The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 3

Dd ATL Y WORKER, SGARED BY RED: | DAY, FRANCE DEPORTS MANY Toilers Handed Over to Fascisti PARIS, Aug. 16.—In the indus- trial district of the Meurthe-et-Mo- selle province the workers held a mighty demonstration on August’1. The foreign workers who are sub- jected to a special regime and spied after by Mussolini’s agents are the most active in these preparations. The government of “national unity” is trying to terrorize the Italian and other foreign workers to please the Comite des Forges and Musso- lini. Deportations on the flim grounds or with no reasons given are the order of the day. We quote a few instances. In Longlaville, Villa was deported because he was “suspected of be- longing to the Communist Party.” In Villerupt the police depérted | — Pelati. The charge against him was that he had taken part in the or-! ganization of the funeral of a fel- low worker who had been killed by an accident due to rationalization. The funeral procession consisted 0: 1,500 workers. This was enough for the police to deport Pelati and please the steel and iron magnates. Pelati is. married and has three chil- dren, In Pienne the trade union mem- ber Allessandro Zaffalon commit- ted the “crime” of appealing to the local of the C. G. T. U. for assist- ance in a dispute with his employers resulting from an accident of which he was the victim. The court of arbitration reproached him with this course of action at the hearing and recommended him to accept the inadequate compensaticn offered by the empolyers. When he refused to do so, he was dcyorted as an “un- desirable alien.” Zaffalon has an invalid « ife and three children. The police showed by this proceeding that it was an instrument of the steel and iron captains against the workers and their union, the C. G. T.. U. In Havange, Algrange and Knu- tange the quarters of several Ital- ian comrades have been searched by the police. Czech Police Jail Many More Workers As Left Wingers PRAGUE (By Mail).—A number ef workers imcluding non-party workers have been arrested upon the ground t!at they belong to the Proletarian Committee of Action for Brunn. All the workers known to the police as Communists were de- tained. A number of searches were made in the local offices of the C. P. and in private houses. The work- ers of the firm Hannak and Weiss demand that the chairman of their shop council be released and threat- en to go on strike. After a meeting of the miners of the pit “Barbara” in Maehrisch-Ostrau, two members of the pit, committee were arrested by the police. Swiss and German Communists Join In Frontier Meeting BASLE, (By Mail).—A frontier len Com- infelden. s came from Basle. At first the Baden government pro- hibited the procession and mobilized strong Zorces of police. Afterwards however, it permitted it. When how- er the procession attempted to cross the bridge into Swiss territory it was driven back by Swiss police with batons. The Swiss police fol- lowed the demonstrators into Ger- man territory and injured a number of workers. KILLS WORKERS. (By Mail).—Several EXPLOSION BERLIN The latest step in the open alliance between the Vatican and Mussolini is the Office and postage stamp privileges to the Vatican. step in the s a further papacy, this mar shown being ope Faseirté Papal Open Alliance Tightens Chains on Workers Besides an wili “Paris on the Barricades” | Deserves Numerous Editions “PARIS ON* THE BARRICADES,” | by George Spiro. Published by Workers Literary Publishers, 55 East 125th Street, New York City. Price 25 cents. ti San | (Reviewed by SAM DARCY) After the defeat throughout Eu- rope of the revolutions of 1848 in which the Parisian _ proletariat | proved the foremo: and best rs, the bourgeoisie, despite it victory, was so thoroughly fright- ened that it ran back to the feudal monarchist reaction against which it had fumed and stormed. The bour- geoisie had cause for fright. The period following 1848 was a period during which the working class was examining its’ shortcomings, was learning to appreciate the events of 1848 during which it had concep- tions largely colored by the strug- gles of the )ourgeoisie against the | feudal-monarchist rulers, and was beginning to develop new concep- tions; that is its own class under- sanding, | But 1871 did not find the working class able to hold power.- The at- tempt of Thiers to take from the Paris National Guard its cannon precipitated «.c uprising which had been hastened by French defeat by Germany. The revolution was swiftly victorious. Power fell into the hands of the working class alone. No other class was able to carry through the revolution. But while Paris was struggling against the armies of the bourgeoisie, the rest of the proletariat of France stood by with folded arms showing | thereby that it was not prepared for the task that critical historie mo- ment had put upon it. The Com- mune was 'so greatly weakened by the struggle between its two par- ties; the majority Blanquists and the minority Proudhonists, neither of whom were sufficiently decisive, neither of whom understood what was to be done. The Paris Commune fell, after a display of proletarian heroism, which provided an exam- ple for every working class revolu- sion from 1905 to Canton. Paris on the Barricades is a book- | let which deals with those stirrin; days. It borrc.;s the style of fic- tion but it clings to historical fact in its narration. In its tendency it present the wing maturity of working ¢ which is making s struggles in any country part of its culture and tradition in all | count Despite its shortcomings, it is a splendid booklet and should be} |spread far, Its mechanics are sim- ple. An old man, who was a lad of twelve during the Commune re- ‘lates his impressions. The mechan- | however, are the very things | which bring ‘the shortcomings. It is| obvious that a lad of twelve would | hardly understand the personalities | that led the Commune, the politi- | cal conflicts among them, the deci- th jto these decrees, which pa among the best in their * | , pressions have no place. this that the booklet achieves lie those pa which the decree reactions among t’ es speak about > various class he origin contribution as compared in ct to other works on the tion where the author gives a really splendid des: of the street fighting, he e: when the wo::crs rush to recapture a barricade and are mowed down by the guns of the counter-revolution- “the poor enthusiasts!” We Sin- into the third edition it deserves. novelists who write of the worl ing class mero “enthusiasts” is to borrow a phrase from the cynical novelists who write of the the work- ing class but only to express their own decadence in their attitude to- wards it. In a booklet so fresh and aightforward as this such ex- In the third edition we would also urge a change of t'tle. ent one is somewhat misleading. The booklet makes no attempt to cover the entire political vista pro- vided by the events of the Paris Commune. It has a unique “live” character does not express This booklet is only a portion of a larger work, in which according to the author’s preface the main characters, who are a group of rev- olutionary workers in the U. S., “learn of the great class combats of the past, of the uprising of an- cient slaves under the leadership of Spartacus, of the persant wars against the lords in the middle ages, of the Paris Commune; they live through and help to save the Russian Revolution and are finally crushed by the heavy hand of Amer- ican imperialism.” Why, we must ask, revolutionary workers be n imperialism? should the “crushed” Why vited opportunity for graft for the enslavement of the Italian workers and peasants. re given The pres- | which the present title| ! is larger work not hold out | a more hopeful view of the future of our struggles If this preface means that the complete work stops at a place where the American work- ers were temporarily defeated, such as the immediate post pe then we urge Comrade Spiro to write a few mére pages and. bring it up to the present, third period | of post war capitalism, which pe/ riod holds so much promise for the future of our revolutionary move- | ment. On the whole, we can frankly say here, if the author had this portion of his work published now in order to provide an “appetizer” among readers for his largor work, then he has succeeded, with this reviewer at least. The c--ellence of this little volume makes one hope for the early publication of the com- workers were killed and others seri-| sions and decrees that characterize plete. book. ously injured in an explosion At the Borsgwald Oxygen Works here to- day. The explosion was caused by the careless company practise of ordering the storing of acetylene in an overheatc” rcom. them, ete. This very vital and in-| | teresting phase of the Commune is therefore mostly omitted. Such a {view would “br:az” the Commune ‘to the present day worker in terms jhe understands. The nearest to Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it haw also called into existence the men who are wield those weapons—the mode working class—the proletarians.— Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). the Directi JACOB SHA we SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL ion of EFFER 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. Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL | Telephone Beacon 731 New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 | Hall, ——— - AGAINSTBOSSE® \Ficht Wage. Cuts Tie Up Transportation DUBLIN, Aug. traction tie-up followed the strike of 2,000 workers of the,Dublin Cor- poration against a ten per cent wage cut. A few privately-owned buses tried but were unable to get 16.—A complete Tramways today to maintain service, in most eases they be- yond the O’Connell St. . In their resistance to the cut the men are fighting an open alliance of the street car rupt officialdom of the reactionary Irish Transport Workers consistent opponent workers’ action ever since it util rminals. bosses and the cor- : Union, f ‘ost 23, ge militant d the unstable years during the civil of Post office | Labor Sports With the National Convention of wars to consolidate its position with the employers. The strikers have the support of the transport section of left wing Workers Union of Ireland, which is urging the formation rank and file strike committees to the of Naval | the Labor Sports Union but a week ahead, final preparations are being made to receive and house over 200 offset the conciliatory tactics of the delegates and athletes. The out-of- right wing union officialdom. town delegates and athletes will be) a fitting reception, Plans have been made to meet the delega- tions with "banners at the station A A and convey them to the Progressive | j at 15 W. 126th St. On Wed- Aug. 21, the delegates will i ially greeted by-the East- Ug Oy ern District and the many labor or- tions of New York, including the Young Communist League, at the Progressive Hall. On this eve- Churchill in ‘in Canada to ning there will also be shown the Aid War Plans motion picture “Spartakiade,” a —— film record of last year’s interna-| TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 16—N tional workers’ Olympics. jealousy between Great Britain and All workers of New York should | the United States was again openly come to the hall to greet the out-of-| a anitted by Winston Churchill, for town worker athletes and to seethis | 14, British chancellor of the -ex- great picture, so that when they | chequer, in a speech here today. come to the L. S. U. meet on Aug. where ‘is a wide range of differ- 24 and 25 they will be in a good) nce between the naval protection position to judge the relative devel-| ceded by Great Britain and the opment of workers’ sports in a coun-/tynited States,” he said try of the victorious proletariat and ese 4 nes s of the imperialist United States. Hinting that the U. S. The Labor Sports Union request that if any workers can house one or more visiting athletes that they should write to the L. S. U. about it. The address is: 764 40th St., Brooklyn, he said: greatest asset of the British em- pire. The two leading imperialist |powers should “share the freedom of the seas,” he added diplomati- One of the most interesting fea-|C@ily, although his speech bristled tures of the mett will be a mass|With suggestive references to the drill, \impending break. in which over four hundred |/™Bending break. athletes will take part. Then also|,, Churehill’s visit is similar to the trip three years the grand march of all the athletes |Prinee of Wales’ on the athletic field with the club|®80 — to insure the maximum sup- banners is also a thrilling spectacle. |P°'t for Downing Street when the New York workers should not miss \CO™ing war splits Canada’s ruling witnessing this important event of | ®!a8s into two warring camps, pro- the Labor Sports movement. It is| Britain and pro-American. the Labor Sports movement that will | |. Saree ee ae provide the future shock-troops of |KILLS SELF AFTER LOSING JOB the working clas LONDON (3y Mail) —Tellowing * his dismissal from work because “he was caught smoking,” Carl Geh- | shirt, 55, a motor van driver, turned the gas on himself at “°; lodgings at Kings Rd., Fu'ham. He had been depressed for weeks because he knew the company planned to throw him on the scrap heap. * * * * * Baseball. It seems that the Red Sox of Bos- ton are married to the last rung of! the American League ladder. They have maintained the same position for the last few years and in spite of all the efforts of management to pep up the team with “star” play- ers the Reds prefer to remain as Last Sunday they were nicely de- feated by a score of 3 to 1 by the Chicago team. It is possible that the beans of the bean city are the éause of keeping the team down. | e+ 4 but, like all the British boxers, he can use his hands well and step around a bit, and it is feared by those interested in the Sharkey- Schmelling fight that he might make Schmeling look a bit foolish in the Basing. ring and spoil the chances of col- The leading heavyweights in the lecting a fortune from thg fight- cauliflower market are due for a Crazed fans, little rest till their managers and! Professional boxing is but an in- the boxing commissions of several|by the promoters and managers in states settle their squabbles as to dustry and it must be manipulated | who will get Max Schmeling for such a way as to bring in the most their next fight. At the present | profits. The building up of a strong time Max is signed to box Phill! labor sports movement in this ¢oun- Scott, the Britisher. His manager,|try will do a lot toward winning = omg terms of the sell-out completed by the labor government, reactionary |trade union leaders and the employ- a fagblnred by bandits in China” is" Ted by the minority movements ice bu Wall Street interests in (2nd the Communist Party, however, Thine. Henry Wesch, an American k-and-file strike committees are misstmary, neuer thes uilance preparing their machintry to agents of imperialism, never invited |*°Sist the settlement sv the Chinese peasante and workers, | THe mills, which have been tied is the latest to be “captured iy up for three weeks since the owners ‘Chinese bandits.” His alleged “cap-|£2¥@ their notice of the 12% per ture” will probably be followed by \cent Wage cut, will reopen Monday @ Pela le ath ¥ ee Seeuke haa Wow vet. de the sending of more Wall Street | Because the court has not yet de troops into the Chinese interior. cided the exact extent of the cut, it was announced that the old rate of d the extensive fir forests of ae _| Class War Aid in Nase Gnatcniey fatty Singh ee 5 : tory from Latvia last night, the | Bohemia Continue “The British navy is the |its appearance of prosperity. flew over a region which many for- cution of the workers’ organization: must keep eigners believe to be \." 1 and de-|in Czecho-Slovakia are not limited clear of any suggestion that Brit-|serted, but which astonished the 20 |to the Communist Party, but are ex- lain chop down on the battleships, ;passengers and the crew of 40 with tended to the CWPA as well. Any person found wearing the CWPA They ated towns and vil-|button is liable to a fine of 30 lages, “great forests and luxuriant CTOWNS: | Any person Leet dass 2 farms, overwhelming proofs of the membership card ° the CWPA is \tile fields looked up with interest |at the monster of the s |first dirigible to fly over that sec- issek, and thence to Yakutsk, on the] LONDON (By Mail).—Fourteen Lena river; Khaboroysk, on the|delegates of the National Unem- |Manchurian border, where the impe-| ployed Workers’ Committee Move Jacobs, is trying to wriggle him out away the hundreds ‘of thousands of of this fight and save him for aj workers which are now followers of record gate fight against the “Bos- | professional sports and open up their ton Gob,” Jack Sharkey. Phill |eyes to the class character of bosses’, Scott is not such a powerful puncher, | sports. Workers are writing us “Spiro’s book is the most inspiring piece of literary fiction I have read...” "A powerful and sweeping recital of the bloody days of the Commune.” Miss a meal and read “Paris on the Barricades” Convince Yourself, Too! Buy a copy of Spiro’s Paris on the Barricades On Sale at All Workers Bookshops or through WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street, N. Y. C. 25c (Second Edition) ‘ jlar route across Siberia to the Far NEW POR Se URN: , AUGUST 17, 1929 J | Excuse fi Wall St. ( ~. FIBHT BRITISH STRIKE SELLOUT Textile Mills Reopen; Workers Furious 2a sone k MANCHI England, Aug. 16.—Bitter resentment swept thru- _{out the mill districts today as the {500,000 textile strikers learned the wages will temporarily prevail. The slash, however, will be retroactive, fi lightening the already scanty pay envelopes of the weavers when the new wage scales take effect. The su jtheir determined stand not to dis- |cuss arbitration on any conside tion unless the wage cut was estab- slished as a first principle. At Blackburn, Oldham and Bolton jeers and hisses greeted the news of the decision. Two representatives of the unions end the employers will meet, and to clinch the treacherous union leaders’ See Socialist Advance in Towns, Farms BERLIN, Aug. 16. eports from Tokio tonight that Japan is consid- ering purchasing the dirigible Graf | geal with the owners and “independ- Zeppelin were followed by indica-| ent” chairman will rule. tions that the Zeppelin works is| Satisfied with the outcome of the willing to sell if their price, believed arbitration decision, Sir Horace Wil to be $1,500,000, is met son, official mediator of the labor “ betta og be government, will to t sail for MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.. Aug. 16. Canada. He will join the labor im- —_ The G ipelin, bound for | perjalist, J. H. Thomas, who is aid- Tokio from Friedrichshafen on the ing the dominion gov second leg of its world tour, left | pians to dump Britain’s unemployed the fertile valleys of European So-! 4, the Canadian labor market. viet Russia behind this morning and soared over the Ural Mountains Persecutions of huge ship was turned north of Mos- | cow becau: > of adverse weather and| PRAGUE (By per: \liable to be arrested and charged with conspiracy. The off‘zials of the CWPA are not only liable to diverse penalties, they are also in- humanly beaten up at the police stations. In Bratislava a comrade who had business in the pass department of police headquarters was arrested there and beaten up because he wore a CWPA button, Another man was arrested because a membership card of the CWPA was found on him. He was taken to a cell and thrashed |by four detectives with rubber batons. When he tried to ward off the blows he was put into a straight- jacket and his legs strapped to- gether. tremendous achievements of the U. S. S. R. in the building of social- ism. Peasants at work in the fer- 's — the tion. On the other s‘'> of the Urals the country changes. Far to the north are frozen tundras; to thg south are steppes and morasses, while in be- tween is a stretch of about 300 miles of virgin forest, with occa- sional villages. Soviet airmen, from the course the Graf was taking, predicted that it would continue to follow the po- East, flying about 1,000 miles over almost uninhabited regions to Yen-| LABOR GOVT. SAME AS TORIE rialist. powers have concentrated white guard and mercenary Chinese ment were refused an interview by Margaret Bondfield at the Ministry troops for an immediate invasion|of Labor. They were forced out by of the Soviet Republic; from there | special detachments of police. the potential war bag will cruise| “Their administration is jusp the down to Vladivostok and across the Japanese Sea to Tokio, same as the tories,” the workless | delegates said. Take Your Vacation aigt =. Wingdale, N. Y. City Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVE. Tel: Wingdale 51 Tel. Monument 0111 make possible accommoda- tion for 150 additional campers. A New Pump Just In- stalled. Grand Celebration at Opening of New Library This Week. Bathing, Boating,. Fishing, Dancing, Singing and Dramatics BY TRAIN From 125th St. or Grand BY BUS TODAY, AT 1:30 P. M. ILL WORKERS i Newly built bungalows H Central Station Direct to Wingdale, New York. TOMORROW AT 9 A. M. from 1800 Seventh Ave. Members of the work- ing class whose lives the working class MUST SAVE! FRED E. BEAL charged with MURDER K. 0. BYERS arged with M U RDER VERA BUSH charged with MURDER W. M. MeGINNIS charged with MURDER JOS HARRISON MURDER L. McLAUGHLIN charged with MURDER AMY SCHECHTER charged with MURDER J. C. HEFFNER charged with MURDER ROBERT ALLEN charged with MURDER SOPHIE MELVIN charged with MURDER RUSSELL KNIGHT charged with MURDER CLAR. MILLER charged with MURDER GEORGE CARTER charged with MURDER N. F. GIBSON charged with MURDER K. HENDRICKSON charged with MURDER DELL HAMPTON charged with MURDER WALTER LLOYD charged with Assault to Kill ERNEST MARTIN charged with Assault to Kill Cc. TOWNSEND charged with Assault to Kill D. E. McDONALD charged with Assault to Kill ROBERT LITOFF charged with Assault to Kill J. P. PITTMAN charged with Assault to Kill JOHN LELL charged with Assault to Kill They excersized their right i m ‘ ony against the armed thugs, larity of the working class will free them, Workers! Mobil Today! Before it ix too lat Gl DIN THE NATIONAL 10-DAY DRIVE (Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 inclusive) TO AGITATE AND COLLECT FUNDS FOR THEIR ATION ections and Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee jonal Labor Defense International Reltet SAST 11TH STREET NEW YORK CITy Endorsed by the Nat'l Textile Workers Unton, Page Thrée ~