The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1929, Page 3

Page Three . Greek Fascist Pass Law Aimed at Communists W GREEK FASCISTS IN ANTERED LAW BAN ALL STRIKES Reformists Sit Back and Nod O. K. ATHENS, Aug. 13.—The special “Defense of the Realm Act” recent- ly passed by the Parliament has now been confirmed by the Senate. The terroristic measures of the govern- ment against the revolutionary workers’ movemetn are thus defin- itely legalized. The reactionary character of this law has been held up to public at- tention in the Senate debate. “By this law” said a senator of the government party “all strikes are to be regarded as direct attempts on the safety of the state. The ques- tion whether such strik: red up by the Communists or other workers, is of no significance as they | always lead to the same results.” | The reformist trade union bureau- erats sitting in the Senate did not make any attempt to fight this in- famous law. After proposing a few harmless amendments which were ull | turned down by the Home Secretary, | these “leaders of the working class” were ready to accept the new law. The new law gives the government | every possibility of exercising 2 most | brutal white terror within legal | limits. Even bourgeois intellectuals who cannot be suspected of friendly feel- ings toward the working class thought fit to protest against the treatment of revolutionary workers by the police. A leading solicitor of Saloniki, known for his anti-pro- letarian tendencies, wrote in the “Fos” a bourgeois organ: “The Com- munists accused in the Saloniki trial | were acquitted not only because they | were innocent ‘and because this whole painful affair was a frame-up, a product of police brains, but~also because the men sitting on the jury wanted to express, by their verdict, jtheir indignatioy against the police tyrrany depassing all limits in this country. If a Communist menace really exists, there is no need for ‘Russian propaganda’ to support the Communist agitation. The tyranny | and brutality of the police is quite enough to prepare the ground for Communism.” Soviet-Jewish Biro | Bidjan Settlements Are Growing Fast) MOSCOW (By Mail).—In 1926) the Soviet Government decided to reserve the whole of the Birobidjan | district for Jewish colonization pur- poses. By this time a thousand Jew- ish farmers have been settled in B robidjan, and during the last spring sowing campaign they ploughed up ‘3,000 hectares of virgin soil. The American professor Kunz! }who recently returned from Birobid- | jan after a ten months’ stay in that | region, declared the following on the vrospects of colonizing that part of the Far East. Birobidjan iv a very fertile coun-/} try enjoying a good climate. The} natural. resources of the region which includes extensive forests, fish, supplies and large deposits of iron ore, coal, gold, copper, graphite, etc., open up great prospects for the industrial development? of Birobid- Jas, | At the present time a group of} American agricultural experts sent | by the “ICOR,” an American labor organization interested in aiding the colonization of Jewish farmers in the USSR, is on a visit in Soviet Russia. In 1928 “ICOR” sent to Birobid- jan a number of tractors, excava- tors, automobiles, etc., as a contribu- tion to the settlers. In addition the society equipped a saw mill and built repair shops and an electrical station in Birofeld, the center of Birobidjan. Place of Communist Picnic in Buffalo on | August 18 Changed BUFFALO, Ayg. 13—The State | Picnie of District 4, Buffalo, Com- munist Party, of Aug. 18th, which | was arranged to take place in the Schaffers’ Grove Park, Delavan Ave., Buffal., was changed to the Finnish Summer Club, Woodlawn, N, ¥., seven miles out of Buffalo, The picnic will take place on the same day, Sunday, August 18th. Direction to the picnic grounds is as follows: Take Hamburg Street car, at the Public Library, Broad- | way and Main St., Buffalo, and get off at Sixth Avenue, Woodlawn, and one block to the right is the | pienic ground, If driving by machine, take route 18 to Woodlawn, and turn one block on 6th Ave. towards the shore. As the main feature of the picnic, | a new model Ford car will be given) away to the lucky number, | It is expected that William Z. {Foster will address the picnic. Additional direction to the picnic grounds: Take South Park car at Swan and Washington Sts., or take the Still Plant cars at Clinton and Ellicott Sts. and transfer to Ham- VALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1929 = = == oa hich Makes All Strikes Illegal Chinatown Business Owners Terrorize the Chinese Workers | Tong wars—what do they mean? They are feuds between rival groups of Chinese business inter- ests in which the exploited Chinese workers in the various Chinatowns in the U. S. are compelled to take part—and forced to do the dirty work. If the Chinese workers refuse to join a tong, which keeps them exploited, they are blacklisted from obtdining work in Chinese districts. The latest tong war flared up in New York with several killed. Photo shows On Leong toyg headquarters in New York Chinatown, from which the latest tong war is said to have started over a dispute between wealthy dope dealers of the rival tongs—Hip Sing and On Leong. The Chinese workers find nothing romantic in these tong disputes—they are the losers. JINGO POWERS IN £¢1"",Amerca” BRITICH TEXTILE Million Dollar Enslavement Loan to Uruguay. STRIKERS FIRM Labor Official Talks Sellout to Bosses MANCHESTER, England, Aug. AIR TESTS SOON : The national parliament of Uru- guay is now trying “convince” the exploited masses -f the “bless- British Race ae. ne ing” that the new 60 million dol- CALSHOT, England, Aug. 13.— lar loan under negotiation between sh oY Preparations for the Schneider Cup | Wall Street and e government of 7°", 1¥® Baniee thousand British ait sraces, to beheld here Sept (6 | tiene any will bring them ThE CoM: |Son ee ee Oye and 7 as a test of air strength for ae j pS nweek of a strike against a 12 the coming imperialist war, were munist deputy, Comrade Gomez, in cent wage cut while To Tune Up for War in Sir y of Labor inst the govern- | record with nesses” TOOUT-TORY TORIES-THAT’S “LABOR'S” AIM Foreign Policy Is One of Imperialism Yesterday we published a record of the “Labor” government with | respect to its policy and actions at home since assuming office. | This showed “labor” as reaction- ary as tHe Tories. “Labor's” | respect to foreign | policy shows it even more re- actionary than Baldwin, if pos- sible. * * * The Labor Party are pledged to| restore diplomatic relations with | Soviet Russia, These relations were | broke in 1927 after Jix had raided | the offices of Arcos. The Bri sh | government, therefore, responsible for the rupture, not the Soviet. | MacDonald now refuses to re- sume relations with Soviet Russia | unless she agrees to»conditions re- | garding propaganda. If MacDonald is justified in not restoring relations , because of propaganda, the Baldwin | government, by the same token, were | justified in breaking off relations! | In such a way MacDonald white- washes Jix and Baldwin. What are the “conditions?” Ac- cording to MacDonald (in answer to a question of Austen Chamberlain’s) they are the very conditions laid down in the note to the Soviet} government in 1924 on the Zinoviev “Red” letter. This note was drafted by Gregory, how dismissed from the Foreign Of- fice on account of certain “weak- in his cha er in money matters. Moreover, Donald has Imperialist Scout Jamboree Ends MINERS’ PICNIC Their minds having been instilled with, hatred of the workers and of the Soviet Union, the American scouts at the imperialist Boy Scout jamboree in England are now retur scouts taking part in the jamboree, the imperialist preparations for war as the building of battleships is. ‘TOMORROW TO BE GASTONIA RALLY Minerich to Speak for Cleveland Meet (Special to the Deily Worker.) INKERMAN, Pa., Aug. 13..—An- thracite coal miners will hear J. R Pittman, one of the d fendants released on bail, and Karl | Reeve, of Labor Unity, at the Inter- national Labor Defense picnic Thurs- day at Valley View Park, Inkerman, Pa. The proceeds will swell the fund for the Gastonia defense. Anthony Minerich, organizer for | the National Miners Union, will also speak on the Trade Union Unity Convention to be held in Cleveland, Aug. 3J, and urge the miners to send }a strong delegation from the an- thracite region. Shiploads of ‘Slaves Brought from Japan To Brazil Rice Fields SANTOS, Brazil, Aug. 13.—Tho Japanese steamer Kamigaora Maru ning home. Photo shows American which was just as much a part of Exploiters Seek to | Revive Dying Zionism | With Doses of Cash ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 13.— |Louis Marshall, of New York, head|Mail)—German employment agen- Sta of the United Sta non-Zioni announced today that Felix War- burg, the New York banker, and Lord Melchett (Alfred Mond), Brit- ish capitalist, had subseribed $500,- has arrived here bringing nearly a thousand Japanese peasants shipped to slavery on the inland rice planta- tions by Japanese employment sharps with the aid of the Brazil and Japanese governments. The Hakata Maru has brought another German Jobless to Slave for Wall Street Barons in Costa Rica JOSE, SAN Costa Rica (By coffee Paulo agree- | State. cies who send workers into foreign plantations in Sao slavery have concluded an ment with the Costa Rican govern- ELECTRICAL FAKERS MEET. MIAMI, Fla. (By ment to send thousands of workers, Mail). —This” burg car at the end of the car lines | and then get off at 6th Avenue, | Woodlawn, | ~~... going forward in all of the great | bitter attack a, Horace Wilson, Mi Secretary, conferred textile | of the trade union congress in an effort to trick the workers back to the mills. empires today. The new seaplanes which Britain will enter in the jingo competition were given trial flights yesterday with “excellent results.” Unofficial estimates put the speed of the Su- permarine-Napier S-6 plane at more than 300 miles an hour with the throttle only partly open. Squadron-leader A. H. Orlebat, captain of the British team, which has been undergoing intensive train- \ing here, tested the potential bomber in the presence of a group of avia- tion experts. Six new planes of two recently designed and more deadly models were delivered here last week, With imperial France definitely out of the race because of inability to prepare seaplanes in time, British jingoes are watching closely the preparations of fascist Italy and of the United States. se 8 ANNAPOLIS, Md. Aug. 13.— Lieut, Al. Williams, the navy speed king, made preparations today for his first flying test of the Mercury, $750,000 Schneider cup seaplane, during this afternoon. He prepared to leave at once for Kent Island, across Chesapeake Bay, where he plans to take the 1100-horsepower machine into the air. Starving Them Even water is being rationed out j to the Chinese workers of Hongkong. Photo shows an Indian trooper, serv- | ing British imperialism, serving out water by doles to workers, The Chinese workers here are starved as well as parched by the imperialists. While there is a drought in Mong- kong, the imperialists continue to guzzle the most expensive of liquors, and one may bet, they ‘suffer no shortage of water. Student Peak Climbers Lost in Colorado Park ESTES PARK, Col., Aug. 13.— Forest rangers today began a search of the east side of Long’s Peak for | 'Edmond Cooper, 22 and Carl Erick- |son, 20, Denver University students, | |who started to scale the east side| of the mountain Sunday and have not been heard from since. A ranger, looking through powerful field glasses, saw the youths on Broadway ledge of the peak at dusk Sunday. The young men left Denver Satur- day and started Sunday to climb the east side of the peak, a difficult ascent. = _ Do not forget Sunday, Aug. 18, { Pleasant Bay Park, ment at the first session of the parliament, has clearly shown the servile act of the government in the with ail sses and reformist !eaders day since said the Zinoviev letter was a forgery! But MacDonald still stands by that note! ORS ce Tee ai ave construction” Unemployed, here to starve on the of Palestine. Melchett is head of the British | Companies. plantations controlled by American Miserable conditions city will be the scene of further be- trayal plans by the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers misleaders, when they meet here in their annual negotiation of the new loan, The 250,000 agricultural workers are still paying the heavy interest of a| Confronted by the militant stand loan advanced by American imperi- of the strikers, the operatives main- alists. This new ]-an will mean tain their original determination to heavier burdens ~ pon the peasantry |refuse direct negotiations. Meet- and furthermore, it will mean the | ings of the central committee of the mortgaging of national railroads and| Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers the permanent control of the cus-| Association and of the genera! com- toms of the country. From all the, mittee of the Master Cotton Spin- sections of the country the workers; ners‘ Association will be held to- and peasants are rushing their pro- morrow. tests. Resolutions against the new, At these meetings it is expected loan are being adopted at the mass/ that the operators, with the aid of protest meetings held by the Com-| the labor government and their trade munist Party and the Anti-Imper-| union reformist allies, will campaign ialist League. \for arbitration only on the under- The Plenum of the Communist Party | forced tacts ee eners be first of Mexico. | That anything but betrayal can The Communist Party of Mexico be expected from any arbitration— held its Plenum during the first two particularly when reactionary trade weeks of July, just at the time when| union leaders participate in it—is Mexico is undergoing a new phase pointed out by the left wing and in the development of the class| Communist Party to the strikers. struggle. Beginning with the out-| They point out that the same un- break of the reactionary militarist ion leaders have in the past two forces of March 3, American im-| years actively assisted the cotton perialism has gone a step forward, masters in all their schemes for in- in its successful endeavor to create creasing production at the expense a solid reactionary block against the of the workers’ wages. revolutionary forces of the Mexican| 5 masses and for the complete domina-- Serves Wall Street tion of Mexico, The capitulation of the bourgeoisie, the pact between the church and the federal govern- ment, the direct co-operation of Morones and other “socialist” forces, are the indications of the establi ment of a counter-revolutionary block brought about by the imposi- tion of this policy by the United States. Recent events in Mex have clearly brought out the unifi- cation of all reactionary forces with two apparent current: a “right” and a “left” tendency. Vasconcelos, Ortiz Rubio, Calles and Portes Gil, forming the “right current” against| the “left,” represented by Denegri,| | Morones, the socialist Gomez and the | renegade Galvan, who was expelled from the Communist Party of Mex- ico. Fundamentally, there is no dif- ference whatsoever between these |two tendencies in their endeavor to |fool the masses. | The Plenum had to deal with these | problems and lay down a policy ac-| cordingly. Both tendencies within the counter-revolutionary block are responsible for the persecutions and The new minister from Honduras to Washington, Erneste Argueta, who will be the go-between for Honduras puppets of Wall Street in selling out the work Two weeks after taking office the Labor government signed an agree- ment with the Chinese militai “providing for the training of Cl nese naval cadets in the British Navy and the despatch of a British Naval mission «to st in the de- velopment of the Chinese Navy.” aoe Encouraged by this, and by the continuity of MacDonald’s policy with Baldwin’s on the question of Russian “propagarda,” the Chinese militarists seized the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned partly by the Soviet Government) and expelled the Russian employees of the rail- way on the grounds of “propa- ganda.” . * . } | The Labor Party pledged itself to | remove British troops from the Rhineland. The troops are still there; and’ they will continue to be there until France also agrees to withdrawal. i ee Last March the Baldwin govern- ment ordered the arrest of 31 Indian trade union leaders, some of them | Communists, some of them not. The | charge was “conspiracy against the King-Emperor.” Actually, they were arrested for leading the Indian mill strikes. They were conveyed thousands of miles to Meerut, a place where no jury trial was pos- ible, where facilities for witnesses for the defence were restricted, and out of danger of any demonstrations by the workers, In the first fortnight of the Labor government another Indian trade unionist was arrested, Lester Hutch- | inson, late of Manchester. In a written statement to J. Max- ton, M. P., in the House of Com- |mons, on July 9, Captain Wedg-} wood Benn, Labor Secretary of | State for India admitted that the | |transport to Meerut was approved | \by the British government. When Capt. Benn was asked by a delegation of the Meerut Defence Committee if he would transfer the trial to a place where a jury trial was possible, he insolently refused, stating it was a decision of the court | and one in which he would not inter- fere. He has absolutely refused to en- S| famous \trols only a minority and was the| chemical st, contrels the Inter- national el Company of Can-| la and the initiator of the in- Mond class collaboration plan in which the British reformist trade union leaders have co-oper- ated. The Zionist congress concluded here yesterday with the re-election of Dr. Chaim Weizmann as presi- dent of the world Zionist organiza-| tion despite the fact that he con-| object of sharp criticism at the con- gress. Weizmann has been having a hard job crawling on his hands and knees before British imperial- ism, keeping the Zionist opposition under leash and trying to pep up| the steadily waning enthusiasm of the rank and file as the official ho- kum about Palestine as the Jewish homeland becomes steadily less credible. | Generous to Rich % | te New Deputy Commissioner of I come Tax, David Burnet, who will zrobably follow his predecessors in being generous in refunding taxes to the big corporations. | 3 MORE DIE IN BLAST. PALERMO, Ital Three additional worker: | assassinations perpetrated by the| rs of that \tertain the idea of releasing these as the result of in‘iries suffered Mexican bourgeoisie. The reign of terror initiated against the revolu-| trade unionist political prisoners, In in the explosion of the factory of | tionary workers and peasants, the Picnics to Aid the country. cxist here convention, Sept. 9 Game of baseball, soccer, ete. | at the Press Carnival. | Come to the Press Carnival, ad~ mission only 35 cents. PRESS, Inc. 26-28 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY On The Road To Bolshevization with an introduction by the the Central Committee, CPUSA pr €SS ee handbook for every ‘American Communist WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St, NEW YORK CITY (1) Important excerpts from the Sixth C, I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS! other words, the government ap- Vincenzo Palmiri in the village of | proves of and continues the repres- | Portella, in the vicinity of Misiloeri.' new fascist labor code, the offensive | i i i |against the Communist Party and Gastonia Mill Strikers MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 13.—| sion of Baldwin against trades | = \the suppression of El Machete, its i Labor Defense | unionism in India. | +. 8 | |official organ, the forcible disarm- The International As part of his employment scheme ing of the peasants, have of late|and the Workers International Re-|J: H. Thomas proposes to make a jwidened the gap between the two lief locals of Milwaukee, have jointly |S'@nt of money to undertakings in je forces. |opened their campaign for defense | the | Aico gon July oe ne oe Th is t ico and relief of the striking textile mitted to W. J. Brown, M, P., that | strengthen the Workers’ and Pea-| The Finnish Workers, Club, of /t? private capitalists. sants’ block which under its leader-| West Allis, promises fifty per cent | Immediately, Mr. Ormsby-Gore ship is to be the block of the prole- °! their proceeds of a picnic, to be | (Conservative)—according to the tarian revolution against that of the| held Sunday, August 18th, on the the proposals wholeheartedly and counter-revolution. This is the new| Suomi Farm, Janesville Plank Rd. | Said Conservatives members weren't |line of our brother Party. Now more and Coldspring Rd, to the Interna- |i" the least interested as to whether than ever the Party calls upon its tional Labor Defense, tn support of socialism was or was not in the members to solidify their ranks and| their endeavor to free the 24 strik- Picture. mam SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of to fight energetically against op-|¢"S (organizers and leading strikers) portunism within the Party as char- of whom 16 face the electric chair acterized by the renegade Galvan! #74 8 others long prison terms, on and his few followers, |charges of murder, The two Slavic branches of the | And Lord Stanley (Conservative) acces up in the House to speak of the services of Mr. Thomas to the |Empire on previous occasions. Sir |Hilton Young (Conservative), con- JACOB SHAEFFER THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS [International Labor Defense (of Mil- statulated Mr. Thomas. ;Waukee and West Allis) have ar- ranged for a picnic and dance Sun- Widow of Zaglul day, August 25th at Goboj Grove,! SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.—The 84th and Freenfield Ave. West forest and brush fire situation in Pasha in Egypt plat Allis. The procceds to go to the De- northern and central California was CAIRO (By Mail).—A police raid | fense of the Gastonia strikers. improved today. Nearly 100 fires,| on the country home of Madame! A combined meeting is also be- | most of them short-lived, have swept | Zaglul, widow of Zaglu) Pasha, late | ing arranged by I. L, D, and W. I. R. jover timber and grazing lands of the | Egyptian nationalist leader, has) in memory of Sacco-Vanzetti and region in the past week. Thirty | caused anger throughout the coun-|in protest against the Gastonia of them were believed to have been \try. {cases, dincendiary DIRECTIONS: Police Raid Home of FOREST FIRES ON COAST CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone Beacon 731 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 7336 — 1,000, and the Santos Maru is en~ route for Santos with slaves for the”