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DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR K, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1 Three — Repori That Worker and Pea sant Armies Control Alm FEDERALS PUSH eamers REACTIONARIES IN NORTHWEST Big Mexican Textile Strike on Tomorrow MEXICO CITY, April 16.—With the federal gunboat Progresso in Guaymas bay, its guns trained on the railroad junction of Empalme, and with federal armies closing in on Sonora from the west and south, the duration of the reactionary out- break seemed precarious today. General Almazan with 5,000 troops has received orders to follow the re- treating forces of general Escabor, | reactionary, thru the Pulpito Pass into Sonora. It is the opinion of) general Calles that the Almazan i the stoke-holes, pantries and hold: Old Slave Ships Give Way to Sheadup Efficiency St Seamen slaved before the mast in t Is of the steamers. ree | a ites This reminder of the square-rigged schooner, owned by Inglas Uppercu, who uses it as a pleasure yacht, once sailed up the Hudson. he “old days.” Today they slave in forces should be able to “annihilate” | the remaining reactionaries. It i: also believed that quick action b; NO PLOT T0 4 L Almazan will cut off the reaction- | aries’ retreat into the United States. rapid retreat north of the thru. Sonora is ex- The reactionaries pected to be halted by the guns of the Progresso at Guaymas. Meanwhile a federal army is on} the move near Naco and another ad- | Conspiracy Rumors BOMBAY, India, April 16.—At tempts by the Anglo-Indian govern ment to create a Red scare atmos. phere continued today ‘with rumor: vancing from Sinaloa. * * Clerical Leaders Desert. | NACO, Ariz., April 16.—Leaders | of the reactionary insurgents con- | tinue to desert their troops as the federal advance pushes them farther into Sonora. They are sneaking off | by ones and twos. The reactionary | Manzo and Rodriguez, now | ely in the U. S., are urging gen- | al Yucupicio, Indian reactionary, make terms with the federals. | plot against their liyes. is to Yucupicio is said to be unwilling. ee at le Strike Tomorrow. MEXICO CITY, April 16.—Eleven | thousand textile workers in the Fed- eral District and the states of } Puebla, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato and Michoacan will walk out on strike tomorrow. The call has been issued | by the National Federation of Tex- tile Workers. | The sirike is the result of the dis- missal of a number of union work- ers by a Mexico City mill owner. The case came before the National Arbitration Council which upheld the owner. The workers then held | mass meetings and decided to call the strike. burned. wires in the vicinity had been cut. and admits that the bridge caugh an hour. wildest rumors in circulation in or- der to justify the mass a1 the trial of the left wing union and which is to take place at Meerut to wards the end of this month. cast thru government agencies. has but established new classes, | new conditions vf oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). From each according to his ca- pacity, to each according to his needs.—Ma: INDIAN VICEROY British Start Wild Red that Lord Irwin, the viceroy, and his wife, had been the objects of a Reuter is much more conservative fire, apparently by accident, and} that one sleeper on the bridge at) J the time was burned. The only point |Hialmar Schacht, German delegate | on which the dispatches agree is|told the reparations conference to- | that the viceroy’s train was delayed | day that Germany is unable to meet The British government set the} Workers and Peasants Party leaders Talk of Communist ptots is broad- |Dictatorship Denies Portuguese Royalist Plots Will Succeed LISBON, Portugal, April 16.—An _ official denial of the report that the royalists are organizing a conspiracy to reestablish the monarchy in Por- tugal was issued by the government here today. “The government is watchful: of the republican regime,” the govern- "| ment boasts in its statement, adding | that “it will defend it with the cer- |tainty that the dictatorship _ will govern Portugal with the prosperity which all republicans desire.” | Despite the official statement, it The Exchange Telegraph Company | js cormmonly known that monarchist circulating a report that on Saturday, the train bearing the! cent seizure of a shell factory and viceroy from Delhi to Dehra Dun the arrest of a number of army offi- was halted by a blazing bridge @/ cers being the latest evidence. short distance from Saharanapur| and that eighteen sleepers were It is stated that telegraph plots are rife in the country, the re- ‘Cannot Pay Reparation t | PARIS, France, April 16—Dr. the terms given by the Allies. |wes item by item and extremely sts and | ‘technical. It introduced a session of bargaining which will probably con- tinue for several days and will re- |sult in reducing the payments still | further. i! See Break Up. BERLIN, Germany, April 16.— Official German circles today stated that they believe the reparations conference will break up without succeeding in its aims. \Schacht Claims Reich) Terms Set by Allies! The Giscussion on the payments | POLICE INVENT ~ RUMANIAN PLOT Manufacture New ‘Red Conspiracy’ Rumanian government of Juliu Maniu continued its persecution of workers and peasants with today’s announcement by the police of the discovery of a “Cémmunist plot” in Bessarabia. Police assert that they raided the headquarters of the “conspirators” and found reports of “troop move- ments and stores of arms.” This is in the best style of provacateur re- | port. | ants are said to have been jailed by the police. One of them is accused of being a “Soviet spy.” The government yesterday broke up a Communist meeting which was being held in Bucharest during the election. A number of workers were arrested, Rioting between adherents of the Maniu government party and the lib- eral followers of Vintila Bratianu, former premier, occurred thruout the country during yesterday’s bal- loting. have been wounded in the course of these partisan clashes. Eight are known to have been injured in fights at the polls at Pleshoiu. Demonstrate for the defense of the Soviet Union May First at Coliseum. A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Tue LAWBREAKERS International” Publishers. Copyright, 1929 By LYDIA SEIFULINA Polka, scared!” Grishka remonstrated with her: “Stop bawling, you fool? | made it all up.” But Vaska asseverates: Grigori Ivanovich Peskov (Grishka), a homeless waif, is sent to a home for juenile delin- quents in a Siberian town. His restless spirit finds the constraint here hard to endure and he begins to think of escape. Next to the a fool, whimpered: ‘Tm | Vaska | ‘God’s truth, bust me eyes if it “He'll kill the soldiers.” | “But if he ain’t | he won't kill... .” | That’s how he cuts Petka short.) | But Petka thought for a moment, (and said: “You're a fool, Antropka!” got no livorvert, | ! “Hats off! I’m going to talk about the martyrs of the Commune!” Such a mighty, juicy yell! Grishka fastened on the words, and began to yell them in the crowd: “Hats off! I’m going to talk VIENNA, Austria, April 16.—The | A number of workers and peas-| Many persons are reported to! ichow Province ation BAIN IN FIGHT FOR MASTERY OF t Entire Kwe Takes a Vac OS Labor-Hating Judge RT SH 7 => JAIL COMMUNIST | LEADERS IN PARIS *ANTLRED RAID" |Kiangsi ) District Campaign Against the Party Is Growing (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) SHANGHAI, China, PARIS, France, April 16.—The | Reports from the interio: : |editor of L’Humanite, French Com- jworker and peasant forces are in }munist daily, and Bouthonnier, leone in mai ts of the prov- | member of the Central Committee of ince of The worker jthe French Communist Party were armi > said to be es- aveetid: Here. today: strong in the southwest. The police seized the Communi: e control of K »w province by worker-pe the third ops makes it to be held by leaders on charges calling for frater ant t olving art ation of sold pre and striking miners. The artic! them, Large: sections. of: “Kieng appeared in L’Hur ite last Janu- < and Fukien provinces, where there a This photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis with a group |'* 2 Victorious worker-pe army seizure of the Communists is| of society stars at Ashville, N.C. Judge Landis is notorious for his | in the field, 2 their part of the offensive which French hatred of the working class. He finds a good income now, and a good | control, capitalism thru its government has reward for his servicts to the employers, as “Czar of Baseball,” in | The x waged against the workers for ad 1 to his salary as judge. months, It has been featured by — such events as the arrest of the en- tire Communist Party convention of the Paris district, the police attacks on the national Party convention and the persecution of individual Party and Left wing union mem- bers Pan Pacific Secretariat Protests Indian Massacre strike in}when the police attempted to wrest ; save! Declaring that every ie Be ee ae Cig ne paris india in the past year has been met |a Red Flag from one of them, Then p * 1a ae ous Zerocious |), massacres caused by wanton fir-|the police “pounced upon the crowds mboat Oahu has been treatment of workers during the 3 y ; tne | ing ie workingelass |belaboring them with their club; hine gun fire on the Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrations, |'™® Hd police upon Ca gy e ali “ % a . . is active in th resent s ment meetings and demonstrations, the Later the police udc banks ot Yangtse ar ship- : eae Present government Ean-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat |a result of which tht i been in the river campaign. by gun killed and several injure ninutes later the poli denounces the Anglo-Indian govern- ment, calls upon the Indian workers Fighting be- anking and of the to affiliate with Secretariat and es- fire a second time is believed to be | i pecially urges the working class of which three more str he firing. | Great Britain to aid the struggles |killed and several othe nl pinata | of the Indian workers and peasants.| After drawing attention to the; peng Takes Over Tsin-Tao The protest recalls the recent out- 2 tabon whieh (Me) ole tegen ata . rages in Bombay where police at-| Bg ernment. is ng for| SHANGHAI, China, ies | tacked crowds of unarmed workers | India, the protest of the Sccretariat |“ deputy of Feng Yu-hsiang -_—: | in ‘concli : tcok over the government of Tao from Chao Chi, Japane Returns from Dresden, 2 “The Pan-Pacific Trade Union| ported member of the nort ; a MewePeney te Secretariat, in the name s of | tic thd J fi ce fo! | Mines, Prove Success [tratality at the time that the work- | Secretariat, in the name of tens of |tion, Chao Chi left at once for a lions of work ented in| Darien ers were “moving along peacefully” |. ented in| Darien. ea DRESDEN, Germany, (By Mail). ically protest against the bleody |p Paved Blea |—As a result of the recent élections ceeds of British imperialism and its |¢ {TS <o-hsiang continues over the ‘on the Dresden street railway lines, ' Fedetionaneons erates Mardi Cccupation of Shantung. Feng is the trade union Opposition (left . oe india. to move in large forces : ‘ It particularly calls upon the organ- ih meric an |wing) has won an overwhelming ved “wankers, Ee Racinnd ill occupied with vietory. The following figures tell ee a : an generals, is not take affective action towards the story: Opposition—1,880; So- IN JUGOSLAVIA co owards aiding |in a position to do so. cial democrats—914; Christian So- Be ee aia porters in their fight) yreanwhile Chang Tsung-chang in letatiate-— against British imperialism and the) 3 . rer me) e | cialists—423, latter leckeys in the British Labor succeeding in the fighting with the | The Opposition have ten shop Party—Ramsay MacDonald and/|‘tces of Liu Chen-nien, Nanking Suppress Croat Paper; Generals Fired VIENNA, Austria, April 16.— | Reports from Belgrade state that ithe Croatian newspaper, Dom, found- ed by Stefan Radich, has finally been suppressed by the Jugoslav dic- council seats, the | reformists four jand the chr tian socialists two. These figures gain special signif- icance in view of the unusually high jballoting. Out cf 3,825 voters, 3,237 participated in the balloting. The reformists have been com- pletely routed by this catastrophic _ general, and is nearing Weh-hsien “|midway on the railroad between Tsing-tao and Tsinan-fu. compan: fullest | strikers and struggling workers and peasants. We further urge the or- ganized Indian workers to join the Pan-Pacifie Trade Union Sec and thus make a united front w ether colonial and capitalist country Imperialism is, at the same time the most ate form ate power which ass society had orate as a means ipation from feud- defeat. The social democratic City | tatorship. Parctically every issue of workers for a decisive struggle | Ti" yi uan tnaliy Gane: | Nominating Fraction and the Muni-|the paper since the dictatorship was against oppression and exploita-| formed into a means for the en= \cipal and National Union mailed the | proclaimed has been confiscated. Hon? slavement of labor by capital, — Marx, ‘street railway workers a leaflet, but a lit did not work. The street railway! The retirement order for 36 gen- workers decided for the Oprosition |¢T#ls on the general staff originally by an overwhelming majority at represtented as an economy move, \the polls. is now seen to be a move on the part | Other Industries. of the Zivkovich group to clear The Opposition won the greatest |@WaY their political opponents, All number of vetes (686) in the big the retired generals. owed their ap- | Anton Reiche works. In the Krause | Pointments to the “Radical” party. jand Baumann paper factory the Op- The retirement of the generals pesition received 481 votes, the | and the suppression of the Dom and jority and controls the shop coun- | daily confiscation of other papers is cil. In the other big ist Saxon | interpreted to mean that the dicta- factories, such as the Greiling and | torship now feels itself sufficiently Jasmotsi Cigarette Facto: the|strong to begin a rule of open op- Siemens-Freithal glass factory, the | pression in place of the less ob-| Opposition won the majority in the |trusive methods it has been using Splendid WORKERS! International Records SOOOOOO0OO SFOS SOOO 9OH Childrefi’s Home is a nunnery and | ain’t; it wuz printed in'a paper. A| Grishka said’ nothing, but he Pout the martyrs of the Commune!” chop councils. to consolidate its power. ple, Oyen, tie pulls aresmuade io cmovel ta’ ("alr ehooL su calles me T dunno | thought: Be shouted these words into the ears TRY SOME OF THEM: make room for 50 new children.. | which.” | fan, they shut their eyes when Mite cess ist and she gave aie De ee He ApH oe .On moving day a crowd gathers | Petka is the chief; he is only a| they're being shot?” 3 7709 Aisha, ian Intermezzo. ...International Concert Orch. and there is a great hubub, during | boy himself, no older than Grishka, And suddenly he seemed to see it) “The pup!—hollerin’ without 57002 Alfredo (Canaro) (Tango)....Mark Weber & His Orch. | which Grishka and five other chil- | He shouted: | clearly before him: they do! His|sense! He don’t know what the 57006 Along Peterskoy, (Russian Romance)....Balalayka Orch. dren of the home manage to | “Keep on bawling, you cow. The} heart shuddered, like Antropka’s. | Commune is, but he hollers just the 57001 Always Happy, (Russian Gypsy Song) escape. Grishka wanders around | sexton will hear you and he’ll show! The shots ceased. The children| Same!” | of the x * F a _,__ Balalayka Orchestra (“Gorskaya”) begging for food and dodging the | you something worse than Vaska’s| Waited: will there be more? But, Leta ans | : 57005 Blowing Winds (Viyut Vitry) Ukrainian Poutpouri militia. He and his companions / but he is strict. He is the chief here. none followed. Then came sleep; i ee rubbed the spot where he | Balalayka Orchestra spend the nights in a cemetery. | yarn. And you, jabber-jaw, shut Closed their eyelids and deadened all had caught it, and hastened | COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL 77000 ~~ Blue Danube (John Strauss-Valce) On one of the nights, after they | your trap!” thoughts. Only Antropka moaned merrily on. Wha’ d’ye mean, he don’t ra : % _ Mark Weber & His Orchestra had all eaten (their luck had been |" Vaska grew angry. faintly in his slumber. know? We knows, all right. Com- 57007 Caucasian Melodies (Musical Sketches) good that day), Shaggy Vaska, one “There! ‘Shut your trap!’ Did I ph Se delet mune is what the Communists have, : " we f Ukrainian Kornienko Orchestra of the group, tells them a story. | go and print it in the papers? I'll RK the morning, when the sun be-/and Paris. . . . Well, there is a city | Articles by prominent leaders of 57011 Cuckoo Waltz. . -Municipal Band eDepiee ian | paste you one in the eye, then yer! gan to grow warm, everything be-| like that. Somewhere the other side the Communist International 77010 The Gypsy Princess, Poutpourri. .Int’l Concert Orchestra | gonna believe me.” came living and joyful. The dark-|of Moscow. 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