The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, FRIDAY sieliules 12, ae Page Thre inglo- Indian Government Plans New Persecution ot Militant Workers and Peasants ‘ROR AGAINST MMUNISTS IN IDIA INCREASED ative Officers Betray Indian Masses JELHI, India, April 11.—The of its members somewhat re- d frony the shock of the bomb. : they underwent at the last ses- n, the India Legislative Assembly | t here today and proceeded to pass lution which is a virtual de- n of renewed persecution the Indian workers and ts. resolution, after “unreserved- lemning” the bombing, “as- the authorities of its full sup- n such reasonable steps as are essary” to prevent its repetition. “Reasonable” Steps. These “reasonable” steps have al- zdy included mass arrests and the ling of all the Communist and left ng worker and peasant leaders 10 were not included in the gov- ament’s dragnet at the end of are The Anglo-Indian govern. nt has made the bombing, appar- tly the work, of a small terrorist | oup, a pretext for a campaign of rsecution dgainst the Communists, cor tho it is thoroughly well known | the authorities that the Commu- | sts, far from éncouraging, condemn ch methods. Communists in Prison. Most of the Communist danas | ‘e now awaiting a mass trial in the} ‘ison at Meerut and the first act! the legislative assembly on recon- ning was to rule out of order all bate on the public safety bill until } ‘ter the trial of the Communists. The resolution to defer debate on 2 bill was made by V. J. Patel, e president, at the outset of the ssion an dis obviously intented by e Anglo-Indian government to al- ; the excitement which has brought e country as near revolution as | The | .y it has been in six years. d to extreme measures against } Communist leaders nayway with- it the aid of the public safety easure. “Nationalists” Are Traitors. Defering of the debate is also seen s a gesture of the Indian Nation- ist leaders to retain their consider- ole section of petty bourgeois, small erchant, shop-keeper, professional nd student support, by a “liberal ttitude” on the bill. KEEP COAL TAX. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 11 UP).—Prospects of Pennsylvania fting the tax on anthracite coal, hich has aroused so much protest 1 New York, New England and estern states, faded tcday when ie senate finance committee killed xe Heaton tonnage tax repealer. ndcr the Heaton bill there would we been a graduated scale of re- action in the tax leading up to s ultimate repeal June 1, 1931. clebrate May First at the Coliseum. rnment feels thoroughly able to) A Clean Kitchen in the feu | people use it. hen in an-apartment on rooms that has ventilation. Notice also how neat —Photo by Nippon Camera Club, a ‘Dirty Tenement uth Avenue. otice how small it is. t is kept. is one of Ten Courts and La Together to ment generally here and there. holds good for th * # adlords Work Keep Rents Up (Continued from Page One) he others, with a few additions * 18 At a Shot. 'O GIVE you a further example of they are being hanced out wholes a large tenement. no repairs unless you will | renovations. About the end of 1128 e: notified of rent raises r even more than $10. The: ments. Take the case of Mrs. Bailey. years and paid $34 when she first is expecting another raise at a plumbing is so rotten that the v smell around the place, the ceiling accept 2 she cannot rent them out to lodgers. Mrs. Stevens lives above her. ago she paid $35 for five rooms On February 1 of this year the from then on would be $65. This is only an exan Harlem. In back of these rent raise possession. And to move means t landlords alw massacre, fight. militant tenants are planning to At present the ten: rooms, which are just as dilapidated aises are to be cfiective of holes in the wall and rats are abundant. ‘Last Jan , $51, today she pays $56. She pays for her own painting and papering. take advantage of ne than anyone else in the building and t resistance to the robbery of the landlords. vhat rent raises mean and how W. 141st Street there is 2 paying about $55 for five as the others. The same story— raise, the tenants pay for their own ies living in this house were some of them ithout improve- een living there for 13 She now pays $55 and uomert. In her apartment the and ceiling leak, there is a mouldy falls periodically, there are plenty The rooms are so bad that I When she first moved in 14 years y she was already paying landlord notified her that the rent le of how rents have been rising all over s there is always the threat of dis- o pay a still higher rent, for the tenants, charge them more ave the way for a general Tomorrow there will be the beginning of the story of a rent Tenants in Harlem are beginning to put up an organized Read what some do with their landlord. BRITAIN WORKING Fascists Give PILSUDSKI HITS |Striking Textile Workers of SEJM IN MOVE TO | South Write to Daily Worker, TO UNITE EUROPE AGAINST AMERICA Disarmament Meet to Start Monday LONDON, England, April 11.—Re- sumption of negotiations for a} treaty of friendship between France | and Italy, following immediately after the conversation in Rome be- tween Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, and Mus- | solini, indicates that Great Britain | is again working to unite the Euro- |pean powers under British leader- | |ship against the United States. Coming at a time when rumors of a new disarmament conference be- tween the United States and the British governments are rife, a Eu- ropean agreement against the for- rier power has special significance. Fake Disarmament. It is being suggested that the meeting Monday of the Preparatory Disarmament Conference of the | League of Nations may afford the} twe governments the opportunity to | stage another vain dispute over lim- | itation to 6,000-ton cruisers with | 6-inch guns, which are valuable for | |defense of the far-flung British pos- | sessions, or to 10,000-ton cruisers of |the type which the Americans want. No real limitation at all is wanted | by either power, of course, though | each would like to trick the other in a bargain on construction. The improbability of any agree- ment between the two powers on a |construction action has been aggra- vated by the American 15-cruiser |hill, the “I’m Alone” incident and a number of other complications, a yin, od | U. S. in League Meet. GENEVA, April 11—The United | States tacitly agreed to participate | in the League of Nations first in- ternational conference for the codi- fication of international law in the | spring of 1980, when the state de- |partment submitted two lengthy |memorandums to the league today. | The documents dealt with nation- ality and territorial waters and have |an important bearing on the grow- and the United States. |memorandum is also being sent |dealing with the responsibility of \states for damage to foreign prop- ‘erty within their territory. The three subjects will be the first to be codified. GOOD REVIVES WATERWAY PLAN. CHICAGO, April 11 (U.P).—James |W. Good, secretary of war, came |back to Chicago tonight to paint a | glowing picture for the home folks |of wealth and opportunity at the future for inland waterway trans- | portation with the realization of a |nine-foot channel from here to the | | gulf. Demonstrate for World Labor Sol-| | taneity May First at Coliseum. — Tre LAWBREAKERS A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Grigori Ivanovich Peskov (Grishka), a homeless waif, is.ar- rested and taken to the Cheka (now G. P. U., state -political ad- ministration) im a Siberian town. He is an impudent, fearless youngster of 14. After being searched and examined, he is sent to a home for juvenile delinquents. Here he finds the constraint dis- tasteful. He dislikes his compan- ions of both sexes, as well as the mentors. When he whips one of the boys for desecrating the “In- ternational,” he is punished. Grishka begins to think of escape, but the sentry at the gate makes this difficult. De ce (Continued from Wednesday) ‘PRING came.. When you walk yout into the yard you feel such a onging. Your nostrils quiver like he nostrils cf a dog, and you feel | sun has} ike flying away. The ‘rown kinder and warms you right hrough. The snow has become soft. “he ditches are already dug and the yater in them runs under very, ery thin ice. The sleighs no longer slide over the roads—they rasp. ‘he horses’ hoofs no longer thud— hey splash. The twigs on the trees isle naked, thin, and joyous, In the ll, yellow dead leaves were trem- ‘ling on them, and in winter they ore the weight of the snow. Now hey have thrown everything off. ‘hey became light and airy, ‘and ecemed to stretch out, like after an \Iness. They cannot breathe fresh ir enough. They ask the sky for vater. The boys behind the wall ‘aise the spring all day long with iouts and whoops. Oh, how he ants to escape! ... It is all right in he yard when they let them play as hey please. But he does not want o play ring-games and sing songs bout cake. A game of ball—that’s he thing. The nuns lived in the yard. They sere closely crowded in, but not yet victed. Every morning and every vening the bell tolled mournfully. | Black shadows came out of their! crannies, gliding softly, as if swim- ming, and moved toward the church. | The church stood in a corner of the | yard and its main entrance faced the street. The nuns walked, young | and old, but they all moved as if | they were not alive. Not as they | went about during the day, in the | yard or in th bakery. Then they | resembled living women; they quar- | |veled with the kids and scolded. | And the kids teased them. They | spat into the well, and once they | opened the door of the church and | shouted: “Lenin, Sovnarcom!” The nuns complained to the |Gubnarobraz. Then the war was on. | | Life became more interesting. | * * het SPRING was eating up the snow more and more greedily. The church door was opened. The) sun-saturated air refreshed the gloomy arches, Drunk with freedom, it burst into the church and came out of the church into the yard with a mournful Lenten wail of human) voices, with weeping about a temple which never may be entered. The nuns flitted by more often toward the church. They cried out to God longer in their repentant frenzy. | And these black, noiseless shadows jover the bright face of the spring, and the Lenten hymns, and the clamorous noise of the Spring, com- pletely confused Grishka’s soul. The supervisors were glad. He sub- mitted to all the teaching. He sat quietly for hours. Only, his eyes grew empty. But Grishka lived his own inner life. He woke up nights thinking of freedom. It was diffi- cult to escape. Six elder boys rifled the Mother Superior’s room, and es- caped. But they were caught. So they started a riot. They were al- ready young men. Their mustaches were beginning to sprout. They were sent to work in» camp. And stricter | supervision was established over the others. Another sentinel and an agent of the Cheka were added and a few more supervisors. But an ac- By LYDIA SEIFULINA cident helped. The war between the children and | the nuns became more and more turbulent. Collisions with the nuns were the brightest events in the ted- ious procession of days. They gave! zest to the life in that idle and| well-fed confinement. And then there came fifty more children from the prison. It became necessary to transfer the nuns to some other place. A large, two-story house was vacated for them across the river, on the outskirts of the town, They were invited to leave. The nuns submitted obediently to the decision of the authorities. convent church. But secretly, each of them unburdened her sorrow. ana se NOY and then, of a morning, a| peasant’s cart would stop at a dis- tance from the high convent wall. | On some days there were two or three. Shrinking, with a guilty look, muzhiks and peasant women made their way to the convent gate. They spoke beggingly and ingratiat- ingly to the sentinel, and dived into the little gateway. In the yard they were ‘met by the manifestations of a new and strange activity. The words “comrade,” “Dyetdom,” “law- breakers,” rang in the air. The old- established convent life was hiding timidly in the depths. Passing by the merry-voiced children and the silent ones with questioning eyes, they proceeded to the little houses in the background. There they were met by the images of the saints and by high-pitched meek voices. It was to them, the bearers of secret gifts, that the nuns unburdened their hearts. The Mother Superior signed the papers as follows: Mother Superior of the Nuns’ Working Com- mune, the humble Evstolya. At the meeting in the convent church she admonished the faithful: “All power is from God.” But she, too, could not restrain herself. She unburden- ed her sorrow to a lay acquaintance, Astafiev, who had formerly owned two cinema-theaters, who used to They only beg- | | ged to be accorded the use of the International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 |make substantial contributions to the convent, and who was now} working at the Trade-union head- | quarters, but had no thought to for- | get God. “They are tearing us away from| God’s temple.” And tale-bearers ran from house | | to house, wherever God had not been | forgotten. | “The nuns are being evicted!” | “They'll turn the convent into a| theater. . . “They're "taking the ornaments from the icons. @ “Everything ‘has been elateal from the altar to the apartment of the President of the Gubcheka, (pro- vincial branch of the Cheka.) | FROM the hells the winged tid- ings spread to the market-place, jwhich was on the square adjoining the convent. On the day set for moving, peasant women, in their carts, crossed themselves. In the ex- citement, one of them found herself three thousand roubles short in the sum paid her for her cabbage. She was’ bemoaning her misfortune, mingling her outcries to God with feminine oaths, shrill and incoher- ent: “Mother Mary, Queen of Heaven. Ain’t there no plague for them ...! he just pushes the money into my hand and off he goes! The damned Communist! ... Sheeny scum! St. Nicholas, our protector. . . . There, ing conflict between Great Britain | A third | \city’s doors and to predict a great | | attack | “Strike” Workers Long Prison Terms (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN, (By Mail).—On Febru- ary 22a number of workers from Milan were tried before the fascist Special Tribunal charged with be- longing to the Communist Party and with having conducted “anti-na- tional propaganda.” Two of the ac- cused denied being members of the Communist Party and declared that they were anarchists. They admit- | ted having taken part in a session with other persons in order to or- ganize a group of the Red Aid, Vicious Sentences. | The sentences were: Gaetano Spini 5 years, Dino Saccenti 5 years, | Antonio Milanesi 4 years, Antonio Porro 2 years, Tranquillo Rossi one year. All with hard labor and the customary loss of all civil rights and three years police supervision, On February 23 three workers, | also from Milan, were charged with being members of the Communist Party. They admitted to this “ecime” and the sentences were as follows: | Angelo Ramponi 4 years hard labor, | Emilio Radaelli 2 years hard labor, | and Luigi Frazeari 21-2 months imprisonment. The first two with |the usuai additions to their sen- tences. Against Communists. On the 26th February 8 workers | |from Emilio were tried before the | Special Tribunal accused of being | |members of the Communist Party and with having conducted “anti- national” propaganda. According to! the “Corriere della Sera” the police | in Parma and Emilio became aware last May that Communist propa-/ ganda was becoming active and causing much anxiety. Energetic) measures on the part of the police} then lead allegedly to the discovery jot a widespread Communist organi- zation. Numerous arrests were |made as follows: Alfredo Caldesi 7 years, Guidi Losi 5 years, Alcide Pozzi 4 years, Mario Pagliari 4 years, Adriano Canestro 2 years, and Romano Polizzi 1 year and 8 months. All with hard labor and | the usual additions. H The second group of the Emilio workers was tried on the 27th of February when the following sen- |tences were imposed: Primo Ba- raldi 4 years and 6 months, Arturo | Bolognesi 3 years, Marusco Ferra- 3 rini 3 years, and Primo del Monte 1 year. All with hard | YOUTH CONVENE IN MASS MEETING: er ic , Demonstration to Open League Convention | |The Fifth National Convention of | | the Young Workers Communist | |League will open Friday night, | | April 26 at Central Opera House | with a mass meeting to welcome the delegates. With 63 regular dele- | gates, representing all sections of | |the country, and many fraternal delegates, this convention will be | the largest that the League has ever held. | The Opening night will be a mass {demonstration of militant young |workers against the threatening danger of war amongst the imper- | ialist powers and the danger of an against the Soviet Union. One of the most interesting and significant features of the program arranged for this meeting will be the reunion of the Hawaiian Com- munist Youth League. Paul Crouch, Walter Trumbull, George Pershing, Harvey Steele and others, known thrvout the country for their mili- tant fight against U. S. imperialism | will hold their reunion at the open- | ing of the League convention. | There will be National speakers, | lrepresenting the League and the Communist Party, and greetings | from delegates who have crossed the continent to be present at this con- vention. The Young Pioneers are presenting a Mass _ Recitation, by Mike Gold. Besides this, there will be a Sports’ exhibi- tion by the Labor Sports’ Union and several other interesting “ea- tures. Tickets are on sale at the district office of the Young Workers League, 26-28 Union Square, the Daily Worker office, ana the Na- | tional Office of the Young Workers | League, 43 E. 125th St., N.Y. PHILADELPHI ACTUAL! The Most Astounding Artic Picture Ever Filmed! they couldn’t stand the prayers They’re afraid of them, like the | levil of a cross. Our mothers, brides | of Jesus . .. where shall they go? | Thunder strike them, the fiends, | Satan’s brood! And there you are. I just turn round a minute—the man | was there, and now he ain’t. . . .| Wait, I won't forget you, you cock- | eyed bum! Just show your mug! again... you, damned dog!” | The muzhiks said not a word, but having completed their trading they did not leave the market-place. They moved their horses closer to the | convent. (To Be Continued.) Official Motion Picture of jthe competence of eminent special- | pressing her case in court from a |electricity in gases, | try and theoretical physics. SOVIET KKrassin’ 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 1 P. My 35c3 1 P.M. to 6 P.M. 50cs After 6 P.M. Te RAISE OWN POWER The Voice of All the Workers Uses Former Premier as Mouthpiece WARSAW, eal 11,—Spcaking through the mouth of former Pre- mier Casimir Bartel, who recently resigned, Marshal I dski today | | made his first onslau n the Pol- ish Sejm (diet) in what is believed to be part of a careful campaign to dissolve the leg: The sejm tly incurred the displeasure of Pilsudski by its im- peachment of Gab minister of finance, tempt over a consic time to oust the dictator or to trim | his pow is understood to Bartel’s article forerun the lution of the sejm and the proclamation of a new con-, stitution, giving Pilsudski still wider powers as dictator. } Charging that the action of the! deputies in impeaching Czechowicz | has brought general “discredit on| parliamentary government,” Bartel | declares that the majority of depu- | ties are “incompetent” and “dispute ists in questions of which themselves are ignorant.” “The leading figures in the na- tion have lost t patience and be- lieve it is eSsential to app more | lenergetic system of government,” Bartel asserts, adding that, because he himself was unwilling to support such a system, he resigned. they Fire Escape Victim Mrs. Nola Deiss, of Neptune, N. 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A THEATRES The Sensational Polar Drama Which Shook the World! AUTHENTIC! the Russian Expedition ee FUST a few lines for the Daily Worker, from a worker J now on strike, who has worked in the Loray mill in Gastonia. I want to let the workers of America know that we will stick by our union till the end.” The mill workers of the Carolinas, who have rebelled against the intolerable conditions imposed by the multi- millionaire textile barons, thus recognize the Daily Worker as their voice, as the paper thru which they can speak to the workers all over the United States. In distributions of the Daily Worker among the mill strikers in Gastonia, N. C., and other mill cities in both Nerth and South Carolina, where strikes, led by the mili- tant National Textile Workers’ Union are going on, the eagerness of the strikers to get the Daily was wonderful to see. Many of them have written worker correspondence to the Daily Worker, describing the almost unbelievable slavery that caused them to strike, and stay out solidly. Here are what some of them say in their letters to the Daily Worker: Says a woman worker in the Manville-Jenckes mill, closed by the strike: “Some one might ask, why did you strike? For a very good reason, because I have a family of 8 to work for, all for $12.90 a week.” “We'll stick solid, and win,” says a doffer in the Brandon, S. C., mill, where the National Textile Workers’ Union is also leading the strikers. A Gastonia worker encloses pay slips, showing that his week’s wages were $9.20; the company deducted $9.20, leaving a balance of nothing for a week of 72 hours’ slavery. On Monday, the Daily Worker hopes to publish a special worker correspondence page for and by the south- ern mill strikers. It will be illustrated with strike photos, Workers in all industries, spread the Daily Worker among your shop-mates by writing in letters telling of conditions in your shop and industry, and distribute the issue. Push the Daily among your fellow-workers; urge them to subscribe to it. SEND GREETINGS TO THE SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER. Have your name and the names of your shop- mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition. NAME AMOUNT | | Ses eee | = COLLECTED Name .. Address .... OHS clas sacmdecescecesseteners BEBO. sisen nes Daily 3Q5 Worker 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. jose |