The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1929, Page 3

‘ Page Three aS LATIN - AMERICAN OMMUNISTS TO, | HOLD CONFERENCE Call Meet for June lat Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES (By Mail).— The first conference of all Commu- nist Parties of South America has been called by the South American Secretariat of the Communist Inter- national for June 1. The conference will take place in Buenos Aires and all South American Communist Parties are preparing to serfl dele- gates. Discuss War Danger The agenda of the congress, as formulated by the South American Secretariat, will be as follows: . 1, The international situation, the anger of war and the LatinsAmeri- van countries, Reporter, Victorio Codovilla. 2, The anti-imperialist struggle and the tactical problems of the Communist Parties in Latin Amer- ica. (The character of the revolu- tion, the Workers and Peasants Bloc, the workers’ alliances). Re- porter, Rodolfo G. Ghioldi; co- reporters, a member of the Mexican Communist Party, one from Colom- bia and one from Chile. 3. The peasant problem. Reporter, a Mexican party member; co-re- porters from Brazil, Argentina and Ecudaor, 4. The race problem in Latin America. Reporter from Peru; co- reporters from Brazil and Cuba. Hear Anti-Imperialist Report 5. The work of the Anti-Imperial- ist League. Reporter, a Mexican party member; co-reporter from Argentina. 6. The trade union problem. Re- porter, Eugenio Gomez, Uruguay; co-reporters from Chile, Argentina and Mexico, 7. The Communist youth moye- ment. Reporter, Edmundo Chitor for Argentina; co-reporters, one for Mexico and one for Uruguay. 8. Questions of organization. Re- orter for Brazil; co-reporters, one or Argentina, one for Mexico and une for Chile. 9. The work of the South Ameri- can Secretariat. Reporter, Victorio Codovilla, SEEK RUBBER PROFITS WASHINGTON. — Appropriation of $100,000 for a survey to deter- mine what rubber producing plants can be grown in the United States is asked in a bill introduced in the house today by Representative Ed- wards, democrat, Georgia. The’ bill recommended that the rubber-pro- ducing qualities of golden rod be de- termined. 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. Japanese Jingoes Photo shows one of the new Japanese planes, built ostensibly for Build War “air mail service between Tokio and Osaka,” but in reality for use against Chinese workers and in coming imperialist war. START FIGHT ON ANTLALIEN DRIVE Hacker Speaks on ILD Campaign May 4 The New York district of the In- ternational Labor Defense has launched a mass campaign against} the new government drive on the foreign-born workers. The passing of the new deportation law—the Johnson bill—is a weapon in the hands of the employers who are thus enabled to spy more effective- ly on workers and to weed out mili- tant elements, the I. L. D. points; out. Secretary of Labor Davis goes further: in his last report he de- mands the registration of all for- eign-born workers, further restric- tion of immigation, more severe de- vortation laws and “selective” as well as “restrictive” immigration. One of the chief objectives of the fight the I. L. D. has launched will be the prevention of the deportation {of John Tapolesanyi, Hungarian | worker, who citizenship has been | revoked by the federal district court | |in Pittsburgh on the ground of “be- lief in the principles of Commun- ism.” Tapolesanyi is now slated for deportation back to fascist Hungary unless the workers of this country |compel the government not to turn jhim over to the Horthy-Bethlen hangmen. The New York I. L. D. has al- ready outlined the tentative plans for the campaign. In the near fu- |ture the first of a series of confer- ‘ences of delegates of working class organizations will be called and plans made for enlisting broad masses of workers of every nation- ality behind the fight. Leaflets in | various languages will be distribu- |ted thruout the shops and factories and mass meetings are being ar- |ranged, as well as lectures before }unions and fraternal organizations. The first of é@he lectures to ac- quaint workers with the facts about the government drive will be held Saturday evening, May 4, at 8 p. m. at the Czechoslovak Workers Home, 347 E. 72nd St. Carl Hacker, as- sistant national secretary of the I.| L. D., will be the speaker. Workers are urged to attend, eee ee | PHOENIX, Ariz., April 23.—The immigration officials here continue their raids and arrests, questioning | everybody known to be connected with the Communist Party or sus-| pected of militant labor activities | with the object of deporting them as foreign-born. R. Radicavitch, Geo, Mastisich, John Veitch, Abe Happaport and) probably many others whose cases are not known are held for deporta- tion. The papers do not carry pub- licity on these arrests. The International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, N. Y., which is de- fending the cases, appeals for funds immediately, Two Former Snoopers Are Held for Death of Los Angeles Man LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 26. —Two former prohibition agents Planes NAVOJOA FALLS | TOCALLES ARMY’ Attack ChristianAymy; ‘Deport Murderous Nun | NOGALES, A —I. M. Vasquez, April 26 (UP). Mexican consul |here, announced today he received | unofficial reports that about 1,000 “rebels” were killed and hundreds wounded in a battle with govern- ment troops at Navojoa, Sonora, last night. cas, Sab Federals Take Navojoa. MEXICO CITY, April 26 (UP).—! to- | Retreating reactionary troops day abandoned two trains north of | Navojoa, according to official ad- vices, and scattered to the hills be- cause they wanted to “prevent a repetition of the Refomra disaster.” The federal advance is continuing, the advices said, federal’ cavalry this morning entered Navojoa, and the infantry and artillery have reached Bacavachi preparatory to continuing to Navojoa. Gen. Plutareo Elias Calles an- nounced that he is moving his base from San Blas to Masiaca. “Rebel” Morale Sinks. A considerable body of the clerical insurrectionists under the command of General Topette, governor of Sonora, is still intact somewhere in the center of the state, it is said, but their morale is low. It is doubt- ful whether there will be another battle on a large scale. About 1,000 Christians revolting under the battle cry, “Christ the King,” and led by Goroztieta, a gen- eral, and several priests, still hold Tepatitlan, Jalisco, and have re- pulsed several attacks. They are nearly surrounded by 5,000 federal cavalry and will probably succumb before long, however. Deport Murderous Nun. In the north, General Almazan continues his advance in the Pulpito Pass region, and is reported to have accomplished a flanking movement through Carretas Pass into Sonora. The nun, Madre Concepcion de La Lata, who helped organize the mur- der of President-elect Obregon, is being sent on a heavily guarded train to the coast, to be transferred to Tres Marias Islands, there to start a life sentence in prison. were held here today in connection with the slaying of Charles Chulla,| 25, alleged bootlegger. The former agents were Harry P. Agar Chenoweth and Jack F. Ormsby,, Shackles Dominicans both of Los Angeles. Federal au- thonities said Chenoweth was dis-| SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 26. charged 18 months ago for cause —An indication of the zeal with and that Ormsby had been dropped, which General Dawes served the from : the prohibition enforcement | United States in his “mission” to staff for failure to pass a civil ser- San Domingo is contained in the vice examination. | editorial comment of the “Informa- Chenoweth and Ormsby are al- cion.” | leged to have killed Chulla during “When he passes the very air a gun battle near Taylor Ranch. seems to take the color of the stars and stripes,” it is stated. Dawes Dawes Leaves for N.Y.; Workers’ ildren, demonstrate | were working ene | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1929 Oil Grafter Won't Have to Eat the Filth Prisoners Get Here [ Photo shows the Poison Fumes Ruin Health While employed in fhe various fac- | tories in Detroit, it was my oppor tunity, from both observation and! experience, to make a careful study and gain many facts concerning, the conditions under which both men and women have to work. The first that I might call attention to is the un- healthful conditions. The most hor- rible of conditions of this kind that I have ever seen or experienced w: tha of the duco sprayer’s booths at the Briggs Mack Avenue plant. In this department mostly Negroes are employed. There was a continuo’ fog of paint throughout the day that these men were forced to in- hale, Ventilation could be had only from the clevator shaft. Resp tors of the very cheapest kind were used—hard rubbcr—which cost, re- tail, 35c. (the company bought in large quantities) and which cost the worker $1.50 in case of theft or loss. The pipes were insufficient ‘to take away the vapor from the spray guns. A number of women and girls these t the end of booths—tape papering. Much of the vapor escaped which they had to in- hale, for they had nothing at all to protect their noses. | The girls worked as long as the men—from 10 to 11 hours, both day and night shifts. They braved the cold as the men, although they were less adequately dressed. It could be plainly seen that many were under the required age. Bs In the press department also, there were a large number of women em- ployed. They handled the heavy sheet-iron just as the men who your solidarity with the entire | left today for New York, where he; worked alongside them, and were is expected early Monday to prepare equally as greasy and dusty. This workers, unle: ed miraculously and lately, ave boring under deplorable conditions. of are 55c, sprayers and:r the hardest job in the plant. Production was increased from 350 up to 500 bodies without changing the rate of pay. The entire shop suffers from the “speed up. Many departments strike frequently. At Dodge Brothers, conditions are cqually as bad, excusing the paint odor of the well-paying piece work are auctioned off by the “straw Negroes are em- ployed the janitor, ch tu other on g- jobs. After working 10 and 1 hours: the janitors are forced to serub the floors several nights each for 2 and hours extr “Straight” time paid. I personally know two young men who have died eek with tuberculosis taken while work- | ing there, and another is in the sani- tarium now, I am constantly inquiring about the conditions of plants I have not visited or worked in and I get about the same reports as my experience has been. Lastly, the mighty Ford Motor Company. Production is the watch- word. Men are simply universal joints to the machines. The thing that men suffer from in this place is overwork. Production is ever in- creasing. New men, which has never been before to my knowledge, are forced to make the production limit. There seems to be nothing human about the entire process — all machines, men and all. Human life and happiness for which industry was created, and for which it should be sacrificed, is sacrificed for in- ; working class on the International for his job United 3 | Workers’ Holiday. | job as United States Am bassador to Great Britain. is true of all of Briggs Plants and is even worse now than ever before. | Particularly the’ sanders, duco sprayers, not to mention the many other maladjustments and conditions dustry—yea, more, Summing up: the worker is faced with a horrible condition throughout Detroit, which is continually grow- ing worse. All have grievances but ‘Russian Fraction in San Franciscé Hits School Disruptors N FRANCISCO, Cal. (By ail)—The following statement as issued by the Russian Language | Fraction of the California Di et | of the Communist Party, in relation the action of individuals who | broke into the Russian school Thurs- | day evening, April 11. fhe Russian Language Fraction, Communist Party, San Francisco, x to state that contrary to the ide prevailing among a certain number of workers, that the groups of individuals who on Thursday eve- ning, April 11, 1929, invaded the | Ru hool, took away the chairs rizing the teacher and | , have nothing in com- h the Communist Party. “All the Russian Party members of San Francisco repudiate such ac- gangsterism. We request t the ment.” | Non-Stop Practice Trip in British Plane Shows | BritainCan Bomb India| | KARACHI, India, April 26.—The | non-stop British monoplane piloted by Squadron Leader A. G. Jones- Williams and Fiight Lieutenant N. H. Jenkins arrived here at 5:45 p. m., local time. A shortage of gaso- line forced it to return after pass- ing. Karachi. Establishment of military plane routes from English bases to India has been a dream of British imper- ialists for several years, and sev- eral previous attempt4 have been 'made, On May Day—rally to the | struggle against imperialist war! All to the defense of the Soviet | Union! Party press to print this state- of IBSON STANDS FOR BiG ARMIES dining room in Occoquan Work- oi house, Virginia, : aerer tales tha, (Ussiey Wiliemsts Zee wealthy oil Reserves Allowable grafter Harry F. ee Sinclair will G A, April lem The Amer- f ican delegate to the preparatory serve 30 days in ' : ne ys ™ “| arms conference today gave away the farce sentence | the militarist plans of his govern- for his part in ment, inadvertently, in the course stealing millions of a speech trying to throw the in the Teapot blame for lack of progress towards ) peeeene | disarmament on Japan for not “lay- Dome Oil Reserve | +6 her cards on the table.” Gibson deal. While the | -tated the United States “would not poor prisoners | insist upon limitation of trained are served inedi- | army reserves.” ble trash as meals | The British and Japanese dele- in this dining gates received instructions from : Sinelair | theit governments this morning and room, Simelair | it was said in well-informed sources will receive his | that an attempt probably would be private meals |made to convoke the next confer- from outside, ence in Washington in 1930, | It was generally anticipated that the commission would son’s prope basis for the future ¢ ence, but virtu dele sisted that a conferer should not be convoked until preparations had been made to ensure its 1 all success, Gibson’s announcement that the United States would not insist on limitation of reserves, coupled with the previous declaration of Lord Cushendun of Great Britain, that England would any agree- ment of military powcrs, left t U. S. S. 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His early. youth was spent in the Rails |ing from the hills were plundering | the refugees, and the soldiers were envious. Armored Train No. 14-69 was dashing between the stations, An Episode of the Civil International Publishers. Copyright, 1929. with a weary movement he put his, cap on the table and said to Zno-! bov: “Soon?” By VSEVOLOD IVANOV Wars in the U.S.S.R. ‘Prepare to Chain | French Workers to | Ford Speedup Belt h 130,000, “Brothers, but they have men!” “Where?” “On the train. PARIS, April 26.—V shares already oversubscribed Special men who, Pects for the new French Foy Com- tt |pany are bright to the thousands of + pro WHEN YOUR BACK SEEMS BREAKING aches arising from stooping or reclining it seems is faced by the most serious | problem of all. In many cases white workmen refuse to cooperate. He is | refused decent jobs in many fac- tories, yet he must compete in the great struggle for existence. Both he and the white worker are ignor- | avoiding picy foods, liquor, and take ant of what lies at the bottom of SantalMidycapsules. Theyalsohelpirregular, their ills. But unless Negro and_ scantyorburningpassagesand Bac often mean kidneys need help. Aid them by ing meats, Sf Your Chance to See SOVAET Khirgiz steppes and he led a col- | and it alone prevented the soldiers 5 fix the track, haven’t they?” | f Gland ne hank | White workers unite for the cause of | Dightrisingfrom bladder weak- y & orful, adventurous life—from cir- | from dropping everything and mak- poe Switchman at the telephone} “you're a fool, Vaska; and what poeiae sda vale Pe pore i liberating themselves from their |" Genuine Ms R wD $s s Z A cus clown to partisan (guerrilla) ing off. . is : if we kill them all off? All of ini 4 ee nee worse-than-chattel slavery, the knell Ly Dr.L.Mid: flahton. ‘ise sdlesrcy.seoatather ohne | “They don’t. answer.” em?” of ghtaiaing: Hip cuit coveted sha Ru momarecseet se 3 ere ag rien TOURS FROM $385.00 Gorky. One of Ivanov’s most fa- THE guerilla staff was sitting in) The muzhiks sat silently. One of/ And getting into the spirit of it,!to prevent enmporation wonteol at the _—AUTO worKER. | me The Soviet government welco mous novels is “The Armored Train,” dealing with the period of the Civil Wars, which has been dramatized and successfully pro- duced by the Moscow Art Theatre. The story, “On the Rails,” is an extract from this novel. sae jounted on a round-bellied horse that was as shaggy as a mastiff, Nikita Vershinin rode along the bushes near the railroad- embank- ment. The muzhiks were lying in the bushes, smoking and getting ready for a long, stubborn wait. Their shirts—scores, hundreds of motley pots of color—flashed on both ides of the embankment between che crossings—over a distance of al- most ten versts, A lazy horse; a bag instead of a saddle. Vershinin’s legs dangled jown and his boot painfully rubbed ais heel through the carelessly wrapped rags. “Look here, boys, there must be ao women!” Vershinin was saying. -Detachment commanders drew Ives up soldier-fashion, and ikly, as if steadying themselves ‘rough soldierly deportment, asked: \“Any news from the city, Nikita ‘egorich 2” “There’s an uprising.” “And how’s the military ad- vances 2” Vershinin struck the belly of his orse with his heel and started off, feeling sleepy fatigue in his body: “Advances are good, lad. Remem- her, we mustn’t make a mess of our The muzhiks lined up along the mbankment as if for mowing. They raited. “The embankment looked unnatur- lly, disagreeably empty. During he last few days echelons of refu- ees, of Japanese, American, Rus- jan soldiers, had passed eastward, Then a thread the switchman’s booth. The ‘switchman stood dejectedly at the telephone receiver and asked the station: “Is the armored train comin; soon?” ‘ | Next to him sat a guerilla fighter | with a calm face; he held a revol- ver and he was gazing at the switchman’s mouth. | Vaska Okorok was baiting the switchman: “Don’t get cold feet. you a cook.” And pointing to the telephone he said: “They say that the learned Bol- sheviks in Petrograd talk with the moon,” “Well, who can help it, even if it’s so?” The muzhiks sighed and looked at the embankment: “Truth can climb even to the stars.” ) The staff was awaiting the arm- ored train. Five hundred muzhiks were detailed to the bridge. Long Russian carts brought logs to the embankment, so as to prevent the armored train from going back. Crowbars lay near the ties—ready for tearing up the rails. Znobov said grumblingly: “Truth and truth is all you know. But we don’t know ourselves what it’s for. What do you want to talk to the moon for, Vaska?” “Just from curiosity, that’s all! Perhaps we might want to build a muzhik on the moon.” The muzhiks, roared. “Damned sinner!” “Darn his hide!” “Here we're trying to dope out how to lose as few men as we can, and he goes batting about the moon. How are we going to take the arm- | ored train, darn you?” “We'll take it!” “It ain’t a squirrel that you can We'll make | them began to talk about hunting. | Znoboy remembered the president of the Reveom (Revolutionary Com- mittee) in the city. “That light-haired fellow?” asked the muzhik who had just been talk- ing about hunting; and straight off he began to spin a yarn about Pek- levanov: that his face is whiter than wheat flour, and that women | cling to him like frogs to a swamp, and that the Americann Minister had offered seven hundred billion to induce Peklevanov to as- sume the American faith, but that Peklevanov had answered proudly: “We won’t accept you into our faith, | even for nothing.” “Son of a ——!” said the muz- hiks admiringly. For some reason it was pleasant to Znobov to listen to all this ly- ing, and he felt moved to tell some- thing himself. Vershinin took off his boots and began to rewrap his foot-cloths. Suddenly the switch- man spoke timidly into the tele- phone: “When? Five-twenty?” And turning to the muzhiks he said: “Coming!” And as if the train were already at the booth, all of them ran out and, shouldering their rifles, mount- | ed the carts and drove eastward to the blown-up bridge, “We'll make it!” Okorok was saying. . ee a SCOUT was sent forward. They looked at the rails that stretched with a dull glitter among the trees. “Rip ’em up, and that’s all.” | And from another wagon came the retort: “Can't be done. together again?” “We'll go straight in the train, brother!” | “We'll just roll into the city!” | Who'll pull ’em {| embankment, they all agreed: “That's the stuff... . off!” “No, no, there'll be nobody to fix the track.” They kept looking back to see if| the armored train was coming.) They were careful to remain under | cover of the woods, for rarely did men expose themselves along the! line—the armored train fired on the | run, Hearts were beating with fear; the men flogged their horses, urg- | ing them on as if shelter awaited) them at the bridge. About two versts from the switch- | man’s booth they saw a rider on the, new company was defeated at least by one company. The number of shares for each subscriber was an- nounced as limited to two or three. The 2,000 employes of the institu- tion were therefore instructed to make application for shares with the money provided them by the company. By prior arrangement the shares were then turned over in bulk to the company. Thus the work- ers were forced to play the role of dupes to enable the company to grab up a lot of these lucrative shares. | Ford will introduce in his new factory all the slave-driving meth- ods that have made his American factories notorious. Kill ’em U. S. 8. R. BICYCLE FACTORY MOSCOW (By Mail).—An agree- | |ment has been signed by the Mos- | cow Soviet with the B. S. A. firm of England for the drafting of plans jand consultation in connection with ‘the construction of a bicycle factory | |with an annual output of 120,000 | bicycles. The building of the fac- tory is to be started during the cur- | rent year. “Ours!” shouted Znobov. Vaska took aim. “Shall I nip him off? ours?” “The devil he is! Would I be aiming at him if he were?” Sin-Bin-Ou, the Chinaman, who sat next to Vaska, restrained him: “Wa-it, Va-si-ka-a!” “Wait!” shouted Znobov. (To Be Concluded) WORKMEN'S SICK & DEATH BENEFIT FUND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1884 A 60,000 MEMBERS IN 344 BRANCHES | IN THE U.S. A. 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