The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1929, Page 3

i ai! — e Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1929 ™ BROWTH IN USSR [COTTON CROP AD TO 5 YEAR PLAN Huge Increase in Area Sown According to cable reports just re- ceived by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, tHe area sown to cotton in the Soviet Union this year, total- ing 3,142,000 acres, shows an in- crease of 18.4 per cent over the area | sown last year and 82.3 per cent| over the 1913 area. This year’s crop | is estimated at 310,000 metric tons | of cotton fibre, as against 244,000 metric tons in the previous year. While the 1928 crop was 14.5 per cent above that of the preceding year, this year’s crop is expected to} exceed that of last year by 27 per | cent. In spite of the expansion of | textile production, the share of, domestic cotton in the total jue trial consumption is increasing | every year. The Five-Year Plan for the de-| velopment of cotton cultivation in| the Soviet Union has been recently revised, with a view of completing | the program within four years. Ac- | cording to the new program, the! 1982-cotton fibre crop is set at 785,- | 000 tons, as against 590,000 tons in| the original program, The program provides for the completion of sev- eral huge irrigation projects, for supplying not less than 15,000 trac- tors and large quantities of other| machinery, for the use of fertilizers on the entire existing cotton area arid for the development of cotton- growing in several new regions, in- cluding Daghestan, Northern Cau- casus, Crimea, Ukraine and Astra- khan. Arthur P. Davis, former head of the United States Reclamation Ser- vice, Lyman E. Bishop, prominent Denver hydraulic engineer, and sev- eral other American engineers have been engaged by the Central Asiatic Irrigation Service to advise on a) number of irrigation and reclama- tion projects under way in the cot- ton-growing regions of the Soviet Union. INDICT WARDER “Good Will” Tour by a] Supporters of Japanese White Terror \ * | Japanese reactionary students here on a tour, bringing a message of “good will” from the white terror government which has mur leges recently clashed with these fascists at Waseda. rdered thousands of worl: Comm unist students at the Japanese col- Wo Years of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. By HARRISON GEORGE. WHeN the congress of the trade unions of the Pacific opens at | Vladivostock on August 15, more! than two years will have gone by since the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat was established at Han- kow, China, in May, 1927. A re- viev of these two years reveals, big events which, however, only presage greater ones ahead. On May 20, 1927, when the Han- kow Conference opened, despite all the obstacles placed in its way by the imperialists, Hankow was the center, isolated by blockade from without, and wavering from com- promise within, of the Chinese re- volution. Behind the screen of revo- lutonary phrases, the “left” Kou- mintang controlling Hankow (the Wuhan government), was preparing to throw off the mask and unite with the imperialist-backed counter- revolution. Two years—and the butchery still continues; a continuous and system- atic murder of the most splendid fighters that the working class has | ever produced in any land or time. The executioners admit as many as —— | ON THREE COU NTS | 385,000 have been slaughtered. The Drag Tammany Lower in City Trust Scandal Three indictments were returned against Ex-State Bank Superintend- ent Frank H. Warder yesterday by the Special Grand Jury investigating | the $5,000,000 City Trust Company | collapse. Two of the indictments ; were upon misdemeanor charges for which he has been given $12,500 bail. The third charges felony, and is | based on graft evidence supplied by | Anthony Di Paola. treasurer of the | looted bank and right hand man of | the late president, Ferrari. Warder had connived at the loot- | ing of the bank, previous evidence | had shown. The total payments | made him for his convenient aver | iookIng runs into six figures. The sum, of course, was only part | of the huge graft reaped by Warder, | Ferrari and his Tammany-fascist | aides at the expense of hundreds of | worker-depositors. Star Tanimany | men are being dragged even closer to the source of the loot. Indian Workers Are Indicted in Murder Frame Up at Lahore, { LAHORE (By Mail).—The indict- | ment at the Lahore trial of 16 In-| dian workers comprises the charges of murder committed on a police of- ficer, conspiracy against British ad- ministration in India, organization of a revolutionary group and parti- cipation in bomb outrages,.and in the manufacture of bombs and other explosives. 450 witnesses will be heard at this trial, Bus Crash in Penn. Injures Twenty-Four PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26, —| Twenty-four persons were injured today when a Cleveland to Pitts- burgh motor bus on the Greyhound lines left the highway at Emsworth | Borough and crashed into three tele- phone poles. Fourteen of the injured persons | were taken to hospitals and ten| others were treated by doctors. The! driver of the bus, A. B. Schwek, 34, attributed the accident to a locked steering gear. ‘As the bus entered the Pittsburgh | suburb almost at the end of its night trip from Cleveland it sud-| denly swerved to the side of the road struck a telephone pole careened into another and crashed into a third pole. | HUGE CZECH LABOR MEET. On Saturday a people’s meeting was arranged in Gablonz and about 700 persons participated. Despite a police prohibition, Senator Hampel spoke for a long time undisturbed. After the meeting he was arrested and beaten up by the police. 12 other persons were also arrested. . GREEK TERROR. } ATHENS (By Mail).—Eighteen Cor-munist workers have been ar-; ed here and ten in Brama. K | blood and fire. |fierce resistance of the masses took | the shape of several regional re-| volts, the most important of which | was the Canton rising of Decem-| ber, 1927. By the most barbarous terror the imperialists and their na- underground, But the very putridity and disin- {tegration of the Kuomintang (the Chinese bourgeoisie) reflecting its feudalism, was exposed the minute the revolutionary mass movement was crushed. The Kuomintang mili- tarists, each reflecting his alliance or cross-alliance with one or more of the -imperalist powers, fell out | among themselves and into inter- | minable civil wars over the spoils, wheedling subsidies from the im- perialists, plundering the populace, fattening on graft; as vicious a band | of cuthroats as ever was swept into the garbage can of history. And this | is the Nanking “government”; This is “national unity” a la Chiang Kai geoisie! The Chinese working class has passed, is passing, the bitter test of Yet, for all the terri- ble and wanton masascres and the deep defeat that shattered the mass | organizations, the revolutionary | movement has never died. It has broken through the crust of terror repeatedly and in all sections. Guided by the P. P. T. U. S. against both “left” and “right” errors, the All- China Labor Federation is rallying all class conscious elements of the proletariat, now compelled to strug- gle by conditions worse even than before 1925 when the upsurge of re- volt began. The Storm in Japan. Japanese capitalists The have |taken a page, though it be but a bad lesson, from China’s terror. In the last two years, labor organiza- tions have been broken up and many leaders murdered. The Left Wing center, the Hyogikai, was dissolved. There are now 638 revolutionary workers in prison, the government admits that figure, though there are more. Most were arrested in March and April, 1928; 218 have been tried and sentenced to long terms, In Tokio, 250 have been in prison for a year and a half without even a hearing—not even their names are revealed. But torture, prison and death all fail to crush the rising mass move- ment outside the prisons; and even within these prisons the stalwart fighters defy the despotism of the emperor, who claims he is a “descen- dant of the sun,” and teach revolt from the very prison windows to crowds of workers gathered outside in protest against the feudal-im- perialist rulers. Strike follows strike, and it can- not be otherwise, as Japan’s im- perialist economy of intensified wage slavery at home and plunder abroad cannot solve, but rather is the cause of the worsening condi- tions of the masses. The leaders of the “right” reformist unions, led by Suzuki, openly unite with the gov- ernment and police. And ‘these “rights” have been protested by the so-called “centrist” trade union | waders, actually “left” reformists. | Exposing both these groups in the process of daily struggle, the revo- lutionary wing of the trade unions is once more strengthened and united in a new center, the Kyogi- kai. Japan’s working class, whose best leaders have worked untiringly in co-operation with the P. P. T. U. S., is smashing down the barriers of reformism and reaction and moving en masse to’ The Philippine Trade U The past two years have witnessed in the Philippines, also, a maturing of the labor movement, driyen by its own deficiencies in the face of ever- growing exploitation, to throw off its old insularity and class collabora- tion. The world labor movement knew nothing of the conditions of the Philippine proletariat before the P. P. T. U. S. came into being and un- covered the swamp of imperialist robbery of workers and peasants which “democratic” America has been concealing behind its back while posing as a champion of the “self-determination of peoples” and a “friend” of oppressed nations (when oppressed by other imperial- ists!). When the organ of the P. P. T. U. S. has lifted but a little corner of the veil of isolation and secrecy covering the incredible plundering of the Filipino masses by both the error the in imperialist and native bourgeoisie, | | tive militarist lackeys regained in |the sheets which speak in the island} |large measure their old positions |for the American imperialists, have |and the labor movement was driven | flown into a rage at the fraternal | bond of the exploited masses of the Philippines and the militant workers |in America and other Pacifi ! bing the Philippine workers and pea- sants, but quite intolerable that American and Filipino workers should co-operate in protest against any efforts to stop the robbery. The Philippine bourgeoisie, answering the requirements of its American overlords, have incited re- | actionary elements in the Philippine | Labor Congress to destroy the bond | s.| with all Pacific trade unions by a split, but have failed to carry the |masses of workers on such a back- ward step. The watch-dogs of -American im- perialism, native or trained to the kennel, stand ready and willing to pounce upon labor, a boomerang) method, however, which would de- prive U. S. imperialism of its last fig-leaf of hypocrisy. But all such “solutions” are no solution of the economic misery of the Philippine masses, nor do they remove the prospect facing the masses of being used as cannon-fodder in the com- ing war between America and Japan. Neither can the Philippine bourgeoisie find tongue to denounce ‘the statenient of Secretary Stimson who calmly refers in. the American Congress. to the Philippines as a} “colony” and boasts that native lead- | ers are “conquered.” Rather do they | | find tongue to lick. the boots of | imperialist movement will teach the | Stimson’s successor, for a niggardly | portion of the robbery of their race. | The working masses of the Philip-| pines are beginning to realize that | jonly the internationalism of labor can assure genuine national libera-| tion, that their economic problems | {can only be solved by a struggle | | courses to train fighters WORKERS SCHOOL STUDIES LATIN LABOR PROBLEMS New Courses Open for Anti-Imperialists Thousands. of Latin American workers exiled from their home countries in Venezuela, Chile, Porto Rico and other places, for their rev- | olutionary activities, are isolated in New York having little opportunity to carry on the work for which they were deported. ,In order to meet the needs of these workers and of United States workers engaged in anti-imperialist activities the Work- ers School is offering a series? of against American and other imperialist pow- ers in Latin America. . These consist of classes in Prob- lems of the Revolutionary Move- ments in Latin America, Develop- ment and Present Position of Amer- ican Imperialism and a choice of Fundamentals of Communism or Principles of Marxism, I. A. Mo- reau, Scott Nearing, Sam Darcy, William Simons, and others are the instructors. The Struggle in Latin America. The ruthless reach of American imperialism for the wealth and natu- | ral fesources of Latin American countries, and colonial possessions, through the increased exploitation of the native workers in those coun- tries; the greedy ‘drive for greater profits for American capitalists, and the open bartering to foreign impe- rialism of the lives of the workers by the treacherous native bourgeoi- sie, is forcing a tremendous growth| of revolutionary consciousness | among Latin American workers. | The course on Problems “of the Revolution:-~y Movements in Latin America will aim to explain t h e class forces at work ‘in these coun-| tries, the role of the native bour-| geoisie in relation to American and} British imperialism, and the tasks confronting the Communist Parties. | It will give the student an under- standing of the nature of the strug- gle in Latin America and the con- erete work which the Anti-Imperial- ist organizaétens and the American Party must carry through. Latin American workers in the United States and American workers actu- ally involved in or preparing to car- ry on anti-imperialist work will be especially benefitted *by these cours- es. Outstanding leaders of the anti- courses. World Imperialism. The class on the Development and Present Position of American Impe- rialism will cover the wider scope of American imperialism in relation to the world situation, and will dis- cuss the main centers of imperialist lands. | against imperialism and its native | conflict in which American imperial- > geoisie) reflec | To these brass-faced imperialists«it | servants, and that the policies of the | ism is playing a leading role and the connections with imperialism and) is quite all right for them to seek | P.P.T.U.S. are the best guide in at-| and get the interested co-operation of the Philippine bourgeoisie in rob- Iron, Bronze Workers Ask Vote for Militant Leadership Tonight New officers will be elected at the general meeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers Union at 8 o'clock tonight at 7 FE. 15th St. Union members are being asked by the progressive group for sup- | Shek, the, hero of the Chinese bour- | port of the leadership which led the successful fight for the 44-hour week. Right-wing opponents are seeking to defeat the mititant lead- ership on the fabled charge of beigg “Communists.” Indian Class War | Prisoners Framed Up, Go On Hunger Strike BOMBAY (By Mail).—Bhagat Singh and Budhukeswar Dutt, ac- taining better conditions, (To be Continued) [Show How “Socialists” ‘in -Germany Aid in) Arming Chinese Lords BERLIN (By Mail).—The “Rote | Fahne” publishes on. the front page a secret edict issued on the 15th of July 1929 by the social democratic Prussian minister for home affairs, | |Grzesinsky, to the following effect. | “The law on trade in weapons to| China, issued the 2ist of March 1928 (law book 1 of German Re- public, p. 14 a) having ‘expired on the first of May 1929, I annul the Grcular edict of 25th October 1927, ‘enacting that all transit transports of weapons and munitions are to be given notice of to the Foreign Office.” With this decree social democracy | legalizes the arming of the hang-+ men of China, by the German ex-| porters. It is not by accident that | possibilities of the conflicts for the revolutionary movement and the} perspectives of the struggle. Registration for these courses opens on Sept. 2‘at the office of the school, 26-28 Union Square and con- tinues through Sept. 30 when regu- lay school sessions begin. TAILORS SUPPORT DELEGATE MEET Workers for Militant Struggle (Continued from Page One) the company union program of the A.C. We “The prostituted organ of the company union proudly announces that production in the clothing in- dustry for the year 1928 reached the sum of almost one billion dollars,” says a statement issued yesterday | cused of having thrown a bomb into. the secret enactment is issued pre-|by the conference arrangement com- |the Indian National Assembly in | April are on hunger strike since 32 | days. Fourteen other accused and |two witnesses who have withdrawn strained. German social democracy, expense of the workers. | cisely at the moment when Chinas | jrelations towards the Soviet Union | jare becoming more and more} mittee. “This tremendous produc- tion, as well as the extra millions of profits, were derived entirely at the Hillman the incriminating statements they Which rejoiced at Chang Kai-shek’s | and his outfit have the audacity to made during the preliminary investi-|raid on the Chinese Eastern Rail-|speak of the “good” conditions in gation have joined the two chief accused in their hunger strike. SAARBRUCKEN, Aug. 26, Seven workers were killed in an ex- | plosion in an oxygen factory here today. way, now removes the last stone | from the path of the German muni- tions profiteers. The “Rote Fahne” calls upon the working classes to prevent, under any circumstances, the transports of weapons and muni- ' tions. the industry, but this “good” condi- tion means that the bosses are free to rob the workers in the form of reduction of wages and speed-up. For the Hillman outfit it means to force the workers to pay dues and taxes to the company union.” | and Pugsley Avenues, the Bronx, 105 Families Threatened in Apartment House Blaze se gs tk nS emachcboGD One hundred and five families of workers were threatened when a blaze swept the flate at Newbold Jingoists The American Legion’s new | WOMEN WORKER | | | TO MEET TONIGHT ‘Mobilize to Support | Communist Party (Continued srom Page One) five-day week and protective legis- altion for women workers. The work- ing class women will demonstrate their opposition to the attack on the Soviet «Union by the Chinese war lords and the Russian white guard- ists and willerally the women against another imperialist ‘world war and in defense of the Soviet Umion. The speakers at the conference will include Rebecca Grecht, Com- munist Party campaign manager and candidate for assembly 15th district? the Bronx; Rose Wortis Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and candidate for assembly, 8rd district, the Bronx and J. Louis Engdahl, secretary, International Labor Defense and candidate for President of the Borough of Man- hattan. : COMPANY UNION CONFAB FLAYED Boruchowitz Exposes’ Its Dress Ra¢ket (Continued from Page One) lar to the one recently carried thru in the cloak trade.” Boruchowitz then pointed out that the company union which claims that it called the conference for the purpose of improving the conditions of the dressmakers is the one re- | sponsible for the breakdown of “fe |agreement in the dress trade and for the present sweat shop condi- tions under which the workers are compelled to slave. Conditions Become Worse. | “The fact that following the much | proclaimed yictory in the cloak trade |the working conditions -in that branch have now become even more |miserable than before,” he contin- | ued, “the fact that the cloakmaker: for whom the International suppos- ledly signed an agreement guaran- | teeing week work and the 40 hour |week, are today compelled to work |long hours, ranging up to 60 and even more, on a piece work basis for the most miserable prices; is the most conclusive proof that the company union will not and cannot secure any improvements for the worker: “The disastrous experiences which the workers have gone through as a result of the recent fake strike in the cloak trade will be an object lesson to the dressmakers, and they will not permit themselves to be fooled by the company union and the bosses. Supported by Workers. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, which has the sup- port of the organized dressmakers |and is now carrying on an organi- | zation campaign in the trade, is the only organization which has the con- fidence of the workers and to which they are looking forward to lead them out of the present deplorable conditions and establish decent standards in the dress trade. “The strike in the dress trade, which the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union carried through last spring improvin#the conditions of the workers, has demonstrated to | the dressmakers that only by rally- ing around the Industrial Union can they successfully fight against the bosses and thgir agents of the com- pany union.” Needle Workers Refuse| Pay When Firm Takes Day’s Pay for ILGWU All of the 200 needle trades work- ers of the Emmet Joyce Company, an Industrial Council shop at 498 Seventh Ave., refused to accept their pay when the company deducted one day’s wage for payment to the right wing I. L. G. W. U. yesterday night. “We won't accept the pay unless it is given to us intact,” the work- ers declared. | | Build Up the United Front of the Working Class from the bot- tom Up—at the Enterpri 8! Dedicate Paris Fascist Center the head- center in Paris, to be | quarters of American jingo propaganda in Europe, is shown being dedicated by’ such jingoes as General Pershing, butcher for Wall St. German Workers in Paz | SUPRESS CHINESE STRIKES, ORDERS ADVISOR FROM US | And Kuomintang Quickly Takes Him Up SHANGHAI, Aug .—Dr, J. As L. Waddell, Ar an advisor to the Nationalist Government, in a series of articles written to point out the | way to build up China, well illuse {trates how the bitterest anti-union |leaders of America are trying to prevent the development of any ef- |fective workingclass m ment in \ this country. He states that “from |a perusal of the newspapers he |notes that the “s abit is mak- ing some progr This,” he comments, “is a bad symptom. The practice of striking should be sup- pr with a firm hand for it is contrary to a!! the principle of eco- nomic If workmen ances (dr think the {present them formally to the em- * pyer with a request for reform. Saar) Basin Meet ‘at |o vn § nek Frontier of France| community, the walking delegate, oe eee the Irish - American employer's BERLIN, (By Mail).—The revo-| method of dealing with him, viz, ex- lutionary workers in the Saar met|Pulsion from the works or even one Gundey. ini Gross cRbaselnvonethe from the community, vi et armis : é i a (with force and violence), is most French Saar frontier. Approxi-| effective.” mately 5,000 persons were present.| Had this open-shopper read the French gendarmerie prevented the newspapers a little more thoroly demonstrators from crossing into|Ke might have realized that his ad- French territory and prevented the vice to the Kuomintang has been numerous French and Italian work-| improved on by that reactionary ers who had collected on the other | body. Walking delegates, that is, side of the frontier from crossing labor organizers are strangulated, into Germany. Both sides cheered | have their heads chopped off, and the Red Army, the Soviet Union| are subjected to tortures that might and international proletarian soli-| even s hock the “hard-boiled darity over all frontiers. Waddel. | Big Labor ~WORKERS Trial Is On , ACT NOW! ALL THIS WEEK! WORKERS E AND MAIN for unconditional Gastonia prisoners and long prison ter themselves, to organize _ Textile Union. INTERNATIONAL Collect Funds to Defend 23 Gastonia Prisoners! MAKE 4 Saturday, Sunday, Monday August 31, September 1 and 2 Gigantic Mass Collection Days Thruout the Nation Let every worker, new collection list in hand, go to shop, mine and mill, into the streets, into workers homes, into labor or- ganizations and COLLECT! WRITE US TODAY for new illustrated collection lists, for posters and for leaflets WORK QUICK WITH MIGHT WEEK AFTER WEEK .- Workers and labor organizations thruout the nation must uphold the right of these workers to defend ORGANIZE A GASTOD AND RELIEF COMMITTEE IN YOUR CITY! Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee 80 EAST 11TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Auspices: WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Endorsed by National Textile Workers Union VERYWHERE! EVERY DAY— freedom for the 23 facing electrict chair ms. into the fighting National IA JOINT DEFENSE LABOR DEFENSE