The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 3

i With 200,000 Workers Striking, Practically All Calcutta Mills Are Now Tiec RED ND CALLS ‘China Press Censorshi | Shows Koumintang Fear | | By LI YEN, T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, | The arbitrary and tyrannical cen- | 4nd Yang Hu, former Garrison Com- sorship established |, the Kuomin-|™mander. In reference to the last- | tang and its various governmental |mentioned the British-owned “North- organs has at last resulted in a|China Daily News” some time ago World Solidarity Of | revolt by the Chinese newspaper-_ printed a series of articles in which |men during the first part of July.|he was described at great length, Workers Ureed This took ‘placé ip Sodchowsa died as the Tammany Hall gang leade: city not far from Shanghai. Ac-|of Shanghai, He was said to owe MOSCOW, Aug. 29—The Fxecu- | cording to accounts a very stringent |his power to secret societies com- tive Committee of the International | censorship had been recently estab-| Posed of the criminal elements, to Red Aid has issued the following | lished there. Officials from the mil-|cpium smugglers, etc, A proof- appeal: itary, police, and Kuomintang bu-/ reader is said to have betrayed Tsai “A great political process has be- /reaus had been sent at the same|to the police. gun in the state of North Carolina | time to the different offices. Be-| Chiang Wants More Suppression. in the U, S. A. against 16 workers |tween the prohibitions and altera- | That the Nanking Government has and a number of working women tions desired by these three bureaus no intention of permitting fugadoan who are standing their trial at the | the editors despaired of turning out of discussion is more than ever ev bar of American capitalism which | anything at all. Eleven of the lead- ldent in the statement of Chiang K: strives to crush all attacks of the|ing journals accordingly stopped shih in Peking July 10 demanding working class upon it. What was | publication, demanding that the cen-| the strict enforcement of censor- the crime of the 16? They led|sors be withdrawn and their staffs ship in northern China where his workers of Gastonia in a struggle | be not interfered with. for elementary demands, for a mini- | The K + : Tee e Kuomintang resorted to its mum wage, for the eight hour day, | ysual “face-saving” tactics. Let- against the terrible exploitation, for ters were sent requesting publica- the reduction of the extremely high |tion of the papers “pending a set-| rents and for the recognition of the| tiement,” When thie was refused | young Textile Workers Union. Inithe Kuomintang consented to with- answer, the textile barons mobilized | gray the censors. After a long the militia, which made an. armed argument it was promised that no| attack upon the headquarters of the | interference would take place in the union and upon the homes of the future. The staffs of the eleven pa-| strikers. The workers defended | ners then pledged themselves not to Now the capitalists have set, theiz|*t®, tat degree radical nor oppon- eee. ie an | Nevertheless, in contiection with the| against, workers who only defended |PUDN€ Protest, by ihe eminent Ch themselves. The capitalists did not ilevcreceion ‘of all eritiion by. the suecesd in destroying the strike in Kuomintang this is significant as ambitions have been severely crit- icized even by Kuomintang papers. He declares that “Newspapers may criticize the National government but shall not attack it.” This is like the statement of government prose- cutors in radical trials in America that “You may think what you like so long as you don’t tell anyone!” Results on the Press. How has the press fared under this suppression? In the whole country there is not a Chinese daily whose news can be relied on if of a political nature. The columns are full of fake patent medicine ads (mostly of foreign firms), charla- tan’s offers of every description, factional, vituperations, rumors of rumors. LEditorials—if they could be described as such—are absolutely street fighting and they are there- fore now preparing a frame-up. The electric chair is to finish the work. commenced by the raid of the armed police. Two years ago the American capitalists executed two proletarians, Sacco and Vanzetti. “Now they want to do the same with 16 revolutionary workers. Sacco and Vanzetti were held for seven years before being executed. But the textile barons now want to rail- road these 16 class conscious work- ers to the electric chair without any ‘preparation.’ The process against these workers is of tremendous in- ternational significance. At the commencement of a new great wave of the revolutionary working class movement, the United States capi- talists wish to show the capitalists of other countries how workers who | vise against capitalism must be de- feated. The class aim of the coming trial is to slaughter class conscious and active revolutionary workers and to break the working class move- ment. The blod of the miners shed by the Roumanian gendarmerie in the Jiul valley is hardly dry, and already the American capitalists are preparing “the legal basis” for the murder of striking workers. “Workers of the United States and of the whole World! Stop the hangmen in their work! In 1927 the protest of the workers of all countries was -.ot sufficient to pre- vent the murder of Sacco and Van- | zetti. The hangmen did their bloody work. This time the voice of pro- test must be louder than ever. In the United States and in Europe, in the whole world, the masses must be mobilized in protest. The strug- gle to save the lives of the Gastonia hostages must be conducted with all possible means and with all possible strength. “Every working man and every working woman must know that the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was a life and death challenge to all rev- clutionary class conscious workers, defending their rights against capi- talism. Every working man and every working woman must know that the 16 workers in GGastonia are threa’ened, just like Sacco and ‘anzetti, with an already prepared death sentence of their class enem- ies, the American textile barons. Working men and working women! Workers of the world! Raise your voices in protest! Demand the re- lease of the Gastonia prisoners! Save them from the hands of the hangman! Drag them from the noose which is already around their necks! Remember Sacco and Van- zetti! Remember, and defend the 16 Gastonia workers with redoubled force! “The Executive Comm. of the I.R.A.” i Fascist Attack On Clubs of Viennese Workers Angers Latter \ VIENNA (By Mail).—On Sunday, after a fascist demonstration, the club in Burkersdorf and tdersdorf near Vienna were med. The indignation of the workers is very great. Yesterday a l democratic party meeting took place in Burkersdorf and witnessed stormy scenes. The official speakers could hardly make themselves heard on aécount of the indignant interrup- tions'on the part of the social demo- cratic workers. In order to calm the fury of the workers, it was decided to. organize a social democratic demonstration in Burkersdorf next _ Sunday. On the same day a fascist demonstration will take place in St. Lorenzen in Steirmark. This fascist demonstration is intended to prevent a social democratic . demonstration which has been arranged for the same day ‘and the same place. Even the bourgeois press prophesies col- lisions between Ae Heimwehr fas- cits and the wor ‘Lnild Up the United Front of the Working Class. the first signs of developing tend- ency among the more liberal-minded sections of the bourgeoisie to oppose the sweeping restrictions imposed on all publications. | |Censorship Elsewhere is Tightened. | While Soochow journalists have {thus staged a successful revolt {against the censorship those in local garrison commander had re- \lief in spite of the fact that the local Garrison Commander had re- quested its abolition. Imperialist co- operation with the Nanking dicta-| | tors in suppressing freedom of press among the Chinese is shown by the fact that while branches of the Chi- |nese Ministry of Foreign Affairs are | not allowed in the International Set- tlement the Chinese government censor has an office right in the} | very heart of that Concession in the | | district where the Chinese dailies are | published. In other parts of the: | country there is similar suppression. Papers owned even by Kuomintang | members themselves are closed} down. “Thus on July 8 the Tientsin | “Yit Ming Pao” was barred from circulating in Chinese territory. It was charged with “constantly at- tacking the officials of the Nation- jalist Government.” Censorship is very thorough. Re- cently Tsai Tiao-doo, editor of the} Shanghai “Lung Pao,” was arrested in the French Concession. Tsai, | |who is a well-known journalist, is) laccused of having printed articles \defaming Chiang Kai-shih’s wife; WALL ST, HAILS: GRAF FLIGHT END Jingoes, Hoover Greet} German Imperialist LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 29.— The Graf Zeppelin ended its imperi- | alist flight around the world this morning when it reached the naval air station here, from which it took off 21 days ago, having eclipsed the globe-girdling mark set in 1924 by two American jingo -airmen and demonstrated to the imperialist ; powers the superiority of lighter- than-aircraft over bombing planes for attacking the vast territories of the Soviet Union. Among the 16 parasite passengers aboard were nine who started from here, including William B. Leeds, millionaire son of the tin plate king, who has long been interested in avi- ation and who is considering invest- ing heavily in the proposed Zeppelin line between Germany and South America; Lieutenant Commander C. E, Rosenthal of the Wall Street navy, former commander of the di- digible Los Angeles, and Lieut. J. C. Richardson, detailed by the Hoover government to assist Eckener in navigating the ship. The Graf returned with a damag- jed rudder, ripped when it barely escaped disaster in clearing the high tension wires surrounding Mines Field at Los Angeles. Only a scattered number of curiosity seekers were on hand to greet the war bag’s arrival, as compared with the 60,000 who saw it off at the start of the 20,000 mile cruise. The U. S. imperialists, who spon- sored the flight as part of the inter- national jockeying designed to en- list Germany as an ally in the im- pending war with the British em- pire, sent Rear Admiral Wm. A.| Moffet, chief of the bureau of aero- nautics, here last night to extend official “greetings” to Herr Ecke- ner and further solidify the U. S. German (jingo) bonds, Moffet and W. A. MacCracken, former assistant secretary of com- merce and right hand man of the’ Wall Street president, accompanied | ‘Eckener to Washington today where jhe was received with open arms by, insipid, saying nothing in a round- about way or voicing vague gener- alities. Attemps to found papers which would speak for the masses and be under their control are promptl: suppressed, the latest in- stance being that of the Shanghai “Pao.” The millions of hard- oppressed workers and the tens of millions of desperately impoverished peasants have no way to express their needs. The list of prohibited publications is long. Among these are included the Resolutions of the Fourth Con- |gress of the Third International. The papers and books of the Chi Red Aid and of the Communist Party are circulated only at risk of one’s life. All publications except those produced by or slavishly re- flecting the policies of the Kuomin- tang officials are rigidly banned. Even though not the silghtest eriti- cism is allowed of the government authorities a further tightening of the ban is. proposed. _ Periodical searches must hereafter be conduct- ed of all shops selling books. Those found handling literature deemed to be “Red” are to be severely pun- ished. Under these circumstances it is n> wonder that Chinese are be- ginning publicly to voice their pro- test, come going so far as to de- clare that there is less liberty under the Kuc::intang than there was un- der the militarist dictators who pre- ceded it. CAR UNION BOSS CALLS NEW ‘VOTE’ Push Betrayal of N. J. Street Car Workers (Continued from Page Onw) | number of votes expected to be cast, las an excuse for open sell-out of ‘the men’s demands, the workers |charge. He had hinted as much | when he declared, at a recent meet- \ing, that although only 24 per cent of the men had voted, he would have been “permitted by the constitution of-the union to proceed with arbi- tration.” No fixed percentage is de- manded by the rules, he tried to tell the men, although he had earlier been obliged to burn the ballots be- cause he failed to obtain the re- quired 51 per cent votes. The reactionary stand of the Amalgamated officialdom was sup- ported by Arthur Quinn, president of the N. J. Federation of Labor, in a letter which he sent to the joint conference board of the union yes- terday. “Red” Scare Again. Obviously fearing that less votes will be cast next Tuesday than at the last ballot, union officials plead- ed with the militant rank and file to “have nothing to fear from arbi- tration.” They repeated the “Red” scare through which they try to pass off the vigorous demand of the men for strike action as “due to Commu- nist agitation.” Two members of the traction workers section of the Trade Union Educational League were today given suspended sentences on charg- es of “illegal advertising and litter- ing the street.” The charges fol- lowed their arrest yesterday when they gave out League leaflets call- ing for a rank and file strike and organization of barn committees among the men. his fellow-imperialist Hoover. That Eckener has been retained in an advisory capacity by the U. S. government was seen in the an- nouncement that Captain Lehmann Will take the Graf back to Fried- richshafen while its commander spends two weeks at Akron, Ohio, where a number of dirigibles are being built for the navy, ‘POLICE PROVOKED SLAUGHTER OF LUPENI MINERS: Social Democrats Spill the Beans —The “Nep- VIENNA, Aug. 2! sava,” the official organ of the Social Democratic Party of Hun- gary, publishes disclosures in to- da: number concerning the provo- |cations of the Roumanian police which led to the frightful blood-bath of Lupeni: “The mass slaughter | was carefully prepared by the Police | Prefect Rozvan with the assistance lof the agents-provocateures Mul- | teanu and Buciuman. In the night | from Monday to Tuesday, when two hundred workers incited by agents-provocateures occupied the electrical power station, Rozvan and his officers were engaged in a} ichampaign orgie together with the Public Prosecutor in Deva and with the examining magistrate in the of- ficers’ casino in Lupeni. . . . Two workers who witnessed the blood- bath tell the following story: “The police prefect, Rozvan, spoke to the workers and was an- swered by a worker in the name of others. Rozvan, who had at first remained fairly calm, then began to (abuse the worker violently and then suddenly he snatched a rifle from | the hands of a soldier standing next ;to him and fired at the worker. This was the signal for general fir- | jing on the part of the soldiers, Volleys of shots were poured into | the masses and a tremendous panic and screaming occurred, The ter- rorists of the agent-provocateur Multeanu had taken up a position behind the miners in order to pre- vent their escape. “In front of the miners were the soldiers and behind them the terror- ist troop, so that nothing remained for the unfortunate workers but to jump into the canal behind the elec- tricity works in order to escape. It {is not true that any soldiers were wounded in connection with the af- fray. The dead and wounded are all miners.’” HILLMAN SELLS | Speed-up Promised’ in Daroff Shop (Continued from Page One) facture under more modern condi- tions, doing away with waste.” The Amalgamated is now attempt- ing to convince other Philadelphia manufacturers that they should let them help in speeding up their workers. Ce ee? Bosses Help Collect Tax. Representatives of the bosses are openly aiding the officialdom of the Amalgamated collect the one day pay tax recently forced on the mem- bers of that organization, it was dis- closed yesterday. A. Mandell, president of the Knee Pants bosses association, which has } agreement with the company union, \is visiting a score of shops every day accompanied by several Amal- gamated business agents. They tell | the workers that they must immedi- ately pay the tax otherwise they will be taken off the job. Those who ob- ject are immediately discharged. Girl Worker Objects. One girl worker complained that with her low wages she could not afford to give the company union clique a days pay. One of the busi- | ness agents said that her wages are | low because she is an inferior work- | er, in other words she does not speed- | up fast enough to satisfy the boss | and the Amalgamated. | “If I am not a good worker,” she then asked, “why do you want to take a days pay from me?’ A shop delegate conference of | Amalgamated members will be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at 11 a. m. at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave., and Ninth St., where plans for an ag- | gressive struggle against Hillman- ism will be taken up. ; PHILA, TAILORS | Airplanes buzzed over the line of | A bomb went off at the| WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1949 Starved by a The family of Meyer in New York's East Side. by LIL ANDREWS With the intensification of the bosses’ preparations for war, the young workers of Ohio are now see- ing clearly the war plans of the employing class. The National Air Races taking place in Cleveland now are actual physical prepara- |tions for war. Even the bourgeois paper — the “Plain Dealer”—which | fills its pages with talk about peace, today has a headline heralding the |maneuvers ofthe “war planes” in {the National Air Races at the Cleve- land airport, In the floral “parade” sponsored by the same yellow sheet, three- jquarters of the marchers were |young workers dressed in flashy uni- |forms. Children were taken from |the playgrounds in order to “pa- jrade” the streets. Boy Scouts marched in military formation. Na- {tional Guardsmen, most of them ‘boys of fourteen and seventeen, marched in this mobilization day parade for war. War Orgies. Goodyear blimps led the parade. | march, |start of the parade, Twenty-four military bands played “Over There” and other war songs of the bloody days of 1917. Everything was done | to arouse the masses of young work- ers and workers to a hysterical war \frenzy. This is an “aviation feast” to mobilize the workers for war — ;4n aviation feast to popularize wars and war maneuvers, An aviation |feast during which young workers were recruited for the bosses schools for aviation, so that when the next jworld slaughter takes place, they | will know how to use the most sci- entific instruments of war. | These National Air Races will be |a ten day college in preparing the young workers for wars, And, as Jalways — the American Legion rushes to the forefront in the at- jtempt to teach the working class how to go to war for the bosses. Legion Leads to War. One full day is to be devoted to American Legion propaganda. Wed- nesday, Aug. 28, is called “American Legion Day.” During this day every attempt to make the young workers willing tools in the war machine of the bosses will be made. During this day the capitalist press will |ren, where young workers slave | Capitalist System, the Streets are Their Homes Weinberg, penniless, and evicted from a miserable teneme Perhaps tutions insult them in doling out a few bites of food; the streets will be their home. The National Air Races and International Youth Day ad i Page Three ~ U Lied Up RED LEADERS | LEAD STRUGGLE; 204 ARRESTED Aeroplane Terrorize zg ce a ee CALCUTTA, In With but three cotton mills in been brought tc general strike of textile v this T brings the to’ strike here The str the ¢ Red mill union and shor'2r w average tim excey section ommur increases H The ork in the is mills by ea sixty hour Troops in Working Cla The police sritish ost | brutality. The in this city have ly sur- rounded and filled with troops and police, who are provoking the inhabi- tants of the qu > violent re- taliation for th u they are suffering at the hands of the police and soldiers. A total of ted in the 1} nt on Broome St. s? quar apitalist system, having starved them, will have ite jtheir lives away in the steel mills, in the open hearths. Demonstra- tion will be held in Akron, which has become the center of the blimp and zeppelin industry in Ohio. A demonstration will be held in Can- have been The 224 worker: arr t few rave over the “patriotic and law Le Sea eens aan excuse given for the arrests was abiding character of the Ame Ais ple i he ast lata if e aa8 that the mill workers were connect- Legion,” and will urge all workers | mon these demmonetretions wilh be | Cd With the murder of a money lend- ike breaking ; : strations will be | er, Numerous witness that to join up to this fascist bosses’ organization. held with banners and will be wide- ly advertised, Trains Youth the mill workers had nc j with the murder. Already this propaganda for the | 1 area Aeroplanes Over Poor Section. American Legion has had its begin-| School. ning. Governor Cooper, who spoke | And at the same time, in this) A nee terro fhe ats at the American Legion state con- center of heavy industry, of the | € and the inhabitants of the work- most basic industry, the National |e section of the city was adopted vention now taking place in Akron, states that the whole employing class depends upon the Legion to help maintain law and order in the| by the British imperialist f in the last few days. Aeroplanes are flying low over the working-class |Young Wo: s’ School will be in {session for a period of five whole weeks, immediately commencing af- country. Governor Cooper meant ter the Trade Union Educational | section of the city, in ox to in- tie, “laws andl locden®arinh the | League convention. Young work- form the police of the least sign of American Legion always helps | &S from the mines, steel mills, tex- | disturbances. , maintain when workers go out on| tl and rubber mills, will receive | ‘i tyes strike, go out to fight for decent liv-| ining that will fit them to lead Adopt Anti-Strike Bill, ing conditions. Governor Cooper | the ‘young workers in the struggle| BOMBAY, Aug. 20.—The legisla- meant the “law and order” which| 82inst bosses’ rule and bosses’ | tive assembly has adopted, by a vote | wars. | of 56 against Mobilize for International Youth | Bill which mak a jof strikebreakers fierce sentences. 2, the Trades Dispute the Legion never fails to maintain by strike breaking, gangster activi- | ties against the working class. im Governor Cooper and the b bill is aimed Greet the National Young Work- The ses. homreareseate can en Pi anerved (HAE ers’ School in Cleveland, the center | at the big mill strik going on the American Legion will never fail |°f basic industry! here. A similar bill is planned in them in breaking the strikes of mili- | —- [Galcates, aot pei |tant workers, in furthering to the FREE 90 COMMUNISTS. |SUPPRESS CZECH C. P. PAPERS |“baby” zeppelins have only recently best of their ability the war plans of the boss class. Meet in War Center. It is no accident that the state convention takes place in Akron, the rubber center. The rubber mills of Akron are today engaged in a veri- table race for the production of war blimps and zeppelins. Four new PARIS (By Mail).—Ninety Com-| PRAGUE (By Mail)—One of the munists who were arrested some time| few remaining newspapers of the ago in connection with an alleged/ Communist Party of Tcheckoslov- conspiracy against the State power) akia which has not yet been sup- were released today for want of any| pressed, the “Svoboda,” which ap- evidence against them. Their release) pears in Kladno, has been warned is fair enough proof of the absolute | that it is subject to suppression un- baselessness of the indictment and/der the Law for the Protection of of the arbitrary nature of the ar-| the Republic owning to the fact that s._ Ten officials of the Commu- | it has continually violated the press r Party are still being detained | regulations. The court bases its in the same connection, but their|case upon the fact that the “Svo- detention is only an attempt to save| boda” has been confiscated four the face of the authorities. times. jpm==LAST DAY! been produced by Goodyear. More n are under construction, The Amer- ican Legion chooses Akron as the place where industry is feverishly preparing for WAR, in order to hold its convention. It is a fitting time for the Young Communists of Ohio to come for- PAST DAY = ext of all So- * * . t i ures: dealing ward in a rousing demonstration with the lives of indivi- eee agi Ee ing duals... the direction against bosses’ wa! against the is inspired he photo- graphy matchless... . —Daily Worker. attacks of the employing class upon Soviet Russia—against the war be- ing prepared by the bosses of the world upon the only workers’ land on earth—the Soviet Union. Youth Fight Slaughter. On September Sixth, International , Youth Day, it is planned to spread || introducing a re- of E OVE a network of open air demonstra-|f markable Soviet tions against war. In Cleveland || screen artiste A Sovkino Production demonstrations will be held in the Murray-Hill section, in Lakewood, | EMMA pe “Mont be classed with West 25th Street, East 40th and] , aes S$ the Nest Soviet films. , « 5 a "i . Mss acting, staging and Woodland, and on the Public Square. || ZESSARSKAYA se Photouraphy unexeelled” Detronstrations Willi beheld in:War-|f «.. . sue soat ec ote —Fretnett. markable and pret- Peg ng tiest netress the Rus- rie Weed End. in Camp Uuity. OOO OT OT Unity Camp Will Be Open During the Whole Month of September Unity Camp Overcrowded for Labor Day No More Registration. 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