The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 FORCE MEXIGAN UNEMPLOYED TO DIG TRENCHES Labor Fakers Try to Halt Textile Strike NOGALES, Ariz, April 17.— Great numbers of unemployed in Negales, Mexico, have been marched under guns to dig trenches for the reactionaries who are expecting an attack from the advancing federal armies. The trenches are elaborate, some being more than half a mile in length. At Agua Prieta a force of 1,800 reactionaries from Chihuahua, un- der General Barcenas, is making veady to meet an attack of federals merching over the Pulpito Pass. The main reactionary forces, how- ever, are reported to be concentrated ut Navojoa, in Southern Sonora, tho a large force under General Yucup- icio is in the hills south of Sonora. Concentrate on Pass. JUAREZ, Mexico, April 17—With the departure from here of 2,000 more federals, half northern Mexican srmy will be enroute for Pulpito Pass by which the invasion of Chihuahua is to be made. General Almazan, commandin; the federals, announced that he ex- pected resistance from the reaction- aries in the Pass. The reactionary army under Gen- eral Caraveo, 1,500 men, is defend- ing the Pass. va aes | Congress in Special Session to Put Thru Fake Bill Kiangs: Town Falls to of Wall Street intend to do anyt Worker and Peasant OF BAKERS ON IN RIO DE JANEIRO Printers Out Too; Move for Unity Grows A ries ‘GENERAL STRIKE | Tortured by Bulgarian Police Mladen Stojanov, Bulgarian min- % er, thrown out of the window of tre Sofia police station, after being un- & speakably tortured by the authori- ties. The crime was described by the police as “suicide.” The police § wanted Stojanov as member of the “illegal” Party, i.e., Bulgarian Com- § munist Party, of which he was one of the best organizers. No one kvows in Advance in Interior China hing to help the farmers. | A special session of the Tist Congress was opened Tuesday for the consideration of proposals for a fake farm relief bill and for tariff revisions te favor the manufacturers. With the reading of Hoover's message, it was again clear that his pre-election promises are all lies and that neither he nor the bankers Argentine Com munist Party | Opens Proletarian House BUILDERS WIN IN MONTEVIDEO | BUENOS AYRES, Arg., Apri! 17. —The Communist Party of Argen- tina has inaugurated the “House of the Proletariat.” An old residential house, with large halls suitable for | meetings and lectures. was rented and rebuilt for this purpose. REICH TERMS 60 TO CONFERENCE Is Reported to Range) | to $400,000,000 | PARIS, April 17—The reparations conference heard the German coun- Among the organizations which ter-proposals to the allied imperial- | forts towards the organization of terms this afternoon and imme- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 17.—A general strike of the bakers has closed all bakery shops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 60,000 workers have struck, demanding a 40 per cent wage increase. alive the workers must sav dead, If he is if murderers. him, must denounce The workers of the printing es: whether Stojanov is alive or dead. ye his tablishments of Sao Paulo, the ond largest city of Brazil, are a on strike. The newspapers are be- ing printed but the workers of all other printing shops are out demand- | ing recognition of the union, paid holidays and better working condi- tio The strikers of the printing trades of Sao Paulo are supplied with funds by, the unions of Rio de Janeiro. Industrialization Process. The recent increase of labor ac- tivities and the movement towards unification of the disconnected labor organizations all over Brazil has been fostered by the great strides Brazil is making on the road toward industrialization, particularly in the textile trades. Up to the present date there have been no nation-wide labor federations, partly due to the enormous distances and insufficient communications. But recently sev-| eral of the many dispersed, uncor- nected and dual unions made ef-| During June 1928, the jute mills shared the general strike sentiment in Calcutta, especially at Ludlow and Cheagail where police fired on strikers. Discontent was greater in Bauria since workers there received 2.6 rupees (not quite one dollar) per week. When the workers refused to work overtime to clean their machines the bosses closed the mill, June 26. The workers of the three other mills owned by the Fort Gloster Co. immediately moved to go on sym- pathetic strike. Reformists Aid Bosses. M. K. Ghose and Kishori Lal Ghosh, secretary of the Bengal Trade Union Federation and presi- dent of the Bauria Jute Workers Union respectively, begged the larger federations. Indian Jute Strikers Face Choiera, Famine, Need Aid period of the lockout. cent ini ase of wa missal of a supervising officer. (g) Mill jutes to be always kept open (h) No arbitrary dismissal. (i) No exorbitant fines. (j) Mills to | started punct at 5:30 a not a minute before. | The bosses than sent a Mr. Camer- on to seduce the starving work He was introduced by Ghosh, with- out whom they would never have listened to thi ‘European gentle- man,” who is an ex-mill ger. |Cameron said that the following I earerasvoHidehaeteorce seal! by the bosses: Bosses “Terms.” 1, The workers would get wages as in some other mills (the Bauria workers get less than other m. and CONSUL ADMITS COMMUNISTS WIN IN 3 DISTRICTS Japanese to Remain in Shantung Province SHANGHAI, China, Reports received here aries and other sou il 1— ission- n the inter. ior state that the worker and peas- ant armies are now extending their |control over a large section of the country from western Kiangsi to 3 constantly advancing line in eastern Fuki yan is the latest town ir have fallen to the peasant armies, according tc h from Kanchc As the vance in this region they ing the land of the rich farmers over a wide belt, the report tates. At the same time, Douglas Jenk- United States Consul General sed all mission- ; in southern Kiangsi, and north- ern Kwangsi provinces to withdraw owing to the spread of Communist control. | ee Sees | Japanese Troops to Stay. | SHANGHAI, China, April 17— Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Nanking government, has succeedea in inducing Japan to refrain from | withdrawing its troops from Shan- tung as stipulated in the recent un- derstanding drawn up between the two governments. Canton, has adv This Communists Active in | supported this new venture and par- s understood to be a capital workers at their mass meetings not MEXICO CITY, April 17.—Gov- | ately appointed a committee to Communists Lead Workers. wages for lockout period rah} ticipated in the opening banquet! d ; T f ips ds. ee victory for Chiang, in his struggle 1 a an ate Lee | Leadership |were, in addition to all Communist simplify the various annuity fig-| The Brazilian Communists have to strike. Even had they succeeded mill authorities would ask for the with Feng Yu-hsiang for the posses: : ficials were tonight trying desper- | 1 % Hil organizations, the “Union Obrera/ures between what Germany has |contributed largely to this unifica- in convincing the workers (they did wi ndrawal of the cases pe nding sion of Shantung. F eng was Waste 1 Wide iecaraventsthe strike: of a1 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, a Local de Buenos Aires,” which is |offered to pay and what the Allies tion movement. The marine work-|not) the owners would have forced agninst 18 men. 4. Double-shift ing to seize the province as soon 16 tia Wedlcs fo the ete Strike ‘of abont 1,500 work: | 4 “Buenos Aires Federation of all |apbarently-are willing. to accept as|ers, longshoremen, ship carpenters, | the strike. y __ | Would be continued. 5. No dismissal |as' the Japanese evacuated. oa ; ers in the building trades, bricklay- i ‘li i i F i | et ifiying thei iza.| On July 16 the bosses fired six|for first offences. But Cameron psi a Puebla, Tlexcala, Guan juato and ty d painters, in local, trade unions affiliated with the price of its adhesion to the/ete., are unifiying their organiza psy : Faas | taimod tail before’ the ili 4 Mishoaean, ers, carpenters and painters, 1 the gyndicalist Unino Sindical Ar-|western bloc against the Soviet|tions in one large nation-wide fed- “coolie” leaders, enraging the work-| turned tail before the wo mili- Oklahoma Judge Goes “The strike is in protest against | Montevideo, which lasted for several | tina: the Maritime Workers|Union. eration and the labor organizations ers who demanded the surrender of | tancy and vanished. The workers is : ithe ‘abuihg down cf the Sourasky | Weeks: has ended with a complete | Federation; the syndicalist Railroad| ‘There seems little doubt that the|f Rio de Janeiro are joining the|the head clerk responsible for the ee picketing the mills to stop on Trial Tomorrow for f mills in Mexico City. | victory for the workers. Federation; the Textile Federation, allied figures are far from the Ger-|“Federacao de Trabalhadores de dismissal, Under cover of a aSoer scabbing. =o Graft andIncompetence 5 The government's arbitration) The Communist organ “La Jus-| and the “Alianza Libertaria Argen-|yan offer. It was reported from | Janeiro,” which is under Commu- | of stones and heavy pieces of me! al : Now Cholera. a board, which works in the interest ticia,” which is the only daily work- tina” (the “anarcho-bolsheviks”). yaliable sources that there was an | Mist influence. | Sae ORS ee ne Ore iti ner eee ee roeet 8 2 HteO tor ATOMA CITY, Agel a] z of the capitalists, granted the mills |ing class newspaper in Montevideo, The “Confederacion Obrera Argen- approximate difference of $250,000,- esraree | The police hurried to the ae atat| Ce te poe covet co" | LN h Trpy er wa Clack iaianented ite 1 termission to close down because of Was the mouthpiece of the strikers. tina’ sent its greetings for the/(00 on average annual payments owners’ assistance and sy s bosses have closed the main road, tice of the Oklahoma state supreme e oxeess production. The situation and progress of the opening of the new house for work- for the future and a distinct differ- EXPOSE METHODS rounds into the mass of Serge any the market to the workers, teat “will. goo: aelal Bela Cee eee strike was treated with large head- ers’ organizations. Representatives ence in regard to the schedule of wounding 46 of ther, They ae posted police in all byways, and chitges’ of incomipetentye aude 5 SCAFFOLD KILLS WORKER. lines on the front page and con-/of Italian, Yiddish, and Arabic payments and the years over which SRE eae a aceaeall een ee eee eee ob ruptign betove the: nenatancoueeman x il).Pe- | tributed to the influence of the Com-| Communist groups and labor organ- shea wi min, The calli a undergoing trial before a special saulted. ruption a LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).—Pe- | t u t Com annuities would run. The allied pro. different charges Many ES eee tie impeachment, dro Valdez, a laborer, was killed! munists in the strike committee. izations appeared on the platform posals specified 58 years but the bench on three different ges. | Many of the workers are starving, Glark’s trial will be the first of - es d i | with Argentine speakers represent- |G, pete saat 5 The next day the bosses closed) many eat green cocoanuts. Cholera ery é when a scaffold on which he was The demands of the workers for . isdomhe.o? vevolatl lab Germans were said to have ee the mills locking out about 20,000/has come. Appeals for aid have three trials against supreme court working plunged five stories to the|'s 10 per cent increase in wages was | MEA. "Gna Ueenting Yt | Bored 97 years. nie cra workers, Strong police detachments | been received and should be re.| Justices, the others being against : ground. ie finally granted, when one contrac. TTY aiding will house many ae importance was attached to Labor “Leaders” Used were posted at all the mills. sponded to by the international : pie ieee a WEB t As far an Tam concerned, reant | {0% After another broke away from tage unions which formerly had |‘*® pt the Unitet Stace ctine| by Calif. Interests What Price “Peace.” working class, Susvlee iene le eae d their strif inst ther. of the city. vanid ete i itude | WASHINGTON “i! 17.—Cam. | had visited Chengail and Bauria “to ticle, The Bauria Jute Mill Lockout), iy rags aR hea RR ig pet Vee FLL WALL FALLS, KILLS WORKER. foward Germany, Feo ered bie narel Sond apneetign 4G a could be re-established and whether issue of the Far Eastern Quarterly, movement Ss cee ere i showed the economle physiology of OIL WORKER KILLED. LOS ANGELES, (By Mail)—C.| port this afternoon thet the ‘dele. |state water power act included en.|# healthy atmosphere of confidence No. 23.) | tentebe y conteibution the following erepear, | LOS ANGELES, _(By Mail).— M. Ramos, a worker, was killed, an eaten were seriously considering |listment of labor “leaders,” society | #§ Possible bowen Laie Parr cm emo 3 2 Cigunes HZ homha (Me, czistence of Speed up and negligence on the another worker, Joseph McNeil badly | jostponement of the conference for |Women, and civic organizations to #74 work Sethe afore Ina i 9 phaxex of materi company’s part is blamed for the hurt, when a wall being torn down)» period of three months, due to agitate public opinion, according to |'™eachery of the reforn j i o that the class st death of Charles Heap, pumper for|in Long Beach collapsed. McNeil Ba as Wasik testi - today before the federal | Union offiicals. ! ' | sarily to the dictatorship of th ; ‘ nae ; 5 the wide variance of figures. | estmony bocay pefore the xedera') The Bauria Union works under i id proletariat: 3) that thia dictatorship the Miley Oil Co. at Signal Hill, may die. jitade commission. | e eure theming yeaa ' ' ix but the transition to the aboli- | when a steam pipe exploded. The | aia ne e 5. _. |orders from the reactionary i dish ot all clather eaatorao : Among all the classes that con. Details of the 1922 campaign |tion led by Gosh. The Bengal Jute i] “ Wo ato scat or poy py phinard | worker’s head was crushed by iron From cach according to his ca- | front the bourgeoisie today, the _ Wintt iiel taasured ahah would tion led by Gosh. — ‘ i i e aires 7 aval. | fragments. | pacity, to each according to his | proletariat alone is really revolu- | 4£ailis i Sure; c! uld | Workers Association, an old organi- | § = ! . eg . needs.—Marx. tlonary—Marx, have authorized the state to enter! ation now under leadership of the i { - panes business, were revealed. | Workers and Peasants Party, is { Unemployed comrades wanted to do i | Pe feces eondaeiet fighting the federation, but has nee H some temporary work for the Daily i y util 924 and 192 s : ; Jeanie yilbaeicriaed | | woe amen oicome cueonety ee Worker. Apply Business Office, H . ‘ Relies i Bauria struggle, the certain Work- R 201, 26 Uni 7 I Y¥ ' - 5 International Publishers. | ,, Organizations were sponsored and | ers and Peasants speakers have ad- oom 201, 26 Union Square, N. Y. C. i | FRE Copyright, 1929 financially backed by utility cor-| reseed strike meetings. ! ! | |porations who remained in the back-|"yeq by the federation, the strike ! Pot id Rn ' | A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Grigori Ivanovich Peskoy (Grish- it'll come anyway. You're dung By LYDIA SEIFULINA lof all it came from h arning. I minute. There are some here whose Srotne, Guna cehe | aiapelgn? \dragged on for three and a half ioe | months without settlement. Workers Grievances. In October the bosses ordered the workers to go back to work and BULGAR PEASANTS RISE. SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 17.—Two frontier attacks on Bulgarian sen- MAY DAY BUTTONS ka), a homeless waif, escapes that's the only name for you. Stop |He sat on the floor, staring with cases have been settled.” jirigs. were reported today coincident | promised: consideration of their from a home for juvenile delin- your bawling!” Gull eyes at the ceiling, his lips| “I'll pick them out myself. I have | Wit. @ tenewal of comitadji activi-’ grievances, if any, after full resump- This year will carry the slogans: auents together with a group of _ But the Bashkir kept on bawling. |tightly pressed together. His face |a questionnaire of my own,” Bea eg measure) of ceurer bat: | tion ether inmates. They live by beg- ging and spend their nights in a cemetery. On the anniversary of the Paris Commune they get free meals in a children’s dining room. Grishka has a great time listen- ing to speakers and shouting slo- vans, ata’ NE NIGHT the cemetery was sur- rounded. They were looking for Like a puppy on whom people have trodden in their hurry. Passersby jturned to look at the children. A gvay-haired gentleman, whose coat collar was raised even on that warm day, stopped. He shook his head end remonstrated: | “It’s a disgrace! They escort | children with rifles. The Chink was | beaten, J suppose.” The senior militiaman snapped at became sad and old. A CLEAN-SHAVEN, _ long-nosed thin-lipped man entered the room. | His peaked head was covered with a cap pulled low over his eyes. His tread wes firm, as if he were pres- sing hard against the earth with leach step he took. And his shoes were in utter ruin and looked like the paws of some animal. He came | | or * he vAY? HE turned round in his chair toward the children. He rested his eyes on a tall, blonde boy: “Hey you, blondy! Are youa good hand at stealing?” The boy colored and fidgeted: “They took me for nothing at all. Jt was Petka Pyatkov who stole, | 2rike Snipeas | garia. Revolting peasants, including) The grievances are: a Jugoslav soldier, were repulsed 1. near Trun. A similar band of com:- tadjis entered Bulgaria near Lom-) owners want to introduce and in re- nitza but withdrew after a skirmish| gard to which a notice was put up with Bulgarian and Jugoslav sol-| the day following the lockout. This diers. change would at once throw some ae 4000 workers out of employment. PANIC AFTER EARTHQUAKE. | Maltreatment, beating, etc. 3. Over- WELLINGTON, N. Z. (By Mail). time work. 4. Low wages. 5. —A number of violent earth shocks Arbitrary dismissals. 6, Fines, etc. The replacement of double shift by single shift system which —‘Organize the Unorganized!” —‘Defend the Soviet Union!” —‘Fight Imperialist War” AMPLE SUPPLIES OF THESE BUTTONS SHOULD BE OR- DERED FROM THE DISTRIC%' 2. * PLACE YOUR Pond 10c each to individuals OFFICES OF THE PARTY! ORDERS NOW! CES: ii iti im: i i i |ereated a panic in Arthur’s Pass, In the course of the lockout the oe Bee ribeateraenta ad Lat eet iell take him along, if you're ciate aaiuia mee pie “You're a good hand at lying. | New Zealand, Naat the cath ot kwobbery formulated the following | 7c each to Units on orders up to 100 buttons And in the weird hour before sun-|S0 kind-hearted! We have to drag | into the bor: : Fond of fighting? With fists or|the Otira Tunnell. Huge quantities | demands: 6c each to Units on orders over 100 buttons rise, stumbling in sleepy stupor, the juvenile lawbreakers dragged themselves along the familiar road. The weary Red soldiers were swear- ing, but they did not beat the chil- dren. After a night’s imprisonment they | were again taken to the Narobraz. There were fifteen of them in all. They were escorted by three militia- men. The oldest of these coughed all the way, spat, and grumbled at the children. i “What kind of men will you grow up to be? Why, here you're only kids and under guard already! You’re dung, that’s what you are. What the hell did you get born for? Foo! There you, baldy, stop bawl- ing! It’s bad enough without that.” But the squint-eyed Bashkir boy did not understand Russian. He was bawling and trying to break away. A freckle-faced militiaman threat- ed him with his rifle, then caught Id of his long shirt and pulled him long. His Tartar cap fell down to the mud. The senior militia- an picked it up and jammed it \dewise on the Bashkir’s head. And them around every day. You pity them, but you won’t feed them.” The gentleman was The children shuffled along wearily. * % | THE Narobraz, naturally, they were taken to the room set aside for the consideration of juvenile | cages, And there a great many chil- \dren were squatting on the floor. |The old clerk has gotten his papers into a jumbled heap. He makes | frantic efforts to put them in order, |but keeps dropping one after the other on the floor. A young lady, in a carefully crimped coiffure, rum- mages about in the closet. Another somewhat older, with glasses on her nose, keeps pulling at the string of her eyeglasses and she grows hot under the collar: “Tl send them all to the Gub- ispsleom. Let them do what they please with ’em! What kind of ” And the door opens and more chil- dren are brought in. Every variety of children. Some in government outfits, some in underwear and in all sorts of make-shifts for clothing. indignant. | “Well? Fussing as usual? Al- | Ways papers and papers! You ought |to chuck all those papers into the |fire. And you, Bashkurdistan, what are you howling about? Do you want autonomy?” He screwed up his narrow eyes and contorted his thin lips. laughed at everything. As he spoke, he kept rubbing his palms together, hunching his back and stroking his thighs down to the knees. He was all agog. Not for a moment did he sit still. His every joint seemed to demand movement and work. “Wait, Comrade Martynov,” pite- ously besought the older of the two young ladies. “You’re always clam- oring. You make my head spin. Where can we put them?” “To clean the toilets, to dig the ground. ,.. Where? We’ll find a place. Hey, you, Bashkir arba,* how long are you going to keep up that squeaking?” And he mimicked the Bashkir to the life: “Ee-ghi-ghi-ghi. . . .” The Bashkir’s eyes suddenly be- came dry. His lips stretched into a smile. And he stopped his squeaky He | with a knife?” “No, I never fight.” “You don’t? Fool! what makes your face This is Grishka. Grishka eyed him as he sat| |squirming in his chair and rubbing his palms one against the other with a rapid motion, and Grishka laughed, | and remembered: “I seen a squoimin’ monkey at the | zoo, Very much alike. And he had long arms and made funny faces.” | “What's the laughing about? Why is your phiz so green?” | Grishka sniffled and replied: | “You’d turn green yourself. Noth- ing to eat all day!” “Aren’t you used to going with- out grub?” “You try with all your might to | get used to it, but the belly aches just the same.” | “Did you run away from jail?” | “No, not from jail. I’m a juv'nile. | I ran away from a convent.” | “So they’ve tried to convert you, hey? They don't call it a convent, buddy, but a Med-i-co-ped-a-go-gi- cal Institution. ‘They’re great for And you, | so green?” | of rock were dislodged from the| mountain side, destroying homes of | victimization. workers and natives. all cases. PARIS on tHe BARRICADES by GEORGE SPIRO Is Now In Its Second Edition! Wy This has enabled us to reduce the price to poping 25 cents 24444 (a) Two-shift system. 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