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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
GENERAL STRIKE
|. OF BAKERS ON IN
RIO De yANEIR0
Printers Out Too; Move
for Unity Grows

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April
ia general strike of the bakers
has closed all bakery shops in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. $4,000 workers
have struck, demanding a DO per
cent wage increase.
The workers of the printing es-
Establishments of Sac Paulo, the sec
ond largest city of Brazil, are also
on strike. The newspapers are be-
ing printed but the workers of all
other printing shops are out demand
ing recognition of the union, paid
holidays and better working condi-
tons. The strikers of the printing
trades of Sac Paulo are supplied
with funds by the unions of Rio de
Janeiro.
Industrialization Process.
The recent increase of labor ac-
Invites and the movement towards
unification of the disconnected labor
organizations all over Brazil has
been fostered by the great strides
Brazil is making on the road toward
industrialization, particularly in the
textile trades. Up to the present
date there have been no nationwide
labor declarations, partly due to the
enormous distances and insufficient
communications. But recently sew
eral of the many dispersed, uncor-
nected and dual unions made eff
forts towards the organization of
larger declarations.
Communists Lead Workers.
The Brazilian Communists have
contributed largely to this unifica-
ton movement. The marine work
ers, longshoremen, ship carpenters,
ETC., are unifiying their organiza-
tons in one large nationwide fed
Grafton and the labor organizations
of Rio de Janeiro are joining the
"Federacao de Trabalhadores de
Janeiro," which is under Commu-
mist influence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

of all it came from his yearning.
He sat on the floor, staring with
dull eyes at the ceiling, his lips
tightly pressed together. His face
became sad and old.
81 &
A CLEAN-SHAVEN, long-nosed
"A thin-lipped man entered the room.
His peaked head was covered with a
cap pulled low over his eyes. His
tread was firm, as if he were pres
sing hard against the earth with
each step he took. And his shoes
were in utter ruin and looked like
the paws of some animal. He came
in and Topped into a chair. And
the chair, too, seemed to press down
into the floor.
well? Fussing as usual? AL
ways papers and papers! You ought
to chuck all those papers into the
fire. And you, Bashkurdistan, what
are you bowling about? Do you
want autonomy"
He screwed up his narrow eyes
and contorted his thin lips. He
laughed at everything. AS he spoke,
he kept rubbing his palms together,
launching his back and stroking his
thighs down to the knees. He was
all agog. Not for a moment did he
sit still. His every joint seemed to
demand movement and work.
swat. Comrade Martynov," pite-
ously besought the older of the two
young ladies'. you're always clam
oring. You make my head spin.
Where can we put them?"
"To clean the toilets, to dig the
ground. Where? Well find
place. Hey, you, Bashkir arba,*
Row long are you going to keep up
that squeaking And he mimicked
the Bashkir to the life:
"Ee-g hi-ghi-ghi. -"
The Bashkir's eyes suddenly be-
came dry. His lips stretched into
smile. And he stopped his squeaky
wailing.
"Well, young ladies, how goes
it? Papers and papers? Accord
ing to the instructions, with ques-
tionnaires 81"
And again he rubbed his palms
together.
"Tll take ten Of these rascals
from you. ! can take ten."
That's good, Comrade Martynov,"
the same young lady said joyously.
"We'll pick them out for you in a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
BUILDERS WIN
IN M0NTEvIDE0
Communists Active in
Leadership

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April
IA strike of about 1900 work
ers in the building trades, bricklay-
ers, carpenters and painters, in
Montevideo, which lasted for several
weeks, has ended with a complete
victory for the workers.
The Communist organ LA JUS
ticia," which is the only daily work
ing class newspaper in Montevideo,
was the mouthpiece of the strikers.
The situation and progress of the
strike was treated with large head
lines on the front page and con-
tributed to the influence of the Com
munists in the strike committee.
The demands of the workers for
a 10 per cent increase in wages was
finally granted, when one contrac-
tor after another broke away from
the united front of the employers
and made arrangements with his
employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
Worker and Peasant ARMIES IN Advance Interior China
Tortured by Bulgarian Police

Maiden Stojanov, Bulgarian mint
or, thrown out of the ,0indo'c Of tre
Sofia police station, after being IN
speakably tortured by the authori-
ties. The crime aUas described by
the police as Suicide" The police
1canted StojanoU as member of the
"iUegap' Party, i.e., Bulgarian Cont
munist Party, of aOhich he aOas one
of the best organizers. No one kpoWs
aOhetheg StojanoU is alipe or dead.
If he is alive the 10orkerS must sdUe
him, If dead, must denounce his
murderers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
EXPOSE METHODS
OF power TRUST
Labor LEADERS" Used
by Calf. Interests

WASHINGTON, April 17.-Cam-
paign methods pursued by California
power interests in opposition to a
state water power act included en-
listment of labor leaders" society
women, and civic organizations to
agitate public opinion, according to
testimony today before the federal
trade commission.
Details of the 1922 campaign
against the measure, which would
have authorized the state to enter
the power business, We're revealed.
Similar campaigns were conducted
by utilities in 1924 and 1926 and
each time the bill was defeated.
Organizations were sponsored and
financially backed by utility cor
porations who remained in the back
ground during the campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
Indian Jute Strikers Face
Cholera, Famine, Need AID

period of the lockout. (e)25 per
cent increase of wages. (f) Dis
missal of supervising officer. (g)
Mill jutes to be always kept open.
(h) No arbitrary dismissal. G No
exorbitant fines. Cd Mills to be
started punctually at $50 a. m. and
not a minute before.
The bosses than sent a Mr.. Gamer
on to seduce the starving workers.
He was introduced by Ghosh, with
out whom they would never have
listened to this European gentle
man." who is an ex-mill manager.
Cameron said that the following
terms would be conceded" by the
bosses:
Bosses Terms"
1. The workers would get wages
as in some other mills (the Bauria
workers get less than others. 2. No
wages for lockout periods. 3. The
mill authorities would ask for the
withdrawal of the cases pending
against 18 men. 4. Double-shift
would be continued. 5. No dismissal
for first offences. But Cameron
turned tail before the workers mill
fancy and vanished. The workers
began picketing the mills to stop
scabbing.
Now Cholera.
Nearly every jute worker is ten
ant of the Fort Gloster Co. The
bosses have closed the main road,
shut the market to the workers,
posted police in all byways, and
the strikers are systematically as
saulted.
Many of the workers are starving,
many eat green cocoanuts. Cholera
has come. Appeals for aid have
been received and should be re-
sponded to by the international
working class.
(Thc above summarizes an ar
ticle, The Bauria Jute Mill Lockout
in India, by NJ. Ali, in the March
issue of the Far Eastern Quarterly,
No. 23.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
BULGAR PEASANTS RISE.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 1.-Two
frontier attacks on Bulgarian SEN
tries were reported today coincident
with renewal of comitadii activi-
ties in the mountains of central Bull
garia. Revolving peasants, including
Jugoslav soldier, were repulsed
near Trun. A similar band of conn.,
tadjis entered Bulgaria near Lom-
nitza but withdrew after skirmish
with Bulgarian and Jugoslav SOL
diers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

Grig0ri Ivanovich Peskov (Grish-
ka), homeless waif, escapes
from home for juvenile delin-
ouents together with a group of
ether inmates. They live by beg
ging and spend their nights in a
cemetery. On the anniversary of
the Paris Commune they get free
meals in children's dining room.
Grishka has great time listen
ing to speakers and shouting slo-
gans.
one NIGHT the cemetery was sur
v rounded. They were looking for
some important fugitive, but they
found Grishka's commune instead.
And in the weird hour before suit
rise, stumbling in sleepy stupor,
the juvenile lawbreakers dragged
themselves along the familiar road.
The weary Red soldiers were swear
ing, but they did not beat the chill
dren
After a nights Imprisonment they
were again taken to the Narobraz.
There were fifteen Of them in all.
They were escorted by three militia
men. The oldest of these coughed
all the way, spat, and grumbled at
the children.
What kind Of men will you grow
up to be? Why, here you're only
kids and under guard already!
You're dung, that's what you are.
What the hell did you get born for?
Foo! There you, badly, stop bawl-
ing! It's bad enough without that"
But the squint-eyed Bashkir boy
cid not understand Russian. He was
bawling and trying to break away.
A freckle-faced militiaman threat
ened him with his rifle, then caught
hold Of his long shirt and pulled him
slong. His Tartar cap fell down
islto the mud. The senior militia
man picked it up and jammed it
s;dewise on the Bashkir's head. And
The Bashkir kept struggling and
yelling. His square-jawed, yellow,
little face remained motionless; his
,ries were squeaky and moroton-
Jus:
olga kaityrga ty-le-em." Il want
% 60 honey
Z The old man grumbled in reply:
"Kaityrga, kaityrga. :. Sure it's
latorga.A For you and for us. But
top your squawking! If your lot
II life is katorga. kick or don't dic,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

IS far as 1 am concerned. l can't
claim to have discovered the ex-
istence of classes in modern society
or their strife against one another.
Middle-clnss historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles. and political economists
showed the economic physiology of
the classes. have added as n new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tiOns; - that the existence of
classes is bound up with certain
phases of material production; -
that the class struggle leads neces-
snrily to the dictatorship of the
proletariat; b that this dictatorship
is but the transition to the aboIi-
ton of all classes and to the ere
ntI"n of society of free and equal.
Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
PANIC AFTER EARTHQUAKE.

WELLINGTON, N. z. (By MaiD =.
A number of violent earth shocks
created panic in Arthur's Pass,
New Zealand, near the mouth of
the Otira Tunnel. Huge quantities
of rock were dislodged from the
mountain side, destroying homes of
workers and natives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

minute. There are some here whose
cases have been settled"
iii pick them out myself. | have
a QUESTIONABLE Of my own"
hND HE turned round in his chair
" toward the children. He rested
his eyes on tall, blonde boy.
"Hey you, blondy! Are you a
good hand at stealing?"
The boy colored and fidgeted:
"They took me for nothing at all.
it was Petka Pyatkov who stole,
and 1 &. :"
You're good hand at lying.
Fond OF fighting? With fists or
with knife?"
mo, l never fight"
"You don't? Fool! And you,
what makes your face so green?"
This is Grishka.
Grishka eyed him as he sat
squirming in his chair and rubbing
bis palms one against the other with
rapid motion, and Grishka laughed,
and remembered:
Il seen squoimin' monkey at the
zoo. Very much alike. And he had
long arms and made funny faces"
whats the laughing about?
Why is your phiz so green?"
Grishka sniffled and replied:
you'd turn green yourself. Moth
ing to eat all day!"
aren't you used to going with
out grub?"
"You try with all your might to
get used to it, but the belly aches
just the same
"Did you run away from jail?"
mo, not from Jail. I'm juv'nile.
/ ran away from a convent"
$50 they've tried to convert you,
hey? They don't call it convent,
buddy, but a Med-i-co-ped-a-go-gi-
cal Institution. They're great for
names, the sons Of. But why did
you run away"
Gust because. l didn't like it
there"
(To Be Continued)
The Bashkir word "kaityrga"
resembles the Russian word "kato-
rga" meaning penal servitude, or,
figuratively, torture.
A primitive cart used by Bash
KRIS, very creaky conveyance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
OIL WORKER KILLED.

LOS ANGELES, (By MaiD.-
Speed up and negligence on the
company's part is blamed for the
death of Charles Heap, pumper fol-
the Miley Oil Co. at Signal Hill
when a steam pipe exploded. The
workers head was crushed by iror
fragments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
CONSUL ADMITS
COMMUNISTS Win
In 3 DISTRICTS
Japanese to Remain in
Shantung Province

SHANGHAI, China, April IT,
Reports received here from mission.
aries and other sources in the inter
Tor state that the worker and peas
ant armies are now extending thei1
control over a large section of the
country from western Kiangsi to 8
constantly advancing line in eastern
Fukien.
Ngao-yuan is the latest town in
Kiangsi to have fallen to the
worFer-peasant armies, according tc
dispatch from Kanchow. As the
troops advance in this region they
are taking the land of the rich
farmers over a wide belt, the report
states.
At the same time, Douglas Jenk-
ms, United States Consul General
at Canton, has advised all mission
aries in southern Kiangsi, and north
crn Kwangsi provinces to withdraw
owing to the spread of Communist
control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

During June 1928, the jute mills
shared the general strike sentiment
in Calcutta, especially at Ludlow
and Cheagail where police fired on
strikers. Discomfort was greater in
Bauria since workers there received
2.6 rupees mot quite one dollar) per
week. When the workers refused
to work overtime to clean their
machines the bosses closed the mill,
June &c.
The workers of the three other
mills owned by the Fort Gloster Co.,
Immediately moved to go on SYM
pathetic strike. .
Reformists Aid Bosses.
NJ. K. Chose and Kishori Lal
Ghosh, secretary of the Bengal
Trade Union Federation and presi-
dent of the Bauria Jute Workers
Union respectively, begged tn e
workers at their mass meetings not
to strike. Even had they succeeded
in convincing the workers (they did
mott the owners would have forced
the strike.
On July 16 the bosses fired six
"coolie" leaders, engaging the work
ers who demanded the surrender OF
the head clerk responsible for the
dismissal. Under cover of barrage
of stones and heavy pieces of metal,
the workers rushed the doors.
The police hurried to the mill
owners assistance and fired IL
rounds into the mass of workers,
wounding 46 of them. They then
arrested 70, 4S of whom are still
undergoing trial before special
bench on three different charges.
The next day the bosses closed
the mills locking out about 10000
workers. Strong police attachments
were posted at all the mills.
What Price peace"
Meanwhile Kishori Lal Gosh
had visited Chengail and Bauria "to
see how order and the former peace
could be re-established and whether
healthy atmosphere of confidence
is possible between the employers
and workers" So much for the
treachery of the reformist Indian
union Officials.
The Bauria Union works under
orders from the reactionary Fedora
ton led by Gosh. The Bengal Jute
Workers Association, an old organi-
cation now under leadership of the
Workers and Peasants Party, is
fighting the federation, but has had
no chance to come out openly in the
Bauria struggle, the certain Work
ers and Peasants speakers have ad-
dressed strike meetings.
Led by the federation, the strike
dragged on for three and half
months without settlement.
Workers Grievances.
In October the bosses ordered the
workers to go back to work and
promised consideration of their
grievances, if any, after full resump-
ton"
The grievances are:
/. The replacement of double
shift by single shift system which
owners want to introduce and in re-
gard to which a notice was put up
the day following the lockout. This
change would at once throw some
1000 workers out of employment. 2.
Maltreatment, beating, etc. 8. Over
time work. 4. Low wages. 8,
Arbitrary dismissals. 6. Fines, etc.
In the course of the lockout the
workers formulated the following
demands:
(a) Two-shift system. (b) No
victimization. (c) Withdrawal of
Ill cases. Id Wages for the whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
Oklahoma Judge Goes
on Trial Tomorrow for
Graft andIncOmpetence

OKLAHOMA CITY, April II
(UP).-J. w. Clark, suspended JUS
tice of the Oklahoma state supreme
court, will go to trial Friday on
charges of incompetency and cor
ruption before the senate court of
impeachment.
Clark's trial will be the first of
three trials against supreme court
justices, the others being against
Chief Justice Charles w. Mason and
Justice Fletcher Riley, also charged
with incompetency and corruption.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
Reich TERMS co
TO CONFERENCE
Is Reported to Range
to S400,000,0O

PARIS, April 1.-THE Preparations
conference heard the German coun-
ter-proposals to the allied imperial
list terms this afternoon and imme-
diateiy appointed a committee to
simplify the various annuity fig
ures between what Germany has
offered to pay and what the Allies
apparently are willing to accept as
the price of its adhesion to the
western bloc against the Soviet
Union.
There seems little doubt that the
allied figures are far from the Ger
man offer. 1t was reported from
reliable sources that there was an
approximate difference of S250,000,-
900 on average annual payments
for the future and distinct differ
ence in regard to the schedule of
payments and the years over which
annuities would run. The allied pro-
pcsals specified IS years but the
Germans were said to have pro-
posed 3? years.
Much Importance was attached to
the American attitude opposing re-
duction of the United States claims
and it was believed this position
would strengthen the allied attitude
toward Germany.
Thnrn al
port this afternoon that the dele
gates were seriously considering
postponement of the conference for
a period of three months, due to
the wide variance of figures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
FORCE MEXICAN
UNEMPLOYED TO
DIG TRENCHES
Labor Takers Try to
Halt Textile Strike

NOGALES, Ariz., April IT,
Great numbers of unemployed in
Ncgales, Mexico, have been marched
under guns to dig trenches for the
reactionaries who are expecting an
attack from the advancing federal
armies. The trenches are elaborate,
some being more than half mile
in length.
At Aqua Prieta a force of 1900
reactionaries from Chihuahua, I'M
der General Barcenas, is making
ready to meet an attack of federals
marching over the Pulpito Pass.
The main reactionary forces, how
ever, are reported to be concentrated
at Navojoa, in Southern Sonora, tho
large force under General Yucup-
icio is in the hills south of Sonora.
Concentrate on Pass.
JUAREZ, Mexico, April 17-With
the departure from here of 1000
more federals, half northern Mexican
army will be en- route for Pulpito
Pass by which the invasion of
Chihuahua is to be made.
General Almazan, commanding
the federals, announced that he ex-
pected resistance from the reaction
aries in the Pass.
The reactionary army under Cen
eral Caraveo, $500 men, is defend
Jag the Pass.
MEXICO CITY, April 17.-Gov-
crnment and reactionary labor Of
ficials were tonight trying desper-
atcly to prevent the strike of H.
COO textile workers in the states of
Puebla, TleXcala, Guam juato and
Michoacan.
The strike is III protest against
the closing down Of the Sourasky
mills in Mexico City.
The governments arbitration
board, which works in the interest
Of the capitalists, granted the mills
permission 10 close down because of
excess production.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
WALL FALLS, KILLS WORKER.

LOS ANGELES, (By MaiD.-C.
M. Ramos, worker, was killed, and
another worker, Joseph Mcneil badly
hurt, when a wall being torn down
in Long Beach collapsed. Mcneil
may die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

SHANGHAI, China, April IT.
Chang Kai-shek, president of the
Marking government, has succeeded
in inducing Japan to refrain from
withdrawing its troops from Shan
tung as stipulated in the recent un-
derstanding drawn up between the
two governments.
This is understood to be capital
victory for Chang. in his struggls
with Feng Yu-hsiang for the posses.
sion of Shantung. Feng was watt
ing to seize the province as soon
as the Japanese evacuated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18
sCAFFOLD KILLS WORKER.

LOS ANGELES, (By MaiD Pc
dro Valdez, a laborer, was killed
when a scaffold on which he was
working plunged five stories to the
ground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

The proletarinn movement is
the self-c o N C 1 o s, Independent
movement of the immense major
ity.-kar1 Marx Communist Mani
festO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

From each according to his ca
pacity, to each according to his
needs.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-18

Among all the classes that con-
front the bourgeOisie today. the
prOletariat alone is really revolu-
tionary--Marx.