The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1929, Page 2

ny or : } } : t © whelming solid 4 ir Page Two ™ DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929 Printers Call on All Labor in Argentine to Jot IRIGOYEN SENDS Manchurian MORE TROOPS TO ROSARIO PORT Wall St. Puppet Gov’t. as Strikebreaker ROSAR nt The prob will be le rge Argentine, July 22— neral strike, which e Communist Party nd which is plan- indus’ through was brought a step when the Printers ued a manifesto inviting all o prepare for a general ¢ the demands for a by the Steve- strike here, are re- stevedore contractors, against the longshoreman’s strike so demanded. oremen of Rosario went ympathy with striking 1 The dockers have.repeatedly stated that they will not..return to work, even if their demands are met, unless. the de- mands,of the flour millers are also Tramway workers have also an- nounced that they will strike in a day_or two, for a wage increase. The. taxi drivers are expected to follow. ‘soon after, and an imme- diate Spread of the strike to Buenos Ayres ;is a certainty. Communist influence is very strong in all these unions, N roops have been sent here daily by the government of President Irigoyen, a Wall Street tool. Since American shipping interests and manufacturers have suffered heavily due to the dockers strike here, Irigoyen has reinforced the already heavy.federal forces here with new cavalry detachments. The stock exchange called the at- tention of the minister of the in- terior to the fact that 10 days have | elapsed, during which the stevedores strike has been in progress, since President Hippolito Irigoyen prom-| ised to take over the supervision of loading of vessels at the port of Rosario. This is a direct call for the government to take breaking. This action will imme- diately precipitate a general strike. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August-3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush.funds to International Lab-r Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. f all strike-break- Minetti and Co., | over strike | These mercenary Manchurian troops are being primed for an attack on the U. , to lead the way for the open attack by the imperialist powers. e border in huge numbers for nionths, preparing for the attack, of which the seizure of the Chinese near Railroad was a part. ercenaries Concentrated for Attack on Sov. S.R. by the Chinese They have been concentrated Jailed Rumanian Communist | Tells of Hts BULLETIN, | BUCHAREST, July 22.—The ener- getic national campaign of the I. R. A. on behalf of the Roumanian | working leader, Marcel Pauker, and jhis own determined attitude have caused the Roumanian authorities to release him. Marcel Pauker had been on hunger-strike for over a month, Protests from the workers and from intellectuals in all coun- tries swamped the Roumanian gov- ernment daily.‘ In order to save the credit of the Roumanian authorities abroad, Marcel Pauker has now been | released from prison. He continued his hunger- and thirst-strike up t the very last moment of imprison- | ment, ON eye | BUCHAREST (by mail). — Mar- | cel Pauker, Rumanian workers’ lead- er, prominent in the ranks of the Communist Party, was forcibly fed ‘by the Rumanian fascist terrorists | after twenty days of a hunger strike. | Pauker was%jailed and sentenced for life by the fascist terror. He wrote | the following letter on the seven-| | teenth day of his hunger strike, from | the dreaded JiJava prison, where the | Rumanian fascists have tortured and {murdered hundreds of Communists | and other militant workers. The let- ter was written to a comrade. ' Dear Comrade: ! Hunger Strike It is good that I acquaint you with the details of the present situation, both with regard to the “amnesty” and to my own position, including my process and my present hunger strike. I will write as long as I can, but I am already very weak. First of all with regard to the “amnesty.” On the 13th inst., a roy- al decree was issued according to which all political crimes and offenc- es contained in the penal code or in any of the exceptional laws will be) amnestied as far as no final conyje- tion has been obtained. It must be pointed out that all | those political prisoners already con- icted, and they are the vast major- ity, will remain in prison, further, the Rumanian laws do not recognize political offences anyhow, and this is very important. In Rumania only common law exists, and all political processes are carried out according | to this law, the usual charge being; that of high treaso>,.or crimes| against the internal and external se-| curity of the state. Tho exception- al law (Marzescu) declares express-| ly that all persons convicted under this law shall not be regarded as| | political offenders, The truth is that this amnesty need apply to no single revolution- ary worker, and that no single rev- olutionary can hope to escape prose- “Labor”—-Capitalism’s Representative years, By R. PALME DUTT. By the outcome of the British General Election, the Labor Party emerges as the strongest single party of British capitalism. No longer the traditional Conservative or Liberal Parties, but the Labor Party is now the principal repre-| sentative and responsible party of British imperialism at the present stage. The fact that the British bourgeoisie has thus now to lean on the Gabor Party as its principal prop to mipintain it, as its final bulwark of defence against the rising working class tide, is a measure of the de- cline’and instability of capitalism in Britéin, and in turn a factor towards furtier instability. } mass movement against the Bi fin Government and its policy of }action, which resulted in the ge turnover of votes against 5, has found its immediate ex- mn in the Labor Party as the mt alternative. , by the logic of events the ent will not be able to stay at int. For the mass of working voters in the industrial areas ‘ining centres, who constitute ckbone of the Labor Party’s , voting against their im- ite visible enemies of the open list parties, and proceeding in ‘cases in great bodies straight » fromthe factories to the polling bootf%| the election was an act of eli ar, a direct assault on wealth and! ®he hated ruling class. -@ Defending Imperialism. ‘or’ the Labor Party chiefs who ha one to Parliament to “repre- sent” them, the situation is very diffe it; for them the policy is class pei land class co-operation, the de- fense and maintenance of the capi- talist state and imperialism. From this arises a contradiction which will inevitably work itself out, and eat away the present temporary Labor Party supremacy as surely. as the old Liberal supremacy, and all the more rapidly because the present situation of capitalism no longer al- lows of peace and easy concessions to the workers, but drives to inten- sified class struggle. We may well hail the industrial armies which have with such ove ity voted Labor at the present election; for they repre- sent in the mass the future armies of Bolshevism. The alarm of the bourgeoisie at the result is not alarm at the Labor Party, which they do not fear, but at the mass movement re The Labor Party is now carried a ee cf stage further along its destined path. | v. ; It is forced ever more to a respon- sible dominant position, to the posi- tive demonstration of its policy, and | to the formation of some form of | | government with capitalist support | and in open union with capitalism. As its policy and practice becomes ever more clearly revealed as the | policy of Baldwin in a new dress, the | jresultant wave of revolt in the work- jing class will be even more wide and | |far-reaching than that following 1924. ‘The Labor Party has still to) win its absolute majority to complete the exposure; on the basis of this | |appeal for power it may still ad- |vance a stage further at a future \election; but it is nearing the end of its tether. The Fifty Thousand. The Communist Party, in its first | | fight, has won 50,000 votes. Twenty- jmine years ago the Labor Party in lits first fight won 62,000 votes. The | |rise and fall of parties in the pre- |sent epoch is a rapid one, as the | fate of the Liberal Party has shown. | The idle commentators, capitalist | and labor alike, who are united in |laughing at the smallness of the Communist vote, only betray their blindness to the real forces of the situation. The present action of the Com- munist Party was an advance-guard action, which has correctly laid the foundations of the position that will rapidly develop as the Labor Party is brought ever more fully in- |to the exposure of power. It should be remembered that the Communist vote, owing to the undemocratic system, is based on only 25 consti- tuencies or four per cent of the | total. If we were to treat this sample | as typical and extend it to the whole |country, it would represent a total jof 1,200,000 votes; allowance, how- ever, must be made for the consti- tuencies fought being more favor- able than the average constituency; if we estimate them as some two) to three times more favorable than | the average (an over-estimate) the resultant national strength of Com- munism in Britain revealed may be placed at half'a million, and this is probably not far wrong from what |a national ballot would show. The Liberals, although defeated in their attempt to secure any impor- tant increase in representation, have achieved their main strategic aim of obtaining the balancing position. In consequence a parliamentary situ- ation of a balance to parties ob- tains, corresponding to the parlia- mentary situation in most European countries, and involving in the same way the two important consequences increasing instability of parlia-| mentarism. “Labor” Seeks Capitalist Support. | The Liberal Party may well be prepared to support for a period a/ labor minority government in re- turn for a certain measure of con-| trol of program and possibly, in particular, electoral reform, such as would enable it to secure represen- tation in proportion to its voting | strength. A labor minority govern- | ment in office on such a basis would be still more completely under a leash to capitalism than in 1924. The Labor Party openly aims at| such a minority government main- | tained in office by capitalist sup- | port. The Daily Herald on the mor- | row of the election declares: | “Mr. Baldwin’s duty is plain. As| some penance for the suffering he | and his colleagues have inflicted | upon their countrymen he now has | it in his power to perform one signal | service, and that is to resign in order that the chosen leader of the | people, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, may meet the House of Commons, to take up the work which a cap-| porary end in 1924.” The Work of 1924, “To take up the work of 1924.”| That is the motto of the Labor Party at the present stage. To take up, that is to say, the work repre- sented by the Dawes report, the/| work of repression in India and Egypt, of increased armaments and war preparations and of the sup- pression of strikes at home. This work the Labor Party now consci- ously enters upon, as the reward to the workers for their overwhelm- ing vote against Baldwin, But the repetition of 1924 will take place in a situation a whole stage further advanced than in 1924. The labor government will be faced with far heavier tasks of war pre- paration, imperialist repression in India and the colonies, and capital- ist rationalization at home. And the working class has advanced to a new stage. The con- sequences of 1924 led to Red Friday and the General Strike. The ton- sequences of a second labor govern- ment will extend yet further. The revolutionary nucleus in the working class is now formed and mobilized on’the basis of the inde- pendent fight. The Communist Par- ty stands clearly before all as the sole alternative leadership to the Labor Party and the reactionary trade union chiefs, The situation that is now opening is a very favor- able situation for rapid political de- velopment and for revolutionary ad- (1) the necessity of coalition; (2) vance within the working class, i = | against | strike. pand scratched, cution and conviction on the basis of this decree, ter is that this decree is nothing but a huge bluff intended to deceive pub- lic opinion abroad and <t home also| if possible. The working class press is practically suppressed and the bourgeois and social democratic press is writing about a “political amnesty,” with the result that hun- dreds of thousands of people have gained the impression that we have | all been relcased, and this is exact- ly what the government wants. The issuing of a political amnesty is the privilege of the king, but the release of persons convicted of crim- inal offences is the privilege of par-|2 Years respectively for possessing | And in fact an amnesty} liament. for criminal offenders will also be issued in a few days, Perhaps, you | may think, these comrades who have been treated as common criminals may be released under this amnesty. Not at all, or this amnesty refers solely to the civil courts. The mili- |tary courts have amnestied only a few insignificant offences, includ- ing desertion. But we have all been sentenced by the military courts, In any case, even if we were all regarded as political prisoners, only a few of us would be released, in- cluding Dobrogheanu-Gherea, myself and those arrested in~ connection with the Cluj affair, There are no more as far as I know. Those sen- tenced in the monster process Kahane and his comrades (who are alleged to have made a ‘ conspiracy in prison) would not come under the amnesty although their sentences are not yet final, for the simple reason that most of. them have been convicted within the last three years in Galatz. The amnesty excludes all persons convicted for other offences within the last three The situation is now that my two processes alone are under the mili-) The first.is the} process against Stefanov and Dobro-| tary authorities. gheanu. I was sentenced in the same process in my absence in 1925, The authorities say nothing about this process any more. In 1922 the police made investigations against me, against my wife Anna Pauker and against Elena . Filipovici, Dimitriu| Filipescu and Sandor Lieblich. We were arrested at the time but releas- ed soon after, for the simple reason that the police were unable to find janything but perfectly legal mate- rial, Lately the authorities remem- bered this and on the 15th of April, 1929, a process was carried out in the absence of the accused, No one knew anything about it, and no one was invited although some of the accused were abroad with perfectly legal passes whilst others were liv- ing perfectly legal in Rumania. I was the only one who had “disap- peared.” In a few minutes we were all sentenced to hard labor for life for high treason, And now with regard to my hunger I commenced this hunger italist intrigue brought to a tem-|Sttike on the day of my arrest, 3rd) of May. On the. 5th of May I was taken to Yilava. On the 8th of May, the authorities commenced artificial feeding. Despite my resistance, de- spite my written protest and despite the fact that it is illegal, the artifi- cial feeding is being continued. My resistance is brutally overcome, my clothing ‘torn and my body bruised Two or three times a day I am forced down on a mat- tress. and my. hands, feet and head are held by soldiers. The liquid is then pumped through the nose. This procedure is painful, and I suffer very much from bleeding at the nose. This has gone on now for two weeks without one single newspaper having recorded the bare facts, much less published my protests. The efforts of thé authorities are useless for the simple reason that immediately afterwards, the. liquid is expelled by vomiting. In addition, on the 8th of May I refused to drink anything further as a protest against the forcible feeding. On a number of occasions the authorities have pumped salt water into my mouth in order to aggravate the pains of thirst. Of course I cannot say everything in this letter, but I can tell you that the efforts of the authorities* will not be successful, I reckon upon the active solidarity of the international proletariat which must force the government to recog- nize our offences as political and to amnesty them, The regime here in Yilava is worse than it was under the Liberal gov- bess We ¢ being held in, The fact of the mat-| ct union WAVE OF TERROR "SWEEPS FRENCH -—INDIAN-CHINA Attempt to Quell the Discontent HANOI, French Indo China, July The French imperialists are constructing new plantations in Indo-China. It follows that the land | will first be expropriated and that workers through the contract labor system or by crude “force” will be compelled to work on these planta- tions. In order to quell the ever-growing protest of the masses, the French imperialists are starting a great | reign of terror; all natiy. pected lof organizing resistance are arrested and sentenced. Further, so as to |make a deeper impression on the masses, Lo Sap Siat, who led the revolt in Bink-Lien in 1919, has been sentenced to death, The court did its work thoroughly; | daily revolutionaries were sentenced. Here follows a list of the more important persons who have been | arrested and sentenced: or suspects |the tomb of Annamite general who |fought in defense of his country. | Tran Phun Du received 3 years’ |imprisonment for the same reason jas mentioned above. Nguhen Thuan Chi and Ha Duy |Cu, teachers, got 3 years each for being found in ‘possession of Sun Yat-sen’s biograply. Wuong Gia Bat and Wia Gia Nyai, two brothers, librarians, got 2 and Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s biography. Tran Thieu Duo, Han Luy Lu and Nguyen!Thuan Tchi got 3 years im- prisonment each; they were anti- monarchists, Vu Din, a young Indo-Chinese, was sentenced to 1 year’s imprison- ment by the tribunal at Saigon;. he is locked up under the common law in the prison of Heaoi, Tran Chan and Tran Duy received 9 years each for publishing tracts i defending themselves against calum- nies. Tran. Chuang and Nguyen Si got 1 year’s imprisonment each, Cham for the same reason as mentioned above, Tran Thanh Phung was sentenced | to 10 months’ imprisonment for hav- ing declared \\.at he came to France to learn how to. ha: injustice. FASCISTISUFFER TRIPOLL DEFEAT Mussolini Celebration Premature * * * | TRIPOLI, July 22.—lItalian im- |perialists have been celebrating, | with illuminations and_torchlight lemonstrations, an ‘overwhelming | This “victory” was to be the means of bringing tre whole colony under control. The campaign was pre- pared on an unanimous scale. Such large bodies of troops were brought into Italian North Africa that French imperialists began to ask whether these forces were not in- tended for some other purpose, ice., for an attack on Tunis. Not less than 40,000 troops were called up. The whole of Italian North Africa has a male population of not more than 200,000, so that the armed forces were one to every five na- tives, But fascist ex'husiasm was con- |siderably reduced when the news, suppressed by the Italian censor, came through that after this “glori- ous and complete” victory the Se- nussi -chief, Achmed Saif, engaged in a battle, Three hundred Italians were killed and the Italian advance was checked at Al Tamia al Arabia. It was after that the general of the pascist troops announcing the peaceful intentions of Italy and de- claring that the Italian government was prepared to wipe out all those who broke the peace. strict confinement and are not per- mitted to speak to anyone except the warders. We maintain connec- tions only with great difficulties and at great danger to ourselves, « With proletarian greetings, in a restaurant Dong Binh got 9 yeas for visiting tory” over the Senussis in Tripoli. | atronize our § Advertisers © Don’t forget to mention the Daily Worker” to the proprietor whenever you purchase clothes, furniture, etc., or eat 7 i" This Red Army soldier has Ready to Defend the Soviet Union behind him. The Soviet workers want peace, but are ready to defend their workers and peasants republic from imperialist attack. ‘SERB DICTATOR “ORDERS MURDER OF REDS IN JAIL Cases Must Not Reach Court, He Says BELGRADE, July £2.— General | Shickoviteh, the military dictator of Yugoslavia, has issued official and secret instructions to all police au- thorities that’ prominent Commun- ists arrested are not to reach the courts, but to be settled in the prisons. This murderous order re- fers in particular to all members of | the Central Committee of the Yugo- slavian Communist Party. Rewards of 50,000 dinar per head have been offered to the police officials dis- posing of such Communist leaders. \Since then, of course, murders have been freque.t. Owing to a strict censorship it is not possible to learn particulars of all murder cases. The cases of Jackovitch and Heki- |movitch fre known to the world. The following workers have also the workérs ofthe entire world Augus INTERNATIONAL Los Angeles Works Among Colonial Oppressed. | LOS ANGELES, Cal. July 22.—) Some 2,500 leaflets in Mexican, Ja- |panese, Chinese and English, ex- posing the plans of the imperialist powers to attack the Soviet Union will be distributed in factories, shops land streets in preparation for Au- |gust First.. The distribution will be ‘made by members of workers’ or- | ganizations who have joined with the | Communist Party in its campaign against imperialist war. Thousands | |of leaflets will also be distributed | in Mexican, Japanese and Chinese. Hese~ s Preliminary Street Meetings. Preliminary street meetings will be held to mobilize the workers to | participate in the August First dem- onstration. A membership meeting of the |Communist Party will be \into preliminary | * 8 8 | |New Bedford Workers Concentrate | On Mills. NEW. BEDFORD, Mass., July 22. |—A decision to concentrate on those ‘mills where the Communist Party ‘has nuclei and draw up a leaflet to} be issued by each mill nucleus wat | jadopted at the last meeting of the | \local Party to prepare for August First. The first open air demonstration | against the imperialist attack on | Grove Park, at the south end of the | city. Other meetings will follow. A-general leaflet will also be dis- \tributed at the mill gates, on which | times. and place for each demonstra- |tion will be announced. “International Red Day” will be a }leading feature of the next issue of the Portuguese workers’ paper, “A Vanguada.” Demonstrations on August First will be held at the south and north | ends of the city. . Oe Chicago Workers Uncowed by Police Terror. CHICAGO, July 22.—International Red Day demonstration here will be carried out in spite of the organ- ized police terrorism against the militant labor movement. Police’ have clamped down on street meetings to such an extent during the last month that every street corner “as been converted into Two Move Victims of Jugoslavian Terror BELGRADE, July 19.—Two Croa- tian leaders of the Federalist Party, A. Pavelich and G. Pertcheff, have been sentenced to death for “con- | Washington avenues, West End on August 2, with J. Ovse- | |speakers; North End, August 2, S. |Boston, August 2, Kaizer, J. Rubin, | held \H. Riley; Negro Community, Green, Huy Chuan 10 months’ imprisonment | Thursday, July 25, at 8 p.m., at the | Winn, L. Marks; Dudley St, Daw- | Cooperative Center, 2708 Brooklyn |80n, Zelms, Binch; August 3, Cai | avenue ,to draw all Party members | bridge, Oxsepian, J. Rubin, B. Leil August First work, | Watertown, E. Brooks, E, Marks, 8, sen, Zelms, Marks. the Soviet Union was held tonight at | _ spiring against the state” with the Macedonian extremists in Bulgaria. Neither of them has yet been ar- rested. The counts against the men were brought on charges of violating the “defense of the realm act” under which Communists are ‘jailed and murdered. | disappeared since being in the hands of the police. The police officially disclaim all knowledge of their whereabouts. All that is known is they have “disappeared without leav- ing a trace,” a playful variation of the well-known formula “shot whilst attempting to escape.” The workers who have disappeared in the hands of the police are: Marganovitch, a a scene of free speech fight, As leather worker; Krndely, a member part of the fight for the freedom|of the Central Council of the inde- of the streets, Chicago workers will! pendent labor unions, and Butoratz- mass at Union Park, Ogden and |Paravitch, a textile working woman, on August | According to a report of the Bul- garian press, three persons were |shot dead a few days ago on the | Yugoslavian side of the Yugoslav- |Bulgarian frontier by Yugoslavian gendarmes. On the 9th of May a further person was shot dead by |gendarmes near the village of Bat- chevo. Six hundred workers are still in prison in Zagreb and their |fate is terrible. t First ANTI-WAR DAY’. First, A ne Boston Workers Hold Street Meetings. BOSTON, July 22.—J. Louis Eng- dahl and speakers from the Com- munist Youth League and other workers’ organizations will speak at Beakely and Appleton streets, Au- gust First. Other meetings announced to date, for which the exact location will be announced later, will be held ‘at 'German Socialists in 1 Campaign Against Anti-War Parades BERLIN, (By Mail).—The area around the Reichstag in which itis permanently prohibited to demon- | strate or meet in the open air is to be flung open for meetings and pro- cessions on the 10th and llth of August which is the constitution celebration of the German bour- geoisie and which will be carried out, interalia, with a great parade of the Reichsbanner. The social democratic press is conducting a fur- ious campaign of lies and slander pian, S. Puleo, and E. Stone as Ozer, E. Marks, J. Wales; South | Puleo; Lawrence ani Blue Hill ave- nue, Finkel, Binch, E. Hoffman; Woodrow and Blue Hill avenue, Ro- The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face «-etrocution or | against the Anti-War Day on the prison terms! Rally all forces to | 1st of August, obviously with a view save them. Defense and Relief |to securing its prohibition and en- Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East ilth Street, New York. | joying the spectacle of revolution- ary workers being murdered by the | police as was the case on the Ist lof May. The Dramatic Story of the Mountain People of Carolina TOLD BY ELLA FORD a vivid picture of class struggle “WE ARE MILL PEOPLE” In the August Issue of NEW MASSES Features also by MICHAEL GOLD—UPTON SINCLAIR—JOHN. DOS PASSOS.— GROPPER — LOZOWICK — TAMAYO — BURCK — AND MANY OTHERS 15 Cents On all newsstands or at the Workers Book Shop on Ugion Square or any workers book shop in. 3 the country or NEW MASSES—39 Union Square—NEW YORK Subscription $1.50 a year Wocolona coorszan: Camp ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. 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