Chicago | We have organized a defense eal =, — + mer, and attracks plenty of rats and vermin. |through one town in Uganda, leav-| Daily News,” substantiate a fact | COrDS. sepiverreiee 7 ) A Y EI ) i ‘] ION against the Polish fascist govern- ment in the western districts of Poland. i m “elevator” apartments. There are many |ing their track sterwn with dying Te ae tee : ‘ laen, women and children. The trek like them. Negro workers, making even less then the two we have | A tuteosiond you to, live here with their wives and families, intimidated | of the Bahutis for food has been go- by the landlords—Negro and white—having as intimate neighbors the |ing on since November. which has long been known to us, e., that great sections of the Ital- ian people, who formerly read the daily press, now express their hos- 500 Strike at Bridgeport. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 10.— Five hundred workers of the Salt OF THE “treasonable activities.” | | DELAY GUATEMALA FLIGHT MEXICO CITY, April 10.—(U.P.) | —Moralez Lopez, Guatemalan avi-| nter, today postponed his sched- | uled departure for Guatemala City , due to unfavorable weather reports. The following letter, responding enthusiastically to the announcement of the Daily Worker campaign to expose housing conditions in Harlem and other workingcelass districts has been received from Solomon Har- per, former sergeant-major in the 349th Field Artillery. “Editor cf the Daily Worker: “Your issue of April 5th is one of the most important yet, for you are demonstrating the true purpose of the non-exploiting people of the world, to wit: Exposing the acts of our petty capitalists who though always complaining against Jim- Crowism, lynching, employment re- striction and other inhuman acts of the white people—act hand in hand with petty white capitalists in help- ing maintain economic slavery, thus making’ more possible the enslave- ment of all people. “We, the workers of Harlem, are with you and shall not forget your activity in the future. Our soldiers fought in the last war to come back and endure the same treatment as > Ex-Soldier Writes in From Harlem on Housing Exposé I. R. T. and the avenue market. * * * Tomorrow we will tell you more about rents, and the threats of rent raises and dispessession that hang over Harlem like storm clouds. any other people, positive, not neg- ative. War to me now is all the BUNK for the protection of EX- PLOITERS OF PRIMITIVE PEO- PLE, for all of our Colored Soldiers were mis-led and _ pro-English against Germany, yet England and| | relations with the Soviet Union will ‘the total building costs are esti- France now exploit Africans while Americans of a type lynch us, ex- ploit Haiti, and Latin America. Hoping that you will find space to print this statement, I am yours for the workcrs, SOLOMON HARPER, (“Former Sergeant Major 349th Field Artillery.”) Caen fae Workingclass tenants, whether liv- ing in Harlem, lower East side, Queens or “Hell’s Kitchen,” as well as in other cities, are asked to write letters to the Daily Worker, describ- ing their housing conditions, giving facts about rents, dispossesses, rent- raises, etc. These letters wiil be published in the Daily Worker as they come in, | The Congolese government, fear- ling that it has more to lose by at- |tempting to conceal conditions any jlonger, now claims it is taking re- | lief measures. Rumania and England to Confer on USSR PARIS, France, April 10.—G. G. Mironescu, Rumanian foreign min- ister, has left for London where he will confer with Sir Austen Cham- berlain concerning the situation in Europe. Mironescu has had a con- ference with Premier Briand. It is understood that resumption by the Rumanian government of be one of the items discussed. BUILD HIGHEST SKYSCRAPER Within a year Wall Street wiil have the largest office building in the world, housing the Bank of Man- hattan Company and other promin- ent concerns in the financial com- munity. The building which will be 63 stories high, rising 840 feet above the street, or 36 feet higher than the Chrysler building, and 44 feet higher than the Woolworth building. * In bourgeois society, Mving labor is but a means to increase accumu- to enrich, to promote the of the — laborer.—Karl Mcrx (Communist Manifest . | Seifulina, has been omitted. Soviet Union to Start ‘Reconstruction of Big Petrovsky Metal Works MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Sov- jiet Government has resolved to start this year the reconstruction of the existing Petrovsky Metallur- gical Works in the Trans-Baikal re- gion near the town of Tchita. The amount of 3,125,000 roubles has been assigned for building opera- |tions during the current year, while mated at 12,000,000 roubles. The output of the works after reconstruction is expected to be 33.5 thousand tons annually. According to latest data, the ore deposits in the region of the Petrovsky Works ‘are estimated at 2,300,000 tons with \a 50 per cent content of pure iron. ‘‘Lawbreakers’ Will Be Continued Tomorrow Because of technical considera- tions today’s installment of “The Lawbreakers,” the short story by the famous Soviet writer, Lydia It | will appear tomorrow. Don’t miss tility towards fascism by refusing te buy or read the fascist news- papers. The consequence of this tremendous loss of readers and the consequent reduction of advertising matter, is that the entire Italian press, with the exception ‘of the “Corriere della Serra,” is working at a dead loss, The tremendous de- ficit which is made daily is made up by the “reserve funds” of the vari- cus ministries, or, in other words, cut of the pockets of the taxpay- cers.—Ed.) ACTUAL! The Most Astounding Artic Picture Ever Filmed! Official Motion Picture of PHILADELPHIA THEATRES JKrassin The Rescue Ship Which Saved the Dying NOBILE Crew of the “Italia” FILM GUILD CINEMA 1632 MARKET STREET, (Between 16th & 17th Streets) Cont. Performance—Phone, SPRuce 2825 POPULAR PRICES 11 A. M, to 2 P.M, 35c3 1 P. M. to 6 P. M., 50cs After 6 P. M., 75¢ Textile Manufacturing Company at Bridgeport, Conn., were on strike jtoday against a wage cut from 25 cents a yard to 14 cents. Two hun- dred workers struck at once. The company closed down and the other | 3800 workers were compelled to go | with the strikers. Tomorrow the elected strike com- | mittee will try to bring out 500 workers in Shelton, Conn., belong- \ing to the same company. There is |a company union here, but it has \failed to stop the strike. NOW PLAYING! ‘ The Sensational Polar Drama Which Shook the World! AUTHENTIC! the Russian Expedition DAILY WORKER Have your name and the names of your shops mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition. Total COLLECTED BY NAME oo iccseccseresceecsebssenneees sevecevcveveeee Me MAGREND oes cccscccennteeainees eeeeeeeces bescoccese City vccccscvevecccccrccvccsess StAtesssrscsocsevace Daily 55 Worker 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY,