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* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929 Page Three _ 25,000 Land Workers in Czechoslovakia Now in Strikers’ Ranks as MACHADO CENSOR HOLDS PROTEST ABLE OF LL.D, Demand Terror Cease, Called “Subversive” -By U.S. Puppet Mexican Terror Grows 4. F. of L. Outfit Gives Its Approval The persecution of Latin-American vorkers and peasants by the puppet overnments of Yankee imperialism, rowing sharper from day to day, is gain brought out by a cable re- eived yesterday by the National ‘ffice of the International Labor defense in answer to a cable sent to Iachado, dictator of Cuba, protest- ig the fascist terror. The follow- 1g cable was received from the ‘ostal Telegram Cable Company: “Your cable of May 18 addressed > Mr. Machado, president of the ‘uban government at Havana, Cuba, as not been delivered for the reason hat the Cuban government a’ favana has stopped and filed the able for the reason being of sub- ersive character.” This was the answer to a cable} ent by the I. L. D. protesting vigor- | usly against the whole regime of srror, and its latest act, the depor- ation of Santiago Coleman, militant | tbor leader, aboard the steamer | laximo Gomez. The cable sent by re I. L. D. was: “The International Labor Defense £ U.S, A, raises most vigorous pro- | 2st of working class against regime | € terror in Cuba against workers, | ANTLFASCIST GALL MEETING 'To Announce Plans for Concerted Activity An “international body which will mobilize, co-ordinate and consolidate the anti-fascist forces of the entire world” has been established by the recent International Anti-Fascist Congress in Berlin which was at- tended by 240 delegates from 40 countries. The American Section of the new Anti-Fascist Federation will hold its |To Exploit Philippines | | rer Walkout Spreads Prepare Transatlantic ‘Flichés to Glorify Tmperialiem Rival imperialist powers are planning trans-Atantic flights to boost their air services, in prepara- tion for imperialist war. At left, are Armeno Loti, Jean Assolant and Rene Lefevr a New York to Paris hop, for French imperialism, ard at the right is Capt. Louis Yancey, planning a flight to Rome, to boost Mussolini. getting ready for ANOTHER DEAD IN WAR MANEUVERS Practice for Air Raid) | on Moscow, in N. Y. YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, May 21.—The large scale preparation of the Wall Street imperialists for war in the maneuvers in Ohio has al- | veady resulted in two deaths. Sec- ond-Lieut. Florin W. Shade was killed when his plane developed en- gine trouble and crashed to the ground. Another aviator, Edward | Meadow, was killed last Saturday in a collision during the maneuvers. HOOVER PULLS | STUNT IN DEBTS Now Openly in Banker | Conference PARIS, May 21 of offering cone man government in reparation pay- ments, concessions which in reality jamount to nothing, President | Hoover has officially entered the in ternational conference of bankers, | | working hand in hand with them and representing Wall Street. | His offer, which amounts to a re- | |duction amounting to no more than $1,309,000 on the amount Wall Street wants from Germany, has | been presented to a select commit- tee of the banker-delegates, who | have remained rather cool at this gesture of “good-will” and rather angry that Hoover thought 9f it be- fore they did, One delegate termed | it a “waiter’s tip,” but the American bankers are reported to have hailed the offer as the “inauguration of a new stage.” Other Imperialists Surprised. The entrance of Hoover into the negotiations, officially bringing in |the American government, must have taken the other imperialist ‘powers by surprise, for they ap- peared to be quite willing to allow their bankers to settle the question. |Owen D. Young, chairman of the | committee and president of General Electric, and J. P. Morgan have been wanting to get the thing over with quickly, assuring Wall Street con- trol in the proposed international bank and in the shylocking of the German workers. It was chiefly this control by Yankee imperialism that the British imperialist delegates were fighting against. causing the drawnout three- Pilot Killed In War Maneuver S) ¥ maneu battle was staged, Lt was taken right afte the crash. paration for the real imperialist w at Columbus Edward Meadow was kcilled. _, MOBILIZE STATE | FORCES; ATTACK g STRIKERS MEETS Workers Prevent Scabs from Reaching Fields Inprecorr”) ovakia, ] | j d land inces land is spreading n has been with vir- thorities eral prohibition ings in Western vakia, the few has been in- troduced and no 2 than thi perso’ are allowed together on the streets. Despite these prohibitic armed fo: the workers are resist- ing en m nd preventing import- ed scabs from reaching the fields. The government is mobilizing sol- in which The above a shan photo rmed, as scabs. diers, Drive to Ald Relief fully The ar. mimic air war was in 3 WOMEN IN POLL ARE COMMUNISTS of Textile Strikers at are Seles Stops Milwaukee on May 26 700 Canada Workers from Working in US collection for the of the southern, A house-to-h relief and defense e ssulting in assassination of Mella |*itst mass meeting on Friday eve- t Mexico, persecutions for opinions |'"S, May 24, at Irving Plaza. It} \ Cuba, deportation of Santiago will be the first of a series of mass oloman aboard steamer Maximo Mectings and demonstrations to be omez. We demand immediate re-|held throughout the country. ‘ase of Coloman and secession of To Draw Americans In. wpitalist Cuban government perse-| All American groups that can ition of workers. participate in the struggle against Si, ‘ie fascism will be drawn into the new Daca core eters pape federation, to make a compact, fight- | Defense. ing organization, The organizations | Machado, who does the butcher-|tkat have united to form it include | g for Yankee imperialism in Cuba,|the Trade Union Educational | as the same one who sent his/League, the International Workers | zents into Mexico to assassinate|Defense, the Workers International | lio Mella, Cuban Communist | Relief, the Italian Anti-Fascist Al- ader. During the fake trial in|liance, the Anti-Horthy League, the exico of the assassin of Mella the|Lithuanian Anti-Fascist Alliance, exican government had him ac-|the Anti-Imperialist League and the | titted as an act of favor to the Yan-| American Civil Liberties Union. 2e imperialists. Will Outline Plans. That the Mexican government is! At the meeting on Friday the plan »% far behind in the footsteps of|for the American struggle will be achado was shown by the execu-| outlined, and delegates to the Anti- on of Jose Rodriguez, treasurer of | Fascist Congress, A. Markoff and 1e National Peasants League, at|L, Kovess, will report. The discus- urango last Tuesday on the order |sion will include the following top- * Calles. jies: “Fascism, Imperialism and the The congress for the formation of Danger of War,” “The Fascist Ter- Latin American Trade Union con-|ror,” “The Situation of the Work- ‘deration, which opened yesterday crs and of the Intellectuals Under | Despite these deaths sacrificed to the preparations for war between 5 3 the imperialists, the United States Dwight F. Davis, new governor-| army department is mobilizing its | general-of the Philippines, rendered| forces to continue practice for the Wall. Street many services as sec-| war. Dispatches dated insinuating- retary of war under Coolidge. In|ly “Red Army Headquarters, Colum- his new post he will take up Henry| bus, Ohio” give the smell of actual L. Stimson’s work in leading the gunpowder and war-time jingoism. exploitation of the Philippines for} The blue army is reported to be ad- Wall Street. vancing on the front and is ready to launch a “sanguine attack” on POWERS BUILD) =: imperialist war is being extended to New York City. A huge bomber, j equipped with all the latest means of destruction, its motors silenced, will try out the latest war stunts ey |on New York City tonight. i ; Ohio war preparations, the plane Drawn Up in City | teaving Ohio in a non-stop flight, presumably being sent by the blue! CANTON, China, May 21.—Bri-| forces in a rear-end attack on the| tish sailors, landed in Shameen, the| red capital. It is very reminiscent foreign concession of Canton, are|of plans recently aired by the French erecting fortifications in readiness! imperialists to hold back the forces of the! air-attacks on Moscow, using War-| The drive to stir up feeling for British, We; Forces) The “raid” is to be a part of the for launching night! Kwangsi clique who are reported to! saw as a base. | | Killing U. S. Sailor) jmonth sitting. | French Also “Generous.” Now that Hoover has shown his “good-will,” the French imperial- | ists are not far behind. Today Pre- jmier Raymond Poincare, dedicating | a monument to the last imperialist |war at the battlefield of Douamount |Farm, declared that he, too, would | for all districts definitely announced. be willing “to make concessions,” |" ‘The conservative, liberal and labor but that during the present confer- | narties have all entered candidates ence “it is not the French delegates lin 401 districts compared with 239 who have made the task compli-| districts in the 1924 general elec- ca 5 tion. In addition, there are 24 four- “The French simply have guarded | cornered fights, in which the Com- against the Dawes plan being ex- munists have entered a candidate |changed for another more precarious | against the three principal parties. ‘ard less productive one,” he said, | In 1924 there were only 10 such jmeaning that he wanted a plan in |races. j jy hion Yankee imperialism did not : Both the conservatives and the la- jaun eway with/all the ‘gravy. |borites steadily have maintained the liberals had little hope of obtaining ‘Film Director May more than 60 or 70 seats in the new Be Tried in Blast 1,720 Nominations in British Elections LONDON, May 21.—The British general election campaign entered) its final stage today before the elec-; tion on 30 with the candidates parliament, but both are trying to win them over. | Total nominations yesterday were 11,720, of which 68 were women, three LOS ANGELES, May 21.—James|of them Communists. Only seven Cruze, prominent Hollywood film a Natta were not opposed. rector, will be brought to trial on| Nominations in the English uni- BUFFALO, May 21.—Approxim- | textile strikers will be held here Sun- ately 700 foreign-born Canadian y, May 28. workers will be prevented from The drive being run under the commuting for employment at the joint auspices of the Workers Inter- J. §.-Canadian border here by a/|national Relief and the International Supreme Court decision which sum-| Labor Defense. An appeal has been mons 40 foreign-born workers to Sent to work organizations to turn appear in Federal Court and have their headquarters into a station habeas corpus w: dismissed and where workers can come to take their bonds cancelled. The Grab fective May only native born Canad lowed to commute. Much of the agitation—directed principally against Canadian immi- grants—to reduce the number of commuters was led by the reaction- ary, officialdom of the A. F. of L. un.er the plea of “protecting native born labor.” mandate is ef- their supplies on the collection day. A preliminary committee is being formed to call a conference for the relief of the southern strikers, and for the organization of a permanent. Workers International Relief section in Milwaukee. The sympathy strike of 1,000 tex- tile workers in Pelzer, who walked out because two workers were fired for soliciting funds for the W. I. R. is hailed by the Milwaukee militant ers as a fine example of soli- oe ee darity. Workers here feel that they Every member /ansactive mem-: | uct bring the meskage of the; ex, ber. Get.a new member. Celebrate | pioited textile workers and their, the Red month of May by building the Communist Party. militant struggle into every shop, factory and mill. WORKERS! Newest Montevideo, Uruguay, has for its|/Fascism,” and “The International | irpose the organization of a new Struggle Against Fascism.” Other volutionary trade union center ot | absaheae will be Robert Minor, tite the fight against Yankee im-|Juliet Stuart Poyntz, John Owens, | ‘ti ‘ eo is reported, in connection with the | probably will increase the total num- | pene oe cele ee \explosion which occurred June 27,|ber of candidates by four, one of to the cit Pre . F |1926, off the Catalina Island Isth-| whom was expected to be a woman. 2 y \mus, during filming of the picture —_—— | e but a few miles from Canton |charges of criminal negligence, it | Versities were set for today which srialism, its puppet governments id its agents in the labor move- ent, the Pan-Pacific Federation of Robert W. Dunn, from the Civil Lib- erties Union; Ben Gold and George Pershing. Carl Hacker of the In- Three British and 2 French gun- boats and two Japanese destroyers are anchored in the harbor outside “Old Ironside,” in which Charles Davis, a sailor, was killed. Two} other sailors were injured. The! Reap the benefits of the May | Day demonstrations by getting | abor. ternational Labor Defense will be The terror against the workers |chairman. id peasants in Mexico is. taking on| ‘e same form as that in Cuba and|this mass meeting, which is the be- ‘comes more accentuated the more /ginning of this important, co-ordin- ident becomes the complete sell-| ated, international struggle. it by the Mexican government i e Yankee imperialists. With the| . * a gotiations on hand with the Roman No Accidents in Six atholic Church, now closely allied] Years of Soviet Air ith Italian fascism as the result of | .e efforts of Dwight Morrow, Yan- xe ambassador and the Yankee im- wwialists state department, all the ‘ees of reaction are now solidly ied up on the side of Wall Street, cluding the Crom, Mexican Federa- on of Labor. The. Pan-American Federation of abor, controlled by the reactionary ‘ficialdom of the American A. F. * L, and by men like Morones, the MOSCOW, May 21.—The report issued by the Soviet air-traffic com- pany “Dobroljet” states that in 1928 1782 flights were made on the com- pany’s regular lines, covering nearly a million kilometers, Passengers to- talled 4422. The report states that |since the company’s inauguration six All workers are urged to attend | Passenger Service of the concession, strategic military | point of the city. The U. S. S. Tulsa IN SECOND TERM was en route from Hongkong. It is unlikely that the Kwangsi Fascist Symbols Mark | troops will be permitted to enter the Machado Inauguration | city by the imperialists unless the | Kwangsi clique agrees to submit to| HAVANA, Cuba, May 21.—Sur- just as the Nanking gov-;rounded by a special bodyguard | 5 symbolically clothed in black, riding | | Another United States battleship, on black chargers, the line of march | the Guam, is stationed at Wuchow.| protected by a solid array of in- | The Cantonese troops are in re-| fantrymen with fixed bayonets, and| treat, and a British missionary ar-|the police active thruout the city, riving from 15 miles north of Can-|Gerardo Machado, Yankee _ im-|| ton said that the Kwangsi forces | perialism’s puppet in Cuba, rode to were within 25 miles of the principal | take his oath of office as president city of the South. |for the second time, after having Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang is still) himself elected with terror as his reported to be mobilizing his forces | instrument. | in the interior preparatory to a| In a manifesto issued by him to-| drive on Nanking. day he repeated his program of three sailors were “loaned” to the director| into the Communist Party work- by the navy department. | ers who participated. 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The lower middle class, the small exican Gompers, has signified its | dl consent of the terror. by an- ouncing their convention in Havana years ago there have been no acci- dents on which either pilots or pas- |manufacturcr, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save | words, “Water, roads, schools,” in} |veality meaning no water for the| | prisoners, roads for the Yankee business interests, and a few schools | 12083 Ramona (Waltz) . «Mabel Wayne sengers have been killed or injured, r July. The terror, following: Yankee im- srialism like a shadow, has now be- ome an instrument in the hands of 1e Mexican government, just as i. 1e case with the Machado regime in iba. Fragmentary reports received ‘om Mexico tell of the murder of svolutionary peasants in cold blood, e strict censorship on all news, d the actual fighting for their es with guns against assassins nt against them by leaders of the ‘orkers-Peasants Bloc. The Mexican workers and peasants ‘e retaining their arms, despite the der of the Mexican government it the peasants disarm. The arms! e ‘being retained on the demand the Communist Party. cee Calles Pledges Gib Aid. MEXICO CITY, May 21.—In his tement announcing his resigna- m.as minister of war in the ortes Gil government, General Plu- Irco Calles, by whose orders Rogri- 1ez, leader of class revolutionary tasants, was executed only last tek, offered today to again “serve ‘e revolutionary government” if cessary. ‘He assured Gil that he would be ‘ling to help the reactionary gov- nment in any crisis, and he is ex- ‘ected to remain in Mexico until os election, to see to it that Morrow’s man is elected, Stays x and this has made the air service popular, | Sipe eae middie ce nat |here and there, but the principal are therefore not revolutionary, but | School being for the purpose of tive. —I * leeatnt . Ste Manttesionn | Mars (Commn- training perfected assassins. Protest Police the June “Workingwomen The June issue of The Working Woman, published monthly by the National Women’s Department of the Communist Party of the U. S. A., will be a special edition against the brutality of the Tammany police against the cafeteria, needle trades and other strikers and a protest against the raid on Workers’ Center last Saturday, it was announced by | Pauline Rogers, its business man- | ager. In The Working Woman for May are pictured the heroic struggles of the militant needle trades workers, the recént successful dressmakers’ strike in New York, the struggle of the Millinery Workers Union Local 8, against right wing treachery, the militant spirit of the cafeteria work- er now on strike. Grace Lamb writes of vile houses and high rents which are the lot of the Negro work- ers in the Harlem district. Workers’ correspondence of .working condi- tions in the Eagle Pencil factory, in knit goods mills, millinery shops and cafeterias give an interesting picture body pass an amendment near the close of his term in 1928, Machado | had his term lengthened to six years. |It was Machado, who at the request 9) of the Yankee imperialists, had | \Julio Mella assassinated, and it was | | the now equally reactionary Mexican | |government which acquitted the murderer. Raids upon workers’ organizations | ‘e common in Cuba, and the system | Brutality in of the exploitation of women work- ers in industry. Kastova, a work-| ing woman correspondent writes | ay, from Soviet Russia and tells about of espiona; ited | A i | ge stretches to the United the textile mills, the T-hour day, the States where the lives ¢f Cubs nurseries and other legislation which ‘revolutionists are in constant danger. make it possible for the working | Onl: a | 4 ‘ | ly a few days ago Santiago Colo- women of the Soviet Union to’reatly |man, militant labor leader, was de-| By having his puppet legislative || position to send it. Although we send thou- sands daily—it is insuf- ficient to cover the de- mand. Even these’bund- les we will be compelled to discontinue. unless aid is forthcoming. The DAILY WORKER as in all previous strug- gles during the past few years must be the guide and directing force. 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