The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1929, Page 3

rey \ Page Three YANKEE DOLLARS GROW IN CHINA Air, Cable Investments Expand in Nicaragua That American jinanciers are ex- tending their holdings in China and Nicaragua on an unheard of scale is shown by the events of the last few days. In China the rights to commercial aviation have been taken over by Aviation Exploration, Inc., of New York, one of the Cur- iss group of motor monarchs. The contract concluded with Dr. Sun Fo, minister of railways to the Nan- king government, provides for the establishment of three trunk lines, and will connect the entire area trom Nanking to Peking, Canton with Hankow. and Shanghai with Hankow via Nanking. This gives he Americans an excellent strategic uilitary post internally in China. The electric light and power sys- tem of Shanghai has also been sold to an American-controlled firm, the American and Foreign Power Com- pany, fer $50,000,000, This brings American public utility corporations into China. Without doubt the of- ficial party of Kemmerer and his financial advisors are responsible for gaining these tremendous inter- ests. In Nicaragua the All-American Cables, Inc., has acquired the right to operate wireless telephone. tele- graph and television between San Juan del Sur and Managua, with cptions to extend the service inter- nationally. This corporation is a subsidiary of the International Tele- phone and Telegraph system. The contract runs for twenty years. The Capitalists Are Now Pre- paring War on the U. S. S. R.— the Citadel of the Proletarian Revolution. Everyone of Us De- fend the Socialist Motherland of the World Proletariat! Fascist Rule in Italy Doomed to Collapse, Says Liberal Leader PARIS, April 29.—“Overwhelm- | Waterfront Photo shows firemen fighting shacks inhabited by workers on 1 Blaze Threatens Working Class Neighborhood a bl ith Ave. and 40th St., Manhattan. which sta rted in a packinghouse, and threatened the nearby DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1929 By GEORGE PERSHING. GASTONIA, N. C, (By Mail).— The textiie workers in the south have felt the strength of organiza- tion. They have been called “poor white trash” since the Civil War.|it comes as a thunderbolt that is | To them the term “poor white” is |correct, but for “trash” they have bstituted “powerful.” The organ- ers of the National Textile Worl many glaring facts of the terrible exploitation that the textile barons have forced upon them. | The case of one worker, S. H. Wilson, of Bessemer City, who oiled the twister room and spooling room, kept bands of spoolers, took down spools and rolled them down an elevator, brought up pieces and helped on crealing, hunted up bob- | ins for doff twisters and helped doff twisters, took out and sepa- rated waste, all for $14.40 for a week of 60 hours, is a case show- | ing the stretch-out and speed-up | This fellow- | systems in operation. worker had been doing the work of four men on a salary of less than living expenses, 's Union’ have been able to learn! Southern Textile Slavery Is Falling Betore Organization ARMS SWINDLE }tonia, but was fired because she joined the union. Food Is Needed. | ‘The textile slaves are responding to the call of organization. ‘To them |-reaking their chains. beneath their smiling faci one senses the mountaineer strain of hardihood that fears nothing. The strikes in the south will be victories for the working class of the world. Here in the stronghold of the textile barons the chains of |. exploitation are being thrown off and a cloak of decent living condi- tions, more pay end shorter hours put on. | Seabs, police, terrorism and lack of food are helps to the boss. The irst two have failed, The last de- ;pends upon all organized workers and friends of the working class to make it a failure and make the strike a success. As a strike leader workers: Give to the limit to the southern textile strikers, for their fight is the fight of labor against capital, and their struggle is your I want to make the appeal to all) THOMAS CHEERS With Militarists, Says Geneva Is All Right PHILADELPHIA, April 29.—“I government has taken at Geneva Ferg the Hoover proposals, al-| though I wish they went even fur- ther. I am proud of the position of the American government on the question of debts and reparations. We have been tolerably generous in reducing the debt,” thus big- hearted Rev. Norman Thomas char- acterized the disarmament confer- jence farce and the extortions of President Hoover American imperialism in Europe, be- |fore the annual meeting of the Aca: |demy of Political and Social Sciences being held here. | Thomas joined with a group of outstanding international reaction- aries all of whom were vieing wit each other in defind their own im- perialist fatherlands. Dr. Marcel Knecht, of the Paris “Le Maint,” spoke on behalf of French militarism in the following terms: ing financial and economic failures” | are the forces which threaten the} near destruction of Fascist rule in| $24.49 a Month. Then there is the case of Mattie struggle. | Militarists With Him. ¢ “Since 1918 the deepest principles Italy, Francesco Nitt, Italina liberal jeader, will predict in an interview which will be published here tomor- row. The recent plebiscite in Italy, through which Mussollini obtained a mechanical “approval” of his re- gime by electoral methods the meth- cds the results of which were planned before the purely formal elections, is described by Nitt as a farce. The liberal leader estimates the number of unemployed to be 80,000. He points out the enormous expenditures “for police, private espionage organizations, the army and a gigantic system of propaganda throughout the world.” Under the Hammer Strokes of the Class Struggle Capitalist Sta- bilization is Breaking Down! Close Up Your Ranks for the Final ' Blow! | Hughes, a woman with three chil- |dren and a mother to support, whose jpay envelopes were as follows: |March 30, 60 hours, $7.47; April 6, |€0 hours, $7.56; April 13, 60 hours. | $7.18, less grocery bill of $3; April |20, 60 hours, $5.53; total, less gro- leery bill, $24.49, for 240 hours’ | work. | One of the bosses’ puppets, the |Holland Realty Company, bared its | teeth to the workers and began evictions. The first worker to suf- fer was Eva Scott, the mother of ten children. She and her entire |with their belongings, | $2.50 per week for a jhad fallen three weeks in areas, but it was because Eva Scott was a union member and a striker that the Holland Realty Company had her evicted. Eva Scott had been working in the Ozark Mill, in Gas- German Organizations Fight to Win Colonies BERLIN, April 29.—Agitation is growing probable transfer of some of the mandated German colonies to the ‘powers now holding mandates over them. The Gerr-an Colonial Society has just addressed a memorial to| Foreign Minister Stressemann, con- demning the covering statement of in Germany against the) of democracy and of international friendship have more and more con-| i|quered the leading French political | parties, excepting a few Communi- ists the French senate and chamber of deputies are directed by majori-| ties exclusively liberal republican, | radical socialist, socialist, whose po- ‘SENATE EVADING ! Rum Chaser Practises for War MELLON RULING) } \Committee Dislikes to Commit Itself WASHINGTON, April 29.—The senate judiciary committee failed jagain today to report: whether § retary of the Treasury Melion violating the law by virtue of hol ing his office while having exten- sive stock interests in “large indus trial enterprises. The committee debated an hour and a kalf without reaching a 4 cision. Another meeting will be held tomorrow. Tariff Bill Ready. | A full meeting of the house ways id means committee was tent vely called for Thursday by Chai {man Hawley today, indicating that the new tariff bill has been com- pleted, Since republican members of the committee drafted the measure dem- cerats will be given their first in- formation of the contents of the bill |when the committee meets. It was |said, however, the call was only ten- tative and there may be some reason | jlater to delay the meeting. Heflin Still Crusading. Senator Heflin, democrat, Ala., \continued his attack on the Cath- lolies in the senate today, demand- jing a vote on his resolution to con- However, | am proud of the leadership that our|demn the recent attack on his in |Brockton, Mass. Reed Calls Hoover Shocking. | Photo shows an American Coa her guns on any foreign boat whic tars The photo was taken thru Soviet Union Imports Great | st Guard boat, , ready to vse h its commander thinks is a legal another boat’s porthole. Quantities of Raw Material MOSCOW. (By Mail.)—The prin- sipal import items of the Soviet Union are industrial raw materials, mi-finished products and machin- er In 1927-28 these articles con- ituted 75 per cent of the imports which amounted to 944.7 million roubles. The import of cotton in 2 192 ese ae Pennsylvania mounted to 154.2 million roubles. jorgued against the bermunciory | According to the five year plan |method of President Hoover in con- 1575 million roubles are to be in- temptuously dismissing the national 1203 ™On Tomes ovine, while jorigins revocation bill without com- | ment. | ©To dispose of such am important matter with a single sentence, as does, is shock- irg,” said Reed. | MORE GASTONIA "STRIKERS TOUR ;Will Tell Northerners (Continued from Page One) draws $14.85 a week; and Raymond Clark, a doffer, 19 years old and making around $11 or $12 a week. Long Hours. For these starvation wages, these strikers, as do other Manville- Jenckes toilers, put in a 60-hour week of Starvation | the consumption of cotton is to in- crease by 8.4 ner cent compared with 1927-28, and the import of cotton in 1932-33 is expected to reach 200 million roubles. The 192 import of wool was valued at 64,3 million roubles. Dur- ing the next five years about 150 million roubles is to be invested in sheep breeding while the import of wool is to increase by 30-35 per cent. Import Colored Metal. Colored metals imported by the Soviet Union in 1927-28 amounted Industrial Contests | in Soviet Union to Increase Production MOSCOW. (By Mail.) —Chal- lenges by workers of one factory to those of another in the same indus- try to enter a contest for the high- est increase in the productivity of |labor and the greatest reduction in litical creed is based on the well-| day shift or a 55-hour week night |the cost of production have lately de- known, rights of man and citizen| issued as the republican gospel of | the French Revolution of 1789.” shift. Bledsoe reports that he has three veloped into a novel movement in |many industrial areas of the Soviet | daughters who, while working in the} Union. | With these two defenders of im-) mill, drew $11 a week for the one; The new movement has gained the Versailles treaty which stated perialist conquest there also spoke, who had worked a year, and $15 a particular popularity in the textile Germany started tke war and mis-| Raymond L. Buell of the Foreign| week for one who had worked four |jindwstry. Recently a conference of |them mandates i” them back. it can not get | eens | | cialists Who Support Naval Pro- | grams, They are the Henchmen of the Imperialists! \family were dumped into the street |tteated the colonies. The society) Policy Association, H. W. Watson, | The rent of |calls on the gove.nment to get the republican dirty shack |Colonies back if possible, and keep! pennsylvania, and Henry Kitteridge representative from Norton of New York who said in | justifying American conquest of Hawaii that, advanced nations must use force “when it is necessary to | hola ground which civilization has already won.” | NOTE—Boris Pilniak was born in 1894 into a prosperous middle class family. His real name is Wogau and he has “four bloods” coursing in his veins: German and Jewish from his father, Russian and Tartar from his mother. Pil- niak received a good education and at the age of 14 his first story was published. His real literary strength, however, came to the surface only after the Revolution. One of Pilniak’s most famous novels is “Leather Jacket,” which | describes the heroic achievements of the Russian workers under the Jeadership of the Communist Party during the critical years after the Revolution. The following is an extract from this novel. ._ * # , “And the last shall be first.” i eesti in Ordynin’s house, in ‘Y the Ispoleom (Exceutive Com- mittee) quarters—(there were no flower-pots in the windows here)— there gathered men in leather jackets —the Bolsheviks. These fellows, in leather jackets, were, every mother’s son of them, leather beauties; each one strong, with a shock of hair fall- ing from under the cap down the ‘neck; each one’s skin fitted tightly to the jaws; lips were set, move- ‘ments were downright and firm. They are the pick of the flabby and uncouth Russian people. In leather jackets—you can’t dampen them. ‘his we know, this we want, this we ‘have decided—and no turning back. Peter Oryeshin, the poet, said truly: \“Or freedom to the destitute we'll bring, Or—in the field, from a post we'll swing.” F Arkhip Arkhipov spent the days at the Ispolcom, writing papers; |then he made his way wearily ‘through the city and the factory, at- tending conferences, gatherings, meetings. He wrote papers; knit- ting his brows—his beard slightly idisheveled—he held his pen like an jax. At the meetings he pronounced ‘oreign words thus: “enfasize,” “ene- simply that the need for doing a} retically,” “Litephonogram,” “foonc- ition,” “budgdet,” ete, In a leatlyx done, And human hasds can do any-| de i | Leather Jackets A Story of Reconstruction Period in the U.S.S. R. | Arkhip Arkhipov woke up with the |sun and, hiding the fact from all) eyes, studied books: Kiselev’s Alge- \bra, Kistyakovski’s Economie Geo- graphy, the History of Russia in the | Nineteenth Century (the Granat |edition), Marx’s Capital, Ozerov’s Science of Finance, Weizman’s Ac- counting, and German Self-Taught; he also studied Gavrilkin’s little dic- tionary of foreign words incorpora- ted in the Russian language. | Leather jackets. | Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks. Yes. So it is. That is what the Bolsheviks are. Cli Seed 'HE Whites retreated in March, and at the very beginning of March an expedition came from Moscow for the purpose of ascertaining what had been left of the factories and plants by the Whites and the squalls of the Civil War. The expedition included the representatives from OTK and KKHMU, and from the Department of Metals, and Gomz and Tsept and TSPKP and Prombureau, and RKI and VTSK, and other industrial or- ganizations—all specialists. demonstrated as clearly as twice two that the situation of the plants was worse than catastrophic, that there were neither raw materials nor in- | struments, neither workers nor fuel, and that it was impossible to re- sume the operation of the plants. | Impossible. I, the author, was one of that expedition; the chief of the expedition was Comrade K.—his patronymic was Lukich. When the order was given in the train to get ready to start,—(we were in the train as an armed detachment)—I, the author, thought that we would | go back to Moscow, since it was ¢m- possible for anything to be done. But we went to the plants, for there is nothing that cannot be done—be- cause not to do is impossible. We went, because the non-specialist, Bolshevik Lukich, reasoned very jacket, with a beard like Pugachev’s. _Funny. And what is still funnier, thing is over only afiev the thing is At al meetings in a district capital it was | | thing. Bolsheviks. Leather jackets. “Foonction enegreticaily.” That is what the Bolsheviks are. And deuce take you all, do you hear?—you, sour-sweet lemonade! ... + * * ieee No. 3, at the Taezhevsky plant. At depth 320, ie., half a mile under the ground borings were being exploded. | drilling waist deep in hot water; the fusemen loaded the borings with dynamite and exploded the borings —water up to their chests. The fusemen had to grope for the fuse |in the water, to grope for the bor- \ings, to insert, by divination, the car- | tridges, to place under the cartridges | the ignitor of fulminating mercury, jand, with the rubber fuse, to ex- | plodge these cartridges—fifteen or twenty of them. | A signal upward: “Ready!” A signal downward: “Ready!” A signal upward: “Firing!” A signal downward: “Fire away!” . One after the other the fuses |flare up, one after the other the bluish flames hiss and whistle over | the water and dive into the rubber tube, under the water. The last blue |into the bucket and the signal up- | ward: “Heave up!” “Right-o!” And with a speed of fifty feet per second (the limit for preserving life), through rain and 'darkness, the bucket shoots upward from death to light. And in the | depths below charges of dynamite |are exploding—the first, second, third, * * . HAFT No. 3, Depth 320—Two men are blasting the borings. “Ready!” “Ready!” “Firing!” “Fire Away!” 1 By BORIS PILNIAK The drillmen were | | at depth 320 in nearly boiling water | | light has whistled and dived. A leap | One finished before tie ovher and, International Publishers, Copyright, 1929 | jumped into the bucket. The second \lit the last fuse (the blue flames hissed and dived), and grabbed the rope. “Heave up, lively!” Whether the second man stumbled, or the engineer was too speedy—the bucket shot upward through rain, darkness, and whistling; the man remained below, and the last little light dived under water. So the first sent the signal up-| ward: “Halt! Lower away!” | The bucket swayed in the dark- ness, hung suspended in the rain, “Lower away!” Then the o” er sent the signal: “Heave up!”—for what would be) the good of a second death? “Lower away!”—thus the first. “Heave up!”—thus the second. And the bucket oscillated in the darkness. Each one was sacrificing his life for his brother, here at depth| 320, where death and funeral are| simultaneous. The engineer probably understood what was going on in the shaft.) | With deadly speed he sent the bucke: | down, and with deadly speed he jerked the bucket upward, to the rumbling of the exploding dynamite down below, where death was. And, | once up above, all three, the engineer and the two fusemen, first and second, felt like having a drink. And |}as there was no revolution at that time, in what other way could they find the opportunity to “foonction |’ enegretically” ? Leather jackets. Bolsheviks. That evening, in Ordynin’s house. Having taken off his boots, Yegor Sobachkin was luxuriousiy kneading | his toes with his fingers. Crouching on the bed near the lamp, as if on all fours, he remained for a long time intent on the pamphlet he was reading; then he addressed his neigh- bor, who was absorbed in a perusal of the newspaper, Izvestia: “And what do you think, Comrade Makarov, is human life determined by | the reality or by the idea? Now,| when one comes to think of it,| there’s reality even in the idea... .” (THE END) | | relief station in the raid by masked years. All report that the mills are ter- ribly hot, full of steam and full of dust. Many workers have asthma. Many have tuberculosis from the unhealthy conditions in which they spend so much of their lives. “Crude” Speed-Up. The strikers say that whereas a man might live under these condi- tions for 15 or 20 years under the older speed of work, the “stretch- out” or speed-up system installed by Manville-Jenckes recently ought to kill him off much earlier. The spinners are speeded by putting smaller pulleys on their machines, | and forcing the workers to a faster pace. The other workers are usual- ly forced to extraordinary efforts by the device of firing some of the workers, and assigning their ma-| chines to their fellows to tend in addition to those they were working on—for the same wage. This tactic is what the mill owners were scolded for by government investigators as “a crude” system of rationalization, The bosses were so sure their wor! ers would not revolt that they made little effort to disguise the greater extortion by fake bonus systems or other schemes favored by employ- ers in the North. Identify Mob’s Tools. Carl Holloway is one of the men who recognized the tools used in destroying the union office and the men several days ago. A crowbar was found near the scene of the raid where it had been dropped by the raiders, which Holloway was easily! able to identify as one he saw under | a spinning frame in the Manville-| Jenckes plant before the strike. | In addition there were found in| the wreckage after the raid hand- cuffs and deputy sheriff’s badges, representatives of the workers of nine textile mills of Moscow, Tver and Ivanovo-Voznessensk was held jin Tver, deciding to enter a contest for the biggest reduction of spoil- age, the highest stimulation of the individual output, the greatest re- duction of unnecessary stoppages of lmachinery, ete. This contest is to {be conducted on the basis of a for- mal agreement signed by represent- atives of all the nine mills. The conference published an ap- peal to all the workers urging them to take part in the contest. Successful contests are also being carried out in the factories of the Urals, the Don Basin, Leningrad, Kharkov and a number of other cities, | All Who Take Part in Bour- geoisic War Preparations, Who Advocate Peace in Industry and Industrial Democracy, Who Sup- port Colonial Oppression—Are the Avowed Enemies and Traitors of Working Class Interests! CINEMA STRIKERS WIN. | Llanelly, Wales; (By Mail).—The workers of the Llanelly Hippodrome cinema theatre here, have won their strike for reinstatement of a dis- missed worker. | showing that deputies who have) been guarding Manville - Jenckes | scabs to keep strikers from talking | to them were in the party of masked thugs. The deputies who take the place of the militia are many of them recognized as prison guards. One is an ex-police chief of Grover, S. C. | and says he was also once a federal ‘revenue officer. Chester Longshoremen comes ~ u Robbed by Contractors Stevedore contractors are stealing 40 per cent of the wages of the longshorcmen in Chester, Pa. The eve. A militant grow» led by Urievery. Photos shows Chester lo se workers are mostly Negro work- Thomas Wolford is fighting this ngshoremen at work. to 57,700,000 roubles. According to the five year plan the sum of 382.5 million roubles is to be invested into construction work in the field of colored meallurgy which will make it possible to cover 97 per cent of the country’s demand for colored metals by the domestic output. | The import of black metals in 1927 was equal to 16,790,000 roubles. The five year plan provides for an investment of 2 milliard roubles into the black metallurgy. By 1932-33 the domestic output is expected to cover the entire demand. Demand Will Increase. Last year the import of tanning materials amounted to 15.7 million roubles, the domestic production coy-} ering 30 per cent of the demand. During the next five years the de- mand for tanning materials will in- crease by 50 per cent and will be met by the home output to the ex- tent of 84 per cent. The p aper industry will get 254 million roubles during the next five yéars, according to the estimates. In 1927-28 the home paper production covered 70 per cent of the country’s demand. In 1932-33 the demand for paper should be met entirely by the home production, which will increase by 79 per cent compared with 1927- 28. Need More Machinery. The total value of the machinery which the country is expected to re- quire during the next five years is estimated at 6,405 million roubles, and while the increase of the mand for machinery by the end of the five years is estimated to amount to 173 per cent, the import of ma- chinery should increase by 250 per ‘cent, while the home production is expected to rise 140 per cent. de-| CALL LAWYERS IN GRAFT CHARGES Senate Will Hear 19 Counts Against Long BATON ROUG Attorneys La., Aprii 29.— rallied around Governor Huey P. Long today in preparation lfor the legal battle which will seek |to clear Long of the 19 charges of impeachment against him. The charges ranged from huge graft |deals, politely termed “indecorous ” to conspiracy to mutderi senate will judge Long oard of managers will prose- Long recently returned from extensive state-wide tour, in ch he sought to convince voters the impeachment proceedin ainst him, maneuvered by poli ical enemies, were the result of h proposed oil and gasoline tax mea- sure. The house, which finished its ses- sions Friday, took just one month and a day after the introduction of the 19-count impeachment resolu- tion in the legislature to complete “investigations” of the various charges. Allies Declare Dawes Board Meetings Over ‘Unless Germany Yields PARIS, April —The only pos- sibility of resuming reparations ne- gotiations by the committee of ex- perts here is for the Germans “to pl themselves frankly before real: ” according to allied gov- ernment inspired opinion expressed tonight. The “realities,” Paris newspapers, tention that the allied minimum offer for annual payments from Germany will not be lowered. Ger- man offers of payments have been fav below the allied minimum. The visit of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht to Berlin this week end will give him an opportunity to explain the results of his frequent private con- ferences with Chairman Owen D. Young last week, the semi-official newspaper Le Temps said. according to the include the con- WORKER HURT BY FALL. LOS ANGELES, (By Maii).— When he stepped tru an opening in a house under construction, Fred Crutsinger, a building worker, sus- tained a concussion of the brain. He may die. | Keep the Red Flag Flying for the Class Struggle and Interna- tional Working Class Solidarity! 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