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

DA ILY WO) RKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 OCALLED ‘LEFT’ AND KWANGSI THREATEN CHI \s China Torn by New Civil War ot Rival Generals Bac Canton Under Martial Law as New Revolt. Gains Way in South Trading on Mass Hatred Against Nanking, Rivals Launch War |New Revolutionary Calendar Established BRITISH | In the Soviet Union CLIQUE | MOSCOW, Sept. 27.—The Soviet ANG GOVERNMENT | government has published a decree revolutionizing the calendar by establishing a year of 73 weeks of five days each, abolishing the uni versal day of rest and several reli- gious and patriotic holida; The new calendar becomes ‘effective Oc- tober 1. The holidays left from the for calendar will be May 1 and Novem- ber 7, anniversaries of the revolu- tion, and January 22, memorial day for Lenin. Under the new calendar the four Nanking issues optimistic reports that the revolt in the central and southern regions is “broken,” coun- ter reports from Honkong say that the commander at Canton, General Chang Chai-tong, has joined the revolt of Chang Fa-kwei. Martial Jaw is declared at Canton. Shanghai} is reported occupied by revolting troops. | Chang Fa-kwei is known to have| allied himself with the Kwangsi clique, which has always been used by Britain, and he also is known to be connected in the present revolt with Wang Ching-wei, once head of the so-called “left”? Kuomintang) government of Hankow in 1927 be-| fore the whole Kuomintang became | counter-revolutionary. The fact that Nanking is sending 16,000 troops toward Ichang, sup- ported by five gunboats, and that extremely strict censorship rules are being issued, belies Nanking’s usual optimistic reports. Other signs of wide civil war are troop movements to check a possible advance from the north by Feng Yu-hsiang, and the sharp fall in banknotes. Wang Ching-wei and ten other so- called “left” Kuomintangites have issued a manifesto denouncing Chiang Kai-shek and demanding “reorganization” of the Kuomintang, identifying the signers as partisans of the present military revolt by stating that “fighting” will cease only when Chiang Kai-shek is over- thrown, The heavy argument of the manifesto is against the graft and corruption of Chiang’s regime and follows a purely bourgeois line of calling for a “honest, clean govern- ment.” Wang -Ching-wei’s where- abouts is supposedly “unknown” but everybody knows he recently ar- rived at Honkong. The manifesto was given out here Starving Workers Aid Gastonia Defendants (Continued from Page One) creased spitit, demanding the free- dom of the prisoners. Need United Front. The rank and file united front of the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- lief Campaign is especially impor- tant, the committee points out. Especially significant is the fact that a number of right-wing and inde- pendent unions, spurred on by mili- tant left-wing workers, are sending resolutions and funds to the strik- ers, Alfred Wagenknecht, chair- man of the campaign, declared yes- térday that not enough work has been: done in broadening the united front base. “Indications are that labor organizations, organizations that contain large working class ele- | ments, are ready to give and work for the freedom of the Gastonia prisoners,” he said. “A Lithuanian Catholic organiza- | tion sent us a substantial contribu- tion the other day. A. F. of L. lo- cal unions are contributing in all) the larger cities. Other organiza-| tions that recently sent funds are the miners of the Orient mine, in Illinois, 1,500 strong, who have as- sessed themselves 25 cents each for Gastonia; the $100 from Local 54 of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers; $15 from the Brotherohod of Railroad Trainmea, Local 846; $50 from the Painters’ Local, No. 989, of Newark, N. J., and $12 from the Foremost Sportsmen’s Shop. Protest Meetings Continue. The Pacific Coast reports many activities also, under Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, the organizer for the Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign. The workers of San Francisco, and Oakland will hold a} mass demonstration Saturday at) Third and Minna Sts., on behalf of the Gastonia prisoners. They are actively preparing for their three day bazaar, October cel COMPLETE TOUR FREE SOVIET VISAS SHANGHAI, Sept. 27.—Although®- 11, 12 and 13. |. See...... SOVIET RUSSIA Be on the Red Square to Witness the Celebration of the 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF NOV, REVOLUTION Group Sails:—S.S. AQUITANIA—October 23 The Oldest Travel Organization to Send Tourists to the U. S. 8, R ——_——_ | workdays of the week will be leng- to all press correspondents. Local thened by 30 minutes although the! Chinese papers of course are for-| uninterrupted work-week schedule bidden to publish it and American| provides for different groups of| imperialist correspondents are send-| workmen resting on different days. | ing denials of its statements and) Schools and all institutions will be| praising the American Kemmerer | reorganized. Many factories already | financial mission to Nanking. jhave established the five day week | IN COTTON MILLS nomenclature of the’new week would |be numerical as “Oneday,” “two- Facts Refute Lauding of Bosses by Writers day”, ete. Engineers and economists predict | greater productivity and prosperity. (Continued from Page Oned | rrvectin of Moscow, official Sqviet oppressing the workers in their inills government organ, charged yester- with the $10 a week wage, the 12-/ dy, according to a cable from the | hour night shift for women and/tnited Press correspondent there children, ete., but are fine, paternal, | that French authorities were per-| social leaders, interested only in the ‘scouting thousands: of former white welfare of their “hands. | Russians in Paris who are attempt- The “Welfare” Swindle. jing to make peace with the Soviet Company unionism and “welfare | regime. | work” go together in the Southern, The Izvestia found that several) mills, in so far as either has been|had applied for Soviet citizenship | introduced, they have the same ob-/ and that 6,000 already had joined jective. Both are supercilious, cyni- | the Union for re-patriation, but that | cal endeavors on the part of the! Paris police were raiding them and| bosses to fool the workers into be-|in many instances beating them and | ing better slaves. deporting them. “Welfare work,” or “community| The article accuses the French work,” as the hired writers for the| ministry of the interior of openly | metropolitan papers call it during | acting as representatives of the in- the present campaign to whitewash | terests of the Russian white guards, | Manville-Jenckes, is always alluded |an anti-Bolshevist organization. to as an addition to workers’ wages; “the wages in Southern mills are low,” the argument runs, “but low wages plus the wonderful com- munity work given the mill opera- tive by his boss equals high wages.” French Police Harass ‘FormerWhites Seeking | |Citizenship in U.S.S.R. | jon the job, evidently there will be| }an excuse for not giving the “un- deserving mill hands” anything more than they are getting. Meanwhile, however, they can be Would Make It Pay. | of use to the boss men. In the Gas- Douglas G. Woolf, managing edi-| tonia Gazette article on Smyre mills tor of the Textile World, stated | it is unctiously announced that the | editorially in his issue of July 13: | mill bosses have organized among “There is only one way in which all; the common working people a the innuendoes and applications on|“mothers’ club” and a “young la- | both sides can be answered, and that | dies’ club.” is by the allocation of all wages to “The mothers’ club prepare, and the pay envelopes, and the charging | the. young ladies’ club serve, the on a rational basis for all com- | various banquet suppers when the munity activities.” Feuer: Abia and eae ia ti ‘i |at the head of various departments This is propaganda, of course, fo¥ |; the mill get together for mutual | conference and shop talk,” says the when an examination is made of the “communtiy work” even when | ovticle described by its friends, as in the % A ee casa of the Smyre Mills just out| But the operation of ‘the system) may be even clearer from the fol- | |lowing editorial comment in the| of Gastonia, it is seen that it would make little addition to a pay en-| narotte Observer of August 16:| |“There are dozens of plants man-| velope. The writer is Mrs. Joe Gribble, and her article is in the | aged by sakn wholbreat their ‘hands’ | Gastonis Gast beta: 25: |as members of a common family, | Good Christians and Yarn. yobnobbing with them on all ocea- | There ‘it is explained just whatjsions, devising amusements for the community work is for and how it | operates: “... the work of mak-jsonally joining in the festivities. ing good people, good Christians and} These plants religiously observe good yarn combnied,” and again,)the ‘picnic’ occasion in summer “Good houses without good house-|time and the turkey distribution at keepers, more money without the Thanksgiving and Christmas. Plants | knoweldge of its right use, shorter|so managed are unaffected by the hours to work without the vital con-|labor disturbances that have be- cern of good use of idle time, will! come common in sections invaded by only tend to multiply the ills that|the Communists.” now exist,” say the Smyre Mills; This last is a pious hope that welfare workers and their reporter, workers under the influence of the Mrs. Gribble. welfare stunts will not revolt, and The better houses, shorter hours,|is already denied by the facts, but and higher wages are not to bejit shows another reason for this given the mill workers at present or|“community service,” already pro- in the near future, evidently, for|claimed as a substitute for wages, benefit of the employes, and per-| MOSCOW PARTY DOCKERS ONEAST DISTRICT ENDS RIVER PIER SET ITS CONFERENCE ABOUT $8 A WEEK Condemns RightWing; Ryan, A. F. L. Fakers} Act for 5 Year Plan Not Interested MOSCOW, U. . SR. (By Wir- (By a Worker Correspondent) delayed).—Moscow Party dis-| Near Wall Street, New York, conference ended Friday. It there is a street called South Street, approved completely the policy of which runs along the Hast River the Central Committee of the Com-| Waterfront, There the dockworkers | munist Party, condemned the capi- jaye, tulating right wingers, and ex-| pressed its solidarity with the de-), "iNid. ©o) cisions of the Executive Committee eee 2 of the Communist International, in- | me 3 BBY cluding that to remove Bucharin|the day's wor ; from office. | On South Street are the docks of The conference threatened organ- Ward Line, Jette Oe ae ational consequences unless the and te Atlantic Frut Every day early in the morning workers come to look vork, Only a few get Bucharin group ceases its struggles |Co- Many of these docks, poate against the Communist Party. Oe Ae) SOB RU akon Sieh oe i ‘: : : ized. The workers slave under the| Fifth Day Holiday. most miserable onditions, carrying The conference adopted a series of measures intended to carry out the five-year plan. A district committee was elected consisting of 288 member: committee at its first session elected Baumann, Polonski and Leonov as secretaries. The Central Council of Soviet | Labor Unions presented for discus- sion a draft plan for theintroduc- tion of the uninterrupted working week, which provided for every fifth day to be a rest day, plus five revo- lutionary holidays annually for evreybody. CALL SOUTHERN TUUL CONVENTION, Co-operation with Big | Textile Conference (Continued from Page One) loads of bananas for 55 cents hour. The work lasts four to hours a day, pay averaging $2.20) to $3.30 a day. The dockers stand much abuse. ‘The foreman is al- ways on top of you. The workers cannot breathe a minute for the) speed-up system is on full swing. They are not allowed to go out to eat, and after working four or five hours the men are se clock to check their time. The con- veyers on the ships add to the slavery. There are always plenty of men outside the docks to replace those who are fired for being un- able to stand the swift pace. Wages average $8 to $12 a week, because work is so unsteady. In the summer four ships arrive a week, and in the winter only three. These dockers live in filthy, dark, unsani- tary homes. The labor fakers of the A. F. of| L., Ryan, president of the Interna-| tional Longshoremen’s Association, and Green and Co. do not care to| organize these workers. They are! interested only in getting high| \salaries for themselves. tery ; | Waterfront workers, better your er ae ah kinds, | conditions by organizing in a fight- deste a sation, unem-| ing, honest union. Join the Marine povaeniientapolonta? ‘child tas [0 On ts ore bor—fight against capitalist ra-| tionalization—fight against imper- | jalist war—-defend the Soviet Union, the fatherland of the world’s work- ing class, against attacks of the imperialist powers: these are the He WORKER. Fascists and Workers ‘Battle Near Berlin; i ailed slogans and demands under which Communists Are J our campaign for organization of ppRrIN (By Mail). — The local the unorganized and the great 1,05; reports 21 arrested after Ger- struggles which’ are arising out of ian fascists and national socialists ab cao eae ccee | attacked workers at Cukoelin, south- Central Trades for Defense. —_ cast of Berlin. The police tried to George Saul, International Labor! arrest only Communists, who were Defense organizer, spoke before the fighting in the froht ranks of the Charlotte Central Labor Union re-| workers, hut because he was actu- cently, appealing for support in the) allly shooting when the police came, fight against the terrorism, and for| had to take in one na’ the defense of the members of the) member of the Reichstag. National Textile Workers Union x whom the mill bosse sare trying to| Build Up the United Front of electrocute.. The. Central Labor| the Working Class From the Bot- Union decided to send telegrams to| tom Up—at the Enterprises! the Amreican Federation of Labor demanding support in the struggle. se tion to lynch, Ben Wells and two The new trial, ordered after the other organizers, would be dropped mistrial, Sept. 9, of Fred eBal and from the case. This was officially 15 other textile strikers and or-|announced today. The papers carry ganizers, begins Monday, with the | inspired stori ing that “many same judge and the same tactics | citizens” have insisted that he re- cf attempting a packed jury and|main in the battery of lawyers as- the death of 13 ofthese workers | sisting ahe state in the attempt to m the electric chair, with long/railroad the union organizers prison terms for the rest. electrneution. It was previously announced that| It is being made plain that Man- Bulwinkle, smeared with mill boss-|ville-Jenckes insists that despite the es’ money in too public a fashion to| unsavory reputation of Bulwinkle, make his retention in the prosecu-|which he has earned as organizer tion really advisable, and identified|and leader of the bosses black hun- as a leader of the murderous mill|dreds, their favorite must be re- gangsters who kidnapped with inten-! tained. s a S. A. Lanier, the | leader,” has a duty to find things = OLD FOLKS WITH “YOUNG” KIDNEYS bad, when she “makes a house to| se middle life need not yield to kid- house visit of the village .. . lis. | tening sympathetically to tales of ey or bladder weakness, Many older folks, formerly sulfering from backaches, nigh? | sorrow, encouraging the weak, | monishing in a motherly way the rising, irregular, painful elimination, ete. now have comparatively “young™ kidneys trouble maker . . . an arm about a wayward girl and a_ heartfelt thanks to a proper diet and oe Santal Midycapsules.Genuine talk.” As long as Mrs, Lanier is bear signature of Dr.L. Midy, Child Wanted Ssvsccus RY WOMAN WHO CAN AFFORD 24, Good drugs gists can supply thea, People Cate | i | | | i NEW YORK LONDON LENINGRAD MOSCOW °29s. WORLD TOURISTS 175 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK Flatiron Building Telephone: Algonquin 6656 — 8797 The Famous Argentine Tango and Other Stage Dances Will Be Exhibited by TONIGHT PROF. JOAQUIN ORTEGA AND HIS DISCIPLES AT THE BIG DANCE given by the International Art, Music and Dancing Association AT THE ROYAL PALACE 16 Manhattan Avenue, Near Broadway, Brooklyn 10 minutes from Canal St. B.M.T. Lines. Get off at Flushing Ave. Sta. THE SOVIET UNION LOOKS AHEAD THE FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR ECONOMIC CONSTRUCTION $33,000,000,000 to spend This is the staggerin sum of money which the Soviet Union plans to spend during its new five-year program of economic ex- pansion. This is the first English publication of the plan which will transform an agricultural country into one of the world’s leading industrial powers. The prospects for Soviet-American business relations during the coming half-decade, and the Soviet Union's own plans embracing industry, agriculture, transport, electrification, social and educational undertakings are all set forth in this remarkable book. Illustrated, with maps, charts, and diagrams. $2.50 To Your Bookseller, or Horace Liveright, 61 West 48th St., New York City Please send me. Jeopies of “The Soviet Union Looks Ahead" at $2.50 apiece. (Add 10¢ per book for postage) NAME sreccessssssanrsssssenereonee ADDRESS 1 { tional socialist | to} The Men Whom Mahon Betrays errr | | | Mahon, Mitten Plan Harder Slavery tor Street Carmen (By a Worker Correspondent) eveland Street Railway conductors | CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail). d motormen. Forty per cent of the runs are runs of nine hours Mahon, sident of Amal mated Street ani Elec ers Union is a prize sold out many strikes and it to us carmen to get rid of him. s great friend Mitten, million- aire of Philadelphia is a scab lover and a strikebreaker and recently assisted the deal which caused the he ‘ C e in ten hous. Forty per cent hours in thirteen hours. wenty per cent are nine hours in fourteen hours. The runs that require nine to thirteen and fourteen hours to com- ‘plete are the most inhuman as they start about m. and then work ine is up / Imp 7 | erialisms MAHON SUPPORTS INSULL AGAINST CHICAGO CARMEN | Pai 5 Calls .Slavery “Fair? , 4 Conditions (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO M A : work- er who dares to oppose the (By in Ch dis- tion regime go charged from his job on the Chicago elevated or steel car lines and the yellow company union with Mahon s no effort to ¥e. ainmen must know at the head r | 1 only one thing, “loyalty Ore posted on how to operate instate him. to the com- are pany.” trai heat in the car when to put on time of the ar to open and close windows, when to wear your sv ter clothes, and if you fi out these orders ye re discha: and a ward put to |trouble” of g some one to take your place. On heet post are igned our ¥ y day we During the first four or six } we are on |the extra list with four to five hours per day during the evening and morning rush, with an eight |hour assignment about every eight jdays in place of conductor jwho is off duty. some jemployes of Mitten to lose about two or three hours; then off 1% $2,215,000. The Mitten company|0r two hours and back for a couple union plan will not go with us car- Of hours; off again a couple of men in Cleveland if the progres-|hours and back during the rush sives have anything to sa hour period and finish about 7 p. m. | The labor fakers likely planned | or later some other schemes to skin the, In addition to ten to thirteen workers while they were sightseeing hours of slavery each day, we have at their annual convention in Seat-,4 pension plan as a burden to shoulder and the community fund is forced at us each year. The pen- sion fund is the bunk. The Cleve- land Railway Company insurance plan has the provision that employes going on strike or “ceasing work when their services are required” will not be eligible for a pension. ier Only a real, fighting, industrial of nerve-| union will end this slavery. —CARMAN. jtle, Wash., recently. We must keep jour eyes open and turn our company unions into real fighting unions on an industrial basis. We are being enslaved more than ever and that is the reason we should fight all the |harder and stick together as mili- |tant fighters. The following schedule shows the long hours training work prevailing for the; \s This is what our union chief pr ident Mahon calls ir condition }He assures us that he will continue to fight in the future for these “fine” conditions as well as for the Mitten plan which he is supporting. The reader should not be surprised since this betrayer of labor is an ardent supported of the Insull fran- lchise and a jolly good friend of these political fakers. | CHICAGO TRACTION | WORKER. Seamens Institute-a Nest of Rats, Stool-Pigeons (By a Worker Correspondent) second morning that I was down in Did you know that there is a pri-|the lobby, I was not feeling very |son at 25 South Street? No? Then |Well and wanted to go to my room lyou have never enjoyed the hospi-|for a short time. Upon asking the |tality that this place so kindly of-|¢lerk across the bars to give me my jfers to one and to all. For all who|key, he replied in a home-like ma have been there realize that this ner that my key would be avail- |place is a prison, even tho the able to me at six that evening and |guests are allowed out on parole not sooner. |during a large part of the day. We| Upon asking the uniformed ele- jare told that this doubtful dump is yator boy how much “Dear Old a home, hotel and club for seamen Mother” Roper gave him for his and harbor workers. As such it’s long hours of work, he replied jinfluence is supposed to be helpful “Twenty-two dollars per month.” I |to those who tarry there from time ‘supposed that he has wisely invested to time (by the way, often the first this money, and by the time he is is also the last time). well past middle age, he will be When one arrives there, unless Jable to retire and live in comfort the rest of his life, and give con- |tinued praise to this institution that made such a thing possible. Mother Roper, referred to above, jeach year writes pitiful letters of supplication to the various capital- ists of the country, asking them to |contribute liberally to the support |of this institution for the downtrod- den seamen. These letters sure do get results. Was there not recently {a million dollar addition added to the home? But if these donations jhave built this home, what of the |untold thousands of dollars that are lextracted from the pockets of sea- men who patronize this place? We lare inclined to wonder if the answer {could not be found in the bank ac- count of a certainn well known fig- {ure in the home, club and hotel for |seamen, longshoremen and dock- ‘workers.—L, C. early in the morning, the cheerful minions of the law lends just the Tight amount of homelike atmos- phere to this bastile-club for seamen. TELEPHONE Over 60,000 Mem On the reverse side of this tag are the prison rules and regulations. Pardon, I mean suggestions for your behavior in this home. Modern ele- vators deposit you on the tier in | Which your cell is located. The di- |mensions of the cells are seldom so jlarge as to give one-a feeling of |being lost upon the boundless prai- |ries of the west. No, quite the con- |trary, Eight feet by ten is about |the average size (nice and cozy, you |see, home-like). Benefits paid Death Benefit: $4,149,001.77 Total: $ Workers! Death Benefit according to th or both classes: CLASS 0 cents per month. to $175 at the age of 44. Parents may insure their chi of 18. Death Benefit according to This article is the result of a pipe Sick Benefit paid from the fir |dream. No, not at all. Only a few days ago I was forced by circum- stances to patronize this joyous abode of kindness and good fellow-— ship. I know whereof I speak. The for another forty weeks. each for another forty weeks, For further information apply tional Secretary, or to the Financ! by getting behind the Thursday, October 3rd. oe 50 Friday, October 4th 50 | * ‘ Saturday, October 5th, + $1.00 Combination Sunday, October 6th oe 50 $ ee | Total.......6.+..4+°$2.50 On Sale at Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq Answer the Attacks of the Social Fasci DAILY WORKER MORNING FRETHEIT sight of two or more blue-coated) Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1884—INCORPORATED 1899 MAIN OFFICE: 9 Seventh Street (Cor. 3rd Ave.), New> York, N. Y. : ORCHARD 3449 bers in 344 Branches Reserves on December 31, 1928: $2,999,114.44 since its existence: Sick Benefit: 14,274,941.63 $10,125,939.86 Protect Your Families! In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! e age at the time of initiation in one —Death Benefit $ at the age of 16 CLASS B: 50 cents per month—Death Benefit $550 to $230. Idren in case D age $20 to st day of filing t death up to the age he doctor's certificate. $9 and $15, resp., per week, for the first forty weeks, half of the amount Sick Benefits for women: $9 per week for the first forty weeks; $4.50 at the Main Office, William Spuhr, Na~ ial Secretaries of the Branches. sts Against the BAZAAIR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Eighth Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 6 Leave all your buying for those days because Madison Square Garden will be turned into A FOUR-DAY DEPARTMENT STORE for all four days 1.25 uare, New. York