The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 3

New. General Strike to Tie TROOPS RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO SLAUGHTER Dockers Lead Move for Struggle ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. 18.— A second general strike will tie up the port of Rosario, starting Mon- day. Labor union delegates of this port at two o’clock yesterday morning voted the new strike, to be held in sympathy with the street car work- ers of the city, who have remained on strike since last month’s general strike. The workers obtained virtually a complete victory in the last strike, but will go out again because of the refusal of the tramway bosses to concede the car workers demands. The strike is expected to spread thru the entire northern portion of Argentina in a few days, »s ufiions in this section have indicated their intention to strike in sympathy with the port and tramway workers of Rosario, Rosario is the port of outgoing and incoming traffic of northern} Argentina. Thousands of troops were sent here during the recent general strike, fired on the workers, | and killed several. Most of the) troops sent by President Irigoyen have remained here since. The federal authorities and com- manders of the federal troops have received long telegraphic instruc- “tions from Irigoyen telling them to “do everything possible to prevent a new outbreak,” which is taken to be an order to again fire on the strik- | ers who picket. Strike meetings are being held to- day by practically every labor or- ganization, most of which are led| by the Communists, in nowthern Argentia. * They will vote on the project of supporting the general strike. THOMAS BACKS SNOWDEN STAND In Canada to Prepare War, Dump Jobless OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 18.—Speak- ing in the name of “the people,” the labor imperialist, J. H. Thomas, said today that Phillip Snowden’s bitter opposition to the Young plan had the backing of Britain’s rulers. “I don’t think it. I know it,” Thomas said in reply to a question. Rapidly growing Anglo-American imperialist rivalry is the chief rea- son for Thomas’ appearance here, where Winston Churchill is already pleading the cause of the British empire to offset the results of U. S. economic penetration for the im- pending clash. Churchill and Thom- as will be joined in a few days by Sir Horace Wilson, who just nego- tiated the betrayal of the strike of 500,000 Lancashire textile workers. Thomas, minister of employment in the MacDonald government, is also arranging further shipments of British unemployed to Canada under the empire settlement scheme. Aside from relieving the labor market at home and being used often as strike- breakers in the dominion, the new arrivals are potential supporters for Downing Street when Canada’s rul- | ing class is torn asunder on the question of support to U. S. of Bri- tain when the Kellogg past is thrown into the wastepaper basket. 16 POLE COAL MINERS KILLED Powder Blast Wrecks Pit WARSAW, Aug. 18. — Sixteen coal miners are believed to have been killed in a mine disaster in the Hildebrand colliery near Kattowitz last night when a powder explosion took place. Access to the pit is ex- tremely difficult and the real num- ber killed cannot be determined. Nine bodies have already been taken from the pit. At least seven other miners have died of suffocation, it is certain. Coal powder blasts are frequent in the mines in this vicinity, formerly German territory. | SWISS PUT ON WAR STUNT. LISBON, Portugal, Aug, 18.— Two Swiss aviators who have been preparing here for a trans-Atlantic | flight to New York announced to-| hight that they expect to depart “Monday if weather conditions per- mits. | They will be equipped with war peraphanalia to prove the practica- bility of converting “peace” planes into bombers in the next imperialist war, > i | ship is at full swing under the cloak of democr vALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929 Up Rosario and Northern Argentina Bernard Shaw ‘Becomes In a statement to the English capitalist press recently, Bernard Shaw, famous Britis a Fascist; Attacks Communists | dramatist, and to the “liberals” a “philosopher” and “political economist” rolled into one, attacked the Communist Party, and boosted the conservative “labor” politicians and the fascist at the same time. of the “s@ialists” is shown at a gathering of wealthy exploiters’ daughters in a school. Shaw, fashionable darling English Latin American Briefs By ALBERT MOREAU. One of the policies of American imperialism to subjugate the masses and to annihilate the Communist Parties and the revolutionary trade unions, is the influence and power which it is using to revise the labor laws in the Latin-American countri For this purpose, the national bourgeoisies and the puppet governments are being used to do the work in a dictatorial manner with all suppressing means at their disposal. The revision is being made,in accordance with the degree of militancy of the organized workers and peasants and the economic and political conditions existing in the respective countries. Funda- mentally, the labor laws adopted by the reactionary governments do not differ. The aim-is to create fascist trade unions under the com- plete control of the governments and to eliminate the Communists who are the driving forces belfind these unions. In Latin-Amer have three forms of governments: (1) Countries headed by ruthless dictators, suppressing with an open fascist method, all organizations of workers: Cuba, Chile, Peru, ete.; (2) countries where the dic Argentina, ete.; (3) others which are in rapid process of fascistizati such as Mexico. No matter what the form of the dictatorships, all these reactionary governments are enacting new labor laws for the purpose above mentioned. LABOR LAWS #N CHILE. Compared to the other Latin-American countries, Chile is one of the most industrialized. Previous to the dictatorship set up by Amer- ican imperialists, Chile had militant revolutionary trade unions and while the Communist Party was small, it exercised an ideological control over them. The Communists of Chile occupied a leading position in the trade unions and they led the most fierceful strikes against the Guggenheim interests in the naphtha and copper mines. In the revolutions of 1922-23, the struggles against the reactionary landowners was led by the Communists. They occupied important posts in the army. But President Ibanez, representative of the rising bourgeoisie, aided by American imperialism, came to power by installing a reign‘of | terror which is in existence since. Hundreds of Communists were piti- lessly assassinated, others were deported to the Pacific Islands and left there to rot. All workers’ organizations were outlawed. The workers in the trade unions have since organized themselves illegally.” The fascist government of Ibanez is now determined to compeltely anihilate every vestige of workers’ organizations. The enactment of the labor laws is not sanctioned by the parliament but it came to life in the form of a decree issued by the president. What is the substance of these laws? The creation of government trade unions; it is compulsory for the workers to belong to them; the workers are liable to arrest if they are found idle; in order to be able to find a job they must have a work- ing card; the card can only be obtained in the offices of the government trade unions. The government thus thinks it can check the revolution- ary activities of the workers. Furthermore, the wage slaves—so the imperialists think—can and must accept the conditions imposed upon them. In the Guggenheim controlled mines, rationalization is being fastly introduced. The workers of Chile toil under the worst conditions. Even the government was alarmgd by the statistical report of 1928 showing a percentage of 38 of tubercular workers toiling in the Amer- ican owned mines. Are these laws effective in so far as they aim at the suppression of the trade unions? No. The workers of Chile, with six years of illegal experience, have solidified their ranks. Outside of their illegal activities in the trade unions and in the Communist Party, they suc- ceeded in establishing a strong fraction within the government fascist trade unions. LABOR LAWS IN COLOMBIA. Here, the enactment of the “bill of heroic laws” (called thus be- ause the bourgeoisie claims it will safeguard the state), is duly rati fied by the “democratic” parliament. These laws prohibit any “il- legitimate” strike; to attack the legitimate right of private property; only those strikes are legitimate which meet with the approval of the government. The bill also stipulates that propaganda against the fatherland or to merely to be disrespectful to the Roman catholic religion is against the security of the state. The penaly for violation of these laws is only 10 to 20 years. In spite of the bill, the cristero (Christian) government of Colomb was unable to prevent the strike of 30,000 banana plantation workers of December, 1928. The United Fruit Company, an American imperial ist concern, ordered the puppet government of Colombia to resort to arms in order to drown in blood this genuine revolutionary struggle of the banana workers. The plantation workers defied the laws, resisted violence and in spite of the fact that their best leaders were cither assassinated or put to jail for 20 years, they are again on strike. This time the movement spread further into the oil fields and the railroads. In the name of democracy, the government military authorities killed over 1000 workers. These are the official figures. In an authentic report given by the strike committee, the horrors perpetrated in the Magdalena region during the strike make one tremble. A paragraph in this report reads as follows: “There is no end to the infamies and massacres committed against our comrades. Women were burried alive on the nefarious night of December 6 (1928) without taking into consideration that these women strikers were mothers of large families. Wound- ed men were carried to the holes to be burried alive, the officials being deaf to their voices begging to be killed before they were . to be covered with clay.” When the labor laws don’t work American imperialism and its: lackeys use the methods above mentioned. Mussolini Seizes Wife! Build Soviet Auto. and Year Old Baby of Factories on Plan PARIS, Aug. 18.—Prof. Carlo) Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Roselli, who with two companions |Board of Directors of the Amtorg |Escaped Anti-Fascisti Followed in the U. S. escaped from the Italian penal is- | Trading Corporation, has called at- | lands of Lipari, whither they were |tention to the fact that the three sent, he said, for opposing the fas-|automobile (passenger car cist regime, asserted here today that |trucks) factories at present being he has learned froni Italy that his |constructed or expanded in the So- wife, an Englishwoman, and year-old | viet Union are ‘also being built ac- baby, have been arrested and are be- cording to American designs, ing “held as hostages” to restrain him from continuing his attacks on nim es at Not, only has the hourgeotnie fascism. was also reporte: eae iteelTIsG baw nine conte ported: tha |: aemth ite \iteelfisit new: atte. cone relatives of the two men who es-| nee the men who are to caped with Rosselli—Luffi and Nitto | —had also been arrested \ © wenpons—the modern working cinas—the jetarinns,— Karl Marx (Commun Manifesto), and | BRITISH AID PALESTINE RIOT Reformists Help to Foment Race Riots JERUSALEM, Aug. 18.—Arabs, incited by the British officialdom here, attacked Jews in various parts of this city yesterday. The race riots are a result of a by the on followed to race riots thru subtle propaganda, deliberate policy British imperialists, urged in order to prevent the Jewish and Arab workers from uniting and thus fighting British imperialism shoulder to shoulder. The incitemen to race riot by the imperialists is aided by the Hista- | druth, the reformist labor union or- ganization, taking in only the Jews. The Histadruth has adopted a white chat ist attitude towards the Arabian workers. | ‘The wealthy British and Jewish in- dustrial magnates here encourage racial differences among the work- ers by hiring Arabs at wages amounting to less than half paid) ‘the Jewish demanded by Jewish workers. | Both the Arab Mohammedan \priests and the Jewish religious mis- leaders are encouraging an attitude of hatred between the Arab and Jewish workers. EXTEND MEXICO HOLDUP 2 YEARS Claims Commission Exacts Millions WASHINGTON, D. €. The special claims comm ap by the Wall Street go and Mexico to negotiate zovernment the settle- ment of over $400,000,000 worth of claims made by U. S. business in- terests in Mexico has been extended two with the signing of ment at the state depart- ment by Manuel Tellez, Mexican am- bassador to the U. S. and William R. Castle, Jr. acting secretary of state. The commission was to have ex- pired yesterday, but owing to the greed of American interests in still ig thousands of claims against exico, was extended. The claims arise out of alleged lamages American interests claim to nave incurred during various re- sllions and uprisings in Mexico. It as first established in 1923, and vas been extended three times since hen, expiring every two years. Tens of millions have already seen exacted by the claims commis- sion, the Mexican workers and pea- sants having been the ultimate payers. for Starts Today Pagé Thtee™ “LABOR” CARRIES ON ANTHU,S.8.8, POLICY OF TORIES Pravda Shows Why No Recognition MOSCOW, Aug. 18—The “Prav- da” comments as follows upon the breakdown of the negotiations be- jtween Henderson and Dovgalevsky: The demand that propaganda | should cease is only an excuse to de- lay and sabotage the regulation of \the relations between the Soviet |Union and Great Britain. The text of the invitation sent to the Soviet government to send a representative to London shows that MacDonald is |anxious to overdo even Chamberlain | in his zeal for the defence of the in- ter of the British bourgeoisie. | The government of the Labor Party Philip Snowden, ¢‘labor” chancellor of the exchequer, Fights British Imperialist’s Battle | who FASCISTS IN “NORTH GERMANY PREPARE COUP Threat Answered by Workers BERLIN, Aug. 18.—In Schleswig- Holstein and Hannover the German fascists are concentrating their for- ces in a threatening fashion. The agrarian nature of the district af- fords favorable ground for the | growth of fascism amongst the rich |peasants. A number of bomb at- tempts have been carried out lately, one against the house of a local democratic politician and the other against a local government building in Lueneburg. The attempts are | obviously the work of the notorious | Organization Consul which murdered | Erzberger and Rathenau and a ser- represents the interests of British| fighting*the battle on behalf of British imperialism against the ies of workers leaders at the in- |capitalism even more zealously than) Young Plan. We sce at the Hague the social-democrats of Great ‘|stance of Captain Ehrhardt. the conservative goverament, In the! Britain fighting for British capitalism while the German social demo- Yesterday serious collisions (oes question of claims of the British; crats fight for American and German imperialism in backing the | curred with the police in Neumuen- | capitalists against the Soviet Union, Young Plan. Snowden is shown above at the Hague Conferenc ster (Holstein). The leader of the |MacDonald forgets the just claims of the Soviet government. The constant interference of British imperialism in the affairs of the Soviet Union during the course of many years damaged also the in- terests of the British working class, If the question of claims is raised, | then the Soviet government holds! more important material in its “Exy |hands relating to interference in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union than the Zinoviev letter. Th material in question does not refer BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. only to the blockade and interven- Recommendations for the formation |tion. The anti-Soviet ag’ of a national hydrocarbide counc ‘the British agents in the composed of experts from all bran- still going on. ches of the Colombian petroleum in- QLOMBIA BOARD TO GIVE U.S. OIL yer'ts” New Scheme to Sell Reserves 18 e B The best proof is offered by the dustry, have been made and Ww : raid on the Chinese Eastern Rail-| Probably be adopted by the govern- way. The Soviet government is also | ™¢?" well informed concerning the| The council would be permanent iderable sums of money paid |in character and would have the Bat Ey tate BHitlat weuret power to render decisions in all the Russian and Ukrainian white |cases affecting the petroleum in- dustry. guardists for their counter-revolu. tionary activity. The labor govern- As the council would be a govern- ment is obviously determined to con-| ment board, and as the government tinue the anti-Soviet policy of the|is controlled by American oil and conservatives, despite the fact that fruit interests, the board would take its electoral campaign was carried |on the character of an official body on under the slogan of “Re-opening | to facilitate the handing over of Relations with the Soviet Union!” oil fields of Colombia to American With regard to the declaration of | interests, with the pretense of “im- Baldwin in Preston that the Labor | partial investigation” by a “board government was continuing the |of experts.” policy of the conservatives, the | | PANAMA ALIENS jhe is right. The British Labor Party has again failed to keep its promises. The British working masses must draw their own conclu- sions from this.” o5% LENINGRAD, Aug. 18.—Meet- ings have taken place during the lunch hour in the Leningrad fac- | tories to deal with the breakdown | of the negotiations between the So-! viet and the British governments. The speakers expressed the indig- ination of the toiling masses of the |Soviet Union at the attempt of the so-called British Labor government to sabotage the proposals of the So- War Plans COLON, Panama, Aug. 18.—Fol- lowing the order of its master, the Wall Street government, the Pana- ma government has ordered all aliens in Colon, on the Panama Canal, to present themselves for 0 finger-printing and registration, viet government to guarantee world | when a deposit of $5 must be made Lee : jon or before October ‘ er the meetings a protest reso-| Pailure to obey the decree wi [lution was adopted reading, inter | sult in fines of from $5 to $ alia, as follows: The MacDonald- | ossible deportation Henderson cabinet ignores the will! A national decree made to of the British toiling masses and | the same effect on July 12, and altho shows that there is no difference |the latter is not yet in effect it is pees he pr a sore and being held as a bludgeon over all hat of the die-hards. The three- | aliens here. bagntba dilay tn vaedevine talatione: | Pete ame Ne. lacked upon as an- the refusal to re-open relations |other step in the Wall Street war | without conditions, the shameful de- | preparations, as a measure of “pro- mand that the Soviet government |tection” for the canal. should avenete the Czarist debts, —_—___—_ and finally the direct breakdown of " ib |the negotiations prove that the| __ JAI WORKER-EDITOR. British so-called Labor Government | MILLE, France (By |intends to maintain its provocative | Eugene Blondel, editor of the paper | attitude in the interests of British |“L’Enchaine” has been sentenced to | imperialism. a month in prison. | spe (old and sick in a hospital. AGITATE AMONG SOLDIERS ° | RED MEr catent feral (ia boeniials by police LONDON (By Mail).—Two young , agents transported to Lille Communists were arrested while distributing anti-war leaflets to sol- Prison where no attention is being paid to his illness. He has also been diers at Chelsea barracks today. They were held for a few hours |,, i |before being released. The leaflets, |"rused the benefit of the so-called “political regime,” that is, he may |not read the papers or receive visi- |which called on t!2 soldiers to re \tors., ll re- and was He is 64 years He was and fuse to bear arms agains‘ the work- ers, were warmly received. JACOB SHA SPEND YOUR VACATION IN AMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone Beacon 731 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL Director of Dramatics EFFER 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 ¥ Registry as Part of | Mail). —| BRITAIN, WALL ST, ITALY IN AIR TEST British Plane in Jingo Races Damaged CALSHOT, England, Aug. 18.— Imperial Britain’s new speed plane, the first of those built for the Schneider cup races next month, was damaged in a test flight Fri- day. The machine, a supermarine Rolls Royce S-6, was taken aloft by A. H. Orlebar, captain of the Brit- ish team, and attained g speed of more than 300 miles an hour. At the end of the flight the port float was found to be dented and the ma- chine was towed to the Woolston works for repairs. The Schneider cup races, in which fasci Italy and the Wall Street empire are to participate, will serve as tests of strength for the impend- |ing imperialist war and to lash the |masses to a “patriotic” fre . ‘ f VAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 18.—Un- favorable winds have so far pre- vented Lieut. Williams, navy flier, from testing the new $175,000 sea- plane entered by Wall Street in the forthcoming jingo races in Britain. The 1,100 horsepower, machine may have to be shipped to England with- out having been taken into the air, as time is getting short. Williams’ hardest task will re- main after he takes off—if the weather turns in his favor in the next day or two—because he will have to land the powerful plane at between 125 and 150 miles an hour. Whether anyone can bring down at this speed a machine so delicate and prevent its destruction is somewhat problematical. The plane is being guarded by a force of sailors. COOK WON’T SEE MINERS BLACKPOOL, England (By Mail) — A. J. Cook, mine union renegade, refused to discuss a request from 14 unemployed Lancashire miners that he raise the demands of the thou- sands of unemployed miners at the conference of the Miners’ Federation 3ritain. “The matter must d through the usual union »” Cook said. fascist Landbund Hamkens was re- leased from prison where he had served a short term for organizing a tax strike. His supporters mobbed the police and injured a number. Afterwards they received arms and street fighting occurred during which a number were severely injured on both sides. The main demands of the rich agrarians jare new and higher customs duties for grain and increased State sub- sidies. . * * BERLIN, Aug. 18-¢In the last few weeks numerous anti-fascist | organizations have grown up in Ger- many and their ranks have swelled swiftly from the masses of the or- ganized and unorganized workers, In the Ruhr district, the Ruhrwacht and the Jung Ruhrwacht were hardly formed when they grew swiftly *to considerable strength. The social democratic police presi- dent Luebbering has now issued the following ukase: | “The Communist [eppatiba respectively ‘Jung Ruhrwacht’ represents the illegal |continuation of the prohibited Red Front Fighters League and will be suppressed by the authorities with all possible means.” The brutal and bloody police at- |tacks in Essen, Bochum and Gelsen- (kirchen on Sunday where mass- meetings against imperialist war took place, must be considered as the first results of this ukase. The workers in the uniform of the “Ruhrwacht” and the “Jung Ruhr- wacht” were surrounded in groups \and arrested. Here and there they resisted bitterly and prevented the police from confiscating the red flags. | organization | | GAS EXPLOSION INJURES. | NEWCASTLE, Eng., Aug. 18. |(UP).—A terrific gas explosion | wrecked a building in the heart of | the business district today injuring |16 persons, several of them seri- lously. The explosion was heard |throughout the city, causing great alarm. It sounded like the burst- ing of a big shell. TRAIN BODIES FOR CLASS WAR | TATSFIELD, England (By Mail). |— Hundreds of workers from all in- |dustries met at the opening of the Workers’ Legion Camp today. Prizes | will be given those workers who {gain most weight at the end of the ‘camp. Take Your Vacation --at--- Wingdale, N. Y. BY TRAIN From 125th St. or Grand Central Station Direct to Wingdale, New York. City Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVE. Tel: Wingdale 51 Tel. 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