The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1924, Page 2

HINA TE HUGHES TO KEEP HANDS OFF EASTERN RAILROAD; SOVIET RUSSIA IS HER PARTNER By LAURENCE TODD ‘(Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 29.—Examination of the available documents in the dispute between Secretary Hughes and the Chinese foreign office, over Hughes’ attempt to hold up the t between Moscow and China by for the cost of operating the 22, shows that Hughes has been hina h made him ridiculous. Or cece tae te Department officials denied that had been brought by the United About May ist the Sta any interference or pressure States, to slow up the Russo-Chinese negotiations. a treaty had been signed, but it was promptly rejected by the Chinese cabinet. Now comes proof that Hughes did intervene. State Department Says | nr The official statement issued by the State Department says: “The American minister at Peking reports that he has received a note dated June 16th from the Chinese minister for foreign affairs, Dr. V. K. Kellington Koo, and that simflar notes have been sent to the Japa- nese and French ministers. The note acknowledges the receipt of the American minister’s note of May 31, referring to the 13th resolution adopted by the Washington Confer- ence, concerning the Chinese Hast- ern Railway, and requesting that China take note of its responsibility thereunder and calling attention to the fact that the rights of all cred- itors should be adequately protect- ed.” So Mr. Hughes did, on May 3, notify Dr. Koo that China would be held responsible for payment of that $5,000,000 which the United States had spent while running the rail- road. No One Else’s Business. “The note of the Chinese minister for foreign affairs,” the statement continues, “states that the history and agreemrents relating to the Chi- nese Hastern Railway all show that it consists of the two countries of China and Russia. Prior to the con- clusion of the Sino-Russian raatts the ‘Washington Conference referred to responsibility during the time of this trusteeship. Now that ment the pronouncement of China’s Chinese Eastern Railway in 1918- seit means of his claim of $5,000,01 caught bluffing, and that Russia At.that time WORKERS WORST SUFFERERS FROM TORNADO IN OHIO Industrial Sections of Two Towns Wiped Out (Special to the DAILY WORKER) SANDUSKY, Ohio, The industrial districts of both San wiped out. in the 60-mile gale. in the ruins. work of searching the ruins has no’ yet been carried that far east. same conditions there. by the government dyring the wai workers are nearly all down. Thi where the foreign-born laborers i the steel mills live, were all wrecke by the wind. June 29.—The workers were the worst hit by the great tornado which swept northern Ohio. dusky and Lorain, a steel manufac- turing town near here, were nearly The east end of Sandusky, in which is located the homes of hundreds of factory workers, was the worst hit by the storm. The jerry built frame houses came down like a pack of cards Scores of work- ers and their families were buried alive There is no way of es- timating the number of dead as the Reports from Lorain tell of the Houses built and sold to the steel and shipyard frame tenement houses of Lorain, In each of them sev- eral workers’ families were buried, it BLACKSHIRT PLOT TO RUN WORLD IS AGAIN CONFIRMED Fascisti Fought Reds in All Lands (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) LONDON, Eng., June 29.—The capi- talist-imperialist press here is just getting wise to the plot of the Italian Fascisti to spread black dictatorships thruout Europe and in America, and fight the growth of radicalism, of class-consciousness among the prole- tariat of all countries. A certain high Fascist official, special agent of the Fascist propaganda bureau, ‘has tipped off the press, altho he has not given his name. This is not news any more. The ef- forts of the Fascisti to establish dic- tatorships in various German provinc- es such as in Bavaria and Prussia are too well-known to workers of those countries and this. Boosted Spain’s Dictator. The nameless “high official” also ad- mitted that Mussolini's agents had helped put up the puppet dictator, Primo de Rivera in Spain, altho Ri- vera has not succeeded in being as viciously oppressive as the Italian blackshirts had intended. In France the Fascist propagandists have aided the anti-republican party. In Greece, Roumania and Poland they have been active, especially in periods of turbulence, which is most of the time. The blackshirt groups in these countries has been more often called “white terror,” because of its extreme counter-revolutionary position and ac- tion. The suddenly talkative “Fascist Fascisti, Mustapha Kemal Pasna a in a scheme for it with his blackshirt message. Watched Russia From Persia. ir e in official” here has told the capitalist sheets, which a few weeks ago would print nothing against Mussolini or the that he was first sent to Turkey to agitate, but that he found “sincere patriot” and unwilling “to co-operate international Fas- cism” so this agent Went on to Persia The Fascist at this point, refused to say what part he had in the Re- publican movement after the Reza Khans’ revolt against the shah, but he confessed that the establishment of E DAILY WORKER PHILADELPHI Monday, June 30, 1924 _ ee TNR RENEE reeneerenermny WORKERS TO PROTEST METTEOTT MURDER BY THE FASCISTI party, the Socialist party, liere and Louis Frisina. TEACHERS’ UNION CONVENTION 10 FIGHT PLATOON Educators Meeting in Chicago Today Bitter opposition of progressive ele- ments in the teaching profession to such projects of big business as the introduction of the platoon system and the establishment of Junior high schools in large and overcrowded cities comes to a head this week dur- ing the convention of the American Federation of Teachers, a national un- ion affiliated with the A. F.of L, The convention opens today and will last three days. Sessions are held at th West. About sixty representativer%f locals from all parts of the cor'’Y are expected to attend. The platoon system, at the feet a burning issue in Chicago SHOols, will be brought before the preen thru the action of the ope, ane Teachers from cities in on tic, * and similar plans hay iy en 4 1 will be given the opr umty to te of the underhand /*chinations of manutactuters'...ay, Dusmenamen’s groups which are / sponsible for its apc " 13, apap ane “phat this py s nothing more nor empt to standardize less than 82 tne public schools so the children, piovers will have less thet futurenese same children when trouble wit, wage slaves, is very they bshown in a little pamphlet amusing by the board of education gotten: where a small group has sa Dea in establishing the system,” d is believed. Sino-Russian relations have been es- tablished (the note continues) the state of affairs is entirely different from what it was formerly. In fu- <. Men ten agyemnmants of Mhina of ses ie ee gadeRussia will deal with the ques- eS of the Chinese Eastern Railway »% which only the two countries of Russia and China are concerned. This is a right which properly rests in the two governments of China and Russia. “Furthermore, the note declares that the temporary arrangement be- tween China and Russia concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway is not prejudicial to the rights of the vari- us powers. The Chinese govern- ment considers that there is no need for excessive anxiety in reference to the points raised by the Ameri- can government.” Refer Hughes to Russia. Translated into plain English, this note—which bears the earmarks of Karakhan, the Russian envoy, in its humorous breyity— tells Mr. Hughes that China refers him to Russia for turther discussion of the bill for $5,- 000,000 for railroad operation during hostilities against the Russian gov- ernment. It assures him that the treaty between China and Russia wipes out the temporary helplessness of China in discussing Far Eastern matters with Washington, and that China feels sure that Hughes will un- flerstand that his claim will have to take its turn with the great number of other heavy claims against the rail- road which Russia will present in due time. Russia’s claims were incurred when the road was built; they are a first Hen on the property. China re- pudiates nothing; it merely asks Mr. Hughes to take his place at the tail of the procession of creditors, and see what is left for him when he reaches the pay-counter. Hughes Doesn't Like It. ‘This is precisely what Mr. Hughes Md not want to hear. He broke in the Russo-Chinese treaty nego- with a demand that China No deal with Russia which did first satisfy his $5,000,000 claim. hina had flatly repudiated the Hughes could have raised a n. But China merely referred him Russo-Chinese governmental hip. He must deal with a rship in which Russia is the partner. And Hughes knows ‘Russia is eagerly waiting to dis- this claim with him, on its me- a part of the whole subject of can invasion of Siberia. He that Russia may be making a with China whereby the Russian against the railroad will be so ed down as to make it possible China to buy the property as a trupt concern. Hence the Hughes of ground, and his argument that can operation of the road saved from the slamming of the “open by Japan. Without Water, Light, Gas. Both Lorain and this city are with- out water, light or g*,s.\No attempt country has been fostering frie has been made to est’ ootithe UOT) Tag aatha la Boge x < jot mjured. tne seriou.y injured are | &*~ taken to make-shift hospitals and the slightly injured ar? given emergency 1 unnamed admitted, waehildren are taught a trade while at si aia Russia, as th) School, and if they are subjected to 0. the kind of regimentation that the fp | platoon system affords, employers will f = because of Soviet relations with Persia and has henge he ov Meta, the two countries. Friendly to American Legio Fascisti government in litife Persia wasn’t sufficiently worth his further attention, and so he came to Britain. Mussolini’s interest in Persia, even. SUCf teacher of history in New York 58 schools, who is in Chicago as Yesentative of Local No. 5, New brie. “The pamphlet argues that if need to waste iess tue in ing of apprentices, and they Will find PHILADELPHIA, June 29-Several labor and anti-fascisti organizations will hold a mass meeting on the evening x‘ murder of Deputy Matteotti of Italy by the ‘ascisti. The organizations co-operating are: Lape pci apie Anti-Fascisti Alliance. the Shoe Workers’ Protective association and the Anti-Fascis lance, The meeting will be held in Music Fund hall, corner Highth and Locust Sts. The speakers will be H. M. Wicks, C. W, Thompson, M, Olkin, A, Caval- July 3 to protest against the The Italian branch of the Workers Clothing Workers of America, GREAT ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION ARE PLANNED Meetings Will e Held in (Special to TH Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Ju® 29.— An interna- tional protest ek to commemorate the tenth anfVersary of the world war is plan by the Communist In- ternational .\d a committee is now working oy Plans to organize anti-war meetings/™ the principal centers of the capjélist nitions. The Ate set for the giant protest again’ the great butchery organized by Wm capitalists in 1914, is the week of /uly 27—August 4. Ahe commission appointed to plan Webster Hotel, 2150 Lincoln Pay |fe world-wide anti-war attack is head- ed by comrade Petroyski. It will pre- pare a manifesto on war, publish col- lections of articles by Lenin, dealing with war and imperialism and collec- tions of articles by Trotsky, Zingviev, Clara Zetkin, Tom Mann, Bela Kun and other prominent members of the Communist International on the same subject. The campaign will seek to bring the masses to realize the inevitability of war under capitalism. The world war which ended with the fake truce of 1918 only laid the foundation for big- ger and bloodier wars in which the workers will be the chief sufferers. The capitalists are powerless to pre- vent wars even if they wanted to. The capitalist system breeds wars. The Dawes plan, which is hailed as an anti- war measure, is only a second Ver- sailles treaty, designed to bring peace between the warring capitalists and make the workers of Europe pay the cost of the world war. The Communist International will expose the hypocrisy of the yellow so- cialist international which is co-oper- ating with Wall Street in trying to put the Dawes plan into operation. The Communist international states in a circular letter that the yellow so- cialist international instead of seeking train- i and proves tl to preven wars, is really promoting ; at the only way to GOTHAM CLOTHING WORKERS PICKET SHOPS EN MASSE Tammany Police Beat * Up Strikers NEW YORK, June 29.—The fifty thousand clothing workers on strike are holding their ranks firm. In spite of the repeated acts of brutal- ity against the strikers by the police, the end of the week finds the strik- ers determined to wage an aggres: sive and militant fight to make the Amalgamated a 100 per cent organ- ization in the New York market. Negotiations with the New York Clothing Manufacturers’ exchange is still proceeding. At a meeting of the shop chairmen, held in Cooper Union yesterday afternoon, the shop chairmen with great enthusiasm de- cided to continue the struggle until their demands were won. Monday will see one of the biggest demonstrations ever witnessed in New York city. At 5 o’clock in the morning fifty thousand clothing work- ers en masse will picket the shops. On last Friday three strikers were brutally beaten up by detectives of the New York police depa*tment. Those beaten up were Charles Schwartz, Caranino Racko and Neg- glorino, These strikers were beaten up in front of the shop of Fruoff, Sixth Ave. and Seventeenth St., one of the owners of which is a Tammany Hall leader. A large picket demonstration Friday morning in front of the shop of Berger, Reichel & Weil was very effective. No workers reported there for work Saturday morning, On Thursday a picket demonstra- tion in front of that shop was broken up and many pickets brutally at- tacked, The union has for two years conducted a bitter struggle against this firm, which is among the largest in the city, This firm had an injunc- tion against the union of two years’ duration. The injunction expired only two months ago. The manufacturers are finding it very difficult to ship the work to out- of-town scab shops. Every attempt is frustrated by the union. On Fri- day a scab shop in Woodbine, N. J., was shut down by the union pickets, The workers are determined to fol- low the advice of President Sidney Hillman not to be anxious to go back to work soon, but to keep up the struggle until demands are won and the union firmly entrenched once more in the city of New York. Sidney Hillman announced that some of the strikers may be able to soor’ but the ree*+ vearv, return to work » BANKERS SORE, RUSSIA DIDN'T STEAL DOLLARS: That’s a Secret of Labor Bank’s 2nd Birthday, Because it isn’t good business to tell secrets after office hours, even when you are celebrating the second anniversary of a labor bank, there will be a little joke among the staff of workers at the Amalgamated Trust and Savings bank, today and tomorrow, they won't share with you. The joke has to do with the atti- tude of the officials of many Amerti- can banks scattered all over the country who have been for several years publicly announcing that Rus- sia was without morals and there- fore not a proper country with which to do business, A These hanks announced that they. would not send dollars to Russia be- cause they would not be safe there. Nor did they send dollars ty other European countries with a ‘falling money market. They had, however, no objection to selling foreign exchange which would be paid in rapidly depreciating roubles or marks. If a worker want- ed to send $20 or $30 to Burope the banks would send it and see that it was paid over in marks or roubles. While the money was on its way to Hurope the market would have dropped some, When it finally got there the $20 would be worth about $5. That was good business. Then along came the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, who, thru their two banks in this country and the Prom bank in Russia, made it possible to send money to Russia and have it paid out in dollars. That was in December, 1922. Since then the Russian money system has been put on a sound basis, and the bankers who were too honest to send dollars to Russia are now following in the footsteps of the Amalgamated banks and many of them are using the Amalgamated facilities for send- ing the money of their clients to Rus- sia and other countries, there to be paid in dollars. Which means that the Amalgamated’s pioneering \and faith in Russia is benefiting every worker who finds it necessary to send, money to relatives in Russia whether or not they use the Amalgamated bank. If you happen to drop into the Amalgamated Trust and Savings bank today or tomorrow to help cel- ebrate the second anniversary, don’t expect to be told about how they pio- Snapahin tantins sed! emag—d. Hho’ th MORON tee er ns Will l4ou can do business with R __ Russians Run the Railroad. ter Schurmann and Dr.’ Koo re understood to be still arguing the erin Peking. Meanwhile, the ns run the railroad, treatment by the volunteer nurses and doctors and told to shift for them- selves. Not a wooden building in Lorain is left standing, it is said. The same is true here. The State theater in Lo- rain was completely wrecked during @ performance, burying hundreds of people in the ruins. The number of killed has not been found out yet. East Lorain, a war-time ship build- ing center, with hundreds of workers’ cottages, was completely wiped off the yap, persons passing thru here reported. Many Workers Killed. Many members of the crews of both railroad trains and lake steamers were killed. It is believed it will take sev- eral days to get anywhere near a cor- rect estimate of the number of killed. No word has been received of the number who were killed in outlying villages and on farms. School Gets “Baccy Taxes, LITTLE ROCK, Ark. June 29,— Public schools in this state will pro- fit from now on by encouraging the sales of cigars and cigarettes. The state legislature has just passed a bill taxing cigarets $2 per thousand and 10 percent of the retail price of cigars. Fare proceeds go to the pub- lic school relief fund. Send in that Subscription Today. (Continued from page 1.) blamed last night’s Tammany’s booze party for the plight of the unfortunate westerner, But some pep was injected into the proceedings when HE, §. Stewart of Montana made a seconding speech tor McAdoo. Mr. Stewart’s speech occasioned a five-minute demonstra- tion when he assured the wavering delegates in the camp of Doheny's lawyer that Senators Wheeler and Walsh were solidly behind McAdoo. Mr. Stewart put his point over ‘by nominating McAdoo “in the name of the man who uncovered the Teapot Dome scandal (Walsh) and the man who uncovered the department of jus- tice and who drove another cabinet member from office (Wheeler).” Nebraska Slaps LaFollette, Eugene D, O'Sullivan of Nebraska called on the convention to save the country from a third party by nom- inating Charles W. Bryan, the state governor. O’Sullivan'’s winding up with, “There will be no attempt to organ- ize a third party if the Democracy wilF select for its standard bearer a Progressive like Charles W, Bryan,” brought several McAdoo states like Oregon, Georgia and Montana behing DEMOCRATS DON’T NAME COOLIDGE Thirty-one agents were supported in Europe vy the Fascist funds, some of them from the savings of workers and peasants who lost them in the pre-arranged crash of the Banco Itali- ano Disconto, which the Fascisti offi- cials reorganized. Besides agents were sent to the United States and Canada to spread Fascist ideas and begin the nuclei of Fascist organizations as well as to co-operate with such existing re- actionary forces as the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. The Matteotti and graft scandals, which cost chief Fascist officials their offices, has vroxen up the blackshirt propaganda bureau, according to the informer. Steel Plant Closes. SYDNEY, N. S., June 29.—For three months, beginning July 19, the British Empire steel plant here will be closed with the exception of one blast fur- nace and one battery of coke ovens. The Trenton plant will alse be closed. For the New Warfare. CALCUTTA, June 27,—Major Stuart MacClaren left Rangoon for Bangkok this morning, continuing his effort to beat the United States army’s planes in the flight around the world. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Nebraska into a short tramp around the arena, The chances of McAdoo getting support from LaFollette sources are being strongly emphasized here by the supporters of the tax expert law- yer for the Republica Iron and Steel company and the counsel for the Morse interests, More Darkness Let Loose. A pair of less known black beau- ties were displayed to the conven- tion when Governors Brown and Sil- zer of New Hampshire and New Jer- sey, respectively, were put forward. This was the first time in 72 years that New Hampshire’s nominating voice was heard at a Democratic con- vention, That was the keynote of the nominating speech made by Fran- cis Clyde Keefe. The main argument for Silzer was advanced by John A, Matthews in the fact that his candidate hails from New Jersey, the state of Woodrow Wilson. With the aid of sirens bor- rowed from the Smith followers, with whom New Jersey is in a deal, the Silzer claque managed to make a short but noisy demonstration, The services rendered by a metropolitan vaudeville vocal sextette helped quite @ bit-ip this direction, ‘ the management of their employes a much simpler matter. This bit of literature is a gem of anti-labor prop- aganda,” New Produce Market . For Food Gamblers To Cost $20,000,000 The old produce market of Chicago is doomed to go and be replaced by a $20,000,000 “city within a city.” The new produce market will be the larg- est and finest in the world. All the old buildings, rat and vermin infest- ed, will be torn down and replaced with new and modern structures. Double-decked boulevards will replace the present board side walks. All this will be done for the com- mission merchants who sell the farm- ers’ produce at a fat profit. The farm- er will be permitted to know that his produce is being sold in a fine market where the commission mer- chants whaq rob him are being given every expensive facility for making a fatter profit. Klan Enemies Sue for Half Million; Charge Use of Stool Pigeon The American Unity league, an lantiku Klux Klan organization, has filed suit in the federal district court of Chicago for a half million dollars’ damages against Imperial Wisard Evans and the klan. The league charges that Evans paid a stool pigeon to plant himself in the league and do what he could to wreck it. The league complains that they took the stool pigeon, H. N. Jones, for an enemy of the klan, and paid him to organize league branches in the east. They say Jones was a good organizer, but that he lept all the money he collected for aoimself and received wages from fans to put the league on the bum. They also say Jones ran the circulatién of Toler- ance, the official league) paper, from 40,000 to 5,000. } So the league decided, not to tol- erate Jones any longer, and fired him and sued Evans. officers of the military who were imprisoned at en amnesty by parliamen The cabinet headed by Castro will remain the time being. The the cabinet has not plained. i i Send in that Subscription Today. ——_ prévent war is to overthrow the capi- talist system and establish a Workers’ Republic and the proletarian dictator- ship as the first step in the building up of a Communist society. Miners and Rescuers Killed. VIENNA, Portugal, June 29.—The 29 attempting to rescue the thirty im- prisoned miners now known to be dead at Hartgloggnitz were them- selves killed because of defective gas masks. Noted Negro Singer Honored with Medal For Achievement (Special to the Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 29.— The Singarn medal, awarded annual- ly to an American of African descent for the highest achievement in some honorable field of human endeavor, goes this year to Roland Hayes, not- ed Negro soloist singer with the Phil- adelphia, Boston and other symphony orches' Mr. Hayes is now on his fourth concert tour of Europe, so that a representative will receive the medal Tuesday night at the mass meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple. Mr. Hayes was born in Georgia, and has worked from a molder in a stove foundry up into an enviable position in the musical world. He now sings in many languages and will tour the United States, giving about sixty con- certs, upon his return from Europe. Japan to Float Loan. TOKIO, Japan, June 29—A syndi- cate of banks here will try to float a loan of $25,000,000 on the foreign market. The government will guaran- tee the loan. Send in that Subsoription Today. stay out as long as neces... | Those who work will pay their contribtttions so that those who remain on strike will not go hungry. Several hundred manufacturers have applied for permission to sign an agreement with the union, but no settlements will be made until an agreement is reached with the New York Clothing Manufacturers’ ex- change, which is now in conference with the union officials. Russia Exports Much Naphtha. BAKU, June 29.—Four years have passed since the Baku oil industry has been nationalized. For that period 695,000,000 puds of naphtha has been exported to the Soviet republics. In 1922 began the export of naphtha products abroad. During that year]. 6,000,000 poods have been exported abroad and in 1923 17,250,000 puds. For the last two years the export abroad reached 60 per cent of the pre- war amount. The Poor Fish Says: If Al Smith tried to do what he is sald to have done to MacAdoo’s country dele. gates, he would make a snappy president for the next four years. The little green house on K street bh again hang out the welcome sign, 20,000 TEACHERS ATTEND 62ND N. E. A. MEETING AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C.,, June 29,—The National partment of school room teachers, opened their tion here today. Thousands of delegates from pouring into the city all day. The N. B. A, to follow the plans they hear d: Text book concerns and manufac- turers of educational equipment al-; thousands of ways make a big showing at these meetings and help to bring education in this country to a mechanical dead level. They always get great help from the small time politicians who run the N. BE. A. At hundreds of meetings during the nex’ veek where Education association, de- sixty-second annual conven: all parts of the country were It is believed that nearly 20,000 will ; as it is popularly called, is the great. standardizes vrs cation in America, Teachers from everywhere come to learn how things are being done in other places and iscussed. standardizer of edu- these conventions to 60 away determined ‘ords will be spilled the leveling PO oa of your children’s ined, The boost- era for the platoon school ideas are here in force to the class room be under the platoon oe spite of the morals of America. bankers. That is a secret that good business ethics dictates should not be talked about even on your seconé birthday. Since they began, the Amalgamat bank here has sent more than $2,0( 000 to Russia and paid it all over the people it was intended for wit out losing a nickel. Instead of telling business secret the bank will give you a souvenir if you visit them while they are cele- brating their second birthday. Bold, Bad Outlaws Who Struck in 1920 | Get Grace from B. L. E. CLEVELAND, June 29.—Locomo- tive firemen who participated in the outlaw strike of 1920 and forfeitet their membership in the Brotherhoor of Locomotive Firemen and Engir men will have the opportur™ June, 1925, to apply for ment. The original grac the 1922 convention ey two years ago, but is international board cause many firemer the dispensation un YE “The Come Inte Redu Now at $2.50 @ year or 12 issues, Single copy 25 cents. It represents offic. and reflections of t. International as the of the Executive Com: by the world renowne ! read by all wh It surely is educated revolutionary class: by kings, emperors, ists and labor fakers, and no reason iri the world why @ reader of the DAILY WO; should not read it. 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