The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1929, Page 3

} le DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929 Page Three German Socia l-Demoerats Split Over Betrayal Polic (BUT FAKE ‘LEFTS’ 2 Sit lene t AFFIRMLOYALTY. TOTRAITORPARTY Boost Imperialism for Trade Union Unity Meet 1es at | : " Wall Street Puppet: IT.U.E.L. Reports Enthusiasm - quem emntveees More Details on Berlin ‘§ May Day Terror a BULLETIN. * MAGDEBURG, Germany, May 28.—Chancellor Hermann Mueller, head of the social-democratic party, won a victory here today when the party convention decided to continue its treacherous bid- ding for bourgeois favor in the formation of a coalition govern- ment and in the second appropria- tion for the new German cruiser. | The vote was carried, 256 to 138, after a demand had been made that the party withdraw from the coalition agreement on which Mueller’s cabinet is formed. The strong enposition vote shows that many of the “socialist” leaders fear. the resentment of: the masses. Mueller addressed the conven- tion, defending his actions and at- titude. He said further opposi- tion to the cruiser construction would mean another “govern- ment crisis,” meaning that the big indust ists might lose’ patience with their “socialist” footmen and kick: them downstairs. Sn eS MAGDEBURG, Germany, May 28. Serious internal disputes, centering chiefly around the May Day murders and the imperialist parliamentary tactics of the social-democrats, marked the opening of the national congress of the social-democratic party here. The so-called “left” social-demo- crats, unable longer to quell the in- tense indignation of their working- class supporters, are going in for heroic grandstand plays in an effort! to cover up their own acquiescence in the treacherous policies of the bureaucratic leaders. They criticised the ban on the May Day demonstra- ions and the coalition policy of the party, particularly the approval by the four social-democratic cabinet members of the cruiser appropria- tions which aroused storms of pro- test from hundreds of thousands of | workers. Loyal to Treachery. Lest there be any suspicion that they actually want the German social-democratic party to serve the interests of the workers instead of the bourgeoisie, the “left” social- democrats hastened to affirm their unswerving loyalty to the party and their determination to continue to work under its traitorous banner. The May Day murders hang like a ‘pall over the congress which not even the flag-waving, organized cliques and the bluster of the _ “socialist” leaders can dispel. All the star performers of the social- democratic party were trotted out on jhe opening day in an effort to! little cinema movement to be in any | pression.” make the rank and file forget the barty’s unparalleled treason. Chan- cellor Herman Mueller, Paul Loebe, chairman of the Reichstag, and Braun, premier of Prussia, were among those who spoke. Their speeches consisted almost entirely of, lyrical serenades to themselves and to the “glorious” achievements of the social-democratic party. C. P. Exposes Traitors. The Communist Party of Ger-! many, despitg the suppression for) he second time of its central organ, | he Rote Fahne, is using the social-| lemocratic congress to expose be-| wore the German masses the treach-| srous face of German social-dem- veracy, whether “right,” “centrist” we “left.” The Party is making spe- ial efforts to reach the deluded ocial-democratic workers and is neeting with consigerable success, ela. * More Details of May 1 Murders BERLIN, May 28.—The news- aper “Welt Am Abend” relates ghe istory of one of the deaths on ierlin’s bloody May Day when the ocial-democratic chief of police, oergiebel, sent his armed blood- ounds into the workingclass section » shoot to pieces the May Day dem- astration of the workers. The correspondent of the “Frank- irter Zeitung” tells of the shooting .)» death of the social-democratic metionary, Gemeinhardt, by Zoerg- bel’s bloodhounds, who were out » kill and shot one of their own aders by mistake. From this re- rt can be obtained some idea of e ruthlessness of the police who ere out for blood at any cost. The wrrespondent relates the following: Raise Terror Cry. On May 1, at 2:20 p.“m., the police ormed into Kosliner Street with e cry: “Clear the streets, close indows, we are shooting!” Even fore some of the inhabitants could yse their windows, the revolvers of e police blazed. At Number 19 on ysliner Street, the sociaf-democrat, meinhardt, looked out of the win- w, beckoned to a policeman and lled: . ‘Come here, my good friend!” Hardly had he spoken when two tol shots were heard. Gemein- rdt fell on the window-sill, struck the middle of his head, and then ak back into the room, Both Vanish. Near the shooting “heroes” stood uniformed police official, Haber- ‘oh, a social-democrat, who lived the same Kosliner Street at No. and wko was stationed at police y in another street. This same jucational League, in May 25, and continues: its | “Over the past week-end district ventions were held in Boston jand New Yorl: ard announcements “Reports co nto the national | whole series of present-day revolts, office of the Trade Union Educa-|:pontatieous and unorganized many tional League show that the senff- of them, throughout the world, as ment for the formation of a new |}roof of the growing resistance to trade union center is rapidly grow- capitalist oppression, and calls for jing throughout the country. Or-/ carrying out of the Red Interna- |cenization support for the conven- | tional of Labor Unions policy of {tion rapidly grows as the time for | giving this resentment organiza- the national convention ap- tional form and power, | proaches,” ways Labor Un “A Page of Southern Textile His- |tional organ of the Trade Ur tory” tells of a ndle by the United Textile Workers operated in Gastonia eight years ago, when, after collecting dues and initiation fees of $3 apiece from many mill slaves, the “union” just took the Sign Tacna-Arica National Congress of Party Pect PRAVDA EXPOSES | BRITISH INTRIGUE IN. AFGHANISTAN Direct Tribes in Attack | at Border MOSCOW, U 3.R., (By Mail).— The “Pravda” writes: The increas- ing number of raids into Soviet ter- ritory carried out by the Basmatchi bands would seem to indicate that the plans of the protectors of Ha- bibullah and the managers of the reactionary coup d’etat in Kabul, go Pilot Reginald Robins made an air endurance record in Texas, and the Wall Street air service benefited. aimed at attracting the public’s service. These stunt flights are interests into the imperialist air “Pawns of Destiny’ Vicious Anti-Soviet Propaganda | Some time ago there was shown at| the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse a| bitterly counter-revolutionary film |imported from Germany and called | “Sajenko, The Soviet.” In this pic- ture the Bolshevik leader was repre- | sented as an arch-villian, a merciless |brute whose time was divided be- |tween framing-up innocent victims and seducing pretty emigres who find haven in Paris from the Soviet regime. At the Film Guild Cinema last night we witnessed another German importation of this brand, only more viciously white-guardist in many re- spects. . In their struggle against the So- |viet Union, the imperialist powers | jare using all means at their dis-' {posal. In addition to provoking an armed struggle and the use of sabo- | tage as displayed in the Shakta inci- dent, they have made extensive use of the motion pictures. The film, “Pawns of Destiny,” is one of a series of such counter-revolutionary films that have been released within | the last few years. By all sorts of widely-advertised schemes, they are attempting to put these pictures over on the workers as a true reproduc- tion of life in the Soviet Union. This film falls by the wayside in comparison with the excellent films | that have been released by the Sov-| kino Film Company within the past! few years. It is used to counteract the favorable influence of such films | as “Potemkin,” “The End of St. Petersburg,” “Ten Days that Shook the World,” and “Two Days.” % It is nothing else but a trashy pic- | ture that Jacks sense, sequense, and | with no consideration for any time} elemept. } A few weeks ago we stated in an| article that thoz2 who believed the} way interested in showing Soviet | films for any reason except that of novelty, were dwelling under un. fortunate illusions. | from him that her boy is in his pos- |the help of a new lover, our heroine’s | story when “the modern touch” You will find a picture the name which has been changed yns of Passion” to “Love ion” and finally, for Eighth) Street consumption, to “Pawns of! Destiny.” This picture purports to| portray “one of the many tragedies which the Russian Revolution left in its wake.” So we are told that “the| Revolution changed all forttnes,” and a former nobleman becomes a Red Commissar. He condemns to death the husband of the woman he loves, While fleeing Russia with her little son, this woman runs into a battlefield near the Russian-Polish frontier and her child accidentally | falls into the hands of the red vil-| lain who murdered her husband. She | is unaware of this and tramps thru | Western Europe in search of her child. After a series of tribulations worth neither seeing nor writing, she | discovers the red commissar at some | fashionable ball in Paris. She learns rom | of e uci- session. Only after miraculously | escaping a brutal attack by our passionate red commisar, however. And justice will triumph in the end, and all wrongs will be righted. With son is rescued, the bolshevik boogy- man is drowned, and whoopee! All’s well! ‘ In this film the red commissar is the embodiment of all evil. He rapes, he lies, he tortures, he kills. He is a caricaturized to the most fantastic degree, and the audience is} taught to despise him. | But—we are told—“the photo-| graphy is extraordinary and is de- serving of the highest commenda-| tion. ... .” Also this film “exemplies | in its technique the modernistic touch with its subtle shades of ex- > | | So what “er a dastardly fascist is} present. —S. B. and J. P. Communists Fight Social Democrats in Saxon Elections BERLIN (By Mail).—On Sunday the elections for the Saxon Diet took place. The atmosphere was extremely intensified by the repur- cussion of the bloody events in Ber- lin, The bourgeois and the social democratic parties conducted a furi ous campaign against the Commu nist Party, whereby the social dem- ocrats made use of a number of the arguments of the right wing Com- munists who had put forward their | own list in the elections. The left | wing social democrats led the social democratic party electoral cam- paign and used left wing demogogic phrases, declaring themselves in fa- | vor of a “Red Saxon,” etc. They | government of the Reich. The Com- munist Party declared itseif opposed to any co-operation with the social | democratic party. The bourgeois parties fought for a government of the bourgeois block, the social dem- oerats declared themselves ip favor of “a Red Workers’ government,” whilst the Communist Party de- clared that the workers had nothing to hope from any parliamentary government and put forward the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The result was that 845,000 voted for social revoluticn against bourgeois parliamentarism. Communists lost 26,000 votes, whilst social democrats lost 77,000 votes | and would have lost many more but for the demagogic quasi-radical propaganda of the left wing social democrats. The Brandlerists re- | ceived 22,000 votes and no mandate. WANTED AT ONCE. * The textile strikers need help! As many as possible volunteer workers to do clerical and other work in the National Textile Workers Union na- | tional office should go at once to the office, 104 Fifth Ave. | collected ‘the police, among them the one who had killed Gemeinhardt, and | sent them away. | Both Beat It. | From that hour, the police of-| ficial, Haberstroh, and the other, also a social-democrat, who had shot berstroh had tushed into the 2et firing his gun. He nervously! Gemeinhardt, vanished from Kos- IMPOVERISHED SUICIDE LEBAWON, Ky., May 28.—Mrs. Mamie Shey, wife of a lumber worker who was trying to live with | seven children on his occasional | wagesp gave up the struggle toda Two Negro boys found her in a cemetery at night. They were at- tracted py her groans. She had killed the three younger thildren and slashed her own throat. She died soon after being found, | a ees | “BREAKING CHAINS,” SUCCESS | IN POUGHKEEPSIE. The Workers Educational Society | of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. conducted a | very successful showing of the film, | “Breaking Chains.” The proceeds went to the W. I. R.. who are soliciting funds for the tex- tile strikers in Gastonia. and in other areas. This showing laid the basis also opposed the present coalition | of a real W. I. R. section in Pough- | bought outright the Opel works, the keepsie. ! noney and left, leaving the workers with nice receipts, which they mean to use to claim return of their cash if the U.-T.. W. s out its ex- en office in Gastonia. May Day in Moscow. were clect ade as to the in the locals of the tional ers Union.” The leading article in this cf Labor Unity describes these vari- ous district conferences, and prophe sizes, on the basis of res progress 0: issue so far, A a successful Trade Union Unity graphic d ption of May Convention in Cleveland. Other ar- Day in Moscow is given by William t tell of the latest events in Z- Foster, national secretary of the Bech. a a works, de Union Educational League. e was present and saw the parade of thousands of workers, thei re- jection of the renegade Trotsky and heir cheers for the state construc- tion program. Several articles by Negro work- , textile union leaders, including Ibert Weisbord, and articles on the ile strike by Jack Joknstone, full page of live pictures, add the paper. strike in New York and of the prose cution of Ha Canter in Boston for carrying a sign denouncing Gov- ernor Fuller of Massachusetts for, his part in the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. World in Revolt. Special features are William F. Dunn’s column on the class strug- gle, wherein he links together the !j te Workers Exploiter’ Wall Street's new overseer in the Philippines Dwight W. Davis, was feted by the most notorious misleaders in the Philippines prior to his departure for that colony. Left to right, front row, speaker of the Philippine House, Manuel Roxas, Davis, Secretary of War Good, Philippino Senate President Osmena; back row, Commissioner Guerra, Secretary of Agriculture of the Philippines Aluman, and Commis sioner Osias. Ro , Osmena, Guerra, Aluman and Osias have kow- towed to Wall Street for the chance to aid in enslaving the Philippine workers and peasants. CITY DOESN'T PAY TAX. The Walker administration got a ling from Attorney General Ham- ith German Dye Tris? oa yest ich enables Ford, Fighting General Motors, Makes Alliance wi ea ac Henry For. out actually saving anything. He seems to have stolen a march cn . fc Baan General Motors in which he is in St#ted that the city of New York need not pay the two cents a gallon gasoline tax, enacted by the last legislature. volved in a world wide competit by confirming his jance with t German Dye Trus Today he car- celled 40 per cent of the stock of h German companies, already sold to investors, and igned it to the German Dye Tri Previously, Dr. Carl Bosch, chairman of the hoard of directors of the dye trust was made chairman of the directors of the German Ford Motor Co. The first indicatoion of the alliance came several weeks ago when Edsel Ford entered the board of directors of the German trust’s American subsidiary. Morgan’s General Motors Co. uses more direct tactics. It recently “xplosion of Standard Oil Well in Rumania BUCHAREST, Rymania, May 28. —Fire resulting from a terrific ex- plosion in an oil well near Moreni, did enormous damage to wells and office buildings of the Romana- Americana and Astra Romana Com- panies late today. Several workers are missing. The company is op- erated by the Standard Oil of New largest German automobile factories. | Jersey. . By train: Grand Central CHILDREN’S THE, CO-OPERATIVE UNITY CAMP Grand Opening! Spend Your Decoration Week-End at the UNITY CAMP! 50 New Bungalows — Additional Boats ENJOY ROWING ON THE BEAUTIFUL LAKE ELLIS — COMRADELY AT- MOSPHERE, THE BEST OF FOOD — OUR OWN BUSES TAKE The Unity Camp has established a children’s colony for workers’ children—Ages 5-10 $13.00 per week; $130.00 for the season WINGDALE, N. Y. Grand Opening! YOU TO THE CAMP Station, or 125th Street Station to Wingdale, New York REGISTER AT ONCE! COLONY FOR WORKERS’ CHILDREN REGISTER YOUR CHILDREN letayian recreation. for a splendid invigorating vacation, and for creative pro- sed threat that it will re-open | This is the group of Wall Street puppets which signed the Tacna- Arica pact in settlement of the dispute over these two provinces be- tween Peru and Chile, both Wall.Street colonies. In the picture are President Leguia of Peru, Chilean Ambassador Figueroa Larrain, and U. S. Ambassador Alexander Moore, who was there to that Wall Street's orders were carried out. Regardlessof whether the puppet governments of Peru or Chile rule this area, the’ peasants are expldited for Wall Street. Anger of the Workers British Imperialists Forces Vienna Fascisti Active in Stirring Up to Cut Down Parade TribesinAfghanistan VIENNA,—(By Mail) — Yester- MOSCOW, (B, day the fas Heimwehr parade ported took place to the accompani- ment of a great |armed police etc. from Termez that the ac- tivity of the British resident among the Jellalabad and Hosta tribes is making itself increasingly notice- able and that considerable propa- anda for tke incorporation of these Frovinces into the independent zone is being carried on, this zone to form a part of the British-Indian Empire. Afghan emigrants living in India wander through the prov- inces carrying on propaganda, for the declaration of independence for the southeastern part of Afghanis- tan. The report that these tribes are being continually supplied with Brit- ish weapons has been cc=fir here mobilization of Having regard to the ugly temper of the Vienna work- grs the organizers of the parade were compelled to cut down their program. Only eleven hundred fascists took part in the parade it- jself, and for this 10,000 police were mobilized. In addition provincial gendarmerie had been drawn into} the town and the troops were held in readiness in their barracks. The “Rote Fahne” was again confiscated. At the commencement of the march and in the Ring Strasse a number Mail).—It is re- farther than an atter._t to turn Afghanistan into a British colonys The forces and the resources of Ha- bibullah are not so great that he could use any superfluous forces for operations on the territory of the Soviet Union. Without any doubt the Basmatchi tribes obtain the |means for their pinprick fight | against the Soviet Union from some reliable source. Such source can only be a power which could use the violation of peace on tha Soviet frontier as an excuse to carry out its own annexationist plans in Cen- | tral Asia. \Communists Win in Shop Elections in Big Metal Factory BERLIN, (By Mail).—The shop councils election in the great Ber- lin metalurgical works Bergmann (Rosenthal) yesterday resulted in a clear victory for the ( munist op- position which received 1,880 votes while the reformist trade union list: received 1,313 votes. The victory is all the important because the ocial democrats were in a position to place a renegade, a former mem- | ber of the C. P. on the head of their \list. Despite this, the opposition in- jereased its votes as compared with the last election, a fact which is ac- counted for by the bloody May hap- penings. mor The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save |from extinction their existence as |fractions of the middle class. They |are therefore not revolutionary, but | Sepeexvacivee— sacl Marx (Commu- nist Manifesto). of collisions occurred between the |Heimwehr and workers under the leadership of the Communists. The police immediately intervened with the greatest britality and arrested lin all about a hundred workers. Tomann and Schuelyr are among the arrested. The social-democratic demonstration which was intended to detract the attention of the workers from the parade of the Heimwehr, went off, without incident. @ HEADING By T. Soviet Workers in Many Protest Meets Against Berlin Police MOSCOW (By Mail).—Numerous protest meetings in connection with ihe bloody events in Berlin took place ir Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov on the Don, Novosibirsk, Omsk and ether towns. The workers of the factory “Krasny Bogatyr” decided Yo contribyge one-fourth of a day’s ‘vages to support the dependents of the victims in Berlin, A similar col- tion has been commenced in No- vosibirsk. The conferend® of the labor unions of Omsk has sent a telegram of greetings in the name of 35,000 workers to the Central | |Committee of the German Commu- ! +S BAST M2bTH EURERD nist Party, announcing its solidar- ity with the German workers and | declaring the willingness of the | Russian workers to assist in the support of Zoergiebel’s victims. ! slaughter. proletariat. REVOLUTIONARY LESSONS : By Vii Contains some of Lenin's question of tactics. democracy, etc., etc. written before and after October. MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY By MARX & ENGELS 10 Cents New Edition translated by E. & C. PAUL FOR WAR BELL 10 Cents A brilliant study of the present international situation and factors which are making for a new world The role of reformism and the tasks of the LENIN 25 Cents most famous monographs Deals with the A theoretical study of bourgeois Workers Library Publishers NEW YORK CITY We carry a full line of Revolutionary German Literature * THE PROLETARIAN CO-OPERATIVE CAMP Te a week ._ a & & 4 » ° OPEN Nitgedaiget & & & &» -~c4)Is you to lay the corner stone for the NEW Physical and Mental Recreation — — — Proletarian Atmosphere New York C8ntral Railroad to Beacon By Boat 75c with the Hudson River Day Line — Twice a Day 60-ROOM HOTEL in the Decoration Day Week-End—A Special Program Is Arranged — Entertainment. THE ENTIRE YEAR Beacon, New Camp Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone: BEAcon 862 New York Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET 2800 Bronx Park East é Telephone: ESTabrook 1400 York