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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

the latter being a feature still linger-
ing from the earlier days of the c..
0. F. Under the leadership Of the
P. P. T. U. S. the progressive and
revolutionary leaders have shown
determination to make a change.
They have developed their MARKHAM
theories and propounded new organi-
rational measures in opposition to
the reformist and bourgeois theories
and tactics.
Reorganization and Revival.
During recent months the mill
tants have led partially successful
strikes, and completed Unity Pact
between the organized Chinese work
ers in the Philippines and the C. O.
F.; they advocated the building of
factory committees and a basis for
building industrial unions; they took
up the demands of the unemployed
workers whose members are increas-
ing; they issued their manifestoes
declaring for complete independence,
and for a workers political party;
they denounced the politicians of the
old parties and announced them
selves in favor of the class strug-
gle-all of which is but a reflex of
the changing economic and political
situation which is correctly influ-
enced by the events arising from
the Chinese revolution and its be-
trayal by the Kuomintang, and also
by the work of the P. P. I. U. S.
The above constructive proposals
together with others, made an ac-
curate political perspective en-
bodied in theses to be submitted to
Congress on May LIST. The reformists
and political agents of the old par
ties found themselves too weak to
oppose the militants in the Exec
utive of the c. o. F., so they re-
sorted to cunning maneuvers. At
the Executive meetings before con-
gress, they even accepted the draft
theses which included a proposal for
a collective leadership to replace the
old system of president with exec
utive powers. At the same time they
were preparing to pack" the con-
gress in violation of the rules and
constitution of the C. o. F.
The Reactionary Plot.
Tejada, the leader of the Tobacco
Workers Union, member of the
Democratic CONSERVATIVE Party,
and tool of the wealthy native bour-
geoisie and American imperialists,
was selected to lead the attack, and
instead of Sd delegates being legally
elected from the Tobacco Workers
Union with membership of 10000,
he sent 1888; while 65 appeared from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
MASS RALLIES
IN FRISCO TO
AID GASTONIA
Bay Cities Also
in Big Meets

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. o.
Mass rallies will be held in the Bay
District for the defense and relief
of the Gastonia strikers and to pro-
test the recent arrests of the work.
ers because of the demonstration in
front of the Chinese Consul in San
Francisco. Ten comrades are faced
with felonies which carry with them
sentences from one to five years.
The mass rally in Oakland will
be held on Saturday evening, Aug.
IT, 1929, at 500 o'clock, at the Ma
tive Sons Hall, 18th and Clay SITS.
A movie of the Gastonia strikers
and tent colony will be shown,
Mother" Bloor and one of the
strikers will tell the story of the
heroic struggle of the Southern
textile strikers, and participants in
the demonstration in front of the
Chinese Consul will tell the story of
their arrests.
The workers in. the Bay District
are carrying on an intensive house
to house collection and collections
are being held in front of shops and
factories. Teams of workers are
distributing the Gastonia leaflets
and are obtaining signatures pro-
testing against the frame-up and
the attempted murder of the Gas
tonia strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Fa sci S t Dicta tor
Grabs u. S. Youth as
Fodder for War Use
By OSMORE EATON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. g.
A 2o-year-old Sandusky, Ohio,
youth, has appealed to friends in
the United States to get him out of
Mussolini's black-shirt army in
Italy.
Giacomo Magi, son of Antonio
Magi, was born in Sandusky March
Is, 1909. When 10 years old he re-
turned to Italy. Recently he de-
cided that, between the bloody die
tatorship of fascism and the camou-
flaged dictatorship of the United
States, he would like to try living
here again, so he prepared to return.
AS he was about to set sail, he was
arrested at Rome and railroaded
into the fascist army. He is still
therein the air force.
Magi and his family have ap-
pealed to Representative James I.
Begg of Ohio to take the matter up
with the state department.
Begg is doing so and the two gov
ernments are shortly to begin die
kering as to which dictatorship the
Sandusky boy shall remain under.
Under Italian law, la Mussolini,
Italian citizenship lasts for two
generations, so the fact that Magi
was born in another country does
not help him. His parents were ma
tives of Italy and that, according
to fascism, makes the boy an Italian
as mush as his parents are.
Magi will not be a great deal bet
ter or worse off, whether the result
is one way or the other. But the
incident is illustrative of the swift
and ruthless tactics employed by
Mussolini to seize attractive
material for his war machine.
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! pose of establishing here a free
self governing community If
the United States really meant to
adopt the policy of exploiting the
Filipinos, there would be no power
that would stop her from doing
it."
This is a complete abandonment
of the struggle for independence on
the part of Quezon and his follow
ers, and represents the capitula-
ton Of the native bourgeoisie to
American imperialists together with
heir guaranteed assistance in
further suppression of the workers
and peasants.
Robbery of the Peasantry.
This process of development goes
on side by side with the evictions
of thousands of peasants from pub
lie lands, who had inherited their
small farms from their fathers fore
fathers who cleared and improved
these lands, which are now being
sold in large tracts to rich land
owners. And lest anyone should
think these poor peasants should
have become rich enough to COM
pete in the open market for owner
ship, let them not forget that all the
methods of usury practiced in China,
India, Africa, ETC., are all prevalent
in the Philippines, and after paying
so per cent of the crops as rent in
kind, together with exorbitant in
terest on loans, the poor peasants
have not enough left to support their
families. Kept in poverty, many of
them often find their homes and
tools sold by the grating usurers
and cruel landlords who are backed
by the United States Constabulary.
This is causing a differentiation
in the social life of the Philippines
which is growing, and is sharpen
ing the class struggle. This ac-
counts for $4,000 workers and pea
SAINTS marching in the demonstra-
ton which was organized by Com
rade Evangelista and his colleagues
on May LIST, primarily in protest
against the evictions and arrests of
the struggling peasantry. This class
differentiation has been noticeable
during the last two years and since
the C. o. F. affiliated to the Pan
Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. 1t
is especially noticeable during the
last few months; the native CAPT
talist politicians once more began to
mobilize their henchmen and re-
dictionaries for a definite challenge
to the militant workers.
The c. o. F. has been additionally
class collaborationist and mutualist,
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a Stevedores' Union of only $50
members. In this way Tejada and
his clique claimed a majority vote
of the congress and hoped to defeat
every progressive measure.
1t is no accident that the struggle
developed on the question of the
election of a Secretariat to control
the congress, for this was an issue
upon which the bourgeois politicians
chose to split the C. 0. F. Comrade
Evangelista was in duty bound to
challenge the number of delegates
entitled to vote, which he did. The
Credentials Committee expressed
their doubt as to the legitimate num-
Der, and thereupon Tejada, (who
was chairman of the congress), in
sisted upon putting the question to
the packed" congress, when the
delegates belonging to the militant
section led by Comrade Evangelista,
left the congress. This is the third
time, in its 81 years ofsexistence, the
disruption of the Philippine trade
union movement has been caused by
bourgeois politicians and their
agents who seek to control the move
ment for selfish motives, and to aid
their imperialist masters.
Militants Expose Reactionaries.
Apparently this time the damage
will not be so great. The militant
leaders have the accumulated ex-
perience gained by contact with the
P.P.T,U.S. The political awaken
ing of the masses is also seen in
the response made to the call to hold
a separate conference Immediately
after the split. The capitalist news
papers also reported more than half
the delegates left the congress, and
out of 35 unions representing a
total membership of approximately
$4,000 members, 81 are reported by
them to have attended the provi-
slonal conference.
This provisional conf er en- e
launched the Congreso Obrero de
Filipinas (proletariat), and decided
to issue a manifesto explaining the
splitting, fraudulent and disruptive
tactics of these agents of Filipino
capitalists. They also decided to call
another full congress on May 18th.
The policies of the two groups are
well-defined, for Tejada's pro-capi-
talist faction rejected the Pact of
Unity with the Chinese by declaring
it illegal to admit them to the c..
o. F., but the Proletarian c. o. F..
admits them. The reactionaries also
voted to ask for the cooperation of
the government Bureau of Labor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Chant R0let0T0n
By ALEXANDER SACKS

Out of the dark | come singing,
Sledge at my side and exhaling defiance
Long in the lairs OF despair and deep darkness,
Long in the loathing of kings having suffered
Knout-lashed and fettered by sword to the soi-nov
Come l emerging with head to the sum- fists
Raised high to the skies in power exuting. -.
Ask for the birth of my power
Back to the back-bent slaves, back to the dusky
Pyramid-builders, and serfs of sad Russia:
There will take you, for there is the answer.
Look at the grim-gnarled muscles of labor
Leaping in anger from tired dumb shoulders,
Look at the massve-wide sweep of my arms-then
Tell me you marvel at my power.
Look at my shoulders fierce strength exuding,
Writ with the toll of uncountabe cons,
See the great answer!
Behold the hard and wan
Sledge that has reared you in comfort and pleasure
Leaping with fury, destroying and smashing
Earthward, to dust the stern structure that
mocks t."
Out of the dark come singing,
Sledge at my side and exhaing Defiance
Come | emerging with head to the sun, fists
Raised high to the skies, in power exulting. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
$5,000,000 Air Merger.

DAYTON, O., Aug. "Details
of new S5,000,OO0 aviation supply
merger were to be worked out at
conference scheduled to be held in
Cincinnati today. The Johnson Air
plane Supply Company, of this city,
is involved in the merger, as well
as Powell Crosley, Jr, radio manu-
facturer of Cincinnati, and the
Fleischmann interests of Cincinnati.
This latest merger comes on the
heels of an announcement by John
J. Raskob of General Motors and
the democratic party, that he would
initiate a consolidation of several
big airplane accessory firms. These
mergers, in addition to increasing
naturalization, that is, speed up,
firing of workers and wage cuts,
have for their ultimate object
greater efficiency in preparations
for the next imperialist slaughter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
Wet Wins in Virginia
Democratic Primary;
Split in His Party

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 9. - The
wet candidate, John G. Pollard, won
the democratic nomination fer gov
ernor by three to one over G. Wal
ter Mapp, who drew up the Virginia
prohibition statute. Pollard will be
opposed by DR.. William Mosley
Brown, endorsed both by the repub-
lican party and the Bishop Cannon
branch of the democratic party, who
have split off from the regular dem
ocratic party on the question of pro-
hibition. Both are viciously anti
labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
new WALL ST. so,
AMERICA AIR Line
Backed By Bankers; Is
Move Against Britain

American imperialism, fighting
Britain for control in Argentine, has
taken an important step towards
strengthening its commercial posi-
ton and at the same time prepar-
ing for the future with the an
nouncement that a seven-day air
line between New York and Buenos
Aires has been organized by a group
of Wall Street bankers and capital
lists.
The future that Wall Street is
thoughtfully. preparing for is its
next war, which may be with Bri-
tain, in which case the new air line
will prove decidedly handy.
The company will be known as
the New York, Rio and Buenos
Aires Air Line, Inc. 1t will oper-
ate passenger, express and air
mail transport service between New
York and Buenos Aires, along the
Atlantic coast of North and South
America, a distance of 5000 miles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
AGENTS OF u S. IMPERIALISTS AND NATIVE BOURGEOISIE
FAIL TO CAPTURE CONGRESS

it necessary to completely subiugate
the Philippines. This is being done
by utilizing the same brutal methods
as is practiced by every other i'm
perialist power, while, in typical
American style, camouflaging their
suppression by hypocritical phrases
and gestures about ultimate indie
pendence.
This democratic mask is intended
to serve two purposes; first, to fool
the so-called liberals and the workers
in the United States, who may still
believe that colonial suppression is
"un-American," and to enable the
native bourgeoisie in the Philippines
to cooperate with U. S. Imperialism,
in return for which they will receive
a few extra crumbs that drop from
the imperialist table. In this way
the American capitalists, with the
cooperation of the native bour-
geoisie, hopes to deepen the exploit
tation of the protesting workers and
peasants by centralizing the control
Of the land and developing new pro-
cesses for extracting wealth from
agricultural products.
The degree to which the U. S. i'm
perialists try to preserve their sole
right to exploit the Filipino work
ers and peasants is shown by the
fact that out of the total value of
exports from the Philippines in 1928,
amounting to Pesos 310,112,092,
America took a total amounting to
Pesos 231, 171,751, and out of the
Philippine imports valued at $780,
313,796 Pesos, imports coming from
U. S. A. amounted to 167,716,135
Pesos. Thus we see the beneficial
results" of economic and political en-
slavement of the Filipino workers
and peasants, which is being carried
out with the assistance of the ma
tive bourgeoisie and American armed
forces.
A Great Leader--0f Betrayal.
How far the native bourgeoisie
has capitulated can be judged by
Senator Manuel Quezon's state
ments. He is the President of the
Senate and erstwhile leader of the
Philippine independence movement,
as well as leader of the Nationalist
Party, which originally stood for in
dependence. But previous to the
departure of Governor Stimson from
the islands, Quezon said:
"The United States are in the
Philippines, not for the purpose of
exploiting the Filipinos, but to
help or develop our country for
our own benefit and for the pur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

the mass meeting from the steps of
the city's pride" The workers,
gathered chiefly from the Yale
Lock and Richards Leather plants
1.-THE latter produces big amounts of
war materially applauded the revo-
lutionary speeches of the Commu-
mist speakers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
LESLIE SEES ABBOTT
Believe Sullivan Bank Case
Object of Visit.

William Abbott, Spencer, visited
Governor Harry g. Leslie here to-
day on mission believed connected
with his efforts to obtain return
from the closed Citizens Trust Com
pany bank of Sullivan of 100000 in
liberty bonds.
The bank is defendant in suit
brought by Abbott to be heard in
Knox circuit court at Vincennes
April %. James M. Lang, 72-year-
old president of the bank, who re-
turned to Sullivan last week after
being a fugitive more than a year
following filing of forgery charges
asserts the bonds were returned to
Abbott.
Photographic copies of the banks
records, taken last week, are In
Abbott's possession. In addition to
the bonds, Abbott asserts he has a
$4,000 claim for deposits.
Lang asserts his only reason fol-
fleeing from Sullivan was due tc
threats by Abbott. The aged bank
er declares he helped Abbott in in
come ta2: matters and falsified the
banks records for him, but that
Abbott demanded more work of ir-
regular nature and accompanied the
demand with threats to ''get" Lang
who is accused of forgery to the
extent of $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
Four Children Among Vic
tins in Week End
MishapS.

Twelve persons were injured, four
of them children. in traffic accidents
over the weekend.
The children were hurt when they
ran in front of motor and traction
cars.
They are: Henry Whitley, Nero,
z. of 1923 vandermann street, city
hospital, possible skull fracture; Ma
RE RiegaI. 4, of 1889 South West
street, cuts and bruises; Adj Kim
berlin, 8. Of 2317 State ayentle. cuts
and bruises, and Henry McClain,
s, OF 1846 Howard street. cuts and
bruises.
Whitley was injured when he
walked into the pathway Of an In
dianapolis & Southeastern traction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
TWELVE INJURED IN
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

car at Prospect street and Sherman
drive. The other children were
struck by motor cars.
Three persons received cuts and
bruises in a collision between two
cars at Belt and Washington streets,
when car driven by Carl Nichols,
10, was being towed by two soldiers
and it was struck by a car driven by
Preston G. Monroe, IS, of Princeton,
Ind.
Nichols and two women occupants
Of his car, Misses Helen and Marie
Osborne. 1905 Northwestern avenue,
suffered bruises and cuts. Monroe
was unhurt. The Nichols auto over
turned.
Others injured in accidents Satur-
day and Sunday are: Louis Benjam-
in, 40, employe 0. indianapolis Star;
Stephen H Burnett, 50, of SIG Euclid
avenue; Forest Hook, 40, Of Ills
Spring street; and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester LeCompte. l4iD East Le-
Grad avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
PRISONERS TO
RIDE IN SPECIAL
Pullman Will Take IL to
State Jail.

For the first time in history of
local criminal procedure, prisoners
viii be transported from the Marion
county Jail to the Indiana state
prison in a special railroad car.
A special Pullman will leave the
Union station on the Monon rail-
road at 7:45 a. m. Tuesday with
twelve prisoners each in the custody
of a deputy sheriff headed by Sher-
iff George L. Winkler, who will be
assisted by Frank Kemp, turnkey at
the Marion county jail.
The special conveyance was or
dered by Criminal Judge James A.
Collins. 81 believe a special car will
be the safest method when trans
porting such large group of pris-
oners," he said.
The Pullman will arrive in Ham
mond at 1890 p. m where the priS-
oners will be transferred to a spe-
cial interurban on the South Shore
Electric lines. The interurban will
arrive in Michigan City at 1:30 p. m.
and prisoners will be taken to the
state prison from the station in
automobiles.
Among the most important pris-
oners will be Rupert Mcdonald, 81,
and Lawrence L. Ghere, "a, who
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
today in criminal court for the muir
der of Wilkinson Haag.
Others to go are Thomas Hind
man, Negro, and James E. Burke,
five to tWenty-one years, for auto
banditry and robbery in the $4,000
PettiS Dry Goods Company robbery
Dec. %, 1923; James H. Brown, two
to fourteen years, for conspiracy in
the same robbery; Thomas j.
Bristow, one to fourteen years
for auto banditry; Earl Sparks,
five to twenty-one years for
auto banditry and burglary; August
Cummins, same, and James B. AL
len, one to ten years for grand lar
ceny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
WOMAN WOUNDS BOY
Shoots When Youths In
wade Yard of Her Home.

Albert Bakemeyer, 10. of I349
NARROW avenue, is held today in the
city hospital detention ward on a
trespasS charge with a minor bullet
wound in his leg as the result of the
anger of. Mrs. Charles j. Wagner
of 5154 Southeastern avenue at be-
ing disturbed by group Of youths
who invaded the yard of her home
Sunday night.
Mrs. Wagner fired six revolver
shots in the direction of the youths,
she told police, when they refused
to leave her yard and threw a bottle
at her. The youths came from
Monty'S casino, next door to the
grocery in the rear of which she
and her husband live and drank
from bottle, she said. Police
found an empty bottle and quart
bottle half full of alcohol, in the
yard.
Mrs. Wagner was arrested on an
assault and battery charge, but re-
leased on her own recognizance.
Bakemeyer refused to tell who his
companions were.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
NAB II IN q RAIDS
Gambling Charges Faced
After Weekend Raids.

Twenty-seven men face gambling
charges today as the result of police
raids over the weekend.
Roy Middleton, 1918 Columbia
avenue, was charged with keeping a
gambling house and nine Negroes in
his poolroom with gambling when
police said they interrupted a craps
game there.
Gus Bisesi, %, was charged with
operating gaming house and a
blind tiger after raid on his pool
room at 500 East McCarty street
His grandfather, Augusta Bisesi
and Hugh Barrick, q, of 718 East
mccarthy street, also were charged
with blind tiger operation. Three
others alleged to be playing domi-
noes were charged with gaming.
Nine men were charged with
gambling in a raid on dice game
at 2034 West Tenth street.
Ballard Johnson, Negro, Is, 4o7
West North street, was charged with
gambling when he complained that
Thomas Jones. Negro, 411k West
North street, had stopped the dice
in a craps game as they, rolled
seven" Jones was charged with
operating a gaming house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
FERTILIZER FREIGHT
CUT TO AID FARM RS
Slash in Rates Will Save Thousands
of Dollars.

Savings of thousands of dollars to
Hoosier farmers is expected to re-
suit from an order of the public
service commission reducing freight
rates on fertilizer and fertilizer ma
terials approximately 25 per cent.
Chairman Frank Singleton of the
commission announced today.
New rates are effective March %,
and have been filed with o. r. Liv-
inghouse, head of the commission
traffic department.
The order places intro-state ship
ments on the same basis as inter-
state shipments, according to Liv-
inghouse. The case under decision
was brought by the National Fer
tilizer Association, Inc, against the
Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad and
others.