The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 2

Page Two - DAILY WORKER, N SW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929 DEATH TOLL IS By INJURED IN HOSPITAL ARE 7 No Repairs Permitted }\° to Check Profits (Continued from Page One) missing was one the whose lives were s out last night as the worked in their compr chamber beneath the river bed. Garvey Escapes Death. Another of the f gon job, origin: of workers Two bodies were brought out of the execution department tod: Mulloy of Newark, and Johi lagher of Brooklyn, and the lat Was so crushed and mangled that only his brass check, No, 645 told rescuers who he was The Air Line Explodes. The men were the victims of an exploded air pressure line. It was only the air pressure which had held the massive steel box up giving them an eight-foot clearance to work in. Only the pressure had kept the ooze and muck from sucking in from the bottom. When the pressure failed, they were caught in a brutal vice. At midnight, the weight of the caisson had carried the dead men, engineers reckoned, twenty feet further down through solid mud. The list of dead and injured work- ers follows: The Dead. BYRNE, John, 36 East Fifty-sixth Street, Bayonne, HADLEY, Jack, 116 Tonnelle Ave., Jersey City. MULLOY, D., Newark. GALLAGHER, JOHN, Place, Brooklyn. GALLAGHER, PATRICK E., Third Avenue, New York. One more, unidentified. The Missing. TRACY, W., 74 West Highty-ninth Street, New York. HART, JAMES, 409 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City. In Jersey City Hospital. JONES, PATRICK, foreman, East 204th Street, shock. BRESLIN, JOHN, 36 West Fifty- second Street, Bayonne, severe 55 Bridge Street, 50 Berkley 93: 871 Machinist Fakers Now Instruct Members to Boost Company Sales ELMIRA, N. Y. (By Mail fter signing an agreement with the ican La France Fire Engine ose machinists were on strike the Machinists Union offi- cials have not only signed a clause ing the workers union to prove t “a union shop is more efficient for the company,” but have also be- come salesmen for the company, by ling out circulars to the workers asking them to boost the products ; of the La France Co. y site wall, and we have to step out into the tunnel, | Cave-Ins. “On the floor of the tunnel car- ads of sand are being drawn on = ks to the surface. Cave-ins often are possible, another risk for the sandhogs. Under 35-Lb. Pressure. _| “Then comes another bulkhead, , another hot, stifling room in which we are locked. More air, more awful e, Then we are put under a pres- ne ‘New York Sections of Party For Address of Comintern (Continued from Page One) STRESSES LIQUIDATION OF FACTIONALISM. The Section Executive Committee, Section 9, District 2, New York, Communist Party of the U. S. A., fully endorses and accepts the Address by the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the members of the Communist Party of the U.S, A., and pledges itself to carry into effect its decisions, stressing especially the liquidation of all factionalism in the Party—C, CHRISTIE, Secretary; J. MAUGEN, , Organizer. WARNING AGAINST GROUP INTERPRETATION. The New Jersey Conference of the Communist Party has adopted the following motions in connection with the Communist International decision: | € 1, We accept and pledge to fully carry out the decision of the Communist International. We further pledge ourselves to aid in mobilizing the entire membership in the United States Party for the carrying out of this decision, 2, We point to this decision and its acceptance as the only means for the abolition of factionalism and the complete unification of our Party. 3. We warn against group interpretation of this decision and stress the acceptance of the decision in the spirit presented by the Communist International. NIAGARA FALLS MEMBERS SUPPORT ADDRESS. sure of 35 pounds to the square inch, | gradually working up from 20 pounds, Then we step out to dig away at the sand, ur ears are ringing. Your own voice sounds like the voice of some- one far, far away. Danger All Around, | “For an hour and a half we dig at the wall of sand. Danger is all around us. If something happens to the air c-apressors and the pressure fails, good-bye—we’ll be drowned like rats before we can get back to the airlo Hundreds of , ‘sand- hogs’ lie at the bottom of the Hud- son River. “Then there is the danger of ex- plosion--if a joint gives way under pressure. When this happens, the company blames the workers, we ‘didn’t do our work well,’ they say. “We can work only for an hour and a half at a stretch—no human being can work longer under com- pressed air. We have to go thru the same sort of process before we can get out int) the normal air, as we went thru before going in—five minutes in eagh airlock. The “Bends.” “Then comes the danger of the ‘bends’—the disease that gets us all sooner or later. “The pressure has filled our blood with bubbles of oxygen w! ich must | We, members of the Niagara Falls, New York, Unit of the Com- munist Party, after reading the Comintern address to the American Party membership, thoroughly understand the contents and agree un- animously with the Central Committee decisions on the Address. We pledge ourselves to do everything possible to completely eradicate fac- tionalism from our ranks to enable our Party to become a real mass political leader of the American proletariat.—Niagara Falls, New York, Communist Party, | RESOLUTION OF FREIHEIT STAFF. The Editorial Staff of the Freiheit, at a special meeting, adopted tle following resolution: | We greet the Comintern Address and the Polcom decision concerning | the Address, We are fully convinced that the Address is correct in all points; that it correct: all errors committed and uproots all unhealthy policies carried on in the Party; that it lays the basis for an abolition of the plague of our Party’s life, factionalism; that it points a way towards making our Party a strong united vigorous mass Communist Party. | We urge every member of our Party to do his utmost to abandon factionalism and to stand behind the decision of the Communist Inter- national which must be the guiding authority for all our Party. At the same time we note the existence of a grace danger of oppo- sition to the Comintern Address and to the Communist International it- self. This opposition was characterized by the Comintern as “a direct attempt at preparing the condition necessary for paralyzing the decisions of the Comintern and for a split in the Communist Party of America,” while the Y. C. I. has told in a cable to the Y. L. of America that it must struggle “against the splitting policy of Lovestone and Gitlow.” We pledge ourselves to fight most vigorously against any such splitting or opposition policies from whatever quarter they may come. We appeal to all Party members to fight such policies and to stand solidly for the decision and line of the Communist International. ae Adopted unanimously by the Freiheit Staff, Jewish Communist | daily. VIEWS OF BULGARIAN COMRADE. be thrown off before we re-enter! normal air pressure. Doing this we are liable to be seized with the ‘bends,’ cramps and convulsions As a member for four years of the Bulgarian Bureau I fully en- dorse the Comintern Address and the Party Polcom decisions.— (NICHOLA KOVACHEFF, Niagara Falls, N. Y, eA eae DEBT AGREEMENT U.S. Steel He MAKES WALL ST. it AU CHIEF SHYLOGK .wrzzssts sso Stupendous wealth, accumulated by 154 giant industrial corporations, has increased by 16% per cent in| ae one year, announces Dow Jones and | ‘Payments to Stretch Company, publishers of the Wall] Reese het Street Journal. A tabulation of in- Over 59 Years sustrial wealth for 1928 shows the | (Continued from Pago One) h and security holdings of these corporations as $2,785,855,581 in however, Germany in the course of | 1928, against $2,389,054,307 in 1927. | the next 59 years will turn over be-/U, S. Steel heads the list, i tween :000,000,000 and $28,000,-; Sixty-seven different companies | 000,000, The average annual pay-| increased their common share capi- ment is figured at approximately | (alization last year. preferred The number of shares outstanding in moth companies increased Such an increase in number of shares is often the result of stock split-ups and stock divi- dends which are common devices for $490,000,000, or a little less. Connected with Debts. Germany also will pay $260,000,- 000 in service on the Dawes plan jloan of 1924. Of the payments dur- ing the first 37 years, approximately $5,000,000,000 will go in payment of | ~ war debts, principally to the United | States. The remainder will be for| | reparations, | It was reported that the so-called | Young plan calls for approximately | $3,573,000,000 of the debt to be} mobilized for the unconditional ca-| tegory of annuities—that is, to be} |secured as payments which must be met regardless of economic condi- tions in Germany which might cause |a temporary suspension of other payments, é acai ‘ ‘Ab Gublerture | that these industrial giants are ri- Mt sha! valling the banks as money lenders. | In the meantime, the German in- Instead of themselves borrowing | dustrialists are attempting to force | money they are lending to other cor- Some of the largest corporations | U. S. Steel General Motors . Allied Chemical Dye Bethlehem Steel . Sinclair Oil . Chrysler Corporation . Du Pont de Nemours Kennecott Copper Nash Motors Jones and Laughlin Steel. So vast are the reserve holdings | present high level and pay the re-| parations at the expense of the} |workers, The claim of the German lexploiters that they cannot “afford to-pay” is shown to be only a sub- terfuge to keep greater profits for) themselves in the great mass of| \German steel, chemical and textile| The reparation negotiations them- Thousands of Soldiers | selves were far from finding the} former’ allied imperialists at one. | Get Leaflets The powers, this time represented NAS A a by the real directors of imperialism,| _ (Cuntinued from Page Ona) were all seeking for points of van-| arrested, after being seized by an) |tage. Wall Strect, under the cloak army officer, Major William Han- of playing the kind-hearted medi-| an, while giving out the anti-war ator, was there for a business pur- leaflets on 92nd St. Hannan ordered | pose. J. P. Morgan, his partner, La- | her to give him a leaflet, and when mont, and Owen D. Young, would|she said she had none left, ordered wage-cuts on the workers in the| |metal, mining and textile industries, | products competing strongly with} |the products of the other imperial-| not have left their New York of- her arrest. A policeman was called |fices for four months in Paris if and the Youth League member ar- |so as to keep their profits at their! ists on the world market, PaaS they did not expect to put across a/ tested. Ste was refeased on $500 ads List Street Pirates in the country, such as the Ford Motor Co. which ranks second in wealth, are not included in this Dow Jones list. As the 154 corporations listed are all industrial companies, such public utility giants as General Electric and American Telephone and Telegraph, ranking fourth and fifth, are not included. U. S. Steel holds the highest. mountain of wealth. With cash and marketable securities totaling $352,~ 253,477 at the end of last year, it reports a gain of more than 27 per SENATE TO RUSH HOOVER BARRIER ‘ONLABOR PAPERS ‘Frame-up Artists Fish with Trust Lobbyists (Continued from Page One) struggle, or giving news of the in- ternational Communi&t movement barred from entry. No debate was allowed on this cent over 1927, General Motors holds the second highest mountain of $215,905,230 in cash and invest- | ment securities. The ten leading industrial cor- porations in the Dow Jones list, with their cash and marketable Dec. 31, 1927, are as follows. 1928 1927 + -$352,853,477 $276,831,250 215,905,239 208,176,198 97,807,989 102,070,790 57,698,774 47,796,249 55,375,028 10,808,467 53,269,993 32,642,001 45,367,631 82,596,221 43,020,743 18,291,069 41,244,734 42,274,334 39,711,706 33,578,103 porations and to individuals, Sur- plus profits of these 154 corpora- tions are surplus piles of wealth ac- cumulated after all interest and dividends are paid out. HOOVER STANDS OVER GRAVE AND YELLS FOR NAVY. “Scared Dead” in Need of Company, Is Hint WASHINGTON, May 30.—Stand- ing inthe glistening white theatre at Arlington military and naval cemetery, just over the Patomac from the capitol, with his secret service gunmen strategically sta- tioned about, and the grave of the “unknown soldier” within sight. President Hoover today: made a Dec- oration Day address that struck as militarist a note as has ever been |feature in the house, all hearings |being before the committee, and by |prearrangement in the administra- tion caucus, no amendments except \those recommended by the commit- |tee were allowed. The senate seems |determined to follow the same pro- concealing the actual rate of profit. | holdings, as of Dec. 31, 1928, and | cedure. Hurry Reapportionment. House of representatives admin- \istration leaders say today that the |senate bill on the census and reap- |portionment will be under discussion lin the house Tuesday. Today most of the congressmen are scurryipg around looking for the coolest spots where the glasses are tallest and frosted, or are ganging up in back oms to stoke up the steam roller & the farm and census bills, The senate passed legislation or- dering the 1930 census by a vote |of 57 to 26, and attached to it a |rider that after the census is taken the seats in the house shall be re- apportioned, Hits at Farmers. The revision is a blow at the ag- jricultural centers. The big cities, \where the republican machine works ‘most smoothly, gain representation, |This is particularly true of Los An- |geles, which is a rich man’s play- |ground, without many large indus- \tries, and Detroit, where the ballot- ling, like everything else, is domin- lated by the auto factory owners. tionment states that the probable gains will be Arizona, 1; California, 6; Connecticut, 1; Florida, 1; Michi- lina, 1; Ohio, 3; Oklahoma, 1; Texas, 2; Washington, 1. Total, 23. The majority of the committee did not say what state would lose, ‘The minority of the committee, how- ever, said that under the method of major fractions the following states* tatives indicated: Indiana, 2; Towa, 2; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisi« ana, 1; Maine, 1; Massachusetts, 1;. | The house committee on reappor-"~ gan, 4; New Jersey, 2; North Caro-" would lose the number of represen-. ; A eee A A + i |bail for a hearing this morning at selene args Sean Wha eh *) bruises and internal injuries. which double a man up with pain z x = |big deal. | pred y | Sounded here. Mississippi, 2; Missouri, 4; Ne- DOHERTY, PATRICK, 310 East and convulsions. After a rest we] eocen en at Section Three, N. Y. | Denounce Factionalism as Party | ‘Their rivals, the British nde Oe ante Ae Ree Hoover employed the usiral and|traska, 1; New York, 2; North Da- ‘ i | | tunnel. ‘or this dangerovs work, | 2*°6! 2 3 ing the adcress 0} ie ii im- ii a int irgini . Alia fracture of the right leg, internal we get paid $11.50 a ER and are Section No. 3 (formerly of Section |Exeeutive Committee of the Choe ea the onslaught of Yankee im- | {bor Defense. memorial day speaker. He pointed > Middie western and southern sen- injuries and possible fracture of the skull, WARNER, FRANK, €33 Ocean Ave., Jersey City, fracture of right leg and internal injuries. - MORLEY, DAN, 18 Pearson Place, Long Island City, Queens, fracture of bone’ of right foot. GARVEY, JAMES, 647 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City; internal in- juries and fractured leg. MULCAHY, JOHN, 448 East 138th Street, the Bronx; shock and bruises. Three more men later were re- moved and the four were taken to the Jersey City Hospital. Jersey City police declared that the rest of the mcn had drowned. The negligence of the contractors stood out as the blame for the deaths of these workers. In the hurry to complete the job in quick time, precautions were simply ignored, the “sandhogs” said, and the air pressure line exploded as a result. A “sandhog” on the Hackensack River job, in a letter to the Daily Worker last week pointed out the danger of death for these unde ground “sandhogs,” as workers who work in compressed air, in building tunnels are called. The dangers of this work were exposed in this let- ter, yet despite the fact that the let- ter was written over a week ago, conditions remained the same, up to the very time of the disaster which killed the six workers. The letter of the ‘“‘sandhog” fol- lows in part: The “sandhogs” work at building tunnels, and in all underground and underwater construction. It is very| Fraternizing with the Loray strik- | risky work, as you will soon see, liable to be drowned like yats any time. That’s the ‘sandhogs’ work.” WORKERS RELIEF ASKS TENT FUNDS. Strikers Build Their Own Foundations (Continued from Page One) Dixon workers plan a united strug- gle. Armed Pickets. An armed guard of strikers watches the new buildings tonight, as every night, to prevent further “masked mob” outrages. It has also to guard the spring from which the strikers get their water supply, for twice poisoners from the ranks of the mill owners’ thugs have at- tempted to reach it. The water in |one striker’s house was found poi- soned just as the tent colony was | opened, |__ These tents are purchased by the | Workers International Relief, |sbipped into Gastonia and set up \over solid foundations built by the | perialism, which is threatening them Riverside Drive was the scene of No. 4) was as follows: |munist International to the Commu- | Having ciscussed ‘the Comintern nist Party of America, the editors address, the Bureau of Section No. |@nd manager of the Daily Rovnost ~p8cis\of the opinion that it isof the Ludu fully and uncozditionally ac- {greatest ‘importance to our Party |by the Executive Committee of the and its line is the only basis for | by the Evecutive Committee of the building a mass revolutionary move- | Communist International and pledge ment in this country and for a real |to give the widest possible support | struggle against the right danger. |to the party organizations to carry The organization-proposals con- them through to the last letter, tained in the Address we heartily |. The Daily Rovnost Ludu, true to approve and call on te Central Com- | it8 traditions of 23 years shall also! mittee to carry them cut uncondi- be 7 the future uncompromising tionally. The Central Executive. fighter for the revolutionary pro- Committee will give its wholehearted #T8™ of Marx and Lenin, and will support to the campaign of en- {help with all its power to build a lightenment of the membership as to unified, mass Communist Party in the contents of the Communist In- | America, which will be able to de- ternational Address. feat the combined forces of the | We call on all comrades to ex-, American imperialists. pose all attempts at factional inter- |. We looked on the factional fights pretation of the address. inside the American Party for years | The Section Executive Committee mths: feeling. of sorrow, being. con- will fight uncompromisingly against vinced that it is the biggest handicap all distortion of the Address and will | “°" * oe not stop at any organizational fighting ability and a mass Commu- measures to c .ry out the line of nist Party in America. Although the| the Contmunist International for | factional fights left a mark on the} building a mass Communist Party C2¢choslovak revolutionary move- in the United States. jment in America, we are at the Long Live the Comiztern! Down | 5@me time glad to declare that they j mare. fod oe ae their home | extensive militarist pe | . Althoug! ie war debts 45 Wall Street displayed its arme: |due the United States from the rival fist, ready for use against the |imperialists did not feature in the | workers, in the shape of a parade of |public proceedings, it was made clear tens of thousands of troops. Thej | that Wall Street could not expect | arrival of the young workers- and to collect more from Britain and/| pioneers created a sensation, and the reparations from Germany. In this way Wall Street was made the di- rect shylocker of the German work- France than what they received in| youth made the army officers gnash | | their teeth as the distribution of the leaflets began. for the development of discipline, | 4 | Major Hannan made a startling | task | the German admission to Beatrice Weinstein, the| | bourgeoisie is coop--ating. |young worker who was arrested.| | Financial Center. | ‘My boys get discontented when they | | The creation of the International |read these leaflets,” said the major,| Bank, introduced by Morgan andj “and I get into a lot of trouble as a| | Young, as a collection agency for result.” debts and reparations, is really aj ~ formal recognition of the grasp of | | American finance capital abroad, for ers, a task in w es Denounce Arrest. “The arrest of Beatrice Weinstein, since all the money collected is due|a member of the Communist Youth to Wall Street, Wall Street will have League, for distributing leaflets to control of this bank. It creates a servicemen on Decoration Day shows jcentral financial center for the im-| how the military authorities fear the perialists, which can be used in a awakening of class-consciousness war against the Soviet Union. among the armed forces,” declared | _ Talk of certain political conces-|the Communist Youth League in a! |sions demanded by the Reich, such| statement issued by the National| |as withdrawal of the troops from Office yesterday. “The army offi- the Rhineland, return of some of|cer who had Beatrice Weinstein ar- with the Right Wing! Long Live the Unity of the Party!—Section No. 3 Bureau; Present: Mittleman, Cline, | Lifschutz and Stevens, | or ee | strikers. More tents are arriving | if ‘ |and still more are needed. The W.| From Bastion. Bie. New York LR. 1 Union Square, New York, | \esks all workers to help. The colony is organized as a com- | Mittee of Section 5, District 2, New| mune, with its own judge to settle any disputes, ,ers are not only the Dixon strikers, “To begin with—let me tell what Who may soon be added to the col- happened the other day to a couple |OnY, but also the committee of the of “sandhogs” over in Jersey. Two | Elizabethton strikers, sold out by men employed as “sandhogs” by the |the United Textile Workers, from MeMullen Construction Co., at work far away in Tennessee, who have at Newark Ave. and the Hackensack come to observe how a real union, River were stricken with the ter- the National Textile Workers Union, rible “bends” last week. One was With the support of all militant | William Lovelace, of Brooklyn, and the other, a Negro “sandhog,” Rich- | ard Jones. I will tell of this disease. “Let me describe the work, for in- stance that we did on the new sub-| way tunnel under the East River, be- tween Fulton St., Manhattan, and Cranberry St., Brooklyn, a job we finished last Wednesday. Going Under. | workers, fights the boss, 3,000 Wool Textile Workers Strike as | Pay Is Cut Down SOWERBY BRIDGE, Eng. (By |Mail)—Even Ben Turner, re- jactionary misleader of the Textile | 1.—The Section Executive Com- | York, Communist Party, fully ac- \cepts and endorses the address of the Executive Committee of the |Communist International to the Membership of the Communist Party jof the U. S. A. 2.—We further undertake to:carry | out all of the decisions of the Com- |intern and mobilize the members for the complete support of the Com- munist International, 8.—We pledge our support to the | Communist International in its fight against all opportunists who want |to fight the Communist International | ‘and attempt to split the Communist |Party of the United Staes, | 4.—We call on the membership of (Section 5 to carry out the decisions |contained in the address whole- | heartedly and without reservations. 5.—We call upon all the Units to “Each morning, when we come to| Union, could not. halt over 3000 | Proceed with a discussion of the Ad- were never of the sharpest character. |The right tendency in our fraction ; and the American Party as a whole, |in the future will be fought vigor- | ously until it will be in line of the program of the Comintern, When we greet the address of the |E.C.C.L, we call on all comrades |not only to accept, but to carry through the decision of the Comin- tern, fight the factionalists, the right danger and build the party so as to be able to defend the inter- est of the American proletriat and jestablish a Workers’ and Farmers’ government. With Communist greet- |ings, John Mackoyich, editor; Frank H. Gruener, and Michae Slulovsky, | manager, Rovnost Luu. Note: Inasmuch as Comrade Jo- seph Schiffel, responsible editor and |Comrade John Zuskar, secretary of the Czechoslovak Fraction of the Communist Party, and C. Charles Karenic, editor, are in Detroit at the convention of the Slovak Work- ers Society at the present time, they cannot endorse this proclamation, but there is no question of their un- conditional support of the E.C.C.I. letter—John Mackovich, i a Czech Party Members Greet Address |the former German colonies, revision |of the Polish corridor, and others, jis still continuing and may have been |the subject of negotiations between the delegates. The fact that’ there |have been reports of the German government offering to turn its back upon the Soviet Union in return for |these concessions, is indicative of the anti-Soviet spirit prevading the negotiations, - rested asked the police to make the charge as severe as possible. The military authorities wish to terror- ize the young workers in an effort to stop the growth of Communism among the workers in uniform. “We are not frightened by the | persecution and terror on the part of the authorities. The arrest of Beatice Weinstein is a confession that the government does not dare let the servicemen learn the truth about the purpose of the present war preparations. Our answer will USSR EXPOSES CHIANG'S LIES be to intensify our anti-militarist work and our struggle against the | growing war danger. “The trial of Beatrice Weinstein today is intended as a test case. The civil authorites are called to the |aid of the War Department. We have Pravda Shows Feng Is British Tool (Continued from Page One) American imperialists, while the Kwangsi group and Feng are the tools of the Japanese-British imper- jalism, states Pravda, Recent happenings in China, it says, represent the intensification of imperialist antagonisms and the col- lapse of the reactionary united front |no illusions about the vie of the capitalist courts, We know that only the organized power of the workers can obtain justice for our class. Every worker must realize the sig- nificance of this arrest and demand the release of T>atrice Weinstein.” SIGN PAINTERS GAIN BALTIMORE, Md. (By Mail), — Sign painters in this city have gain- ed the five day week for organized work, we are lowered in a hoist to| workers, operatives at the wool, a level 75 feet below the surface of worsted and blanket mills in this the river. In front of us, in the | area, from walking out against ‘a face of the tube that stretches out|10 per cent wage cut. The mills of The Czecho-Slovak members of the Party and their weekly organ, Obrana, welcome and endorse fully the Open Letter of the Communist International. | dress as it is indicated therein, 6.—The Executive Committee Section 5 calls upon the Units endorse this resolution, é of) to that accompanied and followed the men. suppression of the Commune of Canton (established for a few days during the insurrection of the work- PLUMBERS STRIKE SCHENECTADY, N. Y. (By under the river, is a hug: steel door, like that of a vault. We pull it open, and enter a small room where there ‘are several wooden benches and a table. The door is shut, and a lever is pulled to put us under a pressure of 8 pounds to a square inch: the air is shut off. While this is done, there is a roaring and screaming—| your nerves have to be pretty hard to stand the noise. Our noses bleed badly while the air is being lowered to the 8 pound pressure. Then the % is again opened, and we are under a pressure of 15 pounds, a opened in the ory Bic anatigitie iets 22 firms were tied up in the walkout. Notices of the cut were given by 23 mills, but one owner withdrew the notices on the strike threat. A ballot of the operatives showed a great majority for the strike, i FASCIST FLIGHT. TARANTO, Italy, May 30.—Sev- eral amphibian planes which wilt \take part in the Near East cruise beginning June 3 arrived here to- day. The plans began arriving yes- terday. Commander Francesco De Pinedo will command the cruise, in which 200 persons ‘will participate, 7.—We endorse the decisions of the Central Committee in regard to} the Address. and pledge our full sup- | port to the C. C. in carrying out these decisions. We call upon the C. C, to adopt the most severe meas- ures against those comrades that re- sist the execution of the line con- tained in the Address.—Section Five, District Two, New York City. more, up into two grea ti in eset Kd directly con letariateMarge We promise to do our utmost to help to carry ext the spirit of its content to the best of our abilities. We are convinced that this Open J.etter of the Comintern is very timely. It will help a great deal to make the whole party membership | to realizc that it is the highest time to abandon futile factional strife and devcte all energy of the party for the gigantic task of leading the struggle of the American working class in this land of mightiest capi- tulist imper‘alism, Long Live the Comman'‘st Party of Uni‘ed States. ers under the leadership of the Chi- nese Communist Party a year and a half ago). At the same time, Pravda points out, the workers’ and peasants’ movement is strengthening and the revolution is on the upgrade, . 8 ® No Japanese Ambassador. TOKIO, Japan, May 80,—The credentials which Kenkichi Yoshi- zawa will present today to the Nan- king government are not those of an ambassador, but those of a minister pleniponteiary, in further indication of the fact that the Japanese imp. ‘|Fortthe Obrana.—vV, Abraham, ~ |perialists- are counting on a Feng Mail). — Organized plumbers here struck for a five-day week and higher wages, victory over the Nanking regime, which in turn would mean a victory over Yankee penetration incto China. It was announced recently that Japan would send a regular ambas- sador to Nankink pending the com- pletion of the negotiations for a treaty, but as soon as it became cer- the Nanking regime, the Japanese government announced that it would tain that Feng had declared war on| : to the “sacred ceremony in memor- 1am of those who died in service of. their country,” and said that it would be a nice thing to have un- iversal peace, and that the Kellog war pacts were a great step for- ward, but: “Today, as never before in peace, new life-destroying instrumentalities and new systems of warfare are be- ing added to those that even so re- cently spread death and desolation over the whole continent of Europe. Despite those lessons every govern- ment continues to increase and per- fect its armament.” “Still More Ships.” “Tf. this declaration really repre- sents the aspirations of peoples; if this covenant be genuine proof that the world has renounced war as an instrument of national policy; it means at once an abandonment of the aggressive use of arms by every signatory nation and becomes a sin-| cere declaration that all armaments hereafter shall be used only for de- fense. “But still the net result has been the building of more fighting ships. “Our Navy is the first, and in the world sense the only important, fac- tor in our national preparedness. It is a powerful part of the arms of the world. “To make ready for defense is a primary obligation upon every statesman and adequate prepared- ness is’ an assurance against ag- gression.” ‘ Nothing New. In his speech not one single new note was struck. The usual argu- ment of every imperialist in every country in the world, that he builds navies for “defense only,” that “the things these dead fought for must be preserved by us, the living,” that “other countries arm against us and ‘we must arm, too,” were presented in their naked simplicity, without even any pretense at a smoke screen, CHAUFFEURS SOLD OUT CHICAGO, (By Mail).—Under- takers’ chauffeurs will receive holi- days off but will continue to work under their old wage scale of from $42 to $45 a week under an agree- ment for a year with the Chicago Motor Liverymens’ Association, the bosses’ league. The chauffeurs de- manded an increase in the new agreement but the officials of the union compromised. eid fought the Dill bitterly, and the same course is expected of the |same groups in the house. An amendment to limit the action of the bill to the 1930 census and re« apportionment failed in the senate. The committee of business chiefs, corporation lawyers and college deans, servants of big business, which is to work out better and cheaper frame-up systems, by a Te- port recommending the partial aboli- tion of trial by jury, under guise of “better selection of juries,” as Hoover expresses it, took the day off today, at least officiailv. But it is said here that some of the fish- ling trips arranged by the members |of Hoover's law enforcement com- |mission are taken in company with jbig steel and coal and automobile jpersonnel officers and lobbyists, |who will tell them between bites what is needed to suppress labor jorganization in their localities. | Army Officers Swear at. Each Other; Superior ‘Accusing Subordinate Governor’s Island officers got inte a heated argument yesterday about some detail of planning the next war which has not been made public. and now one of them, Major Genera! Hanson D. Ely is court-martialing his chief of staff, Colonel Berkeley Enochs. It’s very risky for an under officer to shake his fist s+ a superior officer, and might lead some of the privates to the opinion that generals are not so sacred. Enochs faces 8 reprimand, WORKER DROWNS. BUENOS AIRES, May 30.—Fol lowing a 24 hour search in the sewer pipes over a radius of many blocks; the rescue parties of firemen and sanitary employes today abandoned their search for Francisco Barbieri, 89, who disappeared two days age after descending into a manhole te do some work. The rescuers ex+ drowned and that his body was car: ried off into the river. strong earthquake occurred here at 4:47 a. m. lasting 30 seconds. Somé residents ran into the streets in panic, but there were no casualties, ) 1852 The Same Address Over 75 Years = 1! ETROPOLITAN | ASSETS EXCEEDING from the bt l l to $7,500.00, at the rate of wait before officially recognizing the Chiang government, isa. | SAVINGS BAN K $29,000,000 fore ra | pressed the belief that Barbieri was), EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE. h SANTIAGO, Chile, May 30.—A™\