INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 6 September 1930, Page 9

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

(Svdney “Worker’s Weekly”). * RATIONALISATION. r France. — Tn the great automobile i factory (Renault) in Bilanmurt. near (Paris, work 25,000 mon and women workers. There, as in every other ) groat- enterprise, rationalisation is much in evidence. The consequences rrf such rationalisation is a groat num j ber of accidents to the workers. Dur-, ing the 40 days from Ihe 2nd oi April until the 23rd of May there wore, more J or less serious, £l6 accidents among I these workers. Even if there is no 1 other motive to fight against capitalist » | rationalisation is this not- sufficient in- i |cpntivo* ; —From “ S.-nnacuilo. ” < [ THE STRIKES IN THE RHINEI RUHR DISTRICT. l j Berlin, .Tuly 1, 1930.—Partial strikes’ of the metal workers in the RhineRuhr district have broken out in a .'series of factories under leadership of • the revolutionary trade union opposition. The number of the strikers is, steadilv growing and is now between 40,000 and 50.000. Tim reformist leaders are doing their utmost to crush the strikes and prevent them spreading. Tn Duisberg the social democratic po- • 1 lice president, Meyer, has ordered the [arrest of the strike leadership. Strikes [are proceeding iu Essen. Bochum, Duis- | / burg. Balsum, Dortmund. Muehlheim, I • and other towns. | The central strike committee is isI suing a leaflet appealing to the worklevs io extend the strike to all nietalI lurgical works in the Rhine-Ruhr dis-. ! trict. The reformist leaders are adopting an clastic tactic. Where • tMc workers are enthusiastically in ‘ favour of striking they give way and ' take an unwilling part in the strike I with a "view to throttling it at first i opportunity, but where the workers are • [doubtful th-ey move heaven and earth* ’to keep them in the faviories. The | loaders of the Christian trade unions are openly opposed to the strikes. I ’ LATER. ’ The number of strikers in the Rh'ne- i ! Ruhr district is growing hourly. This | I morning the copper works in Luenen, [and the wire departnumt <»f the Hoeseh ‘ Works in Dortmund jniued '!r' strik-'. 1600 \vorker< in the Hahn r :it -tory in Duisberg joined the strike, whereupon the polii-e arrested the I n 1 r the • red workers' council, Neubauer. 1 300 workers of the Katerburg foundry in Essen came out rhi> morning, as also did the workers of rhe Lesch factory. In Duisberg. 1000 wotkers , of the Berzillius foundry •am» out, and the police arrested the strike com- ' niittoo. 15,01)0 workers are -out >1 Muehlheim. The workers of the ' A.E.G. in Muehlheim have voted with an overwhelming majority for the 'strike. Collisions occurr<‘l in MlehI lheim last night between strikers and the police. ' In Dortmund the workers of the famI ous metallurgical works. Ohr» nstein land Koppel, are out. The reformist leaders have tried to persuade them to go back and accept a •'» per cent rei duetion instead of the proposed per cent reduction. Several thousand workers are out in Dusseldorf. STRIKE FRONT FIRM IN RHINELAND. Berlin, July, 1930. The places of those workers who have returned in the Rhine-Ruhr dis trict have been more than filled by new masses joining th.- strike. 1000 workers of the blast furnace in Meid- ' erich joined the strike yesterd tv. The ( number of strikers in the K'ppersbupch factory has increased from 500 to 1500. The striking smelters have . ! returned in view of the fact thrt the | •employers have given a written undertaking to withdraw the cuts after six i wegks. The Seimens-Shuckert works in Muehlheim are still paralysed. A meeting of 4000 railwaymen took place in Frankfort on Main. Representatives of the Social Democratic Party, the Centre (Catholic) party, and the Communist Party were invited to | attend and make clear their stand- l point. The Communist Party se-it I Comrades Bertz and Mueller, who were I received with tremendous applause. The other parties failed to send any speakers. PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS. j France, July, 1930. I On the 25th of June a workers’ dem-1 onstration marched through the Paris! streets singing and shouting: “Release ’ Marty” and “Down with the hang-1 men of the Yen Bay prisoners!” Po-[ lice attacked the demonstration and a 1 number of workers were injured. Two j were arrested. | DEMONSTRATION AGAINST [ TERROR. ’ Paris, July, 1930 Following the discussion in French Chamber on the situat’ P' I ndo-China and the executior d i" Communist Party organised j l ' protest meeting i n the Cir , ? ’ P > heard I workers were present | speeches bv Comrades F mond, Foissin, Doriot, n ’ an ’• ° Indo-Chinese comrade appear- , s< ance of the latter eeted with prolonged cheers. i 7 FRAME-’ ELAPSES. j <•: iP< /RAGUE, July, 1930. ’ ai mi „ ... reason affair framed-up , fi The hip . _ . . n • bv the J 111 P ress ' 3Ur ff aas collaps-! ; d xously. The police have been i ir C to release all the workers j c: con r -cd with the affair. The author | b< j ie whole business has now been ; si moted from Police President of - ft ressburg to Police President of !<• Prague. j y*«

* PROTESTS AGAINST PILSUDSKI } TERROR. f Berlin. July, 1930. ‘ Mass meetings o f the Red Aid have taken place in Kiel. Wansbeck. Elmshorn. Bremen. Neumuenster, Wiesbaden. Offenb-ich. 'Mains, Stuttgart, 1 and other towns, against the Pilsudski ' terror in Poland, and in particular 1 against tne Leinburg death sentences. : Tens of thousands of workers adopted ' resolutions of protest to be forwarded to the Polish government. MANSFIELD STRIKERS DRIVE OPP ‘ REFORMISTS. { Berlin. July, 1930. 1 Yesterday the reformist trade union ■ leaders tried to disrupt the strike front in Mansfield and called a mass ' meeting to take place in the market ' square in Eisleben. The leader of tho ■ Miners’ Union, Husemann. and two other reformist leaders. Wolfram and Boetcher, were booked to speak. A mass meeting of over 3000 strikers shouted down the reformist leaders. . The police d in and attacked the workers with batons and a fierce fight occurred. The three reformists had to flee under police protection from the fists of the strikers. MASS ARRESTS IN ROUMANIA. | Bucharest, July. 1930. j Mass arrests of workers and peas- • ants have taken place in Roumania during the last few days in connection with the distribution of the appeal of the illegal Communist Party against the reactionary coup d’etat of the fascist Carol. Many arrests have taken place in Bucharest, in Thigina, in Bessarabia. and in other places. The fate of the arrested is unknown, but can be gue»ed on the basis of past experience. At the moment the Siguranza - is certainly engaged in torturing the arrested workers and peasants with a I view to extorting • • information ” from them and perhaps rigging up a new conspiracy to celebrate the accession I MEMBERS REVOLT AGAINST HAIS PR VGUE. July. 1930. The efforts of the liquidator to bring his federation over to the reformists is not meeting with the approval of the members. The Uais group of Illuvetz in Slovakia has adopted a resolution protesting against the proposed amalgamation with the reformist trade union federation and calling for the opening of negotiations with the revolutionary trade unions. The metal workers’ group in Filsen and Hie clerks and bureau employees’ group in Brunn have also declared against amalgamation with the reformist trade union federation and have returned to the revolutionary trade unions. TROOPS AND POLICE AT STRIKE OP AUTO WORKERS. FLINT, Mich , July 7.

Mobilization of the National Guard here is the latest development in the Bu’ck-Fishe” Body strike. The numbers of strikers have grown and now there are 3.000 out. The troops do not allow a man to stop anywhere on the street rear the plant. Orders are swiftly given to “move on.” Some scabs, not many, went into the plant to-day. State police are stationed at th? place where the strikers hold their meetings, and you can not stop there, either. One man who was beaten up by the state police last Friday died this morning. < IF BEEF STEAK IS TOO HIGH EAT COTTON SEED PULP. NEW YORK. At the convention of the American Chemical Society at Atlantic City, Dr. David Wisson exhibited his new product, Wissona, manufactured by the , same company that markets Wessor Oil. I This latest product is made f I cotton seed pulp after the oil has I removed. It is supposed to be I substitute selling at about a the cost of beef steak, or the price of a hot dog. Dr. Wesson claims th* be an ideal food for th combining palatableness, 0 and ! food value, the v abstitute | claiming 60 per ce P ?r I cent in lean bee LONDON zEL TOWERS i . WATER GATE. I | ew water-gate to London-on-los will soon stretch across tho er at Barking. The gateposts will e two masts of latticed steel, and each will be 500 feet high. Between them will be stretched the cables that are to carry electricity from the Barking power station to the County of Kent. The gateway and the cables, which nre its bars, are part of the scheme of the Central Electricity Board’s scheme for electrifying England. In London itself, the cables run underground. and in many a street the trenches for them are being dug. Tho cables will be loaded with electric lower at a pressure of 132.000 volts, tnd so one may imagine a tremendous field of electric force stretching like r ar ,-: >:• a-ross the Thames at Barkng. But it wi l be invisible, and tho ■aides stretching across the river will oe high above the tallest masts of any diip. The lowest cable will be 250 feet above the highest tide, and its length across the river will be 1000 raids.