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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
IRGAN!zE TWO
'MORE Mills AT
=. BIG GATHERING
Relief on Way, Diaz
Tells Men

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 80.
Asserting that MacMahon and
3atty, the officials of the American
Federation of Textile Operatives,
are preparing to sell out the strik-
ers and their struggle by a peace
pact with the textile mill bosses,
Fred E. Beal, organizer of the Tex
lie Mill Committees, has called up
n the strikers to unity their ranks
nd meet the treason of their
leaders" with a firm front and a
Militant spirit.
The speaker addressed a meet
ing of over 400 striking textile
workers, gathered in the big South
End Headquarters of the Textile
Mill Committees at South First St.
and Potamska. More than one hun
dred new members joined the or
ganization during the meeting.
Beal refused to be inundated by
the statement of the bosses that the
Textile Mill Committees are "out-
siders." eve are proud that they
call US outsiders" he declared, sit
means we are outside with the
workers, not inside with the bosses"
William T. Murdoch, general sec
rotary of the Textile Mill Commit
tees, John Porter, organizer of the
Wamsutta Mill, and Arthur Diaz,
secretary of the Relief Committee,
also addressed the men.
"The Workers International Re-
lief will rally the workers all over
the country to raise funds to keep
as fighting" Diaz, who spoke in
Portuguese, declared. He stated
that a number of special organizers
are coming to New Bedford to see
that the local committee has the
necessities of life for distribution to
the striking textile workers.
After the general meeting, the
workers of the Paige and Kilburn
mills met to elect their executive
committees and their representa-
tives to the strike and relief COM
mittees.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April
S0-Children of the striking textile
workers have applied for permission
to be organized into a club. Under
the direction of Fred E. Beal, or
ganizer of the Textile Mill Com
nlittees, the group is being formed.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April
30.-A dozen New Bedford cops
have turned out here to tear down
sticsers advertising The DAILY
WORKER on walls and telephone
poles thruout the North and South
Ends. Fifty young workers are al
legged to have pasted the stickers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

"RebeI Poets Night' viii be held a
the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Secou
Ave, tonight at S:l5. The progral
viii be under the supervision of An
ton Ramotlla, director of the Labor
Temple Poetry Forum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
Tipping Ferryboat
Results In 3 Dead

Due to legal technicalities, the
family of Montague c. Shepherd
who was drowned when washed
overheard from the bow of the
Staten Island ferryiboat Bronx re-
Gently, is unable to collect the in
surance, it was learned yesterday
This is a result of The Tammany
Hall administration refusing to adj
nit officially that any lives were
lost.
In addition to Shepherd, the other
victims Of Tammany Hall careless
ness are Nicholas Sylvestro and An
thony Doloi. None of the three
bodies has been recovered. Two
other passengers were washed over
board and were rescued by mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
EXPUL. SIONS BY
LEWIS SPURNE:D
By a Mine Worker of Grassy Island
Local 1872.

BY Mine Worker of Grassy Island
Local 1872.
At our meeting on April &c a
letter was read by the secretary
from the international Executive
Board telling us that John L. Lewis
and his henchmen expelled the mem
bers of our union and that they ex-
PEELED one from our local, Stanley
Dziengielewski.,
Our president, Joseph Sheplika.
who is a well-known bosses bench
man and who would do anything
that the bosses tell him, even if the
boss told him to dance he would do
so, entertained motion that one
of the tools of the machine made
to expel our Brother Stanley Dzien-
gielewski. But the membership of
the whole local union was on its
feet Immediately, raising hell, hol-
lering:
Throw him out" "Hit him on the
head with a chair" that is they were
hollering against the chairman.
Then everything quoted down and
the chair did not want to recognize
Stanley Dziengielewski as he said
that he was expelled. Immediately
the meeting was thrown into an up
roar again and the chair was forced
to recognize Brother Dziengielew-
ski.
Brother Dziengielewski then re-
quested that the local union ar
range debate on the question of
the Save-the- Union policy between
himself and John L. Lewis, or any
Of his henchmen. Then the local
union elected a committee Of six to
arrange a big special meeting of
the local union and to proceed to
invite John L. Lewis 30 come down
they entirely disregarded the expul-
sion of Brother Dziengielewski.
We miners must watch because
President Joseph Sheplika is work
ing hand in hand with John L. Lewis
Rinaldo 'Cappelini and the coal COM
pany and ] .Pettigrew, company boss
We brothers know what the Save
the-Union Committee stands for
and who Stanley Dziengielewsh is
We know that Stanley was expelled
from the local union before and we
know that the International PoNr1
was forced to readmit him to the
local union. Now we must also see
that the international Board takes
him back and also we must not al
low the president to pull any tricks
over on us. If our president of the
local union or any of his bench
men try to do this, we must throw
them out Of office. We must run
our own local union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
DAY
IN More MILLS
IN Soviet UNION
Twenty More Factories
May Be Affected

MOSCOW (By maiD.-The tex
tile syndicate is planning the in
PRODUCTION of seven-hour day in
twenty more mills. Cotton and wool
factories in the Moscow, Leningrad,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Vladimir
districts will be affected.
A report recently issued indicated
that the seven-hour day has not
only directly benefited the workers
by a shorter working day, but has
resulted in an increased output and
a more effective utilization of ma
chinery.
A three-shift system has been in
troduced with u seven-hour day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
Labor andFraternalN News

Food workers in May Day Meet.
Amalgamated Food workers Union,
zeal 1854, has called on is members
take part in the May Day demon.
ton today at Madison square
Garden.
Downtown 1. L. ID.
The annual entertainment ana dance
f tn eDowntown International LABOR
Defense Branch will be held on Satu
day evening, May 18th, al 30 T. zh0
St, corner End Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
section 4 Attention.,

All members of Section 4 should
report to their respective headquar-
tiers today for participation in the
May Day demonstration.
Spanish Fraction Meeting
The Spanish Fraction will hold its
regular meeting tomorrow. All mem
bers are urged to be present as very
important matters will be taken up
for discussion.
May Day Tickets
Tickets for the May Day celebra-
tion at Madison Square Garden are
now ready at the district office for
distribution, and can also be obtained
thru section organizers. Comrades
who can dispose of tickets are urged
to get them at once.
To Unit Organizers
Unit organizers should call for coll
lection lists for the Workers Center
Building fund at 262S Union Square
or los E. 14th st.
women'S Councils.
At least two members from each
council must be present at Madison
Square Garden no later than IL
o'clock today to help decorate the
women's section Of the Garden.
wOmen's May Day Plans.
All members of the United Council
of Workingclass Women are to meet
at 50th ST. near Eighth Ave. at pm.
today in order that they may enter
the celebration in a body
Night Workers Take Notice!
The regular meeting of the Night
Workers Branch will take place on
MONDAY afternoon instead of Tues
day. Be sure and attend this meet
ing as preparations for May Day
will be taken up.
Subsection sc Meet.
An executive meeting of Subsection
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

LnDOr My Agents.
The May issue of Labor Unity is
out. All Labor Unity agents call at
the I. U. Z. L. office and see
GuSakOff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
Washington Bakers
Have Won Increase

WASHINGTON, April 80. = The
500 bakery wagon drivers organized
in Local SO Of the Brotherhood Of
Transfers and Chauffeurs have
signed an agreement with several of
the biggest baking firms. The new
rate will be $40 weekly. The union
originally demanded $42.50 in place
of the old rate of $38 week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

All members of Section 4 should
report to their respective headquar-
tiers today for participation in the
May Day demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

To Unit Organizers

Unit organizers should call for col
lection lists for the Workers Center
Building fund at 26-2S Union Square
or los e. 14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
The Upper Bronx Omen Forum

The Upper Bronx Section, Young
workers League will hold an open
forum Sunday at 8 p. m. at l472
Boston Road The subject will be
Youth in Politics" Dancing will
follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
Workers Party Activities

8 &C will be held tomorrow at 6:3o pm.
at 101 w. 27th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
GENERAL STRIKE
To Greet SIMON

Thousands of Indians are planning
to participate in a hartal or general
strike in protest against the arrival
of the British Statutory Commission
headed by Sir John Simon when it
arrives to investigate the government
of India, according to reports from
Bombay and Delhi. The British COM
mission contains no Indian members.
Despite the threats of the police
that no strikes for political purposes
will be tolerated by the authorities,
plans are being carried forward to re-
ceive the commission with a general
strike and mass demonstrations.
Besides the mass actions against
the commission, so members of the
Indian legislative assembly are plan
ming to boycott the work Of the Bri-
fish Investigators. A general boycott
by all Indian official bodies and all
Indians called to testify before the
commission has been recommended.
The protest action is in accord with
resolutions recently passed by the All
India Nationalist Congress in session
at Madras.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
Nav Wave OF White Terror South China 80 Communists Are Executed
ITALY FURNISHES
ITS ALLIES WITH
ARMS, MUNITIONS
Little Entente Sends
Protest to League

GENEVA. Jan. 23.-That fascist
italy is arming all of it's allies in Cen
rpl Europe is the charge made in
indentical protest notes presented by
nc League of Nations today by the
MEMBERS Of the Little Entente,
'7nchoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rou-
1ania. The note followed the discov-
~ chat Italy was sending large
fhipments of, arms to Hungary in
violation of all existing treaties.
The protest note not only cites
-hipments of arms to Hungary, but
harges that large amounts of arms
and munitions were sent to other
countries. Italy is charged with hav-
ing struggled arms into Germany for
he purpose of furnishing Adolph
Hitler's fascist movement in Ger
lnany.
The arms. it is charged. were sent
by the Italian government-controlled
organization, Commerce. Universale
Ii Ferr;umenta Ordigni. Other ship
ments are said to have been made to
Bulgaria.
The Austrian customs officials are
said to have been completely aware
Of the fact that arms were being
struggled thru Austria in cases mark
ed as carrying vegetables and other
foodstuffs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
LOCKOUT Mexican
TEXTILE WORKERS
Communist Union Puts
Up Strong Fight

MEXICO CITY, (By Mai). --Ihe
long period of depression through
which the Mexican textile industry
has been passing has been accom-
panied by bitter struggles between the
textile workers and the foreign own
ers. most of whom are French. Work
ers in many mills have been locked
out.
The Mexican textile workers are
organized in three groups. One IS
affiliated with the neutrality-suspicious.
list CGT General Confederation OF
Workers.; the second with the GROIN;
and the third is an autonomous union
led by the Mexican Communist Party.
The textile unions are among the
most militant in Mexico, and have
fought consistently against lockouts.
In their efforts to close down the
factories the big textile owners have
formed united front Several
plants have already been shut down
in Mexico City, Vera Cruz and Rio
Blanco (the largest textile center).
It is believed the owners plan to keep
the factories long enough to demon
alize the workers, cut wages, and
finally break up the unions. In this
situation the GROIN is inactive and
the CGT irresolute. The Communist
Party alone has organized meetings
and called on the workers to fight
against the lockouts.
The Party has issued a call for a
united front of trade unions, pointing
out that this lockout will effect not
only textile workers but transport
workers, bakers and others as well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
New u. S. Mission to
USSR Seen by CGy|e

CHICAGO, Jan. % (FP). RE
markable interest in world peace and
also in the Soviet Union is being
shown in labor quarters all over the
west" says Albert F. Coyle, former
editor Of the Locomotive Engineers
Journal, who has been addressing
western labor groups and others. He
recently returned to America from
extended travel thru the U. S. S R.
On the Pacific coast and in the
ether states in which he spoke, Coyle
was surprised at the number of con-
sentative labor men, some in prom
inent positions, who asked how they
could arrange to make the trip to
the Soviet Union. $50 much Of what
has been handed out to them from Of
fetal channels in this country has
proved to be bunk" says Coyle. "that
they want to see for themselves the
new Russia of which I told them.
Quite number will probably join a
rev American labor mission that is
likely to leave for the U. S. S. r. this
summer"
International problems affecting
labor are receiving closer attention
than formerly, Coyle reports, and
chief among them that of world peace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24

llSHeIS, OCl FOuTlH AteIlt, New 1OIk
City. Scott Nearing has made first
hand study of the Chinese situation,
having visited both northern and
southern China in the stormy spring,
summer and fall of 1927.
'If China" he continues, Ecan
shake off the grip of Western i'm
perialism and establish tn e
foundations Of new social order :.
then Asia and Africa will follow suit.
Since the Asiatic area includes two
thirds of the worlds population such
a development would carry in it's
train unprecedented advantages 10
the human race. No culture move
n,ent in history has ever included so
vast portion of mankind No cul-
ture movement has ever struck 50
suddenly or so deeply into the tradi-
tional life of the worlds masses.
Literally, therefore, in vastness at
least, this Asiatic revolution is with
out historic parallel"
Basic Forces.
Scott Nearing visited China after
q CHVAO survey vi DUOhS dlItduy pun
hshed had convinced him that very
few of them published in English had
even attempted an analysis of the So
cial and economic forces underlying
the Chinese revolution. The vast num-
Der of books on Chinese situation al
ready published, he found, contained
little material that dealt with the
industrialization of China; with
wages and standards of living; with
the labor movement; with shifts of
population, particularly from country
to city; with land distribution; with
the peasants movement and with
those other institutions and activities
that seemed to constitute the driving
force in the Chinese events after
1919"
WHITTIER China" after Analysing
these basic forces, and outlining the
history of imperialist aggression in
China, discusses the probable out
come of the class struggle in China
and its probable influence on world
history.
Explaining the betrayal of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
WALL ST. RULE
IN HAITI AIDED
BY PUPPET GOVT.
Oh ange Constitution,
Approve Censorship

PORT AU PRINCE, (By Maii) =
The puppet government of Haiti,
completely dominated by the United
States, has passed thirteen amend
ments to the constitution (which
strengthen the American Dictatorship.
These amendments give the president
of Haiti, who is for all practical pur-
poses, an appointee Of the United
States, greater control over the jp-
dicial system, and give constitutional
sanction to the press censorship
which has prevailed in fact since the
American occupation in 1915.
Haiti is dominated not only by
American marines. but by an Amer
lean high commissioner who super
vises the affairs of the republic"
and by various financial advisers"
Formally, it is governed by a presi
dent and council of state of twenty
one members appointed by him and
subject to his removal. The president
now in office is Luis Borne, a tool of
the United States, who in 1926 had
his council of state "re-elect" him to
office.
Borno Recommends.
The council of state has been exer-
cising Legislative functions since 1917,
when the regular legislature was
suspended by the United States fer
refusing to ratify the acts of Amer
lean occupation. The thirteen con-
stitutional amendments passed this
week were recommended by Borno
and passed by the council.
/ Another amendment limits the
presidency to two non-conseeutive
terms Of six years each. A third pro-
vides that the life term of supreme
court judges be reduced to terms of
J ten years. A fourth amendment
| grants the president the power To
change the present court personnel
during a period of twelve months,
after which appointments are not sub
| 1ect to revocation.
! Change Courts.
The amendments relating to the
courts are significant because the
Haitian courts have been one of the
| few institutions through which the
natives have been able to express
something of their hatred of Amer
lean protectors" In his 1926 report
the American high commissioner at
tackled the courts, declaring that "the
foreigner is indeed bold who dares
take his case to court. Trials by jury
are farcieai. The jury is always OPP
posed to the government and can
easily be swayed by racial or other
prejudices or by drawing upon its
imagination and sympathy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
More Sailing in u. S.
Franco S'Peace" Treaty

PARIS, Jan. 23.--The Monroe Doc
trine as we'll as the League of Ma
tons may figure in the background
of future diplomatic conversations re-
garding Americas proposed treaty
outlawing war, according to belief
expressed here today.
Foreign office officials expect some
time to elapse before Secretary of
State Kellogg replies to the latest
note from Foreign Minister BRAND
on the subject. They look to Secre-
tary kellogg to find new formula
for the term wars of aggression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
MILITARISTS AT
WUHAN CONTINUE
TO KILL WORKERS
Peasants Control Many
Kwantung Villages
Especial Gable To DAILY woRKER)

Especial Gable To DAILY W0RKEK)
SHANGHAI, Jan. 23.-The viii e
terror in Wuhan and other cities OF
south China has increased. On Jan.
Goth alone thirty Communists
were shot in Wuhan. The executions
are still going on.
On the island OF Macao (near
FIongkong) several hundred persons
suspected of Communist leanings
We're arrested. Twelve of them were
handed over to the Cantonese au-
thorities, who, it is believed, will
execute them.
In spite of the terrorism, workers
and peasants are still in control of
large sections of Kwangtung province,
where they have set up their own gov
ernments.
The situation in Shanghai is still
tense with the native authorities at
tempting to break the numerous
strikes now on. The Marking govern
ment is reported to have assured the
British American Tobacco Company
and the Standard Oil Company of
New York that it would prevent
strikes among the workers employed
by these companies in return for a
'loan" of S5,000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24

revolution by the Chinese middle
classes, Scott Nearing who was in
China at the time, says, Chinese en-
poyers and Chinese landlords faced
with the growing militancy of the
labor and peasant movements decided
that the time had come to make a
stand. The mass movement threat
ened the exploiting power Of the Chi
nese business class and the Chinese
gentry, who stood between the i'm
perialists on the one side and the ex-
plotted masses on the other. The
Chinese ruling class had encouraged
the students to boycott foreign goods
and had benefited when the workers
struck against foreign manufacturers
and merchants, but when the mass
movement threatened their own econ
omic position, they were quick to
act"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24

reduction in wages and personnel
will eventually effect all railway en-
ployes.
This method of solving the prob
lem" of the railways has been tried
several times; in each case it failed
and the Mexican government, which
owns 81 per cent of the stock, had to
retreat. Now it will be easier. The
last protracted strike of the railway
union was broken by the Gales gov
eminent and the GROIN, (headed by
Luis Morones}. This has weakened
the resistance of the union.
The present situation follows the
report of the Canadian Railway ex-
pert, Holloway, on the condition of
the Mexican Railways
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
BRITISH Miners
CHILDREN DYING
OF STARVATION
Misery Widespread as
Unemployment Grows
By HARVEY o'CoNNoR

LONDON, (FP) Jan. 23.-'In the
Welsh valleys, in Yorkshire and in
Durham, there are hundreds of chill
dren, especially babies, whose chance
of life is precarious if help is not
brought to them There are expec-
tant mothers who have no clothing
for the infants"
The Westminster Gazette describes
the plight of Britain's miners in these
words in a charity appeal for its Save
the Children Fund. Another article
in this powerful British daily, which
can hardly be accused of sensational
ism, is headlined:
$4,000 Homes Stricken by Starvation.
Funds sent to Blaina and Nantyglo,
two Welsh mining towns, are re
served for providing one hot meal a
day for men who are not receiving a
penny from the state or the local COM
missioners in charge of poor law re-
lief. By this course the little children
in each home will be saved in some
degree from the menace of starvation,
when the household has one less
mouth to feed"
Thousands Jobless.
Other parts of England are worse
hit than South Wales. In Durham
$4,000 miners have been completely
jobless for months and the remaining
100000 are for the most part on short
time Unmarried men have been de-
prived of the miserable IS shillings
unemployment relief week. There
are no other jobs-anyH aere-for
them. The married jobless miner is
given shillings weekly to support his
wife and two shillings, of so cents,
for each of his children.
! Nowhere in western Europe, OF
probably anywhere on the continent
toutside Poland, have great sections
of the population been reduced to such
sheer misery as testers in half q
dozen regions of Britain. Even non
labor magazines are fllled with ac-
counts of the unexampled conditions
in the homes of miners families. Not
only food is wanting, but even cloth
ing in the raw Welsh mining valleys
Children are dying of exposure.
/ But in the warm clubs of well-fec
Tory politicians in the London West
End nobody cares. The S35,000,00(
cruiser Rodney is commissioned fol-
service the Kit-Kat Club still charges
gold guinea $40 for cover charge
and drink; out in China, Burma and
Irak the British machine guns are
busy; Winston Churchill and Tory
die-hards conspire with Mussolini fo1
the next world war, probably against
| the Soviet Union.