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~ P. FRIEDLANDER (Berlin)
Continued

Up to the present they have not
prevented the Paul Boncours of all
countries from acting as pacemaR-
ers of armament and war prepara-
tons, and as promoters by every
az valuable means of the preparations
for an Intervention against the Soviet
Union. 1t is further characteristic
that the resolution on the disarma-
ment question does not contain the
Slightest reference to the proposals
made by the Soviet Union at Geneva,
although even numerous bourgeois
racifist organizations have admitted
these to be the only really serious
disarmament proposals which have
been made.
Dcmagogy Re National Minorities
A similar demagogic but never
theless extremely transparent man.
euver was performed in the question
of the rights of the national min
critics" Here again the speaker
chosen was not a representative of
the socialist parties of. big imperial
list countries in which the national
n.inorities are held in subjugation,
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plush cap, the son of a wholesale
wheat dealer, Zhigalev. He began to
ask questions about the capital, the
lectures and cabarets, the women on
the Kuznetsky Most, and led Vassili
Alexeievich into the beer parlour
Renaissance" on second floor,
overlooking the square.
Treating him to cigarettes, Sashol;
wrinkled the eyelids of his brown
eyes with laughter,-he was fleshy
sanguine, his eyebrows grew to-
gether.
"By the way, Nadezhda Ivanovna
is regular girl. Only she holds her
head too high. In our time we
shouldn't think too much of our
selves. Yes, Vassili Alexeievich,
New birds, new songs, as they say.
Of course, with her face-in Mos
cow, on the stage, stenographer in
a large trust,-it is possible to make
a career. But here ;"
Moving his brows, Sashok threw
a wet pea into his mouth, gripped
it between his strong teeth, and
laughed.
"Yes, here it is not practical from
any point of view. The best is to
marry-the husband has eight gold
pieces month, she herself, three
and a half Colourless
Or she might 60 into the Komsomol.
Well ;"
Through his thick eyelashes the
pupils of his eyes glittered slyly at
Buzheninov.
"That / can understand. Other
wise it is neither here nor there.
By the way, I'm getting ready to
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
FRENCH STRIKERS
KEEP STRIKING TO
FIGHT BLACKLIST
Bosses Tried to Fire
Their Leaders

PARIS (By MaiI. When the
directors of the Gnome ct Rhone
airplane motor company agreed to
grant the 5000 striking workers an
hourly increase in wages of 2 cents
an hour the workers decided to re-
turn to work as unitedly as they
had struck.
But when the strikers marched
into the plant with their strike
committee at their head and dis
covered that the directors intended
to employ only those workers who
had not been so active in the strike,
the workers walked out on strike
again, this time for the right to or
ganize and against victimization.
The workers of Gnome ct Rhone
have been on strike for a number
of weeks demanding an increase of
8 cents per hour in wages and no
overtime. They were soon joined
by workers of another metal plant,
organizing their own strike commit
tees.
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international Publishers.
Copyright, 1929

look; if he can better your condition
with something, you take him.
There was man from Minsk that
wanted me. And / wanted to go to
Minsk all at once,-it's a capital
city, after all. They say there are
stores,-three-story houses on the
main street. I almost con-
scented. Well, it came out later that
he was only tramp, and not from
any Minsk at ALL"
mo, Nadya, no, you are odd and
strange. know you better.
You can't speak this way. This is
only something you heard. In
reality life is beautiful, enticing.
You must build, struggle, love. :"
Buzheninov spoke until late hour,
while there was still kerosene in the
lamp. Nadya listened, bit off the
threads, and lowered her head, smil-
ing. The beauty of the young girl
intoxicated Vassili Alexeievich like
the air of springtime. He fell asleep
WlthouC undressing, on the COUCH
fell like stone into sweet darkness.
And in the morning-he looked out
of the window-there sat the crow
again. The selfsame fence. Grey
skies. A rusty pail lying in the
roadway. Nothing had changed dur
ing the night. And of yestereve's
words remained only vexation and
perplexity.
THE little things in life which were
: not worth attention in themselves
began to take on sickly proportions
in the consciousness of Vassili Alex
eievich. This is why we ask you
to run through these lines. They will
explain great deal.
The town became interested in
Buzheninov. Various rumors began
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Two Recent Meetings of
the YELLOW International

but the representative of Austria,
Otto Bauer.
The resolution which was passed
of course carefully avoided any de-
mand for full rights of self-deter-
llination for the national minorities.
All that it demands is "protection
under international law for the ma
tional minorities, including thereby
democratic autonomy for national
minorities settling in definite re-
gions." This is very elastic con-
ception. The oppression of the ma
tional minOrities is not compared by
this, but masked. 1t is only a few
days ago that the French socialists
declared in the chamber that the
population of Alsace-Lorraine is al
ready enjoying democratic admins
tration, and were as indignant as
the bourgeois parties at the demand
for autonomy for Alsace.
Therefore the resolution passed
by the Executive of the Interna-
tional is equally careful to avoid any
reference to Alsacey Lorraine, or to
the national minorities held in thrall
by Great Britain, and contents itself
by referring to Italy.
Looks to League of Nations.
For the rest, it looks once more to
the League of Nations for salvation.
and desires this to form special
permanent organ for the "investi-
cation of the grievances of the ma
tional ninorities." How illusory
and insincere this demand is has
been demonstrated once more at the
last meeting of the League of Ma
tons ut Lugano, where even a
Stresemann was obliged to admit
the bankruptcy of the League of Ma
lions in the question of the national
minorities.
Finally, the meeting of the Ex-
ecutive of the Second International
did not fail, in a document in sup
port of the political prisoners, to
agltate once again against the Soviet
Union, and to grind out anew the
old TRADES about the political pris-
oners banished to Siberia and Cen
trail Asia.
Whilst thousands and thousands
OF proletarian prisoners are perish
ing in the penal institutions of the
bourgeoisie (these of course being
"only" Communists), the Second In
ternational directs it's cross fire
against the Workers and Peasants
State, struggling in self-defense
against counter-revolution from
within and the attacks of the i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
"Tsvestia" Reviews Ten
Years of Struggle of
Progressive A fig h ans

MOSCOW (By MaiD I'm connec-
ton with the tenth anniversary of
the independence of Afghanistan,
the "Isvestia" comments in a lead
ing article:
upon the recognition of Afghan
independence by the Soviet Union
and in the face of the development
of the MISUNDERSTANDING move
rent in India itself, Great Britain
was compelled to accept the proc
lamation of the independence of
Afghanistan. The efforts of the
government of = Amanullah during
the course of the last decade to
transform Afghanistan from the
hulwark of Islamitic conservatism
into a modern united state, caused
the Anglo-Indian government to
take up an aggressive attitude on
the Afghan frontier.
"Thanks alone to foreign assist
ance were the reactionary forces in
Afghanistan able to turn their op-
position into a widespread move
ment against the reforms of ANA
nullah. The immediate result of
this movement is the occupation of
the Asmar district which belongs to
Afghanistan and the planned an
rexation of the eastern districts
along the Indian frontier.
"The aim of British diplomacy is
to split up Afghanistan and to turn
it into a loosely knitted country of
hostile provinces, country which
could not stand up in the face of
Imperialism. The situation in At
ghanistan remains difficult, but
there is no doubt that the progress
sive forces which have developed in
Afghanistan in the last ten years
have not said their last word in the
conflict"
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to run the rounds. The office man.
ager, Utyovkin, it was said, ever
grew pale when he heard of Buzhen-
inov's arrival, and said with heavy
insinuation:
"Ah, so. Well, now I un-
Cerstand everything"
When the round shouldered figure
of Vassili Alexeievich appeared dur
ing the day on Karl Marx Street
which led to the market place, the
passers-by looked with tremendous
curiosity at the "academist." Ever
the militiaman smiled kindly at him
Only the storekeeper Pikus, stand
ing near the door of his shop, tipped
his hat and invited him in, querying
in counter-revolutionary whisper:
"Tell me, what's going on in Mos
COW? How about the Nep? They
say there is no hope. This is ter
rible time. We are rolling into an
abyss. I have reached such nerv-
Gus state that I howl in my sleep.
l am very glad to make your &C.
quaintance. And Nadezhda Ivan
ovna really waited too long"
Pikus only limited at what was
openly said in town. The provinces
do not like anything that cannot be
understood and that causes restless
ness to the imagination. Actually,
why the devil should Buzheninov
have come to this backwater. The
matter was clear--he came to marry.
But here there appeared all sorts
of hidden half-truths. Buzheninov
came to a place that was not en-
tirely free--at least that is how
they ironised.
HIS acquaintance was made in
- Pikus' store by Sashok, n ruddy
young man in q long coat and a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Krassin Heroes Deliver
Lectures OnSwitzerland
on Arctic Rescue Trips

BASLE, Switzerland (By MaiD.-
Professor Samoilo itch, scientific
leader of the "Krassin," and the
pilot, Chudnovsky, who sighted the
Malmgrem group on the Arctic ice,
have delivered number of lectures
in various Swiss towns concerning
the expedition of the Soviet ice
breakers. They stopped in Switzer-
land on their way back from Italy,
where they took part in the inquiry
into the Italia wreck.
The lectures were very well at
tended. After the lectures, meetings
Of the two Russians with scientists,
artists, authors and other intellec-
tuals interested in the Soviet Union
took place.
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SAY HOOVER TO
APPROVE COURT
Latins Suspect u. S.
Intrigues

Continued from Page One)
Senate contend that the U S. can
not be put in the position of actual
ly starting a war under such ad-
verse psychological circumstances
as would be caused by the universal
execration by small nations for
breaking up the arbitration court.
Proponents of the entry of U S.
into the court cry down this objec-
ton with the argument that the
small nations will have already
taken sides before matters reach
the point of breaking up the court.
The apparent main contention of
Senate opponents to American ,ad-
herence to the World Court protocol
is that the formula emasculates
reservation No. 5. This reservation
which relates to advisory opinions of
the World Court, was stumbling
block to the acceptance of the Sen
ate's reservations by the nations
signatory of the Court protocol
when their representatives met in
Geneva in September, 1926.
Could Override U. s.?
But they said today that while the
formula, as adopted, still seems to
vest virtual veto power in the
United States, it leaves the way
open for the League Council to
change the Court rules so that a
majority of the Council could de-
termine that an advisory opinion
should be rendered by the Court.
The text of the Root-Hurst "pro-
tocol" was received at the State
Department today by cable from
the American Consul at Geneva and
formed the subject of extended con-
ferences' between Secretary KEEL
logg, Hugh S. Gibson, Ambassador
to Belgium; Theodore Mariner,
chief of the departments Western
European Division, and other de-
partment officials.
GENEVA, March 20.-The Com
mission of Jurists of the League of
Nations adjourned today with full
some praise for Elihu Root, Amer
lean delegate bringing the "Root
Plan" for changes in the league stat
utes which were supposed to bring
the United States into the world
court. President Dionisio Anzilotti
of the Hague court said Root was
"the spiritual father who has saved
the situation in 1929 as he did in
1920"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
State Senate Passes
Short Indictment Act
for BaumesC Commission

ALBANY, N. Y, March 20 (UP).
The senate today passed the pro-
posal of the Baumes Crime Commits
sion for the so-called short indict-
ment. The bill provides that a bill
of particulars may be given to de-
fendant's counsel and that an amend
ment to both the Indictment and the
bill may be made without resubmis-
sion to the grand jury.
At the same time the assembly
passed the Esmond bill extending
the period in which criminal actions
may be started and exempting pc
RODS in which the defendant lived
under an assumed name, or outside
the boundaries of the state, from the
statute of limitations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
STRICT CENSORS
FAIL TO CHECK
new AGITATION
Ridicule for Plan to
Sue Foreign Press

/ HENDAYE, Spanish Frontier,
March 20.-Reports GLIDING the
Spanish censor continue to arrive
here. describing the growth Of the
conflict between students in the uni
versities and the dictatorship OF
Primo de Rivera.
Wholesale arrests OF students
have totally failed as means OF
ending student unrest, the reports
state.
1t is the opinion of travellers re-
turning from the interior OF SPAN
that the rigorous measures which
the government is planning agalns5
the students will serve no other puf-
rose than further to unite them
They report growing unity be-
tween students in the University OF
Madrid and in the provincial unlver-
sites.
Jeer At Arrest Policy.
The prisons where the govern
nent has confined numbers OF stu
dents recently arrested are called
university Cities" in derision OF the
community student university winch
the government is contemplating
opening in 1880.
Reports further state that the
Parents of students are solldiy pc
hind them in their struggle with the
government and that their famiiies
have joined them in their protests
The announced plan OF the de HI
vera government to bring suit
AGAINST all foreign newspapers
printing news unfavorable to the
dictatorship is being widely rldl-
culed in Spain.
Though there is considerable un-
foreground circulation of informa-
ltion concerning the repressive &C
ltivities of the government, the
strictness of the Spanish censorship
Keeps large sections of the peasant
population in ignorance OF the
ey erts in the cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Original Excuse Found
to Avoid Investigation
of $50, 900 Bride Charge

A new excuse for avoiding an in
vestigation into bribery which in
volved lawyer, still unnamed, col
Letting $4,000 to buy his appoint
ment as justice of the supreme court
was found today, and the case is
Indefinitely buried.
VIM. A. Cokely, treasurer of the
Bronx Chamber of Commerce, SOL
emily told the grand jury that the
man who told him of the report died
last week under unusual circum-
stances. The man was not named.
The grand jury therefore handed
up presentment to Supreme Court
Justice Richard H. Mitchell, saying
j. could go no further with the in
vestigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
New 100000, Bank
MergarV oted byBoards

Merging of the Hanover National
Bank and the Central Union Trust
Company Of New York into a single
company having capital, surplus
and undivided profits of approxim-
ately $1O0,O0O,000 was voted today
by directors and trustees of the two
institutions for recommendation to
stockholders for final approval.
1t is expected that the merger will
be completed rapidly and the head
quarters of the new company quick
Ily established at 70 Broadway, a
building which is being remodeled
for occupation by the Central Union
Trust on May /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Moncada's Son Suicide.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March
20.-No further explanation of the
suicide in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, of
Medardo Moncada, son of the presi-
dent of Nicaragua, has been re-
ceived. He had been employed in
the ministry of war, where he was
recently replaced. Some political
significance is connected with his
discharge and death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
new ANTI-SMITH
MOVE BY walker
Refuse to Repudiate
Their Union

Mayor Walker moved to assemble
his anti-Smith forces yesterday,
when he summoned another meet
ing of all Tammany Hall district
leaders who are indebted to him for
profitable political jobs in the New
York City bureaucracy. They met
and discussed candidate to put up
against former Governor Smiths
"new Tammany' people. Smiths
"new Tammany" simply meaus an
other faction, whose tactics are as
old as those of Murphy and Boss
Tweed, but, just because of this, he
yields considerable power. 1t is
said that Olvany quit the leadership
Of Tammany Hall two days ago.
primarily because of bitter quarrel
with Smith in Albany.
Just Wants a Friend.
Walker is reported to have told
his visitors that he didn't want to
name the new chief, but he didn't
want a man who would not be
friendly to Walker.
The district leaders visiting the
mayor included Charles McManus,
Of the Fifth District, vice-chairman
of the Board of Aldermen; Dock
Commissioner Michael Cosgrove, of
the Sixteenth District; City Clerk
Michael J. Cruise, of the Twelfth;
Assemblyman Peter J. Hamill, of the
First; Charles A. Kohler, Of the
Tenth, director of the budget;
Charles H. Neal, of the Twentieth,
deputy commissioner of markets,
and Martin J. Healy, of the Nine
tenth, deputy commissioner of
Plant and structures.
Cosgrove, Kohler, Healy and
Neal hold their appointments from
the mayor. Other district leaders
rut in good jobs by the mayor are
Water Commissioner John J. Dietz
of the Eighteenth, John Mara of
the Twenty-third, Deputy Commits
sioner of Plant and Structures Pc
ter ]. Dooling of the Fifth, Com
missioner of the Department of
Purchase, H. Warren Hubbard of
the Eighteenth, member of the
Board of Assessors; Solomon Gold
enkranz of the Eighth, deputy dock
commissioner, and William L. Ka-
vanagh of the Third, deputy water
commissioner. Other district lead
ers like Mr.. Hamill and Daniel E.
First and Mr.. McManus are be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21

The power of the bourgcofsie rests
not alone upon International capital.
upon it's strong international cOnnec-
tions, hut also upon the force OF
habit. on the force of small industry,
of which. unfortunately, there is
plenty left and which daily, hourly.
gives birth to capitalism and hour
geOisic, spontaneously and on n large
scale.-V. 1. Lenin ("Left" COmmu-
nism).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
STEEL WORKERS
STRIKE IN india
after RED RAIDS
Fight Rulers Concerted
Drive on Communists

Continued from Page One)
the strikers in the Tata Steel
Works being held as Indicative of
labor feeling thruout the country.
Though no reason was given FOR
the governments action, it is b.
lieved to be connected with the pass
age Of the so-called Public Safety
Bill, now under discussion in the
Indian legislature.
+
Aim Bill at Communists.
DELHI, India, March 20.-De-
bates continue in the Indian ruppet
parliament on the Public Safety
Bill, ono of the elements IN the
Anglo-British offensive against the
Indian workers.
The bill gives the government the
power to deport without trial any
non-Indian British subjects whose
activities might "conduce toward
subverting the organized govern
ment in British India"
Aim at Left Wing Leaders.
The measure was aimed directly
at the left wing labor leaders, Brad
ley and Spratt, who, in marked con-
trast to other official labor leaders
who have visited India in the past,
have taken an active part in helping
the struggle of the Indian workers.
Government spokesman h We
openly and repeatedly admitted that
the bill is the beginning of an at
tack against the entire Communist
movement.
The government had the further
purpose of trying out the attitude
Of the Indian nationalists and of
frightening them away from any re-
lations with the Communists. In
this they succeeded.
All the Indian nationalist leaders
in the chamber eagerly disclaimed
any sympathy. They asserted that
Communism must be attacked at the
root and opposed the bill on the
grounds that it failed to do this.
VIII Try to Stop Relief.
At a previous hearing in Septem-
Der, 1928, the bill was defeated by
only one vote. The re-introduced
bill gives the government the fur
Their power to confiscate any money
from abroad which may be regarded
as serving "subversive interests"
The clause will be invoked to pre-
vent such organizations as the
Workers Welfare League of India
from sending funds to workers on
strike.
This time the government has
made certain of its majority. hav-
ing won over a sufficient number of
the Indian nationalist leaders repre-
senting Indian capitalist interests.
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lieved to be in the faction of tn,

lieved to be in the faction of the
mayor.
There is some indication that
Surrogate Foley, who refused the
crown yesterday, may accept it to-
day or tomorrow. 1t is not TO his
interest to avoid little useful pub
licity, as "the man all factions
agree on" or "the only one who
could command the respect of all
leaders,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
AZURE CITIES AsToRY Of LIFE IN the ussR
FROM "AZURE CITIES" %t By ALEXEY TOLSTOY
[ "AZURE CITIES"

After fighting in the Red Army
thru the Revolution and the Civil
Wars, Vassili Alexeievich Buzhen-
inov returns to Moscow and re-
enters the School of Architecture.
where he had previously been a
tstudent. He works feverishly,
tbraoding about the wonderful
cities he will build on the ruins
OF the past, until he finally suf-
fcrs a nervous breakdown. He
receives letter from Nadezhda
Ivanovna, his mothers ward. which
cxcites him greatly, and he de-
cides to go home to recuperate.
He returns to the decaying little
town where he had grown up and
the dilapidated house where he
had lived. Buzheninov finds
ANadya (Nadezhda) has grown
into beautiful girl of %. She
\, The sole support of the house,
sold. He drifts into the sleepy life
lf The town, doing nothing, brood
Ing. BuzheninOv tries to tell
ENadya about his dream of rebuild
ing Moscow, but she is not very
Sympathetic.
Continued From Yesterday
NMADYA," asked Buzheninov from
II the darkness of the couch, "tell
lc openly, it is very important. J. :.
Understand, you love somebody"
Nadya raised her brows. The
farming needle stopped. Nadya
iighed, and the thread moved again.
"This is what / will tell you,
yassya. . +. What is love? To live.
Oh-ho-ho! You think
j girl marries because she is in
owe? That is so only in the movies.
What has love to do with it? You
meet a man by accident, and take a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
GRAND JURY FOR DRY CASES

ALBANY, N. Y. March 20 (UP).
The first northern New York
grand jury to handle liquor law vio-
lation cases exclusively is scheduled
to meet here in May and remain in
session probably throughout the
month, it was learned from federal
authorities here today.
There are $50 cases of prohibi-
ton violations month. Under the
new Jones law, which makes viola
ton of the Volstead act felony, Of
tenders must be indicted before be-
ing, sentenced or before pleading.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21

We have seen above that the first
step in the revolution by the work
ing class is to raise the prOIetariat
to the position of ruling class. to
win the battle Of demOcrncy-kari
Marx Communist Mnnifesto)
ffestON.