The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929 _Page Three: Cachin, Communist Deputy, Denounces Poincare ‘Government tor May Day Tervor COMMUNISTS IN CUBA DEPORTED BY U. S, PUPPET Put in Solitary Cells as Machado Takes Office 1 Page One) vholesale terror- ested other mem- (Continue.’ arranged plar ization, police bers of the ! ht section and every- thing foun’ their rooms was con- fiscated. Cs...4 “Bandits.” « The workers were kept in jail for ten days, in strict isolation, and were then deported to fascist Poland, without trial, under the supervision of a special agent. The Iccal evening newspapers of the same day printed pictures of | those arrested, calling them “ban- dits” who were preparfng an insur- rection against local authorities, and said that they were “contrabran- dists.” The confiscated material is still in the possession of the police, and, with the inauguration of Machado for a six-year term—which he forced by changing the constitution —it is expected that the terror will be continued and made sharper, “We Are Not Sleeping.” In spite of this the Cuban worker ends his letter as follows: deprived of our best comrades and organizers, but we are not sleeping. In the future we shall be more care- | ful. Don’t send us papers.” The reason for the request not to send papers is the fact that a strict system of espionage has been started by the Machado police. Any- one suspected of even reading rad- ieal literature is immediately de- ported without trial if he is a for- eigner, or thrust into jail, where torture and possibly death awaits him, if he is a Cuban. The fate of the Cuban Comnunists, who last year were thrown to the sharks in Havana Harbor, is still vividly re- called. Machado’s Promises. “Machado promised the Yankee imperialists that he would prevent the organization of the workers in| Cuba, and he wants to show them that he intends to carry out that policy even more strictly as he takes office for the second time,” clared Cecilio Mella, brother of Julio Mella, who was murdered in Mex- ico last January by an assassin sent by Machado, when he heard of this latest act of the terror yesterday. “Strict isolation in the jails, to the point of driving to insanity, ar- rest and deportation without trial, are common instruments of the Ma- chado terror. The inauguration ceremonies of Machado Monday | were preceded by many acts of ter- vor against militant workers, and | after the inauguration we can ex- pect even greater terror, at the be- best of Yankee imperialism, with | the growth of the revolutionary movement in Cuba.” Rivals of Jersey City Grafters Seek Order OkayingVoteRecount ; JERSEY CITY, N. J., May Evidently distrusting the value of he Supreme Court order sanction- 99 ng the opening of the ballot boxes | ised in the recent municipal elec- ions here, defeated fusion oppo- rents of democratic Mayor Frank Hague announced today they will seek court action to order a recount. The Supreme Court order, signed Wednesday by Justice Samuel Ka- “We are | de- | ‘Laws Aid ‘Aged Faker to Get Hlected So well entrenched is the age constituency of Liverpool that he re-election. A few Westminster porters and he is able to retreat homes of the Riviera, indifferent of dock g to live under the Bri Empire in the slums aided by the British election laws, each candidate. Extreme povert d ee T. P. O'Connor, in his doesn’t have to bother much about phrases to his Catholic Irish sup- for the rest of the year to the rest to the problems of the thousands the “benevolent” administration of of dockland. O’Connor’s return is which demand $750 deposit from y in Liverpool prevented workers from raising the required amount to run a Communist opponent at the last election. the Irish Workers League, w. of British imperialism in the Irish working class to don khaki imperialist war for profits. wo A Contrast—New Alphabet Soviet Azerbaijan and Turke On January 1st of this year, the use of the Latin alphabet (the same as used in writing English) became universal in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. It now place in all the schools, in all pub- lic offices, in the press, and in all cultural institutions. Along with the zerbaijan Turks, the new aiphabet has also been adopted by a number of other peoples—Turkestans, beks, Kirghizes, Tartars, and even the Chinese Dungans, all within the Soviet Union. At precisely the same time (New Year) Kemalist Turkey also went over to the new alphabet. The contrast of the introduction of the new alphabet in Soviet Azerbai- jan and in Kemalist Turkey is very striking; it is the fundamental con- trast between tHe development of mass culture in the freedom of the Workers’ Republic and in the slavery of the Kemalist dictatorship. The introduction of the new alpha- bet is a tremendous lever in the cul- tural development of the mass Lenin said: “The new alphabet i the greatest cultural revolution in the East.” The old Turkish-Arabian alphabet with its numerous difficult characters constituted an almost in- superable cbstacle in the road of mass literacy and the development of | a popular press. It was evident that | |the first and biggest step towards raising the peoples of Azerbaijan, | Turkestan, etc., towards the level of jliteracy (a tremendous cultural revo- lution) must be the scrapping of the old alphabet and the introduction and | } Teal popularization of the new Latin | | characters. The Soviet power began to pre- pare the way for the introduction f the new alphabet already in 19 The re: actionaries did not take long ppt te the profound social nce of this move and to ar- themselves against it. There ensued a bitter struggle over this question, the reactionaries appealing to the old outworn sentiments of blind cultural tradition and national- ism. The emigre paper “Musswat” (published in Constantinople) clared the new alphabet to be a p: of the “attempt of the Moscow Goy- ernment towards Russianization” and it called upon all teachers and de- isch, authorized only the opening | writers to refuse to have anything of the boxes, No legal provision for further examination of the ballots was contained in his order, Kalisch »xplained, Ey carrying the case to court, dague’s rivals seek to further their ‘ampaign to remove the grafting mayor from office under the same xeuse of “civic interest” with | which they contested the election and maneuvered the appointment of the McAllister legislative commit- see which exposed such widespread | graft in the city and county appa- -atus. It was for possession of the | | plained to them by the Communists | already learned to use the agitate against it. The offensive of the ‘reactionaries was a failure. r toile: The revolution: quickly grasped the real sig- of the situation as ex and gave their fullest cooperation. \In the process of the introduction of the alphabet: itself, i.e., within the | last two years, nearly one-fifth of the inhabitants of Azerbaijan (that is, 400,000 out of 2,500,000) have Latin and the number characters thoroly, same source of rich graft that the |is fast increasing. By January of >ppositicn is fighting. ESCAPE DROWNING. this year it became possible to make the new alphabet universal. It was only the new alphabet that In the past O’C holds official | WEYBRIDGE, Eng. (By Mail).— | rendered it possible to bring the Thirty workers at work on a lock broad masses of the toiling people in undergoing repairs on the River Wey close contact with political and cul- here narrowly escaped drowning tural life. Within the last few years when the dam gave way following | the distribution of literal publica- a rush of water. “tions in Soviet pee bateut seopule: SEND THEM THE DAILY Need Funds to Send Paper to Strikers We have been forced to disappoint {strike zone is heavy, and we have housands of strikers in various in-| been forced to cut the number down | lustries in the last few weeks, due | for this reason. o our financial inability to send Without the Daily Worker, the vundles of the Daily Worker for Gastonia workers write us that one listribution among these workers. | of their chief bulwarks in the strug- | The textile workers in Gastonia, | gle will be gone. Help to maintain triking against inhuman slavery, | their fighting spirit by helping us ave since the beginning of the to send the Daily Worker to them trike relied on the Daily Worker, | every day. housands of copies of which have | Support the Daily Worker Fund een sent daily to Gastonia, as one | to supply bundles of Daily Worker: £ their chief supports in the strike. |to the strikers in various sections ‘hese strikers have come to look of the country. Funds for this im- n the Daily Worker as their own. portant purpose t ke sent to The cost of sending the Daily at once, for th y Wor Vorker in large numbers to the|one of the strikers’ chiet weapons, ry ‘onnor has also been challenged by ich exposed his activity in the interests rld war, when he appealed to the i uniforms and participate in the in Ge |tion about 2.5 million) has gone be- yond 600,000. copies, in Usbekistan (population 4.5 million) to over 250,- | 000 copies; in the North Caucasus (population 2.25 million) to over 70,000 copi These are only literary publications; if we add the immense number of political pamph- lets, propaganda writings, etc., the total becomes tremendous and a} slight idea may be obtaine profound cujtural significance of the new alphab¥t. And in Kemalist Turkey? Angora government desired to dem- | onstrate to the whole world its “cul-| tural progress” and the “introduc- tion” of the new alphabet was of course necessary, especially in view! of the record made by the Soviet Union. In real Kemalist fashion! \ this “introduction” took place thru | regular police and administrative | methods, There was no co-relation| made between the introduction of | ; the new alphabet and the literacy | and cultural level of the masses. In Angora, Turkey, about 90 percent of the population can neither read, nor write the new alphabet. The | confusion into which Kemal Pasha’s | order has thrown the whole popula-| jtion can hardly be imagined. In the | government offices special employes \have to be hired simply for filling |in forms. Europeans are every-| where stopped by natives and asked, | to read out the names of the streets. | In the moving picture houses the! spectators shout for the captions to be read aloud to them. To talk} | about bringing modern culture to} [the masses thru the new aiphabet | in Kemalist Turkey is ridiculous; to the masses the alphabet itself is still a profound mystery. The cultural revolution in Soviet Azerbaijan was accomplished from within and by the m s themselves; in Kemalist ey it was attempted to accomp- lish the profound change from the| top, by government ukases, In Sov-! iet Azerbaijan the introduction of the new alphabet was a part of the great work of cultural and educa- tional development within the gen- eral framework of socialist construc- tio n Kemalist Turkey it was no more than an administrative and policy measure to give the Angora dictatorship a “progressive” charac- | ter. | | It is interesting that in its rush to be “progressive” the Kemalist gov-| ernment has committed a slight! oversight”. When it issued its first newspaper in the new alphabet, it hailed it as “the first and only newspaper of its kind in the world. It failed to note that the Soviet Azerbaijan had been issuing a |Turkish newspaper in the new La- tin alphabet already since 1923. | As Lenin said, the introduction of the new alphabet itself constituted a tremendous cultural revolution and | is the lever for even more profound | developments in the cultural and po- litieal awakening of the Eastern peoples. The work of the October | revolution is spreading. Pan-American Labor Federation, Wall St. Tool, Plans Confab HAVANA, May 23.—The Pan- American Federation of Labor, a tool of American imperialism, has | called its next conference for Jan. 16, 1930. The conference will be held in Havana. The Pan-American Fed- | eration, headed by the Porto Rican | | misleader, Santiago Inglesias, is a/ perialism in Latin America, and op- poses all strikes and militant action. A conference of Latin-American workers and of labor organizations which aims to fight against Amer- | ican imperialism as well eas the - ploitation of the Latin-American workers, is at present being tic ontevideo, U Its purpo: the formation of a militant Latin- American federation of the workers. i staunch supporter of American ey | The Communist Party is the po- | Lites] loader of the working class. —Sialin, REICH BANKERS Expect an Unfavorable \conference, tonight. |General Electric, and J. P. Morgan, refused. d of the|Reich will demand that the troops | be The return for the acceptance of the Owen plan. \In Spy System Plan | AT ODDS ON DEBT Schacht Reply PARIS, May 23.—Threats from German capitalists were the main subject of discussion of both the German and allied industrialists and bankers, delegates to the reparation The resignation of Albert Voeg- ler, head of the German steel trust and second German delegate, which was officially announced, indicated a tense situation among the Ger- rsen capitalists, who saw much of their profits taken from the German | head of the Mexican Workers Following REGIME E AVOIDS Communist Lead 1 in California DEBATE ONLY BY LEATHER LABOR AT MASS MEET ‘Progressives Demand Strike Machinery A of Fancy leather Goods Workers which filled to over- Eighth St. stor Pl, was held last night work. meeting flowing Cooper Union, and after workers, claimed by the creditor im-| As Hoover “crin The workers in the trade were perialists. commission”, George W. Wickers- ing for this meeting expect- ram, notorious servant of Wall S t much as the agreement French sources state that the res ignation might be a political man-, ill lead in the formation eh cuver which would pave the way for |@”o7mous spy system against thc Schacht to accept the terms and | workers. provide an alibi to the German elec- torate by a trumped-up split in the delegation. Advices from Berlin reflecting on | the present situation said Schacht | would insist that the compromise scale of reparations be effective as of April, igstead of permitting the present Dawes plan to continue ef- fective until Januray, 1930, thereby adding some $160,000,000 to the rman payments. The American delegation, headed ‘by Owen D. Young, chairman of ‘Ateca, Mexican Army Paymaster, Fails to Obtain Seized Goods Salvador ter of the recent Mexican Rebellion, failed the return of $750,000 and other per- | sonal property seized by the United States government when he was a Ateca, reputed paymas- army of weeks ago, en route to Spain. Judge Francis C. Caffey in fed- eral court cenied the plea of Ateca’s now replaced by his partner, La- mont, found it necessary to make a statement denying the fact that the proposed international bank return, reserving to Siegel, however, | towing in the union that the man- would mean excessive profits for the right to renew his motion upon ufacturers will get great “conces- the bankers attached to it. The the arrival here of extradition pa- S!0nS unless the workers are on, German bankers demanded that the | pers from Mexico for Ateca, or in their guard. profits of this bank be credited to the event that the extradition pa-| The workers who arose to speak the raparation payments, which was | pers do not arrive in 30 days. after Shiplacoff delivered his re- SIX WORKERS HURT IN BLAST SWANSEA, Wales (By Mail).— Six workers were badly injured in an explosion at the Rose Patent Fuel Works here and may die as a result. ‘They were burned severely. The Militants By C. E. Reports from Berlin say that the withdrawn from the Rhineland and other political concessions in A million workers go to bed to tired to dream of tomorrow. What's the use? Tomorrow is a thing in black, with a dim flame in its forehead, lunch box shuffling down the pit. Tomorrow is a little girl with big eyes wasting her dance behind the thundering m Tomorrow is a man in a man in a ditch. It’s a relentless blowing of sirens, it’s a faceless time-clock. And here and there, a worker does not go to sleep but dreams of a tomorrow cool and sweet | when the bricks of the street will shine And his dreams disturb the dark, hopeless sleep of those who do not dream. ViSit0%0o0e00oeo Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $38 5. Sailings Every Month INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AVENUE (Flatiron Bldg.) + NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 CHICAGO—See us for your steamship accommodations—MOSCOW yesterday to obtain | had expired on May suarantees had bee! the union administra- obtained by n. Workers Wary. The large attendance at the meet- ing revealed the apprehensiveness of the membership and the fear that they will not be in a position to stage a fight for their demands un- hon adequate preparations are made | in advance, Abraham I. Shiplacoff, of the manager union and croney of the re- Jactionary clique in the United He- yew Trades and the International rested upon his arrival here a few| Ladies Garment Workers and other |company unions, reported on the ne- gotiatious with the bosses. The ad- ministration chiefs are maneuvering attorney, David P. Siegel for the) With the manufacturers, and fear is ;port, and who reflected the mass of | the membership, indicated a deter- mination to fight for all demands, and especially the 40-hour week. Demand Strike Machinery, The progressive group in the union is pointing out that the ad- ministration of the union is trying to crush this spirit. They point te the fact that despite the decision to organize a “Committee of 100”—a strike committee—at an enthusias- tic meeting held on April 17, noth- ing has been done about its actual formation. Shiplacoff, in the course of his report, which was filled with travel- ing salesman wisecracks, read a let- ter he had written to the chairman of the Manufacturers’ Association, which is considered extremely il- luminating: “If I were 15 years younger might be willing to go in for a fight, if of The hundreds of thousands Mexican workers in California be- longing to the most exploited sec- tion of the working class constitute very important material to be reached and organized by our Com- munist Party. This stands especially for the Southern part of the State. Los Angeles, for instance, is the! second largest Mexican city in the world, | The Party, in the past, did not do anything for reaching the Mexican workers, and, up to two months ago, there was not a single Mexican worker in the Party, in spite of their revolutionary traditions and readi- ness to follow Communist leadership. During the past two months sincere efforts were made to reach the Mexi- can workers. Special May Day leaf- lets were written up in Spanish for Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oak- land, and all the three meetings were attended by a large numbe Mexi- can worke more than ten of them filling out the application cards into the Par In all of these cities a Mex fraction was organized for the furthe rying on of the work among them, and in San Francisec a class in English was sta this 1 week, with the special aim of reach- ing the Mexican workers. At the Trade Union Educational League Conference there were Mexi- can delegates in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the latter city the CUOM, an independent union of Mexican workers, elected delegates to the Trade Union Educational Conference, and they will be repre- sented also at the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention as well as in the various committees. Reaching the Mexican workers is one of the main tasks before the Party in California. Beca of their exploitation in this country they are responding to our call for organization, and because of the sit- uation in their home country they can be drawn into our Anti-Im- perialist work. It is certain that the Communist Party, if it concentiate: on the Mexican workers, will accom- plish very good results in the fut —PABLO BARBIS but, at the present time, it is dif- ferent.” Warn Membership. Progressives in the union ar pointing out that the bosses, by their insolent “counter-demands,” are planning for a fight, an offensive against the union. They declare | that the policy of the leadership is cne of deliberate stalling and warn that unless strike machinery is im- mediately set up the workers will be the victims of the betraya ‘cies of the administration chiefs. poli- | CLOSE MARGIN Seore Arrest of 3,000 and Deportations In an address Chamber of Deputies, Marcel Cachin, Commu- nist deputy, bitterly denounced the E are government f its ecam- paign of terror against the w ing class on May Day, during which 3,000 workers Ww rrested and many cf foreign th were de- ported. Supported by the other Commu- ust deputies, Cachin demanded an immediate debate on the question. The vote en revealed consider- uble opposition the Poincare government, with 258 voting for immediate debat voting f con- n the c The Poincare government, which is becor more reaction- avoid debate on ng steadil; ary, i to May iou the Day suppressions, fearing that too many unsavory details con- cerning action of the police will be revealed. Communists to Fight “Empire Day” Thruout Great Britain Today LONDON, Eng., May —‘Em- pire Day,” celebrated t by the z sh imperialists and jingoists, \ 1 be fought thruout the country by militant organizations, headed by the Communist Party and the Work- ers Legion. The Workers Council of Education urges local militant or- ganizations to organize counter- campaigns ainst Empire Day, which a means of arous- ing th ” of the British people, particular]; the schools, whe “patriotic” orgies will take . place. PAINTERS GAIN. OKLAHOMA CITY (By Mail) — Organized painters have established the five day week here and won an increase of $1 a day in wages. The old scale was $9 a day for a 44 hour week, and the new scale is $10 a day for a 40 hour week. Fla. (By Mail). ) per cent of all the women in Florida work more than 10 hours a day, a survey showed. Over 10,000 women are employed in industry in this state. twice 1 Jobn Betiiimore.” being able to house French. 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