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= DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY ul iH FE “ARMIES T0 Neate Sends Troops to Sib FIGHT U.S.8.R. VIA POLAND, RUMANIA 2,500,000 Can Be Under Arms In 30 Days (Continued from Page One) machine guns, 50 per cent; heavy | machine guns, 70 per cent; light field artillery, 65 per cent; heavy ry, 40 per cent; shells, 35 per 60 per cent. The rest of their requirements are to be sup- plied by portations from the im- perialist countries, which are esti- mated by the Polish General Staff amounting to $1,500,000,000 in ‘irst war year. Even the peace footing of the Polish and Roumanian armies is gi- g They have been increased by 85,000 men, that is, 17 per cent since 1923, while the army of the Soviet Union was reduced by 20 per cent to 562,000 during the same per- iod. Then, there are the army re- ser’ of Poland and Roumania, 1 total four and a half to five not counting the mili- organized cist organiza- which are armed and tary training, which 1,500,000 men, The hed truth is month of the declaration r the Polish and Roumanian ig forces inst the Sovie Jnion can be raised to 120 divisions of infantry totalling 2,500,000 men. France To Rush Troops. When we remember that Poland disburses 65 per cent of its total budget for military expenditures, and that the present war strength of the two border states is almost 2s great as the arm forces which nany and Au: Hungary were able to throw t Russia dur. ing the Wor! calling on their there can be no threatening the cent; t t nd then, there are the military The French Government i considering the plan of plac- 1 ex: disposal in case of a w the Soviet Union. being carried on with the German government for assurances of free Negotiations are transport of troops and war ma- 1. echo-Slovakia must also be reckoned with, as its very extensive munitions industry (the famous Skoda works, for instance) is looked to as a supply base for Roumania in case of war against the Soviet Union. ae a | And the very government which is feverishly supplying both Poland and Roumania with the materials and sin of , with guns, shells, a and tanks, has the ef- tion in the Manchurian dispute. And all these countries are. also natories of the Kellogg which is to prevent war! the solemn duty of the prole- of all the world to mobilize against the threat of war against the Soviet Union. Make the First impressive warning of America. that n working class will not against the first work- the world, its “mec ers’ state i GUARDS WATCH SLAVES. PHILADELPHIA (By Mail). — Thé tobacco slaves mostly young girls, at the Bayuk and Congress Cigar plants here, two of the largest in the world, are kept under guard by the company, lest they receive any propaganda for organization. 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 Jc’ 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to Internation’” Labor Tefense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. HOSIERY KNITTERS STRIKE. GERMANTOWN, Pa. (By Mail). —Hosiery knitters at the Cambria Silk Co, here have gone on strike for better conditions. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial star‘c 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 Internatfonal Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. onary force of) % ‘ st Poland’s | sible for the white terror intiated by ist march on Shanghai, to disregard against the Federal Governmen: of Portes! "ders from Tokio, He was setting |Gil by the orders of the Viceroy! himself up as absolute dictator of Morrow, Wall Street ambassador to the province when his masters, see- By the orders of General | ing in him a hindrance to the spread | sands of unorganized Negro werk- Calles, head of the Government arm-| of Japanese imperialism, decided to/ers in the United States and win) |ies against the uprising of the mili-/get him out of the way at any cost.|for them full economic and social) tarists on March 3, Jose Guadalupe| As a result, Chang was blown up |freedom. Rodriguez, treasurer of the National) with a charge of dynamite in Man-} Peasants League and member of the churia last year by order of the Central Committee of the Communist Tanaka imperialists. All during the last session of the|the Cleveland conference. Foremost a framed-up charge without any imperial Japanese diet, members of legal procedure or even a court mar- the opposition minseito party, which |tile Conference to be held in Bes- has succeeded the Tanaka govern- “The government of Mexico is now ment, used the assassination as a/28, openly persecuting the revolutionary political bludgeon with which to at- in the very heart of the struggle workers and peasants who are ac-|tack their rival reactionaries, not tively resisting the domination of on any “ethical” grounds but because Wall Street imperialism. As a re-| the militarists had not executed the plot more skillfully. | the minseito’ party or any other| bourgeois clique had been in the} |saddle, it would have been forced} to act in exactly the same manner with regard to this recalcitrant hire- ling. to offer the Soviet Union} Above, a detachment of Nanki SCORE CALLES — ~—ONEVE OF TRIP bs Buber tb the T Sof Th ds’ viene | mia or isl e Tens o ig Ss CHINA WORKERS ng troops, part of the tens of thousands moved towards the Siberian | border by the imperialist puppet rulers of China, as part of the attack planned on the Soviet Union. |! German Communists In Jail On Hunger Strik B lits a PALL STRIKES French Police Beast Anti-U.S.S.R. Raids om Page One) s of raids within the last pe is openly boasting that y the gov- pose of injur- trations plan- the r jernment fo ing purp iet Union. e stated to t HALL SPEAKS FOR Anti-War Aug. 1 is certain to see g nd a strike of work s Sure. | few days the Communist political y well known leader is | prisoners in the prison fortress of Soaciay 2 i ee ate At Betrayer, Persecutor of | Gollnow have been subjected to se- Reports Enthusiasm In are the. gener ate Mexi Mas vere mishandling. On Sunday the oe etree s ate ie as exican Masses director called a force of 20 armed Many Cities dente he Is a scus aauitist Chesei political beison-| i Ge members of the central committee | (Continued from Page One) who had insisted upon taking (Continued from Page One) of the Cor Party: —Midol, 4 Coudeau, and Mathieu, {And during that period, up to the |time he gave the presidency to the | puppet president, Portes Gil, he has enriched himself by the forcible ex- |propriation of land from the peas- jants. Calles, one of the wealthiest men of Mexico today, has for years used the most revolutionary phrases in order to fool the masses, “He arose to power with his pro- mises to wage a struggle against im- |perialism and especially against American imperialism which is now dominating the economic and politi- that | ascended to power with the great) their exe sacrifices and bloodshed suffered by | other p: |the Mexican masses for the Revolu- | hadly b | tion which he pretended to defend.’ on hu jcal life of Mexico, General Calles, | his power to crush the revolutionary inanciers to establish a permanent control over Mexico. ‘ | Initiator of White Terror. “Calles, the murderer, is respon- | Mexico. Party of Mexico, was murdered on tial sentence against him. sult, the Communist Party is out- |lawed and driven underground, the office of “El Machete,” the official organ of the Mexican Party, has | been closed. Wholesale assassina- tion of the militants who dare to challenge the power of American i | ganizing the oppressed and exploited, lis taking place. | Solidarity of U. S., Mexico Workers | “The workers of the United States must express their solidarity with | the workers and peasants of Mexico, | with the Communist Party of Mexi- j;co. We must denounce Calles and |his government. We must help with all means at our command brothers in Mexico who are waging at home and their imperialist mas- ters. “Down with American Imperial- ism! Down with the assassin Calles! Down with the white terror in Mex. Mexico!” FIRE DESTROYS SILK. at the warehouse of the Societa Anonima Lombarda on the outskirt: waiting for shipment. The Caston’a Text We "--s' workers face electrocution or prison ‘terms! save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 ‘East 11th Street, New York. $23 for Tents—$; Wocolona coorsranive ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. Fifty Miles from New York City MODERN BUNGALOWS, TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS LECTURES AND DISCUSSION Special LOW RATES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office N. Y. Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 ORKERS Camp ELEC- 27 for Bungalows our |) a heroic struggle against the traitors | trial starts July 29! Twenty-three | |_—<<PEND YOUR VACATION |) —=—=—=—— Ty | Rally all forces to | the Japan Chang, who was being paid to enslave Manchuria for Japanese ex- ploitation, began, after the national- has pointed out the treacherous role perialism, and who are actively or-| Comments in the capitalist press, {doctored by the Japanese censor- ship, aim to create the impression jthat the switch in cabinets is one|cf the for the better. guchi, head of the minseito party and self-styled “liberal,” be} NEW JAP GOV'T KEEPS UP TERROR Fail Due to Policy on The recent fall of the reactionary the traitor, has used all means in) £anaka ministry in Japan was pre- ipitated by the belated “investiga- and Eng-| workers and peasants of his country ‘ion” into the killing of Marshal the disposal of|and thus pave the way for American Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian tool of and Roumania in case of} ig “comparatively poor” and for “living frugally,” all of which does not nullify the fact that he is the| throat leader of one of the two reactionary parties now yoking the Japanese masses. To hope that the new government ico! Long live the Communist Party | Will lighten the burdens of the work- of Mexico! Long live the solidarity |¢ts and peasants is to hope that the of the workers of the United States|group of landlords and capitalists ane the workers and peasants of | Who dictate to the “untitled” Hama- guchi are less predatory than the }group of capitalists and aristocrats | who dictated Tanaka’s policies, e in the yard with the soners. The prisoners were ten up and hav y gone ike as a protest. trade union center States, Hall reports. Spoke in Many Cities. | bi in the U: 1 we out for the oth- Raids took place o yavmen, an edit nne, head of the W and the Mayor of Ivry v mmuni Cherges of incitement to He has already spoken u ful meetings in New Haven, Co New Bedford, scene of the great textile strike last year; Be Binghamton, Baltimore and Phiia | delphia. Hall has also spoken to|.. ced \thousands of coal miners in Scran-|!ion, and incitement to mut ton and Wilkesbarre. [ene Sermyis Will bey ovied: Be During the next few weeks Hall; Mast of these, say the police offt- will address many meetings thru- out the Middle West and will wind| up in Cleveland just prior to the! great Trade Union Unity mect, Appeal to Negro Workers. # I A special appeal is being madesto | Military forces are on the Man- the thousands of organized and un-|Churian border, it was made orn organized Negro workers to send here yesterday, Bopauea OF tie, EDE: delegates to the Conference through |“i#l interest of the U. S. the medium of shop committees and| Manchurian situation, according to other bodies which will represent |their own statements, The officer the rank and file of the masses. In various appeals, the T. U. E. L. Jot 4 ace Officers in 3 I 3, China, | off: of the U Chang e imperialists. are Captain Halsey Powell, naval attache; Lieutenant Charles Camp- bell Brown, naval aide, and Major John Magruder,. military attache f the A i ati La- a of the American Federation of La-| ‘He Aemttenn TeeaGion “abl Pe: bor, and has declared that only the}. 3 organization of a militant trade un-|!28- i ion center can organize the thou.| It was stated that Captain Powell | was planning to proceed to the fron- tier to study possibilities for future attacks on the Soviet Union. ei Forced to Release Consul. TOKIO, Japan,‘ July 25. — The Chang Hsueh-liang police have fi- A large number of preliminary conferences are being held through-| out the country in preparation for) among these is the Southern Tex- until now been held under formal arrest The excuse given was that his detention was a “mistake.” He is ready to leave with his staff for Chita, Siberia, * semer City, North Carolina, July This conference is being held of the textile workers, and a few miles from the scene of the frame- jup trial of the Gastonia workers which opens next Monday. Conferences are also being ar- * * Chiang’s Agents Leave. MOSCOW, July 25——The mem- bers of the Chinese legation left ranged among marine transport,/late last night for Finland, from mining, clothing, and other indus-|where they presumably will start tries, |for home. The T. U. E. L. reports that at| It was understood the German em- a recent state conference of the|bassy financed the departure of the National Miners Union of Tllinois,| Chinese, who were short of funds. the forthcoming Cleveland meet was Sas lution was also passed in support | the working class, but in their “heroic strikers of Gasto-| present movement they are also uc- herole ‘sttik ci fending the future of the move- ment.—Marx. For whether Attempt to Hide. Thus Yuko Hama- | pia.” “policy of non-aggression,” if it| introduced the infamous anti-Com means anuthing, means that Japan| munist bill, it would not have been will make more strenuous efforts to; passed by the diet without the sup buy up the Nanking government, at| port of the minseito party. The ruth the same time intensifying the cut-| less terro ie character of the Tan- rivalry of Britain, Wall|aka ministry, which jailed hundred: Street and the Japanese Empire, all] of militant workers and peasants, of whom desire to obtain sole rights|has been passed on to an equally to the exploitation of the Chinese | anti-labor government, which, while masses, pursuing the old program of brutal- Plan Blood-Bath. ity suppressing the masses at home General Tanaka, who before re-} will likewise broaden Japanese im signing promised Dawes and Mac-|perialist activities in South M Donald the whole-hearted support of|churia and in China, thus pa’ Japanese imperialists in their plots|the way for new butcheries of the |to wage war on the Soviet Union,| working class. |was responsible for the industrial) Down with the Hamaguchi gov- is hailed third untitled premier in ’s history;” he is praised for Another illusion which the dis-| mobilization plan which is an inter-| ernment! 7 ee | it sag eh ayy es cy me patches from Japan seek to incul-jnal part of the preparations for the| BEL chet a § already done | cate in’ the workers of the United] damage to $500,000 is still raging States is that the foreign policy of |fist” government of Hamaguchi is} |the Japanese imperialists can be ex-| bound to earry through this plan to} i : | pected ‘to become less aggregsive, of the city. The fire started last jespecially toward Nanking, under night, destroying quantities of silk) Bayon Shidehara, the new minister | of foreign affairs, who has spent his \life in furthering the diplomatic in- | trigues of the imperialists, Down with the anti-Communist next blood-bath. The allegedly “paci- | law! Release the class-war prisoners! Against the imperialist war! Long live the Communist Party of Japan! For the establishment of a Soviet government in Japan! Long live the Communist Inter- national! a successful conclusion, as it is pledged to further all of the other reactionary policies of the Nanaka regime. It must be borne in mind that although Tanaka and his underlings ® This CAMP NITGEDAIGET | THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL Telephone Beacon 731 in the in af nally released Consul General Mel-| Inikov, of the U. S. S. R., who has| ia Prisoners Labor Defender.) ~NEW TERROR drag in ¢ jin ord they | the s yaa Sra ig) WERE SACCO-VANZETTI MURDERED md IN VAIN? FI Smesh the Gastonia Frame-up/ ge S Baro aie tion | of the mill owner tacked these s right to defend th Shocked at “I am North Carolina | Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike toy ‘Call for Fight Agai | Imperialism amnesty of the ment which frees c political prisoners | ¥ in prisc of about 4,000, | =' ars 1 prisoners in the Sofia| years for co on have gone on hunger-| “Thi The declaration of these) damental ri which has been published| will aid the s contains, inter alia, the| energy to pro ‘Our action is intended to| =a electrocution tot (Continued from Page One) defend the first Union of § epublics, the revolut of the world proletari: | “The struggle against impe jwar and in defense of t government is a part of the fight of the revolutionary workers and peasants of Mexico against the national bourge: i American imperialism, aneously strengthens i rope and Asia, is ing a ‘coali- tion of world imperialisms by the consolidation of capitalism and is reaching the completion of its eco-) nomic and political domination of the atin American countries. We be- e that our struggle against im- alism must be connected with the fight of the revolutionary work- ers and peasants of this country against their own bourgeoisie must |be considered as an aspect of the proletariat struggle and for the de- f ion of the capitalist regime and the establishment of Socialism. “Fight against imperialist war! Turn the imperialist war into a | civil war of the proletariat against the world bourgeoisie!” st’ prisoner ry citadel ; Not forged death to itself; it ha into existence t wield those we working class—the Karl Marx (Communist TOURS to Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW ° TOURS FROM $385. Sailings Every Month only has the the weapons s he struggle of the working mas: outside the prisons in favor of a complete and unconditional am- nesty for all proletarian political) ners.” | Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U.S.S.R. INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AVENUE (Flatiron Bldg.) NEW YORK, N. Y. Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 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 Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. | 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 Adnussion Fifty Cents 50,000 Workers Will Demonstrate with the 15 Workers Who Go on Trial in Gastonia Monday Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER JULIET STUART POYNTZ WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE Mc cas WAGENKNECHT and others Symphony Orchestra of Fifty) Men YASCHA FISHBERG, Conductor Motion Pictwres—Open-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. TRADE UNIONS AND FRATER- NAL ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD ATTEND IN A BODY AND BRING ALONG THEIR ORGANIZATION BANNERS. COME IN MASSES! Local New York, Workers International Relief N. Y. District, International Labor Defense’ Auspices: Rep aera