The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 3

| ] | / er DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929 : fage Three Pilsudski Appoints Four F riends to Ca CALLES I$ READY FOR COMPROMISE WITH CLERICALS May Spare Leaders of Reaction MEXICO CITY, April 15.—The covert willingness of the Portes Gil government to compromise with the clericals and landholders rather than crush their reaction entirely, as pointed,out by the Communist Party of Mexico, was shown again today in statements here that it might be necessary to spare the lives of some of the leaders of the cutbreak. This is a distinct with- drawal from the “unconditional sur- vender” demand that the govern- ment is officially reiterating. Meanwhile the federals have failed to establish contact with General Rabatte, clerical, who yesterday of- fered to surrender a clerical force of 5,000 troops, provided his life was spared. General Manzo who lias already escaped to the U. S., joined ir this offer, tho obviously he has no army to surrender. General, Escobar, reactionary com- | ADJOURN SESSION Marines Inhuman in Their Torture of Nicaraguans mander in chief, today denied that any. offer of surrender had been made or that Rabatte was author- ized to make one. * aes. Cleiicals Retreat to Sonora. MEXICO CITY, April 15.—Air fighting featured the pursuit of the | reactionary insurgents today, the last of the clerical’s planes being destroyed when it crashed into a barbed wire fence at Agua Prieta. Sporadic bombing by the federals continues, More than 2,000 reactionary troops are reported to have crossed thru the Pulpito Pass into Sonora where they will attempt a junction with reactionsry troops operating in the southwest and north. * 6 U. S. Troops to Border. EL FASO, Tex., April 15.—Two troop trains, carrying 600 officers and men of the Twentieth United States Infantry from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., were on the last stage of their journey to the Mex- ican border ftoday. Cts, MO MEXICO CITY, April 15.—The federal march against reactionaries in Sonora was renewed with caution today asthe government placed a federal battleship at Guaymas Port with its guns trained on the Em- palme Railway to block the move- ment of clerical troop trains. Gen- eral Calles has ordered the cruiser, Bravo, to proceed to his head- quarters at Mazatlan and await orders. Meanwhile, federal forces under Gen. Jaime Carrillo continued to advance northward after clericals retreating from Sinaloa into Sonora. * Demonstrate for World Labor Sol- idarity May First at Coliseum. Tre LAWBREAKERS A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Grigori Ivanovich Peskov (Grishka), a homeless waif who has been thru the Civil Wars, is sent to a home for juvenile de- linquents in a Siberian town. His restless spirit finds the constraint here hard to endure and he begins to think of escape. The Children’s Home is next to a nunnery and the addition of 50 new children makes it necessary for the nuns to vacate and move to a house across the | On the day when they are | river. being moved a crowd of muzhiks and peasants gathers round. Many are indignant that the nuns should be dispossessed, others jeer at the nuns. The children of the home, who have been carrying on a feud with the nuns, are elated. Cavalrymen finally ride up and isperse the crowd. In the con- fusion Grishka escapes. ie bak | (Continued) Kv a depot, once, a muzhik was telling about his life: how much he had had to knock about in many cities. And he said: “Such is my restless star.” At the time Grishka laughed with the others, but he did not understand. And now he re- epbered it and applied it to him- “Such is my restless star.” At the moment when the kids, let us suppose, are getting “sandwiches” and tea, Grishka is walking the streets, listening to the rumbling in his stomach, Still, he is not inclined to'go back. But an empty maw must have its way. It will stand hunger for a day or two, and then it begins to wear a man out. And the supplies—bing! Used up. There are six of them hiding in the ceme- | tery. Grishka found five youngsters there; they had rifled a Gubnaro- braz. (Provincial Department of Education) storeroom and had es- caped from the Children’s Home. So they spent the nights together | at the cemetery. The others. had motiey, and Grishka, too, sold his| shirt and trousers. He swapped his | | Giant Weapons of Air and Sea for Imperialist War A composite photo showing how the U. soaring over a battleship. Note the armaments at bow, center and s also ‘rushing construction on their giant airships, trying to keep ahea S. navy’s giant dirigible, now under construction, 1 1 appear tern. The British imperialists are id of their Yankee rivals. ON REPARATIONS | eee WASEINGTON, D. C., April 15. . —Charges that United States Paris hesents: VOne Of | races: in) Niescagda\ commitica U. S. Delegates “wilful murder” of Nicaraguans, os “third degreed them by torture, and PARIS, France, April 15.—After mutilated them with a savagery la closed plenary session, the repara-|Which out-Weylered that infamous ‘tions conference here has adjourned Militarist in Cuba,” are made by the until tomorrow. No decision is! People’s Lobby here. known to have been reached by the} The charges are made by Dr. John delegates except not to publish the Louis Marchand, for several years actual figures contained in the chief of the Municipal: Hospital at Allies’ bill to Germany. Eluefields, Nicaragua, who also asks Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Germanjwhy “the Navy Department white- |delegate, is said to have done most) washed the guilty privates and offi- jof the talking at today’s session, and | cers of the Marine Corps when com- jit is understood that he demanded ylaints were made.” |and got more time to study the bill.| tn a letter here, the statement jit is obvious that the German dele- continued, Marchand gave “detailed jgates mean to bargain close for|2ccounts of the criminal outrages |their adherence to the unofficial bloc | perpetrated upon unarmed Nicarag- jof the western European powers|yan prisoners.” Marchand learned jagainst the Soviet Union. jabout them, the statement said, The Paris press is attacking the|“through a patient who had been position of the American delegates,| subjected to inhuman and sadistic |the tripartite financial dictatorship |tortures at the hands’ of officers of \of the conference in the persons of the United States Marine Corps.” |J. P. Morgan and his lieutenants,; Rumors of such outrages have |Owen D, Young and Thomas W.|ccnstantly come from Nicaragua, | Lamont. The press points out that|from returned marines or in the let- | they are unofficial delegates andjters of servicemen in the invading that they have no right to dictate|U. S. ferces. jto the conference as they are doing.|. Outrages of a similar character |. The attack is occasioned by thejare also attributed to the Guradia \fact that in the pared-down repara-|Nacional, the native constabulary itions bill the cost of the American | under U. S. control and officered by ‘army of occupation in the Rhine is| marines, and to the volunteer na- the second item, together with that ticnal guard, made up of Nicarag- of the occupational armies of other|uan plantation owners and business nations. Significant, however, is; men. |the item coming immediately pre-| A congressional investigation is jceding these—the cost of service of being asked to whitewash the Amer- the Morgan loan under Dawes Plan.\ican officials. | institution coat for an old shabby one. They gave him a little money plague take you all!” TWO INJURED BY SPANISH POLICE Students Clash With De Rivera Forces HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, April 15.—Two students were seriously injured when police attacked a counter-demonstration of student at Sapin, according to re- |ports reaching here from the in- terior. The students are reported to have started to march to the ministry of jwar as a counter-demonstration |against those being held for the Primo de Rivera dictatorship when the police interfered, The students resisted the attempts lof the police to break up the dem- ‘onstration, following them and try- ing to force them to halt. This they sueceeded in doing before the stu- |dents reached the ministry, but the |two students were injured in the | fighting. | The students had previously left jtheir cards at the Spanish Academy |of Languages expressing their alle- jgiance to Menendez Pidal, president of the Academy, and liberal oppon- lent of the Rivera dictatorship. Celebrate Revolutionary Mayday at the Coliseum. Demonstrate for the defense of the | Soviet Union May First at Coliseum. International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 By LYDIA SEIFULINA |. Gris ka’s feet stumble one against bine perialist Corpse 2 BRITISH NEEDLE Wingers De Bosses Lawyers LONDON, England (By Mail). The decision of the London member- ship of the Tailors and Garment Union to break away from ecutive Ww tically ratified last week meeting, in which le cent of the memb Yormation of a real The new union strength at once. The day meeting Comrade Elsbury ing the at one the largest tailori shops in the t End of London. The workers unanimously by an s than one p oppe nion. ha ae When the body of Herr to France, arrived in New York ( nany politicians boarded the Frene casket resting under the guns of t of workers of the workers and a promise from thc firm to recogni: |not Mr. Conle: At two other firms much the s thing has already happened. to join up in the new union. Bua parses they also mentioned i vances; these Elsbury once up with the management. | He got a wage increase of ' shillings per week for a section of Grants 0) the new union, and remnant. me BERMAN FAKERS At Messrs. Lungley’s a wage cut 1 weeks. The firm agreed to cancel ay this wage cut and pay the workers jinvolved, as back pay, the amounts deducted! ; Social-Democrats Send | At Rees and Bonn a reduction] leak Note to League proposed was dropped by the man-| *'~~~"* “* Dad weet agement, The workers at both) Gy Switzerland, Apri id} * these places are solid for the new) Thy German cocial. democrats union. made another gesture for peace to- Why have these victories been| day when the government sent to won, at once by a union that is | the League of Nations a note stat- |searcely formed yet? Because the ing that the disarmament confer- | Bege strike showed that the | ence must take some definite action le to win tailoring workers are a strikes even against the --and with real leaders know they for an international disarmament understanding. This is in line with the policy of, the bosses cannot hope to defeat : the social democratic government, aes ' which, after consistently _ voting | Officials of the Tailors’ and Gar-| armament credits, recently faced a ment Workers’ Union attempted an cabinet crisis thru its refusal to extraordinary legal wrangle last yote new armament appropriation Tuesday—and failed. following mass pressure against They employed the brightest legal talent—two K. C.’s, including Sir Henry Slesser—to get an injunction restraining Elsbury, Dave Cohen, ‘i. Bassette and G. Gershen from “acting on the resolution” passed at the meeting of the London branch the previous Thursday, on represent- ing that this ever was a resolution ‘of the union branch, or from collect- | ing money from the union stewards. | Elsbury spoke for the militants, who employed no lawyers. Conley was unable to prove that there was any legal objection to the way the meeting was called, and on Elsbury describing how the usual |procedure had been followed, this |part of the officials’ case fell flat, |with a bump, | British Politicals Talk. | Mr. Justice Clausen said he could) LONDON, England, April 14. not see how anyone could be barred Tho all of the three bourgeois par. from joining another union 1f they ties contesting the forthcoming Bri- laauived? tish general election are eager to Elsbury declared that the action ™#ke election talk out of the dis- lof the London members was aue to |@*mament issue, it is certain that their belief that the union was not 2° action looking to another dis- being operated in the interests of |@!mament conference, with the the wienibere: United States participating, will be He objected to the inference that | t@ken before the election. money of the old union would be ee uised for the new one. On the de- Winter Causes Slight fendants giving arantee not to . : A |do this—which they had never in-|Decline in Industrial Output in USSR in Feb. sueh action. The note, which was presented to the League by Count von Bern- storff, former German ambassador to the United States, now head of the German delegation to the Pre- paratory Disarmament Commission, furthermore expresses the policies of the German imperialists. With their armament crippled by the Al- lied terms after the world war, they have everything to gain by the armament limitation of the other powers. The note lists the German sug- gestions as to how a draft treaty on armament limitation can be has- tened. * * * Rests Under Guns , former USSR. Concessions Growing: U.S.A. and perialist. ambassador ‘ity, military officials and Tam- lle to look on the h cru Tour he battleship. Europe 30W, U.SS.R., (By Mail).— iet government has recently MC The Sc made known the number of conces- sions in the USSR to February, 1929, showing that there are 68 con- t; Prelude io Abolition of Fake Parliament BIG FINANGIERS cessions in the Soviet Union, 28 be- ing manufacturing concessions, 11! mining and 7 commercial. Germany holds the first place with 12 concessions, and is followed by On October 1, 1928, the capital invested in the concessions was equal to 50 million roubles, of which 19 million were invested into manu- facturing enterprises, 28 million into mining enterprise id the rest in timber, agricultural and other concessions. The first place in investments is held by the British Lena-Goldfields ons, the Uni-| Co., (production of gold, copper, | iron, ete.), whose capital in the USSR amounts to 18 million roubles; next comes the Swedish ACEA (the | Swedish General Electric Co.), with 00,000 roubles, and the Swedish SKF (ball bearings) with a capital of 4,200,000 roubles; these are fol- lowed by the British “Tetukhe Min- ing Corporation” (production of sil- ver, zine, lead, copper and other metals) with a capital of 4,100,000 roubles, the Japanese “Kita Kara- futo Sokiu Kabusiki Kaisia” (oil, fuel s, ete.) with an investment of 70,000 roubles, ete. In connection with the publication of the above figures Ksandrov, chairman of the Chief Conce: Committee of the U.s 1 in an interview that curing the first four months of the current economic year the Chief Concessions Commit- tee signed as many concession agreements as during the entire pre- vious year. About 100 concession offers were received during this pe- riod, and the prospects for the con- clusion of agreements are very fa- vorable. Ksandrovy also noted the marked growth of the interest of Americ>a pl 22% the U.S.S.R. well as revival of the interest of British business circles. Pope’s Blessing Costs ROME, April 15—The Pope yes- | WILL “ADVISE” Switalski, Spy Head, Is New Prime Minister April to 15.— e Polist WARSAW, Pola Four new appointmen cabinet made sit the appointment Switalski as premier ye: secured the grip of the dictatorship on the country Nothing shows more ¢ T a catalog of the new appointees thc character of the new cabinet atiw the part which it is to play in the carrying out the ¢ of Pilsudsic and Polish cap n. The new finance minister, Ci Ignacy Matuszewski, former m ter to the Hungarian fascist govern. ment and former head of the Poli: intelligence service the Polisi army, is knowa as the slickest of the “Colonel” group, as Pilsudski’s called, intimate friend 1 ruling clique is loc: Pil ski’s most and for years his aide de camp, C Aleksander Prystol, $s been ap- pointed minister of labor on the eve of the new mass trials of workers and peasants arrested for sedition or Communist sympathy in manj par the country Col. Ignacy Boerner, another in- of timate friend of the dictator, has been made minister of post and telegraphs. The foreign minister, Zaleski, famous mouther of pacifist phr: has the approval of Pilsudski and has retained his post. Under-secre- tary of State Czerlinski has been made minister of education. Pilsudski of course, remains at the head of the war ministry, thru which he controls the whole gov- ernment. One feature of the new govern- ment and the close cooperation be- tween the big financial interests and the dictatorship is the specially cre- ated Financial Advisory Committee, which will be composed exclusively of big financiers. This committee will guide the decisions of Col. Ma- tuszewski, the finance minister. The cabinet has thus been turned into an official family of the dic- tator, immensely strengthening and making perfectly open his absolute control of the Polish government in the interest of Polish capitalism. An attack upon, and the eventual dissolution of, the Polish parlia- ment (sejm) is forecast as result of the new strength of the fascist cabinet. - STRIKE LOOMS IN BRITISH MILLS LONDON, England, April 15.—A strike in the heavy woolen industry seems imminent within the next few days as the result of a majority vote against the ten per cent wage cut demanded by the mill owners. Only the efforts of the union offi- cialdom to sidetrack the strike can well- prevent it in the opinion of informed sources here. About sixty per cent of the tex- tile mill workers voted against the reduction and for a strike with a week’s notice to the owners, the ma- jority being 117. The officialdom are claiming that ‘to boot. Before long they had eaten up all their money. In the daytime they begged on the streets of the “There he goes, swinging his brief- | the other, but what is he to do? He| ; lease! The fat-bellied miser!” | dragged himself to the cemetery. It stand up to the “cleverest” lawyers A boy, peddling cigarettes, passes.| is situated between the depot and/|if need be. The officials completely failed to prove all their main points. | jtended to do—the action dropped. This case shows that militants can MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail). | —According to a review published terday “granted audience” to 3,000 the majority is too narrow to per- citizen from Frascati. The Pope|mit of calling a strike, but the said he was gratified and blessed| workers are determined not to ac- town without fear. Who would | trouble to search for them? Every iday new kids are brought to the/ettes ain’t for the likes of you.” Home. Occasionally they would | Grishka narrowed his eyes. bump into a bad man who pestered) “Gee, but you're stuck up! Maybe them with questions: I’ve got ten thousand?” “Who are you? Where from?” | “Like fun you have! But a good man would pass on his gag on someone else. way to whatever place he was bound| show me!” |for. He would not even stop to} “You don’t ’spect me to show ’em | look! | to everybody. Maybe I had more’n | that.” | * * * ., “Sure, you had, but it swum away. | TODAY has been a bad day. Grish-| vasoosei Git! Or I'll smash your ka stood near the Soviet dining | ug for you.” room, but no one gave him a meal), ite” ticket. At the children’s, dining) yay TY room those who had no cards used) « Jet’ it!” | to be permitted to devour the leav- ea veh rae eke |ings on the plates, but today they 2 y : had driven him off. They were oe awaiting an inspector or something. | THEY stopped in the middle of the He tried a house: “How much a dozen?” “Beat it, you hobo! Them cigar- Try that * | Grishka approached him: the town, on an empty lot. It is surrounded by a stone wall, but the | gate is not closed. The wind soughs | through the trees. And the snow is |not quite melted yet. The nights are sometimes very cold. But in their hole in a corner between two |walls, it is somewhat warmer. Come on,| Twice they had ventured to build a/ | fire, But this cannot be done often, or they will be discovered. Cain, hap y Grisika was downcast when he got there, but a joy was await- ing him. The kids had made a haul and had left some food for Grishka. Their hunger satisfied, the girls be- | gan to sing in low voices. And the four boys commenced to relate the experiences of the day. They sat in the narrow hiding-place, pressed | close to one another. It is crowded, sidewalk, shoving each other.|but it is better so, It gives more) by the State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R. the gross output of | the heavy industries for February, | 1929, amounted to 951.6 million roubles compared with 982.7 mil- lion roubles the month before and 832.6 million roubles in February, 1928. The output by industries has been as follows: Coal, 3,194,000 tons against 3,330,000 tons in January. Oil, 908,000 tons against 1,096,000 tons, Pig-iron, 302,000 against 340,- 0CO tons. Rolled metal, 291,000 TORIES BID FOR ~ WORKERS’ VOTE Churchill Plays With British Budget | LONDON, England, April 15.—]against 319,000 tons. | Winston Churchill, former Liberal, The total amount of money in cir- | now Conservative, made his bid for,culation on March 1, 1929, was! | the votes of poor British workers 1,963 million roubles compared with |today by including reductions of 1,922 million roubles on February 1. | {taxes on simple commodities, tea,! The wholesale index for February, | | beer and liquor in his report on the 1929, was 1.69 for farm produce and ‘budget, which was scheduled to be 1.87 for. industrial products (the the Conservative’s vote-drawing card 1913 index being taken as 1). in the forthcoming general election.| The decline in output in February “Help, for Christ's sake... . My| father was killed in the war, my mother died of typhus at the hos- pital.” They threw him out by the scruff of the neck. “You go and beg of your com- And just then the devil brought a| warmth, and makes the place seem | lady from somewhere: | less spooky in the hours of darkness. “What is this? Are you peddling, And usually, a weird spell envelops boy?” | the cemetery during the night. When And the boy held out a box of| the wind goes rustling through the \ cigarettes toward her. Like a fool | trees, and it is dark—then it is bet- he sings out: ter. But when the moon comes out “Best quality. How many? A\ in the’sky and when everything is Churchill claimed that the cost of | living had gone down 18 points since | the Conservatives came into power. | The British workers have never no- He neglected, however ticed this. that the unemployment figures have gone up many more points, and that was due to the severe frosts and snow drifts which caused difficul- | ties in the supply of fuel and output of all minerals, ‘India Now Only 8 Days from England by Air missars,” they said. “They've been | dozen?” pees mused ents een SOR And she takes ‘hold of his arm. “How did the commissars come) “Come along to militia head- to breed us? It was our fathers and | Watters. Haven't you read the or mothers. And they planted us on|“¢r about speculation by children? the commissars. What's the use of | Ate you illiterate? Very well, we'll talking to those fools! Oh, but I'm | S€¢ your parents. hungry!’ And here’s the dining| The boy resists and she pulls him rooms being closed already. Rotten| along. And Grishka, of course, took luck!” to his heels. Almost got’into hot To allay his sorrow, Grishka gave | water, that time. It’s a good thing a little Bashkir boy, who was stand-| the woman was green, otherwise she ing near the dining room, a crack in| would have nabbed both of them. A the ‘jaw, but the youngster was| hell of a day! spirited. He punched Grishka in the} And the sky was already drawing belly. -Grishka gasped, rested a|to an end. The sky grew sad and while, and moved on, gray. Just one merry pink stripe “Comrade... something for a) remained. But there was no warmth piece of bread... .” ‘in it. People hastened to their “Get out of the way.- There's 2) homes, The wind began to blow more swarm of you these daye, may the, blusteringly. still and calm—it is more terrible. | From far away the barking of dogs | is heard. The sounds come from | where the living are, But here every- | thing is quiet. A real grave. It | feels as if someone were in hiding nearby, covering his mouth with his | hand and gazing fixedly. When one peeps out of the hiding-place one sees the moonlit crosses. All the crosses and the monuments stand straight and stiff, as if frozen. They, too, seem to crouch threateningly. | the city the breath of life is wafted hy the wind. Shaggy Vaska, when his hunger is sstisfied, is always | veady to tell stories. Tonight, too, | he begins a yarn. The girls become quiet and listen. (To Be Continued.) The night is dark and windy. Fron: | the lowered cost of living, still exor- bitant for the starving, doesn’t vi- | tally effect the millions of unem- | ployed. This was only one of Church- ill’s “fables for workers to read.” | The greatest economy effected by _the Conservatives has been on ar- _maments, said the chancellor of the | exchequer of the government which LONDON, England, April 15.— British efforts to bring India within a week’s range of her troop and bombing planes progressed another step today when the first air mail) on the new route to India arrived jhere two minutes ahead of schedule | u e ich after an eight-day trip. jhas been furiously racing with) The big plane, which carried five American imperialism in the strug-| passengers and 500 pounds of mail, gle for more and more battleships. | Jeft Karachi April 7 on the 5,000- | “Large cuts in armament,” he} mile trip. observed, however, “are dependent Cocelade 7 Die in USSR Floods jon international agreement, which I | fear is not as easy to reach as had been hoped, and which is limited to) MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., April 15.— the absolute requirements of this) Deaths as a result of spring floods |Island and the British empire.” | along the Don, Dnieper and other Be Soviet Russian rivers were reported | | | Tam a citizen of the world, and | today, Seven persons were reported | 1 work j , \ Lines, “BErever F happen to be- | drowned in northern Caucasia, _, ean rac the visitors. For this he got 300 bottles of cept the reduction. Fifteen heavy woolen mills in and wine from their world-famous vine-|around Bradford would be tied up yards. immediately by a walk-out. Giant Demonstration for the Organization of the Unorganized; Defense of the Soviet Union Wednesday, May ist RED BALLET—PROLETARIAN MASS PAGEANT FREIHEIT GESANGS-VEREIN International May Day BRONX COLISEUM, EAST 177th STREET AUSPICES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USA, 26-28 UNION SQUARE, —ADMISSION 50 CENTS. <x