The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1925, Page 3

i HAITI SECRETLY TIED TO U.S. IMPERIALIST RULE FOR TEN YEARS MORE BY GOVERNMENT By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 28.—Discovery, thru the imprudent chatter of Brig. Gen. Fuller, commander of the 1st marine brigade in Haiti, that Hawai is tied to American financial and military control for ten more years, and that this “treaty” was slipped thru the senate late in March, 1917, has just been made by official Washington. The records and the text prove that the then Secretary Lan- sing, in quiet collusion with the then Chairman Hitchcock and Senator Lodge, had slipped these imperialist manacles on the Haitian people without attracting attention. Passed “Secret Treaty.” Note the moment chosen for the trick: it was just on the eve of the American declaration of war against Germany. Passions were inflamed, fears and hat-+ reds were loose, and any such thing as calm discussion was out of question. Just as the western railroad promoters seized the occasion of the battle of Gettysburg to slip thru congress the gift of a bil- lion dollars’ worth of western public lands to the railroads, so the National City Bank and its friends in the ad- ministration saw and seized the mo- ment to acquire Haiti. A treaty driven thru at the point of machine guns somewhat earlier had given the American government the right to occupy the country tempor- arily, and to keep a financial “adviser” and collector there until 1925. The “financial stabilization and pacifica- tion” of Haiti by American bankers and marines was thus legalized for ten years. But under cover of the approaching declaration of war against the Ger- mans, Lansing and his friends Hitch- cock and Lodge declared in a further “treaty” that another ten years should be added, due to the existence of a Wall Street loan which would:ex- ‘tend more than the original ten-year Period. They got it. Standard Oil Man in Charge It seems that all the officers of the American military and banking gov- ernment in Haiti know about this ten- year extension, which ends in 1935. But Gen. Fuller, when he reached Washington the other day and men- tioned it, was called upon to keep his mouth shut; the state department had never talked about the existence of this hold on Haiti, and had pretended that it was considering withdrawal of the marines as soon as “lawlessness” down there should cease. Hughes had been quite functious on that point, pleading that we were forced to take care of the poor Haitians, though we would like to get out at once. Of course any administration at Washington that wanted to deal justly with Haiti would call upon Haiti to agree to cancel this trick, and would withdraw the marines. It would also recal the American officers in the constabulary force, which is really an army of occupation as long as these Americans have control of the. wea- pons in the island. Secretary Kellogg will not discuss the situation. The present financial “adviser” forced upon the Haitians by the state department at a salary of $20,000 a year is one W. W. Cum- berland, who once taught economics at the University of Minnesota, and who went to Mexico with the Doheny endowment expedition sent there by Stanford University to study the needs of the Mexicans, rE} will publish a few letetrs in out column which have come to us thru the committee for International ‘Workers Aid. These letters are from children in Russia. They are orphans, who have no relatives and live in homes which at first were provided for by workers in other countries and ow are being taken care of by Rus- sia itself. ' Here is one from a little girl-tova foster aunt who lives in the United’ States. d Dear Aunt: I am writing you a‘ let ter and wishing you all kinds of luck. I am sending you greetings and re- membrances of your birthday on May Sth. Auntie, we are celebrating’ the First of May. At 8:00 o'clock in the morning we went to the main square, which is called “Freedom” and made @ little speech there, then we went to another square. Twelve o'clock we ‘went home and had dinner and then went to Trotsky Woods. There we had our demonstration. This demon- stration or play was very interesting. We had to take away banners, @ Offensives and to tear off insignias. Dear Auntie, I'd like to know if you have pioneers. I heard that you have Pioneers and that only it is very hard Famine Yarns New Form of Anti-Soviet Propagand OVIET RUSSIA, in its fight for de jure recognition by all the nations of the world, has hid to overcome Many obstacles. After arméd inter- vention and blockade by the ‘united imperialist armies and navies failed to break the workers’ and peasants’ power, recourse was taken to the More subtle poisoning process of the international capitalist propaganda machine. Many and varied were the stories circulated against the Bolshevik re- gime. One of the first, the “national- ization” of women and children, stir- red up much prejudice before it was nally discredited. Then came stories fictitious peasant uprisings — re- yolts on the part of the very elements whose ownership of land rested sole- ly upon the power of the government against which they were supposed to be in rebellion, Next came the ru- mors of civil war and internecine strife in which Lenin imprisoned Trotsky one day, and Trotsky execut- ed Zinoviev the next. ' But all these phant: 8 of the capi- talist hacks were shown up one by one, and government after govern- ment, in response to economic press- ure and popular demand, established relations with the Soviet govern-’ ment. Finally the United States stood out practically alone, and even here many influential elements were waver- ing. The resignation of Hughes as secretary of the state was expected fo presage 4 change in our attitude 3 other capitalist lands, COLUMN for them to work, because they are always persecuted by the police, They are very much oppressed. But we have nothing of the kind. We are very free from all this. The pioneers or- ganize all the unorganized kids. We haven’t only the pioneers, we also have different generations. The party, Komsomols, pioneers and Octo- brists. Pioneers are those who go into the struggle and are not afraid of anything. Dear Auntie, please pay closer at- tention to the youthful pioneers and you will see who the pioneers are if you will hold closer to them. Pioneers are children of workers and peasants. My papa was a worker and we lived very poorly. You cannot imagine, dear Auntie, how wonderful it is here in Rissia. Dear Auntie, greetings to you and congratulations on your birthday. 1 also congratulate your niece, Dear Auntie, we will soon be thru with our studies and we will be told that we have passed into the third grade. I will write you a letter every month. For the time being, good-bye. From your loving, (Signed) NURA, toward Russia. Wall Street Desperate. Wich portion of Wall Street most interested in czarist debts and con- cessions was desperate. At this point there was launched an avalanche of publicity and “exposures” of the ter- rible treatment accorded to the poor Russian “political prisoners.” Staid Journals that had never used a drop of ink on behalf of hundreds of poli- tical convicts in the United States, suddenly mixed blood and tears with their printers’ ink to give the proper effect. So loud was this chorus that some active liberals were themselves influenced by it to begin agitation for the political enemies of the Soviet government, and thus unwittingly helped the arch reactionaries in this country who were making a last ditch stand against recognition. But this campaign also failed in its purposes. Uncontrovertible evi- dence was presented by liberal jour- nalists that the stories of political persecution were fables, Then came such @ tremendous upsurge in the wave of white terror all over the world that tales about Soviet perse- cution were dwarfed by admitted ac: tualities in Bulgaria, Poland, Italy and The same de- velopment in this country is evidenc- ed in the recent U. S. supreme court decision against Gitlow, in the way of deportation cases (one of them against a woman twenty years in HUNGARIAN WORKERS’ SOCIETIES HOLD A PICNIC IN NEW YOR NEW YORK, June 28,—A confer ence of Uj Elore and all Hungarian workers’ societies, including the Hungarian dramatic society, will hold a monster picnic on Sunday, July 5, at Pleasant Bay park, for the benefit of the revolutionary press, Tickets will cost fifty cents. There will be good music, dancing, games and refreshments. Uj Elore is the Communist Hungarian language daily newepaper. PRESS FEEDERS OF CHICAGO GET WAGE INCREASE Chicago School Teachers Will Have To Wait By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) Negotiations and some settlements characterized the past week in the Chicago industrial fleld. The elevated railroad employes are to take another referendum on the company offer to renew for one year the contract that expired June 1. A light vote at the first referendum defeated the proposal of members sticking to the union de- mand for a 5-cent hourly increase. The maximum rate is now 77 cents, Nego- tiations resulted in the decision for another vote early next week. Chicago teachers will get no pay increases before fall, by decision of the new school board. The Teachers Federation is not weeping, since it maintained right along that the raises proposed by William McAndrew, the big-business superintendent, could not be met by present school revenue ex- cept at the expense of the children. The union opposed increases gained from sacrificing the children’s inter- ests and demanded that the tax laws be enforced to give the school system its just revenue from the tax-dodging corporations and estates. This the authorities declined to do. Press feeders and assistants organ- ized in Franklin Union No. 4 have gained an increase for day men of $1.75 a week and for night men of $3. They had asked for $2 and $3. The old scale was $41.50 for day men and $43 for night men. The new scale expires May 31, 1927. The Gas House Workers Union No. 17,010 renewed its agreement for one year expiring Sept. 1, 1926. Laborers get 60 cents an hour and gasfitters 69 to 84 cents. The grievance committee of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor is negotiat- ing with the Advance Aluminum Foun- dry Co. to reinstate four men recently discharged for their membership in the Metal Polishers Union. The con- cern makes Super Maid Kitchen Uten- sils. Prison Officials Bribed. ATLANTA, Ga. June 28—Mrs. George Remus, wife of the million- aire_bootlegger of Cincinnati-testified in federal court here that she gave “Father” Hayden, former chaplain of the Atlanta federal prison, a $500 bribe to give her husband special priv- ileges. Hayden and L, J. Fletcher, former deputy warden, are on trial charged with corruption. Form Bootleg Corporation LONDON, England, June 28. — A corporation, “The Bahamas Interna- tional Trading corporation,” is at- tempting to raise funds to establish a rum running business from England to America via the Bahamas. It is claimed that the Bahamas legislature is interes in the company. TRINTY.CHURCH ASSETS LISTED $13.972.551.15 Reaps Huge Profits as Landlord in New York By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press 'Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK,—(FP)—Trinity lists its assets at $13,972,551.15 for 1924, Of total assets, $13,181,550 is listed as productive real estate; $257,825.71 cash in banks; $448,085.17 is called productive and unproductive bonds and Mortgages; $33,838.35 rents re- ceivable; and the rest is prepaid insur- ance, interest and a “suspense ac- count” of $15,035. Yet in prefacing Trinity's annual report, rector Caleb Stetson says: Trinity Parish’ is not a_ ricn church in the sense that it either mi- nisters to rich people or that its mem- bership numbers many who are wealthy.” Trinity is land poor, the rector would say, and quite lives up o its income—after a generous sum is set aside for all expected expenses. Stetson congratulates Trinity on “the sound business policy” of its replace- ment fund, which provides for resto- ration, replacement and repair of Trinity’s many tenements and other buildings classed under productive real estate, as well as for keeping the churches of the parish in proper con- dition. Trinity church has profited by the “unearned increment” on its real estate holdings during its 228 years’ existence on Manhattan. In making | his report the rector does not consider the proportion of money spent in neighborhood social work to the im- mense sums taken in rent during the many years. Trinity as a tenement landlord has often been shown to be the same as most landlords, attending to tenants’ needs only enough to maintain a steady rental. The rector takes occasion to warn possible heirs of Anneke Jans that Trinity’s title to its real estate is well established by grant of Queen Anne of England in 1705 and that further lawsuits are futile. The rector remarks that the reli- gious work of Trinity is progressing with its daily service to downtown workers, most of them drawn to noon- tide services from surrounding offices. R- ju Matastr€ } ih FOREIGN “ POLICY BOSSES PRESS THINKS HIGHLY OF “LABOR” HEAD Looks Like Banker Is Picture Of Prenter Earlier in olga Venta he states that ‘it is becoming nereasingly difficult for any: chuck \to” ue on Man- hattan Island without the help of} tp some endowment.” Trinity’s net income for 1924 was $516,766.32, most of which was spent -n maintenance of eight churches and chapels and for work among the chil- dren of the tenéments skirting New York's financial district. The parents of these children are mostly foreign- born and hard ‘td reach, the rector states, and work on the docks or doing janitorial work in the sky- scrapers, $1,146,384.87 represents Tri- nity’s income from rents of real estate; $45,528.13 from rents of steam and electricity and water. Besides taxes, upkeep of the Trinity corpora- tion, ete, $130,953.07 is added to the building and renewal account. This replacement fund, the rector points out, “is the one safe and sound means of insuring our income for the fu- ture.” Jewish Business Dickers With Grabski WARSAW, Poland, June 28—After three weeks of negotiations, Premier Grabski and Foreign Minister Skyr- zynski have reached an agreement with represenatives of Jewish bour- geois groups to support the govern- ment. ¥ (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAD, Ohio, June 28,—That ie capitalist press thinks very highly of William B. Prenter, new head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers co-operative national bank, is shown by a writeup of the “labor leader” in the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Wednes- day, June 24. “William B. Prenter looks the bank- er thru and thru,” says that anti-labor sheet. “Deliberate, white haired, short- er than average, Prenter would never be taken for a labor leader. Nearly thirty years an international officer of the brotherhood, his work has been alfMrost-e y 7 its great financial resou es. Leave for Imprisoned Peasants. MOSCOW.—In acordance with a de- cision of the Soviet government, peas- ants condemned to imprisonment for misdemeanor are to be given leave for the season of field work, in the event of their offense not being very serious and their village ncighbors not rais- ing any objection to \heir return. After the expiraticn of leave the penalties imposed are o be once more investigated, taking ino consideration the behavior of the men on leave dur- ing the period of their leave. igan sedition cases. This cut the ground out from underneath the anti- Soviet propaganda and forced the scribes to find a new basis for their attack. # They found it speedily enough in the partial crop failure reported offi- clally by the Russian department of agriculture. This was immediately stretched into a full-sized famine by the Riga and Berlin date line experts. And again sincere friends of Russ! unwittingly fell in with this anti-re- cognition publicity by starting chil- dren's famine relief campaigns, quot- ing New York Ti stories from Berlin corresponde: proof of the existence of a famine. A Fake News Story. A FOLDER was put out containing pictures of children taken during the 1921 famine, and quoting a Times article of March 20, whose headline read: “Soviet papers admit 750,000 children are starving in Southern Russia alone.” This article contained the following: “Berlin, March 19.—Russian Com- munist papers now openly admit that the number of starving children in Southern Russia alone numbers more than 750,000. Further admissions show that the government is unable to cope with the situation, The prov- ince of Kharkov, which formerly was one of Russia's most fertile grain countries, reports 400,000 starving children with no hope of relief in , the Pennsylvania and Mich-/sight, since the Moscow government \ states the financial condition of the Soviet government . prevents aiding the starving. “Odessa, from which port the Sov- iets exported great quantities of grain during the early winter, reports more than 200,000 children dying of hunger and the reserve granaries empty.” Such a condition of affairs, if true, would constitute a damning indict- ment. “Children dying of hunger while. brutal government exports grain to raise money for recognition propaganda”—this is the import of these stories. What are the facts of the situa- tion? The British Trade Union mission went thru the supposed famine dis- trict. They har, Sp Ukraine twice, they were in Ki ov and in Odess: the sites of the Berlin corresponde: “children dying of hunger,” And their report states: “The failure of the 1924 harvest is only locally serious, The whole is 16 per cent less than 1923, which was e.” (Page 70.) Figures cited by the commission indicate that in about one-eighth of the cultivated area the harvest was bad, but that in almost one-half it was better than normal, Under such co: ditions, unlike under capitalism, it is well-known that in a workers’ and peasants’ country no section can starve, fe Stripped off Machinery, Bbresicddd grey in, this district are, of course, far from ideal. This is the Same section that was stripped of stock, machinery, and crops during five years of bandit intervention, and that in 1921-2 was swept by the fam- ine. Anyone who has been thru this one-time granary of Europe knows that the serious shortage of stock and machinery greatly curtails produc: tion, and that the antiquated methods of agriculture also demand a much higher expenditure of labor power per acre than would be needed under more modern methods. The Soviet department of agricul- ture has already worked miracles un- der these conditions and the improve- ment is ady and systematic, Fur- thermore, the government's work is on a solid foundation that means per- manent improvement and not mere temporary relief. Thus the British re- port, (p. 64), observes that while there is still much do be done in the devastated area, “so much has al- ready been done that the outlay for agricultural restoration is now annual- ly changing its character from that of reliéf and re-equipment to that of re- construction by general electrifica- tion and technical education.” In the course of the war, with its heavy drain on the manpower of (czarist) Russia, the area of land un- der cultivation fell from 97,6 dessiat- ins in 1918 to 90.7 dessiatins in 1916. But the ravages of counter-revolution and famine reduced the total to 63.5 dessiatins in 1922, From that time on the increase has been so rapid, (70.0 \ [INTERESTS EUROPE ‘ i ath, Sa A ut or wiiting. hls ily M fh, ’ WT i uy Tat "i SOVIET UNION GLASS INDUSTRY INCREASES OUTPUT 75 PER CENT IN YEAR; U. S. CONTRACT SIGNED NEW YORK, June 28.—he exclusive rights for the whole territory of the Soviet Union to the “Owen's flow machines” used in the manufacture of bottles have been acquired by’ the All-Russian Syndicate of Silicale Industri known as the “Prodaslicat” |which is tries in the Soviet Union. / controlling the glass auedir The contract between the Prodasilicat and the Owen's Bot of Toledo, Ohio, has been negotiated corporation, of New York, atting 2 the sole agents for the Prodast#licat The transaction involves the expend- iture of about $1,000,000, by the Rus- sian interests in the purchase of the patents and a number of the machines of the latest types which have not yet been introduced in Europe, as well as of all future improvement¢ 1nd inven- tions which may be introduced by the Owen's Bottle company. The Owen’s Bottle company has al- | 80 undertaken to co-operate wiih the | Prodasilicat in installing the machines in the Soviet factories and in the in. tion of the machines. The signing of the present contract is a decisive step in the development of the Soviet glass industry which is keeping pace with the general indus- trial revival of the Soviet Union. Dur- ing the first 6 months of the fiscal year 1924-1925, beginning October, 1924, the production of the silicate in- dustries showed an increase of 75 per cent over the production during the same period in the preceding year. this issue of the DAILY WORKER Be neighborly—give it to him! in 1923 and 75.5 in 1924), that within five years it is expected to beat the pre-war figures. (British report p. 65). Travelers who have just returned from Russia within the last few weeks give assurances that the 1925 crop will be adequate for all needs. I. J. Hoorgin, chairman of the board of director: Co,, said: “The prospects for the next crop are very favorable and it is expected that the Soviet Union will have a large surplus for export purposes.” Alfred Knudsen, an American farm- er, reports that the 1925 crop will be 600,000,000 bushels larger than any ever raised in the United States. The harvest is expected to yield 3,200,000, 000 poods as against 2,800,000,000 in 1923, which was above average and which permitted the export of 300,000,- 000 poods. An official report of the commissar- fat of agriculture states that in 1926 the seeded area has been increased by three and one-half million dessiat- ins, the increase in wheat acreage be- ing 18 per cent, and the rye acreage 3% per cent. The shortage in stock is also be ing remedied, according to observ- ers, and this is borne ont in the fig- ures cited by the British report. In some sections the stock had been re- duced by one-half in the course of the famine . . the comparative percentage of stock in the famine wil .\the entire copper mined im Ri Your neighbor would like to read of the Amtorg Trading | COmparison is: Horses | cows 83, sheep 116, and and concluded by the Air Soviet Union Séts Basic Industries To Work In Uralg MOSCOW.—In the Urals the Kara- bash copper works have been set go- ing. This enterprise belonged before the war to the well-known British cap- st Urqhart. Prior to the war the abash works supplied a quarter of October, 1925, 76,000 poods of copper prowucet in works, In the following year produc- tio. will be brought up to 50 per cent of th. prewar production, A sht time ago the Nov works it the Urals were also set go ing. Befos the war about 6,000, poods of raWiron and as much ptee were produce@and made on the into bar-iron, eo The works _ one of the larges yq most blasting furnaces Olepe Urals, —_ By Wiliam F. area as between the second year (1922) and the present is as follows: Horses 138, cows 1° sheep 233, pigs 662. x Excellent Showing. HIS isSap excellent sho: there fi ll a long way to pared with pre-war stam The British mission drew al conclision that “Ri ture is recovering slowly, And the governmental ing given seems cient.” ture is duplicated jn ind “scissors” of div P cultural and practically closed, groups of produ real and nominal labor. The strength of based upon this in tural productivity. unimpaired, it ig ix spite the seare — propaganda enemies. The best help 1 give his fellow sia is to build up the munist movement and thus keep so busy at home neither means Soviet