The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1929, Page 3

Labor Government Helping to NO JURY TRIAL; PLAN NEW LAW FOR JUTE STRIKE Prepare New Attacks On Militants | CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 11.— Every possible difficulty is being put in the way of the 32 Commu- nists and other militant trade union leaders facing trial in Meerut, on charges of “conspiracy against the King-Emperor.” Captain Wedgewood Benn, labor secretary of state for India, has ad- mitted that the deportation to Mee- rut of the prisoners arrested here, 1,000 miles away, was approved by him. | § He stated a few days ago to mem- bers of the Meerut Defense Com- mittee in London that he absolutely refuses to entertain the idea of re- leasing these trades union leaders. | Noted Working Class Fighters. | Included among the prisoners are | Shaukat Usmani, Communist can- didate for parliament in the last British general elections; Philip | | | | | | When Standard Oil Murders, the Mure Spratt and Lester Hutchinson, Eng- lishmen, all leaders of the Gurni Kamgar, or Red Flag Mill Union. The eighth week of the prelimi- nary inquiry into the case of the 32 Indian militants has now opened before the magistrate at Meerut. The inquiry still drags on, in the tiny court in Meerut, where the ac- commodation for the defending counsel and witnesses is inadequate. Campaign Against Prisoners. The campaign of hatred against the 32 trade union leaders, who} face life terms in prison, has re- goubled in the Anglo-Indian press, | due to the fear caused among the bosses by the outstanding militancy| is being whitewashed by Jersey authorities. injured eleven, some of whom may die. The Standard Oil, in its gre Wreckage on the oil tanker William G. Rockefeller, after a blast that killed two seamen and a leaking steam pipe on the 21,000: ton tanker, causing the blast on Friday off Bayonne. The company ry GREER, NEW YORK, MON" “UGUSYT 12, Lyzy Page Three ME USE BOY SCOUTS FOR THE GOMINS IMPERIALIST WAR |Baden-Powell Leads in Slander of U.S.S.R. | LONDON, (By mail).—The Boy Scout Jamboree opened at Birke head on July 30. Parties of Scouts from India, Egypt, South Africa, the {Gamba and other parts of the Brit- ish Empire arrived. The Prince of W: | Lansbury, commissioner of wor the labor government and renegade, attended. The occasion of the Jamboree is the “2ist birthday” of the Boy | Scout Movement. rey Weave Fra r is Whitewashed ales and George ks in noted * The Boy Scout World Jamboree is |being held from July 30 tc Aue fat Arrowe Park, near Liy |This dreary pcrt—a city of and poverty, notorious for i and unemployment — over: |the Jamberce as a mighty denial of the doctrines of the scout leade who paint dazzling pictures of the glories of the Empire and conceal the horrors of capitalism. All the financial resources of the heavily subsidised scout movement are being used to guarantee success. The bourgeoifie take no pains to disguise that they are fightine to save the youth from the “insidi- ous efforts of the Communists to in- veigle the youth of the world.” (Baden-Powell.) About 30,000 scouts are taking part, including 15,000 from foreign {countries and the Empire. Army. of 30,000. The programme includes camps, relay games, gymnastics, bridge building, hut building, cinemas, ex- |hibitions, clog, morris and sword dancing, open-air displays and pa- ved for profits, neglected to repair displayed in the past few days by} oe the Calcutta jute mill strikers, who | fought the police in the streets. ers were arrested last March by | Thirty-one of the Meerut prison- the Baldwin government. charge was “conspiracy against the King-Emperor.” The actual cause for the arrests was the fact that the 31 were leaders of the Indian mill strikes. They were conveyed to Meerut, where a jury trial was denied them, where facilities for their witnesses were restricted, and where there was no danger of dem- onstrations by Indian workers. In the first fortnight of the Mac- Donald “labor” government, a young socialist journalist, Lester Hutchi- son, formerly of Manchester, was also arrested. Denied Visitors. The prisoners were this week de- nied the right to see visitors, and visits to them by their counsel have been limited. Their letters to their counsel are being censored. Sir Frederick Sykes, governor of Bombay, has announced that fur- ther legislation will be introduced and passed to enable the Anglo- Indian authorities to arrest without warrant strikers or suspected mili- tants and deport them from the area in which they are employed. This means that further frame- ups similar to the Meerut case are brewing. It is said that wholesale arrests of Calcutta jute strikers are planned, the arrested strikers to be deported thousands of miles away from here and tried without jury trial. British-American Clash Over “I’m Alone” Now UnderFake Arbitration WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Justice Willis Vandevanter of the supreme court has been named to represent » the United States on the commis- sion to arbitrate the “I’m Alone” controversy, arising from the sink- ing of a Canadian rum-running ship by gun fire of an American coast guard cutter 200 miles off New Or- leans. Eugene Lafleur, of Montreal, a leader of the Canadian bar, will represent Canada, whose govern- ment has protested that the coast,| The | Napoleon He isn’t much on size and you'll open wide your eyes When I tell you that he is a hero bold. But he’s there in every way, and I am here to say That he’s*just as brave as any knight of old. In his measly five foot four, maybe less or maybe more, Is a heart that’s got a lion beat a mile. Though he wears a happy grin, there is something there within That will tell you that there’s guts behind his smile. He’s never heard of fear, and although he might appear Just a kid that hasn’t got a care on earth. Don’t you rub him the wrong way, for you'll find that it pay, He was born to be a fighter from his birth. von't He's been in and out of ‘jail, he’s been many times on bail, But he knows that what he’s fighting for is right. And you’re bound to find him there when it’s time to do and dare: \I believe he'd rather die than miss a fight. | ; | When the Revolution comes, and they beat upon the drums, And the workers start the battle for their own; | When the red flag is unfurled for the Soviet of the world, He will always be within the danger zone. When the bullets start to fly, and death rains de sky, < And capital is running its last race, Through the battle’s smolze and din you'll see hi And a look of joyous rapture on his face. Napoleon, I greet you, ’twill take a mighty man to beat you, You're a fighting man beyond the slightest doubt. And you'll keep your head up high until the very day you die, And you'll be fighting even while you're passing out. ‘rom the n, geantries. Scout masters are much |too cautious to organise an open ‘military display; the army and na- val officers at the head of the move- ment are quite capable of instilling ‘a subtle daily militarist and im- perialist propaganda and training | without blazoning it forth to the en- | tire world. What is the real purpose of the {big Jamboree? The facts show that jit is to consolidate the scout move- | ment within the British Empire and SWISS WORKERS FINED, JAILED Took Part in August 1 Demonstration i (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) |_ BASLE, Switzerland, Aug. 11.—| ist war. Bourgeois class justice is now op-| erating against the workers who chiefly in two parts of the world, p.rticipated in the prohibited In-/the British Empire and America. In jternational Red Day demonstration America, the scouts and leaders |Aug. 1. A large number of workers | number no fewer than 826,000, more |were fined at the trial today and than half the total number of scouts the three Communist leaders,| and leaders in the entire world, In | Wieser, Weber and Weiner, were|the British Empire, the total num- sentenced to several weeks’ im-|her including “Rovers” and “Wolf prisonment each, |Cubs,” is 654,130. Seat Thinking Imperially. READING POLICE In a recent speech, Baden-Powell | declared that “he looked to the Jam- |boree to consolidate and complete | | the work of the past few years and | to ‘set the movement on a really | |sound and widespread foundation, ternational friendship of a new and i“Socialists” Try to Aid hopeful type. | : Here the Chief Scout frankly | Gastonia Hangmen states that consolidation within the (Special to the Daily Worker.) |Empire is the first task. The Brit- ish bourgeoisie, faced with the ri READING, Pa. Aug. 11.—De-/ing tide of colonial revolt, realis spite the intervention of the police what an excellent weapon it has in of this “socialist” city on the side the Scouts for the purpose of d of the Gastonia hangmen, a truck- | gui: u eae incon ; jeoxpzepare forethey coming naeey \the only gesture so far in the strike load of collectors from Philadelphia yesterday held a successful street young generation. and house to house collection for There is a growing naval antag- | Gastonia defense and relief. |onism between America and Britain. | Twelve workers were arrested in So Baden-Powell has inaugurated an effort to break up the collection, the “Deep Sea Scouts,” which will but they were immediately released |enroll young workers, and even out of fear of incensing the large| adults, who work on ocean-going |working class population of Read-|ships.. That this new development ing. The collection was held under| meets with the full approval of the the auspices of the Joint Interna-| British Goyernment is shown by the | | tional Labor Defense and Workers|announcement that ‘Membership | International Relief committee of| will also be open, under, certain con- Philadelphia, lditions, to sailors, stokers, artisans The “socialist” city authorities re-| and others in the Royal Navy or |cently refused to grant a permit for|the Merchantile Marine who have |a collection in behalf of thé Gas-| not already been Scouts on shore.” |tonia strikers, | In America, troops of Air Scouts have been formed, a development Don’t forget funday, August * Napoleon Moretis, one of the most militant strikers in| 18th, Pleasant Bay Park. |which has not so far taken place in | England. yguard violated international law in the sinking. $ The “I’m Alone” controversy is still one of the points of clash be- the cafeteria strike. He was arrested 15 times. | Tickets for the Press Carnival The role that the scouts will play only 35 cents. strated by their record in: the last. tween British and American imperi- alism, and it is not expected here that either government will yield much. Air Contests Reformists Remove Communist Leader of Swiss Workers BASLE (By Mail).—The Central of the Woodworkers’ Union has mad a decision extremely important fo! the development of the Swiss trade union movement in removing from his post the secretary Scherer, a member of the Communist Party and the leader of the Lausanne strike. This measure has aroused the greater indignatic - among the workers that Scherer has been in prison since the end of April. The reason given for Scherer’s discharge is that he has pursued a path of strike in a manner bound to lead to the: unchaining of every political pascion, besides “wasting 150,000 francs for useless strikes.” The so- cial. Cemocratie press welcomes this cure of the Woodworkers’ Union joy, as this union has hitherto ¢. sated among the m st Left. | The Wail Strect army's entry in the Schneider Cup military land. These air contests are nart of imperialist war nlans. to boost Part of Imperialist Powers’ War Plans Immediately upon the outbreak of ithe last war, Baden-Powell issued the following instructions: “In this time of national emerg- lency comes the opportunity for the scouts’ organization to show that it can be-of material service to the country. Just as the boys of Mafe- king were utilised to take the lighter’ work of men in order to release men for the more arduous duties of war, so can the scouts now’ give valuable assistance to the State at home-—and for this their training and organi- zation has already to a great extent fitted them.” The scout leaders mobilised the scouts for the last war and are pre- paring to mobolise them for the next. One form of this mobilisation is the vicious an dlying campaign be- ing carried. on against the Soviet the vicious and lying campaign be- found in almost every organ of the scout movement, even jn,fiction and adventure stories. Baden-Powell himself has made striking admis- sions regarding the ‘attityge of the scout leaders to the Soviet Union, and has declared that in the event of a war he will tell thé scouts “to serve their country.” The Young Communisi Interna- \ air forces to be held soon in Eng the imverialist air services. | both imperially and for ultimate in- | ng the monster of imperialism | and corrupting. the minds of the | Workers jerease the disgust and resentment leather workers. Fred Biedenkapp of in the next war is amply demon-| Jp Net Around 32 Indian Milita Training ’em to Use Against Workers Boy Scouts in jingoist jamboree in Arrowhead, England, where thousands of the scouts from many countries are taking part in a ceremony designed to make good imperialist defenders out of them. MACDONALD TO LAY BASIS FOR SMASH STRIKE UNION AT MEET Goes ‘in Person to Hit Over 15,000 Workers British Mill Walkout | Represented | —_—-, LONDON, Aug. 11.—Alarmed by (Continued from Page One) the spread of the tremendous walk- which will carry on a vigorous or- out of 500,000 textile workers in| ganization drive and prepare for a Lancashire the labor party govern- | national convention early in Decem- ment is continuing its efforts to} ber to organize the new industrial |“negotiate” the strike in an effort) union. Fred Biedenkapp. general to return the men to the mills on! manager of the Independent Shoe the employers’ terms. | Workers Union,.was chosen secre- Premier Ramsey MacDonald and | tary of this national body. Margaret Bondfield, minister of la-| Tasks bor, have contrived to have them-| Among the tasks outlined for nts REVEAL FORCED LABOR IN LIBERIA AIDED BY THE US: |President Paid for Im- porting Slaves | MONROVIA, Liberia, Aug. 11— | The cat was let out of the bag, jonly to be quickly tied again by Wall Street, when Thomas J. Faulk- ner, an American born naturalized | Liberian who was defeated for the presidency of Liberia, made charges that traffic in forced labor and vir- tual slavery were going on im Liberia, with the assistance of Libe is the company guilty of the forced labor, it is charged. Con- ditio of unbealievab‘e slavery, and y, exist for the workers on the restone _ plantations. Workers, with their wives and children, from five years up, slave 14 to 18 hours a day for less than 10 cents a day. The qu: ors provided the slaves are full of ¢ effort is made to c the spread of the disease. The workers die like flies, it is charged. The United States authorities took quick action to deny the char- ges of Edwin Barclay, Liberian secretary of the state, a Wall Street tool, attacked Faulkner on behalf of Wall Street. Barclay stated that an tional commission will be appointed to “investigate” the charges. This is laughed at, for any such commis- sion will be handpicked at Washing- ton. Faulkner, it must be understood, is not and has never been a friend of the oppressed workers of Liberia, He simply wanted to be president and serve Wall Street in this office, | President King defeated him, hav- jing the stronger pull with Wall Street, and so Faulkner made the slavery revelations, which he had held back until his defeat, Faulkner charged that President |King imported workers from the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, an interna- The scout movement is to be found | has selves asked to Manchester by Joe Compton, labor m. p., for the Gorton division of Manchester, a textile di- sion, both parties together,” Compton is quoted as saying. In reality, as the left wing leaders among the strikers are pointing out, been the labor government’s gesture of concern for the interests of the workers. The present move, far from being a gesture, is an open maneuver of betrayal of the textile strikers for the purpose of crushing their strike through their reaction- ary leaders and herding them back to the mills under the twelve and one-half cent wage cut which was the immediate cause of the walk- out. | TO HIT BUILDING FAKERS’ SELLOUT Meet Friday te Discuss Program of Action (Continued Peerage One) Council might perform a_ little strike-breaking job in the Electrical “This will be a gesture to bring | _At ks 0 "the |island, and King personally receives |Nationai Organization Committee | $15 a’ day from the Firestone Rub. are: the carrying on of active or-|ber Co. for each worker imported. ganization, work in all shoe and | Vice-President Allen C. Yancey and leather centers, creating shop com- | Postmaster General Ross of Liberia mittees and local organization|receive $15 for each worker im- groups affiliated with the N.O.C.,|ported from certain other districts,” and arranging district conferences | it is charged. : in New England, New York and| Secretary of State Barclay and vicinity. Binghamton, Endicott and Secretary of Public Works, Morris midwes* sections preliminary to the |get $2.50 for each laborer shipped.” national convention; the election of | Levies of Liberian tribesmen are special youth, woman’s and Negro | frequent occurrences; they are representatives with special efforts |forced to slave for Firestone Yor to draw in+Negro workers; the|practically nothing. Because of carrying on of work to win over the | this thousands of Liberian tribesmen membership in the old unions and to|have fled the country. Faulkner | affiliate these local unions to the | charges that King defeated him by N.0.C.; the issuing of a monthly bul-| stuffing the ballot boxes. King | letin in English with an Italiam sec-| pays himself a'salary of $15,000"A” tion. [vent ¢ William Z. Foster, national secre- | RSE '- | tary of the Trade Union Educational DUPE TENANTS ° 7 -ON EAST SIDE League, was given a great ovation | when he greeted the “conferenc on “Model Tenements” Is Rockefeller Bunk Saturday. Foster discussed the gen- eral situation of the American work- | John D. Rockefeller and the Tam- jmany Hall politicians are getting ingelass showed the sharpening of ready to bunk thousands of work- the capitalist offensive with the | ing class tenants on the lower East growing militancy of the workers, | discussed the Gastonia strike and trial and pointed out the significance of the Trade Union Unity conven- | tion in Cleveland Aug. 31, which will | organize a new trade union center lof the American working class. 2 Delegates to TUUC The conference decided to send two delegates to the Clevland con- Union has served to in-| vention to represent the shoe and side, by offering to build “model tenement houses to rent for $10 per room per month” on seven square of the rank and file. ‘New York and Joseph Dion of Ha- TUEL Calls Meet |verhill were chosen delegates. A The Building Trades Section of resolution was also adopted endors- the Trade Union Educational |ing the Cleveland convention and |of Tammany, has placed I. Montefi- League, which is calling the mass | Calling on all organizations repre-|ore Levy, the Rockefeller agent, at meeting Friday at which program |Sented to send delegates to the|the head of the mayor’s committee of action will be discussed, declares: | Cleveland convention as well as to|on housing, and Rockefeller is now “The building boom is over and at | the preliminary local conventions. making the same promises to work- present in ever increasing slump, we | Amorg those who spoke were ing class tenants on the East side find ourselves with greater numbers |,Steve Alexanderson, president of the |that he made in 1927 to Negro work- of jobless in our ranks and at the | Imdependent Shoe Workers Union|ing class tenants in Harlem, only same time the workers are being and’ Alfred Wagenknecht, national |later to fill his Dunbar jim erow sped up at an ever increasing pace | Secretary of the Workers Interna-| tenements in Harlem with landlords, with the result of greater unemploy- | tional Relief, who spoke on Gas- | college professors, American Feder- ment and insecurity of continuous | tonia and called for support of the | ation of Labor fakers, doctors, and work, as well as wearing and unfit- | big mass Gastonia defense and relief | ministers, with a few s>-called “bet- ness to work at an early age. }campaign now being conducted by|ter class Negroes,” who are either | blocks of the East side, in the vi- cinity of Chrystie-Forsyth Streets. Mayor Walker, the arch Politician “These conditions force the worker |the W.LR., International Labor De-| to accept a wage below the union | fense and the National Textile seale, and even though it is not gen- Workers Union.- eral in all the trades there is a dan- Support Gastonia Drive ger of it becoming so. The result} A resolution was adopted pledging of this is that earnings of the work- support to the campaign, to the or- ers are becoming lower and demoral. | ganization drive of the N.T.W.U. and ization is increasing. | to the Southern Textile Workers What Must Be Done Conference in Charlotte, N. C., Oct. “What must be done in order to | 12-13. overcome this situation? Resolutions were also adopted “We raust wake up to the fact that | scoring the imperialists’ aggressions our unions through the union offi- | against the Soviet Union and pledg- cials* are controlled by the bosses | ing stpport to the movement for the and we must put a stop to this by | defense of the U.S.S.R. and against taking the control in our hands (the | imperialist war; condemning the use rank and file) and running the un- | of injunctions against workers; sup- ions for our benefit. | porting Labor Unity, organ of the “We must achieve complete unity |'V.U.E.L. and outlining steps for in our ranks*by insisting upon a/ promoting its circulation among shoe uniform agreement for all trades | and leather workers; a resolution on which will expire at the same time,|the Haverhill and Boston strikes, in May. denouncing the reactionary leader- “Eliminate the possibility of Juris. | ship and calling on the workers to dictional disputes in our ranks by take control of the strikes thru the the use'of job committees.” |electioh of shop committees, affili- - | ating with the National Organiza- tional is developing a wide inter- tion Committee; and a resolution national campaign against the scout against fascism, affiliating the con- movement, particularly utilising the | ference with the anti-fascist move- Jamboree in-order to expose its mili- ment. tarist and imperialist aims. Past| The conference also decided to experience has shown at the send a telegram of greetings to Joe youths who have been enticed into| Fontana, who is now serving a six- the scout movement are nevertheless | month sentence in Welfare Island very susceptible to workingelass| after being framed up while picket- propaganda, despite the careful) ing during the Griffin and White measures of the scout leaders. | shoo strikes, employed by the city or the federal government, and landlord controlled newspapers in Harlem. _While Walker and Levy are plan- jning to dupe tenants .. the East jside, the fake Walker emergency |rent law is about to be declared un- ; constitutional in the supreme court, |The case started yesterday when Ernest N, Alder, a laxdlord, dispos- sessed Anna Bahlinger, a striking |tenant, on East 92nd St. The York- ville Tenants League will hold an |open air meeting in that section jnext Tuesday evening at which time ;many working class tenants will be called upon to join the League. Other Tenant Leagues Besides the Lower East Side Ten- jant League Committee’s efforts, the Brownsville section im Brooklyn, jand Williamsburg section will hold open air meetings before the end jot this month, thus making way for | the city-wide conference on housing to be called later, Keep the date of Sunday Aug. 18th open. Come to the Press Di | Carnival, . Make this Carnival a mass domonstration for the reyolu- Conary press. Sell tickets for the Daily | Worker Press Carnival. ‘ | Sce the Party battle with the | Le-gue in > g: of baseball. Come to the Press. Carnival. oo ¢