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

PARIS WORKERS AT WALL OF 1871 Demonstrate at Scene of Bloody Terror PARIS, May 26.—The central or- gan of the Communist Party of France, “Humanite,” yesterday ap- pealed to all workers to participate in the annual demonstration today before the wall where in 1871 Com- munards were removed from prison and shot. The wall now carries a statue] commemorating the Paris Commune. Following the conquest of Paris by the armies of the French bourgeoisie aided by the German imperialist armies, after days of barricade fighting in the streets of Paris, the French bourgeoisie engaged in one of the bloodiest terrors ever per- petuated against workers. Workers were shot in cold blood, their wives and children dragged thru the streets, thousands thrown into dun-! geons, It was at the Wall of the Com- munards that the terror reached its climax. Hundreds of workers were taken from the jails, lined up against the wall—men, women and children—-and mowed down by the forces of the bourgeoisie. Every year thousands of French workers gather at the wall and pledge themselves to carry thru the task started by the Communards, as it was carried thru in the Soviet Union, under the leadership of the Communist Party. French “Socialist” and Reactionary Confer on the War Debt Question PARIS, May 26—Vincent Auriole, “socialist” deputy and author of a project now before the chamber sug- gesting the reopening of the war debt question with the United States government, consulted with Premier Poincare, he said yesterday, assert- ing the premier consentéd to discuss the matter with the.chamber after the reparations conference is con- cluded. A | Photo shows the batt tempted transatlantic fliy Q & = EB} & —j — 3 ss fo 8 = = 1 oO DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1929 A Pag my t Air Stunt Come to Grief f Zeppelin back in Cuers, France, after motor trouble halted its at- vify the German imperialists. Says No Protection from Poison Gas Is Possible in Next War BERLIN, May 26.—It will be im- possible to invent adequate anti-gas measures in the new imperialist war to protect the civilian population, de- clared Dr. Gertrude Woker, report- ing the results of the “International Committee of Red Cross Experts,” recently convened in Brussels. She said that the committee’s in- vestigations clearly proved that for the ‘civilian population in the war of the future no protection existed.” The committee found, she said, that all the governments were busy pro- |ducing new forms of gas which they | tralia. were varefull keeping secret from . D, F a "\Fascists Postpone The committee had discovered that Trial of Workers in new type of shells known as Brisanz with time fuses were being made,| Attempt to Frame-up which when dropped from an air- plane, bury themselves in the ground and do not explode until from four to 36 hours. Romolo Tranquilli which was fixed for the 27th of April has been ad- journed for an indefinite period. The accused were originally charged with being responsible for the at- FIND MISSING FLIERS SYDNEY, Australia, May 26,— Two Australian army aviators, Lieu- tenant James Moir and Flying Of- ficer Harold Owen, who were forced down on a projected flight England to Sydney, were found to- + day on Cape Don, in northern Aus- selves. The adjournment from joutrage, ROME (By Mail).—The trial of tempt upon the King of Italy «in Milan which afterwards turned out to be the work of the fascists them- of the tial for an indefinite time means + that the fascists are afraid that the trial might lead to still further dis- closures in connection with the Milan MOVE TO RECALL ~ GOVERNOR LONG Big Patronage Graft Is His Main Support BATON ROUGE, La., May 26.— The battle between Governor Huey P. Long, impeached on charges of graft, of trying to hire an assassin to kill a legislator, and of various misdemeanors and disorderly con- duct, now enters the recall stage. The governor's adherents are busy cireulating petitions for the recall of legislators who took part in the impeachment attack, and his oppo- nents are threatening an appeal for recall against the governor and his henchmen, Lieutenant Governor Cyr and Attorney General Saint. Impeachment Collapsed. The impeachment failed because at the special sion of the legisla- ture there were senators, enough to prevent a two-thirds majority needed for conviction on the side of |the governor. His present strength ilies in the fact that he controls $50,000,000 highway patronage and an enormous quantity of other pa- tronage. On the other hand, he has |a hostile legislature, and can not get, |approval of his more important ap- | pointments, nor any of his pet bills. 1 The opposition to Long is based on quarrels over patronage and the complaints of various gangs of grafters that they were discrimin- jated against in favor of other groups. PLASTERERS STRIKE. SHREVEPORT, La., (By Mail).— y plasterers, working on the . S. Veterans’ Hospital at Camp | Stafford, struck because of an at- tempt of the contractor to cut wages from $13 to $11 a day. A number of helpers also struck. BROTHERS SIOUX CITY, Iowa, (By Mail).— Daniel Carr, 66 years old, and Tom Carr, 59, brothers, of Aberdeen, S. D., committed suicide, because they had been out of work for a long time. | JOBLESS, SUICIDES. The Revolution brought freed S without their 1 who are se re Picture show: | Russian Turkestan Women Di the membership of one of the Samarkand co-operatives. | “HUNGER STRIKE RUMANIAN JAILS Pregnant Woman ‘Is | Among Them scard th BUCHARIST (B. Mail).—The peasant political prisoners in all prisons in Roumania went on a general hunger-strike on May Day. The strike lasted seven days and was a demonstration in favor of the long promised general amnesty. The working men and women arrested in connection with the bloody collisions with the police provoked by the authorities in Temesvar on April 7 have been on hunger-strike since April 21 and are determined y on until they secure their release. A considerable number of these proletarian and women of Samarkand he monstrous, lom to t to ¢ heavy horse-hair veils. Wall Street Has “Red Maniu “Amnesty” Fails Army” Losing and “Red Capital’ Surrounded COLUMBIA, Ohio, May 26.—“The surrender of the Red Army appear imminent tonight,” is the lead to the story of the inspired publicity agents for the imperialist war de partment hired to “play up” the yest scale war maneuvers ever carried out on land now going on in | Ohio. The “Red capital” is supposed to be surrounded by 400,000 “blue- bl8oded troops of the red white and blue, and the “reds” are supposed to be losing heavily in a number of skirmishes. “Red spies” are supposed to be busily at work digging out the secrets of the “blues,” and 100 air planes are engaged in realistic man euvers over Columbus, which ha: already cost the lives of two avia- tors, a fact which the publicity agents conveniently forget. | Tomorrow the squadron of 100 planes will use real ammunition on ua targets to skill themselves for warfare. the ultimate aim of this Capital") — te eal the law of motion of modern CHILDREN’S WEEK FOR GREATER MOBILIZATION OF WORKERS’ C Police Beat, Jail Pioneers; Arrest for School Leaflets POLICE TERROR By JESSIE TAFT. (An arrested Pioneer.) On May 18th, at 12 o'clock, the | 8th and Parrish Sts., for distribut- {ing leaflets to the school children. When most of the leaflets had been LYemonstrate in Square eagerly seized by the children two police under the direction of Lieu-| burly policemen, called by the prin-| tenant Hickey broke into the meet- ing hall of the Third District Con- vention of the Young Pioneers of est box and as no “wagon” could be darity whi District 2, without a warrant or a! gotten, were walked to the station the r The police were directed| house. Several hundred children fol- Workers in New York. permit. cipal arrived upon the scene. The distributors were taken to the near- by their captain to tear down a sign lowed the arrested and returned to) reading: “Down With Walker’s Po- the school only after being chased included another, but the Tam- lice Brutality.” This sign not only expressed the feeling of those that put it up, but also of all militant workers of the city. In the street in front of the Workers Center thousands had gath- ered in front of the building. When the Pioneers marched out of the’ building waving their red bandanas and singing “solidarity forever.” Lieutenant Hickey got frightened. The red bandanas and the revolu- tionary signs made him think that the Pioneers were capturing New York City, so he immediately or-| dered his officers to arrest all dan-| gerous persons regardless of size or age. 27 workers and among them 9 Pioneers were pushed into the pa- trol wagon and brought straight to the police station. Two workers were badly beaten, but were shown no mercy by Walker’s police. The nine Pioneers arrested, eight of whom were boys, were taken to/| the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where they were examined and put in wards with children that had stolen money or’run away from home. Most of them were criminals. This is but a slight example of the treatment of workers’ children who are ac- cused of no crime whatsoever. At the trial on the following Monday morning Mr. Hickey attempted to scare the arrested Pioneers by giv- ing false testimony. But the Pioneers thought their own testi- mony proved that they were guilty of no crime. The judge seeing that there was no proof of crime and knowing that the entire labor move- ment supported the arrested Pion- eers, was forced to discharge the case. In the past the police have made many attempts to frame up Pioneers. Last summer Rose Plotkin was de- ported to Indiana for participating in an anti-imperialist demonstration. A few months ago Harry Eisman was transferred to a school far from his home in order fhat he should not carry on Pioneer work. Bernard Kaplan, another Pioneer of the same school, was demoted for giving out leaflets to the children of the school. The attack against all workers’ or- ganizations is becoming greater and we must be prepared to meet the attack. Are you going to let the police attack the only workers’ children’s organization, the Young Pioneers of America. What is your answer to the arrest of the Young Pioneers? Down with Walker’s police bru- yar tality!’ Down with ald man Hickey! Support and build the Young Pioneers! s * * On May 3rd Max White, a Pioneer and Bill Tumy, Pioneer leader, were \ Wrrested before the Wister Schoul, | by the cops. The leaflet was entitled “Teacher Pulls Boy’s Hair.” It went on to (explain thdt Mr. Borgia, a teacher, ; had pulled the hair and lowered the |report mark of Wm. Frait, Pioneer, because he had stayed out! ‘}of school on May Day, also becaus: jhe had participated in the childre |May Day Demonstration. It plained about May Day and con- ciuded with an appeal to the chil- dren to join the Young Pioneers of America, At the station house a third ar- rest was made. Nat Linton was “pulled in” when he came for a copy of charges, by the brave policemen. Max White was sent to the hous: of detention while Bill Tumy Linton went to the City Hall. No hearing was given them that day. On the following morning they were arraigned before the magistrate for “distributing Bolshevik literature” |and “inciting to riot.” The cops | testified that the children had been fighting and had thrown bricks at ‘them. Such shameless lying when the principal testified that part of | the leaflet was true the court very | judiciously took away the first |charge. “Held for court $500 bail }each” was the capitalist court an- |swer. Away went the sentenced to/ |Mayumancing County Jail with a | carload of criminals. | On the following Wednesday, May 8th, our comrades tasted some more “justice.” After more false testimony and vicious accusations by the judge to the effect that the two} | were “mentally’ depraved and sex-! lually perverted” the jury’s verdict was “suilty.” The kind and benevo-| |lent judge gave Linton (who had come for a copy of charges) a sus- | pended sentence, and te Tumy two ‘years’ probation. Max White being plagued by probation c*ficers and) two hearings in the juvenile court was given an indefinite period of probation, | Steps have been taken to carry |on the school struggle even more |sharply than before. School bul- \letins, leaflets, mass meetings are being used to help make the Pioneers }a mass organization. The arrests , of our comrades is not going to stop us, We will fight the harder for the accomplishment of our aim, VETO WAGE LAW. ST. PAUL, Minn., (By Mail).— |Governor Christiansen vetoed the | state minimum wage law that would apply to public work. He has sug- gested that the State Industrial Commission be empowered to fix the minimum wage on such contracts, | a scheme favored by the anti-union| imin Lifshitz, organizer of Dis 2nd — ;raucously as Sam Darcey, member of |the Daily Worker staff, was speak- (cafeteria strikers was made, Workers Fears MASSES PROTEST Despite Interference | (Continued from Page One) h has grown up between | oppressed Negro and white The speaking corps should have many judges, who, in spite of the readiness of the New York Distriet of the International | Labor Defense to bail out Ben, rict | of the Commufist Party, sched-' When Dwight W. Morrow, above, uled to speak, held him in prison on a|yorgan ambassador to Mexico, re- technical point. Lifshitz was arrested | ty;ned to the U. S. the other day to n his office because he refused to | attend the take down the sign during the po- lice attack the preceding Saturday and sentenced to 30 days. Ride Into Crowd. ist flyer Lindbergh to Morrow's | daughter, he had an extraordinarily jlarge guard of Mexican troops and t ._., | machine guns to guard him. He After the meeting was nearing its | fears the Mexican. workers. end, and some of the crowd walked | class-conscious Mexican workers do down singing in front of the Work- | not adopt individual terror action. to crs’ Center, mounted police tried to | overthrow Wall Strect and its pup- create another disturbance such as t of a week ago, by harrying the wd and abusing them. Work who were standing in front of the Workers’ Co-operative Restaurant and of the Communist | sufferings of the Negro workers at arty offices, waiting for a chance | the hands of the police and pledged to enter, were charged by mounted |the aid of the class-conscious Negro police, who rode their horses into | workers in the fight on police bru- them or the sidewalk and howled tality. at them to move on, eal hiring the meeting the street and Pi fire departments co-operated with the police to make a racket and dis- turb the crowd. Two fire engines drove up to the crowd and puffed preparing tarian revolution. mass action—the prole- Harry Eisman, of the Young joneers, one of those jailed in the police raid on the Workers’ Center last week; Mori Taft, of the Needle Trades Workers Union; D. Benjamin, of the Communist Party; Tom DeFazio, of the Anti-Fascist Alliance, and Fred Biedenkapp, of the Independent Shoe § Union, pledged the support of the New York workers to a campaign of,organized effort to unionize all workers here and to suppost all the struggles of labor for better condi- tions and wages, no matter what in- junctions or what police brutality ing. The city suddenly “found it neces- sary” to tear up the pavement and repair it while the speaking was go- ing on, using a steam roller and any amount of noise. Miller Exposes S. P. Bert Miller, organizer of District 2, who opened the meeting, pointed out the role of the “socialist” party | oe pErnee scm does i as lackeys of the capitalist class in The Pioneers especially received a abetting the police terror. As proof, ‘using welcome. he quoted the yellow organ of the| Other speakers were Sylvan Pol- “socialists,” the New Leader, which lack, of the Workers’ International attacked the Communist Party for Relief; Carl Hacker, of the Inter- putting up the sign on the Work- national Labor Defense, and J. Louis ers’ Center denouncing police bru- Engdahl, editor of the Daily tality. Worker, Michael Obermeier, the cafeteria | : strikers’ leader ived a tremen-) rikers’ leader received a tr 700 Rubber Workers | Made Jobless in Fire dous reception from the workers, among whom were over 100 cafe- teria strikers, who have felt the e armed fist of the Tammany police. Sweeping R. I. Plant Obermeier gave some of the details | eR of the police brutality toward the’ PROVIDENCE, R. I. May 26.— cafeteria strikers, and told of a) Fire destroyed the cutting shop at beating he himself received from the | {he factory of the Phillips Baker |police while on the picket line. “Of Rubber Company yesterday. . | the °2,000 cafeteria workers now on strike,” he stated, “over 1,400 have Some 700 operatives were thrown |been arrested on the picket lines, Ut of work with the destrucflon of from the district. This, however, has been powerless the large wooden building and 300 and will be powerless to halt the | Stitching machines and a _consider- strikers.” An appeal for all the able quantity of stock which it con- workers present to support a great tained, picket demonstration in the gar-| A section of the city’s manufac- ment area planned for today by the turing district was endangered for a time by the fire, cause of which Negro Leader Speaks. lcould not be determined immediate- Harold Williams, of the American ly. Flames were confined to the Minnesota Employers’ Association. {Negro Labor Congress, told of the! structure where the fire started, 4 wedding of the imperial- | | pet Portes Gil government, but art! Workers’ ; political prisoners have already been transferred to hospital on account of great weakness. Among the hunger- striking prisoners is a woman, Mrs. Sonia Abraham, in an advanced stage of pregnancy. to Include Political Prisoners Now in Jail Mex ica n Government Censors Red Aid Book at Request of Machado MEXICQ CITY, Mexican government censored the first number of the organ of the Mexican Red Aid “Mella” on the ground that the number contained BUCHAREST, May aniu. government has con- cluded its draft law an “amnesty.” This amnesty extends to the military offences of desertion and the failure to report when called up for servic The crime of free- ing prisoners m arrest is also in- cluded. All other political offences are rigorously excluded, including the military crime of deserting to This 26. — The now for 26.—The the enemy during the war. ‘ 3 é “amnest: is an attempt of the articles against Machado the Presi- Maniu government to throw sand|4ent of Cuba and the man respon- into the eyes of the hundreds of| ible for the murder of Julio Mella thousands who are demanding an|Tecently. The official organ of the A oat A Roti ania tt will how-| Red Aid group of Cuban emigrants ever, not be possible to hide the fast | “Cuba Libra” was suppressed by the the thousands of revolutionary police for the same reason. It is workers and peasants who are in prison for their political activities are not affected by this draft. The ery for a general and unconditiona amnesty for all proletarian political lear that this action is the’result of an understanding between the Cuban lor in Mexico and the Mexi- The Mexican Red ambasse can government. prisoners will continue with un- | Ajd section has commenced an ener- eases ye The campaign © getic campaign against Machado’s the working and peasant masses in > , intrigues in Mexico and against the Roumania for an amnesty now | intrig & being supported by a general strike cooperation of the Mexican ‘au- |of the political prisoners themselves. | thorities with him. HILDRE Sings Thousands of Pioneers Work and Fight Tune: Hi! Ho! The Merry Oh! Several thousand Pioneers Thousands more ther’ll be Hi! Ho! the Merry Oh! A Pioneer I'll be. | The bosses hate the Pioneers Because they organize All the suff’ring workers’ children To fight for better lives. We've organized some thousands now And thousands more there'll be Hi! Ho! The Merry OR! A Pioneer I'll be. . By MANNY MANIEVICH. (Ten years old.) Work, work work For the bosses all the day, Work, work, wor For hardly any pay. Fight, fight, fight, ‘ Against wrong, for right, Fight, fight, fight, From day to night. Jailed Workers Go on Hunger Strike Against 'Horthy Fascist Terror BUDAPEST (By Mail).—Despite | the “idyllic” prison condftions exist- ing in Hungary described from time to time in letters to the “Manchester Guardian” by the Hungarian Minis- ter in London Count Rubido Zichy, 30 proletarian political prisoners in the Central Prison in Budapest have gone on hunge rike in order to obtain an improvement of the in- human conditions to which they are subjected. A short while ago a prison official named Von Waizen was appointed governor of the Cen- tral Prison in Budapest. Since his advent the conditions of the political prisoners have been deliberately worsened and these prisoners have been deprived of a number of rights which even criminal prisoners enjoy. | The food has deteriorated and has been cut down. The number of visits allowed has also been cut, and politi- cal prisoners may receive only one book a month. Misleader’s Widow , Runs for Congress HARRISBURG, Pa. May 26,— The democratic state executive com- mittee yesterday nominated Mrs. \John J. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, to be the democratic candidate for con- gress in the special elections to be held in the 12th, Luzerne county di: » Jeune 4, Mrs. Casey is the widow of the former democratic congressman Casey, former head of the state federation of la- bor, was notorious for a record of betrayal of the Pennsylvania work- ers, and worked hand in hand wiih the reactionary Lewis machine of the United Mine Workers The Communist Party is the po- litical leader of the working class. | —Stalin, Young Labor Soviet Congress Represents ‘Messenger Boys Slave for Little Pay, Says | Distant Areas, Many Groups WesternUnionVietim MOSCOW, U. Ss. R., M - The All-Union Soviet Congress now in Moscow, is a living picture of the wide sway of the Soviet power and of its proletarian ‘and peasant character. It is no longer news to say that |under the Soviet Government every | nationality, of which there are many | in the Soviet Union, is at full liberty in developing its own national cul- ture as a part of the union of Soviets. But, nevertheless, it is |s g to sit in the visitors’ gal- |lery at the Grand Opera House and |see representatives of over 50 na- |tionalities, in their national |tumes, come to represent their area |in the formulation of the policy that |the Soviet Government will follow during the year which will elapse before the next Congress. in session | There is a Mongolian shepard, a | peasant from the interior of Sibe }a Tartar from the Crimea, a Cau- |casian, a German from the Volga, |the Karelian from the Murmansk jcoast, a Jew from the Colonies in| the Ukraine. From the area of Kazan alone there could have been 50 delegates and every one of them representing another nationality. Although the delegates to this congress are not chosen on the basis |of autonomous national areas, the | workers and peasants as delegates | here represent the solidarity of all} these nationalities as delegates from! ia, The Western Union Telegraph Co. for which I work, employs a great many child laborers. The boys are forced ma~y times to wc-!: overtime, with no extra pay. They are con- tinually speeded up from errand to errand and have only one-half, aur for lunch, \ Newcomb Carlton, the owner of the Western Union, makes about fifteen million dollars a year, while the messengers get very small pay and the company cut the pay re- cently. 2 Soviets. sis They are here on the village, district, factory, mine, city Soviets. of They are here to discuss among other important matters the five- year plan for industrial and agri- cultural development as presented by the Government Planning Com- mission, and this plan as adopted by the Congress and with the direc- tives given by the delegates will be the basis for the economie growth of the Soviet Union, While in capi- talist countries this “development” is left to the exploiters whose profits depend upon the amount of work they can get from the work- ers with the least pay, here this de- velopment is planned and worked? out by the workers and peasants, ganize a The boys are willing to organize if oniy there were a union to which they could belong. The Young Pioneers together with the Com- munist Youth League must help the Western Union messenger boys or- fight for: who collectively consciously guide, oneito an tami under the leadership of the Com- 15/00 a week. : munist Party, the rate of industrial 2. 44 hou s per week. and agricultural development, the ae pee tee se amount of revenues to be put into! °: Rubbers and raincoats in time the various branches of economy, the , f "ain. 4, 5 sections to be aided, and the gen-| No speed up. eral direction of the economic life No overtime and no work om of the country, the very basis of the | Sunday. ‘ 3 | 6. One hour for lunch. life and power of the Soviet masses. | WORKER BURIED ALIVE, HATTIESBURG, M (By the bo inter international ¢ “ones Bue higoa othe: fo Mail)—One worker was suffocated habit, on the force of small in i patios ; ini of which, unfortunately, there is| °° death and two others injured plenty left and which daily, hourly.| when a deep trench they were dig- gives birth to capitalism and bour-| | ae geolsie, spontaneously and on a large ging for a sewer collapseg. William scale.—V. I, Lenin (“Left” Somes | Piodan was killed. nism). — ‘THE PROLETARIAN CO-OPERATIVE CAMP Nitge Ay ty My My -~calls you to lay the corner stone for the NEW 172 a week Vuvvv OPEN Physical and Mental Recreation — — — Proletarian Atmosphere New York Central Railroad to Beacon @| 1 ( t 60-ROOM HOTEL in the Decoration Day Week-End—A Special Program Is Arranged — Entertainment. THE ENTIRE YEAR By Boat 75c¢ with the Hudson River Day Line — Twice a Day Camp Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET Beacon, New York Telephone: BEAcon 862 New York Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET 2800 Bronx Park East Telephone: ESTabrook 1400