The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUL Y 25, 1929 a Page Three eh LECH WORKERS TERY THE POLIGE: DEFEND THE USSR 800 Soviet Employees Jailed in Manchuria | (Continued from Page One) ; doing much to bring the Chang overnment to a point where it hints at opening negotiations with | he U.S. S. R. Just “Changes.” A long statement issued Monday »y the Chang government, signed by ts various puppet “provincial coun- ils” in the three Manchurian prov- | nces. (Lao Ning, Kirin, Hei Lung | Kiang), declares that the railroad s not stolen permanently, but only hanges made in its personnel, be-| hase of “propaganda.” The state- | ich as: \ “The Harbin Consulate General | vas searched and many documents | vere found proving the guilt of the | onspirators. Reproductions of im- ortant documents will be published. “If then the U. S. S. R. had apolo- ized and expressed its willingness | ot to allow any further occurrences f this kind in the future the Chi- ese government would have earl nappy in continuing its friendly re- lations with it. Exposed Forgeries. “The U. S. S. R., however, did othing of the kind. Instead, it pro- ested and insinuated that the found | nocuments were forged. The Chi- ese government then realized that he only solution was to take some irastie steps for protecting its own | interests. Consequently the offices f the Third International, labor mnions and other Soviet organiza- ions in Harbin were closed. “As it was furthermore found that riost of the important functicnaries n the Chinese Eastern Railway ar- ested in the consulate were impor- ant members of the Third Interna- ional, the Chinese government ould not refrain from following up: its policy of adhering to the treaty. \ Seizing the Road. “The Chinese government fso convinced that these Soviet Ci nese Eastern Railway officials w: :se their positions for further eaching schemes detrimental to the state. Therefore thé s Russian £ the Chin uspended. ject. suitable men as the ors.” Verbal Entrcn This insulting and men count of the brutal assault on the loviet employes of the Chinese Hast- ern. the turning over of the railroad ‘o Ostremov, the white guard Rus- ian former manager, the menacing concentration of white guard Rus- ian mercenaries and Chang’s troo, cfy the ‘border, ete., n be inte! 1 feted as cither the opening argu- hifent in “negotiations, intended miostly to deny the forgeries of d ments being prepared by the Chi- hese war lords, or as the basis of in declaration of war. How it will used apparently will depend on ther present signs of a diver-| once of interest end policy between Japan, the United States and Great Britain indicate anything, er are merely passing phenomena. The Japancse military commander | in Manchuria, who recently refused sage of the Chinese mercenaries «ver Japanese-controlled road lines in southern Manchuria, is re- | ported today to have agreed to un- armed troops traveling—to the a cenals of Mukden and the arms) stores in Harbin | Fight on Fascisti in Italy Grows; Social) Democrats Sabotage It. BASLE, Switzerland (By Mail).— The struggle against fascism is in- creasing rapidly. This is particu- larly the case in the Canton of Tes- sin on the Italian frontier. The rail- way mah, Peretti, who was arrested lin Milan upon arriving there from | Switzerland is still being held by ige fascists. After his arrest he is beaten up by the fascists. Pe- retti is accused of anarchist convic- tions. Against his arrest and also ‘connection with the anniversary | Jof the murder of Matteotti, an anti- }fascist demonstration took place in | Bellizona in which social democrats, Communists and anarchists took part jointly. | The social democrats brought many bourgeois anti-fascists with |them and the meeting received a |definitely nationalist character. | When the assembled workers ener-| | getically demanded that an Italian social democratic fugitive. named | Tonello, who was present at the) meeting, should speak, the social democratic leaders caused him to be | | removed from the hall. Tonello and r a representative of the C. P. of Italy | addressed the workers in the open-| air outside the hall. The workers are embittered by the tion of the social democratic lead- ) |:s, The fascists of Bellizona “who jad arranged a nationalist celebra- tion to take place yesterday, pre- ferred ‘cautiously to postpone it | indefinitely becausd of the general { indignation of the population against the fascists, ~/cue of the company by issuing a sel has heen superintending the r | tried the young Communists for hav- |11th to the 12th of January. The} ‘quitted. There is no possibility of | /appealing against these * ‘ The latest in stunts to boost the Wall Street air force and arouse intere 1 j | trap cannon fodder for the coming imperialist war, is rypnt contains provocative language) Field, L. 1., to Nome, Alaska. The plane in which the flight is planned is shown above. Alaska Flight Is Wall Street Stunt to Boost War i Service the proposed flight by army flyers from order to Mitchell in aviation, in DODGE ORLEANS EMERGENCY FUND GENERAL STRIKE Six Pages Means More Debts to Meet Misleaders Stop Aid to Carmen (Continued from Page One) avoiding a showdown on the real sue. “Don’t Strike,” Plead Fakers. One after another exhorted the workers to “remain calm,” rned | them against the “dangers involved | in a general strike” and advised the continuation of the present policy | of urging the public to “keep off the street cars, not to cook with gas and burn candle-light.” To prevent rank-and-file discussion from the floor the two meetings which were | held were hurriedly adjourned at 1:30 p. m. after the “reports” were heard. Today was workers quit their platforms after | the Public Service Corporations re- | fused to recognize the union or re- | new the contract and declared for | the open shop. The. beginning of the 22nd since the the strike was marked by militant |“ ction of the strikers, who succeeded | in completely tying up the service and driving cars off the street. | Two weeks ago Judge Borah, of the U. 8. District Court and lackey | of big corporations, came to the res- eping injunction against strik- “interference” with the opera- | . For the vast mption of car service, with the aid imported strikebreakers _ and rmed deputies. | Leadership Vacillates. ‘ince then the strike leadership followed the policy of vacillation nd has centered efforts on coax- the Public Service Corporation into arbitrating the “dispute” with the Carmen’s Union, a_ certain method of selling out the strik According to the leaders, the prin- ciple of arbitration is the only issue at stake and they have been looking to various sources for an arbiter ac- ptable to the company—from a lo- | 1 citizens’ committee to Secretary ef Labor Davis Washington. Savage Sentences Against Communist Youth in Jugoslavia, BELGRADE (By Mail).—The trial of 11 young Communists came |to an end with. terrifie sentences. | The exceptional court in Belgrade set up by the military dictatorship ing pasted up posters on the walls of the town in the night from the posters were issued by the illegal Communist Party. During the trial all the accused withdrew the state- ments they had made under exam- ination, declaring that these state- ments had been extorted from them by tortures which only ceased when they had said what the authorities wanted them to say. The leader of the group, a student | of the Technical High School, named Andreyevitch, received a sentence of | 15 years:hard labor! The other. ac-| cused received sentences varying from 6 to 12 years hard labor each. For no other crime than that of having pasted up Communist post- | ers! Five of the accused were ac- inhuman sentences. Plans for U. Si ritish War on Soviet Union Nearly Ready, Report LONDON, July 24.—It is under- stood that the Wall Strect-Great | Britain plot for war on the Soviet | Union, euphemistically called the | “naval cut discussion,” has reached | the point where Wall Street Am- bassador Dawes has communicated | with Washington on the subject. It was learned that the ambas- sador visited the imperialist Prem- | ier MacDonald at his country estate , in Chequers over the week-end and | continued the ‘elaboration of the | anti-Soviet scheme which was first brought into the open soon after the arrival of Dawes in Forres. Communists fight on behalf of the immediate aims nnd interests of the working ct but in. their b Lovee ker har hte hey also de- ending, uture of move- ment.—Marz, “a H. Feldman, Baltimore, Md. $5.00) Unit 26, Los Angeles, Cali- Wm. Jons, Baltimore, Md... 1.00! fornia, Rose Spector , 80 Walter Petnitzky, Baltimor A, C. Barrett, Warspite, Maryland .. 2.00) Canada 1.00 L. Lipman; Baltimore, Md... 1.00 5s John Badley, Baltimore, Md. 2.00 |¥- | Northeastern Unit of B __Mo. 5, a DR ee 20.09 Nucleus 205, i Theo, Johnson, Monclair, _ Hlinoi 6.50 Te ns 2.50 | Unit 2F, 8.00 Lith. Prog. Women’s ee) of America, Br. 31, 5.00 aon A, Bakunin, Flint Local, ™ 24.00. * 2.00 Antone P, Hamburges, S a0 Dartmouth, M: 3.00 Ky | u 8,00 Yose Affoneé. § u, Unit 1, Sec. 2 3.01 Mask. 9,99 Ginsberg, New York 1.00 Joaquim Palo Pedro Ros 1.00 1.00 4+ Kagun, 10.00 5.00 1.00 | A« v Yor! 2.00 B, Price, Lansing, Mich. .... 1.00 mouth, . D. Critchley, Cleveland, Fnacio Siha, So. Ohio seeeeeetteeees 1.00 M part . Ginsburg, Worcester, Mass. 2.00 Species ener :. Kunnap, Anacortes, Wash. 3.00 auth Meee nit 9, Sec. 3, Dist. 1, Boston 16.00 anock Cardoso, So. Dart- uth Slavic Worker Club, Houth eh aed 15 | __ Cleveland, Ohio « 25.00 L. Spinicelli, New York... 1.00 Wm. L. Miller, Chicago, I 00 LEVEE Be. 16 Jerky E. Bersin, New York®...... - .50 ~ Gity, NT 3 “40.00 R. B. Wilson, Berkeley, Cal. 2.50 J, Zaleski, Ne 1,09 Nick Panovitch, Pittsburgh, M. Junitz, Chicato, Ill. 5.00 | _ Pennsylvania i 5.00 | Aven Spiavadle Bly fi 3,00 Samuel Pakman, Trenton, Nu 1.0 Slovak Benevolent Society E, Tiva, S. Akron, O. .....+. 5.00 No. 15, Binghamton, N. Y. 10:00 | Collected by Johan Elo, East The Besbouy. Sse. Gum. Party, Chicawo, THAD !..2.3.50 00. 4.10 Peabody, Mass. .......... 50.00 ae ad Son, West Hart- ae fn) Ockdaad: ord, Conn. ....3.++ 5. losepl, Tipeonsines: Onhiant Unit 2, Sec. 4, New York .. 5.00 Archie Broun, Oakland, Calif. 0 Unit 1, Sec. 1, New York .. 26.00 Houston Nucleus, Houston, Rochester Unit, Rochester, iiewan : N.Y 20.00 Fred Reis, Cincinnati, 0. .00 | Br. 4, Sec. 5, i Joseph Stocker, Cincinnati, 0. 2.00 | Passaic Unit, Pi 61.00 A. einherse Los Angeles, Phila. Unit, Phila., Pa. . 26.00 Galifornia? .<.tm2..+--+.. 3,00 Nucleus 2, Seattle, Wash.... 10.00 Unit 2, Los Angeles, Cali- St. Nucleus 4, San Francisco, fornia, H. Rosenstein .... 6.00 California ses edoeeee 4.00 Unit 26, Los Angeles, Cali- Unit 2F, Sec, 3; New York .. 17.00 fornia, M. Een seseeees 5.00! Unit BF, Sec. 3, New York.. 16.00 Wath 20 tee ane Nucleus 2, Monessen, Pa. 18.50 R. Sands Unit 26, Los Angeles, C for Spector -- 2d the Soviet Union! Things You Must Do! Total 1. Rouse the workers in the factories to the danger con- fronting the Soviet Union. 2. Organize anti-war committees in the shops. Prepara- tory for the antiwar demonstration August Ist, resolutions must be passed in the shops protesting the provocative acts against the Soviet Union and resolutions for the defense of the Soviet Union. 3. Adopt resolutions of protest and support for the Soviet Union in all trade unions and in all labor organ- izations. 4, Elect delegates, from three to five, in all labor organ- izations, small or large, to attend the mass Anti-War Con- ference on July 25, in Irving Plaza, to defend the Soviet Union and to organize the anti-war demonstrations of Au- gust 1. 5.—Propagate for the slogan of anti-war day on August First! Join the demonstration at Union Square. 6. On every occasion, wherever possible, speak at fac- tory gate meetings, spread Party leaflets, issue special edi- tions of shop bulletins, issue special leaflets to the factories in your locality raising the call for the fight against the com- ing war! DOWN TOOLS AUGUST FIRST. 7. Be prepared for the call of the Party for every event in the present war developments. The above tasks are the concern of every loyal member that feels himself a soldier of the world proletarian army. To forsake your duty at this moment is treachery to the work- ing class! All unit functionaries, all Party members, redouble your energies; speed up the fight! The Gastonia Textile Workers’ 1,200 Marines to Leave; Nicaragua; Plenty of 1J. S. Mercenaries Stay WASHINGTON, July 24.—Presi- dent Hoover today ordered with- drawal of 1,200 of the approximately 3,000 U. S. marines in Nicaragua. The U. S. officered and trained na- tive constabulary. made up of mer- cenaries and political favorites of the American puppet president, 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 Internctional Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. SCHOOL CHILDREN ARRESTED. MOSCOW (By Mail).—According to a report from Warsaw, ten school HOOVER BLURTS| OUT WAR SECRET: MILLIONS SPENT |U. S. Strips for Race Toward Conflict | | (Continued trom Page One) |solete through advancement of sci- }ence and war methods and what de- vélopments can be well spread over longer periods in view of the gen- eral world outlook and at the same time maintain completely adequate preparedness, such an investigation to be constructive and not destruc- tive.” | “Not destructive” of the ments of war, that is. Reveals New Figures. | The necessity of “economy while still preserving full tighting strength,” caused the president to reveal military expenditures which have been concealed from the pub-} According to Hoover, “the: mates indicate by 1933 an in- creased burden of somewhere from 250,000,600 to $300,000,000 above the expenditures of the fiscal year just ended and from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 above the expenditures lef four years ago. | Half for War. | “Of this the purely military and naval expenditures, excluding non- military activilies of these depart- imple- ments, represent about one-half. |e Bushel who, while in the hire | Would get The combined expenditure is esti- mated at $803,000,000 in 1933, an in- crease of $120,000,C90 over the last | $224,000,000 over |four years ago. All of which com- |pares with a total of $266,000,000 average pre-war total for the com- bined military services of the army {and navy, or an estimated increase by 1933 of $50,000,000 over pre- war. These amounts do not include any amount which we justly spend [fiscal year and on veterans who suffered in past | question to his religion. These wars, which in itself amounts to W 1 nothing at the time about 10,000,000 annum. they came to | Moreover, many bills a pending Chorover’s cell, called him out, before Congress that will still fur- ther increase this sum.” Usual Smoke Sczeen Hoover’s admission of the fact that the U. S. empire is preparing for war at a faster rate than any | |of its rivals, is couched in the fol- | lowing language, and includes a characteristic “pacifist” hypocrisy at the end: | “The American people should un- |derstand that current expenditure on strictly military activities of the | army and navy constitutes the larg- Lest military budget of any nation in the world today, and at a time when there is less real danger of © extensive disturbance to peace than | at any time in more than half a) century, “The hope of tax reduction lies in large degree in our ability to econ- omize on the military and naval ex- penditure and still maintain ade- | quate defense. Our whole situation is certainly modified by the Kellogg pact.” Watchful Building. President Hoover announced to- day that the United States would not lay down three cruiser keels now ready for construction, and in his statement called attention to the offer of MacDonald in the British House of Commons, to delay work on certain vessels. There are no orders to destroy what has already been started, and any lengthy de- lay in the naval construction pla depends on obtaining concessions from the British empire. MACDONALD APES HOOVER GESTURE Stops 2 Cruisers But Builds War Planes (Continued from Page One) was proposed. Instead, a measure of efficiency, to increase the effec- tiveness of her imperial armament | was offered by the premier, namely, to consolidate the air, naval and | army departments. Lots of Poison Gas. Britain, like U. S., is a powerful industrial country, in which plenty of factories exist which can be con- verted for chemical warfare. Noth- |ing is said about this, either. MacDonald stated that he would |go to U. S. in the near future to negotiate directly with President Hoover. He neatly evaded a question whether England would dismantle the Singapore naval base, saying | that was a matter for the admiralty. ‘Soviet Sewing Machine | Trust Engineers Here to Study U.S. Industry E. I. Efimov, chairman of the | Board of Directors of Gosshveyma- | shina, the Soviet State Sewing Mz-- chine Trust, has arrived in the | United States with three enginecis of the trust to study the American sewing machine industry, | “The demand for sewing machines in the Soviet Union is so great,” | stated Efimov in the offices of the | Amtorg Trading Corporation yester- | day, “that in spite of our practically \doubling production in comparison | With last year, our 250 retail outlets are unable to cope with the demand. Moncada, it is believed, can keep | children, girls and boys, have been ; The State Sewing Machine Trust ex- the Nicaraguan workers and pea- arrested by the police for having | pects to increase production to over , sants subjugated with less than the maring corps, ‘the schools, pense | distributed Communist literature in| one million machines per year by, 1933,” sabia hit dtiat Practicing for Slaughter of Workers i] Keeping a big gun at Fort Hancock in trim, for use against workers in the coming imperialist war. SEVERELY BEAT — JAILEDWORKERS PLEADS GUILTY Prisoner Tells About Short Term is Sure; Police Brutality The story of how he was taken | from a cell in the 54th street magis- e’s court building and severely en by two guards and a dete tive was last night told the Daily Wor by Aaron Chorover, gether with 12 others were arrested Friday afternoon following the Com- |t munist demonstration before the Chinese consulate. They were sentenced by Magis- of the cafeteria bosses’ association, sent hundreds of cafeteria strikers to long jail terms. Several thousand workers had demonstrated against the threatened imperialist attack on the Sy Union. day afternoon his “pedigree” taken by attendants, and it was obvious that the police thugs were rankled by Chorover’s answer to the anked him into a corner and with- e him a beating. As a result his discolored and two out. He was then into his cell. Chorover pointed out to Daily Worker that the brutality ot the Tammany police was not con- fined to the attacks upon the work- ers appearing at the demonstration, but that word was passed down the line to the uniformed thugs in the jails to beat up the workers who fell into the hands of the cap courts. SLIDES KILL PE NTS. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24.— Nearly 200 peasants were killed by huge landslides near the coast of Anatolia yesterday. ho, to- | of urther ceremony proceded to | the | BANKER GLARKE Mancusco Also Safe James Ra r the Bro: rke is officially the of 000,000 failure bank me weeks e pleaded guilty to ounts in federal and state courts, the mails to defraud, swin- z y a promise left of the $ expects to his ociates and get off with a lot 1 than the 127 years ybody but a banker such a list of frauds. who tr d their insurance xt month’s house ve The Clarke Bros money and th rent, will the dollar, at yet’ unset depositors with ome future time as -y Wh wondering when get ar deposito: nd if th of their mon , but will be cal re the pecial grand jury port Section Starts , NS) Training for Picnic All workers who have taken part heit , Downtown Workers ub, as well as those who wish to join the group, are invited to appear at the club rooms, 35 Second ave- nue, today at 8 p.m. sharp, to start | the ses of the Fr naybe five cents on Judge Mancuso, chair- e board of the looted City e also will ever STRIKERS: WHO SHOT IN DEFENSE GALL TO WORKERS 15 Look to Toilers for Support (Continued from Page One) expressing their amazement at the rapid change that has taken places, // ars’ experience aS a newSs- one stated, “I have | never seen a greater and more pro- |nounced swing of public opinion. Even men who told me.a few weeks: ago that they thought that the strik~ and union organizers should be convicted simply because they are Communists and atheists, are now |saying that there must be a fair trial, that there should be a change’ of venue, and many express doubt as to the guilt of the defendants, and even approval of the union.” Many Joining. There come into the new Gastonia office of the N. T. W., just estab- lished, many mill workers daily who have hung back hitherto, waiting to see what would happen,—some > of them imported by the Manville- Jenckes Company as strike break- ers, without their realizing it — who are applying for membership and express themselves as satisfied that the union is a good thing, that it i y and that it is here to stay. | Since the arrival of Hugo Oehler to replace Fred Beal until he and the other prisoners are freed, to- | gether with William Murdoch, vice- | president of the union, Ben Wells, a Michelson, and others to in- se the forces of the N. T. W. and the I. L. D., both organiza- U. tions can now claim confidently that they have the active support of a great group of the wor in Gas- tonia and vicinity, and are constant- y reaching out and expanding in , new territory in both Carolinas and even as far as Rome, constitutes the strongest : e defense of the strikers and organizers whom the mill owners are trying to get rid of by railroad- ing them to the electric chair and the penitentiary, ec, Tenne: |. The Gastonia T trial starts July 29! Twenty- workers electrocution prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief ‘hree or face training for athletic participation in |the Freiheit picnic. ile Workers? Twenty-three electrocution or Raliy all forces to Def-ase and Relief 27—August 3! Sign The Gastonia trial starts July 29! workers face prison terms! the Protes: Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Noll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East llth Street, New York. Our own age, the bourgeois age, is distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisms. More and more, society is splitting up into Ovo great hostile camps, | into ovo great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letarint—Marx. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE Speakers: JULIET and others TRADE Solidarity Demonstration with Gastonia Workers ! Saturday, July the 27th, 1929 (From Noon Until After Midnight) PLEASANT BAY PARK, THE BRONX Fifth Avenue Buses;will go direct to the Park from East 177th St. Subway Station Admission Fifty Cents 50,000 Workers Will Demoristrate with the 15 Workers Who Go on Trial in Gastonia Monday STUART POYNTZ ALFRED WAGENKNECHT Symphony Orchestra of Fifty Men YASCHA FISHBERG, Conductor Motion Pictures—Ofen-Air Dancing Fireworks, Campfire—Other Features THE SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE TWO DAYS BE- FORE THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL IN GASTONIA AND WILL BE THE FINAL NEW YORK RALLY. NAL ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD ATTEND IN A BODY AND BRING | ALONG THEIR ORGANIZATION BANNERS. UNIONS AND FRATER- COME IN MASSES! Ausbices: Local New York, Workers International Relief | N. Y. District, International Labor Defense |