The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 3

END PAN-PsClFIC [7 “TEE e ee DALY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, A ea : saad Page Three ~ baee rose es ge ) WHITE TERROR | ye iS se REDOUBLED BY NANKING GOV'T Follows on Seizure of Chinese Eastern SHANGHAI (By Mail).—As a direct” result of the attack on the Soviet Union through the seizure of the..Chinese Eastern Railway, the white terror has been redoubled by the Nanking government. The white terror has increased throughout the countries of the Far East. This will be noticed from the reading of our “news column—The Reaction at Work.” Conditions in China show no im- provement. The province of Hunan} is perhaps the worst, for here in the} great center of the peasant upris- ing hundreds are still held in prison | in each district. Occasionally trials are reported, the invariable result) of ,which is the execution of most of | those tried. Torture is common and prison conditions are deplorable. In. Kiangsi, Fukien and Kuang- | tung the political situation is very | hers of the socialist democratic Re-| American Steamship obseure due to the complicated shifting balances in the groupings of the rival factions. In the section where the boundaries of these three | provinces adjoin several Communist | armies are operating and some So- | viet governments have been estab- | lished.. Their strength and degree | of permanence it is impossible to judge. A great difficulty is the supplying of ammunition as these | forces operate in the most inacces- sible places far from the seaports. They have no arsenals and the main- tenance.of communications is very difficult. The great unrest among the peasants is a favorable factor provided this can be crystallized and organized into effective revolu- tionary forms. Under present con- | ditions the industrial workers of the cities are not in a position to give these armed forces assistance. It must also be realized that the in- dustrial centers are accessible to the | naval forces of the imperialists who have shown time and again that they will not hestitate to rush their warships to the defense of the na- tive bourgeoisie, the landlords and the gentry whenever there is danger | of a proletarian revolt. Throughout | these provinces communications are difficult to maintain but it is ap- parent the suppression is still very | great. Incidents reported from Hongkong show the extreme meas- ures taken by the British imperial-|charsky, commissar of education;|Byilds Fascist Clinic ists to terrorize the Chinese masses. | ’ Strikes Spreading in Shanghai. | In Shanghai, the industrial center | of China, repression has extended. R, will be a number of well known | to the complete prohibition of strikes. Despite the severe penal-' ties threatened there is a distinctly rising tide of strikes with the work- ers in some instances displaying a) tendency to oppose the Kuomintang and to hand out to the police a little of their own medicine in the way of rough treatment. Thus in several of the big strikes the thousands of strikers refused to return when the Kuomintang ordered them to and openly defied them. The throwing of a police sergeant into the river by strikers illustrates the second aspect. The students have also shown a new militancy. During July they staged several big open demonstrations against the author- ities. They also handled a police in- spector pretty roughly. It will only be when summer vacation is over, however, that the mass feeling of | the. students can become manifested. | There is every evidence, however, | of Pittsburgh led the field in elaps- | that they are beginning to be in a| rebellious mood against the Koumin- | The new controller of the budget, James C. Roop, who will handle the Wall Street appropriations for im- perialist war armaments. VIENNA POLICE DISARM WORKERS Another Clash With Fascists Expected (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) “VIENNA, Aug. 23—Last night police stopped a patrol of 13 mem- publican Defense League. Search showed that the workers were! armed with pistols and clubs in order to defend themselves against fascists, The fascists announce a parade of 10,000 members in Vienna on Sunday. Collision between the fas- cists and the Republican Defense League members are expected. Last | Sunday, the fascists attacked work- ers, resulting in ten being killed and many wounded. The Communist Party called for a general strike, | which was called off by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party in spite of the workers’ desire to pro- test against the fascist activities. Michael Gold to Lead “Literary Vagabond- age” Thru Soviet Union Michael Gold, author, playwright and editor of the New Masses, will lead a group of American workers on a “Literary Vagabondage” thru | Soviet Russia, leaving New York on Sept. 27. This group will study the features of the new post-revolution- ary trends in the literature, the the- atre, and the art of Soviet Russia. Arrangements have been made to meet noted writers, poets, producers | and directors, including A, Luna- Eisenstein, producer of “Potemkin”; Mayakovsky, Demyan Biedny, and others. Among those leaving for the U. S. American writers. Stops will be made in London and Helsingfors and arrangements have been made for allowing a longer stay in the Soviet Union if desired. World Tourists, Inc., of 175 Fifth Ave., New York, is in charge of the tour. Women Air Racers Make fer Wichita In Imperialist Derby FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 28. — | Off on another long stage of air race from California to Cleveland, \the group of women tans-continent |flyers competing for prizes total- | ing $25,000, pointed their airplanes due north today with Wichita, Kan., air capital of the southwest, as their next overnight stop. Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden ed time as the fourteen planes re- maining in the contest took off from UNION CONGRESS IN VLADIVOSTOK’ Re-elect Earl Browder. | as Secretary | (Wireless By Inprecorr) VLADIVOSTOCK, U. S. S. R, Aug. 23—The Pan-Pacifie Trade | Union Conference closed yesterday after adopting decisions concerning tasks of the Pan-Pacific Trade Un- | ion Secretariat in struggle against jimperialism, organization of the | |workers of the Pacific countries, | particularly land workers, organiza- | {tion of the trade union press and |correspondence and organization of relief for the victims of the white | terror in the Pacific countries. | The conference unanimously elect- ed the secretariat consisting of 20 members, representing the whole | trade union movement of the Pa- | cific, Tingyulin was re-elected chair- | |mand and Browder secretary. | \Gov’t Refuses Loan to \U. S. Lines; Favors WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—P. W. Chapman, head of the P. W. Chap- man Company, which recently bought from the government the United| States Lines, is pressing the com-| pany’s appeal for a $3,500,000 sub-| sidy before the shipping board to- day. An expected first year’s profit of $2,500,000 wiped out the necessity of the grant, the shipping board maintained. It evidently considered | that while it was necessary to help the U. S. merchant ships to main- tain American power on the seas| in competition with Britain, the sub-| sidy could be given with better ad-| vantage to other interests like the American Steamship Corporation. Early, approval is expected of the shipping board’s grant of $6,900,000 | to the latter organization, which will | immediately begin construction of | four combination passenger and| cargo vessels, to cost between | $8,000,000 and $9,000,000. | Construction of the ships will start | at the Camden shipyards simultane-| ously with the building of the $10,- 903,200 cruiser just authorized by naval secretary Adams in the inter- ests of U. S. imperialist war prep- arations. Out of Profits Wrung | \From K odak Workers ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 23.— George Eastman, exploiter of thou- jSands of kodak slaves, announced | today that he will give fascist Italy |a dental dispensary, “dedicated to |the children of Italy who are in need | of dental care.” The dispensary, which will cost $1,000,000, was finally agreed upon at a conference between Eastman, Giacomo di Martino, fascist ambas- sador to the United States, and Prof. Amededo Perna, special rep- resentative of the bloody fascist gov- ernment. Mussolini will furnish the site to maintain the building ani| equipment. This “gift,” with which E is attempting to salve his “con- science” for having enslaved many Italian-born workers here, is a dupli- cate of the Eastman dental clinic in England. PRESSMEN STRIKE CHICAGO (By Mail).—Pressmen tang policy of suppressing all politi. |the Fort Worth airport this morning | at the White Book House and White cal activities in the schools. Labor Unrest in North. In northern China and Manchuria the repression has increased. In Tientsin there has been a prolonged and spectacular strike on the Bel- gian-owned trams. The reactionary Kuomintang arrested 35 of the leaders. In .Peking 25 agitators were thrown in jail. All were charged with being “Communists.” At Tsingtao, Shantung Province, the Japanese millowners have called on the Chinese police to suppress the cotton mill strikers and this the new “deliverers” of the province from Japanese oppression have been only too glad to do. In Manchuria the militarists at the instigation of the imperialists have taken over the Chinese Eastern Railway. Signifi- cantly enough, one of their first acts was to abolish all forms of labor organizations among the rail- way employees, close up all union offiees and clubs, and install White Russians in positions of authority. Graf Engine Damaged, Pacific Hop Postponed TOKIO, Aug. 23.—The flight of che Graf Zeppelin to Los Angeles, the third stage on its world tour, was temporarily postponed today when, after the war bag had been walked from the hangar, it was dis- covered that a rear engine had been damaged. The dirigible was return- ed to its shed. ‘The lower mi manufacturer, th artisan, the peasant, these tig bourgeoisie, to Build Up the Un‘ted Front of at the usual two minute intervals. Printing Co. here are striking for The flight is designed to attract in-|union recognition and the 44-hour | terest in the war air forces, week, | One of Those to Whom “Prosperity” is Myth Mrs. Sarah Olsen was evicted from her miserable room in an man | East Side tenement, because she did not have $5 to pay her overdue WE CALL TO ACTION ALL WORKERS EVERYWHERE Help Free the 23 Who Face the Electric Chair Long Pnson Terms! Out Into Streets, Into Shops, Mines and Mills and Into Workers’ Homes COLLECT! COLLECT! COLLECT and if you want to save their lives then into action! Quick! TODAY! Tag days everywhere! House collections everywhere! Shop collections every- where! And contributions from all wor- Join the Ten Day Drive for Funds and Workers Solidarity kers’ organizations and labor unions. Make this the most gigantic mass collec- tion we’ve ever had for labor’s cause! Make Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 [inclusive] Victory Days for the Southern Textile Slaves and Their Imprisoned Fellow Workers! Everywhere where workers meet—labor unions, workers’ halls TELL THEM ABOUT GASTONIA! Out into the streets, before factory gates, in mine and mill—TELL THEM ABOUT GASTONIA! Collect funds where workers work, where workers live, where workers meet. Collect funds by every means and all the time. Help save them! Organize Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittees in every city in the land; in every language spoken; workers’ children, young workers, women workers, Negro workers. Unite your forces into one gigantic movement for the release of the Gas- tonia prisoners. No death sentences! Not a single prison sentence for any one of them! WHAT “CRIMES” DID THEY COMMIT? The 28 textile workers and organizers, who face the electric chair and long prison terms are being tried by the mill bosses and state prosecutors for being loyal to the working class. They organized the National Textile Workers Union to protect themselves and their families from the bosses’ greed. They defended themselves, their union hall and tent rolony against the armed attack organized by the mill bosses. They went on strike and picketed against starvation wages, speed-up, child labor, long hours of toil. They fought for their working class right to organize and struggle against the textile bosses and their pellagra breeding subsistance. 44 Defeat the Plot of the Textile Barons to execute and imprison 23 courageous textile workers and organizers in an at- tempt to smash the National Textile Workers Union and drive them out of the South! Uphold the right of these prisoners to defend themselves, to organize, to strike for living wages and hours of toil that will let them live! .:% Unite! Workers, Labor Unions, Work- ers’ Organizations Thruout the Nation! Unite! Protest! Demonstrate! Agitate! COLLECT DEFENSE FUNDS! Only the Solidarity of the Working Class Will Free Them! Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee 80 EAST 11TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY Auspices: International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief Endorsed by the National Textile Workers Union Write for leaflets and collection lists, for tag day boxes, for campaign committee in your city. Join the International Labor Defense and the Workers International supplies of any kind. Write for instructions on organizing a cooperating | Relief’ and build them into powerful workers’ mass organizations to de- feat the greedy ambitions of the capitalist class! rent. “The workingclass,” says Charles M. Schwab, multi-millionaire by virtue of exploiting tens of thousands of steel workers, “is enjoying \ A aah Bact lk bit be * the Working Class from the bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! = - ex eater prosperity then ever.” gy”