The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1 929 __ Page Three _ Chiang Kai-Shek a pa aE d Fe ng Yu-Hsiang Start War as LW ARLORDS RUSH [Wall Street in Readiness to Rush Troops Over the Border Into aoa L ABOR PARTY THOUSANDS TO FIGHTING ZONE | Feng Negotiates With Wuhan Generals SHANGHAI, April 18. — Battles between the forces of Chiang Kai- shek and Feng Yu-hsiang have al- ready occurred in places south of Yenchow-fu and Chieh-ho, beginning the long awaited struggle between the two war-lords. The fighting occurred following orders from Chiang Kai-shek, re- calling Feng’s army which is ad- vancing to take over Tsinan-fu. The orders said that Chiang would send in his own forces. Both generals are rushing troops to the war zone, Feng having the larger force in the field at present. Chiang’s nearest troops are 40,000 under General Fang Chen-wu, whose vanguard is already at Teh-chow, about 90 miles northwest of Tsinan- fu. Meanwhile 20,000 more of Chi- ang’s troops are rushing north from | Nanking by rail. Feng is rushing | down troops from the north over the same railway. Feng is reported to be negotiating Photo shows outside of El Paso, Texas. They are being held in readiness for the across the border into Mexico to “protect American rights and property”—in other words to kill Mexican workers for Wall Street investments, the 8th U. S. Cavalry “patrolling” th % e Rio Grande, mo Is Fort Huachuca, Wall Street government to rush with members of the Kwangsi clique with a view to uniting the remnants of the Wuhan armies with his own highly disciplined brigades in Honan. The Wuhan forces are near Shah- | si on the upper Yangtse. | One hundred and fifty thousand | Nanking troops, however, are ready | to strike at a moment’s notice at Feng’s forces in Honan, it is re- ported. * Japanése Aid Chiang. SHANGHAI, April 18—The Jap- anese government has acceded to the pleas of Chiang Kai-shek in his struggle with Feng Yu-hsiang for possession of Shantung province and has agreed not to evacuate at once, albHoy loading chs emmunison, cone class-biased court to four months tines at Teing,tao. ‘and one day in prison. Airplanes scheduled to leave for | splice Korea are reported to be still at) The initiation of this action came Tsing-tao, while trainloads of field | from the meeting of cigarmakers in guns and hospital supplies are|Malabon, Rizal province, called to awaiting the Japanese order to! establish factory committees at the * growth and militancy recently, as is also the Philippine Confederation of Peasants. Most notable in this con- nection is the protest general strike of cigar-makers on December 17, last, against the frame-up and im- prisonment of one of the leaders of the Cigarmakers’ Union, Mauricio Cortez, who was sentenced by a withdraw. instance of the militant trade union leader, Crisanto Evanglista. It was FRENCH LINER GROUNDED decided that the hour on which Com- PLYMOUTH, England, April 18, | Tade Cortez must enter prison, 10 a. —(U.P.)—The French liner, Paris, | ™» December 17, would be the hour departed for Havre this evening | or @ walkout from the shops of all after having been forced to land its |cigarmakers possible to mobilize in | Filipinas are showing a rebirth of 4 Philippine Unions Show New Militancy in Strike The Philippine trade unions or- incisiveness with numerous meetings | of all workers engaged in the in- ganized in the Congresso Obrero de | before the shops in Manila and sur-| dustry in the Philippine islands. This} | rounding tobacco owns. manufacturing In these meetings, at wnich thou- sands attended, not only was the | issue of capitalist persecution of la- bor raised and the strike call ap-| | proved, but the need for reorganiza- | tion on industrial lines with the shop committee basis, for unity and strug- gle against wage reductions, for shorter hours and other essential demands, masses of tobacco workers, The native capitalists, who find themselves quite at one mind with the forces of American imperialism |against the workers and peasants, | tried every means to stifle this ‘movement protest. The capitalist | press attacked it and the insular and municipal police were mobilized in the most hostile attitude, while the authorities, such as Secretary of the was placed before the) €30 passengers here because of j damage to the vessel when it} grounded in dense fog this morning | off Eddystone lighthouse. | the short time left for preparation. | Interior Ventura, the Governor of The strike was to last for that one| Rizal province, Mr Naval, and the day only. The difficulties of getting | Municipal President of Majabon, did out printed matter and organizing |all they could to prevent the work- the leadership actually left only one ers from answering the strike call. Filipino workers. At the hour ap- pointed, seven branches in Malabon, two in Obando, one in Polo, and four of the biggest factories.in Manila jegecels solidly, totaling over 8,000 cigarmakers, or more than one-third is magnificent testimony to the fact that the Filipino tobacco work-rs are ready for militant policies and leadership and is evidence as well | of the new spirit permeating the en- tire working class, Nor is this awakening limited to the factory workers only, but it is also shown in the rising interest in organization of the Filipino peas- antry. The interest among the peasantry in Anak Pawis, organ of | the Philippine | Peasants with a policy of struggle against the incredible extortions of the landlords, of intense interest in the Soviet Union, of unity with the Philippine proletariat and with ‘the world revolutionary workers’ move- ment against imperialism and for immediate and absolute independence from the United States, its advanced stand against the paralyzing influ- ence of the church, testifies to the awakening of the Philippine peas- antry, whose conditions verge upon | and often actually are, nothing more or less than slavery. , | the class conscious advance of the Confederation of. _ ALSO FAVORS BALFOUR PLAN Joins Other Bourgeois Parties on Debts LONDON, April 18.—No real dif ference is perceptible today in the attitude of all three British bour- geois parties over the Balfour plan which Philip Snowden, former Laborite chancellor of the exchequ attacked as not procuring sufficie payments from England’s debtor notably France and Italy, and aw: ing too Jarge payments to Eng creditor, the United States. Snowden’s comment on the Bal- Tour plan as usual outstripped t conservatives in zeal for Bri | imper sm; he called it “infamous | His statement, made on the eve of the general elections as an elec- the |tion attack on conservative |financial policies, received the abuse | jo£ Liberals and Conservatives alike, |since they declared that a repudi tion of Gebts was inherent in Snow- | ‘den’s statement while they believed the Balfour plan the best repara- |tions scheme that Great Britain ‘could get. “I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more | prosperous than ourselves,” Snow- den asserted. Ramsay MacDowald spoke after Snowden, declaring!that the Labor Party, if elected, would carry out every debt agreement made by the conservatives, and pointed proudly to its former record in office when it had carried out the Balfour plan to the letter. BREAK UP POLISH _ PROTEST MEETS Class War Prisoners fe Tortured WARSAW, April 18.—Great pro- test demonstrations taking place all Sejm’s handing over of the Com- ski's police. The demonstrations have taken place at Warsaw, Lodz, Posen and in the Dombrova coal district. In munist deputies to the courts have | 'British-African Forces Battle in Shantung Regime | Smashes Native Meetings y T. REED. HE native labor mevement of South Af during the last quarter of 1928 was distinguished by a number of events, which once more brought this movement into the center of attention of the coun- try. In October the native workers in one of the government ente: prises, the experimental veterinary station in Pretc~ia strike. The workers of the station, who are practically all united in the Industrial’ and Commerical Work- Union, demanded wage - in- creases and nominated for the ne- gotiations with the management a delegation, which was participated in by two representatives of the lo- anch, The management BT sting according to the di- rections from the ministry for agri culture, emphatically refused to per- mit the representatives of the union to negotiate =nd then issued an order to dismiss all members of the dele- gation. This served as the pretext for the declaration of the strike of 75 workers, union members. Imme- diately after the non-turn up of the workers at the station, a company of police arrived, which attempted by threatening arrests to force the workers to call the strike off. The workers refused to submit and were immediately arrested and sent to prison. After several days’ imprison- ment the workers were sentenced to pay a fine of 50 each, and upon return to the station they were all dismissed. Such is the short shrift meted out to the native workers upon their |first attempt at orgznized action | during the past year. Even the ele- mentary standard: of law, which have been established by these same authorities, were not applied. For instance a native worker may be arrested only if he refuses to appear before the courts. As the experimental station is a government enterprise and all these action were taken upon the immedi- ate directions of the given minis- | try, by these actions the government in no uncertain sense showed how jit intends to react to analogous ac- tion by the native workers, and what is its attitude towards the ac- tivities of the native Industrial and Commerical Workers’ Union. When Kadalie, the secretary of the union, arrived at the scene of the strike, under threat of arrest ever Poland in denunciation of the! he was not even permitted to set foot on the territory of the station. Thus all the services of the lead- been brutally broken up by Pulsud-| ers of the Industrial and Commer-| cial Workers’ Union, expert in col- laborating, and directed after the break with the Communists at the end of 1926 towards “ cifying the ’ The press of the South African Party (a Party representing the in- terests of British commercial indus- trial bourgeoisie), on its part, gives an emphatically positive reply to this question. The other action taken by the na- tive postal worke who demand from the mi wage increas and general improvement of connection with the Pretoria stri This action has become especially important in view of the fact that it was the immediate cause of the sub- sequent ministerial crisis and the resignation of Madeley, minister for posts and telegraphs, member of the “Left” wing of the South Afri Labor Party, and the only repr - tative of that wing in the cabinet. After Madeley, under pressure of the South Afr gress (white), to which the ICU had appealed for assistance, had com- menced negotiations on the position of native postal workers with the ICU and congress delegation, the prime minister, Hertsog, réquested him to resign in view of the fact ew? his attitude towards the ICU was not in conformity with the whole government and did not ac- cord with the position taken up by the minister of agriculture in con- nection with the recent strike in Pretoria. As Madeley refused to re- sign, Hertsog, resolving to carry out his line to the end, himself resigned, }and then once more accepted the post of prime minister, collecting a new cabinet, only leaving out Ma- |deley, who was replaced by Samp- son, a member of the chauvinist Cresswell group, which had split off from the Labor Party. As regards Madeley’s stand, it has only to be noted that the significance of this left gesture taken by him should not be overestimated. That his ac- tion (negotiations with the ICU) | is nothing but a left gesture is prov- jed by the whole subsequent policy |of the “Left” group of the Labor Party to which Madeley be'ongs and which now, on the eve of the parlia- jmentary elections, is once more seeking rapproachement with the Cresswell group, as without the uni- ted forces of both groups their chances are exceedingly small at the | elections. All this characterizes the condi- tions in which the native labor move- ment of South Africa finds itself and develops. And it becomes clear that only by revolutionary action, despite the inevitability of heavy losses, only by overcoming all con- ciliation, reformist tendencies, will the native labor movement of South Africa be able to develop success- | fully and strengthen its ranks. | the declared a conditions of labor is in the closest | Wor! STANDARD OIL WORKERS WALK OUT IN KOREA Japanese Police Fail to Break Long Strike SHANGHAI, China, April 18.— s of the Standard Oil Come |pany’s plant at Woen Shan, Korea, e still continuing their strike un- abated ‘after three months. The strike began on Jan. 24. The walkout started when the Standard refused to recognize the trade union which is fighting for _|the interests of the workers. The Japanese authorities, of course, buried all their little dif- ferences with the American imper- jalists and immediately placed armed police at the disposal of the company. The headquarters of the Union were raided and all documents con- cated, including the membership, lists. All money found was also confiscated. A large number of the strikebreakers have been arrested. At the beginning of the strike the Standard attempted to continue ibusiness with strikebreakers but the attempt failed complete The strike committee issued an appeal against the use of alcohol by the workers during the strike, COOK, TRAITOR, - KISSES PRINCE Says Starving Miners Owe Wales Thanks | LONDON, April 18 (U.P).—The Prince of Wales today met and shook hands with A. J. Cook, secre- tary of the Miners’ Federation, who has denounced bitterly almost everything for which the heir to the throne stands but is now repentedly obsequious. The meeting was most cordial. Wales and Cook were at a con- ference of workers connected with the collection of a fund for unem- ployed miners, one of the “charities” with which the British royalty tries to stifle the anger of the starving mine proletariat by an appearance of interest in their conditions, In reality he is making capital out of it for the time when he will relieve his moribund. father as monarch of Nevertheless, the strike, consider- Warsaw Kasimir Cichovski, secre- | workers,” all their assurances that) 446,726,752 slaves. It is the ultimate aim of this | day and a half fcr actively rallying | work (“Capital”) to reveal the | the workers, a task that was carried economic law of motion of modern society —Marx. ‘out with praiseworthy energy and | ing the difficulties encountered, was ‘a most successful demonstration of I am a citizen of the world, and I work wherever I happen to be. —Marx, A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. We'll Grigori Ivanovich Peskoy (Grish- ; tomorrow wait for me here. ka), a homeless waif, escapes from | find some rags to put on you.” “But they must be put up some- | where for the three days, Comrade |Martynov. They can’t be left like | this, without supervision.” “Sure! We’ll get a French gover- ness for them. Parlez francais, Grigori Peskov!” The children laughed—almost all of them. Even the Bashkir. For Martynov had made a face that was particularly funny. “You’re always up to jokes, Com- rade Martynov. This is really an- noying. You do not realize that they are all mental defectives. .. .” “Sure, I understand. Narcompros has it all explained in the instruc- tions. They should be fed, young |lady, and sent to work, to dig up stones! Well, now. Those that I picked out, come with me to get supplies!” “But listen; this is a disgrace! We must, at least, make a list of names, then find out where they are to be put up for the three days, then call for the guards to escort them to the place.” i “As for the list, do what you please if you are so fond of writing. but there is no need of guards. I’ll take them to my room. Come on, let’s get the supplies!” “But they will all run away from you.” “They’ll be fools if they do. They'll land in your medico-pedagogical | convent again. Make out the list. Wait, kids, I’ll come for you soon; T’ll go to see about the supplies.” He brushed Grishka’s head with his hand in passing, and was gone. Grishka, for some reason, felt joy- a home for juvenile delinquents together with a group of other young inmates. They live by beg- ging and spend their nights in a cemetery. One night they are dis- covered by Red soldiers and taken to the local department of educa- tion. The officials here are at a loss as to what to do with them. Comrade Martynov, an_ energetic man of incisive personality, comes in and decides to take ten of the children with him. He begins ques- tioning Grishka who tells him that he ran away from the Children’s Home because he didn’t like it there. * (Continued) ee young lady who had spoken before took on a knowing look and said: “Mental defective. The category of vagabonds, apparently.” “There, now; they’ve found a label for you. They’re smart! And what’s your name?” “Peskov, Grigori.” “So-o. Well, Grigori Peskov, you say you were never in prison?” “Sure I was! More’n oncet. But it ain’t supposed to be jail now. They’ve formed the juv’nile law- breakers now.” Martynov burst out laughing, but not loudly, from within so to say, and his face became human and not like the face of a monkey. Do you hear, Comrade Shidlovska- ya, they’ve formed the lawbreakers? Ha-ha-ha! Will you clean t “ts?” “There’s a rotten smell in ’em. But | I will, if I got to.” 2 ous. The long hand had touched his “Good. You'll go with me.” head so kindly. And Grishka “Where?” i thought: “You'll see.” i “He’s all to the mustard! <A good “If I don’t like it, I'll run away. | muzhik!” Yl run away ’spite of the sentry.” Grishka threw out the angry chal- lenge. _ _ “We have no sentry. Run all you like. And if you won’t do we'll throw you out. A kick in the behind! We don’t want any trash. I'll take this Nez a single one of the ten ran away. Not only for three days, but for a whole week did the chil- dren live in Martynov’s little room, to the great grief of the landlady. But they heard her lamentings only s [ | one the first day, when they came AND smilingly he began to question | home early in the evening. But on! the other children. He would not the other days they arrived late. Just Pee ao | Tre LAWBREAKERS By LYDIA SEIFULINA ;in another some cloth for garments, | in a third a few bags of goats. Then | they loaded a train-caboose high | with boxes, They went with the driver Nikolai to the pasture to get some cows. Like a thrifty proprietor, Martynov gathered supplies from everywhere for his colony. He managed to pene- trate into all the storerooms closed | to others. At the office of the presi- dent of the Gubcheka he took a clock | from the wall, in order to give the |children more than was allotted them. And all the time he kept ‘rubbing his palms one against the other. He laughed at everybody, He | shouted at the children: “Hey, you, rascals, what’s all this loafing? Keep moving, keep mov- ing. Bashkurdistan, go help Niko- lai carry the water! It’s time to water the cattle!” And the little Bashkir understood the Russian speech by the expres- sive gestures. He rushed to the yard with a guttural cry. Grishka felt new life in him. Best of all—it is so jolly. There are so many people one sees every day. The earth is drying. The sweet scent of spring rises from the trees. The sun has grown more kindly. It warms one almost all day long. When a shower falls, it is a joyous one. It merely washes everything clean and lets. the sun dry everything again. It is so easy to run about. On the very first day, when they left the Narobraz, Martynov took all the children to the barber shop. Their heads were shaved. Even the girls. Then he sent thom to the bathhouse and had them dressed in short k ick- ers. The girls as well. It is strange! But never mind, they got used to them. The garments are light. They make one want to skip and jump in spite of oneself. Knick- ers to the knees, shirts without col- lars or sleeves. ~“ * 8 5 be 4 trip to the colony was, for Grishka, like the first fairy dream, They occupied two cabooses. A number of lean cows and horses rode with them. During the stops they cleaned the stalls and brought water. Spreading his legs apart, Martynov take any who were quiet and soft. | in time for slee>. For days Marty- | He selected three girls, six Russian | nov made them hustle from place | yoys, and the squeaking Bashkir. to place in town to gather supplies. | “Be at the depot in three days, and|In one place he would get utensils, | pumped water. He issued commands to the kids. When the train was in motion he talked with the thildren about themselves. He did not ques- International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 tary of the Communist fraction in the Sejm, was arrested. Reports from Lodz state that a} number of class war prisoners have | \been terribly manhandled in the | ‘headquarters of the Defensive (in- | telligence service) there. Among the prisoners was Isaak | Godin, a Communist candidate for | the Sejm, who was frightfully beaten. The intelligence official, Kopetch, distinguished himself by his brutal- | ity to the prisoners. A year ago he the union is being reorganized on a purely trade unionist basis and) has the task of improving the posi- tion of the native workers by “con- stitutional means” (this in a coun- try where constitution signifies for the black workers complete disen- franchisement and ruthless exploi- tation).—all this was not taken into account and did not help them in getting the recognition of their right to participate in the settle- ment of the dispute which involved the native workers and union mem- Imperialism is, at the same time | the most prostitute and the ultim- ate form of the State power which nascent middle-class society had commenced to elaborate as a means of its own emancipation from feud- alism, and which full-grown bo: seois society had finally tra: formed into a means for the slavement of labor by capital. — Marx. The Same Address Over 75 Years Cook, in his speech, said the | Miners’ Federation owed the prince |“a very real measure of thanks for \his whole-hearted enthusiasm which has-brought the crown and the popu- lace closer together.” | “The crown and the populace!” Arthur is earning his tips. 1929 OPOLITAN mishandled Rossiak, Communist tion them, but they thei vf oth member cf the Sejm. eagerly told him everything. To | Grishka he said: “You have no parents—that is | good, buddy. Parents are trash, The mother throws her skirts over her |soh and the son turns out for a good-for-nothing. They gave you birth, and that is enough. Now you must live on your own hook.” “Yes, and the militiaman said: ‘You're like dung.’” “Dung is all right. We get good crops from dung. There now, lads, we'll milk the cows at this stop. We'll drink milk. Milk is good!” He would not eat meat, and laughed at the kids. “Eating bow-wow again? Gobble away, gobble away!” Grishka howled in delight. “This is beef, not dog meat.” “It’s all the same. Any way you call it—it’s Fido. But milk is good, friends. Very good!” Martynov took charge of one ca- boose, the driver Nikolai of the other. That was all the guard they had. The children vere grouped in shifts. First one, then the other shift went with Martynov. They themselves established the turns who was to go with whom at each stop. They reclined on the fragrant hay. They sang songs, whatever ones they knew and felt like singing. The words were incomprehensible—who could remember them? But it sounded like: “Ai dyn bindy dy~*, bindy. Ai dyn bindy dyndy bindy.” Strange! He sang it five times. The kids asked him to. He closed his eyes, crossed his feet under him, swayed, and sang. Fine! Grishka was ready to hear it five times more. The free, scent-laden wind of the steppes burst into the wide open door of the caboose. And it brought bois- terous joy with it. Grishka poured out his joy to the steppes in shouts, screams, and leapings. It is for him that this train is rushing along. It is for him the engine bel- lows. For the first time in his life he felt this—all is Grishka’s, all is | for him! And he shouted through the open door with full lungs: “Uh-gu-gu-gu-gu! .. (To Be Continued) ” BULGARIAN COUP IS THREATENED. Tsankoff Faction May ‘Overthrow Liaptcheff SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 18.—The democratic union party, now in con- trol of the government, was thrown into consternation this afternoon by charges that the party faction head- ed by former Premier Tsankoff was conspiring to overthrow the gov- ernment of Premier Andrei Liapt- cheff. The charges were made by mem- bers of the democratic union party, of which Liaptcheff also is a mem- ber. r Tsankoff was accused of trying | to obtain support of the army for a coup to depose the premier. The meeting of the party leaders, which had been discussing political dis- putes, was suspended because of the uproar but it was believed the Tsankoff faction would be forced out of the party. American Note on I’m Alone Is Handed to the Canadian Legation | _—_— | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18. —The British government is under- stood to be watching with the closest attention the American reply to the Canadian note protesting the sink- ing of the British rum runner I’m Alone outside the three mile limit. The note was handed to the Cana- dian legation here by the state de- partment. The terms of the American note, while secret, are understood to maintain the right of the U. S. war- ships to overhaul British boats within an hour’s steaming distance beyond the three mile limit. The_ British contend that such an exten sion of jurisdiction cannot be ad. mitted, Celebrate Revolutionary Mayday at | the Coliseum, | bers. . 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