The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 3

MacDonald Government Allows Troops JUTE, RAILWAY WORKERS. KILLED ON PICKET LINE Strike Wave Gr ow s with Brutality CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 30.— Pickets at the Couripore Mills were fired on and shot down by British troops and police. The number of casualties is feared to be great, the total being withheld by the authori- ties. Strike Spreads After Killing The strike has spread to all the mills in the city as a result of the shooting down of the pickets, and well over 200,000 workers are out. The general strike of mill workers in this vicinity started in a few jute mills at the beginning of August, when the hours of work were in- creased from fifty to sixty hours a week, and the strike soon began to spread. The strikers have added to their demands for better hours, a demand for a general wage increase in all the textile mills in this vicinity. Anti-Strike Act. The special act passed in Bombay | to prevent effective picketing is about to be introduced here. By this act, peaceful picketing can be twisted by the Anglo-Indian impe- rialist officials as being an “attack” on strikebreakers, and as such pun- ishable with long prison sentences. The Bombay textile industry is also effectively tied up by.a strike of over 100,000 mill workers, Cot- ton wills are affected here in Bom- | bay. | Shoot Railwaymen. The increasing militancy of the Indian workers is shown by a series of’strikes, small and large, sweeping the larger cities of India. The rail-| waymen at Hyderabad are also| striking. At Bangalore a demon-| stration was fired on by the police | and fifty workers were killed or wounded. The MacDonald “lahor’’ govern- | ment is continuing the policy of the Baldwin government in ruthlessly suppressing mass picketing and| demonstrations. BLOCK CRIES WAR ON N. J. CAR MEN “No Strike,” He Says in His Paper (Continued from Page One) of their elected leaders and accept the arbitration plan agreed to by the Public Service,” Block declared in a statement generously spread over the front page of his paper. He follows the lead of the car union cfficials by ascribing the re- fusal of the men to vote on arbitra- tion of their demands to “the ac tivities of radical agitators.” Red Scares Again. “Red propagandists have been busy among the men. Elements antagonistic to the American Fed- eration of Labor have spread ru- mors and stirred discontent.” Block campaigns for A. F. of L. arbitration as “the only known means-of avoiding strikes, lock-outs and disturbances. “We do not want to go through the agony of a strike,” he says in a plea for the Public Service. The “Red” scare was emphasized hy union officials following success- ful distributions of leaflets, calling for a hundred per cent strike and the organization of rank-and-file barn committees, by members of the Traction Workers’ Section of the Trade Union Educational League. Wants Straight Sell-Out. Arthur Quinn, president of the N. J. State Federation of Labor, urged officials of the state confer- ence board of the traction union to adopt arbitration without even wait- ing for a new vote. | “May I not suggest to you the ad- visability of the committee exercis- ing the power that is theirs and that is, to accept arbitration without farther ado, and without any fur- ther vote being taken by the mem- bers.” In any case, William Wepner, lo- eal union president, has openly de- clared his intention of acting on ar- bitration without regard to the in- it. number of votes he may | | Where Jewish Workers are Doped wor Dovel MURDERS DAILY| IN WHITE TERROR REIGN IN. SERBIA Communists Thrown From Jail Windows BELGRADE, Aug. 30.—Murders | |of Communists and other militant | |workers by the white terror have | | | been reported daily’ throughout | Yugoslavia in the last month. The murders of class pisoners, of a mys- terious nature, have now become the | lorder of the day, prisoners being thrown from windows and_ their deaths reported as suicides, This | is the new technique of the fascist | terror under Zfovich and King Alexander. ! | In Zagreb an arzested Communist propagandist fell out of the window of the prison while being questioned by the examining magistrate and} shortly afterwards died of the in- A Synagogue in Jerusalem, a the dope calculated to make the Jewish workers wilting slaves of the | Anglo-Jewish capitalist who have land. juries received. The laconic announcement that the prisoner had jumped out of the window during interrogation means | that the police have murdered the} nd some of the rabbis who dole out | dispossessed the Arabs from their Tasks of Lett No one acquainted with condi- tions in India can deny that the yery air is electric with revolution against British imperialism. The following analysis correctly esti- mates the forces at work and out- lines the tasks of the Left Wing trade unions of India, on which falls the principal burden of lead= ership in the struggle which will profoundly affect the whole world and certainly the workers of the Pacific area. It is therefore im- portant that all adherents of the P. P. T. U. S. familiarize them- selves with the following estima- tion by the Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions of the tasks of the Left Wing unions of India, which esti- mate will undoubtedly deeply in- fluence future struggles.—Editor. + « 8 I. The present economic and po- litical situation in India is charat- terized by an ever-sharpening devel- opment of the class struggle. The ruthless oppression by British im- perialism, the intensified exploita- tion by British and Indian capital, the appalling working conditions and |unemployment have brought about |strong resistance on the part of the |working class of India. A new |period ‘in the national revolutionary independence movement of India has begun. A perigd of broader, deeper and more determined than ever be- |fore working class struggles against | British imperialist subjugation and | capitalist exploitation. .A period of |anti-British imperial mass struggles |in which the proletariat is the lead- ing and deciding factor. The present-day _revolutionary struggles in India have found ex- pression in the recent and last year jstrikes and mass demonstrations. |The main characteristic features of these are as follows: (a) The strikes jare taking place mostly in the tex- tile mills, railway shops and the metal works. The miners and plan- tation workers have not been af- fected by the strike wave while the transport workers were partly in- volved. However, since last sum- mer the present strike Against British Imperialism prisoner in order to hide the marks of the hideous tortures used in |Yugoslav prisons to extort confes- sions from political prisoners. The body of a man thrown out of a |third-story window will be suffi- ciently mangled so as not to show the traces of the treatment pre- viously suffered. This proceeding ig quite usual in Balkan Wing in Fight |risert higher than all the preceding ones in India. It now begins to|.. ‘ spread to inland cities and native| Yugoslavia and in other states and to affect also the mcat|White terror countries. remote and backward sections of the| Further mass arrests are report- proletariat; (b) the strike commit-)€4 in Bosnia. In Sarajevo, the capi- tees are being elected by and from | tal of the province, the number of the rank and file or from the strik- | Petsons arrested is 300, and in Mos- ing ‘masses; (c) the strikes are|t@%, SRN MUI. Ete SRA greatly accelerating the differentia. | Heiderheimer, Nikola Juric, Nikola fion in the labor movement as wejl| Tortkovic, Ivan Tortkovich, Altarac, in the national independence {Kata Gorusovis with her daughter movement; (d) the strikes give birth | 20T, Vlado Jokanovic, a solicitor to revolutionary trade unions (Girni|{t0m Sarayevo; Koyko Vukovie, Kamgar Union, ¢tc.), stimulating |Guio and Alfred Bergmann from their steady growth as well as it in-| Mostar; Mitar Trifumovie from spired the rank and file with self.|Tuzla, all of whom have been in- confidence and urged it on to inde-| humanly tortured in prison. All pendent working class action; (e) |“examinations” are conducted dur- the strikes are of extremely Jong|ing the night. duration and are fought by the| Vlado Jokanovic’s father, a clergy |masses with steadfastness and great |™&M, Was sentenced to twenty days self-sacrifice. In these struggles| imprisonment by a police judge for the Bomby textile workers (Cirni|having told some friends’ that his Kamgar Union) are the leading and|80n had been tortured in prison. [most advanced section; (f) the| According to a report of the news- strikes are being organized and led|Paper “Slovence” of Laibach twen- [mostly by the Left Wing trade|tY miners of the Trifail mining dis unions, and by the rank and file|rict were arrested in the suspicion cf the reformist trade unions apart | that they had been hiding explosives from and against the will of the|taken from the pits. bureaucrats: there have been also’ Three Communists were killed by'| spontaneous or unorganized strikes; |the police in Samobar near Zagreb. Gad tba -ptrtheos arefrequently lost. The circumstances of this affair are | |First of all, due to armed suppres.|"°W known. == : jsion by the British authorities; sec-| At two o’clock in the morning the | |ondly, due to sabotage and treachery | Police surrounded the house in which lof the reformists;, thirdly, because |J@M%0 Misic, Mijo Oreshki and his the strikes are not co-ordinated and | Wife and brother lived. Two police- extended in scope but rather remain|™en and the owner of the house isolated and confined to local bat-|*nocked at the door of their room tles; (h) the strikes begin mostly ag | 4% ordered them to open the door. economic fights, primarily against | When this order was not obeyed the rationalization enforcements, but, |Pelice began to fire from outside nevertheless, they often assume a|through the door. The fire was re-| political character; (i) last but not turned, and the shooting lasted some | least, there have been also clear-cut | time, although the besieged com-| political mass actions of great im-|T@des : portance. Particularly the reéént|Jured. According to the report of protest strike against the arrests of |the “Slovenec” (the organ edited by | ithe Left Wing trade union lealess |the Minister of Transports Korosec) and the mass demonstrations in {the besieged then asked the police Bombay and Calcutta marching un-|' cease fire and let the wife of ve has, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929 Three rm to Ruthlessly Shoot Calcutta Mill Strikers Where British Warships Bombard Arab, Jewish Workers | killing of both Arab and Jewish workers by British warships. ‘AND OF SOVIETS: (WORLD PIONEERS ; TOUR THRU USSR AFTER BIG MEE, | 7000 Workers Children Attended | | MOSCOWy Aug. 30.—That the | first All-Union Pioneer gathering | (Slyot, as it is called) held in Mos- cow from the 17th to the 25th of August was an event of the utmost political” significance is clearly evinced by active participation in its work of the C. P, Y. C. L., the Jafja Beach, landing place of British marines and troops, and scene of bombardment and wtslesale — tyade unions, and by the deep atten- e, jee: on given its preparatory opera- — ee . ons by euch social b es as 19 toh”? “Friends of the Children,” “Society Fascists Punish POLE TRANSPORT or Chemical and Air Defence,” Rebellion of Pole “OZET” (Society for Jewish Land Settlement), “Special Children’s AT VLADIVOSTOK Soviet Fliers to Reach Seattle in Week (Continued from Page One) ing a heavy fog in a wild, uninhab- ited region of Siberia near Chita, just north of the Manchurian bor-| Their machine was badly dam-| der, aged but the airmen escaped un- harmed. On Aug. 23 the flyers made a new start for the United States in another all-metal monoplane, which like the; first, has two motors of 1,200 horsepower and is called the Land of the Soviets. It was last reported headed *for Krasnoyarsk. The Friends of the Soviet Union are planning great working class re- ceptions for the crew both here and in Chicago, where the plane will stop after a hop from Seattle to San Francisco, Funds are now being collected to purchase a number of trucks and tractors for presentation to the workers and peasants of the U. S. S. R., through their flying emissaries of good will, as tokens of the admiration the American work- ing class feels for the huge strides being made by the first workers’ | epublie toward the building of so- ialism. Sewerage Workers in Vienna Battle Scabs VILNA (By Mail).—The sewer- age workers of Vilna struck work and demanded an increase in wages. The contractors thereupon attempt- ed to employ scabs in place of the strikers. The latter heard of this intention of the employers, marched to the, place where strikebreakers were at work and’ summoned them to stop and not attack their fellow- workers in the rear. They had hard- ly begun to persuade the strike- | breakers when the police arrived on the scene to protect the scabs. A clash ensued, after which about fff- teen strikers were arrested. The work was discontinued. were already seriously in- Mexican Butcher Off On “Good-Will” Tour MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30.—Pablo Sidar, Mexican flier who butchered der the banner “Long Live the Sov-|Mijo Oreshki leave the house. This) workers and peasants during the iet Republic of India.” These are|WaS granted but when Mrs. Oreshki | Escobar _ insurrection, started a all sharp expressions of mass ac-|C@me outside she was immediately | “good-will” flight today in the in- tivity, rapidly growing outlook of the Indian proletariat. Prague Workers - Demonstrate for Class Prisoners PRAGUE—(By Mail).—A dempn- stration of about 1,000 workers took place yesterday eyening in the Prague suburb of Ziskov. The dem- onstrators demanded the release of the prisoners, including Comrade Harus.. The Communist deputy police did not interfere, but when the demonstration was ended, they attacked ‘the dispersing workers. Comrade Haken, who protestéd against the brutalities of the police, was himself mishandled by four po- licemen and dragged off to the po- lice station. to release him, but Comrade Haken forced them to make an official pro- tocol concerning his state and com- wally when he calls a new ballot next week. \ Against the betrayal policies of the union officials, the men still clamor for a state-wide strike to en- foree the eight-hour day and wage increase. Shell Oil Company Buys Huge Indiana) , Petroleum Refinery MINDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 30.— Purchase of the Western Oil Refin ing Company, one of Indiana’s larg-| est gasoline and filling station com- panies, by the Shell Petroleum Corp.) for a cash consideration reported to) sggregate several million dollars was announced today by officials of the | western oil firm. | The transaction involves the offi- ces and. main warehouse of the Western Oil Co. and its 45 branch bulk stations and 213 filling stations throughout Indiana and Ohio, includ- ing the 56 Indianapolis stations, i timinlincttinti aot pelled the police doctor to give him a certificate, This doctor was com- pelled to certify that Comrade Ha- ken’s upper body was covered with bruises, The Communist parliamen- tary fraction has lodged an official protest with the police presidium jand with the presidium of the ‘Tcheckish parliament. Sentence More Paris Aug. 1 Demonstrators; Leaders Still are Held PARIS (By Mail).—Several of the Communists arrested for dem- onstrating on August 1 have been tried and sentenced. * Eight persons were sentenced to from one to’ foyr months’ imprison- ment for “violence and insulting members of the police force.” Four persons were sentenced to from eight to fourteen days’ imprison- ment and fined for “carrying arms without a permit.” The ninety comrades arrested for Class War Prisoners WARSAW (By Mail).—Seven po- litical prisoners were recently tried before the district court of Lemberg. The charge was “endangering pub- lic peace and order.” The trial lasted three days and was a sequel | to the assault made by police offi-| cers upon political prisoners in the Stefan, Batori prison in January, 1929. On January 25 three political prisoners, Aderman, Herz and Wiener were’ to “appear in court. The police officers detailed to escort them put handcuffs on them and beat them up. When the other pris- oners detained in the prison heard the cries of their comrades in pain, they organized a demonstration and raised loud protest against the ill- treatment of political prisoners. A police squad was immediately or- dered out to punish this “rebellion” of the political prisoners. The pris- on authorities, wishing to shake off the responsibility for these unpleas- ant happenings, had seven of the political prisoners indicted for “dis- turbance of the peace and breaking , the prison rules.” The fascist court decided that political prisoners had no right to protest against brutal ill-treatment by the prison and po- lice authorities and sentenced the accused to from seven to three | months additional imprisonmetn. German Fascisti Hurls Rocks at Headquarters ‘Of Reich Communists | BERLIN, (By Mail) —Members of the Reichsbanner from Hamburg jwho had attended the Constitution Commission” (the latter body being in direct contact with the central government), not mention the wide publicity the Slyot has received in the Soviet central, provincial and Republican press, and the tremen- dous” popularity felt for it among to WORKERS WIN | Strike Suecessful De- | spite Fascisti working-class parents. WARSAW, Aug. 30.—The meth- | Its political importance is pointed ods employed by the fascists in their | out in an issue of the special Bulle- |fight against, the labor movement |tin of the “Slyot Central Staff”: are growing from day to day more “Today arp as never before, Provocative. Where disputes can- | yises the problem before the revolu- |not be settled by the employment of | tionary world proletariat of winning {scabs and by police terrorism, the the young children, the mass of the jfascist regime proceeds to starve |new generation, to its influence. |the workers into surrender. The |Today, as never before, the bour- ' employers take recourse to the same geoisie is exerting its every effort method. (through such powerful organiza- Thus the recent strike of the|tions as: schools, pre-schools, transport workers of Warsaw em-| churches, imperialist-fascist boy and ployed in the Pociejowice ware-|girl scout organizations, etc.) to |houses lasted two weeks. It had|strengthen its ideological hold over been organized by the left wing|the “young idea,” ably aided in this the methods of the “Bund,” a re-| social-reformism. formist organization. Owing to the! “The Jamboree in England and the energetic activities of the strikers, | Slyot in Moscow is a concentrated the employers were forced into expression of the struggle for the |granting their-demands. The main) youth and juveniles between capital claim was a wage increase of 20) and revolutionary labor.” per cent and the recognition of the) ‘The Moscow Committee of the trade union. At this point, however, |¢. -p. and the last plenum of the when the employers were ready to| Moscow D. £. C. adopted resolutions give way, the State Commissary of in which they “recognize the deep Warsaw City intervened in the con-| pojitical significance of the ‘Slyot’ flict. He summoned the employers | hich must, in its work, reflect all to his office and threatened them the needs and demands of working- with police measures in case they | cjass children, attracting to these should yield to the demand of the | eeds the attention and aid of Soviet workers and sign the declaration! \ijic opinion. It will determine recognizing the left wing trade| ri hi Rate £ th | the role of children in the work of janions as the representatives of the |G. cislistic Construction, eae oberectvens R | strengthen and widen the activity of . The reason given for this unusual |the world pioneer movement. course of action was that the left} ‘The successful realization of the |wing trade unions are Communist | problems of our Socialistic construc- organizations. On the other hand tion, of the economy and culture of workers and was directed against | nefarious work by the reactionaries, Celebrations here and were on their | way back to Hamburg, in two motor lorries, passed Karl Liebknechthaug, the headquarters of the German| Communist Party and flung stones at the windows and fired a number of revolver shots at the house. The | be {police at first refused to inquire the f ioe EEE matter at all,.but were compelled to | CONDEMNED MEN MISTREATED ido so by energetic representations.} SHANGHAI (By Mail).—Quite a They examined the marks of the at-|stir was created in the Provisional tack and had to admit that.they were | Court recently when two convicted in reality the marks of reyolver! murderers charged that prisoners in the Commissary promised the em- ployers police protection for any scabs they might employ in order to break down the resistance of their hands. {our country is inseparably bound up with-the-tasks of education of future builders.” The first All-Union Slyot was in jreality an international pioneer (gathering. It was attended about 7,000 youthftl delegates, in- cluding dedegations from: England (17), United States (8), Germany | (155), Worway (4), Sweden (5), | (2), China (5), Mon- Switzerland eae (10), Invitations were like- ‘shots. No action has been taken against the Reichsbanner. GIVE SOLDIERS LEAFLETS the Settlement jail are badly mis-| wise extended to revolutionary chil- treated by the guards.° They de-|dren’s bodies in France and Czecho- clared they,had been beaten up from| Slovakia, but the governments of time to tirfle and that all condemned |these countries would not grant men are thus brutally handled. The PARIS (By Mail).—In Mogtpel-| cction for the condemned is under lier Calas, a schoolmaster, aged 30, |was arrested and charged with the | distribution of leaflets destined: to (Scan evidently’ White Russian. the supervision of a foreign ser-| strength, political maturity and revolutionary seized by two policemen who pushed | terest of the Gil reactionaries. The the woman before them as a shield | big bomber, christened the Mexican and thus prevented the besieged|Army, in which he will visit all of from shooting as they were afraid to| the Latin-American countries, was Haken made a speech. At first the | The police then wished | OS ORE RR RONNIE TAN hit Mrs. Oreshki. possible the breaking down the door. On entering the room the police officers immediately killed the three wounded men. CUT JOBLESS DOLE BERLIN (By Mail).—In the month of July alone 65,000 unem- ployed workers exhausted their un- | employment support and were hand- ed over to the boards of guardians | from whom they will receive even less support than they received un- | der the unemployment scheme. This mass striking off of unemployed workers was the result of an order | issued on the 7th July by the social | democratic Labor Minister Wissel. 150 Communists in |Germany are Jailed In Big Demonstration | | BERLIN (By Mail).—In connec- | tion with the counter-demonstrations | of the revolutionary workers against | the Constitution Day Celebration of | the Hindenburg Government and its | Reichsbanner, 150 .persons were ar- rested. In numerous instances ‘the proletarian feelings of many of those workers who are still organized in the Reichsbanner, showed themselves in connection with the methods used by the special shock troops of the Reichsbanner and by the police. On Saturday night special Reichsbanner city by five war planes. incite soldiers to disobedience.» The public prosecutor ordered Calas to be released as he had not been taken red-handed. Pierre Averseneq, a printer, ar- rested at the same time and found This rendered| accompanied to the outskirts of the | in possession of Communist leaflets, | was remanded in custody, ee Unity Camp Will Be Open During the j; Whole Month of September Unity Camp Overcrowded for Labor Day Weed End. Spend a few days o No More Registration. f “Indian Summer” * venvemoemn in Camp Quity. Pleasant Memories! | groups attacked the local head-|* quarters of a revolutionary working class organization. _ Members of the | Austrian : social democratic Repub- lican Defense League who had come | to Berlin for the celebrations, took | the side of the revolutionary workers | and assisted in repulsing the Reichs- banner. Afterwards they demonstratively purchased the badge which the Red Frontfighters League has issued in order to make propaganda against | its* prohibition. A similar incident | occurred when police attacked a} | number of workers who had called | lout something to the marching | | Reichsbanner. A Reichsbanner band of twenty men refused to march on | any further and left the procession | |}as a protest against the police | | brutality. | alleged conspiration against the | | State had to be released as the utter |groundlessness of the charge and the purely arbitrary character of | | their arrest was irrefutably Droeed. | Ten officials of the Communist |Party are still detained: No rea- | son is given for this measure. | the Directio’ Build’ Up the United Front of ihe Working Class, mae SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITG THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - : Electric Light Educational Activities Under * JACOB SHAEFFER + CAM Telephone Beacon 731. Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL in of THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, P NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. 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