The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1929, Page 3

DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929 Page Three GS. Impe SHIFT TONNAGE | CLASSIFICATION ~ FOR ADVANTAGE Would Obscure USSR Peace Proposals GENEVA, April 22—With a great show of making a concession, Hugh S. Gibson, United States ambassa- dor to Belgium and head of the American delegation to the prelim- inary arms conference here, today accepted in principle the French theory of shifting tonnage from one class to another and struck a blow ‘at the Britis position. England, which wants cruiser tonnage limited to 6,000-ton vessels, hecause England has plenty of coal- ing stations for craft of small cruis- ing radius, has been fighting U,. S. imperialism’s demands for lots of 10,000-ton eruisers, which don’t need so many coaling stations. Blow at Rival. Now with the “concession” from Gibson, speaking for Hoover, the tory government will be put in the position of appearing to rebuff a “peace proposal” or of allowing the U. S. to convert the tonnage alloted to it for 6,000-ton cruisers into a smaller number of ships, but of equal tctal tonnage and more battle 4 Building Worker, rialist Gibson Proposes Plan Dangerous to Britain 3 Murdered in’ § Four workers were killed and 15 hurt, when girders being hoisted in the construction of the Western Union Building at Thomas and Worth Streets, New ¥ peedup by Western Union rk, hurtled downward from the twenty-second EARTHQUAKES IN. Tousen “ITALY ENDANGER WORKERS’ LIVES 'Vicinity Near Bologna Is Hit Worst | BOLOGNA, Itady, April 22.—The population of Bologna and the su rounding districts have been in di ‘ger for the last two week result of frequent earthqua carying intensity in the vicinity. Daily for the last ten days and almost daily over a longer period, the city had felt shocks of varying intensity. Many poor workers have moved from their homes and are living in tents to escape danger of falling buildings. | A vather severe shock this morn- | ing caused more excitement than usual and damaged several homes and public buildings. The steeple in the village of San| Martino also was badly damaged and numerous houses in the district Were cracked. The situation is considered seri- ous with the continuous earthquakes destroying the meager possessions | not only of the workers in the city, | but of the peasants in the surround- | ing country. Photo shows part of the de of representatives by the bosses’ at Geneva Conference Washington. None of these bills are jor the benefit of the workers —all aid the masters of the congressmen—the bosses. of Bills—But Not One for Workers “ERE” TROOPS R ARE CONVERGING Report Fighting in the Pulpito Pass , Sonora, Mex., April b tr were reported | converging Southern | Sonora, tc inst adva’ along the west through the State of Sinaloz nsurgents al F Lino in position it e under «to Te Morales round 6,000 reactionary the command of te, Robert Cruz e expected to Masiaca to- be night lost their leading nder when d the Prieta, / other clerical leaders. ich he led into Sonora hua recent id United deserting the | His troops, w States from Chih to be str sevrration. report here that fight- starting in the Pul- ich 10,000 Federal eneral Almazan are tryi The pass is a strong defen position. The report is e of bills introduced in the house tools who serve as legislators in p ps und to force. ve \that the reactionary insurgent gen- eral Marcelo Caraveo ambushed the Federal vanguard, killed 0 and cap- power of the 10,000-ton type. Another wedge is thus driven or | to. be driven between attempted floor. The crash came as a result of the speedup forced on the workers. The Western Union Co. in its anciety to complete the building before the assigned time, placed profits ahead of workers’ lives, as is usual under capitalism. Photo shows scene of the murder of the workers. BUILDING FAKERS Werte Demand Freedom ot Colombian Revolutionist: | tured 100. WHITEWASH COMPANY France and England.’ France wants to build many submarines, and thus agrees to the proposition of shift- ing tonnage from one class to an- other. Give Benefit Concert | for “Negro Champion” POLICE TERROR IN Amtorg Moves Offices to Larger Quarters, REMAIN: SILENT | Alberto Castrillon, the leader of PLYMOUTH, Eng. (By Mail). — | A verdict of “accidental death” was Support the struggle of the Co- | returned by a jury in the death of lombian Federation of Labor against | five workers employed by Plymouth Dodging U. S. S. R. Proposals. The third purpose of the Gibson speech today seems to have been to give the conference something much less embarrassing to talk about than the proposals of Litvinoff repre- ‘senting the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Workers’ and Pea- sants’ government proposed that the conference state whether it really meant to do anything toward dis- armament, first, and secondly pro- nosed a plan for partial disarma- ment. The diplomats and militarists at the conference cf course have no in- tention cither of disarming or ac- cepting any workers’ theories about such a subject, and will now get beck to their main ta8ks of jockey- ing for advantage. Gibson’s plan, though directed against England, is something that the British govern- ment likes better than disarmament, ond the bargaining begins anew. May Day—the day which began with 2 general strike for the 8- hour day in the U. S. Tre LAWBREAKERS | A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. Grigori Ivanovich Peskoy (Grishka), a homeléss waif, es- capes from a home for juvenile delinquents together with a num- her of other young inmates. They live by begging and spend their nights in a cemetery. Here they are discovered by Red soldiers and taken to the Narobraz (local de- partment of education). ..Ten of the children are subsequently taken along to work in a children’s colony organized by Sergei Mikha- lych Martynoy, a man of energetic, incisive personality. Here the chil- dren change entirely; they be- come very devoted to Martynoy and the colony and are con- scientious in the performance of their tasks. ey Se (Continued.) Gree a pretty, white-faced young ‘lady came. She wanted to teach ‘pe children drawing. ‘She did noth- ig but draw flowers and tie Feri round her head in various ys. Once, after a bath, she tied her ’kerchief in the style of an icon. When Grishka saw this, he sang out loud: “Holy Virgin rejoice!” So they nicknamed her ‘Holy Vir- gin.” And when she dressed like the other supervisors, in short knick- ers and a blouse, she wore a golden chain with a trinket dangling from her neck, and a bracelet on her wrist. The children were amused. When they planned to set off on an expedi- tion to some place more distant than ,fusual, she kept asking: “Won't it rain?” Taichinov squeaked: “Oh-o. ... Scared! Melt-away!” She could not walk far. She would save in. On one occasion she be- vame exhausted and ask-~ the kids . © carry her. Did it upset them? ey joined hands and lifted her up. jnd she kept scattering smiles ing directions, like presents. | Martynov saw this and roared: | “Nikolai! Tomorrow morning you | vill drive Klavdya Petrovna to the tation. She is urgently needed in And so she was hurried away An entertainment for the benefit Ask No Investigation |the 40,000 banana plantation work- |lombian Federation | American imperialism. 1 jof the Negro Champion, organ of jthe American Negro Labor Con- gress, will be held at Camp Nit- gedaiget on Saturday, April 27, at 8 p.m. The entertainment will be the first of a series to be held in the New York Dis Champion, to enable it to appear as a weekly newspaper, Margaret Larkin, will sing cow: boy melodies to the accompaniment of her guitar, Charles Burroughs will give a sezies of Negro work songs and Willeana Burroughs wil explain the role of the American Yegro in the struggle of the work- ing class. No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, Fr at an end, that he receives vages in cash, then he is set upon by the other portioss of the bourgeoinie, the landlort, the shop- keeper. the pawnbroker, ete-—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). Workers! Join huge May Day nstration at Bronx Coliseum, h St. and Bronx River, de} rict to build up} a sustaining fund for the Negro! GREEK ELECTIONS Communist Vote Makes Venizelos Uneasy ATHENS, April Police terrorism and threats kept ‘enough workers away from the polls | in the Greek senatorial election here yesterday to prevent the Commu- nists from winning a seat, but the | Communist vote is much larger than }any of the reactionary parties ex- pected, and already uneasiness is shown. | The present head of the govern- ment, the war maker, Venizelos, had al ol fthe election machinery as well as the repressive forces in his hands, and therefore scorred an easy victory. He gave his party an even 100 seats out of the 122 contested. Greece, 22. Celebrate Revolutionary Mayday at | the Coliseum, The Amtorg Trading Corporation announces that beginning today its jers ef Colombia in their strike a few | the Paris World Con- |Corporation, who were killed by a collapse of a wall while laying an of Fall Fatal to Four offices will be located at 261 Fifth | (Continued from Page One) Av w York City, 17th and 18th| | lect bf floors. The new telephone number tron tak overloading we Gees is Lexington 2980. jin order to finish the construction |ion was among those workers who as shade alas work more speedily, at the orders | The expanding operations of the | of the Westemn Union Co., wee the | Were murdered. We learn now from | |Amtorg Trading Corporation have | oe cause of the collapse of the |the Confederation of Labor of Co- | Bee eee) hey tomoval of 118 f som cable, fey waa fearroborated |lombia that he tad’ been dailed and| offices from their former location | : by one of the fellow-workers of|held incommunicado by the state t 165 Broadway to larger quarters. | Ned * anes | baking Pe esr |those killed. This laborer told of | noice under the orders of Lead seen the body of another | 1; ited Fruit C a “JAILS NOT FOR RICH” laborer cut in half by the force of | ~Mte¢ ¥ruit Company. GREENWICH, Conn. (By Mail).|the girder’s fall. He was sodazed| The strike of the banana work- Arrested for driving speeding her |that he was unable to talk for hours | crs, arising out of their protest car while drunk, Mrs. Jane Smith, | after the accident. against the hvrrible conditions, soon ,of a wealthy family here, was told | Of the 11 workers injured, two|transformea itself into a struggle by Judge Huxford, “Jails are not) stiil are on the danger list in hos- against American imperialism. Hun- for people of your class.” |pitals. They are Jerry Marmo, a| dreds of workers were ruthlessly | laborer, in critical condition with in-| murdered, and hundreds more were MACHINE USES JOBLESS. | ternal injuries and a fractured skull, | jailed by the Colombian govern- WASHINGTON, (By Mail),—A|&t St. Vincent's Hospital, and Wal-|inent, acting as a. tool of Wall mechanical stoker has been intro-| te? Slater, also a laborer, in Beek- | §trect. The United States Section : jof the Ajl-America Anti-Imperialist duced for use on Baltimore and Ohio |" St. Hospital, A A s trains, which may make many fire- | Practically all the injured work- | League rallied American workers in men jobless. ers have been approached by agents ;mass protest demonstrations of the construction company’s insur- |support of the strikers. Bring the Workers of Your Shop to|®NC@ Carriers, with the object of| The life of this anti-imperialist ‘the Coliseum May First. |foreing them to settle their claims | fighter is in danger. The worker |for damages on easy terms. Rela-jand other sincere anti-imperialist |months ago, has been court-martial- | ed and sentenced to 25 years in jail. The first reports were that Cas the in tives of the dead workers have also | forces who participated in the dem- been approached, both by the insur- | onstrations organized by us, must {ance company representatives and/raise the demand for the immedi- |by shyster lawyers eager to strip|ate release of Alberto Castrillon. | the workers’ families of compensa- | he demand must be made not only tion in the courts. The compensa- upon the government of Colombia, | nternational Publishers, Copyright, 1929 Support electrie cable. This whitewashes the |cerporation, blamed by workers for All-America Anti-Imperialist the disaster. League, (United States Section.) | ALBERT MOREAU, Director !* Latin-American Dept. WILLIAM SIMONS, Acting National Secretar: gress against imperialism! Dictatorship of the Proletariat merciless the fiercest of the new ful enemy, power of resistance incre: after its overthrow, even . 1 Lenin (“Left” Commu- most fi DATES OPEN FOR “A VISIT TO SOVIET RUSSIA” THIS EXCELLENT PICTURE IS NOW BEING TOURED THROUGH THE UNITED STATES BY THE WORKERS | INTERNATIONAL RELIEF. IT IS A STORY OF PRESENT- DAY LIFE UNDER A WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT. FOR BOOKINGS Apply to W. I. R., 1 Union Square, N. Y. C., or Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., Room 201. By LYDIA SEIFULINA the colony the boys would carry on, now. Why, right now he could be tion to be awarded the majority of the injured workers will be slight, due to the fact that their injuries have been classified by hospital doc- tors as “cuts and bruises but upon the United States govern- ment as well, under whose orders the strike was ruthlessly crushed. But we must also demand the re- jlease of the other imprisoned strik- SEND IN YOUR | carried on at various places. sale dinner—at the colony. Some washed their clothes, some tidied up the yard, some helped the carpenter. Having finished the work they went to the library. They read books. But there were few who read. The books did not attract them. The printed words still seemed dead. But they liked to look at the pictures. They had bitter contests at checkers and chess. In the evening, till dark, ‘they Played on the clearing before the _House of Culture. That was the |name given to the bungalow where |the library and the meeting-lall | | were located. They played hasket- ball, cricket, the game of “pegs.” After supper they sang songs. Some- | times they listened to stories. Once \in a while they danced. They sang |Grishka’s favorite | and Russian folk-songs, (ONE of the supervisors had a good, | voice. And so did Big Niura.| How they sang! It gave Grishka a) tickly sensation in the throat and made shivers run down his spine. As for the stories, some were good, and others not so goody Nobody was |compelled to listen. One story Grishka liked best of all. It was) about a whole nation of people who | were driven by hunger to seek new places. They settled among big mountains. They had one archer. | He shot an apple off his son’s head. William Tell was his name. Uh, fine! “If I hadn't shot it off,” he said, “I had another arrow ready | | for you.” This to the governor, who | was like a Tsar there. | And it seemed to Grishka that all | this had happened among the moun- tains of their colony. And here is the very lake.... Everything is the same. At times they read to them from books. The story about Taras Bulba was fine. But Grishka himself, like the majority of the children, did not like to read. Active.life overshadowed the book. The time after supper flew by like a minute. And though the days exhausted them, yet when Martynov shouted, “Sleep, sleep!”-— they were loath to go. But Marty- nov, smiling and rubbing his hands, | elbowed everybody out of the House | + * * “International” | at bed-time. But before long Grish- ka noticed that this had stopped. The fact is—they hardly had time to sit down during the entire day. So the bed would calm them at once. * ae ND the summer keeps stringing day upon day, as upon a thread. And the end of the thread is coming | soon. The sun began to give way. It seemed to be weakening. It still gave warmth—but only for a short time each day, and then hid away to |rest. Gossamers began to quiver among the trees. The leaves began to turn to gold before their death, There were all kinds of rumors | about Martynov’s colony. Some came from the city to inspect it. They disapproved. One commission said: “There is not enough educational wor Too much exacting physical labor. It is harmful at this age.” Martynov twitched all over, rubbed his hands, and laughed: “And you would like just to pose for a picture of you at work, and then quit? Then better keep away from us. We've got our own educa- tion here. When winter comes, then they'll sit down to books. There’s no time for it now. We must work in order not to ‘croak’ in the winter- time. You'll shut down the Chil- dren’s Homes in winter, but we'll survive. Did you see any sick in my place? Khny!” An angular, red-haired woman came from Moscow. She had been sent to be fed up a bit, and, at the same time, on business. She snooped about, and her lips tightened grimly: “There are some morally defective children here. There is no special work being done with them.” Martynov slapped his thighs and laughed again: “Write a book about it. use it for toilet-paper.” And suddenly he grew ferocious: “I brought thieves from the city. Where are our locks? Only on the store-rooms, And who have the| keys? Those very same thieves. ‘What's been stolen? Neither the gate nor the doors are ever locked. We can of Culture. They scattered to their The only watchman is that pup-dog, bungalows and sank at once upon | Mikhriutka. There’s a lawbreaker, | their beds. And sleep descended! Grigori Peskov. He's been all over | rom the colony. Until dinncy ec, work was a straightway. A gentle sleep, with-| Siberia. He’s learned the whole dic- ers. The sentence of Alberto Castrillon is another example of the policy of safely sent even to your cess-pool of a city. I have many lawbreakers here. But point them out to me! Elections Completed in All Parts of USSR; Go to it. Wen then! Khny!” ; American Imperialism to smash The Moscow lady shrugged her Big Increase In Voters avy resistance on the part of the shoulders, workers and peasants of Latin- “You are very rude to the parents, MOSCOW, U R., (By Mail).— America to its brutal domination. The poor mothers come to see their, The elections to the Soviets have Against this, a mighty wave of children and you drive them off the| been completed throughout the | Protest must be aroused. very first day.” Soviet Union. During the current| The movement for the freedom | He slapped his thighs and agreed | year there was a considerable in- of Castrillon and his comrades will | cheerfully: crease in the percentage of partici- ain strength with the growth of “That's true enough. I don’t like| Pation by the electors, reaching in|the U. S. Section of the All-Amer- |mothers! They make a mess of rural districts an average of 60 per |ica Anti-Imperialist League, and of | things. And the kids have no time| cent of the voters as against 50 per |the World League against Imperial- \for all that messing. Besides, the, Cent in 1927, cnd in urban districts ism and for National Independence. | Kids themselves don’t like to be with 75 per cent as against 55 per cent For that reason, the All-America them. ‘Oh, mama dear, ‘Oh, my in 1927. | Anit-Imperialist League will make |sonny.’ That’s all well and good,’ The number of women elected to ¢very effort to send a large delega- | comrade matlam, when one lives like the rural Soviets has increased two|tion from the . United States of a parasite. But now one must seek nd one-half times on the average | America to the Second World Con- salvation in work. Khny!” |as compared with 1927, forming | gress of the League to take place in The Moscow lady drew her lips | bout 18 per cent of the total com- | Paris, July 20-3ist of the year. | tighter still and departed. They | Position of the members of rural| Demand the release of Alberto [es about to inveigle her into work- | Soviets. Castrillon and his comrades! ing, too, * 8 | ABOUT a half mile from the colony | |“* the bungalows were occupied by | the Zdravotdyel. A health resort. | Soviet employees were sent there for | | rest and recuperation. Ladies) | gathered fat there. Occasionally \ | they came with their cavaliers to i | take a walk through the colony. | Martynov let it. pass once, twice, But | at last he jumped out of the kitchen, | wearing his white apron and armed | | with a ladle. He was on duty. that | |day. And he began to tell them | where they came off: | We Have Just Received from Great Britain a Very Limited Number of the Report of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International Contains a complete stenographic report of the most important Congress since 1920. “What do you think this is? A boulevard? Wouldn’t you like to wash some dishes, madam? No? | ‘Chen step to the gate, please, Beat it! This is no place for mooning. All right, complain! Send a tele- gram to the Sovnarcom. Khny!” They were very eager to find the gate quickly, | That led the children to draw a/ picture. The trellised fence of the. colony. On the fence near the gate, Martynov, represented as a bear, is roaring. Down below stands Mikhriutka, barking. And the in- scription: . Won't it suit you if you found Some other place for strollin’ round? * “A couplet from A. S. Griboye- dov’s popular play, “Woes from be- WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 EAST 125TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY out sad visions. In the first days at! iionary of curses. And look at him (To Be Concluded.) ing Too Wise.” | Greeting to the Special May Day Edition of the DAILY WORKER The Only Daily English Organ of the Class Struggle Have your name and the names of your shop- mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization has a greeting printed in the Special Edition. ee NAME AMOUNT | ee. 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