The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929 Page Three . Commuuists, ‘FAMINE SPREADS! “AS: MILITARISTS, MANEUVER MEN U.S. Consul Asks Food of China Go to Whites: TSINAN-FU, Shantung Province, China, April 24.—“Red raids” by the Chinese authorities which took over this city on its evacuation by the Japanese are meeting with re- sistance, Saturday eighteen Communists who had been arrested and were be- ing led out to execution suddenly overpowered their guards, and with the help of a sudden attack by a “group of workers in the “audience” shot the guards and retired into hid- ing, where they have already started a new wave of propaganda posters and leaflets. The posters call for a workers’ and peasants’ uprising against the military chieftains. Troops Looting. A large part of Shantung province Harbor. who slave on her. Outwardly a Palace; Hell-hole for the Seamen Inside ? Photo shows palatial-appearing new Holland-American liner, Statendam, ee ey pulling into New York The luxury is for the wealthy passengers and the officers; the ship is a hell-hole for the seamen is occupied by 10,000 or 12,000 rem- nants of General Chang Tsung- chang’s army, who are looting vil- lages and small towns. The Nation- alist General Liu, who recently de- feated Chang seems content with re- occupying the commercial city of Chefoo, Tsinan-fu, a railroad town in the interior of Shantung is Bel by Mi) advance guard of General Feng Yu- : ” hsiang’s army, which seems disposed Mexican “Rebels to march on toward Tsingtao, into | : territory recently evacuated by Ja-| NOGALES, Sonora, Mex., April pan, and insecurely held by troops | 24—(U. P.).—Letters received here still loyal to the Nanking govern- | toda: id that 24 wen! and women: ment of Chiang Kai-shek. eae ae a FEDERALS BOMB CITY; WOUND 24 Move From All Sides on Waisinb Aven Crowes airplanes bombed Navojoa in South- HANEKGOW, China, April, 3a /S Gonore. Chaos reigns in China with uncer-| The communication said all the tainty as to which groups are foes | injured were removed to Hermasillo, and which friends, with frequent capital of the state, for treatment. and sudden changes of allegiance) A federal plane circled Nogales to- by subordinate generals, and unex-| day and dropped two bombs without plained and menacing movements of | causing any damage. troops by Chiang Kai-shek and Feng | 2 * Yu-hsiang, MEXICO CITY, April 24.—What j : In Hunan province, outside of the were wounded Sunday when Federal | A . ‘Plan Made to Fight Use of | MEXICO CITY, April 22.—The! Previous attempts by national and federal government has just an-|State authorities to discourage the nounced plans for a wide propa-| cultivation of maguey and the sale |ganda against alcoholism in Mexico,/0f pulque have been unsuccessful. |where a large part of the popula-|The pulque industry gives easy and tion degenerates due to the con- quick profits to the planters and {sumption of the native alcoholic! theret\ve they will not voluntarily \drink, “pulque,’ the fermented|abandon its cultivation. juice of the maguey plant. |ernment is powerless to do more In a message addressed to alj|than make propaganda against the federal and state officials, labor) W°rst results. leaders and educators, Portes Gil| proposes that sports shall be pro-| moted in the schools and in the | agricultural and labor centers; that the dissemination of anti-alcoholic information will be compulsory in /all public and private schools; that | pictures will be placed in all schools and theatres showing the evils of | On May Day—long live the al- liance of the working class and the poor farmers! ‘Reformist Leaders Aid British Industrialists to Push Class “Peace” Pulque Drink by Mexicans, The gov-| Y areas held in the South by the Com- munists, organized in local Soviets, troops from the defeated Hankow Kwangsi armies formerly holding Hankow, are plundering and burn- ing. ; ; * {alcoholism; and that leagues of| \little information on troop move-|® i : | |ments was released by the govern eened against alcoholism shall be) LONDON, April 24—The Feder- | ment today indicated that the gener-| 5 .__ ation of British Industries, which led {al enveloping movement of the fed-) No compulsory or repressive the attack f Briti ‘erals continues. The main strength | measures against the _manufacture | machinists cuvtig Le vniat ae Be | of the clerical insurrectionists seems jand asis ae qaeens beverages | dustrial depression, was to be concentrated at Masiaca, where | Were proposed because the principal | represented at a conference attended Frank L. Lockhart, U. S. Consul 7999 men are entrenched. | Their General at Hankow, reported to the’ pane iecroroutsd “bail and shang American department of State yes-| deabet every da 7 terday that he had “asked” the “esert every day. Nanking government to send relief | i : to Taoyuan for foreigners there. He | 0M the main line railroad from San did not request any relief campaign | Blas, Sinaloa, where General Calles for the Chinese peasants, dying like; has his headquarters, to Guaymas, flies. The famine has spread in the | @ west coast seaport, and from wake of destructive armies from the| thence north to Nogales and the northern area into Hunan province.| American border. A federal war- ship lies in Guaymas bay and has the road under range of its guns. On May Day—long live the al- liance of the working class and the poor farmers! | would have to leave the railroad and —_———_ most of their rolling stock south of SCHEINMANN REMOVED. Guaymas and march across country (Wireless By “Inprecorr’) |to resume their retreat. The feder- MOSCOW, Nril 23.—The Central jal army vanguard is at the outskirts Executive Committee of the Soviet of Masiaca. Government has decided to remove Fight for the Border. Aaron Scheinmann from his posts! 1, the north the “rebels” still hold ap then betes the Council of Lebar) Nogales, on the border, but General and Defense, vice-commissar of the | \belarde Rodriguez, governor of People’s Commissariat of Finance, Masiaca, in Southern Sonora, is; |The “rebels,” defeated at Masiaca, | Lower California, is marching upon | | alcoholic product of the country, and | |the most detrimental, the “pulque,”| is so strongly intrenched in the habits of the peasants and in the economic interests of a large part of the population, that any imme-| | diate repressive measures against jPulque might cause widespread im- |mediate unemployment and economic | \difficulties. It is estimated that! | about a million acres of agricultural land is planted with maguey and} | gives employment to a million and \a half persons. This industry pays | jabout ten million rubles in taxes.| | There are in Mexico City alone | 2,000 shops selling pulque. | Demonstrate your solidarity with the striking miners, textile, food and shoe workers on May Day, and against the treacherous socialist party and the capitalist flunkeys of the A. F. of L. ' by 78 delegates yesterday at which reformist Trade Union Congress leaders agreed to serve on a com- mittee “to examine the best means of obtaining industrial peace.” The ‘ National Confederation of Employ- ers Organizations was also repre- sented. It is believed that the first task of the new committee will be to se- cure a “peace pact,” which British| industrial leaders in~ conjunction |House of Commons Has Pre-Election Debate vil 24. LONDON, -The general ous debate in the House of Com- mons tonight a few hours after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had announced that election day would be May 30. The speaker was forced to appeal fdr order a number of times. The debate started with a dis- cussion of unemployment. Scon it became a hot dispute between Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labor, and J. R. Clynes, Laborite, on the responsibility for the general strike of 1926. “The real blame lies with those who preached a general strike with- out considering it,” shouted Steel- Maitland. “They induced the work- ‘ers to blunder into it..” Yellow Socialists Silent. In answer to this, the Labor Party speakers either said nothing, or tried to excuse themselves from the “guilt” of supporting the strike or pointed to their record of betrayal to prove that they were not “guilty” of starting the general strike, which would, had reactionary leaders not called it off, have saved the miners |from their present unemployment and misery. Only the Communists in England defend the general strike on prin- ciple. WON'T VOTE NOT TO BOMB CITIES Geneva Conference for | Use of Planes | GENEVA, Switzerland, April 24 (UP).—The preparatory disarma- ment commission, by a vote of 23 to 5, rejected today a proposal by |Count Von Bernstorff of Germany to prohibit bombing by airplanes. | Minister Hugh R. Wilson, in ex- plaining the negative vote of the had not yet come to settle the prob- lem. In introducing the proposal, Bern- storff submitted opinions of experts that in any great city, such as New York, London, Paris or Berlin, 500,- 000 of the civil population could be killed within two hours by an at- | tack with gas and incendiary bombs. ADMIT VESTRIS WAS OVER- LOADED. LONDON, April 24. — Alfred election campaign burst into a furi-| *| question of race and nationality.” Four naval aviators were Er cape Led Out for Execution at Tsinan, China, Overpower Guards, LABORITES STAB GENERAL STRIKE | illed when two plines crashed in m wreckage of »lanes. ‘Sandino Sends Greetings to Barbusse | “Our struggle will soon become international in its scope, with the united action of the masses of the imperialist countries who, together with the masses of the colonial and semi-colonial countries, will crush the common enemy, World Imperial- ism,” declares Augusto Sandino, |leader of the Nicaraguan Army of Independence, in a letter of greet- ing to Henri Barbusse, chairman of the League Against Imperialism. Sandino Confident. Sandino expre: his confidence in his cause “which passes over the His letter, just made public by the United States Section of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, | follows: | “General Headquarters Army of Independence of Nicaragua. El Chipoton, Nic: January 19, 1929. “Henri Barbusse, “144 Rue Montmartre “Paris, France. “T had the honor to receive your encouraging message of July of last year in which you took the pleasure to greet, in the name of the revo- lutionary intellectuals of France and | | Europe, the Army of Independence) | largely | United States, said that the moment | of Nicaragua and give your ad- |herence to the cause of the inde- | pendence of Nicaragua. It is with great honor that I take the liberty, | to greet you and the men and women! on whose behalf you speak, We |adhere, together with you, to the anti-imperialist cause for which you and the fighters of this continent | struggle against the oppressors of the people. “Will Crush Imperialism.” “As well expressed by you, our | cause ‘passes over the questions of with right wing members of the) Woods, general manager of Lam-) race and nationality; it is the cause Trade Union Congress, have planned | port & Holt, owners of the steamer of the oppressed, the exploited, the to force on the unions since the war. An enthusiastic campaigner for the “peace efforts’ was Lord Melchett. Melchett has interests in the Mond Nickel Mines in Sudbury, Ont., whose officials were prominent in the campaign which led to the jailing of Arvo Vaara, editor of the | Finnish Communist paper “Vapaus” for “sedition.” | Vestris which sank last November | with a loss of 111 lives, admitted in the Board of Trade inquiry to- |day that it was overloaded on its fatal voyage. | Long Live the First of May— | the day of solidarity of the revo- lutionary workers of all countries! Down tools on May Day! peoples against the dominators.’ In fact, we never hglieved we are alone | in the struggle for the liberation of Nicaragua. While at present this struggle takes on a national char- acter, it will soon become interna- tional in its scope with the united | action of the masses of the imperial- ist countries who, together with the masses of the colonial and semi- and president of the State Bank. it with superior numbets, and is |of continuing my letter to you. colonial countries, will crush the common enemy: World Imperialism. “The Army of Liberation as well as myself are cognizant of the fact that other nations e now in the struggle against World Imperialis We also know of the intens: ity displayed by you for the of the oppr d and all th duces us to foretell that the victory of humanity over all pressions is surely to come. raguan Masses Unite. s to the Nicaraguan masses, in spite of the impostors and agents of Yankee Imperialism in our own country, they are coming to the realization that they must face American Imperialism in a solid, united mass. “It is with pride and honor that ° {I communicate to you the splendid spirit of our army fighting Ye invaders and the Nicaraguan tors. At this very moment our at- tention is centered around the bat- tlefront; this being the main reason for depriving myself the Ly eshiee hope I will continue to receive ‘your esteemed letters with the promise on my part to follow this with more extensive information. ai- “In my name as well as in the Four Die, When Planes Crash In Mid-Air In California d-air in California. Photo shows ‘TO CRUSH IMPERIALISM’ gpitish PARTIES MAKE GESTURE All Get Together With Words for “Peace” LONDON, April 24.—The House - of Commons today heard the usual pressions from the Conservatives, als and Labor Parties on the armament fake. All agreed that disarmament would be a good thing. But following the line of First Lord of the Admiralty the govern- ent spokesmen managed to inter- ct the idea of a delay in consid- m of any actual reductions. In not to appear to the voters of nd to be preparing a war on imperialism, all three of the mentioned parties continued on the fiction that Ambas- n, in his speech at Ge- neva, proposing transfer of tonnage from category to category for the advantage of U. S. and France and against the interests of England, actually offered plans for a naval reduction. | Now Exchange of Notes. Meanwhile it was understood that | the cabinet discussed Gibson’s speech with a view to instructing Lord Cushendun at Geneya as to pro- cedure in preparing for the next public move. Whether Britain ould send a note to the United s was understood to be under | di on. It was believed that pre- liminary conversations already were in progress at Geneva, but author- ities were non-committal. Chamberlain pointed out that dif- ferences between England and the United States in regard to reduc- tion of navies concerned a formula for limitation of categories of ships alone, not the principle of relati strength of the two navies. Britain has insisted that parity of navies is just name of the Army of Independence of Nicaragua, I cordially greet you and all fighters for the freedom of this continent. With fraternal embraces, (Signed) “Land and Liberty 75 FISHERMEN DEAD IN WRECK TOKIO, Japan, April 24,—The Japanese steamship Toyo Kuni Maru sank within a few minutes after striking rocks off Cape Hakodate, with a loss of 75 persons, mostly poor fishermen bound for Kamschat- ka to fish for crabs this summer. On May Day—fight for social for May Day—fight ey n insurance against unemployment, sickness and old age; for the or- ganization of the unorganized; for militant, fighting unions. Long live the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention! against the speed-up and for the winning of the cight-hour day. | Long live the seven-hour day, and | the six-hour day for young work- crs! George Piatikov has been appointed n his place to the presidency of the State Bank. already at Sasabe, 50 miles away. There is no railroad between Sasabe | ae? Nogales. ¥ B 7 —— Other “rebel” forces are at Agua plea Bates ees |Prieta, on the border, and the de- MONTREAL, April 24 (U.P).—An/|fense of Pulpite Pass over which Ottawa dispatch to the Montreal| the federal general Almazan with | Star today indicated that American) 10,000 is trying to march, is directed and Canadian correspondence aris-| from Ague Prieta. ing from the sinking of the schooner; A small force of several hundred | ’m Alone by U, S. coast guards will) “rebels” is reported attempting to | not be made public until tomorrow. slip past Almazan’s army and cut | A Story of the Civil Wars in the U.S.S.R. International Publishers. By Ar A: AROSEV Copyright, 1929 |Shchetinkin’s rooming house, there] ter, like Yan's. Andronnikoy did|His blue eyes were shining; all his were hasty conferences in the cor- | not realize this, however, and at the | features, somewhat palled by sleep- ridors as to what had best be done} moment he was especially far from|less nights and starvation, became with the staff headquarters, andj feelings of this kind. But all this|more tense and more sharply out-| WITH A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MUNIST YOU HAVE YOUR CHOICE EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING TWO SETS COM- OF LENIN A. Arosev fought through the Revolution and the Civil Wars and has written many stories of those critical times when the workers’ and peasants’ republic Reminiscences of Lenin by Zetkin with the gold. Some lost their his only railroad communications | with Oiudad Juarez, Chihuahua. If ‘this expedition fails, and Alamazan | forces Pulpite Pass, the main rebel | body in Southern Sonora will be in ja hopeless position. On May Day—mobilize for the siruggle against colonal oppres- sion! Long live the revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the eppressed peoples! ‘May Day Edition of Daily Worker for Textile Strikers From a comrade who knows the real meaning of May Day, as it should be made to live in the hearts of the working class, we have received the following note: “Comrades: “Enclosed is $7.10 to pay for special bundles of the Daily Worker for free distribution among the fighting workers in the Southern strike area, “I want to send these papers to our comrades for the First of May. ' “Long Live International May Day! Comradely, K. PILLERIS.” This worker living in Centerville, Maryland, knows the true meaning of May Day and the importance of the Daily Worker to the Southern strikers. He knows that the May Day edition of the Daily | Worker will be especially valuaiie to the Southern workers. He remembers that one of the strikers coming to New York from Gastonia had said to comrades on the Daily Worker that he had never heard of May Day until he came here. Many of the workers in the strike area will celebrate their first May Day this year, fully consci- ous of what it means. Fellow workers, send in funds plentifully to make possible the sending of tens of thousands of Daily Workers to the Southern strik- ers on May Day. A bundle of 1,000 costs $6. Send in Your Contribution I am sending you to be used for sending bundles of the Daily Worker for free distribution among the ‘ex- tile strikers in the South. | was born in pain and blood. His short story, “The Soldiers,” was printed earlier in The Daily Worker. The following story, tho | fiction, is completely authentic as an intimate, characteristic picture of the great leader of the pro- letarian revolution. * poe the telegraph room, where ing, Lenin passed to his small study. | He sat down on the armchair and| wrote on a little square of paper, in clear, tiny, rounded letters: “Felix Edmundovich, I content| | Make final arrangements with Ya- kov Mikhailovich. It is necessary: | | ee | heads, others spoke encouragingly. And from the Porokhovoi, Alafuz and Krestovonikov plants, dark- blue columns of workers were ad- vancing toward the Kazan Portress. | And at Nizhni-Novgorod huge “Tlya-Muromez” airplanes were be- | ing assembled for flights over Kazan and Samara. And on the square in front of the nin, and awaiting Le: ~ * * HEY called up Lenin by tele- phone; he kept answering “Pres- again sank into the corner of the! of his voice was rich, succulent, full, jently,” and did not appear. Andron-| automobile, at the right. nikov, who was going to. the front) —the kindness and the sternness,| lined. A new leather coat, with a_ the laughter and the intelligence | “fish-fur lining,” covered him merging into something out of the| strangely and clumsily, but it glist- ordinary and at the same time sim- ened so! It was such a pleasant, | ple and human—whirled around|new sensation to feel it around his Andronnikov, enveloping him, ith! shoulders, chest, arms- And in An- this unusual and at the same time/|dronnikov’s soul, too, there was a plain human quality, Lenin seemed} great renewal. All things and all to embrace Andronnikov. | people were already different to him | That is why Andronnikov was al-|—fresh and new. ways at a loss when they asked) Next to him stood Ilyich, all) Hughes’ and Morses were click- | Moscow Soviet Building stood a regi- him: “‘And what kind of a man is| heated, and, bending over the ban- ment of workmen and Red soldiers, | ready for entraining to the front, | | | Lenin?” L isters of the balcony, he delivered © la speech, turning slightly to right ENIN pulled his crumpled hat and to left. He spoke, drawing the down on his ears so that the| words from the depth of his being, ind might not blow it off, and on account of which the very sound |of that special vital power which, in “What do you think—will they a full stream, pours assurance into Program of Communist International Paris on the Barricades by George Spiro oR Revolutionary Movement in Colonies Marxism by Lenin Building Up Socialism by N. Bukharin This special offer will hold good dur- ing the months of Apri! and May only (1) To perform the entire opera- tion in the shortest time possible. (2) To arrange the details with the military authorities. (3) To pass it the automobile standing in the yard of the Moscow Soviet, and passing ry through the sidelines, so as not to tomorrow through the Politbureau.| 4, is . \disarrange the ranks of the regi- ‘With Communist sree » |ment, drove to the Kremlin. | enn.” | At the very entrance to Kutafya | He pressed a button. The secre-/ Tower he nearly collided with an ‘tary entered, a young workman automobile in which, on the right, with a simple, stern face. Lenin leaning somewhat toward the corner, ‘sealed the note himself and gave it! sat Lenin; he wore a crumpled black to the secretary. Then through an-|/hat. Seeing Andronnikoy,, Lenin at ether door he walked out to the! once shifted to the other side of the, He spoke with! automobile and shouted: Arzamas. One could only hear:| “You are after me? I am coming, “What? Hello! The center of the coming.” _city is still in our hands? In ours?) ‘The cars passed each other, but | Hoseholtz is there? I hear, I hear. Lenin halted his, and Andronnikov, |The center still holds out? workers are armed? Hello! From) automobile. what side? From Laishevo? Well.| Andronnikov liked this sand- Call up again in about two hours, colored face, these wrinkles, as if Good-by.” | hewn in stone, radiating from the And again he passed through his/ nose, these pupils, black and fiery. study into the telegraph room where| In general, such a simple face. Hughes’ and Morses were click-/If not for the eyes, it would even [AN Gs: 3-0-0 appear commonplace. And there is And at Laishevo they were al- contradiction in the eyes: they are veady hanging people “for bolshe-| kind and stern at once, but beneath telephone booth. |vism,” shooting them down, drown-| the kindness and the sternness there | could hardly keep up with him. ing, flogging, cutting off ears. ...,lurks laughter somewhere in the Aad ia Kezan, in what had been | depths, Such a merry, sunny laugh-, ‘The overtaking him, changed to Lenin’s| at the head of his detachment, took| take Kazan or not?” he asked An-| hearts. | dronnikoy. “We will hardly be able to hold it,” answered Andronnikov. “And how is the spirit?” “Well, the spirit of our men is good. The boys realize the danger.’ Lenin was at once on the alert; he narrowed slightly his left eye and raised his right eyebrow. Some- what sidewise, approaching his right ear, he leaned toward Andronnikov; when Lenin listened he listened with his whole being, without reserve. | “They realize it.’ Andronnikox was saying, “especially the work- | ers. However, so do the Red sol- | diers, now.” “And what is their attitude to- ward the creation of a big army, a |} real army?” “Sympathetic. done, anyhow.” It will have to be All Lenin’s words were or-| dinary. But when such a word en- | ters your heart and you bite into it, —it contains a kernel, And through | this ardent Lenin, through his fur-| ‘owed, sand-colored face, through) his simple eyes,—are they fiery or) | Soft brown? —through his whole stocky figure, Andronnikoy was | again enveloped by the strange diz- ziness that embraced him in a pecu- lia, human way, like something very, | |very near. As if this man were his | elder brother. | In the midst of Lenin’s speech | Andronnikov’s ears suddenly caught: “It is a devilishly difficult thing to | govern a country.” , . . “Can it | be that we, with him and similar | people, actually rule the country?” | thought Andronnikoy. And such a man: a brown coat on Lenin, a jerumpled hat. And what power! Mail yo WORKERS LIBR 43 East 125th Street ur sub to ARY PUBLISHERS New York City DATES OPEN FOR “A VISIT TOS OVIET RUSSIA” THIS EXCELLENT PICTURE IS NOW BEING TOURED THROUGH THE UNITED INTERNATIONAL RELIEF. The automobile drove through the Ardronnikovy remembered that,metal | lane into the yard of the Soviet. pours out in this way: at first hot, As was his habit, Lenin seemed soft, obedient to blows and to the to break out of the automobile; he| hand. And after it is poured it! ran up the stairs and flew into the | becomes cold, cutting, always power- Praesidium room. — Andronnikov | ful, invincible. Thus with power— \it is born in fire, in flame. Then | Then they Loth came out on the! it cools, to become invincible. balcony. Andronnikoy was solemn. | (To Be Concluded) \ DAY LIFE UNDER A W FOR BOOKINGS Apply to W. I. R., 1 Union Square, N. Y. C., or Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq., Room 201. STATES BY THE WORKERS IT IS A STORY OF PRESENT- ORKERS’ GOVERNMENT.