The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1924, Page 4

HT ERSTE RGA HENNE OE ES SSIS 4 Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday, April 30, 1924 RUSSIA FREEING NORTH CHINA FROM TYRANNY OF “WHITES”; “BUTCHER BARON” IN RETREAT By JACK ARMITAGE. (Special to The Daily Worker) HONGKONG, April 2. (By mail).—Murder, rapine, outrage and persecution are written in letters of blood on the pages of Russia’s history in the Far Hast. Time was when the Czarist forces were counted among the world’s most atrocious homicides, but with the advent of Communism in Russia and the establish- ment of the Soviets, the campaign of blood and lust by the reac- tionaries became intensified, and for a time what little restraint the “whites” may have been under prior to the Russian revolu- ‘IEhed, Dagan aa ete, of terror FRANCE BUTTS INTO BESSARABIA which it seems impossible to de- pict clearly, for even those who took part, and who have at- tempted to recount the scenes witnessed appear to be dazed by the very horror of their recol- lections. For years the Soviets were a by- word, and right up to the last few months those who looked to them for deliverance went daily in terror of their lives. A distinct and most re- markable change has taken place, however, and today the Soviets are a power to be reckoned with in the East. With the partial removal of certain menaces in the West, their at- titude toward the persecutors of the oppressed has found unqualified ex- Pression and the Eastern outlook has undergone one of the most phenom- enal changes in history. A month ago none of the Powers paid any attention to Soviet representatives, but today they have realized that Russia is in the East to stay, not only because of her splendid fighting forces, but be- cause the nations of the East see in Russia their long looked for deliverer from the depredations of Western cap- italism. Chapter of “White” Horrors. In order to gain a clear conception of the present state of affairs in the Hast it is necessary that we take a dip into past history. Wih tales of the horrors perpetrated by the “Whites” most DAILY WORKER readers are familiar, but to emphasize our contention we will turn to a page of history which has just been un- sealed by one who fought with the “White” forces in Mongolia. Blind, with both eyes gouged out, Konstantin Noskoff is one of the tragic figures of Tientsin, where, like many other “White” refugees, he is starving to death. To raise the where- withall to keep body and soul together he has related his experiences with the “White” forces who retreated into Mongolia in 1921. Those experiences, issued in the form of a pamphlet, not only constitute a scathing condemna- tion of the campaign pursued against the Soviets, but show the reason that ~~~Mongolia has to all intents and pur- poses thrown in its lot with Russia. A Butcher Baron. After numerous defeats at he hands of the Reds, large numbers of “White” forces drifted into Mongolia. Then appeared on the scene Baron Ungern, one of the most fiendish butchers on record. This fiend became the guiding des- tiny of the “Whites.” ‘Treaties and political agreements were trampled under foot, and after a desperate bat- tle with the Chinese army at May- machin the city of Urga fell into the hands of Ungern and his “Whites.” ‘The independence of Mongolia was de- clared, and many straggling bands of “Whites” rallied to the baron’s ban- ner. But dissension broke out among the leaders, and it was then that Baron Ungern showed evidence of his in- nate fiendishness. Several officers withdrew from Urga, but they were met and captured by the baron’s forces just outside the town, taken back and brutally butchered in front of his tent as a warning to others. The dream of the leaders for an- other counter-attack on the Reds was again discussed. Preparations were made: stores were seized and “Bac- chanals of requisitioning began.” But the natives were at heart in sympathy with the Reds, and when the latter at- tacked on May 23, 1921, thus forestall- ing the “Whites,” a crushing defeat was inflicted. Ungern and the rem- nants of his forces were driven back into Mongolia. “White” Terror Broke Loose. Then terror broke out. The infa- mous order No. 15, declaring war on “enemies of Russia, Jews and Com- munists to the death,” gave the neces- sary license. Noskoff says: “The for- mer Russian governor, Ribikoff, was murdered; Captain Suboff was sabred, along with his wife and his child of five years. The executioners spared neither sex nor age. All the former employes of the ‘Centrosoius’ were murdered as Bolsheviks, together with all who had Jewish names, or who were supposed to be of Jewish origin. Murder was a daily occurrence. By the irony of fate many who had fought against the Reds were executed.” Russia Provides Silver Coinage MOSCOW, April 29—(Rosta News Agency)—The money market's de- “mand for silver coinage is to be met fully during the current year by the Leningrad Mint, whose production till the close of the year will be se- venty more million roubles worth of silver coins, As for 1925, it is pro- posed, in order to meet the full re- quirements of silver coinage, to issue silver half-roubles to a total value of forty million roubles abroad, whereon an agreement has been reached with one of the largest mints in Europe. N AGAINST RUSSIA Chicherin Hits Poincare For Interference MOSCOW, Russia, April 29.—Pro- test against the French Chamber’s ratification of the Bessarabian Proto- col has been sent Poincare by Chitch- erin, People’s Commissary of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet government em- phatically opposses the official French support of Roumanian troops occupy- ing Bessarabian territory, especially when negotiations for recognition are going on between Russia and Rou- mania. France has already seriously ham- pered recognition proceedings be- tween China and Soviet Russia and is now playing the interfering “third party” in the Roumanian negotiations. Russia warns France that she is con- tributing to the unsettled conditions in eastern Europe and that whatever losses are incurred in Bessarabia will be laid to France’s door. A crowded meeting of Bessarabian emigrants now in Leningrad passed a resolution endorsing all the resolu- tions adopted by the Bessarbian na- tionals in Moscow. Reports from the Odessa, Podolsk and Dniestr river areas show that numerous meetings of Bessarbians and Ukrainians are continued to be held there, protesting against the oc- cupation of Roumania and demanding her re-unification with Ukraine. In a resolution passed at a big meet- ing of Bessarabian refugees at Firas- pol (Russo-Roumanian frontier), ap- peal is made to the workers of the world to support the just-demand of the liberation of Bessarabian from the Roumanian yoke, under which the Bessarabian toilers have been suffer- ing and bleeding to death for more than six years. The various organ- izations of the Moldovian Soviet Re- public demand that the true repre- sentatives of the Bessarabian popula- tion be admitted to the Vienna Con- ference. MELLON DODGES INVESTIGATION: TAX PLAN SLIPS Democrats Winning In Senate Fight WASHINGTON, April 29.— After weeks of maneuvering, senate leaders today unleashed their forces to fight out the income and surtax rates which will be levied on the nation next year. The Democratic plan is for a 40 per cent surtax. Progressives want 50 per cent which is the present law. The house adopted a 37% per cent compromise. Secretary Mellon asks 25 per cent. Indications as the fight got under way were that the demo- cratic rates would triumph. Meanwhile, Secretary Mellon is vo- ciferously denying charges that gov- ernment bonds have been duplicated. Mellon, in a report to Coolidge, said that the charges made by Charles B. Bremer, epartment of Justice Agent, had been completely disproved by an exhaustive investigation by the Treas- ury department itself. Mellon is having a hot time between his Wealthy clients clamoring for the reduction of their taxes and the sen- ate investigators wlfo are after his scalp to hang in their belts with Fall’s and Denby’s and Daugherty’s. The Secretary of the Treasurer ‘is | attempting to hide his crookedness by having Congress send his denial in the Congressional recOrd all over the country. “George Washington” Klan Chapter Closed Over Booze Wrangle EAST ST. LOUIS, IIL, April 29.— George Washington chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with a membership of 5,500 here is reported today to have passed out of existence. High officials of the klan are said to have seized all rec- ords connecting the local chapter with the national organization, and its of- fice in the old’Labor Temple has been closed. High klan officials are said to have ordered a cleanup of alleged liquor traffic in the city over the protests of local members of the klan, and the dissension resulting therefrom caused the reported action of klan officials. . ribiltiac DAUGHERTY NEVER PROSEGUTED ANY CHILD ROBBERS Was Too Busy Dividing Booze Spoils (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 29.—School children thruout the country are among the classes directly robbed by the stationery dealers’ price-fixing as- sociation, and on the item of lead pencils the combine exacts a profit of about 650 percent, according to testimony before the Senate commit- tee investigating the failure of Harry Daugherty as attorney general to pro- secute anti-trust cases. Chairman Huston Thompson of the Federal Trade Commission described the long delay of action by Daugher- ty’s office on this stationery case, which was sent to the department of justice by the commission early in 1920 and was finally turned back to the commission in December, 1923. To the last request of the commission that prosecution be begun or the com- mission’s evidence be handed back, Daugherty did not reply for nine months. Then the files came back, wiht the statement that the depart- ment of justice did not think a crimi- nal prosecution would be warranted. Venus Pencils Come High Atty. Bachrach, counsel for the com- plaining firm, Sidney Morris & Co., Chicago, described the struggle of his clients to obtain goods from the sup- ply firms, because they would not hold up the profiteering prices set by the Chicago Stationers’ Associa- tion and the national association of the trade. The sales manager of the Globe-Wernicke filing cabinet con- cern, for example, would not sell them $10,000 worth of goods for cash, unless they received permission from four rival retailers in Chicago to make the purchase. The American Pencil Co. refused to furnish them THE POWER COLUMN Meet Some of Those Who Are Making The DAILY WORKER Grow. Here’s a List of the Leading Sub-Getters. With half of the first big DAILY WORKER subscription campaign over, it is of interest to ascertain who among’ the hundreds who are putting the power into THE DAILY WORKER are making the best attempts to bring the paper before the widest masses of wage workers. A list of the most successful subscription chasers reads like the Who’s Who of the American militant movement. As a matter of fact many of the most loyal DAILY WORKER supporters have already made names for themselves as leaders of the American work- ing class. 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When he finally brought suit in the federal court in Chicago, under the anti-trust law, the combine settled the case for $11,500 and the agreement of the firm to maintain the standard profiteer prices. Bachrach said that Mr. Galloway, assistant to Daugherty, said at their first interview that he could easily convict the conspirators on the evid- ence of their association year books, but that afterward Galloway wrote him that he could not discuss prose- eutions since the department was making a full investigation of the case. No phase of the case was ever pre- sented by the department to a grand jury. The gouging goes on. WAR SECRETARY GETS RAKING BY WOMEN'S LEAGUE Resent Weeks’ Fight On ‘Socialist-Pacifists’ BUFFALO, April 29.—Women peace workers have made the U. S. war de- partment eat its words and withdraw its attack on them, it was revealed at the National League of Women Vot- ers’ conyention in session in Buffalo. Secretary of War Weeks, following protest of league members, has called in an anti-pacifist poster distributed for propagandist purposes by General Fries, chemical warfare service. The poster was headed “The Socialist- Pacifist Movement in America is an Absolute Part of Internation Social- ism.” Secretary Weeks expressed re- gret for the poster and announced its withdrawal in a letter read to the delegates. The convention of women were furi- ous when President Maude Wood Park recounted the government’s at- tack on their organization. The peace activities of the league will continue. A committee was appointed to call a conference of 75 national and local peace societies and all other organ- izations having peace programs. A sugary letter from President Coolidge did not altogether quiet the wrath of the women voters. After re- gretting his inability to address the convention he praiséd the advent of women as voters as a “tremendously important step in the evolution of democracy.” Steady increase in the number of women employed in industry was re- ported by Mary Anderson, director women's bureau, U. 8, department of labor, speaking before the conference on women in industry, held in con- nection with the league convention. Child labor has increased 50 per cent in two years in eight cities and 20 per cent in 19 cities, Grace Abbott, chief U. 8. children’s bureau, informed the convention. Five million children of school age in the United States are not in school, Dr. F, H. Swift, University of Minne- sota, told the delegate: DENVER, Colo, April 29,—Four- teen prisoners in the county jail here held up guards and escaped during the night in a heavy snowstorm. Guns had been smuggled into the prison for use of the convicts in holding up their guards. Ambridge, Pa... ; There are a host more who have done th dreds of the live DAILY WORKER readsrs have turned in half- Hundreds more are active for THE DAILY WORKER every day in securing renewals and in handling bundle orders. But unfortunately there are still some who have not yet placed their name on The Honor Roll at all. If you are one of these consider what THE DAILY WORKER means to you and make it mean the same to some other a-dozen new subs or more. worker whom you know. Irish Unionists Refuse To Move Goods For Scab Asylum Help DUBLIN, April 29.—Railway work- ers at Letterkenny, County Donegal, have refused to handle goods which the strike breakers at Donegal Asy- lums sought to remove from the sta- tion to the asylum. As usual the labor aristocrats, engineers and conductors, in Ireland, as elsewhere, did not con- sider it inconsistent with their union- ism to haul scabs and scab goods on the trains, The engineers and con- ductors are not members of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union but most of the unskilled workers are. The attendants are on strike for over a month and are fighting against a ten per cent reduction in wages. They have picketed the asylum, and first used blackthorn sticks to impress strike breakers, but they were dis- armed by the Civic Guards, the so- called law and order force of the Irish Free State. A cook who persisted in ighoring the strike was kidnapped and after her release refused to approach the asylum any more. The scab attendants mobilized the better behaved lunatics to assist them in hauling the goods from the station, but they met a hostile crowd which chased them back to the asylum. The Civic, Guards then attacked the crowd with batons, wounding several women. Three women and one man were ‘ested. What Is An WHAT IS AN INJUNCTION? law that is found on no statute book. ever been voted on by any set of legislators. ver been signed by any governor or president. A law which exists without the consent of the people. A law which came into being as the will of one man. An injunction is a law made by a judge; and its penalties are fixed by the same judge; and the offenders a An injunction is A law which ha A law which has judg Judge The regular monthly meeting Local New York will be held on Friday, May 2, 8 p. m., at 208 E. 12th St., Room 2., Very important questions will be taken up and all delegates are urged to attend. 1 Branch delegates to the section committees are also delegates to the City Central Committee. Strikers Mass Meeting Wednesday, April at GINALSKY’S HALL 13257 Houston Avenue SPEAKERS: D. E. EARLEY, of Amal; J. 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