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an ar in, 7) epi th gr an ol all de he: uit ish + 1 a Ba . & DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930 _ INTERNATIONAL \NANKINGE SNEWS © *yench Strike \tnternational | German Bosses Is Unshaken; Defeat Fakers ==> (Wireless By Inprecorr) PARIS, Aug. 15.—The strike of 0,000 workers in the North of rance is unshaken. Demonstra- | ions organized by the revolution- | ry trade unions and the Commv- | Party were held in Hellemmes, Roubaix and Halluin, espite the soldie: The strikers have rejected the re- ormist, proposal of a wage increas: f twenty-five centimes and demand hirty to equalize price: ee ® The workers are striking against fake social insurance bill, which ries to transfer the burden onto he backs of the workers. Under evolutionary leadership the strike as been spread under the demand hat the government and the bosses tand the cost of social insurance, nd that the wages of all workers e increased, due to increased ric PRAVDA HAILS CHINA SOVIETS fall of Changsha Is Blow to Trotskyites MOSCOW.—Commenting on the aking of Changsha and Nanchang xy the Red troops, the Pravda vrites: “Changsha under the Soviet rule neans that the proletarian revolu- ion in South China has captured ts first hig town. Changsha has a certain proletarian backbone, but the peasant movement has now ob- tained a proletarian leadership The Kuomintang counter-revolution and the imperialist powers behind it have suffered a severe defeat. In a semi-colonial country the Soviet idea is gaining ground in the strug- | gle against the bourgeois counter-| revolution and against imperialism. | “Trotsky prophesied a long period | of the blackest reaction for China, while the Chinese Trotskyists, Chen and the other renegades supported him. The Trotskyists rejected the Leninist. policy of the Communist International. The taking of Chang- | sha by the revolutionary troops was | a hard blow both for the Trotsky- ists and the right-wing renegades. | Only a little while ago Roy sneered at the Chinese Communists, who, he declaredy were leading “the pea- sant masses i. the most backward parts of backward China and hoped to form Soviet governments. “The taking of Changsha is the) defeat of the Chinese right-wing op-| portunists who wanted to replace} the slogan of Soviets by that of the constitutional assembly. The for- mation of Soviet governments is on! the agenda in China. Only the Sov- iet government in China can lead | the country out of the present blind alley. The agrarian revolution! must be the revolution of the poor! and middle peasants and it mast be supported fearlessly by the Com-| munists. The Communists must} also support the introduction of the | 8-hour day, wage increases and so-} cial legislation, etc. The proletariat of Hankow, Shanghai and the other Foreign bolic) More Warlik (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The spece: vf Minister Treviranus, demanding varlike change of the German {or eign policy, has caused a wide sen- sation here, but it has not beer withdrawn, The announcement of a warlike policy by Treviranus is upported by the governmer . e « Notes Switzerland—The can- tonal parliament of “democratic” sasle has expressed approval wf the government’s action in prohibiting strike picketing and establishing a sort of martial law against the strike of the woodworkers, ei SHANGHAI.—Despite —_mobiliza- tion of large forces of police and military and armed patrols, dem- onstrations took place here on Au- cust Ist in the workers’ quarters. Twenty arrests were made. ore ea HELSINGFORS, Finland—A number of workers were arrested here for distributing Communist leaflets. The People’s Hous: has been occupied by the police. In Viiarvi the fascists attacked three workers. They were terribly beaten. One of them is crippled for life. +s | The Bruening government pla’ a franchise robbery. It is prepar- ing to abolish the proportional rep- resentation system. It will demand small constituencies and a higher | voting age. The government par- | es expect to lose votes. There are ints at the dissolution of the new Ri munist Party is carrying on an en- | ergetic election campaign, holding | many crowded meetings and dem- MOSCOW.—One, hundred and . x ._,2n¢ onstrations in Berlin, Augsburg, | nine miners from the Ruhr district | yanmeheim, ete. The Gemeanieel have arrived ir Lugansk, where| party newspaper in Munich bes | they will work in the mines, ibi 9 tae been prohibited. BUDAPEST.—Aladar Tamas, ed- itor of the left-wing journel “Hun- dred Percent,” was arrested for pub- ist war. The arrest of Tamas has! been followed by numerous “IN FINLAND GROWS. arrests, PRAGUE.—Extensive air maneu- vers are going on in Czechoslovakia, ‘Vorkers Suffer From the strategy involving an attack : | against the Soviet Union, various) Double Oppression sport and athletic organizations, | the fire department, the local hour-| HELSINGFORS, Finland (LP.S.). geois and social democratic organ-,| —The working-class movement of} izations are = taking part. Finland is suffering a double ter-| PEKING.—Thc strike of the post | ror; the illegal terror of the fascist | office workers here has ended with | Pands and the “legal” terror of the| a partial victory for the workers. ing place all over the country. Aro-| nen, the peasant deputy, who was a} | member of the left-wing block, nee | just been arrested in Kaunayoki.| The revolutionary worker, Miyet-| nen, has been arrested in Hainola.| Four workers, whose names are as| yet unknown, have been arrested in) Salo. Three workers have Deen ar- | rested in Yuviaskiulia. They are to receive wage increases, although not as high as demanded. GANDHI GROUP DENOUNCES HIM | _ The fascist bands are everywhere | | J, RS * driving the left-wing membi ou New Tribes Join War | o£ the local municipal councils. Th” On British in North | has already been done in Kaunala, ye ES Lepuavirta, Kaunayoki, Salunsalo BOMBAY, India, Aug. 15—Fair | "4 Saloyene. In many towns the | warning to Gandhi that if he tries |WOTKers’ clubs and the offices of to call off the rent and tax strikes, Wrking-class organizations have and the boycott en British-made| een closed down. The maltreat- goods a large section of his follow-; Ment of officials of workers’ organ 's will no longer accept his leader. izations is a daily feature. " The il- ship was served yesterday by the lesa! Communist Party of Finland i war council of the national congress | ‘Suing a daily newspaper which (Gandhi’s organization) meeting | “onsists of six closely typewritten here. V. J. Patel, brother of the/ “heets which are manifolded. Up Vallabhi Patel who is at Poona with|*® the present the police have not Mrs. Naidu, the two Nehrus and. *vcceeded in finding the editorial of- | dhi conferring on the terms on ‘ies: It contains many details of | “h to betray the independence the oppressive terror of the fascists | ent, has denounced the trea-| and the authorities. son and calls for continued strug- sle. It is realized by the Gandhi) 46 Miners Entombed leaders outside of prison that the | *. . By Mine Explosion workers and peasants are so aroused that they will not obey any | order to make peace with the gov-| VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 15.— ernment. | Forty-six miners have been en- Meanwhile, word is finally let tombed in the Blakeburn Coal mine through the British censorship at | fifty miles east of here. Two Peshawar that conditions, in spite of workers, Albert Cole and Reid | heavy British army reinforcements,| Smith, are known to have been| are very bad for the empire there. | killed in the explosion which, by | The country around the fortified | blowing out a portal of the main posts is held by insurgent peasants. | mine, entombed the miners. OWT ATTACKS THE SOVIET UNIOK ‘lin Workers Pledge upport China Revolt (Continued From Page One.) arges that the Soviet Union menting disturbances in Outer ind Inner Mongolia and is pushing ‘roops southward to the Chinese order to co-operate with Commu- ui south of the Yangtze.” Thi: move evidently indicates the in- ing effort of imperialist at- the Soviet Union. In connectior with Nanking’s re- newed attack against the Soviet Union, another event deserves close attention. voluiion an agreement for estab- ishing an air mail and passenger ervice. betwzeen Nanking and Ber- lin was concluded by the Nanking minis. of communication and the Lufthansa of Germany recently. This is the first time im the his- agains passenger service is established be- tween China and a foreign country. The time and circumstances under which this line is established cer- tainly points to the conclusion that it has an important role to play in the imperialist attacks against the Soviet Union and the Chinese Rev- clution. A crack division of the Chinese | three months rent. Red Armies, the Fourteenth Army, walk. sueceeded in approaching the out- skirts of Hankow, the Chicago of China, on We-..esday. The attack has not begun yet, but this spec- tacular visit certainly gave the workers inside the village a great deal of encouragement and .he im- perialists and Koumintang authori- ties a real scare. The panic of te reactionary para- sites in Hankow have another jus- tification in the fact that the water level of the Yangtze River is falling and large warships will have to be In the heat of war and | Perth Amboy Workers, Rally to the Communist Open Air Meeting PERTH AMBOY, August 15.-- The local unit of the Communist Party held another successful open- air meeting Saturday night at the corner of Smith and Elm Sts., at which 200 workers were pre: In the crowd was a large number of oung wo s and children. A large amount of the Commu- ist Party Election Campaign Plat- other literature and Daily Workers were sold at the meeting. The next open-air meeting will e held Saturday, August 16, at 8 m. sharp at the corner of Smith nd Elm Sts. All readers of the daily Worker should attend these spen-air meetings. | ESS ARE DESPERATE ms, iPesailies Are Begging | ichstag when elected. The Com-| tory of China that an air mail and! removed from Hankow before Sep- | tember 15. In view of the growing militancy of the Shanghai workers the Kou- mintang authorities at Shanghai have become so nervous and pan- icky that they have declared mar- tial law. Large detachments of troops and police are detailed to guard strategical points and so- called “suspicious characters” are searched. White terror reigns in the city. silk Mills in Japan Close Down; 2,000,000 Families Are Effected TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 15.—In the midst of deepening economic cri the silk industry of Japan is pa ticularly going through a severe ci In one district, over forty fac- tories have decided to close up dur- ing the months of August and Sep- tember. The Silk Manufacturers As- sociation of another important silk center has also decided to close down the entire industry for two months, It is reported that a general mov some time is under way. This, of course, will greatly swell the al- ready large ranks of the jobless in Japan, and consequently accelerate the radicalization of the Japanese working class. About two million familics in Ja- pan are depending upon the silk industry for a living. The main oc- cupation of about one-seventh of the peasants is silkworm culture. The export of raw silk each year industrial towns must be draw2 into | Sniping of British soldiers contin- the struggle. The victory of the | ues. The internal war between the Red troops gives the international! Mohmands tribes and the Musa A cave in, 300 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, blocked the almost makes up half of the total export of the country. In view of these facts, the seri- ment among the silk manufacturers | to close down all the factories for| Who proudly refus For Bread wo days. When I worked I got a week, 1 saved some. It went long ago.” Joseph Esposito, 94 Market St.— “Pve been out of work for nine months, ever since my baby was born. The wife, she didn’t feel sc well. She goes out trying to find a job herself to earn‘a dollar. I owe Every day I I’m going crazy. The last job I had was in the subway, a la- borer. I'll do anything.” Leuis Abrahamson, 68 Montgom- ery St.—“I worked in the silk busi- ness. It got bad, the partners went into real estate and I, who had worked for them seven years, natur- ally got laid off. I got a mother to support. I’m known by my first name at all the agencies. In three rears I've worked about two nonths. Everything seems to fizzle.” Frank Schmidt, 588 67th St. Srooklyn.—‘“T haven’t been working since November 17, but I guess I’m lucky, just having myself to sup- nort, I’ve been laid up with pneu-!| nonia, got it in the rain, walking the streets for work,” | Peter Manning.—“Me, I live in the pa My four kids and my wife live with my daughter in W 86th St. My daughter is a tele- phone operator, and she’s got a kid of her own, but she takes care of them all. I don’t want to be a bur- den, so I sleep in the parks. I’ve been out of work four months. I broke a toe working as an ice man, got compensation, later lost the job lve tried to ship out of the country Yo use. Too old, I guess, 54.” Salvatore Locicero, 416 E, 18th St.—‘T’ve been out of work for nine months, and it’s a hell of a lo! time, buddy. ever know, I hope. I’m a laborer, but I'll do anything. The agencies are gyps. They want blood. They , ‘Give me four bucks in advance and most of the time you haven't got a nickel carfare. They say, ‘Wait until next week,’ and some of the poor devils who come there won’t have a cup of coffee in their bellies for next week.” A tall, cadaverous and seedy man, d to give his name, said he was an artist, His shirt was clean but worn, He was freshly shaved, but his hair was long and shaggy. “A guy can shave himself, but it takes dough to get a haircut,” he said. “Say, who wants to buy my pictures when they can’t buy bread? | Ive been slopping around with these people you see here. I’m no better | off. I’m probably worse off. I} realize my plight.” Organize and wage-cuts! strike against (Continued From Page One.) | | Ella May, as due to the terror of | | lot. | It’s longer than you'll | proletariat important duties, Im- perialist intervention against the| revolution has taken place in the} past and it will take place agan.| The imperialists are already inter- | vening against Soviet China. The} August Ist campaign must support | the Chinese workers and peasants| the Pass Afridis have joined the The cause of|Tirah Afridis who first started thi Soviet China is the cause of the in-| march fae Oa x in their struggle. ternational proietariat.” Strike against wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! Vote Communist! SEASHORE BALL GIVEN RY THE Pinsker Branch International Workers'Order AT CASA D’AMOR HALL 3ist Street and Mermaid Avenue CONEY Saturday Eve., August 16 TICKETS 507% of the Proceeds to Election Campaign! 50 WwW PARK CLOTHING STORE 93 Avenue A, FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S SUITS passage of the rescue workers. The Khol iribes, which the British gov- | entire afternoon shift is entombed. ous effect of the present crisis on ernment has been helping to keep alive, has been settled, and both unite against British imperialism. The Sunni Oralzai tribe has raised an arm to march on Kohat. The Hassan Khel, Asho Khel and The cause of the explosion is un- known, ) on Peshawar. Continual skirmishing is going on, with the British authorities complaining that the villagers around Peshawar give food and shelter to the insurgents and join them at critical points in the firing line. ISLAND 55 CENTS 949 Broadway, New York City I enclose $..... Etten, N. Y. ME eis sign vs bac sv evivicns 22° Cor. Sixth St. ——— Ee CHILDREN’S CAME AT VAN ETTEN, N. Y. was destroyed by the Fu Klux Kldn and police thr: | WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY MOBILIZED BY THE i WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TODAY | RE-ESTABLISHED THE CAMP! j It will continue to function as an insti- tution for the advancing working class! Help the W. I. R. rebuild the Van Etten Camp and strengthen other children’s camps throughout the country. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO FISH, THE K. K. Kk. AND THEIR STATE! Send in a contribution NOW! WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF -..@8 my answer to the attack of Fish, the K. K, K. and the police on the W. I. R. camp at Van the peasants and the general eco- nomic condition of Japan can be) readily seen. Sailing: AUG. 27 BERENGARIA World Tourists, Inc., (Steamship Tickets to AN WORKERS’ Do Not Delay: WALTON LAKE, MONKOR, N, Reduced Rate of $17 MUST PRESENT Regular Rates Reservations with $5 STATE Camp Phone: For an unforgettable Vacation! For an Educational Trip! In of the World) Pat-ur pe NEW YORK OFFICE: 10 EAST 177TH Sr, OF MARTYRED SACCO-VANZETTI Many Demonstrating on Sacco-Vanzetti Day (Continued From Page One.) for monster worker protest a ( the capitalist justice which contin ues more sharply than ever tc threaten the lives and the liberty of working class fighters. In the anthracite region, Pennsylvania, meetings have been announced in Scranton, Pittston, Wilkesbarre and Minersville. in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit are holding preliminary united front confevences to make full preparations for great memorial demonstrations, and in Buffalo, the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration will | take place in Elmwood Music Hall. | Endorse Demonstration. Many organizations endor mass demonstrations August The Trade Union Untty League ealls on all its affiliated organiza- tions to take part and says: ‘“De- mand the release of the Atlanta | prisoners, and the unemployed dele- | gation Minor, Amter and Raymond. Fight for unemploy- ment insurance! Organize shop vommittees and strengthen the evolutionary unions!” * 4 Will Defend Gastonia Meet. GASTONIA, N. C., Aug. 15.— the Communist Party Ratification | conference held here last Sunday | unanimor y pledged its support to! he LL.D. and promised to mob’ .ts membership for the mass meet- ing to be held here August 23, at “Greacy Corner,” West Franklin} and West Loray St., at 3 p. m., in commemoration of the third anni- versary of the murder by the cap- ‘talists of Sacco and Vanzetti, two valiant fighters for the working- class. The mass meeting will be the} first held here since the murder of | the 22 ‘se the bosses it was not possible to secure any hall for even a vacant | Meetings are also arranged for} Vriday, August 22nd, at County} Court House, Charlotte, 7:30 p. m.; | Main St., Richmond, Va., 7:30 p. m. and at Greenville, S. C, Speakers | will include: W. G. Binkley, T. H. Stone, Jennie Cooper, Helen Lodge, J. H. Rogers and others. a ee | Defy Boston Police. | \ BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 15.—The | | Sacco-V anzetti and “Save the At- lanta Workers” mass demonstra- | tion will be held at 6 p. m., on the | oston Common, August 22. In Boston, Mayor Curley refused | 1 permit for the use of the Park- | man Bandstand, Boston Common, for a Sacco-Vanzetti meeting, be- | cause the “case was ended and| closed” and that “the police will handle the situation.” Mayor Curley and the boss class for whom ne speaks cannot “end the case” by simply saying so, and the police | who “handle the situation” shall | not stop the workers of Boston from protesting against the prese- cution and murder of workers and | on Boston Common and other mee ing-places pay tribute to its mar- tyred dead! | Strike Against Wage-Cuts! Demand Unemployment Insurance! FARM IN THE PINES Situated {o Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German Table. Rates: $16— |. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH 1, Box 78 KINGSTON, N. ¥ 175 Fifth Ave., N.Y. ALGonquin 6656 COOPERATIVE |I|}CAMP WOCOLONA Y. (50 miles from New York) ber week to Members of Trade Union Unity League MEMPERSIIP BOOK $21 Per Week Deposit to be made at Gramercy 1013 1 Monroe So MEET IN MEMORY’ soldiers, ican imperialism and for the sup- port of the Chinese Soviets. The The Daily Worker and the Chinese Sovtets How or what can we do to help} and well writ hem, the Chinese Soviets and the! Daily Worker are no sevolutionary workers of China. The| must get these stor American battleships ar up the peals to the rke i Yangtze River. Commissary depart-| and factori ments and quartermaster depart-/ every d: 1 ments are busy getting food sup-| of mobi and clothing for northern cli for the marines, sailors The military capitalist free governments cd in countries hand by This forces a the sailors in Daily on the docks and on the ree use onl he Cc and the rev chant ships. With tk we lay t ary workers supporting the first foundation for ing wo! The U tes will again issue Use the Daily Worker as the mob. slogans f marines. Our an-/ilizer of the working class for er to these slogans will be—mob- struggle agains i e in shops and factories, on ships.' ism and in the armed forces, against Amer-| Chinese Sov number new sub: Worker Good ! tory. of every- question is how to do this. s alone will not do it. | PREPARE FOR THE | DAILY WORKER | MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR , MADISON SQUARE GARDEN } tHURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY October 2, 3, 4,5 Spend Your Vacation at FIRST PROLETARIAN NITGEDAIGET CAMP—HOTEL Accomodations to suit the taste and desire of eve HOT AND COLD V POOL; TENT ry camper ; ELECTRIC LIGH ; BUNGALOWS; HOTE Cultural Program for the Sec Vhe Artef Studio; Mass ‘Theatre; M and L. Adohmyan, Dire Sports Director, Saul isher; Educational, Olgin and Jerome. Every Day Something New! Athletics, Games, Hikes, Excursions, Dances, Theatre, Chorus, Lectures, Symposiums, etc. special Feature Programs for Week Ends Sat. 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