The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. JUNE 1, 1929 6,000 TOBACCO NORKERS STRIKE IN BULGARIA idependent Union in, Need of Relief SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 31.—The dependent Tobacco Workers Union leading a great strike, and has nt an appeal by wire to the work- s of the whole world to give it lidarity. Twenty-six thousand tobacco wor- rs are on strike. In spite of the scist terror, the spirit of the stri-| rs is splendid. The appeal the tobacco workers’ tion has issued is slgned by Noyad- eiff,, secretary of the Indepen- nt Unions, and asks all proletar- ns fo render moral and material) @ pport. The address for strike re-| f, and communications is ‘“Edins- | Porles Gil Suppresses Cuban Re Students of the School of Medicine, Mexico City, declared a str and demonstrated in the public square, carrying effigies of the professors. Si. stration when police charged the stude’ s. Inset, injured student, Mexican Students Rebel Against Professors 1inst- unpopular professors, ix were killed in this demon- o, Zarsamuel 50, Sofia, Bulgaria.” EPORT FENG IS XETIRING TROOPS few Action Is Result of Intrigues NANKING, China, May 31.—Ac- rding to an official announcement the Nanking government, the rees of Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang, ol of the Anglo-Japanese imperial- s, who has been threatening war -ainst Chiang Kai-shek, supported the Yankee imperialists, are now tiring. According to latest dispatches, the ¢ng troops are mobilizing in Honan | ovince, while Chiang has sent his ops to take possession of the main trial district of Illinois have gone on their logical course. Attacking the Communist Patty leadership speedily developed into attacking the Communist Party itself, and this, of course, meant attacks on every mili- tant action taken by the working class, since such actions, practically without exception, are, in the pres- ent period, being led by the Com- munist Party. A recent issue of the “Militant” published so vile an attack upon the Party and its work that the organ of the Lewis-Fishwick company union, edited by the arch-clown, Os- reprints in its columns under the heading: “Communist Party Strife vee between Peking, Hankow and|Proves Charge it Bosses ‘National imking, where the attack was |Miners Union.’” The story goes on a |to say: “The ‘comrades’ who sup- Pending the outcome of imperial- |Port (roisky. charge that the ‘com- intrigues in China, it is improb-| "des" who, lick the boots of Stalin le that either of the two opposing |°%¢ fakers.” “Party fakers,” “Stal- 5 oe pes inite splitters,” etc., are some of mies will be thrown into oPen| tie choice names hurled by the lit- . ni as onct |tle group of tired Trotskyite radicals Ra aa ae which prove so delectable to the ed to prove that Feng was work-|Ameringers and Fishwicks. Trotskyites Lose Ground in the Chicago District 'HE Trotskyites in the basic indus- ) car Ameringer, is glad to publish | “We, the undersigned members of the Springfield unit, who signed a statement condemning the action of the Party Central Committee for ex- pulsions of Cannon, ete., and putting the Party leadership in the same category as John L. Lewis, wish to repudiate our statement and say that we did not realize what we were signing. We think, furthermore, that the Trotskyites are trying to break up the new miners’ union with the tactics they are using. We are absolutely against Trotskyism and we approve of the expulsion of any comrades who take any platform cther than the Party’s” Allard’s Letter to Swabeck. The letter written by the young miner, Jerry Allard, is such a clear- cut exposure of the role of the Can- non-Trotskyites, that it must be given in full, ‘ Addressed to Swa- beck and Glotzer, in response to their invitation to come to Chicago with a non-union painting contrac- tor for their “national conference,” he replied: “Dear Albert and Arne: “Just today I notice in the ‘Illinois Miner,’ official organ of the Fish- |wick machine, an article calculated vex| z in alliance with the Soviet gov-| Proletarians Abandon Trotskyists. nds} ment, by publishing false docu-| This logical development of the ing mts, which were branded outright | Trotskyite “opposition” into the ing] & and forgeries by the U.S.S.R. a|camp of the open counter-revolution ted| ¥ days ago. Using this as an ex-/also in this country has proven all Re«| S¢, raids were carried out on four |that was necessary to open the eyes nee| viet consulates in Northern Man-|of the few really honest proletarian hat| uria, with the added purpose of elements who for reasons of per- mal) empting to wrest the part con-|sonal attachment to individuals, or of| pl of the Chinese Eastern Railroad |Lecause of strong illusions of “fair- Ini-| P™ the Soviet Union. Both of | ness and free speech and democ- ia-| °S¢ Maneuvers have been exposed |1acy,” fell for the line of the Swa- nal the Soviet government. becks and Aberns. From one of the aol —-——_———_ bs of these csente eae . lard, a prominent young coal miner, ns! oilermaker MOMOLS) Seieco ice (cust tia lear ent’ aaa ker) Clan to Make British | sharpest St asa aires re- sponse to the “Militant” degene eck! Pay Cut Permanent acy. And a similar attitude ‘hes a z .. |been expressed by a group o: as Fe ae Ree eo cnn | cpringtield miners who were in- chs clanning:t Le the “volun |Veigled by another tired radical, een) sia Saas stair ee ii q Angelo, into signing what was put ie hae a aa fe : Hine orced forward as a “protest against ma: ce ep gate basses, wha, they °xPulsions” (which had never taken | ex| | be aa et he donteeetom “y, |Place), but what was actually covert tos Ml asic Rohe ke aehGale tq) StPport of Trotskyism. The same agd bce ch Hea the union. [iS true in Chicago, where the best nS ce, union. | proletarian elements of “The El- ate| hea even” have already repudiated all ang »viet Red Cross intention of supporting Trotsky. an- Rushes to Relief of React to Ideological Campaign. an-| eee This is in part a reaction against ers| Victims of Quake |tne steadily worsening attitude of the ie the Trotskyites toward the Commv- | reef <HORRASS. Persia (By Mail) |nist Party and the revolutionary whe When earthquakes occurring con-| movement in general, and in part a ree! ually for a week destroyed hun- | response to the intense ideological cers ds of villages in this section, campaign carried on by the Com- cot, ar the Soviet border, ard injurea ynunist Party in District Eight. hdreds of peasants and made thou. Meetings have been held on a sec- ch. ds homeless, the Soviet Red Cross |tion scale in Chicago and on a city tes! lief Expedition was first on the | scale in St. Louis, Springfield (three nts [ne to give relief. jmeetings), Gary, Milwaukee, West st. | SEPERELS DEEBLGS |Frankfort, Bicknell and elsewh st. |NADA CARPENTERS STRIKE.) The letter of the Springfield min- MONTREAL, Canada., (By Mail).|ers is as follows (their names are fe union carpenters’ strike against | withheld in order to avoid furnish- hitherto unorganized workers. fe main demand is for a shorter rking week. thing the Militant is not concerned with): : to injure the work of the National |I Miners’ Union. The contents of the article, part of which is taken ver- batim from the ‘Militant,’ is that the Stalinites are attempting to re- move George Voyzey as president of the Illinois District of the Na- tional Miners Union. I wish to state that this is completely untrue. I feel safe to say, after observing the work of the new union during the past month, that the officials will be chosen on the basis of their ac- tivities, devotion and ability. If George Voyzey measures up to this test he will no doubt retain his posi- tion in the new union. Voyzey, who was in a better position to carry on the struggle than any of us, has, however eliminated himself as an active force and is now running a filling station. “Let us look for a moment at an other fighter. Henry Corbishle: entering the struggle from prison gates, has built up an organization here that today challenges the en tire machine for the control of the Illinois miners, This is a victory for us. No one says Corbishley is doing it all, but he is the fire, the whip, that inspires and drives the | militant miners with a rejuvenated spirit. I am convinced that the Trotskyites are carrying a losing fight if they attempt to raise a howl over the elimination of Voy- zey. “T have been invited to travel with H. L. Goldberg to your conference. H. L, Goldberg is poor stuff. I re- member some 18 months ago Gold- berg was expelled from the Party as a scab and as an exploiter of scab labor. He even hired ‘helpers’ for $6 per week; consequently he was expelled by the District Execu- jaller contractors is being joined) ing information valuable only to the |tive Committee of. our Party. I was bureautrats and employers, some- jexpelled from the Party, but, thank holy hell, that it was not as slimy # cause as Goldberg. If on a trip to Chicago I should accompany this individual I could no longer class myself as a union man, and the Na- tional Miners Union would be jus- tified in expelling me for hobnob- |bing with a scab contractor. These things mean a great deal to honest workers, “Hostility stirred up during a fev- erish factional struggle, my own in- cxperience and lack of proper un- |derstanding of the basic principles | ef our Party, were responsible largely for my expulsion and fur- lther entanglements with the Trot- isky group. But today, as I look the entire situation over, I see that |the Trotsky movement is a dismal failure and the position of the Trot- skyites an impossible one, “What has Trotsky to offer the |American workers? What program |could such an organization offer the workers to assist in their everyday struggle? What will become |Trotskyism in the future? To an- swer these questions honestly means |to break with the Trotsky program. “On the future of the Trotsky movement—I see it unfolding today as a camp for the enemies of the only workers’ government, the Sov- iet Union. We can see very easily |the enemies of the American Sec- tion of the Comintern exploiting the | Trotsky position to blind and retard \the advance of the American prole- |tariat. On the basis of these points, |without going into further detail, desire to repudiate Trotskyism as detrimental to the revolutionary |mission of all wage slaves, and as |serving as a screen to retard the en- lightenment of the workers along revolutionary lines. “There is no need to write further on this matter. I shall appeal to the Party to take me back within the ranks of the vanguard of the American working class, the Ameri- can Section of the Comintern. Whether this appeal will be success- ful or vot, I will follow the lead of ‘the Party and with a better under- standing will a its work, the work that will inevitably overthrow capitalism and erect a new social | order. | “I hope that gll honest prole- |tarians who are suffering under the lillusions of Trotskyism will soon completely subordinate themselves to the Party, enter the mills, the mines and the factories, and on the basis of their work show their loy- alty to Communism, This is the course I am taking. “Yours for the Comintern, “GERRY ALLARD. | “Christopher, IIL, “May 14, 1929.” ‘Worker Kills Self; Unable to Support Family on Low Pay JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 31.— Defeated in a losing fight to sup- volutionary Papers at of | USSR PUBLISHING HOUSE IS NOW Ik | ELEVENTH YEAR To Build Hues Plant for Mass Books | MOSCOW, R. (By Mail).—) On May 21 the State Publishing! House of the R.S.F.S.R. (Gosizdat), which is the largest publishing es- tablishment in the world, celebrated the tenth anniversary of its exist- ence. The State Publishing House was founded by the well known author and publicist Wazlaw Worows former Soviet ambassador to Italy, who was assassinated in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1923, by the white guard Conradi. At the present time “Gosizdat” is headed by Artemy Khalatov, a |member of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. Published 500,000,000 Copies. “Gosizdat” is a publishing organ- ization of a universal type, control-| ling powerful printing establish- ments as well as an extensive chain of book stores all over the country, exceeding a thousand in number. During its ten years of existence the State Publishing House has pub- lished about 25,000 books and perio- dicals involving 500 million copies. The rate at which its publishing activity developed may be guaged |from the following figures: while in 1919-20 about 600 books and perio- |dicals were published in 35 million copies, in 1928 a total of 5,500 in- dividual publications were issued ag- gregating in excess of 105 million | copies. Thus in nine years the number of publications went up ninefold and |the number of copies printed in- | creased three times. Ribbon of Books. In addition to its own chain of stores whose turnover constitutes two-thirds of the total book business in the U.S.S.R., “Gosizdat” is con- nected by general agreements with the cooperative movement whose commercial network includes tens of thousands of establishments, The “Gosizdat” production for the past ten years has been most vividly illustrated at the Cologne exhibition j | in the form of an endless ribbon of books encircling the earth six times. “Book Factory.” The five-year plan of development jprovides for the trebling of the publications to be issued by the “Gosizdat.” It is estimated that in |1933 about 300 million copies of |books will be published. This pro- gram will necessitate a considerable jextension of the “Gosizdat” printing | facilities and it has therefore been decided to launch the construction of ja huge printing plant, to be known as the “Book Factory,” properly equipped for the production of mass |literature by the million of copies. During the current year building operations will be commenced on | “The House of the Book” which will contain the entire edition, publishing land business departments of the | “Cosizdat” together with storerooms. | | In Soviet Russia the book publish- ling industry does not pursue purely Jeommercial objects is primarily an organization for the promotion of Cultural-political aims. The making of profit is not an aim in itself for the “Cosizdat” and it is allowed only to the extent that it is necessary for the further develop- ment of publishing and bookselling fields. “Gosizdat” utilizes its finan- |cial and economic consolidation pri- |marily to the end of cheapening the book for the buyer so as to make it accessible to the largest number of people. The price of mass books | |in 1928 was reduced by an average Jof 10 per cent compared with the previous year, while this year the “Gosizdat” has made it its object to| |effect a further price reduction of at ‘least 20 per cent. | |THREE DEATHS DUE TO HEAT | Bidding of Yankee Gorky Returns to Moscow as USSR Leader MOSCOW, R., May 31.— Maxim Gorky, leading proletarian writer, arrived today in Moscow, where he will take up his duties as a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, to which he was unanimously elected. Gorky was greeted enthusiastical- ly at the station by a huge mass of | workers, who acclaimed him as their favorite writer and their brother. | e is a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Gorky expressed great interest in recent discoveries in the Ural re- gion of oil deposits and said that he was going to do all in his power to aid in economic restoration of that area. BRITISH STRIKERS REJECT ARBITER Chalder Valley Textile Workers Solid BRADFORD, England, May 31.— While the general elections in Eng- land were in full swing yesterday, thousands of textile workers in the Calder Valley, continued on strike against wage-cuts, despite efforts to arrange a joint arbitration confer- ence. When the mill |general wage-cuts about three weeks {ago, the workers decided to strike. |The walkout was 100 per cent effec- | tive. Attempts of reformists to arbi- trate the wage-cut by arranging for a joint conference, were resisted by the strikers. Wall Street Delegate oe: f] Charles Evans Hughes has lost count of all the different roles he has played for Wall Street. With great | anti-labor and reactionary record | as governor of New York, presi- dential candidate for the republican party and supreme court justice, he now becomes Wall Street's repre- sentative as a judge in the World Court, behind the scenes of which the coming imperialist war is being planned. 2000 Reported Dead in Big Desert Battle Incited by British JERUSALEM, May 31.—The num- | ber of killed in the battle between | two Nejd tribes in the vicinity of | El Sarar, Central Arabia, was re- ported today to have reached 2,000. It was one of the fiercest battles ever fought in the desert. British imperialist agents are said to have incited the tribes against each other, to divide them and thus make owners declared} port six children on his meager wages, Rudolph Schmidt, 42, com- mitted suicide by hanging himself |New York vere ay me a tem- |from the casing of the kitchen door |perature of 83, caused two deaths | Tania cucney thes cead persion indirectly one more, who was TEXTILE COMBINE. | |kard struggle was aggravated by |drowned while swimming for relief] LONDON, (By Mail).—The pro- the death of his wife six months |from the heat. The death rate | Posed merger of about 30 Egyptian | ago, since when ke had suffered fre- | would have surely been much higher | Cotton spinning mills. of the Bolton, | guent fits of despondency. in the crowded tenements and hot |Leigh, Atherton, Stockport and Man- His hody was found by his 14- | factories had it not been a holiday, | Chester districts is nearing comple- year-old daughter. Elsie, when she | allowing 800,000 to ride out to the | tion. The merger will effect over | | Continuation of the heat wave in|it easy for British imperialism to | |seize their territory. Japanese Tory Minister of Finance Mazuchi of Japan, one of the reactionaries who are leading in the torture and murder of Japanese militants who jare organizing the oppressed work- ers and peasants against their ex- ploiters. SUCCESS OF FIVE "YEAR PLAN SURE Soviet Press Says It Depends on Masses | (Wireless by Inprecorr.) The Soviet press, commenting on the \election of the Central Executive the work of the presidium and Coun- cil of People’s Commissars elected, declared that the future fate of the Soviet Union depends on the carry- ing out of the five-year plan adopted |by the Soviet Congress. The difficulties which face the execution of the plan, which pro- |vides for tremendous economic de- |velopment within the next five years, are immense, the press says, | but success is possible with the sup- | port of the masses of the workers |and peasants, | ‘Culinary Workers in Portland Gagged as Boss Gets Injunction PORTLAND, Ore., (By Mail) — | Culinary workers have been enjoined from stating that a restaurant in this city is unfair to union labor. The concerns here work their work- jers seven days a week, but Judge | Kanzler, an open shop bosses’ judge, stated that he was granting the in- junction because “long hour restaur- ants were losing patronage.” | BIG AUTO MERGER. | LONDON, (By Mail).—Negotia- , tions for the merger of three of | the largest auto body manufacturers jin England, the Gloucester Co., Nel- son and Hurst, and Robertson and Co, Ltd., are practically completed. Thousands of workers may be dis- missed when the combine goes into | effect, MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., May 31. —| Committee of the Soviet Union and) Imperialists JAIL READERS OF CUBA LIBRE, CENSOR ‘MELLA’ | : ‘Deport Cuban Emigres from Paris Yankee imperialism, together with its Cuban and Mexican puppets, is |continuing to sharpen its campaign of terror against the Cuban and | Mexican workers, according to news | received from Mexico City yesterday | by the National Office of the Inter- | national Labor Defens: | Red Aid Review Censored. | “Mella,” the Red Aid (Labor De- fense) Review, named after the |tim of Yankee imperialism, Julio |Mella, who was assassinated by a Machado agent in Mexico City, and published by the ¢ bean Secre- | tariat of the I. L. D., has been added to the long list of revolutionary pub- lications put under the censorship ban. It will not be able to appear unless first approved by the Mex- ican government censor, who is | there to protect Yankee imperialism |against the attacks of the Mexican | workers, | “Cuba Libre,” organ of the Cuban revolutionary emigres in Mexico, has been suppressed entirely by the Mexican government on the request of Machado, dictator of Cuba, and butcher for Yankee imperialism. Four Arrested. In connection with the suppres- sion of this magazine, Jorge Vivo and Zeurbe Folan were arrested by Mexican police. In the city of | Alquizar, four readers of the Cuba Libre were taken to the military fortress of La Cabania, which con- |tain the worst dungeons in Mexico. Further reports from Paris, re- ceived by the I. L. D., say that Jose Elias Borges, active member of the revolutionary- Cuban emigre organi- zation in Paris, was deported to Belgium. It is claimed that Machado |gave the Parisian police chief Chi- {appe 100,000 franks to deport all |revolutionary Cuban students from | France, The scanty reports which escape | the censor and cross the Rio Grande, Jindicate that a terrific terror has |been lauched against the revolu- tionary workers and peasants of Me- |xico by the Portes Gil government, now completely subservient to Yan- kee imperialism. 1 Farm Worker Killed, 2 Wounded by Police in Strike in Holland (Wireless by Inprecorr) AMSTERDAM, Holland, May 31. —Thousands of land workers in Groningen, northern province in Hol- |land, are on strike, | During collisions between strikers and scabs, who were imported by the large landowners, the police inter- vened to protect the scabs. 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