The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 3

TORIES ASSIST “LABOR” DELAY ON SOVIET UNION Propose U. S. be Asked if it. Has Any Objections Defy Stimson Threat British Navy Demands “Parity” Likewise LONDON, July 7.—The tory par- ty members of the House of Com- mons are again rushing to the as- sistance of Ramsay MacDonald, who is exerting every effort to find ways of postponing and devitalizing his promised recognition of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Mac- Donald was elected largely on his solemn pledge that diplomatic rela- tions with the first workers’ republic would be immediately renewed. / He has delayed on one exe or another, and has now been given one more by Commander Carlton Bellayre, conservative, who placed en the list of questions for the ministry to answer one demanding whether the government had dis- enssed with the spokesmen of the United States the question of rec- ognizing the Soviet Union. Arthur Henderson, MacDonald’s “labor” minister of foreign affairs, is expected to answer that this has not been done, but that it opens up a new problem, and that the govern- ment is still “considering” the best ways to go about the recognition. Excuse to Build Up Navy. The adherents of the MacDonald party are beginning to assist Mac- Donald’s imperialist activities and give him excuses for building a larger navy by the means of such questions, also. Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, labor party, has given notice of a question to be answered Thursday which reads: “Is an in- | quiry into the possibility of an agree- | ment between His Majesty’s govern- ment and the United States as to what precisely should be held to constitute freedom of the seas and right of search and seizure of pri- vate property at sea in time of war, or whether any transaction which was initiated, but uncompleted by the late cabinet is now béing pro- ceeded with and does the Prime Min- ister hope to be in a position to dis- cus this difference of opinion if any and to decide the matter when he goes to Washington?” He'll Give "Em Parity! MacDonald has announced that if Stimson wants “parity” of U. S, and British navies, the labor cabinet will build enough ships to, have “parity” also. All naval officers understand that the difficulty of balancing two ) | navies exactly will give each coun-_ try always a chance to build one more ctuiser to. overcome some al- try. The naval race is on. The liberal party press is engag- li i, ing in some fun by means of fanci-| ful proposals in regard to naval bases. And everybody knows that the suggestion to turn over British im- perialist interests in the Caribbean to its bitter rival, the United States, will not get very far. Grab the Cash. The ministry is raising its sal- aries. The salary of Lord J. H. Thomas, Lord of the Privy Seal, was yesterday declared raised from $10,000 a year to $25,000. Mac- Donald himself draws $25,000 and is quietly sounding out his support- ers as to their opinion about doubl- ing it. exhibited a real higher wages for himself than those of the half-starved coal miners whose eight-hour bill he has not yet reduced to seven, as he promised. He got into considerable scandal in his last term in office by being exposed as the recipient of a high priced motor car with an allowance for all its expenses, taken from @ wealthy and noble admirer who was in some temporary difficulties with the law at the time. * * Moscow Shows Resentment. MOSCOW, July 7.—The delay in tions with the Soviet Union after the victory of the British labor party here and political circles and the press are plainly showing their opinion of the situation. Commenting on the king’s speech today Izvestia declared that the ‘Jaborites “are deeply mistaken if they think the Soviet Union will en- ter preliminary discussion of the conditions” for resumption of the re- lations broken in 1924. The newspaper said, “We have no doubt that the Soviet government remains in the position that settle- ment of disputable questions must come not before, but after uncondi- tional restoration of normal diplo- matic relations.” Both Izvestia and Pravda, the of- _ tieial organ of the Russian Commu- nist Party, argue that the Soviets have more reason to ask conditions and guarantees of England and they cite the various alleged anti-Soviet intrigues “in China and elsewhere and the attempts to organize a front against the Soviet Union, WOMEN ENSLAVED. is PARIS (By Mail).—Working wémen in'the Paris district are be- af ing paid ‘an average wage of 64' ¢ rm - sents a day. ~ leged superiority of the other coun- | MacDonald has before this; 1 fondness for much Great Britain’s resumption of rela-| has caused considerable resentment i | t | ‘ i | | | i [Black Haiti Through a friend, an Englishman named George Hey, the author gets a job at the Electric Light Company in Port au Prince, Haiti, at @ salary of $25 a month. Dixon, a white colonist straw-boss whom Dicharson has taken into his confidence, betrays him, and after way- laying him to the Terminus Bar, knocks him unconscious with a gun. Dicharson makes his way to the home of his friend, and Hey and his native girl, Pauline, nurse him. After a serious attack of malaria and a period in the hospital, Dicharson walks to Gonaives, another town in Haiti, where he gcts a job in a store owned by « man named Lenoir. » By JACQUES DICHARSON. 'ONAIVES is not a bad little town. It lies in a pit, formed by the surrounding mountains. When the sun reaches its zenith in the afternoon you cannot walk on the strect since the soil, which is quite chalky, reflects the sun’s rays and blinds you, There are plenty of prostitutes there .. - things. calling you in hoarse whispers. capitalist system. Now and again a policeman will come to you-and try to recruit you for some debauchery or he will ask you for a cigarette, a drink, or sometimes even for money to get something to eat with. I cannot remember having seen a Haitian of the poorer class that was not on the vere of perpetual hunger . . . an eternal attitude. * tes poor broken down At night you can see them as you walk up the water front, Pitiful objects . . . victims of the * ND the peasants . . the poor lambs! I reflect having seen them in Port au Prince, just after they had come out of the country, having sold the few rachitic goats that had been the fruit of six months or even a year of hard work, passing a Syrian store on the Rue Front-Fort. . . . Those depraved dogs of storekeepers grab the peasant as he passes on the street, ask him if he wants a glass of rum or tafia. Then when he gets into the store, he is told that he must buy something in order to get’it. As the majority of the Syrians are white, or appear to be, the pe: is naturally bashful, The little he knows about white men is their cruelties, falsehoods ang de- pravity. So unwillingly he buys some goods. It goes sométhing like this: “Well, Salope. . . . You don’t want this? What ‘say cochon?” the Syrian asks, meanwhile taking hold of the peasant hat and. put- ting it behind the counter out of his reach. The peasant will beg, rave, threaten, but alas, to no, avail. If he calls a gendarme, that dog will always take the Syrian’s side. I have seen that happen time after time. Of course the poor peasant is obliged to take the quarter- yard of cotton at the price of silk. IT WAS in Gonaives that I met Brother Lharm. Brother Lharm was an evangelist. He had just seen the light and had come from Chicago. I had spoken a few times to him in the hotel. He told me he had had a revelation a few months before and was starting on his way around the world to teach christianity to the heathen. I then asked him how had business been so far. Without blushing he answered that at the present moment it was rotten, but that he had hopes that in Santo Domingo and Porto Rico it would be better. “Over there,” he said, puffing contentedly on his cigar, “the people are more civilized; they are not under the complete subjugation of the catholic church.” “An evangelist would have @ chance,” he continued, asking the garcon who happened to be near by to replace our empty glasses of | beer. * f * * I worked for Mr. Lenoir for a month, and as I had saved about ten dollars, I seriously thought of joining the capitalistic gang. It was the first ten dollars I had had in my possession in four months! One fine morning Monsieur Lenoir called me in to his office and sadly told me that he was sorry but that I would have to hit the trail. He had received a letter from Port au Prince advising him not to con- tinue employing me. So I left. The dirty hand of Bleo was reaching out to get me. Two days later I left town on a camion bound for Plaisance. In Plaisance late that night I encountered another one that wes going to’ the Cap. Camions in Haiti are combination truck-busses; they are not the comfortable gua-guas that one finds in Porto Rico or Cuba. But they are colérful vehicles, strangely reminiscent of the Roman char-a-banc, You struggle as you squeeze yourself in them. Your back aches the first mile. You don’t know where to put your knees in the second. The woman néxt to you gets violently sea-sick in the third, and before the end you are cursing vehemently. 5 But the Haitian does not mind that. It’s a holiday for him. He brings his entire family and belongings, including his nattes (bedding), babies and chickens when he moves. But the Haitians are at a dis- advantage in not having been in New York and its subways as I had. * WHEN we reached the Cap the chauffeur, who was also the proprietor, decided that he would continue toward the Haitian-Dominican border towns of Quanaminthe-Dajabon. | As we passed through the Cap in the night I thought that the engineer in the Electric Light Company was probably asleep or drunk. There were no lights.. The city was plunged in darkness. The camion had stopped to gather some passengers next to what appeared to bea bridge in the outskirts of the town. A low rumble, diversified by staccato noise, startled me. The passengers in the car started to sing. “Tom, tom, tom, de, da, tom, ta, tom, ta, tom,” the tom-toms would say. | “Angelino, angelino, alle caill’’ mama. caill’ mama,” the passengers would answer. In a few minutes they would be in a frenzy. Children? You don’t have to go to Haiti to listen to voodoo music or see people in the state it brings them to. Look at the Swamies (Hindu priests) in our be- loved country. I read a case the other day of a man that had been under the tutelage of one of them in Chicago. Before a month he began to see things. At the end of two months his soul came into communion with some sort of plane. Astral planes or something like that. In six months he had been committed to an insane asylum... . Feeble-minded, yes, but * 8 « | have never seen a crazy Haitian in Haiti. not crazy. How about holly-rolling? I remember passing Fourth and Main Streets in Los Angeles oné day a few years ago. I had nearly | been torn apart. The holly-rollers had gotten hold of me and had fought a bitter battle to see which one would save my soul. ... I must have looked like an awful sucker, or a terrible sinner in those days! * We entered Quanaminthe at 11 o’clock that night. I slept in the camion squeezed between two fat mammies. There was no hotel in the berg, and the camion could not cross the the river that forms the dividing line before seven in the morning. The lights of Dajabon twinkled before me. I wondered what would be in store for me in Santo Domingo. (THE END.) + *# «© ‘ A short account of the author’s experiences in Santo Domingo will begin in tomorrow’s issue of the Daily Worker. * * * Angelino, angelino, alle | * * Patronize | RATIONAL RESTAURANT at 199 Second Avenue. During the week beginning Monday, July 8th and ending July 14. Percentage of Proceeds will go to the Daily Worker Emergency Fund. All Comrades are urged to patronize this restaurant. ——————&&&& I —— EXPOSE PLOT OF “LL. GW. UNION? -GHIEFS, BOSSES Fake Stoppage to End On July 22 (Continued from Page One) ier conditions for the cloakinakers, but to form an “outside tribunal,” Taminany-controiled, to’ be used against the cloakmakers. 7. A secret agreement con- cerning working conditions was made some time ago between the Schlesinger company union and the hosses, according to which everything remains as _hefor meaning actually that the slay will be intensified. 8. Schlesinger, the company union pr nt, long ago agreed not to sign agreements with in- dependent er-ployers, and to a mand of eyery.independent em- ployer who secks an agreement that he join one of the three bosses’ associations. This he re- iterated at the governor's con- ference, 9. The only “misunderstanding” between the hosses and their “anion” concerns the right of di charge of shop chairmen. matter has now been almost en- tirely settled. By the pre-arranged agreement between the “socialist” clique and the bosses, on the day the so-called stop- page was called, all wo: re to be sent down by the bosses with the exception of those who had to finish up their work. This was done. “Union” to Break Own Stoppage The agreement further declares that in cases where employers, dur- ing the course of the stoppage, get special orders for garments to be made immediately, the company union will supply workers for these special orders. In accordance with the agreement, there are shops of the Industrial | Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt | Manufacturers where cloak finishers are still working. Among such shops are Jacobs and Jacobs, 262 W. 38th St.; and A. Bersin, of the same address. oe Conference True to Form The conference with the governor ran true to form. Practically the entire time was occupied in discuss- ling not the miserable conditions of |the workers, but the “plight” of the employers. In the relations between the representatives of the bosses’ associations and the I. L. G. W. chiefs there was an atmosphere of touching brotherly love. Schlesinger \did not fail to attack the left wing Needle, Trades. Workers’: Industrial | Union - and the. Cammunists -and ‘showed tender: solicitude for -the | bosses, who @&mplained bitterly that the competition of chain stores and jof the “group buying” system was |) eutting into their precious profits. The conference decided to resume negotiations between the bosses and the company union gang Wednesday. A directing part in the new negotia- tions will be taken by two Tammany stalwarts, the banker, Lieutenant | Governor Lehman, who last year fit in return for election votes and |who is one of those now financing the bankrupt “union,” and Raymond Ingersoll, the $25,000 “impartial” chairman of the industry. ULSTER UNEMPLOYMENT. BELFAST (By Mail).—Over 50,- |000 workers are now unemployed in | Northern Ireland, it is admitted by government figures, but this is said to be greatly underestimated. gave $50,000 to the Schlesinger out- | UALLY WUKKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929 ‘industrial Union Calls for Picketing (Continued on Page Two) details cl in earn vust | t w ordid n rev mM ¢ the on Needle 1 Union i: of cloak tow. OMA ir A To. Choose | ; ida per vears. lof the a still. $11.00 per week t decent tiving lev |the figures of the | rent. | These. cen jby the evil s F police brutality, etc 1 be embodied in the fin he platform. | w | r hich w draft cf | Mobilize Party Membership + At a conference of unit organi: final plans were adopted for the e fective mobilization of the entire membership for the Communist City |Nominating convention to be held |net Sunday and for the coming elec- | tion compa’ William \ |for the D | tee, gn, Weinstone, speaking ict Executive Commit- |Z and pointed out the road that | District Two must take in order to make this campaign a bigger ste than ever before. He stated th: |the election campaign of 1928 had been in many way improvement lover those of the preceding years. In 1929, despite the fact that the Communist mov faced with greater difficultic the results to be d can be bigger than. 1928 hecause of the achievements of the Pariy in ma struggles during the past yeur. Pzity must now enter ir work with increased vigor thus tak- ing the ground away fxm those who pretend to supp Party but who subsist poliiea ‘the Party’s shor:eom ever before, de |there was an extens |during which many comrades spoke of the situation in their units and | made suggestions for overcoming the difficultie: Plan Man; Announcements r the meetings on elec Monday follow: rlem Tenants Lea St., in baseme Speaker ace Campbell. Meetings | ade of some of ion issues for gue, 103 W. of, public —Weinstone, 1 135th library. | Moore, ( Fifth St. and Second Ave., at 8:00. 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