The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1929, Page 3

| | | ie tT DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU NOVEMBER 12, 1929 LABOR | OF MACDONALD AGAIN MPERIALIST TRICKERY GOVERNMENT IS OVEN IN IRAQ DEBATE British Propose “Independent” Status to End. Its Present Mandate Over Arabs But Sinée British Influence Will Decide, It Strengthens Its Hold on Mosul Oil GENEVA, Nov. 10.—Another ex- ample of skilled hyprocrisy on the part of the labor imperialist gov- ernment of England is seen in the ‘deliberations” of the League of Nations mandate commission over | the question as to whether Iraq, now a British mandate because of the Mosul oil fields, should continue as | i mandate of Britain, or should be | allowed “independence”—as’ a part | of the League of Nations, | Of course it would make no dif- | ference as far as freeing the Arabs of Iraq from British domination, Bu tthe MacDonald goyernment has need for appearing to be less im- perialist than it is since the Arabs of the whole Near East are stirring. And besides, Italy, which received no mandate, and has n complain- ing, must b» disarmed by some “im- partial” tribunal from thinking too jmuch about Iraq and Mosul oil, Therefore, the British government gets the League of Nations to de- bate the matter of turning Iraq from a British mandate into an “in- dependent” member of the League. The British’ representative proposes Britain > “relieved” of its man- date, and when, through British in- fluence, the League decides “impar- tially” against the propcsal, Italy is shut off from pressing its de- mands, and while the Arab magses may not be deluded, world opinion is influenced to think that Englend, after all, is trving to get rid of the Mosul oil fields by refusing to carry “the white mc~’s burden” longer in Traq. HOOVER'S SPEECH EXCUSE FOR WAR Communists Expose} War Danger in Meet (Continued from Page One) | by the covenant of the League of | Nations, agreed that if nations fail to settle their differences peaceably then force should be applied by | other nations to compel them to be | reasonable. We have refused to | travel this road.” | He stated rather plainly that the! U. 8. Government would fight for interests of U. S. capitalists abroad: “We must realize that some of them will get into trouble somewhere. . . We have an obligation, and every nation has an obligation, to see to the protection of their lives, and that justice is done to them so long as they comply with the laws of the countries in which they reside, From .all of these relationships frictions and controversies will arise daily.” “Adequate Preparedness.” He then praised the Kellogg pacts, the U. S. world organization rival to the League of Nations, called for an extension of its powers, and wound up that phase of the argu- ment by saying, “I am for ade- quate preparedness as a guarantee that no foreign soldier shall ever step upon the soil of our country. . .. Proper defense requires mili- tary strength relative to that of other countries.” After which he invited others to disarm first, say~ ing, “We will reduce our naval strepgth in proportion to any other. Having said that, it only remains for the others to say how low they will go.” “Freedom of Seas.” His address began with an ex- pression of pride in the American army and navy, and included a declaration for the “freedom of the seas,” and the right of food ships to go through any blockade-—a right that if claimed during the last world war would have caused U. S. to fight England instead of Germany, and which is now relied on as a princi- pal theoretical weapon against Eng- land, intended to rally, if possible, the masses against this present en- emy of American imperiailsm. The entire tone of the speech, heavily camouflaged by pacifist phrtseology, was an argument for the American imperialist side in the fairly clearly foreshadowed ap- proaching war with British imper- one of the most probable causes of a new war, “There are peoples aspir- ing to a greater measure of self- government.” It is part of Hoover’s propaganda that the “people” of the Soviet Union wish a capitalist demo- eracy instead of the class rule of the workers and peasants. He prac- tically admitted in his speech today that a counter revolution in the U. 8. S. R, under the banner of capi- talist democracy would cause armed action in its aid by the U. S, govern- ment, ese Gee; Legion Stresses Loyalty.” INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, Nov, 11,— Major O. L. Bodenhamer, command- er of the American Legion, issued an armistice day statement today which calls the legion to fight any force that interferes with the con- tinued rule of capitalism in Amer- ica, which he characterized as ‘“‘con- tinued service to the nation.” He said: “A day of joy though this may be, still it strikes hard the note of loyalty which characterized the ser- vice of our men in time of war.” ee oe “Adequate Armed Forces.” Governor Roosevelt of New York, between conferences with Tammany leaders over what should be done to smash the chance of a disastrous scandal over Tammany bauking, cul- minating in the Riordan suicide Fri- day, still found time to preside at the spectacular militarist ceremony called “massing the colors” held at 2 church at 90th St. and 5th Ave. This celebration is performed an- nually on the eve of Armistice Day. Roosevelt. said that “the true function of the patriot was not alone to seek maintenance of adeqaute armed forces but to fight constant- ly against the moral enemies of the republic who menace ideals of lib- erty, equality and justice.” ‘Moral enemies” of the capitalist republic was clearly understood by his audi- ence as meaning any workers who object to continued exploitation in industry, or to being cannon fodder when these “adequate armed forces” next go out to battle for colonies, trade routes, raw materials and slave labor for the owners of Amer- ica. Drum and Whalen Speak. General Hugh A. Drum was intro- duced by master of ceremonies, Lolice Commissioner Grover Whalen, at the Armistice Day affair at Madi- son square yesterday. Drum argued for a bigger army and navy, taking it for granted that his hearers knew a new world slaughter was coming. “Peace time neglect of our Ameri- can defenses cost us billions in treasure,” he said, jalism, A veiled threat at the U. S. S. R. was made when Hoover stated as Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom’ Up—at the Enterprises! FIGHT SOUTHERN MILL BOSSES _ WITH DAILY, SAYS SAYLORS (Continued from Page One) ers Union, so I know that only a militant union like the National Tex- tile Workers will lead us——and a fi; ighting paper like the Daily, too, “So I ask every worker to send contributions at once to rush the Daily Worker South, “And every working class organization must adopt a mill village hard years of experience in slavery and keep it ~pplied with tho Dailies.” Sayle eaking to you from and bosse Daily Worker, What’s your answer to him, workers? * . * 26 Union Square, New York City. Enclosed is my contribution to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South,” as an answer to the appeal to us workers made by C. E. Saylors. Name ..sseveves Address . City . Amount $. . S. Imperialist in Protest at Shanghai Bar on Scab Journal SHANGHAI, Nov. 10.—It is a case of “crow eat crow” for Carl Crow, |editor of the American owned) | Shanghai Evening Post, barred from! the mails by order of the Nanking) government, without giving a reason. The role of such imperialist sheets | in China is seen by the character of Crow’s objections. He says that he) not only has declared that Chiang | | j | |KaKi-shek’s white terror is “the best | government China has known for| jsome time” (that, of course, is not) saying much), but that his paper broke a strike of Chinese printers, that it attacked Colonel Yuan Liang because, so Crow says, “innocent! strike --breakers” were imprisoned | and strikers not arrested. | The murderous terror of the| Kuomintang official was not mur-| derous enough for Crow, spokesman for American imperialism. Such im- perialist sheets traditionally demand | the complete massacre of strikers, | and when the Kuomintang execution-| ers d onot behead enough victims, | the imperialist press attacks them) for “doing nothing against the Com-| munist menace.” Since American| imperialism had bought and paid for | tke Nanking government, Crow rightfully judged it his duty to see that Nanking’s fascist “labor code” was fulfilled. Crow protests that while he did criticize Colonel Yuan, he only did so to point out that Yuan was not enforcing Nanking’s “labor laws.” ACCORS! TRIAL BEGINS MONDAY Arrest 14 in Calif, Ter- ror Reign {Continued from Page One} coal and iron police who murdered Barkoski. * * * Terror in Los Angeles, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 11.— The Los Angeles workers’ celebra- tion of the Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution was a great success, attended by 2,000 workers, | despite th eterror reign by the| police. Police arrested Leo Gallagher, In- ternational Labor Defense Attorney; Jose Arispe, a Mexican worker; John Owens, Negro worker; and two Japanese at the mass meeting. In addition, 14 workers had been arrested between Nov. 7 and Nov. 9, A big collection was raised, and great enthusiasm displayed. On Saturday, two open air meet- igs were broken up by the police, anc six members of the Communist Party were beaten up and arrested. Later they were released on bail. Three Young Pioneers are still held. The workers at the demonstration fought the police in order to protest the Communist speakers. eee wee LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11.—In an effort to crush the revolutionary spirit of militant workers here, who were preparing for the Twelfth An- niversary celebration, police ar- rested eight workers in a week, Those arrested were charged with “illegal distribution of handbills,” because they gave workers dodgers telling of the Twelfth Anniversary meeting. These victims of the lo- cal Chamber of Commerce are Lil- lian Silverman, Gus Hunter, George Kiosz, Soko Hariuchi, Rose Spector, Minnie Fradkin and Sima Kaspin. Bail was furnished by the Inter- national Labor Defense. Despite the arrests, over 35,000 leaflets in Eng- lish, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese have been distributed by the Com- munist Party and Communist Youth League, Street corner meetings are being held in spite of police inter- ference. The terror against Los Angeles Communists and other militant workers is part of the general ter- ror instigated by the open shop bosses in the state. Included in this terror reign was the arrest and sen- teneing to long prison terms of those who conducted the workers’ chil- dren’s camp at Yucaipa. * 8 WILKES - BARRE, Noy, 11. — Charges of Sadition—the club that the Pennsylvania industrialists wield to batter down the demands of the working-class — are now in Wilkes- Barre, in the Anthracite, where Jen- nie Gorman and D. A. Gorman go on trial November 20, Both are out under $2,000 bail. Jennie Gorman was arrested July 31, for distributing leaflets calling on workers to demonstrate against im- perialist war on International Anti- War Day, August 1. Her husband, D. A. Gorman, was taken in custody the following day when he appeared in police court to inquire concerning his wife. Both were told they would be freed if they promised to leave the district and never appear there again. When the workers refused, sedition charges were clapped on them. Their case is the fourth current in Pennsylvania. These are: the Wood- lawn case, which resulted in three EEE | workers going to prison for five FOR ORGANIZATIONS We, (Name of Organization) City and State ... wish to adopt a southern mill town or vill workers there are supplied with... every day for..........weeks. We inclose $. \ ter pe eeeeweseres and see to it that the copies of the Daily Worker Kindly send us the name of the mill village or city assigned to us, we wish to communicate with the workers there. Pe erticinreer: years; the Bethlehem sedition case in which three more workers, Wm. Murdoch, Wm. Brown and Anna Burlak, go on trial in December and the Philadelphia sedition case where two workers face trial at the next) term of court, The International Labor Defense, now conducting @ drive for 60,000 new members and for immediate funds to fight this wave of oppres- sion, calls on the working-class of (he land, to mobilize in mags protest. LIBERIA YELLS FOR WHITEWASH OF SLAVE PACT U. S. Slave Drivers to | Besseme | | | | | 4 a! (By a worker correspondent.) I Investigate Salves | Bessmer City, N. C. (By Muil.)— ‘a To all workers and to whom it may PARIS, Nov. 11. — The little concern, I am a textile worker 40 known semi-colonial pos: ion of years old and I have worked in thd American imperialism in Africa, the | mills for For the last “republic” of Liberia, going | ings have been getting be “investigated” by itself and its vorse for us mill work- master, the United States govern- ers. we mill workers will all ment ,to counteract the charge of stick just a little closer, and all slavery and forced labor, particu- join the Nati Textile Workers larly on the (American) concession Union there wil! be a very good granted M3 Liberia to the Firestone | a change made. Rubber Company. | rs We must demand a good day’s In order to “prove” that the con- . | wages for our work and to do this | cessions given Firestone and other | oe | we must organize, all workers m | imperialist coneerns have noeHtas AF come as one and stick to each to do with such an odious thing as | g ey < other. slavery, even the League of Nations | : -_ | We can and we must have a real * nies to ree representative | union in the South and we have got © the “investigating commission. t1¢ |such a real union, one that can’t be But although the League might like AFL Scorns Militant Peas eae rpek genie be get to . eS ee eet |Action for Reading! Phe chict of police of Mount Hul- : Mae bic : s ley stopped me in the street cn the This results from Liberia care- Packinghouse Strike ycitth block and told to ine to fully specifying that the commis- sion must determine whether slav-| ery “as defined by the League’s an- ti-slavery convention” exists in Li- beria. Since the League of Nations’ anti-slavery convention” in reality legalizes and recognizes slavery by its “definitions,” the U. S. and Li-/{ | explain my business and when I ex- plained my werk, he said, it you don’t get out of here we will put vou Where Ella May is sleeping. Mill workers, you can see the kind of law we have; we workers must organize and work to better SCRANTON, Pa. Nov. 11.— | Drivers, butchers and meat cutters at the “Big Four” packing houses of Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson are still holding solid in their strike which started on April 1. The “Big Four” packers here em- our | iene SHO r City Workers, You’ve Got to Organize! conditions just the same, Think of and children starving. Altho the black hundred may kill | one of us once in a white, don’t let us stop organizing. and their me, they may shoot or beat me up, | but I see my way to go—to work for the union, and that I will do. If they kill me there is a inan to take my place, but the work must keep us, By the 9th of December we have got fo have 50,000 more new mem- We now work harder the mill bo: are our members, telling up our and 20 a week books, | the | will y | Yes, they will give you $20 a week until they get the union run out and then you will be lucky to | get $8 or $10 for 60 and 65 hours a week. Then if you don’t you can get there is some one clse waiting 1e job. Am I right or am I wrong? Mill workers, think of your wife and chil Don’t you all need money for them? You can get it by organ- izing into a real union—the National Textile W Union —A I WORKER, J. W beria can feel sure that after the | white-wash is all over, the Negroes of Liberia’s back country will still be enduring slavery. boldened by the fact that the Ameri- g can Federation of Labor has never cared about trying to organize the unorganized workers inside the! (Continued from Page One) acpkinghouses, announce that they| Union, The fact is that I was not will no longer recognize the Drivers| officially elected to represent the : jand Chauffeurs Union, or the But-| Union and did not so claim, but (Continued from Page One) | chers and Meat Cutters, both A. F.| merely exercised my right to ‘de- tantly against these misleaders asjof L. organizations. A strike of| clare my Union effiliation. RIGHT WINGERS MINE MEETS START DRIVE.) ASTON LABOR JURY ANSWERS | Warren Billings, Greco and Carrillo, Rakosi and Tapolchany and many others who face long prison terms and the electric chair because of their activities in defense of the vight of workers to organize, to picket and to strike for better con- ditions, I am sure that the Iron and | Bronze Workers will continue The mill bosses | ool pigeons may kidnap | to| against the employers. The statement points out that the N.M.U. is controlled by its rank and file, and denounces John Watt, who, as a national president of the N.M. U. who consistently refused to do his these workers resulted. 2 Treacherous Agent. On April 1, the bosses advised the | recognize their solidarity with other ‘ il i “Business Agent Mauger, ‘clected’| struggling workers and will sup- [union officials that the men could) tc office by the right wing, and act~| port the LL.D. in its present fight continue to work in the packing’ ing with the knowledge and consent plants of the “Big Four” provided | o7 the executive board, made no ef- they tore up their union cards and! fort to verify the Times’ item by duties in that office and follow the policies of the rank and file, faces charges before the forthcoming sec- sion of the national executive board union fakers have rewarded them appeared on October 11th, using the in Pittsburgh. | by failing to conduct a militant fight| name of the Union to repudiate the The District statement points out: for the men. Labor Jury and the defense of tho Fight Both at Once | ; Gastonia strikers, and thus directly “Watt states that the coal oper-| Join Ga helping the mill bo: 0 railroad ston, Centralia ators are neutral in this struggle, our fellow workers to and that we should not fight against i 9 | “In view of the fact that our the coal operators, This the N.M.U.|,, (Comtinued from Page One) | Union has for many years both _ ry by the fascist forces of reaction on o : cannot accept. Such beliefs are) Armistice Day, 1919. They too de- morally financially supported wrong. It is well known that the 5m (a pata the splendid work of the Interna- worked without a union. The men! consulting me, but chose rather to firmly convinced _ that |displayed militancy in refuscing to| rysh to the Times, a bosses’ paper, and the executive board wozk open shop, and struck. The! in a treacherous statement which Misrepresented and disgraced our Union by their stool-pigeon action. {I hereby state that they and all those who support their traitorous, strikebreaking action are agents of the bosses in the ranks of labor, totally unfit to represent the work- ers, and guilty of the blackest kind of cowardly reactionary deed of stabbing militant strikers in the ‘back at the very moment that the coal operators are the chief enemy to be fought if we hope to oust the Lewis-Fishwick machine who are the agents of the operators. Our fight is against the operators and the fakers at the same time, One fight cannot be separated from the other. Our Union cannot agree when Watt proposes that we keep our members inside the U.M.W.A. and make futile efforts to capture the U.M.W.A. locals, to compromise, etc., instead of breaking with the Lewis machine and swinging 100 per cent to the National Miners Union. Only ,an enemy of the N.M.U. would propose such a policy, “The National Miners Union will not allow Watt to use the name of the N.M.U, in his dealings with “ Howatt, Brophy, Hapgood, and all other deserters of the miners in their struggles. These discredited men cannot take the leadership of our Union to betray its interests as Watt wishes. “The National Miners Union will now allow Watt to use the .ame of our Union to make any secret deal- ings with coal companies in order to establish rotten check-off systems through the medium of a company union as he tried to do in Bicknell, Ind,” RADIO MUSICIANS STRIKE. | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., (By Mail). —Organized musicians employed at fended their lives. | The working-class is acquainted | with the facts concerning the Amer-| iean legion, which while parading | | through the streets of Centralia, on | Armistice Day, decided to attack the | headquarters of the working-class organization. In the defense of this establishment, Wesley Everest was taken out by the fascists, mutilated and lynched, The crime was insti- gated by the Lumber Trust of the Northwest, whose profits were threatened by the organization of the workers. The International Labor Defense, which fought so able a fight in sa ing 16 of the original 28 Gastonia trifers from any prison term, and which is now struggling to halt the capitalists hangmen from throwing us in prison for the best part of our lives, is also fighting to free the Centralia workers. It is rallying workers over the land to link up in their protest, the demand “Free the Centralia prisoners.” We must not allow Eugene Barnett, Ray Becker. Bert Bland, O. €. Bland, John Lamb, James MelInerney, Britt Smith and ren Roberts to rot in prison. Continue the struggle, fellow workers of America! You have great responsibilities which you must face! The freedom of the Gastonia strik- lers is in your hands! You must also | force open the prison gates and free | the Centralia strikers! | Support the International Labor} hosses’ court wv sentencing them | te terms of 15 to 20 years in jail. (Signed) LEO HOFBAUER.” tional Labor Defense on bebalf of lass war prisorers, notably Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney and 29 Years of Mill Slavery Makes a Rebel Out of Him 4 By a Worker Correspondent. BESSEMER CITY, N. C. (By Mail—I spent about 29 years in the mills and I hope I can work the next 29 years organizing the southern mill workers for the Nationa ITex- tile Workers’ Union. It seems like the black hundred of the Manville-Jenckes Co, tries to beat up and kill all the union or- ganizers but I feel that the time wil Icome when we can turn the same back on to them. I think we will out-number them, I am not tryign to out-number tl.em in guys. I am trying to out-number them in good unio nmen who will stand shoulder to shoulder to build up our union that stands for us. We are not making enough te live on now, and we can’t schoo] the kids, and if we fail to build a tsrong union this will get worse even thar it is now. That is why thousands of work- ers that are not in the union yet are pulling for all union workers. Al- though the bl << hundre* has raided and killed and beat our men ané women, We intend to keep working to make a change in our conditions. All Bessemer City and Gastonis join the National Textile rs’ Union.—J. W. Detroit Youth Hold q 12th Anniversary ‘ Celebration Sunday DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 11—Young workers of Detroit, for the firs‘ time, will hold a mass celebration o: the Anniversary of the Octoher Re: volution, all of their own, The youth celebration is scheduled for Sunday November 17, at 2:30 p.m, at Trade Union Center, 8782 Woodward Ave. under the auspices of the Young |Communist League. Mass singing | musical recitations, etc. will feature APPEAL HARBIN SENTENCES | (Wireless By Imprecorr) | HARBAROVSK, U.S.S.R., Nov. 1! —The Soviet citizens sentenced te {long prsion terms at Harbin, Man |churia, have appealed against the sentences, which were dictated by high chinese officials. Even the local prosecutors admit the senten: ces are “too seere.” 9 At R ockland Palace SATURDAY YOUR COMMUN THE MASSES IN TASK—HELP C THE BASIC ONNECT INDUSTRIES WITH OUR OFFICIAL ORGAN—THE DAILY WORKER. THEREFORE YOU MUST COME TO radio station WGBF in Evansville italist oppression! Join the I. L. D.| have struck after a demanded wage Defense in its struggles against cap-| increase was refused by the em-|and help it with the greatly neces- ployers. \sary funds to carry on this struggle! | Baily 325 Worker Entertainment YO U | and Dance MUST FREE THE FIVE GASTONIA PRISONERS ON BAIL at once! They are waiting for your action. $20,000 bail stands between them and freedom. Fred Beal and Red Hendrix, now out on bail, appeal ‘for their fellow-workers still in prison, Act at once—today! Canvass for cash loans, for contributions, for bonds They are waiting behind the bars for your answer! EVERY MINUTE COUNTS! EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS! Notify Your Local I. L. D, Headquarters or the National Office of the International Labor Defense 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City ROCKLAND PALACE West 155th Street, corner Eighth Avenue. Right at Polo Grounds, where you saw the Soviet | Russian Flyers last Saturday. Saturday, Nov. 16 REGISTRATION AT THE DOOR to assure the fulfillment of your Party task by your attendance. | PURPOSE: TO QREATE A PUND TO HE WORKDR so THAT Ir MAY MASSES OF WORK DANGER, THE se P SPREAD THE DAILY MUNIST PARTY, FOR THE WORKERS’ FATHERLAND! Rockland Palace Saturday 15,000