The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 3

a sal Page Three a Growing ARREST EIGHT WOMEN LEADERS W SILK STRIKE Workers Resisting} Police Terror TIENTSIN, August 27. — During | the past month there was a marked tide of labor unrest in this city and Peking caused by the soaring costs of living and the unsettled econom- ie situation. The Kuomintang au- thorities took advantage of the agi- tation to pick out all the leaders who were not good “running dogs” of their administration and arrest these as Communists. In Tientsin sixty were taken into custody while in Peking 25 were arrested. Coa SHANGHAI, Aug. 27.—Shanghai has also experienced a revival of * 27. ud and British Imperialist Jewish Magnates, Religious Fakers Cause Riots labor unrest. The customary police} intimidation has followed. _When| the workmen of 11 small Chinese} Jewis. sLipyards went on strike the own-| ing the Arab and Jewis ers begged the police to arrest the| leaders on the usual charge of “in- timidation.” The press reported| that with reference to a projected| meeting of the strikers in second- | Arab workers. nglish imperialism, the Anglo-Jewish industrial magnates, and religious fal these are the cause of the race riots sweeping Palestine, for all of the workers divided. This group of demonstrators in N this fact and call for “Jewish police in Palestine” to be used against Arab and Jew demand a new set of imperialist officials there. At right, group of Jewish rabbis demonstration—brothers to the religious fakers in Palestine helping to incite hatred betwe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, DAY, AUG':""' 2 1929 ™ Tientsin, China Causes Mass Ja ult rs, both Arab and e are interested in keep- w York East Side ignore h workers, and also in the East Side en Jewish and hand clothing stores that “they had| been anticipated by the police and no trouble resulted.” The provi- sional court has sentenced two Chi- nese workers to twenty days in jail for having posted up manifestos| concerning the strike of their fel-| low-workers in the retail coal trade. | In order to smash the strike of over 12.000 si mill worke the polise of the Chinese citv ested July 10th eight of the women lo, ders. The overwhelmine major- By HARRISON GEORGE (Continued) The past two years have begun, though by no means finished, an en- tirely new orientation in the Aus- on ity of the workers in this industry are women and children. On the s y three second hand cloth- ing union organizers who refused to vive up the struggle for better conditions as had been ordered by he reorganization c nitt Kvomintang rested ectMement polic instance is that of the troubles in the netiv drug stores. Because the union t kes, uomintang at by the during the course of several st heeome militant the I the request of the drug store own- ers formed a new union. This new union (Native Drug Store Employ- Union— the Chinese autho: the settlement police to arres leaders of the militants who inside the settlement boundaries. Throw Police Sergeant into River. The terroristic tactics of the local police occasionally meet determined resistance from the workers whom they so roughly handle. An exam- ple of this kind occurred here re cently. Some 140 employees of + canvas-making shop had gone on strike. The police, as usual, tried to prevent picketing. This enraged the strikers who seized the com- manding officer—evicently a White Russian—and threw him bodily into the creek. Such streams are notori- ous for their stinks and filth and will certainly be a long time before this brute tries such tactics again. ees are Austrian Police | Expert Is Employed, Who Will Train China Butchers HANGCHOW, China—(By Mail). —The agents of American imperial- ism are not getting quite all the “pickings.” Even little Austria gets|world problems ‘of labor, insoluble | a “look-in.” The authorities here have hired an Austrian expert to train their police. Copying the im- perialist method of stationing alien guards over subject peoples, they have brought in 300 specially trained police from Tientsin. With the training these men have had, their inability to speak the local dialect and the aversin which northern Chineses generally have for the southern, the officials believe they will thus have a thoroughly depend- able force for suppression. Believe as You’re Told Or to Jail You Will Go Under the Kuomintang SHANGHAI— (By Mail).— The “freedom” allowed by the Kuomin- tang is well illustrated by the or- ders given by Coy Yuang Liang, Commissioner of Public Safety in the Chinese city, to “prevent the people from discussing the military of the political situation” and order- ing his subordinates to “explain the real situation.” Those inclined to disbelieve such explanations shall be arrested as “suspicious” charac- ters. JAIL “HUMANITE” EDITOR PARIS—(By Mail).—Saint-Preux, a member of the “Humanite” staff, has been arrested in Paris. The police seems to intend to complete disruption of the “Humanite” edi- torial staff. A warrant of arrest has been is- sued against the chief editor of the “Humanite,” Comrade _Vaillant- Couturier and against the secretary of the editor’s office, Comrade Gay- man. The charge against Comrade Saint-Preux is “Incitement of sol- diers to disobiedence,” a serious af- fair. Further warrants of arrest have been issued against Comrade Mon- mousseau and Comrade Semard. | tralian labor movement. Here, the trgde unions were nursed and toddled into adolescence on the pabu- lum of reformism, with all its highly trustful attitude toward parliament, arbitration courts, “registered” unions and a whole system of lagal- istic flub-dubbery which sad dis- illusion has shown to be but leg- irons*on the workers when, with Australian economy reflecting to some degree the whole crisis of British imperialism, the employers began an offensive on all fronts against the hitherto prevailing la- bor standards, This offensive, meeting resistance, strove to disguise itself as “indus- trial peace” after the Mond pattern, and to get the trade unions to agree not to resist the offensive but offi- cially help it along, to capitulate. This was defeated after a short but sharp fight between the militants and the reformists within the un- |ions, since the very crudeness of the bosses deprived the reformists of arguments behind which to conceal surrender. The militants also .de- feated the bitter reformist attempts to break the Australian unions away | slavery, colliding with the economy, endeavored to set the Red International of Labor Unions, and against participation in the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre- tariat. | The recent Second Plenum of the C. C. T. U., however, gave a de- cisive defeat to this element, assur- ing among other things, the con- inued participation in the P. P. T. U. S. of the Soviet Trade Unions, | and setting an example to all ad- herent bodies of the P. P. T. U. S. of resolute internal cohesion on an unwavering line of class struggle | through every one of its phases to the historie goal of the world prole- | tariat. Indones’ Malaysia, India. The Indonesian trade unions, fol- lowing the crushing of the insur- rection in Java, have been driven underground and are still passing | under the terror of Dutch imperial- , ism, which has weakened their con- Two Years of the Pan-Pacific Trad Union Secretariat 1 | battle with imperialism and feudal Soviet Trade Unions against the! reaction, the leadership, unity and policy which will make for ulti- mate triumph. All Central Ameri- can labor movements are reviving, and on a new b In Mexico, the concordat of fascism, clerical- ism, imperialism and the reformist trade unions, is being countered by the recently formed revolutionary trade union center which, with all its weaknesses, is an enormous step ahead. The P. P. T. U. S, has established connections with the above move- ments, but as yet insufficient. The formation of the Latin American Trade Union Confederation at Mon- tevideo in May, encourages the hope that, with the P. P. T. U. S,, its work in uniting in action all forces adhering to these two bodies will prove of untold benefit in stimulat- ing the unity and struggle of the world trade union movement. nection with the P. P. T. U. S., though they helped to form it at Hankow. The Amsterdam reform- ists have done their worst to gain a foothold in Indonesia, but the bit- ter exploitation of the teeming mil- lions of colonial slaves leaves a poor base fo rreformism, as is the case in colonial countries generally. This brave jfrom the P. P. T. U, S., an assault {spirit of “do or die’ which led to carried on in the name of “White Australianism” and revealing a strain of race prejudice quite in- compatible with the aims of the | working class. | The very facts of changing condi- tions would have compelled a con- |flict to arise between “left” and |“right” over policy in meeting the capitalist attack, but a great work | of clarification has been.done by the |“Pan-Pacifie Worker,” which ex- |presses P. P. T. U. S. policies, in breaking the crippling ideological |tralian problems cs a part of the |by any section alone. In the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union, too, enor- mous changes have taken place in the last two years. With the ad- vance of Soviet economy, quite dif- ferent than in capitalist countries, the workers’ standards have ad- vanced, the most notable gain being the establishment of the Seven-hour Day. The Soviet Central Council of | Trade Unions (C. C. T. U.) took a leading part at the Hankow Confer- ence, as was natural in view of the advanced position of the proletariat it represents, the ruling class and builder of socialist economy, al- though the initial call for the Con- ference came from the Trades Council of New South Wales, Aus- ‘tralia. . The Soviet proletariat’ has never for one instant forgotten its rev- \olutionary obligation to the op- pressed and exploited of the whole |world, and the Soviet C. C. T. U. expressed that obligation not only by active leadership in forming and building the Red International of Labor Unions, by uniting in a fra- |ternal bond with the exploited and oppressed colonial masses through the P. P. T. U. S., but also on the internal front against ‘imperialism, by building up socialist economy and despite all difficulties and lag- gard tendencies taking the offen- sive to root out the remnants of capitalist economy. | The consummation of this task is of transcendent political importance |to the international working class, but nevertheless met with obstruc- tion from opportunist elements in the leading strata of the Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet 'nion. These elements abused the trust of the lower ranks which had placed them in high posi- tion, revealed a distrust of the cre- ative forces of the proletarian rev- ‘olution, opposed the Five-Year Plan |of socialist construction designed to oust what 1s remaining of capitalist jisolation and bringing forward Aus-| the insurrection before even the leadership of the masses was prop- jerly matured and prepared, certi- fies, however, that nothing will stop the heroic Indonesian toilers from rebuilding their unions as a stout | link in the all-Pacifie chain. Elsewhere in this issue the ques- tion of the Indian trade unions is thoroughly deal with. The P. P, T. U. S. has also set up connections | with the labor movements at Singa- | pore and Formosa, while the Korean unions, who participated in the Hankow Conference have, with the help of the P, P. T. U. S., continued a little-noticed but persistent strug- gle under the rigid repression Korea suffers from Japanese imperialism. The Imperialist Countries. The connections with the growing | left wing sections of the trade union | movements in England, France and | the United States is of great im- portance to the P. P. T. U.S. in developing in a practical way the needed alliance between the prole- tariat in these imperialist countries and the exploited and oppressed colonial toilers. Through the P. P. T. U. S., British, French and Amer- ican workers are hearing for the} first time of the struggles of their comrades of the Far East. So far, So good, but the alliance must be strengthened. | In America, the Trade Union Ed- ucational League is just opening the | door to a new policy, no longer re- lying on a mere literary attack on imperialism and : position of sim- ple ideological differentiation be- tween it and the social imperialist leaders of the American Federation of Labor, but is launching a policy of concrete organizetional struggle at home and organized solidarity with the militant trade unions of Latin America. Its signature ‘to! the “Solidarity Pacts” is has made | with the Latin A-ericans will, how- ever, be guaranteed only if it fights | effectively to organize the unorgan- ized in the United States in class struggle unions. Latin America to the Fore. | The difficulties, the enormous dis- tances for one, of building close connections between the P. P, T. U. S. and the labor movements of lands on the Pacific Coast of the | whole American continent, are yisi- ble if one but looks at the map and realizes, as well, the conditions in those lanc.. The Chilean Federation of Labor, since 1927, is bleeding in the jaws of fascism. In Peru, fascism is varied with reformicm disguised be- | hind a mutualist movement, In Ecu- | ador and Colombfa, the labor move- | ment is generating, in the heat of * | | All too briefly told, these are the developments of two years of the P. P. T. U.S. The delegates who meet at Vladivostock on August 15, will take up the future work on the basis of a rather heavy agenda made necessary by the multitude of problems, among which loom as im- perative and important: (1) The Sight against imperialist war; (2) Combatting race antagonism arti- fically created to divide labor to the advantage of capital; (3) The strug- gle for open existence of class trade unions; (4) The economic program | of demands. This last is of high importance, and a stubborn fight must be made to raise the stand- ards of the colonial and semi- colonial workers, or the standards of the workers of the imperialist countries will be pulled down. The delegates meet at Vladivo- stock because, facing the incredible terror in China, the effort to meet in Australia was defeated by the refusal of the Australian govern- ment to permit its convocation there. In no country where capitalism rules will it accorl to labor the “democracy” behind claims of which it screens its real distatorship, The P. P. T. U. S., therefore, being in- vited by the Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union, meets at Vladivostock, finding that only in a land ruled by workers can workers meet without interference ‘and persecution by police, discuss | their problems and decide the fu- ture—the future which must be theirs. CARMEN COMPROMISED TOLEDO, Ohio (By Mail).—To- | ledo traction workers have been compromised into an agreement giv- ing only a 2 cent increase an hour, much less than they demanded. | Where White Guards, W: arlords Attacked USSR NANKING GOVT INVOKES NEW SEDITION LAWS Hopes to Thus Stem Growing Militancy By YUNG AN NANKING, Aug. 27—The Na-, |tionalist authorities have asked the Provisional Court at Shangha to ap- ply the “Code for the Prevention of Counter-Revolution in the case of a number of students arrested for an anti-government demonstration. Al- tho this code was promulgated| March 9, 1927, this is said to be the| |first instance of its application. Be-| cause of its importance and probable | widespread future use its provisions deserve being brought to the atten-| tion of the masses of other countries. | WS 120 K\ \ CAM A “counter-Revolutionists” is de-| fined as “anyone who with intent to overthrow the Kuomintang and the National government, or with intent| to impair the Three People’s Prin-} ciples, creates a riot by violence.” The map above, the Siberian in the past few weeks made invas -Manchurian border, across which white guardists, urged on by the Nanking warlords, have repeatedly tons of Soviet territory. Thus the imperialist plan to attack the Soviet Union takes definite form, The term as used by the Kuomintang means, of course, any one who dis- agrees with its regime. Punishment of the ringleader shall be death. Important principals in the affair shall receive the same sentence or life imprisonment. Participators. in ;the trouble or followers of such| demonstrations shall be punished| proportionally. “Constructive Murder Treason and Espionage. | Charge on Strikers Under. the clauses dealing with | treason and espionage it is provided (Continued from Page One) that “anyone damaging or destroy- i ‘ ing the railroads or other means of 0". the three women) and thus communication by methods of dyna-| christen in workers’ blood a judicial ‘mite or other illegal means, or mak-| Precedent outlawing unions and CHARLOTTE BILL LACKS DETAILS ” | strikes, ing them unavailable for communica- tion and doing so with a counter- revolutionary aim” shall be punished with death, life imprisonmen* or not less than the second-degree punish- ment. The same penalities apply for supplying counter-revolutionists with money or military equipment | An All Embracing Clause. .. | Article 6 of this code is the most far-reaching of all for its provisions legally justify the Kuomintang and the Nanking government in com- pletely suppressing every form of criticism of policy. There is absolu- tely no way left open for legal and public opposition to its despotism. This section reads: “Whoever propa- gates a doctrine irreconciable with the Three People’s Principles or has an opinion which is disadvantageous to the revolution, shall be punished |with imprisonment for not more than the second degree and not less than | the fourth degree.” With no criti- cism allowed and with the heavy |hand of suppression falling more |mercilessly every day the only re- |course left is that of the armed re- volt. It is thus that in its furious attempts to make itself immune to the least possible attack every des- potism brings into life the forces which must inevitably undermine it. Mass Meetings to be Punished. Organizers of mass meetings or meetings to organize for “counter- |revolutionary” purposes (counter- |revolutionary from the standpoint of \the reactionaries) shall be punished according to the relative importance of their actions. The assembly shall "be dispersed and those attending or ; who have joined the organization shall be sentenced as therein pro- vided. If persons thus convicted |have at the same time violated other provisions of the Criminal Code while |carrying on such activities they shall | jat the same time be additionally pun- ished for these. Conspiracy to com- mit such offenses shall receive a re- duced punishment provided the of- fenses have not been consummated. If convicted for the first or second degree all civic rights shall be for- feited. For lesser crimes under these provisions civic rights may be taken away at the discretion of the trial judge. The regulations shall apply to all citizens at home or abroad. ALLEGE ANTI-JAPANESE PLOT SEOUL, Korea—(By Mail).— Forty officials of the Futenkyo, a religious sect in Zenra Hokudo, who were arrested by the authorities there and brought here, have been indicted for plotting against the Japanese government. | At yesterday’s session of the court | the defense showed that the first | bill denied the workers their legal right to particularization of time, place, and circumstance upon which the indictment is supposed to be jbased. It also subjected the defend- ants to double jeopardy of life. | | Amended Bill Bad Too. The second bill is as loosely drawn as the first and is in parts contra- dictory. The continued failure of the prosecution to give specific) facts as a basis of indictment be- trays the absence of such facts. Ob- | viously the state depends upon an| appeal to the prejudice of the jury for conviction. In this elaborate and unique document, the second bill of particulars, the state alleges that the defendants between April 1 and | ©OUld produce, June 8 “did unlawfully combine to | and agree to prevent, hinder and de- |ter by violence, threats and intimi- |dation the Manville-Jenckes Co. from employing” four individuals |named and others unknown, to the |great damage of the Manville-Jen- ckes Company.” | | It also alleges assaults upon em-| |ployees of the Loray mill on their | way to work, and, says the defend- | |ants, “in furtherance of said unlaw- | |ful combination, conspiracy, and} agreement, did resist the attempts of police to discharge their duty to keep the streets free and unob- \structed so that said employes | | might freely and without fear go to | and from said plant, and did violent- | \ly resist the efforts of the officers | to keep the street clear and did as-| sault several police officers ... and did at a meeting at the union hall }to arrest and bring before Beal any persons who might come upon the premises for the purpose of inflict- ing upon them such punishment as they deemed proper, and realizing it would be necessary to rid them- selves of police interference in order to consumate their unlawful purpose of closing said mill and when the |deceased and several other police- of certain citizens living near the strike headquarters had peacefully entered upon the lot where the un- ion hall was located for the purpose Jof investigating the cause of the trouble reported,” the defendants dié “forthwith without cause fire a volley of shot with intent to kill which resulted in mortally wound- ing said deceased.” | Use “Constructive Murder.” Thus the stage alleges that a combination to strike is unlawful | conspiracy, The object of the prosecution is to hold that the strike was illegal and that all the leaders are liable for any alleged crime resulting from the strike. This is the “constructive murder” made famous in the Law- rence case. Attorney Cansler, heading the prosecution, stated in court today that this was the best bill that they This is an admission that the state has no particular acts defendants. Relies on Prejudice. Obviously the state plans to bring in everything to appeal to the pre- | Judice of the middle class jury which will be drawn and thus send the defendants to electrocution. While the prosecution will be pre- |vented, if the judge’s ruling is ad- jhered to, from bringing in every- thing which occurred during the be able to prove that for months the strikers were intimidated, beaten, persecuted, and threatened, in or- the defendants and the reasons that it was necessary to protect them- selves, unlawfully conspire to proceed from | said hall to the manufacturing plant jof said company and by force and | | violence expel said employees. The} defendant Beal did then and there order his confederates and divers others conspirators to proceed to the said plant and drag the employ- ees from said plant unless they could be persuaded to voluntarily leave same.” Says Beal Gave Orders. The bill alleges the strikers pro- ceeded towards the Loray mill, “ri- |otiously, tumultuously and unlaw- \fully,” and were met by Aderholt land the other policemen “who then| ;ordered the defendants and their) | conspirators to desist and to dis- perse, when the said riotous assein- bly, realizing it was useless to re- | sist, | whieh was guarded by certain de- |fendants,” then it declares that Beal \ordered them to “resist and prevent |at all hazards the police from enter- ing the premises of said union, and | SPEND YO JACOB SHA: Telephone Beacon 731 UR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of Director of Dramatics EFFER JACOB MASTEL EE RUNES eh RE a eevee ea THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS ee ee DEN DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. | CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL returned to the union hall/| Court adjourned to Wednesday morning, when 200 veniremen will appear. Selection of the jury will probably take the rest of the week. 168 peremptory It is probable that ad- The defense has challenges. ng of Com 1 dst men in response to the importunities | with which to bind or charge the| strike in the attempt to prejudice | |the jury, the defense, however, will der to show the frame of mind of | CZECHOSLAVAK WHITE TERROR IS HEIGHTENED |Outgrowth of Pre-Aug. Arrests i PRAGUE—(By Mail).—The poe | lice has organized another Commu- (nist round-up in Prague. Thirty persons were arrested, among them the secretary of the Communist {Club in the Cr lovak parlia- } ment, Dr. In Mar of the great coal two members of t committee of the pit “Barbara” were arrested as they left a pit | conference. In Kladno, another important mtn- |ing center, the premises of the party jand the Young Communist League were searched by the police. After | working for three hours the police had to leave with nothing more “in- |criminating” than some old minutes of sittings. | In Tabor all Communists known by the police 2 arrested and |their quarters searched. In Aussig the district secretary jof the Communist Party, Appelt, and Klepsch r of the party organ, were a In Schlesisch-Ostrau, Hruska, Communist member of parliament, | was arrested and is still being held. In Reichenberg comrade Kohler, \district secretary of the Communist |Party of Czecho-Slovakia, was ar- rested. In Aussig the trade union district secretary, Comrade Mai, has heen arrested. The General Secretary of the Red Aid of Czecho-Slovakia, Comrade Urban and Comrade Wagstein, sec- retary of the same organization, jhave been arrested in the night fol- lowing the demonstration. | The Public Prosecutor for the dis- | trict of Maribor has ordered. the confiscation of a volume of poetry |by the Slovenian worker poet Anton Culkovski on the ground that the contents of the poems “endanger public order and incite to a mutual (!) conflict of the classes.” The 169 workers arrested in the great round-up preceding August 1 are to be indicted on ground of the Defense of the State Act. This means that the bourgeoisie intends to make a big affair of the case and perhaps even find a pretext to put |a ban on the Communist Party. The trial is to be held during the time the entire Communist press of Czecho-Slovakia is still prohibited, in order to let the bourgeois papers have it all their own way in in- fluencing public opinion. | CHINA CLOTHING STRIKE SHANGHAI—(By Mail).—When a conference of representatives of the striking second-hand clothing workers and their employers failed to reach an agreement a crowd of several hundred strikers who had | been waiting outside the place of conference attacked the employers as these were leaving. A general fight resulted. Three strikers were | arrested. | ditional veniremen will have to be called, | The state has added Jake Newell to its battery of attorneys, many of | them mill company counsel, This af- | ternoon the defense is examining \ the state’s witnesses. T tions. Its workers JERSEY MAID 777 KENT AVENUE Tel. 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